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// Antagonism 
// Story: Equestriancraft 
// by Lionpaw315 
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  They had been studying nonstop for about 14 hours.
Sky officially hated it. 
The Canterlot library was waaaaay too big for its own good.
About five minutes ago, their painstaking effort in grinding away at the books had finally paid off.
"Congratulations, everypony!" cheered Twilight, looking jubilant and glancing at a giant pile of books. "We're one-twentieth the way through all of these books!"
Sky's jaw hit the ground, and Ant fell out of his chair. ONLY ONE-TWENTIETH?! he groaned inwardly, leaning back on his chair. Holy crap, how big is this library?
It wasn't fair! The library was too big! Either that, or it was because only about five ponies were actually studying. 
Sky felt it was the latter.
"Um, anyone want to take a break or something?" Sky asked, looking around when Jason interrupted him. "Has anyone actually found anything?" he asked, looking around. 
Everyone-er, pony- shook their head. 
Jason looked at Pinkie Pie. 
Five seconds later, Pinkie was flying through the air into a bookshelf. "AAAAAAHHHHH-OOF!!"
"The prophecy, and portals to Minecraftia," Jason said, looking at the twin princesses. Celestia looked amused. Luna was munching on a cookie.
Pinkie jumped up and pushed a book towards them. "Page eleventeen."
"Got i-" Jason began before common sense kicked in. "Wait a minute. Eleventeen?"
Pinkie shrugged. "Sorry if you can't find it. Only ponies like me can find that page!" She giggled. "Don't worry, I just had to make a tiiiiny dent in the laws of logic!"
Jason facehoofed. Ant punched Sky in the arm, grinned, and made a face. 
"So, who's up for that break?" Sky repeated, ignoring Ant. 
"I think that a break would be nice," agreed Jason, flashing a smug look at Ant, who bristled in return. 
"I guess so," sighed Twilight, fitting about five books into her saddlebag. She looked up at a clock. "We have been studying for a long while." 
"Let's explore Canterlot!" squealed Pinkie, grabbing Bodil's hoof, who blushed bright red. He made a face at them that said, "Not my idea." 
"I CAN FINALLY TAKE YOU TO THE CANDY SHOP!!" screamed Pinkie, bouncing up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-and up again repetitively and dragging Bodil with her.
"Um," Bodil said, looking unsure. "Maybe we could do something else insteaaa..." his voice trailing behind him as Pinkie shot off, leaving a trail of smoke in her wake. 
Sky blinked. "Wow. Pinkie is..." 
"Energetic?" finished Ty, nodding. "Eeyup."
"Well, she might be...er...energetic, but she had a good idea," Jordan said, not looking up from the book he was reading. "We should explore Canterlot. You know, get familiar in the place we're staying in for the while?"
"Of course thou can," Luna said, smiling. "Thy friend of Twilight's is an ally in our book." She bit into another cookie.
"Okay. We should split up and divide into groups, and meet each other here at five o'clock," Sky said, clearing his throat. 
"Wow, Sky, when did you become such the egghead?" Rainbow laughed, rolling over in the air. 
"It comes with being a leader," Sky said, flinching a little bit at the thought of organizing all of those people. Luckily, nine people didn't seem too hard to divide up into a few groups for a few hours or so. "Anyway, I think that the groups should go as followed: Ty and..." Ty had a hopeful expression on his face that he tried to squash and then came back. "...Applejack." 
Both ponies looked less than thrilled at this. 
"Rarity and Fluttershy," Sky said, ignoring the venomous looks directed at him by the two ponies. Rarity and Fluttershy both grinned, and walked away, chatting like a pair of songbirds. 
"Twilight, you and Jordan can be together. Since you're both bookworms," added Sky under his breath. 
Jordan and Twilight promptly walked over to a table and started reading again.
Facehoof.
"Celestia...you can be with Luna," Sky said, gesturing to Celestia and Luna. They both smiled. Luna struck up a conversation with Celestia over which bakery to visit first. 
"Um, hello?" interrupted Rainbow, waving her hoof. "You still have to organize me, ET, and Cloudbuster!" 
Cloudbuster? "I know. I think that we should divide us this way," Sky began, examining the group and making mental notes in his mind. "Ant, you can be with...."
Ant stared, miming, pointing to him and then Sky over and over again. 
"...Jason," finished Sky, glancing up to see what the reactions would be to the way the groups had been divided. 
"WHAT?!" blurted out Jason, his face falling. "Why do I have to be with that...that moron?!" Jason yelled, unable to keep his anger contained. 
"I second that," added Ant, looking furious as well. "And I am not a moron. Sky, you can't be serious. Can't I be with you instead?" asked Ant and Jason at the same time, looking surprised for a second and then locking eyes with each other, looking dangerously murderous. 
"No. You guys are staying together as a group. You guys need to learn how to work together, which is the reason I put you in a group in the first place," Sky finished firmly, waving his tail around in the air. "Now, go off and make hatred with each other somewhere else. Rainbow, can you give me flying lessons?" asked Sky, turning towards Rainbow. 
Rainbow, who was currently chanting, "Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight," quietly. She jumped at the mention of her name, and tried to look normal, but completely failed. 
Sky was not impressed. "So, what about those flying lessons?" he asked, dragging her out by her wing and glaring at her. She gulped. 
"Um, sure!" she laughed nervously, assuming a cheesy grin and flying out. " You seem like a better flier than Cloudbuster, so...Come on, there are tons of techniques that you could learn that would help you! I know one called...." 
Sky walked of the library, looking behind him to make sure that Jason and Ant hadn't torn out each other's throats yet. 
Good. They hadn't but looked like they were close to. 
Sky sighed, shaking his head and closing the door behind him, making a mental list on what to do if they ended murdering each other.