I did it! I'm back on track with my stories! I just have free time everyday and I'm using that time for a great cause! Writing! I'm proud of kids these days who would cut on their computers, go to a website, and read. It's better than letting Spongebob Squarepants rot your brain out. I'm proud of all of you!

"I'm gonna get you!" I yelled chasing the banana king in my dream. I was determined to catch him, eat him, and claim his kingdom for my own!

"Never tiger boy!" he said jumping over a gigantic cookie and disappearing.

"How does a banana move so fast? I will find you!"

"You have to catch me first!" he said running down the hill. I grabbed a tree branch and used my claws to sharpen it. When I was done I threw the branch down and cut off both of his leg. "That's cheating!"

"There is no such thing as cheating." I got on all 4's and jumped from my current position and landed at him. I took a few bites out of his majesty and took his crown claiming it as my own. "Victory my name is BEEP BEEP BEEP. No... my name is BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP *sigh* Fuck." I woke up to see I was holding Twilight close and I had my claws out. Good thing I can control myself or she'd be injured. The worst I ever did was cut up a pillow and I had to blame it on Pal. We share a bond, me and the tiger. We all have a secret gift, and mine's tiger blood.

"Good morning." I said kissing the girl beside me as she woke up. I hid my claws, eyes, ears, and teeth before I did the kiss. She's one of only about 15 people who know this. You see... it's kinda like my body acts like a limitation. Similar to Spike's problem. Except well... he's not exactly Twilight's blood brother. No... I'm afraid Spike is adopted. Poor kid. But everyone in my family has the same blood. Claws, sharp teeth, tiger eyes, orange and black ears which appear on top of my head as my human ears disappear and (this one's embarrassing) a tail. Twilight and the others think it's cute but you'd be surprised about how hard it is to keep hidden in your pants.

"Morning." she turned over and hit the snooze button on the alarm. We both got up and stretched. I gave Pal his kitten nibble and she got in the bathtub. While she was doing that I got in the separate shower. Yeah. Like my own little private square in the corner behind the door. "We need to get supplies for food and hygiene today. Don't forget."

"Only if you don't." I realized that I ran out of Head and Shoulders. "Oh geez... Hey Twilight." I said sticking my head out my little door. "Can you toss me your shampoo please?"

"Told you we need supplies."

"We're going to get them as soon as were done."

"Here. Catch." I got the bottle of her shampoo. It... smelled really good but trust me when I say that it's really strong. The smell I mean. If only they made this for men! Wait... who says it's just for women?

"Okay. I'm done with it." I said tossing it back to her. Now I smell like... flowers and girly stuff. My senses are really picking this up. I smell too good. I don't like it. So after we finished bathing we put on our uniforms. We left early and quietly so the halls would be empty and peaceful. We left and headed down to the mall (Thank god. Not a Wal-Mart insight) and went to the food center. These places are better and this is the only mall you'll ever find that is opened 24 hours a day.

"I'm getting a cart. You know what to do."

"Hand me the list." I jumped inside the shopping cart and grabbed things from the shelves that were on the list. We did it faster than you'd think. In about... an hour. No 2 hours tops we got everything we needed to survive school. The cashier was a lazy asshole who wanted to take his time and scan everything as slow as possible. "Can you please hurry up?"

"No way man..." Eeyup... he's a pot head. "You need to chill out."

"Listen bud. I'd love to chill but we need to get going."

"Do you think you can do this better than me huh? Do ya kid?"

"Watch..." I scanned everything from the buggy and placed them in the plastic bags in 10 seconds flat. "and learn."

"H-how did you do that?"

"Okay. You take the item, you scan the item, you place the item in the bag, you hand said bag to the customer, and repeat."

"Oh... thanks for the tip."

"Uh huh." We grabbed all of our groceries and supplies and left the store. "Twilight."

"Dustin."

"I think we need to hurry."

"What do you mean?"

"It's a little past 8. The kids are getting up. We need to get back in and undetected before it happens again."

"I'll use my teleportation spell!"

"Why didn't you do that to begin with?"

"Oh shush." We both appeared in our room with all of our purchases. I pulled up my sleeve to look at my watch. "Twilight it's 8:29. Chaos begins in....3...2...1.." Just then all the doors opened and the entire school was nothing but a noise complaint. I think I went deft for a good minute. "Good think we teleported. We would have been mugged outside and had everything taken from us."

"I swear that these kids are getting more violent each and every year."

"How long will it take till everyone is ready?"

"Depending on traffic, violence, and the amount of things every kid needs... I'd say around 17 hours. Hopefully."

"We'll let's get packing." I put up all of our food. I mean they give you stoves and microwaves and shit so you don't have to rely on school food. A home-cooked meal is sometimes the best thing for you. No it doesn't have to be perfect like Rarity. I mean a good soup... or some mashed potatoes! It's complicated. We also got our binders, paper, writing tools, and books for the year. "So are you going to be helping with Physics again this year?"

"I should. I am the best at it."

"Alright. Let's do some studying. What is Newton's first law of motion?"

"Law I: Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed."

"Impressive."

"Now you. What is..." Do you really want to hear us talk about school work? I mean do you really? Let's skip ahead about an hour. Okay. I think that we are good. "Velocity is the sum force of-" Whoops! They are still doing boring stuff! Sorry folks. Let's skip ahead another 10 minutes. Okay. I think that this time we are good.

"Your mom just texted me." said Twilight reading one of her romance novels. "She said take your medicine."

"I already did."

"She want's to know if your doing any cat nip?"

"No!"

"Okay. He say's no. Send."

"Jeez. The nerve..."

"It's your mother. She sent me another message. Tell him I love him. Aw..."

"Why can't she text me herself?"

"Because she thinks I'm more reliable than you."

"I...uh... huh. That's actually a good point. Okay." Then my phone started vibrating. I reached into my pocket and pulled out my red phone with a gumball machine charm on it. Yeah! Isn't that awesome? I had a friend make it (Rarity). "Spike just arrived."

