Crystal Snow

by GalaXys

Rating: everyone
Tags: Mystery, Comedy, Tragedy, Adventure, Alternate Universe
Length: 4225

This is a alternate universe where the crystal heart shattered and was never fixed, leaving our heroes in the snow, never to be seen again. Now the villains rule. But everything changes when a young alicorn awakes from the snow, not remembering anything, including that she's was lost baby princess of the Crystal Empire.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2016-09-29 06:05:19 UTC

The Child In The Snow

Once upon a time… In the land of Equestria, there was a place called the Crystal Empire… It was home to the crystal ponies and their leaders, Princess Cadance and Prince Shining Armor. Cadance had given birth to a little girl… Her name had not been chosen

/but the Crystalliling was coming up.

The little princess happened to be an alicorn with incredible powers. But they lead to great pariel. The baby had screamed so loud that the crystal heart had shattered. The icy cold approached the empire. Twilight Sparkle and her friends

tried their best to stop it but couldn't. The empire was engulfed but not before the princesses put a protection spell around it. Little did they know that the smallest alicorn had flown away on accident, getting out of the place before the spell

/hit. And so, the Crystal Empire was inguled in a snowy disappear… And it's young princess had seemed to vanish…

It was so cold… So unbearably cold… A young girl fluttered open her eyes. She stared around at the world. Where was she? Who was she? All she could remember was being alone with only images of things… Four unicorns with pegasus wings

were always there in her visions, but it was so blurry. A shining light always came too, off some shape… until the darkness hit, then there was nothing… Nothing but dark, cold… And fear.

The child brushed snow out of her pink, purple, and blue mane. The girl was so confused and frightened. She wanted somepony to come and tell her it would be alright, but nopony would, she knew. The pony looked around and fluttered something

that reacted to the cold. She turned to look, silent and afraid. There were wings on her back! Then, looking up, there was a horn on her head. What type of pony was she? Then she heard a noise, a gasp.

"Look! A little girl!" Said the voice.

She turned and saw three young mares with brown cloaks on them.

"Hey, don't be afraid, girl, we're here to help you!" Said one with a white coat and pink and purple curls tied into a stylish knot.

The child backed away slowly then tripped over a mound of snow.

"Whoa! Are you-" A orange mare with violet hair stopped when she saw something.

To prevent herself from getting in the snow, the foal used her humongous wings to hold her up.

"You're an alicorn…" The yellow one whispered.

"A alicorn? Bu-" The earth pony covered the white unicorn with pink and purple's mouth.

"Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, if they find her…" The yellow one with a red mane whispered.

The three looked around as if the wind could hear them.

"Come with us, girl. We're here to help." Sweetie Belle said, gently putting a hoof on the girl's shoulder.

The alicorn kept noticing the one called Applebloom looking at her on the snowy walk to what the three called camp.

"So…" Applebloom started.

"How are you a alicorn?"

The girl didn't know. She knew how to speak at least.

"I-I'm sorry…" She started, a bit raspy though.

"I don't know-" Suddenly, a brown cloak covered her.

"Shhhh! There are spies everywhere." Sweetie Belle whispered.

"What's your name?" Scootaloo asked.

The alicorn stopped.

"My…. Name?"

"Of course, what do they call you?" Sweetie Belle said.

"I don't know." Was all she said.

"Can you remember anything about your family? Where are they?"

"All I can remember is four alicorns and a shape… A heart maybe?" The girl whispered.

The three looked at each other, clearly worried.

Then there was a piercing alarm.

"Oh no!" Scootaloo cried.

"What's that?!" The alicorn yelled.

"Come on!" Applebloom growled.

"What?!" The girl said.

"We have to go! We have to go now!" Sweetie Belle cried.

Suddenly, the alicorn was swiped up by Scootaloo and was put on her back.

"Let's go!" Scootaloo barked.

Applebloom nodded then suddenly, Sweetie Belle gasped.

"My clip!" She creid.

The alicorn turned. "Can't we leave it?"

Sweetie Belle froze.

"No." Was all she whispered.

"Go! Get the alicorn to the camp! Keep her safe!" Applebloom yelled, going to help her friend.

"But Applebloom-"

"That's a order! Go now." Applebloom growled.

Scootaloo suddenly took off.

The alicorn gasped as they raced off. Her long hair flipped around the wind and she turned to see if Applebloom or Sweetie Belle were there but she couldn't see them. All she saw was a black cloud.

She squinted then saw it wasn't a cloud. It was some kind of insect ponies.

