The Unexpected Adventures of 3 hunters

Author's Note : Detail edit, not to major.

Chapter 2

Waking up

*___------------Ponyville Hospital: Room 53------------___*

Beep....Beep....Beep...

Jax awoke to the sound of some annoying machine that denied him his slumber.  Although he wanted to destroy the darn thing he couldn't seem to get his eyes open.  After his fifth attempt his eyes opened to a world of colorful blurs.  He wasn't alone in the room though, for as soon as he sat up he heard someone nearby.

"Oh! You're awake already? We expected you to be under for a couple of days not a few hours! I'll be right back with the doctor, please wait here patiently."

Confused Jax tried to clear his vision, only to find that he couldn’t. The door soon opened again and he could hear the nurse and a male voice with her.  “Hello again sir, the doctor would like to speak with you sense you’re conscious now.”

“Thank you… um” Jax stammered realizing he didn’t know the nurse’s name

“Redheart dear, my name is Nurse Redheart. And this is Dr. Blackwing.”

“Sorry if you can’t see properly at the moment” Dr. Blackwing explained “we had to give you some sedatives so we could get the casts on you properly without causing any pain.”

Well that explains my vision thought Jax, then another thought struck him and he panicked for a moment. “Excuse me, Dr.?”

“Yes?”

“How did I get here?”

“Some of the locals found you in a feild near by and brought you three here.”

“Ok...and how long is my sight going to be like this? I kind of want to talk to my sister.”

“Do you mean that the others found weren’t your wife and son?” Nurse Redheart asked innocently. Jax had a poker-face on for a good 15 seconds before it twisted into one of horror and disgust and a shiver went down his spine.

“I’ll… take that as a no.” Dr. Blackwing stated writing down the information “and as for the sedatives, the effects should be wearing off soon."

Just as Dr. Blackwing said, the effects on his vision started to fade. “Hey you’re right, I'm starting to see again! Thank-” Jax stopped mid sentence as he saw not a doctor or nurse in front of him but instead stood a snow white pony with a pink mane, and a black pegasus wearing a medical coat. After the initial breakdown of his thinking capabilities Jax did what anyone would do. Scream.

“AHHHHH!"

“Sir, please calm down and tell us what’s wrong!” Nurse Redheart said trying to stop Jax’s panic attack. Jax only screamed more.

"AAHHHHHHHHH!” Jax then fainted and fell back onto his pillow.

“Well that was…um…different” Dr. Blackwing said dumbfounded

“Ug… What is with the screaming! I’m trying to sleep here!”

Dr. Blackwing turned to see the other patient had woken up and hoped that she wouldn’t have a similar reaction. “Excuse me miss, but I need to ask some questions about you and your brother here.”

“Ok that’s…wait a sec, How did you-?” Kelly began with her head still in a daze. But before she could finish she was interrupted.

“That tidbit of information was all we got from him before he screamed and fainted at the sight of us. I assume it is safe to say that both I and Nurse Redheart here would prefer that you don’t do the same.”

“Hold on! How did we get here and where is my friend? He was with us when that big flashy thing knocked us out.”

“Some of the locals found you lying in the fields yesterday and brought you here along with your brother and a small child”

A small child? I don't remember anyone younger than Jax there thought Kelly “So I'm in a hospital?”

“Yes, you are.”

Okay that’s good... hopefully. Kelly thought before asking her next question “Well then can I actually meet you face to face? Talking to a pair of silloettes is a bit too odd for me.”

“Um” Dr. Blackwing realizing that he and Redheart were still standing on the other side of the curtain with the slumbering stallion.  “Alright but please, don’t scream like a banshee! My ears still hurt from your brother.”

“I promise not to scream.”

Dr. Blackwing, followed by Nurse Redheart, went around the curtain.  The mare looked calmer than her brother and as promised didn’t scream.  She simply stared ahead in mild shock with one thought running through her mind.  “I got saved by ponies?”

After recovering her sences Kelly was able to respond.  "Excuse me, but I'll need to talk to the others in private after they wake before I can answer any questions."

