//------------------------------// // Griffon fight // Story: Guardians // by Pen Brush //------------------------------// One month has past since Princess Luna and Princess Celestia took over their thrones. Discord was around town doing very minor pranks and such, keeping the populace happy and giddy, also slightly paranoid of being the next prank victim. Sombra had gotten to train his first group of soldiers and now had around twenty recruits for his ‘military’ thanks to the help of Commander Hurricane and some of the local unicorn magicians. Luna and Celestia sat at their thrones in the throne room while Sombra stood guard in front of them. A single royal guard recruit trotted in nervously looking from side to side as he walked up to the princesses. “I swear every guy that comes in here is all fidgety.” Sombra mumbled slightly shaking his head in disappointment. “It’s probably because of Discord again.” Celestia muttered, “What is it that you're looking for Private Silver Arrow?” “U-um... N-nothing to important, sir- MA’AM! I mean Ma’am!” He stuttered out making Sombra chuckle. “Why did you request my audience than?” Celestia asked gentle, knowing he was flustered about something. “Well it’s not me your highness! It’s a local villager! He keeps complaining about something in his crops!” The private said nervously. “Bring him in here then so he can tell me what he is talking about.” Celestia sighed. The guard nodded and ran off to go grab the pony. “You okay Tia?” Sombra asked looking at her over his shoulder. “I don't like this time.” Celestia said, thinking of the court duty the other day. “Court time is boring and its always the same thing sometimes.” “Tell that to Luna. Whom is asleep.” Sombra chuckled as he pointed to Luna who was lightly snoring. “She was up all night, she should be asleep in the morning.” Celestia said. “Yeah, but in her throne?” Sombra said snickering. “She wanted to be with me, I didn’t make her sleep in the throne.” Celestia said, looking at Luna. “Well that is sweet.” Sombra said smiling. “Want me to take her to her room though? That seat can’t be comfortable to sleep in.” “I think the ponies would rather see her, sleeping or not.” Celestia said, “They are the ones who put her throne in here for the day.” “If you say so. Don’t start complaining when she starts getting grumpy due to cricks in her neck.” Sombra said turning back to the doors as a pony walked in. “Hello again Blue Hoof...” Celestia said, recognising the green earth pony. “Oooh. I hate this guy.” Sombra muttered quietly as he ground his teeth. “Be nice.” Celestia whispered as Blue Hoof walked closer. “Fine.” Sombra grunted as he assumed his Stoic expression and statue like posture. “Princess Celestia! I am here to request that my neighbor be relocated to somewhere else!” Blue Hoof said in his posh manner. “And why is that?” Celestia asked, knowing what he was going to say, the same as he had been saying every day. “That blasted Pegasus keep kicking the clouds over my home and blocking the sun from my gardens! He says its to keep his home from getting destroyed by hail, but I think he is simply doing it to spite me!” Blue Hoof huffed as Sombra twitched slightly in place. “I will talk to him Blue Hoof.” Celestia said, putting on a realistically fake smile. Blue Hoof ,as he was about to say something Sombra walked over and began to push him out. “What is the meaning of this!” Blue Hoof shouted as he struggled to push back against Sombra, whom not only was a soldier but wearing heavy armor as well. “The Princess has better things to do than listen to your whining all day. Now that you have made your peice. You can leave.” Sombra said as he pushed him out the door and looked to the two Pegasus guards next to the doors. “Escort this stallion out of the castle if you would.” “Yes, Sir!” The guards shouted as they used their wings to keep Blue Hoof from getting back. Sombra smiled and walked back to the thrones and resumed his position. “That felt good.” Sombra said smiling. “I bet it did, I will have to get the pegasus here though, so he will stop complaining.” Celestia sighed. “Shall I send for a guard?” Sombra asked. “Yes, please.” Celestia said. Sombra nodded and walked over to a window before opening it and looking up. After giving a sharp whistle one of the patrolling pegasi fluttered down and hopped into the throne room. “Yes, Captain?” The pegasus said saluting. Sombra saluted back before bringing him over to the Princess. “Now listen closely. The princess has a job for you.” Sombra said plainly before looking to Celestia. “Tia. You do your thing now.” “I would like you to bring the pegasus next to Blue Hoof here so I can talk to him, but do not hurt him.” Celestia stressed. “Yes your majesty.” The pegasus said bowing before going back out the window