Moving Mountains

by JarOfNightmares

Ponies, of the sea! Oh and a shark

“Another day, another shell.”

The coral armored seapony sighed with a bit of boredom, he had been guarding the summersea house of the mayor. He honestly didn’t know why the mayor needed a squad of personal guards, if the stories about were true he could take out a shark with a mere shake of his flippers. He sighed again after a while, he still had 8 hours to his shift and nothing really ever happened here, aside from the occasional large squid, but those never came close enough to be a threat.

“Why did I ever take this job?” He wondered to himself when alarm horns sounded in to the north, by the large trench just outside of the town.

“What in the world?” Just then another guard came swimming quickly in his direction, dressed in different colored coral armor. Blue with stripes of black, the markings of the Depth Guard “You there! What’s happening?”

“Something huge is coming out of the trench! Grab the largest weapon you can find and head there! I’ll alert the mayor.”

The guard seapony nodded and shot off towards the barracks. When he arrived he saw most of the guards had already gotten equipped and were leaving the barracks. “I’m always the last one out.” He grumbled as he swam inside. He grabbed the closest weapon, a trident. The weapon of choice for the mayor, except his was made of metal unlike the mayors ornate coral trident.

That was a weapon to be feared, encrusted with glorious emeralds. Any and all who had wielded that fierce weapon demanded respect. The guard wrapped his tail around the hilt of the weapon and swam out of the barracks, his trident weighing him down a bit. Soon he was at the edge of the town, where the trench was. A steady shaking came every so often, all the proof anyone needed that something big was going to emerge soon.

A conch horn sounded and the line stood at attention, soon after two seaponies dressed in rare black coral armor came into view, soon followed by the mayor, dressed in a blazing orange colored coral. Some called that coral the fire of the sea, as the coral itself radiated heat. At the mayors side, flowing in a gentle current was a large trident made of the same coral the mayor wore, also encrusted with emeralds. “Do you know what it is yet?” He asked one of the guards in the black coral armor.

“Not yet, nopony would swim down and see.” He answered as they neared the edge of the trench. “When we first heard it it was too far down, the pressure would have crushed most creatures.”

“I suppose we will have to wait and see what exactly we’re dealing with then.” The mayor sighed, and all the seapony guards waited in silence as the noise from the trench got louder and soon a huge length shot out from the dark abyss. It appeared to be a massive neck, topped with with five heads each with their own smaller, jointed necks. In panic a guard pony launched his trident at the creature. It made contact with the middle of a small flat area just below where the heads met the main body. Black liquid poured from the newly created wound, as if it were blood. It seemed to take a few seconds for the creature to register the gash, and when it did from deep within the abyss a ear splitting roar echoed out.

The sound was near to unbearable, some of the seapony guard’s armor cracked and fell off due to the sheer volume. When the sound finally stopped everyone was doubled over in pain, some of the guards were bleeding by their ears. The mayor recovered surprisingly fast and watched the creature shake free the trident and grab onto the ledge and prepared to charge “Get ready!” He called out and swam back a little.

What happened next caught everyone by surprise. Out from the deep came a large head, far more massive than anything anyone had seen before, with glowing crimson eyes that stared down at them all, unmoving, not even blinking. “What in the name of Oseara is that thing!?” One of the guards yelled and backed up a bit, his cracked sword falling from his tail.

“I don’t know, but be prepared to attack!” The mayor leaned forward a bit and pointed the trident at the massive beast, what he didn’t expect was it to pull more of itself out.

“Oh my goddess...” He watched wide eyed as the beast kept more and more of itself from the trench. What they had assumed had been a the heads were nothing more than fingers, it pulled itself further upward, until it’s head almost breached the oceans waves. The water around the guards suddenly started to get slightly warmer. And take on a slightly yellow tint.

“What the- Aww come on!” One of the braver guards yelled. “Really?! Is this the kiddy pool!? Who did that?!” Everyone was silent. “Real mature! Really mature! Now we all have to swim in this until a current takes it away! Goo-”

“Quiet!” The mayor almost roared. “Yes it’s disgusting but we have ‘bigger’ problems here!” He turned back to the giant, which was now bending over to meet them, it’s eyes still glowing that crimson color.

