//------------------------------// // A Dragon in School // Story: Dragon Knight Duelist // by Royaldragonknight //------------------------------// “Okay… Hold on.” Twilight started after the five that went to visit Spike explained what happened. They were all hanging out in the music room before classes started for the day. “You’re telling me, that the youngest pro duelist and new regional champion… Was the counterpart to my dog from Equestria…?” She asked even holding up said pup. “Well I mean he’s actually a dragon back in his home so it’s not entirely the same.” Sunset explained laughing a bit at her confusion. “Dragon’s are usually much bigger fearful creatures with the fire breathing and all that. He just looked like a dog here for whatever reason. While our Spike is well… An actual dog that can just talk now. No offense.” She smiled to the pup. “None taken.” the dog replied wagging his tail. Twilight sighed. “Okay, that’s fair but it’s still really weird to think about.” “Just like it’s weird to think about how your counterpart is a Pony Princess?” Rainbow grinned as Twilight blushed. “R-right! I keep forgetting about that…” She admitted. “Either way it’s been a while, so I’m not sure if he’s gonna be coming back or not.” Sunset shrugged as she leaned against the stares of the small stage in the room. “Even still, it was nice getting to the bottom of that, even if the item he’s using to appear human is rather strange.” Rarity stated working on some kind of outfit off to the side. She was hoping that it wasn’t the last time they saw him. “Though I’m surprised you know about these things Twilight.” “Are you kidding! I love Dual Monster!” She grinned getting really enthusiastic all of a sudden and catching a few of the girls off guard. “Really…?” Applejack asked a bit surprised. “You don’t seem the type, Twi.” Twilight nodded her head and grinned. “Oh yeah, I keep up with the competitions a lot and even play… Though I’m not very good, I couldn’t play against a pro like him or the Samurai.” She paused and dug around in her backpack for a moment before pulling out her deck box. “I run a spellcaster deck!” Sunset slipped down her spot a bit as Rainbow rushed over and started looking through Twilights deck. “Not her too….” She mumbled and felt Applejack put a hand on her shoulder. “At least she has fun?” She offered with a small chuckle. “Ugh… Just promise that I won’t lose you and Rarity to the game too….” She grumbled seeing Pinkie getting all excited about the game. Rarity paused in her stitching with wide eyes. “Oh you won’t have to worry about that, darling!” She said a bit quickly and blushing. Before either of them could respond to her reaction a voice caught everyone’s attention. “Oh, here you girls are.” They all looked over to see Principal Celestia. “I’ve been looking for you, I was hoping you could do something for me.” “Of course! What can we do for you?” Rarity asked quickly, hoping to get the two off of her. “Well you see, we have a new student joining us today and I was hoping a few of you girls could show him around? I would have called you over the intercom but I wanted to keep this one a bit quiet…” She said with a small smile. The girls all blinked before Sunset spoke up. “Okay, who is it?” Celestia looked to the side and made motion for someone to come over. 6 pairs of eyes widened as a familiar boy walked into the doorway and waved. “Yo.” Was all he said. “This is Spike Emeraldfang. He’ll be joining our school as a Junior.” She smiled brightly. “From what I understand he is a bit famous so I didn’t want to make this an announcement over the intercom. Can I trust you girls to give him the tour of the school?” After a moment Sunset was the first to recover. “O-of course Principal Celestia, you can count on us!” Her tone was chipper and she held a nervous smile but the Principal took the information in stride and turned to leave. Once she was a bit further away Spike looked back to the group. “Hey gir-” He paused as five pairs of hands gripped him all at once and pulled “Oh god!” With that he was yanked into the music room by Sunset, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie very forcefully and the doors slammed behind him. Celestia looked back and blinked but shrugged, she trusted the girls to not do anything bad. Back in the music room found Spike upside down and slammed into some instruments across the room and the five glaring at him from the door while backed against it. “Ow…. Was that really needed?” He grumbled while flipping himself back over and rubbing the bump on his head. “What are you doing here?” Sunset glared, not having expected him to show up here in the first place. “Well my Twilight said that if I was staying in this world I should go to school too, so I applied here.” Spike shrugged while dusting off his jacket. “It seemed like the right thing to do, I mean I know some people here and it’s close to the portal if I want to go visit.” “You couldn’t have warned us first!? How many people know you’re here?” Sunset was going into freak out mode before Twilight placed hands on her shoulders. “Sunset… Breath! You’re having a magical item freak out. This isn’t another Montage and the Mirror situation.” Twilight said trying to keep her from running into freak out mode any further. Spike blinked at the mantra that Sunset started to say, something