Truly Divine

by Onomonopia


Threats

"Princess Twilight, I know what you're doing is for the best, but I still have some concerns," Summer said to the violet princess as the princess strapped some strange contraption to the top of her daughter's head. Autumn was sitting in a chair with all sorts of things strapped to her, but she was so excited at being in the castle of one of the princesses that she didn't care about the wires in the least.

"Don't worry in the least. Your daughter is perfectly safe," Twilight said with nothing but confidence in her words as she finished setting up her machine, which she then flicked on with her magic. Sumer bit her bottom lip as lights began to flash from the contraption, getting Autumn to laugh as the energy tickled her body. Twilight stared at the machine as it began to show her results, but she frowned upon seeing those same results.

"Princess Twilight, I must ask once more that you change your mind on testing my daughter for...what are you testing her for exactly?" Summer asked Twilight once again, who spent a minute looking over data before she turned back to the concern mother.

"We've all been asking for help long before the titans attacked out home. Yet out of all the foals, ponies and everything else in this land, Thor only heard the prayer of your daughter," Twilight pointed out to Summer Days, who realized that Twilight was right. "What about your daughter makes her so special that a god of thunder would descend from Midgard and aid her when she called for help? What makes her so special?"

"Maybe she prayed harder than anypony else on the planet? Or maybe her prayers were purer than any of the other beings that were praying?" Summer suggested.

"There are plenty of religions in this land that would beg to disagree with your hypothesis," Twilight muttered in reply. Summer opened her mouth to guess again, but Twilight's machine made a noise and Twilight turned her attention back to it for a few moments.

"So what, you think my daughter is like a goddess in disguise or something along those lines? That she somehow has a power within her that allowed her to call upon the aid of a god?" Summer asked with a bit of heat, her tone taking Twilight's attention away from the machine and to the mother. "Because I'm fairly certain I know what summoned Lord Thor. And that was that my daughter let out a prayer in an hour of desperation, when everything seemed lost. And he heard her. There's nothing more to it than that."

"Summer, I know that you're just trying to keep your daughter safe, but if there is something...unique about her, then I want to figure it out before anypony or anything else does," Twilight said with a hint of worry in her voice. "In three weeks we've seen the destruction of the titan army, been introduced to the other gods of Equis and had a new god take his place as god of our land. Things are changing so quickly that I'm afraid of all of us being left behind. I'm just trying to take precautions."

Summer wasn't happy with the response, but with a glance over at her daughter she found that she understood where Twilight was coming from. 'I have a single foal to take care of. Twilight has the entirety of Equestria to look after, which cannot be easy with everything that has happened. She's just trying to protect us.'

"Don't worry mom, I'm fine," Autumn said as she kicked happily in her seat. "And I'm also super freaking excited! How many foals get to say that they got to be invited to a princesses castle?! Not to mention, Princess Twilight is interested in me! This day honestly couldn't get any better!"

"Well, as long as you're happy, Autumn, then I suppose no harm has been done," Summer begrudgingly admitted with a sigh, getting a grateful nod from Twilight before she began to run some more test with her machine.

"So what do you think of Thor?" Twilight asked Summer in a whisper once another test had started up. The quiet tone Twilight spoke in made Summer raise an eyebrow.

"Considering he saved me and my daughter, along with countless other lives, then slayed the beasts that threatened our land, I think that he very much lives up to the title of god," Summer said with a shrug, before narrowing her eyes at the princess. "But I take it you have a different opinion?"

"I see him as a threat," Twilight replied in a near whisper, glancing up at her castle ceiling as she said this. When the thunder didn't come, Twilight let out a sigh and continued speaking. "Not to mention I don't know if I can trust him. Equestria hasn't exactly had a good history with dealing with godlike beings. Discord and Tirek, to name a few."

"A threat? After he's made good on his promise and helped all of us in our time of need, before flying all over the land to answer prayers from those who need help?" Summer said to Twilight, talking to her like she was a foal. She caught herself and apologized to the princess. "Alright, I can understand being wary of him at first. But considering he's done nothing but help us, why worry?"

"Because of what he means to Equis...and what he brings with him," Twilight admitted with a scared tone, one that Summer had never thought she would hear from the princess. "Before Thor showed up there wasn't the threat of divine retribution. Yeah there was constant danger, but it was danger we could handle. Even the titans we could beat eventually."

"But now Thor has shown up and shown the world that Equestria has a god. And because of that, the other gods have revealed themselves and have shown they are not happy. Giant monster made of crystal my friends and I can handle. Four divine beings that could wipe us off the face of Equis if they wished to? And what happens if Thor fights them? Causes them to wage war with Equestria? What would happen to our world..."

Twilight went silent for a time after that, engrossing herself in the result from her machine. Summer couldn't help but feel bad for the princess, able to sense the amount of stress and pressure she was under with all of the changes in their land. Summer then looked over at her daughter, wondering how she was able to deal with being the one that a god responded to so well.

"Well, I'm not finding any anomalies that show that your daughter is anything other than a regular filly," Twilight said after some time, glancing over all the reams of paper that had accumulated on her floor. The princess then walked over to the chair and unhooked the filly, who hopped off with a smile on her face. "I thank the both of you for taking time out of your days to agree to this. Is there anyway I can thank the both of you?"

"How about you take us out to eat? We can have a royal meal!" Autumn said with a hopeful smile, getting the princess to smile in reply at the filly.

"Alright, that's something I can do with ease. That alright with you, Mrs. Summer?"

"Sure. Food sounds good," Summer agreed with a sigh, allowing the princess to lead the both of them out of her castle and into the streets of Ponyville.

