//------------------------------// // Chapter 89: When it Rains, it Pours // Story: Griffon of Canterlot // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Griffon of Canterlot Chapter 89: When it Rains, it Pours Gale gasped loudly as the roar of thunder hang high above with the sound of a massive downpour of rain, the teenage griffon sat up with water spreading out from his movement, he quickly recalled the phoenix egg hatched and he looked around for the chick to find it tucked into his wing shivering. It squawking and chipping, one second they were inside Sweet Apple Acres home and now in some sort of sloped hole filling up with water from the heavy rain. Gale slowly got up on his paws, holding the phoenix chick using a wing to cover it from the rain, using his other talon to put over his eyes to try and see through the night through the heavy droplets slamming down. A burst of strong wind cause him to stumble a bit, Gale waded through the water climbing up the steady slope using the lightning from the storm to get some bearing on where he was. Sadly he couldn't really make out much due to the heavy rain fall and strong winds that he felt more of as he climbed out, taking a look back he noticed it was a creator. Gale adjusted his bag and hoped his plush wasn't too badly soaked or the little chick for that matter, he gazed down on the blackish grey chick seeing it was a bit better since he shielded it from the rain and wind with his wing. Before he could dell on the creator something caught the corner of his eye, something like a red light. Gale could just make it out in the distance, he walked towards it through the heavy rain to see it was a pole with a red light glowing from it with two others not lit below, one amber the other green, the pole tilted by about twenty degrees from standing up right, that when he started to notice a ruined remains of a building, pieces of it wall to the roof missing. Another came into view a massive tall one with chunks missing but with lights shining from intact parts of it windows. “Where am I?” Gale asked himself. Highly confused in finding himself with the phoenix chick that just hatched in what seem to be a ruined city, Gale made his way to shelter to see in the lightning flashes that parts of this ruined city seem to be fused with a mountain that was high enough to piece the clouds. Gale found a building saying 'Harvey Shopping Centre' above the doors of the well lit undamaged interior, close enough to the doors they slid open automatically, Gale stepped inside shaking himself off a little looking back to the ruined landscape beyond the doors. “What is place I in?” Gale asked himself. The griffon noticed smash glass to his right and left in all what look like shops, nothing seem to be left inside them, whatever been here had cleared out everything in every shop inside this huge building, he even noticed moving stairs going downwards from the upper level ahead. “Weird place, least not getting wet still.” Gale sat down on a bench peering down to the chick now looking a bit happier to be dry itself. “You okay?” The chick chirped in response and chirped again and again. “Erm... Hunger? How feed? I-” Gale suddenly remember reading about how a patient would feed a chick causing him to shiver. “Gross...” He pulled out from his bag a wrapped up piece of bread. “Urg... If I must...” Gale put a piece into his beak starting to chew till it got mushy... After feeding the chick in the most disgusting way Gale ever felt, the teen sat by the glass door staring out at the endless rain, it seem no sign of stopping, lightning followed by roars of thunder was a common sound now and for the teenage it felt like hours since he arrived. “I want home...” He whimpered. “Mum be very worried... Maybe use dreaming.” Gale closed his eyes to focus on it like he did before. But he found himself standing in front of a wall of water rushing down, he step up to it to find that the wall of water was a barrier and high above was a long endless line of a storm cloud only a few centimetres in width but enough to block him, he just barely could see Dream Cavern through it. “How can rain be blocking me here too?” He press the talon against the wall of water to feel a solid wet wall. “I don't understand, I can see Dream Cavern but I can't get to it!” He punched the wall to get no results, even a blast of dream magic seem to unphase it. “Maybe flying over-” Gale noticed the clouds were moving fast in one direct. “Even the clouds are blocking me!? What kind of dream barrier is this!?” Gale roared and fired another beam of magic into the barrier and even at the clouds to get no results. “Damn it!” Gale suddenly heard a growl, followed by alarming chirps from the chick, quickly ending the dream the teenage snap his eyes open to see a large wolf like creature with pelt up to it lower half, the lower half turn into grey scales with a bulky dragon tail, dragon claw hind paws. “Erm... Nice doggy?” Gale got up seeing two more emerge, Gale backed up a bit shivering in fear stepping back into the rain pulling the flap down over the chick that in his bag. The wolf dragon creatures step into the rain slowly moving closer to him, Gale looked to each of their green glowing eyes. Gale opened his wings and let out a mighty roar at that, this only got them to become more aggressive with one lunging at him, Gale