“That about sums it up. What do you think Harmony? Did I forget anything?” I looked over to Harmony.

Harmony nodded. “Only the best parts. Of course you might not want to let others know what we do behind closed doors.”

Stone took half a second before speaking. “I suppose that means you sacrifice ponies trying to bring Nightmare Moon back. We have a few people around here who wish to see her return but they haven’t killed anypony. Well at least not anypony I am aware of.”

The stare Harmony and I gave him was very obviously one that he was not use to.

Stone snickered. “What I was just kidding. Nopony around here is anywhere near that level of insanity. Most wouldn’t even if they wanted to. The city has stranges effects on those who stay here to long. Most descend into alcoholism in a few days. Nopony comes here if they don’t absolutely have to.”

“Yeah we know. Everypony keeps saying that we should get out of here. We can’t leave without you otherwise I think we’ll be back again to pick up a corpse. Demo there doesn’t know how to keep his cool all the time.” I waved a hoof in Demo’s general direction.

“Buck you. I can hear you. Also could you keep it down. Whatever that stallion shot me with is doing a real number on my head.” He was rubbing his hooves around his head.

“Well looks like he’s awake. Best get him to the hospital for a checkup. Might need to get him unaddicted from whatever is causing that horrible headache of his.” Onyx was hovering over him blocking Demo’s eyes from the light.

“Ok. That sounds like a good Idea. Stone can you show us where the hospital is?” I rose to my hooves.

“Why certainly. They will be happy to see somepony come in for something other than needing to get their system clean of radiation. Let’s go.” He pushed open the front door and trotted off.

The hospital was less than a minutes trot from Stone’s home. I felt like you could trot to anyplace in this town in less than a minute.

I was all for the small town life but something about his town in particular made me feel like I was both at home and very far from it at the same time.

Home.. My home had been destroyed and all I had left was the ponies who were with me right now.

The door to the hospital practically fell off its hinges as I ran into it. Harmony snickered at me for a few seconds. “Honestly Midnight. You need to pay a more attention. I swear one day you are going to walk in front of an enraged manticore. We can’t have that now can we. Now get up we have a friend to take care of.”

I got to my hooves and walked inside giving a quick glance to the broken door. I walked a few more steps before running muzzle first into the rear end of a mare. By the gasp that escaped her muzzle I guessed she hadn’t felt anything like that in a while.

“Oh sorry. I’ll leave now.” The mare took flight and was out the door before I could apologize.

“I swear I am going to have to teach you a thing or two.” Harmony pushed me off to the side a little bit.

I stared at the ground ashamed of my inability to pay attention to what was in front of me.

“What can I help you with?” A stallion stepped forward.

“We came here because our friend here was shot with a tranq dart and we don’t know exactly what effects it’s going to have on him. So we were hoping that you could look him over.” Onyx brought Demo forward.

“Well son that is my job. Bring him this way and I will begin my inspection immediately.” The doctor made his way into a small back room.

We laid Demo down onto the table before he collapsed again.

“Well. I’ve seen this before but not to this extent. Your friend could be suffering from withdrawal from as many as ten drugs at the moment. Somepony really should tell that fool to get better tranquilizers. He’s gonna end up killing somepony with one of those stupid things. Luckily we have quite a bit of prewar treatments for addiction. He will suffer from withdrawal for a week or so but after that he should be back to being himself. If not bring him back here and I will see what I can do to make his death painless.” We all stared at the doctor for a few seconds before he smiled at us and laughed.

He poked Demo with a needle. “Just horsing around. We can just give him more treatment and he’ll be good to go. Now I would advise you to not partake in anything that may have to deal with these substances.” He floated a piece of paper up to Demo. “Otherwise you could relapse and be in even worse shape than you already are. Now go home and rest. I have a door to fix.”

The doctor smiled at me. I turned around and said one thing under my breath before leaving.

“Yeah will do. Go buck yourself.” I realized I had said that a bit louder than I had intended.

“What was that. Nevermind just go before I have to deal with you myself.” I didn’t need any more reason to leave than that.

We returned to Stone’s house so that we could all get some sleep. It was a little weird trying to go to sleep at 2:00 in the afternoon but we had been in need of some sleep. The day passed by quickly.

I didn’t dream at all during the day and following night. The nights in Ponyville were very peaceful. Nothing made any noise and the few ponies who were still awake sat quietly in their homes. The only reason I woke up the next morning was because of a gunshot.

