The Wolf

The Wolf

Chapter 3: Recovery

By: Wolf

I woke up in a hospital to find the sun is only just starting to rise. I felt the warmth of someone snuggled up to me and I glance across to find Setura is snuggling with me in her sleep. Pain lanced through my body and I am reminded of the excruciating experience yesterday with Twilight. Twitching in pain I roll over to a more comfortable position, accidentally waking up Setura.

"Good morning beautiful."

She lovingly nuzzles me in reply.

"Does it still hurt?" There is obvious concern in her voice and she nuzzles my injured form, my pain subsides at her contact. I reciprocate as best as I can without moving my stiff legs and we share a careful embrace.

"Not anymore."

Nurse Redheart enters, ending the moment.

She ran some tests then wrapped up my bandages and told us I will be stuck in here for another day.  Then Twilight and the rest enter, Dash and 'Shy sharing a wing as now they don't feel the need to hide their relationship.  Twilight nervously broke the silence.

"I'm so sorry about yesterday. I should have learned from Zecora. Your not evil just because your different from everypony else."

"It's okay. I guess you don't get a lot of wolves in town."

"No… not really." Silence fell again. I can see it in everypony's eyes, they are still a little nervous around me and Setura. At least they don't seem to want to hurt us anymore.

"Well I guess… we had better be going then. Come by my library if you two ever need anything."

Twilight makes a brisk exit, everypony else followed shortly after leaving the two winged wolves in peace. Setura shifted position then folded a wing over me allowing me to drift into a peaceful sleep that lasted till late afternoon.

It was an uneventful night, as I waited for sleep to come. I woke up with Setura laying on some chairs on the other side of the room. I try and get up. I feel a jab of pain in my legs as I land on the ground. The pain slowly subsided and I walk over to Setura. I wake her up and we started to walk out of the door. The door swings open, smacking my muzzle. I recoil away from the door, wincing from the pain. The nurse apologizes and lets us leave. As we were walking out of the hospital, we run into Dash and 'Shy.

“Hey, wassup?” Dash asks.

“We were just leaving the hospital.” I respond.

“Well, let's show you to our house.” Dash replies as she starts flying towards a forest in the distance.

Me and Setura exchange nervous looks as we attempt to fly. By instinct we flapped our wings in an attempt to fly. We were awful at first, but got the hang of it. As we followed Dash, ponies of the ground started gawking at us. I reasoned that they didn't see flying wolves every day. All of a sudden, a giant mass slams into me, bringing me to the ground. I regain my bearings, a gryphon flew into me!

Dash flew down to us and slapped the gryphon and told her off.

“Sorry about that.” Dash said. “Not everpony knows about you, that was Gylda, she's trying to get on my good side after the indecent awhile ago... She must have thought you were going to eat me. *facehoof*”

“Yeah, I’ve noticed there's a lot of Xenophobes...” I complain.

We continue flying until we reach a cottage. We walked inside and saw A LOT of animals. 'Shy kept eying me, probably thinking I was going to eat one of them.

“I'm a vegetarian Fluttershy.” I say.

She looked like several thousand pounds of worry were suddenly lifted off of her.

“Although, I wish I wasn't a wolf right now, all I can really eat are berries...” I complain, wishing I could have a nice salad.

My stomach grumbled and 'Shy just looked at me.

“Well that will be a problem...” Dash said.

I rub my side with my forepaw and I can feel my ribs. A problem indeed. I pace around the room trying to think of a solution. Fluttershy suddenly perks up.

“We could ask Twilight has a spell for that...” She whispers.

“As much as I don't like her, it's our only choice...” I say, looking at Setura, her ribs also showing.

We walk over to Twilight's place, a feeling of dread washed over me.

“Something isn't right.” I whisper to Setura as we enter the giant tree that was Twilight's house.

We sit down as a purple lizard, that I assumed to be a dragon, set a plate that had several cups of tea on it. My nose twitches, Setura lifts a cup up, about to drink it.

“Smell it...” I whisper to her.

She sniffs it, and gingerly sets it down.

“Hey Twilight, what's in the drink?” I ask nonchalantly.

“Just some herbs...” She replies.

I look over to Setura, and drink some of the liquid, a flash of victory was across Twilight's face. I double over and start gagging. I slowly rise up; and looked at Twilight.

“That doesn't work on me.” I say as Twilight's eyes widen.

That must have been strong stuff. Good thing I’m immune to poison. I glare at Twilight and wonder why she wants to kill us. After some thinking, I decided to ask her.

“Why are you trying to kill us...?”

Silence.

“WHY!?” I scream.

Silence.

I grab Setura and we walk out. Fluttershy and Dash were waiting for us.

“We heard shouting, what happened?” Dash asked.

“She tried to poison us.” I flatly replied.

“SHE DID WHAT?!” 'Shy yelled, completely out of character.

At that moment I was glad Fluttershy was on my side. She barged into the house, and dragged Twilight out and kicked her across the ground, where she slid over to my feet. She has some explaining to do...