Chapter Preview: The Dragon Warrior · 5:59pm Oct 8th, 2020
Coming tomorrow.
Knock knock, knock knock.
Following after those polite taps to the door came the sounds of a light, excited gasp from inside, replaced soon by noises involving shuffling [BEEP], organizing and setting everything prepared for whomever decided to visit her office. And I couldn't help but smile a little at the envisioned going-ons currently within that modest room.
Wooden door thrown open as the pink unicorn beamed. "Hello weary student! Welcome to my... Office... Oh." The practiced expression vanished by exasperated surprise. "It's your Stardust. I thought it would be... Ah never mind, come in."
"Still no progress huh?" I inquired rhetorically once entering the counselor office, taking another gaze around the interior like the last time I visited, carefully weighing some pack of letters on my back. Still tidy.
Starlight huffed, shaking her head once reaching her desk before throwing me a wry smile. "You'd think some students would have trouble in friendship matters. Guess it just goes to show how effective our friends are with teaching the magic of friendship, yadda ya." Adding that last bit as a moment to not sound as disappointed as her eyes and heart sang.
"Well, at least you're preparing every time." I offered to cheer my non-blood sister up, throwing in a humoured grin to the mix. "Even when doing nothing as a counselor, you can't be any worse than two certain camp siblings. Heheheheheheheheheheh... Huh?"
There it was again. My snark laughter trailed off from the detection of... Something, emanating like ooze from throughout the school. Curious, having sensed it the moment I arrived into this building, and it disappeared immediately afterwards before I could investigate, now it's shown up again. It smells like darkness, and yet... Innocence, at the exact same time? Must be a bully? Then again, Twilight's never mentioned of there being a bully in the School of Friendship. Heh, wouldn't that be an oxymoron-?
It's vanished. The presence, gone again, and I frowned, regarding the closed door in befuddled wariness. Like slime retreating into a nearby sewer, gone from the naked eye.
Just what was that all about...?
"Stardust?" My friend's puzzled voice caused me to regain myself, quickly grinning over to the mare with sheepish amusement. Starlight quirked her own smile, before magically summoning up two blue mugs of steaming liquid within. "Hot chocolate? I have some spare marshmallows too, since no one here seems to be interested."
"Heh, can't say no to marshmallows, but before that." With my own glowing horn, I, slowly but surely, levitated the pile of envelopes of my caped back towards the pink unicorn, presented right before Starlight between us. "Some letters arrived at the castle for you. I figured, sensing your utter boredom from over there, I'd help keep you occupied somehow."
"As you would be hopelessly bored over there yourself." Starlight teased, a kindred spirit indeed, before those lilac eyes and light smile reflected her thanks, accepting the letters during my snapped gaze towards the door. Balance flashing some alarm of fair warning.
There it was again! That presence! Coming and going, needing to be looked into when I had the time... That is, when I wasn't training with Balance, learning to master flight with Rainbow or practicing the art of horn magic by either Twilight or Starlight here, I pretty much had all the time in the world. After this little meeting with my sister, then I'll go take a gander.
Just like that, the presence disappeared again, prompting my annoyed scowl. Each time, my senses felt like it was being pricked at by some irritable tiny force of chaos, poking around and testing the waters. I had half a mind to mentally lash out and scare the presence off, but the better solution was opting for observation and patience, waiting for this unknown creature to make some drastic move and catch him/her in the act. All good things came to those who wait.
Little was I aware, that something even MORE promising would come out of today, as Starlight began opening and mumbling the contents of each sent message.
"Trixie wanting me to get her some supplies for her next act... Sunburst discovering a rare magical gem under a path at the Crystal Empire... Maud got herself a cute little apron for Boulder... Shining asking me not to tell Stardust about... Oh." Realizing her error immediately once my head snapped around at the mention of my name.
"Don't tell Stardust about what?"
"Uh, nothing!" Nope, not having that! The moment Starlight tried to nervously, hastily conceal the letter behind her back was when I struck, becoming a brief war of grasping the coloured paper by hoof or magic. "Hey! No! Stardust, it's not yours to... Read...!"
Haha, I was triumphant, smirking deviously at the annoyed and rather unnerved unicorn before commencing my own reading of the letter. Shining, bless him, warning Twilight's favourite student about some childhood fear of hers that he himself instilled-
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No...
[BEEP]ing...
WAY.
"Uhhhhh, can I have that back now, Stardust? Please?" Starlight didn't even wait for a response, taking the advantage once I was in an enough stupor to snatch the letter back, piling it with the others on her desk while the implications sunk into my head.
Twilight, the Princess of Friendship, the bearer of magic, who fought monsters and demons and so many others. My own soon-to-be wife... Was afraid of... Of...
"Ohhhhh Shining. Shining Shining Shining." My grin towards the instantly wary mare would be one that would make the Grinch himself proud of. "Thank you so much, Shining, for how I'll be devoting the rest of my day towards."
Oh, the presence of unease regarding whatever was lurking in the school halls couldn't be ignored, of course... But some things could wait. Right now, I had a boatload of possibilities to go through now. Project Tease was now underway!
YES! The short!!!!
Well, I know who balance is sensing. I can't wait to see how Stardust reacts to who it is.
Oh, this is gonna be hilarious, I can tell. I can already tell Stardust is gonna have a blast teasing Twilight about her fear. Please tell me you also add in some teasing for her other fear of a Mexican delicacy.
This better be good
Edit : Oh this is gonna be so good . Im excited for the tease . Sorry about the unintential rude comment . I will be more careful in future .
Thank you for informing me .
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Can only do my best. Kindly don't be rude about it.
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Im sorry if it sounded the way as it was not my intention . My apologies for making you feeling uncomfortable . I was actually excited about the last part regarding stardust teasing twilight . My comment may sound rude but in my heart i was actually excited .
Edit : i have lengthen my original comment to fix my error . Hope my apology is accepted