I lifted my head to find out that I was blindfolded, then I sighed, leaned my head back against the wall, and listened to the sound of torches crackling, I felt the cold metal on my arms and my horn, and the dirty, silky cloth around my eyes. It felt like hours of being alone until I heard something creaking. I tried to levitate the blindfold off but couldn’t, then a familiar voice said as I listened to it getting closer, “I think it’s enough time being in here, now..”
Then my alarm went off. I opened my eyes to see that I was in my bedroom. I sighed and said as I got out of bed, “Great, the same nightmare again, and no clue who was talking.” I walked to the bathroom, opened the door and got in. It’s been 4 months since I had amnesia from getting hit with a cart in Manehattan, waking up in Canterlot hospital with Celestia standing over me asking how I’m feeling, moved out of Vinyl’s and started living on my own, and getting a job at Sugarcube corner since I lost the skill to properly swing an ax. Besides the only closet forest is the everfree and almost nobody wants to go there. I shook my head to clear my thoughts and get out of the past. I rinsed out my mane and tail, got out, and headed downstairs to make some coffee and get ready for work as I was drying my mane.
After I was ready for work and I had breakfast, I grabbed my bag and ran out the door, then I felt like someone was watching me. I turned around to see a shadow in my room looking down at me. I shook my head to focused, to see nothing was there. I turned around to the street to see Discord watching me. I walked up to him and said, “Hey Discord, how are ya?”
He smiles and said as he materialized a pocket watch from his fur, “Hey Eric, I’m doing fine, I see that you’re running early as usual.”
I shrugged and said, “ya do know that I prefer you not to do chaos around me, gives me a headache for some reason, and yeah, early to work the more I get paid.” When I got to work, I was greeted by the smell of baking bread and snacks, and Pinkie waving to me as she said as she avoided eye contact, “Perfect timing, I was thinking I would have to do both the cooking and the cash register, you handle the money and I’ll do the baking.”
I nodded and said, “It usually not this busy in the morning.” I walked over to the register and said, “Mr. and Mrs. Cake are busy?” Pinkie nodded and ran into the kitchen when the bell went off.
After a bit of work, I checked the clock to see that it was noon, I called to Pinkie that I was taking my lunch and headed to the park. I pulled a piece of paper, and a writing utensil and wrote, “Dear Luna, The Nightmares are back. We need to figure out what to do with them, signed Eric Lumber.” I rolled the paper up and used the spell Celestia taught me to send the letter to Luna.
When I got to the park, I sat down and a letter popped in front of me. I opened it and it said, “Dear Eric, I’ll see you tonight to figure this out, and it’s happening to everyone in Ponyville and Canterlot, so it’s not just you.” I rolled it back up and stuffed it in my bag. Ever since I lost my memory, I been having nightmares, and it turns out that everypony either dreams of being chased by changelings or being enslaved by Chrysalis. I can’t make eye contact with anypony since I somehow got an ability to freeze ponies if I make eye contact. Learned that hard way at a check up. A nurse at the Canterlot hospital was checking my eyes and froze while shining the light in my eyes. I shook her and she didn’t do anything so I did the only thing I can think of, I called for help, luckily Celestia was there. She snapped the nurse out of it and said while looking through the papers that I have an ability to freeze ponies and any other creature by eye contact, and with enough practice, I would be able to control it and the ponies. A warning has been put out about my ability, new creature are always scared of me at first, but they get used to me. I decided to walk around Ponyville and after that, I headed to work.
After my work day was over, I was heading home and I saw Discord drinking the glass with the chocolate milk intact. I slowly walked up to Discord, using magic to muffle my steps and said right by him, “DISCORD, what did I tell you about drinking glass, you go through enough glasses but not enough chocolate milk.”
His eyes bulged as he sprayed liquid glass all over the wall and started coughing. I couldn’t help but fall over and laughing. He glared at me and said, “You didn’t have to scare me, and that was a good glass thank you very much.” He muttered something under his breath, but I couldn’t make out what he said.
After getting my laughter under control I got up and said, “Come on, I’ll treat ya to a drink, and no it’s not glass.” I led him to my home.
He whistled when he saw the size of it and said as I went in the basement, “This is pretty big, you could hide the princesses here.”
I came up with two bottles of wine and tossed one to Discord and said, “Yeah. I have Celestia to thank for it. After I got out of the hospital, she gave me the house and talked to Mr. and Mrs. Cake into letting me work at Sugercube Corner. Don’t go through that, I have to go to Canterlot to get good drinks, and I have to pay for them and the ticket, so don’t come back for a few weeks.”
We talked for a bit, then Discord excused himself and left, disappear is more like it. I ate dinner, got ready for and bed, went to sleep, to talk to Luna about ideas.
well, it's interesting to see that Eric seems to have had his memory erased, for some reason, and he is now treated as a regular Ponyville citizen all the while still has his mind control powers. I wander why Celestia didn't just send him to Tararus in chained and find a way to stop him mind control powers or just out right kill him to not give him any chance of him doing all he did again. It seems that Ponyvilliens also suffered from memory tempering like Erick and are wholly ignorant about what Eric did to them not so long ago, which feels as worst if he was killed. It seems that the memory wipe or block is not entirely infallible, that there is a possibility of a relapse for him and the Princesses decided that this new Eric can't be trusted enough or potentially too dangerous to be left without any supervision from Discord or the M6 always at a hooves length from him and that Celestia is always ready to do regular check up on him. Eric still has his powers fully intact and not sealed, and can be inadvertently trigger by him wither he wants to or not. I wander if the Princess think that his powers are too valuable be just killed and might have his uses later in life. I wander if the Princess are aware that he was under the influence of an other greater being and that he was just a pawn of it and his actions where influenced by not his own. I wander if Eric is free of its influence and that if he had the chance to get his memory back could feel regret of what he did back then.