The Super Avatar of Equestria

I wake up in a queen sized bed at about morning. I was alone in the room, and my wings ache. I slowly made my way out of bed to feel the floor shift under me. I was worried for a moment, but then remembered that I am on an airship.

I exit the room to see the wooden walls of the ship. I turn right to see Cadence there looking at me.

“Are you okay Misty?” She asks me. I nod my head a few times to tell her that I was fine before leaning in to kiss her.

“Yeah baby, I’m fine. I just woke up, and am a little uncertain of where I am, but now I remember. Are we almost there?” I ask her.

“Yes, I was coming to get you to take you on deck for the final approach.” She replies.

“Okay, thanks.” I say as we both turn to get out on deck.

It took a good couple minutes to make it up on deck just because of where we were inside of the ship. Once there I look to where we are heading to see a massive stone city in the middle of the desert. You could see thousands of zebras going about their day, but what caught my attention were the giant stone statues around the walls of the city, and they looked very familiar.

There was also another thing that caught my attention. Now that we were above the city I could see that it was built in a circular pattern that rose into the sky.

This place seemed very familiar from my training with Jinkan, and then it hits me.

This capital is the lost human city of Atlantis.

My wings start to quiver with my growing emotions of confusion, and excitement.

“Misty, are you okay?” Cadence asks me. I look to her.

“Yeah, I just have a lot of questions for the king of this city.” I tell her.

“Actually the ruler here is an Empress your highness.” A guard tells me. This got my attention as well. I then look over the architecture of the city, and see many Atlantian runes carved into the rock that the city was made from.

“I’m flying in to the palace now. I want to meet with the empress alone real quick. Cadence, please come and join me when you land, and get situated.” I say before I shift into my alicorn form, and jump off of the edge of the ship, and dive down through the sky toward the entrance to the palace.

I spread my wings, and slow my decent to land in front of the gates, startling the guards there.

“Halt Alicorn.” One of the guards say as he levels his spear at me.

“I am the avatar, here to speak with the empress.” I tell them before forcing the huge stone gates open with my earth bending.

I don’t wait for a reply, and just enter, walking right up into the main hallway of the palace. As I walk I pass by ancient atlantian relics that would have made me a billionaire ten times over if I had them on earth.

I slowly made my way into the palace, just managing to know where to go, and making it to the throne room, but am stopped by ten guards that are in front of the door.

“I am here to speak with the empress.” I tell them as I come to a stop in front of them all.

“Prove that you are the avatar then.” The most decorated guard says to me.

“What do you need as proof, when you have inhabited a lost human city. I am here as a prince of Equestria, and as the Avatar of the Humans.” I say as I shift into my human body, and start to call on my ki. I was now worried that the atlantian power source was here as well, and I wanted to make sure that they could not, and can’t use it at all.

“Your words and actions say that you are angered for some reason, if you calm yourself Avatar, then we will let you pass.” The guard tells me. I close my eyes, and take a few deep breathes, trying to mask my emotions as all humans could. I succeeded, as the guards open the throne room doors for me.

“Thank you.” I say as I step into the throne room. At the other side, dressed in silks, is a Zebra mare that has white and cyan markings for her pattern colors, and wore a headdress that had small blue crystals adorning its edge. I can’t see her eye color for her eyes are shut.

“You have finally arrived Avatar.” The empress says in a calm calculating voice.

“Yes, and I have a question before I start this quest.” I reply.

“You may ask.” She tells me with a tit if her head, but her eyes remain closed.

“Is the crystal still here with the city?” I ask her. This got her to open her eyes, showing me that they have no pupil or iris, and are just a solid bright blue.

“How do you know of the crystal?” She asks me.

“This city of yours used to be in my world. It disappeared a very long time ago. I recognized the city before I got off my airship, and came here.” I reply. She nods a couple times before standing up, and walking towards me.

“Yes, the crystal is here within the city, but it is well protected, and kept from all but me.” The empress says before I see the crystal atop her headdress pulse with atlantian power.

“I must ask that you seal it away permanently.” I tell her. This gets the Empress to stop moving and look directly at me.

“You have no right to ask me to do anything to the crystal, and for that matter, neither do I.” She tells me. I raise an eyebrow at her.

“How so? Aren’t you connected to the Crystal?” I ask her. She shakes her head.

“No, the crystal has a mind of its own, and I have tried to connect to it with unsuccessful results. I have been touched by its power though, which resulted in my eyes changing into what they are.” She tells me. I nod a couple times to show that I understood… kinda.

“I can see a great power in you. But I also see a terrible tragedy.” The Empress says as she closes her eyes again. She reaches a hoof out to me, and I see a soft cyan glow come from her hoof before she retracts it with a gasp.

“What is wrong?” I ask her as I take a step forward.

“Nothing… it just that the crystal would like to see you now, and after you complete your quest.” She tells me before a guard opens the door.

“Empress, The Princess Cadence is here.” The guard says.

