The Elder Ponies : Skymare

by monkeylegs

Rating: teen
Tags: Crossover, Dark, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Adventure, Pinkie Pie
Length: 3376

Skyrim. A land in war, with dragons attacking from every side. It is a land in need of a hero, a strong man with knowing of the thu'um. Thats not exactly what they get.

Skyrim. A land in war, with dragons attacking from every side. It is a land in need of a hero, a strong man with knowing of the thu'um. Thats not exactly what they get, but a fluffy pink pony is okay, right?

Published 2014-01-15 02:00:05 UTC
Last updated 2014-01-15 17:57:33 UTC

Unbound - 2

She landed, it feeling slightly painful on her bare hooves. She sucked it up and kept moving, finding a hole in the floor and jumping through.

She ran through a hole where a door might have been, and saw a group of an old man, a child, and an imperial wearing armor, who looked like a soldier.
"Gods.. Everyone get back!" The imperial yelled as the attacking dragon roared breathing fire, Pinkie ran to the back of the three, attempting not to die.
"Still alive prisoner? Keep close to me if you want to stay that way."
Then she walked up rediculously close to the imperial.
"Gunnar, take care of the boy. I have to find General Tullius and join the defense." The imperial said.
So far, Pinkie hadn't said a word, besides "Where am I?" which happened when she first woke up here, about an hour ago or so when she was on a carriage to this town, which people call Helgen. For however long shes here, it'll be okay at Equestria. She slowed down time so in 5 days, its only been 5 minutes there, so she has time to recharge and leave. The only challenge is not dying.
"Gods guide you, Hadvar." The old man said.
The imperials name must be Hadvar, then.
"Stay close to the wall!" Hadvar yelled.
Pinkie had one side of her shoved against the large wall to the side of them.

They contenued running, until the dragon landed on the wall and roared, breathing fire.
Pinkie was standing on her hind hooves, back to the wall as its large clawed wings were right in front of her, and she didn't want it to know she was there, it could end horridly if it did.

As it stopped and began to fly to another area to continue terrorizing the poor town, Hadvar yelled
"Quickly, Follow me!"
He went on, and the bright pink pony followed. She wondered why no one thought that a bright pink colorful pony suddenly in this brown,grey,and white world was strange.

From all over, she heard screams from children, soldiers dying and fighting, and families trying to escape. The entire thing horrified Pinkie, she couldn't believe how different these worlds were. Her bright, colorful happy Equestria of friendship and happiness.. And then this. Everywhing was burning, children were crying, families were dying.. All because of a dragon. She knew they were greedy, but she didn't know they were like this. She was happy Twilight raised Spike to be nice. She couldn't stay happy for long though.
"Its you and me prisoner! Stay close!" Hadvar yelled, after that, she heard soldiers ask "How do we kill this thing?!" Or yell "Tell my family I love them!" following dark horrifying screams.

"Ralof! You damned soldier, out of my way!"

"We're escaping, Hadvar! Your not stopping us this time!"

"Fine. I hope that dragon takes you all to Sovngarde!" Whats sovngarde?

"You, come on! Into the keep!" Ralof yelled. She ran towards him since she wasn't always the best at super-fast choices like this, and he was the first to yell.

"I can cut you loose inside, come on!" He said.
She just remembered, some rages were ties around her mouth keeping her silent, and her front two hooves were loosely tied together, making it a bit harder to run.
He opened the door and went inside, in which she followed.

They went in, she looked around the palce. It looked like a dungeon, but with more light and furniture. She also noticed a dead nord soldier.

"We'll meet again in Sovngarde, brother." Ralof said, he stood up, "Looks like we're the only ones who made it." "That thing was a dragon, no doubt. Just like the children's stories and the legends. The harbingers of the End Times."
Harbingers of the end times? Only ones who made it? This is getting worse and worse.
"We better get moving. Come here, let me see if I can get those bindings off." He took a dagger and cut loose the bindings on her mouth and hooves, making her able to eat,talk,and walk easier.

"There you go. You may as well take Gunjar's gear, he won't be needing it any more.."
Taking the clothes, and weapons of a dead guy? It just seems wrong..and disturbing..
But, being in danger of being killed by a dragon, and any other possible thing of this horrid world.. Might as well not die.
She took an iron war axe in her mouth, a tiny part of the stormcloak cuirass (All that actually fit), and the two boots which somehow fit loosely on her back hooves. She looked terribly rediculous, but what choice did she have?
"I'm going to see if I can find some way out of here." He said.

