The Super Avatar of Equestria

We all exit the medical wing of the castle and head towards Celestia’s private study. On the way there I can’t help but feel I’m forgetting something.

“Oh that’s what I’m forgetting.” I thought out loud.

“What did you forget?” asks Cadence.

“I forgot to ask where my pack and stave went. I need to make sure no one gets the contents of my bag, for there are dangerous weapons in it, along with provisions I packed. Also I would like to know where my sword is.” I tell them.

“All your things are in the armory, so they are protected. If you would like your stave back I’ll send some pony to get it for you.” replies Celestia without breaking stride. I was walking next to Cadence following Princess Celestia.

“I would at least like to have my stave, it’s very important to me.”

“How so?” asks Cadence.

“It was the last gift my parents gave me before they were murdered. Also it’s my only form of transportation at the moment.”

“How is it a mode of transportation?” asks Celestia, who is now interested.

“It is an air nomad’s glider. It has wings that expand from the sides of the stave, and air benders used them for transportation over small distances.”

“I’ll have a servant fetch it for you. Besides, I would like to see you fly later.”

“Okay.” I tell her. We come up to a door that Celestia opens with her magic. We all enter, and the door is closed by Celestia’s magic. We all take a seat around a small round table.

“So, Artermis, who are you really?” asks Celestia.

“Was I that bad at lying?” She nods, and I sigh before continuing, “My real name is Chase, and I am a regular human that was gifted by the god of my world. He gave me my abilities that I have. I need to practice all the elements to master them, and train with ki to get stronger.” I tell her.

“What about the glider you mentioned and your parents?” asks Cadence.

“I wasn’t lying when I told you that. My parents were murdered by a man with a gun… Oh shit!” I say remembering that I have a gun in my bag, “Please excuse my language, but I need to get to my hiking pack before something bad happens.” I tell them standing up.

“What’s wrong?” asks Celestia, with a mask of calm that I saw through. I could tell she was starting to worry.

“I have a very dangerous weapon that needs to be on me at all times, because I know how to keep it from being used, or fired.” I tell them as I start pacing.

“Why did you bring it with you then?” ask Celestia, getting more worried.

“If I had known I would be coming to Equestria, I wouldn’t have. I was preparing to survive on a planet as a dying race.” I tell them. I was getting worked up I could feel my energy starting to flare up.

“Celestia, I would like to propose that you allow me to destroy this weapon. It doesn’t belong in this world.” I tell her turning completely serious.

“How will you take care of it?” she asks.

“I’m going to blast it into oblivion.” I tell her as I feel my energy starting to sky rocket. I could feel the waves of power I was radiating.

“With what, explosives?” asks Cadence, clearly starting to panic.

“No, nothing like that. I’m going to ki blast it to pieces; them melt those down, and then launch the metal, I would have after, into space.” I tell them my power finally spiking. I could tell my ki was clearly visible, because Celestia looks as though she would kill me on spot if I did anything. I try to calm down by taking in some deep breaths, but only achieve sounding even angrier.

“Don’t be alarmed Celestia, this is what happens when a sayain feels intense emotions. Their power spikes, and only comes down after they calm. I am completely stressed at having the thought of one of your subjects accidentally killing themselves with something I brought here.” I tell her. She visibly calms at this, which in turn helps me relax a bit.

“I will have a guard bring you your requested items immediately.” says Celestia. I just nod and sit back down.

“Phalanx, go and get the pack, and stave of unknown origin.” Celestia orders one of her guards. The guard nods and walks out of the room.

“Celestia, do you have a candle I could borrow? I would like to practice my fire bending.” She nods, lighting up her horn. A candle floats over to the table and lands in the holder at the center of said table.

I start to focus on the candle, reaching out with my chi, and start to warm it up. I could see the particles of smoke starting to drift away from the candle, so I will it to burn. I smile a little as the candle lights.

“Wow that was a surprise. I wasn’t expecting it to just ignite like that.” says Cadence looking at the candle closely. I reach out towards the candle’s small flame and literally grab the flame from the wick. I pull my hand back, which now has a small flame over my palm, and hold it close to me.

I look at Celestia, and she looks to be studying me. I look back down to the small flame I have, and add a little more chi to it. It grows a little to about the size of a baseball. Celestia raises an eyebrow.

“If you burn anything in here, I’ll have you paying for the cost one way or another.” She tells me, eyeing the flame I’m holding. I just reach back out to the candle and put the flame back on it. The flame shrank down to its original size.

I then take the energy away from the flame, and it gutters out. I just sigh and wait for the guard to return with my possessions.

The guard returned with my things, and I took them gratefully. I stand and head towards a door.

“I will return once my weapon is gone.” I tell the princesses.

“May I come with you?” asks Cadence.

“Are you sure? The power I’m about to use is pretty scary if you don’t understand it.” I tell her.

“Yes I’m sure.” She says with a nod. I just wave for her to follow. We exit Celestia’s study.

“Where are you going to do it?” asks Cadence.

“At the top of the mountain, if there isn’t a trail all the way up I’ll fly.” I tell her as I start walking down the corridor.

