Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 32 – Pure Part Two
With a dramatic entrance the transparent bluish glowing griffon Grifiax Boreas moved his right talon across his chest to press it against the left side of it. “With little time I have left, this message be direct and straight to the point.”
Shining Armor whispers to himself. “This must be after the defeat of Grogar...”
Grifiax continue to speak. “Pure is what we call the magic within me or was, I used up so much of it that I burned out my own magic core to shatter the transfiguration circle that Grogar created, it was either that or allow him to not only transfigure the young soul into a griffon and steal the magic of the Pure.”
They listened to him with glance between each other and retaliation of the truth about Gale seeping in.
“Grogar's fortress was destroyed during our all out assault, his all or nothing spell interrupted by me with my pure magic through the very idols I made, all but one was destroyed, I haven't recovered since than and continue to find it hard to do anything as the days pass.”
He grunts in pain and continue to speak out. “No don't, I have to do this, it was foreseen at the moment I destroyed his spell.” Grifiax to all eight could see something was wrong with him but he pressed on. “I-I do not have much magic left, doing this has drained what little I had left.. ”
“Once a pony barely remember after what Grogar did to me to get to the young soul magic, I now a griffon proud of what my new life gave to this world from now to future... What happens to me after this, I do not know.”
Grifiax eyes somehow were locked right on Celestia's. “As I stand here looking into nothing, I feel that I am looking into the eyes of the sun itself, the beauty of that light is pure and become the guild to the young soul. His magic is not of this universe, it came as a result of those that are beyond saving, saved us as the Gates of Elysium opened and consumed their world and their sun...”
They all heard his words echo all staring at the griffon as he continue to hold his side showing more discomfort. “My idol forged by flames of dying sun, in a fact the Young Soul was once Bipedal with a soft statue. He needs your Guidances Eyes of Sun, His magic interferes with ours cause it because it came from the Mountain that Fell all those years ago.”
He started to fade from them as he almost fall over, they see a few griffons in robes quickly rush to Grifiax Boreas' helping him to stand. “Somehow the young soul is with you, how or why is not important, what is important is how you Eyes of the Sun guide him.”
“He came with the Mountain that Fell... I have a feeling what he became and I am to blame, acting on what Grogar aimed to create a new bell with transfiguration through my idol and it copies. I couldn't let him get that magic for himself so I used almost every inch of my magic to overload the spell...”
He sighed heavily.
“Grogar's fortress was destroyed in the results and only I was found in the rumble as his monsters fled, Griffons over the many seasons after are gone consumed with greed... My idol lost my magic all but spent, my future I do not know from this moment...”
He look to his left and right. “My sons... I am ready.” As he was being helped to walk away fading almost completely. “Gale... Yes... The name echoed through time... Eyes of the Sun will do what is right... Guide his magic and his life, be there as I wasn't for him...”
Turning one last time almost gone he turn his head over towards Celestia. “Do not use the reverse potion, it is... Fatal to the young soul... Gale... Be good to all of you and use what I gave... Farewell wondrous eight...”
The crystal glowed brightly with the map being restored before them displayed over the table. “Th-that not what I was expecting...” Greystorm staring up at the crystal.
“My son is from a whole different time...” Celestia whispered.
“How do we will process this?” Shining Armor asked aloud. “How do we even tell Gale this?”
Celestia gestured to sit. “That is what we going to talk about.” They all sat down and started to talk about how to present this to Gale or even they shouldn't.
Time past with every second turning to minutes, minutes turning to hours, it went around and around with no clear answer coming to mind till Celestia decided enough was enough to break the divide created by the meeting.
Celestia stood up. “This is getting us no where fast and I am his mother, so I deciding to tell him with or without agreement in here.”
“Aunty this is far too important, what we learned from a short message from that griffon from the past really effects out history was partly wrong.” Blueblood stated. “I know truth becomes legends and myths to stories told to the young but-”
“No...” Luna spoke out. “Gale, nephew... He needs to know.” Luna walked up to Celestia. “His a pure innocent soul, in time he will remember parts of his original life and will need guidance more then ever sister. Go to him”
Celestia turn to Luna hugging her. “Yes he does and I will be the one.” She release Luna from the hug turning to the changeling. “Octicovix since you can get in here without activating the Golems, you get them all out of here.”
