A Winter's Rose
Chapter 35: Chapter 35. Just an average Wednesday.
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Tuesday didn't have anything important, other than a few things. Firstly, Sol is out of the hospital and her sister, Lunar Eclipse, is looking for me for a rematch. With my Notice-Me-Not earring, they couldn't find me. That was meh. Secondly, Umbra asked me to test out two new enchanted earrings. One of them allows me to walk on walls like a Changeling or Thestral. The other converts my lightning charge into mana to power the walk on wall earring. I would be happier about that, but I am very tired.
Maple threw a party that lasted until dawn so I couldn't get any sleep. Anyhow…Today is Wednesday and I am going to test out that ring today, after that. I'm going to bed early so don't expect another entry until Saturday. So see ya!
I yawned as I drank a cup of coffee while I sat on the couch, waiting for the clock to tell me it was time to go to school. Everyone except Summer left early, leaving me and her alone in the living room for awhile. We were both already dressed in our uniforms and enjoying the silence. Summer was reading the latest, Daring Do book while I vegged.
I cracked a small smile as I listened to the sounds of flipping paper and the rain outside. It was a peaceful ambiance that made the dorm quite homely. Speaking of home, I wonder how Feather Flight was doing? I bet not having to deal with Spitfire and I’s bickering got a bit boring after a while. I wonder how she would react if she found out that I had a girlfriend. I know Spitfire will freak out and stalk Summer until she ran for her life. I think I'll keep that information to myself in the meantime.
I yawned again and checked the time and learned that I still had an hour before gym starts and I begin to test my two new earrings. I looked over to see that Summer was done reading for a time and bookmarked her spot for later. She turned to me after she placed the book down on the coffee table and gave me a curious smile.
“What are you thinking about?” she asked as she jumped beside me. I looked away sheepishly as she laid down beside me and pressed up against my side.
“Nothing much, just thinking of home. How bout’ you?” I asked back as she tucked in her legs and placed her wings to her sides.
“Just thinking about this stupid chain and other stupid things that have been bothering me, why?” she asked back. I merely shrugged and laid my head down on the oversized couch. “Don't know really. I just thought I should ask.”
“Well, since you're so kind in asking. Can you tell me about yourself? Ya’ know, things you like and stuff,” she said as she used my neck as a pillow.
“In that case, I don't like mostly anything. I tend to enjoy a few things and ignore others. I have a weird taste in music, art and clothes. I prefer to be on my own or with a small group of friends. I like most books, but I have a preference for adventure/fantasy novels. Other than that, I mostly lounge around or exercise,” I said, slightly disappointed in myself for being so boring. “I bet I sounded pretty lame didn't I?” I asked with a chuckle.
“You aren't lame Winter, not to me anyways. In fact, you are pretty awesome!” she cheered quietly so not to explode my ear holes. I felt a small smile come back as she shifted in place to get a bit more comfortable. “So, what kinds of music you like that make it weird?” she asked.
“Well...My top five favorite genres are; EDM, Classical, Death Metal, Rock, and Electronic Swing,” I replied. I felt her head move off of my neck and moved to look me in the face. She gave me a look like I just burned down the Vatican with puppies that were on fire. I just rolled my eyes. “Told you my taste is weird. I like Classical and EDM,” I smirked causing her to frown. “How can you like masterpieces like Beethoven or Mozart and the crap that is PON3?”
“I just do,” I shrugged causing her to huff in resignation. “Anything else you want to ask or should we just lay here for a while?”
“That's all for now and I would not mind lying here with you,” she cooed as she used me as a pillow again. I rolled my eyes and enjoyed the silence.
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I walked down the halls of the school on the ceiling with an evil grin plastered on my face. Umbreon earrings are working like a charm and everyone around me doesn't have a clue as to what I am about to do. Since it was lunch and there were hundreds of victims waiting to be tormented, I figured I would enjoy pranking everypony as, Spider-Mare! I mentally cheered that Umbra's enchanted earrings worked exactly like they should. If it wasn't for the fact that they not only give my mane and tail gravity defying powers, but I can also walk upside down with relative ease.
As I waited for a perfect victim to enact my master plan, I thought about how strange it was at how accepting I was about everything. Then again, I was thrust into a situation where I had to adapt on the fly or die so that mindset could have played a part. That, and the hormones. I didn't understand any of it for the life of me. I don't know if I had brain damage that is responsible for all changes that I have been going through, or if it's the magic in the air that is guiding my hoof. In any case, I should go see a counselor about it. I don't want to know what will happen if I began to lose my memories of being a human because that was very much a part of me as my new preferences.
“Hey girlfriend, you hear about the talk going around?” asked a filly with a puke green mane to a filly with a red mane. I listened in and got ready to cause my master plan.
