Princess Celestia POV
As much as I wanted Griever to stay, I knew his presence would only provoke everypony, especially the elements. I'm dealing with this here and now, it seems nopony, not even the guards or elements understand what 'follow my orders' means anymore. Is this what Daybreaker was afraid of? Did she realize I was too much of an enabler and this is the result? I may have to speak with Luna and Griever about this, but that will have to come later.
"Twilight bring your friends to the library, we have matters to discuss. Luna, I want you to go with Griever."
"How can you trust him af-"
"YOU WILL BE SILENT!" Luna interrupted Twilight in the RCV then flying off with him.
"I would also like you to be silent until your friends awake, but first we need to correct Applejack's arms and heal the others."
"Yes princess." My student said quietly with her ears folded back, this is going to be a long day.
It didn't take us long to reach the library after healing them, when we arrived I told, no ordered Twilight to keep everypony here until after I returned. It took longer than I would have liked, but I finally managed to calm down everypony and after ensuring the guards weren't hurt too badly I made my way back to the library just in time to see the elements regain consciousness.
"What happened? My head is killing me." said Rainbow Dash
"Mah arms ain't feelin' too good either." said Applejack
"Why does my cheek hurt so much?" said Rarity
"I feel super dizzy, did we have fun?" said Pinkie Pie, I chose to step in after this.
"To answer all your questions, you disobeyed a direct order from me and attacked somepony who could have easily killed all of you in 1 hit without using either of his hands."
"WHAT!" The 4 of them shouted
"It is as I said."
"Why wouldn't you want us to beat him like we do with every bad guy?" asked Rainbow
"That is because of what he has done so far and an agreement my sister and I had with him."
"I mean no disrespect, but nothing can justify much less excuse what that brute did." said Rarity
"That's right, there ain't nothin' to give that monster any right to do this!" said Applejack
"He is the one who ended Ragnarok, one of the most dangerous dragons in Equestria for the past 1,600 years who would have taken me and my sister as well as several dozen guards just to ground and freed the slaves from earlier." shocking them
"That doesn't mean he gets to be a big ol' meanie pants." said Pinkie
"What was this agreement you and him anyway?" asked Rarity
"We agreed to pardon him and the wolf of any crimes they commit under the circumstances he mentioned. He warned us if anypony attacked him he would hospitalize them and if anypony insulted or attacked the wolf he would kill them if they were not apprehended first or no one stopped him. Even after I told everypony not to say or do anything that might provoke him a filly did the exact opposite and called the wolf a 'filthy diamond dog', to him that was comparing somepony with "nothing but good in their heart" to slavers. The only reason she is still alive is because of the wolf as I don't think he would have registered the barriers we placed without her."
"He tried to kill somepony over an insult? That's petty." said Rainbow
"That wolf was somepony very dear to him before she was changed. It isn't my place to speak of this, but that wolf was once a human as his species is called. She is a victim, both of them are victims of a war thousands of years ago that killed or transformed humans into the races of today as he revealed to us."
"WHAT???!!" Everypony shouted this time.
"Princess, how is that even possible?" asked Twilight
"As I said, it is not my place to say. What I can say is he may as well have offered everything to me and my sister for helping him save her, he doesn't care if we can't change her back, but he may as well have offered his soul to us if we can restore her mind."
Silence
"Wow, now I kind of feel sorry for him." Rainbow said
"Yeah, ah dunno how ah would feel in his hooves." Applejack said
"He was just protecting the only thing he had left." Rarity said
"He must feel so alone in this unknown world." Fluttershy said, crying for him
"That's so sad!" Pinkie said now balling her eyes out
"While it doesn't excuse the extent of his actions, maybe he isn't the monster we thought he was. OH, I said such terrible things to him." Twilight said.
We're making progress.
Princess Luna POV
I followed Griever to his destination and after recent events felt it would be best to leave him be. He is sitting with his back to a tree, looking off into the distance while Misty tries to get into a comfortable position with him. He apologizes to her again for recent events as he scratches her behind the ears with one hand and runs his fingers through her fur with the other and begins to sing in a language unknown to me.
Cur in gremio haeremus
Cur poenom cordi parvo damus
Stella nobis non concessit, non concessit
Stella nobis non concessit, non concessit
Venarum pulus in terram fluens
Parvus parvus pulsus
Cor mortem ducens
Vita mollis in stellam redeunt
Animam sacrificare necesse est
Cur in gremio, in gremio haeremus
Cur veniam petimus
In terram fatali
"You know Misty, after all these years I still don't know the whole english translation, and I know you're there princess." HOW??? TO BOTH OF THOSE!
"How did you know I was there?" I asked as I took a seat next to him.
"You smell of nightshade and the wind was blowing from you to us, also I have a wolf who could smell you before me." That answers one question.
"What were you singing and what language was that?
"The language was called Latin, and as for what, I was singing Promised Land. Do you have movies in this time? I could show you the movie it was written for, and it won't spoil the game it is a sequel to much if at all."
"We have both actually, we'll have to take you up on your offer later."
"Good, that means I won't be too bored in this era."
"What have you done for fun in the past..."
"I don't know, just put fossil, ancient, or OOOOOOOOLLLLLDDD as my age on my citizenship papers. To answer your unasked question I've really just been reforging weapons and learning how to control my powers, I prioritized that over gaming mostly because the games I played were all online which the servers were empty if not down for obvious reasons."
"Why were you reforging weapons that only existed in fiction anyway?"
"I wanted an arsenal of weapons available if I found myself in an era that used those weapons, and me having magic gave me reason to believe that age would last longer. I also said I thought of a few, but I don't know if the name or concept was used before then. The other reasons are that some weapons were just awesome in design and usefulness while others would be fun in a messed up way. Can you imagine giving a sword that can't hurt anything, but instead heals it of all injuries even regrowing limbs and organs after striking a person to a murderous psychopath and telling them to have fun? You can't tell me that wouldn't be even a little amusing and mean it." It actually would be funny.
"I'm sorry for how this may sound, but what other weapons have you made?"
He must have been passionate about his work as he told me more than I expected, I didn't expect weapons that would be cursed and certainly didn't expect weapons that are sentient nor did I expect weapons with solar and lunar themes and enchantments. I found myself wanting to see some of these weapons, but that will have to come after everything settles down. I've also been wanting to learn more about Griever since after we saved Misty, he didn't treat us as rulers, but ponies and was more than grateful to us, but that will have to wait as well. By now my sister will have likely calmed down the elements so we should probably make our way to the library.
I wonder what his thoughts are on herds.