The last thing I remember was that I beat the shit out of that asshole griffon, nearly died, got my shit back and then passed out.

"And now I am here...in the middle of bum fuck nowhere...god fucking damn it."

Now now, don't be mad my little peon. You are still among the land of the living so turn that frown upside down!

Looking around the black recesses of space I didn't find the voice's creator, instead all I found was empty pitch black shadows drowning everything out as I floated in the void.

"So are you going to show yourself or are you just going to be speaking to me from beyond the veil?"

The silence that came after my question was the answer from the void being.

"I guess I shall take that as a no then?"

You can take it however you like it, but just know that I am always watching you.

Hearing the disembodied voice tell me that it has been watching me is a little disconcerting...and a tad bit creepy.

"Wait you've been watching me?"

Yes, I have. Ever since you got here and a bit before and I must say that with the way you think I am more than positive that you will alter the course of this world's history. Your mere presence alone has already changed Fate's designed path and she is now in a hurry to keep it from falling apart at the seams.

And before you even ask me, Fate is real and she is not pleased that you have upset her plans for this world. I have been trying to get that stick out of her ass for eons and it seems that all I had to do was introduce someone that she can't influence with her power!

'So happy to know that I am a wedge in some god's plan, I am just filled to the brim with joy!'

I heard and felt that sarcasm mortal, be happy that I am giving you enough flexibility when it comes to being independent from my power! Other peon's under a god's connection normally would be unable to even question the orders given to them let alone even talk back so the next time you decide to talk back, think back to what I have told you.

Grimacing at the thought of being a mindless slave to a god made me rethink my strategy on how to deal with the being who brought me here. I'd rather not be turned into a puppet dancing to an unheard tune against my will, I would rather be moving to the tune begrudgingly and in control.

Now that is a good boy, you finally realized just how deep you are in and just how important to me you are. Normally I would have just put a Geist hex upon you to force your cooperation but I thought against it because it would have restricted your creative juices when it comes to solving problems and figuring out how to change the river of history! And besides, a brainless slave is not what I need at this moment.

Oh no, what I need right now is an agent who can be independent from my power and still get the job done in such a way that the other gods will never be able to detect until its too late! A genius moment on my part and for you my loyal minion...

At least this god thinks of me as a loyal minion, could be worse to be honest.

"And what exactly do you need me to do? You haven't really been forthcoming with your plans let alone told me what I should be doing. I rather not be walking into this blind, messing with politicians, world leaders and mythical beings isn't really my forte let alone will guarantee that I survive any of it." And to be honest I really don't want to die, I almost bit the bullet when I was fighting with Tazul.

The voice let out a hum of thought, actually thinking to figure out how to keep me safe and alive while I carried out its mission for global fuck-uppery.

As I floated in the abyss wondering just where in my life did everything go wrong and I really had to look back into my subconscious to find what I was looking for. Unfortunately I couldn't find shit as I can only guess that it had to be somewhere in my middle school era when I went to shit and became who I am today.

Hmm, well my little mortal minion I guess I will have to bend the cosmic rules a little bit for you. I know by doing this I will be upsetting the natural balance of things and quite possibly piss off the pantheon...

Pantheon? Just how many fucking gods are there in this world?

But fuck them, if they kept up their end of the bargain all those millennia ago than I wouldn't be taking such drastic measures now would I?

I don't know what this god's problem is but I don't want anything to do with it, I'll just play the role of the loyal minion, do my job and when its done I'll get the fuck out of dodge.

Anyways my precious little agent of change, if you serve me well enough and do your job, I may just reward you something extra special! So work hard, alter the flow of history, and stick to those ignorant pony princesses for going back on their word!

Now that caught my interest, a reward for pretty much being forced into another dimension with magical fantasy creatures against my will? At this point I can't return home cause I will more than likely be questioned by the government about where I went, why am I all fucked up and most importantly where the hell did I get all this foreign gold?

Before I could try to ponder just what my reward could be for helping a god upset the global establishment to the point where it might cause a planetary shitstorm of epic proportions and its apparent deep seated grudge against the pony moon princess and apparently another pony princess, I felt something brush against my neck and it didn't feel like something that I would enjoy brushing against my skin.

It felt like I was having a close encounter with a being that I should have no contact with due to how dangerous and deceitful that being is, but then again...maybe having a god on my side when shit goes sideways may be a good thing.

Looking for the thing that touched me I saw nothing but as I kept on looking I eventually found the thing that rubbed against me.

It was a tuft of silver fur or hair, it was like a puffball the size of a football and that it was floating in the abyss before disappearing in a puff of smoke. Whatever it is connected to I can only assume that it isn't even human, possibly it belongs to one of the races that inhabits this world.

As I tried to ponder what species the god is that touched me I stopped in my tracks when I saw a pair of glowing red eyes floating in front of me, they appeared to be small but they only grew in size the longer I stared at them until they stopped when they were bigger than me.

"What big eyes you have." I said as I tried so very hard not to stutter and shit myself at the same time, when the eyes of god are looking directly at you, it makes you feel like a mote of dust in the breeze.

It is so I can better see you my precious little friend. Now it is time to greet the day and embrace the feeling of being bedridden for three weeks!

"Wait...three weeks!" was all I could say before being flung out of the abyss by a giant white gloved hand.

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My body felt like absolute shit.

The first thing I saw was a ceiling made up of white tiles that glowed dully in the low light of the room.

Turning my head to the left to see more of the room I saw that beside me was a low nightstand with an oil lamp on it, a glass of water and what looks like a bunch of paper with an ink well and a quill on top of it and beyond it was a white curtain blocking off the rest of the room. Looking to my right was another white curtain and a female griffon wearing a white nurse cap with an equally white nurse shirt-uniform.