"Changelings." Scootaloo explained.

The word made shivers go down the girl's spine and she cuddled the brown cloak closer and made sure it was over her head.

"Hang on! We have a pick up to make!" The mare creid.

They swooped down and Applebloom grabbed her friend's hooves, Sweetie Belle was holding onto her.

The alicorn saw a clip in the unicorn's hair. It was of three blue diamonds.

They looked forward.

"Alicorn! See that stick ahead of us?" Scootaloo yelled.

The girl shook her head suddenly. She had been staring at the changling army. Why were they chasing them? Why did they want these mares?

She turned to see a stick a bit above them ahead.

"I see it!" She creid.

"Good! When I say, pull it!" Scootaloo yelled.

The time had come and the girl pulled the stick.

Scootaloo sped up and the alicorn gasped when she turned around. A changeling was so close then he grabbed her long mane. She screamed and blasted a golden beam with her horn, sending the whole army backwards behind the rocks the stick had been

holding.

Her hair had been let go but she was still frighted.

They landed swiftly and quietly. The alicorn leapt off and looked around. They were at a cave but it was closed off by rocks.

"Oh no! Those changelings must have closed in the rest of the camp!" The girl cried, trying to take back the rocks.

The three only smiled.

Sweetie Belle suddenly thrust herself into the wall and she was gone.

The girl gaped in shock.

"Come on. Let's go!" Applebloom said, stepping in.

Scootaloo nodded to the girl and flew in.

The alicorn slowly walked to it and went in.

The villains of Equestria ruled. For twelve years they had. The alicorn princesses had vanished along with the heros.

Their names were Sombra, Chrysalis, Tirek, and Discord. Discord remembered his friends, missed them too. But when the villains came to him like he knew they would, he didn't even try to fight.

"Where are those stupid changelings? We sent them hours ago!" Tirek groaned.

Chrysalis hissed in retaliation. "How dare you insult my dear changelings!"

Sombra chuckled darkly.

But Discord wasn't listening. A few minutes earlier, he had felt some kind of shift. Something like a spark had been lit. He had sensed great magic… Alicorn magic. But it was impossible, wasn't it?

Suddenly, a snowy changling army entered.

All the rulers sat up.

"Your majesty's! Report from the north. We caught sight of the leaders of the rebels!" One said very proudly.

His queen looked around. "Well? Where are they?!" She growled.

"Er… We didn't exactly catch them, my queen."

They all groaned.

"You can't catch three whimpy little girls?!" Sombra yelled.

Discord snickered.

"Little girls? It's been twelve years! They're practically adults."

"But more news. They had a child with them covered in a brown cloak. We couldn't see her face." The leader continued.

"A child? What news is a filly?" Tirek growled.

"This child had powerful magic. Magic that our army has only seen once before…. She seemed as strong as a…. Alicorn."

The room was silent when Sombra chuckled.

"Bring us this child."

New Friends And Skills

The young alicorn had already found home in the camp after two weeks of living in it. Everyone accepted her and liked her. They also expected great things from a alicorn. They stopped asking about her heritage because she didn't know. The filly looked

all around the camp which held many good ponies but couldn't find her parents.

She had been named Flurry Heart for being found in the snow and for only remembering a heart.

She had found that she liked Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle.

Scootaloo was really cool and acted like a sister the girl didn't know if she had. Scootaloo could fly fast but one time, on a flying lesson which she excelled in, Flurry Heart noticed that there always was a certain clicking when she flapped

or opened her wings. When she asked why, Scootaloo sighed.

"Look, when I was little, I had really tiny wings, I could only get barely off the ground. Then, my idol, Rainbow Dash went to the Crystal Empire for something… Royal, I don't know or care anymore."

"What happened?"

"She didn't come back, nopony did. The town knew without our heros, villains would come back. They did and Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and I fought with the adults. Applebloom got her scars from that fight. After finding this camp, Sweetie

Belle made a portal to this from the rocks…. I realized I didn't have time for growing up, that was long gone so Applebloom, smart as she, is made me these fake, robot wings that attach to my small wings, they never grew."

Sweetie Belle always kept her clip in because it was her sister's. This had all happened when they were eight years old, now they were nineteen.

Flurry had seen Applebloom with the three thin scars on her cheek after going to the camp. Applebloom was a mystery to her. She was silent most of the time and only opened up to her two best friends. She was sharp and stubborn when speaking to

everypony else.

One day, Flurry Heart decided to go and get some berries with Applebloom to talk, bond. She of course woar her brown cloak to cover her huge wings

Berries were rare and they had been trying to find for hours.

