Chapter I

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Starberry woke up smiling. She enjoyed her sleep. She looked at her left and saw Lightning Runner, asleep, lying next to her. Starberry got up and headed towards Shine Twister's room. Starberry and Shine Twister have their own rooms. While other members and the refugees needed to sleep elsewhere. Starberry is tired of the refugees not having their homes where they could live. To change that, Starberry is planning to announce that every pony should now start to rebuild their homes. Princess Luna and Princess Celestia are also among the refugees. Workers were hired to rebuild the Royal Castle. Education was still important to them. Therefore, Starberry made the training room into the classroom. It was big enough to hold at least fifty ponies. The way it worked was that every hour there's a new group inside the classroom. After an hour is up, the group leaves and another group enters and they get their education. The first group enters at eight o' clock and they leave at nine. Each student must enter in four minutes after the last groups leaves. If a student fails to report, they must go find Starberry to give that student a tardy slip. The teacher of the classroom is Ms. Sun Ray. It's a simple system and it works perfectly. Shine Twister is the first group to enter. Starberry entered Shine Twister's room. "Time to get up." She said. "You have school."

Shine Twister simple reply was, "mm" but she didn't woke up.

Starberry shook her awake. Shine Twister awoke and Starberry said, "you have school."

"Yeah I know." Said Shine Twister, yawning.

She got off the bed and she headed towards the bathroom. Starberry fixed her daughter's bed. Shine Twister is now nine years old. She have been living with Starberry ever since her city and family were killed. She thinks of Starberry as her mother, though Starberry is her adopted mother, and she likes to call Lighting Runner her father. He had been the closest thing to a father to her. And, since Lighting Runner has been dating Starberry after the battle, it seemed appropriate. She sometimes calls Lighting, "daddy" and he took notice of it. He liked the idea of being a father. After Shine Twister's classes, she helps out her mother and the refugees. When she has free time, Shine Twister reads fantasy books, studies history, and learns how to fight.

Shine Twister got out of the bathroom. Then she served herself cereal and milk in a bowl. Starberry prepared her daughter's school bag. A few minutes later, Shine Twister grabbed her bag and kissed her mom goodbye and left for the training room. Starberry went back to the hallway. There, Lighting Runner was waiting for her. "Good morning, sweetie." He said.

They kissed and Starberry said, "Good morning, my love."

"Got any plans for today?"

"Well I'm actually going to try to make the refugees build their homes."

"Good idea. It's about time that they should go live somewhere else. I'm not trying to be rude or anything I just don't think that it's alright for them to live here for the rest of their lives. They should live their own lives."

"I agree. I'll announce it after breakfast."

And so she did. She had chocolate chip pancakes. Starberry sat with her team. She told what she was going to do to her teammates. They all agreed that was the right thing to do. Starberry stood up and said, "excuse me, may I have your attention please."

Every pony stopped what they were doing and turned to Starberry. "I have an announcement to make." She said. "We've seen how you all struggle to live down here and my team and I decided on one thing, you all need to rebuild your homes."

Every pony starting talking. "No, we are not trying to kick you all out." Said Starberry. "We just thought that it was time to rebuild what Fire Wing and his army destroyed. We need to rebuild the future of Equestria."

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