Black Dog
Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Black Dog
Celestia's journal January 3d
I feel I may have failed at something here and I am not completely sure as to what I could have done to change the outcome.
It's only been a month and Twilight has not changed her opinions on the matter. Rahs seems unaffected , but he has been staying closer to Twilight as of late. While Shining Armor, Cadence, and I do not seem to be the targets of her personality change, the same cannot be said for her school mates and most importantly, her parents. In truth she barely mentions her parents any more and from what they have told me she barely speaks with them.
I suppose I should go back a bit to where this started. That part was my fault, though my attempt to correct it didn't help matters either.
Under my suggestion Twilight and Rahs were to return to a normal school schedule here in Canterlot. The school in question was one she attended before and has not been part since she passed her test. While it is not a public school, it is also not the high dollar private affair that a number of nobles send their foals to.
Now before I continue I would like to point something out to future me or anyone else reading this, illegally I might add. Princess Celestia's School for gifted unicorns was not at the time a full on school. It was more of a tutoring program, in truth Twilight is not even my only student, just the one I see the most potential in. The others are scattered across Canterlot attending different schools with only Twilight being taught by me alone. She was the only one to actually succeed in a impossible test after all. The others all have days of the week when I speak with them and teach them.
Twilight had already been to Marey C. Williams for the first two years of her scholastic life, she was enrolled there, skipping second grade and a good portion of third due to my private tutoring. I would have continued to teach her but unfortunately more and more of my time was being spent elsewhere and nobles and dignitaries do not count teaching seven year olds to be a proper use of my time.
I disagree, but I can't run the government by myself, so telling them to 'deal with it' would cause more trouble than I needed. There was also the fact I wanted to avoid another situation like there was with my former student Sunset. I gave her all my time and ,well..., I'd rather not speak of what came of that.
Rahs was enrolled as well despite not speaking in more than barks, he is quite smart. He can read and write, though admittedly his paw writing is barely legible. That may be lack of practice or because his paws are as big as they are. If he follows normal puppy logic, he will be quite sizable when he grows up.
In either case I expected that there would be a bit of issue at first, after all, introducing a puppy to a bunch of seven and eight year olds was bound to cause a stir, even if he was a student.
My goal in this was to try and get Twilight to be more social, to make some friends. In the long run I expected it to help her, she was friendly enough with everyone, though with the exception of her brothers, Cadence and I were the only ones she spent any time with. She needed some friends her own age.
The first few days of class went by much as expected. Rahs was swarmed as a 'puppy dog' and spent most of the first days perched on top of a cabinet trying to avoid all the foals who wanted to pet him. Twilight was mostly ignored as just another new filly.
Over the next few weeks everything calmed down, though every pony still seemed intent on trying to make friends with the skittish pup. Twilight focused more on her studies and was easily acing what she considered remedial classes, though Cadence told me she needed to help Rahs with a good bit of it to get him to pass. The pup has no drive for it at all. As expected Twilight quickly became a teachers pet for knowing everything she did and that's when the first of the problems started.
While I was waiting for the first instance of bullying with baited breath, I was more pleased by the result of it than any of the teachers were.
I'm not sure why the colt thought to pick on Twilight, perhaps her smaller size, perhaps how focused she was on her studies and her desire to learn, or simply because he was bored, it doesn't matter. He called her egghead and pushed her, and of course Rahs reacted.
I cannot say I expected the Moon Dog to react like he did however. He didn't bite or claw he simply rose up onto his back legs, plucked the colt from the ground with his front paws and stuffed him face first into a trash can. I was not even aware Rahs could balance on his back paws yet.
That wasn't the only incident however, even if Twilight was not always the target of the bullying. If Rahs saw it, the bully wound up in a trashcan, and in the case of one particularly bulky colt , the trash can wound up on him. It was never an empty can either.
The teachers thought he was the bully and they ignored Twilight and the other students claims to the contrary and Rahs never bothered to answer for his actions, unwilling to acknowledge the schools attempts at discipline. He still came to classes with Twilight when suspended, and he ignored time outs and principal office visits. Eventually they just gave up given he was pretty much a model student otherwise.
