friendship is magicka: the new worldby theskittlelordChapterskeys and mageswhere are we?challengecity in the mountainssound of thunderfire wing dreadthe journeyThe kingdom under the groundbeginningwebs and newcomersNotes and Ideaskeys and magesThe Midden dark, a fitting name for a fitting place, everyone thought this way all except for one. A blonde nord named Nickulas Spellcaster, he wore his own custom made blue and yellow mage robes, college boots and mystic tuning gloves. He walked down into the midden, staff of Magnus in hand, in search of his friend who resided down there. He took a left and saw a door, he looked around in suspicion in case someone or something was following him. He opened the door and entered a room. It was mainly empty except for the large basin with dark blue water in it. The room began to shift as a blue light appeared out from the basin, a light commonly known as the Augur of Dunlain. "Nickulas, you return to my dwelling", the Augur said with an omnipotent voice. "I trust you have completed the task". "Yes, although standing atop the highest peak of the throat of the world on one leg was a challenge, I pulled through", he responded blowing a strand of hair out of his eye. "Well the task is done I shall, give you what you sought", he said. A wave of magicka began to sweep out from the basin and form a shape in the air, the shape of a key. Nickulas looked upon this key with astonishment. He reached out his hand to grab the key. He took it in his hand and looked down the side and saw wording. To the untrained eye just a strange arrangement of lines and circles, but to someone trained in this, it was something different. "Keep it safe, do not let anyone take it, there are certain people who want to keep this key as far away from anyone who knows what it unlocks", the Augur said with a warning tone. "Swear to me that you will never let this key out of your sight". "I swear by my families honor", he said placing his hand on his chest. "Good, now go you and your allies have a long journey ahead", He said as he disappeared back into the basin. Nickulas looked at the key cautiously then left the room, out to the cold outside. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nickulas opened the hatch and excited back out into the cold. He got out and brushed the dirt off his robe. He began to walk to the Hall of Attainment when something diverted his gaze. The Archmage, Tolfdir. A quick flashback of when he gave the position of Archmage to Tolfdir because of his lack of experience returned to his mind. However something seemed off he was running towards him as fast as he could. "Quick, you need to come to my office at once", He said breathing heavily. "Why?", he questioned. "No time to tell you, but the other members are there", He said _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Each member of the college stared down at what was before them. Two unconscious women, one was a Nord with long blonde hair tied in a ponytail, the other was an Imperial with curly purple hair. They laid peacefully on the Archmages bed as that was the only place they could spare with enough Magicka to prevent them from not waking up. Nickulas entered the room with Tolfdir not to far behind. Nickulas was shocked at this. 'What happened to them', he thought. "we're lucky that J'zargo and Onmund found them when they did or who knows what could have happened to them", said Nirya. "Also one of them was wearing this strange hat". Nickulas took this hat in his hand and began to inspect it. Upon completion he looked up to the others and spoke up. "Does anyone know how they ended up like this?", Nickulas asked. "As far as me and J'zargo know, there was a bright flash and, poof, there they were", Onmund revealed. "What do we do with them when they wake up", Brelyna said. "J'zargo says that we let them go", J'zargo suggested. "I agree with J'zargo, we helped them while they were unconscious, is it really necessary to keep them here when they wake up?", Faralda questioned "We can't do that", Drevis Neloren spoke up. "Oh yeah, and why not?", Sergius Turranius asked. "Because it's morally wrong", Drevis responded. "And if we do that it'll count as murder", Brelyna said. "How so?", Nirya asked. "Because we would be leaving them to die", Brelyna said. "It would be our fault if they were eaten by wolves", Phinis Gestor added. "Or if they find that dagger and think that it's smart to hit the warped soul gem with it, like certain other member of the college we know", Drevis said with disdain. "It's called Keening you idiot, and anyway Nickulas keeps it on him at all times, don't you?", Faralda insulted. Nickulas face palmed. "Please don't bring me into this", He muttered. The two sides bickering over time escalated into an argument. During this time they failed to notice the Nord woman get up. She looked around at what was transpiring. She began to nudge her friend to wake her up. After that failed she picked her up and quietly began to carry her, however while doing this she noticed that Nickulas's attention was drawn to the like moths to a light. Upon seeing this the Woman ran faster. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rarity eyelids began to open as she felt the cold air and snow brush against her skin. She looked around and saw she was being carried by something tall. She began to panic. "Unhand me you -". She was cut short when the figure looked back at her revealing her familiar green eyes and long blonde hair. "Oh Applejack it's you, sorry about that", she apologized to her cowgirl friend. "what happened to your hat?". These words seemed to almost petrify Applejack, she reached for her head, dropping Rarity. "Mah hat, ah left in that room where all them strange ponies were arguing", she panicked. "Well let's go back and get it", Rarity said. "Can't one of 'em noticed me", she responded. "Looking for this?", a voice called from behind them. They turned around to see a blonde bipedal figure wearing blue robes and carrying a staff, a key and... "Mah hat", Applejack exclaimed. "Sweet Celestia, what in Equestria are you wearing, it looks as though you bought it from the one bit shop", Rarity questioned. "I made this myself", he said insulted. "And who's Celestia, what's Equestria and what is a bit, is it some form of currency". "Well to answer your questions, Celestia is the alicorn princess who raises the sun each day and resides in Cantelot, and she watches over the ponies who reside in the land", she answered. A confused expression grew on his face. "And Equestria is the country where Princess Celestia and Luna and all the other ponies live in", she continued. He became even more confused. "And lastly you are correct about bits being currency, it is only used in Equestria not in the Griffon kingdom or Minotaur planes". She said. He looked at them as if they were growing second heads until finally he spoke up. "Are you on Skooma?", he said. "What's Skooma?", Applejack asked. "Doesn't matter anyway what're you names?", he asked. "Applejack", She said. "I'm Rarity", Rarity said. "Hm interesting names, quite unique, I'm Nickulas Spellcaster", Nickulas said. "Anyway here's your hat". Applejack moved close and grabbed her hat back from Nickulas. "You're welcome", He said when she didn't thank him. "So is there anything more I can help you with". "No", Applejack said quickly. "Well", Rarity responded. "Rares what're you doing", she whispered pulling her friend in closely. "We don't know if we can trust it". "Applejack don't be so rude, it's a him not an it", Rarity corrected. "Well as far as ah know it's an it", she responded. "Well he could be the only way of finding our friends", She said. "Do you really trust it?", Her question fell on deaf ears as Rarity turned to Nickulas. "We need to find our friends, Twilight, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Rainbow dash and Twilight's assistant, a baby dragon named Spike, can you help?", she asked. 'There again with the names', he thought. "Of course I can help". "Great", Rarity exclaimed. "I'll just tell the Archmage and we'll be off", he continued. "Thank you", Rarity said. "Yeah thanks", Applejack grumbled. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Garzug and Zenieth waited upon their horses, with their fellows waiting restlessly. A black haired Breton soon broke the silence. "Alright that's it I'm going by myself", he snapped. "If you go I'll personally use your head as an example to others to show what happens when you lose patience", Garzug spoke harshly. A ruffle in the bushes in the left drew their attention. A small red haired Wood Elf emerged from the bush. He mounted his horse and rode it towards his master. "I found them their in the forest, seven miles west", he reported. "That explains why he took so long", Zenieth muttered. "EVERYONE WE RIDE NORTH", he yelled. Each rider soon had a large grin, grow on their face. "CHARGE!", he yelled as every horse began to ride towards their unsuspecting prey. where are we?Edwin held the sword firmly in his hand, to the point where it made his knuckles white. His eyes never straying from the High Elf. Both of them exchanged glances before she spoke up. "Alright buster, you better tell us where we are and what -" "If anyone is asking the questions it will be me", Edwin responded coldly cutting her off. "Oh yeah, who are you to ask questions, who are you the king or something", She snapped rudely. "I'm a thane", he said bitterly. "Doesn't sound anything special to me", the High Elf said disrespectfully. Edwin prepared to respond to that question however the Breton with strange hair answered for him. "A thane is someone has has a piece of land given by the monarch, if they feel as though this person is well recognized throughout the land, and is widely known as a hero among those who live in the land", she said, adding a smile to the end. "So?" "In simpler words, I could have you executed with the wave of my hand, in fact because of your rudeness, I should", Edwin said sternly "What?, you can't do that", she exclaimed. "Well technically Rainbow, he can". 'Rainbow, is that her name', he thought chuckling slightly. "What's so funny?", she asked, irritated. "Nothing", he said, barely able to contain his laughter. *SNAP* All three of them turned their attention to the source of the snap and saw three more Nords in blue armor. A man in his late twenties with short brown hair, a woman in her in early thirties with light red hair up down to her shoulders and a man in his mid fourrties with long blonde hair and a beard. "Captain, we heard a scream", The woman said. "That you did, Rienna", he turned to the red haired nord woman, he pointed towards the other women. "Keep an eye on these two, Ralof, where are Thorald and Avulstein?". "They went to search another area for what could have been making the screaming", he explained. "well they better be back soon, 'tis getting dark", he warned looking over the trees at the orange sky. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight looked over to the strangers then back to Rainbow, who had a look of irritation in her eyes, mainly because she was not used to somepony talk to her the way he did. "Rainbow, are you okay?, you look angry", she asked concerned for her friend. "Really, you don't say", Rainbow responded sarcastically, she looked up to see a red haired one. "Oh great here comes another one". "Hello", she said, sitting down on the snow with them. "Sorry about him, he can sometimes be a bit uneasy when it comes to elves". "You call that being a "bit uneasy", he threatened to execute me", Rainbow complained. "Well you were being disrespectful towards him", Twilight said. "Your siding with him on this", she wined. "Of course I'm not", Twilight responded. "Oh yeah well it sounds like, to me that you're-" "Anyway, what are your names", she asked, preventing the argument from getting heated. "Rainbow Dash", she grumbled. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, what's your name?", she asked "I'm Rienna, pleased to meet you", she said. 