Chapter 8: Griffon The Brush Off

AN: Implied shipping between Gilda and Rainbow Dash. High T for kissing and use of the word "Bitch."

I know I said Ponyville Confidential was next but I had such a good plot with this episode that I had to write it out before I lost it. I will be doing Hearts and Hooves day next as next week is the real Hearts and Hooves Day ^^

And also, I'm acting as if the Grand Galloping Gala is the finale of Summer of sorts. This means of course Harry's birthday has passed and is nine now. But the Gala was before his birthday.

Summary: After advice on how to deal with bullies works with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, Harry starts looking to Gilda as a role model. Rainbow Dash sees the problem, when Harry starts imitating her agressive behavior at school.

The previous day was fun. Pinkie and Rainbow Dash went on a pranking spree through their circle of friends. Minus Fluttershy at Pinkie's request because the Bearer of Kindness was so sensitive. They painted Sweet Apple Acres apples with brilliantly colored designs. They rang Rarity's doorbell and ran off, scared Spike so bad that they gave him the hiccups, replaced Twilight's ink pot with dissappearing ink. They tried to prank Harry, but somehow, the devious 9 year old Bearer of Courage was one step ahead of them. They ended up with syrup and feathers all over themselves in the barn.

"Maybe your just jealous." Twilight suggested to Pinkie as the pink mare told Twilight about how mean the new Griffon in town treated her.

"Yep. Green with envy. Or in your case, pink with envy." Spike agreed with his mother figure/best friend as he picked up a book and started reading where he left off. .

Despite her better judgement, Pinkie agreed to give the griffon another chance.

Gilda the griffon was one cool cat...or lioneagle. She hated the weak and the lame. That was why she had found herself the best friend of Rainbow Dash at Junior Speedsters Camp when they where kids. Ugh! She would never get that dumb chant out of her head! Why oh why did they make those poor children say it EVERY morning and evening?! She was exploring the town her friend lived in. A quaint, humble little village called Ponyville. Nothing special really. But, trust her friend Rainbow Dash to find something she liked about it. Quaint was cool these days somehow. She came across the local schoolhouse.

Isn't that the little colt that lives with Dash's earth pony friend that lives on that farm? Gilda asked herself as he was ganged up on by two fillies. One a purple coated unicorn and the other a grey maned/silver coated unicorn.

"Leave me alone!" The colt insisted.

"You gonna make us? Your so called friends aren't around now." The purple unicorn mocked as she pushed him to the silver coated one. The silver coated filly pushed him into a big mud puddle. Embarrased, the colt blushed in righteous fury.

"You better bring me your lunch money tomorrow." The purple unicorn threatened. "Or this will be a daily punishment small fry." She and the little bitch that was her lacky cackled. "Come on Silver Spoon. Its almost snack time at home."

"Your just gonna let them push you around like that?" Harry heard a new adult voice ask. He looked up and saw a griffon female.

"Their dads are the richest ponies in Ponyville. What choice do I have?" Harry asked as he got up and shook the mud off his coat. He walked out of the mud puddle. "Are you a griffon? Wow! I've never met a griffon before!" The young colt said eagerly.

Gilda smirked. He just needed a little guidance is all. "It doesn't matter who has the most money. In the real world, only the strongest survive." Gilda told the little winged unicorn. "You gotta be more agressive kid. Show those two whose the real alpha." She let out a loud squawk/roar. "Get in their faces and hurt them before they hurt you." She walked around him. "What's your name runt?"

"Uh...Harry."

"Come with me." Gilda said. "If you want to learn how to deal with bullies...

The next day...

Gilda watched the runt's next interaction with his two bullies at recess.

"If you two think I'm going to let you push me around my whole life you've got another. Thing. COMING!" Harry finally shouted causing the two to unknowingly fall backwards in the same mud puddle. The entire class laughed at the two fillies.

"Well. That's a job well done." Gilda smirked to herself. "Well done Gilda. You've changed another life. Woah. I know I told him to act like the alpha male, but that was new." After his little performance Harry had grabbed his earth pony friend and kissed him.

"Uh, what was that for?" Shady Daze asked his younger friend unsure of how to react.

"I had a crush on you a while back. Just wanted to see if it went anywhere." Harry said simply to his two friends. "Look at it this way, you got the Crown Prince's first kiss." Harry reminded Featherweight and Shady Daze of his heritage before turning to go back into the school house. Luckily it was after everyone was inside.

