Hey! I finally got around to finishing this chapter! Sorry about this being updated late by the way, I was going to update on Friday but life got in the way and I had stuff to do all weekend. This chapter also would have been uploaded on Saturday if whenever I had free time I didn't have a story that had a chapter updated. (I have like 40 stories on alert that I happily read and review, I might seem obsessed but I just love reading stories that people wright) Anyway here is chapter 6!
Midnight Star sat in silence as he watched the sun rise at a painfully slow speed. It had been about a week since that day. As hard as he tried his mind kept wandering back to that night he just couldn't stop thinking about the day when he had looked in the mirror at his reflection.
One week ago
What he saw scared him horribly, he had light green almost silver eyes, and a white coat. That isn't what horrified him though, what scared him about his appearance were two things. First, reaching from the top of his right eye down to the bottom of his left in a slash was a big scar.
The second was it turns out he was a unicorn, however, being a unicorn isn't scary, what scared him was that his horn was broken. Well, broken didn't exactly describe it, shattered would be more accurate. His horn looked as if it had been shattered by a rock, it still had a stub of it left but it was jagged and only about 2 inches long.
He tried desperately to think of what had happened to him, or better, who he was, so he would know why he looked the way he did. No matter how much he tried all he could remember was the vague image of a pony with a sharp tipped hat. He hadn't had any sleep that night and he had a feeling that he wouldn't for a long while. "I'm a monster, maybe I do have something to do with that Discord creature"
Present day
That thought had haunted him ever since, when he asked Fluttershy about Discord her eyes widened and all she had said was that she would rather not talk about it, that did not help his worries. With a new resolve, he decided that he was going to find out who he was, and what happened to him once he got the cast off of his leg. Finally resolving the problem Star thought that he might as well start walking on his leg, to help it regain its strength.
He decided that he was going to leave a note for Zecora and go walking around the forest for an hour or so. After locating a quill and a piece of unused paper, he started writing, about halfway down the page he realized that he didn't know how to write. Looking down at his paper he saw a bunch of jagged lines and scribbles.
With that out of the way he was forced to wait until Zecora woke from her sleep to tell her himself. After about an hour he started to get impatient and decided to find something to keep himself occupied. After walking around the room and searching for about 10 minutes, he found a book to read, or more so, to SEE if he could read it.
The title of the book read "Basic pony healthcare and diagnosis" "I guess that Zecora didn't know what she was going to do to take care of me when she found me." Opening the book Star found it to be an easily understood book and it extensively described different injuries and illnesses and how to treat them.
Thinking of something to search up and read about he decided to look up how to take care of broken limbs, like his leg. After a minute of searching the book index he found the page he was looking for and turned to the page about broken legs, it read "The patient's leg will be incapacitated for at least 2 weeks, so make sure that they stay off their legs or it will take longer. It can take less than 2 weeks for unicorns however, because their magic is stronger and acts as an immune system, finding the problem and trying to fix it. The stronger the unicorn's magic, the faster it heals but the more a unicorn uses his/her magic, the slower it heals."
"Well I guess that explains why I'm healing so fast." Happy with what he found he closed the book and thought of what he was going to do to try and regain his memories. He had been thinking of all the possibilities for about 30 minutes when the door to Zecora's room opened and out walked a very tired looking Zecora.
For the past few nights she had been out almost all night searching for and researching herbs that were unknown of. Apparently, that is why she lived in the Everfree forest. Nopony would dare go into the Everfree forest and as such there were probably hundreds of unknown types of herbs there, such as the Poison Joke.
Deciding to give her a little while to wake up he limped over to the window and took in the scenery. The sun was still below the middle of the sky, so he determined that it was still middle to late morning. He turned his attention to the forest itself, which seemingly had more wildlife than it had for the past week.
Finally, he turned his attention back to Zecora, who was sipping from a mug filled with coffee. "Good morning to you, would you like some of this brew?" Zecora asked noticing him looking at her coffee.
"Thank you that sounds nice right now" Star answered gratefully
After receiving an answer she grabbed another mug and filled it with the dark brown liquid.
