Iron will the pilot of the ship started to sing as the crew worked, "I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue." Flim and Flam joined in as they worked, "And it's hey to the starboard, heave ho!" "Brave sailor beware because a big 'uns a brewing" "Mysterious fathoms below! Fathoms below, below! From whence wayward westerlies blow, where Solaris is king and his sea ponies sing in mysterious fathoms below!" A light tangelo earth pony stallion with two shades of dark aquamarine mane and tail and grayish green eyes trotted across the deck.

"Isn't this perfection sis? Out on the open sea, surrounded by nothing but water and imagination." Timber Spruce said looking at his sister Gloriosa Daisy her two shades of moderate raspberry mane and tail and pale amaranth body was bending over the rail seasick, she was more of a nature walk girl. "Oh yes it's simply delightful..." She said looking at him with her light green eyes. "The salt on your skin and the wind in your hair and the waves as they ebb and they flow! We're miles from the shore and guess what I don't care!" Timber sang.

"As for me I'm about to heave ho!" Gloriosa sang as she lost her breakfast, "Toe the line!" Iron Will shouted. "I'll sing you a song of the king of the sea an' it's hey to the starboard, heave ho! The ruler of all of the oceans is he in the mysterious fathoms below!" The sailors sang. "King of the sea? Why that's nautical nonsense, nothing but a superstition!" Gloriosa said. "The king of the ocean gets angry, and when he gets angry beware! I'm telling ya lad when King Solaris is mad how the wave'll buck, rock to and fro, hold on, good luck as down you go!"

A beautiful voice sounded out and Timber looked around, "What is that? Do you hear something?" "Brother please enough sea-faring! You've got to get back to court to honor our father's dying wish and take up his crown!" "What if I don't want his crown?" "You'd forsake his kingdom? All the treasures? You know I can't take the crown your the oldest and I'm already engaged to Prince Feather Bangs." "Treasures? Like this chalice? Who needs it we drink straight outta the bottle don't we boys?" The sailors cheered as he tossed it to them.

Winona barked happily and jumped to grab it but missed as Flim grabbed it with his magic. "Or this candelabra? Not when we got the sun and moon to light our way!" He said tossing it, Winona tried grabbing it again but Flam grabbed it with his magic. "Or how about this fork? No thanks! I rather eat with my mouth or hooves!" He said tossing it and Winona missed again as it went off the ship and into the water. "You're a prince brother! Not a common sailor..." "These men are anything but common they are free Sis!"

"Truly free, they don't have to answer to anyone but the sea, I'd rather be a sailor then a prince any day." Then he sang, "This is where I belong! Everything seems more real here! Strange how at home I feel here in the tide's swift flow! And when the pull is strong, I almost think I hear the sea wild and free calling me from fathoms below." The voice sounded out again. "There it is again!" Iron Will shouted, "We ought to head back to shore your Majesty." "Indeed we should brother!" "Not while I'm captain, now follow that voice to the ends of the earth if we have to!"

"Aye-aye Captain!" "There's sea ponies out there in the bottomless blue an' it's hey to the starboard heave ho! Watch out for 'em or you'll go to your ruin mysterious fathoms below!" The ship sails into the horizon as the fork floats up from the water with a light brilliant raspberry magic aura, moderate violet eyes looked at it with awe, her dark sapphire blue mane streaked with moderate purple and brilliant raspberry streaks was matched by her tail fins, her pale light grayish mulberry scales shined lightly in the light with wing fins on her sides.

"Why it's beautiful." Twilight Sparkle said, a light mulberry sea dragon with light spring budish gray underbelly and light lime green fin ear fronds, his moderate harlequin spine fins going from his head to his tail, his moderate pistachio eyes looked at Twi as his front fins and wing fins held him steady as his tail fin lightly moved to stay afloat, "Hey Twi there you are!" "Spike!" Twi said hiding the fork behind her back. "Whoa freaky." Spike said looking around. "What's the matter? Haven't you been to the surface before?"

"Yeah sure, me and the other fish in my school came up here before." "Is that so?" "Yes, it was only once though." "Scared aren't you?" " No I'm not I'm here now aren't I?" "Yes you are, guess what I found today! It was sinking in the sea." "Treasure?" "I'll say, look!" Twi showed him the fork. "Have you ever seen anything so amazing in your entire life?" Spike looked at it with awe, "Cool! What is it?" "I don't know..." A male draconequus flew over head. "But I know who to ask." She started to wave, "Discord look at what we found."

Discord landed on the rock Twi was sitting on, "Found more pony paraphenicular eh? You've asked the right creature, I happen to be an expert." He said taking the fork. "Can you tell us what it's for?" "Oh this is ridonkulously rare and in Sistine condition!" "What, what is it?!" "It's a dingle hopper!" "A dingle hopper?" "Commonly used in saloons of the beauty variety, ponies like to wear their hair in tails, rat, pig and horse it's all the same to them, a primp here and a twirl there, viola and all thanks to this!"

Both Spike and Twi looked at it with awe, "The dingle hopper!" "I give you two sand dollars for it." Twi floated the fork back to her, "Sorry but this is going in my collection." "How about a swap?" Discord asked showing off an old fashioned pipe, "I got something stupelicious, museum quality really, a banded, bulbous snarfblatt, second cousing to the tuba." "It makes music?" "Sure give it a try." Discord said putting the pipe's skinny end in Spike's mouth, he blew hard and seaweed pops out the other end.

Twi started to panic, "Music? Oh no! Oh my gosh my father is gonna kill me!" "The concert was today?!" Spike said as Twi put the fork and pipe in her bag she gave Discord a pearl as she quickly swam away Discord looked at the pearl closely, "Nice quality, worth more then two sand dollars." Meanwhile in the ocean in a grand castle King Solaris came in flanked by two sting rays he holds up his trident like a scepter, "My little sea creatures, today marks a special anniversary, for many years ago on this fateful day I inherited my mother's kingdom!"

He looked at the mural of Queen Eclipse, "This is also the day I had to banish my dear sister Queen Selena who become Nightmare Moon, and so to honor her memory may I introduce our Master of Ceremonies, Cheese Sandwich!" Cheese swam into the room throwing bubbles towards the crowd, "Good morning to you all!" "So tell us what have you got in store?" "I got a special song just for the occasion and it's gonna be performed by none other then your seven lovely daughters." "Then let the merriment begin!"

Spotlights appeared on six sea ponies, "Oh we are the daughters of Solaris, great father who loves us and named us well, Sunset Shimmer, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight Sparkle, in concert we hope to enlighten the hearts of all with music's swell." Each daughter sang a simple tone. "And then there is the youngest in her musical debut, our seven little sister we're presenting her to you, to sing a song Cheese wrote her voice is like a bell, it's our sister Twilight Sparkle!"

The giant clam opened to reveal nothing, and every creature gasped, Solaris tried to keep the peace with his six daughters, when Twi swam in followed by Spike. "Well it's about time you showed up!" Cheese said trying not to snap. "Father I'm sorry I forgot." "As a result of your careless behavior..." "Careless and reckless behavior!" Cheese added. "The entire celebration was..." "Ruined, completely destroyed!" Cheese interrupted, "This concert was to be the pinnacle of my career, now thanks to you I'm the laughing stock of the whole kingdom."

