//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: The SchoolHouse, the pebble and Carousel Boutique Myu // Story: My Little Baker // by Lucky Star Kona-chan //------------------------------// Dejiko and Sweetie Belle calmed down after laughing for a bit and saw the rest of the foals approaching. “Your friends nyo?” Dejiko asked while pointing at the incoming group. “Yes, and my best friends are…” Sweetie got interrupted by two other fillies hug tackling her, “ouch…” “Are ya ok Sweetie Belle?” the yellow filly with red mane/tail and a bow on her head said in a southern accent. “Yeah, and how did you end up being chased by a wolf?” The orange pegasus one with purple mane/tail said in a rather tomboyish voice. “Yes, I’m fine girls, I’m sorry for worrying you. And the wolf… well… I kind of mistake it for a dog… he he…” she said sheepishly. Nopony knew how to respond to that and Dejiko just face palmed epically. “Girls come over here right now, that creature could be dangerous!” said a purple mare with a striped mane/tail in two tones of pink with certain alarm in her voice. “You should listen to her; I doubt the wolf would come back after what happened but just to be sure nyo,” Dejiko got up and dusted herself a little. The fillies that were with Sweetie didn’t know how to react, Sweetie noticed that, “Applebloom, Scootaloo, she is Dejiko and she is the one who saved me from that bad wolf.” “Hi nyo,” Dejiko said while waving her hand and smiling. “What are ya miss Dejiko? Ya don’t look like anything ‘ah saw, like ever,” asked Applebloom. “And how did you throw those beams from your eyes? Can you teach me?” Scootaloo asked with excitement. “Not fair Scoots, ‘Ah wanna learn too,” Applebloom complained. “What are you talking about? What beams?” Sweetie was confused. “Girls? Girls! Why they never hear me?” The mare said in defeat. Dejiko let out a sigh, while Applebloom and Scootaloo let Sweetie know what she just missed. Dejiko approached the larger group; the mare was nervous but maintained her posture, the foals behind her rolled their eyes at the same time, this almost made Dejiko laugh but she could hold it back, “I don’t know what this place is supposed to be nyo, but I take you’re the one in charge nyo,” she said to the nervous mare who stared cautiously. “Yes, I’m one of the teachers on this school, my name is Cheerilee,” Cheerilee replied a little more calmed just because the peculiar being which was barely taller than her didn’t show any signs of hostility. “Relax nyo, I have no intention to hurt any of you I have manners, after all I’m a princess nyo,” Dejiko said proudly hitting her chest lightly with a one fist. A collective gasp could be heard, “Dejiko you’re a princess?” asked Sweetie belle. “That’s right nyo, but that’s not important right… now?” Dejiko stopped when she noticed the ponies kneeling in front of her, “Umm… what are you doing nyo?” “Showing respect to royalty of course, I’m sorry for not noticing but I hope you understand we don’t get Princesses from other countries so often and I want to thank you for saving one of my students,” Cheerilee said in the most respectful way she could manage. “Someone was in trouble nyo, I couldn’t just ignore it,” Dejiko was starting to feel comfortable around the ponies even if she just heard about the evil ruler they have somewhere out there, ‘at least this place is not giving any evil atmosphere so far, and it’s a school so it can’t be that bad nyo.’ Sweetie then pulled Dejiko’s skirt slightly, to get her attention. She looked at the little unicorn, “What is it nyo?” “From which place of Equestria do you came from?” asked Sweetie. “Are any more of ya in that place?” asked Applebloom. “Can you teach me how to throw magic beams from my eyes?” asked Scootaloo. “Why do you keep asking that nyo?” “Because it would be awesome to know how to throw them,” the rest of the foals were also excited about that topic in particular so much that they were doing something like a chant. Dejiko let out a sigh, “I’m a little tired nyo. I have been through a lot this morning. Can I at least get a seat to rest for a bit nyo?” The mob was not satisfied with this and continued to assault Dejiko’s sensible ears with their ‘magic beam, magic beam!’ chant. “Enough my little students, you heard her. She is tired from her journey let’s invite her to the classroom so she can rest, if your highness agrees that is,” Cheerilee offered. “Thank you nyo, and sure I accept the offer, besides I want to ask you some things too so this is a win-win