Destiny: The Five

by THOSEideas

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Author's Note:

Ok, sorry for the wait, also I have decided to switch from 'gryphon' to 'griffin'. It seems to be the popular choice of the two, so i'm jumping on the bandwaggon.

DG chased the griffin as it sprinted across the rough terrain, dodging left and right, jumping up and ducking down when a branch or rock got in it's way. It seemed to know what to do, the surprising thing was that it wasn't actually running, it was more like a bound similar to earth's Elk. The griffin's tail swung in all directions as it was used as a rudder to make last second turns or quick dodges. DG saw the Griffin slow down as it approached a town full of ponies, it crept to the edge of the forest and peered through the leaves at a small cottage seperated from the rest of the town.

The griffin slowly crept out and approached the building with caution, moving from rock to bush as it stalked silently. Once it was near the cottage a bunny hopped into view and stopped when it noticed the griffin. The bunny stared for a second before it glared at the griffin and hopped the stairs up to the door where it banged its hind legs against it. The griffin swiftly bounded forward and gripped the bunny by the neck, about to snap its punny body. The door of the cottage flew open to reveal a yellow pony pegasus with a pink mane and tail, the mare looked straight at the griffin then down to the bunny in its claws.

The mare snapped her gaze back up to the griffin and DG saw pure hatred and anger in its eyes, the griffin noticed too.

"How dare you take my Angel for food!! Put him down this instant!"

DG watched as the griffin dropped the bunny while transfixed in the gaze of the angry mare. The griffin then tore his eyes away from the mare and shook his head to clear the haze that was developing within it's thoughts.

"Why would you hurt such an innocent creature! How dare you try to eat my animals! Leave at once!" The mare stomped her way in front of the griffin, forcing him to gaze into her eyes once again.

"I-I-I will..."

The griffin once again tore his gaze away from the mars before half-sprinting, half-running towards the town, cleary scared out of it's wits.

The griffin charged through the street of the town and shouldered any ponies that happened to be in its way, completely ignoring them as if they were made of paper. The griffin kept running until it heard a boom behind it, turning back the griffin saw a cyan pegasus approaching at an extreme speed, leaving a rainbow in its wake. The griffin's eyes widened a little before it smirked and faced forward again just in time to see a house that kinda looked like a gingerbread house. The griffin sped up and when it got close it jumped up onto the wall of the house before jumping off of it at an angle towards the approaching pegasus.

The pegasus didn't have time to slow down so it collided with the griffin in mid air and kept going, smashing through the second story window and tumbiling to the ground. The griffin got up and glanced at the pegasus to see that it had multiple cuts across her body and was bleeding pretty badly, the pegasus had gone through the window first. The griffin ran towards the door and smashed it off its hinges with it's shoulder before continuing through the house. The griffin jumped onto the wall and clwaed its way around a pink earth mare as she ran up the stairs to see what the noise was about. DG heard a gasp as the mare noticed the pegasus bleeding on the ground, for now completely ignoring the griffin.

The griffin clwed its way across the wall at surprising speeds and jumped back to the floor when it passed the mare. It then ran towards the window at the end of the hall and dove towards it before covering it's face with it's arms. The Griffin didn't completely cover it's face so a piece of glass slashed above it's left eye but luckily missed the actual eye. The Griffin openned its wings when it was clear of the window and glided to the ground to land on bloody legs, it didn't seem to notice. The griffin continued to bound until it reached another forset where it climbed into a tree and waited patiently.

As the Griffin waited in the tree, it rested its front legs from taking weight. The griffin's eyes darted towards the townbefore a orange-ish earth mare bounded towards the woods with a massive red earth stallion behind her. The Griffin waited until they were directly under it's tree before jumping down and slamming it's massive hind paws into the head of the stallion, forcing its head into the ground. The Mare looked back with a shocked expression before rearing on her front hooves and lashing out with her back ones.

The griffin dodged the attack and grapped the mares back hooves and swinging her body into a tree. The mare hit the tree and slumped to the ground, coughing up blood. The stallion was out cold.

