Lost Memories

by DuskHeart13

Rating: everyone
Tags: Romance, Adventure
Length: 3955

DuskHeart, Rainbowdash, and Twilight have to reclaim their memories.

The things we find in memories. When looked upon, they are the past, but they can also be a source of knowledge. When these memories are lost, you have nothing to claim as your own. If you have nothing to claim, you have no identity. If that is lost, all is lost… Duskheart, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle's identitys have been stolen by a mysterious stone, enchanted with a lost spell. They must venture forth over the lands of Equestria and uncover the past of the land to find a way to reclaim their lost memories, of course their friends will help too. Developing closer bonds thatn they did before, they're also developing more memories. (Cover made by me) (SECOND STORY IN THE ENTIRE SAGA, SEQUEL THING. FIRST IS GOING TO BE MADE AND THIIRD WILL BE MADE AFTER)

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-07-06 23:31:00 UTC

Chapter 2: Opinions and Cures

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT FREEZIN AND DUSK HEART

After teturning home with a teleportation spell, the group found themselves in the library. Spike just happened to come down the stairs at the exact time. "Woah! when did you get here?! Better yet, where WERE you?" "Well Spike, the three somewhat oblivious ponies behind me lost their memory, so  we need to tell the others, is there anyway to send them scrolls of something?" "Actually, Twilight was reading a book on that before. There is a spell on that. I'll write them right away" the purple dragon said before leaving. "Well, that gives us time to kill," he said as he turned to find only Twilight standing there with the dotted lines of two pegasi  blinking where they were standing. "Uhh, where'd they go?" "Who?" Twilight asked. "The two Pegasi who were standing next to you." "Oh, they left. They wanted to see if they can navigate around town and back" Twilight said. "I say that they'll last 10 minutes before getting lost" Freezin said with a smirk. "I'll give them 5" Twilight said.

4 MINUTES LATER...

"We're lost..." Dusk said. "Well, we tried" Rainbow said with a shrug. "Heh, what about finding our way back?" Dusk asked. "We should ask around I guess" Rainbow replied. Dusk then went to one of the locals, smirking at him for whatever reason. "Uhhm, excuse me," he asked, "Which way is the library?" "Why do you need to go there? It's not like you need to buy a book for your marefriend, from what I know she usually doesn't read." the stallion said. "Wait, WHAT!?" Dusk asked with a blush, "S-She's not my marefriend!!!" "Of course she isnt'!" the stallion said with a sarcastic tone. "It's obvious she is!" a nearby mare said as Rainbow Dash walked over. "Uhh, what's going on?" she asked. "Ha! I was right!" the mare said, "They are a cute couple!" "Wait Whaaaaat?" Rainbow asked. "They think we're a couple..." Dusk said. "Why everyone thinks you are!" the stallion remarked. "Oh uhmm..." Rainbow aid with a blush that goes along with Dusk's, "We're not a couple." "What's goin on 'ere!?" an orange pony said while walking over to the group. "What's this I hear 'bout these two? You pickin on 'em?" "No uhh, they're fine, just a misunderstanding miss" Dusk said. The orange pony knew Dusk and automatically knew something was wrong when he said miss. "I'm gonna need to borrow ya for a minute" she said as she pulled Rainbow and Dusk away. "Hey wait a minute!" Dusk said, starting to panic along with Rainbow Dash. When they got to somewhere more private the mare said,"Okay Dusk, start talkin', what happened?" "Well we lost our memory, not much to say" Dusk replied, "By the way. what's your name?" "The name's Applejack" she replied. "Do you know which way the library is Applejack?" Rainbow asked, "We're kinda lost." "I sure do!" Applejack replied, "Just one more thing, what were them ponies talkin to you about?" This made Dusk and Rainbow blush. "Well uhh..." Dusk studdered out, "They kind thought we're a couple..." "Oh that's good, to be honest y'all make a great pair, now let's ge to the library!" She said as the other two blushed deeper.

