Sick of it!
Like pretty much how all goody-two-shoes stories begin, the sunlight is illuminating a gorgeous landscape--a green forest expanding across the horizon between a grand valley. The smell of fresh dew resting on leaves evaporates into the crisp air, while the clouds part to reveal a clear blue sky.
Goodness, if I had a dime for every time I read an intro like this, I would be...quite broke, actually.
Anyways, moving on!
It was another one of Celestia's countless masterpieces laid out in front of Gilda's eyes as she flew across the sky, yet she paid no heed to it whatsoever. She was focused on something else, something of great importance, of which can mean the difference between life and death in this unforgiving world...
...breakfast.
*grumble*
"Ugh, can't you pipsqueaks come out already so that I can eat you?!"
Gilda screeched in frustration as her head darted back and fourth, scanning the ground for her next meal, which she hoped would be soon after searching for an eternity--also known as five minutes.
Sure enough, she saw a peculiar shape underneath a cluster of trees: two white bunnies, unaware of her looming presence, the animals indulging in their own morning meal. Pity.
She grinned, and began to descend upon her targets, her mind and body focused on nothing else but her reward. Deciding that since it was a slow, and groggy morning for her, she chose not to use the extra effort to scare the living excrement out of the poor things, but instead to become a silent harbinger of doom. She smiled devilishly at the thought of playing that role as she spread her talons...
"Gilbert, I'm back with breakfast. Get your big butt out of bed already!" Gilda said as she landed in front of the cave's mouth high up in the mountainside.
Gilbert groaned as he lifted his head from the pillow, which was made up of a bunch of loose feathers stuffed inside the hide of what used to be a fat bunny. He looked down upon it, and saw its hideously stretched-out face staring back at him. He quickly got up and shivered, then cleared his mind as he walked up to the boulder which served as their table.
Gilda had already laid out her catch across the flat rock: two dead bunnies, with several rather large puncture wounds scattered across each one, no doubt made by his sister's talons. They were holding each other's paws in a dramatic pose. He couldn't help but think they were probably a couple.
Gilda snatched up one of the rabbits, separating them from their embrace as she began to devour it. He stared at the bunny in sorrow as he watched it become an unrecognizable, bloody sack as it was torn apart by her beak. She opened her mouth to take another bite, but then suddenly paused with her mouth wide open when she noticed her brother staring at her with a saddening face.
"Dude, what are you doing? Start eating already, I caught that thing for you."
He looked down upon the bunny she directed him to eat, but only stared with the same face he still carried.
Gilda rolled her eyes and groaned. She couldn't take it anymore.
"Hey, Gilbert!" He looked up.
"You were acting a bit weird for the past few months, but now you're just flat out wacko, it's freaking me out. What the heck is wrong with you? Every time you come to eat, come home after hunting, or even as you watched me hunt, you have the same stupid face every freaking time. What's up?!" she yelled, throwing her food down on the table then leaned over to him, glaring into his soul.
"W-Well, uuuh...the-you see, ummm," Gilbert stammered.
"Yes?"
"I-I don't...the food is, erm..."
"C'mon, spit it out."
"The animals...but, they're, like..."
She slammed down her fist. "What?!"
"I don't like eating little animals!"
They stared frozen at each other in awkward silence as their minds processed what the heck just happened. No one moved, and no one even breathed.
They just stared.
Finally, Gilda found her words first.
"You...don't like eating animals."
He gulped. "Y-Yeah..."
"You have got to be kidding me."
"...no?"
Gilda slumped back and sighed. "Great. Perfect. This is just perfect. I've got a griffon brother who turns out to not like to eat meat, while he has been eating it for his entire life, never bothering to tell anyone until now. So tell me, Gilbert..." she leaned forward, looming over him. "...what do you like to eat?"
He nervously scratched his neck. "Well, uh...when I sort of go hunting, I never really...ate any meat."
"So all those times when you came back with food, saying: 'Oh, I ate on the hunt', you never did?"
"No, I actually, uhhh...ate berries."
Gilda looked at him with utter disbelief. "...berries."
"Yeah, berries...and, uh, sometimes a good plant or two..." He smiled sheepishly, shrugging his shoulders.
"Dude. How could you eat those things? They're disgusting. Hello? You're a predator, your supposed to like meat. It's MEAT. How could you NOT?" She waved the shredded carcass in front of his face, making him recoil back.
"Ew, get that poor thing away from me!"
There was a moment of silence before Gilda got up and stomped around the small cave-hole, pacing back and fourth.
"Outstanding. I've got a griffon brother who not only does not like eating meat, but is a stupid, pathetic moron who is a freaking vegetarian." she shot her head towards him, not hiding an ounce of fury in her glare. He shrunk back, and began to hide behind the table as she slowly made her way towards him.
