The Super Avatar of Equestria

"After the three days Jinkan came and we had the funeral, then we left.” I finish my story with a sigh. I look to both of my mares who were both silently shedding tears. I give a small sad smile. I hear a knock at the door. I light my horn and let whoever was there in. I see the CMC walk into the room.

“Dad, can we stay in here with you?” Scootaloo asks me.

“We all had a nightmare about Granny Smith.” Apple Bloom tells me. Sweetie Belle was silent, but I could see the fear in her eyes.

“I’m sorry Dashy, Cady, but I think I’ll stay with my children tonight to keep them comfortable.” Cadence and Dash just nod. I stand up, and walk over to my fillies, and lay down. They all get on my back, and I walk out of the room. I cross the hall, and enter my fillies’ room. I lay them around the bed, before I lie down in the middle of the bed. Scootaloo came up to my right, Sweetie to my left, and my Bloom was on my back. I put my wings over Sweetie, and Scootaloo. Apple Bloom just splays out on my back. I could feel them all shifting to get comfortable.

“Would you all like me to sing you a lullaby?” I ask them all.

“Yes please.” They all say in unison. I chuckle.

“Okay. This is my Mother’s lullaby that she sang to me.” I hear them all give approving sounds. I take a deep breath, and calm my mind’s sadness.

The hour has finally come at last,

The soft and fading light,

Has crossed the west horizon,

And has bidden us goodnight,

Such a lovely night it is,

To walk a moonlit field,

To see the softer shades,

That are by starlight now revealed.

So why is it that now,

When everything is quiet, and at rest,

When candles glow, and the moon will show,

The world at its very best,

The ponies of Equestria, should lock themselves away,

To shun the night and wait instead for sister’s sunny day

Am I so wrong to wish that they would see things like I do,

And am I so wrong to wish that they would love me too,

Why shouldn’t they adore me,

Is it not within my right,

I’ll not be over shadowed,

Mine is not the lesser light,

I’ve waited long enough now,

For them all to come round,

Though the sun may plead and threaten,

The moon will stand her ground,

All will know the wonders,

Of the dark and jeweled sky,

When all the world is wrapped in an eternal lullaby,

So say goodnight,

To this the final setting of the sun,

Tomorrow dawns in darkness,

The night time has, begun.

When I finished all three fillies were fast asleep. I sigh in completeness as I slowly fell asleep with my daughters. I for once dreamt of a happy future.

I slowly woke from my peaceful slumber with a movement from under my wings, and from on my back. I smile softly as I remember what happened last night. I then realize that I didn’t feel as sorrowful as I use to when I thought about my parents.

I hear a yawn come from my right wing. I move my wing for a second to see Scootaloo. I nuzzle her, and she returns the affection. I then hear a yawn from my back, and know that Apple Bloom was waking up. I nuzzle her with the back of my head, and then Sweetie Belle woke up, and I nuzzled her as well.

“Morning my little fillies.” I tell them.

“G’mornin’ Dad” Apple Bloom replies with another yawn.

“Morning Dad.” Said Scootaloo as she pulls herself from under my wing, and I fold up my right wing. Sweetie Belle just tries to return to sleep. Apple Bloom hops off of my back, and I turn to Sweetie Belle. I raise an eyebrow with a small smile on my lips.

“Sweetie, time to wake up.” I tell her with a soft fatherly tone. She moans, and I move her with my muzzle. She moans once more, and she opens an eye at me. She sees me, and falls out of the bed. I caught her before she hit her head, and pulled her back up to me.

“Easy now, you don’t want to go and make me have to make another horn for you.” I say as I check to see if she’s alright.

“Uh Artermis, I’m fine.” Sweetie Belle tells me. I back up a little.

“Sorry, I’m new to the parenting game.” I tell her. She giggles and boobs my nose. I scrunch my nose up and wiggle it, making her giggle again. I get up and out of the bed.

“Ugh this black coat is too hot, I guess for now I will use my silver coat.” I say as I will my coat to shine deep silver.

“Dad? Why were you sad last night?” Apple Bloom asks.

“I told the story of when my parents were killed.” I tell them with a saddened face, “And it helped me move on.” Apple Bloom nods, probably out of understanding.

“This reminds me that I need to start training as a paladin.” I say as I open the door to go into my room on the other side of the hall. My daughters are following me.

I knock on the door, and it opens with a bright aqua hue of magic.

“Hey Misty.” I hear Dash say. I smile as I walk into the room with my daughters. I walk into the bathroom, and close the door behind me. I shift into my human form, and get dressed in my Avatar clothing. I walk back out of the bathroom.

