Upgrade your grades

by Verzeih Turncoat


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Silver Spoon was lying on her bed starring at the ceiling. So many things had happen today at school. The Friendship Games had turned out as expected, in a total mess with magic. Serious Canterlot High has more instances of magic interference by now than false fire alarms. The last event of the Friendship Games however was way over the top. Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of the Fall Formal, turned into a demonspawn and Sunset Shimmer of all people was the one standing up against her while the world crumbled around them.

A cold shiver was running down her whole body. One of these rifts had opened right under her and she had fallen like four feet into mud. In front of her flames blazed from the ground and a big feline creature looked at her in confusion. It had the head of a tiger and another of a goat and even its tail looked at her because... it was a snake.

A chimera, she had seen a freaking chimera on the other side. Silver Spoon was still looking at her ceiling. She put her hand on her forehead to make sure this was not some illusion of some sort of delirium or something. She wished it would have been.

The chimera had started to discuss with itself while she was still in shock of seeing it. It circled around her talking about how it thought she would taste, if she was even edible or poisonous.

"She does not belong to your biome. You should consider her nonexistent."

A girl from the rival school looked down through the rift. Holding her hand out for her as the chimera argued with itself a little more.

"If you want to stay in that place say so. There are other pupils that need help you know."


Silver Spoon looked at her hand she had offered the girl to help her out that freaking place, before it dropped back into her bed. That girl, she looked like an stupid nerd. With her glasses with the thick rim her strange hairs style and the school uniform. Had that girl never heard of make up or accessoires? Silver Spoon jumped off her bed and into her bathroom. In front of her mirror Silver Spoon opened her braid and tried to mimic her hair style.
It looked as bad as she had expected. How was this girl able to hold herself with such... grace... while looking like that - Silver Spoon wondered. She imagined how people would react to her if she would wear something like that girl. The girls in her class would laugh at her and Diamond Tiara would drag her into the closest mall so she would stop making a fool out of herself.

With a big sigh Silver turned the light of behind her as she left the bathroom again. The gears turning rapidly in her head, why does this girl holding her mind in this endless loop. There was something about her that had gripped her.


A shrill laughter pierced her ear during the lunch break. The most familiar voice besides her own was mocking her.

"... ,but you sound like one of the girls in an animes you like so much", Diamond teased her in a giggling voice.

"I don´t have a crush on her", Silver Spoon responded with an embarrassed and angry face.

Diamond waved the argument away as she talked to Silver Spoon with a disapproving manner: "Don´t be a Applebloom about some little teasing, but I must admit it was kinda cool how she talked down to that crystal prep principal." Diamond Tiara poked out an olive with her fork of her salad, before she pointed at her friend with it. "You know this OTHER Twilight girl is going to switch school. Maybe you can talk to her about that girl."

Silver Spoon roled her eyes behind her glasses as she made a snarky remark to that suggestion: "Great throw me towards this magical demon girl."

"I thought you like this crazy stuff."

Silver Spoon placed her elbow on the table and put her head in her hand as she starred over to the upper class mates whom dominating a table close to them. Rainbow Dash the sports ace that every team is fighting about; Pinkie Pie, the head of the student council that every one seems to love and Sunset Shimmer the demon girl of a different dimension. They were sitting there laughing with their friends.

"In my animes but that doesn´t mean I wanted to live in one."

As Silver Spoon spoke this sentence out loud she came to a realisation. She threw her braid over her shoulder and was about to leave the table.

"See you in class later."

As fast as she could she headed towards the schools library. If that OTHER Twilight can change school then she could do the same. She just needed to know what it would take to get accepted at Crystal Prep. Then she could leave this place with all its magic and demons and interdimensional traveling behind her.
The lunch break was almost over as she turned on the school computer and started to research. Crystal Prep had quite a reputation and also quite some entry requirement.

"What´s wrong with that place don´t they know they are suppose to teach their students!"

She could almost feel Miss Cheerilee's disapproval gaze in her back. The student teacher had an fake smile on her lips as she approached her about her outburst, but with a quick look on the screen even that smile vanished.

"I´m sorry, Miss Cheerilee. I didn´t mean to get loud."

The young teacher had a very concerned look on her face as she switched between Silver Spoon and the monitor.

"Crystal Prep, huh?"

"Well..."

Miss Cheerilee´s face was very serious about this as she told her: "Silver Spoon I don´t say this to discourage you, but... I know your grades. Crystal Prep might be a little over your head."

Silver Spoon bit her tongue. Are teacher even allowed to tell their students so bluntly that they are to stupid? Besides her grades are not that bad, they are just not on THAT level. She swallowed the angry remark before she answered:

"I just have to study from now on."

The stern gaze in the young girl's eyes brought an honest smile on Miss Cheerilee's face. To see this upstart child taking her studying serious for a change was a welcome surprise.

"In that case I recommend you to get a tutor. You will need some help."

Silver Spoon wondered if that girl from Crystal Prep would offer her hand to pull her out again, but then shaked her head. No by now she was willing to take every helping hand to get out of Canterlot High.