Chapter 4: Surviving The Aftermath

Meanwhile, In Sovngarde

Bayott looks to the skies and frowns at seeing the swirling purple skies of Sovngarde above him, he sees a slowly moving line of ponies and waits in line to see Tsun in the far distance shrouded in the fog of the World Eater's mist. As he listens to the steady drum beats and the non-stop humming, he notices that the song isn't being sang yet and asks a pony, "Sorry to bother you but, do you hear a song being sung all around us?"

The female pony turns around and says, "Ummm...unless you call the drum and humming a song, then no. The humming and drums have been constant since I got here earlier today. Who and what are you and why are you here?"

He looks to the Pony and says, "I am an ancient hero that has been forgotten through time, my name is Bayott. I am a dragonborn, the last to be exact. I battled an ancient foe that returned and attacked Ponyville, and was gravely injured and collapsed after I brought his life to an end."

She moves forward in the line and says, "My name is Summer's Day, I helped Forsythia run the flower stall in Ponyville. The last thing I saw was fire when somepony raced past me and yelled at the dragon to make him chase him, that was you? Thank you for defeating that awful dragon, for many ponies from Ponyville, a small camp, and a town called Brayville are here.

Bayott talks to her for a bit until another Pegasi pony with speaks up and says, "So yer the one who got rid o' the dragon that terrorized Brayville earlier today? Where were ya when we were being attacked! That lousy dragon ate me, how are ya a hero when ya weren't there ta save us from him!!"

He answers the other female that spoke saying, "I was rendered unconscious after a group performed a spell to restore my eyesight so I could see. I am sorry I was not there for you earlier, for I could barely see to fight. I did well inside caves because I could listen to echoes and locate the foe, but outside...there's no echo to go by. My name is Bayott, who might you be?"

She introduces herself saying, "Mah name's Colonel Cluster Apple, ah'm a part o' the Apple family. I still appreciate ya gittin rid o' that Dragon though, but it would o' been nicer if ya'd o' been there fer us."

Bayott shrugs and says, "I can't always be everywhere where I am needed at that second or people might start to call me a god or something, though I am very strong. I am in no way a god..."

He is interrupted by the soft voice of Mara coming from the sky softly saying, "Oh but you are Ysmir, don't you remember me saying that during the spell we cast to restore your... more appealing look?"

The line breaks and ponies back away as Goddess Mara floats down from the sky, making her way through the fog towards the one she called son.

Mara smiles and comes down the rest of the way to hug her son, very happy to be able to hug him herself for the first time ever and says, "Why are you here so soon? Surely you can't have defeated Alduin yet, there are still many empty cells upstairs! What happened that causes you to be here so early?"

Bayott sighs and says, "Sorry mom, Alduin brought Numinex back to life and he grabbed me around the torso with his mouth and shook me like a rag doll, his teeth pierced my body and I collapsed shortly after taking his head and absorbing his soul and knowledge. His body went back to it's previous state when I began falling forward feeling very weak. Am I finally dead, I am needed there to save the others from Alduin's rage. It was nice to finally see you mother, for I look forward to when I get to return here to stay."

Mara smiles and lets go of him saying, "Of course my son, I am very upset that Alduin brought him back so soon. I was hoping that he would resurrect him when you were more recovered. It is good that you defeated Numinex though, that fight was not an easy one for you. Go see Tsun so he can send you back, you have time yet because your body is being repaired in Equestria by skilled hands. Farewell, initiate god Ysmir. For we shall meet again someday." She then returns to the place she came down from, leaving her son to his duty to return to Equestria.

He smiles and looks at a shocked Summer's Day and Colonel Cluster Apple saying, "What's with the shocked faces, I don't believe that I am a real god. I just don't feel anywhere near that powerful right now, so please don't stare at me like that."

They shake their heads clear from the shock as the line begins to reform and moves forward once more a few spots, they strike up conversation again to pass the time. They both nervously avoid talking bout him being a god and ask him about the way things were back then as he begins to tell them about a few of his travels as they get closer and closer to the bridge leading across.

The ambience around them changes as the rhythm gets a bit louder and heavier as Bayott chuckles and says to the two he met, "Are you both ready to hear me sing the song that I heard when I first got here many, many years ago?"

They both look at each other first curiously and then at him with Summer's Day saying, "I am curious to find out what this song is because you asked me about it earlier, so yes I would like to hear you sing it for us."

He then turns to Colonel Cluster Apple and waits for her answer to his question saying, "How about you Colonel Cluster Apple, do you want to hear the song about the last Dragonborn?"

With her curiosity piqued, she says, "Ah reckon it couldn't hurt to hear some actual singing. So go ahead, let's hear you sing."

Bayott holds his necklace in his palm and calls out, "Father, please allow me to lead in the singing of this song for this day!"

Tsun looks up from the crowd to try to locate the Dragonborn among the group and sighs saying, "I sure hope you are here to defeat Alduin once more, this fog is a big nuisance to my keen eyesight."

Just then a booming voice is heard across the skies of Sovngarde and answers, "Very well my son, I shall allow the ponies to understand what is being said. May you all feel hope anew when you hear this song!" He sends down a shimmering mist that touches the ponies, granting them the brief blessing understanding the words to the song.

He listens to the song as it starts over while a strange magic takes hold of him, filling him with pride and joy of spreading the knowledge of his tale that took place here in the body of a mortal as the song begins to pick up, he lets his voice ring out loud and clear above them all so they will hear him.

Bayott finishes singing the song when he begins to hear cheers, whistles and claps rewarding him for singing so well and bows to the line of ponies and calls out loudly to the line of ponies that are cheering, "I am glad that my singing was not as bad as it usually is when I try to sing for someone. I swear to you all that the one responsible for all this pain and misery that you have suffered will pay the consequences of their actions!"

Summer's Day compliments him on his singing as Colonel Cluster Apple slaps him on the back saying, "Hooo boy you really can sing well you know that, it can't be easy to make your voice carry like that so everypony can hear you. Where did you learn to do something like that?"

He smiles and thanks her for saying that and says, "Well I learned to do a variety of things at the Bard's College in Solitude, the teacher I had whacked my head every time I hit a wrong note and made me sing it over again. I also learned to play other instruments while I was there."

Tsun feels pride at hearing him lead the song that tells the story about the Dragonborn. He continues questioning the ponies on where they want to go when he finally spots a familiar figure a ways back in the line and patiently waits for him to make his way up there. He continues to ask each pony that comes forth, "Which do you seek most? A life where you can have a new beginning, or would you like to drink, listen and retell stories of valor and great achievement?"

