//------------------------------// // Chapter 86 – Eleven Past Twelve // Story: Griffon of Canterlot // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Griffon of Canterlot Chapter 86 – Eleven Past Twelve “That should be it for your medication Mr Longclaw.” The unicorn nurse finished off tending to the blue griffon. “Your foreleg, foreleg and wing should be mended in a few weeks time at most, try not to use them and ask for assistance by the press of this button between our timely checks okay?” She point a hoof to the button on a remote by the bed. Geremy nodded. “Thank you ma'am, I will.” She smiled softly. “It what we do Mr Longclaw.” The pony writes on the chart, putting it against the bed and leaves with the trolley. Geremy stared at the light green wall in front resting his head against the pillow to get some rest, the beeping of the machine near him of his heart-rate and blood pressure being taken. “It shouldn't be like this...” He closed his eyes. Every second and minute that past, things for Geremy and his team was growing dire, from a team of twenty since the chaos started he was down to six now. They finally putting the last of the spells into the crystal, a light pink unicorn with purple and blue highlights in mane, and tail merged the spells together within the crystal. “How many more spells!?” She called out. A stallion put down three scrolls. “This should be the last Miss Glimmer! W-” He vanished before her eyes. “Damn it!” She quickly got the scrolls opened up. “Geremy! We running out of time!” Geremy put the last of the statue together around the crystal, he pulled out a tablet looking at the data coming in. “I know Starlight! We ready here! The statue is finally put together!” They all turn to the sound of a huge explosion, a airship just smashed into the port around the mid-section of the tree. “Oh sweet Celestia! It hit the military dock!” A red dragon cried out, the chain reaction knocked them all out of the sky to knocking those on the ground off their hooves, paws, claw and talons. What left of the upper level creaked and cracked till it rained down on them, the dragon save Starlight pushing her to safety, he dodged the wood, brick and metal landing around them. “Are you okay Crimson?” “Cutting it close, but I am good.” He sighed in relief. Geremy pulled himself free holding his foreleg with his other, the wing was hanging and his hind leg bent in the wrong direction. “Grah! Damn it!” He rolled over and saw two more vanish, only leaving three, Starlight was going to go to his aid. “Starlight! Activate it NOW!” “B-” “DO IT! BEFORE IT TOO LATE!” Starlight stared into his eyes. “R-right sir...” Starlight turn to the crystal firing her magic into it, merging the last of the spells into it and triggering the reaction to activate the shield. “Almost there! One more second!” She grunts as the magic is poured into it. “I am giving everything I have!” She let loose all her magic in one massive surge. The crystal glows brightly and activates with a huge burst of energy throwing all three of them back into rumble or walls, they all black out from the impact. Starlight looked out the hotel window towards the hospital. “Crimson, you are sure the guards said he in there?” The red dragon with cream plate chest to under tail, finned ears, orange sail fin on head down back of neck, he crunch down on a crystal and swallowed it. “Some guards racing by spoke about it, a griffon from Griffonstone with a broken foreleg, wing and hindleg was bring brought here, also heard Princess Nightingale is here too.” “She survived?” Starlight bonked her head with a hoof. “Of course she would, Princess Celestia would do anything to save her daughter.” Crimson nodded. “So what the plan?” He put another gem into his maw. Starlight looked out the window. “We find a way to contact Princess Nightingale, learn about this world and find out what so different about it compared to our old home.” “I did see a library when getting these delicious gems, it about five minutes down the road from here, also they seem surprised that I was polite to them, what up with that?” Crimson said with a hint of confusion. Starlight shrugged. “I haven't got a clue, we know very little about this Equestria, who know how much more is different around here, that we need need to get to the Princess, get to Geremy without being seen and figure things out.” “You did say almost all of that before.” He turn to the stone like drums, the ones he haven't bonged in a long time. “D-do you think my sister still around?” Starlight pull the netting down, using her magic to draw the curtains. “If she is and like my foalhood friend Sunburst, there most likely a version of us here too.” “You really think so?” “That pony we ran into, Cosmo Hourglass, you knew her for years and we ran into her.” He sighed. “Yeah she didn't want to even talk to me... That a total lame bummer that happened...” Starlight sat down at the table pouring herself some coffee into the cup. “Sadly it is...” “We do have to remember home, at least for everyone that were erased...” “That we do...” She pour him a cup of coffee. “Here drink up, it going to be a long night and I can't even sleep...” Crimson sat down at the table, taking the cup drinking a bit of the coffee at the same as she did. “Also we need to find out who was behind it all in the first place, for a whole universal reality to just collapse, something had to be behind it by messing with the fabric of time and reality...” The sound of the wall clock made them