Author notes:
1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.
2)I don't own My Little Pony
Twilight trotted as fast as she could while levitating the unconscious dragon. She teleported every now and then to cover the distance faster, but she was afraid that her spell might make Spike's condition worse given the fact that he always felt a bit sick whenever she teleported him.
She was even more distressed when she gave a look at the wounds her friend, and adoptive brother, had. 'What could have possibly done that?' she thought worried.
"Please, Spike, hang in there. We are almost at the hospital." She spoke to him as she dashed through the front door.
At the reception, the purple unicorn quickly said: "Please, you have to help me. It's an emergency. My friend is very hurt. Please."
A female pegasus with blue mane at the reception saw the little dragon floating in pink energy and she couldn't help but to cringe at the sight of the broken limbs. She had seem fractures like this before, but it didn't make any easier for get used to.
She quickly gave Twilight a formulary to fill and then called the doctors. A couple of earth ponies and an unicorn came with a litter for the patient and twilight carefully dropped her assistant there.
"Please help him. I don't know what happened. He was attacked by some creature at the Everfree Forest."
"We'll do our best, ma'am." replied a unicorn with yellow fur and brown mane wearing a white coat.
Then the Earth ponies secured Spike on the litter and pushed it towards the emergency room.
Twilight had to gather her strength to deal with the paperwork while she repeatedly told herself Spike would be okay.
After she was done with the paperwork, she wanted to see Spike, but she knew that the doctors wouldn't allow it, plus she could get in the way of his treatment.
She then decided to go find her friends and tell them what happened to Spike.
"So, mister Cielo, what brings you to Ponyville?" Sweetie Belle asked.
The stallion looked nervous after this question. He stared at the floor while looking troubled for a few minutes without realizing he spent all this time without replying.
"Mister Cielo?" Sweetie Belle inquired again confused by the pony's silence.
"Oh! Sorry" He quickly said as he raised his gaze. "I just was looking for a…thing."
"Thing? What thing?" Scootaloo asked.
"It's unimportant, really." He tried to quickly end this topic of conversation.
"It didn't sound unimportant by the way you were yelling. Was this thing there with us? Is it dangerous? Should we tell Twilight and the others? They might help you, you know." Scootaloo begun to rant.
"Listen, filly, this is my problem and I'll solve it even if it gets me killed. Besides, I doubt anyone in this town would be able to help me, anyway." He said with an angry look.
Big Mac didn't like this pony's tone since it made the three fillies look like they've done something wrong. "If you think you can handle the problem alone, why did you pass out in our farm?"
Cielo felt a bit ashamed to be reminded of that "I traveled for a long time with barely no rest or food for the matter. My mission is too important for me to rely on anypony else. Besides, it is my problem to solve. This is nopony else's issue. This…thing…is simply too dangerous. I thought I had tracked it here, but now it has gone somewhere else."
'Didn't he just say it was unimportant? What if Apple Bloom and her friends had been hurt?' Big Mac thought frowning a little wanting to press that pony a little more.
"That's why you should talk to mah sister and her friends." Apple Bloom interfered before her brother could say anything.
The cloaked stallion then asked raising an eyebrow: "Who are they and how could they help me? I doubt anypony, but me could handle this situation."
"They're the Elements of Harmony!" Apple Bloom said with a smile not eally noticing the colt's arrogance in his voice. "There is nothing they can't beat."
The other two fillies kept agreeing with other and starting to sidetrack about the feats of the six Elements of Harmony. Only Big Mac noticed the other stallion's face turn pale as the fillies talked about how awesome Twilight and the others were.
'So that's why it came all the way here. It all makes sense now…But I can't tell them…No…I must solve this by myself…' Cielo Gris started to ramble in his own mind.
The awkward silence that followed it was only broken by Apple Bloom when she asked something that was on everypony's mind there: "So, uh…What happened to your horn?"
The other three ponies, while curious themselves, thought that it was rather rude to ask such a thing in a blatantly way.
"Apple Bloom..." Big Mac looked at his sister sternly.
Noticing that, the filly looked down and quickly said: "Sorry, mister, I was just curious."
Cielo Gris just sighed and said: "It's okay. I...I don't talk about how I lost most of my horn. It's a rather shameful story... At least I can do some magic. It's much weaker, but it can still be used."
After another awkward silence, Cielo Gris told them: "I'm really sorry, but I can't stay. I appreciate what you did for me, but I'm okay now." He then turned to Big Mac and gave him a quick bow as he said: "Thank you for the food. I'm feeling much better now."
"But…" Apple Bloom tried to talk only to receive a quick, yet polite, 'thank you' from the stallion, who did the same to Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Then, the cloaked stallion used his magic to hold Big Mac on the place while he went past the ponies and then left the house.
The three fillies gasped as the red stallion tried to bulge without success until the magic faded away. He thought of chasing after Cielo, but he couldn't leave the younger ponies alone after what he had just heard.
"What was that all about?" Inquired Sweetie Belle confused.
"I dunno, but I think we should tell twilight and the others about this pony. He was after a 'thing', whatever it is, so it must be serious." Scootaloo said flapping her wings a little.
"You fillies better stay here. I don't know what he was after, but it is better safe than sorry. Once Applejack arrives, I can walk Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo home." The red stallion said a bit worried.
From his life experience in Ponyville, things could go really bad if there is some strange creature lurking. Besides, that strange colt said the thing he was hunting was dangerous and had come to his farm. He couldn't risk the safety of his sister and her friends.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders looked at each other getting worried as well. They wanted to go warn Twilight and the others, but they decided that Big Mac's decision was probably for the best.
Big Mac told Apple Boom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo to play inside their house while he was going to inform Granny Smith about their visitor. But before leaving he stressed again for them not to leave the house.
The three fillies agreed, but they didn't have the mood to play around, instead they kept trying to guess what kind of creature Cielo Gris was after.
It didn't take long until AppleJack came through the front door with a worried expression in her face.
Once she found her sister and her friends, she was very relieved. She had heard that Apple Bloom went to the Eeverfree Forest on the previous day to visit Zecora and she feared that she might have gone again.
"Sis, what's wrong?" Apple Bloom asked not liking her sister's expression.
Her words snapped AppleJack from her thoughts and the older pony told them: "It is Spike. He was attacked by some monster in the Everfree Forest."
End of chapter 4
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