The Dragon Law

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The Dragon Law

03.    Medicine and Magic

I got bored of waiting and between the lack of TV or radio I started listening to the ambient sounds of the room, they started to have a melody of their own. It started with me humming a tune then whistling to full blown singing, something I would never have done back on earth. I never sing not even in the shower...hmm I’ma chalk it up the the “Magic” of Equestria where everyone seems to break into song on a weekly basis.

Do you believe everything that you read

Everything that you see on the sets

You look around at your sleepy little town

And think that this is as good as it gets

Well what you're lookin’ a is heaven sent

Every day is a getaway

When all of it goes unsaid

I got a holiday, a paid holiday

I got a holiday in my head

And what you want, what you really need

Are two different things what you say

The line is thin, between fun and sin

And we’re all clockin’ in for the day

And our only care is what to wear

Every day is a getaway

When all of it goes unsaid

I got a holiday, a paid holiday

I got a holiday in my heaaaaaad

I got a job but I’ve got a problem

‘Cause I eat too much and I can’t afford to solve it

When I’m savein up for that cruise to the Caymanes

And I’m hittin’ the snooze so I can keep on dreamin’

I’m just tryin’ to realize

I’m just dyin’ to open my eyes

I’m just lookin’ for paradise in my living room

Every day is a getaway

When all of it goes unsaid

I got a holiday, a paid holiday

I got a holiday in my head

I got a holiday, a paid holiday

I got a holiday in my head

I got a holiday, a paid holiday

I got a holiday in my head

“I got a holida- OH *Ahem* sorry about that, hehe,” I stopped singing as nurse Gold, Dr. Relief, and two other medical ponies walked into the room.

    “That's quite all right Mr. Law, you’ll be out of that body cast in no time. Dr. Scalpel and Dr. Beard are here to assist with the final round bone mending along your spine,” Relief gestured to the gray and red ponies standing by him.

    I’m going to guess the the ash gray pegasus with the rose red mane and scalpel and forceps as a cutie mark is Dr. Scalpel. The apple red unicorn with neon green Einstein-like mane and mustache must be Dr. Beard, who funnily enough lacks any sort of facial hair relating to his moniker, has a large book labeled with a microscope as his mark. The two gave a nod in my direction as started to position themselves around me. The crimson pony started to explain what they were about to do.Using a lot of medical terms and sciencey stuff that was above my pay grade.

    In layman's terms what they were doing was actually pretty uncomplicated. Shortly after they had stabilized me when I first arrived at the hospital Dr. Scalpel and several other surgeons inserted synthetic crystals along much of my skeleton. Most notably my skull and vertebrae, to try to limit permanent nerve damage, the crystals are there to act as a source of energy and mineral supplements. The crystals were designed by Dr. Beard, who has a dozen degrees in non-pony biology, to be slowly absorbed by the body of a Lithotroph; beings that can feed on gems.

    Today the doctors are going to start a slow acting spell that will increase the metabolism and jump start osteogenesis. This procedure is normally done without the need for the crystals but my malnutrition required the need for outside assistance. Nurse Gold rotated my bed until I was facing the floor, my body parallel with the ceiling. The two unicorns started the spell, horns glowing. When they began enveloping me in the field of magic I felt a tingling sensation over by body; kind of like that feeling when a foot falls asleep but all over. The feeling grew until that pins-and-needles started to become very uncomfortable. When I complained the nurse did something to my IV and a numbing coolness came over me. I don’t know what was in that stuff but it was awesome. The surgeon then began instructing the two spellcasters to focus the spell on specific sections of my skeleton. This went on for while; I’m not sure how long exactly but the sun was well on its way across the sky when they were done.

    When the procedure was finished the two unicorns were panting and looked as though they had ran a marathon. It seems the ‘simple procedure’ took more out of them than they thought. In their defense not all unicorns can be as OPed as Twilight Sparkle. The nurse han-hoofed, It’s going to take a while to get used to that, a glass of water to the doctors. The pegasus surgeon began rotating my bed 180 degrees so that I was facing the ceiling.

    “While the doctors rest fer a bit I’ll take our patient ta get some X-rays; see how the treatment went. That okay with everypony?” the ashen pony asked. They agreed and he began wheeling my away.

    “Well kid, how do ya feel?” the surgeon asked with a smile.

    “Tingly, and hungry,” was my reply. It was well into the afternoon and I missed lunch.

    “Yeah magic’ll do that to ya. ’m sure miss Gold will get ya somethin’ fer ya. Woo boy! You gave them stallions a run for their money with that one.”

    “Oh. How so, I didn’t do much but lie there and get magiced the whole time,” I wondered aloud.

