Rise of the Angel of Death

Twilight paled, she had no idea how to deal with this situation. If this were any other griffon she could use her title to put an end to this. Now she'd have to tread carefully. "I'm sorry sir, you are correct. I should've recognized an ally of Equestria. But I must insist that you not execute Rainbow Dash, despite the crimes she's committed in your culture."

"It’s more than that actually." Gurfon said. Twilight paused, for a moment things could not get any worse. He tossed her a piece of paper. "By decree of Princess Gilda of the Griffin Empire, the pegasus Rainbow Dash is granted the title as honorary griffin and a citizen of the griffin Empire." Twilight saw something else a seal.... Celestia approved this.

Twilight blinked at this for a few moments. 'Crap.' She thought.

"Wait a minute Gilda looked like a normal griffin?" Pinkie asked.

"She wanted to go to your flight school as a normal griffin seeing how you ponies act around immortal royalty she thought it was for the best." He said. Rainbow Dash was just barely awake enough to hear this. "By that document she has committed treason as a citizen as well." The king said.

"Oh horse apples." Twilight muttered. "King Gurfon, please, as I said Rainbow Dash is an Element of Harmony. If she were to die then there's no telling what could happen. I don't know if there are exceptions to these sorts of things, but please make one this time." Twiight was hoping this wouldn't happen, she was begging at this point.

"I'm afraid there are no exceptions, our laws are very clear." The king said his pension for the law was strong.

"Then would you please allow Rainbow Dash and Gilda make up, she didn't understand Griffon culture." Twilight asked well begged

"Is that so, I might be able to arrange this, but if she doesn't want to, your friend will die." Gurfon said with an icy tone.
He let go of Rainbow, and turned to his soldiers. "I want you two send word to the capital see if my daughter is willing to do this." He said to the two guards who gave off a chest salute. The other griffins stood at attention. "You three will stay with me it will be good for you new recruits to get experience in case things get ugly." He said. After they managed to get Rainbow dash back up

Twilight herself had to send word to the princesses, and fast. At her palace Celestia suddenly got an emergency letter.
Celestia read the letter and her eyes widened at what she read.

Dear Princess Celestia, We are experiencing a very huge problem. King Gurfon is demanding the execution of Rainbow Dash. This wouldn't be so much of an issue if she wasn't an honorary citizen of Griffonia. Not to be disrespectful but, WHAT THE HAY WERE YOU THINKING! You approved of this? Because of this and Rainbow Dash's ignorance we have to be careful or Rainbow Dash will die. Please, I don't know how to deal with this, and I need your help.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle

'Oh, I never expected any of this to happen. I just wanted to improve Equestria's relations with foreign countries. Still, Gurfon may be stubborn, but he's not unreasonable.' "Guards, prepare my carriage I have matters that I must attend to." Celestia herself however thanked her lucky stars. If the Griffin Queen had found Rainbow, she shuddered and thanked anyone who watched over this.

Queen Griffa looked at Discord in confusion. The god appeared right in front of her and did not let her leave. "I must find that rainbow pegasus." Discord looked at her with him were living puppets.

"Really? I hadn’t noticed." Griffa glared at him. Her eyes twitching at the god of chaos.

"If you weren't vastly more powerful than me I would have killed you and continued on my quest." She growled. Discord paused for a moment. Then smiled.

"Sure why not." He said. With a snap of his talons, he disappeared.

In Celestia’s carriage a card with elegant, cursive writing appeared right in front of her. "You owe me." It simply said. Celestia had a feeling she would regret this.

With the mane six Rainbow was being looked at by the guards. Gurfon stood there, patiently. "Why do you look like that?" Pinkie asked.

The God-like king of the Griffins looked at her. "If you must know I'm active on the battle field, I also have faced beings like your Princess and myself before." Gurfon simply said. a Griffin landed with a letter. Gurfon picked it up. "It seems that my daughter is coming to see you pegasus." He gave her a look.

"Good, I need to talk to her. Whatever happens, I need to settle things between us."

"Rainbow, ya do know that if things go wrong yer gonna die?"

"I was thrown through a boulder Applejack, I think I know the consequences. I deserve anything that happens. I didn't bother to learn anything about where Gilda came from. I was a terrible friend, and I need to face the consequences." All of a sudden Gilda landed in regal gold armor.

