Sunset has an... Unusual definition of the speed limit. Also Traffic laws and however the hell you're supposed to ride a bike safely.
I can safely say it is easily the most fun I've had since what I'm going to call 'The incident'
There was something inherently fun about whizzing through the nearly empty streets at insane speeds a few centimetres from the tarmac. Also seeing the path you normally spend three quarters of an hour walking moving so fast its got a minor blur is satisfying on a purely primal level.
I was almost sad when we pulled up the drive of the school five minutes later, my adrenaline was pounding and I was sure it wasn't going to cool down for at least half an hour.
“Well, how you holding up?” Sunset asked, looking over at me as I pulled the helmet off; she seamed somewhat disturbed by my manic grin.
“That, was. Awesome!” I cried, shaking my head for no apparent reason as I passed my helmet back to her.
“Well, that's different... Only Rainbow Dash has that response normally.” She commented as she pulled her own helmet off. “Normally everyone's just affirming their appreciation for solid ground after a ride with me.”
“Well they're cowards, that was amazing.” I responded.
“You would think the girls who fought three magical She Demons would be better able to handle one bike ride.” Sunset commented. “But, I'll forgive them, anyway, lets go get this conversation over with.”
I nodded and we headed in. (Electing not to point out she was one of the She Demons they'd fought, she probably knew that)
“Wow, back during the holiday's, this is weird...” I muttered as we headed into the school, which was bizarrely quite (Made sense, I mean, barley anyone was there but still...)
“You've seriously never been back into school during the holidays?” Sunset asked, looking at me as if I'd just said 'I ate my foot'
“Sunset I don't live in a fucking anime, School sucks and I take every chance to get away that I can.” I responded. “Last thing I wanna do is come back in when I don't have to.”
“Huh, well, makes sense... I guess.” Sunset muttered.
“Oh what? You went back into your school all the time?” I asked with a smirk on my face.
“Well not this one...” Sunset explained, looking around at the faulty lighting as we walked down 'Never fixed corridor' No idea why no ones ever bothered to fix it, surely its a health hazard.
Oh right, funding and this is a public school, I forgot.
“...But back when I was attending Celestia's school, well...” Sunset started but trailed off.
“Magic is easily more interesting than geography, even if I would rather of had a harrowing experience with that rather than magic.” I said with a smirk as I looked down, raising my hand to confirm they were still there.
“Do you have to do that?” Sunset asked, looking over at me as I, well... As we walked.
“This body has one upshot, don't take this from me.” I responded simply.
“I, Urghh... Fine, just don't do that in Celestia's office.”
“Don't do what in my office?” A voice said from right behind us.
“Nothing, nothing!” Sunset hastily blurted as she turned around, before noticing my hand hadn't moved when I turned around.
“Light Glare I take it?” She said with a smile as I realised what I was doing and moved my hand so quickly I'm sure I heard a whip like crack.
“Yes, I erm, you see...” I blurted, trying to pretend I wasn't embarrassed as all hell.
“Lets continue this in my office.” Principle Celestia said with a week smile as she pointed towards the door.
…
“...and now I've got breasts for the foreseeable future.” I finished explaining.
It said something about the Principle that she could just hear something like that and have no strong reaction.
“Well that's not the strangest thing that's happened around here lately.” Celestia said, looking at me before saying: “Could you stop doing that, I think you broke her.”
“Stop doing what?” I asked before I noticed how my hand had crawled up my body once again and was busy doing its thing. “Oh, sorry!” I said, my face going red as my hand snapped to my side.
“So, I take it you still want to go to Camp Everfree?” Celestia asked as she looked at me.
“Well, yeah if I could, although it might be a bit awkward to go as I am...” I muttered, looking down at my chest again. “Right now I just want to not be near Blooming or Dazzle, I know it wasn't intentional but...”
“You went through something unpleasant and want to have some fun.” Celestia said with a smile. “I understand that, trust me you're not the first person to be in that boat here.”
“So gender bent students are common around here?” I asked, hoping for a counter spell.
“No, but people dealing with the side effects of magic are commonplace in this school.” Celestia said, smiling as she looked at her screen and began typing something.
“I'm sorry, it's my fault the magic ended up over here in the first place...” Sunset muttered, causing Celestia to start giggling.
“Believe me Sunset, what you've done has been comparatively minor compared to some of the stuff that's happened at this school.”
“Wait what?” I asked, looking at her in confusion. “So, hang on, magical stuff's happened here before Sunset went... Red.”
“Oh yes.” Celestia said, giggling again as she saw the stunned look on both out faces. “What? A demon destroys the front of my school and I don't even react? Trust me, I've seen worse, just ask my sister about Nightmare Moon sometime.”
“Hold on what!?” Sunset cried, looking at her in amazement. “Magic's been a thing over here before I came over!?”
“Yes, it's been rather troublesome for decades now.” Celestia said off handedly.
“How long have you been teaching here? You look about twenty five.” I said, leaning in closer to look at her.
“Why thank you.” She said with a smile as she put a hand on my head to push me back into my seat. “My actual age... Well it's private but its a lot older than I look, magic's nice like that.”
“You're magical!” Sunset cried, her mouth agape as she looked at the Principle.
“Well yes, not as much as I used to be.” Celestia said as she reminisced. “The Witch Hunt years weren't fun, not that we were in danger of course; like fire could hurt us... Still wasn't very relaxing.”
“When were you going to tell us this!?” Sunset cried looking at Celestia. Who shrugged in response.
