Friiiiiick it has been way to long!... I know I'm late and I'm sorry! Summer was supposed to be relaxing and I swear I have been busier now than when I was doing school!... How are you guy's doing? I hope your doing well.
Alright enough chit chat - to the story!
A pony wandered along a winding dirt road, not to far from the edge of the forest. It was nearing dawn, but still dark so most ponies are still in bed; the pony in question was princess – an alicorn, named Twilight Sparkle. Her thoughts swirled around her head like the early morning breeze that ruffled her violet colored fur and hair. Nearly three weeks prier, Twilight took a trip with her friends to see her brother and sister-in-law who had recently had a baby, Flurryheart.
The whole ordeal with the Crystal Heart and the long trek home had worn them all out, even after three weeks the purple alicorn was still quite tired… And worried about her niece. The baby alicorn was extremely powerful with her magic, sooner or later that magic would grow and create some real damage, but she had full confidence that her brother, Shining Armor, and Princess Cadence would raise her to control the alicorn magic.
Looking around at the dirt road that divided the tangled, and truly messed up, Everfree Forest from the beginning of a large field of unripened wheat grass.
She sighed tiredly, sleep had evaded her since coming home and what sleep she did get was plagued with nightmares. No matter how hard the purple mare tried to remember, the dreams eluded her, sleep spells had little success or completely failed. So here she was, running around the country side at night -genius I know.
But a sudden flash of bright blue light came from the field of grass blinded Twilight for a moment. Officially distracted from her thought process, the Princess used a simple spell that all unicorns learned before any other spell, a glowing orb of purple light formed around her horn, illuminating the area. She
dashed into the field with new energy, following what sounded like her friend, Fluttershy, calling for help. Twilight leaped through the wheat grass and came to a sudden halt in a small clearing at the sight before her.
The yellow pegasus was standing a yard away from what looked to be a lump of… something, Angel was on her back, twitching anxiously. The alicorn attempted speak while walking closer, Fluttershy heard her approaching and snapped out of her shock while Angel hopped to the ground and over to the lump on the ground. The pegasus' expression made Twilight snap her mouth shut, instead she turned her gaze to the lump.
…It was an awful sight.
A body...
The colt was extremely small, with a long tangled black mane and tail, his fur was -what she assumed it was supposed to be -white but was matted with glowing green stuff and some sort of dark liquid… It took less than a second for it to click, Blood The alicorns brain supplied, her stomach doing a flip at the thought.
She rapidly surveyed the rest of the body, filing away all of the cuts, bruises, and scars later for treatment. The colt turned out to be a pegasus, his wings were more of skinny, fur covered limbs with a hoof full of feathers left. What caught her eye was the foreleg that was missing and in its place was the nob of the shoulder, oozing blood, puss, and the glowing green stuff. She turned to the yellow mare, trying her best not to throw up.
"Fluttershy, what happened?" Twilight asked, voice shaking; seeing that her friend was about to cry. "Never mind, we need to get him to your house-"
"N-no, I don't have the s-supplies. H-he needs the hospital." Fluttershy said, trying to keep her voice from shaking but failing.
The purple mare only nodded, not trusting her voice at that moment, silently casting a spell to levitate the black haired colt. The movement jarred the sleeping form, electing a small cry of pain from his hoarse throat, his face scrunching up as a single bleary, tear filed, blue eye cracked open. The child tried struggling before exhausting the remainder of his energy and slept again.
The mares sighed in unison before running as fast as possible, using what little light that the rising sun brought, to get to the town hospital.
Running through the towns market, in hindsight, was a terrible idea. The early morning crowd had come to set up their wears in the market, bring out the early risers trying to find a good deal among the stands. The sight of Ponyville's resident Princess running by carrying what looked to be a child's body, really draw's a pony's attention away from haggling away a basket of apples.
The two pony's ignored the whispering and gawking ponyfolk, more focused on the child that was floating a few feet of the ground next to Twilight, bleeding out as they raced up the steps to the hospitals entrance.
Bursting through the double doors probably wasn't the best idea either, but nether of the mares were thinking of that at the moment, as the doors slammed into the walls startling the nurse at the front desk, making him drop a pile of papers. The nurse turned an angry glare to the two girls before doing a double take and hit the pager calling a doctor and more nurses to the front.
