Godly

Godly
Chapter 3: Introductions?

A couple of the horses faint on the spot while the others look fearful.

I sigh and walk over to a light blue one with a pale green mane and tail. She has a picture on her hip of a scroll and quill.

"Are you alright?" I ask her gently. At least I think it's a girl, if the long eyelashes, smaller muzzle, and curvier body than the unicorn means anything.

She nodded dumbly at me. "Y-Yes," she replies quietly, fear still within her tone.

"Look, I'm not going to hurt you," I tell her and gently rip off the crystal collar around her neck which makes her flinch.

After a few seconds she speaks up. "W-Who are you?" she asks.

I smile and make my way to the next horse. "My name's Carl. What's yours?" I reply and ask in turn.

"S-Swift Quill..." she tells me.

I break another collar and move onto the next.

"Nice to meet you, Miss Quill," I say and after a couple of minutes, I've removed all twenty of the horses collars.

I walk up to the female horse in the tattered dress where she weakly looks up at me.

"Are you alright?" I ask her getting a weak nod and cough in reply.

"Quickly! Get water and the healers here now!" a white furred male with a light blue mane and tail orders to some of the more healthier looking horses who run out of the room. "W-What are you?" he then turns to me and asks.

I smile and stand up straight. "I'm a god," I reply making them stare at me in a mixture of fear and awe.

Whilst the other horses tend to the injured mare, I hear footsteps rushing towards us from behind me, so I turn to see little horses in battered and broken light purple crystal armour with crystal spears burst into the room and surround me.

"You! Creature! Where is Chancellor Sombra!?" the one in front wearing more decorated armour than the others asks me. All of them look like they've been in a fight and didn't come out pretty if the cracked armour, bruises, cuts, and shards of black crystal lodged in some of them mean anything.

"Sombra? Oh the evil dark grey unicorn?" I reply and ask, not intimidated by them at all.

They're all frowning at me but the lead horse nodded at me. I just point behind them near the window.

They all turn and look pale as they see the mangled and charred corpse of the unicorn.

"B-But... no pony was able to even get near him when he attacked... who did this?" one of the other armoured horses asks in disbelief.

"I did it. The damn bugger tried to kill me, so I killed him first," I reply and lean on my mace.

They then look at me with judging eyes. "And what will you do now?" the lead horse asks me sternly.

"To be honest? I have no idea," I simply reply confusing them all. "I just literally got here after roaming the area for a month... I'm just lost and saw this place, so I came here. Wasn't expecting tiny horses and an evil dictator though."

"So... you're not here to take over?" one of them asks slowly.

I shake my head in reply. "No... just looking for shelter and a hot meal really. Eating snow and ice for three days straight gets bland quickly."

Before they could speak two larger horses burst in and look around. The first is white with a mane and tail like an aurora, she's wearing golden crystal armour with a large crystal halberd floating next to her. The other is midnight blue with a mane and tail that look like the night sky, she's wearing silver coloured crystal armour and has a pair of sharp looking crystal swords floating next to her. I wonder how they get their hair to wave about like that?

They quickly look around and spot me. "Are thee the one who took control of our sun!?" the white one demands.

"Err..." I reply dumbly as I notice they both have longer horns than the unicorn did and also large wings on their sides. Then I frown at what she said. "Your sun?" I ask her.

"Verily, we art the Princess of the sun! We raise and lower the sun every day and we felt some other power manipulating our sun!" she tells me sternly.

"Erm..." Well, this just got awkward. How do I tell her I can turn into around four different gods of the sun without sounding like an idiot?

"Speak quickly, creature, or we shall have thy head," the dark blue horse threatens me.

"Whoa whoa whoa. First, calm your tits. Second, I had to to kill Mr Evil over there or he would have killed me," I reply pointing again to Sombra's corpse.

The blue one looks and goes wide eyed at the body, then looks at the white horse.

"Sister, is that not Chancellor Sombra?" dark blue horse asks the other.

The white horse then looks and goes wide eyed as well. "Tis indeed," she says and looks back at me. "So thou hast just murdered a member of the empire's council," she tells me with a glare. "Where is Empress Amore and Princess Cadenza?" she then asks me while looking at the throne which is still impaled to the back wall.

