Another morning, another day in the wonderful world of technicolor ponies. I woke up to the sound of banging and hammering, forcing me to sit up from my sleeping spot on the floor. “Chara?” I said with a groan, rubbing the sand out of my eyes.

“They are not getting me, no way in hell.” I heard Chara say as she was putting the finishing touches on the most complicated door mechanism I've ever seen.

“What, what’s wrong?” I said, groggily getting up from the floor.

“It's the day Pinkie and rainbow go on a pranking spree but I plan to get them first.” Chara said as she finished her project with a ton of industrial strength glue inside the thing she created.

“...Seriously? I thought someone was attacking Ponyville and you’re only freaking out about them pranking you?” I shook my head with relief.

“I will not lose my title as Masters Troll! I earned it by pranking Sunbutt in the middle of day Court.” she said glaring at me

“You ain’t no master if you’ve got competition.” I said jokingly. “Now undo the door, we can’t stay in here forever.”

But before Chara can respond, the door opened to reveal two mares, suddenly the door’s trap is sprung, covering the two ponies in glue and feathers. Lastly, a sign fell on them that read ‘We were trolled by the master’. Chara then started to hum the troll song as she walked out of the cabin.

I face palmed with an annoyed groan. “Naryu damnit, chara..” I said in a whisper. “Sorry about Chara… What brings you two here? Did Chara do something bad? I mean other than what she just did.” I asked.

Pinkie Pie suddenly burst out laughing, giggling and snorting at her friend from the way she looked.

Rainbow dash let out an angry groan before running off.

“Me and Dashie were going to prank you, but it looks like someone beat us to the punch.” Pinkie pie said with another giggle snort. “Oh! I almost forgot.” She reaches into her cotton candy hair and pulls out some sort of container dish. Wait, how’d she keep it in there without it falling out?

“Here’s the Mint Icecream you ask for, I added chocolate chip too!” She said as she handed it to me. I noticed that the front had a light blue rune, the container also felt cold so I assume it’s enchanted to keep it cold.

“Thanks Pinkie.” I said with a smile. I placed it on the wooden table.

“I’ll see you later, Linkie!” She said, hopping like a bunny rabbit out of the door. I let out a sigh as I started cleaning up the bits and pieces of father and glue goo left over by Chara’s prank.

Just as I finished cleaning up, Chara walked back into the cabin before falling onto the floor, rolling and laughing her behind off. “She's never going to be able to live down the glitter bomb I threw at her!” Chara said barely between laughs.

“Is this some sort of pony version of April Fools? Actually, do they even have a calendar system?” I asked. I was honestly glad Chara has kept her mischief down to just pranks, it was a lot better than pissing off everypony and making them miserable.

“Actually I wouldn't be surprised if they made one after that time I trolled sunbutt in her own Court.” Chara said calming down a little bit.

“...Nothing embarrassing, I hope?” I asked with concern.

“Oh nothing much just a pink glitter bomb, but she'll have a hell of a hard time getting it out though with that industrial strength glue I added.” Chara said as she burst out giggling again.

“Probably not knowing her, I mean really,” I turned to look at Chara with a knowing look. “Magic.”

Speak of the devil, a letter came through our window and into my hand, I opened it up and read it out. “Dear Link, there is something I’d like for you to investigate out to the east sea of Equestria, I’ve been sensing strange magic coming from that region. I would have prepared a Spell Of Waterbreathing, but considering the many surprises you hold, I am confident that you’ll be able to go under water just fine. Yours truly, Princess Celestia.” For some reason, there was a small peach stamped by her signature. What does that even mean?

“Um, Link? What about me?” Chara said was confusion written across her face.

“Sorry, doesn’t look like she wants you to come with me. So for now, I think we should drop you off at Fluttershy’s cottage while I’m gone. I mean, even though I trust you to be alone, I’d rather not come home to see our home decorated by your hand if you know what I mean.” I said. Considering her pranks, harmless as they maybe, they tend to leave a bit of a mess.

“But I don- ...Wait, oh that could work!” Chara said with her ‘I'm about to do something to piss off someone’ grin, she started rubbing her hands together like a cliché James Bond villain.

