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// Meanwhile 
// Story: New Lunar Republic: The Siege of Moongleam 
// by Crulocrius of Honeycomb 
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  In the city of Ironfeather, Princess Celestia sought aid from her griffon allies. She believed there was an encampment of ice zebras that could threaten the city. So he asked the aid of the Council of Three Talons.  
" We cannot help you!" Said the bronzebeaks " for if we do, the darkwings will defeat the wildtalons and take over Ironfeather!"
" And we cannot help you!" Said the wildtalons " for if we do, the darkwings will defeat the bronzebeaks and take over Ironfeather!"
Princess Celestia became worried. But thankfully, the leader of the darkwings stepped up. " We will help you, and show our honor."

Not long after, Celestia had assembled her champions to aid the darkwings. A snowstorm was brewing in just the right place to block them off. " Not normal, I presume?" Princess Celestia asked. " No" the darkwing leader replied " Those blasted ice zebras must be behind it."
"I will send my champions to dispose of whatever is causing this."
" Tell them to rescue my missing scouts while they're at it. Maybe they know something about what's going on."
The heroes set out into the storm. Near the entrance to the camp, they found one of the scouts cornered by the zebras and with the storm preventing it from flying away. The heroes quickly disposed of the zebras and asked the scout what happened to her companions.
" They took Finefeather in that direction!  He knows more than me."
They moved forward, slaying any ice zebras they could find. Once they found another captured scout , they freed him with utmost haste. 
" It's a good thing you came when you did! That Zandalari priest has the zebras up in a frenzy. They're making blood sacrifices to elemental spirits! That's what's causing the storm!"
The heroes ventured out to a shrine just away from the camp. " There's our elemental." The leader said. It went down easily and the griffons laid waste to the camp. The Zandalari priest proved very troublesome. The ice zebras fell into dissaray when the priest fell.

" Thank you." Princess Celestia told the darkwing leader " all of the empire is in your debt."

" Today we have proven our loyalty to the griffons and to the Solar Empire!"  She replied.

But while the Empire brought itself ever closer together, the Republic was tearing itself apart.