'Great she hasn't threatened us or said anything insulting, yet', Twilight thought looking at Rienna, who had began talking with Rainbow Dash. Their conversation was cut short when two Nords hurriedly emerged from the forest, both of them had gray hair and a beard. "Thorald, Avulstein, you're back "Edwin, we need to tell you something", the eldest of the two said. "what is it?", Edwin asked. The sound of an arrow being fired interrupted their conversation. "LOOK OUT" Edwin jumped out the way narrowly avoiding the arrow that had been shot. He looked up to see a red haired Wood Elf upon an undead horse. The Wood Elf kicked his horse and it jumped at them in the hopes of crushing one of them, which would have worked if Avulstein had not hit the zombie horse with his war hammer killing it and sending the rider across the snow. The rider quickly regained his senses looked for his dagger which had been thrown a few feet away from him. He scurried towards the dagger but however that was not before Edwin could draw his sword and bring it down into his back, killing the Elf. Edwin pulled his sword from the Elf's back and looked at the others. He realized what he was, he looked back to the others. "A scout", he called "Well that confirms it", Thorald said. "What do you mean?, he asked nervously. "There were more of him, sort of like a team, we saw them coming from the north, all riding undead horses like him", he explained. "I see, Ralof how far is Windhelm?", Edwin asked. "Three miles", he responded. "Captain, on feet it will take us too long, we won't make it", Brandon panicked. "Better then waiting for our death's here", Thorald responded. "Sir if we are going to run we need to do it now", Avulstein suggested. Edwin felt conflicted as to what they would do, should they stay and hold out there or run and risk death in the open. He made a quick decision, he turned back to the others and said. "We run". challengeThe six Stormcloaks and two Equestrians ran (or Rainbow's case, carried) through the forest hopelessly searching for an exit to get them to Windhelm. They ran as fast as they could jumping over the occasional rock or log that happened to cross their paths. Looking back they saw eighteen other hunters appear in the distance. 'Lucky we got out of there in time' he thought looking over to Rainbow Dash. 'By Akatosh, she's a stubborn one' He began to recall what it took to actually get her out of the woods. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "We run", he said "Run, but sir", Brandon complained. "Hey Brandon, shut up", Thorald said calmly. Brandon threw Thorald an annoyed look as Edwin strolled over to Rainbow Dash and Twilight. "Breton, Altmer", Edwin said, insultingly saying the word Altmer. "They have names sir, Twilight and -" "Rainbow", he said. "Yes, how did you know?", Rienna asked. "They said it earlier", he answered calmly. "Wait a second" Edwin turned his head towards the voice to see the Altmer looked rather irritated. "That's what you were laughing at, you were laughing at my name", she snapped angrily. "I neither deny, or confirm that", he answered. "Now, how fast can you run?". "Run who needs to do that I'm the fastest flyer in all of Equestria", Rainbow responded arrogantly. 'Equestria? flying? what is this Altmer on', he thought to himself. "Doesn't matter, because we need to get out of here". "Get out of here?", hold on buster we're not going anywhere with anyone who killed somepony in cold blood", Rainbow responded. "Did she just say "Somepony"?", Edwin heard Brandon say. "I see well, if it's going to be like that, RALOF", he called. "Yeah", Ralof said strolling over. "Carry her". "WHAT", Ralof and Rainbow said simultaneously exclaimed. "You heard me", Edwin said calmly. Ralof walked over to Ralof. She heard him say "sorry" before picking her up and placing her on his shoulders. Edwin looked down to the Breton. "Twilit" "Twilight", she corrected. "How fast can you run", he said, being able to hear the complaints of Rainbow from behind him. "Well In races I usually run at a slow pace so that when everybody is tired I run past them", she said smiling at the end as if were relevant. "You ever played tag?". "No" "Well in the game just run as fast as you can away from the people chasing you and don't let them catch you, the only difference is that they are going to kill you when they catch you", He said. "K-kill", she gulped. "Yes kill, death, die, murder, that kind of thing now can we get going", he said hearing the sound of horses getting near. " Um, okay", she gulped, getting up. Edwin turned to the others. "Alright everyone let's get out of this forest and get to Windhelm", he called to the others. Everyone who was sitting down got up and made a dash towards the trees and ran. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The sound of a horse drawing closer snapped him from his thoughts, looking back he saw one of the hunters upon his horses approaching him from behind. He drew his sword, continuing to run until he felt the horse was close enough. He halted then hit the horse with his sword causing it to flip over. He continued running, picking up the rider and hurled it at another hunter, knocking him off his horse. Edwin then quickly ran back to the group. Avulstein looked to his side and saw a hunter approaching him. He pulled out his war hammer and slammed into the rider. Further to the right, Thorald ran up a log that led to higher ground to give him an advantage and followed the group close by and looked for a rider that was near to him. Eventually he saw one, he jumped onto the back of the horse startling the rider. When the rider turned around, Thorald used his axe to decapitate the rider and then jumped off, stumbling a bit when he hit the ground. Edwin looked to his left and above the trees he saw... "Windhelm", he muttered. "Everyone we're almost there". Him and his group took a turn and saw the forest's exit. They dashed as fast as they could, their spirits raised when they saw Windhelm not to far away from them. Edwin turned around and saw who he could assume was the leader of the group and someone who most warriors admired in terms of strength and power. He skidded against the snow and turned to face his new foe. "CAPTAIN, WHAT'RE YOU DOING?", Brandon yelled to him. "Get to Windhelm, NOW!", he ordered. His team followed his orders and unwillingly left for Windhelm. He prepared his sword, which shone in reflection of setting sun, he charged towards the leader of the group. He knew who he was taking on and knew that it was suicide, but a question still rang in his. Why?, why do something so foolish?, then he remembered why. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ It was daylight in the Imperial Arena, the crowd watched Garzug Arsh Kritug stab his newest opponent in his chest, winning the title of champion for the fifth time. The crowd roared at his triumph at what he had accomplished. In the crowd were two children and and one teenager. The child and the teenager had black hair while the other child had blonde hair. The black haired child looked to his blonde haired friend and back. His face adorned a large smile. "That was amazing, it's like he doesn't know the meaning of impossible", the black haired child cheerfully said. "Well it's good to see you have idol", the blonde said. "Oh no, the Hero of Kvatch is my hero", he responded. "Didn't become a Daedra?", The blonde asked "Don't get him started Nickulas, I've tried to tell him that before", the teenager said. Now Edwin, we need to get him back his mother, then we need to get back to Dad". "Ughhh you sound like Mum", Edwin groaned. "Edwin", his brother jokingly warned. "Sorry Robert", Edwin apologized "It's okay, now let's go", Robert said the two children. The three of them left, while walking down the streets of the Imperial city Edwin looked towards his brother and said. "Hey Robert" "Yeah", he responded. "One day I'm going to fight Garzug Arsh Kritug", he declared. "I will train and train until I'm strong enough". Robert looked at him knowing his brother meant what he said fully, he smiled at how willing to do this his brother was. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edwin charged his new opponent with fire in his eyes and nerves of steel. Garzug, who knew what he was doing ordered his soldiers to stand down and leave him to battle him. He ran towards him, took a deep breathe and shouted. "FUS RO DAH" The force was enough to throw Garzug off of his horse and onto the snow. Garzug got to his feet noticing his foe approaching him, sword in hand, he whipped out his Orcish sword to greet his opponent's Ebony sword. Edwin swung his sword to his left in to have it parried by Garzug's sword. He swung his sword to the right, left, up , down but found himself unable to land a successful strike on Garzug. He swung his sword and ended up put in a position where Garzug was trying to force his strength down so hard that it either break his sword, but if he moved his would most likely get slashed at which was no good to him, but he was prepared. He drew his dagger from his boot and and prepared to stab Garzug in the gut, however this was noticed. Garzug used his free hand to grab the blade of his sword ignoring any kind of pain and half sworded (when someone grabs their blade and thrusts with it) him with end of the handle and knocked the sword out of his hand. Edwin was left helpless, the only thought that comforted him was that his team most likely made it back to Windhelm safely. Garzug raised his sword to deliver his final strike but the sound of someone preparing a spell drew his attention. Garzug turned around and received a large amount of fire to the right side of his face. "AAARRGGGHH", he yelled. Zenieth and another one of Garzug's followers grabbed the screaming Garzug and carried him away. "KILL THEM", Zenieth yelled. Edwin tried to look at the person who attacked Garzug however his vision was blurred because of the Garzug half swording him all he could see was that he had blonde hair and blue robes. The new challenger began to fire off green spells incinerating the hunters and their horses. When the robed figure had finished chasing off the remaining hunters looked down on him and two more figures approached from the trees, one with blonde hair and the other with, purple hair?. "My, my when you said you were going to challenge him you weren't kidding", he joked. Edwin instantly knew who he was now. His vision cleared and his suspicion was proved correct. "Nickulas", Edwin said. "Where the hell have you been. "Could ask you the same question, it's been more than four years", he responded. Edwin turned his attention to the women behind him. "NIckulas, I'm ashamed of you", he teased. "Sorry", he asked confused. "Well aren't you already seeing someone", Edwin said. "What no, I'm just helping them find their friends, you of all people know I would never have an affair", he exclaimed "Yeah, who are they anyway?", he asked "Oh yeah, these are Applejack and Rarity", he responded. "Charmed", Rarity said "Yeah what she said", Applejack mumbled. "The blonde one reminds me of an Altmer I met, I believe her name was Rainbow", he explained. "Wait Rainbow, do you mean Rainbow Dash?", he asked. "I don't her last name but there was another I believe her name was Twilit", Edwin explained. "Twilight", Nickulas corrected. "Sure, wait how did you know", he explained. "I promised I would help them find their friends, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash and their baby dragon spike", Nickulas explained. "Huh, well if you want to know where the other two are, they're in Windhelm", he told him. "Well let's go then", he said cheerfully to his friend as the four of them headed down the road to Windhelm. city in the mountains"Here we are", Eldyn called to the women. "The city of Jehanna". The three of them looked up to Jehanna. It was a relatively small city that stood alone in the mountains of High Rock. They continued their journey up the cold path to the city, the snow beating them in the face. They trudged up the path until they reached a gate. "Open the gate, the champion approaches", they heard a guard yell. The gates slid open slowly, revealing the inside of the city to the three. The gates slammed shut behind them as they strolled into the city. It seemed warmer on the inside of the city. The streets bustled with Bretons and the occasional Orc or Redguard walking around the city. "Do you know what this city could use?", Pinkie asked rhetorically. Eldyn and Fluttershy turned towards Pinkie. "A PARTY!", she yelled, drawing the attention of everyone in the street. "Ssh, people are staring", he told her. "Oh, sorry", she apologized smiling nervously. "So, what do we do while we are here?", Fluttershy asked "Well first, I think we should find my two followers, Cellor and Berics", he said. "Why don't we ask one of the guards?" Pinkie asked. "Because we don't know who the guard we asked has been bought and paid for", He explained. "Um, Eldyn, if you don't mind me asking, why is that a problem?", Fluttershy asked. "Let's just say during my rise to the title of champion, I made a few enemies", he explained. "Now let's go find them". "Find who". They turned around to see a Redguard in his early forties with dark black hair. He wore Redguard clothes and weilded a Dragonbone sword. "Cellor", he said. Both of them gripped each others hands like someone would while arm wrestling. "Good to see you again Cellor", Eldyn said. "Likewise", Cellor responded. "Who are they?" "They are Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie", Eldyn answered. Cellor's left eyebrow rose. "Don't ask, I don't know either", He said. "Do you know where Berics is". Cellor gave him a look that said 'I think you know'. