Time seemed to slow around Velenka as Goblin rushed at her. The armored finja warriors were slowly recovering. Slowly, but not fast enough. She would have to deal with Goblin herself.

When Velenka was a little pup, Riptide Shiver, at the time led by Goblin’s mother, took over her home Shiver. She grew up among Riptide sharkkind, all the time dreaming to rule the entire Big Blue. When Goblin’s mother passed away, Goblin became leader, and declared war on the neighboring shiver, Drukija. Goblin killed the leader of Drukija Shiver, named Gystrom, and his son, Razor took over. Razor renamed his shiver after himself, and Goblin followed suit.

Around this time, four troublesome sharks left the two shivers and formed Rogue Shiver, with two sharks from Coral Shiver. Velenka tried to get their leader, a megalodon named Gray, to join her. She planned with Kilo to destroy Razor Shiver and get rid of Goblin, and from there, take over the Big Blue.

The plan took place at the Tuna Run, and the sharks of Rogue Shiver completely ruined it. Then, Finnivus and Indi Shiver wiped out Razor Shiver, leaving Velenka with no chance at achieving her goals. She killed Goblin and joined Finnivus just to save her hide.

Around her, other than the finja and Goblin, were the throne behind her, and a cave which led to a prison. One not too different from the one she was locked in after Finnivus was defeated. Time seemed to speed up again, and Goblin charged forwards.

Velenka performed the shark version of side-stepping. Goblin didn’t prepare himself and crashed into the throne. The great white shook his head and turned around. Velenka ducked and weaved through Goblin’s brute force attacks, using her mako speed to sneak attack Goblin. The large great white seemed to shake off her attacks. None of them left so much as a scratch.

A hammerhead finja recovered from the initial attack and attacked Goblin from behind. The great white had let his guard down, allowing for the hammerhead to land a would-be devastating blow, if it weren’t for the mako that slammed into him.

Goblin turned around. Velenka could have gone for his tail right then and there, but that was old her. The new Velenka would never attack a weakened tuna and would much rather take down a Megalodon.

“Spear!” bellowed Goblin. “Why are you here and not in the Caribbi Sea? And where is Hollow?” A scarred hammerhead swum through the opening in the cavern. Velenka thought for a moment that Ripper had come to save her, but quickly noticed that this hammerhead was a smooth hammerhead, not a great hammerhead like Ripper and Grinder, the leader of the fully hammerhead Hammer Shiver.

“Goblin, sir,” said the hammerhead, probably Hollow, “You said that a group of five sharks wiped out all of Coral Shiver last time, but we barely managed to fight off some pups! I think their names were something like Riffraff and Ebson.”

“Riprap and Ebbie,” corrected Spear.

“Right. It took both of us to hold our own against just one of them! We lost to nurse shark pups! We didn’t even get to their leaders!” Velenka checked back on the finja, who were now in attack formation. She questioned why they weren’t attacking, then realized they were waiting for her command. She shook her head.

“Rraaaww!” shouted Goblin. “Useless, useless, useless! I don’t know why I even hired you!”

“... because Goblin Shiver wouldn’t have a complete line otherwise?” suggested Hollow. Spear nudged Hollow. Goblin grew visibly angry towards Hollow.

“If you weren’t my fifth, I’d kill you!”

“At least let us tell you how this went down,” Spear said, trying to calm Goblin down.

“Fine. But it better make sense.” Velenka stealthily moved in closer to listen. This would be interesting.

It was a beautiful day in the Caribbi Sea. Pups were playing, dwellers were chatting, and the crabs weren’t fighting over a severed fish head. On days like these, Leilani the spinner shark liked to just watch and relax.

Of course, peace could not last long here. Ever since the attack over two years ago, Coral Shiver was caught up in everything important in the Big Blue, from the war with Indi Shiver to the invasion of the Underwaters.

However, Leilani was not a native to the Caribbi Sea, nor was she born in Coral Shiver. She was once a spyfish from AuzyAuzy. Her skills impressed the then-Seazarein Graynoldus, and she joined his entourage. After the events of the War of the Underwaters, Leilani joined Gray in Coral Shiver.

Just as expected, a mako and a hammerhead burst onto the scene. The hammerhead made a big show of how powerful he was, and how he was going to destroy them all. The mako seemed to just go along with it.

The tattooed blacktip known as Onyx led a group of mariners to the two sharks.

“Bring it on! I can take on any warrior!” the hammerhead boasted.

“Except for coral,” the mako muttered under his breath.

“What was that?” Hollow demanded.

“Nothing,” replied Spear. The mariners parted to reveal two nurse shark pups, playfully hitting each other. The two shark pups, Riprap and Ebbie, turned to Hollow and Spear with mischievous grins on their faces. The two pups charged.

Hollow was immediately overwhelmed and gave up. Spear held his own against the two pups, but just barely. Two Coral mariners captured Hollow. Spear barely managed to knock Riprap out of the battle, and Ebbie immediately turned from a playful pup to a fierce warrior. Spear attempted to use his superior speed to fight back, but Ebbie swam circles around him. Spear randomly attacked a blur and immediately died.

“That’s not what happened,” said Spear. “Just let me tell the Tyro-damned thing!”

Spear rushed forward out of the whirlpool that Ebbie was starting to form. He made a futile attempt to defeat the tiny nurse shark pup. Ebbie absolutely bodied Spear. Spear attempted to ram the much smaller shark. However, his adversary was far too small to hit.

“Tee-hee! You can’t touch me!” Ebbie mocked.

Meanwhile, Hollow tried and failed to escape from the mariners. He rammed his hammer-shaped head into a bull shark. Then, through sheer luck, Hollow decimated the entire shiver.