Shady Daze and Featherweight stared after their friend. Not sure they where liking this new, aggressive Harry...

Over the next couple of days, everypony started noticing a big change in Harry's behavior. He was getting more and more aggressive. And more defiant. He even glared Big Macintosh into submission. The normally strong earth pony unsure of how to react to his nephew's new behavior.

"I'm telling ya somethin's up with him." Applejack said to the other Elements of Harmony. "He's almost acting like a bully. I don't know what to do with him. And it all started when that griffon friend of yers came to town Dash." Applejack said to Rainbow Dash.

"Gilda." The rainbow maned pegasi started. "Do you know anything about this?" The griffon rolled her eyes.

"Of course. I just gave him a little afternoon course on how to be a real alpha. Commanding respect from others by demanding their submission and if that doesn't work." She put one curled up paw into another. "Force their submission. Fortunately it seems all his little school friends are smarter than I thought. It helped him deal with Dildo Train and Silver Slut anyway."

Fluttershy and a few others blushed at the language the griffoness used.

"Look that might be fine for griffons. But Harry's a pony." Twilight reminded Gilda. "And not only that, he's the Princess Celestia's grandcolt. He can't act like a total-"

"A total what?" Came a nasty toned young male voice. The elements and griffoness looked to the door to see Harry standing in the doorframe.

"Oh. Hi son." Applejack said nervously. The young alicorn looked around at the nervous mares.

"Go on Twilight. Finish. A total what?" The now mean spirited colt demanded.

Twilight gulped. "Asshat." She finished nervously.

"Hmph. I thought so. So even my fellow Elements of Harmony don't like Alpha Harry huh?" The other foals at school had been avoiding Harry all day. Even his two best friends. "I don't need you guys. Gilda?" Harry asked as he turned to leave. The griffoness smirked and walked ahead of him as she was his alpha. "See ya 'round." Gilda smirked at the Mane 6 before the two slammed the door on their way out.

Rainbow Dash fumed.

"How can one afternoon turn Harry from that sweet little colt he used to be to...that?" Rarity asked.

"You've never dealt with bullies before." Applejack reminded Rarity. "Everypony in school respected you after that play. Remember? But yer right. This ain't Harry. I'll drag him back kickin' and screaming if I have to."

"No Applejack." Rainbow Dash said. The other mares turned to the pegasi. "If anyone's going to get Harry out from Gilda's claws. Its going to be me." She ran out the door of the library.

She found Gilda at a meadow just outside Ponyville. Harry was doing laps in the air.

"All right. Now twenty wing ups!" Gilda ordered. "Oh. Hi Dash. Finally decided to ditch those losers?"

"No. We want our Harry back. Not this bully you created." Rainbow Dash demanded in the air. Pointing to Harry.

"Huh. Interesting. Front and Center!" Gilda ordered and Harry swooped down stopping his wing ups saluting Gilda. "Do you want to go back to the bullied weakling you where?"

"No ma'am!" Harry insisted.

"Sorry Dashie. He's mine." Gilda smirked.

"Then how about a race?" Rainbow Dash suggested. "Suicide Gorge. Its just outisde Ponyville that way." She pointed the opposite direction she came. "If I win, you leave Ponyville and never come back." She glared.

"Uh huh, and if I win?" The griffoness asked.

"If you win...you can train Harry however you want."

"And, you leave Ponyville instead." Gilda hissed evilly.

This caused Harry's ears to fall back. What? Rainbow Dash leave? But Ponyville is her home.

"Fine." Rainbow Dash glared at her former friend. "Tomorrow. Noon."

"Its a date." Gilda smirked. Reminding the mare of their former relationship making her blush.

That night Harry paced in his room. He didn't want Rainbow Dash to leave. But he didn't want to be a target for Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon either. Then it hit him.

Knock Knock Knock..."Uncle Macintosh?" Said a small voice that the stallion knew well. Harry when he was in trouble.

"Come on in." The red earth pony said. " A'hm just finishing up some figures." He put his calculator aside and his numbers notebook that had the farms finance information and put it in a drawer of his desk. "Now, what's the problem? I'm assuming its with how you've been acting out the past couple of days." He asked the pitiful looking colt who looked incredibly guilty.

"Rainbow Dash bet Gilda on a race." Harry said. "If Rainbow Dash wins, Gilda leaves Ponyville forever. But if Gilda wins..."

