Chapter 1 Silverstream's flower

It was Thursday and every Thursday the student six gathered in the library to study together. Gallus and Ocellus were already pretty deeply nestled into reading tomes about magic. Meanwhile, Smolder was busy glaring angrily at yet another book about magic.

“I'm just not getting this magic stuff. Seriously I get the impression that magic people make things more complicated than it needs to be.”

Gallus looked up from his book. “It's not hard Smolds, sure the earth pony rituals can be kinda complicated but other than that it's pretty simple stuff.”

“But why does it need to be complicated?” Smolder huffed.

“That's easy.” Ocellus grinned. “Because Earth ponies have a lot of time to devote themselves to complex rituals. ”

“Soooo what are you doing your report on Ocellus.” Gallus grinned.

“The construction of the philosopher's stone.”

Gallus looked over the book in Ocellus's hands. “But that book's on coincidence and synchronicity.”

“I know. I finished my report a few hours ago... I'm just reading this for fun.” She closed her eyes and grinned.

Smolder flung the book she was perusing to the ground. “Come on there's gotta be some kind of magic that's easy to understand... and where the buck is Silver?”

“Yona not seen her for days.” Yona scratched the side of her head.

“You guys!” The sound of Silverstream's loud voice echoed throughout the room. Gallus's feathers got ruffled, and Ocellus dropped her book. Everypony turned to look at the source and saw Silverstream in the doorway with a massive grin on her face and holding a potted flower under her arm.

“Buck Silver, don't scare us like that.” Smolder snorted.

Silverstream darted over to the table. “Oh my gosh I've been having the most amazing few days.”

“Hopefully doing your homework, we've all got a report on magic due next week.”

Silverstream nodded. “Yeah I know so I started reading some books on magical plants. And oh my gosh it was so fascinating.”

“You say that about everything.” Gallus deadpanned.

Alas, Silverstream didn't seem to register Gallus. “So anyways I wanted to do something super special for the report so I went into the Everfree forest and found some seeds on the ground. So then I planted them watered them and.” She trailed off as she set the potted flower on the table. “Ta da.”

Everypony took in the exotic flower. It had a bright red flower bud with yellow trim around the edges.

“What kind of flower is that?” Ocellus pointed at the flower.

Silverstream simply grinned. “I have absolutely no idea.”

Ocellus's eyes went wide. “Wait! You don't know!?”

Silverstream shook her head. “Nope haven't had time to research that.”

“Sooo.” Gallus started. “What did you have time to do?”

“Oh I just focused on making sure it grew as quickly as was healthy. Nothing a little enchanted water can't fix.” She closed her eyes and grinned.

Gallus just smirked. “Yeah, I'm guessing you didn't write up the actual report.”

“Report?” Silverstream tilted her head.

Ocellus nodded. “Yeah, the report that's due with your presentation.”

Silverstream just stared wistfully into the air. “Oh... I forgot about that.”

“Um Silverstream... why flower bubbling?” Yona pointed towards the flower. Silverstream cautiously looked over towards the bud of the flower which was bubbling and oscillating.

“Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!” Silverstream beamed and snatched up a piece of paper and a pencil. “This is totally awesome I've never seen it do that before. I wonder what'll happen.” Silverstream and everypony else eagerly watched the flower in anticipation. One by one the petals unfurled to reveal two golden bulbs in the middle of the blooming flower.

“Wow, flower look lovely.” Suddenly however, the flower closed up again and quickly snapped open as it let loose a yellow haze of gas into the air. Everypony coughed as the gas filled their respective nostrils. 

When the hazy gas cleared Gallus piped up. “What the heck was that?” He coughed a bit. 

“I'd say it was some kind of pollination cycle.” Ocellus muttered between coughs.

Sandbar coughed. “Yeah... wasn't expecting that to happen.”

“Maybe you better get that thing out of here before it decides to spray us all again.” Smolder glared.

Silverstream nodded, “Seems like a good idea.” Without much of a word, Silverstream left the study session with her weird flower in tow.

“Sometimes I get the impression that Silver's gonna get us in some kind of trouble with all her weird endeavors.” Gallus rolled his eyes.

“I hear you there Gallus.” Smolder sneezed. “I'm gonna be sneezing that pollen out for weeks.”

“We better get back to work. These reports are due next week.”

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The next morning, Silverstream walked through the cafeteria carrying a tray with fresh scrambled eggs and a glass of orange juice on it. She frowned as she looked down at her chest. Ever since she got up that morning, she felt an odd sensation pulsate through her chest.

“Hey.” Ocellus's voice broke through the haze of her thoughts. Silverstream looked over to Ocellus and saw all her friends sitting at a table eating breakfast together. “Come and join us.” With a grin, Silverstream walked over to the table and sat down next to Gallus.

“So” Ocellus started. “How's the report coming?”

“Haven't written it yet. I'm gonna start on it right after breakfast.” Silverstream grinned.

“Yona finish report yesterday.”

“Oh. What's it about?” Ocellus smiled.

“Yak ice magic. Nocreature in Yakyakistan do ice magic but legends speak of it.”

“Sounds fascinating Yona. Hey Gallus I heard that gryphons have secret light magic powers, is that true?” Ocellus looked over at Gallus staring at his fish while rubbing his temples. “Is something wrong Gallus?”

Gallus sighed. “It's nothing... I'm just feeling a bit under the weather this morning.”

“You too?” Sandbar interjected after taking a bite of his oatmeal.

“What wrong with friends?” Yona asked.

“I don't know really... just a bit of a tingle in the chest. It's probably just a cold.” Gallus reluctantly took a bite of his fish.

“Dude. My chest is feeling wonky too.” Sandbar added.

“Thank buck it's not just me. Ever since Silver's biology project sprayed me with that pollen my tits have been feeling like...” Smolder trailed off.

“Like they're an ocean and there's waves bouncing back and forth between both ends of them.” Silverstream added after a sip of her orange juice.

Smolder nodded emphatically. “Yeah like that.”

Ocellus cocked an eyebrow. “Are you guys feeling ok? I feel completely fine.”

“Yona feel it too. Yona never feel sensation like this before.”

“Soooo.” Gallus twirled his fork. “It's safe to assume that everyone but Ocellus is allergic to Silver's flower.”

“Maybe you should go to the school nurse.” Ocellus trailed off.

“I'll pop in there later. I got a whole day of classes ahead of me.” Gallus groaned.

“And I've gotta go prepare my report about the flower.” Silverstream waved as she wandered off “See you guys later.”