The psychotic gentlegriff

Anubis was now back in Canterlot castle, he was pissed at Silver but what angered him the most was the fact that he couldn’t picture himself killing her.

This frustrated him because he could just remove the security risk that posed a threat to him if he did but this one hen.

This one, unimpressive hen. He felt sick just thinking about losing her, then there was the massive issue of Swan neck.

If she found out, then he’d be lying if he rather be dead then locked up forever, the thought of just being hated by her stung.

“FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!”

Slam*

“Why…. What is this?”

“A-Anubis?”

His mind was sent reeling as Celestia’s soothing voice graced his ears, that’s when it hit him. He could confess that he does need help, that he can’t fight these ugly urges of his.

But what if she was disgusted? What if she was hateful and teleported him into a cage, he knew he could escape but would he want to?

He felt a wing wrap around him and looked up at her soft loving eyes.

“Hey welcome back but what’s wrong sweetie? Talk to me.”

“N-no I can’t I-I’m sorry….” He opted to lay on the floor, his head was spinning from everything. All his ideas, plans, projects and the two loves of his massively messed up life.

“Then let’s just lay here together, I’m not going to leave you Anubis. Somethings hurting you and I have to know.”

“No! You can’t…. Anyone but you…. I’m a monster. Nothing but an experiment gone horribly right by its creators…. What is wrong with me?”

“Anubis? No you’re not, you are the single best thing that’s happened to me in my entire lifetime, I love you and because of that love. I’ll do anything I can to help you become the best version of yourself.”

He leaned into her. “Is that what love is?”

“I think so….”

“So Silver only wants me to change for the better…. but that means love is just another form of progression, so I should do what I can to help you improve yourselves then?”

“You’ve already helped me improve, but yes Anubis. We are in this together, me, you, Silver and little Eclipse…. Maybe Cloudy too.”

“So…. You only want to help me? But w-what if I can’t be helped?”

“I believe everycreature can be helped Anubis.”

“Not everyone Celestia…. Sometimes death is better.”

“I-I don’t think so…. Look you can talk to me, I’m here for you.”

“I’m a…. I-I k-k…. Sigh* I’ve done some horrible things Celestia…. And now a ghost from my past is here.”

“And we’ll deal with it, he isn’t going to get away with framing you as the Canterlot Carver, I know you aren’t the killer my love.”

His eyes widened in disbelief. “B-but….“

“But what Anubis? Zodiacrdanals….” Her tone shifted into one of distain.

“Princess listen….” He rose to his full height and Celestia followed. “I need to show you something of great importance, it will help you understand why Anubis is the way he is.”

“If it’s something private that he wants to hide then no.”

“Relax, he’s not with us right now so it’s fine.”

“Is it?”

“Yes, I’ve tried to repair his soul but…. It’s not possible at this moment in time, do come with me.”

“To where?”

“Into his past…. Anubis is a Necrovine, you need to understand how his mind works to some extent mortal.”

“I don’t think I’m going to like this….”

“I cannot say but you are an angel in his eyes, something that he holds in high regard. He sees you as his equal, not even I am an equal in his eyes.”

“What? But you gave him his power?”

“You’re wrong, I only gave him information. He sees me as a tool to further his own agenda.”

“Which is?”

“Regrettably I don’t know but we need to guide him onto the right path.”

A portal opened and Zodiac gestured for the Alicorn to go through.

She hesitated but eventually went in.

Meanwhile back in griffonstone, Silverfeather was worrying about her beloved griff who hadn’t came back in over two hours.

She had gotten so worried about him, that she completely forgot about the patient in the guest room who her daughter decided to watch sleep.

Eclipse’s POV

Look at you, you made this happen. If you had just died then my dad wouldn’t be upset with my mom.

But to think mom knew about dad’s resident evil stuff…. What if he’s going to release a virus that destroys the entire world!!! That means I’ll never get to meet the main six! No no no he wouldn’t would he?

I need to.

“Squawk!*”

“Oops sorry there, I didn’t mean to make you jump little lady. So are you making sure our patient is okay?”

“Um yeah? But who are you?”

