Through a God's Eyes

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I guess this as good a time as any to tell you more about me. In fact I probably should before I keep going.

Alright in case you didn't already catch it my name is Black Phoenix, and yes I know it sounds stupid. I have no choice in what the worshipers choose to call me. Too bad I am not allowed to change it, so just call me BP. And no I am not a flaming bird. Even though on curtain occasion I kind of look like one according to the mass populous. I am about a bit above average height, which isn't even that huge a deal since shapeshifting is a basic god trick. Also a distinct trait I have going for me are my wings. You see my wings actually have pointed feathers instead of round like most pegasi, also considering my body size my wings are pretty huge, but you know what they say about a stallion with huge wings wink wink. For my personality well I am a rather laid back pony who likes to give nicknames and comment on things. I love to show everyone else who is the best because they deserve to know. And I am not very good with the whole magic thing, it just isn't for me. Um, I hate rules and most things orderly they just aren't that much fun. The whole concept of harmony just bugs me since it leaves no open room for discovery or innovation. Also I hate when things or creatures are put down by others without full understanding. I know that perspective is key, mostly from experience, I mean who do you think everyone points to when something out of order or unlikely happens. I may not be as intellectually uptight as the other gods, but I would love to see any of them best me in combat. Then there is the stuff I do. Lets see I was created of the sky so naturally I have a connection to winds and flight, I am the divine ruler of pegasi because I you know made them, oh and inventor of weather. This is of course back when weather was free and unpredictable. Hence my position as the god of chance. This also explains my secondary power.

Basically along with their respective domain each god has some control of one of one other less obvious element. For example the Unicorn godess has dominion in leadership and control, but with those abilities comes her most famous power magic. You must take into account this was back when magic was a rarity. As for me my natural uncontrollable heated nature gave me the ability to manipulate, create, and overall be the master of fire. No I am not a maniac with it, the flames mearly reprosent my unpredictable powerful nature that can be destructive, but lead to all new beauty. On top of that we even get godly abilities these come with your respective territory. So me I can see every possible outcome that might come out of any event ever. Now you may be thinking, "well thats just swell! He can see the future now too?" Well its not that black and white. Like I said it is every possible outcome who knows which one may become true. And on top of that I am blind to any that involve me in any way, shape, or form.

Back to the name's origin though, one key fact must be noted about the fires that come out of my body. They are sort of like mood flames. Whatever color they might end up coming out as is reflective of whatever feelings I am experiencing at the time. So for example: Blue is pleasure, Red is pain, Green is dishonesty just to name one or two. Rainbow is represents absolute joy and happiness. Thus the birth of not only the rainbow, but the whole Rainbow family. I bet even in your time the Rainbow of that generation is trying to prove themselves as the best there is! And there is gray that shows annoyance or any kind of upset nature.  So thats your basic color tutorial, moving on.

This was back when pegasi were first experimenting with the whole building with clouds thing. It looked absolutely nothing like how it does today with the rich columns and perfect symmetry. Architecture is one of the few things I enjoyed completely in order. Clouds are truly the best building material too, so light yet sturdy, well if you can touch them. In any case at the time they looked more like straw huts then towering monoliths. Also back then dragons were not the intellectual power houses they are in more recent times. Then again the whole, "they are vicious monsters" stereotype had to come from somewhere.

Ok let me give you a little insight. At this point in time pegasi were a peaceful race. They were literally the embodiments of kindness. Also they were all one with nature and such. Some even said they could communicate with animals. Which I could suppose might happen, I mean there is always a chance. Good thing I like animals. This nature was so imbedded into them that I bet it partially remnant today. Granted in a much fewer amount seeing as to what was about to come. Suffice to say these pegasi were not prepared for an attack.

So from what I have been able to gather dragons have an innate desire to want to destroy straw houses. Although this base instinct has been suppressed through the push of higher intelligence. In this time though that was not the case. As I said earlier the pegasi's buildings looked exactly like those built of straw. So when a dragon came flying in...well, lets just say that instinct kicked in. Luckily nopony was hurt too badly, mostly because it is pretty hard to put a cloud made of water on fire. Still there were slight burns and a ton of mental scarring. My pegasi begged for me to come and save them, and considering what I saw, so many filly tears, I gladly obliged. The fact that this dragon had the balls to try and burn down my city really set me off. He apologized as best he could considering his mental capacity, but I didn't listen. I flamed on and flew at him full force. The that surrounded me were pure black, this color was new to me, then again so was the emotion. This thing called anger it burned hot. I was told later that the flames around me combined with how fast I was flying at him made me look like this thing called a phoenix. Starting to connect the dots? Don't worry you will get it in full soon enough.

I flew at him full force and unleashed heavens' wrath...too bad that hothead dragon god had to step in the way and stop me! How dare he apologize for this mistake. He spat in my face saying how he will make sure this never happens again. He was insulting my people saying going to war would only yield more casualties than the actual event.  Who in their right mind would try to find the rational logical solution that avoids bigger issues? And how dare he imply my race is would not be able to take on his flying lizards! Then...oh then he did the worst. He had the audacity to take my revenge away from me. NO ONE TAKES FROM ME! Whoa where did that come from? Anywho he punished his dragon, never did see him again its a good thing too, apologized again and vanished after giving me a lovely fruit basket, THE NERVE!

I never wanted my ponies to ever be hurt like that again. So to keep them safe, and show the other gods, I did the unheard of, I militarized. My ponies became warriors not just fliers. Every filly knew the basics of combat before even getting into the air. We would never be seen as weak again. Pegasi are best ponies....

I was then dubbed Black Phoenix by the people, and I liked it. Shut up! I thought it sounded cool at the time ok. And apparently as soon as the people call you it it's your name, THANKS MOM! (explained later patience) Although the statue was pretty awesome. And did these guys know how to make some armor. I mean I looked good. And so humble too. Well, at least we are better then those stuck up unicorns. I did, and still do, think the earth ponies are under-appreciated though.

At the time I wanted to push our power and pride so I even turned my name into a logo. We swung the black phoenix flag at only the most important of events. I even got the thing embedded onto my body. Right on the flank for the ladies, wink, just kidding it was just the most logical place. Heck they even caught on, like to the point where the creator took notice. She of course put her spin to it making about growing up and destiny and blah blah blah. She even gave them a dumb name like cootie stamp or something like that. I also altered my appearance a little bit. I changed my mane and tail color to black, to fit the whole theme. Added some dark tips to my already pointed wings too. And as a little extra to show more prowess I even enlarged my hooves, a rare trait on a pegasus, also making them black, I mean I have to keep the color scheme.

By the way if you have been wondering where you heard my name before you should be able to figure it out from the hints I have been laying out in this chapter story, but don't worry if not I am going to get the part where I become famous; although...in some circles I am considered much more infamous.