The psychotic gentlegriff

Anubis’s POV

The year is 801

It’s been one week since me, Silver, Celestia and Silver’s parents sat down and had that talk.

I believe that I’ve fixed this issue that ails me, but I won’t know until estrus week hits…. But self control shouldn’t be of any concern to me now.

But I’ve also made a specialist environment for me to take out my anger, who would have thought killing a bunch of undead corpses would be satisfying and relaxing…. God I’m starting to sound like the human me and weirdly enough i prefer being this way, it’s safer for Celestia and Silver.

As for what I’ve got in front of me now, is this overly aggressive teenager. He won’t stop yelling at me for some reason, it’s not my fault his dad’s dead. I’m trying to not let his potential go to waste.

He just yells until he falls asleep, it’s really getting old.

“I’ll ask you again, would you like to become my assistant?”

“Fuck!!!! Off!!!!!!”

“Sigh* very well kid, I’ve got other things to do.”

Which was true, I had been appointed to lead operation Preen with the assistance of the griffon’s captain of the guard and captain Sky.

It was nice having captain Sky here to chat with…. When Celestia and Silver weren’t demanding my presence, I was practically playing chess with myself or enjoying Sky’s company, things were getting back on track and I was really enjoying myself.

Since the launch of this operation, the number of griffon corpses I now had piling up was in the hundreds. I immediately began to send the bodies to my Canterlot research lab where they would then be put in cold storage by Tender and Galeyus.

Speaking of which, Galeyus has came a long way since his first day with unit-8. He’s actually able to lead some experiments and testing of experimental weapons.

His indifference is proving to be most beneficial to the Sentinel program.

Silver and little Eclipse are just perfect, Silver’s never made more sense. I mean she’s actually really smart to my surprise, that is when she applies herself.

And finally there is Swan neck…. Celestia, we’ve came to an understanding and deal. I give her that sense of panic and fear from the chase and once I catch her she takes over…. It’s not a bad deal and I’ve been using it to exercise my body and mind.

But it’s funny, I thought the fairer sex loved a metaphorical chase but this mare likes an actual chase…. And Silver has been getting into it as well, oddly enough she likes to give chase, not be chased.

And it’s really good exercise for them too, Silver has become quite toned. It’s resulted in an aesthetically satisfying figure, but Celestia has the most noticeable change. Her figure has gotten thinner around her waste and her hind legs are now scarily ripped.

I’ve had to reinforce my skeletal structure multiple times in this one week alone, it’s actually ironic. She wanted this to be a sex thing and now I chase her through various different environments just to fall down and gaze up at the stars and talk with her. This is normally followed by Silver silently sneaking up on me and pouncing on us.

I guess this is what others call happiness?

Maybe but as for right now, I’ve got an operation to make successful. It’s funny, I’m literally giving out orders to both sides and watching as the guards clean up the streets and provide aid and food to the civilians who have been terrorised by this gang.

I had given all the guards new and better equipment along with the magic-tech rifles, originally they planned to line up and shoot but that wasn’t going to fly for me. I instead taught then squad based tactics and basic CQB, which the rifles I issued them were designed for.

My only complaint if you could call it that, is this thing Silver had decided to make a daily ritual. We all preen one another before bed…. It might not sound bad but I’m normally the one who preens them, so it’s rather jarring to have them gang up against me and preen every feather on my body…. Even my sensitive one’s.

Even then, that isn’t the issue. The issue I have is that Eclipse has been trying to preen my feathers, which ended up with my long and wild feather mane getting braided by those three.

My solution? To have it shortened, although i think I’m going to keep it relatively long. Like a wolf cut might suit me for the foreseeable future, it’s the best of both worlds.

“Sir! The first and second are ready to swap out with the third and fourth, the fifth have prepared the living accommodations for the rescued civilians but I believe we’re going to have a problem with a large number of hens….”

And commander Coy Strife has found me, he’s been a great help if not a little daft. He doesn’t think for himself, he’d rather just listen to orders.

“Why’s that?”

“Because of their past experiences with males sir, what would you have us do?”

“Mhmmm it is about time Princess Silverfeather steps onto the stage. We’ll have to group up our guards hens and send them to aid and relocate them, my-cough* our princess will go with them.”

“But how do we guarantee her safety, sir.”

“I’ll lead a the forth and form a mobile perimeter, whilst the third sweep up anything a head of us. It’s risky but we need to get them somewhere safe.”

