9/16/97…
Manehatten Harbor…
0510 hours… (5:10am)

"Our Story begins here in the old Castle of Equestria back in 660 BCR, a time that I nor Luna were around in. Instead, the land was ruled over by my father, Celestius Von Indiges." I look over at the Princess with wide eyes.

“You have a last name?” I asked. A smile appeared on her face as she looked towards me again.

“Yes, my full name is Celestia Von Indiges.” I shook my head slowly. “Interesting is it?” She said raising a brow. I look at her and shake my head.

“No, it’s just, I never knew you had a last name.” Turning back. She begins to walk forward.

“Anyway, today is July 21st, 560 BCR, and my father had received a letter from another kingdom.” As Celestia said this, the throne in front of became surrounded by clouds of smoke as lights formed behind them. I heard a huge amount of wind, as I stood forward myself to stand next to the pearly white princess as the wind kicked up as the smoke cleared away and the light flashed my eyes. As the light left my eyes a second later the room seemed a lot more, realistic, the colors shown brighter, the comfy carpet below my hoofs felt even more real. The windows light shown in brighter as shadows were cast along the opposite walls.

I continue to look around, before I get a hoof tap on my shoulder, I turn away from the amazing castle interior to see Celestia putting a hoof to her lips as the motioned her eyes to the throne. I look over and spot someone sitting on it. A massive stallion with a mane that
would put a setting sun to shame. He wore a golden suit of armor that glistened of the light.

Then he spoke.

“Ah, good to see you two, how has life been?” His voice boomed across the whole room, and echoed across the halls. I turn around to see two soldiers in full golden armor, just like Celestia’s, but instead of the blue, the borders were red.Celestia and I step out of the way and watch as the two walk up to the stallion on the throne, stop, and bow down to him.

“Those are the two Brigadier Generals that run both the Air Guard and the Royal army.” Celestia says matter of factly. I look at the two closer, picking up more detail. The one on the right was a pegasus and his tail was clipped extra short, and his mane drooped over his right eye. The other one was a unicorn. The Unicorn had a eye patch over his left eye, and as he spoke, it sent chills down my spine, it was a certain bone chilling gravelly sound.

“Your Majesty, we have received a Message from the Griffin Empire saying that they demand more food." The stallion on the throne looks at the soldier with the curious Glare.

"Who is this message from, is it from the government, or from the Pirates?" The Unicorn looks at the Pegasus, and the Pegasus gives the unicorn a slight nod.

"It's from the Pirates sir they demand the food by wednesday of next week, or else they'll double the ships on the coast of the Griffin Empire." Celestius looks out the nearest stained window, and begins to shake his head slowly as he chuckles.

"These griffins see me as a fool, I do not negotiate with pirates or anyone that will bring disharmony to my land, or anyone else's for that matter." Turning back to the two soldiers he stands up from his throne and walks closer to them and in exchange the two walk further back to give him room.

"Double the shipments of soldiers to the Griffin Empire, crush them and everything they stand for, and to deal with the ships, send our Navy north of the Capital city Harbor, from what I last heard they were heading south to cut off supply shipments, we can flank them and crush them from behind." The two soldiers lift the right hooves up to the top of their eyes and salute, and Celestius returns it.

I wasn't sure what was really happening or how this happened, but I could definitely tell, this was a different time for Equestria. I turn over and look at Celestia her eyes deadlocked on the figure that Stood before her.

I nudged her shoulder and she quickly snapped out of her gaze and looked over to me. When she looked at me, I cleared my throat and spoke up.

"Celestia, from what I've gathered so far is that the griffins were at war with your father, and that's why you have a grudge against them, correct?" Celestia slowly nodded but opened her mouth to say something.

"It's not that I have a grudge against the Griffins, it's the fact that the Griffin Empire fell so quickly into pirate claws." I still wasn't getting the full picture, so I open my mouth to ask for clarification but she lifted up her hoof in protest.

"Back in the year 500 BCR my father and the Griffin Empire were close friends and allies. They shared trade, they exchanged science breakthroughs, and allowed free travel between the two countries." Suddenly the previous scene that I just witnessed began to melt away into whiteness and we were back into a void of nothingness.

"But in the span of 50 years, that friendship sunk into chaos as the civilians of the Griffin Empire began to go into a severe hunger crisis." Suddenly pictures from the book or at least I thought was the book, began flashing up all around me. They showed starving Griffin families, weak Griffin pups, destroyed crops, dried up rivers, and crumbling buildings. The pictures were truly depressing though they really didn't do much to me since I've seen this kind of stuff before. Celestia began to talk again.

"As you can see from these pictures, their country was in total disarray, The Griffin Empire tried everything and anything to restore balance and order to their land. But sadly in the end nothing happened, if anything things got worse." Celestia kept on talking but as she talked, she walked forward and leaned her head back as she spoke, keeping direct eye contact with me the whole time. Are hooves echoing throughout the void.

"Running out of options for their country the Griffin empire asked us if we can start sending food over, in exchange they would give us money." Suddenly a picture flashed up in front of us of a very important looking Griffin ruler wearing a black suit and pants with a bunch of ribbons and buttons plastered on the chest. He wore a black officers hat that had a golden rim running along the base of the cloth and the brim, on the center of the hat had a brightly colored flag that flew the colors of white and red. In the middle of the white and red divided flag was a golden claw.