The griffin spread it's wings and jumped into the sky, flying south at an impressive speed. The griffin soared upwards at an angle and rose above the clouds before it landed on the clouds and started to hop from one to another. The griffin continued with his method of transportation until he was stopped by a floating purple balloon that held an Alicorn mare and a small dragon. The griffin didn't pause but instead jumped towards it and cut the ropes that held the balloon to the basket, before flying at full speed away from the rapidly falling basket.

The griffin didn't pause to run anymore, instead it just flew at it's full speed. The griffin looked bqckwards to see a purple speck that grew larger every second, another pursuer. The griffin didn't hesitate to turn it's head back around and land on a cloud. The griffin then spread it's wings to their full extent and then scrunched up it's muscles, ready to spring away. The griffin launched off the cloud and flapped it's wings at an incredible speed, legs folded against it's body. Slowly a cone of air appeared in front of the griffin and it continued to speed up.

Finnaly, with a deafening boom the griffin broke the sound barrier and launched away from the purple dot. The griffin kept up that speed for around fifteen minutes before it slowed down and let sound catch up to it. The griffin looked down towards the landscape below him and smiled with delight.

"We have made it."

The griffin pulled in it's wings and dived towards the ground, as it got closer movement in a grassy clearing in the distance became noticable. The griffin didn't slow down until it hit the ground on all fours and staggered under the impact. All the griffins in the clearin stared at the new comer with confusion and hostility in their eyes. A griffin walked forward and stood in front of the newcomer who had it's head bent downwards and was panting slightly.

"Who are you? Speak! Before I kill you here and now!"

The newcomer laughed and looked up at the griffin that approached him staring into the yellow eyes.

"Grovel before me citizen."

The griffin looked in the griffin's eyes and it's own widened in disbelief.

"A-A royal! One still lives! How is this possible?" The griffin ignored the royal's command and continued to stare at him instead.

The Royal hissed in annoyance before grabbing the smaller griffin's head with his front claw and slammed it into the ground, beak first.

"I said grovel!"

The rest of the griffins watched in silence as they saw the one-sided battle for control. Griffins had adopted a custom when all the royals had died away, whomever beat the chief, became the chief. They were certain that the new comer was their new cheif even before the previous chief whimpered and begged for forgiveness.

"You are lucky I am in a forgiving mood, now send the fastest griffins to the neighbouring villages, it seems I have a lot of work to redo."

All throughout the events, DG watched in silence and saw what he had created turn into a being of ine mind instead of two. The only thing was, he liked this new Mockin, he was drawn to the power this Griffin radiated.

"Your king, Shimarak, has returned."

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Shin woke up to find a white pony face just above his, the face had a flowing rainbow behind it.

"Wha...woah! Ok. What is it?"

"We have a problem, a very large one and we need your help."

Shin looked up at the face in front of his and saw how worried and anxiois it was.

"Alright, what do you need me to do?"

"Follow me."

Shin walked behind Celestia as she swiftly turned and headed back towards the castle from his bench. Shin stretched out his limbs and looked up at the sky to see that it was around mid-day, he had fallen asleep when it was around mid-night. Amazing what a good nights rest can do for you. Shin rubbed his hand through his hair and pushed away his long white bangs from his face, he needed to cut his hair soon. Shin looked around him until he spotted his ghost floating by his left shoulder and he nodded with consent. Finnaly, Celestia decided to tell him a bit about what was going on.

"There was an attack in a town to the south of Canterlot called Ponyville, a very important pegasus was hospitalized because of it, she won't be able to move anywhere for quite some time."

"Ok, what do you want me to do?"

"I want you to go with my sister, Luna, and find the griffin that was responsible for the attack, and I want you to bring him back."

Shin shrugged at the sound of the task, but then thought about it a little harder.

"Um, there is a problem Celestia, my weapons are now useless. I ran out of ammunition for them and there isn't anyway to get more. I will need a new weapon if I am going." Celestia stopped and turned towards him, regarding his entire figure critically.

