Part 26-27 to the Maybe series Follow the main character thought his newest trails as he tries to better understand the power he possess. And how it affects the ones he loves.
Part 26-27 in the Maybe series... With Chrysalis defeated every pony is once again safe, but as our characters soon learn the one simple truth of their lives; nothing can ever be just simple when dealing with the unknown forces and affects of magic as once again their love will be strained.
To my old readers, I welcome you to the new arc of the maybe series, hope you enjoy it. To new readers even thought I suggest starting at an earlier part, you might be able to start here if you would keep an open mind.
Your ears flicker to the deep sounding voice coming from somewhere around where you lay. But your too deep in sleep to full care where or who the voice is; so you lay on the dirt floor a little longer as the bellowing deep voice starts back up.
".... Buddy....Buddy.... Buddy..."
You finally give an answer to the voice as you move your neck a little further into the dirt where you lay. You smack your dry mouth as mumbled a reply, "...five more minutes Twiovit...."
With a sharp jab to your side your eyes fling open to the outside worlds bright sun. Your eyes are overwhelmed as your past out sleepy darkness is shattered with the bright sun and color trees and flowers that sit around you, "Dah!" You quickly bring your dirt covered hooves up to your eyes, but as you do this your left leg has a soreness in it that makes it take an extra second to your minds given objective.
The voice in front of where you lays talks as you feel a lighter tap from the object that poked you, "Good...now rise my zombie or demon pony creation."
You stop rubbing your eyes as you look through your legs to the male voice, what the heck did he just say? You stare at the small black maned grey unicorn who continues to poke a shovel at you. His colt like size doesn't match his deep voice at all so you push the wood part of the shovel aside slowly as you talk, "Don't you think you should be playing with someone own age?"
The stallion stops as he shoves the shovel on the ground next to himself. He stares at you a little puzzled as he taps his hoof to his face, "...Hey...you're not a zombie."
You blink at him as you think, why would this guy think I’m a zombie? You shake your head which sends a slight pained throb through your head, you bring your hoof up to your head as you talk, and “Ah...why does my head hurt?" Your mind and thoughts about last night or almost anything before that seem locked and you can't bring yourself to thinking. You're a little concerned about that but strangely you feel almost completely ok at the same time.
"Ohhhhh." The stallion nods his head as he points his hoof to you, "...It’s you...how have you been you drunken fool, you sound like you had a fun night did ya? Woozy head, slurred words and wandering into people’s gardens." His voice loses its playfulness as he hits against one of your bottom hooves with the back of the shovel, "...Could you please move yourself you're on a fresh grave."
Your eyes widen as you sit up and look to the head stone behind you...'here lies Stony hopes and dreams'.
The stallion shakes his head proudly as he looks at the headstone, "It was a good week." He losses the smile as he looks back to you, "Ugh, would you mind moving to the side a little...these are my hopes and dreams...and you are no golden flanked mare." He motions his head down as he continues, "...And frankly I’m tired of seeing it."
You roll yourself to your side as you struggle to keep eye contact away from the small stallion as your embarrassment takes hold.
You stand up awkwardly on four legs before you pick your front to off the ground and try to move with just your back. As you try to take your first step you come crashing back down to the soft dirt you once laid on.
The stallion shakes his head as he leans on the shovel, "My Luna...you're so drunk you can't even walk. Poor, poor little betrunken narr. "
You give a little chuckle as you rub your lower back side where you fell, "No, I just forgot I have to use four legs." You lose your chuckled smile as you squint your eyes at your comment.
"Forgot?" The grey stallion looks you over a little confused as you take to your hooves for the second time.
As you get the balance of your hooves you give a slow shaking of the head, "I think so..." You look to the ground again as you think over the stallion’s earlier comment, "You said betrunken, is that my name?"
The grey stallion gives a low toned chuckle as he stares at you, "ha ha...no, and for somepony who works at a library you're not very smart are you? You should look it up when you get back."
You think over his words for a moment, I work at a library...and what the hell?... I can't remember my name? Your mind starts running as you try to remember something that sits just on the tip of your tongue...the thought you can't quite get is heavy from the way your mind is pushing it but you can't bring it out. You finally give up as you look to the grey stallion, "You said I was drunk?"
The stallion shakes his head as he points to a trampled rose bush that sits on the edge of the tan hay covered house, "Yes, you stumbled into my yard late last night eat my roses, throw up and then passed out."
You give a smile as you shrug the notion off, "Not bad for a college boy."
"Oh hochschule hu? Where Celestia university?" The stallion raised an eyebrow waiting for your answer.
You stumble on your words as you blink brainless to the comment, "I-I can't remember..." The stallion squints at you as he extends his hoof, "Well you seem to have forgotten everything...good job... so I might as well introduce myself...My name is Tombstone or Stony, your pick."
You look at his hoof as you extend yours and wrap it around his awkwardly, "Hi." You push your hoof and his up and down as you shake it.
Stony moves his hoof back from you as he looks at you as if you were crazy, "I think I left you out in the sun too long."
His words bring a thought to your head as you look around the sun filled world, "How long was I outside?"
Stony shrugs as the shovel next to him takes on a light blue-grey glow and lifts from the ground. He walk past you as he talks, "Well I went to sleep and woke up and you were still there...then I went into town and you were still here when I got back...-Oh ya that reminds me you keep saying something in your sleep-.."