The pony who lived next door had fallen into the depths of depression and insanity. His home was a mess and the decorating was a little bit too… brainy for my tastes.

“Ok that is not pleasant. What would drive somepony to do such a thing to themselves?” I had to turn away from the corpse.

“Like you’ve heard before nopony in this town can manage to stay happy. All joy is wiped from them and they become empty shells without purpose. This happens around here about once a month or so. Makes everypony a little worse off when stuff like this happens. It’s a surprise this place hasn’t been wiped off the map entirely.” Stone was shaking his head.

“That is really morbid.” Harmony had a hoof over me.

“That’s how life around here is. If you don’t like it I suggest leaving here quickly.” Stone pushed us out the door.

“That was the plan. We just need you to come with us back to Tenpony Tower.” We stood outside waiting for somepony to show up.

“Yeah. I think it would be best if we left. I don’t exactly feel the greatest about this city.” The sheriff arrived as Stone finished his inspection of the house.

We left the building when the sheriff arrived to clean up the remains. When we got back to Stone’s house Demo was on his hooves again and walking around. He walked as though he was a little foal who had just learned to walk. I had to throw a hoof to my muzzle to prevent myself from laughing.

“Oh hi Midnight. Good to see you are back here. Listen can we leave this place? I would like to get back to my apartment in Tenpony. This town is simply dreadful.” Demo was trotting around propping himself up on chairs.

“Yeah. Onyx grab him would you. I feel like if we let this go on he is going to injure himself in a fall.” As hilarious as I thought it would be to see Demo walk I knew he couldn’t walk on his own.

“Ok. Come on Demo it’s time to go home.” Onyx trotted over to him crouching down a bit.

“Ok. Let’s go home.” Demo collapsed to the floor. “Whoops. I need some help.” He sounded like he was beyond drunk.

I shook my head and enveloped him in my magic.

“Woah I’m flying. Take me higher. I want to go higher.” I had a sudden urge to slam him into the ceiling.

I was about to drop him on the ground from about the height of the roof. Onyx glared at me not saying anything. His gaze said enough.

“Midnight. Do you think Celestia is watching us. I think she might be. I just saw an alicorn flying above us. They seemed pretty cool.” Demo was waving at the unseen alicorn.

“Demo I think you are a bit delusional. Nopony has been flying above us. I would have known if somepony had been flying anywhere near us. Just try and take a nap. You should feel better in a few hours.” Onyx patted Demo’s head a few times.

Demo managed to struggle free of my telekinesis. He landed squarely on Onyx driving them both to the ground. “No offense to you Demo but you could do with losing some weight. Seriously how much do you weigh? I swear no more junk food for you until you get down to a manageable weight.”

“Oh you know you love the extra weight when we”

“Demo shut up before I leave you here.” Onyx had one of his hooves smashed squarely in the middle of his face.

“Fine. You’re no fun you know that?” If I were seeing this from the outside I would have figured that this group was carrying a drunk stallion to a hospital and away from his bottle of booze.

The trip back to Tenpony was by chance one of the worst of my life. I had to prevent myself from tossing Demo outside the Sky Bandit and letting him fall to his death. Luckily the trip was short and I only tried to throw him outside once we landed.

“Come on Harmony. I need something to help me relax let's go.” I was about to smack Demo across the face until he quit speaking.

“Well as long as you aren’t the only one getting to relax then I think I’m ok with this. I have a great Idea follow me.” She pulled me away from Demo before I could smack him.

She trotted off ahead of me. I looked back to Onyx and Stone. Onyx waved a hoof at me before helping Demo onto his back.

I smiled and made my way back to Harmony. We took the elevator down to floor 12. The door opened and a dark gray stallion greeted us.

“Welcome to the spa ladies. We here at Tenpony spa are always looking for ways to please you. So what can we do for you today?” I got the feeling this stallion wasn’t really looking for some new mare to chase around.

“Hey platinum. The usual for me and my friend.” Harmony trotted forward dragging me along with her.

“Welcome back Harmony. Long time no see.” He motioned to a few of the other ponies who were on break.

“I’ve been out doing other things. I have to say it is nice to be back.” Harmony paid no attention to the ponies beginning to surround us.

“Well if you two will follow me we can get you a day of relaxation.” The stallion pushed open a door and disappeared inside.

We followed him into the depths of the spa.