Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 63 – Teenage Boredom
The end of the week and into the weekend seemingly blurred together for the teenage griffon, he had read, drawn, did home work set by Gilda and worked on his Flaputa model, even visiting the egg and walk around the castle grounds to watching Ponyville from the telescope in Cadance's sanctuary tower.
Now it was Sunday with lunch just finished with his mother, Gale was left wondering around once more trying to think of things to do or what to do, he didn't have Shining Armor to bug since he was working as Captain of the Guard, Flash Sentry and Sunbeam had the weekend off with both gone home for it.
Cadance were out of town at Dodge Junction at some cherry farm, Celestia in day court seeing to ponies requests and Luna fast asleep, Trace with his wife on their anniversary holiday trip, Gilda as always back in Griffonstone and this got him curious about the griffon city even he knew it wasn't in fair shape.
Gale sip some tea while reading a book in the castle library with the other foreleg knee press against the table and the talon against the side of his face, putting the cup down he flip over the page continue to read a spell book on advance transfiguration spells created by Star Swirl the Bearded, one thing he noticed through out reading the books that none of these spells were even close to Griffax's own spells.
Gale knew from what his mother told him that this griffon not only created magical artefacts but used the very transfiguration spell Grogar stole from him, the very spell that turned him into the griffon his is today and sending him 4000 years into the future shattering all his memories in the process.
Curious about the memories he had lost the teen sighs and pull out a photo from the plush in front of him of the black dog, this lead to the memories of the creature on the flatscreen box that created Blue... “Blue!” Gale suddenly had a idea.
Gale look through the transfiguration book going backwards till he found a spell. “I-No...” Gale grumbled. “Promise no use magic...” Gale slump back in the chair putting both talons over his face. “Urg... Promise no break, no want break, sick deeply if do...” Gale place one talon over his stomach recalling the twisting sickening feeling he got doing something wrong and even lying once.
Gale closed the book up, he walked up to the shelf putting it back in. “Soooo... Bored... If no-” He shook his head. “No no no!” He hit the side of the head with the talon. “Bad thought, wrong no do, easy to break promise, no break.” Gale reach out to grab another book to find a black talon with yellow feathered fur of a foreleg collide with his.
Gale turn to see a yellow griffon with black beak, wings and feathered head, the sharp yellow eyes of this griffon was a dead give away for a Changeling he knew. “Odo Octicovix!” Gale hugged her. “Happy see you!”
The changeling appearing griffon laughed rubbing his back as she returned the hug. “It good to see you too Gale, like the new griffon look?” She pulled away so he could get a good look.
“Yes like! Brighter yellow but yellow black like me!” Gale said happily. “How trip?”
“Very eventful Gale, things that would blow my mind that I just getting my head around even yours.” Octicovix responded. “I wish I could tell you but I am not allowed, promised not to tell anyone.”
Gale shrugs. “Know what promise like, no break cause sicky stomach comes.” Gale explained.
Octicovix wave for him to follow, he gladly did with a pair of stallion guards following close behind. “I gather your restricted to the castle?” Gale nods. “Bored?”
“Very...”
“I know how to feel when I was a teenager like yourself, you feel like that promising and trying to be good is too much work and dull right?”
“Yes...”
“Gale just don't let it get to you okay? Be that good pure griffon that you are, with a heart that really shines.” Octicovix said.
Gale thought about it and wanted to be that griffon for his mum, he liked doing good. “Okay! So what do?”
Octicovix smirked. “We just do whatever you do.”
“Awww... But bored!”
“Yes I know, you will get days like this, weeks even.” She stopped turning around poking the tip of his beak with her talon. “Now let's be bored shall we?”
Gale pouts. “Fine...” Gale leads her to his room.
When they got inside the changeling in griffon form stared at the large model. “That is really impressive...” She recalled being on street level of the main island. “You done all this on your own since we started?”
Gale nods flying around it. “Yes, want finish but bored and no did.”
