Chapter 4: Freedom
Twilight awoke, in a bed. "Was it all a dream?" she asked herself. Then she felt the pain.
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When Twilight awoke the second time, to stay awake, she wasn't expecting to see a pony sitting by her bed who wasn't a doctor. This pony had orange skin with pale blond hair sitting kind of cowboy style, and a cowboy hat on her hair. Her eyes were bright green, and when she noticed Twilight awake they got brighter.
"How ya' been Twilight?" she asked. Twilight stared at her blankly. "Twilight?" "Who... who are you?" Twilight asked. She looked like she'd been slapped. "It's me, Applejack," she answered. "I'm sorry, I don't know you," Twilight told her, feeling sorry for her from the astonished look on her face. She said, "one second," then she went left the room, probably to go inquire to a nurse.
Attempting to get up, Twilight propped herself up and flexed her muscles, finding that none of them hurt more than a slight ache, making her worry how long she'd been out. Sliding out of bed, and putting weight on her back legs, then shifting down on to all four legs, she left the room.
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Two hours later she found herself at the library in Ponyville with five other ponies: Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash. Rarity had white skin, and a very stylish, spiraling purple mane. Her eyes were dark blue and she was a unicorn. Her personality didn't go very far beyond herself which would probably explain her diamond gems for a cutie mark. Fluttershy had pale yellow skin, green blue eyes looked nice with her flowing pink hair. Her wings were folded up and her tail was twitching nervously. She had got to be the most shy pony Twilight has ever seen. Her cutie mark was butterflies which made Twilight suspect that she was good with small animals. Pinkie Pie had a ruffled up pink mane that went with her pink skin, her cutie mark was balloons that explained her jumpy personality perfectly. She was just a regular earth pony. Rainbow Dash, a light blue pegasus that resembled the colour of the sky. Her rainbow colored mane matched her cutie mark; a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt. She seemed to think that she was just too cool with her wings constantly showing off. Applejack's cutie mark was three bright red apples, and she was just a regular earth pony.
"So you guys are my friends," Twilight said unsurely. " Yep," said Pinkie, "We eat cupcakes and have parties and play games all the time!" "You don't remember us at all?" asked Rainbow, actually looking a bit concerned. "No, should I?" "Hmph," was all Rainbow's response. "Fine. Well I have got to go." Twilight said. Nopony got up to stop her as she left the library. "Some friends they are," Twilight thought.
About ten minutes of wandering later, daydreaming about this town, Applejack found her. "Where ya'll goin'?" she asked. Twilight simply shook her head. "Well I'm coming with you," she said walking alongside Twilight. " No, for all I know you could be one of them, one of their cronies," replied Twilight. "Who?" "The ponies who kidnapped me and stole my memories." "Well I'm coming with you, sugar cube. You may not remember me but you've only been gone for a week, and been out for another week. Since I'm your friend I've gotta be with you so you don't go get yourself hurt," she said with a stubbornness that sounded firm.
By that point Twilight couldn't contain her relief she had a friend! It all came bursting out of her at once, an onrush of thank yous and tears that was indecipherable to the most attentive ponies. Hugging Applejack with gratefulness and sobbing she got a hold of herself. "Some ponies, that walked by would occasionally say hi and I didn't know them so I didn't say hi back and they looked hurt," Twilight cried. "Shhhhh, shhh, it's all right Twilight, it's all right," Applejack soothed. "Okay," she swallowed, "I'm going now." " Oh no you're not! You haven't eaten, and you have no supplies. Honestly Twilight your brain wasn't switched with another one, right? Lets get more prepared and then we'll be on our way, sugar cube."
