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Truly Divine

by Onomonopia

Chapter 24: Mirror

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Thor had hoped that by helping those of Equestria that he would feel better about himself after his fight with Celestia the previous day. He was wrong.

His first act of divine interference was to use his power to stop a massive flood of water that would have wiped a small town off the face of the planet. By simply hurling Mjolnir into the ground he created a massive lake that all of the water pooled into, stopping the raging water and providing the ponies with a new lake. Yet when he had descended to tell them that they were safe, he was met with fear and terror in their faces. A terror that he had seen on the faces of the gods that Gor had butchered.

His next act was an act that he was far more comfortable with doing. Near the western edge of the country he found a group of hydras laying waste to all in their path, with a city directly in their path. Thor had wasted no time in acting, hurling himself into battle against the beasts of myth with a smile on his face. Mjolnir had made short work of the first three heads of the hydra, before he had grabbed the last, conscious head and used it to throw the entire hydra far from the city.

The other two hydra were dispatched in a similar fashion, even though they were beasts that Thor would normally just slay. Yet with how recent events had gone down and the knowledge that the world was afraid of him now, he had decided to stay his hand from killing any being, even if they were monsters of myth that needed to be slain.

Yet even though he had taken care not to show any sign of his real power or harm the hydra in any real fashion, Thor was greeted with the same faces of fear and terror as he flew through the city, with the only difference from the previous town being that there were some faces filled with hatred that gazed up at him.

He spent the rest of his day trying and failing to be a god that the ponies would look up to, not a god to be feared. He stopped an active volcano from erupting, used his godly might to prevent an earthquake from wiping out an entire island and even summoned rainstorms to areas of the land that were in desperate need of water. But despite all of the miracles he performed, the faces on the ponies was the same no matter where he went. Fear. Hatred. And Anticipation. But it was the fear that he noticed the most. The fear of him and his divine wrath.

So as the sun set upon the land and the night became poised to take over, Thor found himself alone at the top of an icy peak, standing alone on a mountain range not far from the one that had been forced to bear host to the god of the dragons. Only earlier in the day had Shelor finally returned to the land of dragons and from what Thor had heard, from conversations where they didn't know he was listening, the dragons were not happy.

'I do not understand. I have saved their way of life, stopped cataclysmic events that would have wiped them off the face of this world and even torn down the oppressive tyrants that called themselves gods, yet I am still the most feared being in this land? Is it that I do not look like them? Is it because I am from another world? Or perhaps,' Thor thought as he looked down at Mjolnir, who shined in the moonlight. 'My power is beyond anything that they could comprehend? Perhaps, even among the divine, I am too powerful for them. I am too terrifying. Perhaps my thunder scares them far more than the threat of their gods could...'

Thor then looked up at the heavens, wishing that he could call upon the aid of his mother or one of his mortal friends, who always seemed wiser than they appeared. But he knew that if he left Equestria, he would be leaving it at the mercy of two questionable gods and a force of evil that he still knew not the location of. The mere thought of the villain that had eluded him for so long caused Thor to grip his hammer with enough force to break moons, yet the might of Mjolnir didn't give an inch.

"Perhaps it was a mistake to take the title of god of this land. Perhaps I should have never gotten so involved with the ponies and instead only aided them when they needed my help. Perhaps if they did not know...nay, that is a fools way of thinking. I have done everything correctly. It may scare the beings of this world, but never once have I given them a reason to fear me. I slayed Toraxo for he left me no other choice. I battled with Shelor for he sought a battle with another god. He would know how that ends."

"Yet the fear is still there. The ponies do not trust me, despite all I have done to aid them. What am I unable to see? What is it about me that makes them so afraid? They cheer my strength when I strike down the titans, yet when I strike down another god they become afraid? What is the piece that I am missing?"

"Perhaps if you sit down and talk a while, you can learn for a change."