When they did get there, the rest of the main six were there too, all knowing what's happening. Spike then came down and said, "I just sent a letter to Princess Celestia." A scroll then came out in a cloud of green smoke in front of Spike. "Well that was fast"  Freezin said. "To Spike, this is terrible news and from the information Freezin had given you, it is most definitely a nightmare crystal, i'll be there as soon as I can with Luna to help in the matter, Princess Celestia." Just as he finished, there was a knock on the door and Freezin answered it, a royal guard, Shining Armor, Princess Cadence, Celestia and Luna were there. "Wow, now that's a group" Freezin said. "Is the condition of the three any worse?" Celestia asked. "Well not really," Freezin stated. "I don't know about Dusk though, he was hit by the lightning first, and if that crystal has that much power to wipe memories, I'm afraid something bad happened." "Thou has nothing to fear 'Tia, the party be fine and thy knows of this crystal to well" Luna said. "She better be okay" Shining Armor said, "It was all Dusk's fault. He should have never suggested it." "It wasn't his fault Shining Armor," Cadence said, "how would they know of the crystal's presence." "All right All right, cut to the chase," Freezin said, "Is there a cure or not, I'm worried about them." "Especially Twilight" Spike whispered to the rest of the main six causing a silent giggle. "There are two cures. One you know about" Celestia pointed out, "The Elements of Harmony, which can't be used because of Twilight and Rainbow Dash's amnesia, and the ancient gems of legend, the Unicorn Diamond, the Earth Emerald, and the Pegasus Amethyst, each will be needed to make the cure." "So where are they?" Spike asked, "We can all help." "Only one may accompany thy group" Luna said, "This is a journey of four. As to where, 'Tia and I do not know, noone does." Everyone gasps except for Celestia and Luna. This is bad.

Chapter 3: An Old Enemy

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING CEPT FREEZIN DUSKHERT AND PLOT

They don't know, the two most powerful beings in all of Equestria DONT KNOW!!! "We don't know because of the Nightmare Crystal. It's dark power counteracts our own. We cannot locate the three gems. If we can't soon though," Celestia said as she nearly choked on her own words, "Then Darkness will take over, and a dark nightmare form will reign over the body of those that lost their memories, just like Luna has once experienced." Luna shuddered at the old, painful, scarring memories. "Before thou's interfearence though," Luna said, "We caught a small trace of the gems before they disapeared from our visions. Thou each were in a specific place, but there were two signals for each gem, Thy sister and I cannot explain our visions, but each were in the ruins of the three great pony civilizations. Pegasopolis, Unicornia, and Earth (NO NOT THAT EARTH, THE ONE IN THE HEARTHS WARMING EVE EPISODE!!!). The other signals were located in other places thy cannot understand, but they were in Cloudsdale's Wonderbolt HQ, The Dragon Volcano, and the last location is the one we cannot detect." "Well, I say we go now before we're all evil and end up activating worst case secenarios" Dusk remarked. And, of course, a worse case scenario happens, thr ground shook opening a hole in the library allowing ANOTHER nightmare crystal to rise. This nightmare crystal shot dark lightning at four targets this time, Dusk, Rainbow, Twilight, and Luna. Shining Armor, was first to react, he threw his knife that was clipped to his belt at the lightning aiming at all 4 bolts. The knife was inaffective, it shattered while touching the lightning. The liughtning from this one worsened the affects, mainly for Luna. The effects on the two pegasi were bad though, their coats were darkened and their wings started to lose feathers, making flying alot harder than it should. The effect on Twilight was not AS bad, but still pretty bad, like the other's, her coat darkened and her magic started acting randomly, tirin g her quickly, allowing her to use basic spells ONLY, for atleast 2 days. And Luna, oh dear Celestia the effects on Luna! Gasps from several ponies were made, for Luna was split into two, one was regular Luna, the other was (wait for it! >w<) Nightmare Moon! Nightmare stood over the 4 collapsed ponies and sent each of them across the room with a simple wind spell. "Well, I certain never expected to be released again, especially sperated from my counterpart" she stated. "What did you do to Princess Luna!?" Shining Armor asked. "Oh I did nothing, I'd blame your friends for bringing the Nightmare Crystal here. You see, the Nightmare Crystal appears to worsen affects and if someone with cured effects or dormant effects is there, they got shocked too and the cured become diseased and split. So you have a good Luna, and me" Nightmare replied, "OH don't worry, I won't make it ETERNAL night, 'm going to make it so your friends become prisoners of the Nightmare Crystal's effects and become the most powerful beings, IN ALL OF EQUESTRIA! More powerful than Luna, Celesta, and all of you combined!!! Not even Chrysalis can stop them!" Nightmare then turnbed into a purple wift of smoke and flew off, leaving a cold chill in the air. "T-They did this?" Shining Armor said shocked, "Twilight would never..." "Hey, where's the Nightmare Crystal?" Pinkie asked, causing everyone to turn to where it once was. "We have to get to Canterlot to prepare for this," Celestia finally said, "If Nightmare Moon has the crystal then her power is increased ten fold." Celestia, along with the help of Shining Armor and Cadence, transported everypony to Canterlot.

