//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: Nyx and the Summer Camp // by Tebbzy7 //------------------------------// Nyx wake up and stretched her back smiling. She trotted out on the balcony to greet the sun as Celestia raised it. She walked in to find a letter in her desk from her mom. She smiled as she opened it and read it. My Darling Nyx, I will send Snowcap to talk to Cheerilee to get the costumes. I found your script last night and I enclosed it in this letter. I hope it will be good enough until I can send the rest of the play materials to you. I am happy to hear that you are doing well and your story time is going without a hitch. You don’t know how proud I am of you for the magic training you made up. I think the Cutie Mark Crusaders are rubbing off on you. I don't know if it is a good thing or not. but it is happening. Today we are doing some groundbreaking on some new buildings around the kingdom. It should be another busy day for us. I look forward to reading your next letter. With all my love, Twilight. She folded up the letter and looked at the script “thanks mom” and she laughed at the notes she took. Then she laid the scrip in the desk and made some copies with her magic minus her notes. She opened the desk drawer. Took her book out and put it in her saddlebags. Then she took the scripts and put them in her saddlebags next to her book. Then she put on her glasses and walked down to the office. When she got there she saw that all the other ponies look upset. Nyx set the scripts in the desk in front of Pinkie. “What’s going on?” “Sunset Punch decided to quit because you're better than her in magic.” Sweetie Belle said. “Let her go. If she quit because she isn’t the best she doesn’t deserve to be the best. I am still not as good as Firefly but I am going to work till I’m the best.” “How can you say that Rainbow? Sunset Punch is older than Nyx and still not as good. We all know why, but she doesn’t understand difference between an Alicorns and a Unicorns. And Nyx have been trained by the princesses, Shooting Star, and other powerful ponies.” Perry said. “Where is Sunset Punch?” Nyx asked “She is at the train station waiting for the train. I already try to talk to her.” Pinkie said. Nyx ran out the door and to the train station. She saw Sunset Punch setting on her bags. “Sunset Punch, do you think Alicorns are only Unicorns that can fly?” “What are you doing here?” “I asked, do you think Alicorns are unicorns that can fly?” “Yes, I think that.” “Then you know nothing, us Alicorns are the guardians of all magic. So we have to be able to use all magic. I have a long way until I can use all magic. Celestia is still studying magic at her age. So I have to study magic much harder than any other pony in Equestria.” Sunset Punch wanted to hurt Nyx. “Guardian of magic, how can Nightmare moon be the guardian of anything? You are a joke, I see through your good pony act. You are nothing but an evil nasty pony.” Nyx spread her wings and made her mane flow. Then she used the royal Canterlot voice. “How dare you think you have any right to think low of me? I am a princess of Equestria, and have the responsibility that comes with that title. Most of my power was taken from me because of things that happen in the past. And I have worked hard to get that power back.” Nyx stomped her hove and cracked the ground “Go home we are better off without a pony that doesn’t try to understand other ponies.” Nyx turned and walked away leaving Sunset Punch shaking in fear. After Nyx was far enough away she used the magic that she used to make her mane flow to fly. She soared back to camp. It was nice to fly from time to time, and she really needed to do something enjoyable after talking to Sunset. She landed outside the mess hall and walked in. the scene was the same as every morning happy campers talking about what they was going to do that day. Some unicorns were practicing magic and some pegasi were flying to the second floor dining hall with trays of food on their backs. It was a heartwarming sight to the young Alicorn. Nyx dished up her food and sat at her friends’ table. Pinkie Pie was the first to speak “is she coming back?” “No and I wouldn’t want her to.” Apple Bloom looked at Nyx “what happened?” Nyx explained everything. And that she got mad enough to stomp and crack the ground. “Don’t worry Nyx Sunset was being a meanie mean head.” Rainbow put her wing over Nyx “Pinkie is right. Forget about her.” Rainbow Laughed “you went full power Alicorn and scared her. That is so hilarious.” “It was wrong of me, but I wanted to do something to her to get her back for calling me “a joke” and “an evil nasty pony”.” “You are not a joke or an evil pony. I have seen you help other ponies. When Scootaloo was sick with the feather flu you help her with her homework even though you could have gotten sick yourself. Would an evil pony do that?” Nyx gave a mischievous grin. “How do you know I didn’t help her evilly? Mahahaha” Silken glove looked worried. Sweetie Belle lean over “don’t worry the only evil thing about Nyx is her wicked sense of humor.” Perry looked around. “So, who I will teach advanced magic now?” Everypony looked at Nyx. But they all know most of the magic Nyx studied was too advanced for the campers. But she is the best qualified. “I think Nyx should do it.” All the ponies look over to Silken Glove who had a determined look in her eyes. “She will do a great job, and she is the best qualified even when Sunset Punch was here. Sunset punch didn’t teach us. All she did was gave us a tasks and then sat and pant her hooves or style her mane.” Then she felt the eyes on her “I am sorry