Author's Note

I sprained my wrist so for the next week this fix is gonna be slow production =P.

New Old Friends

“Ouch! Hey back off!”

I slowly raised my head. I feel like I’m going to die and my brains would explode seconds later. I tried to get to my hooves but felt like there were cinder blocks on all four of them. I looked down and turns out I wasn’t completely wrong. I had one fore leg in a sling and a bandage wrapped around my head just under my horn.

I don’t really have time to think about it, but I can’t really think right now anyway. I heard a soft padding of hooves that seemed to be nearing me. The voice I heard earlier continued to struggle.

“Leave me alone! I’m don’t need your dumb medicine!” It was Dashie. A voice that sounded almost identical to mine resounded through the large area.

“If you don’t take this medicine, you will die. This will keep you healthy until Swift gets here.” I couldn’t open my eyes fully so I had no idea where the two of them were. But the thought of Dashie dying was enough for me to force my magic to pry open my eyes. Not to say it didn’t hurt, though.

I had full view of where we were now. A large room with three beds and a small pile of bandages, bowls with green liquid. I guess that’s the medicine that pony was talking about. I forced myself out of the bed and onto my hooves. I stood still for about 3 seconds before my legs collapsed out from under me. I expected to crash against the floor when I was caught in a orange wing.

“Easy there Starry. You had a rough landing. Right through the ol’ temple’s roof! Here, this’ll make you feel better.” He pressed a cold glass on my lips and tilted it backwards with my head. The cold liquid was bitter and made me gag, but I did feel a lot healthier.

I opened my eyes and looked up to see a smile on the orange alicorn’s face. He seemed happy to see me and lifted me to my hooves. “Thank you but, who exactly are you?”

The orange alicorn frowned. “You don’t remember me?”

“No. Sorry.”

He rubbed his chin. He seemed to have a realization and let out a sharp gasp. “Remember back when you were just as old as your two daughters here?”

I don’t think I’ve ever been as embarrassed as I was then. “Um, I um... I actually found Dashie and Luna and her sister Celestia actually needed a place to stay. So they asked me if they could crash at my place for a little while... which turned out to be six years so far.”

He gave me a ‘I doubt it’ look. Then turned his attention back to Dashie. “This little one is very difficult. But at least she is able to talk and nothing seems to be broken.” He looked over at the third bed. A mountain of bowls and cups lay next to it. The filly on the bed wrapped in various places with bandages and her wings wrapped in full. Most of the bandages were slightly red in places.

I was horrified at the sight of Luna like this. “What happened to us?” I asked as I rushed to her bedside.

“You three fell out of the sky. I noticed you but couldn’t catch you. Unfortunately the temple didn’t either. You all seemed to be unconscious because the roof shattered leaving a gaping hole but none of you moved. This one here was the first to hit anything. Poor filly...”

I heard a trotting noise approaching from behind and turned to see Dashie standing behind me. “What’s wrong dad?” She looked past me and saw Luna laying in the bed. Her eyes widened with tears on the brims. “Luna...?”

I wrapped my wing around her and held her close. “She’s hurt right now.”

Dashie looked up at me and asked me the worst question possible. “Is she going to be okay?” It was almost a whisper. Not asking but pleading, begging for me to give her a good answer.

I couldn’t. “I don’t know.” She buried her head into my chest quietly sobbing.

The orange alicorn stood and picked up another glass of medicine with his magic. He trotted over and pressed it against Luna’s lips and the liquid flowed into her mouth. He carefully tilted her head like he did mine so that Luna wouldn’t drown.

“Luna will be alright if Swift gets here in time. I told him the situation and where to find us. Odd name for somepony so slow.” He set the glass down and turned to face me and Dashie. “The medicine will work for now, but we need healing magic. Something only Swift and AR are able to conguer up. Unless...”

I watched him walk away just to come back with a dusty scroll. “Unless that scroll can let us do the spell?”

“Yep! Oh I almost forgot! I’m Infinite Aimer. I’m one of your friends from way back when headmaster was our teacher. But call me Aimer.” He unraveled the scroll and squinted at the front of it.

“What happens if the spell is done incorrectly?” I asked hesitantly.

“According to this,” he squinted harder then reeled his head back and yelled, “it’ll destroy everything within a 20 mile radius!?!?!”

This was unpleasant news. “What!? We can’t risk that! And I’m not so sure about this ‘Swift’ guy doing it either.”

Aimer just rolled his eyes. “Relax. Swift knows what he’s doing.” He looked at my cutie mark. “Come to think of it, kind of off-topic here, but it would seem that we all share the same cutie mark to an extent.”

I looked at his and he was right. It looked exactly like mine but flipped on it’s head. If it had one. “Odd.”

Our conversation was interrupted by the beating of wings outside. Aimer and I rushed to the door in time to see a white alicorn in the distance.

“Hey Aimer! Hi Starry! Man you really are looking worse for wear.” The white pony said. I made the connection and figured this was Swift. “Alright, I’ll heal the worst injured first. Then I’ll work on you two.” He pointed a hoof at me and Dashie, who was standing by my side, as he landed softly in front of the three of us.

He began to glow green on the outer shell as if outlining himself. Swift trotted straight past and into the large room. Once inside, he walked over to Luna. Swift looked her over then gently placed a hoof in between her closed eyes. Luna also began to glow green. For a brief moment everything was quiet. Then Luna stopped glowing and Swift raised his hoof.

Luna twitched in the bed. Then her eyes snapped open and she shot straight upward. “Whoa! I feel great!” She squealed. Her next sentence was cut off by a bear hug from Dashie, sending them both toppling onto the ground.

Swift smiled and looked over at me. “If you don’t mind, I brought somepony else with me.” He pointed a hoof towards the doorway just in time to see a white alicorn mare burst through the doorway. She was the same height as me, Aimer, and Swift so it was safe to say that she was abnormally tall for here age of 18 compared to her sister’s age of 12.

The tiara on her head and rose pink mane were enough to give her name away as Celestia. She didn’t even speak to any of us as she frantically looked around the room. Spotting Luna standing up next to Dashie staring at Celestia like she was some crazy creature that was going to murder all of us, she pounced on Luna, scooping her up and wrapping her forelegs and wings around her. She sat and kissed Luna’s head repeatedly only to stop to snuggle her more.

“I’m so glad you’re alright little Woona!” Celestia managed to make out in between snuggles and kisses.

Luna was not amused. “Tia! You’re embarrassing me!”

“Nonsense Lulu!”