Chapter 5 – Home?
You have to stop as a large tree at the end of the path becomes clear in your sight. A strong anxious feel comes over you and your heart starts to pick up pace as you stare at the large building like tree.
"Come on." Rainbow turns back to you as she sees you stop.
You swallow hard as you slowly bring yourself to walk again, you can't take your eyes off the tree as your mind screams at you, I know this! I know this! Fuck why can't I remember this? Your hooves almost feel sweaty with anticipation as your walk gets closer to the red door of the building.
She knocks on the door with her hoof as she stands next to it.
You listen to the door open, as the door starts to slowly crack you feel like running in but you don't as you look at the small purple and green scaled fish shaped head that opens the doorway.
"Your-your alive?"
You look to the small creature as you nod your head. His eyes are wide as he quickly steps aside, he looks like he wants to say something but his mouth just hangs open silently.
Rainbow waits for you to go into the house as she stands a little aside from the threshold. As you make your first few steps into the house your mind clears and you listen to the feminine voices coming from inside the house. Your mind focuses on one of the voice, the voice bearing a thought that slams into the front of your mind, I know that voice...
"...I just got her to sleep a little while ago..."
You stand in the bottom of the treehouse as you turn your body to the sound of the voices on your left. The door behind you closes as Rainbow and the small purple thing walks in. You stare at the five ponies that crowd the inside of the room you look in. You move your eyes over the four ponies that face you.
"Um...Twilight..." The southern sounding orange pony hoofs towards you.
The slightly wider lavender pony that stands in the middle of the group slowly turns to face where you stand, as the mare does this your heart picks up, you don't know why but your body is struggling to run towards the lavender pony as she turns, her eyes fixate on you and she stares at you silently.
You look over her mane and coat as you think to yourself, she matches the description of Celestia you gave to Stony...the only thing that doesn't match her are her red tired looking eyes. You clear your throat as you look her over, "Um...h..-"
Before you can even finish your simple sentence the lavender pony has rushed to you and your now being tightly held by this crying mare. You have no idea how to react to her loud sobbing as you freeze in her grasp and listen to her cracked voice through her gasp of crying, "I—I thought I w-would never see you again!"
The mare that stills has her face buried into your chest as her sobbing heightens. You look around the room to the other ponies faces who can't take their tearing eyes off of the scene. You feel your own body starting to become emotional but you fight it as you try to free yourself from the ponies grasp. Your mind and heart seem to be fighting you as you break free of the crying mares grasp, you back up as you talk in a low shaky voice, "Look, I-I don't know what this is about."
The lavender mare's voice is very shaky as you continue to back away from her, "W-what are you talking about?"
The other ponies in the room behind her start to follow her as the start to listen more closely.
You're backing up has brought you to a large room to the right of the door, all around you are walls of books and you start realized something...this is the library.
The lavender mare stops at the threshold of the room as she brings her hoof up to her mouth, her sobbing is still completely audible and her chest convulses as she tries to calm herself through her high pitched now more of a whining calming cry.
Rainbow comes to the ponies side as she talks in a low voice, "Twilight, he can't remember anything."
The lavender mare steps aside from Rainbow as her eyes continue to tear up, "W-what do you mean?"
You swallow back the building emotion you're getting from looking at the mare, you don't know why but for something in you is screaming to run to her. But you're too strained on trying to figure out who this pony is to move, your mind and heart are still at ends with each other and you just stand in the room unable to decide what to do.
The cyan mare puts her hoofs on Twilight's shoulder as she turns her face to her own, "Twilight, he doesn't know who we are."
The mare fights against Rainbows hold as she keeps bring her face to you. Rainbow finally lets go of her, Twilight makes her way a little closer as she looks at you intensely, "Y-you know me don't you?"
Your breathing is heavy as you look over the mares tired and tear filled eyes, "I-I can't..."
Her voice picks up as she gives a sarcastic laugh, "If this is a joke please stop...it’s not funny."
You shake your head as you talk again, "I don't know who you are."
Twilight brings her hoof up to her mouth as she turns her face away from you.
"Hold on." The white mare with purple mane that stand behind the doorway speaks up as she walks into the room, "How could somepony have just forgotten everything?"
As she walks closer to the lavender mare the other three mares she stood beside bring themselves into the room as they talk. Each one starts to ask you questions, you shift your head between the high pitched voice of the pink one back to the low girly voice of the yellow one and then back between the more understandable southern accented pony and regal sounding white pony.
Your head pounds as you listen to each ponies questions.
The noise that ricochets off the walls is brought to an end as Rainbow step in front of you, "Whoa whoa, everypony lets not bagger him with questions."
You take the moments rest, but your mind still races as you look over the lavender mare who is still trying to compose herself behind the mod of ponies.
Twilight brings her head back to you, her voice is a little bit more clear but still carries a heavy tired and sorrow filled tone as she talks, "You can't remember me right?"
