Fyra had awoken to the sun shining brightly in her face. Apparently , she didn't anticipate that the sun would shine through the window as much as the moon did. The group had attended to their basic morning activities:cleaning up , doing their needs , and eating breakfast. It was blueberry muffins and oatmeal cereal. Fyra found her favorite food now , blueberry muffins.

There was a new pony at the register.She was much more rude then the one from last night, but the group had finally returned outside, the road buzzing with ponies and the like. Some were carrying wooden wagons full of goods , others were in carriages , and more decided to fly around from place to place.Pinkie had put the red fabric back on Fyra's wings, so she now just looked a giant red unicorn with no cutie mark.....not the best of disguises. And truth be told , every passer-by looked at Fyra , making her uncomfortable. She started to shrink away.

"So"started Twilight:" Do you know where to start?"

"Not really. I was hoping we could each split in groups of two and search around...what's this place called again?"

"Canterlot." replied Rarity.

"That sounds like a good plan to me. Okay then , Rarity and Fluttershy, you'll be together.I'll be with Applejack , and I'm sure Fyra and Pinkie we'll be a perfect group."

"Yes!" yelled Pinkie.

"Now then, let's get looking for this po-..." Twilight stopped and realized that she had no idea who she was looking for. "Wait a minute, Fyra , you never told me who we were looking for. What does this pony look like?"

"Oh. Sorry , hold on then , let me try and remember."

The pony she was sensing was one of kindness and politeness.It was a colt, a pegasi, and blue. Her senses had developed a bit better , but she still couldn't use her horn. This pegasi had a yellow mane that was "coiffed" in a style to keep the mane straight but round all along it's top. The tail was till scrounged up , and he had a mark on his flanks. It resembled resembled a monocle being held in a white, ruffled up cloth. Fyra repeated this all to the five mares with her. Twilight explained that those were cutie marks and how they appeared, filling Fyra with more knowledge and a pure goal, finding her special talent.

They all put their hooves together. Fyra hesitated and wondered hat this act was. Applejack told her that it was a sign of trust and good luck. Fyra gave a smile and slammed her hoof in the circle, causing the others to retract their's and start rubbing their hoof. The group then left in separate directions , bound to return to the hotel if they found the pony. Everypony left in separate directions to search for the pegasi in question. The groups would often mistake somepony for the description , as they looked at the mane and coat color first before the cutie mark. Several hours had passed and the search seemed hopeless. Twilight had started to complain about this situation to Applejack.

"This is tiring. I know Canterlot is big , but shouldn't we have found this pony if he really here?"

"I know what ya mean Twi. I ain't too used to hard fllors so ma hooves are startin' ta ache up. But were doin' the gal a favor."

"I know. But , I thought she barely knew anything or anypony. Like she had amnesia?"

"Yeah.Ah think she did lose her memory, she just won't tell us."

"How does she "remember" this pony if she lost it though?"

"I dunno Twi , but...wait...isn't that him over there?"

The two ponies had found themselves in front of a very "chic" restaurant. The walls were of a beautiful marine blue , and it was designed to look like it was falling over.The windows all seemed egg shaped as well, a strange place. It was called 'Le poney bleu'. Neither Twilight nor Applejack could read that. Rarity certainly could , but she wasn't here. The restaurant was on the edge of the walls , allowing ponies who came to eat outside to look at nature whenever they wanted. The tables outside were all "skeleton" framed. Meaning that they were made to look like they were assembled from many cords and bars. A nice idea appreciated by the clients.

The pony who fit the description perfectly (including the cutie mark) and who caught the attention of Twilight and Rarity, was a very fashionable pony who was holding a silver platter topped by varied food dishes. He was a waiter. The clients were all thrilled by his way of giving them food and moving about. He literally seemed to be hovering above the floor. This time , his platter held two bowls full of a thick stew overflowing with perfectly cooked vegetables. It gave off a mouth-watering aroma. The pony was performing dance moves while holding the platter. He first spun around, keeping the bowl in place on his wings. The bowls didn't move at all, even when he was spinning. He then performed a forward flip towards the table that the green and orange unicorns were waiting at. Before touching the floor with his front hooves , he kicked the platter up and threw the stew out of it's containers. The cooking had spread around in a wide area above the table. The blue pegasi flipped back onto his back hooves and kept a meaningless expression his face , besides the lifted eyebrow. It looked like he was showing off, like he was shouting:

"This isn't hard. This is just a typical thing."

