//------------------------------// // chapter 2: remedys and panic attacks // Story: Chronicles Of Merion: Shadows Inferno // by BLACK-OUT11 //------------------------------// Chronicles of Merion Chapter 2: Remedies and panic attacks "Come inside, the potions almost done brewing anyway" the zebra stated matter-of-factly. The trio barely hesitated to enter, as they did so they were treated with the ever worse stench of alchemy and herbs. "GAH, how do you breathe in here?" Screamed the filly trying to jam her hooves into her nostrils. "Carefully" The llama replied sarcastically. "If I may ask young equine, what is wrong with you this time?" The zebra asked, lying down on a nearby couch. "NOTHING” The filly screamed. "She keeps having memories that aren't hers talking about things that don't exist" The llama said, with a worrisome tone "THEY EXIST I TELL YOU, big giant flying metal things THEY WERE EVERYWHERE" The filly raised her lungs in anger "Don’t get her started on the 'living rocks'. It’s like she’s gone completely mad" The llama whispered "TH-TH-THERE WAS BRIGHT LIGHTS AND EVERYTHING WAS HOT AND THEN DARK AND COLD A-A-AND THE WAS FIRE EVERYWHERE A--AND SCREAMING" The filly yelled flailing her hooves everywhere then fall to the ground shaking and crying. "This is much worse than I had anticipated" the zebra said trotting over to comfort the traumatized filly "ASH… N-NOTHING BUT ASH" The filly blurted out. The Pegasus was surprised and terrified by the series of sudden outbursts, this was the same filly that was happily playing logic chest with her friend only minutes ago, and suddenly looks like she saw her family die. "Come on Zecora there must be something we could do, SOMETHING I can't bear her like this" The llama begged "I'm afraid that no remedy of mine will be able to help her" Zecora said with regret in her voice. "But if you don't mind me asking... who is this friend of yours?" Zecora asked "Well this guy kind of tagged along with us, said he had some memory problems" The llama answered. "Well that I can fix, please wait a moment" Zecora sped out the room for a couple seconds and came back with two conical flasks "Now this is a special potion that the royal guard used for interrogations, it’s designed to refresh memories, they used it on warlords that commonly have their own memories removed to protect their masters by using a special spell in which the host will push chosen memories into their oppressed memories" Zecora said matter-of-factly "This potion moves all the oppressed memories into the host's long term memory" Zecora said. "Unfortunately when I saw all oppressed memories I mean ALL oppressed memories, including memories you don't want to remember" Zecora said in a saddened tone. "So if he got touched by his uncle or something" The filly shouted suddenly. "Good to have you back to normal Ruby" The llama said in relief. "ME NORMAL" the filly laughed maniacally rolling on the ground as she did so. "BACK to the task at hand, Pegasus… are you sure you want to go through with this?" Zecora asked. "Well I don't have much of a choice now do I" the Pegasus replied. Zecora handed the flasks over to the Pegasus, red potion and an orange potion "Drink the red one first then the orange one" Zecora said. The Pegasus sculled the red and orange potion as quickly as possible, which tasted like hot dirt with spices. "OH and don't think about polar bears or you will die painfully and violently" Zecora said with a slight smirk. The Pegasus stared at Zecora as if to say 'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE' "I'M JOKING, why so serious" Zecora said holding her hooves up in a comical manner, the Pegasus rolled his eyes in response but was interrupted by a sharp pain in his skull and everything went black and the floor disappeared beneath him. "How long will he be like this" questioned the filly "A few more seconds young equine" Zecora replied. After several seconds the Pegasus shot up on all fours "NO I'LL NOT LIKE THE COFFEE CAKE I DO NOT LIKE COFFEE CAKE HOW DARE YOU" The Pegasus screamed at the top of his lungs. "Any more of this sudden loud screaming crap and I'll need a hearing aid" The llama said in an annoyed tone. "EARWIGS, EARWIGS EVERYWHERE" The Pegasus cried with his hooves over his head. "MOOOM DAAD WHERE ARE YOU" The Pegasus cried "Um dude you ok?" The filly said strangely casually. "I-I-I UH UM" The Pegasus stuttered nervously shacking. He passed out again. Images were flashing past his eyes, dark figures, strange distorted voices he couldn’t make any of it out. He was in a brightly lit white room, he tried to move but he couldn't as he were paralysed. A dark figure appeared in front of him, it was too blurred and distorted to make out what race it was. The figure approached him slowly speaking in a distorted tone that the Pegasus couldn’t understand. When it came to the point where the figure was mere inches from the Pegasus' face the figure stated in a sinister tone "patriot, find the seekers" and then everything went white. The Pegasus found himself on the floor in the middle of a hut "m-my name… is patriot!" The Pegasus yelled. "I want what he's having" A filly stated.