Chapter 3 - A Newcomer Appears

It was 5:00 pm in Western Equestrian time when the school bell had rung to signal every creature to hurry towards their designated classrooms. Every creature had to stop with their chitter-chatter if they want to avoid getting detention for tardiness or absence. Though with today's hectic events on the hoof-ball field now spreading to the hallways, the atmosphere within the hallways had turned from an organized calming serene aura to a hurricane of calamity! Every fresh meat¹ who had not witnessed the maelstrom caused by a blue-and-beige gross griffon were in for a major shock of their lifetime. Those who were used to the school's occasional traumatic history were slightly half-aware of what was about to happen and braced themselves for the climatic impact.

Rushing out from the hallways came that pervy photographer named Gallus, who was being chased relentlessly by a horde of voraciously horny male creatures, as well as a posse of a couple enraged female creatures who refused to let the boys get their grabs on that salaciously saucy photo of Professor Fluttershy's large round yellow derriere! As they race through the hallway, collateral damage was inadvertently being done as multiple busts of famous ponies (including the Elements of Harmony) were being knocked over by yaks, banners were ripped as horny male griffons got caught by its silky fabric like flies on a net trap, and carpets were burned aimlessly as dragons attempt to shoo away their competition for that priceless voluptuous photo of Professor Fluttershy's large round yellow derriere! Every other creature who saw the oncoming train of sweaty muscular yaks, dragons, griffons, stallions and mares ran away as fast as they could to save themselves from being trampled to death. Some students managed to find their designated classrooms on time and took shelter from the oncoming mob, while others were still struggling to catch their breath as they head towards an intersection of the hallways. From behind, every creature, including Gallus, could hear every rambling word from the chaotic horde.

"HEY, me saw it first!! Me call dibs on hot sexy photo!! Gruffs² should know better to no fight yaks!"

"You blackhorns³ better buzz off before I wrestle you all to the ground!! We may not have your muscles, but we can still carry you and throw you off the windows!"

"Buzz off, you stingy drake⁴! Before I use my crepuscular magic on your wings!!"

"HA, even if you DO get your hands on that photo, you wouldn't be able to outbid me! I have TONS of piled up gold-stashes back at home to outbid all of you trotters⁵!!"

Gallus could not believe they were still on his tail for that photo. Though he was very eager to sell them to the highest bidder, he was too afraid to stop now as let the photo fall into those greedy hands, claws and talons. They would end up voraciously fighting each other for the single photo and unintentionally ripped it apart, thereby leaving the ruined photo completely worthless. He had to find a location up high where the grounded ungulates could not reach him, but he also had to deal with his winged griffon kin and the rival dragons who could catch up to him. It was at this short glimpse of a moment that he spotted a nearby observation tower from the hallway window.

"YES!!", Gallus thought. He would go forth and fly out of the window, take shelter within the highest quarters of the tower and lock himself in, before the flyers get their chance to wrestle the photo out of his talon. It sounded like the perfect plan.

Too bad he didn't had the chance to implement it on time!

"EVERY CREATURE, HAAALLLTTT!!!", yelled out a certain pinkish-purple unicorn with a swirled grape violet-and-teal striped mane, wearing a red-violet wool suit and dark brown silk pants. Using her massive freezing stasis spell taught by her former mentor Princess Twilight Sparkle, she was able to stop the entire horde (and Gallus) from proceeding any further.

"GAAAHH, Headmare Starlight Glimmer!!", gawked Gallus in surprise as his photo of Fluttershy's butt was simultaneously levitated away from his talon. "HEY, my priced photo!"

Headmare Starlight perused at the photo and made a very disdained scrunched-up face.

"Ooohh, now I see what the ruckus is all about! Siiigghh, boys these days!" Starlight groaned as she used her levitating magic to ripped up the lewd photo into a million pieces. Every male creature behind Gallus let out a big loud sad "OOOOOAAAAAHHHHH!!", while simultaneously every female creature excitedly shouted out a big "PPPHHEEWW!!"

"Is THIS how you creatures treat your fellow companions??! Racing and beating each other over for a little photo of one of your highly-respected teachers??! This is NOT why you boys signed up for the School of Friendship!! HMPH, and I thought you knew better than to push each other away and focus on your own ego during competitive match-ups!", shouted the livid Headmare Starlight as the male athletic students hung their heads in shame. Few of the girls started shouting appraisals for the Headmare, though they too were not spare a harsh scolding either.

"And YOU ladies! Aren't you supposed to be in class just as the bell had rung??! Kind of a waste of academic time to be playing the vigilantes, huh? I know you girls had moral intentions, but I would appreciate it much more if you just came over to my office to report the incident, instead of trying to handle this maniacal catastrophe yourselves. Just like Yona and Smolder...", explained the stern yet understanding headmare.