“Didn't think it was important, you girls always seamed to have the situation in hand.” Celestia said with a shrug. “Besides do you have any idea how much work it is to make sure the magic around here doesn't get out? I've been at it for over a century and it's only gotten worse. Anyway if you'd ever needed my help I would have given it, except with the sirens, couldn't do anything back then.”
“I, how was this not important!?” Sunset gasped.
“It was Equestrian magic, I don't think my experience could help much.” Celestia simply.
“I, I... Okay, sure...” Sunset said, flopping back into her chair.
“Why are you surprised? Isn't your Celestia the one who moves the sun around?” I asked, turning to look at her.
“You're not blown away by learning this!” Sunset practically screamed at me.
“Oh hell yeah, I'm just in shock at the moment, plus I'm still wondering about the whole Camp Everfree thing.” I said simply.
“You'll still be able to go, I need the okay from Gloriosa Daisy but I'm sure she'll be fine with it, I don't know what that girl does it but she'll do anything to make sure people are happy.” Celestia said with a smile.
“Okay, so should we go or?” I said, turning to face the door in my seat.
“Hold on, I just want to tell you something, and give you a warning.” She said, her face suddenly going rock hard and serious as she looked at me.
“Erm... Okay, what do I need warning about?” I asked, praying I wasn't going to have to deal with more magical crap than I already was; I wanted to go to camp to get away from the stuff.
“The tents are communal at the camp, you will be with another girl and it is extremely unlikely it will be with either of the two you've told.” She explained.
“Oh yeah... Didn't think about that.” I muttered darkly, then going red as I realised what that entailed. “Hold on I'm gonna be sharing a tent with a girl!”
“Yes you will be. Now I highly doubt I need to tell you this, but if you can't keep your hands to yourself...”
“What kind of creep do you think I am!?” I cried out, standing up and thumping my hands on her desk.
“I don't think that, but you are a teenage boy and it's natural to have concerns, if it wasn't for the fact I'm more worried about your condition staying secret I would try and make some special arrangements, but if I do that something will obviously be up.”
“I get that teenagers don't have the best reputation, but what kind of creep do you think I am?” I asked, actually kind of hurt as I looked at her.
“I swear no boy should be able to pull that kind of face.” Celestia said with a week smile.
“Why what am I doing?” I asked, looking around in confusion.
“You're doing the innocent puppy dog 'please don't be mad at me' face.” Sunset explained.
“I, how... Sorry.” I eventually muttered.
“Stop that, you're doing it again.” Celestia said with a smile. “Anyway, that was it, you're free to go now.”
We nodded and got up, I headed towards the door before we heard her call: “Oh, could you keep what I told you a secret? I don't want it to be common knowledge I or my Sister have magic.”
“Why? Want a reason to not help out when the next she demon comes around?”
That was meant to be a joke by the way.
She was... well.
“Yeah basically.”
“...” From me and Sunset caused her to add:
“You try fighting monsters for over two thousand years and not want a break.”
“Two... Two thousand...” Sunset muttered.
“I can by it.” I said dully as I took Sunsets hand and pulled her out of the room.
“Why are you not more shocked about this!?” Sunset gasped as we left the room.
“A better question would be why you are, I mean your Celestia was immortal, apparently; so why is it a shock, if it's because she's a human that's just racist. As for me, well... I'm kinda numb to feats of magic, its a sad fact of going here and well, these.” I explained, looking down and wondering how I could stop my hand from jumping up to my chest.
“Don't do that at the camp.” Sunset said, her eyes rolling as she spoke.
“Sorry, I don't realise I'm doing it.” I said awkwardly as with some effort I pulled my hand down.
“That's not a good sign.” Sunset muttered, her mind clearly somewhere else.
“You're still shocked the principle is apparently A: a Wizard and B: over two thousand years old. Aren't you?” I asked, even though it wasn't really a question.
“I, Why wouldn't she help us!” She cried. “Why is it she leaves us to do it alone if she could have helped?”
I shrugged as we turned a corner down a corridor.
“I dunno, character development? Ask Twilight how the Celestia you know deals with problems, maybe she's really into outsourcing or something.” I suggested as I looked at the pictures on the wall, and immediately my walk ground to a halt.
“I could ask her... why'd you stop?” She asked in confusion.
“Just wanna check something.” I said as I looked at said pictures. I'm fairly confident they were meant to show pictures of all the former head teachers. “They didn't used to all look like Celestia did they?”
“No what are... Oh.” She said, looking at them. They weren't showing different people anymore, in fact they all seamed to be Celestia and Luna wearing various disguises. (one was literally a Groucho Marks Glasses)
“Guess she must have some human magic perception spell going.” Sunset said as she looked at the pictures.
“Yes, I know what that is.” I said as I looked at her blankly.
“Opps, basically an enchantment to stop people noticing things. In this case the fact she's apparently been teaching here for over thirty years.” She muttered darkly.
“Yeah, well in all fairness why would you want everyone to know? I don't want anyone figuring out who I am while I'm stuck like this.” I also muttered darkly.
“I get that, but why didn't she tell us anything?” Sunset asked.
“I don't know, did your Celestia tell you everything? Because I suspect she didn't, also what exactly did we lose, I mean, you won and well, everyone likes you now.”
In retrospect probably should have phrased that better but she got the point at least.
“I guess, although if we get another She Demon and she doesn't help us out I'm going to be pissed.” Sunset said with a smile.
Given what was going to happen while we were at Camp I chose to believe she jinxed it at that point.