The psychotic gentlegriff

Anubis began to slowly awaken and when he opened his eyes, he found himself in a significantly darker room. Celestia was holding on to his barrel and he tried to wiggle his way free from the sleeping Alicorn.

After struggling to brake free he made his way over to the clock and was shocked to see that it was 3 o’clock in the morning.

“Shoot I missed dinner, sigh* that sucks.”

Anubis quietly made his way to the balcony and slowly opened the doors, walking onto the balcony he leaned against the railing and took a deep breath of the cold night air.

He exhaled and gazed towards the moon with unbridled curiosity. He had so many questions, like why was there a silhouette of a unicorn on its surface? Or how does Celestia, that beautiful mare with a bleeding heart have the strength to move it and the sun?

He let out a small giggle. “This world is truly magical and beautiful in all aspects, from the kind and caring, to the heartless and careless. This world has beauty.”

He always hated Everything about his home planet, Earth. Because it had already been explored and drained of resources, he truly believed that humanity had been in an endless cycle of destruction since it’s birth.

This world had some of those qualities but no where near as much as earth. even to a griffon, the thought of killing another sentient creature to survive was scary.

He would never deny that he was one of the worst humanity had to offer, human experimentation and engineering bio weapons. Not to mention weapon testing on civilians but he was just the product of his environment, like most humans.

This world had evil like that but not on the level he was capable of, so he sat there pondering if he even deserved Silver’s love, let alone her forgiveness…. And then there was Celestia, she was perfect in every way, so pure and kind. Smart and funny, she even knew when to put her hoof down. So why did these two beautiful creatures entertain something so ugly and destructive in nature, he couldn’t seem to wrap his head around it.

Even though he wants to use his skills and knowledge for good, he knew that it could never wash away the stain upon his soul.

“No wonder I chose Anubis as my name, I might as well be the god of the dead. Sigh*”

He ignited his claw with the sickly green of the Necrovine artefact and began to focus on a chemical compound that he used to use, to put his mind to rest.

Particles began to gather in his claw and he solidified them into a small ball that resembled a piece of hard candy. Tossing the ball of unknown substances into his beak he made his way back inside and curled up into a ball at the end of Celestia’s bed.

His mind began to slow as the drug took hold of him and he fell back asleep with a pleased smile on his beak. He had never disclosed the chemical makeup of this particular pill but he knew that he needed it for tonight, even if Celestia would panic when she saw the blood coming from his beak when she awoke.

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3 hours later.

Celestia arose from her bed and immediately noticed a lack of soft feathers in her hooves. She got up and looked around her room before letting out a sigh of relief when she found Anubis sleeping on the floor.

“What are you doing you silly griff?” She gave him a soft kiss on his forehead.

She used her magic to turn the lights on and giggled at the goofy grin on his beak. She went over to lower the moon and raise the sun but she noticed that the balcony doors were open.

“Probably just Anubis getting some fresh air in the night.”

Continuing with her routine she lit up her horn, the moon began to lower and the sun took its place.

This made Anubis wake up and he immediately checked his beak for blood, he found nothing which surprised him but he wasn’t about to complain.

“Morning Celestia, I slept like a log.” He proceeded to stretch and give his wings a flap before sitting up straight.

“Good morning…. Oh my.” Celestia’s eyes were locked between his hind legs, Anubis looked down and saw that he had a common cace of morning wood.

“Oh um fuck, sorry I just woke up. Please give me a minute, I’m really sorry.” He used his wings to cover it and began backing up into the restroom.

“Oh no I completely understand, it’s a sign that you’re a healthy male Anubis, please take as much time as you need.” She then proceeded to fan herself off with a wing.

I knew he got bigger but I didn’t think he got that much bigger down there, he could kill a mare with it. Celestia thought to herself.

She could already feel her never regions heating up and she shook her head of all those dirty thoughts.

About five minutes later Anubis exited the restroom and gave her an awkward smile.

The pure white Alicorn swiftly walked passed Anubis and she flicked his flank with the end of her tail. Closing the door she trotted in place and suppressed a squeal.

“Oh my goodness I flicked him with my tail and he didn’t pull away, I can’t believe that I did that.”

Celestia proceeded to get washed up with a giddy smile on her muzzle, she took extra care to brush her teeth and her mane. Which she normally did in her room on her restroom.

She exited looking absolutely stunning but Anubis was nowhere to be found. so she left her room and asked the two guards outside her doors if they had seen Anubis leaving.

The mare had a dreamy look in her eyes as she said that he had “took his sweet flanks down the hall your highness”.

This annoyed Celestia, her guards should be more professional than that, she would be having words with Captain Graceful about this behaviour. She didn’t care if it was normal for mares to be like that by nature, she would have it ironed out of them.

Celestia saw that the door to Anubis’s room was open and she let herself in. The griff she was looking for poked his head out of the restroom with a toothbrush.

“Oh hi Celestia, haven’t you heard about this new thing called knocking? It’s really revolutionary if you ask me.”

“Oh my bad, I didn’t know I was imposing on you.”

“You know I’m messing around.”

“Heheheheh Yeah but I like playing along with your shenanigans.”

“Aw thanks, my shenanigans are the best shenanigans.”

“Oh are they now, mhmm I don’t know I believe that i have the best shenanigans.”

“Do you now? Okay I’m listening but give me a second.”

They were walking towards the dining room doors when Anubis stopped, Celestia turned to him and immediately understood why he had stopped.

“Hey don’t worry, I’m sure she’s not scared of you…. And if she is, well you have me.” She gave the motionless griffon an encouraging smile and he took a step forward. “Don’t worry, just relax.”

The doors open and Anubis followed Celestia in, they got seated and Anubis moved his closer to the Regal Alicorn’s.

