Love You to Death

Special thanks to my proofreaders/editors: Fluttershy3_66, RDopeth and Rainbowsoldier94

Chapter 02

Dilectus trotted slowly to his destination. He wasn't in a rush since his home was pretty close to the school. It was nice to appreciate his surroundings too.

He couldn't see anyone else in the proximity; maybe he would be the first to enter the school based on how early it was. His curiosity and eagerness mixed with apprehension. They overtook him, and therefore, he began to increase his speed.

Just at the thought of all the new responsibilities, it made him wonder how everything would be from now on. He would soon have students eager to learn, students that he needed to watch over in every moment while in class so nothing could go wrong, and that was his biggest fear.

Manipulating elements, especially fire, could be very dangerous. Hopefully the rooms would be made of another material other than wood. Maybe, the wood was enchanted to repel magic.

The stallion soon arrived at the big golden gates of the school. They were open, so at least somepony would be there before him. He entered and noticed how big the main hall was. With huge marble columns forming a circle accompanying the floor's round design, everything in matching tones of white, silver and gold was something rather too shiny for Dilectus' taste.

A map that was right in front of him on a stand made him stop for a while. Maybe he could get some information to where his room was located without having to ask anypony.

Soon, he found that his classes would take place in a room on the third floor, by a big room with the word 'Elemental Magic' encrusted upon it. It should only be his class since he couldn't find any other ones on the map.

After a minute or so he arrived in his room. There were two doors, one in the front and one in the back.

The back-most door was wide open. It was more than a welcoming sight for him; he walked in and gasped at what he saw.

All the walls were covered in the same gilded color. There were several lines of chairs and tables for the students, and right at the front, a huge blackboard covered the whole opposite wall.

Sitting right in front of him was his table. It was a huge table probably made of marble with some wooden drawers under it.

He never felt anything like this in his life, being there, in front of something around forty or even fifty ponies. And to be their teacher, now that was really something special.

He left his satchel on the table and went to the big window that granted a beautiful view of the gardens of the school. He began to lose his mind. All that had happened seemed like a dream coming true, even though this whole teacher-thing had happened quite suddenly.

"WELCOME TO OUR SCHOOL!" A mare's voice came bursting in from behind of him, making Dilectus almost fall as he turned frantically to see who it was.

None other than Princess Luna was in front of him with a face that he couldn't discern, whether if it was a smile or an angry grin.

"Oh forgive us, we usually speak this way towards our subjects, but we think that now it isn't necessary..."

"Oh...uh...okay," The frightened pony managed to mumble back to the princess, then reality struck him as he realized that he hadn't even bowed before her, "Oh where are my manners, greetings Princess Luna." He said while bowing before her.

"Greetings dear subject, we have heard good things about thine skills with elemental magic."

"Thanks, your majesty." The unicorn answered with a hoof tapping the ground slowly. He always became nervous when someone gave him any sort of compliment.

"I wish you a good day, for it is your first class after all." Luna added.

"Ah yes, well, I'm so... nervous."

"Trust in yourself and you'll do great. Now if you excuse me, I have other rooms to visit. The classes may start in half an hour. Here is the week's schedule," Luna said as she put the paper on the unicorn's table.

"It's fine by me Princess, thanks for your visit." The stallion managed to say after a great effort.

Luna looked back as she appeared to notice the nervousness in the pony's heart; she didn't say anything in response but gave a smile and went out of sight.

He sighed softly as he thought, 'Everything went better than expected. At least she wasn't running away from me.' This made him remember the few instances of social interaction that he had had in life with anyone besides his family and teachers. It wasn't all that great of a thought.

Shaking off these thoughts, he snapped back into reality once more. He decided to sit at his table, and he grabbed his notebook from his satchel and began to look at the notes that he had written for the first day of classes.

What better to begin with than testing the students with something challenging! Concentration and creativity was and always would be useful for the study of magic, especially when it came to elemental magic.

He closed the notebook and put back in its place. Soon enough, he heard the sound of a soft knocking on the door, "Oh hello there. Please, come on in."

"Umm, good morning teacher," A teal coated blue maned unicorn said shyly as she entered the room and took a seat on the far end of the room.

Dilectus thought about something to say to get on a conversation with his student but his words escaped him as always. Then, other students began to come inside the classroom one by one, slowly coming in until the room was full, 'A good sign.' Dilectus thought.

"Well, well, looks like everypony's here, so we can start our first class." At that moment, Dilectus reminded himself of what all teachers did when a new year began; that awkward moment when one has to get up and present oneself to the whole class.

He thought for a while and decided that it was better to skip this step. "And no dear students, I won't ask everypony to get up and present yourselves to the class. You'll get to know each other in due time." As all chairs were occupied, he filled the attendance list and proceeded to begin the class.

"Firstly, I want to test all of you. I will ask several things ranging from trivial to more complicated questions so we can begin to slowly understand our limits... and goals." In his mind, it sounded harder to be saying that. Years of school made him learn how it was to be in the teacher's position. It was helping him out more than he had expected.

It was something quite interesting, knowing that each student had chosen to be there learning elemental magic and by what he saw, he had a full day of classes. It was going to be a long day.

A.N.: Hey everyone, sorry for taking so long for this one, I moved from home so there's a lot of things out of place and school is back and well so much things to do, but I think that I post chapters more often from now on, thanks for the patience everyone!