Hippocampus: The Rebirth

Things where going good for Falling Star, he was about to embark to the griffons homeland to study their constellations. This was rare for a unicorn to do but he was ready. Now he was in the harbor of Baltimare getting ready to board his ride when he heard a loud crash. He ran over hoping it wasn't his telescope, it wasn't.

Before him he saw the ship he was going to board in a few minutes tipped over on its side and sinking. He did a quick look around and saw the box that his telescope was in. Seeing it was OK he breathed a sigh of relief before the other event had hit him like a rock. He quickly ran over to the edge of the dock and started helping ponies out of the water.

He looked up as a shadow passed in between him and the recently risen sun. He was stunned at the giant red tentacle that had risen strait into the air. It crashed down into the center of the ship smashing it in half. It was sinking faster now, mush faster, in fact in the time it took you to finish reading this sentence it was almost complacently consumed by the bay.

Now he saw another tentacle that had latched itself to the end of the dock he was standing on. He saw a pony with a lump of coral on his head a long silver beard and a cloak with gold trim. He was carrying a white gold trident and he looked as imposing as Celestia and Luna.

"Tell thy unicorn, where do thee princess reside" He spoke with a booming voice.

"I didn't understand a word you said" Falling Star said looking shocked.

"It speaks the Hippocampus dialect!?!" the imposing stallion said surprised.

"Yes" Falling said tentatively.

"This is great I don't have to try to speak in that boring old dialect" he said still booming but he sounded more like a modern pony.

"Yes" Falling said now confused and terrified.

"Splendid, now tell me where do the princesses reside, for we have much business to speak of."

Falling was going into shock and he simply said "Canterlot."

"And that is where?" the imposing stallion asked sounding annoyed.

Falling didn't want to be on this bad side seeing what he did to the ship and pointed to the mountain top where Canterlot was located.

"Thank you good citizen of Equestria, but I must take my leave to speak with your princesses. Oh and I wouldn't leave by boat if I were you this beast will be stopping any and all boats that leave coastal waters" he said this then walked past Falling Star, his fish like tail nearly smacking Falling in the face as he passed.

Once the imposing sea pony had left Falling Star fell on he rump and said to himself "Looks like I don't get to see the griffons constellations after all" he said as months of bribery, trading favors, and smooth talking just went down the drain.

Saris was walking through the city, he knew that the ponies would by his bluff. He actually hadn't awoken the Kraken yet, but he would if he had to.

As he walked his odd attire was causing the ponies to look at him. He did notice that there were no flame ponies among then. Could it be that the flame ponies were destroyed buy Discord as well.

A funny looking pony walked up to him and said "My heavens what are you wearing, you look like you crawled out of the ocean." he said laughing and several other ponies began to laugh along with him.

"Is that honestly what passes for humor these days, it's quite pathetic, reminds me of your attire. But you know not who you talk to, For you are in the presence of royalty."

"You royalty" the posh pony said laughing harder.

Saris simply shook his head and pointed his trident at the posh pony. "Don't say I didn't warn you" a small vortex appeared at the tip of the trident. From the tip came out the red tentacle and it wrapped itself around the posh pony lifting him into the air. It swung the posh pony around and threw him into the window of a store.

Two ponies in armor ran over to the posh pony, the posh pony simply pointed towards Saris. The guards turned towards him, and one charged a spell on his horn, a beam shot out of it. This prompted Saris to simply move his trident in between him and the beam, his trident absorbed the beam, which surprised the unicorn. The pegasus flew at his and he simply held p his trident and smacked the pegasus with the side of it.

The unicorn shot a beam into the air and more armored stallions appeared from behind buildings. "I do not have the time to entertain all of you" Saris said as multiple vortexes opened around him, there where eight exactly. large red tentacles came out of them all. The tentacles went to work, they slammed into the ponies, grabbing and throwing them, even though the tentacles were being aggressive, but they didn't kill any of the armored ponies.

As the tentacles raved Saris walked to the edge of Baltimare, even though he was a bit away from his tentacles he could still hear the guards yelling at each other trying to destroy them.

He came upon an odd sight, it was two strips of metal with wood planks set across them. There was a pale looking unicorn nearby, "Pardon but what is the purpose of this odd design?" Saris asked the pale pony.

"It is a train track, if you go to the train station you can purchase a ticket to ride on the train, it's a faster way to get around." the pale pony said explaining to Saris.

"I never said I didn't know that"

"No you didn't but your face did' the pale pony said before he teleported away.

Saris was sitting on his car of the train to Canterlot, he had actually bought the car in front and behind him as well. His new found power had allowed him to create things out of thin air, or was it his newly remembered power, he honestly wasn't sure which made more since.

The train was coming to a stop at the city that, in his opinion, was stupidly suspended over the side of a mountain. As the train stopped he stepped off and found that the posh pony was nothing compared to the ponies he saw in this city.

