Chapter 67 – Wish Reality Part Three
Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 67 – Wish Reality Part Three
The door open into Celestia's private vault, Sunflower walking in carrying Twilight, Spike, Pinkie Pie and Zecora, she look right and left at the golems, none of them reacted to her as she hoped, the gem was still doing it job making them think she was one of them as she close the large door behind her.
Sunflower causally walk over the red carpet towards the large door with the two griffon statues. “You can open your eyes now.”
Instant they open their eyes Twilight spoke. “This is Princess Celestia's Private Vault!?” Twilight looking around at the size of the grand hallway as Sunflower made her way to the Celestia and Grover vault. “This place look even more grander than her throne room! Look at those stain glass domes!” She point a hoof up.
Spike whistled. “It sure is, I never knew anything like this exist.”
“Private is in one that holds dear, not all wish to share their personal life, Princess Celestia had one that out live many including us.” Zecora rhymed curiously looking around, she eyed the golems. “Best not to leave Pinkie Pie, those guards are not what they seem to do, enchanted clay they are, strict in order.”
Pinkie giggled. “So they grumpy looking cause they are made without ever smiling?”
“I doubt they would ever smile Pinkie, I read up about these clay enchanted ponies after Shining Armor told me about them, they have a gem core within that powers them.” Twilight explained to Pinkie Pie, she tap a hoof on the tip of the muzzle. “They would have been active already, something you have Sunflower and our close proximity to you isn't it?”
Sunflower almost at the door to the vault. “Yep, I have a scout core gem on me, it make them see me as one of them, it been in the family for generations since my Nanners time, but the tale of how the scout golem is for another time, we got far more pressing matters.” Sunflower stop at the door with a paw against it. “Now... We enter.” She push it open.
Soon as she open it and walk inside, they all saw the charred remains of her horn, they all shared a collective gasp. “Before any of you ask about my health, I am fine part from no use of my magic at this time, please do not ask about it and only know it was Zerra's doing.”
“Indeed, Celestia saved me from the shared fate when we tried to breech the sphere, he created a magical feedback that shattered my sisters horn, we are in the mist of looking through her personal effects and documents of 799 years and four months ago, also 150 years ago to this day.” Luna explained the rest after Celestia.
Twilight swallowed hard. “P-”
“Twilight I do not have the time or patient to talk about it, Zecora was the one I asked for with your help to bring her here, not for you, Spike or Pinkie Pie, this vault is very personally private to me, I gather Sunflower had a reason to bring you all here.”
Sunflower step by them putting the bag down, she pick up the tablet. “I would of called ahead, but I knew you want me to drop them off so I choose to bring them to help you find the answers faster dude, your family not the only thing on the line, her's is too.”
“What do she mean by that?” Twilight now deeply worried by those words.
Celestia sighs heavily. “Fine you have a point...” She turn to the sphere. “Inside that is a reality wishes come true and hold, a reality filled with wish magic that my children, Sunflower's grandmother, Gilda, Doctor Trace, Greystorm, Octicovix his wife and your brother are trapped within.”
Twilight sharply turn to the sphere. “My brother inside that thing!?”
“Yes-”
“We need to act no-”
“Twilight Sparkle do not attempt to blast it or you will share the same fate as me.” Celestia warned. “Zerra holding them all hostage, not only he had the power to destroy my horn and my ability to use magic, but he managed to wipe out every living thing from that reality for just revenge on Zebra kind.”
Zecona sighed. “So long ago he fell, to fall even further into madness...”
Celestia point a hoof to the scrolls and personal effects near Luna. “Help Luna, but do not look at anything else, you try and do, my faith and trust in any of you be lost forever.”
Pinkie Pie salutes. “You got it Princess!”
“Wait for me Pinkie!” Spike quickly rushes off after Pinkie Pie not wanting to have Celestia's fury brought upon him.
Twilight look upon the statue holding the sphere. “Is that you as a griffon?”
“Yes, a story you will discover as you read with Luna, a life that could be so different today if things were so different, love is powerful Twilight but it can be painful too, I found that out the hard way on that day...” Celestia turn to Zecora. “Now I must speak with Zecora in private with Sunflower, be on your way.”
Twilight bows. “O-of course Princess..” She quickly go to help Luna, Pinkie and Spike.