“Chara..” I said, crossing my arms and giving her a stern look.

“Link. trust me. This bitch deserves it, she's going to make Fluttershy cry.” Chara said giving me a defiant look.

“Does it involve inflicting pain?” I said with a serious face and tone of voice, I mean she hasn’t done anything bad or serious since removing the nightmare’s toxins from Chara’s mind, but I’d rather be cautious in case she tries to exact revenge or hurt someone just to protect who she cares about.

“I promise that it won't kill them but I can't promise not to maim them.” Chara said with a serious tone of voice. For some reason, Chara has become quite protective of Fluttershy since Nightmare Moon was defeated.

“I’m serious, I don’t want ponies or non ponies becoming scarred from your actions, it’s suppose to be a peaceful village, even if we do get monsters and villains..” I said then stopped to think about it. “One of these days, I really need to find a way to cloak my triforce’s influence. I mean this thing might be the cause of the monsters who seek out power.”

“Why not ask Sunbutt to cloak your Triforce, she did find a way to cut me off from my very soul. I don't see why she couldn't mask the Triforce.” Chara said as if it was the most obvious answer with her hands behind her head.

“Yeah, you’re right. I’ll ask her after my trip to the eastern sea. Anything you know of? Any events in that area I need to be aware of?” I asked.

“No, not really. There's nothing over there that happens up to season 7. Now if you were going north then that would be where the Crystal Empire and King Sombra show up or if she suggested the Badlands that would be where Queen Chrysalis and her changelings live but they don't show up until Twilight's brother and Cadence get married and they'll plan an evasion around that. Oh! And Discord breaks out thanks to the CMC. Nothing I can remember about the sea.” Chara said listing off several different threats

I blinked a few times. “That’s quite a lot, but remember, this is a different universe from the show, it might of changed just a tiny bit, kind of like Back To The Future, one small change will cause a ripple effect.” I commented.

“Yeah-yeah, whatever. Let's just get on over to Fluttershy's so you can go deal with your big bad problem.” Chara said putting on her pendant and putting her knives in her pocket.

“Hey, she didn’t say what it was, all she said was that she sensed something off.” I said with a frown.

After traveling across country and eventually arriving where the land meets the sea, I started putting on the pieces of armor of the Zora Mail Tunic, musing to myself at what I could possibly find at the bottom of the ocean.

Once I had it equipped along with the Zora Flippers, I did some stretching exercises as it has been awhile since I did any kind of swimming. Once my body was ready, I dove right in.

So far, all I saw was a vast endless darkness that stretched out for miles, occasionally I would come across the local plant life and sea creatures. So far, I'm not seeing whatever Celestia is talking about, it looks fairly peaceful out right now. After a few miles, I came across something that made my eyes go wide.

An underwater civilization faded into my view, but when entered the city, it looked rather… Empty, no one roamed the streets, making the place look like a dead ghost town. Was I too late?

I swam on over to one of the doors and tried to open it, it’s locked for some reason. I made my way to all the other homes, but like the first door, it refused to be opened. I check the inside of the windows and saw nothing but blackness.

“HEY!” A voice yelled out, making me turn. There in roman armor, were three seahorses brandishing spears. “State your business, monster!”

“Crap.. I can’t communicate with them while I’m underwater.” I said mentally in my head. Thinking quick on my feet, I raise a hand to my throat, then shake my head. The sea pony guards raise an eyebrow at this gesture, I try again but point at where my mouth would be as it is being covered.

The sea horses eventually understand what I mean. “Even though you cannot talk, we cannot trust you in our walls. Come with us to King Requiem Bells, he’ll judge if you are friend or foe.” He said, they pointed their spears at me and I had no choice but to do as they said. The first sea horse stood-... I mean floated behind me with its spear pointing at my back, while the second lead the way to wherever this King was.

Despite the minor trouble I was in, I was at least able to see what the city offered, it was a place of beauty with the sea corals and sea life, a lot of it looked untouched by ponies and somewhat primitive. Thank the three goddesses Chara isn’t here, I bet she’d try to come up with all sorts of jokes.

Eventually, we arrived at the throne room and met whom I assumed was the King, but where’s the queen?

