Eclipse Over Equestira
Chapter 5, Awake and Recovery
Previous ChapterNext ChapterI opened my eyes, I was in a dark room. I tried to move my let hand, but it was strapped to some metal bars, tiny tendrils digging into my arm. I looked at my right arm, it was encased in some sort of smooth rock. I tried to move my body, but it was tied down by a thin, but soft material. I tried to wriggle out of it, but my hip and right leg was was trapped in the rocky substance.
I head a beeping sound, coming from my left, I looked at it, and saw a tall, slender pole, with a large box attached. It made four short beeps every second. It had a thin tentacle, feeding through the cuboid, the other end lodged into the left side of my chest, where my heart was.
I panicked and tried to reach it with my left hand, causing the tentacles to tare off. I tried to wince, noticing my jaw was wired shut, by a large metal brace, holding my jaw together, a thin snake-like appendage, slithering down my gullet. I brutally, yanked the tendril, out of my chest, wincing, the box-thing on left emitting an annoying, constant noise.
A light came to life above me, the sound of doors opening followed. I looked around, seeing mint curtains surrounded me. The curtains ruffled, and large shaddowes appeared. The curtins slid open, my heart was pounding my ribcage, my pupils that the size of pinpricks.
The figure stepped out, and I mentally shot myself in the foot. A unicorn stallion entered the room, he was a light brown, with a darker mane, his eyes were blue, and he wore a doctors jacket, and a green tie. His face was soaked with fear
"Oh my, I thought your heart stopped!" He said, in a slight Irish accent. I stared at him, unsure of what was happening, so many questions I want answers to, but my jaw was wired shut.
"Hello, I am Doctor Hooves." He said.
The Doctor rubbed his fore hoof on the back of his head, his mouth moving slightly, trying to figure out what to say,
"Did I say that? Well, when we found you, you err… you broke your pelvis, five ribs, you broke your jaw, muscle tissue, dislocated your left arm, lost three teeth, your right Fibula, wisted spine, fractured your Femur, Ulna, your left shoulder blade, all of the Carpals and three Metacarpals in your right hand, fractured the back of your skull in two seperat places, punctured your left lung, minor brain damage, shards of obsidian, gold, steel and gold where found inside of your body in seperat places, and a horn below the knee. And with the aid of current magic, your coma only lasted two and a half weeks!" He finished, taking a deep breath in.
I was utterly mortified, how was I still alive? How close was I to dying?
"But now, your jaw should be fully healed now, since it has been about a fortnight, and we used magic and some other medical stuff, so lets get that brace of you." The Doctor said, levitating a screwdriver, it had a black and cream handle, a silver shank, and a blue blade and tip. The Doctor pressed his screwdriver on the sides of the brace, twisting the screws out, then pulling them out with his telekinetic grip.
After two minutes of waiting and wincing at the returning pain in my body, the final screw and brace was removed,
"There we go Mr. Anderson, you should be able to speak now." Doctor Hooves said, happily. I wasted no time, and I moved my jaw, "Where... A-am Iiii?" I said, slowly. The Doctor smiled, and trotted next to me,
"Well, Mr. 'Savior of Equestria' you are in 'Canterlot Central Hospital.' You, and the princesses' where sent here right after my medical team found you." I looked at him, then remembered Luna and Cadence.
"Wait, w-where is Cadence and Luna?" I asked.
"Well, their beds are next to yours, just move the curtains, but I recomend you don't look, they both took, quite the bruising," He said, flatly. His ears then perked up and he lifted up about five small bags, "but you, on the other hoof, you have a lot of fan letters to go through." Chuckling as he placed the small bags back next to a small, oak table, with numerous items scattered on it
I turned back to the similar sounding doctor, but he was gone. I decided to do as the Doctor said, and began to rummage through the first bag. Inside of it where small recangular cards. I took out about five and looked at them, the first one, was a light purple, with a dark pink trim, on it was a thick human stick figure, drawn with a grey crayon, it was sitting on a black stick figure of a horse. I looked to my left, then to my right, I sighed and looked back at the card, on the top of the card, was golden glitter, spelling the word 'Hero' I smiled and looked inside. It was hard to read, because the writer used used a purple crayon or something and the writer had scribbly 'hoof' writing. By the looks of it, it was supposed to be a sort of thank you. I looked at the other side, in a silver glitter, spelt the name 'Dinky'.
I smiled, then my eyes widened, "Wait, did he say two weeks? Have I been in a hospital bed for two. Flipping. Weeks?" I thought outloud. I then put the cards and letters to the side, and looked around the bed. I settled my eyes on a small chair on my left, on top of it was a newspaper. I placed the small article on my lap, and looked at it.
"The Equestria Daily?" I asked myself, laughing a bit. "Well, lets see what you've got. Manehattan reconstruction, Everfree stampede, reborn monarch dead, hello, 'Alien warrior in hospital'?" I looked at my arms, and wriggled my fingers, "Well, I guess that's true." I said, chuckling.
I heard a slight groan, coming from the curtain from my left. I sat up, wincing as my spine clicked in several locations. I reached for the curtain, but as my hand approached the mint barrier.
"Pinkie!" A stern, feminine voice said across the hallway, "How many times did I say 'do not bring a party cannon to a Hospital ward!'"
"But Twilight," moaned a loud voice, "He is ill, and party cannons make ill ponies laugh."
"Pinkie, I don-
"And laughter makes poorly ponies better faster."
"Pinkie, ah don't reken' he's ill." Said a different voice, this one bearing southern dialect.
"Yea Pinks, he beat Celestia and Luna's brother in a hoof-to-stubby-thingy fight. And he was a bat-alicorn thing. So… basically, a god!" A forth voice said.
