Ten years ago, if you had told Gregory Grayfeather that he was going to be living in Equestria and babysitting a bunch of young ponies, he would have laughed in your face and told you that you were crazy. Everybirdy knew that Greg hated ponies, and that he wanted nothing more than to see his home country invade and crush the pastel annoyances once and for all.
Then the Aquila Regional Weather Factory outsourced most of the jobs to Cloudsdale, the Parliament passed a bunch of new laws regulating the Griffindellian industrial sector, and many positions that used to be occupied by actual living griffons were now replaced by automation. President-General Gustwind was adamant that it was time for Griffindell to become a modern, respectable country. So Greg found himself in a crappy apartment outside of a crappy pony town called Ponyville, commuting to the same damn weather factory his old job had been outsourced to.
Funnily enough, however, he decided that once he'd lived amongst them for a while, ponies weren't so bad after all. He found he really did get along with some of them, especially a stallion on his same shift at the factory. His name was After Dark, and he was a good guy, just trying to live his life as well as he could. His wife had died of grass sickness, leaving him with a young chick- er, foal- and a mound of debt from her medical treatments, but After Dark had stood up and done his best. And that made him practically an honorary griffon in Greg's mind. Plus, he liked the filly- Scootaloo. If he'd ever had a chick, he would have wanted him or her to be like Scootaloo. So he didn't mind looking after her if After Dark had to go cover someone's shift and there wasn't anywhere else for her to go.
But even though he'd begun to dislike ponies as a species less, that didn't mean he liked their leader at all. In fact, he hated her. Not only was it a matter of species pride (Equestria was the traditional enemy of Griffindell), it was personal. Greg's father had seen his family killed right in front of him in the last war, when he was just a little chick, and passed that rage on down to his son. He'd always made sure that Greg knew the real monster in the world wasn't living under his bed, or in the hall closet, but in a palace in Canterlot, in Equestria. George Grayfeather was a lot of things, but diplomatic wasn't one of them. “Son,” he'd told Greg, “one day, the world will see that the Pastel Menace isn't a goddess, or a good and just ruler. They will see her for the monster lurking underneath. And when that happens, you will be able to stand up and tell the world, 'I told you so!'”
And it seemed that the time was now, if the three foals standing in the doorway to his apartment was anything to go by.
“Mr. Grayfeather, you have to help us!” Scootaloo exclaimed. “We've found out something terrible and we don't know what we can do about it! Princess Celestia has cursed a friend of ours, and we think she's going to do something even worse to him!”
“Scootaloo, shut up,” the little yellow Earth pony filly standing next to her hissed. “Don't just yell about it where anypony can hear! What if someone tips her off!”
Okay, granted, Greg thought it was going to be somebirdy in a higher position than a couple of elementary school-aged pony foals, but whatever. He could work with that.
“Your little friend is right, Scootaloo, this sounds serious. You shouldn't talk about it so recklessly. Come inside.” He ushered the foals into the apartment before shutting the door behind them, securely latching it and engaging a deadbolt. The white unicorn filly looked apprehensively at this, but steeled her courage, following Scootaloo to sit on his sofa.
“So what is this you're telling me? Princess Celestia cursed a friend of yours? Not that I don't believe that she is capable of that, but why would she target a foal?” Greg asked, wanting to make absolutely sure he knew what was going on.
“No, he’s not a foal,” Scootaloo answered. “He’s another alicorn- her grandfather. And I swear I’m not lying, he’s at the library with Princess Luna and Princess Twilight right now. Please believe us- we have to save Equestria from falling to a horrible fate! I know you’ve taught me the stories of your home, and I read that book about Austroolia! I know what Princess Celestia is capable of, and we have to stop her! But the three of us can’t do it alone. We need an adult’s help but we can’t go to any other grown-up ponies except for Mr. Loki and he’s not going to be able to do anything if Celestia vaporizes him while he can’t fight back! Nopony will take us seriously…” Scootaloo looked horrified at her own implications.
“Please sir, we know it sounds crazy,” Sweetie Belle said quietly. “But we’re really not making this up.”
And Sweetie Belle was right. It did sound crazy. Luckily for them, Greg Grayfeather was pretty damn crazy himself.