"That's alright I suppose, just as long as you keep them calm, we don't need any more screams from this room." and with that Dr Blackwing turned to leave with Nurse Redheart.

"Before you go, could you bring the ones who found us here?  I'd like to thank them personaly."

"Certainly dear, I'll send for them right away." Nurse Redheart said before closing the door.

*___------------10 minutes later------------/___*

Kelly was humming a song as she lay in bed when Jax finally started waking up.  "Good morning, sleeping beauty."

"What happened? I had this crazy dream about talking ponies." Jax groaned from his side of the room.

"Sorry to say this bro, but this isn't a dream."

"What?"

"Your screaming woke me up and I meet them too."

Jax could only groan in defeat as what little sanity he had left vanished.  Then he immediately cheered up as he got an idea.  "Well at least your ok Kell, but um... where's Zach?"

"I don't know, the doctor said somethin' 'bout a child found near us but nothin' bout an adult."

"Wait...you don't think..."

"What? that Zach got turned into a little kid? Ha! like that could even happen. Not even my magic can do that, and I won the title of best Magi in town!"

"Yeah, your right. Let's just hope he's okay."  Jax tried to get up but found it rather difficult.  He looked at his hand to see why he couldn't grip the rail to find he didn't have a hand but a hoof! He looked at the other to find the same thing. He was coated in colorful fur rather than his old shirt and jeans.  "K-Kelly? h-have you l-looked at yourself?"

Kelly was confused by her brothers sudden studder and question.  "Uh.. Why?" as she asked she turned towards her head and saw she no longer had fingers she instead had hooves. "What the Hay!"

Now it was Jax's turn to be confused "what the What?"

"Why cant I say Hay! Gaaaah! I can't even swear right! What is going on!"

Jax tried getting out of bed but found he couldn't get further than four inches. "Okay Kelly, this is probably a bad idea but if you can, try to stand up and walk over here. I can't cause something won't let me get out of the bed."

Kelly found it rather easy to get up from the bed and walk dispite not having been equine before in her life.  She walked over to the curtains and drew them back and got a good look at her brother.  "Wow Jax, you've been a pegasus for less than a day and you already have broken bones."

"Pegasus? Broken bones? What the hay are you talking about?"

"Well *snicker* both your wings are in casts and are being held in place." Kelly was about to bust a gut from the sight infront of her.

Jax glared daggers at his sister. "and what is so funny about this?"

"The fact it's happening to you! Ha hahahahaha!" Kelly burst and started rolling on the floor laughing.

"At least I don't have a horn sticking out of my head!" Kelly's laughter immediatly died and she felt around her head with her hoof until she hit something hard and felt the impact in a way she was certain she shouldn't have.  She then (somehow) grabbed a mirror off of a counter nearby and gazed at her reflection.

"Your bucking kidding me... I'm a Unicorn!"

"Ha! Who's laughing now!" while the siblings continued to argue on who was worst off, they were interupted by a loud yawn from across the room.  turning their attention to the source of the sound they found a green colt in the bed, glaring at them with tired eyes.  "Do you mind? I'm tring to sleep!" hissed the colt in an all too familiar voice, albet in a higher pitch.

"Zach... is that...you?" Both ponies asked at the same time.

"And who, might I ask, are you tecnicolor ponies suppost to be?" the colt replied in a rather annoyed tone.

"Dude it's us, Jax and Kell" Jax stated, waving at Zach from his bed.

After a moment the info slid its way into Zach's brain and he could only stare at what stood before him. There was a teal pegasus with a electric yellow mane and Royal blue eyes. Beside him was a peach unicorn with a rich chocolate  brown mane and tail as well as blood red eyes that stared at him in awe.

"Ok, dose somepony want to explain to me who you guys are? and why am I in a hospital?"  Kelly suntered up to his bed, staring at him the entire time.  "Uhh... are you alright?"

Kelly then grabbed him into a bonecrushing hug, squeeling "OhMyGosh! You're so CUTE! I could just cuddle you forever!"

