*Redid because I can, and nobody can stop me. Except anybody with the proper privileges.

You can do it, Shadow Streak!

You're gonna get through this!

Stay with us and you're not gonna die.

Win, Shadow!

He felt himself running, but couldn't stop. He was in intense pain. Why? He didn't know. He wanted to know why, but something told him that he shouldn't learn. He fell on the ground and could move. He couldn't even talk.

"Here he is!" he heard a mare say.

He heard hoofsteps coming towards him very rapidly. Fading in and out of unconsciousness, he felt different things. He felt one lift him with magic, then place him on a stretcher, agitating his injuries, but he didn't care.

"He's hurt real bad. We need to get him to the hospital as fast as we can!"

They picked him up and ran to town. He didn't hear what they were saying, he was working on staying alive. He concentrated all of his will on remaining alive, but didn't know why.

'Where am I? Who am I? What happened to me? Why do I want to live so badly? Is my life important? Why?' He thought, slowly. He fell under, and didn't wake for awhile.

LATER

He woke back up in a hospital bed, breathing heavily and painfully. He ignored the pain and looked around, unable to move his neck quickly without hurting himself. He could feel that he was covered from head to hoof with bandages.

"Oh, you awake." said the nurse.

He tried to talk, but only managed to cough up blood.

The nurse ran over to him and helped him out a bit. His horn gave off a dull glow and he felt a tingling sensation in his chest. He coughed again, but it didn't hurt. He was confused, but took this moment to say, "I can talk, yeah. It's odd, my chest hurt a second ago, but it's fine now."

"You're far from fine, my pony friend. Your wounds were very serious. Both of your back legs were broken in multiple places, your front legs were incredibly burned, one of your wings seemed to have been torn off, with the other having a cut right through it, your horn has been cut down the center, and your entire body was covered in deep slash wounds. What have you been doing?" she asked.

"I don't know... I don't know." he said sadly. A single tear ran down his face, and he smiled.

"Why are you happy that you can't remember?"

"No, not that. I'm happy because I'm still alive. I fought for my life when somepony found me. I don't know why, but I'm happy I did. Does anypony know what happened to me?"

"No, nopony saw anything. Nopony even knows who you are."

The nurse walked to the door and spoke to somepony outside it. He couldn't hear what they were saying, but he recognized the voice from earlier.

A purple pony walked in after the nurse and pulled a quill and paper out of her bag. "Are you feeling well?" she asked.

"I don't know how to feel, I can't move without feeling incredible pain, and I can't remember anything other than my name. But I feel fine. Where am I? How did I get here?"

"Don't worry, your in a safe place, I brought you here. You were in the middle of the forest, bleeding heavily."

"Why was I messed up so bad?"

"I don't know, I was hoping that you could help me."

"I'm sorry, ma'am, but I don't know either. I want to be able to help you, but I just don't know. Rather, it's not that I don't know, it's that I don't remember, anything, at all."

"Well, can you tell me your name?"

"My name is Shadow Streak, that is the one thing that I do know." he said. He turned his head slowly. "And what is your name, beautiful?"

She looked down, blushing, and said, "M... My name is Twilight Sparkle. I'm here to learn more about you, it's not everyday that you see somepony half-dead in the forest."

Shadow Streak smiled at her, and started to bleed profusely. He returned to his previous position and started to breath heavily again. His horn glowed again, and he felt the tingling sensation all over his body. The pain went away, and he stopped bleeding. He looked at his body, and saw that he was indeed very injured.

"I thought you said that you couldn't move." said Twilight.

"I don't know what's going on here, but I'm healing astronomically quickly."

"Yes. It would seem so."

"Hey, you know what, Twilight? I remember something else."

"What do you remember?"

"My mission." he said.

"Mission?"

"I was given a mission to protect."

"Protect what?"

"Everything. I'm not able to help anypony here." he said.

He tried to get off of the bed and stand up, but felt an incredible pain over his entire body. "AAAHHH! It hurts!" he yelled. Then he fell on the floor with tears in his eyes, whimpering in pain. Twilight and the nurse ran over to him and tried to help him back into his bed.

"Shadow! What are you hoping to accomplish?" asked Twilight, angrily.

"Get away from me." he commanded.

"No, you need to get back into bed and rest!" said the nurse.

"I said get away from me!" he yelled.

His horn started to glow, brightly and with a violent aura, and Twilight and the nurse were held in place, unable to move their hooves. Then he got up, and Twilight and the nurse were thrown against the wall with a blast of magical energy.

"Shadow, you need to get back in bed." pleaded Twilight. "You're injured!"

Shadow Streak looked at the bandages covering the wounds. Then he used his magic again, and the bandages disintegrated, revealing the horrific wounds that he had suffered. Most of the cuts were now pouring blood. He stared at them, his horn glowed faintly again, and they stopped bleeding. He fell to the ground and said, "I'm sorry. Don't trouble yourself over me."

The last thing he felt was his whole body tingling while he was placed back onto his bed.

"Twilight, do you think this stallion is safe like this?" asked the nurse.