situation nyo,” Dejiko stretched a little her tired arms. “Of course your highness,” Cheerilee bowed, “Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo since you’re friends with the Princess already, will you want to guide her inside?” “Sure thing!” the three fillies responded at once. “Just follow us Dejiko,” Applebloom said happily, then the three made their way towards the school with Dejiko following close behind, and behind them the rest of the class alongside Cheerilee. ‘They are kind of noisy nyo, but they aren’t bad intended at least. I hope Rinna got teleported into this town, it seems its citizens are nice enough nyo,’ Dejiko thought with some worry that maybe Rinna was in one of the evil ruler’s cities. Meanwhile Rinna, Lucky Star and the Elements were starting their tour around Ponyville. Rinna wanted to walk by herself, but Lucky Star insisted in carry her to show the rest of ponies that Rinna wasn’t dangerous or anything, and also because she was too bored. Apparently this was way too effective, because for like ten minutes now a magic mint colored unicorn mare with a brilliant cyan mane/tail with a white streak, sunglow eyes and a lyre as her cutie mark was following them and talking with Rinna ignoring the rest of the group. “And that is how I survived my shift there and got a new friend,” the mare who presented herself as Lyra Heartstrings finished the story she was telling (Which if you have watched a certain thing you should know what she actually told here). “That sounded scary myu, but I’m happy to know that you didn’t got injured in there miss Lyra.” “Aww, you’re very sweet Rinna, would you like to hang out with me sometime? It can be fun; of course any friends you want to bring along are invited too.” “That sounds lovely myu, I would like that very much thank you.” “I don’t think we can manage the time for that today Rinna, maybe tomorrow,” Twilight got in the conversation. “Makes sense, there is a lot to do today Rinna,” Lucky Star then looked in Lyra’s direction with an apolegic face, “we are sorry for not being able to take your kind offer right now miss Heartstrings, we will make it up to you, also Rinna seems to be fond with you already, I hope you can take care of her if for some reason I can’t do it myself,” she then did a reverence. Lyra was taken by surprise by this sudden polite treatment, “oh, please stand up, there no reason to apologize really, its fine I understand you have a lot of things to do, especially if you are new in the town. I’ll see you in tonight’s party then?” “Party myu?” Rinna was confused. Everypony else looked at Pinkie. “Good job Pinkie,” Lucky Star then raised a hoof to do a hoof bump which Pinkie bumped. “You’re welcome Koni!” “Can we go now? I have things to do too, you know,” Rainbow complained. “Why are you even here though?” Lucky Star said with calm. “To be with Rinna of course, she is awesome, not as much as me mind you, but pretty close,” Rainbow said with pride. “But you just said you had ‘things’ to do.” “Yes I have things to do, but I can’t let my friends hanging just like that.” “Then why bring up that topic in the first place?” “Well…” Lucky Star facehoofed for like the hundredth time this day, “you are complaining just because you’re impatient aren’t you?” Rainbow started to feel uncomfortable, “em…” “Miss Lyra, can you please leave for now? There’s the possibility of me saying something I would rather regret if this situation continues, at the very least I prefer you to not hear it. We’ll be seeing you in tonight’s party, let’s have a good time ok?” Lucky Star smiled sincerely. Lyra returned the smile, “Sure thing, em… miss…” “Lucky Star, nice to meet you.” “Nice to meet you too, you know my name already but I’ll introduce myself again because is the right thing to do, I’m Lyra Heartstrings and I understand the situation. I think I’ll see you two in the party then,” Lyra did a little bow with her head before going somewhere else. “That’s how you ask somepony to leave without being a prick ‘Raindork’ Dash.” “What did you just call…” but Rainbow got interrupted by Twilight. “Stop that, what happened in the castle wasn’t enough for you two? Now you want to make a scene in public?” Twilight was losing her temper. Lucky Star wanted to reply back, but sensed like somepony was laughing at her, somepony that wasn’t there or in any close location but was watching them. So she decided to not continue the discussion, “all right, I get it no more scenes I promise and before you say anything Pinkie, I’m not