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Chapter 18: Returning Home

I step through my portal and spot Chrysalis talking to Banawey and the other elders. She looks over at me and smiles before looking confused as the portal closes.

"Ca... I mean, Pantheon? Why did you close your portal?" she asks confused.

"I found the source of the drought and it was hotter than even my forges, I don't think you would have liked to stand near that when you don't even like being near the forges," I reply and hold out the crystal shard to her. "I found a large floating red crystal that was generating the heat of this drought, it also contained half a dragon made of flame that tried to kill me. Those warriors you sent to scout the lake Banawey? I found them as crispy corpses near it. The lake is bone dry so later when the heat dies down, I'll refill it over the next few days," I tell them as Chrysalis takes the shard from my hand with her magic.

"Interesting..." she mutters as she rotates it and frowns in thought as she looks it over. "This is attuned to primordial fire, it's enchanted to give off heat and slowly expand outward. Without the whole crystal though, I don't know what its full purpose was as there's only a fragment of the spellweave in this shard to work from..." she tells me and continues to examine the shard. "But this was definitely part of something powerful, possibly as or even more powerful than my magic when I drink some concentrated love. Whoever made this and enchanted it knew what they were doing," she finishes and floats the shard back to me.

I gently push it back to her. "Keep hold of it, you might find something else out while we wait for the heat to disperse," I tell her. She nods and returns to examining it.

Banawey steps forward and smiles at me. "We no longer have to worry about the drought?" he asks with hope as the rain starts to die down.

"I think so, but I'll stay for a few days just to make sure, do you have wells in the City? I can fill those up for now until the Lake is safe again," I reply and ask.

"Yes, we have several throughout the city and they're almost empty. Come, follow me and I'll show them to you, then we can hold a feast in your honour!" he replies and starts walking into the city with the other elders.

I change into Chiron before Chrysalis and I follow behind him where I watch zebras living here stop and stare at us, some even flee back into huts and watch from the doorways.

"The feast isn't necessary, Banawey. Save your food for your people," I tell him as some zebras follow us in curiosity.

The huts of the City are spread about and not uniform like human city blocks are designed, as if they're just constructed wherever they thought was good enough.

We reach the first well which is a clay brick circle a foot tall with a thick stick going across the centre and a bucket attached to a long coil of rope next to it. The well has only a tiny amount of water left in it and I change to He Bo where I start to fill it with water, making the zebras watching gasp and gather around.

Once filled and nearly overflowing, zebras start rushing around gathering clay pots and jugs before filling them from the well while thanking me repeatedly. I just watch amused as after just thirty or so minutes, the well is half empty already. I chuckle as I refill it again before Banawey leads me to the others.

The process to fill and refill twenty wells around the city takes me a good four hours and some minutes but once done, I change back into Chiron and we're led to what they call the Communal Hut where village elders and civilians come to get advice and guidance from the high-shamans. While wary of Chrysalis, zebras all over thanked me for the water and I nodded to them in reply along our way.

I spot Mianya glaring at us from a corner where she's mixing some herbs in a mortar and pestle before returning her attention to it. A filly is laying next to her panting on a straw bed with a flushed face and unfocused eyes. There's a large dried leaf on her side with some kind of paste seeping out the sides of it.

In the middle is a similar set up to the other villages elder huts with a fire pit but more cushions around it. In the back is a stairway leading up to the next floor while to the left is another doorway. Hung around the place are tribal like masks and I wonder how they would react to the god Ah Puch and his mask?

"What's wrong with the foal?" I ask the elders but the old grouchy elderly mare answers.

"That's none of your concern!" she replies harshly and goes back to work.

"She got an infection five days ago out in the fields when a lone lioness stealthily approached and attacked her without warning. Our warriors managed to save the young filly, but she received a terrible wound from the beast before it was slain," one of other elders replies sadly and looks at the filly.

I notice Mianya now glaring at him which I ignore.

I smile and change to Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty. My eyes are a sapphire blue and I'm barely wearing much clothing as I'm showing off a lot of my curvy, voluptuous, flawless, and smooth pale skin. My large breasts are barely contained within the small light blue like vest with gold trim and white frills on the bottom showing a lot of cleavage and half of each breast. I have light blue silk sleeves going from just above my elbows to my wrists with golden bracelets at the ends.

I have a thin golden belt that accentuates my wide hips and has a loincloth of light blue that fades to white at the end with a deeper blue trim on the front showing off my thighs while I have a skirt like back with the same colours covering my curvy backside and half my hips. There's also small threads of gold attached to the hip parts of the belt that arch down over my hips as well.

My golden blonde hair goes down past my ass with a length of white silk with pink flowers attached wrapped around it like a coil keeping it from going everywhere, with two smaller braids going over each of my shoulders and next to each breast.

