Chapter Eleven: Lucky's First Doctor Visit in Ponyville

Friday came too fast for Lucky, and before she knew it she was walking to the doctor's office with Rainbow and Applejack. "How long will we be here for?", Lucky asked. "However long it takes for him to check how healthy you are.", Rainbow answered. Lucky hung her head, she hoped she didn't need any shots. She really dislikes needles. They hurt! "Nurse Redheart will most likely be the nurse, she's a nice pony. You'll like her. Now Rainbow, who is the doctor?"

"Horse MD I think. He has an orange curly mane and an orange tail, and his coat is brown." Applejack looked at Rainbow curiously, "First I ever heard of him." Rainbow shrugged. "Me too, but I heard he's really nice, so there's nothing to worry about Lucky." Lucky nodded, if they say the nurse and doctor are nice, she'll trust them. When they arrived at the hospital, they went up to the check-in desk. "Lucky Fire is here for her check up.", Rainbow said. The receptionist looked at them.

"Ok, take a seat and we'll call you up when the doc is ready." They nodded and took their seats. Lucky looked around and she saw books, it was a small bookcase full of books for foals. Then next to it was a bigger book case, she figured that was for older ponies. She went over to the small bookcase and looked at the titles, though she can't read them all. She decided to look at the covers and see what piques her interest. So one by one she took out the books then put them back with her magic, deeming them uninteresting. Then there was one that captured her interest. She brought it over to her two role models, and held it up with her magic in front of them.

"Read it to me?" Rainbow and Applejack smiled, then Applejack took it. Applejack said, "Want me to hold it flat in my hooves, then you can turn the page when I say so?" "Sure." Applejack read the title and then Lucky turned the cover so Applejack could read the first page. After about 15 minutes, they were called into the hallway to go to one of the rooms and they put the book back and went where they were called to. "Hi Nurse Redheart.", Applejack and Rainbow said. "Hello girls, and who is this filly? Is she a relative from out of town?" "No, she's a little filly who's parents went to the Green Pastures in the sky.", Applejack said.

"I found her sittin' towards the edge of Ponyville, she had come from the Everfree Forest. She lived there for 3 months before comin' into town." "Oh wow. Well, we'll see if that forest did anything to her health." Rainbow then said, "Well, I don't think so, not unless she ate something bad or drank yucky water or even ran into the Poison Joke. All we know is she ate grass and flowers, not enough to fill her tummy. Poor kid. Good thing Applejack took her in for a bit and gave her real meals. Then I took over when Lucky wanted to stay with me."

"I also see she's an alicorn. Very rare." Lucky told the nurse, "Mama was a unicorn and papa was a pegasus." "So you got both their traits." Lucky nodded. "Oh, my name's Lucky Fire." Nurse Redheart smiled gently. "Hello Lucky Fire. Oh yes, do you have your medical records with you?" Lucky opened her saddlebags and took out the papers. She took out the papers with her magic, but opened the saddlebags with her hoof. She handed them to the nurse. Nurse Redheart looked impressed at Lucky's magic. "Very advanced, she's a natural talent for magic."

Rainbow then grinned, "And flying too. The highest she can go is 6 feet and she can fly from Sugar Cube Corner to her school." "Goodness. That's even more impressive. Well, we've been outside the room for 5 minutes talking, I will give these papers to the doc and he will be with you shortly." The three ponies nodded. Lucky took a seat on the paper lined cushy bench thingy that's raised up a little, and Applejack and Rainbow sat in the two chairs in the room.

After 30 minutes of wriggling from impatience, by Lucky, the doctor came in. "Hello girls, now, who's the patient here?" Lucky raised a hoof. He smiled, "Hello, I'm Horse MD. I'm your doctor and we'll be checking your height, weight and all that good stuff." Lucky nodded. So the doctor led Lucky to the scales. He weighed her then took her height. "A tad bit small for her age, but when she hits the growth spurt that alicorns usually have, she'll most likely be normal height. Well, we'll only know in time. Now, she isn't much underweight, and Nurse Redheart also told me she used to live in Everfree Forest and she ate grass and flowers. Then when Applejack found her, Applejack gave her better meals, then Rainbow Dash after she took Lucky home to stay with her."

The two mares nodded, "Yes, we make sure she eats healthy and plenty. We knew she was way underweight, and we want to help her get back to a better weight. A normal weight for her size." The doctor smiled, happy Lucky has two such caring ponies to watch over her. "Good, by the next check up she should most likely be a healthy weight. She's only 10 pounds underweight. I did say she wasn't much underweight. Now Lucky, I will check your heartbeat, pulse, and reflexes, then you should be set to go. Though I am a little skeptical on your health, having lived in the forest for 3 months."