"Girls please go about the rest of your day." Twi's sisters swam off as Solaris looked at her, "Twilight please you've been given such a gift..." "I know... my mother's voice." Twi looked at the mural it had Queen Eclipse in the center, it also had other pictures, including Prince Solaris and Princess Selena as young children playing as Eclipse and her husband Polaris were watching, not much was known about Polaris, then there was Prince Solaris meeting Princess Umbra and the two getting married.

Princess Selena marring Prince Stygian, Solaris surrounded by his seven daughters, Selena having one son named Astral, then the tantabus attacks them to change them into nightmare versions of themselves, only Astral was saved, Astral getting married to Nyx, and the last picture was the pony of shadows and Nightmare moon getting banished. "I don't know much about her except the stories you told me." "Then for the sake of her memories please take care of your voice." "I will daddy, I promise." The two hug and Spike swam forward.

"It wasn't even Twi's fault, that know it all Discord started going on..." "Discord..." Solaris' mane flared like fire, "You went up to the surface again?" Twi looked guilty, "Nothing happened honest." "You could have been seen by one of those barbarians!" "I made sure to stay out of sight and they are not barbarians!" "They're dangerous with traps and harpoons!" Solaris softened, "Like it or not Twi you're my youngest, and I worry about you the most." "I'm an adult!" "As long you live in my home you'll obey my rules!" Solaris said flaring again.

"If you'd just listen to me for once..." "That's the last time you're ever swimming to the surface, understood?" "You're so unfair!" Twi said crying, it was a bit hard to tell since they were under the sea but her tears sparkled like every sea pony and she swam off with Spike following, Solaris sighed, "I can govern a kingdom but I can't control my daughter, I was too harsh, she'll eventually fear me and I don't want that, she needs her mother and so do I." Solaris swam over to the moral on the wall that had more pictures of the royal family.

Solaris gently touched Umbra's picture, her gray scales, black mane, and green eyes were captured perfectly, Applejack was his only daughter who got her green eyes, "If only she were here, she's know just what to say, she'd firmly and yet gently help the girl find her way, she'd know what to forbid and what we must allow, she'd have the strength and patience that I lack somehow, oh what I would give to her back right..." "Now, now sire! It's difficult sure, but you got to toughen up not melt down!" Cheese interrupted.

Solaris looked at him, one of these days he's got to tell Cheese to stop interrupting him, and Cheese kept talking, "I'm telling you, that child needs constant supervision! Someone who can watch over her, keep her out of trouble..." "That's not a bad idea, someone to safeguard her every move, and you are just the sea pony to do it!" "What?" "You heard me! From now on Twi is your responsibility! Besides your the only sea pony besides Pinkie who can change their size, who knows becoming smaller might come in handy."

As Solaris swam off with Cheese following trying to plead with him, two eels named Snips and Snails slithered into view, they served Nightmare Moon, their spines crackled with electricity, "Oh mistress of the deep... beauty of the brine!" "You should have seen it, all those sea ponies..." "Singing in Solaris praise and nothing for you." "Yeah and I'm used to it." Nightmare moon came into view her body looking more like an eel mixed with an octopus with her slim body and her magical fins moving around her like tentacles, like Solaris her fins were more magic then normal.

"Today is the day my brother got greedy and he stole my half of the kingdom!" "To think your very own flash and blood..." "And he double-crossed you..." "His own sister..." "Casting you into exile, a life of shame and unceasing solitude..." "In the shadowy depths of a serpentine sea." The two were teleported back to their master as she grabbed them both, "All right no need to blow your cover or your fuses." She looked at them both and stroked their spines not getting shocked like other sea ponies, "After all the fun is just getting started." Then she started to sing.

"When mommy dear was floating on her deathbed, she divvied up the kingdom into two, I got her magic shell and half the sea as well her trident went to you know who, my reign was blissfully delicious and glamour, glitz and style were au courante, then the tantabus came to show me how to have fun, did I mutilate, maim, and destroy? Just a tad, and for that I got banished but I'm not mad there's just one little thing that I want, just one teensy thing that I want." She smiled as her serpentine eyes glowed lightly as she smiled showing fangs.

"I want the good times back! I want those grand ol' days! I want the twisted nights, the sick delights the wild soirees! I want those trembling crowds of shellfish cracked and peeled for me to dine, not because I'm mean or selfish..." "No!" Snips and Snails said. "I only want what's mine! I want disgusting wealth! I want exquisite sin! I want the entire sea to worship me on bended fin! I want to greet my loving subjects and then have them as a snack! Remember those good times? I want them back!" Nightmare Moon sang as she looked at her eels.

"Picture it my sucklings, pretty soon we'll be back on top! Sipping bubbly, eating caviar before it hatches! King Solaris is the only thing that stands in our way, if only I can find his Achilles heel... the soft quivering underbelly beneath all that armor, I'll dethrone him, de-bone him and then boys, oh boys we're back in business, all together now!" "You'll bring the good times back! Resume your wacky fun! Restore the joyful charm of causing harm to everyone!" "I want to make the sea ponies cower like they did in days of yore, sure it's sheer abuse of power..."

"So?" "Ain't that what power's for? I want to taste their tears! I want to hear their screams! I want the special rush you get from crushing hopes and dreams!" "It's more than simply sentimental..." "It's an aphrodisiac!" "Remember those good times!" "Oh god were they good times!" "It's time for more good times!" "Let's get them back! If only I had a way I'd set ol' Solaris straight!" "Poison? Sure. Blackmail? Or... His daughters... Maybe." "Wait! Why didn't we think of that before? His youngest!" "The one with the beautiful voice?" "Which she takes for granted!"

"A woman doesn't know how precious her voice is until she's been silenced, ha! Perhaps we could teach them both a lesson... I want the little girl, and boys I want her bad! I want her sitting here, to lure her dear devoted dad! I want my goody-goody brother to come rescue her the sap! And then one way or another..." "Surprise!" "I'll spring the trap! And get the good times back! I mean with all the perks! The trident, crown, throne, all mine alone! The whole damn works! But most of all I want Solaris pinned and wriggling on the rack!"

"Then fellas it's my time! And frankly it's high time! Those fabulous good times... they're coming back!" Nightmare moon finished singing and then her laughter echoed in her lair, back with Twi in her grotto which was filled with pony artifacts that she collected over the years she put the pipe on a shelf and the fork in a candelabra with a spoon and knife. Neither knew that Cheese came into her grotto in tiny form as Spike looks at Twi, "You alright?" "I just don't see things like he does, I don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad."

Then Twi started to sing, "Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? Wouldn't you think I'm the girl, the girl who has everything? Look at this trove, treasures untold, how many wonders can one cavern hold? Looking around here you think, sure she's got everything. I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty I've got whozits and whatzits galore you want thingamabobs? I've got twenty! But who cares? No big deal I want more." Cheese swam closer but still staying out of sight as Twi looked towards the surface.

