Godly

Godly
Chapter 12: The wrath of a God

Hours later, the army of ponies approaches just a mile out from the wall. Amore has a spyglass made of wood with crystal lenses and looks through it.

"Tis Celestia alright," she says and sighs. "She's coming with just two of her guards... we think she wants to talk," she then says.

I change back to Khepri and look to Amore. "I want you, Luna, Dragana, and Chrysalis to come with me to meet her," I tell them. “Cadence and the rest of you stay behind the stone warriors, only attack if the Equestrians attack you first,” I then order the changelings getting affirmatives in reply.

"Okay," Chrysalis says angrily while Dragana glares hatefully at the white alicorn walking towards us.

The two alicorns nodded to me while Cadence pouts as I take off towards Celestia, followed by the others.

We land in the middle between our forces and wait for Celestia to arrive. After a few minutes she's now ten feet from us. She's wearing the same armour she wore when I first met her at the Empire.

"We've come to take our sister back and to punish Chrysalis for her attack upon us, and why art thou here, Amore?" she asks calmly but I'm pretty sure I heard a bit of anger behind it.

"We art here to defend our friends and allies. We shall not allow thee to harm anypony here," Amore replies with a frown.

"Thou would turn on us for these parasites!?" Celestia asks stunned. Getting the Queens and Amore to look at her angrily.

"We regret letting thee talk us into exiling the changelings from our Empire a century ago. We should have stood up to thee back then, and the changelings here are welcome back within MY City," Amore replies with an icy tone.

I growl at Celestia getting her attention.

"I wouldn't refer to my friends and mate as such again unless you want a repeat of when you tried using the elements on me," I tell her coldly. "I don't want to fight, so I'd rather you return to your lands and leave us alone. The changelings here no longer need to feed from your ponies or anyone else as I provide all the love they need. I'm giving you two options here, Celestia. One, you go back and leave us alone peacefully, and in return we leave you alone. Or two, you start a war that will result in me using the very sun you took prisoner to not only wipe out your forces here, but I will go to your home and threaten your people just like you are mine," I tell her making her glare at me.

"Don't think we don't know what you've done to our sun. Thou will return control of it to us this instant," she replies and orders.

"The sun doesn't belong to you, nor does it to me. All I've done is put it back to where it belongs along with the moon, just to let you know, they felt relieved to be back on their own orbits, like they're alive and have their own feelings before you caged them. Now go back to Equestria and don't come back," I tell her as my anger keeps rising.

"Please, sister. I've been living with the changelings willingly for the last five days, and they're peaceful and friendly. They didn't harm our scouts and released them with a large meal as well. Please return home, don't start a war that can be avoided altogether," Luna begs Celestia.

"And what possessed thee to come here? What were thou thinking? And why art thou not speaking in the royal we?" Celestia asks her sister.

"I've hated using the royal we for decades! And If you must know, I'm afraid of you!" Luna replies making Celestia stare at her wide eyed.

"What? Why would thou be afraid of us?" she asks sounding hurt.

"Ever since we defeated Discord, you've been getting more and more arrogant. It wasn't until the ponies started calling us goddesses that it got worse! Praising you and the day constantly, then you had this idea for perfect harmony by removing anything that went against your view of a perfect world! And then you started getting paranoid that the other races were scheming against us! I don't want to live like that anymore and I'm afraid if I disagreed with you that you would do something to me!" Luna replies, tears starting to form in her eyes.

Luna then wipes her tears away and continues. "What happened to my sister before we ascended? I wish we never found those accursed elements if it meant you would still be the same kind and caring Tia I knew back then!" Luna then starts crying where Amore nuzzles her.

Celestia stares at her for a while before looking at me angrily. "This is all thine fault! Ever since thou showed up, thou hast turned our sister against us! Our friend and niece! Even aided a race of foalnappers and killers!" she yells at me making me glare at her harder.

"You're bloody insane... Fuck off now or I will make you eat the dirt you're standing on and leave you worse off than when Chrysalis blasted you," I tell her standing up a bit higher to make myself appear bigger.

"Yes. We haven't forgotten what she did to us at the Empire, and we will have justice done," she replies and to everyone's surprise, she fires off a powerful blast of golden coloured magic without warning at Chrysalis who screams in pain as she's blown all the way back to the wall which cracks with her impact.

My eyes widen and my anger peaks as without warning as well, I lunge forward and grasp Celestia in my front legs and squeeze her tightly, getting a few cracks from her armour.

"YOU HAVE JUST MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE!" I roar angrily bearing my sharp teeth, making her gasp in shock as I fly up twenty feet into the air quickly before diving back down in just a couple of seconds and slamming her head first into the ground making a small crater.