On the right side however was Celestius, wearing his usual golden armor as his mane waved in it's non-existent wind. On either side of him were guards.

"I assume that's the Griffin empires leader." I said pointing my gray hoof at the Griffin wearing the suit. Celestia shakes her head in confirmation.

"Yes, that's him, this picture is a replication of what happened when the Griffin leader came to visit us in the year 525 BCR." She said as the picture slowly faded away into the whiteness.

As we continue forward more pictures began popping up out of the book or really out of the void showing me and Celestia, images of fast ships with humongous sails sailing across a huge ocean, all of which were carrying food and some troops to protect them.

"At this point, The Griffin Empire thought they were safe, they were being bailed out by one of their friends, the civilians will be getting their meals every day, and they could spend more time working on fixing this hunger crisis." Celestia stated. "But of course, good things don't last for long, in the year 575 the civilians became restless once more." Celestia said then she stopped walking.

Suddenly without any warning the whiteness of the room instantly switched off back into blackness. Of course I could still see Celestia, for her horn was glowing a golden light that shined brightly. I could take a wild guess of what was going to happen next, so I walked up closer to Celestia nearly right beside her and spoke again.

"Are we going back into the animation land again?" I asked. Celestia smiled and shook her head confirming my suspicion as the light begin to funnel in front of us and blind me as I watched as the darkness faded away.

As I felt the blinding light dissipate, I open my eyes to find out that I was on a ship filled with dozens and dozens of pony sailors and giant crates. I looked around me, we were in a vast ocean just like the pictures I saw before, the ship I was had a huge sail, three to be exact.

Seagulls flew above the highest point of the mast as I could see another pony at the top at a lookout tower. The skies were clear with only a few clouds floating nearby, the seas were rough though, the ship bounced back and forth crashing into each wave that we came across. I continue look to at the ocean, I noticed that we weren't the only ship in the water, two other ships on either side of us sailed behind. I walked over to the railing trying not to disturb the scenery that was happening, I leaned over and watched as the ship rocked back-and-forth either pulling me back or pushing me forward. Upon casting my gaze up at the other ships I could see that some were carrying crates too and others were carrying soldiers like an escort.

Suddenly a voice shouted out from behind me,

"Aye, everypony gather around, the captain is about to come up on the deck so listen up!" I turned around to find a Royal guard wearing his usual golden uniform, but instead of the helmet it was replaced with a pirate hat that had a skull and crossbones in the center along with his golden armor which had decorations on either side of the shoulder.

"He must be the assistant captain." I said to myself. All the ponies that were on the deck at the time, turned around and walked and trotted towards the loudmouth guard. When they all surrounded him, The captain came forward out of the hull of the ship through a door behind him, He was wearing the same attire except that his golden uniform wasn't golden at all it was silver with blue lining. The assistant captain move aside and the real captain took his place. When he was situated, he began a speech.

"Alright listen up, we are here to do one thing and one thing only, and that is to deliver the food and leave the country. And I know what you are all thinking, if are only delivering food, why did we bring soldiers? Well the answer is simple, because the civilians are still pissed." I moved over to the crowd of the ponies and listened in and watched over the top of them seeing how I was much taller.

"When we step off, you are to begin unpacking the food immediately. When you unpack the food there will be a Griffin waiting for you. Give the food to the Griffin and he will distribute it to the civilians. These Griffins are from the government, you can trust them, understand?" All the sailors looked at each other and be good confirming with slow murmurs or nods then look back to the captain and saluted. And he saluted back.

"Okay good, now back to work, we should arrive within the hour." And with that, the captain retreated back inside and the assistant captain followed him slamming the door shut. As the sailor ponies went back to their routine Celestia came up behind me and began explaining what was happening, even though technically I already knew.

"As you've probably guessed we accepted the Griffin empires deal, and much like this cargo transport right here, dozens like it sailed across the ocean every single month delivering food to the Griffins." She said as again the scene I was just in, disappeared it back into the whiteness.

Celestia turns around and looks at me and begins to speak in a monotone voice. "To save on time i'm going to just quickly explain what happens between now and the future to make this long story a short story." I nod my head in exception as she turns around and begins walking, I follow in suit.

"Over the course of the next few years this process of cargo shipment's continued on. The civilians became satisfied and the government paid off their debt with our kingdom. And along with paying off the debt the Griffin Empire invested in fishing and resource mining. As their fishing skills increased and they began to get more food, our kingdom saw this as an opportunity to begin giving them less food seeing how they were getting their own, this deal was proposed to the government and they said it was a good idea. By this time it was the year 600." We continue to walk as Celestia began to talk again, but as she talked another set of pictures appeared on either side of us but, these pictures looked a little bit different than the others. They had a lot more color a lot more detail unlike the ones before, plus they looked a bit more modern.

Author's Note

NEW CHAPTER!!! HOLY CRAP I'M SO F**KING HAAAAPPPYYYYY THAT I GOT THIS OUT!!!!!! Seriously, school can suck it...