“Cady, may I know where my bag is? I need my book out of it.” I ask my beautiful marefriend.

“It should be in that closet.” She tells me while gesturing with her hoof at a small closet that I didn’t see before she mentioned it. My daughters were walking around with me. I open the wardrobe, since it was a moveable piece of furniture. I see my bag inside hanging from one of the bronze hooks.

I take my bag out of it, and open the zipper that was on the inside of the bag. I pull out the silver book that was wrapped in a dark blue silk clothe.

“Mist, is that the book your father had?” I hear Cadence ask. I nod my head with a smile.

“Yes, I always kept it in this bag since I always kept it for emergency, like my world ending.” I tell her as I set it down on a desk. I unwrap it very carefully, and open it to the beginning of the paladin training. I start to read the old English text with little difficulty.

“What are ya doin dad?” Apple Bloom asks me.

“I am refreshing my memory on how to make a connection with the moon, so that I can have my paladin abilities back.” I tell her as I continued to read through the ancient text.

“How can you read this?” Dash asks me. I chuckle.

“It takes a lot of practice to read this text, and understand what it said.” I tell her as I found what I was looking for.

“I need to speak with Luna. I will ask her about this later.” I say as I place a new metal book mark into the old tome, and rewrapped it.

“Why do you need to see her?” Cadence asks me. I look to her.

“Because I would like her permission to use the moon’s power. I am the last paladin from my dad’s family, so I would like to continue the tradition in this world.” I tell her as I head to the door.

“I think I’ll ask her after breakfast.” I say as I shift back into my alicorn self, with the silver coat.

“Shall we?” I ask as I open the door. Cadence just stands and with a flash of her horn is dressed. Dash does a triple front flip as she jumps off of the bed. I lie down, and let the CMC onto my back.

I am flanked by Dash and Cadence as we walked down the halls to the dinning hall. I am greeted by a few ponies that know me, and I nod back to them out of respect.

I notice that the maids are bowing to me.

Wait, why are they bowing to me? And for that matter, where is Feather Touch? I ask myself. I stop walking, and walk to one of the maids.

“Excuse me, where is my student Feather Touch?” I ask the young maid. I motion for her to stand up. She looks up to me.

“She is out on the training field, your majesty.” She tells me.

“Thank you.” I tell her with a warm smile. She nods, and I continue on my way to the dinning hall.

We all entered the hall without breaking stride. I walk over to my seat, and let my daughters sit across from me.

“I’m sorry Avatar, but who are those?” I hear Blue Blood ask me. I give him a deadpanned look.

“Blue Blood, these are my adopted children, and Apple Bloom is an earth bender, so I would advise you to think before speaking.” I tell him with a slight glare.

“Adopted? Royalty can’t ‘adopt’ children.” He tells me.

“Let me say this. I adopted them all before I became an alicorn, so please be a real gentlecolt, and still thy tongue.” I say with a harsh glare. He looks away from me, and I hear my daughters giggle.

“Prince Artermis, I heard you wanted to speak with me?” I hear Princess Luna ask as she takes her place at the table, eyeing my children.

“Yes, I do. I will need to speak with you after breakfast, so that I could keep the information away from unwanted attention.” I tell her. She nods to me. Celestia, who is always the first to breakfast, raised an eyebrow at me.

Maybe I could try speaking to her with my telepathy. I thought to myself. I look inside of me to find the energy that was my telepathic font, but couldn’t find any. I tried to reach out to Celestia’s mind instead. I had my eyes closed so I couldn’t see if Celestia reacted to this.

“Artermis? Is this you trying to reach me?” I hear Celestia’s voice in my head.

“Yes it is. You seem to want to know why I needed to speak with Luna.” I reply to her.

“Yes, I am curious.” She tells me.

“I need to speak with her about one of my abilities that came from my Father’s side of the family. My Father’s sides of my family are descendants of olden time paladins that had powers that come from the moon’s light.” I explained to her with a small amount of pride. I had my eyes open now, and was going through my menu. I now had a red menu, since I can now read Equestrian.

“What could these paladins do with the moonlight?” I hear her ask.

“Well, I don’t really know, but I have a book that can teach me.” I reply to her as I told the waiter what I would like.

“I think you and Luna should meet up in my room, so that we may both hear about this power.” She suggests to me. I just look to her and nod. She smiles back.

“I can do that, and on another note I plan on leaving for the empire today. I need to get this task out of the way.” She nods back to me. I just turn, and focus on my food, and begin eating. She does the same.