My eyes widened, as my back clicked in several places, and my eyes drifted to the right, where the noise of the ponies emitted. I fell back onto my bed, trying to not look suspicious. As I covered my torso, with the mint blanket. The slightly open curtain, was forcefully yanked wide open, light racing in, like a rock through a window.
"SURPRISE!" yelled a blurry, pink mass of fur. I cringed, and blocked my eyes and ears from the onslaught of light and sound. A slight "Eep" was heard as the sound of squeaking wheels echoed down the hallway of the hospital.
I put my arms down in curiosity, and instantly regreted it. a mass of pastel confetti, streamers, and baloons pushed me three inches into my matress and pillow. it felt like I said to Mike Tyson "Give me your best shot, pigeon-boy!" while I flipped the bird at him with one hand, and punched a pigeon with the other.
"Pinkie!" Yelled Twilight, stopping Pinkie from pulling the cord again, "do you know how many ribs he has already broken?"
Pinkie 's mane deflated, and her coat darkened a shade'
"Sorry Twi" she said, hitting her canon on the side, all the party decorations flying back into the cyan cannon.
"Can I please get an explination to what the hell is happaning?" I groaned, picking off stray confetti from the mint-green hospital robes.
"Oh yea," Twilight said, stroking the back of her head with her lavander hoof, "Well, now that you are not in a coma, we wanted to see how you where doing, and ask you more questions before your big heroes party tommorow." She finished, with a squee.
"Heoes party?" I asked, knowing the answer already.
"It's a super duper party for awesome ponies, or monkey things, where you meet other awesome ponies like the wonderbolts, the princesses', and some other pony celebrities, and have hero cake, and a shiny medal!" Pinkie Pie blurted, in her fast tone.
"A medal?" I thought out load.
"Aww, I ruined the suprise!" Pinkie said, facplanting onto the floor, where her weapon of mass confetti destruction had just been.
"Any-who," Twilight sighed, steering the conversation away from the party to come, "Can I start asking some questions now, mr. Alien-warrior-monkey-thing?"
"Kay, how many are they?" I asked, "and please, call me Zachary" I finished.
"Precisely, thirty five from me, around ten from Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash, about twenty from Rarity, and-
Over nine thousand from Pinks!" Rainbow said, giving The tangarine mare a nudge.
'This is going to be a long day', I thpught to myself, as I was about to face an endless aunslaught of questions.
This it tak'in forever, Ace!" A blue, unicorn stallion with yellow mane and eyes yelled at a larger Pegasus stallion, with a red mane and darker blue coat, "We have been search'in for two bloody weeks, and we still have not found that stupid body yet!" He continued his rant.
"For the last bloody time, we are being paid by Princess Celestia herself, to find the body of her brother, who put the other two princesses, prince Shining Armour, and some alien samurai in the hospital! Now shut up, work harder, or we don't get paid!"
The younger stallion turned around, and grumbled some undecodable rant.
The Pegasus walked over to a another pile of rubble, and hit it with the spade(1) wrapped between his wings.
The navy blue stallion continued to dig away at the gravel, stone, snd obsidian, which made up the the rubble of the destroyed utopia.
Before Ace gave up, he saw a sticky, purple residue, ooze from the black rock,
"Smells like moldy blood," he grumbled, "hay rookie, get over here, I found some- but Ace was cut off, as his voice was cut off by a purple tendril. The unicorn dropped his spade, and ran over to the blue Pegasus.
"What the shit is this!" He yelled, as Ace's mouth, and was filled, and his body restrained with the rotten, purple goo.
The dark purple slowly turned red as it entered the stallions vains, replenishing itself, as more of it filled the stallions body.
"Shit, shit, shit, I gotta get out of here!" The other stallion yelled, running, but he fell over after several feet.
"Get off me, you SICK FUCK!" He screamed, jerking his hind leg, trying to remove the bloody tentacle. Turning his head, he saw the former comrad, his coat was pale, his mane was gone, and his eyes where blank, and as bright as the night stars,
"Oh I do not intend to, untill you are complete!" His voice was deper, and brung the sound of death, which shattered the young unicorn's spine.
Ah he uttered those words, the flesh of the unicorn bubbled, like it was in a vat of acid, and the muscles melted away, revealing a bone of charcoal, all the while the yellow mane unicorn cried, and tried to retaliate from his tourture.
"What d-do you want from me?" He tried to say, as boiling blood dripped down his muzzle.
"Your body, to use to raise an army, and that horn!" The words where still ice, tearing at his flesh.
As the rest of his hind legs melted, another bloody tentacle formed on the possessed pony's other hoof. it bent itself, until it was the shape of a sword. He smirked as the blade cut the flesh of the unicorns scalp, slowly reaching the magical core of a unicorn. He then jerked it to the right, tearing the bone from the cranium. By then, the hornless unicorn fell into unconsciousness, and his lower torso was dissolved.
The severed horn was picked up in more red tendrils, it was them placed on the scalp of the Pegasus, spiraling tentacles attaching it in place, the rest of the pony was dissolved, leaving only the stained skeleton. The blank eyes, and the horn, of the technically-an-alicorn, glowed red, with an orange tint, the eyes of the skeleton doing the same, scratchings in its bones pulsing with a red fluid.
"Soon my army will be rebuilt, AND I, THEIA ECLIPSE, WILL DESTROY THE WORLD, AND ALL WILL BE DUST!" Theia laughed a devils cackle, as the sky darkened, and all chance of hopes salvation, dust
Author's Note
(1) yea, I'm English
Anyway thanks for reading, more gore on the way, and remember
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-Lightning
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