The first thing they did when they got to Canterlot was put up the shield again, without Chrysalis invading, there was almost no way for the shild to break. Dusk woke up last, surprised by the change of location. "Wha, hey where am I?" he asked. "You're in Canterlot," Cadence told him, "And as to the coming question of WHY you're here, you have to prepare for what's to come. Follow me, and don't use your wings." "Okay? I don't remember how to fly anyway" Dusk simply replied. Dusk followed Cadence to what appeared to be a training grounds for the royal guard. "Uhh, where is-" "You'll each have a specific training grounds depending on your skills, it's a tougher situation for you and Rainbow but we're working on something" Cadence stated. At the same time of the training, the others were making an important desicion. Who will go on the jorney with them, the journey will consist of four ponies, one will need to acompany the three. "I told you Shining Armor, I'M THE ONE GOING!!!" Freezin yelled. "Not a chance! You don't have proper royal guard training, nor have connections to any ONE of the ponies traveling! I'm Twilight's brother for Celestia's sake!!!" Shining Armor retaliated. "Dusk may have parents, but they threw him away like he was nothing! I'm as close to a brother as he can get! Rainbow and I are pretty much good friends and Twilight IS my best friend! I won't let her go through this alone!" Freezin stated in an angry tone. Before Shining Armor could say something else, Applejack interupted, saying, "Why that's enough outta the two of ya! Why not let the group decide! I mean it's their journey anyway!" The group was about to settle it but Freezin simply exited before going balistic to ANYONE, he wouldnt want to have about 4 frozen ponies on his hands, if not more. He went to go check on Twilight who was currently training with Celestia and Luna. Well, Luna anyway.

"AAAARGH!!! WHERE IS IT?!" Celestia screamed out in frustration. It's a good thing that the room was sound proof. "Hey, need help?" Freezin said, standing in the doorway after hearing the sudden outburst. 'Oh uhmm... Yes, I need help" she said slightly blushing, still mortified someone actually heard her. "What book are we looking for?" Freezin asked. "The book of Old and Lost Enchantments, the pages are blank to those not strong enough to see them. Usually those who can see it are linked some way or another, whether it be love, friendship, rank, and lots of other ways" Celestia said/explained, "It's also said that some people can easily find the book by a mystical spark of some sort and that this skill is passed n from generation to generation. I used to be able to see the spark but I lost that gift, I guessed Luna has this gift now." "Spark? you mean like that?" Freezin asked pointing to a specific bookshelf, "It's sparkling to me. Twilight had this book too this morning." "Then you must be connected somehow, but I'm prety sure your not famliy or in ranks in some way" Celestia said with a small smile. "I guess we are c- HEY WAIT A SECOND?!" Freezin said with a light blush, "Are you implying that I have a crush on Twilight?!" "No, but you just told me. I never said you did" Celestia replied. Freezin sighed and pulled out the book with his magic, "Let's just get this over with before I embarass myself more." "I'm willing to keep it a secret Freezin" Celestia said, "I promise you that." "Thanks. Oh, and here's the book, I'm hoping you can still read it" Freeezin said. "I can still read it, I know that" she said as she flipped through the spell book, "Now whice- Aha! There it is! Enchantment of Wing Restoration, restore the wing power of a pegasus for one week, after that their wings will return to normal." "We have to get it to Rainbow and Dusk" Freezin stated about to bolt out the door. "Do you want to learn the spell first Freezin?" Celestia asked causing Freezin to stop in his tracks. "Yeah that might help..."