and taking off. “Have I said I hate day court yet?” Celestia said, turning to look at Sombra. “Have I told you how much I agree with you?” Sombra said walking back to his post and sitting down. “Yes.” Celestia said. Soon the Pegasus guard came back with a blue pegasus with a white mane and a cloud as his cutie mark, only they came through the door this time. “Y-You summoned me, Princess?” The pegasus said nervously. “No need to be nervous, I just need to know why you are sending clouds over to Blue Hoof.” Celestia said. “Sending? Are you talking about the ones that drift over to his home?” The pegasus asked “Yes, and apparently he was lying again about you sending them to him to ‘spite him’” Celestia said, doing air quotes. “To be honest, I may or may not... ‘Ignore’ those clouds. And your majesty to be completely frank, and excuse my language, but that pony is a total Flankhole.” The pegasus deadpanned as Sombra laughed loudly. “I won't disagree with you, but you're doing that is making him come and complain to me every day, and I like him as much as you do, so if you could please get rid of the clouds before they go over to him, so he doesn't think that you are sending them to him.” Celestia suggested, smiling at the pegasus. “Alright, I will. I am sorry for him troubling you Princess, and that goes double for me.” The pegasus said before the guards escorted him out of the throne room. “Nice to see a pleasant pony every now and again, huh?” Sombra said smirking. “Yes, it is.” Celestia replied, smiling back. The same guard from earlier came in, only not as fidgety as last time. “Another pony to see you, Princess.” He said standing up straight. “Who is it?” She asked. “A brown unicorn ma’am. I didn’t get his name though.” The guard said. “Ok, send him in.” Celestia said, when the guard left she looked at Sombra, “Have you noticed its only stallions with a problem and not mares?” She asked. “Maybe they act as the messengers? And even more interesting, not a single mare is in my military.” Sombra said curiously. “Whose fault is that?” Celestia asked. “Maybe Hurricane’s? I don’t know. I just train the soldiers, I don’t recruit them.” Sombra said shrugging. “Hell, there could be mares in the military, but that stupid enchanted armor makes them all look the same!” “Maybe.” Celestia said as the brown unicorn walked in. “Hello Princess, if I may get right down to it, I have a problem I would like to have solved.” The stallion said. “What would that be? Can I also get your name?” Celestia asked. “The name is Grey nail. I run the local hardware store.” Grey Nail said nodding. “In any case, I would like to say that, if I may, that the sun is rather bright. It causes a rather nasty glare to shine in every time I open my shop.” “Ok...I will fix that.” Celestia said slowly, thinking of how she can turn the sun’s light down, the stallion left, happy. “That has got to be the stupidest complaint yet.” Sombra said facehoofing, which slightly stung due to the metal hoof caps he was wearing. The pony walked out to the door and left. “I think so too...I don’t think its possible to turn the brightness down on the sun, unless there is a switch!” Celestia said, putting her head back. “I could have some of the guards turn the shop a different direction.” Sombra said snickering. “He goes there the next day to see the door and the right side.” “He would complain about that as well.” Celestia said. “At least it would be a smart complaint.” Sombra said. The same guard came in again, only looking annoyed. “May I just say that this running back and forth is getting rather tiresome?” He muttered as he walked up to the throne. “You may.” Celestia said, “I am sorry, you can just send the ponies in from now on.” “Thank you your highness. Speaking of ponies, there is a grey unicorn outside. And he looks like a loon because he is wearing a cape and hat with bells on them.” The guard deadpanned. “Are you saying that, that your captain looks like a loon since he has a cape?” Celestia joked. “What!? NONONONOONONO! I was just saying the bells on it are silly! D’oh! I mean the pony in the waiting room!” The guard frantically began to fix his statement. “Calm down, its fine, I was joking.” Celestia said soothingly. “Oh... Heh heh... You got me though.” THe guard chuckled as he walked over to the doors. “Huh, you made a joke for once.” Sombra mused smiling. “I couldn’t resist making fun of your cape.” Celestia said smiling. Sombra just deadpanned and shook his head before smiling again. “That’s the Celestia I like to see.” He joked. The next pony came in with many saddle bags and other scrolls levitating around him as he mumbled something incoherent. “That guard wasn’t kidding. He is a loon.” “Hello, are you ok?” Celestia asked, looking at the pony’s silly hat with the cape. “BLUE