To basically sum up the last month and a half after the events of DarkHeart's birthday, everyday from there on out he and his parents decided that it would be best for him to go off and find some kind of secret place where he can go and train with his new dark powers and katanas to get a better feel for them and to learn how to better control them so that there weren't any surprises when he went out of the house and have ponied freak over him having dark magic. Although he was unable to call upon the form he took during the final moments of the initiation, he was getting a hang of all his other abilities as well especially that voice changing spell, he's pulled quite a few pranks on ponies every so often to amuse himself even though his parents disapprove of his antics and telling him not to abuse his powers.

There was also the two new additions to his entourage, Nova and Shadow. They would talk to him without restraint, DarkHeart didn't care if ponies thought he talked to himself and thought he was crazy after all if he had to be perfectly honest with himself he was a little on the crazy side, but that didn't mean he cared about all of the looks he would receive on a day to day basis. Other than those few things that were now a part of his daily routine the rest of the summer was uneventful and actually seemed to pass a little to quick for DarkHeart's taste for today is was the twentieth of August which meant it was the first day of his senior year of high school.

"Man am I glad that I skipped a grade in middle school otherwise I think I would go crazy at the fact that I would be here one more year." DarkHeart said, grimacing at the thought of staying in high school for one more year.

"I honestly don't see what the big deal is. I was there with your mother when she was sixteen, grant it she didn't skip a grade which meant was a junior, but she seemed to enjoy those last two years of school despite all of the homework she had gotten." Nova said.

"Well my mother also wasn't hated by practically the entire school. Everypony always love to push me around and I let them because I was afraid of having the jackass coming back and taking over my body." DarkHeart shivered remembering what had happened six years ago.

"HEY, it's not my fault that you got anger issues, you should've learned to control your temper a littlle better." Shadow said defensively.

"You know you're lucky I can't go in there and kick your ass you know that right?" DarkHeart was walking inside his school as he threatened him.

"You know if you want I could open up a portal to the arena after school so you can kick his ass. That is if you want to." Nova's comment earned her a chuckle from DarkHeart and a growl from Shadow.

"Thanks for the offer Nova, but I think I'll pass for now. Unless he decides to act up any more then I'll gladly take you up on it." He heard somepony gulp and he knew that Shadow was going to be a good spirit of darkness for the rest of today.

DarkHeart walked down the halls to get his class schedule, having to wait in a rather long line that seemed to be in disarray thanks to everypony being clumped together sharing what they had done over the summer with their friends.

"Don't you have any friends to go talk to and act like idiots with?" Nova asked a, in his opinion, a stupid question.

"No, didn't you hear me earlier? Everypony in this school hates me why do you think I spent all my time either with my parents or out training the entire summer."

DarkHeart wasn't all that bad a guy, but thanks to the events of six years ago he has been having a hard making any friends, especially after they had found out that he wasn't able to do it again. I'm pretty sure you can imagine how much crap he had gotten after they found out that he wasn't able to kick their asses in the blink of an eye if you got him angry.

"I've been alone for as long I could remember with the only my parents there to support me, even the rest of my own family despises me. They only pretend to act nice to me whenever my parents are around but once they're gone they act like dickheads." DarkHeart really didn't like the rest of his family. They had always purposely left him behind whenever they would go out on the holidays, he was just lucky enough that his parents loved him so much that they would always notice whenever he was missing to come back for him.

"Eventually my parents found out how they were really treating me and they were pissed. In fact they were so pissed that they told all of them on Hearth's Warming four years ago to go fuck themselves and that they didn't want to see any of them until they had apologized for treating me so badly."

"Have any of them came to you to say they were sorry since then." Nova sounded a little sadden by what DarkHeart had told her. She had been handed down through the hands of many of the unicorns on his mother's side of the family and grown very close to them, they all thought of her as another member of the family instead just a spirit locked in an amulet. So you could imagine her feelings towards the fact that he and his parents had detached themselves away from the rest of the family.

DarkHeart let a sigh before he answered her. "No, none of them have yet to step up I say they were sorry, sorry Nova I know that that information must be hard for you to take seeing as you most likely know them better than I ever will and most likely have become just another member of the family to them." DarkHeart had picked on the sadness in her voice from earlier when she had asked him that.

"Well yeah, I will grow to miss them greatly, but you're my guardian now so I can't really do anything about it and besides you're still more than good enough to be around anyway so I won't mind as much as long as I don't think about it." Nova seemed perk up as she began to think of the fun things she had already done with him.

"But there's something I still find weird now that think about it. DarkHeart said rubbing his chin.

"What'sthat?" the two spirits asked in unison.

Well I kinda expected Nova to say that you remembered, I mean that was only four years ago, and I know you don't have any kind of memory loss considering you still remember shit from 75 years ago like it was yesterday." DarkHeart explained,

As DarkHeart was discussing the subject of why didn't Nova remember that one day that changed his family, a charcoal grey pegasus spotted the black unicorn still standing in line. He went over to the DarkHeart with an evil smirk on his face that said that he wanted to cause some trouble.

The pegasus pulled out a small, clear plastic bag filled with a strange white powder, opening it up and getting ready to dump it the unsuspecting victim. "SURPRISE!!" the pegasus yelled causing DarkHeart to turn around to see what going on when he saw the white powder flying towards him.

