My New Life In Equestria: Year 1.
Chapter 9: Taking My Breath Away.
Previous ChapterNext ChapterMarch 21, 1002.
7:00 A.M.
The next day saw Joseph out of the hospital and off to Twilight's castle albeit he was confined to a wheelchair upon Fluttershy's request. It irked him but seeing Fluttershy so happy afterward more than made up for it. The girls were all there waiting to welcome him home. While they all walked back to the castle Joseph was lost in thought.
"Still can't believe she's a thestral." He shook his head.
"It's alway's the quiet ones," He smirked as Fluttershy pushed him along the cobblestone walkway through the center of town. As he mused on the situation at hand the girls all talked about the event.
"So dear what are the Princesses going to do about this?" Rarity asked as the group all shuddered. Fluttershy blushed as she steered Joseph's wheelchair around a divot in the dirt road. Twilight shook her head.
"They said they'ed keep us all in the loop. For now, all they can do is head back to canterlot and take it from there." She sighed. Dash chimed in next.
"Wait, Twi doesn't your brother work for the C.I.A.?" she asked giving her a hopeful look. Twilight thought about it and then whipped out a piece of parchment.
"Rainbow Dash you're a genius!" She began to furiously write a letter to her BBBFF. Rainbow just smiled as they all continued towards the castle. Joseph finally able to talk asked one question that was bugging him.
"So not wanting to bring up bad memory's but how did I survive that attack?" He was curious as to how his injury's healed so fast and without much scarring. The whole group went silent for a little bit before Dash just giggled and flew beside Joseph's chair. They all looked a little nervous and Joseph soon picked up on it.
"What's up guy's?" He asked as Rainbow shot him a sly grin.
"Dash what did you do?" He asked knowing that she has something to do with his fast healing. She just chuckled.
"So dude you know your cool right?" She said giving him a supportive hoof on the shoulder. Luckily it was the non dislocated one. He winced as a small spark danced from his shoulder to her hoof.
"I'm guessing that has something to do with it?" He said watching as the tiny arc danced up Dash's foreleg and then around her wing's before dissipating into the air. She smirked.
"Yup! I stole your virginity, big guy!" She laughed as Joseph's face paled.
"What?" He shouted causing the group to all glare at Dash.
"Oh come now Dash don't tease the poor dear." Rarity scolded her as she laughed her flank's off. As she wiped a tear from her eye she gave the whole group a sigh.
"You guys are no fun." She stated as Joseph began to calm down.
"You're twisting my nipples aren't you dash?" He asked in a deadpan tone. Dash just smirked.
"Slightly." She smiled.
"Dash!" He groaned. Dash was having to much fun she felt like cutting him a break today.
"Ok Ok fine." She said rolling her eye's, her grin still plastered on her face. She flew in front of Joseph's chair and kept pace with it.
"When we got you to the hospital you were bearly hanging in there bud." When she spoke Joseph noticed the twinge of pain in her voice. He lifted a hand now unbandaged but still not fully functional up to her head and gave her a scratch behind her ear's. She gave out a soft hum of satisfaction and continued her story.
"You looked like a pony had taken a sledgehammer to your body." She winced at the memory of his arms.
"There was so much blood." She shuddered as the other's all came together for a huddle. As one the group continued to the castle off in the distance.
"As they wheeled you into the emergency room the doctor's got to work." Her eyes flared a light shade of pink.
"The doc's didn't really know what to do." She shook her head.
"The first time you were there the only thing they had to worry about was you catching a cold." She chuckled.
"Now your life was on the line and they were scrambling to get your bones reset in the right places." They all winced at that.
"So anyway long story short you were being prepped for ICU when your heart stopped." Joseph looked at them all.
"What?" He sat there stunned.
"How long was I gone?" He asked. Dash smirked.
"Only about 5 seconds." She slapped him on the back.
"The doc's were rushing about trying to find a defibrillator." She laughed.
