The clicking of heels echoed throughout the room as Luna paced back and forth, she was deep in thought about the situation of Cillen’s and her own actions that brought the false moon to Earth. Luna was far from happy about what had happened to the people here, and was far from pleased that Cillen’s Remnant was orchestrating.

“Very well, we give Cillen…” Luna sighed frustrated, “What do you hope to gain out of all this?” Cillen looked surprised at her question, and just shook his head.

“Nothing…” He answered simply, “I won’t gain anything out of this.”

“But surely with all that power you seem to have now?” Luna interjected.

“Is nothing more than a burden that comes with the role I have to play.” Cillen continued, “Out of the countless people who exist or will exist Luna, you are the only one who knows I ever existed.”

“But…” Luna sat down and sighed in defeat, “This wasn’t what we wanted when we wanted to save our home.” Cillen remained silent for a moment before finally answering her.

“Look Luna, I know this isn’t what you wanted and it isn’t your fault.” Cillen reassured her, “When we fought that thing we had no idea this was happen.”

“…” Luna looked up at Cillen, “C-Can you tell us what happened?” Cillen just snapped his fingers and the whole room changed and twisted into a barren wasteland.

Luna looked into the sky as the false moon seemed to be on the verge of colliding with Eques. On closer inspection of her surroundings the wasteland was littered with bodies of the Memoria, the craters that scattered the landscape. It was like someone had waged open war against the monsters. She could faint rumbling in the distance that was getting closer.

“H-heh…” She heard a hooded figure spoke, “Looks like this is it…” The voice sounded almost sorrowful, she looked for the source and found a critically injured hooded man who was struggling to stand against a nearby wall.

“Cillen?” She spoke softly,

“He can’t here you this is a memory after all.” The Memories Sentiment told her. As he finished speaking there was a flash of light in the sky and the False moon broke apart as it let out an inhuman wail of pain as it vanished from the night sky.

The rumbling got louder and louder as more of the creatures closed in on the dying Cillen, the various shrieks and cries of the monsters echoed in the air.

“…I’m sorry Luna but I haven’t got a choice anymore…” The memory Cillen told himself, “…I can’t even remember anything but my own name anymore.” The memory Cillen could see the monsters closing in the horizon all around him, he didn’t remember why but he knew they had to be stopped, “Well there’s only one way out of this…”

Luna’s sight was blinded in a huge flash of light; once the light had faded there was nothing but an endless white void.

“Just what is this exactly, where are we?” Luna asked the Sentiment.

“This is what’s left of a moment in time that’s been erased.” He explained, “I erased Eques as I remembered it from existence, is if it was nothing more than a bad memory.”

“But wouldn’t that erase you as well?” Luna asked.

“Well it should of, but a memory only exists if there is someone to remember it, don’t you agree?” Cillen explained, “You were sent here when the false moon vanished, thus you weren’t affected by the event, and that pendant you have is further proof of that.”

“And since I’m immortal…” Luna trailed off.

“I’ll exist as long as you do.”

“Look mom, there’s nothing to worry about!” I pleaded to my mother, “Sunshine and I will be fine!” My mother just paced back and forth in the room, a stern look upon her features.

“Look you’re not ready to do this, not as you are now!” Mom argued back, “And this whole thing with Shane, do you really think he’s comfortable with this?” Mom continued, “You’re entire memory is messed up Mark!”

I remained silent; I never really understood why my own mother had something against Shane and to be honest I really didn’t understand what the problem was.

“Just…what do you have against Shane anyway?” I asked, “I never understood why you disliked him so much.” Mom finally took a seat and sighed.

“It’s not like I have anything against Shane, but with everything that’s gone on it feels like I’m losing my only son bit by bit.” Mom answered, “It’s like you’re losing yourself and the worst thing is might just happen to everyone else.” We were interrupted by a light knocking on the door.

“I’m sorry for interrupting but I’m here to see to Ms Geary.” The doctor explained as she entered the room. Mom looked at the doctor in confusion, but said nothing. “I’m Dr Serena Narcissa, I’m the expert on the issue regarding the memory changes, and I’m here with a colleague of mine to help find the source of this problem.”

“Have you had any luck?” Mom quickly asked.

“Yes, we believe this caused by the moon that appeared a few months ago, from what we gather it sent out a sort of pulse that resulted into what you see before you now.” Serena explained, “From what we have seen in other patients the memory rewrite isn’t affecting personality, and it does seem to vary from person to person.” Serena paused for a moment, “Dr Raines would you mind coming in for a second?”

A man in his mid-thirties entered the room, he wore similar attire to Samuel but I could feel there was something off about him; I was getting the same feeling from Serena as well. It wasn’t a bad feeling but it felt like they were both out of place here.

“Something doesn’t feel right…” I muttered.

“Hmm…How so?” Serena asked.

“I don’t know, it’s like there’s something I’ve never felt before but at the same time it’s familiar.” I answered.

“I assure you there is nothing to worry about.” Dr Raines answered, “We’ve been getting that from almost every person or pony we’ve seen today. It’s most likely due to that moon vanishing but we’re not sure yet.”

“Hmm…this one’s sharp, and she’s not the first one to make that comment either.” Cillen thought to himself, “It’s quite likely she has picked up on Luna’s magical aura, if she was born Equestria she would be able to recognise it straight away.”

“Is there anything else about that feeling?” Serena asked.

“Only that it’s feels similar to the feeling when I use my magic.” I continued.

“I see…” Serena said simply as she wrote it down on her clipboard.

“Pardon me for interrupting but is there any way to reverse the memory issue?” Mom interrupted.

“From what I have seen no there isn’t.” Dr Raines commented, “The memory rewrite can’t be undone as it only seems to tweak the memories of the effected so that they think they have always been a pony at the very least or at worst a complete memory rewrite of who they originally were. Your daughter is minor to medium case.”

“I should know while I can’t control how the rewrite affects them, I can at the very least stop it from changing them completely.” Cillen thought to himself.

“Well from what I’ve concluded your daughter’s memory shouldn’t change any further and her personality is unaffected.” Serena explained to my mother, “You can try and find something that might make the memories return to normal but I don’t know if that would even work.”

Both doctors left the room leaving us both alone to deal with the news.

Author's Note

I'm splitting this chapter into two parts so the next part will be done later in the week.

-Silent