The Super Avatar of Equestria

I wake an hour before dawn to see Cadence still asleep on my chest. I don’t move to wake her. I just start rubbing her back. Her coat is very soft, it takes all of my will to not be weird and rub my face against her.

Eventually, Cadence wakes up to me petting her.

“Morning beautiful.” I tell her.

“Morning.” She replies with a yawn.

“Shall we head back to the palace for breakfast?” I ask her. Her stomach growls in agreement with my offer. Cadence blushes.

“Yeah that sounds good.” She says bringing a wing up to hide her face.

“Are you hiding your cuteness from me?” I ask my voice heavy with sarcasm. I earn a giggle out of her.

“Yes *giggle* I am.” I chuckle and play along in this silly argument.

“Well then, looks like I’ll just have to tickle you until you give in.”

“You wouldn’t.” she says making me grin like a bandit.

“Try me.” I tell her as I lunge at her, pinning her to the ground with tickles on her belly. She’s laughing and trying to push me off of her. I just come back with more tickling and laughs that are playfully evil.

“Alright, I give, I give.” She tells me. I stop and let her off of the ground.

“That was evil.” She says with a wave of her hoof. I just chuckle at her response.

“Ready to go back?” I ask her. She nods. I fold up my blankets, and put them back in the hiking pack. We both exit the tent, and watch the sunrise. I lay my arm over her shoulders. She leans into me.

After the sun was a little bit over the horizon I went back to the tent. I popped the stakes out of the ground, and folded the tent back down to its compressed form. I throw the clasps together making the tent stays folded before I stored it in my pack.

I throw the pack onto my back, and pick up my glider.

“Shall we head back now?” I ask Cadence. She walks up to me.

“One more thing before we go.” I nod and she presses her lips against mine. I’m shock into stillness, but soon kiss back. We both pull back from the kiss.

“That was unexpected.” I tell her. She giggles.

“You know what; let me show you something really cool.” I tell her taking a couple steps back

“What are you going to do?”

“I can change into a pony form, but I’m not a changeling.” I tell her. I start to will myself into a black Pegasus, with my purple arrow tattoos on my legs, head, back, and wings. I take a look at myself and see that the shape shift worked.

“So? How do I look?” I ask Cadence with my regular voice.

“You look scary.” She replies.

“Well I could change my coat color.” I tell her. She nods in approval. I will my coat to deep silver.

“Better?” I ask.

“Now you look cute. But why do your arrows stay?”

“They’re a mark of an air bender’s completion of the basics, I guess I should get rid of them when in pony form, and give myself a cutie mark while I’m at it.” I tell her.

“How can you give yourself a cutie mark? Ponies have to find there special talent to earn their cutie mark.”

“Ah, but you see I’m not a pony now am I.” I tell her, “And even if was a pony I already know my special talent.”

“What is it?”

“Protecting what I think is precious to me. In this world Equestria is precious to me. Your precious to me and all the citizens of Equestria are precious to me.”

“Oh, that makes sense.” says Cadence. I just nod and stretch my wings. I test flap my wings a few times, and get a feel for how they function.

“Alright shall we go?” I ask Cadence. She nods so I walk up to the edge of the top of the mountain. I look to Cadence with a small smile. I jump into the air flapping my wings at a regular pace and hover there out about ten feet from the ledge.

“Oh thank goodness. I thought that wasn’t going to work.” I say as I wipe a little sweat off of my brow.

“Did you expect to fall?” asks Cadence who is now hovering next to me.

“Yeah, I didn’t think I would get it on the first try.” I say as we start our slow gliding decent back to Canterlot. I start to get winded so I change from using flight muscles, to air bending.

“Are you okay?” asks Cadence.

“Yeah, I basically have very week flight muscles, so it’s kind of a taxing action to fly, even while gliding you use your flight muscles.” I tell her.

“So how are you still flying?”

“Air bending. I’m pushing air over my wings to create lift.” She nods and we spend the rest of the time in silence. Well until we landed that is. Cadence starts to freak out. I place a wing over her.

“Hey, are you okay?” I ask her.

“No, I’m worried about what Celestia is going to say about our relationship.”

“Don’t worry about it, if she has a problem with us she can go and pout to herself about it. And if she takes action I’ll turn into an alicorn and hold my own against her, just to make her exhausted.” I tell Cadence.

“You’re not going to hurt her are you?” I shake my head.

“No, I’ll just where her out until she can’t fight anymore.”

“But if you do that she won’t be able to raise the sun and moon.”

“I will if she can’t.” I tell Cadence.

“How?”