He caught the two bowls with the tips of his wings and made them spin around his before throwing them back up into the air. He kept his arms crossed after this. Everypony looked at the bowls follow the exact path of the falling stew. The pegasi then stood straight forward, parallel to the table, while sticking his right fore hoof forward and his hind left one up. The bowls landed perfectly on them without moving. The blue pony then made a little movement with both legs , bouncing the bowls up slightly in the air. He grabbed the silver platter he had placed on the table of his clients and moved it all te way up towards the bowls who stayed on their now solid ground.
He finally placed the tray with it's passengers on the table and swiped the tray back away. With a tiny clunk , the bowls fell on the table , not spilling a single drop of their juices or a chunk of their vegetables.
Nopony knew how he had performed this, seeing as the tray had high edges to prevent anything from falling off it.
The clients applauded him for this mark of dexterity and reflex. He bowed, the tray balanced perfectly on his head. He walked away after the applauding stopped and went back inside the restaurant.

"Wow. Now that was some show. Ah didn't that there was ponies who could perform like that."

"Neither did I. Let's go talk to him."

Applejack and Twilight Sparkle both went through the open doors to the restaurant, seeing tons of ponies eating at the tables and gossiping about whatever subjects interested them at the time. There was a very long brown maple wood bar where the cooks were. They were cooking all manners of food on the stoves. The blue pegasi the two were looking for was right behind it , taking two plates onto another tray.

"That's him Applejack."

"Well then , what're we waitin' fer? Let's go 'n greet him."

The blue pegasi had just barely left the closed off area that Applejack popped right in front of him.

"Uhhh...may I help you madame?"

"Yeah.There's someone important who's been lookin' for ya. Can ya come with us?"

The pony looked up and down at Applejack , then continued to another table to deliver the meals. He gestured his head to tell the two ponies to follow him.

"You seem to be a rustic personnage. Quite fascinating." he put the plates on the table and wished the clients to eat well. He turned back towards Applejack.

"Someone who has creativity, unlike these other ponies."

Oh great.Another Rarity thought the cowpony.

"But tell me who this "friend" of yours is."

Twilight stepped past Applejack. "Well, she just wants to meet you at all costs. She says it's important. When do you think you can leave?"

"When? In five minutes. I finish at six, not at five fifty-five. My job is important and requires the touch parfait."

"Now that's a pony!" yelled Applejack, causing everyone to turn around and stare at her.

"He takes his job seriously and prefers that it's well done!" Applejack slapped the blue pegasi on the back.

"Ooomf. Yes , quite. Now , if you wouldn't mind , please wait outside this establishment , I'll be right with you."

"I think you went overboard Applejack."

"Yeah. Maybeh."

The two ponies exited the "chic" restaurant and waited outside. They saw the blue pegasi waving to his work-mates who were working late night shifts. He walked towards the two ponies waiting for him.

"Well then , now that I have finished my working hours, I believe proper introductions are in the matter. As proper male etiquette, I shall ask for your names first."

"Well , I'm Twilight Sparkle , it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Ah! A pleasure for my eyes to seep in I must say. Nopony around here is a dazzling as you my dear."

Twilight blushed a bit , with the blue pegasi giving an overconfident look. Applejack gave a grin.

"And ah'm Applejack. It's a pleasure ta meet ya."
"The-the-the p-pl-pleasure is a-all m-m-m-m-ine."

Applejack got the waiter in her well known super hoof shake. When she let go, the waiter's mane was ruffled out and he was tilting and wobbling , before shaking himself and regaining his posture.

"Now then, what is this about un ami? I suppose you want me to follow you?"

"Yes. It's imperative that you follow us."

The pegasi lifted its eyebrow. "AND the use of a sophisticated vocabulary. I was sure one such as yourself could only depicted on a canvas, beautiful and viewable , but nonexistent and unobtainable."

