--Chapter 9--
Recovery Of The Man
Revan’s mind slowly began to emerge from the sea of darkness. He couldn’t feel any inch of his body nor hear, feel, or see anything in his surroundings. He’s been in that position many times before, and each time he eventually woke up in hospital bed.
This time was no different and after few hours of lying like that, his senses were one by one brought back to him. The first thing he could make out, was to things lying next to him, on both his left and right side. Both bodies felt warm and furry, he hadn’t needed anything more to tell that one of them was his dog Mischief lying next to him. The other he will find out soon enough.
The next thing he felt were bandages all over his body and plaster around his left arm. As he began to focus on the injuries he began to recover memories of how he acquired them. There was also something wet touching his left hand.
He began to hear a hart monitor’s beeping, and he slowly opened his eyes. At first his vision was blurry but as he waited and let his eyes to adjust, his vision was clear again and he could made out his surroundings.
Like he’d suspected, he was lying in the hospital bed (or rather beds) and Mischief was lying at his side. Moonlight was lighting up the room through the window. He turned left to see what was the source of wetness on his hand.
He was half-surprised taht it wasn’t a bowl of water, or some other stupid joke like the ones made by his friends. On his left site, lied Fluttershy, one of ponies he’d met in the forest. She was asleep and lightly drooling on his hand. It looked like she had a pleasant dream (VERY pleasant, as shown by her light moaning).
Eventually she took his thumb into her mouth and sucked it lightly. Revan tried to get his hand away, but he was way too weak to do that. Not to mention than any attempt of moving anything past his left shoulder ended up in pain.
His right arm was immobilized as well. Mischief was lying on top of it, and the dog was way too heavy for Revan to get his hand from under him, at least in his current state. With both of his hands immobilized and rest of body too weak to move, he just lied down on the bed.
Okay, let’s sum up everything that had happened. First I was patrolling the road with Warren, than Mischief felt something and we went to check it. It turned out that he somehow sensed an interdimensional portal, decided to take a ride and took me with him. We appeared in the ruined castle in the middle of dark forest. After leaving said castle and walking through the forest for half an hour, I became first human to meet the aliens.
A very colorful pony-aliens.
They asked me to take them to the castle I just left and help them defeat an ancient evil that had awoken after one thousand years with an intent of bringing the eternal night. As we walked through the forest, we got attacked by pack of wooden wolves that I later learned were called Timberwolfs.
Once we got back to the castle, I realized that I’ve spent almost an hour with 6 naked girls –not humans , but still girls- in the dark forest. Then for two minutes straight I’ve been checking out ass of one of them. Oh boy, do I have issues…
When we were in the castle, we found the weapon called ‘Elements of Harmony’ but before one of aliens, Twilight Sparkle, was able to summon the last of the elements. Said Elements, she and me, got sucked through the another portal. Okay, me and Twilight just jumped into it but that’s beside the point.
After fighting with the bad guy (or rather gal) by the name Nightmare Moon, I got beaten to near death by her and if it wasn’t for Twilight, I’d probably bleed out there. Eventually Mischief joined the fight, and even despite winning at first, was taken down and lost an eye. After that Twilight attacked Nightmare but eventually lost as well.
In the end I stepped in before she strangled Twilight, and shot Nightmare Moon in the lung, but she not only didn’t appear to feel anything, nut also hit me in the jaw. The last thing I saw was rest of the group running into the room. I assume they have defeated Nightmare and then brought me here.
Conclusion: Dad would be so proud.
He looked around the room and noticed that except of him, the room was also occupied by one pony patient. She had a short light-blue mane and horn sticking out of her head. Her fur was blue like her mane, but had a slightly darker shade. Like him, she was covered in bandages but also had a breathing tube in her mouth.
Without anything else to keep his mind occupied, Revan closed his eyes and fell asleep.
He woke up before the dawn, both Fluttershy and Mischief were still asleep. He felt stronger than before, though still not even close to how he was before. He tried to pull his right hand from below Mischief.
He succeeded and the dog remained asleep; Mischief was very heavy sleeper. Revan used his now free hand to push Fluttershy’s mouth away from his hand. He only wanted her to let go of his hand, but something went wrong and he ended up pushing her head off from the bed.
When she hit the ground, she jerked awake and looked around. When she looked up, she noticed Revan looking at her with a smile on his face. “Sorry.” He said.
She began to smile, and her smile grew wider until it reached her ears. “Revan! You awake!” She jumped at him and hugged him tightly. It wasn’t really strong hug and even in his state, Revan barely felt any pain and hugged her himself.
