Gods of Equestria: Fuel For The Fire

by Fulgrim

Ignite!

Discord was sitting in his chaotic house in his realm, sitting on his non-euclidean couch while rearranging a model car into a pencil and back again. He looked across his left thigh and out his rhombus-shaped window to see a spark of flame outside. His interest piqued, he swam outside his house, discarding his snorkeling gear and watched the flame grow from an ember into a raging blaze.

It wasn't often that big events happened, but he decided to stick around. After a few more seconds, the fire didn't change, just stayed a fire, he started to loose interest until it dissipated leaving a figure floating in the chaotic breeze. It was a blue bipedal figure, with two heads and golden circlets on them. It wore cloth pants and had a metalwork chestpiece, also gold.

He hadn't seen anything like it, perfectly chaotic, thought Discord. The creature expressed confusion, shaking its heads in unison and speaking as one.

"What happened?" it asked in two different voices. Discord went over to it.

"Quite simple actually, you were immolated by energy of chaos, took too long if you ask me," Discord replied. It shook its heads.

"No, I was on Earth, I was overseeing prayers... I am no spawn of yours!" it said getting angry.

"Really? I've never had a creation of mine express false memories before. But I don't think you understand insect, I am the god of Chaos."
It laughed.

"Then you must have noticed I am a god too." Discord was getting tired of this creature's antics, and tried to dissipate it. It expressed annoyance.

"Hey! Stop trying to kill me!" it said. Discord didn't know what to do. He tried to morph it, and yet nothing happened. The creature growled and sent a flaming ball of fire from its hands at Discord, he narrowly avoided it.

"How can you be a god, you're just a animal with identity issues," it laughed.

"Oh yeah? Well you're just a blue two-headed fur-less Diamond Dog. How are you divine at all?" Discord asked. His joke was wasted on it as it stared at him.

"This realm is stupid and childish. Who would want anything to be so random and so uncoordinated," he said as he vaporized a passing rubber duck.

"Fire is always a constant. It can purify the tainted and burn the unclean. There is no changing that," it said. Discord was yet again struck with curiosity.

"Who are you? Do you even have a name?" he asked.

"Yes, Agni," he replied.

"Interesting," said Discord. "Well, I do believe your time here is at an end, there is a much more exciting place I want you to go." Agni stabilized himself with flame from his sandals, staring at Discord with his arms crossed.

"I will be back, and there will be a reckoning, creature of chaos," he said.

"Yes I'm sure there will, but until then you're going somewhere else." Discord snapped his fingers and Agni dissipated, he could still see him though.

"Yes, lets see how Celestia will deal with this," he said to himself.

Agni was transported in an instant from the realm of the chaos-creature to a bricked city alley. The structures were vaulting and grand. Most of the city was white and the atmosphere felt strangely thin. But one thing that bothered him is that he couldn't feel other powers, he didn't sense gods like Shiva or Vishnu that he regularly ran messages for. Or his brother Indra, who kept the heavens. He also didn't feel prayers or sacrifices, but he felt fire.

He walked out of the alley and crouched near a corner. Something was amiss, the chaos-creature had not sent him to Earth, and he had no idea if he could be hurt by a being who may have taken him off of it but he didn't want to make chances. He looked down a road with his left head and saw colorful horse-like creatures walking around in the setting sun. Truly the chaos-creature was playing with him now.

He tried to summon a ball of fire, but he could barely make a few sparks. A commotion broke out on the street, as armored horses came into the street, speaking in a language that he understood, telling the populace that a monster was on the loose and they needed to go to their homes for safety while they searched for it,

Agni assumed that the creature arranged this, and he went down the alley and through the back door of a small building, avoiding armored guards as they patrolled the alley he was in. He didn't know if he could even be hurt by these creatures but still, the chaos-creature had masterminded him this far, and if he were invulnerable now would be pointless.

He heard the opening and shutting of doors inside the house, and Agni stealthy opened the door and went back into the alley, using trashcans and other objects to get him on top of the structures. They were mostly smaller than him, so it wasn't long until he was on the roofs of the houses.

He observed a mountain to his back, and he didn't see a ground at the edge of the city, so he realized that it was a city on a mountain. He sighed, his escape was going to be much harder. He got up off of the ground, but two guards saw him from the street, and yelled to the others. Agni cursed himself for being so careless, and ran across the rooftops.

Arrows from crossbows whizzed past him, and he still couldn't summon much more than a match-flame to deal with them. Eventually, he ran to the end of the buildings, and guards were coming up from a fire escape, surrounding him. He decided to take a chance on him not being hurt by them and ran at the guards surrounding him. Their spears stabbed through him, and he bled golden blood, he felt himself blacking out for the first time. The whole world fading until it was nothing but darkness.

When he awoke, he saw he was in a metal bar cell, with damp brick walls and barred windows. A wooden door opened at the end of the hall of unoccupied cells, and two guards and a very large horse-creature entered and stood in front of Agni. He got up and faced the while horse with the flowing rainbow mane, it sighed.

"Can we please stop finding strange beings in our cities and towns?" it asked in a feminine voice.

"Let me guess," she started. "God-like being, don't know how you got here. I'm sorry for capturing you but we have a security problem."

"Yes, I do not know where I am. But I must ask, what are you creatures?" asked Agni.

"We are known as ponies, and I would also like to know what you are too. You are not the first being of great power to claim to have come from another world. And do not try to fool me, I know you posses great power." she said.

"Huh, at least you acknowledge it. Now I assume you lowly pony creatures want to worship me and such, yeah yeah yeah lets get on with it." Agni replied. She laughed.

"I don't think so, if you can be brought down by one spear than you can be brought down by many. And do not underestimate me, I am just as equal to you." Agni laughed again.

"Now that's two of you creatures claiming to be divine. I can assure you, you cannot stand up against the flame." He lit his palm with small flames. Celestia nodded to her guards and one of their horns glowed, and before he could wonder why, a clank above him sounded and he was knocked out yet again from a large metal bar that was suspended feet above the ground.

"Rush, send a message to Twilight," she said. "Tell them we have another god for her."

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