Princess Cadence began to recall on how she and her pals from magic school nearly got in trouble for getting into a fight, and winning it outright in the end. But before Cadence can begin; Sombra starts to ask her; “hang on now... you got into a fight? A magic high school fight? Seriously? How?” Cadence got a little bit embarrassed by that question, and nods her head with a blush. Sombra then continues by saying; “wow; way to go princess, hehe. Good job.” Cadence got even more embarrassed by that cheer, and covers her face with her wings from embarrassment. Shining Armor then clears his throat, and asks; “aren’t you gonna start? Or do you want me to tell it?” Sombra looks towards Shining with a raised eyebrow, and asks; “you know that story already?” Shining Armor nodded his head, and replies; “yes I have. But I’m not gonna spoil it; yet.” Sombra then says; “alright”, and turns towards Princess Cadence; “please continue.” Cadence then took some deep breaths to calm herself down, regains her composure, and then starts telling the story.

“When I was a teenage filly, my friends and I were just walking to our lockers to grab our stuff; when suddenly we hear that these mean girls from one of our classes is picking on this new girl. Her name is unknown, but she does have a yellow coat with light blueish hair, dimples, glasses, a small mouselike pink nose, and a goofy smile whenever she’s smiling like a rodents’; in a good way.” Sombra snickered a bit, but gestures Cadence to continue. She took a deep breath before saying; “as for the bully... she was basically like Mrs. Cheerilee, but with a horn, and frills of hair instead of a smooth one.” Sombra then says; “ooh, so like the mean girls version of the teacher. Okay; I see where this is going.”

Flurry Heart got a bit uncomfortable and gets a little closer to King Sombra while leaning against him. Shining begins to ask; “what’s wrong?” and looks at her daughter. Flurry Heart begins to babble; “me no wike dis stowy. It mean.” Sombra sighs, then nonchalantly says; “well I mean, yeah. It’s a story about your mom and her friends getting into a school fight with a bunch of mean girls in magic school. If you don’t wanna listen to the story, you can either go take a nap, or just go play. You don’t necessarily have to listen you know; it’s okay.” Flurry Heart nodded, and babbled; “owkay”, before climbing up to Sombra, and holding onto him while laying her head down on his shoulder and sucking on one of her forehooves.” Sombra dawwed at that, and then turns to Cadence to gesture her to continue. Cadence clears her throat, and then continues her story.

After the story; Flurry Heart is now whimpering and covering her face against Sombra’s chest because she doesn’t like the story about the school fight at all. Cadence sighs, then says while smiling sheepishly; “I guess maybe I went a little far with describing the story huh? Hehe... oops.” Sombra sighs, then says; “oh you think? Your own daughter is just moments away from crying her eyes out; (metaphorically of course). Cadence then says; “I’m sorry. But how am I supposed to...”. Before she could finish her sentence; Sombra shushed her, and says; “but nothing, okay? Next time you tell a story like that, you make it as foal, kid, or filly friendly as you possibly can, alright? Don’t just describe in greater detail; make it kid friendly too, alright? Geez!” Cadence looks ashamed of herself, and says; “I’m sorry”, before looking down at the ground in shame.

After a few minutes of silence; Shining Armor then says; “alright. How about we take a break, and then we’ll continue the story telling circle; okay?” All agreed and nodded, then Shining Armor said; “great; let’s go.” With that, everyone got up, and then went to do separate things as a means to spend their break time, and such.

After Cadence and Shining Armor have gone to the bathroom and grabbed a snack, King Sombra playing with Flurry Heart for a bit and having a bit of combat training with a royal guard, and Flurry Heart playing with King Sombra and acting all cute in front of the guards that’re by her room, all four of them have met back into Flurry Heart’s bedroom, and are discussing on what they should do for their other storytelling circle.

After what seemed like five minutes, Flurry Heart looks as if she had a story to tell, but hesitates. Sombra turned to Flurry and asked; “what’s wrong?” Flurry Heart started to blush, and flew up to King Sombra to whisper something in his ear. Soon after that, it was his turn to blush. The parents were asking him what’s wrong, but he kept denying it. After some persuasion, King Sombra sits down on the ground, sits Flurry Heart down on his lap again, and starts to clear his throat. “Okay now... before I can tell you this story; keep in mind that it was not your fault for Flurry Heart having a story like this, and it doesn’t mean that you’re bad parents and all; it’s just that she’s somehow came up with that idea for a story, and decides to just go with it.” Both parents nodded their heads in agreement, and slowly sat back down on the ground as well. “Okay”, King Sombra began as he clears his throat one last time; “here we go...”.

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