Howl at the Moon (Re-up)

by Failsafe99

The Hospital, and New Houses

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I woke up to blinding light. It peeked through my eyelids to make it hard to sleep. I turned over, and I felt the back of my head heat up very quickly. I had had enough. I opened my eyes.

As I did, I noticed a group of people in the room sleeping. I couldn't think clearly, and tried to sit up.

Only to find that Twilight was on top of me, almost curled up like a cat. I tapped her on the face a few times, and she slowly woke up. When she saw who was poking her, she squealed, and latched on to me. Her exclamation woke up the other five girls in the room, and they all started to get excited over me being awake and alright.

"How long have I been out? The last thing I remember is thinking about getting you girls out the cave, and then starting on moving the rocks." The girls look at each other, then Spike walks in.

"I heard the question. I can tell him. Celestia and Luna will want to know he is awake." The girls nod and leave, and Spike grabs a chair and sits down.

"Well, after you started to move the rocks, I think it was about half an hour later that I came too. After that, I practically yelled at you to find out what you where doing, and then just set about helping. You took the heaviest rocks, some being about a hundred to the last one was a thousand pounds. We were there for two hours, moving the rocks, and at some point, you fell unconscious, but continued working. The last boulder was moved, the girls rushed you, and then you finally conked out. After that, it has been a day and a half. Also, Celestia and Luna are here. They want to thank you for helping save them and Equestria." I nod weakly, still tired and disoriented. "Also, we figured out what house you had wanted, so we bought it for you. It is in your name, though I think you will be having many visitors. We all went to the house, and it was nice. We had to DRAG Twilight out of your library. She wanted to take a book, but we told her to wait for the librarian. She calmed down after that."

I laughed, and then started to cough, as my lungs weren't used to the action after a day and a half of not doing it. I then ask.

"How did the girls save the tree?" Spike got a depressed look on his face while telling me.

"They had to give up the Elements of Harmony. It wasn't able to keep up without them anymore. Apparently, Discord was behind the vines that attacked Ponyville, and kidnapped the princesses. He didn't want for a demon though, as they would encroach on his fun, he said. The demon must have been there since Cerberus had left his post, and been feeding on the tree of harmony so much it had to have the energy of the Elements to make it healthy again. I shouldn't say much more, just ask them at some point." I nod.

Then the door to the room opened, and the girls and the princesses stepped into my room. I started to stand, but the princesses said no. I didn't give a fuck.

i stood up, and the girls and the princesses gasped. Celestia looked at me, and said.

"You should not be standing like this. You were actually severely injured. You had broken ribs, lacerations on most of your body, most of your skin had been scraped off due to the stones, and a severe concussion. You should not be standing, yet you are. How?"

"The scabbard of the holy blade. The legendary sword, the sword in the stone. Whatever you call it in this world, the scabbard heals most injuries, short of mortal, poison, or loss of limb. It was working when I was moving the rocks, it just couldn't heal as fast as it usually does because I continued to injure myself. After I stopped, it went in to regular healing, and mended everything. That is the power of the holy blades scabbard. By the way, has anyone seen my armor? I hope that it didn't get overly damaged during everything." Rarity came forward with a bundle. She handed it to me while saying.

"I did take the time to look at it closer, and memorize the design so I could make more like them. Do you have more armors like that? I would like to make a line of more masculine wear for everyday folk like Big Mac." I nod, and promise to work out the details later. We talk for a bit, before a nurse comes in.

"Oh, hello. I see your awake. I'm nurse Redheart. Pleased to meet you. May I ask how you are moving like this, after such severe injuries?" I tell her what I told the others, though don't tell her about the legendary sword. She nods, and says.

"That would explain the magic that we found running through you." Celestia takes interest in this, and asks the nurse to show her what she means. They exit the room, and me and the girls talk with Luna and each other. Twilight talks about my library, and how she wants to look at all the books from my world. I tell her to be patient, and that I have a special surprise for her in the library. She just gets a gleam, and squees. It was cute. I finally stand up from the bed again cause I wished to change, and start doing so, much to the delight and horror of the girls around me. Luna starts to blush, and the others do to, though in a different way. Soon enough, I am back in the armor of the Ancients. It looked like nothing had been damaged, but then Rarity said.

"It had been in tatters, but shortly after I noticed it was mending itself. After a day, it had repaired itself." I gave her an incredulous look, and the girl nodded, then blushed deeper. I turned to Luna.

"Luna, do you think this make me look fat?" The princess is shocked by the question out of staring at me, and I laugh. "Gotcha!" The others laugh, and Luna looks miffed. Hey, it was April 1st somewhere!

Celestia entered the room after that, and saw me in the armor, and blushed, but was professional. She held some things that looked like x-rays, only it didn't show my bones. Instead, it showed what looked to be veins, but I waited to find out.

