The Legend of the Fourth Pony Tribe

A great earth pony tribe that resided on a remote island off the coast of what would become the magical land of Equestria. There were earth ponies populating the main land, too, but they did not have the magical qualities of the island-dwellers. The island-dwellers were not afraid of water.

Most ponies today do not go swimming too deep because of their hooves. They usually retreat when it gets above their belly fur. But these ponies, they could swim fearlessly in the ocean, ten times deeper then where they could touch. When the draquonicus invasion started the war, the monsters ignored the small island. When Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were defeated by Discord, they begged the islanders for help. But the ponies refused.

The war raged on, and while the islanders lounged in their homes, the main land ponies were fighting for their lives. Eventually, Discord and his kind were defeated, and Celestia was very angry at the islanders.

She was so mad, that she took her anger out on the island, know as Saddlantis. She sunk the island with her magic and turned all of the ponies' hind legs into fish tails. She then created a powerful force-field dividing Equestria from the oceans. She then cast a powerful memory spell on all the ponies, including her sister, Princess Luna, so they would forget Saddlantis ever existed.

Celestia assumed that the great city was gone, dead, lost. But she was wrong. We are still here, forgotten, but surviving in the oceans, trying desperately to get somepony to recognize us, and to prove that the great Princess Celestia was not so great after all." I finished writing as Father called.

I was trying to write a book on the history of Saddlantis and the hippocampi, but Father didn't want me to. His name is Triton, and he is King of the Oceans. That means I get to be princess, since I am his only daughter. Yipee. The problem is, I never wanted to be princess. I just wanted to be a regular old hippocampus, with a regular old life. You may ask, "How can a pony write underwater?" We use seaweed to write on. I know, gross, but that's part of the curse.

You see, hippocampi have lived undetected under the sea since Discord ruled. Yes, we do need air, but we can hold our breath for over an hour.

"Ocean Breeze! Come here!" Father called again. Rider's my nickname. My real name is Ocean Breeze, but everypony just calls me Wave Rider because... well, we'll get into that later.

In fact, this isn't even my story. This is the story of a certain princess who discover's her "perfect teacher" isn't so perfect after all. More on that later.

As I was swimming through the halls of the castle, a hammerhead shark drifted through the window lazily. That actually isn't that uncommon a sight. We use open-air windows(if you can call them "open-air" underwater) so all the fish and dolphins and such can drift through. I stroked the sharks dorsal fin with my hoof/flipper as I swam.

That's right, I said flipper. During the transformation, our front hooves kind of mutated into flipper-things. It helps us steer so we don't crash into wall, so I can't complain.

"Daughter!" Father greeted me. "I haven't seen you in ages. Have you been locked up in your room again?"

"Father!" I said. "You saw me an hour ago! That is NOT ages!" I rolled my eyes, though I am really glad to see that he cared about me.

"Hey, Rider! Want to go surfing?" asked my BPFF(Best Pony Friend Forever), Coral. "Oh, good morning, King Triton. May Breeze and I go surfing?"

"Yes," said Triton, rolling his eyes. "But stay close to the city. Don't want those land ponies to see you."

"C'mon, let's go!" I swim out as fast as my tail would take me, but I was about to go farther from the city than ever before. Inland.