Thanks to the work of a griffon alchemist, the griffons now find themselves with solar magic... and an itching to expand their territories. Right next door in beautiful, peaceful Equestria, there are ponies just asking to be taken over.
Celestia would like to keep the conflict as peaceful as possible and ensure the safety of both armies at the end of the day.
Luna just wants to keep her little ponies safe.
I dunno if you have, but you should write a story about your avatar pic. The pony that has no idea what their doing
Digging this so far, it's so unusual to see a story where Gilda's in a positive light, and I now know what decimate actually means!
Adam Savage your words ring out everywhere
"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
Oh and the story is freaking awesome. Just put that out there no biggie.;)
Love the lunar guard. How does this not have more love? Frankly, I like the idea of a pragmatic Luna to counter Celestia's reckless pie-in-the-sky outlook. Go Luna!
I found this by looking for a griffon story, but LOVE the Luna Guard / bat pony dynamic.
Only thing I noticed, great chapter.
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There's always one that slips by... Thanks!
MOAR!!!!!
... I actually prefer straight quotes, less annoying than smart quotes curving wrong around hyphens.
Hmm... Luna keeping a jar of darkness, interesting. Though that transformation sounded quite painful.
Moar!!!!!
Celestia found this situation important enough to use her one time travel to create this setup, barring a variation in magic in alicorns that allow them to time travel multiple times, or a different spell than starswirl's. (Fairly likely due to how much time would be necessary.) I found this to be interesting.
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I also found the fake "oh no, you defeated Me!" intresting, not what I would have done, but respectable
Ohmygosh! That was awesome! Moar?
Nice.
hope there's a sequel to this
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Three, actually… they're just sketched out now, but I like this tai̧n͡t thing too much to just keep this a one-shot.
Thanks for commenting!
4545689 oh, awesome! and no problem! i like stories that are real( not all not all safe, and sunshine) and Thestrals always the best tribe
I liked this story, a very good take on Hero Nightmare without changing her personality. I especially liked the twisted font on things like taint and darkness from time to time.
Now Celestia is infected with the taint. Is there a sequel staring Solar Flare in the making?
This story was kinda short and brief, but that was alright. While I would've liked to see some things that were off screen, such as the nightmares given to the antagonist or how they figured out how to move the sun in the first place, the pacing was well done regardless. Have a like.
That fucker has to die.
He can use magic without learning how to use it? What a nonsense. And to use telekinesis he would have to grow a horn.
Without the right genes he wouldn't be able to use magic anyway.
And if i'm not mistaken Griffons have same or similar magic as pegasi.
And why would have griffons light bones? Their bodies are so heavy that it woul make no difference.
4952502 have to agree with this.
okay, what exactly happened when Luna Became NMM again? How did Celestia go from being okay to having the crap beat out of her?
This needs a sequel
4545689 And said sequel is where?
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…languishing away in my google docs
8157964 Then I'm MAD.