A few hours pass by and Bayott watches his new friends Colonel Cluster Apple and Summer's Day make their choices, with both choosing the vast plains and cross the bridge with Summer's Day looking back and calling out to him and hears her say, "We hope to see you again one day, my friend!" He smiles and waves back at her with a tear rolling down his face as he steps up to Tsun saying, "We meet again old friend, how have you been these past few years?"

The guardian says to the Dragonborn, "I have been wondering what happened to you these past several years, because I haven't seen your soul return here when the last humans passed by me. I was beginning to worry about your soul being lost to us until I saw Alduin return and leave from his burial mound. Where do you wish to go, Bayott? The Hall of Valor or The Plains of Aetherius?"

Bayott chuckles and says, I am sorry Tsun, for I am not yet ready to leave the living world behind while Alduin is still around and acts like every being should worship him. I want you to return me to that world so I can finish my task there and save Equestria from his reign of tyranny. We shall meet again once my task is fulfilled there, farewell my friend."

Tsun sighs and then nods saying, "I agree with that choice, for the time of the dragon's rule over the world is long since passed and Alduin needs to learn to accept change or die. Fare thee well on thy journeys, Bayott. For I shall be watching over you during your travel among the world of Equus, and watch while you beat Alduin to a bloody pulp and force him to accept defeat and change or accept death. I bid you goodbye, Dovahkiin." He then uses a shout to return him to his body on Equus, and resumes to his duty of guiding others to where they wish to go.

Back in Surgery, A few hours ago.

Dr. Fauna hears the monitors and says, "Doc, he is slipping away again! We must hurry or he won't last much longer." She continues stitching together more blood vessels as Doc handles the large intestine.

Doc Top replies, "If he slips again, he will have to ride it out until we can get all these severed blood vessels stitched back together. He will just keep on flat lining until he can keep blood pumping through his body. By Celestia, what time is it now Nurse Redheart?"

She looks at the clock and says, "Its 5PM now, we have been working for 14 hours now. How much longer until we are finished here, I really gotta go to the bathroom?"

Dr. Greymare replies, "I know how you feel, I have to go too. Can you two handle this while we go relieve ourselves and come right back?" He finishes stitching together the last few holes in the punctured liver and waits for an answer.

Doc Top says, "Hurry back you two, we have a ways to go yet with the repairs before even attempting to run another bag through him. We wasted one bag trying to keep his circulation going, we won't be making that mistake again. Ok Fauna, let's tackle another blood vessel that was severed. You are doing good so far, you should attend classes for becoming a surgeon, you have the talent for it." He notices another pony replace her and continues to keep the area clean for them to see and work.

Nurse Redheart goes to the bathroom first before she makes a mess, washes her hands and goes to the waiting room to provide an update to the ones waiting so patiently in the waiting room for news on the surgery and clears her throat and says, "We are not out of the woods yet, but we are making great progress on repairing the injuries. I am sorry I can't tell you more at this current time for we still have a ways to go yet before he is out of danger, I must return to surgery now. We will inform you when he is out of danger finally." She then swiftly makes her way back to surgery and takes the nurses place, providing suction for them as Doc Top puts down his needle when Dr. Greymare returns from the restroom to go himself.

He swiftly tosses his gloves into a bin and exits the room, heading for the bathroom to relieve himself and closes the stall door behind him. He takes care of business and washes his hands and heads back into surgery to continue working, a nurse keeps him sterile and puts the glooves on for him and he steps up to the body to continue working on one of his damaged legs saying, "I don't know how he was able to keep moving on a shattered leg like this without screaming in pain, I guess the body is capable of great things when adrenaline kicks in and takes the pain away."

A grotesque, floating black mass appears in the room, made of tentacles and blinking eyeballs and introduces itself saying, "Greetings, mortals. My name is Hermaeus Mora, and I am here to aid you in your efforts to save my champion. Do you accept my assistance?"

Several of the nurses in the room shriek at seeing the creature appear out of nowhere like that and offers his assistance yelling, "DEMON!!"

Doc Top sighs and says, "What do you want in exchange for your assistance, foul creature?"

Hermaeus Mora answers, "I want nothing from you at all, this assistance will be free of charge. I am quite fond of Bayott, he has helped me sort out a few issues in the ages past."

He breathes a sigh in relief and says, "Thank you, then we accept this assistance. For I doubt we would be able to save him if this goes on any longer than four more hours."

The mass blinks an eye in confirmation and says, "Very well then, I shall do my best to keep him with us. We will be here for ten more hours before he is out of danger. Let us begin working, there's not a moment to lose." He then conjures a mist that flows into Bayott's mouth and forces it to continue working though it tries to refuse the help.

Ten hours later in surgery

Hermaeus says, "There, now that all the blood vessels have been repaired, he can sustain life on his own. I will remove my mist and leave the rest of the work to your capable hands, farewell young mortals."

Doc Top sighs in relief as the creepy black mass winks out of existence, leaving the rest of the repairs for them to handle and says, "Whew, that was definitely an interesting creature. I wonder why he is so fond of the patient to earn the offer of aiding us in preserving his life. Those are questions for a different time when he recovers though, let us start finishing up the final touches."

Two hours later in the waiting room

Twilight Celestia are all pacing worriedly in the waiting room, hoping that someone tells them something soon or they are going to go insane from not knowing as Nurse Redheart rounds the corner looking very tired and haggard saying, "It took another ten hours before he was stable enough to close up. He is in recovery room 101, who will be paying for the hefty bill for the 24 hour long surgery and treatment afterwards? Once he is strong enough to leave, we strongly recommend he gets a bath, goes to the spa, and gets physical therapy for the shattered femur he suffered during the fight with the dragon. I have other patients to check on, if you excuse me."

Celestia says to Nurse Redheart, "The Two rulers of Equestria shall be paying for the expenses, please send the bill to us. Thank you for seeing him so soon, sorry to ask but can you tend to Shadowmere? She hasn't complained but her wing is not sitting right and she is cradling her arm."

Nurse Redheart sighs and says, "Ok please come with me to the x-ray room and we will check you out." She turns and walks towards the x-ray room to take a look.

Shadowmere silently mouths a thank you to Celestia and follows her down the hall saying, "After I finish with this, I will come see you all in Bayott's room."

Twilight and the group anxiously heads to the room to see if Bayott is awake yet and sigh as he is not yet awake from the surgery saying, "I wonder if he is in the Dream Realm now, Princess Luna, what do you think?" She then turns her head to a very tired Luna that barely can keep awake as it is now night time.

