Chapter 9: Hospital Beds
Spike opened his eyes slowly as a beam of sunlight shot across his face. He tried to lift his head up, but it felt extremely heavy, so he returned it to the pillow. It was then he was in a bed at a hospital. He then noticed the six ponies, his friends, in the room. And he saw Twilight Sparkle seated right beside him.
It was Rainbow Dash who noticed Spike's awakening first, "Hey! It looks like Spike is coming around!"
At the blue pegasus' words, all of the ponies turned their attention to the small dragon. There was some commotion to the news.
The dragon spoke in a very groggy and tired tone, "Huh? What's going on?"
"Spike, are you okay? How are you feeling?" Twilight Sparkle's mother instincts kicked in as she worried for the baby dragon.
"Sore….what happened?" Spike rubbed his head, where he felt bandages wrapped around his skull.
"Ya don't remember, sugarcube?" Applejack asked with concern.
Spike shook his head. He put his claw up to his head again, as it hurt to move.
"Poor dear, you turned into quite the beast a few days ago," Rarity commented.
"What?" the purple dragon didn't understand.
Twilight elaborated, "It's true, Spike. Somehow, you turned into quite a monstrous dragon over a short period of time. It was quite something. Your body grew tremendously and you seemed to have lost all your senses which led to you rampaging all around Ponyville."
"I….did that?" Spike was frightened at the idea of him doing something like that.
"Yeah! You were all like 'RAWR!' And everypony was all like 'AHHH!' And then you would hit a building with your huge tail and it would be all like 'PEEUSSHH!' And then-" Pinkie Pie's description and acting out of the event was cut off by Applejack who put her hoof over Pinkie's muzzle.
Rainbow Dash filled the silence, "What Pinkie's trying to say is that it was really scary and we were all worried and all that junk."
"It really was scary…." Fluttershy added meekly. She seemed to still be shaken from the event.
Spike was in disbelief, "I really did that?"
Twilight didn't answer, "What do you remember?"
Spike scratched the top of his head, trying not to undo the bandages, "Not much. I just remember I was really sad. Sounds dumb, but that's it."
The purple unicorn placed a hoof on Spike's arm affectionately, "It's okay, Spike. Don't worry about it now. I'm just happy that you're okay. I promise I'll make it up to you somehow."
Spike smiled, "Thanks, Twilight, but don't worry about it."
Twilight shook her head, "No, I mean it Spike. I really haven't been treating you the way you deserve. I swear I will make it up to you."
"Alright, but can I go back to sleep please? Without everypony watching me?" Spike asked.
"Oh, right. Of course," Twilight was slightly embarrassed, "come on, girls."
All of the ponies slowly exited the room, all giving the dragon their condolences and wishes for him to get better soon. After everypony but Twilight had left, Spike had made himself comfortable and quickly fell back to sleep. The purple mare smiled as she trotted up to her assistant. Reflecting on the recent events, a few tears formed in her eyes and the unicorn lightly kissed her assistant's forehead.
Exiting the room, Twilight spoke softly, "No matter what happens Spike, I will always love you."
END