Memory of the eye

Owloysius landed on the roof of the sugar cube corner. He watched over the little shop, looking for a chance.

Behind the shop there is a small backyard filled with trees. The trunks looked like muscular arms stretching out into the sky. One of them had a rope attached to it. On the other end of the rope there is a small wooden board. The cakes couple put up a small swing to celebrate their children's two year birthday.

Pound Cake was sitting on with one of his feet on the ground. He bend his knees and kicked himself backwards, and swing back and forth as he giggled in joy. Owloysius looked at him. Then they heard the voice of Mrs Cake coming from the kitchen, "All right kids, its nap time, get inside now."

Pound Cake jumped off the swing and ran towards the bedroom. Owloysius left the branch he was sitting on and flew onto the tree with the swing on it. From there he could see what was going on inside the house. He could see Mrs cakes putting Pound Cake and Pumpkin cake into their little pony beds and singing a lullaby. The children soon fell asleep, and Mrs cakes kissed them on their cheeks, closed the door to the bedroom and left.

All right. Thought Owloysius. He waited a little more to make sure that Pound Cake was completely asleep, and then he took off.

He glided into the room silently like a bat. The room was filled with the sweet smell of cupcakes. Pound Cake didn't notice the approaching Owl. He was in deep sleep, his chest rising up and falling like the Ocean tide.

Owloysius moved up to his face. He lowered his head and pointed his beaker towards the eye of Pound Cake. Without much hesitation, he dug in and took out the right eye ball. Because this was going to be a gift to Twilight, Owloysius was very careful to not get it dirty.

Pound Cake was woken up. He saw the Owl with his left eye, panicked and screamdd, "MOOOM! THE OWL TOOK MY EYE!"

Owloysius could hear Mrs Cake coming upstairs from the hoofsteps. At the same time, Pound Caked opened his arms, and tried to catch Owloysius.

Owloysius quickly spread his wings and escaped from the open window before he was caught. He helt the eyeball carefully between he beaks and flew right towards Twilight's house.

By the time he entered the room, he found Twilight sitting next to the table, crying with her face buried between her arms.

Owloysius wanted to talk, but suddenly remembered that he was holding an important gift between his beaks. He placed the bloody eye ball down at the table, and said, "Twilight, what happened?"

Twilight looked up with her shoulders shaking. She looked in the general direction of Owloysius, "How embarrassing... You caught me crying."

Tears kept flowing out of Twilights eyes. Every time Twilight moves her faces, streams of tears would flow down her cheek from her empty eyes like a glass full of water. Owloysius thought it was extremely pretty and sad.

"Because something sad happened. You see there is a round table in the middle of the room?"

Owloysius looked at the table he placed the eye ball upon.

"There is a flower vase on the table right? I used to think that they were emerald green."

Owloysius looked at the vase and saw a few red flowers that had already withered.

"My mother lied to me. I always thought that they were green, because she told me so."

"Do you like green flowers?" Asked Owloysius.

Twilight nodded. "She didn't have to lie, if it's red, then just tell me that they were red. But my father just came in, and said 'Oh my, those red flowers had already withered.' If it wasn't for him, i would have believed my mother's lie."

Owloysius realized that it hurts him to watch Twilight cry. He said, "It's all right Twilight. I brought you a gift today."

"A gift?"

"Yes. I put it on the round table."

Twilight wiped the tears from her eyes and walked towards the table. It looked like that she had remember the location of the furniture. She stopped right in front of the table and held out he hooves. She search around, and finally her hoof touched Pound Cake's right eye ball.

"What is it?"

"Can you feel its shape?"

Twilight held the eye in her hooves and touched it gently, "Its like a ball, and its soft..."

"Please try to fit it in your eye."

Twilight was a little frightened. She carefully held up the eye ball close to her face, but she suddenly stopped.

"Which side? Left or right?"

"Doesn't really matter. Go on." Owloysius encouraged.

So Twilight placed the eyeball in her left eye. Because she could not see, so the Iris looked strange. However, it still fit perfectly into her face.

"So, how does it feel?" Asked Owloysius.

"I don't know... For some reason, it felt very comfortable, like a... stuffing for my eyes."

"Keep it a secret, don't tell any pony that it's a gift from me. Not even to your parents. You have to take it out and hide it somewhere when you are meeting with other ponies. Understood?"

Twilight's face was filled with questions, but Owloysius  ignored her, "There, you've had a long day. Go ahead and take a nap on your bed."

Twilight nodded. She yawned a little and rubbed her eyes, which made the eye ball turned around.

"Good night, anonymous sir. Thank you so much for your kind gift."

Twilight feel asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

"Good night."

Said Owloysius as he flew out of the window. To find another eye ball for Twilight, he decided to travel to a different town.

The second day, he came back with another pony eye ball. He stood outside the window and listened carefully. After making sure that there wasn't any other ponies in the room, he flew in silently.

"Hi Twilight."

"Hey! Anonymous Sir! Listen listen listen!" Twilight jumped around in joy like a little filly. She was so excited that her voice was shaking, "I had a beautiful dream last night! It was so colorful! I haven't seen any color in my mind for a while, and that dream was amazing!"

Without missing any details, she started telling Owloysius about the dream, "In my dream, i became a little filly at a bakery shop."

Twilight closed her eyes and said. She had already taken out the eye ball, but she seemed to remember the dream like it was her own experience, "My dad was mixing flour and water, and my mom was making them into cupcakes. There were customers who were smiling at me in the shop, and then I ran outside to play on a swing under a tree. It was a really nice swing too."

Twilight had been in darkness for such a long time, so she was extremely excited about this new colorful dream she just had. Even Owloysius felt the joy that was coming from her.

"The dream was so amazing that I didn't want to take out the stuffing. But don't worry, every time i hear any pony coming up i would take out the stuffing and put them into a glass flask and hide it under the bed. When i am alone, i would put the stuffing back in and practice dreaming with it. At first i had to asleep first, but soon i can see the dream even when i am awake. I guess i was just used to it." Twilight giggled.

"Twilight, i have brought you another gift today."

"Really?" Twilight said with excitement.

Owloysius had already placed the bloody eye ball on the table.

"Yes, its at the same place as last time."

Twilight walked towards the table, picked up the bloody eye ball and fit it into her eyes.

"Oh my gosh, sir! It feels like the words is being flooded with colors!"

Twilight placed her hooves in front of her chest as if she was praying to the lord.

"It's just like a flood! The color flowing out from the stuffing was going directly into my mind!"

The eye ball brought to Twilight that day was from Granny Smith. She lived in the country yard, and Owloysius noticed that her yard was filled with green trees, grass and flowers. Remembering that Twilight's favorite color was green, Owloysius decided to target Granny Smith. He landed next to the window and watched Granny Smith knitting. After a while, she suddenly stopped her work and rubbed her eyes. Maybe she had been knitting for too long, so she decided to take a mid day nap. Owloysius wait until he heard the snore from her, and he glided into the room silently, landing on the chair. The chair shook and screeched from the extra weight, but Granny Smith was still asleep. Owloysius moved to Granny Smith's face.

"It was a beautiful flower field!" Twilight's voice dragged Owloysius back to reality from his memories.

"And in this dream, I could even knit a sweater! I have never done it before."

More! I need more eye balls! Owloysius thought.

I need to collect more eye balls for Twilight so that she can see more about this world! Using my beak, I am going to bring the eye balls of every pony to her. She would be so happy.

I am going to fill the glass with eye balls. Owloysius decided as he saw thankful tears flowing down Twilight's cheek.