Chapter 65 – ???? Reality Part One
Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 65 – ???? Reality Part One
Gale put on his bandanna and leg bands on, looking out at the morning sun he was all set for the new day, he picked up the plush putting into his saddle bag walking to the doors and open them to stand confused who was guarding at his door, two griffons in griffon style gold armour both white with blue brush tail tip.
They glance and salute with a talon in golden armour raise to the forehead. “Morning Prince Gale.” One of them said.
Gale blinked a few times and rubbed a eye with one talon still seeing them there. “Erm... Morning...” Gale slowly step out seeing two unicorn guards stationed outside the guest room Greystorm was in, he tried to figure out how or even when did his mum had griffons trained to be guards in the castle, nothing he could remember even solve this puzzling view of these griffons.
Gale walk down the stairs to ask his mum over it, that when he saw a female and male griffon in staff uniforms that clean up the place go by with two ponies talking to each other. “More griffons? No understand... Confused...” Gale saw more mix of pony and griffon guards, it was making him very weary as the confusion continue to mount for the teenage griffon.
Upon opening the door to the private dining room everything seem normal till his eyes locked on a dark grey griffon with a white feathered head with similar rainbow colour styles to his mum's mane and tail, she had a chest plate and crown on. “Morning son, sleep well?”
“I did I think, con-SQUAWK!” Gale gave a high surprised squawk in mid-speech seeing his mum, before his eyes was a rather tall and big white griffon, she look like his mum but in griffon. “M-mum!?”Gale's beak dropped open staring in bewilderment and utter confusion.
She giggled putting the frying pan down with the plate, Celestia griffon walk up to him and sat down with a playful press of the claw tip in talon shoe against his beak. “Oh you silly little griffon.” Celestia ruffled his feathered head. “Go on and take a seat, your pancakes are up.”
Gale beak still open slowly nod a few time, he closed it turning around to the table walking to it trying to process what he saw and why was his mum not a Alicorn but a Griffon! Sitting down at the table putting his saddle bag to the seat side, the griffon sitting at the table next to him speaks. “Hey little brother, what up with the freakish squawk? It almost like the day you saw mum for the first time when she sent tickets to Twilight and her friends.”
Gale slowly turn slightly to this unknown griffon, he just heard her call Celestia mum. “Y-you say mum?”
She rolled her eyes. “Of course I have, I been calling her that for almost 800 years you silly cub.”
Celestia put his plate down with a cup of apple juice before him with her talons. “And after all those years you still like to be a tease, you know Gale still adapting Nightingale.”
The griffon Nightingale that Gale now got the name of responds with a toungue out at Celestia before responding. “And who fault is that huh?” She tap the end of her beak and give a toothy grin. “You mum!”
Celestia laughed sitting down on a large seat with her own food, taking a knife and folk to cut the pancakes. “That is just basic facts because I am your mum.” They burst into laughter.
Gale slowly turn to his own food and without a word cut into the pancakes and took a bite of a piece on the folk, it felt and taste the same but everything else wasn't making sense, the level of confusion hit a whole time high for him.
Luna enters the room, she was a pony still so that made sense to Gale but that ends with what she said next after Celestia greets her. “Morning Luna, have was things last night?”
Luna took a sit pouring coffee into her cup. “It was relativity fine with a few dreams to deal with.” She sip some coffee. “Sitting here after almost eight weeks of my return I still can not get use to this new look sister.”
“New to you but I been like this since that night I made a birthday wish with candles over 800 years ago.” Celestia softly smiled looking over to Nightingale. “One thing that I never looked at as a mistake, if it were it was a good one, got married to Grover, had a beautiful daughter and recently got my sister back, I say everything that happened recently been great.”
“Indeed.” Luna started to eat her breakfast.
Gale held his folk close to the open beak staring, he just heard his mum made a wish with candles over 800 years ago, she married or was? He couldn't take it anymore putting the folk down. “Mum can go see Gilda? Do lessons?”
“Mum can I go see Gilda? And... Continue my lessons bro.” Nightingale corrected.
Gale glares at her. “Nightingale I know your here for a week before going back to Griffina, but please be patient with Gale and the way he speaks.” Celestia said calmly to her daughter. “In a space of five to six weeks, Gilda done more than any of us could have done.”
Nightingale point at Gale. “Which make no sense mum! His a griffon like us, a extra special type but a griffon! We got beaks too and none of us could do it!? What makes Gilda so special? He even calls her his sister too! I am his sister even he was adopted by you, he my little brother!”
“I don't understand it myself but it what it is and Gilda makes him feel comfortable to learn, she doesn't have siblings part from a hyper friend cousin that I know of, Gilda also thinks of him as a brother, the bond they created is special, just like we have shared for the countless years.” Celestia said back so ever calm to the grey and white griffon.
“Okay you got a point... I hate it when you go all wisdom on me mum.”
Celestia smirked. “Because I am the mum.”