"Let's go show him around." We both got up and left the dorm. Spike was in the main hall way. I walked up to him and slapped a name-tag on his chest.

"Welcome to school Spike!"

"Missed you too Dustin."

"Wow... you've grown. Keep it up and you'll have me beat."

"Spike!"

"Twilight!" The two ran and hugged each other. I walked over and picked up his bags. "Uh... it's okay Dustin. I can get those."

"Ah ah ah... A gentleman always offers his assistance." I winked at Twilight earning a smile. "Now Spike. Which room is yours?"

"Celestia said I have room..." he reached into a pocket to get a piece of paper. "73."

"Okay. That's pretty far up. Follow me." I led him up to the 3 floor and escorted him to his room. Inside he chose green as his main color. "Wonderful choice Spike."

"Thanks. Did Rainbow do a-"

"All the colors. I wouldn't go in unless you have a strong stomach. OR... your Pinkie Pie."

"Okay. Thanks for helping me guys."

"Do you need any supplies?" Twilight asked him. Of course I'd have to sacrifice my stuff to help him out.

"No. Mom already got everything and sent it here. See?" He pointed to the bag on the couch with all the binders and notebooks in it. "Thanks for looking out for me Twilight."

"Of course Spike. I love you."

"I love you too." they hugged and I left the room. God I hate this tie... I can't wait till Spring. During that time, you don't need to wear dress shirts or ties or anything like that. You still need the jacket. Ladies get a vest. How come guys don't get school vest? Oh... best not to complain. I don't want to mess up the dress code and make every guy wear a dress.

"Well well well... if it isn't my long time friend Dustin Shafer." said a voice down the hall. I turned around to see Kelly.

"Kelly Dorsey! I must say you haven't changed at all!"

"Get over here tiger boy and give me a hug!" I ran to him and picked him up. "Hahaha down!"

"And Kay. Lovely as ever."

"That's right. Glad to see your the same always happy kid." She scuffled my hair. I mean it's okay to do it since I keep it kinda shaggy and messy (To hide the ears) but sometimes they scratch... and I kick my leg... and then I think about mauling them to death. But I could never kill someone unless they're evil. That's my thing.

"There you are!" said Twilight jumping on my back. "Found you! Hi Kelly! Kay!"

"Twilight!" they both hugged her while she was on top of me. "How are you doing?" asked Kay.

"Oh same old same old. What room do you guys have?"

"We have room... 58."

"Go down one floor." I told him. "Last room before the staircase. On the right."

"Thanks." They both grabbed their bags and headed down.

"Where to Twilight?"

"Hmm... I don't know if any other of our friends made it back yet. So let's have a 'us' day. Just you and me."

"Yeah! That's what I'm talking about! Nothing like it!"

"You don't know where to go do you?"

"Yeah..." I lowered my head in shame. "I kinda forgot most of the building in Canterlot." Are you surprised? That's where this school is. The flying city in the sky. Right above the Atlantic Ocean by a 1000 feet.

"Wanna go to the movies?"

"Sure. I want to see that new Batman movie."

"That's next week."

"Oh...hmm... Avengers?"

"They stopped playing it."

"Ted?"

"I... I do want to see that."

"To the movies!" we both grabbed some food from our room and ran to the theaters.

2 hours later...

"That was messed up!"

"Twilight you laughed at every joke!"

"So did you!"

"Because it was funny!"

"It was still kinda messed up."

"Yeah but it's from the guy who made Family Guy. Of course it's messed up."

"True. I mean it's not the worst right?"

"No. There are plenty of worst movies out there."

"Hey there's Rarity. Wanna talk to her?"

"No. I can see in her bags that she bought some black and orange ribbons. She's going after my tiger!" I took off to a sprint.

"Oh no you don't!" she started running faster than me, even with all her bags. "He shall be beautiful!"

"Freedom!" I got on all 4's and sprinted up the stairs.

"That's cheating!"

"As if... " she and Twilight teleported in front of me. "You'd... what? H...how did you do that?"

"Very carefully." she said and they both walked towards my room. Poor Sir Pounce-a-lot. I pray that he reject anything she throws at him.

"Dustin I didn't know you pet was so well-trained!" she said holding both of his paws up and playing with the kitten. "He's soooo cute."

"A pink bow? Seriously?" I looked at the cat who stuck his tongue out and jumped into Rarity's cleavage. She laughed and played along with the cat. I hope he's happy... over there... in between those two massive- DAMMIT! Think straight you moron! This is no time for games! Well... maybe it is. He doesn't do it to Twilight (he knows I'll murder him if he does) at least. "Rarity... whose your roommate?"

"Oh no one darling. I'm afraid that Dream graduated. The jerk. He doesn't care about our relationship anymore... so I dumped him."

"Nice. I told you he was a dick. Anyways... Spike came in... and he's upstairs by himself in his room. Why don't you two-"

"Absolutely not! I will not date Spike-y Wike-y!"

"No. I mean roommates. What are you thinking of?"

"Oh... uh..." she stopped and looked at Twilight. "Nothing at all. I'd be more than willing to share my room with him!"

"Alright then Queen Generous. I'll go get him." I left the girls alone and walked up to Spike's room. Hmm... I've always wanted to do this. "*Knock knock knock* Spike! *Knock knock knock* Spike! *Knock knock knock* Spike!"

"What do you want?" he asked opening the door.

"I have an offer for you! Have you unpacked yet?"

"No why?"

"Good." I walked in and grabbed his stuff. "I got you a roommate!"

"Give me my stuff back!" he followed my outside and down the stairs. "I don't want to bunk with any of your friends! I don't know them."

"Will you just trust me?"

"*sigh* Who is he?"

"She. I got you a room with Rarity." he looked at me like his heart skipped a beat.

"R...r...r..r....a..."