“Prince Artermis, may I ask you something?” I hear Shinning Armor ask.

“I don’t see why not, go ahead.” I tell him. He nods.

“Will you teach the royal guards to bend when you returned from your travels?” He asks. I think about this for few seconds.

“I need to set up my dojo first, and I would only be able to train a few at a time, but other than that I don’t see why not.” I reply to him. He nods to me, and we both resumed eating.

“Artermis, we need to plan on where you would like your dojo. I think after breakfast we should meet in my chambers to plan.” Celestia tells me.

“I already have a few ideas, but I don’t see the harm in it.” I tell her. I had finished my food, and ordered another dish. I am hungry, but not nearly as hungry as when I use a ton of ki.

I only ate three meals when I was full, and I waited for the others to excuse themselves. Celestia and Luna stayed with me.

“Girls, please go with Cadence, I have something I need to talk to the Princesses about.” I tell my daughters. All three of them give me some form of agreement before they followed Cadence out.

“So what is it you need to ask of me?” Luna questions me.

“I have another set of powers that came from my Dad’s side of my family. However, this is not the place for me to request something of such magnitude, and Celestia has allowed us to use her chambers.” I tell the dark blue alicorn. She looks to Celestia, and Celestia nods back to Luna.

“Let us leave to discuss your request then.” Luna tells me. Celestia lights her horn, and with a bright flash, a folding sensation, and a skewed view, we ended up in Celestia’s private study chambers.

The teleportation spell Celestia used made me lose focus, and my coat changes back to its black color. I regain focus after a few seconds, and change it back.

“So what is your request Artermis?” Luna asks me.

“To use my father’s power I need a connection to the moon’s power, as well as a blessing from its owner to be able to use the power at will.” I tell her, “So I am asking to forge a magical connection to your moon, so I can be of more use.” She glares at me.

“THOU CAN NOT BE SERIOUS! THOU WISH TO CONNECT TO OUR MOON, AND USE HER POWER FOR THY AMUSEMENT?! YOU WOULD HAVE BETTER LUCK TRYING TO MAKE CELESTIA SLAY US BEFORE WE ALLOW SUCH AN AGREEMENT!” Luna shouted at me in the royal Canterlot voice. I just let out a sigh.

“I already knew I had a minimal chance of receiving such a gift from you, and you should be happy I asked, otherwise I would have assumed, and made the connection on my own will. The moon that orbits around my world doesn’t have a ruler, or owner, so the paladins of the night just forged their connection without worry.” I tell her with a calm voice.

“Artermis, what can you do with these powers?” I hear Celestia ask. I levitate the book off of my back, and open it to a marked page.

“I myself don’t know, but I have the paladin’s tome to help with that.” I tell her as I search the page for the right area.

“Okay, it says here that I should be able to heal almost all mortal injuries, cure most ailments, make piece with one’s mind, and make weapons out of nothing but moonlight.” I tell them, “The rest I don’t quite understand yet, because it is in the oldest version of my English language.” Celestia seems to be deep in thought. Luna is still glaring at me, albeit with a bit less anger, and rage.

“Could you do this with the sun as well?” Celestia asks me. I blink a few seconds before I flip to the page of the connection process.

“I would have to do a bit of research before I could even give you a guess to if I could. I would have to read through the entire book, then try to understand what I read first to even have an idea.” I tell her as I read through the process of the connection, and reread it multiple times over.

I hear a giggle come from Celestia, and stop what I was doing, and looked at her. She points at my horn, and giggles once more.

“You could use magic to speed that process up a bit.” She tells me. I think about what I would need to cast a spell of instant reading.

Maybe I could do what Furstreak did with his OC. I thought to myself. I focus on the book, and fire a beam of magic at it. I could feel the information cramming itself into my head.

“Oh, that’s going to give me a headache.” I say as I close my tome, and wrap it once more.

“It might be possible, if the sun was setting, or rising, otherwise the power I would receive would literally burn me into nonexistence. I would not have any ashes left if I made the connection to your sun during mid day.” I tell her as I massage my temples with my magic. I look up to Celestia, and she seems to be in deep thought.

“What if I made the connection for you? I could limit the amount of solar energy you would receive.” She offers. I look through the new information, and came up with nothing.

“The book doesn’t have anything on that, probably because the way the connection would work was unneeded, and redundant.” I tell her. She nods her head, and looks to be in deep thought once more. I was also thinking this new source of power over.

