Lost: Amnesia

THREE MONTHS LATER

Three months have passed since I killed Queen Chrysalis. Life has been going great for me! I now have a job working at Fluttershys' cottage, getting paid four bits a week. I thought of that amount. Rainbowdash now fully trusts me! And I have practiced my skills with the katana blade enough that I'm practically a pro! The only thing that can make it better, is if I could have my memory back. But if I did get it back, I might remember that I have a fear of ponies or something like that. It could happen!

I had to get a new house however, because mine was nothing but rubble after the changelings attacked. I decided to have a new one built in a meadow near Fluttershys' cottage. I had to go half a mile to the right of my house, then I would be on a path leading to her house. Fang, however, wasn't doing so good. He almost died when he was fighting Queen Chrysalis. He fell into a coma and had a badly broken left leg. He's doing fine now. His magical abilities have somewhat helped him heal, but his leg is to injured for him to walk on it yet. A few more weeks and he should be fine, or at least that's what Fluttershy told me.

It was Friday night, and Twilight asked me if I wanted to meet Zecora, a zebra who lives in the Everfree forest. I wasn't so sure. "So you're saying, that she lives in there?!" I pointed at the forest.

"Yup, but we know the way to her hut. Applebloom likes to hang out there and always enters and exits the forest completely fine! So I'm certain that you'll be safe as well."

I looked back at Fang, who was still lying down on the couch looking out the window. "What about Fang? He needs someone to take care of him and keep him company He doesn't do well being alone."

Twilight looked over my shoulder at my companion. "How about Spike? He can stay here with Fang. He's good at taking care of-"

"Don't say it!"

Twilight gave me a dirty look. "Why doesn't he liked to be called that?" She was getting annoyed by this.

"Because he's special. If it wasn't for him, I would have been eaten by a Timberwolf and Queen Chrysalis would have demolished Ponyville. Besides, he's much more than just a you-know-what. He saved my butt THREE TIMES! He's just like Spike, not a pet, a companion."

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Fine. Still, do you think Spike could watch him while we visit Zecora?"

I looked back at Fang. "Fang, do you think that's fine?"

Fang looked at me and nodded his head a bit. He returned his gaze out the window.

I looked back at Twilight. "When can Spike come?"

"Oh he's here right now! Spike, you can come out now!"

Spike walked out from behind a rock in the distance and ran towards Twilight. "Why...*huff*...did I..*huff*...have to...*huff*...hide behind that...*huff*...rock?"

Twilight raised an eyebrow. "I never said you had to hide behind that rock, you just hid there!"

"THEN WHY DIDN'T YOU GET ME FROM BEHIND THERE?!?!?!"

Twilight shrugged. "Hey Spike, do you think you can stay here with Fang while we go to Zecoras'?"

Spike collapsed on the ground. "Alright." He crawled in, obviously still tired, and sat on the couch next to Fang.

I grabbed my katana and put the sheath Rarity made me on. It was a regular leathery black sheath. She also made a special belt that the sheath attaches to. Same as the sheath, except the belt is brown. I can attach the sheath on the left or right side of the belt. I attached the sheath on the left side.

"Why do you need that?" Twilight pointed at my belt.

"Because, who knows? A pack of timber wolves might attack, or worse. I always take this whenever I go out into the wild."

Twilight giggled a bit. "And I thought I was the ony one who prepared for almost anything!"

I rolled my eyes and looked back at Fang. "See ya Fang. I'll be back, um," I turned to Twilight. "What time will we be back?"

"Probably by sunset."

It turned back to Fang. "I'll be back by sunset."

After Twilight said goodbye to Spike, I shut the door and followed the lavender unicorn towards the forest. As we reached the edge of the Everfree, we heard a familiar high squeaky voice call out.

"ROE, TWILIGHT, WAIT FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Before I could see who yelled for us, I was tackled by an all too familiar pink blur. I fell on by back and saw Pinkie Pies' face in mine.

She blushed a bit, but you could barely notice it because her bright pink fur absorbed the color. "oops! sorry 'bout that."

She hopped off of me, allowing me to breathe. I got up, still a bit wobbly from have all the air in my body knocked out of my lungs, and started rubbing my head. Pinkie tried desperately to hold back a laugh. "What? Whats so funny?" Twilight summoned a mirror with her magic and showed me what was so funny. I had a huge hoofprint on my forehead. Pinkie was building up the laughter so much,  she started to sweat and her cheeks were blown up like balloons!!!! After a minute or two, she burst into laughter.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh I'm sorry its just that I can't help myseh-*wheeze* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Pinkie continued laughing, Twilight handed me a long white cloth bandage to tie around my head. I did tie it around my forehead just around the hoofprint, but you could still notice the small lump from it through the bandage. Pretty soon, we saw Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rainbowdash coming our way.