“What talk?” Red asked Green. ‘Yeah, what talk?’ I snarked internally. “Well, I heard that Winter Rose is avoiding Autumn Rose because she doesn't want to get her mane dirty.”
‘Aaand now she is on my hit list,’ I thought as I aimed my puke gun that Aria made and I, “borrowed,” at Green as the lunchroom got to its maximum capacity.
“Ha! The Untouchable Queen is scared of dirt, that makes so much sense,” Red snarked and I pulled the trigger of the puke gun, causing it to vibrate in my hooves.
“Yeah! I bet she's…” Green paused and held her stomach, causing Red to open her mouth to voice her concerns, but as she did so, her friend retched a stream of vomit into her mouth, causing her to also retch, beginning a chain reaction throughout the lunch room.
I smiled victoriously as the hundreds of ponies paint the walls with their lunch. It was gross, sure, but it was epically so. Thank God that I had an Iron stomach otherwise I would have puked too. After a few minutes had passed with a few hundred ponies on the ground in a pool of chunky grossness, I decided it was time to leave after the Headmaster canceled school due to contaminated food. I hid the gun in the Clubhouse and pretended like nothing happened.
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I yawned as I sat in the courtyard underneath a tree just a few meters away from, The House of Seasons, reading the Earthacata Erotica. Since school was out for the day due to some, ‘unknown,’ reasons, I figured that I would catch up on some light reading. The air was pleasantly warm despite the rain from earlier. It felt nice against my fur as did the damp grass that I was lying on. I made a note of the various smells that carried through the air. From the damp grass to soaked wood, to simple flowers and nearby ponies. The vast array of color was pleasing to the senses.
I turned the page to a picture of an earth pony stallion, pinning up a mare against a wall in a simple position when I heard the sound of hooves walking up to me. I sighed and closed the book and directed my attention to whoever is bothering my study time, and I regretted it.
Walking up towards me was a filly with a light gold mane with an even lighter gold coat. Her mane was short and curly at the base while her tail was short with a red ribbon at the end of it. Her cutie mark was two outstretched wings made out of swords with a heart in between the wings. I instantly recognized her as no other than, Autumn Rose, the mare who I have been avoiding since day one. She stopped just in front of me with a raised brow while her two lackeys just glared at me. I gave her an innocent smile and sat up.
“Hey Autumn, how may I help you?” I said, ignoring the lackeys. She gave me a huff and spoke with a french accent. “You may ‘elp us wit zee duel you ‘ave been running from, Madame Winter Rose?”
“What duel? I was never told of such a thing,” I lied. She, however, was not buying it.
“I zat so? Zen tell me why zat is as I ‘ave ‘earing you avoiding me and my maidens wit a ‘Notice-Me-Not’ spell?” she said smugly. “Do you zink I am I baboon? I ‘ave been waiting for such a challenge such as yourself and you ‘ave been running away? Zee nerve! Don't you ‘ave any ‘onour?” she growled at me and stomped a hoof in anger. I realized that there was no more running away from her if she figured out my trick. Since she found me, I might as well set the stage for my doom.
“I have been testing enchanted earrings for one of my Club mates. So, I am sorry for avoiding you, but my honor goes to my friends and family first before my opponent as is the law of chivalry,” I said in response. “With that being said, how about we set the stage for the sky court on top of The House of Seasons? You can set the date.” Her mood brightened up once I said those words, horrifically so, before she pulled out a notepad from her mane and wrote down something.
“Excellent, we shall meet you zere tomorrow after school. So don't keep me waiting or go and ‘ide,” she said with a carnal smile before she and her lackeys left with a stick up all of their asses while I sighed and grabbed my book to hide in my room for the rest of the day.
I walked into the dorm and gave Mrs. Song a warm smile as I walked on past her desk to the door on the left. As I walked through the twilight mosaic that was the halls of the dorm on the red carpet. I couldn't help but feel utter dread. I have effectively dug my grave and was going to lose my title as, ‘The Untouchable Queen.’ Sure I could use my Air sight on her, but that won't help me if I can't feel twelve blades flying at my face. Last time I checked, Air Sight doesn't let me feel the mana of others. So, basically, I'm fucked.
I sighed again as I walked up the stairs to my room. Knowing my luck with my prison bitch Mrs. Murphy, I was going to die if I went to that duel, but unlike most ponies that would leave the country. I wasn't a coward. I just need to make a plan to at least survive the fight, but what the hell was I supposed to do? ‘Maybe I could alter my Air Sight to see her mana, but how in hell would I be able to do that?’ I thought as I walked into room 69.
I continued to think about how much I was going to die as I walked into my room to meditate on the situation. Just as I was about to leap onto my bed, I was stopped to see Maple holding onto my tail with an annoyed expression on her face. ‘I think I was ignoring her the second I came in,’ I thought as I blushed in embarrassment. “Sorry, Maple. I'm just a bit occupied with living tomorrow.” She gave me a raised brow before she closed the door and sat in front of me with her arms crossed.