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Berics sat down in the dimly lit tavern facing his new challenger. Berics was a Breton in his mid thirties with brown hair, he wears brown mage robes and a green cape, he has gloves and boots similar to the Thieves guild gear and has a steel sword. Berics sat down with a Nord opposite him, playing a drinking game with everyone in the building watching eagerly as they did so, placing bets on who would win. "Y, you know wwwwhat?", the man slured. "I'm ssshooo glad that theycud get Honningbreww, sssooo much betterthan Black Biar". "Be careful who you saythat around the Black briarsss 'ave eyes an' ears every where", Brics warned "Ssssay, 'ow much have you had your face is looking kinda fffuzzy", he answered reaching for the bottle of mead on the table. "Sssweet Dibella, I think you're gonna nneed to quit before you k, kill yoursself", Berics warned. "I'll quit onccce you d -". The man passed out from the amount of drinks he had and slipped off of his chair and slammed onto the cold floor. "Game over", Berics said smiling. A number of cheers roared through the crowd as well as groans as the losers gave their septims to the winners. Eldyn, Cellor, Fluttershy and Pinkie walked through the crowd to see the winner of the game sitting up triumphantly. "You had fun, I assume", Eldyn said. "Sir", Berics said getting up making a fist a placing it upon his chest. "Seriously this is a habit that you need to get out of", Eldyn said. "That looked like fun, can I play?", a bubbly voice said. Everyone turned their heads towards the pink haired woman. They halted their drinking and eating. An eerie silence fell upon the room. So silent that you could hear a pin drop. Berics face became incredibly serious as he said. "Challenge accepted". sound of thunder"Ready, go", the bartender called. Already people were taking bets on who would win in this battle, Pinkie or Berics. Both of them received their cups and took their first sips. Eldyn, Cellor and Fluttershy watched as they gulped down the drinks. "So, who do you thinks going to win", Cellor asked. "Probably, Pinkie", Eldyn answered calmly. "What makes you sure?", Cellor asked. "He did just finish a game before he was challenged, chances are he''ll pass out after his second cup", Eldyn explained. They turned their attention back to Pinkie and Berics who had began their second cup. "Sssoo, do you sstill think youcun beat me?", Berics asked, slurring with a few words. "Yup", Pinkie responded cheerfully. Cellor turned back to Eldyn. "Yeah, he's going to lose", Cellor said. Berics reached for the third cup and drank it, Pinkie did the same. upon doing so, Pinkie not being used to mead or any kind of alcohol that strong, began to feel slightly prickly. "Ooh, I'm feeling kinda prickly, is this part of the game?, Pinkie asked. "Ha, I knewp she couldn't beat meee, I'm the champiieerr -". Berics slid off of his chair onto the floor. A roar erupted from the crowd, the long time winner of the drinking game finally defeated. Hoooraay, I wiiiii -". Pinkie, like Berics, fell off of her chair, onto the floor. The losers stopped handing out the bets to the winners and became very confused. "So, who won?", someone in the crowd asked. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nickulas, Edwin, Rarity and Applejack walked down the road to Windhelm. They walked across the bridge, they opened the gate and walked into the city. Upon entering the city they saw the people walking around and could hear the townsfolk talking with one another. "So did you hear about the dragon nesting in the mountains", one said. I heard the dragon's name was Yolviinggruin", another said. "There's apparently, a new mercenary in the city", a third said. "There's a new museum opening in Dawnstar", another said. Edwin and the other three walked through the city up to the castle however Nickulas stopped while near Candlehearth Hall. "Well Edwin, this has been an interesting evening but I think it would be best if I stay in the inn", Nickulas said. "You know that you could stay in the palace of the kings", Edwin explained. "No thanks, I'm eager to hear some stories before I rest, but if you need to find me then search for me in the Candlehearth hall", he said. "Okay, wait Nickulas", he called. "Yeah", nickulas said turning around. Edwin raised his hand in a fist and placed it on his chest, Nickulas repeated this motion and entered the inn. Rarity, Applejack and Edwin continued walking down the street towards the palace. "Ah thought he said he was goin' to help", Applejack said angrily. "He is, it's just when he was a Stormcloak, like me, during the, you know what, never mind", Edwin stopped what he was going to say. "During the what?", Rarity asked. "I'm not going to tell you, if he knew that you knew of this story, well to put it lightly, you could probably see the fire from the Imperial City", Edwin warned. "I can see he's quite touchy on this topic", Rarity said. "Oh yes, now let's get to the Palace", Edwin said calmly walking to the palace. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Candlehearth hall, remained dimly as usual. People strolling around and ordering drinks. Nikulas walked down the stairs to the bar counter there was one seat left. He quickly took the seat and looked up to Elda, the owner of the establishment. "Ah Nickulas, I haven't seen you here in a long time, so anyway what would you like?", Elda asked. "Water, please", He answered giving her the gold. "I would also like to rent a room for the night". "Sorry all the rooms are sold out", she apologized, handing him a glass of water. Nickulas cursed under his breath. "You can have my room if you'd like". Nickulas turned his head to see an imperial with black hair, goatee. He wore chain mail armor and had a silver sword. "Sorry?", he asked. "Sorry you can have my room, of course, it's not free", the man said. "No thanks, I think I can get along without a room for one night ", Nickulas said. "Suit yourself", he said. "You wouldn't happen to be the new mercenary would you?", Nickulas asked. "That's me, Caveleinn son of that guy you've probably never heard of", he said. "I'm Nickulas from Dunlain Falls", Nickulas responded. *RRRAAAAAWWWWRRRR* Upon hearing the roar, knowing exactly what it meant, Nickulas and Caveleinn rose from their stools and took out their weapons. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Palace of the Kings, the oldest building in all of Skyrim and perhaps the oldest building in all of Tamriel. Inside this building was the high king of Skyrim, Ulfric Stormcloak, Galmar Stone-Fist and many more Stormcloak soldiers. The doors opened and Edwin, Rarity and Applejack entered. "Rarity, Applejack", Twilight and Rainbow called. "Rainbow Dash, Twilight", Rarity and Applejack called. The four of them pulled each other in for a hug. The others just watched silently until Brandon broke the silence. "I'm so glad we don't do that in reunions", he scoffed, receiving a hard punch on the arm from Rienna. "I'm so glad you guys are okay", Twilight said relieved. "Well if it wasn't for Nickulas Spellcaster, we wouldn't be here", Rarity explained. "Who?", Rainbow Dash asked. "Edwin", an authoritative voice called. Edwin looked up to see Ulfric was the one who called him. "Who are these people?", he asked. "These are Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Twilit Sprinkle" "Guurggh, It's Twilight Sparkle", Twilight corrected, frustrated at him. "And when I say where they are from, don't laugh or say they're on Skooma,*sigh*, they are from a land mainly dominated by colourful horses that can fly and use magic, they are ruled by two horses that raise the sun and moon each day", Edwin explained calmly. Brandon and the guards in the room suddenly burst into laughter. Rienna just looked confused. Avulstein and Thorald just looked to the four women then back to each other, Ralof and Ulfric just scratched their heads in confusion and Galmar said "I've heard weirder". "It's true", Rainbow Dash complained. *RRRAAAAAWWWWRRRR* "What was that?", Rarity asked frightened. "That", Edwin's face became incredibly serious. "was a dragon". fire wing dreadLike thunder, the roar rolled down from the mountains. Wolves abandoned their deer and elk prey, running as far as they could. The horses and neighed in their stables. Guards drew their bows in preparation, townsfolk ran and cowered. A shadow soon fell across the town and fire rained down from the sky, consuming anyone who was caught in it. Edwin and the others raced outside the palace looking up to the sky. All view of the dragon was either obscured by fire or debris that fell from the sky. He drew his sword from it's sheath. Guards were completely helpless against the dragon, they were being picked up and thrown from great heights, crushed by falling debris or burnt alive. "Brandon, Rienna, get the girls out of here, Thorald, Ralof, Avulstein help the guards pelt that thing arrows", he ordered. "We can do that", Thorald said confidently. "Wait, where are you going?", Rainbow asked him "Going after that dragon", he responded confidently before bolting down the street. "Can he really fight that dragon?", Twilight asked. "Probably", Brandon responded. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edwin ran through the streets towards his enemy, citizens were either fleeing in terror or looking in horror and disbelief at their loved ones lifeless bodies. He saw the dragon in the distance approaching him. He came to the conclusion that this was the dragon that he heard had nested in the mountains. He took a deep breath and shouted to the heavens. "JOOR ZAH FRU" The dragon stopped on it's rampage and writhed about as soon as the shout caught it in midair. The dragon crashed onto the cold ground of the city of Windhelm. "What kind of foul tongue is this", the dragon boomed. "Surely rumour of the Dragonrend shout has reached your ears, has it not?", he asked. "Dragonrend? I cannot be harmed by your pitiful man-made words", the dragon said arrogantly. "Who said it was meant to harm you", he said, hitting the dragon with tip of his blade. The dragon yelled in pain before receiving a second blow to his head. The dragon's chest began to glow a bright orange before it unleashed a torrent of dragon fire. Edwin jumped behind a piece of debris which he used for cover. The dragon began to move closer towards that area used for cover preparing to knock it and Edwin towards the wall, the dragon prepared to finish him off, however a bolt of electricity prevented this from happening, temporarily happening. The dragon shot his gaze to were the lucky shot had come from. Seeing two people coming towards his direction the dragon shot his fire breath at them, but this was prevented from doing any damage when he used a ward to block this. Nickulas and Caveleinn raced towards the dragon using magical and physical attacks alike until the dragon flared his wing knocking them off their feet. "Ha, you think you can defeat me, I am Yol Viing Gruin, fire wing dread, you are nothing", he yelled, irritated. "Well we are here right in front of you, so technically we aren't nothing", Caveleinn said wittily. "SILENCE, I did not want or ask for any response to that", Yolviinggruin yelled. "Someone's got their knickers in a twist", Caveleinn said mockingly. 