"Those two damn snitches!!", angrily thought Gallus as he scrunched up his face.

"SIGH! We're sorry, Headmare Starlight Glimmer", said all the athlete students in sad unison.

"Apology accepted, every creature." replied Headmare Starlight with a glad tone, before she changing to her stern tone and exclaimed, "Now every creature has five minutes to head to their own classes, before I decide to set you ALL back to one year of your academic progress!"

With that threat in mind, every athletic creature got a major fright of spending an extra year in the School of Friendhship and they hastened themselves to their next classes in an effort to appease their strict headmare.

"NOT YOU, GALLUS!!" shouted Headmare Starlight as Gallus was close to flying away.

"Get down from here THIS INSTANCE!", ordered Headmare Starlight with a disappointing tone, causing Gallus to wince in shame and gulp loudly with nervous anticipation of his upcoming. Gallus lands softly onto the ground with his sky-blue feline legs as they shake violently like a pair of massaging wands.

Then, with an angry glare staring onto Gallus' nervous side-swiping eyes, Starlight Glimmer ordered Gallus with these dreadful instructions: "MEET ME in my personal office, right now!"

----------(MEANWHILE AT THE TEACHER'S LOUNGE)----------

It was a very exhausting day for the Element of Kindness at the School of Friendship, and yet the day was yet to be completed. She had a lot of errands to run to educate the young minds on her custom curriculum with a variety of life skill courses required to live among the current multi-diverse society. Such lessons included responsibility with animal care-taking, civic duties from performing volunteer charity work, life-saving knowledge with first-aid basic veterinary training and environmental self-sufficiency at their local school fruit gardens at the recently built greenhouse. But no matter how hard these tasks may be, she still enjoys spreading her life experiences and wisdom to each new generation, because she knows that each seed she nurtures will grow and spread its influence worldwide to maintain harmony across the globe, just like how the Tree of Harmony did when it was first planted by the Pillars of Equestria.

"Good afternoon, Fluttershy. I've seen you had a really tough crabby day today.", greeted the C-cupped apple-farming blonde-maned cowgirl professor mare, who was lounging on one of the fuschia couches at the center of the teacher's lounge. She was wearing her usual red plaid-shirt and brown denim pants held by a vinyl belt.

"Oh, no need to worry about me, Applejack. I just ran into a major bumpy obstacle at the hoof-ball field---but everything's all fine now! Rodruiguez is all safe and sound back at his cage and I already had Headmare Starlight taken care of the rest of my problems!", replied Fluttershy as she gave off an optimistic smile.

"HA, lemme guess! You were harassed by some of my macho athletes again, huh??! Well, if they do anything funny and questionable to you, you know where to find me! Sometimes you had to break a few eggs to make an omelette, am I right?!" boasted the rainbow-maned B-cupped pegasus girl with the dark blue hoodie jacket and yoga pants. As Rainbow was lounging on another fuschia couch and spinning her red rubber ball, Fluttershy swiped the ball from her and replied with stern yet soft toned manner,

"I already told you, Rainbow Dash. I have no interest in implementing violence on any of our students. It may be how you keep your hard-headed students in line, but I feel like this method would only build resentment towards the authority dedicated to protecting our citizens. That's why I have to show them compassion, even when I dole out harsh punishments by taking away their privileges.". Fluttershy later threw back the ball to Rainbow Dash and proceeded to the kitchen table to overlook her own course dossier.

"And that, my dear Rainbow, is why Fluttershy is ONCE again, rewarded the "Teacher of the Month" by the entire student voting population!", hollered the pale-coated swirly violet-maned schoolmarm unicorn mare. "You have won so many awards, we had to build an extra room to store all your self-portraits and trophies! I say, you are becoming quite the superstar like Rainbow Dash over here!"

"HA, when she wins a rewards in 'Best Buck ball Coach' AND 'Best Cheerleader Coach', then I'll be impressed", teased Rainbow Dash out of pure jealousy for Fluttershy's achievements.

"Rarity! Nice to see you feeling so excited and ready for afternoon classes. You finally got back your own teacher's uniform!", complimented Fluttershy as she admired Rarity's blue-buttoned up shirt and knee-high violet dress.

"Well, it took a pretty long period for the delivery mare to fetch my dry-cleaning after that unfortunate mud incident at the school entrance!", replied Rarity as she prepared herself with some green tea at the kitchen counter. "I had to borrow sport uniforms from the gymnasium on such sort notice in the morning! Do you have any idea how hard it was to teach with Rainbow's small tanktop and buruma⁶ shorts?!", Rarity cried in frustration as she looked back on the terrible memories of her male students ogling, snickering and tongue wagging behind her back. It was really frustrating for her to keep her students' attentions on the lessons at hand, as they were too distracted by her puffy marshmallow bottom and tightly bound milk-white bosoms.

