The psychotic gentlegriff

It was the dead of night and Anubis was still awake in his room, Silver was out cold in his bed whilst he tinkered with different crystals and gems. He was trying to see which ones conducted magic the most efficiently, that’s when a knocking on the balcony door caught his attention.

“Pssssssssss Anubis, it’s me Jernick.”

“Oh! how are you doing?”

“I’m good, in fact I’ve gathered all of the changelings I spoke of. We’ve made a camp in the Whitetail Woods.”

“Ah good, then let’s get going.”

“But your wings don’t….”

“Don’t have flight worthy feathers, I know but give me a second.” Anubis began to rapidly grow a new set of feathers and walked over to the balcony. “So are you ready Jernick?”

“Yes sir.”

“Please just call me brother, after all you have my genetics.”

“Gasp!* I’ve never had a brother before, t-thank you Anu…. brother.” Jernick’s eyes became saucers as he hugged him, it was an odd display of affection but if what he told Anubis about his life was true. Then he had received very little affection if any at all.

“No problem Jernick, now let’s go and see this campsite. Then they took off into the night.

It took them an hour to get to the Whitetail Woods, mostly because Jernick’s wings got tired and Anubis had to carry him the rest of the way.

“Sorry for that…. I used all of my stamina, flying to Canterlot.”

“It’s fine but how many changelings are there?”

“Um maybe like 40-50 ish, why?”

“Okay good, I can manage those numbers. I’m going to change them all tonight, you’re going to be in charge when I’m not here…. So that’s most of the time.”

“What! Why me?”

“Because I trust you and they’re going to need a leader.”

“B-But I’m no leader, I can barely lead myself.”

“Well no time like the present to learn how to lead a small group of…. Mhmmm I don’t even know what to call you guys, let alone myself.”

“Um well don’t look at me.”

“Mhmmmm maybe…. Nope I’ve got nothing, so introduce me to your fellow Changelings.”

“You mean soon to be Ex-Changelings.” Jernick then bounced over to the concerned group and they immediately began inspecting him. “Hey lings I’m back and I brought a friend, you know the one I told you all about!”

A small Changeling approached Anubis. “H-hello M-Mr Anubis…. It’s a honour to m-meet you.”

Anubis looked down at the small and visibly shaking Changeling, he picked the little one up and spoke in a soft voice. “Hello there little one and what’s your name?”

The little one looked completely stunned and began to melt into Anubis’s fluff, tears began to dampen his chest. “Y-you don’t h-hate us?”

The little ones question completely took him by surprise as something inside, told him to comfort the sobbing Changeling. This display caught the attention of the other lings and they cautiously inched towards him, looking for any signs of deceit in the large griffon. “Brother, please explain to me why this one was shocked by my lack of hatred towards it?”

“Brother? Oh me…. um well ponies, griffon and other creatures don’t really like us…. And our Queen doesn’t really care about our wellbeing.”

“Jernick that’s not a Queen, that’s a tyrant. So let me help you by turning you all into one of my kind, just like Jernick.” The lings just stared at him, so Anubis asked the little one that was snuggling into his foreleg if they would like to be first. The little ling happily accepted and Anubis began to alter it’s body.

He couldn’t tell what gender any of them were but he was about to find out, once he turned them all into long eared griffons ,which Silverfeather so kindly named his breed.

“Hey Anu…. Brother, won’t that hurt the little one, Like it did to me?”

“Nope, I’ve found a way to do it without causing pain to the individual…. So is it a male or female? I can’t tell.”

“That ling is a female but I don’t see why that matters, the queen is the only one who’s allowed to lay eggs.”

“Well that’s not going to matter soon because they won’t be Changelings for much longer.”

“What do you mean?”

“Once I’m done, you won’t need a queen to reproduce.” Jernick and the other lings just gave Anubis an odd look.

One Changeling called out from the crowd. “Is that because you’ll be our king?”

“Um not necessarily, what I’m saying is that if any of you want to have little ones of your own. You can.” A wave of understanding hit the confused lings and they began looking at one another, in surprise.

Jernick walked up to Anubis. “Really? Like to us, starting a family is unheard of.”

“Well this is a new beginning for you and your fellow lings.”

2 hours later and Anubis had completely transformed all the Changelings into the same breed as him, minus the bone blade. He was completely recked and decided to lay down, upon doing so. the group of Ex-Changelings rushed to his side, some pressing themselves against him and the rest stared at him.