"That's right champ." I opened her room door and placed his stuff in the spare guest bed. She chose blue as her room color... but I don't think that will mess with Spike much. She walked in to talk to her new 'favorite' assistant. Besides... Spike's a smooth player. I taught him how to pick up chicks. If anything... I should have them dating in around a month. Because I'm awesome. And no it's not a crime. There's like a 2 year difference!

"Good job Dustin." said Twilight kissing me. "You always make people happy."

"I'm not done yet. I have to go to the office, tell them he's moving, so someone else can have that room."

"Want me to tag along?"

"No. Actually I want you to take that ribbon off of Pal."

"I think it's cute."

"It is. Too cute however. I'm allergic to cuteness."

"I'll ask him if he wants it off or not."

"Okay. I'll be back in 3 minutes."

3 minutes later...

"I'm back." I said opening the door.

"*sigh* Your good at games! Help me out here!"

"With what?"

"It's this ARMA 2 zombie expansion that I'm having troubles playing."

"Well one it's called Day Z. Two you need friends." I hooked my labtop up to the table right across from her so we could see our faces. I sent a message out to all of our friends. "Alright. I'm in." I grabbed my headset. "Niko. Nathan."

"Dustin. Twilight." they said. We got in our group and waited for more people. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Fluttershy joined in. How Shy would help... you'd be surprised but she's a natural at killing. I saw her take down a bear before. No joke.

"Let's get this started already!" said Rainbow.

"Well first, Twilight is having troubles. She's new. First we need to count our supplies and-" I was cut off as Brandon joined the game.

"Alright! Thumbs up! Let's do this! LLLLLLEEEEERRRRRROOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY JJJJEEEENNNNNNKKKIINNNNNNNNNNSSSSS" he said running outside with the only pistol available.

"He... he just went outside." said Rarity who was confused.

"Everyone go the other way!" said Niko running out the back door. As we all made our way to the street (and ran past Brandon's corpse) I had an interesting talk with Applejack.

"So...AJ. How was yesterday for ya?"

"What are ya talkin about?"

"You know. Ya'll and Shy over there. Come on Pardner! How was it?"

"Do you have ta copy mah accent?"

"Yes. Yes ah do."

"It was fantastic. Anything else you want to say before I kill you?"

"Yeah I... what?" she pulled out a shotgun from her bag and shot me in the head. "You asshole!" Everyone else was laughing and giggling as the zombies started eating my corpse. "You fucking asshole!"

"I warned ya sugar-cube."

"No you didn't! You fucking asshole!"

"You'll respond in a little bit." said Niko running through the zombies and grabbing my backpack. "Sorry."

"I outta kick you in the nuts asshole."

"Yeah. Come and try it."

"Oh you asked for it." All everyone else heard (except Twilight) was me putting my headset down and opening the door. I ran down the hallway to room 30 and opened the door.

"What are you doing? OW!" I gave him a hard kick in the balls making everyone else laugh. "I... I didn't think you'd actually do it..." he weakly crawled back to his computer. I ran back to mine and responded with Brandon in a safe house.

"Alright. We're going to survive this time. Let's find the others." We spent the next 20 minutes doing the 'Where are you guys?' think where we are both on separate sides of the map. I heard Rainbow get killed and the same thing for Applejack. "Hahaha! It's not funny is it?"

"You didn't kill me." she said copying my sarcastic tone.

"Hey hey hey no!" Brandon and I both said as the zombies were alerted to our attention. We had 20 behind us as we ran down the road.

"Twilight where are you guys?"

"Hiding at the airport."

"Brandon we're at the wrong side!"

"I know that! But I have a solution!" he said while he stopped running.

"No!"

"It's okay. I'll re-spawn."

"No I mean their is a van right here!" I said getting in the van and watching him get mauled upon. "Wow."

"I'm done for the day." he quit the game.

"Zombie rage." said Pinkie. I found her running around with a cannon.

"Where did you get a Party cannon Pinkie?"

"I found it. Watch this!" she shot my character with it and blew me up.

"NO!" We played for another... 20 or so minutes and eventually we decided that we suck at video games and quit playing. I wasn't looking so Twilight came from behind me and started scratching behind my ears.

"What do you want to eat?"

"You know what? I'll cook today. What are you in the mood for?"

"Well... let's eat those pizza rolls."

"I can cook that." So we spent the next 30 minutes on a couch, eating pizza rolls, watch The Big Bang Theory, and making out. She tied a trash bag up and asked me to take it outside for her. The dumpsters were right outside the main door so you could throw trash from the roof. I walked outside and chucked the trash away and dusted my hands off. I walked inside the building to find Lightning eating food with Elizabeth, her friends, and some other kids I didn't know. Glad to see he's happy.

"There he is." said Butch and his gang on my left. I snapped my fingers and got their attention making them freeze in their tracks. I shook my head no and they backed away from him. Lightning and his friends didn't see me though. Good. I don't want to be a hero because, well, who wants that? Oh Mr. Dustin! Your so brave! Please fight this man for me! No one wants to do that. So I walked by them with my hands in my pockets and grabbed some water from the cafeteria. I then eavesdropped on Tombs with my enhanced hearing.

"So he came in and helped me out. That's my story."

"Yesterday he gave me a letter from my mom. It had everything inside I needed like my ID and my transfer papers. But it also had theirs in it as well."

"He's a really smooth talker. I don't like him."

"He's kinda cute. I think I see him over there."

"Don't even bother. He's dating Twilight Sparkle."

"Her? I mean she's cute and all but her? Why not someone sexy like me?"

"Because Sally you'd exploit his weaknesses."

"Your right. *giggles* I wish I could find a guy." I kinda stopped listening. I walked over to the coffee shop and talked to Nathan who was already working.

"Dustin. Tell me, why are you not working?"

"Because I haven't gotten any hours yet."

"You were playing games earlier, you can work now."

"Nathan I, unlike you, can not work everyday."

"I know. I'm just picking. Vanilla right?" he said turning around and making me a drink. I stuck my water bottle in my pocket and took the cup.

"How much?"

"You know you get free coffee."

"I forgot."

