Inform the Guardians
If there is one thing a student fears more than bullies, it’s a disgruntled teacher. Oh bullies can be mean spirited and all that, but a teacher can be worse. They were older, wiser, and they had their parent’s ears. They were a force to be reckoned with. The children of Cheerilee’s class knew that well enough. Cheerilee was a nice, kind mare. She could also be a tyrant when they misbehaved. The worst of it was ‘The Glare’. It wasn’t mean spirited or cruel. That would at least give the children something to ‘hate’ or simply convince themselves Cheerilee was being too mean. None of that. No, ‘The Glare’ was a look of utter disappointment. If she gave you it, you’d feel all the guilt and sorrow you were meant to feel with your misdeeds. A parent or two had faced this stare before. They backed down just as easily as the children.
Cheerilee was giving them all ‘The Glare’.
“I am very disappointed in you,” she started.
“Yeah,” Scootaloo nodded, holding a icepack to her head.
“Very disappointed,” Scootaloo nodded in agreement.
“In all of you,” Cheerilee turned her Glare over to them.
“What did we do?” Scootaloo said in surprise. “He hurt me.”
“Which he wouldn’t have done if you weren’t antagonizing him,” Cheerilee pointed out. “I have told you this countless times, Scootaloo. Bossing around other ponies and picking on them isn’t something a pony should do. Your grandfather will be hearing about this. As will your parents, Silver Spoon.”
Scootaloo just sat in her chair and sulked. Silver Spoon patted her back in reassurance, though she looked like she needed some to. Her parents weren’t going to like this. Cheerilee wasn’t liking this either. She hated doing stuff like this with them, but sometimes she had to be stern in order for them to learn. ‘It’s just a pity that I know those two won’t take this to heart. I sometimes wonder if they ever will.’
The teacher turned her gaze towards the other group. “As for Hikaru…”
“It’s not his fault!” Diamond shouted, standing up in her seat. Diamond Tiara was a spirited filly. She was always looking out for others, even if that got her in as much trouble as Scootaloo. “I was in charge of him. He doesn’t deserve any punishment.”
“Yes, you were in charge.” Cheerilee nodded. “You also weren’t aware of Hikaru’s abilities. That was my fault. Next week we’ll start studies on Japox and the kitsune race.” Scootaloo and Apple Bloom groaned. “So you are not to blame for this. Neither are you, Apple Bloom. You aren’t in trouble.”
“But she made him do it,” Apple Bloom pointed at Scootaloo. Said pegasus filly growled in response.
“Scootaloo started this,” Cheerilee admitted. “But Hikaru lashed out as well. Neither of them are in the right.” She closed her eyes and sighed. “I can’t punish him for this though.” She opened her eyes and looked into Hikaru’s. The little kitsune looked so small in his seat, shivering slightly in fear. Her heart went out to the kitsune. “He is new to this country. He isn’t even a pony. He grew up with rules and powers that are foreign to us. He needs time to adjust. So I will not punish him for this action.”
Diamond Tiara and Apple Bloom sighed in relief.
“High Sun Priestess Bon Bon will decide his punishment,” Cheerilee’s remark made Hikaru and his two companions freeze up in fear. “Now that Hikaru knows what he did was wrong, I will not hesitate to punish him for any repeats of this.” Her words were final. She wouldn’t hesitate to enforce them.
Hikaru quickly nodded. “I-I won’t do it again, Miss Cheerilee.”
“I know you won’t, Hikaru.” Cheerilee said. ‘I’ll be sure to keep an eye on you to make sure. You’re trixter nature might get out of hoof one day.’ “Your parents and guardians are on this way as we speak. I’m just thankful a few guards were stationed here so I could inform them sooner rather than later.”
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The orphanage was a happy place. At least, that’s what Bon Bon strived for. She brought up these young ponies as beloved citizens of the sun goddess’ nation. She put her whole heart into making them feel wanted and loved. In a way, they were like her own children. They most likely were. Priestess’ rarely married. Not because they couldn’t. The process of courting one takes months/years under scrutiny of Inquisitors, soldiers, and even assassins. Equestria would never let anything happen to their sun priestesses.
That fact often drove away suitors. That and many believed a pony blessed by Celestia herself was way out of their league. Top tier stuff. Bon Bon never really cared though. She was happy with what she had. She had her town. Her children. Her best friend. Yet…
“Shh,” she gently nuzzled a crying babe. His parents were killed by Nightmare Moon’s cultists right before the Princess came to their aid. An orphan of war. Equestria had so many of them it wasn’t funny. ‘The fighting will never end. Blood. Blood everywhere. Only Celestia herself keeps us from drowning in it.’ “I’m here.” Her touch and gentle words soothed the babe. She cradled him in her forelegs, smiling down at him.