"She gits you and Dash leaves Ponyville." Big Mac finished. He sighed. Harry really got himself deep this time.

"I don't know what to do." Harry panicked. "I don't wanna be a target for bullies but all my friends have abandoned me, I don't think anypony can stop the race a-" Macintosh put a hoof in front of Harry's mouth.

"I've been watchin'. And personally, I don't think yer friends abandoned you. I think you just pushed them away with all this alpha pucky." The red coated stallion said as he tried to calm his panicking nephew. "As for yer momma and her group, Applejack told me you left with Gilda saying you didn't need them. Now I know you don't really mean that."

Harry's ears laid back and he looked down in shame. "No. I don't."

"Good. That means we're one step to fixin' this mess you made. Now. Where are they racin' ?"

Harry suddenly looked nervous. "Suicide Gorge."

"Oh dear Celestia." Macintosh said in shock. His wheat stick falling out of his mouth. "We gotta get Applejack now. Hopefully we can stop this race before somepony gets hurt. As fer you. When this is all over, you and me are goin' out to the barn."

Harry looked down in shame again. "Yes sir." He said as he followed his uncle to his mother's room...

Noon the next day...

Rainbow Dash looked nervously over the gorge's ledge. Their race was simple. Down the gorge, through it's rough terrain, and up the other side and back wins. Many pegasi have been hurt or killed racing along this gorge.

"What's wrong Dashie?" Gilda said in a mockingly affectionate tone. "Scared?"

"N-no." Rainbow Dash said. "Just thinking about how I'm gonna kick your tail feathers out of Ponyville an-" She was shocked as Gilda kissed her. Her tongue slipping past her lips briefly. "What was that?!"

"Kiss for good luck." Gilda chuckled darkly. "You'll need it." She wasn't nervous. Griffon's where tough. Much more tougher than the walking glue sticks that ponies where anyway. "3 2 1 go?"

"Fine." Rainbow Dash agreed. Spitting to get the taste of Gilda out of her mouth. "3."

"2." Gilda said.

"1." They both said together

"STOP!" They both perked up as they heard Harry shout toward them. "You don't have to do this Rainbow Dash! I'm done with Gilda!"

"WHAT?" Gilda growled.

"You've done nothing but cause me problems since you filled my head with this alpha crap. I'm done with you!" Harry spat at Gilda's feet.

"You did this didn't you?" Gilda demanded as she glared at the rainbow haired mare. Grabbing Rainbow Dash. "You little bitch." She crushed a part of Dash's right wing in her claw causing the Bearer of Loyalty to cry out in pain and then threw Rainbow Dash off of the gorge cliff.

"Rainbow Dash!" The Elements of Harmony all shouted before Fluttershy stepped up and raced down the gorge to save her friend.

Oh no you don't. Gilda thought maliciously as she spread her wings preparing to go after Fluttershy.

"SHARP SPEAR!" A spear of black electricity missed her by inches.

"What the?" Gilda looked around to see Harry glaring at her. His Chidori flaring.

"The next one won' miss." He warned. "And will be aimed for your head!"

Gilda tried to run, but was surrounded. Applejack stomped ready to charge. Rarity and Twilight's horns glowed with magical power. Pinkie looked uncharistically furious with the griffoness and stomped as well. Smoke flaring from her nostrils in fury.

"Fine. I don't need this lame town." Gilda said in anger before spreading her wings and taking off.

"And if you ever show your face in Ponyville you'll get fried!" Harry threatened up at her .

"Bite me!" She called back as she soared off.

The next day in Rainbow Dash's hospital room...

"Rainbow Dash, I'm really sorry about Gilda." Harry apologized as he and the mane 6 "I was just tired of being a target."

"Its okay kid. I understand. I was bullied in flight school back in Cloudsdale. It isn't easy." The rainbow maned mare assured him. "But as long as you have friends that care. It doesn't really matter. Why don't you sit with the others?" She asked as the rest of the mane 6 where all with their rumps on a cushion.

"Uh...no thanks I'll stand." Harry said with a blush. His behind glowing beat red.

To Be Continued...

Well. I believe a lot of this chapter is original in plot. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only GildaRainbowDash shipper out there. There was a lot more to them than being just friends I think. Its like Sirius and Remus in Harry Potter. A lot of fandom members took that relationship and worked it into something. Pony fans will undoubtedly to the same with Gilda and Rainbow Dash.

As Always...

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