"I have an idea for you, yes, I think it will fit nicely. You have all the proper appendages that a pony does not. However, I need to see an example of your knife first." Shin raised his eyebrow a little before handing over his last knife, perfectly weighted for throwing.

Celestia regarded the knife in her magical grasp for a few quiet moments before thanking Shin and returning it to him. She then turned around and continued walking towards the castle. Shin slid his knife back into it's sheath and continued after Celestia, trying to catch up as quickly as he could. Shin couldn't help but feel that something was going to be made for him and that he wasn't going to like it.

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"...ok, not what I was expecting."

Before Shin stood a one handed sword that looked deadly and buetiful at the same time. The sword had silvery look to it, with gold linning that ran around the cross guard and blood funnels. The blade was straight until it reached the tip where it flared out and grew into a diamond shaped point. The handle was left bare but had notches in it that fit his hand perfectly.

"How did you..."

"Our black smiths are gery skilled at their craft, and with the aid of magic we were able to finish it in just a few hours." Celestia smiled at Shin as he stared in awe at the sword that was laid in front of him.

Shin slowly reached forward and wrapped his fingers around the hilt, feeling how it felt. The sword felt like an extension of his arm and to his surprise felt perfectly balanced.

"Hey Celestia, why did you make the tip thick? Wouldn't that just worsen the penetration?"

"Why copied the style that your knife was in, we did it like this because you are used to it, correct?"

Shin had a thought come to him, if this sword was balanced, could he throw it?

"Hey ghost, scan the sword and get ready to re-materialize it in my hands. Ready, GO!"

Shin turned on the spot and whipped the sword in an arc down the hall, the sword flew percisely where he had aimed it, just below a painting on the wall. Shin watched as the sword disapeared right before it struck the wall and felt it pop back into his hands, this was gonna be fun. Shin chuckled and turned back to the display case he had picked it up from to see Celestia's surprised look.

"Why did you throw it?"

"I wanted to see if it would spin properly, and if it was aerodynamic at all. Turns out, your smithy forged a perfect sword for me without knowing it."

Shin reached down into the display case and removed the sheath that laid inside, it had a similar design to the sword, except the inside was linned with a soft material. Shin slid the sword into the sheath and looked it with an admiring look, then he came to the problem of where he should put it. He didn't have a belt to strap it to and he was not going to put it on his back, it was an almost useless place to have a sword.

"If you wanted I could magically stick the sword to your armor."

"Yeah, that would be great, put it on my left hip, perfect."

With a flash of light, Celestia stuck the sword sheath to his hip and let go of it. Shin tested that it was indeed stuck there, satisfied he walked out of the room and approached Luna. In all of her glory and regal power Shin could see that she was tired and needed rest.

"Hello again Shin, I have yet to deal with the night guards who died on the moon, something I will attend to when we return." Shin could see the sadness in her eyes as she mentioned the dead guards, but as quick as it came, it left.

"I have a question: How are we going to explain that I'm an alien and how are we going to find this certain griffin?" Luna smirked at Shin.

"That is two questions, however, in answer to both of them, we are going to approach the Chiefs of the clans and propose a deal with them to find the roque griffin. You, will not show yourself until a desperate need should arise."

Shin nodded in understanding before following the blue Alicorn down the hall to the waiting transportation. Shin looked skeptically at the chariots that would carry him, Luna, and her four guards across the continet, the railings were only up to his hip.

"Uh, yeah I'm not getting in that, tell you what, I will fly over there and observe the Griffin's from orbit, sound good? Great."

Not waiting for an answer, Shin spun on his heels and disapeared up into his jumpship that rocketed over the clearing. Luna watched as it passed and was confused as to why there was no sound, she figured out a second later. The noise that followed the jet was near deafening, the vibrations almost shattered the stain-glass windows luckily they didn't or Shin would be in a lot of trouble. However, the noise did shake the guards and almost shatterd their ear drums, it took them the entire flight to get the ringing to stop.