He also gained a following from his actions both good and bad and more than a little scorn from the teachers,as the students went from the 'tell an adult 'rule of bullying to the 'tell a Rahs' rule.
I doubt that first rule has ever worked to be honest, but all the schools seemed to follow that logic. And I probably didn't help by encouraging him when I did see the pair of them for a session. His rule seemed to work better any way.
While Rahs was uncomfortable with all the attention he was getting, Twilight was worse.
When I spoke with Twilight about how she liked the school she told me she didn't. She found it boring and the other students disruptive to learning anything.
Worse still she had developed a rather strong belief that she had done something wrong and this is why I sent away to this school. Despite her maturity, she didn't seem to believe my reasons for it.
Still she went along with it because she wanted me to be proud of her. I didn't notice that she was getting more and more miserable, and had yet to make any friends.
It was Twilight and Rahs's ninth birthday when things finally came to a head.
Twilight wanted to have her normal birthday with just her family, myself, and Cadence.
Her parents had other ideas and sent invitations to all her classmates to come celebrate her and Rahs's birthdays.
According to Cadence, Twilight and Rahs both were fully against the idea.
Twilight Velvet, and Nightlight however pulled the 'parents knows best card' and rented out a Showbiz eatery. While I've never been to one myself, I've heard it is full of activities for foals and they have a number of singing animated golems preforming as a band.
Sounds like a horror story waiting to happen really, but I suppose it works well for foals who are not creeped out by the soulless dead eyes of puppets...........
No, really, I'm fine, that happened a long time ago and I am well over it. I managed to not flash fry the porcelain doll that the ambassador from Japony gifted to me.
At least until he returned home, then I vaporized that thing, covered it in cement, vaporized it again and then sent a Guard to bury the remains at the far edge of Equestria in the middle of a cross roads.
Nothing wrong at all.
At any rate the party was a blast from what I was told...... for all the foals other than Twilight.
While the details have been lost of the chaos of the event, certain things stand out. Firstly, Rahs was kicked out of the building within the first hour for attacking one of the golems. I think it was a giant chicken, but he not only left teeth marks on the leg he also drained it of magic and caused the golem to collapse. Those spells are not cheap, though Twilight said later that Rahs told her the spell tasted like oranges.
Spike was not even allowed in the building citing a fire hazard. Shining and Cadence stayed outside in a park next door with them to both entertain Spike and keep Rahs calm. Something that evidently wound up sending Shining to the hospital.
From what Cadence told me he put a shield around Rahs to keep him from trying to rush back into the building to save Twilight from the golems, only for Rahs to bite through the shield. The feedback knocked Shining Armor out and sent Rahs into an even bigger tizzy. One that got the local Guard involved as well as animal control. That lead to even more chaos of course as the Guards and the animal control had a very hard time even catching Rahs, who was now freaking out over Twilight and Shining's collapse.
I really need to check the gardens just to make sure He hasn't freed himself with all this chaos around.
Rahs was finally calmed down when Twilight came out, but by that point the damage to her was already done.
I had the Guard interview several eyewitnesses to the events inside and it was one employee who gave the most complete story.
Once Rahs had been kicked out Twilight was left alone by the other foals. None of them wanted to talk about books or science they simply wanted to play. Twilight attempted to join them and while most ignored her she did follow a few of them into what amounted to a fun house.
Evidently the Daring Doo character had become popular enough that Showbiz struck a deal to, or illegally used, her likeness. The fun house was a small scale, foal safe, recreation of a temple from the book. Complete with swinging ropes ball pits and climbing cages. There was also a small rope bridge across a 'snake pit', a short drop into a cushioned area with a bunch of animated rubber snakes for a bit of realism.
The employee informed me that it wasn't the first time some foal had fallen into the pit and freaked out. The bridge did swing a little and a ungainly foal could fall. There was a trap door to the pit from the outside if that happened, and although the employee pulled her out, Twilight was shaking and pale. He said she ran off before he could show her they were fake snakes .