“Muuum!” Nightingale whines, Gale got up and leaves the table after drinking his juice, picking up his bag the teen quickly left the dining room. “Just a note of reference, Gale acting a bit more Galey today.”
Celestia drunk a bit of her tea looking at the empty seat. “He was wasn't he?”
Gale quickly flying through the hallways heading right for Gilda's home quick as he could, he was about to exit the building to only collide with a rushing blue hooved stallion, they tumbled around till Gale came to a rest lying on the white stomach and chest of Shining Armor. “Urg... What hit me?” Raising his head to see Gale. “Prince Gale are you okay?”
Gale got off him rubbing is head as the stallion rolled over. “I fine I think.”
The griffon guard came out. “Captain is everything okay?”
Shining stares at him for a moment before responding. “Yeah... Everything fine...” The guard salutes walking back inside. “Where the heck did all these griffon guards come from?”
This made Gale's ears twitch with wide eyes followed. “You same!?”
“Same?” Shining blinked. “You noticed the weird thing about the griffon guards suddenly appearing too?” Gale nods. “Glad you see this weirdness too, I thought I was going nuts!” Shining Armor was glad to see another being the prince to notice it. “Anything else odd?”
“Mum griffon...” Gale answered.
“Princess Celestia is a griffon!?”
“Yes and daughter too...”
“Daughter too!? She a griffon?”
“Nightingale her name...”
Shining Armor take off his helmet rubbing the side of his head. “What the heck is going on around here?”
Gale shrugged. “No idea, confused, see Gilda!”
“Agreed! Come with me Gale.” Shining Armor wave for Gale to follow him, they run to Gilda's home.
When they arrived at the door after running around the tower steps, they heard Gilda shouting. “I said get out and get lost you stupid griffon!” They watch a plate goes flying out of the door crashing to pieces down below.
“But Gil-”
“But nothing! Get out and if I catch you in my home again I will do more than throw stuff at you! I will rip your bucking head off and shove it up your rump!” A light brown griffon shot out of the tower flying far away.
Gilda stepping out breathing in and out, she saw them staring. “What are you two looking at!? That griffon self invited himself into my home with take out breakfast! I have no idea who that jerk is and why he was in my home! I hope that teaches him to never come in uninvited ever again!” Gilda said in a really angered voice.
Shining stepped up to Gilda. “Other than that unknown griffon has anything else weird you noticed?”
Gilda snorts. “What are you talking about Blue Hooves!?”
“Right... Let me ask you this...” He figures a way to see if she not affected by whatever it going on. “Is Princess Celestia a pony or a griffon?”
Gilda rolled her eyes. “Dweeb she a pony, why are you asking me such a stupid question at this time in the morning and dealing with that lame griffon!”
Gale answers. “Mum griffon now, she has daughter Nightingale and married Grover.”
Gilda blinked a few times as she tried to even process what he just said. “King Grover married to Princess Celestia? She a griffon and has a daughter griffon called Nightingale?”
“That pretty much new to me too about the married part, but the rest that what I just learned from Gale too.” Shining confirms.
“Get inside dweebs!” They do so and she close the door locking it with the key. “What kind of messed up prank is this!? Is this just some windup for me having a awesome birthday yesterday!?”
Gale shook his head. “No true, no like prank...”
Gilda sat down on her bed. “You got a fair point Gale, you had pranks.” Gale nods. “Than what the heck is going on around here?”
A knock at the door. “Gilda! It Rainbow Dash! Are you awake! Please answer! Something really weird going on and I am still stuck as a griffon! I was suppose to be a pony again! Now Twilight saying I knew the wish you made to bring me here and turn me into a griffon was permanent!”
Gale quickly unlock the door and open it for Rainbow to quickly walk inside, Gale close the door up locking it. “Wow Dash you are still a griffon... Welcome to crazy town...”
“This isn't funny G! I woke up to find half of Ponyville populated by griffons! I mean I never seen so many in one place and even on the way here I ran into many more! What crazy dream am I in!?”
“One I am not laughing and two... It not a dream unless we all sharing it.” She turn to Gale. “Gale...”
Gale shook his head. “No we awake, here I prove!” He grab her talon with magic pulsing for a second and cuts off. “See!”
Gilda shook her head a few times. “Okay that was proof enough.”
“G what the heck was that!? And when did a griffon do magic!?” Rainbow Dash surprised to see Gale cast a form of magic on Gilda.
Gilda walking back and forwards now on all fours. “That was Gale's pure magic, I don't understand how it works and such, it a egghead thing and what he did was took me mentally to Dream Cavern, Blue were there training with Alpha.”
“He took you to a dream place?” Rainbow gulped. “We not dreamer are we?”
“Nope we not.” Gilda said as she continue to paste.
Shining Armor eyes following her movement. “It seem so, the question is why are we the only ones not to be effected?”
“Beats me!” Rainbow said. “All I want is to be a pony again! I was suppose to return to normal! Princess Celestia said so!”
Gilda stop walking back and forwards. “Did you go to Purple, Dash?”
