Waking up in a hospital. If you ever have, you know what it feels like. You wake up, wondering where you are, trying to remember what happened last time you where conscious. The feeling of stuff poking into your body. The urge to throw up.

Wait, that last one isn't normal. Oh, then, my bad. Well, at least their was a trashcan nearby, which happily took all of my technicolor spewdom of the mouth. After it had eaten its fill of my stomach contents, I thanked it for its contribution, and set it aside. Then the door opened, and a nurse stepped in.

"Hello. I see that you are awake, so we can start with a few questions. Do you remember what happened, how you got here, or what you where doing last?" the nurse asks. I finally take the time to study her. She was a soft white color, like cream, with very light pink hair, and a cutie mark that was a red cross with four hearts in between the cross sections. She noticed that I was staring and started to blush just a little, and then said.

"I'm sorry. I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Nurse Redheart. If you could please answer the questions." I then answer her questions. I tell her that last I remember was getting carried to Fluttershy's home by a manticore, then passing out. Fluttershy must have then brought me here. And the last activity I had been going to do was check out a house that I had wanted to by, then had to fight a manticore. I then asked her how ling I had been out.

"About a day and a half. Your body was trying to get rid of the venom, and even though you had the anti-venom in you, you still almost died." Nurse Redheart told me. Just then a knock on the door was heard, and we looked as it opened, letting my six new friends in. Dang, I already consider them my friends. They just are so friendly, it's hard not to consider them my friends. Oh well.

"Hey Cameron, how are you feeling?" Twilight asks me, obviously not seeing that I am in a hospital bed.

"I don't know. I'm in a hospital, so their might be a problem. Also, I just threw up when I woke up, so that has to count for something. And then there is the fact I almost died. I think I am doing fine, nurse when can I leave. I would like to go buy me a new house."

Twilight stands their looking guilty, while Rainbow and Pinkie try not to laugh. Rarity just gives me a small smirk, then pulls out a bag of cloth and starts sewing. Applejack is giving me a disapproving stare. And Nurse Redheart tells me that I can leave once they have ran a few tests to see if all the poison is gone. Fluttershy then comes up and tells me.

"Also, we found the papers in your pocket, and we put two and two together. We gave them to Mayor Mare already, and we payed for the house. All of us, though I don't know why you girls did it?"

"Well darling, we couldn't just leave our new friend to not have a home to go home too. Especially after what happened to her. Also, we now have a manticore outside. Sitting there. Looking like a sad little kitten. Do you know why Cameron?" Rarity says.

"It might have to do with the fact that I threatened retribution by you guys if I died. That and I completely terrified it. Like, completely. It was not pretty." I reply to her.

"Well, that would explain some of the things the birds and animals have been saying. They all say that they heard laughing, like someone had gone mad, and they saw a glowing dog that was backing a manticore into a tree. Was that you?" Fluttershy asks, recounting just a little of what she heard.

"Probably. I don't know what the animals say or hear, but it probably was me." I say to her, confirming her suspicions.

Then Nurse Redheart came back into the room, having left to get the doctor for the tests.

"Ah yes, our newest patient. Let me take a little blood and run it through a few tests, and you can go home soon." He says, before taking some blood and leaving me and the six ponies alone. We spend the time waiting for the tests talking and laughing at each others jokes. Eventually the doctor comes back in and gives me a clean bill of health, and takes out all the IV needles and other pieces of medical equipment. After that is done he leaves, and I start to get ready to leave. I just stand in the room and strip out of my hospital gown, and all the girls immediately start to look away, saying it's improper to just strip like that. I simply shrug, and quickly requip some nice simple leggings and a t-shirt. The t-shirt is a nice one, with a funny saying on the front of it.

"Insane? I prefer the term Mentally Hilarious.

Pinkie and rainbow turned around and saw the shirt, and started to laugh at what it said. The rest of the girls just chuckled and/or nodded, and we exited the hospital.

As we did, I noticed that their was something of to my right, hidden in the shadows of the hospital. I looked to them to see a manticore, the one that almost killed me, crouching down. It looked like it was crying almost. I walked over towards it as everyone started to disagree with my decision.

The manticore started to shrink up as I got closer, scared of what I might do to it. As I draw near, I reach my hand out, and start to pet it. It shivers at my touch for a few moments, until I start to scratch behind it's ears. It nust melts into my hand after that.

"Come on boy, let's go. Hey would you be against coming to my house?"

The girls are just staring at me with dumbfounded expressions on their faces. I just start to walk off, followed by my new pet manticore. Eventually I am joined in my walk by Fluttershy, then Pinkie and Rarity, and then everyone else. We all start walking towards my new house.

Author's Note

Hey guys hope this is a nice chapter. Kind of slowed.down from the last chapter, with the start of a lot of sarcasm to come.

Have a Jivin day!