//------------------------------// // Chapter 71 – New Insight // Story: Griffon of Canterlot // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Griffon of Canterlot Chapter 71 – New Insight Twilight walked around Leela, watching with fascination, as the short anthro bird pulled out a rune glyph from her book, it turn into a three dimensional form of the grandfather clock with the runes glyphs being added to it, the display collapses soon after and Leela was at it again, creating another putting the rune glyphs in a different way around in the same places. Glacier could see the frustration growing on Leela's face. “My husband as a habit of doing things that seem impossible, without knowing exactly what he did to the grandfather clock, I highly doubt she would figure this out after ten minutes of trying.” Leela seem to hear this slamming the book shut. “Your right, I won't, and it really getting my tail feathers in a twist, sadly if glyphs like this work we got about another twenty-nine minutes, than the spell have ran it course.” “How do you know that?” Twilight asked with her eyes set upon the book. Leela could see that eager look. “Look at the clock, the glyphs are burning away, soon it be a plain sided clock once again.” She point to it, unable to touch it from their side. “Also stop staring at my book, it creeping me out.” Twilight quickly averted her eyes away from it to the grandfather clock. “So-sorry, books are kinda my thing, and I never seen one like that, how you can pull out rune glyphs like that.” Leela get it firmly under her arm. “This is connected to me as I connected to it.” Leela said. “I only can understand it, no one tried to read it and I wouldn't let them, I can feel that if someone did, they might lose their mind...” Celestia steps in on the matter before Twilight could ask. “Twilight, some books are not meant to be read, I believe this is one of them, look at Spike.” Twilight turn to Spike, seeing him look very worried holding his tail, rocking back and forwards on his claw feet. “Twilight, please don't try to understand it, that kind of risk for a book isn't worth it.” Twilight walked over to Spike putting a hoof on the side of his face. “Spike, I promise you I won't, even it will drive me nuts to no end, Princess Celestia right, not all books are meant to be read, not at the cost of my mind, my friends, family and you Spike.” He gives her a hug, Twilight returned it. “Now this matter is resolved and with our time limited, my sister told me about you Leela, you were created to be a keeper of knowledge, mainly for Grogar.” Luna looked at Leela from where she stood. “Tell us what was his goal for my nephew Gale.” Leela now hugging the book tightly to her chest, sat down on a pillow, staring down at it. “The knowledge I hold on what Grogar did, putting ponies in check, using his monsters on horrible experiments, he did this for power, control and fear.” Leela closed her eyes. “I saw them as much they were stored in writing, Master Wayne was put through them too, and I will not speak about them in front of him or the young dragon.” She open her eyes looking at Gale and Spike. Trace sitting on a stone wall near the hedge maze of a pony statue spoke up. “I know a thing or two about stuff like that too, had all sort of creatures come into Manehatten with cases of magic experimentation, it not pleasant, and not suited for the young to hear, that something we have to talk about another time and place.” Gale and Spike glance at each other. “I am in agreement, let's move on from that subject shall we?” Celestia wish to move the subject on. “Tell us at least how Grifiax Boreas came to be.” “That was one of the lessor of evils done to pony slaves, Boreas before he became Grifiax, a unicorn that served Grogar.” Leela open the book, pulling out the glyph out, throwing it up to display a pony bowing to Grogar, in the middle of the chamber they were seeing, a bipedal being wearing clothing similar to Gale's ruined clothing, but with foot wear and trousers. The two things they noticed, one the face was, and exposed skin was almost see through shimming bluish white all over, the other was holding tightly in a hug the griffon plush. “What kind of creature is that?” Nightingale asked. “That is a homosapien, well sorta one.” Leela answered, Glacier raise a eye brow. “Master Wayne before I know him now.” She looked over at Gale. “This was him, as you called pure magic, it kept his form, soul and memories, but there was almost no emotion, except one... Love, love for family.” Leela explained to them about what Gale use to look like. Gilda got up from the cushion walking up to the image, putting a talon through it. “That was the cub? Some weird magical shell homo-what-it?” Gilda turn to Leela. “How was he that thing and became the little dweeb that melts your heart?” Rocky munching on a cookie with paw hands behind his head laying down on a pile of cushions. “That where we getting to, let Leelee finish, ya hear me?” Gilda glared at him. “Oh don't give me that look, dollface, ya know I'm right, let her talk.” Gilda snorts. “Fine, but you call me dollface again,” she point at him. “I'll give you a mark to remember me by.” She snarled with the talon claw tips shin slightly. Rocky stared at them. “Whoa that some real sharp claws ya got! No wonder the griffons are dubbed the ultimate predator race!” “Your just trying to be nice.” “That I am and also I can't lie, so I mean what I mean about your kind.” He winked. Gilda felt warm from that and growled. “You annoying