//------------------------------// // Episode 10: School Life // Story: Equestria's Heroes // by ArmorKamen85 //------------------------------// It was soon morning at the School of Friendship as Celestia's sun rose up and shined its warm light throughout Equestria. Right now we can see Hibiki sleeping in his dorm as he snored. Nothing can ruin his sleep. That was until the sound of an alarm clock woke him up as he screamed like a little girl and fell out of his bed as he groaned. "What was that...?" He muttered before he turned to see what time it was. "Oh crap! I better get going! I don't want to be late!" He then started to get up and get dressed before grabbing his equipment before he ran out of his dorm to head to the breakfast to meet up with his friends. It had been a week ever since the School of Friendship had reopened and was now living in the rules of Twilight and her friends. Hibiki was real excited to be attending the school not because of the new things. He would be attending it with his friends. What couldn't be better than that? Right now Yusei, Shinji and X were with the young 6 in the breakfast hall as they were eating their breakfast while they were waiting for Hibiki to come. "I'm glad that things have been stressful then they were before." Shinji said as he sighed in a relaxed manner. "Well its thanks to Yusei and X for getting Headmare Twilight to gain the confidence to reopen the school." Sandbar pointed out. "Well we had help from Starlight so give her some credit." X said. "Um hey, has anyone seen Hibiki?" Silverstream asked. "He probably still sleeping." Smolder replied while shrugging. "Hey guys!" The group then saw Hibiki as he rushed through the breakfast hall and sat next at the table the students and the other heroes were sitting at. "There you are." Ocellus said. "What happened?" "Yeah, did you oversleep?" Gallus asked with a smirk. "Yes." Hibiki said obviously making the others except Silverstream sweatdrop. "Well its good to see you here." Silverstream said happily. "So what's the plan for today?" "Well first we have Professor Fluttershy's animal class, then Professor Pie's cooking class and Professor Dash's Racing class." Ocellus explained checking her time table. "Well that's good." Shinji smiled as he petted Ocellus' head who blushed and giggled in response. "Well alright then. Let's gey ready and head to class." Yusei suggested. Everyone nodded as they finished eating up and headed up to Fluttershy's classroom. (Later) Right now, the heroes, their six friends and the other students were in Fluttershy's classroom as the said yellow pegasus walked in front of classroom. "Oh, um hello class." She said. "Today we will be learning on how to befriend other creatures." "What does pony mean?" Yona whispered to X. "I think its a way for us to make friends with wild animals or something like that." X guessed. "You're right X." Fluttershy confirmed. "Now let me show you the creature you'll be trying to befriend." "Oh! I can't wait!" Silverstream said excitedly. "Me two!" Hibiki said, equally as excited. Fluttershy then reached behind her desk and then pulled out what appeared to be diminutive porcupine-like creature which raised confusion of the heroes of the students. "Well that's strange." X commented. "Yeah, what is that thing?" Sandbar asked. Ocellus sighed. "Am I the only one who didn't sleep through Professor Fluttershy's "Critters of Comfort and Conflict" class?" The heroes and the rest of the young 6 let out sheepish laughters. Clearly Ocellus was the only one who didn't sleep. The said changeling rolled her eyes and said "It's a puckwudgie." "That's right Ocellus." Fluttershy confirmed happily. "Today you all will try to befriend this creature." Fluttershy then sets thd puckwudgie on the floor as it looks at the heroes and the students. The heroes and the young 6 felt a sense of unease as the puckwudgie starred at them with its soulless looking eyes. While it may not look like it, they felt that this creature was making endless eye contact with them. They didn't like it one bit. "So um..." Silverstream nervously began. "Who's first?" "Y-Yeah." Shinji added. "Does anyone have an idea?" "Let me try." Ocellus said as she then turns into one and starts speaking puckwudgie. But then the creature growls before turning its back and fired quils out of its back causing everyone to duck behind the desks as thankfully no one got hurt. "Oh!" Fluttershy said as she grabbed the puckwudgie and calmed it down as it was no longer aggrivated. She then looked at the heroes and students who shakely got out of their hiding spots. "Is everycreature ok?" "Well...none of us is hurt so yeah." Hibiki said as he petted Silverstream who hugged him in fear. "Um, Ocellus?" Yusei asked looking over at the said changeling who hid behind Shinji. "What did you say to it?" "I-I-I just s-simply said "Hello. How are you?"