but everyone in the camp knows Nyx has the most powerful magic.” Perry nodded “she is right, and we from Everfree know about her tutoring other ponies that need help in school.” Nyx looked unsure “I don’t know about this. I am not that knowledgeable about magic.” “Nyx, you are comparing yourself with Celestia and the other Alicorns. You know more about magic than most ponies in magic College. I know I went to college.” Parry gave a reinsuring smile. “I will do it after Luna says it is alright. After all she will have to deal with the angry parents.” A letter appears in front of Pinkie “yeah, a letter” Pinkie opened it and read it out loud. Dear Pinkie, I have received shocking reports from parents about Sunset Punch. That she is neglectful of the camper and verbally abusive. This isn’t the first time she been like that with campers. I can’t have this in my camp. Could you dismiss her for me? On a positive note I have heard nothing but good things about the rest of you. I was a little worry how everypony would act toward Nyx, but I am happy to say everypony in her cabin write glowing reports home about her. About Sunset’s position have Perry or Nyx take it. I will be happy with either one taking the advanced magic classes. Thank you for taking care of this matter for me. Luna “Nyx, it looks like you are teaching Advanced Magic.” Nyx got up “I have to do the story time now.” They all look at the clock and saw it was that time. They hurry to their seats. Nyx shorten the time she read because she needed to look over the curriculum for her class. She was happy that Luna setup a clear and precise curriculum, which Sunset didn’t touch. After she read up a little she went to the cabin for magic classes. Nyx walked up to the front of the room. “Good morning, I will be teaching you since Sunset Punch will no longer be working here.” “So she finally got fired, good.” A pony with thick glasses said. Nyx ignored the pony “Don’t think I would go easy on you, we have to make up for all the time Sunset Punch didn’t teach you.” “I speak for the rest of the class when I say we look forward to it. And we had been waiting to take notes.” “You don’t have to take notes today because we will cover the basics” then Nyx went into her lecture and all the ponies were feverishly taking notes. She didn’t know what she is telling them isn’t what every pony was taught. She show graphs and wrote things on the board. All in all she did a great job. At the after class that pony with thick glasses came up to Nyx “I am Wiz Bang. Where did you learn all that?” Nyx thought for a second “from Celestia, Luna, Shooting Star, my mom, and other smart ponies.” “So did you go to Celestia’s school for gifted Unicorns?” “No I didn’t. My mom and Shooting Star sat with me every night and helped me with my magic, and sometimes when Celestia or Luna came to my kingdom they help me with my magic. I also have tutors from the high Unicorns. Oh and there is always Fairy Ponies around my castle.” “Ok, I now understand. You are a nerd surround by nerds. And I mean nerds in the best way possible. We are all nerds in this class… where did you learn that earth ponies could use magic? That is something they are just starting to teach in Celestia’s school, and only to the highest level Unicorns.” “My mom is Princess Twilight Sparkle the one that discovered the lost tomb of Chancellor Level Head, and learn the secrets of pony magic. So it would make sense that I would know about it. I also read the tomes that got brought out of the tomb.” “So your mother found the tomb and let you look through the tomes. And you are saying Princess Cadence didn’t mind it.” “Yes, I think I should tell you the whole story.” She told the story (if you want to know the story read Nyx’s family by RealityCheck) “That’s quite the story.” “Yes it was. But now I have to help Pinkie with the play. See you later Wiz Bang.” Nyx walked across the camp to the camp’s auditorium. It was an open air auditorium with a professional lights setup and with a first class audio system. Like most things at this camp Luna wanted it to be royal class. She walked into the auditorium to hear laughter and Diamond Tiara walking out with tears in her eyes and Shiver Spoon following her. She walked up to Pinkie who was talking with Celestia. “Hello Celestia, what are you doing here.” “I am here with Spell Nexus to checking up on how your class was going. And Pinkie asked me to help her with the audition. She wanted to be able to hear my voice so she can cast the right pony.” “Ok, so what happen to Diamond Tiara?” Pinkie looked sad “she have been getting picked on by other fillies. She came here thinking she would be treated like back in Everfree, but she has no title or anything.” Celestia sighed “the poor dear made a fool of herself on the stage trying to audition to be me.” Nyx was sad that Diamond Tiara was having a hard time, no pony deserved to be treated poorly. Then she thought of something. “Why did you bring Spell Nexus with you?” “As you know he had a project he was doing.” “Yes?” “And his funding got cut. So he have been sulking around the castle for the last two weeks And I thought he could do something here and get him out of my hair.” “So the master puppeteer strikes again.” “Nyx, you are starting to sound a lot like Shooting Star.” Nyx smiled Shooting Star have been like a kind older brother to her and so she like the idea if her being more like him. “Spell Nexus can take over for me with hikes and the book reading in the morning. But will he do it?” “He will if I order him to.” Nyx shake her head “I am not going to point out how much of an abuse of power that is. How are the