“WHHHHHHAAAAAATTTTTT TTTHHHHHEEEE HHHHHEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL!?” It let out a loud bellowing voice, almost indistinguishable from a roar.

“What are you!?” The mayor shouted up at it, ignoring the giants complaints. The massive being paused a moment, then two moments, before it’s eyes turned a light blue color.

“I AAAMMM AAA MONUMENT TO AALLL YOOOUUURR SSSSIIINNSS.” It spoke again before bellowing out what sounded like laughter. Some of the seaponies were confused by its choice of words, and others simply shivered at the morbid implications.

“Alright, so WHO are you?” He mayor yelled again to the beast. It paused for a while, before leaning a little further in to get closer to the mayor.

“I AAM THE DEEP ONE, THE WORLD EATER, DEVOURER OF SOULS, LORD OF THE DANCE!” More than a few heads were turned at the last one. “I AM THE GRAND GIGUES, MALUS.” It finished.

“So it’s Malus then?” The beast nodded, the best it could at least. “Why have you come?”

“I DO NOT KNOW, I SIMPLY CLIMBED OUT OF THIS...” It’s head turned to the expanse from which it came for a moment before looking back to the mayor.

“...TRENCH, WHEN I AWOKE, AND QUITE A RUDE AWAKENING IT WAS, EVER HAVE A ATTRACTIVE FEMALE VOMIT MASSIVE AMOUNTS WHAT FELT LIKE GLUE ON YOUR PERSON?” That more than a few of the seaponies puke, right as he said glue. It was quite the disturbing mental image. The mayor shook his head at the sound of his soldiers vomiting. “AH, OH, SORRY.” The beast moved it’s hands forward and waved them around a bit to empethis his feeling. “FORGIVE ME, I DIDN’T MEAN TO- AH HELL.” It leaned up a bit and kinda smashed it’s face with it’s own hand.

“It is.....Alright, just don’t say anything like that again...” The mayor mumbled and lowered his trident a little. “Why were you down in the tench anyway? How did you get down there?”

“I JUST WOKE UP DOWN THERE AND STARTED CLIMBING.” The beast, Malus, shrugged like it wasn’t important. Albeit slowly due to his size.

“That can’t be it, we have had scouts down there many times before and reported nothing of a large beast such as yourself.” Malus leaned back a bit as if the mayor said something that hurt his feelings.

“I AM NO BEAST, I TAKE IT YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT HUMANOIDS LOOK LIKE?” He questioned and crossed his arms slowly. The mayor gave him a blank look.

“Most of us do, we sometimes interacted with the land walkers.”

SO THAT’S WHAT YOU CALL US.” Malus seemed satisfied with the name, land walker was better than beast. “RIGHT, SO IF I CAUSED A PUBLIC DISTURBANCE OR SOMETHING I AM TERRIBLY SORRY, BUT RIGHT NOW I HAVE TO MOVE TO THE SURFACE AND TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHERE I AM.” Malus stood back up to his full length, head almost piercing the top of the sea once more. He turned to the tench and paused. “ONE MORE QUESTION...”

“And that is?” The mayor gave the tall being a curious look.

“DO SHARKS GET THAT BIG?” Malus pointed out into the sea, a large dark silhouette of a well known aquatic predator moving slowly towards them.

“Wait, a shark!?” The mayor began to panic, a shark was bad news, and if it is big enough for the tall construct to point it out from a distance then it must be big enough to swallow his entire troop if it got close enough. Though one thing stuck out in his mind, but he didn’t dare give it more thought than necessary, if he was right they were doomed. “Everypony! Move forward and protect the town!”

“TOWN?” Malus turned around a bit and gazed behind him at the coral reef built town behind him. “How did I not see that before?” It sounded like it should have been a mutter, but was still loud enough for everyone there to hear it. the looked down to see the strange sea horses swimming past his legs and forming up with larger groups that were pouring out of the town. “HEY...MIND IF I HELP?” The mayor swam in front of Malus and gave him a confused look.

