Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 54.5 – Hyper Surprise
Gabby walks inside the dining room as Celestia and Shining Armor walk up to the table, the guards using their magic to close the doors up, Gabby noticed Luna and Cadance. “I like to present to you all Gilda's cousin Gabrielle, we got enough proof to confirm it from a letter Gilda gave to her.” Celestia announced Gabby to the her sister and niece.
“Hi! I like being called Gabby though and it nice to meet you two! Princess Candy and Lunspearan!”
Celestia instantly snorted upon hearing that word, Luna raise a eye in a unamused look, Cadance covering her muzzle trying not to laugh, Gale tilt his head. “Lunspearan?”
“Yeah! Gilda wrote in the letter that you are into the whole Griffspearan thing! Where the WE and THOU stuff they perform at theatres! I been a few to those and the way they word things is funny.” She giggled after a rapid reply to Luna.
Luna grumbles a little. “Curse that griffon...” She get a set of laughter from others, Gale suddenly caught on and joyed in. “Haha very funny.” Luna deadpanned. “My name is Luna, that little name is Gilda's doing...”
Gabby giggled walking up to the table. “Yeah that about right and your Cadance right?” Cadance nods. “I got told by erm... Shining Armor your real name, just thought I say what Gilda suggested, she said it get a good response from it and it look like it did!”
Luna turn to Celestia. “That it did, only fair in games of trolling don't we think Celestia?”
Celestia coughed into her foreleg. “Yes Luna, I agree, what comes around go around.” Celestia using her magic to pull a chair out for Gabby. “Come sit with us and have some breakfast, I gather your flight here was long and speedy?”
Gabby walk up to the table putting the box down on it and sitting on the seat. “It sure was, I got to see a lot of cool views on the way!” Gabby replied and turn to Gale looking at her curiously.
Gale got up from his seat walking up to her holding his plush. “Mail griffon?” Gale then flap his wings taking off and fly around the table doing a lap to land in front of Gabby with his plushy out to her.
Gabby giggled taking the plushy with her talons as Celestia watched and place pancakes with a cup of apple juice in front of the grey griffon. “Yep that I am and fly all over to deliver mail from letters to boxes, depending on the size of course.” Gabby noticed the label symbols. “Huh? Symbols for the letter...” She whispered and repeated it over. “Oh I forgot!” She gave back the plushy to Gale ruffling her talon through the bag.
Gale holding his plush tilt his head in confusion. “G-G...You okay?”
Gabby continue shuffling her talon through the page. “Come on where is it?” She pulls it out. “Found it!” Gabby presents it to Gale. “This is for you, the letter was left at Gustave le Grand's restaurant yesterday by a pony size griffon with forepaws instead of talons.”
“That sound like a griffon we know of.” Luna said looking at the letter as it was given to Gale by Gabby. “Did Gustave leave a description of this griffon having a energetic personality?” Gabby had cut up the pancakes and took a bite out of.
Gale shifting the envelope around trying to figure out how to get the letter inside.
Gabby nods as she was chewing on the pancakes, enjoying the delightful bite. “That does sound like a little friend.” Shining Armor confirmed what Luna was aiming for with her question and the answer Gabby gave. “Greystorm's wife must of saw you at Griffonstone and had found out you be coming here this morning.”
“These pancakes are amazing!” Gabby said with glee.
Celestia nods with approval. “I made them myself.”
Gabby tap her tip of the beak now thinking about what Shining said. “You said wife, erm... He not a she...”
“Have you heard of a race called Changelings?” Celestia asked.
Gabby rubbed the underside of her beak drinking a bit of the apple juice. “Nope, never, I know of griffons, ponies, cows, minotaurs, donkeys... But never heard of a changeling, what can they do?”
Cadance spoke up. “They are bug like ponies and have the magic to shift their forms and consume love as a energy source, the one that with Greystorm is his wife and she shares love which is surprising but true as well absorb it, she most likely the griffon that gave the letter.”
“Ooo I wouldn't mind meeting her, she sounds AWESOME in changing appearances like that!”
Shining Armor chuckled. “We found another that like the magic of transfiguration.”
Luna was lost in thought about why Gabby delivered it and not he in pony. “I am curious about one thing, why leave the letter for Gabby to deliver it from Gustave le Grand's restaurant?”
