Crystal POV

My name is Crystal. I am a green alicorn and it is time that I start to talk as well about this story. Because from here I came into the group and the lives of Zitrus and Blueberry. This all had happened more by a lucky coincidence. I was on that day walking through the desert and to be honest, it was not my favorite place to be. It is empty, lifeless and unlike other places there is not even much to look at. Just sand, rocks and some half dried out plants. The only reason I was here was because I wished the best might happen. Even though I didn’t put much hope into it. But little did I know…

I was kicking a boulder in front of me while walking through this emptiness. It was the only thing that kept me company at the moment. The last pony I had spent time with was more than a week ago. So, is it surprising that I felt a bit of loneliness?

Another kick on the bolder and it was rolling away from me, coming to a stop further away.
It gave me time to look at the landscape (if you can call it that) before I would have caught up to it for another kick. But there I spotted a pony, fully in blue. Blue mane, blue coat, blue horn, blue wings. A blue alicorn.

A sister!

She hasn’t seen me yet, but I started to walk to her direction. My hooves were going fast, even though I tried to stay cool, not showing too much of my excitement.

When I passed half of the distance between me and the blue sister, I spotted another pony to her side. This one was not an alicorn. It was an earth pony stallion, carrying a saddle bag, green shirt and had a black coat together with a flame-coloured mane. It sure was a unique view, seeing a sister walking together with an earthpony but that did not let me slow down.

Shortly after the blue alicorn spotted me she stopped, waiting for my arrival. So did the stallion.

“Hello sister”, I said as I caught up to them.

My blue sister gave a polite nod and a “hello” as much as the stallion gave a “greeting”.

“Happy to meet some pony of my kind out here”, I said, squeeing on the inside.

“Same here. I am happy to know there are still other alicorns in this wasteland. I haven’t seen one since a long time. Last time was when we still have been under the Goddess”, was her response as she looked around. “Are you alone?”

“Yes, I am”, I answered.

“Where is your wing?”, my sister asked me.

“Wing?”, the stallion joined our conversation. I was so focused on the alicorn that I nearly forgot that he existed.

It was my blue sister answering him. “A wing is a group of three alicorns. Preferably with all of them in a different colour. So, in other words, a blue, green and purple alicorn most of the time. During the Unity we often worked in a wing. This gave us the full potential since we have one of each magic spell on our side, able to support and work as a team. The three alicorns in a wing often got a strong bond between each other making me assume that this bond even remained after the Goddess’ death.”

The fire maned pony nodded in understanding. “But when we first met you have been alone. Where was your wing?”

I looked at my sister. I also was curious to know. She herself turned her head away. “I never had a wing. I always worked alone. The Goddess used me as a spy drone. My job was to gather information of all kinds. And one pony alone can stay way better hidden than three. I was also perfect for the job because I was a blue one, able to turn invisible.”

She then turned her head to me, waiting for my answer. I was also not happy to talk about it. I rubbed the back of my head with a hoof.

“Yes… You see… I left my wing.”

My alicorn sister did not show any kind of emotions. She kept a neutral face. But deep inside I knew that she was surprised by the answer. An alicorn normally doesn’t leave the wing. Not even after the death of our Goddess. The bond between each other was too strong and the support too valuable.

“You see”, I continued, “When the Goddess died, many alicorns wanted to fulfil the plan to have foals. We searched for help and the best one we could get was from the unicorn called Velvet Remedy. But I am sure you already know that.”

The blue alicorn only shook the head. “I know the plan the Goddess had but when she died, I have been in middle of nowhere and completely alone. I spent the time with… myself.” There was a coldness when she said “myself”. “This only changed a week ago when Zitrus”, she pointed at the stallion, “found me. Since then, I stick to him but still don’t know what happened to my sisters.”

I nodded slowly. Realizing that there had been an alicorn not knowing what had happened to her kind after our Goddess’ death…

“Well… now you know”, I said in an up-cheering tone. “Like I said, after the destruction of the Unity and Red Eye’s death most alicorns grouped up with Velvet to find a way to turn our sisters into males, to find a way so we can have foals.
Me and my wing also worked together with Velvet Remedy. But there was no success in our work.”

My mood dropped when I remembered that time. “After a month there was still no progress. Still no sign that I was able to make us have foals. I started to grow impatient, since I saw, that all this had no use. We had to do things on our own! How should a unicorn be able to know our kind better than we do?! But my wing did not think the same. They wanted to stay with miss Remedy until they find a way. So, I left them. I left my wing and started to work on my own. Started to search for a way on my own to get foals.” I stomped on the ground with a hoof.

My sister gave a nod. “And did you find one?”, she asked.

I looked away in shame and disappointment. “No…”

Again, another nod, but still she was keeping a neutral face. She doesn’t seem to show emotions very often, I already started to realize. I reached out with my telepathy and tried to read her thoughts, but she shut them down soon after I tried to get into her mind. She then gave me a displeased look to which I could only respond with a sheepish grin. Even though she had a big absence of all alicorns she still knew how to keep her mind shut.

The stallion she called Zitrus gave us two a confused look.

“Right…”, he said. “Then we shall not try to hold you up on your goal. Just be careful if you travel in this direction. We two have been attacked by three ponies who try to bounty hunt alicorns to sell their body parts.” He pointed with a hoof to the direction.

“Actually”, I said a bit too fast, “I wanted to ask if I could follow you two for a bit.”

Zitrus looked at me with a curious look. “I mean, I don’t mind. It is just that me and my companion have a completely different goal. We try to reach the north to sell gems”, he said.

I sighed and looked down. My hoof scratched the ground in defeat. “It is just… I don’t want to travel alone anymore. Not only does it feel that I won’t come further with this project anytime soon, it is also depressing to have no pony by your side.” I looked up again at the two. “All I ask for is some companionship and maybe a helping hoof if I need one. In return I will try to help you out as good as I can.”

Both, my sister and the stallion, looked at each other. “Well, I don’t mind. What do you think?”, Zitrus said.

My sister gave me a neutral look. “I must admit, it would be nice to have a sister to talk with sometimes. You also seem to know a lot more what happened to our kind after the Goddess died. This could help me getting a lot of questions answered. Also, I don’t see a reason why she should not.”

I gave a squee smirk from excitement. “Nice, I am Crystal by the way.”

My blue sister gave another nod. “Nice to meet you. I am Blueberry and this is Zitrus Mixus.”

What a strange name, I thought.

The fire maned stallion gave a polite nod. “Came you up with this name yourself?”, he asked.

“Of course, I did”, I answered proud.

“And why Crystal then?”, he wanted to know.

“Isn’t that obvious when you look at my body? It’s beautiful like a crystal.” I sticked my tongue out for him, opened my wings and posed my body in a fully view position.

I could see Zitrus blushing a bit and looking away while Blueberry, even now, kept her neutral face.

“So, shall we go now?”, I asked, turned around and started walking. But not without shaking my flanks in an obvious way.
I reached out with my telepathy, this time going for Zitrus’ mind and could only read stunned blankness. I chuckled and kept moving.

This is going to be fun!

Author's Note

We finally have a new point of view, telling this story. From now it’s going to be way more interesting since we not only have Blueberry telling from this story.

Like always, write what you like in the story so I know what I do right and write what I do wrong so I know where I could get better. Thank you all for reading.