Memories of a God

Shadow Streak had woken up, and was incredibly happy. He was happy because he could move without pain. He was literally dancing with joy. Nurse Redheart was baffled. She knew he had healed, but she didn't expect him to make a full recovery.

"Hey doc, I gotta ask, was there anything strange about me?" he asked her after he had settled down.

"The only thing that anypony has noticed only your horn, it is dual-colored, black and white. We didn't have time to do a major search though."

He looked up and said, "Well, look at that, it is, isn't it. Is that bad?"

"I don't know, it has never been documented before. Last night while you were sleeping, your wounds healed themselves. A dull glow emanates from your horn whenever you are healing. It's like magic, but far too advanced for anypony to replicate or even perform."

"It doesn't seem bad. If it hasn't been documented before, call it heterochromia cornu. Heterochromia is different colored, and cornu is horn. Why do I know that?"

"Why indeed."

"What do I do now? I'm completely healed. Do I stay here? I have nowhere else to stay."

"Don't you worry about that, Shadow Streak. You can stay with me and Spike." said Twilight, walking in.

"Hey Twilight, guess what? I can move again!" said Shadow happily.

"It would appear so, how is this possible? I know that you had great healing abilities, but to heal every one of your injuries in a single night?"

"Yeah, cool, isn't it? I got a name for my horn condition as well, heterochromia cornu. I chose Latin because it seemed right. Heterochromia iridis is different colored eyes. Single iridis out, and you get iris. Replace it with cornu, and you get different colored horn. How the hell do I know all this?"

"That was a very smart observation of you." said Twilight.

"I agree, maybe I'm smart. I don't know. Something tells me that I don't want to know either, and I'm gonna go with that feeling. Hey, is Queen Gaia still holding power?"

"Who?"

"You know, Queen Gaia! The queen of Equestria."

"Equestria doesn't have a queen. Our rulers are Princess Celestia and Princess Luna." she said.

"Little Luny and Tiny Tia! Hey, how have they been? They were so cute when I left." he asked happily.

"Little Luny? Tiny Tia?"

"Yeah. Why? Is it wrong to call the Princesses that?"

"You should address them by their name, not a nickname."

"But they were so tiny when I last saw them. How old are they now? Tia was 207 and Luny was 117 when I left. They were barely old enough to be called adults."

He noticed Twilight looking at him like he was crazy. Then she shook her head and said, "They're both over 1000 years old."

"Wow, alicorns in their prime. Bet they look great."

"Alicorns in their prime?"

"1000-5000 years old. That's great, just how far back can't I remember?"

"That's actually what I was here to ask you about." said Twilight. She pulled out the book and continued, "It says in here that the fight against Discord was not done by our princesses alone. It says that another alicorn had helped them. One with only one wing."

Shadow looked at his lone wing and said, "It could've been me. Then again, maybe not. Could've been another without a wing. Just how long ago was this battle? And just who is this Discord bloke, picking on Luny and Tia like that."

"This battle was 1200 years ago."

"So I can't remember about 1500 straight years in my immortal life. It's like a second to me, but every second counts."

"Immortal? I really don't think you're immortal."

"Oh, but I am. Lived longer than any alicorn I've known of."

"Shadow, even the princesses aren't immortal. Eventually, everypony..." started Twilight. She looked down sadly.

"No more talk of death while I'm around, you got that missy? But I am completely immortal. Billions of years old."

"You're billions of years old?"

"And looking great! That's right, I'm as old as the universe. Older maybe. The beginning was beautiful. Ponies looked at me and say that I'm a witch, then after they failed to kill me, I was exiled out of almost every country that I had visited. Equestria is definitely my favorite."

"It you're from that time, why don't you speak Old Equestrian?"

"I adopt languages like that." he said, tapping his hooves together.

"You look like you're 25."

"And you look 21, how old are you?"

"I'm 21. How did you know that?"

"Very good question."

"Are you going to answer it?"

"Sorry little lady, I can't, I don't even know myself. I have little memory of anything important, but as I have seen, many, many things can happen in 1500 years. A lot can happen in an hour as well. Seen entire planets turned inside out in an hour."

"You said that you didn't remember anything."

"They're slowly trickling back. Only mundane and boring facts. No personality, nothing useful. From many years ago until now, and I don't remember anything past 1500 years ago. I don't know who I am. Those years were definitely the most important in my life. Seems to me that that your princesses are the only ones who can help me with this. Can you help me meet them?"

"I sent Princess Celestia a letter yesterday telling her about you."

"That's good. Wait, how do you know her?"

"I'm her personal student."

"Well, that's great! When can I expect to see her?"

"I don't know, I haven't gotten a reply."

"Guess I'll have to wait for her then. You said that I could stay at your place for the time being?"

"Yes, I did say that, didn't I?"

"Is there a problem?"

"Well, I haven't had time to prepare and the place is a mess. It's even hard to walk around and I couldn't get a chance to clean it up and..."

Shadow put his hoof over her mouth. "You talk too much." he said, smiling at her. He removed his hoof, and started to walk around. "I wonder how they'll react to seeing Uncle Shadow again after so long. The princesses I mean."

"You're related to the Princesses?" asked Twilight.

"Not by blood. Not by law either. I'm more of a friend. I think."

"A friend?"

"Yep. Hey Nurse..."

"Redheart, Nurse Redheart."

"Nurse Redheart, could you get me some chocolate milk?"

"Sure, hold on a minute."

She left the room and came back with a carton of chocolate milk. He took it and ripped it open, then drank it all. He tossed it into the trash and said, "Thanks."

"Yeah, any time." she said.

He smiled at them, and quickly fell asleep.

"Twilight, he is a very odd pony, isn't he?" said Nurse Redheart.

"Yes, he's the strangest that I have met. Billions of years old." she said. "He is a very nice pony. I hope that he remembers what he lost."

Twilight left and walked to Fluttershy's house to tell her about him. She knocked on the door and Angel answered.

"Hello Angel, is Fluttershy home?" Angel shook his head and shrugged. "Do you know when she'll get back?" Angel shook his head again. "All right, thanks for the help."

She walked back to her house and decided to read up on anything that could lead her to answers. Answers to the many questions she was thinking about. 'Why was he hurt? How did this happen to him? Is he as old as he says he is? If he is, how did this happen? How does he know the princesses? What am I going to have for lunch today?' The biggest question was burning in her mind, "Who is Shadow Streak?"