"*Gasp*...Can't...breath...need...Air!" Kelly realised she was cutting of his air supply and dropped him back on the bed as he gasped for breath. "Who are you! and Don't EVER call me cute again!"

Kelly was currently oblivious to the first half of Zach's statements. "Why shouldn't I? I mean really, look for your self!" Kelly brought up a mirror to Zach's face and he got a good look at himself.  He was grass green with a seafoam blue mane and dark yellow eyes. he unlike the others still had his overcoat on and it had shrunk to fit him, he aslo had an extreame case of bed mane.

"Ya call this cute? I look like crap." Zach stared at Kelly with a confused stare as the door opened up.

"Well its nice ta see ya'll are better already!" The trio quickly looked to the door to see an orange mare with a blonde mane and a stetson adorned apon her head. As she walked in she was followed by five more mares, three fillys, and a small dragon.  When Zach saw the dragon, his eyes widened.

Kelly was the first to respond "Hello, are you the ones who found us?"

"Yes, but allow us to introduce ourselves" the purple unicorn coughed in to her hoof "Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie." Twilight said pionting to each mare.

"And I'm Spike!" said the small dragon on Twilight's back.

Pinkie had, somehow, gotten right in Jax's face in a matter of half a second and began rambling. "Hi I'm Pinkie Pie and you're new so that means I get to throw you a party and *GASP* I need to go work on that right away! Bye!" she then zoomed out of the room leaving a pony shaped cloud of dust in her wake. The force of the departure yanked Jax's blanket off, revealing the rest of his body.

The three fillies ran up to Jax's bed and stared at his flank.  "Hey! He don't have a Cutie Mark!" exclaimed the white unicorn filly only too recieve a stern glare from Rarity.

"Sweetie Belle! What have I told you about being impolite, now apologize to this fine gentlecolt!"

"But she don't have one either!" the orange pegasus filly next to her stated defending her friend as she pointed towards Kelly.  Rainbow flew down and bonked her on the top of her head

"Scootaloo, that is not something you just point out about somepony!" Scootaloo grumbled as she rubbed the top of her head.

"I'm with Scoots on this. 's just plain wierd fer somepony so old ta not have one!" The last filly joined in only to get a similar look from Applejack before she snapped.

"That Dose it! Applebloom you and the others Apologize this instant!"

The three fillies hung their heads and turned to face Jax and Kelly. "We're sorry."

Jax could only smile "It's ok, but could you three sweet little angels tell me your names?"

All of them instantly perked up and began introducing themselves.

"I'm Applebloom!" "I'm Scootaloo!" "and I'm Sweetie Belle! together we are..." all but the newcomers had covered their ears by this point, knowing what was next.

"THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!"

Jax's ears were ringing for a bit before he spoke "Wow, you girls got some lungs on ya! Hey Zach ar.. Zach? you okay man?" Zach was cowering under his covers wimpering now, shaking uncontrolably.

Fluttershy was the first one to get to him, and spoke in the most soothing voice she could. "Are you alright?" she lifted the covers and saw the fear in his bloodshot eyes. "It's okay, there's no reason to be scared." she cooed, trying to calm him down.

Jax and Kelly could only look at eachother in confusion. He was allways the confident one, scared of nothing! He even helped on hunts every now and then. Never had they seen Zach in such a pitiful state.

"Would you like to tell me why you're scared?" Zach shook some more before nodding. "Oh, Thank you, now can you tell me? I promise not to tell anyone... I mean... if that's alright with you." He looked down before he leaned forward and started wispering in Fluttershy's ear.

Rainbow turned to confront Jax and Kelly about Zach's current condition but Spike beat her to the punch.  "Is he gonna be okay?"

"To be completely honest, I don't know. He's never been this scared of anything before, at least not in front of us.  He responded to his name, but he didn't seem to recognise us." Jax replied, worry for his friend evident on his face.

When they turned back to their friend, Fluttershy had managed to get him out of the covers and calmed down.  "There, there now, you just lay down and get some rest. You need it after reliving all that." After she placed him in bed, Fluttershy started singing a lullaby and not long after Zach was snoring softly. Rainbow and Jax were the first to ask in the barrage of questions

Rainbow Dash: "Fluttershy! What was that about just now!?"

