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For all the bells and whistles that creatures attached to parenthood, Gallus believed it came down to making sure the kid was healthy, safe, and engaged. He knew he could keep the foal safe. He was faster and smarter and had good reaction skills, and he had a grasp on what was good to put in your mouth and what was not. he also was pretty good at being engaging most of the time, though he also wasn't sure if the same stuff that engaged him would engage Zap Fapple. Knowing was half the battle- or maybe just assuming, maybe it was just assuming that was half the battle. 

 

The other half was doing. He wasn't so sure about the doing. He was a little tired and worried and he didn't know whether or not this good was well-behaved or a troublemaker. Both had some cool benefits. He could get more work done if he was well-behaved but troublemakers could be kind of fun on their own. They also liked more gnarly stories so he had more options. Either way it was a moot point. He could do it. He would do it. Ponies would walk around from this moment on and say that he was pretty rocking when it came to looking after their foals. The best. The best at everything, remember it!

 

"Hey there, teach," Gallus said a he shook Rainbow Dash's hoof before stepping inside. "Wow, you have one amazing house. Did you make this yourself with cloud manipulation or did you just buy it?" Gallus asked, the question burning through any defense he may have had. He then stopped and bent down to inspect the little Zap foal. He was pretty cute in all honesty though he'd never admit it in front of Silverstream. Not as colorful as he imagined. Applejack was a fairly popping orange and Rainbow was...well, the name said it all. Whatever. What was in a color, or a name for that matter? "Hey there little guy. I'm Gallus. Nice to meet you!" He said, offering a talon for a shake.

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"A griffon?" Zap curiously questioned. Zap had seen flashes of griffons before and he saw them as very interesting-looking creatures. He loved their wings but was intimidated by the lack of hooves. One day he encountered Gabby in Ponyville, his first impression of griffons was one of excitement and energy. But he had always wondered why there weren't as many of them, and hadn't gotten a good explanation as to why.

 

Gallus entered the home and stooped down to Zap Apple to give his salutations. With a talon stretched out, Zap was not eager to place his hoof in his grasp, but was all-too interested in the creature anyway. He only paused and stared at him, for longer than would normally be appropriate. "You're a griffon? Where did you come from?" Zap asked him, while looking at Gallus' unusual features like his feline hind quarters and his tipped feathers on his head.

 

In the corner of his eye, he could see Rainbow Dash preparing to leave. "No, I wanna go with you, I don't want to be watched by Gallus. He smells funny."

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Rainbow ushered Gallus inside and smiled as he commented on her house. 

 

"Oh you know..." She shrugged. "Both actually! I did buy it, but being a professional cloud kicker does have it's benefits in the cloud house construction zone! It's a pretty good pad I gotta say!" She watched as he made his way over to Zappers. 

 

When Zap commented about wanting to go with her RD knew what she was going to say. She had prepared a bunch of lines to feed to little guy. Sometimes it was important to come prepared with answers to a young one's questions. 

 

"Ha!" She sniffed towards Gallus. "Yeah he does smell a little funny!" She winked at the griffon and continued on. "Buuuut, he's also super interesting and super cool aren't you Gallus?" 

 

She glanced around for the saddle bag she had readied for her day out. "Plus, you definitely don't want to come with us. It's all going to be boring grown up stuff today. You're gonna have so much fun with Gallus, I don't want you to miss out!" 

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Gallus took offense to Zap saying he smelled funny. He did not smell funny. He smelled just fine, for all the talons in Griffonstone! "Hey, I don't stink," he said while he raised his front right leg and took a whiff of the area underneath. His eyes closed for a second before he pulled up, whispering with a chagrined smile, "well, not any differently than I normally do," he said before slicking back his head-feathers. The little guy certainly didn't hold anything back but Gallus really didn't think it would be a big deal. He was a perfectly good, perfectly perfect, foalsitter for the pegasus. 
"Yeah, we'll have fun. I brought, uhh, some coloring books and story books and these little balls that I think foals like," he said as he tossed a small, bouncy, squeaky red ball on the floor. It bounced a few times with loud squeaks before it hit a post and started to slowly bounce squeak-less away from them. Now that he thought about it, Gallus was sure it was a dog toy.