like ‘Live in the moment, don’t worry… Live in the moment, don’t worry…’ but shrugged. “Well, there was the, “We’re Sad to See You Go” Party, the surprise Goodbye party right after that, and like three other different parties that Pinkie dragged me around to too keep herself and the others from getting too sad. At least that’s what I could tell, since they weren’t doing a great job of hiding their emotions at me leaving.” He said simply, a small smile to know how much they would. “I didn’t really have the chance to send word forward.” “Okay… that’s fair.” Sunset sighed having finished calming down. “So no one knows you’re going to school here yet?” He shook his head. “Nope, but that probably won’t last long if there are other fans of mine that go here… Or even of the Samurai. They’ve been pretty pissed since the Championship.” The other girls blinked before looking at Rainbow and Twilight. Rainbow gave a dismissive blow of her bangs and a bit of a growl. “The Samurai’s fans are all pissed that Spike beat him in the championship. Sore losers.” She rolled her eyes. Twilight adjusted her glasses and nodded. “Some of his more zealous fans have been coming up with theories and excuses to say that Spike cheated in the match, but can’t come up with anything that is actually against the rules.” Spike shrugged. “That’s what fan’s do, they don’t want their idols to fall and will come up with reasons why it wasn’t their fault.” “Still shouldn’t that Samurai guy be doing something to stop them?” Applejack asked not happy about the news. “He’s trying, but they aren’t listening. Guy isn’t sore at all since it was a good match, he’s looking forward the next time we duel.” Spike grinned. “I can’t say I don’t feel the same.” “Well whatever… Let’s just get the ‘tour’ done.” Sunset rolled her eyes. “Not like you don’t know this place well enough.” “Hey now, It’s been a while, things could have changed.” Spike grinned sticking his hands in his pockets. With that he was led around the school to all the important places within. As they went a few people did notice who he was and stopped him for an autograph or a picture, which he was more than happy to stop for. It was a fairly small amount of people that were fans of his or just fans in general of the game, but still enough to surprise the others. “I see the tour is going well.” A voice came from down the hall a bit. Twilight looked over and smiled. “Oh yes Vice Principal Luna! It seems he’s going to fit in well here.” “Good to hear, we do pride ourselves on being inclusive with our students.” Luna smiled as Spike grinned back. “I do hope you won’t cause too many interruptions while going here though.” “I’m sure there won’t be an-” “EmeraldFang!” Came a yell from behind Luna causing them all to blink. “Hopefully not too often…” He mumbled as Luna turned around while the others just sort of peered around her, including himself. “Yeeees?” Standing there and glaring directly at Spike was Brawly Beats, the drummer for Flash’s band. “You really think you can just come to this school after what you did?” “What exactly is it that he did?” Luna asked looking between the two as Spike came out from behind them. “Well considering I’ve only just met this guy… I’d have to say he’s a fan of the Samurai and mad that I beat him in the Championship.” Spike shrugged, he could be wrong though. “You cheated!” The teal haired drummer yelled. “Scratch that, he’s one of the crazy fans.” Spike corrected himself. This wasn’t the only fan of Samurai he ran into at the school, but this was the first of the nut job ones. “And I didn’t cheat, we had a fair match and I just happened to have the right cards to win. That’s how the game works.” Brawly glared. “Yeah right! I bet it actually got rigged so you could win cause they wanted The Samurai of the West out for some kid! You couldn’t actually have beat anyone.” “Now now, no need for this kind of thing in the halls.” Luna started but Spike stepped forward. “That right? So you think you could beat me than?” He asked looking confident. “Any day of the week! You just name the time.” In the back a few of the girls where face palming at what was starting, though Rainbow and Twilight looked a little excited. “What do you say Vice-Principal, nothing wrong with a little friendly competition before class starts?” Spike smiled as he implied doing it now. “This is hardly a friendly challenge Mr. Emeraldfang…” She mumbled but relented. “Fine, you can use the gym.” “Preciate it.” Spike grinned as he turned to head that way. “Hope you brought your duel disk.” He called back to his opponent as he pulled his own out of his backpack. As Brawly ran to get his and Rainbow along with Pinkie quickly ran off to join Spike, Sunset turned to Luna. “Are you sure about this Vice-Principal?” Luna nodded. “It’s a good way to break the ice I suppose, and it is a harmless game from my understanding. I’m sure with Pinkie involved the whole school will be there to watch.” “More than likely.” Applejack grinned shaking her head. “Guess that means we should go get seats before the good ones are gone huh?” “Oh Yes! We should go no-I… I mean, of course Darling. I don’t want to be two high up in the bleachers…” She quickly quelled her excitement of seeing him duel again. Which didn’t go unnoticed by the others this time. For now they let it go and headed off to the gym.