"Alright, everypony. Settle down now." Cheerilee said as she addressed the class clearly as possible. From this point on, Hair Raiser felt the most vulnerable. Anything she said here would determine how the class felt towards her.

"Now then, before we started on today's lessons, I have a new student that I'd like you all to meet." She said, using her hoof to call Hair Raiser up to the front of the class.

She was very nervous in doing this, but Hair Raiser also had to show a sign of bravery. It was what Twilight would have wanted. She walked to the front of the class and turned around to face her fellow students. She thought her hair would be her undoing at this moment, but was surprised to hear words of awe from some of the whispering fillies and colts.

"Alright, little one. You may introduce yourself to the class now." Cheerilee said, prompting Hair Raiser to begin speaking.

"Hello, everypony." She said, looking pretty calm and collected as she saw everyone was bearing a smile towards her now. "My name is Hair Raiser, and I recently moved here from Manehatten. I look forward to spending some time and getting to know you better."

As she made her way back to her desk, she was greeted with applause form the other fillies and colts. The colts mainly applauded her for her looks, whereas the fillies applauded for how brave she was, standing in front of the whole class and greeting themselves like that.

"That pony was so brave." One of the children said, admiring Hair Raiser. "Having to stand up in front of the whole class is no easy feat."

"Ah have a feelin' that she might make the perfect new recruit fer the Cutie Mark Crusaders." Applebloom said, watching Hair Raiser sit back down at her desk, pushing her hair away so that it wasn't on the chair itself. "Just so long as Little Miss Princess don't get in our way."

"They actually... Liked me?" Hair Raiser spoke in her mind, still confused at the fact that everyone loved her, despite her freakishly long hair which could be controlled freely. "Maybe this whole school thing won't be so bad after all..."

"Well, Hair Raiser. I personally wish to welcome you to the classroom. With my teachings, you're sure to learn a lot here and eventually prosper into the great mare you'll eventually become." Cheerilee said, after she found where Hair Raiser had sat down.

"Thank you, Miss Cheerilee." She said, showing a little smile afterwards. She first thought that this would be unbearable for her, but she'd managed to pull through and enjoy all this attention. And it wasn't even the first lesson yet. "I'll do my best."

"I know you will." Cheerilee said, smiling as she took a nearby piece of chalk and began writing on the blackboard with it. "Today, we're going to be discussing the topic of Unicorn Magic. Now I know this will interest some of you, due to the fact that some of you are Unicorns yourselves."

"Like me!" Sweetie Belle said, grinning as she looked at her horn.

"Yes, Sweetie Belle, just like you." Cheerilee said as she also looked at Sweetie's horn.

"Unicorns can do a wide variety of feats that Pegasi and Earth Ponies can't." Cheerilee said, resuming the lesson. "For example, Unicorns have a basic skill known as 'Levitation' which they can use to move objects simply by concentrating their magic into a powerful stream known as an 'Aura' and using that stream of magic, they can move anything anywhere, even other ponies."

"Now, can anypony tell me what usually happens when a Unicorn casts spells?" She stopped, hoping that one of the kids would be able to answer the question for her.

"Oh! That's easy. Their horn glows whilst they cast them." Scootaloo said, raising her hoof to answer that. Sure, she was a Pegasus, but that didn't stop her from knowing this fact. "To be precise, their horns glow until they stop casting them."

"Excellent work, Scootaloo." Cheerilee said, smiling at the orange Pegasus before she went back to writing on the blackboard. She drew a unicorn casting a spell with a special field around its' horn. "When a Unicorn's horn glows, then that means they're casting spells. But whilst this happens, they have to have the utmost of concentration. Because if they get distracted, they lose their concentration and stop casting the spell."

"Something I'll have to remember..." Said a whispered voice that Hair Raiser could immediately tell came from in front of her. It was whispered, so it couldn't disrupt Cheerilee's class, but it belonged to a pink Earth Pony with a diamond tiara, just like Twilight had described earlier.