"I wanna be where the ponies are I wanna see, wanna see them dancing trotting around on those – what do you call them? Oh hooves! Flipping your fins, you don't get too far legs are required for jumping, dancing, strolling along down a – what's the word again? Street, up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun, wandering free wish I could be part of that world." She sang as she swam towards the hole in her grotto in the ceiling her mane flowing around her as she spun around.

"What would I give if I could live out of these waters? What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand? Bet'cha on land they understand that they don't reprimand their daughters bright young women, sick of swimming, ready to stand! And read to know what the ponies know ask them my questions and get some answers what's a fire and why does it – what's the word? Burn? When's it my turn? Wouldn't I love, love to explore that world up above? Out of the sea, wish I could be, part of that world."

Cheese accidentally knocked into a metal jar which tipped over and clanged getting Twilight's attention, "Cheese Sandwich?" "Twilight, um what is all this?" "Just a few knick-knacks I've collected that's all." "You should be ashamed of yourself, if your poor father knew about this place..." "You're not going to tell him are you? Oh please Cheese he'd never understand!" "Listen to me Twilight for my sake and your own it's time you kept your mind on your music, from now on, you'll have voice lessons every day and perhaps even an instrument..."

Twi rolled her eyes before she noticed the area getting darker she looked up to see a ship hull pass overhead, she quickly swam up to it as Cheese kept talking before he noticed she disappeared, and he chased after her, meanwhile on the ship Gloria was still talking to Timber, "Please brother..." "I don't need to be king." "I swore an oath to our father on his deathbed that I'd turn you from an errant roustabout into a proper royal, so you're worthy to fill his shoes!" "Now you're making me queasy sister."

"And that's not all, I promised I'd have you married before your next birthday." "Married? Timber said disbelieving what she just said. "Our kingdom needs both a queen and king and I can't do it I'm moving!" "Did you ever try to take a princess sailing? It's a joke! Their fancy manes get ruined because of sea spray, their tails get caught in the rigging and most of them can't even swim." "Being able to swim is a condition?" "Sure if we go sailing! Where am I going to find a woman who is carefree and alive as the sea itself?"

Twilight and Spike bobbed up to the surface, Discord flew close to them, "Well what do you know..." "Discord be quiet they'll hear you!" "Ooh I gotcha we are being sneaky." Twi used her magic to shut his mouth as Timber stares out at the sea right over their heads, "It's too much to hope for isn't it? A girl who's a match for a guy like me?" "Oh brother there is always a pony for another pony." "I've never seen a pony this close before." "Me either!" "I thought you were an expert." "On their stuff but

not on the pony's who had them." "Trust me sis when I come across the girl of my dreams it'll hit me like lightning."

Thunder clashed and lightning flashes, Iron will looked up, "Hurricane's a coming, Captain! King Solaris must be angry indeed!" "Batten the hatches then everypony below deck and quickly!" Gloriosa grabbed Winona's collar and quickly went below deck Discord tried to grab the boat, "The wind is too strong!" "Careful, Discord!" He screamed as the wind blew him away everyone on the boat was scrambling, "The ship is listing badly, Timber take the wheel!" Timber rushed to take the wheel but a huge wave pushed him off deck, "Help!" "Pony overboard!" Twilight quickly swam she watched a piece of wood hit Timber knocking him out cold she grabbed him with her magic before he drowned.

She swam easily in the rough waters she saw a shore and dragged Timber unto it, the storm eventually stopped and Discord managed to fly back to them Twi looked at him, " Was I too late?" " It's hard to say…" He said lifting a hoof to his ear, "Oh I can't make out a heartbeat." Twi looked at Timber, "No wait he's breathing, oh Discord he's so handsome, What would I give to live where you are? What would I pay to stay here beside you? What would I do to see you smiling at me? Where would we walk, where would run, if we could stay all day in the sun? Just you and me, and I could be part of your world.".

Cheese's mouth dropped but Discord closed it, Timber slowly opened his eyes as Twi sang his vision was blurry but he thought he saw a pony then he heard his sister, "Brother!" And she was gone he got up and rubbed his eyes to look around for his mystery siren and his sister hugged him, "Oh thank heavens, are you alright?" "There was this girl who rescued me, pulled me right out of the surf and she had the most beautiful voice." "Brother I believe you swallowed too much sea water or hit your head really hard." Gloriosa said feeling the bump on his head. "No she was real!" "Sure like a seapony on the rocks." She said helping him back home as Twi watched them leave.

"I don't know when, I don't know how, but something's starting right now, watch and you'll see someday I'll be, part of your world!" Snips and Snails watched her leave as Nightmare Moon laughed a few days later Twi's sisters were talking to each other, "You know who has been acting odd lately." "Um, who?" "I'm talking about Twi that's who." "What about her?" "She sure is acting fishy lately!" "I'll say, swimming in circles, chasing her tail!" "That girl is up to her grills in something!" Then they all started singing taking turns.

"She's dizzy and she's dreamy, her head's up in the foam, her eyes have gone all gleamy it's like there's no one home, she floats away the days moping on the coastal shelf, is she ill? Or insane? Is it water on the brain? What has got her bothered so? It's the bends! It's the flu! Gosh I wish we had a clue! Oh, wait! Oh, dear! Good grief! It's clear… she's in love! She's in love! Pounding heart! Ringing bells! Look I think she's even wearing brand new shells! She's in love! In love and it's divine! She's in love! That girl's on sandbar nine! Glory be! Land above! Gotta be she's in love!"

"Hey Spike did you notice anything weird about you know who?" "You mean Twi? I'll say! She acts like she don't see me she doesn't even speak she treats me like sashimi left over from last week you see her late at night tossing in her ocean bed, and she sighs and she swoons and she's humming little tunes." "Even has a sorta glow." "What in the sea could it be?" "Any hammerhead can see! That sigh! That glow! That swoon!" "Oh no! She's in love!" "She's flipped, it never fails! She's in love! All hot beneath her scales! See her hips, how they swish! Well don't you wonder who's the lucky seafood dish?"

"She's in love!" "She's found a deep sea hunk! And now she's good as sunk! She her blush! See her grin! Gotta be in love she's in! She's in love, she's in love! Plain to see! No mistake! Look at those moonbeams in her wake! Obvious what they must be symptoms of… she's in love! Yeah, yeah!" King Solaris looked shocked, "In love? My little Twilight? So that explains it! Who's the lucky seapony?" Spike sighed, "Gee I dunno, I didn't even know until I was told." "Where's Cheese?" " Last I heard he was watching Twi near the grotto speaking of which I have something to show Twi later…" Spike said swimming off.

Meanwhile Twi was looking at sea flowers and plucking petals, "He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not, he loves me! Oh I knew it!" "Twi I really think you need to get your head back in the water!" "I have to see him again, Discord has to know where he lives!" "Twi please…" "First I'll use a magic firework to get his attention then call him down to the water…" "Down here in your home!" Cheese yelled as he went in front of her, "Twilight listen to me the pony world is a mess life under the sea is better than anything they've got up there."

"The seaweed is always greener in somepony else's lake, you dream of going up there, but that is a big mistake, just look at the world around you right here on the ocean floor, such wonderful things surround you what more is you looking for? Under the sea, under the sea darling it's better down where it's wetter take it from me, up on the shore they work all day out in the sun they slave away while we devoting, full time to floating, under the sea."

