My name is...

by Shinra Tensei

Rating: teen
Tags: Fluttershy, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Original Character
Length: 2441

A tale about a pony suffering from Amnesia

When Solar, a female pegasus, crashes into the ground while flying during a storm, she loses all her memories. She is diagnosed with amnesia. Fortunately, her doctor is a very nice stallion who helps her recover from the other injuries she suffered. He quickly takes a romantic interest in her but are his feelings answered? Are Solar ever going to meet her cousin in Ponyville which was the idea? And will she ever get her memory back?

Published 2013-01-10 22:40:01 UTC
Last updated 2013-01-18 15:13:47 UTC

Amnesia

'What a beautiful day', Solar was thinking as she soared through the sky. The yellow pegasus was on her way to visit her cousin Fluttershy in Ponyville and she just loved flying during sunny days. Suddenly, an idea came to her. If she took another route to Ponyville, she could be flying a few minutes more. She decided to take this other route and made a slight correction of her heading so she was flying southwest. Little did she know that this decision would change her whole life.

As time walked by, she noticed a cluster of dark clouds in her path. She was very surprised to see them as the sky had been absolutely free from clouds just a few minutes ago. She knew that it could be dangerous to fly through the dark clouds as turbulence would make it a bumpy flight which she wasn't very fond of. The most dangerous thing of them all was that possible microbursts could even make her crash into the fields below. She chose to fly around the clouds. As she changed heading to southeast, she saw how that part of the sky now also had dark clouds over it but not as a cluster, in that direction it was a complete overcast. Even though Solar knew the dangers that lurked in the clouds, she now wanted to get to Ponyville as fast as possible. She flapped her wings faster and flew straight into the clouds.

It was complete chaos inside the clouds. What she couldn't see from the outside was the thunderstorm that was striking the ground below with lightning almost every other second. She started to become scared. This was unnatural. No thunderstorms are created in just a few minutes, at least not in Equestria. The amount of lightning strikes were also no way near what a normal thunderstorm could produce. Another thing that made her sure the storm wasn't a regular one was that there was no thunder or any sound from the wind whatsoever. It was like she had gone deaf. She knew she hadn't 'cause she could still hear the flapping of her wings. She had to get to Ponyville fast and warn the inhabitants that an enormous storm was heading right for the village. Then it happened. She was hit by a microburst from the clouds and she felt how she was forced down against the ground. Solar flapped her wings as fast as she possibly could but the force of the microbursts overpowered her. She screamed for help but none came and just seconds later, she hit the ground. Solar was immediately knocked unconscious from the force of the impact.

Solar woke up. Her sight was at first very blurry and she couldn't see any details. After a few seconds, it returned to normal and she looked around. She was in a hospital stall. Around her was several machines that pumped some strange liquids into her veins through some tubes and syringes. She tried to stand up but fell down immediately as extreme pain ran through her right leg. She looked down at it and saw bandages covering it. She was wondering why she was here. She tried to think what had happened but she couldn't remember. In fact, her mind was completely blank when she tried to recall other memories as well. She realized why this was and started to cry. She had Amnesia. She was very scared because she had no idea about who she even was. Not knowing her own name was a very traumatic happening for her and she started to cry more and louder. Her crying soon attracted the attention of a young doctor. The stallion walked up to the stall Solar was in and looked down at the sobbing pegasus lying on the hay-covered floor.

''Hey there! What's wrong?'' he asked her. Solar turned her eyes up towards him with eyes flooding over with tears.

''I can't remember anything'', she whispered, looking at the doctor with eyes begging for help. She wiped her eyes with her left hoof and looked back up at him. ''And I'm in a hospital so shouldn't you know what's wrong with me?'' she asked, a little annoyed when she realized that the question was a stupid one.

''I'm sorry! I was just trying to be nice'' the stallion said, a little annoyed over her manners when he was just trying to help her but his irritation was gone with the wind as she turned back to asking questions again.

''Who am I? Why am I here? What happened to me?'' she asked him and her eyes once more began to water the floor as she asked these questions she desperately wanted answered.

''You're in Ponyville's hospital and you're here because you seem to have crashed during bad weather with a broken right leg and a fractured right wing as a result. Your head also seems to have gotten a pretty big hit 'cause you were bleeding severely from your forehead when we found you. We had a citizen reporting something falling out of the sky and crashing into the ground.'' He smiled at her. ''Don't worry! Your wing will heal quickly, in about a weeks or so, and your leg will heal in about four to five weeks. It will take a while though before you'll be able to fly again. Even with the fractured wing fully healed, it will still hurt the first few days of flying.'' Solar nodded and then began to cry again. The stallion opened the stall with his hoof, walked in and laid down beside Solar. He assumed the mare needed a shoulder to cry on. When he had laid down on the floor, he noticed the frightened look on her face.

''Wha-what are you doing?'' Solar asked him with a little fear in her voice. She didn't like it when a complete stranger came that close to her now when she was very upset. She didn't like it that much otherwise either but now it was even worse.

''I though you might need to cry out on a shoulder. I'm very sorry if I scared you'' the stallion said and stood up again. ''I'll check back on you in an hour or so''. As he walked out of the booth and away from her she started to cry again.

''Wait!'' she cried after him. ''Don't leave me here all alone!''. He stopped as he heard Solar begging him to come back. ''Please… don't leave me…'' she said again, whispering this time. The stallion came back, smiled at her and laid down beside her again.

