//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 The Book And The Dream // Story: The Seaponies // by opuscon789 //------------------------------// Our story starts at a tree house in a tiny pony town called Ponyville.  The treehouse was a library and there lived a pony that went by the name Twilight Sparkle. She was looking through books to find something that she had not read before. She had almost read all of the books in the library and it was getting harder to find books she had not read before. She emptied every bookshelf, but she forgot one book on one of the shelves. With her magic she slowly removed it from the shelf.  It was a book that she’d never read before. On the title it had something that she thought was very fictional. “Ponies of the Sea, by Word Smith,” said the title. She had never seen anything like this in her life. Twilight looked at the back cover. I was walking on the beach of the city of Waterhorse. I saw an amazing sight. Something jumped out of the water. It looked like a pony but it had fins instead of hooves. It also had a curly tail instead of back hooves. I don’t know if my eyes were tricking me or not but I saw what I saw, so I wrote this story once I got home. Twilight opened the book. The story started out in a town called Alantores.The whole seapony race lived in this big city. It also talked about how the seaponies learned how to use magic to build things, to build the environment, and hunt. The book also expanded that they could be smarter than land ponies. Twilight read the book for 3 hours straight. She never really wanted to stop reading, but a baby dragon named Spike wouldn’t allow that to happen. “Twilight, it’s 10:00 at night. Go to sleep, you need it,” he said “Spike, I will go after I finish reading this book.” “Go to bed!” he yelled Twilight levitated the book to the dresser right next to her bed. Spike lays down in his small bed and fell asleep. Twilight climbed into her bed and laid her head on the pillow. Do they really exist? she thought. If they do, then why can’t they show themselves to the world?  Twilight slowly dozed off into a deep sleep. She woke up with darkness surrounding her. She could not see anything; all she could see was her hooves right in front of her. All of a sudden she saw bubbles coming from her mouth which told her that she was underwater. she felt around her and then she realized that she was inside of a clam. An opening of the clams appeared right in front of her. As she crept out she saw the wonders around her. There was a beautiful reef; it was the most beautiful thing that she had ever seen. She swam toward the reef. Out of nowhere a seapony appeared right in front of her.It looked just like the book descibed it, but it had a horn. Twilight thought that maybe it was a seaunicorn. It was yellow and had an orange mane, and it had a star for a cutie mark. Twilight looked at her closely. The seaunicorn looked at Twilight closely. It was like the seaunicorn was researching her. The creature spun around her a couple of times. It stopped right in front of Twilight. Then her horn shone brightly, everything went black. Twilight woke up with a catastrophic headache; it felt like something was swishing inside her head. Spike checked up on her. “Are you ok?” he asked. “Just a really bad headache Spike,” she responded. “Maybe you need to stay in bed,” Spike suggested “I’m going to make you breakfast, I want you to rest.” Spike ran down the stairs as Twilight lay back down. I will try to read the rest of that book because I think the dream I had had something to do with it, she thought.   Twilight levitated the book over her bed and opened the book. She read for about 10 minutes before reaching a page that seemed very weird to her. There have been reports of ponies seeing the seaponies in dreams. All of the dreams were very similar: each one had the seaponies looking closely at the pony and when the pony woke up they had a very big headache. I have an explanation for this; maybe they are investigating us and using us as an experiment. No pony will probably believe in this but that’s my thought. Twilight thought for a second. Maybe we get a headache because the seaponies are using a long distance spell. The side effect is a catastrophic headache to both ponies. The seapony that I saw in my dream must be suffering from the headache I’m going through. Spike walked in with breakfast, “Here you go, Twilight.”  For breakfast, Twilight got flapjacks with syrup on them. Twilight levitates them into her mouth. “Twilight, last night I woke up in the middle of the night. I looked at you and your eyes were glowing. It was like you were possessed,” Spike told her. “What? How is that possible?” Twilight said. It soon hit her that the seaponies were psychically researching her. Twilight looked at herself and realized that she had try and follow the psychic waves and get in contact with the seapony. She ran downstairs and found a psychic magic book. She opened the book and flips through the book. She found the page she was looking for. The spell was called a psychic wave communication spell and it allowed her to follow the psychic waves to the pony that sent them, and allow both ponies to talk in their minds. “It’s an extremely hard spell to do, but I need to figure out who sent the waves. I need complete silence,” Twilight commanded Twilight started to focus her energy as her horn shone. Three minutes later Twilight’s eyes glowed, which signified that she was linked. Everything went black around her. Then, like in her dream, she was underwater. She was now watching the seapony that sent the waves to her. She was in a lab underwater. There were seaponies that were wearing lab coats and they looked like they were comparing notes. “What land pony did you research last night?” one of them said. “I researched a unicorn last night,” said another one. Twilight looked at her and realized that this was the seapony that had looked at her last night. “Just like me they can use magic. Since we get a better connection to land ponies that think about us I used a psychic spell and choose a pony. I saw a beautiful purple unicorn. I don’t know her name but it looked like judging from her cutie mark she studies magic a lot.” Twilight talked to her in her mind. “I just discovered a seapony; you’re the first of them.” The seapony all of a sudden looked around the room looking for the voice. Twilight’s head starts to spin. if she does not end the spell soon, she will lose her consciousness for about 12 days. “I’m sorry to do this to you, but since I’m ending the spell this will give you a terrible headache,” Twilight telepathically said. Twilight ended the spell and everything went black around her. She opened her eye and saw Spike was looking at her, worried. “Are you ok, Twilight? you passed out for 5 minutes.” With her head hurting and spinning she replied, “I’m ok.” Now she knew who was investigating her in her dream. This was only the beginning.