//------------------------------// // Voices // Story: Eternal // by Path_of_cloud //------------------------------// Author’s Notes: To truly get the most out of this very short, but what I consider to be very powerful (less is more kind of thing) chapter. Do NOT try to envision what is happening. Take a minute here and close your eyes…….. that’s what you should be imagining as you read, darkness. There will come a point when you should start imagining what’s happening, it will be extremely obvious, and it will make the whole experience much more pleasant if you read it correctly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Get a doctor quickly; this one’s seriously injured! Top priority!” ‘Damn ponies, don’t any of them know how to be quiet…ugh my head is killing me. For that matter, why the hell is it so dark?’ “Nurse, what’s wrong… IS THAT A DRAGON? Oh right, stupid question. What happened to him?” ‘A dragon? A dragon other than me… no… me. Fuck, everything is so fuzzy, so dizzying, so… painful. What happened to me, why can’t I remember? Ugh, another flash of pain, great.’ “The roof fell… he was trying to protect me. SAVE HIM, NOW!” ‘RARITY! I, I threw her out of the way she has to be okay… SHE HAS TO BE!’ “Ma’am, calm down; we'll do what we can. Nurse, go to storage and get the diamond tipped needles we'll need them to get through his thick scales, so we can take his blood and hook him up to a IV. Sadly however, I’m afraid we just don’t know enough about dragons… but it’ll be up to him to pull though” ‘OPEN YOU SON OF A BITCHES, OPEN! LET ME SEE HER!’ “What about his eye, can you fix it.” ‘I SAID OPPPPPPPPPPPEN!’ “Dragons are naturally resistant to magic, but as long as we focus our power it should be good as new. However, the scar will always remain.” ‘COME ON, OPEN!’ “Spike darling, please wake up. I need you Spike, don’t leave me. His eye its opening, oh thank Celestia.’ ‘It’s to fuzzy, damn it! Come on focus, I need to see her. I need to know she’s okay; that she didn’t get hurt because I was too slow.’ “Spike come on; come back to us…….to me.” ‘It’s clearing up finally, but why is it so limited. She’s ok, oh thank Celestia she’s okay. But she’s crying, why is she crying, what could have hurt her… it was me. I’m the reason she’s in tears now, I was to slow, to weak. I couldn’t protect us both, couldn’t save us both. I have to let her know it’ll be okay, I need to… for her.’ “Spike can you hear us son; I need you to respond if you can. Come on.” ‘IT’S SO SIMPLE, SO EASY DAMN IT! WHY WON'T YOU JUST DO IT!’ “Spike please, don’t do this to me, don’t leave me alone. I need you.” ‘COME ON! “Rarity,” YES!’ “SPIKE!” ‘AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!’ “SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!” ‘Shit, its going dar…………………..’