A Hidden War

"Get me........and another pegasus. We need.............the bleeding. Untie..............they'll need...........for the wings......"

"Who in the hay are you? And.................Twilight?!"

"P-p-please help her."

"Don't worry......................okay now, on three."

"Dammit! She's going into shock. Where's................."

"One, Two, Three!"

Twilight woke with a sharp gasp of air, and then regretted it once she noticed the soreness and pain on the inside of her throat. She looked around for something, anything that would quench the burning pain in her throat. She finally found a small glass of water on a nearby nightstand and immediately used her magic to grab it, only for her to spit it back up after taking a large gulp. Deducing that she was probably dehydrated, Twilight decided to take a look at where she was as she took small, careful sips. From what Twilight could see, she was in a small, one person room complete with a nightstand, bookshelf, and bed.

Twilight continued to gradually take larger sips of her glass until she heard her door opening. Twilight tried to prepare her magic for anything that might happen, but only got a few sparks out of her horn. When the door finally revealed its opener, Twilight was both confused and curious at the same time.

The pony that had opened the door was wearing a white, hooded cloak that concealed almost everything. Covering a little bit above the ends of the ponies forelegs, to where their tail began, completely concealing their cutie mark. From what little Twilight could see from under the ponies hood, this was probably a stallion around the same age as Twilight.

"I see that you are awake. Please, follow me." The stallion gestured with his head to the nightstand. "And don't try to talk. Your neck is still healing from your wound."

When Twilight heard this. her hoof immediately started trailing down her barrel, feeling the multiple bandages wrapped around it. She then decided to open the nightstand, revealing a necklace with the same symbol that was on the pegasus mares flank from earlier. But on closer inspection, she noticed multiple scratchings and symbols in it. Realizing what the symbols meant, Twilight quickly put on the necklace to test out her assumption.

"Hello? Can you hear me?" Twilight more or less thought as the necklace voiced it.

"Ah, I see you know about speech enchantments." The stallion said, a little impressed by the lavender mare in front of him.

"A really simple enchantment,actually. It's mostly used for those with a jugular wound and mutes." Twilights ears drooped a little as she mentally sighed. "Are my friends alright? I know I have this around my neck." She pointed to her bandages. "Which means that my friends are probably even worse."

"I doubt that." The stallion said as he and Twilight walked out of the room.

"What makes you say that?" Twilight idly said as she examined the hallway they were in. It really wasn't extravagant, but had had archways every few yards that was both simple, but eloquent.

"Trust me, they're-"

"TWILIGHT!" Said lavender mare was then immediately tackled by a pink blur, causing both to fall to the floor. When Twilight was finally able to level out her vision, she was met by a slightly bandaged Pinkie Pie squeezing her like a vice."Oh Twilight! We were all so very worried when we saw you. They wouldn't tell us anything or where we were,all they said was to wait and-" A lavender hoof quickly silenced the energetic mare, albeit mostly just muffling her.

"Pinkie Pie. Slow. Down." Twilight calmly said.

Pinkie nodded her head vigorously as Twilight removed her hoof. "Sorry Twilight. It's just that a couple minutes ago I felt a new combo coming on!"

"Combo?" The stallion confusedly asked.

"Don't question it. You'll probably go insane if you try to understand it. I almost did." Twilight said to the stallion before turning her head back to Pinkie Pie. "As you were saying Pinkie?"

"Right. What happened was is that my mane stood on end, my left eye twitched, and I felt a tingly sensation in my spine. I didn't know what it meant but now I do. It means that one of my friends just got better and that means we can have a TWILIGHTS ALL BETTER AFTER BEING IN A SHOCK INDUCED COMA FOR THREE DAYS PARTY!" Pinkie exclaimed as confetti blew sprayed into the air.

"I was in a coma for three days!"

"How did you do that!" The stallion asked, a little bit on the creeped out side.

"Don't question it. Oh yeah and Pinkie." Pinkie stopped her hooping around in mid hop as she looked at Twilight slowly getting up. "Where are the others?"

"Oh that's easy! Take a right at the end of this hallway and there should be a lounge room on your left." Pinkie said as she resumed her hopping.

Twilight did what Pinkie told her as she left said mare with a very confused stallion, and eventually found herself in a medium sized lounge room. The lounge room had a couple of sofas, some bookshelves, a large coffee table, and a fireplace. What she also saw were her other four friends chatting away, completely oblivious to Twilight.

But now Twilight could see how bad they were. Both Rainbowdash and Fluttershy had their wings in cast , while Applejack had bandages wrapped around her hind legs. Only Rarity had a few bandages at best, Twilight could barely see any since they blended in with Raritys coat. After taking in her friends for a bit while rubbing the wing casts she didn't notice she had, Twilight made a polite but loud cough to get their attention.

They all simultaniously turned their head, and what followed was a couple minutes of awkward silence and then a torrent of questions. Most of them ranging from 'Are you all right' and 'thank Celestia your up' and ectcetera. Eventually after a few minutes of questions and a newly blooming headache, Twilight had had enough.

"Be QUIET!" And at that, everyone one in the room fell silent, staring at Twilight. "I'm sorry girls, but we can catch up later, right now I would like to know where we are first."

"I can probably explain that, Miss Sparkle." Twilight set her gaze on one of the couches around the coffee table. On it was the same black pegasus mare from before, although her hood was down, revealing a short cut mane that resembled a certain orange pegasus fillies. "But before we start, my name is Shade. Lunar Shade."