Everybody in the class was eagerly awaiting to see what their groups had created, and if their work was better than the others’, and Twilight was no exception, because she whispered, "Come on, let the winner be about my old life before the start of this punishment, make it so, make it so..." to herself, while the teacher gave a quick look to all the drawings given by the groups.
Suddenly Nutriz took five drawings, and, holding them up high in the air, she announced, "Here's the creation of Sha Màt, Sitòn Ligostos, Hard Time and Simplicius. It's about the Time of Legends!"
Every colt and filly in the class squinted their eyes to look at the five drawings that Nutriz was holding up, and Twilight followed suit.
The drawings were pretty crude, even for a kindergartener, featuring bodies shaped like octagons and hooves that spiralled over themselves. As for the subject por se, the drawings represented the main mythological events regarding the creation of the world, from how the earth and sky were formed, to how the seasons were born and then tamed by ponies.
The drawings specifically represented the Cosmic Egg as a literal egg, with a Cosmic Hen brooding its egg. There was the stylized representation of the giant pony Protòs separating earth and sky with a hind legs kick. And, finally, there was the representation of five unicorns raising the Sun for the first time, at least, as intention, since the drawing made it so that the unicorns looked constipated and in desperate need to be emptied like vacuum bags.
Twilight winced in disgust at each and every one of them, muttering under her breath,
"There is no chance in Equestria THAT is going to receive any vote from anypony but the makers." Then Twilight turned to her little companions.“Am I right?”
Lex Populi and Pearly Handle were too busy looking at the drawings with squinted eyes and frowns to answer Twilight, while Bright Light was smirking.
“Not gunna win,” he said “Hawd Time’s dwawings are bad.”
“Indeed, Bright,” Twilight said while nodding and turning around. “Indeed.”
From her position, Twilight could see that the rest of the class' reaction was pretty much the same, with some foals claiming (in a low voice) that the drawings were ugly, some staring confused at them, and others too adsorbed into hoping to win to care about the current candidate.
"Now that you have seen it, how many like this? In that case, raise your hoof."
There was a lot of snickering and muffled giggles, but there was no raised hoof, aside from Hard Time’s group, all of whom save Hard Time were taking notice of the other foals’ reactions.
Nutriz shrugged, as she put the five drawings back on the pile.
"I guess that it didn't inspire you too much," the teacher said, as she took another five drawings.
"Next up, Quarter Note, Voi, Ermerald Spoonful, Ruby Glasses, and Turrita. Their creation is about the great cities of Equestria!"
Nutriz held high the five drawings, each and every one of them representing the major landmarks of each city, like Canterlot’s Royal Palace, the Fatherland’s Altar and the Walls in Romea, the She Wolves’ Tolerance House in Trottingham and the Zarathustenschloß in Kölloren. While the first building's architecture was botched in the drawing, making the building appear less tall than the houses surrounding it and changing its style from Romean to a very crude Gothic, the other drawings were fairly correct and proportionate for ponies of that age.
“Uuuh… Celestia, those are good,” Twilight thought, while looking at the creations. “Sometimes I ask myself if this class is full of precocious foals, but whatever. The drawings are pretty cool, so I will give them credit for these.” Then she turned around towards her classmates “What do you think about them?”
“Buiwdings? How Booo-wiiing….” Lex commented, while she rolled her eyes and averted her eyes from the drawings to look at the ceiling.
“Shà Mat has luvs ‘awtitetture’, dunno why,” Bright Light scoffed. “It just sounds bowing to me…”
After giving a little glare to the colt, Twilight turned to the last one of her group, Pearly Handle, who was looking at the drawings with interest, giving only one comment. “Pwetty!”
Glad of Pearly’s appreciation, Twilight turned towards the rest of the class, which was arguing chaotically whether Shat Mat’s group creation was worthy of being submitted to the contest or not, each foal arguing with the other nearby and trying their best to prove their point to the other.
Lux Foal, apparently not appreciating the atmosphere of debate that was born in the classroom, hushed the foals with a loud hiss and some verbal invitation to stop it and let Nutriz announce the vote.