"Kerhehepfftt!", chuckled Rainbow Dash as she tried to keep her mouth closed. "Well, now that you mentioned it, from what I heard in the hallways, every creature was gossiping about how your triple J sized breasts were being squeezed tightly by that tank top! Sorry I couldn't find anything bigger, but we don't exactly have too many uniforms fit for plus-sized students, as they were already taken by the griffons, drakes and blackhorns in my class."

"At least you didn't had to deal with having a picture of your most delicate private parts taken by a sly griffon photographer, Rarity. Thank goodness that Starlight Glimmer enacted 'no cameras' rule during class time", Fluttershy replied with relief. Afraid that Rainbow will go after Gallus out of emotional shock, she chose not to reveal the name of her perpetrator.

"Say WHAT?!", exclaimed Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity in shock.

"Hehehe, it's---kinda the reason why you were hearing so much noise and felt the intense rumbling from the floor level below. Everyone was chasing for that scandalous photo. But as I already mentioned, I already had Starlight Glimmer took care of it", Fluttershy nervously chuckled as she blushed.

"SIGH, reminds of that time the CMCs took clandestine photos of our private moments, doesn't it?", replied Rarity with a disappointing sigh. "I can't imagine why any creature would take advantage to a high-ranking teacher like that!"

"Well, look on the bright side, Rarity! Your change from a conservative to openly exposed fashion skyrocketed your polls in second-place as the 'Teacher of the Month' award nominee by the students, so THAT'S gotta count for something---!", snickered Rainbow Dash as she smiled about the silver lining in Rarity's predicament.

"OW!!!", Rainbow blurted out in pain after she got hit in the head by Rarity's meter stick.

"I'll have you know that my generosity in providing basic clothing for the impoverished proportion of my classroom, the field trips to the clothes donation charities in Manehattan and the gem rewards I had collected from the local caverns for my dragon students are what made one of the most respected teachers in this school! We are senior educators of this EEA-approved establishment, so start acting like it or so Celestia help me!", scolded the upset Rarity in response to Rainbow Dash's teasing.

"HEY, I just joking around, okay?! There's no need to get pissed!", shouted Rainbow as he rubbed her head in pain.

Suddenly, a pink chubby double J-cup Earth Equestrian with a poofy fuschia mane popped out of nowhere and said, "Strange! You get upset when Fluttershy gets harassed, but you don't seem to mind Rarity getting cat-called by her own students! You sure you're still not pining over Fluttershy's engagement????!"

"GEEAAAHH!!", stuttered Rainbow Dash as her skin prickles from both fear and shock. Then she began rambling and blabberin out loud, "I-I-I d-d-don't know what you're talking about, Pinkie Pie!! Of COURSE I care about Rarity! She just gets on my nerve sometimes and I feel like that the circumstances she's experiencing is karma for all the stupid dress modelling sessions she put me through---!"

"OH DASHIE, you know I can read EVERYPONY like an open book!", Pinkie sneered as she put on her conniving grin. As she shoved her face close to Rainbow's, her slightly loose striped blue tank top struggled to hold tight her pair of large pink balloons on her chest and her yellow canvas shorts were tightly wedging onto her butt crack as she bends over.

"But don't fret! As my Nana Pinkie once said, 'At first when you don't succeed in your catch of the day, always remember there are plenty of seagulls around the sea!'", cheered Pinkie Pie with an exceedingly optimistic grin.

"Uh, don't you mean fish?!", questioned Rainbow Dash as she groans.

"You know what!? You are absolutely right, Dashie! Seagulls DO love to gather around the stench of dead fish in the morning!", humored Pinkie Pie as she took something out of the kitchen oven.

"UUGGGHHH, no I mean---!". Before Rainbow Dash can finish her sentence, Pinkie Pie shoved a piece of caffeinated chocolate cake into her mouth.

"No time to chit-chat!! You ladies need to get yourself energized if you wanna get through the rest of the school day!!", Pinkie Pie exclaimed as she munched quickly on her home-baked cake.

"Pinkie, you can't go out like that in that outfit!! It's not school appropriate demeanor!", cried Rarity as she was aghast by Pinkie's lack of dignity.

"Why? You endured such gazing treatment when you were dressed in a scantily clad fashion", replied Rainbow with a quirky tone.

