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// Chapter 2: The Exam part 1 (Edited 08/12/18) 
// Story: The Story of Dawn and Twilight Sparkle 
// by ChiefKitsune 
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Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns
Date: 02/990 ANM
Location: Canterlot, Equestria

A small(adorable) lavender filly shuffled her front hooves about from nerves.  The reason for her nervousness is completely understandable, what with five of the School's most prestigious Unicorn's staring her down over the edge of a clipboard.  OH this isn't good, not good at all! Are they going to make me go retrieve some long lost artifact, or are they going to make me fight a dragon!? What do I do? What do Ido? What doIdo? WhatdoIdo?! Oh-  This filly is so nervous that her brain is coming up with very far-fetched ideas of what could happen.  This filly's name is, of course, Twilight Sparkle(six years old).

After letting the poor little filly stew for a few more moments, the head evaluates (judge) stepped forward and cleared his throat.  Immediately catching the filly's attention, before he began speaking. "Twilight Sparkle, so far you have completed the written portion of the exam," Twilight squeaks at the word 'exam'. "now it is time for you to demonstrate to us that you can also utilize your magic." His horn lights up and the room falls into silence for a few moments.

Just as her nerves were about to break her, she jumps at the door to her right is slammed open and a wooden cart is pushed in.  Twilight, Dawn, and their parent's eyes widen at the very large purple green poke-doted egg on the cart. Once the cart carrying the egg have reached a point near Twilight it stops and the two Earth ponies pushing it to leave quickly through the same door.

With that Professor Nearsight resumes talking, "We want you to hatch this egg with your magic."

Twilight stutters a little in fear. "W-What if I...I hurt whatever is inside?"

Nearsight snorts "It's hardly in danger, that is a Dragon's egg after all"

Velvet and Night Light's jaws drop at this crazy feat they are about to force their daughter to do.  They, however, withhold any objections on her at least trying to hatch the egg.

Twilight gives a determined nod showing she understands what she has to do, if not the difficulty of such a task.

With the look of determination not wavering in the least, Twilight confidently strides up to the egg(which is around three times her size) as she gets closer she focuses her magic to her horn causing a purple aura to form around it.  As the filly nears and comes to a stop she encompasses the egg with her magic giving the whole egg a lavender hue to match the one around her horn.  Without any other instructions and no idea on how to go about hatching said egg, Twilight decides to just push in as much of her magic as she can.

After a few minutes of feeding her magic into the egg with no noticeable effects to the egg, the lavender filly, however, is sagging in her posture with sweat forming across her brow and nearly panting out of breath.  Night Light and Twilight Velvet watch in growing concern as hatching a Dragon egg is a very difficult task even for a group of archmages.  Just as the young filly seems to be out of energy there is a massive explosion along with a wave of rainbow light surging across the sky in all directions.  As the light seems to pass harmlessly by the instructors as well as everypony in the room are drawn to look at where the young filly was taking her test, though because of the surprise Twilight's magic begins to surge out of control.