You feel like watching a shovel floating next to some stallion should strike you as odd but you ignore this feeling as you quickly cut his path off, "What? What was I saying?"
The pony squints at you as he stops, "Do I look like the kind of pony who listens to other ponies sleep talking?"
You blink at him silently.
"You keep saying something about some mare named Twiovit." He walks past you as he continues his path which seems to end at a small wooden shed.
You stare at the ground as you mow over the name in your mind, Twiovit? Who the heck is that...? "Hey! How do you know it’s a chick?" You cut his path off again as you anxiously wait for his reply.
Stony lets out a sigh as he stops, "It is not a chicken it was a girl." He looks you over again before he pushes past you, "...Or it might be a chicken I don't know."
You watch as he continues his path to the wooden shed with his shovel hovering next to him. But you're too focused on the thought that rages in your mind, what happened last night? You strain your brain as you stare at the dirt next to your hoof, you trace the fur up your leg as you stop at a dirty red-dirt covered spot. You bring your other hoof up to it and touch it, as you do this a twinge is sent through your leg, "ahhh." You continue to examine the fur for a moment, but the moment doesn't last long as you hear a loud thunder clapping in the distinct.
"Hey! Drunk! You should just come inside, that library is way too far for you to walk now."
You bring your head to the stallions voice as you move at a quickened pace to where he stands.
The stallion’s house is cluttered with books, papers on every flat surface and next to just about every one of these piles of masses up junk sits a different kind of beaker or glass burner. The place looks like some kind of drug house or science lab...you stop your sweep of the room as you focus on your last thought, why do I know what a science lab looks like? But the thought is pushed aside as your back mind shrugs it off with the word movies. Again after only a few more steps you stop, what's a movie?
Your mind is put on hold as the deep voice resignation from the stallion in front of you hits your ears, "Ya sorry about the mess, but being a mortician gives me to many things to work on."
You nod your head to his comment as you watch him stop in front of you.
He holds his hoof out as he talks, "Ok, to your right down the hall on the left is the guestroom, I lost a pet spider in there its name is Spidermane...-"
You interrupt him as you laugh, "Spider Man?" Right as these words exit your mouth your mind fills with questions of why you just found that funny but you still listen on.
"...Right...ok well if you see him don't step on it. I figure you're only going to stay here for one night, tomorrow we'll see if anyone knows your drunken flank in town." He turns away as he starts to walk from you.
"Wait...Why are you letting me stay here?"
He gives a sigh as he talks, "Well the storm would probably drown your drunken flank and I don't want to dig any holes...plus you did kind of save the whole town a few weeks ago so I-..."
You cut him off as you burst out completely confused, "I did what?" A feeling of self pride rolls over you as you think about his comment, ok so I’m a librarian superhero? I need a cape.
Stony holds his hoof up to you, which is literally what he has to do on account of the small stallion size, "Listen, don't get a big head, I’m pretty sure those element of harmony mares did most of the work."
Elements of harmony? You study the word in your mind for a second...the word strikes you hard and it again brings a hard to push back feeling that you're somehow forgetting something very important to you. It’s the same nerve racking feeling that you get when you can't find something important only this time you can't even remember the thing you are trying to remember. You give a groan as you rub your sore leg and hoof across your face.
"Are you sure you're not a zombie? “ Stony point's his hoof to the tattered fur on your leg as he talks.
You shrug the comment off as you look over the fur, "It was just a changeling bite."
Stony's eyes widen as he talks in a gasp, "ohhhh a changeling? You saw a changeling?"
You blink at him with no idea of what he’s talking about, "A chain-ling?"
Stony stares at your mouth a gasp for a moment, his green eyes focused on you, "...Your father must have been a mule or something, and no pony stays this drunk. Anyways back to the Discord thing."
You laugh a little at the word, "What is that like a band or something?"
Stony squints his eyes up at you as he talks, "Ya sure, could I get a lock of you mane?" A lock of my mane? Note to self lock the door tonight, you quickly shake your absent minding thinking off as you talk, "Ya sure, but can you tell me more about the." You pause at the word for a moment, "Elements of harmony?"
"Ya ya sure hold still." The grey stallion sticks his tongue hangs out a little as he squints his green eyes to you, a low chiming fills the cluttered room as a pair of small scissors and an open glass jar are floated to your face.
You watch the items for a moment as you hear the scissors cut through the mane above your eyes, you watch a few strains fall into the open jar at the tip of your muzzle. As the strains enter the glass jar the blue-grey tint brightens as there quickly brought back to the small stallions hooves. He stares at the jar intensely as he lets out a low, "hmmmmm."
"Stony." You look at him a little annoyed as you call his name.
He looks back to you as he lets out a high pitch, "hm? Oh ya, the elementsofharmonyaresomethingthatprincessCelastiausedtodouhhhhhhhhthatonethingkssdjnjd."
You listen hard at the fading sentence as he press the jar closer to his face, "Princess Celestia?"
Stony takes his muzzle from the glass as he plants his flank on the ground, "Yes the most delic...- I mean beautiful mare in all of equestria."
You think over the name as you smile, "I think I know her."