Jax: "Is he okay?"

Applejack: "Is he hurt?"

Kelly: "He's gonna be okay right?

Twilight: "Is there anything I can help with?"

Rarity: "Is he going to be alright deary?"

"Everypony please be quiet." Fluttershy interupted, stroking the sleeping colt's mane "the poor colt needs his rest, let's continue outside the room."

"Um... I'm a bit tied up so you'll have to continue this without me." Jax said pointing to the casts on his back.

"Yikes, what did you do to yourself?" Rainbow asked cringing at the sight.

"I honestly don't remember."

Before Rainbow could reply on how stupid that sounded a Doctor came into the room hovering a clipboard infront of him.  "Excuse me, but visiting hours are over so you'll all have to leave till tomorrow." A collective 'aww' could be heard from the CMC. the doctor simply found this cute to say the least. "While the mare and child can leave in a couple of minutes after we fill out some paperwork, the pegasus will have to stay for a few more days. He really did a number on his wings."

Kelly was excited she and Zach were getting released, until reality set in. "Its great that we're out of the hospital  and all but um... we kinda don't have anywhere to stay."

"That's okay I have a guest room in the library and some extra matresses for sleepovers" Twilight offered "you can stay as long as you need to." Fluttershy started to look worried.

"I'm sorry Twilight, but um... I don't think that's such a good idea."

"Why? Is there somethin' wrong Fluttershy?" Applejack asked

"Well um... It's just that... I promised not to tell... but um..."

Pinkie burst from a nearby flower pot with the plant on her head, and began speaking in an ominous voice. "FOREVER!" Flutteshy made an "eep!" and hid behind Rarity, as Pinkie slid back into the pot.

"It's okay dear, if them staying in Twilight's home is a problem then I suppose they can stay at my boutique." Rarity chimed "although, there may not be enough beds. I'm sure that I can whip up something suitable in the meantime."

"Actually, I'd like it if I could take care of... um" fluttershy trailed off, realizing she didn't know any of the Hospitalized ponies' names.

Kelly was the first to catch on and face-hoofed "I can't belive we forgot to introduce ourselves, My name is Kelly."

"and I'm Jax, the little one over there is Zach." Jax finished from his bed.   He and Kelly got strange looks from everypony.  "What? Something I said?"

"Well," Rainbow began "it's just that those are some very odd names ya got there."

"They're normal from where we're from."  Kelly responded.

"Not over here the're not. can you spell them for us?"

"Sure, my name is spelled K-E-L-L-Y, Jax's is spelled J-A-X, and Zach's name is spelled Z-A-C-H.

Twilight had a concerned face on. "I don't recognize any of those and I doubt the doctor will."

Jax was, in nice terms 'upset', "Great, just great, not only do I get battered and broken by a flash of light, but now my name is no longer legible! This entire situation can't Possibly get any worse!"

Kelly face-hoofed again "Jax, I told you NEVER to say that phrase again. Because when you say that it dose get worse!"

"Oh really? Then enlighten me on how this can!" Jax had a scoul on his face, thinking he had won this argument.

"Well then Jax, have you noticed that something is missing from our possesion?" Jax had to think a moment before it hit him.

"AH! My Swords! Where are my Swords! Twilight did you find anything else besides us! Please say YES!" Jax was rambling like a madcolt.

"I'm sorry Jax but no, the only things we found that wasn't a pony was the overcoat Zach was wearing."

Kelly decided that they had dwelled on the topic long enough and turned the attention of the group to a more pressing matter "Well, the loss of our stuff is unfortunate, we still have the name issue to deal with. Applejack, can you tell me what makes names so important here, besides identification what would be a good name for somepony?"

"Hard ta say, but if a had to, I'd have ta say a name is somethin' that describes yer personality and tallents."

Kelly sat for a moment "hmm... I was always good with weaving spells and charms together...Dose Charmcaster sound good for a name?"

