Hippocampus: The Rebirth

"Who are you?" She said looking at the white stallion wearing a cloak with a gold trim.

Saris felt a little hurt that she didn't recognize him, but it had been a while and he did look different. He decided to make a game of her not recognizing him. "You do know me think back to before Chaos's chimera had taken over Equestia."

She tried to when the knight with the over polished magic proof armor hit the wall next to her. "By the Maker, I hate magic" he said as he got up, He grabbed his sword which started to glow with magic. He charged the cloaked pony only to be blindsided by one of the tentacles and flew into a pillar. Celestia had heard him spit a vile curse as he flew.

Luna appeared in the doorway behind Celestia "Who dares to attack our castle!?!" she shouted as both Celestia's and her horns began to glow.

Saris wasn't paying attention to them however he saw a familiar pair of horns in the window. "Vengeance" He shouted as he ran and jumped for the window. He thrust Octotear into the window causing it to shatter before he got to it. He was moving through the air now about to thrust Octotear into Discords neck, and then he saw that Discord was holding the hooves of a yellow pegasus mare. He quickly moved Octotear sideways and nearly hit him.

Saris landed so hard that the water constructs he has been using as hind legs broke. He used this momentum to role as to not break anything else. When he finished the role he began to mutter "Killing an ancient enemy will not bring me peace".

Fluttershy darted behind Discord and he was shocked at the power he was seeing. He recognized it as the Sea Force. He began laughing "Oh looks like I missed a sea pony..."

"Your minion missed more than one Discord" Saris spat cutting him off. "My race has risen, fourth".

Discord snapped his talons and before Saris could react he was engulfed in light. As the light faded he was still there. "This isn't that surprising Chaos's magic never had much effect on me." Saris said.

Discord only laughed harder, "This is a joke right?" he asked Celestia and Luna who had gone to the window. They just shook their heads, Discord stopped laughing abruptly. He turned to the Sea pony "You called me Fourth." he said ominously.

"That is because you are a product of Chaos; he had to compete with his lover who had created the Tree of Harmony."

"How do you know that?" Discord asked pretty sure that Celestia and Luna didn't even know that.

"Because I created the first and second, the Kraken and Alicorn respectively." he turned towards Luna and Celestia "But being the second race wasn't good enough for the Alicorn's, no they had to create five different races to because they wanted to specialize in elements. Then they went and forgot how to be immortal, most annoying to say the least."

"Who in Chaos's name are you?" Discord asked astonished

"The life bringer." he said suddenly.

Celestia and Luna landed by Discord, "What is your name?" Luna asked him angrily.

"The Forgotten" this title actually carried wait with the three of them.

"Then why appear as a Sea Pony" Discord asked, surly you would appear as an Alicorn or in your god form.

"I have a fondness for the sea, after all the Kraken was the first thing I made. and I have been reincarnated as a sea pony since I was punished."

"But tell me Forgotten what is the name by which you went by." Celestia said.

Fluttershy stuck her head out from behind Discord to see who this Forgotten was. Discord felt this and looked down at her, a mini Discord appeared "you OK?"

"Yes"

"What is your name?" Luna demanded.

"Well if it wasn't important enough to remember, I don't see why you need to know."

Discord looked down at Fluttershy and she heard his voice in her ear "Do you think you can try your stare on him?" She nodded at him and then began to stare intensely at Saris.

Saris hadn't even been paying attention to her. Discord noticed this and snapped his talon, drawing Saris attention. Discord pointed towards Fluttershy and Saris followed where he pointed.

Saris's eyes met Fluttershy's and he felt a sudden wave of self-loathing. He felt as though he was going to die.

"My name is Saris, the Forgotten, the King of the Sea, the Exile, the Life Bringer, and the Keeper of the Abyss and all its knowledge” he said as though he was hypnotized.

Discord and Luna heard this and didn't like it, the exile was hated, and however the Forgotten is praised as the creator of ponies. "How are you the Forgotten and the Exile? They're two different beings." Luna asked hesitating not wanting to invoke his wrath.

"Is that how the history has eroded my image? I can assure you that we are one in the same and I do not cause much pain and suffering. Unless you include the suffering life causes itself, if you include that then I am indirectly responsible for the suffering that ponies cause each other. But now that I think about it, that is really the Alicorn's fault for splitting into the other five tribes."

Celestia hadn't been listening, she heard nothing after she heard the name Saris, It's just a coincidence that his name is Saris she told herself. That name still brought up the memories of her past.

"Oh, it is once to see you again Tia, how long has it been exactly? You'll forgive me I've been sleeping and I don't have a good sense of time."

Luna looked at her sister who was visibly shaking; this was not noticeable by Fluttershy. "Tia are you alright?" she asked her sister.

"The pony whose heart I broke is still alive after thirteen hundred years and he's a god. How do you think I feel?" She said to her sister in a hushed tone.

"Especially when you consider the reason you broke my heart, didn't want to see me wither, die and leave you, and now I'm immortal. How Ironic isn't it?"