Twilight spent the next hour sitting in a chair alone in the dining room while every pony else continued to have fun. By this point her parents had been called outside to try and deal with Rahs and Twilight was under the watch of one of the other parents, who was more focused on his own child than Twilight.
When all the foals were called into the dining room for lunch Twilight was already there. While bringing the food out one of the still scampering foals tripped a employee and the dishes he carried spilled. One of them being a hot Quesadilla. Said Mexicolt dish landed directly on Twilight, scalding her ears and nose with the hot cheese and making a mess of her. It didn't help that all of the foals there for her party laughed at her as she freaked out in pain.
Her mother returned at that point to help her clean up in time to open gifts, but aside from one or two little things that seemed to be picked up at the discount isle for little filly’s, most of the gifts were for Rahs, as that was who most of the foals knew and were thought to be friends with.
The cake was little better as a greedy little colt managed to grab a hoofful of it as it was being set down before Twilight, which started a bit of a riot of other foals making grabs for it and destroying it before Twilight could blow out the candles. Despite the foals being scolded for their actions, it was too late.
The employee stated Twilight simply got up and walked out the door. From what Cadence said with all the chaos Rahs was causing, particularly after he scaled the building, no one even noticed her leave. It wasn't until Rahs bit one of the Guards who was holding him after he was finally caught and ran off down the street that any one even noticed she was gone.
The search for them didn't last long and they were quickly found back at the house.
When Mrs. and Mr. Sparkle got home the pair of them were sitting on the front steps with Twilight half asleep, her tear stained face buried in Rahs's side. She wouldn't acknowledge her parents and any time either of them got close Rahs would snap at them and he would bite any magic they tried to use to pick up Twilight.
The pair of them were kept outside of their house until Cadence and Spike arrived with a groggy Shining Armor and were allowed to pass into the building.
From what I am told by Cadence, Rahs has returned to the way he was when he was first brought home snapping and growling at both the elder Sparkle's only now Twilight doesn't scold him or tell him to stop.
The pair of them had also stopped going to school. It wasn't noticed for the first few days until the school Truancy office came by to make sure everything was alright. Twilight had been avoiding the school and simply going to the public library to read with Rahs.
The officer also brought this to my attention as she was one of my students as well, though she had yet to miss one of our sessions.
Her parents are at a loss as to what to do. Even if they were escorted to the school and into class at some point during the day both of them would simply leave and be found later at home or in the library.
An attempt was made to have some one watch them , but the moment their observer was distracted, they were gone again.
The school even tried putting them in a private room to teach them and while that worked for a few days, the pair eventually didn't wish to deal with that either and left. The first time was when Rahs threw his desk through a window and they both climbed out and left. The second room had no windows, but now, thanks to Twilight, it is short most of one wall.
Unfortunately while Twilight's case was the worst, it was not the only situation. My other students were also struggling with their peers and being too far along in their studies.
While they were faring better than Twilight, a filly named Moon Dancer was not far off quitting my program and moving due to all the bullying she was receiving simply due to her poor eyesight making her wear glasses. And another filly had already dropped out and left Canterlot with her family after the number of fights and scholastic issues she had. That saddened me greatly, Beatrix Lulumoon had a knack for illusions better than any other I had seen at her age.
Twilight's situation brought to light a problem I had not seen before. I was teaching these foals to be better, but I was forcing them to learn with those who did not have the same drive or spark as they did to learn. I had shown them they were special, and then seemingly abandoned them to peers who were were likely jealous of the treatment that I was giving them. Given my methods had not changed in hundreds of years it was small wonder that looking back many of my students developed some complex or another.
I decided to rectify this situation before it became worse for these foals.
Setting aside more time despite protests, I started work on rebuilding relations with them. Twilight and Rahs were my students on Tuesdays and Saturdays, Moondancer and Twinkleshine on Thursdays and Fridays. Lemon Hearts and Lyra Heartstrings on Sundays and Wednesdays and Minuette and Shining Lights on Sundays and Mondays.
Sunday was my usual day off, though I had double booked in order to teach two classes. I needed to shorten my Day court, but that was easy enough to do.