    “Well them crystals Ah put in ya little more ‘n a week ago prolly soaked up a lot of the spell. From what Beardisy says those magic’d gems‘ll keep charge and slowly release the spell over time, saves ‘em from havin’ ta redo fer a month. Good thing too, they looked plum tuckered out after that,” the doctor explained.

    So I have magic gems covering a good portion of my skeleton, awesome I’m the Wolverine of Equestria. Now that, that right there sounds like the beginning of a terrible fanfic...

    “Won’t the crystals make it harder for my bones to make blood, or some other complication?” I asked. I’m no Oestologist...umm...bone doctor, whatever, but I did know when covered like that it causes a bunch of problems in the long run.

    “Ah wouldn’t worry ‘bout it none, you ‘n the D-dogs’ bodies take to gems like fish to water. Heck replace the crystal with coral and you get the same result ‘n just about everypony else. Your body’ll break it down and use it to make more bone. The biggest problem will be ‘ta make sure there’s no deformation while bein’ absorbed, an’ magic’ll take care of that.”

    Well that was reassuring, I had a roommate in college that had bone spurs; he didn’t enjoy them much. I wonder what other miracles medical magic and do.

As I was thinking about my situation I was wheeled into a white room with a few white machines. One machine was a table with a rail above it that had a box attached to it in a way so that it could slide back and forth. Another machine was a four or five foot white rectangular box on wheels that had an mechanical arm sticking out of one side; at the end of the arm was the same box the table had only smaller. Both looked a lot like the X-ray machines that I had seen the last time I was in a hospital. What ever this world lacks in other technologies it at least is very up to date with its medical facilities.

“Okay kiddo, ya’ ready to get some pictures of yer’ insides?” the pegasus asked me as he positioned my bed next to the small of the machines.

“I’m not afraid of blood or needles any, what’s a little radiation gonna do? Let’s get them photos!” I 'amicably exclaimed.

“That’s the spirit,” the rose headed surgeon said as he laid a heavy vest over me and started to move the arm into position for the first shots.

The few times I’ve had to get an X-rays I always thought the process was pretty cool, and want to to see what my new body's skeleton looks like. Not to mention that my mood, which was already pretty good, was now quite happy. Given the situation I figured I would be more upset, maybe its shock or the meds. I would like to think my good mood was due to Dr. Scalpel, the guy seemed quite friendly and to radiate an aura of calm cheerfulness. Something that I think All medical professionals should have. If more doctors were like him on earth maybe fewer people would be afraid to go to the hospital.

    After a few minutes of having the arm move about me doing its job I began to wonder how the machine worked, was it electronic or magic? So I asked.

    “Doctor, what powers the equipment in here? Actually what powers the whole hospital? Is it on a grid or a generator?”

    “Hmm...well now ah don’t get that question a lot. Most of the equipment here is powered by magic. This piece here,” he gestured to the X-ray machine, “is powered by a Star Garnet, and the buildin’ here does have a Fire Ruby generator. Hehe this is the City of Lakes, most everything’s hooked up to the dams a few miles out of town.”

    Cool, gems used as batteries. I should have figured, it’s not that uncommon in a fantasy setting. With a city-wide hydroelectric power grid, awesome. I wonder what else gems could be used for other than jewelry, food, or batteries?

    After about ten minutes of the doctor moving the device around me and rotating my bed to get different angles the other medical practitioners that I had met earlier arrived. The two unicorns were looking much better at this point.

    “Great timin’ y’all. Ah’m just about done here. Nurse, would ya kindly roll the kid back ta his room and bring ‘em some chow,” at that a small grumble was heard coming from the pegasus, “hehehe, guess Ah better get somthin’ maself after ah get photos developed.”

With a dextrous wing he pulled a small dark red gem from the machine, sent a small salute toward  the nurse and me and began to walk into the adjacent room. As we left the room the two unicorn doctors gave a polite nod to me and went to join the surgeon.

“Hungry are we?” nurse Gold asked kindly, I nodded.

“Well then I think I can do something about that. Anything else I can do, your cast itchy?”

“No, I’m just a bit hungry and thirsty, thanks.”

After the short trip back to my room the nice nurse left to to bring me noms, yay food! Speaking of, I wonder how they react to my diet. Eggs for breakfast was awesome, even if I had to be spoon fed...embarrassing, it’s not like I’m expecting bacon or anything but I would prefer not to eat grass or hay.

The nurse came in carrying a tray that held a cup with a bendy straw. The nurse then placed the tray on a fold out arm of my bed then began to propped me up and slid me the cup. Looking in it I spied a dark green mush, it looked entirely unpleasant. Taking a sniff what hit me was completely unexpected, fruit salad? Doing my best to shrug I took a drink.

