"What are these books?" Pinkie asked bouncing along side Star Swirl while looking over the dusty books on the book shelves "Noticing some books had strange or similar names"
"They dear Pinkie, are book memory's… well more precise, the memories of the pony's whose names upon the cover. No pony else but the owner of the book can read them. I never really understood how or why, but I think there is a magical spell is blocking us from reading other pony's book memories" Star Swirl answered
"This one's named Silver Starlight" Pinkie said jumping jump and grabbing a book by random.
"That book then must belong to Starlight" Star Swirl said stopping to look at Pinkie and the book
"Ooh…" Pinkie excitingly said flipping through the book like a flip book "I can read this one" getting the full attention of Star Swirl
"Really let me look" Star Swirl asked grabbing the book by her magic to look at. Doing the same thing Pinkie did with it. Star Swirl looked though the book but found nothing but empty pages. "Blank… are you sure you can read these" she asked Pinkie giving the book back
"Of course I can read. Let's see here" Pinkie said as she began to read the words from the worn book. "Seems to be set out more like bullet point notes rather than a story book" Pinkie told the curious Star Swirl
"Really read them out to me." Star Swirl asked "we have always wondered about Starlight's life… she has always been… a loner and a bit of a grump and a very private pony, it would be good to know something about her to get her to open up a bit" Star Swirl finished speaking which allowed Pinkie to start reading.
'Today I met a wonderful Violet Pony in the park, with a propeller hat. When I asked for her name she wouldn't tell me. So I decided to call her Violet, I told her that the hat she wore was very interesting, and then she told me it was a present from her daddy. I wish I had a hat like that. I and Violet are super best friends now we played for ages in the park playing tag and finding where the purple duck is, we never found the duck but it was fun.'
"I did not know Twilight was once called Silver Starlight" Pinkie said quietly as she started looking up from the book. 'Why did I say that' Pinkie thought. Shaking her head she turned to Star Swirl
"I've never knew this about Silver Starlight, she always seems grumpy and a loner. We started to think she did not have any friends… ever. Go on keep reading", she asked waving a hoof so Pinkie could continue
'Today me and Violet are going to have a pick nick with in the Canterlot Park, were going to stay out all day playing find the purple duck and then were going to watch the moon come up.'
'It's my birthday today; Violet gave me a propeller hat of my own. We had a fantastic tea party but somehow Violet had gotten cake everywhere, even in the tea pot. I don't know why but Violet always makes me laugh even if I don't know why.'
'Today is the best day ever, I'm going to be the princesses first ever filly personal student, I'm so happy I've got to tell Violet.'
'Today is the worse day ever, Violet told me her daddy had forbidden her from ever seeing me ever again. When Violet went away she told me she would see me again someday, I really hope it's soon, I'll only wear my hat if she's with me. It's not the same without my best friend forever I don't think I could ever be friends with any pony ever again.'
Pinkie closed the book with tears rolling down her face "This is so sad… never being able to see your BFF ever again, it's just the WORST POSSIBLE THING" Pinkie screamed in a pool of tears which poured on the book.
"Careful Pinkie these memory book are very delicate" Star Swirl told her taking the book back off Pinkie and placing it on to the book shelf back where it belonged. "If a book is damaged beyond repair then, it's lost forever… and I don't want to tell Silver Starlight we wiped her memory of ever having a true friend"
"Sorry" Pinkie said wiping her tears from her face with a hoof. "What where we doing again" Pinkie asked
Star Swirl looked at Pinkie confused "You haven't forgotten already have you" she asked
"No of course not" Pinkie responded "But… what were we doing"
"Are you ok Pinkie, you're not hurt are you" she asked Pinkie worrying about her pink friend
"I don't think I'm hurt, but I…I… it just seems hard to remember for some reason" Pinkie said rubbing her eyes like she just woken up
"Hold on one second Pinkie, I'm just going to cast a simple spell over you" Star Swirl spoke worryingly "Stand perfectly still"
Pinkie stood really still as a purple aura surrounded her. Pinkie then started to think 'why am I standing so still, standing still is boring, am I playing who can stand the stillest for longest game… ohh I love games. And why am I purple'.
Pinkie stood really still as a purple aura surrounded her. Pinkie then started to think 'why am I in a library, I hope I brought my 'how to use my cannon for party's instructions'. And then a thought hit Pinkie 'why am I purple'.
Star Swirl soon began to get increasingly worried; some pony was casting a curse on her friend Pinkie. She tried countering the curse with her magic, but the curse being cast on Pinkie was too strong and much more advanced than her own counter magic. 'Oh no…' she thought 'not good, definitely not good. If only mother where here she would be able to counter this in no time, mother was always good with memory blocker curses'.
"Pinkie" Star Swirl shouted grabbing the attention of the pink pony. Pinkie just looked at Star Swirl and smiled. "Pinkie you need to listen to me…" She tried to say but Pinkie jumped on her pushing her down to the floor.
"hiya, my names Pinkie Pie, do you want to be my friend" Pinkie squealed "doyadoyadoya". Every time Pinkie said 'do ya' she pushed her head closer.
"Pinkie yes I would love to be your friend" Star Swirl said pushing the excited pink pony off her "but first you need to listen carefully to me"
"Ooh I need to give you a party, my first best friend ever" Pinkie shouted jumping about "is this where you live, purple Alicorn with a purple pointy hat with bells on it pony, it's a nice library"
"Pinkie you need to listen carefully" Star Swirl repeated but this time magically grabbed the excited pink pony so that she was face to face. "You have been put under a memory blocker curse, and need help" she tried to explain but Pinkie cut in once again
"You put me under a curse" Pinkie asked her hair deflating "so you're not my friend, no pony ever wants to be my friend" she finished with a sad sniffle
"No Pinkie, I did not curse you and I am your friend" Star Swirl tried to console the sad pink pony "I'm trying to help you, but you need to trust me completely, do you trust me"
Pinkie just looked at Star Swirl and nodded. "Good. Pinkie now I'm going to take you to the others, we may be able to help you, ok" Star Swirl told Pinkie getting another nod "but the quickest way there is if I carry you with my magic, will you be ok with that" Star Swirl asked again getting another nod from the levitating Pinkie. "Ok good we better hurry before you forget what we even talked about". But Star Swirl could even move she was once again greeted by the memory lost Pinkie
"Hi ya, my names Pinkie, do you want to be my first friend. Wait, why am I flying… weeeee I'm flying weeeee" Pinkie shouted enjoying being levitated by Star Swirls magic. Star Swirl just shook her head at the antics of the pink pony and decided it was best to quickly run to the others so they could help, with this memory blocking curse.
Just as Star Swirl turned around the book cases along with a very happy Pinkie Pie who was shouting and giggling, she walked into the presence of some pony she thought she would never meet ever, ever again. As she saw her Star Swirls own eyes shot wide open as she saw her, standing in the middle of the aisle of the two book cases, her blue crown and starry mane distinctly standing out from the plain coloured book cases. Star Swirl only said one word, only one word which she could only muster out of her own struggling mouth.
"MOTHER…"