Dusk and Rainbow kinda ditched training so now we have Cadence and Rainbow's trainers looking for them. Rainbow's trainers, Soarin and Spitfire, are looking with Dusk's Trainers, Cadence and Fire Streak (another wonderbolt), to find the Pegasi. They did learn how to fly again, with much dificulty though, the feathers being shed from their wings make it alot harder to fly. So they camped out in the one place they knew noone would look for them in, the library. Even with memory loss, they hated books. They only came in AFTER Freezin and Celestia left though. Both panting and covered in sweat at the effort of flying, they decided to actually look around the library after a few minutes of just plain running around it thinking someone was their. "Books, books, more books. I say there are WAY too many books here" Rainbow stated. "Might be something we like here, something with adventure maybe?" Dusk asked while looking through a random section of books. "Sure, why not, not like we'll like it or anything" Rainbow stated with someplete boredom in her voice. After a few minutesof looking for anything intresting Dusk finds a book Rainbow may like. "Found something" he clearly stated. "Just hand the book over so I can throw it into the pile" Rainbow said. Dusk hands Rainbow the book so she can look at the cover, and after quick judgement, she put the book on the table. "For once, we can get rid of our boredom. This book looks intresting." "Did you read the title Rainbow?" "Uhh no..." "Read it." Rainbow reads over it and then stares blankly at it as if she has seen it before but can't remember it, the title was DARING DOO AND THE SAPHIRE STONE. "Can't place my hoove on it but I think-" We've seen this before Rainbow, I know it. I just can't remember when." They just opened the book and started to read it to see if they can pass the time and or remember anything. When they can't they just closed the book and turned towards the exit, leaving it on the table. While exiting, the purple smoke makes an appearance and forms the shape of Nightmare Moon in front of the two ponies. The smoke then transformed into Nightmare Moon. "Who are you? Didn't we see you earlier?" The two asked. "I am Nightmare Moon! And seeing how you two like adventures, how about I send the villians after you!?" She said, shooting a magic bolt at the book, allowing Ahuitzotl, the main villian of the book, to roam out of it. "Don't worry, it's just an clone basically, so it can only hurt you" Nightmare told the two pegasi, "And just to help you, you can destroy him by touching the book, I have to give you a chance now, don't I!" She said, laughing into the air. "Why you little..." Dusk threatened as he jumped at the alicorn, who easily kicked him aside, sending him into the pile of books. "I'm off, I have to go prepare for your first trip!" Nightmare told the pegasus as she turned into smoke and went out the door, locking it from the outside. Ahuitzotl stared angrily at Rainbow Dash, which reminded him of Daring Do. Rainbow Dash just stood there, a hard look of determination on her face. She instantly charged, head on, at Ahuitzotl, which was just plain reckless. Ahuitzotl just threw Rainbow aside like she was nothing, and of course, she landed next to an unconcious Dusk Heart. "Not, Cool" Rainbow said in pain. "Well this is just plain easy, give me a challenge at least" Ahuitzotl said, walking up to Rainbow Dash. Dusk was slipping in and out of conciousness. When Ahuitzotl wass just in front of Rainbow, he whispered one word, "Jump." Rainbow, seeing what he meant, jumped up tackling Ahuitzotl onto the book, turning his body into smoke and fading away. "Darn, that Nightmare Moon is brutal..." Rainbow stated. As she dragged Dusk out of the books and back to their trainers.

Chapter 1: The Nightmare Stone

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR Freezin AND Dusk Heart!

It was a normal day in Ponyville, or as normal as it can get here anyway. The various streets filled with activity of some sort. As well as another thing, Twilight Sparkle studying in the library.She seems to be deep in the book about ancient enchantments. "Enchantment of Ice, this enchantment was a rare enchantment that could only be found in special unicorns with light coats and bluish manes. They allow the one with the enchantment to have unbelievable control over any sort of magic that has to do with the cold. This sounds a lot like Freezin" and the minute she said that, Freezin busted through the door, which I may add, was iced over and shattered. "Hey Twilight! I heard of this myth at Rarity's place. Something about jewels of specific pony species" Freezin said. "Really? Well that does sound like something Rarity would talk about... Let's hear about it then!" Twilight responded. "Well, apparently there are three gems that represent each species. The Pegasus Amethyst, the Unicorn's Diamond, and the Earth's Emerald. There is no jewel for the Alicorns because they were the elements of harmony. Each jewel represents something and can only be touched by specific members of the species. Apparently they're one of the greatest treasures in the world." "Wow," Twilight responded, still awe struck, "That sounds interesting. Maybe we should go research them!" "Or even better," a voice said from the doorway, "Let's find them!"