LEAF POWDER THAT’S IT!” The pony shouted before looking at the Princess. “Oh sorry, your highness, I was just finishing up a potion recipe.” “It’s fine, what is your problem?” Celestia asked, a little worried now about the pony’s mental state. “Well, it’s not my problem! It's the whole city’s problem! I’m just the only one to actually notice it!” The pony almost shouted as he tucked away several scrolls. “Ok then...what is the city’s problem?” Celestia questioned. “There is no one to help train the Unicorns in this city in the proper way to do magic! And I am not talking about the ponies that can do a few tricks here and there, I am talking the ones that can make wholes jump thirty yards in the air!” The pony began to rant. “Do you know how many families in this town are homeless due to underaged unicorns accidently casting advanced spells?! A LOT!!” “Ok, what do you propose we do?” Celestia asked. “A school! A large school meant to help the unicorns that can’t control their magic just yet!” The unicorn suggested smiling widely. “So an institute?” Celestia wondered. “Precisely Princess! A large school! Possibly in the city, maybe it would have to be here in the castle due to all the extra space. We have to conserve what we can so the world can mature easier.” The pony began to mumble as he pulled out a parchment and quill before beginning to scribble on it. “What should the school’s name be than?” Celestia asked, liking the crazy unicorn’s idea. “I HAVE NO IDEA!” The pony said smiling widely. “Something something school of gifted whatnot!” “Ok...” Celestia said, thinking the pony was still crazy, “How about ‘school for gifted unicorns’?” She suggested. “No that’s a terrible idea.” The unicorn said putting a hoof to his chin as Sombra slowly turned and looked at Celestia with his stoic expression and blinked. “AH HA! Celestia’s school of the gifted Unicorns! YOU MY DEAR STRANGE GREY UNICORN ARE A GENIUS!” “Wut?” Sombra said looking at the unicorn. “What?” Celestia asked, confused as well as Sombra. “Nevermind! But there you have the name!” The pony levitated a scroll over to Celestia with the name ‘Celestia's school for Gifted Unicorns’ was scribbled on it. “I must be off! I left my potions on the brewing stand! Tah tah for now!” The pony said as he teleported away. “Ok then... I don’t know his name.” Celestia muttered, bewildered by what just happened. Then a small scroll appeared in front of Celestia. She opened it up to see a full application of talents, studies, and random other things scribbled along the paper along with the words ‘May I be a teacher? Signed Starswirl the bearded at the bottom. Sombra walked over and read the paper before scrunching up his nose. “He didn’t even have a beard.” Sombra said before going back to his spot at the bottom of the throne. “Twenty seven!” Luna said quickly as she woke up and looked around. “Oh hey sleepy head. You missed quite the show.” Sombra said snickering. “I did?” Luna asked. “Yeah, crazy ponies, a douche bag, and the stupidest complaint in existence.” Sombra said nodding. “That sounds like fun!” Luna said, smiling. “It was. Cept’ for the jerk part.” Sombra said shrugging. “I could see their dreams a little when I was sleeping, the jerk was dreaming of money...” Luna said, thinking. “Lovely.” Sombra said rolling his eyes. “I am just glad that day court is over.” Celestia said relieved. “You should go sleep. Or get dinner. Or both.” Sombra said looking at Celestia. “I will.” Celestia said, getting up from her throne and walking out the door. “Its my turn?” Luna asked, looking outside quickly before bringing the moon up to start the night. “Yep... Want to go grab a quick snack before court starts?” Sombra asked Luna watching the moon rise. “Sure.” Luna shrugged. Sombra ran over and ducked under her before lifting her off her hooves and running to the hall with Luna on his back. “Then there is no time to waste!” Sombra shouted as he ran down the hall. “Nope!” Luna laughed as Sombra raced through the hallways to the kitchen, were the chef ponies were cooking. As they entered the kitchen, everyone stared at the two of them. “Wut?” Sombra asked looking at them. “Can’t a brother carry his sister around?” “Ez nothink, it’z juzt not everyday you zee somethink like thiz.” The pony said in a thick french accent. “Thats...true?” Luna said, not understanding fully what the chef had said. “Yez. Now what can I do for you two today?” The pony asked walking over to them. “Daisy sandwich please.” Luna said, getting off Sombra. “Um... Could I get a rose petal sandwich? Those things are tasty.” Sombra said smiling. “Of courze. I will be but a moment!” The chef said walking over to the large ice box and pulling out a few things. After about five minutes he came back with a small brown bag and hoofed it to Luna. “There