The powder left a cloud of white dust everywhere as it made contact, the stallion laughing as he pulled off another prank on the unicorn he loved to push around and use as his punching bag,hahahahahaha, oh this is just too easy.Hey there DarkHeart, how's my favorite punching bag doing today, hope you are itching to see all of the new bullying techniques I've come up with this year. Oh ho ho ho man I think . . . . . . . year . . . . . . . is . . . . . . going to . . . . . . be . . . . . fun." The pegasus stared at what was suppose to be his victim completely fine and of the itching powder that was thrown at DarkHeart caked the surface of red, translucent barrier and saw the glare that was being thrown towards, but the glare isn't what scared him, well it kinda was the glare, no it was DarkHeart's right eye which had changed to his emerald green, draconic one.

DarkHeart glared at his long time bully and enemy, "I don't think so Stone Digger, if you think I'm going to let you soil my family's most protected and precious heirloom YOU'RE DEAD WRONG!!!"

He didn't even try his voice from the crowd of teenagers watching them, "And another thing if you think I'm just going to just sit around this year and let you bully me around you'd be wrong on that assumption too." DarkHeart said in the voice that he was granted by the darkness within him and a sinister smile spreading across his face.

Everypony in the crowd looked on as they saw Stone Digger back away from the unicorn thinking that he was going to be killed when a mare that appeared to be in her mid-thirties came through the crowd and telling them to disperse, "Alright everypony go get your schedules and head to your homerooms, the bell is about to ring." She spoke in a voice that would be able to calm even to most violent of beasts. "Except for you two, the two of you are to follow me down to the principal's office." The two teenagers complied with the teacher's demand as they trailed behind her.

"So either of mind telling me what happened before we get down there or would rather just wait for Principle Scholaris deals with you two." the mare asked.

She turned around to the two seeing as she hadn't gotten a response from either them and saw DarkHeart had a smile plastered on his face with hands behind his head and Stone Digger seemed to be glancing over at him afraid of what he might do to him.

"So then I take it you would rather take this up with him huh *sigh* I would expect this from Stone Digger, DarkHeart but not from you of all the ponies in this school you would be the last one I would expect to be in a fight." The teacher said disappointedly.

DarkHeart arched an eyebrow at her statement, "Really I would be the last YOU would expect to be in a fight Ms. Tender Heart?" he asked in disbelief.

"Well of course you are one of the top students in the entire school, and also the most reserved, I've hardly ever heard you talking to the other students, a few times to the other teachers, and I'm really the only one you share your problems with here at the school." Ms. Tender Heart said shocked that he had even asked her that. She thought that the two of them had became quite good friends over all of the years they had known each other, especially since she and Star Dust were and are the bestest of friends.

"Oh wait of you do, you weren't there on my birthday, man now that was the most awesomest day of my life getting my cutiemark and the Heart of Light on the same day, but I can tell you this it sure in the hell was a pain to get it I tell you what." DarkHeart said with a strange amount of enthusiasm in his voice.

"Wait a minute you got the amulet, is it okay if I see it?" Tender was always fascinated with his family's most prized and protected possession, but never really got a chance to look at it up close because Star Dust had always hid it away somewhere whenever she was out or her family had guest over.

"Maybe I"ll show to you during lunch but uh weren't taking us to the principle's office?" He said getting his teacher back on track.

"Oh yes, you're right, you may be the son of my best friend but I still got a job to do and I'm pretty sure your mother wouldn't appreciate it if I just let you go with just a warning." She quickly turned on her teacher mode after DarkHeart had reminded her of her job and continued towards the principal's office.

DarkHeart just shrugged at that before he said something. "For the record, if you really want to know what happened, there wasn't any kind of fight back there this one over here just got scared that I decided to stand up to him and glare him down, and fell on his own sorry rump."

"WHAT!? You call that just some random glare. You had the eye of a dragon you damn freak of nature, don't you even dare to say that is was nothing. Ms. Tender Heart there has to be some kind of rule that would prohibit him from coming to school right." Stone Digger looked like he was about to piss himself as he clung the mare in fear that what he had just said would anger DarkHeart and that he attack the shivering pegasus.

"I don't know about any rule about whether or not the school allows admittance to ponies with dragon eyes, but I do know there is most surely a rule about unicorns who use their magic to harm other students." scolded Tender Heart, throwing a glare over her shoulder to DarkHeart.

"Believe me miss, I didn't use any sort of magic to put an illusion spell or change the shape or color of my eyes, but what he saw most certainly real and I would be more than willing to explain that to later you on as well." he stated in a matter-of-fact sort of way.

The three had finally reached Principal Scholaris' office and Ms. Tender Heart had told to two of them to sit and wait for until the principal was ready to see them before she went back to her classroom.

"I'm going to expose for the freak you are and get you kicked out of here you fucking freak!" Stone Digger was so furious at the unicorn for he had made him look like a fool in front of the entire school on the first day back and he was now determined to get vengence.

DarkHeart just shrugged and leaned back in his chair not caring in the slightest about the fuming, yet terrified pegasus sitting next to him.

"You do realize that your parents are going to be furious with you right?" Nova said trying to coax some kind of reaction out of her new guardian about the situation he was in.

"And you do realize I don't give a fuck right?" DarkHeart said out loud.

This was making the pegasus even madder as he watched DarkHeart closely and seeing that aside from his eye, his little punching bag's confidence seemed to be growing through the roofs, or at least that was what Stone Digger saw through his posture and body language.

"But you're suppose to use your power responsibly, what do you think your mom is going to say when she finds out about this, or do you just not care." Nova was now full on scolding him.