'Wait, this could be used to our advantage', Nickulas thought to himself. "DID I NOT TELL YOU TO BE SILENT", he yelled at Caveleinn. "Why should we be silent? you don't give us orders", Nickulas said, noticing Edwin getting to his feet. "What did you just say?" he asked. "Why, do we need to be silent?", he asked nervously. "Oh, your fears prevent you from completing your goal, I see what you are doing you are distract me -" "HERE! YOU WEAKLING" Yolviinggruin looked in the direction of the voice that interrupted him, only to have Edwin jump onto his head and start stabbing him repeatedly until the dragon's dead body slumped onto the floor. The body of Yolviinggruin began to glow and burn away, the dragon's soul slowly withdrew itself from the dragon's husk and was absorbed by Edwin, surrounding him with a bright glow which stood out under the night's sky as the dragon slowly burnt into a skeleton. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The sun arose from the far horizons, and shone above the trees. Rarity walked through the ruined city of Windhelm, looking in horror at what had happened to the city. While walking she saw something down in the rubble below, upon inspection it was a large egg shaped jewel. It was dark maroon with a few glowing red lines that would occasionally shift and change. Rarity, completely enthralled by the jewel ran over to the nearest guard to find out if anyone owned it. "Excuse me sir, do you know where the owner of this fine jewel?", she asked. "I've been to every shop and I don't think I've ever seen it before", the guard responded. Rarity gave a squeee in delight and ran off clutching the jewel like a child would with a sweet. Nearby Nickulas approached Edwin and his squad. Upon approaching Rienna ran forward to hug Nickulas, nearly knocking him off balance, Rienna upon realizing what she was doing immediately let go and both of them began blushing like crazy. "Okay guys, I think I know a way to help our four friends be reunited with the others and get them home", Nickulas said. "Don't tell me you believe them?", Brandon asked. "Yes, I do", Nickulas answered. "Alright then, how do you think we can help them?", Edwin asked. "Well have you ever heard of Soven Rahn". the journey"Soven Rahn? what's that?" Brandon asked. "*sigh* It's a hidden nordic ruin in the reach", Nickulas answered. "So?", Brandon said. "Well legend has it, there is someone in there who can answer any question, but only ask him once, once that's done you will never be able to see, or talk to him again unless he something else that is necessary for him to say", Nickulas explained. "So, why do you need us?", Thorald asked. "Because, me and Caveleinn can't deal with the amount of Draugr that's in there on our own", Nickulas answered. "And the girls don't seem like fighters". "Wait, you're bringing the mercenary?", Brandon asked. "If you've got a problem take it up with him", Nickulas answered. "So do you want to come?". There was an awkward silence among the group until Ralof spoke up. "Well I did want to become an explorer when I was young", Ralof explained. "I'll go, I've been in plenty of nordic ruins, so you will need my help", Edwin said. "I'll go, you will need a medic", Rienna answered. "Sure, why not" was Avulstein's response. "Well, I'm not an adventurer, but I'll go", Said Thorald. "Then it's settled, We'll get the girls ready we'll be off", Edwin said. "*groan*, this won't end well", Brandon moaned. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity and Applejack sat down outside overlooking the chaos at what had happened. 'Dragons never behave like this in Equestria', Twilight thought. "Excuse me but". Twilight looked to see a woman walking up to one of the guards. "Have you seen my son?, he's a member of the guard", she asked. The guard looked away ashamedly and pointed to a large rock with blood smeared on the edges. "B-but, h-he". The woman burst into tears walking over to the rock and falling on her knees. "Girls" The four of them turned around and saw Nickulas. "I have an idea of how we can get you home and find your friends", he explained. "Really?", Twilight exclaimed. Nickulas told the legend that he told the others about Soven Rahn and the person inside who can answer their questions. "So you want us to enter an ancient ruin that may or may not exist that has an army of undead creatures in it", Rainbow Dash said. "Well, not an army", he responded. "Still, it sounds like a really bad idea", Rainbow complained. "And you sound like Brandon", Nickulas responded. "Rainbow ah think that it is a good idea, ah still don't trust you though", Applejack told her friend. "And we don't really have much of a choice", Rarity added. "Well, I think that Twilight should be the one that chooses, she may be an egghead but she's not stupid enough to go into a -" "We're going", Twilight said. "WHAT!", Rainbow exclaimed. "I know it may be foolish, suicidal even, but we have to go, if we don't take this offer we may never find our friends and go home", Twilight explained. "Well it is decided", Nickulas said. "Great when are we going?", Twilight asked. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "When he said, now I didn't think he meant immediately after he said that", Twilight complained. "Well you asked, and I answered", he responded. "Don't fall behind, we won't wait for you, if you do", they heard Edwin call as they moved out of Winterhold and into the wilderness. The kingdom under the groundThe journey was a long, harsh and filled with many dangers that plagued the long roads. But, for our heroes, it was another story. For them it was simply another adventure. They wandered around forests, waded through rivers and took strolls along mountain sides, until finally they had reached the reach, where they set up camp on the cliff side. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edwin stared down on the map Nickulas had provided him, according to this map the entrance was on the cliff. "Still staring at that map", a voice called from behind. Edwin turned around to see a familiar, short brown haired man. "Let me give you of advice, never trust a map with a simple circle around the area you're looking for", Brandon explained. "especially, when the map was written hundreds of years ago". "If it was written hundreds of years ago, then how is it still in a good condition?" Edwin asked. Brandon shrugged his shoulders. "Magicka?". "That's not how magicka works", Edwin explained. "Even if that is so, Skyrim has changed since Soven Rahn was built all those years ago", Brandon explained. "That may be, but most nordic ruins still stand to this day", Edwin responded. "Look", Brandon said, attempting to imitate persuasive tone. "I know that you and Nickulas fought alongside each other during the rebellion, but you two haven't seen each other in four years, you two have clearly changed over the years". "Listen, Brandon", Edwin said, walking over to his teammate. "The next time I hear you doubt my friend, I'll throw you off the cliff". Edwin went back to look over his map, leaving Brandon with an angry scowl. 'That little b-' "That didn't look to good". Brandon turned around to see the speaker. "What do you want, mercenary", he spat. "Just observing your little argument", Caveleinn answered innocently. "Well I don't want to talk to you", he snapped, walking over to one of the tents angrily. "Was it something I said?", Caveleinn aksed himself ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight sat down on the edge of the cliff, wandering what was happening to her friends. She heard the sounds of people sitting next to her. "Ya alright Sugarcube?", Applejack asked. "Yes, I'm just worried for our friends, what they might be doing at the moment, if", she paused before continuing. "If they're even still alive". "Ah, they'll be fine", Rainbow Dash said confidently. "But, what if they're not?", Twilight asked. "Listen Twilight, those girls are some tough cookies", Applejack explained. Twilight looked at Applejack. "Well, Pinkie's a tough cookie", Applejack corrected. "And what about Spike?", Twilight asked. "Ah, don't know", Applejack responded. "See, what if something's happened to Spike, if he's died, then, I don't know what I would do", Twilight explained. "But that's why we're here, to get answers". The three girls jumped in sound of the voice, they turned and saw Nickulas. "We could have gone in search of the rogues, but some of us are not on good terms with them", Nickulas explained. "Um, the who?", Rainbow Dash asked. "People you would rather not be associated with", he explained. "Now you should get some sleep, It's going to hard to find Soven Rahn at night". "I guess you're right", Twilight said. As soon as Twilight stood up the rocks she was sitting on collapsed causing her to fall off the cliff. "TWILIGHT!", Applejack and Rainbow Dash screamed as they attempted to grab their friends hand. Twilight screamed as she fell down the hole. Edwin and the others raced over from what they were doing. "What the hell just happened?" Avulsteinn yelled. "By Talos she didn't", Edwin said, worried. Rainbow Dash looked down where her friend just fell. "TWILIGHT!", she yelled. "TWILIGHT!". No voice responded to her calls. "No", Rainbow said quietly. "Guys", a feminine voice called back up to them. Edwin and Nickulas breathed a sigh of relief. "Twilight, you're okay", Rainbow called. "Don't worry, I'm coming to get you", Edwin called. "Just stay still. Edwin climbed down the rocks, being very careful not to slip on any of the rocks. With just a few more steps down he saw Twilight, looking very worried. "Don't worry I'm here", Edwin said. "Now let's get you out... of.... here. "What is it?", Twilight asked. Edwin looked very closely at one of the walls, noticing a faint, door-like outline to it. "Nickulas", Edwin called. "Yeah", Nickulas responded. "Could you come down here?" Edwin asked. "Why?", Nickulas asked. "I think I've found something", Edwin called. "Okay, I'l be right down there", he called back. Edwin and Twilight heard the sound of someone climbing down the rocks. "Okay, what did you call me for?", Nckulas asked climbing down. "Could you look at that area of the wall?", Edwin asked. "Sure", Nickulas said looking closely around the wall taking in every detail. He then pulled out a strange key and looked at the side of it. "frolok vahlt do faal miiraad ahrk frolok tum wah faal nivosevild ko vund", Nickulas read quietly. Nickulas scanned the edge of the door and placed the key in a small crack in the wall and turned the key. The area of the door they were looking at began to shift until it opened like a door. Nickulas looked back towards Twilight and Edwin. "Tell the others", he began. "That we've found Soven Rahn. beginningIt was a cold and windy night in the city of Windhelm, as that was to be expected. All the animals had hidden any place they could and everybody had retired for the night. Barely a sound could be heard all except for the sound of the occasional guard patrolling the town. In that city was a house called Hjerim home of the Wolf-Blood family. Hjerim was a large house with seven rooms two bedrooms, a secret room, a kitchen, an alchemy laboratory, enchanting laboratory and an armory. Most of these rooms were empty all except for the living room which had two nord children a boy and a girl, the girl eleven and the other was eight and an old nord in his seventies sitting around a dimly lit fireplace, both of which wanting to hear one of their grandfather's stories form during his adventuring days. "Grandad, can we here the one about the dragon lord again, please?" the boy asked his grandfather with puppy eyes. "But we've heard that one already, can't we hear a new one?", the girl moaned. "well children as much as I would like to say that there is one more, I regret to tell you that most of the stories that I remember, I have already told you. However", their grandfather paused remembering something from long ago. "What is it grandad", the young boy said with excitement. "There may be one that I haven't told you yet", he said with a smile on his face. "What is it", his grandson said sitting up eagerly to hear what their grandad had to say. "Have I told you the one were women from another world entered our own, and we teamed up in order to defeat an evil hellbent on returning to our own world", he said, sure that his children had not heard this story. "Beings from another world, doesn't that sound a bit far fe-hmpph", she interrupted before having her younger brother stick his hand over her mouth, silencing her. "Tell us the story grandad", his grandson asked eagerly. "I guess I should start my story from the land where they come from, I believe they called the land, Equestria, but the story really starts in their hometown of Ponyville", he began. