(Drakalian POV)

It has been a few days since I came into Canterlot, and besides a few incidents, it was a rather nice and enjoyable time.

Some of my time was spent in the castle, walking around and just exploring the place as I took in the sights. I would cause a small start with a guard or maid, but they were quick to cover it up as the latter smiles and greets me, while the former just gives a nod before walking along.

Of course the rest of the time was spent with Luna, mostly just talking and hanging out with her. She seemed to be very happy whenever I saw her walking down the halls, and was more than eager to stop and chat. Celestia was happy to chat as well at times, but she was so busy during the days that she rarely had time to stay for long. In any case the dark Alicorn kept me a bit busy with her time, talking and telling tales of the past. It was a very delightful experience, and one that I was glad to be a part of. Most days I would either be talking with her as we walk down the hallways, or when we are in her room as she tells me things she did after their time in the war when they were both princesses.

In fact, it was during one of those moments when I was summoned to the throne room by Celestia.

I do my best to recover from my laughing fit. "Y-You did what?!" I said, chuckling.

Luna wasn't in a much better state herself. "W-We thought she was...heh...was starting to be too uptight with the n-nobles, so we...*snort*...we placed a whoopee cushion on her throne during a rather important meeting." She laughs out, holding her stomach with her hooves. This just makes me laugh even harder as I roll onto the floor, the mare quick to follow suit.

We stay there on the ground, laughing for what seems like forever as we try to calm ourselves down, with little success. Finally, the laughter eases up as he let out a few giggles and chuckles before sighing. looking at her, I can see her mane sprawled around her head, giving her a rather lazy look, though not unattractive. Seeing her glance at me, I quickly look away with a sheepish look on my face.

"I doubt she was happy after that." I say, hoping to shake my stupid anxiety away.

"Oh verily. It was at this point she retaliated by replacing all the bananas in the castle with those fake pop out worms in a jar." She says, causing us to laugh some more before wincing in slight pain.

She sighs as she continues. "That's how our small prank war started, lasting for nearly four moons."

"How did it stop?"

She shrugs. "Honestly, we just called a truce after a rather...heavy prank involving hot glue and pie that got some of the staff involved...more than we care to admit." She says, blushing at the memory. Before I could ask she just continues. "Still, perhaps one day I will place that whoopee cushion back on her throne, just to see if she will remember it."

I nod. "Perhaps, though as long as you don't involve me." I add. "I would rather not be involved in such an ordeal, even if it is rather hilarious."

"Party pooper." She kids, sticking her tongue out at me. I just smile and reach over to ruffle her mane, to which she retaliates with lightly hitting my chest with a hoof. Grinning, I start to tickle her neck, causing her to laugh before she does the same in kind with her magic.

We end up tickling each other so much that we start to wrestle each one to the ground, trying to pin the other. Sadly, or perhaps not as sad, she won, pinning me to the ground as my laughter died down, making me pant as we look at each other.

It was at this point that I realize the position we were in, with her straddling my hips as her hooves held my hands to my sides. Judging by the small blush on her cheeks, it seems she noticed it as well. We just stand there, motionless as we stare at each other, unsure what to do. As I go to open my mouth to speak, that is when we hear some pony knock on the door.

Before either of us can reply, it opens and a unicorn guard walks in. "Princess Luna, have you seen-" She starts to ask before stopping, her eyes wide at the sight before her.

None of us say anything, the silence so thick you could cut it with a knife. Finally, Luna was the first to react, jumping clear off of me and standing on her hooves as I move a second later, standing up straight as we both turn to face the guard.

"G-Goldmane! W-What does thy need with us?!" Luna stutters, her cheeks even brighter red than before.

Goldmane takes a few moments as she stares at us before slowly replying. "J-Just if you have seen the human anywhere...but it seems I don't need to ask." She replies. Silence falls for another few seconds before she adds, "If now's a bad time, I can come back some-"

"No!" We both shout, only to stop and stare at each other. Almost at once we turn and face the guard pony, speaking at the same time.

"I was just having a talk with the princess as she told me her stories of her time here. We just had a rather funny moment and then she kind of fell on top of me, but it was by accident!"

"We wast explaining to him about some of the things yond we doth h're and then the situation wenteth out of hoof and we may has't gotten carried hence a did bite but not in yond s'rt of way!"

