//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: New Life, New Parents. // Story: The 7th Element. Season 1: The Magi-Tech Pony // by Rojack79 //------------------------------// Oct, 15, 984, Ponyville, Equestria. I awoke, not to the harsh cold earth, but to the soft warm embrace of fabric beneath my charred body. Funny i figured with all of the burns to my body i'd ether feel nothing or be in pain from what i was sure to be forth degree burns all over my body. I opened my eye's to see nothing but white light. "Gahhh!" And quickly shut them as stinging pain shot through my head. "Oh your awake!" Came a voice to my right. "Hello? Who's there!" I said trying to grope for anything to defend myself with. Instead i felt a soft warm sensation envelop my-- "Wait!" Were are my hand's!? I practically jumped out of the bed and probably would have if i wasn't suddenly held down by a soft, cool force of some kind. My eye's were now open and starring around the small room i was in. I have to be dreaming. I saw what looked to be horse's. Lots of multi-colored horse's. The small white room had at least six of them, and all of them were sitting in chairs next to bed's. Hospital bed's. So i'm in a hospital. With all of this new information my brain began to hurt. I brought my hands up to it to try and message away the pain but then i saw that i had no hand's. "What the hay is going on here?" "Young colt!" I almost jumped out of my bed, again. And once more i was enveloped in that strange feeling of a cool breeze. This time however i noticed my vision being tinged a soft rosy color. "What was that?" I asked in a low voice. "Young colt!" That voice again. "Yes?" I asked a bit timidly. Hey my voice! It's different! It sounds like a- "You Sr-." The voice continued. I looked over to see a one of those horse's, a white one with a pink mane and a strange tattoo on its butt. The tattoo caught my interest. -"or i will personally wash"-It was a picture of a red heart with what liked sun rays radiating outward from within it. I was so focused on the tattoo that i didn't realize the horse was talking to me until i saw a hoof in front of my face. "Son were you even listening?" "Huh w-w-what?" The horse looked at me with a stern look on its face. How is that even possible? Regardless of the horses look i could some how feel that it was genuinely concerned for my well being. Funny how can i know that? Then almost like magic the horse's face softened from one of sternness to one of compassion and sympathy. "Look sweety i know you've had a hard couple of night's. But-" All sympathy was gone and replaced with what i would personally call "mommy mode" "That does not give you the right to have a potty mouth. Do i make myself clear?" We both looked at each other for awhile. My brain was struggling to comprehend this new information but my mouth decided to help out. "Yes mam." "Good. Now lets get you tucked back into bed. You need to be nice and well mannered for your parents tomorrow when they come to pick you up." WHAT PARENTS!?!? I just sighed and shook my head and shuddered. This all just felt so wrong. "Nurse?" I asked in my little voice. "Yes honey?" "C-c-can i have a mirror?" The nurse looked puzzled at this request. "Sure thing sweety." She trotted off to go and fetch one. I meanwhile wandered what i looked like. The pain was so real. The fire. It felt like it went on forever. I was surprised i felt as good as i did despite the fact that i no longer had my hand's. They must have been amputated. Curious i looked at the foot of my bed to see if my feet had been sparred. Nope. Just two stumps were they once were. "Here you go little one." Why does she keep calling me that? She carried the mirror in her mouth. Huh. So that's how they get stuff. Then she broke the laws of physic's. She grabbed the mirror with her hoof, It literally just stuck to her hoof like a magnet, and handed it to me. I looked at the mirror and then to her. "Here you go." She said nudging the mirror in my direction. "Um...how?" Was all i could say in response. "Oh i'm sorry i forgot. You'r parents said you would have some memory issue's. Here let me get that for you." Mirror still in hoof? I guess. Any way, she leaned her hoof in so i could get a better look at myself. But just like a little kid i closed my eyes so as not to see the burnt out husk i had become. "Come now sweety open your eye's theirs nothing to be scarred of." The nurse's soothing voice did the trick. Slowly i opened my eye's. "What the buck!" I screamed out loud. I quickly clasped my hoof's? over my mouth looking from the nurse, who was giving another stern look, to the mirror, my eyes wide from shock. Starring back at me in the mirror is not my face. Or at least not my human one. Instead of a human starring back at me there was a horse, just like one the many others in this room. I had jet black coat of fur, some of which was covered over with bandage's, from the fire i presumed. My once hazel eyes were now a sapphire blue and my usually black hair was now a deep golden color. Still shaggy and wild tho. Then i looked closer and saw something completely new to me. I have a ponytail? Just below my shaggy mane there was a ponytail sticking out of my hair. I rubbed it with my hoof tracing its way down my shoulder's, seeing that it was braided up and tied off at the end into two little pigtail's that had a small