 

he turned back to Rainbow. He still needed some information. "So, where's his food? Bed? Any rules?" he asked, desperate to know anything that would prevent Professor Applejack from turning him into a pretzel and paraded around town as an example of poor foal sitting. Gallus liked being an example of many great things, like knowing how Hippogriffs ticked and saving Equestria and being the best griffon most ponies would ever see. But he would rather not an example be made of this. Besides, he was barely capable of handling pony cooking as it was. If it was an adventure just finding where Zap Zappple's food was stored than he would be liable to just order something unhealthy and get yelled at for it. And then, again, the pretzel.

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"Dashieeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." Zap whined. He had learned that using exaggerated inflections on his mother's name was a good tactic in persuasion, but there was no telling how effective it would be today. Zap continued to pout, murmuring to himself but also out loud, displaying an outward emotion of feeling suppressed and being treated unfairly. Because it was unfair! His parents get to have fun all day doing Twilight-knows-what without him involved? No way! "It's not fair!" Zap stomped on the soft clouded floor towards the front door where Rainbow Dash was getting ready to leave. He started to reach for the door as if he had decided it was up to him that he would go with his mothers. As far as he was concerned, Gallus was the new housemaid his mother hired to clean up after them while the three of them had a fun day.

 

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She'd somehow managed to pack up the last of what she would need while dealing with the situation at hoof. Zap was right, this probably wasn't fair but that was a greart lesson to learn about life! Plus, Gallus seemed like a pretty fun dude and she figured once she'd left Zappers would end up having a great time with him! It was just a matter of getting herself out the door and locking it behind her. After a few minutes that little guy would get used to the idea and she knew for a fact that by the time she returned he'd be pleading for the blue griffon not to go!

 

Rainbow knew enough as a momma at this point that sometimes reasoning went about as far as Fluttershy in a flying race. She glanced around and then turned to Gallus.

 

"Hey Gallus!" She winked at him, her hoof near the door knob. "Can you show Zappers here that totally awesome thing you can do?" If she could just endure Zap a little bit there's be a space for her to leave. She loved Zappers to peices of course but she was also anxious to spend some time with the other pony she loved fiercely. 

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This was going very well. Very, very well, if Gallus wanted to lie to himself. Zap Jackal was not having any of what Gallus was selling. He wasn't even paying attention to him. Instead, he seemed to desperately want to go with his mom. Couldn't blame the kid. He wanted to see what his professors were up to on their day off way more than watching some pegasus foal who didn't seem all too pleased about his foalsitter. It made sense that a foal'd rather spend time with his athletic momma than some gangly, talon'd little monster. And a stranger at that. Why was he here? Was he really the only one they could get on such short notice to watch him? He didn't let these concerns show. He had read enough about foals to know that they didn't respond well to weakness. Foals were just like predators that way- they took advantage of that weak spot to the top and left you weakened and tired. He'd do his best though, if only because anything less was beneath him and also could result in him being stuffed into a barrel and fed to a hydra.

 

Or something similar. He had an active imagination.
"Something awesome?" He asked out loud, wondering just what it was that Rainbow Dash needed him to do. What was she referencing? That one thing he did? Everything he did was awesome but foals didn't seem the type to really connect with his awesomeness. Then he connected the dots. She just wanted a distraction to get out, and it also needed to be something that would allow him to try and  transfer Zap's attention to whatever activity was next. "Oh, yeah. That awesome thing, right?" He asked as he bent down close to Zap Zapple and tapped his broad shoulders.
"Hey, your moms told me you were a pretty cool colt. Really brave and cool, right? Well, would you like to see a magic trick?" He asked as he sat on his haunches and showed his front paws. He extended his talons ever so lightly. 

