Godly

Godly
Chapter 19: New residents!

After impregnating Chrysalis again, she decided to stay as a biped for a while just to see what it would be like.

While I don't mind, it's going to be distracting to know she's going to be walking around naked as a humanoid changeling. Maybe I can ask the zebras to make some kind of toga for her in exchange for something?

We both got up and she teleported us both to the bathhouse where we scrubbed each other clean. Chrysalis thoroughly enjoyed using her hands to wash me off while I couldn't keep mine off her either.

But once washed and dried, I change to Khepri and make my way to the forges while trying to ignore Chrysalis' swaying hips as she heads off to her office.

I watch her backside until she rounds a corner out of my sight and I sigh happy to be home again. I head off nodding to changelings who smile back and let my big frame pass them.

A few minutes later and I walk into our smithy to see lots of blades, spears and even a few pieces of crude armour in a neat pile in the back corner.

"I see you've all been busy," I say and change to Vulcan.

Seth turns from his work and nods at me. "We've been practising until you returned, Sir," he replies and goes back to hammering what appears to be another plate for some armour.

"So you're trying to make armour now, Seth?" I ask him as I walk over to him. Since the worm attack months ago and losing a wing, he's taken a keen interest in blacksmithing and is my best apprentice here.

"I'm using the sets you've made as a base and tried to replicate them. While not showing the same level of detail nor as sturdy, I think they turned out better than I thought," he replies and I look to the two sets he's already made.

I head over to them and pick up a helmet. It's not as heavy or dense as my armour sets, but its still decent and well made. This would be better for scouts or light infantry type soldiers.

"Very good, Seth. I'd like you to make at least twenty sets of these as I still need to finish Chrysalis' armour and her weapon," I tell him and put the helmet back down and move onto the weapons. Swords, spears, a few that look like cannonballs on a stick, more brick shaped hammers, plenty of knives and daggers, and a few small round shields.

Some look a tiny bit warped, but all in all, not bad.

"Right then, I'll leave you all to continue and good job so far. I need to go and see these ponies now living here," I tell them getting affirmatives in reply before changing to Khepri and heading out.

I stop a changeling in the hall and ask him where I can find the ponies.

"They're in their new house on the surface, Sir," he replies and I thank him as I head up.

I exit the keep and look around with a raised brow. There's five small two floor houses in a pony style but changeling appearance with both a front and back yard just further out with a few more houses in mid construction behind them. At least Chrysalis took my advice for housing blocks and a grid based road system.

I spot the stallion that Grover stuffed into his chest talking to a changeling who is giving him some food. He has nasty burn scars on the right side of his face as well as his right foreleg. I never paid attention when we first captured him, but his fur is a light grey colour and his mane is a light blue colour with a white stripe through the middle, his eyes are a light violet colour. Lastly, his mark is a crystal spear with a tornado around it.

Sighing in slight regret at being the cause of his wounds, I walk over to them and he spots me.

He looks a bit nervous but stays where he is. "I see you've returned from Zebrica," he says to me making me raise an eyebrow as the changeling leaves.

"And how did you know I was there?" I ask him.

"The changeling queens told us, and we're thankful they've allowed us to stay here," he replies and smiles.

"I see. And will you tell me exactly why you came here of all places?" I then ask him.

"Of course, please come in. My name is Gale Strike," he says and opens the door to his new home. I change to Ratatoskr and follow him in and look around. Simple looking furniture of changeling design fill the room from a table in the middle with mossy cushions around it, and a bookcase to the right wall. In the back is a doorway leading to a kitchen and to the left next to the front door is a set of stairs leading up.

"Nice and cosy place, and call me Pantheon," I say and sit on one of the cushions as he sits across from me.

"Despite the dark and dull colours, it really is a nice house. Certainly stronger and more stable than our last one. Now as to why we came here-," he starts but is cut off from two loud squeals as two pegasi pony fillies with the most colourful hair I've ever seen runs down the stairs. They both have pale blue almost white fur, rainbow coloured hair, pink eyes, and no marks on their flanks, they're identical to each other and sound the same.