"In that case, give me 3.50."

"Sorry but you said free coffee."

"*sigh* Troll."

"See ya." I sipped on my coffee and heard more people talking. I heard 'There's a new guy here that's super hot! Like OH MAH GAWD!' and things like 'I'm going to fuck her. Her. Fuck her. Definitely her... and I will fuck... her.' But my favorite one I heard was a two way conversation.

"Sir I am trying to say-" was what I heard the freshman say. Then I heard Brandon talking.

"You ain't got no pancake mix!"

"Sir!"

"You ain't got no pancake mix! There's no pancake mix in there!"

"But I'm-"

"Stop lying to these people. They want pancake mix now!"

"I don't have-"

"You ain't got no pancake mix!" I looked to see the kid was holding signs trying to promote a club or something. He's here for 2 days and he already started a club? Loser. Too bad Brandon beat me to him. I'd love to fuck with this kid. Not literally. "Yo Dustin! Get your tail over here!"

"What do ya need?"

"I need you to talk to this kid about school."

"Fuck you guys! I'm trying to do something here!" he said backing himself up.

"I'm sorry but what did he do?" I asked Brandon.

"He's Trixie's little brother."

"Trixie had a sibling?"

"Yeah."

"Kid why do you have a squeaky voice?" I asked him.

"Because I hit puberty!"

"I'm twelve years old and I like talking." I said in a fake Mickey Mouse voice.

"Shut up."

"I'm twelve years old and I tell people to shut up." said Brandon.

"SHUT UP!"

"I'm twelve years old and I start a club on..." I stopped to read his sign. "Myths and... monsters."

"Shut up you fag! I'm like freaking 13!"

"OH NO!" said Brandon crossing his arms over his heart and backing up to Kelly who was laughing.

"Watch out guys we got a bad-ass over here!" I held my hands up.

"You will fear my wrath!" he reached into his pocket and drew cards.

"What are those? Pokemanz?"

"1. It's Pokemon. 2. This is Yu-Gi-Oh!"

"Ohhhh...." we all said looking at them.

"So... your gay?" his face turned tomato red.

"I play Skull Crusher!" (Quick little note here... I don't exactly remember the name of the cards. Whoopsies!)

"Nothing happened kid." said Brandon crouching down at him. "What? Was some magic monster suppose to come out and fight us?"

"It worked before!"

"And this is Yu...Yu..." I can't pronounce it.

"Yu-Gi-Oh!"

"Ah. You gay? Oh!" This got a laugh out of Kelly again.

"I can't summon them because of you!" he flipped his cape over himself and ran away.

"Uh... quick question. Did anyone catch his name?" said Nathan walking over drinking some coffee.

"Nope." we all said.

"Trixie's going to be pissed."

"Good! I hope the bitch learns something from her brother's mistake." I said drinking more of my coffee. I walked upstairs and Twilight greeted me outside. "Hello dear." I gave her the rest of my coffee.

"Trixie's little brother, Caster, ran past here crying."

"I didn't know she had a brother."

"So Trixie's trying to find out who made him cry."

"Huh. I have a confession to make."

"You did it?"

"Yes." Twilight put the drink down and walked over to me with her hands on her hips. Then she hugged me.

"I love you."

"W-wow... I thought you'd be angry."

"I hate that entire family ever since Kindergarten!"

"I couldn't agree more." When she wasn't looking, I slipped my tail out from my pants and tickled her arm pit with it.

"Hahahah! What are you doing? Stop!"

"Revenge from yesterday!"

"No don't!"

"Your mine!" When I grabbed her, she turned around and kissed me.

"You caught me. What are you going to do?"

"For another kiss I'll let you go." She pulled me in again and we kissed for I think 3 minutes. Then the time hit us. "Oh man. It's already 7!"

"Time for dinner." She said. I held her hand as she navigated us through the crowd. I felt good. Well I mean it's been a pretty good day. I kept Lightning alive. Taught Trixie that her influence on her brother makes him and her a bitch. Twilight Sparkle. The girl I've liked since we were toddlers. The girl I promised to protect. The girl who always stood up for me. The person who makes me feel like I belong somewhere. I mean any other girl would have learned about my tiger powers and ran away but not Twilight. She feels for me. She loves me. So I love her.

"Hey Twilight. I want to ask you something."

"What is it-OH!" she and I were pushed to the side of the hall by some rude kids. "Excuse me." she said to them as to which they didn't respond back.

"Jack-offs."

"What do you want to ask?"

"I wanted to ask about how you are feeling."

"About what?"

"Tomorrow's the first day. I'm asking if your ready?"

"Of course I'm ready!"

"That's the attitude I like to hear."

"So what are you thinking the first day will be like?"

"Hmm... good question. I'm going to give the new kids the Full Metal Jacket treatment. How about that?"

"So you want to live off the fear of children?"

"Well that does sound bad."

"Besides I hear David got a new toy."

"And I'm his guinea pig. What is it?"

"Something about portals."

"Uh oh..."

The next day...

"Hey class!" said the teacher running in. "You all remember me!"

"YEEAAAAAHHHHH!" was Roy behind me. We call him Roid Rage for a reason. Everyone else in the class was happy.

"Now... I have a-"

"Mr. Visor!" said one of the kids in the front.

"Please call me David. Mr. makes me feel old."

"Well... we heard a rumor that your dating the principle." Who was that in the front? Was that Colgate? Stupid bitch can't keep her mouth shut.

"Uh...uh...uh...uh..."

"So it's true!" she stood up and shook his hand. "Congratulations."

"No! I'm... *sigh* I haven't asked her out yet."

"OOOOHHHHHH! So you do like her?"

"I...hehehe....guess I walked into that one. Back to class! I used SCIENCE! to create this little toy. Behold! A portal gun! Now I need my favorite volunteer Dustin to come up!"

"You know David..." I said getting out of my seat. "It's not really volunteering if you call me up."

"Oh you got me there Dustin. Now what happens when I shoot one portal here and one here? Anybody?"

