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The Hearts of Man -Recovery-

By: PaleNarrator on Apr 17th, 2012  |  syntax: None  |  size: 3.97 KB  |  hits: 820  |  expires: Never
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  1.                                         Recovery
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  3. >Antiseptic filled the air, making the whole building smell unnaturally clean.
  4. >Doctor Shoal trotted through the halls, checking in on patients in their respective rooms.
  5. >He was on his way to check up on a young filly who had broken her hoof in a scooter accident.
  6. >Shoal had been working at Ponyville General Hospital for fifteen years now, and he'd seen it all.
  7. >He was content that nothing extraordinary was happening at the moment.
  8. >He recalled the time he had many patients suffering from injuries due to excessive amounts of soap and chocolate milk at one time.
  9. >That had been the strangest thing he had ever encountered.
  10. >Trotting into the young filly's room, he could see her bright smile greet him.
  11. >"Alright Scootaloo, how are you feeling?"
  12. >Scootaloo beamed at him, showing off the cast on her hoof.
  13. >Scoot: "Much better, thanks Doc!"
  14. >Dr. Shoal smiled, and began writing down notes on a clipboard near Scootaloo's be.
  15. >Then it got all sorts of loud.
  16. >Light and stars blasted into the room, blinding Scootaloo and Dr. Shoals momentarily.
  17. >Looking toward the dark blue mist, he saw what he thought he'd never encounter.
  18. >Royalty.
  19. >Princess Luna stood tall in front of them both, wings outstretched with a righteous gleam in her eyes.
  20. >She looked at the good Doctor, then at Scootaloo sitting in her bed.
  21. >Magic enveloped Scootaloo as she was lifter out from where she rested and was dropped lightly into a puffy chair a few feet away.
  22. "We require your sleeping arrangements. We apologize."
  23. >She glided quickly over to the bed, her horn shimmering with magic yet again.
  24. >Dr.S: "Your highness, what are you doing? I can't just allow you to come in here and-"
  25. >His lecture was cut short when Luna levitated what looked like a corpse from her back to the bed, previously shielding it with her wings.
  26. >Dr.S: "What-.. what is that?"
  27. >The body was bloody and beaten, spatters of crimson staining his very skin.
  28. >Was this the human Celestia had banished?
  29. >Shoal had heard rumors, but he never once thought he'd see them be true.
  30. "Fix him."
  31. >Shoal shakes his head quickly to break his line of site with the mangled corpse.
  32. >Luna has an incredibly stern look on her face, Teal eyes burning with a kind of fury.
  33. >Dr.S: "I'm sorry, wha-"
  34. "WE DEMAND YOU FIX HIM."
  35. >Her voice booms throughout the hospital waking sleeping patients.
  36. >Shoal nervously approaches the human on the bed, examining him.
  37. >Dr.S: My god he-... what happened to him? He looks like he's been to Tartarus and back...
  38. "Can this one fix him or not?"
  39. >Dr.S: "I'm not sure. He barely even has a pulse at this point, and he's lost so much blood."
  40. >Shoal looks to the Princess, but her gaze is elsewhere.
  41. >She's staring intently at the human, fear and sadness in her eyes as she lightly bites her lip to control herself.
  42. >Dr.S: "...but I can try to stabilize him with a drip, for now."
  43.  
  44. "Do it."
  45.  
  46. >Days pass.
  47. >Luna sits by the broken body of the thing she came to cherish most in this world, gently looking at his broken form.
  48. >Shoal had done his best to clean all the wounds he could, and now the human's left arm was missing all together.
  49. >There was no possible way to save it after what it had been through.
  50. >The thing's spinal column was also damaged irreproachably, and if it were to come back to consciousness, it would never walk on two legs again.
  51. >If it were to come back to consciousness...
  52. >Luna hadn't left the human's side in all this time, and whenever Doctor Shoal passed by its room, he could swear he could hear faint singing.
  53. >Luna brings her face to that of the human's, softly nudging its cheek.
  54. >Nothing.
  55. >She had never thought that he would end up like this. She had hoped to have more time with this creature she had come to care for.
  56. >That she had come to love.
  57. >Solemnly, she placed the human's intact hand on top of her hoof, laying her head on his chest, and closed her eyes as she listened to his shallow breathing.
  58. >And then, in that final moment of peace, she felt his hand grip her hoof ever so slightly.