The Super Avatar of Equestria

We were walking along a cliff side and talking.

“Why is the Everfree forest so dangerous?” I ask to no one in particular, “This is how all forests are on my home planet.”

“No pony knows,” says Rainbow Dash. I just roll my eyes, “But everypony that went in, never came out.” Right as soon as Dash finished her sentence the ground fell away I was falling faster then the others. I land softly, and blow air up at the others to slow there decent. Pinkie pie lands on her hooves, and Rarity I had to flip over first.

“Lets do it again!” shouts Pinkie like her usual self.

“Thank you darling.” says Rarity.

“You’re welcome lady Rarity.” I tell her as I look back up to the ledge. I could see Twilights rear hooves hanging over the edge. I also saw Rainbow, and Fluttershy right below her. I watch as Twilight fell, and the two Pegasi caught her.

When they were half way down Fluttershy’s grip failed her. I dashed forward and caught Twilight before she hit the ground. I set her down.

“Are you alright Twilight?” I ask her. She nods.

“Yeah, I’m okay.” She tells me.

“Sorry Twilight, I’m not use to carrying more than a bunny or two.” says Fluttershy as she lands.

“It’s alight Fluttershy.” says Twilight. Applejack made it down the mountain, and we continued on our journey.

We came upon a small clearing so we decided to take a quick rest. I made a small ring of stone with my earth bending to make sure we were safer than being in the open with targets on our backs.

“Okay, we move on in ten minutes." I tell the others. They nod and sit down.

“So Artermis how were you flying when you fought Nightmare?” asks Rainbow Dash. I look to her.

“I used my other energy called ki to keep myself aloft.” I answered her.

“How fast can you fly?” She asks.

“Well judging by how fast I made it to the top of Canterlot Mountain, I’d say around Two to three hundred miles an hour, but that wasn’t my max speed so I don’t know.” I told her.

“I don’t believe you. Even I can’t fly that fast.”

“Well when this is all over, how about a race back to Ponyville?” I ask her.

“Done, you won’t even be able to keep up.” She boasts. I just shake my head and sit down cross legged.

“Oh Apple Jack, I assume your sister told you that she could bend?” I ask the orange earth pony.

“Yeah, and then she went outside and showed us. She shook the whole southern orchard. I spent the rest of the day with her pickin’ up those apples.” She gives me a cold stare. I just smile at her and say, “She would have started bending on her own eventually. In fact you all might be able to bend one of the elements.” This catches everyone’s attention. I just nod in confirmation.

“Wait, you’re telling me I could do what you do?” asks Rainbow.

“Well only the avatar can control all four. I’m the current avatar. All the other benders can only control one element.”

“What do I bend?” asks Rainbow.

“That depends on what time of the year you were born and where you were born. After that you only have a fifty percent chance of being a bender.”

“Well I was born in mid summer in Cloudsdale.” says Rainbow.

“Cloudsdale is over the equator of the planet right Twi?” I ask. She nods.

“Well Rainbow, you might be a fire bender.” I tell her.

“Aw yeah!” says Rainbow.

“But listen to this. Fire is the hardest element to learn, and there is a reason for it.” I tell her, “Fire can be corrupted by fueling it with anger instead of the sun. It is used to destroy and harm, not for showing off.” I give her a hard look.

“Yeah okay, okay, I got it.” She answers. I smile and nod.

“What element am I darling?” asks Rarity, “I was born in the winter up in Yanhoover. That is the most northern city in Equestria.”

“You might be a water bender.” I answer her.

“Oo, oo, me next, I was born in the early summer at-“ I hold my hand up to stop her. I then sigh knowing this would make her sorrowful.

“Anything born in the early summer can’t be a bender.” I tell her. Her hair and tail deflate and lay flat against her.

“Pinkie there is a reason why it’s like that. It would tip the balance of the world to far to one side. It’s the avatar’s job to keep the balance, so I would have to kill or destroy whatever tipped the balance.” I tell her. Her mane poofs back up and she says, “Okay.”

“Oh, if you don’t mind, may I know what element I am?” asks Fluttershy.

“Of coarse Fluttershy, where and when were you born?”

“Oh um, I was born in spring at Cloudsdale.” She barely whispers the last half of the sentence. I still heard her because of my air bending.

“You could be an air bender.” I tell her. She nods.

“Twi please don’t ask me, because your chi suggests a water bender, but there is something off about it. It is kind of like the princesses chi.” I tell her and then start to feel the others chi as well to get a reference.

She and the princesses are avatars? But there can only be one at a time. I thought to myself.

“Are you alright sugar cube?” asks Apple Jack.