"So what's it like showing a god around Equestia?" Twilight asked as the three walked through the streets, Summer trying to ignore all the murmured conversations that started as the three walked by.

"Really we haven't done that much. Aside having to explain to him how magical coffee worked, I haven't really seen much of him," Summer admitted before yelling at her daughter to stop hopping on barrels. "He's often off doing godly things and Lord Thor really only shows up whenever Autumn calls for him, not me. And then there's all the looks ponies give me..."

"Yeah, sorry about that. You two have become almost as famous as Thor himself just on the grounds of being close to him," Twilight admitted before waving at the ponies to stop staring at them. "Eventually they'll stop. Ponies love a good bit of gossip, so you shouldn't let it get to you or Autumn."

"Don't worry, we won't," Summer promised, smiling at Twilight who smiled back...before she stopped dead in her tracks. Summer raised an eyebrow in confusion before she turned to see what Twilight was looking at, only for her eyes to go wide as well.

Standing before the both of them was a black and red changeling, with fire for eyes and wings. The changeling smiled as he saw the three ponies faces fall, before he started to walk up to the group with a chuckle. "Princess Twilight, it is an...experience to meet you at last. I've heard so many stories about you. Some are even moderately impressive."

"Toraxo," Twilight said with fear gripping at her voice as she gingerly bowed to the god of the changelings. "T-to what to I owe this visit to?"

"Well, I've seen the princesses and was not impressed. I've seen the Ambassadors of Harmony and barely managed to stay awake. Discord has only grown soft in all these years, so he's no longer interesting. So all that is left for me is to see the one who summoned the god of thunder to this land...our little Autumn Breeze here."

Toraxo walked up to Autumn as he said this, his blazing eyes getting the foal to cower the closer he got. Before he could get too close though, Summer stepped between the two of them and glared right into the eyes of the god with a hatred in her eyes that matched the fire within the changelings.

"You'd dare stand before a god?" Toraxo asked with a dangerous flame burning in his voice.

"In the past weeks I've stood before a titan, the princesses and the literal god of thunder. And only one of them was going for my daughter. So yes, you insect bastard, I'd stand before you," Summer spat in a voice that held no fear within it, making both Twilight and Autumn's eyes to go wide with horror.

"Brave words for a mortal. I am surprised that you can say that knowing full well what comes next," Toraxo threatened with a dangerous smile on his face.

"Yeah, I know what comes next. I know because I prayed to Thor the moment I saw your ugly mug."

KRA-BOOOOOOMMMMM!

Toraxo's curse was consumed by the lightning as he leap back just in time to avoid a hammer that slammed into the ground where he had been standing a moment before. A crack of lightning flashed across the sky and a moment later the god of thunder stood beside them hammer, his face masked aside from his eyes that glowed with power and lightning.

Thor slowly began to walk towards the god of the changelings, extending his hand and summoning Mjolnir back into his grasp. Toraxo smirked at Thor as he wiped the ash off of his godly form, before he too started to walk towards the god of thunder. The two met in the center of the street, neither of them noticing the dozens of ponies that hid wherever they could from the two gods.

"Thor. To what do I owe this pleasure?" Toraxo asked in an insulting voice.

"Thou are bothering the ponies under my protecting. Tis it not natural that I would be there to protect them from someone like you?" Thor replied in a voice like thunder, one that shook the ground and the houses around it.

"A little unnatural, yes. The gods of this land do not answer the prayers of the mortals unless it is absolute necessary. Something you have seemed not to have learned," Toraxo spat before glancing at Summer and Autumn with an air of disdain. "What do we care if two mortals vanish from the planet? Two less making prayers to us that we cannot answer."

"Listen and listen well, Toraxo. These ponies, all of them, are under my protection. And if you take any action to harm them, then you have my word that I will rain upon you lightning that has struck down stronger beings than you," Thor promised Toraxo in a cold whisper, one that chilled the air around the ponies.

"I am a god Thor, I do not care what you say," Toraxo said as he pointed a hoof towards Autumn, who cowered behind her mother. "If I wish to smite these mortals, I will. Mortals mean nothing to the gods and these two mortals right here are-"

The next thing Toraxo knew he was tasting Thor's fist, ripping Toraxo up from his hooves and hurling him across the Ponyville streets. He came to a stop when he slammed into the side of a building, where he dropped to the ground with pain lancing through his teeth. With eyes filled with hellfire he lifted his head to glare at Thor, whose glare was icy cold in reply.

"Heed my words, insect. If thou tries to inflict any harm upon any within this land, the next time I will not strike you with my fist. I will strike you with my hammer," Thor promised as he pointed Mjolnir towards Toraxo and charged the hammer with lightning. "And I swear that it will rend your head from your shoulders, which I will then crush under my boot. This Thor promises to you."

Toraxo spat out fire as he rose to his hooves, the ground around him boiling and burning as his fire began to consume the earth. Above Thor thunderclouds quickly built into a monster of a storm, with howling wind and roaring thunder that drowned out every sound aside from the anger of the storm. For a long moment the two gods stared each other down, making every pony in the town to hold their breath in fear. Then Toraxo let out a snarl and vanished in a burst of fire, returning the ground that had been melting to normal. With the god gone, Thor ceased his thunderstorm and within seconds the sky was blue and clear once more.

Without a word to the ponies around him Thor thrust his hammer into the sky and a moment later was gone, leaving the citizens of Ponyville to look at the destruction that had been caused simply by the two gods just glaring at one another.

"This is what I was afraid of," Twilight said to Summer, who clutched Autumn tight in her grasp as she gazed at the still burning earth. "This is no longer a world of magic or harmony, of monsters and ponies. It is a world of gods. And when the gods wage war with one another, what can us mortals do but perish?"