//------------------------------// // Memories meant to be forgotten // Story: Pup: The Kind and Hated // by brony laughsatme //------------------------------// Chapter 8 I woke up, I was on a bed. Pony doctors and nurses were running around everywhere. I was choking on something... 'blood', I thought. "Nurse!! He's waking up!!!" A grey earth pony shouted. She seemed oddly familiar, but I couldn't place, where I saw them before. "Redheart, get over here!" A brown stallion called to a white pony. She was over by my side in an instant. "Why can't you just heal him with magic," that same grey earth pony cried out hysterically. "Dammit, security! Escort Ms. Scratch and Ms. Philiharmonica out to the lobby!" He practically screamed. My vision was getting blurry. The I heard the doctor yell again, "Dammit Redheart, where is that sedative?!" "Here it is doctor!" The nurse cried, handing the doctor a syringe. He slammed the needle into my neck, I tried to scream in pain, but the only sound that left me was a loud gurgling. After a few seconds I faded back into my dark place. ~~~~~ "Pup, you are a disgrace" a loud female voice rang through the dark cave. "We render you a burden on this pack your family and your elders, YOU ARE HERE BY OUTCAST!!" "But I didn't do any-" "Silence, you disgusting excuse for shit!!" A very loud, deep voice bellowed. Then it all came to view. A bright flash revealed it all. I was in a huge cave with fifteen wolves encircling me. The very large wolf looked at me with disgust... Then the bastard smiled... "Hold him," he commanded two of the smaller puppies. Obeying their master's command, two of them jumped on me, they tried grabbing my forelegs. The female had already had my left foreleg, but the male was having trouble... I pulled my paw away from his and scratched him, leaving four healthy sized gashes on the bridge of his muzzle. "Ha! eat a dick, Fucker!!" I cried triumphantly. My sister snickered at my brother's struggle. "You, little fucking peace!! Of!!! SHIT!!!!" He screamed in rage, he ran at me and jumped on top of me. He knocked both me and my sister down, once I was on the ground, he put a paw on my throat, applying pressure. The small black wolf smiled deviously. He brought his back leg up and slammed it down on my fore-paw. When he finally let up on my throat I tried to stand up. But one of my other siblings ran at my side, head butting me and throwing me to the ground. All the wolves started laughing as my brothers and sisters all ganged up on me... The were kicking at me and throwing punches while some held my limbs so I couldn't defend myself. A few more minutes of this before the alpha called, "alright that's enough," he commanded sounding a bit amused. "Now, Bring her in..." ~~~~~ "Oh I think he's waking up," an unfamiliar voice said, completely abandoning the reason for the whisper. I opened my eyes a bit, quickly closing them because of the force assault of light. I tried again, this time my eyes adjusting to the light correctly. I stayed in my position, just staring at the ceiling. I had a massive headache and these damn fillies weren't helping much. I sat up, there indeed were three fillies there, one was white with a pink and purple mane, and the other with a golden coat and a red mane adorning a large pink bow. I smiled at them. "Sup?" I asked, noticing a pain in my throat. "Well hi!! I'm Applebloom and this here's Sweetie Bell, we wanted ta thank ya for saving our friend, Scootaloo." They were absolutely beaming at me. But I hadn't a friggen clue what they were talking about. I didn't remember saving their friend, fuck I didn't even know how I got here. I stood up. "No you can't get out of bed," Sweetie Bell, said worriedly. "And who the fuck are you to tell me what to do?!" I yelled, glaring at the white unicorn filly. As I jumped from the bed they shielded their eyes. When I was in midair I felt something just tear from my skin. I screamed, that thin was impaled in my right foreleg and if you wanted to top that kind of pain you should have felt my head. I had one of the biggest fucking headaches in the world. "Twilight, help!!" Both young fillies cried out. Meanwhile I was busy ripping the last tube out of my paw. I started walking, I walked by the two screeching fillies. I tried to cover my ears but that didn't work. So, I shoved both of my fore-paws forward, covering both their muzzles. "Hey girls listen, I have a really big headache, no idea where the fuck I am, or who you are. So if you could please shut up for about... The rest of the time you decide to be near me that would be good," I said quietly. The door burst open, that grey earth pony and white unicorn that seemed so familiar ran up and hugged me. "Hey?! Get the fuck off me!" I yelled, punching the white one in the nose. The grey one looked shocked and horrified. The white on started bleeding and put her hoof to her nose, she sat their sobbing for a minute, and then ran from the room crying. I couldn't help but feel bad for her. I had never liked to make