Belly of the Beast Part 2

Belly of the Beast part 2

Griffin Kingdom

"My people, sons and daughters of Griffonia, on this day, as our enemies bodies lie broken on our streets, and their hopes crushed, we are once again reminded that ponies can never be trusted, for years we have worked away on empty stomachs, slowly rebuild our hope,our pride and our nation!, but that time has passed, we have fought the ponies who wish to enslave us! and treat us like rubbish, but no longer! no longer shall we bow down towards our oppressors who's only goal is to conquer, on this day, we shall show Celestia our true power, on this day we shall show that the Griffins are not a race to be trifled with, and with the attempted assassination mission on me, your King, we have enough evidence to justify what we are about to do, On this day, we go to war!."

Canterlot

Princess Celestia is sitting at her chambers, filing out paperwork when suddenly, a knock at her door is heard. "Come in" Celestia said."Your highness, we have grave news from the griffin kingdom!" Celestia looked up at the guard "Do tell,we have been waiting on an update between our relations"

The Guard's face turned into a frown, "Princess... they have declared war on us..". Celestia's eyes widened at this "No, that can't be right, we were so close to signing the Griffonian-Equine peace treaty.."

"Your highness, should we prepare the Guards?" Celestia kept staring at the Guard, then she finally spoke up, "Ready them, but do not send them out yet, send a messenger to the Griffin kingdom to be sure." "Yes your highness, is that all?. "Yes..that is all" The Guard bowed then trotted out the room, another figure entered soon after.

"Dear sister, what is it that the guard was talking about? war with the Griffins?". Celestia merely nodded as an answer as Luna trotted to her side "This must be a mistake, we haven't done anything to them." Celestia looked at her sister, and spoke "I have sent a messenger do deal with this, hopefully we can find out what the problem is."

"Very well, but please tell me when we get an update Tia, this will be the first time in centuries that Equestria has had to fight a war.." Luna commented, "Of course Luna, you will be the first to know of any changes." Luna smiled at her sister, who smiled back, she then trotted out of her sister's room to rest.

"There just has to be something wrong..."

Griffin Kingdom

Thousands of griffins had lined up in tandem, marching towards the border, ready to fly to Equestria. the Griffin commander called out, and told them to stop marching.

He watched as a pegasus flew into the border with a rolled parchment in a saddlebag. "After him!" the commander shouted, and the entire line had broken up with all of the griffins flying to the pegasus that had flown in.

"Think he's on another assassination mission on the King?" one griffin questioned "Probably, but I'm more interested in the parchment in his saddlebag" another griffin replied. "Alright guys, take him out before he reaches the Palace!" the commander barked out his next order, and waves of griffins descended upon the lone pegasus.

The griffins opened their talons, ready to destroy their next target, and as they closed in, the pegasus turned around and screamed at the top of his lungs, one of the griffins grabbed the pegasus by the wing, and slit his throat with his free talon.

"I got the target sir!" the griffin shouted the commander turned and looked at him. "Dispose of his body, leave nothing left, preferably, burn his body like the other pegasus that came" he said.

"Yes sir!" the griffin took the corpse and flew off,but he didn't notice the parchment that slid out the saddlebag and fell to the ground, it landed in a river, where the ink dissolved into the water and the parchment opened.

In the quickly dissolving ink, the words Dear Maximus were written and other words that could be made out such as 'Lies', 'Apology' and 'War'.

Equestria is at war once more..

The Ponies and The Griffins are at war..

2 hours later, Canterlot

Celestia looked troubled, the messenger she sent had still not arrived, and reports from the edge of Equestria had shown that the griffins were building up an army nearly 3 times the size of Equestria's Royal Guard, Lunar Guard, and Crystal Guard combined. Celestia rubbed her temples with her hooves, hoping to calm down, but a ruler of a country at war can never be calm, especially with all her Ponies lives at risk.

Celestia got up and walked to the door, she turned to the guard standing next to the door "Guard, you are to inform all the nobles, rulers, and commanders of Equestria to meet in the dining hall, it is a matter of great urgency" The Guard saluted "Yes your highness" Celestia smiled "Thank you" before she trotted off towards the throne room.

As she walked in, she noticed Luna sitting in her throne, looking bored "Ah, Tia, we have been waiting for thou, have you received any information about the status of the Griffins?" Luna questioned Celestia, "I'm sorry Luna, but the messenger has not arrived yet, we fear that he may have been.." Celestia gulped "...Killed in Action..".

Luna frowned at her sister, "Well then that is clearly an act of aggression, we must inform the Elements of Harmony about this at once!" Celestia looked back at her sister, "That is a bit of an overreaction, don't you think dear Luna? Besides, we cannot risk losing them in battle, they are a vital asset towards Equestria's protection, and most of the elements do not know how to physically fight.." Luna raised an eyebrow "What about Loyalty?, and Honesty? they can fight." Luna replied.
"But that is only two, there are 6 of the elements, and if one dies then they will not be able to function, what's worse is that Griffin voodoo's can enchant the warriors and make them immune to any form of magic, the Elements are designed to magically affect someone, not physically."

Luna frowned, "Well then, we should inform them anyway, they deserve to know". Celestia nodded, and pulled out a parchment from the pile next to her throne.

My faithful student...