//------------------------------// // Chapter 33 – Reflection with Blue and Spike // Story: Griffon of Canterlot // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Griffon of Canterlot Chapter 33 – Reflection with Blue and Spike The jackal diamond dog walking by the river side humming to himself with paw hands behind his head, eyes closed enjoying another day in Dream Cavern. The guardian's hind paw stepped into something wet and thick, opening his eyes and looking down he found his right paw was on a puddle of purple paint. Blue step out of it, noticing a trail of more paint leading from the house to the cavern wall near the waterfall, alongside the puddles were three paw and talon tracks of paint. “Curious, these tracks look like Master Gale's, not only purple but green too...” He noticed the colour of each track was partly mixed with green paint. Blue followed the tracks to almost laugh but quickly put both paw hands over his muzzle muffling his snorting laughs at the sight of Gale, the young griffon was covered with purple and green paint with a brush in the right talon painting away at a door. “And done~” He sung putting the brush down in the can stepping back to look at his master piece. “Master Gale, sorry bu-hehe I hahaha... Your look very funny covered in paint...” He laughed between his words trying to hold back much of it he came. Gale looked over himself. “I sure do.” Gale grinned. “I am just happy to finish off the door!” “I see, but why did you put a painting of Spike on it with reverse colours around him?” Blue curiously asked walking up to it still smiling at the state of Gale was in. Gale raised his talon up with it glowing. “I'll show ya!” He aim the talon at the door with it glowing for a second. Blue cross his arms. “Master Gale, Mistress Luna clearly stated not to use dream magic.” Gale turn to Blue. “I know...” He look back at the door. “But what mum told me I... I wanted to talk to him about it, since he was there with me and I didn't say anything at all afterwards...” Blue uncrossed his arms. “She did say sleep on it too, which would valid this use of the dream magic.” Gale smiled. “Yep that right! This door opens to Spike's dream directly! He can come here while asleep too now!” Gale walked up to the door putting his talon on the handle pulling it down. “At least it won't just be me and Aunt Luna now to hang out with you Blue.” “I do not require hanging out Master Gale, I am your Dream Guardian after all.” Blue responded. Gale pulled open the door calling out into it. “Spike! Come to my voice! It me Gale! We asleep and dreaming!” Spike walked up to it wearing armour, holding a spear and very huge as well buff. “Gale? Why are you covered in paint and standing at a door way in the middle of a monsters nest?” Gale staring at him with a open beak not sure what to say or process of the dream form of Spike, Blue step up looking up slightly at the buffed Dragon Knight. “Impressive, I gather your dreaming of saving someone you care about?” Spike blushed putting the spear down into the ground rubbing the back of his head. “Hehe yeah I am...” He than look at Blue more closely walking through the door into the Dream Carven. “What kind of creature are you and where the heck am I?” He took a good look around the environment. “I am a Jackal Diamond Dog a Dream Guardian created by Master Gale and your in the Dream Cavern where I live.” Blue closing the door turning to Gale. “Master Gale used dream magic to create this door to create a bridge from your dream to here, so you have now unlimited access to the Dream Cavern till said otherwise while dreaming.” Gale flapping his wings level himself to eye level with Spike. “You look really strong, brave and full of honour the way you look Spike!” Spike was more surprised by Gale. “Your speaking...” He points at Gale. Gale did a few flips laughing before he spoke in reply to Spike's shock. “Of course Spike, this is all a dream!” He spins around with forelegs out. “Speaking is different here than there!” Spike rubbed his chin. “You got a point Gale.” He glowed and turn back to his regular form. “Wow that was neat! I just wanted to look normal and it worked!” Spike did a spin on the spot. “But why are you covered in paint?” Gale shrugs. “Why not?” “Fair enough.” Spike walks to the waterfall to see the house not to far from it and noticed the large glowing crystal hanging from the ceiling of the cavern. “Impressive place Gale.” “Thank you Spike!” Gale stepped up beside him. “It not the only reason I created the door and brought you here...” He sat down on his flank. Spike sat down as well, Blue cross legging on the other side of Gale. “It about what Princess Celestia told us wasn't it?” Gale nods. “Guess you took what she said about sleeping on it seriously, huh?” “I thought she really meant it.” Gale answered with a unsure tone of voice as he twiddled his talons against each other. Spike put his claw hand on Gale's side. “I think she did and hinted it, why would Princess Celestia have me stay to hear what exactly you heard?” “Another valid reasoning.” Blue concluded. Gale took a look up at the large glowing crystal from the refracted light of the sun. “It is but doesn't make what I learned any easier...” “It doesn't Master Gale, Mistress Celestia's approach was neither correct or wrong, it what you would call a grey area and it up to you how to perceive it.” Blue telegraphically responded in a calm collected manner. Gale and Blue stared into each other eyes for a moment before the young griffon turn away looking down at his talons closing and opening them. “The memory that I know what it is now of that room... I felt sad in my confusion of seeing it and now I know why.” Tears rolled down his feathers around his beak to drip down on the ground. Spike rubbing his back. “A griffon that wasn't a griffon used magic like I have to do a impossible choice, he defeated Grogar who was forcing the