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// Chapter 12: One to Rule 
// Story: My Little Pony: The New Rewrite Movie 
// by Arkogon 
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Cecaelia was still on the balcony controlling Lagriahu to kill Neslia. Lagriahu blasts lightning at her, but she dives into the sea and backs tail on him many times and energy blasts.

“You think you're very clever?" She growls, wanting to destroy her. "Well, let's see if you can hide from this!" She raises her trident commanding Lagriahu to full electricity and blast it into the sky creating a powerful thunderstorm.

And Krad sees what she was doing. “Your majesty, it will..."

"Doesn't matter, Neslia first!" She ignores him as she knows what will happen. The thunderstorm strikes around the sea and Canterlot. It struck everywhere including ponies, hippogriff, and Atlantians. Neslia dodge and weave from a thunderstrike but it struck her as she still continues on.

"Your majesty, the weapon is ready." He shows her the big harpoon is ready to fire.

"Excellent." She said in furious and pushed him aside. "Move aside! I should be the one who does it." She places her tentacle on the lever and focuses to aim at Neslia. "Come out, Neslia. Can't hide from me."

Meanwhile, Twilight and her friends made it to the balcony and saw her with the big harpoon. They now knew what she was about to do.

Rarity gasped, “That naughty squid! She's gonna harpoon our big friend!"

"Actually, she's an octopus." Fluttershy pointed out.

"Who cares! Time to squish that slime fish!" Rainbow Dash cracked her hooves as she was ready but stopped by someone.

“Not so fast!" The Mane Six were stopped by Atlantians Generals who are now protecting their queen and given orders. "No land-creatures will harm our Queen. Including you, land-ponies." Sir Claw added.

He activates his claw into a blade, Hark swings his anchor, Znappy recharges her gauntlet, and Ray reloads his crossbow. They block their path to their Queen, as they know they have to beat them.

"Okay..." Applejack now tired of them. "Now I'm really tired of them."

"Yeah!" Pinkie agreed but not knowing what she meant. "Are we really tired of them?"

"Yes, we are." Twilight ready herself as her friends ready.

"You've got this, Twilight!" The pink earth pony smiled encouragingly.

"No. We've got this. Together." Twilight said triumphantly.

With that, the Generals start to attack as the Mane Six ready to take them out. Applejack and Pinkie Pie face Sir Claw, Rainbow Dash battle Znappy, Rarity and Fluttershy deal with Hark, and Twilight and Spike deal with Ray.

Rainbow Dash and Znappy battles around zooming or zapping around with speed. "So, you're saying you're the best zapping-zoop eel in the Equestria?" She chuckled. "I thought you were that fast?"

"I'm faster with full zappy!" Znappy unleashes her lightning bolt at her but misses.

Pinkie Pie and Applejack are still dealing with Sir Claw and keep on dodging his blade, and Fluttershy and Rarity are still dodging from Hark's anchor as he keeps on swinging around trying to smash them.

“Hark smash land-ponies!" He slams his anchor at them but misses.

“Now hang on!" Fluttershy paused Hark as he pauses and listens to what she has to say. "Maybe you shouldn't not smash us, or anything. Smashing is very bad and could hurt anypony."

"She's right, darling." Rarity agreed. "If you stop smashing then nopony can get hurt."

"Huh..." He thinks about it. "Hark would stop smashing." They believe they finally made him change his mind. "If land-ponies do not annoy Hark from smashing!" He swings his anchor at them, and they scream and get out of the way.

Twilight and Spike deal with Ray but he is a hunter with skills so he knows about them. Twilight tries to use her magic but forgot she does not have her magic anymore, only Tempest has them. Spike breathes fire to roast him but Ray manages to swipe water on Spike's mouth to extinguish his flame, then throws shuriken stars that are starfish which pin Spike to the wall. Twilight tries to help but Ray holds her at point pointing his crossbow at Spike if she takes another step.

"Any sudden move, I will hurt your friend." He threatened her, but something he wanted to know. "Tell me, why did you save her?"

Twilight stands there as to why he wants her answer of why she helped Tempest. For Tempest, she arrives and sees them fighting but more Atlantians come to warn their queen then see Tempest.

"Princess Tempest, the Alicorn has escaped! We must inform the Queen." The Goblin Shark announced, but Tempest manages to trick them.

"I told our Queen. Return to your post!"

They respond and return, giving time for Twilight and her friends to deal with the Generals. But Krad sees Tempest have tricked them and he informs Cecaelia about her sister's betrayal. "Your majesty, Tempest have betray-"

"Not now!" She growls and does not pay attention. "I'm busy!" She continues trying to harpoon Neslia.

This outrages Krad and he then looks at Twilight who was still standing and he knew what he must do to put an end to it all. Twilight still can't move but must answer Ray's question if she wants Spike to be okay. “I save her because that is what friends do." She answered.

