The school looked a lot larger on the inside.
In the three months of summer, Tia realized that she was never actually given a tour of the new school she would be going to, opting instead to stay with the Celestia and Luna of this world. Thus, when orientation began, and the freshmen all shuffled inside, with the youth and innocence of a child who hasn't seen the true world yet, Tia had no idea where the auditorium was.
Luckily, she had some friends to help her.
"Oh, Tia! Not that way, we're supposed to be heading to the auditorium." Rarity called out to her, pulling her back from the line of Sophomores and Seniors heading to the other side of the school.
She gave Rarity a puzzled look, "But then, where are they going?" She pointed over her shoulder, as they followed the stream of freshmen to the auditorium.
"To their homerooms, darling," Rarity said, cutting a swath of space for her and Tia through the teenagers, "We have orientation, so we have to meet the Principal and the Vice-Principal at the auditorium." She eyed Tia with a questioning look, "Did you not have an orientation in your prep school?"
She shook her head, "We were just given schedules and told to report to the first class there. Orientation came at the end of the day, where the Headmistress gave us a congratulatory speech."
As she and Rarity kept talking, they followed the stream of teens, until they passed through two large oak doors, and into the newly-built auditorium. Tia remembered how Celestia gushed that the school district finally gave them enough funding to build the place, and how they didn't have to keep on using the old Horseshoe Amphitheater anymore. They filed in one-by-one, eventually taking a seat right next to two of Tia's friends, Lyra and Bon-Bon. As the three of them kept talking about Cheesetopia or the other, Tia swore she saw a flash of red and orange hair pass the other side of the auditorium, right next to some pink-haired girl. Before she could dwell on the issue, a large blare from a megaphone silenced the room. On stage, they saw Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna walk up the stairs, Celestia being handed a microphone by one of the teachers present.
"Hello there, Freshmen," She called out, "and welcome to your first year in Canterlot High."
"My name is Celestia, and I will be your Principal for the years ahead." She began to walk back and forth on the stage.
"Here, at Canterlot High, we strive to make your learning experience a fun and enjoyable time here. I certainly hope that you all will respect that, right?" A chorus of agreement rang from the Freshman group.
"Good." She walked right next to Luna. "While I am your principal, I mainly oversee the Juniors and Seniors in their activities. To that end, my sister, Vice-Principal Luna will be overseeing you primarily during Freshmen and Sophmore year." She handed over a clipboard, and the microphone, to Luna.
"Hello there." She began, "I am Vice-Principal Luna, the sister to Principal Celestia. Here at CHS, we hope you will learn to grow into mature adults, and we are here to help you in that regard." She began motioning to the teacher present. "Now, before we begin anything, we must get you set up with your classes. When I call the letters in your last name, please come up to your respective teacher and get your orientation packet."
First, "Last names A-E, please come up to Mrs. Cheerelie and get your packets," Rarity and Bon-Bon both stood up.
Next, "F-L, report to Doctor Turner," Tia 'Lightbringer' stood, and made her way to the Physics Teacher.
"Name?"
She nodded, "Tia Lightbringer."
He looked up, puzzled, before acknowledging her hairstyle, "Oh, you must be the Principal's cousin, correct?" Tia felt the eyes of several people snap towards her, as is natural when seeing a person in a position of power.
She grimaced, before bringing her eyes back to Doctor Turner, and smiling, "Yes, I am Tia."
He chuckled, "I can see the resemblance between you two, especially the hair, very nice touch." He shuffled some papers around, before finding a packet with her name, picture, and class sheet clipped on it and handing it to her. "It seems you have me for the first period. I hope you enjoy your experience here, Tia." They both smiled at each other, before walking back to her seat. It seems news got around about the Principal's cousin, since every step of the way she got looks of curiosity and whispers with her name in them behind her back. She eventually made her way to her row and slumped into her chair.
"Why, darling, you look exhausted!" Rarity called out to her, ending her conversation with Bon-Bon, "Whatever happened to you?"
"Turns out word got around about me being the Principal's cousin," she half-smiled, "Now everyone looked at me like I was a princess or something." *Or something indeed*
"Well, I do hope you can work with it," Lyra said, coming back with her schedule, "Word around the room is that there's some all-powerful girl with connections to the Principals, as well as being friends to the most popular girl in the grade," She motioned to Rarity, "and it seems I'm staring right at her."
"Are you going to treat me like some goddess now, or try and use me for favors?" Tia raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, nothing of the sort, darling," Lyra said, "We'd just like you to know that when we became friends, we weren't going to use you like that."
"Oh, thank god," Tia said, whipping some imaginary sweat off her brow, "Glad we got that cleared up."
"That's not all I heard," Lyra said, taking a seat right next to Bon-Bon, "Turns out we have another newbie in the school."
"Oh, really? It wouldn't happen to be Sunset Shimmer, would it?" Rarity said while Tia grimaced at the use of the name.
"That's the one," Lyra said. "Turns out she has amnesia, so her parents set her up with Fluttershy as friends, and now she's also acquainted with Rainbow Dash, of all people." Tia detected a hint of disdain in the name.
"Who's Rainbow Dash?" Tia asked with a puzzled expression.
"Your all-around jock, basically," Bon-Bon rolled her eyes. "She was Captain of all of the middle school sports teams, and she's a shoo-in for the varsity soccer team."
"I don't understand, what's so special about Rarity and Fluttershy, then?" Tia asked. The concept of high school popularity went over her head generally.
Lyra sighed, "Not to toot your own horn Rares, but Rarity here is what you'd call the Queen, basically." She ran a hand down her face, "She's one of the most popular girls here and has connections to high-class places thanks to her parents."
