A/N: And we're back! I won't delay you for long, so here's the next chapter!
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CHAPTER ONE: BECOMING STUDENTS
Over the next three weeks, Twilight Sparkle and Crystal Shard hit the books, studying everything that they could about magic and anything to do with ice magic, and one day they were approached by their parents with an acceptance letter from Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. Their parents had figured out why they were studying so much, and they had enrolled their daughters into the school.
"We're going to the school!" Twilight Sparkle cheered, dancing around the room.
Crystal Shard, however, read the letter and swallowed. "Um, Twi, we might be enrolled, but we both have to pass an entrance exam before we can actually attend the school."
Twilight Sparkle froze for a moment and turned to her. "An entrance exam? You sure?"
"Says so in the letter," her twin replied. "Still want to go?"
"Of course!"
When the day arrived for the twins to take the entrance exam, they were nervous and excited…well, Crystal Shard was mostly nervous since she did tend to struggle with tests, always worrying she was going to get something wrong. They and their parents were escorted into a classroom, where they were met by three of the teachers: Crystal Clear, Arpeggio, and Top Marks. They had a table set up in the middle of the room so that Crystal Shard could go first.
"Miss Shard, please make us an ice sculpture on the table," Crystal Clear requested.
Swallowing, Crystal walked up to the table, stopping a few feet away. 'Okay, just pretend it's like when you are doing it at home.' She thought to herself. She closed her eyes, concentrating as her horn sparked with white magic. After a few minutes, a beam of magic shot from her horn and struck the center of the table, ice slowly starting to flow upwards as the unicorn poured more magic into the ice.
A few minutes later, Crystal stopped the spell and opened her eyes. On the table was a scale-sized ice sculpture of Princess Celestia, her wings spread majestically. Pleased that she had actually managed to do it, Crystal glanced up at the teachers, and they nodded as they made a few notes on their clipboards. "Thank you, Miss Shard, excellent work."
Relieved, Crystal hurried back to her family, and they were happy for her. Just then, two unicorns came in to remove the table, and then they came back with a wooden cart bearing a purple egg with green spots, and a sign attached to the side of the cart.
"Good luck, sis," Crystal whispered to her twin and nudged her forward.
'I'm going to need it,' Twilight thought as she walked over and stood next to the cart. "What do you wish me to do with this egg?" she asked.
"Miss Sparkle, please hatch that dragon egg," Crystal Clear requested.
Twilight felt her heart sink. They wanted her to hatch a dragon egg?! 'Ok, if Crysi can pass her test, then I can pass my test. If Crysi can pass her test, then I can-'
"Well, Miss Sparkle?" Crystal Clear asked, interrupting the filly's thoughts.
Twilight nervously laughed while the three teachers showed their impatience by yawning and glaring at her.
"We don't have all day."
Swallowing again, Twilight turned her attention to the egg and began concentrating as hard as she could. After a few seconds, only a few pink sparks came out of her horn, and she became dejected, looking up at the three teachers. "I'm sorry I wasted your time," she apologized, and looked at her twin as she joined her. "Looks like I-"
At that exact moment, an explosion occurred near the mountains, unleashing a rainbow, and the twins yelped. "Aah!" And Twilight fired off a beam of pink magic that hit the egg, hatching a baby dragon that was purple with green spikes. Soon both twins lost control of their magic, which surrounded them in a white/pink orb as their eyes went white, and they floated off the floor.
The chaotic magic shot around the room, making the teachers float off the floor, turned their parents into potted plants, and made the baby dragon grow so big, that his head broke through the roof.
Outside the school, Princess Celestia was getting ready to investigate the explosion when she heard a crashing sound and turned to see the head of the dragon break through the roof. Sensing powerful magic, she went back inside the school, and it didn't take long for her find the classroom, where the twins were still freaking out.
The Princess went over to the twins and gently touched their shoulders with one gold-covered hoof, getting their attention long enough that they regain control of their magic, and everything returned to normal, including the baby dragon that was now sucking on his tail. "Twilight Sparkle, Crystal Shard."
Both Twilight and Crystal lowered their heads shamefully. "Oh, we're so sorry, we didn't mean-"
"You both have a very special gift," Princess Celestia interrupted them, smiling gently. "I don't think I've ever come across a unicorn with your raw abilities. Much less two unicorns with similar raw abilities."
The twins stared at the Princess. "Huh?"
"But you both need to learn to tame these abilities through focused study," the Princess added, still smiling at their confused expressions. "Twilight Sparkle, Crystal Shard, I'd like to make you both my own personal protégés here at the school."
"Huh?!" went the twins, amazed at what they had just heard. The princess wanted to make them her personal students.
"Well?" Princess Celestia asked.
Twilight and Crystal glanced at their parents, who were nodding their heads eagerly, and then they immediately agreed. "Yes!" And they began bouncing around the classroom, excited.
"One other thing, Twilight, Sunrise," said the Princess, and when they turned to look at her, they accidentally bonk their heads together and sat down with dazed expressions. She then nodded to their flanks.
Twilight Sparkle and Crystal Shard looked at their flanks and saw that they each had a cutie mark: Twilight Sparkle had a pink start surrounded by five white stars, and Crystal Shard had an white snowflake with a blue crystal in the center. "More? Our cutie marks! Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!" And they went bouncing around the room, excited that they also had their cutie marks, too.
Little did anyone know, but the rainbow explosion had given five other ponies their cutie marks at the exact same time, and that one day, all seven ponies would end up in Ponyville for amazing adventures.
A/N: Hope you liked this chapter! I'll be trying to get the second chapter out later today, but I wanted to get this one out now. I'm going to be trying to post two chapters a day, so be on alert. R&R everyone!