The hug lasted for much longer then Revan thought it would, but he enjoyed it nonetheless. She probably just likes to hug.
“So how long was I out?” He asked when Fluttershy after she pulled away.
“Four days. You really scared us all, me and others thought you’d never wake up.”
“And speaking of, did any of you got hurt?”
“Not really, Twilight had a minor head injury and magic in her body is almost completely drained, but that’s nothing dangerous, she will be healed by the end of the week. You and Mischief are the only ones that were seriously hurt.” Revan looked at the dog. More precisely on his lost eye.
“I guess, you haven’t managed to save his eye, huh?” He ask sadly.
“I’m sorry, there was nothing we could do.” She looked at the ground.
“Don’t be, I’m sure you did all you could.”
They stayed silent for a bit, until Revan decided to ask about her something. “So, what exactly happened after you girls run into that room. I kinda lost track after that.”
“Oh, well… After we got there we run over to you and tried to wake you up, but no matter what we tried you just lied there unconscious. All the time Nightmare Moon was mocking us about how much we have failed. As she kept gloating, Twilight realized something. It turned out that even after being destroyed, the elements of harmony still lived within us and Twilight managed to reveal the sixth element.
It turned out that, Nightmare Moon was just a creation of powerful Black Magic. Somebody used it to create a second personality on the victim and that other persona slowly began to grow stronger until it got strong enough to take control. At least that’s what Twilight said.”
Revan stayed silent for a bit, thinking about what Fluttershy jus said. He looked at the unconscious pony in the room. He noticed bite marks on her legs and dried blood on her armpit and right front hoof. The places where he’d stabbed Nightmare.
He pointed at her. “Is that she?” He knew the answer, but wanted to hear it anyways. Fluttershy nodded in response. “Who she really is?”
“This is Princess Luna, sister of Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria. I can’t really tell you much about her, she’s unconscious since you both got here.”
He nodded and turned his attention to Mischief. “How long were you both here.”
“He was here for about two days. When I took him here, he just wouldn’t live your side no matter what I’d try, so me and rest of girls were just changing shifts every now and then. None of us could really stay here all day long so every time one of us had time to spare we’d just change. Twilight was staying here the most since she’s been helping to put you back to health.”
Revan began to gently pet Mischief’s head. “Where is she anyway? I believe I promised to answer her questions.”
“She should be at her library now. Hopefully getting some sleep. That girl had been awake since the whole incident and it took Mischief to force her to get some sleep. Anyways, she said she’d come here sometime after breakfast.”
“And speaking of, would you mind getting me something to eat? I haven’t ate anything since I passed out and my stomach is making itself known.”
“Oh, of course! I’ll be right back.” She walked in direction of door and pushed them open. But before she left him, she stopped and asked. “Actually what do you eat?”
“I’m an omnivore, I can eat almost anything.”
“Will you be okay with eating a fish?” He nodded and she left him and Mischief alone in the room.
Revan kept scratching the dog for a few more moments, until he felt the dog moving. Mischief slowly began to wake from his slumber and realized that there was hand scratching behind his ear.
He turned his head and saw his favorite human looking at him with a smile on his face. “Stęskniłeś się?”((Missed me?))
Immediately, Mischief jumped at the human and began to muzzle his face. All the time he was whining and barking happily. Eventually he calmed down and lied back at Revan’s side, letting the human to pet him.
After few minutes, Fluttershy was back in the room. Along with her walked another pony. She had a white fur and a bright-pink mane and tail. Her mane was gathered in a bun. There was a red cross mark on her flanks. I wonder what those mean, I’ll ask Twilight when she gets here.
“Finally! The big boy, decided to wake up. I must say, you’ve been giving us quite a headache. Especially that girl, Twilight Sparkle.”
“How so?” Revan took a plate from Fluttershy. Except fish, there was also a piece of bread and a vegetable salad. There was also a glass of water. It didn’t look like high quality food, but it was still way better the what he usually gets in hospitals.
“After princess brought you here, we’ve been trying to use healing magic on you, but for some reason your body doesn’t have enough magic to allow us to even detect it.”
“Probably because I don’t have any in the first place.” Revan said as he ate.
“That’s technically not truth. After we managed to put you together, Twilight began to say something about ‘life without magic being impossible’ and mobilized entire unicorn staff in this hospital, the princess, her friend Rarity, and even few patients, just to prove that you have a magic inside you.”
“And the result was?”
“With all those ponies working as the support for her scanning spells, she established that your magic level is exactly 0,00010261 Nano Magons. Which isn’t even 1‰ of the amount an average infant has. What’s surprising is that this level seems to slowly grow."