Discord gave some awkward laughter "Well would you look at the time" he quickly snapped his talons and he and Fluttershy disappeared.

"Why did you teleport us away" Fluttershy asked him.

"That pony claimed to be the Exile, he was immune to any affects my magic could conjure to use agents him. If he is who he really calmed to be then he has broken free from his prison and that's not good on any level."

"Who is the Exile?"

"That's right Celsestia's and Luna's parents banned his worship, in favor of worship of just Harmony or Chaos, well more Harmony than Chaos."

"That doesn't answer the question"

"Fine, the Exile committed a great crime during the creation, no one knows what the crime was, especially since all the gods went and pored themselves into their creations."

"So you of the fourth race?"

"Chaos created my race to challenge the Tree of Harmony; it was told that my race is personally responsible for the creation of most land and flying animals."

"That explains why I like you so much" she said nuzzling him.

“Yes but like Chaos corrupted the plants, Harmony cur uptrend the animals, save the ones in the Everfree Forest. That was where chaos lived before giving is life to save Harmony.” Discord said with a grim look on his face.

“Chaos saved Harmony?” Fluttershy asked in surprise.

“Oh yes the embodiment of those two forces loved each other very much. Such a shame that their predecessors cannot get along.”

"Now that he is gone shall we get down to business" Saris said using his trident to make the water on the ground form back into his hind legs.

Celestia and Luna weren't sure what business he could possibly have with them. Saris saw the look on their faces and chuckled. "I'm the Forgotten remember if you remember the stories, most of my power is in the water itself. We're on equal footing here, and I simply have one demand that is nonnegotiable." Celestia and Luna didn't like the sound of this. "I demand that Oceania be recognized as a sovereign nation again."

Both the sisters breathe a sigh of relief "is that it?" Luna asked jokingly.

"No, but that is the only one that is nonnegotiable. The next is the security of Oceania borders, no ships are to stay in coastal waters lest they be destroyed by the Kraken, and you have fifteen days to get all of your ships into coastal waters before the Kraken starts his rampage."

"What!?!"Luna and Celestia said in unison.

"You heard me, my boarders are well defined and I refuse to allow my boarders to be ignored any longer." He said as the griffon ambassador was standing in front of the broken window. His eye's where wide at what he was seeing. The ancient and forgotten enemy of the griffons had risen from the grave.

Saris saw the griffon and called him over "You have fifteen days to return to your homeland. When you do tell your leader that he cannot allow his any ships to leave coastal waters and if he wants to open negotiations he is to come to the ancient island of Dorim bearing a ship painted red."

The griffon ambassador was stunned "you know that Dorim was destroyed by the eruption of the volcano?”

“Actually I didn’t, well then looks like I need to find another island to host peace talks on. I’ll also need to get in touch with the flame ponies as well…

“The flame ponies are extinct; after Screwball destroyed your kingdom she went and destroyed theirs as well.” Luna said gravely.

“Well that doesn’t change the dilemma much; maybe we can hold the talks in Baltimare…” he trailed off looking at Celestia and Luna.

“Fine we can hold he talks in Baltimare but you will need to let the griffons’ ship pass across the ocean.” Celestia said now taking a diplomatic tone.

“Very well…” Saris turned towards the Griffon ambassador “You know what the ship should look like, I’ll give you griffons three months to prepare then we hold the summit in Baltimare. That gives you two weeks to paint a ship, since it takes a month and a week cross my ocean.”

“No it doesn’t, it takes about a week” the griffon ambassador said matter of factly.

“Well then we shall push up the summit up to a month from now since your ships are so fast now.” Saris said.

“Now go and tell your…ah…leader that they is to attend the summit personally or the griffons will be excluded from the talks”

At that the griffon flew off and another griffon met him in the air and they circled once and flew away. Saris had abused his power to generate fear in the hearts of life and made the griffons feel much fear towards him. This had little to no effect on the Alicorns however because they were simply designed to resist fear. They still had a sense of self-preservation but they resisted useless fear.

Saris turned towards Celestia “So Tia how long has it been exactly?” he asked.

“Thirteen hundred years.” she told him with a hint of certainty in her voice.

“Well I have been away a long time haven’t I? So tell me, how life has been treating you, my dear sweet Tia"

"Don't call me that" Celestia said with annoyance.

"Why not, if I recall you broke it off because you didn't want to outlive me and now I am an immortal, it's actually much more likely I'll out live you."

"But you’re not Saris; you’re a god invading Saris's body." Celestia said calmly.

“That's only partially true. You see I always was saris I just didn’t know I was a god the whole time, I didn't change, unless you include my station or my lifespan, but most of my power is forever lost to me, for I poured it into the sea.” Saris replied.

“You said we’ve forgot how to be immortal?” Luna asked “What do you mean; my sister and I do not age.”

“Yes you don’t but my Alicorns were like the Kraken, in that they couldn't be killed. But your ancestors forgot how to deny death and well look what that has done to your race; there are only two pure bloods left. Now If you don't mind I have a newly revived kingdom to return to."