Broken Tune
Chapter 1: Wandering
Load Full Story Next ChapterSteam arose from the train as it drew into Cantorlot Station, creating a lot of noise as it creaked across the track. The noise was loud enough to wake a small filly, who was sleeping on the track. The filly looked up at the incoming train, with curious eyes though she knew that her life would be in danger if she stayed.
She scrambled onto her weak hooves and leaped for the platform. She managed to make it, just in time as the train covered her former resting spot. The filly stared at it with curiosity, like she had never seen a train before in her life. The filly tried to remind herself what the train was, but nothing came to her small mind.
'Huh...' thought the filly, looking away from the train. She decided it was best to leave before anypony spotted her. 'Why don't I know what that moving object was. Stupid Familiar Tune, that's why you don't sleep in random, dangerous, stupid locations like that. Wait...is my name 'Familiar Tune'? It's cute, that's for certain....but I'll call myself Fami.'
Fami looked down at the tracks, for the last time before leaving the railway station. She walked slowly through the snow that rested on the ground. It was winter in Equestria, not that Fami could remember what snow and winter was in the first place. The small filly looked around the snowy covered city, it was all fascinating to the small filly.
At least until she walked straight into a frost covered window. The filly rubbed her head in shock, tears formulating in her small eyes as she looked at what she had hit. She didn't see the glass, instead she saw a filly about her height with a glistening white coat that had a small hint of purple to it. The filly even process a golden horn, making her a unicorn, and golden back hooves. The golden was even placed on the filly's cheek and chest, the chest in the form of a cross. The opposite filly's mane and tail were styled the same as Fami's, scurry and mucky from sleeping on the rail tracks, and they were a bright color of magenta.
The shock to Fami was the other filly's eyes. They weren't like the eyes that she had seen wandering the railway. No, these had not one color but two filling the irises. One eye, the other foal's left one was a bright green that looked like a beautiful, serene meadow and the other was a golden yellowy color that was seen on most of the early autumn leaves. Fami was able to recognize these despite not remembering what either of which were in her memories. The filly's ears were also a little surprise to Fami, as the tip of them were pretty much rip off, the same with the golden horn. Neither of which weep blood however.
Fami continued to look at the filly in front of her, watched it do the same actions as herself. She eventually decided to reach out to this strange mystery filly and brought her hoof out to touch the foal, the other did the exact same. But when the hooves touched, Fami didn't feel the warmth of another's hoof but instead the coldness of the glass that reflected the filly. Fami was pretty smart, despite her memory lost and was able to recognize who this filly was, it was herself.
Fami looked down, she had hoped that she had met a filly like her but instead she had only met herself. It was pretty sad to the poor, small amnesiac filly. She continued to look down at the white snow that rested around her white and golden hooves. The wind whistled past Fami and caught the filly's ears, it had brought along a beautiful sounding song. Fami remembered something else, her love for music, especially the beautiful harmony of the stringed instrument.
The tune was also haunting her ears and mind, trying to unlock the forgotten memories. Fami continued to listen to the beautiful tune, and followed it to it's source. The small trip didn't take too long and she was soon outside a gate. The gate was ten times her size, easily and it's spooked her. She mumbled out a few, strained words as she had to remember how to speak. ''...Veeerryy....biiiiggg...''
The size wasn't the problem to Fami however, it was how to get to the tune's source. She looked along the gate, and saw a big enough hole for a small filly like her to sneak through. It was quite a squeeze but she made it to the other side. On this side of the gate, there was little to no snow, the other snow that was around was piled up along the wall. But that didn't matter to Fami, she wanted to find the source at that beautiful tune.
She ran forward, along a dirt path that lead to a massive house. Considering it was late at night, most of the curtains were closed. She looked around, trying to pinpoint with her small ears where the mystery sound was emitting from. She jumped when she saw a window, with it's curtains still open and the light on.