Celestia took a deep breath. “Thank you for coming so quickly...”
Zecona bow slightly before walking with Celestia. “Troubled as you and I are, the task at hoof to stop Zerra the Wish Shaman must be a first, or all will be lost for Zebra kind and beyond.”
“Indeed, that why I need you and Sunflower to tell me everything about the tale of him and how we can use the power of wish against him.”
“Fight fire with fire, the saying that both wish and dumb.”
Twilight only could stare for a moment. “What are we exactly looking for?” She using her magic to pick up a scroll.
Luna reading through one. “Anything that was overlooked, anything that could explain how the Wish Reality came to be, how we can free them all and stop Zerra.”
“Better get to work, there a lot of scrolls to look through before twenty minutes to midnight....”
Zerra creating magical image after image on the walls, showing the empty streets, carts toppled over, plates left half eaten, Canterlot was void of all life, Ponyville displayed before them the same thing, he show-boating the power he had over them, what he did to every form of intelligent life to animals, even going as far to the bugs.
A clock tower's hands were moving at a alarming rate, showing the passage of time was passing but the sun not setting since there was no Celestia, and not even Luna were around now to try, Gale huddled against Nightingale between her and the wing, nestled close to her sobbing quietly as Trace tended to her broken foreleg with make shift bandages and split.
“That should ease the pain a little, just don't jostle it too much okay?” Trace said as he put a sling around her neck resting the foreleg into it.
Nightingale look at the work he did on her, as well the magic work on Gilda's own. “Thanks Trace, and I won't.” Glancing over at Zerra brought rage to her. “That creep got a lot of nerve.”
Trace didn't even look over at the zebra as he continue to show the empty life of the Wish Reality. “He a narcissistic evil creature, with only the care of one thing now, revenge... Once he is done it will be whatever next to amuse him to no end, what he did in front of Gale, is no child of any age to see.” Trace saw how withdrawn Gale became holding tightly to Nightingale. “How is he?”
Nightingale move her head down nuzzling Gale a little, he didn't react at all to it. “Since what Zerra did? Shut down, closed off and shattered, even mum wasn't exactly the mum he knew and the one that raised me for almost 800 years, he watched Zerra just end her existence while she held us tight for one last hug...” She growls slightly, Gale dig his claws in slightly flitching. “Sorry Gale, just anger over it... There there...” She balancing on her hind legs sit stance rubbing her talon over the side of his face.
Gale relaxes a little. “Hey Night, how about I take care of him, Maple want to talk to you.” Gilda hobbled over to them on three limbs, sitting down before them.
“If Gale let me.” Nightingale shows Gale keeping himself nestled into her side under the wing.
Gilda open her wing up. “Gale will you let Nightingale go see Maple? I'll keep you safe.” Gale slowly let go of Nightingale, he walked very slowly and very distance seeing as he came up to Gilda, he shifted between her wing against her side. “Go Night, I got this.”
Nightingale got up on three legs. “Thank you Gilda.” She speaks to Gale before walking over to Maple, Rainbow Dash and Shining Armor. “Gale there always a bright light, even I feel sad, anger, filled with rage and want to rip that freak to pieces, there is a light, you will find it.” Gale slowly look at her with some gilt of hope through his slightly red sore eyes.
Maple checking through a scroll when Nightingale joined her and Shining Armor. “I know seeing me young, alive and far older than you thought possible is strange, I need your help in running through some things about 150 years ago.”
Nightingale felt very tense on the subject. “That part of my life isn't exactly easy to speak about, specially who I am speaking to.”
“Look we don't have time for this-”
Shining Armor raise a hoof speaking over Maple. “I can not even begin to understand what it like to stand before Maple, but we have very little time from the look of the Ponyville clock tower, best guess we got minutes before it hits twenty to midnight.”
Nightingale fluff her wings. “Fiiine I'll fight through my own personal feelings for the moment, let's get it over with before I throw up.”
“Thank you.” Shining gesture for Maple to talk.
Maple smirked. “Captain you are really something.” She turn her attention to Nightingale. “The griffon Celestia of this reality spoke of seeing her pony self in a white field upon touching the sphere, what if she didn't see herself, but Celestia outside the sphere, the two being the one and the same with different lives create a minor breach in the walls of reality itself.”