"I just reacted in all honesty." Rainbow blushed as she recalled her desperate attempt to save Joseph's life.
"First I just zapped you with lightning." She smirked as Joseph winced.
"Just right there on the spot in the hospital?" Rainbow laughed.
"Yeah scarred the doc's half to death when they saw it." The group had reached the castle and Twilight did the honors of morphing the crystal steps into a ramp for the wheelchair. They all sighed in relief as they entered the castle foyer and closed the door's behind them. Jospeh just chuckled.
"Well it's nice to know who else I owe my life to but that doesn't sound like we went to third base," Joseph smirked as the whole group blushed and Dash stammered as she tried to stay in the air but her wing's trying to go rigged didn't help matters.
"I-that-!" She sputtered as the group all went there seprate ways within the castle. Fluttershy still fussing over Joseph's injuries wheeled him to his temporary room on the first floor while Dash followed behind.
"That's wasn't the end of the story!" She huffed as Fluttershy giggled backing into Joseph's room so the two friends could still talk. Joseph just laughed.
"Well ok then but by the end of this we better end up in bed or something." He waggled his eyebrow's causing Dash to blush and smirk.
"HA! In your dream's big guy!" she stated as he just sat there smiling.
"Well, I've alway's shot for the heaven's Dash." He fixed her with a sly grin. She grinned as well.
"Anyway. So you were back from your little nap and the doc's had fixed you up real good." She lost her confidence a little bit.
"The healing spell's they were using were basic rudimentary healing magic." She stated as she sighed.
"As far as doctor's go they were great. But the problem came in when your body kept on rejecting the amount of magic they were trying to pump into you to keep you going." She looked at Joseph with some small amount of apprehension.
"So Fluttershy gave it a shot and it worked for a little while until your blood started to become to thin." Fluttershy's face lit up with embarrassment.
"Plus pony blood is easier to manipulate than your's," Fluttershy stated as she trotted around to the front of the wheelchair. Joseph shook his head.
"Wow. I had no idea that even when at death's door I could still be a pain in the ass." He deadpanned. The two mare's giggled and Dash tapped him on his good arm.
"Hey, your kind of allowed to be a pain in the flank if your dying." They all chuckled at that.
"So how'd you save my life and steal my virginity Dash?" Joseph asked not wanting to be delayed any longer. Dash rolled her eye's.
"Pop quiz. What do all living things need to survive?" she asked causing Joseph to stop and think about it.
"Food, water, oxygen." He looked at the two. They both nodded. Dash just smirked.
"So It was really easy to heal the rest of your wound's and the superficial damage," she stated as she stretched out her wings.
"All's I had to do was cast the healing spell and simultaneously convert it into an aerosol form." She stated as her wing's glowed a soft pale blue color. The smell of fresh rain after a storm flowed throughout the room washing away the stale musky odor of books and wood that strangely permeated the small space.
"Nice so how does that." Joseph pointed to Dash's wings.
"Heal this." He pointed to his head. Dash grinned from ear to ear. She then got up and sauntered over to Joseph's wheelchair. Her trot was hypnotic as she swayed her hip's with each step keeping her wing's perfectly erect.
"Well." She stopped in front of the now thoroughly red-faced human who was trying to not think of Dash as sexy right now.
Dash seeing his face giggled as she got to her hind leg's and grabbed the arm rest's of the wheelchair forcing Joseph to look her in the eyes. Those soft vibrant rose colored irises. It was no secret that Dash was his favorite pony back on earth but now that he was here he struggled to maintain a clean mind as he was being bombarded by Dash's boldness.
"I simply placed my lip's to your's and blew." She said as she did just that. It was strange to kiss a pony. Joseph sat there shocked as his lungs were forced to breathe the minty air Dash was giving him at the moment. Through the haze of emotion's and hormone's flowing through his brain at the moment Joseph could feel a cooling sensation spread throughout his body starting from his chest and radiating outwards from there. Joseph's various aches and pains fled before the soothing magic flowing through him at the moment.
