//------------------------------// // March 3, 2014 // Story: High School Ponies (9th grade) // by AmethystFire //------------------------------// I can't fly... That's all that I can think about at the moment. I lost my ability to fly, all because of saving a life. If you are wondering of what had happened to me, here's the story. - Flashback- I could hear a beeping machine, beeping to each of my heartbeats. I can see a couple of blurs up at my face. "Hello Miss. Crystal Feather, you gave us all a little fright." one of the stallions that was in a white coat welcomed me. "Wh- Where am I?" I weakly asked. "You're at the hospital Miss. Feather; you blacked out at your school yesterday." "Is Ms. Snapple okay?!" "Who's Ms. Snapple?" "Here physical science teacher," my mom responded, "She came her Friday afterschool let out to check out on her. The one with the cast on her wing?" "She came to check on me?" I asked. "Yes, she's alright Crystal." my mom answered. I smiled, at least I had something to look up to. I was glad that she was okay, and her wing was getting cared for. "Did I miss anything?" I asked. "Other than homework, schoolwork, and Ms. Snapple getting her puppy." my mom answered. "Oh, okay good." "I have to go Crystal, today is one of the dances at Lightning Bolt's school. Don't worry, I'll be back here for you as soon as I can." "Okay Mom." She left the room, as so did the doctor who was taking care of me. I grabbed my notebook that my mom brought for me and began to write. Like A Guardian Angel, Constant and True. Prologue It was a great day in Ponyville when I was in a beautiful home... So into my writing, I barely even noticed that the door opened and a group of ponies trotted in. At first I thought that my mom was coming back. But how, it was so fast. "Whatchya writing Crystal?" a mare voice asked. Startled I looked up and saw Ms. Snapple, Stardella, Timeless Crash, Cora, Black Ninja, and Harmony Wing standing by the door of my room. "Y- you all came? For me?" I asked. "Yeah," Ms. Snapple answered, "I wanted to come and see you, but, they all had the same idea as well and followed me here." I chuckled, and smiled a bit. It was nice to see that all my friends would come and see me. but what was even more touching to me was that all of them took time out of their lives. To come and see me in pain. I started to tear up at the very thought of this. "Don't cry Crystal!" Stardella ordered. All of them came up to me and gave me a big hug. We didn't even notice that the doctor who was there for me come inside with an image. I froze for a second. "Miss. Feather." the doctor greeted. "Yes." He was silent for a second. Which was really scaring me. "We ran some x- rays while you were stable at the time. We had to wait for the machine to process and print the image that it caught." he gave me the picture of what looked like my wings, "I hate to tell you this Crystal Feather, but your wings have been disjointed from the place where they are supposed to be, and it's dangerous to even go there. I'm very sorry Crystal but your winfs will never be the same as they used to be any longer." "You mean, I will not be able to fly anymore?!" I asked. - Flashback ends - My life sucks so much now, my dream to be able to fly like my friend Rainbow Dash, my flight teacher, was taken from me. I was afraid to show my wings off, they were just two useless little things on the sides of my body. I became Scootaloo that day. I'm lucky that I can still put my wings through the holes of my shirts. I only had one thing that I could look up to today, getting to see the circle of friends that I had here at my school. I'm happy that I get to see them again, especially what they did for me. I had a family created away from my real family. I got off the bus as my normal routine at school, I saw Ms. Reelz coming out from the "parking lot." I went up to her and said, "Hey Ms. Reelz, how have you been?" "Good, how about you? How was your weekend?" Ms. Reelz asked. "Other than losing the ability to fly, having to wake up at six in the morning for my little brother Lightning Bolt to do camp cards, I'm alright." She laughed, "I had a good weekend myself." "Cool. I came up with a name for your character in my story!" For a little background, I was writing a story about my life in high school, but the names were changed, and I had blank spots for Ms. Reelz name for her character, and it started to bug me. "What did you come up with?" Ms. Reelz asked. "Ms. McCormick." I answered. “That’s awesome! Well for the character, but why can’t you fly anymore?” I explained to her what had happened over the weekend. “I feel very sorry for you Crystal.” Ms. Reelz responded when I finished telling my story. “It’s not your fault Ms. Reelz, it just happened.” I responded. “YOU SHOULD SLOW DOWN!” Stardella snapped running into me. “Ow.” I agonized. “Sorry.” “I should sign in.” Ms. Reelz walked away. “Okay! I’ll see you second period!” I called out to her. “I hate these shoes!” Stardella agonized. “Why?” I asked. “They just don’t feel comfortable!” “Oh.” Stardella and I made it up the stairs where Ninja, Harmony, and Ms. Snapple in the room. Ms. Snapple was at the front board of her classroom writing something that didn’t pertain