"I HAD NO CHOICE, YOU IMBECILE!! That uniform of mine was made from the finest cashmere and silk, so it will cost me a lot of fortune for me to replace!" retorted Rarity as she shouted in anger.

"See what I mean by biased empathy towards Fluttershy and Rarity?", asked Pinkie Pie.

Applejack got up from the fuschia couch and went over to pick up her own dossier of her honesty class curriculum on the round kitchen table. "Anywaaayy, I better skedaddle to my class, before the youngins' get worried sick about my absence!"

Fluttershy suddenly realized why she was at the teacher's lounge in the first place and proceeded to flip through her dossier to remind herself about what lessons she had planned for today.

"Oh, it's almost 5:15 pm! I need to gather all my fabric material for the quilting class!", exclaimed Rarity as she scrambled to find her dossier in one of the wooden file cabinets.

After Rainbow finished a portion of the caffeinated cake, she cried, "Hey PINKIE, don't forget to relocate your party cannon out from Starlight's office! I don't want you to get scolded for leaving unsecured ordnance while students are around!"

"C'mon, Dashie! Don't be silly! In comical fanfictions, you won't get punished for even setting off a nuclear bomb!⁷" joked Pinkie Pie with a grimdark yet humorous manner. "Though strangely you still may be disintegrated into oblivion or petrified into a statue for world domination if this were a canon-based fanfiction, sooo there's that..."

"Enough with your silly riddle speak, Pinkie! Just fetch the cannon before Starlight gets back to her office! You're the only insanely strong Equestrian out there who can get it out without blowing off its load", shouted Rainbow Dash as she fetches her dossier.

"Ahhh, there we go! 'How to Set up Your very own Animal Sanctuary, Part II'", Fluttershy read as she browsed through her dossier. Then suddenly, a burst of green enchanted flame popped right out of nowhere!!

"KYAAAAHHH!!", shouted Fluttershy with shocking surprise and a dark rosy blush.

"OH, I'm so sorry for barging in like that, Professor", apologized the blue-shelled rosey-eyed male changedling.

"Cornicle??! What are you doing here?!", asked the bedazzled Professor Fluttershy.

"I just wanna say 'Good afternoon' and 'Congratulations on winning again!", Cornicle nervously chattered before he hastenly transformed into a tiny ladybug and flew out the door of the teacher's lounge.

"Seriously, are you kidding me??!! That's like the 1000th student break-in at our teacher's lounge! It's like our personal break room has turned into a VIP celebrity casting studio!", complained Rainbow Dash.

"If those students all came to the room just to compliment you each and every morning and afternoon, you wouldn't be complainin' like a stuck-up diva...", mumbled Applejack to Rainbow Dash as she was ready to leave the teacher's lounge.

"Oh, Fluttershy!", exclaimed Rarity as she finally found her own dossier. She somehow managed to catch a glimpse of something oddly new on Fluttershy's documents. "There's something sticking out of your dossier pages. I think your student placed some sort of letter in there."

"Wait, don't tell me---!", Rainbow groaned with frustration.

Fluttershy flipped through the rest of her dossier and found what looks like to be a whole bunch of 15 love letters and romantic cards specifically addressed to her. She was amazingly aghasted by how clandestine her students were in sending out their inscribed confessions of amour to avoid humiliation from her other peers. Every creature in the student population already knew she was to be engaged with the Lord of Chaos, but with such an amazing hourglass figure and a reputation of keeping her students continuously high-spirited, it was no surprise that Professor Fluttershy would receive such cringey fan letters from her male students.

"Oh, I KNEW this would happen!! WELL, might as well show you the rest of them..." Rainbow Dash shouted angrily with groaning pains as she opened up one of the metal filing cabinets. She later took out a huge bundle of even MORE love letters addressed to the beloved Professor Fluttershy and piled them high onto the floor. Needless to say, the pile of love letters for Fluttershy was able to reach up to the teacher's waistline.

----------(OUT IN THE SCHOOL HALLWAY)----------

"I'm so sorry for not mentioning to you earlier, Fluttershy.", said Rarity with a concerned frown as she and her friends walked to their designated classrooms. "Apparently, a couple of your own students from your class had been sneaking in a whole bunch of love letters into your dossier. I only noticed it when a couple of them fell out while I was collecting our documents."

"With many letters stuffed in my filing cabinet, I think those letters may had come from every male student in the school that had a crush on me!", deduced Fluttershy as she carried her box of students' love letters.

"Gaaahh, not even I get that much fan mail from my students, and I'm supposed to be the most awesomest gym coach in Ponyville! It's SO frustrating!!", shouted Rainbow in a jealous fiery rage.