A few moments later all three griffon royals entered the room and Silverfeather refused to look at Anubis. This stung him, worse than any needles or drills. So he just stared at his claws, the conversation that followed between Celestia and the King and Queen of the griffon empire was boring to him.

It was about them leaving to return home and their concerns about Silverfeather safety here. Celestia insured that she would personally look into increasing the overall safety of the castle and the city. This gave Silverbeak a bit of reassurance but he requested that Anubis be one of his daughters personal guards and the room went silent.

Silverfeather dropped her knife and fork. “D-Dad? But i thought you didn’t like him near me and h-he’s a-a killer!”

“I didn’t…. But he’s gained my respect for saving you and that’s why I want him to be appointed as one of your personal guards.”

“Honey I’m not saying that the griff’s not capable but he hasn’t had the proper training.”

“Mhmm so have him trained but I believe that he has something the other guards don’t, he won’t hesitate. Princess Celestia you spoke about the griff’s past but could we hear it from the source?”

“Only if your okay with that Anubis?”

“If you really want to know I don’t mind but I don’t want Silver to hear.”

“That’s understandable, so we’ll discuss this after breakfast.”

Anubis nodded and they all went back to eating their food, except Silverfeather. She didn’t like that Anubis had asked that she not hear about his past, she new that he had been rescued by Celestia but that was it.

After they finished their breakfast Celestia took Silverfeather to her private study and Anubis followed the griffon royals to a nearby office that was unoccupied.

He took a seat on a large couch, Queen Blackfeather and King Silverbeak got comfortable on a similar couch just across from him.

“So I already know that what you told princess Celestia, what I want to know is what did you have to do to survive.”

“Straight to the point, well I had to do what was necessary to live…. They would cut us open without putting us to sleep but you got used to the pain.”

“Oh my, dear that’s horrible.”

“It was but that’s not even the worst parts of the bunker, they would feed us those who didn’t survive the experiments. Not to mention we were forced to fight to the death for his entertainment.”

“But you survived, how?”

“Honey!? This is probably a sore subject for the griff.”

“Sorry but I need to know. i noticed this look in your eyes Anubis, the look of somegriff who’s seen death and destruction.”

“Unfortunately yes, I was his favourite test subject because I didn’t cry or scream. He would say that I was a treat to test on…. O-one of the worst feelings was seeing them take one of the younger ones, for them to never return alive but as a corpse.” He look down and dug his claws into the couch. “I would volunteer to be the test subject so others didn’t have to endure as much suffering…. But is was all for nothing, they all died in the end.”

“I’m…. Sorry to hear that but you did what you could…. look I know my daughter likes you…. Well she may be a bit scared of you right now but she really likes you, so please keep her safe for me.”

“Hey no need to look so down Anubis my husband’s right, Silver really does like you.”

“But why? How could somecreature so sweet and beautiful like me? I don’t even like me!”

The two royals fell silent and looked at each other.

“Anubis, you can’t hate yourself just because you couldn’t save those griffons in that dreadful place.”

“I know what you’re trying to do Queen Blackfeather but.” She cut him off.

“Please just call me Blackfeather and if you and my daughter do work out, then call me mum.” She gave Anubis a cheeky grin.

“Sweetie!?!”

“Oh shush, I’m just lightning up the mood.”

“Hahahahahahah! You two remind me of my parents before they were…. But yeah it’s kinda funny.”

They both gave Anubis a warm smile.

“But what I was going to say.” He was cut off again.

“Look it’s fine, you don’t have to tell us but just look after my daughter.”

“I will your majesty.” He turned to Queen Blackfeather. “Don’t worry I’ll look after her…. mum.”

The griffon royals had mixed reactions, Silverbeak was in shock and Blackfeather jumped over to Anubis and gave him a bone crushing hug.

“Isn’t this great dear! We’ve found a suitable mate for our daughter, oh that means a wedding and grandcubs! Oh this is wonderful!!”

The still shocked King just stared into the distance.

“Woah woah woah, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here now. Your highness.”

“It’s mum now.”

“Oookay, anyway let’s just back track a bit. Don’t be planning or hoping for any weddings or grandcubs anytime soon, we’ve just had our first date and it went horribly.”

“It only went bad when you two were foalnapped, so I have hope…. Unless you’re having trouble with your…. You know.”

“IT WORKS PERFECTLY FINE!!!”

“Honey let go of the poor griff and please stop this talk about our daughter getting married.”

“You have to let go of her someday and Anubis here is the best candidate, not only does she like him but he’s capable and smart…. Well that’s what Celestia says. Not to mention if he gets with both of them, it would strengthen the relations between our nations. A win win win!”

“I know I have to let my little song bird go, but at nineteen? I was hoping that I could have at least 2 more years before she fell in love.”

“Well she’s found a very capable special somegriff, so too bad Silverbeak.”

“B-But I haven’t given him my blessing.”

“Oh yeah mhmm, Anubis Grimgost you have my blessing to continue to see my daughter romantically.”

“He needs both of our blessings!”

“Ooookay whilst you two talk about that, I’m gonna go and find Captain Graceful…. Bye!” And with that Anubis had left the royals to discuss, he didn’t know which was worse. King Silverbeak hating the thought of his daughter with him or Queen Blackfeather already planning a wedding and preparing for grandcubs.

He needed to take his mind off those thoughts and Captain Graceful could help, Anubis had been keeping up the strict training schedule that was given to him…. To the best of his abilities but he knew that Graceful would say that it isn’t good enough, so he’ll just work harder.

He was just glad that he managed to escape from that awkward conversation, he was planning on focusing on his training and study’s. This would give Silver enough time and space to recover from their failed attempt at a date.