“I bet you guys are hungry, right?” They nodded in response. “So a few of you are going to follow my brother and go on a hunt. Jernick make sure that you teach them to work as a team.”

“Ha that won’t be a problem, after all that’s what we’re used to. We may have been used for espionage but we have always been better in large numbers.”

“Good, then I expect results.” Jernick nodded and took off running, a hunting party followed behind him.

Anubis began to doze off but stopped himself, he now knew why Silver and Celestia collected any loose feathers he would discard. The bloody things were soft. That’s when a rustling grabbed everycreatures attention.

Everycreature but Anubis and the young ones got up, forming a semicircle around Anubis. The little ones hid under his wings as the rushing stopped.

Then a confused griffon princess walked out from behind the bush, she when to walk toward Anubis but she was met with resistance from two of the long-eared griffons.

Anubis got up to the dismay of the cubs and jumped over the wall of fluff and feathers. “Stand down she’s a friend.”

Silver looked surprised and annoyed. “A-Anubis? There’s more of you, like a lot more. We need to tell Celestia that you’re not the only one.”

“Silver what are you doing here?”

“I was following you…. Well you’re scent but that’s not the point, you’re not the last of your kind.”

“Yes I know but look I have something to tell you Silver, I have a relative. A brother, that I never knew of and I’d like to introduce you to him.” Anubis didn’t like that he had to lie to her but the face she made was priceless nonetheless.

Silverfeather’s mind came to a halt. “Y-You’re going to introduce me to your family? Oh no, how do I look? Am I presentable?”

“Sigh* just my little brother and you look fine nimrod, I kinda like the windswept look you’re rocking.”

“….oh um heheheh…. Sorry I got a little excited, so you have a little brother?”

“Apparently so but he’s gone hunting, so come and lay with me.”

“Um sure but why can’t we tell Celestia?”

They began to walk over to the group of griffons, they immediately began investigating Silver and she pressed herself against Anubis’s barrel. “Because I think she’s keeping something from me…. Remember when i changed my form and snuck out to spy on that urgent meeting she had to attend.”

“Yes…. What about that.”

“I heard her talking about the potential discovery of more of my kind but she hasn’t told me that I might not be the only one.”

“Oh…. But you now know so why keep this from her?”

“Because I trust that she’ll tell me eventually.”

“Mhmmmm I mean it doesn’t seem like the smartest thing to do.”

“You’re probably right…. Sigh* just climb onto my back, they’re just curious.”

“Curious is an understatement and why are the hens being super invasive of my personal space?”

“Because you smell of me.”

“Ah yes of course…. Anubis that doesn’t make sense at all, they’re acting like they’ve never seen a griffon like me before.”

“Silver look at me and look at yourself, we are similar but very different and if it’s that much of a problem I’ll just tell them not to invade your personal bubble.”

“ThaNKS! Anubis! don’t do that.” He bounced her off his back and caught her before setting on the ground with her in his forelegs. “You could have dropped me.”

“But I didn’t.” Then he gave her a kissed, the long-eared griffons all looked on in surprise at the open display of affection.

The cubs began to sneak their way towards Anubis and they peaked over his claws and wings to get a look at the newcomer.

Then the little one from before came up to them. “Are you going to be our new Queen?” The shock was evident on her face and Anubis began to snicker.

“Um well I am a princess b-but um who’s your king?”

“King Anubis is our new king…. And king Jernick.”

Silver thought about it and it made no sense. There can’t be two kings, so she turned towards Anubis.

“Um well…. I can explain but Jernick is their king, I think the little one doesn’t know how that stuff works.”

“And you’re still not going to tell Celestia that they call you their king?!”

“Heheheh no…. Don’t look at me like that, sigh* look if you keep this quiet for me. I’ll do anything you want for a whole day.”

“Mhmmmmm I don’t know…. When you say anything, do you mean like anything anything?”

“Anything but, telling Celestia about this.”

“Okay sure.” She kissed him on his cheek and nipped his ear, which made his wings shoot out and knock over the curious cubs. The others let out giggles at the display in front of them, they all quickly straightened up and went quiet believing that they did something wrong.

“You can laugh if you want, it’s not a crime.”

