//------------------------------// // (59) Our life: Headache // Story: The nature of the beast. // by Kintra //------------------------------// Mist and I spent the rest of the day with her mom. We just sat there. We didn’t say anything. We just enjoyed each other’s company. No reason why we couldn’t. After a few hours and the sun extinguishing itself on the horizon, she was ready to go. “Thanks eclipse… You didn’t have to stay with me, I just… Needed to think, and she has always helped with that.” I just nodded and stood. A quick stretch and a few back pops, I was ready to go. “No worries mist. I just hope I made a good first impression.” She laughed as I picked her up and started to carry her back to town. “I think, she would be happy as long as I am. And you certainly make me happy. Not to mention you did just spend... what, six hours? Staring at a pile of rocks in silence with me.” I laughed a little at that. “It was more like four hours really. But even so, that was the nicest pile of rocks I had seen.” She nuzzled up to my neck, thankfully she didn’t make me tweak out with it. “Eclipse, you are a seriously great guy… And I think, I am ready if you are.” GREAT. We go see her mom and now this... “I hate to say it Hun, but one more day I think is in order, just out of respect for your mom.” She nodded. Plus, how do you go and tell your girlfriend you’ve never gone that far? Just shout “I’m a virgin!” and hope she doesn’t laugh? *Sigh* “Eclipse, I don’t know if it will affect anything. But I haven’t…You know… Uh…” What? “I’m… I’m a virgin.” Oh. “Well, thank god.” She sat up and gave me the stink eye. “No, I mean, it’s just. If you had…You know, before then I don’t know how I would compare, being one myself.” She smiled at that. “So you’re new too? Is that why you’re so shy about it?” I just nodded as we kept walking. Eventually we made it back to the house and found light asleep on the couch. I went upstairs and placed the now sleeping Mist onto our bed, then went down and did the same for Light. Me? I went back down stairs and slept on the couch. I love mist, but god… Sometimes sleeping so close to her makes me need a serious cold shower. ----Light---- I got up myself, I was used to putting up a big fuss when dad came in to wake me, but he didn’t today. So I just got out of bed myself. I knew I wasn’t late, the clock above my door said it was 7:43. So I had woken up pretty early. Ah well. I guess I was pretty tired last night. I came home and was gonna wait on the couch for mist and dad to come home. I guess they did, because I don’t remember going to my room… I stepped out into the hallway and stretched. My leg is a lot better now, it’s not even sore. I started the trek down the stairs to find dad sprawled on the couch. He’s funny when he sleeps, he tends to grab anything near him and hold it, and in this case he actually is hugging one of the other couches cushions. He’s kind of a dork. Cool guy though. After a very enjoyable shower I walked back into the living room to find dad still asleep. Must have been a pretty tiring day for him. I can make my own food. Brew joined me a little after eight; she was pretty quiet this morning. Aside from asking if I did my homework. I was pretty quick to respond with “Duh!” but she just smiled and said she would meet me at school. Everypony is acting weird today! Oh well. I guess I can start walking. “Good night dad.” -----Eclipse------ I woke up to a slightly slobbered on couch cushion in my possession. “Uh…Yea, No…” was all I said as I stood and replaced it. A quick check of the time, 9:17? Sonofa bitch the kids late! I ran upstairs and opened his door to find he was already gone, and I smiled. “Good kid. Ugh….My head…” I felt like I had been beaten with a headache stick. Or ate a jar of migraine mayonnaise. Oh god… No more jokes… Ow… “You okay eclipse?” Mist had woken up and as standing in the doorway to our room. I just leaned and slid down the wall till I was in a sitting position. “Just…Serious headache. Feels like something’s trying to force its way through my skull. Nothing to worry about, it should pass…Eventually.” I of course had no idea if it would or not. But she just kept looking at me all concerned until I made her give me a hug. Then she went about her day. I just closed my eyes to block as much light as possible. This pain was intense, to say the least. Eventually she came back up the stairs, I hadn’t moved. So this time she walked up and started glowing all over me. Eventually she broke the spell and looked at me funny. “What? I have a tumor or something?” She shook her head. “What do you know about unicorns?” Stupid question... “Magical, horns, horse things. You know. You.” She smiled at then and sat down. “What do you know of unicorn magic?” uh. “Seriously? Hun I’m not exactly the best person to ask that.” She just laughed. “Okay, fair enough. Just do me a favor. Concentrate on me, close your eyes and take deep breaths. Like, you’re meditating.” Oh god… Fine. I closed my eyes and focused on mist. At least where she was, and started deep breathing exercises. ------Moon mist------ Magical buildup can be pretty scary for a unicorn; can cause a lot of pain if they don’t cast a spell for too long. It tends to be something that happens to magical beings only, so why was eclipse getting it? Magic that sits for too long eventually begins to go a little crazy. Starts trying to escape any way it can for a unicorn, It’s as simple as focusing it on your horn and watching it dissipate into the air, what what about humans? How do they even GET magical build up like he has? It’s like…something has been pumping energy into him at a constant rate