Author's Note

Huzzah!

Yes my friends, a new chapter of A Night to Remember! This chapter was half done for almost a month, and today, I decided to finish it. Sure, I'm a lazy bastard.

Anyway, feel free to point me eventual misspellings, etc... I really try to avoid them.

Hope you like it!

• PedroHander

Remembering (Something)

A Night to Remember

Hmmmmmm, Gummy bears...

That was literally a delicious dream you could say. Here I was, wandering in some kind of candy land, giant gummy bears trotting happily by my side. Wait... Trotting?

I glanced around, and my friendly bears were replaced by-

"Candy Unicorns??" Hmmm, maybe their horns are made of caramel!

Yes... I did it.

Such a bad idea! Never try to lick an unicorn horn, even if they're just a dream!

"Richaaaaard, what have you done! Only she is allowed to lick out horns! Now you've awakened the Purple Demon!" Shouted a candy pony next to me.

Noooooo! I hate demons!

I should have listened to my fellow candy friends. A demonic roar came out from a chocolate cave, followed by a purple mist that curiously, smelled just like strawberry.

Well, at least if it kills me, I shall have a sweet death-

Unfortunately, the cave thing... Let's just say that 'sweet' wasn't the best choice of words to describe it.

A large alicorn, pony, whatever this shit is named, came flying towards me; a candy cane on its horn place. Yeah, I was screaming and running like a little girl.

"Noooooooooooooo" I cried "You'll give me diabetes!"

The lavender demon crashed over me, and with its hooves, pinned my body to the ground. "P-please! I swear, I'll n-never eat candy again, just let me live for God's sake!!"

"I don't want your life Rick!" Said the demon, which curiously had a feminine voice. Yeah, new century, new sexual identities.

"I want your LOVE"

No no no no no! No more ponies loving me!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I screamed under the beast.

I felt the lack of surface under my back, and following the 'lack', my body landed with a thump on the floor; bed sheets and pillows all over my face.

"Richard!!" Someone lifted my body from the cold tiles, and back to the... bed? What the-

"Luna??" I shook my head. Rubbing my temples along with my forehead, I focused my eyes and saw a confused pony in front of me. "Oh dear... Memory lapses again?" She asked.

It took some time for me to return completely to my senses, of course, after a psychedelic dream like this, I wouldn't be surprised if Luna said to me that she injected acid inside my veins.

'Yo, homie, I gave 'ya that celestial blue sky zen that thou enjoy'

"No." I rested my head against the pillows with a puff. "It was just a... 'Candymare'." Luna chuckled.

"A candymare? Well, we surely never heard about one of these before!" She leaned by my side.

"Believe me honey, you don't wanna know..." I sighed "Errrrm, just for the record, unicorns don't have candy cane horns... Do they?" Just to make sure that I'm not having one of that inception dreams.

"No Rick, they don't. At least until now we haven't met anypony with a candy cane horn" Oh, thanks god!

"Good, good- Now I can resume my sleep in peace" I threw the covers over our bodies.

"Then be it, have a good night Rick" She pecked my cheek. "Rest thy brain, thou will have to use it tomorrow when we show our reminiscences"

Oh dammit, I completely forgot about that! Well, I just hope not find out something I'll regret.

Like being raped by the guards...

'Go to sleep brain!'

A faint light reached my closed eyelids. Oh no, it's morning already!

I reluctantly opened my eyes, Luna was sleeping by my side, good thing... At least I don't have to roam around the castle searching for food alone.

Yesterday's incident made a large tear on the blinds, allowing the entrance of a good amount of sun rays, lighting up the quiet and therefore gloomy night princess chambers.

Silently I hopped out from the bed, not wanting to disturb her sleep (Unnecessary, but nonetheless cute as heaven)

Since a few days ago, I began to think about the outside world, I mean, I can't leave the castle nor speak to almost anyone- anypony. All this plus the fact of 'Hey, I'm the only fucking human here' was really messing with my mind.

I stood there, in front of the panoramic windows, gazing the city below my feet. These ponies really know how to build towers, Luna's room was located on... Dunno, 30th floor?

I don't like heights, or towers; in special if they're made of wood and stone. What? Did you thought that this castle was built with reinforced concrete?

"It is a beautiful city isn't it?" I turned my head, Luna was by my side at the window; didn't noticed her coming. I just confirmed the question with a nod.