trash panda...” She grumbled. Leela watched their exchange. “That was interesting to see.” Leela turn to her rune glyph display. “Where were I? Oh yes!” She played the image for them, it showed her standing to the side recording what was about to happen or did happen to their perspective. Grogar point to the plush, the pony shook his head and rough words seem to be exchanged till the unicorn reached out, artefacts around him start to glow as Grogar cast a spell, suddenly the homosapien unleashed a burst of pure magic at him, the artefacts amplified it, before their eyes the unicorn start to change into a griffon but before he finished changing Boreas, the moment he become Grifiax vanishes. “Grogar forced Boreas to reach out for the plush, knowing the reaction Master Wayne would give, he cast a spell on the artefacts using his magic, and the bell, it with the pure magic created Grifiax, teleporting him to the griffish island of Griferlatias, this moment is when Master Wayne calculated what Grogar would do to us once he got what he wanted.” Twilight had a feeling what the answer was. “Once he had gotten his cloven hooves on pure magic, he would of removed both of you.” Twilight stated. “But this must have been the moment when everything started to go wrong for him, wasn't it?” Leela nodded. “Correct, this the moment lead to Master Wayne and I working with the rebel forces that were growing, with the griffons of the island city, giving them the best moment and chance to steal Grogar's bell, a unicorn called Gusty did, she was known from that moment as Gusty the Great.” Leela showed a shadow theatre of her taking the bewitching bell. “The Bewitching Bell was taken and he grew fearful as he lost ground.” They watched the shadow theatre change to Grogar's forces being beaten back, by both ponies and griffons, the two races over the years pushed him back to the mountain and contained him. “That when I told them how to move in and finish the job, Grogar became aware and I took the fall, without his bell and his magic heavily depleted from the countless attacks on his fortress, he had me put in here, and use his monsters to bury the cube deep in the mountain.” “That when he used the idol of Boreas and it copies to transfigure Gale from that form into a griffon, the moment Boreas and Gusty moved in, Grifiax used almost all his magic to overload the spell, and that caused him to be transported through time.” Luna said. Leela open her book up, using magic from the talon, electrical energy dancing through the page. “In the next twenty minutes, please share with me much as you can about Master Wayne.” “Why?” Celestia asked. “What are you doing?” Leela continue to cast her magic over the page. “I am adding information, this I been working on for about two months now.” “Yeah Leelee, felt this weird feeling she haven't felt in the last 4000 years, it gave me goosebumps through out my fur.” Rocky rubbed his arms with his paw hands. Leela rolled her eyes. “I am aware of both events, I knew Grogar must have been defeated and Master Wayne arriving two and half months ago, this information you gave me answered what he was trying to do.” Leela said. Trace got up from his seat, using his own magic to show his information from the first moment he scanned Gale. “I believe we can do that, how about this for starters?” Leela smiled. “That will do!” Gale whispered to Spike. “I was glowing homo-what-it, than I me, but why no remember this? Why try it blank?” “I don't know Gale, but it really crazy that was you 4000 years ago.” Spike recalling that appearance. “You don't remember looking like that at all?” Gale shook his head. “But you know it was you?” Gale shrugged. “Will it change how you see things?” Gale shook his head. “No, this my life now, that was past life, remember want, but have it take away what I now is? No...” Gale answered. Glacier curiously listened to everything, including what they said to each other, The rune glyphs on the grandfather clock was fading fast, Spike put his claw hand against the side of it, feeling the markings fade. “How much longer is it going to take? I don't know how much time we got left.” Twilight muttering to herself and got a rough answer. “Around seven minutes left out of the twenty-nine minutes Leela spoke of.” Leela sitting on the cushion using her talon hands over it, she listening to them speak. “With the little time we have left, I finally got a rough draft, there is a 39.6% chance of error here, so please take this as a grain of salt, it will take me time to smooth out the errors.” Luna step up beside Celestia, they all got up to gather around Leela, even Rocky got up from his beloved pile of cushions. “Please show us.” Luna requested. Leela closed and open her talon hands over the pages, a set of rune glyphs raise from it, as the talon hands move the glyphs mould and shape into a long string of bluish white with a homospaien stick figure, to a griffon stick figure. Glacier saw the burst of energy coming from it at points. “This is over 4000 years of time travel, this bluish white string with the cloudy gases around, it is the transfiguration spell working itself, for Gale the travel is instant, but for everything else if this model is right, fragments of Gale was being left behind from the moment his travel through time begun to arrival.” She move the talon from the beginning to the end. “That would mean, what I said about the potion I used to try and cure myself was right, it would-” Trace turn to Gale. “It would have been fatal, the partial