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Pristine's Back Story

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Pristine’s Backstory

Pristine’s life hasn’t always been easy.  In fact she would have never become an alicorn without all the struggles she’s been through.  However, she’s had plenty of close calls.

Pristine was born in a world similar to that of Equestria’s world.  Magic existed there, but unlike Equestria where it was celebrated, here it was shunned.  Sad thing was the inhabitants there never realized how much influence it had on their planet.  Like ponies could get cutie marks here, but one would get ostracized.  Majority of ponies here were either earth ponies or pegasi.  The few unicorns who were born here led very hard lives because they had the ability to use magic to its fullest.  Ponies actually feared magic due to them not being able to explain it scientifically.

Pristine was the first born of a normal Earth pony couple.  Her birth sent shockwaves throughout the area since she was the first unicorn to be born in the town in over a millennia.  The town up until then had a great reputation for having “Pristine” conditions of not having unicorns there.  Pristine’s mother totally rejected her and would have abandoned her if it hadn’t been for the filly’s maternal grandmother, Calla Lilly, who convinced her mother to keep her.  Her grandmother was the one to name Pristine.  Pristine was kept hidden from the world at first.  She thought it was because her parents wanted to protect her, but soon learned the cruel truth, they just saw her as an embarrassment and were worried about their reputations.  She longed to see the outside world though, especially when her brothers came along and were allowed to be outside.  Her grandmother did her best to keep Pristine’s curiosity at bay.  This proved to be hard though as Pristine’s magic abilities grew.  It was also discovered that her emotions affected her magic too.  Calla Lilly saw that Pristine was an empath like her too.  Pristine became sadder when her family pretty much ignored her.  

One day though her emotions got the best of her when she was 8 years old.  She asked her mother if she could go to school like her brothers, but her mother kept saying no, citing that it was dangerous.  This was the last straw for Pristine and in her frustration she created a shield blast, which ended up hurting Calla Lilly, who put herself in front of Pristine’s mother.  This horrified Pristine, but no sooner could she do anything else, her father collared Pristine, which sent shocks through her and she passed out.  It was a mechanism to stop someone from doing magic.  Pristine was barred to her room and no one was allowed to see her.  This sent Pristine into a deep depression.  Thinking it be better if she wasn’t around, Pristine started using magic to activate the collar, thinking it would eventually ‘end her pain’.  Alarmed at her granddaughter’s actions, Calla Lilly went against her society’s rules, freeing Pristine.  Being a pegasus, she fled with her granddaughter, who was unconscious from all the shocks, to a nearby wooded area where she heard magical folk hid.  Unfortunately it’s also a highly dangerous area filled with beasts.  While fleeing deeper into the woods, monstrous beings end up attacking Calla Lilly.  Wounded, Calla Lilly ended up hiding Pristine, who woke up long enough to see her grandmother fight off a pack of lions, only to lose her life.  Overwhelmed with feelings she couldn’t control, the young filly attacked the beasts, killed one, and wounded the others, causing the pack to retreat.  Exhausted and drained, the little filly collapsed, drowning in tears.

Pristine woke up to find herself in bed.  She learned that several unicorns came upon her after feeling her attack.  Turned out she’s underground where a secret society of unicorns lived.  Pristine at this point has pretty much given up and even though she’s found others like her, the fact she felt she’s the cause of her grandmother’s death and took a life traumatized her.  She doesn’t speak to anyone.  However, one of the unicorns is able to learn her name through telepathy.  She ended up staying with the couple who found her.  It took them awhile to coax her to open up and explore the quiet village.  She ended up attracting the eye of a unicorn colt named Lance, who began visiting her a lot.  Pristine felt a connection with him, but feared getting close to anyone.  She didn’t want to lose anyone she cared about ever again.  Lance did his best to cheer her up.  It won’t be another 2 years after she’s rescued that Pristine found her voice again.  Now even though the unicorn sanctuary is a good place, it’s not perfect.  Few of the adult unicorns had grown tired of hiding and had been trying to find ways to ‘be free’.  The area did have a library with ancient texts of tales of other worlds, few mentioning places where magic was accepted.  Pristine’s adopted parents were amongst those who wanted to find a way to get to these ‘other worlds’.  Pristine’s curiosity started peaking again and out of the blue she ended up asking her mother if she could go to these other worlds.  This shocked her mother and she hugged and nuzzled her for finding her voice and Pristine felt loved for the first time in a long time.  From that moment on, Pristine started taking magic lessons and learned as much as she could about these worlds from the library.  During this time, she and Lance grew closer.  However, the peace Pristine has found wouldn’t last for long.

