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First off; Humanized story, with magic. Strange enough already right? Let me explain *ahem* It's a new year at Starswirl the Bearded's most prized magic school. With a new year brings a new student. He's joining as Junior, which means two whole years of the high school missing. How soon can he fit in, and who can he relate to?

The school bell rang as kids started walking in to their respective classes. Except for the one that should be there.

The annoying buzzing of the clock has been going off for over an hour. The boy asleep on the bed, his blonde-black mixed hair a mess, and drool dripping from his mouth. He slowly awoke, hearing this buzzing he looked at the clock. The display slowly got into vision, it read '10:32 AM'. "Crap!" he yelled getting up quickly.

He ran to the bathroom while throwing off his PJ shirt. He brushed his hair quickly. He grabbed his contact case and put them in. After the right contact, he almost put in the left when it fell, "Seriously?" He grabbed the contact off the counter and cleaned it slightly then placed it in.

After his bathroom trip, he changed into his uniform. Some people abuse their magic for stuff like this, but Rian was never one to do this. He ran out of the house, but stopped outside the door. It's pouring. He went back inside to grab an umbrella, and without the rain, he would have forgotten his backpack as well.

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Walking through the hallways, Rian noticed how deserted they were. He walked to his classroom, memorizing - to his best ability - the map of the school. He was glad that the school started later in the day, so he had only missed 30 minutes and half of first period.

He knocked on the door of room 3-4. The door opened, revealing the teacher. Rian had said, "Sorry I'm late, I kinda... woke up late."

"I'm guessing your..."

"Rian."

"Ah, yes." The teacher stepped back, allowing Rian to walk in. "There is an empty seat in the back you can take."

"Thanks," he nodded at the teacher and walked to the back of the classroom, feeling everybody staring at him. Right before he sat down the teacher continued speaking.

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"Coming late to school huh?" said a rainbow-haired girl right after the bell rang. "That's pretty bold."

"It was an accident, I over-slept."

"Uh-huh."

"Seriously, I'm a heavy sleeper, it's hard to wake up."

"Keep telling yourself that."

Rian looked at the only other abstract thing about her, her magenta eyes. She was sitting in front of him. "I will, because it's the truth."

"Whatever," Rainbow rolled her eyes. "So, how long have you been practicing magic?"

"Um... My whole life, I guess. Ever since I was young, my uncle always mentored me in magic, before he died."

"I'm sorry for you."

"Nah, don't be. He was a great man. He really helped me learn. That's kind of why I'm here now. He homeschooled me with magic and everything else, and he said to come to this school if something were to ever happen to him."

"Aha... Did he come to this school as well?"

"Um..." he had to lie, "Yeah, he went to school here." He couldn't tell anybody about his past. It's not that he couldn't, but didn't want to.

"Cool, I guess. So, what do you major in?"

"Uh, sorry, what?"

"What spells are you trying to master. You know, fire, water, lighting, levitation, fighting, stuff like that."

"Oh, that." He gave a small chuckle. "It's actually, dark-ish spells."

"'Dark-ish,' what do you mean?"

"Well, not 'dark' as in evil spells, but shadowy stuff."

"Shadowy?" she held back a chuckle, but snickered.

"You know what I mean."

"Can you show me something?"

"Uh..." He knew so many dark spells, both evil, and shadow kind. As he thought of one of his easier, soft-core, early spells, he held up his hand, "Look at the shadow." He did some shadow puppets.

"Shadow puppets? Seriously," she started to laugh.

He thought of one, simple trick. "Alright, here is something real." They both watched the shadows, they slowly started to fade.

"Alright? So what?"

"Look at everyone else's shadows. Ours are the only one's gone, and nobody else's have moved."

"So you're only able to make shadows disappear?"

"Yeah, I'm still working on it," he lied once more.

"That's some major you have."

"What do you have then?"

She held up her finger, and snapped. A flame appearing on the tip of her finger.

"Just a lighter trick?"

"Well I know better spells." She put her finger down as the flame disappeared, "It's just the middle of school."

"Then why don't you show me something after school?"

"Why?"

"So I can see how good you really are."

Rainbow wouldn't miss the chance of showing off, "Alright, I'll meet you after school."

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Lunch bell rang, and students ran to the lunch room. Rian watched in wonder, "Why is everyone running to the cafeteria?"

A country accent spoke to him, "Because this school has the best chefs around, and the good stuff only lasts so long."

He looked over to his side, he noticed the blonde, pony-tailed hair. "Is that so?"

"Yup, so if you want something good, you should probably teleport there."

Rian chuckled, "Teleporting is only for really powerful people, like Starswirl, isn't it?"