Now thinking it over, the custom uniforms I created are rather intimidating. I think the gas masks were a little overkill, especially with the toxic green tint on the eye pieces.

“I understand sir but what if something goes wrong?”

“Something will go wrong but I believe the Princess will be fine, she already has some experience with the magic-tech weapon platform.”

“Sir, what do her parents think of this?”

“The king doesn’t like it but he eventually agreed after the queen ordered me to make custom armour for her.”

“For the queen or princess.”

“The princess.”

“Oh okay sir….”

“How have the first and second taken to the training, I wish I could have had more time to train them but we have to get the third and fourth trained up now. There’s only so much my new uniform can do.”

“Even then sir, the fact that it’s so light but stab proof has proven to keep casualties on our side to a minimum. I’d love to know what it’s made out of?”

“Sorry but that’s classified commander, crown secret.”

“Heh I figured as much sir, but if I may ask. Why are you helping us?”

“What?”

“Well you’re not one of us, I might only have basic medical training but I know you’re not one of us sir.”

“Heheheheheh, that is true but let’s just say I have an invested interest in this operation.”

“that’s not reassuring….”

“Sigh* I can hear you, look at my ears commander Coy.”

“Sir! Sorry Sir!”

“Listen here, I have plans okay. Plans to rebuild the airship yard, I’ve already got planning permission from the crown. So sorry if I don’t want gangs running amok around the area I plan to do business in.”

“Sir, there’s no need to explain yourself to me but you must be extremely important, I mean you just showed up and now you’re leading an super sensitive operation that could bring ruin to the seat of power if it goes wrong.”

“Believe it or not, but I’m actually with the Equestrian guard but not as a guard, I’m head of medical research and weapons development.”

“Oh…. That explains the new armour and equipment.”

“Now if you don’t mind, I need to get her highness’s royal armour ready. Make sure that the first, second and all the hens from the fifth are ready to move out at 1200 hours.”

“Yes sir.”

I only gave him enough information to have faith in my ability, I’d rather not inform them of the existence of dream spirits…. Although it begs the question, why are they only appearing in Canterlot.

How odd, it can’t be a coincidence, something or someone is sending them and the dream spirits are getting stronger. Thankfully no Eldridge horrors have appeared although I’m still being watched by a Shambler, as long as it only watches I’ll leave it be…. For now.

Click*

As I closed the door behind me, I noticed that silver was already in her gear. She honestly looked good in it and she hadn’t noticed I came in.

Tiptoeing my way to her, I was just about to pounce when my little Eclipse gave away my position.

“Daddy!!!!”

“Ahhhhahahah…. Baby girl, how are you doing?”

“Anubis? Well well well, what were you trying to do?”

“Oh nothing but I have to admit, you look good in that.” I waggled my eyebrows and she giggled. “So Eclipse!!!!”

“Yes!”

“Are you ready to spend the day with your grandma?”

“Yay!!!!!”

“Good, now climb up and say goodbye to your mother.”

“Bye bye mommy!”

“Heheheh~ bye and be good for your grandma.”

“I will.”

I opened a portal and walked through, eclipse decided to give it sound effects which made Queen Blackfeather burst out laughing.

“Vummmmmm!!! Waaaaaaaa! Vummmmmmm!”

This had the unpleasant side effect of making prince Blackwing cry and she immediately started to comfort the crying cub.

“Don’t look at me?”

“Well surely you can help, i mean Eclipse is so well behaved…. Maybe work your magic on your nephew in law?”

“I’m not married yet…. And sorry but I’m not the one who startled him.”

“Fine…. Shhhhh shhhh shhh shhhh there there Blackwing, come on. Settle down.”

Eclipse was getting ready to jump over to her nan, I knew what would follow and so I got ready to catch her mid jump.

“ECLIPSE!”

“Weeeeeeeee!”

“Sigh* relax Blackfeather, I’ve got her.”

“Good catch Anubis, but maybe don’t grab her out of the air.”

“Why?”

“She’s beginning to find her wings, it’s just you’re really tall so try to let her fall into your claws.”

Oh…. Well I’ll consider it, but here you are…. Be good now.”

“Oh she will, won’t you.”

“Yep. Um, sorry baby Blackwing.”

The cub was still crying and it didn’t look like the water works were going to stop any time soon, so I said goodbye and jumped through my portal.

Upon exiting my portal, I flipped Silver over and began to tickle her.

“Ahhahahahahah! No anubis stop!”

“Never…. S-sorry Silver….” I pulled back.