"It causes a black hole?" asked one kid.

"No."

"It creates a link!" said Twilight.

"Yes! Sparkle one. Other kids need to pick it up. So watch..." he shot one on the ceiling and one on the floor below it. "Dustin. Will you kindly?"

"Sure thing." I jumped into it and started building up velocity. "David! How do you stop this thing?"

"Scapegoat?" he asked.

"NO!" I guess I'm moving too fast. He shot the top portal on the wall and I went out doing I think 40 mph. But I landed on my feet against the other wall. "Too...*huff* fast..."

"Now what happens when I shoot two portals on the ground?"

"He'll just go back and forth depending on how much speed he got when he jumped." said Twilight.

"Twilight again! She's on a roll! First day and already best in class. Well done Sparkle. Dustin. Get jumping."

"You enjoy this too much." I jumped in one end and came out the other upside down and went back in. So this went on for about 15 minutes until David decided that he's had enough laughter for the day. So when I came out I spread my legs and landed around the portal. Before I took a seat, I walked to the trash can and puked up my breakfast. Then I walked to the back of the room and took my seat.

Eventually (an hour) we got through our first physics, math, and science lesson. We then had to go outside to practice course. The freshman were all outside watching us. So we split up, you know, the magicians took one corner, the mages went to the firing court, I was on the training poles with Kelly.

"So Kelly! How long have you been training for this?"

"Oh about 4 years now. You?"

"Same." I used my legs to hang upside down and catch a basketball Brandon chucked at me. I dribbled it upside down and threw it back to him. "What's he doing?"

"Practicing precision magic I guess."

"Pfft... he should just stick to punching boulders-WHOA!" I twisted and dodged the basketball that went flying towards space.

"You got something to say?"

"Nope!" we both said.

"Come on guys. We need more players." I looked up and saw all the transfer jocks from the other school. I think it was just a cheap ass border school that no one really likes. Okay that's a lie. They did seem pretty tough though so... it'd be better to not piss them off.

"No thanks." I told him.

"I'm in!" said Kelly jumping down.

"Come on pussy!" the other team said. That's not funny considering my mom is a female feline.

How's it going fellow bronies? Good I hope. I know I could have done something productive right here but I learned how to do this! ...........
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Isn't that awesome? I think so! It's a brofist! Oh my... well... back to the story.

So the next hour of practicing my skills was nice. My shadow magic is even better than before and I can use smoke to teleport myself to some other place, sneakily, so if you ever see a random cloud of fog appear, that's me. Twilight was doing some of her special laser spells and destroying all the targets David set up. I must say, she's getting a lot more accurate. Rainbow, and Niko were doing their flying magic spells which includes, summoning wings!

"Cookies are done!" said Pinkie. I've never heard of food magic but it's delicious. I wish I knew food magic, then I'd let myself go like John Goodman. Hmm... I just can't understand Pinkie. Oh well.

"Dustin! Time for the dummy course!" said David blowing a whistle. I jogged over to the wooden dummy armed to the teeth with weapons. "Watch freshman." he said to the crowd. They would practice but they couldn't do more than a small fire spell. One that can't even light a cigarette. The dummy started spinning in front of me and the weapons started moving. "These dummies are only for the students with the most skill. Dustin show them a specter spell."

"Right." I crossed my fingers and turned into a spectral spirit. I walked through the dummy and came out the other side unharmed.

"See? Now use an agility spell."

"Yes sir." I moved my legs back a bit and charged the power in them. I lunged towards the dummy and gracefully shifted through all of the obstacles.

"Excellent! Still got it I see. Now do a simple destruction spell."

"Ember 3!" I held my hand out and shot a fireball the size of a fire hydrant at the wooden dummy causing it to explode.

"See kids? In a year we will have you doing things like that. Or things in the sky like Rainbow Dash. Hey Dash-" I watched the flight users do tricks and spells for a while. It made me happy watching them destroy the clouds or rearrange them. I counted out a bunch of shapes as well! I saw a square... an oval thing... a fist actually and I saw an exact replica of Paul Reubens face. You know Pee-Wee Herman? That guy.

"Now let's try other magic tricks. Twilight! I need you to show off some spells." I then watched as my girl performed the best spells. Teleportation, Levitation, rebuilding the dummy I destroyed. I'm focused on more of a defensive skill set. She however... she's evenly balanced in everything. Not everyone is magical by the way. I'm the only one in my family who knows how to utilize magic. My mom said her dad could but the skill died in the family bloodline somewhere until I was born. My older sister and brother don't know it either. My father... I never met him. I don't know how I begin thinking about my family when I'm watching Twilight do magic... maybe it's because I can start a new family.

"Alright-y then. Kids I hope you enjoyed it because you will be practicing tomorrow."

"Aw..." they all moaned and pouted. I saw Spike again. I know he can do some heavy damage but he probably doesn't want to scare anyone. Good kid. Then again I'm part tiger. That's why I'm so fast. Don't tell anyone though! It's better for the kids to think... they can move that fast with their magic you know?

*RING!*

"Attention kids! That was the bell!" said Celestia on the intercom. "Time for lunch and please no one get lost this time, thank you." I was still climbing down when I saw that everyone had left already. Guess the kids are hungry. Or something else is going down. Now why would kids be in a hurry to get to the lunch room? That's a first for me. So I slipped my hands in my pockets and walked to the cafe. Sadly enough I was the last one getting in meaning all the good food will be gone by the time I get up there.

"Hey Dusty!" said Ms. Knightly handing me a tray with oatmeal and milk on it. "You get breakfast for lunch deary."

"Was I that late?"

"Afraid so. Missed one hell of a steak."

"Aw..."

"And some of my apple cobbler for desert."

"AW! I love you cobbler... oh well. See ya Ms. Knightly!"

"Thanks for delivering that note to Elizabeth!" she yelled as I walked to my table with all of my friends at it. They were nice enough at least to save me my favorite seat at the end with Twilight.