“Oh sorry, my name is Vindic Redtail but you can call me Vin.”

“Vin-dic…. I’m Eclipse Grimgost.”

“Eclipse? That’s a lovely name, so is your daddy the doctor who saved this lad?”

“Yeah but he…. Had an argument with my mommy and is now cooling off.”

“Oh yeah, parents do that. So why are you left her alone?”

“I’m not.” I pointed at my mom and he followed, his eyes widened as she turned to us and came over.

“Sigh* hey Vin it’s been a while, how are you doing these days?”

This silly guard stumbled over his words and finally got out. “You have a cub now?”

“Heheheh yes I’m a mother now, to this little girl no less.”

“Oh…. Well good for you…. He must be a lucky griff, but why are you arguing with him?”

“Oh so you heard…. It doesn’t matter but in short I tried to pushed him into doing something he doesn’t want to and he pushed back harder.

“Yikes…. That must suck, why would you do that? Didn’t you always hate it when your mum would do that to you?”

“Argh* please don’t…. You aren’t helping me Vin, I already feel like shi-cough* poo….”

“Mommy, is this a friend of yours?”

“Sort of baby, he used to visit the castle a lot when we were young.”

“Yeah….” Vin’s attention was drawn to a hen who walked in with another guard.

It was Flora, now that she was cleaned up she was subjectively good looking. Now I see what mom meant, this could be a problem for her.

Dad has already got mom but what would really stop him from wanting Flora or even Glacier…. Or would he prefer to cut them up and turn them into bio-weapons?

I looked to my mom and she looked intimidated by this hen.

“Um h-hi gulp* I’m um hi.”

As soon as Vin spoke, mom gained a grin and pushed him with her wing.

“Real smooth there Vindic, nice going.”

“Argh shoot….”

“Heheheheheheh~ um hi…. I’m Flora, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

“Vindic! I’m Vindic but you can call me Vin…. F-Flora is a cute name by the way….”

Glacier looked really uncomfortable but why? She’s also pretty, she’s just covered in guard armour.

I know I’ll take Glacier with me to get some food. I jumped off the bed and used my wings to break my fall.

When I got to the icy blue hen, I tapped her talon and got her attention.

“Can we grab some food please?”

“Oh sure, yes of course princess Eclipse.”

“I think I’ll join you two.”

“Gasp* mommy we should make some I’m sorry pancakes for dad!”

“Mhmmm yes that could work…. I just hope he comes back soon….”

“Oh he will.” I jumped out of my skin, but calmed down when I saw my grandmother.

“Oh hello.”

“Hi cutie, but Silverfeather I know he will come back. He isn’t one to abandon an unfinished project from what you’ve said. Now let’s bake some sweet treats.”

“Yeah!”

“Heheheheh, yeah that sounds like fun. Come on Glacier, let have a friendly competition.”

“Eh sure I’m in.”

“Pssss mommy can’t cook to save her life.”

“Hey you little devil, I can!”

Meanwhile in Anubis’s mind, Zodiac and Celestia wonder through the griff’s memories. The regal Alicorn was confused by the environment, it looked like a laboratory but ran down and long abandoned.

“So what part of his mind are we in?”

“I couldn’t tell you…. It all looks like this, we could open a door and find him making his first invention or cutting into his first victim…. So go ahead and open a door.”

“Victim? O-okay I…. I choose this one.” Celestia pulled on the handle and the rusty steel door opened with a grim scraping sound.

They went in and was on an observation deck, it took a few seconds before she saw something that shook her to her core.

There was clearly a younger version of Anubis covered in scabs and dried blood, nearly all his feathers were missing and his skin wrapped around his bones ever so tightly.

He was clearly starving and in his claws he held a female cub of similar condition, tears streaming down his cheeks as hopeless was beginning to take over.

But then a voice rang out, one Celestia recognised as the long-eared griffon that disappeared into a cloud of black mist almost a month ago.

“Oh come on now, I’ve given you something to eat, now go on and feast boy.”

She hated that voice, it was so misleading. It lured you into a false sense of security whilst saying the most disgusting things.

