Cherry and the Friendship Games

chapter 1

It was a normal day for Cherry, Atticus, Mo, and Patch. They were all about to meet up, until Patch's red collar snapped off his neck.

"Oh, my..." Patch frowned in concern. "I wonder how that happened."

"Maybe you outgrew it." Mo joked due to how strong the puppy was now.

"Ha, ha, very funny." Patch said before grabbing his Equestrian medallion/Pound Puppy tag, using it's magic to make his collar the perfect size and fixed it.

However, the collar changed from its red self and became a rope-like collar.

Patch was wondering how that happened, but he shrugged it off. Maybe a new collar in a new home would be better. "Well, I guess a new collar is better than no collar." he said.

"It happens..." Mo soothed. "Trust me, it was odd to see Angel wear a collar for a while after we got adopted, but it sure is nice to have a home of our own."

Cherry poked her head out of the front door of her house as everyone was coming to see her. "You guys won't believe who's here..."

The others looked to each other and went in to see what she was talking about.

Of all people, Teller was at Cherry's kitchen table, and was sipping from a cup of hot chocolate, provided by Cherry's mother.

"What's Teller doing here?" Patch asked.

"Must be something important." Atticus said.

Cherry came to Teller's side. "Um... H-How's the hot chocolate?"

"Bearable..." Teller said, setting the cup down. "Now, I bet you're all wondering why I'm here."

"Where's Penn?" Cherry bit her lip.

"This does not concern him," Teller replied. "After our last show, we decided to go to our hometowns to stretch our legs around Thanksgiving and I ran into a school I was once familiar with known as Crystal Prep Academy."

"Crystal Prep Academy?" Patch asked. "I've never heard of that school before."

"I didn't think you would..." Teller took out a yearbook from the school and cracked it open, flipping through pages, and turned to show him in a male dean uniform with a strict looking woman with glasses and a bun, wearing an outfit similar to the girl school uniforms.

"That woman makes me think of Prudence." Cherry whispered to Atticus.

Atticus nodded before looking at the yearbook and then shaking his head, seeing someone familiar. "No way! Is that Twilight?!" he asked.

Teller took the book and looked around. "Oh, yes, this is Princess Twilight's human counterpart, she lives in the city and has her own dog also named Spike."

"Weird..." Mo felt odd about that.

"So, uh, what do you know about the school?" Patch climbed into Teller's lap.

"Before I became a magician, I was a schoolteacher," Teller informed, while petting Patch on the head gently and comfortingly. "I taught a few years at Crystal Prep."

"Wow, cool, so how are the students there?" Mo asked.

"Umm..." Teller seemed hesitant to answer that question. "Well... Let's just say be thankful you've never been enrolled... They're cocky, I think it's because they always win the Friendship Games that comes every four years against Canterlot High."

"Oh, come on, Teller, there's no way they could win EVERY game..." Cherry said to him.

"Oh, really?" Teller asked before showing video tapes of the Friendship Games.