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// A Day Off? 
// Story: The Equestrian Civil War. 
// by Grandore 
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Chapter 9: A Day Off?

Grandore was released from the hospital a day after Squad Lightbringer had their skirmish with P.A.R.T.Y squad. He began to contemplate on where his squad would be found, starting with Archmane. “I wonder where that pony would be…” He began, “Let’s start with the University.” Grandore made his way through the town to the college he spent most of his life working at. “The University of Magical Defense, never thought I’d be back here again.” Grandore walked into the lobby of the large building to see all the students moving in hurry for their early classes.

“Hey! Mr. Grandore!” Grandore looked to were the voice came from. He soon found a pink and blue unicorn moving over to him. “Mr. Grandore, I was wondering when you’d be back for the next magic sparring class! You know how much your students love that class!” She said with great happiness. 

“I’m not here to stay, Moon Glow.” Grandore stated to see the unicorn frown, “I’m only here to get Archmane, we’re late, have you seen him?” 

“Um. I think I saw him go to the library, check there!” She replied and began to move off to her class.

“Great,” Grandore said as he moved through the hallways, passing students, then he opened the largest door in the stone hallway “the largest library in Ponyville.” He said as he stepped into the large library with aisle after aisle of bookcases filled with books on magic spells. “Archmane!” Grandore exclaimed as he finally found the brown unicorn infront of one of the bookcases.

“Yes?” Archmane said, turning to his teacher, “What’s wrong?”

“We need to go find Silverspeed and Octavia. We need to get moving back to Canterlot for debrief.” Grandore said as he started to drag Archmane through the aisles with haste. 

“Fine, fine, I’ll go get Silverspeed, you go get Octavia, she should be at the Café.” Archmane said and walked off in the opposite direction of Grandore, who hurried into Ponyville. Grandore finally found himself infront of Ponyville’s Café and found Octavia by herself. 

“Are you alright Octavia?” Grandore asked as he approached the pony, clearly hurried.

“Yes, I’m just pony-watching. Why are you in such a rush?” She asked.

“I’d think along the lines of ‘Why are we in such a rush’ come with me.” Grandore said and started to walk off with Octavia rushing to follow. The group soon met up infront of the town hall. “And from here we teleport, Archmane I need your help.” The two unicorns began to focus on their teleportation spell, with a flash of grey and green the squad found themselves infront of Celestia in the meeting room.

“Welcome back, Squad Lightbringer. I see that your mission went well.” Celestia said, somewhat pleased.

“Yes the mission went well, I was injured, but recovered soon after.” Grandore said.

“I was informed. Well then, good on the mission, you are dismissed.” Celestia said and the squad made their way out of the door.

“So I guess we still have a day off, except now we’re in Canterlot.” Grandore said as they left the castle and into Canterlot’s open streets.