“Your highness, we’ve brought a strange creature who cannot speak.” The sea pony guardsmen.

“Thank you, I’ll take it from here.” Requiem said. I had to admit, the guy was pretty big but rather… colorful. He was wearing a crown made out of red coral, his fur and lower tail fin’s scales ranged between blue, yellow, and purple. Last to mention of his appearance was the long goatee-like beard.

The big sea horse rose up from his throne and I couldn’t help but look away from his gaze. Despite being colorful, his size was a little intimidating.

“No need to fear me, creature. I only want to look into your mind.” Requiem said, making me look back up at him in curiosity.

He began to sing a strange song, causing me to freeze in position, I saw my memories flash before my eyes but mostly on recent events. He didn’t delve any deeper once he found the answers.

“Ah, a land dweller. Quite an impressive feat that you have armor that allows you to breath, but not speak underwater?” He commented. Hearing those words made me realize how stupid I am, so I raised my hand to gesture to him ‘one moment’

I pulled out the Zora Mask and placed it on, causing him to cover his eyes due to the power of the mask. After the transformation, I was now a Zora but still wearing the armor, however my cap had changed to become that of a fin and my Zora Flippers became fins along my legs. My zora colors were also different, taking on hues of red and dark blue.

The king had a puzzled but amazed expression on his face. “How did you do that?” He asked.

“It’s a magical mask I own that allows me to become what you see before you. I didn’t use it at first as I wasn’t expecting sentient beings down here.” I explained.

“I knew you land dwellers were capable of magic, but I didn’t know they were capable of creating magical masks.” The king said as he stroked his long beard.

“Actually, I’m the only one who can do this, your highness. Anyways, I came here by request of Princess Celestia, something about a disturbance?” I asked and I saw his forearms lower in sadness.

“Yes.. For the past few days, there has been a vile serpent who comes to visit, eating anypony who doesn’t hide in their homes. It is a dragon with a single horn that’s capable of sending bolts of energy.” He said, then further explained in detail.

“W-wait.. Aquamentus?!” I exclaimed, why the hell is it here in Equestria? Did those twin sisters revive it?

“Is that the beast’s name?” The king asked, his eyes twinkling with interest.

“Yes, I… killed it before.” I said, half lying, half telling the truth, logic is weird like that and it make less sense if I wasn’t Displaced as the legendary hero himself. “A long time ago when I was seeking out golden triangles to save Zelda.” I explained.
“This is good news then! You can slay this beast and peace will return to our kingdom. Will you do this, brave warrior?” He asked.

And as always, I could never refuse someone asking for myself, I wouldn’t be able to say no, it would only fill me with guilt. “It’s why I'm here, King Requiem.” I said, he smiled at this stroke of luck. So much for him being a king, but I guess it can’t be helped. “Does he have a pattern? How often does he visit?”

“Usually once a day, I have my guardsponies out there to make sure all of my seaponies stay in their homes. They can’t fight the beast as their magic cannot penetrate its armor, not even my hypnotic voice can bring it under my control.” Requiem said with a sigh.

“Then all I gotta do is wait for him to come and I’ll do the rest.” I said with confidence. It’s only Aquamentus after all, it’s not like I’m fighting the final boss.

I left the king’s throne and decided to stand in the middle of town square, I waited in total silence..

Hours pass and soon, the beast came, his very movement sending out small ripples throughout the town.

I can see it looks a lot different than it’s original counterpart. It was a blue and green serpent dragon of a large scaled size, its head as big as my height. It was looking for a meal and it was growing angrier when it couldn’t find one.

Eventually, it finds me and started stomping toward me, I felt slight deja vu as if I was fighting Dodongos.

Concentrating on it’s body, I use the Wide Angle

Name: Aquamentus
HP: ???/???
A powerful sea serpent that is capable of shooting energy bolts from its unicorn horn, it’s source of power is also its weak point.

Quickly crossing my arms, I swiftly released my fin boomerangs at the horn on its head, the rang’s slice the edge of the horn, causing the dragon to scream out in pain. Enraged, it suddenly darts at me, surprising me with it’s speed.