"Ah, this ones locked.. Lets see about that gate." He continued, walking toward one of the other side.

She looked around the room, and herself.

"Damn! no way to open this from our side.."
The two heard a woman yelling.
"Its the imperials! Take cover!" Ralof whispered.

"Get this gate open." They heard the imperial captain say, Pinkie was frightened and stood a bit lower where someone at the door couldn't see.
Slowly, the gate slowly opened, and Pinkie felt some of her fur going upwards.

"For the sons of skyrim!"

The imperials ran in wearing lots of armor, pulling out their weapons, one charging at Pinkie, she screamed and blocked her face, one of her hooves out. She couldn't keep the horrid, painful thought of the burning families and town of Helgen. She then heard the imperial scream and the sound of burning. The imperial was on fire, so was her hoof. But it didn't hurt, it just felt kind of warm on her. It must have been a fire spell, and it seems like a good way of fighting. Pinkie backed up, and continued thinking about fire, and her magic kept working. Ralof used his weapons to fight the other two. Pinkie closed her eyes, she didn't want to see anyone else burning alive. She heard three screams of different voices, then silence.
"Maybe one of the imperials had a key." Ralof said.

Unbound - Finish

Pinkie knew what she was supposed to do, and searched the imperials for a key. She took some armor, weapons, and a key.

"That's it! Come on, lets get out of here before that dragon brings this hole tower down on our heads!" Ralof said.

The two continued on, Pinkie quite fearful. "Look out!"

Some of the wall fell in front of them, Pinkie jumped back.
They coughed, dust was everywhere.
When it finally cleared, Ralof talked.
"Damn, that dragon doesn't give up easy..."

Pinkie pushed open the door, and they walked in to hear talking.

"Death to the empire!" Ralof yelled.

"You won't leave Helgen alive!" An imperial yelled, pulling out his sword as Ralof swung his.

Pinkie thought of fire and held out her hoof, and it happened. Fire, burning, painful fire. Pinkie didn't like this, she was just WAITING for her to recharge so she can go back to Sugarcube Corner and go to bed, its already over half way.

She noticed the quick effectiveness of Ralof's axes, and the slow painful death of her fire. She looked through her inventory, and took an imperial sword.

"A store room. See if you can find any potions, you'll need them." Ralof said, looking around.

She sheathed her weapon, and looked in some barrels, finding many potions and taking them all, she also decided to take some food is she gets hungry before she recharges, or maybe to bring back home to Ponyville, then she found something horrible, a dead bunny handing by its foot on a rope. Who would do that? Rabbits don't hurt ponies, those imperials do, so whats up with killing animals? She was grossed out by the sight, and looked for some more apples, ale, and sweetrolls. She likes sweetrolls. While she was looking, she also found some gold coins that looked like bits, only different designs.

She was done, and they moved on.

"Trolls blood! Its a torture room!" Ralof said.
Pinkie was scared on too many levels.

"Hear that?"

Two nords, one of them being Ralof, fought two imperials. Pinkie looked at and unsheathed her imperial sword, and charged at one of the imperials. Her short height of 4" feet made her only get a stab in the legs, since she also stumbled a bit. The three fighting easily killed off the two imperials, she discovering that it was the torturer and his assistant.

"Was jarl Ulfric with you?" Ralof asked the other nord.

"No, I haven't seen him since the dragon showed up." She answered.

"Wait a second, it looks like theres something in this cage.." Ralof said, "See if you can get it open with some picks. We might need that gold once we get out."

She had no idea how to pick locks. Oh well, ought to give it a try.

She attempted picking it with her hoof gripped around a knife and her mouth on a pick, she tried to find the right spot and it broke. She tried again, it broke. Once more, she finally opened it! She took four gold, a magicka potion, some mage clothes, and a book.

