Rainbow Dash had an uneasy sleep that night. Every dream she had, it was filled with Kyle getting hurt from the spell in one way or another and her not being able to do anything about it. She got up at around 8:30 to stave off another one of those horrid dreams. “Why do I feel like this? Why are those dreams bothering me so much? Kyle is fine now so those dreams don’t mean anything anyways anymore” She said as she walked around her house.

After a while of doing nothing she decided to go to Twilight’s to check on Kyle. She needed to see for herself that he was perfectly fine now. She flared her wings and gave them a few test flaps before shooting out of her house and towards the library. She flew through the air and felt a little better, the wind blowing through her wings making her nerves loosen, she was almost there now.

After a few more minutes she touched down in front of the unicorn’s house and she walked up to the door. She opened it and walked inside. Twilight was sitting next to Kyle, who was sitting up on the floor. She smiled at the sight and walked over to them and sat down. “Hey, I see you look better now” RD said to Kyle.

“Yeah, I guess I just needed the sleep. I really want to try to see if I can use this thing yet” He said to both of them. They both gave him a look, but he held his ground.

“Well here, concentrate on the quill over on the table over there. Think about you lifting it up into the air” Twilight said to him. She didn’t want him to overdo it; he just was feeling better after all.

Kyle nodded and looked at the quill. He started to think about lifting it up into the air and saw it start to wiggle. He smiled and then watched as the quill lifted up off the table and hovered there. “I did it!” he said before he lost his concentration and the quill fell to the table once more.

Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but smile at how happy Kyle was. He had gotten what he wanted and nothing was wrong anymore. She patted Kyle on the back and he smiled at her. “Dash, thanks for being ok with this, I know you are probably going to hit me after you putting up with yesterday, but today I feel great” he said to her.

“Well then, let me get that out of the way now then” She said before she hit him in the shoulder with her hoof. He looked at her and rubbed his shoulder where she had hit him. Dash smiled and stuck her tongue out at him.

“Ok, now that that is all done and over with, can I go now? I want to go back to my place and get some rest that is not on the hard floor” Kyle said before getting up and stretching. He looked a lot better than yesterday now. He seemed to look like nothing had even happened from the past day.

“S-sure, you seem fine now. I want you to promise me thought that you will not overdo yourself with the spell ok? I don’t want you to strain yourself too much and have something happen right after you just recovered” Twilight said to Kyle, concern showing in her face.

“Ok, I promise. Dash, do you want to walk with me home?” Kyle asked the cyan pegasus.

“Sure” Rainbow Dash said to him in reply, her voice becoming cheery now that this horrible incident was over and done with.

Kyle and Rainbow said their goodbyes to Twilight and began walking back towards Kyle’s apartment. Kyle looked to be lost in thought again and RD took this time to think about some things herself. Ok, so he is looking better now, but how will this affect him later on? They had made it to the apartment building and Kyle’s room was on the top floor, granted it was only three floors so it wasn’t that big of a deal. They started to ascend the stairs and when they made it to the top Kyle walked over to his door and unlocked it with the key he had.

Rainbow Dash walked in after him and Kyle sat down on his bed. He looked really tired now, and Rainbow Dash could tell something was up, just by looking at his eyes. “Kyle, what’s wrong?” she asked him, worry starting to creep into her voice again.

“I just feel dizzy that’s all. I guess the walk home was a little too much for me right after I just got up and about again” Kyle said to RD with a smile.

“Are you sure you’re alright? You look really pale” She asked the human, which was now rocking ever so slightly on the bed.

“T-trust me….I’m fff…” he trailed off before he fell on the floor. He lay there and after a moment began to cough.

Rainbow Dash trotted up to him and rolled him onto his back. He stopped coughing after a moment and then looked at her with a pained smile “I guess I’m not so much better after all huh Dashie?”

You still have to be funny, even when you are sick. Come on, can you get up to get in your bed, or do I have to get you a blanket so you sleep on the floor again” Rainbow Dash asked him, her mind racing with thoughts on what was making Kyle feel like this. She already knew the answer, but she didn’t want to believe it just yet.

“Hold on” Kyle said before he slowly got to his feet again. He crawled into his bed and flopped down and looked at RD with another smile “I’ll be fine now; you should go tell Twilight that I made it here ok.”

“Are you sure? You just fell over on me a few minutes ago and started to go into a fit of coughing” Rainbow Dash retorted to him, she did not want to leave him again. He was not better, if anything he is getting worse.