Fish joined in, "Down here all the fish is happy, as off through the waves they roll, the fish on the land ain't happy they sad cause they in their bowl, but fish in the bowl is lucky they in for a worser fate, one day when the boss get hungry guess who's going to be on the plate? Wah oh, under the sea, under the sea, nopony beat us fry us and eat us in fricassee, we what the land ponies love to cook, under the sea we off the hook, we got no troubles, life is the bubbles, under the sea, under the sea, since life is sweet here we got the beat here naturally, even the sturgeon and the ray, they get the urge and start to play we got the spirit, you got to hear it, under the sea."

"The newt play the flute, the carp play the harp, the plaice play the bass, and they sounding sharp, the bass play the brass, the chub play the tub, the fluke is the Duke of soul, the ray he can play, the lings on the strings, the trout rocking out, the blackfish she sings, the smelt and the sprat they know where it's at, and oh that blowfish blow!" Spike swam in looking for Twi he spotted her and whispered in her ear she looked excited as they both swam away. "Yeah, under the sea, under the sea, when the sardine begin the beguine it's music to me, what do they got? A lot of sand, we got a hot crustacean band, each little clam here, know how to jam here, under the sea, each little slug here, cutting a rug here, under the sea."

"Each little snail here know how to wail here, that's why it's hotter under the water, ya we in luck here down in the muck here, under the sea!" Cheese finished as they all looked towards where Twi should be but found an empty space, "Twi? Hello?" Fish swam away as King Solaris came up to him, "Cheese there you are we need to talk about Twilight." Cheese froze and slowly faced Solaris, "About Twi sire?" "Yes she's been acting odd, humming to herself, day dreaming, and you haven't noticed?" "Well I have noticed but I thought it was a girl thing…" Cheese said chuckling nervously. "Cheese come now she has been doing other things, which all point to one solution, she's in love."

Cheese freaked, "I honestly tried to stop her really, I told her ponies are nothing but trouble…" "Wait ponies? As in the land kind?! I thought she loved a seapony!" "Oh… darn it…" He said seeing a trident in face. "Where is she?!" Meanwhile at the grotto, "Spike will you slow down and tell me what this is all about?" "Why tell you when I can show you, ta-da!" Spike said pointing to a statue of Timber Spruce. "Oh my gosh… Spike this is, Spike you're the best!" She said hugging him, "Where in the sea did you get this?" "Well the ponies tossed it overboard because they didn't want their ship to sink this happened during that nasty storm, I saw it happen while you were busy saving the real deal."

Twi squealed as she swam up to it, "I can't believe this, now I have something to remind me of him." She spotted writing at the bottom, "Prince Timber Spruce… oh my gosh I know his name now!" She hugged Spike again, "Thank you Spike this is the best gift ever!" She swam up to the face of the statue, "Hello Timber I'm Twilight, oh yes this is my collection, oh of course you can have a thingamabob I do have twenty." She said looking at her shelves, now let's see whozits, whatzits, her father, a whosmagig… Twi stopped and looked back at her father.

"Dad?! Um… how did you find this place?" Solaris pushed forward Cheese as he looked around, "Twilight what's all this?" "Oh this is my…" "Land junk!" "No pony treasures." "The sea is where you belong!" "You don't understand!" "For once just listen, that savage brute would kill you in the world above!" "He's not a barbarian…" "Don't try that same old song, I'll have you grounded till next year! Am I clear? Don't go near that world above!" "I'm an adult!" "Are you? Have you lost your senses completely! He's a land pony you're a seapony!"

"It doesn't matter because I love him!" "I'm still the king here my word is law, this filth you bring here is the final straw, and push my daughter has come to shove! I'll make you obey till you do as I say, I don't care come what may but I'll keep you away from that cruel, harsh, cold, vile world above!" Solaris said his mane flaring like the sun, his horn and trident igniting with a red aura then he started to destroy everything in the groove Twi watched in horror she swam in front of the statue and Solaris pointed the trident right at her, Twi's eyes were sparkling with tears.

"No please leave this one alone!" The two stared at each other before a red aura surround Twi and tossed her aside and a blast destroyed the statue, Solaris aura finally went back to gold as Twi was sobbing she went to the rubble then glared at her father, "Get out…" "Twilight please…" Twilight entered her own firey state as her eyes glowed white, "I SAID GET OUT!" Solaris was shocked as he slowly left he looked back at Twi who was still crying but also still in her fire form then he swam away, Twi went back to normal as she laid on top of the rubble both Spike and Cheese watched as she curled her fins around the rubble.

Cheese swam up to her, "Twilight…" "Just go away…" He looked shocked as Spike started to push him out left all alone Twi continued to sob Snips and Snails slowly slithered in when Spike and Cheese left, "Poor child." "Poor sweet child." "She has a very serious problem, hasn't she?" "Hmm, if only there were something we can do." Twi looked up at them, "Who are you two?" "Sweet child, poor child, so tragic, so misunderstood." The two sang as they swam around her. "Dear child, sad child, life's looking shall we say not good. Who will ease her woes and worries? Who will help get her man? Sweet child perhaps the sea witch can!"

"You can't possibly mean Nightmare Moon?" "She knows your dreams." "Father says the tantabus magic is evil." "She'll grant your prayer." "Please I have to go!" Twi said trying to swim away but the two eels blocked her path, "She'll cast a charm, a tiny spell. Why the alarm? No one will tell, no one will care, it's your affair. Sweet child, dear child, poor child, sad child, we'll bring you to her lair right now, get in half a sec, your prince and you are reconciled." The two wrapped each other in an embrace, "Together forever." Twi thought for a moment before looking at them, "Take me to her!" The two eels smiled at Twi and lead her away.

Spike spotted them he nudged Cheese and pointed to them he held a fin to his mouth and they both followed Twi and the eels, Twi got more nervous as they got closer to the forbidden sea, "Maybe I should be heading back home…" "To what? Your father who refuses to listen to you?" Snips said blocking her path one way. "Or back to the tyrant king who destroyed his own daughters collection?" Snails asked blocking her path another way, "Or back to the ruler who can't even let you keep one statue of happiness for yourself?" They both asked blocking her last escape route as one tossed a piece of rubble at her.

Twi grabbed it with her magic and saw it was Timbers cutie mark. "Your choice of course." "But you are so close to freedom and being with him why go back now?" Thy both slithered inside Twi looked at the cutie mark then she looked at the giant skeleton of the razor fin the most dangerous carnivore in the sea or rather was since it was now extinct, she rubbed the cutie mark before tossing it and heading inside, she froze when she saw shadow plants all of them had large snapping jaws and small eyes, they snapped at her as she swam pass.

One managed to wrap around her hoof she is struggled to get out then managed to do so by using a light spell she entered the main area seeing glowing yellow eyes in the darkness a few sparks told her it was the eels she rubbed her arm maybe this wasn't the best… "Ah so you've come." Nightmare Moon said swimming towards her, "Welcome to my humble lair it's not much but it's home." "I really don't think I should be here." "Nonsense we're family at least more then my controlling brother." "How do you know about that?"

