//------------------------------// // Chapter 66 – ??sh Reality Part Two // Story: Griffon of Canterlot // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Griffon of Canterlot Chapter 66 – ??sh Reality Part Two Shining Armor tried to create a shield but the pulsing of magical energy from Gale's pure magic shattered it in a instant. “I can't move! I can't even use my magic!” RS tries to move but couldn't. “We better think of something fast or we all done for!” Maple trying to move her paw towards her bag, another burst of magic reduced that attempt to nothing. “This tower isn't going to hold!” She noticed large cracks starting to form on the walls, pillars, ceiling and flooring. Gilda screams out as she slides back a bit with claws ripping through the flooring. “WE NEED HIS MUM! TRACE TELEPORT TO CELESTIA YOU IDIOT!” Trace feeling the pain of the pressure from the pulses of magic realise that he could use his magic, he was partly pure. Closing his eyes the unicorn vanish before their eyes. “I hope he doesn't take too long to convince her!” Greystorm said through the pain. Celestia opened up a birthday card laughing at it contents. “Nightingale this has to be the funniest one yet.” Nightingale sitting on the window side of an open window. “Well I have to keep it up, don't I?” “That-” Celestia felt a pulse of magic wash over her, Nightingale too. Trace appear before them falling on his back breathing in and out in pain. “Urg... So much pain...” “Trace?” Celestia help him to sit up. “What happened?” Trace look up at the griffon. “Wow you are a griffon, a beautiful big griffon. Birthday griffon.” He said with a giddy laugh. Nightingale got up from the window side. “Doctor Trace your acting very weird.” Trace instantly blurts out grabbing Celestia's talon with both forehooves. “Gale surging in a panic-attack! Everyone is in danger and trapped!” Trace passed out. Celestia put him down on the ground “Gale?” She quickly went to the window as Nightingale moved out the way, she sees the tower house with large amount of magic pulsing out of it, the ground and path cracking under the pressure waves. “Mum what-” She noticed Celestia had teleported. “Mum!?” Nightingale about to leap out look at Trace, growling under her breath she grabbed him. And leap out the window flying right for the tower house Gale's eyes solid white as he lift into the air, the bluish white magic tightening around him, suddenly Griffon Celestia appears before everyone. With a wave of the talon, a magical golden glow comes from it, the magic covers over each of them, and they fell down on their fronts with a grunt of pain, they still feeling the effects of being pinned against the walls from the immense magic release. Griffon Celestia without a word, stared right at Maple, the look Maple saw she knew something, after their brief eye contact Celestia walk to him calmly and put a claw under his beak raising his head for their eyes to meet. “Gale...” Suddenly the whites fade and his eyes return to normal, the magical aura disappears around him so did the golden glow around the eight ponies and griffons. “Griffon mum... No want bye bye...” “I know...” She picked him up giving Gale a hug as he cries into her white feathers. “I know. And it won't happen, I promise you.” Nightingale burst the door open, Maple set flying into Gilda, Maple lying now on top of the painful bigger griffon, Gilda in too much pain to even try to get Maple off her. Nightingale rushed in. “Mum is-” She clap eyes on Maple, with an shriek dropping Trace on the ground. She point at Maple with a mighty squawk saying one single word at her. “GHOST!” Maple managed to roll herself off Gilda grunting in pain. “If... I wasn't...” She groans. “In so much pain I'd...” Maple hold her side slowly sitting up against the wall. “I'd give you a... Mouth fall... Griffon...” The others was staring at Celestia with shock and confusion, while they tried to get up on all fours, the other factor was this white and blackish grey griffon they never seen before, she called Celestia mum. Nightingale's fear transformed into confusion. “I didn't know the dead could joke?” Maple growls. “I never di-arg...” She grunts in pain. Celestia release the hug from Gale. “I need to help them, your reaction is very understandable. So I am not upset with you okay?” Gale nods as she wipe the tears away with a talon. “Now...” She raise her talon with a flick of golden magic, it spread over all of them. They soon found the pain fade till it completely gone, the injuries also gone. “Mum... What's going on?” Nightingale looked around. “They staring as if they never ever met me or you...” “They are not of this reality Nightingale.” Celestia said slowly walked around Gale looking upon each of them as she spoke. “150 years ago, I became aware not everything as it were.” Trace woke up rubbing his head with a hoof seeing the tense talk between Celestia and Nightingale. “How long was I out for?” “Not long enough...” Gilda muttered. Nightingale felt tense hearing Celestia speak. “M-mum I don't like the way your talking, it scaring me.” Celestia sighs. “I know...” Raising her talon with it glowing everyone of them found they were no longer in Gilda's home but in some grand hall. “Welcome to my private vault, please follow me.” Gale shivered having experienced his first teleportation by magic. “Teleport! Mum no can do that! How Griffon mum can do!?” “Wish magic son, the world filled with it.” She continue to walk, Gale followed her quickly. Gale was surprised. “Wish magic work, teleport work cause it?” “Indeed, son.” Nightingale growled. “Mum! Tell me what the heck is going on here?!” She turn running after her down the hall towards a large door with two golden griffon guards stood at either side. The silence between the ponies and griffons slash one changeling as griffon, it was broken when a set of beeping sounds from Maple's saddle bag were heard. “What is that weird sound?” Rainbow Dash looked directly at Maple's bag. Maple reach in with a forepaw, pulling out her tablet. “I got a connection.” “Connection? What does a weird flat rectangle thing have connected with that griffon version of Celestia?” Gilda asked with a frown. Maple ignores her pressing the paw tips on it, swiping at it a few times. “Nanner where are you? Contact