One day when Pristine was about 14 years old, her home was founded by ponies from the surface who were ordered to find and destroy any unicorn.  Apparently, the “Above Ground” or AG Ponies had become so paranoid about unicorns that they worried they would rise up and destroy their society.  Finding herself loosing her family again, Pristine became overwhelm.  Lance came to her rescue though and it’s at this moment he gained his cutie mark and realized his ‘calling’ was to protect the innocent from tyranny.  However by protecting Pristine, he himself got injured and this in turn caused Pristine’s magic to go haywire and she attacked their enemy and teleported the two of them out of the area back into the forest.  Even though both are injured, the two fled from their pursuers.  Having ran out of magic, the two found themselves on a cliff near a waterfall.  Hearing the ponies chasing them, the two took a leap of faith and jumped off the cliff.  The two lived through their ordeal, but were badly injured.  Pristine regained enough magic to heal Lance’s wounds but passed out.  Lance managed to carry Pristine to a nearby cave, enough though he’s exhausted.  He woke up refreshed, but Pristine was still out for the count.  Even though he’s not as skilled as healing as Pristine was, he did try his best to take care of her and it’s during this time he came to realize that he had fallen for her.  Pristine eventually recovered and the two decide what their game plan was.  They agreed to stick with the Emergency Plan that the village came up with in case something like this happened.  They would make their way to the nearby city where there was another underground unicorn sanctuary.  Hard part would be getting there.  They decided to travel at night, less likely of getting caught.  

It took them several months, but eventually they find the secret entrance just outside the city.  It’s connected to the city’s sewer system.  Thanks to the shielding magic of those there, the place hadn’t been founded yet.  They found other survivors of the attack and were welcomed there.  Pristine learned though that her adopted parents were killed, but met her adopted father’s family.  However she decided to live with Lance’s cousin’s family, having felt safer with him.  Lance noticed Pristine’s dependency on him though and encouraged Pristine to ‘stand on her own hooves’.  And even though he loved her, he tried to give her some tough love by not being around her too much.  This hurted Pristine, but also angered her a bit too and she decided to do things ‘on her own’ for once.  It is during this time Pristine learned about the concept of “Balancing one’s Magic”.  Wanting to get better control of her own magic, Pristine ended up under the tutorage of a unicorn who learned how to do these things through a magical Kirin.  It is also through him she learned about other worlds.  He claimed though that there were only 2 ways to travel to these worlds, one must have powerful enough magic to travel through dimensions or find special portals that connected with other worlds.  During this time, Pristine learned to control and balance out her magic more and more.  Her sensing abilities became more acute too, so much so she sensed where there was a lack or overabundance of magic.  She figured that the AG ponies were trying so hard to restrain magic, that it’s causing an imbalance of it and it’s overflowed into other areas creating dangerous areas like the woods she was once in.  She mentioned this to her tutor, who thought she’s onto something.  Pristine started to worry that this imbalance could one day threaten all who lived there since she noticed how important balance was.  Wanting to do something about it, Pristine started practicing transfer magic from one source to another.  

Unfortunately her practices started to get her noticed by a few unicorns who became jealous of her abilities.  These unicorns started to harass Pristine, who in turn tried to ignore them since she knew that anger will only cause her to lose control again.  By this time Pristine was 18 years of age.  These same ponies also teased her for not having a cutie mark yet since most by this time had one.  Pristine decided it’s time to find her own place since she felt she’s old enough to.  Plus, it hurt too much to be around Lance since she felt he doesn’t want to be around her anymore and she just wanted him to be happy.  In reality, Lance had been training so he could better protect others, especially Pristine, but as a result he’s been very busy.  So when he learned Pristine was moving out on her own, it came as a bit of a shock to him and he reprimanded himself for not being there for Pristine, especially when he discovered she was being picked on.  Regardless, he helped her find her own place and told her how proud he was of her.  

Pristine found that she enjoyed doing things for herself and came to realize that she has found love for herself.  It wouldn’t be long before she was tested.  One day there was an earthquake where the underground city was, and Pristine felt that the balance in the particular area was starting to vanish.  Deciding to risk it, Pristine went to the epicenter and did indeed learn that the earthquake was being caused by the imbalance of magic.  Wanting to stop it, she grounded herself and started transferring the magic to another area.  However the process started taking a toll on her body.  Lance, having followed her, showed up and started giving Pristine words of encouragement and ended up revealing his feelings to her.  This gave Pristine the strength to complete the transfer and realized this was something she was meant to do.  In that moment her cutie mark appeared.  

