Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 9 - Uncertain times

Naysay was absolutely flabbergasted.
High Princess Celestia had spontaneously invited him with a escort of six Royal Guards to her paper work room. He had expected a lot, so many possibilities what she could want from him or tell him that his Tarterus imprisoned familie just had died for example.
He didn't how ever expected to see his wife and elder before him. But while they looked very thin and had lost a lot of muscle mass in 10 years in Tarterus, but the corruption he had seen them last in was gone.

He could not stop his tears from falling when his lips meet that of his wife. Something he had longed for so many years.
While he hugged his lost believed family, did his princess had a honest smile on her lips instead of that of her political mask.
It was moments like this that made it worth to work decades on end to archive a goal many had given up.

It was pure luck that this has fallen in her hooves, but she would milk it for how mutch it was worth.
As beautiful as this moments are and they temporarily give her a few options more in the never ending political game between royalty and nobility, eventually everypony returning to their side.
But for now Naysay would play for how ever long it lasted on her side.

As Celestia give them about half a hour to catch up, did the purified ponies eventually run out of stamina and had to return to the medically supplied castle internal hospital wing.

Naysay only need a few minutes to get himself back in his well practiced political mindset, while he unexpectedly don't force a mask of neutrality on himself.

Naysay politely ask how this was possible and whatever she wanted in return for this miracle.

Equestrias ruler would not ask for anything in return that was not freely given already.
Further did she ask him if he really thought it was random chance that his son stationed near Tarterus happen to escort a black ops operation of a experimental medical process that healed his wife and most respected elder of his family.
Or that she didn't know about the communication between them.

To Celestias pleasure did Naysay was absolutely flabbergasted once more.
Celestia told Naysay she prepared for centuries for the successful cure of dark parasitic magic with a very high success rate.

Of course did she lie the Tarterus out of the blue to keep him off guard and his associates would try to find clues to her claimes.
She had prepared a few well aged documents open enough to interpretation for a similar enough topic to get them to belive it.

In the end did she just needed Naysay to bring news to the nobels about her great deeds and how she unfortunately needed financial support after having funded all her research by herself so far.

Unfortunately was this no longer sustainable and so she give their current cure a 8/10 rating of successful purging corruption from anypony afflicted body.

If Naysay helped her to convince the nobility to stand down 1/10 of the monthly payments the gavourment of Equestria to the nobels class for the next 200 years at the very least, she might find a way to increase her research to 9/10 successful curing of dark parasitic magic afflicted for ponykind.

To further bolster Equestria finances short term and increase other Nations relationship long term, she proposed to release the information of a break through in magical medical science in two years.

From than on all Equestrian citizens get released after getting cured and reintegration into sociable circles can be assured.

Unfortunately did Celestias research only was that effective on Ponies, she would need somepony to traveling from one nation to another to bring research overview and results to their allied forces, further was it in the long term cheaper to buy a Tarterus the cure that unfortunately currently and probably for the next 100 years cost exactly 5 years of Tarterus maintenance costs for the prisoner.

Just in case they managed to somehow collect the money short term, so they don't pay long term.
After all: 5 years payments was definitely better than paying for their remaining natural life span.

When Naysay swallowed hook, line and fisherboat, did Celestia freely allowed herself a very satisfying smile and a fore hoove pumping in the air out in joy for her success once Naysay had left the room.

It would be a redicules pain keeping everyone in the dark about her 'research and the curing methods and needed materials'.
But the little dragon hatchling Cynder, had just become Celestias number one dragon.

The doomed to failing experiment was apperently far from being a prototype if it had a 8/10 successful rate of curing afflicted individuals. Further was it only natural that she focus on Ponies, since her citizen had a higher priority and with the other nations being indefinitly in her pockets as the sole owner of the cure, was everyone forced to play nice.

He had underestimated his princess... he blinked a few times after that thought registered in his mind.
Naysay was surprised how Celestia just had earned her titel back in his mind.
This mare sure had done the impossible.
Perhaps he wrote her off to prematurely.

O horseapples... he just started a witch doctor hunt two days prior in the pony first counsel.
He needed Crow Inkwell help to fix that post haste.