“Um my lord, sorry but we’re not used to the kindness you and king Jernick have been showing us.”

“Well, get used to it.” The blunt response made the Griffons giggle.

Silver looked a little saddened at hearing that but her spirit was lifted by the little cub that tried to climb up to her. “So was their last king mean?”

“Queen…. Their last queen was a tyrant of sorts but now Jernick is their king, although he has no idea how to be one but he’ll have to learn.”

Silver picked up the little cub and gave it too one of the hens quickly came up and took the little one from her. “Sigh* so what are you going to do for them?”

“Help of course but they need a place to stay…. Somewhere that they can call their own.”

“Celestia could help them.”

“She could but she has enough problems to deal with, so I’ll solve this one and find a place for them to call home.”

“Sigh* then let me help.”

“….are you sure?”

“Yes and this gets me out of the castle too, so it’s a win win.”

“Very well then…. So what do you have planned for me tomorrow?”

“Heheheheh well I’ve had Captain Sky grab some custom clothes for me and I want to use them.”

“So I’m going to be playing dress up with you.”

“Oh yes you are sexy.”

Things were calm as Anubis started a fire and everycreature sat around it, the little ones were being watched over by the griffs and hens, Silver and Anubis laid with one another but Silver kept looking and waving at the cubs. Anubis noticed this and watched her as she tried to grab the attention of the little ones. “So I take it that you want to be a mother someday.”

“Wha?” Her cheeks turned red and she shook her head furiously. “What me, no I’m way too young to be a mother and you’re even younger.”

“Hey I said someday silly, relax. I know I’m way too young, I was just asking because you keep waving at them.”

“Well when I’m older it would be nice.”

“That’s good to know…. For the future.”

“So you want little ones of your own…. But from who?”

“What?”

“Are you going to get me or Celestia pregnant…. Well you could get us both pregnant but.”

“Okay let’s kill this conversation please, I’m uncomfortable enough.”

“But I want an answer.”

“I don’t know.”

“That’s a stupid answer.” at that moment, Jernick and the hunting party came back dragging a weird winged lion-scorpion creature and a few boars.

“Oh look it’s Jernick and the others, I have to go and help them prepare the food.”

“Huff*”

“Love you too Silver.” And he ran off to help with the food.

One of the hens came up to Silver and laid down in front of her. “Excuse me, I’m Aurora…. So um your name is Silver, right?”

“It’s Princess Silverfeather but why is everygriffon so curious about me?”

“Heheheh um well your highness it’s because you smell of king Anubis…. So have you two mated?”

“Cough!* Cough!* y-you can’t ask that.”

“Oh I’m so so so sorry, I-I didn’t mean to be rude.” Silver stopped the panicking hen.

“No no no it’s fine, it’s just that you shouldn’t ask somecreature that sort of question.” The teary eyed hen wiped her eyes and raised her head.

“Sniffle* s-sorry Princess Silverfeather, it’s just that with our previous ruler. If w-we asked any question t-that was out of line, we were punished for it.”

“Oh you poor thing, that’s horrible… come here and give me a hug, trust me Anubis won’t hurt you he’s really kind.” Aurora leaned into the hug and began to nuzzle Silver’s shoulder.

She felt horrible for them but when she looked over towards Anubis, she knew that they were going to have a better future…. she was going to help them too.

She then lost her train of thought as she drifted off to sleep whilst hugging Aurora, her last thought were that those feathers should be outlawed….

Once they got the bores and manticore cut up and on the fire with Jernick in charge of cooking, Anubis made his way back to Silver. Only to find his henfriend sound asleep, using one of the other hens as a pillow.

“Oh hi my lord, s-sorry but she fell asleep on me a-and.” He cut her off and laid down next to them.

“It’s okay, I understand. Our feathers are extremely soft, so I can see why she dozed off in your claws.” The worried hen looked relieved at hearing that.

“Thank you king Anubis.” They both looked over toward the fire and watched in contempt as the flames crackled away.

“So I take it that she doesn’t know what your were, before I transformed you.”

“No she doesn’t my lord.”

“Good…. Hey may I ask why you keep looking at that white and pink griff over there?”

“Um well I-it’s because…. He um stands out….”

“Mhmmm interesting…. If you want to, I’ll take my Silver off you and you can go mingle with the others…. Maybe even chat with him?”

“Um I’d like that very much my lord.”