"Darling I got eyes everywhere." Snips and Snails chucked. "So you've been spying on me" "Spying is such a harsh word, I observe events through any means necessary." Nightmare wrapped her tail tentacles around Twi, "Now enough harshness how about we talk about something softer." She brought a mirror forward and tapped it with her hoof and it revealed Timber Spruce. "Like your sweet prince perhaps? I don't blame you for falling he is quite a catch." "Yes he is, honestly he's the sea foam on the wave I want to go to the surface for more then just him."

"And my dear I can help you the answer is so simple you have to become a pony yourself." Nightmare said tapping the mirror to show Twi as a normal unicorn. "You can do that?" The mirror vanished as Nightmare grinned, "My dear sweet niece it's what I live for to help unfortunate seaponies like yourself, poor souls with no pony else to turn to." Nightmare said slithering around Twi causing Twi to shiver from the feeling of the ethereal tail sliding on her skin and scales it might look pretty but it was filled with evil magic she can tell.

"I admit that in the past I've been a nasty, they weren't kidding when they called me, well, a witch but you'll find that nowadays I've mended all my ways repented, seen the light and made a switch true? Yes. And I fortunately know a little magic it's a talent that I always have possessed and here lately, please don't laugh, I use it on behalf of the miserable, the lonely, and depressed, pathetic!" Nightmare whispered the last part to her eels who chuckled. "Poor unfortunate souls in pain, in need, this one longing to be thinner, that one wants to get the girl do I help them? Yes indeed!"

"Those poor unfortunate souls so sad, so true, they come flocking to my cauldron crying, spells Nightmare Moon please! And I help them? Yes I do! No it's happened once or twice somepony couldn't pay the price and I'm afraid I had to rake them cross the coals yes I've in the odd complaint but on the whole I've been a saint to those poor unfortunate souls!" Nightmare held up a scroll, "Here's my best offer, babykins, I know a spell that will turn you into a pony for three days, now it's got a procedural clause, sort of a squid pro quo, before the sun sets on the third day you've got to get dear old princey to kiss you if you do you'll stay a pony forever.

"And if I don't?" "Nothing drastic darling I'm sure, oh look small print your soul is mine forever and you're doomed to spend eternity in my watery hell soaked lair, lawyers! Don't you love them?" "No don't do it Twi!" Cheese cried out with Spike both they were muffled by Snips and Snails. "Have we got a deal?" "If I become a pony, I'll never be with my sisters again." "That's right! But you'll have your prince life's full of tough choices, isn't it? Oh and there is one more thing, we haven't discussed the subject of payment."

"But I don't have any…" "I'm not asking much, just a token, really, a trifle you'll never even miss it, what I want from you is… your voice." "My voice? As in my mother's voice?" "You've got it, no more talking, singing, zip." "Surely you can take my wings, besides without my voice how can I…" "You'll have your looks! Your pretty face! And don't underestimate the importance of body language!" Nightmare said shaking her body.

"The stallions up there don't like a lot of blabber they think a girl who gossips is a bore! Yes on land it's much preferred for ladies not to say a word and after all dear what is idle prattle for?" Nightmare started using her magic to bring ingredients towards her cauldron, "Come on they're not all that impressed with conversation true gentleponies avoid it when they can but they dote, swoon, and fawn on a mare who's withdrawn it's she who holds her tongue who gets a stallion, come on you poor unfortunate soul, go ahead! Make your choice! I'm a very busy mare and I haven't got all day."

Timber's image appeared in the smoke and Twi swooned at it. "It won't cost much just your voice!" Nightmare said sticking her head through the image and scaring Twi, "You poor unfortunate soul it's sad but true, if you want to cross the bridge my sweet you've got to pay the toll, take a gulp and take a breath go ahead and sign the scroll!" She whispered to her eels, "Snips and Snails this part never gets old, I'm on a roll!" She then sang out, "Come on you poor… unfortunate… soul!" Twi took the quill in her magic and signed.

Nightmare's shell glowed with darkness, "Beluga, sevruga, come winds of the Caspian Sea…larynxes, glaucities, ad max laryngitis, la voce to me! Now sing!" Twi started to sing as the darkness surrounded her. "Keep singing!" The darkness entered her throat and grabbed the glowing voice Twi looked at it horrified as the darkness completely surrounded her, her entire body started to change skin and scales to fur, wing fins vanished, and her tail became back hooves no longer able to breath underwater she started to flail trying to swim.

Cheese and Spike broke out from Snips and Snails and helped Twi swim up to the surface as Nightmare laughed as her seashell glowed with Twi's voice Twi took a breath as they broke the water surface Twi looked like she was coughing but no sound came out. They brought her to shore and she crawled into it she looked down seeing a tail not like her seapony tail, she thought of swishing it and it swished huh okay so it worked like her seapony tail then she saw her hooves she rubbed her front hooves over them.

"Hey look who the catfish dragged in." Discord said coming in with the Cutie Mark Crusaders or CMC they were flying on his magic since they all couldn't fly even though one was a pegasus they were lost fillies who Discord took in, "Somethings different about you, let me guess and no hints, you got a new hairstyle using the dinglehopper?" Twi shook her head no. "Oh alright.. new seashell in your mane?" Twi looked at him. "No to the seashell… I have to say this is a tricky one that is just a hoof away but if I just stand here…" "You Dingdong she's got hooves okay!" Discord was started by Cheese's outburst.

"Oh now I see it, so are you going to just lay there?" Twi pushed her front hooves on the sand to get up and tried to move her back hooves but she just fell unto the sand. "Not very stable are you?" Apple Bloom asked floating next to her, Twi shook her head, Sweetie Belle used her magic to pull her hoof out of the sand, and Scootaloo brushed the sand off her mane, "Don't worry we can help you." They all landed on the sand and started to sing, "Put one hoof in front of the other, and soon you'll be walking across the floor, put one hoof in front of the other and soon you'll be walking out the door!" Discord nodded at them proud as he made a door frame using his magic and the CMC walked through it.

They floated back to Twi, "You will never get where you're going if you never get on your hooves, come on there's a good tail wind blowing, we got the beat as long as you got the moves, put one hoof in front of the other and soon you'll be walking across the floor, put one hoof in front of the other and soon you'll be walking out the door. If you want to change your direction if your time of life is on land, well don't be the rule be the exception a good way to start is to stand!"

Twi nodded as she kept trying until she stood up. "Put one hoof in front of the other…" Twi wobbled as she did that. "And soon you'll be walking across the floor…" Twi slowly moved forward. "Put one hoof in front of the other…" Twi started walking normally as she went through the door. "And soon you'll be walking out the door!" They cheered as she was walking like a normal pony she sang in her mind, "Just put one hoof in front of the other and soon I'm walking across the floor! Just put one hoof in front of the other and I'm walking through that door!" They all cheered.

Meanwhile at the place Timber was reading reports from his soldiers trying to find that girl he saw even though his sister told them it was a waste of time, he sighed as she walked in, "Come to mock me again about my mystery siren?" "Actually I got a better idea, one the eve of your twenty first birthday, we'll host a marvelous ball, we'll invite countless eligible young mares from far and wide…" "I knew it!" "To sing for you." "What?" "A contest what better way to find your mystery voice? And you'll finally be wed just like father wanted." "Yes sis this is a brilliant idea she's out there somewhere I just know it."