“Why there?”

“Because it is the closest and highest place right now.” I say as we head out into the gardens.

“So how does your glider work?” asks Cadence trying to make small talk.

“It works off of air bending. I push the air over the wings to create lift.” I tell her.

We come up the edge of the gardens. There is a fence that surrounds the perimeter of the gardens so nobody will fall off of the mountain.

“Ready to fly?” I ask her. She nods.

I open the wings to my glider with bit of air bending. This startles Cadence.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you, Princess.” I say with a bit of remorse in my voice. She shakes her head.

“No, its fine, and call me Cadence.” She replies with a warm smile. I smile back and nod.

“Let’s fly.” I tell her as I walk back towards the castle. I turn around and start running at the gate. I grab the reinforced inner ribs of the forward wings, and jump up and over the fence. As I fell I got my feet into position on the tail’s inner riblets, and pulled up, catching the air under the wings. I start to focus my chi on propelling me through the air.

I pull up some more until I am vertical. I keep my air bending going so that I just keep flying. I soar up and above the castle. I then start to glide around the castle, waiting for Cadence to get up to me.

“Alright, lead the way Artermis.” says Cadence as she glides next to me. I pull up a little so that I am steadily, but slowly, climbing. I hear Cadence’s wings beat every now and then. I just smile to myself, happy that I’m sharing a special moment with her.

Eventually we made it to the top of the mountain. It took us a good long hour to get here. When we landed, we both fell to our knees breathing hard.

“Wow… I need… to fly…more often.” says Cadence.

“You… and me… both.” I reply. We both sat there catching our breath. It was after a few minutes of sitting there when I finally got up. I look out on Equestria, taking in the beauty of this land.

“Such a beautiful sight.” says Cadence right next to me. I nod and smile slightly. It was then when I turned to her and said, “Cadence… I have a confession to make.”

“What is it Artermis?”

“I only came up here so that I could share the view with you.” I tell her as I hang my head, “I was never going to destroy my only defense if I run out of options. This weapon is special to me, for it saved the life of someone I cared about.” I look up to her.

“Artermis, do you have feelings for me?”

“Yes Cadence, I do.” I answer honestly.

“Why? You don’t really know me.”

“I don’t fully know yet. But I’m not spelled or bribed or anything. I’m laying out my emotions to you, and if you don’t accept them that’s okay with me.”

Cadence looks at me for a while before she sighs.

“I’m willing to give you a chance at courting me. But I need to know you, so I’m also asking you to be my personal assistant for a while. I won’t ask too much of you. But there are things that only you can do I bet.” She giggles as she finished her answer.

“Thank you Cadence.” I say with a small but warm smile. A tear of joy rolls down my cheek as I look away.

“What’s wrong?” asks Cadence.

“You’re the first one who has said yes for the last three years.” I answer, “And for that I’m very grateful.” I sit down on the edge of the mountain. Silent tears of joy are running down my cheeks. I wasn’t sad or sobbing in joy, I was just releasing the pent up emotional stress of not having someone to love.

I stand back up with tears still streaming down my cheeks.

“I don’t need this weapon; I have my abilities, and my sword.” I say as I head to the center of the peak. I put my pack down in front of me, and pull out the revolver.

“Is that it?” asks Cadence.

“Yes, this could kill anything instantly.” I say as I take the bullets out.

“What are those?”

“These are what make this a weapon. This is just a tool to fire these at super sonic speeds.” I tell her.

“Can I at least see what it does?”

“I will fire it one last time.” I tell her. I put one round into the revolver, and cock the gun. I point it straight up, and pull the trigger. The hammer of the gun makes contact with the back of the bullet, burning the stored gunpowder, and firing the bullet out into the atmosphere of Equestria. I nod when I put the gun on the ground.

“Why was it that loud?” Asks Cadence with her ears folded back. I take a bullet out of my pocket.

“See the brass casing?” She nods, “It has gunpowder in it, and this little silver disk on the back of the round is what lights the gunpowder, making this bullet fly down the barrel of the gun, and shooting it out at super sonic speeds.”

“Oh, so that sound was the bullet breaking the sound barrier, and the gunpowder exploding.” confirms Cadence. I nod.

“Now to destroy this gun.” I say as I look at the gun in my hand. I grab the barrel with my left hand, and chuck it up into the air. I charge my ki into a destructive ball and through it at the air born gun. It connects with the gun and explodes.

Not a single piece of debris fell to the ground. I turn towards Cadence who is looking at the smoke in the sky.

“That looks more dangerous then the gun.” She states.

“It isn’t because I’m the only one who can use it to this extent.” I tell her, “But it can also be beautiful.”

“How can something so destructive be beautiful?” asks Cadence, full of doubt.

“I can light up crystals and gems with this, and I can simulate fireworks.” I say as I charge up another ball.

“May I see a firework show?” She asks. I look out at the lowering sun, and then look back to Cadence and nod with a warm smile. I charge up my ki and growl in the effort of pulling so much power at once. I then raise my left hand and start firing multi colored ki balls that explode after a hundred and fifty feet of travel.

