Chapter 83.5 – The Gallus Effect
Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 83.5 – The Gallus Effect
Before the eyes of the griffon Geremy the world was quite literature in chaos, griffons and ponies he knew for ages in Griffonstone were vanishing rapidly all around him as he raced through the streets to a golden statue with a large diamond crystal held in the talon of Grover, airships that were manned now weren't they crashing into houses with massive explosions filling the air.
The heat washed over him as another griffon suddenly just vanish before his eyes, a little cub that still had a full sense of life. Parts of a building rained down around him, one large piece heading right for him, Gabby rammed him out of harms way, she put her talon out to him. “Geremy we got to activate that prototype now!”
“Right! Let's get-” He took her talon to have it vanish before him with the grey griffon, he fell to the ground gasping with shock.
Suddenly the view changed from a chaotic event through out the city to staring up at the ceiling of a train carriage, he was staring up also to the grey griffon that he suddenly remembered went puff. “Hey easy!” She put her talon against his chest gentle as he tried to sit up. “You got a broken foreleg, hind leg and wing! I mean seriously you were messed up mister! We taking you to Trottingham Rose General Hospital!”
Geremy looked at her with confusion. “Gabby? That not possible... You and every other life vanished be-before the Grover Defence Shield Protocol were triggered...”
Gabby frowned. “You know me? I sure don't know you mister! I know every griffon in Griffonstone since I do the mail, and you I never seen! Well wouldn't since you appeared through some weird magical ring!”
He raised his good talon looking at the messy blue fur feathered foreleg, the dirt and dust stuck to it. “Yes... I saw and raced... T-to...” He eyes flickered a few times closing and opening rapidly till his consciousness left.
Gabby put the damp cloth back on his forehead, Gale stepped up. “He knows you?”
“Yeah... But I don't get how! I don't know him!” She stated.
Gallus stared over from the seat he sat on with forelegs crossed, his blue eyes had been locked most of the time on the large blue griffon with red feather head tips to his yellow, it was chilling for Gallus which made him shiver in non-existent coldness.
Gilda pasting back and forwards. “Sooo... Let's go over this again Nightingale, Gallus has this weird feather from that crazy avian that most of us seen or heard from by now, not only he was the first but she put some weird magical feather into his wing?”
“Pretty much as I know at the moment.” Nightingale said. “As for the griffon, his name is Geremy and was head of Protect GDSP, it was a universal project that was to have a artefact crystallised diamond in every city, that with a push of a few keys would activate a magical shield that was bound by almost every spell to be created or even imagined.” Nightingale stated to her as Gilda continue to walk back and forwards.
Gale stood before Nightingale. “Is from Inverse Reality?”
Nightingale looked over to the badly injured griffon being tended to by Gabby. “Yes he is.”
A guard pony entered through a carriage door, he saluted to Nightingale and Gale. “We ten minutes out from Trottingham, I've sent out word ahead for hospital wagon to meet us at the train station.”
“Thank you.” Nightingale bow her head slightly to him, the guard pony returned a bow to her and left the carriage.
Gilda continue to paste. “What up with Gallus anyway?” She hinted to him.
Nightingale felt a bit of a shiver. “If I am to guess, Geremy is his dad.”
Gilda paused her pasting. “Wait what?”
“In the Inverse Reality his mate, wife... Was with child and vanished over thirteen years ago, no trace of where or how she vanished, one moment they talking about things and the next thing gone, even almost everyone forgot Geremy's wife even existed...”
Gilda felt that chill now. “Sweet Grover... That sound like something Zerra would do to mess with others...”
“Or me...” Nightingale sighed. “I was best friends with his wife, I can't even remember her name and yet I KNEW she existed...”
“Than how is he even here when everyone else was pouffed out of existence by Zerra?” Gilda asked. “Seriously dweeb, how?”
Nightingale crossed her forelegs. “My guess... The prototype artefact, it would explain how Griffonstone of the Inverse Reality still there in a void of everlasting blackness, how part of the reality still exist with everything floating around, it also may explain how he got to that ring too, no gravity equals easy movement.” Nightingale glance over to Geremy. “Even if it is true what I think Geremy is to Gallus, he isn't at the same time, that griffon was my head of the Grover Defence Shield Protocol project, he never had a family.”
Gallus listened to what they were saying, his talons tighten against the seat and pieced the material.
“What of air?”
“Gale got a good question, Nighty.”
