Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 5

When I opened my eyes after a while. I didn't see the normal surroundings of a park. Instead, I saw bookshelves and wooden walls. I didn't panic at first because I was still tired from waking up recently, and my brain always thinks slowly in the morning. So, when it finally registered in my head that I am not on a bench, I started to panic and almost fell off of the bed I was on. Where the hell am I? Who the hell brought me here? I thought to myself. I then heard voices from behind the door.

"Are you sure it was a good idea to do this? What if he reacts and tries to destroy his surroundings?" I heard a familiar female voice say worriedly.

"Don't worry; he probably will react similar as when I first came here. You remember that, right? Except that he has all of his memories this time." a also familiar male voice said in a calm voice.

"I'm sure he will, I will explain this to him and the other Elements of Harmony." a different female voice said. I noticed that the second female voice was distinctively royal. I would assume she is either a queen or a princess. I started to worry about royalty taking an interest in me. Most royalties I dealt with have either tried to kill me because their heirloom disappears, or have sent me out on this pointless quest to reclaim the lost heirloom. Most of the time it was both, and I really did not like the results of each one of the times I've done that.

"So, who will check to see if he's awake by now?" I heard a different voice ask. I couldn't identify this voice as it was barely in my hearing range.

"We all will check on him when the elements arrive." the royal voice said. I was very sure she was a princess and not a queen because of the way she talked. That took out my worry of dealing with a royal tyrant. I decided that I will see for myself who was outside and got out of the bed. I shook all my drowsiness away and walked up to the door. When I opened it I saw four different ponies: The purple unicorn I met with earlier, the blue pony I met in the bar, a huge white unicorn with wings and beautifully (I try not to let myself get distracted by such things as beauty, but this was astounding) colorful hair, and a huge dark blue unicorn with blue hair and wings. The unicorn and the pony were surprised to see me as much as I was surprised to see the big ponies.

"Ah, so you are awake already." The huge white pony said. I swear I felt smaller around her and the other big dark blue pony.

"Who...Are you?" I asked the big white pony while looking her up and down.

"You were right, Dusk. He really isn't from around Equestria." I heard the purple unicorn say to the blue one. Dusk... That name sounds familiar... I thought but I was pulled out of my thoughts by the white pony's answer.

"My name is Celestia. This is my sister, Luna." The white pony, now known as Celestia, said to me. Her voice was definitely royal, but it had a soothing tone to it as well. She also looked very kind as well, so I was not going to accuse her of being a tyrant.

I sighed and asked her, "How did you figure out that I was here?"

"I sent her the letter about you actually, Dusk told me that you might actually be human." the purple unicorn answered, "he gets... Weird around them."

"Can I please have an answer for how I got here from Celestia herself?" I said to her annoyed. She lowered her ears and I thought I could see Celestia smile.

"I will tell you once all of the elements are here." she said in a calm tone.

"Elements?" I asked, with a raised eyebrow, "as in fire and water?"

"The Elements of Harmony," She answered. Can these elements do anything? It would be cool if they could defeat evil... I thought to myself, not knowing the irony that followed.

"Right.. now, where will we meet and how long will I need to wait?" I asked Celestia.

"We will meet in the library, the building you are in, and you won't have to wait long." Celestia answered to me. I saw Luna look eager to talk to me, but I was more focused on finding out how I got to this place.

"Fine, don't make me wait too long though." I huffed and walked back into the library. As long as my question is answered, I would be fine with that. All I needed to do was keep a lid on my anger until I got my answer. Things won't go badly for me... Right? I thought. I facehoofed because I knew that I jinxed it and it will go badly somewhere in the meeting.

I waited in the library for a whole minute before I saw the door open again. I was really bored from waiting and was semi excited to finally get my answers. From the door I saw ten ponies walk in: Celestia, Luna, A huge yellow unicorn with wings and orange hair that had dark orange highlights in it, the blue pony named Dusk, the purple unicorn, a pink pony, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Ms. Marshmallow, and a butter yellow colored pony. I'm pretty sure I could call the winged ponies pegasai since they look almost like it, just not what they looked like in the old books I had read. I don't know what to call the big ponies yet, I'll make a note to ask that later when I'm not too busy. They all walked in as I sighed in relief.

"So, now can we start?" I said, being very annoyed about waiting for a minute.

"Yes, we can. First let us start with introductions, my name is Twilight Sparkle." The purple unicorn, who I now know as Twilight, answered. I decided it would be best to learn their names anyways, except those I've learned the names of already.

"Ah've already introduced Mahself at the market." Applejack said after Twilight.

"My name is Rarity." Ms. Marshmallow said next. I decided to ask her something so I could make the joke anyways.

"So you're not made of marshmallows then?" I said to Rarity. She gave me a glare of anger that I returned right back, at least until a pink pony took up my vision and startled me.

"Hiya I'm Pinkie Pie! Nice to meet you!" She said in a very fast paced voice. Wow... She seems to be a talker

"Right... Before you continue. My name is John." I said in a deadpan voice. I saw Pinkie Pie do a very wide grin that I could easily recognize as the "I made a new friend!" smile.

"No, I'm not your friend." I told Pinkie Pie in a serious tone. Her smile faded as fast as it had come as the second to last pony that I did not know, introduced herself.

"Um... my name is... Fluttershy" She spoke, getting very quiet near the end.

I turned to Twilight and asked, "Is she always that shy?"