"Girls, I think you should take a look at this. This is Cameron's mana flow," She points to the pictures on the light board. "As you can see, he has massive amounts of magic in his right arm." We all look, and my entire right arm is practically glowing in the picture. "But right here is where we see the 'scabbard', as you put it Cameron." And everyone turns there eyes to her finger as she points to a spot of magic, right below my heart. The magic lines flow from there, out like a spider, connecting everything. It even connects to the crystal arm, which intrigues me some.

"How do we know this is the scabbard?" I ask. Celestia answers.

"When they ran the scans on your mana, and found the spot, they decided to trace the magic and find out what it did. They saw it was mending your injuries, and enhancing you. You now are just a little bit stronger and faster than before."

I nodded. I wasn't concerned, it wasn't bad things happening to me. I knew what the sheath did. I had seen it before.

"Well, if everything is okay, and I can leave, can I please do so? I want to go home." Celestia smiled, and said.

"Of course, the doctor said you can leave when ready. Also, I heard about the house. You honestly grabbed Discord, which is very hard to do, and made him submit, all because you wanted to finish up and buy the house?" I nodded. "Well, I guess worse things have happened. Like Twilight making everyone want one of her toy dolls because she needed to send a Friendship report." Twilight looked at Celestia in shock.

"Celestia, why? Why do you torture me so?" Celestia laughs, and asks if she could see the home as well. I tell her to come along, and head out the hospital, checking out before heading out.

We take around twelve minutes to reach my new house. Celestia and Luna look at it and praise the craftsmanship behind it, and the girls just get excited to head back inside. I take the keys from Twilight, who was looking at the top floor and almost drooling.

"Down, princess. Or no books for you." She didn't do it on purpose, but she honestly whimpered just like a puppy would if you told him no treat. I laughed, and opened the door. "Everypony, welcome to my house."

Rainbow had seen the door to the forge, and as the girls hadn't gone down there yet, asked, "Hey Cam, what was the other door for?"

"It leads to a forge." Rarity lightens up at that, and I tell her 'later'. We head to the living room, and the eight mares make themselves comfortable. I head to the kitchen, and find the girls had stocked the pantry. Pinkie slips in behind me, grabs stuff, and starts to make pastries for everyone. I say to the pink mare.

"Hey, Pinkie, do you have anything like corn syrup?"

"Yes, we do. It isn't corn syrup, as it isn't as bad for you, but it acts along the same lines as corn syrup. Why?" I then tell her the plan. She tells me that that is a good idea, and she starts to get the corn syrup to heat on the stove. I measure out 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of the corn syrup substitute, 1 cup of peanut butter, and 4 cups of rice krispies. As Pinkie gets the pan hot, we add the sugar and stir it until it gets dissolved, never letting the corn syrup sugar mix boil, as it ruins it and makes it hard. After the sugar dissolves, we add the peanut butter, stir it together, and then the rice krispies. After they are all mixed together, we place them in a greased cake pan, and let them cool just slightly, as warm rice krispie treats taste better than cold ones. We then cut them up into squares, and I walk back to the living room carrying an array of plates with the rice krispie treats on them.

I give each guest one piece, and they take a bite, eyes brightening.

"Mmhm, darling, this is good. It tastes delicious." Rarity says.

"Honestly, I don't mind if you guys don't like it. I like it, and if you think its okay, go ahead and say so. You wont hurt my feelings." Rainbow takes me up on that immediately.

"Yeah, it isn't the greatest, but it does taste good. Wouldn't want it everyday though." I nodded, saying it usually was a nibble food. You want something sweet, go over, get a chunk, heat it up, and have a treat. The others nodded in understanding, and we talked.

Applejack was the first one to ask me.

"Hey Cam, what are those devices hooked up to the TV? I never seen anything like them before."

"Well, Applejack, they are video game consoles. They play interactive movies, so to say." Rainbow almost spits her food out.

"Oh, like the boxes at the arcade. They are like those."

"YES, that is a perfect example! The only difference, those arcade games only play ONE game. THESE, have THOUSANDS, of different games. And each one may have games that can only be played on THAT particular game console. Here, let me show you what I mean." I power up the Xbox and PS4, and turn the TV on. I find which console is on which input, and go to the PlayStation.

"Here are the games for this console, that can only be played on this console. I wont find them on the other console." I show them the InFamous series, God Of War, and a few other games. Then I switch to the Xbox.

"And I wont be able to find the games I show you here on the one I just showed you." And I show her Halo, and other titles that are Xbox only.

"Now though, every other game, I can play on both. Also, some of these games can have multiple different people playing." i grab another Xbox controller and toss it to Rainbow. She catches it, and gives me a look of confusion. I smirk, and bring up a two player game. Gears of War.

As I show Rainbow how to play, and she learns fast, the others watch, with mild interest and disgust. I understood, and we didn't play long, but it proved the point.