I attempted to get outta of the way, but it managed to jab it's horn into my shoulder, causing me to scream out in pain. Due to how close I was with its horn, I surrounded myself with an electrical barrier, severely shocking the serpent.

Aquamentus reacted to this by shaking me around like he was some sort of bull. Eventually, my body slipped off of his horn, causing my zora blood to be mixed with the water around me. It attempts to ram its horn at me again, forcing me to swim away in desperation.

I was swimming as fast as I could with the beast on my tail. I reached down and took out a Water Bomb, it ignites its own fuse upon being brought out. Going by a mental countdown, I release the bomb, allowing the flow of the water to carry it toward my target. When I heard the scaled monstrosity scream out along with the explosion, I knew I had managed to hit my mark.

I took a glance over my shoulder and notice it had stopped chasing me. My eyes go wide when its horn begins gathering energy, telling me right away he was going to attack me from a distance. I had to be on the move when it started to shoot rapidly in my direction, it wasn’t able to hit me but it was causing a lot of collateral damage to the town.

The moment it stops to rest, I pulled out my long Hookshot and took aim at its horn. Gripping and quickly releasing it allow its hook to shoot out and once it hit its mark, the hookshot yanks me toward Aquamentus.

Bending my elbow, I forced my fin-arm to turn into an arm-blade and once my hookshot got me closer, I vertical sliced its horn, once again causing it to scream in pure rage. It strongly slams the side of its neck against me, causing me to clash into the nearest stonewall.

The impact caused my wounded arm to release more green zora blood. At this point, the blood was sending the beast into a feeding frenzy, quickly darting straight at with its maw wide open to reveal rows of fangs. “Shit!” I exclaimed, quickly swimming under the dragon to avoid it’s wrath.

Aquamentus made a head-on collision where I was sitting a moment ago. When I turned my body to look at him, I saw he managed to get his horn stuck in the stone wall. Once again taking out my hookshot and performing the same action to help me get close to the horn, I clung tightly around it when I got near. Focusing on the magic within me, I gave the scaled manence another hundred volts of pure electrical magic.

Eventually, it manages to get itself dislodged, but I did not let go, causing the dragon to thrash its head around. Every few seconds, I kept using my electricity to shock him again and again.

Aquamentus manages to get me off before suddenly swirling around to slam its tail into me, sending me flying through the water.

This fight would of been a lot easier to do if I was on land instead of being restricted by the water’s pressure.

After I gained control over my body, Aquamentus is on the offensive again, releasing bolts of energy in my direction. Quickly reaching into my back, I pulled out the Mirror Shield to abort the dragon’s energy. One, two… three! With the shield fully charged of energy, I swam forward to not only slam my shield into the horn, but to also release a wild beam of energy. Aquamentus screams out in rage, flailing and furiously whipping its body around.

Soon, it’s body ceases its movement. When I saw it’s body fading to black, I knew I had won. Softly putting away the mirror shield, I turned and walked away, hearing nothing but the sound of an explosion behind me.

One by one, the sea horses came out when they saw that the beast had been slain. Everything went into a dead silence.

Suddenly, the town explodes with a roaring cheer in jubilee. They continued to cheer as I made my way back to King Requiem Bell.

“Thank you, hero, from the bottom of my heavy heart.” The king said as he started to shake my arm rapidly, almost giving me the same impression when Applejack shook my arm.

“N-no p-problem.” I said between shakes until the king finally lets me go.

“Is there anything I can get you? Just name it and I'll do anything in my power to do it.” The king said. I honestly didn’t have any requests, but I did have an idea.

“Your highness, I believe it would of be of your best interest to make an alliance with the royal twins, that way if you’re ever in trouble, they’ll come to see you. I’m sure they’ll make a Water Breathing potiin to make it.” I explained, the king clapped its hoofs together.

“It shall be done!” The king said with a smile of gratitude.

Once everything calmed down, I found out that this place was named Atlas, kind of ironic though. With the help of the sea ponies, I was directed to the infirmary to get my arm patched up. Thank Hylia for adrenaline rushes, otherwise I probably would of been in great pain during that fight.

Author's Notes:

Special thanks to Azure for editing.