//------------------------------// // Definitely Not Skittles // Story: The Elements of Harm-ony // by Chris-Cross13 //------------------------------// "Hello girls." "IS CHRISTIAN OKAY?!" Pinkie's voice echoes throughout the hospital. Redheart sighs. She thinks to herself about her previous decision one last time, which apparently took longer than what she thought was a few seconds. As The Six surrounded her and kept yelling for an answer. "WELL?!" Redheart snapped out back into reality and sighed once more. "Come see for yourself." She motioned them to follow her down the hall. As they walked down the white corridor, Vague started tearing up. Dash tried to comfort him by snuggling next to him, but he pushed her off and walked faster. The others looked at each other sadly. "He's going through all of this, and all because of the way we used the elements." Vague quickly went to defend the remorseful ponies. "Girls, if you're going to get sent to the dungeon or something, i'll make sure I'll tell Celestia it was my idea to use the elements like that." Twilight shakes her head. "No, Vague I'll..." "No Twilight!" Vague refuses to let them take the fall. "I was the one who made you use the elements! I refuse not to take any blame!" Vague immediately hushed up. He remembered he was in a hospital, not a concert. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity of walking, They finally reached Christian's room. Redheart stopped them before they could go further. "Before you enter, their's something you must know." Redheart said. "What is it?" Rarity asked. "We've been monitoring Christian's conditions for some time now." "And?!" AJ asked quickly. Redheart sighed in grief. "This may be the last time you will see him." The others quietly gasped in horror. Vague and Dash started to weep slightly. They rubbed the tears away as quickly as they came. Pinkie's hair deflated as she became depressed at the news. "Does...Does he know?" Dash asked. Redheart nodded. "He may only have one hour. Just please, don't bring it up." Redheart opens the door. They peer inside to see a sickly looking human, "sleeping" on a cot. Christian keeps one eye open as they walk in. But his devious smile quickly turns to a frown as he sees their faces, distraught and depressed, with lines in the fur on their faces to show their tears. Christian thinks about this. They knew it was stupid, this prank was only going to make it worse. He didn't know why he was feeling this, maybe the elements did do something or maybe his self-conscious kicked in, but he knew one thing for sure: This little joke was a no go. Christian quickly rose to a seating position and spoke as great as he could sound. "Hey girls! What's up?" The Six's mouths went from sobs to smiles in seconds. They were shocked that their friend just rose up like that when he was supposedly dying! "Christian you're...you're okay?!" Twilight asked as tears of joy flowed from her eyes. Christian laughed a bit. "Yup, 100%" He glanced over at Nurse Redheart and Celestia and winked. They smiled right back at him, glad not to go through with this. "But Nurse Redheart said you were...you know..." Vague was to happy to see his friend alive and was too overfilled with emotion to continue. Christian knew what he was saying and finished for him. "Well, the reason she said that was because...I had a plan to trick you girls into thinking I was dying." The Six reeled back at this. "WHAT?!" They exclaimed. Christian flew back to the other side of the bed at the sudden outburst. "But, after seeing how devastated you all were. I realized it would have made it even worse." Christian now knew that it wasn't just the girls and Vague who made some stupid decisions today. At least his wouldn't have almost killed him...Well, literally anyway. "Well, good choice dude! You had us worried sick!" Vague said happily. "Yea, but didn't it hurt?" Rarity asks. Christian chuckled. "Yea, the initial blow hurt a lot, but my only real complaint is that the rainbow tasted nothing like Skittles!" "Like what?" Pinkie asked, once again confused at this Earth knowledge. "Skittles are a type of candy that are supposed to "taste like the rainbow"" Vague answers. "We could just go to Cloudsdale and get rainbow there! Who needs some stupid candy!" Dash exclaims. "Well, jokes aside, we're happy you're alright Christian." Twilight says. "And I bet you're happy because i'm not sending you all to the dungeon." Christian responds. The Six are surprised by his generosity, they thought if anything they would get at least a few weeks in the dungeon. But Christian didn't even give them a day? "Awesome! But, why not?" AJ asked. "Christian, you could have died!" "Granted, but it WAS an accident and you WON'T do it again." Christian winked at the perplexed group. They winked back as they celebrated their friend's good health. During this moment however, Redheart interrupts the little get together. "Now Christian, while you look and act healthy, I have informed the Princess and will do the same to you, about if you feel any side-effects of the elements. Who knows what could happen in the next few days?" Christian and Celestia nod. "Got it covered!" They responded. Suddenly, a beeping is heard form out of nowhere. Chris peers at his watch. He groans in aggravation. "Great, it's five already! Sorry girls, but I've got to go. I promised my mother to watch the dog while she takes my sisters out." "Christian, you must stay! Who knows what could..." Redheart continues but Celestia stops her. "I have faith that Christian will be fine. If anything happens, he knows that he can tell me whenever necessary. Go on Christian." Christian nods. "Cool." He looks over to The Six. "See you twerps tomorrow! Let's go Vague!" "Got it!" Vague flies out a window and toward town square to the portal. Chris starts after him. "Lucky son of a gun can fly." He mutters as he races out down the hall. "Bye girls!" The Six wave back. "Bye Christian!" Twilight looks at the human curiously as they go to leave. Something about this whole experience still bothers her though. "Celestia, I don't get it. That's not like Christian to not pull a prank like that on us. I wonder what made him change his mind." Celestia smiles at her confused student. "Even Christian has limits to his gags. He knew that even he went too far this time." "Yea but, this is Christian Celestia!" Dash interrupts. "If given the chance to save himself, he would hand all of us over to Chrysalis, Discord, or even Paradox!" "Maybe, Christian is starting to get a change of heart." Pinkie says. They all freeze for a moment before breaking out into a chorus of laughter. "Pinkie I can't believe you said that with a straight face!" Dash starts rolling all over herself. Every one of them leaving the hospital in stitches as their laughter carries on throughout the toen. "Chris having a change of heart!? The odds are better of it raining bits!" AJ exclaims. "No! No! I think the odds are better of Christian liking Twilight!" Rarity shouts. "Oh! Even better! Him and I actually dating!" Twilight joins in. The last one making them all howling throughout the evening and continuing through the night.