"As much as it pains for the students to hear it, you really need to address this growing issue before this situation gets outta hand." advised Applejack as she expressed perturbation on her face. "These lovesick students need to know that teacher-and-student relationships would never work out, considering the age gap between you and your students"

"Gee, I wish I get that much fan mail in my lounge!! Heck, I'll even accept invitations to their own festivities if they wanted to! It'll give me a chance to learn about foreign cultures AND party all around the world!", exclaimed Pinkie Pie with a scrunched-up squishy face. "I better remind myself to set an invitation box by the teacher's lounge!"

"Well, there's my next classroom! Wish me luck!" hollered Fluttershy as she approached to her own home classroom. She was struggling to get a handle on the doorknob, while also holding a big box of these love letters.

"Fluttershy!" interrupted Applejack as she wanted to say one last word to her best friend before class starts.

"Yes, Applejack?", questioned Fluttershy after grabbing the doorknob.

"...Try not to break your students' hearts too irrationally...", said the worried Applejack.

"Applejack, I know how to handle this delicately. This isn't the first time I experienced something like this, even if this was taken to a large scale...", replied Fluttershy before entering her home classroom.

"Right....see ya!", Applejack hollered as she said his farewell before leaving for her own class session.

----------(AT PROFESSOR FLUTTERSHY'S HOME CLASSROOM)----------

As the number of classmates in Fluttershy's home classroom continued to grow, chaos was already building up for the youthful creatures, though it was not as calamitous as the one continuing outside in the hallways. Safe from Gallus' entourage horde, all the tween nymphs, fledglings, drakes, calves, kirins, fillies and colts were too busy goofing off as they were waiting for their favorite homeroom teacher to arrive. Changedling nymphs were acting out as comedians by transforming into and imitating impressions of their professors. Drakes were holding fire breathing contests out from the school balcony window, as they know that performing their stunts indoors would risk the classroom catching fire. Griffon and hippogriff fledglings were playing a little game of tag with the other young hyperactive pegasi, knocking over some bins, baskets, boxes and other classroom items in the process (much to the annoyance of a few older, well-behaved and educated creatures who were trying to study hard for their test). Meanwhile, the big young calves were doing battle in their own mini-wrestling game, much like what their own previous forefathers and current fathers as part of ancient tradition. As for the smaller calves, they acted as both cheerleaders and spectators of the entire horn-shoving sport for the own made-up teams. The rest of the other older creatures of all races typically go for the old traditional miniature free-for-all wars with paper gliders, spitballs, crumbled papers and rubber bands.

As the minute hand on the wall clock struck 15 past 5 pm, a girl's voice was called out as soon as Professor Fluttershy came into the room with a slightly heavy box full of various pink, red and white letters. As she carried her box to her teaching desk, she was taken aback by her students' rambunctious rowdiness.

Realizing their immediate change in circumstance, a dragon girl's voice suddenly called out, "GUYS, every creature to their seats, the Professor is here!!". As soon as they took a glimpse of their beloved teacher, all the students immediately ceased their hooligan shenanigans and quickly proceeded to their designated angled desks.

"Thank you, Smolder", said Professor Fluttershy before she addressed to the whole class.

"Everypony, please stand up and face the blackboard", commanded Professor Fluttershy with a strict yet gentle tone.

"Good afternoon, Professor Fluttershy", greeted the entire class of young creatures with the utmost respect in unison.

"Good afternoon, my students. Please sit down", ordered Professor Fluttershy before the class obediently took their seats on their stools.

Professor Fluttershy then proceeded with her discussion with the students. "Now, before we can all begin with today's course, I want to address a very long-standing issue that I had only recently discovered back in the teacher's lounge"

Professor Fluttershy then grabbed the box and dumped a small pile of love letters onto her teacher's desk. Every young creature was held speechless over the large volume of love letters that may had been collected over the course of several weeks. Little did they know they had only seen a portion of a mountain of these romantic letters.

"WOAH, that's a LOTTA mail!! Are those from your pen pals??!!", yelled a specific bespectacled white pegasus colt with a purple bowl-shaped mane, purple vest, green Qing cap and black wool pants.

"DUDE, what did I tell you??!! No speaking while the Professor is lecturing!", one green colt whispered loudly with anxiety. The white pegasus blushed and sheepishly apologized to the class.

"As I was saying...", Professor Fluttershy interrupted in an effort to finish her sentences. "I know that all of you young creatures are already at their 4th grade year in their junior friendship semester, and I expected that all of you be prepared for my upcoming assignment, as well as for the Friendship Mid-terms within a few months."

Professor Fluttershy then spread and laid out the love letters on the desk before continuing on with her discussion.

