Big Macintosh becomes host to the will of an ancient eldritch necromancer.

Nothing changes.

Written for EQD's Writer's Training Grounds #017.

(Audio version by AppleCore.)

A long dormant construct, buried over a thousand years ago in a secret lab beneath the catacombs under the Palace of the Royal Pony Sisters, awakens and begins to fulfill its long dormant directives, the first being to stave off the darkness, the second to find water to power its steam motivators.

It sets off to find equine based lifeforms, and discovers Zecora, who it identifies as the Sun Goddess.

Now, it demands that Zecora names it and gives it purpose.

Zecora does what any benevolent Goddess would do. She responds with good intentions...

Celestia, and Twilight are in canterlot one day to catch up. And they come across something they never could have dreamed up of. As well they will learn that monsters don't just happen, There's reasons that their bad.

This fanfic is based on a song I found by 4everfreebrony & DragonwolfRooke. [Link] And if he finds this, I love the song!

Disclaimer - All rights go to Hasbro (Characters) and 4everfreebrony & DragonwolfRooke (Lyrics/Cover art). I own nothing besides my PC and the story itself, but the lyrics belong to 4everfreebrony & DragonwolfRooke and the characters Hasbro.

Surf-on-the-Shore-Brings-Sand-to-the-Depths is a sea-pony. This, in itself, would not be strange, if any other sea-ponies had been seen in Equestria for the past 500 years.

Why, then, has he washed ashore now, covered in what look like hundreds of shark bites?

Written for the February Writing Contest of the World-Building Alliance - although, frankly, I'm not sure I've done enough world-building to even qualify. It started out as a more comedic endeavor, referencing the Gen. 1 song "Call Upon the Seaponies" from "Rescue at Midnight Castle" at every available opportunity, but it evolved into a romance after I listened to this song about ten-dozen times.

It is what it is. Inspiration struck, and I hammered it out. C'est la vie.