Rarity shook her head, "And Fluttershy has the most...luscious body, should we say." Rarity said with a small hint of jealousy, "She has the largest... 'assets' in the school, and every boy here has dreamed of asking her out at least once."
Tia tilted her head, "Assets?' She reiterated.
"You know," Rarity said, a small blush creeping on her face, "A girls...well, to put it bluntly, her tits and ass."
Tia blinked at that, the words registering in her head. "So, it's like a power vacuum, basically?' Tia said, with a small hand wave, "Because of association, Sunset and I are now the new popular girls or something?"
"Yeah, basically." Lyra said with some distaste, "That's what we meant when we said we'd probably lose you to the popular girls this year."
"Well, any friend of Tia's is a friend of mine." Rarity said with a small smile, "How would you girls like to try and join Tia on that podium of popular girls, then?"
"Aw hell yes!" Lyra shouted, before being reprimanded by the teachers still handing out the class schedules. "Sorry," she said meekly.
"Wait," Tia said, remembering her conversation with Lyra and Bon-Bon in Sugarcube Corner, "Didn't you say there was another popular girl beside Rarity and Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie wasn't it."
She was given a look of horror by the three of them, "What? Was it something I sa-"
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Were Zef and Moth actually related by blood? This is just idle curiosity, because no answer could change that they were the best of bros.
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Yeah, they were, check this blog post for the details
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Amend that, they were actually best friends, sorry for the mix-up, I have to fix that in the description
It also said that you aren't allowed sex scenes in T-rated story. T-Sex usually just means innuendo and outfits that the real show couldn't get away with.
I may have to skim the original story to refresh, but this looks like it has a lot of potential! I look forward to this and good luck!
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. No sex, but suggestive jokes and outfits, I got it
Still miss his Out of context Screenshot updates :(
Really nice that one of his stories gets continued :)
I miss MythrilMoth a lot. He was a great guy. I really miss his Persona EG story, it was my personal favorite. It is nice to see people like you keeping his memory and legacy alive by continuing his works for him.
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Thank you both! I'll try not to disappoint you
Here's my question. How did you get permission to do this? With Mythril no longer here...
This isn't the first story to do this. Pick up a story from another author. But I thought it was a site rule you can't do that.
alright interesting start, rarity does come accross as a little crass here mentioning Fluttershy's ass and titts, a suggestion would be her instead revering to fluttershy's abundent "assets" instead, and saying what those assets are only after Celestia just doesn't get it.
out side of that great first chapter.
My Condolences to MythrilMoth and Sympathies to his family and Zef. I wish you the best of luck in carrying on his legacy.
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I actually had a chat with Eldorado, one of the moderators of the site. They said that in scenarios of unfinished stories, one can continue the story, so long as they "Make it clear what you're doing in the description, link back to the original, and just start your story immediately following the point where the original ends." If not that, I could have re-wrote it provided I made substantial differences, but I wanted to honor Mythril by finishing one of his most well-loved stories, and the fact that if I re-wrote it, I would get into my habit of nearly copying the events of the story (Tried it once when writing an essay, nearly got caught by the plagiarism checker because I was using another essay as a basis to help me)
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy it.
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Thanks for the comment! I'll fix it later
That's a bad.
Don't insert comments like that in the story. Save those for the author comments.
So just let us see that and, at best, acknowledge the fabrication in the author's note. Don't shatter the immersion with a parenthetical phrase.
One speaker per paragraph, please.
Look, I know this is based on a Moth story, but they're freshmen. It's the start of the year. They're still 13. Plus, that first phrase just doesn't sound like Rarity.
And really, that's the issue. You're trying to fill a dead man's shoes here, and what I'm seeing thus far doesn't look up to the task. Best of luck going forward, but I recommend you refine your fundamentals first. You've got principles in your principals, telling where you could show, and questions that end with periods. I appreciate the sentiment here, but not the execution.
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Thanks for the comment, I'll fix it later. Have to work on another story now
Edit: Edited, finished
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I'll fix it, I just made it crasser because in the original story, he used words like 'tit's and 'ass', especially when he had that scene where sex-ed was explained to Princess Celestia, and I'm trying my best to write the story in his style.
Also, I appreciate the bluntness. I'll see about cleaning my act up for the next chapter
So your whole gimmick is stealing things from much better writer
I am looking forward to reading the original, and your continuation. Thank you
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No, my gimmick is finishing a writer's story in his memory. If I tried to take this story and pass it off as my own, I'd have gone and made a complete re-write and claimed the idea was mine.
Look, I understand you will probably hate me for doing this. It's like if some newbie took Number 42 in memory of Jackie Robinson. I get it, you probably will hate me for a while until I can prove that I am qualified to finish this. But there's a line I draw. I'm fine with being called a half-assed writer, but a plagariser? I'd rot in hell before I'll plagiarise any story, especially one written by as popular of a write as Mythril. So please, cut it out.
Look, call me a half-ass writer, or an unqualified one, just don't say I steal others' stories, because that's B.S
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Thank you. I hope you can enjoy this story for what it is meant to be
God I miss that man I’m glad to see someone picked up this story, good luck with finishing it!
Time will tell, I suppose. We'll see how this goes.
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO
What is fanfiction if not the expression of our desire to see a work expanded and continued beyond where its creator took it?
That is so very sad. I read some of his work, but I'm afraid I didn't hear about their passing.
This is certainly kind of an awkward thing to do but I really liked Cheer Princess so best of luck I suppose.