"There's actually much more to Unicorn Magic than meets the eye." Cheerilee said, rubbing off the previous chalk illustration and drawing a much more detailed one, with a Unicorn struggling with their magic and their aura intensified. "If a Unicorn is suffering from undesirable memories or emotions, their magic intensifies and is released in a powerful burst called a 'Magic Surge'."

"What's a Magic Surge?" Hair Raiser raised her hoof to ask the question, and was happily met with Cheerilee's answer.

"A Magic Surge is a massive increase of power, caused by all the repressed memories or uncontrollable emotions that a Unicorn feels." Cheerilee explained. "Whenever a Unicorn suffers psychological trauma, their magic becomes enhanced, but at the same time, unpredictable."

"In what ways?" Hair Raiser furthered the question with another question.

"A Magic Surge's power can vary, depending on how skilled in magic the unicorn truly is." Cheerilee explained once more. "The results also vary on how deeply they suffer from all this. The most common effect of a Magic Surge is transformation, in which case a pony is transformed into something else, or a younger version of themselves."

"Now then, I'm going to hand you all some very important worksheets that you must fill in before the bell goes." Cheerilee said as she pulled out a stack of paper and proceeded to hand copies of the same sheet to each of the children. "Everypony take out your pencils."

Hair Raiser complied with this order, as did the rest of the children. She used her hair to open up her saddlebag and pull out a pencil. Many of the students saw her doing this and were quite intrigued as to how she was doing this, but she didn't notice and instead curled her hair around the pencil so that she could write with it.

She spent the next few minutes writing down answers in the boxes, hoping that they would be right. She showed a little smile at some of the answers but a little concern with some others. She partially knew about Unicorn Magic now, and was worried that it might not have been enough to complete this worksheet.

As she wrote the answers, she was watched by many other ponies. Some of which were actually awestruck that such a thing could ever be possible. They were looking at a pony who could write with her hair alone. There were five children out of this group who saw great potential in Hair Raiser's abilities and would make a valuable addition to their groups, but it would all depend on who she wished to side with...

Once the bell rang, all the kids handed in their papers to Miss Cheerilee and went out for a quick recess period. Hair Raiser was the last to leave, since she had to ask what the date was so that she could write it down, but this didn't bother her either.

She finally handed in her completed assignment and rushed outside to have her well-earned recess period. She was almost immediately swarmed on by dozens of fillies and colts, who were all admiring her and her special tricks with her hair.

"There she is! The filly with the fabulous follicles..." Rumble said, looking at Hair Raiser's fantastically long-flowing mane.

"They say that her hair is so magnificently long, that it could be used instead of a ladder whenever she wants to get to high places." Said a random filly who was also fantasizing over Hair Raiser's mane.

"The only question is, who is she gonna side with?" Snips decided to ask to himself as he too was smitten with how long Hair Raiser's hair flowed.

"Why let her wait then?" Said a shrill voice that immediately got everyone to stop and let someone in. "After all, such a divine filly such as herself needs to decide whether or not she's cool or not."

"Not so fast, Diamond Tiara!" Applebloom said, dispersing the whole group, but not Diamond Tiara, or her cohort, Silver Spoon. "She has a right ta choose fer herself. She don't need ya'll breathing down her neck so she'll crack from peer pressure."

"Ah, the Cutie Mark Crusaders. We meet once again." She said, as she quickly left Hair Raiser to it and went over to the CMC, with a devilish smile on her face. "Come to add another Blank-Flank into your stupid little club, have we?"

"Blank-Flanks aren't stupid, Diamond Tiara." Sweetie Belle said, standing her ground along with her fellow crusaders. "You're pretty smart, I will admit that. But then again, you used to be a Blank-Flank yourself, didn't you?"

"Used to is not a term we prefer to use in this sort of discussion." Silver said, trying to keep the argument going. "We prefer the term to be more as a distant foalhood memory."

"Listen, I don't know what's going on here, but I believe that this is something that shouldn't be dealt with mere pessimism." Hair Raiser said, grabbing the attention of all five fillies. "This is something that needs to be decided with something a little more... Stylish."

