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// Chapter eight: a new friend. 
// Story: Remember 
// by Pony Jack 
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	Now we find the group of friends walking off to Fluttershy’s cottage. Everyone was extremely excited to see the kind yellow pony, or almost everyone. Hope Shine was trailing behind the entire group, she wasn’t too sure if she was ready to meet Twilight’s friend Fluttershy, she wasn’t certain if she’d make the right impression.
How should I act? What should I do? What do I say? These were the thoughts that filled her mind as she was slowly heading off to Fluttershy’s house.
As she trailed on toward Twilight’s friend’s house, something caught in her eye. It was what looked to be a rock, glistening in her eye and causing her to have trouble seeing it. Hope Shine picked it up to better examine it, and she found that it has multiple bright colors on it, like lite and dark blues, as well as some white. As she held it, she noticed it very slightly radiated heat, like that of the sun. For some reson, Hope felt she should keep it.
After examining it, Hope realized that she was beginning to fall behind in the group. With her newly acquired item in hoof, she began to gallop toward the group. After catching up, she changed her gallop to a gentle trot. It seemed she had done this just in time, because they were at Fluttershy’s front door.
Twilight knocked on the door, three times to be exact. After the third knock, Twilight’s friend Fluttershy opened the door.
“Oh, why hello Twilight,” Fluttershy greeted her friend.
Fluttershy looked out her door, and after looking she saw a sizable number of people there at her door step. After seeing them, Fluttershy was overwhelmed by just how many people there were.
“Oh, my,” Fluttershy slightly gasped from the shock of just how many people were there.
Twilight Sparkle could immediately tell that her friend surprised, and the least to say overwhelmed.
“Yeah, sorry that there are so many people here Fluttershy,” Twilight apologized.
“Oh it fine Twilight, I just didn’t think that you’d be visiting,” said Fluttershy, “or with so many people.”
“Sorry Fluttershy,” Shady Daze apologized, “I just couldn’t stay away from such a good story!”
“Story?” questioned Fluttershy, “What story?”
“Hope Shine’s memory loss of course,” Rumble interjected.
“What?” gasped fluttershy, “mem-mem-memory loss?! Who lost their memory?”
“Me,” answered our filly in question.
“Fluttershy, this is a long story,” Twilight interrupted, “maybe we should go inside and take a seat before continuing the explanation,”
Fluttershy, seeing nothing wrong with this idea, opened her door to let her new guests in. As Hope Shine Walked Past Fluttershy, she noticed that Fluttershy’s house was filled with animals.
“Wow,” Hope Shine marveled without even realizing she was speaking, “So many animals, I like animals.”
Everyone got taken to a complete stop after hearing this statement.
“You do?” Twilight questioned.
Hope Shine now realized that she had stated a fact about herself, she remembered something!
“I-I do!” Hope said in astonishment of remembering.
Twilight saw the opportunity to get her to remember, so she decided to take the opportunity!
“What else do you Remember Hope Shine?” Twilight asked.
“I-I think I, no, I know, I know that love nature!” Hope Shine exclaimed.
“And? And? Anything else?” Twilight questioned, trying not to lose the chance of memory recovery.
“And I, I,” Hope continued, trying to hold onto the memories, “I’ve lost it.”
Everyone let a sigh of depression. Hope lost her memories yet again, but at least this time she had some new one to go off of.
“So…” Spike trailed off, “You like nature huh?”
“Well, I do remember how beautiful the trees are,” Hope Shine thought aloud, “And how I felt around them.”
“Well,” Twilight interrupted, “I guess we’d better tell Fluttershy just how we found Hope Shine and all.”
Everyone then sat down to tell Fluttershy about Hope Shine.
“We found Hope Shine after she’d just come out of an ally,” Sweetie Began.
“Then we crashed into her,” Scootaloo added, “and found out she had lost her memory.”
“So we decided tha’ we should take her tah Twilight’s for help,” Apple Bloom stated.
“And then I found out that she was an alicorn and sent a letter to princess Celestia to see if she might know anything,” Twilight declared, “and decided to go ask my friends if they knew anything, while picking up some stowaways along the way.”
Twilight gestured toward the Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Rumble, and Shady Daze. Shady Daze was still jotting notes down on his note pad, but finished soon enough to see Twilight gesturing to him after saying stowaways.
“Hey!” Shady Daze asserted, “I’m only trying to get a good story for the Foal Free Press! I’m here for a good reson!”
“And we came to help!” Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Rumble said simultaniusly exclaimed to clarify their cause for coming along.
“So that’s why we’re here Fluttershy,” Twilight continued, “to ask you if you may know anything useful.”
“Oh, well, I wish I could help Twilight,” Fluttershy began, “but I don’t know anything about that or how to help.”
“Well, thanks anyway Fluttershy,” Twilight said, “Besides, there may be some way you can help us that we don’t know of yet!”
“Yeah, thanks any way Fluttershy!” Hope shine added.
Fluttershy noticed that Hope Shine was holding something, a rock of some sort perhaps.
“Hmm. I wounder…”  Fluttershy whispered to herself.
“Did you say something Fluttershy?” Hope Shine asked.
“Oh, I was just thinking about that blue rock of yours, it looks so peculiar,” Fluttershy responded.
“Oh, this?” Hope questioned, “I found it near your house, it looked interesting to me, so I decided to keep it. You don’t mind do you?”
“Oh no, it’s fine with me if you keep it.”
“Thanks!”
Just when their conversation finished, the rock Hope Shine was holding began to vibrate. As it was vibrating, it started to glow with a blue aura. It vibrated more violently till it started to float. The rock was now floating in midair, cracks forming on the surface of it.
“LOOK OUT!” Rumble yelled.
The rock then exploded, reveling that it was actually an egg, an egg that hatched to reveal a phoenix, but not just any phoenix, a blue phoenix!
“Wow,” Hope Shine said.