i didn't know what this was or why it was happening but i had all my memories back... to an extent... all i knew was that i cannot be defeated so easily. i can remember places and the ponies in them. but i can't put the names to them. i can remember what my life was like and what i did. i remember who i was... i am crimson blast... the hero king of equestria and omni-god. i was the most reknown power the world had seen and i know that my journey doesn't end here... or anywhere else... i realize now that i have become an immortal being... my body can be destroyed... but my soul will always carry on and find a new host.
i started remembering as i whirled through a seemingly endless black vortex. i was just once a ball of glowing power and energy but i have now solidified into my original form... i was my old self again. i was simply my soul now... being cast away into a void to find a new host. i knew that i would always carry on and i knew that one day i would make things right... and i'll be damned if today isn't that day.
as i whirled by the darkness a light soon came into view. it shone brightly like a star at first... then it grew. soon it shone like the sun and it was blinding... but i couldn't keep my eyes away from it. it was drawing me in and pulling me closer until it grabbed hold of me and embraced me. i could feel the world around me... i was becoming aware. it was cold... dreadfully cold, and dark now. the light was gone now and nothing but darkness... a natural darkness.
it was silent and foreboding. the cold only seemed to grow worse and i could feel something even colder pressing against my back. it was hard and cold... like stone. i could tell i was laying down now. and soon enough i took in my first breath of air. it was the most relaxing and satisfying breath i've ever taken. i opened my eyes and looked around my first sights in my old body. even though i had my eyes open the darkness didn't subside. i shifted around and kept bumping into walls all around me. i pushed my hooves up and pressed them against the ceiling only inches away.
i pushed on the hard stone ceiling and it started lifting up. it wasn't until now i realized that i was in a tomb. this was my tomb... i died and this is where they buried me. as i started pushing the tombstone off of my encasing light started to leak into the casket. the light was beautiful and inviting. with great force i launched the top of the tomb off of the casing and it flew into the air. it fell back down and hit the ground shattering into hundreds of stone pieces. the shattering stone echoed throughout the burial place.
i sat up and stretched my wings and hooves. i let out a deep yawn which ended up sounding more like a roar of awakening. it also echoed through the burial place. when i finally saw the burial place i was shocked to see that it wasn't just a hole in the ground but it was a huge cave with a shrine. there was a huge lake and a stone bridge connecting the uprise over the cave to the small stone island i was on. on the island was my shrine.
the shrine was composed of my tomb as well as a statue behind me. the statue was of course a statue of me. i stood there in my armor with my wings raised up. the statue glowed magically and lit up the whole cavern. other than that there was nothing but torches and a huge body of water surrounding my shrine... i'm touched they would go this far as to burry me. seeing as they were so kind to me i almost felt like throwing up after recalling what i had put twilight and the others through. i even started dry heaving and i slowly walked out of my stone coffin.
i took another deep breath and looked over myself. i was a huge white coated and silvery black maned pony. my mane flowed in some non existent wind and i glowed with bright somehow golden black and silver armor. i had huge metal plating armor, a majestic flowing cape, a crown of thorns, a halo, and a mystical glowing aura around me. i felt more powerful than i could ever remember feeling.
"hello champion." said a female voice. i looked over to see a white robed and glowing woman floating on the bridge just a few inches above the ground. i automatically recognized her but i couldn't recall her name or who she was.
"i... i know you." i said.
"you do indeed..." she replied. "my name is merithal... do you remember now." she said. the name instantly fired a wave of memories and names into my head and i knew who she was for sure.
"yes... i do." i said.
"you did marvelous job and passed the test." she said.
"was this another test..." i said getting a bit annoyed recalling the last time they tested me.
"it was not intentional..." she said. "it was all deaths doing... but seeing as you're love and faith were able to break through a shell of pure evil such as scars shows that you are more than ready."
"ready for what?" i asked.
