9:00 am a few days later, Canterlot Royal Palace, Royal ward, City of Canterlot, Capital city of Equestria, Visiting hours, Private hospital room, Palace hospital.
Its a few days later since his younger sister told Somnus that it would take a few weeks for his magic to fully recover. By tapping into his inherited Alicorn magic, it blew out his magic stopper. Since that time, Blueberry has taken great care of her brother. She has helped him by exercising his magic and his mind with elementary games she put together to aid in his recovery and strengthen his magic reserves. An invigorated Princess Blueberry canters down the hallway leading towards her brother's hospital room. She is delighted with his progress up to now and wants to start the next level of his recovery.
"Your Highness!" A unicorn nurse calls to Blueberry, floating a rolled-up scroll in a purple magic bubble.
"What is it, nurse Lily Lightly?" Princess Blueberry said sharply as she told all the hospital staff she is not to be disturbed when she is working with a patient.
"Forgive me your highness, but I think you better see this scroll I received from Nurse Wysteria in Appleloosa," Nurse Lily said as she floated the scroll over to Blueberry. She unrolls the scroll and reads it; her light blue eyes widen with alarm.
"By my mother's light! All rapid deployment outbreak teams begin deploying to the Canterlot train station a bad epidemic is going to break out in Appleloosa at any time now. We must get the decontamination train along with the medical train to Appleloosa to contain the infection before it becomes pandemic, Deploy!" Princess Blueberry calls with a very calm voice as the rapid deployment outbreak teams begin forming and grabbing their equipment to head to the train station.
1:00 pm Canterlot Royal Palace, Royal ward, City of Canterlot, Capital City of Equestria, visiting hours, Private hospital room of Prince Somnus, Palace hospital.
'Where is she? She said she would come to continue to help me with my recovery?' Somnus thought as he paced about his private hospital room, waiting for his younger sister to arrive.
"Did she forget?” Somnus wondered as he walks over to the window to look outside.
"No, Blueberry, would never forget something like that if anyone is hurt, she is the first pony on the scene to help but still, it's 1 p.m., well passed the time she told me she would come." Somnus comments as a reddish-pink unicorn mare opens the door to his private hospital room with a dark blue mane and tail. On her flank was a red heart, and in her mane behind her horn was a nurse's cap.
"Please forgive me, Mr. Silverlight for being late. I had to read over Director Blueberry's notes on your case." The unicorn mare explains as she got a look of utter confusion on her face.
"Mr. Silverlight? Are you related to Director Blueberry Swirl Silverlight, the mare that runs the palace hospital?" The Unicorn mare inquires. Still, a bit confused as Somnus politely laughs under his breath.
"Before I answer Miss, who are you?" Somnus inquires, walking up to the mare and looking her over a few times.
"Oh yes, my name is Nurse Melinda White Heart. I was just recently assigned as your new nurse by Director Blueberry now your turn, Mr. Silverlight (Pointing her hoof at Somnus)." Melinda explains as Somnus had a smile on his snout.
"Yes, I am related to Director Blueberry Swirl Silverlight. She is my younger sister." Somnus explains as Melinda blinks with surprise and gasps.
"If Director Blueberry is your younger sister and she holds the rank of a Princess of Equestria. That means you hold the rank of a Prince of Equestria." Melinda exclaims leaping almost out of her skin as she quickly bows to Somnus.
"Please forgive me, your highness I didn't know." Melinda's voice breaks as Somnus walks up to her and picks her to chin up with his hoof.
"It's all right, Miss White Heart most of the time, ponies don't call me Prince Somnus unless I am wearing my royal regalia, and the only time I wear that is when I have royal duties to perform for my Mother and my Aunt. I prefer being called Somnus or Mr. Silverlight." Somnus explains as Melinda relaxes a bit around Somnus and explains why she took over the care of him.
4:00 pm Town of Appleloosa, Edge of the Macintosh Hills, Land of Equestria, the Salt Block Saloon, common room of the saloon.
Old-time western piano music echoes in the Salt Block Saloon on the main road into town. Sitting at a small table in the saloon, drinking apple juice was Princess Blueberry. Her rapid deployment outbreak teams from Canterlot had quickly contained the infection in town before it could spread out to Equestria.