going to do that Pinkie Promise motion of yours.” Pinkie used her puppy eyes on Lucky Star, “Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!” “You should just do it myu, you very well know how persistent Pinkie is,” Rinna suggested. “Argh! Fine I’ll do it but I want to ask you a favor after Pinkie,” she was annoyed to do this so she took a deep breath and released it, “I Cross My Heart, Hope to Fly, Stick a Cupcake in my eye,” she said while doing the motions, “done, now may I ask you a favor Pinkie?” Lucky Star pick up a pebble from the ground. “Sure! Just ask!” Pinkie replied energetically. “It’s pretty easy actually, just throw this pebble in that direction,” Lucky Star pointed with her hoof to the sky forty five degrees behind her. “Okie Dokie Lokie!” Pinkie took the pebble and threw it in the direction Lucky Star was pointing at. Everypony else was confused while they watched the pebble flying in the sky waiting for the moment of its fall, a faint flash too minuscule for them to notice happened for a fraction of a second, then the pebble was gone. Meanwhile in Canterlot’s Castle. “So that is how Lucky Star normally behaves, she is a little rude but I can sympathize with her,” Celestia was still watching Rinna and company. Then she saw Twilight scolding Rainbow Dash and Lucky Star, this made her giggle in amusement. “Even if I sympathize with her, she was asking for it, good job Twilight,” she said between giggles, she closed her eyes for a moment and missed Lucky Star pointing at her. When she opened her eyes again, she saw the pebble going towards her and then the flash, she barely had time to react so out of instinct she moved her head to the side dodging the pebble by mere inches. She then heard a bump and a groan. “We don’t know how young Lucky Star did that, but it’s intriguing,” said Luna while stepping out of the shadows rubbing her head. “Luna, how long have you been here?” “Since the beginning dear Sister and it seems this device works both ways, because Lucky Star was looking at us.” “Don’t be silly Luna, if that were the case here, Twilight and the Elements would have be able to see us too.” “But Sister, how do you explain her behavior just now? She was clearly watching us, and even pointed at us which was the signal for Laughter to throw that pebble.” “It cannot be magic, she is an Earth Pony. And why would she throw a pebble to us in the first place?” “You were laughing at her, we think she somehow heard you and got annoyed, her interactions with Loyalty are proof enough to say that Lucky Star is not in her better mood right now.” “I was not laughing at her!” “Oh, really? What about just a few seconds ago when Twilight Sparkle scolded her? If that was not laugh then we do not know what it could be.” “It was a mere giggle, don’t exaggerate that much Luna.” While they were too invested in their little argument, the two failed to notice the flash in the crystal device. “Can you two please shut up already? It’s starting to get on my nerves,” a new voice joined them. “Wha…” the two princesses were about to say something at the same time. “Yes, yes, I know the routine; you get surprised by the not so mysterious voice that suddenly appeared. But let’s just skip that overused cliche and get to the point shall we?” It was Lucky Star’s voice; the two princesses looked at the device in the floor, and saw the mare looking right at them in a place that looked pretty much like Carousel Boutique. The six mares were still lightly blinded by the sudden flash that came out of nowhere. Well Pinkie was not blinded she just played along. Why, you may ask? Well, it’s Pinkie. What else do you expect? Twilight was the first to recover, and saw that they were inside Carousel Boutique. She then saw Lucky Star speaking with somepony that she couldn’t see, but looking in more detail she saw a screen floating mid air in front of Lucky Star. Out of curiosity she got closer and heard the voices of the princesses coming out of the screen. The other mares were recovering from the blindness the flash caused to them. “What just happened?” Rainbow was rubbing her eyes with a hoof. “ ‘Am not sure Rainbow, some light flashed really bright and ‘Ah couldn’t see it. Argh! mah eyes are still burning, gosh darn it.” “Now now Applejack, there is no need to appeal to rude wording darling, but I agree with this situation being a little eye hurting.” “He he~ good one Rarity,” Pinkie nudged Rarity. “Is everypony ok myu? Do your eyes hurt too much, Miss Fluttershy?” Rinna was next to Fluttershy