As the first course arrived it was already an awkward conversation. Princess Celestia and Twilight Sparkle did not know when to stop asking questions. As I started eating they noticed my discomfort and stopped talking. I looked up at the light above me and turned it off with a simple 'dimming' spell. Twilight looked at me with a new appreciation, "So where'd you learn your first spell Gari?"
I looked at her and spoke quietly, "My... father, he taught me a light spell," I got up as the princess spoke about having to teach herself as a young filly and such, I looked at my Mother one last time, and saw her blue eyes staring at me sadly, "I'm sorry princesses, I am not hungry, and I have a- um place to be," I walked off as Minutte walked in sleepily, not noticing me.
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I kept to the shadows, as usual. I walked past a library, I looked inside and saw a book gleam back at me. I walked towards the book in the library, and open the it to the bookmark it had in it, it was a picture of me!
I read what was written underneath it.
Filly #302, Cougari.
Cougari was a different filly than most. Yes, she asked me questions, Yes she laughed and joked around, but she also calmed everypony down better than I could have. Even being an orphan, she was so... happy. Everypony seemed to accept her as the "leader" of some sorts. And when we arrived in town, she made sure everypony had somepony to live with. She seemed concerned as I erase the fillies and colts memories of the flight and of me. I also managed to be invisible to those ponies who didn't remember me. When she had to leave (and was very reluctant) she accepted the memory transfusion. As I started to erase her mind she gasped. She had a powerful magic surge and her eyes became a blinding white. As she did this, all the ponies eyes turned black. I stopped the transfusion and stepped towards her. When I stopped my spell, the light became faded. When I was able to see her again I found her passed out on the path. A couple who I recognized stepped forward and laid her on their back. I gently nuzzled 'Gari's ear and stepped back. I flew off silently. When I got back, I realized I didn't erase her whole memory, just buried it. That won't be a problem. Right?
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I-I couldn't believe it. I... was...
I heard hoofsteps coming towards me. I turned around and saw Princess Celestia. She saw the book I was reading and saw my picture on the page. She turned and glared at me. Her once kind eyes filled with hate. I freaked out. I teleported out of that freaking room. Out of that freaking castle.
I... was... a number. I meant nothing to her. I was foal #302! I had a name. A name that was not mine. It was some random name. She said I was an orphan. That no pony wanted me even when I wasn't taken. I can't believe that she took me. I could of had a happy life. I could of been living with a family, been happy another way. Yeah I was still a foal. Still I'm almost a teenager now. She could've told me! She could've told me before I found out myself. Why was her diary, her obsessive, daft diary, even in the library! I can't believe she put some magical spell on me and took me. I started to tear up. I didn't notice when a young stallion stood over me. He gently touch my ear, "Miss, your crying." I looked up my eyes wide and looked wider with tears. He looked down at me sadly. He laid in the street near me and sighed quietly.
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I guess I feel asleep, because when I woke up I was on a bed. I looked around in a panic and saw the stallion from before on the couch on the other side of the room. I walked out the bedroom door. Me being quiet as usual started to make some toast and pancakes. The young stallion from the other night looked at me in surprise as he walked down the stairs and saw me in the kitchen. "Hello miss. Um what are you doing?"
I looked up at him and just stared. I regained my posture and turned back to the food. "I am not a 'miss'. I am named," I coughed, "Cou-Cougari." The name felt familiar on my tongue, but it was different all the same.
He laughed really annoyingly, "Sorry Cougari! I am sorry for calling you miss. I am sorry for bringing you here without your consent, but you seemed so sad back in the alley way." He looked at me for a bit while I cooked and changed the subject to a whole different one. "Where do you live?"
I turned to him and blinked, "How far are we from the castle?"
He tilted his head, "Completely different topic but, ahem, about two miles. Why?"
I smiled, "Because I live about two miles from here." I put the breakfast on the table and brought syrup and whipped cream from the fridge.
He gaped at me as I sat down to eat pancakes and toast but he snapped out of it long enough to sit down to eat.
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I was walking toward the castle, the young stallion, whose name was Flaring Song, (or Flare) insisted on coming with me, I was almost there as royal guards stopped us. "HALT! Who goes there!" I stood up straight and looked the guard in the eye.
"Excuse me?!" I glowered "I am Gari! The Princess of the Night's personal student!" He looked me up and down in shock. But, so did Flaring Song. The guard shamefully looked down and moved away,
"Yes of course. Sorry Ms. Gari. Welcome back."
I looked through the window and saw a pair of eyes staring at me. But my attention got thwarted by a pony screaming. I looked around and saw Minutte gallop towards me, a grin splayed across her face. "Red! Omagodomagodomagod!! I had no idea where you were!" Her voice became fuzzy as I looked past her into the window. The eyes were gone.