It took several months to regain the foals trust, and to build the new school house on the castle grounds. It took another three months to find several teachers who would not only cater to the students learning skills, but also be able to deal with the emotional state they were in.
I started introducing the foals to each other not long after the school was completed and most of them seemed to get along well, though Twilight and Rahs were still rather standoffish. While Twilight talked with the others, it was nearly all business with her. While as usual Rahs was thought of as a puppy, it took less than a day for the small group to move away from the 'cute dog' mindset and become more curious as to what he was.
Still classes have been progressing quite well and many of the foals seem to be calming down and opening up more to the others. All of them save Twilight. She's friendly enough, but I don't think she considers any of them as anything more than classmates.
There's only nine years left and I hope Twilight can work through this to do what needs to be done. It is her cutie-mark that is on the tree, she has to be the one.
If she isn't.......
I need to set up some contingency plans, just in case.
I can't help but look for Her hoof in these events, and aside from Rahs, nothing seems to link to Her. And it cannot be Him as he is still sealed in stone.
I cannot blame them so this must be fate this time. I have to hope it will all work out in the end. I cannot do much else.
One cannot force some pony to make friends.
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That.... was not my train of thought but i really like it.
It did NOT turn out as bad as the first bit made it sound like it would, though the Freddy Frazzbear’s Pizza Emporium knock-off scene did come close.
Like how you have tia, at least in this she is at least capable of acknowledging reality when hit in the head by it. Most stories, she’s a lost cause.
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Celestia really did pull a stupid with the teaching of her students. No wonder sunset became a manipulative controlling bitch, if I had the same situation as her and was unequivocally better than my peers and they tied to bully me, I would have attempted to dominate the F*** out of my class mates as well, then leave when the idiot who sent me into the situation in the first place tries to tell me I learned my social skills wrong.
I like how you explained the fear of snakes and quesadillas.
Awesome chapter, and aside from some minor errors which were quickly forgotten, there's just one issue I feel the need to bring up.
I know this is bordering on "pet peeve" territory, but it's 3rd, not 3th.
So THAT's why Twilight has a fear of quesadillas and snakes.
wow u would think they would go to an advance school cause they all had the spark to learn but nope sunbutt just sent them to normal school....no wonder half them have issues. well atleast sunbutt was able to learn and start correcting things....
This makes me wonder. From the way Rahs is being depicted, we may be in for a different set of elements. Cause he sure seems a lot more loyal than Rainbow has ever appeared to be in the show.
Awwwwww rahas is just cute and a born protector of others and twilight needs a good hug
WHY IS THERE NOT MORE YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What I find saddest is just how quickly Twilight lost faith and trust in her parents. A situation which seems to have persisted for months.
Here's hoping that their relationship is repaired soon. If nothing else, it must be hell on her parents to be so estranged from their young daughter.
To the*
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Well to be fair I suspect a few of those students got into the advanced school through coin, political influence, or a combination of the two.
That and there's always those lazy geniuses who just find school troublesome.
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true but u think good old sunbutt would have had build or class room set up already when there small group who did or do have spark and hunger for knollowge
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As she points out in the very chapter however she has to throw some bones the nobles and other upper class lest they get too cranky and do something more stupid than usual where all Equestrians have to pay the price. Like it or not Celestia is not a lady guillotine.
I suspect a few of the upper tier simply wanted to ensure "their children were given the same chance".
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Yeah i hope they realize how badly they screwed up.
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that I can see. also I do agree with sunbutt about porcelain or any doll that has those creepy soulless eyes.... or the eye that u swear are follow you.....
Little Twily had to endure so much for a children. Being a genius often comes with social problem in the certain degree.
Much better than some of your previous chapters. I look forward to the next installment.
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We just got this new chapter, give the guy a chance to take a breath.
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NOPE NEED MOAR!!!
I'm guessing Shining Armor + Cadence must be plan B...
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this was a auto correct error i didn't catch. The date was initially the fourth only a day after Twilight's birthday I changed the number and made it d but auto correct changed it back.