 

"You're going to need to be brave if you're gonna watch this. Some ponies faint! They're chickens, though. Wait-" he said, his eyes narrowing, "you're not a chicken, are you?" he asked with an expected answer, directing Zap's attention while he folded his first big talon down at the knuckle. He then put his other big talon up (knuckle also folded) to join it so they’re in a similar position. He then wrapped his index talon around the joint to cover it up. From Zap it should now look pretty convincing that this was Gallus' thumb.


"Okay, here we go," he said as he started the trick. He brought his front paws up, talons prepared.
"I am going to remove my big talon!"

 

Now all that was left to do is to separate it in a dramatic fashion a few times before quickly returning it back to normal. He started acting like he was pulling on the big talon, giving a few grunts and even hovering above the ground with the extra effort. Finally, he pulled it across and it looked like he had removed his talon. "Ouchies! Well, that hurts," he said with a fake frown and a fake tear, doing it a few more times.
"Okay, well, I want to get something to eat. Better repair it!" He said. He then reversed the order. When he got back to position, he gave it a screwing motion. When he was done he pulled the talons apart and moved his big talons apart.
"That takes a lot outta me. Works up an appetite! An appetite!" He said, rubbing his belly. "Want to get something to eat with me?"

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When Zap started overhearing his mother give Gallus cues, he wasn't particularly interested in whatever the blue bird had to show. Whatever it was, it couldn't possibly be more amazing than anything Rainbow Dash does normally during Wonderbolt airshows. But when Gallus hinted at Zap not being afraid, his sense of pride he got from both of his mothers started to distract his attention away from the door and from Rainbow.

 

He made a few steps over to where Gallus was presenting, his head tilted and eyes half engaged, one eyebrow raised and touching his yellow and orange bangs. "I'm not a chicken." Zap responded to the dense griffon. When he performed his magic trick, Zap was genuinely astonished and tried to get a better look by standing on the couch that was next to Gallus. By looking down, he hoped he could see more of what was going on. But when Gallus reconnected his talon by slight of claw, Zap was unable to investigate properly. When Gallus moved his claws away, Zap jumped up to him and tried reaching for his claws to inspect. When he grabbed a claw with his hoof, he was first amazed at the shape of such a device on a creature, it was far different than his own hooves. But then he couldn't understand the trick, but make no mistake, he new it was a trick. "It's a trick. You didn't really remove your hoof claw thing." He turned towards the door. "Mom, how did he do it?"

 

When Zap looked at the door, it was firmly closed with nopony around it. Rainbow Dash had left. He looked out of the window and didn't even see her rainbow trail. She left very quickly while Gallus was doing his trick and it left Zap feeling left out and with a stranger griffon he only now knew as a trickster. He reached for the doorknob but failed to twist it. The door had some kind of lock that he had not been able to figure out yet.

 

After a short fit at the door, Zap turned around and looked at Gallus with a very upset and pouty face. A few breaths later, he started to tear up and before long, busted out a large cry that filled the cloudominium. He spent almost every living minute with at least one of his mothers. This might be the first time he has ever spent time without either of them, and the feeling of detachment left him with only one emotion, uncomfortable insecurity.

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Zap Japple seemed to enjoy the trick a bit, though not enough to totally let go of his skepticism and just enjoy it. Gallus bet that Zap got that from his earth pony mother's side. Applejack wasn't the type to fall for a trick, or not try to decipher the mechanics behind it. She might still have fun with it. but mostly after she understood it. Rainbow at least would have appreciated the performance that Gallus was giving, which was good because he deserved some credit for it. Performance creatures understood the value of a good con, after all. He wasn't the best at the trick but he was good at a small clawful of them, enough to entertain for a little while at the very least. "Well, what can I say except that Gallus the Great won't reveal his secrets so easily," he said with a wink, though the wink went nowhere. 