“My Anubis is stronger than that, he would n…. No.” Celestia reeled back and emptied the contents of her stomach.

Weakly looking back at the scene before her, she watched as Anubis began to eat the flesh off of the now screaming cub.

She tried desperately to block the noise but it was in vain, she couldn’t hear the screams anymore, just a bone chilling crunching and meaty squelching.

She looked to where Anubis was and watched in horror as he consumed his cell mate.

“T-they made him do this? Oh my gosh…. My poor Anubis….”

“Anubis believes that they did this for some entertainment purposes but he’s wrong…. The information they gained was valuable, very valuable.”

“What value could this give?”

“They learned that the younger the test subject is, the better they adapted to violence. Once they figured this out, he became their golden ticket.”

“What do you mean?”

“The experiments got worse for him, they even encouraged him to experiment on other prisoners like himself.”

“This is just vile…. Maybe Anubis was right, maybe death is better.”

“Look we need to go to one of his most fond memories, it’s quite dark but satisfying…. It is rather gory.”

“Show me.” Celestia’s mane was beginning to flicker with what appeared to be golden flames.

They were now back in the hallway of endless rusty doors and Zodiac stopped in front of one that was stained with a bloody paw print.

But Celestia’s attention was drawn to another door, one that was not as rusty as the rest. It appeared to be new but beaten up, it had a large gash that tore the thing in two.

She approached it and when she pulled it open, she found an older looking Anubis fighting his way through a facility filled with zombies all trying to tear him to ribbons.

She watched in confusion and anticipation as he got backed into a corner and bitten, then he dropped his weapon and pulled out a red button.

She pondered what it was, why he was older and what was going on, then a loud boom followed and everything went black.

They were both now back in front of the door they just entered and Celestia turned to Zodiac.

“Mortal, it’s probably safe to say this isn’t his first go around in this game of life.”

“He…. Died before. Who is Anubis? What is he?”

“He is himself and he’s a Necrovine….”

“That doesn’t clarify anything, I don’t really know him do I.”

“Come. Let’s go into this door, I’m sure this is familiar to you.”

“Fine and then we go back to the door you originally wanted to show me.”

“Of course.”

They went through a door with a disembodied head brandishing the handle.

Upon entering, Celestia realised that they were in an operating room with Anubis strapped down to the cold steel table.

They could tell it was cold thanks to the cub’s weak breaths that were visible, to Celestia’s disgust the group of long-eared griffon started to cut into Anubis’s neck with diabolical precision.

All whilst keeping Anubis awake and aware, they began to drain his blood into a tank that had a pump attached to it.

Then they started on attaching the arteries and veins in his neck to the pump, once they deemed him to be stable. The surgeons began to completely remove the body from the head and poor little Anubis could feel this whole process.

“N-no stop…. Stop!!! I can’t watch this!!!! Zodiacrdanals!”

“I’m sorry but this is how he gained that gruesome scar around his neck, you need to watch princess.”

“I can’t! It’s too much!!!”

Zodiac looked to her and realised that she wasn’t coping with this one bit, so he stopped the memory and took them back to the other door he originally wanted to show her.

Celestia pulled him against her and began to run her hoof down his wing, she didn’t care that Zodiacrdanals was the one conscious at the moment. She just needed to hold Anubis, hopefully he’d be able to feel her love reach him.

“Princess you know.”

“Shut up…. Why? How? How is he even able to smile? I-I could never live through that, I wouldn’t even want to.”

“Then this one should cheer you up in a sick and twisted way.”

“Sniffle* yeah let’s.”

“Then go on through.”

They went in and the scene was very different, Anubis was preparing tea for the red griffon. But little did they know his memories were adjusted to his new form and environment.

They didn’t know it then but they were looking at the one Anubis called Mr Red, but the way the doctor looked at him unsettled Celestia.

As he looked at a healthier Anubis who seemed to be granted a surprising amount of freedom.

“Boy…. You have came a long way since we got you, our benefactor wants to use you as a one man army but I believe that you have a greater purpose…. I guess this is goodbye, I’m so proud.”