As the foals shut up, Nutriz cleared her throat, and then asked, “So, how many for this? Again, raise your hooves for vote.”
Twilight and Pearly immediately rose their hooves, along with the creators and another three foals.
”Alright,” Lux said, as she scribbled the number of votes on the blackboard. “That’s nine votes for Great Cities as the theme for our project!”
Meanwhile Nutriz put away those five drawings, to takeout another five from the pile.
“The next drawings are of Orvosti Ostoba, Mazamara, Rusty Plate and Olive Oil. They are about...” Nutriz put the drawings closer to her eyes, before blushing and saying, “Eeer… the games Grown-ups play.”
Twilight, after hearing that title, moved her head forward closer, curiosity about the title moving her motives.
One of the drawings represented a dark gray pony with rum bottle levitating it over his mouth and spilling the liquid inside his mouth and on his fur. Even from that distance, Twilight could see that there were wobbly lines around the pony’s legs as manner to express inebriation. Twilight wavered a bit at the sight.
The second drawing had as subject a dark red stallion with a long brown ratty mane wearing a nurse cap and using a syringe on one of his arms. Twilight’s eyes got wider, and her heart started to pound in her chest faster.
The third one had a green mare with a long bronze mane hugging a light brown stallion while lying on a bed. Judging from how the mare was dressed and the expression drawn, Twilight could tell she was not exactly just hugging the stallion, nor she was doing it with her husband, making Twilight wince.
However, the art piece that got the biggest reaction out of Twilight and the foals was one with Princess Celestia sitting down in a diaper, which Twilight could tell was supposed to be wet thanks to a yellow stain, and a stallion pressing against the wet spot of the diaper. Even from that distance, Twilight could tell that Celestia’s face was scrunched up from the pleasure, meaning one thing only...
Since she was concerned and horrified, Twilight frowned and murmured.
"Sweet Luna! What kind of life do those foals live!? Who lets their foal see them have sex, and does not even try to explain it or cover it up? What kind of parents have the foals depicting a drunkard and a drug addict? Sure, they seemingly don't understand it, but that doesn't make it any less..."
Twilight let out a groan, before getting hit by a thought about the last drawing "Wait... Celestia, in a wet diaper, probably getting masturbated by a stallion? Is... no, no, I can't believe it..."
Twilight looked at the ceiling with her mouth agape, unable to say anything, as her mind was trying to deal with the aftershock of her discovery and implications of the drawing representing Princess Celestia in a diaper.
At the sight of her big friend going catatonic, and after giving a look at the drawings submitted, Lex Populi jumped on the table, and pointed at the drawing depicting Princess Celestia in a diaper.
Twilight felt something poking her flank repeatedly, and asking her "Why awe you wike tis, Tiligh?"
The mare blinked several times, before she could look at the source of the voice, and saw Pearly Handle and Bright Light looking at her worriedly, and Lex Populi not too far away looking at the drawings and shouting "Man-stuwbation? Wit Cewestia? No possible!"
Twilight touched her forehead while bending over, murmuring. "Celestia in a diaper... getting masturbated... no, it must... no, it can't be a coincidence, after all, why would he... but..."
Twilight stopped ranting only when Bright Light, with all his might, slapped Twilight's face, saying, "Wake, Twi! Teww me wat is da issu! I can hewp you!"
Twilight shook her head violently, before rubbing the zone hit by the little colt.
"Bwigt!" Pearly scolded her classmate and walked near Twilight "Twi is dazzed! Be nice! Wike dis."
After saying that, the filly started to pet Twilight's mane. This action slowly relaxed Twilight's nerves, and made her slowly get back to reality, until she felt completely restored in her faculties.
"Thank you," Twilight said with a sigh. "I think I was in need of that. Thank you very much, Pearly."
The filly let out a squeak and stopped petting, and Bright Light decided to go on and ask again his question. "Wat is da issu, da probwem?"
Twilight sighed. "Remember Orvosti and what he was doing an hour ago?"
Bright Light nodded while frowning a little.
"Well, he represented Princess Celestia masturbating, and I thought that... ahem..."
"Wat?" BIrght Light said, as he rushed back to the table. "Must see!"