I go wide eyed as they both don't stop and tackle me onto my back.

"Daddy! What is it? It's adorable!" one of them asks the stallion who now looks terrified.

"Is it a pet!? Can we keep it!?" the other asks just as excited.

"Stormy, Cloudy. Please for the love of the sun and moon, get off of our guest," he calmly asks them but I can see the panic in his eyes.

I chuckle making them all look at me. "It's fine, they're not the first foals who've tackled me before, and I doubt they'll be the last," I tell him and the two fillies look shocked that I spoke.

"It can talk!?" the left filly says in surprise.

"Yes he can, he's the god who fought Celestia, so please let him up," he tells them making them gasp and run around the table to hide behind the stallion.

"H-He's the one who h-h-hurt you daddy?" the right filly asks him nervously.

"Well... yes, but he did it to protect his home. I would have done the same to protect you and your mother," he tells her.

"I am sorry about the wounds I gave you, but I did warn you when we let you go that I would do that. If anyone is to blame, it would be Celestia for ordering you all to come here. But still, it was me that killed them and injured many others..." I tell him and sigh as I sit back on the cushion.

"You’re right, while you did cause these wounds, Celestia is the one who ordered us here, this isn't the Princess Celestia I joined the guard for... She was kind and caring, she never attacked anypony else unless for a good reason which as far as I know was only once with the gryphons who wanted some of our land and attacked some villages along the border. Her reason for attacking you was that you foalnapped Princess Luna and attacked her in the Crystal Empire, that you were a threat to Equestria and the world," he tells me with a frown.

I frown as well. "As Luna told you, she came to us on her own, and Chrysalis blasted Celestia at the Empire because her mother's death was Celestia's fault and her anger got the better of her. And I'm only a threat to those who threaten me, my home, and those I care for. I have no dreams of world domination or to conquer nations," I reply.

"And that's why we came here. You care about those you rule over, you want what's best for your people from what I saw while down there... and my mate agreed about leaving. Celestia didn't care about us when she attacked you, she did nothing to stop you from killing our front line, she didn't even acknowledge their deaths when we returned to Equestria under Luna's guidance... We also couldn't stay in Equestria after deserting my position in the guard. My mate was a member before she had our foals, and was the one to convince us to leave," he then says with a sigh.

I look at him and his foals in thought. "If you want to stay here then that's okay. But you'll have to pull your weight around here if you want any luxuries. We'll give you plenty of food and water to feed yourselves, but if you want anything else, you work for it, agreed?" I tell him making him smile and nod.

"Agreed, I'm still recovering from the wounds I received, but once well enough, I can be a scout if you want me to," he tells me.

"Alright, but I may be able to quicken your recovery," I tell him and change into Aphrodite.

His eyes widen as they roam over my body, the two fillies also look stunned and slowly walk around the table towards me.

"Woooow, your mane is soooo long!" the left one says and stares at my hair.

I smile and lean down and pull my hair forward and hold it in front of her. She lifts a hoof and strokes my golden hair and spots one of the pink flowers on the silk thread, she puts her muzzle next to it and sniffs the flower.

"That smells nice," she says and I smirk as I carefully pluck two flowers off and give her one and the other to her sister.

They gasp and giggle as they both smell them and then put them in their manes.

"Now then," I say and move next to Gale Strike, I then sit beside him making his nostrils flare and sweat begins to form on his forehead.

I place my left hand on his scared cheek and let my mana flow into him. He gasps as the skin heals and returns to normal slowly where fur begins to grow in its place as well as the little bit of missing mane behind his ear. Next, I place my left hand on his right foreleg and heal that as well.

I hear something clatter to the floor so I look up and spot a white pegasus mare with rainbow hair just like the fillies, except shorter and more ruffled looking. Her eyes are a deep red and her mark looks like a cloud with a rainbow trail coming out of it making it look like its speeding away.

