Griffin did not sleep very well. He never does. The ache in his chest and right arm barely ever leave, both for different reasons. So he woke up at around seven am and went downstairs.
"Mornin' Griffin." Scarlet Streak said as she entered the kitchen and sat at the table, wearing a combo of a scarlet red T-shirt and panties. It was around eight thirty am.
"Good morning Scarlet. Sleep well?" Griffin asked. Already prepping breakfast.
"Meh." Scarlet answered. "You didn't I assume."
"Indeed." Griffin said as he opened the fridge and removed a pack of orange juice. Pouring it into a glass then setting it in front of Scarlet. Not even asking why she was only wearing two pieces of clothing.
"Thanks." She said as she took a quick sip. "Since when do we have a fridge filled with food?" She continued.
"Apparently Celestia can plan ahead." Griffin answered mockingly as he took five plates out of a cabinet above the countertop and spread them over the table.
"She can? Hmm, the more you know." She was rather surpised in all honesty.
"Indeed again." He said as he started to prepare breakfast.
"Whata we havin'?" Scarlet asked .
"Pancakes. Apparently she also asked some random seven year old mundy what they liked to have for breakfast." Griffin said in frustration as he threw some milk, eggs and pancake mix in a bowl.
"Pancakes sound nice." A drowsy Jaina said as she entered the kitchen, wearing blue silk pajamas. The second she laid her eyes on Scarlet's attire she facepalmed. "Scarlet."
"Yes."
"How many times have I told you to wear normal pajamas." Jaina said, not removing her palm from her face.
"Meh." Was the only response Scarlet gave her.
"It's no matter, Jaina. Scarlet's attire has no effect on me. I've seen her like this more times then I am willing to keep track of." Griffin said nonchalantly.
"But!- Ugh, fine." The blue haired Summoner gave in.
Scarlet gained a triumphant smile on her face.
"That doesn't mean that you should always walk around like that Scarlet. Who knows when a rift opens and threatens us all, we need to be ready and deployable at all times." Griffin said as he flipped a pancake around with his frying pan. The slightest bit of butter landing on the magical tape on his right arm. It fizzled out of existence in an instant.
"I'll try to keep it in mind." Scarlet said.
"I sure hope so." Jaina mumbled.
A couple hours later Griffin was walking through town, it was rare for them all to have a day without some random creature threatening at least some lives, so Griffin was making full use of it with a calm stroll through the streets.
"It seems you are enjoying yourself Master."
Griffin jumped in shock, he had not heard Midnight approaching. "How many times have I told you to not creep up on me like that, Midnight." He managed to say. "You're gonna give me a heart attack."
"You are in your physical prime, I do not think that that is very likely, Master." Midnight calmly said. While she was still wearing her ninja overalls, she had taken of the usual secrecy cloth on her head in favor of letting her short black hair down. Her violet eyes calculatingly watching the streets.
"You know what I mean." He said as he continued walking.
"In a sense." She said as she followed him. "Where are we going?"
"I'm just walking throught town, you decided to follow."
"Touché." Midnight replied.
"I know." Griffin says as he looks up at the sky. He continues to say. "And today's perfectly dry, how incosistent."
"Indeed. But then again, has Equestria ever been consistent?" Midnight replies.
"Touché."
"I know." She says.
"You are quite the unusual quintet aren't you? How lovely!" A highly flamboyant voice said from above them.
"Like you have any right to call us unusual. Discord." Griffin replies to the man walking upside down on an invisible floor above them, holding a cup of hot chocolate in his right hand. Discord was wearing brown pants, a brown sweater and a pair of black expensive looking business shoes adorned his feet. He drank the cup, threw away the chocolate and turned clockwise, his feet sliding over the ground before he stood.
"But of course I do! And besides," Discord says as his right hand phases into Griffin's chest. "This sword is just too fabulous to ignore!" He said as he pulls a dark blue sword out of Griffin's chest.
The sword was made of a sollid slab of hellish obsidian, it's handle wrapped in the dark green skin of a pit lord, the hilt made of petrified succubus blood. The blade started wide, about ten inches, and slowly thinned along the way to the tip, waving in a flamberge fashion.
"Give me that!" Griffin says as he quickly jumps at Discord, trying to grab the sword from his grasp. Discord simply hovered up into the air.
"How sad, it hasn't seen any use in the past two months!" The embodiment of chaos says as he inspects the sword in his hands.
"Discord, if you don't give me my 'Fest right this instant I will not hesitate to-"
"Do what? Summon an army?" Discord tauntingly says
Griffin stays silent.
Midnight crosses her arms behind her back.
One of Midnight's arms appears out of a hole in space over Discord's shoulder. The arm reaches forward and snatches the sword from his hands. "Hey!" Discord exclaimes as he sees the sword dissappear in the hole.
Midnight pulls her arms back from behind her back, her right now holding the sword. Without a word she returns in to Griffin.
"Thank you, Midnight." He says as he takes the handle in his right hand. Without a word he stabbed back in his chest.
"That sword never ceases to amaze me." Discord says from the air.
"It is the only double element Manifestation. It doesn't surprise me that it does." Griffin says as he rubs his chest. The ache had returned.
"Indeed. Compared to my old Cane it is superior. But I am the stronger User." Dicord smugly continues.
"Mealstrom is superior to everything it needs to be." Griffin says as he jumps up to Discord height. He hovered there. "But," He says as he punches Discord in the jaw, sending him flying to the Everfree forest. Griffin teleported to him in a purple flash. "If you do that ever again I will not show mercy."
"Of course not, I wouldn't expect anything less." Discord tells as he stand back up, snapping his jaw back into place.
They stood there staring the other down for a couple seconds. Raw magical energies thrashing around them.
"It's been fun seeing you again, Griffin. But I will be returning to my abode now. Give me a call if you want to train some more." Discord says as he flashes away.
"I still do not understand how you can remain standing under that much force, Master." Midnight says as she appears behind Griffin. Having difficulty breathing due to the massive amount of magical force still dissipating from the air.
"That was nothing, he's stronger then that. He just doesn't show it." He says as he walks over to her. He lays a hand on her shoulder and teleports them both back to Ponyville. "And besides, I could've beaten him... I think."
"Even you aren't that strong, Master." Midnight said.
"Probably." Griffin said as he slumped forward just a little bit.
As the two of them walked through Ponyville Griffin could not shake the feeling that one of the most powerful, though dormant, magical signatures lay somewhere in this very town.