Whilst he was making this oddly caring speech, Anubis sneakily mixed a lime green liquid into the tea.

He gave a cup to Mr Red and the griff happily took it, staring at the brew for a moment.

“You truly are marvellous, I’m so happy to have been here to watch you progress. You may hate me but I did this out of love.”

He downed the drink and it immediately took effect, he began to convulse as his flesh began to bubble and after ten long agonising minutes. He was dead and melting into his seat as Anubis pulled out a switch and flipped it.

KABOOOM!!!!!!!!*

She felt sickly happy that justice was served, even if it was on the extreme side of it. But she couldn’t help herself from feeling good, better even but she knew it wasn’t right.

Before Anubis made his escape, Celestia got one more look at the now melted corpse. He was smiling at Anubis, as if he knew what was coming.

And once again they found themselves back in the same corridor of Anubis’s mind, Celestia noticed a door with a padlock hanging from its latch.

It wasn’t terribly robust but she didn’t want to force it open either, but just as she was about to turn around Zodiac transfigured Anubis claw into a scythe like blade and cut the latch off.

“Eep* what are you doing…. Wait that looks familiar. No it’s the same damage that was left on the walls of two of the Canterlot Carver’s victims…. But how?”

“You will get your answer once you walk through that door.”

“W-what if I don’t?”

“We say ignorance is bliss, but do you really want to forgo the truth. He’s a killer, the apex if you will. He who haunts the haunters, he who finds the concept of life and death to be nothing more than an experiment for him to play with…. So go on and see the real side of Anubis you’ve been digging for.”

“B-but what if I-i don’t like it? I can’t Zodiac, I really don’t want to know….”

“Really? But this little bit of valuable information could give you the key to not only his heart, but his more primal instincts…. Isn’t that what you’re after princess?”

“Wha? What do you mean?” Celestia now had a panicked look on her muzzle, she spun around to face Zodiac.

“Oh I’m sorry, so the steady diet of rare tropical fruits that aren’t native to Equestria is just a preference of taste?”

“Um heheh…. Look here you interloper, don’t think for one second that I trust you. You might have Anubis’s best interest in mind but I know what your kind do, you are only trying to take hold of his body.”

“Sigh* yes I am but I’m pleasantly surprised that I can’t take control unless his soul is sleeping. It makes for near endless enjoyment on my end, plus our souls are joined together now. So how did you come across such information, the fact of his species design flaw?”

“What design flaw?”

“Males of his kind become…. Rather aggressive when a female’s sense smells of strong citrus tropical fruits.”

“Oh…. Um well you see I eh I came across…. Shoot…. Look that doesn’t matter but what does is why hasn’t it triggered any kind of response from him?”

“Because he went out of his way to get rid of it, anyway isn’t it enough that he takes care of your needs?”

“No…. Yes it’s nice that he knows when I’m in the mood but…. It doesn’t feel right, i mean he doesn’t try to mount me because he wants to, it’s because I want him to.”

“But there was that one time In estrus season?”

“Yes and that was exciting, I just couldn’t let him because of where we were. That’s why I really want to trigger such a reaction from him but I don’t know how…. It’s like he doesn’t even want to have sex?”

“Well he doesn’t mind it. But he doesn’t care for it either…. That’s just the way he’s wired I guess.”

“So re-wire him, you said that he got rid of that part for whatever reason, get it back.”

“Mhmmmm that’s not a bad idea, but I can’t guarantee he won’t start eying up other creatures.”

“Look if it brings him down to a more…. Sexually curious state, then do it because I want to know what gets him going…. I want him to be a little bit more perverted but not at the cost of himself.”

“Sorry but I believe you should be having this conversation with him, it’s clearly been playing on your mind but I’m going to warn you. What you’re asking is that I make an individual that has the ability to mess with atoms, the things that make up almost everything, more emotional.”

“Oh…. Um yeah maybe that’s not a great idea…. I’ll speak to him about it then, maybe we’d just be able to fine tune his emotions.”

“It could be possible, anyway if you actually want results now. Go into that door, i believe that you’d fine what gets him going…. Although it will change your view of him.”

“But we can just make him a little more loving?”