Twilight started becoming as red as a cherry. Applejack gave a light punch to the pegasi on his left shoulder.

"Alright then lover colt , I think you haven't told us your name."

"Ah yes, a thousand pardons. It was uncouth of me to behave in such a manner. My name is Motel Bleu," he bowed while putting his right fore leg over his lowered chest: "Written like 'motel' but pronounced like 'model' with a 't'."

"That's a weird name." said Applejack.

"Applejack, that's not something to say!"

Motel rubbed his chin.

"No, it is quite alright Madame Sparkle."

"Please , just call me Twilight."

"Whatever you wish for Twilight. I will not deny the fact that my name is quite étrange. I guess my...." there was a long pause:".....parents....had a sense of humor. Now then , is there a meeting place for this friend?"

"Yeah. But it's in front of a hotel. Ah forgot it's name. But we both know where it's at, don't we Twi?" Applejack grabbed Twilight in one arm and pressed her against herself.

"Y...yes. It seemed very important to her that she meet you."

"Well then , lead the way mademoiselles."

The group started walking through the streets who has started taking the steepness of the hill they were made on. The white bricks used in the construction were still quite clean. Both Applejack and Motel were discussing the best physical needs for each other's jobs and how to properly perform in it. Motel continued to let out a compliment to Twilight Sparkle every now and then. They had reached a street that was being avoided by the crowd. The ponies were staring at something and were too terrified to move. Some had even fainted. They were all blocking the way. Both Motel and Twilight were trying politeness to pass , but to no avail , nopony flinched. Applejack had to use....convincing demonstrations to force everypony out of the way. Motel gut crushed under a fainting pony.

"Ow. Um , Twilight, could you , perhaps , lend a colt a hoof?"

"Oh no. Hold on." Twilight started to pull on Motel's hooves (the only part still sticking out from under the pony) with her magic. She struggled.

"Uh,Twi...."

"What is it Applejack?"

"Have you ever seen somethin' like that in any of yer books?"

"What are you talking about Applejack? What th--"

Twilight stopped pulling on Motel and stared in the same direction as everypony else.

"What's going on? What is it Twilight?"

"What in Equestria...?" she whispered out.

Several different ponies were laying in front of the hotel , it's door torn down. They had a few things in common. First , they were all on the ground. Second, they seemed to have become extremely pale, like when Discord corrupted Twilight and her friends. And last , they were all around a strange pony that seemed to be looking for something.

It's mane was black and not at all taken care of, same thing of it's tail. It's coat was of an extremely dark green color, almost black , and patches of glowing yellow erupted from them. It wore a torn of cloth that covered almost all of it's body. The only exception to this "dress-code" was a heavy grey armor that resembled the lower portion of a warrior's helmet. This grey thing was slightly further from the pony's muzzle , but it covered up the entirety of it's lower face. The yes were the most frightening. The looked like empty sockets filled with a yellow light. It was slowly scrutinizing the surrounding area.

"Twilight....I can't breathe...."Twilight snapped out of her trance.

"Oh! I'm so sorry."

Twilight started pulling on Motel's hooves then facehoofed.

"Duh! I can levitate the pony. Gently now."

Motel stood back up , his eyes closed and gasping for air.While Motel was trying to regain his posture, a Yellow pony with a lemon yellow moved forward , thinking that this was some type of show. The creature didn't pay attention to the approaching pony and turned away , causing the group opposite from Twilight and Applejack to gasp and step back. It kept looking at the sky for some reason. But , when the yellow pony approached the "armored" pony , it spun around and roared so loud it broke the surrounding windows and caused everypony to try and block their ears. It grabbed the yellow pony with it's strange hooves , that seemed to have grown claws , or at least broken bones that were sticking out conveniantly. It dug deep into the pony's flesh , letting loose a light trickle of blood. The pony couldn't even yell, she just stood there, her mouth drooping out and her eyes losing their colors. She turned pale and dropped to the floor, her eyes shut. The creature landed back on the floor and turned back to the other group. Everypony started screaming and running away.

"What was that sound? Why are you all...no...it can't be."

