A week passed since I’ve been measured and clothed, it was nice not to wear the same thing for once. But it was short lived when Dad told me that I’d need to study in order to get into a school. I sighed as it was back to books for me, and I didn’t have my old friends to help me.

I stood in front of the old school house debating on whether or not I should head in. I had an idea on who to ask for help but I was nervous...and that was surprising considering the fact that over a month ago I slew a god, but I had help to do that while this time it's just me.

Cheerily came out and saw me. “Hello there.” she said.

“Hi.” I said meekly, I wasn’t the best student when I was learning from her so this might be a little awkward.

“Can I help you with something Miss?” She asked as I blushed a little when she called me that.

“It's a long explanation but I’m Diamond Tiara and-” I started to say.

“Oh Diamond, I wasn’t expecting you yet, your father explained what happened to you.” She said as I was a little mad that he didn’t tell me that he talked to Cheerily already. “Anyway would you like to come to the class and talk to them about where you went?”

“It's not that interesting I was just a regular high school student.” I answered and Cheerily looked disappointed when I said that. “Alright, I guess I could come in and say hello.” I told her as she cheered up.

“Great, I’ll tell them that a guest is coming tomorrow.” Cheerily said.

“Wait before you go back in... I sorta need help catching up on some school stuff, the place where I was wasn’t exactly the same as Equestrian schools and I don’t think they’ll count the work I did there as real.” I explained.

Cheerily paused for a second when I told her that. “You want my help for school?” She asked... and I forgot how expressive Pony eyes could be as I saw literal stars in her eyes.

“Yeah...” I said rubbing the back of my head. “I the only other option is the town librarian and I think she’s busy with Librarian stuff.”

After visiting Cheerily I got lunch at SugarCube Corne, I was surprised that Pinkie knew who I was, but after that, I went back home. “I’m back.” I said as I entered the house and saw my mother standing there with Dad. ‘great’ I muttered.

“And who’s this?” Mom said angrily.

“As I’ve been trying to explain to you that's your daughter, Diamond Tiara.” Dad said.

“Oh don’t lie to me, Diamond is only 8 years old this woman is clearly older than that.” Mom said.

“Whatever.” I said ignoring her and just walking up the stairs towards my room.

“Hey!” Mom shouted at me as dad tried to calm her down but I just kept on walking.

I sighed when I entered my room and I was about to do some homework when I noticed the door to the Velvet room was in the corner of my room. “Well, I guess Igor wants to see me.” I muttered before heading into the door.

“Ah, Diamond it is good to see you.” Igor said.

“Welcome to the Velvet room Trickster.” Lavenza said greeting me.

“Hello, Igor.” I said bowing my head before patting the head of Lavenza.

“No need to bow you are a welcome guest to the Velvet room.” Igor explained.

“Yes, Trickster.” Lavenza said agreeing with her master.

“Now onto the reason I asked you here, I am bestowing upon you two gifts that may help on your journey.” He said as Lavenza anded me a key and a necklace. “The key is to enter someone's palace since you don’t have the old way of doing it, and the Necklace has two functions, the first is to locate palaces and the second is a little more experimental, due to the interesting nature of the world you find yourself in you might be able to summon a persona in the real world.” Igor explained.

“Wait a persona in the real world?” I asked confused.

“Yes, though I should warn you that you should be careful and only use this in emergencies.” Igor warned while I put the necklace on and put the key in a keychain on my belt.

“Okay, only use personas in the real world got it. Anything else?” I asked.

“Well, there is the fact that since you’ve already had an awakening you won’t get another Persona... not to say that you’ve lost the power of the wild card it's just you won’t be getting a second awakening.” Igor explained.

“Okay, well nice having this chat Igor but I’ve got a mother to deal with.” I told him.

“Very well good luck Trickster.” Lavenza said.

Dinner was terrible, to say the least, Mom was her usual bitchy self, and dad was trying to defuse the situation to no avail. So halfway through dinner, I just left and went out for hayburgers or something. Which is a shame because it was a lovely meal. Before I went back home I used the necklace to see if there were any Momentos spots nearby, and as if by some cosmic chance my house was a Palace, and I knew who it belonged to, my Mother. ‘Well, once a Phantom Thief always a Phantom Thief.’ I joked to myself before entering my home for the night.

The next day I woke up early and got ready to head to the schoolhouse, and I was very nervous to see everyo-pony I once bullied and I was not looking forward to seeing them again. I grabbed a muffin and headed out. The walk to the school was semi-nostalgic as I hadn’t walked this path in 9 years and it brought back some good memories. But everything stopped when I got to the schoolhouse as a chill came up my spine as I saw the three crusaders enter the building, I was horrible to those three.

As I was having second thoughts Cheerily saw me through the door and opened them saying “Class we have a special visitor today.” Well, I was in a situation where I couldn’t run away now so I took a deep breath and went in.

An Apology

I'm not returning to this story. My mind has moved on and I am only focusing on one story right now. So If anyone wants to adopt this story you are free to contact me. But if nothing becomes of that within three months I will delete this story and inform whomever adopted it that their rights are gone and they will no longer have my consent to write the story.