Luna shakes her head side to side saying, "I'm awake, I'm awake, Twilight. I think that I can surely check to see if he is there, I sure hope I don't experience another nightmare like the vision I had to watch before. I threw up every time I watched a human being devoured or burned, or having its head chopped off. Can you please come with me sister, I'm scared of what I will find there." She then settles down gently by the foot of the hospital bed as her sister joins her, they are both amazed at how far his legs stick off the edge of the bed and enter the Dream Realm together when Twilight decides to join them out of curiosity.

Inside the Dream Realm

Luna spots Celestia and Twilight beside her and sighs saying, "Thank you for accompanying me on this journey Twilight, but I fear you may be scarred forever if you see what horrors lie beyond his door. Do you still wish to come with us?"

Twilight beams with confidence and smiles saying, "Of course I insist on coming with, I love learning new things. This is just a new opportunity to learn something I didn't know before, so of course I am not going to miss out on this chance."

She then smiles back and says, "Very well then, let us get going then." She leads them down the very long path that leads to an isolated door far off in the distance, separate from the doors of the inhabitants in Equestria.

It seems like they have been walking for hours when the door finally comes into Luna's view. She sees a very different door than the one she saw in the vision, it is a black door emitting black mist with a red skull on the front of it. As Luna hears an eerie heart beat coming from the door, she tries to open it by pushing on it.

The skull on the door replies in a super fucking creepy quiet whistling voice saying, "What...is the foundation of life?" waiting patiently for an answer, the heartbeat continues.

An eerie shiver runs down their spines as Luna tries to think of an answer when Twilight answers, "Isn't the answer Death?"

The skull answers in its creepy voice saying, "Your answer is correct, Welcome home." and then unlocks itself to allow passage.

Luna leads the way through the door and has to ask, "H-How did you think of that answer Twilight?"

She answers with a sly grin saying, "Umm, I was just taking a wild guess at it because there is a video game series that Spike told me about that has this creepy black door where you have to answer it with 'Silence my brother' or you won't be able to enter it. I think he called the game Skyrim." Then something clicks in her mind and she stops in her tracks and realizes that the game is too similar to the game to be a coincidence and says, "Wait a minute...Bayott is a Dragonborn. The character in that game is a Dragonborn, I will have to check this out myself, but I think the game is somehow based on real events from the past."

Celestia and Luna both look at Twilight with a serious look and both say, "We will check this out with you Twilight, this is most interesting indeed." They arrive in a dark room where Luna spots a barely visible wooden red door with blood and black smoke oozing out from between the gaps in the planks.

Luna walks up to the door and turns the knob when blood falls out of the door, covering the floor under them and retreats back into the frame, taking them with it into the world where Bayott is reliving his darkest moments in his life as Luna weeps saying, "OH NO! Not this again..." she breaks down and starts crying when she lets Nightmare Moon out of her cage, full of pent up rage and anger, letting her deal with the horrors of his life.

Inside Bayott's dream

Twilight and Celestia step away from Luna as they watch her colors change into those belonging to Nightmare moon. They both gulp audibly and wait to see what Nightmare Moon is going to do now that she is free.

Nightmare Moon bellows in the royal voice, "AT LAST I AM FREE ONCE MOOORE!! PONYVILLE AND EQUESTRIA SHALL BE MINE TO RULE, HAHAHAHAAA!" Her attitude changes slightly when she feels something warm, sticky and wet run around her hooves. When she looks down and sees a river of blood rising up to her knees with body parts floating by her and bumping into her legs, it seriously grosses her out and makes her say, "Where in Tartarus am I, and what is this horrendous place? This is no normal nightmare!"

Celestia looks around to go back through the door, but watches as it vanishes when she tries to grab the door knob and says, "Heavens above...I think we are stuck here now girls!"

She looks at Celestia with hatred and starts charging a spell to banish her to the sun for a thousand years, but is shocked when nothing happens when the spell dissipates. Greatly annoyed at this, she asks the pony that defeated her the first time and yells, "What have you done to me, you pathetic pony!! Why is my magic not working here!!"

Just then Bayott strides forth saying, "You have no power inside of this dream where you are only a traveler at seeing what I wish for you to see, I see evil and hatred inside your heart and mind. I will show you where that will lead you by letting you watch the worst events of my life, after that I will find out if you still want to continue down this path or change your ways. Let us begin, follow me."

Nightmare Moon calls out to him as he starts walking away saying, "Who art thou to command thee in such a way! Introduce yourself at once!"

He then grumbles loudly at Nightmare Moon, warning her not to test his patience and says, "My name is Bayott, I am the last Dragonborn, I am both a hero and a butcher of thousands. My name is known far and wide in this world by every bandit that tries to take up residence in any old tomb or cave. Even the dead are weary of me, for I have stopped Potema from resurrecting and taking up her rightful crown since her family is all dead and gone. Hell, I even faced Alduin the World Eater and defeated him twice. You would be wise not to anger me or I will tear you limb from limb and let Luna take your place as the only living consciousness inside of it."

She starts shaking and nearly wets herself at being put in her place like that, arousing her a little. She regains her composure, then she plays along and says, "Ok, where do we go first?"

Bayott first says, "I recommend getting out of that river first, or does standing knee deep in the blood of innocents get you off?"

Nightmare moon fights the urge to throw up and hurries out of the river and says, "My name is Nightmare Moon, I...apologize for being rude. Please take us where you need us to go."

He smiles and says, "Respect goes a lot farther than threats doesn't it? We don't need to travel anywhere, this is inside of my mind. I will allow you to exit when I permit it." The river of blood and body parts disappears as a scene begins to play out inside of his mind, showing them the events of what happened at the town of Riften where he butchered a cruel woman and where that led him.

Twilight and Celestia watched in fear at the numerous murders he committed and the ghastly things he did to distract the guards to get away from them. Nightmare Moon is unfazed by seeing the things he has done during his time spent with the Dark Brotherhood saying, "Well it certainly looks like you know how to have a good time, show me another."

Bayott thinks for a moment and begins playing his time with the Companions and what he did on the first time he transformed and went wild saying, "Let's see how you handle this memory next."

She rolls her eyes and watches the events play out, boring her beyond measure until she sees the carnage he wreaks on Whiterun after his forced transformation and gags a little as she sees him rip bodies in half like they were paper and eating their hearts for some reason. She utterly loses it and pukes all over the floor while Celestia holds a trembling Twilight under her wing, shielding her eyes from seeing the blood soaked horror of his rage towards the Silver Hand members. Getting herself back under control she says, "Is that all you have to show me oh great terror?" Her confidence trembles, not feeling too sure about being able to handle something a little worse than that.