Twilight sighed, and followed him to the table, where she pointed at the incriminated drawing.
"See that one on the far left?"
Bright Light nodded, as he squinted his eyes.
"That's the one that bothered me."
The colt stared at it, then shrugged. "I dunno why dat’s a pwoblem."
Twilight was going to say something to the colt, but she shut herself up at the last minute, fearing that explaining it was going to be ruinous.
After that, the purple mare gave a look at what the teachers were doing, and she saw Lux Foal glaring at Nutriz, after face hoofing clearly over the stupid error done by her colleague, and after hastily putting the drawings in the pile, she went on to shut the foals up with hissing and a couple of well-placed slaps.
Once silence was re-established and the foals were calm once again, Nutriz took more of the drawings in the pile, and said, "Well, let's say these didn't exist and move on. Next up... Twilight Sparkle, Lex Populi, Bright Light and Pearly Handle's work about... Twilight's adventures."
Then the teacher held up high the five drawings created by the combined efforts of Twilight and her little friends. The first drawing depicted Twilight with the other Elements Bearers with the title of the theme being held up by Pinkie Pie. Twilight, temporarily forgetful of her previous issue, smiled proudly at her creation or, better yet, at her sketch colored by her companions.
The other two drawings represented the defeat of Nightmare Moon and Discord. Originally Twilight was going to let the foals do that, but, when she saw how the foals thought Nightmare Moon and Discord were (a heavily-armoured warlord with a taste for dark-themed things and for foal flesh and a brown blob with tentacles respectively), she decided to sketch them too, and let the foals color up.
The last drawing had no intervention whatsoever from Twilight’s part, aside from her telling a censored version of her story so far, and it showed, because the art piece looked like an actual artistic creation of Kindergarteners. The drawing, representing a curled-up Twilight begin pointed by a much larger, faceless pony supposed to be the teacher, was cruder than the rest, with many proportion errors and random shading in places.
As Twilight bit her lip, Pearly Handle shook in anticipation, while Lex Populi and Bright Light flailed their little hooves around, shrieking, “Vote me! Vote me!”
The rest of the class, once again, was discussing on the pros and cons of picking that particular topic and if the drawings were a good enough start.
“Now that you have discussed,” Nutriz proclaimed as Lux hushed the foals up, “let’s vote!”
Twilight, Pearly, Lex and Bright Light raised their hooves along with other five foals, while the rest of the class remained with their hooves down.
Lux Foal wrote down the number of votes on the blackboard, as Nutriz set the drawings back into the pile, saying, “It’s a draw so far! Let’s see if the next one will be the winner!”
Then Nutriz proceeded to take out the five drawings. “These ones were made by Skydiver, Kurika, Vitriol Ink and Cobalt Arrow and it’s about… the equine body!”
As per procedure, Nutriz levitated the drawings high in the air, so that all the class could see them.
Twilight looked at them, and, for the first time that day, she felt stunned in a positive way. All the five drawings were near-perfect reproductions of an apparatus of the pony body, and they were drawn so well, that Twilight thought the colts had traced it all from an actual anatomy book, instead of using their memory or even taking guesses.
The rest of the class was equally impressed so, with a collective hoof-raising, all the foals voted for the idea coming from Skydiver’s group, and with a loud cheer at that.
“Well, that was a plebiscite! Equine Body it is!” Nutriz proclaimed, as she clapped her front hooves “Congratulations, Skydiver, Kurika, Cobalt Arrow and Vitriol Ink! You have made it!”
The four little ponies, naturally, rose up on the table and inflated their little chests, as the rest of the class repeated their cheer for them.
When said cheer died down, Lux Foal said, “And now, let’s go all outside!”
Naturally, the foals formed an ordinated but vibrating line, and followed their teachers to the yard.
Once Nutriz and Lux had gotten all the foals ready, they went out and the foals started enjoying playtime on the playground equipment.
Twilight herself stayed with Lex, Pearly and Bright and they all went to sit on a bench. While Twilight could tell they all were eager to go running around and play like the foals they were, she could also tell that, even though they had all voted for Skydiver, Kurika, Cobalt Arrow and Vitriol Ink’s drawings, they still felt sore about losing.