remains from my first scan and this, even with the chance of errors convince me of that more than ever, I will not with a contiguous thought go through with giving that to Prince Gale, that is against my oath as a doctor I took, to do no harm to my patients...” Glacier took a good look at the burst points. “Pure magic, memories and clothing was torn from him, the overloaded spell broke down is body and reformed it, but it needed something to create his new griffon body, specially one to look very closely like his plush.” Gale felt his plush tight to himself. “Look at these burst points, even there is a error here, it the best look we got on how the travel through time, the transfiguration had on Gale both physically and mentally.” Gale stared at it. “That why no remember being that homo-what-it appearance? Try remember no remember.” Gale reach out to the dimensional image, the talon past through it. “Is parts of me scattered through time?” Celestia slowly around them staring at it, her thoughts going through the first moments. “It would explain why Gale only acted on instincts for the first two weeks, the transfiguration wasn't just changing his body, it was as if he was reborn... Is that even possible?” “I can not say.” Leela said. “Geez, that one rough ride if this was right, also no way of telling, I doubt that cute-attack griffon can tell you or any of us, doubt this ever happened to anyone, if it did we don't know about it.” Rocky said rubbing the underside of his muzzle. “Look at it this way, not only he was saved from Grogar, but he been given a new life, one with love, kindness and a parent that would do anything to protect her children, I bet that rules into Nightingale too doesn't it?” Celestia nodded. “It does, some may think how I treat Gale as my son as if he was blood greedy, selfish even, I do not care what they think, I will do what I can to help him in the best possible way a mother can to protecting their child, Nightingale.” She turn to both griffons. “I know everything you knew for 799 years been completely uprooted, even we hit very rough patches, seeing this and what we experiencing at the moment is a whole new meaning of rough.” Celestia step up to them and put her wing around them pulling the two griffons in, giving them a graceful hug. “We even will fight, clash, yell at each other with words that could wound us, let's pull through this together shall we? As a family? A very malfunction family?” Nightingale hugged her back with the forelegs, Gale too against her chest putting their heads against her neck, she lowering her head resting it against theirs. “Your so like the griffon that was my mum for so long, no matter what you look like, how much you know about me or I know about you, your still my mum.” “Mum, sister, happy, anger might happen, might not, nervous of thoughts from others, no care because we family.” “That we are.” They embraced each other. Luna wished should could be able to, but since they weren't really there, that made it a bit impossible. “When you return, I expect a hug too.” “Can do aunty Luna.” Nightingale responded. Gilda crossed her forelegs. “This is all good and sappy dweebs, how do we get back? Teleport spells won't work because of Gale's plush.” Leela smirked. “I already figured that one out.” “Oh no, you can't be serious! I see that look you got dweeb! No way I'm going through that again!” Gilda shook her head. Glacier turn to Leela as she closed the book up. “The teleportation rune glyph spell, the one Gale used to bring us here, am I correct?” “Yep!” “Are you seriously kidding me! Can't we use one of those door spells!?” Gilda point to the door in the living room, to Luna, Trace, Spike and Twilight, she was pointing at nothing. Rocky answered that question. “Dollface it quite simple, Gale did it with pure magic as you told us, only way he could do it if he remembered, the recall spell made sure not to make him remember, that part of-” He realised she was walking towards him, her body lowered, Gilda snarling. “Erm... Good kitty?” “I'll give you good kitty, you lame trash panda!” She launched herself at him. Rocky quickly bounce on his backside and over her, to spin and land on his paw feet, Gilda crashing into the pile of cushions, Gilda quickly got up, she charged right at him again. “Got to catch me first dollface!” He open the door and ran out the room, Gilda giving chase, the sound of the door opening out of the house could be heard. Gale, Nightingale, Celestia and Glacier stared out the window watching Gilda try to get Rocky, he kept easily dodging her, teasing the griffon even more. “Should we do something about them?” Leela step up beside them. “Nah, they'll be fine.” Glacier turn to the grandfather clock. “Very well, Luna.” She turn to Luna's direction. “If I am right, where your standing right that moment is in the middle of what was Grogar's fortress, that the weak-point for the rune glyph teleporataton, why it worked, it would be best to prepare for our arrival, we going to be flying out of it.” Luna asked. “When will you be back?” “They be back just before sunrise.” Leela answered and the runes faded completely with them, including Gilda and Rocky passing through trees and statues, as Gilda chased him down. Spike looked around. “So... How do we explain to the guards about getting crash mats and stuff out into the Canterlot Gardens?” Luna knew it was only her that could get the guard to aid them for her sister's and the other's arrival, Luna could only mutter one word under her breath. “Buck...”