Twilight was struggling to get Fluttershy to the hospital. She was galloping as fast as she could with Fluttershy on her back. Since she had been bitten about an hour ago, Fluttershy had been constantly raving and squirming which wasn't helping Twilight carry her any faster. Twilight had been mostly ignoring what Fluttershy was saying, as it didn't make any sense, one second she would be laughing before launching off into a screaming fit and then just as quickly start crying.

After an incredibly long run Twilight burst into the hospital before immediately falling down exhausted with Fluttershy still ranting on her back. The hospital staff and waiting patients looked shocked at the sudden entrance.

"Help I need," Twilight began but couldn't finish because she was out of breathe.

"Quick nurse she needs help!" shouted one of the doctors finishing Twilight's thought. Two nurses quickly grabbed Fluttershy from Twilight's back and put her on a gurney before rushing into the back of the hospital with Twilight struggling to follow them.

"Please help she's," Twilight struggled to speak while chasing after the doctors and nurses.

"Doctor it appears she's bouncing rapidly between emotional states and moving uncontrollably," one of the nurses said again finishing Twilight's thought.

"She was bit ... Forrest," Twilight struggled to speak.

"Doctor there are bite marks on the neck, she must have been bitten by some creature, probably from the everfree forrest" The other nurse said. Twilight gave up talking and focused and catching her breathe.

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The wounded creature continued to quickly scurry along the floor of the ever free forest before stopping at the base of a tree. He quickly identified a particular root and tapped on it with one of his legs. After a few seconds another snake like head emerged from a small hole in the tree.

"Tom there you are," the other head said happily. "You're not looking too good buddy? What happened to your shell?" it asked referring to Tom's shell that was still badly damaged from his encounter with Twilight.

"Oh Rick it's ridiculous. Quadrupedal equines with magic and wings, and one of them was shooting fire at me, and then she threw me on the ground cracked my shell," Tom said struggling to come to terms with what just happened to him.

"Easy easy man. Hold on I'll get the door for you," the head went back into the small hole and some clicking and locking sounds could be heard before a small hatch in ground popped up. Tom quickly scurried down the hatch and into a small tunnel that was dimly lit with magic torches that hung on the tunnel's walls. They burned with a green light and the flames themselves moved differently than a typical fire. The tunnel seemed to continue for miles and it branched off into numerous other tunnels with other tunnels leading into it as well forming a complicated inter connected network. As Tom scurried along the tunnel Rick emerged from another tunnel that merged into the one Tom was in.

Rick was in a shell that was made from the same material Tom's was and it had a similar shape as well, only Ricks was smaller and more round and featured wings on the top that could be used for flight, though at the moment Rick was scurrying along with similar twig like legs

"Sorry about your shell Tom," Rick said sympathetically. "I know you worked really hard getting the stealth thing working." The two expertly moved through several connected tunnels as they talked going deeper and deeper down into the earth.

"Tell me about it," Tom said sadly. "This one was a real work of art; I'll have to make a new one. Hey did Cindy wake up yet?"

"No her whole section is going to be out for another year or two, they had to get the lights during this last sleep."

"Too bad, I owe her some money."

"Really what for?"

"We made a bet. She totally called quadrupedal equines being the dominant species."

"Really, quadrupedal equines. I would've thought octapedal arthropods would make a comeback."

"I thought it was going to be bipedal hairless apes."

The two finally emerged from their tunnel into a central room that several other tunnels led in to. The room itself was a bar, one that had very clearly just reopened as boxes of food and silverware were visible behind the counter and tucked into a corner. The room was filled with raccni like Rick and Tom, all of them had different shells, though some of them were similar to each other as if they were based off of the same thing, including two that seemed to be based off of the octapedal arthropods Rick mentioned earlier. Rcik and Tom moved over to the bar where a raccni in a shell with 4 large legs acting as a platform for a smaller head.

"Tom good to see you," the bartending raccni said flirtatiously.

"I'm here to you know," Rick said clearly jealous.

