Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 69 – Regenerative
“I have my answer Celestia, the answer to help restore your horn or not, and my answer will be...” Glacier showed a smile. “Yes, I'll regenerate your horn, just a word of advise when I do this.” Her talon start to glow with golden light with clouds of energy flowing around it. “You might feel immense about of pain, you may unleash a surge of magic, it all guess work when it comes to an Alicorn with magic in the mix.” Glacier advised Celestia when to might expect.
Nightingale look around the room. “You know that second maybe, we should be in a more open area to do something like that, shouldn't we?”
Glacier smirked. “What the fun in that sweetie? Shall we see what happen?” She put her talon over the top of Celestia's horn, the regenerative energy passed on into the horn, Glacier quickly step back. “Show time.”
“Are you crazy!? Didn't I ju-” Celestia closed her eyes and Nightingale watched the outline of the horn appear as the golden energy spin around tightening on the form of the horn.
Celestia's eyes open with them being solid white and glowing with a burst of magic shooting up against the ceiling, it spreading outwards across it, with golden particles raining down around them. “Ooooo pretty!” Gale look up lifting a talon up to the particles, they disappearing on touch as Celestia's horn continue to be restored.
“Well isn't that something? The excess regeneration energy being expelled from the body as a horn of magical harmless discharge, now you don't see that everyday.” Glacier looking around.
Nightingale put a talon up letting some land on it before fading. “Soooo... It harmless?”
Glacier continue to watch the horn almost fully formed. “Completely, unless you are someone with something damaged, like bones, damaged organs-”
Nightingale instantly interrupt Glacier. “Does that count for the brain?”
“Of course, why?”
Nightingale turn to Gale as Celestia's horn is fully restored and the burst of magic mixed with regenerative energy ends, she blink a few times shaking her head. “I can feel my magic through my horn, it worked!” Celestia focus her magic through it, she felt it was a bit tender but the golden yellow glow appeared around it.
“I say that went swimmingly, don't you think so Princess?”
Celestia smiled. “I believe it did, my horn been restored and it as if I never lost it, that regeneration energy is quite something.” Celestia reach up her hoof to the horn, tapping it slightly. “Glacier your gift is a amazing one, one I am sure we all will keep quiet on.”
Glacier bow her head slightly. “Thank you Princess.”
“Gale?” Nightingale saw he was staring into space, his pupils contracted. “RS... I think we got a problem.”
Celestia saw the blank look Gale had. “Gale?” No response, “son?” He turn around holding the plush under his wing walking to the door.
Glacier quickly got in his way putting a talon against his chest. “Hey prince Gale y-” He grabbed her foreleg with his talon. “Cub?”
Gale stood up on his hind legs, he pulled her closer to him, placing his talon on her chest, it glowing. “Leela calling me, must go to Leela, do not block, will attack, Leela calling me, must go to Leela.”
Glacier knew what would happen if she kept her talon on his foreleg, letting go with the free talon raised, the glow from the talon fades and Gale also let's go of her foreleg. “Leela?” They all turn to the vent, Gilda flip out of it landing on her paws, with a talon in front. “That the name of his pet dog.”
“His dog calling him?” Glacier step to the side, Gale walk up to the closed double doors placing a talon on it.
Celestia recalled what Gilda told her. “That isn't possible.” She got out of bed, almost falling with help from Nightingale to stop her from collapsing. “The dog past away over 4000 years ago.”
Gilda turn to Celestia staring at her horn. “Yeah... That right...” She frowned pointing a claw at the horn, as this happen Gale's talon glows against the door. “Your horn, it restored... Dweeb how the heck is that possible?”
“I believe we should focus on Gale, why he has a dog that passed 4000 years ago calling him.” Celestia said flatly.
Gilda give a humpth. “Fine, tell me what up with the cub acting like something processed.”
Glacier turn to Celestia. “Are you telling me that-” Gale open the doors to have them staring at the Canterlot Gardens. “Okay now that is some magic trick.”
Gale walked through the portal entering the gardens, he turn with a blank stare at them. “Leela calling me, must go to Leela, do... go... do... go...” He turn and continue to walk, the plush held firm inside his wing against his side.
Glacier walk through the door turning around to them. “He want us to follow.”
“How the heck you know that dweeb?” Gilda walk through seeing the night lit gardens around her.
“Sweetie, I been around the block a lot, when I say a lot, I mean it in a very literal way.”
Nightingale help Celestia through the door portal. “I remember that spell, it create a portal link between two doors, make it like a teleport spell but through doors instead, if I remember right Starswirl created it.”
“Indeed he did, guess the other me taught you about him?”
“Yeah she did, and you would of too.” Nightingale said as they followed the teenage griffon. “Still I wonder how he knew to do it.” She look back to see the double doors were closed.
Glacier recalling the blank look, the no emotions to advance magical spells. “It was part of a pre-programmed set of instructions from this Leela, in his mind there must have been a sleeper trigger within, this is what we seeing, it a triggered response from a section of restored memories.” Glacier said.