“I believe you,” he reassured the fillies. “But an operation like this… we have to move carefully. And you are right- three fillies and one griffon won’t be able to do much against the might of Canterlot if we take it head-on. So we will need to come up with a plan. And the three of you will need to be very careful especially.”
The fillies spent three hours in his apartment discussing strategy, looking over his books, and trying to come up with ideas. Greg himself chimed in occasionally to offer advice or to shoot down absolutely preposterous ideas, but for the most part his mind was elsewhere. Celestia was even worse than he thought. Imagine, terrorizing foals like that! Nobirdy in Griffindell would even think of harming chicks- it was an absolute disgrace, was what it was. He wasn’t sure if the fillies even knew how much danger they were in from uncovering this in the first place. Celestia, who had ordered the murder of so many of his species over the years… would she even blink at utterly annihilating a few pony foals who posed a threat to her rule? There was an old griffon legend that said if Celestia learned of a threat to her power, she would destroy anybirdy that was part of it and trap their souls so that they couldn’t pass on to the Holy Aerie. Greg hadn’t believed it at first- nobirdy, nopony, nobeing was powerful enough to defy the Holy Aerie, even Celestia. But he wasn’t willing to risk the souls of innocent young ones. And he was sure that the fillies would go to the Holy Aerie after their time on the mortal plane was done- hopefully when they were very old mares. Even just knowing them for a short time, he knew that they had the souls of griffoness warrior maidens, and the Great Griffon would see that, and reincarnate their souls as chicks next time, so that they could truly be worthy of the Aerie after their second life.
He would not put that in jeopardy.
Making sure that the Cutie Mark Crusaders, as they called themselves, were otherwise occupied, he sneaked into his kitchen and grabbed the telephone. Gritting his beak and dialing a number he swore he never would, he waited a few moments before the voice on the other end of the line picked up.
“Yeah? Whaddya want?”
“Gellert? Yeah, it’s Greg. I’m gonna need a favor…”
Loki and Luna sat at the table, snacking on some cookies, for the fourth hour in a row. Twilight had immediately bounded off to try to research the problem, and they hadn't heard from her since. The little dragon she kept as an assistant had done everything he could to make them comfortable, but they were getting bored. And Loki was still no closer to controlling his magic, something that frustrated him very much.
Finally, just when it seemed like four hours of boredom were about to become five hours of boredom, a loud shout jolted both grandfather and granddaughter out of their torpor.
"I'VE GOT IT!"
To Be Continued
In keeping with my myth, wouldn't Loki technically be their grandMOTHER since he transformed himself into a MARE when he did it with that horse?
Just saying.
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Wow, that was fast!
He is technically their grandmother, but to avoid confusion they call him their grandfather- it's brought up when he first goes to Equestria and Celestia and Luna decide it's just easier to call him Grandfather.
I liked how there's a bit of Griffin mythology in this chapter. I can imagine the griffins as Vikings now... I also realized that the Holy Aerie is parallel to Valhalla.
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4992219 If you were him would you want people calling you their grandmother despite being a man, facts be damned?
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Fair enough.
Though I kind of like to imagine that the relationship between Loki and their supposed REAL grandfather was kind of like how its described in this:
Thats Takahata101 as Loki by the way.
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Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out- most sites do use HTML so I put it in by default. I usually catch it though.
4992358 I honestly wouldn't give a damn. If I was Loki, I'd be perfectly happy being called Grandmother. In plenty of the old legends, Loki would transform into a female. I don't see why it matters.
4992286 I don't really see it that way...maybe Heaven/Valhalla fusion? Heaven for being a narcissitic asshole who cares about birth-race and Valhalla for being a warrior hall.
4992624 That can work.
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Honestly, the only reason I did it was because I would get confused. I would think I was making an error every time I referred to Loki as being someone's grandmother rather than grandfather. I know he can turn into a woman, and logically I know he'd be a grandmother, but... I would think I was screwing something up.
Geniousness.
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Fixed. Thank you!
4992655 I mean it's fine. I'm just saying I don't think Loki would personally care either way.
4992780 Well unless he turned into a woman again people would also keep questioning him about it whenever it came up, which would likely annoy him. I get the feeling it isn't being called a grandmother that would bother him, its how people react to it that would.