“Tell her the Avatar has a specific task to complete that only he and I will be allowed to complete.” The Empress replies.

“Belay that as it sounds rather mischievous to my marefriend, and tell her we will just need a bit more time. Tell her it is a human matter. She will then understand.” I tell the guard. He then looks to the Empress, and she nods her head. The guard then leaves.

“Come, we must let you meet the crystal.” She says as she heads over to a wall. I follow her, expecting a hidden door, but what came next startled me a bit. The floor slid out from underneath us, and we started falling, well I started falling.

I powered up my ki, and started to slow my decent before the gravity seemed to increase, so I added more power to flying, and I have to keep adding power for the gravity continues to increase.

I was reaching my maximum speed output rather quickly. I was not however prepared for the gravity to return to normal right as I clear a tunnel into a large opening.

My power slams me back into the high G tunnel, but I am knocked unconscious by the amount of forces conflicting on my body.

There is a deep continuous hum of power that reaches my ears as I slowly come to on a hard rocky floor.

I slowly open my eyes to see that everything is slightly blurred, but I then start to blink my eyes to clear my vision. It manages to work after a few minutes.

My muscle control slowly comes back as well, and I ache like crazy. I somehow manage to slowly move into a hunched over seated position facing a large pond that reflects a blue light.

“Where am I?” I ask aloud as I look around myself to see a much worn carved floor before I look out and high over the large pond to see a giant floating crystal with carved stones slowly orbiting it.

“You are in my cavern young one.” A multilayered male voice tells me. As these words resonate throughout the cavern the crystal pulses slightly brighter.

“Great, just what I needed for my day to be normal.” I mutter to myself as I look up at the giant floating crystal.

“You have a great power young one.” The Crystal says as I sluggishly manage to stand up.

“I know this already.” I reply.

“Yes, but you do not understand the amount of power at your control. You shall not know for a few more years to come young one.” The Crystal tells me.

“May I know why you wanted to speak with me?” I ask it.

“Yes. You are here to be granted a gift, or curse depending on your answer to this question.” It replies as it slowly makes the carved boulders stop orbiting itself.

“Okay, so what is your question?” I ask wanting to get out of the cavern I was in.

“What do you truly wish to do here?” The Crystal asks as the newest looking boulder stops seeming to look directly at me.

I had to think on its question for a bit. What did I want to do here? Why did I choose to come here? Does here mean the empire, or this world as a whole? I don’t have enough variables.

“What do you mean by ‘here’? Do you mean to this land, or to this world as a whole?” I ask slowly, as to not seem to be a smart alick.

“This world. What do you wish to accomplish in this realm? Why did you choose this peaceful place out of billions?” The Crystal asks as the stone eyes on the statue seem to piece my soul looking for an answer.

“I guess it is because I had wanted to come to this world the most out of the many that are out there. I had taken a liking to this world, and when I had the chance to come here with the ability to protect those that I care for I took it and continued. But now that I am here and have seen what I can do, I wish to do more for those that need help. I wish to help those that need it most, and protect those that need protection.” I say as I slowly come to realization on why I wish to be here.

“That does not seem to be all.” The crystal says to me.

“I guess I am also here to live a life that a close friend of mine could not. I am here to prove to myself that I can protect those that I love and hold dear since I failed miserably with my parents, and my mentor.” I tell it as I hang my head.

“I’m here to have a chance to fix my mistakes.” My eyes were starting to sting as pain and depression, along with red hot anger, and ice cold sorrow come to play in my head.

“Tell me young one… What mistakes you are talking about.”

“My mistake on not being able to protect my parents, my mistake for not stopping that murderer, and my mistake of not being able to protect Jinkan, my mentor.” I reply as a tear slowly escapes from my right eye, and trailing down my cheek only to drip off of my chin, and into the water below me.

“I do not see mistakes where you do. I see a child that was caught in uncontrollable events, and then thrust unpreparedly into a world that was harsh, and cruel. I see a young man here before me ready to fix which is not broken, and soon I will see a man that will change this world.

“Young one, you need to let go of your past if you are to be able to live for the future. Trying to right what was wronged upon you cannot be done, but it can be healed with time and love. You have acquired the love, but now you need time. Time to see that you can’t, and won’t be able to protect everyone, and thing from harm, and sorrow. Such is the way of the balance that you have yet to truly see.” The crystal tells me as I fall to my sore knees as sorrow and depression from my past take hold on my heart, and pluck at its strings, causing me to silently cry.

“But why? Why can’t I protect everyone dear to me?” I ask it. The faces of rock start to orbit the crystal again.

“It is the way of life that all things must come to an end at some point in time young one. Even the mighty alicorns of this world are going to die out one day, or flourish once more, but all life must end eventually, and that is something you must accept.” The Crystal says before pulsing brightly.

“The time has come for you to return to your loved ones. You will meet with me before you leave this land young one, to see if you earned a gift, or curse.”

The crystal pulses again, and I am wrapped in a blue power before everything flashes a bright blinding white before returning to darkness once more.