“STOP INTERRUPTING MY STORY!” screamed Spear.

“IT’S MORE INTERESTING THIS WAY!” Hollow screamed back.

“YOU’RE MAKING ME LOOK DUMB SO YOU CAN LOOK COOL!”

“WHY ARE WE SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS!?” shouted a random finja.

“Ahem. You need to leave. Now.” Velenka turned around to see Shear. She sighed in relief. Shear was a prehistore tiger shark and the formerly late leader of the Fin’jaa. She would have questioned how Shear was alive, but given the fact that a shark that she once killed had just attacked her, she didn’t.

“Who in the Dark Blue are you?” Goblin asked rudely. Spear clearly seemed fearful of Shear, and Hollow wasn’t paying attention.

“Who I am is not important. Now leave, before I command the finja behind you to kill you. Spear quietly nodded and turned to leave. As he was leaving, he bumped into the arriving Thrash, followed by Kilo and Streak.

“I suppose you three failed as well?” Goblin asked. The three nodded. “You are all useless to me!” Goblin screamed again, with far more rage than ever thought possible.

“Leave now before this gets ugly,” said Shear, now surrounded by the finja. They had somehow managed to sneak past Goblin and co., proving how they were as stealthy as they were skilled in combat (ignoring how a single barely trained shark managed to defeat all of them in ten seconds).

“I don’t know you, which means I don’t have to listen to you.”

“Do you want to have a bad time?” Velenka could practically feel the tension between the two massive sharks. It seemed as if either one could attack the other at any moment.

Exactly as predicted, Goblin attempted to bite Shear, but in a matter of seconds, Shear had Goblin tied up with kelp. Goblin screamed.

Thrash, Kilo, Streak, and Hollow all attacked Shear at once, while Spear worked on freeing Goblin. Two finja helped Shear push the four sharks back. Spear sliced through Goblin’s bonds with his abnormally sharp teeth, and the two of them joined the fight.

Goblin, Thrash, Kilo, Streak, Spear, and Hollow aligned themselves in a triangle formation. A two bull finja took the sides of Shear, a hammerhead hovered topside, protecting Shear’s dorsal, and a thresher took the back of the formation. The other finja covered the sides, essentially forming an audience.

The moment the two groups collided, Velenka could see who was going to win. Shear and the Fin’jaa had the clear advantage in both skill and numbers.

In almost no time at all, all of Goblin Shiver was defeated. Some finja started shoving the Goblin Shiver sharks into the cave prison. Velenka let out a sigh of relief.

“Are you going on an adventure? Can we go? Can we go? Please?” Both Skystar and Silverstream were now in front of Takiza and Dart, bouncing (metaphorically; they're underwater) with so much enthusiasm that Takiza thought their enthusiasm meters would burst at any moment.

“They certainly have the enthusiasm,” Dart commented.

“I’ll go tell mom!” exclaimed Princess Skystar. She wound up and sped off in a puff of... it can't be smoke, because they’re underwater. Uh... bubbles? Dang, narrating gets more confusing underwater. Silverstream followed after in an identical fashion.

“Have you planned our route?” Takiza asked Dart.

“Yup!” Dart replied, “Bribed the guards to leave the portal unguarded until we leave, too!” He paused before shifting his tone. “The giant crab skeleton at Slaggernack’s. You’ve heard of it?”

“Of course I have. It’s older than I am.” The ancient crab skeleton, known as Slaggernack, was always there. Even Hokuu told stories of how he saw the dead shell of the humongous crustacean when he was a pup. And Hokuu was at least three times the age of Takiza himself.

“It’s alive again.” Normally, Takzia would think that impossible, but since he had just come back to life himself, he didn't think so.

“We’ll deal with that after we meet with Graynoldus.”

Skystar and Silverstream poofed back into the scene. “SHE SAID YES!” they said simultaneously. They were somehow bouncing underwater, despite their lack of legs and the lack of floor to bounce off of (seriously, how does that even work?). “LET’S GO!”

Dart smiled as he shook his head. He led the way to the portal which he used to get to Fathomir. The portal could be engineered to go anywhere, but if you wanted to come back, you needed authorization from the Queen herself, whether that be permanent or temporary.

They soon arrived at the portal, which was a glowing circle surrounded by coral. The four entered together, and in a flash of light, they were elsewhere. Glowing water swirled around Takiza, and suddenly, they were there. No giant undead crab to be found anywhere.

“Welcome to Coral Shiver,” Takiza said, showing them the edges of the reef, "Homeland of the former Seazarein."

Author's Note

I am not sorry about naming a character Spear then introducing a canon character named Shear. And definitely not sorry about the Undertale reference x2 (neither are that hidden).

Side note, has anyone else noticed that both Skystar and Silverstream are the names of Warrior Cats? Skystar, the leader of SkyClan, and Silverstream, first mate of Graystripe. Actually, you could just chuck any Warriors name into MLP and it probably would still work.

Uber: No.
NightFlame: Ouch. I worked hard on this one.
Watson: I think we made a wrong turn somewhere...
Sherlock Holmes: Of course we did, you nincompoop! We’re underwater!
Uber: Could you please get out of our submarine?
(END LOG)

Character Profile (Spear and Hollow): They were once fins for hire, then were hired by Goblin to join Goblin Shiver as a fourth and fifth. Hollow is somewhat incompetent. His scars are not from battle, but bumping into coral while hunting in a reef. Spear is much better at his job. He’s fast, he’s strong, he’s capable of doing any job, except for killing nurse shark pups. And destroying a shiver. And making Hollow competent. (They are in no way based on Sleet and Dingo from Sonic Underground)