//------------------------------// // 22. Poisoned // Story: Ponyville Police Department // by Omega6047 //------------------------------// --Chapter 22-- Poisoned Revan woke up feeling the familiar smell of hospital filling his lungs and sound of hearth monitor ringing in his ears. His body felt as if it was in fire, and for the first moments he wasn’t even able to move because of the pain. But soon enough he managed to get the pain under control and opened his eyes. Bright rays of sunlight hit him like a baseball bat and he was forced to close his eyes for a moment longer until he was able to adjust them to light. He was still aware of horrible pain spreading all over his body, but he ignored it and begun to push himself up. With a groan he sat up on the bed, realizing that his chest was covered in bandages, that his leg was wrapped in a cast and that he had an IV attached to his left arm. There was also something else he became aware of. Or rather somepony. He felt something soft under his fingers when he had placed them on the side of the bed and immediately turned to see what it was. To his surprise (and happiness), Twilight was lying asleep next to him. She had large bags under her eyes, indicating that she’s spent last night on her legs and only recently went to bed. It was still unclear as to why she went to his bed, but then again, he wasn’t going to complain. He looked at her sleeping form, careful not to wake her up. He soon begun to lightly run his fingers through her mane, and in response she let out a happy purr and moved closer to him. This made him smile, and before he even realized what he was doing, ho fund himself planting a light kiss on Twilight’s cheek. He quickly realized what he was doing and quickly moved away with a blush on his face. This blush however was soon joined by a small smile spreading on Revan’s face. He lied his head down on the pillow, with one hand still running through Twilight’s mane. He kept doing that for a few minutes, until he finally realized how creepy it would probably look if someone walked into the room right now. He begun to look around the room he was in, recognizing it as the same one he was put in after Nightmare Moon incident with, save for a bigger bed. He also noticed the box he’s fixed the last time he was here, and with one hand, he reached out to the green button and pressed it. For a second the button gave out a faint green light, signaling that it still worked. “I see, you woke up. ”He suddenly heard a voice coming from the door. He turned right, seeing as nurse Red Heart enters the room. "You gave everyone here quite the scare you know. How do you feel?" "As if I had lava in my veins. How have I got here? "Twilight Sparkle here, has brought you to us. It was a wonder that you are still alive, not because of the injuries, those were not the worst. That feeling of ‘lava floating in your veins’ comes from a manticore's venom, and as of now you are the first person to survive it's effects." "What does it do? Will it cause some further problems or something?" "That's the thing, we don't know. Most ponies die within a first few minutes since applying even the tiniest amount of venom, and we were never able to see what can happen to a pony that actually survives. In fact your case may become a milestone in developing a serum." "Alright I'm glad then." He looked at Twilight again. "Mind telling me why is she here, and how long has passed since I got here?" Red sat on the chair next to his bed and pulled out a syringe. Revan got the message and reached out his arm towards her. "She was on her hooves for three days straight, ever since she has brought you here. That little dragon finally got her to get some sleep last night, but for some reason she decided to sleep here. Why is beyond me." She said as she collected his blood sample. Silence fell upon them for a moment. "Um, Red?" Revan eventually spoke up. "Yes?" "How...eh..." He begun to massage his neck. "H-how does Ponyville view... i-interspecies relationships?" "That really depends on a pony. Most of the town doesn't care much, but I know for a fact that there are quite a few ponies that are openly against that kind of things. For example Applejack, though I'm not quite sure why. Why are you asking?" "W-well I... I... N-no reason really, just curious." He bit his lip. " ’Well you…’, what?" She then noticed a small wet spot on Twilight's cheek. "Oh, I see now." She smirked. "You like Sparkle don't you?" Revan's face was now covered by a deep blush and for a moment he was tempted to avoid the answer, but eventually decided that there's no way to deny it at this point and it would be good idea to see how she reacts to it. "Y-yeah, I guess there's no denying it." "Hmm, well I guess that was easy to predict, you two kinda fit together. Anyways, I guess I should wish you good luck." She was about to leave, but stopped right before the exit. "By the way, your friends have found your stuff in the forest, we've put it in a chest next to your bed. Oh, should I bring you something to eat?" "That would be nice." She nodded and walked out. He turned his attention back to Twilight, and returned to lightly stroking her mane. Abroad smile appeared on her face again and she begun to muzzle his side in her sleep. Shortly, Red Heart returned with a plate of food as well as a cup of tea. “This tea should help with pain, Zecora made it for you yesterday.” She said as she placed the plate and the cup on the night stand. “Then I guess I have another reason to go and thank her.” He took a sip. “Dobry towar ((good stuff)).” He said to himself. “Well, I guess you’re out of luck in that regard, she just left. Oh, and by the way, you have a visitor. And shave that beard, you look old with it.” She said as she left the room, and allowed a familiar figure to enter. “Well, well, well. Isn’t that my favorite dragon.” Revan said, moving his hand away from Twilight’s head again (to her disappointment). “What are