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Last I checked, it's kind of illegal to just kick a minor out of their home like that. I really feel sorry for the poor brony if this actually did happen.

I think you're a pretty cool guy. You post pictures and compliments and don't afraid of anything!

Midnight was once again made aware of her lack of knowledge concerning anything that went on inside a doctor's office, this time the amount of water she should be using to wake somepony up. She simply shrugged at the doctor's remark, and replied "Least I didn't bring a cloud in here and make it rain on him. That's what we did if anypony passed out in flight school." The orange pony on the table began stirring, and the next thing Midnight knew, he had managed to slam himself into the door to the office, just as she had a couple minutes ago. This time, she really did plant her hoof directly into her face, bursting out laughing at the doctor's reaction to this not-so-new turn of events. What concerned Midnight, though, was the orange pony seemed to be, or at least believe he was, on the run from the imperial guard. Doctor Betterbones had caught on to what this stallion was getting at though, and Midnight laughed once again when she realized that the orange pony over there thought he had injured her. It was her own stupidity that had caused her to hit the door in the first place, and she wasn't really injured from the impact; her wing was more sore than her head! "Yeah, I don't think you're gonna get arrested for opening a door with a pegasus attached to the back, no matter how good of a weathermare she might be." she added on to the doctor's comment. When the doctor turned his attention once again to the orange pony who had just come in, Midnight sat herself down in the chair again, all hope of getting out of here quickly dissolving. Doctor Betterbones assured her that he would be with her in "just a second", and she had half a mind to count "one" out loud and demand his attention. But, she knew better than to test his patience, which seemed to already be wearing thin with the eccentric patients he was getting today. So instead, she just sat back and watched as he tended to the orange pony, mind in clouds and all the awesome stunts she was going to do amongst them once her wing was fixed.

Stormsong, still flustered over having disrupted the other ponies at Nightmare Moon's Monument, inadvertently walked into the last place she wanted to be tonight: a haunted house. She realized her mistake once she was inside, and gave out a frightened "Eep!" in response to the horrors that met her vision. Feeling that she had already encountered more than her fair share of scares for tonight, she moved quickly through the place, looking for the exit. She had just rounded a corner that looked promising when suddenly, a zombie pony jumped out in front of her, snarling and reaching its hooves for her! Having lost count of how many times this particular response had been given tonight, she shrieked in terror and ran blindly through the haunted house, occasionally slamming into a wall in her need to escape. Very soon though, she was out of breath, and instead of continuing her mad gallop to the exit, she curled up into a shivering ball in the corner and began to cry.

Storm was startled out of her song when she heard somepony nearby squeal. Opening her eyes and looking around, she spotted a pink pony in a chicken suit running past the statue for the second time that night, apparently still afraid of Nightmare Moon. It was then that Storm noticed several other ponies gathered around the momument, and she grew incredibly nervous about the fact that they had heard her singing, and she didn't even know how long. "O-oh my... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb anypony!" she blurted out before walking off.

Welcome to Canterlot, hope you enjoy your time here!

Welcome to Canterlot, hope you enjoy your time here!

Midnight could feel the whole world shifting, even though she knew that she was still planted firmly against the door to the office, not wanting to move for fear of her wing being taken. The next thing she knew, there was some stallion ranting about how he didn't want to be banished, but before she could get a word in to let him know that she was okay, he had fainted. She couldn't help but snort at the hilarity of the situation at hoof; a doctor who can't have been used to more than two or three patients a week now had two rather hysterical cases in his office at the same time. And she had thought he was going to take away her wing, when all he really wanted to do was give her medicine. Medicine, she told herself, that would stop her wing from falling off, like the one on the model had. Finally feeling that she understood the situation perfectly, she followed the instructions from Doctor Betterbones and fetched some water from down the hall. It was hard on her to keep her wings pinned to her sides the entire time, but somehow she had managed not to make more of a foal of herself as she poured water into a nearby bucket. Once the bucket was nearly full, she grabbed it carefully in her mouth and returned to the office to see that the dark orange stallion now had a pillow under his head and was being tended to by Dr. Betterbones. Catching herself just before taking off, Midnight remembered that she wasn't supposed to fly to deliver the water from the bucket onto the stallion. Thinking for a moment about how she was going to do this, she positioned the chair she had been sitting in a few moments ago next to the stallion and placed the bucket on the seat. Then, using her head, which was starting to develop a dull throbbing sensation to it, she pushed at the top of the bucket, sending it and its contents down on top of the orange stallion.