checking out that her eyes weren’t too affected. “Oh... no Rinna, I’m fine thanks to you blocking most of the bright light, thank you,” Fluttershy recovered her sight almost instantly. “There’s no need to thank me myu, Lucky Star acted reckless again, I’m sorry I couldn’t protect everypony’s eyes in time myu.” “Do not worry darling, we are fine is just a little eye sore.” “Little in yer case Rarity, the light didn’t hit ya totally because you were behind me. ‘Ah got it full in mah eyes and it still burns.” “You’re just too slow Applejack. I protected my eyes the moment I saw the flash so I’m fine now,” Rainbow recovered and was flying again. “How did we get into Rarity’s house though?” “What? Are we in my Boutique Rainbow?” Rarity was almost recovered but her eyes were still a little sore. “Yes we are, did Twilight teleport us here?” “If she did, she exceeded a little too much with the bright,” Applejack was still trying to open her eyes to no avail. “Um… I think it was Lucky Star who teleported us here.” “Fluttershy dear, Lucky Star is not a unicorn or an alicorn by that matter, she cannot use magic.” “That’s right it doesn’t matter how weird she is, she can’t be able to do magic just like that.” “But remember Rainbow, she said she is not a pony like us, but more like what Rinna is.” “She probably just said that to play it cool, I don’t believe she is from some other fancy dimension or anything like that.” “Oh, but she is, Dashie. Koni used this card thingy to get us here, because she didn’t wanted to go all mystic in the middle of the town,” Pinkie showed the card to everypony. “By the way Rinni here’s your backpack, Rarity fix it for you, don’t worry about the plastic containers I have them in Sugar Cube Corner,” she gave the backpack to Rinna. “Thank you Pinkie, also thank you Miss Rarity for taking time out of your work to fix this for me myu, I’ll make it up to you I promise.” “There is no need for that dear, I did it to help a friend, and now that I have your friendship too I couldn’t possibly ask for anything in exchange darling, your gratitude is enough pay for me,” Rarity was now able to open her eyes normally. “Yeah yeah, that’s nice and all but what is this thing?” Rainbow asked by pointing at the card and the rest focused their attention in it. “Oh, that’s a spell card myu,” Rinna said while taking the card in her hands. “Spell card?” everypony said at once. “Yes it’s a creation of my world; it uses a game from another world as a base for the presentation myu. But it works with magic, and we do not use them only for spells, there are other types like storage cards myu.” “And what does this one do?” “This is mass teleport myu, gives the user the power to teleport themselves and other beings selected by the user to the chosen destination. She used it suddenly so I couldn’t warm you about the bright light myu.” “Ooooooh…” “How do ya use ‘em sugarcube?” “I don’t know their functioning deeply, but for the card to work it just requires you to pour magic into it myu. “But for what I saw so far, apparently only unicorns and alicorns are able to control their magic on this world myu.” “That is because us unicorns and also alicorns have horns to harness magic darling, earth ponies and pegasi does not have a way to do so.” “Well I don’t have control over mine yet, but I can use it and I don’t have a horn myu. The horn seems to be a tool for ponies to control magic to do spells, I suppose the other two pony types have something they can do that unicorns can’t do normally myu.” “We pegasi are capable of controlling weather by manipulating clouds.” “And we earth ponies have higher natural strength and we can grow plants easier.” “That proves that you have magic too, but can only use it passively myu. Oh Pinkie, I had a golden plant in my backpack, do you have it with the rest of my things myu?” “Nope, Rarity only gave me the plastic containers Riny.” “Oh, I remember that gorgeous plant darling, I had to keep it here to not let it get ruined, is that plant of any importance?” “It’s a sprout of Yggdrasil, which is the biggest source of magic of my world myu, it can be used to communicate with others that have sprouts as well, but I couldn’t make it work since I got here myu.” “What?” Twilight popped up suddenly, “you did have a magical source from your world and you didn’t tell me? Where is it? Can I have it? Can…” A hoof blocked Twilight’s muzzle, “Calm down Twilight, this is not the time to go crazy about learning stuff.” Twilight’s ears dropped while she smiled