She yelps at the impact and appears dazed as I grab her right hind leg with my left front leg's pincer and slam her into the ground repeatedly like a rag doll, deepening the cracks in her armour and the rocky ground bit by bit.

Celestia's two guards who came with her rush over with crystal swords drawn to attack me, but Dragana blasts both of them away with her magic, scorching their armour and burning the exposed parts of their legs and neck.

"YOU WANT TO DIE THAT BADLY!? THEN LET ME ASSIST YOU, BITCH! I'LL GIVE YOU THE BLOODSHED YOU SO BADLY WANT!" I yell at Celestia and toss her into the air before connecting to the sun.

The sun responds instantly to my request, I fire a solar flare and the beam of sunlight hits Celestia before exploding sending her back into the dirt hard.

I look back to where Chrysalis hit the wall and yell at the changelings there. "GET HER INTO A POD OF LIQUID LOVE NOW!" I order them making them quickly levitate the very injured Queen into the keep. From what I can see, her chitin is cracked and she's bleeding badly.

I turn my attention back to Celestia and stomp my way over to her as she shakily gets up and glares at me. "We won't let thee or those parasites threaten the world!" she tells me and her horn glows as the elements appear and float around her.

"DID YOU NOT LEARN THE FIRST TIME!? THOSE DON'T WORK ON ME!" I tell her and change to Geb and once again take control of the elements from her.

She snarls at me as the gems fuse with my right forearm. I then curl up into a ball and bulldoze my way over to her, making the very ground shake from my increasing momentum and size as rocks attach to me as I travel towards her. She takes flight just in time to avoid me and I slide to a halt where all the gathered rocks break off. I glare up at her as I change into Thanatos.

"I WILL TAKE YOUR HEARTLESS SOUL!" I yell at her and take off to chase her.

Her eyes widen as she fires blast after blast of magic at me. I use my scythe to deflect her bolts, some even going into her own soldiers injuring some of them which makes her gasp and stop shooting. Her horn glows and her crystal halberd appears and as I reach her, we swing our weapons at each other which give off sparks upon contact.

After trading blows for a good five minutes, each of us landing hits on the other's armour, she backs away and speaks up. "We shall show thee that thou art no god!" she tells me and quickly blasts me on the left side of my face with her magic.

I flip a few times with a grunt before bouncing off the ground heavily. I recover feeling sore on my left shoulder from the impact and a burning sensation on my masked face before taking off again where I pull my scythe back ready to swing at her. Her horn glows and before I reach her, she disappears and I get blasted on my back.

Flapping my wings, I recover from the fall and glare at her. I use Thanatos' Scent of Death ability, increasing my speed and my scythe's blade glows a dark purple. I dash for her and my increased speed makes her yelp, and before she could teleport again, I swing my scythe into her armour, piercing the crystal and sinking two inches of the blade into the side of her chest.

She gasps in pain and blasts me away, making my scythe rip out of her a bit and I slam into the ground. She flaps wildly as she descends to the ground with an expression of pain and blood slowly dripping from her side.

I get up and shake my head as my ears are ringing. After a few seconds to re-orientate myself I change to Chiron, The great Teacher. I'm now a centaur who I personally think sounds a bit like Sean Connery. I'm wearing greenish-blue armour with a single pauldron on my right shoulder for my human half while my horse half has armour along its back and rump, a satchel of medicinal herbs rest against my human torso's right hip. My long white hair is tied back into a ponytail and I also have a decent beard and moustache. My horse half has grey fur and my tail's colour matches my ponytail as well.

In my left hand I hold an ivory bow that looks like it has antlers on it with a greenish-blue grip.

I draw an arrow from my quiver and aim at Celestia who is still kneeling down in pain.

"Protect the Princess!" I hear a pony yell and the others all cheer before charging towards me.

I glare at them and aim my bow at them instead.

"Thine fight is with us!" Celestia suddenly yells and fires another blast of magic at me.

I gallop out of the way and aim at her again. I fire off a shot and hit her crystal armour where the arrow chips it a bit and bounces off, I then use Chiron's Masterful Shot ability to fire an arrow straight up which arcs towards Celestia to the point where my last shot hit her, she tries to fly away from it but it follows her relentlessly.

The ponies have now started to fire bolts of magic at our forces who are using the resin covered barriers and my stone warriors as cover and firing their own bolts of magic back. A few of the ponies' magic bolts hit me as well which don't do that much to my armour, though they do sting and singe my fur a little.

Luna and Amore have erected magical shields around themselves to deflect the magical bolts whizzing past them, they also have conflicted expressions as if they're unsure what they should do.

While Celestia is distracted, I turn into Sol and use her ultimate ability called Supernova. Just as I said I would, I use the sun to fire eight intense beams of flame that hit in a line along the front of the Equestrians. They blow out deep scorched craters and reducing the ponies hit at the front into ash.