The unicorn mare just stares at us for a few moments, seeming to be unable to respond at all to what she heard. After what felt like an eternity, she clears her throat. "Ahem, in any case, Celestia has requested for Drakalian to meet her in the library."

We stand still as Luna and I glance at each other before looking at the guard. "She asked me? Why?" I asked.

"She said that the mind mage is ready to try and delve your memories."

At this both of us give a small start, the embarrassment vanishing at that moment. I looked over at Luna and she looked back at me with a much more serious expression. It seems the time has come now, rather quick to my surprise. After a few more moments of silence, I turn back to the guard and give her a nod. "Oh, um thanks then." I tell her.

She nods and then moves to the side to let me pass. Turning to face Luna, she gives me a nod as she looks back at me. "Go, I will be here when you return. I have a few things that need attending to anyways." She tells me.

I give a nod and, with one last parting words to each other, I left her chambers, Golden closing the door behind us before she starts leading us through the halls.

We were both quiet during our walk there, which wasn't much of a surprise to me, seeing how the guards are normally a stoic bunch. However what surprised me was when Golden turned to glance at my direction before speaking up. "So, you're the human that everypony has been talking about?" She asks.

I can't help but to raise an eyebrow at this comment. "Unless you know of any other humans here." I say.

Realizing her blunder, she quickly catches herself. "Sorry I didn't mean to offend you, it's just that I've never seen a human before, only read about them in our mythology classes." She explains. I give a small nod at this, still not totally used to the fact that most ponies thought of me as more of a myth than reality. "So why ask for the mind mage? Nopony really asks for him unless it's something serious."

"It's to help with my amnesia. I want to see if I can somehow find a way to return my lost memories." I explain.

She nods as she turns to face ahead again. "Ah, so it is true that you used to be friends with the Princesses. Explains why you seemed so friendly with Luna just now." She adds.

This causes me to blush a bit harder as I try to think of something to come up, but again all I could do was say what I already said before so instead I just fell silent, the mare giving a single glance back my way, a small smirk on her muzzle before turning to face forward. "Don't worry, I'm not one to spread rumors."

I give a small sigh of relief as I hear this before we both fall quiet. We continued to walk in silence, my embarrassment for what happened before fading away to be replaced with curiosity and a bit of anxiety for what will happen next. Sure I was worried about what might happen during the testing, but at the same time I just had to know. What did I do during my time in the past? Was I a different person than I am now? Celestia said it was a time of conflict, was I a warrior who got into trouble? Or perhaps a prisoner who was tried for something...unthinkable. These and more questions continued to run around my head for a good few minutes before I was mentally shaken away when Golden stopped walking. "Here we are."

I look around us for a moment and noticed we are indeed here. Having been here only a couple of times, I was still unsure what to expect, but looking back at the guard, she gives a simple shrug as if reading my mind. I give her a nod of thanks before opening the door. As soon as I stepped inside, the door nearly slammed shut behind me, leaving me seemingly alone in the room as I looked around the large shelves of books upon books.

After a bit of looking around I finally called out. "Celestia? You're here?"

"Drak!" I hear her voice echo through the room. "Come to the back please!" With a nod I head towards the back of the room, and soon I reached the spot, a few chairs pulled up along with a couch and table. I've been to this same spot before when I was at the library, it was a very nice spot that helped me to relax as I enjoyed the few books I did give a try here, most of them about their world of course. I still want to learn as much as I can about this place.

In one of the seats was the Princess herself, her radiant smile gleaming at me as she motions me over to the couch, the other chair holding a rather old looking unicorn, his black coat contrasting greatly to his yellow blue mane and tail colors, which were all in a clean cut style, giving him a rather military look even with his circle shaped glasses.

Looking at them both and seeing no reaction from the other pony, I just nod as I take a seat on the couch. As soon as I was sitting down the pony glances up from his book he was reading, placing to the side, shutting it close silently. "Good day Mr Drakalian. Celestia has told me much about you." He says, adjusting his glasses as he looks me over with a critical look.

I just give a small shrug as I lean back slightly, the intensity of his stare rather strong. "I wish I can say the same about you but she hasn't even told me your name."

At this the stallion pauses his inspection as he looks over at the princess who just gives her normal smile. "I assumed it would be better if you both introduced yourself when you meet." She explains.

