Sunset Shimmer took a deep breath as she and Misty stood behind the front door of the schoolhouse, formerly the Crystal Tearoom.
"Are you sure about this, Sunset?" Misty asked softly.
Sunset offered her an encouraging smile.
"I am. The sooner the truth comes out, the sooner things get as close to back to normal as they can around here," Sunset told her.
The slightly shorter unicorn nodded and stood back as Sunset opened the door, and stepped out into the forest clearing, where nearly all of her current students were gathered, as she had told everypony she had an announcement to make, and wanted everypony there.
"Alright, thank you for coming, everypony," Sunset began, closing the door behind her, leaving Misty inside. "I know we've had quite the exciting few days here, and I hope you all have enjoyed the time to relax. To reiterate once again, I'm very proud of all of you for how bravely you defended Bridlewood. Now, I'd like to tell you all something you probably don't know about our opponent. This 'Opaline Arcana' is far older than I could have imagined; she's familiar with ancient Equestria, with Princess Twilight. My spell sent her right back to wherever she came from, and I intend to find out where that is. Hopefully, now that she knows we can defend ourselves, she will think twice about attacking our homes again. If she does come back, we will be ready. Because we will continue getting better and stronger every day. Because now we have taken something away from her, or rather, taken something back. Nearly twenty years ago, Opaline came into this forest clandestinely, and stole away one of Bridlewood's own. She was so young that she barely remembered her life before she was taken. She was raised on whatever lies she was told, and in that time, her only family succumbed to the grief of never knowing what had happened to her. Now, I have decided to take her in, and I'm hoping that we, all of us, can show her her home for the first time all over again. Bridlewood, please welcome home, Misty Brightdawn."
With that, Sunset lit up her horn, turned back towards the schoolhouse door, opened it, and Misty stepped out into the clearing.
The applause was slow at first as the unicorn stepped up to Sunset, and once they hugged, the applause and cheering grew throughout the whole gathered crowd, with several voices shouting words of encouragement at her.
"Welcome back, Misty!"
"You're finally home!"
Misty managed to keep her emotions under control as Sunset released her from the embrace, and they turned to face the crowd.
"Th-thank you, everypony. I wish I could say I remember some of you, but the truth is, I don't. But I am looking forward to getting to know as many of you as I can," Misty told the crowd.
"Alright, students. Let's enjoy one more day off, because then it's back to classes tomorrow morning!" Sunset told them.
As Misty began to mingle with Alphabittle and Onyx, the crowd began to disperse back throughout Bridlewood, and Sunny came up to Sunset with a familiar white pegasus, catching her before she went back inside.
"Well, this is a surprise, Zipp. It's great to see you again," Sunset greeted. "To what do I owe the pleasure?"
Zipp smirked as Sunny gave a soft smile.
"Isn't it obvious? Congrats on the new wings. Sunny gave me a call and said you might be interested in some flying lessons."
Well I got to say this is a pretty nice way to welcome me Misty since she's been gone for a long time and this should be the time they actually get to know her a little bit better this time and I wonder how Alphabittle will react to this I guess we'll find out next time
It's nice to see Misty living in Bridlewood and I can't wait for her to start on her first day to be Sunset's student, research new magic, and make friends with the unicorns.
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
So one of two things is about to happen
A: Sunset's fire wing control translates to real wings and she just knows how to fly
B: Hilarious crash compilation that somehow gets recorded and sent to Pipp for a reaction stream
Aww, yay they welcomed her! Also yay flying lessons, that'll be fun-
Absolutely loved Sunset's speech to the class concerning Opaline (especially the "we beat her before, we can DEFINITELY do it again" stuff) as well as the stuff about Misty coming home two decades after being taken by Opaline. And, yeah, Zipp giving Sunset flying lessons should definitely be entertaining as well as Sunny giving Sunset Earth Pony Magic lessons. .
Anyway, most definitely looking forward to more of this.
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Definitely the second thing. The first thing already happened.
Ooo, flying lessons.
Im glade sunset has accepted her alicorn form yeah she defently needs flying lessons.
Heh, everypony a bit confused, but nonetheless happy.
Hey, now she's not the only one in remediation! 😇
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Why not both?
The sun is getting dim
Nice to see sunset is getting flying lessons!
I've just caught up from starting the series recently. Nice to see everything that's happened, and it looks like Sunset is going to have some more story ahead of her for a while.