Godly

Godly
Chapter 2: A city of crystal

My vision returns and all I see is white, and it's fucking cold! I look around and see snow as far as I can see in all directions. My teeth start chattering as a strong breeze blows past me making me shiver.

"Well, this turned out to be a mistake!" I yell out and rub my arms.

I then get a blank expression and facepalm. I should be able to turn into gods now with just a mere thought! I think of Ymir, father of the frost giants. I feel my body painlessly morph and after a couple of seconds, I'm now bigger and made of ice with a large metal club with a few chunks of ice attached to it in my right hand.

"Well, what do you know? It worked!" I say in the deep slow voice of Ymir.

I flex my large left hand and I seem to be just a little taller than I was before. I'm wearing only a rope like belt with a loincloth and a few circular plates attached, I even have a large beard made of ice. I don't even feel the cold anymore.

Looking around again, I just pick a random direction and start trudging forward.

First week on Equus

For a week I've been walking around looking for anything remotely civilised. But all I've found so far is snow, ice, and a few mountains in the distance which I travelled to. It took me three days of constant walking to get there and I've discovered I can eat snow and ice as Ymir to survive, but they have no flavour at all.

Once I reached the mountains, I started practising with Ymir's ability to manipulate ice to carve out a large cavern into the mountain over the next four days, complete with crude furniture made of ice. It's cosy and made a decent shelter when a blizzard rolled in on the sixth night.

I've also tried turning into Bacchus, the God of Wine. A very chubby guy with short curly hair and beard, wearing a toga with a few grape vines hanging on it, complete with ripe grapes to eat something other than snow, and the meat joint he calls his weapon is the best damn thing I've tasted in my life, along with his jug of wine to wash it down with.

I spent most of the afternoons just relaxing after carving more ice stuff and getting used to Ymir's powers.

I've also discovered during my first night here that my dreams look just like the jungle practice map in the game where I've been practising with different gods. I've only used male gods for now as I don't think I'm ready to know what being a woman feels like just yet...

Second week on Equus

I've been exploring the area around the mountains for the next seven days, and so far no signs of civilised life anywhere, I've found a few caves with some interesting looking crystal formations in them, as well as crystal flowers I've picked and brought back to my house to decorate it with. And I've come across a few ten foot tall yeti like beasts that attacked me on sight. The first three I ran from, but the next one I decided to try fighting.

The large white furred yeti roars at me and slams its fists into its chest like a gorilla. The chest and stomach area are hairless with light blue coloured skin. It has a face similar to a gorilla but with longer teeth and larger eyes.

"Alright, Snowflake. You want a fight? I'll give you one," I tell it as Ymir and tap the top of my club on my left hand's palm a few times.

It scowls at me and snorts before roaring again. It then slams its fists onto the snow covered ground and charges at me.

I narrow my eyes and pull back my club and wait for it to get closer. Once in range, I swing and clobber the beast in the side of the head, making it stumble to the side slightly before swinging its own club like forearm and bowling ball fist into my own head, along with an angry sounding roar in my face, making me stumble slightly and my vision to blur.

I shake my head and raise my left hand and will a large ice wall to form under the yeti, I feel the energy within me answer as the quickly formed wall sends it soaring into the air. I then wind up and swing my club into its back as it comes back down and into the wall which cracks on impact.

I look at the Yeti to see it's still breathing, I smirk and just walk back towards my cave but then a frown forms on my face. I'm starting to think Discord has fucked me over and dumped me on a frozen planet for fun, I'm already starting to get homesick and questioning my decision of accepting this deal.

God-damn I already miss my computer and snack food... Fast food... Even the few online gaming buddies I barely know. It's a slap to the face once you realise what you took for granted when it's no longer available.

I would try to use a flying god to look around, but I don't trust myself to not fall and kill myself trying to learn yet, and I don't want to risk finding out if my wings would freeze over.

During the afternoons, I turn into Sun Wukong, the monkey king, a tall muscular guy with short wavy orangish-blonde hair and beard without the moustache. He also has baggy red trousers with a blue sash for a belt, blue cloth forearm wrappings, and a golden left pauldron.

I use a clone of myself to play chess with a chess set made of ice just to entertain myself. It's also strange having a prehensile tail.

And after our chess game, we have a sparring match so I have something to do until he poofs away into clouds, where I then either practice with another god, or learn to use Wukong's different animal forms.

Week four on Equus

It's the same routine for the next eleven days, explore further out or have more fighting matches with the yeti around here as different gods and when I get back, do something to entertain myself or practise some more with Ymir's powers which I've gotten very good with as I made some crude ice statutes of different gods out the front of my house. I've also practised with a few more warrior class gods.