"Well, hey there Dash, You look like you've seen better days." Gilda said pointing a claw at Rainbow's injuries, her face unreadable.

"Yeah, well I brought it on myself." Rainbow Dash replied. "Gilda, I'm sorry. I should've bothered to learn something about you and where you're from. Hay, I didn't even know your dad was a king. And even if I didn't learn anything about you, I should've talked to you when you blew up at that party. Instead, I blew up right back and threw you out, I was, and probably still am, an awful friend and I don't deserve to be an honorary citizen of your country." Rainbow Dash said, tears streaming down her face.
Gilda had lighting appear in her hand. Everypony looked away as did rainbow dash. The bolt was fired......... The chains on Rainbow’s wings fell off. "I'm not dead?" Rainbow asked.

"You’re not the only one who was a bad friend, I should have told you more about my kind long ago, and I should have been more understanding about the fact you had other friends." Gilda said. Her helmet was removed, showing the feathers on her head were in a crown like form.

The carriage with Celestia finally came. She walked out. "King Gurfon, Princess Gilda." She said. At seeing Dash was not a fried slab of meat she breathed a sigh of relief. "I take it things have worked out." Gurfon looked her in the eyes.

"I've known you for a thousand years Celestia you can't hide the fact that you are stressed out about this from me." Celestia nodded.

"It had more to do with the thought of your wife finding her." Celestia shuddered a moment.

"Yes she can be very vengeful." Gurfon said.

"Oh really?" Behind them came a female griffin who looked a lot like Gilda landed. "Well this pegasus is just lucky my daughter chose to forgive her when I came."

"You didn't have to come, mom. I could've handled things no matter how things went down." Gilda said with a sigh at her mother's appearance.

"I just wanted to make sure that the other five didn't try to interrupt any proper punishment." "Yeah, like me and dad couldn't take'em. You know you should be back home, monitoring the borders. Those non-Equestrian ponies have been a real pain lately."

"I don't need to be lectured by my own daughter, and I think the generals can handle things for a little while."

"Non-Equestrian ponies? Do you mean Prance?" Celestia asked. The griffin queen gave her a look.

"Yes their airships have been moving close to our borders routinely. I usually don't mind it but it’s starting to go on a lot more than usual, the nearby fortified city has become an actual fortress because of this and is waiting for an attack." The griffin queen finished.

"We went there, they’ve been having trouble with mercenary guilds and a few pirates." Twilight said. The queen looked at the alicorn.

"Question, who are you?" She asked. Twilight was about to tell her when Gurfon whispered into her ear. "Really? I wonder why you’ve never attempted to make an alicorn stallion? I thought your sister wanted to get married, you know before the whole Nightmare Moon thing?" She asked.

"Well the alicorn ascension is complex,” Celestia started

“I could do that spell if you asked me." A voice was heard. On a cloud made of chocolate was Discord. In one hand a tea cup which he was eating. "Oh yes, before I forget, happy Draconequus Day, Pinkie Pie." He tossed his half daughter a cup with chocolate in it. "Place any drink in it, and it becomes something sweet."

Celestia raised an eyebrow. "Why would you do that? You never give something out the kindness of your heart." Discord gave her a smile.

"Oh come on Celestia, I'm reformed now. That means I'm trying to reform my personality. So let me just gather a little energy and..." Discord said with a crack of his talons and paw and pointed a talon directly at Twilight. All of a sudden she was bathed in a white glow and she... make that he fell to the ground as the dust settled.

"Ow what the hay just happened?" Twilight asked as (s)he rubbed a hoof against his/her head. Everyone present minus Discord stood agape at the new alicorn prince.
"What? What are you all looking at?"

"Umm... Twilight, there's no easy way to say this, but you're a stallion now." Rarity said. Twilight looked himself/herself over and his/her eyes widened. (S)he looked like (s)he wanted to scream but nothing came out. "If it makes you feel any better you're very handsome." Rarity offered with a weak smile. Twilight glared at Discord. That set Twilight off, (s)he screamed his/her lungs out for several long moments until (s)he finally shot Discord an icy stare.

"Discord, change me back right now." (S)he growled.