Nightingale kept her crossed foreleg stance, deeply thinking about it. “Air pocket is the most likely answer to it, one of the shield spells he merged into the artefact was to do with air pocket spells for underwater.”
“Your just grasping at strews aren't ya?” Gilda raise a eye brow.
“Pretty much, I signed off on the spells, I didn't see how they were installed into a crystallised diamond or when it was done, Geremy is the project leader after all. He would know more about it than I am, as you can see his in no condition to answer that.” Nightingale looked over to him as the others did too.
Gabby pulled off the gloves from her talons, putting them into the waste bin by the makeshift bed. “The griffon is resting, I am glad I did that first aid course last year.” Gabby walked over to them and took a seat. “The bandages should hold till the doctors can get to him at Trottingham.”
“He from Inverse Reality, wish place.” Gale said.
Gabby glanced over to the adult blue griffon. “That explain how he knows me, guess there was a version of me there... Wow that must be strange.”
Nightingale sighed. “You have no idea.”
Gilda rolled her eyes. “Dweeb that so understating what we seeing, even what you said might be true also ticking off Gallus.” Gilda hint to the anger teen glaring at Geremy's resting form.
“You mean why he look exactly like his dad that died with his wife protecting Gallus from the worst snow storm Griffonstone ever had ten years ago to this day?” Gabby blurted out.
Gilda put her talons over her face, Nightingale slowly turn to Gabby, even Gallus and the very dark look he was giving her even gave the grey griffon chills. “Did... you... just... say-” Nightingale slowly spoke in shock upon hearing that.
Gallus roared in fury, his claws dug right into the chair's material, he leap of the seat and stormed out of the carriage without a word said, Gale quickly goes after him a second afterwards leaving Gilda, Gabby and Nightingale alone with the injured griffon. “Gabriella! You dweeb! You and I know how sensitive that is to griffons at Griffonstone!” Gilda point her talon to the door that Gallus had left through.
Gabby poking the claw tips of her talons against each other staring down. “So-sorry Gilda...”
Gilda rubbed the bridge of her beak with her talon with eyes closed. “What done is done Gabriella, we just have to now tell Nightingale, this is something I for one didn't want to talk about...” Gilda open her eyes removing the talon from the bridge of he beak.
Nightingale was surprised the unconious form of Geremy didn't wake from that anger roar, but she was wondering how bad this snowstorm really was. “I am going on a hunch here from what I heard, Geremy and his wife past away during a very harsh snowstorm saving Gallus from the harsh storm, the question I have also is... How many lives were lost?”
Gilda glance at Gabby raising a talon up to let her tell Nightingale. “F-Forty-nine lives were lost... Most due to hiding in the castle when their homes collapsed... Gallus' parents with a three year old Gallus were found by Grandpa Gruff after the storm past... Their home collapsed on top of them, they used their own bodies to shield Gallus from the elements.” Gabby explained to Nightingale with sadness.
“Gruff took guardianship with Gallus, kept him under his roof till a year ago, as per the lame griffon culture states, once you hit the age of 12, you have to do it alone, learn to survive and all that lame garbage...” Gilda stared out the window. “The snowstorm left a mark on all griffons young to old in Griffonstone, it something we don't like to speak about, how idiotic we were too refusing the helping hoof from Princess Celestia in our time of need...”
Nightingale looked over to Geremy. “Then why would Gallus personally request to tag along?”
“Haven't got a bucking clue...” Gilda responded.
Gale travelled through the carriages to the end of the train to the box car, upon entering it he found two guards inside staring at the door leading out of it on the other side. “Did Gallus go through?”
They turn and saluted. “Yes sir, the blue griffon did.”
“He sitting at the edge, we were about to bring him in for his own safety.” The other reported.
Gale shook his head. “I talk, you stay and wait, okay?”
They looked at each other then back to him. “Sir?”
“He upset, talk maybe help, force back in maybe clawed you if try.” Gale said to them.
“Very well Prince Gale, we will be on alert and keep the door open.”
“Okay.” Gale nodded.
He walked by them opening the door to see Gallus, he walked up to Gallus and say beside him, the guards watched with caution. “I don't like this.” The other guard muttered.
“I know, but let's trust in the young prince's judgement, just be ready to fly.” He flex his wings.
“Got it.” The other guard flexed his wings too as they stood ready if anything bad was to happen.
Gallus glanced at Gale. “Go ahead, ask your stupid question.”