“Why would you want to help? This is not your problem.”

“I KNOW, BUT I DON’T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO DO. BESIDES THAT I NEED SOME DIRECTIONS AND DEAD PEOPLE ARE NOTORIOUSLY LOUSY GUIDES.” If Malus had a mouth that could move then he would have smiled.

“I....Suppose we could use your help, just try not to....You know, crush anypony.” He moved his huge hand up and gave him a thumbs up. “If you can, move to the front, I want to see what you can do.” Malus gave the best nod he could and took a huge step past the trench and continued until he was at the head of the small army that had soon gathered

“WHOA, THAT THINGS BIGGER THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS.” Malus had a unsure tone in his voice as the dark silhouette in the distance got closer, and took the outline of a shark.

“You’ll be fine.” Reassured the mayor. “I mean come on! Your mostly made of stone! That’s harder than half of our weapons.” Malus turned his head to look at the mayor.

“THANKS FOR THAT...” The mayor nodded and Malus faced back to the mega jaws that was approaching.

Comments

[EverlastingKnightmare]

Looking back at my writing its HORRIBLE! But I suppose its that way with all writers.

[Icarus Crimsonhoof]

Aww snap battle with a giant shark!

[Discorded Q]

These guards could get quite shell shocked.

[Discorded Q]

My thoughts on this story.

Initial thought: A NEW CHALLENGER HAS ARRIVED

During reading thought: Lolwut vomit?

After thought: A giant stone monolithic colossus is your piece? Really?

Reason: Look, I'm not all that impressed with this. It's Chessverse, but it only loosely follows my self proclaimed rules of said verse.

One: The player. Who is she? The one who sent him here of course. Echo had Discord, Griffin has the Ominous being, MangoJack () had (I think) a villian from G1 ponies, Ace has Lady Luck (Aka... Miss Fortune ),Knightmare has Celestia and (Insert name of Singing sea serpent here) had Luna.So who is this almighty entity?

Two: The piece. Just an annoyance. All the pieces are Pawns in their own right. They are small characters that end up doing impossibly great things, AKA,
Echo - Being but a diamond dog with flaming claws, he slayed a herd of Tatarus cursed Hydras and facing an evil spirit and destroying it completely.
Griffin - Being nothing but a normal Griffin he killed a massive black dragon using nothing but wit with a side of crazy.
Ace - Being but a satyr, he destroyed a paranoid steroid crazed diamond dog.
MangoJack - I think it had something to do with either rat people, or a tribe of cannibal cats.

Three: First contact. Sea-ponies? Really? *Sigh
Notice that in all the stories the first contact had something to do with either a well known character, or one that could be familiar.
Griffin - Awoke as a griffin, the first he met was a concerned griffin named Gilda
Ace - Met Iron Will and Summer (Granted she is a pony, but Iron was first) first
Mango - Met a Bast first. (Bast - Cat people)
Echo - Met Daring Do (And 'Ah-we-zo-tol' but you know)

This could be okay, I might follow this but nothing is certain.

[JarOfNightmares]

1537273 (EverlatingNightmare) I honestly dont see a problem with being different in this world, dont want all the stories to be the same, do you?

[Discorded Q]

1539930 I know, but what would you rather, a small person doing something huge? Or a Huge person doing something average.

Why not the character become some sort of sprite that possesses a rampaging Malus. That'd be cool.

[JarOfNightmares]

1540057 (EverlatingNightmare) Maybe, we'll see what happens.

[Discorded Q]

1540866 Wait wait wait. What about he loses his hold on Malus and becomes detached from him, meanwhile he has to fight to regain control somehow and if he doesn't do it soon then Malus' boot will be in place of Ponyville!

[JarOfNightmares]

1541533 (EverlatingNightmare) Like I said, maybe,

[Xinrick]

when will you write moar i need MOAR i mean if you dont mind

[The yeti]

I have waited for three damm years now cmon already!!

[mrkillwolf666]

this story is ded

[PrinceArti]

I DESIRE MORE

[MindMelon]

This is canceled, the writer has not been on this site for around 8 years.