Rainbow spoke up, "I think she should be fine. A friend of ours lives in that forest and she's healthy. Her name's Zecora." The doctor looked at Rainbow. "That odd looking pony?" Lucky got a bit defensive. "She isn't odd looking and she isn't really a pony. She's a zebra. She looks different, yes, but she is nice, and she isn't creepy or scary at all. She talks funny, but she's really nice. Don't make things up because you don't know her. Meet her and you'll see how nice she is."

The older ponies looked at Lucky in amazement. 5 year olds, they sure have spunk, especially this one. She even sounded a bit grown up, though she had the 5 year old speech. "Well, you do have a point. Never judge a book by its cover." Lucky tilted her head. "That means if you see a pony who is odd looking or talks funny or something, give them a chance and get to know them, don't turn away because you don't think they are nice. What you said also means 'don't judge a book by its cover'.", the doctor said. "Ooooh, ok."

So the doctor did the rest of the check up and Lucky was all set to go. "Here, a lollipop for being such a good patient." Lucky's eye got big, "Awesome! Thank you.", she said as she took the lollipop by magic. She started licking it happily. The older ponies chuckled. "So cute. Ok, well, if she starts to act like she isn't well, bring her here and I will test her for anything she may have caught in the forest, you never know. For now I'll trust you two when you say that Zecora lives in the forest and is healthy, she is in the pony category, right?" Applejack nodded, "I heard Lucky tellin' Twilight that her papa read her a book of different ponies and zebras were in there. So we shouldn't be that different, 'specially our immune systems."

"Well, just in case, if she starts feeling unwell, bring her here. Her next appointment will be six months from now. Here's an appointment card for a reminder. One for Applejack and one for Rainbow." Applejack and Rainbow nodded then took the cards. "Ok Lucky, we can go home now.", Rainbow said. Lucky nodded and thanked the doctor again for the lollipop and said it was nice meeting him, then Nurse Redheart when they passed her. "It was good meeting you too Lucky."

The doc said, then the nurse. They left the hospital, then Rainbow asked, "Now that wasn't too bad was it?" Lucky shook her head, too busy with the lollipop. Applejack chuckled, "I guess she's too busy with that thing to really talk with us. Now, you'll be stayin' startin' tonight, alright?" "Alright, cool. We'll get to our home then I can grab my bed and she can grab her school books." Applejack gave a small nod. "I can't wait till y'all stay, it'll be fun. Does Lucky have a bed now?" "Hehe, not really. She's taken to sleeping in my bed with me. I can make her a cloud bed though." Lucky heard that and said, "No. Can't I still sleep with you? Back at home, I didn't really stay in my bed much, unless mama and papa wanted to be alone together, never know why, oh well.

"I let them, I'm not mean and ask them over and over to stay with them. I loved my mama and papa, I still do, but I can never see them anymore. But I have you two now. Oh, and why can't you come up to the cloud home Applejack?" "Well, because I'm not a pegasus. Only pegasi can walk and stand on clouds, and alicorns too, they can stand and walk on clouds." Lucky looked sad, "Aww, that stinks. Isn't there a way to make unicorns and earth ponies walk on clouds, like, for a really long time?" Rainbow said, "There is a spell that Twilight knows, but it only lasts three days."

"Oh. That's not long at all." Rainbow and AJ shook their heads sadly. "Well, can't we move in Applejack's home? We all can share her room. You can keep your cloud bed Rainbow." Rainbow and Applejack looked at each other. "Well, I dunno if it'll work. We only started seein' each other, and it'll be too soon. Well, you'll see when you get older, everything that a couple is." Lucky just looked at Applejack. "Well…. that stinks. It would be fun to have the three of us staying. Then we really would be like a family."

Applejack and Rainbow looked at each other again, by now they're passing Twilight's library. Spike's outside watering the flowers surrounding the small path to the door and the front and part of the sides to the tree. "Hi Applejack, Rainbow, Lucky….. hey Lucky, how come you're not in school?" "Oh hi Spike, I just came back from the doctor's office. Rainbow gave the teacher a pardon note for me to miss school because of the doctor." Spike grinned, "Nice, you have a three day weekend." Lucky shrugged. "I'd rather have gone to school, but oh well. I guess the doctor is more important than school."

"Well yeah the doctor's is important. You needed to be checked. Now we know you only need to gain ten pounds to be at a healthy weight for your size.", Rainbow said. Lucky just went back to licking her lollipop. Rainbow and Applejack shook their heads at her. "You guys going to your place Applejack?" "I am, those two are goin' home for their things to come to my place fer a while." Spike smiled, "Well, have fun you guys." The three smiled. "We will.", they said, then they kept walking. Rainbow and Lucky flied to their home after telling Applejack they'll meet her at her house.