“Hey, no no no Anubis I didn’t mean no, sigh* come on…. Please tell me you’re not hung up about that afternoon with Celestia?”

“Yeah I know it’s stupid, I should be looking at context…. But even if she calls it extreme role playing, I can’t see it like that.”

“But was it fun?”

“What?”

“Was it fun Anubis?”

“….”

“Come on Anubis, tell me.”

“What do you want me to say?” I checked her biometrics and she was definitely in the mood, it was unsettling but I can’t let this get in the way of us.

“The truth.”

“You want the truth…. Well if you must know, yes…. But we have 2 hours before we set out.”

“And?” Her tail was now coiling around my foreleg.

“I’ve been neglecting your needs~.”

“You have, so what are you going to do about it?” Excitement lacing her voice.

“Well….” I got up and began to undress myself and I was hit by a wall of pheromones.

“Well?”

“Heheheh~ come on then, the bed is this way.”

“That’s my stud! Oh I’ve been pent up for weeks! No, a month now, oh yes this is going to be amazing Nubie.”

To my surprise, she scrambled to get out of her armour whilst making her way to her room.

She immediately jumped on the bed and raised her rump into the air, I felt myself slipping and stepped out for a second.

“Anubis, you okay?”

“Heheheh yeah….”

“Sigh* how about you lay on your back and let me take care of everything?”

“Or we could just cuddle?”

“No.”

“Then.”

She cut me off with a kiss.

“Just enjoy yourself, stop being so timid. I didn’t propose to an over grown timid chicken. I fell in love with a powerful predator.”

“But I could hurt you?”

“That’s why you’ll lay back and enjoy, whilst I tame you myself.”

“Heheheheheh, both you and Celestia are fucking weird. You know?”

“Oh shut up and fuck me.”

“Gulp* yes ma’am.”

Roughly an hour later I slinked out of her bedroom with what she described as a love drunk grin.

“That’s new, so that’s how you perform without the biomancy.”

“Huff* shut up…. We’re not going to speak about this ever again, okay.”

“Oh just wait until Celestia hears about this.”

“You grabbed my tail feathers! The one’s at the base of my tail….”

“And you loved it~.”

“Loved what? Sniff* sniff* oh aghhh um am I interrupting something?”

“Hello Glacier and no, we just finished.”

“Like just finished? or just finished….”

“Just.”

“Oh my….”

“Do you wanna know something embarrassing about Anubis?”

“How embarrassing?”

“Silver, no.”

“Okay fine…. But you still loved it.”

“So? Doesn’t mean you get to tell the world, it’s a secret.”

“And you can rest easy knowing that I’ll keep it one.”

“You are the worst at keeping anything a secret.”

“Yeah…. But…. Okay I might be shit at keeping secrets, but I did keep one in the end.”

“Did you?”

“You told Celestia that you were a killer.”

“….”

“Ha! Got you!”

“Well played Silverfeather…. Graghhhh!”

“Aaahhhhhhhhh!!!!! No stop tickling mEEEEE!!! Please Anubis hahahahahahahahah!! Ohhhhh nooooo!”

“Could you two go take a shower before we have to meet up, I’d hate for you to…. Distract the guards.”

“Mhmmmm I’ll consider it, although i think it may be motivating having a strong scent of a male lingering in the air.”

“Not happening, a lot of the hens you are going to be escorting back to the castle campsite have been…. Raped, so I’d like to have them feel as safe as possible.”

“Oh…. Oh um well then we best get cleaned up.”

“Thank you….” I decided to get the water running in the shower.

But I could still hear them two talking.

“Silverfeather, he’s got a point. I more then most want this to go off without a hitch, and having Anubis’s scent on you would only make them fear the worst.”

“The worst? What do you mean?”

“The lower classes tend to see the crown as a gang, so being moved from one territory to another. They don’t see it as being rescued and aren’t going to trust us, let alone any of the guards griffs.”

“Okay? I’m following.”

“So now imagine if you were in their position, you smelled the one leading you and all your friends inside the castle walls stunk of a male. Then you actually see the male who you just smelt on the hen in charge of your safety and he looks like he could throw you around like a cub’s toy?”

“Oh fuck…. That wouldn’t be reassuring….”

“Exactly, so is that your armour?”

“Yes it is…. It’s pretty fucking cool, I’ve got this mask that only lets clean air come through.”

“Yeah we all do but we’re not going to be wearing them, because of the inherit jumpy-ness of our targets.”

