Godly

Godly
Chapter 35: The liberation of Canterlot

I keep the portal open as our forces flood into Canterlot, the minotaurs finally all make it through as they swarm the streets. Next the Zebras make their way through, followed by the Changelings and Unari.

It takes over thirty minutes for them all to go and I've lost about half of my mana keeping a portal this big open for so long.

"Luna, Cadence, Amore, head on through and I'll follow you. Chryssi, Dragana, and Shyla, and the rest of you defend our home," I say to the others.

Once agreements are made, the others head through followed by me where I close the portal behind me.

I change god to Horus where two large white wings grow from my back, my metallic body becomes a fit, well built flesh and blood one with white and grey feathers all over. My head morphs into a falcon's. I have Egyptian themed golden armour, and unlike the game I have a bladed polearm weapon.

"Luna, Cadence, Amore with me!" I call out and they gather around me. "Luna, where is discord kept?" I ask her.

"He's in the statue garden behind the castle, in the middle of the hedge maze," she replies and I look toward the castle.

"Alright, stand around me and I'll take us all there," I tell them and activate Horus's ultimate ability, to the skies.

While I channel the ability, A circle of light forms around me and an astral projection of myself soars into the sky giving me a bird's eye view of the area. I look behind the castle and spot Discord's stone form with his arms wide open and a smile on his face in the middle of the aforementioned hedge maze. I focus on a small clearing in front of Discord and release the ability.

My body flaps its wings and the others scream as we're all shot into the air where my body and projection combine and we then go down and slam harmlessly back onto the ground in front of Discord.

"You're up Cadence," I tell her as she tries not to throw up. I start to hear some footsteps and shouting approaching us from the maze. "Luna, Amore, protect Cadence. I'll hold them off," I tell them and spin my polearm around before heading to the opening in the maze.

Cadence gets the elements out and starts channelling her magic into them. I wait and hear the footsteps get closer and closer while Pegasi and Gryphons fly over the hedge and dive down at Cadence.

Amore uses her magic to place most of them asleep and gently place them on the ground while Luna resorts to using hoof to hoof combat and using her superior strength and speed, knocks them out when they get too close.

I turn back to the entrance and see Unicorns and Earth ponies charging at me. Stretching my wings out behind me as I wait for when the earth ponies are close enough, once in range I flap forward, sending a gust of air into them, knocking them back and into the unicorns.

A good ten are knocked out as I then launch myself into the fray and using the side of my polearm, I smack five ponies in rapid succession knocking them out. Unicorns fire blasts of magic at me which I parry most of them with my polearm, though I do take a few hits to my legs and arms before focusing on them and knocking them out.

A bright rainbow light flashes behind me and I hear a deep yawn, followed by a snap of fingers. The ponies and gryphons all fall to the ground out cold.

"What's going on here?" Discord asks and pulls out a pocket watch. "One-hundred years? I was hoping for at least five-hundred..." he grumbles and looks around. "Hmmm? Carl? What's going on?" he asks me and I sigh.

"Celestia has been possessed by a nightmare and we need your help in freeing her from it," I reply and change to Janus.

"I see you've gotten used to your new powers, so how long have you been on Equus for so far?" he asks me and hops down from the stone platform he was standing on, then begins stretching his body in unnatural ways getting pops and groans from him.

"I think about six or eight months so far. So, can you help us with Celestia?" I reply and ask as I walk over and hold my hand out to him.

He looks at my hand and grins as he grasps it and shakes. "Well, I've only recovered about twenty percent of my magic after giving you ninety percent of it. But I believe I could be of some assistance!" he replies and lets go of my hand. Cadence, Amore, and Luna all looking at Discord warily.

"Better than nothing. So here's what's happening right now. We're sieging Canterlot to free you, objective complete, and we're taking all of the Nightmare's mind controlled forces here from her while she's up in the north, objective pending. Then we plan to dump her into a pool of liquid love to see if it'll harm her," I tell him.

He hums and strokes his white chin beard. "Nightmares are notorious for being extremely difficult to get out of someone once they're possessed. But, I've fought many of them before, and Chaos magic just happens to be one of their weaknesses. While I can't rip it out of ol' Sunbutt myself, I can make it easier to do so. And you've got the right idea with the liquid love stuff, Once she's inside it, I can apply my magic and make it more effective! Ooooh I can't wait to rub it in Celly's cake stuffing face when we free her of the Nightmare. She'll have to thank ME of all beings for saving her!" he says and literally laughs his ass off.

Each round cheek sprouts a pair of legs as they pop off and run around Discord before they then jump back onto his rear, each leg absorbed back into him.

He finally calms down and smirks. "Right then, I'll help to remove the mind control magic on the Ponies and Gryphons while you bring them to me," he says as a doctor's coat appears on him and snaps his fingers. The Ponies and Gryphons around us groan in pain as they slowly get back up.

"What was I doing?" one of the Unicorn guards asks as he sits up.

"Ow my head..." a Gryphon complains as she rubs her bruised head.

They all eventually get up and look at each other confused before the Gryphons panic and fly off. But one yelps in pain as her wing seems to be broken. Her body's fur and wing feathers are a light tan colour while her head is covered in white feathers with light blue tips, her eyes are a lovely shade of sapphire blue.