"in due time... but first." she said reaching back behind her. she pulled her hand back and held a floating white gem in her hands. i knew it was the blinding shard. before i could ask the shard broke into a burst of dust and light and it flew towards me and wrapped me in its embrace. it lifted me into the air and started seeping into my soul.
the whole cavern shone brightly and seemed to be filled with almost solid light. there was a deep humming and i could feel an unreal power emerging from within me and breaking through and covering my body. the light and the power kept seeping into my body for what felt like hours but must have only been a minute. by the time it was done i fell to the ground and landed on my feet. the entire room seemed to light up around me. all around me the ground was cracked and broken and light shone through the cracks. i feel like i had enough energy to last a lifetime and i had grown another few inches.
i was beginning to scare myself with the power i hold now. there was no telling what kind of damage i could do should i ever let it go rampant. before i spoke i got a bad headache and i could hear voices in my head and see ponies running around and laughing at me. merithal looked at me with confusion and then she sighed and looked at the ground. i have a feeling she was keeping something from me. soon the ponies and the voices and the darkness faded and i was alright. my head cleared up and she looked over to me.
"i was afraid this would happen." she said.
"what... what's wrong with me." i asked.
"you've become mentally unstable." she said. "while you were in scars body you had to constantly fight for control of his body... this put too much strain on you and you've suffered the consequences."
"you're telling me i'm insane." i said pacing around in fear and worry.
"i'm afraid so... though it shouldn't be as traumatic as when you were in scars body... but it will be a problem." she said.
"why?" i asked.
"why what..." she said.
"why me?" i asked. "why am i the one who has to do this... that seems to be the only question that nopony can answer... why did this have to happen... was it all planned out, was i manipulated or is all of this predestined by a greater power... tell me." i said not willing to keep this answer in hiding anymore.
"i cannot lie to you... but believe me when i don't know either... nothing is predestined... you're choices and the choices of those around you have brought you to this." she said "everything is open to change... not even the past is written in stone... but i must tell you that there is a fate that you have brought upon yourself that you cannot escape."
"what... what is it." i asked. she didn't answer. instead there was a bright flash of light. i expected her to be gone but she wasn't instead more people walked out beside her. they were all of different colors and themes. one was red with fiery robes. another was blue with water like hair. all of them were different elements. fire, water, earth, air, lightning, light, darkness, nature, life, ice, chaos... all of them humanoid and they encircled me. i looked around and i was afraid. i didn't know what was happening. they just encircled me and looked down at me. i looked around at them and they just looked back at me.
"are you ready?" asked the one that i figured represented lightning. he looked like thor, god of thunder... that would make sense.
"ready for what." i asked.
"your coronation." said a woman to my right. she was floating and in pink heart like gear. i guessed she was the goddess of life. even death had reared his ugly head at the opposite end. he looked at me and i couldn't see any emotion past his hood.
"what coronation... what is happening." i demanded.
"you have been chosen..." said merithal. "you are the only being with a soul powerful enough to bind two opposite energies that in life can never be one... but you have done this... and with the gesture of higher powers we now coronate you as crimson... god of balance." she said. and they all started to light up.
what no...ballance... this can't be happening. i must still be asleep or dreaming or something. there's no way this can go any deeper than being a multi god... no way. i was starting to sweat not knowing what this meant. i was so confused and this was happening so suddenly i didn't know what to think. i couldn't come to grip with this. i could feel something clawing at the inside of my head now and it was trying to force me to shout out in protest.
the gods along side me and surrounding me continued to glow and they fired multi colored beams up into the air and glowed brighter and brighter. i looked around frantically trying to protest but i couldn't. i felt like i wanted to shout out and stop this... but i soon accepted my fate. if i was destined to become a greater being so be it... there's nothing i can do to stop this now. i let out a deep sigh and looked deeply into the light. and they fired.
