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// Day 1-2 
// Story: The Journal Of Commander Gallants Of The Royal Gryphon Army 
// by Gallants 
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                                                                                                    Day 1

I found the journal my mom bought a week before our trip to Equestria so I decided to start writing in it it's what my mom would've wanted, so I arrived at the academy yesterday and was able to prove my worth so I'm going to get put in a squad today and apparently there's going to be a few squads with equestrian recruits in them; I hope I'm not in one of those squads, going to start calling names for squads in thirty minutes got to go and get to the auditorium.



Pluck I was put in a squad with three other recruits and the worst part is one of them is an equestrian with one of those stupid names Afro of destiny or something I'm just going to call him long face; and one of the gryphons in my squad's name is really weird Phil well anyways the other gryphon in my squad looks tough and has a really cool name, Krieger. I might as well describe them I have about an hour give or take a few minutes so anyway Long-face Is a dark grey Pegasus with brown eyes like mine with an afro that makes him about two inches shorter than me and his cutie mark is an afro, Krieger is about three inches taller than me and wears a pair of rectangular glasses that tint when he goes into sunlight his feathers are extremely close to his head and are pure white and they shine in the sun and blinds us all, now Phil is about two inches shorter than me and his feathers are similar to Krieger’s but they're grey. I can't wait for training it's starting in about 30 minutes so we're going to head down to the field; Afro is probably going to slow us down, though.



Well training went well I learned more about Afro of destiny and I now regret calling him long-face his front hooves have one hell of a punch behind them he kicked my ass and I kicked his ass but I was somehow able to stop the fight bring us together plan an assault and finish training with a victory and we both had dislocated wings; so long story short he probably won't be slowing us down after all he'll most likely be making us the strongest squad in the academy oh and I almost scratched his face off he's fast he dodged every swipe from my claws and if you're wondering how I dislocated his wing I used my head and I look forward to our first mission I have a feeling it will be a success.
Before lights out I told Krieger, Phil and Afro of destiny good night and accidentally called him long-face surprisingly he smiled and said. "Good night Gallants and thanks for the nickname bird brain." You know what's amazing how two people can nearly kill each other and then, at least, one of them will like the other as a friend I think Afro of destiny is a great stallion and I am looking forward to an actual friendship with him. 
Day 2

So after a random training day, your squad will get the day off if you make the best time during a drill at midnight good news we made the best time by 15 seconds but were just a few seconds shy of the academy record. I told everyone we should sleep in our armor for the next drill, so we can beat the academy record surprisingly they agreed and told me that they were talking about who should be the leader of the team and they chose me; so that was a surprise but I swear on my mother's grave that I will lead them to best of my ability and I'll be damned if one of them dies before me.

Since we had the day off (and thank god Celestia for that I think the down time helped Afro and my wounds heal.) I suggested we go and explore around town as I understood none of us were from town; so while we were out we got some lunch and laughed at Afro as he gagged at the site of us eating meat, then we looked at some suits convinced Krieger to try to get a date with a really nice looking girl and he got turned down; we then tried about an hour or so later to force Afro to try to get a date with some orange mare with three apples as her cutie mark after I saw him looking at her with a slight blush, well he wimped out and said something about her being a big deal back in Equestria and having no chance to get a date with her and when he said her name was applejack it hit me that she was the element of honesty.

When 3:30 came around we decided to get some ice cream and I hit on the girl working at the ice cream stand and I think if I saw her again without the cuts and the cast I could get a date with her, after about two hours we decided to go get some dinner and laughed our asses off as Afro one again gagged at the site of us eating meat and we dared him to try some meat and promised him that he would like it and as soon as he bit into a piece of meat his crush AppleJack walked in and I'm pretty sure the look of surprise on her face was because of the sight of him eating meat and we laughed our asses off even harder all in all it was a plucking great day, unlike the night apparently we weren't supposed to leave the academy grounds and got seriously reprimanded for our actions by not being allowed to eat dinner that night we acted really sad and as soon as we got to our room we laughed our asses off for a third time that night, the night was also filled with imitations of the academy commander.