you are. Just came around again if you ever get hungry again.” “Thank you mister french pony.” Sombra said smiling. “I will inform you my name iz not french pony, My name iz Quick Whisk.” Quick said huffing slightly. “Sorry...” Sombra said smiling sheepishly. “Thank you!” Luna said happily, taking the bag in her magic, before getting back on Sombra’s back. “Away!” Sombra shouted as he ran out the doors and back down the hall running past Celestia on her way to the room. “Hey Tia! Bye Tia!” “Hi...?” She said as she went into her room. Sombra got back to the throne room in record time and Luna sat down on her dark blue throne. “Thanks.” Luna said taking out the food and giving the rose sandwich to Sombra with her magic. “No problem.” He said slightly panting as he took the sandwich and chomped half of it. “Nomnomnomnom.” “So, what did the crazy pony want?” Luna asked as she started eating. “Heph waphted a maphic phoool.” Sombra said with his mouth fool. “He wanted a spool?” Luna asked, understanding a little why he was crazy. “Yeah.” Sombra said swallowing. “So he seriously wanted a spool of string?” Luna asked, chewing some more of her sandwich. “What? Oh no, I meant school.” Sombra said taking a smaller bite of his sandwich. “Why would a grown stallion want a school?” Luna asked. “It wasn’t for him, it was for other unicorn children.” Sombra said shrugging. “Ok...how does that make him crazy?” Luna asked, “He wants to help kids!” “It was the way he asked.” Sombra said. “And mostly the way he looked and acted.” “Ok...” Luna said, continuing to eat. Sombra finished his sandwich and adjusted his armor before standing up straight. “So uncomfortable.” He muttered as he stretched for a moment. “I’m sorry its not comfortably, you can take it off if you want.” Luna said as she finished her sandwich. “Can’t. It would look unprofessional.” Sombra said. “Nopony is here anyway.” Luna said, looking at the open doors. “Ok don’t be that way.” Sombra said smiling. “Be what way?” Luna asked. “You’re acting all sad. Stop it.” Sombra said playfully poking her side. “Ok.” Luna said, smiling. “I think this will make you happy. Did you know you get your own branch of soldiers and guards?” Sombra said smiling. “I do?” Luna asked, interested. “Yup! Hey, you two!” Sombra shouted. Two black ponies ran into the throne room. Their ears were furrier than normal and a nifty set of fangs hung from their lips. Their normal wings were now replaced with those of a bat and their eyes those of a cat. The armor was purple, black, and indigo with the insignia of the moon on it. “Cool!” Luna said smiling. “I Know right? They even gave me a set of fangs too see!” Sombra said smiling showing the large teeth. “Get rid of those, you look scary.” Luna said. “But they are so much fun! I can do this!” Sombra pulled out a apple and bit it before sucking on it like a vampire. “Mmm. Applejuice!” “You aren't part bat though...” Luna said. “Do I need to be?” Sombra asked tilting his head. “I don’t know, but other ponies might be scared of you.” Luna replied, looking at him then at the bat ponies. Sombra sighed and closed his mouth before moving his jaw for a second and then showing her his normal teeth. “Just a small enchantment, nothing I can’t fix.” Sombra said smiling. “Cool, so who are they?” Luna said, looking at the bat ponies. “They are twins. Their real names are... I think, Black metal and White copper.” Sombra said. “That’s cool, how did they become half bat?” Luna asked. “Lots of magic, and lots of medicine.” Sombra said shaking his head. “Devoted and loyal to the day they die though.” “That’s good....I think? Did you say they are devoted and loyal to the day they die or devoted and loyal to the day they died?” Luna asked. “Yup. Like that movie we once watched... Oh now I can’t remember the name. Anyway...” Sombra said shrugging. “You won’t find even a dog that is as loyal as these guards.” “Ok.” Luna shrugged. The guards went back to their posts and assumed their positions by the doors. Sombra just shifted a bit more before sighing and relaxing. “Soooo.... How is your day going?” Sombra asked looking at Luna. “I slept through the day.” Luna said, raising an eyebrow confused. “Ah... So you didn’t do anything other than sleep?” Sombra asked. “Nope!” Luna said, shaking her head. “Huh.... Welp, I’m bored.” Sombra said laying down on the ground and rolling onto his side. “Do you still have the crystal heart?” Luna asked. “Yea, it’s in my room. Why?” Sombra asked lifting his head to look at Luna. “If your bored you can go get it and watch the thing on it again.” Luna suggested. “I did that twenty times yesterday.” Sombra said laying his head back down. “Why?” Luna asked, tilting her head. “I was depressed and bored.” Sombra said shrugging. “Why were you depressed?” Luna asked, “Nothing