"Oh? And what exactly did you have in mind, Hair Raiser?" Applebloom said, curious to know what she was thinking of.

"A little something like... This!" She said, using her hair to grab Diamond Tiara's tiara and throw it away. Causing everyone else to laugh at her. "I can immediately tell that that tiara of yours is what's making you such an arrogant jerk. Let's see how you feel when you spend a few days without such a piece of plastic!"

"H-How dare you!" Diamond said, looking a little steamed that Hair Raiser stripped her of her most prized possession. "Daddy paid good money for that thing. You'd better give me it back or else!"

"Or else what? You'll cry? Maybe want your teddy bear? Or how about a pacifier to shut that flapping trap of yours!" Hair Raiser said, quickly silencing Diamond Tiara, making her threats seem like a dull roar. "I have no time to deal with such idiocy craving schoolfillies such as yourselves, I'm out of here." She said, walking off to another part of the playground.

"Whoa... Did you see how awesome that filly was?" Scootaloo said, still amazed that Hair Raiser had stood up for herself. "She not only flinched, but she also embarrassed Diamond Tiara in front of the entire school!"

"Ah have a feelin' she's made her choice..." Applebloom said, smiling at how brave Hair Raiser had been in the face of danger. "The Cutie Mark Crusaders is gettin' a new member."

"Come on, let's go over and congratulate her!" Sweetie Belle said, already running after Hair Raiser. The other Crusaders were quickly following her.

Meanwhile, Diamond Tiara merely stood there, lost for words. She'd not only been embarrassed, but had lost her tiara as well. Her expression stayed the same for around two minutes, shock and awe.

"Pbbth, whatever, we don't need her. Come on, Di." Silver said, merely walking off to another area of the playground, but immediately stopped when she noticed that Diamond wasn't even moving. "Uhh... Diamond?"

"She's tough, and not only that, she managed to embarrass me with merely a thought." Diamond said to herself. "However, since she now hates me, she might be a tough nut to crack. But I'll get there eventually, I always do with ponies."

Five minutes after that little 'incident' had happened, Hair Raiser was over at the see-saw with a pony who was quite impressed with the way she stood up for herself back then.

"You're really brave, you know that? Not many ponies here had the courage to stand up to Diamond Tiara like that." He said, with a very British accent in his voice.

"Well, thank you, Pip." She said, using her hair to push herself upwards and help Pip get back down to the ground, due to the difference in their overall weight.

"In fact, there are really only three other ponies who've stood up to her before and succeeded."

"Oh? And who are they?" She asked, curious to know who their names were. She'd seen them earlier but was at a loss for their names.

"Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, or as they're more commonly known as... The Cutie Mark Crusaders!" He said, imitating one of their voices, with poor effort.

"Well, I think they sound like my kind of friends." Hair Raiser said, once she got off and helped Pip to get off as well. "Where are they now?"

"Coming over to greet us by the looks of things." He said pointing a hoof towards the three fillies who were coming over to say hello to her.

Hair Raiser watched with interest as she was greeted by a yellow Earth Pony with red hair and a bow in her mane, a white Unicorn with curly pink and purple hair and an orange Pegasus with purple hair. They were the Cutie Mark Crusaders that Pip had just told her about and were quite excited to see her.

"Howdy there, Hair Raiser." Applebloom said, greeting Hair Raiser. "Ya'll were really brave back there, standin' up ta Diamond Tiara like that."

"Yeah, I've been getting that recently." She said, lightly admiring her feat back there. "What is her deal?"

"Oh, well, Diamond Tiara's been a pain in all of our flanks ever since we came to the Ponyville Schoolhouse." Sweetie Belle said, speaking her mind. "My advice? Don't even acknowledge she even exists. That's what Rarity told me."

"My mom did tell me that those two weren't as friendly as the rest of the kids here. What happened back there is a prime example of that." She said, completely agreeing with what Twilight had said back there.

