It had been nearly two weeks since Thunder Clash's sentencing and had since been put in Tartarus where the Cerberus would keep a close eye on him just as they had said it would, Zodiac on the other hand was now in an even bigger pickle than before because Celestia and Luna decided to enroll him at Twilight's School of Friendship because they felt he should learn friendship as well even though he already made two friends at his regular school. Anyway, here he was at the breakfast table eating chocolate chip waffles and a cup of milk that Celestia had made for him, he may have been enjoying his breakfast, but he was not looking forward to being at a new yet different school.
"Come on Zodi, eat your breakfast, you've got a big day ahead of you." Celestia said.
"Mom, I'm already in school, why do I have to go to another one?" Zodiac pouted while consuming another bite of his waffles.
Celestia shook her head in annoyance, "Zodi, we've already been through this, your aunt and I figure it's best if you learned the magic of friendship as well."
"Mom, I already have friends, why do I need to learn friendship if I already have friends?"
"Zodi, not another word out of you, you're going to the School of Friendship and that's final, now finish your breakfast!" Celestia said.
Zodiac gave an annoyed growl and finished his breakfast right down to the syrup covered plate.
Now even though he was already attending his own school, going to two schools would mean double assignments, double testing and quizzing, and the worst; double homework, and he was not going to be thrilled about that at all. Anyway, as soon as he finished his milk along with his breakfast, he gave his dishes to the chef that had made his food and took it to the kitchen as he went over and grabbed his book bag that he used for regular school.
Zodiac bid his aunt with a goodbye hug and kiss as he went out the door with Celestia as she walked with him to the royal chariot, inspected, hooked up to two royal guards, and ready for transportation to Ponyville.
As the chariot began to pick speed and lifted up into the air, Celestia then turned to her son who was still nervous about this, she put a comforting hoof on his back and rubbed him gently while smiling affectionately at him, as for Zodi, the least he could give in return was a small smirk.
"Now Zodi, I know it's been painful what you've been through these past few days and I also know that you have friends already, but friendship is more than just becoming somepony's friend and I believe that you should learn about the steps of friendship."
"Mom, what if I...." Celestia put her hoof on his mouth.
"Zodi, I promise nothing will happen to you, you'll be safe and besides you'll get to meet new creatures as well, because when this school first opened, I helped reach out to all the kingdoms and lands beyond Equestria since other creatures in these lands didn't even know a thing about friendship because we ponies were the only creatures abroad that had been taught everything about it."
"Really?" Zodiac asked.
"Yes, and the better news is Nathan is going to be there too."
"What?!" Zodiac asked with excitement.
"It's true sweetheart, Princess Cadance and Shining Armor enrolled him there too and he's going to be the first human there."
"Aw cool!" Zodiac said.
"I think you're going to have a great time." Celestia said giving her son a big hug.
The town of Ponyville sat just beyond the horizon with Twilight's castle in a good and picturesque view with the city showing in full beauty, now this really surprised Zodiac because up until now, he had never seen Ponyville before since he had never even left Canterlot over the fact that Celestia felt that something bad would happen to him if he did, but that phase of her had been pushed out and she was more open minded over it.
Anyway as the School of Friendship came into full view from below, the guards began making their descend and before time, they had landed in front of the pond that surrounded the whole school. Zodiac was mesmerized by the looks of this place, it looked just like Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, even like Canterlot Elementary, only it was bigger and had more space to it, it was nothing he had ever seen before.
"Wow, this place is big." he said.
"I knew you'd take a liking to it." Celestia said, hopping off the carriage and levitating her son onto her back they walked stone path that you hopped over in order to get to the entrance to the school, luckily there was a massive crowd of not just ponies, but also yaks, hippogriffs, griffins, changelings, and dragons, Zodiac had never even seen such creatures before.
Zodiac then continued on, but he was soon interrupted by a sudden greeting by Cadance and Shining Armor who were actually there to greet Celestia.
"Aunt Celestia!" Cadance exclaimed as she and Shining Armor embraced her.
"It's so good to see you Princess Celestia." said Shining Armor.
"Well I can certainly say it is a pleasure to see you all again." Celestia said, they soon switched their attention towards Zodiac and embraced him as well.
"It's good to see you as well Zodi." Cadance said as she picked him up and held him in her hoof.
"Hi Princess Cadance." Zodiac said hugging her and returning their love, but he soon took notice that Nathan wasn't beside them.
"Hey where's Nate?" he asked.
"Oh he's loafing around here somewhere." Shining Armor said, and it didn't take long to realize that the somewhere was closer than they thought. Zodiac quickly took notice of Nathan leaning against a support beam that held up the building with ear buds covering his ears and an iPod touch clutched in his right hand and his wings tucked and folded behind his back.
"NATE, NATE!!!!!!" Zodiac said with joy as he freed himself from Cadance and ran over to him, now even though Nathan had both earbuds in his ears, he could still hear what was going on in the building. He heard the sound of hooves rapidly approaching his direction, he turned and saw Zodiac running to him, Nathan soon gasped with excitement.
"Zodi!!!!!" Nathan said, they were soon embracing each other.
"Ah'd never thought you'd be attending this school as well." he said.
"Well my mom told me that your parents enrolled you." Zodiac said,"Say where are Skyla and Flurry Heart?"
"They're at Day Care." Nathan said.
"Okay boys, everything is about to start." Celestia said.
"Yes, Mom." Zodi obeyed.
They had now found themselves standing in a massive crowd of all creatures big and small and right in front of them was a stage where Twilight Sparkle and her friends walked up on, now Zodiac and Nathan had already known them, but a seventh one that joined them by the name of Starlight Glimmer who was the guidance counselor for the school of friendship.
"Attention ponies and creatures of all, welcome to day three of your lessons here at the School of Friendship, now as you all may have heard, we have two brand new students joining us today."
"What, Mom they know?" asked Zodiac.
"Yes sweetie, I notified Twilight about you and Nathan coming here." Celestia answered.
"Will the new students please step up here." Starlight said.
Zodiac felt nervous about this as he quivered with fear because he was just as shy as Ocellus was, luckily, he felt a hand touch his back and saw that it was Nathan who was showing a friendly smile, Zodiac smiled back and they walked from the crowd and up to the stage where they were now facing the crowd as Twilight and Starlight stood beside them, some of the creatures however were used to seeing ponies, but were just as surprised to see a human in this world as well.
"May I introduce, Nathan Cadenza my nephew who will be future captain of the royal guard after my brother Shining Armor." Twilight said.
Starlight then stood before the stage, "And may I introduce Zodiac, son of Princess Celestia and nephew of Princess Luna." she then put her hoof on his back.
"Let's take the time to introduce them to you all." Twilight said.
Zodiac now felt a touch of sympathy as he could tell this place would be better than what he experienced a few weeks ago.