“So, Tiligh?” Lex asked, looking up at the pony she now saw as her big sister. “What’s gonna happen now?”
Twilight blinked, not sure what the little filly meant. “What do you mean, Lexy?”
Lex looked down, a slightly sad look coming across her little face. “Awe you gunna stay?”
Again, Twilight felt confused, before she udnerstood , and had to stop herself from facehoofing. Lex was talking about after the term was over.
Twilight tried her best to wear a warm smile. “I’ll be heading back to my acutal home in Ponyville.”
Tears welled in Lex’s eyes and trickled down her muzzle.
Twilight leaned forward and nuzzled her, to which the filly responded by wrapping her forelegs around the purple mare’s neck.
“I dun wan you ta go,” she sniffled into her fur.
Twilight felt a few tears forming in her eyes. She really had become attached to Lex, as if she really was the filly’s older sister.
"Is this how Rainbow Dash felt about Scootaloo, and how Rarity and Applejack feel about their own sisters?" Twilight wondered, as she returned Lex’s hug, cooing to her in a comforting way she could vaguely remember her mother doing when she was little, and that Always worked in making her feel better.
“I will still come for visits,” she whispered, gently stroking the filly’s mane. “And maybe your mother will bring you to Ponyville sometimes. I’d love for you to visit.”
Lex sniffed a bit of snot back up her nose, and looked up at her with hopeful eyes. “Pwomise?”
Twilight winked, pulled back and began the usual motions. “Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.”
After this Lex cheered up immensly and went to play near the swings, leaving Twilight smiling form the bench alone.
The mare couldn’t help but think what had made the young filly think about that in the first place.
"Was it because of the pictures and they’d made her think about what I would do after I will leave?" She thought "Well, makes sense. That was my adult before the punishment, and she thinks that, once all of this is over, I will forget about her."
Twilight smiled a little more, before getting up and following Lex.
"But I will never forget a second of the time spent toghter with her, even when the Princess Celestia will relieve me from my punishment and let me back in Ponyville. Yes, there are parts I'd wish to forget" Twilight groaned a little to the flashbacks of her crazy mother "but her? She was too supportive and kind with me for just dismiss her once all of this is over. Albeit young, she is one of my friends now, and she seesme as her big sister, and I woudl not trade her for anything, not even get Celestia's forgiveness this instant."
As Twilight rose her head and saw a smiling Lex pointign at the swings, a little illumination came to Twilight. "She reminds me so much of the bond I had with Princess Celestia when I was jsut a little bit older than her... true, it woudl be easier for both of us cut this bond, but it's too precious for me now to do so."
Smiling at the thoughts of that, she, Lex and the others proceeded enjoy their time outside.
As the mare and foals headed towards the playground, Celestia, disguised as a simple unicorn mare with a white coat and blue mane watched, her eyes misty and a littlejoyful sobing.
She hadn’t expected to see that scene between Twilight and the little filly that had become so close to her. She knew they were close, but she hadn’t expected it to be that close. They were like sisters, caring for one another and happy whenever the other was around.
She closed her eyes, wearing a warm smile. “Good work, my faithful student,” she whispered, “Good work.”
Suddenly, Princess Celestia heard he sound of squeaky wheels behind her, and she turned around.
"I hope that my son is doing well," said a skinny light red mare with a spiky white and orange mane, while she trotted aided by a wheelchair.
Princess Celestia could recognize the mare as the mother of Orvosti Ostoba, who Celestia had chosen as the foal that was going to make Twilight more willing to undergo regression.
Princess Celestia decided to keep her disguise up for a bit longer, and moved away, so to let the mare look beyond the fence from the hole in the bushes, thus avoiding that Celestia coudl be seen.
The mare in a wheelchair set herself near the hole, and looked intently in it. Seeing that Orvosti's motehr was too busy, Celestia sighed, and lit up her horn, so to teleport away from there in a flash of light.
As Celestia teleproted away the mare muttered "I hope that he has done his duty well, otherwise, his dinner and his toys may be at risk..."