Twilight Sparkle and the School of Magic

by mojomcm


Chapter 1

This chapter, in honor of being the first, shall start with a bang. A bang that will not only grab your attention, but also spur this story into existence. I'd guarantee that your socks will be blown off, but then it would sound as if I were selling something. So, without further ado, the bang.

It came with the sight of Canterlot Castle's huge wooden doors being slammed open with the force of one single, powerful, alicorn's magic. The bang was a tremendous sight, indeed, for not one of the ponies standing in the courtroom failed to look up at the lavender figure in the doorway.

"Princess Twilight Sparkle," Luna chuckled softly as she identified the cause of the startling bang. "You certainly know how to make an entrance."

Twilight blushed as she trotted up to the princess of the night, "Sorry. Is your sister around? Celestia said that she would be here to give me further instruction before I left."

"Ah, yes. She's up on the balcony of the Solar Tower. Will you do me a favor once you get to Hogwarts and tell dear old Dumbledore I said 'hi'?"

"Of course." Twilight cantered to the stairs that led to the hallway that wound around to the Solar Tower.

The Solar Tower was named so because it was the tower that housed Princess Celestia's bedroom. The room was large enough to accommodate the regal alicorn that resided within, while still being small enough to be classified as "cozy." The floor, which held the room's feature attraction: a sun mosaic that matched Celestia's cutie mark, sparkled with the sunlight coming in from the balcony doors. Twilight, however, had no time to waste looking at the ground beneath her hooves, for she was already late.

"I'm so sorry, Princess Celestia!" Twilight apologized the second she saw her mentor. "Pinkie Pie threw a last-minute going-away party, and I got so caught up with that and almost forgot to even 'go away', which would have made the entire party completely pointless! Once I did remember, I was all like 'I don't want to leave now and hurt my friends' feelings', but I also didn't want to keep you waiting, so I decided to take the train but they were running late and it took a whole ten extra minutes for them to change the flat tire, so I jumped out of the window and flew the rest of the way here. Sorry."

When she stopped to take a breath, Celestia just smiled and said, "Arriving five minutes early is not ever late, Twilight. Remember that."

Twilight nodded while Spike slid down her back where he had been seated next to Owlowiscious.

"If I may be so bold as to ask," Spike started. "But what did you mean, Princess, when you said you would give 'further instruction', back in your letter in June?"

Celestia levitated Twilight's embroidered saddle bags over, where they hovered in a field of the princess' golden magic. "This includes the money you will need to purchase your school supplies and uniform before the semester starts on the first of September. There is a map of Hogwarts, along with one of a place named 'Diagon Alley'. I believe that the latter is a shopping district in the wizarding world where you can buy your school books. Dumbledore has reserved a room for you in a pub called the Leaky Cauldron where you will stay until the semester begins."

Twilight grabbed the bags with her own magenta magic. "So, are we ready? To leave, that is." Spike's head bobbed up and down eagerly as Owlowiscious hooted in agreement.

Celestia smiled as she gestured to the mirror behind her. "Then what are you waiting for?"

The lavender alicorn returned her smile as she stepped forwards. Her hooves made light clinking noises on the glass-tiled floor as Twilight walked up to the mirror. "I won't let you down."

"I know you won't."


Vibrant rainbow colors flashed past Twilight as she, Spike, and Owlowiscious traveled through the wormhole that cut across space, time, and into an alternate dimension of reality. The three seemed to stretch across the expanse in impossible contortions, twisting beyond imagination. Time was but a thought and space just a dream. There was nothing and there was everything.


Twilight tumbled onto the floor in the other end of the wormhole, her companions quickly following suit. She shook her head to clear her mind of the fog that blurred her vision and the dizziness that made the world seem as if it were spinning. Straight across from her sat Spike, whose claws clicked on the wooden floor as he attempted to walk in a straight line.

The baby dragon looked relatively the same as he always did, but with a pair of purple bat-like wings held tight to his ribs. Spike chuckled as he said something along the lines of "let's not do that again" before he collapsed on the floor. Twilight grinned at him before looking at her own body.

Hands. That was the first thing she noticed. They were not the lavender hands that she once had; these hands were a tan coloration that she had not seen before in a pony. This meant only one thing: "Oh joy. We're in a human world again, Spike." This statement was said with a generous amount of sarcasm.

"At least we aren't in a world of sentient ostriches," Spike muttered back.

Twilight turned back towards the mirror that she had just tumbled out from. She could see her own reflection, and it gave her a bit of a shock. To put it into terms that she could grasp, Twilight was a filly again, and her jaw dropped.

A voice behind her caused the now young Twilight to spin around. "Ah, Miss Twilight Sparkle, I presume. Welcome to Hogwarts."