"Who, or what is that!? Get away from my husband!" she yells and frowns at me as her wings spread in a threatening manner.

I just blink at her before continuing to heal Gale's leg.

"Honey, this is Pantheon... the changeling god..." he tells her making her scrunch up her muzzle with wide eyes.

Her wings snap shut and she quickly bows before me. "I'm so sorry, your majesty!" she says nervously and I sigh.

"It's fine, I don't expect you to bow to me like most royals, and besides, I prefer to be treated as a friend than a ruler," I tell her and smile.

"I thought you were male?" she then asks as she picks up the black resin bucket that was filled with water. She looks around herself and sighs. "Oh horse apples..." she says and walks over to us.

I giggle and look back to Gale's leg which is only half way healed so far. "I was born male, but I can switch between genders," I reply to her question.

"What are you doing to Gale?" she asks and then gasps as she looks at his healed face.

"Fixing the damage I caused," I tell her and she just plops her backside down next to us.

"Look mommy! The pretty lady give us flowers!" one of the fillies tells her mother and shows her the flower in her hair.

"Oh? Did you thank her for it?" she asks the filly.

"Oh... Thank you, Miss Pantheon!" she and her sister both say at the same time to me.

I smile again at them both. "You're welcome," I reply to them and look to the mare. "What's your name?" I ask her.

"Oh! My name is Spectrum Bolt," she replies.

"And what will you do now?" I ask her as I'm almost done with Gale's leg.

"Well, I was a member of the Wingblades, a group of pegasi who wielded crystal wingblades and used hit and run tactics. But I retired when I had my little fillies and then helped with the weather team in Canterlot... Until we came here of course," she tells me.

"I see, well, your husband offered to join our scouts, and your more than welcome to focus on raising your fillies. Gale will be paid for his service of course," I tell her and stand back up now that Gale's leg is now healed.

Said stallion just stares at his healed leg in surprise and a faint smile.

"Thank you for healing me, Pantheon," he says and bows to me.

I roll my eyes and shake my head. "I said you don't need to bow to me. Now then, I need to go and discuss things with the queens, just get settled in for now and we'll talk about you scouting later," I say to them and make my way out of the house.

They follow me to the door with smiles.

"Thank you for allowing my family to live here, I promise you won't regret it. Oh! Before I forget, the other scouts and some of the guard were also thinking of leaving before something bad happened, they may also decide to come here if the other scouts tell them about it," Gale says and warns me.

I change to Khepri making the fillies yelp at my large size and hide behind their parents.

"Thanks for the heads up, now I must be off, have a good day," I reply and start walking to the keep.

"Now I need to get more water..." I hear Spectrum say in annoyance before I leave ear shot.

I head down the Hive and ask where the queens are, they're all in Chrysalis' office so I make my way there.

I knock on the door getting a come in from Chrysalis so I open it but freeze at what I see. Sitting on her cushion cross legged is my queen still in her bipedal form, but what I didn't expect was Dragana and Shyla both in a bipedal form as well, and both naked.

I can't help but stare at them all but manage to shake my head and look away.

"Any reason you're all bipedal?" I ask as I close the door behind me and sit down in front of Chrysalis' desk.

"They were curious as to why I was in this form and wished to try it themselves. I will admit it's easier and uses less energy to hold things with hands than our magic," Chrysalis replies.

"You were not joking when you said this form flusters him so," Dragana says and giggles deeply.

"Y-You mean he finds this a-a-attractive?" Shyla asks in embarrassment before changing back into a quadruped with a bright yellow blush on her face and hiding behind her mane.

"So!" I say getting their attention. "What do you all think we should focus on? Locating more hives? Increasing our relations with other races? Or focus on building up our city and populace?" I ask them.

Dragana changes back into a quadruped and sits down on a mossy cushion. "I think we should focus on fortifying our city and building more within it. Right now we're just a bunch of walls with barely anything in it," she says with a frown.

"I-I agree," Shyla says.

