(Winter POV)
Ugh, I always hated teleportation it’s just fell so weird to disapear out of existence only to blink in another place entirely. The first thing that greet us was the majestic figure of Princess Celestia. ``Welcome my little filly, I assume Luna have tell you the specific of why you are here?`` I nod rapidly and she smile down at me.
``Come with me, we have a guest room for you you must be asleep to proceed to this, if not it could be very uncomfortable for you.`` Me and Luna both followed the ruler of the sun down the empty halls of the castle.
One of the doors glowed with a golden aura and gently open. Inside of the room was a large bed with a laced cover. I look back at the two Alicorns nervousely. Would they look at me while I try to sleep? That a little creepy.
Celestia seem to caught my expression and look at me with a gentle expression, ``Don’t worry Winter we have a spell that will make you sleep as soon as you lay down on the bed you won’t even have to wait. Just relax and we will do the rest of the job.`` I nod nervousely before I complied and lay in the very plush bed.
I felt a warm magic embracing me before my vision fade away in a blissful slumber. As soon as I fell asleep the two sisters nod to each other and got to work. Two magical glow surrounded my body and extract the last memories of Dream that was locked into my spark.
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(Dream POV)
I open my eyes, I almost through I would wake up dead back into the subconsious of Winter Song. I look at Fluttershy who wored a content smile. A tear roll down my cheek as I look at her.
Some part of me wish I never had to meet her so she wouldn’t have to suffer all of this. But I instantly kick myself for thinking that. If it wasn’t for us meeting each other Meek Sky wouldn’t been born and Winter Song would probably been born alone with nopony to love her and forced to live on the street. Just thinking about it made me developed a huge lump in my throat as I tried not to cry.
I wish I could simply stay in bed with my fiancée and literally pass the rest of my life with her. But I had to at least say goodbye to my sister before that. We are not on the best term since she insulted my family but she still deserve a proper goodbye from me.
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The first I aproach was Ditzy Doo, the wall eyed mare smile and wave at me when she saw me aproach her. ``Hi Ditzy! I was wondering if you saw my sister, she have a brown coat, a red mane and a triangle with a circle inside as a cutiemark.``
``Sorry but I didn’t saw anypony with this description she must be too new in town for me to have noticed her.`` I nodded disapointed but understanding. I didn’t want to have to do this but I don’t want to wast more time, with a resignated sigh I said a single word.
``Party`` As soon as the word where spoken my vision turn to pink.
``Did somepony said party?!`` Pinkie Pie ask excitedly.
``Nope must have miss it.`` I lied with a well trained poker face, the pink mare deflate at this new. ``But since you’re here you can help me find my sister.`` Instantly Pinkie regain her joyous expression.
``I saw her at the new cafe with the pretty mares!`` New cafe? Well ok then.
``Thanks Pinkie can you point me where it is?`` The pink mare grab me with a hoof and my vision was distorted for a full second.
``Here we are!`` When I conquered my dazed state we were indeed in front of a cafe.
``H-how did you do that?!... Pinkie?`` I turn around and saw that the party pony was gone without a single trace. I shook my confussion away and simply walk in the cafe. Let just say it wasn’t what exaclty where I expected my sister would be.
Inside the building was a normal looking cafe entirely made of wood, a few pictures of landscapes hang on the walls and on the middle of the main room was a stage where I could see Octavia and Sonata playing with the rest of their group, but that wasn’t what caught my attention.
The waitresses of the cafe all had french maid outfits with either a cute ribbon or a flower on their manes. So this was that kind of cafe. Sure enough my sister was there sitting alone on one of the many tables, looking glum as ever.
I awkwardly approach her table not too sure how to talk too her after alll this time. ``Eh, hi sis how are you doing?`` I facehoof myself mentally, this was the best you could come with?!The mare look at me with a well trained unintersted expression, but I could see through her facade that she was still hurt from yesterday.
``Look I’m sorry for screaming at you. I have really short temper when my fiancée and my daughter is concerned.``
``I’m the one who should be sorry. I judged you as if I had right to judge who you love. I guess it was just strange to see you with another species altogether I can clearly see now these ponies are not more farm animals than humans are apes in a zoo. I guess I always expect when I would see you you would still be the guy who played videogames all day. It’s was selfish of me to think you wouldn’t make a life of your own.``
``I will take some hayfries with some Crystal berry soda.`` I said suddently to one of the maid who wink playfully at me and write my order in a piece of paper. My sister look at me with a confused expression.
``What? I’m hungry I didn’t have time for a breakfast yet.`` My sister smile while she roll her eyes. ``Jess I have to say something, I don’t think you got the new, I will be gone in two days.``
``Gone? Gone where on vacantion?`` I shook my head sadly at her.
``My return in the world of the living was only temporary.``
``N-no don’t tell me after all this time I will lost you again? Why?!`` The entire room got silent at the scream of my sister. ``Couldn’t this Winter Song be the one to go away instead?`` My anger flare again at these words but this time I kept it under control.