On my head is a small golden tiara with a heart shaped ruby on the front, around my neck is a small golden necklace with a ruby in the centre, and in my right hand is a golden staff with a large circular amethyst gem on the end with three protrusions of gold curved up above it.

Lastly, the sounds of soft chimes and bells can be faintly heard around me.

All the males suddenly go wide eyed with open mouths while staring at me, and I notice even Onaka has a slight blush on his face as he tries to look away.

I float half a foot off the ground and make my way over to the foal where Mianya gets up and in my way.

"Stay back, monster. You will not harm this foal," she warns me and I just giggle at her. I don't care that it was feminine as fuck, I look gorgeous and feel so feminine that I smile down at her as I flick a strand of blonde silken hair away from my face.

"Unless you want that filly to suffer longer, you'll let me help," I tell her with a smooth and angelic voice.

"I won't let your vile magic touch her," she replies defiantly and reaches for some kind of talisman attached to her robe.

I huff and look back at Chrysalis who seems to be drooling at me. "Chryssi dear? Can you lift this mare out of my way please," I ask her and flutter my eyes at her. I'm having more fun with this than I should be. I've discovered with the help of the Hive and Chrysalis mostly that as Aphrodite, I have an ability to just charm and, I guess seduce others much more easily since I'm the goddess of beauty. I wonder how I would affect a minotaur as they're supposed to be half-human?

I've also discovered while practising that some of my powers are different than that to the game. I can create doves made of pink energy and control them with a mere thought to attack my foes, and heal others slowly with a simple mana infused touch. I can still use the kiss ability to make a connection to the one I kiss -which I have to physically kiss their body and not blow a kiss to form a connection- and heal and shield them from a distance through the link which can break if the distance is too great or they're out of line of sight.

Though the Back Off ability still works the same as the game, blasting out a dome of pink energy around me and my linked target a short distance.

Chrysalis nodded and her horn glows as Mianya yelps and is lifted out my way while yelling curses at us. I carefully place my left hand on the filly's back and let my energy flow into her, making her grunt in pain at first before calming down and relaxing.

The flush on her face fades away slowly and her breathing becomes stable as I pull the leaf away with my staff and watch the nasty and pusy infection on her side slowly close and heal. I grab a rag from next to her and wipe away the pus that's left on her fur and smile at the now healed filly. Not even a scar or missing fur is left.

The process takes five minutes, but she opens her eyes tiredly and gasps at me. "You have a pretty mane..." she says weakly and I giggle again.

"Thank you, do you feel better now?" I ask her making her look at her side and smile with a nod.

"I don't hurt anymore... what happened?" she asks confused.

"I healed you. Just rest now little one, rest and dream of happy things," I tell her as she yawns and curls up into a ball and starts snoozing.

"Onabi!" one of the elders calls out and a young looking mare with a tied up mane walks in from the side room.

"Yes High-Shaman?" she asks with a bow.

"Please inform Lianma that her daughter is safe now," the elder tells her and she bows again before heading out.

Mianya is still cursing and even speaking in zebrican now as she flails in Chrysalis' magical grip, still holding the talisman in her hoof.

"Chryssi, please put her to sleep before she wakes up the foal," I ask her and change back to Chiron.

Chrysalis smirks and brings the angry mare closer to her and lightly nips her neck where the mare yelps but then slurs before passing out.

"What did you do!?" Onaka demands and points his spear at Chrysalis.

"I only knocked her out. My venom can put those bitten into a forced sleep, I gave her enough to sleep for about two hours," she replies and gently places the mare on a second bed.

"Be at peace, Onaka. She brought it upon herself for her unsightly behaviour," Banawey tells the warrior who grumbles and lowers his spear.

"Now then, is there anything else I can do to help you here while we wait for the heat to cool down?" I ask the elders.

They look at each other and mumble before turning back to me.

"Thank you, but we have nothing else that requires aid with. But for now, let us gather the seeds you requested as payment for your aid," Banawey says and I nod in reply.

The other elders stay in the hut while Chrysalis, Onaka, and I follow Banawey to a larger brick building. Inside are crude wooden and bone shelves with many dried plants, seeds, pelts, bones, cloth, and wood gathered and stored. Onaka collects the seeds I asked for and puts them in small bags before placing those into a larger one.

"Here are the seeds as promised," he says and hands them to me. I smile and attach the bag to my right side human hip next to my herb satchel.

"Thank you. Do you have a spare hut we can use to stay in while we wait? I think I could use a nap after all this," I ask him getting a smile and nod.

"Yes, we have many spare huts just in case we have visitors or travellers from other villages. Please follow me and we'll find you one," he tells me and we follow behind him.