Mostly Tyr, the Lawgiver. A Norse god who wears thick plate armour with pelt and fur lining it as well as Norse style engravings on it, wields a large two-handed sword with just one hand, mainly due to missing his right hand. He also has a short brown mullet like haircut and a short trimmed goatee.

As Tyr, the feeling of not having my right hand was very unnerving.

I'm out trying a different direction this time after three days of searching and just when I was about to surrender myself to this frozen wasteland thinking that I'll find no one or even a single friendly creature, I see something tall and shining from the sun's light in the distance.

"Well, it's better than wandering aimlessly..." I tell myself and make my way over to the object. I've developed a mild case of talking to myself after a month by my lonesome. And having conversations with my Wukong clone didn't help either.

It takes me seven hours of slow trudging, but I arrive at the object, only to find it's a City made of what appears to be multiple colours of crystal. The only difference is instead of humans or anything human shaped living here, some small three foot tall horses that appear to also be different colours are walking in the streets. Though all of the ones I can see look terrified and constantly look round every corner they pass.

I slowly make my way through the border and one of the small horses spots me before they panic and scream, which shocks me that they actually screamed and not neighed or whinnied.

"It's one of Sombra's crystal monsters! Run!" a female sounding horse yells and bolts into a crystal house.

Other horses nearby begin bolting into homes and other buildings while I just stand there wide eyed. Did she just speak English and call me a crystal monster? And who the hell is this Sombra? I look up to the large tower like building in the centre of this City. Who in their right mind would build a city in the middle of a frozen wasteland?...

One of the horses even throws a smaller pink furred horse with a silvery coloured mane and tail in front of me. "Ow!" it yelps in a young girlie voice as she rolls to a stop at my feet. I think they threw her at me as a sacrifice to save themselves which gets me to frown at the one who threw her at me. They don't even look back as they go down an alley between two houses.

She slowly sits up and rubs her head while sniffling, she stops and looks at my large icy feet, then she starts to look up and goes wide eyed while staring at me in the eyes.

I just cough nervously to clear my throat and wave at the little kid horse. "Hi," I mumble out deeply to her.

She just shakes and appears to piss herself while trembling and whimpering, too terrified to move or speak as tears start to leak from her eyes. The sight alone makes me feel like I've done something unforgivable to cause it.

"Do not fear little horse, I'm not going to hurt you," I tell her. I then lean down and gently pat her on the head with a single large finger.

She just stares at me in wide eyed confusion as I roll my neck getting a few creaks from it and start plodding my way to the central tower. If anyone can help me here it would be whoever runs this place, as long as they don't react the same way those horses did at least, or attack me.

Along the way, I see some damage to the buildings like; cracks, shattered windows or doors, and a few bloodstains. Whatever happened here, it certainly wasn't a party. There are also large black crystal spikes protruding out from the ground like spears, they're even giving off faint dark purple like mist. Some wooden and crystal stalls look broken and some of their produce or product scattered around on the ground.

I also hear the sounds of glass or crystal shattering around the city along with faint screams. The hell is going on here?

After passing more horses who avoid me or stare at me through windows, I finally get to the tower and there seems to be two large black featureless rough cut crystal like bipedal creatures blocking the stairway up into the tower. There's also an empty pedestal in the middle near the stairs leading up into the tower.

The crystal creatures turn to look at me and get into what appears to be a combat stance. I walk over to them and then speak up. "I come seeking the one in charge here," I tell them.

Without warning, they swing their large arms at me and I notice that they have no hands but club like ends to them. Being made of ice isn't the most agile or speedy build I could have, so I fail to dodge as I'm clobbered in the chest and sent stumbling back a few steps.

"Ow!" I yelp as chips of ice break off my chest which slowly start to regrow. After fighting the yeti for so long, I'm no stranger to a fight, so I take a deep breath before exhaling with the intent to spray a mist of ice. It works and both crystal creatures are encased in a thick layer of ice and unable to move. I wait for a few seconds and the ice seems to start cracking. I quickly pull back my club and swing it at the right one first.

The large cylindrical club connects with the creature and shatters its head clean off its body. The other breaks free of its icy prison making me move back a few feet. I then slam my club on the ground in front of me to do Ymir's glacial strike ability, only instead of a small bed of ice spikes, large two metre long spires rise up at different angles towards the second creature and pierce through it several times, leaving cracks all over it's body from the entry and exit holes.

I frown at the now two motionless crystal creatures and grunt, of course this wouldn't be simple. I decide to switch to a god that's more suited to smashing things.

With a thought, I switch to Hercules. I can just feel the power in my muscles and the weight of the large spiked mace almost as big as I am in my right hand that seems built to demolish and crush my foes. I'm also wearing Roman style armour with sandals, shin guards, a large bracer on my right forearm and a gauntlet on my left, and a lion's head on my left shoulder as well as a metal pauldron on my right.

I run my left hand over my head feeling the very short cut of my hair brush past my fingers.