“Autumn finally found you?” she asked. I simply nodded in reply. “Then I will help you so long as we get to make out later, and before you ask, I, Aria, and Umbra asked Summer if we could join in since you are the head and she is the lead. So expect cuddles later.”
My jaw dropped and I was officially pissed at Summer for not talking to me about this, but that will have to wait until later if there was later. “Fine,” I groaned, causing her to smile happily.
“Good. So what you need help with since you obviously have some sort of plan?” she asked.
“It's my Air Sight, the skill I use to see my opponent's movements before they happen. With Autumn welding thirteen blades at once with twelve of them in a telekinetic grip. I can't see most of her attacks because I can't feel the magic in the air,” I sighed. Maple looked away for a moment in deep thought before a giant, toothy smile filled her face.
“I got it!” she shouted in a eureka moment. I just looked at her confused. “Ya’ know how that Umbra's mana conversion earring works?” she asked like she was about to solve the biggest question in existence. “Yeah,” I said with a hint of concern in my voice. “Well, why don't you use that to convert your Air Sight trick to see mana!”
‘What? Since when did Maple learn that...Oh, wait, she already met Umbra she must have told her about it. Never mind brain.exe, you're acting slow again.’
“That...That actually sounds like it could work, but I would need to modify it first and frankly, I don't have the time,” I sighed again as that was a really amazing idea. She gave me a reassuring smile and placed a hoof on my slumped shoulder. “Don't worry about that part Winter, Umbra is coming over with her stuff to modify that ring today anyways. With her here, you will get it done in time. I promise you that.”
I chuckled at how down to earth and all knowing she was. It was a nice change of pace, but I was still ticked at Summer and scared for my life with Autumn. “Thanks, Maple, I needed that,” I smiled. “You're welcome,” she smiled back. “So, wanna make out while the other are gone?” she asked in a sultry tone, causing my wings to go full retard and boner up. “I take that as a yes then,” she said, pushing me onto the bed.
‘And I thought I was forward, but I am still going to murder Summer,’ I thought with a vengeance.
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I sat in the bathroom with Summer with a frown on my face as I poured us a bath. After my special time with Maple as promised, the others came in for a movie night. I asked Umbra to do the modifications to my earring by tomorrow, and she did so without a fuss after we watched a movie, which was fine with me. After said movie, I invited Summer into the bathroom to help me with my wings and to have a chat as I was still angry with her about not talking to me about the herd thing.
She gave me a sheepish smile as the bath finished and we both jumped in after I locked the door. She let loose a happy sigh as she melted into the warm water. I too gave a sigh of relief as the warm water relaxed my wings, but I still was going to murder her.
“So, Summer?” I said with a curious tone that hid my true intentions. She gave me a cute,’hmm?’ In response. “I was wondering. Why didn't you talk to me about the herd thing?” I said bluntly, causing her to flinch with her ears flattening. “I thought you would be fine with it,” she replied. I raised a brow and held myself from drowning her.
“What if I wasn't comfortable with it? Which I'm not,” I said bluntly. She looked down in shame that she fucked up. “I-I’m sorry,” she whispered. “For?” I asked sternly. “For not talking to you about it,” she replied with honesty. I let loose a long breath and sat beside her and wrapped my hooves around her. She shrunk for a moment before leaning against me.
“Is everything alright?” she asked with concern, like our relationship ended before it even started and would have if she chose herd mates I didn't already pre-approved.
“I'm fine, it's just...Talk to me about things like that. If it wasn't for the fact that they already asked me before hoof. I might have dumped you on the spot.” She froze in horror at what I just said and wanted to say something, but I continued. “I am just new to the whole herd thing and I am prickly when it comes to dating. If you want to be with me, you must know that communication is paramount to me. Not to mention you could have hurt the others if I said no and walked out the door, never to return. Okay?” I finished, letting all sink in as I pulled her closer.
“Okay,” she whispered, clearly understanding that she fucked up. “So are we still going to the movies on Friday?” she asked like it was canceled. “Of course, we are, just...Don't do that again,” I replied. She gave me a hopeful smile and let out a sigh of relief. “So, what about the others?” she said. I just groaned in annoyance.
“It's too late for them and I am not going to take their hopes away. So, might as well, but they are just add-ons for now.” She gave out another sigh of relief. I just smiled and lifted my wings up and turned around and leaned over the edge of the huge tub. “Summer?”
“Yeah?” she said looking at me funny. “Can you help me preen my wings?” I asked, causing her face to turn red and for her wings to flutter with excitement.
“S-Sure!” she stutter-blushed, ending this little nightmare on a good note.
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