Then Ray ask one more question. "And why would a friend help a unicorn who betrays her kind for all this?" He still wanted more, as Twilight tells him.

"Because they sometimes have good hearts in every creature, including Neslia..." She and Ray look outside seeing Neslia fighting. "She has a good heart because the land and the sea have a heart she loves. And if you have a heart, then you could do something for a friend."

Ray thought of what she said, every creature from the surface has a good heart. With a second thought, he pointed his weapon at her but only to stun Krad who was about to strike her with a trident. This made Twilight see he did that just for a friend. “Do what you must." He then leaves not wanting to be part of the fight.

With him leaving, Twilight then faces Cecaelia who is still with the harpoon. She hurried leaving Spike still pinned on the wall with shuriken stars. But he manages to get one out and see Applejack and Pinkie still dealing with Sir Claw giving him an idea. "Pinkie!" He got her attention as he threw the star to her.

She caught it with her mane and threw it at Sir Claw which cut his mechanic claw off. He screams as he jerks back with fury of losing a claw. "Do you know how hard that claw was to replace?!”

"Better than cheating, Lobster!" Applejack honest, and he attacks her.

Rainbow Dash was still dodging Znappy's attack but saw the metal claw as she took it and swung it at her, knocking her goggles off, and she was blinded without them. "Hey! Where are you?" She looks around blinded.

Then Rainbow Dash play around her. "What's wrong? The blind eel can't see without goggles?" And the eel zaps around.

Rarity and Fluttershy are still dealing with Hark as he slams his anchor at them but gets it stuck. But that gives them the chance which leads Znappy unleashing her powerful electricity to almost zap them but electrifies Hark's anchor through the chain zapping him as he was fried.

"Hark got... zap......" He fell backward which he accidentally landed on Sir Claw who was too focus on Applejack and Pinkie.

"Get off of me, you big hammerhead!!!" He muffles as his tail jumps trying to get out.

And Znappy doesn’t know if she hit the blue pegasus. "Did I get her?" She asked too blind if she did, as Rainbow Dash was behind and punched her very hard.

"Now that was a zap." She said, with a awesome tone.

Back with Cecaelia, she's still controlling Lagriahu and trying to get Neslia out of the water. But she still swims around and keeps on blasting energy at him. This frustrates Cecaelia as she still tries to aim the harpoon, but is stopped by Twilight pointing a trident at her.

“Cecaelia!" She yelled pointing a trident at her. "Stop this!"

"I won't!" Cecaelia then points her trident at her. "I can't let my predecessors' dream be destroyed!" She explained everything. "My father passed away leaving all of his ancestors' legacy to me. He believes that I can restore the sea and help every land-creature evolve like us to live in harmony."

Then she made corrections as her friends saw her speaking to her. "But that's just wrong! This is not how you can bring harmony by bringing the sea to flood Equestria."

"I did this to correct my predecessors!” Cecaelia said, telling her why she’s doing this. “I want to prove they were wrong to judge their actions. I want to prove them wrong. The sea is the only harmony for all of us."

Then Twilight sees the trouble of her life. "But harmony is not about restoring everything, it's about uniting every creature between the land and the sea. Your father doesn't want you to bring the sea to our land, he wants you to unite two worlds into one."

Cecaelia starts to take her words and lowers her trident, stopping Lagriahu from attacking, and moves her tentacles away from the harpoon. "But... my predecessors.... Their legacy.... Everything depends on me. I can't fail them."

"Then change..." Twilight puts the trident down and lifts her hooves. "By being a friend to every creature. Take my hoofs, then we can make Equestria better again, together." Cecaelia's tentacle reached for her hoof slowly, as Twilight's friends watched, seeing she had finally convinced her to stop.

But before it can happened, Neslia pops out of the ocean, and bite and hold Lagriahu's tentacle, getting their attentions giving Cecaelia the sinister smirk and grab the trident and blast her back to them, then raise her trident as Lagriahu lifts his tentacle that Neslia hold on, and her tentacle pull the lever firing the harpoon. It flies straight to the two big creatures as it passes through his tentacles straight to Neslia's chest, and pierce through her scale, as her eyes grow wide. Everypony, hippogriffs, and the atlantians, including Tempest, stop and see Neslia impale with a harpoon, and the Mane Six and Spike were traumatized by the event, and Tempest couldn't believe her sister had just killed the Last Guardian. Neslia felt the harpoon in her and fell into the ocean and disappeared into the sea. That's when the hippogriffs were in rage of their lost Protector and began attacking the Atlantians with every might they had.

Twilight and her friends have lost hope again, and Cecaelia laughs maniacally of her victory.

