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Truly Divine

by Onomonopia

Chapter 6: Thor: God of Equestria

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Luna sneaked a peak out of one of her windows into the courtyard of Canterlot, letting out a small whistle at the amount of ponies that were standing in attendance. The last time she had seen so many ponies awaiting an announcement by the princesses was the day that Luna had been called up to be a princess...or the day Celestia decided to finally go on a diet.

She then turned her attention to the ponies in the room with her, biting back a smile when she saw how the ponies in the room were reacting. Celestia was pulling Twilight away from Thor, as the princess was trying to poke and prod the god with all sorts of magical testing devices. Thor was fending off her devices with his hammer, but thankfully he had a smile on his face as he did so.

The other members of the Ambassadors were all talking amongst themselves, but Luna caught their eyes glancing over at Thor a couple of time and she guessed what they were talking about. Shining Armor was watching his little sister act silly with a smile on his face, while Cadence stood off to the side by herself. Out of all of the ponies, she seemed to distrust the god of thunder the most. Luna couldn't figure out why, but at the moment she couldn't probe any further.

And finally there were the two new faces in the room. Autumn Breeze and Summer Sky, the two ponies that Thor had chosen to be his personal escorts while in Equestria. Autumn Breeze was the color of autumn, with a golden red coat and a yellow mane, making her look like the leaves on the trees. Summer Sky was also colored like her name, with a golden mane and a sky blue coat. She stood over her daughter and kept a hoof wrapped around her, clearly out of place among such beings.

"Sister. Twilight. Lord Thor. It is almost time," Luna told the three of them as she glanced up at a clock on the wall. Celestia and Thor nodded, while Twilight used her magic to try and fix one of her devices that had the misfortune of striking Thor's hammer.

"Never thought a day like this would come. A day when Equestria gets to introduce a new god to the ponies of the world," Celestia muttered aloud, staring up at the ceiling while silently praying to herself.

"Thou does realize that I can hear every word of your prayer?" Thor asked Celestia, whose face went red and she tried to stammer out an excuse. "Fret not Celestia, that is far from the worst prayer I've ever heard. I have heard prayers asking for my own demise. As you can tell, I did not grant those ones."

The ponies all let out a polite laugh at Thor's words, before a more serious air overcame the group. Thor then rose to his feet and held out his hand, returning Mjolnir to it a moment later. Celestia and Luna both put on their game faces and began to walk to the main balcony, with the Ambassadors flanking their sides. Celestia held out a wing to tell Autumn and Summer to stay inside, but then Thor waved the two of them over. The two looked from their princess to their god, getting Celestia to roll her eyes before she motioned for them to join the group.

"Ready, sister?" Luna asked.

"As ready as I'll ever be."

Celestia and Luna pushed open the doors to the balcony and walked out, instantly being deafened by the roar of the crowd of ponies. The roar grew even louder when the Ambassadors walked out behind the princesses, but the crowd was silenced when Thor emerged behind the eight of them, a smile on his face that could have out shone the sun.

"Ponies of Equestria," Celestia began, turning all eyes from the god of thunder to her. "As I am certain that all of you are aware, these past couple of months we have been attacked all across the nation by beings we have called the crystal titans. We currently know little about these monsters, but what we do know is that, at the moment, they are gone for good. The war is over."

The crowd murmured excitedly at these words and Celestia felt all eyes leave her, only to rest upon the being standing behind her.

"Yet in our darkest hour, a single prayer spoke by a desperate filly managed to call forth the one that would put an end to our war. That filly prayed...and a god answered," Luna continued on as she turned to look behind her at Thor, who took a step forward and waved to the crowd. The crowd roared back with an intensity that made the ponies cover their ears, but Thor took it all in with a smile.

"Thor made short work of the titans. In under a day, he answered the prayers of the filly and saved our world. And then he made us an offer, one that my sister and I weren't certain of. He offered to take the mantel of Equestria's god," Celestia continued onward, once again having to shield her ears from the roar of the crowd.

"And while we could have made that decision ourselves, we knew that the real choice would be with all of you," Luna cut in, using a look to cut back on the noise of the crowd. "For Thor would not just be our god, but all of yours. So we left the choice with all of you. And you responded in a very clear manner."

