Care bit her lip in worry as the medic-ponies placed the stallion onto a stretcher (which was comically small, in her opinion), as Button stood beside her, watching with concern.
"Is he gonna be okay?" he asked.
"I really don't know" she responded, pulling him in for a short hug "I guess we just have to wait..."
"There's nothing we can do?"
"I'm afraid not..."
"Can we go an' visit him later?"
"I'm sure he'd enjoy that" she smiled.
Pain used my body as its playground as I moaned, laying flat on my side on my hospital bed as at least three doctors and a nurse stared. My migraine worsened as my breathing grew more ragged, my lungs demanding more oxygen.
I coughed harshly, then felt my eyelids grow heavy- they slipped closed as one of the doctors rattled off something to the other two ponies.
'Oh god...I'm gonna die, aren't I? I'm dyin' right now...'
I didn't have the energy to cry, I just lay there as the ponies went about their work.
"How do you think he's doing?" I asked, trotting next to Mom as we worked our way around the hospital, towards the front entrance.
"It's only been a few days, I'm sure he's still being treated for those wounds he recieved" Mom replied, nudging me through the shiny glass doors.
"Yeah...I guess..."
"Alright, wait here while I find his room number"
I nodded, and hopped into one of the chairs in the waiting room as Mom went to the front desk near the farthest corner of the room.
'Wish I had my JoyBoy with me...' I thought boredly, wishing I'd brought something to do during the wait.
Mom came back a few minutes later, and sat on the chair next to mine.
"The receptionist told me he's being treated now, they're doing the best th-"
Mom and I jumped as a loud crashing sound blew out from the double-doors leading further into the hospital, followed by several thunder-like booms.
The nurse at the desk cocked an eyebrow as she set down her clipboard, she then got up and trotted through one of the double doors. She came back a few minutes later, however, screaming as if a Cerberus hound were on her tail. A number of doctors and other nurses soon followed, filtering through the doors as they ran or trotted at a brisk pace.
"Ma'am" one nurse stopped to say "I s-suggest you get out of h-here"
"Why would we do that?" Mom asked.
"Th-there's a dragon back th-there!"
"Where did the dragon come from?" I asked.
The nurse didn't answer, as she ran out of the hospital, following her co-workers.
Mom took me by the hoof (followed by me rolling my eyes), as we headed out the front doors of the hospital, joining the growing number of ponies gathering in the street. Mom then started talking with a nurse, who'd apparently been there when 'it' happened- she couldn't exactly get out of the nurse what 'it' was. My eyes wandered around the side of the hospital, and my jaw dropped at what I saw- sticking out of the white wall of the building like a sore hoof, was a thick, black tail, black scales covering it as it idly swayed.
"Mom" I said, reaching back to tug on her coat.
"Not now, sweetie" Mom said gently, before turning back to talk to the nurse.
"Mom, Mom"
"What is it?" Mom replied, turning.
"Look" I said, pointing to the tail attached to the side of the building.
"What in Equestria?"
"How did a dragon fit into the hospital?" I asked.
"I don't know..."
A deep rumbling was heard, and the gathered ponies began scattering, running for the safety of their homes. I spied the wall of the hospital burst into rubble and dust, bricks falling as they came loose from the wall. They thunked dully as I saw the tail rising, then clumsily backing out of the hospital, taking most of the wall with it. I watched in fascination and horror as a black dragon, at least the length of a hoofball field exited the hospital. The dragon shook the rubble from its scaled hide, its nose then went to the sky, as if it were searching for something. I stood paralyzed with fear as the dragon locked eyes with me, its all-purple eyes staring into mine.
'If he was a pony, he'd look just like-'
I lost my train of thought as Mom instinctively grabbed me, then turned and bolted. Everything went by in a blur as she ran, not stopping for anything as other ponies did the same. The chaos hurt my head, everything was happening so fast...
Mom looked back, and her eyes grew in terror before she ran faster, her hooves pumping at a faster rate than they were before. I snuck a glance back, and saw that the dragon was chasing after us. I gulped, and held on. Mom suddenly turned, making my stomach jump as we ducked into a side-street. The dragon followed, its head snaking into the street as he continued to run. It suddenly stopped, and saw that the rest of its body was too big to fit into the alley. I heard Mom breathe a sigh of relief, before taking a moment to rest. She then looked up in terror, and saw the corners of the buildings on either side of us starting to dissolve. The dragon regained mobility, and began walking toward us again, and we began running again.
"Why's it following us?!" Mom called as we ran.
"No idea!" I responded, running right behind her.
I felt something large grab one of my hind-legs, and I found myself being dragged backwards, toward the dragon.
"Mom!" I cried.
She skidded, and turned, spying me.
"BUTTON!" she shrieked.
My mom then did something I never thought she'd do-
-she galloped right up to the dragon's foot, and stomped, hard.
'Mom just hit a dragon...'
The dragon roared in pain, its loud howls filling the air as it held its foot with its other claw.
"Ow! Sonofa- that hurt Care!" the dragon said.
'...what...'
"WHAT?!?" Mom shrieked "IT'S YOU?!?!"
"Yep, who else?"
Mom then stuck the dragon's claw. Repeatedly.
"Ow! Owowowow! Ouch! Jeez! Stop it! That hurts!" he complained.
"Don't you EVER do that again- is that clear?!"
"What, chase you through town?"
She hit him again.
"OW! Okay! Okay! I'm sorry, alright?"
"Good, now put Button down"
The dragon's claw rested against the ground, releasing his grip on me.
"Why isn't he moving?" the dragon whispered to Mom.
"I think you might've broken him"
"Really? However did I do that?"
She shot him a glare.
With his other claw, the dragon picked me up and set me on the ground next to Mom.
"Want me to escort you home, too?"
Mom rolled her eyes as I began to snap out of it, shaking my head as I walked after her.
The three of us walked into the street, and was met with an angry mob, shouting at the dragon.
"Did I do something wrong?"