Chapter 6

Dash flew around to see what had happened and she dropped to the ground when she saw the glass sticking out of Dave’s stomach. She stood staring at him as the others ran over to him.

“DAVE!” Twilight ran over and lifted Dave’s head. His face was turning pale as the blood continued to pour out. “Dave speak to me, Somepony go get help he is bleeding badly”

“No” Dave whispered “just give me a… minute” Dave grabbed the glass and slowly pulled it out. Pain ripped through him again. It was covered in a dark crimson layer of blood and Dave allowed it to drop to the floor.

“Dave we have to go get help this is serious” Twilight looked at the ring of flesh that the glass had cut into his body “Dave please”

Dave fell onto his side and rolled onto his back. “I’ll be… fine” he weakly chuckled “heh been stabbed here as well”

Applejack turned to Rainbow Dash who was staring at Dave “What the hay did ya think ya were doin?” She paced right up to her “You had ta be stupid didn’t ya? Now look at Dave he could die for what ya did!”

Dash continued to stare at Dave. “I… I’m sorry” she whispered sadly, not believing what she had caused

Dave rolled onto his front. “It’s ok”

Applejack didn’t hear him and was still furious and started to yell at her “Sorry? Ya say you’re sorry and ya think that’s goin to make everything better!”

“Applejack leave it” Dave whispered but she continued to yell

“Will he be ok?” Fluttershy whispered to Twilight while Applejack was in a rage

“Not if we don’t get help” Twilight looked at her “Go find somepony quickly”. Fluttershy turned to go find one of the guards.

Rarity came and sat with a hoof on his shoulder. “It is going to be ok” She whispered gently to him

Dave looked up at the ponies. ’Why won’t they goddamn listen. I need is something to slow the bleeding but they won’t stop talking’ they were all talking and didn’t notice him clench a fist. “Will everypony… SHUT UP!” He yelled in anger. They all silenced as they turned to look at him.

Dave felt a massive pain explode in his stomach. He curled up into a ball and screamed in pain. A strange squelching noise came from the wound. He ignored it and forced himself up. They all stopped and stared at him as he got to his feet.

“If you would all be quiet maybe I could do something to help myself but noooo, you all have to sit around and talk like you have all the time in the world!” The pain subsided from his stomach; he felt full of energy and was annoyed at the ponies.

They all had shocked expressions across their faces but it was Applejack who spoke up first.

“I… I’m sorry Dave” Applejack looked at the floor with a sad expression across her face

“We all are Dave… We didn’t know that your race could do that” She pointed at his stomach

Dave felt his anger drift away as he looked down at his body. The wound had almost completely healed and a few patches of skin were moving over what was still exposed. He ran a finger over and found it was as good as this morning. “We can’t”

“You can’t?” Twilight frowned at him

“No I shouldn’t even be standing to be honest” He looked at them all as his friends as he remembered what he had said. “I’m sorry for yelling at you, I don’t know what came over me”

“That’s alright Dave we didn’t listen to ya when you tried to talk. We should be sorry” Applejack gave Dave a smile and he returned it

Dave’s attention was turned to Rainbow Dash who was a few feet away and had turned her back on the group. He walked over and sat down next to her she turned her face away from him, Dave gently placed a hand under her chin and turned it to face him. Dash had some tears in her eyes and they slowly began to run down her face.

“Hey its ok there isn’t anything to be upset about, nothing bad happened” Dave tried to reassure her. “It’s alright”

“You could have died and it would have been my fault” she sobbed “How is that alright?”

“Well the fact I lived could be a fact that I am tough” Dave turned his head away “maybe tougher than you” he said playfully

“You’re not even close to me” Dash chuckled back, she gave him a hug “but I am glad to see you’re ok though”

Dave returned the hug before letting her go and she walked back over to the picnic. Dave stayed where he was and looked down at his body. ‘What the hell is happening? First lifting a tree and now this, I hope Twilight finds something out soon’

Dave felt a hoof tap his shoulder and he turned to see Rarity. “Oh hey Rari… oof” She jumped on him a grabbed him in a tight hug around his neck and fell on Dave’s back.

“Don’t you ever dare think of doing anything like that to me again” She said behind a face full of tears as she pushed her face into his chest.

“Umm… ok don’t worry I won’t ever stab myself with a drinking glass ever again” Dave joked

“You know what I mean… don’t you ever dare get yourself hurt again”

“I promise” He returned the hug

“Get a room you two” Pinkie joked as she saw the two of them

Dave let out a small laugh as he let go of Rarity and they both went to sit back down at the picnic. They all ate their way through the food, talked and laughed as the sun started to go down.