you doing here Spike?” “Hi Revan. I was here with Twilight and since she went to sleep I took care of some things she was doing. But that’s not important now, tell me how do you feel?” Spike said as he sat on the chair next to the bed. “Ignoring the pain, I would say I’m mostly all right. Though I can’t move much right now.” He answered. “Now could you tell me where is Mischief? I expected to find him lying next to me.” “O-oh! W-well, he’s fine. I think.” “You think? Spike tell me what happened.” He pressed. Young dragon sighed. “Alright, I’ll tell. When Twi, Fluttershy and Pinkie have found you, Mischief was defending you from a bunch of rats.” He shivered at the mention of the creatures. “They got him pretty bad and... well, he barely made it out alive.” Revan tightly grabbed the covers. “But he’s alright. Right?” “Yeah, I think he’s fine, even though he looks a little strange right now, Fluttershy had to shave him almost entirely to take care of his wounds. I can go and ask her to bring him in here if you want.” “I would appreciate that, thanks.” He relaxed a bit and lied returned to eating. “By the way, have Angel made it out.” Please say no, please say no, please say no, please say no… “Yeah, he got out way before they’ve begun to search for you two and didn’t even inform Fluttershy about anything.” That little piece of shit… Revan thought “However, It turned out that on his way back, our dear little friend fell into a trap of Poison Joke” Spike smiled deviously. “Poison Joke? Aren’t those that flowers Twilight have told me about? The ones that pulls of pranks on people who come too close?” Smile begun to appear on human’s face, matching that of Spike. “Exactly. And boy, was that hilarious. Angel grew a pair of oversized horns that made him fall over each step, and his fur got covered in pink dots. He also begun to smell so much that that every bug in the cottage made him his home, no matter how many times he was washed clean.” “Damn, I wish I could see that, it must have been priceless.” “Don’t worry, Pinkie made some photos for you.” Their smiles widened even more. “Anyways, I’ll go see if Fluttershy is free to come over and tell everypony else that you’re awake, see you later.” He walked out from the room, but soon enough came back. “Take care of Twilight for me, alright?” “Sure.” And so, once Spike left the room, Revan went on to do just that. Mainly by scratching her ears. To Revan’s surprise it had only took Fluttershy a little over half an hour to get here. She has carried Mischief inside a wooden cart, since even though the dog was now awake, he was unable to walk properly because of all the bites left by rats. To say that Mischief was happy to see Revan was an understatement. The enthusiasm coming off from the dog was high enough to rival that of Pinkie Pie, and if not for the fact that he couldn’t get up, Revan would have already had his face covered in dog’s saliva. And since Revan wasn’t fit for getting out from the bed either, all was settled be a lot of petting and licking hands. There was however one more creature in the cart brought by Fluttershy. “Um, Flutters… Why is there a little tiger trying to get to my hand?” “Oh, this is a cub that Mischief saved along with you. We’ve found his mother in that clearing, or rather… w-what was left of her…” Revan allowed the cub to get to his hand and ruffled its head. “Since then he started treating Mischief like his second parent.” Revan then realized that he was so invested in Mischief, that he have failed to notice bandages around yellow Pegasus’ body. “Fluttershy, what happened?” “Oh, that? It’s nothing really.” “Doesn’t look like nothing to me.” “But really, it’s-“ “Tell me what happened. Now.” He cut her out. “A-alright, I’ll tell you… It’s those rats that attacked you and Mischief, when they noticed us some attacked us as well. “*SIGH* Why haven’t you just said so?” He wrapped his arm around her and gave hear a weak hug. “I just… didn’t think it was important.” He chuckled at that. “Don’t you ever change Fluttershy. Don’t you ever change…” Revan spent the rest of the day chatting with Fluttershy about what was going on in town when he was asleep. Apparently Fluttershy didn’t make up what she has said about Fat Chance, and Revan became a star of his own article in Ponyville Press. Luckily for him though, Princess Celestia have made a comment about this article herself, and his reputation didn’t suffer in the result, if anything it got better in the result. Fat Chance was obviously not happy about that state of affairs, and was still looking for something to use against him. Pinkie was obviously planning a party for him, because why the hell not and Rarity had his order finished and waiting in her boutique, along with a new uniform she had to make because the last one was beyond unusable. She wasn’t complaining about the additional word though, in her own words ‘That broken uniform was too old anyways, and I would have made a new one regardless’. Fluttershy have left the hospital around 5 PM, leaving Mischief and currently unnamed tiger in his room, along with a food for them both and medicine for Mischief. It was also around that time when Twilight finally begun to wake up. Revan felt her move, and soon enough heard her yaw in just about the cutest way he’s ever heard in his life (and considering the amount of ‘cute cats’ he’s seen on the Internet, that’s an accomplishment.). She raised her head up and yawed again, rubbing her eyes before she looked at Revan, expecting to see him still asleep. That of course was not the case. “Sup.” He said with a smirk. For the first seconds she didn’t move at all, but soon enough a huge smile appeared on her face and in the instant she tightly wrapped her hooves around human’s neck, hugging him like she never did before. “You’re awake! You’re awake! You’re awake! You’re awake! You’re awake!” She screamed I happiness. “My balls! My balls! My balls! My balls! My balls!” He screamed in pain.