Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 94.5: Festival of Luna
As Kitsunes around continue launching magical fireworks into the sky in celebration of the first moon rise, and the reaction of hearing THIS was the Princess of the Night that even control the moon of all beings even from a land called Equestria, it was a thrilling amazement for all the Kitsunes.
Pom-Pom and her guard flew up to Gale and Luna. “Princess of the Night Luna, raiser of the moon, I Alpha Pom-Pom humbly welcome you to Mystic KI, the home and settlement of the No-Yantic Kitsune Clan.” She bow her head slightly and so did the guards.
Luna bow her head in return. “Thank you Alpha Pom-Pom, even this is a indirect arrival to your lands for reasons beyond my own doing, I am humble to be welcomed to your settlement Mystic KI, thou...” She got a good look at the flying Kitsunes. “I never ever heard of your kind, this is a truly new discovery.”
“As for your kind.” Pom-Pom responded looking right down and over to Anubis. “A certain dragon failed to mention that Equestria is ruled by a form of hoofed beings.”
Luna's eyes also locked on that dragon. “I am a pony and the very one that caused events such as the Pure Magic wave, reason why I had to come here to raise the moon...” Luna eyes narrowed on him.
Anubis saw both of them looking down at him rather angrily. “Why do I get a feeling I've bloody done something wrong?” He half growled.
“Maybe you should of told them about that Equestria is occupied by colourful ponies as you told me?” Silvite said with her arms crossed glancing over to him.
Anubis now had a third looking at him and he couldn't deal with this. “Ah bollocks to this.” Anubis took hold of his staff tapping it in the sand twice, the sand whipped around him into a whirling vortex and the Death Dragon was gone as it fell to the ground.
Ember blinked as she stared at the spot Anubis once stood at. “Did he just chicken out?”
Torch looked over to Luna. “WOULD YOU IF A ALICORN THAT CONTROL THE MOON SHOWS UP AND NOT HAPPY WITH YOU?”
Ember quick look to the moon and back at Luna. “Yeah... No.” Ember quickly answered getting why Anubis quickly fled the way he did.
HMS Victory slowly descends and lands in the land pushing the water across a bit, part of the hull slide open with a ramp sliding out and landing on the tip of the beach. “Look like you all get some shore leave, enjoy it while it last!” Big-Rig looked around at his crew.
“Aye sir!” They saluted and quickly depart to start interacting with the Kitsunes.
Amber and Trace step up to the ramp. “Look like we get to enjoy whatever this festive is.” Amber smirked.
“Yes we do.” Trace jump up to his hind legs with a foreleg out to her, she wrapped her arm around it and they walked down the ramp. “Do you think they will call it Festive of Luna?”
“After that entrance, I say my bet is on that.” Big-Rig's deep voice boomed behind them with a hefty chuckle.
Luna and Gale descend and land on the sand with Pom-Pom, Skip and the guard, the Kitsunes parted to give them room waiting silently for Pom-Pom's announcement. “All Kitsunes young and old, tonight is our first moon rise of many to come! Tonight we will declare this festive in honour of Princess Luna, Pony princess of Equestria and of the night! The Festive of Luna!”
The kitsunes all around cheered happily, Torch chuckled seeing now all the attention is on Luna. “QUITE NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING, BUT I THINK WE CAN WORK WITH THESE KITSUNES.”
“Really dad?”
“EMBER I AM THE DRAGON LORD AFTER ALL, I CAN SEE STRENGTH AND POWER COMING FROM THEM, BEING ALLIES WILL BE BETTER FOR BOTH KINDS, WHO KNOWS WHAT DANGERS LURK HERE IN NOWHERE BEYOND THIS SETTLEMENT.”
Ember frowned. “Your only saying that cause their leader impressed you by turning herself into your size to greet you.” Ember looked over to the titan dragon.
“RIGHT YOU ARE! I AM IMPRESSED!”
Ember flew down. “Well I am going to enjoy this festive, shame your back to normal dad!” She called out.
He looked over at himself and all the others now smaller than him, even the airship near him look like a oversized toy, he huffed sitting on his hunches. “Mister Dragon Lord!” A young kit called up from in front of a foreclaw of the Dragon Lord. “Can you tell me another story in your booming voice?”
“Yeah! Please!” Another asked, than another and another.
Torch grinned. “OF COURSE I CAN! I AM TORCH THE DRAGON LORD WILL TELL YOU ANOTHER!”
They cheered and gathered around, some having ability to use their magic to create wings and fly up hovering around his face, Torch liked this attention from the youngsters and ready to tell another story to them in his normal level voice which to many was booming loud.