“Maybe a spell could help with the power management, and have a back up spell just in case the first fails.” I thought aloud.

“I believe I could ask my student to help with this.” Celestia offers.

“Yes you could, but then I would have to translate my book, and give her the copy. I don’t have that kind of time if I am to leave for the empire today, and my magic is still in the process of ‘waking up’ so to speak.” I reply.

“How about I research this while you are gone on your quest, and when you return we can try this once more.” I think about this, and look up to the sun, making the air in front of my eyes very dense so it wouldn’t harm them. I reached out with my paladin ability, and barely tapped the suns energy. I double over in pain.

“Oh lets not try that again.” I groan out as I surround myself with ki, trying to rid myself of the pain.

“What did you try to do?” Celestia asks me with a raised eyebrow.

“I was using an old paladin trick to test an energy source, and the sun is not an option. I just got an overload from barely tapping the sun with a pin of my energy, and just about got killed from the massive burst of energy.” I tell her, “I’m afraid I would only be able to use the moon, but I don’t have permission, so I might have to ask for the stars.” I say aloud.

“Might have to?” I hear Luna ask me. She was glaring at the back of my head.

“Yes might. A paladin needs an energy source to be a paladin, otherwise there’s just a knight with the armor, no shinning at all.” I tell her. Celestia chuckles at my analogy.

“We might be generous enough to let you use them, but you can only ask, and I will take it into consideration. One question first off. Would you be able to change the positions of any of my stars?” She asks. I shake my head.

“A paladin only calls upon the power source when they need their magic in a tight situation, or need to heal a mortal wound.” I tell her as I look up to the sun once more, “I wouldn't be able to alter anything in your beautiful night sky. Even if I could, I would leave it as it is.” I tell her. She looks at me with confusion.

“You think my night sky is beautiful?” She asks. I sigh and look at her.

“Luna… back on my world after my parents were killed I only found comfort in the night. The moon kept my tears at bay, the stars told me stories to keep my mind away from the painful memories, and the night itself kept me going.” I tell her, “If it wasn’t for the night I would have ended my life a long time ago.” This catches both princesses of guard.

“Why would you do such a thing?” Celestia asks me, her voice full of concern.

“I sat by my parents as they both said their goodbyes, and gave me their final gifts when they died by the hand of a stranger who only wanted our money, and expensive belongings.” I tell them both. They both had wide eyes at this, but I had expected that of Luna, not Celestia.

“What were their gifts?” Luna asks.

“The two powers of my families. Mom unlocked my telepathy from her side of the family, and Dad gave me the book about my paladin heritage.” I tell them, “I was only trying to complete the gift my father gave me.” I let a couple tears fall, but looked up to the sun once more.

“I still remember their dying words. Both of their last words were for me. Not a single word went to either of them.” I say as I lay on my hooves, looking down to the floor. I feel a wing get laid over my back, and look to see that it was Celestia. I just look back down, and close my eyes. My eyes leaked tears at a rapid pace. I clenched my jaw, trying to keep my lips from pouting. I stayed in this position for a few minutes as my pain slowly retreated to the back of my mind. I push Celestia’s wing up a little, signally that I wanted to stand. She took her wing off of me, and I stood up. I lit my horn, and wiped my tears, making them turn to vapor.

I take a deep breath, and look to Luna once more.

“Princess Luna, may I be aloud to make a connection to your stars?” I ask her with a bow.

“Please don’t bow to me.” She tells me. I stand up, and look her in the eyes. Her eyes had a slight anger to them, but also had a saddened shimmer.

“I… I will allow this.” She tells me. I give her a small smile, and nod. I look up to the sky, and say the paladin’s connection.

“Stars of the dark and beautiful night, please allow a connection for a bond to grow between us. I wish to guide your light as a utensil of my being. I will harm none, unless force to do so. I will heal others when I am needed. I will keep to the paladin creed, and serve for my life.” As I finished a dark blue energy pulsed around me. I felt the stars’ power make the connection between us.

“I thank you, and will be grateful until the end of my days.” I say as I look down to Luna. She had widened eyes, and was looking at me in awe. I noticed her eyes were not focused on my own, but was looking down at my flank. I look back too, and see that I had gained my alicorn cutie mark.

It was a spiked circle that was place around a grey cloud with the crescent moon behind it with four stars inside of the circle to the left of the crescent moon. I give another small smile, and close my eyes in a silent prayer to my parents.

After the prayer I felt a shift in my mind’s eye. I could feel a second presence.

I knew I would see you again Mistyc.