The Hippogriff and the Mermare

by Creativa-Artly01


Chapter 4

Four years later, Rubius and Pearl Crystal have their first foal-a colt whom they name Gemmus. The sea shaman soon gets wind of this but doesn't give a care because it's not a filly but a useless colt. A colt isn't worthwhile to him in the slightest. At the hippogriff castle, Rubius and Pearl Crystal present their newborn son to the public. Pearl's father even watches the presentation of the young prince from the sea. He smiles as he sees his daughter so happy. Maybe he was wrong about the hippogriffs after all. The war was in the past and now it's time to move on. The hippogriffs feel the same. A matter of months later, the two kingdoms redact the laws prohibiting interactions between the two kingdoms. This creates a proud smile across Rubius and Pearl's faces. Every now and then, Pearl's father even comes and visits his grandson. He even gave the little colt a sea kingdom medallion. Pearl hands her son to Rubius and gives her father a hug. She then whispers into his ear, "I'm glad you changed your mind about their kind." This puts a smile on his face. She kisses him and he dives back into the sea. Pearl Crystal then returns into the castle alongside her husband and son.

Back in the hippogriff castle, Pearl goes and puts the little prince down for a nap and then goes and sits in the garden alongside her husband. They just sit there and talk for hours until they go back inside to dinner with Rubius's father and visiting dignitaries after fetching their son who has since awoken from his nap.

At the dinner, Pearl just sits there quietly tapping her food with her fork. She's never eaten fish in her life and doesn't want to start now. Rubius notices this. "You don't have to eat it," he says to her. She smiles as she pushes the plate aside. She then happily begins on her salad. Meanwhile, Gemmus happily sucks on his bottle of milk.

"So," says one of the dignitaries named Sir Grapevine, "are you sure this law redaction is a good thing? You don't want another war with the merponies."

"I'm sure, things have changed since then Anton," replies Rubius's father.

"I hope you're right, Gamus," replies Sir Anton Grapevine.

"If I may," speaks up Pearl Crystal, "the merponies have no ill intent. After all, I used to be one of them. My father is the king of the merponies. He also redacted the law. He knows there's no chance of war ever happening again just like Gamus does. Things have changed. That was several hundred years ago, now, things are different. There's nothing to get into a war over now. There's no reason to get into a war now. The world is at peace and that's the best thing to be...at peace."

Meanwhile in his underwater castle, Pearl Crystal's father is tending to a dignitary visit of his own alongside his twelve daughters. The group shares a similar conversation to the one the hippogriffs and their visitors just had. They talk about the redaction of the law for hours on end before enjoying a nice concert put on by his daughters.

That night after the dinners draw to a close, the two kingdom's rulers return to their quarters and turn in for the night. Pearl goes and puts their son down with a smile across her face. Rubius goes to their room and waits for his wife, who comes in a half hour later. In the sea kingdom, Pearl's father goes and sits down overlooking his kingdom and lets out a sigh. He's lost two people close to him now, his wife, who was killed in the Great War by the hippogriffs, and now he's let his daughter marry one of them. He regrets these decisions and now, alas, he has no choice but to live with them because it's too late for him to do anything about it. He turns around and goes into his quarters for the night and slams his door behind him. He then picks up a picture of his late wife from his night stand and presses his hoof across it and sighs. "Oh Angel Light," he sighs, "how I miss you!" He puts it back on the night stand and two hours later, finally falls asleep for the night, dreaming about his daughter and late wife as he sleeps.