red ribbon around both of them. Well that actually looks really pretty. I heard some one snickering and looked to see the nurse holding her hoof up to her mouth, failing to stifle a few breaths of laughter from escaping into the air. "I'm so sorry but you just look so cute admiring your self like a little school filly about to go on her first date." My face felt hot for a few seconds. I just went back to looking at myself in the mirror and noticed something sticking out of my hair. I squinted to get a closer look and rubbed the spot with a hoof. I felt a little pointy object sticking out of my head by about two inch's. "What is this?" I asked the nurse. Looked at me and then chuckled a little bit. "That my little pony." She said touching my head with her hoof. Wait pony? "Is your horn." "Horn?" i repeated. "Yes. You are a unicorn." What? "What?" I said more to myself than the nurse. The nurse didn't seem to notice. She was already on her way out of the room. "Uh nurse wait please!" i pleaded like the little colt that i was now. Gosh that is going to take some getting used to. "I'm sorry little one but i do have other patents to attend to." She replied in a sweet voice. I couldn't quite remember what i wanted to ask her so i made something up on the spot. "Um can i have your name?" I asked sheepishly. Her face lit up a little with a smile. "Of course little one. My name is Bright Heart." "Oh ok. Thanks miss Bright Heart." She chuckled again and a soft kiss on my head she left the room. Outside the nurse let out a soft sigh, "Good night little one." She went down the hall to a small room entitled Family. "So nurse how is he?" Ruby Rose asked as the door closed behind Nurse Bright Heart. She looked at the couple with a soft face and a smile. "Well medically speaking he's doing fine. Hay, it's a miracle he even woke up. With all of those injury's he did have when you three got here a few days ago i thought for he was a goner for sure." She sat down in one of the small chairs in the room rubbing her head with her hoof. "So what exactly happened to you three out there in white tail woods?" The couple looked at one another before they slumped down into there chairs. "Well nurse." Sky started. "That is a strange story for multiple reason's." "Well how much stranger can it get? You came in with a colt barely alive covered in burn's and on the verge of death." She said. "Here he is not five day's later and he looks practically as healthy as the day he was born. Minus o few missing patches of fur of course but those should grow back in a few weeks." She looked at the couple and sighed. "Look if you don't want to tell me that's fine but i have to put down something for the record's." "Lets just say that we found him lost in the woods covered in wound's. Will that suffice?" Ruby asked, weariness evident in her voice. The nurse had to admit that she was tired as well. The trio had been working non stop to keep the colt alive for the past five day's. Now that it was all over they were all exhausted and wanting to get some rest. The nurse mulled the idea over in her head. "Ya i guess that will work. It wouldn't be the first time someone has picked up a little one." Satisfied that everything was going to work out the nurse got up to leave. "Wait, nurse?" Bright Heart stopped at the door an cocked her ear's back. "Can, can we see him?" The nurse thought about it. Technically visiting hours were over but the couple had been sleeping in the hospital's maternity ward for the past five days. She knew she was taking a big risk. "Ok but if you want to see him you will have to be very quite." The young couple shook there heads enthusiastically at her answer. The nurse led the way down the deserted hallway to the room the little colt was in. Carefully they all made there way in to the room so as not to disturb any of the other patents. When the couple saw him they gasped. The nurse was right. The little colt did look as healthy as ever. Then a thought crossed everyone minds. "Hey honey?" Sky asked his wife. "Let me guess what are we going to name him?" "My thought exactly." The nurse chimed in. They group pondered this for awhile. There minds were interrupted by a soft mumbling. They looked around and found the colt was tossing in his sleep. Ruby swiftly went to his bed side and began to rub his forehead. "Shh, shh little one it's OK." His fit seemed to lessen and soon he was resting peacefully. Pretty soon the other two adults were gathered around the colts bed. "So any idea's?" sky asked. They all looked at one another but once again they were interrupted by the little colt. "Gadget.." He mumbled. "What was that?" Sky asked. Ruby pressed her ear up to the colts mouth. She repeated what he had said. "Gadget?" The adults all thought about that name. Then Sky shook his head letting out a quite chuckle. "Well i guess we have our answer there." He looked at the co--Gadget and sighed. "Well, looks like we're going to have to get better job's." He said looking at Ruby Rose. She looked at him with a smile on her face. The nurse meanwhile had a inquisitive expression on her face. "I'm going to go and file this paper work before my shift end's." Nurse Bright heart bid the new family farewell and left for her office. Ruby Rose had a soft smile on her face. "You know honey i think i have the answer to our money issue's." "Really what's that?" He asked.