He grumbles, not really wanting to show them this but has no choice and says, "I am sorry for the trauma I am about to inflict on you two, but I must change her mind if she is going to become stronger than letting her rage and hate rule her. This last one I am about to show you is what happened when The Great War was reignited and what I did to those that I truly hated." Just then, the area around them changes to a snowy terrain as a grand army of around 50,000 pissed off Nords, Khajiits, Dark Elves, Werewolves, Vampires, Draugr, The Greybeards, Paarthurnax and many other dragons, and Stormcloak remnants marched against the Aldmeri Dominion appears in front of them as they look down from a small cliff. He then begins to play the memory out after telling them who and what the various beings in the army were.

Nightmare Moon, Celestia and Twilight watch with horror as they watched, seeing what Bayott did to those that surrender or try to run. Nightmare Moon begins to tear up as he sees him order the slaughter of every single High Elf they find. She places her hands over her eyes with her fingers spread as tears flow like a river down her cheeks as she sobs when Bayott begins to skin Thalmor agents alive to get information and then burn them to death after they answer him. Unable to handle the horror and screaming any more she finally breaks and screams, "NO MORE! NO MORE PLEASE, I CAN'T TAKE THE SCREAMING ANY LONGER!"

Bayott dismisses the memory as he walks up to a bawling, Nightmare Moon rocking back and forth with her head buried in her knees with her long ethereal hair covering her face. He bends down and slides a part of the hair in front of her face hiding her eyes from him and lays it behind her ear and says, "Do you understand where Rage and Hatred get you, Nightmare Moon? They will get you nowhere in life but misery and loneliness, will you change your ways to better benefit Equestria? Many of my closest friends were lost in that great war because I let my rage and hatred rule my actions instead of using my head, strategy, knowledge and listening to my friend's advice when they offered it."

She slowly stops rocking back and forth to look up at him with one starry, moderate cyan eye showing and says while sniffling in between, "I-I-I will try to change my ways and learn to not let my anger and hatred control me. Will you help me if I get stuck along my way to recovery?"

He lifts the other part of her hair away and lays it behind her ear and says, "Only if you promise to aid me whenever I need help against Alduin when I am ready to face him again. Do we have an agreement Moonie, or do I have to kiss you for being too adorable just like Celestia is when she is flustered? Oh by the way, I do remember when you kissed me Celestia, it could have been a bit better."

Celestia's face turns bright red in embarrassment as smoke comes out of her ears, her mind to overheated to think properly, and tries to talk saying, "But, but, but...That wasn't..." she scrambles to find words and tries again saying, "I...I never...really...had a...choice..."

Bayott winks at Nightmare Moon and she gets the hint and says, "Oh, so then why did you slip him the tongue while he was asleep in the alcove huh?

She struggles to form a coherent thought as her coat changes color to a dark beet red and she falls into Twilight's arms and snuggles into her hold saying, "I couldn't help myself, I was curious what it would be like to kiss someone..."

Twilight is flabbergasted at hearing that baited confession and is only able to say, "HUH?! I-I don't understand Princess Celestia, you willingly kissed him just because you never kissed anypony before?!"

Celestia sighs and says, "It is in the past now, let us move past that moment and deal with the situation at hand." She then looks at Moonie and says, "Please return control to Luna so we can deal with her newly acquired inability to face the horrors that lie within Bayott's mind."

Moonie sighs and says, "If I must, but I shall see you all another time. I look forward to duel you one day to see how skilled you are. Goodbye everypony, sweet nightmares to you!" She winks at them and retreats back inside of Luna, letting her have control.

As Luna comes to, her body reverts to it's original coloring and sobs while saying, "Please don't make me see these horrid things anymore, I want out of here!"

He sighs, then walks up to her and says, "Do not worry young one, you have friends that will help guide you through what scares you. There are many moments in my life that are scary, some creatures are even scarier." He then runs a finger through her hair and lightly rubs one of her ears.

Her sobs slowly come to a stop as she tilts her head into his hand and makes a soft coo noise, and immediately blushes as she realized she did that out loud and turns to glare at him then says in a deeply embarrassed tone, "I-I-I don't want to be petted like some pet, so stop that! I am a princess of Equestria you know!"

Bayott chuckles at her embarrassed tone and says, "Yes you are, but you are very cute sometimes without meaning to be." He then begins to reach out to rub her cheek with his thumb.

Luna sees him reaching to pet her again and bites his hand quickly, making him pull it back in shock and she warns him and says, "I will not tell you again, I am not a pet. Next time you touch me, you will lose a finger."

He rubs the side of his throbbing hand where Luna bit him and says, "I sure hope I don't get rabies from that bite, I will keep my hands to myself then and spoil those who want me to pet them."

Twilight and Celestia are both rolling on the floor laughing at what just happened as Twilight gasps for air and says, "That was a priceless reaction, I can't wait until you recover and come stay with me." She then eventually stops rolling on the floor laughing and stands up with a serious face and says, "I will have to do several repairs to the town as well as my castle that stupid Numinex wrecked!"

She glares in annoyance at Bayott and says, "I can't believe you just offered him a place to stay with you, Twilight. You better watch yourself while he is around you, I feel that he may be a pervert!"

Bayott squints his eyes at her in irritation and yells, "Hey, I have been asleep for seventy thousand years by the way. For your information, I am not a pervert because I have not slept with a female yet. I am definitely not attracted to men, I still find it hard to believe that I never checked to see if Shadowmere was a male or female while she was with me. I will definitely be working to make it up to her in the days to come."

Twilight and Luna look at him and fall to the floor laughing as Luna says, "I can't believe it, you're a seventy thousand year old virgin!" Twilight holds her stomach as she gasps for air.

Celestia clears her voice and frowns at the two hysterically laughing girls and says in the royal voice, "I for one, do not find this funny at all! Pull yourselves together and put yourself in his shoes, he most likely did not have the time or luxury to find the right one for him."

The two princesses stop laughing immediately and stand back up and feel bad for laughing at him as Twilight says, "I'm so sorry for laughing at you Bayott, I understand if you don't want to stay with me until you find a place of your own to call home."

As Luna apologizes to him as well, Bayott waves a hand in the air, dismissing their apologies and says, "Don't worry about it, I actually found that really funny myself. Perhaps I should have found time to fool around with Aela or Ysolda when I had the chance to, but you are right about me not having enough time to do so. While Alduin was going around resurrecting dead dragons, I was clearing out ancient ruins to find words of power that were scattered around Skyrim. I believe I have cleared out a few hundred of them before I tried to face Alduin the first time, I was able to greatly weaken him but not end his life. After a bit, I trapped one of his allies and got them to aid me by taking me to Sovngarde, in the realm of Aetherius as the world of the dead is called. I then met three heroes of old Hakon, Gormlaith, and Feldir, who then aided me in breaking his power over Sovngarde and make him face us in battle. It took quite a while for us to finally kill him, but I never was granted his soul." He then brings himself back to tell her, "I will stick to your kind offer Princess Twilight. If I don't stay with you, I would have to stay in that smelly old ruin. I hope you can find a place at your home to store the stuff I have."