Stony rolls his hoof at you as he turns the jar with his other hoof, "pfff, sure you do, you poor sad ahnungslos pony."
You shake your head slowly as you talk, "No-no I do." You get a smile on your face as a shady description unfolds itself from your locked mind, "Lavender coat...three toned purple mane..." Your words soften as the fuzzy through attempts to clear, "...Soft pur...-"
"Ha ha, that’s not Celestia."
Your mind is brought back from its fuzz as you listen to the deep laugh, "Then who is that?"
Stony floats the jar to a large beaker of water as he stands, "I have no idea, most likely some herd-mare you met last night on your drinking binge, now could you step aside for a moment."
You move to the wall of the room as the pony continues to talk, "...tell me did you have any moon-dust last night? Because I’m starting to think you have memory relapse and not just drunken haze my little betrunken freund."
You shake your head slowly as you talk, "No I think something happened last night..." You search the wood floor of the house as you try to think hard again.
"Pff, knowing you, yo...-" His words are cut off by a loud lightning boom from outside, Stony looks up to the roof as he talks, "Oh, sounds bad." He smiles to you as he nods his head to the door, "You want to go play outside?"
You give a long face at his attempt at a joke.
He shrugs as he turns back to the large water filled beaker, "Well you're not completely dumb." His horn flickers a blue-grey color and the water starts to come into a boil. You look at the water with a feeling of confusion and complete understanding come over you...like its weird but normal to see magic...But you continues to watch as the grey pony starts cramming various food items into the large beaker.
You watch his action with a building confusion as the fruits, berries and vegetables are crammed into the beaker then vanish.
You finally can't hold your question back as you walk a little closer to the small grey stallion, "What are you doing?"
He stares at the puke green looking beaker with a smile as the baker takes on his horns blue-gray tint, it floats over to a small cup and is poured into it. The cup is then floated up to you as he turns, "Ok, drink this."
You stare at the drink, it has a horrible smell and you know your mane is floating around in it. Another loud banging from the storm is heard outside and this makes you think, crazy mortician/alchemy pony or raging mindless storm?...storm, you move your hoof slowly towards the door but as you do this the concoction is thrust at you.
"Trust me it will be good for you."
You stare at the drink in front of you then to the door as you think, oh man..."What does it do?"
Stony smiles as he hoofs it up to you, "It should help clear your mind up...-"
You take the drink from his hoof as you hold your breath and down the cup. It taste like a slimy apple or slimy anything for that matter...all you know is it taste terrible, but the worst thing is the hair that you can feel as you gallop it down, "That taste like shit."
Stony cocks his eyebrow at you as he takes the cup from your hoof, "Well you should never eat fecal matter." He stares at the cup as his eyes widen, "Oh I forgot the carrot."
"What?! What does that do?! “You bring your hoof up to your mouth as you rush to talk, "do I need to throw up?"
Stony smiles as he places the cup down, "No-no, but you will black out in a few minutes, but it’s ok you will feel better in the...-"
Your eyes start to feel heavy as your stance becomes woozy.
Stony eyes go wide as the small pony look up at your continuing to falter stance, "Oh buck."
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. - - -
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.
You have watched the two little ponies for the whole time you have sat on the bench. But you're watching is brought to an end as you feel a jab in your side.
"Um...you're not some filly watcher are you?"
You quickly avert your gaze to the grey pony beside you as you straight up your posture, "What! No-no no...I um I just..."
Stony nods his head as he holds his hoof up to you, "I don't want to know."
"No Stony I was just thinking and they were in my sight."
Stony eyes widen as he listens.
You realize how that sounded and quickly try to change its tone, "No- I men--..." Your voice is cut off by a tomboyish call in front of you.
You squint your eyes to the name or word you just heard, "Who is th...-"
You voice is cut off as a bolt cyan color flashes in front of you. You hold your eyes open wide completely shocked to the pony whose hooves and lips now embrace you. The confused moment doesn't last long as the cyan fur blob backs away from you in a high pitched rushed voice, "OH my gosh I-I’m so sorry I-Just didn't think you and with what happened and the..."
The ponies words start to mash together and you shake your head with a confused and happy smile to the stumbling cute looking rainbow maned Pegasus mare in front of you. You can't understand a word, the roses red cheeked mare is trying to spit out but you find her tripping over her tongue for some reason adorable...your smile increases as you look over the cyan mare...librarian has skills.
Your brought out of your confused dopey gaze as the mares magenta pink eyes focus on you as she puts her hooves back around you, "...I-we need to get you back! Everypony is worried sick!" The ponies rushed unsure high pitched tomboyish squalling is brought to an end as her eyes squint to your still dopey smile, "Where WERE You!"
You can't stop yourself from laughing as you look at the mares still bright rose red cheeks, "I have no idea what you're talking about."
The cyan rainbow maned Pegasus backs up from you for a moment as her eyes widen, "W-what?" Her confusion doesn't last long as she jabs you hard with her hoof, "Don't SAY that? How do you not know what I’m talking about?"
You pause now completely stuck dumbfounded, this mare is crazy one second she's all over me and now she’s yelling at me?!
The small colt-stallion that sits beside you finally gets up as he stands behind you, "Hello Mrs, Dash...I bet you wish you were not so ru...-"
His sarcastic voice is cut off by the mare as he moves her face over his, "What did you do you little half pint pony?!"