to me. “Hey Crystal! Hey Stardella!” Harmony greeted. “Hello” I responded. Ms. Snapple finally turned around and noticed us, but didn’t say anything, I knew that she was about to lose her mind, She was working hard this morning, harder than usual. That was kind of freaking me out. “How are your wings doing?” Black Ninja asked me. I forced on a smile. That was the end of our conversation. When Ms. Snapple finished what she was doing, she looked really exhausted, but still managed to smile. “How was your weekend with your new puppy Ms. Snapple?” Timeless asked. “I had a blast! I even got some pictures!” Ms. Snapple answered grabbing her phone. She showed us the pictures that she had taken; her puppy was so adorable. She even got a picture of her, her fiancé, and her puppy all together. They were all amazing looking pictures. “I didn’t know that she was getting a puppy!” Stardella questioned. “Yeah, I got her like Friday after I got my wing in a cast.” Ms. Snapple responded. “Well I didn’t know that!” “You were in here when Ms. Snapple told us about her and that she was getting her.” I snapped. “No I wasn’t!” Stardella snapped back. I knew that she was crazy, she was there I remember. Soon the bell rang; Stardella, Timeless, Cora, Black Sheep, and Angel left to go to class. I stayed with Ms. Snapple for a little while. I looked up at the clock and noticed that it was almost time for the bell to ring. I got up and went to class, making it before the bell had rung. "How is it that you're the last one to leave?!" Harmony asked. "I wanted to take my time to get here." I answered. Today in English class all we did was do a quiz. Harmony was telling me that Mr. Sonnets had been out for so many days and putting off the test three times in a row, and they were finally getting to do the test. All we did was that; when the bell rang for Journalism, Harmony and I walked to our classes together, then went on our separate ways. "JUNIOR!" I called. "Oh hai Crystal!" Super Junior responded. "How was your weekend?" "It was great! I heard about what happened to you this weekend. Are you okay?!" "Other than accomplishing my flying ability, then losing it all. I'm doing alright." "Oh, I'm sorry." "No, no it's not your fault." "I know, but I feel bad for you. I mean, if I were to loose my ability to use my magic. I don't know what I would do!" I giggled and so did she. Soon my stallion pal came into the classroom. He set his stuff down next to the desk that he chose, and came up to me. "Pait!" I cheered. "Oh my Celes!" Pony Paint responded wrapping his hooves around me. "What's up?" I rubbed the side of my body. "Oh, I forgot about your wings, I'm sorry." Okay, this is starting to get old. I'm not that fragile, just sore from all the surgical procedures that I had that I don't even remember having; maybe because I was out cold during it. But in my respective way, I took a deep breath, "It's okay, it wasn't your fault Paint." "I know, but I just don't want to make you hurt anymore than you are now." Pony Paint responded. I rolled my eyes. I'M NOT FRICKEN FRAGILE! He trotted away as the late bell rang. Ms. Reelz went to the front of the class and looked at us. "Good morning all! Our daily reading is a free for all. Do your daily reading and then finish up your articles. They are due on the fifth." Ms. Reelz announced. She sat down at her desk and I continued working on my article "The Return of Mr. Peabody." When class ended, I went upstairs to lunch. I walked into Ms. Snapple's classroom, I didn't see her there. Awkward, she is usually here? She must have been in the teacher's lounge doing something in there, but there was no noise coming from in there, which made things even more weird. Soon, Stardella came into the class. "Hey Crystal! Where is Ms. Snapple?" Stardella asked setting down her stuff. I pointed at the teacher's lounge room, hoping that I was right. "Oh." Stardella responded. Minuted went by, every pony was in her room, but still no Ms. Snapple. Where in the hell did she go?! "Did she fall off the face of the Earth?" Stardella asked. I shrugged my shoulders. I was just as confused as they were. "It seems like that she did." Timeless responded. It was already halfway through lunch when Ms. Snapple finally came into her classroom. But when I looked at her face, she didn't look too happy. Uh oh. "Ms. Snapple? Are you okay?" Stardella asked. "NO! I've had to go run around the school to drop things off at the main office and the ISSP room, and get paper for my printer! The thing that is pissing me off is that I had everything planned LAST NIGHT, I had a nice video to show you, and a great lesson on top of that! Yeah, my stupid rock lost all of the information and dropped me back to square one! It seems like every ficken day there is a problem! Either my printer is out of ink or it has no paper, my rock does whatever the hell it wants! Including the fact that all of it was taken care of and ready to go last night and it's all gone!" Ms. Snapple snapped. My eyes widened, I have seen her upset before, but this one was a pissed off kind of upset. At first I thought that she would come back into her sanity, until... "I just want to kill some pony right now!" Ms. Snapple continued. Yeah, she