Gale shook his head. “Not stupid, question is, why come if know?”
“I came cause I... I needed to know why out of all the griffons in that stupid so called Inverse Reality, it had to be my dad! I look at him and all I see is that frozen sleep smile from the beak! It really freaking me out and I couldn't not come! I am furious that this stupid feather in my wing is the cause of all this! If it wasn't for that stupid avian exchanging my feather with hers I wouldn't be in this mess!”
Gale look to his talons. “You had drawing I drew too... That pure magic in it caused it... I blame...”
Gallus rolled his eyes. “Maybe, but you don't have control of that! How can you predict that some magic got on some paper and ended up trapped on my stupid window of all places! No griffon can predict that!”
“Bu-”
“Gale! Seriously! Your not the one that exchange feathers cause she weren't expecting me showing up at her stupid home! That bird brain caused of this stupid mess! Plain and simple!”
Gale noticed as the last sun raises vanished time seem to just. “Stopped?” Gale looked around in confusion.
“Stopped? W-”
Gale grabbed his beak and turn it to the side of the train. “Stopped! Train stopped!”
Gallus blinked as Gale removed his talon. “What in the name of Grover is going on here?” He took a good look around to see the guards also frozen. “It not the only thing, look the guards!”
Gale got up walking up to them, he waved his talon in front of one, even snap his claws at another to get no response. “They frozen...”
Gallus saw the steam cloud from the train also frozen. “I think time stopped...”
“It has.” They both turn sharply towards the track to see a large bluish white avian walking towards down, each foot talon landing on every other track beam towards them, the hand talons held over the wrists, wings shimmering part from a dark blue one attached to her wrist up to the shoulder joint, four long tail feathers waving behind, with six fanned ones on top of her head.
“I-it you!? Your that bird brain that took my feather and gave me this!” Gallus point to his wing growling at her.
“Yes and yes.” She said calmly now standing on the tracks before them, they looking at her at eye level from the box car platform they stood on. “Hello Gallus of Griffonstone, we meet again and hello to you Gale of Canterlot.” She bow her head slightly, the semi glowing blue eyes turn to each of them.
Gale curiously looked at her, she was also wearing a dark blue vest that for some reason reminded him of something called jeans. “Did you freeze time?”
“In a way it happened when I came to you, I was only able cause of this.” She showed the dark blue feather part of her wing. “As much as your feather is part of me now, as my feather is part of you Gallus of Griffonstone.”
Gallus flew up to her face. “SO WHAT! YOU GIVING ME THIS STUPID FEATHER CAUSED ALL OF THIS! MY DAD FROM ANOTHER REALITY IS HERE CAUSE THIS STUPID FEATHER DID WEIRD MAGIC! THIS IS ALL YOUR BUCKING FAULT!!!!” Gallus roared at her with fury.
“Yes it is my fault, I am completely to blame.” She answered directly to his raging words.
Gallus fury partly faded with confusion. “Wh-what did you say?”
“I said I am completely to blame.”
Gallus looked very bewildered by what this bluish white glowing semi glowing avian. “You seriously agreeing with everything I just said!?”
“Correct, before you arrived by means unknown, I experienced time differently to you and everyone else, I experienced it all at once, the beginning to the end, my concept of time was different, I never experienced this time line... I became part of it and had to figure this out, so I believed a exchange of feathers would suffice.”
“But...” Gale knew a but was coming.
The avian turn her gaze to Gale for a second before focusing it back on Gallus. “Yes there is a but, and this is you Gallus of Griffonstone with the feather gain access to the Tree, and to the Inverse Reality by creating a whole chain of event I did not foresee, you caused a window in time and reality to open nine years, seven months and three days ago.”
Gallus blinked. “Whoa whoa whoa! What does that have to do with that griffon from the Inverse Reality!?”
“You opening that window in time and reality created a moment that Geremy saw you two, you and Princess Nightingale, that in turn created a chain of events that lead to him surviving Zerra's attack to Griffonstone surviving in a fragment of Inverse Reality, that in turn with the second window that lead to him making a break for survival.”
Gallus frowned. “And how the heck do you know that!?”
The avian wave her wing arm to show a branch of time. “Most past events I can see within this timeline, however direct connection made it bright as the sun.” She glance to the rays of frozen sunlight than back to Gallus.
Gallus flew back a bit. “Your seriously telling me I caused that griffon's own survival!?”