"Wait! Don't leave me here!" she calls out to them but they're already out of hearing range.

I walk over to her, making her panic and she tries to claw me with her talons, but her claws scrape harmlessly over my metallic chest.

"Calm down, we're not going to hurt you," I tell her as I gently hold her talons, but she starts hyperventilating.

She looks hysterical and tries to pull her arms away. "Let me go!" she screams and tries pecking my face. Only to yelp and whine as it hurt her more than it did me.

"Stop! You're just going to hurt yourself more! Now if you'll relax, I can heal you so you can follow the others, okay?" I tell her and she just stares at me before closing her eyes and starts getting her breathing under control.

After a good five minutes, she's breathing steadily while Cadence, Amore, and Luna help the other Ponies and explain what's going on. "Feeling better?" I ask her.

She opens her eyes and nervously nods.

"Okay, I'm going to change my appearance, then heal your wing, then you can either stay and help us, or fly off to the other Gryphons, okay?" I ask her.

She nods again and I change to Aphrodite, she just stares at me as I gently place my left hand on her broken wing. She gasps as the bone snaps back into place and mends while the muscle and skin heal up. It takes a minute but her wing is now fully healed.

"And that's it, you can fly off now if you want," I tell her and back away.

She looks at her wing and gives it a few flaps before looking back at me. "Erm, thank you," she says and quickly takes off in the direction the other Gryphons did.

I turn back to the others and look to see them all staring at me. "So, does anyone else need healing before we move on?" I ask them.

A few Ponies have some injuries that I quickly heal before changing back into Janus.

"Right then, I'll open a portal back to the plaza so we can help the others in subduing the mind controlled people," I say and open a portal.

Discord walks over and grins as he cracks his knuckles. "Let's get this over with, I still need to take a looooooong nap to recover my magic," he says and walks through.

"We art having second thoughts about this," Amore says with a grimace as she follows him through.

Everyone else follows and I go in last, once through, I close the portal and notice Ponies and Gryphons laying next to each other out cold or tied up. There's also a few of our own forces injured and getting treatment as the sound of fighting echoes throughout the city.

Discord floats over to the bound mind controlled people and starts freeing them from the spell. "This'll take me a few minutes, just keep them coming!" he says and starts snapping his fingers.

I turn to the others and change back into Aphrodite. "You lot help in subduing the others, I'll start helping our wounded," I tell them getting affirmatives in reply as they run off to help.

Floating over to the injured, I giggle at a few of the Minotaurs who can't help stare at me as I begin healing them, then sending them back out to do their jobs.

As I heal the wounded, I watch the others bringing the controlled people back, either bound or knocked out. A large Unari has a Pony in their mouth where they gently place them next to Discord who unsurprisingly starts hissing at the Unari who nods in reply before slithering off for another target.

More injured pour in and I do my best to heal them to get them back into the fight. It disturbs me that the mind-controlled forces just throw themselves at us without any care for their own well being, even the children and elderly.

The siege lasted about four hours and I've had to heal a good five-hundred people from wounds, but we've subdued the whole city and Discord has freed them all from their mind control. Next, I ordered everyone, both our forces and the freed to loot the city of anything useful to deprive the Nightmare of any more resources in case she gets back faster than we anticipated.

Crystal coins, weapons, armour, food, cloth, artefacts from the castle's vault, even furniture is transported back to Khepria, along with everyone that decided to stay, out of all the four-hundred Gryphons that fled only twenty-two decided to stay and help us.

My mana is low due to all the healing and keeping the portal open for so long. But the changelings have begun the mass building of homes for the five-thousand Ponies that we freed from Canterlot. They only came with us due to Luna, Amore, and Cadence vouching for us.

I'm currently laying in my bed breathing heavily as Hercules, letting my mana recover while Discord said he'll build the trap to dump the Nightmare into. The leaders of the other races are also helping out and are just waiting for me to recover before we begin the next stage of our plan.

I hear the door open and hoof steps approaching the bed. "Still tired?" I hear Chrysalis ask me before she climbs onto the bed and cuddles up beside me.

"I've used up a lot of mana and it'll take me a good hour or two to recover, so how are the ponies and gryphons we saved doing?" I ask her as she giggles and kisses my cheek.

"They're scared, but the ponies that were here before them are helping to settle them in. Since we can't use your portals to gather resources right now and Discord is busy with making the trap for Celestia, teams of ponies and changelings are heading to the forest to gather wood and bring it back for building more homes." she tells me and sighs.

"We'll also need you to fertilise the land outside the city to make more farmland and or towns to feed and house all these ponies as well... our little farm segment won't be enough to sustain all of them." she says and buries her muzzle into my neck.

"Hmmm... I see. We'll have to wait until we've dealt with the Nightmare before we think of expanding. Once we free Celestia, a lot of the ponies can go back to their homes unless they want to stay," I reply.

"True, but the Gryphons that stayed have asked for residence here since you're the one who freed them from their captivity and not their King," she says and then yawns adorably.

I chuckle and wrap my arm around her and hold her close. "Looks like I'm not the only one that's tired," I mumble as my exhaustion is catching up to me.

She giggles and kisses my neck before we both fall asleep to rest for the upcoming battle with the Nightmare.