 

It went nowhere fast, just like Gallus' sense of hearing once the inconsolable weeping commenced. Oh talonfeathers, Zap was a loud little colt. It was weird that he'd cry though, at least based on his own experiences. Gallus couldn't connect. He had learned early the value of a kitten crying on the street and it was a fat zero on the scoreboard of life. Nogriff cared. Nogriff came to console him. It was cold, it was lonely, his tears dried and his heart hardened. Zap didn't have to worry about ay of that though. He wasn't being watched by a bunch of greedy birds on the street, he was being watched by a true, blue Griffon with a heart of...bronze, if not more. Didn't help his ears much though. Gallus had an excellent sense of hearing that was being weaponized against himself, in a strange and awful turn of events.

 

He had to get the colt back in line. Luckily, his late night research and spending spree would come in handy. He hoped, anyway. He gave Zap a few seconds to cry, to let him get it out. He then bent down- dangerous, because of the sound- and spoke in a calm, clear voice. "Hey there little guy, I've got something for ya," he said as he started to unpack. "Your mommas wanted you to make somethin' for 'em. They're gonna be so excited to come home and see what you made," he said, taking out some drawing paper, crayons, and colored pencils, laying them down on a table. "They told me you were such a good little artist. Think you can make something extra special for them to come home to?" He asked, hoping that the idea of doing something sweet for his mommas (and something he'd get all sorts of attention for once they got home) would capture Zap's attention for a while.

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Zap continued to cry. His life story was based on early learning experiences and acting on young pony instincts, one of which was crying until one of his mothers, possibly both, rushed to his side to see what was the matter when he felt stressed or bored. In reality, the stress of Zap being their first foal gave Applejack and Rainbow Dash the proactive attitude towards coddling the young pegasus, but to him it was simply a matter of his reality in those situations, which was that he was very important and possibly the center of the universe.

 

His egocentricity flooded his eyes with tears and gave him the extra adrenaline needed to keep inhaling such loud cries. Was he too old for this? Maybe. But this environment had never been battle-tested. He had never been left alone for so long, except for maybe in his dreams. And now was the moment he would find out what it all meant when his natural reaction to be left at home without his parents would drive him to complete lack of composure, something Applejack would most likely instill in him eventually with her curriculum of farm-natured hard work and tough love combination.

 

Zap mostly ignored what Gallus was pleaing with. But it was a plea. A plea to stop crying, a plea for attention and order, a plea to spare his raptor ears of the insufferable noise coming from the tiny pony. Even by foal standards, this was quite the outburst. He did notice some crafting supplies spilled on the living room table, and he also saw Gallus eager to avert attention to pleasing his mothers, but it mostly fell on deaf ears, one of which Gallus may soon become.

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The plan didn't work. He had read about in the books that it was a good plan. It made the foal turn their sorrow about their parents being gone into motivation to make them happy and proud when they came home, and then double the attention for such a good job. But it didn't work. He knew it didn't work because the wailing continued. It sounded like the foal was being tortured by a cruel snake or stuck in an enclosed space or something similar. His ears wilted under the pressure and fell flat against his skull, trying to keep himself from losing his sense of hearing at such a young age. Zap could really belt it out. Had he honestly never been left alone before? Sweet talonfeathers, he couldn't be this foal's first real-life example of somecreature else other than his mothers that was gonna watch him, was he?

 

Oh Grover, save him.


Through gritted teeth- not anger, but instead pain- he tried to maintain his cool. "Hey buddy, I know you're sad but its gonna be okay. Your mommas will just be gone for a while and then they'll back. Just, please, please stop crying," he said, his ears pulsing with pain as he sat down next to the arts and crafts projects. "Here, lets start drawing a picture of...you. Yeah, you. I don't know my colors very well though. You're pink, right?" He asked, slowly looking for and finding a pink crayon and about to start drawing a pink pegasus colt. He hoped this ploy worked. Anything working, please. Once they got over this hump he was confident they could have some fun, he could show off how good of a foalsitter he was, and then everycreature would be really, really impressed. Or they wouldn't care. A part of him suspected it was the second option, which just made it much worse.


Just stop crying, buddy.