As he walked he saw that most of the ponies were looking at him. He tried not to think of them, he was trying to think of what he was going to say to her, Celestia, or as she had preferred in those days Tia. How should he address her, he wondered, he decided that she was the ruler of Equestria now, best to remain as formal as possible.

He was walking around and saw a pony crowed by a bunch of others, he was a white unicorn with blue hooves and mane and the most pathetic facial hair he had ever seen.

Saris walked over to a pony vender "May I be so bold to ask directions to the castle where your princesses reside." he asked the vender who was baffled by the way he looked.

"Well, um, you go down this road and turn on the third left, go down to the fifth right then turn the castle will be on the about five blocks down on the left." the vender said eyeing the white gold trident in fear.

"Thank you citizen of Equestria, you have been a help."

Saris followed the directions of the earth pony vender had given him and found himself standing in front of two guards and a large door. He walked up to the door and was about to knock on it when one of the guards turned towards him and said "Sorry citizen we cannot allow any pony in right now".

"I am not a citizen of Equestria!" Saris shouted insulted by the notion of being an air breather. Even though Hippocampus could breath air the hippocampus prided their selves on their ability to survive in the deep and changing ocean.

"It doesn't matter you still cannot be aloud to enter"

"And why is that?" Saris asked annoyed.

"There is a griffon ambassador in today for trade negotiations" the guard said now a little annoyed, but he didn't show it.

"Well then, looks like my presence is needed more than ever now." Saris said as he lifted his trident. He smacked its tip on the door and a powerful shock wave shot out of it. The doors blew back hitting some more guards, as for the guards by the door, they were thrown down the street.

The moment the guards behind the door recovered they charged him. Not one got close to him, as soon as they were in range he would smack them with the side of Octotear.

"STOP!!!!!" Saris bellowed sending out another shock wave, "You dare attack the King of the Sea" he continued as a small vortex opened and a stumpish mass cam out "What the!?!"

There was a series of screeches from the portal as the stump disappeared and a beak came out of it, "Well just put another tentacle through". There was another series of screeches and the beak moved accordingly, "I searingly doubt they cut all of your tentacles off", the screeches continued.

"Yes well then reconstitute...what do you mean you can't...you don't get tired...for the love of Poseidon, fine i'll deal with these under armored ponies myself...yes you can see them before you go."

The beak receded into the vortex and a large eye came out and rolled around, and there were more screeches. "Yes they did change their standards of protection, perhaps they've gone to long without a good war. The screeches sort of hiccuped and Saris started laughing, "Yes I guess that is true" he said still chuckling.

Saris finished laughing "Ah that was a good laugh, now back to work" he said as the trident flashes and a spell contoured into the vortex, and a giant red tentacle came out of the vortex almost immediately and more vortexes opened around Saris. but more stumps came out of them. "Oh sorry" Saris said rubbing the back of his neck, then he shot more of the spell he had shot into the first vortex at the stumps. they all grew into large red tentacles.

Saris was certain that he wouldn't need to stay to watch the fight of the guards and his tentacles. He was about to leave when one of the guards loped off one of the tentacles, which made Saris feel pain in his fore hoof, Darn I forgot about the proximity pain when I use my tentacles he though as the pain amplified because another tentacle got cut off.

He shot the cit tentacles and made them regenerate, I really wish I had gotten all of my power at once. He had to keep regenerating his tentacles because these guards knew what they were doing. "They're not as good as they used to be, but they're better than expected compared to what they look like." he accidentally said out loud.

"We will fight to the death to protect our princesses!!" a pegisus shouted at him.

"Yes your devotion to them is most encouraging, I had originally thought of you as just a bunch of mercenaries she had picked up from the plains of Equestria."

"My leaders said that these changes are as much as they are allowing, no exceptions!!" the griffon shouted.

Luna rolled her eyes "The old trade agreements worked well for your last leaders"

Celestia was bored by this; it happened every time the griffons changed rulers, they always insisted on changing the trade agreements. "Luna is right the trade agreements have been the same for nearly two hundred years, why does your master order the change in the agreements? I'm not going to change It." she said wearily.

"My master insists that the agreements are unfair." The griffon said bluntly.

There was an enormous crashing sound from outside the room in the hallway. Before any of them could react an earth pony knight who wasn't a guard smashed through the door, he landed on the table, his sword nearly hitting the griffon. The knight garbed his sword and ran back into the hallway screaming "For the Maker!"

Celestia and ran to the door as Luna went to check on the stunned griffon. The sight she saw was stunning, a white with silver elder looking pony with a lump of coral was standing in the middle of eight giant tentacles that were writhing around.

The White pony turned towards her, "Ah at last I get the pleasure of speaking to the illustrious Princess Celestia Co-ruler of Equestria. That has a nice ring to it Tia".