to be sad about, we found out they were alive and everything a month ago.” “Yeah, just sad they aren’t here.” Sombra said sighing. “They said they had to go look for other things and would come back...” Luna said. “I know, I know. Just still sad, ya know. I doesn’t matter though, I am fine now.” Sombra said waving his hoof in the air. “Ok.” Luna said, using her magic to make some milk appear and started to drink it. Sombra kept laying there and looking at random things and servants as they walked by the doors. He sighed again before simply beginning to hum. There was a few minutes before that insane pony from earlier ran through the doors screaming bloody murder. Luna spit the milk out onto Sombra in terror. Sombra just shook his head to get rid of the milk on his armor. “Gah! Luna what the heck!?” Sombra said standing up and using his magic to clean himself off. “A pony is screaming!” Luna yelled. “I AM NOT SCREAMING! ONLY EXCLAIMING MY PRESENCE!” The insane pony shouted. “You don’t need to yell to do it!” Luna shouted back, less loud. “I know.” The pony said smiling. “So...who is this pony?” Luna asked, looking at Sombra. “That, is Star Swirl the bearded.” Sombra said pointed at the pony. “He doesn't have a beard...” Luna said confused. “I am working on it!” Star said smiling widely. “Ok...why are you here?” Luna asked. “I!... Can’t remember.” Star said scratching his head. “It had something to do with something I was talking about earlier.” “You were screaming about life...I think.” Luna said, scratching her head trying to remember what he was saying while screaming like a lunatic. “Um... Oh yes! Griffons!” Star said pointing a hoof at the ceiling. “They are marching towards the castle.” “What does that have to do with life?” Luna asked, looking at the ceiling. “Just that they are carrying spears, swords, and shields with spikes on them.” Star said smiling. “And you saw this how?” Luna asked, thinking that the pony was a sadist for smiling at everything. “I live outside of the city in a small shack.” Star said happily. “Nice place when it’s not on fire.” “Ok...Sombra?” Luna said, looking at Sombra. “I guess I will go grab a few guards and go take a look.” Sombra said shaking his head. “Come on crazy pony, we are going.” “Right-O!” Star said as Sombra walked past him. They both walked out of the room while Sombra was shouting for a group of guards to follow him to the front gates of the city. “They will all die.” Nightmare said, appearing beside Luna. “They won’t! They are trained.” Luna said. “They need ponies like us, who actually are able to fight better than them, join with me to fight them, and we will win!” Nightmare yelled forcefully. Luna thought a minute before nodding and allowing Nightmare with her before flying out to the guards with Sombra and lending in the dark next to them. “Sombra, we will fight them, you will die if you do.” Luna said, her dark armour unable to be seen in the dark as well as her eyes. “Luna what are you doing out here? GO back to the castle!” Sombra shouted looking around. “No.” Luna said, flying into the air. “Damn it Luna!” Sombra shouted as he looked at his small group of guards and continued to march towards the massive group of griffins. “For once in my life, I am actually not worried about something. Just plain terrified.” Luna flew down at the griffons and with Nightmare’s help attacked them all and incapacitated them in less than five minutes, long enough for the guards to get there, but not to do anything. She flew to the ground and closed her wings as the sun started coming up, revealing her dark armour in the bright yellow light. “Luna, what’s going on with you?” Sombra asked looking at her with confusion on his face as he examined the griffons behind her. “I stopped the griffons.” She said, turning to look him in the eyes. “You know we had this covered right?” Sombra asked. “They outnumbered you, so we had to save you.” Luna said. “We weren’t going to fight Luna, just talk.” Sombra said beginning to scowl. “They didn’t want to talk when I went to them, they wanted to fight.” Luna said. “You didn’t even talk! You just swooped in and mangled everyone!” Sombra shouted. “One of them is alive, he will tell you that they wanted to eat you.” Luna said., turning to look at a griffon with a broken wing who was trying to eat a dead griffon beside him. He saw that they were looking at him and stood up. “I admit nothing!” The griffon said. Sombra just rolled his eyes and turned to a guard. “Go grab him and take him back to the castle, if he tries anything just zap him got it?” Sombra said as the guard nodded and walked over with a few others. “All you ponies are stupid and tasty!” The griffon said, allowing the guards to take him. “And put a gag on him!” Sombra shouted as they took him away before