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// Chapter 2: New Student 
// Story: My Little Pony: The Great Defenders of Friendship 
// by specialhoof2022 
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Once me and my friends entered out classroom, we put our school supplies on our own desks before class starts. Our teacher, Ms. Mareson, came in and told all her students to take their seats, that class was starting now.

"Morning class." said Ms. Mareson. "As you all know, summer vacation is now 5 more days, we'd have to have our studies finished on time, before our fun begins."

We all sat down in our desks and listened to our teacher loud and clear.

"Also, we have a new student in class today."

And then, the new student walked into our classroom. It was a unicorn filly, whose fur was solid white, mane and tail were colored purple, pink, magenta, and blue, and her cutie mark was 3 stars, each with different colors.

"Hello everypony." said the new student. "My name is Ellagant Glare."

We were all starting to like her, she was looking amazing. Ellagant sat at her own desk, put her stuff down, and we all started class.

Hours later in the day, school was over, and we all left and started to walk back to our homes. I told my friends I would see them around, before to started walking back home.

I walked near the boardwalk, where ponies would look at the beautiful views of the beach and the ocean. I stopped to take a look at the sea, it was amazing with the waves, boats, dolphins, and whales. Anypony could go sailing to see the wonders of the ocean. And at the beach, ponies would build sandcastles, tan, and drink their favorite drinks.

While I was still enjoying the view of the ocean, Ellagant Glare, the same new unicorn student, walked by and saw me close by. She recognized me, she walked closer to me tapped me to get my attention.

"Hi there." she said. "Did they say your name is Special Hoof?"

"Yes I am." I answered.

"Well, it's nice to meet you."

"What brings you here to Maretime Bay?" I asked her.

"Well, me and my family moved here 2 days ago. My mom just got a new job at Mane Melody."

"Cool, that's the hair salon owned by Princess Pipp Petals herself."

"I know. I love Pipp so much."

"Well Ellagant, Maretime Bay is a great place to live and visit. There's lots of shops to buy stuff, an art museum, a rope course, and this beach here is full of fun and sunshine."

"Thank you, Special. I can't wait to do all of this." Ellagant said happily. "Can you show me around? My parents let me go exploring after school."

"Sure." I answered. "Let me show you my house, my parents are probably still at work."

Ellagant and I made to my house to hang out a little. My parents were still at work, so we'd need some time to know each other.

"You look amazing, Special." Ellagant told me. "You may be a pegasus, but you are unique."

As I looked at Ellagant, I saw the  beauty of her. She was the beautiful unicorn I'd ever seen. Her blue eyes sparkled like mine, her mane was stylish and glittering, and her hooves were good in silver. When Ellagant looked at me staring at her, she thought I was inspiring her, which I was.

"Do you also like staring contests?" she asked me.

Then, she stared at me for 5 seconds, until she blinked,

"Sorry, I blinked. You're really good at keeping your eyes opened."

"There's a real unicorn in my house." I talked to myself. "This is so great!" I said excitingly.

"Whoa. You have a stargazer? It looks so beautiful." Ellagant said when she saw my telescope.

"So your name was Ellagant Glare?" I asked her.

"Of course." she answered.

"Okay, can I call you Ella?"

"Ella? I love it! I always want a nickname!"

Then, I thought of something: I took some cookies out of the kitchen cabinet, so me and Ella could have a short snack.

"Special, your house looks pretty. You should come to my new house someday, it's full of amazing design." Ella requested me.

"That would be great, but why don't we go to the roof for a few minutes?" I say.

"The roof? Okay."

Ella and I went upstairs to the roof. Once we got there, Ella was amazed in awe about how it looked. The roof was my own private place. There was a big shade tent to keep me a little better to see from sunlight, and protected from rainy days. My dad got it completely secured, so the wind doesn't blow it away. What I had on the roof was some been bag chairs soft enough to on, book shelves full of books, a table for arts and crafts, a table where I write my stories and do my homework, a table where I eat my lunch, and a television for watching movies and playing video games. It was the best fun place a family could have.

"This is your own special place? Ella asked me. "It's lovely."

"My parents set this up for me." I told Ella. "It's for my friends too, whenever they come over."