He picked Silver up and tucked her under is wing, curling around her. “Go on then, have fun. My brother will have the food done shortly.” And with that the hen bounced over.

They seem to be a lot happier and more curious…. Maybe it’s a side effect of having their DNA completely overhauled? Anubis thought as he subconsciously began to preen Silver’s feathers.

When Silver woke up to a persistent nudging, she gave the culprit a glare before smelling the air. “Sniff* sniff* what is that delicious aroma?”

“That my dear is boar and manticore, so are you hungry?”

Her stomach rumbled and she blushed. “Hehehehe um yeah, a little.”

“Well here you are, try some. It’s quite good.”

“What is it?”

“That’s wild boar ribs and manticore steak, it’s really good.”

“Mhmmm okay but aren’t manticores only found in the Everfree forest?”

“I don’t know and I don’t care, all I know is that if you don’t want it. Then I’ll eat it.”

“Sigh* just give me it.” He passes a large leaf that had a couple of ribs, a large steak on it to Silver.

She picked up one of the ribs and gave it a try, she was pleasantly surprised by the flavour and tenderness of the meat. She began to devour the ribs, completely cleansing the bone.

Once she was done, her hungry gaze fell upon the manticore steak. She used her talons to cut a small piece off and placed it in her beak, it practically melted in her beak and she let out a pleased moan.

“I knew it was good but wow, you’re really enjoying that.”

“Oh shut up, I’ve never tasted something so good…. What happens if Celestia finds out about this?” She wave one of the cleaned ribs at Anubis and he took it and chomped down on it, the loud crunch made Silver cringe.

“She already knows that I’ve eaten boar before and she told me to only hunt in the whitetail woods.”

“….so she’s a hundred percent fine with this?”

“Sort of…. She understands what my dietary needs are but I don’t think she likes it…. But she still accepts it…. It’s really sweet.”

“Oh look at you, getting all mushy over her.” Silver had an impish smile and Anubis groaned.

“Huff* so what if I am…. Pffff hahahahahahah!”

“Hehehehahahaha!! Oh no you didn’t just huff at me.”

“And what if I did?”

“Remember that tomorrow you have to do anything I want, so don’t give me any attitude.”

“Oh please, I’ve had enough attitude from Celestia today.”

“Yeah but you deserved it, I did tell you not to leave after you make love to a hen…. Or a mare in Celestia case, so don’t forget because if you dare do that to me. I’ll…. I’ll do something.”

“Okay okay, I hear you. I won’t let it happen again…. Psss you’ve got a little something on your beak, let me get that for you.” He leaned forward and licked a small bit of meat juices off the tip of her beak, making the hen turn a deep crimson.

“Well I guess we should be heading back to the castle.” Anubis got up and walked over to the fire. “Listen up everygriffon, me and my henfriend are going home now. So I’m going to be leaving my brother in charge, I’ll return as soon as I can and with supplies to make a more permanent campsite!”

All the long-eared griffons cheered and one by one said their thanks and goodbyes. Anubis gave Jernick a pep talk and introduced him to Silverfeather, it was an awkward interaction but Jernick thought it went well.

“Wait Anubis, I’ve just eaten. You don’t expect me to fly to Canterlot on a bloated stomach?”

“Of course not, so climb on Nimrod.” Silver shook her head and jumped onto his back, Anubis took off with out warning and Silver screamed. Digging her talons into the back of his neck, drawing blood.

“Oh no! I’m so so sorry, does it hurt!?!”

“Nah it’ll heal!!”

“Oh good!!” Her voice changed into one of anger. “So what was that for! you idiot!!!”

“Because why not!!!”

“Just take me home!!”

“Of course my love!!”

Anubis rushed back to Canterlot and flew straight into his room, Silver jumped off and he went to shrink his feathers and fur but she stopped him.

“Wait…. Can we just pluck them and then you can regrow them back to…. Um well back to their flightless state…. Please.”

“Sigh* okay…. Ouch! Hey that huRTS!!!” Silver made short work of yanking out all the feathers on Anubis’s wings and she stuffed them into a sack.

“Thank you Nubie.” she took the them and quickly left.

“Heheh, of course she just took them and ran off…. Mhmmm I wonder what she’s doing with them? Argh fuck it, I’m going to bed…. and Nubie? Where does she come up with these names?”