“And what will happen when the level will reach that of an average pony?”
“I don’t know. Maybe you will gain some magic abilities. I wouldn’t put my money on that though. From what Twilight calculated it will take at least 20 years before we will be able to do as much as detect you.”
Revan thought for a bit. “So basically what you’re saying, is that I’m immune to magic, right?”
“Pretty much. But you can ask Twilight about it, that girl’s been studying you ever since we placed you in that bed and may know you better than you do yourself. But let’s get to why am I here. My name is Red Heart, and I will be your nurse during your stay in this hospital. For obvious reasons, we don’t have any data about you, and due to problems with patient-doctor communication, we weren’t able to fill your patient files. So I will answer few questions and you just answer them. Okay?”
“Sure.” He says as he puts empty plate and glass on the table near his bed. Fluttershy took them in her mouth and placed them on her back.
She went to the door but before she went out turned back and said. “I’ll leave you two alone. I have to feed animals at my cottage and get everything ready.”
“Ready for what?” Asked Revan.
“Oh, I almost forgot to tell! Me and rest of girls -though mostly them- decided that until we will find a way to send you back or you will find another place -I won’t hold it against you- you will stay at me cottage. Only I have high enough house somepony your high.”
He smiled at that. “Thanks, I owe you one.” She smiled back and left.
Red Heart sat on her backside and to Revan’s surprise grabbed a pencil an patient card from the table. “Now, what’s your-“
“How did you do that?” He looked at her surprised. “I mean grab that stuff with hooves?”
She placed both object back on table and showed him bottom of her hoof. “You see that two muscles here?” He looked at her hoof. Indeed in the middle of her hoof were two muscles. She began to move them, showing Revan how they worked.
“Everypony has them and they are main way for non-unicorns to lift stuff. They don’t give us much control of what we’re lifting, but at least we can lift stuff without putting everything in our mouths.” She picked the pencil as a demonstration.
“Oh, and by the way, try to avoid touching them, for earth ponies those are considered erogenous zone. Thus why we’re usually wearing horseshoes”
“I’m guessing unicorn’s horns are sensitive too?”
“Yes, but normally the nervous system in the horn is inactive, I don’t really know how it works but when unicorn uses magic horn becomes sensitive, ask Twilight about it, she will probably know. How did you know about that anyway?”
He looked at Mischief who’s been relaxing at his site. “Just a hunch.”
“Well, let’s start with my questions, I’m supposed to be your nurse until you get back to heath, not learn you about pony’s sexuality.” She grabs his card again.
“Your full name?”
“Revan Theodor Spicer.”
“Age and date of birth””
“22 years, and as for date of birth, I will have to learn how your calendar system works before I can say for sure.”
“Gender?
“Male.”
“Species?”
“Human”
“Current occupation?”
“Police dog handler”
She paused. “What is that?”
*SIGH*”To put it simply, my job is to make sure everyone fallows the low and I’m working with dogs.”
“Ok, I’ll just write that you are in the Guard Force.” She scanned the card. “Height: 1,91 meters; Weight: 81,3 kilograms; Eyes color: blue and red; Mane color: white.” She muttered silently. “Now, your parent’s full names?”
“Anna Maria Joanna Wesołowska-Spicer and Johnson Mark Spicer.
She paused again. “Weso- Weslo- Weslomolska?”
“Eh, give me that.” He took the pencil and wrote his mother’s maiden name before giving the writing tool back to Red Heart.
“Blood type?”
He looked at her surprised. “You mean you didn’t check that?”
“Twilight Sparkle did, but she asked the princess to give her full control over researching you and ordered us to not do anything with your blood. Not sure why, but after she checked the sample she acted like she just found a treasure and began to guard it like a dragon.”
“Oh… alright. Anyway, my blood type is ‘0 Rh+’
“What do you mean ‘0’, There is no blood type like that.”
“Maybe for you ponies, but for humans there is. Blood group ‘0’ basically means that I have no anti-gens in my cells, and thus my blood is compatible with all other groups. Unfortunately that also means any other blood type can potentially be dangerous for me.”
“Ok, I guess now I know why Twilight’s been acting like this.” She put the pencil down. “Alright, that will be everything for now. If you will need anything press that button on the wall; green if need food or anything like that, and red if you’re dying.” She pointed at the red and green buttons placed above the bedside table and left the room.
For a few minutes Revan simply lied on his bed with Mischief by his side. His eyes fell on the unconscious pony in the room. If it wasn’t for the tube in her mouth, he’d say she was cute. In fact all of those ponies are incredibly cute.