“Glad to see you’re in a good mood,” Lyra walked in. “For a while, I thought you were going to bite someone’s head off.”
“I still might,” Bon Bon smirked.
Lyra quietly trotted over to her side. “He’s cute.”
“Yep,” Bon Bon nodded.
“Kind of like Hikaru, ‘cept-” Lyra shrugged. “He’s a kitsune and all.”
“Yeah.”
“So…” Lyra paused, looking like she was trying to find the right words to say next. “Are you still upset with Pizzelle?”
“I don’t think so,” Bon Bon sighed, glancing at Lyra. “I may have been overreacting.”
“May?” Lyra quirked an eyebrow.
“Oh shut up,” Bon Bon huffed. She looked back at the infant. “I just want Hikaru to be happy. I don’t want him to suffer anymore. I don’t want any of us to suffer and...Pizzelle might suffer to. I don’t think she’s ready to have a child of her own.”
“No one is ready for kids,” Lyra pointed out. “I should know. Ask my parents what it was like to raise a unicorn. It was crazy~”
“That’s because you are crazy, you silly dog.” Bon Bon chuckled.
“I may be a dog, but I’m not silly.” Lyra pouted.
Bon Bon loved that pout. It was so adorable. Well, most of what Lyra did was adorable. At least to her. Most everyone else found her a nuisance. Understandable. Lyra was hard to be around sometimes, being raised by Diamond Dogs and all. Her Inquisitor training had certainly honed in her killer skills. Bon Bon wasn’t complaining, of course. It was the duty of everypony to fight in Celestia’s name. No matter how big or small the contribution. “Silly doggy~”
“You’re lucky you have a baby in your arms,” Lyra said, giving her a mock glare.
“I’m trembling in fear,” Bon Bon giggled. The room was silent for a moment. “I might be wrong.”
“What?” Lyra asked, moreso because she believed her hearing had gone wonky.
Bon Bon rarely admitted being wrong. “I may be wrong, Lyra. She’s doing her best and I’ve been chewing her out. For what? A little misstep here and there?” She snorted. “Pizzelle needs time to adjust to this.”
Lyra nodded, smiling. “Yep. Glad this-”
“Priestess,” a guard walked in and bowed. “I bring word from the school teacher.”
“And?” Bon Bon quickly and gently hoofed over the infant to Lyra. She then trotted over to the guard.
He stood up. “There was a disagreement of sorts at the school. One of the children were hurt.”
“What?!!” Bon Bon shouted, causing the baby to cry. Lyra quickly got to work, making the foal giggle soon enough. Lyra had a knack with kids.
The guard nodded. “No severe injuries. Just a slight head wound that will heal given a week or so.”
Bon Bon sighed in relief. She had seen one too many hospitalized patients lately. She didn’t want another child to be among them. “Thank Celestia.”
“However,” the guard continued. “Hikaru is amongst the guilty. Cheerilee is awaiting your order on what should be done with him.”
Bon Bon eyes steeled over. ‘I knew this was a mistake. Pizzelle, you incompetent moron. He shouldn’t have been brought to school. Not now. Not after so much death and hate. Are you so blind to the world that you just blindly blabber about whatever you hear?’ “Take me there. Now!”
“Bon Bon-” Lyra started, wanting to comfort her friend before she did something stupid in her anger.
Bon Bon glanced over at Lyra and then the babe. The orphan babe she swore to protect. “I’m going to protect him.” She trotted out from the room. “Even if I have to hurt him in order to do that.”
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“Do you think I forgot to pack him something?” Pizzelle asked. A cup of orange juice in her hoof. The mare was currently in the hallway of the local hospital, sitting down in a chair. Redheart was sitting beside her, having decided she needed a small break from the other patients. “I mean, I packed everything that came to mind. I do mean everything. Absolutely everything he’d need. He wouldn’t need anything more, right?” Her iris’ shrunk. “I had to have forgotten something. Oh, I’m the worst mother ever.”
Redheart gently patted Pizzelle’s back. She really hadn’t known the mare before the Nightmare Moon incident. That certainly was an adventure and a half. “You’re not exactly the type of pony who’d forget. Pizzelle, I honestly believe you may have ‘over’-prepared the child.”
“I packed too much didn’t I?” Pizzelle sniffled. She was a bit of a drama queen when she wanted to be. “Just like the stories my Uncle Notch was tell me. He told me about stories of ponies dying from large hauls. Just dropping dead because their bags were too heave. What did I do? I gave him a heavy load.” She buried her face in her hooves.
Redheart sighed. The white mare had a few splotches of red in her coat from her recent patients. “He isn’t going to die.”
“How are you-”
Redheart cut her off. “He isn’t going to die. He’s a nice, charming, you boy. He has you, me, the others, Bon Bon and Lyra. Not to mention Cheerilee is keeping an eye on him. He’ll be alright. Trust me.”