"Thank you, your highness for coming so quickly to save my town folk," The earth pony said gratefully.
"You are very welcome, Sheriff Silver star; it's what my mother would do." Princess Blueberry pleased with herself taking a drink of her apple juice.
"But what I don't get Sheriff Silver star is how this all started all your ponies around here are very healthy, but still, an infection started to spread in town very quickly had anything changed in town?" Princess Blueberry inquires, floating her mug down onto the table.
"Not that I know of your highness, it's been pretty normal for the town." Sheriff Silver star comments.
"So if nothing has changed was something new added to the town?" Princess Blueberry inquires as an earth pony nurse bursts through the saloon doors out of breath.
"Your highness! We located patient X he's living in a small house just outside of town!" The earth pony shouts as both Blueberry and Sheriff Silver star get to their hooves and follow the nurse out of town.
Not too far from town, sat a small, new, whitewashed wooden house. As Blueberry and Sheriff Silver star arrive at the scene, her ponies are transporting a blue-colored earth pony with a dark blue mane and tail out of the house.
"It is the curse of the Siren Song! That blighted airship carrack! She crashed me schooner airship on Storm Peak when I found out where it crashed! A treasure worth a princess's ransom is not worth my sanity! Those air pirates who hired me to find the Siren Song told me nothing of the price I must pay to know the location of the Siren Song! Destroy my ship log books or be cursed like me!" The earth pony screams, delirious, as he begins to insanely cackle. A moment later, a nurse gives him a shot that puts him to sleep.
"The Siren Song? What is that, your highness?" Sheriff Silver star inquires, looking towards Princess Blueberry, who had a knowing glance on her face.
"Long ago, there was an airship carrack called the Siren Song. It was the fastest airship in all of Equestria. Its task was to transport a gift chest worth a Princess's ransom in gold bits to Yakakstan in the north. During the trip to Yakakastan, the airship crashed somewhere and was never found. Over the years, many ponies have tried to find the crash site of the cursed vessel but failed. Those that have found Siren Song have gone insane and refused to reveal the location of the cursed vessel." Princess Blueberry explains.
'If that pony found the location of the crash site of the Siren Song and has it written down in his airship logbooks, it's best to recover the logbooks and keep it at the palace. We will make sure the air pirates never find the Siren Song and recover the treasure.' Princess Blueberry thought as she heads back to town following right behind Sheriff Silver star.
4:00 pm Canterlot Royal Palace, Royal ward, City of Canterlot, Capital city of Equestria, palace hospital, a small cafeteria on the third floor.
Sitting at a table in the hospital cafeteria, eating her lunch was Special duty Nurse Melinda White Heart. Joining her was a purple-colored unicorn mare with a light pink and purple mane and tail. On her flank was a pink lily flower cutie mark. In her mane behind her horn, was her nurse's cap. This unicorn mare was Patient Advocate Nurse Lily Lightly. She and Melinda are friends as they both work at the Palace hospital on the same floor. A moment later, a light blue unicorn stallion with a dark green and light green strip mane and tail walks into the cafeteria wearing a lab coat and stethoscope around his neck.
"Lily, who is that stallion that just walked in?" Melinda inquires, studying him acutely as Lily looks towards the stallion.
"I think his name is Doctor Egon Good Heart. I was just told by the palace hospital board that they hired that new doctor." Lily explains as Melinda gawks in disbelief.
"What?" Melinda exclaims shocked with the disregard of procedure that Princess Blueberry put in place for hiring a new palace hospital member.
"Her highness is not going to be happy about this." Melinda comments as Lily sighs slowly.
"Ever since the board hired that wonderful doctor without telling her highness they think they can do it again," Lily comments, sipping tea from a paper cup.
"With all their successes they have just as many misses remember Doctor White," Melinda comments as a chill runs down Lily's back to her tail.
"Do I that was a nightmare for me as a Patient Advocate Nurse that doctor wanted to do treatments to patients that I would call dangerous, but the board backed him until one of his treatments hurt a Patient in his care when Blueberry got wind of it every pony in the palace hospital knew she was mad. That day, the board saw the dark side of Princess Blueberry." Lily explains as Melinda sipped tea from a paper cup.