“The sun is a giant ball of fire, and the moon is made of rock. I’m pretty sure I can move them.”

“But, how?”

“I’m the Avatar. I have a special ability to call on the power of the past avatars to help me in an extreme situation. This ability is called the Avatar State. My eyes and tattoos will glow, and I’ll be able to do the impossible.”

“Maybe.” says Cadence. We enter through the palace gates without a problem. We immediately start heading to the dining hall.

“Cadence, I need to shift back to my original form.”

“Hmm? Why?”

“Celestia hasn’t seen me shift before, and it will look very suspicious if I did it in front of her.”

“Oh my goodness, you’re right. Come we’ll go to my room.”

“No, I just need to shift before we get there, so I’ll do it now.”

“Are you sure?”

“I can already tell that there isn’t anyone listening or watching.”

“Ok just make it quick.” I nod and shift into my human body about thirty seconds faster then when I was on top of the mountain.

I sigh, “Much better.” I say as I move all of my muscles a little in a static stretch.

“Okay, let’s go.” I tell Cadence. She nods and we spend the rest of the walk to the dinning hall in silence. Not an awkward silence, we just were both preparing to tell Celestia. I was readying for me to tire her out. Cadence was probably bracing herself for the emotional impact of Celestia’s opinion.

We enter the dining hall to see that Celestia, and a few others were there. A griffon with completely snow white feathers is sitting a few chairs down from Celestia, and then there was Blue Blood sitting next to Celestia on her right. I also saw Shinning Armor on her left. I watch as Cadence sits right next to Shinning, so I sit across from her, next to Blue Blood.

“What are you?” asks Blue Blood.

“I am a friend of Princess Cadence; may I know who you are?” I ask trying to be friendly. I look up at him.

“I am Prince Blue Blood.”

“It is an honor to meat you Prince.”

“I would like to hear your name.”

“I am Avatar Artermis.”

“What is an Avatar?”

“I am a being that can control the four base elements.”

“Pray tell; what elements are those?”

“Fire, Water, Earth, and Air.”

“Well may I see some proof of this?”

“Sure.” I tell him. I see a pitcher of water on the table in front of me. I freeze the water inside of said pitcher.

“Water.” I say. I then see a torch on the wall that is not lit. I force it to light itself.

“Fire.” I look for some earth to bend, but come up with nothing. I start to swirl the air I have over my hand into a ball of wind. I then thrust my hand out towards the big tapestry that is hanging over the table. I make it wave a little.

“Air.” I look back at him.

“I can’t do earth inside, because I don’t want to damage the castle.” I tell him.

“Well Avatar, you have earned my respect.” He says to me with a poker face. I just nod and leave him be. I look at Celestia, then Cadence. She nods to me. Silently telling me to tell her. I look at Celestia, but before I can do anything the griffon at the table is told something by another griffon that entered the room.

“I’m terribly sorry Celestia, but I must return to my village. It seems the damn is about to burst.”

“Would you like some guards to help you?” asks Celestia.

“I saw what that creature right there did. If you could send him with me I would be grateful.” Replies the griffon. Celestia looks at me.

“Artermis, will you help my friend here?”

“I will.” I tell her. I look at the griffon.

“When will we be leaving?” I ask him.

“Now would be most appreciated.” I nod to him.

“Excuse me, I must go get my pack, and then we may leave.”

“Where is that?” asks Shinning Armor.

“At the top of Canterlot mountain.” I tell him.

“How long till you return?” asks the griffon. I think about how fast I can fly, and how far the trip is.

“About a minute.” I tell him.

“How are you going to accomplish that?” asks Celestia.

“I can use my ki to fly extremely fast over short distances. I can get to the top of the mountain; grab my pack, and free fall the way down, using my ki to land softly at the end.” I tell her as I ready my ki for my first ever flight. I open a nearby window.

“I’ll be back soon.” I tell them. I make my ki spike in power and burst out of the window. I found it easy to fly, for all I had to do was force my ki’s aura downward at a fast speed. I climb up the side of the mountain making the cliffside blur past me.

I slow down as I reach the top of the mountain. I land and grab my bag and walk back up to the edge of the cliff. I jump forward with my glider in my left hand. I am falling spread eagle down the side of the mountain. I angle my limbs to make myself fall over the gardens. I was two hundred feet from the ground when I opened my glider. I use it like a parachute, and gently float to the ground.

I land and close my glider’s wings. I then walk back to the dinning hall.

I’m breathing heavily because of how much ki I used getting to the top of the mountain so fast. I enter the dinning hall with my bag on my back and say, “I’m back.” I lean up against the door frame.

“Are you okay Avatar?” Asks the griffin.

