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// It's Coming 
// Story: The Thing From Beneath the Sea 
// by Jabberwocky1996 
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The creature moved through the countryside. The river was too small for it to swim through. It was in an unfamiliar world. Whenever it walked, trees fell over and the ground shook. Birds flew around it, often landing on it and either resting or picking at it’s parasites (which dwarfed the birds).

Suddenly, it sensed a familiar smell: food. This time it smelled good. Not like those cows it had eaten. 


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Nearby a brightly colored red and white barn, a brown earth pony with a plow cutie mark rested under a palm tree. He was fast asleep and so he didn’t awake when the monster walked towards his barn. No it was the agonizing screams and the sound of the roof crashing that awoke him.

The pony awoke as the screams grew louder and more prominent. He turned to see the monster, it’s head buried into the barn. 

“Hey, what the heck you doing to my barn?!”  the pony yelled “What are you crazy?!”

The monster ignored him. The screams were slowly dying away. Infuriated, the pony grabbed a horseshoe and threw it at the beast. It pounced off the creatures gills. 

The creature then growled and poked it’s head up and turned towards the pony. It’s teeth were stained with blood and a piece of a pig dropped from between it’s teeth and fell at the creatures feet.

The ponies face now turned to sheer terror as the creature hissed and moved towards him.

“Sweet Celestia.” the pony said.

Before the pony could scramble towards his house, the creature roared a deafening roar and it’s belly tentacles shot out and grabbed the screaming pony. They then threw the pony into the creatures mouth and with one huge bite the pony was impaled on it’s teeth and the pony died instantly. Then with one swish of it’s head, the creature swallowed the pony. It then walked away, growling as it went. 

It then stopped for a moment and scratched the back of it’s head. It purred as it scratched. It’s claws scraped the skin revealing dead skin and something else.

Falling off the monsters were grotesque crab-like creatures the size of a small dog. They had pincers and disturbing beak-like jaws. They fell to the ground and scurried under the monster as it walked away.


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The ponies rode the train out of Ponyville towards Dodge Junction. Dodge Junction, despite it’s desert location, had a river close by that led to the sea. Hopefully, the monster would be there soon. The environment changed from grass to sand slowly but inside the train it seemed to fly past at the speed of light. 

Fluttershy held the Elements of Harmony in a box on her lap. The other ponies sat beside or across from her.

“Do we put the Elements on right now?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“No.” Twilight replied “I suggest we wait until we get to the city.”

“Yeah, that makes sense.” Applejack said “A little.”

“What do you think the monster is doing?” Fluttershy asked.

“I’m trying not to think about it.” Applejack said.

“I just hope we don’t get eaten.” Pinkie Pie said “That doesn’t sound healthy at all.”

“Oh, good heavens no.” Rarity said.

“What time is it?” Twilight asked. 

Rainbow Dash looked at the clock above the door. 

“4:30.” she said.

“Alright, let’s go eat lunch then get back here.” Twilight said “We should be at Dodge Junction soon."