"Chryssi?" I ask my queen who nods her head.

"As much as improving our reputation with the other races would be nice, we need to show that we are not pushovers or easy targets for said races. I would like to see a moat dug out around the wall and filled with water with bridges connecting the segments to the other side. This will create choke points in case there is another invasion," she replies getting nods from the other queens.

"Alright then, gather together the changelings that want to dig, and I fill it in once it's done," I say and get up.

They all close their eyes and after a few minutes, they look at me.

"They've been sent. I need to go over the reports of the last week, so I'll be here if you need me," Chrysalis says and I smile.

"Alright, I've already spoken to the pony family, so I'll get started on turning the north eastern segment into fertile farmland," I say and head for the door.

"Okay, have fun," she replies and I head out, trying to get the image of the three queens bipedal forms out of my head.

One Week Later

Over the last week, the changelings have dug out a ten foot deep moat around the wall and Shyla wanted most of the dirt to make dens or burrows for animals in her segment, the rest was sent through a portal to a location twenty miles away from the city. I then spent two days filling the moat with water.

The north eastern segment is now a fertile area ready to be tilled and seeded. The honey changelings have offered to maintain it and I agreed so now one-hundred changelings at a time are keeping the freshly planted seeds watered and pest free.

Gale is now down in the Hive's training area with the rest of the changeling scouts and warriors, learning how to use and maintain a steel spear and a light suit of steel armour made by Seth, who's made another three sets.

Speaking of armour, I've completed Chrysalis' and have started on her massive sword which I think would take me a month to make as I plan to make it discharge lightning when it strikes something.

Spectrum has just been looking after her fillies in her house, who are bored and lonely as they're the only foals here. So I made them a playground like I did in Zebrica, they love it but it doesn't mean much without others to play with. Although, I did take an hour a day to play with them as Ratatoskr which they thanked me for.

Chrysalis panicked when she discovered she couldn't change her form back to a quadruped, the queens got together and theorised that it might be due to her pregnancy, as her first batch of eggs she laid are starting to show a centaur body structure as they continue to grow. So we think these ones will be bipedal in shape.

While not happy she can't shape-shift, she agrees that what's happening to her eggs is interesting and suggested that we try with Khepri next.

She and Dragana have been examining the crystal shards in more depth and they've found out that the magic within is a mixture of draconic and surprisingly, unicorn magic. Whether or not Celestia is involved or either rogue or captive unicorns are working for who ever made the crystal, we just don't know.

None of the queens know anything about elementals or a place called Volcanica, nor does Gale and his wife. So I'll be asking Amore, Cadence, and Luna next time I see them.

So the week has been peaceful and nothing life threatening is happening, which is a nice change of pace.

I yawn as I wake up as Hercules since Chrysalis has been enjoying our snuggles at night. I smile as I gently stroke her large stomach that has eighteen eggs in it.

She hums contently and opens her eyes. "Good morning," she says and rolls onto her back.

"Good morning," I reply and just enjoy our cuddling.

Alas, twas not meant to be as Chrysalis frowns with her eyes close.

"What's wrong?" I ask her.

"More ponies have been spotted coming from Equestria, twenty of them," she replies and I raise an eyebrow.

"Gale did say more might come, have the border scouts question them if they're friendly. If not, get them to come back and we'll get a squad together to push the ponies back," I say as I get up and start putting my armour back on.

"I've already got a squad ready along with Gale to go if needed, perhaps he can defuse any hostilities," she says and groans. "It's so much harder to carry eggs on two legs than four... my back is killing me," she says and I chuckle.

"Then stay in bed, you can keep watch through your hive-mind, I'll go," I tell her and make my way out the room as she gets back on the bed with a sigh.

I head up to the surface while changing to Khepri where a group of sixty changelings with weapons and some light armour have gathered, along with a geared up Gale.

"You all ready to go!?" I call out to the gathered group.

They all nod or say yes, so with that, I spread my wings and take off for the border.