"And as much as I am humbly flattered by all of your admiring written compliments and romantic gestures for the most favored teacher of all time, I will highly appreciate it if all of my students spend most of their time studying hard throughout their year-long junior semester for their mid-terms, instead of wasting their time competing with love letters for my affections that were already taken a very long time ago."

Fluttershy then proceeded to open up and skim through one of the love letters, before commenting, "Most of the letters I had read contained many punctual symbols and some new slang words that I am not familiar with. Some do not even have the proper spelling and grammar of the Equestrian written language. I hope you will not be using that kind of language on your friendship essays, because that will not get you a high score on your final mark."

Fluttershy then held up one of the love letters for the whole class to see before asking the students. "For instance, could you explain to me what this is supposed to mean?"

"U (〃￣ω￣〃) like a ---I<<@"

"OOOH OOH, I know this one!" hollered Smolder as she raised her claw to answer the question. "It means that you blush like a red rose! The @ symbol represents the blooming part of the flower". Every creature then chuckled with content with the message.

"And how do you explain THIS kind of message?" Professor Fluttershy asked as she held up another letter for the whole class to see.

"I ❤️ YUR thicc /( 0 Y 0 )\"

"I heart your thick owl eyes??!! I don't get it!", shouted the same loud boisterous pegasus colt who answered the question with confusion.

"Nooo, silly!!" hollered one furry light pink sea-blue maned hippogriff who raised her claw. "It's obviously short-hoofed speak for 'I love your thick boobies!'". Almost every creature then proceeded to boisterously laugh at the hippogriff's correct answer (almost every creature---because it was obvious that one of them in Fluttershy's class had written that lewd message and was too embarrassed to reveal himself as its sender)

As much as that message would cause Fluttershy to turn red like a popped cherry, she refused to give in and bravely maintained her bravado composure, before going on with her speech. "Well, as creative as those coded messages sound, my dear Silverstream, this type of language would not be tolerated by our teachers and staff from young creatures like you. So here is what I am proposing about what my entire class should do."

Fluttershy then lightly cleared her throat before proceeding with her plan. "Starting from today, I will neatly pile your love letters in this special box on that cornered desk, right by the classroom door. At the end of each class, every creature here will rummage through the box for their own love letters to take back home."

Most of the classroom awed with sadness and disappointment over her demands.

"I know this may sound like I don't appreciate your gestures, but you can't go around writing and sending romantic or inappropriate messages to adults that are beyond above your age. In fact, I don't think it would fascinate even love mates at your age when you're all grown up in the future", explained Professor Fluttershy as she piled up those love letters.

"I already feel love and affection from all my students by seeing you working hard, studying for your exams and passing the courses with high marks. You don't need to write me these letters to show me that, understand?", Professor Fluttershy continued as she placed the box of love letters at the cornered desk.

"Ummm, Professor! I was just wondering!" the white bespectacled pegasus hollered as he raised his hand. "What happens when some critch doesn't want to take back the letter?"

"Wait, did he just say---critch??? What's with this, dude?", whispered the green colt.

"I dunno, Sandbar. Maybe it's another slang word we haven't heard about." responded the whispering Silverstream.

"That's an excellent question! You see, it won't be just for today. I have a mountain-high pile of these same love letters stuffing up my filing cabinet at the teacher's lounge. That means there are students from other home classrooms that also had loving affections towards me, not just you students. Therefore, each and every day, I will also set another box of these love letters inside the teacher's lounge for the rest of the creatures to take back in private", answered Professor Fluttershy as she began to blush about the next important plan that would have easily made the old Fluttershy faint like a log.

She continued, "I want every creature here to spread the this important message to every creature in the student population: If you don't come by to the teacher's lounge to take back your letters within two days, I will have Professor Applejack read aloud these letters on the announcements for the whole student population to hear, and whoever wrote these letters will have their names announced before each letter reading!"

The whole classroom immediately erupted with shocking gasps and started to turn red over the thought that their deepest darkest secret love messages for Professor Fluttershy would be read aloud for the entire school to hear!

"You don't want your headmare to listen what you had written to your favorite teacher, would you? If any of these messages ended up being too naughty for the whole class to hear, imagine how that kind of message would affect your academic progress. I hate to see the headmare kick you out for using such foul language towards a professional", smirked the now sassy smart Professor Fluttershy. Every male creature in the classroom then nodded with agreement with their beloved professor and based on that kind of gesture, they would all agree to take back their lovey-dovey notes before the whole school would know about their deepest darkest fantasies with their hot teacher.

"WOAH, she managed to force every boy here to kow-tow to her, JUST LIKE THAT??!! You guys are right! She DOES deserve the best teacher award!!", exclaimed the shock-and-awed white bespectacled pegasus colt. "But wait! How did you even find out about those love letters in the first place?!"