Kyle let out another cough, but managed to smile through it “Go, I’ll be right here when you come back….I don’t think I could go anywhere anyways right now even if I tried. Just fly over and tell her that I made it here alright and then you can come back to check on me.” He looked awful, his eyes were glazed over and he was as white as a sheet.

“Ok, just try to get some rest while I’m gone ok?” Rainbow Dash said before she flew out his open window and towards Twilight’s.

Kyle fell asleep shortly after that, not to wake up until a while after Rainbow Dash got back to his house.

Rainbow Dash flew as fast as she could to Twilight’s place. She was getting worked up again. He isn’t better! If anything he’s worse now than before! I really wish Twilight would have thought of this a lot more before she went along and did it now; it’s making me feel like crap! After a few minutes of flying RD landed in front of Twilight’s house. She walked in and right up to the lavender mare. “Twilight, Kyle made it home alright but, there are some problems” Rainbow Dash said to her.

Twilight turned around and looked at RD with concern “Is he not better? Did something happen?” she asked the cyan pegasus.

“Kyle fell on the floor once and then went into a coughing fit, I don’t know what that means, but it can’t be good. I think the spell you gave him made him really sick Twi” Rainbow Dash said in monotone. She couldn’t have that confident air about her when something like this was happening.

“Well, at least he is home safely, go back and keep an eye on him and let me know if anything changes. I’ll look for a way to get rid of the spell, but that might take a few days” Twilight said with a hint of sadness. This is my entire fault that Kyle is feeling like this! Why can’t anything ever go right for a change for me?

“Ok, I’ll come by if anything happens. Don’t let this make you too worried thought Twi, Kyle is a pretty tough guy and he can handle himself” Rainbow Dash said before flying out the front door leaving a worried Twilight behind.

I feel like crap, this is so much worse than anything else that was bad that happened to me here. It feels like my body is just saying no to me doing anything now, all I want to do is lay here. Kyle was in his bed and he was staring at the ceiling. He was feeling alright when he didn’t move, but when he made any large movement he would go into a coughing fit again. Kyle knew something was up, he just didn’t want to be brought down by it, and he would get better.

“RD has to be worried sick about me right now. She was looking at me like I had the plague or something when I fell on the ground earlier. I hope she doesn’t get too worried for me about it, it’s going to pass sooner or later” Kyle said as he liked at the ceiling. He coughed once and rubbed his eyes with his hands.

Rainbow Dash flew in a few minutes later and she saw that Kyle was awake. She walked up to him and looked him over, he was about the same. “Kyle, feeling any different?” she asked the human lying in his bed.

Kyle turned towards her and smiled softly “Other than feeling like this, I’m fine. You really don’t have to watch over me Dash, I’m fine now. You should go hang out with one of your friends or something” He said to her. She doesn’t need to watch over me just because I am sick. She needs to be out doing something fun, this was my decision and I will suffer for it, not her.

“No, you are looking like crap and you need to rest. Twilight told me to watch over you and see if things get better or worse. I’m staying and you are going to like it. I thought you would like the idea of me being so close to you” Rainbow Dash said to him with a smile at the end.

Kyle let out a laugh “Oh, I see where you’re going with this. Fine, you can stay, but you are going to get pretty bored while you’re here with me” Kyle said to her with a smile. He really didn’t like the idea of having his best friend suffer for this, but she was just as stubborn as he was sometimes, so he let it go.

Rainbow Dash walked over and climbed up onto his bed and lay down next to him. “There, does this make you feel a little better?” she asked him with a smile.

Kyle turned to face her better, but moved a little too much and went into another coughing fit. This one was worse than the others. Kyle put his hand over his mouth as he coughed and he could taste iron entering it. He coughed some more and felt a warm liquid spatter onto his hand. When he was done coughing he removed his hand away from his mouth and looked at it with wide eyes. His hand was stained crimson and he saw that Dash was looking at it too. “I guess that isn’t supposed to happen” Kyle said still trying to lighten the mood to no avail.

Dash looked at him with increasing horror. He was sick, really sick. She watched as his hand got covered with red and she wanted to vomit. He is really bad, I’m going to take him to the hospital and get him checked out there, and maybe they can help. For right now though, Dash just rubbed his back with her hoof and tried to ease the pain he was feeling.

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