Luna felt overwhelmed by the cheering around her, they suddenly dropping on her naming their festive for the first moon rise they ever- “seen?” She turn to Pom-Pom seeing the wings vanish from her back and the guards. “I recall being told that this land appeared from a eruption of Pure Magic from my nephew.”
Gale nodded. “Nowhere in other reality place, it made Pure Magic surge erm... erm...”
“It surged by about 1000 times.” Silvite spoke up as she stepped up to them. “In fact blasting Thunderous into a marble stone statue in my home and saving not only me, but Anubis too.” She put her a closed fist out to Luna. “I'm Silvite.”
Luna tap her hoof against the fist. “Luna, Princess of the Night.” Luna responded. “I heard he did it, reason why I haven't been told.”
“Gale flipped on a zebra called Zerra, he escaped and left Thunderous to take the full rage from the cub.” Silvite revealed why Gale unleashed all that magic.
Luna looked very surprised. “That cursed zebra survived?” She said quietly to both of them, Gale nodded. “Now I can understand why the magic was unleashed in such a manner...” Luna continue to speak quietly to them as she put her wing over Gale. “Oh my poor nephew...”
Gale shifted himself close to her. “Aunty...”
Luna looked around. “I am honoured and hope you all enjoy the festival!” They cheered, some using their magic to change the banners appearance from a sun to a moon with stick pony Luna under it with a horn glowing. “Impressive...”
“You think that impressive, you should try to food.” Pom-Pom giggled.
“I might have to.” Luna smiled. “Afterwards we talk more about... him, okay?” Pom-Pom nodded. “Now nephew how about we enjoy this even festival?”
Gale nodded. “Yes! Shadow enjoy too!” He showed the phoenix chick.
Luna melted with adoring the adorable black phoenix chick. “That is the most adorable chick I ever seen.” The chick chirped happily in response. “Now shall we?”
Gale smiled. “Okay! Let's go!” As the walk up to the settlement kitsunes come up asking for photos with her or of her, she agreed and even got Gale into some of the photos too.
“Almost no one gonna sleep tonight, aren't they mum?” Skip stepped up beside Pom-Pom.
Pom-Pom could hear the music playing, kitsunes dancing with magical images of the moon appearing in flashes of flame magic from some. “Nope, but I bet we all will suffer the results of this by the morning.”
Skip chuckled. “Oh most definitively.”
Anubis appeared somewhere in the Dragonlands near a waterfall of lava, raising his staff to it the waterfall part ways from the magic to reveal a pair of large statues of himself with a path leading under the river of lava above. “Home sweet home...” He walked over the pool of lava under the waterfall of lava, he end the spell for the entrance to be hidden once more.
Anubis looked back at the waterfall of lava feeling the intense heat from it. “Hmm... Nice to feel that wonderful heat once again.” Anubis walk between the statues heading deep into the cavern path, he walked down steps to come to a opening with diamond buildings around the walls.
Dragons in robes quickly turn to see Anubis. “Death Dragon Anubis, welcome home.” They said together dropping to one knee and bowing their heads to him.
“Thank you my followers, how the Inverted Settlement been since I left?” He asked the one with the red robe on, the white dragon wearing it stood up.
She answers for the other dragons. “We been thriving Death Dragon Anubis, under your guidance from many years ago.”
Anubis looked around. “Impressive, good work Snow.” He wave for her to follow and the white dragon did. “I gather my spire at the centre?”
“Indeed, the pride of the Followers of the Death Dragon made sure to show that your home the Inverted Spire is respected.” Snow answered as the dragons stood up and went on with their business.
“Good.”
“How long will you be staying this time?”
“Indefinitely, I have one word of advise, never mess with time or it messes with you.”
“Understood Death Dragon Anubis.
They approached the centre showing a building held up by a pillar from the ceiling, eight more sticking out the sides diagonally attached to the ceiling and walls, the spire going downwards supported by diamond pillars attached to the walls as it went down and down into a massive pool of lava, shimming glowing light of dragon magic held the lava from making contact with the structure itself.
They walked across the bridge to the doors, two grey dragons in armour grabbed the doors opening them for Anubis. “Can you personal go find my children, I wish to see them.” He walked through and the doors were closed behind him.
“At once.” She bowed at the closed doors, Snow turn walking away. “Death Dragon Anubis never asked for a dragon to get his young... Why now?” She shook her head. “No don't question his actions...”
The Festive of Luna was at full swing with kitsunes dancing to the music, playing games at the stalls, riding rides and chatting away either at tables enjoying their meals or walking around. Gale slept against Luna with Shadow the Black Pheonix chick tucked under his wing, a soft glow of magic over him and the chick from one of Pom-Pom's magical flames.