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The wailing continued. Gallus had made an try at verbally illustrating his awful ability to discern colors while also attempting to tap into Zap's ego. It worked, but only slightly. Zap simmered down to a heavy inhale, perhaps a rest from his lament, to hear the words coming from the griffon that he would attempt to draw the colt. Pink. "Wwhaaaaaaa...," Zap continued, not necessarily offended by the color choice, but perhaps using it as an excuse to ramp up his ability to pitch a fit into several long minutes. Maybe he could get close to his personal record.

 

Zap ran over to the door to try and open it, and failed again. Once realizing the door was a futile attempt at finding solace, he scampered up the marble stairs and looked out a window that was on the front face of the cloudominium. He tapped softly on the colt-proof glass, crying more as he caught his breath from the short run. He could have hovered up to the second level of the foyer, but he kept his wings tucked in order to reserve energy for more important things, like crying.

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Zap Apple's crying started to die down a little. Just a little. Even as he calmed down Gallus could see the little pegasi's chest heave and wings stick close to his body, seemingly building himself up for endurance weeping. Gallus wasn't sure if it was a competition at the Iron Pony but if it was then at the very least he could imagine the foal was preparing to bring home the gold. Gallus rubbed his ears, enjoying the short reprieve as the foal went upstairs. He put the coloring books and activity books down ruefully, regretting spending bits on them. His kitten wasn't going to do this. His kitten was never gonna cry. At least around him. Maybe around his mother. She could out up with this. He wasn't one for being ignored and screamed at by a tiny ball of meat for no good reason. He sighed and rubbed his head.

 

What to do next?
Activities weren't working. Giving him something to do to make his mommas happy wasn't working. Keeping him focusing on good things he could do right now, not working. He was just a pile of tears and sorrow with little more going on for him at the moment and Gallus was having trouble understanding how to break it out of him. He wracked his brain for several moments before the answer struck him in a moment of inspiration and excitement. He snapped his talons. "Of course. How could I be so stupid? He'll love it," Gallus said out loud as he took flight, following the sound of light weeping and movement until he found the mess of a pony that was the Apple-Rainbow partnership made flesh. "Little guy, I know you're sad but I have a cool idea I think you'll like," he said as he landed on his haunches near Zap. "How about you show me to your mom's kitchen and we make ourselves some cupcakes? Do you like cupcakes?" Gallus asked with a big smile. He had brought the ingredients for easy to make, easy to bake cupcakes for just such an occasion!

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Zap's crying slowed down to a whimper and when Gallus sat next to him by the window, did not escalate his cries again. His failure to make his level of upsettedness higher was less about warming up to Gallus, and more that he was getting tired of crying. Most parents of colts and fillies this age do well when they learn to endure the amount of tears and wails coming from their precious offspring.

 

Gallus offered to make cupcakes. He only needed to ask the colt twice before Zap turned his head slightly and nodded, adding a soft whimper with the inflection of a yes answer. Zap continued to not smile, and held a reluctant expression of submissiveness. When Zap turned away from the window, his face was painted a dark brown showing the streaks of the tears made on his face. His nose was running but he could breathe through it fine. He slowly stepped down the stairs in order to go into the kitchen.

 

The kitchen was very clean. Pristine, actually. This was mostly because Rainbow Dash never used it and less because she was good at cleaning up. The athletic mare would likely have protein powder or energy supplements in some of the cupboards, but the many cooking supplies would be laying dormant in the pantry with all perishable materials being omitted completely. Gallus asked Zap to lead him to the kitchen, but any idiot could see it from the front foyer. Instead, Zap trailed behind the griffon, yielding his authority granted to him by his mother, even though he smelled a little.

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Gallus wasn't about to look a giftfoal in the mouth. Zap Apple still didn't look very happy about the state of his world but Gallus was going to have to be okay with that certain amount of sorrow until his mind flittered away in time to other subjects. Foals were little else if absent-minded and Gallus had to rely on that to get him through. At least he had the good manners to follow along with the Griffon as they headed on down to the kitchen. Shockingly enough for a mare who didn't look or act like one too concerned with tidiness her kitchen was near immaculate. And then he spotted a little dust and it all made sense: She was an order out kind of gal. Luckily he didn't need that much to make the plan work. He just needed a few ingredients and a colt who he could get to smile at least once. If he could get through the day with that feather in his cap, he'd be content. 