Then as quick as it had come the cooling tapered off to a small trickle. As Joseph felt the wheelchair move a little he opened his eyes to see Dash sitting there her face a mask of pride and embarrassment as if she was trying to figure out which to be at the moment.
"So what do you think? Pretty smart huh?" She asked as Joseph came down from cloud nine. He starred at the two pegasi a goofy grin on his face. They both giggled he sat there slowly coming back down to Equis. He shook his head to clear the last of his fog-filled mind.
"Wow." Was all he could say as he thought about what had just happened. He shook his whole body in an effort to get his head screwed on straight.
"Wow. That's some powerful stuff Dash." He said chuckling to himself.
"How come you don't work in the hospital?" He asked causing Dash to laugh.
"Because. 1 I'm not the only one who can do that. All pegasi heal." She sat back down letting her wing's fall to her sides.
"2 I don't think the doc's or nurses wouldn't take too kindly to me kissing all the aching patent's." The group all laughed at that image.
"And reason number 3 was that it was an emergency and I kind of had to make it up on the fly." She rubbed her head, sheepishly grinning as she talked. Joseph was impressed.
"Wow." He said leaning back in his chair contemplating what all had happened in the last few day's.
"Well for what it's worth I'm insanely grateful to have friend's like you girl's." Dash and Fluttershy caught the slight emphasis he gave to friends. They decided not to pry and instead they retreated from his room with the promise to come and check in on him in a little while.
8:00 A.M.
Dash and Fluttershy were trotting down the hall to the throne room when Dash stopped and sighed. Fluttershy stopped and gave Dash a look of concern.
"Are you ok?" She asked. Dash nodded her head.
"No. Not really." She stated as she danced on her hooves.
"Do you think I went a little too far back there?" She motioned down the hall. Fluttershy looked at Joseph's room and sighed.
"Dash we all know how you can get sometime's." She said resting a hoof on Dash's wither's.
"Even Joseph can see that you were just being you." She smiled.
"I would, however, be careful to not send him mixed signal's." She stated as she trotted off down the hall. As Dash started walking again she had a horrible thought pass through her head.
"What if that's too late?" She said out loud. Fluttershy whirled around so fast it caught Dash off guard. This let Fluttershy pin her against a nearby pillar of crystal. Dash yelped as Fluttershy snarled, her face briefly morphed into her feral form.
"Then you better fix it quickly!" Fluttershy growled as she let go of Dash who slid down the pillar to stunned to move.
"Noted." She breathed as Fluttershy took a step back and recomposed herself. Slowly Dash and Fluttershy both calmed down. Fluttershy looked down at dash and held out a hoof.
"I'm sorry about that Dash but I meant what I said." Dash took the hoof and pulled herself shakily to her hooves. She looked into Fluttershy's blazing eyes and smirked.
"Even now I still manage to screw thing's up." She shook her head.
"Why can't I just learn when to quit while I'm ahead?" She asked herself causing Fluttershy to giggle.
"Because Dash that's just not your style." She gave Dash a nuzzle. Dash laughed and gave Fluttershy a friendly noogie to which Fluttershy giggled and tried to get out of. As the two horsed around they slowly made their way to the big double door's that lead to the throne room.
"So just go and tell the big guy I messed up?" Dash asked as she set a hoof on the handle. Fluttershy nodded.
"Just explain that your emotions were a bit too high strung at the time to think straight." She said as she to put hoof to handle. Dash chuckled.
"Yeah well, heat week isn't doing us any favors." She said opening the door and striding inside. Fluttershy giggled and nodded.
"Yeah, that could have something to do with it." She gave Dash a small wink to which she rolled her eyes and laughed.
"You've been hanging around me too long. Your starting to get sarcastic!" Dash and Fluttershy shared a giggle as they took there seat's.
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