''It's okay. Everything's going to be okay'' he said. She moved a little closer to him, using just her left front and rear legs which was quite difficult but she didn't want to use her right leg. It would be too painful. She put her head under his chin to feel close and safe and then she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

First smile

At dawn, Solar slowly woke up. She yawned and once again, she wondered where she were. Then she remembered last night. She was suffering from Amnesia. She started to cry again, just like yesterday. This woke up the doctor who had been taking care of her last night.

''Hey hey! Why are you crying?'' he asked in a mild tone so Solar wouldn't think he was annoyed by her crying.

''I still can't remember my name, who I am or anything before last night!'' Solar said while the tears were running down her cheeks. She was very upset again and the stallion tried to calm her down.

''It's okay. Your memory will come back'' he said. She stopped crying and wiped away the tears that still were on her cheeks.

''Promise?'' she said to him, now with a little hope in her voice.

''Promise!'' he answered and gave her a big smile. She smiled back. Not a big smile, only a little one but it was still a smile.

''Now, let's unhook those machines from you'' he said and carefully pulled out the tubes and syringes from her. Solar whined a little in pain as the syringes and tubes, some of them going deep into her body, were pulled out of her. She tried to stand up but she had forgotten that her right front leg was broken and she fell down on the floor.

''Easy there! You'll need to be careful if you want to stand or even walk!'' he told her. She nodded and made another try. This time she slowly rose up with some help from the doctor who placed his head under her belly and pushed it upwards so she could stand up fully. Solar was now standing and balancing her weight on just three legs. Every time her balance slipped and some weight were put on the injured leg, she felt a terrible pain in it. While she was trying to get the hang of the balancing, the stallion were now watching her more closely. He hadn't thought of it earlier but now he noticed it. The mare was actually quite cute with her yellow body and turquoise mane and tail. Even though he liked that part of her, it was the eyes that really caught him. For a few seconds, he couldn't think of anything but her round, green eyes. He shaked his head violently and snapped out of the trance-like condition. Solar seemed to have gotten the hang of it now and carefully took a step forward with her left front leg, then she followed it up with her right front leg. This time, she was being very careful not to use it to support her weight.

''Look at you! You're doing great!'' the stallion exclaimed and smiled. She heard this and laughed a little but that took her concentration away from the walking and she accidentally put some pressure on the injured leg. Pain ran through it and she collapsed once more and burst out in tears of pain. When she had stopped crying, the doctor helped her up once more.

''I actually don't know your name'' she told him. ''Care to tell me?

''It's Coron Flare'' he said. ''And yours?''. Solar's eyes were immediately filled with tears as Coron asked her.

''I can't remember!'' she said in tears.

''Oh my! I'm so sorry I asked that. I completely forgot your amnesia.''

''It's… It's okay'' she said and gave him a faked smile. She was still upset over not knowing anything about herself. She didn't want the doctor to feel bad over making her extra upset again though. He smiled back.

''You have a very unusual name. Where does it come from?'' Solar asked Coron.

''My parents were always very fond of heat and the sun so they decided to name me after the ''atmosphere'' of the sun. It's known as the Corona but that would sound a little too feminine so they chose to remove the last letter and name me Coron.'' he answered.

''Well, it's a nice name.'' she said. She then blushed and looked down into the ground. During this last conversation, she had noticed how handsome Coron was. She especially liked the ponytail he had his mane in. Suddenly, Coron's face lit up, like he had gotten an idea.

''Hey hey! I know what might help find out your name at least!'' he exclaimed.

''And what might that idea be?'' she asked him with a smile.

''You were probably on your way to Ponyville when you crashed because there's no other towns for many, many miles. Maybe you were going to visit someone here. Let's take a walk in the town and see if someone recognizes you. I bet someone does!''
Solar smiled at first but then she got a sad expression in her face.

''But I can barely walk. How am I supposed to take a long walk in the town?'' she asked him.

''Hey hey! Don't forget that this was my idea. That's why I also have a plan for that. You'll just lay down in a cart that I'll pull around.''

''I can't let you do that! You'll get exhausted!'' Solar said with a worried expression in her face.

''That's were you're wrong. I'm strong and you don't look heavy at all. I'll be fine!'' he responded

''Well, if you insist on…'' Solar begun but was interrupted by Coron.

''I do insist on it!'' Coron said and gave her a big smile.

''But don't you have any other patients to tend to?''

''It's actually very few patients here at the moment and we're even overstaffed so me taking a patient out for a walk isn't really a problem. in fact, it could actually count as physical therapy in your case.'' Coron said and laughed a little.

''Very well then!'' she responded and laughed too.

''I'll just go tell my colleagues that I'm going out for a while. You wait here, okay?''

''Sure!''

A few minutes later, Coron came back with a cart. He helped Solar up into it and then attached it to his back and sides so he would be able to pull it. He had considered pushing it instead of pulling while he was fetching the cart. Then, he quickly realized that pushing it would be a terrible idea. He wouldn't see squat and, at least to him, it'd be a much heavier work to push the cart in front of him. That meant that pulling it was the only reasonable idea which was what he had thought of first.

''Ready?'' he asked her.

''Full speed ahead!'' she answered him happily, having temporarily forgotten all sadness caused by her amnesia.
And so the cart rolled out of the hospital, giving Solar a ''first'' look at the town of Ponyville. What she couldn't remember was that she had been there several times before. As the cart exited the hospital, Solar inhaled the fresh air and smiled for herself. She hadn't been out now for… well, she didn't know how long she had been unconscious but it felt like she hadn't been out for a very long time. Although, she was a little disappointed that she couldn't walk by herself. At least not any long distances. She decided that she would ask Coron to let her walk a few minutes later.