“Yeah, just a bit winded from using my power at such an extent. Shall we get going…? Oh dear. I never caught your name.”

“I am Elder White Beak.” He tells me. I nod in respect. I catch my breath after a couple minutes.

“Shall we Elder?” I ask standing up strait. White Beak nods and excuses himself from the table. I look at Cadence and say, “I will return tomorrow Princesses.” Cadence nods with a small smile. I wave goodbye and the Elder and I start walking to his carriage.

“How do you plan on assisting us?” asks White Beak.

“Well being the Avatar allows me to control earth and stone. I’m planning on putting a temporary levy up, and then repair the damn by reinforcing it.” I tell him.

“How will you keep the water at bay?”

“Water bending.” I tell him.

“May I get a demonstration of this ‘bending’?”

“Do you have any water I could use? Or a stone I could borrow?”

“Yes and yes.” says the Elder as he reaches for a canteen, and a small bag. He puts the items on the small table.

“What would you like to see first?” I ask him, “Fire, water, earth, or air?”

“Will you show me water bending?” I nod and pick up the canteen. I unscrew the cap and dump the water out catching it with my chi.

“Water is used as a flow, or redirector.” I start to inform the Elder, “The ancient water benders use the water as a weapon. They would take the force of their opponent and use it against them.” I put the water back into the canteen, “What would you like to see next?”

“Fire please.” I nod and form my chi into a ball. I will the ball of chi to vibrate the particles. I twitch my fingers and make a small flame. I give the flame a little more energy making it into a small fire.

“Fire is used to destroy, and harm. The fire sages would set up tournaments where the world’s best fire benders would participate in an Agni Kai, or fire duel. The winner of the first tournament was crowned as the fire lord. After that the winners were gifted an amount of money given by the fire lord.” I snuff the flame and look at the Elder.

“Air next?” I ask. He nods so I form an air ball with my chi.

“Air is a free element. No one can master the air. The air nomads lived in four different temples. One for each direction. The Air temples were only accessible if you were an air bender, because the temples were built on the top of mountains that didn’t have trails on them.” I form another air ball and hold it out in front of me.

“Here put your claw over my hand, I’ll show you how air bending feels.” He puts his claw over my hand. His eyes widen when he feels the air ball blowing around his claw. I speed up the air.

“Air can be guided, but never controlled. If you try the air will not listen to your will.” I tell him letting the air return to its expanded form.

“Last is earth.” I tell him as I open the small bag he had put on the small table. I pour the contents onto the table finding two rocks about the size of golf balls. I could tell these stones were magnetic for they stuck together.

“These magnets are the strongest I could find. I can’t even pull them apart.” I smirk at this.

“That is because earth is stubborn. You have to be stronger than the earth, and even more stubborn.” I tell him as I make the two magnets float. I pull the magnets apart with a small grunt as I make a fist with my left hand. White Beak gawks at this.

“Wow, you’re right these have about three hundred pounds of magnetic force.” I say as I slowly put the magnets back together.

“How can you tell they have that much force?” asks the Elder, still in shock.

“It takes a lot of practice to be able to tell on a whim.” I answer as I put the magnets back in their bag.

We made it to the Elder’s village in a couple hours. We exited the carriage.

“Where is the damn?” I ask the Elder, completely serious.

“To the North of the village.” He answers gesturing to the northern end of the village. I nod and dash of in the direction he gave me.

I came up to the damn in under a minute after I left. I could see a huge crack that was leaking water from the damn. I jump up to the top of the damn next to a griffon with black feathers and dark brown fur.

“How much time until the damn bursts?” I ask the griffon.

“About three minutes.” Answers the griffon. The voice suggests it was a female.

“Shit. Alright get back to the village and evacuate. I will stay here and hold the water back as I rebuild the damn.”

“How?” she asks.

“No time for questions! GO!” I tell her as my anger rises. She flies back to the village. I turn towards the water. I hear wing beats near me. I turn back to see the same griffon I told to go evacuate the village.

“I thought I told you to go.” I tell her.

“I’m here to make sure you don’t get hurt. The Elder told me to.” She answers. I just sigh and say, “Just stay in the air.” She nods so I turn back to the water. I start to push the water away, but can’t get it any farther then a few feet. I let the water come back slowly. I turn back to the griffon.

“I need you to piss me off.” I tell her.

“What! Why?”

“It will help me channel my power, and will allow me to enter the Avatar State.” I tell her, “If you don’t I might not be able to save the village.”

