The Tainted: A Story of Those Under Evil's Curse

CHAPTER 3: Dr. Whooves: Why All The Blood?

The room seemed to be shrouded in haze as I continue to work.

The haze cleared when I put the needle in my arm.

I blinked a few times remembering why I hated needles and take a blood sample.

If I'm right then this should be all I need to create a cure for what has been going around.

Shortly after what happened two years ago I was able to get a hearing from Celestia to first describe what has started to spread through the world and get permission to start work on a cure.

I put my blood sample into a machine that I created to run multiple blood tests at once with a bit of melancholy to the process.

I have learned quickly that I'm never going to be able to create a cure for the mental changes that have been forced onto everypony graced by the taint but I can do something for the physical changes.

I've been in need of this cure more than some with how it has altered my body; in different places bones are sticking out of my flesh, there is barely any flesh on my neck and half of my face is down to bone with a little muscle.

I've been in a state of hysteria ever sense I found a variable that has been keeping the cure just out of reach, suddenly my machine starts to feed out lines of data.

I look though them looking for the one variable that will destroy my theory and yet nothing shows up to that appeal.

I already know that there is no way I can cause it to reverse any physical damage but I can at least stop it.

I smile very softly though, I now have the means to make the cure on a world wide scale I only have to test it.

I have the materials here to make just enough for three ponies.

That means I'll have one dose left after treating myself and Derpy.

I'm gentle when I go to my sleeping love; she may not have changed much but I've noticed the changes and can't allow them to continue.

She barely reacts when I give her the shot, she tenses at first but slowly relaxes back into her sleep.

I'm trembling when it comes time for my own shot, I really hate needles.

I go quick and nearly pass out as pain shoots through my body finding the sources of my changing and stoping it from going any further.

I hear a knocking on my door and quickly wrap up the areas that are bleeding now, I can feel my flesh starting to gain back it's feeling.

I go to the door and open it looking out so that the good side of my face would be seen "Whooves it's Verse, Bon Bon is in desperate need of help" that was an understatement off of what I could see.

I quickly ushered them in and had Verse lay Bon Bon on the coffee table.

Verse was in the corner trembling "what happened Verse?" she's covered in the stench of blood, her hair has even been dyed red with it.

"Help her... she needs help..." she continued on saying different variations to that effect, I made her rest on the couch before I went to the makeshift operation table to look Bon Bon over.

She's bleeding an awful lot and didn't look like it was going to stop anytime soon; the worst of it was around her ears.

I couldn't see any of the sources of where the blood was coming from so I had to examine her body by hoof; as I feared her body was bleeding everywhere.

I was lucky that I had a third dose of the cure, I gave it to Bon Bon and held her down as she convulsed while the cure was going through her body and stopping the worst of the bleeding.

It could take years for the wounds to stop bleeding entirely though, I quickly cleaned off the blood and wrapped where it was still bleeding, she was almost completely covered in bandages even with the cure helping her body stabilize.

I took a look at her face and let out a soft sigh of releaf that her ears had stopped bleeding and that her eyes weren't going to start up either.

I looked around the room and saw that it was covered in blood where she had been, I found a mop and cleaned up what I could as fast as I could, luckily the hallways and elevator had red carpet and are scheduled to be deep cleaned today.

I went to the couch and Crimson Verse was trembling in the fettle position "are you okay Verse?"

No answer, I looked her over and remembered that she was covered in blood; she was rambling about a blood that was black or something.

I got her up and moving to the shower, I turned it on and got the water to a slightly warm temperature "be careful Verse, it's possible that the taint is traveling through the water system. I have a filter set up but it's not fool proof" with that I left her to shower in peace.

I took a sample of Bon Bon's blood and put it in the machine along with a sample of mine to see how quickly the cure was taking to the body to make an estimate of how long it will take for the cure to reach all of those who need it.

It could take longer than the last one had because I was going to do some in depth tests afterwords to make sure that there is no error.

Knock! Knock!

Someone is at the door?

I felt a bet of fear as I reached the door and opened it slightly.

I wasn't sure what I was seeing when I did open it though.

"Hello Dr. Whooves."