Acceptance

Chapter 2: You Know What You Are?

Eyes shot open as the owner of these faded blues jolted up from a white patient bed yelling. A few ponies dressed up in doctor uniforms quickly pinned him down as he began thrashing violently. He screamed for them to let him go, but they did not listen to him as he continue struggling. He was in no condition to get out of his bed. The struggling patient saw a large pony with a white coat and flowing rainbow mane walking towards him with a stern look in its eyes. His pupils shrunk as he started ranting in a panicking tone. "NO! STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY! THE BLACK SUN! I WON'T LET YOU TAKE ME! I WILL NOT LET YOU TAKE ME!"

The alabaster pony looked at him confused. Her purple eyes narrowed observing the crazed pony amused. It was as if he was a new kind of species she had just discover for the first time in her very own eyes. She glanced back behind her and motioned for another pony to enter into the room. A royal guard entered into the room and trotted next to the horned pegasus. He looked at her, awaiting his order. She motioned him to the hysteric patient who was nearly breaking out of the doctors' holds. The guard nodded and quickly trotted to the patient before knocking him out with a hoof to the face.

As the patient was knocked out cold, the doctors glanced at the large mare. One spoke up in a exhausted relieved tone. "Thank you, Princess Celestia." He then turns to the guard and says, "And you to, Private Gladius."

The guard nodded his head before leaving the room. Celestia sighed and walked over to the sleeping pony, looking at him with the same expression she gave him when he shouted at her. "Who is he?" She asked calmly.

"We don't know, your highness. A stranger founded him in the center of the road, right near the abandon home that used to be owned by the Sundertear's family. We thought about investigating the house, but we wanted to know if you wouldn't mind assisting us." He explained. Celestia sat down and rubbed her chin with her right hoof. She was thinking about the possibilities in learning about this strange pony's behavior. After all, he was the first pony she had ever seen react violently towards her. Most ponies would not do that. They would usually calm down and await for her response. This pony was by far as she knew of, the complete opposite.

"Sure, I will assist you on investigating the abandon home. Be sure to get the ponies that you need for our visit. Tomorrow, we shall all meet up at the entrance of the Sundertear's home, do you all understand?" She asked.

"Yes, your highness." He said before turning towards the door and walking away. Celestia motioned the rest of the doctors out of the room so she could be alone with the patient.

When they were all gone, the alicorn princess glares closely into the pony's reposed body. The IV monitor was in perfect condition showing signs on its heart monitor screen that the patient was doing perfectly fine. There was a needle attached to his right foreleg emptying nutrients into his veins. She could tell by the skinny skeletal frame this pony was in, he would of die on the spot if anypony decided not to bring him here. She noticed small scars on the left side of his foreleg. He must have cut himself a lot. But pass the point of his scars and starving form, she noticed something about his eyes. When he stared at her, she saw only the faded blue. As if he was blind the entire time. But something behind those dull ocean blue pupils was a pony. Trap, scare, yelling for a savior to help him get out or...figure out how he had gotten inside this shell to begin with.

"Voices..." He muttered causing Celestia to become tense. She was not sure if he was going to attack her on site when he wakes up, but she was not going let him take a chance. She prepared herself just in case worse took its possible toll. As the patient woke up, his vision was blurry but his sight was adverted towards her. When he finally regained his vision that came back five minutes later. He looked left and right confused. "Where...am I?"

"Ponyville's Hospital, you were found laid out in front of the home of the Sundertears knocked out. You had a broken shoulder and your body was to weak to keep yourself stability fuctioning. As you awoke from your deep sleep, you in a traumatic outburst attempting to..." Her voice became stern. "Harm anypony in your way. I had you restrained and put back into your reposed state. I apologize, but I couldn't allow you to continue on your violent outburst. You could of hurt somepony." Celestia said causing the patient to look at his hooves shock.

"Hurt...the feeling of pain that could be physically and emotionally harmful to both the body and mind of the host that recieves the pain from the giver." He said softly, amused at the very word alone. Celestia looked at him oddly. This pony had some kind of enjoyment to the word and meaning.

"What were you doing near the abandon home of the Sundertears?" Celestia asked.

"Sundertears? Who are they?" He asked, slowly looking up at Celestia.

"They are the previous owners of that house you were founded nearby." She answered.

"Owners? Heh, there were no owners when I was there before. Actually, how long have I been in that place, I don't know." He said starting to chuckle softly. "Who am I? You are trying to figure that out, huh?"

"Yes." She answered.

"Heh, I don't know." He said, looking at the sky out of the window.

"You don't know who you are?" She asked him with a surprised expression.

"That's right, I don't know who I am." He answered.

"How, do you remember your parents of any sort, the name they have given you, the day you were born, and the time you came to that place?" She asked him walking towards the left side of his bed.

"No." He answered.

"You...you have no clue who you are and...what you are...don't you?" She asked in a sadden tone, afraid of the answer that she was going to recieve.

"Yes." He answered calmly, looking still outside in awe.

