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// The Pony Who Loved The Ocean (Ft. Oceana) 
// Story: The Book Of Friendship 
// by XombieSlayr 
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(Starlight's hooves quivered with anticipation as she opened the book to Oceana's chapter and started reading as she sat there in her comfy chair by the fire. She was instantly engrossed.)

The Pony Who Loved The Ocean (My love for the ocean, and even greater love for my friends)

Omni, never talks about back home. And she shouldn't. 

That place was horrible, but we managed to forge our friendship through it all anyways. She would proabably want me to just skip talking about it all, really. But....I don't know. I feel like taking about it, just makes it seem so much better that were here on Concordia.

Oh! Um...S-sorry, I haven't actually properly introduced myself or my chapter. My apologies. 


*Ahem* Hello, and welcome to my chapter in The Book Of Friendship. My name is Oceana, and I am the founder, queen and ruler of the undersea kingdom of Seaquestria. I was once an Alicorn like you (That is, if you are an alicorn. If not, then welcome anyways!) until, well...

Until I fell in love. 

Me, Omni and Eclipsa traveled here from our home planet. We don't like to say the name anymore, so we just call it "Homeworld." On Homeworld, things were bleak, dull and overall miserable. Magic was the most precious thing in the universe to the old Alicorns, and if didn't have a horrible greed for magic, then you were an outcast. 

Every single one of them, including my family, never once did anything for anypony else. Never once showed generosity or kindness to others. It was everypony for himself. And thats how things were. It was accepted without a second thought. Why care about anyone else? You're you and they're them. You is all that matters.

But then....Omni happened. She never understood why everything was so bleak, so grey and why everypony was so horrible and
uncaring to everypony. She never did what others did. She tried to talk to them. To get to know them. To make friends.

Eclipsa, did just fine back home. She did whatever she wanted, said whatever she wanted, and nopony ever cared. That's how she liked it. She was always, well....crazy. But she cared about her sister. And she embraced this idea of hers. Of befriending others.

Then....I met Omni. We both thought that all of it was wrong. That something needed to change. We were best friends almost instantly. 

Homeworld didn't accept us. Didn't except that ponies could have friends. In fact, they hated us for it. Finally, we decided to just say "Were done with this place." We left and never looked back. We still don't know what happened to it. And we still don't care to.

As we sailed down through those fluffy clouds of Concordia, having traveled millions of light years, we were overwhelmed by the outpouring of colors, shapes, beauty, so different from our homeworld, and then....I saw it.

The biggest most terrifyingly beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life. Blue. Blue was all I saw, all I wanted to see. It went on to the ends of the earth, stretching so far my eyes strained to see more of it. But it never stopped going.

As I got closer, I could smell the salt in the air, feel the cool breeze as the waves crashed against one another. I landed, and....just froze. I stared out at it. I wanted to be there, where it was. To know what it held.

The Ocean. it was fate that my name and this huge, terrifyingly blue thing were the same. I knew right away, I was in love. That I wouldn't ever forget about it. That every thought, every step I took, Every wind that blew, I would hear it calling me. And she would never stop calling me, till I went to her. And one day....I did.

That first dive I took, I remember the world being washed away. As I went down, all I could see was blue. The way the water shifted and churned, caressing every part of my body, to my horn to the tips of my wings. I felt like I was in a different world. A world I had to be apart of. I would dream of her, every night. Letting the ocean take me into her embrace, and letting world be washed away.

I would wake up, and the first place I would go was to the shores. I would look out at it, for hours. Even when I finally managed to pull myself away, I would always end right back in the same spot. Just staring out at it.

I flew over those waves more times then I can count. I would let myself nearly fall in, before pulling up into the skies. But then I would realize that I wanted to fall in. I wanted to be with the ocean forever.

One day I managed to create a spell that would permanently transform me into what I called a Seapony. I would retain my horn, but my wings would be lost, being replaced with huge wing like fins. And I would lose my hooves and legs, becoming a tail made up the bottom half of me. I had told Omni before hand, that I was leaving to be with the ocean. And of course she understood. 

Because even though I loved the ocean....I loved her so much more. I would return to the land every now and again, and of course I would forever be her friend. But a few days after I had gone, I realized that there were other alicorns who wanted to do what I did. Who felt they had a destiny in the ocean. I wanted to help them, to show them the world I now knew.

So I created The Mother Pearl, and invited those alicorns into the water, where they became seaponies just like me.

We were with the ocean, but we had nowhere in it to call home. 

It was then that we decided to build Seaquestria.

Seaquestria