Arell Knight

Mrs. StarDance slowly went down the register at Canterlot primary, boring the Y6's as she went down. With her mumbled tone, she

Began to call out the O's.

"Owl Eyes?"

"Here!"

Called the unusually big eyed colt.

"Pair Matcher? Pear Drop? Pen Pal?"

One by one, the pupils responded. Towards the back, a filly was reading a magazine.

"Perfect Stitch?"

The filly with the magazine began to respond, but a sideways chair leg caused her to topple over onto the floor. Everypony else began to laugh, that is apart from the teacher. She walked over in her high-horseshoes and towered above Perfect Stitch. In a highly non-amused voice, she began to speak:

"Miss. Stitch, it is taught in Y3 to keep all four legs of a chair on the floor. How is it that when you are in a class that is double that you still fall over?"

Perfect explained that the only reason she fell was that she had tried to lean over her desk to see the front of the class, but Mrs. Stardance, being very hard to sway from her own opinion, did not believe her. The bell rang for next lesson, and Stardance went up to the white board to begin the math session. Song Lyric, the filly sitting next to Perfect and the most annoying girl in the class began to jeer at her.

"Not so 'Perfect' now, are you?"

Perfect rolled her eyes and decided to concentrate on the lesson.

When Water Droplet set out, it was already dark. Her job was to collect water from the local stream every night for her sick Mother. It was dangerous, having to cross through Poison Joke and nettles, but if she ever wanted her Mum to get better, this was the way. She knew the route fairly well now, and she dodged the moving cabs with ease. But Manehattan was not a place to think you know completely. Not with a new building popping up every week. It was expanding into Tick Tock woods, a place where time seems to stop. It was there where the river was, but soon a building will probably be in its place. Soon they will stop Water's Mum's life source. A sudden splash of mud came over her as a out of control cab roared past. In anger, she shouted after the driver using unladylike words. But the cab was already half a mile away, so she continued to walk. Then she heard it. A cough. She turned around to see a filly caught by the same mud splash. Though it was hard to tell what condition she was in because of the mud, Water Droplet could see that she was bleeding. In a attempt to get the filly to safety, she abandoned going to the river and went straight home.

Opon arriving at her abode, Water Droplet set the filly down onto the floor. Her Mother was upstairs in bed, and her father was not sober enough to help wash the filly. But Water was 16, and she could handle giving a filly a bath. She took her upstairs to the bathroom, where it stunk, but it still was nessasary to go in there. After turning on the tap, Water watched the green, unhealthy sewer water trickle down into the tub. It was horrible unlike the water from the stream. Water Droplet realised that the filly was staring at her. It was time to ask the question frequently asked when somepony meets somepony else.

"What is your name?"

In a voice hardly able to hear, the filly responded.

"I... I don't remember..."

Luna was standing next to her telescope on the balcony, watching the stars. She heard the distant grumble of Tia as she got into bed. Oh how Luna adored the night. The quiet, the fireflies, the knowing of sweet fillies having beautiful dreams all made up Luna's adoration. She decided she would try making constellations out of the vast sea of stars, though she wasn't as good as you would presume a princess of the night would be. She managed to make out Leo, Aquarius, and Pieces. In the corner of her eye, she saw the letter A. Turning her telescope towards it, she saw it was followed by a R, E, L, then another L.

"Arell."

She spelled out, before concentrating to see if it was followed by anything. But now she couldn't see anything now, not even the A. With a sigh, she headed back inside to check on filly's dreams.

"Must be my imagination."

Meanwhile, Water had filled up the bath. She still had no idea of who the filly was, but instead of calling her 'the filly' she realised she needed a better name until they found out the truth. After a long discussion with the filly, the two decided on Primrose. Primrose hopped into the bath, revealing her white legs. Water switched on the shower, draining the mud from Primrose's head.

"Huh, your a unicorn."

Said Water whilst moving the shower over Prim's body.

"I don't see much of unicorns, even though I live in the biggest city in all of Equestria! but I don't go out much, that is, unless I'm getting the water from the forest for my Mum. She's really ill, and if we were richer we would have got her better by now. If your wondering who 'we' is, I mean me and my Dad. Though he only goes with me for the water if he's sober. Which has been very rare this last year, because I think he's worried that Mum might die so the only way to get her better is to drink. Which takes up half of our money. Anyway, I know I talk a lot, but it's just in my nature because I rarely get to talk to anypony!"

Water was filled with shock when she saw Prim clean. Her horn had a touch of orange on the tip, followed by white. Her body colour was purple, and she had long, blue hair. Her socks of white on her hooves glimmered in the dim light, but there was one thing that shocked Water the most. Prim had wings. Water stumbled over a basket as she slowly walked backwards, afraid of what the Alicorn might do. Only one thing came apparent to Water.

"Dad!"

She shouted to downstairs where her Father was reading the newspaper. He dragged his drunk-self upstairs to his daughter, where he saw her in the bathroom with Alicorn. He stared at Water, and then Prim, and then Water again. In his usual gruff voice, he began to speak to Water.

"Well what are you waiting for! Tie her up and ask the Princesses for a ransom for her!"

In fright, Water began to do so. But then she came to her senses, and stopped weaving through Prim's hooves. In anger, water told her Dad what she thought about the situation.

"Dad, this is Primrose. I found her on the street, alone and bleeding. I took her in, believing she was a Earth pony or something like that. But even though she is a Alicorn, she still is a pony, and she doesn't deserved to be tied up. She doesn't even know her own name, Dad! Being in the state she's in, I think we should just hand her over!"

Prim gave Water a reassuring glance. But Water's Dad, on the other hoof, was fuming with rage. Though no matter how hard Water's Dad tried, he could not help but see the sense in his daughter's opinion. With a deep sigh, he responded.

"Go. Go get the train to Canterlot using the money underneath my pillow."

Without hesitation, the two girls left him in a pit of regret.