Octicovix yellow solid eyes look into Celestia's seeing what she about to do. “Of course Princess, do what you need to do, I'll get every pony and my husband out safely, that I can promise you.”
Celestia smiled faintly. “Thank you.” With a flash of light she was gone before their eyes.
Blueblood look around. “Am I the only sane one here!? Gale is from not only another time but not even a griffon! He a-”
“A soul lost and far from anything normal.” Cadance finished. “Blueblood if you were in Gale's postion would you want to find out by sneaking around for the truth or being told directly?”
Blueblood eyes darted around. “I-I-I... I can't give you an answer...”
Greystorm put a wing over his back with a foreleg around the back of the neck. “Come on Blue let's go to a bar and drink this up, I sure need one.”
“For once I do not care if it common... Let's go Grey.”
Octicovix couldn't be seen with her eyes but she was rolling the pupils within. “Boys...”
“Boys indeed.” Luna commented. “Octicovix if you may?”
“Sure, come on.”
Trace didn't move. “Doctor Trace?” Luna noticed he had said nothing but stare up at the crystal. “Are you well?”
Doctor Trace slowly turn to Luna. “No... Because the magic in me it about... To...” Suddenly Doctor Trace was engulfed in bluish white light and dies down to show him as a griffon once more. “Surge...”
Greystorm stared. “Did he...”
Octicovix reponds. “Yes...”
“So our theory was true?”
“Yes...”
“Please tell me you got it on you...”
“Oh I do.” Octicovix grinned walking slowly towards the blue Macaw Griffon with a object appearing beside her, the magic concealing it. “Sorry but I can not stand whistling griffons, this is the best for all of us.”
Trace gulped stepping back as the changeling continue to causally walk towards him. “Aunty should we stop them?” Blueblood asked.
<Princess help!>
“No.” Luna flatly stated to Trace's horror, he squawking loudly in panic.
Shining Armor cringed from the squawking whistle. “I am in agreement.”
Blueblood heard a crack turning up to the large crystal. “So am I.”
Cadance agrees. “You have my vote.”
“Sorry but this is for the best of the most fragile.” Octicovix grins as she was only inches away from him.
All that Trace could say was. “Suck!”
Gale and Spike sat on the balcony reading comics with a pile of plates of snacks and empty cups building up in the corner, as the sun sets Gale watched the lightning flashes from the large storm not to far away between reading comics.
Gale picked up a chocolate chip cookie from the plate beside him biting into it as he read the page his on. “And again the day saved thanks to the Power Ponies!” Spike happily spoke out loudly holding up the comic above his head. “How yours?”
Gale put the last of the cookie in his beak chewing on it, he gives a happy thumbs up to Spike with a few soft squawks before he returned to reading his comic. The flashes of lightning caught his attention once again looking over to the storm, another flash but from behind caught his an Spike's attention.
They turn around to see Princess Celestia had teleported before them. “Hi Princess!” Spike waved. “How the meeting go?”
Celestia walked over to the balcony seeing the pile of plates and cups with stacks of comics. “It had a very strange twist of events we were not ready for.” Celestia said looking around. “It seems you two been stacking.”
“Yeah.” Spike laughed rubbing the back of his head. “I plan to pick up the plates and glasses after I've been through this comic here.” He showed it Celestia.
Gale squawks happily putting a closed talon to his chest. “Your going to help?” He nods. “That a good deed my little griffon.” Celestia warmly said to Gale before the smile fades. “But first I came to tell you my son... Gale... Something that I only discovered and may change how you see me as your mother...” She swallowed. “But you need to know.”
Gale tilted his head. “Mum?”
Spike put the comic down. “Do you like me to go?”
Celestia shook her head. “Please stay Spike.” She open her wing out to the bed. “Can you both please sit on the bed and I will revile what had been discovered.”