“Oh really? Huff* that sucks but I can live with it…. So Glacier, are we just moving hens or?”

“We have been informed that a small number have cubs.”

“So failure isn’t an option then.”

Good girl Silver! That’s what I need you to be for this, once I’m done here I’ll have every griffon in this empire more than happy to bow to you.

“I’m glad you’re taking this so seriously, anyway I must get ready. Anubis got me a promotion.”

“Yeah he’s good at helping, oh and see you out there Glacier.”

“See you there Silverfeather.”

I just got in the shower as Silver came in, she hopped into the shower which wasn’t made for a griffon of my stature.

“So is there any particular reason why you are suddenly so set on rescuing these victims?”

“I’m sure you’ve figured it out.”

“It’s because you are trying to make yourself feel better about that incident…. Look Anubis honey, you didn’t do anything wrong in my opinion.”

“But in my eyes, it was wrong…. I don’t know what I’m experiencing but it’s eating me up from the inside out.”

“That’s called guilt and you shouldn’t be feeling it for that anyway…. But….”

“Look, let’s not spoil the mood, come here.”

“Hey? Put me down!”

I set her down under the shower head and began to scrub shampoo into her fur.

“I guess this is acceptable…. Oh wow, just a little lower, up a bit, to the left now ahhhhh~ that’s it honey~.”

“You like that?”

“Yes, I, do…. Anubis?”

“Yes?”

“I um I was reading some of your papers and I um want to know what project Malgum is?”

I froze in place, she knew about project Malgum but how? I had stored the files away In a hidden compartment in my luggage…. Shoot.

“It’s top secret my dear, I actually can’t tell you.”

“Oh…. But if it’s top secret, then why do you have it?”

“Because I’m in charge of overseeing the project.”

“Okay…. So is it really possible to revive an extinct species with just a bit of DNA?”

“Silver, please don’t ask me that. You shouldn’t have read that paper, we can’t tell anycreature that you read that okay honey.”

“Why?”

“Because officially, the project doesn’t exist.”

“Sorry…. You know I didn’t mean to look through it, I was just worried and started going through your stuff….”

“I don’t care about that, let’s just pretend that you never saw that paper.”

“And drawing?”

“What drawing?”

“The one of the extinct sea dragon.”

“What? I never brought that with me? Can you show me this drawing please?”

“Yeah it’s in your bag, in that hidden pocket.”

“I’ll look at it after I clean you up.”

Once Silver and I were cleaned and dried up, she went to get her equipment on and I grabbed project Malgun. To my surprise, it was there, the drawing of the statue in the underwater cave at the Atlantis test site and on it was a small signature.

One I immediately recognised.

It was Mr Red in Cursive, I feel myself begin to shake which was new for me. After taking the time to breathe, I realised that it was my drawing but a copy of it.

A dam good one.

I noticed that the paper on the back of the drawing had some indentation that resembled writing, I brought it over to a light source and held it over.

Before my eyes it was visible, the light shined through it and revealed a message.

“Greetings to my favourite play thing, it’s been so long since you killed me. I was truly proud in my final moments but what I’ve discovered here, makes me infinitely happier.

To think you have taken a long extinct sea dragon and purposely infected it with a mutant strain of ZDP-14, how creative.

From your friend: Mr Red.”

How does he know about the Zombie viruses i have been studying? Shit…. I need to kill him fast before he tries anything with Celestia, Silver or Eclipse.

“Nubie? Are you ready?”

Igniting his claws, his uniform and equipment appeared on his body and he walked out to find Silver waiting for him with a smile.

“Yes I am.”

“Sir~ yes~ sir~ heheheheh.”

“What?”

“You look so good in that, especially with all the straps going across your chest like that. You can rescue me anytime of the week, I don’t think the officer’s hat is for you…. Maybe lose it?”

“Can’t, I have to wear it.”

“Huff* you’re not a hat kinda guy.”

“Oh quite, let’s get this show on the road.”

“FollowIng your lead sir.”

“Please just grab your Siren carbine and get into the proper mindset, depending on your performance I’ll reward you with a romantic night in one of the Equestrian cities.”

“Not here or Canterlot?”

“Nope, for obvious reasons my love now get to your post and lead your troops.”

“Hopefully we see some action on this mission.”

“Well if I do my job right, you shouldn’t see any combat. We want to keep the civilians safe.”

“Then do you best but if some get past my husband to be, then I’ll just have to show off my sharp shooting.”

“That’s my girl.”