The griffon in question was brown in fur and feather colors with the exception that the feathers on her head were a lighter shade of brown and her eyes were of a emerald color, and I knew the color because when I turned my head she was looking at a clipboard but turned her attention to me when I was looking around.

As our eyes met there was a moment of silence before she let out a squawk of surprise before leaving my side but I stopped her when I asked for where my friend was.

"Who?" Guess I gotta be a tad bit specific.

"Scrawny, a diamond dog, got an ax wound that I poorly bandaged. Is he here?" He better be alive cause if he isn't than shit is about to hit the fan real fast.

"No, he isn't. That diamond dog is waiting outside cause visiting hours are over." Oh thank god he is alive! Now I have a guy friend that isn't old and wrinkly!

"OH...good...thanks for telling me"

"No problem there big guy."

And like that the hen nurse left the infirmary, probably to tell the king that I was awake.

'At least I am alive...for now.'

I may have been out cold for three weeks, but I don't know what awaits me out there.

Has the griffon princess told her father about our time together as traveling companions?

Has the griffons that traveled with their princess told their commanding officer and the king about what happened in the woods?

Did Scrawny tell the king anything?

Well, I guess I will find out when he gets here...

And I didn't have to wait long as the sounds of multiple talons clicking against tile soon reached my ears and when I turned my head in the direction of the disturbance to see not only the griffon king standing at the edge of my bed, but his daughter as well along with four guards, the captain of the guard, and Grandpa Gruff all in attendance.

Then tension in the air was thick and I would be sweating bullets if I could at the moment because I was too scared to even perspire.

Eventually it was the king who spoke first and it was clear that he was a bit upset with me.

"So Ian, would you care to explain to me why this letter was with you?" The griffon king said as he held up the letter that Tazul gave to me when we met, the letter that told me to keep our deal quiet until the coup happened and the king was no longer in power.

"I guess you want me to explain why I have it and everything that transpired at the manor I take it?" I already knew what the king was going to say but I just had to say it.

"Of course, after all you lied to not only me but to the citizens of Griffonstone as well. You let a traitor keep my daughter hostage just so he and his friends could lead a coup against me."

"I didn't really have a choice on the matter, I was unarmed, trapped and imprisoned like your daughter and that I was going to tell you anyways, regardless if the bastard stole from me or not." And that was the truth, even if I agreed with Tazul to keep his presence and his plan a secret, I was going to tell the king in private so Tazul's goons wouldn't find out.

"And why should I believe you? You lied to me before so obviously you are capable of lying to me again." Ah, the question of trust and that I have broken it by lying on our first meeting.

"Believe me or don't, accept what I am saying as the truth or it as a lie is entirely up to you. We both know that everyone in this room has lied at least once in their life, sometimes it was to shield someone else from knowing the painful truth or to get out of trouble for something they have done in the past. Either way you and I know that you will believe that I was partially right in doing what I have done. In my situation it was accept the deal and leave, or deny it and be trapped with your daughter in the same prison cell for an indeterminable amount of time." And I rather not be trapped with her, she is a cunt.

The infirmary grew silent as the king absorbed and processed what I told him, he knew that I knew that I was right, and that he shouldn't get mad at me for doing what I needed to do to survive and escape.

But then again his daughter was being held by a traitor and who knows if he was truly going to keep his part of the deal and let her go when the coup was done with. For all I know he could have killed her as soon as her father was no longer in power and he had no use for her other than as a slave.

The griffon king continued to stare at me with that piercing gaze of his, and for a moment I thought that I was well and truly fucked and was going to be meeting the gallows, but instead he let out a sigh before shaking his head.

"What I should do is let you recover only to have you beaten until you can't move for abandoning my daughter and for lying to me, but you did uncover a plot that was set on uprooting my family line and sending this nation into chaos and you also recovered the Idol of Boreas which was something that no griffon, dragon or pegasus has been able to do since it was lost." Does this mean that I am scot free of punishment?

Hoping against hope I was about to raise my voice to ask him if I am free to go, but he crushed that dream as quickly as it was conjured from my mind.

"Your punishment was originally going to be that you were to be scrubbing the garrison's bathrooms with nothing more than a toothbrush, but the way you acted around my daughter from her perspective brought me another method of punishment to deliver onto you." The griffon king said as I saw a smile slowly form on that beak of his.

Oh no...no no no!

"I, King Guto the Seventh, hereby sentence you to serve as my daughter's assistant and your sentence will be however long I see fit."

God...fucking...damn it!

"And if I see you try to flee Griffonstone than I will simply have you chained to her room to serve her as her butler till the day you are old and senile."

Well fuck you too asshole!

The griffon princess was trying hard not to snicker behind the royal captain but she was utterly failing at it as she watched my face morph into that of despair and agony.

'So this is my life now...serving a royal cunt for what might be a decade or two...well fuck my life.'

'How will the god I am working for will react to this?'

And as if to answer my thought the voice from the void spoke directly into my head.

The god you are working for will be very pleased, do try to keep your hands to yourself though. I rather not mess with the king's memories because he caught you and his daughter having some special fun in bed out of wedlock.

'I fucking hate my life now.'

Slamming my head against the pillow I was resting on I just prayed for a quick death but sadly god wasn't listening to my prayers.

At least I will get some reprieve from her presence until after I healed up, happy to know that I got one positive going for me in my life.

'I wonder just how royally fucked I am when I get out of here?'

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