Thor spun around and prepared to bring his hammer down on whoever had snuck up on him, yet when he laid eyes upon the being he found that he had to not only stop his arm from swinging the hammer, but also stop himself from calling down the lightning to turn the being to dust. For before him stood a zebra, a divine zebra that was one of the two gods he had been waiting to attack him. And here she was.

"Rose. If thou are he to battle with me, then you have made a grievous error in thy judgment," Thor snarled as he pointed Mjolnir at the zebra, yet to his surprise all the zebra goddess did was glance down at his hammer before walking to the side of Thor. She tapped her hoof against the snowy ground and a moment later a table with steaming hot tea appeared before her. Two chairs shot out of the ground in a flash of rose petals, one of which was the perfect size for Thor. Rose sat down at the table and began to pour herself a cup of tea, while motioning for Thor to join her.

"Please Thor, join me for some tea while we talk. I find it is very soothing for those that are stressed or angry. Or in your case, both," Rose said in a voice that was as calm and warm as a summer breeze. In response to her inviting tone Thor summoned a thunder cloud overhead and had numerous lightning bolts strike close to where the two resided.

"Does thou take me for a fool, Rose? I know that you are not here for any pleasantries or talks. Thou wishes to be rid of me. But if ye try anything, know that Thor has no qualms with flinging ye down from the very peak of this mountain," Thor promised Rose.

"Your words have been noted. But Thor, know that I am not here to fight with you. I have seen what has happened to Toraxo and Shelor and I know that I would fare no better than them. All I am here to do is talk...and perhaps aid thee in finding out why the ponies fear you as they do. Now please, sit."

Thor narrowed his eyes at the zebra, but he felt no malicious intent coming from her words. Cautiously, Thor moved towards the chair and placed a hand on the back of it, waiting for some kind of trap to be sprung. When nothing happened, Thor slowly sat down in the chair. For a brief moment he awaited some kind of pain or agony, but when again nothing happened, he slowly placed Mjolnir on the ground beside him and glared across the table at Rose.

"What did thou mean by the reason the ponies fear me?" Thor asked Rose, who took a small sip of her tea before she gazed up at Thor.

"I mean I know the reason to the question you ask. Why the ponies fear you despite all you have done for them. It is sad, really. You are actually probably the nicest god that they have gotten since the tragic disappearance of Faust," Rose said with a sigh as she stirred her tea slightly.

"None of these games, Rose! Tell me what you know or face the wrath of Mjolnir," Thor snarled at Rose, who gave him a look before she placed her cup down on the table. Rose lifted a napkin to her mouth and dabbed at her lips a few times before she turned her full attention to Thor.

"The reason the ponies fear you Thor is through no fault of your own. In fact, had you done what you have done in any of the other nations in this land, you would be hailed as the hero that you are. But sadly, you are a deity in Equestria. A land filled with thankless beings that are full of greed and selfishness. A land that does not appreciate what it has until it is gone."

"Liar. I have seen the ponies of this land. I have seen the strength and desire to help one another that I have only seen among a few of the beings in the cosmos," Thor shot back, slamming a fist onto the table with enough force to knock all of the cups and the kettle off of the top. Rose sighed before she tapped her hoof against the table, conjuring new cups and a new kettle. "The ponies are kind and good. Your words will not sway me."

"Answer me this, god of Equestria. What ponies are you speaking about?" Rose asked. Her question was not what Thor had been expecting and the surprise quelled his rage.

"I speak of Celestia, of Luna. Of Twilight and Rainbow and all of their friends. Autumn and Summer. All of these ponies are good and kind," Thor replied, yet to his fury his words got a small chuckle out of Rose, who shook her head at Thor.

"Yes, those ones are the kind of ponies you have described. Kind and caring. With hearts full of kindness. But they are not the rest of the nation. They are not the ones that you have been guarding," Rose revealed to Thor, who narrowed his eyes in response. "The ponies of your land are selfish and ungrateful. Example. Despite Twilight and her friends saving the world countless times, did you know that they are still treated as if they were nobodies? I watched as a movie maker made fun of Applejack's accent and the crowd laughed with him. At Applejack, one of the six that saved their world."

