//------------------------------// // The Many Hands Of God // Story: The Powers That Be // by Anthri //------------------------------// Deep in the temple under the mountain, Fhillip stared at the strange looking creature who had hired him. “What do you mean beginning?” the unicorn asked scratching his head with a hoof. Chaos snapped with his talon gauntlet and a potion materialized out of thin air. Fhillip looked at the newly formed object, white liquid within a flask. “Drink it.” he heard Chaos say. Fhillip thought against it but felt that he could not afford to argue. Drinking it, his consciousness fell into a vision that was narrated by Chaos. ----------------------------------------------------------- Fhillip opened his eyes to a black abyss, the one similar to his dream. He heard Chaos talking somewhere hidden in the nothingness. “Along time ago, before any living thing existed on the planet, there were four gods that shaped the world and everything that lived within.” Fhillip saw four orbs or light, each a different color of red, green, purple and yellow. Chaos continued with his narration, “these Gods were known to each other as Harmony, Chaos, Creation and Destruction. They were only sources of power with no physical form at all but one day, they changed that. Chaos suggested that they make for themselves, avatars, physical living beings that represent them on the planet as they make the world. They all agreed with this except for Harmony. It desired to live as an object, so the four thought up and created their avatars.” Fhillip then witnessed the orbs create new creatures in front of themselves. “Harmony became a crystal of pure magic that took the form of a power giving tree. It's purpose was to prepare a way for its power to be used among the creatures of the planet.” From the purple orb, a diamond like tree slowly came into existence from being transparent. It was nothing like Fhil had ever seen but reminded him of the strangeness of zap apples. “Chaos created the most odd being it could think of, an ape like creature with no fur.” Chaos continued. Once again the same thing happened but from the green orb, a tall creature standing on it's hind legs with strange limbs came into the abyss the same way the tree had. However the unicorn noticed that this creature had no clothes or mask. His facial features terrified Fhil but he could not stop looking at it until Chaos went to the next portion of his past. “Creation used it's desires to make something that gave creation a image and became the first alicorn to ever exist.” A white coated beauty with a red mane appeared from the yellow orb. Fhil looked for her cutie mark but did not see one. He was confused by this but enjoyed the view of this beautiful creature. “But Destruction, it created the most fierce of the four. A dragon who would put fear into what beheld it.” A black dragon bigger than any Fhil had ever read about came into being from the red orb. It had six red eyes, dark gray hair and two silver horns. It towered over the other avatars although it stood lifeless. Soon, the abyss changed and the world started to form. “With their avatars they began planning the creation of life. Harmony created the basic elements first and set up the living conditions for everything. Creation created life in her image. From her, all the different kinds of ponies were born including the first alicorn princess and prince. She continued to add diversity, making unicorns and pegasi and earth ponies. Eventually she would add more basic animals and plant life. Some would had traits similar to ponies.” Fhillip witnessed all the creatures and plant life come into being on the new planet. “Chaos would create various forms of twisted monstrosities and they would prey on the weak.” Coming from this, many predator creatures went forward and Fhil saw them eat the other things. “Destruction had no hand in any of the worlds creation. However Creation took pity on that and made for it a species after it's image.” Fhillip saw the dragons emerge from nothing and take for themselves whatever they wanted. “The four Gods were happy with the world they created and lived in it for thousands of years. They decided to make a place on the world for their original bodies, the orbs you saw earlier. Deep in caves that were guarded by creatures, they were safe from anything that would discover them.” The caves came into view, one in a jungle, another under snow covered mountains, and the last that was shown to him was deep in a forest. “However, one day, Chaos began cloning the powers of his avatar into lesser copies. It made a creature of gargantuan power but its deformity was chaos defined. The first copy was made and the other three gods looked on in great skepticism." A flashback of Discord appeared and showed Fhil what he did to the populace of Equestria. Fhil saw the creature torment with endless pranks and overall was being a giant asshole to the tortured ponies. "The gods watched it and realized it was unstoppable to all that tried to fight it. Harmony then aided in turning it into stone with the help of two sisters when the other gods could no longer tolerate the instability. With this disagreement, they told Chaos never to do it again. But Chaos didn't listen and tried to attempt another.” A memory of a green magic ritual took place before Fhil. Chaos was trying to create something. He saw a creature coming out of it but a suddenly it became ash and the remains blew away. “They were enraged and the three Gods used their combined might to seal away Chaos' source of power behind a magic vault deep within it's mountain. Chaos avatar however, vanished, never to be seen by them again.” --------------------------------------------------------- Chaos ended the vision and Fhillip stood there speechless. "So you see, I want revenge against the others for keeping me from doing my job." Chaos was pacing slowly around the temple sanctuary. "This skull mask I wear is the attempted creation of my daughter. They killed her in front of me!” he shouted. “I wear it because one day, I will undo what has been done and you're going to help me." "So I betray my own kind for you?" "Well I just need you to talk some sense into some folks." Chaos laughed a little. "And then I can go home right?" Fhillip hopefully asked. "Yes." Chaos said simply. Fhillip thought hard for a moment. He really had no choice but maybe if he did what was asked of him, he would be able to fix everything later. "Let's get this over with.." "To complete this task, I don't need you to die, so I'm giving you immortality. A very rare gift and you should be thankful for it. After you complete this job and at anytime you decide not to want it, I'll take it away." "Okay..." Fhil was eying Chaos seriously. Such a spell was unheard of but from what he had witnessed in that vision, anything was possible with Chaos. Chaos put his talon hand on Fhil's head cast a spell. Fhil felt most of the feeling drain from his body but not all. "Now we can leave this place." With that said, Chaos emitted a flash of light and then they were gone from the room.