A/N: Sorry that the last chap was a little rushed. I wasn't feeling it yesterday. If that happens today then I will just stop and pick it up tomorrow. Please review.

Chapter 13: Heart's project.

The mid-year break was one day away. Heart's Vision sat in class. His fellow classmates all had some kind of supplies. Some had poster boards, some had costumes for the play they would perform, at the very least some had essays that they had prepared. Heart had nothing though, he sat at his desk knowing what he was going to do.

Ms Cheerilee stood in front of the class. "Today we will be presenting the rest of your projects. If every pony presents their project then I will let all of you get out early and not come tomorrow." The class began talking to each other." Hush. I said if every pony presents. If even one pony didn't bring their supplies or didn't do the project than none of you will be dismissed early." Cheerilee looked to Heart that had nothing on his desk. "We will begin with Apple Bloom's group." Cheerilee went behind her desk to let the group present.

Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo took their place at the head of the class.

Before they began Diamond Tiara had something to say. "Look it is the pathetic blank flanks."

Cheerilee was about to say something but Heart beat her to it. He was filled with rage, he cared not who heard him. "SHUT YOUR MOUTH! They are better ponies than you will ever be!"

Cheerilee was originally going to get onto Tiara but couldn't let Heart be mean to his fellow students. "Heart! That is no way for you to treat a fellow student."

Heart wasn't expecting to get in trouble for standing up for his friends. "What? But she…"

"I know what she did. I will correct ponies, not you."

Heart sat there with his mouth open.

"Now that is over we will continue with the presentation, girls."

The fillies proceeded with their play. Their costumes were nicely done. At certain points in the play ever pony would have wings, horns, and nothing at all, this was done through costume. The general meaning was that if every pony was the same than we wouldn't get as much done. It was well done. Heart wished he could have been a part of it, but the group size was a maximum of three. After the group finished the play the class clapped as Ms Cheerilee told them to do after every presentation. The ponies of the class group by group presented their projects. Most had built diagrams or something simple that their parents had helped them with. The best so far was Apple Bloom's group. Next came the individual projects. Some ponies wrote essays to represent harmony. The essays were poorly done and the ponies stumbled over their own words. After every pony was done all that was left was Heart.

Ms Cheerilee had just called every other pony up but now she took a different approach. "We have one more presentation. If this presentation goes well than all of you will not have school tomorrow." Cheerilee looked at Heart. "Did you do the project."

Heart did not let his inner emotions escape. "Yes."

"Did you bring your supplies?"

"I require no supplies."

"Get up here then. Remember that you have to present. Not just talk."

Heart went to the front of the class. "I will be presenting my project on harmony. For my project I researched harmony at its core. I asked the elements of harmony about each of their elements. I have come to understand harmony. It is when everything works together. Not just ponies. Every pony must play a part for the it to work. Kindness, honesty, laughter, generosity, loyalty, and magic. Before ponies only needed to have one of these traits for their to be harmony. I think differently. What if every pony was kind?" Heart used his projection spell. Three small dark ponies appeared on the floor in front of heart. It could be seen that the first two ponies where talking and having fun. The third looked weak and was shivering. The two happy ponies saw this and went to the sad pony. They gave him a blanket and led him into a home. The hologram ended. "If every pony were kind then no pony would be sad. Every pony would be happy. What if every pony was honest?" He projected two ponies. As well he projected words in text from their mouths.

Pony A started the conversation. "Do you think my house looks ok?"

A home appeared next to pony A. It was a horrible looking home. It was nearly destroyed. Heart interjected to explain something. "Pony B thinks that pony A's home is dangerous but doesn't want to hurt the pony's feelings."

Pony B answered "Yeah, it looks fine."

Pony A proceeded to enter his home. When he closed the door the house collapsed.

Heart made the projections disappear. "If he had told the truth then pony A would be safe. If every pony told the truth than we would could all trust each other and live in harmony. Now what laughter. Laughter doesn't quite explain itself. Laughter means that you try to bring joy to every pony you meet. You go out of you way to make ponies laugh. I want to ask the class a question. Do you all know Pinkie Pie?" The class all nodded confirming what he thought. "That is a unique pony. Do you all like her?" The class nodded. The only one who hesitated was Tiara but even she agreed. "She makes every pony laugh. She does everything she can to bring joy to every pony. Think about how much time she sacrifices. Think of what extent she goes to, to make you laugh. She does it all to see you laugh. A laugh, something so simple."

Tiara was getting fed up with talking about this stupid pony. "So what if she makes ponies laugh?"

"I thought you would have something to say. I want you to answer me a question. Would you spend you entire day going around making ponies laugh?"

"No. I wouldn't have any time for myself."

"Exactly! But if every pony did this than we wouldn't need time for ourselves. We would have countless ponies to cheer us up. That brings me to the next element, generosity. If we gave without thinking about ourselves." Heart pointed to Tiara. "Tiara would you give your tiara to any other pony?"

The pink pony was disgusted by the thought. "Eww, no!"

"Why? What does that tiara give you?"

"It makes me feel special."

"That is a really neat thing to have. Why should you have it? You are rich, you can buy another. What about Apple Bloom? She lives on a farm. Farms don't get a lot of spending money. Almost every bit goes to maintaining it. If you gave her it for one day, you would give her something that she would never experience on her own. You have the power to brighten her day, but you don't because you think of yourself first. That brings me to loyalty. Putting other ponies before yourself. Standing by ponies no matter what comes your way. If life takes everything away from you, you still stand by the ones you care for. Loyalty may be harder to see than the other elements. The bearer of loyalty most of us know. Rainbow Dash has a lot of pride, this is true. But she sticks by her friends. She would give up her dreams for her friends. That brings us to magic." Heart projected Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark. "Magic, what is magic?"