Rainbow nods. “Yes, I showed off, teased her and was about to leave but she wanted to study the magic before I turn back into a pony, finally I agreed by letting her have a feather.” Rainbow Dash open the wing up showing her where the missing feather is. “Then Spike comes in shouting about it doing unpredictable things, it started to vibrate and I reacted by flying a mile above the town to throw the feather away.”
Gilda gave her a odd look. “You tried to throw a feather?”
“Yeah... Now thinking about it, that was dumb.”
“Totally dweeb, go on.”
Rainbow Dash continues to tell them. “After throwing it not only a few hooves from me it explodes! That the last thing I remember till waking up a minute past midnight freaking out that I was still a griffon, Twilight saying something about I knew about this already and I am freaking out for no reason and hit me with some sort of stun spell, I woke up in the spare bed and after that rushed right here to you G!”
Gilda stop walking back and forwards turning around to Rainbow Dash. “That might explain you but doesn't explain why all the sudden there a crazy mix of ponies and griffons working and living together as if it is one kingdom and not two, including the fact Celestia is a griffon.”
“This isn't in the realm of any of our expertise, I am a guard, you two are flyers with little to no experience in field of magic and Prince Gale been adapting and learning in only the last five to six weeks now.” Shining sat on his rump. “This is well out of any of our leagues and anyone we speak to about this will think we been knocked on the head a few times over...”
Rainbow Dash groans. “We can't just sit around and do nothing!”
“Erm... Mum had birthday wish over 800 years ago, connected somehow?” Gale finally said something catching all their attentions.
“What did you say Gale?” Gilda asked.
“Mum birthday wish too but long ago.”
“That couldn't be possible can it?” Gilda asked the other two.
Rainbow shrugs. “Not a clue...”
Shining rubbed the side of his. “I would of said that possible if it wasn't for the time gap.”
“Sometimes time doesn't need to be factor, trust me I been there.” They all turn to the stairs to the study, RS stepping down from it with Octicovix, Trace as a unicorn again and Greystorm. “I gather you four been through the same weird morning as we all have?”
Gilda rubbed her back of the neck. “We have and were you here when erm... Well...”
“We arrived after Rainbow Dash arrived, we saw the window was open up there and entered through that.” Octicovix glance over to the upper floor at the top window. “Do you ever close that window?”
Gilda shrugged. “Never thought about it.”
“You really should, who know what kind of unsavoury characters are out there.”
“That not what is import.” Greystorm cuts in. “What is important is the strange things that going on here, why are there so many griffons mingling with ponies? Also who is Princess Nightingale of Griffina? I am not only mayor of Trottingham but also come here often when she come visit her mother in Canterlot.” Greystorm pull out a scroll from his bag waving it around.
Gale answers. “That my mum... She daughter...”
“Seriously?” Greystorm raise a eye brow.
Gale nods a few times. “Saw and heard and talked... Very confused...”
“We all are cub.” Rainbow said with annoyance in her voice. “We just going around in circles here, clueless as ever...”
RS standing on her hind paws leaning on a wall with forelegs crossed. “I experienced a lot in my line of work, but this is a whole bunch of new even for me...”
Gale looked around. “But why we know different and others no don't?”
“A very good question kid.” RS said. “One we need to work together and to solve, I got a really strange feeling with haven't got a lot of time.”
Gilda gave her a odd look. “And you know that how?”
“Do your feathers fill as if there static running through them?” RS asked looking around. “Do you all have that feeling too?” They looked around without a word said. “W-”
Suddenly the key pop out from the lock land on the floor, they all stared down at it and it suddenly slides under it. “You saw that right?” Rainbow point to the floor.
“We did...” Trace responded.
The key is reinserted and turned from the other side unlocking the door, they all grew tense as the door open, stepping into the house holding the key now with a strange magnet looking object was a reddish beak finch griffon, before she could speak Gale points and squawks out in surprise.
“MAPLE!”
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I think Celestia's wish was for a family, but she only had it for one day. Now that her dream has come true, she's "living the dream" with Gale. Since dream magic went haywire it connected her "living the dream" now with the one day she wished for 800 years ago.
Woah. That's crazy, everyone must be really confused. Can't wait to see what happens!
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so what we can guess is that twilight trying to study birthday wish magic could have casued gildas wish of turning a pony into a griffon to come true all over the country as well as possibly restarting all of the other birthday wishes that were made? i wonder if the turned into griffons thing will be perminent for only rainbow or everyone. in any case twilight will be in troble when it is brought to celestias attention that she caused alot of transformations
Not gonna lie I want to see this change be perma. Have a bit of a bias towards gryphons and dragons in MLP universe. ^^
Woah this is a adventure of a time!
Keep it up
Confusion utter...
Countermeasures deployed.
An interesting twist, given gryphon transformation veing reversed or cured has been effectively made not allowed/possible as a rule. Them panicing and saying rhis isn't how its supposed to be runs into an obstacle there.