Gilda frowned as they past the statues towards the hedge maze. “Are you saying that some dweeb put stuff in his head, and now that stuff is active?”
“Most likely before the transfiguration overload spell 4000 years ago, which caused Gale to not only become who he is now, but to bring him forwards through time itself.” Celestia concluded from what she understood from Glacier. “Am I correct River?”
Glacier glance over the weak princess being supported by Nightingale as they followed Gale to just to the left of the hedge maze entrance. “Yes you are Princess Celestia, and have to say that I never would of even guessed he from that far in the past.”
Gale grabbed a stick, he started to pull it across the soft soil, creating symbols with it in a rather large circle he drew first. “That a rune glyph he creating, if I am not mistaken it a teleportation one.” Nightingale stated. “Those things are rougher than a teleport spell...”
“To Leela I must go...” He looked over at them, the small pupils looking at each of them. “To Leela this circle leads, she awaits...” Gale continue to draw the markings.
Celestia look at them. “Get between the lines and stay still, we going with him.”
Gilda look at it and her. “Are you crazy!? Can't we just knock him out?”
“Go and try, cause he almost blasted me in the hospital cause I tried to stop him.” Glacier step into the circle between the lines. “Whatever got him at the moment, put a lot of counter-measures in to stop anyone from trying.”
Celestia watched Gale continue. “I agree, with the state of his mind, anything to break this could break his mind...”
Gilda growled. “Fine! I been dragged through all types of crazy already, what one more?” She step into one of the gaps.
“Thank you Gilda.” The griffon snorts with a flick of the tail as Celestia and Nightingale enter the circle too. “I believe he is in there.”
“Way he been wanting us to follow and step inside? Sure I can believe that Celestia, the cub is definitely in there.”
Gale complete the rune glyphs, it glows with it lifting off the ground around them, it start to spin around with the inner part going the opposite way, it spins faster by the second. “Get ready everyone! This is gonna be rough!” Nightingale warns them, it folds in on itself with everyone in it, the glow, the humming and the folding in left no trances of it ever being there as guards arrived to see nothing.
A small clearing in the middle of a forest with light shinning from high above, a glyph explodes outwards with Celestia, Nightingale, Glacier and Gilda sent flying outwards from it, Celestia spinning out of control to land on a massive pile of pillows, she sat up instantly looking around in surprise where she landed.
Celestia saw Gilda in a large safety net fighting to get herself free from it, Nightingale was bouncing up and down on a large open bouncy castle, she stared with confusion on how they ended up landing on something safe with minimizing injuries, than came a big splash to her right, turning to see Gale surface.
He gasping and splashing about, he swam in a messy kicking of all four legs till he got out of the water shivering from the freezing cold plunge he just got. Wiping the water from the dripping feathers Gale saw his plushy had landed on a single cushion on a pedestal. “Why in freezing water!? Where am I? Why not in hospital!?” Gale looked around utterly confused, no idea how he ended up in a freezing cold pond of water in the middle of a forest, he shook himself to free much the water off his body quickly. “Cold very cold!” He shivered as he rubbed the forelegs with his talons.
Gale sneezed a second later, sniffing a bit. “Gale?” He look over to Celestia walking up to him. “Are you okay sun?”
Gale noticed her horn. “Mum horn back!”
Celestia sat down next to him using her wing to warm him up, using the other to pick up the plush to give it to him. “Yes it is, do you recall what you did just moments ago?”
Gale tilt his head as he held the plush close and kept very close to Celestia's body and wing, trying to warm up. “N-no, remember touching golden sparkles and than freezing cold.”
Glacier sitting on a mattress held in the air held by sheets tied to many trees around it, she crawled over to the edge looking down directly at Gale and Celestia. “The control over him ended Celestia, he most likely won't remember casting those spells or how he got here.” She jump off with a few short flaps to land on all fours in front of them. “Who ever this Leela is, went to a lot of trouble calling him here.”
Gale blinked a few times with surprise. “Remember! I remember her!”
“The dog?”
“No dog, bird, bird with magic book!” Gale answered.
Gilda and Nightingale joined them. “Did he just say bird with a magic book?” Gilda asked.
Celestia about to say something when they heard a twig snap, all of them turn to the direction of it, standing the shade of the trees they could make out a creature about Spike's size, it was holding a book under it arm. “Are you Leela? Did you force my son here?”
The creature step into the light, a bird wearing clothing without wings but arms, big expressive eyes with small glasses on smiling at them. “Yes I am Leela, annnnd I did create the recall spell that was put in my masters head, I had to under the order of Grogar little over 4000 years ago, buuuut...” She raise a talon claw finger up quickly halting them from doing something hasty on the her. “I altered it for Master Wayne to come here to my home and prison, not to that power mad goat.”
Came a mix of words from the four griffons and one alicorn.
“Master Wayne? / Prison? / Leela! / What!?”