Applejack was the first one to reach us. "Rarity aint comin. Said she had somthin important t'do."

Pinkie stopped laughing and got in the orange mares face. Pinkie mode: activated. "didshesaywhatshewasdoingisshegoingsomewhereisshemakingdressesforsaphireshores*GAAAASSSSP*ISSHEGOINGTOMANEHATTEN???"

Applejack responded the best she could, but it was hard for her to focus with Pinkie Pie bouncing everywhere while she tried to speak. "Hold on just a minute sugarcube, she didn't say what she was doin. She just said that she was doin somthin important."

Rainbowdash hovered by my head. She pointed a hoof at my bandage. "Why is that on your head?"

I lifted up the white cloth. Her wings folded up and a shocked feeling engulfed her. She stammered a bit. I knew what she was trying to say, so I looked in Pinkies' direction. "Pinkie Pie ran into me."

The cyan pegasus started to snicker. Before she could burst out laughing I gave her a stern look. She stopped right when I did.

Pretty soon we were all headed out into the forest. Fluttershy followed extremely close by, probably because there were monsters in the Everfree forest and I had a weapon that I was skilled in handling. We traveled for about half a mile before we reached a part were the path split into two. Everypony just headed out for the right path, but I stayed back a bit.

Twilight turned around. "C'mon Roe, Zecoras' hut is this way!"

I still stood there. "I hear something."

They all listened for a moment. Pinkie suddenly started twitching and shaking and having spasm attacks all over!

I panicked a bit. "I-is she ok?!"

Rainbowdash flew beside my head. "Calm down, it's just her 'Pinkie Sense'. It's kind of like a future warning. A bit hard to explain."

I blinked a bit. "So, what does that mean?"

Pinkie tried to answer, but it was a bit messed up because now she started bouncing up and down a lot. "Iiiiiiit meeeaannsss ththat aa doozzzy suh bouout tto hhaaaapepeeeennnnnn."

"A doozy? What kind of-" *ROOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHG*

I saw something running towards us from the right path. A zebra!

I heard it call out to us. "Run for your lives pony folk! This hydra is not in the mood to joke!"

Before any of us could react, a gigantic, bipedal,four-headed beast came crashing from the trees! I pulled out my katana and urged Fluttershy to run. While everyone else ran away, Fluttershy just stood there, paralyzed from the fear that engulfed her. I tried everything to snap her out of her trance, but nothing worked. Having only one option left, I put the katana blade back into its' sheath and hoisted Fluttershy over my left shoulder. I outran the others as they started to pick up speed. Pinkie Pie had caught up to us when I realized the direction we were headed in.

I was running so fast, it was hard to stop. I crashed into a couple of bushes and threw Fluttershy just beside them as me and Pinkie Pie fell down a cliff. I couldn't see her, but was pretty sure she had snapped out of her trance. I looked down where we were headed. A river. You know how people say that when you fall off of a cliff, you feel light as air itself? Well, that's what it seemed to be like with Pinkie. She started swimming, somersaulting, and executing other various tricks midair.

"PINKIE?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WE'RE FALLING DOWN A GINORMOUS CLIFF, AND YOU'RE DOING MIDAIR ACROBATICS?!?!"

Pinkie stopped doing her stunts, looked at me with a blank face, and nodded. Just as she did, we hit the water. A surge of coldness hit me and I felt great! I swam to the surface. The river was calm, luckily. A bit too calm.

I looked around for the pink pony. "Pinkie? Pinkie Pie? Pinkie Pie, where are you?"

Pinkie burst her head out of the water gasping for air. Her mane became flat and straight. We swam to land. The water being extremely calm still kind of gave me an uneasy feeling. As we got onto shore, Pinkie shook her mane furiously. As water sprayed out like a sprinkler, its' fluffiness returned. She looked up and yelled, "That was FUN!!! Can we do it again? Can we, can we?"

I smiled. "Let's just focus on reuniting with the others first, okay?"

Pinkie nodded her head. I looked back up at the cliff. "What's wrong?" Pinkie walked up to me and looked at the cliff I was looking at.

"Just thinking about Fluttershy. I threw her back on land just at the last second. I hope she's okay."

A devious grin came to Pinkie Pies' face. "Wait, I think I know."

I looked at her. "What?"

Pinkies' grin grew. "You like her!" She poked my side with a hoof.

My face turned bright red. "N-no I don't! I just like her as a friend, that's all!"

"C'mon, say yah like her." If Pinkies' grin grew anymore, her face would split in half!

My face grew an even brighter red, and I started heating up. "Pinkie!"

"Roe and Fluttershy, sittin in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-"

"PINKIE SHUT UP!!!!!!" I lashed out with anger.

Pinkies' hair grew a bit droopy, and tears started forming up in her eyes.