Nightingale thought about it for a moment. “Zerra is show boating at the moment and when he was in mine and Gale's face, moments after we lost contact with outside the sphere, he did say he'd be needing my good talon soon.” She shuddered recalling the touch of his hooves on her talon. “That creep...”
“He also bragged about blowing up Princess Celestia's horn outside the sphere, we saw it too.” Shining Armor recalling that point. “I wish there more we could do, but he can easily wish anything up.” He look over at Zerra trying on outfits in front of a mirror, practising what to say too. “Talk about a ego... It like looking at a comic book villain celebrating before he really won, only for him to get it taken away.”
Nightingale didn't. “No thank you, don't want to do another stupid.” She turn to Maple. “If I am getting what your saying, he going to use me and erm... Mum to create a opening.”
“Yes that is correct, but why did he not let her and Luna do it?” Maple wondered.
Greystorm and Octicovix joined them. “I believe we got the answer.”
Octicovix put a scroll down in front of them. “Celestia speaks of the Zebra race vanishing 800 years ago, but soon after there is no word about it at all, no history, nothing.” She show the scroll to them. “One thing I expect, he needs a solid bridge, only one that of two of family can open, a child and their parent.” She show a Zebra paschal. “This shows a bridge of two realities and I think these Zebra found out about Zerra fast.”
Nightingale took it with her good talon sitting down on her hunches. “Th-that Zebra been playing a long game on my life!? He been letting me live my life just to escape!?”
A clap of hooves caught her attention and the others. “Yes indeed, everything here I let to be, the zebra in all their holy wisdom like the real ones figured it out, I let that little piece stay.” He chuckled. “Every wish made outside the sphere I even influenced the wisher to those around them, from using you as a new born and mummy Celestia, you were pulled here and your life story begins, as for Celestia and Grover, oooo they weep and cried over your lose, they stayed married but in secret, never the same they were.” He gloated to them doing a few prancing steps.
“Than there was Maple, oh your wish it was sooo deep and personal, that little push to fight all the way to save-”
“Shut up!” She hissed.
“Oh oh oh, your anger is nice and for you.” Zerra turn to Rainbow Dash. “Gilda's wish was one step but the main one was using you to influence that nerdy unicorn to test the wish magic before it went, I made sure your feather or something was to go boom!” He laughed.
“You monster!” Rainbow Dash growled with a closed fist at him. “If you didn't play dirty I'd give you a knuckle sandwich!”
Zerra walk up to her booping her beak. “Oh I know, that why I do.” He turn back to Nightingale. “With those distributions came the push, the wish reality, this whole sphere now exposed to the reality which wishes of creation or transfiguration ends at midnight, you see no matter what they were going to go bye bye.” He laughed.
Nightingale sat down as the horror sunk in. “All this for revenge?”
“Yep! All for good ol' revenge on my own kind!” He stood before the golden statues in a stance of pride. “Best thing is, I made the Alicorn cry, cry and cry! I broke her and I loved it!”
RS sighed. “Revenge is never the answer, trust me I been there.”
Gale slowly emerge from Gilda's side. “You made mum cry!? Griffon mum real as mum!” He roars with tears falling.
“Yep and I'll do it over and over again kitten!”
Gale snapped jumping into the air flapping his wings, eyes narrowed upon Zerra, a griffish fury unleashed. “AHHHH!” He zooms right for Zerra.
Zerra eyes shrunk as the teenage was upon him in a flash. “WISH YOU HURT!” A burst of energy erupt from his closed talon upon hitting the zebra.
“And choosing your words poorly are a added bonus, I saw that coming.” RS cross her forelegs. “Specially a teenager with a mind mixed between a very young griff to some teenage sense.”
They watched him go flying backwards right into the sphere bouncing off it on to the ground, Gale charge at him again only to squawk in surprise feeling a set of chains around all four legs, Zerra got up rubbing his muzzle, blood dripping down the side of his mouth, lapping his tongue a bit of the iron taste. “That I did not expect! That pure magic in you is really something, now sit there in chains and be a good griffon, the show about to start.”
They all quickly came to Gale, the chains were impossible to remove. “That was something kiddo! You really did hurt him!”
