Well, it's been a rough couple of weeks ever since Dashie caught that cold while on the mountain. I can't even explain how many sneezes and sniffles I heard in a single day. She is beyond stubborn. Even after being cared for and taking medicine, she's still sick. Its clearing just a bit everyday but still, she is putting up a fight. I tried taking care of her but I wasn't doing too good. Eventually, I called Fluttershy over. I still remember when she first came to our door that day.
I didn't even hear her hoofsteps as she approached our home. All I heard was a small tapping at the door and I went to see what it was. "Hello?" I said out loud as I peeked my head out. I heard a squealing noise coming from below me. "Uhmm....I'm here to help with Rainbow Dash..." She said in a very hushed voice. "Oh hey! There you are. Thanks for coming." She slowly started to relax again. "It's no problem really, now where is sh-" Dashie sneezed really loudly at that moment. Fluttershy let out another squeal as she cowered again.
I was getting a little impatient so I picked her up and brought her inside. She didn’t even fight me. “So do you need anything to take care of her or?…” She nodded. “What?” She opened her mouth and started to mumble. “So-“ “I can’t hear you.” “ Sou-“ “Could you speak a little louder?” “Soup! I need soup and vegetables.” I scratched my head and went towards the kitchen. I honestly wished that she would stop being so scared all the time.
I brought out some soup and vegetables and handed it to her. “Uhm..excuse me?” I turned around and stared at her a bit aggravated. “What now?” She stared dragging her hooves along the floor. “Well, I’m sure your soup is nice and all but..” I knew what she was going to say. “Let me guess, you need to do it yourself?” She looked up and gave me an approving smile. “I mean only if it doesn’t bother you…” I pointed her towards the kitchen and she happily went galloping to it. I was a bit tired after this ridiculous situation and sat down on the couch.
I heard her whispering from the kitchen. “You can rest; I’ll take care of Rainbow.” I took a little comfort in this because I knew how much she cared for animals and how much of an expert she was on taking care of things that weren’t healthy. I closed my eyes and began to sleep.
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Man, this cold is killing me. I feel so cold that its like I’ve been in an iceberg for years! Pops was telling me that my body was extremely hot. Like I drank a whole cup of rainbow juice. Whatever, all I know is that I hate this because I haven’t been able to fly in weeks. My wings feel all sore from me not using them for so long. I’m just stuck in this bed the entire time. Dad went to go check on something but he better be back soon. I am so hungry right now. “Hi Rainbow Dash….” I turned my head towards the doorway. Great the queen of all animals was here to nurse me back to health.
I swear to Celestia that if she talks to me in a baby voice or even treats me like a baby, I am going to….I don’t know, bring her to some dragons? She started coming over to my bed and she put her hoof on my head.”Oh my, that’s really hot.” She patted me on the head and said “There, there, I’m going to make you feel all better.” She’s already doing it. I am getting a little ticked off. “Get off of me would ya?” I slapped her hoof away and turned my back to her.
“Oh dear, but how else are you going to feel better if I can’t take care of you? Now turn around and open wide for the choo choo train.” I turned around and looked at her. “What are you talkin-“ A spoonful of soup went into my mouth. After I drank it, she was ready to get another spoonful. “What do you think you’re doing? Dad was taking care of me just fine!” She started to cower a bit but got back up. “I’m sure he was doing a great job but I don’t think he did it…right.”
I was probably getting the same feeling as Pops because if I know FLuttershy, which I do, she told him this herself. I was about to tell her off but then she said “You’re Dad agrees with me so can we just open wide and say Ahh? You need to drink your medicine soon.” I calmed down and let her have her way. After drinking all of the soup, She gave me some medicine which was grape flavored. Honestly, I hate liquid medicine. I loved the pills they had back on Earth because they didn’t have any taste.
She gave the medicine and I gotta say, it tasted bad. I wanted to spit it out. But it was going to make me better. And if drinking this nasty stuff meant getting back on my wings, then so be it. I slowly started to fall asleep. This routine went on for almost a week before I finally got up and felt better. Fluttershy was about to give me another drink of the medicine when I suddenly stopped feeling so cold.
Man, have I gotta say that this is so awesome. No more being stuck in that room with Fluttershy. I mean, it wasn’t bad but it was annoying. She treated me like a baby. At least when Pops was taking care of me he treated me normally. Oh well, when I finally came flying over to Dad, we were so happy. The first thing we wanted to do was to go on a picnic or have a party but Fluttershy said we should take it easy because I just got better. That pony is a major buzz kill.
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I am so happy, after all of this time, Dashie finally got better. I just want to celebrate but we have to take it slow for Dashie’s sake. I want to sing to the world of the wonderful feeling that I’m having. Right now though, we are just going to go around town. When we get the chance, we will have some fun and have life back to normal.