beams of every color fired all at once and hit me dead on. i could feel... untold energy inside of me. it was the kind of stuff you could only dream about. there were no words to describe the power running through me... and there were also no words to describe the unimaginable pain. even the devil himself would fear this kind of pain. the insanity in my mind was soon drained out and replaced with pain. i could feel my bones breaking and fixing themselves within seconds and it continued over and over all across my body. my physical being was being destroyed and replaced with raw power.
i yelled out in pain as the light around me grew brighter and brighter and destroyed everything it touched. there was a horrible trembling and i could feel all the knowledge of the world and all other worlds filling my head. i knew everything. i could do anything... the world was mine to do with what i wish. i had power over life and death itself... all the elements i could make day and night and night would be as day. manipulation over space and time. i could see everything. in the past present and future. there was no end to my grasp.
the pain continued and i let out a deep earth shattering roar that seemed to bend the space and elements around me and within earshot. i clasped at my brain as it continued to fill with information and i rose up into the air. i felt a sharp pain within my skull that felt like somepony was continuously stabbing my head with a shank over and over again and i had to sit there and fell every second of it.
pain continued to wash over my body until it all stopped. there was no more pain, no more knowledge to recall, only more and more power destroying my physical being and hardening into a new more stable and powerful being. it was unimaginable. i could see all the answers... all the solutions... i knew why it was me. i knew that my soul was always the soul to become a greater power. there was no denying that what i would become was a being far more powerful than anything i could imagine.
i closed my eyes and i could feel all of the world... i could feel every world within the universe. the burning of fire, flowing of water, the faint glow of life and even the beauty of death was shown to me. the light grew brighter and brighter until it fired off as a huge beam that picked me up and rose me high into the air. the beam fired across the universe and gave light to new hope. i was already well above the ground of canterlot now. i could hear the gods chanting.
"ill melosum cortas nova ill nocturn un gra vas a kaill..." they chanted i knew what i meant. they said 'let the elements give way to the new god of balance'
"kara akk nirnu yuun hakal no vas u guun." they said. 'let he who is worth take hold.'
"nos vas univa te lota mirna..."... 'and shape the universe to his will.'
for a second i actually felt happy. like i knew what to do. i was presented before the universe as a shining new idol and a god amongst men and ponies alike. but that was not what i thought. soon the light faded into darkness and i felt myself falling. then... there was a blast... like something had just shattered. i thought for a second and i knew what happened. i was shot backwards in time and with my incredible power and instant time warp i literally broke the vail of magic. i felt like i was falling forever then i felt something hard hit the bottoms of my hooves and suddenly the darkness was gone and the world revealed itself to me. i looked around and i felt like i could see forever.
the gods still circled me and they were done glowing and they were actually less powerful looking than before. they all looked at me and smiled. i could even tell that death was smiling on the inside. the gods who were once my height before any of this began were now at least a few feet shorter than me. my body was covered in intricate symbols that glowed pure light... no color, just pure light. not like the element of light which glows a golden yellow... pure white light. my body radiated power and energy. i had on whining white armor and a hood. i also had a mask on. it was a full metal mask that glowed white and shone brightly... like the mask i wore when i was scar.
i had great majestic wings and one thing i noticed too was i had a horn now... i was an alicorn like celestia and luna. it swirled with glowing symbols and they met at the top. i already knew what i was capable of and i knew how i could use my abilities. my head was working too fast to catch up to what just happened and i was speechless. i looked back over the circle of gods and they all looked up to me. then mirella stepped forward.
"congratulations high king crimson... god of balance and understanding." she said bowing... the rest bowed too. i didn't know how i felt about this. i was immediately confused which is to say a lot since i knew everything.
"what do i do know?" i asked... that was the one thing confusing me... even with my knowledge and abilities i still didn't know if there could be anything for me to do after this... i feel like i have reached the end... like i can't keep going from here... i can just sit back and watch the world turn for all of eternity.