They looked at each other before putting down the comics and walking up to the bed climbing onto it, they sat down on it. “We ready whenever you are Princess Celestia.”
“I am not sure if I'll be.” Celestia whispered to herself, talking a calm deep breath she brought over a cushion with her magic sitting down on it. “This will be flat out the truth of our discovery to what I know about you Gale, no sugarcoating... Understood?”
Gale nods.
Celestia closed her eyes taking another deep breath feeling her heart start to race, opening the eyes the Alicorn starts to tell Spike and Gale everything she discovered. “A griffon called Grifiax Boreas left a message for me and seven others to receive, he is very much like you Gale.”
Gale picked up his plush holding it close listening to Celestia.
“You both had a transfiguration spell forcefully cast upon you both, he also had the ability to use magic like you can. His was a Pure Griffon like you...”
Celestia went on to tell them everything through out the night, not leaving out anything as she declared, only hope she had deep in her mind was...
Would Gale still love her as his mother or would he hate her?
Gale doesn't seem like the type to disown Celestia as a mother just for her telling him the truth. If he is mad Spike should be able to tell him that Celestia telling him the truth was actually better than not telling him. He and Twilight had to have had similar instances between themselves in the past.
I'm glad you didn't go for that cliche troep of the truth being hidden to protect someone.
i think its needs a set of " "
no line
Celestia is Gales mum no matter what. I wonder how Gilda is going to react to this knowledge.
Very nice chapter as always and I’m glad ya didn’t go for the move of not telling him. It gets old and always has the same outcome so I do enjoy this outcome instead.
Love conquer s over hate
This right here is pure bullshit. It serves no actual purpose in the story but to excuse Celestia from being selfish and cruel to her "son" by having a cure for his condition and refusing to use it but never giving a reason for doing so. Celestia outright does bot care about the child, if she did she would put his wellbeing above her own desire to possess him and keep him as if he were her own offspring. She doesn't care that he was hurt or taken from his family, and never had any intention of having him healed or returned to them.
So yes, he should hate Celestia. She is selfish, and unfit to be a mother because she puts her own desire above his wellbeing. And this isn't something they can just say "sorry" over, that's a deep betrayal.
Edit: if Celestia wants to be his mother, she needs to earn it. She's been more concerned with playing house than dealing with what happened to him, if she had done that first earning his love and the right to be called "Mother" wouldn't be necessary because by doing so she would have already proven herself deserving of it.
I won’t say hate. I think he would react very confusing to all this trying to figure out what’s really reality to him since he isn’t from this world and time.
I think gale should be grateful that she told him after a little debate in his head...
I think he should be scared, stay with spike for a little and calm down, then continue to love Celestia as a mom!
I really can't comprehend why everyone says he should love her so readily and consider her his mother at all. She may have been mothering him, but she has be neglecting and refusing to see to his actual needs for no reason whatsoever. That in itself says she does bot actually love him nor does she have his wellbeing in mind. She has done nothing to try and restore either his body or mind.
The latest chapter doesn't excuse her lack of action at all. It attempts to do so retroactively, but they only NOW find this out when they could have healed him long ago but refused to do so without any given reason. For Celestia not healing him to be excusable she would have to know all this BEFORE doing anything, but they only now found out.
That's why I firmly believe that Celestia is the one qho abducted and hurt him in the first place, and that the current revelation is an illusion created by her to justify her cruelty and mislead everybody as to how he cane to equestria. Its the only way her refusing to heal the one she calls "son" makes any sense.
Pinkie Pie needs to throw a 'welcome to our space and time party'
He sure could need one
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Exacly, being honest at the wrong time can cause more damage than a lie. The truth was revealed way to soon in my opinion...
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It's a good trope for a reason. Especially for a mentaly damaged and instable child...
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I disagree, in one of my story Discord revealed knowlege to soon and hunt somepony with it...
Timing is key... That and context.
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Unless you love to hate?
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Yep, people had been put into a white jacked with padded walls for less...
Why should he hate her