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// 7. Stupid Griffon Who Thinks He's So Cool But He's NOT 
// Story: Cozy Glow's Tales of Revenge 
// by RainbowDoubleDash 
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I hate Gallus. I hate Gallus so much. I’ve hated him ever since I first set eyes on him, although I didn’t know it at the time, I just thought he was some blue griffin who’d been sent to diversify the School of Friendship. So I tried to be friends with him, and it actually almost worked. The quickest way to any creature’s heart is through their stomach, after all, and that was especially true for Gallus! He was the first one of this group that I reached out to before I knew how they’d become my enemies. I made him cupcakes just like normal when I want to make a friend, and Gallus took them! And unlike Smolder he actually thanked me. It took him a while to eat them, and at first I thought it was that he didn’t really like them and I was super mad – but then I learned how he’d grown up in Griffonstone, that he was an orphan like me but hadn’t been left anything by his parents, and I realized that he wasn’t putting off eating them, he was saving them, savoring them!

I was sooo happy! If I wasn’t so busy manipulating the whole school into becoming my willing puppets doing my every bidding I would have made him even more cupcakes, tried to make him especially loyal. In hindsight I really wish I had, I bet he would have done anything I asked if I’d just fed him enough. But I figured quantity had a quality all of its own. Friendship is power, after all, and if I had all the friends then I’d have all the power!

But then he turned on me! After the cupcakes I’d made for him and all the help I’d given him and his friends, even stupid Smolder and Yona and Silverstream they were just instantly suspicious of me when I sent Twilight and her friends off to Tartaros and imprisoned Starlight Glimmer! For no reason other than I was being “too nice”. Too nice?! What does that even mean?! If they’d just stayed out of my way I wouldn’t have done anything to them, wouldn’t have even needed to, but nooo, they just had to go digging and discover what I’d done and then stop me!

So I know just what I’m going to do to Gallus. I’m saving him for last and I’m going to savor making him suffer just like he savored my cupcakes. I’ll have the table in my dining hall all prepared and loaded down with a feast just for me, and he’ll be brought in by my Cozy Guard and sat down at the end of the table. Not immediately. He’ll have been in my dungeons for, oh, four or five days already by that point.

“What have you done to my friends?!” He’ll demand.

“Oh, Sandbar is right here!” I’ll tell him. I’ll smile and point to Sandbar, and he’ll be off to the side, my new servant. “Yona and Silverstream are in the throne room. I fed Smolder to lava sharks, last I saw her she was disappearing under liquid rock, I’m sure she’s a goner. As for Ocellus, I don’t know, I guess that’s up to Queen Chrysalis.”

Gallus will get all defiant at this and angry, but he won’t have the strength to do too much. I won’t have fed him while he was my prisoner, you see, and I’ll be having fried vegetables and a big bowl of mashed potatoes and bread rolls and a salad and a desert of cheesecake. I know that he’ll only be half-paying attention to me. He’ll be looking at the food.

I’ll clean my plate, eat every last thing save for a few crusts of bread, and I’ll let Gallus have that, and maybe he’ll refuse it at first but I know that even if he does he’ll give in tomorrow, or the day after, or the day after that. He won’t let himself starve. And after the first time he eats, he’ll eat every time after that. Eating’s a hard habit to break.

“I know you’ve been working on an escape plan,” I’ll say at some point, some day.

“Of course I have,” he’ll say.

“It’s no use. I rule Equestria now! Everypony is my friend! Friendship is Power!”

“No it’s not. Friendship is more than power, Cozy Glow!”

“Then why are you here? Why are you my prisoner? Where’s your precious Princess of Friendship? I have all the friends – so I have all the power! You only have five friends, or four now, or maybe three depending on what Chrysalis did. You can’t beat me!”

And he’ll try and make some kind of argument, against what I said, but it won’t work. Deep down he’ll know it’s true, because I’ll be the ruler of all of Equestria and he’ll just be one griffon who can’t even save any of his friends. But then I’ll offer my friendship to him. Gallus won’t accept at first, I know it, but as he keeps eating with me, keeps listening, he’ll start to waver. I know he will!

He’ll listen to me eventually. He’ll have to, he’ll have no choice! I’ll grant him better accommodations if he listens to me and does what I say, and better food, and maybe even I’ll let him spend some time with Yona or Silverstream or Sandbar, talk to them, convince them to listen to me and do what I say! 

And then he’ll be my friend! The ultimate revenge for a creature who stood against me – getting them to join me! To be beside me!