“Huh? Oh… yeah I’m fine.” I tell her, “Just got a little light headed is all.” I knew she saw right through my lie because she squints at me.

“Alright everyone, its time to get moving again.” I tell them as I stand up and head to the edge of the stone ring. I get an approval from every one so I push the ring of stone back into the ground. We continued on our journey by entering the forest again.

“Ugh my eyes need a rest from all this muck.” complains Rarity. I notice that the moon is now blocked by the canopy of the trees.

“It was a figure of speech.” She continues.

“Artermis can you light the way for us?” asks Twilight.

“Not unless you want a forest fire.” I reply fully aware that I could have easily done so.I still need this part of the time line to stay true. I thought to myself.

I wait for the girls to start screaming, and they do right after I thought about it. I stop and put my hands over my ears to keep them from ringing. I then barely hear Pinkie laughing. They go through the musical number with the music coming from nowhere.

That’s Pinkie Pie for ya. I thought to my self I just chuckle at the girls when they’re all laughing on the ground.

They all got up to their hooves eventually so we continued on our way with them still laughing. I step to the side as we exit the forest. I chuckle a little when the girls all bump into each other. I could see the serpent in the river throwing a tantrum over his mustache. I just sigh.

“Excuse me sir, but why are you so sad?” I ask the purple serpent.

“Oh I don’t know, I was just sitting here minding my own business when this tacky cloud of purple smoke whizzed pass me tearing half of my beautiful mustache clean off." I then bend the water he splashes back into the river.

“Really, that’s what all the fuss is about?” asks Apple Jack. I then tune out the rest of the conversation from there and just wait till the serpent calmed down.

After Rarity gave the serpent her tail I jumped over the river and waited for the others. I help them all off of the serpent’s back, and we continued on our journey.

We traveled for a few minutes before we came upon the raging manticore. I just stand aside and say, “Let Fluttershy handle this.”

“Are you crazy, Fluttershy can’t handle her own shadow.” says Rainbow.

“Fine would you rather I kill it? Or would you prefer Fluttershy handling it and letting it live?” I ask with a lot of anger in my voice, “I’m getting tired of sitting by and doing nothing to protect you, but I need to let the timeline play out correctly this time. I already screwed up future events just by being here; I can’t screw this one up. I can’t help you.” I tell them as I storm off into the forest with my anger. I fly away after I got far enough away. I head straight for the castle ruins and wait there.

“Well someone has a temper.” Says a female voice behind me.

“What do you want Nightmare?” I ask her in a tired voice, because I was utterly exhausted from staying up so late.

“I just want to talk.” She says as she sits next to me. I was sitting on the tallest tower that was still standing. It still had flooring where we were at.

“About?” I ask.

“Well you mostly.”

“What do you want to know that you already know?” I ask.

“I don’t know anything about you.” She says as she puts a hoof on my shoulder. I stand up and grab her by the horn.

“I’m tired of your shit Luna. Quit it with your little fit of whining. I don’t care how you feel anymore; I don’t care what you want. Your little jokes and tricks have just pissed me off. I want you to stop what you’re doing or be thrown around like a pebble for the next few minutes until the others arrive and whoop your ass back into shape.” I am seething anger at this point.

“And what makes you think I should listen to you?” I just start to tighten my grip on her horn, making small cracking noises.

“I’ll make sure you aren’t a princess when I’m through with you.” I tell her as my tattoos flash. She tries to use her magic, but I slam her head into the floor of the tower.

We fall through the floor and all the way down to the main floor. I let go of her horn and walk over to the entrance.

“If you’re smart, you won’t follow.” I tell her as I exit the castle. I sit on the steps of the castle and wait for the others.

The girls showed up after ten minutes. In that time I had returned to my calm state. I just stay on the steps. Fluttershy sees me and rushes up to me. She hugs me, and I am completely surprised by this. I return her hug, and feel something wet on my shoulder. I look down to Fluttershy to see that she is crying into my shoulder.

“What’s wrong Fluttershy?” I ask her as I start petting her back.

“I thought you would never come ba-a-ack” She sobs into my shoulder. I just sit there rubbing her back. She stops crying after a few minutes of me holding her and cooing words of comfort into her ear. She is still holding on to me.

“Fluttershy do you still think I’m going to leave you?” I ask her in a soft and sweet voice. She nods up to me. Her eyes are red, and her cheeks are stained with dried tears. She then puts he face back into my chest. I just sigh and pick her up as I stand up.

“Let’s go girls.” I tell the others. I kick the door to the castle in. The door just flies into the castle, making a lot of noise. I enter the castle like I lived there. The others walk in more cautiously. I just walk strait up to the pedestal that holds the elements of harmony. I ply Fluttershy off of me, and slowly float the elements down to the floor with a little air bending. I then pick Fluttershy back up.