As Dave finished off a slice of cake he looked at everypony. Twilight and Pinkie were playing a game of chess, Dash was lying on the blanket as Fluttershy and Applejack played with some squirrels. He then looked down at the two sleeping beings that used him as a bed Spike who was in his lap and Rarity that rested her head on his shoulder.

Princess Celestia walked over “hello everypony, hello Dave” Everypony and Dave except Rarity and Spike said hello to her. “I see you have had quite the day. I hope everything was prepared well enough” she saw the blood covered glass “what happened?” she sounded scared

Twilight retold the story of the race, Dave falling on the glass and how he mysteriously healed

“It was an accident just to assure you” Dave pointed out as the Princess looked at Rainbow Dash

“Well there was no permanent harm so I see no need for concern but Twilight you will have to do some research to investigate what happened” she turned to leave. “You should all go to bed as you have all had a busy day by the looks of some of your friends” She then departed back into the castle.

They all looked at Spike and Rarity and they all chuckled. “I guess I will take Rarity to her room” Dave sighed and looked down at Spike

“I will take Spike to bed” Twilight gently levitated him onto her back and started to leave with the others.

Dave gently placed his arms under Rarity and lifted her up. ‘I hope she doesn’t wake up’ Dave thought to himself as how awkward it could be to wake up in this situation. She was light and her hat’s rim touched Dave’s chin as he walked into the castle and headed up some stairs. She shuffled so she was comfortable in Dave’s arms.

Dave had gotten to Spike’s room and saw Twilight leaving it quietly. “Psst Twilight” Dave whispered so he didn’t wake Rarity “which one is her room?” he asked giving a twitch of his head to Rarity.

Twilight pointed down the corridor. “Second left” she whispered in reply as she headed for her own room, yawning.

Dave came to the door and awkwardly turned the handle with some free fingers and pushed it open with his head. Her room had stacks of bags in one corner of the room but apart from that it was similar to his room. He laid her softly down on the bed and removed her hat and paced it on top of the bags.

Rarity squirmed in her dress; obviously it wasn’t designed for sleeping in. Dave headed for the door but he heard Rarity shuffle again restlessly. ‘Damn it’ he walked over to her and looked at the dress.

Dave couldn’t see any buttons or zips of any kind. Slowly he lifted her up before he grabbed the bottom of the dress and raised it above her head and gently pulled her hooves out of the arms. She started to fall but he caught her with one arm, dress in the other and slowly laid her down again. He pulled the covers over her and left her to sleep while he folded the dress and placed it on the bottom of the bed. ‘That could have gotten awkward’ he chuckled as he began to leave but Rarity mumbled some words in her sleep. Curious Dave slowly walked over and listened.

“Dave… like my dress…I made it especially” she let out a quiet snore and Dave lent in for another listen. “My goodness it’s huge”

Dave quickly stood up and began to leave ‘bug out this is going to get weirder’ He quietly shut the door behind him.

“That’s the largest… diamond I have ever seen” Rarity let out one final snore then fell into a quiet sleep.

Dave strolled to his room and walked out onto the balcony, he was too full of energy to sleep. The moon was already in the sky to the right of his balcony partly blocked by some of the castle. ’Damn I would love to see all of it’ Dave thought, as his gaze was brought to a balcony a floor up. ‘Maybe there has a better view’

“Worth a shot” Dave climbed onto the railing of his balcony and used a hand against the wall to balance himself. He looked down and saw the gigantic drop to the ground. “Whoa… no mistakes I guess” He muttered as he looked back at the balcony.

He jumped upwards and reached for the balcony. He couldn’t reach it as it was a few feet forwards as well and fell onto his balcony rail again almost losing his balance. He jumped up and forwards with both hands outstretched. He caught the handrail and pulled himself up. Looking up there was another balcony and then the edge of the castle, a large balcony appeared to be up there. ‘Another six floors and only one more balcony taking me up one?’

Dave jumped to this balcony as well but the lights were on inside so he quickly dived past the window and peeked inside. This was Twilights room and she was talking with Rainbow Dash.

“But Dash he forgave you” Twilight was obviously trying to make her feel better after the incident that occurred earlier.

“I know but I feel so bad… I could have killed him then everypony would hate me” she sat on the bed “you saw AJ and how she felt.”

Dave turned away from the conversation and looked up the tall tower. There were small windows that ran up the side and one came within a floor of a ledge that looked like it curved around into a large balcony. He jumped and grabbed the lowest window. He picked the next one and threw himself at it. He repeated this until he reached the top window and saw the ledge. Looking down Dave saw the sheer drop that led into a lethal drop.