I crouched down next to her. "Pinkie, I-I'm sorry. I shouldn't have lashed out at you like that."

I started rubbing her back to make her feel better. "I'm sorry."

Pinkie rubbed away her tears. "No, it's alright. I'm the one who should be apologizing. I should not have teased you. I'm sorry."

I chuckled a bit. Pinkie looked up at me, her mane starting to fluff up again. "What's so funny?"

I looked at her and smiled. "I guess we both have something to apologize for."

She smiled, and I brought her in for a hug. Her mane fluffed up completely, and she had stopped crying.

Just as I thought before, with the calm river seeming suspicious, I was proven right. The Hydras' heads all raised from the water, and me and Pinkie watched in horror as they got taller and taller.

I whispered something into Pinkie Pies' ear that we probably would have already done. "Run."

As each head flew down to snatch us up, I grabbed the pink pony in my right arm and sprinted off deeper into the forest.

As we crashed through plants and bushes, I muttered something under my breath. "Curse you Everfree. With your stupid Hydras and Timberwolves and stuff."

As we kept on running, I heard large footsteps. But, instead of them getting closer, they seemed to be getting farther. Even though we were probably safe, I still kept on with Pinkie in my right arm. I knew I wasn't gonna take my chances with that thing!

After about half an hour of running, I stopped dead in my tracks. We found ourselves a nice place to camp out. We were on top of a small cliff, about twenty feet or so. Below us was a large clearing with berries and nuts around the edges that I knew were edible. There was also a crystal clear pond about ten feet to the left of the clearing. But what we liked the best of this little place, was that about fifteen feet straight ahead of us was a cave.

A nice, cozy shelter. I set Pinkie Pie down, ready to jump down there, but when I did, the soil gave in. It collapsed right under my feet, causing me to fall down. I fell, aright, but the impact was had enough to cause me to black out.

I woke up, still in the clearing. I looked around. Everything still seemed like I remembered, cliff that gave in, clearing, crystal clear pond, edible bushes and nuts, still the same. But what wasn't the same was that there was fog everywhere, and it was cold. Cold enough to cause my breath to come out visible as that white cloud.

I searched around for Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie? Pinkie Pie? Where'd you go?" I turned around and found Pinkie on her belly. Her eyes where closed.

I crawled up to her to wake her up. I placed my hand on her shoulder, ready to start nudging her to get her up, but when I did, her skin disintegrated! My hand went into her body! No flesh, only bone. I pulled out my hand and stumbled backwards. Pretty soon, the rest of her skin started to disintegrate right before my eyes!

I stammered, still in shock of what happened to my friend. "P-P-Pi-P-Pink-k-kie????"

I heard a familiar, female laugh. It had an evil feeling to it. I looked around, and saw bug-like pony creatures come from all sides! They were like changelings, but had piercing red eyes, small tusks instead of fangs, and looked much more bug-like!

As they came at me from all sides, I reached for my Katana. It wasn't there. All I could do was watch in horror as the creatures came for me.

Pretty soon, the first one struck. It hopped onto me from the front, pushing me onto my back! It clawed and scratched as it tried desperately to rip up my face! Other monsters were biting and scratching my legs and sides! I cried out in pain as one of the beasts ripped my left foot clean off! Just as it did, the thing I was holding broke free and lunged for my-

"*Gasp*.....uhg, where am I?'

I looked around. It was all a dream. A nightmare actually. A terrible one. I studied my surroundings a bit more. It was dark, wet, and really rocky. I sat up. I found that my left ankle had some kind of makeshift cast on it. My bandage was wrapped around my ankle with a small iron rod propping it up. I felt  my forehead. The hoofprint was gone, but I had a massive headache.

I got up and looked around. I found the exit to the clearing. I was in a cave. I limped my way over to the exit and found Pinkie Pie filling up buckets with berries and nuts. I felt for my katana, but it wasn't there! I looked around and found it next to the entrance to the cave.

Pinkie saw me out of the corner of her eye and rushed for me with a smile on her face! She crushed me with all her might a she hugged me, crying. "ROE I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE STILL ALIVE I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!!!!!!!!!!"

I managed to choke out some words while she continued sobbing. "Pin-k-kie, y-y-you're ch-chok-king me..."

She quickly released me. "Sorry."

I crouched down next to her. "It's okay. Hey, where did you get those buckets and this rod?"

Pinkie looked at them. "Oh, I found those sitting in the cave. Hey, do you know if these berries and nuts are edible? I was collecting them to see if you could figure out if we can eat them."

I looked at what she had picked, and then at the bushes she picked from. "They're all edible." I said with a slight smile.

She cheered and started eating them like a wild animal! I've never seen her eat like this since about two and a half months ago!

I knew I wasn't going home by sundown.