"You got oatmeal?" asked Brandon cutting his steak. "What gives?"

"I was last in line. Again." I said putting a spoonful in my mouth. "Besides this isn't half bad. It's blueberry. That's the best kind of Quaker oatmeal."

"That's not Quaker brand is it though?"

"No." I put a little milk in it so it wouldn't be so hard to chew and continued with my food. They all finished before me and the next 2 minutes were of awkwardness watching me eat. "What? It's just food."

"How big of a bowl did she give you?" asked Rarity.

"Well since I was the only one who got oatmeal... I think I got all of it."

"Can you eat that much?" asked Rainbow.

"You kidding? I'm halfway down and I'm starving." I said while continuing to take my time with my food. Eventually I heard some people talking behind me.

"Was it them?" said a female.

"Yeah! It was those guys!"

"Okay. Let me handle this." I felt a hand grab the back of my head and slam me into the oatmeal. "You think it's funny? Huh? Do ya?"

"Well lookie here. It's Trixie the Bad and Improbable." said Brandon picking another fight. She let go of my head and I had to rub my eyes. "You okay Dustin?"

"My eyes were open." Glad I put milk in it or this would have hurt worse. I had Twilight help me get the flakes out of my eye. "God it still burns a little."

"That's revenge for yesterday." she said backing up Caster who was standing behind her.

"Yeah I embarrassed the kid because he tried to kill me with a lame card. I didn't slam oatmeal into his eyes."

"Those two hurt me as well." said the little boy pointing to Brandon and Kelly.

"Actually I just laughed." said Kelly.

"He did. So HE'S the only one I want hurt." All eyes, except me and Twilight, looked at Brandon.

"Yes! Oh Lord I did it! I'm the problem! Please punish me oh Great and Powerful Trixie! I beg of you!"

"You've never begged before."

"I didn't have you throw oatmeal in his face." he said pointing to me. I still had my eyes closed.

"What am I going to do with you Brandon?" she asked sarcastically.

"I don't know BUT I will do this." he grabbed my oatmeal bowl and slammed it into her face. I heard everyone in the cafeteria go "OoooOOHHHH!"

"What's going on?" I asked looking around.

"A fight." said Twilight getting under the table. I followed her and pulled my chair in to protect us. The food fight above us began and we just talked. "Are your eyes better?"

"They stopped burning so thanks for helping me."

"Welcome. You did good earlier."

"I saw you. Twilight you were amazing. When did you learn all of those spells?"

"Over the summer. Celestia helped me."

"You were always her favorite student."

"I don't want to brag about that though. I think that's why Trixie hates me."

"Because Celestia sees you have more potential than her? Now I understand."

"Flatterer." she said kissing my cheek.

"It's what I do." Eventually (11 minutes) the fight stopped and the cafeteria was completely messy. Food on the walls and on the ceilings (Some kids like to crawl on roofs) and everyone was dirty.

"I want the two who started this to clean it up now." said Celestia calmly. She had a smile on her face. Why? She participated in the fight of course. And not a hit on her! Honestly I'm amazed. "Everyone else, go to your rooms, clean up, then get back to class in an hour. Now! Clock's ticking." Everyone panicked except Brandon and Trixie because they have to stay and clean.

"Sorry." I told Brandon.

"Can't you stay and help me?"

"You know I would but I need to put water on my eyes to clean up the oatmeal."

"Right. See you guys later then." he said while beginning to mop up the floor. If I know Trixie, and I do, she's not going to lift a finger to help.

"Wait... I'll help. You guys go on without me." I told everyone else.

"Are you sure?" asked Nathan.

"Ah'll help ya'll there sugar-cube." said Applejack grabbing a mob. "Since you can't see straight an' all."

"This place is so horrid! It needs to be cleaned up right away!" said Rarity grabbing some wash cloths.

"I'll help Rarity!" said Spike. Everyone else nodded and helped us. So instead of Brandon not getting it done in an hour, we got it done in 3 minutes. Twilight helped me upstairs and I had to take a sink-bath. She helped me get the food off my face and hair and dry up.

"Thanks Twilight."

"Your welcome Dustin." she leaned up and kissed me gently on the mouth. "Wanna get started on our homework?"

"Sure." so we spent the next spare time finishing all of our assignments. "What classes do we have next?"

"Chemistry, and then History. Then we should be done. Unless you signed up for music classes or extra curricular courses."

"Which I did not. I like History."

"Oh don't be scared of Science."

"Remember last year?"

"When you had longer hair and Derpy dropped her beaker, caused a chain reaction, and lit you on fire?"

"...Yeah."

"I remember!"

"I'm sure you do."

"Oh... I didn't mean to make you feel bad."

"No you didn't! I mean...Ugh... I just don't know what went wrong!"

"That sounds like Derpy talking."

"That's the joke."

"Oh... *giggles* Sorry."

"Anyways... as long as I have you as a lab partner, a shield spell activated, and plenty of protection on, then I shall be unharmed!"

"What protection?"

"I got a hazmat suit." I said pulling it out of the closet.

"Don't wear that. Look I'll watch out for you."

"Really? Thanks Twilight!" I hugged her. I'm that desperate because I'm terrified of that class now. "Hey now that I think about it, I never got one of Pinkie's cookies earlier."

"Did someone say Pinkie?" asked Pinkie Pie sticking her head through our door. "I baked you some cookies!"

"Oh boy! What flavor?"

"Oatmeal!"

"..."

"What's wrong?"

"Too soon Pinkie."

"I know. I actually baked you chocolate chip." she left them on the counter, hugged me and Twilight, and left.

"She's so random." said Twilight taking one cookie and nibbling on it in the cutest way possible! "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You are too cute for your own good."

"*giggle* Stop! I can't eat now because your looking at me!" she had a blush and was forced to turn around. I grabbed a cookie and ate it while cleaning off the stains on my jacket. "Hey Dustin. Did you hear about the Miami Zombie?"

"No I haven't. What happened?"

