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// Chapter 2: Meet and Greet 
// Story: Friendship 101 
// by BrawnyBold 
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	The next morning, Twilight was making preparations for her classes. She levitated several desk chairs in a circle and brought out her chalkboard. Spike entered the room carrying some notebooks for Twilight's class while trying not to fall over. 
"Where do you want these, Twilight?" Spike asked. 
"Place each one on each desk," Twilight replied.
Spike did what she said and placed each book on a desk. "Are you sure you want to go through with this?" 
"I'm completely positive about this, Spike." Twilight said with pride. "My lessons of friendship will make a difference to those ponies."
"Yeah, but do you have any experience with handling a class? I mean, I know you're smart but - " Spike was interrupted when he heard a knocking from the castle entrance.
"Could you get that for me, Spike." Twilight asked her dragon. "I need to get a few more things." she then flew out of the room.
Spike slowly opened the doors and heard a high-pitched squeal that almost made him deaf. Before Spike could recover, Guide ran up to him while jumping up and down with excitement. 
"Oh my gosh! You're Spike, Princess Twilight's number one assistant! It's an honor to meet you! Can you answer some questions that I have?" Guide said all at once. 
'Well, she is unique.' Spike said in his mind.
Guide immediately calmed down from her excitement and spoke with a more serious tone. "My apologies, I am Guide Light and one of Princess Twilight's new students."
"Nice to meet you, Guide Light." Spike pointed to the room. "The classroom is that way," 
"Thank you, noble dragon." Guide bowed her head and proceeded to the classroom.
Before Spike followed, he heard another knock from the door and answered it. Once opened, Fireworks made her entrance by doing several acrobatic flips and landed with a perfect split. 
"Ta-Da! Fireworks yelled as she panted from making that entrance.
"You must be a new student?" Spike guessed.
"Yeah! Fireworks is the name, cheering is my game!" she said while shaking the dragon's hand.
When Spike pointed at the classroom, Firework got up and flew right in. Spike was about to leave until he heard a knocking a third time in a row. Grumbling from all the interruptions, Spike walked up to the door to answer it. Comfort was standing outside feeling a little timid from the sudden opening of the door. 
"Are you a new student?" Spike asked. Spike was suddenly picked-up by the colt and was given a nice, friendly hug.
"Aren't you such a little cutesy-woodsy dragon?" Comfort gushed as if he was holding a foal.
"Um, hello." Spike interrupted, feeling really uncomfortable.
Comfort suddenly realized this and placed Spike down. "I'm sorry," Comfort apologized. "I'm Comfort Cub, it's nice to meet you."
Spike thought that this stallion wasn't so bad, despite the weird hugging. He politely showed Comfort where the room was and the stallion thanked Spike before leaving.  When Spike closed the door, he turned around and saw a scary stallion right in front of him. "AAAHHHH!!!!" Spike screamed as he fell with his back on the floor. Lone laughed as he enjoyed scaring the baby dragon.
"You-You should have seen the look on your face! That was priceless!" Lone chuckled as he walked away, towards the class.
When the grey stallion left, Spike stood back up and calmed his breathing from the fright he experienced. 'What a jerk!' Spike thought as he took deep breaths. 
All four of the students were inside the classroom while waiting for Princess Twilight. Guide was busy pulling out her books she might need for the class, Fireworks was just humming a song while on her desk, Comfort just sat on his desk, feeling really nervous about what the class will be about, and Lone just slouched on his desk.
"When is the princess gonna show, it's already past eight!" Lone groaned.  
"Princess Twilight is probably making some last minute preparations." Guide replied. 
"If she doesn't show then I'm out of here." Lone said. "Isn't there a rule saying if a teacher doesn't show, you can leave?" 
"Well, I would never leave my class even though the teacher is late." Guide snarled at Lone.
'Teacher's pet,' Lone thought.
Fireworks appeared at the center of the class with a megaphone in her hoof. 
"I know how to cure everypony's boredom!" Fireworks said. She began doing one of her cheer routines with her pom-poms. "1...2...3...4 we don't know what's in store! 5...6...7...8 all we have to do is to wait!" As Fireworks did a flip, she accidentally knocked off Guide's books.
