The psychotic gentlegriff

Princess Celestia’s POV.

I was making my way through the castle halls, to my private dining room. When my Captain of the royal guard trotted up to me and gave a sharp salute. He was a slightly smaller than average Pegasus with a bright blue coat and dark grey mane and tail. light blue lines cut through his mane and tail. He had them cut short. His cutie mark was a sword with wings in front of a silver shield.” At ease Captain Graceful slash. what do you have to report, this morning?”

“Princess there’s been a murder, it happened in an alleyway. Down in the south district, near the market square and in the late hours of the night. On top of that a family of ponies have reported that a strange griffon cub they took in, up and vanished at some point in the night.”

“Is there any evidence, or leads to follow and what do you mean by, strange griffon? Captain could this griffon’s disappearance be linked with the recent string of foalnappings?”

“Maybe princess, but it’s too soon to say, but we have our best on the job. As for the griffon cub, most likely but we still don’t know who is responsible for these foalnappings. And more importantly why. And by strange, I mean the description of the cub. Please don’t think I harbour any dislike towards the griffins, princess.

“Glad to hear you don’t and What about the victim, captain? Any information?””

“In fact we do, his name was Shadowy shades. A quick look at our records, shows a long history of crime. Everything from petty theft to assault, we’ve been looking for him for months but we didn’t want to find him lifeless, like that.”

“Even if he was trouble, he was still one of my little ponies and it’s a shame he wasn’t able to change his ways before it was too late. Come Captain, join me for breakfast, I want to know more about this griffon cub that went missing.”

“Yes your highness, it would be a honour.”

I need to make sure no more other foals… and cubs go missing. “Captain, have the guards on high alert and to increase the number of patrols by double.”

“Yes princess right away. Private Iron wing give out the order for all guards units to be on high alert and double their number of patrols. I want every nook and cranny inspected fully and make sure that no stone is left unturned. That’s an order, guard.”

Private Iron Wing saluted and Said. “Sir yes sir!”

And with that the guard took off into the sky to relay the orders he was given. We made are way down the hall and to my private dining room, for a cup of tea and breakfast. As I made my way to the head of the dining table to take my seat, I noticed that Graceful was standing at attention.
“Graceful you can relax and take a seat, do you want some breakfast?”

“No thank you, but your highness I’ll like to get started on the description of the young griffon, if you don’t mind?”

Sigh~ “of course Captain. It’s probably better not to waste time, after all the day is still young.” It’s such a pain when even my own Captain acts so formal with me. But it’s probably for the best, i mean none of them are going to live as long as me.

“Glad we’re on the same page princess. The griffon cub was estimated to be around 15 years old and when they found him he was searching in bins for food. His name is Anubis Grimgost…

…and that’s all the information we have on the cub. but I am inclined to believe that the cub lashed out in self defence against Shadowy. Resulting in the death of the stallion. But until the Lab ponies get back to us with the results. It’s totally possible that there was two attackers and when Shadowy got… hit for a lack of a better term. The other one subdued the cub and made a break for it What are your thoughts on my theory Princess?”

“Captain I believe you shouldn’t jump to conclusions before we have any evidence.” That’s a lot to unpack and I’ve never heard or seen any griffon like the one that was just described to me.
I mean big canine ears and feathers on his forelegs and the base and tip of his tail. But I noticed that Graceful was holding a feather in his hoof. “Graceful why are you holding a feather?”

“It belonged to the griffon, your highness. Here have a closer look.”

I looked the feather over and my eyes widen at the design. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before, the base was orange with a red outline on the edge of the feather and the rest of the feather was silver. Then I held the feather in my hoof. I’ve never felt something so soft before, not even the softest silk Equestria had didn’t hold a candle to this feather. I can only imagine how soft a pillow made from these feathers would feel. “Captain I’m going to hold on to this feather and conduct my own research.”

“O-ok princess I’ll notify the ponies at the lab right away.”

he was off and I needed to find out what I can about this new breed of griffon.

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Southern Canterlot woods

A mysterious pony was watching a little griffon drinking from a clear stream. Then he disappeared with a flash of his horn.

He then popped into existence and approached a pink mare. They began to walk away. “The cub that killed Shadowy has been located, we’ll grab him in the night. The doctor will be glad we got him another test subject for his messed up “games” as he calls it.”

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Anubis’s POV.

“Fuck this water is so refreshing but I get the feeling I’m being watched.” As I look around I was met with nothing but trees and bushes. “Must of been me being paranoid.” Well I might as well go start looking for dinner. I’m also going to need to make a bed out of something soft because the cold stone floor of my newly acquired cave isn’t going to cut it.

I think fish will do but how does one fish with claws, how do bears do it? I think they swipe the fish out of the water. Well no time like the present.

I’ve been at this for what seemed like hours and I still had no luck the sun was inching close to the horizon and I was hungry again. “For fuck sack! This is bullshit, fucking bullshit!” I swiped at the water in a rage and a fish flew out of the stream. I blinked in disbelief at what I just accomplished and got closer to my soon to be dinner. It was small but I didn’t care about that because it was sustenance. I stabbed it behind the head, in the spine and it immediately went limp. Now to cook it over a open flame.

After I got a small fire going I proceeded to gut the fish and skewer it with a stick. Placing it over the fire I left it to cook. “Now to make a place to sleep.”
I began to collect big leaves and brought them back to my cave. when I was done the fish was ready to flip over. I then placed all the leaves in a pile and ta-da I now have a bed of leaves.

By the time I was done my food was ready so I sat down a grabbed my fish on a stick. I took a nip and gave it a try. It was surprisingly good so I dug in and finished it in seconds. “My only complaint is, I wish there was more. Well off to bed, I’ve got a busy day tomorrow.”

Tomorrow I start my new life but what to do with it? I could try to lead a better life with less death. Yeah that sounds nice, I’ll play the role of a naive child, i mean cub.