"This cannibal went crazy and ate some dudes face off. The autopsy said he was on drugs but he ate the guy's nose, eyes, you know. His face."

"Christ... that's horrifying. Yeah I think I must have heard of it. I saw this prank video where this crazy russian kid kept on running around pretending to be a zombie and scaring black kids."

"Was he racist?"

"No in the interview, he said that white people just laughed at him and didn't run. So he stuck with the black community."

"That's funny."

"Here... I'll show you." I brought up YouTube and showed Twilight the video causing both of us to laugh. I then pulled up the Hub website to see what shows they are working on.

"They don't have any good cartoons." said Twilight. "All I've seen was Pound Puppies and Strawberry Shortcake."

"No they have some of the old stuff like Transformers G1 and G.I.Joe!"

"They really need to make a show that everyone would like."

"Too bad that would never happen."

Quick author's note, since both worlds were combined, My Little Pony doesn't exist as a show anymore. So don't get confused about this little easter egg I put in right above this note about the Hub.

"We got to get to class!"

"Alright. Let me grab my gloves." I said putting on my fingerless gloves. I followed her to our classroom in the third building. Inside, Dr. Zephyr was working with his notes.

"Hello class! Great to see you all again!"

"Hi Dr. Z!" we all said happily.

"Dustin? I didn't think you'd show considering-"

"What happened last year, yeah I got it."

"Alright. Everyone grab your partners, get your equipment, and head to the back of the room."

"Twilight." I said holding her hand.

"You know I will."

"No... I mean remember to watch out for Derpy."

"Here she comes." She said as the blonde walked into the room. The stereotypes about dumb blondes were an exception in her case because I felt bad for her. (Isn't she... you know? Special?) I mean she's smart! Don't get me wrong! I trust her with my mail but not with chemicals. Ever. I will never ever let her help me in this class. Twilight handed me my apron and goggles and we stood at our table in the back.

"Today you will be mixing volatile compounds. Be careful of how much you put in and how you mix it. The first team to tell me what compound they make will get an A+. Got it?"

"Yeah." we all said.

"Good. Be careful please."

"Ready?" asked Twilight.

"No." I said as Derpy took the table beside us. She was partnered with Berry Punch who was intoxicated (It was that obvious) and she was doing all the work. I had to move to the other side of Twilight due to fear lingering over me. Twilight then held the clear liquid in my eyesight.

"What do you think this is?"

"An acid?"

"Hmm... and this beaker over here smells like sodium."

"We're making sodium nitrate?" I asked her. She looked at me like I knew everything.

"That must be it!"

"Settle down. We have to mix it first." I watched as Twilight carefully mixed up the liquid getting a light blue explosive compound in the end. "I don't think that's sodium nitrate."

"It's not! *cough* I can smell it pretty clear. Sodium Hydroxide. That's the answer. Go whisper it to him."

"Okay." she walked over to Dr. Z and told him our answer. He smiled and nodded his head 'yes' and put an A+ in our names in the grade book. Now with Twilight gone, there was nothing between me and Derpy. I watched as she mixed the compounds right beside Berry Punch who was passed out on the desk. She looked at me and smiled which scared me a little. She put too much sodium in the acid and it was about to explode in her hands. Do you know what she did? She threw it into a sink. My sink. I ducked behind the table and the explosion went on above me.

"What happened this time Derpy?" asked Dr. Zephyr.

"I just don't know what went wrong."

"It's okay. Just... be more careful next time. You almost killed Dustin. Again."

"Sorry." she said in her cute derped voice. I couldn't move due to fear, and the sink on top of me. I crawled out from under it and walked away from Derpy.

"You okay?" asked Twilight.

"Never again."

"What?" asked the doctor.

"Never will I work near her again."

"That's understandable. Since you two have finished, and your station is destroyed, you get the rest of the class off."

So Twilight and I finished our homework assignments for the entire week. You see they give us a schedule and we stay ahead... isn't that smart? Then we walked back to David's class for history. I think this is one of my favorite subjects. It doesn't involve science or math but family. It involves the past and what has been done to create the world for us today. However not everyone shares my philosophy. I'm one of the few who pays attention.

"So, after Sir Nathaniel Bacon started his little revolution, do you know what happened to him on the same day? Yes Dustin?" he asked as I raised my hand.

"He died."

"Correct. How?"

"Didn't he die from dysentery?"

"Yes he did. Now who can tell me what that is? Nobody? Just Dusty?"

"He died from... diarrhea." I told him making people laugh.

"Hey hey that's not funny kids. This was an extremely violent bloodbath that this man created. Back then, dysentery was horrible due to infection and-" He went on and on about how back then, poop jokes were not allowed.

"Okay. So... Hmm... another question from last year... Oh! Who was the most bad-ass Russian who couldn't die, even though he was shot, stabbed, and poisoned!"

"Rasputin." I said raising my hand.

"Correct! How did he die?"

"He drowned when he was throw into the river. He also suffered from pneumonia."

"Wow. Alright. Dustin isn't allowed to answer questions anymore!" Well there goes my awesome streak of luck. I guess it's a good thing I brought my I-pod or I'd have to sit here and do nothing. Nothing! I reached into my pocket and slipped my ear-buds into my ears. I laid my head down sideways and used my hair to cover up the other bud. I closed my eyes and listened to 'Owl City.' I know you'd think I'm more of a metal head, and I do listen to metal like 'Dio' or even 'Quiet Riot'. Hell I can't go a day without 'Judas Priest' but I like music that I can understand the words to. You know? Besides, OC helps me sleep. Especially 'Fireflies'.

The song went on inside my head as I used my imagination to remember the best times of my childhood. They were when I was alone and running in the plains or the forest playing with nature. You see I have a large family. My mom and dad, an older sister, and older brother, a twin sister, and a younger brother. I am the only one who can use magic. We all have cat blood from our ancestors. My mom is a domesticated house cat, while my dad is a lion. My twin sister is a white tiger as I am an orange tiger. My older brother is a cheetah and my younger brother is... well... he's a homosexual. Not saying I have a problem with it, but ironically he's a snow leopard.