I walk over to Twilight.

“Twilight, I need to ask you something important.” I tell her.

“What is it?”

“I need to know what you think of these five ponies. Your answer will change the world for the good or bad.” I tell her, “I need the answer from your heart.” She seems to be in deep thought.

“They’re my friends.” She answers. I smile deeply at that.

“Good, I was hoping you would say that.” I tell her, “Now go activate the elements, Nightmare Moon is sure to be here soon.” She nods and runs up to the elements. I follow close behind, walking so I don’t hurt Fluttershy.

“Alright stand back, I don’t know what will happen.” says Twilight. I just stood right next to her. Knowing nothing was going to happen.

“Artermis, come on we need to let her concentrate.” says Apple Jack.

“I am to protect Twilight at all costs. I’ll stay in here.” I tell her. Apple Jack just shrugs and walks outside.

As soon as they were outside purple smoke starts to form around the elements. As soon as it starts swirling around I thrust my left arm out to it burning it in a plume of fire. I stop my fire and see that Nightmare is standing behind the elements.

“I told you not to screw with me Nightmare.” I tell the black alicorn. She just backs up a couple steps at the sight of me.

“Fluttershy, I need you to go get the others.” I tell the shy Pegasus in my arms. She nods and I set her down. She heads outside.

“What are you doing here Moon? I told you I would beat you senseless if I saw you again.” I ask the dark alicorn.

“I won’t allow you to end my beautiful night.” She snarls at me. I search for my anger to enter the avatar state.

“And I told you if you messed with me I would beat you with the sun in the sky.” I growled back at her, “Twilight when the girls get here I need you to activate the elements.” I tell her. She nods, and I found my anger. I let out a war cry and my tattoos light up with a deep purple light. I could guide my body like I could before.

I watched as the moon fell towards the west horizon. The east horizon started to get brighter. I then saw a white form helping me. I look at the white form and see the shape of an alicorn. I look to my left and see a dark form of an alicorn. I then focus on raising the sun. I watched my body raise the sun with haste. I fell back into my body as the sun climbs into the sky.

My tattoos stop glowing, and I sway a little from reentering my body. I then look at Nightmare. I see that she is staring at me in disbelief. I then start charging my ki.

Before I can d anything a rainbow hits Nightmare, and surrounds her in a rainbow tornado. I get thrown back from the blasts blow back. I hit a wall and everything goes black. The last thing I heard was Celestia’s voice.

I slowly wake up in a white room that is shrouded in darkness. I groan as I sit up. My head is throbbing with a dull ache. I look around with slightly blurry vision.

I couldn’t see anything so I lied back down and fell asleep.

“Artermis, wake up, it’s morning.” Says a soft, but far away voice. I groan as my eyes open to a harsh bright light. I close my eyes tightly as I sit up. I slowly open my eyes so that they have time to adjust to the light.

When my eyes were open I see that Cadence is standing next to me. I smile at the sight of her.

“Hey beautiful, how long was I out?” I ask her. She smiles to me.

“A few hours, we’re at the Ponyville hospital.” She tells me. I bring my hand over to her cheek, and pull her close to me. I give her a quick peck on the lips. She smiles at me then looks over to something. I look over where she was looking to see Celestia there.

“Hey Celestia, how are you?” I ask with a grand smile. She giggles at my attitude.

“I’m fine Artermis; I’m here to see my sister’s recovery.” She replies with her soft commanding voice. I nod.

“How is she?” I ask her.

“Sadly her horn is cracked in a few places, nothing that time can’t heal.” She tells me without her mask of happiness.

“I could fix that so that she could return to the palace today.” I offer.

“How can you fix a cracked horn?” asks Cadence. I just hold up my right hand and make a ki ball. I then make it die away. The dull ache was gone from my head.

“My ki can be used to heal as well as to harm.” I tell them.

“Are you sure it won’t have any drawbacks?” asks Celestia.

“If it fails an equal amount of damage is done to me in return, if I succeed she could go home soon.” I tell her.

“You’re willing to put yourself in harms way to help Luna?” asks Cadence.

“Yes my dear. I’m willing to right what I have wronged. I was blinded by my anger at Nightmare Moon, and grabbed her by the horn, cracking it. I want to try to fix what I’ve done.” I tell Cadence as I stand up from the bed. I notice that I am only wearing my pants and underwear. I look down at my toned body and sigh in relief.

“What’s wrong dearest?” asks Cadence.

“I’m not troubled Cadence, just relieved that I’m not naked.” I tell her, “I don’t have a sheath like stallions do here.” I blush at this comment. I could tell that Cadence realized what I was saying, by the deep red blush on her face.