"Yes, you all told us exactly what you wished for. So I, princess of Equestria, along with the other princesses of Equestria, have decided to honor your wishes," Celestia began before she turned back to Thor, who raised an eyebrow at her with a smile on his face. "Thor, god of thunder, by what power I have as ruler of this land, I hereby declare you Thor: god of Equestria!"

The crowd of ponies practically exploded as Celestia said this, creating a wave of noise that would have blown the ponies on the balcony off of their hooves. Thor then stepped forward and held out a hand to silence the crowd, who all fell silent at the motion. Thor then cleared his throat before he turned his gaze skywards and begun to spin his hammer.

"Ponies of Equestria, your god has a simple request. Please, would you all kindly move to the side of the courtyard." The ponies looked at him in confusion, but did as he asked, while the princesses and Ambassadors looked at him like he was crazy.

"Thor, what are you doing?" Autumn asked. "Why did you have those ponies move?"

"Because child, we are about to have company."

A blast of fire erupted from the sky and a meteor came raining down into the center of the courtyard, getting ponies to scream as fire consumed the point where the meteor landed. Thor hurled himself from the balcony and landed in the courtyard, right in front of the pillar of fire. From within the fire a being began to walk forward, a being that made all of the ponies in the courtyard gaze upon it with fear and terror.

The being looked like a changeling, but was three times as large and had fire in place of eyes and wings. It's body had fire running through its veins, while it's body radiated a power that none of the other beings within the courtyard had felt before. All except for Thor, who smiled at the being with a cocky smirk upon his face.

Thor then cast a look to his side to see the shadows moving, getting Thor to turn his attention to the being that was moving out of the shadows. At first Thor mistook the creature for a zebra, but once the being stepped into the light he realized it was something else. Instead of being a creature with black and white stripes, there was only the black stripes and nothing else, leaving it to look like a fragment that was moving. The being walked over beside the burning creature, who both stared up at Thor.

Then the sky was torn open and a being began to descend, wrapping its impossibly long body around Canterlot as it descended. The creature was a bluish color and had a massive, snake like body with hundreds upon thousands of scales. The being lifted its head and held it over the courtyard, blocking out the sun with its sheer size. The ponies within the courtyard gazed up at the head of the dragon with absolute terror and disbelief, whereas Thor simply raised a hand and waved to the being.

"Finally! I thought that ye would never show thyselves," Thor said to the three with a boisterous laugh, one that got the three beings to narrow their eyes at Thor. "But I knew that the ponies declaring a new god would most likely drag all of you out of your hiding places. Ho, gods of this world. I am Thor. God of Thunder."

"And the new god of Equestria, apparently," the burning changeling said with clear tones of disgust in its voice as it sized Thor up, before its flaming eyes rested upon the hammer and it let out a snarl. It then raised its eyes towards Celestia and Luna, who were gazing at the scene with disbelief. "I do not recall allowing Equestria to decide whether or not they could decide their next deity. As usual, you have gone too far, Celestia. I suppose I'll have to give you and your nation another reminder, won't I?"

The god of the changelings took a step towards Celestia, but before it could do anything else Thor extended his hammer and pointed it right at the chest of the changeling. "Thor. As a new god to these lands, I shall tell you this only once. Do not interfere in matters that do not concern you."

"Aye, this would normally not be my concern. Except for the face that your failure to protect this world has made these problems my concern," Thor replied with such force that lightning crackled overhead, getting the ponies to yelp. "Then there is the matter that I have been declared the god of Equestria, meaning that all those within this land are now under my care. You wish to punish Celestia? You must go through me."

The changeling god let out a snarl and started to burn with a hellfire, but before the fight could start the shades of the zebra stepped between the two of them. "Toraxo, this is not how we should be greeting a new divine in Equestria. Especially one that is taking up such a heavy burden as the god of Equestria," the zebra said in a calming manner, one that seemed to soothe the flames of the changelings. "Greetings, Thor. I am Rose, goddess of the zebras."

"Greeting, Rose. It is nice to meet a fellow divine that does not wish to try their hand at fighting me," Thor replied with a strong smile, before he turned his gaze up towards the colossal dragon, who had been watching the meeting in silence. "And what should Thor call you, mighty dragon? For your power is quite greater than any of the other divine that stand with Thor!"