The mind mage gives a small shake of his head. "If you say so, but I believe we will need to talk about manners again." He says before turning to face me again, the princess just giving a silent giggle at his comments. It seems these two know each other well, from what I can tell at least. "My name is Cerebral Magnus, but please call me Mag."

I tilt my head to the side. "Wouldn't it be better to call you Cere-"

"No!" He says before catching himself, clearing his through as he continues at a calmer tone. "I mean no please. That's the name of a young mare who spends her time 'hunting' monsters, not a brilliant mage of the mind." He tells me.

"He gets a bit annoyed when ponies bring that up how much of their names are so alike." The Princess adds, getting a huff from the older stallion.

I just look at them both, very much confused as to what they were talking about before giving a small nod. "Um, ok then. So...Mag. How does this whole thing work?" I ask.

He again adjusts his glasses as he leans back, looking at me with a rather serious look, at least more serious than before. "I'm simply extracting a part of my magic and pushing it into your temporal lobe or more exact your Hippocampus and using that as an anchor to-" He starts to say before a glance from Celestia causes him to clear his throat. "In a simple way, I'm diving into your memory banks by using my magic as a sort of drill. Think of memories as a museum. It holds all of our time spent in this life and we can walk through and look at each moment that has happened in our life. Sometimes the paintings or statues go into disarray, and perhaps even fall apart or get lost, resulting in memory reduction and memory lose. I can go into the mind and fix the statues, put the paintings back together, or even recover lost art. Doing such things can cause you to recall certain memories, or even remember details of a memory that you have previously forgotten." He explains.

I nod slowly, able to keep up. "Ok, Twilight said she couldn't find anything inside of my mind, even after a few breakthroughs, she kept hitting what she called a wall. Even Luna said she was unable to see my dreams besides an inky darkness." I say, remembering when Luna told me about how she first found me in Equestria.

This causes Mag to give a small chuckle. "Ah yes, Twilight is a grand student of magic, but mind magic is another thing altogether. It takes years, sometimes decades of study to even do the simplest things with the mind without damaging it. While I'm sure she could easily figure it out in a few years, I sincerely doubt that she could have done anything more than what she has already done, no offense to her abilities of course." He says. "And the same goes for Luna, though her abilities lean more towards dreams than actual memories, and that is a whole different topic altogether. And if what you said is correct, with Twilight hitting this wall, then it would require some pony with a much stronger set of skills in this than just someone who just started." He says. At this he uses his magic to lift another book as he glances through it, still looking at me every so often. "So, as you said, this wall is just that, a wall that is not only blocking you from recalling certain memories, but also preventing others to find them. Such magic isn't impossible, and we even do block certain memories from ponies with a rather bad experience, but to do it on such a grand scale where everything about a pony is forgotten besides the essentials, such as name, gender, basic living skills and so on...THAT requires a lot more control. It's easy to just cause someone to have complete amnesia, but to give them selective amnesia, and at such a high state of it too means that whoever put this one you..." He pauses as he places the book down, a somber look on his face.

I blink as I look at him. "It means what Doctor?" I ask, feeling a bit worried now.

This time it was Celestia who finished. "It means someone who knows you personally did this to you. Someone who doesn't want you to remember anything about what happened."

I fall silent as I take in this information, looking down at my hands that were on my lap. Knowing that someone, possibly someone that I knew, locked my memory up inside of me, making me forget everything that is about me...it was rather frightening. Thankfully, before I could delve any deeper into such thinking, Mag clears his throat to get my attention. "No matter, if it can be blocked, then it can be unblocked. All I need is time and I can unlock everything, though the harder the enchantment the longer the time I'll need." He says. Standing up, he takes a few steps towards me as his horn starts to light up. "So, if there are no more questions, do you wish to begin?"

I fall silent as I think this over, unsure as to what I should say next. However, a quick glance at the princess and her comforting smile slowly relaxes me, and looking back at Mag, I give him a small, curt nod. "Ok, I'm ready."

"Great, now please lay down on your back and close your eyes." He says. Nodding, I do as he asks me, laying on the couch, my feet dangling over the side from the size of it. Once on my back, I take one last look at the two ponies before me before I close my eyes. "Now, you may feel a small pinch..."

Immediately, I feel a light poke right at the center of my head, but as soon as I noticed it, the feeling was gone, replaced with a soothing sensation, almost like numbing as I assumed his magic entered my mind. A few seconds go by before I hear Mag speak up again. "Oh, that is interesting."