Great, scootaloo is learning from propaganda and she's passing the stupid on.
4992869 Don't you know? There are multiple stories where he becomes female.
4992872 Yr a sexy, sexy commentr. Cum 'ere and get some lurv sugr.
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Well, that was embarrassing. Thank you for pointing that out.
4992899 Right, but he spends almost all his time as a guy so whenever the grandmother bit comes up people will likely have questions about it. Questions that likely get annoying after the 3rd time.
Think about it, if you met a guy who claims to be someones grandmother despite clearly being a man and his grandkids will back him up on it wouldn't you ask about how? Now imagine how he would feel after the second time. The third. The 4th time someone asks how. He'd likely be annoyed and switch to grandfather just so they stop asking.
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That's just it, he doesn't. Loki spends an almost equal amount of time as both genders. It's a truly nebulous term when it comes to him. I'm saying your argument is invalid, redundant, and biased. Your reasoning is good, but I don't think Loki cares. He's just as likely to be called male for a personal preference as he is for just playing a joke or being a massive troll. It just doesn't matter.
All of my yes.
All of it, just... just take it.
Please.
4993117 You know how many yeses I do give? All the ones you do.
This story, I like it. ANOTHER UPDATE!
Joke aside, this story is pretty good. I like the concept of Loki being Celestia and Luna's grandfather (or grandmother...so weird but oh well). I also really liked how Loki helped the CMC with their bully problem. Spolied rotten, snot-nosed brats.
You've got yourself another thumbs up, favorite, and I will be following this story from here on out. So until the next update, see ya!
~ Super-Brony12
"Oh no."
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Loki is quite literally the most debated figure in Norse myth. Hardly anybody agrees on everything about him.
Hell, one of the leading theories about Loki (which was achieved by ignoring parallels with non-Scandinavian mythologies) is that he was originally a spider. In addition to being a horse, a man, and a woman (and maybe a spider), Loki has also been a salmon, a seal, and a fly.
I think it's fair to generalize Loki's gender to male, considering he's a mother once, but he's a father of five times over.
Fillies trying to overthrow Celestia with the help of a griffin discontent, yep it's not gonna end well
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We get the hose sex joke. Stop talking about the horse sex joke.
4995217 Already in the Featured Box, oddly enough. AT least fillies conquering Equestria.
Cool story, I like it and it would make for an interesting comic book.
Heh, wow. Welcome to tinfoil hat territory, kids!
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ALL my comments are sexy
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I'm always just glad I can help the story improve
By the way, note to both of you: people do not get notifications of replies unless you reply in the same chapter the comment was made in. It's a dumb bug in the fimfic notifications system. So, if you want to reply to comments not made on the last chapter of the story, and actually want the person you reply to to ever SEE your reply, don't reply to them on the main page of the fic; this will put your comment on the last chapter. Instead, go to the chapter the comment was made on, and reply to it there.
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Cutie Mark Crusaders? More like, CUTIE MARK HERETICS!! imageshack.us/a/img850/4409/65py.jpg
4995142 ...I stand by my point that I don't think Loki cares. For as many tales as he is a father, he's a mother as well. If you're looking at the Wikipedia, it may be five to one, but if you've actually heard some of the stories, you're looking at an almost 5-3 ratio. Jormundgandr's parentage is especially nebulous.
I'm not saying he's not right, I just don't think you can apply modern rationality to that particular god's personal gender bias.
5000262 Yes, yes they are.
Oh, this can only end in disaster. Get your tinfoil hats, kids!
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Derp, I read "bully problem" as "belly button" for a moment and confused myself.
5047474
Hmm....
*thought bubble formed over head*
Inside thought bubble: "I also really liked how Loki helped the CMC with their belly button."
Yeah, I can see how that would be confusing.
Glad I finally got around to reading this. This was quite fun.
Looking forward to more. But it sounds like Odin placed a Harmony Seal on Loki's magic, making it so he could only use his magic when driven by the emotional energies inherent in the Elements. He felt empathy for Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo, so he was able to use his magic freely to help them, even if he only did something small. When he tried to use his magic for himself, however, it backfired. However, it backfired less than before, because one aspect of the seal - Empathy - had been released.
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Eh.... not quite, but you're actually pretty close.
I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far!
This will be hilarious.