Also how did she manage to keep the official declared cure against parasitic dark magic as impossible declared 300 years ago, so long ago a secret?
Unless she wanted to keep the research indeed exclusive to ponies... he had indeed underestimated his Princess.
She was anything but expandable after all.
The Griffon immigration was still against his believes, but he would support her in it.
That mutch he owned her after selecting his family as example how effective the cure was.

The dark stain on his family tree was gone.
He would get rid of the dark arts materials before his wife could get herself in trouble again... she was a stubborn mare like that, when she put her head to it.
The stuff was worth two fortunes on the black market anyway. He already new who to sell it to via indirect payments.

Crow Inkwell just had a meeting with his close associate Naysay. What he was told was amazing in very concerning. Celestia might suspect Naysay to be in one of many Canterlot nobel organization that wasn't answering to the Princess, but how mutch did she know really?

Further did they keep losing guard and maid staff to retirement or other unfortunately tragic ends. They keep failing to have acquired personal for their spy and smuggling networks. The Griffon immigrants are to blindsided by Celestia titel and her deeds to be swaying for more profitable factions.
The recruiting will be falling short for years to come.

Their information network was apperently not nearly as efficient as he had been assured time and time again. Research and the funding of it always left a paper trail. To have it only revealed because Princess Celestia did it herself... how curious.
They had indeed a lot to accomplish in their lifetime as to improve their heirs chances to keep up with the Alicorn of the Sun and if the legends finally come true, her sisters as well.

But what was more pressing the finding out the secret to the cure, was to keep it in ponies hooves. Once in two years the knowledge will be spread, every damn non Equestrian spy will be over Equestria newest biggest secret.

Unfortunately had he first to put out the wildfire that Naysay had started... not the first time, BUT hopefully the last time.
These are going to be very busy two years indeed.

Nobelpony of the 2th rank Naysay thought to himself that he should use the incident, when a Minotaur attempted to get a sloppy assasination on the entire Apple family clan youngest generation through unpunished as a tragic accident.
While the newest addition of a dragon would not be missed, a non-pony almost successful murdered pony foals. Even Equestria highest Pony First supremacist member don't go so low as to murder foals or adolescents.

He would help the Apple clan to get this lunatic terminated. He heard Minatour meat was going well with red wine. He would at least try it once.

In other news was his son a young but gifted and in power rising young royal dream realm guard, but 'Red Dream' has just been caught send him a dragon fire scroll message on a black ops mission. He better pull his son of Tarterus and get him station closer to home. He wanted his current post only to see his mother, when she occasionally got lucid enough to talk with family.
Time to make up for lost time.
Time to become a loving family once more.

Bright Mac and Butter Cup just learned from Cynder being saved from deaths barn gate, how it was achieved on the other hoove was highly concerning.
To their silent protest did Princess Celestia freely allowed a experimental medical preparation outside anyone's expertise to save their adopted daughters life.

Celestia had made it clear that even if it worked, Cynder would probably spend the rest of her life in Tarterus unless somehow a cure to corruption
spreading parasitic dark magic is found.
What was officially declared impossible 300 year-ish ago!

Yet this experimental medical procedure uncovered that their darling Cynder was the very first being to naturaly cure other dark parasitic magic afflicted ponies!
There are currently 6 Black Hoove agent around her bed to keep her safe. Their savior from the Timberwolfs might in time become without exaggeration the one to save the world from dark magic corruption world wide... perhaps they even find the source of it in the future.

Princess Celestia herself come to their Orchard to escort them to Cynders bed. While her core was already regenerated was she still weak from a cold she had catched while her magic immune system was down for the count.
While they had to occasionally dodge a black lighting cough of the little death by adorable, was the world no longer so grim.

Once they reached a conclusion about that Minatour... a example of one kind or another had to be made.

Further did Butter Cup & Bright Mac are about to receive serious training and their family owned lands that had Ponyville standing on it was about to become a lot more busy with Celestia making Ponyville into one of the biggest military training grounds of Griffons to hide Equestrias biggest secret known to the world in two year time.