I smile and flex my left arm and just feel my biceps bulge with raw power. Now ready, I start climbing the stairs making my way into the tower. Hopefully it's warmer inside as now I can feel the cold in the air.

I reach the top and see a large lobby leading off into two hallways to the left and right while a pair of large double doors is ahead of me with a single door just to its right. Another one of the crystal creatures seems to be guarding the doors, so I start the fight by running over to it and use my driving strike to ram into it, slamming it into the crystal wall next to the doors. The creature's torso cracks all over and the wall now has a crater in it.

The creature then raises its left arm and slams it onto my head. I barely flinch from the blow but it still hurt. I frown and step back before swinging my mace into the creature, deepening the crater and shattering said creature into pieces.

Two more crystal creatures arrive down the right hallway and I use my Earth Breaker skill where I slam the pommel of my mace into the floor, sending a tremor tearing up the crystal floor until it reaches one of the creatures, sending up a large portion of the floor while pushing the creature towards me. As its about to reach me, I grab it by its ankle with my left hand and swing it into the other creature with my colossal strength, shattering both of them upon impact.

I grin widely as I continue towards the double doors, but I hear whimpering behind the single door on my right. So I open it up to see what appears to be one of the little horses wearing a maid outfit, though not the kinky short skirt kind. It's long and reaches down to her ankles, and actually barely shows any of her fur, only showing the light creamy coloured fur of her forelegs.

The room looks like an office with a wooden desk, crystal filing cabinet, wooden bookshelf, a nice light blue rug, and a small white couch which the little horse is cowering behind.

She's staring at me with wide eyes and shivering, but then her gaze moves behind me and I feel something hit me in the back. I tumble forward and topple over the desk which is destroyed and splintered under my weight.

"Mother fucker!" I yell as my head fortunately hits the cushion on the floor behind the desk. Unfortunately, it doesn't smell like its been washed for a while.

I get up and leap over the ruined desk where I then use another driving strike and ram the creature out of the room where it flies into the wall. I then rip one of the double doors off its hinges easily and with a mighty roar, I throw it into the creature, breaking it and the crystal door upon impact.

Another creature tries to impale me in the back with a spike instead of a club, but my armour or sheer muscle mass prevented it piercing me. Still fucking hurt though.

“Come ‘ere,” I say and grab its head with my left hand and crush it with the force of my grip. I then toss what’s left of the body through the remaining door where its hinges break off as the door and crystal creature slide to a stop in the middle of the room.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?" a deep and hateful sounding male voice yells out from within the room.

I look around and see a few of the little horses in crystal chains along the left wall behind two thrones, seven of those black crystal creatures watching them. Sitting on the left throne, is what I can only describe as a very dark grey unicorn with a large swept back black mane wearing a royal red cape with a thick white fur like trim, crystal horse boots, crystal plate armour around his neck and chest, and a grey coloured crown with two little red like fangs in the middle pointing up. He also has a long red curved back horn, as well as red eyes where the whites are green and purple mist is seeping out the sides.

If I know anything about playing enough RPG games, is that this bugger is SO evil.

To the right are a few shrivelled up and unmoving bodies of the little horses, like they've had all the moisture sucked right out of them before being tossed aside like a chewing gum wrapper.

Between the two thrones is a chained up and blood covered female looking horse with a horn and a pair of wings. Her white and light pink dress is torn and tattered and a crystal ring is on her horn. She has a light red coloured coat and her mane and tail are a light pale pink. She looks injured and weak if the shallow breathing and unfocused eyes are any indication.

"What in Tartarus are you supposed to be, creature!?" the dark grey unicorn demands with a heated glare.

I frown and look back to the terrified horses in chains, I even spot a couple that look like children at only one to two feet tall.

Turning my attention back to the clearly tyrannical horse, I glare at him. "Now that's not very hospitable, I'm lost and came here to ask for help, only to be assaulted by gaudy black chunks of rock," I reply and place my mace over my right shoulder with a bored expression.

"Hospitality isn't one of my strong suits," he says and eyes me over. "Though you will make a marvellous slave and soldier," he then tells me with a wicked grin.

I huff and give him the middle finger. "Yeah, fat chance with that cock sucker," I reply with a frown. Though it appears he either doesn't understand my insult or just doesn't care.

"Oh? We shall see about that. Get him!" he says and then yells at the crystal creatures.

The black crystal creatures all turn to me before charging at me.

I just grin.

The first to reach me gets a face full of mace, shattering its head and cracking most of its torso as it sails through a window to the left, which is now shattered into pieces. The next raises its right club arm to swing down on me, I lift my left hand up and grip its club before spinning around, lifting it off its legs and slamming it into another crystal creature, shattering both.