"You seem a little askew, is something bothering you?" Zecora decided to ask because it seemed like something was bothering him for the past week.
"It is nothing that you need to worry about" Star decided that he wasn't going to bother one of his only friends with his problems
"Well if I possibly knew, I might be able to help you"
"Well….. alright I guess I will tell you" Star answered reluctantly.
So Star told her what had happened the week before, from his appearance to how he thought the ponies would react to him. He did not tell her what he looked like, because he still felt uncomfortable and scared thinking about it.
After he told her all of his thoughts she remained silent. After about 5 minutes she decided to break the silence "Of their reactions you will not know, until your face you do show" Zecora added carefully, not knowing exactly how to handle this situation.
"I guess you are right, but for now I feel more comfortable wearing my cloak. Until the ponies in ponyville get used to me, I am going to keep my cloak on" he came to this conclusion thanks to Zecora "I really need to do something to thank her" he thought, again appreciating her generosity and wisdom.
Zecora simply nodded at this in approval and finished off her coffee. After some time of them just making small talk Zecora looked outside "I have to leave as I have herbs to study, seeing as the weather today is not cruddy" she told Star while walking over to her saddlebags. Saying goodbye she walked out the door leaving Star all alone.
While they were talking Zecora decided that it might be a good idea that he went into town and talked to Twilight Sparkle, because she was a genius and the librarian she might be able to help with his memory problems.
Seeing as he didn't own anything but the cloak on his back to take with him, he walked out the door closing it behind him. For the first time since he had woken up on the forest floor he was outside. He had never imagined it to be this amazing, well not this place in particular because there were dead trees and shrubs all around, but because there were flowers growing on the sides of the path, he heard birds chirping and he was completely at peace.
Walking down the path with a spring in his step, well as much of a spring he could put in his step with a still cast covered leg, he enjoyed the scenery as he walked. Along the way he saw many strange creatures and many beautiful flowers and plants.
As he was nearing the end of the path he came upon a patch of beautiful blue flowers right on top of the path. He would have happily gone over and sniffed at the flowers, maybe even picked one up, but he vaguely remembered Zecora warning him about blue flowers so he decided to go around them.
Star had finally reached the end of the path and what he saw took his breath away. In the distance he saw beautiful lush green hills and birds flying overhead. Even farther over the horizon in one direction he saw the town and in the other he saw a lone cottage, which he assumed was Fluttershy's cottage.
He decided to stop in and ask Fluttershy for directions because she was one of the only two ponies he actually knew and he was too shy to ask for directions from other ponies in ponyville. Over the week that he was incapacitated Fluttershy stopped in almost every day to check on his healing progress. During the time they had gotten to know each other better and had become good friends.
After Star arrived at Fluttershy's house he walked up to the door and knocked, behind the door it was answered quietly "just one moment please"
When Fluttershy answered the door she squeaked in surprise when she saw a scary looking pony in a torn cloak standing in her doorway and was about to flee into her house when she noticed that the pony had a cast over its back left leg. "Star! What are you doing here? You shouldn't be on your leg walking around just yet." She said in a concerned, motherly tone.
"Well, I had nothing planned today and Zecora thought it would be a good idea to go and talk to your friend Twilight Sparkle because she may be able to help me with my memory problems." He said shifting his weight uncomfortably from his casted leg.
"Oh, well that is nice, I am sure that if anyone will be able to help you it will be Twilight, she is the smartest pony I know." She said smile widening at the thought of her friend.
"Alright then that brings me to the matter at hand, I came here to ask you where exactly she lives because I have never been to ponyville and I forgot to ask Zecora before she left."
"She lives in the library, it is a big hollowed out tree. I'm not doing anything today, I could show you. That is if it's okay with you…" she said shying away.
"That sounds great to me!" Star said in a grateful tone.
"Alright, just let me tell Angel bunny."
After a few minutes of waiting Fluttershy reemerged from her cottage. "Alright thanks for waiting, let's go."
The walk to ponyville was peaceful; neither of the ponies talked much on the way besides the occasional comment on something around them.