for a week, at least. It’s frightening to see him in so much pain, hopefully the meditation helps. “Okay, I’ve been doing this for a while now to no avail. Can I suffer without the deep breathing now?” “*Sigh* Yes, sorry just… How does a human relive pressure?” Oh no... That can be made into a sex joke... “I want to say something dirty, but to be honest I don’t know, what kind of pressure?” He closed his eyes again. He was obviously in a lot of pain. “Well, and don’t hate me for saying this, Magical pressure. The headache your feeling is because of a serious buildup of magical energy in your system… A few more days and it may actually kill you.” I really don’t want to lose you eclipse. Please say you have an idea. “Well shit… I guess, either I’m going to visit Luna, or she is coming here. It’s most likely this damn spark. I guess when light was removed it didn’t realize it could stop feeding him. I’m just assuming here, but… Either way, can you do me a favor?” Anything! “What? Do you need something?” “Yea, Can you help me stand?” It’s a good thing I’m a unicorn. -----Eclipse----- Magical buildup of energy that is tearing apart my skull… Fine. I can’t say I’ve had worse, but at least if it’s magical then Luna can help…I hope. Thank god misty is a unicorn; she was able to really lessen my weight as I stood. My eyes felt like they were trying to swim in my head. “Okay... now... to the teleporter.” I started to walk into my room while mist magically supported me. I was seriously dizzy now. This shit sucks. “Where is this teleporter?” I laughed. It really hurt. “Sorry, forgot to tell you, it’s uh. That pad in front of the bed.” I actually had to use her head as a make-shift cane when I went to stand on the pad; there was enough room for her to stand between my legs. A familiar dial and activation later, we were standing in the royal guest bedroom. I managed to make it to the bed before I got all…Woozy… -----Moon mist----- I will admit, I didn’t believe eclipse had lived in Canterlot. But he had a direct teleport between his room in Ponyville, and Canterlot castle. I can honestly say, I will never doubt another thing he tells me. “Mist.” He was calling to me from the bed so I quickly ran over to him. “Find Luna, tell her I’m in the guest room… and in trouble I guess, if you want.” I couldn’t help but laugh. This idiot is most likely in more pain then most unicorns ever go through in their life! Yet he still has times for jokes! I gotta find a Princess! -----Luna----- Boring day is boring! At this point I have been sitting here for over an hour. Just sitting in the library; no one talks! So boring! At least until a small blue pony somehow slipped past my guards and ran up to me. She was a pretty little unicorn. A bit small for the average pony, but nice enough. She looked like she had been running around frantically for a while now though so I heard her out. “Eclipse… Bedroom…Trouble” was all she managed to choke out between gasps. I immediately panicked. But I managed to keep myself composed; this is no time to cause commotion. “The Canterlot bedroom or the Ponyville?” She took a breath “Canterlot princess! Its magical buildup!” Magical? What? It doesn’t matter. I instantly teleported myself and the small pony to Eclipses Canterlot room, and almost lost my calm when I saw him on the bed. I walked over and did my own magical sweeps of his health. The pony was right, it is buildup, and how does a human release magic!? “Can you help him Princess?” I didn’t know how to answer that. So I didn’t. “Eclipse, are you awake?” He was, and the pain was obvious when his eyes opened. -----Eclipse------ Jesus… Luna still looks amazing… Heh… Oh man... “Can you hear me?” “Yea Luna…” “I need you to concentrate on something, anything. Try perhaps, making your eye color change, or even lighting the bed on fire, I know you hate these tarps.” I laughed. I really did hate these tarps. Fucking canopy beds. “Will that really help?” She just smiled. “Focus on your eyes, you always loved your eyes. Tell them to get brighter, try focusing on it.” Sure… One moment… headache. -----Moon mist------ We had sat in the room with eclipse for a little over four hours. Celestia had come in twice. And both times she made it a point to hug me. It was amazing how much these princesses cared for eclipse. Luna never left his side. Continually encouraging him to “Focus on your eyes” and “try to make them brighter, or change” eventually something did happen. We had been sitting there waiting for something to happen when eclipse suddenly let out a sigh of relief. I immediately jumped onto the bed and looked at him. His eyes had turned a dark blue. The normal light blue was gone and he was smiling. “That was… Painful!” The way he said it made me burst into tears. The stupid idiot could have died and he’s got the gall to be happy? “You changed your eye color? Are you changing it back?” “Oh yea, once I get the hang of not only focusing on the eyes, but also the color, size, shape… It’s a lot of shit to process.” He sat up in the bed and wrapped me in his arms. Resting his head on mine as I cried. “Is she your new mare friend? She seems nice.” He laughed again. “Yea, she’s mine. And I love her. So no, you can’t have her.” The princess laughed at this. “You can keep her. She may have saved your life, you know this correct?” I felt him nod and kiss my horn. “Yea. She saved my butt. And I learned a new trick. A very simple trick, but it did save my head from exploding so that’s cool.” “She appears to be falling asleep.” “Is she? Then I guess we are waiting here till she wakes up.” They are talking about me aren’t they? I guess I can ask tomorrow…