"It wasn't there when we got... Exiled, ages ago. We do still remember the first time we saw Canterlot, such beautiful buildings, lovely citizens. Very different from the ancient castle that we princesses, used to live erstwhile.

"Yeah... I'm hungry, can we get some food?" My stomach grumbled something.

"For my sister's sake Richard! Does your mind only think about food and alcohol?" She rolled her eyes.

"No, you forgot about candy and sex!" I giggled. "But seriously speaking, can we eat now?"

Hmmmm, I hope they have eggs today...

"No, we can't"

"Ahhhhhhh, whhyyyyyy?" And now I just begged food to a flying unicorn.

"The spell for memory exchange can produce some, well... Some undesirable side effects." She made a disgusted face. "Let's just say that we don't wish to clean your vomit from the carpet."

"Oh, and you really want to perform this spell now?" I asked

"Well, yes! I thought it was of your desire." She stated.

"Yes. Of course I want, just..." *Sigh* "Go ahead."

Disappointed, I looked to my stomach. 'I'm sorry buddy, but our fun has to wait'

Very well, I have never been hexed before, should I open my arms, dance, mimic a shaman or something?

I just extended my arms and took a deep breath-

"Richard, what do you think you're doing?" The princess cocked an eyebrow at me.

"W-what? I really don't know, what should I do?" She chuckled.

"Just sit on the couch."

Sit on the couch? She's about to perform real magic on me, and I'll be just sitting on a couch? And all the mist, runes, sparks?

"This shouldn't take long, It's just a brief sight from a single night after all; now please, stay quiet while I build the spell" Okay mom.

You know, I'm an anxious guy; five minutes later, Luna was still working on the spell, her eyes closed while she focused on god knows what.

As the spell grew, her mane began to sparkle even more than usual, along with a navy blue mist around her horn.

"Is this supposed to happen-" Ops...

"This wha-" Oh shit. lost focus, lost focus

The burst of magic flew right to my face, making my eyes spin around its orbits; I was so fucking dizzy, my guts contorted inside my body. Fuck, now I understand why this has to be made while unfed.

"Mo-ther of... Is t-that my pancreas?" Last thing I said before passing out. No, it doesn't make any sense.

Finally, I could regain some conscience, the first thing I noticed was that I wasn't in the room anymore, I was floating like a ghost.

Shit I'm dead?

"... And then you can lick it, just like this!" I searched for the voice, only to see Princess Celestia teaching Luna how to...

" Sister! Do we really need to know that?" Oh not the bananas again!

"Oh my god! Wrong memory Luna; definitely, wrong memory! LET ME OUT OUT OUT OUT"

A light came from nowhere, bringing my floating corpse back to reality.

"What the hell was tha-"

"Don't... Ask about it, please." Her face on a deep crimson tone, Luna facehoofed.

I'm sorry, but I can't handle this anymore.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha- Y-you just had to see your face! Do y-you ponies have some banana fetish?" I broke in laughs. Luna glared me furiously.

"I said you should not interrupt us!" She slapped my face with a fucking wing! "Ouch!"

"Now stay quiet! Just look what thou have done! We're gonna have to start all over again!" She shook her head disapprovingly

"But you hit me-"

"Quiet! Or I'll make sure you will not receive any desserts for a month"

Now this shit got serious...

"Thou art allowed to speak now" Luna's voice came out from- I don't really know where it came from.

"Ahhh..." I looked around me

"Why do I have wings? And why the hell I'm you, or you are me on-"

"Who said 'you are me'?" Luna suddenly appeared in front of me. I swear, this mare have to stop doing these kind of things.

"I'm in your body! And you are in your body, which mean that we are on the same body, but different! What the hell Luna!" She giggled. At this point I don't really know if giggles are a good or bad thing. Her sense of humor is kinda sordid.

"Don't worry, you'll not be a princess for so long; this spell is simple, it makes thou see and experience what happened with the spell caster on a predetermined lapse of time"

"Ah, I don't think I g-get it..." Snall words lady, small words.

She huffed.

"It makes you see what I've saw!" Ohhhh, pretty much better now!

"Okay then, but I'm not seeing anything except you and a dark room" I looked around, just recognizing some few objects in the darkness.

"That's because we were sleeping. Just be patient and see..."

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock* Somepony slammed the door.

On a flash, all the lights came on, revealing the night princess room.

"Who came to our gates so early in the night?" She spoke. A strange tone in Luna's always strong and immaculate voice. Could even be mistaken for-

As she stood up and slowly trotted to the door, a large mirrored wall revealed the princess face; dark circles around her eyes, reddish eyes... Her wings messed up, feathers and fur disheveled and uncombed.

