A New Empire

Frostbite was under a lot of stress. He had to make a safe route for the soldiers family's to get inside the walls without being attacked by gryphon scouts. He had assigned Flame the job of keeping the military in tip top shape in case of attack or raid and Harmonic was in charge of making a good constitution. But after the route was made he would have to get the coronation ready for their new princesses. But most importantly he had to get ready for the obvious threat of the gryphons they weren't forgiving or peaceful. So a battle or two was the least of their problems.  First he would lead some of his builders that he had been given from Celestia to the back of the castle walls there was a rocky canyon there that happened to lead towards a small town outside of fillydelphia. he instructed them to start making it passable.

Meanwhile Flameforge was walking back and forth in front of a group of 20 ponies all dressed in black and red metal armor. He was about to train this group in particular to go around Equestria to gather more troops for their cause. But of course since he had to stay he would train them how to defend themselves against a gryphon without a weapon. If they were to run into a gryphon during their travels a spear, axe or sword wouldn't always work. So he spoke up ready to teach them how.

"Alright im not going to say this twice so listen. I can not say that gryphon patrols wont find you during your mission. But I can promise you if your work for us and if you wear that armor. They will not hesitate to rip you to pices so I say this to you. Weapons will not always work so sometimes you'll have to get down and dirty. I am going to teach you how to do so properly any questions?" A rainbow manned Pegasus raised her hoof and Flameforge motioned for her to ask her question.

"Yea I have one question when do we get to kill one of these things." The soldiers around her started hoof bumping her and whooping at her question. Flameforge shook his head at her cockiness. He then responded to her question.

"Well rainbowsplash that is your name right? ah who cares have you ever been against one of these things hoof to hoof in a battle for life and death because I have 5 in a row once in the badlands and It was hard and im a alicorn your just a Pegasus and I almost died so next time save those remarks for when you have experience. All right any real questions?"  No one raised their hoofs this time but the rainbow Pegasus glared at him. He smiled this anger she had would help her considerably for this exercise.

"All right the two things you should all know a gryphon wing is easy to break if you break both he cant fly and he'll fell a small part of oblivion touching him or her. And secondly that when they are in rage they cant see they follow sound and smell. so that armor you're all wearing is meant to disguise your smell but not sounds.  So I can not stress this enough keep your mouths shut no matter what."

"Now when you engage you'll want to go for the chest. Use your back legs to push them off stance. Then hurry and rush to them when your in rang hit the wing hard with a hoof. Make sure to aim for the upper bone that links all of them. Then when you have the chance use all your might into one hoof and snap the gryphons little miserable neck. Now we have a prisoner who tried sneaking in who wants to go first?"

On the otherside of the castle Harmonic was busy making the constitution for their new empire. He had about half of it finished so he went to go work on something else. He left his room and started walking down the marble hallway with two royal guards escorting him. Since he knew the griffons would nor wait long until they attacked he thought of the quickest source of warriors. He motioned for his guards to stay behind as he took to the sky and headed for mareland. Home of the Nordic ponies the best fighters he could think of.

He stood in front of a hut which looked like to be made of snow just snow. He breathed in deeply as he knocked on the door. A old stallion opened the door he was a earth pony just as all Nordics were. The elderly stallion motioned him inside knowing why he traveled here. As Harmonic looked around the hut he saw battle axes on a rack hanging above a large fire place all of the blades were engraved with a picture of the enemy it was used to fight against. Then he looked at the elder of the clan and spoke.

"My elder you know that I lived here under the constant authority of your ancestors. I earned the right to be called a nord. Our ancient enemies besides the drakes wish to take our portion of Equestria so I ask you for reinforcements. I know that you only fight for honor but will you let innocent people be slaughtered by such ungrateful beings?"

The chief thought for a minuet and decided Harmonic was right he then gave his response. "You have my troops and my blessing make those gryphons suffer." and with that the march and sail back to the empire began.