“That is a curious question indeed...” Celestia responded
“I open it!” Gale cheer in delight showing he managed to finally open the envelope up. “Found paper!” He pull it out.
“That you did.” Celestia giggled. “It your letter go ahead a read it.”
Gale nods and his eyes scan the paper.
Hey Gale
Under the table nearest to you hopefully stuck on the underside is a box, in it is something really special and remember listening in on a discussion between towards you and your once pet Leela. Becareful freeing it from the harden green goo, the item inside will revile what I meant, take good care of it okay?
I made sure this letter get into the talons of Gilda's cousin Gabrielle, she is the right messenger to bring this to you, also for your little hang out go to the Canterlot Arcades since I believe she didn't think that far ahead, they are a hyper of a fun day place to go to and before you know it time already flown by.
We going to be out of town from Trottingham for a week or so due to some findings we discovered within the place we discovered.
Take care of yourself cub, see you soon and keep your studies up!
From Octicovix
Gale shown a deepen frown reading over the beginning part again, he put the letter down on the floor leaving it by his plush as he crawls under the table to find this box encased in goo. “Gale what are you doing under there?” Celestia called out to him. “Come on out from under there please!”
Gale didn't listen and looked around to see that box held on the underside of the table. “Box found!” He grabbed it and as he pulled it free the goo cracked to pieces, he crawled out from under the table raising his prize up in the air getting up on his paws. “Octicovix box me!”
Gabby gave a really confused look at the box in Gale's talons, she quickly got the letter and read through it. “I am soooo confused! The letter was given to Gustave to give to me to give it to Gale, but the letter hints to a box under the table? Why didn't she just have it with the letter at Gustave's place?” She scratching her feathered head.
Gale sat down at his seat feeling a strange warmth coming from the box edges against his talons, opening the lid he found a blackish grey egg between glowing warm crystals. “Egg?”
“Did you say egg?” Celestia asked and Gale nods tilting it slightly to show her. “T-that a black phoenix egg...” Celestia stared with surprise.
“Black phoenix egg? I never seen a phoenix before! Is that what one look like as a egg?” Gabby curiously asked.
Luna got up walking around to Gale to get a good look in the book. “It is definitely a phoenix egg, I can see why Octicovix had it placed here and left just the letter at the restaurant.”
Gale tilt his head looking up at Luna as she towered over his seat looking down at him and the content in the box. “Aunty Luna, why?”
“There are unsavoury characters that would do very bad things to get a hold of a egg like this...” Luna stares at the egg. “How did Octicovix find this?”
“A question we will have to ask when she returns.” Celestia said picking up the letter with her magic. “Octicovix gave the egg to Gale, question is why?” She questioned and reads the letter.
Luna ruffled her wings nervously. “I believe that might have been mine and Gilda's own doing... We were talking about a pet for Gale after learning about the dog Leela...” Luna turn to Celestia. “Octicovix most likely was there as a guard.”
Gabby looking left and right. “I am very confused...”
Gale gentle move his talon over the egg feeling it surface. “What do?”
Shining Armor speaks up. “We make sure to keep it warm, wait till it hatches or when Octicovix returns we figure out if we can get this egg back to it nest.”
“Either way this is a young innocences that need protection.” Cadance got up from her seat.
Celestia raise a hoof. “Son may I take the box?” Gale nods putting it on the table. “I will take this to my own pet phoenix Philomena, she will the best option keeping the egg safe.” Gale stared with surprise, Celestia smiled. “Come on Gale let's go see Philomena.”
“Mum, yes!” He got up and quickly left with Celestia through a set of doors.
Gabby looked around the room. “Wow that happened!”
“It sure did.” Shining replied. “Well we just have to wait till they get back, no point letting good food go to waste, right?”
“I am going to turn i-” Luna's stomach growls slightly. “Traitor!” The others laugh.
Cadance took the letter as they all sat back down and ate the pancakes on the plates, she noticed the part about the arcades. “Hmm... Gabby?”
“Yeesh?” Gabby said with a beak full of pancakes, she swallowed laughing with a rub the back of the head. “Sorry!”
“It fine, no harm done.” Cadance replied and press the question. “How are you at video games?”
Gabby tap the tip of her beak. “Fairly good, play them when I've done delivering mail to Las Pegasus, why?”