"There are bad beings in every group. One example does not prove your point," Thor shot back.

"You are right. One example doesn't. But perhaps this will," Rose said before she pulled out a strange mirror, one that shimmered with a surface that was constantly changing colors. Rose showed the reflective side to Thor and he gazed within it, yet to his surprise he found that he saw nothing.

"What trickery is this? The mirror does not show me anything."

"Oh, but it will. See Thor, you are being stubborn. You are refusing to open your eyes and see the selfish beings that these ponies really are. And a mirror can't be of any us if you keep your eyes closed," Rose wisely said to Thor. "Tell the mirror what you wish to see and then open your eyes to the possibility that it might be true. Only then will it be of use to you."

"Very well. Mirror, show me...if the ponies truly are selfish and ungrateful," Thor asked. The surface of the mirror began to shimmer and a moment later Thor found himself looking at a scene where Rarity's dresses were being mocked by a professional craftspony.

"She helps to save the world and in return he mocks her designs without so much as giving them a try," Rose whispered behind Thor.

The rest of the images were barely any different than what Thor had seen before. Most of them involved Twilight and her friends being made fun of or ignored, despite the good that they had done. Then the images shifted to ponies that mocked Celestia and Luna, going so far as to call them the reasons for the problems that the ponies were going through, including the titans. And as Thor watched more and more, he felt his rage building along with the cloud of thunder overhead.

Then the images moved to ponies that were mocking Thor and what he had done. Saying that Thor was a fool of a god and that the land would be better off if they had remained godless. Others would say how such a fool could reach the statues of godhood and assumed that it must be easy. Only when a bolt of lightning came crashing down close to where Rose was standing did she pull the mirror back.

"Do you see now, god of thunder?" Rose asked Thor as the thunderer simmered in place, his fists clenched and his body shaking. "The ponies have been and will always be ungrateful to those that help them. They take what they have for granted and then whine when it is taken away. Essentially, they are a bunch of children that only care about something when someone else has it. That is why none of them mourned Faust when she died. That is why they don't care about the Elements. That is why they all cry about you. Because they won't appreciate you until you are gone."

Thor remained silent, having to devote most of his concentration on not erupting like a volcano. A small part of him, the young man he struggled not to be, wanted to go out there and smite all of those that had dared to talk bad about him. But in the blinding inferno of rage, something that Rose had said was a small island of reason and thought. And that thought turned Thor towards the goddess of zebras.

"Thou said Faust is deceased? Yet earlier thou said she had vanished," Thor said in a tone far more menacing than any villain was capable of making as he rose to his feet, glaring down at the zebra that was slowly moving away from him. "A simple slip of the tongue, perhaps? Or does thou have something to do with the disappearance of Faust? Answer me!"

"Oh well, it was bound to come out eventually. Yes Thor, I disposed of Faust. I got rid of her when she became too...good, just as you are now," Rose admitted with a smirk, one that made lightning flash overhead.

"Monster. So you are the cause of these ponies strife! I will have your head!" Thor roared as he lunged forward, yet Rose vanished in a flash of petals and appeared behind Thor. "How did you slay the goddess? Thou are nowhere near powerful enough to do so!"

"You wish to know how I did it? I did it...like this," Rose said before she pointed the mirror at Thor. A blinding flash of light erupted from the mirror and consumed Thor in the light. Thor let out a roar louder than any thunderstorm before he vanished into the light, which also vanished a moment later. Rose then smiled as she glanced at the mirror, which now had an image of the god of thunder trapped within.

"And with the god of thunder out of the way, now I can take my time and dispose of those infernal ponies of Equestria once and for all," Rose smiled before she glanced down at the image of Thor trapped in the mirror, watching as his legs slowly began to fade away. "Or perhaps I should take some inspiration from you and decimate them in one, glorious flash of lightning. Ah Thor, I can't believe the ponies said that you don't have good ideas."

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