fear of lightning

by Layam


9) tank gryphon

Sweetie belle diary june 14 1004 afternoon.

thanks to apple bloom us the cutie mark crusaders could finally try to get the best cutie mark ever, the hero cutie mark!
i was so excited when she revealed where him was hiding that i needed a second explanation and so i asked “sorry i am so excited tell me again what happened”
“uhhhh… i have told you already five time.
My sister said to me that the base of him was in a little undiscovered island and was near this circle in the map.” she repeated once again
“so are we going a rent a boat to get there?” asked Scootaloo while i was jumping in every way around.
“totally!”said Applebloom with a smile in her face
“but what are we doing exactly? We can’t defeat him really.”
Asked Scootaloo who became serious at his own question
“mmmmhhh…………what about if we convince him to stop terrorizing everyone!?”
“great idea! If it works” i said
“then let’s go shall we?” said Applebloom who was also very excited for the adventure.
When we finally rented a boat we went out in the sea searching for the coordinates.
It was foggy, dark and quiet giving an intense feeling of mystery that filled our hearth with dark.
We were all fearing for ourself but still had a bit of happiness because we were all united.
Finally we spotted the infamous island and landed on it.
It was heavily defensed with trenches canons and other thing i can’t comprehend.
Luckily the door was opened for us like if it was an trap.
We hesitated to enter but then we would not accept all this time and money went into waste so we entered anyway.
The design of this base was very similar to the precedent but it was more compact and cleaned than ever.
While we were investigating in this labyrinth of corridors we heard something like a song murmured.
We peek on the door and we saw the unthinkable.
What seemed like Blisk, the gryphon that drowned, was there safe and happy.
We slowly opened the door and revealed ourself.
He was a little surprised at first but then he quickly calmed down and listened to us.
“what are you doing here, did he save you?” asked Scootaloo
“Yeah i think so, but my leg break when i was fighting the sea.” he said as he slowly moved his broken leg which was covered with chalk.
“what does he do to you? Does he test you like he did to us?” i asked waiting for an horrifying answer.
“not really, every once in a while he asks me some questions but overall he has been the kindest creature i ever encountered.
“where his him right now?” asked Applebloom who was smiling due to the final answer of Blisk.
“He told me that he was scanning in whatever way the bottom of the ocean and should be back in a…”said Blisk but he was interrupted by the sound of a shutting door and hoofsteps.
“Quick he is here, hide in that closet.”he ordered really preoccupied.
We heard the voice of an door opening and then this conversation
“hi Blisk, would you care to inform me if someone has broke into this base?”
“no, nopony at all, i was just..just reading this book”
“c’mon Blisk don’t act an idiot! You are making all of the mistakes of a common lier: you evading eye contact, you are playing with you hair, you are smiling excessively.
Anyway if you negate that they are here and i find them i’ll kill them”
“wait! I know where they are, in the closet, don’t kill them”
When he said that that, the closet opened and i along with my friends were captured in a bag.
Then we heard other voices.
“ah ah you idiot. You dare to come into the predator home? then you will stay in the dark room for a while!”
“No”
“Wait what did you said?”
“No, you don’t have the rights to imprison them, even if they came into your home they are fillies and now my friends, if you’ll throw them there i’ll come too”
“seems like you have learned what good actions are” as him said that he released us from the bag.
“teach them what i’ve taught you so far, they will get used to this ambient”
As he said that he went away and closed the door.
Finally Blisk could greet us and started showing what him has left us.
There where a series of films and really interesting things.
He narrated to us how him was often so generous and had a lovely personality.
I am starting to wonder why he is so kind to Blisk but not with us? Is there something wrong with ponies?
I’ll ask him next time he comes.

Twilight diary june 14 1004 afternoon.