"It is what unicorns use to make stuff float."

Heart was not sure which pony answered so he continued. "No, that is wrong. We ALL contain magic. Magic is that thing that makes us special. Magic gives us our cutie mark, but we only get our cutie mark when we find that one thing that makes us special. But how does magic relate to harmony? It has everything to do with harmony. Without it our world would be in shambles. Earth ponies couldn't work fields, Pegasi couldn't control weather, Unicorns couldn't use their power. That is not the big picture though. What do the elements of harmony have to do with that? Nothing the elements are all friends and that is what makes them work. Their friendship. Friendship is magic. If all of us were friends then we would all live in complete harmony. If we were all friends we would be kind, honest, generous, loyal, and make each other laugh. That is what harmony is, friendship. For without friends we would all be alone, and alone we shatter under the weight of the world." Twilight's cutie mark that he projected shattered into tiny pieces. "That concludes my presentation." Heart took his seat.

Most of the class was in awe. Every other presentation was weak in comparison. Cheerilee was impressed but did not let it show. "That is every ponies presentation. You all have no school tomorrow. I will give you your grades on the project when you return to school. Dismissed."

Every pony rushed out of the class, all but Heart and Scootaloo. It had become a daily routine for Scootaloo to wait for Heart. Scootaloo waited by the door but Heart got first word. "Really nice play Scoot. You gals did really good."

Scootaloo didn't think Heart would be sucked up into his presentation. "Our play? You were amazing. You knocked our play out of the water." Scootaloo left the school house and headed to the Cutie Mark Crusader HQ.

Heart followed. "I don't know about that but thank you. What should we do today?"

Scootaloo looked around. It had been a few weeks since Heart talked to the elements and a soft snow blanketed the ground. "We could have a snow ball fight."

Is was not that Heart had never been around snow but he had never had a snow ball fight. His memories with snow consisted of building things with his parents or being pelted with them from kids that hated him. He had mixed feeling about snow. He didn't find beauty in it but didn't really mind the cold. He didn't want to disappoint Scootaloo though. "I guess we can do that. Where is Sweetie and Apple Bloom?" Heart got his answer instantly. As a snow ball hit his side. It didn't hurt but he could tell that it hit him very clearly. He turned to see Apple Bloom and Sweetie behind a small snow wall for cover.

Sweetie taunted them. "We thought you two would never come out of there. We will give you a head start on building you some cover."

Apple Bloom let them know that they needed to hurry. "I wouldn't dilly dally. I have an itchy throwing hoof."

Heart and Scootaloo looked at each other before hastily trying to build some cover from the projectiles that would soon threaten them. They did not have enough time. Apple Bloom grew tired of waiting. She hurled a ball at them. It hit a little past them. Heart had an idea. "Scoot you keep on building the wall. I will shield us." She nodded and kept working. Both Sweetie and Apple Bloom lobbed snow at Heart. He put up a magic shield to protect them. He stood in front of the wall.

Apple Bloom liked the challenge. "If you are going to use magic than I am going to use my full force." Heart wasn't sure what she meant but soon found out. She began tossing them in the air and using her hind legs to hit them. This gave the once slow and playful projectiles lighting speed.

Heart could feel the difference in force on his shield. Each hit made him lose a little power. He wondered how much ammo they had. He could see that Sweetie had stopped throwing and was busy building, she did it as fast as she could but wasn't keeping up with AB's pace. Scootaloo patted down the last piece of snow. "It is done HV, Get back here."

Heart did as she said and dropped the shield and dive for cover. "Do we have any balls ready?"

"No I was busy building the wall."

"I got it." Heart used his magic to form the snow. It was much faster than forming it by hoof. It took him around three seconds to build a snow ball. It took his competitors around six seconds, but Heart could form more then one at a time. He went with building ten at a time for quality control. 'This means I am building twenty times faster. This is a huge advantage. I can build faster the Scoot can throw.' Scootaloo was soon using AB's tactic. She wasn't as good though, her accuracy was less than admirable.

Scoot got hit on her left flank. "Ahh! That is cold."

Heart laughed. "What did you expect?"

"Shut up and keep building." Scootaloo said it with a smile.

"Have you looked at our stock pile?" Heart pointed behind her.

"Huh?" Scootaloo looked where he pointed. She had only been grabbing the ones that where sliding off the huge pile that was double her height. " Oh, I didn't see that there."

"Well they are going to run out soon, I have a plan for when they do."

"What is your plan?"

"You will see."

The snow balls stopped coming from AB. "Sweetie where is my ammo?"

Sweetie was trying her best. "I can't build them that fast."

"They are going to get the edge on us." The snow wall that shielded them was swept away. "What the heck?"

Apple Bloom could see Heart smiling. "I'm sorry but I need to see you to aim."

"Huh?"

She quickly found out what he meant. Heart began grasping snow balls from his stack and throwing them using magic. He didn't throw them hard but he had a constant stream of them. It took seconds for Sweetie and Apple Bloom to be covered in snow. "Beat that."

Sweetie shook the snow off her head. "I'm done, you win. I can't beat that."

AB did the same. "I second that."

Sweetie escaped from her snow prison. "How about we go to the club house and warm up?"

Every pony nodded and agreed. They went to the club house and spent the day warming up inside then going outside to play in snow. They repeated this process until the sun began to lower. Heart felt that he had a good day just hanging out with friends. He and Scootaloo were alone heading home. "Thank you HV."

He was caught off guard. "For what?"

"For sticking up for us in class today."

Heart waved it off. "It was nothing. I will always be there for you."

Scootaloo was glad that she could believe that. "I know you will."

A/N: There it is. I hope that you enjoy. Well I won't have time to upload tomorrow so Jan 5th 2015 there will not be a daily update. I will upload on 6th though. Every one have a good day/night.