transfiguration spell on me, it what turned me into who I am now and why I find it so difficult to know things or even remember my past.” “A magic spell surging, overloaded with more magic that should of went into it...” Blue closed his eyes sighing heavily. “That most likely what brought you, Master Gale through time and space. It bent the very fabric of reality.” “Bending the fabric of reality?” Spike asked rubbing his head. Gale raised his talon a scroll appeared, opening it up he lay it out flat in front of them. “This is point A and this is point B.” Gale point to each end of the laid out scroll, now he bends each point together. “Now A and B are so close that instead of taking the long way around you just cross over to B in a single step.” Spike's slitted green eyes widen with shock. “The magic was so huge!” He raised both arms out. “That it created a doorway between our time and the past in a moment that brought you through as you turned into a griffon?” Blue nods. “Exactly, Master Gale arrived from being transfigured to a extreme level that resulted in his body from every atom being broken apart and reassembled.” Spike gasped with both claws over his snout. “If you ask me what time was a week ago I wouldn't even have a clue... I am remembering things that I didn't know and now know...” Gale sighed looking at the blank scroll pointing a claw tip to it and cutting into the paper as he moved the talon towards him. “Mum might not be my real mum but she the closest mum I got now and I am happy for it.” Spike lower his claws. “I am glad you see that Gale, I thought you might have been so mad with her you didn't want anything to do with the Princess.” Gale tilted his head turning to Spike. “Why would I be mad at mum? I just felt overwhelmed, not sure what to say to mum, sleeping on it and talking to you about it is helping.” Spike rubbed the back of his neck. “Okay, guess I thought wrong.” Spike got up on his feet. “Still... Are you okay with the whole out of place time thing?” Gale shook his head. “I'm not.” He got up on all fours. “But I can't do anything about it Spike, what done is done and the past that I just have to learn to accept, I have no idea what the future may bring but I know I got you as a awesome brother to help me!” Gale grabbed Spike hugging him. Spike looked over to Blue hearing what Gale said to him. “Master Gale see you as such, it best to accept it Master Spike.” “Just Spike, I just being as helpful as I can be.” He hugged back and Gale let go afterwards. Blue got up on his hind paws. “Very well, Spike.” “So... What do we do now?” Spike looked around. Gale shrugged. “Relax in the hot spring? I enjoy sitting in it thinking about stuff.” “You have a hot spring in this cavern?” “Yeah, it my Dream Cavern afterall.” Gale flies up to the large crystal. “There a house by the waterfall, a forest and fields filled up with pretty flowers! Also I have a story cave I just created!” Blue raise a eye. “A story cave?” Gale flies over to the waterfall with a few claps of the talons together the waterfall parted to show a hallway with griffon statues holding electric powered lamps. “Okay that is awesome!” “I know it is Spike, at the end of the hallway is the cave, it magical shows whatever story or how I perceive things like what mum said about whatever in the past.” Gale lands at the entrance pulling a leaver to have a bridge raise out of the water connecting to the embankment. Blue rubbed his paw under his muzzle. “I am curious about this myself, Master Gale.” “I knew you would be Blue! Come on!” He waved a talon for them to follow, both Spike and Blue walked across the bridge, following him into a cave lit up by a large pit fire in the middle. Spike looked around. “All I see is rocks with our shadows reflecting on them fire the pit fire.” Gale grinned. “That the awesome part! Look at the shadows!” Spike did and the shadows of all three of them changed into a form of shadow play of a story playing out before them. “Okay, that is cool!” “Curious... It seem that this shadow story shows a pony stealing what look like a bell from a goat.” “Oh I heard about that story from Twilight!” Spike point to it. “That the story about Misty the Great managing to steal Grogar's bell that lead to the ponies able to rebel against him!” Gale nods. “With what mum said it didn't exactly happen like that, I think that with the bell lost and losing most of his magic made him turn a pony into Grifiax Boreas.” “Which lead to him creating the Idol from the dying sun embers and Grogar stealing the Idol to make copies of it.” “That in turn allow him to amplify the transfiguration spell on Master Gale.” Gale fly up to the wall putting a talon on it. “All out assault happened with ponies and griffons, Misty with Grifiax must of confronted him as the final stages of the spell started to happen.” Spike watched as the bipedal shadow start to change into a griffon. “Using your plush to turn you into a life like teenage version of it, but to stop him from getting your magic to create a new bell Grifiax used almost all of his magic to overload it.” “The spell not only broke you down and put you back into what you are now Master Gale, it also was powerful enough to destroy Grogar's fortress on the Mountain that Fell from the Sky to your arrival at Canterlot Gardens.” Gale turn to Blue. “What happened to the mountain?” Blue put his paw against the shadow of the mountain on the cave wall. “The city of Canterlot sits on the very same mountain, you were brought forwards in time not leaving the location, the fortress of Grogar was exactly where the garden is today.” Gale gasped at this sudden news in a blink he sat up waking from his slumber and as the same time Spike did from his basket bed. “Whoa!” Spike quickly turn towards Gale's bed. “Gale did Blue-” He nods with a surprised squawk as the painted walls and ceiling shift from night to morning sunrise. “Holy glotamoly!”