The three princesses gawk at him in stunned amazement as Twilight manages to answer first saying, "YOU HAVE BEEN TO THE PLACE WHERE THE SOULS OF PONIES GO WHEN THEY DIE?!?! Ohmygosh, ohmygosh, ohmygosh I can't wait to find out what you know of there."

Luna quickly interjects saying, "So would we Twilight, but I can sense this dream is fading. So we will have to discuss it later, let us leave this place before he comes to."

He smiles and says to her, "Well to be honest, I was just there a little while ago. I had to wait in line to meet Tsun the bridge guardian, when I met Summer's Day and Colonel Cluster Apple. We spoke for awhile and they both thanked me for stopping the dragon that attacked some town called Brayville, the campsite outside Ustengrav, and a few ponies from Ponyville."

Twilight hangs her head in sadness and sobs saying, "I-I knew Summer's Day, she was kind and was learning how to garden from Applejack and Forsythia. There are going to be a lot of very sad ponies today when we find and bury the bodies."

Bayott walks up to Twilight as she sobs and pulls her into a hug and says, "The sadness will pass young one, Alduin will be stopped by my hands once more. This time it will be permanent, for I may try to think up a new shout to use on him."

She wraps her arms around him and continues to cry it out and says, "I sure hope you find a way to deal with him soon, because there is going to be more sorrow and pain until he is dealt with."

As he starts to feel the dream beginning to fade away, He watches as it starts to disappear and breaks the hug to look in her eyes and say, "It is time for you to return to the waking world, for this dream is beginning to fade away. I will be seeing you in a bit young one. Hope is not lost, for it is always darkest right before the dawn."

Celestia looks around and sees the door appear before her and she turns to the others and says, "The door has appeared girls, lets return now so we can inform the others that he is going to be ok." She then turns and heads for the door, and prepares to open it for the other two when they get to her.

Luna walks to her sister and stands close to her while she waits for Twilight to get there and says, "I sure hope he doesn't have any nightmares that I need to deal with."

Bayott then thinks of something after remembering that those two raise the sun and moon and asks, "So if you two control the sun and moon, who is continuing the cycle now?"

Twilight is making her way towards the door when she hears Luna and Celestia say in unison, "Oh no! We were gone for over two weeks, things are going to be so hard to catch the cycle up!" She then races towards the door as Celestia opens it for them to walk through and says, "Worry not Princess Celestia, we will have to think of a schedule and come up with a way to make up for the time we were away."

His necklace begins glowing as a female voice fills his head saying, "Please tell them what I say Bayott, it is important they hear this. Do not worry about that, my little ponies. I have been continuing the night and day cycle while you were away, this is the last day I will be able to raise the sun. I am tired and need to rest, I shall leave the moon raising to you Luna." He parrots the words for her as Celestia spins around with a shocked expression.

Celestia is shocked to hear that somepony has been handling the momentus task for them and asks, "Who could have done this for us, nopony we know can handle such a difficult task?"

Bayott then looks to the necklace and asks it, "What is your name, I don't know your voice?"

The melodic voice sounds once more and says, "I have many names, Harmony, Equestria, Mundus, Equus. I am the one that created the Elements of Harmony, I am the spirit of this planet you all live on, please just call me Melody."

As he repeats what she said, Celestia says, "I can't believe the Goddess is speaking to us! Thank you so much for doing that for us, we did not know we were gone for two weeks until Mara told us."

Melody's voice fades from Bayotts mind saying, "You are welcome little ones, you better get going or you may wind up trapped here. I shall see you all again one day, goodbye for now."

They all walk out through the door as Celestia closes it behind her and runs after Luna and Twilight who are starting to run for the other door to exit Bayott's dream. As she passes through the other door and closes it, it changes shape into the black stone door with a red skull on it. She then turns back around and catches up with Luna and Twilight and they begin making their way out of the Dream Realm.

As Luna leads them out of the Dream Realm, the doors begin to disappear as the ponies wake up from sleep. While the once pitch black realm around them begins to slowly turn a dull greyish white, she finally sees the door that leads out to the waking world and says, "We are almost there girls, we need to hurry! This Realm won't last much longer as the ponies keep waking up." She opens the door in a hurry and watches as Twilight and Celestia go through it first and follows after them, closing it behind her as she returns to her body.

Back inside the waking world

Celestia, Luna, and Twilight get up off the floor and look at the curious group of ponies in the room when Luna says, "He is alive and shall return to us soon, it is a miracle that he even survived the major surgery that lasted a full day. I wonder how long it will take him to heal from those injuries?"

Twilight hears movement on the bed and turns her head to look at the heavily bandaged form of Bayott, when she sees him move she says, "He is waking up Everypony, stay calm and let him come around first before you pepper him with questions."

Rainbow Dash squints at Twilight and says, "Like we're the ones you have to worry about doing that??"

She chuckles and lightly blushes then says, "I can't help that I am a curious pony with a thousand questions for everything."

Bayott slowly comes to and squints as the lights of the room are too bright and says, "Damn, someone turn off the sun please, it's too bright in here."

Princess Skystar walks over and flips the switch off and sends the room into darkness and says, "There you go, anything else we can help you with?"

He looks at her in a daze and says, "A kiss would help me wake up faster, if you wouldn't mind."

Before anypony can protest, she walks right over and kisses his hand and giggles as she says, "Nice try Romeo, you are going to have to work harder to get a kiss on the lips mister." She then blows him a raspberry teasingly and goes back beside her mother with a smile.

Bayott chuckles and says, "I guess that will have to do for now, how long was I being worked on?"

Just then Nurse Redheart comes into the room and says, "Wow I'm surprised you're up so soon, you were on the table for twenty-four hours! So how are you feeling today, any pain anywhere, feeling lightheaded at all?"

He looks at the nurse and says, "Well I am feeling a little woozy, hospitals have come a very, very long way since when I was fighting against the Stormcloaks. The hospitals then were, well to put it mildly...very bloody. There were several amputations, the limbs were chopped off if they couldn't be healed by magic, it bothered me that so few could use the greater healing spells."

Nurse Redheart put a hand over her mouth as she got an image of what it must of been like back then and says, "That is expected for the morphine we have going through the IV into your body, a side effect of it is drowsiness. You will be in here for a couple weeks due to the severity of your wounds, after that we will put a cast on your leg because your femur was broken in two places due to where the teeth had punctured your leg."

