We walked down the streets of the mountainside city of Gryphus, walking with me were Minion, with Aurora on his shoulders, Autumn, Vinyl, Scar, Saphyrus; the dragoness who was our bass guitarist, Cloddiwr (pronounced as Cloddiuur); the diamond dog who was our drummer, and Boris; who was currently perched on my left shoulder.
All of the building were similar to European buildings from the 1600s, so they had some familiarity to them, I would be able to enjoy the architecture, if it wasn’t for the guards that were currently escorting us to the castle of King Alexander the 3rd, turns out he was requesting our presence for lunch with several of his advisors, we agreed of course, but only because we didn’t want to piss off a war mongering, power mad, griffin king. Yeah, most of us don’t like him, and I absolutely hate him, in all honesty, he reminds me of Carolus Rex of Sweden.

We walked into the extravagant dining hall, I’ll admit, the castle was nice, it was a lot like the architecture of Lincoln cathedral, the guards stepped aside, revealing a large table, sat halfway along it was a middle aged griffin siting in a throne, and wearing a crown, his whole demeanour reeked of overconfidence and arrogance, he also looked like he could tear me to pieces with little effort, I would have to tread very carefully with this one, and watch what I saw, this was one person I did not want to become enemies with, last thing I needed was to be enemy number one of the Griffin Kingdoms.

“You may sit” he said, we nodded before sitting in the chairs, opposite this king and his advisors.

“Thank you for this, Your Majesty” I said “And for letting us perform music in this fine Kingdome of yours”

“I like you already” he said, smirking, “you’re …” he trailed off, tilting his head, as looking at me would make the words come to him.

“Human?” I supplied.

“Some-human” he continued “who knows how to treat those who deserve it with respect”

“Just someone who would rather not be enemies with a king, one who looks like he could kill me with ease at that” I said, in all honesty, I was mentally swearing my head of at him, for the time that we were there he was mostly just boasting about how undefeatable he was in battle, he finally stopped to take a sip of wine and eat some food that the servants had brought for us.

“So” he said, after swallowing a mouthful of meat “what do you think, I’m truly an impressive warrior, yes?”

“with all due respect, your Highness” I said, I sipped some cider before continuing “I’m sure, by your worlds standards, you are a skilled warrior, but by mine and my brothers standards, your just an above average warrior, now, before you say anything, how many combined casualties occurred in your last great war?” he looked confused for a moment before smirking and saying.

“20’000” I scoffed.

“Oh please” I said, I then looked to the griffins sat each side of him “who here would like to take a guess at the total casualties of my world’s largest war; the Second World War?” one that was sat next to the king spoke up.

“1/2 million?” I dead panned.

“1 million?” another said, I sighed before sitting back and as nonchalantly as possible said

“Try 85 million” I then began inspecting my fingers as the opposite side of the table erupted into splutters, I looked at the king, and he was decidedly paler “as I said, forgive me if I’m not too impressed” I then stood up and folded my arms.

“Gentlemen” I said “consider this, my species has developed a bomb so powerful that if a small one exploded over this city, there would be nothing left but ash and rouble, if the largest one exploded over this city, it would leave a crater ten miles wide and level the surrounding cities and towns for over 50 miles, now I don’t say this to scare you, but to warn you, more of my kind will be coming to this world, maybe some of your kind might be able to visit my world as well at some point, but when that does happen, I’d be careful with what country you declare war on” I then sat down, the King had gone even paler, he gulped.

“You don’t have one of those with you, do you?” he asked, looking at me as if I would explode at any moment.

“No” I said before eating some stake, I swallowed before saying “my compliments to the chef, anyway, I don’t have one with me, and I won’t tell you how to make one either, I’m not stupid enough to give, from our point of view, a primitive civilisation, the blueprints to a nuclear bomb, they’ve caused nothing but trouble on my world”

“H-how primitive do you mean?” the king asked.

“A couple hundred years or so in some areas, but in other areas you are actually more advanced, your air ships being one of them” as I said this I pointed to the airship flying past the window “ours still look like mere blimps” for the rest of the meal, the king was decidedly subdued, he still had an aura of arrogance, but he wasn’t as boastful.

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“That went well” I said as we walked along the streets.

“You scared the hell out of him” Minion said, chuckling slightly.

“My point exactly” I said, Aurora looked worried.

“Was what you said about those bombs true, Uncle” she asked, I sighed.

“Unfortunately, yes” I said “but the king wants to go to war with Equestria, I was just giving him a reason not to, especially when he knows that I am a citizen of Equestria, but don’t worry about it, you’re ten, you shouldn’t have to worry about war, the only things you should be caring about are custard and dinosaurs” I ruffled her soft spines and she giggled, she then looked confused.

“What’s a dino..dinosaw?” she asked, struggling with the pronunciation, I over-exaggerated my shock.

“You’ve never heard of dinosaurs?” I asked “dinosaurs are awesome, they were like our version of dragons, except they couldn’t fly, I’ll show you a video on them tomorrow, once were heading towards Equestria” Saphyrus listened intently as I was speaking.

“You said were, as if there are none left” she said.

“Not many things can survive a 6 mile wide meteor” I said, shrugging, all of the Terran’s eyes widened “even if you’ve been around for 120 million years, besides, if they were still around, me and Minion wouldn’t be here, that meteor cleared the way for mammals, allowing them to become the dominant animal group on the planet, 65 million years later, here we are”

“That’s a long time” Autumn said “how do you know about it, if it was so long ago?”

“Ancient remains and speculation, nothing is certain with those sorts of things” I said “just be thankful a pack of raptors didn’t get sent to Equestria”

“What is Raptors?” Cloddiwr said.

“What Boris evolved from” I said.

“Like that helps” Vinyl said, rolling her eyes.

“About 4 foot tall, smart as hell and really fast, they were the dinosaur’s equivalent of wolves…” I trailed off.

“V.K. are you o.k.” Autumn asked.

“I’ve just thought of the name for our band” I said.

“Well go on then, tell us” Minion said, I grinned before saying

“We’ll call our band… The Wolfpack”

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