The ponies behind them cower back and retreat away from me.

"YOU ALL STAY OUT OF THIS IF YOU WANT TO KEEP BREATHING!" I order them and turn back to Celestia to see her swat the arrow away with her halberd since it lost its homing ability when I changed.

I change back to Chiron and keep taking shots at her, every time I tag her with an arrow I follow it up with a homing one to make her either deflect it or dodge it. She takes a few shots at me with her magic as well each time she avoids or deflects an arrow which I easily step aside to avoid. I start to get frustrated and use my ultimate ability called Centaurus.

I rear up on my hind legs as my body glows with a light blue aura and I become transparent as it looks like my skeleton is a constellation. Celestia's eyes widen as what I can only describe as cosmic power is flowing through me and time seems to slow down.

After taking my time to carefully aim, I fire the first shot that soars at Celestia faster than normal, the arrow is surrounded by energy and it hits her chest, the energy wrapping around her while also cracking her armour and sending her back from the impact. The second shot misses as she barely dodges, but the third shot hits the same spot as the first and shatters the chestplate of her armour, making her yelp and flip out of control from the force of the impact again.

I return to normal and fire another homing arrow which strikes her in her exposed chest making her gasp and fall out of the sky. She hits the ground hard and curls up into a ball gasping for breath with the arrow protruding out of her.

I change back into Khepri and charge right for her while ignoring the pain I'm in due to my blind rage. But Luna lands in front of me with pleading eyes and a fearful expression.

"Get out of my way, Luna," I tell her in a cold and calm tone which makes her shiver.

"Carl, p-please stop. You've won. Let me take her b-back to Equestria... please," she begs me as I glare at her.

"After what she just did to Chrysalis? You expect me to let her leave after attacking my girl and invading my home where she could try to do it again!?" I yell at her making her cower back.

"I know w-what she did was wrong... but p-please don't kill her... despite her terrible attitude, she's s-still my sister," she replies and I pace in front of her while not tearing my eyes away from hers.

I look between her, then Celestia who's looking at me with and mixture of fear and anger, and then to the ponies who look terrified at what's going on as I just now notice that all the fighting has stopped.

"RrrrRRAAAGH!" I yell in rage and rip out a chunk of rock from the ground with my front legs and toss it a good twenty-six metres away before firing a solar flare from the sun, blasting the rock into dust. I stop and breath heavily as I stare at the crater the rock was at. The ponies back away slightly as I then turn back to Luna.

"Get her out of my sight before I rip her limb from limb!" I yell at her angrily. She yelps, levitates her sister, and flies off towards Equestria.

"F-Fall back!" she tells the Equestrians who don't argue and run off after her, carrying any injured from my attack and the two Dragana blasted with them.

Dragana flies over to me with a worried expression. "Carl? Are you alright?" she asks me warily. She has a few burn marks on her legs and neck, but they slowly seem to be healing.

I growl in anger and flutter my wings and look at her, making her flinch. "No... No I'm not..." I reply and fly off to check on Chrysalis. Along the way I see a good four-hundred of my stone warriors are destroyed, damaged, and or missing limbs along with a few injured changelings and crystal ponies.

I enter the storeroom in the keep where I see Chrysalis submerged in a pod of liquid love as her cracked and burned chitin is slowly mending. I collapse in front of her as I'm more exhausted than I thought with a worried expression as Chrysalis has a pained one on her face. A few other changelings and crystal ponies are in here as well with some magical burns from the Equestrians attacks. Even five of them dead from magical blast wounds to their heads.

I hear hooves walk up behind me and Cadence speaks up.

"Carl? Will thou be okay?" she asks and I sigh.

"Thank you for coming, Cadence. I'll be fine, once I'm sure Chryssi is okay," I reply and just keep looking at Chrysalis who looks like she's in agony. I feel some pain from the three blasts Celestia hit me with and the impacts with the ground so I think I got a couple of burns as well. The left side of my face feels burnt, as well as the middle of my back under my wing plates.

"What shall thee do now?" she asks me as Amore walks over and stands beside her daughter.

"Equestria is now an enemy of the Changelings. Should Celestia return, I will kill her. I gave her the chance to leave us alone, and she spat in our face," I tell her emotionlessly as I continue to take in the all the wounds Chrysalis has. I think she has a broken foreleg as well.

"Please don't judge all the ponies due to Celestia's actions..." Cadence says, making me frown. "Thou art just angry right now... Take time to calm down and look after Chrysalis, we and aunt Luna shall deal with Celestia. When thou art ready, thou canst send us and our guards back to the Empire," she tells me and gives me a gentle nuzzle.

After a moment of silence I speak up. "Alright. Just, give me a minute," I reply and take a deep breath.