"I would say you hit the nail right on the head there Nova. If you think about it I didn't do anything wrong, and if you're still going to try and argue with just look at what had taken place. All I did was protect the amulet like I was suppose to by putting up a barrier instead of beating the crap out of Stone Digger, which I may remind was what I really want to do considering all of the shit he's put me through my whole life, and then I just glared him down. The fact that my dragon eye decided to make an appearance was completely out of my control." DarkHeart explained but got a 'hmph' instead of counter argument from the light spirit.

"Alright, who the hell are you talking to, and who the hell is Nova?" Stone Digger was now getting confused as he listened to DarkHeart talk this Nova, when the door to the principal's office opened up.

"Alright you two can come in now." the two heard a deep voice say to them from behind the partially cracked door.

They both went into Scholaris' office and took up their seats in front of his desk as the Principal sat in his chair with his back turned towards them both.

"So, according to what Tender Heart told me before she left, you two were having a bit of a . . . . . . disagreement earlier this morning." Scholaris said in a calm manner.

"I don't know if disagreement would be the right word for what had happened, but then again neither would fight be the correct either." DarkHeart stated in the same calm manner as Scholaris.

"Oh really, then what exactly would you call it DarkHeart?" he turned to face the two as he asked.

"Well I'm not sure what to it sir but I know that it wasn't a disagreement or a fight, though I think I would just probably call it expressing our opinions towards each other." DarkHeart said. Scholaris arched an eyebrow at his answer, Nova face palmed from within the amulet, Shadow, who has just been enjoying the show groan and shook his head, and Stone Digger just stared at him like he was an idiot.

"Expressing your opinions of each other huh, that's really the answer you're going with." He asked somewhat amused by DarkHeart's attitude towards the whole situation he was in.

"Yep, but it that doesn't sit well with you I'm not really sure what else to tell you. Though I guess actually hearing the story from the two of us might help shed some light on the entire ordeal so that you could form your own answer for what to call it, wouldn't you agree." DarkHeart asked.

"I would have to agree with there, but I was planning on asking the two of whether or not what Ms. TenderHeart said was true or not and so before I ask for either of your stories Stone Digger what is your take on what had happened this morning." Scholaris and DarkHeart had turned to him looking for an answer.

"Principle Scholaris my take on this whole is that . . . . ," Stone paused for a moment think of what he would say to get the principle on his side."My take is that DarkHeart is a menace and needs to be kicked out of this school!" He shouted.

"Oh not this routine again." DarkHeart groaned at the bully's persistence on the matter.

"Is there something I've missed here, Stone Digger why do you believe he needs to be thrown out of this school?" Scholaris asked puzzled by the reactions by the two.

It was then Stone Digger started to explain his side of what had happened in the commons area during the time in which the other students were trying to obtain there schedules. Scholaris only listened intently as he did so, not asking a single question or making a comment, just listening to the semi-hysteric pegasus carry on about how DarkHeart was a dragon-eyed freak of nature and how he had assaulted him and try to kill him and that he shouldn't even allowed to live among normal pony folk.

"That's why I said that this abomination should be kicked out and perhaps even experimented on." Stone Digger finished.

Scholaris finished allowing Stone's story to sink into his mind before he turned his towards the unicorn, who was staring at the ceiling and looked as though he didn't have a care in the world, "So mister DarkHeart, do you mind telling me what REALLY happened this morning?" he asked him.

"Yeah I guess so, but before I do I must say that that story you told was actually pretty damn good, have you ever considered writing a script for a play?" DarkHeart complimented to now enraged pegasus.

"Please refrain from using profanity in front of me mister Heart." said Scholaris in a stern voice.

"Well could you please refrain from calling Mr. Heart, it makes it sound like I'm married to Ms. Tender Heart it's why I asked all the teachers and staff in the school to call me by my name or at the very least Mr. Dark so as to prevent that." DarkHeart shot back.

"Yes I suppose you're right, my apologies to you. Now would you mind telling me your side of things Mr. Dark." he said apologetically.

"Thank you, and yes I'll tell my side of this story." DarkHeart went on to tell Principal Scholaris the truth of the events that transpired between him and his long time enemy.

His story couldn't have been simpler that what he had already told the principal. He told him about walking into the school and going to stand in line to wait to get class schedule for the new year, as well as telling him how Stone Digger had snuck up on him and got him to turn around by yelling "SURPRISE" right next to him and how he saw the itching being thrown right at his face and blocked it at the last moment by using his magic to put up a barrier. DarkHeart also went to explain why Stone Digger was freaking out so badly and why he wanted him out the school telling Scholaris about his eye's transformation, but also went to explain that he wasn't going to kill the pegasus or even harm him for that matter and after he had finished he looked to the older stallion to see what he had to say about what he had just been told,

Scholairs was in thought as he was deciding what was to do now after hearing DarkHeart's side of things, which definitely sounded more believable than Stone's, but he still one more question that he wanted to ask him. "Well Mr. Dark I do find your story to be a great deal more believable than Mr. Stone's, but I must ask were you serious when you said that he had been telling the truth about your draconic eye, or were you just humoring him for your own amusement. he asked curious about what he might get as the answer.

"If you're looking for the truth I've already told you, what this whimping little filly said about my right eyes is true it does transform into a more dragon like one, but I am able to control when it can and can't be seen by others, but I guess this was one of those times when I wasn't in control and it's not from any sort of spell in my internal library of spells and if you don't believe me you are more than welcomed to contact either one of my parents to find out for yourself." He said with the most serious expression he could muster at the moment, still finding it quite humorous that this pegasus that had been torturing him for the last eleven years was sitting next, in the principal's office, and shaking like a leaf, it was too much for him but he knew had to keep up the act to get him to see that he was serious.