." Ocellus said shakely. "Well that went well." Smolder sarcasticly remarked. "Ok let's try this again." Fluttershy said as she placed the puckwudgie on the floor. The puvkwudgie gave the heroes and students that same glance it gave earlier. Seeing that no one was ready, Yusei sighed as he walked up to it. "Wait Yusei!" Smolder said trying to stop her friend from engaging the creature that tried to attack them. When Yusei was a few feet near the Puckwudgie he kneeled down to it as it monitored his everymove. Yusei then took a deep breath before he then reached his hand out and put it on the puckwudgie's head. The young 6 and the other heroes gasped and closed their eyes as they prepared for the worse to come. But there was silience that was soon replaced with a happy chirp. They looked over with shocked looks at what they were seeing. The puckwudgie was happily nuzzling its head at Yusei's hand as it happily chirped. Yusei couldn't help but chuckle at the creature's affection as he sat down which allowed the puckwudgie to sit on his lap so that it can be petted much more. Yusei then turned to look over at his friends. "Its ok guys. Its not gonna attack us." Smolder was the first to walk over to Yusei as she cautiously eyed the creature that was sitting in her friend's lap. She then sat next to Yusei who stops petting the puckwudgie as the said creature looked at Smolder. Smolder looked over to Yusei who nodded in response before she slowly put her claw on the puckwudgie's head and petted it which surprisingly made it let out a happy chirp before it nuzzled next to Smolder's claw. "Oh wow." Smolder said amazed before looking at Yusei. "How?" Yusei shrugged. "I guess we needed to be more natural and quiet." "Ok?" Smolder then looks back at the others. "Hey guys, its ok." One by one the other heroes and students went to the puckwudgie and surprisingly, Yusei was right. They had to be more quiet and natural to show that they weren't a threat. "Wow! Heheh! This little guy so is fun!" Silverstream giggled as the puckwudgie jumped into her lap and tickled her a bit. "You're right." Hibiki said as he also laughed as he and Silverstream unknowingly held hands. "Well done class." Fluttershy said happily. "I knew you can do it." "Give the credit to Yusei." Sandbar said. "He was the one who befriended it first. "Oh it was nothing." Yusei chuckled. (Later) It was now time for Pinkie's cooking class as the heroes and students saw Pinkie appearing out behind her desk as confetti appeared. "How does she always do that?" Shinji whispered. "I think we shouldn't question it." Yusei replied. "Ok class!" Pinkie said brightly. "Today you all will be in groups to make a delicous treat for me to taste! All the ingrediants and recipes that you need are right next to you! Your time starts...now!" Soon the heroes a students were put into groups. Hibiki, Silverstream, Shinji, Ocellus and Sandbar were in one group. And Yusei, Smolder, X, Yona and Gallus were in the other as the time started. "Ok, what should we make?" Hibiki asked to his group. "How about these?" Ocellus asked as she showed a recipe for apple fritters. "That seems like a good idea." Shinji suggested. "Ok then, let's do it!" Hibiki shouted. "So what do we make?" X asked his group. "Let's check what the recipe book has." Yusei asked as he checked before stopping. "How about this?" It shows a cinamon roll recipe. "Mm. Yona love cinamon rolls!" Yona said excitedly. "Then let's try that." Gallus suggested. "Eh." Smolder shrugged. "Works with me." The groups then got to work on the recipes. Let's see which group's dish will be- "Hey! We have no time for that!" Pinkie shouted. "Time to use some spongebob." Wait what? No, don't you dare you little sh- "Your time is up!" Pinkie announced as she looked at the heroes and students. The said heroes and students were tried as they sweated. All that work to get the recipes right really tuckered them. "Ok groups, let see what you made." Group A (Hibiki, Silverstream, Shinji, Ocellus and Sandbar) showed the apple fritters as Pinkie examined them before taking a bite out of one them. "Great!" Group A sighed in relief upon hearing that. "Ok, now group B's turn!" Group B (Yusei, Smolder, X, Yona and Gallus) walked to Pinkie as they presented the cinamon rolls as Pinkie examines them before she takes a bite out of one of them. "Amazing!" Group B fell to the ground in relief. "You groups did a good job!" Pinkie cheered. (Later) "Man that was tiring!" Hibiki groaned streching his limbs. The heroes and the young 6 were now relaxing outside. Since Pinkie Pie's cooking class was really tiring to the group, they decided