I toss the arm I'm holding away and I get tackled by the last four. They repeatedly try stabbing and bludgeoning me. I feel a few of the spikes or blades pierce and stab me a little but with a roar, I push the two In front of me away and headbutt the one to my right, cracking its head but not breaking it.

The left one jabs me in the side of my ribs making me wince as I swing my mace and launch it out of the entrance in pieces.

The one I headbutted recovers and bashes me in the head with its club, to which I reply in kind, hitting it with a downward swing shattering its head and upper torso.

The last two get back up and rush me, I pick up the door that is still intact on the floor and toss it at them, breaking them both in half as well as the door.

"That it? I didn't even work up a sweat," I taunt the unicorn with a grin as I look back to him, ignoring the slight headache and stinging I'm feeling.

The unicorn growls angrily and his horn glows the same purple as the mist coming out of his eyes. My eyes widen as I have this feeling of dread, so I use my driving strike to barely dodge the two black crystal spikes that come out of the floor beneath me. I scowl at the tosser and change to a hunter class god called Anhur, slayer of enemies, an Egyptian bipedal lion who throws javelins. I also have a dagger on my left hip as well as an armband on my right biceps.

Draped over my left shoulder down to the middle of my back and chest, is a sash or something that looks like a golden wing with a red gem on my shoulder.

I quickly use my impale skill to throw my javelin with great force. As the javelin is about to hit, the unicorn turns into a mist of darkness or shadow to avoid it. The javelin continues through his mist and pierces the throne and sticks it to the wall behind him as a new javelin rapidly forms from grains of sand in my right hand.

So, I might need to use a mage class god for this then. If he's made of shadow, maybe the light of the sun would be effective against him? I quickly switch god again, this time the Egyptian god of the sun, Ra.

I'm wearing an orange, purple, and blue Egyptian style headdress like hood with a gold symbol on my forehead, shoulder pads that connect to a large yellow disk on my chest, a kilt or skirt like bottom, and a slightly curved staff with an Egyptian eye on the end. My skin also has an orange tone to it now.

"What on Equus are you!?" the unicorn demands again in shock at my shape changing.

I just smirk at him. "A god," I reply and raise my staff up to fire a Celestial Beam at him. I can actually feel the sun in the sky and the power flowing into me from it. I then feel the sun fire a beam of superheated sunlight at the unicorn's location, but the tower shakes making the chained up horses scream and I see chunks of crystal rubble fall past one of the windows. 'Oh, right... I need a direct line of sight between my target and the sun for that move...' I think to myself and facepalm.

The unicorn looks at me with wide confused eyes, but then shakes off his confusion and sends shards of black crystals at me.

I actually squawk like a parrot in panic and dash to the right just avoiding the shards. I then use my searing pain ability and feel the sun pouring energy into me which I use to charge up a massive amount of energy into the disk on my chest. After a second of building it up, I unleash the blisteringly hot beam at the unicorn. His eyes widen and he screams in pain as the beam barely hits his mist like body.

The beam goes through the mist and out the side of the tower leaving melted and deformed crystal around the hole, no doubt others would see the beam of sunlight blasting over the City. The floor from me to him is even scorched black and slightly melted from the heat of the beam.

He reverts back into a physical form where half of his left foreleg is missing and the stump wound covered in burnt skin. "HOW DARE YOU INJURE ME! I AM KING SOMBRA OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE! YOU WILL KNEEL BEFORE ME WHEN I AM THROUGH WITH YOU, INSECT!" he yells furiously at me as the mist coming from his eyes grows longer.

I chuckle at him making him even madder. "You're no King. A king looks out for the well being of their subjects. You? You're just a tyrant enslaving others just to stroke your ego and power complex," I reply and feel the sun wanting to aid me, like it's alive as it quickly moves outside the window so it’s in view. 'The sun moved? I'll think about that later, now I have a direct line of sight, nice,' I think to myself with a shit eating grin. Who knew a beak could bend like that?

I raise my staff again for another Celestial Beam, which blasts through the window and hits the distracted unicorn directly in the back, blowing a large hole right through his chest and burning the wound so no blood could escape. The beam also melted the floor on impact leaving a puddle of melted crystal.

He stares at me for a few seconds in disbelief before his eyes glaze over and roll up as he collapses onto the floor, the purple mist and green colour no longer present in his eyes.

"Phew," I mutter to myself and decide to switch back to Hercules.

Once again I'm the Roman muscle man. I then walk over to the dead unicorn and poke him with my mace a couple of times, his right hind-leg twitches making me yelp and without thinking, I slam my spiked mace right onto his head, crushing it into a bloody paste, splattering blood and gore a good two metres as well as cracking the crystal floor.

I cringe at the gore covering my mace and my feet, after getting my breathing under control again, I look around and notice the chained up horses staring at me wide eyed with a mixture of hope and fear.

"Erm... hello?" I say suddenly feeling nervous.