"I don't know, Nurse Redheart, he's a very odd pony. There was something I noticed about him as soon as I saw him."

"His horn?"

"Yes, black and white."

"I've never seen that before."

"Me neither. A multicolored horn, I'm going to notify Princess Celestia about him."

"There was one other thing, his body is covered in scar tissue. He must have gone through something horrific in his life."

Twilight walked over to him and examined his horn, then his coat color. "Interesting."

"Is this necessary, Twilight?" asked Nurse Redheart.

"Well, I suppose not, why do you ask?"

"It isn't visiting time. I've pulled enough strings already, and you shouldn't really be here right now."

"Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. Can I come back tomorrow?"

"Absolutely, just not now."

"Right, sorry. Thank you for letting me stay for this long."

Twilight left the hospital in a hurry, mulling over Shadow Streak. "Why was he so injured? Just what happened to him. Nopony's ever been hurt that bad. Maybe a broken bone or a scrape here and there, but it was as if somepony wanted to hurt him."

She walked to Fluttershy's house and knocked on her door. She heard some rattling inside, and Fluttershy opened the door. "Oh, hi Twilight."

"Hi Fluttershy. Can I ask you some questions?"

"Uh... I guess."

"It's about the unicorn that I found in the forest."

"He was scary. Did he do anything to you?" she asked.

"Well, no. Call him Shadow Streak, or Shadow. Anyways, you saw his injuries, right?"

"Yes I did, and they were the worst that I've ever seen in my entire life."

"Well, I examined him further, and found that he has a large amount of healing abilities. I also saw something that baffled me, his horn."

"I didn't see that, was it safe?"

"No, not at all. It was destroyed like the rest of his body. But that's not what was confusing, it's that his horn had two distinct colors to it."

"Two distinct colors?"

"Yes, half of it was black, and the other half white. These colors seemed to slowly fade into his body after it reached his head. It formed a freckle like pattern, then vanishes into the grey of his coat."

"I've never seen that before, I've never even heard of it."

"Yeah, me neither."

"Twilight?"

"Yes, Fluttershy?"

"Why did this happen to him?" she asked unhappily.

"I don't know, Fluttershy. But I'm going to find out!" said Twilight with a determined look on her face. "Thanks for the talk, Fluttershy."

"Uh, sure. Any time. If you find anything else about Shadow, could you tell me?"

"Alright, but why?"

"I just want to make sure he's safe."

"Yeah, sure thing, Fluttershy."

Twilight left Fluttershy and headed straight for her house. She got there and woke up Spike, who complained.

"Spike, I need your help to find something." she said, moving books off of the shelf.

"What do you need to find?"

"Something about two-tone horns."

"Did Rarity make a new fashion trend?"

"No, a pony in the forest who was badly hurt had a horn that was black and white. His body seemed to be a mix of the two."

"So he was grey?" asked Spike, pulling out some books.

"Yes Spike."

Twilight and Spike looked through the books for many hours, not finding a single reference to his condition. Then Twilight grabbed a very dusty history book. She blew it off and read the cover. "Conspiracies through the ages."

She opened it to about the middle and read some of it, "'The battle of Discord, not what it seems to be.' What's that supposed to mean?"

Spike walked over and said, "I never believed these things anyways."

"'Some say that the battle between Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Discord was not what is told in your average history book. There have been multiple accounts of another participant in the battle, a grey alicorn. This alicorn was odd in that he only had one wing.' Just like Shadow. 'It's been said that he joined the princess' in the first fight with Discord. It was a long and destructive battle. Near the end, Discord used all of his power to attack Princess Celestia, but the alicorn stepped in between them, nearly ending his life. Discord fled and the alicorn was cared for afterwords by both of the princesses. He was bestowed the title One Winged Angel for his bravery, kindness, and selflessness, also as a reference to his lone wing.'"

She re-read it to make sure what it said was correct, then wrote a letter to Princess Celestia to tell her about Shadow and ask about what she read in the book. Spike sent the letter, than they waited for a reply, but didn't get one. "She's probably sleeping, don't worry about it, Twilight." said Spike. "And speaking of which, I'm going back to bed."

"I think that I'll get to sleep as well." said Twilight.

She looked outside and saw that the sun was almost coming over the horizon. She could sleep for a few hours before she ha to wake up, so she made it to her bed and fell asleep.

Shadow Streak was still in his room, sleeping. Nurses checked on him very often to make sure he didn't hurt himself. A clear smoke started coming off of his body. It was exiting his wounds, and they started to close, healing him. His horn was almost all pure white while this happened. His bones were locked into place and started to heal as well. His horn and wing were the last thing to heal. His horn was held together and fused in place, and his wing was repaired.

He was quickly monitored after he started to heal, and they attempted to make sense of what was happening to him. Only when it was finished were they able to understand it. "He has the ability to heal himself, even while sleeping." said Nurse Redheart.

The other ponies that were helping Shadow agreed with her, but nopony could understand further. Shadow was happily sleeping away, oblivious to what happened to him. Nurse Redheart decided to tell Twilight about what happened later that day.

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