Applejack walked home, now thinking about what Lucky said about her and Rainbow moving in and them being a real family if they did. 'Well, that would be kinda nice. Then I can see more of how Lucky is and more of what she's like. Then maybe I can become more closer to her and really know if I have maternal feelin's toward her.', Applejack thought to herself. She arrived home and went to her room, shut the door, and sat in the middle of her bed.

'Hmm, maybe I could let them move in, though I'd have to ok it with Granny Smith, Big Mac, and Applebloom, though I know Applebloom would love for them to move in.' About 10 minutes later, she heard the door close then hoof steps coming towards then up the stairs. Applejack got off the bed and opened the door and got a knock on the head by Rainbow. "Ow." Rainbow chuckled, "Sorry AJ, I didn't expect you to open your door before I could knock. My bad." Lucky giggled. Then Applejack chuckled as well. "It's alright. Come in."

"So, set up the beds like last time?", Rainbow asked. "If ya want. I don't mind." Rainbow nodded and turned around and brought in her cloud bed and put it next to Applejack's bed. Lucky followed Rainbow then set her saddlebags at the foot of Applejack's bed on the floor. It's about 11:45 now (XD idk, I ain't been to the doctor's for a check up in idk how long now. So I don't remember how long they take for all Lucky needed). "So, wanna help me get lunch ready Lucky?", Applejack asked. "Sure.", the three of them headed downstairs. Applejack saw Granny Smith in her rocking chair. "Hello girls, havin' fun?"

"Howdy Granny Smith. Yeah, kinda. Hey, I got a question ta ask ya. You two stay here a sec. I'll be right back." Rainbow and Lucky did as they were told and Applejack went up to Granny Smith and whispered in her ear, "Will it be alright for Lucky and Rainbow ta move in? I said no originally, but Lucky talked me into thinkin' about it, then I decided I should ask Big Mac and you and Applebloom first before sayin' yes." "Oh Applejack, of course. But yes, do ask Big Mac if he'd be ok with it, and Applebloom I know would be happy." Applejack smiled, "I know Applebloom would love that, I just wanna ask her." Granny shook her head, "Don't, you and I both know that filly loves those two and would be thrilled to have more ponies in the house, especially one her age to play with livin' here."

Applejack nodded, and then went back to Rainbow and Lucky. They're both grinning knowingly. "What?", Applejack asked, but she can't hold back a grin herself. "I know what you just asked her.", Rainbow said. "Really now?" Lucky answered, "Yep, and I know too, if we can move in." Applejack's grin turned into a smile. Lucky hopped up and down. "We can move in?" "Soon as I ask Big Mac. Granny and I already know what Applebloom will say." Lucky hopped in circles around Applejack. Granny Smith smiled, Rainbow chuckled, Applejack laughed.

Lucky then nuzzled Applejack when she stopped hopping. "Thanks AJ. It's because of what I said to you right? That why you lettin' us move in?" Applejack nuzzled her back. "Kinda. I do wanna be like family with you and Rainbow. I really do. 'Cause you basically are like family to me Lucky, you're kinda like… like one o' my own it feels like. I dunno really fer sure if that's how I feel, but I think it is." Applejack then looked at Rainbow. Rainbow somehow knew why she looked at her.

She sighed then said, "I definitely know I feel that way towards you. I feel like a mama to you. I already know you consider Applejack and I as parental figures, and just recently I started feeling a little like a mama to you. Applejack recently started feeling the same. She talked to me a few days ago about it. I told her it probably is motherly feelings. She came to me a little after I had talked to Rarity about my feelings. Rarity told me, it was my maternal instincts kicking in. Applejack has a couple of the same feelings I do, I dunno if she has all of the same feelings now, but I do think she has the same feelings of what a mama would have."

Lucky just looked at Applejack and Rainbow. After what seemed forever, no doubt she was trying to understand everything they were talking about, she smiled a really huge smile, and her eyes got tears in them. She's crying in happiness. She hugged them both tightly, well, best as she can with her forelegs being on the short side. They smiled and hugged her back. "That would be cool if you really were, and if we could be someplace where it's only the three of us. That would be perfect. We would definitely be like parents and their foal, in our own place like mama, papa, and me were before everything happened." Rainbow and Applejack nodded. "Well come on now, I think we were about ta make lunch weren't we Lucky?"

Lucky jumped back, "Oh yeah!" She went to the kitchen with Applejack following her. "Now, what do y'all want?", Applejack asked everypony. They all agreed on one thing, salad with apple slices in it. "That sounds yummy, ok Lucky, get some apples and lettuce out of the fridge and I'll get the slicer fer the apples." Lucky got the stuff and put it on the counter. "Applejack, do you have ranch dressing?" Applejack nodded, "In the fridge on the door." Lucky went over to the fridge and got out her favorite dressing for salad.