In the morning of day three, Cloudy Quartz prepared everything in her daughter’s classroom. It’s a big day for her since it’s finally time to show her teaching skills in front of her students. Her family is waiting in the hallway while the students who arrived are confused. Out of the teachers they saw this week, they wonder if Pinkie’s mother has something to do with it. For the last two days, they saw Cloudy Quartz as the least of their favorites, but not the worst.
When they come in Cloudy’s classroom, they see her and Spike making decisions for today’s class. It was the first time they see Cloudy doing something and they’re surprised.
“What are we going to learn in this class?” Star Tracker asked.
“Not sure, looks really bizarre if you ask me.” Sandbar replied. As the students take their seats, Cloudy makes an announcement with Spike by her side.
“Now it’s been two days since I allowed you to skip my class, but not anymore. Today will be something different, it will be something that I usually do back where I live.” She then turns to Spike. “Spike, please go get my family.”
Spike assisted as he leaves the classroom. The students also notice several heavy bags behind Cloudy.
“Excuse me?” November raised his hoof. “What’s in those bags?”
“Rocks.” Cloudy answered.
This made the students more confused. After watering their plants and their trip to Appleloosa, rocks never came to mind.
“What are we going to do with rocks?” Ocellus asked.
“Trust me, it’s not what you think it is.”
Spike came back as he opens the door wide to invite Cloudy’s family in. When the students witness the visitors again, they had the same unhappy expression, almost like they dislike being here. Once they line up in Cloudy’s classroom, Cloudy introduces them.
“This is the Pie family. We live at a rock farm where we raised Pinkie Pie. This is my husband, Igneous Rock. And these are my three daughters, Limestone Pie, Marble Pie and Maud Pie.”
Her family didn’t make a reaction during their introduction which made the students make awkward faces. Igneous Rock gave the students a glare, he isn’t always in a good mood while Marble Pie is hiding behind Maud. It was an awkward moment that lasted for a solid minute until Cloudy spoke again.
“Please be respectful, just because we act this way, doesn't mean we’re not related to Pinkie Pie.”
“She’s right.” Her husband chimed in. “We’ve spent all our lives back at the farm.”
“Not to mention, we are disgusted that ponies disrespect our property.” Limestone added.
“So to show our lesson about friendship, we’re going to teach you how to make rock figures.”
“Rock figures?” Gallus asked. “Like you make something out of rock?”
Igneous Rock nodded after listening to Gallus’s question. He then takes one of the bags from the back and takes out a rock with rockhammers he brought along. “This will take a lot of time to make a single figure so we decide to put you into three groups.”
For the next couple of minutes, Cloudy manage to put the students in her class in groups. Her husband took the time he needed to show the basics of making a rock figure. Then one of her daughters decided to help the students how to make a rock figure.
“Now you can make a rock figure out of any pony you want, but we don’t have a lot of time.” Cloudy replied. “This friendship is to show what we feel in our property. If you ever come to our farm, making friends,”
“Even though we barely have friends.” Limestone chimed in despite her mother finishing her subject.
“When you go to your FRIEND’S house, respect what they do in their society like us.”
When Cloudy shows her lesson about friendship, it made her students surprised. Besides some students spending time in their homes, new students never invited their friends from the school in their house. Especially the rules they need to follow and the feelings the family have that might be offended.
When Igneous place three huge rocks on one of the tables where the groups with their rockhammers are at, is when the students finally beginning their project. Star Tracker was about to get some assist with Marble Pie who’s the helper of his group but she didn’t make a single word once she got here.
“Ummm…Marble?” He asked. “Are you going to help us?”
Marble is still shy to even respond to Star’s question. She didn’t want to come here but she also didn’t want to disappoint her mother.
“Yeah, we didn’t even use our rockhammers yet.“ Silverstream added.
“I’m just not into helping okay?” She replied. “But I also think you should make something out of love. You know, the closet of your best friend.”
This gave Tracker’s group buddies the idea of their project but it won’t make Tracker happy whatsoever. With the love in their minds, they gave Tracker their smirk expressions which made him blush again.
“Did you really have to say love?” He retorted.
“It was just an expression of friendship.” She hides behind her hair.
Star Tracker moaned in annoyance as if his problem from two days ago didn’t fate away.
During the rest of the period, minutes before the class is over, the three groups finished their assignment. Cloudy expects the effort her students did at least passable with the idea she has for friendship. She makes her way to the first group of their rock figure and judges it.
The first group’s rock figure is a Canterlot guard with his uniform on. While Cloudy isn’t impressed with the detail on the uniform, she admits it was a complicated task to make their model the best. She gave the group’s figure a C+.
She went to the second group where they’re figure is a little filly. With it being small, they have to use their rockhammers more on the one and only rock they had. In Cloudy’s perspective, it’s better than the last model with the mane almost looking good. She gave the group a B+ which made the group happy with their project being the best of what they have.
All that’s left is the final group to which Star Tracker is hiding behind his friends in embarrassment. “So what did you made out of your rock?” Cloudy asked.
Silverstream pushed the model in front of Cloudy as she gives Tracker her lid eyes. “Bet Twilight will find it adorable since you did the head part.” The hippogriff giggled.
Cloudy was not only impressed but also shocked. The model the group made was Twilight Sparkle, with her wings! Her wings being the addition to the figure was almost near perfection while her body is the most detail the group did on it. But when it comes to Twilight’s head, Tracker remembered the most when he worked on it. Her eyes has the line shape from her real ones, as if you can paint on it carefully.
“This is almost close to how my husband does it. If Twilight sees this, she would easily approve it.” She gave the group’s project an A+ which shocked most of the students in her class. “How did you do this?”
“I’m a hippogriff with wings, I can easily see how wings are done.” Silverstream boasted.
“And the fact we love our principal in this school.” Ocellus added.
While Star Tracker didn’t speak a word about the head he did on, he’s proud he got an A+. As for Cloudy Quartz, she did a great job when she finally did something in her class. As for her family, they found it nice to help out their mother in this situation. The students respected their society and Maud Pie knew all along they will never disrespect it.
Cloudy returned to her spot and gave her final speech to her students. “I wanted to thank all of you for taking the time to make your rock figures while also respecting me and my family.”
Then his daughter Maud Pie shows her thoughts on today’s activity. “We’ve known Pinkie Pie longer than you think, when she showed us her first ever party it made us happy. You know what you made us feel? The same thing and we don’t usually feel that a lot. I still hope you still show more respect to my mother for today and the rest of the week. We still might change our minds.”
After that, Cloudy’s family leave the classroom, reminding the same expression but with some happiness in themselves. Then finally the class is over with the bell ringing, the students leave.
“So how was it?”” Spike asked while he looks at the photos he took in Cloudy’s class.
“Almost the same as I predicted. Impressing my students with my own effort of friendship.” She smiled.
During the time the students make their way to their next classroom, they still remember they have two days with Cloudy’s class. To show their respect to Cloudy like the other teachers, they have something planned to make another rock model but bigger. If one group can make a small figure then three groups can make a big one figure. A figure Cloudy will remember for the rest of her life.