Hey everycreature! What's up!?
Before we get to the next chapter, thank you to all of you who have made your suggestions! While I may not use those ideas exactly, I'll try to do similar things.
For now, lets introduce the rest of our Young 6!
Chapter 7: A Whole Group of Friends
It was Rose's second day as a new student and this time she felt a little more comfortable facing the huge building and going inside. And there was the fact that her brother needed to leave a bit earlier for his job, leaving Rose to go to school by herself. And as always, the students attending the school were all entering the building through the front entrance, ready to start the day's classes, Rose along them as her first class, as always, was Professor Fluttershy's class.
However since it was just her second day, she had a little trouble remembering where the classroom was in the large building. As Rose looked and looked, she found herself pretty much alone in the hallways, that is until a couple of creatures passed by, a dragon and griffon, she remembered seeing the griffon during the tour. However, Rose heard that dragons and griffons were along the most friendless creatures, but they were the only ones around, so Rose took a deep breath and trotted up to the two bigger creatures.
"Excuse me, do either of you know where Professor Fluttershy's class is?" Rose asked, going back to her timid, shy voice.
Rose expected both of the non-ponies to laugh at her in a mean sort of way, she was very taken aback when the two stopped their conversation to help her, not pushing her away at all.
"Sure, you just go up to the second floor and then go to your left, should be three doors away when you go up those stairs." The griffon answered nicely.
"Okay, thank you very much…" Rose replied in a surprised tone as she turned around and trotted up the stairs. "Wow, I guess this school really is good at teaching friendship." Rose thought in her head as she reached the top of the stairs and turned left, seeing the decorated door which marked Professor Fluttershy's classroom, clearly the class already started, so Rose knocked on the door.
"Oh Blooming Rose, you're a little late." Fluttershy said as she was the one who opened the door.
"Sorry professor, I couldn't remember where the classroom was." Rose apologized.
"Well, it is just your second day, you'll get it eventually." Fluttershy replied in her sweet, understanding tone. "And you're just in time too, we're going on a short field trip today outside."
Rose came into the classroom to see everycreature excited to go, Rose seeing Sandbar and Silverstream, the hyper hippogriff seeing the little unicorn filly and waving her over.
"Hey Sandbar, Silverstream." Rose greeted her first two friends. "Sorry if I held up the trip."
"That's okay, you're new here." Sandbar pointing out. "And the school's pretty big, I remember I had trouble finding Professor Applejack's class on my first day."
"Yeah, and we always have fun regardless." Silverstream added. "This is going to be exciting!" The hippogriff yelled.
Everycreature stopped their conversation as Fluttershy spoke up.
"Alright students, today's field trip is related to yesterday's class, today we're going to see Ponyville's spiders in their natural habitat." Fluttershy introducing what the class was doing today. "Make sure to bring along your notebooks."
And Rose realized… She has yet to actually bring along school supplies, which her new friends saw too.
"That's okay Rose, we can share our notes with you." Sandbar offered.
"Thank you." Rose replied as the student filed out, Fluttershy holding the door as everycreature was out, Fluttershy making sure to close her classroom door completely.
The class then trotted out of the school to the nearby forest, Fluttershy leading as the students took notes while Fluttershy gave her lecture once the class entered the area where the majority of the spiders were. One would think a class of younger minds would be afraid to enter such a dominant area filled with the eight legged insects, but as Fluttershy explained yesterday, the spiders here were much nicer and they were as they waved their legs at the students in a friendly manner, some even offered tiny flowers like in class yesterday. As Rose passed the many webbed homes of the spiders, she saw many families, siblings playing with each other, mothers feeding their little spiders, and fathers keeping watch over the older ones.
During the breaks in Fluttershy's lesson, Rose decided to start a conversation with her new friends.
"So, do you two have any family?" Rose asked politely.
"Oh yes, I actually live here in Ponyville, with my father and mother and my little baby sister, she's the cutest pony in my life." Sandbar answered, which earned a blush from Rose, thinking about her own big brother and how he thought she was the cutest.