Giggling in disbelief he brought his feet to the ledge and pushed. He grabbed the ledge with one hand and pulled himself up. He felt grass under his hands as he looked up. This wasn’t a balcony it was a private garden. It was about twice the size of Twilight’s front room in her house and had a solitary tree standing in the middle. Dave looked around before walking up to it.

He sat down resting his back and head against the tree and looked quickly behind him to see a large pair of double doors, they were black and no light came from the other side. Dave relaxed and stared at the moon which looked much bigger than earth’s moon and twice as bright. The stars dotted the night sky and sparkled in the darkness. He sat there staring for what seemed like an eternity.

“Just…” Dave couldn’t put his finger on the right word “beautiful” he sighed and allowed his eyes to close.

“What did you just say?” Said a slightly confused female voice that came from behind the tree.

Dave tensed as he knew he had been caught “I’m sorry for intruding I didn’t mean to”

An alicorn smaller than Celestia and with a similar but almost black flowing mane with an outline of purple, a dark purple body with black on her flank with a symbol of a crescent moon stepped into view on Dave’s right. “Repeat your last statement”

“I’m sorry for intruding…”

“Before that”

Dave returned the confused glance “um… Just beautiful?”

The alicorn sat down facing him and looked up at the moon before looking back at him “Thank you”

“What for? Saying the moon looked good?”

“Nopony has ever said a nice thing like that about my work” She stared at her hooves “they always find something to complain about”

“Wait your work?” Dave got even more confused “Do you control the night or something?”

“Yes I am Princess Luna, Princess of the night while my sister Celestia controls the day” She raised an eye brow at Dave “forgive me but I have no recollection of your species. What is your name?”

“My name is Dave, your majesty”

“Dave… Dave… Ah Dave the strange creature from another world” Luna looked at him “how did you get up here?”

“I err… jumped?”

“Jumped?” the princess did not sound convinced

“Well lots of small ones but… yeah, I jumped” Dave gave a shrug when she squinted her eyes at him

“Ok I’ll believe you” She took on her royal composure once again “how have you enjoyed yourself in Canterlot during your stay?”

“Well I have been in the castle the entire time but it has been great” Dave relaxed as the princess shifted her gaze back to her moon

“What do you like about it?” Luna asked

"like about what?"

"The moon" She continued to stare at it awaiting his response

“Well I um… like how the stars compliment the moons brightness and umm… the moon gives everything a glow” He had to think how to put the words into the nicest way possible. 'how has this happened? One minute i'm relaxing and now i am having to compliment the moon?'

Luna smiled at him “Thank you Dave… I have duties to perform” she stood up and so did Dave “I would like to talk more at some point” she looked at the moon then back to him “Are you free tomorrow night?”

“Sure yeah… meet here?” Dave was a bit confused to what had happened in the past two minutes

Luna nodded and took her leave through the doors. Dave walked back over to his entrance point. The light in Twilights room had gone out and the path down looked even more dangerous than it did looking up.

Dave gulped as he leaped for a window ledge. He grabbed it almost losing his grip and slowly made his way back down to his room.

Luna placed her crown on her head and began to place her hooves in some matching shoes. She giggled as she saw her cutie mark in the mirror. “Beautiful” she whispered to herself as she walked out of her room and down into the castle with a smile across her face.

Dave finally tumbled down to his balcony and walked into his room and fell on top of the bed. “Ahh finally” he sighed happily as he drifted off to sleep.

The next morning…

Dave woke up, letting out a loud yawn before standing up and stumbled lazily into his bathroom rubbing sleep from his eyes. He looked in the mirror and saw his shirt had blood stains over it. ‘Guess it wasn’t a dream’ he thought as he took the dirty clothes off and got in the bath.

After a few minutes Dave got out of the bath as a knock came at the door. He quickly wrapped a towel around his waist and Rarity stepped in floating a bag behind her.

“Ah Dave good to see you are washed and ready, I have brought you some new clothes. I knew how much you liked the old ones so I have made some modifications to fit the weather.” Rarity placed the bag down on the bed.

“Thanks Rarity, I must have forgot to pick them up yesterday” Dave kept one hand on the blanket and scratched his head with the other.

“Well I should thank you as well”

“What for?”

“For taking me to bed and umm… making me comfortable” Rarity had blushed when she awoke without her dress and knew it wasn’t just anypony that had removed it.

“Yeah err… heh no problem” Dave chuckled weakly

Rarity went outside the door and started to close it behind her. “I just hope you did not take advantage of a defenceless lady” She playfully called into the room before shutting the door completely.

Dave stared at where she had been. “Yeah yeah” he muttered as he pulled his new clothes out. They were similar to his old ones but the trousers were now shorts and the shirt had the old dark blue linings. He quickly pulled the clothes on as he left for breakfast.