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// Chapter 3  
// Story: Maybe it can... 
// by Fat1thatyoulove 
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Chapter 3 – One less headache to...who are you?

You slowly open your eyes to the white wood ceiling above you. The sound of birds and the breathing next to you has woken you up. Your mind still feels cloudy and your body aches a little bit more yesterday after sleeping on the ground.
"Ah, well the good news is you're up."

You give a low groan as you rub your head, "How long was I out?" You turn your head to the small stallion who stands near the edge of the bed, "Well after you fainted you were out until well now...”

"What?!" You jerk your body up right in the bed, which leaves your equilibrium off.

"Ya, which makes me, ask. Your body reacts fast to fainting, do you faint a lot or something?"

You rub your head as you try to think for the answer, "I don't know."

The grey stallion taps his hoof to his mouth as he sighs, "Well at least know your memory is still locked. Oh well we tried."

You stop rubbing your head as you look to the pony that now walks out of the room, "Wait, that’s it?" You stumble out of the small bed as you try to untangle yourself from the sheets too catch up with him. You stumble into the threshold of the wall as you blurt your next sentence out, "H-how can I get my memory back?"

"Do I look like a psychic to you?" Stony shakes his head as he floats a small grey satchel to himself from a nearby table, "...I say we take you into town and hopeful somepony will recognize you, and take you off my hooves." He looks back to you as he lightens his tone, "No, offense but you talk a lot in your sleep."

You stare at the ground as you try to remember anything from your fainted sleep, "What was I saying?"

Stony walks closer to the door with you behind him as he pushes it open with his grey-blue magic, "Honestly, I don't know. Most likely that potion put you in a knockout state and your dreams, if you had any are most likely unrememberable."

Un-remember able thanks to a memory potion...You stare at the stallion who is point for you to go outside. As you walk past him you think, great my life is in the hands of a three foot dwarf. You pause as you stand outside in the morning sun...what are hands?

"Move drunk!" Stony jabs your back with his hoof as you have taken up all of the entrance to the house, "For Luna's shack you had better not expect me to carry your flank into town, it was bad enough I had to drag you to your room."

You move a side as you talk, "Why did you not just teleport me?"

Stony shakes his head as he walks past you, "Great, the forgetful earth pony is trying to tell me about magic. Do you even know how hard it is to do a teleportation spell?"

You pause as a feeling of weird accomplishment over take you, "Um, I think I do?"  As these words exit your mouth you feel a slight spark of your old memories kick in, you grab hold of Stony as you talk towards his face, "I think I can do magic!"

"No, really? Or did you think you defeated Discord with hugs and kisses...I have an idea how about you teleport us?"

The overjoyed feeling you had at announce is quickly burned down by Stony voice which fuel your minds destructive doubts, "Um....I can't remember how..." You let lose of the stallion as he pulls away from you.

"Of course you can't...follow me." His sarcastic voice doesn't help your dropped attitude.
You watch the small colt like stallion venture off the narrow dirt path onto a grassy hill. You follow after him after you take a moment to look back, Stony house seems to be the only building in eyes reach...which makes its tanned wood and hay covered house stick out in complete contrast to the green grassy hills that surround it.

"Could you please hurry up? Just because I like the dead doesn't mean I want to walk like one."

You look back to where the far away deep voice bellows from, you quickly hurry yourself up the side of the hill where Stony stands.

As you reach the top of the hill you realized its more than just a hill, it’s an over look...and what you see as you slowly make your way next to him sends you mind racing.

"Ya, this is not my house, but I need to come out here to get away for the weekend...stuff happens that just makes a pony want a break you know?" The small stallion looks to you as he finishes his sentence.

But his words fall on deaf ears as you study the rural town that sits a good distance from you. From your vantage point you can see a large grove of apple trees to your left, and to your right hundreds of small house in the distance. You slowly bring your eyes around the town you stand above as you try to take it all in, there's a large bell like building in the center of all the small house that from what you guess would be town square or something...but your mind pushes a thought as you squint your eyes to see a little farther...You know this place its name painfully sits on the tip of your tough but you can't say it, but the thought that also comes with this is in complete contrast. Even though you know this town and you feel like you should be looking at it, there is something in the back of your mind that is telling you that you truly don't belong here.

Your long studying of the town is brought to an end as Stony voice becomes relevant again.
"Are you crying?"

You shake your head from your thinking as you sniffle a little, "um...I-I don't know..."

The stallion rolls his eyes as he turns from you, "Well follow me, better take you somewhere that you might remember before you start crying like a baby."

You give a little laugh as you follow the stallion. You still feel weird but see the town has given you a strange urge to get down there. The same feeling of something very important crosses your mind as you follow the colt-stallion but you quickly shrug the through off knowing you can't trace it.
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You give a loud groan as your hooves start to throb, "How much further?"

"Ugh for the last time, we're not going anywhere...we're just trying to see if anypony knows you. Now please shut up."  Stony shakes his head in an annoyed fashion as he picks up his pace.

You swing your head back and forth again like you have been doing for what seems like all day. Each time you make eye contact with somepony you give a friendly smile but each time you do this they just give you a friendly smile back and continue on with what they're doing.

You roll your eyes as you again bring your eyes from another pony, "This feels pointless? 
You said I worked at a library why can't I just go there?"

Stony mutter something back.

"What?

He speaks up as he talks, "Because a very rude Pegasus told me that it’s going to be closed for awhile. Besides it’s not like you live there, who lives in a library?"

You nod your head at the comment as you bring your eyes to pale yellow looking mare standing next to a roses stand, her flank has a rose on it with the same color of her two toned red mane. You smile to her hoping that this pony will be able to recognize you, but inside you just get a friendly nod as she goes back to tending to the roses around her stand.

"Ugh, this is pointless."

Your head is quickly brought back to the grey stallion that bellows in front of you, "I really thought ponies would be able to recognize you...did you just stay in that library? I mean really what stallion wouldn't milk what you did?!." Stony slows his pace down as he nears a wooden bench that sits under a tree.

You follow his path as you try to think about what you know so far, ok...librarian badass who saved the town from a legit bro named Discord...but no one give a shit? You give a disappointed exhale as you sit down next to Stony.

"Slime apple?" Stony hoofs an apple on a stick covered in something that he pulled from his bad.

You casually push it aside as you talk, "I'm ok."

"Suit yourself." He plugs the apple into his mouth as he chews with his mouth open.

You drift your eyes around the streets as you look for anyone you might know...you watch tons of stallions and mares walks past you without even giving you a glace. You give another defeated exhale as you look down to the ground.

You close your eyes as your bring your hooves to your head and began to rub, think come on! Something! Not know anything is giving me a headache. You sit on the bench like this for a few moments in silence to yourself...At Least until you hear a playful laugh. You bring your drooped head up as you focus on two little fillies playing some kind of hop-scotch. One is a green mane earth pony with a caramel coat and the other is a light yellow unicorn with darker yellow mane. You feel a smile come across your face as you watch the two little fillies playing, a weird pride feeling starts to bubble up in you alongside the same urge from before that you had to get into town. You ignore it for a moment as you watch the little ponies happily laughing.

End of chapter 3