“I did it!" She celebrates her victory. "The sea is finally mine!" She claims the sea to be her control. "And it's all thanks to you!" The Mane Six did not know what she meant, as she revealed everything. "That's right. I send you there! I give the Generals to chase you all the way to Mount Aris so you can awaken her and bring her here. And you did! You did everything I wanted you to do." This made them see they were part of her plan and were playing along to bring Neslia here, and Tempest had heard and couldn't believe she had been lied to again. "Everything was part of my design to take back what was rightfully ours. Neslia was supposed to join her kind to the death a long time ago. And with her gone, the sea can finally be free. No more Guardians, no more lands, and no more land-creatures we have to see. Only the sea that will be our new salvation. This is our home!"

They couldn't believe they had led Neslia to her death and failed their home and Equestria. “You use us!" Applejack was furious. "You force us to bring her here!"

“And I did,” Cecaelia said. “You played your part and did all my tasks, completing that no creature had ever done for me. I thank you all for helping me."

"What?" The look on Rainbow Dash's face. "We will never help you, you six-legged squid!"

"Yeah!" Pinkie agreed. "And you can't kill a creature, that's illegal! This is a kid's movie!"

"Was...." Cecaelia pointed out. "Because my part is to kill her, and I did. That's how it works in this story."

"Well here's a thing, Princess.” Spike added. “We will never let you win." Then the octopus Queen thought of what he said.

“Hm, I think I have enough with that Princess anymore. Call me, your Queen." She taps her trident promoting herself as the Queen of the Sea, and controls Lagriahu to create a powerful storm and waves around the sea, frightening everyponies and hippogriffs they are doomed. "Now, kneel to your Queen."

None of them kneel but are mad, and Twilight was angry she had gone mad to the surface. And they all made their stance. “Girls... Grab that trident." They all run towards Cecaelia as she figures they will choose not to kneel.

"Have it your way, land-ponies." She ready herself with her trident.

Rainbow Dash tries to grab the trident but Cecaelia controls the water and splashes it on her. Rarity pulls down the curtains on her, as Applejack uses her rope and lasso around wrapping her. Cecaelia cuts free with her claw and splash water on them. Pinkie and Twilight appear behind her and try to take her down, but she sees them through her reflection on the trident as she splashes them behind. Spike was about to breathe fire but she extinguished them, again. And Fluttershy tried to reason with her but got a splash too. Rainbow Dash swoops in but Cecaelia tilts herself backward, as Dash swoops to miss her, and her tentacle grab her foreleg and swing her back towards her friends, as Twilight duck, then she washed them away. Twilight was now facing her alone as her friends then tried to help but were being attacked by the Atlantians who sensed their Queen in danger. They took cover, as Twilight continued battling Cecaelia.

"You really think you can beat me, Twilight Sparkle?" She said, controlling another water. "You don't have any magic in you anymore. You're not a princess no more."

Twilight gets up not letting her win. "Maybe not..... But I am Princess of Friendship, and I make friends by helping others who need help by learning friendships. But you, you are not a friend who needed help."

Then both of them continue fighting, as Twilight manages to grab the trident but she holds on not letting it go. Both struggle for the trident of taking control of Lagriahu, and her tentacles then grab both of her hooves away then manipulate the water and splashes it on her, pushing her away. "I don't need help from anyone. I got what I wanted." Cecaelia told. "Everything that happened, I did everything all by myself, not with friends or anyone."

"And your sister..." She said as Cecaelia revealed.

"She plays her part, not mine, hers. All she cares about is having her horn back like a little pony. She got what she wanted, and I got what I want here." She twirls the trident controlling more waters. "Now, kneel!!"

Twilight did not kneel but charged forward until her forelegs were caught by puddles holding onto her. She tries to escape but Cecaelia summons a large stream of water bent from the oceans and engulfed her. Then she was trapped inside a water sphere while being held in the air, as her friends saw her drowning.

"Twilight! Nooooooooooo!!!" Pinkie said, as she tried to save her.

But they were still pin down by Atlanteans still continuing firing at them. Krad regains consciousness and sees his Queen is drowning Twilight which he now sees she's the true Queen.

“You should've taken my offer, but you didn't.” She said, furiously. “Now it's over! The sea belongs to me, Twilight Sparkle! I am the Queen of the Sea! I ruled the sea by my predecessors before my ancestors, I dream of completing my father's vision, I kill the Last Guardian of the Sea. Everything will be restored in my way! Once you're gone, I'll drown your friends, your princesses, your boyfriend, and any new friends to the depth of my sea. I will take the throne and evolve every land-pony to what they should be like us! "There's Only Room for One Ruler!" And that is me!"

She forcefully drowns Twilight as she struggles to hold her breath. But couldn't and was starting to drown and her friends are still down and being close in by them. Tempest sees what her sister is doing and knows she's gonna kill Twilight just for the throne and everything, and immediately starts her sparks.