"What is it?" Celestia asks, the curiosity in her voice obvious.

"You said that it was some kind of wall, most likely from a single large enchantment, and yet I can feel two different magic in your mind." I nearly open my eyes at this comment, but just as my body tenses, he continues. "Nothing wrong, just unusual. Normally it would mean many different enchantments to cover the entire thing, but it does seem to be one massive enchantment, or spell shield. The other one is...is barely noticeable, I can't even be certain if it is a spell to block the mind or not." He says. Silence once again falls over the room for a minute before he speaks up once more. "Ah, Twilight certainly is a gifted unicorn. I can see where she managed to break through the barrier. Impressive how she used a Onipo style instead of the traditional Triom, but very sloppy at covering it. The way she tried to patch it up it could have caused a brain aneurysm or worse."

"Um...that's a bad thing, yes?" I asked, though I could already tell just from the small giggles from Celestia that it couldn't have been that bad...right?

It seems I wasn't the only one to hear her laughter as Mag responses, "Oh yes, very funny your prized student almost turned him into a veritable vegetable, so funny indeed." The words that came out sounded a bit sarcastic, but at the same time the underlining warning was there, causing her to quiet down rather quickly. "Anyways, it seems she got lucky and managed to keep your mind in one piece, so I won't talk about it too much...for now."

We all fall silent at this, and I swear I can hear a pen or pencil, or some other writing utensil being used, but by who I couldn't say. The minutes slowly start to tick by, and just when I was about to ask what was happening, Mag speaks up again. "Ok, I stabilized the hole that she made, so no more worry for becoming brain dead, but it does mean my limit to your mind is...well, limited for the time being. I can enter through the same spot that she found and explore through there, but it may feel a bit disorienting, cause it may jump from place to place. From what I can see, it seems these memories that she found are all related to a certain mare...a pegasus by the looks of it...Aris?"

"Aryas, and you can see who it is?" I asked, surprised.

"Of course. Cause of the amateur patch up she did, one of your memories did seem to slip on through with no protection." There is a pause. "Tell me, did he lose consciousness anytime in the past week or two?"

"I believe my student did say something about him and a few friends testing something about his eyes when it sounded like something triggered for him to get knocked out." Celestia acknowledges.

"Ah, then that is what happened. Cause of the patchwork, it allowed some of the memories to slip out thanks to outer interference, some may call it environmental stimuli, and cause it wasn't guarded or set properly, it caused you to have a lapse in consciousness, making you recall the memory as if in a dream." I give a slow nod, mostly cause I was too nervous to speak now, and cause I was also too nervous to move much in case it disturbs his concentration. "Now I can fix that later, but for now let us see if we can get to the closest part of those memories. I shall do this as best I can to keep it in order, but I make no promises. Are you ready?"

I hesitate as I hear this, finally opening my eyes slowly as I look over at the two. Mag was standing over me, his head lowered over mine as his horn glows a bright blue, slowly shining from his horn to my head in a small, smooth wave. Celestia looked about the same as before, but just a quick glance at her eyes showed that she is equal parts curious and nervous. Taking a deep breath, I just look up at the mind mage and give one last nod before closing my eyes.

"Very well, then in...we...go."

Suddenly, I feel the darkness more than I see it, and before I can say anything, I was falling, down...down...down...

So...hi! Yes I know this is a damn long time coming. I will say that my interest in writing this did wane a bit...a whole lot bit. Things happened. I moved out from my old place back to my older place (meaning I moved in with mom). I got a new job and even had a gf for a bit before splitting up. And then the more recent things was losing a couple of our dogs to cancer. So yea, lots of life shit going on. I guess the latest news made me realize that I need to get to doing some of the old stuff that I used to do. In any case, this is my attempt at getting back into the game of writing. Hopefully there are people out there who are still with me. But enough pity! Just give me the input of what you think, and if a ya or na, I shall most certainly continue! I mean...I was gonna continue anyways, but I'll do it fast...faster...ish...not as slow! Also, I was gonna make this and the next chapter a full chapter, but gonna split it cause I thought why not. Also cause I don't want to make it too damn long as some of you know I tend to drag things on, such as this author's note. ANYWAYS! Stay safe, stay indoors, and hug ponies.