Stony lets out a little chuckle as he slides out from under the mares gaze and back to your side. He pats his hoof to your side as he talks, "Are little drunken friend has some kind of memory loss."
Rainbow stares between you two for a moment before she walks back to you with a lower voice, "You can't remember anything?"
You blink at her silently not knowing how to answer her, "Um...-"
Before you can speak her voice picks back up, "How can you not remember anything?!" You again shudder as you start to feel a little weird, "I-I don't know..." You bring your hoof up to your head as you rub it.
Rainbow gasped as she looks over your hoof, "Oh, you look like a mess."
You let her words ring in your head as you look over your still dirt covered fur and hooves, your hurt leg still has a bruising and dirt caked patch of fur on it. You didn't really notice it when you first left Stony's house but now that you do you're surprised that ponies even gave you a friendly smile.
You feel Stony pushing you towards Rainbow as he talks, "Alright it looks like you two know each other...."
You move closer to the cyan Pegasus as the small stallion walks to Rainbow, "What Sto...-" Stony taps his hoof on Rainbow as he ignores you, "It needs a shower and most likely it needs to eat, don't forget to walk it or it might forget." He gives a deep laugh to himself as he walks away, “Good luck betrunken, try to get that library open."
You watch as the colt-stallion walks away, you feel a little uneasy being left with some mare you just meet.
The mare puts her hoof on you as she talks in a low voice, "Ok let’s get you cleaned up and then I’ll take you to home." She looks you over with a forced smile but her eyes are still a little shifty.
You don't know what else to do so you follow the cyan mare as she leads on.
As you follow her down the road she continues to stare at you silently, you try to keep eye contact off of her as your uneasy feeling starts to set in.
You keep your head straight as you feel her gaze continues to burn onto you. After a little longer you can't hold yourself back as you make a quick turn to her, "What?"
She stops and you follow her lead, she again looks you over as she talks in her low tomboyish voice, "C-can you really not remember anything?"
You turn your head from her as you laugh a little to yourself, "No, a-are we like dating or something? Cause if we are I’m sorry."
She picks her pace back up as she veers off the main path, "No."
You keep your pace with her as you follow her, "Where are we going?"
The cyan mare doesn't turn around as she talks, "Well I was going to get you washed up but I can't fly."
Can't fly? You eyes drift to her bandaged wing that you could not see when you first meet her. For some reason you get a weird feeling that somehow you could had prevented it. The thought fuels your comment as you try to talk in a concerned voice even though you barely know this pony, "I'm sorry...-"
She turns around fast as your words hit her ears, "You remember?" Her pink magenta eyes are completely focused on you as she waits for your answer.
You sheepishly avert your eyes as you talk, "Um...no, how did you get hurt?"
She hangs her mouth open in aw for a moment before she talks in a shaky tomboyish voice, "Helping a friend."
You nod your head as you look around, "Um...where are we going?"
Rainbow takes a deep breath as she slowly shakes her head, "I'm taking you home." She looks back to you with intense eyes as her voice becomes more stern, "Listen I don't know what's wrong with you, but please when you meet Twilight just act happy ok?!"
You nod your head as you try to think over the name, the name rolls in your mind the feeling of forgetting something important now runs through your mind and starts to make your uneasy feeling become more of a stomach churning uneasiness.
"Ok, well come on it's not too far." The rainbow maned mare waits for you to start walking before she joins your side. You again hold your gaze from her as you focus on the road, Twilight? that name...
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.
Twilight's calming spell seems to have worked better than she probably thought it would, you're now calmed mind and the soft bed you had been laid on now help your mind take in everything that has happened. The first thought that comes to your mind is how the hell did they even get me here? You feel like you have been awake the whole time but you have no memory of walking or being carried. Your eyes are closed though and your body still embraces the sweet mind numbed peace that you can think through.
Ok, two days so far...day one woke up in a pile of dirt with a pained head and a dried blooded leg, meet a weird stallion midget that told me I’m some super pony librarian...not bad...drank some crappy position, fainted...good day.... Day two meet somepony named Rainbow dash, meet a whole bunch of ponies that seem to know me and now I have weird green tingling sensation over my body, a kid I can't remember...supposedly with some mare that 'knows me' and we live in a very flammable library hou...-
You stop your heads rant as you feel a cold wet surface brush up against your still tender leg. It doesn't hurt and instead have a very soothing gentle touch. You open your eyes slowly as you quietly shift your head to the pony sitting by your bed. The lavender mare doesn't seem to notice your head shift as she continues to wipe slowly at your bruised leg.
You can't help but feel a little guilty for the way you acted...you can't remember this pony but as you look over her mane that covers her eyes you can't help but feel a strong feeling of belonging. You shift your eyes to her hoof as she dabs at your matted fur, the white towel is already covered in dirt and other things from your fur.
Your leg's muscle twinges a little as she presses down this time with a slight amount of strength to it. You don't make a sound but from the motion of your muscle she knows you're awake.
Twilight shifts her face to you as she gives a little smile, her eyes don't fully focus on you she talks in a low voice, "are you feeling any better?"