The stallion glanced up to DarkHeart seeing the truth that gleamed within his eyes but didn't want to ask him about seeing that it was meant to be a secret between him and his own family.

(Known to only a few, Scholaris' eyes are able to peer into a pony's mind and see the truth of an event that had happened, this talent of his is why he thought he would make a great principal, he loved influencing the minds of the next generation, and he also believed that if he could use his talent to make sure he was able to rightfully punish the one who had done wrong and reward those who fought to help justice prevail. There were who knew of this talent and they firmly believed that he could put it to better use as lawyer or a judge but he thought the opposite, thinking that it might be a waste of his time to try and get a criminal to fess up and admit their mistakes.)

"Alright then, I think I've made my decision on how to handle the situation," he stated. "DarkHeart you are free to head to your homeroom, here's your schedule," DarkHeart took his class schedule from his hands. "Miss Tender Heart had picked it up for you before she brought the two of you done here, and as for you Mr. Digger you have lunch detention for the rest of the week and are to clean up the itching powder you had tried to throw on DarkHeart do I make myself clear." Mr. Scholaris' voice turned serious as he delivered his verdict.

"Y-y-y-yes sir." Stone Digger respawned nervously.

And with that the two teenagers exited his office and headed towards their homerooms, but not before Stone Digger was stopped by a mare wearing a janitor's uniform and handed him a scrubber and a bucket of water, "The boss told me that you were the one to clean this mess up, so I would suggest you get to it before you make it worse for yourself." The mare said as he took the cleaning supplies and started to clean the mess he had made from his failed prank.

DarkHeart just looked at the pegasus, who was now scrubbing the floor, before continuing towards his class.

"You do know what classroom you're going to, right?" Shadow asked after he had been wondering the halls for a few more minutes that it should've taken to get to his homeroom.

"Of course I know where it is I'm just doing a little exploring is all, it's been a while since I've just taken the time to really what this school has to offer." came his response.

"So then I take that as a no then?" Nova asked him.

"Yeah I'm lost," the two just sighed and shook their heads at him before Shadow decided to speak up.

"How in Tartarus do you forget how to get to a classroom that you've somehow been stuck in every year since you first started attending high school." Shadow asked actually sounding a little irritated from some reason.

"Why are so pissy all of sudden Shadow it's not like you're the one who's going to get into trouble." Nova asked picking up on the dark spirit's irritation.

"Because with the way things have started out already, as well as all of you guys knowing about now, I guarantee that whatever other trouble he gets into his parents are going to blame me and probably going to want to do something about it and I'm pretty sure I know what they're going to want to do." Nova and DarkHeart noticed that he actually sounded like he was scared of his parents.

"Woah, come down there Shadow, listen if you're that worried about I'll just take a look down at my schedule so I know that i'm going to right way alright? he said as he pulled out the folded piece of paper from his jacket pocket.

"Now lets see where it is I'm exactly suppose to be heading . . . . . . ." DarkHeart was looking at the paper and back up to make sure he wasn't heading in the wrong direction and watching for the number to the room he was suppose to be heading to, "oh we're here actually, hmm I guess I as heading in the right direction after all." he said as he looked at the number on the right side of the door that read: 110.

DarkHeart went into the class to find everypony staring at him, or glaring at him is more like it. "Well it's nice of you to finally show DarkHeart. I take it that Principal Scholaris has given out his punishment." Ms. Tender Heart asked as he walked over to take a desk in the back of the classroom.

"Yeah he did, he gave Stone Digger lunch detention for the rest of the week, made him clean up the itching powder out in the commons, and let me just come back to class without so much as even a warning." he said as he sat back in his chair and kicked his feet up.

"What, but how, what did you tell him happened out there." she asked shocked that he didn't get into trouble.

"I told him the truth, just like I had told you, and he believed me even though I can't say it wasn't really all that hard to side with me considering the story Stone Digger had told him." DarkHeart in a cool, relaxed tone that told her that he thinks he got out this scot free.

"Well if the principle isn't going to punish you I'm pretty sure your parents will after I talk to your mother later on after school." she threatened him.

"Wrong again Ms. TenderHeart, my parents will understand why I did what I did and you'll understand too when I tell why that is after school, I would tell you sooner, but I don't trust the other students or teachers at this school and you're the only one in the town who isn't related by blood that knows of my family's past and the secret of this amulet." DarkHeart had a stern expression as he continue to shoot down any kind of threat she could make towards him.

"DarkHeart you do realize that your some of your classmates are in here too, right?" she looked across the room and noticed all of the other students glaring his way.

"Yeah, and, last I check no pony in this school really liked me all that much anyway and go out of their ways to ignore me. So I figured I had the right to say what I want like they weren't even here. I mean it's not like they could really do anything to hurt me, especially after the kind of summer I've had"

As he finished he took a quick glance around the room and saw exactly what he had expected to see, a bunch of pissed off teenagers on the cusp of adulthood glaring a storm of knives at him. He only smirked at their reactions before closing his eyes again to let his mind wander off into his own little world, when suddenly *rrriiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg* the school bell went off signifying that is was time to head off to first hour.