"You haven't been up to the surface yet Rick. I'm interested to see what's out there this cycle," the bartender said as she put two green fruits in front of them. Rick bit into the fruit with his fangs and sucked the juices out. The juice seemed to have an intoxicating effect.

"Woah Patty," Rick said coughing, "That's some strong stuff."

"Well Tom?" Patty asked.

"Quadrapedal equines," Tom said seriously. "With wings, and some of them can channel magic through horns on their head."

"Sounds interesting," Patty said biting into an apple herself.

"Yeah interesting is one way to put it," Tom said bitterly. "I was right in the middle of giving the speech, you know the 'the raccni have risen after 5,000 years speech" the other two nodded they knew the speech. "Well I was just about to get into it when one of them does this to my shell, starts throwing me around with magic."

"Did you manage to get one of them before that?" Rick asked. "I imagine they would make a great replacement shell."

"Almost, I bit one but another stopped me before I could finish, I can't replicate the design."

"Aw man that sucks dude," Rick said as he made a motion for another fruit.

"It's fine, I'll just fix this shell the best I can. Let's hope that tree is still around this cycle so I can get the cloaking working again." Tom and Rick bit into their fruit and extended their heads so that the apples in their mouth touched each other doing the best they can at mimicking a toast before sucking all of the juice out of the apple.

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Fluttershy continued to rave wildly and bounce between emotions as she had been for the past hour, the nurses had just finished injecting her with some medicine. The doctor looked at the machine monitoring Fluttershy's vitals.

"Nothing," The doctor said gruffly. "None of our medicine is having an effect on her."

"What does that mean?" Twilight asked concerned.

"In my professional opinion, she's suffering from some form of magic, probably a curse."

"Magic, but how she was bitten by something."

"That's correct she was, but there's no other explanation for what we're seeing. She was injected with some kind of venom but it's having a magical affect not a biological one. You would have a better chance of fixing her then we would." Twilight pondered for a few moments. Now that the problem was magic she felt more confident in fixing it herself.

"Ok," Twilight said wavering but confident. She racked her brain thinking through the countless magical tomes she read to try and find something similar to what was happening, or something that could stop it. She didn't know for sure but she had a feeling that if Fluttershy was left in this state for too long it wouldn't be good.

Finally the thought came to her. She could think of only one spell that could alter a mind to this extent. "Ok I think I've got an idea. I'm going to try and break this spell with another spell and hopefully get her to calm down." The doctor and nurses stood back as Twilight prepared her spell.

Her horn started to glow with the light of dark magic and after a few seconds of charging she shot a beam of dark energy toward Fluttershy. As the beam made contact her body was enveloped in a green haze that eventually condensed around her neck to form a steel collar with a red jewel in the center. The mist then moved on to Twilight's front hoof where it formed a bracelet with a similar design to the collar. After the bracelet was formed a locking sound could be heard and Fluttershy stopping moving and raving and looked at Twilight innocently. "I think it worked," Twilight said optimistically. "Fluttershy, are you ok?" Twilight looked expectantly at Fluttershy who stared back for a few minutes.

"I tiwed mommy I go nite nite," Fluttershy cooed before falling asleep sucking on her front hoof.

"What just happened?" The doctor asked worried the spell might not have worked.

"Oh wow look at that she's fine," Twilight said laughing nervously. "I think I'll take her back to the castle. I've got more magical equipment there."

"Are you sure? You know it might be best if we monitor he vitals for a few hours just to be sure."

"Not if you want to keep those sheets," Twilight said quietly.

"What was that?" the doctor said overhearing a bit of what Twilight said.

"Nothing nothing at all," Twilight said putting Fluttershy on her back. Fluttershy's peaceful sleep made carrying her much easier. "Thanks for all of the help really bye." Twilight shouted as she quickly galloped toward her palace.

Author's Note

well there's another chapter for you hope you guys like it. I know there isn't a lot of ab/dl stuff in this one, but don't worry we'll get back to that in the next chapter. I wanted to write something "original" as some good writing practice so let me know what you guys think about the raccni as well as any questions you have I imagine there's going to be a few.