They went walking and running for a few minutes, Pinkie was waiting for her to recharge, and it was silent.
The soldier broke the silence,
"I wonder if theres any more imperials here.." She said, slightly shaking her head as they walked.
She heard talking, and Pinkie closed her eyes for a second and sighed, knowing what follows. She then unsheathed her weapon. She charged at an imperial as the other two also did, and she was hit. She hit his armor, making a good blow to the stomach, and he hit her in the head with the broad side of a sword, which hurt more then you'd think.
"You won't leave Helgen alive!" He yelled.
He then had his head chopped off by the soldier, Ralof was fighting a different few. Pinkie only had a bruise, and went on to fight.
She stabbed a few imperials, almost got hit in the hoof, and continued waiting. After they fought, Pinkie rubbed her head which continued hurting after she was hit,

"I'll keep watch in case Ulfric comes through here. Talos guide both of you." The soldier said, she ran to the entrace.

"Come on, this way." Ralof said, looking at the mare. Pinkie trotted over to him, and the two went on, Pinkie hoping they'd get out of here soon enough.
"Lets see where this goes." Ralof pulled a lever, and a large wooden 'wall' fell down on the other side, turning out to be a bridge.
They both went across, and came upon an area that looked more cave-like then dungeon-ish. Once again, they heard a loud ground-shaking roar above of them, causing Pinkie to stumble a little. Then, the roof behind them fell in blocking the entrance, meaning they couldn't go back.
"No going back that way, then.." Ralof said. "We'd better push on, the rest of them will find another way out."
They searched a patch looking for a place to go.
"Hmm.. that doesn't go anywhere..." He said, "...I guess we better try this way."
Pinkie trotted down the second path, Ralof following.

It was a possible way out, but freedom always comes with a price. Spiders. Not your normal,average, everyday house spiders. These guys were big! They were big as a large wagon wheel, or a filly! This is something spike has to be afraid of. Pinkie didn't want to get too close, and thought about fire and started burning them.

"What would Fluttershy think about this.." She finally said something.

The spiders began trying to bite her, to which she backed up, Ralof was hitting one with two one-handed axes, which it died. She was blinded with a burning pain in her eyes for a second, when a spider spit poison onto her face. She then wished she could heal somehow, then she remembered the healing potions. She stopped thinking about fire and quickly grabbed a healing potion from her mane, where she stores everything. She popped open the cap and gulped down the entire thing, which instantly made the poison disappear and everything stop hurting, also making the bruise from earlier disappear. Then she grabbed an imperial sword, and did something she didn't expect she even could do, in all seriousness. She jumped up, and stabbed the spider in the back, the entire sword coming through it, then pulling it out, the spider dead. They had killed all the spiders by now, Ralof was being more productive with him killing maybe 10, and Pinkie killing 1.

"I hate those damn things.. Too many eyes, you know?" Ralof said, looking at one of the large, dead 8 eyed creatures.

Pinkie noticed she somehow had some dark green bottles in her mane, and took up some venom since it'd be a painful poison for the nest horrid beast they have to fight.

They ran on past the spider cave, Pinkie saw a small like far ahead, and began to run.

"Hold up! Theres a bear just ahead. See her?" Ralof said, putting an arm out infront of her, stopping Pinkie. She looked for a bear, and found a larger brown figure in front of the light.

"I'd rather not tangle with her now right now. Let's try to sneak by. Just take it nice and slow, and watch where you step." Ralof continued. "Or if you're feeling lucky, take this bow. Might take her by surprise."
"Go ahead, I'll follow your lead and watch your back."

She liked the bow, thought it'd be useful since its far range like magic, but does quick fast damage like a sword. But she still didn't feel like seeing more dead animals, and definetly not killing some for herself. Ponies are omnivores, but the only animal stuff they'd ever eat is eggs or milk. The only reason they keep pigs at Sweet Apple Acres is they're great at finding truffles, and its impossible to say those ponies in Canterlot aren't willing to by some 'fancy' chocolate for a price that could fix granny Smith's back.

She took the bow just in case she wakes the poor peaceful thing up, got low, and walked next to the wall, as far from the bear as she can. She tried to be quiet, which was easier since her mane muffled all the sounds of the things she stored, and her hooves were covered in some fur so there was no noise of that. She got past the bear, which she then stood up. The two ran on, Pinkie feeling she was close to getting out and not having to kill anything anymore.

"Looks like the way out! I knew we'd make it!" Ralof said, both of the two smiling.
They climbed up the snow, and everything was bright, brighter then the dark dusty burned town of Helgen. The sky was bright and blue, there were some pretty fluffy white clouds, and the bright green evergreens.