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Three hours later, Twilight could barely walk, having eaten so many apple products she couldn't even count. Her mood had gone up three times higher since the beginning of her known existence, and she was about walk out start searching when a rope wound itself tight around her torso and pulled her back inside. "Aw shucks, Twilight, would you stop trying to leave so often? Giddy' on up there to bed and we'll leave first thing in the morning," Applejack instructed. Grumbling, Twilight started up the stairs in Applejack's barn. "Hey Applejack?" "Yes?" "Do you have some parchment I could borrow? And maybe a quill?" "I've already called Spike over, he's coming with all the things that you normally take with you." "Spike?" "Oh, uh, yeah, you know, your baby dragon." "I gave birth to a dragon!?" 'No, no sugar cube, you hatched one." "Oh, right, yeah I guess it's impossible for a pony to give birth to a baby dragon anyway." "He acts like a maid at your house, but you treat him with more respect. Also I would act like you didn't forget him, I'm not sure how he'd take it, poor thing." She said staring off into the distance.
A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door. "Twilight," Applejack called upstairs, "Spike is here." A few seconds later a purple dragon head with a big green scale on top popped around the corner, "TWILIGHT!" His voice sounded young and filled with joy, like he just saw his best friend for the first time in a long time. "Twilight?" his voice was laced with worry, "What's wrong Twilight?" "Nothing's wrong, Spike, I'm fine." He placed his things to the side of the room and hugged Twilight. She rested her head on his head, as a mother would do a child. Then he backed up and pulling out a long checklist spoke in a business type voice, "I brought three quills, eight bottles of ink, ten parchments of varying lengths and your favourite backpack filled with all your traveling supplies, which you forgot to bring the first time, and if Applejack hadn't told me that wherever you were going wasn't as important as she made it sound then I wouldn't have let you go." "Wouldn't you?" "Nope." "It's okay, Applejack's coming along with me this time." He turned to look at Applejack. "You take care of her, okay?" He told her, and even though he wasn't facing Twilight, she knew there were tears welling up in his eyes. "You don't let her out of your sight and make sure she comes back this time, okay?" "Okay Spike, for you," she responded. With that he hurried down the hall before they could see him cry. As Applejack turned around to see Twilight with tears in her eyes too. "I wish I remembered him," she said.
That night Applejack sent a letter to Princess Celestia, "Dear Princess Celestia, Twilight was found unconscious near the border of the Evergreen Forest after being missing for a week. She recovered in the Ponyville hospital for a week, and now she wants to head out looking for her captors. Her heads a bit funny and she can't remember anypony whatsoever, the doctors didn't mention anything about it. I'm worried about her and I'm sure the rest of them are too. I'm going with her tomorrow morning, and I'm going to try and delay for as long as I can. I need your advice on what to do. -Applejack" She headed back inside after Spike had blown fire on it and it flew off towards Canterlot.
A few minutes later Spike upchucked a letter, which he picked up and cleared his throat, "Dear Applejack, you say Twilight Sparkle has had a serious case of amnesia, and the doctors didn't identify it? That would probably mean that she has been cursed, and very skillfully. Delay her as long as you can, I shall come tomorrow at noon. Make sure she has a good night's sleep. Do not let her leave Ponyville! -Celestia," Spike read. "Okay Spike, it's about time you went home and got yourself to bed," Applejack said. "Yeah, good idea, but you watch her," he replied yawning.
Meanwhile, Twilight had been practicing, magic upstairs. She could conjure every spell she remembered that didn't involve burning down Applejack's barn. "Every spell accounted for," she told herself as she checked off her list. Her checklist was her first priority. Not knowing why, she thought it just felt right to make a checklist before doing something. Her new 'favourite' pack was filled with all sorts of useful things, including a nice, soft scarf, two books that she had read but had no memory of doing so, multiple packs of packaged, ready to eat food, and a small fold up tent. She repacked her bag and checked it off her list. Having finished her checklist Twilight went to bed. By the time Applejack came to check on her, she was long asleep.
How's it goin' guys? I'm happy to let you know that Chapter 5: The Search, will be out soon. I've been busy having a life instead of having no life on my computer. Only thing is I enjoy both the same. I will soon release my OC who will be based off me. Even though I haven't seen real fear, I'm going to try and give my OC traits that I think would resemble me. It's going to be a little romantic while he's around, so bear with me. As always I love you guys and hope you'll continue with Twilight to the end of this story.
Your Fellow Brony - Abridged