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Shimarak sat on his throne that was made out of the bones of a dragon, the sharp spines positioned on the arm rest and along the head rest. No griffin had sat in this cruel and commanding chair once the royals had died off, the ones who tried had suffered a terrible curse and died by drowning in their own mucus, after their eyes went blind, their tails fell off, and their wings shrivel into nothing more then two nubs on their backs. Three foolish griffins had attempted it, claiming that they were Shimarak himself, they all met the same fate.

When Shimarak had declared himself over the crowd of watching griffins they all laughed and brushed him off as a lune. However, the chiefs of the tribes gathered in the long house that Shimarak currently sat and stated that they would follow him if he could prove that he indeed was a royal. So, Shimarak sprang up the flight of stairs to the throne and plopped himself down in his father's chair, he had never sat in it before, it had been forbidden. The chiefs of the tribes all gasped and pressed their beaks into the wooden floor while spreading their wings out sideways, the bow that all griffins performed in front of authority.

So there he sat, his right leg over the edge of the arm rest between spines, while resting his head on the other arm rest. The chiefs were still within his long house, still in the same bowing position and shimarak made a point to ignore them for just a little longer. Shimarak took in the surrounding long house for the first time.

As it's name implies, it was very long with his throne at the other end of the main doors. The entirety of the building was made from wood and had two floors, balconies from the second floor ran along the walls of the main hall. Two sets of stairs led up to the balconies, one on each side of the hall and Shimarak could see doors that branched off of them. Behind his throne lay a set of double doors that led into what he assumed was his private quarters, which begged a question.

"You, chief with the missing left wing."

Said chief stood up and looked up at Shimarak with a questioning look in his eyes, griffins weren't supposed to talk unless asked a direct question from authority.

"Who is the Care-taker of my new home?"

"My lord, currently that would be you, but previously it was Whitefeather."

Shimarak stared at the chief with disbelieving eyes, Whitefeather? The right claw of his father and advisor?

"You may all rise and leave, except you, left wing, you must bring me Whitefeather immediately."

The chiefs all nodded to Shimarak before pacing away from the throne and through the doors at the end of the long house. No sooner had they left that the doors openned once more to reveal a female griffin the size of him, he realized that she must be the head of the tribe, the chiefs advisor. Female griffins were larger then male griffins and had many husbands. However, the royals were larger then normal and held many more wives then one shared one. His father had six himself.

The female calmly walked towards Shimarak and looked straight in his eyes without bowing before claw. Shimarak had a feeling he knew what she was going to ask, or demand for that matter. Instead of getting into his throne in a proper way, he simply got out of it and stood in front of it. As the female came closer he saw that she was ready to have another brood, he expected this to happen but not this early.

The female came to the base of the steps that led to the throne and stared up at Shimarak with an unreadable expression.

"I am Fyghu (fi-who), wife of chief-"

Shimarak had turned around and walked towards the doors behind his throne without a second glance at the female. If she was a wife to a chief then he would not take her away from his officers, he did not want a civil war in his claws the first day he got back. Shimarak heard a sharp hiss from behind him and the snap of wings, apparently she wasn't done.

Shimarak whipped around and slammed the back of bis left claw into the side of Fyghu's face and re-directed her trajectory towards the hard wood wall behind him. Fyghu's momentum carried her to the wall and she slammed into it, without anything to soften the blow.

Shimarak smirked as she dazedly got to her claws and took a staggering step away from Shimarak, completely disoriented. In the back of his mind he felt a creeping sense of guilt at treating her like he did, but then his conscience over rode it. Turning back around, Shimarak walked to the doors and openned them into what was indeed his private quarters, and there, floating above his bed was his Advisor, DG. A long lost friend from a planet long forgotten.

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[Meep the macho]

The Elements of Harmony are making the rainbow...

[THOSEideas]

5507532 no I had it right, but thanks for pointing that out just in case it was wrong. I hope you didn't stop reading on the first chapter, it was just the prologue after all.