"Where did she go? Where can she be? When will she come again calling to me? Calling to me… calling to me… somewhere there's a mare who's like the shimmer of the wind upon the water, somewhere there is a mare who's like the glimmer of the sunlight on the sea, somewhere there's a mare who's like a swell of endless music somewhere she is singing and her song is meant for me and her voice it's sweet as angels sighing and her voice it's warm a summer sky and that sound it haunts my dreams and spins me round until it seems I'm flying her voice!"

"I can sense her laughter in the ripple of the waves against the shoreline I can see her smiling in the moonlight as it settles on the sand I can feel her waiting just beyond the pale Horizon singing out a Melody too lovely to withstand and her voice is there as dusk is falling and her voice is there as dawn steals by, pure and bright it's always near all day all night and still I hear it calling…her voice strange as a dream…real as the sea…if you can hear me now come set me free…come set me free!" Winona smelt something the same scent that saved her master!

She barked at Timber, "What is it Winona?" She barked some more before taking off, "Winona come back!" Back on the beach the CMC took off to go fly some more with Discord Twi waved them goodbye then she heard barking Spike vanished into the water and Cheese shrank to fit into a clam Twi grabbed the clam with her magic as she jumped on a rock as Winona came running towards her the dog barked at her before licking her cheek. "Winona!"

Timber said grabbing her collar, "What has gotten into…" He looked up to see Twi, "Oh I see." He smiled at Twi, "Don't mind Winona she's a big softy, I…" He looked into her eyes for a moment, "You seem very familiar to me have we meet?" Twi nodded. "We have? Are you perhaps the mare I'm looking for? What's your name?" Twi opened her mouth but nothing came out oh right… "Oh can't speak then you can't be who I was thinking of…" Twi huffed but then saw a stick she got a brilliant idea and started to write words she tapped the ground excited. "I need your help?"

Timber read out loud, "Oh of course come with me." Twi looked excited as she carried the clam that held Cheese inside, "By the way what's with the clam?" Twi shrugged. "Let me guess good luck charm?" She nodded. "Well come you and your good luck charm can live with me until we get things figured out." Twi smiled as they entered the castle. "Timber where in Equestria… oh whose this?" "Don't know Winona found her on the beach." He whispered in her ear, "Poor thing doesn't speak probably got ship wrecked she does have that good luck clam you know how ponies get around their safety nets so just let her keep it."

Gloriosa nodded, "Come on you must be filthy being in that sand a nice warm bath is what you need." After explaining to the staff Twi had a grand time taking a bath then after getting a dress which she put the clam into she looked around the castle while singing in her mind, "Oh just look it's like I'm in a storybook, oh it's bliss I dreamed that it would be somewhat but not like this! Look over there! Oh my sun! How very odd! And what might they be? Something splendid maybe!" Twi sang looking at paintings.

"Look over here! Could you busy? Isn't it just bedazzling, dazing, utterly amazing! Gazing around it's like to die! Just seeing it feels so good I'd scream if I only could!" Twi sang as she pranced about, "I'd hoped and wished and wanted so to be here wished and prayed and planned it to a t, prayed and wow! Just look it's really me here! Trotting along, strange as it seems, somewhere beyond my wildest dreams!" She sang looking in a mirror, the maids minuette, lemon hearts, twinkle shine, Moon dancer, and lyra heartstrings looked at Twi.

"Look at her there looking around won't make a sound, just keeps on gawking weird how she's not talking! Look at her stare, lucky miss! Chosen like this to stay for dinner, what does he see in her? Hush now girls she's simply shy! Hmmph! Just picture the table chat! One sided if even that!" Twi happily galloped off after seeing a cool new thing, "I'd hoped and wished and wondered what I'd do here wished and prayed and pictured what I'd see prayed and wow! My prayers are coming true here! Look at all, look how it gleams lovely beyond my wildest dreams!"

Twi spotted Timber, "Look it's him! So handsome, refined, and slim, sweet sincere, magnificent from head to toe and oh… I'd hoped and wished my life would feel enchanted! Wished and prayed the fates would hear my plea prayed and wow! My prayer are more than granted! Look at it all, hall after hall perfect as you could please here! Marvels galore and even more gee did I mention he's here? And if who knows all of it goes past these extremes just look at me and you'll see somepony beyond her wildest dreams!"

Timber froze in sight of Twi, "Well now I'm the one who's speechless, hungry?" Twi blushed as they went to the dinning room, Twi was seated but not before looking at it she saw how the other two were sitting and sat the same way, Gloriosa smiled, "It's so nice to have a fellow girl at the table." Twi spotted a fork and started to brush her mane with it using her magic before she got odd looks and she quickly put it down, okay that clearly wasn't right she spotted some pony smoking a pipe and nudged him pointing to the pipe, "Oh do you like it? It's high quality…" Twi blew into it getting smoke in their face.

Timber laughed, "Sorry Turner but this time the pipe smoked you." Turner wiped the ash off his face, "Yes very amusing." Twi squirmed as if she did something wrong Gloriosa noticed this and looked at her brother, "Why Timber is that a smile? I didn't think I'll ever see it again." "Oh quiet you I smile plenty." Timber said nudging her she nudged back, "Oh yeah name one day in the last two months that doesn't include sailing." "Well there was… oh wait that one… well I believe… oh shut up!" Twi smiled and stopped squirming.

Gustave le grand came in serving different selections of food ranging from fruit to fish Twi looked at the fish in front of her and leaned back so hard she fell out of the chair she ran out of the room Timber followed her concerned only to see her throw up in an empty pot, "Not a fan of seafood?" Twi looked at him and shook her head no hard. "Oh I see I should have asked before serving fish dishes." Twi threw up in the pot again and Timber rubbed her back, "You know after that I don't think I'll eat fish either, so um why don't you like fish?"

Twi looked at him and opened her mouth but again nothing came out, "You know what who needs words? Dancing beats small talk any day." Twi tilted her head at him in confusion. "You might not believe me but it's true, it's the way your hooves smile or laugh, it lets you say so many things." He tapped one hoof, "Dancing is a language that is felt instead of heard." He did a little dance, "You can sniper, sing, or shout without so much as a word, try it like so…" He did some simple dance steps and Twi copied.

Timber nodded, "Just let your emotions tell your body what to do." Twi did her own dance steps. "See how much a single gesture can reveal and every little step, every single step, is one step closer to saying what you feel." Timber pulled Twi into a dance, "Once the music hits you, inhibitions fall away and you find that you're expressing things your voice darn't say don't be afraid let go! Soon as you surrender what's inside will sweep on through as the boundaries between us disappear! And every step, every single step is one step closer to talking loud and clear!"

The two danced away into hallways maids and butlers avoiding them until they entered the grand ballroom, "A dance is like a conversation except you never need to make a sound and once you've begun you speak as one give and take back and forth round and round." The two danced completely in tune with each other moving as one like poetry in motion. "A dance is like a conversation except your lips don't ever need to part, and once you've begun you speak as one, cheek to cheek, hoof to hoof, heart to heart."