“You said you wanted to help him improve, it is a living creature we’re talking about. So I strongly recommend that you learn how he thinks before messing around with how he thinks.”

“Sigh* but.”

“No, mortal just drop it until you speak with him. You already know what gets him turned on, the feathers at the base of his tail.”

“Yeah but I want him to just…. You know.”

“I do not.”

“Um well unexpectedly…. Take me….”

“Ohhhh…. Why?”

“Because…. I don’t know, I’m just curious okay. I don’t want to have to shake my flanks at him every time, I just want him to decide that he’s going to mount me when he wants to….”

“Mhmmmm I might have an idea that could work…. Anubis does want to know what it’s like to let loose, so how about i just alter his biology a little and make him go into a heat like state?”

“Yes!! Sorry I got excited…. But yes, that would be amazing.”

“Well I’ll do it later, now let’s get back on track.” He pointed behind the regal mare and she followed.

Now facing the rusty door she pressed a hoof against it and said door opened with remarkable ease.

“Before we go in…. I think it would be best if we didn’t tell Anubis that we are going to tinker with his mind…. I know it’s not the right thing to do but, I believe if he was aware he’d never let it be.”

“Mmmmm it could be interesting…. I’d love to see him actually confused for once, we’ll see but I’ve found that things workout better if he’s aware. Now stop delaying and go through the door.”

“Sigh* very well.”

She thought she’d try her luck one more time but it seemed that the cosmic entity wasn’t going to budge on the matter.

Celestia’s hoof took an experimental step through and her body followed, once she was through Zodiac stayed put.

Then the environment changed into a crisp cold night, then her attention was drawn to a rustling from a hedge.

Out came a griffon, it looked strikingly different from Anubis but something told her it was him. She followed the griffon as he snuck into a mansion and made his way to the study.

She watched in horror as the event that would be the first confirmed kill of the Canterlot Carver at that moment she fell down backwards onto her flanks. She fell like a stone was dropped in her stomach.

This couldn’t be…. She has done everything to try and keep him from becoming like this, she knew that it was a possibility when she found him but where did she go wrong.

But why?

Why would Zodiacrdanals show her this?

“I’m showing you this because he wanted to tell you, this is thanks to Silver, she pressured him.”

“R-really…. But I…. I don’t know what I should do now?”

“Mortal, he is a very valuable asset, a weapon with striking genius. You need to set him on the right course, you said it yourself, you will help him change for the better.”

“B-but what if the public find out?”

“Use your scapegoat, the other killer on the loose.”

“But I have a duty to my subjects! My little ponies trust me.”

“And yet this duty you have, seems to only take from you. First your sister and now your love, you need to take what is yours, protect Anubis from them.”

“Grrrrr* what do you know about my sister?”

“I know that she struck a deal with an old god which was a great mistake. It’s only twisting the truth a tad bit, something Anubis likes to do and the other long-eared griffon is clearly someone who has hurt Anubis before. So this would give you the ability to dish out the harshest punishment imaginable….”

“I-I could get j-justice for Anubis….”

“Just say yes and I’ll even fulfil your first request right now.”

“….”

“Come on my dear~ just say yes, it’ll be good for all parties involved. My host is safe, Anubis will get to know primal emotion like love, happiness and friendship. Whilst you get a mate for eternity….”

Celestia thought about it and realised this is what she wanted, but at what cost? She used to bear the element of honesty and now she was contemplating lying to her ponies…. Then again Equestria hasn’t given her anything other than subjects that worship or want to use her, she definitely had the right to be a bit selfish here.

“Fine, yes it’s a deal.”

“How marvellous~.”

“Huff* you and Anubis are really becoming one, you’re starting to sound like him with your choice of language…. Wait you mentioned that this would show me what gets him excited?”

“Yes I did, it’s the frill of the hunt as he calls it mortal. It makes him excited when he has some creature on the run, it’s the look of hopelessness and primal fear he loves. So just set up the right conditions which should be easier now thanks to me…. And you’ll get your reward.”

“Oh my goodness…. Um when can I try this?”

“Whenever you want to.”