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *forty one years ago* "SPIKE, get me the eyepiece from my telescope" "Twilight, are you sure you won't need that", Spike responded. "I can go get a new one from the shops", Twilight answered. Spike ran up the stairs to get the eyepiece from the telescope. He ran down the stairs as fast as he could and gave the eyepiece to Twilight, who added the eyepiece to the potion. "Um twilight if you're making a spell, why are you making a potion", Spike asked. "eureka" Twilight cried, a smile of joy quickly appeared on her face. "I've done it I have created the best astronomy spell yet". "But you created a potion", Spike said confused. "Quick, you must get our friends, they need to be here when the spell is created" Spike quickly ran out of the library in order to gather their, friends. Seeking out each of their friends to allow them the chance to see the spell's creation. "So Twilight what is it you wanted to see us about", her cow mare friend asked her. "It better be important because If I don't go soon I'll miss the wonderbolt's performance", her rainbow maned friend moaned. "Oh it is, you see I am on the breakthrough of creating a spell that will allow us to see other worlds and I wanted you guys to watch as I finished it", Twilight said sounding like a mad scientist. "But you created a potion", Rainbow said confused. "Rainbow darling, to create a spell one must first create a formula first then take a drop of the formula and drop it onto a page of the spell book", Rarity explained to her friends receiving mainly "oh"'s from her friends. "However this method has been known for going incredibly wrong, Twilight are you sure you know what you 're doing". "Oh rarity, I'm Celestia's personal student, I think I know what I'm doing", Twilight assured her friend. Twilight used her telekinesis to lift up the vial and placed it into the cauldron she was using to create the formula for the spell. she removed the vial and took out the blank spell book, slowly dropping a droplet of the formula onto the spell book. At first everything seemed fine, but then. "What's happening" Twilight panicked. The spell book began to shake violently, electricity bolts shooting off of it. The book shot open creating a portal as black as night, trying to suck every living being through it. Twilight grabbed on to her banister, Applejack grabbed onto one of the holes in the floorboards, Rarity grabbed onto Applejack, Pinkie brought out the party canon and both her and Fluttershy and her grabbed onto it. Rainbow Dash attempted to fly out of the window but the pressure yanked her back into the room leaving her with one option, to grab onto the window and Spike grabbed onto Twilight's hoof. "Everypony, hang on" Twilight yelled to her friends. Spike slowly began to feel his grip onto what he was holding slipping. "TWILIGHT I'M SLIPEAAHH", Spike yelled as he was pulled through the portal. "SPIKEY WIKIEY", Rarity yelled, letting go of Applejack in shock at the loss of her friend, and nearly went into the portal before Applejack grabbed onto her hand. After a few creeks the floorboard which Applejack was holding onto gave out under pressure and broke of, pulling Applejack and Rarity through the portal. Eventually the party submitted to the force of the portal and was pulled through along with Fluttershy and Pinkie who yelled "weeee" as she was pulled through. After a while Rainbow Dash who was putting up a good struggle was pulled through leaving Twilight alone with a portal that would not stop until she was pulled through. With one final pull Twilight was pulled through leaving an empty library, the book slammed shut, almost satisfied with what it had done. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Wow", the youngest of the two exclaimed. "That's just dumb", the girl snapped abruptly. "Continue the story Grandad", his grandson asked excitedly. "And this is where our stories main character comes in, my brother", he continued. "I'm going to bed", his granddaughter said rudely, getting out of her chair. "Where were we, ah yes so there he was in the middle of the Pale", He continued as his granddaughter left the room and his grandson listened to the story. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edwin Wolf-Blood or ice veins as his fellows called him, drew his ebony sword and struck down another Imperial and threw his dagger at another who was charging his position. He watched as the remaining imperials fled at what they witnessed. A lone Stormcloak defeating an entire camp and legate all by himself. He pulled out his amulet of Talos and thanked the nine for his victory. He went over to the Legate's tent and removed the miniature red flag from the map and replaced it with a blue flag to symbolize that the Stormcloaks now control this area in the Pale. He drew out his horn and blew into it to let Stormcloaks nearby know of his victory here. He soon gathered what he needed from the camp and prepared to head off. Finding the nearby road and walking down it to return back to Windhelm. The cold didn't bother him, being raised in the north of Cyrodiil had it's benefits so as he walked down the road in the middle of the Pale, it only reminded him of home Edwin was a nord warrior in his early thirties, he has dark black hair up to his shoulders like most of his family members and a beard, carries an ebony sword and an ebony dagger which he hides in his boot and wore his usual customized Stormcloak armor and warm blue cape with fur around the edges down to his knees with the Stormcloak symbol, iron gauntlets and leather boots. He took the main road back to Windhelm, which he was following very well until a bright blue light from the forest to the left drew his attention. "Damn mages", he said to himself before heading off to investigate the glow from the forest. He ventured deep into the forest, as he drew closer to the source of the light he heard the sound of two female voices until... "AAAGGGGHHHH". The sound of the scream immediately pick up his pace and run faster towards the light in order to find the cause of the scream. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight woke up in the middle of a snowy forest. She quickly regained her senses and her vision cleared up. A feeling of dread soon rose over her as, she had no idea where she was, she was in the middle of a forest, it was cold and she had no idea were her fri- "Twilight is that you?" Twilight turned around to see a tall bipedal figure standing behind her. The figure reminded her of a hairless ape, however there were features that defined it like, gold skin, green eyes, pointy ears and, wait, rainbow colored hair. "Rainbow?" Twilight asked. "Twilight it is you", her rainbow maned friend said to her relieved. "Rainbow, what have you turned into?" she asked. "I dunno, what have you turned into?", she asked. Twilight raised her hoofs in front of her face to see that her hoofs had been replaced with little stumps. Twilight began to breathe deeply in terror at the abomination that she had become. Soon her became to great and she let out a scream louder then she had ever done before. "AAAGGGGHHHH" "Sweet Celestia, calm down twilight", Rainbow said irritated at the noise. "Calm down, calm down, our species has changed and your telling me to calm down", She panicked. While she ranted she failed to notice a blue armored figure run up behind a tree "STOP RIGHT THERE". They turned around to be greeted by a bipedal figure wearing blue armor holding a dark grey sword, and by the look on it's face it wasn't happy to see them. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A few miles North of their position, a group of cultists upon undead horses waited for their scout to return impatiently. The cold was something they wanted to get out of soon. The leader of their group was a great orc, he had dark green skin and red hair with sideburns. He wore the same armor as Tsun and the shoulder pieces of ancient nordic armor and used an orcish sword. His name was one that struck fear into the hearts of his opponents, mainly because he used the name when he fought in the Imperial arena (and won seven times in a row), Garzug Arsh Kritug. His leftenant was a dark elf by the name of Zenieth. Zenieth had long black hair the went down to his shoulders and had a white tribunal tattoo on his forhead. He wore light Chitn armor and used an Elven dagger and a glass axe. "Sir, pardon the interruption but", Zenieth paused for a second as his master turned to him with an angered expression. "You distracted me from my thoughts", he responded with a deep voice. "Sorry sir, but the others are growing impatient, they want us to -" "I don't care for the others opinions, You should consider yourself lucky I'm not the supreme master or you would surely have your head would be lying on the floor with him raising your headless body to fight for him", Garzug snapped. "Yes sir", Zenieth obeyed. Garzug continued pondering within his thoughts leaving little sound but the wind blowing and the occasional horse stomping it's hoof restlessly. webs and newcomersFluttershy eyelids rose from the deep slumber which they were originally positioned in. She rose up and placed her hand in something wet. She turned her head to the source and found a small clear puddle. She looked around and saw that she was mainly surrounded by darkness, she could only assume that she was in a cave of some sort. She arose to her hoofs but while doing so noticed small little stubs at the end of her hoofs. She moved over to the pool to look at her reflection in an attempt to see what she had been turned into. When she looked into the pool she noticed that her hair color had stayed the same however, she had now lost all pf her fur, she had pale skin and had large pointy ears. She gasped at the sight of what she had turned into. She moved down the cave silently in fear of what could be in the cave. "Psst". Fluttershy turned her head to the source find the source of the 'psst', but found nothing. She continued to walk on her four legs and move down the cave, slightly unnerved at what just happened. "Psst, Fluttershy". Fluttershy turned her head yet again and saw nothing. Fluttershy began to whimper silently. She tripped up on something while she was looking back to find the voice and fell into something sticky. She tried to get up only fall back in. She then tried trying to pull the sticky stuff only to get more tied up in it sending of vibrations. In her situation she then began to notice what it was and during her years as an animal caretaker she knew exactly what it was, giving her even more reason to to try and get out. She was stuck in a web. She began to her sounds of multiple legs walking against the ground. In time she could see a large figure moving closer to her, the figure moved closer until she could see it's eight eyes and legs clearly. It's pincers began to click together violently and it disappeared into the darkness. 