She joined the chuckle, "Yeah, I guess so."

"Anyway, I don't eat lunch in school. Not to mention, I tend to not eat lunch anyway."

"Yeah, same for me. I normally have an apple-diet."

"Apple-diet?"

"Yeah, you know, apple fritters, apple dumplings, apple pie-"

"Apple tarts, apple granita, apple crepes, apple turnovers?"

"You really know your apple-foods."

"Well, I... just happened to be cooking some apple-related foods myself."

"Really?"

"Yeah... no... I was, just guessing the whole thing."

"Good guesser."

"I am, I've actually learned this."

"You'd probably be good at exams this year, considering how you're new."

"How do you know I'm new?"

"I've never seen ya before, and you're kinda missin' somethin'," she pointed at her collar.

Rian looked down, he'd forgot his tie. "Damn." He looked back at her, "If it weren't raining and I forgot my umbrella, I'd forget my backpack as well."

"Typical for first-years here, always forgetting stuff."

"Well, I was always homeschooled at this kind of stuff."

"Homeschooled? It's hard to homeschool magic without family, who taught ya?"

"My uncle before he passed. But he taught me enough before he passed. He also told me to go here, that everything else I need to know would be taught here."

"Really?"

"Yeah, he helped me a lot during my life."

"Cool," she held out her hand, "I'm Applejack."

He shook it, "Rian."

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"So," said Rainbow, standing by a tree not too far from school. "What do you want to see first?"

"What's the best you got?" responded Rian as he set down his backpack.

"Well, I got this." Fire came up fast from her hand. Almost reaching the top of the tree.

"Whoa!" Rian quickly put out his hand, stopping Rainbow's fire.

"What?"

"I don't mind seeing your spells, but I rather not burn this tree."

"My question is, how did you stop my fire spell?"

"That's Fire magic 101."

"I don't know how to stop someone else's fire spell."

"That's cause all you know, that I've seen, is how to create and diminish fire at will, nothing more than that."

"Well then, what can you do?"

"We'd have to go back to my house for that, well, or yours. Cause, I kinda need a constant flame, and a controlled environment."

"Well my house is about, a mile or two from here."

"I live right around the corner."

"Then let's go to yours, show me your candle trick."

"Alright." Rian picked up his backpack and walked away, Rainbow following behind.

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Rian put a candle on the countertop. He poured hot candle wax onto a piece of paper and let it stain. He sat the candle up and watched it. Rainbow rested her head on her arm, completely bored. "Any day now."

"Sorry, preparation and stuff."

Rian held up his hand, and pointed his finger, being real careful. The flame slowly formed a shape, being right in front of their faces. "Why a heart?"

"I, don't know. I'm a teenage boy who likes to write romance stories. It makes no sense."

"You write romance?"

"Yeah, I make up these crazy characters."

"What kind of crazy?"

Rian thought this was the only chance he could tell the truth, and she wouldn't realize. "Well, there was this boy, my age, my look. Thing is, the boy, is the nephew of Starswirl the Bearded, you know, the creator of the magic school."

"Yeah."

"And Starswirl taught his nephew everything he knew about magic, or at least that was his plan. He passed away earlier than expected, but had told him to go to his magic school for everything else he would have taught him. It's a pretty interesting life for him."

"Interesting."

Rian sighed, glad she didn't know it was the truth about him. "Yeah, it is."

"Hey, you're not even paying attention, and the heart is still there."

"I have multiple focuses, so it's pretty easy for me to do this."

"You seem to be better at fire than shadow magic."

"Fire magic was one of the first spells I learned."

"Anyway," Rainbow glanced at the paper, "what was with the hot wax on the paper?"

"Oh, it's something else related to fire magic. Here, watch." The candle wax stains started moving. They spelled out 'I love you.'

Rainbow swallowed and slightly blushed, "Um, I uh."

Rian blushed as well, slightly chuckling, "Sorry, my mind is still set on romance. It, just happened, think nothing of it."

"Oh uh... alright, I guess..." They sat silent for half a minute, "Sorry, I gotta go." She grabbed her bag and started heading out, "It was fun hanging with you."

"Wait." Rian stood up as well. "We should, uh," he started to blush, "we should hang out, again."

"Um, I'm hanging out with my friends tomorrow, at that tree at noon. You could meet me there."

"Yeah, uh... Yeah cool."

"Great." Rainbow walked out of the house.

Rian bowed his head and sighed. "Oh, Uncle Starswirl... Why must I like romance. Hell, I bet if that girl was even the least bit of interested, I might have a chance. But I highly doubt she is even the slightest bit into me."

Rian walked over to his bed and fell onto it. "Why can't girls be like the one's in my stories?"