“I’ll try.” She says. She starts to poke and prod at my pride, but it doesn’t work. She then switches to insulting me which barely brings any anger. She then starts to rant to me about my looks, which builds my anger faster. I could feel my energy flaring. She then hit home with this one sentence.

“You can’t protect anyone!” Is what she shouts at me. My anger and energy sky rocket. I let out a blood curdling cry and felt myself enter the Avatar state. I only guided my body, and my muscles did the work.

I watched as the water receded back upstream. I then see myself raise a fully stone damn up from the earth; I then destroy the old one. When I was done with this, I came out of the avatar state and landed on top of the new damn. I fell to my knees. The last thing I heard was the water crashing up against the damn before I blacked out.

I wake up in a dim room that has a fire going. I sit up quickly and see I’m inside of someone’s home. I look around and see a griffon next to the fire.

“How long was I out this time?” I ask the griffon. The griffon turns around, and I recognize her.

“You have been asleep for a couple hours now.”

“Is the village safe?” I ask. She nods.

“I never got your name.” I tell her.

“I’m Black Will.” She tells me.

“I’m Avatar Artermis.” She nods in acknowledgment.

“Where am I?”

“You’re in my home.”

“It’s rather nice.”

“Don’t lie.”

“I’m not, I like dark places. They make me feel safer than when I’m in the light.”

“Well then thanks for the compliment, I guess.” She rubs the back of her neck with her talon.

“So Black Will, what do you think of me?” I ask.

“What do you mean?”

“About my power, what do you think of me as a whole?”

“Your power is amazing. I was surprised when you moved the entire lake.”

“That was a lake?” I ask her. She nods. I’m stunned that I even did such a feat. I slowly got up and walked over to the fireplace. I sat down on the other side of it across from Black Will.

“So what else can you do?” She asks.

“I can control fire and air, as well as earth and water.”

“Really?” I just grab a piece of the fire and float it over my hand. I make it a bit bigger and then snuff it out. I then make a gentle breeze blow around the room.

“Whoa. That is a pretty cool talent.” says Black Will.

“It isn’t a talent. I was born with these abilities.”

“Where are you from?”

“The Alicorn wasteland.”

“How did you come from there?”

“I honestly don’t know. But that is where I first gained conscience for as far back as I can remember.”

“That is just weird. Not to be rude, but nothing has lived up there for thousands of years.”

“I know. The alicorn spirits that are still there told me all about the wastelands history. It was very disheartening to know about.”

“You can talk to dead ponies?”

“I can talk to spirits in the spirit world. The Avatar’s job is to keep balance between all things. Be it good or evil, light and dark, life or death, or even day and night.” I start to get dizzy.

“Do you know where my bag is?” I ask her as I hold my head in my hand.

“Yeah let me get it for you.” Black Will says as she walks out of the room. I could here a little movement from where I was before she came back in with my bag on her back. She hands it to me, and I open it. I pull out a bag of dried fruit.

“Dinner is almost done.” She tells me.

“I understand that. I haven’t eaten for eight days, for every time I am about to eat I am whisked away on some task or another.”

“When was the last time you ate?”

“Before now was the morning before I came to Equestria. Which was eight days ago.” I tell her before I pop a piece of dried mango into my mouth.

“Wow. How did you eat when you were at the wastelands?”

“The spirits guided me to a small oasis up there. It had plenty of fruit trees, and small animals to survive off of.”

“You’re an omnivore?” I nod as I eat another piece of mango.

“Well you will love dinner then.” She says as she heads back outside. She returns with a plate with two steaks. I smile.

“You just made my day.” I tell her. She chuckles and hands me a plate, then puts a steak on it. We ate in silence. When the meal was finished I decided it would be a good idea to go check on the damn.

“Hey Black Will, would you like to come up to the damn with me? I have to make sure it will stay together.” I ask the dark griffon.

“Sure, let me clean up dinner first.” She answers. I help her when I can. We got dinner cleaned up in a few minutes and we were on our way to the damn.

“So Artermis, what happened to your arm?” asks Black Will.

“I dislocated it when I crashed in the palace gardens. I have to let it heal the rest of the way before I can use it.”

“How did you crash?”

“I was actually on my way to the palace, and when I was seven thousand feet over it my air bending failed me. I think it was the magic radiation that comes from Canterlot that messed with my bending. I barely landed at all.”

“How would magic mess with your bending?”

“Well it might be because I don’t use magic to bend the elements. I use an inner energy call chi.”

“Chi?”

“Yes chi, it is the life force of every living thing. Chi is what I use to animate, or bend, the elements. If some one has enough chi I might be able to teach them to bend an element. Only the avatar can bend all four though, usually a pony griffon or whatever lives, that has enough chi to bend, can only do so to one of the elements.”

