Pandemic Alert

The sun rose on the far off horizon, and greeted Ponyville to its cheerful rays. Animals coming out of their natural habitats, and roaming around in the fields. Ponies coming out of their homes, ready to work another day. Everypony opens their shops to greet their friends and daily incomes, but one particullar pony is still on his way to his job. That particullar pony is Doctor Blood Cross, most ponies call him Doctor Cross, the most famous doctor in Ponyville. His cutie mark was a medical cross next to a test tube. His coat was an extremely dark red, and his mane had strips of red and white as well as his tail. His iris was a really light red shade, and his expression was blank, and was also carrying a saddle bag. When he continuned walking for a couple more minutes, he arrived at his office. He went to the door, and dug around in his saddle bag for his keys.

"Aha! There you are," he said while unlocking the door to his office. He walked and flipped his closed sign to "open". He put away the stack of papers on his desk in one of the many file drawers he owned. He cleaned up his lab table, where he works most of the time, to make sure it was ready to use another day. He also fixed up his medical cabinets where he keeps the medicine he perscribes to his patients, so that it was in order. After, he swept the floor to keep away the dust particles on the ground. Then, he put on his medical coat, which was a white coat that had his name on it, and went outside to get the daily newspaper, and started to pick it up with his magic. Then came in again, and sat at his desk to read it. "Hmm ... another disease that popped out 'o nowhere again huh?" he said to himself reading the main article. "Lets see ... According to Spring Song, her brother has caught an awful disease that apparently makes you vomit excessively, causes irritable rashes, and a fever ... Wow I'm surprised this stallion is still living. I mean all that throwing up, and the scratching, woah ...  I'd want to kill myself if I had that. Where is this taking place anyway? Lets see ... hmm ... Ponyville? Well that's not good now is it?" Blood Cross put down the newspaper, and got off his chair. He trotted towards his equipment and saddle bag. He put his equipment in a case so they wouldn't break in the bag, and place the case in the bag. Then he started to look for Spring Songs' location in his residents book-he needs one or else he wouldn't know half the poines here-and found her location. He grabbed his saddle bag and swung it on his back, and started to head towards the door, but right when he was about to open it, the door swung open.

"Doctor!? Doctor are you here!?" a mysterious voice said.

"Yef, U'm rrght hre, bhnd the dor," he said. The mysterious pony realized that she had smashed the doctor and pulled the door back to let him out. "Phew, I thought I was going to need to perform surgery on myself again. *shiver* Ugh, I don't want to remember what I had to do last time when my jaw cracked," he said to himself. The other pony giggled, then remembered what she came for.

"Oh right, Doctor I'm here because my brother has an awful disease, and-,"

"And you need my help to get rid of it," Blood Cross said while rubbing his head with his hoof. "And let me guess, your Spring Song?"

"Why yes, Yes I am. How'd you know?" Spring Song asked with a confused look on her face. Blood Cross went to his desk to grab the newspaper, and came back pointing at the main article with his hoof. "Oh ... right," she said with a slight giggle.

"I was on my way to your place to see what I could do to help," He said. He remembered about his equipment in his saddle bag, and dashed to it to check if it was OK. "Oh dear! I hope none of my equipment broke!" he said looking through his bag. He looked through all his equipment to see if there were any cracks, dents, or chips, and was glad that there was none. "Phew, thank Celestia, anyway, want to show me to your place, or does your brother live somewhere else?" he asked.

"Oh no, my brother lives with me, he promised mom that he would watch over me all the time, so he never moved out," she said. "Follow me. I'll show you the way," she added. Before they left, Blood Cross swung the bag on his back again. Then, her and Blood Cross went on their way to her house, to see what he could do about his new disease. The doctor received a couple of hellos from ponies he's treated in the past. He waved back with a smile at them.

"Wow, you know a lot of ponies here," Spring Song said.

"Well of course, I mean I've treated almost everypony here. Everypony knows me, and respects me. Though I just wished they would treat me like a friend, not somepony who saved their life, hah," Blood Cross said with a laugh.

"Well I guess your going to be saving another life,"

"Guess so. Looks like there'll be another pony, or stallion in this case, that will know me for saving his life, heh,"

"Suppose so," Spring Song said, finishing the conversation. They continued walking for a couple a minutes till they arrived at her house. She greeted Blood Cross inside to check up on her brother. They walked into the room where her brother laid in bed.

"Leon, Doctor Cross is here to see you," Spring Song said to her brother.

"Oh -cough- he is. Well *pant pant* I'm glad the most famous doctor in Ponyville is here. -cough- It makes me a bit more relaxed about me having an unknown disease," Leon said with a weak voice.

"Well I assure you, I will do my best to cure you. I Promise," Blood Cross said pulling out his equipment. "Um, Spring Song, is it alright if I use this table?" he asked.

"Sure, be my guest," She said with a smile.

"Ok thanks," Spring Song dragged the desk over to him, and he place his equipment on it. "Now let's get started. First, I'm going to need some samples to find the source of the disease, then I'm going to need a sample of your sister to check if she doesn't have the same cells, or bacteria inside of her. So if you don't mind, I'll begin," Blood Cross got out a tube and two cotton swabs out of his bag, and sat them on the table. Then he got one cotton swab with his magic, and held it to Leons' mouth. "Can you open your mouth for me please?" he asked. Leon obeyed and opened his mouth, so the doctor can do his thing. Blood Cross put the cotton swab inside of Leons' mouth and collected a saliva sample from him to test for any signs of the source. Blood Cross pulled out the swab, and held it over the tube. He tapped the side of the tube gently to let the saliva slowly come down. He then pulled another tube from his bag, and got the other cotton swab. "Is it alright if I get a sample of your DNA?" he asked Spring Song. Spring Song nodded and opened her mouth. Blood Cross then put the cottonswab inside of her mouth, and pulled it out when he had enough DNA from her saliva. He then put her saliva into the other tube, and closed them both up.

"Ok, now that I have the samples, I'm going to have to head back to my office to examine them if thats alright. I'll write to you two as soon as I get the results. It's going to take atleast three days for me to come up with a cure ok? I'll send that to you as well. In the mean time, Spring Song can you keep me updated with Leons' condition everyday?"

"Sure, I'll be make sure to tell you if anything happens to my brother,"

"Ok good, Oh and Leon ..."

"-cough- Yes doctor? *sniff*"

"Hang in there ok. I'll make sure to make this a top priority for me. I'll try to come up with the cure as fast as I can,"

"I'll make sure to -cough cough- do that doctor," Leon said trying to smile at the doctor.

"Ok then," Blood Cross starts, "I'll be heading on my way then. I'll be sure to drop in once-in-a-while to check up on Leon," Blood Cross said while putting his equipment and samples away in his bag. "Cya two later," he said while waving his hoof to them, and headed out the door with his bag on his back.

Leon and Spring Song looked at each other, and smiled.