This story is a sequel to Revenant
Sunset Shimmer, for the first time since coming home, finally feels like she's home. She's got her own apartment, a new job, and, more importantly, a new group of friends that she couldn't be more grateful for having.
However, she has no time to celebrate, as the Armies of the Griffon Kingdom are knocking at Equestria's doorstep at the command of High King Sanguis Talon, and, with three of her greatest friends and two new ones, Sunset aims to keep them at bay.
Sanguis Talon, however, is not merely after conquest; he longs for something else...
It is highly recommended to read "Revenant" for the complete understanding of this work.
Rated T for profanity, sexual references, and scenes of violence.
Chapters (8)
*sigh* The other story was reasonably entertaining. Admittedly, I rolled my eyes and skimmed or ignored the Gryphon kingdom junk that came up, really detracted from the more entertaining bits, but to end it with the whole Gryphons going to war thing... well, it is just sad. I can already tell what this is going to be like, the prologue made it so very clear. Good luck with your, erm, creative endeavors.
So a typical tyrant. I wonder why he thinks Equestria's allies will not help? Time to read on!
I agree with Sunset if I ever came across anyone names Skywalker I would never stop giving them good natured crap.
They are thinking a bit small right now. The ax may be a part of it but this nutter has world domination on his mind.
Interesting. I get the feeling that this will be like Excalibur. So the question is who is the true King or Queen then?
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It doesn't necessarily call for the next King or Queen; merely, the one who TRUELY desires to wield the blade.
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Well first of all I am so glad to see this story back! Now I wonder how Twilight's team is going to handle the uncovering of the conspiracy?
It does make me wonder if these two could make a cute couple. Still I get the feeling that they are going to be giving this insane griffin king a good thrashing.
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I felt like a friendship between Sunset and Trixie isn't explored a lot, so I thought I'd do something cool with it!
Ominous.
Huh.
Unfortunately, the semicolon issue is still alive and well
Fortunately, the 3rd person perspective is a big step forward.
If it was 300 years ago, how did Luna orchestrate it? She was busy on the moon at that time
I spoke too soon about the new 3rd person look
Celestia also felt odd this chapter.
I think at this point, I'm just gonna hope the 2018 chapters are a big step forward. I don't know how many more semicolons and massive sentences I can take
Huh, neat.
You accidentally the quotation mark.
Hm.
Huzzah! 2018 was the big step up I was looking for!
Oh, Anon-a-Miss makes a showing. Huh.
Yeah, these past two chapters have been a huge step forward. I'm much more actively looking forward to the rest of the story now.
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And then Forgotten Friendship happened.
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Yes, it is here as well, unfortunately. I don't know when I'm going to come back to this one--I've been hard at work on my current multi-chapter story, Dear Faithful Student--but as with Revenant, whenever I do come back to this, I'll probably rewrite some sections and then give it to an editor for a final polish before I continue. There are still pieces and plot elements of this story I am dissatisfied with looking back.
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If these past two chapters were any indication, I'm really looking forward to when you do get around to working on this story again.
I imagine you were going for something more along the lines of "Can only be wielded in the service of others" and not "You can pick it up, but only if you want to use it" - literally what the current wording means.
Do not use "desire" as a qualification for anything.
Here: King who scours the land searching for it VS smith who made it for another. No prize for guessing who has the desire to use it (hint: It's not the smith)
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Alternatively, it could really mean exactly what it says, and the lesson for the griffons is that the desire of a king who wants one great spectacular campaign to recapture a national treasure and show off to his subjects how great a king he is needs to be measured against the desire of a smith who just wants to eat and is willing to live alone in the mountains spending every day among predators and prey. And thus who will be using that axe every single day for the killing, butchering and dominance displays it was made for instead of mounting it on a wall somewhere. The king didn't need it as badly - or was just lacking in bloodlust, story's still a little ambiguous there.
And of course, it's a story. You could very well be right about what the actual hex on the axe is. But up until someone's actually in a position to claim custody of it, the important thing about the axe is what the griffons believe it represents, not the reality.