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For the third time that night, Stormsong approached Nightmare Moon's Monument, admittedly feeling much better now than either of the other two times she had been here. She'd had the good fortune of meeting both princesses of Equestria tonight, and was in such a good mood, she felt she could sing. Which is, in fact, exactly what she started doing as she laid herself down behind the statue. This would be a wonderful way to spend the rest of the night, she thought, just lying back here and singing to herself, oblivious to the presence of the pony on the other side of the monument.

Stormsong couldn't believe her luck; earlier in the night she had met Princess Celestia, and now she had met Princess Luna. Not only that, but Luna had seemed almost as frightened of the Everfree Forest as she was. Walking with the princess through the rest of the forest, Stormsong had actually managed to enjoy the rest of the trip. Not only that, but she was given two pieces of candy! Spirits soaring, and scarf back around her neck, she decided to once again visit the Monument to Nightmare Moon.

Welcome to Canterlot, hope you enjoy your time here!

Welcome to Canterlot, hope you enjoy your time here!

Midnight sat as still as she could stand to be in the chair while Doctor Betterbones examined her wing for what seemed like forever to her. By now, she wanted nothing more than to go back home and fall asleep on a cloud, but she knew that, no matter what came of this visit, she really needed it. At the doctor's comment about weathermare work not being able to cause 'this kind of damage', whatever that kind of damage was, she had to smile to herself. "Yeah, most of the weather jobs around here are pretty boring by themselves, so I like to, uh... spice things up a bit when I'm on the job. I mean, why settle for just bucking at the clouds all the time when you can be so much more creative about it?" Midnight then saw Dr. Betterbones move over to his desk and pulled out a small model of a pegasus skeleton and set it up. He seemed to be deep in thought when one of the miniscule bones removed itself from the model; Midnight noticed that it came from the left wing. Suddenly, the entire left wing on the model fell off, and she couldn't suppress a gasp of shock. At that, the doctor seemed satisfied, announcing to her, "Ah, just as I thought! I believe you have a severe sprain." Oblivious to all things medicine, Midnight had assumed the worst from the little show Dr. Betterbones had put on with the model, not realizing it was only for show. "Y'know, now that I think about it, my wing isn't really bothering me that bad," she asserted, not even sounding like she believed a single word she was saying the whole time. "And I'm sure you're a great doctor and all, but Ireallydon'twannalosemywing" she got the last few words out as fast as she could before turning to fly out of the office at top speed. Rather, she would have flown out of the office at top speed, but there was a rather sturdy door in the way, and she painfully slammed into it instead of escaping.

At the request of Dr. Betterbones, Midnight Orchid slowly stretched out both wings until the were fully open, wincing several times as the pain in her left wing intensified. "There," she announced, glad that she was actually able to get her wings to their full extension, regardless of how much it hurt. And oh, did it hurt, she thought to herself as the doctor examined the joint. While examining, the doctor asked her, "Do you get wing pains often, or is this a first-time problem?" She was about to answer with a 'no, of course not'; however, that wouldn't have been true, she told herself. There had been plenty of days when she had come home and felt like doing nothing by lying down and sleeping off the pain in her wings. And things had been getting worse ever since... "Every now and then I've been sore after a rough day of work, but it's never been anything a good nap couldn't take care of." Midnight responded, barely resisting the urge to plant her hoof directly into her own face for just now realizing her own stupidity. "And now that I think about it, over the last couple months, I've been going home sore more often than usual, but I really didn't think much about it at the time. I've been stepping up my practice flights a bit, and I thought I just needed to get used to the extra flying I was doing. You know... lots of stunt flying." 'Too late to do anything about it now though', she thought morosely, hoping that she hadn't managed to do any serious harm to herself with her new routine.

Not really knowing any other option available to her, Stormsong once again entered the Everfree Forest, searching for her missing scarf. She wrapped her black cloak tightly around herself and moved on, slowly, scanning the ground all along the path for the missing possession. "I really hope somepony didn't just pick it up and walk off with it," she said to nopony in particular during her search. After what seemed an eternity, Stormsong finally spotted a mass of blue and purple, her scarf, just at the edge of the light, off the path. Uncertain of what to do, and confused as to how her scarf had ended up that far from anywhere she had been running, she simply stood and stared out into the night for a few minutes before remembering something very important. She was a unicorn! Reaching out with her magic, she grabbed hold of her scarf and pulled it back on to the path. All was going well, she thought, until she tried to put the scarf back on. Several snakes that had gotten curious about the garment fell out on the ground at her hooves. She shrieked for the third or fourth time that night, threw the scarf as hard as she could down the path, and ran as hard as she had last time she came though the forest. Pausing only a brief moment to pick up her scarf again and stuff it inside her cloak, Stormsong continued her mad charge until she was once more out of breath, gasping for air.

