This is a different time. Equestria blooms with riches from beyond the seas that used to be its borders. Nightmare Moon's disruption of the Summer Sun Celebration is an event that never took place, and the Elements of Harmony are only a Hearth's Warming chant. Discord itself is more of a spirit of bad luck than a conqueror, sometimes thwarting weather forecasts and other times turning fields into candy corn.
But Equestria also used to be free. Many took to the sea hoping to recover some of that lost freedom and, for a time, it was good. Pinkie Pie's Sugarcube was the most reliable sugar cane trading ship of the Thirteen Seas. Thanks to her, Sweet Apple Acres always had what was needed for jam, the Cake's bakery of Ponyville Docks was a booming business, and even her own ship's kitchen had the freshest muffins on land or sea.
Until the sugar embargo.
With increasing frequency, Her Majesty's navy has been keeping an ever closer watch on the trades routes.
They should have watched even closer.
(edit 2018-04-26: Probably safe to say this experiment is done.)
Oh yes. Oh YES!
If this is going to be at sea then might I recommend using a creature often forgot about the Leviathans or sea serpents if you prefer just a thought
This looks like it should be fun! Eagerly awaiting more!
I've seen pictures for a story like this and everything. I got em saved n everything.
I utterly love those little nuances you added from the previous draft you showed me. Simply Excellent work!
I'm left completely speechless :D
I remember when I first saw those pieces on Deviant Art. The drawings themselves were fantastic, but it was the backstory captions that really blew me away. I'm ecstatic that this story is finally beginning. If it turns out half as good as your art, then we are in for a fantastic voyage!
Oh man I got to the part about the Red Rainbow and it hit me I had already seen the art for this years ago. Your author note confirmed it. Good show to both of you and I look forward to wherever this story goes.
I love those pics on Deviant art :)
I kept threatening myself to write stories for them, but never got to it.
Hope you do better than me!
This looks amazing! It's a great start and introduction to an alternate universe and really sucked me in! And then I saw that it got this first chapter in September and hasn't updated since then. Awww.
Well, it's going in the fave pile and I'll be tracking it. Hope this story takes off in the near future. It looks like it'll be tons of fun!
Can't Wait!!! This is going to be fun!!!
This is genius, and I have watched pirates of the Caribbean, not sure if you have, but this is in the same tone as that. And is is awesome. Keep up the good work!
Oh i am so looking forward to more of this.
BTW did anyone else catch that Pirates of the caribbean referance from Rainbow ?
I need more of this!
Un-cancel it pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease
Thank you for indulging me in this experiment my friend.
I'm sorry it didn't lead to more, I really didn't know how to handle a story like this and dumped it all on you. It's my fault entirely, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have waited that long to say this, of course. And now it's too late. I only hope that you'll forgive me.