I frown in confusion and look back to Swift Quill. "Who's Empress Amore and Princess Cadenza?" I ask her.

"W-We art here, Tia..." the injured mare speaks softly from behind the little horses trying to help her.

"Amore!" the large white mare yells and rushes over to this Amore person. "Tell us all that which hast transpired," she asks in a soft and worried tone.

While they talk, the dark blue one walks over to me with her swords at the ready. "And what of thee? Who and what art thou? Didst thou harm our friend!?" she asks me angrily.

I glance at both of her black coloured crystal bladed swords before looking back at her. "My name is Carl, and I'm a god," I reply making her frown turn to surprise. "And no I did not, she was in that condition when I arrived," I tell her.

"If thou art a god, then what realm dost thou rule over?" she asks me skeptically.

"Quite a few actually, including the sun and moon," I reply.

She glares at me before raising her blades. "We art the goddess of the moon. No other canst connect to the moon as we can," she tells me sternly.

I just stare at her with a frown of my own. "Want a demonstration?" I ask her.

Seems she took that the wrong way. "Thou dare to threaten us!?" she yells and gets right in my face, though she has to lean up to do so. But for a second, there seemed to be some kind of hesitation in her eyes.

"I merely suggested a demonstration, I said nothing about a threat," I tell her making her narrow her eyes and back off slightly.

"Very well, show us thy power over our moon," she says sarcastically.

I grin and change to Awilix, Mayan goddess of the moon without thinking it through first. If I thought being Ra was an odd feeling with his beak, this feels even stranger. I can feel the weight of a pair of breasts on my chest as well as the missing weight of my junk between my legs, not to mention the thicker thighs, wider hips, and slimmer waist. Though I for now ignore it to save face.

A portal then briefly opens beside me and a black jaguar jumps through before it closes. 'This must be Suku, Awilix's jaguar partner,' I think to myself and start scratching behind the jaguar's ears.

The horses yelp and back away from the big cat. I guess they think he might attack and eat them.

"I am now the Mayan goddess of the moon, Awilix," I tell the dark blue horse. I then feel a connection just over the horizon opposite of the sun and with just a thought, I feel the moon rise up above us making the dark blue horse's eyes bug out. I also ignoring the feminine tone that my voice now has. "What shall I call you?"

She stares at both Suku and I for a while more before answering. "We art Princess Luna of Equestria," she replies while the white one walks back over to Princess Luna.

"And we art her sister, Princess Celestia," white horse introduces herself eyeing me carefully.

"As I told your sister, my name is Carl, and I have the ability to transform into many different gods or goddesses," I tell them.

Everyone looks stunned at my declaration. Though Celestia looks unconvinced, but Luna is now looking out the window, no doubt sensing the moon’s location I think. "Okay... and what is thy purpose here?" Celestia asks me.

I debate whether or not to tell them the truth or make something up. After a few seconds of internal debate, I decide to make my own background up. This is my new life, and I'll decide where to go from here. I also feel like I can’t trust these two for some reason.

"I'm just lost actually, I've travelled from another world to find a new place to call home," I reply.

They look at each other then back to me. "And why didst thou decide to find a new home?" Celestia asks as more little horses rush through the doorless entrance carrying jugs of water along with bags of plants and other items.

I sigh and try to look upset. "My people didn't want me anymore. They feared what I'm capable of doing or becoming," I tell them.

"And what art thou capable of?" Luna asks me.

I open my mouth to reply but my stomach rumbles making me chuckle in embarrassment. "Shall we continue this over some lunch? I haven't eaten much in the last three days," I suggest and turn back into Hercules, feeling much more comfortable in a male body. The two princesses look shocked at my transformation again as Suku fades away.

"Firstly," Celestia speaks up. "We must find Princess Cadenza, then we'll discuss what to do with you," she tells me with distrust clear in her tone.

I sigh and shake my head. "Alright, I'll just wait here while you go look for her," I reply and walk over to Swift Quill and plop down on my ass next to her with my mace in front of me now clean of the brain matter from Sombra.