"Hey! Watch it!" Guide yelled as she started shooting beams at the cheerleader. Guide kept shooting at Fireworks, but the pegasus was avoiding every blast. One of these beams hit Lone right out of his desk. He looked at the mares and gave them an angry glare that made them wish they didn't do that.
Twilight and Spike made their way towards the classroom with all the materials for the students. 
"I don't know, Twilight." Spike said. "I think some of the students you chose are bad news."
"Don't worry, Spike, I believe these young ponies will be great after I'm finish teaching them."
Suddenly, Twilight and Spike heard a loud explosion from the classroom. Both of them rushed inside and where were completely shocked from what is happening. Lone started throwing some tables at Guide and Fireworks while they avoid being killed. Comfort was under his desk trying not to get spotted. 
Twilight immediately flew up in the air and used her magic. "STOP!" she yelled. The four ponies were surrounded by pink aura and paused.
"Sure, you totally got this." Spike said with sarcasm. 
Everything was back to the way it was and the four ponies sat on their desks.
"Okay, things may have gone on the wrong hoof and luckily, I'll forgive this." Twilight said. "But, as long as you behave. Is that clear?"
Everypony, except for Lone, nodded with agreement.
"Now, let's begin!" Twilight smiled. She used the chalk to write some words on the board saying: 

Friendship 101: Know your friends.

"The best way to make friends is to get to know one another." Twilight turned to the student. "Let's begin with our introductions. Just tell us your name and more about yourself." She looked around the room as if there were more students. "Do I have any volunteers?"
"Me!" Guide was the first to raise her hoof. 
"You may go first." Twilight said.
"Thank you!" Guide cried out. She then cleared her throat and began. "My name is Guide Light and my favorite hobbies include: studying, magic using, and spending time with you, Princess!" 
"Aw, thank you," Twilight said with a blush.
"I like to go next!" Fireworks waved.
"You may do so Ms....? Twilight asked.
Fireworks stood up from her seat and made her introduction. "My name is Fireworks and the one thing that I love to do more than anything is cheer-leading!" 
"Why?" Twilight asked.
"Because giving a cheer will help anypony feel better and do their best!" Fireworks said.
Lone moaned loud enough for everypony to hear.
"Why don't you go next, young colt?" Twilight pointed at Lone.
"Fine, call me Lone Wolf and just like my name, I prefer to do things alone." Lone replied.
"Nice to meet you, Lone Wolf." Fireworks said as she was shaking Lone's hoof.
Lone pulled his hoof away and growled like a dog towards Fireworks.
"Okay," Twilight said and turned to Comfort, who was the last to be introduced. "why don't you tell us about yourself?" 
Comfort started panicking from his nervousness since he doesn't tell about himself that much. He slowly regain his thoughts and began his introduction. "Hello everypony, I'm Comfort Cub.....and.....I enjoy sewing......stuffed animals." Comfort stuttered on the last part.
"Sorry, what was that?" Twilight asked.
"Stuffed animals?" Comfort answered.
Lone burst out laughing, "Y-You make stuffed animal?! That is the most lame and girly thing I have ever heard!" he chuckled.
Comfort slowly lowered his head with shame.
Twilight saw this and yelled, "That's enough Lone Wolf!"
"Yeah, don't hurt the dude's feelings!" Guide barked.
As Twilight was giving Lone his punishment, Fireworks slowly tapped Comfort's shoulder that caught his attention. 
"Hey," Fireworks whispered. "just so you know, I think your hobby is pretty neat."
Fireworks' words made Comfort a little better as he lifted his head with a smile.
After the introductions, Twilight started her lecture on the definition of friendship. While the princess was lecturing, Guide was writing every important thing on her notes as well as Comfort like the good colt he is. Fireworks just got distracted as she twirled her pony-tail and Lone was napping the entire time.
Once class was over, everypony packed up their things and exited the castle. Twilight watched her students leave from the window, feeling proud of what she had done.
"First day was a success, huh Spike?" Twilight asked.
"By success, do you mean two out of four students listened to your lecture while the others just got distracted?"
Twilight became shocked, not realizing that she was so busy with her lectures that she never paid attention to her students. The princess slowly slumped to the floor with her head hung with disappointment.
"But don't worry, Twilight!" Spike trying to cheer her up. "There's always next time."
Twilight felt a little better from Spike's words, she can still teach these ponies friendship.