Welcome to Canterlot, hope you enjoy your time here!

Welcome to Canterlot, hope you enjoy your time here!

Favorite pizza, that's a tough one... I'd have to go with stuffed crust, extra cheese, chicken, bacon, mushrooms, and jalapeños, with plenty of garlic sauce. It's like an explosion of awesome... in your mouth!

No, the sudden door opening had not, could not have, thrown off Midnight Orchid's flow. What had thouroughly shocked her was the behavior of the doctor she had met on the other side of said door. She was accustomed the the way doctors in Cloudsdale acted; it was like they felt their medical talents, related talents, and even the patients were a nearly unbearable burden on their life. For lack of a better way to think about it, it seemed like this doctor actually enjoyed doing his job. This was, however, the only comforting thought keeping Midnight from bolting off to find a different doctor. After having inspected her hoof she had offered in greeting for any damage, the doctor had returned to his office and sat down in a beanbag chair at his desk. Midnight looked around the room, hoping to see another, and was disheartened that the only other seats available didn't look nearly so comfortable. Just as she was taking up her seat and preparing herself to explain everything, she was surprised yet again when Doctor Betterbones spoke. "So then, Midnight Orchid, what appears to be the problem?" Before Midnight could respond to the question, however, his voice came again, answering itself, "Your left wing, I think?" If this doctor was so good that he could tell her wing was bothering her just by looking, then that solidified in her mind that she had indeed come to the right place. No wasting time, no asking for long-winded explanations; she would be back in the sky, pain free, in no time at all. She sat down in the chair next to the beanbag and responded, "Yeah, my joint right here," she pointed to it as she spoke, "has been really hurting for the last week or so. I thought I should get it checked out, just to make sure it isn't anything serious."

Midnight Orchid had just finished her last weather job for the day, bucking a dark looking cloud that had been hovering over the heart of Canterlot into oblivion. On any normal day, she would find somewhere a short distance from her home to practice her stunt flying, or maybe drop in on one of her friends that was around. But today was far from a normal day for this weathermare, for she was headed, not to somewhere within Canterlot, but down to Solstice Heights. This wasn't a trip for any kind of fun and games either; Midnight needed to see a doctor. She was used to the regular aches and pains that came with the occasional day of hard work, but lately she'd been having constant pain in the joint of one of her wings. It had started about a week ago, and instead of going away like her regular pains, this had only gotten worse over time. As for her decision to visit a doctor outside of Canterlot, she figured she had waited long enough to get checked on, she couldn't hope that a doctor in Canterlot to be available on such short notice. Besides that, she had heard of a supposedly amazing doctor who lived down in Solstice Heights, an area where hardly anypony really needed a doctor. His name was something like Dr. Betterbones, and she was certain that he would be the fastest way to get her wing checked out. As Midnight flew down toward the office, she pulled a few loops to give herself more time to slow down, to make sure she didn't smash through the door. Landing on the ground, she folded her wings in and stepped into the building after reading the sign, confirming that this was, indeed, Dr. Betterbones' building. Seeing that there was nopony in the waiting room, and not being one to wait around on nopony, Midnight simply walked to the doctor's office. She was about to knock on the door when it was instead opened by a sky blue unicorn with a black mane. She took special note of his cutie mark; a bone with a pair of green crosses. "Excellent timing!" she said, the surprise of the door opening in front of her not disturbing her flow at all. She was far too used to slightly more dangerous surprises, considering the line of work she had chosen, to let a little thing like a door opening bother her. She extended a hoof out to who she assumed was the doctor and continued, saying, "My name's Midnight Orchid, and I'm here looking for a Doctor Betterbones... is that you?"

Gasping for breath from her mad gallop out of the Everfree Forest, Stormsong came out near the monument of Nightmare Moon once again. Once she was certain she was clear of the forest, its monsters, and Discord, she stopped to catch her breath, cursing at herself for not getting more exercise. She had never run like that before, not even during the Running of the Leaves earlier in the year. Looking up at the monument, she spotted a red unicorn lying down underneath it. It was then that Stormsong remembered the inscription on the statue. She had had a piece of candy before and hadn't thought to offer it to Nightmare Moon, and now because of her "bright" idea of going off into the forest, she didn't have any candy again. This was also when she noticed that her scarf was missing; only the black cloak she had on had made it through her sprint to safety. Cautiously approaching the mare on the ground before her, she asked "Um... excuse me... have you see a blue and purple scarf lying around anywhere? I've lost mine somewhere."

Welcome to Canterlot, hope you enjoy your time here!

Welcome to Canterlot, hope you enjoy your time here!