It took roughly about two days before Pyxis woke up again.When his eyes opened he was shocked. He found himself inside someponies house and not only that he found out multiple other things as well. His disguise was no longer working, his right and left hoof were tied to the bed, and finally he saw what appeared to be a mare standing in the doorway. "Oh good your awake." he heard the mare say. It wasn't until the mare walked over that Pyxis could get a good look at her. Standing beside him was no other than Octavia and judging by the look on her face she wasn't all too happy to see him. "You've got a lot of explaining to do mister!" she said in a loud stern voice. Pyxis sunk further into the bed as his eyes became the size of small dots.
After filling Octavia in on everything that he knew and everything that he didn't she let him go. Upon untying his limbs Pyxis asked why was she letting him go. Octavia only looked back at him and said, "To be honest I don't trust you at all. If it was up to me I would have turned you in the moment I saw you. Though I promised a friend of mine that I would give you a chance and that is exactly what I'm going to do, so don't blow it. Oh and you might want to hurry. School starts in an hour and after that you'll be coming to the store to practice on your bowing." After saying what she had to say Octavia exited the room and went down stairs. Leaving Pyxis to sit with his own thoughts.
"Wait.......SCHOOL!?" asked Pyxis as he rushed after the mare. As he ran after her a flash of blue flames erupted around his body, morphing it into his blue pegasus disguise. Octavia stopped in her tracks and so did Pyxis. She then pushed him back upstairs and into the bathroom.
"Not to be rude, but I'm afraid you're going to have to freshen up before you can leave my household. There are extra washing cloths under the sink as well as drying towels. I'll be waiting downstairs with Vinyl when you finish. " she said before closing the door.
"I don't smell that bad do I?" Pyxis asked himself. He took a sniff of himself before nearly vomiting on the floor from the smell coming off of him. Pyxis looked under the sink and indeed found some washing cloths and towels. Using his magic he levitated one of both items as well as a bar of soap that he found. "Now how do you work this thing?" Pyxis asked himself as he stared at the metal knobs of the shower. After a few minutes of deciphering the controls of the shower Pyxis managed to get a decent bath. Then after another few minutes he finished the rest of his morning routines, he proceeded to go downstairs where Octavia and Vinyl stood waiting. He barely had time to react before he had a saddle bag strapped to his back and receiving a push out the door.
"I'll be taking you to school today. Octavia will pick you up after school." said Vinyl before she tied her own saddle bags to her back. She started to walk ahead of Pyxis as he stood still. "So are you coming or not?" asked Vinyl.
"Uh.... yes ma'am." responded Pyxis as he caught up with Vinyl.
"Listen kid, I'm alright with you staying with us and all, but lets get something straight. Don't call me ma'am. It sounds like I'm old or something." said Vinyl.
"Oh okay Vinyl." Pyxis said.
The two proceeded to head to the school house. Though the walk to the school was short the duo had some nice conversations. Vinyl went on and on about her next gig as well as her next meeting with Derpy. Pyxis could see fire in her eyes as she went on for what seemed like hours about her battle strategy, with some helpful inputs from Pyxis. Before long the two of them reached the school grounds with just a few seconds to spare. As the two set hoof inside the boundaries of the school grounds the morning bell rung, signaling
When the last student came in through the door a mare followed as well. She had a violet coat and a light pink mane. Her cutie mark were three smiling flowers. From what Applebloom and Sweetie Belle said her name was Cheerilee. She tried to speak, but the noise from the class talking at once overwhelmed her voice. So she took a nail and dragged it across a small section of the board. The sudden screeching sound quickly silenced the classroom as the poor unsuspecting fillies and colts covered their ears, praying for the noise to stop.
Seeing as to how the class was now settled down Cheerilee stopped dragging the nail and began to speak. "Now that you have all calm down I have good news for you ponies. As I'm sure some of you have already noticed we have a new student in the class today." Cheerilee announced as she gestured to Pyxis. "Why don't you come up and say something about yourself." Pyxis got out of his desk and walked up to the front of the classroom. His introduction was quite short as he only said what his name was and what his cutie mark meant. When he was finished he headed back to his seat. "Well that was quite brief, but thank you anyway Pyxis. Now onto today's agenda. First, we will cover a subject I know most of you have been dying to get to, Factoring!" said an overly excited Cheerilee. However the rest of the class responded with bored sigh.
After a couple of hours trying to factor some equations and learning about the founding of some Equestria's most famous cities it was finally time for lunch. As fillies and colt exited into the court yard with lunchboxes of different varieties Pyxis looked around for a good place to sit. He then saw his friends motioning him to come sit with them.
Once he was seated he grabbed one of his crystals and began to drain the energy from it. He thought of himself as lucky to even have these things. If he didn't he would have to result to other drastic measures. Though Pyxis soon shook those thoughts out of his head. Now wasn't the time to be think of such nonsense. "So Pyxis what do you think of our school?" asked Sweetie Belle as she took another bite of her salad.
Pyxis opened his mouth to asked why the girls weren't shocked he was here, but Scootaloo interrupted him. "While you were asleep Octavia and Vinyl made plans what to do with you when you woke up. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle suggested come to our school for now. Though I don't see why, Miss Cheerilee's classes aren't always fun." she said with a black expression.
Pyxis looked over to see that Applebloom and Sweetie wearing innocent smiles on their faces. He sighed before he continued. "You're right about the classes not being that fun." he said.
"You bet I am." Scootaloo said triumphantly.
"But I think I can get used to this. You know, as long as you girls will be my friends." Pyxis said with a smile.
"We will, after all your apart of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. We never let a friend down." Applebloom said as her two friends nodded their heads.
Pyxis couldn't help, but feel delighted. He finally had a chance to live the life he wanted and so for it was going great. Though he couldn't shake the feeling that maybe this would all end soon.