DarkHeart listened to all of the other ponies gathering and whispering amongst themselves as he passed by heading off to his fourth hour, this had been going all throughout the day but yet he was intrigued at what their opinions were, hearing them talk about what had happened this morning and some even having heard Stone Digger's rant about him being an abomination, telling everypony about his right eye shifting into his draconic one. He heard some say how crazy Stone was for coming with such a story, while others either believed him and agreeing what he said about kicking him out of the school, or they were trying to study him very closely to see it for themselves, but no matter what they thought there was one thing that was for certain, no pony would be crazy enough to confront him, at least not on their own.

As he took his seat in his next class DarkHeart felt a presence standing right in front of him. He looked up to see none other than the humiliated pegasus just inches from his face, still looking as pissed as ever, "You think you could back up a little there buddy you're kind of making me uncomfortable because it looks like you trying to steal a kiss from me, and I don't know about you but I not a colt cuddler." DarkHeart shooting off a joke at the pegasus' expense.

"First off, I'm not your buddy--" "No really, you don't say." DarkHeart said in a manner that made sure the pegasus knew that he was making fun of him. "--and secondly I want revenge for earlier so me and you are going to duke it out after school, unless you're chicken." stated Stone Digger challengingly.

"And why pray tell would I fight you, you wouldn't even be a work for me if I were to hold back, it'd be nothing but a waste of my time and besides I have Ms. Tender Heart heading over to my home to talk to my parents and I was planning on letting her in on our new family secret, so I definitely can't make it tonight, but come to me again when you've gotten stronger, a lot stronger, and when I'm not so busy then we'll talk." DarkHeart got up from his seat, walked around it, gave the pegasus a couple of light slaps on his left cheek, and sat back down.

Onlookers of the event just stood there with their jaws dropped down, some of them were practically touching the ground as they witnessed what had just happened right in front of their eyes. Stone Digger was one of the scariest bullies in the school and DarkHeart was his most favorite punching, but yet here were with their roles almost switched switched around as DarkHeart just sat there and taunted Stone Digger, which left them all to wonder what had happened to him during the summer, none of them saw him due to the fact they all had either gone out town or just didn't pay attention to him if he had actually been out and about so seeing him like this baffled them.

The pegasus looked as though he was going to blow a fuse as he clenched his fist and was cocking back his arm to deliver a blow to the unicorn when the bell had rung and the teacher walked in, "Good afternoon class, could you please take your seats?" asked the stallion. With that Stone Digger just put his hands to his sides and walked back to his desk muttering curses under his breath. DarkHeart just smirked as he had heard what he was saying and was quite proud of himself for his little transformation. I guess everything this summer has really helped me out a lot with the confidence boost hasn't it. he thought trying to get a response from the spirits that were bond to him.

"It would appear so, but don't let that go to your head DarkHeart. I don't want you getting into anymore unnecessary trouble." Nova scolded.

"Yeah good luck with that, even without the confidence boost he'd still do some pretty damn stupid stuff. Isn't that right DarkHeart?" joked Shadow.

Hey, just that whole incident with the firestarter spell didn't go over doesn't mean I'm trying to purposely do something stupid. he argued back.

"Wait! What!? What happened when you tried to use the fire starter spell?" Nova asked shocked, yet curious on what could've gone wrong with such a simple spell.

"Let's just say that they won't let DarkHeart anywhere near the bunsen burners in the chem. lab." Shadow replied trying to stifle a laugh.

"Wow, I didn't think you would manage to screw up something like that, I'm just surprised that's all that happened and nothing else." she snickered at the thought of DarkHeart screwing something like that so badly.

It wasn't my fault, Stone decided it was a good idea to throw something at my head when I was trying to help Mr. Bunsen with a demonstration and he couldn't get the burner going. he 'said' defensively.

Shadow and Nova burst out into laughter as DarkHeart tried to defend his point, which earned a groan from him as he listen to the spirits enjoying themselves at his expense.

DarkHeart ignored the two as they continued their bout of laughter and turned his attention back towards his teacher as he was finished introducing himself and was passing out some kind of personality test."Uuuuhhhhggg, why do they make us do these things every year, I mean it's not like they ever actually look at these things otherwise a lot of the teachers would've called my parents to have a talk with them as well as myself." he said to himself in a hushed voice.

"Well Mister Heart I do look at these so I would suggest that you fill this out as truthfully as possible and get it back to me by the end of class." DarkHeart heard the teacher say from behind him.

"Really, really you had to call me Mr. Heart, I'm guessing you didn't get the memo from the principal, it's either that or you're trying to make me mad." the teacher just had a puzzled look on his face as DarkHeart said that.

"I wasn't aware that there was a memo that had gone out or maybe I had missed it, did he give it out recently?" now DarkHeart was confused.

"Are you new here because I don't ever remember seeing you in the school since I've been here." he asked thinking that maybe that was the reason that he didn't know about the whole 'Mr. Heart' ordeal.

"Yes I am, weren't you listening while I was introducing myself, and what does that have to do with the memo you were talking about." the teacher was trying to get a grasp on the situation as DarkHeart, in his opinion, kept asking questions that diverted from the topic at hand.

"Well I guess that would explain why you don't know. Well I'll tell you now so that you don't make the same mistake again, there really isn't a memo from the principal, I was just saying that because originally when I first came here, during my freshman year, a lot of the other teachers students and staff thought I related to one of the teachers-Ms. Tender Heart-because they heard Principal Scholaris refer to me as Mr. Heart. So I had asked the principal to make it point that I was in no way related to her and I asked the teachers personally to call me either Mr. Dark or just DarkHeart." DarkHeart explained to the new teacher.

"Ah I see, well my apologies DarkHeart, thank you for letting me know and also for not chewing of my head." the stallion said, extending his hand to him.