"At least she didn't blame me for the debacle but I was still punished. It was not that bad a week of front desk duty was fair for my part in the debacle. If I just kept fighting for the patient, Blueberry wouldn't have punished me, but the board got to me, and I let it go." Lily explains as the two unicorn nurses left the hospital cafeteria to head back to their floor to continue their shift for the day.
9:00 pm Canterlot Royal Palace, Royal ward, City of Canterlot, Capital City of Equestria, 1st floor of Palace hospital, Patient's belongings Storerooms, hallway leading to the storeroom.
'This has been one of the longest shifts I ever had I can't wait to get home and get off my hoofs for an hour or so.' Melinda thought as she walked down the hallway to the patient's belongings storeroom.
"Huh!" Melinda exclaimed as she noticed the door leading into the storeroom was opened, and a light was shining in the room.
She quietly made her way towards the storeroom and pressed herself against the wall next to the door. She carefully stuck her head into the room and saw a unicorn using a unicorn light spell to search through the many boxes in the room filled with the patient's belongings. She reaches into the room with her hoof and slams on the switch turning on all the lights in the room. With that, Melinda's breathe catches in her throat. With his hoof inside one of the boxes, was Doctor Egon Good Heart.
"Doctor! What are you doing here?" Melinda shouts as Egon's eyes narrow with disdain toward her.
"I might ask the same thing of you, Nurse?" Egon inquires sharply as she points with her hoof towards a set of saddle-bags sitting on a table.
"Getting my saddle-bags so I can head home I was given special permission to use this room to store by saddle-bags when I am on duty by Director Blueberry Swirl Silverlight, the mare that runs the hospital." Melinda said testily. Before Egon can say another word, Melinda floats a paper out of her saddle-bags and shows it to him. On the bottom of the paper was the Equestria royal seal and signed next to it was Princess Blueberry Swirl Silverlight's signature.
"Now get out of here, Doctor! Before I call the guards to take you out of here!" Melinda said forcefully as the doctor knew he was beaten, and he stormed out of the room down the hallway.
As she was closing and locking the door to the storeroom, two royal guards come walking down the hallway. She floats a small gold talisman out of her saddle-bags and shows it to them. The two royal guards quickly salute her, and she instructs them to guard this room till morning.
At that same time, in the private royal living area of the Canterlot Royal Palace, Princess Celestia Silverlight was about to settle in for a restful and quiet evening in her chamber with some light reading. A cozy terry cloth robe wraps around her slender alicorn figure, while four very soft and squishy terry cloth slippers adorn her hooves. She floats a pair of reading glasses onto her snout from the top of the nightstand. As she was about to open the cover of the book, there was a knock on her chamber door. She gets to her hoofs to answer it. As she opens the door, waiting outside, was a pegasi mare wearing the gunmetal gray armor of the Princess's elite guard Solar Guard.
"Yes, Trooper?" Celestia said friendly.
"Excuse me for troubling you, Your Highness." The pegasi said.
"No trouble at all, trooper. How can I help you?" Celestia inquires friendly.
"I was told to give this envelope to you by a private messenger a few minutes ago." The pegasi explain handing the envelope to Celestia, who takes hold of the envelope with her yellow magic aura. In her magic aura, Celestia flips and turns the envelope in every direction to scrutinize the paper. With no return address, she turns toward the pegasi.
"Did the Messenger say anything to you, Trooper?" Celestia inquires.
"All the Messenger said was it was important, and it was from a friend of the prince." The pegasi explain.
"I see, please return to your duty, Trooper," Celestia said as the Pegasi bows to the princess, before getting back to her duties.
"Huh? From a friend of Somnus and it's important." Celestia comment.
Closing the door behind her. She uses her magic to tear open the side of the envelope. Inside was a small piece of paper that she floats out of the envelope. It read:
To: Princess Celestia Silverlight
From: Payola Bucks
A few of my sources have just informed me of an air pirate spy in Canterlot. The palace hospital board hired him as a doctor. I have no idea why the air pirates would be interested in the palace hospital. But I know that the Prince is laid-up in that very hospital. The only other information I have is a name: The Siren Song. This name has the full attention of many of the air pirate kings in Equestria, and many ponies have asked me over the years for information on it with no luck.
'The Siren Song? I know I have heard that name somewhere?' Celestia thought, burning the message from Somnus's informer Payola Bucks with a magic fire spell.