You stare at her silently for a moment trying to soak in her image, as her soft purple eyes give a little glance up to you, you nod your head, seeing the eyes you described yesterday gives you a weird happy feeling and you have to talk to ignore it, "um...look, I’m sorry for the way I acted."
Her eyes drift back up to you and her ears straighten a little more as she listens.
"...I, I just can't remember you." You give a swallow to your dry mouth as you finish your sentence.
She nods her head and her ears droop down a bit, but her tone picks up as she stands from your bedside with a loud inhale, "And that’s ok, because we are going to help you, ok?"
You stare at her again silently before you nod your head, not knowing anything about yourself and having some pony who obviously knows more about you than yourself right now scares you a little bit...but the strange happiness you have at looking at her out plays your mind.
She smiles as she turns herself to the door, "Spike he’s up." She looks back to you as she talks in a low voice, "Spike is my dragon assistant, and your friend who you have know since you came here... ok?"
You nod your head as you think over her words, came here? Like from another town? You hold your question back as you watch the little...purple dragon enter the room. He holds a large brown and gold book in his clawed graph as he walks to Twilight, "Here you go Twilight." He doesn't take his eyes off of you as he pulls a paper and what looks like a quill out of the book, you watch him as he waddle over to a chair in the corner of the room.
"Okay." You look back to Twilight as she hovers the book in front of her, the book has a purple glow around it, you know its magic but you still feel a little odd by knowing it. You sit up from the bed as you listen to the mare.
"First things first, you need to know your name."
You nod your head as the word hits your ear, ok? That’s my name...no memories here, cool.
She flips through the book as she stammers, "Ok, from what I have read we should start by trying to jog your memory, not just tell you everything. It’s easier on the pony if they just remember themselves."
You smile a little as you talk, "You read that whole book already? You must be a fast reader."
"I read fast when it’s something important to me." She gives a sweet smile to you as she turns back to the door and calls two names out.
Important to you...You think over the words as you lose your smile, what's important to me?
"Alright Twilight, what y'all need us to do?"
You bring your head up from your hooves as you look at the orange and yellow mare that crowded the doorway.
"Aj, Fluttershy, anything that you think will help bring back a memory I want you to try."
The orange pony who seemed to reacted to the name Aj taps her hoof to her muzzle as she lets out a dumbfounded um...
The yellow mare however comes a little closer as she talks in a very low voice, her eyes shift around you and her mane drops in front of her face a little, "Um...I know we never really talked too much, and I’m sorry but um do you remember me?"
You shake your head slowly as you answer, "I'm sorry."
She nods her head as she backs up to the orange pony, "It's okay."
"I got it!" The orange pony smiles to you as her happy southern accent fills the room, "Y'all remember before winter wrap up you helped buck some apples with me and Twi, well you picked dem with your uh hands but still counts."
You shake your head as you think over her word, she says hooves weird.
"Um sorry Twi, other than that we only really where around each other with Rainbow Dash."
Twilight nods her head as she talks, "Its ok, send Pinkie and Rarity up please."
As the two ponies leave the room the little purple dragon speaks up from his chair, "Do you remember cider season? Or the Night before Winter Wrap Up?"
You shake your head to him.
You hear hoofs banging on the wood as you look back to the door two the white mare and pink pony..pink pony you think, "Hi Pinkie."
The pink fully haired pony jumps and almost defies logic as she froze in the air with a gasp...bad move, the pink ball of fluffy no has her hooves wrapped around you as she happily scream-laughs, "You remembered me! Youdidyoudidyoudidyoudid!"
You try to talk through her shaking of you, "I just t-thought you w-here pink so Pinkie w-woul-d be you-r name."
She lets go of you as she pants, "So you don't remember me?"
You shake your head.
"How could you not remember aunty pinkie pie?" She frowns as she's pulled back by the white mare, "I'm so sorry darling, but we are all a little um." She pauses as she shifts her eyes back and front, "...well we are all a little surprised at how you can't remember Twilight or Violet, after all you went through and how much passion you showed the other day."
You look to the lavender mare who smiles to you sweetly...You feel your own smile creep your face as you talk, "How old are you Twilight?"
But your question goes unanswered as the white pony's hoof smacks across your face. Note to self...OW!
"Rarity?!" Twilight holds her hooves up completely confused to her friends action.
Rarity taps you softly as she talks, "I'm sorry but its very rude to ask a mare her age, even if you can't remember them you still should have manners."
The pink gives a snorting laugh and so does Spike from his corner.
"Its fine Rarity." Twilight rolls her eyes to the white pony.
Rarity clears her throat as she composes herself, "Okay darling, do you remember me making clothes for you? Or maybe all the times me and Rainbow stopped by?"
You shake your head to her as you apologize.
She taps her hoof to her mouth as she talks, "W-well that’s not all um how about the time you brought me my element of harmony or hearts and hooves day, do you remember Sweetie Belle?"
You shake your head again but this time your ears twang a little to the last name she mentioned.
Twilight sighs as she talks, "It's okay Rarity, I don't want to ask too many question on the first day, could you send Rainbow up?"
Rarity nods as her as her and Pinkie turn to leave the room.
You look to Twilight who now has the book in her face as you think, how long will this take? You feel a little drained as your mind tries to focus on everything you have been told so far, something’s bring a feeling and others just bring questions. You sigh as you hear the next ponies hooves hitting the wood.
