The Return of Darkness

Fancy Pant's mansion was not as huge as I thought it was going to be. It screamed a; posh, victorian, stylized complex with an elaborate garden decorating the front of the main driveway to the house. Fancy Lead me out of the carriage and into the main foyer of the mansion that had a twin staircase that looked like Goddess Athena herself would have in her house.

In the center of the room, above the stairs was a bright, crystal chandelier that hovered over a red rug that went up both sets of stairs and to the main door. I saw a bench and several vases and statues of exotic animals expertly placed throughout the foyer to show the wealth of the family wherever one would dare to look away from the maids that kept the place clean.

Speaking of maids, they were all Griffins of various colors, shapes and sizes. They gave me a sorrowful glance my way as we walked up on of the staircases to get something to eat by Fleurs discretion.

Just like the main foyer. The halls of the mansion were decorated to show the wealth with various paintings adorning the walls in between the many rooms in the house. I paced by a butler that was also a Griffin that also gave me a sad look. I was lead to a far room on the east side of the manor that didn't look very intimidating, that is until I was thrown in by telekinesis and lock in.

Rubbing my face from the sudden need to kiss the floor, I took a survey of my new surroundings that I was in. I was in; a small, stone, room with a cot in the corner that was roughly my size. Above the cot was a barred window that let in just a trickle of light. In the other corner of the room were a toilet and a sink that was firmly embedded in the wall they were attached to. 'Figures that the good treatment wouldn't last,' I thought angerly. I saw a flap at the bottom of the door open and a silver tray with food that looked like it belongs to a dog entered the room. Putting two and two together, it was probably drugged, so I flushed it down the toilet and pulled out a premade sandvich from my hammerspace and waited for the opportunity to check out what was going to happen to me via Umbra spell.

I waited for the night to fully take its place in the sky. While I waited, I formulated a plan of action to see what was going to happen to me in Fancy Pants care. I yawned and decided to screw it and cast a spell that would make me a living shadow. "Forma Umbra," I said after my tray of poison was taken back to whence it came and jumped into a shadow and appeared in a room that was a cross between a study and lounge.

"I don't care if that runt is valuable. He is a fucking Griffin! A slave! Why in the hell do I have to take care of the lesser being?" Shouted a pony that was sitting on a couch opposite to Fancy. They were separated by a small, round table. The pony opposite in question was a yellow pony with a dark yellow mane. His cutie mark was an Omega symbol with two lightning bolts crossing under it. I stayed hidden in the shadow that I was in and listened in on their conversation.

"Be as that may High Voltage. The Griffin we are talking about is very intelligent, said intellect is something not to be tested," Fancy said with a shuddered.

"He is a baby! How in the hell is he dangerous?" Volt asked, waving his hooves in the air.

"I don't know. There is something behind his eyes that unnerved me. For the briefest of moments. It was like I was about to be eaten by a legendary black dragon of immeasurable power. Never have I felt so afraid in my life. There is something that he is hiding that I don't want to bring out."

'Kinda too late for that,' I thought incredulously.

"Are you listening to yourself? That slave can't do anything! Whatever you saw it was just your imagination. He was captured and that's that. I'm surprised that he even got to keep his wings, let alone didn't get sent straight to the mines."

"I would've believed that too, if not for the fact that he came of his own accord."

"What do ya' mean?" High raised a brow.

"When I asked the guard that was responsible for his capture, he said he acted strangely. No resistance, no yelling, no anything. Winter just stared with a cold, malicious stare that sent chills in the hearts of the guards that caged him. They said it was like there was a hand of pure death looming over them, waiting for its time to strike. In fact, they said that he looked like he wanted to be captured like he wanted to be escorted straight to the capital to get...Adopted into...A wealthy family," Fancy finished as sweat began to trickle down his face.

'Whelp, cat's out of the bag.'

"If I get what you are trying to put together. Then that runt is a walking time bomb. I bet he is waiting to get sent to my lab to strike, which would ruin you and cause an uproar!" Volt shouted as he bolted up. "He's a fucking sleeper! We have to call the guards to deal with this threat."

"I agree, he should be knocked unconscious from the food I asked to be given to him."

'Well, I can't have that, I guess its time for me to make sure they don't talk,' I thought, biting my lip in frustration. 'Note to self: Don't be so obvious next time.'