"No problem Mr. uh,

"Eye, Perceptive eye, your new history teacher." responded Mr. Eye.

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Eye, maybe you'll get to know the good side of me before the bad." DarkHeart greeted him.

With that situation passed they went to their seats and sat down concentrating on the individual tasks given to them. DarkHeart filled out the personality profiler was given while reminiscing on the day he's ha so far recalling the bit of trouble he got in this morning, to right now, Only have the day has gone by and it's turned out to an interesting one. I think this year is going to go by quickly but it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun till the end.

The rest of the day went about as it would for him on a normal school day after he had fourth hour, he went to lunch and ate alone like per usual, went to his fifth hour, finished all the work he was given within the first five minutes it was handed out. He waited for fifth hour to be over so that he could go to his sixth hour and do the same as in fifth but instead used his extra time to do a little drawing in his notebook that he's had since he was five, then once his sixth hour was over he went to seventh which had a little more exciting considering it was gym, but even so it wouldn't matter what game they were playing he found himself the last one picked and found the other team to barely be a challenge as yet again him and his team shut out the other, like always, I guess it's the reason why I'm always the last one picked, I'm too good to be playing on a team, one of these days I should try to convince the coach to let play by myself maybe then I'll get my challenge. he thought after classed had finished up.

He was now headed home hoping to get a little training in before he went to bed, when he heard rapidly clopping of hoofs from behind him. "Somepony is running towards me but why?" he wondered to himself.

"Wait don't tell me it's that idiot Digger trying to jump on me from behind, *sigh* doesn't that idiot know when to give up." he said as he heard the clopping get louder as whoever was behind him was getting closer whom he thought was Stone Digger. He was about to turn around and getting ready to knock whoever it was on their ass when he heard a familiar voice call out to him.

"DarkHeart wait I still need to speak with you." he heard the voice say as he recognized to come from Ms. Tender Heart.

He turned around to see that she had finally caught up with him. "Hey Mr. Tender Heart, did you have nice run." he joked.

She didn't respond right away as she was trying to catch her breath from the exhausting run,"You know . . . . . . you walk . . . . . really, . . . . . really fast." she said still exhausted.

"What can I say, all of that training really does come in handy for even the simplest of things, like my walking." he said almost as he had said that phrase thousands of times before.

"So miss, what was it that you needed to talk to me so badly about?" he said remembering that she said that she wanted to talk to him.

"Don't you remember, I was going to go to your home to talk to you and your parents about this whole eye issue and tell them about what you did this morning. I'm still wanting to hear your explanation for everything mister and don't think you're going to be able to talk me out of it." she said after finally catching her breath a few moments ago.

"That's fine with me, after all I did promise to give you an explanation for everything anyway." he stated in his usual calm tone before he turned and started back on his trip home.

The two of them were walking back to DarkHeart's home in silence as he was taking the time to enjoy his walk. I swear, no how many times I've walked this path over the years, it still seems to relax me whenever I'm troubled he thought to himself.

"Why are you troubled? I thought you said that there wasn't anything to worry about." Nova asked thinking he was talking to them.

"I'm not troubled I was just saying that. Besides that was just me talking to myself not to you, which actually reminds me, we need to find some way for you to tell when I'm talking to one of you and when I'm thinking to myself." DarkHeart said aloud forgetting that his teacher was still walking next to him as she honed in on the conversation that he was having with Nova.

"Well you could just call us by our names whenever you want to speak to one or both of us, or at least that's what I've been going by." Shadow gave them his answer.

"Yeah I guess that could work, but what about times when I'm trying to convey messages to one of you and don't want the other to hear, especially in cases in where one of you is being controlled by somepony else that isn't me and is being forced to spy on us or something of the sort?" asked DarkHeart voicing his own concerns for their possible communication problems.

"I think I got the answer for that one. What if we just make up some kind of code on the spot, so that way if that ever does happen, which ever one of us is being controlled doesn't know what we're saying because if we make up the code right then and there they aren't aware of our code and can't give away our plans." Nova answered.

"Yeah that could work, I have to say it's amazing how quickly the three of us can solve any the problems we may have in the future when we're in midst of battle." DarkHeart was still unaware of the fact that he was still saying all of this out loud and Ms. Tender Heart listening the entire time.

Getting rather curious about what was happening right in front of her Tender Heart decided to speak up to see if she had been forgotten by her best friend's son. "What do you mean problems you'll have in battles in the future, I thought you said you didn't fight Stone Digger. Does that mean you lied to me and the principal?" she asked, which had caused him to jump and giving Tender Heart her answer to whether or not she had been forgotten.

"Ms. Tender Heart, I totally forgot that you were here, sorry about that." he apologized.

"I accept your apology but that still doesn't answer my question. Did you or did you not lie to me and Principal Scholaris?" she turning a glare towards him trying to scare the answer out of him.

"No I didn't lie to you two, why are you asking me this now?" he asked, confused as to why she was bringing up a problem that was suppose to be resolved.

"Then what was all that talk about resolving issues for future battles and the such, and who exactly were you talking to, I heard say the three of us but I only see the two of us here and I had no part in the conversation." she intensified her glare hoping that it would coax out some answers from him.

DarkHeart raised an eyebrow as he saw her expression get more serious, "Really Ms. Tender Heart ,'the glare', you know that has never worked on me, but if you really want answers that badly you're going to have to wait until I ask my mother if I could disclose this information to you, and by the looks of it you won't have to wait all that long."

