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// Realisation 
// Story: Lost Memories 
// by Aros356 
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What I’m not aware of is that when I am thinking of that day I am actually saying it loud enough for someone to hear. I look behind me and see Fluttershy at the door to the room I seem to be staying in. she tries to hide before I see her but she isn’t quick enough. I go to the door, and I don’t see anything. I walk in a little more and I hear the door close behind me, the yellow Pegasus shyly greets me while trying to hide herself in her mane.

“Please, don’t be shy” I say to her as I brush her mane out of the way.
“You … seem so, strong…” the Pegasus started to say “are you really …um, a soldier?”
“Yes” I answered.
“Wow… um…” that is all she said before running up to me and giving me a quick hug. Only for a moment or two do I feel …happy. Nopony has ever hugged me before, it felt strange at first but then there was a small bliss.

The door opened and Twilight was on the other side. “You ok?” the unicorn asks “Is there a reason you two are in a closed room.”
“Not that I’m aware of…” I was stopped by the Pegasus.
“Twilight can I …uh, speak to you? In private?” The yellow Pegasus asks
“Ok” The lavender unicorn replies. The two of them walk out of the room, the door closing behind them. I just wander around the room and notice that this is a library… Does Twilight live in a library? I will ask her when she returns.

I walk over to the door and place my ear against the wood to try and listen in on their conversation, all I could hear was.
“I know you do, you just told me, but I think you should wait a little longer, he just got here yesterday, and he is still recovering.” I hear Twilight say.
“Ok, but… um…” the Pegasus was stopped by the pony.
“Just let him rest. A day or two more and he should be fine.” The unicorn interrupted.
The door opened, and Twilight walked in saying she would take me downstairs to get some breakfast. As if to emphasise that fact, my belly let out a deep rumble.

We walked downstairs and I clearly noticed that this is a library. “Twilight, do you live here, in the library?” I ask.
“Yes, with my companion Spike. Fluttershy doesn’t normally stay here, but she wants to know how you are recovering, so she is staying for a while.” she replies. I let out a growl when the small harmless dragon comes close, I never like dragons. “Wow! Calm down. Twi’ what would you like? And who’s you friend?” the green dragon asks.
“The normal breakfast please. And we don’t know his name, not even he does.” The unicorn replies.

I scream a little, not loud, just enough so everypony in the house or library could hear, I’m not sure why I do, it just feels right at this moment. My head falls to the table. My legs go limp. I see the door open and a pony walked, or more like hopped in.
“HELLO! Who’s this? Is he hurt? Oh my, that wouldn’t be very good now would it,” the pony says.
I look up a little and see the pink pony, I recognise her, but where from and who is she. The realisation hits me like a ton of bricks.

“PINKIE!!!!” I yell. “Please… please can I have some …peace” I start to cry at this point when all the painful memories of her flood back into my mind.
“How do you know my name? You just got here, right...?” the pink party pony started to say, before she interrupted herself. “Aros! Aros Blade!!!” she yelled. And at that exact moment I remembered how I got that name, I don’t want to remember though.

“PLEASE!” I yell. “Please pinkie…” I’m sobbing at this point. Fluttershy is running down the stairs now. Her voice not being able to be heard thanks to Pinkie launching apologies this way and that.
“Shut up, shut up, shut up” I say to myself. I scream at the top of my voice “SHUT UP!!!” there was a long pause, I am starting to breath heavily now. Pinkie dived behind the chair beside her.

“Your name’s Aros…” Twilight started, she let out a little squeak. “The same Aros that challenged Celestia’s elite guards, and won?”
“Yes, I am. You must be connected to her royal highness to know about that this far away” I say.
“Yes, I am her faithful student” she replies.
“Ah yes, Twilight Sparkle I remember you know, Celestia told me a LOT about you, some stuff you even thought that only you and her knew about, but I won’t go into those.” Twilight looked surprised that I knew about her and Celestia’s private life. “Yes, Twilight, I know all about it, and all about you, and her royal highness. Nothing was kept secret from me, but that isn’t the case now, Celestia thinks I’m dead, she went into mourning a few weeks ago, that is why Luna took over the court for a while.”

“Well, if you know about that, promise not to tell anypony?” The lavender unicorn asks.
“Of course, after all I have been keeping it a secret for 3 months now, and that is when it started isn’t it?”
“…yes”

“So, um, your name’s Aros…” I turned to see the yellow Pegasus speaking. “And you know about Twilight’s secrets, um, the ones she shared with Celestia…”
“Shh, before you ask, yes. I do know, I did read my mail back at the castle.” I interrupted with slight chuckle in my voice. “And it’s ok, I was going to reply but I was called to action.”
Fluttershy lets out a little shy yelp. Clearly she doesn’t want the others to know about her secret. “I need to go for a walk, can someone accompany me, heh, I need a bit of fresh air.” I request.
“I will” The yellow Pegasus replies with a louder than normal voice.
“Great” I reply, “let’s go” and with that the two of us walk out the door.

Fluttershy and I walk for a bit around the town, Ponyville seems like a wonderful place to live. We walk and we talk, she seems to live a nice and peaceful life when Twilight doesn’t drag her into things.
“Fluttershy, earlier when Pinkie hopped into the room, and I announced that I worked for the royal guard…” I start “I did read whatever mail I got in the palace, I always looked forward for reading letters from you.”
“So, you know about…” the Pegasus says.
“Yes, don’t be afraid, I only wish you could have read the letter I was going to send. I always wondered what you looked like, and only after Pinkie came in did I remember what happened in my time at the castle. And now that I have met you face to face, it was worth the wait.”
“really?” Fluttershy let out a squee noise; I don’t know what that means. I’m not thinking about what I’m doing right now. I step a little closer to her and kiss her on the cheek. She lets out a little yelp and blushed, and clearly not trying to fall over and hide, due to her shy nature.

We keep walking for a little bit, until I start to feel a pain in my right foreleg. I don’t think much of it, as Fluttershy and I keep walking, she goes on to tell me about her adventures with her friends. I’m so interested in her stories that I don’t feel my leg collapse underneath me and I fall to the ground with a thud.

“Ah, bugger!” I yell as my leg goes into agony.
“Hey Fluttershy!” a voice sounds in the distance “Who’s your friend?”
The yellow Pegasus ducked until she realised who it was. “Oh, hi Rainbow Dash. This is Aros Blade”
“He looks a little hurt…” The new voice continued.
“You don’t say! AH! Oh Celestia this hurts!” I exclaim.
“Fluttershy, help me get him to my house,” the new voice says. I must have gone blank after that, I don’t remember anything.

I awoke on a cloud, a cloud shaped as a couch. “Where …where am I? Whose house is this now?” I ask.
“I’m Rainbow Dash, the most awesome pony in Ponyville! And this is my home.” I heard a voice say. I open my eyes and see a cyan coloured Pegasus standing before me.
I have one thing to say but my throat is in agony and it comes out as a jumble of sound.
“well I have to say, I am the most awesome pony in Ponyville, but you don’t come from Ponyville do you?”
“No. I don’t…” before I know it, the cyan Pegasus is bowing down to me. “Why… why do you bow?” 
The yellow Pegasus moves towards me and whispers in my ear, “Rainbow and I talked while we brought you over here.  Is it true… that day when Princess Luna wanted to talk to you in her private quarters?”  She asks. I couldn’t do much but nod reluctantly.

I let my head flop down and the cyan Pegasus went to get some drinks, when she leaves Fluttershy sits down next to me. We sit there staring into each other’s eyes for a few minutes; she leans down and returns the kiss from earlier. “Rest now.”