me if you get this, dude you got me splitting feathers, if you get this message I am in a large room behind a door with two golden griffon statues either side of it, Sunflower...” She look ahead at the large door with the two golden griffon statues. “SUNFLOWER!” She instantly open her wings taking off in a blur of speed down it. “Erm... I guess we follow?” Rainbow said staring at the finch griffon zoom off. RS took off after Maple. “Of course! Sunflower is her granddaughter! If she somehow connect to her with that tablet, it means she must be close!” “We in!” Greystorm took off with Octicovix. Trace turn to Shining Armor. “Captain I have no idea what exactly going on, with everything that happening so fast and sudden. But my gut says follow.” “Agreed, even the Princess look like a griffon she still is a Princess and Equestria still Equestria no matter what reality it is, I serve to protect it, the citizens, the Princess-” “We get it dweeb!” Gilda interrupts. “Move those sorry legs of yours or I am carrying you! Blue Hooves.” Gilda snapped. Shining gulped. “No thanks! I rather keep my hooves on the ground!” He quickly galloped by them. Rainbow Dash was surprised how fast he bolted it. “What was that about?” Gilda shrugged keeping Shining's secret safe about his air sickness. “Not sure Dash, best we fly or we be left behind.” Gilda flew after Shining Armor, Rainbow Dash followed. Trace's horn lit up with a pulse. “Huh?” He looked around. “That's odd, I am tracking some sort of odd magical field.” Trace used his tracking magic to track whatever triggered his senses. “It fate but it close...” Walking around a pillar he found a black hoof smashing into his head. “You had to have the ability to track odd magical energy didn't you?” The figure stood over the knocked out unicorn. “Two for two for you today isn't it? Well they will notice soon enough you are missing, I am going to have to speed up things.” Celestia stood before the door, she raised her talon to use her magic to open it, Nightingale flew in and grabbed it with both hers pulling Celestia down slightly. “MUM! Tell me what the buck is going on here!? I demand to know!” Celestia looked into her pleading eyes. “The answer behind the door Nightingale.” “Not good enough!” She growled bearing her teeth through the beak at her mother. “This have something to do with you not coming to Maple's funeral 150 years ago!?” Maple stared at her device and at the door, she wanted inside, the signal on it said Sunflower was very close by. “Why you never was there for our finch griffon friends!? Why you never let me down here after that day!? TELL ME!” The others arrived standing behind Gale listening to the griffish princess demand her questions to be answered by the griffish Celestia. Celestia eyes turn away with her head slightly, her eyes fell upon the group. “It goes back further than that Nightingale, it goes back to that moment in my bedroom, the moment I made that wish in front of Grover 800 years ago to this day, the moment that lead to your birth and when everything changed that moment just as midnight hit at the end of your first day of life...” Maple was growing tired of this, her forepaw tapping the backside of the tablet grew rapid with each second. “Just shut up already and open the damn door.” She said under her breath. Nightingale gave her a hard frown. “Mum! Stop being cryptic already! Get to the damn point!” Celestia closed her eyes and took a deep breath, followed out a heavy release of air. “Nightingale, you-” Maple's patients reached it limit and she interrupts them. “How about you open that damn door! My granddaughter is on the other side of it! I got a message from saying she inside that room beyond the door with two golden griffons! The moment we arrived in wherever we are!” Celestia and Nightingale both turned their heads in surprise from the hovering finch griffon's outburst. “What di-” “OPEN IT OR I BLAST IT OFF IT HINGES!” Maple pulled out from her bag a mini cannon like object aiming it at the door. “I don't care what going on between you two at the moment! All I care is that my granddaughter is inside there!” She point at the door. Nightingale let go of Celestia's talon. “Your definitely not the Maple we knew.” Nightingale muttered. “Good! Because I had over 200 years of life and the one thing that really matters at this very moment is my grandcub!” “I keep hearing that, you and Pistol never had any cubs.” Nightingale said back. “Guess you never got together with him.” “Not by choice, Guto the Betrayer saw to that.” Maple gave an anger snort. Celestia raise her talon, the door glows golden and it start to open. “I don't see how your granddaughter is in here but if she is, than Celestia on the other side must of found a way through.” Gale's ears flickered slightly at that word from his griffish mum. “Mum in there!?” The doors open and Maple with Gale enter quickly to find the room with shelves of scrolls to large sums of pillows and one massive golden statue, it was of Celestia, Grover and Nightingale holding up a sphere together with one talon each raised. “That doesn't make sense! The signal is max out! She should be here!” “Mum no here! You say mum is!” Gale turn to Celestia. “Griffon mum wrong!” “Unless they are, but outside.” Celestia walk in with the others. Maple and Gale said together. “Outside?” “Yes outside that.” She hint to the sphere. Gale tilt his head. “No understand, how mum outside sphere?” “I don't get it too, but that thing is putting off some weird energy. And it giving me the creeps.” Maple also agreed with Gale, the cub shivered too at the sight of it. RS eyes locked on the sphere. “That is impossible! That an inverse sphere!” “Inverse? As in, inside out?” Greystorm asked. “Not exactly, that inside out sphere IS what we are in!” RS responded. Gilda looked back and forwards between the sphere and RS. “Are you telling us we in that thing!? How can we if we outside it!” “Don't you get it! We are! The edge of reality is right here! The centre of it is out all around us beyond our eyes can see! It a universal impossibility on any scale! Physical, magical, dimensional, everything!” RS said with a raised voice at all of them, both talons out at it. “That thing is screaming out wrong all over it. And it physically there!”