She turned around to see that they had reached his home and was immediately greeted by the sight of her best friend walking out the door when she spotted her son and friend.

As the two mares laid eyes upon each, they gasped, ran and jumped into each other arms, and holding each other tightly squealing like little fillies.

DarkHeart would've been smiling and shaking his head at them if it wasn't for the fact that their combined squealing reached bearable levels and caused his dog sensitive ears pain, he thought that they were going to blow his eardrums out if they got any louder. He tried to cover his ears but that didn't seem to help his situation one little bit until they stopped their hug and moved away from each other.

"You think you could squeal a little louder I don't think Princess Celestia and Princess Luna heard all the way back at Canterlot." he said sourly at them till trying to get ringing in his ears to stop.

"Sometimes you're just as boring as your father son. I haven't seen Tender Heart all summer, course we're going to be a little excited to see each other." Star Dust replied to her son's attitude towards the two mares' reunion.

"Well when you got ears that are sensitive to very high pitches and you are standing right next to the source, it's kinda hard for me to be happy for you two." he shot back.

Star Dust just rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to her friend. "So what have you been up to Tendy, has my son gotten into trouble already at school." she shot a glare at DarkHeart as he was heading up the stairs of their front porch and going inside so he didn't see it.

"Well that's what I'm here the find out. You see this morning he and another student had something of a squabble this morning and the other student had reported seeing DarkHeart's right eye shift into a draconic one." Tender Heart explained to her.

After hearing this Star Dust began to get a little nervous as she started to look around to see if there was anypony else around to hear what she had just said. "Tender Heart I think I you should probably come inside. there are a few things I need to explain to you and maybe even ask for your help on something." her tone on a more worried and serious sound to it.

Tender Heart started to get a little worried herself hearing her friend's tone change drastically from the playful one she had just seconds ago. "Star Dust what is it, has something gone wrong?" she asked worriedly.

"I'll explain everything when we're inside, but you have to make sure that you keep everything you hear inside, a secret nopony else can know about it besides you and my family, okay?" she told her.

"Okay Star Dust but I really need to know what has you so up in a panic." Tender Heart was beginning to worry that whatever they were trying to hide was seriously bad and that she may be in over her head.

Star and Tender went inside the house and found DarkHeart laying on the couch and having a conversation with, by the sounds of it, Shadow. "I have no idea what exactly you think she's going to do after all is said and done, but I'm pretty sure we can handle it if it comes down to the worse case scenario." DarkHeart said to Shadow.

"You do realize that a worse case scenario is Princess Celestia herself interfering and we're all banished or thrown into some kind magical, ancient prison, left to rot for the rest of YOUR life, right?" Shadow argued.

"So I take it death isn't the worse case scenario then." DarkHeart said laughing at his own ill-conceived joke when his mother decided to butt into their conversation.

"It is the worse case scenario if you were to die before finding somepony else to take on the responsibility of the Guardian of Light, son, and there's also the fact of how me and your father would feel if you were to just die. So sorry, but I'm going to have to take Shadow's side on this one DarkHeart, you really aren't taking this as seriously as I thought you would, I mean revealing your eye to another pony who isn't blood or knows about the secret of the amulet, what were thinking?" Star scolded her son.

"Do you honestly think I don't know that mom? You know I still don't have full control over small stuff like that otherwise he wouldn't seen it." went argued back trying to get at least some of the blame off his shoulders.

"Hold on before either say anything else I want what the heck you two are talking about." Tender Heart was thoroughly confused, Secret of the amulet, exposing his eye, not controlling the small stuff like that, what is the 'small stuff' they're talking about.

"She's right, I think before we continue to play the blame game we should probably tell her everything that's been going on lately. She is the only one that would be able to keep an eye on me everyday while at school, and she can actually do something should anything go wrong." DarkHeart said thinking that it would be good to not only make sure Tender Heart knows the whole story and find out why his mother his freaking out so badly, but also to tell her so that her head doesn't explode trying to piece together the information from their argument.

"Yes we should, Tendy I think you should probably take a seat, what I'm about to tell you is a lot of information to process and I don't want you to hurt yourself should you fall over." she said, getting an extremely confused expression from the teacher before she complied on took a seat on one of the chairs in the living room.

After they had all gotten themselves comfortable Star Dust started to relay all of the information to her friend, starting with the how her ancestor had first gotten the Heart of Light and how it's been passed down through the ages to DarkHeart's birthday and everything that had happened on that day, and after that he took over from there telling her about the training he had been doing from that day forth up until today.

By the time they had finished, Tender Heart sat there trying to process everything she had been just been told and hadn't made a single moment for the longest time. In fact she had sat in that single spot for so long Lucky Streak had came home to see her still just sitting there and Star Dust was already half through dinner.

"You think maybe she's broken mom?" DarkHeart asked a little worried for his teacher.

"Just be patient sweetie, she's just trying her best to piece together everything in her head and get a grip of the situation at hand." she told her son.

"You know, sometimes I wished you didn't still use those little baby names parents give their foals instead of using our real names, even when we're adults." DarkHeart grimaced at his mother using sweetie, instead of his name to answer him back.

"But to me you still are my adorable little foal though, and no matter how big or old you get you always will be." she responded back before giving him a kiss on his forehead.

"Well I just hope she snaps out of it soon, we still need to ask her if she'd be willing to help us keep an eye on you while you're at school. After all we need somepony there to run interference should you lose control of the dark magic." Lucky commented from his spot in the kitchen.