Pizzelle nodded. “Alright. I’ll trust you on this. I don’t have any reason not to. My mother always said that ‘If you can’t trust a medic, then who can you trust to mend you?’. You don’t need to mend me of course. I’m fine. Very fine. I just worry about him. This is his first day at school. He’s the only one of his kind there. They don’t really know or understand his powers.” She rubbed her forehead and groaned. “Maybe sending him to school wasn’t the best of ideas right now.”
“Or this could be the best of the lot,” Redheart pointed out. “Hikaru needs friends, just like Sunset Shimmer. They need someone to keep their heads high and a smile on their face. Honestly, Hikaru is a lot easy to do that with. School is a good place as any for him to make friends. Isn’t that what brought us together to defeat Nightmare Moon.”
Pizzelle was quiet for a moment, thinking it over, before a guardspony trotted inside. He stopped before the pair. “Are you Pizzelle?” She asked.
“Yes,” Pizzelle blinked in confusion. What would the guard want with her?
“Come with me,” the guardsmare said.
“Whatever for?” Redheart asked. If she didn’t think the reason was good enough, she could easily override the guard’s order. Given her ‘Order’ of the Sisters of Vengeance, she had quite a bit of power to throw around in the military. That and they were in a hospital. This was her domain.
“There was a scuffle at the school,” the guardsmare explained. “One of the kids were hurt and-”
Just like that, Pizzelle went speeding right on past him. Redheart was honestly surprised by the baker’s speed. It was certainly something to behold and ponder on.
Pizzelle had to get to Hikaru now. If he was hurt. If...If….she didn’t want to think about that. She didn’t want to think about anything really. Other than her little HIkaru. That and how angry was Bon Bon was going to be with her. ‘I don’t care. I just want him to be safe,’ She thought to herself.
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Cheerilee seems pretty fair-minded to me. Good to see Bon Bon's perspective on how she treats Pizelle as well. It will be interesting to see what Hikaru's punishment is.
6133815 I really didn't want to paint anyone as the badguy in this story. {Well, except for the chaos sorcerer that sicked that gater on them and the two bullies. Trust me, they won't be one dimensional.} As well, I am a bit of a Cheerilee fan and I really think the writers throw her to the side far too much. {Ponyville Confidential especially.} She loves her students so of course she would try to keep a stern eye on them while being fair.
6133888 I thought that Cheerilee got blamed a bit excessively in that episode. Remember that for most of the episode, almost all the adults in town loved reading the Foal Free Press and were gushing about it. Was Cheerilee supposed to stop the most paper when it was out-competing the Ponyville Gazette, and all the parents were raving about how much they loved the juicy gossip? Over the course of the episode lots of ponies slowly become individually leery of the Foal Free Press, but they still continue to read it. Is Cheerilee supposed to weigh the cultural zeitgeist of Ponyville on a daily basis, and decide at some point that even though the Foal Free Press is still really popular by number of copies taken, ponies are no longer comfortable with the gossip column, though as far as we know no one actually complained to her? She had no reasonable way of suspecting that Gabby Gums was being blackmailed, and as soon as she found out she fired Diamond Tiara.
6134006 Well, I would think she'd actually keep an eye on the paper and read the issues before print. Of course, given how long the episode lasted and how absent she was in the episode, sometimes I think she may have been on vacation or something. I would think 'someone' would keep an eye on the kids.
6134239 Even if she did read them ahead of time, the only issue that would cause her to take action would be the one where the CMC publish their confession, and I guess she felt they should get a chance to apologize to the entire town.
Japox sounds like a soap brand. Just saying. I was found of Neighpon as the Equestrian equivalent to Japan myself.
Ah, bullies. Can't write a school story without one, can you? I still think that Bon Bon is too over the top with how she's treating Pizzelle. I mean, kids get into scuffles all the time. It's how they mature and become responsible adults, after all. If you baby them all the time, then they'll end up pathetic and weak, and not ready for the real world.
Just putting in my two bits.
6138354 Well, I chose Japox over Neighpon because it's a nation of kitsune, fox like creatures. So I thought a little 'fox' motif would fit better.
She's stressed. Bon Bon just survived a battle not but a few days ago, watched several of her fellow townsponies die, and had to help look over the rush of orphans afterwards. It's taxing and she's angry. Pizzelle, unfortunately, is turning into her stress relief. Bon Bon isn't in the right, but she still has good intentions at heart.
Well this chapter went quicker than I expected.
Also, I noticed a number of editing/ word errors in here. You should probably have them fixed (let me know if you need help pointing them out).
Oh boy, Pizzelle is in big trouble.
6133888 That's good writing.
No wonder the orphanage was full. With a headmistress like that then no one would be a good enough parent for any of those kids!
I think that is a little harsh