"If it wasn't for Cornicle who did a bad job hiding his envelope, I would've not find out it sooner", answered the smiling and smirking Professor Fluttershy. Everypony groaned with resentment over that idiotic slip-up.

"THAT DAMN HORSE BUGGY⁸!! He ruined everything!!", is what the whole male student body may be thinking about right now...

"SO, now that we have that out of the way, it's time to introduce our new foreign exchange student in our classroom today! He came all this way from the land of Far Eastern Equestrian to meet you all! Will our new student please come up to the board and introduce yourself?", Professor Fluttershy requested.

"OOOH BOY, my turn to shine!!", shouted the excited white pegasus purple bowl-maned colt who was sitting at the far top-left of the class. He stood up and immediately presented himself on the front side of the classroom. He then proceeded with an upright posture and gave out a salute before presenting himself.

"Ni-hao, every critch-ure!!", greeted the white pegasus colt. "My name is 小蘿蔔頭 (Siu loe baak taoi), which in my native language, means 'Tiny Turnip Head'!"

Smolder then snickered and almost gave out a huge laugh, while attempting to cover her mouth. "PPPFFFTTT, Tiny Turnip Head??! Is this pony boy for real??"

Silverstream then whispered to Smolder, "Geez, he's such a hyperactive little peggy⁹, isn't he?!"

"Seriously??", Smolder replied with a low monotone voice.

"I hope that all of you will have an excellent time with me today!! Don't underestimate my miniature stature and my name, fellas!! I may be small, but my brain is actually brimming full of big ideas!!", shouted the excited Tiny Turnip Head as he leaped for joy.

Professor Fluttershy replied respectfully, "Thank you! That will be for---"

"Just you wait! You partner up with me and we'll be the best awesomest working duo of all time!", continued the loudmouth Turnip Head.

"Okay, I think that will be all---", Professor Fluttershy attempted to interrupt, but Turnip was still not done yet.

"I learn from the best, because my foster parent happens to be the smartest, most wisest and most amazing stallion of all!! HE'S---!!" Then, suddenly a series of loud clangs and bangs rang through his ears as Tiny Turnip Head was just about to finish his sentence! Tiny Turnip Head's brain had just been rattled to its core and placed the little tot into a complete daze.

Professor Fluttershy was holding her special silencing bell and her stern expression was enough to convey the message to Turnip Head that he was done with his introduction and he had to return back to his seat.

Professor Fluttershy then took a peek at his class and immediately started blushing with a nervous smile. "Uhhhh, thank you, Turnip! That was a really nice introduction", complimented Professor Fluttershy. Every creature in the class groaned with questionable doubt about that outlandish performance, but attempted to give out fake smiles as to not embarrass the new student in town.

"I hope you will have an excellent experience at your new school, Turnip. I certainly love that you already possess that inner school spirit within you and that you are ready to be educated on the magic of friendship." Professor Fluttershy complimented even further to break the awkward intense silence in the classroom. "Now, onto today's lesson---"

*KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK!* goes the wooden door.

"HEY! 對唔住 (Doiy oum jyu)¹⁰!", an unexpected male voice with a Far Eastern Equestrian accent spoke out from the hallway after the classroom door opened.

Professor Fluttershy was caught off guard by the uninvited visit from another Far Eastern Equestrian. Standing right by the door was a medium tall thin yellow Earthen stallion about her height and he was wearing a pair of brown-plaid patterned pants, a three-buttoned black silk vest, a pair of round glasses and a red-and-black Qing cap. As strange as his getup might be, Fluttershy attempted to maintain her composure and idol-figured image as the Element of Kindness and walked over to the strange stallion man who looked like he was in need of some informational guidance.

The strange yellow stallion man told to Professor Fluttershy, "I just so happened to find myself lost within these hallways and couldn't find my way to the headmare's office. Do you think you could point me into the right direction?". Every creature in the class gazed on wondrous awe, curiosity and bewilderment at the stallion with the eccentric traditional Far Equestrian outfit. Some of the students even laughed at him for even making himself known to the classroom, even if it was for something so trivial.

"Who is this weirdo?! Why are his huge buttons arranged horizontally? Shouldn't they be in a vertical fashion?", whispered Smolder with a query look on her face.

"I think it looks cool on him! I got to try that design some time when Professor Rarity hands out another dress assignment!", whispered the excited Silverstream as she gazed at the eccentrically dressed Far Eastern Equestrian.

"OH, you just take a walk across through this hallway and then take a left turn at the first intersection", answered Fluttershy with a sweet kind demeanor.