"Ru . . . . ru . . . . run in . . . . . inter. . . . . interference." They family turned around as they had barely heard a sound come from her and saw her eyes shrink to the size of pin pricks.

"Hey Ms. Tender Heart, have you finally snapped out of it?" DarkHeart asked.

Tender Heart looked as though she was going to faint and run away all at the same time. Star Dust saw her reaction and quickly stepped in to calm down her friend.

"It's alright Tendy, if you're really that scared of the idea you don't have t-" she was stopped mid-sentence when she felt a hand rest upon her shoulder. She turned to see whose hand it was and saw that Tender Heart had wrapped her hand around her back and put it upon her shoulder.

Star Dust looked back towards her to see Tender Heart staring up at her, she had a completely different expression on her face, she looked like she had just gotten a major confidence boost. They just stared at each other for a while until Tender Heart finally decided to break the silence.

"Do you really need somepony to look after him that badly?" she asked in a surprisingly cheerful tone.

"Y. . y. . yes but if you don't want to you don't have to." Star Dust said rather surprised from her sudden mood change.

"Nonsense Starry I'd be more than happy to lend a helping hand to my bestest friend in the all of Equestria." she said still keeping her cheery tone.

"Are you sure, I mean I wouldn't want yo put on a situation that you'd be uncomfortable in and trying to keep track of DarkHeart is a tiresome job all on it's own." Star Dust warned.

"Yeah, take it from us, he's been trouble even when he was just a foal." Lucky Streak quipped.

"HEY, you do realize that I'm sitting right here don't you!" DarkHeart shouted.

"We know, why else do you think we're saying all of this out loud." his father shot back.

This went on back and forth between DarkHeart and his parents as they were making jokes about the various antics he'd gotten himself into as an infant for a good while now only to stop when they DarkHeart noticed a peculiar smell coming from the kitchen as he raised up his nose to see if he could figure out what the smell was, which of course caught the attention of the rest of the grown-ups in the room.

"What is DarkHeart do you smell a mare in heat?" Lucky Streak joked, but immediately stopped as the two mares glared him down.

"No it's not that I would've noticed that scent a lot sooner, I've smelled after mom came out of the bathroom after about an hour when I was little and have grown to detect it in snap, no what I'm smelling is something else like *sniff* something *sniff* is burning!?" There was smoke coming from the kitchen as their dinner was starting to burn.

"Oh no, the hay bacon is burning!" Star Dust said as she rushed to turn off the stove with Lucky trailing behind with the extinguisher in hand leaving Tender Heart and DarkHeart in the living room.

"So DarkHeart, how does it feel?" she asked gaining his attention.

"How does what feel?" he said, wanting her to be more specific.

"The dark magic, how does it feel when you use it?" she said putting more detail into her question.

"Oh, well I'm not sure how to explain it, but I guess I could try to explain it. He started, "Whenever I use my dark magic it almost feels like I'm not only drawing power from within me, but also drawing it from all of the hatred, anger, and sadness, basically from all of the negative emotions from all the creatures in Equestria, I could feel it all, every single emotion from every single creature; it all actually feels great and in hind sight makes sense that it's what help me unlock the secret to my special talent. I've always been able to feel the anger of colts whenever they lost a game, even were able the 'It doesn't matter that I lost because that was one hell of game' thing i can still feel it. I know when ponies want to cry when something horrible in there life has been brought and they treat as a joke. I've always been able to feel these things in various ponies, but it was finally on that day did I realize why I could and use that to defeat the golem and earn my cutiemark, by using the darkness in the hearts of others I can gain extraordinary power. That to me it has it feels whenever I use my dark magic." He answered her, with the wisdom of a scholar.

She sat there pondering what he'd said for a moment or so, before was interrupted by Lucky Streak. "Thanks to your keen nose son, you manage to save the hay bacon before all of it was burnt to crisp." he praised.

"But of course, my senses are sharper than the average pony, and thanks to that I've saved our food before it becomes inedible." DarkHeart gloated, Lucky Streak just rolled his eyes before waving his hand towards to kitchen.

"Alright mister stop gloating and get in there and get your food we're having breakfast for dinner . . . . . and you're more than welcome to join us if you want Tender." he said to her.

"I think I will, thank you ever so much for your hospitality." she stated before walking into the kitchen.

"You know you're always welcomed to drop by and eat with us whenever like Tendey, no need to thank us." Star Dust told her with a bright smile.

"Yeah Ms. Tender Heart it's always a pleasure to have you around, it keeps them from getting all mushy with each other." he said under his breath.

And with that the four of them all sat at the table telling stories of their experiences during the summer, but of course all having known DarkHeart's he remained quietly listening as he ate his breakfast/dinner when a single thought entered his head.

Things just keep more interesting and at this rate who knows? The whole town may find out about my capabilities with dark magic very soon. I just hope that when that time comes the response will be a positive one. He told himself, grimacing the possibilities what what could happen when other ponies started to find out about the strange, new power in his possession, when something else came to the forefronts of his mind.

Yet again the vision of the strange stallion came into view and he was still standing at the edge of the cave entrance, shoulders slumped and all the strength he held looked as though it had taken him, still sadden by whatever it was that was bothering him.

I feel bad for whoever he is, he must been very lonely because he most certainly looks as though he's lost everything, including the ones who cared for him the most. I just hope I never end up like that. he thought, while off in the distance, outside the limits of Nieghburg, a pair of glowing green eyes appeared to be watching him from afar.

"Soon, spirit of the heart, you will be mine, very soon." the creature said a wicked smile showing off its sharp, dagger-like teeth.