"now you go..." she said. the other gods started fading away until it was just me and her. "go now and be the god you were meant to be... there is none at you're level... you are the ultimate." she said. with that she faded. soon i was left all by myself in this cave. all my confusion and emotions flew at me and hit me at the same time causing me to fall back and sit down. i let out a deep sigh that seemed to freeze the air in front of me. i can't keep doing this... there can't possibly be any more surprises after this... it's not possible.
i thought for a moment and i decided that i need to carry on. nopony knows about this yet... and it might be better if they never do. with this ultimate power i can take any shape or form... so i did. i glowed a bright white and when i was done glowing i was in my original shape again before the transformation... or whatever you would call it. this is one hell of a mess i'm in now... the other times i was caught in a situation like this trail in comparison to this... hell they can't even compete... this literally blows them all out of existence. i always saw myself as a powerful being but not a god, but now i've literally become a god.
i just sat there in the cold cave contemplating what to do. just like all the other times i didn't know what i should do now. even with all the answers there aren't any answers for what i want to do... that's a question with no set answer. but i guess just like every other time i end up dusting myself off and carrying on... that's what i always do... adapt and carry on. it's happened, it's done... over, there's nothing i can do about this except carry on. i at least hope i can hide this for as long as i need to.
i let out a deep sigh and with it all my doubts and worries. i took in a deep breath and filled myself with confidence and joy. i was happy to be alive, happy i can be with my family and the ones i love... and damn happy that i can make everything right this time. with this new found joy and confidence came an are whole hearted bravery and the will to make everything right. i can fix things now. no longer do i have to be a symbol of pain and hardship. now that the tests are over and i have reached the end i get to relax now with my reward... and boy was it one hell of a fucking reward.
i spread a determined smile across my face and started slowly walking across the large bridge over the lake and up to the staircase highrise. i walked up the stairs and kept smiling. i kept thinking about all the things that i can do now. i can help so many ponies and put an end to this chaos. i can finally bring peace to equestria and the rest of the universe. i kept walking and soon i reached the top of the stairs and looked down the straight hallway leading into darkness.
in a flicker of light i made the entire hallway light up and shine without a source of light. i started walking and made my way through. it slanted upward a bit and i could see the end from here. it was a beautifully sealed door to my tomb. i kept walking forward and i could see that it displayed my various accomplishments and achievements. it made me smile even brighter than before and i was glowing brightly now with my pure white glow. i was inching closer and closer until i was right in front of it staring at the symbols from the inside.
i looked forward and all the symbols on my body started glowing pure white as well as my eyes. they shone brightly and i seemed to stare through the stone seal. i could see everything behind it and i saw that it wasn't part of the canterlot hero's garden... but it was in the canterlot throne room. it was built into the throne of princess celestia and i could see all of that into what was happening. it was the time of my last death. scars execution. i could tell because now the princess was talking to the crowd addressing issues and promising a safer equestria.
i decided to make a big entrance. i stared at the seal and in a shock wave of power the seal cracked and light shone through the cracks. the cracks didn't stop at the seal but continued throughout all of canterlot and there was a deep rumbling. this obviously caught everyponies attention as they paid attention to the cracks.. even the princess seemed puzzled. i hit the tomb seal with more force and there was another shock wave. soon i broke the seal into pieces and flooded the castle with light. everypony looked over into the blinding light.
i walked out of the seal and walked over to where all the ponies were gathered. i stayed hidden inside of the light and the ponies just stared into it. the princess herself seemed to be puzzled the most. my friends looked in and i saw that some of the others had joined the princess on top of the platform. including the faintly familiar leader of the crimson order. i spread my wings out wide and got ready to leave the light.
i took one step and my front hoof emerged from the light and became visible. i took another step and some of my front body had become barely visible in the light. i took a few more steps until i was fully in sight. i looked at all the ponies and the princess with glowing armor and my mask. they all stared in shock, disbelief, awe, and i could feel a few faint signs of terror and fear. i walked more from the light and stood present before all of equestria as a born again crimson. i was back and far more powerful than even imaginable.
i stopped walking when i was at the base of the platform and still rather far from celestia and the others. i let the light behind me fade away and the cracks on the ground faded as well. i stood there as a shining beacon of hope and other emotions that ponies might feel towards me. this was all i could think to do to come back to life... its not like i can just open up the vault whenever and just kinda walk out like 'hey... sup... did i miss anything.'. coming back to life is a big deal even after i've been dead and buried for half a year.