Suddenly her eyes narrowed and she began to toss around. Her breathing rose and her body was convulsing uncontrollably. Revan’s first thought was to get there and help the pony, but then he remembered the buttons on the wall. He immediately pushed the red button.
To his surprise, the button not only didn’t work, but the casing fell off, revealing messed up electronics. “Just fucking great.” He looked at the pony and tried to stand up. He managed to do it and took the IV out of his hand. His body felt weak and he needed to hold on to the bed to stay on his feet.
“Mischief, find the nurse!” He ordered. The dog understood him and run to the door. They were closed but he opened them by jumping on the handle. He run out of the room and began to look for his target; barking all along.
Meanwhile Revan was slowly making his way to the other bed. He was naked but he didn’t pay it much attention to it, there were more important matters then his modesty.
Once he was close enough, he caught Luna’s tossing hooves with his hand, and pinned her to the bed with his own weight. He held her like that until her body began to calm down, and he noticed that her eyes were slowly opening. She let out a weak groan and her eyes slowly focused on Revan.
At first she seemed to be afraid but after realizing that the human wasn’t about to harm her, she calmed down. “Welcome back in the land of living.” Revan said.
She knew who he was, even though she wasn’t in control at the time, she was entirely aware of what was going on around. To say she was grateful, was an understatement. The only thing she’d wanted since she allowed Nightmare Moon to take control over her body, was to be free from that curse.
And if it wasn’t for that human Nightmare Moon would undeniably prevail. It didn’t matter if she’d die in the process. She deserved that fate anyway.
Luna reached to her mouth and caught the breathing tube in her hoof and tried to pull it out. She was however too weak to do this. Fortunately, Revan was there to help. He took the tube in his hand and slowly pulled it out.
When the tube was out she began to cough. Her throat felt sore but she managed to whisper two words. “Thank you.”
Mischief run through the hallways, barking like insane. Revan ordered him to find a nurse and he was about to do this no matter how lout he would have to be to do that. He remembered the smell of Plus (that’s how he called her) and fallowed it.
The hospital was big, but rather empty, something he’d noticed when he and Butterfly were walking to Revan’s room. There was almost no one all the way to the entrance, where he’d found his target. He could swore he’d seen pie-horse through the window, but the moment he looked there, she was gone.
Plus was sitting behind the table reading the newspaper with headphones on her ears. He began to bark as loud as he could but she just kept bobbing her head into the music’s rhythm.
Not wanting to tear up his throat, he walked to her and took of the headphones with his mouth. “Hey!” She screamed and turned back to see who took her new headphones. To her surprise it was Revan’s dog. “What are you doing here? Eh, never mind, just give that back.”
She stood up and walked to him. In response he took few steps back. “Come on, give me that.” Mischief turned back and rushed back to Revan’s room with headphones in his mouth. “Get back here you damn thief!” She run behind him.
Mischief was surprised by how fast she was running. She almost managed to couth him, but he sped up and soon was in safe distance. Mischief reached the door to Revan’s room and entered inside. He saw Revan sitting on the other pony’s bed. It looked that everything was alright, so probably Revan managed to get everything under control.
Soon Plus entered the room and pushed the dog on the floor. “Gotcha!” She reached for her headphones, but stopped when she heard Revan’s voice.
“Well, took you long enough.” She looked up at him. He was sitting on Luna’s bed, with a blanket around him. The princess was lying on the bed with her eyes weakly open. “Don’t bother yourself, I got everything under control, but could I ask you for some help with getting back to my bed? Oh, and bring her something to drink if you will.”
All she did was nod slowly.
Twilight Sparkle rushed out of the door of the library. One of her new friends –Fluttershy- had visited her and informed that Revan has awoke. After hearing that news she devoured her breakfast at record time, grabbed her writing tools and run to Ponyville Hospital.
The facility was rather big, a bit too big for a small town like Ponyville, but it was excellently equipped and had experienced stuff, so it was among better hospitals in Equestria. The reason why hospital in a small town like that is so well equipped, is because of Ponyville’s position near Everfree forest, it often happened that somepony got hurt because of animal’s attack
She opened (or rather kicked out) the door and run past nurse Red Heart. She said something to her but Twilight ignored her. She run through the hallways until she reached her destiny. The door were already open, so she just rushed into the room.
Revan was lying in his bed with Mischief by his side. She jumped at him and hugged tightly.
“Oh, we were so worried about you!”
“Yeah, I was worried about myself too.”