The two stare into each other's eyes, "Dancing is a language that is felt instead of heard but it says much more than language ever could and every little step every single step is one step closer… one step closer… one step closer to being understood." A voice rings in Timbers ear, "Did you hear that?" Twi shook her head no. "Forgive me I haven't been myself lately, it's near midnight I should let you get some sleep." Timber said before walking off Twi went to the room she was given she spotted a maid and tapped her lightly.

"Ahhh… oh it's you, yes what do you need?" Twi showed her clam then pointed to the sink. "Oh right can't speak, charades it is." Twi scratched her chin before showing the clam again, "Clam?" Twi nodded then turned on the water in the sink. "Water?" Twi nodded again then placed her hoof on the bedside table. "You want a glass of water?" Twi shook her head showing the clam. "You want me to water your clam?" Twi shook her head again, she tapped the bedside table then made a box shape with her hoof by drawing it in the air. "You need a box of water?" Twi nodded.

"Oh I get it you want to put your clam in water but have that water close to you." Twi nodded and the maid left and came back with a glass box, "This is an aquarium it holds water and let's you see into it." Twi happily tapped her hooves together. "Oh thank you but no need to clap for me just doing my job." She filled it with water and placed it on the bedside table, Twi put the clam into it and the maid left after she was gone Twi opened the clam to let Cheese out, "Oh thank you fresh water!" Twi held a hoof to her mouth looking towards the door.

"Oh right quietly speak." Cheese said swimming around, "Looks like I'm staying mini sized huh?" Twi nodded looking sorry. "Hey it's no big deal." Twi smiled as she climbed into the bed and it moved she happily played with it before going to sleep, meanwhile Nightmare watched through her magic mirror everything that just happened, "She didn't waste much time, the little shameless tease, one sunset's barely through and princey-poo is on his knees they'll be smooching by day two boys if she keeps it up like this so there's just one thing to do."

"What?" "Idiots, go up and block that kiss!" "Oh!" "Meanwhile I bet her daddy's worried bad and wondering where she is, soon he'll guess and then oh yes the real fun can begin! So let the clock run out their time is almost up and once they're trapped I'll have them wrapped around my magic, with my tentacles around them just in case, then I'll at last be back on track! And headed for good times, deliciously good times, two days and the good times they're coming back!" Nightmare laughed as her two eels slithered off.

The next day was pretty fun for Twi and it ended with them on a boat, "No mare has ever dared to join me out here, too afraid they'd muddy their shoes, but not you." Twi beamed, Discord looked at them, "Nothing is happening! Twenty-four hours left and he'll be married off and she will be deep sided!" The CMC floated in, "We got to do something quick! But what?" Cheese smiled, "We got to create the right kind of mood, everything we need is right here, percussion…" Apple Bloom tapped on turtle shells. "Strings…" Sweetie Belle used her magic to show crickets how to play. "Winds…" Scootaloo used her wings to blow wind over pipe like plants. "And words."

"There you see her sitting there across the way, she don't got a lot to say but there's something about her, and you don't know why but you're dying to try you want to kiss the girl." Timber looked around, "Do you hear something?" Twi shook her head. "Yes you want to look at her you know you do possible she wants you to there is one way to ask her it don't take a word not a single word go on and kiss the girl, sing with me now." "Sha la la la my oh my looks like the boy too shy ain't gonna kiss the girl, sha la la la ain't that sad it's a shame too bad he's going to miss the girl."

"You know I really ought to know your name, maybe I could guess, Sunset Shimmer? Midnight Shine? Starlight Glimmer?" Twi shook her head no, then Cheese popped his head up, "Try Twilight Sparkle." "Twilight Sparkle?" Twi nodded yes, "Hey that's really pretty mind if I just call you Twi?" She shook her head no. "Okay Twi." "Now's your moment floating in a blue lagoon boy you better do it soon no time will be better she don't say a word and she won't say a word until you kiss the girl." Discord made fireflies dance around them.

"Sha lalala don't stop now don't try to hide it how you want to kiss the girl, sha la la float along and listen to the song the song say kiss the girl, Shalala the music play do what the music say go on and kiss the girl, go on and kiss the girl, you got to kiss the girl, go on and kiss the girl, good on and kiss the girl!" The two got really close to kissing before the boat tipped over Sweetie Belle shouted, "Oh come on!" Timber helped Twi back in the boat, "Okay you had to hear that." Twi sighed as she shook her head they were so close!

Back in her room she looked like she was yelling but no sound came out Cheese sighed, "Tomorrow the prince has his choice of any princess in the land they will be singing to win his heart how can a mute seapony compete with that?" Tomorrow three mares were in the ballroom with Timber and Gloriosa, "Welcome dear princesses to our contest the first this kingdom has ever seen, we gather today for a vocal display so my brother may at last choose a queen! These three princesses possess the most accomplished voices in all the land, tonight one of you will go home with the crown may the best mare win!"

Fleur de lis went first, "Listen to me don't I sound rich loud am I not? Plus I got perfect pitch wouldn't you think I'm the girl the girl who has everything?" Songbird Serenade went next, "Listen to this clear as can be you'll know I'm it when I hit my high c." Coloratura was last, "I'm the world famous Coloratura my vibrato is second to none I'm a walking display of bravada wouldn't you think I'm the girl the girl who has everything?" Now they all sang, "It's so clear can't you hear? I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one!"

"Surely one of these lovely voices matches the music in your heart?" "I wish I could say yes but she's not here." Twilight came forward. "Twilight? What is she doing she knows this is a singing contest right?" Twilight looked at Timber and began to dance. "well that's to be expected I so hoped my brother that you would find somepony to love in this room." "Perhaps I have I've just been to blind to see it." "But that's impossible she didn't under a sound." "No? Well that's funny because I heard every single note clear as a bell." Twi perked up but then a voice cut through the room.

"That's it! That's the voice!" Timber looked as a unicorn came in Twi looked at her, she looked familiar… "You look so beautiful… please mystery siren give me your name." "Midnight Glitter." Twi ran in front of Timber that was her voice she knew who that was Nightmare Moon! Timber pushed her aside and walked toward her, "Midnight marry me?" "Of course prince…" "Timber Spruce, come the boat is waiting for us." Twi ran past them and down to the water where Spike, Discord and the CMC were waiting, she put Cheese into the water and started flailing at them. "Okay slow down what's wrong?"

Twi looked at Cheese with a sorry face before she used her magic on him, "That unicorn is Nightmare Moon in disguise she's using my voice to hypnotize Timber you got to help me!" Cheese blinked when Twi broke the magic off, "Why in the sea do you know this spell?!" "Doesn't matter we got a wedding to crash Cheese Spike use this barrel to get Twilight to that boat!" Discord said putting Twi on a barrel and wrapping rope around both Cheese and Spike, "As for me and my fillies we got to stop that wedding!" Cheese and Spike nodded and pulled Twilight's barrel toward the ship.

"Come on girls gather as many sea life as you can get and let's go." The CMC nodded and pulled out instruments they played a song which gathered a lot of sea creatures they got to the boat first and started to cause chaos Winona barked like crazy as Nightmare looked at them, she tried to zap many of them, distracted she didn't see Twilight get unto the boat Cheese scared the guy holding Winona's leash and she went in and bit down hard one of Nightmare's legs she screamed in pain and Discord ripped the shell off her neck and smashed it.

