Twilight and the girls rushed over to the unconscious form that lay in front of Spike, while the guards tried to make sure they were all ok. Twilight looked over the unicorn and could tell the explosion hit it hard. It was covered head to hoof in burns, had a bad gash on its left shoulder and one big gash running down its stomach. There was a lot of blood on the floor and it was barely breathing. Twilight gently put a hoof on Spike’s shoulder. “Spike it’s going to be okay. Now I need you to run to the bathroom and get all the wrappings we have.”
Spike quickly got to his feet and bolted up the stairs. Fluttershy was gently feeling the unicorns side with her hoof. “Twilight he has three broken ribs and his front shoulder is dislocated from where he hit the wall.”
“It’s a stallion! Are you sure about that sugarcube?”
“Oh yes. When I was looking at the wound on his stomach I saw……”
“Thank you Fluttershy at least we know something about this pony.”
“I don’t think he is a pony Twilight look.” Fluttershy rubbed off some of the blast burns to reveal white scales.
“Thats odd but does not matter now.” Twilight turned to the unicorn guards. “Do either of you know any healing magic to help with this?”
“No Princess, we are trained in battle and defensive arts.”
“I see. I’ll have to talk to Celestia about that.” She turned to the bat pony guards. “I need one of you to fly to the hospital and let them know we will be bringing him. Tell them what the wounds look like and what Fluttershy told us. The rest of you make a stretcher I got brooms and spare blankets in the closet over there.”
“Yes Princess.” With that one of the bat ponies took off out the door and the other got to work.
Spike came running down the stairs with all the rappings they had. “Sorry it took so long Twilight. I couldn't find them since you rearranged the bathroom.”
“That’s ok Spike.” Twilight took the wrappings in her magic and gave them to Fluttershy. “I need you to wrap the wounds Fluttershy it’s a long way to the hospital. I don’t want him losing any more blood or for the wounds to get worse as we move him.”
“Okay Twilight I’ll do it. I need his body lifted up a bit so I can get the rap under him.”
Twilight lit her horn with magic and tried to lift him but couldn’t. “What….what’s going on. I can’t lift him but the only thing that is resistant to magic is dragons.” Then something clicked in Twilight’s brain. “You two help me lift him and put enough power in it so we can move him. Just be gentle and don’t move him to high.” Twilight and the two guards worked together and got the stallion off the ground.
Fluttershy quickly set to work on getting him wrapped up. “Twilight he has two cuts on the right side of his body.”
“Thank you for telling me Fluttershy. Anything we find out will help the doctors save him.”
Just as Fluttershy finished the two earth pony guards came over with a makeshift stretcher hooked up to them. “We are ready to begin transport anytime Princess.”
“Good! Okay you two we need to move him to the stretcher now. Applejack, Rainbow as we lift him, I need you girls to get under him and help move him to the stretcher. He is heavy.”
“Sure thing Twi.”
“No problem.” After a few minutes of fighting they finally got him on the stretcher and then the group rushed out the door at full gallop to the hospital.
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Inside the hospital the scene that was unfolding would have made Discord giddy, utter chaos. Doctors and nurses ran left and right trying to get everything ready. “Is the emergency room ready?” the head doctor shouted.
“Yes Doctor. Everything is ready. The I.V. is in place, we have a blood test standing by to find out his type. The diamond tipped needles are prepped if we need them. We have staff waiting by the door with the gurney to take the patient from the Princess on arrival.” Nurse Redheart was looking over a clipboard.
“Okay everypony listen up. We have an unknown patient in route. This is what we know, he was caught in an explosion. We do not know the full extent of the external or internal injuries. He has broken bones, lacerations on his left shoulder and stomach. Anymore information will be given to us by the Princess on arrival. I want two other doctors in the E.R. with me and two nurses. Once the blood test tells us his type I want two bags brought down right away.”
The head doctor and two others along with a nurse went into the E.R. Nurse Redheart walked over to the front door. Just then two Royal Guards burst through the door with the patient on a stretcher. Soon followed by Twilight and her friends. Then some more guards. “Get him on the gurney now!”
Two unicorn nurses rushed over and got ready to move him. “Wait!” Twilight was trying to catch her breath. “He is magic resistant you will need more ponies to move him.”
“You heard the Princess get moving!” more unicorns rushed over to move the patient. “Is there anything else you can tell use Princess?”
“He has two cuts on his right side. Other than that and what the guard told you when he got here we have not learned anything important.” Twilight was running next to Nurse Redheart and the gurney.
Once they got to the E.R. Nurse Redheart stopped in front of Twilight. “Princess thank you for everything you have done but now you need to let us to our job. Go back to the waiting room with the others.”
Twilight was pacing back and forth in the waiting room. Spike had fallen a sleep in one of the chairs. After about ten minutes a unicorn ran into the E.R. with two bags of what looked like blood. After thirty more minutes the girls all were about to head home and Fluttershy was taking Spike with her at the request of Twilight. Just as the girls were leaving they stopped and looked back at Twilight. “Don’t worry girls I’ll go home once I know he is fine and will let you know how things went first thing in the morning.” They all gave happy nods and went on their way.