squawked in alarm and reacted with a magical glowing aura around his talon to punch it in the jaw. Just above crunched down looking below at the screen playing out, a pair of sapphire slitted eyes watched the wolf dragons got close till Gale had struck one with magic, a huge pulse of magic was released from it causing the creature to shield it eyes from the magical blast wave. The two other wolf dragons quickly came to a dead stop as the lead one shot past them smash through the automatic doors onto the ground, they turn around to Gale glaring at them, he gave a aggressive squawk at them, the two started to back away. Gale raise his talon up with bluish white magic appearing above it. “I got more big bullies!” They quickly turn tail running back inside using their muzzles to grab the dazed one suffering from the effects of the magical impact still, he watched them drag the one he it away deeper into the shopping centre. “Phew...” Gale sighed in relief. “No going back in there...” Gale lift the bag flap up looking at the chick. “You okay?” It chirped happily. Another set of growls caught his attention, looking at the smashed entrance his eyes shrunk seeing a army of dragon wolves were slowly walking towards him into the rain. “You no harm chick! I protect chick!” Gale growled with magical aura erupting around him, standing up on his paws with forelegs spread out, talons opened to unleash his magic at the dragon wolves. “That's it, use your magic creature.” The creature whispered watching for something to happen. “Strange... That black phoenix should have been absorbing the magic from that creature already.” The sapphire eyes narrowed. The silver scaled tail whipped back and fourth. “In over 500 years I never seen a black phoenix act this way... It should of absorbed the magic and life force from that creature already, it isn't maturing to a adult as it should of done.” The creature growled, as the lightning flashed above, rain and wind hit against the silver scales. “What kind of magic is coming off this feline bird?” The silver scaly wings flared open, a short super heated white flame shot out of the snout between the teeth, the rain water hitting it turning to steam instantly. “Come on you bloody bird, take it magic!” Suddenly the magic released creating a burst of energy that domed out, as it expanded the rain and wind was pushed back, the scaled wing quickly went in front of the creature blocking Gale's magical release, it felt the magic dance around the wing. Slowly lowering it the sapphire slitted eyes stared at amazement, all the dragon wolf hybrids were frozen in place with the same bluish white magic dancing around them like lightning, what also stunned the creature was no rain or wind against the scales, the sound of thunder there but very far. It looked up to see the magical dome of energy being hit by the rain drops and wind, lightning striking against it too. “What the bloody hell in all of Nowhere is this!?” Standing up on the balls of hit clawed silver scaled feet looking around to see the city ruins within the bubble wasn't effected by the storm for the first time ever. “This is new... Very new...” Suddenly the blue whitish shield fade away with the rush of wind and rain returning. Turning back to the ground the creature saw Gale had ran away as the dragon wolf hybrids recovered from the stun effect. “All that to just stun them and flee? It took out the alpha and as the pack was going to tear it apart, it just created all that magic to create some sort of stun field?” The creature picked up it rifle and bag from roof top. “I felt the magic pass through me... How did it not effect me like those Draolves?” It looked around for Gale, soon it saw him entering a multilevel car-park. “Into one nest into another, those Echo Wings will tear it apart...” Turning away with wings open it prepared to fly back to the mountain in the distance, but it paused glancing back at the multilevel car-park. “Grah! Bloody damn it! One thing change and now everything is off the rails! Damn it to hell! Why in 500 years out of all creatures, this one had to be different! That damn black phoenix had to be different! I need to know what make them different!” It turn away again. “No forget it! I can't and I won't...” Then shook it head again. “No I must figure out why...” “No! It doesn't matter, what matters is surviving on the island of Nowhere, as it always been, look out for myself and only myself.” “Something about it felt pure though... So did that chick... Why?” “Stop questioning yourself!” It slap itself across the side of the snout. “Just go back to my bunker already!” “DAMN IT!” It roared ejecting a huge blast of white flames into the sky, creatures all around quickly fleeing from the roar and feeling the intense heat wash over them, the rain droplets turn to steam and blown through the ruins with fresh rain droplets. Gale walked by many strange looking metal wagons, the howling wind blowing through the open levels of the structure he took refuge in from the rain, the teen warily walked on his paws only, knowing his talons would make a sound on the flap stony surface. He noticed many strange blackish grey looking winged large cats with no eyes lying around, they seem to be even sleeping, resting or just laying there. Gale noticed one of them sitting up doing strange clicking sounds in it mouth, the