anything cry, let alone cause pain. But it had to be done, after all they just attacked me for no apparent reason. I stood there glaring at the grey one, Daring her to make her move. "P-Pup?" She said, with a mixture of shock and horror in her facial expression. "Explain yourself!! How is it you know my name?! And how in the living fuck are you just come in and attack me with that marshmallow with blue hair?!" I yelled, completely abandoning the need to be quiet. "We didn't attack you. And d-don't you recognize me?" She asked. I could tell she was starting to tear up. Before I could answer her a lavender unicorn did the talking for me, "Octavia, we need to talk," she said walking out of the room. I was going to walk out of the room too, but a purple light surrounded my and I got lifted in the air, the light carried me back to my bed, and a the stuck the needles back in my paws. Surprisingly there was no pain when the needles went in. As soon as the light subsided, I tried to get up again. That Is when I found out, it had tied me down with straps that hang from the side of my bed. ~~~~~ (OCTAVIA'S POV) "A few days?! I may as well be a few months or a few years!" I cried. "Now, Octavia... you know very well it could be a few years if I couldn't use the memory spell. But I can, so he has to heal and get stronger for just a day or two before I can perform it," Twilight said matter-of-factly. I started sobbing, "it's all my fault... I should have at least tried to listen to him, I should have moved the mirror into our room... I shoul-" "Octavia stop!! It's not your fault. It was a freak accident. Pup, tripped and broke a mirror, and he fell down the stairs and broke a rib and gave himself a concussion. I don't see and any part where you did this to him," she said rapping me in a tight hug and letting me sob on her shoulder. "Ouch, ya dick, I just got that broken ya know?!!" "Miss Scratch, please hold still, we need to stop the bleeding before we can make it better!!" "Dude, I better get one of them suckers in that bowl over there when this is finished!" She yelled from another room. 'Wow Vinyl way to be mature,' I thought, now a little cheerful at the hilariousness of the situation. "You can have the whole damn bowl if you'd just be so kind as the hold still." "Fine, I'll try." "Ok now this might hurt just a little," he said not without caution in his tone. "Owowowow!!!" "Dammit, Vinyl I haven't even touched you yet!!" "Well I'm sensitive...to um... air. Yeah that's it even if you breath on it it'll hurt so, get away." "Would you like me to give you some pain medicine?" ~~~~ I was part walking/part dragging my junkie mare friend home. I made a point in my head to yell at her when she was sober. When we finally reach the house I dropped Vinyl on the floor. "Thanks Octey, yer da best," came her muffled response to being tossed down like some-pony's refuse. I rolled my eyes and took off my saddle bags, I emptied the suckers from the bag. See, Vinyl doesn't pass up a chance for free candy, and she had emptied the entire candy bowl from the doctors office into my saddlebag. It was funny, then it got uncomfortable, then it finished as downright humiliating as Vinyl kissed me. And also it was a foal's doctor, so no doubt I would have to make a few calls to apologize to the foals' parents for what the children had witnessed, heard, and possibly do by following the famous DJ Pon-3 and Octavia Philiharmonica for an example. I groaned, I had so much to do today, and all I wanted to do is go to sleep, you don't know what "having it hard" means until you wake up in the middle of Monday night to a crashing sound, only to find out that your newly adopted foal has just critically injured himself. And then you spend every night sleeping at the hospital for a week, only going home to shower and for personal hygiene, only to find out he doesn't remember you and for the icing on the cake, you have to drag your irresponsible filly-friend back to your house. I groaned for the fourth time that day. I went upstairs careful not to step on the glass I would no doubt be the one to clean up later. Right now, all I needed was to play my cello. As I reached my room, I opened the door. My cello was out of its case and on the bed...Right were I had left it. I walked over, took it and the bow up. I stood on my hind legs with the practiced ease I had been perfecting for years. I place the bow to the strings and started playing a tune. I had never used sheet music, I only played what I felt, that had been all I had needed right then. All I needed was to play my cello. ~~~~~ After the song had ended, I wiped my eyes. I lay the cello on the floor and walked over to the bed. I decided to lay there for a while. I started crying uncontrollably. I wrapped up in the blankets and just cried. I couldn't help myself I just needed to cry. Every-pony does it. I just needed someone there with me. But Pup had been hospitalized, and Vinyl was probably to stoned to know her own name. It was just me...I was...alone.