sheepishly, “sorry.” “Did you told them everything myu?” Lucky Star let out a sigh, “yes I did, and it’s better this way to prevent any possible issue in the near future.” “How did they take the news myu?” “Surprisingly well, I suppose this being such a peaceful world helped with that, but they want to send somepony with us to our world to start diplomatic relationships between the two worlds,” Lucky Star took a deep breath, “and guess who they chose to be the ambassador.” “Twilight,” everypony and Rinna said at once in a monotone voice. “Wha… how did you know?” Twilight was rightfully surprised. “Exactly,” they said again in a monotone voice. Twilight just pouted. Meanwhile in Ponyville’s Schoolhouse Dejiko contacted Ingrid again, she was a little upset with that but after being introduced with Dejiko’s new friends, she just spend time talking about their world and answering any questions the foals or Cheerilee had. “Miss Ingrid, Miss Ingrid,” Applebloom raised her hoof to ask a question. “Just Ini is fine Applebloom, anyways what is it, do you have a question?” “Wait, how is that she can call you Ini but you scold me every time I do it nyo?” “For one thing, she is much more polite than you are, like every other pony in the room, and second she is adorable so deal with it.” The foals giggled some. “Now, now my little ponies, is not correct to make fun of somepony’s misfortune.” “Yes Miss Cheerilee,” the foals replied at once. “Now please apologize to princess Dejiko.” “We are sorry Princess Dejiko,” the class said at once in a cute way. Dejiko got a shiver from that response, “alright, alright nyo, I forgive you just don’t give me that look nyo!” Ingrid let out a giggle, “ok, with that out of the way, what was your question Applebloom?” “Ya said that everypony is able to use magic in yer world miss Ini, that means that ‘ah can use it too?” “Of course, it just a matter of training your mind and discover the power that is inside you, I can teach you how after all of this is over. Just make sure to ask for permission if you want to come here, this invitation is for anyone that wants to learn how to use magic. Even you Miss Cheerilee, this could enhance your capabilities as a teacher and prepare foals to confront any dangers they may cross ways with.” “It’s a tempting proposal, Miss Ingrid, but I cannot leave the schoolhouse for a long period of time.” “Well, it’s up to you I won’t insist, but after we put some work in the portal you can just come here with your class to learn, just consider it another lecture, also please don’t be so formal you can call me by name.” “I understand, I’ll take it into account Ingrid, you can put aside formalities with me too, and we are all friends after all.” “Alright, like I said before, one of our friends is lost in your world; can we count with your help to find her, Cheerilee? We are desperate to find her and I’ll be sending more help tomorrow, so please bring us your assistance.” “Of course Ingrid, we will help you find your friends, you said she is only ten years old, I will not be able to rest comfortably knowing that a little filly is by herself out there, right my little students?” “Yes we will help find Rinna! You can count with us Miss Ini!” “Just leave everything to us Ini, ‘ah promise to find yer friend, right girls?” “You bet!” Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo said at once. “Thank you, everyone, you don’t know how much that means to us,” Ingrid cleared some tears she had in her eyes, not out of sadness but out of relieve and happiness, “I have to go and inform the others about this new development, I’ll be seeing you later my friends,” she gave a smiling wave then ended the communication. “Well then, let’s get to it nyo! Maybe Rinna is in Ponyville nyo,” Dejiko got up and made her sprout of Yggdrasil a card again to put it in her pocket with the rest. She left the schoolhouse with everypony else in tow, to start looking for Rinna in Ponyville. Meanwhile Rinna and company resumed their tour around Ponyville, it appears that they will end up meeting soon enough right? Well let’s leave that to the deities. Oh I almost forgot about Sombra, well if you are interested enough on what he has been doing after chasing those little robots to the cave that homes the Tree of Harmony, well… Sombra sat down and waited for the strange beings to finish their work, for some reason his magic wasn’t able to corrupt those beings as if they weren’t alive. He wasn’t amused. “I should have followed that cat princess,” he let out a tired sigh.