Nurse Redheart sighed as she looked outside a window, seeing the night grace the land once more with a glorious full moon. In the distance trotting towards the center of town was the plethora of guests she had received earlier in the day, half of which showed up uninvited. She sighed, starting a walk down the hallway nearest to the receptionist’s desk.

Much to her immediate shock, she saw a purple form down said hallway. This one had a disheveled purple mane and gauze taped to half her face. The exposed eye was bloodshot and the eyelid partially drooped over, indicating the owner was two seconds from falling fast asleep whilst standing.

By instinct, the nurse galloped to the mare quick as lightning before stopping mere inches short of her muzzle. “Why are you out here? You should be in bed! You’re in no condition to even be standing!” Redheart barked, snapping the purple mare out of her stupor.

The mare’s eye widened and her ears fell flat on her head. She then took on a frown, and her eyelid drooped again. “I tried to call for someone….nobody ever came. I was just seeing if this place had anybody present.” She said, her voice cracked and hoarse.

Nurse Redheart sighed and shook her head. “It’s because the rest of the staff are on closing hour that nobody ever came. I’m the only one that stays beyond during off hours to ensure everything is still running as smooth as can be.” She stated quickly, trying very hard to keep herself from glaring at the pony standing before her. “Just...go back to bed, Yuuki.”

“Can’t.” Yuuki replied swiftly, the despondent look still on her face. “Just...awful…”

“Hmm? What’s awful?” Redheart inquired, an eyebrow raised.

“It hurts...it hurts to sleep.” Yuuki answered, ears perking up momentarily before flattening themselves on her head.

“Just try to sleep.” Redheart said, this time her voice softer. “Please, Celestia, don’t tell me it’s what I think it is…” She thought with a shake of her head.

Yuuki began to cough, and covered her mouth with a hoof as she did. Her eye scrunched shut in pain before she stopped the fit. “I don’t feel so good…” She complained, her voice more akin to a dying rat now.

Redheart shook her head and sighed. “It’s from a lack of sleep, as well as your recent surgery.” She said.

“You don’t understand how bad it hurts!” Yuuki suddenly snapped, her voice loud enough to echo down the hallway. She turned away, eye scrunched shut again and teeth gritting. Without warning, she began to vomit on the pristine tile floor, a mixture of a dull translucent brown and deep blood red staining the white. All of it was liquid, indicating she had yet to eat anything.

“Great. I’ll probably have to drag her into bed, whether she likes it or not.” Redheart thought, shaking her head disapprovingly as the mare finished puking. “Listen, you need to rest.” She said sternly. Yuuki turned her whole body around and began sauntering her way back to the room she emerged from, dragging all four hooves pitifully along the tiled floor. The closed door opened with the aid of a trembling purple hoof before being closed again as the mare entered the room behind it.

Redheart sighed again for the fifth time that night as she trotted around the mess Yuuki had made in order to search for something to clean it with. She found a mop and began scrubbing the mess off of the floor. By the time she was finished the floor was sparkling white once more, almost as if no vomiting had taken place to begin with.

And then a stinging pain suddenly appeared in the back of the nurse’s head, and her vision went black as she landed face-first in the tile floor. The culprit, a gold-pelted unicorn who held a simple golf club with his magic, soon waltzed past the unconscious nurse and stopped before a peculiar door. He peered within, and grinned when he saw a purple mare tossing and turning in her bed.

Before the mare in the bed could notice him, he quickly teleported into the room and whacked her upside the head with his golf club to knock her out. Ensuring she was unconscious, his magic bathed her in a crimson aura and lifted her out of the bed before he teleported out of the place, stowing Yuuki away with him.

Yuuki groaned in pain, her exposed eye fluttering open and vision heavily blurred. She could make out faint veins of moonlight penetrating something, but couldn’t put her hoof on exactly what it was. She tried moving one of her forelegs to find that something was not only strapped to it, but it felt like it weighed a ton. It dawned on her that something was keeping her muzzle clamped as she tried to move it in order to speak.

She tried moving her rear legs. They wouldn’t budge an inch. A golden light that quickly turned crimson then appeared, and through her only eye the mare could see a gold-pelted stallion standing right in her face with a sinister grin plastered onto his own. The pupil and purple iris instantly shrunk to mere dots and the lavender ears fell flat on her head.

The stallion put a hoof under her chin to make her look into his eyes, and his horn flashed again. This caused an aura of magic to pry the contraption--a simple white cloth--off of her muzzle.

“So, little girl,” The stallion taunted, still grinning as he spoke, “riddle me this: just why are you so darned attractive?”

“J-just let me go…” Yuuki pleaded, trying her hardest to turn her other cheek on him.

“Come on, answer the question.” The stallion said in a more demanding voice, his smile beginning to diminish into a frown as he held the mare’s head in place.

“Maki, YOU ARE A FREAK!” Yuuki squealed, the sheer volume of her voice causing the stallion to back off a little bit. “YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A--”

In that instant, the mare found herself shrieking in pain as a hoof was quickly jammed into her gut, a few short-lived gasps of agony following afterwards. Her head dropped and her body tried recovering from the pain as the hoof was removed from her stomach. It was then she noticed she had been chained to a stone brick floor, hind legs held firmly and splayed just wide enough for more panic to force another shriek from her throat.

“Backtalk me again, bitch. See what happens.” Maki hissed, eyes narrowed dangerously low as he spoke. He sat down on his rump and held a hoof under her chin again, getting closer to her as he did. “Answer the question and it will be over soon.”

Yuuki scrunched her eye shut, and her body still shook with pain. All she could do was produce a few frantic whimpers.

“Suit yourself.” Maki said, eyes beaming with malicious intent as he moved his lower quarters and perched them an inch away from between the mare’s hind hooves. The chains undid themselves, and Yuuki found herself suddenly thrown into the floor face-first. She moved her face away from the stone bricks, only to find herself staring at a dark tan mass that eagerly bobbed before her muzzle. The thing had a decent girth, roughly the size of a hoof of the stallion it was attached to, and veins pulsed along the mass from base to head.

The mare quickly shrieked in surprise and disgust, scrambling to her hooves frantically before trying to run around the stallion. She was encased in a crimson aura and practically dragged kicking and screaming towards the deranged unicorn.

Author's Note

It begins again...