Twilight Under The Sea

Underwater life, Twilight decided, was way more fun than whatever the surface world could have. Who needed hooves anyway when fins worked so much better.

And if what Skystar and Silverstream were telling her was true, this was just the tip of the perverbial iceberg of what she could do now in this form.

The three of them were at the momen taking a lap around the base of Mount Aris, as the island above the waves was apparently called. Unlike before, they were avoiding the Trench.

Twilight could still see it though. It encircled the entire island it seemed. Out beyond that were the waters of the deep blue sea.

"Does anyone ever go out beyond the Trench?" She asked after awhile.

Slverstream shrugged. "Not many do. Forget the Krakens, there's things out there that'll see us as lunch." She shivered at the thought.

"We could outrun most of them though," Skystar added. "I mean, we can swim over 600 m.p.h. if we need to. But most don't bother."

Twilight's jaw dropped. "Six hundred?"

Silverstream giggled. "Oh yeah. We all can. Most of us don't need to, but we can. You just have to watch where you're going."

"What happens if you don't?" Twilight asked.

Skystar rolled her eyes. "You run into things. It takes awhile to learn how to do it right. And it hurts when you run into a rock." She and Silverstream both winced at some shared memory."

Twilight briefly wondered what had happened to them. Her eyes though were drawn to a familiar wreck in the distance. Before she had left it alone, but her curiosity was raised this time.

"What is that wreck?" She asked, pointing at the ruined leviathan.

Both Skystar and Silverstream shared a look before answering. "It happened before we were born so this is how Queen Novo tells it,"Silverstream replied.

Twilight was worried now. "Tells what?"

Skystar sighed. "So that belonged to some guy named the Storm King. Mom was pregnant with me when his fleet came. In peace he said."

"His second in command, Tempest Shadow, came to talk. She said that she ha heard that maybe there was a way to fix her broken horn," Silverstream added.

Twilight touched her own. She knew enough of surface ponies that only unicorns and alicorns had them. "What happened to hers?"

"It was broken in half by an Ursa Minor. Mom was more than willing to try. She didn't know if she could, but she wouldn't leave anypony like that," Skystar replied.

Now Twilight was curious. "Did it work?"

Skystar ahrugged. "We'll never know. It was all a distraction. Tempes was the one to draw mom out, and kill her to take our Pearl."

Silverstream sniffed. "My dad was killed while they were talking. They only found him later. It was the signal to attack."

Twilight gulped. She didn't like where this was going. "But? Seaquestria's still here, so something didn't work."

Skystar nodded. "Tempest found out the hard way why no one messes with mom. Her horn was broken, but her magic wasn't." She poked her necklace. "Unfortunately for her, she didn't know all mom's necklace can do. It makes any magic thrown at it turn back on its source ten fold."

Silverstream giggled. "Safe to say, Tempest's day got a lot worse. You can ask her about it if you want too."

"She's alive?" Twilight asked, shocked.

Skystar nodded. "Rotting away the rest of her life in the dungeons. Grubber goes down every day to feed her and keep her company, for all she appreciates it anyway." She giggled at the look on Twilight's face. "Grubber's the eel you see around a lot. He's actually really funny if you ever get a chance to talk to him."

Twilight made a mental note to try that later. "So what happened then?"

"The Deep Ones rose from the Trench. Mom didn't have to call them, they came on their own. The Storm King's fleet was destroyed, though he survived," Skystar replied as she pointed at the rusting hulk. "That one was his personal one. Yeah, he wasn't happy at all about that."

They all giggled. "I bet," Twilight replied.

Silverstream touched her own necklace. "So Queen Novo decides she'll handle the big guy herself." She smirked. "Just to make it more fun for them both, she even changed herself into what he was. And she still kicked the stuffing out of him. His staff wasn't much help."

Twilight felt she knew which staff she meant. Seaquestria only had one. "If that happened to him, what about his army?"

"Fed to the sharks or killed when the fleet was destroyed," Skystar replied. "Grubber was spared because he didn't do anything and switched sides in the end."

Now Twilight couldn't hide a shiver. One that had nothing to do with the water temperature. She hoped she never had to see anything like that. For a moment she wondered if she had once, but was lost with her memories and past. It didn't really matter though.

Not anymore.