Memory of the eye

"Hi mr, listen... I decided to get the surgery after all."

One day said Twilight as she was resting near the window frame. It appeared that they finally found a good match for Twilight and she could get a surgery that would allow her to see the world again.

"If the surgery was successful, then I would be able to see you!" Twilight said with excitement.

“That’s great news, good luck!”

Owloysius said so, but his heard started sinking. If Twilight got her vision back, she would be so shocked at his true identity. She would also find out that all the stuffing that he had been giving her are eye balls that he had taken from other ponies.

Owloysius didn’t care who he would hurt as long as he can keep Twilight happy. Even though he knew that what he did was not the right thing, the heart of an owl was simply not able to generate the feeling of guilt. However, on the other hoof, Twilight was a kind pony. If she knew that some pony had died because of her sake, she would become so sad and hate Owloysius. He didn’t want thing to turn out that way.

I will be hated by her. The more Owloysius thought about it, the more he worried. He couldn’t even go to sleep at night.

Damnit it, if only I was a pony. Owloysius thought, watching Twilight putting in another stuffing.

Suddenly, Twilight let out a sharp scream.

“What’s wrong Twilight?” Asked Owloysius.

“I saw the monter… It always appears at the end of the dream. Its entire body was brown. As soon as it appears, the dream would end… It’s like the reaper of the dreams. It would always grab me at the end and fly upwards… It’s so scary.”

Said Twilight, her voice shaking with fear. She put her hooves around her own shoulder, her entire body shaking as if it was extremely cold. She bit the bottom half of her lips hard, turning it pale.

Owloysius finally realized that the monster was indeed himself. The devil that Twilight saw was the vision of himself taking the eye ball.

What to do? Soon Twilight would get her eyes fixed. She would have found out the voice that had been talking to her all the time was Owloysius, the brown monster.

Owloysius thought about convincing Twilight to not get the surgery, but looking at Twilight’s excited face for the upcoming light and color, Owloysius could not bear the let the words slip out of his beak.

“I am afraid of the surgery.” Twilight said, “But it’s okay, I really want to see you so I’ll be brave.”

Twilight tried to act tough. She wanted to be fixed just so that she could see Owloysius with her own eyes.

“Tomorrow night I would have to leave for a place really faraway for the surgery. So please come back before that. I want to talk to you more.”

Owloysius flew outside the window as he heard Twilight speaking.

The ending is finallyhere. Owloysius’s small brain was spinning with thoughts. He thought about saying goodbye and fly somewhere far south, or just simply disappear and never come back. But he couldn’t do it. If he suddenly went missing, Twilight will be sad. And what’s more important, his heart would be buried in sorrow as well.

Even though Twilight was going to get the surgery, Owloysius still went out to look for another gift. But it was almost impossible. Ponies had started hiding their eyes, and there were even special goggles that ponies started to wear.

Pony couldn’t tell Owl from owls, so a lot of innocent owls and brown birds were shot by ponies. Owloysius’ parents and siblings were probably one of them, but Owloysius didn’t mind much.

The repeated attack had made ponies alerted. Owloysius had been flying for an entire day, but he didn’t get any chance to bring Twilight another gift. He kept flying, until he finally reached a city that he had never been to before.

It was getting dark, the sun was disappearing behind the horizon. After the night would be the day when Twilight set out for the surgery. But Owloysius still haven’t found any eye balls yet.

After the surgery, Owloysius’ gift would be pointless. But there was nothing else that Owloysius was able to do for Twilight. Owloysius hoped that at least before the surgery, he would be able to make Twilight happy for one last time, even if it kills him. He prayed.

Owloysius got hit by a rock, his beak had cracked from the stone. He was so tired that he took a break, but his wings got caught by a pony. Even though he struggled and got away, almost all of his feather were pulled off. He accidently stepped in a bird trap, which had caught his left feet. He used his own beak to break the knee and escaped, but his left claw was gone forever. Even though, he still kept looking for eye balls, but he just couldn’t find any.

Owloysius flapped his incomplete wings, but he glided to the left and right randomly.

I still haven’t found any eye ball yet, thought Owloysius. He was disappointed at himself, and tears started flowing down his bird cheeks.

The moon had come out from behind the clouds. Twilight was going to leave in a few hours.

Suddenly, Owloysius saw something under the moon light. It was another pony body that was about to be buried, covered with white cloth and everything. Owloysius saw another colt digging with a shovel nearby.

Owloysius saw a thin light of hope.

“Hey there, help!”

Owloysius flew a bit far away and faked a pony’s voice.

The colt immediately dropped the shovel and looked to the direction Owloysius was. He thought for a while, and then he climbed out of the ditch. He walked towards Owloysius, who had flown up high in the air and glided silently over his head.

Owloysius landed next to the body. Using his beak, he removed the cover and saw the dead body below. It was a mare. Owloysius didn’t thought about how she died. There were bruises all over her body, and one of her eyes had a huge dark bruise around it. Luckily, the other eye was all right.

Owloysius used his beak that was already filled with the smell of pony blood to stab into the dead mare’s face.

“Anonymous sir, I thought you weren’t going to show up today.” Twilight looked like she was readied for a long journey when Owloysius finally reached her place.

“I won’t be able to come back in a short while, but don’t worry, I will be back eventually.” Said Owloysius, placing the blood stained eye balls on the table.

On the table there was a vase. Next to the vase, there was a glass bottle with all of the eye balls that Owloysius had ever brought Twilight. It looked like Twilight wanted to bring the bottle with her as souvenir .

“I hope everything goes well. Good luck Twilight.”

Twilight smiled, “Thank you very much.”

“Here, I have brought you the last gift. It’s on the table. Please take a look at the new dream.”

Owloysius’ chest was filld with pain that he couldn’t even breathe. But he had made up his mind. He was going to say words of goodbye.

“Sorry Twilight, I will never come back, every again.” Said Owloysius.

And he had also decided to never think of Twilight again.

Twilight picked up the bloody eye ball and put it in. Owloysius turned around and was about to fly out of the window.

But his words were covered by a long, painful scream of Twilight. Twilight rubbed her face with her hooves as if she had gone insand, and she started to throw up. She fell over on the floor, and pulled out her hairs as if she was enduring serious pain.

The glassful of eye balls was knocked over. It fell on the ground and broke. Pony eye balls started rolling around. Rotten and soft ones mixed with fresh and bouncy eye balls rolled around and surrounded Twilight, who was still twitching and screaming.

With a scream like a monster, Twilight collapsed and finally stopped moving.

Owloysius landed on Twilight and put his ear next to her chest. He couldn’t hear her heartbeat, she was dead. Her face was filled with pain and horror. Her beautiful hair turned pale, and her face was filled scratches from her own hoof.

Owloysius didn’t know that the mare had been living a terrible life. She had been cheated on, lied to, and hurt. She died when she was beaten up, and she recorded all of the memory of pain and despair in her eyes, which was seen by Twilight. Twilight had relived every painful moment of the dead mare’s life. He felt the hell that she had went through, and the instant she died.

Owloysius’ head lied against Twilight’s chest. It was the first time he had ever touched her, but she had already turned stone cold.

Twilight’s mom stepped into the room to fetch Twilight for the journey, but instead she saw her daughter lying on the ground, surrounded with pony eye balls and dead, with the cold remaining of a dead owl on her chest.

• THE END -