The sound of being underwater was silent, and pleasuring. You could feel the movement of the ocean, push against you if you were swimming in these beautiful, yet exotic water's. The fish, and a Magic Seal were chirping, or swimming happily, as they enjoyed the amazing beautiful ocean with the water flowing around them. The fish then panicked, as they sensed the speed of a predator approaching, as they swam away with high speed's, as the Magic Seal also sensed this, and began fleeing for it's life. The Great White Sharklantean that had set it's eyes on it's prey....it's eyes going from pupil to full blank, blood red, as it's heightened instinct kicked in, chasing it's prey.

The Magic Seal darted left, and right, doing it's best to avoid the fast, ominous predator that had sought for it to be it's meal. The Sharklatean was bigger, and much faster, swimming side to side, until it's jaws opened, revealing the row's of razor sharp teeth coming from it's maw. A loud snap was heard, as the jaws of the Sharklantean took out the Magic Seal, ripping every fiber, and flesh from it's body, devouring it with ease. After eating it's meal, the sound of a ship being heard caught the Sharklantean's attention, as his senses, studied the sound of the engine before recognizing the Oceanic Colony ship, coming from one of these mini Continent's....heading desperately to Equestria.

This was the third aquafitted ship, that would go near the shore.....sink itself, then the survivor's would crawl ashore alive with Equestrian swimwear, that made it look like they were a bunch of Equestrian swimmer's who almost drowned at the beach. The Great White Sharklantean didn't exactly blame the colonist's, with what had been going on in these part's of the ocean recently, he didn't exactly blame them for leaving their homes to get to the Mainland. He just hoped none of them, were having the same problems his clan was having. The Great White Sharklantean snapped out of his thought's, and began to swim back to a secret place he knew.

The Great White Sharklantean had already finished his meal, as he came across what he had been looking for, and underwater tunnel that seemed to connect to a cave system. He continued swimming until he came across a metal door, as the underwater scanner's, scanned his body. After it recognized him the metal door opened, as oceanic water flooded out, before he swam inside, as the door shut behind him. The inner part of the tunnel on the opposite side of it held a metal door which led him to another big cavern that was completely underwater. The wall's were line with a pristine futuristic metal, as a hand scanner popped up, shaped for his claw's.

He placed his claw hand in, as the docking system accepted him, as a cheery robotic voice, spoke on the opposite side of the room. "Sharklantean Docking procedure complete, initiating draining protocol" The voice announced, as the water within the metal room began to drain completely, allowing him to stand on the metal surface. This Great White Sharklantean's name......was Creature.
Creature stood up in the huge, now dry docking area that was his home, the water dripping off of his wet, oceanic, muscular body, his eyes turning from blood red, to normal eyes.

His Shark tail hit the ground with a loud thump, as he began walking through the underground civilization of his clan. He continued throughout the nice beautiful corrider's, and only spotted the royal Sharklantean's among places, here, and there. Other than the guard's, and himself the place was very much empty, and there was a very good reason why. A year ago, this place was full of Sharklantean life, now it was almost completely abandoned. Creature was about to check the new's report, only for it to be shut down, as one of the guard's stopped him. "Creature.....her majesty want's an audience.....please wait in the pool waiting room."

The Sharklantean told him, as Creature gave him a nod. He went into another waiting room, as he came across what used to be a nice area. The plant's in the room were dead, and the future tech inside looked broken, or cracked. Blood had smeared the wall's, as he noticed the huge pool of water that was now a mixture of blood, and water, as the normal ocean water spring was now a sinister looking crimson pool. Creature looked at the water itself, as he grabbed a small rock that was sitting on the ground. He threw the stone into the pool, as it sank deep into the pool. A weird bubble sound was heard, as a foul smell hit the air within minutes.

Multiple dead fish, and sea life bubbled from the pool, all of them having strange splotches of rotting skin on them, that had multiple bloodied holes. These dead fish were not only dead, but their bodies would twitch every so often, as he watched them stay afloat. Creature knew what was going on, and those fish weren't always like that...nearly 3 years ago, an infection began to spread throughout the ocean, that was very deadly. This infection was not only unnatural, but it was a plague deadlier than Cutiepox, and Swamp Fever. This infection had two sources of spreading....one would be the beginning of the infection, the other when someone was infected.

The infection would start out in one source.....water. Any body of water it would spread, and while other animal's got the best out of the infection.....Sharklantean's, and Equestrian species got the worst. This virus had 5 stages of infection, each one of them horrible in it's own way. This virus was called the Tryphoceaus Virus, and it was a deadly plague.

The first stage was strange rotting pieces of skin, with tiny hole's that would beat like a heart, as if it was alive. The skin crawled, making it uncomfortable, and make you lose blood, but also keep giving you water to survive. The holes would be tiny, and not cause much bleeding.

The second stage was when it got worse, after having three of these massive holes along your body, as you lost blood, while also being given more water, you would lose the ability to speak, you could barely even move your mouth, as you sat there in infected silence, unable to eat any of the food's you want.