"The name sound lovely darling, simply Lovely!" Rarity exclaimed. The newly named Charmcaster grinned triumphantly.

"Hey! What am I gonna be called!" Jax whined from his bed.

"Considering your Obsession with swords, how about Swordbringer?" both Jax and Rainbow looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"I don't know, it needs to be about 20% cooler. This is a name for a pegasus after all."

"I agree with Rainbow 100%, and I am NOT obsessed with swords! I just like collecting them is all" Rainbow smiled that she was getting backup on the issue and Jax's embarasment.

"Okay... How dose Sword Blitz sound?"

"Yes, that is perfect! From now on, that is what the world shall know me by!" Sword Blitz declared while striking the best pose he could.  Rainbow was finding his enthusiasm kinda funny.

"Uh... Charm?" Fluttershy was sittling next to the now awake colt "I think that you need to talk to him."

As Charmcaster walked up she could see just how nervous Zach seemed "Hi Zach, how are you feeling?"

"How do you know my name?"  Charmcaster was taken aback by his question. "you mean you don't remember me? We've been friends for years." Zach shook his head with his ears flat. Charmcaster sighed, it seemed getting younger wasn't the only thing to happen to her friend.  "Well, besides your name can you remember anything else?"

Zach shook his head "No, I can't remember anything before I woke up this morning."

Charmcaster didn't know what to ask after that. so she asked the first qusetion that came to mind. "Do you know what you are?" Zach simply shook his head "well then lets have a look shall we?"  Zach blushed as she dug through his mane. "Geez! How much mane can you have, this is rediculous!" she kept digging until she found what she was looking for, a grin grew on her face.

"What'd ya find there?" Applebloom asked out of curiosity

"What the barber will need to look out for when he gets this mane cut." Charmcaster anounced.

"He has a horn!?" Scootaloo exclaimed in shock.

"What? is that a problem?" Charmcaster asked with slight annoyance.

"Umm... a little bit..." Scootaloo replied, her eyes wide as sausers.

"How so?" every other pony In the room turned to face the filly, sharing Charm's curiosity or annoyance.

Scootaloo kept her eyes on Zach "Cause if you haven't noticed he's got wings!"

Everypony turned and gasped when they saw that in the midst of Charms search, Zach had taken off his overcoat and was infact spoarting a small set of wings.

"But that's Immpossible! Only the Princesses are Alicorns!" Twilight was suffering a mental breakdown before she fainted.  Rarity was the first to recover from the shock.

"I think it's best if we all head home, anyone disagree?"

In unison everypony shook their heads and Zach put on his coat. He was positive it was a good idea not to cause the same reaction Twilight had to the rest of the hospital.

*___------------Ponyvile Hospital: Foyar------------___*

As they were leaving the hospital Charmcaster started to fill out the paperwork with the doctors, she stopped when they got to Zach's name, realizing they forgot to make one up for him.  Zach looked at himself in a nearby mirror and thought that his colors looked familiar.  He briefly caught a glimse of a large rock covered with water and plants, it seemed familiar but he couldn't place why.  Then a single word ran through his mind and it seemed to fit when he thought of the colors.  "Terra."

The doctor with the clipboard turned around "Hmm?"

"My name, it's Terra."

"Okay then." the doctor began to scribble down the informantion "Terra...coat color...mane...and done, your free to go."  With that everypony left to their homes. Rarity caried Twilight seeing as she was still passed out, taking Sweetie Bell, Charmcaster, and Spike with her. the Apple sisters left for Sweet Apple Acres to get ready for the harvest that was a week away. Rainbow flew off to her cloud home, no one saw Scootaloo leave and only assumed she had gone home earlier. Fluttershy took Terra with her to her cottage, he dozed off on her back on the way there.

*___------------Ponyville Hospital: Room 53------------___*

Sword Blitz layed in bed staring at the ceiling. It was 10:34 according to the clock on the wall but one thing remained fact sence the others left.

"I'm so BORED right now!" he then decided sleeping was more enticing than the ceilling and quickly fell asleep.

End Chapter 2