to head out to chill out. "You said it." Sandbar said relaxing next to a tree. "Atleast its way better then the EEA rules we had to live by in the school." Smolder commented. "You just HAD to bring that up?" Gallus asked. While Ocellus was reading a book, she noticed that Shinji was sitting on a rock away from the group as he looked on into the distance. Both curious and concerned, Ocellus got up and walked to Shinji and sat next him. "Are you ok?" She asked. That got Shinji to look at her as he sighed. "Well in all honesty, not that much." "But why?" Shinji was quiet for a few moments before saying. "I'm thinking of that Black Battler guy. You know, the guy who was taken to canterlot's dungeons. Well, I feel that like us, he was brought here against his will. What if that there could be other people from different worlds being brought here?" "That does make sense." Ocellus admitted. "You think that hooded guy with Chrysalis could be the reason behind this?" "Maybe. I don't know." Shinji sadly admitted. Wanting to cheer up her friend, Ocellus flew up and hugged Shinji, which made the said human boy blush. "U-Um, what are you doing?" "Giving you a hug." Ocellus happily answered. "You look like you needed one." Shinji was stunned for a bit before he smiles and pats Ocellus' head. The bell rung which got the heroes' and the young 6's attention. "Now its time for Professor Dash's class!" Silverstream said. "Then let's get going." X suggested. (Later) It was now Rainbow Dash's class as the said pegasus flew into the classroom. "Ok everycreature!" She said. "Who's ready to have an awesome time?" Everyone cheered. "Alright. Today we'll have a race around this track." Everyone looked to see the track as it had many obsticles around it. "Alright, now we need two creatures to take part." Eventually X and Gallus were chosen to take part in the race as they went to the starting tracks as Rainbow stood near them while the other students sat on the branches watching. “Alright you two,” she began, “I want a nice and friendly race. I don’t wanna see any fighting or cheating going on, and no flying during this, okay?” The two nodded before looking at each other. "I hope to have a fun race Gallus." X said. "Please." Gallus smirked. "This already got fun." They faced forward ready to start running as Rainbow Dash then said, “On your marks! Get set!” She then blew her whistle. Both X and Gallus then took off like a speeding bullet as they ran towards the track. The first obsticle was a large wall they had to climb with some ropes. The two got to the wall as they climbed up the ropes and soon got ontop of the wall before jumping off and continued the race. X and Gallus soon headed to rotating barrells that they jump over many times before they managed to head into two logs that Rainbow Dash made safe for the race. X and Gallus soon managed to exit the logs before they headed to a large water pit that they had to jump over. Once gaining enough speed, the two jumped over the water pit but Gallus screamed as he was about to fall in but X grabbed him and saved him from his wet fate. "Um, thanks." Gallus said with a tired smile. "No problem." X smiled. "Not let's get back to the race." Gallus smirked before the two headed back to racing each other. Soon X and Gallus jump through the holes of an obsticle before grabbing ropes to then swing across another water pit. Soon the two then dashed towards the finish line as they were neck to neck and soon after for what felt like an eternity they both crossed the finish line. The two fell to the ground as they breathed heavily and they looked at each other. "You're...Really....Fast....Gallus," X said between breaths. "Thanks...You...Too," Gallus replied while gasping for air. Once the two regained the breaths, X got up and walked to Gallus before helping the said blue griffon up. "Well, who won, Professor Dash?" One of the students asked. Rainbow rubbed the back of her neck and said, "Actually it was a tie, you both crossed at the same time." X and Gallus said nothing but instead smile at each other before high-fiving each other. (Later) "Man what a tiring day." Hibiki yawned. The heroes and the young 6 were heading back to their dorms since the school day was now over. "Easy for you to say." Smolder said to Hibiki with a smirk. "You weren't the one running." "But you were tired earlier." Silverstream innocently pointed out making the orange dragon groan in annoyance. "But atleast we had a fun day with each other." Ocellus said, trying to lighten the mood. "She is right on that." Shinji commented. "Yona love spending time with new friends!" Yona said hugging her friends tightly. The group laughed as they had a group hug with each other. Yeah, things are going to go well. For now...