Chapter 14. How to train your Necromancer.

I woke up before Raven as she was fast asleep and using me as a teddy bear. This was funny to me as she was nuzzling me like a purring kitten on catnip. She had a content smile as she rubbed her face all over my neck like she was claiming me like a cat does. Her tail, somehow, wrapped around mine. Her wings were wrapped around my waist just like her arms. I knew that I was a very cuddly Griffin, but this was ridiculous! I sighed and let what happens, happened. She eventually woke up with a cute 'coo' before she realized who she was clinging to like a leech. She looked up and saw my raised brow while I adorned a fiendish grin. 'Time to start,' I thought.

"Hello, beautiful. Wasn't last night fun?" I purred. Her face paled to a new shade of white that was never reached before, then she realized what I said. This caused her face to go from white to red in less than a second.

"W-W-What?!" she stutter-asked as she kicked me off the bed. I gave her a pouty frown. "That wasn't very nice, after all, the way I made you scream in extasy last night you begged me not to stop," I said with a sly grin. Her entire head was red. "I...No...We...Didn't...How..." she spluttered. Just as I was about to finished causing her brain to explode, Tom walked in.

"My Lord, we have a problem," Tom said as he looked at me with a blank face while I collected myself from the floor. "What kind of problem?" I asked going back to my serious face and slightly annoyed that I was cock-blocked.

"Gilda has told me that the Element of Loyalty and the Element of Laughter were coming for a visit. She said that they were bringing a mare known as Sunset Shimmer, who was tagging along to learn about the Griffins from the Shadow Archives that they somehow know about."

"That is a problem," I said. "Have Gilda go into sleeper mode and come and tell me when they arrive," I ordered.

"Of course My Lord, but what of the archive?" he asked.

"I will deal with it. Just make sure to stall them. I need an hour to clear out the archive," I said. Tom bowed his head and left the room. Leaving me alone with the glaring queen who just realized that I did a joke about her. I gave her a smug smile and pulled on the chain, causing her to fall off the bed and kiss the floor.

Sunset walked into the small castle town of Griffinstone with two of Twilights friends at her side. It has been a few decades since she was last in Equestria after she was banished into the mirror. She was surprised to learn that Twilight came and asked her to help her out with a couple of scrolls that she was having trouble deciphering. When she came through, she was also greeted by her old mentor, Princess Celestia who welcomed her with open arms.

She was utterly shocked that she was easily forgiven for her actions years prior and in the human world. The fact that she was not only wanted back in Equestria to help out with a mystery was something of a dream to her. Sure she was technically in her fifties for how the time around the portal was, but in reality, she was as old as Twilight in term of Biological age, but that didn't stop her from adjusting to all the change that happened around her. In fact, she was quick to adapt and found a good spot back into pony society that she left all those years ago.

Twilight and Sunset were quick to go over the possible ways to translate the scrolls, but each way that they tried didn't work. They simply didn't have enough information on the old Griffin culture before the war to make any sense of the complex symbols that they used to use. Twilight proposed that she and a couple of her friends to go to the only Griffin Free city-state to find something that would aid in the translation.

Sunset was wary of such a task, but when she learned that two of her friends, Rainbowdash, and Pinkie Pie went there not that long ago. What was more interesting was that Rainbow had a friend named Gilda living there due to some unknown reason. Sunset was slightly confused that Rainbow was concerned with Gilda and why she left Ponyville. She made a note that they were just close, but she couldn't quite tell.

Sunset was disgusted at the state Griffinstone was in when they entered the town, even though she was told by Pinky that it was a dump and to not to be surprised when they got there. The streets were broken and filthy, the houses looked like they should be condemned and the general mood of the town was sour. The Griffins gave them an uncaring look as they walked to Gilda's place to ask some questions. Sunset made a note that there was a big possibility that they weren't wanted in town, so she should be ready if a fight were to break out.

Rainbowdash lead them to a decent looking place where a Griffin was waiting outside with a smug look on her face. Sunset knew that look as it was one that she used to wear every day before Twilight came to town. The Griffin saw them approach her and her look broke into a happy smile that threw Sunset off.

'Well, Rainbow said they were friends,' Sunset thought.

"Hey, dweeb. Have a nice trip?" the Griffin asked as she and Rainbow hoof bumped.

"Meh, it was okay, could have got here faster with my wings, but I had to wait for the land dwellers," Rainbow replied, causing some offense to Sunset while Pinky just bounced in place. "So, what are you doing here?" Gilda asked. "I thought you had friendship problems to solve?" she mocked. Rainbow rolled her eyes. "Nah, I'm just here to look awesome while Sunny here is doing some egghead stuff for Twilight."

'I am not an egghead,' Sunset muttered.

"Well, I should probably kick you flank in a race while we let the egghead to her nerd stuff, say, around Black Peak?" Gilda smirked.

'I'm not a nerd,' Sunset thought.

"Sure, but you know I will win," Rainy pointed to herself with a wink.

"As if!" Gilda challenged before she leaped into the air with her massive wings and bolted to a mountain with an ebony peak. Rainbow was quick behind her, leaving Sunset alone with Pinky...Who was also gone. Sunset sighed and as she decided to go to the old castle to start her search.

I wiped my brow after a long hour of shoving books into my hammerspace. It was a pleasant workout that gave me a minor increase to my main mana pool. Sure it was a small increase, but an increase none the less. I walked out of the now empty archive with a livid Raven trying to burn me alive with her eyes. I gave her a smirk that she couldn't do shit to me, and I found it rather amusing to piss off the old, scary queen that made Lich Kings bowed to her.

I wonder what they would think of me for making the Queen of Death bow to me? Would I get respect or would I get disdain? I bet Hades would flip his shit to know that the one that never found her way into his army of the damned was taken by a Void Knight as she calls me. Though, it was nice to learn about my new title from the queen as I worked.

I liked how a Void Knight was the most feared being amongst the dark mages and chaos mages. Chao magic especially would avoid me like the plague as Void is the perfect opposite and highly poisonous. She told me that if Discord were to find himself in the Void. He would be ripped apart in a far more horrific way than death by HellFire. Which answered a question that I had since I had my eye. Deus must have made me immune to it and when it tried to claim me, it couldn't touch me as it corrupts the very soul. Having that aspect saved my ass in the end, but it didn't answer why I don't have it anymore, despite unlocking it to is full potential.

With one of my old questions answered, one still remained. I knew that it was sentient to a degree and I knew that it would leave once I was on death row, so where did it go? Did it actually believe that I was going to die in the black hole and find a new host? If that's the case, did it find a host in this world or my old one? More questions that I really hope it stayed in the old world. If Celestia had control of the bearer was something I didn't want to deal with. I put aside those worrisome thoughts and walked back to my room while Raven was forced to follow or be dragged like a ragdoll.