 

"All right," Gallus said as he looked around the kitchen, gathering the pots and pans and beating sticks and everything else they'd need. "Ponies are so weird. Where I come from we eat worms instead of cupcakes. And bugs instead of cake. Gross, right?" He said as he looked back, sticking his tongue out in a joking manner. He then started separating things out, taking a deep breath. He put a small amount of flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl as he started to preheat the oven, the little geode in the back turning on. "Alright. First up, you start mixing those together and tell me when you think it looks good. Show me that pegasus speed and control I'm always hearing about," he said as he gave a wink. The amount was small enough that even with some tremendous speed and force it shouldn't get too messy, and he could have some fun mixing. "I'll mix this," he said as he started slowly mixing the eggs, butter, and sugar, saving the extract for the end. "Then we'll combine them and mix together. Alright, lets get mixing!"

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Zap listened and stared at the bowl of ingredients. He had never baked with his Rainbow mother before. Applejack had shown him around the farm's kitchen several times when baking a few rounds of pies or showing him how jam is made, but he never seen this style of cooking. Even less from a creature who wasn't even in the same category as ponies in terms of their diet. Bugs were indeed gross. "Yuck." Zap suggested.

 

After a few moments of realizing Gallus intended for him to be apart of the program, Zap stood up on a chair by the table and grabbed a wooden spoon with his hoof and held onto the bowl with his other. Slowly he started mixing all the ingredients together. While stirring he couldn't help but notice that what he had looked nothing like what he would expect cupcakes to look like. "I don't know when it looks good," He said, keeping his whinny tone left over from the previous fit.

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Gallus hid a smile. As long as he had this colt looking at what he was doing and not behind him it would be okay, even with an attitude. He could handle an attitude. He could handle far less the screaming and the crying that had preceded it, so this was a step in the right direction. Still, he knew that they had some work to do. Not only to make sure they produced something edible out of this but to ensure that he got a good score. He didn't want to get destroyed by Applejack true but he also didn't want to let the best professor down. Seeing Fluttershy sad pained the heart of every living creature as far as Gallus was concerned. "You're doing great, kid. Soon we'll have some pretty delicious cupcakes," Gallus offered, even though he had little reason to believe that Zap could do his part alone. Backed up a moment later by Zap saying he didn't know when it looked good.

 

He gave it a look. Yeah, it looked like Zap was only half-heartedly doing this. He was still a mite upset, but that was fine. Gallus could work with this. "You're on your way. I found the messier the mix looks the better off it is," he said as he took another wooden spoon and helped a little stirring vigorously for a few seconds before retreating from the bowl. "Try another minute, okay?" He asked as he went back to his work. He started to stir his bowl more vigorously and after a while he liked the look of the mixture. It looked like the picture in the books, anyway. Near the end he added a little sour cream and the vanilla extract, stirring some more until it looked right. "All right, I'm done over here!" he said excitedly. "Okay, next. Can you get those cupcake liners for me?" He asked gently, pointing at the liners that weren't very far from Zap at all. 

 

It gave him time to take the dry bowl and pour it into the wet bowl and start mixing them by the time. "All right. Can you put one liner in each of the holes?" He said, beak beckoning to the cupcake tray. Zap Prapple was proving to be a good little assistant which was good because now that Gallus could hear again he could swear he could hear his hammering heart beat slow.

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Zap abandoned his mixture and hopped off the stool he was standing and walked over to the counter where he could reach up onto the counter and grab the liners with his mouth. He wasn't sure this is what he was talking about, but it was the only thing that was in the direction Gallus had pointed. He jumped up on another stool by the baking tin and careful placed a liner in each one, all with his mouth. When he was reaching to put the last liner in, he lost his footing on the stool and the stool slipped sideways and fell. With youthful reaction time, Zap quickly caught his own fall with a quick flutter and stood on the table. He then placed the last liner in. "Okay." Zap's tone of voice was engaged but reluctant. It was almost like he was being asked to do chores.