Bayott grins and says to her, "Wanna see a magic trick?"

She cocks her head and says, "Sure, what will that be?"

He continues to grin and answers her, "Remove the IV for now, replace it if it doesn't work completely ok?"

She tries to listen to her training and refuse to take out the IV but her curiosity wins over it and says, "U-Uhm...okay, I guess I can do that if I can put it back in if it doesn't work. What are you going to show us that requires the removal of the IV though?"

An idea pops into Twilight's head and she starts to say, "Don't tell me...that you can..." when she is cut off by Bayott holding a finger to his lips.

Bayott then softly says to her, "Shh just watch the trick I'm about to show you Twilight!" He waits for the nurse to finish taking the IV out to ready the spell.

Nurse Redheart clamps the tube closed and gets ready to replace the needle if it should be needed and says, "There you go, the IV is out of your arm. What are you going to show us?"

He then smiles and brings up both hands and prepares the two-handed spell he came up with while he was the Archmage at the College of Winterhold. He then charges up the spell to its required amount of magic and says to them, "I'm sorry if this is a little bright for you all but watch the results of this spell I came up with during my time as the Archmage of the College of Winterhold." He then casts the spell and tosses the ball of brightly shining golden yellow light a short distance, and then waits for it to strike his body and begin making the repairs needed.

Twilight struggles to wrap her head around how he can be a grand teacher of magic and feels immense magic coming from the ball of light and watches as it falls back towards Bayott, striking his chest and bursts apart to cover his entire body in the same golden-yellow glow of the ball of light and she can't help but say, "There is a lot of magic coming from that spell you just cast, that is more than the amount of magic I have right now."

Bayott stiffens up as the spell begins to take effect, causing his body to heat up a little bit as his wounds and bones begin to knit themselves back together and grunts loudly in discomfort saying, "God this part always sucks because of the heat it causes when putting things back together." His body begins to slowly heat up even more as the rest of the bones begin to fuse back together like they once were. The last of the wounds knit each other back together as the spell releases his body and disappears, letting him relax his body slowly as the heat begins to dissipate.

Nurse Redheart hangs the IV on the machine and rushes over to look at the state of his wounds saying, "You moron, why would you do something like that to your body when you are still recovering from surgery a few hours ago..." She stops mid sentence as she looks under one of the many bandages on his body, she is completely dumbfounded at what she sees. She begins to remove the bandages one by one as she checks them, finding nothing but scar tissue where there were horrendous wounds and says, "Im-Impossible!" She continues to remove more bandages and finds more scar tissue and says, "H-How can this be! The wounds are all gone, only thing that shows they were here is scar tissue. Just what in Celestia's name did you do!!"

He grins and sits up saying, "Well you see, I was fooling around testing a few spells one day when I thought, 'How great would it be if one spell could speed the recovery time of someone's injuries from battle and return their body to its original state?' The sad thing is that it can't restore the fluids that were lost after the wound was inflicted up to when the spell was cast. It took several tests to get it right with the help of our expert in restoration magic, Colette, who would test the spell I came up with and made corrections on it, and the Orc librarian Urag Gro-Shub, who broke one of my arms or legs for the test to be conducted. We succeeded after enough failed attempts, Colette really enjoyed doing the testing for that spell almost as much as Urag enjoyed breaking an arm or a leg from the lack of getting out of the library. Only downside to it though is that it does require quite a bit of magic to successfully cast it though."

Twilight Looks to Celestia and Luna and asks, "Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, do you two think you have enough magic to cast that spell?"

They look at each other and Celestia says, "With how strong the magic was compared to what we have, It might prove difficult at best to hope to succeed at using it. Star Swirl and Twilight may have to learn what they can for spells from Bayott some day and run a few tests on how to make it easier for some unicorn ponies to cast."

Nurse Redheart struggles to understand it and starts to feel like it was pointless to perform the surgery and gets mad at him and then says, "After so many hours of working on putting your body back together to save your life, you could have just cast that spell and saved yourself?! We even had help from a strange being known as Hermaeus Mora to help save you!"

Bayott growls angrily and says, "Wait a minute, did you just say that Hermaeus Mora helped you save my life? What did he ask you to do in return for it?"

She jumps back and gulps at his sudden outrage at hearing that name and answers, "He said he didn't want anything at all, that the assistance he provided us was free this time because he is quite fond of you and that you helped him in the past with some issues. Why are you angry at hearing his name?"

He grumbles in annoyance and says, "Because the First Dragonborn was in his service and betrayed his true calling, when I was formally recognized as Dragonborn, he sent his acolytes to kill me. So, after some time hunting him down, I eventually caught up to him in the realm of Hermaeus Mora. There is tons of knowledge there if you are willing to do dirty and evil tasks for him in exchange for that knowledge. I am glad that he offered his service without a cost or a deal."

Nurse Redheart sighs in relief and says, "Ok that answers the questions I wanted to ask you once you were healthy enough to leave here."

Bayott sighs and then says, " I am saddened by the fact that I had to kill him, even though we were technically brothers. But no, the surgery saved my life. If I was able to cast that spell in that state, I likely would have died during the process due to the extent of the injuries. My body wouldn't have been able to handle the heat from the increase in temperature, so the surgery was vital in saving my life. Thank you very much for spending that much time and effort to repair the damage that was done to my body and saving my life."

A smile crosses her face as she tosses the bloody bandages into a waste bin and says, "I guess if you are feeling strong enough, we can see if you can walk yet?"

He grins and says, "That is a great idea, thank you nurse... What is your name, sorry?" He then swings his legs over the edge of the too small hospital bed and scooches closer to the edge so his legs reach the ground. He waits patiently for the nurse to come help support him in case he falls.

Nurse Redheart comes over and helps pull him onto his feet and says, "My name is Nurse Redheart, it is a pleasure to meet you. Do watch your head when you try to fully stand up, the door frame might be a bit low for you since you are really quite tall."

Bayott looks at her with a smile and says, "Let's see if I have the strength to get up..." He then places two hands on the bed and starts to push himself to his feet and stumbles back on the bed. He tries again and this time, he puts more muscle strength into his legs as he pushes up and manages to get to his feet and starts to take a few steps slowly. He manages to make it to the door without stumbling and looks back to her and says, "Thank you for all you have done for me if you ever need my aid, please feel free to send a courier to hunt me down to deliver a letter."

She smiles at him and says, "Don't try going anywhere just yet because you have to be checked out and there is paperwork to fill out and we need to schedule a series of tests to start a medical record on you once the town is back in order and we are less busy trying to save other pony's lives. So wait right here and I will have a nurse bring in the forms." She then leaves the room to go tell the clerk to bring the patient the forms necessary to check him out.