"I am called Shelor, god of the dragons," the being relied in a voice powerful enough to shake the entirety of Canterlot. "And we are here to see the new god that has been decided to take the role that Faust left all those years ago." The ponies in the crowd began to murmur to themselves while Celestia held a hoof to her head, knowing that she was going to half to explain that one to her nation at a later time.

"We were expecting that one of the princesses had decided that they were powerful enough to take up the role. Or that perhaps Discord had finally wizened up to his true nature and wished to become all he could be. You...are not what we expected," Shelor continued, giving Thor a look that made all of the ponies cower in fear. Thor smiled in reply. "You are not a god of this land. You do not belong here."

"Aye, you are correct in saying I am not of this world. But thou are wrong in saying that I do not belong here," Thor replied as he pointed his hammer at the dragon, making the dragon back away slightly as he sensed the power within the hammer. "For a prayer for aid brought me here, a prayer that went unanswered by any of the four deities that stand here with me. I belong wherever those who call upon the aid of Thor reside. Therefor, I belong in Equestria. Now then, perhaps our finally deity who has chosen to watch from afar can finally join us?"

As soon as Thor spoke those words, a being materialized in a flash of light in the center of the courtyard, getting the ponies to yelp in surprise. The being wore a white cloak that wrapped completely around its body, covering everything except for its face. Its face was covered by a mask, one that was half smiling and half frowning, with a crack down the center to differentiate the two sides. Yet even with the cloak covering it, Thor could tell there were a large pair of horns beneath the cloak.

"So, you managed to sense me after all. Seems you are not just all talk," the right side of the mask, the frowning side, said with a laugh. "I am Janis, god of the northern Elk. A minor nation in this land, but they need a god all the same."

"And I am Sinaj, god of the southern Elk," the smiling side replied with a depressed sigh. "Our nation was split in two years ago and as a result, we have been split as well. Half and half. Perfectly fair."

"A god with two personalities? That has never been a cause for concern in the past," Thor noted aloud, getting both of the masks to darken at his words.

"Thor," Shelor said, turning all eyes towards him once more. "You are new in this land, so there are rules among the gods of this world that you know not of. In time, we will teach them to you, so that you can truly be a god of this world. But for the time being, refrain from doing anything that would upset the balance of this world."

"Thou mean, do not do anything that would upset the balance the four of you have forced upon this world?" Thor replied in a biting tone, one that turned all of the gods eyes towards Thor. Thor lifted Mjolnir and summoned a torrent of lightning overhead, one that was strong enough to shake the entire planet.

"Hear me and hear me well, gods of Equis. Thor is not like the former goddess of this nation. Thor will not bend to your will or your rules, if it means that those who prayer to Thor would have their prayers ignored. Thor will protect this land and Thor will defend these ponies as if they were the people of his own world. And if any of thee try to say otherwise," Thor said as he slowly lowered the thundering hammer and pointed it at the four of them. "I will have words with thee."

A long silence followed Thor's decree, one that was only broken by the lightning that flashed from the end of Thor's hammer. Then the gods all backed away from Thor and vanished from the courtyard, leaving only one deity standing amongst the ponies. He lowered his hammer and stared up at the sky, eyes narrowed and an unreadable look upon his face.

"Lord Thor?" Celestia asked as she and Luna floated down behind Thor, who glanced over his shoulder to see that they were both looking at him with uncertain eyes. "What was that all about?"

"Those were the other gods of Equis, princess of the sun. And they came here to try and intimidate me into following the rules that they have established," Thor told the both of them, whose eyes widened at his words. "I replied by telling them what I will do as long as your nation calls me their god. And they did not like what they heard."

"So...what does that mean?" Luna asked.

"It means that I have a great deal of work to do," Thor replied as he began to spin his hammer. "Starting with the other god that calls Equestria his home. Fare thee well."

Thor then rocketed into the sky in a clap of thunder, leaving the princesses standing with all of the other ponies. The ponies stared at the princesses, waiting for some kind of explanation. But for the first time in a long time, the princesses didn't have one. But they had a feeling, a feeling that things had only gotten much more complicated.

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