``Jessica I have done my life even if it was extremely short. It’s Winter’s life now I can’t take that away. I know this world isn’t fair it never been and never will because there nopony to decide what should happen all these stories of the gods deciding our fate is false. Even if there powerful gods they’re not omnipotent beings.``
Jessica hug me tightly and sob on my coat. ``I-I can I stay with you at least?`` I nod softly before I speak.
``You can stay the rest of the day with me... I know it’s selfish but I want to pass my last day with Fluttershy.`` Jessica look at me with teary eyes.
``I understand you want to stay with your fiancée for your last moments, I can understand that Sam.``
``It’s still weird to be called by my human name I becamed so used to be called Dream during the last year of my life that it’s weird to be called anything else.``
``Well okay I will call you Dream if you call me by my new name too.`` I through about it and nod it’s was only fair. ``Call me Star Secret.``
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(Winter POV)
I looked around the endless landscape that appeared out of nowhere. The clouds bellow me was less solid than what I remember clouds to be. But the most beautiful thing where the millions of stars and the aurora borealis in the sky.
``Beautiful isn’t it?`` A Regal voice said behind me. I spun around and was met with the familiar face of Princess Luna.
``Where are we?`` I ask unsure of my situation, I don’t recall much of what happened for me to be here.
``You are in my personal dreamscape this is the place where every dreams of my subjects are connected. Every single stars you see in the sky are memories forgotten by the ponies long ago. You are here because this way it will be easier to store the memories of Dream in case we would need it in the future.``
I noticed that some silver looking magic was rising from my mouth. ``Yes little Winter Song this is the memories being extracted from you. Do not worry this will be over very soon.`` Strangely I noticed that in the sky one star was glowing more than the others.
``What is this star Princess? Why does it shine brighter than the others?`` As if to respond to me a filly came from the said star and land close of Luna. The filly in question was a ice blue Pegasus. Her cutie mark was a snowdrop flower, but the thing that stand out the more of the filly was her eyes it was as if she didn’t have any pupil.
``To answer your question this star is dedicated to the filly you see. She’s called Snowdrop she was very important to me. A little like how Twilight is important to my sister. Snowdrop was a blind filly who had created the first snowflakes in Equestria.`` The Lunar princess explained.
``What happened to her?`` I asked with a concern frown.
``We don’t know exactly. One day she visited the frozen land of Dream Valley and disapeared without a single trace. Me and my sister search high and low to find her but we never saw her again. Her mother was crushed and left the Kira branch after the first two decades of her disparition. I always and still hope that one day she will come back, like so many things did in the recent years.``
The filly took off in the sky and came back in the star she came from. ``It’s seem we are almost finish with retiring the last memories of Peace Dreamer. You should be awake in a few seconds.`` True to her words the landscape began to fade away from my vision before I lost my last bit of my five senses.
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I open my eyes it was as if a weight have been lift off me, I didn’t felt any condradiction in my mind anymore, I didn’t felt the urge to bang a cute mare and above all I felt more... Innocent in a way.
I look at the two Alicorn sisters who looked at me with smiles of acomplishement. ``Luna...`` I trail off as I heard my voice. It was almost the same but something seem off about it I couldn’t put a hoof on it. ``You said that there where risk that I change, did something happened?`` I ask worriedly.
She didn’t lost her smile at my question but she did look a little nervous when she respond. ``Go see for yourself.`` She said by pointing a hoof on a tall mirror. I slowly rose from the bed, whoa it is me or the room seem bigger than earlier?
I slowly trot to the said mirror and gasp at what I saw, the first thing I noticed was that my fur changed of color instead of the usual dull grey my coat was now a bright sandy yellow color, I had lost the black of my mane replaced by the color blue, my mane looked as if it was two rivers separed by three roads of grass, my tail was long and curled up at the end, instead of the dark blue eyes I had since I was born my eyes were now hot pink. I sigh in relief when I saw that I still had my Pegasus wings. And my cutie mark was also still the same. The last change I notice was that my eyes were somehow brighter and I was also smaller than before.
``Luna, why do I look like a filly?`` I ask confused.
Luna look nervousely around and tired to avoid the question but Celestia was kind enough to respond. ``You see Winter even if everypony said you were seventeen and you looked like it. You where in fact only fourteen years old like your sister Meek Sky. Now that the memories of Dream are completely gone, your body have take the maturity it was supposed to have since the begining.``
I should have expected that, in the Kira branch memories are everything it’s what define somepony. No memories mean that you’re dead. I had heard of ponies who gain amnesia and returned to the age of a foal before but I never saw it personally. So the only reason why I looked like a three years old filly fourteen years ago instead of a newborn foal was because I had still some memories of Dream locked inside of me? That seem like it anyway.
``Wait a second. That make me the younger sister of Meek Sky!`` I cried sudently in realisation. the two sister look at each other for a second before they burst out laughing. ``Hey! That not funny I was supposed to be the one that protect her!`` I tried to put a serious face which was ruined by my flushed face.