As they reached ponyville Star stopped Fluttershy along the path in front of ponyville. "Why are we stopping right in front of town?" Fluttershy asked quizzically
"I didn't really think of it until now but I am kind of scared to walk into town. What if people think that I am some kind of monster or freak or something?" Star asked nervously
"Don't worry about that, nopony will think that you are a monster or a freak unless you give them reason to believe so."
The scene was very opposite, Fluttershy, the very shy pony was giving another pony tips on how to deal with what other ponies thought of him when she herself was usually scared at the thought of such a thing.
"Alright I guess we can head into town now, thank you for the reassurance I needed that" Star said gratefully while walking back onto the path heading into ponyville.
Walking through town went better than Star had expected besides the occasional strange look or whisper as he passed by it went really well.
After walking for about 10 minutes he began wondering where Twilights library was and, not paying attention to his surroundings didn't notice the three fillies that had ran up to him until they tackled him yelling "Cutiemark Crusaders Private investigators!" the next thing he knew he was on the ground.
They were about to tear his hood off to get a look at his face when a very concerned Fluttershy stopped them "What are you doing? Get off Star right now!"
"But Fluttershy! We were just gonna find out what he looked like!" One of them interjected in a pleading tone
"No, get off him right now!" Fluttershy responded sternly
"Fine" they all groaned while getting off of Star who was now getting up and dusting himself off.
After getting up he got a good look at the three fillies. One of them was yellow earth pony with a red mane and a bow in it. The second one was white unicorn with a mane that was a very light purple with pink stripes in it. The third one was a bright orange pegasus with a short purple mane.
"Now, why were you girls tackling Star?" She asked changing from stern to curious
"Well, we overheard you telling Rarity that there was an injured pony staying with Miss Zecora in the Everfree forest and that you didn't know what he actually looked like, then we overheard Rarity earlier saying that she wondered what he looked like and we wanted to see what he looked like. We woulda went to Zecoras hut and seen him but we aren't allowed to go into the forest anymore since the Cockatrice incident. When we saw you walk into town with a mysterious pony we figured it was him and decided to see what he looked like." The yellow filly with a bow in her hair finished
After hearing that mouthful Fluttershy sighed "If he wanted people to see what he looked like he wouldn't be wearing that cloak, now apologize for tackling him"
Both the yellow and the white fillies responded with "we're sorry" while the orange one only responded with a grunt.
"It's alright, I would be a little curious about a pony walking around wearing a cloak too. By the way it's nice to meet you fillies my name is Midnight Star" Star said finally deciding to speak up
"Nice to meet ya my name is Apple bloom" responded the earth pony.
"My name is Sweetie belle" responded the unicorn.
"Names Scootaloo" responded the pegasus.
"Well now that we are all acquainted, what are the Cutiemark crusaders and why private investigators?"
"The Cutiemark crusaders is our club and we were private investigators to find out what you look like!" responded Sweetie belle who promptly looked at her flank and sighed "and it didn't work!"
"I know! Maybe we can be Cutiemark wrestlers!" she said at the thought of how easy they tacked Star
"Yeah!" they all agreed as they ran off to go on another one of their crusades.
"Well those three certainly are interesting" Star commented watching them leave.
Fluttershy giggled at the comment "Alright let's get going to the library."
After walking for another few minutes they arrived at their destination. Fluttershy knocked on the door very softly and quietly as if she were trying not to hurt the door. Deciding that this would get them nowhere he walked up to the door himself and promptly knocked louder and harder than Fluttershy was. This yielded the result of a small purple dragon answering the door "Hey Fluttershy, hey…. Gaahhhhh!" he jumped into the air and was about to run away before realizing that anybody hanging out with Fluttershy no matter how scary couldn't be evil or mean as this pony before him looked. "Sorry about that your unusual appearance scared me," spike admitted returning to the door "please come in, Twilight is up stairs I will go get her."
As they walked into the library Star took in the scene before him, the inside was as to be expected from the outside, it looked like it had been carved from the inside of the tree. It was relatively big and had furniture scattered around the room. What he noticed first though was how many books were on the book shelves in the library, he had taken a liking to reading while he had been incapacitated.
