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// Prologue 
// Story: The Great Draconequus War 
// by Everythingpossible 
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“Put it with the rest of them.”

The guard nodded. The large statue of a defeated draconequus had been taken to the throne room to be sentenced. It contained a powerful foe, vanquished by the very weapons he intended to destroy. It was a very odd statue, with the head of a horse, the arms of a lizard and a lion, the wings of a pegasus and a bat, legs of a mule and a raptor, and the tail of a dragon. Its limbs were twisted, and its face frozen in an expression of shock. It was speedily wheeled out of the princess’ sight, as she gave a heavy sigh. Immediately, it was loaded onto a train bound for Los Pegasus. When it arrived, the statue was packed in a large crate, which had to be loaded on the ship horizontally. The Captain gave a mighty whistle, the ropes were pulled in, and the craft heaved forward, catching the wind in its sails.
In half an hour, they had arrived at their destination, a seemingly normal patch of ocean. The water was night-sky blue, and the astute observer could see some sort of ruin from the surface. The statue was uncrated, and righted. As the Captain leered, the entire crew pushed the behemoth over the rails and into the water. They watch it disappear into the briny deep until a few bubbles and a BUNK alerted them it had hit the bottom. The sails were unfurled, the anchor raised, and the ship sailed back to shore.
Below the surface, the statue had come to rest on top of a fountain, covered in coral and other submarine flora. Around it, once glorious buildings of marble had given way to decay and infestation. Tropical fish swarmed the area. And then there were the others.
They were covered in coral. However, looking beyond that, they not entirely dissimilar to the newcomer. Small ones, large ones, male, female; hundreds, maybe thousands were frozen there, all looking like they were going on about their business when something had paralysed them there. As the statue looked around and saw the ruin, the decay, one single word was implanted into its granite skull. 

Revenge.