Celestia backs away shock. This pony...didn't even know that he was a Pony. "How?" She wondered out loud. She sat there, looking at this light headed pony adrifting off into his own world. He seem to care only little of himself in not knowing that he was a pony. He did not know his name, nor to even care about that also. "But why?" She asked.

"I don't know...I guess I..." He paused and glanced at the sun. He stared deep into its bright rays of light, not blinking once. Celestia stood there in bigger shock that he was still unaffected by the eye blinding rays of the sun's light. Nopony was suppose to look at the sun if they did not want to go blind but yet here he was, staring deep into the burning globe. He was not flinching, he was not groaning in pain, he was simply smiling at as if that did not matter to him at all. "The ball...why is it black?"

"Black?" She asked, curious to why he would question her about the sun being black even though it was not.

"Yes, why is it black?" He asked.

"The sun is not black, it is a glowing ball of orange and yellow with some forms of red. Why do you believe that it is black?" Celestia asked.

The patient chuckles and says, "Because I can see that it is black. Not red, yellow, and orange. It is pure black. Like the dark hole in that wall. It is the size like that." He turned towards her still smiling. By this time he should of became blind, but looking at his eyes closely, she strongly doughted that this pony remained immune to the bright beams of light.

"Dark hole?" Celestia asked, thinking about those two words. "Are you...umm...blind?" She asked carefully, hoping that she would not anger him to feel like he was insulted.

"Blind...the feeling of being decieved by those you assumed to trust or choose to believe in. No...I am not blind, whoever you are." He said.

"My name is Celestia, but you may call me, Princess Celestia." She said noticing how he became excited on that word to. Something had to be wrong with this pony. Something serious. He seemed negative, but not in a way towards others. Instead, he was in this way about himself. That, so far is what she could tell at least.

"Princess? You mean a ruler?" He asked tilting his head curiously.

"Yes, now, can you please answer my question, are you blind?" She asked hoping he would not jump over another question like he did before.

"Blind? No...I am not blind. I can see you, correct? You have a white coat and your flowing mane is rainbow. You have purple eyes that can see through the truth and lies. You are an alicorn; a equine creature that has both a unicorn horn and wings. I am not blind, I am perfectly just fine." He said chuckling softly at her.

"So, you are not blind, your name is unknown, and you have no clue that you are a pony yet you know what an alicorn is. How?" She asked becoming confused. How did this pony knew everything about her and what she was but he did not know that he was a pony. "Don't you know who you are?" Celestia asked trotting in front of him so she can get face to face with this clueless pony. "You must know something about yourself. You can't simply just forget everything about yourself."

"But I have and I don't remember how. I don't know who I am." He answered becoming frighten from her raised tone.

"Don't play foolish with me! How in Tartarus did you know the definition for Alicorn if you told me that you didn't even knew that you were a pony? You are a pony, have you even looked in the mirror?" She asked.

"Mirror? The reflection's only friend, "Don't try defining that, answer my question and answer it wisely. What were you doing in that house and who are you?!" Celestia shouted in her royal Canterlot voice causing him to fall back on his pillow.

"I..." He paused and looked down glancing at his hooves. He chuckled softly and glanced back up, staring straight into her violet eyes. They were as he could tell. They were the eyes of a divine creature that could see through the truth and the lies that spoke out to her ears and look in her eyes. But even though she was divine, she was still learning. She knew all sorts of things except him. She was only a mere curious foal testing fire by the touch of their hoof even if they got burnt twice. He gave her credit but then realized that there was no credit to be given. He did not knew that much about himself because something in him was preventing him from remembering.

"I what?" Celestia asked in a stern tone.

"I am...a pony who has forgotten the meaning of his own existence." He answered softly looking at her with a frighten look.

Celestia's stern look had vanish and was replaced with a soften look. As she stared at him closely, she saw the pain in him again. The pain of not remembering. Sitting down, she glances outside and sighs. "You...I am going to have certain kinds of doctors to take care of you. I will see you time by time. Tomorrow, I am going to visit the Sundertear's house. If I find anything of yours, I will bring it to you and I will get a answer out of you. Do I make myself clear?" She asked.

"Y-yes...umm...what's your name again?" He asked.

Celestia looked at him and softly spoke. "Celestia, my name is Celestia, and for now on you call me Celestia. You must respect anypony that are helping you, do you understand?"

"Yes, Celestia." He said.

"Good, now, I will have to go. But before I go, since you don't remember your name, do you wish to have one before I go?" Celestia asked looking back at the patient.

"No...I might forget about that to." He answered.

"Alright, now lay back down, goodbye." Celestia said walking towards the exit. But before she left the room. She glanced back at the patient who went back to staring at the sun smiling. 'This pony...what is wrong with him?'

As she exited the room and the door was closed. The patient was once again alone. He stared at the sun for a good long twenty minutes before looking at a nearby small mirror on top of a dresser. "Hello...my old friend." He said smiling at his own reflection.

-To Be Continue-