“They out like a light, this should keep all the sounds around out.” Pom-Pom softly lift a few of the head feathers up smiling softly at the young cub sleeping soundly.
Luna smiled seeing her mane and tail not being so wavy as before. “Thank you for casting that silence spell, it a good thing your magic can work around him.”
Pom-Pom looked at the mane and tail. “Is the Pure Magic effecting you?”
“Indeed, our magic in Equestria can not work well or not at all around Pure Magic, it interferes with it.” Luna answered. “I am glad your magic isn't as effected.”
The yellow kitsune did a bit of a sea-saw motion with a fore paw. “I am glad you added that 'as effected ' part... The Pure Magic did prove that I had to dump a bit more magic into the spell.” She looked over to him again. “I gather he won't run into himself in the dream realm?”
Luna smiled. “No, he staying in my Dream Realm, I made sure to keep them from interacting with each other, two time line versions of Gale meeting would not go well.” Luna smile dropped. “It could lead to a paradox that we never know the damage to...”
Big-Rig holding a cup of drink came up to them. “I see the cub couldn't stay awake.”
“Not at all, how are you enjoying the festival?” Luna asked.
“It pretty cool, they have levels of technology here that close to our own, the kits reverse engineered what they found in the Forgotten Ruins.” Big-Rig said and drunk a bit of his drink. “We planning to stick around for a few days to explore the ruins and some kitsunes agreed to be our guides due to the creatures that live within them.”
Luna nodded. “How would we get back?”
Pom-Pom giggled using her magic to create a rift before them jumping through it to jump through another next to it. “I'll create a rift portal directly to wherever you need to go, just need a memory picture of said location and boom a instant door way to said location.” Pom-Pom closed the rifts.
“Show off.” Big-Rig chuckled, she bowed to his praise with a chuckle at him. “I'm going to enjoy the party, if you see that Avatar, tell her cheers for this off track adventure!” He raise the cup up, Luna nod to him and he walked off.
Pom-Pom watched the small finch griffon slowly hobble away. “Impressive for someone that injured, he a stubborn piece of work.”
Luna move a hoof over Gale's feathers. “Rest well my little nephew.”
Trace and Amber sitting not to far away at a table watched the short interaction with Big-Rig and the two leaders, Ember sat down with them. “I heard from the cat your not just a pony, but a griffon too.”
“That a bit blunt to say when you just joined us, care to reveal why you asked Amber that?” Trace asked with a stern look.
Ember put her elbow on the table with a claw up. “I want to see how strong you are as a griffon! To see if you are really are one or it just some cheap illusion you unicorns can create.”
“Illusions?” Trace frowned looking at Amber who turn her head away whistling. “Amber...” He glared at her.
Amber got up from the table. “I am going get some refills, have fun!” She walked off.
Trace sighed. “You know Amber did that on purpose to sway you to do this right?”
Ember shrugged. “Don't care, hearing that a unicorn not just a unicorn sparked my interest, I met a griffon or two and they were not so strong.”
Trace put his hoof to the pearl, it glows and his form changed before her. “Happy?”
Ember grinned. “Yes, now give it all you got!”
Trace rolled his eyes putting his elbow down on the table with the talon gripping against hers. “One game, okay?”
“Sure, with a grip like that, this is gonna be easy.” Ember slyly said.
Amber stepped up to the stand where a kitsune was serving drinks, she put the cups down on it. “Refills of the same please.”
“At once.” The female kitsune took the glasses to refill them.
Skip drunk a bit of his drink sitting on a stall at the stand. “Crafty kitty, not everyone can say you twisted the arm of a dragon.” He glanced over at the two started to arm wrestle. “I gather it comes with the job of being that scam officer back at Equestria?”
Amber looked over to the pink kitsune. “How the blazes you know that?”
Skip grinned. “I have my ways as you do with yours.”
Amber chuckled lightly. “Yes it does to answer your question, as for what I done, you will see the results.” Amber turn around watching Ember start to move the forepaw towards the goal of a slam dunk. “Ember about to learn a very important lesson when dealing with a Abyssinia.”
“And that is?”
"Being outsmarted." They turn their heads to Silvite. "A cat is crafty as well smart, they will always have a trick or two as well landing on their paws almost all the time." Silvite wave for a glass to be brought over, she gave some gems to the kitsune as she give Silvite a soft drink. "Skip tonight is the easy part, tomorrow the hard part."
Skip drunk some of his drink and asked. "And that is?"
Silvite looked at her reflection through the dark fizzy liquid. "Facing Gale's mother..."