Chapter 28: Wearing Pride Among First Comings
A ball was passed along as Pinkie, Twilight, Sticks and Rarity were looking out into the courtyard from the upper deck. The badger was catching and throwing a random piece of sphere to Pinkie, whom insisted she'll do something unusual.
"Catch!". The hyperactive pink girl threw the ball with force back at Sticks, whom reached out her hand and caught mid-air. She rolled forward and passed it back to her. "You're good! Do you want to pass it back to me and see if I can do that?!".
"Why not?". Sticks caught the round ball and proceeded to throw it slowly toward her at a greater height. Pinkie jumped high in the air and caught it, landing back down via frontflip. She threw the ball to Sticks.
"Not bad...".
"Silly! Attributes matter to me more than you do!". The hyperactive pink girl exclaimed.
As Pinkie and Sticks were playfully engaging in their activity, Twilight and Rarity stared out into the courtyard, apparently gazing at how Smurfette and Vexy are coping despite hard times piled on top of them. The two girls were currently talking about the Science Fair, the studious preparing for her venture into familiar territory.
"Have you got any ideas for the Science Fair, Twilight?". The fashionista spoke with a calm tone.
"I have tons of ideas I'd like to showcase, but they are all equal to one another. To aim for even one of them may be a wrong-doing. I don't know yet".
"What kind of ideas?".
"Spaceship installed with handheld heaters designed to give individual warmers to everyone on board. That's just one idea out of a possible one hundred".
"I have designed a pretty unique outfit I'd like to wear at the fair". The fashionista closed her eyes and visualized the moment. "Though I doubt any other student besides our friend will care for it, am I right?".
"Yes...". The studious looked down upon the grass and concrete of the academy courtyard, a few students hanging around until their class begins. Smurfette and Vexy were busy practising wand magic, the spectacle seen from the upper deck. The blonde haired smurf watched as her sister wielded the wand she gave her.
"And...". Vexy shot the magic in the air by aiming her wand vertically. A glowing movement of blue essense gave a light show in the midday. It was not enough for students to be amazed. It just signified her worrysome friends about the smurf sisters. The essence somehow made it all the way back to Vexy, the blue dust tucked nicely in Smurfette's wand. The blonde haired smurf wondered why such an event could happen, shrugging it off as a result of no further answer.
"Eh, must've been the wind". She said.
Vexy lifted her hand and licked her index finger. She held it up in the air, letting the breeze pick up on her saliva. This would allow her to pin point the direction of the wind.
"There's no way it could have come back with such a westernly wind direction". She lifted down her hand.
"Then I have no idea how that happened".
"Believe me, Smurfette". The 10th member spoke. "I'm having a hard time trying to forget about the toaster thing. I appreciate your efforts to cheer me up, Smurfette. But I can't let go of that stolen idea".
"Oh...There are probably more innovative ideas out there, waiting for a chance to reality itself from the norm".
"And by that you mean...".
"Look". Smurfette came to her. "You have me, it's all that matters right now until we can fix things with you and your Construction blunder".
That granted Vexy a faint smile coaxed by her warm words of wisdom. She couldn't have failed before if Smurfette was there by her side. It was only until she disappeared from the fae of the earth that she started to realize how more important she was than to her grades.
"Thanks...". T'was the word she was allowed to quietly respond to. The black haired smurf offered Smurfette her wand and she unexpectedly hugged her without saying a word. Vexy returned the embrace immediatly thereafter, feeling the composure of ease inside her sister's heart. It wasn't about the grading, it was always about her sister coming first, then the grading. The 4 girls were watching from the upper deck, the two smurfs hugging.
"Eeeeeeeee!". Pinkie jumped and filled the air with elevation. "Hugs! I like hugs!".
"I'm glad Vexy's happy for now". Rarity responded. "I was worried her anger was going to spiral out of control given the Wallace situation".
"She's still needing to build something new and original". Sticks tagged along.
"Yes, but her realization that friendship and sistership is more important than the grades of Canterlot Academy helps alot, don't you think so too, Twilight?".
The studious said nothing, but instead nodding in response.
"I want them to come up here and play with us!". Sticks looked at them, granted their status is calm now.
"Why so?". Rarity eyed her from the corner of her eye.
"Variety and or consumption of great bonds rather than the stronger than strong from me to Fluttershy and vice versa".
"You don't even know how to create one".
"I'm going to take that as a form of bias and say I grew up alone and only befriended Amy when I had the chance. Were you going to expect me to befriend a walloby?".
"There aren't you wallobies around here, Sticks".
"What do you want me to give to you as a form of word to mouth processing? You wouldn't expect me to say something like 'fizzle pop berry twist'".
"Tempest Shadow?". Twilight overheared the mild arguement.
"What's a 'Tempest Shadow'?". The badger was confused, thus turning to her.
"Oh...nothing, just a friend of ours you have no idea who we are talking about".
"Oh...okay. Yo Pinkie! Want another ball game?!".
"I know the perfect place for us to play!". The hyperactive pink girl grabbed Sticks' hand and rushed down the staircase toward the Track field. The cloud of dust in the shape of the badger blew toward Rarity, the fashionista grew a sudden cough and let it out.
"Just a little dust in my voicebox...". Rarity lied, smiling to spit the truth away.
Twilight gently rolled her eyes and continued back to her Biology book, engrossed in the fascinating facts it had to manifest.
That's the end of this chapter. Smurfette and Vexy soon realizing that friendship comes first while Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie and Sticks watch from the upper deck. What will happen next? Read on to find out. Please review.