turn. “Midnight...” Geremy open his eyes recalling that moment, the teleportation spell cast to breach them through the rift. “Wonder what happened to the others...” He looked at the cast over his foreleg, hindleg and wing. “We might be the smartest bunch, but first aid? Not so much...” A light brown griffon walked in with a dark brown tail brush, wings and Mohawk feathered head wearing a white coat, what caught Geremy's eyes was the green neck tie with white collar under it. “Well isn't that wizard? A word I never thought I use again.” “Doctor?” He press the stethoscope against his chest. “Your heart is on the right side, not the left.” He put it away into the coat, poking the right side of the chest with a claw tip. “Must say, seeing a griffon from the Wish Universe is something I never thought I see, but here I am.” “So that what you call m-” He sighed. “Was my universe...” Geremy looked at him. “How did you know?” “Prince Gale told me.” The doctor griffon said to him. “Still, wish magic shouldn't last beyond midnight, but here we are at Eleven past Twelve in the morning.” He picked up the chart looking at the papers. “Another surprise in a universe or in this case many universes filled with magic.” Geremy turn his eyes to the window at the street light lit town. “Doesn't feel much of a surprise when your own is just a floating rock, a rock in just emptiness...” The doctor griffon put his talon on the good foreleg. “Messing with time does that...” He put the chart down walking to the door. “Remember them, don't let one crazy zebra Zerra make them forgotten, stride to move on and help those that need it.” “How? How do I move on?” “I can't answer that for you Geremy Longclaw, all I can say your not alone.” With a soft smile the griffon doctor leave closing the door behind him. Geremy left confused by what the doctor just said. “Your not alone? Did the others survive?” A voice came seconds later. “Sorry Princess Celestia, I am not sure how the room numbers got mixed up, whoever swapped out the numbers are in some serious trouble.” “It alright my little pony, at least we found the right room.” Celestia's voice came afterwards. “Princess Celestia? Di-” The unicorn nurse open the door and walk into his room, what followed him came with a double surprise, one was seeing Princess Nightingale. She had survived like he did and the second was the large white Alicorn with the wavy mane and tail, the change of colours, crown, and those pink eyes. That was Princess Celestia, the true form. “Mr Longclaw, I brought you two visitors, there was many many more that wish to come, but we have a limit of how many can visit. Do you wish for them to come in?” The words echoed in his head. 'Your not alone.' And he know exactly what the doctor griffon meant now, he did have a third surprise with many others wanted to see him, that had a answer. They knew where he was from. “They may come in.” “I'll be outside.” She turn to the two princesses first and than the unicorn left the room. Celestia and Nightingale approached the bed standing in front of it looking at Geremy, he looking back at the two princesses in turn, he also notice four out of five orange opals in her crown here missing. “Princess Nightingale... Are you?” Nightingale walked up to his bed side putting her talon over his good one. “It is Geremy... I was there when you appeared, with help you were brought here to Trottingham.” Celestia stepped up behind her. “There a lot to explain, first-” “I am no longer in my own universe, I already gathered that Princess Celestia, one your a pony not a griffon, two what left of mine after a total quantum reality collapse is the ruins of Griffonstone, only-” He paused thinking about the others that most likely survived too. “Three of us didn't get erased, we all past through the rift, the same rift I saw almost 14 years ago.” “Three?” “Yes.” Celestia sat down by the bed. “It seems that we both have something to share, doesn't it?” “That it does.” Geremy said. “Princess... I need to know one thing...” He looked directly at Nightingale. She held his talon. “What is it?” He looked determined to know. “The creature responsible for the whole quantum mess, erasing so many lives and rewriting our history... Was his name Zerra?” Both princesses responded. “Yes...” “Tell me what he did, and I will tell you any and everything you want to know.” Nightingale started to cry, she had to tell him, Celestia put her wing over Nightingale to support her as she start to tell Geremy. “Geremy... A week ago-” (Linebreak) In the waiting room, the group that wasn't allowed to go into the room sat or stood around four orange opals, they glowing and sound from Geremy's room came through loud a clear, they listening to everything that was being said in there. Gallus glared with forelegs crossed at the glowing opals with intent hearing Geremy speak. “I wanted to be there and tell him he not my father.” “I don't think that would be a good idea, he could react badly.” Gabby said with concern. “Think about it in your point of view, if you were in that bed and it was him come charging in, and say your not his son?” Gallus pictured it sunk a little on the seat. “I hate you Gabby...” Gabby giggled. “No you don't, you find me annoying but you don't hate me!” Gallus rolled his eyes without a response, Gale listen about the recent events that happened in the last week. “Lots happened, didn't it? Gilda.” Gilda leaning against the wall on her hind legs nodded. “Yep it sure has dweeb, let's hope things a bit duller