"Luna, were you crying-" I turned around, but her oneiric body wasn't with me anymore. She left me alone inside her memories.

The sound of doors opening made me turn around again.

"What does thou desire in my chamb- Oh... Captain Shining Armour." Holding a sob, she tried to maintain the composure in front of him. 'After all, she was a Princess, and Princesses couldn't exhibit weakness.'

After a long bow, he turned to face her again; a concerned look in his face.

"My princess... Forgive me for this obtrusion, you know that as your subject, I don't usually do something like this. But as your loyal friend, I worry about you."

Looking down to him, Luna depressingly sighed.

"We know." She whispered

"Princess, It already makes four days since you came out from your room. Your sister and-"

"Don't talk about our sister... Not now" She brought one of her hooves to her face and rubbed her tired eyes.

"I-I'm sorry. It's just- Princess, we don't want that to happen again. We just wish your happiness, that's all." Backing away a few steps, Shining stood there, midway to the door.

"That's not going to happen again Captain, I'm just... *Sigh* We don't know." Wow, I knew that Luna was kinda dark and stuff, but emotional hardcore? That's new. And I thought this went out of style a couple of years ago...

"Princess, since Twilight's incident I'm feeling down too, but now she's fine, and that's what really matter. The problems are gone! stayed there, in the past."

"What you say, why don't we go eat something? Or just walk around a little bit, It doesn't matter. I just want you to feel better, as every loyal subject that you have wants."

Luna seemed to think for a while, maybe pondering about the captain's proposal.

"We believe that food would be of no harm to us." She smiled; the first one in many days.

As the memory developed itself, there were no signals of the- well, the 'true' Luna to be seen. That's strange of her part, but who am I to judge? Normality doesn't seems to be an active force in this world anyway.

I boringly observed the talk flowing between the two ponies sat alone, side by side on a large dinner room. I'm not a psychologist, but I believe that I'm smart enough to understand what was happening with Luna.

Considering her own words, and well... She was crying, so it's probably some serious stuff or well- Never mind, I was wrong, I'm not smart enough to understand it.

Hurried hoofstep sounds echoed through the room, Luna and the captain turned their heads just to see a group of guards hastily halting in front of them.

"Silver Spear, haven't I said this was a private meeting?" Shining rhetorically asked.

"We *puff* know Captain *puff* but this is an emergency!" Still breathless, the guard said.

"What happened? We demand to know!" Luna stood and walked to them.

"My princess, there's an unknown creature running naked around the throne room! It smells like hard cider mixed with..." Silver Spear stopped in mid sentence and blushed.

"Speak Sergeant! It smells like what?" Ordered the captain.

"Excuse me princess, it may be improper for me to say but it's the only way I can describe it... It smells like a virile stallion urine, we d-don't know what to do, the creature just popped out from nothing, we even had to lock the maids away from him." He blushed even harder.

"Did he tried to do something with them?" The night princess angrily asked.

"N-no m-my princess, no... The opposite! The mares were trying to 'reach' him! They seemed to be practically immersed in some kind of trance, or love spell."

Oh heavens, I'm feeling more awkward moments coming to my collection!

"Gather your men together Sergeant, our priority now is catch this creature. I'm going to see this thing with my own eyes-"

"No!" Luna said.

"Thou art not going anywhere, we are going to deal with this being alone." She stated, to the guards surprise.

"Princess this is nonsense, he can be dangerous, don't you remember what Sergeant Silver said? All the mares were poisoned by him!" Silver nodded with his head.

"No Captain, I'm a royal Alicorn; nopony in this world can hex us, besides, we are fully capable of dealing with this!"

Ah... Well, that's really strange, personally I wouldn't deal with someone like me even If I was a god.

"But it's dangerous! He can harm you-"

"What we said is stated. I'm going to see the creature alone, besides, don't you think about how dangerous it's for you and your guards to expose yourselves to him? What if this creature can make colts fall in love with him too?" That definitely made the captain think twice before complaining.

"Ermmm.... As y-you wish your majesty. Just, please be careful." And that's my friends, is how you place a man on the edge, threatening his masculinity!

"There's no need for worry, we shall be fine." Determined to prove her skills, Luna left the room. She was a princess! She could do this right?

This would certainly show Celestia that she wasn't a fragile filly anymore... Luna had to do it.