Shadowmere enters the room and sees Bayott already fully healed and says, "You just had to test that spell of yours didn't you, you pain in the ass? The least you could do is cast it on me too when your magic recovers!" She smiles at him and punches his shoulder and says, "Heh, I bet if you tell Jarl Balgruuf that you killed Numinex, he will lead the toast to commemorate you killing him."

He pulls her into a gentle hug, being careful of her injured arm and wing and says, "I sure will do that when we get out of here and start to help with the reparations to this town. It is going to be tough getting over the loss of my Wife Ysolda and two adopted daughters Lucia and Sofie, as well as all the people I met and saved in the past. It will take some time to get past their loss, but time heals all wounds right Shadowmere?"

She holds him close and rubs his head and says, "Yes it does sir, one day you will see them all again when you are no longer needed to protect this world from Alduin."

Bayott sighs and pulls away from her and says, "You know you really should put some better clothes on because you have nice curves and such soft fur."

Shadowmere blushes and whacks him upside the head with her good arm and says, "Stop saying such perverted things or people will think that you really are one!"

He laughs at that and says, "I can't help it, it is fun teasing you because you blush every time I say something about your body."

Just then a nurse knocks on the door and walks into the room with the small stack of papers that Nurse Redheart asked her to prepare and bring them to the patient in room 101 and says, "Here are the papers that you need to sign and fill out before you are signed out today. Please let us know when a good day would be, to set up a full series of exams to start your medical file once this latest emergency has passed for Ponyville, and we are not quite so busy."

Bayott takes the forms and says, "Does anyone have something I can write with?"

Twilight pulls out one of her older quills and inkwell thinking it might be more familiar to him than a ball point pen and says, "Here you go. Its an old quill I used, up until they created pens that contain ink to write with, though I still prefer to use quills instead. You can use it until you find time to acquire some of your own."

He smiles and sets the forms aside, then accepts the quill and inkwell saying, "I am glad that some things haven't gone out of use yet. This is indeed familiar to me. I must ask though, has the written language changed through the years? If so, then I may have to learn it to be able to read and write in today's words."

She pulls out a small pad and holds it out for him and says, "Can you write something on here for us to look at and see if we can read it at all?"

As Bayott looks for a flat surface to write on and place the inkwell on and lays the quill down and pulls the rolling table over to him and sets the inkwell down on it and picks the quill up in his right hand and then takes the pad from her saying, "Hmm... what should I write down?" He then thinks of something and accesses the knowledge he has of the written form of the dragon language and writes down a couple things and then hands it back to her saying, "Here you go, let's find out if you can read it at all."

Twilight looks at the pad and looks at the top set of writing and see a series of wierd scratches and dots and says, "What in Tartarus are these marks at the top? These were on that wall in Ustengrav." She then looks at the other one down below and sighs saying, "Just as I thought, you would have to learn Ponish to be able to understand words, messages, books, and forms these days. Ugh, more work for me...yay!"

He chuckles and says, "Oh well, I guess it is only natural that those languages have been completely forgotten by now. The one on top is the written form of the dragon language, the bottom one is Nordic and it says, "I am Dragonborn, my name is Bayott." I guess one of you shall have to fill in the information for me" He then hands the pile of papers towards Twilight for her to take them.

Celestia takes the stack of forms from him before Twilight is able to grab them and says, "I will fill the information out as you tell me what to write in each box, so lets begin with your full name and birthday?"

Bayott scrunches his face in thought as he tries to remember what it is and says, "I believe my full name was Bayott Hearth-Spring, and I was born...let's see here. I was 22 when I saw Alduin attack and destroy Helgen, it was Sundas the 17th of Last Seed of the fourth era in the year 201. I was born on Middas the 19th of Frost Fall of the fourth era in the year 179. I was 33 years old when I was told to travel to Ustengrav and slumber until I was needed once more."

They all cock their heads at hearing his birthday as Twilight says, "Uhm...I'm sorry, how did your calendar work back then?"

He sighs and says, "Well from the beginning of a new year to the end, it goes: Morning Star, Sun's Dawn, First Seed, Rain's Hand, Second Seed, Mid Year, Sun's Height, Last Seed, Hearthfire, Frost Fall, Sun's Dusk, and Evening Star. For the standard working week, it starts with: Morndas, Tirdas, Middas, Turdas, Fredas, Loredas, and Sundas."

Twilight writes down the names of the months and days and figures out what month it would be and tells her, "I did a comparison and he was born on Wednessday the 19th of October of the 4E in the year 179 age is 33. If you must be technical about it he is 70,033 years old, making him your senior as oldest living being in existence."

Celestia narrows her eyes at Twilight, sighs and then says, "Don't remind me of that Twilight..." she then writes the birthday down and notates both years of age though it greatly annoys her and continues onto the next box, asking for the information to put in there.

As they spend about a half hour filling in the information necessary to satisfy the forms, Celestia hands them to the nurse and says to the nurse, "Please send the bill to Princess Luna and I, for we will pay for the surgery from the royal treasury."

The nurse takes the forms and bows saying, "Yes Your Highnesses, please be sure to sign the outpatient roster at the Reception Desk before you leave and we hope you have a better day."

Bayott then walks to the Reception desk with Princess Celestia, Luna, and Twilight, as Queen Novo, her daughter Princess Skystar, and Princess Ember and friend Smolder follow after them. He then says, "Does some kind of danger always happen in this town?"

Princess Twilight chuckles nervously and says, "Well... I would hate to admit it, but it does seem to happen every wednessday or friday. Everypony has learned to be on alert on those days of the week."

He then waits as Princess Celestia signs the outpatient roster before turning towards the door to exit the hospital, he resumes to follow after her and says, "Where are the others at? I haven't seen them around at all."

Princess Celestia sighs and continues down the hall towards the doors that lead outside and says, "Some of them have been busy working to put out the fires and gather the ponies that fled from Ponyville to get to safety when Numinex attacked, the others have been busy tending to the wounded and bring them to the hospital to receive treatment. So far, about 20 ponies from Ponyville have died here today, I am awaiting further information on the camp and the town of Brayville that were attacked just the other day. We haven't notified Applejack of her relative's death yet, we thought it would be best to come from an eyewitness as well as a friend." She then looks at Bayott, not realizing that her eyes are beginning to change color and her hair is beginning to smoke and yells, "This Alduin must...be...stopped by any means necessary, ensure that they pay the price for causing such misery and pain to the citizens of Equestria!"