"Nooo!!" She cried out and shot out her powerful electricity at the water sphere freeing Twilight from drowning. She falls to the ground gasping and coughing, as the Altantians Guards, Krad, the Mane Six and Spike, and Cecaelia witness her actions as she faces her sister with a furiously look.

“You dare to betray me?!" Cecaelia asked furiously, seeing her sister just save the alicorn.

"You done enough killing!” Tempest roared. “I won't let you kill another!" She growls at her sister, but the Atlantians start firing at her. But she electrified the puddles around them knocking them unconscious, but Krad steps away and watches as the two sisters battle each other.

"You land-pony traitor!" Cecaelia swings her trident and controls the water. "You betray your own sister just to save an alicorn you stole from?!" She blasts water at her but she deflects using her lighting at every attack, as Tempest reflect the past of her real sister before.

"The sister I remember who used to grow up with me." She confirms the truth of her true sister. "The sister who plays games with me, goes swimming with me, and watches movies with me! I understand that the sister I knew... is gone!"

This outrages her, and both still continue on. The Generals were awakened with a splash on their face and saw their boss fighting their queen. Ray was there, who did not leave entirely, watching the whole battle between two sisters.

“You're just blinded by friendships! Our father only wanted us to take back what was rightfully ours!" As she said, Tempest disagreed and knew what their father want.

"You never knew him much I do. Father would never want us to flood Equestria. But you, you never care about him. This is all about you!"

"About me? You mean, us!" She claims. "We are the same, Tempest! You and I were meant to be together! Destiny has brought us together. Both of us lost what we had, both of us lost what we love, and we both want what we want to restore! Face it, Sister. You are just... like... me!" She then points her trident and a swarm of waves at her, but Tempest holds back with her lighting.

"I will never be like you...." She struggled and pulse her horn maximum. "And I never will!!!!"

She raged herself and began overpowering her horn which cause to zap through the waves and straight to the trident, and it shattered the top, destroying her trident as she saw. And push her back to her throne defeat as she sees the fragment of her trident.

"Nooo!!!" She cried as Lagriahu's eyes regained and was free from her control and he began roaring with rage, and the thunderstorm started to rain. "No.. no..." She tried to put her fragment back together but couldn't and looked at Tempest. "Did you know what you've done?! You kill us all!!!" Then the wall breaks showing Lagriahu in rage as he turns and sees them as they were terrified, but looks at her holding the broken trident and remembers she was the one who was pulling his string. "No, you obey me!" She tries to take control again. "I am your Queen, I order you to-" But Lagriahu did not listen and roared at her, making her see she's not fully control him as she threw her trident at him but didn't pierce through his scale, and knew she's in deep trouble. "No.... NO!"

She tries to run but Lagriahu strikes through the throne room and catches her in his fang. Then bring her out and fling her into the air as she screams and falls into his mouth, devouring her whole with one swallow. All of them saw Cecaelia's fate, and Tempest looked away from sadness of watching the death of her sister.

“Can't believe he did that, too!" Pinkie said aloud, after seeing him consume Cecaelia.

Then he roars as everyone notices he was free, and Krad looks at the Atlantians regaining consciousness and finally have the chance to take back. "The Queen is dead!" He yelled. "Lagriahu is free! Tempest kill our Queen! Return to Atlantis!"

All the Atlantians believed and began retreating to the Deep Sea being afraid of Lagriahu's destruction. And Krad now takes charge and finally blames Tempest for murdering her own sister. "Enjoy the surface, land-ponies!" He laughed and jumps into the sea, as every atlantian dives in.

The Generals knew he lied because they saw their Queen's death with their own eyes, but must flee from the destruction or they'll serve her fate. “We should get out of here." Znappy said, being scared of not staying.

"Yeah, the surface is no longer safe!" Sir Claw agrees with her as they leave.

Then Hark joins with them. "Hark not wanting to stay, but go home!" He run as they dive into the sea leaving the surface and back to the Deep Sea.

Now left with the ponies and hippogriffs on the surface as Lagriahu started making the surface as his own territory and chaotic. The Mane Six, Spike, and Tempest were witnessing his wrath and knew Equestria was in danger.

"I have the feeling he's not gonna stop, isn't he?" Applejack was worried.

"He won't." Tempest tells them. "Destruction and chaos is what he does."

Rainbows Dash swoops in. "So how do we stop him?" She asked her.

Then she concluded. "Nothing can't stop him. It's what made him the King of the Sea."

Twilight watches the destruction of the sea outta control, and ponies and hippogriffs are being scared and getting almost swept by waves and thunders. "We have to rescue every ponies and friends before he gets to them."

They all hurry to rescue them before Lagriahu destroys the surface and everything he sees. Ray did not flee from the event but followed them to help.