"oh my god..." said celestia staring at me... interesting choice of words. the rest were silent... i was silent too. i didn't know what to say, like i said before i can't just walk out from this like 'oh... hey guys... sup.'... then i'd seem like a douchebag. so i just stood there and i watched as a few tears started falling from my friends faces. they were tears of joy and happiness... happiness like i've never seen before.
before anything i watched as the princess started walking over to me. she slowly stepped forward hoof by hoof until she stood up right in front of me and looked up to me. i was significantly taller than her now. she looked up at me and smiled... that's all she did was smile. there was no need for words or celebration or even praise... a smile was enough. i just reached up and pulled my mask off. it broke apart into dust as it left my face and i revealed my own smile.
she leaned over and gave me a hug. she rested her neck on my shoulder smiling and i did the same. it wasn't long after that i was tackled by all of my friends including thunder rush. even though i would have been able to keep standing despite their efforts i fell back anyway to add to the moment. they clasped onto me and held me tightly in their loving embrace. they were crying in happiness. thunder rush got up and looked down at me with a smile. it was the kind of smile like he was happy but upset that it took me so long to come back... i gave him the same smile.
i wrapped my hooves around my friends and held them. the once silent crowd slowly grew into an uproar of cheering ponies and adoring fans. the head of the crimson order just stood there in shock and couldn't believe his eyes... i was like a god to him... well, so to speak. technically i'm a god to everypony now... but like i said, they don't need to know that right now. in fact i plan on keeping that a secret for as long as i can.
"i knew i would see you all again." i said sitting up and holding them all tight. i was so big now i could almost hold them all up with my wings which were bigger than a regular pegasus's wings. i smiled and hugged them all as tight as i could but without crushing them to death. "i'm so sorry..." i said. "i never meant to hurt any of you."
"it wasn't you're fault." said the princess walking over and sitting down beside me and the others who were crowded around me smiling and holding on to me. "you fixed it... you selflessly gave you're life for the salvation of our souls... you died for us." she said. "that makes you a worthier hero than any of us."
"but i wasn't dead." i said looking down with guilt knowing i would now have to admit that i was the one pony this world hated the most. at least i thought i did but i tried to hid it and just came up with a lie that i knew i would have to explain later. but i wanted to keep a happy mood amongst the group. "i had burn in the fires of hell for a period of time for the sake of you're souls." i said. "i had plenty of souls... but not enough." i said.
"oh my... are you alright... i'm sorry that happened." said dash holding me tight. i smiled at her and hugged her back.
"it was worth it knowing i wouldn't have to live an immoral life knowing i had killed my best friends and the princess... that's a punishment unlike any hell could bear." i said.
"you know what this calls for right?" said pinkie pie jumping up and spreading a huge smile ear to ear across her face. i knew where this was going. "this calls for a party..." she said excitedly throwing confetti into the air out of nowhere. even though i had all the answers pinkie pie was still a mystery. and even though she completely broke the mood i couldn't help but start laughing.
i started laughing softly then it grew louder and more frantic. i thought it was hilarious. and soon enough everypony else began laughing too, even the princess. we sat there and laughed at pinkies always upright behavior. she always managed to lift everyponies spirits. we all laughed together and it was probably the nicest feeling i've ever felt in a long time... i felt like everything was going to be alright, and i'm sure it is. this was like the perfect happy ending.
...too bad it's not the end.