Ella and I sat on the bean bag chairs, eating cookies. Then, we started asking each other some questions.

"So, were you born in Zephyr Heights?" Ella asked me.

"Yes I was." I say. "I lived there for 7 years, until my parents knew it was a little too big for me. They knew Maretime Bay would be the best place to live, so we'd move here."

"I see." said Ella. What was it like? Does it have lots of shops and malls? Is it ruled by Queen Haven?"

"Oh yeah." And then, I just remembered something else. "Hey, let me get my journal"

I got off my seat, walked towards my desk, took out my journal, and walked back to Ella to ask her some questions I need to know.

"Okay, I've prepared a lot of questions for new friends." I told Ella. "Question #1: Where did you came from?"

"Bridlewood."

"I knew it. Do you unicorns really live in tress?"

"Of course. And, our trees in all shapes and sizes whenever we move away from one to another."

"Cool. Can you also play some games whenever you got the time?"

Then, I thought of something else that would be very interesting from Ella.

"Can you make this float?" I asked as I tossed a wooden block to her.

"Well, of course." she answered.

Ella used her magic to levitate the wooden block.

"I could also do this." Ella said when she was going to show me something else.

The next thing she did with her magic was using a transfiguration spell to turn the wooden block into a plastic box. And, I was amazed to see her doing it.

"You can turn that wooden block into a plastic box?" I asked Ella surprisingly.

"I can do unicorn spells; I've been studying magic to be powerful."

Then, Ella showed me more unicorn spells. She demonstrates a shield spell, which shields around her; A teleportation spell, which helps herself and/or anypony and anything to different locations; a freeze spell, which freezes anypony without stopping theirs eyes and speaking from moving; a transformation spell, which transform herself and/or anypony else into anything they want or need to be; a simulation spell, which gives her some simulations of potential outcomes; a cloud-walking spell, which lets herself and anypony else to literally walk on clouds; a crystallizing spell, which could crystallize anything or get ponies trapped in big crystals; a super speed spell, which could help her go super fast; a self-duplication spell, which could let her make a clone of herself; an invisibility spell, which could help herself and a friend camouflage; and other spells that will be told for later.

I was in awe to see Ella doing those spells.

"You can perform spells? No way." I exclaimed. "I bet the other unicorns at Bridlewood were inspired with you magic skills."

When Ella heard my words, she changed her smile to frown, slightly.

"Actually, nopony appreciates my magic skills back in Bridlewood." she said.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Then, she started telling me her story of her time in Bridlewood.

The story took place back to when Ellagant Glare was 3 years old in her old home in Bridlewood. She was living with her parents, who were unicorns like her. Her father was named Lumere Trunk, and her mother was named Blossom Twink. Ella started narrating the story to me.

"I was 3 years old back in Bridlewood." Ella said. "My parents taught me how to levitate objects with my magic."

Toddler Ella was making her ball float, just like her parents taught her.

"I was doing it well, but then my magic starts to go a little brighter, I felt like I was a little charged up."

Ella's magic came to swirls, right up to the ball. Then, the ball changed into a cube.

"I'd turn the ball into a cube. That's when I discovered I could do spells."

Then, the story skipped to when Ella was 5 years old.

"When I was 5, I was reading a book of unicorn magic. It had lots of lessons of how to use the spells properly and carefully."

She read to book and studied a spell to use. It was the transfiguration spell. She tried it on a block, and it worked.

"The transfiguration spell was the first spell I'd ever studied."

Now to when Ella was 6 years old. She studied and performed more spells throughout the months, but something worse had happened.

When I was 6, I did more spells, and I showed everypony around. But, nopony impressed with my skills at all."

Then, when Ella was 7 years old, she got made fun of from the other unicorn foals.

"Everypony around Bridlewood was being mean to me. Telling me that I was puny, terrible, not all that smart, and that I'm not like them."

After the story was over, Ella was shedding a few tears about her past. I was feeling sorry for her.

"Ella, I'm sorry about what had happened." I say.

"That's okay." Ella said. "But, maybe they were right about me, maybe I'm not a special unicorn. I'm more magical, but I'm not special."