Celestia and Luna start giving orders like taking out the shrivelled horses on the floor as well as disposing of Sombra's body. Amore is getting a green paste like ointment or something slathered onto her cuts before a piece of cloth or dressing is placed over it.

"Are you r-really a god?" Swift Quill asks me nervously.

I look at her making her even more nervous while I think for a few seconds. "Yeah," I simply reply and my stomach rumbles in hunger, making me rub it with a wince.

I'm tempted to turn into Bacchus and eat some succulent meat, but I don't think these horses would like that very much.

Though something sweet would be nice right now. I think of the god Ganesha, the Hindu god of success. A second pair of arms grow out just behind my shoulders and my skin turns a purplish blue. My nose grows longer into a trunk and the rest of my head into that of an elephant. A large blue and golden hat or crown rests atop my head with pale green beads around the rim. My belly also grows rounder and chubby as well.

Next my four wrists are covered with different types of bracelets with the colours of gold, blue, and red. I'm also barefoot with a pair of baggy orange pants and a golden belt with blue stones along it.

In my front right hand is a large exotic dagger with a hook like blade next to the hand guard. In my left is my small broken right tusk. In my back right hand is some kind of lotus flower I think, and in my back left hand is what I'm looking for, a blue and gold bowl full of plum flavoured hard boiled looking sweets.

The horses around me just stare in fascination and once more I get glares from the two larger horses who are currently talking to some more armoured horses. I ignore them as I'm lifted off the floor by a soft and comfy cloud which I use to lay back on. I use my trunk to pluck a sweet out of the bowl and put it in my mouth.

Humming in content, I just let it slowly melt on my tongue as I relax. I glance at Swift Quill who's staring wide eyed at my new body, I just smile at her while holding the bowl out to her.

"Would you like one?" I ask her in a deep but relaxed and polite tone.

"W-What are they?" she asks back.

"Plum flavoured sweets," I tell her.

She hesitates for a few seconds before taking one from the bowl with her hoof, how do they hold things with just a hoof? I also notice everyone is staring at her waiting to see what happens next.

She tentatively licks it first, but then her eyes shoot wide open and she stuffs it into her mouth hungrily.

"Oh my... thish ish the besht shweet I've ever had!" she says just sucking on the candy happily.

I just chuckle and look to the others still here. "Would anyone else like one?" I offer them all.

They look between me and Quill for a bit, then some start walking over. One by one they take a sweet, and the one I'm still eating isn't even halfway gone yet, they last for quite a while.

Luna then huffs and walks over. "We dost nary see what all the fuss is about..." she says and eyes the bowl of sweets. Her horn glows with a blue aura around it and a single sweet floats up and then towards her.

She eyes the piece of candy for a few seconds and sniffs it. Her right brow rises and she then pops it into her mouth with a frown.

I can't help but laugh as her eyes cross and her legs wobble slightly as she hums and her eyes slowly close as I can see her moving the candy around her mouth.

"That good huh?" I say making her eyes shoot open and glare at me. "What?" I ask her.

She snorts and walks off back to her sister, but a small smile is back on her face.

Celestia then floats one over to herself, with an expression of curiosity. She gracefully eats it and her eyes slightly widen, but not by much.

"Tis not bad," she comments and then turns back to the soldiers she was talking to. Her reaction was rather disappointing.

"What will you do now?" Swift Quill asks me with more confidence after a moment of silence.

"As I told Celestia, I have no idea. I'm new here and I would most likely have to learn how things work before deciding anything," I reply and close my eyes. I will never sleep on a bed again as this cloud is better than any bed could be.

"I see, will you be staying here or go back to Equestria with the Princesses?" she then asks me.

"To be honest? I'd rather stay here, those two have shown they either just don't like me or distrust me. Why would I go with someone who hates me?" I reply and pick up another piece of candy with my trunk.

"I guess so, but they're really nice once you get to know them. I think they're just being cautious," she tells me.

I simply shrug. "Whatever the case may be, I'm not going with them," I say and just relax while munching on my sweet. It's been about twenty minutes as they continue to search for Princess Cadenza. Amore looks more like a mummy now wrapped in so many bandages, but the pained expression on her face is gone and she's breathing more clearly now as she talks to the ponies around her.

I yawn and before I know it, I drift off to sleep.