turning to Luna. “We are going to have a talk when we get back to the castle Luna.” “There won’t be a need for that, I helped her.” Nightmare said, getting away from Luna and allowing her to go back to normal. Sombra ground his teeth for a moment before sighing. “Luna come on, we are going back to the castle.” Sombra said turning around and heading to the gates. “She was the reason I was able to fight at all.” Luna said, teleporting through the gates to the castle. Nightmare smiled and turned into mist, before disappearing. Sombra ground his teeth again and walked to the gates before saying. “You are not supposed to fight Luna, you are one of the princesses! They don’t fight!” Sombra said. “As a leader, I’m supposed to help my subjects, and Nightmare said you all were going to die, so I wanted to help.” Luna said. “You could have just sent more guards!” Sombra said angrily. “The guards would have died as well.” Luna replied shrugging. “Luna, you are letting that... Thing! Corrupt your mind! You have to stop listening to it!” Sombra shouted. “When did you start referring to ponies as ‘it’?” Luna asked. “Ponies are not clouds of black mist, Luna.” Sombra said as they walked back to the castle. “You like going into clouds of mist.” Luna said. “Yeah, only when they don’t go into ponies and take over their thoughts!” Sombra shouted. “You are just letting her corrupt your mind!” “She didn't take over my thoughts! She helped me save you! I didn't want you to die!” Luna yelled, close to tears. “Luna, I would have been fine! I can handle a few oversized birds!” Sombra shouted. “They don’t train you to fight and not be able to handle your own!” “Ok...” Luna said, putting her head down sad. “Luna, I took this job to protect you, but if you are going to just run into the fray wildly with no regard for anything else, then I will just hang up my armor and go live my life without another thought.” Sombra said. “Because what use do I have if I can't even protect my family?” “Ok, I won’t fight anymore, I'll leave it to the guards.” Luna said as they walked into the throne room. “Thank you Luna.” Sombra said as the guards dispersed and he walked back to the throne room and stood next to the throne again. “Good morning!” Celestia said as she walked into the throne room, “Why is a griffon in the hallway?” “Something happened, it’s not important.” Sombra said waving his hoof before yawning. “Sorry...” “Alright...then why does he keep saying he won't tell them anything?” Celestia asked as she sat in her throne. “Because this whole shameal... I will tell you” Sombra said pausing for another yawn. “Later.” “I think you should sleep, you have been up all day and night.” Celestia said, worried about Sombra’s wellbeing. “Eh maybe. I’ll just go get some coffee. I will be fine.” Sombra said waving his hoof dismissively. “I mean who needs sleep?” He chuckled shaking his head a bit. “Mom said if you didn’t get sleep your brain would stop working Some day and you would die.” Luna said. “That’s only if I stayed up for like a whole week!” Sombra said slightly swaying. “Besides, I have a job to do anyway.” “What’s the job?” Celestia asked. “What I have been doing this whole time!” Sombra said smiling. “Ok, well, I think we need to interrogate the griffon, since the guards brought him in for some reason.” Celestia said, thinking out loud. “That can happen later, for now let’s just not worry about it too much.” Sombra said stifling a yawn and standing up straight. “I still admit nothing!” The griffon yelled from outside the throne room. “Yeah see? He’s not going to talk for a while.” Sombra said as he shook his head to wake himself up a bit. “Well... those movies always tortured people they wanted to talk, that might work on him.” Celestia suggested. “And that is surprising coming from you.” Sombra said looking at Celestia. “You know what? I am going to go talk to the griffon, and then I am going to bed. I will put a couple guards here to take my place while I rest.” “Ok, go talk to the griffon about something I have no idea about.” Celestia said. “Yes.” Sombra said walking over to the door before two solar guards ran in and took their place next to the throne. “Awww, the princesses little pet here to visit me? How sweet.” The griffon sneered. “Look pal, I am tired, I am hungry, and I am in no mood for this. So if you start talking, I won’t have my guards chop your wings off and force feed them to you.” Sombra said. “That would be tasty.” The griffon said masochistically. “Alright, somepony go get me an axe.” Sombra said. “Uh, s-sir are you su-” One guard began. “Yes. Now go.” Sombra said looking at the griffon. “I have had worse from my own general, this will be like killing two chicks, its easy!” The griffon smiled. “Oh really? We’ll see how you feel about that when you’re bleeding