Record of chaos- The Better six

by Sofocles the Drake

First comes the calm

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Shortly after the sound of the last cannon boomed, the rest of the team before fighting on the ground were now victorious but not unharmed. The possessed pegasus however were now subdued and mostly knocked out with shackles and restraints on limbs and wings to avoid risk.

Shortly after, the chief physician and currently the only doctor on the team began her work by organizing a triage to decide which patient to prioritize and although her priority was always Crown, Crown's back was turned and he told her for him to go last, with protest but in resignation the pegasus acted.

One of the last to be attended to was Stella, who although she received considerable damage to her leg, it was measured and was not of multiple bleeding points as was the case with several of the rescued soldiers.

Stella, however, never took her eyes off her Dragon, who had his back to her with a slight tremor visible on his body. As whis worked, Dawn continued to attract the now full mantle of unconciouss possessed pegasus towards them. Meanwhile from the team as for the team of rescued ponies some were in recovery as was also the case with Abundance.

Amber and Pillows were currently on guard aiming and shooting at the current dwindling remnants of the other possessed army still left in the city a couple of kilometers away who were still disoriented but currently reorganizing, few of them as they were, they were not completely defeated.

Whis meanwhile using a technique she had developed based on the medical principles she learned and combining her shared ability in pegasus magic control with her sister's", she used her Electrical control with a twist, in this case focusing in the electrical impulse transmission of the neurons associated with the pain of her patients, being able to suture and process them in such a way that without any need for anesthesia, she could treat them without pain since the impulse of pain never reached the brain. This only confused but greatly amazed the ponies present, who could only be dumbfounded by this "yellow angel".

"Splurt!"

Another drop of blood fell to the ground in a now small pool of blood, from the arm of the dragon, who cleverly did not withdraw the knife still placed in his arm, in order to reduce any loss of blood.

"splurt, splurt"

"huh, that was 2 at the same time..." thought Stella. This was strange to her as, normally 2 more drops or streams of blood falling simultaneously would indicate other wounds, but on single wound this is rare, as the blood "accumulates" in mini streams or single streams per wound, falling drop by drop or otherwise stream by stream.

"splurt, splurt"

The dragon merely swiped his claw/hand across his nose making a similar motion to scratching to throw heroff but immediately proceeded to use the back of his palm to avoid the blood from dropping.

With an obvious grimace Stella spoke "Turn to look at me, please." she requested in a firm but kind tone.

"..." the dragon did not respond, maintaining a silence noticeable by all those still consciously watching the scene.

"...Turn around" her tone became firmer and more brusque, similar to a command.

"Why?" the dragon asked.

This angered the pegasus, who in order not to hurt her own currently stitched and bandaged wound opted to use her wings and her undamaged leg to move; in order to make her movement in a controlled way she proceded as follows: with the left wing she made controlled movements to "levitate" as her uninjured left leg acted as a support in the brief seconds she touched the ground, while with the right wing she made controlled movements to move forwards, taking his shoulder on her right hand and with the same right wing boosting her self backwards forcing her body back as well as his wich using her arm pulled him towward her forcing him to look at her.

"I said..."
"Turn to see me!" she exclaimed briefly before immediately falling silent at the sight of her beloved's face.

His usually emerald green eyes with pearl-white sockets were now bloodshot, his ocular blood capillaries strained, an a stream of blood gushing drop by drop from his nose while a steady rhythm of inhalation and exhalation was evident in his breathing.

"Crown, what-"

"I'm fine, don't you-"

"Then why-!

"He's fine Stella, at least for now" whis's soft whisper cut through their noisy altercation like a knife through butter.

"What?! Do you know anything about this?!" Stella wanted answers!

"Dawn had told me about this, but I never saw it with my own eyes until now..." whis answered.

"It's... his nervous and vascular system" she concluded enigmatically.

"huh?!" Stella was not satisfied.

Sigh "Listen Stella, it's very simple really.

All spells or really an wich use magic/mana/energy or whatever you want to call it has an effect however minimal it may be on the body of its user's body, for obvious reasons. Now, teleportation in itself IS a VERY complex and demanding spell in itself but if you ADD factors such as: Precision, Distance, magic consumed per use, number of events per period, time between events, type of object to be transported (living or inert) then the greater the "side effect" or toll on its user..."

Stella's eyes widened like saucers as she slowly understood what was going on.

"Normally highly capable individuals such as the Princesses or even Dawn can at most do maybe 10 or 12 events "continously", before they are AT LEAST exhausted, but even then that is considering some time of cooldown in between events, that normally are of some seconds for them... and altough crown IS a little bit exceptional maybe because of his draconian nature or anotomy, IS more capable than them in this regard however, just now..."

Stella gasped

"Yes... I have no doubt that the pressure he put on a moment ago with that impressive show of what can I only assume were probably at least several dozen times in a short period of time and with virtually no cooldown between events must have put tremendous pressure on his body causing what you see now... which as I see it looks like a very high but still manageable blood pressure and nervous sistem irritation spike, since he doesn't seem to have any internal damage or
it simply appears that the pressure is such that his vascular system, in this case the capillaries in his nose broke and caused him to bleed from his nose and making his eyes blood shot..."

Letting out a nervous laugh she continued "Normally if this had been attempted by any of the three mentioned before, probably..." Whis didn't dare to continue as she looked away.

Causing the mares with the exception of Whis and Dawn to bring their hands to their mouths gasping and grasping in abstracted terror what she implied.

"I know..., but I'm not suicidal. I did it because I know my limits, it's not the first time I've explored them again, fortress knows that VERY well and I knew I could do it in '1 piece' as you can see.
see. I never said it wouldn't have any side effects though..."

"Y-you a-are a jerk, no matter how good you are, if what whis says is true, then...!" said in sibs the pegasus that now lay on the ground unable to keep herself "afloat" after
digesting everything that was happening.

The dragon just approached the mare, crouching down and hugging her abdomen from behind making a slight grimace as he endured the pain in his arm "I'm sorry, but it was necessary, besides this should show you how "abnormal" I am in a good way. Since I'm fine, whis said so too. As long as it's in my hands, I would never leave you or the people alone" whispered the dragon in her ear, then gently kissed her right cheek. "You know that, don't you?"

"..." the pegasus merely said nothing, taking his hand in hers as she nodded her head silently.

"..." the dragon smiled slightly, then turning around "Dawn, how much longer?" he asked.

"ugh!" the Unicorn exclaimed in sign of the effort she was making. "uhhmm, give me 5 more minutes?" she replied, as the magic cushion she conjured was currently bringing the incapacitated pegasus up to them at a steady speed, to subsequently carry them to safety.

"...Right. All those who are fit prepare yourselves, in exactly 5 minutes we enter phase 2 and end of this plan!" Those present fit, only replied "understood!" while the dragon went with his beloved yellow mare to begin a temporary but useful treatment before what would soon befall.

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