Twilight was sitting at the hatch staring out at the water and just listening to the sad tones of Choral and Choc mint, Twilight hadn't seen any of her friends in a while and was worrying about them. There wasn't even a spell she could cast here that would help with the tragedy that had happened. Somewhere inside she wished she was back at home drinking hot chocolate with Spike like she was planning. That would be nice. Twilight looked down again and saw something moving in the water.

“What's that?”

She whispered, using her horn to illuminate below as best she could only to see that swimming below her was the white sea pony who had shut the hatch before, Twilight's expression turned into a grin.

“There's a sea pony down there!”

She called out and in nearly in an instant was Choral and Chocmint at Twilight Sparkle's side.

“My friends? They're down there?~”

The mare sea pony asked with some delight in her sing-song voice. The stallion immediately went to open the hatch and the White Sea pony swam up toward them.

“Something's wrong with her eyes..”

Muttered the icecream stallion who bent over and looked down at the water. Choral however didn't seem to hear his words before shouting.

“Rhapsody! You're alright?! I was so worried!~”

Twilight however furrowed her brows also noticing the strange gaze and spoke.

“Wait a second there is something wrong!”

Two hooves reached out of the murky black and suddenly grabbed a hold of the pink and orange sea pony's head, suddenly slamming the side of her skull against the metal edge of the hatch. Choral screamed, letting out a haunting crying noise as her head burst open.

“Stop her!”

Chocmint suddenly yelled, raising his hoofs and striking them against the arms that clutched choral. The sea pony let go and left Choral hanging loosely half way through the hatch. It's expression going from blank to a malicious grin.

“What's gotten into her?! She was trying to protect us before!”

Twilight sparkle asked perplexed. She however didn't have long to think on this subject when the sea pony's hoof slammed against the hatch close button.

“NO!”

They both yelled as blood splattered across their faces, Choral's head was brutally severed from her body by the hatch. A hatch that was designed to push back water pressure and thus struck through flesh like it was butter. Choral didn't scream, she was unconscious.. Perhaps that made her lucky. The white seapony swam forward and took the head in her arms, cherishing it was if it were a child. The black water stained red as it freely drained from the skull .Chocmint sat in silence, holding the bleeding severed body of Choral in his arms, her spine was drooling loosely from her neck but he didn't care in his grief.

“The sea ponies were our friends... ...Why did they do this?”

He asked half to tears.

“Why did they do this to their own kind?!”

Twilight tried to think through the tears that were welling in her eyes. She couldn't think. This was worse than Tirek stealing pony's magic, this was worse than Chrysalis sapping the love from her friends. This was MURDER and she couldn't fathom why.

“I was just here to solve a friendship problem. That is the least of our troubles... Did the map not see it?”

She whispered.

Twilight closed her eyes and took a deep breath and flipped the lock on the hatch so it couldn't be opened.

“I need to find my friends and we need to find out more about the black water.”

She pushed back her tears with resolve.

It was on.

Author's Note

This is my first story and as such I know it isn't perfect. I would love to hear what I did right and what I could improve upon. I would prefer constructive over toxic however!