dear diary,
Finally it was there.
The moment we were waiting for a long time.
With no Discord to screw things up.
We were finally landing in the actual base of him!
Applejack was the first to spot the island down the foggy sea and i was the first to put a hoof in the island.
The door was conveniently opened.
I smelled trap but i went inside anyway.
the architecture of this place was really done well and the base was perfectly clean.
We checked every door until we heard something coming from one of them.
Celestia busted the door, and readied her super spell attack, expecting him.
What actually was behind the door was Applebloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and the thought dead Blisk watching a film.
“What are you doing here? don’t you know the danger that lyes ahead?”said Princess Luna pretty angry
The three fillies made a sigh of embarrassment, but not Blisk.
“c’mon now, get up, turn off whatever you are watching, and walk away especially my sister”said Applejack that was also angry.
the three little fillies turned off the film and went away revealing that Blisk had an broken leg.
Everypony immediately was really preoccupied and started asking questions like “did him done this to you?” or “are you ok” or “what other terrible thing did him done to you?”
He finally answered back
“calm down everything is okay, this is the result of the powerful sea who stoked me.
Him actually helped me by giving me cures and making me happy a lot he is actually very…”
“Is not time for description, where is him now?!” interrupted rudely Cadence, something that wasn’t from her personality.
“well i think he leaved the base but i need to say that he is very…”Blisk was interrupted again by this time even the most good pony in the world, Celestia
“Ok, Cadence remain there and guard for Blisk, the others will search with me if we can intercept him in time before he goes away.
We then started to run towards the exit and took the royal boat to search for him.
Unfortunately It was very foggy and the boat was too slow.
We are now going to head back to ponyville hoping to continue the expedition tomorrow.

Blisk diary, june 14 1004 afternoon.

This day they finally found me.
All the princesses and mane 6 discovered the base and entered it.
They took my three friends and stopped me from saying what i thought about him.
Cadence remain with me to control that nothing would have gone bad.
“Cadence you have to listen to me, him is not that bad, he said to me that he is acting this way to keep fear in others to not let them go against him.”
“Blisk, he has probably brainwashed you, him wants you to believe he and his people are good to take Equestria more easily.”she responded with an total indifference
“he didn’t show himself as good, he even said his race is one of the most evil and that he comprehend that he seems evil”i said to convince her
“Sorry Blisk but Equestria impression comes first of yours” she again said with total indifference to my opinion.
As she spoke i felt or rather not felt something.
The pain of my leg was gone and maybe i could have walked again!
So i asked to Cadence if at least she could have made me something to eat because i was really hungry and when she requested where the kitchen was i indicated her it was in the most remote place downstairs.
I waited for a moment and i finally took my diary and started walking even if that leg was a little weak.
I went to the boat of the cutie mark crusaders and i sailed it with my abilities learned from my father and then i went into the open sea.
I am currently navigating throughout the immense sea not knowing what happened to Cadence.
I need to stop him and them to prevent a massive war to broke up between the humans and the ponies.

Twilight diary june 14 1004 afternoon.

dear diary
we finally went off the boat and headed to Ponyville.
We took two chariots one gold and the other silver.
While the guards were galloping pinkie pie asked me“Hey twilight now that i think about it how could him build so many bases in so little time? does the bogieman stole things for him? or does he have a hidden magic ability?”
i then i thought about it for a second and responded.
“i presume the ones of his race gave him supplies trough portals and he has started building 1 year ago without being noticed.”
she then said “okay dokey”
we were going really fast until Celestia ordered to stop.
The stop was so unpredictable that pinkie pie went flying out of the chariot and by doing a backflip she landed perfectly.
“what happened?, is something wrong?” i asked speaking really fast, sweating and breathing fast.
“yes there is something really wrong”said Luna.
We exited the chariot and without the golden one in front of us we could finally see clearly the scene.
“wait! I remember, those are what him calls tanks and he said they are for military uses.”
In fact there were an entire line of those things which was so long we didn’t see were it came from.
They moved like the fiery cars but more slow even if they had more wheels, implying that it was heavier with his body who was all in metal.
There was also on the top of the tank what seemed a small but long cannon attached to an part of the tank which could move.
We were thankful that there was an forcefield around Ponyville but unfortunately the line stopped, a tank went a little further.
And fired a cannon ball at the forcefield.
The cannon ball was special because it broke into thousand of little pieces who caused an effect similar of the electricity that broke the forcefield immediately.
The line began once again its march against Ponyville as all the ponies closed their doors and shut their windows while the guards without orders hided.
Celestia teleported us to the balcony and said.
“Now this is a critical state, we’ll need all the magic we can gather”
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE GET OFF THE ROAD, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!” we heard coming from one of the houses.
When we took a look what was going on we saw Blisk standing in front of the road not moving.
We started encouraging to move out of the way.
But he stood there doing nothing except for saying.
“Do it, you don’t have the guts to do it”
then it happened the unthinkable…