A group of medical pony's rushed in, rapidly wheeling the pegasus colt away, gurney taking him to the emergency room for surgery. Twilight followed, answering as many questions that the doctor, a cream colored stallion with black mane, asked as possible.
"What happened?" The Doctor demanded.
"I don't know. I didn't find him, I found Flutteshy as she was trying to bring him here." The purple pony said, trying her best to sound strong, though it was becoming harder by the second.
The Doctor nodded, "Is there anything about the patients condition that you can tell me?"
Twilight shook her head. As they reached the surgery room's door faster than either anticipated, Twilight let the door slam shut.
The alicorn returned to the waiting room, finding Fluttershy being treated by the nurse that was at the front desk. It seemed as if shock had set into her shy friend, all she did was stare at the wall not saying a word no matter how many questions Twilight asked. With a tired sight, Twilight flopped onto the uncomfortable plastic chair to wait.
Hours had passed, and Fluttershy had stayed it the waiting room, the nurse had been checking on her every once and a while. But Twilight had come and gone from the hospital all day, checking in every once and awhile on the colts progress. Not much had changed, they were still in surgery last time the purple alicorn had been there -that was around ten thirty.
It was now a little after noon, the gossips of Ponyville had been going at it with all kinds of rumors and stories; she had been approached by many reporters throughout the day – and it was barely lunch time!
Twilight was just walking up the steps to the hospital, taking a break from her paperwork. Her dragon, Spike, decided to stay behind at the castle to continue the work.
Twilight and Spike had been shifting through years worth of missing papers from all over Equestria, trying to find the colts family. Though, if anyone asked her, she would say that she didn't believe that the boy had a family, or any one at all.
"Hey Twilight!" A voice called behind her. The purple pony looked over her shoulder to see two of her friends.
"Hey Applejack, hey Rainbow Dash." Twilight did a double take on her friend, "Rainbow Dash, what happened?!"
Rainbow Dash was a spunky sky blue pegasus with a mane and tail that lived up to her name, she was currently hobbling on three legs and being supported by Applejack. Applejack was an orange earth pony with a golden braided mane, her favorite stetson hat on her head… Both were covered in dust and straw.
"Well, I was practicing my awesome quadruple somersault dive and A.J. was helping." Rainbow Dash said confidently, a smile plastered on her muzzle. "It's just a sprain, don't worry."
Applejack just rolled her eyes, "Dash though' it would be a dandy idea to have me throwin' hay bales at 'er. Unfortunately I listened, and here was closer than the farm. What are you doin' here Sugercube?"
Twilight really wasn't surprised, years of dealing with the two most competitive ponies in all of Equestria had nearly numbed her to their antics -'nearly' being the key word.
"I'm checking on the colt that we found this morning." She said matter-a-fatally. Seeing the confusion on the pairs faces Twilight sighed and explained as best as possible.
"I was taking a walk early this morning when I saw a flash of light and Fluttershy yell for help. I think she might of yelled 'what happened?', I don't know. When I did find her, Fluttershy was trying to carry the little colt so I helped bring them here."
Two pairs of eyes widened at the news, "Is he alrigh'?" Applejack inquired, the earth pony might be strong but when it came to children she turned into a mother bear – ten times as dangerous than usual. Rainbow Dash on the other hoof, acted more aloof – uncaring in so cases – when presented with a problem that couldn't be fixed by flying at the speed of sound.
"No, he's in really bad shape; in all honesty I don't think that he'll survive. He looked so...Broken", exhaustion was evident on the purple pony's face. The two athletes let their friend lose herself in thought while they talked about the evident new resident of Ponyville General.
Nothing like this had happened in decades – in fact something like this had never happened before. It was unheard of to hurt a child, even those who are bent on destroying Equesrtia or enslaving its people knew better than to touch a child let alone harm one.
Twilight remembered reading in one of her history books about a kingdom far away from Equestria were the monarch hit a filly for showing 'insolence against the crown'. The monarchs generals turned on the monarch and killed them. Thankfully the time of nations pointlessly spilling blood ended when Princess Celestia and Princess Luna took the throne. The brutality of the ponies who lived back then would always surprise Twilight, how anypony could hurt- let alone kill- was unthinkable. Twilight had hurt ponies in the different fights and scuffles, but that came with the territory of being a Protector of Equestria.
Fluttershy was still sitting in the waiting room, with a really excited pink pony hopping around the room.
"Hey Pinkie, what are you doing here?"