"No, not all the games are that violent. Most of the games aren't as violent. Anyways, wanna see upstairs?" Everyone nods, and we head up to the rooms.

"Here is the guest rooms, last room on the end is master bedroom, also known as MY room. Follow me up to the library." And we head up another level. As Celestia and Luna step into the library, they gawk at the sight of the large room. Twilight squeals with delight.

"These are all books from your world right Cameron? Can you show us which books are your favorite?" I nod, and say a few out loud.

"Well, we have the Inheritance saga." As I say this, we all hear something move in the library, and turn to one of the shelves to see a set of four books flying off the shelf towards the table Twilight and I am standing by. They stack themselves neatly in front of me, in ascending order, with Eragon on top." Oh, so that's how this library works. Well, step back, your about to see some movement.

Ender's Game series, Halo series, Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, Animorphs series, Raptor Red, Fablehaven series, and Deltora Quest series." As I spoke, the library came alive with books flying around and onto the table in front of me. The eight mares come and join me at the table.

"Okay, here is the deal. I will let you take four books, for however long you need to read them. BUT, if they get damaged, you have to bring them to Twilight. She knows how to mend books, I don't" the others agree to my rules.

"Now, I have a lot of books to hand out to you, so come to me for reading assignments. Rainbow, I think you might like this series," I hand her the first four books for the Animorph series. "It's about a bunch of kids that get shape shifting powers from an alien, and then fight back against another alien race that is invading." She takes the book, flies to one of the branches of the tree, and starts to read the first book. I turn to Fluttershy.

"Here, Fluttershy. You might want to brush up on this animal, or should I say, Dinosaur, as soon as possible. This is a carnivore, so read at your own risk, but it tells you of her life through her eyes. It is my absolute favorite, so please be careful." I hand her Raptor Red, a story about the life of a Utahraptor female, and my reason for loving them so much. Luna's turn.

"Luna, princess of the moon and night, I give you the Guardians of Ga'hoole. It is about a group of knightly owls that fight an evil cult of owls that think that one owl species is better than the other species." I hand her the stack, and she asks why."Because, you are a princess, and you will actually return them unharmed." She gets my unspoken message. Don't harm them. Celestia was next.

"Celestia, here is the Enders Game series. It is about a child prodigy who is made to join the military, and fight wars for them. In the end, he wipes out there greatest enemy, and regrets it." I hand her the series. I know that only the first one is what I told her, but she would probably want all of them after wards. Applejack.

"Applejack, I am giving you the Fablehaven series, only because I can't really think of any series you might like that I would read. We have agriculture books if you don't want to, but here you go." I hand her the first book, and tell her it is easier ti read one at a time. She nods in understanding, and heads off into the library with the others to read. Pinkie.

"Deltora Quest, NEXT." i don't shout it, but Pinkie grins and skips along. Rarity was next.

"Rarity, I am sorry. I have nothing that has anything to do with what you would like. Wait, maybe I do. It's a story about a thief, who only takes small things. It's not exactly what you think. Sound good to you?"

"Of course darling, that is fine." I nod.

"Something Missing!" a book flies from a shelf to my hand, and I hand it to Rarity, who thanks me and wanders off.

"Spike, I have a large series for you. Or a long series. Which would you prefer?" He thinks for a moment, before saying large.

"Good, I was hoping you would say that. Here, the Inheritance series. It's about a young boy who finds a dragons egg while hunting, and becomes a dragon rider for a new age." Spike looks at me, and I hand him the first book. He stairs at the picture of Saphira, and blushes at it a little. He thanks me, and climbs the tree.

"And then there was one." Twilight giggles, and asks.

"Any series for me?" I shake my head.

"Nope, don't have a single book series for you." She starts to look downcast, and I then add, "But, I have a gift that you might like." I take her to the tree. As I do, every other pony in the room looks at us. I show her the indent in the tree, and then I place my hand in it. Again, it pulses purple, before opening up the compartment that holds the tablet. Twilight looks at it, and is amazed. I reach in and pick it up.

"This is for you. This house was built for me to move into, and it said that this was for you. It has EVERY. SINGLE. BOOK. In this library, on it. Here, let me start it for you." I turn it on, and hand it to her before it boots all the way up. When it finally does, a scan is ran on Twilight, who almost drops the tablet when it happens. Suddenly, the tablet says.

"Welcome, Twilight Sparkle, to the Tablet. I will help you through the tutorial, on how to use this device." I am ignored at this point, as Twilight walks off. The tablet's voice sounded like Glados. I turn to see everypony reading in the library.

I nod and leave. I have something I need to do real quick.


Author's Note

This was a good place to stop. All you would miss would be the fact that I am going to get my sword, and then call my Utahraptor pet out. That is what will happen next.

Have a Jivin day!

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