When my vision clears I find that I'm strapped to a bed in a sterile room. My ears flatten against my head and I whine. Hospitals are no fun. Vague feelings of being trapped start to surface as I work towards remembering how I got here. I talked to the Board ponies and something odd happened so I left early and went to look for Coffee Guard. Then a bright flash. Ok. What else happened? Should I be worried that my memory is so holey? A large white pony walks in and sighs as she surveys my form. I think that's Celestia.
"Princess? Why am I here?" I ask quietly, hoping to leave soon. She looks through a few clipboards and frowns.
"Wind, we've had this discussion three times already today. I truly wish I could simply let you go but without your magic and mind you'd last a few days at the most. Now brace, it's time for the next round of testing." She sounds sad and resigned. Have we met before I wonder. I brace as I was told and see her horn shine like a thousand suns. I flinch closing my eyes as the spell activates. A cold and tingly sensation washes over me a few seconds before a terrifying wave of pain throws me under. I scream bashing my head against the wall so hard it cracks. Immediately the spell stops and I hear a gasp.
"Wind! Are you ok? Do you need the doctors?" Celestia speaking with a familiarity born of many conversations. I know her, or at least I did. Something has infiltrated my mind and I have a scant few seconds of clarity. This I know. With tears streaming down my eyes I speak.
"Celestia, how good to see you again. I'm sorry it's under such dire circumstances. As I am I will not reme- Owie, kind of hurt. Princess? Why are you crying?" I ask curiously, tilting my head and feeling a crack in the wall behind me. Weird. I try to reach my wings to preen because they are itching like crazy. "Princess? I can't reach my wings, could you untie me please?" An honest plea straight from the heart complete with puppy dog eyes. She glances at my wings and starts. They are disheveled and nasty.
"I'm sorry Wind but we can't risk you escaping. Would you be ok with one of the guards helping?" She shakes her head a bit while speaking quietly, a tear dropping down her face. I cringe and press my wings tight against my sides. She sighs. "Didn't think so. Would you like my help?"
I mull it over for a bit before wincing. My wings really itch! "Yes! Please! They itch terribly!" I cry out. She grins and TKs my wing open. which doesn't help with the discomfort of having another pony touch my feathers. It's icky, though I suppose if the princess wants to preen my wings she's free to do so.
"EEE! I finally get to do this!" The princess of the sun squeals as she preens me. I close my eyes and wait for the humiliation to end. As soon as she finishes she grabs a brush from somewhere and starts combing my mane.
"What on Equus are you doing Princess?" I ask in the hope of getting her to stop.
She smirks at me. "Brushing your mane Windy." Wow, What a kind princess. Soon she gets to the back of my mane and skips the brush over a smooth protrusion. "Huh?" Princess Celestia voices what we both feel at that. She does it again. There's definitely something back there.
"P-princess? What is it?" I ask while staring at the Sun Princess. She tries to pull me up and fails as I'm still hoof cuffed to the bed. She sighs and produces a key which unlocks the restraints. I of course immediately try to bolt but she catches me in her levitation. She turns me around and parts my mane.
"Wind?" She asks quietly. "Why do you have a stone egg sticking out of your head?" I blink. I shake my head.
"What? I coulda sworn you said I have a stone embedded in my head." I reply feeling concerned. Her horn glows and tugs at it. Pain, simple mind destroying pain courses through me at this action. She stops at once hearing my screams. However my mind is clear again for a short time. "Celestia. Keep pulling. Please, no matter how much I scream. That should not be there." She stuffs a paperback in my mouth and resumes pulling. With a sickening ripping noise it pulls free and she levitates it in front of me. Half of a stone orb with terrible writhing tendrils whip towards me seeking a grip once again. Celestia stares at it in shock and promptly crushes it with the might of the Solar Goddess I know her to be.
"E-evil was in that stone Wind, Pure evil. If I had not discovered it, it would have not only killed you but destroyed your Essence. Who could have made such a terrible creature?" She stares down at me.
I spit out the book noting the marks on it. "Celestia? I think I'll need a lie down." I mumble through a dark tunnel which grows longer as I look through it. THUD!
When Wind falls once again it's all the Princess can do to not scream at the top of her lungs. "Nurse!" a white coated pony rushes in and immediately starts fussing over the unconscious pony on the ground. the breeze coming through an open window suddenly stops and the Princess's eyes narrow in panic. "Oh nonono." She rushes towards the nurse who wards her off and presses a red gemstone.
"Dead, Princess. Wind is dead. What did you do?" The nurse asks accusingly before she suddenly takes a panicked step back from the Pony on the ground. A phoenix swoops over Wind and caws menacingly before glowing intensely. This come right before an explosion which tears the walls from the rest of the hospital. A the ashes swirl in the air a hoof pops out of them followed by another, pulling themselves from the dust of the two. A head appears and promptly dry heaves.
"Ugh... I really don't feel good." The pony groans before falling out entirely. The Ashes suddenly start to rotate and converge before popping out a pristine phoenix. "Heya Philomena. Whatcha been up to?" The dusty pony rubs the bird's head a bit before once again collapsing.THUD!