Peppermint slowly walked through the chilly streets of Cantorlot. It was late autumn, which didn't help much. She was also getting pretty lost as the map had been blown away. She blinked her heterochromic eyes, and tap her necklace. It glimmered for a second.
She smiled, and thought to herself. The only time, she ever used a voice which brought a tear to her eye.
'Oh great, now I'm lost. Prefect, just prefect....Wait, my mommy said that my necklace could show me the way in the dark. Whatever that means?.....'.
She tapped it more, and the necklace gleamed more before shooting a small burst of light, in a certain direction. Peppermint looked at it for a moment, before smiling brightly.
She chased after the light, just as the sky crackled and burst. Her red and white mane sunk when the rain water landed on the curls and slowly, she walked to a gate, where the shining light stopped.
She looked at the gate, and tapped it with her hoof. A alarm went off, scaring her back, her thoughts running wild.
'What?! What!? What?! What...happened?!'
A mare walked out, it was a regal alicorn. Princess Luna!
''May I ask for your name?''
Peppermint stayed silent, her voice didn't work anyway and her magic just wouldn't work to pick up her necklace, whiteboard.
''Can't you talk?'' asked Luna.
Peppermint shook her head, mane deflect from the rain. Rain droplets fell off and hit the ground, joining the rest which was falling from the broken skies above.
''I see.'' Luna replied, her eyes catching glimpse of the still slightly shining pendent. ''Is that a pendent?''
Peppermint shook her head, horn finally glowing. She took the necklace off and transformed it into her whiteboard. Luna stared at the filly in slight shock.
''A whiteboard?''
Peppermint nodded, horn glowing brighter. She wrote onto the board, her thoughts. Written was her name, her true name. Not Peppermint.
''Candy Rose? As in Twilight Sparkle's granddaughter.''
Peppermint nodded, at the mention of her grandma. Luna smiled at the young 5 year old, and led her in.
''I will led you you to the office. There, I will get our student council.''
They walked into the building. All the walls were white and the ceiling was a see-through glass which when the sun was out, lit the place without the use of lights. Peppermint stood, mouth agape at the sight.
''Pretty stunning, isn't it?'' asked the moon princess.
Peppermint nodded, and ran forward in attempt to catch up with Luna. The two walked into a room, which was had a black door. Instead, Peppermint noticed that the walls were blue and coated in white, and black moons and stars.
''Sit down, I will get our two school councilors.''
Peppermint sat down, and waited. Luna smiled and left the room, to get the two foals. For what seemed to be hours was actually 10 minutes. Luna returned followed by a unicorn and a earth pony.
The unicorn was a cream filly with ruby eyes and a great mane and tail, that looked a bit like acid, just a bit. Around her horn was a glowing spiral, not like the magic a unicorn used. The earth pony was a dark brown colt with a aquamarine mane and tail, and grey eyes, which appeared to be blind.
''Candy, I would like you to meet Sapphire and Yuu, our school council.''
''Hello, Candy. I'm Yuu, my disability is blindness. I also have a twin sister named Aqua, who is a earth pony-sea pony hybrid.''
''And I'm Sapphire, my disability is with my horn. The glowing spiral is a birth deflect and thus I can't preform magic.''
Peppermint never said a word, but smiled brightly. Yuu and Sapphire frowned, sad that they couldn't directly talk to her.
''How about you two give her a tour and if you run into the other 6, tell her who they are.''
Peppermint heard 6 and thought to herself.
'Only 9 students, including me. Wow, must be rare to have a disability'.
The two foals nodded and led Peppermint out of the room and back into the white corridors.
''I hope you will like it here, Miss Candy.'' said Sapphire, smiling at her.
Peppermint tapped her whiteboard necklace and took it off with magic. Carefully, she wrote 'Please call me Peppermint'.
''Peppermint? Why Peppermint?'' asked Sapphire, repeating it for Yuu, who equally looked confused.
Peppermint smiled, and wrote the second bit to her sentence 'Due to my mane, silly. It's a nickname, my mommy and daddy gave me'.
''A nickname, by your parents due to your mane style...'' mumbled Sapphire.
''Peppermint, you a nice filly. Keeping a nickname, because of your parents.'' said Yuu.
Peppermint smiled brightly. Her horn glimmered and her necklace turned back into it's necklace form, around her neck.
''Where did you get that?'' asked Sapphire.
Peppermint smiled, opened her wheeler bag and showed them a picture of her parents.
''From your parents. Wait, I just noticed, your a alicorn?!''
Peppermint nodded, awkwardly at that.
''Wow, so cool!''
A small filly walked over to them and gently hit Sapphire. The filly was a light blue earth pony, or what seemed to be a earth pony. On her face was a pair of fins and there was fins on her side too. However, she shared her aquamarine mane with Yuu and had the same grey eyes, just lacking the blindness.
''Oy, Aqua, why do that?'' asked Sapphire.
''I'm deaf, you know.''
''How? You have your earpiece in and I know as well as you that you can read lips.''
''Fine, I hit you because you were bothering the poor filly.''
Peppermint looked between the arguing fillies, at least till Aqua saw her.
''Hi, my name is Aqua. Yuu, here is my twin brother. I'm half sea pony from my father side.''
Peppermint nodded and changed her necklace into it's writing form and wrote her name and told her to refer to her as Peppermint, instead of Candy Rose.
''Okay, I see your mute. That makes things good for me. Wait, till you meet our backwards talking filly, Miracle Screw or Screwy.''
Peppermint nodded, with a slight soundless chuckle.