//------------------------------// // Chapter 44: Hospitalization // Story: Saiyan of Equestria // by Boyzilla //------------------------------// EIOSES Saga Chapter 44: Hospitalization A bright flash of light covered the vision of a certain small little boy, instinctively he tried to cover his eyes but found his arms unresponsive to his mental command. Ken Altarmore-Heartstrings lifted his head from a white pillow, and glanced around at his surroundings. White tiles, basic bedding, the smell of that sticky medicine stuff, yeah he was in the hospital. Ken looked down at his body, he had bandages covering his stomach section, left leg, and both arms. He turned his head toward the nearest mirror, and saw that his right cheek was sporting in bandages as well. 'What happened? Where's mommy and nee-chan?' The eight year old asked himself. Ken blinked, as he looked at himself again... Yep, he was naked, only bandages on him and the covering sheet. Strange, he didn't remember taking his clothes off, then again he didn't understand how he got badly injured in the first place. Shouldn't his dad healed him of this by now? Or maybe he was really hurt and this is all his father healed by the time he awoke. Speaking of daddy... 'Dad, what happened to me? I don't remember.' Ken said to his father, Chris. 'Glad your awake Ken, I was worried.' The Z-fighter sealed within replied in relief. 'Worried about me, daddy?' 'Of course my little munchkin, both you and Kira.' 'Where is sis?' Ken questioned. 'Possibly in the room next door.' Chris replied. 'What! Did someone hurt sis? Is she okay? What was the bad guy? Why can't I remember anything? ' The little boy threw out questions left and right. 'Haha, slow down, slow down. Good to see you as a cute little questionnaire again.' Chris chuckled more as Ken pouted cutely, 'Kira will be fine, the bad guy was defeated. And I think the memories are a bit to mucked up at the moment, they'll come back in time as your mind processes the information.' Ken was still pouting, through for a different reason now. 'I wanna go see sis, I'm hungry, I want mommy, and I'm bored.' 'Welcome to the hospital.' 'But it wasn't like this last time I was at a hospital!' Ken complained. 'Well you didn't have a multitude of broken bones last time, Ken.' 'But-' 'You would've had more if I wasn't overworking myself throughout the night trying to heal you in more ways than one.' Chris stated. Ken groaned in minor complaint, his tail moving itself to the outside of the bed sheets before it started to wiggle about. Ken took notice of this movement, glancing down toward the furry animate object that was apart of him. “My tail is back!” Ken said out loud joyfully, “Maybe the pony doctors fixed it? Wished they learned to do that sooner, learning to walk without it was so annoying!” The door to Ken's hospital room creaked open before revealing a white furred unicorn stallion in a white doctor coat. The stallion stared at him, before smiling warmly. “Good morning, how are you feeling?” The medical doctor asked. “I wanna go see my family, and I wish I had super duper healing!” Ken replied in earnest. The Doctor chuckled loudly, “Well even with your remarkable healing speed everybody needs time to rest and recovered.” “Where's my mommy?” Ken asked. “Lyra Heartstrings?” Ken nodded, “She's in the cafeteria.” The stallion answered. “And where's my sister?” The boy questioned further. “Next door... She's fine.” The doctor replied after a quick moment of hesitation. Ken didn't believe him, “I want to see her!” “I'm sorry, but you have to stay in the bed and rest, Ken.” He said after glancing at a billboard to get his patient's name. Ken laid his head back down on the pillow, "This sucks!" 'You'll get out of this soon enough.' The little boy only sighed, the doctor walking up to him and saying, "Might as well do a check-up, so just sit up on the side of the bed for me." With a little help from the doctor, Ken managed to sit up. The medical pony took how a weird looking stick thing with his magic and looked to Ken saying, "Open you mouth wide please." "Ah." Ken sounded out as he opened his mouth wide. The doctor peaking inside with a small lighting spell before he wrote something down; Ken closed his mouth. "Turn your head," He asked, Ken did so and the doctor put the thingy and looked like he was looking into his ear. Ken thought it was funny. "Mister... " "Yes?" He replied as he put away his tool and pulled out another that was kind of like a little hammer. "When can I see my sister?" Ken questioned, he just really wanted to know! He kept worrying and it bugged him that he couldn't see his sister yet! Ken's leg shot up when the unicorn hit his kneecap with the strange hammer, not that it hurt a single bit. What did happen was the hammer got kicked out of the doctor's telekinetic grasp, flying upward and smashing right through the roof before disappearing into the sky. The stallion whistled in awe, "That's some power kick you got there." Ken giggled, "Sorry, I guess I'm stronger than before." "Well you seem fine, just a few broken bones that still need healing. So rest up som-" *GROWL* The doctor blinked, before laughing out loud, "Well, aren't you hungry!" "Hungry? I'm starving!" Ken complained, now realizing his hunger. "Can you bring me some food?" Ken asked. "Sure, in fact I'll get one of the nurses to do it." He replied. "Yay, I hope it taste good!" "Hospital food." "Oh poop! It'll taste horrible!" The medical stallion cracked up laughing as Ken groaned in misery, complaining how he might as well get tons of homework over gross hospital food. Lyra Heartstrings waited patiently in the hallway, walking as doctors and nurses came back and forth, entering and exiting, out and in her two twins' room. Mostly