"Oh, thank you very much, ma---HEY!! YOU!! 唔好郁! (Hm hoy yoke!)¹¹", shouted the angry yellow stallion man as he pointed at Tiny Turnip Head.

"AAAH, Young Master Zhi!!! It's not what it looks like!!", shouted Turnip Head. The little pegasus colt was actually just about to swipe the love letters out of the cornered box as the Professor was not looking.

Everypony in the room started erupting with gasps, confused screams and befuddlement!

"WHAT THE---did he just called him 'Master'??!!"

"He actually knows this weirdo??!!"

"Don't tell me he's actually friends with him!!"

"OH MAN, we were so close to getting rid of ALL those letters!!"

Tiny Turnip Head sheepishly blushed with embarassment as he stared at the upset gaze of his foster father.

"What do you think you're doing trying to get in front of the classroom without your teacher's knowledge, huh??!", shouted Master Zhi as the classroom continued to giggle at Tiny Turnip Head.

"UHHH, JUST NOTHING!! Just making sure these letters are neatly piled, that's all!!", shouted Turnip Head as he rapidly flew back to the far end of the classroom where his seat is.

"UH-OH, BUSSTTEEDD!!", shouted Smolder as he smiled with glee at his epic failure.

"MAN, he was at first the hyperactive student wannabe, but then his---master??--came into the room and he suddenly became all bashful??!", questioned the confused Sandbar.

"Awww, poor guy! That must be like his foster dad! It must be so embarrassing for him to be caught like that!" pitied Silverstream.

"Hehe, sorry about that, Missy!", apologized Master Zhi. "I'm going to be on my way now and let you get on with your classes now! 再見 (Joy geen)¹²", said Master Zhi as he bowed to her and bid farewell to the professor out of respect.

As Master Zhi walked himself out of the hallway and hummed a random tune to himself, he looked down on the floor and saw some tiny creepy-crawly coming straight at him.

"AAAAAHH COCKROACH!!!! SHOO!! SHOO!! GO AWAY!!", shouted the scared Master Zhi as he desparately tried to side swipe the cockroack out of his way.

Unfortunately, that caused his black-and-white shoe to immediately let loose, bounced off from a nearby marble bust behind him and hit him at the back of the head!

"HEY, who the hell hit me at the back of the head??!!! DAMN KIDS!!"

Suddenly, the cockroach suddenly transformed into Cornicle the changedling, who felt aghast by the angry Far Eastern Equestrian who had now fell onto his bum onto the carpet floor.

"OOH, I am SOOO sorry, sir!! I REALLY didn't mean to startle you!!", apologized Cornicle.

"What the---??!! 你傻咗咩 (Neiy shaw zhaw meh)¹³?!! Are you trying to give me a heart attack, you daft jangly¹⁴??!!", shouted the angry Young Master Zhi.

"Cornicle, you're 15 minutes late! You know what this means?", Fluttershy suddenly said as she opened the door to see what the commotion was about.

"Aww man! I was THIS close to sneaking into the classroom unnoticed through the door cracks!", groaned Cornicle. He knew he had to stay after school to clean the poop from the animal cages as punishment.

"You know that doesn't work that way, even if you managed to sneak in unnoticed...", Professor Fluttershy said with a disappointing tone.

"I knoooowww", Cornicle agreed with a sad tone as he entered the classroom with his teacher.

"MAN, what a strange kinda fellow he is!", commented Young Master Zhi as he continued on his way to the headmare's office.

---END

Author's Notes:

1. Fresh meat: A new inexperienced student on their first year in school; originally used to describe new incoming prisoners

2. Gruffs: griffons (named after the unpopular griffon caretaker, Grandpa Gruff)

3. Blackhorns: yaks and/or naks

4. Drakes: male dragons (though it may occasionally be used for both genders, just like with the word "yak")

5. Trotters: Earthen Equestrians (though it may occasionally be used for any type of ungulate Equestrian race)

6. Buruma: Japanese sport shorts (from Japanized English word "bloomers")

7. This joke was based off this Chinese comic strip from 1968-1972
https://www.oldmasterq.com/_STRIPS/B1238.jpg

8. Horse Buggy: changeling

9. Peggy: Short for 'pegasus'

10. Cantonese for "Excuse me"
https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Excuse%20me.&from=en&to=yue

11. Cantonese for "DO NOT MOVE!"
https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Do%20not%20move!&from=en&to=yue

12. Cantonese for "Bye bye"
https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Bye%20Bye&from=en&to=yue

13. Cantonese for "Are you crazy?"
https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=Are%20you%20crazy%3F&from=en&to=yue

14.Jangly: Corrupt pronunciation of the word "changeling"