"Who's your mom, anyways?" Scootaloo asked, wondering who could have raised such a brave young filly who could handle herself like that. "I bet she's someone awesome, if she told you about the two of them that quickly."

"Well, I don't mean to brag, but I happen to be the eldest daughter of the fabled Princess Twilight."

"Wait... What?!" Sweetie Belle said, looking pretty surprised that she had been told this. "Princess Twilight never had kids before!"

"Well, she hadn't, until I came into her life." Hair Raiser said, smiling as she told the CMC all about how she came into being. "I was just a poor little foal, abandoned on the streets of Ponyville with six babies. Spike came round and brought us all to Twilight and now, here I am. Back on the mend."

"Aww... That's sad." Sweetie Belle said. Not many ponies here were orphans. "So, you're adopted, are you?"

"Unfortunately." Hair Raiser said, sighing sadly at how her past seemed non-existent to her. "I never even knew my true mother and father before they threw us out onto the streets..." She then ended up crying her eyes out.

"That's terrible." Scootaloo said, putting a hoof on Hair Raiser's shoulder and rubbing it tenderly. "Nopony should ever have to feel that much heartbreak, especially not in their childhood days."

"Come on, let's play together. That way, ya can stop worryin' about yer tragic past and have some fun with us." Applebloom said, leading Hair Raiser over to the nearby ball in the field.

"Thanks, girls." She said, sighing as if there really was no hope for her now. "I could use the entertainment."

"Cheer up, that's what being a filly is all about. Having fun!" Sweetie Belle said as she kicked the ball over to Hair Raiser, who caught it with her hair. "Nice catch."

"Thanks, Sweetie Belle." She said, starting to smile once again. She used her hair to bat the ball around, preparing to serve it up to one of the CMC. "Scootaloo! Head's up!" She said, turning her hair into a giant pair of fists and using it to toss the ball to her.

"Haha, nice one, Hair Raiser!" Scootaloo said, bucking the ball right back to her.

"Thanks." She said, now playing tennis with this new ball with Scootaloo shooting it right back to her. "This fun stuff is quite nice, actually."

"Ya really like it?" Sweetie Belle said as she now had the ball and passed it over to Applebloom, who tossed it right back to Hair Raiser.

"It's made my day much more exciting now!" She said, laughing every time she bounced the ball to another member of the CMC. "If this is how fillies play, then I say let's play!"

"Yay!" The CMC all said, happy that Hair Raiser was happy playing with them and their ball.

Together, the four of them spent their recess with the ball, bouncing back and forth to one another, laughing all the way. Hair Raiser was loving every second of it, she'd found kids who had introduced her to fun and helped her enjoy every moment of it. When she hit the ball, she giggled, when they hit the ball, they giggled and even when they missed the ball, they all still laughed together.

Eventually, they decided to move on to Tag and began running around the place wildly, trying to land a good tag on one another. Since it was a game of touching, Hair Raiser decided to make things fair by agreeing not to use her hair to tag the CMC. Regardless of it all, one thing was certain. Hair Raiser loved fun, and the CMC were happy to have introduced her to it.

Author's Notes:

Thanks for reading the latest chapter of The Power Foals and Hair Raiser. I hadn't really had much time to update this latest chapter, what with my busy schedule and all. I have recently updated Dazzle Dazzle, Little Stars just yesterday or so, so I kind of got distracted with all the praise that the newest chapter got for that one.

I don't really have anything more to say except I hope you enjoyed the chapter and have a nice day/good night. Now then, I need to be getting back t- (Hit with sleeping spell) Going down...

Luna: Silly Shadowmane, I know you love my night, but even you need your sleep as well.

Me: Aww... Do I weawwy hafta go ta sweep?

Luna: Don't worry, you can still play with me in your dreams...

Me: I wove yoo, Mama...

Luna: And I love you too, Shadowmane. (Levitates me into my Crib next to Night--Mist and Autumn Breeze) Goodnight, my little angels of the night...