“Correct, another fault in my own actions, one that I personally to blame.” She said calmly to him. “I am unaccustomed to this type of liner time, actions I took caused a chain of events that now I am to blame for...”
“Wow... I did not see that coming, you really admit this is your bucking fault?”
“Correct.”
“Why admit this so bluntly!?”
“Because it says so in the book I read from countless timelines, it states that one must own up for their own mistakes, even there is a degree of chance the other may never accept a apology.” She made the book appear flipping through the pages and show it to him. “Right here.”
Gallus land by Gale. “Can we exchange back? Fix this stupid mess and just get on with our lives?”
She shook her head slowly making the book disappear. “No we can not, the feathers are part of us, in removing them will damage our internal magic, shorten the life span, another error on my part that I can not fix.” Gallus growls. “Also changing events that are now set through the branch of time would be snapping that branch, and causing a chain of events from nine years ago to present.”
“So basically I am stuck with this stupid thing!?”
“Basically yes...” She answered. “But-” she raise a claw finger up. “-I have found a way to suppress the magic till your sixteenth birthday.”
Gallus still anger with her snorted before he asked. “So you can suppress this stupid feather magic for a time? Live with what we got and nothing like this will happen again for a few years at least?”
“Correct.” She pull out of her vest pock a small gem. “When you shatter this in your talon it will suppress the magic, you will regain it once again and correct to the Tree of Elysium the branches of time.”
Gallus reached out and took it. “But that Inverse Reality griffon of my dad is still stuck here?”
“Yes, as I said before, what has been done can not be undone.”
Gallus look to it and back at her. “How can I trust you?”
“That is up to you, I have spoken and admitted fault to my own actions, to make a partial amends I brought you this crystal to help you.”
“And of you?”
“That is your on decision too.”
Gallus groans. “I really ticked off with you and totally blame you for this mess!” He crushed the crystal feeling it effects flow through his body.
“As you should.”
“Stop agreeing! It making me feel bad for you!”
She tilt her head. “Feel bad for me? I do not understand, you blame me for the mess that is caused and I admitted that it was completely my fault.”
“Exactly that!” He groans. “Fine! I'll deal with my own personal demons with that griffon! As for you we going to have another chit-chat about this bird brain!”
She nodded. “Very well we shall, as for my given name since you have not asked, it is Avatar.” She turn to start walking away. “The Day of Chaos is still to come, followed by the day when the Past and Future collides.” Avatar vanishes from their view, time resumed.
“And with that she gone, stupid avian...” He growled in a defeated tone seeing his still got the semi glowing feather. “Guess I am stuck with it still...” Gallus focused on making it look the same as his other feathers and it worked.
Gale saw everything was moving again. “What do we do?”
Gallus blew the head feathers up. “Deal with this mess, get ticked off, roar, squawk and whatever it is...” Gallus turn to walk back through the box car with Gale beside him. “That bird brain will show up again and till than, we just press on I guess... This is so lame...”
“It is lame... Gilda would say she dorky dweeb.”
Gallus brought a smile to his beak with a snort of a laugh followed it. “Gale thanks, I needed that.”
Gale smiled back. “Happy to help! Even I no helped there!” Gallus just shrugged as they entered the carriage, leaving a pair of confused guards, to their perspective Gale just sat with him for a few seconds. Not only they were suddenly standing but switched places.
A guard lift up his mug taking a sniff of it. “I am soooo not drinking this stuff every again...”
“Agreed...” The other guard muttered.
“Attention all, we arriving at Trottingham!” Came the voice over the intercom, the train pulled into the train station, the guards put their helmets on and left the box car.
The griffon was taken to the Hospital Carriage, the griffon doctor checked the blue griffon over. "Get us to the hospital ASAP!" The ponies at the front of the carriage nodded and ran pulling it to the hospital.
"Let's get to the hos-" Gilda didn't getting to finish what she was saying when a griffon in a suit vest land on the platform.
Greystorm saw them and quickly asked something no one expected to hear. "Is it true!? Is my brother alive!?"
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Woah, great job on this chapter! So Geremy is...wha-?! Must have more!
Wait...Gallus is Greystorm's nephew? :O
Wsit, the wish realm? I guess I was confusing him with someone from the dream adventures.
Also holy crap it sucks to be Gallus right now. Having magic he can't control and doesn't want that can warp time unpredictably, and cannot be gotten rid of without terrible consequences? That all just makes it seem like he's going to suffer.