Motel saw the creature who suddenly turned around after Applejack called out to it.

"Hey! What'd you do to that pony there?"

The thing just ignored her and turned back around.

"What? Fine then! Ya asked fer this!"

Applejack sprinted with incredible speed. She was so fast , in fact , that the "pony" couldn't react fast enough and received a full force buck to it's right side. With a loud crunch, it flopped to the ground , inanimate.

"Oh no! Ah didn't mean to...oh no..."

The thing just stayed on the ground. The cloth covering it was torn and on the floor , revealing its side bent inwards instead of outwards. Motel got up and started to run towards Applejack.

"APPLEJACK! Get away from it! Quickly! You don't know what it's capable of! GO! Quickly! I'll destroy it! Get to Twlight NOW!"

"Wha...what do ya mean , I ki-"

Applejack was stopped silent after she heard cracking noises. She turned around to look at the creature's ribs rebuilding themselves. It slowly started to stand back up. Applejack took a step back in shock.

"What the hay?"

The creature quickly twisted itself and tried to clamp it's "claws" into Applejack , but Motel rammed into it , slid on it's back , then bucked it through a wall.

"Quickly , get to Twilight over there. I deal with this beast."

"No. Ah can help!"

"The only way you can help me is if you learn what points to hit to destroy these things. Just stay as far as Twilight over there and watch me."

Applejack did as told , a little guilt in her mouth gave a bad taste. The creature got out from the wall and stopped once it got a good look at motel. The yellow lights in it's eyes spread to form a type of black pupil.

"Yeah. You remember me don't you? Come at me sir! I shall slay thee!" he said in mockery.

The creature let out another scream and charged towards Motel. The waiter just rolled over the thing and hit it on the back of it's neck , causing it's "lights" to fade slightly. The unconscious ponies on the floor started to regain color.

"What's he doing?" thought Twilight.

The creature tried to swipe at Motel, but he jumped up and seemed to her over with his wings. He flipped himself sideways at 360° and sliced off the creature's arm with his wing. It stared at the wound,The light faded to almost nothing , and the floored ponies started squirming.

"That's a sharp wing. Ah'm sure Rainbow Dash'd love ta meet 'im."
"That didn't even seem physically possible. How did he sliced through that thing's arm with his feathers?"
"Well , e' did say that only he knew where ta strike. Maybe it has weak points all over?"
"That would make more sense, hitting a more fragile area."

The "pony's " lights started to flicker, and it kept keeping itself from falling over.

"Well , it seems you kept your last spot "protected" under that half-helmet.Too bad it won't help you much."

The creature seemed irritated and clumsily galloped towards Motel. The waiter turned around, ducked , and imitated Applejack's kicks. Everything seemed to happen in slow-motion. Motel's hind legs crushed the metal of the half-helmet and compressed further into the thing's neck, causing one last shriek and an explosion to dust and light. The tissue and helmet had fallen to the floor. The victims of the beast regained their colors, and were getting back up.

"Quickly. We need to leave!"

"What , and leave these poor ponies here?"

"No time to explain , unless YOU want to tell everypony how a life draining pony demolished a hotel and drained 12 ponies in the street."

"LIFE DRAINING?!"

"C'mon Twi , I think he's right , they seem to be doing fine. It's best if we scidaddle.He'll explain later."

"Fine, but we need to get to the trainstation , I'll teleport everyone to us afterwards."

As said , the three galloped away towards the train station. Luckily for them , the train had just freshly arrived and was getting ready to return to ponyville.

"Ok, hold on , this'll take awhile. I need to concentrate."

Motel bent towards Applejack:

"What is she doing?"

"Didn't ya hear? She said she was gonna bring our friends back here."

"And the one who wanted to meet me is in that group?"

"Yeah."

"Okay then."

Twilight's horn started erupt in sparks , then all four ponies plopped right there in pink flashes. Rarity and Fluttershy were wondering what had just happened, While Fyra both had sacks on their head as well as a bunch of confetti all over them and were swaying from side to side. Everypony looked at them.

"Quite the friends you two have." mocked Motel.

"They're always like this. Pinkie! Fyra! Get those bags off your heads!"

