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// Sleep and Planning. 
// Story: Equestrian Eeveelution. 
// by Symphonicdysonince 
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"So," Villhiem said as he followed Zecora, "that zebra is...?'

Yomega, walking beside him, rolled his eyes. "Her name is Zecora. She's a herbalist/witch doctor who lives in the Everfree, which is where we are now. If she can't fix Conner up, then she can get a hold of Fluttershy. Fluttershy is an animal caretaker, and has a knack for healing animals."

"More like a compulsion." I lay on Zecora's back, keeping an eye on Conner. "Remember when she tried to fix up a phoenix without knowing that it was restarting it's life cycle, or even knowing it was a phoenix in the first place?"

Chuckling, Yomega nodded. "Eeyup. Point is, we'll be safe with Fluttershy. We may even be able to use her cottage as a home-base to find the others with. So long as she doesn't put us up for adoption..."

Villhiem just sighed. "Fine. I may not like it, but this sounds like the best we can hope for." He glared up at me. "Excepting that we could be up there with you."

"Do you know how hard it is to stay balanced up here?!" I almost fell off as I tried to dramatically sweep a paw back. "Whoa, shit!" A bit of quick shifting, and I was safely balanced again. "See?! Besides, you've been walking for a while now. I may not have made it back to Zecora's on foot." I finished with a point to my cut leg.

"Oh, shit."

I tilted my head. "It's not that bad."

"You can walk that off, ya pussy." Yomega shook his head. "No, I just remembered Fluttershy's other talent."

I closed my eyes and laid my head onto Zecora's flank. "Oh, fuck. That."

"Sigh. What is 'that'?" Villhiem slowly shook his head.

Yomega looked up at me. I waved him on to explain, then shifted about to stay on my elevated mobile perch. "Fluttershy can understand animals. She may be able to understand what we're saying."

"What are we gonna tell her?" I groaned out.

"I've got that covered" Yomega said.

I hope you do... I settled down to enjoy what was left of the ride.





The walk was uneventful after that. With myself and Yomega patiently waiting, and Conner being out cold, we were quickly bandaged up. Now, Yomega was sporting head wrappings, I had those and bandages wrapping my leg, and Conner was almost tied up like a mummy. His legs, head and tail were the only things sticking out.

Fun fact: Eevees' bodies are thinner than their fur would suggest.

Also, Conner looked hilarious as a white tube with large puffs of fur fluffing out from it. 

We spent the rest of the day being fussed over by Zecora. She wasn't hovering over us or anything like that, but she would regularly check up on us. The only hitch was in the late evening, when she tried to feed us. Of course, having not seen an Eevee before, she couldn't figure out what we actually eat. 

Villhiem solved that one. He was sniffing around where Zecora was trying to prepare our dinner, when she dropped some sort of berry. It didn't look like one of the Pokemon berries, but that didn't matter to Villhiem. He pounced on it and greedily shoved it down his gullet. We had learned a long time ago to never get between him and food. He looked up at Zecora, tail wagging, berry juice smearing his face.

Zecora just filled a few bowls and put them on the floor for us, chuckling all the while. 

Lemme tell you, those berries were good! Imagine crossing a blueberry, a strawberry, a cherry, and a peach. That's just what it tasted like. 

She had to give us a bath when we were done.

Soon, bellies full, we drifted off wherever we happened to be. I was over by the front door, Conner was in a small bed by the fire, Yomega was under the table, and Villhiem was curled up on Zecora herself.





"You must awaken, my sleeping friend. I must go out to run an errand."

I groaned and rolled over, curling up even further.

"If you will not move by choice, then I shall move you with force."

I just buried my face in my tail.

"So be it." I felt something wooden bump into my tail, then push me across the floor. I eventually stopped and the wooden thing was removed. "I'll return in a bit." There was a sound of a door closing and the latch catching. I didn't move for about an hour, I think. I could hear the others get up and move around. I vaguely caught Yomega filling in a drowsy Conner on what happened the night before, as well as the general plan.

"Now, remember," I tilted an ear to catch what Yomega was saying, "we cannot let the fact that we may know of future events slip. Even if Fluttershy can't understand us, it's better if we just let things play out like they did in the show. I'll tell Leo when the lazy ass finally wakes up."

"It would be easier to sleep if you weren't talking." I growled at him.

"Just get up, you lazy fuck."

"No!" I rolled over and placed my tail over my eyes. "I'm asleep."

"You could at least help us plan-"

"I rarely got the chance to sleep as a human, I'm not passing this up now. An' with Conner as badly injured as he is, we ain't going anywhere for a while." I peered through my tail at the others. "Planning can wait. Our personal health can't."

I listened to Yomega grumble something about stubborn mules, then I tuned them out. Just before I drifted off again, I realized that I was curled up in a  way that a human would never find comfortable, what with my face damn near in my crotch. Fuck it, it's comfy.

I had just about drifted off when the door burst open. If I hadn't rolled over earlier, the door would've flattened me against the wall. Instead, I could feel my ears and tail flail in the breeze the door caused. I looked up to see a yellow and pink pegasus hovering Conner over to the counter. Yomega and Villhiem quickly followed and found places near by. 

"It's okay, little one." Fluttershy murmured as she gently peeled the bandages off Conner. I got up and made my way over. "I'm just going to take a quick look and-" She cut off. I jumped up onto a near by chair, and from there, the counter. I couldn't see anything through Villhiem. Fluttershy turned to the door as Zecora entered.

"Um, Zecora. You, um, said that he was hurt badly?"

"Of his wounds I did, their seriousness I did not kid."

"But," Villhiem moved back as Fluttershy showed off Conner's torso, "there's nothing there."