was gone from the sanity that she had at the moment left. I wanted to take a step back away from her, give her some air to breath. Ms. Snapple was having one of her own "breaking the fourth wall in anger," kind of moments. I felt bad for her, she did all that work, which I was happy that she did, then lose it all. She quickly got up from her chair and went inside the teacher's lounge. The whole group was silent for the longest time, that I have ever experience. Soon she came back with two containers of food, making me hungry. I grabbed my bag of chips that I packed for lunch and started eating them. "I'm going to eat while I can!" Ms. Snapple snapped Everything was really quiet after the whole ordeal. None of us talked, until Ms. Snapple loudly groaned. "Are you okay?" I asked with pure terror in my eyes. "This F'ing printer won't work with this F'ing rock-" "You can just say it." Stardella interrupted. "It's starting to piss me off, this gay rock!" Every pony roared in laughter, even me. "If any of you can help me, it would be really helpful!" Ms. Snapple snapped. Stardella sat down in Ms. Snapple's chair and tried to work with Ms. Snapple's rock. When the bell rang Stardella got the rock to communicate with the printer. "YES! I DID IT!" Stardella cheered. I rolled my eyes at that remark. Stardella left to her class as Ms. Snapple sat down in her chair with me behind the desk near the wall, trapping me there. Well, I couldn't have stood there like a complete moron, so I stood there and waited until she let me free. "I'm being legit serious! I want to kill some pony right now! I worked so hard, and now it all went down the drain. I just want this day to end right now!" Ms. Snapple seemed to be even more upset. I felt like giving her a hug and saying, "There there." But instead I looked at her. "I'm sorry Ms. Snapple. It seems like the both of us have had a rough day." I tried to look on the bright side. "What could possibly be worse than losing everything?!" "Um, I lost my ability to fly number one, my friends are treating me like I am fricken fragile, and I am tired on top of it all!" "I don't know anything right now Crystal, I'm just so pissed." "I think we all are." I knew that my problem wasn't as bad as Ms. Snapple's was, but my entire day had been bad since first period. I guess it was the same for her, but just worse. The bell rang, I stood by Ms. Snapple for a little while in case if she wanted any help with anything. But when I did ask, she said that she had it all covered. I turned around and sat at my desk. She started class with a documentary that she could find within a few minutes. I almost fell asleep, but not quiet. I kept looked out at her desk, she seemed to be trying to get herself back in order. At one point the both of us looked up at the same time and smiled, she continued on what she was doing and I watched the movie. When the documentary finished she explained the worksheet that she gave us in class and told us it was for our notebooks, after that every pony started packing up their stuff. I collected my stuff and put it on my desk. Ms. Snapple was writing on her board, when she was almost finished she called my name and looked at me. "Does this make sense to you?" she asked pointing at the board. I stared at the board and read what was on it for a second, "Yeah, it makes sense. Even though I am not in that class." "I know that! I just wanted to know if it was understandable." "It is Ms. Snapple, don't worry." "I'm sorry for snapping at you Crystal. It's just that today, this day, has sucked so much. I know that is has been that way for you as well, well now I know that, but... I'm sorry about it." "It's okay Ms. Snapple. I knew that you were done for today." She smiled, something that brightens up my day. "I'll see you later Ms. Snapple." I said grabbing my things. "See you later Crystal. Hope you have a better day than mine!" Ms. Snapple called out to me. "Oh, I hope so." Upon leaving the classroom, I remembered that I had tutoring to go to after school. Then I thought to myself, Before I go to tutoring, I could check on Ms. Snapple before she dashes on her way out of here. Fourth period came and I sat in my assigned seat, thinking about Ms. Snapple the whole time. That period came and went, when the bell rang I dashed out of class and up the stairs. Luckily I made it just in time before she left. Ms. Snapple was at her board writing something when she looked at the door and saw me. I guess she was thinking at the time, that I was here to stay for her. "I'm not staying Ms. Snapple, I just came here to make sure that you hadn't killed any pony yet." I explained. "Oh, okay." Ms. Snapple responded. She started packing up her stuff, she stopped and looked at me. Rolling her eyes she said, "I'm so ready to leave." I internally chuckled, "I bet." When she finished packing up her stuff, she looked at me and gave me a small smile, "Thank you for checking on me. Making sure that I still had some sanity left." "No problem Ms. Snapple." I responded, "It's just what I do." When Ms. Snapple and I split our ways, her going home, and me going to Journalism, I went there to help out with the newspaper and do my article's artwork. Soon going home to do homework.