Even though the shaking stopped, enough damage caused the ground beneath the two unicorns to start crumbling and before the two can react, they found themselves falling.  Pristine was spent from having to balance out the energy of the area.  Lance created a barrier shield around them, but instead of hitting ground, the two ended up falling into an abyss, which turned out to be a portal to another world.  They landed into a body of water.  Lance helped Pristine to shore where he saw a Kirin in front of him.  The Kirin welcomed them both, saying she had been expecting them.  Turned out this Kirin could sometimes see into the future and predicted their coming.  The Kirin, named Neami, showed them where she lived.  Both Lance and Pristine were grateful, but are worried about those they left behind.  It was revealed that Neami was the daughter of the same Kirin who tutored Pristine’s old mentor.  Neami and Pristine’s mentor had been in contact with each other over the years through a magic crystal ball that only worked when the portals between their worlds were briefly opened.  So Pristine was able to get word back to her mentor they were okay.  Both Lance and Pristine decided to stay with Neami for the time being since in this world, magic isn’t shunned.

For the next few years Pristine and Lance explored the new world and became a couple too.  Amongst the creatures they met were dragons and good natured lions.  Also the lions here had wings.  The couple became best friends with a golden dragon named Slycer and a silver lion named Auboron.  Both Pristine and Lance started wanting to wish they could fly also, but know it’s not possible.  Neami kept telling them that anything was possible.  The Kirin started thinking that the two were soul mates since they had a strong connection, felt whatever the other was feeling, and noticed when something happened to another, it affected the other person.  Both Pristine and Lance’s magic abilities took new forms too.  For one, both discovered they could transform things.  Both could transform their appearances and that of others.  Still they kept on practicing their main abilities; Pristine with her healing and balancing magic and Lance with his protection and fighting magic.  

Even though the world itself was in balance with magic and the two unicorns were fully happy for once, it wouldn’t last.  Pristine began to have nightmares and sensed something horrible was going to happen.  Even though Lance tried to assure her things would be okay, he was starting to feel the same way.  Evil did exist in the world and unfortunately, it decided to take action by conquering the areas around it.  Seeing this havoc was starting to cause imbalance, Pristine took action by heading for the source of the evil.  Lance went with her as well as Neami, Slycer, and Auboron.  They figured that a smaller force could get in easier.  Plus, Neami had the ability to temporarily mask their appearances.  Pristine helped her with this too, even though her skill doesn’t come close.  They did manage to get close to the source, but found it protected by a corrupted barrier shield.  Pristine became horrified by its energy for she never felt anything like it.  Turned out the source itself was corrupted and was using Evil for its own gain.  Soon the small group found themselves under attack by this force.  In the scuffle, Neami was injured and Pristine ordered Auboron and Slycer to get her out of there.  Both reluctantly did so but promised to find her again.  Both Pristine and Lance fought back even more and discovered that by working together, their powers became enhanced under extreme circumstances.  Finding itself up against the wall, the Corrupted force tried to take out both by unleashing all of its power.  Both Pristine and Lance crossed their horns in an effort to protect each others.  There was a blast as  both pure and corrupted magic collide.  Lance woke up to find the area cleansed, but Pristine was no where to be found.  Thinking he lost his mate, Lance wailed in anguish and returned to his friends.  Neami assured him though that Pristine was still alive, he just had to find her.  Lance vowed to find a way to find her, even if it took him to the ends of the universe.

Pristine in the mean time found herself in a different realm all together.  In that moment when the magics collided, Pristine took all that was in her to cleanse that magic and distributed wherever she could.  Because she was able to cleanse magic, she ended up being transported to this realm.  (This was actually the area Twilight became an alicorn).  She heard a voice saying she has been found worthy before a glowing light  surrounded her and she felt something came out behind her back.  Seeing what she had became Pristine was thrilled and learned she now has the ability to traverse to different worlds in order to help restore balance to different places.  Pristine wanted to find her mate and friends though.  The voice assured her that Lance would find her, but still has some learning to do.  And he had to be the one to find her too since he’s better at ‘finding things’ than she was.

Pristine accepted this and began her long journey of traveling to different places.  This was how she ended up finding Equestria and a realm known as the Rift.  She never gave up hope though that one day her mate would find her, even though several thousand years had past since she last seen him.

So this ends Pristine’s tale.  What happened to Lance though?  That’s another story.
Well I finally did it, I came up with my OC's backstory.  Being a unicorn originally and ascending to an Alicorn, I do hope this story doesn't bore anyone.  When I came up with this story, in the back of my head I wanted Pristine's struggles to mirror mine, even though the settings are fantasy lol.  This does include part of my mate's OC's background too.  Oh I based Pristine's grandmother off my own maternal grandmother.  Her favorite flowers were Lillies.  The Kirin that appears is a completely original character.  Those of you who don't know what a Kirin is, it's basically the Chinese version of a unicorn.  The lion and the dragon, Auboron and Slycer are two more characters based on 2 other fictional characters from my story The Lost One.  I changed the name of one of them since I felt it didn't suit him.  That would be Auboron.  In the story he was called Stormrider.  I didn't change Slycer's name though.  I let me know what ya'll think of my OC's back story okay?
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Such a sad story about Pristine's existence. But at least she is in the right place now. If there is such a thing. :P