I could care less if I was doing this for someone else, but I was doing this for Cadence so I made it special. I start firing ki balls that tuned into shapes when they exploded. I also fired ki balls that would split into smaller ki balls before exploding in what looked like millions of sparkles.

I could tell I was running on fumes, so I started the grand finally. I start launching tons of tiny ki balls, lighting up the sky with little explosions. I then take one last ball and through this one. I made this one travel out much farther, since I knew it was going to do something special just for Cadence.

I watch Cadence for a reaction to my special ball. I see her eyes light up with happiness as my ki ball explodes into a perfect replica of her cutie mark.

“How did you… That is just…The sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me.” says Cadence. I just smile at here with pure happiness. I’m entirely taking by surprise when Cadence hugs me. I fall onto my back.

I wince as my right arm takes the full weight of Cadence. I smile through the pain, and just return the hug with my left arm.

“Oh my, am I hurting your arm?” asks Cadence seeing past my happy mask.

“Just a little, but it’s worth it to be this close to you.” I reply with a genuine smile.

“When did you start having feelings for me?” asks Cadence.

“As soon as I laid eyes on you I saw something inside of you, like a flame or light that told me you are the one. And my being the avatar has given me experience to trust what my senses tell me.” I tell her as I look her in the eye.

“What is your true name?”

“I… won’t tell you that. The name my parents gave me was too painful to keep, so I renamed myself, and when I got here, I renamed myself once more.” I tell her with my memories coming back. I fought back the tears that tried to escape from my eyes.

“I didn’t mean to make you sad. I just want to know who you really are.” says Cadence. I could see sorrow in her eyes.

“Hey, I doubt you could have known my true pain I hold inside. Besides I’m supposed to be making you happy.” I say as I boop her nose with my finger. She giggles at that.

“Besides, you look much better when you’re happy.”

“I still don’t believe you did that though. I didn’t even know you knew about unicorn traditions.” says Cadence as she rests her head on my chest.

“I don’t know ant traditions from this world. I just thought it would make you smile, and very happy, and my senses were correct.”

“So you don’t know what you just did?” I shake my head.

“You just basically told me that you would never leave my side, even if I died. That and you just made our relationship public.”

“No one will know who you are dating. And I would never leave your side anyways. You’re too precious to me. I would lay down my life to keep you safe. Heck I would kill to keep you safe. I will never leave you, and will protect you, and this land with my life if need be.” I tell her still looking her straight in the eye.

“I can’t seem to find any lies in what you just said.”

“That’s because I looked into your eyes and told the pure truth.” I say as I attempt to sit up. I’m pushed back onto the ground.

“Let’s stay up here tonight.”

“Okay, I’m cool with that, let me set up the tent so we have some where to sleep that’s warm.” I tell her. She nods and gets up off of me. I stand up and head to my hiking pack. I pull out the compacted tent. I take the tent out of its package, and let it set itself up. I set the tent down, and release the small clasp on it. The tent, having spring technology from earth, pops up into a full sized three person tent.

“How did it do that?” asks Cadence.

“It has springy plastic in it that when wound up, like it was, springs back into its most expanded form.”

“Oh, okay. You sure this will keep us warm?”

“Yes it is made from a material that keeps heat in and keeps the cold out, to an extent.” I tell her as I hammer the stakes into the ground to keep the tent from flying way.

“What is the extent?”

“It keeps the inside about thirty degrees warmer or cooler then the outside temperature.”

“Oh, okay.” I walk up to her and look barely down into her eyes. She seems troubled by something.

“What’s wrong Cadence?”

“What? Nothing is wrong.”

“Don’t lie to me; I can see it in your eyes, Cadence.”

“I’m that easy to read?”

“Yes, even Celestia can’t hide her emotions from me.”

“How can you read her?”

“It is all in the eyes, they’re said to be windows to the soul, but you also use them for showing emotion, true emotion.”

“Okay I’ll tell you.” I nod, “After tonight.” I sigh, but nod anyways.

“Time to sleep?” I ask her. She nods and heads towards the tent. I just follow her.

We enter the tent, and I lay two blankets on the floor of said tent. I lie down and try to fall asleep, but Cadence surprises me again by cuddling up to me. I raise an eyebrow at her.

“I need something to keep me warm.” She tells me with a blush.

“I don’t mind Cadence; your nice soft coat is too likable to pass up cuddling with you. That and I was minding your personal space.”

“Please, if you’re not going to leave me ever, I’m fine with cuddling before we sleep. And your skin is nice and smooth. It feels good when I feel it rubbing my coat.” I smile and pet her neck and she sighs.

“As long as you’re okay with what I do, and it makes you happy, I don’t mind doing any task you give me, even if they’re fool hearted and silly. As long as it makes you happy, I will be the happiest man in Equestria.” I earn a giggle from her.

“That was nice, cheesy, but nice.” I chuckle at that.

“But it’s the truth.” I tell her. She smiles at me and gives my fore head a kiss. She then lays her head on my chest, and falls asleep. I quickly followed suit.