They walked up to the main gates of the palace it had taken much longer than expected, you would had only thought that the path was a straight line there but how wrong you are, It's a whining Road that hugs to the cliff side not much room for mistake when you're up there. The clouds parted that wrapped around the mountains edge, light reflected off the golden tips of the towers on the palace. Truly it was a wonder in this world; Trees decorated the Garden that led up to the palace guard stood at attention in front of the 15ft door. Every inch of the building was an architectural feet the amount of work that must had gone into the door its self; it had celestia on one half of the door and Luna on the other there moon and sun both sharing the center.

A guard stepped forward he was covered in his golden metallic armour "please show your pass"

Twilight levitated a small id card from here saddle bag and left it a flout in front of the guards face "there you go" a smile was on her face, she had not had much time to see the princess lately. It was always a treat for her.

"It's always nice to see you miss twilight I believe the princess is expecting you so go right ahead into the main chamber" the guard stepped aside giving a nod to another pair of guards who opened the massive door for the group.

The room that followed the doors was long with pillars holding up its concave roof, banners hung from the pillars the flag of Equestria on them, a guard stood beneath every one. There was a line of pony's waiting outside another set of doors, they were obviously waiting for a audience with the princess "looks like a long line going to take us a while to get in" Z observed

"If there is one perk to being the princess's pupil it's that there are no lines, come on" twilight approached a guard stood at the door way "twilight sparkle and the elements of harmony to see the princess please"

The guard stood aside so fast that you almost couldn't see him move, Rainbow smiled and winked at Z. the pony's stood in line mouths dropped open they must had been stood there for a long time, many had bags under their eyes.

Though the door way the goddess sat on her elevated throne, her mane flowing as if it had no gravity, beams of light seemed to transpire from her body causing a tunnel effect, your eyes were forced to focus on her, but a pleasure it was such beauty cannot be described with any number of words.

"Ah girls I've been expecting you, I hope the guards didn't give you any trouble, it's so very nice to meet you all again" the mane six lowered their heads in respect, Z however was still staring at the princess with his eyes wide and mouth agape, Apple jack pulled on his hoof his attention was back and he followed suit with lowering his head also. "You must be Z then, I was wondering how long it would be before you return, it has been centuries since you last arrived" the alicorn stepped down from her frown and stood in front of Z, their eyes locked before celestia lowered her head "It's a pleasure to meet you in person rather than you saving us from a distance then leaving , so let me say thank you from all of us you have saved our lives many times and never taken any reward, our debt to you will be replayed " the groups mouth were open in amazement they had just witness something that nopony will ever believe.

Z was blushing but there was a feeling of shame he could not hide "I greatly appreciate your thanks but I'm sorry to say I don't remember ever being in this world before, I only remember parts of the world before this for a matter a fact "

The princess rolled some thoughts over in her head as she stepped back "well I may be able to help you with that, well with your memories from my world that is. Please come with me" the princess led them through many large rooms to an old wooded door that sat at the bottom of a flight of stairs, the doors looked as if nopony had opened it in decades "I must ask all of you not to touch anything in this room or to mention it to anypony" The door creaked open everypony entered fluttershy cowered slightly next to twilight, the room was black with no source of light in the room, not a shape or shadow could be made out.

Celestia horn glowed and a ball of light appeared above them suddenly row and rows of shelves that had appeared with newly lit room, dust and cobwebs covered the place, old torches hung from the book shelves they looked like they had not been lit in centuries. Glass balls where sat on the shelves with name tags underneath.

"This is the hall of memories, every memory anypony has is kept here. Millions of life's are kept in these glass orbs, I must ask you not to touch them. Now on to your memories Z" Princess Celestria walked down the aisles of bookshelves scanning the Letters that were on the rows labeling them in alphabetical order. She stopped at letter X and walks down the aisle and stopped at a glass ball labelled "XXX" "it took me and Luna a long time to match this with you and your memory's, it was labeled XXX because nopony knew your name" Celestia's horn glowed white as she used it to enter the glass ball, it was like the glass made of liquid, here horned entered with no resistance, when she retreated her horn a liquid followed it glowed white as particles drifted within the fluid. "Please hold still for a moment" she drifted the liquid closer to him until it entered his head and her horn met his forehead.

Flashes of white filled Z's eyes, images following every flash, more than a life time of images displayed in a matter of seconds. Z was frozen in place, all of his friends that surrounded him had stepped back. Celestia had not moved from her stance however, her face had not change unlike the rest of pony's who had changed to a look of worry.

The white glow faded from Z's eyes, Twilight looked at him intently "so do you remember anything?"

Z's face remained unchanged his eyes locked with Celestia before he bowed "thank you, I can know accept you're thanks" he raised his head a smile on his face.

A smile was returned from the princess "I have some important questions for you Z, but first how about we meet my sister Luna she will very likely be located in the library. I should mention that your memories need time to arrange themselves so it may be sometime before you remember everything"

"It would be nice to see her again, it has been sometime" Z followed behind the princess along with the rest of their group.

Twilight came up next to him "so… do you remember everything?"

"It's hard to tell right now, I have thousands of memory's trying to reline themselves. But I know what you want and I promise I will share what I know with you when my head is back to normal" Z smiled. The memories would certainly help; they were already helping him know the elements of harmony much greater than they would ever know, but to the extent of which they would help is unpredictable.

"What about your magic can you remember how to use it now, because if you could that would be totally awesome if you could blow stuff up!" Rainbow said excitedly remembering the forest.

Z could only smile at the comment, it was a typical Rainbow comment "I don't think it works that way I can remember some spells but how to conjure them I don't have a clue"

Celestia stopped and turned "I wouldn't worry about that I've had Luna look into it, that's what she is preparing for right now" she was back on track for the library in seconds.

They had left the collection of memories by now and were getting close to the library. Stained glass windows lined the walls to the library; it had every major event captured in time on the walls. The guard shifted to the side to let Celestria pass, when they arrived at the library door there was no questions from the guards, they just stood aside and opened the door.

Luna was sat in the center of the library several books levitating around her. She was undisturbed by the groups arrival. Twilight was in here element a room filled with knowledge yet she would have to wait before she could read any of them, there were more important things that that moment

"Sister our guest is here to see you" Celestia gestured to Z with her hoof.

"It's nice to see you again Luna, it's been a long time" Z stepped forward to meet Luna.

"I see the memory orbs did their job then, its finally nice to meet you Z. I'm assuming you're here to see if I have made any progress on how to teach you to use your magic again" Luna set here books down, getting straight to the point.

"Couldn't it have just been a visit, you've always been so quick to judge" Z said his memories slowly getting into order.

Luna sarcastically replied "Spending a thousand years on the moon can do that to a mare"

Celestia had heard enough of that excuse "Yes sister we are here to see if you can help him"

Luna sighed "well there are not many books on the subject to learn from, my efforts were mostly hopeless… one of the books however did give me some insight. It would seem that subconsciously you know how to use it, so the only real answer is to force you into a situation where you have to use it" Luna stepped into a stance of combat, her horn glowed black as electric charges sparked off her horn. Slowing an orb formed at the tip of her horn belts of black particles surrounding it.

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