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// chapter 13 
// Story: vengeance at nightfall 
// by NightSugar pone 
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alliances 


After the pleasant night before sleeping comfortably became an easy task; with no worry on her mind about her young dragon and a changeling mate willing to be with her and protect her, but sadly, their rest was interrupted. A firm knocking woke Nightshade up and she groaned as she rubbed her eyes, waking up Metamorph and Sapphire in the process. 

“who is it?” 
She said as she began to force herself into a sitting position, and Sapphire moved her slender body away from her mother's 

“um there is an important matter from out of town that needs to be taken care of,” 
Angel’s voice said from behind the door, and Nightshade got up and off of the bed. 

“who's here this time?” 
Metamorph said as he yawned and got up as well, picking up the still sleepy Sapphire and resting her on his back 

“business from out of town, I suppose we'll have to hold a meeting to discuss what they want,” 
Nightshade said as she quickly fixed her mane and put her crown on 
“let's go greet our guests before they get upset with us for being late,” she said as she opened the door to see a very anxious Angel behind it. 

“come on, the requested you personally and I think you might want to hear what they had to say,” 
They left the room and made their way to the main castle entrance, but Nightshade would have never expected to see a group of armoured griffins behind one that almost looked to be royalty, and she froze. 

“princess Nightshade, we have come to discuss a possible alliance, after seeing how you changed equestria we figured you'd do the same for us,” 
The more royal griffin said and she looked at her sister and colt friend before turning to him and speaking

“we should discuss the details further, so we truly understand the reasoning behind why you want to do this,” 
She said as she stood as tall as she could. 

“very well then, lead the way,” 
Said the griffin and they all made their way to the main hall. As they walked to the main hall they quickly got acquainted with the griffin leader, as it turned out his name was fleetwing and the armoured griffins around him were his guards. The thought of seeing a griffin guards made Nightshade feel easy but she forced herself not to show it. When they arrived they took their seats and begun the discussion, the alliance was to truly merge their kind and allow both ponies and griffins to not only visit each other’s land but live there as well. And after some small talk the agreement was practically set in stone Nightshade had offered them to stay in the castle until the felt as though they needed to leave. 

Nightshade turned to Metamorph and smiled 
“this is going to be a good development for equestria abroad, soon we'll be so diverse this place will be the slitting edge of equality,” 
She said as the griffins walked out of the room, lead by Angel so that they could get to their spare rooms. 
“oh shoot, I have to feed Valour again,” 
She said as her joy quickly turned 

Metamorph put a hoof on her shoulder 
“don't worry, I'll take care of it for you, you just go and rest ok?” 
She smiled and nodded before he got up and walked out with Sapphire on his back. It was only then that she noticed that one of the griffins didn't leave, and she tilted her head in confusion. 

“aren't you going to go rest as well? It really must have been a long trip from the griffin Kingdom,” 
He got up and walked over to her before taking off his helmet, and the sight of the familiar face stunned her. 
“W-Windbreaker?” 
Was all she managed to say as she stared at him, his features weren't as rough as the others which she had come to expect from him. 

“I truly am sorry about what happened before, I just assumed after all that time you would have moved on,” 
He gently grasped one of her hooves and kissed it softly 
“she was nothing compared to you,”

She pulled her hoof away and folded her ears back as she looked away from him 
“you know this can't happen, especially not now.” 
He lifted one of his talons to her cheek and gently turned her head so she was facing him again

“can't you give me just one more chance?” 
He leaned in closer to her and she pressed her head into his talon gently, lifting a hoof up to it as she closed her eyes. 

“that's not how it works, I did love you and I waited until it was safe enough for me to go to you, but after this long I've moved on” she pushed his talons away and got up
“you should consider doing that too.” 
And with that she moved away from him and walked out of the room,leaving him alone.