Kira's, which gave her great concern and worry for her little daughter. One of the nurses finally walked up to her after exiting Kira's room. Lyra stood up, eager to know the news. The nurse looked to her up from a billboard, a little hesitant to speak. "How's Kira? How is my daughter?" Lyra asked inpantiently. "Uh, well... " "Don't sugarcoat it." Lyra deadpanned, "I want to know everything." "Alright... Kira has multiple bone factures, her left arm, right two ribs, left leg femur, are all broken. We tried to recover her tail like you said, but were unable too, in all honestly... She's lucky to be alive, even luckier to not have any permanent damage. Your child was built like a dragon with how durable she is to survive in the condition you brought her in the first place." The nurse stated. "I'll have to thank Raze for that." Lyra commented. "How goes Kira's recovery through?" "Fast, not as fast as her twin, but still incredibly so. In fact, during a long term magical scan we watched as her body literally... Well to put it short... Make itself stronger than beforehand. We've never seen anything like it!" "I know, it's one of their biology's perks." Lyra explained, "And Ken?" "He's awake, I was going to get him food as assigned." "Can I do it instead?" Lyra asked. "Sure, just wear this and they'll let you bring food to your son." The nurse said, passing her fur pin. "Thanks." The mother of the twins replied. A few minutes passed, and Lyra had gotten an entire plateful of nourishing food from the hospital cafeteria. Even through she knew that her little munchkin son would complain at the distasteful quality of the food. She wouldn't expect any other reaction he would give, well, besides him yelling in joy at seeing her in the first place. Entering Ken's hospital room, she was greeted with the gleeful and loving yell of her human saiyan child. “Mommy!” Lyra smiled, she missed his smile and wagging tail. “Hello Ken, how you feeling?” She said. “I feeling good, my tummy hurts cause I'm hungry through!” He gasped when Lyra levitate the tray of food for him to see, “Wow mommy! Thanks! Your the best!” Ken shouted with happiness. Lyra Heartstrings giggled at Ken's enthusiasm. Oh, she missed him so badly. Levitating the tray over to the half saiyan's lap she then took notice how both of his arms were encased in bandages. She frowned just a bit before smiling at him once again. “You need help eating?” She questioned. “I can eat by myself, I'm not a baby!” He exclaimed, before looking to the food and taking notice of his predicament, “Uh... Yes... “ He answered. The mother of the twins only levitated a spoonful to her child's mouth as she stood next to his bedding. And began feeding her adopted son like a mother would do a small toddler, despite Ken's embarrassment of eating this way; Lyra felt no shame as she had fully accepted Ken and Kira as her own flesh and blood since the moment of adoption. “MommyhavishseenthKira?” Ken spoke with his mouth full. “Swallow first.” Lyra said. The eight year old promptly swallowed the remaining food in his mouth before asking, “Mommy have you seen Kira?” “No sweetie, but Kira is just fine. She's resting.” She reassured him, “And you should be resting more too; you have a lot of homework to do when we get back!” “Eeeeehhh?!” Her adopted- No, she would no longer consider her twins as such. They were her son and daughter, they were a part of her as she was a part of them. Ken and Kira is her own colt and filly, boy and girl, her children. But that doesn't mean she can't tease them! “That's right, loads of school work you need to catch up on! You'll be in the books!” “B-b-but, that's so unfaaaaaaaaiiir!” “No buts, you better start learning how to write with that fuzzy wuzzy little tail of yours!” Ken pouted adorably, before he processed the last wordings of what his mother said to him, in which he instantly yelled in embarrassment, “Mom! It's not fuzzy wuzzy, it's cool and fluffy!” “Nope, it's clear that your tail is more fuzzy than fluffy.” “I'm sure nee-chan and Uncle Raze would agree with me!” Ken replied with confidence. “Mmh, I think Raze would agree with me, especially Kira!” “I- Um, can I have another bite... I'm still hungry.” Ken asked. “Oh, sorry my cute Ken-chan.” Lyra apologized, purposely adding the what she assumed, female suffix. Ken took notice of this immediately, “Moooooooooommm!” If he could, Lyra was sure his arms would be flailing about in embarrassment, because his tail was sure wiggling about frantically! “Okay, okay, calm down Ken. Eat your food.” Lyra said, levitating another spoonful to his mouth which he ate, although eye twitching at the distaste of the food. "Tastehorriblful" He said with his mouth full. "Yes, I know. It's not mommy-style food." He gulped it down, "Wish it was, mommy-style is the tastiest!" He complimented. Lyra giggled as she continued to spoon feed her son for the next few minutes before there was nothing left on the tray. In which she then placed it on a cart and tucked Ken back into the hospital bed sheets. "But I'm not tired." Ken protested. "You are, you have recovered fully yet Ken and that's important to your body. It's best you get some rest." Lyra explained. The little boy pouted, "Okay, I'll sleep if you tell me too... " Ken trailed off, not liking to sleep time away again as he was curious to so many things that happened, but his love toward his mother outmatched such curiosity. The mint green colored unicorn gave a perk unto Ken's forehead, before she dulled down the lighting of the room. She walked to the door, opening it enough so she could walk through, and took a glance back. "Have sweet dreams Ken, love you." Lyra said. "Love you too mommy." Ken said right back, Lyra smiled and closed the door.