Just as the two were about to walk out the door, I focused my magic and whispered a spell, "Vinculis Umbra(Shadow chains)." After my spell was cast, the shadows in the room wrapped around the two ponies and suspended them in the center of the room. I cast another spell to prevent anyone from interrupting us.

I released my shadow form spell and walked in front of the shouting ponies, screaming for help. The second they saw me waiting patiently for them to shut up in a chair that I set up in front of them, they began sweating and trembling for their lives.

"Hello, gentlecolts. How are you tonight?" I asked calmingly.

"H-How a-are y-y-y-you o-out of y-your cell!" Fancy stuttered. High Voltage stayed silent.

"Simple, magic. Though, a very ancient magic that not even Celestia could comprehend, but let's not get into that now," I said as I pulled a coffee cup out of my Hammerspace and took a sip with a content sigh. "Let's talk business. Right now, I can say a few words and both of you will become my slaves. My magic isn't dark by nature as it was designed to purge darkness itself, but with a smart mind. Light magic can be just as sinister," I finished with another sip of coffee.

"Bullshit! Griffins don't have magic!" Volt angerly shouted.

I raised a brow. "Really, last I checked. Griffins magical capability is ten times stronger than a pegasus. As for the how I can do this. Let's just say that I used to be one of the most fear creatures in existence. Used to be is from a botched chaos based spell." I took another sip while Volt took his time trying to comprehend what I just said. "Now enough about me. Both of you are going to answer why Griffins are slaves and how that came to be...So, start talking, we have all night to do so."

"You can't do shit," Volt hissed. "GUARDS HELP! WE HAVE A..."

"Deus Meus(eternal servant)," I said cutting him off. In an instant, he jolted violently, thrashing against his chains. Blood started to pool out of his eyes as he tried to fight the spell. Foam spluttered out of his mouth as he coughed out blood before he went limp as a twitching mass of flesh. "Are you going to behave Volt?" I asked.

"Yes master," Volt nodded in defeat. I gave him a glowing smile as I released him from his chains.

"Good. Now go get cleaned up and come back with something for me to eat please?" I ordered, causing Fancy to relieve himself in front of me. Volt left us alone for a moment, thus, I turned back to Fancy and repeated my question. "So, care to tell me why Griffins are slaves? Or do you want to become my eternal slave like Volt?"

"I-I-I-I'll talk, just, please don't hurt me."

"Then begin," I ordered as I took another sip of coffee.

"In the year: 540 AN, the Griffin Kingdoms began to wage war on the recovering Equestria. The twelve kings of Griffonia saw that Equestria was still weak from the Nightmare Moon war and decided to strike in an attempt to rule Equestrian Proper. Celestia, at the time, was very unstable at the loss of her sister and made it law after she killed the twelve kings that the entire Griffin race was to serve pony kind for being nothing but carnivorous monsters that only ate ponies and nothing else."

"Over the years of brutality and horrific conflict. The remnants of the Griffin Kingdoms fell into non-existence. The Griffin race fell into line and took the role of servanthood with gusto. There was no rebellion, no historical retaliation. Yes, there was; the odd runaway, the odd saint, and the odd demon. Those that dominated your race like toys were praised while those that actually gave respect were shunned and sometimes, murdered."

"The proud race of warriors were turned into pets in mere days and there is no one to save them," Fancy explained. "That's the gist of it from what little I know of the matter."

I scowled in frustration. Celestia was a fucking tyrant that held all the real information about the entire situation that the Griffins found themselves in. How can she, of all people, support such actions? How can the martyr of all that is peace and harmony support such pain and misery? Whatever the case. I needed answers and the best place to start, is the Griffin kingdoms themselves.

I finished my coffee as Volt appeared back into the room with a lot of freshly cooked food on a tray, carried with his magic. I nodded in approval as he began to feed me bits and pieces of a; medium rare steak that was cooked to perfection. I looked at Fancy and realized that he might blab to the princess herself of what I did to Volt. 'I can't have that blowing up in my face now,' I thought as I began a memory spell to prevent him and Volt from remembering what I did to them.

"Alright Fancy, I'll take those lies for now," I said, "But that doesn't mean that you get to leave unscathed." Fancy face paled. "Deus Meus," I said causing Fancy to scream beautiful screams echo throughout the sound proof room. Once he came to, I gave both of them orders to act normally after I did a memory spell and returned to my cell to wait for Sleeper Volt to pick me up to go to his lab that was close to the old Griffin border.