Discord frowned at this. "Fine." With a snap of his fingers Twilight was returned to normal. He turned to Celestia. "Oh before I go Celestia, you should ask how Pinkie Pie does what she does." He snapped his fingers and a chew toy was given to Pinkie. "This is for your pet." He popped out of existence. Celestia turned to Twilight.

"Before I ask, Twilight, I personally get the feeling this is how he acted before the whole burn the forest mess." Celestia said.

"So did we reform him or not?"

Celestia ignored it. "Just tell me about, Pinkie. We can debate whether we did anything about him or not later." Pinkie pie bounced up.

"My mommy got roped into his cult and they did a weird ritual, basically he claims to be my daddy." Celestia reaction was almost pure instinct, her brain had fried, and she hit Pinkie Pie in the face.

Almost everyone was shocked by what they had just seen, all except Gilda who was rolling on the ground laughing. "Oh Damn, I didn't know that you had that in you Celestia. Just, Wham, right in the face!"

"I'm sorry Pinkie Pie, I have no idea what just came over me." Celestia said, pulling Pinkie up.

"Don't worry about it, Princess, that piece of news hit me in the face when I heard it. If it hadn't been for Mal and the rest of my friends I might still be sad."

"Mal?" Celestia asked looking confused.

"That's what Sunset and the others who travel with Malthael call him." Twilight answered.

"And he helped Pinkie deal with this news?" She asked.

"Yes though he seemed to be more concerned with the whole he says his name and everypony oh sorry everyone faints." Gilda was a bit confused by this.

"Really? What’s so wrong with his name?" the griffin princess asked.

"His name is Malthael, The Angel of Death." The three griffins paused.

"With a name like that, of course, anything else?" Twilight turned to add.

"He’s traveling with Nightmare Moon."

"Wait, this guy is so tough that he can have Nightmare Moon follow him? I kinda want to meet this Mal."

"I agree, he sounds like a proud warrior." Gurfon added.

"Honestly, he's more like a goofy jerk." Rainbow Dash said. "Though when he tied that cult leader to a ceiling fan, that was pretty funny." She admitted with a chuckle.

"So do you guys know where this Mal guy is?" Gilda asked.

"Oh I think I may have accidentally sent him to some islands off the coast of Prance. I'm sure he's been busy making all sorts of friends." Discord said nonchalantly.

Everyone jumped a bit at that. "How’d you do that?" Gilda asked. Discord looked his talons over.

"Do what?" He asked.

Everyone decide to stop trying to figure it out. "What islands?" Twilight asked. Discord himself looked her right in the face.

"Oh it doesn't matter, the islands are unexplored by you ponies and Mal’s having a blast, why I think those three, Sunset Shimmer, Trixie Lulamoon and Nightmare Moon have fallen in love with him. Honestly, I thought about giving him my card, I'm a certified wedding planner." He pulled up a certificate from the minotaur nation. "I'm also a fog specialist, a teacher, oh and I'm a scientist." Each one of them was certified form a non-pony source. "Oh and as the object of worship, an Avatar of chaos, and a former ruler I can legally marry people."

"Wha... what do you mean they've fallen in love with him?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, what could they possibly see in that guy?" Rainbow Dash added.

"Well he did save all of their lives, or in Moon's case, gave her a life. That might be an attractive quality to most girls." Discord said with a shrug.

"Damn, this Mal got Nightmare Moon to follow him and to fall for him. Are you sure he's just a goofy jerk, Dash."

"Wait a second, Discord when you said the most wonderful form of chaos there is... did you mean love?" Twilight asked.

"Very good Twilight!" Discord said with an explosion of confetti. "I was wondering if you'd ever figure that out."

"How is love chaos?" Rarity asked. Discord gave a smile.

"Tell me, have you ever seen or known of someone who does something so stupid, or something he knows will either kill him or her or maybe them because of love? Love can make people do the most irrational things and a few times a problem will arise, all emotions have the chance of getting people to do something irrational and chaotic."
He pulled up a picture. "It showed Nightmare Moon kissing Sunset in Duskwood. "And sometimes it can change your perception of reality, like this, Nightmare Moon kissing Sunset and in love with both Mal and Sunset while Sunset loves Mal." He also smiled. "I get the feeling that Luna must be bi."

"Luna has never told me anything like that." Celestia said, mostly to herself.