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// atcoltus, the city of (read as "under") water 
// Story: story of a hipposapien 
// by MidnightFMare 
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			Chapter 2: atcoltus the city of (read “under”) water
“Oh! Bonbon! You’ll never guess where we are!’ the green pony squeals, jumping on her friend.
Bonbon sighs, “At home? Cuddling in bed? This being a lucid dream from a bad batch of candy?” then pinkie pie jumps on lyra, which knocks the wind out of bonbon “No silly! We’re underwater!”
“Here we are! The underwater city of Atcoltus! Rumored since the end of discord’s reign, a world without the prideful sun’s glare! A world ruled by the kinder, humbler moon, a world in an endless dusk and twilight, where the stars burn cool, fish are friends and pets! Where houses are grown from coral and sponge! A picture as beautiful and untamed as the everfree forest! And the best part, sea ponies! More specifically, sea horses and mer-ponies. Oh!” he pulls three amulets out of his pocket, putting them around each pony. “Those amulets will transform you into sea ponies, but only as long as you are underwater” he explains, opening the door to the dark blue. With a cream, green and pink glow, the ponies are enveloped.
In their place is a cream sea horse with cotton candy pink and navy blue hair and a cutie mark in the shape of three wrapped pearls, a mint green sea pony with a bucket on her head, similar to the first, and finally, a pink dolphin-esque sea pony with three balloons on her hip and a huge afro of bright pink hair.
The cat? Just grew cat fish whiskers. 
He floats over to the sub, shrinks into a 1 inch cube, and puts it in his pocket
“Okay! Onwards to market!” the cat proclaims, waving to a snow white sea pony in shades
“Wow! Is that a sea urchin?! Cool!” lyra says, swimming over to it
“No! Sea urchins are often poisonous” the cat says, grabbing her by the tail
“WATCH OUT!” a voice calls, followed by a flash of earthy, coral colors the cat just extends a whisker and clothes lines the blur.
Pulling the whisker back he looks at the half marlin sea pony. “Where ya goin’ lil’ sea foam splash?” the sea pony looks up with large magenta eyes “Oh! Hey! You’re back! Gotta go tell everyone you’re back!” the sea pony says, shooting off in the opposite direction
“OI! Come back ‘ere wit’ my produce!” a british voice calls, followed by lyra eating a sea cabbage.
The cat puts his hand out and grabs lyra by the tail as a brown sea pony speeds up shaking a fist (fin?) at lyra 
“Now, pay for the cabbage or I’ll beat it out of ya!” the sea pony threatens
“Kelpie, I’ll pay for my companion’s theft, three coins right? Here’s ten” the kitty says, tossing coins to the brown sea pony
“Don’t let it happen again” she says over her shoulder
“Lyra, what have I said about doing impulsive things?” he asks, but the mare is too busy eating the cabbage.
A coral pink sea pony with light midnight blue and light silver lavender hair swims up to them and gasps “Lyra? What are you doing here?”
“Do I know you?” lyra asks, looking confused.
“It’s me! Seaswirl!” the sea pony turns and shows a cutie mark in the shape of two dolphins spinning “And before you ask, my mother was a seapony and my father was a fisherman (similar to aquaman yes?) so I can be on land as well as underwater!” she says, crossing her arms
“Lyra, who are you talking to?” bonbon asks, swimming over
With a bishi fan girl scream, seaswirl starts to go nuts “OMC! OMC! OMC! You’re here with bonbon?! A romantic underwater stroll? I have to tell sparkle shine, berry, colgate, cheerilee, rarity, everypony! This is so OTP!” 
“This is actually a trip to prove that sea ponies exist, at least, to lyra. Also, I needed some materials from here as well. And we have tea with the queen in 25 minutes so, we must be going” the cat interjects, putting the pink sea pony under his arm
(In the queen’s chambers)
“Hello queen coellocathrine, I hope I’m not late” the cat says, pulling a coral chair to the dormant black smoker tabletop. He turns to bonbon and lyra, “sit down, she rarely bites”
“So, what did you want to discuss?” the regal fish sips from her cup.
Suddenly, the cat draws his sword “prowl, kuroneko” he whispers, barely audible. The sword gelatinizes into a black liquid which forms into a replica of the executioner’s blade (zabuza momochi’s blade).
He swings it and pins the queen to the wall, her neck and head sticking out from above the groove.
“Guards!” the queen commands, armor-clad sea ponies appearing in the door way. The three other ponies swim to their guide’s side.
“Where is the real queen? The real one always addresses her guests from her couch, not the table. Of course, I’m her only casual friend” he says, eyes flashing red.
The queen smirks “So you saw through my disguise, clever” the queen morphs into a tentacle
“Pinkie! Subdue the guards! Lyra, use a tracer spell on the tentacle! Bonbon, keep her focused!” the cat commands. The green sea pony’s horn glows and a gold line leads out the door appears. Pinkie pulls out a net and captures the guards like tuna (I have learned to not ask where she gets that stuff from) 
The cat shoots along the line which leads to a painting. The sword transforms into a TASER and he slams it onto the painting; it turns several colors and patterns before it falls onto the floor, having turned back into an octopus.
“I have passed your test, now where is she?” the cat asks, looking at the octopus
The octopus nods and turns one of the bed posts, which causes the bed to shift on a conver belt, revealing a set of stairs
As the cat walks down them, he looks at the lyra and bonbon. “Something the matter?”
Lyra moves to speak but bonbon beats her to it “You just electrocuted an octopus underwater, and now you want us to follow you down a dimly lit pair of stairs hidden under a bed?!”
“yes… Fine, come on pinkie, we have a date to keep” the cat says, walking down the stairs.
A few seconds later the cat stops
“Oof!” bonbon grunts, bumping into him
“Decided to come after all?” the cat smirks
“No, the octopus was looking right through us” bonbon replies, pushing him farther
“Hello! Welcome ambassador!” an angelic but aged voice calls from the room in front of them
On a hard water bed is a young looking coelacanth-pony waving to them “Oh! Ms. Pie, did you bring what I ordered?”
“Yep! Water-proof fireworks just like you asked!” the dolphin-pony replies, placing a box on the ground.
“Shall we get down to it?” the cat asks, bending his arm and with a bright flash, a smiling mask shaped duel disk appears.
“let’s get it on” she replies, pulling an abalone shell duel disk out from her bed and putting it on her arm