She peered inside, keeping hidden from any ponies had happened to be walking around. She looked curiously at the objects placed around the room, it was like her mind was trying to recognize these objects, like she knew what they were but she just couldn't pinpoint on what they were. Fami jumped as the door that rested to the left side of the wall opposite her. The door opened to reveal two mares, one of which were holding a small baby.
Her ears perked up, to listen to the conversation without being seen. She continued to peer into the room, mainly at the ponies that had walked in. One of the ponies, the unicorn mare was the first to speak. ''Octavia, I'm telling you! I can take care of Rhythm without you watching me like a hawk!''
Octavia, the earth pony of the pair looked back at the unicorn. ''Vinyl, I don't trust you. Remember the last time, I trusted you anywhere near our daughter without my eyes watching.''
Vinyl looked down, remember the time she had almost burnt Rhythm because of her stupid antics. She glanced down at the small pegasus foal in her hooves before looking back at her wife. ''Well, give me one more chance. If I screw up again, you can take full control of Rhythm's life and then see how it turns out. I bet she would have a happier life having me as her parent, then you and your stubborn attitude.''
Octavia sighed, walked over to the window and rested her head on her hooves, which now rested on the windowsill. She peered out into the dark and cold, muttering. ''It's actually not that I don't trust you, it's more that I wary. You messed up many times, even before Rhythm was born. You indirectly cost our first child's life, and now it's seem like your trying to kill our second one.''
''Octi, that was 7 years ago....you still haven't got over the fact that I by accident fed our son the wrong kind of food....the shop said it was perfectly fine...'' mumbled Vinyl, looking at the window and not at her wife. She then thought she saw a glance of a pinkish-white color. She strained her ears and small a white horn peering above the windowsill. ''Octi, you probably should look down...I think somepony's out there.''
''Vinyl, what in Equestria are you on about? There is nopony out th-'' she glanced down and saw Fami, much to both of theirs shock. ''Oh...I guess your right, Vinyl.''
Fami gasped and tried to stumbled away, only to find that her legs were stuck in the little snow that rested under the window. She whimpered a little, staring wide-eyed at the mares that were staring at her. She continued to whimper, getting out a couple of small words. ''I...I'm Sssoo sorrrry....''
Vinyl and Octavia glanced at each other, upon hearing the filly's strained speaking. Vinyl choose the speak first. ''Um...little one, may we ask your name?''
''....Fa...Familiar....T-tune....''
''Why are you here?'' asked Octavia, in a harsh tone upon placing Rhythm to bed.
''...I heawd a sownd...a beauwiful song...'' mumbled Fami, upon figuring out how to speak without strains only to have some babyish talk in the mix.
Octavia was taken back upon hearing the babyish tone in Fami's voice. She decided that she might as well proceed with less harshness. ''You say that you heard a song, what did it sound like?''
''...Like a stwings...but I can't expwain it more...twen twat.....''
''....My cello...'' mumbled Octavia. ''So Familiar Tune, where are you parents?''
''...I...don't know...''
''Your lost?'' asked Vinyl, choosing to join back into the conversation.
''...No...more like I can't rewember my pawents...'' mumbled Fami, looking down sadly.
Vinyl's eyes grew wide, she knew what the filly was referring too. Amnesia, her youngest sister had it at one point. She glanced at Octavia, who caught the look in the unicorn's eyes, the earth pony nodded gently. Vinyl nodded back before speaking ''Little one, what do you remember for certain?''
''...Well..um....I remewber my nawe.....and I guess I rewall my love for muwic.....but that's it....''
''I see, want to come inside? It's cold out there.'' said the unicorn mare, preparing her magic to pull the filly indoors.
''...O-otay....'' mumbled Fami, bracing herself for the magic. The magenta magic wrapped around her pale pinkish white body and took her in it's warm embrace. It lifted her up and through the window and then rested her on the warm, fuzzy flooring. She looked down at the carpet with some surprise. Was this how things were going to turn out? How long was she going to stay there? And what about her missing memories? Would they ever return? Next Chapter: Foal again. Estimated time remaining: 6 Minutes