Gale snorted. “Good! He made griffon mum bye bye! Because he no like he kind! He bad, hurt not good but he only can hurt!” Gale growled. “Wish hurt, wish got!”
Gilda eyes lit up. “No way...” She quickly grab Nightingale. “Night I got a stupid idea and it might work.” She whispered to her.
Zerra point a hoof. “No whispering, you continue I will just have to tighten those chains.” He nod to the chains and they did, Gale trying to fight against them. “Now all of you sit by him AND SHUT UP!”
With little choice they did.
Zerra rubbed the underside of his muzzle. “That really smarts...” He grumbled, ignoring the lingering pain he now had, the rapid speed of time start to slow towards twenty to midnight. “Lights!” Studio lights appear turning on with spot lights over him. “Camera!” Zerra point to the tablet. “Annnnd Action!”
What displayed on Sunflower's tablet camera shown on the wall to the others, Celestia, Luna and Sunflower looking at him with them behind him sitting down silently, Celestia noticed Gale was in chains. “Gale! Are you okay!?”
“Sad, empty first, now rage! Want hurt him! Hurt him big for you mum!” Gale said glaring at Zerra trying to break free from the chains.
Zerra chuckled. “Isn't he so filled with rage, just like me, some day he will go all out for revenge even at the risk of others.”
Instantly Gale snapped out of it. “No no no! No want no want!” Gale backed up.
“Oh so sweet to see a conflicted teenager, seeing him break down, it torture isn't it?” Zerra look directly at the screen at Celestia. “A mother can not do anything but watch as I twist the rights and wrongs with her beloved son, sadly it wouldn't work with a daughter almost 800, let's see if she make it to that huh?”
Celestia calmed herself. “You like to play games do you?”
The chilled response got Zerra curious. “Oh? What type of game you got?”
“I like you to play the meet Zecora game.”
Zerra's fun to tease them and to break them came crashing down. “Zecora? As in-”
Zecora step into view and as she spoke, Zerra's rage start to show. “As in the name a zebra of Zebirra.”
“ARG! WHEN I GET OUT I AM GOING TO TURN YOU TO DUST!”
All the captives recoiled from the explosion response to Zecora. “Geez, he really hates his own kind...” Rainbow Dash muttered.
“You can say that again dweeb...” Gilda responded.
Gale mumbled to Nightingale. “That revenge?”
“For him yes...”
“No want...”
“I agree little brother... revenge tend to make those that seek it crazy, rather figure a non-revenge way to defeat him... Rather you not become him.” Gale didn't need to say anything to that, but nod in agreement to Nightingale.
RS nods. “Good to see you two cubs caught on.” She noticed Luna give a quick wink, this caught RS's attention. “Maple, I think you might be expecting a message.” RS whispered to the finch griffon.
Spike press his claw finger on the flat screen phone. “The ultimate wish party is about to begin!! Muhahahahaa!” Pinkie did a fake evil laugh raised on her hind legs.
As Zerra rages at Zecora, Luna lean in next to Celestia whispering to her. “Told you it would work.”
“Yes... But we got Pinkie Pie being over dramatic over it?” Celestia muttered back.
Sunflower smirked. “My idea dude, we needed a bit of flare.”
Celestia gaze fell to the pile of pillows. “Flare yes, not total anarchy...”
“Whatever dude, it worked, Pinkmena having a blast, and we get to watch the fireworks, if Nanner gets the message Spike sent, it game over for Zerra.”
Twilight watching everything that played out. “Revenge, not revenge? Plans I have no idea what they are, what the heck am I missing here!?”
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so he has power but others can wish and use it but he can twist it as much as it allows? is that right?
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Correct and give him a opening to peer outside the sphere to twist wishes or any near the field of the wish magic in beings till midnight of said day.
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so they could litrely wish him away if they could word it right with no wiggle room. also merry chrismas
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Merry Christmas to you too and it only....... Spoilers! 67.5..........
Great chapter! Can't wait to see what happens! Merry Christmas!
So just what IS Zerra so obsessed over anyways? If Zecora exists outsode the sphwre it can't be revenge for the extinction of the zebras, that doesn't make sense.
Also what's interesting is that this Nightengale is apparently not a duplicate, but is the original and very real. That raises the question of what's going to happen to the child when she gets back, since he was meant to be her replacement. Will he continue to be so?