8448739
This was brought up simply due to the fact that Twilight never even mentions her parents at all in the first few seasons of the show. She doesn't visit them when in canterlot, she didn't on her birthday. They were background ponies at the wedding and you figured they would have a bigger part of the wedding than Twilight and gang, but if Shining was annoyed with them too because of Twi that would explain it.
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I do put these out pretty quickly.
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When someone who loves to learn as much as Twilight says "I don't like school" she's in the wrong school. They ignored her.
It's not that hard to get Celestia's favourite student a scholorship and into a school that'll encourage learning not punish those who try to learn.
Then they force a day of torture on her that she did not want, and on her birthday. She was unhappy before this and felt like she was being punished and they continued to force this punishment on her "for her own good" (like all punishments are).
Of course this is going to damage her bonds to them, they wanted this now they have to deal with the results.
Oh and if you need to get someone to interact with people their own age there is such a thing as an activity club...
This is soooooooooooooo sad! Poor Twilight!
Oh, so this is the magic kindergarten Twilight talked about. Good to know.
Dick move velvet and nightlight dick move the birthday is the one day a year you above all else listen to the birthday girl/boy (when in reason) they want a party with family only then the party is family only they want a small party then its a small party
What kind of godawful parent is so apathetic to their own child they don't even realize when she unhappy at her own birthday party?
At the party I was passing most of the stuff off as bad luck or kids being the mean creeps they usually are until- she got scalded and no one called a doctor? Holly crap! Maybe some staff should have been questioned when a little kid was seriously injured at their establishment. How did that not have lasting consequences, ya know, like a law suit?
one cannot force ponies to make friends,
that mean she ain't going to ponyville?
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Yes, I too, am a fan of "3D" stories on FimFiction.
Tell the ice cream man.
Please tell me it wasn't a Fazbear's franchise.
Not as Soulless you might thiiiink~.....
Wait Wait Wait wait WAaaaaaiiiiiiiitttttt a Bucking minute, TRIXIE?!
*cues Torredor March*
This illustrates the issue with traditional schools in general. Basically, public- and even private -school is a hundred year old social experiment that needs to be torn down and rebuilt. It is a waste of both money as well as time, and is really only there as a form of babysitting. Little of what is taught is ever used; the period of time I ever used Algebra was for an online college course. High school is a shit show where bullies essentially get away with what would earn an adult jail time. In some cases, serious jail time for what is essentially torture. Sports activities are at least something, but there's far too much emphasis on them in general.
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Tear down public schools and go back to apprenticeships for actual skills that can be used in the real world. Or at least make all math beyond basic arithmetic an elective.
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Im afraid that might only be be in america because when I was in schools in the uk the isnt any bullying maybe swearjng but no bullying
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gonna be honest, that's absolute bullshit. You experienced one thing, and you're drawing conclusions from it because you have perceived a pattern purely from things you saw and experienced. That's fair because we have limits to our knowledge, but I can assure you that bullying is a thing worldwide. From what I know, in the UK it's more social than physical and involves class struggles and ostracizing of targeted students. There's less of a physical side to it but it's still there and it's still horrible.
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Arguably, magnet schools need to be the norm. Specialized curriculums means a student can explore their passions and focus on them, whether that's science, art and music, history, etc. Personalized education is the best kind of education.
Hmmmm. Why, oh why, does this description sound SO familiar?
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i first thought of chuck e cheese and then ... >.> fnaf
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slice of life.
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Oh god.
Poor Twily. Thank god my parents never pulled that
A very good story so far. Please leave your 'comment footprint' on all the chapters, so I can know how far behind I am in the series!
Trixie attended Celestia’s school?!
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Breifly
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I may be playing devil's advocate here, but I think thr situation just spiraled out of control instrad of them being apathetic. Spike had to stay outside with a sitter, which is already kind of distractong for the parents but them Rahs was put out there freaking out which made worse, then Shining had to go the the hospital! At that point they probably thought she was going to be ok for a bit as they tried to deal with the brush fire that appeared there not realizing that Twilght was in here own situation. Parents tend to focus on thrir kids if they go to thr hospital you know?