You regretful nod your head as you feel a mixture of sadness and a sickening stomach churning at admitting it.
Twilight nods her head a little reluctantly as her voice picks up, "What about Violet, do you remember Violet?"
You pause at the name before you talk, "Who is Violet?"
Your answer seems to have struck a chord with the mare as she now walks past the mod of ponies, her voice is a little bit more raised as she talks, "How can you not remember Violet?"
You back up again as you notice her change of tone, "I don't know who she is."
Twilight holds her hoof out to you as she continues to walk closer to you, "There! You just said her, how do you know she is a filly?"
You give a little chuckle as you have no idea what she’s talking about, "Who is a filly?"
The lavender mare that now almost has you trapped in the corner of the room raises her voice as she talks, "WHO? Violet, Violet is the filly."
You shake your head at her, "who is Violet?"
The pony in front of you almost yells as she calls her answer to you, "Your daughter!"
You feel like a brick has just been thrown at you as you listen to her words..."My what?!"
Twilight's eyes water up again as she chokes up, "Our daughter."
You shake your head as you walk past her, "No-no no, I would remember if I had a daughter."
You stop as your meet with the wall of ponies at the threshold of the door, each one has a completely shocked expression.
"You, you can't remember Violet?" The white pony brings her hoof up to her mouth as she looks to the other ponies around her.
"Boy, he’s more forgetful than Granny Smith! What would have caused that?" The orange pony looks past you to Twilight.
You continue to search for a gap between the ponies but your cut off as the pink pony lunges at you, her voice is high pitched and you can't understand her, "HowcouldyouhaveforgotViolet!Youdidwhatyoudidjustforher?!"
You back up from her as you look around the room, these mares are crazy! How can I be some librarian super pony who lives in a library with a daughter...even though you have this has just been thrown at you and your mind is screaming in disbelief your heart and back of your mind are holding you hear not wanting to leave.
The lavender mare call out to you with the same name that Rainbow used when she first saw you. You turn back to her anxious to leave as you listen, "...What are you doing?"
You laugh as you feel your confession start to turn into an annoyed anger, "What am I doing? I'm trying to leave!"
The room goes into a gasp as each pony start to talk at you. "Leave? Why ever would you want to leave?" The white pony stares at you completely in shock.
Before you can answer her Rainbow has her hoofs on you, "You need to just calm down and listen to every po..-"
You push her hold from you as you back up into the bookshelf, which knocks some books on to your head. You give a pained yelp as the books strike your head.
Twilight hold her hoof out to you as you rub your head, "Are you ok?"
You continue rubbing your head as your annoyance and pained head start to rise, "No, I'm not I just was told that I have a kid I can't remember! Why would I be ok with that?"
The orange pony puts her hoof on you as she talks, "Listen sugarcube let just sit dow..-"
You throw her hoof off of you as you push past her and the other ponies towards the door, "No, I don't want to sit down and talk about this! My head hurts I don't know any of you! And I want to just leave ok?"
You stand in front of the door but as you reach for it Rainbow jumps in front of it, "Whoa, there, you just need to calm down alright?"
She pushes her hoof on to you as she tries to lead you into the other room. But you get off of her as you walk away.
Your breathing is heavy as you start to feel trapped in the room.
Twilight now stands in front of the other ponies as she talks in a low voice, "Just calm down."
You feel a shout slip out as you're tired of hearing those words, "I'm fine! Listen Twilight you seem like a nice mare but I don't know..." You feel yourself start to cry as you can't complete the sentence, "I-I don't know you or..." Your again unable to complete the sentence but now your body is starting to get a tingling sensation all over. You lean against the wall as you look over your now green aura surrounding your coat, "I don't know you or Violet."
Twilight looks over concerned as she talks in a low sweet voice, "Ok, ok but let’s just sit down an..-"
You push yourself off the wall as you talk over her, "No.." You look down at your now brightening green coat. You freak out a little as watch the light brighten around your hooves, the tingling sensation builds as you try to shake your hooves, "What's going on?"
Twilight again talks in a low voice as she gets a little closer, "You're generating magic because you’re confused and angry, you need to just calm do...-"
You talk over her again more annoyed at the word, "I am calm?!" The sensation makes you start to tremble, what the heck is going on?
You look at Twilight's horn that is now starting to glow purple, "I'm going to use a calming spell ok? Trust me ok?"
You stare at her tired purple eyes you're still confused and your mind is screaming at you to leave but you nod your head.
Her horn glows bright and you feel your trembling body start to slow down, you minds screaming calms and as the purple aura sits over your coat. Your breathing calms down and you start to feel sleepy, as your body continues to feel sleepy you start to notice yourself begin to sway. You think to yourself as you feel your swaying start to increase, I'm going to fal-..
Your thoughts close as you feel yourself peacefully slop over onto the wall and slide down it in a claimed sleep.
End of chapter 5