 

While waiting for whatever his foal-sitter wanted next, he looked towards the other end of the cloudominium and noticed a pink bird in the window. "What is that!?" Zap said curiously out loud. He was both excited and stunned. He had never seen a bird like the one he was looking at. He looked at Gallus to get his attention to what he was seeing but when he looked back, the bird he saw was no longer in the window. He jumped down off the table and scampered to the window and tried to see the edges of where it could have possibly gone. But he couldn't find anything. "Where'd it go?"

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Zap Apple did as the Griffon asked which suited Gallus just fine. He wasn't jumping for joy but Gallus hadn't expected that to happen so soon after the colt had cried his heart out. His hearing was still recovering for Griffon's sake! After Zap Apple did his part Gallus made sure to mix the final part of the batter and then slowly filled the liners with the batter. Zap Apple had managed to catch himself midfall- pretty athletic move for a little colt like him! Did his mom give him some sort of flight training? Gallus was easily a late bloomer, with no one really to teach him. If the colt did at least have an attentive mother when it came to that, all the more reason for him to be as lucky as he was.

 

Whatever had piqued Zap's interest as quickly as it had done so vanished with equal speed immediately after. By the time Gallus turned around it had vanished. Not that it hadn't left Zap's mind a single iota. He went over to the window to look for it. Gallus hovered on over and stuck his head, looking to and fro. He didn't see anything strange but then again that didn't mean he didn't see whatever it was that caught Zap's eye. After all, foals could be fascinated by just about anything. They were kind of weird like that. He looked down at Zap Apple and thought up a cool idea. They had a few minutes until the cupcakes were done, right? Why not stretch their wings a little? "Hey kid, wanna show me what got you so excited?" He said as he took a leap out of te window and started hovering. "Come on. I can give you a ride or you can fly alongside me."

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Being invited to fly outside the house was pretty shocking to Zap. Forgetting that he wanted to leave with his mother only a few minutes ago, he was not too keen on actually flying away from his sitter to take on the jet stream by himself. He could probably do it, but his mothers both professed he was not ready to be a solo glider just yet. And not that he was scared, being prohibited from even leaning over the edge of clouds by his parents also enforced in him this ideal that Gallus was suggesting something mischievous. But he was in charge, so. "Dashie says I'm not supposed to go outside. But okay!" Zap cracked his first smile, leaping through the window next to Gallus, he fluttered in place for a little, and upon seeing the edge of the cloud the home was built on, clung to the griffin's back out of habit. "It was a big pink bird. Like almost as big as you!"

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"Yeah well what Dashie doesn't know about can't hurt her, right?" Gallus conspired as he allowed the little guy on his back and wings. Gallus wasn't a strong flyer in terms of speed or agility, but he did have that natural, powerful form that all Griffons possessed. He could take care of the foal and save him if needs be. Of course the foal didn't entirely use Gallus as support. Instead he flew on his own, using Gallus as a crutch. That worked. Everything would be fine. And if it wasn't, then he had a head start on leaving Equestria as quickly as Griffonly possible. "Alright, lets fly," he said as he started to glide and fly lazily about the airspace. Thankfully he wasn't too keen on the importance of the bird in question because it was quickly focused in one very specific creature.

 

Not that he had a problem with that.

 

He gave a single large chuckle. "That right, huh?" He asked as he looked around. She could be anywhere, stalking them as a predator does its prey. Playfully, of course. She entertained herself jumping on buckets for the sake of Griffonstone, so it wasn't like he felt threatened. That meant he could tease her, which was his favorite activity of all. "Okay, so describe this big pink bird for me," he said louder, to attract the attention of anygriff listening. "Did it stink? How badly did it stink? Does it need to take two baths or three?" He looked around and leaned in. "You know, I bet it makes a big ol' chicken sound. What type of sound does it make, Zap?"