"Wait!"

It felt like an earthquake. The dragon flew away, roaring.

"Looks like its good. Not coming back this time." He said, "No way to know if anyone else made it out alive, But this place is going to be swarming with Imperials soon. We'd better clear out of here."
Pinkie was relieved she was out, and it seemed only like maybe 1 or 2 hours. She was almost done recharging.
"My sister, Gerdur, runs the mill in Riverwood, just up the road. I'm sure she'd help you out." Ralof said. "Its probably best if we split up, Good luck. I wouldn't have made it without your help today."
The two split up, and Pinkie went on to Riverwood, luckily not finding a single creature.

Riverwood - Free Stuff

"Pinkie Pie, your rent is over!" Someone screamed, waking her up, causing Pinkie to fell off her chair and on to the floor.

"Oh, sorry, heheh.." Pinkie trotted out, and out the door. "Hmm... now what.. Oh wait! I think Ralof said something about his sister Gerdur.. I'll have to find her."

Pinkie looked around all of Riverwood, seeing a dog, some hens, a cow, and some citizens, before she found Gerdur and Hod's home.

"Yup. This is it."

She talked the Gerdur, and accepted the gifts:

Alto wine
Bread
Carrots (2)
Elder cheese wedge
Honningbrew mead (2)
Lockpick
Potion of minor healing (3)
Red apple
Ring
Silver necklace

Unbound - 1

She sat by the block, staring up at the dragon. The imperial headsman fell as it landed on a roof, causing a near earthquake. She quickly got up, and ran inside a tower, following the orders of a nord as the dragon breathed fire over the ground, being shot at by several human archers. She was different, she was bright pink and walked on all fours, like an animal. She was an animal, she was a pony and could talk. Her name was Pinkie Pie, and she broke the fourth wall not to long ago, entering this world, getting an unpleasant welcome, having the imperials attempt to chop her head off.

"Jarl Ulfric! What is that thing? Could the legends be true?" The nord said to Ulfric.

"Legends don't burn down villages." He responded.

Above, they heard the dragon roar, frightening Pinkie.

"We need to go, now!" The jarl yelled.

"Up through the tower, lets go!" The nord said. "With me, up the tower!"

The pink pony rushed up the stairs with the nord.

They both backed up quickly and ducked as the dragon's head bursted through the wall creating a large hole, it roared and breathed fire as the two backed up.

"Get back!"

"See the inn on the other side? Jump through the roof and keep going!"

Pinkie looked down at the large jump, then looked at the dragon and how her powers aren't done recharging, and shes stuck here as a mortal untill she can make it back to Equestria when she recharges.

She closed her eyes, and leapt.

Riverwood

Pinkie entered the small village, it was more pleasant then the dungeon, or Helgen. Ralof called it 'Riverwood', which fits seeing as its by a river, and it has a water-powered wood mill. Thats not all it is though, theres an Inn called "The Sleeping Giant Inn", a store called "The Riverwood Trader", and a few villager homes. 3 minutes till recharge, perfect. She assumed she'll check out the store then.

She went inside and there was an argument going on, she stood silently for a few moments while the two argued, until one of the traders noticed her, the other quickly noticing after.

"Oh, I don't know how much of that you heard, but the Riverwood Trader is still open." The trader said, the other sitting at a table.

"Oh,uh, then what do you have for sale?" The fluffy pony responded.

"Some would call this junk, but me, I call these treasures." He said, showing off tons of items, each for a price.

Pinkie counted her gold, "1..2..3..4.." She continued, "12!" She looked at the items, finding very little she could afford. She saw a book though, about Skyrim, for 2 gold. She decided it could be a good time waster until she recharges.

After that, she rented a room in the Sleeping Giant Inn and read.

She learned about the thu'um, the dragonborn, and Alduin. About the upcoming civil war, which explained the imperials and stormcloaks. She began to feel bad for the poor place, and how horrible it's doing compared to Equestria. Not even a day has passed yet, so it hasn't even been a minute in Equestria. It'd take hours there for them to notice shes missing. She could use her powers to teleport, or fast travel around. Maybe even write little 'journal' entries and keep track of any missions. Yeah, thats great. She'll stay, and save Skyrim. That sounds simply great. Better get started soon.