The pony in question looked up sharply, and as if she had super speed Pinkamena Diane Pie, Pinkie Pie for short was in front of the purple alicorn. Pinkie pie was a bright pink pony with curly pink hair, many shades darker than her pelt. Her baby blue eyes blinked rapidly, as a large smile found its proper place on to her muzzle.
"Hey Twilight! I came to see what all the ruckus was about. Is it true that you and Fluttershy found a baby alicorn? I've never met a boy alicorn before! Oh, I'm so excited to meet him! Maybe I should bake a cake for him, since he's isn't feeling well! Bye Twilight!" And dashed off faster than Twilight's brain could keep up.
What? A male alicorn? Where did that come from!? She thought, extremely confused. She would have to talk to Pinkie and Fluttershy about it, but it was then that the doctor decided to make his entrance. The medic looked as if he hadn't gotten any rest since the last time Twilight came by.
The doctor gave a small bow,"Your Majesty, have you found any of our 'John Doe's relatives?"
Twilight took on an air of authority, one that was to be expected from a pony of her status, "I am afraid not, how is he doing?"
He sighed and signaled for her to follow, the Princess followed the medical pony through the brightly lit hallways, leaving her friends to wait. For being a hospital it was nearly empty, minus the tired looking nurses that mulled about taking care of a few stray patients.
"Dehydration and malnourishment, a hairline fracture on the sternum, broken fibula, clavicle, and a multitude of ribs. We were able to sterilize his room before anything bad could settle… The amputated limb has been properly sutured closed with little to no trouble, there is still a high chance for infection."
The doctor read, clip board in hoof.
"Layers of laceration scars may cause problems in the future, we will keep an eye on the healing scars as well as the gashes. We removed slivers of an unknown green metal and a small black box from near the heart."
They reached the viewing window of the stereotypical hospital room that held the mystery that had been plaguing her all day. 'John Doe' was sleeping soundly, snuggled deep underneath the white hospital sheets – probably the first in a long time. From what she could see, the child looked like a mummy, being completely rapped in white bandages and casts around his appendages. The nurse's had cleaned of all of the grim and cut the unruly mat of black hair, trimming it to look like a buzz cut.
"What does it do?" Twilight asked curiously, distracting herself from the sight before her as well as the long list of injuries. The doctor presented a rectangular black box within a plastic bag. Strange, the box had no identifiable except for a blazing green initial, 'F'.Most definitely some of advanced technology that Ihaven't seen before, Twilight observed, But then again I know magic, not tech.
"I do not know -I've never seen anything like it, but I am not a scientist. But we have a more serious problem… It seems as if someone had preformed a… Vivsection on the kid, I was able to stitch it up but I'm afraid to say that infection has set in... The child isn't in good shape -in my professional opinion, I don't believe he will make it."
The Doctor turned and look the princess in the eye, "I may be a doctor, but I've never dealt with something like this...Ponyville General is not prepared enough to care for this child." He sighed wearily, "Princess Twilight, you have to send word to the capital, the doctors there are better equipped for things like… this!", He gestured to through the window to the sleeping form.
Twilight had never felt such anger and pity before, how could any sentient creature do that to a child! She was a stunned, the doctor was giving up on him – well, not completely giving up, but close enough! He was handing a near hopeless patient off to another doctor to fix!
Twilight thought for a moment, trying to think of someone with the experience to help. The purple alicorn turned away and walked back the way they came,"I know someone who will help, I'll send them a message now."
The Princess didn't know many doctor's in Canterlot – it was uncommon for magic students to mingle with medical students. For many students, Twilight realized, it was taboo for the students studying magic to talk to the students going into the medical and technological fields. Both sides fought each other a lot through school, being one side based on science and the other an unseen power.
Almost all the unicorn doctor's and engineers that Twilight had encountered had blatantly refused to use magic while working. More confident in their hooves than their magic, I guess, Twilight mused.
Walking back into the waiting room, Twilight was greeted with a sight she hadn't expected. A beautiful white unicorn with softly curled purple mane talking to Applejack and a bandaged Rainbowdash. But it was the towering figure that stood next to Applejack that drew her attention.
"Princess Celestia, what are you doing here?"
Well, I hope you enjoyed that chapter. I do need some help though, I have the story line and plot but I need filler idea's - like what GirlFish and ShadowArbitor said. Thanks guy's!
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