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Zap nervously flew training style with Gallus as he tried to describe to him the pink bird. "I couldn't smell it. Hehe, no. No, I didn't here it make a noise." Gallus wasn't fluttering too far from the cloud house, but he was getting nervous being with a complete stranger this far away from his anchor, and he started to look back at the cloudominium they were flying away from. Just then, he noticed the pink bird again, flying into a third floor window of the cloudominium. He gasped. "There it is! It just flew through a window. It's in the house. It had long legs and a beak, and and and it had wings." Zap stuttered as he quickly tried to relay information, because as soon as Gallus would look himself, he could see nothing.

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This giant pink talon-bird who looked a lot like Gallus but smelled a lot better (he knew that for a fact) seemed awfully elusive, as if it was intentionally avoiding them. Well, that just wouldn't do. Not for Gallus' safety, he was a big strong griffon who could handle any task whatsoever, just ask him. He could provide you with the four one one on all of his great skills and talents. No, it was for Zap Apple's safety. Who knew how hard this pink monster would hug the little guy or ruin his mind with stair conversations and plumbing information. It was up to Gallus to protect Zap Frapple from the terrifying monster. The terrifying, super friendly monster. Too friendly.

 

"Oooh, it must be pretty fast and sneaky. Good eyes there, little bird. Let's head back inside," Gallus offered pleasantly as he led the slow-moving charge back in through the window in the catch, landing not far from the oven. His eyes briefly glanced at the time- a little while longer before the cupcakes had to come out. What sort of frosting? He knew there was vanilla and chocolate. Sprinkles? He licked his lip without moisture, happy to ponder the cupcake future they had created. But for that future to happen they had to subdue the pink monster-bird that had flown into their lives. He turned to Zap. "Okay. We gotta go find this stinky pink bird. You know this place better, so lead the way! Oh, before you do," he said as he grabbed one of the already cleaned off bowls, tossing it on Zap's head and adjusting it so he can see. 


"A helmet, for the brave knight."

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Gallus helped Zap back into the house and invited him to lead the investigation. And with that, addition help from the kitchen armory to keep his head safe from injury. Softly, he stepped up the stairs into the rooms Rainbow Dash reserved for guests to sleep over, but also to help store her many awards and trophies. He looked left and right into each room, all of them dark with no evidence of intrusion. But then a sound could be heard on the third floor. "It sounds like flapping." Zap quickly bolted up the last flight of stairs to the observatory room where more of Rainbow Dash's trophies are stored as well as many cataloged memories she has had with her friends in the form of framed pictures and old copies of Daring Do books. Zap looked into the room first and saw the creature. It was hideous! But he couldn't get a good look at it before it bolted out of the room and down the stairwells flapping its wings furiously and squawking. "Whoa! What is it!?"

 

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Gallus would have to admit his disappointment at seeing that the pink flapping stinky bird was not Silverstream but rather a real stinky bird. Why the heck as it here? Did random birds with varied flight capabilities somehow find their way up to Rainbow's house? It made sense he guessed. Griffons didn't live in the clouds but they dealt with flying critters way more than normal ones. So it only made sense that the same was here. Did that mean pigeons were more rat-like in how they affected the pegasi than real rats? Inquiring minds didn't really care nor want to know. They just wanted to get this dumb looking bird out of the house before it, dunno, bit the clouds or something else really stupid.

 

"That's a flamingo. They're kinda cool I guess. They sway less when they're one legged, but they generally stay close to the ground," Gallus said as he took flight and followed the flamingo. It was pretty fast but flamingos weren't know for high speed flight. Griffons may not be as fast as pegasi, but Gallus knew he was faster than this dumb looking creature. "Kinda weird to see it up here. Hey, flamingo. Get out of here," he said as he few closer, trying to shoo it away. "You don't belong here, you dumb bird. Go back to the lake or Fluttershy's cottage," he said with determination, trying to make sure Zap Apple knew he had it under control as he got closer and closer. He didn't want to bare his claws and roar at it or anything, but he would if needed to get this stupid thing outta here. His predatory side was really enjoying this chase.

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