"So… What's your story?" Flurry Heart muttered.

"Excuse me?" Applebloom snapped, turning to her.

"Nothing! Just your friends have backstories and… I thought you would have one."

The mare looked away.

"How did you get those scars?" Flurry continued.

"... Eagle claw."

"Huh?"

"A traitor gave me these scars. He had a eagle claw." Applebloom whispered.

Flurry Heart looked at her.

"I'm so-"

"Leave me alone. We're looking for berries, remember?" Applebloom huffed.

"Right." Flurry Heart whispered.

"Was her name, your sister's…. Applejack?"

Applebloom froze. Turning, she had tears in her eyes.

"My sister was named Applejack. H-how did you know?"

"I heard the name before, somehow." Flurry Heart shrugged.

"I…. I don't think… I don't think she's gone. I think the Crystal Empire could be real! Not just a myth." They looked at each other and for once, Flurry Heart saw a glimpse of hope in the mare's eyes.

Then, they heard a small scream of horror. They ran to the noise and found a little while away, a small yak boy shaking profusely as changelings cornered him.

When he saw the two, his eyes lit up.

"Please, help me!" He creid.

"Shut it, boy!" Yelled the leader. Suddenly, a snowball hit him in the head.

He turned to see Applebloom had token out her pink hair bow that had held her mane in a ponytail and had used it as a sort of slap shot. She put another snowball in fired.

"Attack!" The leader yelled.

The rest of the army charged and Flurry Heart flushed in suprise.

She was the secret weapon of the rebels. If the villains knew she was a alicorn, they would want her dead and would go through any means to do that. She had to keep it secret.

The filly used her magic to fling snow at them.

She laughed at their tumbling but found a hoof had grabbed her.

She gave a muffled scream as she was tugged behind a tree.

Flurry turned and raised hoof to punch her captor when she saw it was the little yak they had saw cowering.

"Y-you…. You're just a boy." She breathed softly, dropping her hoof.

The yak nodded. "Listen, we gotta get you out of here." He whispered.

Flurry looked around and saw Applebloom wasn't there.

"Okay. Let's get my friend an-" He covered her mouth and she glanced at him in confusion.

"Listen to me, that mare isn't your friend. She's going to betray you!"

Flurry pushed his hoof away and smiled.

"I don't even know your name. Why would I trust you?"

The yak sighed.

"My name is Prince Randolph, but you can call me Randy."

The alicorn raised her eyebrows.

"Prince? Cool. Now, who told you Applebloom would betray me?"

They heard a little tinkling and a tiny creature popped out of his fur.

"I did, thank you!" Snapped a little gray breezie with a black mane.

Flurry Heart giggled.

"Oh! Of course, you did!"

The breezie huffed.

"This is my friend, Ashy Breeze. I found him yesterday and he can tell when something powerful or a betreal is nearby!" Randy creid.

They suddenly heard a yell. Flurry Heart snapped out of her trance of Randy's deep brown eyes.

She rembered Applebloom and gasped. She peeked out from behind the tree and saw her friend weak and ingired on the ground.

A changling walked up to the mare and grinned.

"With you, your precious friends will give themselves up and your little resistance will crumble." He laughed.

"No!" Flurry Heart creid, running and tackling him to the ground.

"Leave my friend alone!" She yelled, giving a slap square in the jaw.

"Get her off me!" The leader grunted.

Changings grabbed her from behind and she yelled in protest.

"Let go of me!" She growled.

When they didn't, her anger grew and grew until she snapped.

Her cloak flew off and captured her guards. Her powerful, huge wings spread out behind her and flew her up.

The girl's blue eyes turned pure white and her hair billowed behind her.

"YOU WILL BE REALESE MY FRIEND AND LEAVE THE REBEL ALLIANCE ALONE OR I WILL FIND YOU AND YOU WILL BE-" She stopped speaking and touched her head. Her white eyes faded back to blue and she fainted from exsaughtion.

"I knew it. The girl is a alicorn." The leader laughed. He walked up to the filly who had snow in her long mane and eyelashes. He slung her on his back and was about to take her away when he heard a yell.

"Realese her!" Applebloom had rose, Randy and Ashy Breeze stood beside her.

"Trust me, I will realese her, but right into at my Queen's hooves." He cakled.

"No!" Randy creid.

But suddenly, his head was a block of ice.

The three gasped.

"Foolish…" Flurry Heart grunted softly, still exsaughsted. She carefully flew to the ground.

