//------------------------------// // Hospital trip // Story: Conduit // by Darkscout99 //------------------------------// The first thing I remembered when waking up was that I had talked with Luna when the elements hit us. I remembered nothing else. The next thing I remembered was that I had taken a huge slash of black magic to the chest. The elements had removed the black magic from my chest, preventing it from doing any more damage, but there was still a large amount that was already done. I saw light enter the room and looked at it. Princess Celestia was standing there, and instead of bowing like the others I coughed up some blood and tried to hold out a thumbs up, before struggling to stand up and starting to walk back to Ponyville. I still couldn’t hear from the elements hitting me, but AJ suddenly appeared under my hand. Using her as a support, I continued to walk towards Ponyville. I knew there was a hospital there, but I didn’t know where. Making it to the entrance to the castle, my vision started to get darker. I sat down and hoped that I could get up in a minute, but applejack ran off, and my vision went completely black as I faded into unconsciousness. I woke up and screamed in agony, my chest felt like someone had stabbed it over and over with a yellow hot blade. Twilight jerked her head back in surprise, and good thing too. Unicorn horns were surprisingly sharp, and I would have impaled myself if she hadn’t pulled away. I threw my hands over my chest, only to have applejack and pinkie pull them back and hold them down. Twilight stood on my legs and went back to work. Something happened and the pain was less,i found out later that Celestia had cast a pain spell on me. A few minutes later, my chest was no longer bleeding, my insides were back in the right place, and I was awake. I tried speaking again to find that I could actually hear stuff now. “T-Thanks for that everypony. I think you saved my life.” I managed to pant out. Twilight sat down before speaking. “Now we’re equal right?” Twilight then slapped me with her hoof and started shouting at me. “Why would you do something like that!? There is no way you thought you could take on nightmare moon and win without getting seriously hurt! You could have just ran away, we would have been fine! The elements would have cleansed her before she could hurt us. Even without them 6 on 1-” I cut her off there. “Twilight, she would have killed you if you had tried to fight her. She almost killed me and I was using the same magic she was, and with almost the same level of skill she had, and she would have killed me had you six not deus ex machina-ed her. I was just stalling for you girls to recover.” I cut her off mid sentence. “We could have taken her! We had the elements, all we needed was a clear shot!” Twilight screeched in reply. “You had a clear shot Twilight, and I do have to thank the human for his actions. If he had not stepped in and fought to help you, then you all would have been killed. I do have to disagree on his choice to fight nightmare moon though.” Celestia interrupted, preventing us from spending all night going back and forth, “Now, we really should get Mr. DJ to the hospital rather quickly. you did well Twilight, but you are no doctor. He needs real medical attention.” Twilight nodded and I stood back up. I managed to walk on my own this time and we made it to the hospital in a few minutes. When we got there, I blacked out again from the exhaustion of walking a mile or two after being hit by black magic, the elements, and a painful healing spell. I woke up some time later and looked around. The first thing I noticed was the iv drip needle in my arm. I freaked out, screamed, and ripped it out of my arm, then fell out of the bed and crawled into a corner and curled up into a ball. Six ponies, two princesses, and a doctor ran into the room, trying to figure out what was wrong. After a few minutes of calming me down, I finally got back into the bed, and they took the iv drip away. Rainbow was the first to speak up. “What the hay dude, you can fight a corrupted, immortal, Alicorn goddess, but you’re scared of a little needle?!” “Hey don’t blame me, I have a phobia of them!” I shot back. Rainbow started to argue “DJ, whatever a phobia is doesn't mean you should be scared of needles and not corrupt godesses." I started speaking but Twilight cut in, “Rainbow, a phobia is an immense fear. If you are scared of falling off a cliff, that’s normal. A phobia would be like a Pegasus not flying because they are scared of heights. I know you’re thinking of Fluttershy, but she’s just scared of everything, that’s pantophobia.” “Can we please get off of my irrational fears?” I asked. Rainbow was about to start teasing me about it again when Zecora burst into the room. “I enter this room to see, two princesses staring back at me. I have heard my student is now a hero, is is this a lie and he just a zero.” She said quickly. “I do not know about being a hero, but Zecora, I am not a zero.” I responded. Twilight looked confused before asking, “Why are you two speaking in rhymes?” I was the one who answered her question. “We have to, it’s part of Zebrica’s potion brewer’s rules.” “So why weren’t you speaking that way earlier?” “DJ did not speak that way to thee, because it did not need to be. A teacher must rhyme at all times, but the student only needs to speak with the teacher to be fine.” Zecora explained. All of the mane 6 except for Twilight looked confused, so I explained. “Basically, I have to talk to Zecora in rhymes, but I can talk to others normally. Zecora has to speak to everyone in rhymes, but when I pass my final test we may speak to each other normally. It has something to do with the spirits and imbuing potions better. I just don’t question it.” One of the doctors came into the room at this point. “OK DJ, it looks like you should be fine to leave tomorrow, just stay away from fighting any corrupted Alicorns for awhile please?” Pinkie broke down at his joke and everyone in the room started to giggle, except for princess Luna. She walked out of the room, and Celestia followed her. When Twilight noticed that Celestia was missing, she went to find her. The rest of the mane 6 left shortly after that leaving me alone. I started to practice the light spell I had gotten from twilight but soon found my reserves exhausted, and decided to just fall asleep, which I did promptly.