Jonathan's Wish

Jonathan’s Wish

Chapter 3

As the six mares came upon the dragon, Twilight addressed the group, “Careful girls, we don’t know if it's just faking or not. Be prepared for anything.”

They were slowly circling it when Fluttershy let out an uncharacteristically loud gasp and rushed forward. “Oh you poor, poor thing. Whatever happened to you?”

As the others came around and got a better look, they all saw a large tree branch pierced through the right wing of this dragon, rendering it incapable of flight. A pool of blood was slowly collecting below the wing.

Fluttershy turned to the group and in an authoritative manner began giving them orders. “AJ, I’m going to need your help pulling that branch out. Rainbow, make sure there aren’t anymore branches lying around for him to injure himself further on. Twi, if you can keep his muzzle closed with your magic, that should keep him from breathing fire. Pinkie, balloons, lots of balloons. Rarity, we’ll need something to clean and dress the wound.” The mares all just stared at her in shock. “Hurry girls! Before this poor thing bleeds out.” That got the others moving and before long Fluttershy had Pinkie tying balloons to the unconscious dragon and Rainbow had reported back that she had a path cleared to the barn at Sweet Apple Acres. Then it was up to Twilight, Rainbow and Fluttershy to guide the softly floating dragon out of the pear orchard so they could treat the wounds properly.

Rarity met them at the Apple’s barn with a large trunk of cotton cloth. “I was saving this for my summer line, but this is more important.” she said as she set the trunk down in front of Fluttershy.

“Thank you Rarity these will do perfectly. Now, Twilight I need you to hold him still while AJ and I remove that branch.”

“Him? How do you know that?” Rainbow interrupted.

Fluttershy sighed and pointed a hoof at the dragon’s horns. "The horns are less curvy and he doesn’t have a cloaca.”

“A what now?” Rainbow asked.

Fluttershy blushed and refused to answer so AJ took over. “The female parts for an egg layer.”

Rainbow Dash went bright red with embarrassment as she realized what she had been asking about.

“Rarity if you would hold his injured wing still while we work on it.”

“What can I do?!” Pinkie asked excitedly.

“Um, you can go plan the welcome party. He should be able to move around after we are done here.” Fluttershy responded, giving a sigh of relief when Pinkie left.

Twilight came over to Fluttershy and put a hoof around her withers. “That was good thinking. She’ll be busy for at least an hour, maybe two.” She put her hoof down and lit her horn as she said, “Ready when you are.” As the dragon was enveloped in a purple and blue aura.

Fluttershy looked to Applejack, “Okay, on the count of three give that banch a strong yank towards the rafters. Rainbow you catch it if it slips. One, two, three.”

Applejack gave a hard yank, the branch coming free and rocketing towards the rafters. If it weren’t for Rainbow it would have gone straight through the roof. Fluttershy immediately grabbed some of the cloth from Rarity’s trunk and started soaking up the blood while cleaning the wound.

After about five minutes she looked to AJ with worry on her face. “Do you have any sinew and a hooked needle? I’m going to have to sew this hole shut.”

On hearing this Rarity let out a gasp and fainted. While Applejack just shook her head. Luckily, Rainbow Dash came to the rescue. After setting the branch down outside, she had come back in to watch. “I’ll fly as fast as I can and bring back Nurse Red Heart.” She said, just before taking off at breakneck speed. It was about two minutes later that she and a teary eyed Nurse Red Heart were back.

Upon seeing the dragon, Nurse Red Heart began to panic , before Fluttershy came over and politely but firmly told the nurse that she needed help stitching up a hole in the wing or this dragon would forever be unable to fly. “Move aside, I have this.” Red Heart hesitated a bit before shaking her head and stepping up to sew the wing back together.

By the time Rainbow had returned again She was halfway through stitching up the gaping wound. That’s when the dragon started to stir.