Tea Party Gone Bad

by Readingyay


Smolder's Condition

The doctor struggled to get his words out. “You have one of the rarest diseases known to any creature. You have what is called Blizzards Blood”. When the words came out of the doctor's mouth Smolder felt as if the world was crashing down on her. She knew what it was and at that moment she really wished she didn't. Gallus on the other hand didn’t. “How bad is that exactly?” he asked. 

“It’s considered one of the most painful and tormenting diseases with no known cure. The disease gets into the blood vessels of the creature and starts to freeze them. But like how blizzards are, the blood freezes slowly causing these specks of pretty much glass to go shooting all over the body. Every now and then though the freezing will stop causing the creature to burn up like a volcano about to explode. It causes the creature to throw up a lot due to the digestive system freezing and unfreezing, many black outs, loss of all senses for up to 30 minutes depending on how severe, numbness and so much more. The only somewhat good news I can give you is that this disease is not contagious and is not fatal, meaning that Smolder here can live a healthy life, but she will be in a lot of pain from now on. And due to a previous medical condition, she has she really should not be left alone for too long and should have constant checkups with a specialist.”

“Previous medical condition?” Gallus said confused. 

“I have broken heart syndrome” Smolder blurted out.

Gallus looked at her. ‘Since when’ he wanted to ask but didn't. “What are some things we can do to treat the symptoms?” he asked looking back at the doctor. “Honestly the best thing anyone can do is make sure she maintains a healthy lifestyle but that's about it” The doctor said “Now that's really all the information I can give you two as I am very rustic on these types of diseases, but I am going to set you up an appointment with a specialist for this. Let me go get the information for the specialist and I'll be right back to give it to you and let you guys go.”

As the doctor walked out of the room Gallus turned to look at Smolder when he noticed she was zoned out. “Smolder” Gallus said loudly to snap her out of it. “Huh” she said startled looking up at him. “Why didn't you tell me you had broken heart syndrome?”. “Cause it wasn't any of your business to know. You're acting as if I told the others and not you and why do you care anyways?” She said looking away. “Because I'm your friend and I care about you. Speaking of which, you're gonna be staying in my dorm.”. “What!? Why?” “I want to be able to keep an eye out for you.”. “But then everyone will start to think we’re dating!”. “Would that really be a bad thing”

Before Smolder could respond their friends along with Twilight and Spike came in. “Oh my gosh Smolder are you okay!? Headmare Twilight told us what was going on.” Ocellus said running up to hug her with Yona following behind her. “Did the doctor ever come in?” Twilight asked. “Yeah, he just left”. “What did he say?” Spike asked curious but a little scared of the answer. 

Gallus looked over to Smolder to see if she was going to answer but she was a little too far into her thoughts to even realize who was in the room. She had four different things on her mind at the moment. Her sister, her diagnosis, the fact that she's in the hospital to begin with, and what Gallus had just asked her. So Gallus turned back to their friends to explain to them what the doctor had said. 

“Smolder apparently has one of the rarest diseases in the world called Blizzards Blood-” 

He got cut off by the multiple gasps in the room. “BLIZZARDS BLOOD!?!?” Ocellus had shouted out. Gallus got the hint that they already knew what that was, even Yona, so he skipped over the explanation of it. “Yeah the doctor told us he was going to get us information for a specialist as he can't really tell us much about it. OH and apparently a certain dragon here had a previous medical condition that she never told us about.” He turned to look at her as she got snapped out of thought. 

“What griffon mean?” Yona asked, completely clueless. Smolder gave Gallus an ‘I hate you’ look before answering Yona’s question. “Gallus is a little pissed that I didn't tell you guys I had broken heart syndrome”. “A little” Gallus mumbled, rolling his eyes. Smolder gave Gallus another look when Ocellus broke the tension between the two. “Smolder, why didn't you tell us? What if something happened to you where you couldn't speak to tell the doctor about your heart and they did some kind of surgery your heart couldn't handle?”. “I don't know. I’m a dragon. I figured I could just tough it out.”. Just then the doctor walked in with a few papers.

“Okay so I got all the information you guys will need. Your doctor is Dr.Hawkins and he will take great care of you. You guys are free to go since there isn't much we can do here. Just make sure you take it easy and you're not alone just in case something happens.”. “Oh, don't worry she won’t be, I'll make sure of it. Thanks doc!” Gallus said, helping Smolder up who reluctantly followed.

As they were heading outside the hospital Smolder started to feel her legs go numb again so she jumped onto Gallus startling him. “So who’s gonna stay with Smolder now?” Spike asked to nobody in particular. “I am” Gallus said when Smolder responded with a grunt. “I honestly think that would be the best option. Smolder will be taken care of and you don't have to worry as much since Smolder will be with you” Twilight chimed in. Smolder gave another grunt.

“What’s wrong? Do you not want Gallus to be the one to take care of you?” Spike asked. “Not really” she responded muffled due to her face buried in Gallus’s feathers. “Why friend Smolder not want friend Gallus to help?” Yona asked joining the conversation. Smolder turned her head so she could be heard better “Because if our classmates see Gallus helping me a lot they’re gonna start thinking that we’re dating”. After responding Smolder soon started to discover that talking was starting to make her feel sick again so she buried her face back into Gallus’s feathers.

“I’m pretty sure our classmates would understand that you're just sick and Gallus wants to help as a friend Smolder.”. Ocellus is good at figuring out her friends' emotions but she can’t seem to figure out Smolder and Gallus’s. Smolder’s mind starts to go back to what Gallus had said during their first argument about this. ‘I need to ask him about it when we’re alone’ she thought to herself. “We should probably send a letter to Sandbar and Silverstream to let them know what’s going on” Ocellus said looking over to Spike who immediately got a scroll out. “Oh yeah, I sent a letter to Ember earlier and she sent one back saying she was going to come out here.”

‘Great’ Smolder thought to herself ‘Don't they know Ember’s pretty much my mother by how much she took care of me over the years? She's gonna flip when she sees me like this’. The last thing Smolder remembered seeing was Spike sending a letter to their friends when she passed out again.