You bring you head up to the door as the cyan Pegasus takes the doorway, "Hello again Rainbow."
She nods to you before she talks to Twilight, "Ok Twilight what do I need to do to make this dumb mule remember?"
"Just talk about anything you think might help Rainbow."
The cyan mare rubs her hoof over her neck as she thinks, "Ok, anything that might help..." She looks to the ground for a moment before her voice picks up, "...OK you remember when we got sucked into that book right?"
Sucked into a book? You shift yourself a little away from the book Twilight hovers close to her as you answer, "no."
"Ok, how about fighting that ursa minor?!" She smiles to you as she shakes her head yes.
"No, I don't remember that."
"Ok then you have to remember all the times we challenged each other to like a race or horse shoe tossing or something right?" She starts to look a little annoyed as she waits this time.
You again shake your head, "No."
She gives a little laugh as her tomboyish voice spikes up, "Ok what about Canterlot when we got put in jail."
You chuckle a little as you again say no, although I do need to remember to stay away from this pony if I ever go to can-o-lot.
"How about the Everfree forest you remember that?"
You shake your head but before you can talk the orange pony appears in the doorway again, "Um, Twilight where y'all keep the baby bottles, Violet woke up and won’t stop fidgeting."
Twilight quickly hovers the book to a nearby side table as she follows after Aj, "Its okay Applejack I got it."
You follow the mare leave as you think about the name, you may have only know that you have only know about Violet for a little while but that doesn't stop a weird feeling in your stomach.
As you get up from the bed with your eyes still focused on the door Rainbow talks in a low voice, "Do you remember anything about me?"
You blink at her saddening expression as you talk, "I know I feel comfortable around you." And its true so far this pony and Twilight are the only two who seem to make you feel calm at all, which is still a strange ok feeling seeing as how you can't remember anything other than a simple feeling.
She smiles as she turns back to the door, "If your wanting to see Violet then you should smile at least."
You nod your head as give the friendly smile you had to use all day.
As you exit the last room on the left you look around the hallway of the library, you know the rooms but you feel like the one you just left was a bit different. As you follow the cyan Pegasus your eyes drift to a gold and white crib in one of the rooms you pass, you only get a slight glance at it but its the first time other than the ponies words that have suggested a little filly in the house, but now you're just surprised you haven't heard any crying in the house. If the filly still sleeps in a crib she has to be a baby, so why have you not heard any crying.
You trace your steps down the stairs as you follow the voices coming from the room to your right, as you look over you see Twilight placing a full bottle on a orange wood high chair table.
But your eyes don't focus on the table instead you stop on the stairs as you look at the small light purple unicorn filly that sits in the chair. The little filly's blue eyes are a little water and her mouth hangs open like she’s crying but you don't hear any sound.
You continue to stare at the filly unable to move, your heart is beating fast and you hot all over your body...you can't remember the name of the filly even though you just heard it a moment ago and for some reason it is painfully stabbing at you.
Your frozen moment doesn't last much longer as the little filly's mouth closes as her blue eyes stare up at you, instead her wide mouth turns into a happy smile and you watch as the little fillies top legs wiggle to your direction. You still can't bring yourself to continue down the stairs as you look at the blue wanting eyes.
"You coming slow poke?"
Rainbows tomboyish voice breaks your petrified stance as you nod your head silently.
The lavender mare that stands next to the little filly watches you as you slowly come into the room. Everypony else in the room stops what they're doing as they watch you two enter the room..
You stop at the threshold of the door as you look at the wiggly filly.
"Would you like to say hello to Violet?" Twilight's voice is shaky but she smiles to you as finishes her comment.
You give a shaky chuckle as you feel a joy filled crying starting to build up in your eyes, "Wh-y why am..." You pause at your first sentence as you snort your nose back, "Hello Violet..."
You lean against the wall of the room as you try to calm your emotion flowing body.
Twilight walks over to you as she talks, "Just sit down..."
You nod your head as you follow her to a seat.
The wiggle filly follows you with her tiny head, her baby like wanting face continues to pierce at your heart as you sit at a table in clear view of her.
Rarity hold her hoof to her mouth as she composes herself, "Um, Twilight...would you like us to leave for today?"
You exhale loudly with your very audible shaky voice escaping you as Twilight talks, "I think this is a good place to stop for today. Thank you." She looks between her friends as she smiles sweetly.
Each pony nods as they give her a hug and walk past you, each pony also nods her head as they walk past you, "I hope you feel better."
To each pony you nod your emotion filling head.
The last to leave is Rainbow as she nudges you on your shoulder, "Smile."
You give another shaky chuckle as you bring your hoof to your mouth and began to bite on it. The wiggly fillies eyes are not longer teary, but her gaze has not changed from you since you entered the room.
As the door closes for the last time behind you, you bring your teary eyed up to Twilight as you try to steady your breathing, "I-is she ok? I-I mean I haven't heard her cry since I've been here."
Twilight brushes the little fillies short mane as she talks through her smile, "Violet has a larynx problem."
You nod your head anxious not knowing what that means, "i-is she ok?"
Twilight picks her gaze up from the little filly as she smiles to you, "As some special pony once told me...there’s nothing wrong with Violet."
It took Twilight a few minutes for Violet to calm down enough so that she would stop her little wiggling legs long enough to grasp onto the bottle.