The zebras are looking much better and happier now they have more water and the heat is slowly dying down.

We're led to a hut behind the Communal Hut and Banawey looks inside. "This one is free," he says and moves aside and we enter.

It looks big enough to fit just me and Chrysalis comfortably since this was made for zebras and not people our size. In the middle is a small fire pit and four cushions. Some masks hang from the walls and a stone table in the back with two straw beds, one on each side of the hut.

I close the curtain like door and take off the seed pouch where I place it on the stone table, then change to Ganesha and place his stuff on the table as well. I make another cloud and lay back on it with a sigh, where Chrysalis flutters up and cuddles me again as we just listen to the hustle of the zebras running around getting work done.

"So how long do you think it will take you to fill that lake?" Chrysalis asks me.

"I'm thinking maybe six hours a day for four days, it's much larger than the small ones I made for those villages," I reply and yawn as my eyes feel heavy.

My Queen giggles as she kisses my trunk as its blocking my mouth. "Then rest, my love. The sooner you fill that lake the sooner we can go home and you can meet the pony family there," she tells me and snuggles into my neck.

I smile as two of my arms hold her to my chest while the other two stroke her upper back and mane. She sighs and licks my neck before her breathing slows as she falls asleep.

After a few minutes, I join her.

Five Days Later

Over the last five days, I've been making trips to and from the lake slowly filling it up, but before that, I collected the remaining shards of the crystal and brought them back to the Communal Hut. Chrysalis has been examining it over and over during our time here, and she's discovered that it was a soul cage, the fire dragon was actually the soul of a dragon sealed into the crystal as a guardian and my shattering of the crystal released it, basically I killed the dragon.

The soul was also powering the crystal making the heat coming from it and expanding over the land for miles. Speaking of the heat, it's returned to normal and is a bit cooler than the badlands so hopefully, the land will return to normal and the plants and animals recover as well.

The mother of the filly I healed thanked me and offered me one of their masks that means thank you. It is a simple round face with happy looking eyes and a smile with tribal patterns around the eyes.

I accepted it and sent it back along with the seeds through a portal to the Hive where it's in my room.

Mianya has been keeping her distance from us and I'm thankful for it, her constant hostile attitude was grating on my nerves.

Chrysalis though while not examining the crystal got a lot of visitors and questions about changelings from the younger zebras and she was more than happy to tell them about herself and her hive.

So nothing really interesting happened during the five days as I finished my end of the deal and now we're ready to go.

"Thank you for everything you've done for us, it is comforting to know a divine is still willing to help us mortals," High-Shaman Kiana tells me with a slight bow.

"Do you have any gods you worship or believe in?" I ask her in reply.

"There is two we believe in, Morgulla, Goddess of the Underworld, and Livaitus, God of life," she tells me.

"I see, and have you ever seen or heard from them before?" I ask with intrigue, I would like to meet other gods if they exist here. Discord and that old god he fought can't be the only ones.

"Many claim to have heard their voices, but none have seen them for centuries. Beside Discord and the alicorns, you are the first new god we have ever seen," she replies and smiles.

"I see. Well then, Chrysalis and I shall take our leave. We'll take the shards with us and see if we can find anything else out about them and I'll keep in contact with you weekly with any news about it or trades we might have to offer," I tell them getting thank yous and smiles from the elders.

With that done, I change to Janus and open a portal to our home and let Chrysalis through first where she places the shards on a table in our room. I follow behind her and sigh at the familiar sight of our bedroom where I change to Hercules, drop my chunk of metal I call a weapon, and just grab Chrysalis from behind before falling on my back on the bed.

She yelps but then giggles as I hold her to my chest as she wiggles to turn around and face me.

"So, my King. What do you plan to do next?" she asks me and I just kiss her lips making her moan slightly and push against mine.

I pull back and smile at her. "Well first, I need to check on my apprentices at the forge and then see about planting those seeds. Perhaps we could convert one of the City segments purely into farmland for food and herbs until the land around the city is terraformed. My garden is good enough for just me and a few others, but if we're going to have other races visiting, we'll need a more stable food source for them. Then I will meet with those ponies who were so adamant to come here," I reply and smirk back at her, leaning up to her left ear. "Besides, I remember you saying that when I came back, you needed help with a certain something?" I tell her in a husky whisper.

She bites her lower lip and smirks back with half-lidded eyes as a green flame of her magic covers her and once gone, I stare wide eyed at the naked and bipedal form of Chrysalis sitting on my lap.

"Oh yes, and I wanted to try something new," she tells me with a giggle before leaning down and kissing me again.

Author's Note

Fun times with anthro Chryssi next chapter.

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