next week shall we?” “Yes, I like idea.” “Good to see your on the same page dweeb.” Greystorm listen to Geremy and Nightingale talk. “I knew of pocket dimensions created by unicorns to hold things, internal magical dimensions inside builds. Now I know there are whole wide bigger dimensions, universes, alternate timelines and realities... Each are different variations of us or not...” “Yet they not us and we not them, Grey with are who we are, even he look exactly like your brother he not, we need to remember that.” Octicovix said rubbing his foreleg gentle, comforting him. “That include you Gallus, your anger, furious even. Just remember to keep in mind, he not your father and he will be told about his counter part by Princess Nightingale.” Gallus groaned. “I still don't like this, I didn't want to be mixed up in all this crazy!” Gilda shook her head. “You think I wanted too as well? I am stuck with it, and I regret it?” She looked over to Gale, he looked back at her. “Maybe a little, but for the most part I wouldn't change a lame thing about it, who knows what my relationship with my friend Rainbow Dash would be around now.” Gale got up walking up to her, lifting his plush up to her, she took it. “I happy you help me, you big sister more than Nightingale.” “That I am you dork.” She ruffled his feathered head. “Gallus, at least you got a good job, don't ruin that opportunity.” Gallus rolled his eyes. “I am anger, not stupid.” “Yes you almost did something stupid, you dweeb.” “Whatever Gilda.” He snorted turning his head away. Gabby tap the tip of her beak. “You do have a uncle now, isn't that good?” She turn her eyes to Greystorm. “And you have a nephew, don't you think that good too?” Gallus glance at Greystorm, he glanced back. “I guess...” They said at once. Gale clapped his talons together. “Family!” “Yep dweeb, and Greystorm, there one thing you can do.” Gilda smirked. “That is?” “Three of them teleported through the rift, sooooo...” Gilda rolled a talon around a few times, giving him a big hint. Greystorm eye's widen. “The other two! Of course! I can look into it and try to find them!” '-mum those heads of the magic and artefacts were Starlight Glimmer a light pink unicorn with a starburst cutie mark with wavy ribbons near it, she lead the magic and artefact fusion casting on the crystal, and the statue. The other a red dragon about a bit shorter than you mum, he very smart, love the bongo drums and just around 16 years old, for a youngster he determination showed a big heart to stop those that vanished and forg-” Geremy's voice spoke up. “Erased from time and history rewritten...” “Right... The both like Geremy lost something big in their lives and remembered... That was the whole reason for the project, to find the cause.. Yet we all know who was behind that...” Greystorm got up. “Octicovix I-” “I will go.” She grabbed his foreleg pulling him back to the seat. “You have to talk to him, even he not your real brother, he still blood.” She put both talons over one of his. “For me?” “Okay...” He kissed her on the cheek. “I'll stay.” “Good.” She let go, Octicovix got up from the seat. “I'll ask around town, who knows they might be right here.” Octicovix left the waiting room. Gale looked at the door. “Knowing lucky we are, they are.” Gilda chuckled lightly. “Dweeb you took the words right out of my beak.” Gabby got up. “Who up for re-” The door opened two griffons came in wheeling a trolley for food and drink in, the first of the two was a light grey female griffon with dark grey spots on it flank that look like bubbles, blonde tail tip, and feathered head. The other a orange male griffon with dark orange feathered head, wings and tail brush. The orange one speaks. “Salutations, we brought you some much needed refreshments.” “Yeah! There a lot of neat treats here!” The light grey one said cheerfully. “We got muffins, cookies, milkshakes, soap, applejuice, tea, coffee and so much more!” Gabby quickly tap one of the glowing opals to turn off the audio coming from it. “Oooo! Yummy!” Gallus got up with his stomach growling. “I could do with something to eat.” “Yay! I can muffin? Chocolate one?” Gale asked Gilda. Gilda shrugged. “It going to be a long night from the look of things, sure why not, if Celestia ask you, come to me.” “Okay!” Gale hugged her, she gave back his plush to him. Greystorm looked at the selection. “This doesn't look exactly hospital food material...” He looked at both of them. The orange one gave him a letter. “I was told to give this to you Mayor Greystorm.” He took it and opened it up. “Here a little something to pass the time... Necktie...” Greystorm closed it up. “The food good.” “Just from that?” Gilda gave him a questionable look. “He the author of the comics Gale read, so yes.” “Oh wow! From the Pistol Misadventures!? That author!?” Gabby gasped. The light grey griffon giggled. “It sure is! Also got this for Prince Gale too!” She gave Gale the present. Gale ripped it open to see a comic book inside with a note. “Wow! Gilda read please!” He raise the note to her. Gilda took it. “For my number one fan Princes Gale, enjoy this special one of a kind comic, you got the only one so keep it safe. Necktie, and it signed too.” Gilda gave the note back. Gale hugged the comic with glee. “Yay! Thank you!” He than gave the light grey griffon a hug. She giggled. “Your very much welcomed.” The griffon smiled. “Now ready for something to eat?” Gale nodded. “Yes please!” They gathered to enjoy the meal they were offered by Necktie.