Your fur around your eyes is stiffened from the tears that have just recently stopped. You can't understand how you could get so emotional to somepony you don't know but you barely even question it as you happily watch the little fill slurp down the last bit of her bottle.
"Twilight! Twilight!"
You bring your head to the young kid sounding voice of Spike as you hear his clawed feet smack against the wood, "Celestia will be back tomorrow." The small purple dragon waves a paper in front of Twilight.
She smiles as she takes the paper from him with her hoof, "That’s great news." She looks to you as she talks, "Celestia is the most powerful pony in all of Equestria, she will be able to help I’m sure of it."
You nod your head only able to follow half of it. Truthfully the overload of information today and all that you have done today is starting to weigh down on you, and either its the two nights of forced painted sleep that you have been put through or it might just be the mind reload you have gone through but you feel yourself becoming tired quickly.
Spike looks to you as he pushes against you playfully, "You feeling better yet?"
You shake your head, "I feel like I’m going to be sick..."
"Are you hungry or is it your leg??" Twilight quickly chimes in as your words exit your mouth.
You hold your hoof up to her as you shake your head, "Why can't I remember anything?"
Twilight and Spike give a look to each other in silence.
You stare at them waiting for an answer, "Why did I lose my memory in the first place? What happened?"
Violet lets go of the bottle and it hits the ground with a loud clang. You quickly turn your eyes to the smiling filly.
"Oh, Violet." Twilight picks the bottle up and sets it on the table.
You can't stop your smiling as you look over the happy filly, but as you do this a thought runs through your mind...I’m happy even though I can't remember anything...so why would I have lost my memory? "Twilight?"
The lavender mare sighs as she talks, "I honestly don't know...you were bound to Chrysalis bu..-"
"who's that?"
Twilight blinks at you for a moment before she talks, "Oh...yes." She taps her hoof to her mouth as she looks around the room, "I'm not supposed to tell you anything...the book said you have to ..-" "Twilight...I don't know anything about this or me...Please just tell me?" You stare at her as your anxiety to know grows. Not know anything and being so close to something is eating away at you.
Twilight nods her head as she talks, "I read a spell in the book that can bring back memories if somepony else shares the same memory...-"
"Then why didn't we do that first?!" You let out a surprised laugh as you stand from your chair, "Do it."
She shakes her head, "If I can't do the spell fully then you would only get glimpses into my memory...and that won't help you at all."
You smile to her as you talk, "I can't remember anything now so what the difference?"
She hesitates for a moment before she talks, "Spike could you bring me the book." She stands as she walks over and picks up Violet.
"What are you doing?" You stare at her action confused.
"Violet can't be around magic, so I need to take her upstairs." You watch as Twilight carries the little filly out of the room. The whole time Violet doesn't take her eyes off of you.
You in the room alone as you think over what you're about to do, ok some memory even if its not my own is better than none right?...ya.
After a few more moments of self convincing you hear Spike’s claws and Twilights hooves on the stairs. You bring your head up as you stand a little taller, "OK, what I do?"
"Sit." Twilight holds her hoof to the chair as she hovers one in front of the one you plop yourself in.
You stare at her waiting for her to speak again.
She floats the book over to her, the magical chime of the book echoes through the quiet house as she reads it, "Are you sure?"
You nod your head with a confident smile.
Twilight breaths deep as she extends her hooves, "Ok, close your eyes."
You lean forward towards her hooves as you watch her horn take on a bright purple glow, "Ok, the feelings and memories may not be instant and it may even take a day or two so are you still sure? Because Cele-.."
"Yes." You close your eyes as you lean your head to her two extend hooves.
"Ok, you might feel a little twinge."
You slow your breathing as you listen to the chime from the magic around you, at first you feel excited and anxious for anything at all...But as you hold your neck out for a few more uncomfortable minutes you start to doubt it..."Twilight I..-"
Your words are caught off as you get a sharp pain in the back of your head...your eyes twitch as feminine laugh ricochets around your mind, your leg where its wounded begins to throb as you get a picture of some bug like sleek black pony with blue eyes in your mind...as feelings of pain, sadness and sharp feeling of abandonment start to surround you, you find yourself unable to jerk your head back all you can do is listen to the high pitched chimes around your ears.
A distinct voice is heard in the back of your mind through the chiming as you feel your tip of your nose start to tingle, "You promised you would leave us us us..."
"Oh are you ok?!" The chiming stops and you quickly jerk your head back as you throw yourself back into the chair behind you.
"Spike get a towel!"
You wipe your nose with your hooves, they feel warm...you bring them in front of you for a better look...I'm bleeding..."What was that?!"
Twilight quickly hovers a towel to your nose as she rushes to talk, "I'm sorry I’m sorry.-"
You lean your head back as you take the towel, "It was pain! All of it? There was nothing but hurt and loss!? Is that what I forgot?! because I’m glad." Your voice is shaky as you hold the towel to your nose.
"No, of course not its not always like that."
You chuckle to her word, "Not always? So that’s normal stuff?"
Twilight holds the towel as she talks, "No...its never normal..."
You bring your head forward so that you can look at her, you feel like you no longer want to remember anything...but as your eyes meet her concerned face that through starts to soften, "Why would I stay here?"