“Wait so I could learn how to bend?”

“Maybe, it depends a lot on your personality, when you were born, and where you were born.” I tell her.

“Water benders are usually born in the winter at either of the polar poles. Fire benders are usually born at mid summer, also at the equator of the planet. Earth benders are born in late summer to early fall, and can be born on any large land mass. Air benders are tricky. They are usually born in the spring or fall, and can be from anywhere.”

“Okay, well I was born in early summer, right here in this village.” says Black Will. I shake my head.

“You’re not a bender then. Any thing that is born in early summer can’t be a bender.” I tell her. She looks down trodden.

“Hey don’t be sad. The spirits told me that when something can’t bend they can live a longer life than usual.”

“How?”

“They didn’t explain that.”

“Oh.” Black Will hangs her head. I just sigh and we continued to the damn in silence. We arrived after a few short minutes of travel. I jump up to the top of the damn, using a bit of air bending of coarse.

“How can you jump so high?” asks Black Will after she flew up to me.

“Air bending, I compress the air under my feet so that when I jump I get an enormous boost.” I answer, “Looks like the damn is holding up just fine.” Black Will nods. I just look at her, seeing that she is sad.

“Hey want me to cheer you up?” I ask her. She shakes her head no. I just sigh and put my hand on her back and say, “Not everyone is supposed to be a bender. The spirits say that if one who is not supposed to be a bender, is, will throw the balance of the world completely off. Then I would have to take care of the person who is responsible for it. I would have to kill them.”

“Oh, okay.” says Black Will still hanging her head. I give her back a few pats before jumping off of the damn. I land softly. Black Will follows me back to the village. After the few minutes of travel we are back in the village.

I see the Elder walking up to me.

“Avatar Artermis, we are forever in your debt.”

“No, I don’t like to leave people thinking they owe me something. I never like to leave others like that, it makes me feel terrible.”

“Well then how will we repay you?”

“You don’t. It is my duty to make sure others are safe from grave danger. I know I’m not able to be every where at once, but I can help where ever I am.”

“At least let us praise you as the village’s hero.” I nod and say, “That’s all I need. I love to see others happy, and well.” The Elder nods, and looks at his village.

“I forgot to ask you something. How are you friends with Celestia?”

“Oh, that’s a long story. In short I saved her flank from a mistake she made thirty years back.” I just smirk at the idea of Celestia doing something wrong.

“I will be returning to Canterlot soon. Is there anything you need help with?” I ask the Elder. He brings his talon up to his chin, probably thinking about something.

“Could you make a wall around the village? We have been having animals stealing our food at night.” I just nod.

“How big is the village?” I ask.

“About two miles wide in diameter.” He answers.

“You may want to brace yourself; this will shake the ground for a few seconds.” His eyes go wide at that. He runs over to a house and holds onto the doorframe. I just nod and prepare my chi.

I envision a three and a half mile wide circle around the center of the village. I pour my chi into the ground below me.

I then slam my left fist into the ground, creating a ten foot wall all around the entire village. I can feel the ground shaking slightly under me. I could still feel the walls I had made with my chi. I slam my fist down a second time to create access holes in the wall at the four directional points of a compass. I then stand up when the ground was finished shaking.

“What was that?!” Shouts a male griffon.

“Calm down, it was our hero making a protective wall around the village.” Says the Elder as he walks back up to me.

“Oh alright.” Says the male griffon as he turns back into his home. I just turn to the Elder and ask, “Which direction is Canterlot in?”

“Now don’t go running off home yet Avatar, I’ll lend you my carriage, and let Black Will see you there.”

“Black Will? Why do you want to see me home?”

“I’m… uh…”

“I see now. You have feeling for me.” I sigh and bring my hand up to my face.

“What no I-“

“Don’t lie to me. I can hear it in your voice, and see it in your eyes.”

“Okay, yes I have feelings for you.”

“I’m sorry, but I already have a special one, but I am willing to stay a night. I can do anything, or make anything you would like.” I tell her.

“But won’t they be jealous?” She asks.

“What she doesn’t know can’t hurt her, and I can hide anything from anyone. And in the event that she does find out, I can wipe her mind of you.” I tell her.

“But… why are you doing this?”

“Because… I honestly don’t know. I’m giving you a chance to be with me tonight, and it is up to you on what we do.”

“I’m going to leave you two alone.” Says the Elder as he walks away.

“We should return to your home, if I am to stay.” I tell Black Will.

“Yeah, we should. I still need to allow what you said to make sense to me.” She agrees with me. We both head back to her home.