Octicovix smiled. “Well we found our bored time to spend, shall we?” She pick up a paint brush.
Gale pick up a cut out. “Okay! We finish right?”
“We finish, now shall we?” Gale nods and they got to work on the model.
Later that Sunday evening Celestia walking to Gale's room was made aware of a bright yellow griffon with blackish grey wings, feather head, beak and talons being Octicovix the changeling that like to show up whenever she felt like it. “So she by past your new defences captain?”
Shining Armor walking by her responds. “She did, I am still working with what I got and nothing seem to really work, we could have other changelings here in the city right now collecting love and we not aware of it for years.”
“That captain I am okay with.”
“You can't be serious! They-”
“Need emotions to feed, if hiding in the crowd of ponies is their way of feeding and have done for years, I won't deny them that but...” She thought about it. “I would like to speak to their leader and find a way for both to co-aside without the need of pretending, find a way for them to feed without being feared for what they look like.”
Shining Armor thought about what Celestia said. “I guess that why they do hide in different forms... Even meeting Octicovix make me feel a little unsettled when looking at her, she knows it too from my feelings.”
Celestia felt a bit frustrated. “That make finding their leader even harder, we can't go around asking them or telling anypony outside the castle about them either, how do you contact a ruler that could even be in the castle right now?”
“That I can't answer Princess...” Shining Armor replied. “I feel useless...”
“I know the feeling Captain...” Celestia raise a hoof tapping on the door to Gale's room. “Gale can we come in?”
“Yes mum come!”
The doors open with her magic and walking inside to see a pair of griffons covered in paint, behind them was a complete model of Flaputa. “You've finished it, well done son!”
“Yep finished, bored stop but press on, Odo Octicovix pressed me on, now wash.” Gale pull the apron off putting it on the paint covered sheets, he walked into the bathroom closing the door behind, seconds later the shower could be heard.
Octicovix glance over to the door and back to them. “Hello princess, sorry for breaking in again.”
“I accept your apology Octicovix, I gather you came to check on Gale?” Celestia said.
“Yes I saw what happened at Cloudsdale with the magic from Gale trigging Gilda to collapse.” She explained. “I gathered that Gilda must of saw something and when checking up on anything about it, I got nothing and my guess she haven't told a soul or remember what she saw.”
Celestia looking over the model walking around it. “I had a feeling that what happened, it was triggered by the Rainboom wasn't it?”
Octicovix watching Celestia answers. “Yes, but Gale seem uninfected or even aware of it, I found he been bored all weekend so I thought I come on by and join in his boredom.”
“How was it?”
“Boring.” She chuckled. “But a good boring.”
Shining Armor decided to press a question. “I am sorry to change the subject here, but I was wondering if there a way to contact your mother.”
Octicovix turn around to Shining Armor. “No, leaving the way I did for following my heart, my mother made sure to wipe my mind of where the hive is located... It was the only way I could be with my love Greystorm and I took it.”
“Anyway to find any here in Canterlot?”
“There is, I am not doing much at the moment so I can help you set somethings up like creating a shield spell that could stop changelings from passing through, it will take some creative work to get you to use said spell, if your up for some training.”
Shining smirked. “I'll take what I can get Octicovix and shield spells are my speciality.”
“It seems we have a starting point.” Celestia peer around the island model. “If I was to suddenly come face to face with your mother, the ruler of the Changelings... How would it go?”
Octicovix shrugs. “I haven't got a clue, it been nearly eleven years since I left the hive, who knows what going on in her head nower days.”
“If you have any idea how to contact her, please let me know.”
“Sure thing princess, can't promise you I be able to, but I'll try.”
“That all I ask for.” Celestia smiled.
The door opens and Gale walk out all puffy. “Wow so that what a griffon look like after a shower, who would of thought they look so cute and puffy.” Octicovix blurted out.
Shining stares and ask the million bits question. “How?”