Twilight ignores your comment as she apologies again, "I'm sorry."
You swallow back as you talk, all the while trying to not shake your head, "Its my fault, I should had just waited..."
Spike rocks his body back and forth as he talks, "Are you alright?"
You give a low yes as you clear your throat in a laugh.
Twilight holds the towel to you as she start to give a sniffly laugh.
You have no idea why you're happy at this moment the truth is you feel horribly, but you still feel very happy for some reason...I’m going crazy...or this is normal.....
It took you a little while to clean yourself off and even though your nose was not bleeding everything you ate seemed to just tasted like blood, which made Twilight's idea that food would bring a memory back go completely out the window. You smile to yourself as you look out the window behind where you sit,...that's redundant... You rub your hoof over your face as you feel you’re tired eyes starting to win the battle you have fought for the last few hours.
"...Twilight, should I go to Rarity's?"
You turn your head to the conversation Twilight and Spike are having in a hushed voice in the other room.
"...He might remember something if he sleeps in the same bed..."
"...But he is all loopy right now, how do you even know he will?"
You're unable to hear their voice anymore as you start to think, where do I sleep tonight?
Your thought is put on hold as you her Twilight's hooves behind you, "Um...are you tired?"
You blink at the lavender mare for a moment before you shake your head slowly. You can tell by the way she's acting that she is holding herself back from something.
"Well, uh... we only have the two beds and I was just wondering what you would feel more comfortable in?" She gives a sheepish smile as she looks away for a moment.
You think over the way she’s talk, we have a kid...so that means...you know that its going to be weird to sleep next to a mare you can't all too well remember...but you can't bring yourself to voice that as you talk, "I'll sleep where I usually sleep." You bring yourself to a smile as you repeat her words you over heard, "...It might be good to sleep in the same bed."
She nods her head as she talks in a low voice, "um...are you going to sleep now?"
You nod your head.
"I'll take you to your room." You follow behind her as you leave the room.
"Hey, Do I have to do the dishes again?"
Spikes comment brings a smile to your face as Twilight turns around, "Um, its the first door on the right. Excuses me."
Twilight quickly moves past you almost a little annoyed at Spikes comment.
You chuckle a little as you walk up the stairs, ok first door on the right...
As you enter the room you pause and bring your eyes to the white and gold crib on one side of the room...you stare at the peacefully sleeping filly that rest under the light blue blankets. You swallow hard as you quietly make your way over to the crib.
You stop above it as you look down to the sleeping filly. "she hasn't slept good...but she looks better now.."
You're a little startled by Twilights hushed voice beside you, but you don't make a sound as you nod your head.
You turn your head back to the large bed that sits in front of the crib...you know an awkward moment is just a hoof away but you're just too tired to really fight it. So you suck it up as you slowly make your way to the bed. You actually feel more nervous about the mare that you're going to be sleeping next to tonight more than the fact you can't even remember anything about her.
But you hold that thought at bay as you place your first hoof onto the bed. You slowly pull the covers back as you slide yourself into the warm blankets.
...But now your mind has keep something from you, as you settle into the bed you feel a shift on the side next to you. You watch as Twilight slowly slips herself into the bed...her back faces you and she seems to be trying to avoid your gaze.
You can help but think to yourself...and the awkward moment start early...
- - -
The moment has lasted alot longer than you thought it would... the moon now sits high up in the window in clear view from where you have not shifted from since you got into the bed. Twilight has yet to turn herself towards you or even move just like you...you're starting to doubt that she is even sleeping.
You listen to the sound of the wind hitting the window as you try to force yourself into the sleep you need. And just as you start to close your eyes the bed next to you start to shift. Your eyes hang open wide as the shifting start to creep over to your side of the bed, your body tightens as you feel Twilights leg and hoof slowly come over your chest.
You freeze at the hot leg the now rest over you, her body is pressed up against yours. Your mind is screaming as you lay there, your mind is telling you to get up and leave the room at the unfamiliar leg and hoof....but a strong feeling overtakes you as you lay there...the feeling reassures you that somehow this...this is right...
A peaceful exhale expels out of the pony that has her body pressed up against yours as she finally starts to slip into a sleep. But at that sound your outer mind takes over and you slid from her grasp onto the floor.
The lavender mare has her eyes on you as you quickly make your way to the threshold of the door. You don't have to turn to feel her confused and crushed eyes burning into your coat.
Your quick down the stairs and out the door...but you stop in a heavy breath as you look up to the dark cold sky. Everything has happened so fast today...it feels like this life is not even yours.
With a light clicking sound you hear the door behind you open...you don't have to turn as you listen to the mares low voice....
"Yesterday I keep closing my eyes, just wishing that when I would open them up again that you would be holding me like you always do...." Her voice cracks up as she pauses, "....I know you don't remember me...but I will do anything and wait as long as it until you do..." Your heart skips a few beats as you listen to her last heavy words, "....because I love you..."
The cold night air hits in contrast to you warm body as you hold your head to the ground trying to understand how much this pony means to you.
You wait in silence for a few minutes before you turn around to the lavender mare in the doorway.
You can't say a word as the still unknown sadness over takes your mouth...but as you walk closer to the mare there is no doubt in your mind that this is where you need to be if you want your memory back...