The third stage you would have five of these holes on your body, all of them grown super big, and bleeding excessively, yet the virus would give you the same amount of water, as much blood as you were currently losing. Among this, you would also lose the ability to move your limb's, or go anywhere.

The fourth stage.....was death, your body would pass away, and the virus would stop giving your body water, and instead be giving you a special mutation in your brain.

The final stage of the infection, was not only would you mutate into a bloody, zombie mess, but the infection would turn you into the living dead, and you then had the ability to spread the infection to un-infected individual's. The Sharklantean's, and even the Equestrian's out among the Oceanic Colonies were trying to do everything they could to stop the infection, by coming up with a cure.....but the clan's had already been infected with the virus before they could even begin the cure itself, and now it was everywhere....and it would not stop until it reached Equestria's shore....before infecting the ocean first.

Creature knew this, as he snapped from his thought's again, as the final Sharklantean approached with him, as he spoke. "The Mistress will see you now" The guard spoke, as Creature nodded, following him to the royal throne of the civilization, where the Goddess of his clan was sitting. He bowed to the beautiful Goddess who changed her name from Venus.....to Veun to be a part of this society.

Even though she had chosen a deer body, she found her form to be both, cute, beautiful, and quite sexy. Veun looked down at Creature upon seeing him, as she spoke. "There is no time for pleasantries, My little Sharklantean....I need to talk, and show you something right away" Veun told him, as he immiedietly stood up, and gave her a nod. He walked with her to the huge Quarantine room, where all of the Infected Sharklantean's were, as they roared...trying to claw, and bash their way through the door, with nearly no avail. Veun looked at him, as she spoke. "Two of our clan have gone missing from this area....my guess is, they know what's up. The last civilian Sharklantean of the Predator Clan has reached infection a few day's ago.....and now he is about to enter the final stage...."

Veun explained, as Creature turned to her, and began to speak. "Then I'm the last civilian who was just a hunter in my job to be un-infected" Creature realized, as Veun nodded herself.

"Not only that, but one of our guard's has already been scanned and infected.....the Clan is no longer safe.....and neither am I, it's all come down to you Creature" Veun told him, as he stepped up to her....a bit hesitant, but having to go through this either way.

"What must be done?" Creature asked, as Veun spoke.

"Since this place will soon be a full on infection break out....you must leave immiedietly....I want you to swim to the Mainland, as fast as you can, and never look back. There I want you to use every ounce of instinct to survive, and recruit the best, and the most trustworthy team, so that you can return's to these water's, and free not just your own clan, but the other clan's as well. Once you've done that.....journey the entire planet with your team if you have to in order to create a cure for this plague." Veun ordered, as Creature bowed gently, before speaking.

"What's going to happen to you?" Creature asked, as Veun spoke.

"The minute you leave I will use all my magic, and energy to return my spirit to the heaven's, and this mortal flesh, and body....will end up destroying itself.....Good luck Creature....we are all depending on you" Veun told him, as Creature nodded, as he went back to the docking bay he had come in. The heavy steeled glass that allowed someone to see in, showed Veun giving him a small wave, goodbye. That was the last he saw of her, as a futuristic metal shielding protected the glass from shattering from the water that was about to flood the room.

He turned to the docking bay door's, as he took a deep mental breath, as his eyes went from normal....to instinct, blood red. The muscles in his body were rippled, as his vein's cracked, and his blood boiled. His teeth now looked sharper, and he looked monstrous, as a robotic voice spoke. "Now initating, leaving procedure" The voice spoke, as huge valves opened up, flooding the room full of water. Creature heard the magic of Veun leaving her body, and the sound of all the Infected Sharklantean's about to break free from quarantine....the last civilian Sharklantean, reaching the final stage of infection.

Creature could only make out everything in blood red, able to identify everything that his heightened instinct's could. He needed for the place to fill faster, as the room was halfway full. He heard the roaring of the Infected Sharklantean's, battling the Sharklantean guard's before all sound was cut-off, as the sealed room was submerged in water. The metal door opened, and he rode the powerful current out, as he sprinted out into the Equestrian ocean with full speed, not bothering to stop, until he reached the only place, he could survive.

*****
The full moon seemed to glow over the dark, closed beach of Manehattan. Creature submerged from the oceanic water completely, as he looked around, his only instinct being of survival. He looked at the big city, and didn't like the look of that place to stay there. The Sharklantean growled, as he leaped high into the air, and charged across miles of terrain, before coming across his intended target. He searched far, and wide before finding a forest not far from Ponyville with a nice waterfall, and freshwater lake. Creature had dipped into the water's, and created a burrow that led to his own cavern, where he would live.

It wasn't like his home....but it was the only comfortable taste of survival. Being a Great White Sharklantean, Creature hated the taste of freshwater, or swimming in it, but it was the only place for his survival....and his only food source, was of the small town of ponies for him to feed on.

Author's Note

Unless you've seen them fully on another sight, I would recommend watching all the link's in the story, and if you came here choosing to skip the prologue, and miss something, or a few thing's, then I'lk point it out