"Mr. Shafer wake the fuck up!" said David hitting me in the face with an eraser.

"*cough cough* Huh? What?"

"Class is over man." he said as the room was empty. "You sleep like a baby. Not a single noise."

"I'll take that as a compliment."

"Put the music away."

"Yes sir." I wrapped up my I-pod and grabbed my messenger bag and walked out of the room. I scratched the back of my neck on my way out and Twilight met me outside. "Sorry. I passed out."

"It's okay. It was just a review day. I'm sure you remember everything though."

"Yep." I yawned again and walked down the hall.

"You okay?"

"Let's see, got oatmeal in my eyes, almost got blown up, and I got a good nap until I inhaled eraser dust. So pretty normal day for me. You?"

"Great! I'm ahead of schedule! If I keep this up, then I'll be an A+ student all year!"

"Good. Keep it up then."

"You'll try too right?"

"I have too. I can't afford to mess up my education."

"Let's go get some dinner." We walked to the cafeteria and this time (thank god) I wasn't the last in line. No instead we cheated and teleported in line. Okay we didn't cheat, but we did get there early. We got pizza and fries. It was good pizza, not the shitty stuff you get at your average high school. At least the little 'fight' with Trixie was bearable. I can handle food in my face as long as it doesn't have me fighting on the rooftops with my claws against a mad man like last year.

"I heard we are going to have a race at the end of the week." said Nathan sitting down at my table. "Also I went through your mail. Your trying to get a job at the library aren't you?!"

"Shh! Nathan! It's a surprise!" I looked over and saw Twilight was talking to Fluttershy. "Phew... Okay yes. Sorry."

"You better be. I told the boss and she fired you."

"Already huh?"

"Yeah. So if you don't get the job. Don't come running to me. Harumph!" he said moving to the chair across from Kelly and Kay (two tables down) I felt... betrayed. Sad. Heartbroken. Why? My best bud just fired me from my back-up job. Oh well... in about 12 minutes, he'll apologize. I went back to eating when Trixie took a seat across from me.

"Hello my dear darling Shafer. Trixie wanted to apologize for her rude behavior earlier."

"Uhhhh..."

"Won't you ever forgive me?" she asked putting her hands on mine. I looked at Twilight and she was staring at Trixie with her mean look. Did I miss something? "Hello? I'm waiting for an answer!" she said waving her hand in my have. "Earth to Dustin!" she knocked on my head a few times.

"Quit it." she stopped. "Did you two do something?"

"When you were sleeping..." said Twilight.

Flashback time!

I saw me in my desk sleeping. Yeah. It's like I'm a ghost. Well about 10 minutes went by and Trixie walked by the room as Twilight was writing on the board when he called up some volunteers. Trixie of course stopped and insulted Twilight, who defended herself as Trixie kept on getting meaner with the insults. The one that pissed me off was 'And to think that someone like you gets to be with another failure like Dustin whose sleeping back there! Look at him!' yeah so I'm a failure now. Fucking perfect.

"Trixie don't make me hurt you." said Twilight charging a spell in her hand.

"Ladies please break it up." said David. "Trixie your not in my class, so do me a favor and GTFO!" he slammed the door in her face. "Twi you alright?"

"Yes."

End of the FB...

I shook my head as I watched 10 minutes of insults in just 5 seconds. Time is weird...

"Trixie. Get the fuck away from my table."

"What?"

"Or what? Do you enjoy being with us 'failures?"

"Trixie does not!"

"Then get the fuck away from me before I punch you in the fucking soul!"

"You can't possible do such a thing!" I held my fist up and it started to glow blue. "...Or maybe you can... in that case I'm leaving bye!" she quickly teleported.

"Where did you learn that?" asked Twilight.

"Illusion spell."

"Oh... right."

"If I was awake I'd beat her up earlier for mocking you."

"That's okay. She won't mess with me now for a while I bet."

"How long's a while?"

"I hope it's a year."

"Same." I went back to eating, well, we all did. In 12 minutes, Nathan walked over and apologized for being an ass. I ignored it like it was nothing, because it was. So Twilight and I called it a night. I know, I know, 'You should stay up with your friends!' No I can't do that. Twilight gets up early, and she wakes me up. So I go to bed earlier than everyone else. We have to get up at 5! Why? She says it's good for me.

"Good night sweetie." she said kissing me. "Thanks for standing up to Trixie. More than once."

"Of course. No one messes with my girl." I pulled her in so we could snuggle. "Love you."

"I love you too BBFF."

I know... late with another chapter, my internet router at home got fucked up during the last thunder storm so I'm fixing it as we speak. I had to go to a library to upload this. Let's see... My girlfriend confirmed that she was moving back. Yup. In... 2 months. *sigh* It's seems like so long but she's worth it. I mean all my other friends are like...

"Dude! You need to get back in bed with some chicks!" And I'll be all...

"Really? Just like that?"

"You can't cry about her forever!"

"Sure I can. And it's only two more months." And by then they shut up because they know I made my mind up. Oh I beat up a bully today! Well actually more of a molester. This asshole kid who goes to my younger sister's school thought he could violate her, and I kicked his ass with a blind man cane. I mean they aren't in school anymore (summer vacation I think. I don't know. I'm still in college.) but it happened at our mall and I was there so I did what any big brother would do.

Oh P.S.! I found a four-leaf clover! I just hope the luck of the Irish rubs off on me (no homo) and helps me out. Me and my little sis are the only ones who visit my mom now. I do it every weekend like a good son. My dad's... gone. My older sister is in Ohio making like $107 dollars an hour as a doctor. My big brother, the oldest of us, is over seas fighting in the Navy and I'm here finishing up my engineering education. By the end of the summer I'll have my Master's. Oh yeah. I already have like 3 licenses saying I'm an official engineer and all. But I can afford the extra education so I might as well take it am I right?