//------------------------------// // Introducing part 3 // Story: The Pokemon King of Griffinstone // by Cookie_Girl //------------------------------// Christopher held a screaming Blueblood up and safely away from Scary Story. She of course could fly, but her intention was to frighten him to the point of mental scarring, not to actually hurt him. But the only one that knew that was Christopher so Blueblood had nearly wet himself, and the other three were not willing to risk it. Under any other circumstances Twilight and Pinkie Pie would at least try to help him, though they would never tell Rarity, but the fear aura that Scary Story was putting out kept them from doing anything. This continued for another minute or two until Christopher finally snatched the ax away from her. The thestral pouted and trotted back over to the throne. The fear aura immediately vanished from the room, and the other ponies visibly relaxed. "Well that was disappointing." said a man who was sitting on the throne. He was dressed in classic stereotypical king's attire including a purple robe embroidered with gold patterns, a big crown with a fuzzy white rim, and severa. rings on his fingers. He was currently pouting as he rested his head in his left palm as he leaned to the side. "I was hoping for a show." The ponies all looked at this pasty pale white skinned bipedal creature that was apparently the king of Griffinstone. "What kind of pokemon are you supposed to be?" Pinkie asked the question for them. "Oh, this?" he asked, pointing at himself. "This is just because reasons. I'm currently in the form that I had for most of my life as a human. But this is what I look like now!" They all watched as he began to glow and his body changed shape and shrunk down. When it was over he said "I'm sexy and I know it." Twilight normally did not pay attention to such things, but even she had to agree with the others' thoughts on his sexiness. It was nonexistent. The gelatinous pink blob that sat upon the throne of Griffinstone was definitely not what she would consider sexy. "I can't believe it took this long for me to get out here!" he complained. "I know right!?" Pinkie agreed with him. "Almost three chapters! And it's about how you became king of Griffinstone!" "Yeah, talk about lazy writing." he replied. "Hmmm, not really lazy, more like quick and easy." Pinkie corrected him. "Wait...can you see it?" He asked, genuinely surprised to find out that she could in fact see it, but he had to be sure. "You mean the fourth wall? Yep I sure can!" she said, smiling brightly. "Are... Are you my soul mate?" asked the king. Pinkie tilted her head in thought, first one way and then the other. Nopony had ever asked her that before. She had never thought about it before either. Did she have a soul mate? She did not know how to find out. She thought about it for a while and came to a conclusion. "Nah. I don't think so." "Okie dokie then." the pink blob king said, apparently he had come to the same conclusion. "So what can I do for all of you ponies?" Twilight, Bio Chem, and Blueblood all exhaled a sigh of relief. The thought that Pinkie Pie might possibly be this crazy king's soul mate was terrifying, and the powers that be apparently shared that opinion. There would be no Pinkie King ship setting sail from here. "Well your majesty, we were sent by Princess Celestia to find out what the story is behind you becoming the king of Griffinstone." Twilight explained. Before anything else could be said the Venusaur guard from before entered the room again and stood between them and the main door. He spoke, "Ah ye majesty will be wanting to know about this lot. They tried to force their way inta the city." "Hey! You big fat liar!" Pinkie yelled at him. THOOM! The king had transformed himself into a gigantic one-eyed goat monster, and SLAMMED his now pony sized fist into the floor causing the throne room to quake. "You attack us in the disguise of peaceful dignitaries?!" he asked in the same voice as before...which sounded odd coming from a monster. "Explain yourselves!" "Now-but-we..." Twilight really wished that this was a nightmare. She had been sent on a simple mission to greet a new royal and to investigate his quick rise to the throne, which took only a month, and now she was being accused of assaulting the city of Griffinstone. She was going to be arrested like a criminal, thrown in jail, possibly executed, or WORSE they might send a letter to Celestia who would be very disappointed in her!. "What do ye wish be done with them?" asked the guard. The king transformed into an old partially bald man who was hunched over in green robes. "Throw them..." he paused, causing them to sweat. "...a feast!" As random as the king's decision to throw them a feast was it was much better than the alternative of being punished for a crime that they had not committed. Twilight, Pinkie, Bio Chem, and Blueblood were all led into the dining hall and seated on one end of a long table. On the other end of the table set the king, Scary Story, and Christopher. It was only noon and the food had yet to be cooked so the group had plenty of time to talk. "So, you want to know how it all happened do you?" asked the king as he leaned back in his chair and propped his feet up on the table. He was shaped like had been when they had first seen him. "Where should I start?" "How about you just introduce yourself first, and we can go from there." Twilight suggested. Sitting on her right side was Pinkie Pie who was frantically waving a hoof in the air. "Yes pink one?" the king asked and pointed at her. "Were you a human or a pokemon back on Earth, if you were a human were you a trainer, if you were a pokemon what did you do, where did you live, what did you do for a living, what's your favorite color, what's your favorite food, what's your name, and can we be friends?" Pinkie Pie asked him all in one breath. "Uhh, what she said." Twilight said with a slightly sheepish smile. The king thought about it for a moment and nodded his head. "Those are all perfectly good and random questions." he told them. "That I shall answer one at a time and completely out of order." Twilight was fighting the urge to groan and smack her hoof into her face. Bio Chem chuckled to himself as he remembered that feeling from school where he had to constantly put up with the unicorns who thought that having a horn made you smarter. He found it quite funny to see somepony else in a similar situation. Twilight settled for sending a glare his way. "Can you at least introduce yourself?" Twilight begged the king. "Calling you King all the time is a little uncomfortable for me because the last king I met tried to kill my friends." The king stood up and bowed to her in a proper manner of one who is meeting with royalty for the first time. "Young Princess, Lady Pinkie Pie, good scientist Bio Chem...and Blueblood. I am Joker, comedian, mercenary, butt kicker, most awesome guy alive, breaker of the wall, and the pokemon king of Griffinstone."