Author's Note

Sorry about the long wait folks! I cannot express how bad I feel for not writing for so long, but I've pretty much lost all my motivation to write these fanfics anymore. So don't expect another chapter anytime soon. I may or may not come back to this, but you'll find out if I do decide to one of these days.

Chapter 29: Sick of it

It just so happens that the moaning and groaning came from none other than Luna, your Godmother’s younger sister. With all the lights going out, it kinda put you on edge, you almost mistakened Luna to be a zombie or something. To be quite honest, she didn’t look too hot either, and she almost did look like a zombie, all sickly and pale looking. You picked her up and put a hand on her forehead, and as expected, she was burning up. It was no zombie infection, far from it actually, but a fever this high is not good at all.

“Don’t mind the white tiger in the backpack, we need to get you to the hospital or something,” anything helps at this point, having a fever while the power’s out just makes things a whole lot worse than it should be.

“The power’s out, the hospital’s miles away, the nurse’s office is filled to the brim with accidents involving the power outage, and I don’t even know where Tia is at the moment,” she explained, and there was only one place left, one place that both you and Luna called sanctuary: your dorm room.

Basically, you had everything, not because you wanted it that way, it just kinda happened. Your mom was really careful with packing all of the necessities, for those, “just in case of emergencies,” moments. You were lucky for that, you can never be too prepared for something.

“Thanks for doing this, I owe you one.”

“Don’t mention it, I was planning on trying out your PS4 anyways,” you let out an empty laugh, but this was no laughing matter.

You passed by your locker, stashed your backpack in there, Neko jumped out before you did so. She followed you closely sticking beside your feet, but being smart enough to not get in your way. You picked up Luna by giving her a piggyback ride, and yes, she was short enough to where you could do that. She was only like 5’6”, but she was only about 16 or 17 years old. Compared to Celestia, Luna was about 10-15 years younger than her, but she had to be at least 6’2”.

Getting back on topic, you took Luna back to your dorm room, remembering that you had that extra strength cold medicine, that worked wonders when you were sick that one time. With the power out, nothing worked, the sun was going down, and you had to light up your room with a camping lantern and some candles. Luna was on your bed playing with Neko, who instantly liked Luna, much to your relief. You were just looking through your drawers to find anything useful.

You let Luna sleep while you left your room to go back to your locker. Your backpack had everything needed to survive a bad situation, which was a couple of handheld gaming devices, a few games, and replaceable batteries. You already had your first aid back inside of your bathroom, and your cupboard was stocked to the brim with food. You could probably last about a month with just you and Luna, if it’s just you and Luna, that is.

By the time you got to your locker, the hallways were completely empty, you couldn’t find anyone within even hearing distance, not even screams of panic and bloody murder. You opened your locker and retrieved your backpack, and got the hell out of there, not knowing what could be lurking around the dark corner.

When you got into your dorm building, everyone was gathered up inside of the main lobby. There, you saw that there had been many battery powered lanterns, as well as the sweet smells of scented candles, and when you walked in, everyone had their eyes fixed on you. Another student, whom you didn’t know, asked you if you knew anything about the outage, or even the whereabouts of Ms. Celestia. You shook your head, and continued upstairs to your room.

By the time you got back, you saw Neko cuddling up next to Luna. You almost didn’t want to spoil the moment, but you needed to take care of Luna. You popped a pill out of the foil and filled up a glass with water. You sat down at the side of the bed, and put the cold medicine and water on the nightstand. Picking up Neko, and sitting her on your lap, you picked up the pill and water again, and fed it to Luna, who was trying to sleep.

“Thank you, Neko, for keeping her company,” you said to her smiling, and her response was her licking your face with her rough tongue. A tiger’s tongue is so rough that it’s been known that they can lick paint off walls, y’know.

You put a wet towel onto Luna’s forehead, and decided to get out your lamp. This is one of those times you would normally be playing games, but instead you took out another item, a battery powered radio. You looked on the side where you remembered scratching in important frequencies, including the emergency broadcast station. You had other stations, too, such as your favorite music stations. That wasn’t important right now, so you would just have to save it until later.

“For all of you out there, there has been a massive power outage in the Boston area. We don’t have an estimate time of when the power will come back, but please stay safe, and try to stay in your homes.”

Well this explained why the power went out, it wasn’t just here, but it was everywhere. You would think that this place would have some sort of backup generator, or something. You couldn’t leave Luna alone to find out for yourself, so you went downstairs to try and find someone to help. Almost falling down the stairs, you were tripping over your own feet in the dark, until it got a little brighter.

“Hey, do you know anything about the power outage?,” you could just barely make out Rainbow’s face.

“Yeah, it’s not gonna come back on for awhile,” when you said that, everyone in the room collectively groaned.

Before Rainbow sat back down, you grabbed her arm, “Hey, I need you to do something for me.”

“Yeah? What is it?,”

“I’ve got someone in my room that’s sick, I need you to watch her while I find the generator room.”

“What’s in it for me?,” at least you got her interested.

“I’ll pay you.”

“How much?”

“Is that really important right now? Will you do it or not? If not I’ll find Twilight or someone else to do it for free.”

“Wait, wait, okay! I’ll do it.”

“Good, here are the keys, don’t let anyone you don’t know in. If I don’t come back in a few hours, tell someone.”

The first place you would check for backup power would obviously be the basement. Even though the place was already dark, the hallway leading to the basement was pitch black, and had no windows. You broke out your flashlight, and luckily it was one of those shake-flashlights, which almost never ran out of juice. Shining it around, you found the maintenance door leading to the basement.

You could tell that this place was almost never used, because there was probably never a need to come down here. The door was left unlocked, very careless of Celestia, but very convenient for you. Upon opening the door, you were met with a fairly worn, metal staircase. As you started to go downstairs, the metal creaked and moaned under your weight, and it almost felt like it could’ve given out at any second. Luckily for you it didn’t.

It was a bit too soon for that kind of thought, as one of the metal steps actually did give out. You fell through the floor, landing on the ground below, flat on your butt. You winced in pain, slowly getting back up. You dusted yourself off and looked up, seeing nothing but the stairwell.

Continuing on, you went a little off track with exploring, seeing old junk and abandoned classrooms, full of old stuff. At one point you came across an old science room, tattered and withered.

The basement itself was a long hallway, like a normal school hallway. You hear stories of an old underground part of the school, but you thought it was only a myth, Apparently, you thought wrong. You came across another big set of doors, made out of old wood. You tried to push on them, but they wouldn’t budge. You kicked the set of doors, and they still wouldn’t budge. FInally, you took a couple of steps back, ramming the doors with your force. They swung open, only to find out that there was a library on the other side.

“Holy crap,” you said to yourself.

The library had most of it’s shelves emptied, probably moved up to the library upstairs. Some shelves still contained a few books here and there, but this place was huge. Shining the flashlight ahead, you see some more stairs, leading down. Completely skipping the library, you made a mad dash to the stairs, hoping to God that nothing would leap out and nab you.

“And down the rabbit hole we go,” you say as you head down another flight of stairs.