"Think about it, Gilbert. What's this going to do to us? What's it going to do to me and you, huh? When everyone finds out my brother is a freaking vegan, they're going to-"
Gilbert interrupted, peering out from his cover. "Uuuh, actually, vegetarian and vegans are diff-" She glared at him again, causing him to clam up and immediately hid behind the table again, shrinking further back.
"They're going to make us a laughing stock. My whole life is ruined. Gilbert the Vegetarian Griffon! Uuugh, I can't believe this. This is so lame!" She buried her face in her paws.
"You know what? If you're going to be like this, why don't you leave, huh? No one will know you're gone, no one will know you're a stupid vegetarian, and our lives would be all better then, wouldn't it? You can continue to be a vegan, while-"
"Vegetarian."
"Shut up! You can be a vegetarian..." she emphasized the word with as much venom and bitterness the world could possibly allow. "...in Celestia knows where, while I can live as if nothing happened. How about that? Everything's solved! NOW GET OUT." She waved her hand at him, not bothering to look back as she made her way to the table to continue eating.
He stood there, struggling to find the right words. First, he just confessed that he was a vegetarian the entire time. Then, his sister, who was forced to take care of him when their parents dumped them here to do Celestia knows what, just told him to leave his home.
"Gilda, I-I live here. I can't just get up and leave!"
"Sure you can."
"No, I belong here! You're my sister, so you can't just make me go away!"
"Uh-huh". She continued to eat, still not bothering to look back at him.
"Think about everything! I'm your brother! We lived together for years! C'mon, Gilda!"
"Sure. Whatever". She tossed a bone still covered in bloody tissue over her shoulder, landing right in front of him. He reeled back, looking at his sister.
"You know what? Fine! I'm getting out of this dump! Yeah, I don't need this place! I'm going to move to...Equestria! Yeah! Then, I'm going to go find that Pegasus you told me about and scared, because she loves animals, just like me! And I'm going to change my ways! I'm not going to be a ruthless, beastly, primal monster! I'm gonna be sophisticated, moral, and do the right-"
"Hey, you're not eating that are you?". She finally turned around to look at him, the second bunny dangling between her talons.
"Ugh!". He groaned, and walked over to his corner of the room where he had his belongings. He picked up his pouch which was always neat and ready to go, unlike Gilda. Then he began to pick up his pillow until he saw the hideously contorted face. He decided against taking it with him, and leaped out of the cave, not bothering to look back.
He was going to change. He was determined to turn a new leaf, and begin a better, brighter life--the life he always longed for...
...which way was it again?
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2852487 *facepalm* I can't believe I actually missed that...
THIS NEVER HAPPENED
Oh Gilda...
Interesting...
I like it!
If you can keep the chapters somewhere in between 1000-2500 words I'll read these chapters as soon as I find them.
Interesting concept going on here. I hope to see more.
Side note:Your intro says, "Gilbert, sister to Gilda" when you've clearly made Gilbert a guy, and therefore, brother to Gilda. Just a heads-up.
Nice ^^
just wondered... has it ever been stated that Griffons from MLP really do eat (just) meat?
Gilda seemed perfectly fine with the apple she stole.
As someone who loves Griffons AND is a Vegetarian, I'm so following this
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We do know they eat desserts. Eclairs, chocolate mousse.
Gilda ate an apple she stole so can't be all meat. What would she have eaten at Junior Speedsters. Doubt the pegasi gave her meat.
"Gilbert, sister to Gilda, decides that he was sick of it"
I suppose you mean "brother", with a name like Gilbert.
2853787
Wow, I totally forgot about the other one...
maybe he was just too... canterlot...ish, so i completely forgot he even was a Griffon.
Huh, well at least Fluttershy feeds her birds with worms and has some other predatory animals she cares for (ferrets for example) so there must be some kind of adequate food available
2852579 I'll try to keep it up! Thanks
2852663 Whoops! O__o' Thanks for the catch
2854063 Got it fixed, thank you!
2853787
2854285
Sweet! I think you just found the perfect story Skunkiss!
But you do bring up a good point.
If I were to be technical, I'd think that Apple trees don't normally grow in forest-like environments. Then I can say that Gilda hates berries. My story, I can do whatever I want. I can have her wear a dress and explode if I wanted
2855656
Oh yeah, that was totally my intention right from the start
We really shouldn't be too analytical about these things, it's your story and if you say Griffons only fish blue whales in mountain lakes then that is reality
oh, and btw.... If Gilda would ever wear a dress... I think she'd explode instantly, and the whole universe with her... maybe even twice
2857785
Agreed