It was only a matter of time, until Cynder was found out to be a piece to the 'Cure'. There for it was only the question WHEN they come to get Cynder through abduction.

Cynder had just become the most valuable commodity in Equestria and beyond.
Should she ever have hatchlings on her own, would they might have to accept selling them off into 'pseudo slavery' if their military was not up to other nations.

Celestia would build up her military over the next 20 years for the day when 'no' was not longer unfortunately sufficient to hold others off to come for Cynder and her future hatchlings...
Dark times would await them all once some entiteld idiot would try monopolize the cure and unlike Equestria it would not be shared for the greater good, rather are there always some idiots that would run interference for their own gains.

Many guard as loyal a they are, started to wonder what was going on. High Princess Celestia had just now set free two of her own to lifetime sentanced former subjects officially removed from the Tarterus prisoner list.

They all know a black ops medical procedure for something had been performed and probably cost the prisoners their life's, since parasitic dark magic was impossible to cure.
But why did a roster was released to start in two years a weekly release of prisoners?
They had send out a dedicated Tarterus squad and a royal dream guard squad to investigate the legitimate nature of these orders given and would come with a by Celestia own magic marked magic scroll to accomplish verification.

High Princess Celestias seal had been impossible to manipulate or to artificially fabricated without it being successful uncovered to be one on closer inspection without failure within a day.
Especially since it changed its signature during day and night in a way noone managed to copy so far.

But perhaps someone had finally finished to fabricate a legitimately looking forgery?
It had to...
It was about 300 to 350 years that High Princess Celestia declared in a world leader summit her parasitic dark magic influenced cure research program as failed and subsequently the curing to be impossible.
Making the imprisonment or execution of found out individuals afflicted with its influences a law that got supporters in many other King/Queendomes.

To suddenly have the Equestrian leader Celestia somehow suddenly without reason changing her mind over night/day? Impossible!
It had to be... one does not simply change his mind for no reason about something like that.

Major Faithful Wings had to get behind this. He would not be falling for this like any common soldier might do under pressure of a seemingly perfect fabricated false strings of orders.
Once he found out who managed it, he personaly would investigate this horseapples filled plot.

He had surprisingly many vacation days on his back hoove collected. His most loyal soldiers would accompany him to the Princess in pony to ask her. Somecreature might have smuggle this inofficially given orders past Tarterus messages service, but let see what his princess had to say about this blatantly ludacris scam.

Two weeks later did Major Faithful Wings was before his princess and she confirmed her previously send out orders.
She like the initiative of her loyal soldiers and give them a field promotion and a new assignment that had ponies of their loyalty and quality be placed where they are truly needed.

After taking a week to running background checks on them, did they received their new orders.

Lieutenant Colonel Faithful Wings was to be the pony of the hour to oversee the structuring and training of the new Equestrian Griffon forces, after ten years would he receive a one of a kind mission that literally would have him having a hoove in changing the world for the better.
The present soldiers had one chance to get out of this, because their princess had no doubt about the lethality of their true mission starting ten years from today... if everything would run according to plan.

Fat chance.

By the end of the meeting did Princess Celestia had the perfectly loyal soldiers and if needed be 'expandable guards', for the safety of Cynder the dragon of the apple family clan.

The public made case of Iron Faith was about to be commencement by noone less than 'High Princess Celestia Solaris Stellar' in attendance of the 'hole' Apple clan. Directly or indirectly affected by the Minatours actions.

Since it was a high profile case with massive implications, did the Ambassador of Minatoria had been in attendance as well.

To Celestias horror did the Apple clan Matriarch and father of the almost killed foals and dragon hatchling declared the use of a antic law he was entitled to call upon, that would force the criminal to fight him to the death if he accepted.

With the threat of losing any remaining shred of dignity and respect Iron Faith had to accept.

In 1 month would 'Bright Mac of the Apple family clan' fight 'Iron Faith from the Iron horn family clan'.

Two would entry the arena alive, only one was going to leave it, if at all... only time would tell.

Author's Note

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Last time edited: 10.04.2024