"Sadly, yes she is." Twilight answered, "I had a heck of an awkward time trying to get it out of her."

"I see how she got the name Fluttershy then." I said. I noticed Twilight's surprise that I actually heard Fluttershy in her very quiet voice. I was used to listening to quiet things when I needed to. Most traps have a quiet click that gives away the activation of the trap, and I learned how to hear that. Very quickly.

"My name is Dusk." The blue pony named Dusk said. I heard his name said by Twilight earlier so I sorta knew him already. Then a strange thought hit me.

"Dusk, are you married to Twilight Sparkle?" I asked in my best attempt at sounding curious, it failed greatly, but Dusk still answered my question.

"Yes, why do you ask?" He said to me.

"Oh, no reason." I said. Wow their names are parts of the day... How ironic. I thought to myself with a mental grin. I decided to not make an open joke or comment about it and waited for the final pony in the room to introduce him or herself.

"My name is Flare." She would say. I think she looked similar to Celestia and Luna, but she did not sound royal at all. I had to mentally shrug at all of their interesting names.

"Now that that's all done, let us get to the point of why we are here." I said for every um... pony(?) to hear. "First off, why do you seem to know something of me coming into this world?" I asked Celestia.

"Straight to the point... Just like I remember seeing you." she said to me. I don't remember meeting a huge white pony with a horn and wings... I thought. Then I connected the pieces: the end of the note, the bag of gold coins, the reason she could not see me.

"You were the one who left that note..." I said with slowly growing anger.

"Of course... I could not leave you as you were. You have gone through so much for almost no gain." Celestia said in a calm voice. I slowly walked up to Celestia and stood right in front of her. When I stood up on my back hooves I was tackled by Dusk. How did he know I wanted to punch her? I thought. My thoughts gave way as I hit the floor with Dusk on top of me.

"What happened to you John? You didn't always act this way." Dusk said in a concerned but angered voice. I simply shoved Dusk off of me.

"You act like you KNEW me." I said in a very angered tone.

"I... I did." He replied in a calm tone, then recoiled in extreme pain that lasted for only a moment.

"No you DON'T!" I shouted, and ran at Dusk. I intended to bowl through him, but he avoided my charge. I stopped and changed my direction to face Dusk again.

"I don't want to hurt you." He warned me.

"Go to hell." I shot back. I jumped forward in an attempt to try to catch him off guard. He avoided my crude attack and I decided to keep trying to hit him. He continued to avoid, knowing that right now I was not, nor would I, listening to him. I was too angry to care about what he said.

Suddenly I saw Fluttershy leaping in front of me as I ran at Dusk and she shouted "Stop!" I almost immediately stopped in front of her and she continued. "What did Dusk ever do to you? You don't need to hurt other ponies because of your anger!" She said in an uncharacteristically stern tone.

"Wha-" I started to say, but Fluttershy interrupted me.

"You never need to hurt other ponies because of something you did not know of." she said to me in a very stern way, almost like a parent chastising a little... Filly? Foal? I wanted to move away from her or even look away, but I couldn't. Her gaze literally froze me to the spot at which I stood. I was starting to become scared for the first time in a very long time.

"Now sit down, and think about what you need to do!" she said, again like a parent. I immediately did so, and when I did she slowly backed away and I felt like I could move again.

"What... Did she do!?" I half exclaimed, half asked.

"That is called The Stare. So far the only pony who can do that is Fluttershy. The closest any other pony has ever gotten is my daughter, Dawn. You met her yesterday." Twilight Answered. Now there is a Dawn? What next? Morning? I thought as I started to get angered again, but I decided to not try to punch any ponies now.

"Now, what happened that made you so unfriendly to ponies?" Twilight asked me. I glared at her before I gave my response.

"I'd rather not tell you, you do not need to know my past." I said, my voice growing in anger,"Now I'll be going out... so leave me alone unless you want to get hurt." I warned.

I just simply walked to the door, opened it, and after walking through the door I slammed the door shut very loudly. I wanted to vent my anger, so I decided to go to the place where I came out of the forest.

I walked through the town and the ponies avoided me. They somehow knew that I was very angry and they obviously did not want any part of it. I was glad they left me alone and I got to the place I exited the forest when I arrived in this place. I couldn't calm down easily so I did the one thing that I really liked doing, punching trees. I punched a tree so hard that I may have cut my hoof open and got blood all over the bark. I didn't care and I did the same with the other hoof. The bark had a splash of red in the spot where I punched it, yet I didn't notice it. I just kept punching the tree in the same spot over and over again. When the pain finally registered in my head, I noticed the blood I punched the tree one last time. The blood stained the tree like the tree had a wound. I was no longer angry. Instead I was sad, almost depressed. As I slowly lowered myself to the ground, tears formed in my eyes. "I hate my life... so much now." I said out loud. I figured no one could hear me so I decided to let my tears out. The memory is painful for me to relive. It is also the reason that I am still alive as well. She wanted me to continue to live, so I did. My life would be forever hollow without her though.

I continued to cry while lying on the ground until I closed my eyes to sleep. As I closed my eyes, I noticed that the moon was rising. I did not notice the time I spent at the tree but I didn't care. When I left the library, the sun was already descending from its peak. When I closed my eyes, I half expected to relive the memory once again. I worked so hard to suppress that memory. Instead of seeing the memory play out for me, I only saw a glimpse of a blue pony. Instead of dreams, I only saw the color of silver and blue swirling around before the colored faded away. I would sleep peacefully tonight.