He backs up and wishes he had his battle axe with him and wonders what to do when he hears Princess Luna yell at her older sister in the royal voice saying, "Princess Celestia, that is no way to condone thou's behavior! Gain control over thyself and correct the wrong thy hast done to him!"

She snaps her head towards her sister after hearing how she just scolded her and hangs her head and regains control over her emotions and her eyes and hair return to normal and takes a deep breath and hangs her head in shame and says, "I'm so sorry I lost my temper like that Bayott, I was just so upset at how many ponies have perished at the hands of a single dragon from your time and let my anger take control. Please forgive me for doing something so extremely harsh and unfair to you."

Bayott covers his ears at how loudly she scorned her sister and says, "At this rate I'm gonna go deaf with how loud you two can be, any ideas on how to protect your hearing when they do that?"

Luna glares at Bayott in annoyance at how he pokes at how loud the royal voice is and scoffs when she hears Twilight giggle and removes a pair of ear plugs from her ears and says, "I'm sorry Bayott I should have offered you a pair of these but I didn't have any others I could offer you, but you can buy them at a General Store in Canterlot. You should make a trip there one day when you have the time."

He taps the side of his head with one hand, trying to get rid of the ringing. Sighing in relief as the ringing finally stops he says, "I will have to do that when I have a chance, maybe one of you could show me around there. Oh by the way... where might my armor and weapons be located, I feel a bit... drafty... if you get my drift."

Queen Novo and Skystar are looking off to the right with bright red faces, while Princess Ember and Smolder are also heavily blushing and looking off to the left trying to pretend they didn't see anything either, when Shadowmere decides to torment them a little bit by saying, "He is rather gifted isn't he girls?"

Twilight looks back in shock as their faces get redder and they continue to look off to the sides and decides to change the topic by saying, "Yes I do, they moved it into the closet inside your room. It does needs cleaning, and heavy repairs too so you will have to go to a blacksmith in Canterlot to repair the metal pieces. Rarity might be able to repair the cloth parts for you."

Bayott looks at Twilight and says to her with a smile on his face and says, "Lead the way Princess Twilight." He then follows her down the hall back to his room for his equipment.

A half hour passes as she waits for him to get his armor back on and talks with him about various things, like what the world was like back then and is shocked to learn that it had mammoths and giants that were even taller than he was. When he finally steps out from behind of the curtain, she sees that his armor is covered in dried blood and says, "I-I could cast a spell to remove that dried blood from your equipment, some ponies might freak out at seeing it all covered in blood and try to offer you aid or to take you back to the hospital."

He then looks around for the battle axe he had and can't seem to find it and says, "Do you know where my battle axe is by chance, I can't seem to locate it? That would be very kind of you to do Princess Twilight, I wouldn't want to cause a panic when there is already panic outside."

Twilight smiles and casts a spell around him to remove the dried blood, sweat, and filth that stick to the armor and says, "Yeah it is still stuck in the ground, over where you removed Numinex's head yesterday. We can go get that after we exit the hospital okay?"

Bayott smiles back and answers her, "That was amazing Princess Twilight, I might have to study what magic you ponies are capable of once we get the town back in order. I would like that very much, I don't like to leave good weapons lying about where anyone can take it."

As they make their way back to the group to head outside, Twilight says, "Okay then, but you don't have to worry about anyone trying to steal anything that doesn't belong to them. Ponyville is a place where you can trust each other."

They return to the group as Ember turns her head and sees the extensive damage to the armor and whistles saying, "Wow, Numinex really treated you like a chew toy and a rag doll didn't he?"

He smiles and chuckles saying, "Yeah he sure did, he was one of the strongest and most ruthless dragons that ever served Alduin. I think that was the only time I have ever been inside a dragons mouth, I surely hope I don't get swallowed alive next because that would be a major pain and bloodbath for the dragon and my greatest fear."

Princess Celestia clears her throat and says, "Well everybeing, shall we leave the hospital and aid the others in the recovery of the town?"

Bayott smiles and steps forth saying, "We are all ready to go whenever you are, but I will help out as soon as I go recover my battle axe that is still by Numinex's severed head. Like a pain in the ass I know used to say, It's not a party unless there is cheese, a severed head, and a few other things that I can't quite remember."

She puts a hand over her mouth as she recalls the moment when Numinex's head was chopped off, it being the first beheading she has ever witnessed in her life. As she takes a few deep breaths, she calms herself down and says, "Ok everybeing, let's get out there and assist the others with the rescue effort."

They all exit the hospital when Bayott spots Applejack throwing water on a still burning pile of remnants of a house and calls out to her saying, "Anyone still in there Applejack?!"

Applejack holds the empty bucket in her hand and looks back towards a standing Bayott and runs over to him, giving him a hug and saying, "Nah pardner, Ah am just putting a stop to any potential threats that might reignite and cause more fires to break out. Ah see yer walkin' about. How is that possible with the wounds you got from that fight?"

He smiles and tells her, "Well there was a spell I came up with a long time ago, I used it and it helped return my injuries to normal. The drawback of that spell is that it doesn't restore the fluids that were lost up to the moment the spell was cast."

She looks at him and sees something in his eyes that makes her curious and say, "That is really sad to hear about that, but at least you are able to help them make a complete recovery if they haven't lost too much blood. Uhm... Is there something else on your mind? You kinda give me the feeling that something is wrong."

Bayott sighs and loses the smile and pulls her into a very strong hug, lifting her off the ground and whispers in her ear, "There is something I have to tell you Applejack. While I was in the realm of the dead, Sovngarde or Aetherius as it is called. I met a couple ponies there, one from Ponyville, that was Summer's Day and the other one was a relative of yours. Her name was Colonel Cluster Apple."

Applejack's eyes grow to the size of dinner plates as she hears that a close friend and one of her cousins are dead and starts to push away from him, using more force to try to get out of his death grip he has her in and says, "L-Let me go, I-I-I want to be alone." As if he didn't hear her she yells out, "I SAID LET ME GO..."

He holds her tighter as she fights to be free, ignoring the bites and strong kicks she gives him in hopes that he drops her and says to her, "It's ok Applejack, all of your friends would do the same thing as I would right now. So let it all out, you are safe here so go on and let out your feelings. No matter what, you will always be my friend and I will support you whenever you need a hug or to talk. I know how you feel Applejack, I have lost so many of my friends that I have met. There is a saying in my world that says, Time heals all wounds."

She then begins to slowly sob and starts to say, "I-It-It hurts, please let me go it hurts!" She finally breaks down, giving in and starts bawling into his shoulder, holding him back in a strong bear hug as the dam of tears she has been holding back all day breaks and surges forth and wracks her entire body as she lets it out.