Dusk Heart stood in the doorway, or what's left of it anyway. "I say we find them, we should bring a book or two on it though." "Wow Dusk Heart, learn to knock" Freezin said. "What door?" "Good point..." Twilight thought something for a second., "Should we bring anyone else?" As if on cue, Rainbow Dash crashed through the window and, of course, crashed into Dusk Heart. "Dashie! Get off of me!" "Oops, sorry Duskie." Rainbow got off of Dusk Heart. "So, what can the best flyer in all of Equestria do for you? Something about an adventure I hear?"  Freezin and Twilight rolled their eyes and Shadow Heart simply stated, "Yeah, wanna help?" and the obvious answer appeared, "Yeah I do!" . Twilight spoke up and said that she will look for a book. When they did get a book they set off to Ghastly Gorge, despite the protests of Twilight and Freezin.

"Well here we are, Ghastly Gorge" Freezin stated. "Nothing we can't handle!" Dusk Heart said. "Especially for us!" Rainbow said . Twilight and Freezin rolled there eyes again. "C'mon, let's just go already!" Freezin complained. "Uhhm. Freezin, you might wanna look at this" Twilight said. "Uhhm... Okay?" Freezin looked at the page Twilight stopped at. "Well dang! *sigh* Well we still gotta try and find those gems, so forget about it for now." Positive Rainbow and Dusk didn't here him, they set off for cave after cave after cave....

5 HOURS OF CAVE SEARCHING AND FALIURE LATER...

"LET THIS BE THE FINAL CAVE, PLEASE!!!!" Dusk and Rainbow complained. "OKAY THIS IS THE LAST ONE YOU TWO!" Freezin said. Like all the other caves, it's a cave, dark and mysterious. This cave though, felt more of an ominous feel. They even had to move obsidian boulders to get to the cave. "I'm gonna stay out here this time, something doesn't feel right..." Freezin said. "Suite your self Freezin" Dusk said, "I'm sure this is it!" "I agree though, something doesn't feel right..." Twilight said, "I'm going because I have the book though." "Yeah! LEt's go find us a gem!" Rainbow said as they went into the cave. "This doesn't feel right. Something is going to happen..." Freezin said. He thought back to when Twilight showed him of that crystal, the black evil crystal. "OH BUCK ME!" Freezin said before chasing after the trio.

The cave was dark and ominous, the walls looked like they were made of obsidian, like an evil energy is emanating from them. Then they saw what they thought they were looking for. A crystal, but it felt dark, like nightmares kept it from shattering into nothing. "This crystal feels evil" Twilight said, "it's like we're facing Nightmare Moon again." "Well, we're not gonna do anything standing here" Dusk said. He reached for the crystal and a dark purple lightning shot out of the crystal and hit Dusk Heart strait in the face. "Agghhhh!!!!" "Dusk!!" Rainbow and Twilight screamed. Suddenly, the lightning hit both of them too. Then Freezin found all of them, screaming in agony, too late to stop anything. "No!" he screamed. Then as quickly as the crystal zapped the trio, it burst into nothingness. "Darn Nightmare Crystal! They're living their greatest fears... If worse comes to worse..."  Then Twilight groaned while coming back to her senses, Rainbow and Dusk were still unconscious though. "Thank Celestia you're okay!" Freezin screamed before quickly hugging Twilight. "Uhh..." Twilight said, still dazed. "Is something wrong Twi?" Freezin asked with concern. "Uhhm... Who are you?" Twilight asked. "Oh, quit joking around Twilight!" "No I'm serious," Twilight said, "Who are you, and better yet, who is Twilight?" Twilight asked. "Oh no, Oh Great Celestia no..." "Uhhm, what's wrong sir? And who is Celestia?" Dusk and Rainbow stirred and slowly awoke. "Ughhhh..." "What happened?" They both said to finish THE SAME sentence (well that's new, even for me). "Who are you? Me? Who are you? Stop that! No, you stop that!" They both said at EXACTLY the same time. "Wait, who am I? Seriously what's going on. I am REALLY confused..." They both said at the same time. "This is REALLY weird..." Freezin said. They all turned towards Freezin, "Can you explain anything?" They all said in unison. "I hope this doesn't last long..." Freezin said. "What doesn't last long?" Dusk said. "How do I put this, you all have amnesia." "Say whaaaaat?" Rainbow said. "You heard me" Freezin said. "Impossible!" Twilight said, "We can't have amnesia!" "I saw the whole thing Twi, we gotta get you all back home, NOW!"