As the flash of Twilight's teleportation spell fades I find myself standing outside, the sun warm upon my body. I turn my head up to look at it and smile taking in a deep breath of fresh air. When I turn my head back down though I find 6 mares all staring at me in abject horror.
"My..my word.." The white unicorn mutters.
"L.. look at.. his wings" A blue pegasus nearly chokes on her words as she speaks.
The tan earth pony of the group just stares at me her eyes wide, her mouth agape unable to either move or speak. A yellow pegasus in the group is doing her very best to hide behind her wings as she audibly cries. I watch as the mane and tail of a pink earth pony in the group goes flat with the sound of escaping air as she falls to the ground unable to continue looking at me.
"Prism..what did they do to you" Finally the lavender one called Twilight speaks, the look of pain clearly written on her face as she looks me over.
Finally I decide to do so myself seeing the few patches of scales I have on my body and the scars that cover most of my front. Turning to my backside I see my mangled, featherless wings as well as the scars that crisscross down the length of my back from my shoulders to my hips. I then stare at her blankly knowing that this is how I have always looked but then I find I can only think so far back, the only thing I can remember is my cell nothing from before then. I drop to the ground as my head begins to hurt the traces of magic that then begin to course through my brain impossible for the embodiment of the element magic to miss. The lavender mare is at my side the moment I hit the ground.
"Prism. Whats wrong?" She asks me concerned. Getting no response from me her horn begins to glow then abruptly stops after just a moment. She gasps then looks at me speaking slow and softly. "Don't worry Prism. I am going to fix this." Her horn begins to glow once more and she slowly begins to move it towards my forehead.
Every fiber of my being screams at me to run as she inches closer her horn glowing but the same voice inside me that said i could trust her in my cell is now screaming at me, far louder than any other instinct to not move, to let her do this and so I simply sit there on my knees waiting. When her horn touches me a bright flash goes off both in my eyes and inside of my mind. Suddenly visions fill my eyes as all of my memories come flooding back from the start right up till now. The violence and pain of the last six months is to much for me to take all at once and with a scream I pass once more into unconsciousness.
Slowly awareness fills the void as consciousness begins to return to me. There are voices just outside of the darkness but I cannot make them out, then there is only pain as my body realizes that my brain has once more become active. I let out a groan as my body shudders and one of the voices in the darkness rapidly comes much closer almost to where I can make it out.
"...Started moving...bring more..Prism...drink." I can vaguely feel as something is pressed to my mouth a cold liquid running down my throat as something is poured in. As the coolness washes down through my body I begin to feel heavy and the darkness once more takes complete hold of my mind.
Once again awareness begins to fill my mind as consciousness once again begins to return to me. The voices in the darkness have gone though replaced now with only a single one the source of it sounding almost close enough to touch its words clear despite it sounding like barely a whisper/
"I..I am so sorry Prism. If I hadn't left you alone that night, if i had stayed with you until morning...maybe you wouldn't be like you are now" the voice is definitely female seeming so familiar to me. Suddenly I can feel something soft and wet falling onto me and the darkness in my mind slowly gives way to the light of wakefulness. My eyes slowly flutter open and i find myself in a hospital room the smell of antiseptic quickly overpowering my sensitive nose but the smell doesn't matter to me as there right next to me, sitting on a chair hunched down over my bed, the front half of her hovering over my body with her hooves covering her face sits Rainbow Dash crying softly.
"D..Dash." I manage to just barely squeak out causing the mare to jump in surprise then hug me as tightly as she thinks she can without hurting me her tears quickly staining my shoulder.
"Prism. Your awake." Dash says in an unusually soft tone of voice for the normally exuberant mare "I...We thought you might never wake up" She says her tears still running down her face to land upon me.
"N..no...cr..cry..Dash" I weakly try to lift an hand up to wipe away one of her tears managing to only bring my hand about an inch up from the bed before Dash quickly stops me.
"Prism shhhh. Don't try to move to much ok. You gotta try and stay still big guy alright" Dash smiles as best she can trying to be reassuring, not moving her hooves from holding me down until she is sure I'm not going to try and move. Once she is sure I'm not going to try anything stupid like moving she speaks again. "Ok Prism I am just going to go and tell the others that your awake. Just stay there in bed and don't try to move" After an ever so slight nod from me she turns and walks out of the room leaving me alone for a short time which I use to just close my eyes and rest. A short while later the sound of the door and six sets of hooves clip clopping along the floor brings me back to the world of the living to see Rainbow Dash followed by Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and then finally Twilight. Once they are in the room all of them but Dash come running over to my bed side.
"Ah'm so relieved to see you are ok Prism" AppleJack says in her usual southern drawl as she places a hoof along the edge of my bed.
"Yes. You gave us all quite the scare darling" Rarity's sweet velvety voice chimes in next as she places a hoof along the edge of my bed.
"I am going to have to throw such a huge party once your able to join in Prism. You have already missed so many of them that its going to have to be extra super huge to make up for it." Pinkie Pie says cheerfully her mane fully inflated with a big smile on her face as she places a hoof along the edge of my bed
"I..I'm really glad your ok" FlutterShy quietly whispers as she places a hoof along the edge of my bed.
Finally Twilight looks to me "Prism. I am so glad to see that your awake. I was so worried that you wouldn't ever wake up" She says as she places a hoof on my shoulder.
I look over at Dash now who hasn't come over to my bed. "Dash..." I am barely able to speak her name but it does draw her attention and she looks over at me with a forlorn expression on her face barely able to meet my eyes. "Dash...." I say again my voice once more barely a whisper. Dash with her head hung not looking at me walks over next to my bed. "Dash...no...blame...your...self" I slowly rasp out barely able to speak.
"How can I not...If I had just stayed...If i hadn't just left you during the night...maybe...maybe I could have-" I cut her off right there with one glare.
"Dash...no...no...blame...yourself...not...your...fault" I rasp out panting and wheezing a bit once I finish speaking.
Twilight looks from Dash to me before noticing my breathing.- "Ok girls I think that's enough for now. Let's let Prism rest up. We can talk to him more later." With that she ushers her friends out not giving them a chance to argue. "We will be by to see you again later Prism for now just rest alright." Twilight says as she smiles before closing the door behind herself and her friends leaving me once more alone in the hospital room.