chapter 2 the game is afoot
Gallus desperately tried screaming louder than he'd ever screamed. Thankfully Silverstream was there to cover his beak to keep him from screaming. Ultimately Gallus got all the screams out of his system in due course.

“Oh my gosh just... what's happening?! Why do I have girl parts? When did this happen? Do gryphons always get pussies like this? Oh no! What if I have some horrible Disease? What if I was always a girl and didn't even know it. What if...” 
Gallus promptly stopped in response to a hard slap from Silverstream. “Gallus, calm down, you're making me anxious.” 

Gallus took a huge breath and gradually let it out. “You're right Silverstream. Panicking won't solve anything.”

“Now then.” Silverstream interjected, “were you a boy this morning?”

“Yeah I'm pretty sure I was; I was jerking off.”

Silverstream nodded. “Mhmm and who were you fantasizing about?”

“Why's that important?” Gallus cocked an eyebrow.

“We can't leave anything to chance Gallus. So answer the question.”

Gallus sighed. “Fine, a lesbian three way between you Smolder and Ocellus... and then professor twilight showed up and joined in.”

Silverstream nodded again, “Hot, now were you a boy when we got to the water park?”

Gallus thought back on it, and then he remembered he was in the boy's shower room. He would have likely gotten some attention if he had changed before then.

“I don't think so.” Gallus eventually replied.

“Well then, whatever happened to you must have happened between you coming to the beach and arriving at the park.” Silverstream brought a claw to her beak and hummed. “Oh!” She snapped her finger, “the drink, you told me that it wasn't yours? Maybe that did this to you.”

Silverstream was making lots of sense, and the juice was the only unusual occurrence today aside from the obvious. Gallus bobbed his head.

“Makes sense Silver, but what can we do?” Gallus cocked an eyebrow.

“Well maybe we can start with finding out who's drink it was.”

“Eh,” Gallus retorted, “Bit of a stretch but its a start. The juice bar asked for my name so maybe he remembers who's drink I accidentally took.” 

“Well, let's get going then!” Silverstream sped off away from Gallus but he didn't move. What if his other friends found out what happened to him. If he could have, he would keep this from even Silverstream. Eventually, Silverstream returned. “Umm Gallus? Aren't you coming?”

“Listen Silver,” Gallus skimmed the ground with his right talon, “I don't want the rest of our friends finding out about this until I can fix this. Umm can I stay here?”

Silverstream giggled, “don't worry Gallus.” She sped over and picked up the red beach towel she brought and promptly wrapped it around Gallus's backside. She tied it to his tail to prevent it from moving. “If our friends can't see what happened, then you don't have to worry about being embarrassed. I promise I won't tell any pony else.”

Gallus smiled, “Thanks Silver, you're the best friend a gryphon could ever ask for.”

Silverstream roped Gallus into a hug, “no problem well let's go to the juice bar... umm, you better lead.”

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the juice bar was conveniently a brief flight away from the beach, adorned like a tropical tiki house and staffed by a chestnut stallion with a curly mustache. Gallus and Silverstream soon approached the man.

“Umm excuse me sir...” Silverstream said.

“Oh,” the stallion looked up from whatever he was doing.“Hi there miss what can I get for you?” Gallus soon felt the stallion's eyes set on him.“Oh, you're back Mr Gallus. You might not have noticed, but you picked up some pony else's drink.” 

Gallus's eyes dilated, “I'm not in trouble am I?”
The stallion chuckled, “No of course not, it happens all the time. So want another one? Maybe you'd also like a banana float to split with the lovely lady. “

Silverstream sighed and rolled her eyes, “no, actually we came to ask about the customer whose drink Gallus accidentally took. She ummm accidentally took Gallus's bit pouch with him” Silverstream scratched her beak. “Or her, do you know his or her name?”

“Oh, I see. Well, it was definitely a she, unicorn I think although I think she had a horn deformity or something. As for the name hmm” The stallion rubbed his chin. “Pretty sure her name was Wildfire. Not much more I can remember about her.”

“Thank you sir,” Silverstream smiled.

“You're quite welcome miss good luck finding her.”

With that both of them departed the juice bar. “I think we should split up to cover more ground.” Silverstream proposed.

“Good idea. Umm Silver mind if I ask a bit of a personal question?”

“Of course Gallus ask away.”

“Ummm.” Gallus waved his claw, “do you get asked if we're into each other a lot. Just about everypony assumes we'll get together or something. Honestly, it gets on my nerves.”

Silverstream groaned. “You have no idea. Smolder won't shut up about me being your best match... you know she also tries to speculate which one of our professors is dating.”

Gallus couldn't help but chuckle. “Thank Celestia it's not just me. So unicorn mare, horn deformity, Wildfire right?”

Silverstream nods. “Good luck Gallus.”

“You too Silver.”

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Gallus wandered the boardwalk, soon happening upon a unicorn mare with a berry purple colored coat. Sitting on a bench with what was supposedly her filly.”Excuse me ma'am.”

She looked up from what she was doing, “Yes, can I help you?”

Gallus scratched the back of his head, “have you seen a unicorn mare with a deformed horn. Her name is Wildfire?”

“Hmm,” The mare scratched her head.“Don't know any pony named Wildfire. But now that you mentioned a deformed horn I saw a unicorn with a peculiar horn heading towards the eastern part of the park.”

Gallus smiled, “Thanks ma'am.” Gallus sped off towards the east. As he went towards the slides on one the more eastern reaches of the park, he wiped some sweat from his brow; he never knew a water park could be so hot and this was on a day when the clouds were common enough to break up the sun a lot. As Gallus continued his trek, he also became acutely aware of the chafing of the towel on his hindquarters. When Silverstream had tied that towel to his hindquarters, it was reasonably snug. Now that some time had passed Gallus was feeling it rub against his flank more and more. Apparently Silverstream's knot work wasn't as strong as he assumed initially. His inner monologue was broken; however, when a stallion spoke to him.

“Hey there miss, umm that's a nice outfit you got there.”
Gallus's eyes widened and his face turned beat red. In all his life Gallus had never been mistaken for a woman.

“Umm err thanks,” Gallus rubbed the back of his head. “Hey, have you seen a unicorn mare with a deformed horn? She's called Wildfire.”

“Sorry, no haven't seen some pony like that if I do I'll tell her you're looking for her. So whats your name?”

“Err Gallus.”

“Hmm.” The stallion stroked his chin, “weird name for a gryphoness but I'll roll with it. OK see you around Gallus.”the stallion soon trotted off leaving Gallus to continue his trek towards the eastern water slides. On the way to the water slides Gallus interrogated a few other passerby ponies to no avail. He soon spotted a huge water slide towering above all else. Gallus looked up and witnessed a huge wave of water spill off the water slide. In a panic, Gallus ran in the other direction. He knew that something like that could only have been caused by Yona. He knew he'd have to search the eastern side of the park later.

“Hey there.” Gallus's spine shivered at the sound of some pony addressing him. Gallus turned to face the source of the cute voice and was met with an earth pony mare with several balloons tied to her tail. She also had a balloon animal she had for a cutie mark.

“You look kinda stressed out, want a balloon? They're only 5 bits.”

Gallus's eyes went wide as he realized the rest of his bits were still in the men's shower room. He knew what he had to do.

“I'll pass. I'm out of bits.” without much else of a word he sped off.