large ears twitching to each sound, it making a semi screech sound too before ruffling it wings a bit. “Wh-” He began to say and saw it turn sharply at his direct. “It use sound to see... I think this was a bad place to go...” Gale thought with a slight gulp stepping back from it slowly. Suddenly a blast of hot air with a roar past through, all the winged cat creatures were up turning their heads back and forwards in alarm. Gale had felt it too wondering what that was, he noticed steam rolled in fast covering his line of sight making it very difficult to see anything, it felt muggy too. Gale suddenly felt something scaly grab him across the front of his beak, the other against his right foreleg pulling him back against a pillar. The steam clears and his eyes meets slitted sapphire ones of a silver scaled dragon, his heart raced as he tried to struggle against the weight against him, the dragon raise the number free claw hand putting a finger to the front of it snout. It eyes shift left than back to looking at his, Gale slowly looked left himself to see one of those blind wing cat thing, it clicking and screeching with ears twisting and head turning to the left and right, the dragon open it right wing moving to cover them from the view of it mostly. The blind cat tilted it head sniffing the air, clicking as it step up to the wing tilting it head, ears twitching and wings slowly opening with the feathers rustling. Gale could see it paws with claws coming out of the paws slowly, than suddenly a loud thunderous roar came, it rose the head instantly towards the sound. In a instant the wing cat fled, all of them scattered heading into the holes scattered around. The claw hand slowly moved away from Gale's beak. “Keep quietly.” He heard a female voice came from the silver dragon as she step back for him to get a good view. The silver dragon had light silver scales on the front from under the under part of the neck near the snout down the torso to the underside of the tail, she had dark silver horns behind the ears and dark silver spine plates on the top of the head going down the back of the neck, the tail had a dark silver fin. She also had a rifle held over one arm with a strap bag on her side with the strap across the chest, the silver dragon stood at seven hooves tall on the balls of it clawed three toed feet, wings closed behind her back as she took a look outside. “It one of the feral ones, the big blue one that love his lightning.” She said quietly. Gale against the pillar look down at the chick, it chirp happily at him as he gave it a little stroke with a claw. “Thank you for saving me Miss Dragon...” She turn to him. “Silvite is my name feline bird hybrid thing.” “I griffon, name Gale.” He smiled. Silvite snorted out some smoke out of her nostrils on the end of the snout. “That easier to say, but doesn't mean I wanted to save your sorry tail.” Gale's ears lowered upon hearing that. “Y-you didn't?” “Not at first, than I had a nice little chat with my 500 years of sanity self and agreed that you with that black phoenix was worth saving.” Silvite answered. “Just don't make me regret it.” “500 years?” “Yes, that roughly how much time I remembered passing by, I keep track of time in a 24 hour circle, you do have that where you come from don't you?” She gave him a questionable look. Gale nodded. “Yes I do...” “Good cause time is the only way you keep track of days here on Nowhere griffon.” She turn around walking up to him, she kneeing down to come eye to eye with him. “I really want to ask questions and have a bit more of a chit-chat with you, but it not exactly safe in the city and flying a no go too with big Thunderous up there flying above at the moment, he got good eyes for things in the sky, that why he rules it when he flies.” Gale titled his head. “Another dragon?” “Yes, just 20 feet tall, run on animal instincts and love to eat electrified meat and gems.” She said in a sassy way to Gale. “Now get up on all fours and follow me.” She stood back up. “I want home, you can help yes?” Gale pleaded. Silvite groans. “You naive griffon... You going to trust me on a first meeting.” Gale looked a bit unsure now. “I would of let that phoenix take your magic and life force to save my own neck, but it didn't so that a first.” She bluntly said to the teenage. Gale blinked with a shiver of fear. “Y-you only interested in us, cause Shadow no did what you think he do?” “He? Shadow? You named it!?” “Yes.” “Attachment to-” She growled rubbing the bridge of her snout. “Fine name it-he whatever...” Gale decided to do his plush trust motion. “I have idea of trust.” “I got to see this.” She crossed her arms He pulled out his plushy held it out to her. Silvite eyes locked on it, suddenly her eyes contracted for a moment before returning to normal, her claws now shaking as she slowly took it and looked it over. Gale noticed the sudden change in demeanour in the silver dragon. “You okay?” She didn't respond as the claw hand reach into the plush vest to pull out a photo. Gale was surprised when she seem to just pick out the photo from it, handing back the plush to him as she stared now at the photo. “H-how you know photo was there?” Her eyes started to water, with tears rolling down her silver scaled face staring at Gale over the photo, snout quivering as she stared deep into his golden brown confused eyes. “W-Wayne?”