"Thank goodness you're okay!" Applebloom creid, running to her.

The alicorn yawned and leaned on Applebloom. The mare flushed and looked down at the filly.

"Don't worry, you'll be safe…" She whispered softly, brushing back some of the girl's mane.

Applebloom let out a tiny whimper, rembering how she had been in almost the same way twelve long years ago, when she had a big sister.

"You'll be… Safe." Her voice cracked.

Randy walked up and smiled at the sleeping girl.

"My father will be exspecting me. You shall come too, he wishes to speak with the resistance leaders and of course, a new alicorn." He sighed.

Ashy Breeze give a tiny sigh. What would he help the princess now? Or would he help the rulers and take her? It was all a blur.

Rouge Royalty

Flurry Heart watched as the snow went around her and gently fell on her mane. She then then heard a noise. She whipped around, magic ready.

"Hello?" She whispered.

Nothing…

She slowly turned back but then something snatched her by her hair.

She creid out in pain as it tugged harder till she looked upward to the grey sky.

The girl tried her hardest to wrench away but the force held her firm.

"Hello, little alicorn." Cooed a distorted voice.

Flurry Heart shivered at it.

"Who are you?" She whispered.

Suddenly a black alicorn appeared beside her. Flurry Heart winced at the pain she had trying to move to face her and was forced look upward.

"Does it matter who I am?" The elder asked.

"I'd say so." The girl growled stubbornly. She felt a hard yank at her mane and she yelped, now knowing she had better hold her tounge.

"You'll learn soon enough, girl. You'll learn all of us."

Flurry Heart narrowed her eyes in her confusion.

Then, black smoke with eyes, a red centaur and a creature of many animals appered around her.

She hyperventilated with fear and closed her eyes. "Please, go away… I'm scared…" She whispered.

"Oh! Our precious little deity is frighted! How utterly awful." A dark voice chuckled.

Flurry Heart felt her face grow hot.

"Please." She grunted softly.

She felt her hair finally be released and she fell to the ground. She looked up and saw the villains had faded away.

"W-where…" Flurry Heart whispered, looking around. It was all black until a piercing light filled her sight. It was coming from a heart, like in all her visions.

She slowly walked up to it and was about to touch it when she saw a mare standing beside her.

She was a rose pink with a light pink, purple, and yellow mane. Her violet eyes seemed to dance.

"Who are you?" Flurry Heart whispered.

"No. Who are you?" The mare replied.

She suddenly vanished and the girl herself was looking back. The reflection giggled at her and Flurry Heart stared at herself. Suddenly, that music maker appeared beside the reflection.

"What are you?" She gasped.

The girl gave a taunting smile.

"I'm just you. That's all. But we do deserve to leave this world, don't we?"

"B-but why? What did we do?"

Her reflection suddenly touched the heart and a piercing scream suddenly echoed around her. The heart shattered.

The girl grabbed her ears and cried out as it continued. She looked up and saw her instrument splinter then shattered apart. She gasped and looked at the wood splinters. She carefully picked one up and held onto it.

The girl then saw something horrifying. In the distance loomed a dark cloud and it was going straight at her.

She gasped with fear and turned to run. It was going faster and faster!

She creid out but the darkness swallowed her.

Flurry Heart awoke with a jolt upward.

Applebloom gasped and turned to her.

"Are you alright?!" She creid, running to the girl's bedside.

She was in a bed of smooth sheets and a pillow. It wasn't much, but it was something.

"It was just a dream… Just a dream…" She assured herself.

Applebloom raised her eyebrows and put her hoof on the bed. Flurry Heart looked around at her quarters.

"W-where are we?" She whispered, looking around a grand room.

"We're in the yak kingdom. King Rutherford and Randy have given us a place to stay until we're ready to go home, which will be immediately after the breakfast." Applebloom said.

Flurry Heart was surprised at how big the palace was. It was like the villains didn't even care if the yaks were there. She was even more surprised when a female yaks came in with dresses for both her and Applebloom.

The filly had never worn a dress before but she liked the feeling. It was a simple blue dress and her long mane had been braided. She saw Applebloom many minutes later but she still wasn't wearing her dress.

"Ah' don't like dresses. It could trip me up and in this time? Ya can't be tripped up." Applebloom replied to the girl's raised eyebrows.

"It is a honor, your highness." Applebloom said, bowing low to the ruler of yaks, King Rutherford.

"As of you, pony." The King replied.