After another forty minutes the light to the E.R. went off and the head doctor came out. Just behind him the strange stallion was being moved to a room. “Hello Princess. First off I want to thank you and your friends. Had it not been for your quick thinking the patient would have been lost. He is stable but not doing well. He lost a lot of blood and was badly damaged. He will be here for a few days. The bone brakes are not serious and will heal quickly. I have no clue when he will wake.”
“Thank you Doctor. I will be leaving these two here to keep an eye on him.” Twilight gestured to the earth pony guards and one bat pony guard. “We do not know where he came from or if he is hostile. They will help restrain him if need be since he is resistant to magic. Plus their armor has been enhanced to deal with magic. He looks like a unicorn so I wanted to be prepared. If you need to contact me give the message to the bat pony guard and he will relay it to me.”
“Thank you Princess! If anything changes you will be the first to know.”
“I’ll be taking my leave now. I have something I need to look into.” With that Twilight and the guards not posted to the hospital left for the library. When they got there a note had been put on the door from Fluttershy saying she put Spike to bed and went home. before opening the door Twilight turned to the guards. “You four may got back to Canterlot inform Celestia and Luna of all that happened here.”
“Yes Princess!” They saluted and got ready for departure.
The last bat pony guard looked to Twilight. “And what of me Princess?”
“You will be staying here. If I need to send something to the Hospital I’ll need you to do it. That and I don’t think you would want to try to take that chariot all the way to Canterlot on your own.”
“No I would not.”
“Good. Now there is a guest bedroom just across from mine and Spike’s go get some rest if I need you I will call.”
“Yes Princess.”
The guard went straight to the room as ordered and Twilight began to pull books from the wall and look over them. “Where is it? I know I had that book around here somewhere.” She looked at book after book but could not find the one she wanted. Exhausted and frustrated she went to bed leaving a big mess on the main floor.
The next morning she went and told the girls what the doctor had said. Then she and Spike looked through the books again but still could not find the one she wanted. “Spike send a letter to the Crystal Kingdom Library and ask them to send a copy of the book ‘Pony Half Breeds’ please.”
“Sure thing Twi but why do you need that book?” Spike wrote the letter and sent it away.
“I think I might know what our strange new stallion is but I wanted to be sure.” After a while the book popped out of Spikes fire. “I’m going to my room to study. Please let me know if anything comes from the hospital or the Princesses. Oh and will you clean this place up?” Twilight went to her room to read in peace. Spike sighed and began to clean the mess.
After flipping through the book Twilight found the passage she had been looking for. As she often did when going over something important she began to read aloud. “Kirn the offspring of a pony and a dragon. Most Kirin will look like a pony but will show dominate traits from the dragon. Examples would be scaly hide, fangs and dragon talons. Most Kirin have a horn to help them better control the dragon and pony magic within themselves. It is very rare to see a Kirin with wings or to see one without a horn.” Twilight rubbed her chin trying to recall what she could of the stallion.
“Well he does fit the description well enough.” Twilight turned the page and began to read again. “Kirin are very powerful creatures. Their magic is drawn mostly from the dragon side as draconic magic is more powerful than pony magic. If the pony parent of the Kirin was a unicorn then the Kirin will be able to use pony magic as well.”
“Does that mean if his mother or father was a unicorn he can do stuff like you Twilight?”
She looked up from the book only to be startled by the fact Spike had snuck right up to the side of the bed without her knowing. “Yes Spike it does. It also says here the the magic a Kirin can control will be almost equal to the magic its parents could control. On top of that if the dragon was a elemental type like water or earth the draconic magic in the Kirin will show that trait as well.”
“So you think he might be a Kirin? Is it just because he has scales?”
“Yes and no. When I was holding him in my magic I could feel the same kind of magic in him that I feel when I hold you.”
“Oh okay I guess that make sense.”
“Well lets see what else we can learn shall we. Would you like to stay and listen?” Spikes only answer was climbing onto the bed and sitting beside her. “Kirin are proud and conscious creatures. They will not easily trust anypony that is not family and will attack anything they see as a threat. If you show a Kirin respect and that you mean no harm they will not act with ill will. The most unique thing about Kirins is that they can sense when a family member is near by. Very little more is known about Kirins do to the hatred of being a halfbreed. Most Kirin don’t make it to adulthood do to illness, being kill by either ponies or dragons. It is very rare for the breeding parents to even conceive the foal to begin with so seeing one is very rare.”
“Is that it Twi?”
“Yes Spike it is and it’s very sad. Why would anypony want to kill something so beautiful just for being a halfbreed?”
“Would you like to write to the Princesses to see what they think?”
“Not just yet Spike I want to know more about him first. If I feel he is here to do harm I will talk to the Princesses and see what they think should be done. For now lets just wait and see if he recovers from everything that has happened.”