“I think now would be a good time to visit your sister Celestia.” I tell her hinting that I want to change the subject. She nods and starts towards the door. I follow her, and Cadence stays by my side. We walk through the hospitals white halls, I hate white.

We enter a room labeled intensive care. I see Luna lying on a bed with her horn wrapped in a white bandage. She was sleeping, probably out of recovery stress on her body. I walk up to her.

“I need to be able to see her horn if it is to work.” I tell Celestia in a hushed voice. She lights her horn and slowly unwraps Luna’s horn.

As soon as the bandaging was off Luna opened her eyes.

“Sister what are thou doing?” asks Luna with a tired voice.

“Artermis is going to heal your horn, or damge himself trying.” says Celestia in a sweet motherly voice. Luna looks at me.

“I don’t want him near me.” She says bluntly.

“It’s not your decision. I need you back Luna, if not for the kingdom then for me.” says Celestia with a saddened voice. Luna thinks about this for a while. She looks at me, and I look back unfazed by her anger behind her eyes.

“You can guarantee there are no threats to our health if you fail?” Luna asks me.

“Princess, I give you my word, and life that you will not have to worry about your health. It will only improve or stay the same.” I tell her with a deep bow. I could feel Luna’s gaze, like a cold spike, on the top of my head. I look up to her slowly.

“Very well, proceed.” She says as she looks up to the ceiling. I stand up to full height and ready my ki. I pour my power into the ball that was in my hands. I move the ball over to Luna’s horn, but she moves away.

“Princess I need your horn to enter the ball to heal it.” I tell her.

“I understand, I just still don’t trust you.” She says as she looks at the foot of the bed. I sigh and absorb my ki ball.

“Princess, there are two paths for you to choose right now. You could let me heal you with a ninety percent chance of success, or you can stay in bed for however long it takes for your horn to heal. I’m only letting you decide.” I tell her.

“I want you to heal me, but I’m afraid of you. You traumatized me with that display of your strength and power.” She says as tears form in her eyes, “How do you expect me to trust you after that?” I look at the Luna with a sense of bonding in our shared pain. I too had been traumatized in that experience, not for the same reason, but because I hurt someone I needed to protect.

“How about I injure myself and then heal myself to show you I’m telling the truth?” I ask her.

“I can’t let you do that, it is unnecessary.” She tells me.

“Princess Luna, I am forever regretful of what I did to you. I am horrified at my actions. I was supposed to make sure you were safe when you were recovered, instead I injured someone who is precious to me.” I tell her as tears fall free from my eyes, “I know this will sound stupid to you, but believe me when I say I know the pain of hurting someone you care for.” Tears are streaming down both of are cheeks. I look Luna in the eye and say, “Please allow me to try and right what I’ve wronged.”

I fall to one knee and bow my head to Luna. I had no control over my tears now.

Wait water can heal better then anything, but I haven’t tried that yet. I thought to myself. I am startled by a hoof being placed on my shoulder. I look up to see Luna is the one who placed her hoof upon me.

“Okay, I will let you try.” She says in a very soft and quiet voice that even I barely heard. I nod and stand.

“Just keep your horn in the ball. I’ll do the rest.” I tell her. She nods slowly.

I bring my hands together again, and form another ball of ki. I pour all of my available ki into this ball. It was shinning a bright pink, and was barely translucent. I move the ki ball over to Luna’s, and this time she stayed still.

I move the ball onto Luna’s horn, and stop when the damaged part was at the center of the ball. I could see black energy seeping from the cracks in her horn. I pulled all of the black out, making her horn turn grey. I then start pouring my ki into the cracks, watching as they filled up, and closed up. I was starting to get dizzy, but Luna’s horn wasn’t completely healed yet, so I continued. I kept poring energy into the cracks.

They slowly closed up. My vision was tunneling into blackness. Right as soon as the last crack was done, I couldn’t see. I felt myself fall. I could see more and more as time went on. I sat up, and my vision kept slowly returning.

I eventually gained all my of my sight back. I look up to Cadence, and say, “I’m alright, just a little light headed.” I stay sitting down for I was to dizzy to stand.

“Princess Luna. How is your horn?” I ask the princess of the night.

“It is fully healed. I thank you for doing this, but are you okay?”

“I will be, I just need to eat something, and soon.” I tell her. She giggles, and I take that as a victory.

“Well, what do you want to eat?” asks Cadence.

“Honestly, I would love to have a whole buffet to myself. I would then be in top shape.” I earn a laugh out of Cadence, and even Celestia. I just stay silent.

“I’m not kidding.” I tell them. This gets Celestia to laugh a little more. I just give up and sit there.