“This is the best green mush I have ever tasted!” I exclaimed. Watermelon, apple, orange, pineapple, and other fruit is what I tasted right away. Letting it roll over my taste buds I detected spinach, carrot, beet, broccoli, and this last one I can’t be sure but seeing as it’s ponies it was probably hay. It definitely had that health food taste to it but was masked by the fruit. All in all it was pretty damn good.

“I’m glad you like it, it has everything the body needs. Well maybe not your body, I’ll go see if I can get my hooves on some gems for you later,” the earth pony stated with a smile.

“No don’t go that far out of your way for me, I’ll be fine,” I replied. I don’t know how expensive gems are, and I don’t want anybody cutting into their budget just to feed my sorry hide.

“Oh hush, at worst I will just have to ask some of the janitors if there are any cracked or tarnished gems that need replacing. It won’t be much but you do need more than those fake crystals in you now. I have to make my rounds now but I’ll be back around Eight with a proper dinner,” then nurse went to check my bed, nodded her head in satisfaction then left.

After I had finished my smoothie I had nothing to do until the nurse Gold came back for dinner, so my mind wandered. My went from thought to random thought.

Am I really in Equestria? It seems too unbelievable to not be real...no wait that's a lie. Ever since the brony thing started there have been so many fanfics about people being arriving in Equestria. In fact a great many of them start out falling out of the sky for various reasons. In most of them the human was usually caught by someone, usually Rainbow Dash, of course I was caught by a flagpole...then a building...Fate, you suck.

If I’m here then how is everyone doing back home? My parents are going to go crazy, my sister more so. My grandma may just die of fright, considering the incident with those addicts not long ago.... And Let’s not forget best friend and roommate, he’ll won’t be able to pay rent and will probably have to move back home. Of my small, close group of friends him and me were the only ones to actually move out of town; we thought we could make it on our own. We were doing pretty good for the first couple of years. Guess that won’t be happening now.

I’m not going to overly worry about it. If I can find a way home I...I don’t know what I’ll do actually...aside from a near-death experience this is a dream come true. I don’t want to leave them without a goodbye...even something as stupid as a note saying I got a good job in another country, everyone already knew I wanted to travel abroad. But when my friends and family are notified I think...no I’m sure I will stay in Equestria. Here there is magic, here I have been given a new body a powerful body, and here there is adventure.

“Yes! Here, in Equestria, I am a new man. When I get out of this cast I will do everything that I have been too afraid of in my past life! Today is the start of a new me!”

“Good for you Mr. Law. Well the new you can start with a nice and healthy dinner.”

I nearly jumped out of my cast at that. Turning the little bit i could I caught sight of my favorite, if not only, nurse Maritime Gold. She wore huge grin on her face as well as a tray of food on her back. After walking up to my bed she expertly switched tray with the old cup with the tray with my dinner, it looked pretty good. Green beans, mac n’ cheese, rice and beans, a fruit cup, and of course the hospital go-to jello. Of course I couldn’t feed myself again, oh well...

“Thanks Ms. Gold, it was good,” I said after I had finished.

“Oh, it’s no problem, but I have to ask. Do you really like hospital food?” she shot me a curious glance.

“Sure, I’ll eat anything that's not burnt, I take that back I’ll probably eat it even if it was burned.” I said with a little laugh...wait coming from a dragon that probably wasn’t the best thing to say...

Nurse gold gave a little chuckle as well and if she was frightened by the remark she hid it well. Good, the last thing I want is to have my caretakers think I would eat them.

“Oh, I almost forgot, when I was on my way to pick up your dinner I ran into Dustbucket,” let me guess one of the janitors, “one of our janitors,” nailed it (mental high five), “he had just come from the kitchen repairing one of the ovens and had this,” she pulled a small burnt-orange tinted gemstone from a pouch in her apron.

“It’s a spare garnet, it’s not much but as promised here dessert, enjoy,” she popped the stone into my mouth and went about the room doing medical stuff.

“Thanks!” came my reply. Cinnamon! That’s freakin’ awesome. At first I was going to chew it and swallow, but then I wanted it to last. I ended up treating it like a piece of hard candy, moving it around in my mouth savoring the flavor.

“Okay Mr. Law if it’s fine with you I’m going to turn out the lights and settle you in for the night, hmm?” the nurse not some much as asked but stated.

“Okay then, good night.” I nodded and went back to my rock-candy.

“Good night,” the kind pony answered as she cleared my tray, lowered my bed, sled the curtain closed, turned out the light, and trotted into the hallway.

[Notes]

Sorry I’m taking so long between updates. Wow! this chess thing is getting out of hand a bit aint it? Aww well more the merrier I guess. As always point out any grammar and spelling errors and it will be corrected. The few of you who are reading probably want a change of scenery, well too bad, Law has one more chapter of hospital stay left. I will try to move along the plot without seeming contrived or rushed.  Also, spoilers! (gnimocni enamtab)

-The Platinum Dragon, Law