He was still standing and staring at the books when a lavender unicorn walked into the room followed by the purple dragon. "Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle and this is my assistant Spike" she said gesturing to the dragon beside her.
Twilight was a lavender unicorn with a dark purple mane that had a pink stripe running through it. Spike was a baby dragon, his scales were purple and the ones on top of his head were green.
"Hello my name is Midnight Star and it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
"Well nice to meet you Midnight Star what can I do for you?" Twilight questioned getting right to the point.
"Please just call me Star, and I was wondering if you could help me with a problem I have" he said getting right to the point.
"I will help if I can but first I have to know what it is you need help with." Twilight said in a questioning tone
At that moment the silent until now pegasus decided to interject "Star has no memory of who he is or anything that happened before a week ago"
Twilights eyes widened as she came to a conclusion "You were the pony that Zecora found in the forest the same night that Discord appeared!"
"Yeah, I've been told that" Star answered in a less than enthusiastic tone
"Before I help you I have to scan your magic to see if there are any traces of Discord's magic" Twilight stated more than asked
"Alright, I'm fine with that, I don't have anything to hide" he said with confidence "I don't think I do anyway" he thought as an after thought
"Alright this will be over in a moment" she said as her horn started to shine purple
As this was happening Star had an itchy feeling in his head, it wasn't completely unbearable but it was a nuisance. After about 2 minutes Twilight's horn stopped glowing and she gave Star a curious look "Well to be honest, there is a small trace of Discords magic in there, not enough to do anything but it is there. Also your magic is stronger than a regular pony's, do you happen to be a unicorn?" Twilight asked after telling him the results of her scan.
"Technically yes I am a unicorn" the irony of it made Star laugh "Is a unicorn without a horn really a unicorn or just an earth pony?"
"What do you mean, technically?" Twilight asked quizzically
"I would rather not talk about that yet" Star said intending to end the subject of their conversation right there
"Alright," Twilight said deciding to drop the matter "now is there anything at all that you remember? It will be harder to help you if I don't have a trail to follow."
"Well, all I can remember at all is a hazy picture of a pony with a pointed hat" Star answered honestly
"That won't help all that much, I guess you can read some books on equestrian history and see if you remember anything about them" Twilight decided that this was the most practical thing to do
"Alright if you think that is the best thing to do let's get started"
Twilight then levitated over 4 books on Equestrian history they were "Early Equestrian History", "Celestia's rule", "Recent Equestria History" and "Founding of Equestria"
Staring at these with a curious look Star asked "Who is this "Celestia"? Is she some kind of queen or something?" he vaguely recognized the name but he couldn't put his hoof on it
Twilights eyes grew wide in surprise "YOU DON"T KNOW WHO PRINCESS CELESTIA IS?"
Shrinking away Star half mumbled half whimpered "I'm sorry, I kinda can't remember anything"
Twilight suddenly felt bad about her reaction "Sorry about that, I kind of over reacted"
Regaining his confidence Star replied "It's fine, but whoever it is she must be important"
Opening the book for him to read Twilight pointed to a picture in the book and said "This is Princess Celestia, she is the ruler of Equestria"
Looking down he saw a picture that made something in his mind stir, his eyes suddenly widened as he was remembering something. Images ran through his head he saw a kingdom surrounded by a beautiful forest, he saw a strange cave and the last thing he saw in his mind was Princess Celestia sitting on her throne smiling at him before he blacked out.
Well that chapter was revealing also long, very very long. Once again this leaves me wondering where I am going with this (seeing as I mostly make this as I go) I am excited to write the next chapter!
Also I would like to thank the 6 of you who actually read this story! Thank you BlackSpire, Psychodrome, tytyvm, theguywhoreadsfanfics, Nutter795, and ThatGirl2147!
P.s I am thinking of pairing him with Rarity because, firstly it isn't that often that people pair an OC with her (I actually have 2 stories with an OCxRarity on my alert) secondly I don't think I could do a pairing with either Fluttershy or Twilight that would compare to Psychodromes or BlackSpires. Psychodromes fic is Nocturne and BlackSpires is A New Arrival if you don't already, go and read their fics! They are awesome!