//------------------------------// // Chapter 7: School Troubles // Story: My Little Pony: Draconic Lovers // by RobtheMorpherPony //------------------------------// Chancellor Neighsay was not a pony known for being neccessarily evil. At least, on a surface level. However, he was known for being very racist towards non-ponies. But no pony knew just how far he'd go to ensure that only ponies could get an education in Equestria. After the whole thing with Zanth & The Storm King settled, the map in Twilight's Friendship Castle had grown. This led to Twilight wanting to open a Friendship School. Of course, this led her to the E.E.A.'s door step and an encounter with Chancellor Neighsay. While Twilight wanted to follow the E.E.A.'s guidelines as close as possible, it had turned out that Chancellor Neighsay had a very harsh disdain for non-ponies. In fact, the stallion had ended up closing the school down because of Twilight wanting to include non-ponies as students. Twilight did her best to try and fight Neighsay, but as the one in charge of the E.E.A., he had a lot of sway. Not even the high council could overrule his closure of the school unless demand for it was high. And that seemed to be hard to come back. However, it seemed Twilight wasn't the only one who thought Chancellor Nieghsay's closure of Twilight's school was unjust. There was one particular Pegasus Filly orphan, who had come to Ponyville, and managed to eek out a large number of signatures. This filly's name was Cozy Glow. And she had gathered a very large number of signatures. "Tw-twenty thousand signatures?!" Chancellor Neighsay was astonished by this. "And it's not just pony signatures either. So much for your racism talk. The moment you started displaying racism, it became easy for quite a few non-ponies to want the school re-opened. And I bet I could get even more then this." Cozy Glow said. "Hmph. Any signatures by non-ponies should not count." Nieghsay said. "Sadly, that part's not up to you; it's up to the high council. And boy, they were all too willing to let the school be re-opened at let Princess Twilight run the school however she wants. So basically, your being overruled." Cozy Glow said. "You mean you went to them first?!" Nieghsay exclaimed. "But of course. Because I already knew how'd you react." Cozy Glow said. "Grr...one way or another, this reopening won't last. Mark my words on that." Chancellor Neighsay said and left the premesis. "Yeah good luck with that." Cozy Glow said. "It's nice to see the younger generation taking such a large interest in friendship. Thank you, Cozy Glow. If there's anything I can do for you in exchange, name it." Twilight said. "Golly, well you can just let me be a student at the school and we can call it even." Cozy Glow said. "...That's...all you want?" Twilight was a little confused. "It's all I want." Cozy Glow said. "...Well, I suppose if that's what you want, then why should I refuse?" Twilight asked. Cozy Glow had shown herself to be quite smart, but she did seem to want the best for others. And when she overheard the Cutie Mark Crusaders (namely Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo), she of course thought they'd make good classmates, so she formulated a plan. ...However, this plan went arry in a hurry. So she came clean about the whole thing, and after some forgiveness from the CMC, the CMC were allowed to be tutors at the school in their off time. So things did work out in the end. Still, Cozy Glow felt guilty. "I'm really sorry that I lied..." Cozy Glow said. "Why did you lie so much about the whole thing?" White Flame asked. "I just wanted Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo to get their wish of being part of the School of Friendship. I didn't mean for what initially happened to happen." Cozy Glow said. "I thought they'd be forced into the school's program. I really did..." "Well, maybe you should've thought about that possibility." Scootaloo said. "Still, the thought is what matters, and you succeeded in a way." "Maybe so. I'm just so upset that my initail plan didn't work." Cozy Glow said. "You seem like a smart kid. Maybe next time, use some of that smartness." White Flame said. "B-but I really don't want to. I just know the moment I really show off how smart I am...I'll never get any friends." Cozy Glow said. "Wait what? Why would that make it, so you'll never get friends?" Button Mash asked. "Because no creature I've ever met has appreciated how smart I really am. So, I've dumbed it down." Cozy Glow said. "Well maybe just once, you could try to show off how smart you really are. You'd probably be surprised how many friends you'd get." Sweetie Belle said. "T-that's a nice thought but...golly...do I wish to never use my full IQ." Cozy Glow said. Cozy Glow should've remembered the old saying of "no pony always gets what they want". And when strange occurrences were causing magic to go haywire around Equestria, it had been because most of that magic had been collected by Chancellor Neighsay in an attempt to banish all non-ponies from Equestria permanently. Cozy Glow as such, had no other choice; she had to tap into her large IQ to do her best to save the day. Before the big discovery that everything was Neighsay's doing, she had gotten the CMC to help her. That's the seven of them made the big discovery. Soon, the Young Six did their best to stop Neighsay's plan, which ended with the ponies of the school initially turning agaist them, before the tree of harmony suddenly assisted them, and allowed them to stop Neighsay's plan. This restored magic to normal, and stopped the banishment spell. Yet, despite Chancellor Neighsay being thrown in Tartarus, Cozy Glow was starting to leave. "Cozy Glow, where do you think your going?" Twilight asked. "...Away..." Cozy Glow said. "You don't have to go away, Cozy Glow. You've got friends." Apple Bloom said. "But...but you saw how smart I really am. You should be intimidated by it." Cozy Glow said. "How could we be intimidated by a friend?" Rumble asked. Tears filled Cozy Glow's eyes, as she hugged the entire CMC unit. "...Seems even a genius like her, didn't know one thing." Black Heart said. "Oh really? And what exactly is that?" Diamond Tiara asked. "You can never really destroy the friendships you've gained." Black Heart said. "...Heh. That's so true." Diamond Tiara said.