Flurry Heart peeked slowly up at the yak beside him from her own bow. Prince Randy, the boy who had tried to save her life yesterday. He was wrong, but that was a simple mistake.

She caught him along with Ashy Breeze, the breezie staring at her intently.

The girl felt her face grow hot and she felt like she may have hurt herself with the force her head went down. Why was her face so warm? Could she make it warm again? It was so odd.

That day at breakfast, it was a feast. Flurry Heart raised her eyebrows at a plate of round dough.

"What's this?" She asked, looking up.

Randy laughed. "Pancakes, silly."

"And what are they putting on it?" She asked again, cocking her head at the sappy juce.

"Syrup. You have a lot to learn, little alicorn." King Rutherford laughed gruffly.

Flurry Heart nodded, acting like she had known. She carefully cut a piece with her fork and ate it. Within seconds, she had shoved her head into the pancakes and snarfed them down. She looked up and saw Applebloom doing the same. The yaks ate different

/so they looked at them odd.

Applebloom looked up and glanced at the king. He held no exception. She slowly went back to eating.

"So." Rutherford continued, letting go of his fork. "Who are your parents?"

Flurry Heart choked and looked up to face the King.

"Er…" She saw Rutherford, Randy, and Ashy Breeze looking at her.

"I… I haven't found out." She whispered softly.

"Well… That is a certin shame." Rutherford muttered.

Applebloom looked at Flurry Heart and they locked eyes.

"Are you positive you don't know." The King asked softly.

Flurry Heart looked at him and squinted her eyes. All the yaks she had seen had brown eyes. But only Rutherford and his son had those tantalizing green eyes.

Ah, his son… She could stare forever into his ey- Suddenly, the King's flashed neon green.

She gasped.

"Is there something wrong, alicorn?" Rutherford growled.

"I… Your eyes…" She whispered.

The King gave a growl and the girl wished she could take it back.

His eyes turned neon again and heard a clatter that shook her out of her trance.

"Ah' knew it!" Applebloom yelled.

"Well, you sure took your sweet time with it." Rutherford growled, standing up.

He nodded to a servant who promptly bashed the mare with a serving tray. Applebloom collapsed.

Flurry Heart used her huge wings to leap out of her chair.

The King suddenly was engulfed in green flames and Flurry Heart gasped in shock.

"You were that captain of those changelings that chased me when the camp saved me!" She creid, almost tripping going backwards. She ran to Applebloom and held her head in her hooves.

"Indeed. It was an honor seeing you but I believe we haven't made a proper introduction-"

Flurry Heart felt a tiny tug at her hair and turned to see Ashy Breeze. "Come with us!" He whispered. She turned and saw Randy hiding behind a pillar.

"Are you nuts?! How can I trust you two when that yak turned into a changeling?!" She creid softly.

"Come on!" Ashy Breeze growled, grabbing even more strands of her mane.

Flurry Heart glanced back at the captain who was demanding around some servants then back at the breezie. "Ok. But we got bring Applebloom. Help me carry her." She whispered, putting the mare's arm on her shoulder.

"We can't bring her." Ashy Breeze said softly.

"WHAT?!" Flurry Heart screeched, inraged. She often was a sweet pony but leaving somepony she cared about in the clutches of evil? That crossed the line.

The captain turned and Flurry Heart realized her mistake. As if in slow motion, he flung a silver dagger right at her head. She screamed and ducked. The dagger landed in the wooden pillar above her, inches from her head.

"The Queen does want you alive… But I just couldn't control it, I just hate you that much." The captain hissed.

"I have one reason you can go with us, we don't throw daggers at your head." Ashy Breeze growled.

Flurry Heart nodded. She flung herself up and quickly grabbed the dagger. "I promise I'll be back." She whispered to Applebloom.

She followed Ashy Breeze and saw Randy join her.

"Flurry Heart-"

"Save it." She growled

She turned to see not see the captain chasing her but instead smirking back at her in the hall. Then, she saw it. He had the unconscious Applebloom slung over his back.

"Guess I'll see you soon, princess." He said smugly.

Flurry Heart gritted her teeth. "Guess you will."

She turned and flew away after Ashy Breeze and Randy.

"You just let her go?!" A servant gasped.

"Of course. She'll be back because by tomorrow, her little resistance will be captured with this one." He slid Applebloom off and kicked her to the servant.

"Inform the rulers. Tell them that I have the alicorn child in my sights. But don't tell them I'm handling her myself, and she won't live long enough to help anypony." The captain laughed.

"Yes, Captain Thorax."