“What are you going to do about it princess narwhal, call daddy? Use your precious little horn? Or just sit there and cry?” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, the unicorn they were making fun of never said a word to anyone, well not that I had heard in the last two days since I had started school here. It made me really angry because if he wanted to call her names for being a unicorn he’d probably do the same to me just because I was a pegasus. I didn’t even think, I did a rolling dive and landed in between the bully and his prey, my sudden appearance and my fully spread wings must have scared him because he took a step back.
“Who do you think you are, picking on a pony just because she’s smaller than you, or because she’s not an earth pony. Well guess what, I’m not an earth pony and I’m just about as big as you. If you want a fight then come on!” I pawed at the ground ready to charge, I was so sure of myself and confident that I almost expected to get my cutie mark for this.
“You’re going to protect princess narwhal? What are you a royal guard, feather duster?” My wings fluttered in anger, I knew he wanted me to attack him so he would have an excuse to hurt me but I wasn’t having it. I lowered my head, I had dropped the horseshoe now it was all up to him, would he chicken out or would I show him that pegasi are just as tough as any earth pony.
“Pfft, dumb feather duster you’re not worth it.” He shoved his way through the crowd, they weren’t sure what had just happened the biggest toughest bully in the school had just trotted away with his tail between his legs. I turned to face the unicorn they had been picking on and saw her shaking, why would somepony pick on a pony that was going to cry like a little foal? It mean and not fair to pick on someone who wouldn’t even try to fight back.
“Are you ok? He’s gone and no one else wants to hurt you.” I stared at the crowd and they all started to wander away. This only made her cry harder, I had no clue how to make her feel better so I simply flew off, making sure to keep an eye on her for the rest of the break.
I didn’t pay much attention to her before I saw her being bullied. Of course I noticed her, she was the only other non earth pony in our class. Unlike the huge cloud city of Cloudsdale my hometown of Cloudadonia was built around a big flat topped mountain, where unicorns and earth ponies lived so I had some unicorn and earth pony friends, even if they were never allowed to come to my house on the clouds.
But here? It was so weird being the only pegasus in class, how much harder was it for her? She was so quiet and before I started school here she would have been the only non earth pony. How did that even happen?
When I got to the door a cream colored mare with a lighthouse cutie mark stopped me, it was my teacher.
“Maple Leaf, I think we need to have a talk about what happened, please stay behind after school. We will be having a short talk.”
“Yes, Ms. Light.”
I hated history class, yesterday had been cool because Ms. Light had spent the class talking about Pegasi warrior history, from Lightning Strike all the way up to Commander Hurricane.
Today though was really boring, we were done talking about the history of the three tribes and started talking about how they united the same story that they heard every Hearts Warming eve. I would have joined the rest of the class in the real lesson of sleeping with your eyes open if I didn’t keep getting the feeling that somepony was watching me.
I kept sneaking looks behind me whenever I could but I couldn’t manage to catch whoever it was. The bully and unicorn were both behind me in the classroom the bully was asleep, drooling on his desk, the unicorn was staring at her desk not moving a muscle and in the desk between them sat a yellow earth pony, the only one who was actually paying attention to the lesson. I tried to pay attention to Ms. Light and soon enough I was zoned out like the rest of the class.
“And that’s how Equestria was made. Any questions?” I jumped in my seat, I was having such a nice nap. Looking around I think that the rest of the class had been too, some of the other ponies were slower to wake up than I was.
The only pony that looked wide awake was a yellow filly with a black curly mane and glasses. Then again if you so much as make a loud noise behind her she was likely to jump through the roof, I wish I sat behind her instead of in front of her, it would make staying awake easier.
“Okay class, that’s all the time we have for today, I want everyone to do the assignment I gave earlier, anypony who doesn’t do it will have to do double homework tomorrow night.” I felt the desk behind me bump into my chair.
“Ms. Light, Ms. Light! I don’t remember you giving us homework, how can I do it if I don’t know what it is? I don’t want double homework on a Friday! I can barely get my chores done and have time to have fun as it is.” Yep, that filly is high strung.
“Just because you were paying attention Seam I’ll let you in on a little secret… There wasn’t any homework, but I want you all to get a good night’s sleep so you can stay awake in class tomorrow, can everypony do that?” Ms. Light was such a nice teacher, she always caught us when we misbehaved but as long as we didn’t disrupt the class and made sure to study when we got home she didn’t mind if we dozed off every once and awhile.
“If you’re up for it I’d like you read the chapters about the years leading up to unification of the three tribes, we will review it tomorrow one last time before the test on Monday, but you need to be well rested, I won’t be so accepting of any student sleeping during class tomorrow.” The other students laughed, whatever Ms. Light did to whoever fell asleep it must be funny.
“Now remember to read the chapter in your history books about the history of the three tribes. There will be a test on Monday, but we’ll do some review tomorrow just to make sure.”
“Yes, Ms. Light.” We chorused like good little foals.
“Good, class dismissed, have a nice night. Mr. Leaf, we still need to have our discussion about what happened at lunch today.
I gulped, my doom was at hoof.