auditions coming?” Celestia closed a folder “we are done. And we pretty much know who is playing what part. Pinkie and I have agreed on most roles the only one we disagree on is villager one. So we will have villager one A and B.” Nyx looked confused “why couldn’t one of them be villager two?” Pinkie’s face got dead serious “they were both super duper good villager one so they both have play to that role.” Celestia gave the folder to pinkie and stood up “Nyx, why don’t we have a little picnic just the two of us.” Nyx know that whatever Celestia is going to talk about in this picnic is the real reason she came. Celestia could have just send Spell Nexus with a note around his neck; like she has done with maids and guards in the past. “I would be delighted to join you on a Picnic, Celestia.” Celestia’s horn flashed and a large Picnic basket appeared. “Pinkie Dear, would you inform Spell Nexus that he will be working here by royal order.” she started to walk out of the auditorium. “Nyx, shall we get going.” They went on a little hike and do small talk about the weather and their kingdoms. They ended up on a hill that overlooks the camp. Celestia open the basket while Nyx spread a blanket. Celestia took out different foods that she normally wouldn’t let herself eat; Fried oatcakes and other fattening foods grace the blanket then they were done. After they started to eat Celestia asked. “Have you had any magic surges or lose of control of your magic?” “No, can’t say that I have.” “That is good. Just tell us if you have any problems.” “Celestia, I can’t have any problems with my magic, someone might think I am.” Nyx got sad and tears formed in her eyes. “turning back to nightmare moon.” Celestia move over to next to Nyx and put her wing over Nyx. “You are Nyx, the smart, funny, and wonderful filly that wins the hearts of all those around her. No one would think any less you for having any problems. If you have a problem with your magic any one of us princess would drop anything to help you.” Celestia smiled, and walked around to face Nyx. “All of us princesses have problems with our magic at one time or another. So we will not judge you.” “All of you princesses had problems with your magic? Even Luna?” “You know how our manes flow with magic. Well, when Luna was your size she had a whole year of frizzy magic mane.” “What is frizzy magic mane?” “It is just as it sounds, when you magic doesn’t flow right your mane becomes a tangled mess. That would be bad enough but she had a colt she liked. And he saw her with the tangled mane. She was crushed.” Nyx got an excited look in her eyes. “Luna had a colt friend?” “She had many over the years but he wasn’t a colt friend; he was a younger brother of one of the guards. He was handsome I liked him also.” Celestia blushed a little. “Did you asked him out?” “Well, I should get going; royal duties don’t wait for anyone.” Celestia quickly teleported back to Canterlot. Nyx sat there for a second, and then clean up the picnic. “That Celestia always ran away when it get personal.” She returned to the camp and did you afternoon class and spent the rest of the day helping the campers with their activates. Then dinner and after that a meeting around the fire were you say something nice about another camper. Then bed time for the campers and planning meeting for the stuff. Nyx was excited because today is the first time since coming here she had something to add to the meeting. When lily came in. she flew into Nyx’s mane and hide there. “Lily, what it wrong?” “I had a bad dream. Could I stay with you for a while?” Crème Brulee got up and walked to the kitchen and brought out some warm milk for Lily. “Here, this will calm you down.” Lily flew down onto the table and drank some as Nyx stood up and did her report. “Today I did the first four lessons for my class. I hope they got most of what I taught. Tomorrow I think of doing lesson 5 through 7. One and a half lessons per class should help us catch-up.” Spell Nexus Smiled “Nyx don’t worry about keeping up with the curriculum just worry about if they learn the lessons. If you spend three day on one lesson but all your student learn it you did a great job as a teacher.” He horn glowed and a pamphlet appeared. “This is the general magic aptitude test or G-MAT. It will tell you your students’ magic level.” Nyx took it in her magic and looked through it. “Wouldn’t they have already taken this test?” “Sadly no; I meant it make it part of the entry exam for Celestia’s School for gifted Unicorns. But that was before,, you know what.” “Oh!! Well, thank you for the test. I’ll use it tomorrow first thing.” Nyx smiled “Spell Nexus, if you have any more pointer I would be more than happy to hear them. I’m new at this whole teaching thing.” “of course, we are friends aren’t we?” Nyx nodded “yes we are.” While they were talking Lily finished her milk and flew up and nested herself in Nyx’s mane at the bottom of her neck. Sweetie Belle laughed “d’aww. Lily was so tired than she went to sleep.” Crème Brulee chuckled “yeah, warm milk does it every time.” Rainbow dash stood up “any more things to report?” Everypony looked around. “Then let’s call it a night” Then all the ponies went to do their bedtime ritual. And Sweetie Belle walk up to Nyx. “what are you gonna do with Lily?” “I’ll let her sleep with me. We all know there is plenty of room on Luna’s bed for me, her, and half of the equestrian army.” Nyx took Lily in her magic and her and Sweetie Belle went to their room. Sweetie Belle wrote in her journal and went to bed. Nyx put lily on her bed and cover her with a sweater, then did her daily letter to her mother and went to bed.