Timber blinked in confusion as the spell on him broke he saw the chaos then a light going to Twilight she put a hoof to her throat before running to him, "Timber are you alright?" "Wait Twi you can talk?" "Timber don't listen to her!" Nightmare said clearly now using her real voice. "I wanted to tell you but…" "Don't speak…" They were going to kiss but then the sun had set and Twi turned back into a seapony. "Your too late!" Nightmare laughed turning back to normal and grabbing Twi, "Yeah she was the one and now she's mine!" Twi cried as she was dragged under water Gloriosa came up to Timber's side shock clearly on her face.

"You saw that too right?" Timber went to one of the rowboats then cut the ropes to get it into the water. "Brother what are you doing?!" "I lost her once sis I'm not losing her again!" Under the water Twi struggled as Nightmare held her, "Stop struggling I don't really want you!" "Nightmare Moon stop!" King Solaris said holding the triton in her face. "Oh brother dear your right on time." "Give Twilight back to me!" "Not on your life! It so happens that your daughter signed a contract." "No!" "Even drew little hearts above the Is, is it binding? Goodness yes! Unbreakable unless…" " Unless?" "Yes perhaps we can arrange a sort of trade off."

"What?" "Maybe swap your daughter's soul for say your own sign the scroll and set her free, or else she comes with me to suffer through eternity alone!" "Daddy please don't…" Twi tree to cry out but Nightmare wrapped her tail around her mouth. "Well? I'm waiting." "It's not my soul your after it's my power!" "Which would you rather be, the king of the sea, or a father to his little girl?" Twi cried as she shook her head no, but Solaris used his magic and changed the name on the contract to his own. "Finally, the oceans belong to me!"

She tossed Twi aside and used her magic on Solaris, "And now you poor unfortunate soul times up, your through! Now the power of Eclipse has been once again made whole, all the magic of the trident and the magic I have in my control, now darkness shall reign forever over ocean, sea, and shoal! Now see for yourself how banishment feels you poor unfortunate soul!" Magic wrapped around Solaris and dragged him into a black portal and out came the pony of shadows, "My king your free!" He laughed as Nightmare hugged him, "Yes my queen and I have you to thank!"

"Your both monsters I can't believe I was going to sing a song in your honor!" "Don't talk to me you little brat I make the rules here… ahhhh!" Nightmare looked at the knife in her arm, then she looked up at Timber, "You!" "Timber!" Twi tried to swim to him but Nightmare grabbed her, "Get him!" Snips and Snails nodded and went to grab Timber he got a quick breath before being pulled down again, "Hold him still boys!" She powered up the trident and Twi yanked on Nightmare's mane making her hit Snips and Snails instead.

"My babies!" Twi swam off and grabbed Timber as Nightmare growled, "My king I need your darkness!" She said before absorbing his darkness this had a side effect of curing Stygian who blinked in surprise as the tantabus left Selena's body no longer needing it as it had all the power for itself, Stygian grabbed Selena's head, "Selena?" She opened her eyes and looked at him then looked at the tantabus, "What have I done?" Stygian handed her the trident, "We can still fix this!" Selena nodded and opened the dark portal and Solaris came out, "Selena?" "No time to explain we got a bigger problem to fix!"

She gave him the trident and pointed to the tantabus. "Right let's banish that darkness forever!" Above water Twi was carrying Timber on her back as she swam around to avoid the tantabus. "So let me get this straight you're a seapony who made a deal to become a pony all to be on land with me?" "Is now really a good time to be talking about this?!" Timber looked at the tantabus, "Good point." Selena swam next to them, "Niece we have a plan!" "Selena? But you…" "Later sweety the plan!" "Oh right I'm listening." Selena whispered in her ear and Twi nodded she swam up to the tantabus, "Hey you big ugly brute I'm over here!"

The tantabus screeched as it chased Twi a huge whirlpool was ahead of them, "Timber I would hang on!" Timber grabbed unto Twi's body and she jumped over the whirlpool, the tantabus followed getting stuck in the middle, Solaris and Selena used their magic on it to hold it still Solaris tossed the trident at Twi who caught it, she used the magic inside to create the dark portal below the tantabus, it screeched as it was being dragged in Twi saw a light inside the tantabus, she dropped Timber and the trident, she jumped then dove at the light.

Timber held the trident as he yelled, "Twilight!" She went right into the tantabus, the trident glowed and Timber pulled back on it and saw a purple light being pulled out of the tantabus he pulled on the trident hard and Twilight came out holding someone, with one final screech the tantabus was pulled into the portal and the whirlpool vanished, both Solaris and Selena came towards Twilight, "Are you alight niece?" "Twi why did you do that?" "Because I couldn't let the darkness take another life." She said holding up Umbra.

Umbra slowly opened her eyes and saw Solaris crying, "Hunny? Are you…" He hugged her deeply, "I thought I never see you again!" Timber smiled, "So um… this is your family? Wow talk about making a first impression." Solaris looked at Timber, "Can I have that back please?" Timber looked at the trident then gave it back, Twi cried, "Oh father I've caused you so much trouble can you ever forgive me?" "Why I never been prouder somehow in the blink of an eye when my back was turned you grew up."

"If only you can stay and never say goodbye if only I could make time stop believe me I would try but fathers have to learn their daughters have to grow and if you truly love them you must let them go." "And so how I love you all so if only you could know!" "You love this pony don't you?" Twi nodded all three of them placed their horns together and the magic swirled around Twi making her a pony again she grabbed Timber in a hug and the two kissed, then Twi flew them to the ship, once they landed on it Gloriosa hugged her brother then looked at Twi.

"Bro… are you going to marry an alicorn?!" "Yes and don't worry she is a princess just not from land." Gloriosa looked down to see four seaponies waving at her, she slowly waved back, "So um… your not going to have any finned children right?" Both Twi and Timber laughed. "No I'm serious." "Relax I'm a full land pony now." Timber put a ring on her horn, "By the way that's yours." Everypony cheered, "And now at last love has surpassed each tribulation, seapony and pony finally can join and be one."

"Now they can smile walking the aisle here at their wedding celebration." "Sailing forward." "Standing steady." "Starting life completely ready." "Now they can be who their meant to be, now they can gaze on a new horizon here between ocean and sky forever and on! Now they can walk, now they can run, now they can stay all day in the sun." "Just you and me." "And I will be." "Part of your world!" Discord came in with the CMC, "Beautiful, but you two aren't actually going to get married right now are you? You barely know each other." "Relax Discord we have the rest of our lives to get to know each other."

"Yeah we are married but I think we should wait a year or two before we have a do over wedding." "Oh good because getting married right now might send the wrong message to the readers." "Wait to who?" Discord looks toward us the readers, "You know them the humans who are reading this fim fiction parody." "Ah Discord there is nothing there…" Discord shrugged as he flew off the CMC followed him. "Twi?" "Yes?" "What are hu-mans?" "I have no idea my friend can be pretty odd some days." "Oh I see… let's never bring up that word again." "Agreed!" The two sailed off as Discord came into the frame again and winked at us before vanishing with a chuckle.