I regret letting my anger get the better of me. I killed ponies who were just doing what they were told. Now their friends and family will have to deal with losing them and I'm the reason for it. I didn't feel bad for killing Sombra, fucker had it coming to him. But these were just guards doing what their insane Princess ordered them to do... and their families will never see them again, and I feel that will come to haunt me in the days ahead...

"Carl? What happened to the Elements of Harmony?" Amore then asks with confusion.

I change to Geb and look at my right forearm and see the elements still attached to me. I don't want nor need these blasted things, so I make them detach and they clatter to the floor.

"Take them with you, give them back to Luna, or keep hold of them yourself, I don't want them," I tell her and she levitates them over to herself.

"Okay. While we are angry at Celestia for what she hast done, just know we thank thee for not killing her. We are sure that with time, we can return her to her old self once more. Hopefully this was a wake up call for her," she tells me and I huff in reply, I'll believe it when I see it. Even if she does, Celestia won't be allowed to set one hoof on changeling land for a long time to come.

I get up and change into Janus. I then head outside and open a large portal on the side of the keep for Cadence and Amore to return to their Empire.

"If thou ever need anything or somepony to talk to, thou canst always come to us," Cadence tells me and I smile as I gently hug her.

"Thank you," I reply and she pats my back with a hoof. I can't help but chuckle quietly with each metallic tink sound her crystal horseshoe makes.

It takes a while to get her guards through, but once they are she and her mother go through as well and wave goodbye which I return before closing the portal.

"Now that Celestia is gone, what will you do?" Dragana asks me, and I notice she's keeping her distance from me.

"Now? I'm thinking about making a wall to cut off Equestria from our lands, but that’s just stupid and childish. Still, I want nothing to do with that psychotic horse anymore," I reply and look to Night Stalker who's standing nearby. "I want any Equestrian that wanders onto our lands sent back to Equestria, and if they try to get back in, I want them brought here," I tell him making him salute.

He then looks to some other changelings. "Send scout team two to patrol the border with the King's orders and make sure they have a month's worth of liquid love with them!" he tells them and they quickly head back into the Hive.

I change back into Khepri and make my way back to the pod Chrysalis is in. For the next six hours I just sit there staring at her, my wounds have healed on their own and I wonder if that's the game's Hp5 mechanic giving me slow natural regenerative healing.

Most of the liquid love is gone in the pod as all her wounds have healed and the expression of agony is no longer on her face, but I still failed in my promise to protect her from anything...

I perk up as her eyes flutter open and upon the sight of me, she smiles and places her right forehoof against the pod. I raise my left front leg and press it against her hoof.

"I'm sorry," I tell her making her frown sadly.

She pierces the pod with her horn and slowly climbs out of the tear.

"Sorry for what?" she asks me.

"For not keeping you safe like I promised..." I reply making her place her left forehoof on my cheek.

"That's not true. I'm still alive, our changelings are still alive, our Hive is still standing, all because you fought to protect us from that accursed alicorn," she tells me and gently kisses me.

I return it as best as I can as I wrap my front legs around her and hold her gently.

"What kind of god am I if I can't even protect the one I love from harm? We even lost some changelings in the battle..." I say weakly as she nuzzles me.

Chrysalis looks very upset at the news of more of her children dying, but then smiles sadly at me. "And it's from your love that I'm now healed. I know that no matter what, you'll be there for us... for me. Without you, that would have ended a lot worse," she replies and kisses me again.

For an hour or two we just stay there hugging each other as I feel like if I let go she’ll fade away. She eventually speaks up. "So, how badly did you throw around Celestia?" she asks me.

I recount the battle for her making her giggle at the part I was slamming her into the ground like a rag doll.

"I doubt we'll be hearing from her any time soon. This will hopefully give us more time to find the other Hives and convince them in joining us to increase our numbers. Maybe even get the other races on our side," I tell her.

She smiles at the state I left Celestia in and looks me in the eyes. "I'm glad you put her in the same condition she left me in. But it's getting late and I just want to cuddle now. Besides, I know of another way we can increase our numbers..." she tells me suggestively and I let her go.

Before I could reply, she walks off with a sway in her hips and I follow behind her. We head down into the Hive and back to my room where along the way changelings thank me for protecting the Hive from Celestia.

We enter my room where Chrysalis levitates me onto the bed on my back and flutters up onto my chest.

"Carl, I know you said you would rather wait, but I can't. I love you and I want you to make love to me. I'm ready to start laying eggs again, I want to hear the little hooves of nymphs running around again... it’s been so long… Please, will you give that to me?" she asks me with hopeful eyes.

I could have lost her today... I don't know if it's my emotions being all over the place or not, but I want nothing more than to love her more than anything right now.

"Okay," I reply getting a wide smile from her and she kisses me passionately.