"And I live back at Mount Aris, and well, my mom stayed underwater in Sequestria while my dad went back above to Mount Aris, my brother decided to switch between both places." Silverstream explained, Rose a bit surprised she had something in common with her two friends. "What about you Rose?"
"Well, it's kinda of like you Silverstream…" I began as I explained my different family members. "My dad's a royal guard in the royal palace at Canterlot, my mom's a nurse at the hospital in Canterlot, my older sister's a violin player, and well…" Now thinking of my brother and the reason why I was attending the school. "My brother's working as the mayor's assistant in this town, so my dad thought it would be a good idea if I went to school here as well."
"Well, if you ask me, your dad made a good decision." Sandbar smiled.
Eventually the short field trip came to an end as they reached the other side of the area where the spiders lived, Fluttershy ending today's class as she turned around and faced the students.
"Okay class, that concludes today's field trip, I hope you took plenty of notes because tomorrow there's going to be a quiz on the two classes." Fluttershy explaining. "Now, it's break time, so rest up from the walk here back at school before your next class." Fluttershy finishing as the class began to disperse and make their way back to the school.
"So what do you two do during this time?" Rose asked her new friends.
"Well, we hang out and talk about the day with our other friends." Silverstream answered.
"Hey, why don't you come with us, we can introduce you to our friends." Sandbar suggested.
"Okay, that sounds fun." Rose agreed as the three friends went back to the school.
Sandbar and Silverstream led Rose to the middle, open space of the school, the forum, where students were talking to each other, engaging in friendly conversations or reading books. Rose's two friends turned towards a group of four creatures from various lands, sitting by a couple of stone benches, Rose noticing the griffon and dragon that were in the group along them.
"Hey Sandbar, Silverstream." One of the creatures, who was a Changeling greeted her other friends. "Who's this?"
"Oh, I remember you from earlier, but I don't think we exchanged names." The griffon remembered. "My name's Gallus."
"And I'm Smolder." The dragon greeted.
"And I'm Ocellus." The Changeling taking her turn.
"And my name's Yona!" The other creature of the group, who was a Yak, shouted as she came up and hugged the little red unicorn filly. "Yona's happy to meet a new friend!"
"Okay…" Rose struggled to get out. "But I would very much like to breathe." Rose managed to get out from the tight hug.
"Yona sorry." The Yak apologized. "Just happy to have another friend."
"So how was everycreature's day so far?" Silverstream started a new conversation as everycreature took turns.
Special attention was given to Rose of course as she was new to the group of friends and while Rose was a bit nervous at first, she got a little more comfortable. She found out so much about the other friends, surprised that both Gallus and Smolder would attend such a school as this, but also because they were more friendlier than what she heard about the griffons and dragons in general. Yona was on par with Silverstream's hyper attitude.
And Ocellus… Well Rose thought she would be the most friendly with her, what was funny was that Rose remembered when she was just a baby when the Changelings invaded Canterlot during the royal wedding and her father was stuck in the Changelings' slime, back when the Changelings were ruled by Queen Chrysalis. Rose discovered Ocellus had similar traits to her, both being the smaller of the group and both were nervous and shy.
As the group of friends chatted away with each other, in the building, looking through one of the windows facing the forum was a familiar purple alicorn, with her dragon assistant, both smiling at seeing Rose interact with her new group of friends.
"Looks like our new student is getting along really well, Twilight." The dragon that was Spike commented.
"Indeed it does Spike, just another example of how this school is a success." Twilight replied as she got back to business. "Well, we better get to the classroom, break time's almost over."
Indeed it was as the school bell rang, telling the students it was time for next class.
"Oh, it's time for all of us to go to Headmare Twilight's class." Ocellus brightened up, apparently that class was the little changeling's favorite.
Rose followed her new group of friends, looking froward to having a class with them.
Well I'll leave it there! So we finally have Rose with all of the Young 6!
Thats pretty much it, so…
See everycreature later!