on the ground.” Sombra said. “I love pain!” The griffon said, laughing crazily. “Good.” Sombra said plainly shrugging. “I hope that you enjoy.” The griffon said. “I probably won’t but, if it means making you talk then fine.” Sombra said shrugging. “Hmmm. Actually, I have a better idea. Scratch the axe private!” “What?” The guard said dragging a axe in before shrugging and beginning to drag it away. “Okay. So if you like pain, let’s just skip the torture. Be no point to it.” Sombra said shrugging. “Let’s just put it this way. If you don’t start talking, I am going to take all my soldiers and wipe your race from this planet. Sound fair?” “Your silly princesses wouldn't allow their little pets to do anything like that.” The griffon said, sneering. “Who said I would even ask.” Sombra hissed with venom in his voice. “I would just take all the soldiers. Tell them it was a field exercise. Then before you knew it, you’re race is gone. And you are all alone.” “Then the princesses would be mad when they found out, you're all a bunch of stupid ponies!” The griffon yelled. Sombra smiled a wicked smile before leaning close. “They wouldn’t find out. I could make it happen. My guards would say nothing. Make civilians discredit the news as silly rumors.” Sombra started. “You want that on your head? Knowing you let your race die?” “I dont care, less griffons, more meat for me and I won't have any orders to hold back my hunger for your meat!” The griffon said. “You’ll still be in this jail!” Sombra laughed. “Or even better! I could just tie you up and leave you in in the wilderness to get eaten alive by vultures!” “That sounds fun.” The griffon said smiling. “Fine, be that way. Guard, start rounding up the soldiers.” Sombra said. “All according to plan...” The griffon muttered. “What plan?” Sombra asked smiling. “Or let me guess. You stage a raid to the castle, it starts a war. This war ends up being a long massive and probably unnecessary battle that ends up with dead across the board. Then through all that when both parties are weak, a treaty is asked and then a assassination later, the griffons are the only power left in this place. Am I right?” “Nope!” The griffon said. “Bet I am.” Sombra said. “EXPLOSIVES!” The griffon yelled. “So you are going to try and blow us up.” Sombra said. “We are using ourselves as explosives and eat all the ponies!” The griffon said. “That makes no sense. If you kill yourself, you won’t eat anything.” Sombra said. “Ponies are stupid, thats why it makes no sense to you!” The griffon said laughing. “This guy is crazy. Guards contain him and put him in the enchanted cells. If he wants to be like this then let him. Make sure the cell has no windows.” Sombra said walking out and back towards the throne room. “Hello.” Celestia greeted to Sombra, while Luna was sleeping. “Griffons are crazy, trying to use themselves as bombs, and we should probably put a barrier around the city.” Sombra said plainly. “Or send for the king of the griffons with a stealth pony.” Celestia said smiling. “That too. But I think the barrier is still a good idea.” “I already sent the stealth pony.” Celestia said. “Goodie goodie then. I am going to bed. I see I am not needed.” Sombra said turning around and heading to the doors. “I have him!” A pony said, popping up in front of Sombra. “Who?” Sombra asked tiredly. “The king.” The stealth pony said, moving out of the way of the King Griffon. “Lovely. Nice to meet you king, your kind is insane, I am going to bed.” Sombra said shaking the king’s talon before walking out the door. “Oh, and that is Celestia. Talk to her about why you are here, cause I am totally confused.” “I don’t even know why I’m here.” The king said. “I asked you here to say that your military attacked us at night, as my sister informed me before falling asleep.” Celestia said, turning to look at Luna. “I believe that we are at a misunderstanding, I do have a military, but I never told them to attack you, some of the griffons in my fair country are a little bit racist and don’t like ponies, so I believe that they took whatever they could find and left at night to attack you, I really am sorry about that.” The king said apologetically. “It’s fine now that we understand, but I would like to have a treaty, so this doesn't happen again.” Celestia said gently. “I can't promise that the griffons that don't like you will enjoy the treaty, but I will sign the treaty with you, as long as you help us get food by doing livestock so we won't starve.” The king said, smiling. “Deal.” Celestia said, extending her hoof, after a minute the king of the griffons shook her hoof with his claw. It was safe to say that this agreement would help in the future, or possibly cause turmoil instead. But for now, the ponies and griffons shall live in, near perfect, harmony.