"Aww, why? It's fun!" said Pinkie.

"Yeah! There's lots of candy in here."

"I found your friend Fyra."

"Did....did you just say F-F-Fyra?!" stuttered Motel in a semi-whispering way.

"Oh. Thanks a lot." Fyra took off her bag and got a good look at Motel, whose eyes shrink to unimaginable proportions.

Fyra recognized him from her dream and now got a clear look of his face. His muzzle was of a straight , distinguished shape, and his eyes were as blue as his coat. Applejack had already gotten the tickets for them all.

"I..I can't believe that you're still alive Fyra."

"Who are you? I remember seeing you in my dreams but I never remembered who you were."

"You don't re--" Motel slammed his hoof into the ground. "Those.....the device in your head was activated then."

"What device?"

"I can't tell. If I do , you might just stay in that "amnesia" state forever. Too much of those terrible memories won't do you any good."

"Oooookaaaay."

"C'mon everypony, on the train. Ah already got the tickets."

Everypony got on the train. They had gotten into a private cabin for themselves and closed the door right behind them. Once the tension calmed down, and Twilight finished explaining why they had to leave so quickly and suddenly Motel wanted to introduce himself.

"So,I believe I should introduce myself to everyone besides the strong Applejack and the beautiful Twilight Sparkle.But first , what about yours?"

Rarity went first:

"And why would you want to know our names first?"

"Isn't it the first rule of being a gentecolt? "Always ask the mare her name first , then introduce yourself afterwards".

"Oh my , such a distinguished pony. I didn't think that they existed anymore, well , besides Mister Fancypants. Well then, my name is Rarity, I'm a fashion designer."

"Ah! A Mare with good style and taste! Such a rare treat to my ego.I suppose you can make a magnificent suit just by looking at somepony and devising what would fit them best?"

"Why yes! How did you--"

"Motel a ses secrets."

"And you even speak French?"

"Oui. Je suis même trés affluent dans cette langue."

Rarity started giggling.

"And.... I'm Fluttershy...."

The yellow pony wasn't exactly trying to hide , but wasn't trying to be seen either.

"Ah! The delicate flower of the group. You must be the most caring of them all."

"Well , I don't know if MOST caring is a good way to say it. I don't want to look like I'm being selfish or anything."

"NONSENSE!"

"Eep!"

"A caring nature is something you should embrace! Don't be ashamed of it. Show it like the unique flower you are!" A flower of an incomparable beauty set upon the highest of mountains and bathed in the purest of sun rays. Stories have been spoken of it yet nopony has managed to reach it. YOU are that unique flower."

"Oh. That's very kind of you"

Motel didn't even have time to turn to look towards Pinkie Pie who had already started to babble on ans on about her plans for a party and everything she wanted to do with Fyra in the future. Applejack was laughing at the face Motel gave when¨Pinkie erupted in his face with all her words like an active volcano.He put his hoof on her mouth.

"Wow. The energetic one I presume?"

"Yes," Rarity answered.

"I never knew anypony who was as hyper as she is. Well , maybe there IS one."

Motel looked at Fyra who was staring at the floor , looking pensive.

"Well then , now I can introduce myself. I am Motel Bleu. Written like "motel" but pronounced like "model". I must say though, that I need to speak with you Fyra."

Fyra lift her head and looked at him.

"Why?"

"Because I can teach you to use those wings of yours."

Everypony looked surprised.

"Really?"

Motel nodded.

"Yes. I did it once , I'll do it again."

"What do you mean by again?"

"Time is a cruel mistress, but beautifying if given time." he looked at Twilight with the corner of his eye."But she will reveal everything to you as she crosses this monde. I will try and help you remember , but know this , the pain you endured and you knew will come back everytime."

"I...I understand."

"Good! I believe the train has started to move. I wonder what this "Ponyville" looks like?"

"Oh. You will LOVE it!" shouted Rarity.

The ponies in the cabin started to say everything they knew about the town they lived in. Fyra knew that tomorrow would be a long day for her. Her new "trainer" would help her use these accursed wings at long last. Hopefully it won't be too strenuous.