'I don't want to die', Fluttershy thought. *Shwiing* Fluttershy's panicking was interrupted by the sound of metal hitting hitting the side of the web. Her webbed prison hit the ground and she noticed a blue crystalline sword cutting the webbing off of Fluttershy. She looked up to be greeted by something with a similar anatomy to her new form, but the main thing that stood out was the bright pink fluffy mane. "HeyFluttershydidn'tyouheremewhenIwentpsstbutyouwentoffsomewhereelsesoIwentoffafteryoubutIsawyoutrappedinwebbingsoIdecidedtocutyououtbythewaywhenwe'relikethiswewalkontwolegsnotfour -" Pinkie was interrupted by the familiar sound of eight legs patting against stone. "IT'S BACK, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES", Pinkie yelled at the top of her lungs unintentionally alerting the spider. Fluttershy and Pinkie ran down the cave as fast as they could with the frostbite spider not far behind, occasionally spitting a kind of venom at them. They ran and soon found two directions in the cave. Down the left path they saw another spider biting into something that looked bipedal and wore blue armor that looked as though it was made from the same material that the sword was made from. the new spider turned his head and revealed it's blood stained pincers and began to click them violently. Fluttershy and Pinkie looked back down the path they came from and saw that the spider was catching up to them turning back to the other one, they saw the other one running towards them. They made a split second to take the right path and bolted down it, taking lefts and rights in order to find their way out of the cave until they reached a dead end. Both of them began to slam their fists against the wall violently yelling about "how this couldn't be happening". They looked downwards and saw marks that looked as though they had been dragged out from something, looking further to the left they saw a small hole in the cave wall small enough for them to fit through next to them. They squeezed themselves through as quick as they could, hearing the sounds of the spiders approaching them. They crawled through as quick as they could and found their way out. They forced themselves out of the hole and quickly ran down the caves again. Running down they could not tell whether the sounds of spider legs hitting stone were real or not. Dismissing this they turned upwards and saw the very thing they were looking for. The way out. They jolted to the light as fast as they could. Turning around they could see the spiders emerging from the darkness of the caves. They climbed as fast as they could upwards, with the two spiders not far behind. They emerged from the caves into a windy forest. They stumbled out of the cave, quickly regaining their balance. They let out a sigh of relief. "He's gone", Fluttershy sighed. Just after that, the blood stained spider jumped out of the cave and prepared to get it's next meal. "You jinxed it", Pinkie yelled angrily, drawing the blue sword from its sheath Just as the spider prepared to lunge down an arrow pierced one of the spiders pincers. The creature stumbled backwards and fell back into the cave landing on top of the other spider. Both girls turned around to see something similar to them but it however wore gold armor with daggers along the chest piece, a black cloak and a mask making them only able to see his eyes. "Jee, thanks mis-" Pinkie was cut of when their "savior" had pointed a black, double tipped arrow at Pinkie Pie. "Were did you get that sword", the stranger asked, by the tone in his voice he was definitely male. "I found it", Pinkie responded. "Likely story", he said bitterly. "Allow me to get a better look at it". Pinkie obediently gave the stranger the crystal blade, he then began to bring the sword close to his eyes and examined it, he removed his mask to prevent it from obscuring his view. The stranger had slightly tanned skin, a square chin and had a five o'clock shadow. "Stalhrim, one handed blade. Made from stalhrim and leather", he muttered to himself. "This sword belonged to someone I knew, Almor Amaunde, a brute of a Breton, loved a good adventure adventure and enjoyed telling them to others. I forged this sword for him myself, as well as his armor". Fluttershy recalled the moment in the cave where she saw the spider eating something wearing armor made from the same material. Fluttershy began to tear up at the thought of someone losing a close friend. "I'm sorry", Fluttershy said sadly. The cloaked soldier turned his head towards her. "We saw him get eaten by one of the spiders", Fluttershy said quietly, small tears forming in her eyes. "I'm really sorry about your friend". _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Eldyn Amaunde, champion of High Rock in all his years had never seen someone show pity for him with the exception of his family and friends. Most things he learned in rise to become champion of Daggerfall was that it was every Breton for themselves. "He wasn't my friend", he stammered before continuing. "He was my brother". The woman's face saddened even more. Looking at this, he began to feel more conflicted about these two. On one side he wanted to leave them in the forest taking his brother's sword, on the other hand, she was the only stranger to show him complete sympathy. 'This woman was the only stranger to show complete kindness and what kind of a champion would I be if I didn't help them', he thought to himself. Coming to a decision he looked at the girls. "There's a city not to far from here, I'll take you there", he said solemnly as the thought of his brother still remained in his mind. He sheathed the stalhrim sword and place his Dwarven black bow of fate into it's holder. "So what're your names", he asked. The timid woman was about to open her mouth when her fluffy haired friend interrupted her. "I'm Pinkie Pie but you can just call me Pinkie and this is Fluttershy what's your name", the bubbly woman said. 'Those are some weird names', he thought. "I'm Eldyn Amaunde". "Um Eldyn", Fluttershy said quietly. "Yes?" "Thanks for helping us", She said politely. "Your welcome", he responded. "Also if you don't mind me asking, but where are we?", she asked. "You're in High Rock, just a few miles from the city of Jehanna", he answered. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Spike wondered tirelessly through halls of the dimly light underground castle. Tired, hungry and missing his friends. 'Now I really regret skipping out on breakfast', he thought He turned around a corner to see one of the creepiest things he had ever seen in his life. A tall bipedal figure that looked as though it has had numerous pieces of flesh stitched together and had glowing purple lights coming from it's chest, head, forehoofs and legs on it was numerous symbols. Spike shuffled back behind the corner hoping the creature didn't see him. Turning back he saw that the thing had not noticed him,he breathed a sigh of relief. *Growl* The sound of his stomach growling was enough to turn the creature's attention to the corner and looked very closely. After being unable to see anything it dismissed this and continued patrolling the hallway. spike continued his trek to find his way out of the ruin until he heard a voice shout. "YOU MEET YOUR END MORTAL" Spike turned to see a group of green monkey like creatures fighting large horned creatures wearing black armor. He watched in horror as each of the monkey like creatures were cut down by the armored ones. The very sight made Spike sick to his stomach. Spike prepared to leave when he heard a loud hoofstep coming from behind him. He turned to see an armored figure standing behind him. The figure raised what he could assume was it's hoof and brought it into his face and then darkness blurred his vision. Notes and IdeasIdea Okay I thought of this idea and I want to know your opinions on it, I had an idea to split the story into 3 parts to cover certain arcs separately to give it like somewhat of this movie/television series feel to keep this feeling build up and anticipation for the next part so like this will be the New World, the next will be Shadow Arisen and last will be Age of Fire. If you like or don't like this idea put it down in the comments. Notes In the Skyrim timeline this takes place a few years after Skyrim and Dragonborn, the mage character is the one who completed the Dawnguard questline and lastly I have added my own new armor types which are the Stormcloak Ranger armor (Edwin's armor) and Augur robes (Mage characters robes) and location that did not appear in the game called soven rahn, the relevance of this place will not be revealed until later on the story. Anyway what do you think of these ideas, and let me know I like hearing ideas chapters will be added as usual and have a good day/ night.
keys and magesThe Midden dark, a fitting name for a fitting place, everyone thought this way all except for one. A blonde nord named Nickulas Spellcaster, he wore his own custom made blue and yellow mage robes, college boots and mystic tuning gloves. He walked down into the midden, staff of Magnus in hand, in search of his friend who resided down there. He took a left and saw a door, he looked around in suspicion in case someone or something was following him. He opened the door and entered a room. It was mainly empty except for the large basin with dark blue water in it. The room began to shift as a blue light appeared out from the basin, a light commonly known as the Augur of Dunlain. "Nickulas, you return to my dwelling", the Augur said with an omnipotent voice. "I trust you have completed the task". "Yes, although standing atop the highest peak of the throat of the world on one leg was a challenge, I pulled through", he responded blowing a strand of hair out of his eye. "Well the task is done I shall, give you what you sought", he said. A wave of magicka began to sweep out from the basin and form a shape in the air, the shape of a key. Nickulas looked upon this key with astonishment. He reached out his hand to grab the key. He took it in his hand and looked down the side and saw wording. To the untrained eye just a strange arrangement of lines and circles, but to someone trained in this, it was something different. "Keep it safe, do not let anyone take it, there are certain people who want to keep this key as far away from anyone who knows what it unlocks", the Augur said with a warning tone. "Swear to me that you will never let this key out of your sight". "I swear by my families honor", he said placing his hand on his chest. "Good, now go you and your allies have a long journey ahead", He said as he disappeared back into the basin. Nickulas looked at the key cautiously then left the room, out to the cold outside. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nickulas opened the hatch and excited back out into the cold. He got out and brushed the dirt off his robe. He began to walk to the Hall of Attainment when something diverted his gaze. The Archmage, Tolfdir. A quick flashback of when he gave the position of Archmage to Tolfdir because of his lack of experience returned to his mind. However something seemed off he was running towards him as fast as he could. "Quick, you need to come to my office at once", He said breathing heavily. "Why?", he questioned. "No time to tell you, but the other members are there", He said _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Each member of the college stared down at what was before them. Two unconscious women, one was a Nord with long blonde hair tied in a ponytail, the other was an Imperial with curly purple hair. They laid peacefully on the Archmages bed as that was the only place they could spare with enough Magicka to prevent them from not waking up. Nickulas entered the room with Tolfdir not to far behind. Nickulas was shocked at this. 'What happened to them', he thought. "we're lucky that J'zargo and Onmund found them when they did or who knows what could have happened to them", said Nirya. "Also one of them was wearing this strange hat". Nickulas took this hat in his hand and began to inspect it. Upon completion he looked up to the others and spoke up. "Does anyone know how they ended up like this?", Nickulas asked. "As far as me and J'zargo know, there was a bright flash and, poof, there they were", Onmund revealed. "What do we do with them when they wake up", Brelyna said. "J'zargo says that we let them go", J'zargo suggested. "I agree with J'zargo, we helped them while they were unconscious, is it really necessary to keep them here when they wake up?", Faralda questioned "We can't do that", Drevis Neloren spoke up. "Oh yeah, and why not?", Sergius Turranius asked. "Because it's morally wrong", Drevis responded. "And if we do that it'll count as murder", Brelyna said. "How so?", Nirya asked. "Because we would be leaving them to die", Brelyna said. "It would be our fault if they were eaten by wolves", Phinis Gestor added. "Or if they find that dagger and think that it's smart to hit the warped soul gem with it, like certain other member of the college we know", Drevis said with disdain. "It's called Keening you idiot, and anyway Nickulas keeps it on him at all times, don't you?", Faralda insulted. Nickulas face palmed. "Please don't bring me into this", He muttered. The two sides bickering over time escalated into an argument. During this time they failed to notice the Nord woman get up. She looked around at what was transpiring. She began to nudge her friend to wake her up. After that failed she picked her up and quietly began to carry her, however while doing this she noticed that Nickulas's attention was drawn to the like moths to a light. Upon seeing this the Woman ran faster. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rarity eyelids began to open as she felt the cold air and snow brush against her skin. She looked around and saw she was being carried by something tall. She began to panic. "Unhand me you -". She was cut short when the figure looked back at her revealing her familiar green eyes and long blonde hair. "Oh Applejack it's you, sorry about that", she apologized to her cowgirl friend. "what happened to your hat?". These words seemed to almost petrify Applejack, she reached for her head, dropping Rarity. "Mah hat, ah left in that room where all them strange ponies were arguing", she panicked. "Well let's go back and get it", Rarity said. "Can't one of 'em noticed me", she responded. "Looking for this?", a voice called from behind them. They turned around to see a blonde bipedal figure wearing blue robes and carrying a staff, a key and... "Mah hat", Applejack exclaimed. "Sweet Celestia, what in Equestria are you wearing, it looks as though you bought it from the one bit shop", Rarity questioned. "I made this myself", he said insulted. "And who's Celestia, what's Equestria and what is a bit, is it some form of currency". "Well to answer your questions, Celestia is the alicorn princess who raises the sun each day and resides in Cantelot, and she watches over the ponies who reside in the land", she answered. A confused expression grew on his face. "And Equestria is the country where Princess Celestia and Luna and all the other ponies live in", she continued. He became even more confused. "And lastly you are correct about bits being currency, it is only used in Equestria not in the Griffon kingdom or Minotaur planes". She said. He looked at them as if they were growing second heads until finally he spoke up. "Are you on Skooma?", he said. "What's Skooma?", Applejack asked. "Doesn't matter anyway what're you names?", he asked. "Applejack", She said. "I'm Rarity", Rarity said. "Hm interesting names, quite unique, I'm Nickulas Spellcaster", Nickulas said. "Anyway here's your hat". Applejack moved close and grabbed her hat back from Nickulas. "You're welcome", He said when she didn't thank him. "So is there anything more I can help you with". "No", Applejack said quickly. "Well", Rarity responded. "Rares what're you doing", she whispered pulling her friend in closely. "We don't know if we can trust it". "Applejack don't be so rude, it's a him not an it", Rarity corrected. "Well as far as ah know it's an it", she responded. "Well he could be the only way of finding our friends", She said. "Do you really trust it?", Her question fell on deaf ears as Rarity turned to Nickulas. "We need to find our friends, Twilight, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Rainbow dash and Twilight's assistant, a baby dragon named Spike, can you help?", she asked. 'There again with the names', he thought. "Of course I can help". "Great", Rarity exclaimed. "I'll just tell the Archmage and we'll be off", he continued. "Thank you", Rarity said. "Yeah thanks", Applejack grumbled. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Garzug and Zenieth waited upon their horses, with their fellows waiting restlessly. A black haired Breton soon broke the silence. "Alright that's it I'm going by myself", he snapped. "If you go I'll personally use your head as an example to others to show what happens when you lose patience", Garzug spoke harshly. A ruffle in the bushes in the left drew their attention. A small red haired Wood Elf emerged from the bush. He mounted his horse and rode it towards his master. "I found them their in the forest, seven miles west", he reported. "That explains why he took so long", Zenieth muttered. "EVERYONE WE RIDE NORTH", he yelled. Each rider soon had a large grin, grow on their face. "CHARGE!", he yelled as every horse began to ride towards their unsuspecting prey.
where are we?Edwin held the sword firmly in his hand, to the point where it made his knuckles white. His eyes never straying from the High Elf. Both of them exchanged glances before she spoke up. "Alright buster, you better tell us where we are and what -" "If anyone is asking the questions it will be me", Edwin responded coldly cutting her off. "Oh yeah, who are you to ask questions, who are you the king or something", She snapped rudely. "I'm a thane", he said bitterly. "Doesn't sound anything special to me", the High Elf said disrespectfully. Edwin prepared to respond to that question however the Breton with strange hair answered for him. "A thane is someone has has a piece of land given by the monarch, if they feel as though this person is well recognized throughout the land, and is widely known as a hero among those who live in the land", she said, adding a smile to the end. "So?" "In simpler words, I could have you executed with the wave of my hand, in fact because of your rudeness, I should", Edwin said sternly "What?, you can't do that", she exclaimed. "Well technically Rainbow, he can". 'Rainbow, is that her name', he thought chuckling slightly. "What's so funny?", she asked, irritated. "Nothing", he said, barely able to contain his laughter. *SNAP* All three of them turned their attention to the source of the snap and saw three more Nords in blue armor. A man in his late twenties with short brown hair, a woman in her in early thirties with light red hair up down to her shoulders and a man in his mid fourrties with long blonde hair and a beard. "Captain, we heard a scream", The woman said. "That you did, Rienna", he turned to the red haired nord woman, he pointed towards the other women. "Keep an eye on these two, Ralof, where are Thorald and Avulstein?". "They went to search another area for what could have been making the screaming", he explained. "well they better be back soon, 'tis getting dark", he warned looking over the trees at the orange sky. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight looked over to the strangers then back to Rainbow, who had a look of irritation in her eyes, mainly because she was not used to somepony talk to her the way he did. "Rainbow, are you okay?, you look angry", she asked concerned for her friend. "Really, you don't say", Rainbow responded sarcastically, she looked up to see a red haired one. "Oh great here comes another one". "Hello", she said, sitting down on the snow with them. "Sorry about him, he can sometimes be a bit uneasy when it comes to elves". "You call that being a "bit uneasy", he threatened to execute me", Rainbow complained. "Well you were being disrespectful towards him", Twilight said. "Your siding with him on this", she wined. "Of course I'm not", Twilight responded. "Oh yeah well it sounds like, to me that you're-" "Anyway, what are your names", she asked, preventing the argument from getting heated. "Rainbow Dash", she grumbled. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, what's your name?", she asked "I'm Rienna, pleased to meet you", she said. 'Great she hasn't threatened us or said anything insulting, yet', Twilight thought looking at Rienna, who had began talking with Rainbow Dash. Their conversation was cut short when two Nords hurriedly emerged from the forest, both of them had gray hair and a beard. "Thorald, Avulstein, you're back "Edwin, we need to tell you something", the eldest of the two said. "what is it?", Edwin asked. The sound of an arrow being fired interrupted their conversation. "LOOK OUT" Edwin jumped out the way narrowly avoiding the arrow that had been shot. He looked up to see a red haired Wood Elf upon an undead horse. The Wood Elf kicked his horse and it jumped at them in the hopes of crushing one of them, which would have worked if Avulstein had not hit the zombie horse with his war hammer killing it and sending the rider across the snow. The rider quickly regained his senses looked for his dagger which had been thrown a few feet away from him. He scurried towards the dagger but however that was not before Edwin could draw his sword and bring it down into his back, killing the Elf. Edwin pulled his sword from the Elf's back and looked at the others. He realized what he was, he looked back to the others. "A scout", he called "Well that confirms it", Thorald said. "What do you mean?, he asked nervously. "There were more of him, sort of like a team, we saw them coming from the north, all riding undead horses like him", he explained. "I see, Ralof how far is Windhelm?", Edwin asked. "Three miles", he responded. "Captain, on feet it will take us too long, we won't make it", Brandon panicked. "Better then waiting for our death's here", Thorald responded. "Sir if we are going to run we need to do it now", Avulstein suggested. Edwin felt conflicted as to what they would do, should they stay and hold out there or run and risk death in the open. He made a quick decision, he turned back to the others and said. "We run".
challengeThe six Stormcloaks and two Equestrians ran (or Rainbow's case, carried) through the forest hopelessly searching for an exit to get them to Windhelm. They ran as fast as they could jumping over the occasional rock or log that happened to cross their paths. Looking back they saw eighteen other hunters appear in the distance. 'Lucky we got out of there in time' he thought looking over to Rainbow Dash. 'By Akatosh, she's a stubborn one' He began to recall what it took to actually get her out of the woods. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "We run", he said "Run, but sir", Brandon complained. "Hey Brandon, shut up", Thorald said calmly. Brandon threw Thorald an annoyed look as Edwin strolled over to Rainbow Dash and Twilight. "Breton, Altmer", Edwin said, insultingly saying the word Altmer. "They have names sir, Twilight and -" "Rainbow", he said. "Yes, how did you know?", Rienna asked. "They said it earlier", he answered calmly. "Wait a second" Edwin turned his head towards the voice to see the Altmer looked rather irritated. "That's what you were laughing at, you were laughing at my name", she snapped angrily. "I neither deny, or confirm that", he answered. "Now, how fast can you run?". "Run who needs to do that I'm the fastest flyer in all of Equestria", Rainbow responded arrogantly. 'Equestria? flying? what is this Altmer on', he thought to himself. "Doesn't matter, because we need to get out of here". "Get out of here?", hold on buster we're not going anywhere with anyone who killed somepony in cold blood", Rainbow responded. "Did she just say "Somepony"?", Edwin heard Brandon say. "I see well, if it's going to be like that, RALOF", he called. "Yeah", Ralof said strolling over. "Carry her". "WHAT", Ralof and Rainbow said simultaneously exclaimed. "You heard me", Edwin said calmly. Ralof walked over to Ralof. She heard him say "sorry" before picking her up and placing her on his shoulders. Edwin looked down to the Breton. "Twilit" "Twilight", she corrected. "How fast can you run", he said, being able to hear the complaints of Rainbow from behind him. "Well In races I usually run at a slow pace so that when everybody is tired I run past them", she said smiling at the end as if were relevant. "You ever played tag?". "No" "Well in the game just run as fast as you can away from the people chasing you and don't let them catch you, the only difference is that they are going to kill you when they catch you", He said. "K-kill", she gulped. "Yes kill, death, die, murder, that kind of thing now can we get going", he said hearing the sound of horses getting near. " Um, okay", she gulped, getting up. Edwin turned to the others. "Alright everyone let's get out of this forest and get to Windhelm", he called to the others. Everyone who was sitting down got up and made a dash towards the trees and ran. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The sound of a horse drawing closer snapped him from his thoughts, looking back he saw one of the hunters upon his horses approaching him from behind. He drew his sword, continuing to run until he felt the horse was close enough. He halted then hit the horse with his sword causing it to flip over. He continued running, picking up the rider and hurled it at another hunter, knocking him off his horse. Edwin then quickly ran back to the group. Avulstein looked to his side and saw a hunter approaching him. He pulled out his war hammer and slammed into the rider. Further to the right, Thorald ran up a log that led to higher ground to give him an advantage and followed the group close by and looked for a rider that was near to him. Eventually he saw one, he jumped onto the back of the horse startling the rider. When the rider turned around, Thorald used his axe to decapitate the rider and then jumped off, stumbling a bit when he hit the ground. Edwin looked to his left and above the trees he saw... "Windhelm", he muttered. "Everyone we're almost there". Him and his group took a turn and saw the forest's exit. They dashed as fast as they could, their spirits raised when they saw Windhelm not to far away from them. Edwin turned around and saw who he could assume was the leader of the group and someone who most warriors admired in terms of strength and power. He skidded against the snow and turned to face his new foe. "CAPTAIN, WHAT'RE YOU DOING?", Brandon yelled to him. "Get to Windhelm, NOW!", he ordered. His team followed his orders and unwillingly left for Windhelm. He prepared his sword, which shone in reflection of setting sun, he charged towards the leader of the group. He knew who he was taking on and knew that it was suicide, but a question still rang in his. Why?, why do something so foolish?, then he remembered why. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ It was daylight in the Imperial Arena, the crowd watched Garzug Arsh Kritug stab his newest opponent in his chest, winning the title of champion for the fifth time. The crowd roared at his triumph at what he had accomplished. In the crowd were two children and and one teenager. The child and the teenager had black hair while the other child had blonde hair. The black haired child looked to his blonde haired friend and back. His face adorned a large smile. "That was amazing, it's like he doesn't know the meaning of impossible", the black haired child cheerfully said. "Well it's good to see you have idol", the blonde said. "Oh no, the Hero of Kvatch is my hero", he responded. "Didn't become a Daedra?", The blonde asked "Don't get him started Nickulas, I've tried to tell him that before", the teenager said. Now Edwin, we need to get him back his mother, then we need to get back to Dad". "Ughhh you sound like Mum", Edwin groaned. "Edwin", his brother jokingly warned. "Sorry Robert", Edwin apologized "It's okay, now let's go", Robert said the two children. The three of them left, while walking down the streets of the Imperial city Edwin looked towards his brother and said. "Hey Robert" "Yeah", he responded. "One day I'm going to fight Garzug Arsh Kritug", he declared. "I will train and train until I'm strong enough". Robert looked at him knowing his brother meant what he said fully, he smiled at how willing to do this his brother was. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edwin charged his new opponent with fire in his eyes and nerves of steel. Garzug, who knew what he was doing ordered his soldiers to stand down and leave him to battle him. He ran towards him, took a deep breathe and shouted. "FUS RO DAH" The force was enough to throw Garzug off of his horse and onto the snow. Garzug got to his feet noticing his foe approaching him, sword in hand, he whipped out his Orcish sword to greet his opponent's Ebony sword. Edwin swung his sword to his left in to have it parried by Garzug's sword. He swung his sword to the right, left, up , down but found himself unable to land a successful strike on Garzug. He swung his sword and ended up put in a position where Garzug was trying to force his strength down so hard that it either break his sword, but if he moved his would most likely get slashed at which was no good to him, but he was prepared. He drew his dagger from his boot and and prepared to stab Garzug in the gut, however this was noticed. Garzug used his free hand to grab the blade of his sword ignoring any kind of pain and half sworded (when someone grabs their blade and thrusts with it) him with end of the handle and knocked the sword out of his hand. Edwin was left helpless, the only thought that comforted him was that his team most likely made it back to Windhelm safely. Garzug raised his sword to deliver his final strike but the sound of someone preparing a spell drew his attention. Garzug turned around and received a large amount of fire to the right side of his face. "AAARRGGGHH", he yelled. Zenieth and another one of Garzug's followers grabbed the screaming Garzug and carried him away. "KILL THEM", Zenieth yelled. Edwin tried to look at the person who attacked Garzug however his vision was blurred because of the Garzug half swording him all he could see was that he had blonde hair and blue robes. The new challenger began to fire off green spells incinerating the hunters and their horses. When the robed figure had finished chasing off the remaining hunters looked down on him and two more figures approached from the trees, one with blonde hair and the other with, purple hair?. "My, my when you said you were going to challenge him you weren't kidding", he joked. Edwin instantly knew who he was now. His vision cleared and his suspicion was proved correct. "Nickulas", Edwin said. "Where the hell have you been. "Could ask you the same question, it's been more than four years", he responded. Edwin turned his attention to the women behind him. "NIckulas, I'm ashamed of you", he teased. "Sorry", he asked confused. "Well aren't you already seeing someone", Edwin said. "What no, I'm just helping them find their friends, you of all people know I would never have an affair", he exclaimed "Yeah, who are they anyway?", he asked "Oh yeah, these are Applejack and Rarity", he responded. "Charmed", Rarity said "Yeah what she said", Applejack mumbled. "The blonde one reminds me of an Altmer I met, I believe her name was Rainbow", he explained. "Wait Rainbow, do you mean Rainbow Dash?", he asked. "I don't her last name but there was another I believe her name was Twilit", Edwin explained. "Twilight", Nickulas corrected. "Sure, wait how did you know", he explained. "I promised I would help them find their friends, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash and their baby dragon spike", Nickulas explained. "Huh, well if you want to know where the other two are, they're in Windhelm", he told him. "Well let's go then", he said cheerfully to his friend as the four of them headed down the road to Windhelm.
city in the mountains"Here we are", Eldyn called to the women. "The city of Jehanna". The three of them looked up to Jehanna. It was a relatively small city that stood alone in the mountains of High Rock. They continued their journey up the cold path to the city, the snow beating them in the face. They trudged up the path until they reached a gate. "Open the gate, the champion approaches", they heard a guard yell. The gates slid open slowly, revealing the inside of the city to the three. The gates slammed shut behind them as they strolled into the city. It seemed warmer on the inside of the city. The streets bustled with Bretons and the occasional Orc or Redguard walking around the city. "Do you know what this city could use?", Pinkie asked rhetorically. Eldyn and Fluttershy turned towards Pinkie. "A PARTY!", she yelled, drawing the attention of everyone in the street. "Ssh, people are staring", he told her. "Oh, sorry", she apologized smiling nervously. "So, what do we do while we are here?", Fluttershy asked "Well first, I think we should find my two followers, Cellor and Berics", he said. "Why don't we ask one of the guards?" Pinkie asked. "Because we don't know who the guard we asked has been bought and paid for", He explained. "Um, Eldyn, if you don't mind me asking, why is that a problem?", Fluttershy asked. "Let's just say during my rise to the title of champion, I made a few enemies", he explained. "Now let's go find them". "Find who". They turned around to see a Redguard in his early forties with dark black hair. He wore Redguard clothes and weilded a Dragonbone sword. "Cellor", he said. Both of them gripped each others hands like someone would while arm wrestling. "Good to see you again Cellor", Eldyn said. "Likewise", Cellor responded. "Who are they?" "They are Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie", Eldyn answered. Cellor's left eyebrow rose. "Don't ask, I don't know either", He said. "Do you know where Berics is". Cellor gave him a look that said 'I think you know'. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Berics sat down in the dimly lit tavern facing his new challenger. Berics was a Breton in his mid thirties with brown hair, he wears brown mage robes and a green cape, he has gloves and boots similar to the Thieves guild gear and has a steel sword. Berics sat down with a Nord opposite him, playing a drinking game with everyone in the building watching eagerly as they did so, placing bets on who would win. "Y, you know wwwwhat?", the man slured. "I'm ssshooo glad that theycud get Honningbreww, sssooo much betterthan Black Biar". "Be careful who you saythat around the Black briarsss 'ave eyes an' ears every where", Brics warned "Ssssay, 'ow much have you had your face is looking kinda fffuzzy", he answered reaching for the bottle of mead on the table. "Sssweet Dibella, I think you're gonna nneed to quit before you k, kill yoursself", Berics warned. "I'll quit onccce you d -". The man passed out from the amount of drinks he had and slipped off of his chair and slammed onto the cold floor. "Game over", Berics said smiling. A number of cheers roared through the crowd as well as groans as the losers gave their septims to the winners. Eldyn, Cellor, Fluttershy and Pinkie walked through the crowd to see the winner of the game sitting up triumphantly. "You had fun, I assume", Eldyn said. "Sir", Berics said getting up making a fist a placing it upon his chest. "Seriously this is a habit that you need to get out of", Eldyn said. "That looked like fun, can I play?", a bubbly voice said. Everyone turned their heads towards the pink haired woman. They halted their drinking and eating. An eerie silence fell upon the room. So silent that you could hear a pin drop. Berics face became incredibly serious as he said. "Challenge accepted".
sound of thunder"Ready, go", the bartender called. Already people were taking bets on who would win in this battle, Pinkie or Berics. Both of them received their cups and took their first sips. Eldyn, Cellor and Fluttershy watched as they gulped down the drinks. "So, who do you thinks going to win", Cellor asked. "Probably, Pinkie", Eldyn answered calmly. "What makes you sure?", Cellor asked. "He did just finish a game before he was challenged, chances are he''ll pass out after his second cup", Eldyn explained. They turned their attention back to Pinkie and Berics who had began their second cup. "Sssoo, do you sstill think youcun beat me?", Berics asked, slurring with a few words. "Yup", Pinkie responded cheerfully. Cellor turned back to Eldyn. "Yeah, he's going to lose", Cellor said. Berics reached for the third cup and drank it, Pinkie did the same. upon doing so, Pinkie not being used to mead or any kind of alcohol that strong, began to feel slightly prickly. "Ooh, I'm feeling kinda prickly, is this part of the game?, Pinkie asked. "Ha, I knewp she couldn't beat meee, I'm the champiieerr -". Berics slid off of his chair onto the floor. A roar erupted from the crowd, the long time winner of the drinking game finally defeated. Hoooraay, I wiiiii -". Pinkie, like Berics, fell off of her chair, onto the floor. The losers stopped handing out the bets to the winners and became very confused. "So, who won?", someone in the crowd asked. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nickulas, Edwin, Rarity and Applejack walked down the road to Windhelm. They walked across the bridge, they opened the gate and walked into the city. Upon entering the city they saw the people walking around and could hear the townsfolk talking with one another. "So did you hear about the dragon nesting in the mountains", one said. I heard the dragon's name was Yolviinggruin", another said. "There's apparently, a new mercenary in the city", a third said. "There's a new museum opening in Dawnstar", another said. Edwin and the other three walked through the city up to the castle however Nickulas stopped while near Candlehearth Hall. "Well Edwin, this has been an interesting evening but I think it would be best if I stay in the inn", Nickulas said. "You know that you could stay in the palace of the kings", Edwin explained. "No thanks, I'm eager to hear some stories before I rest, but if you need to find me then search for me in the Candlehearth hall", he said. "Okay, wait Nickulas", he called. "Yeah", nickulas said turning around. Edwin raised his hand in a fist and placed it on his chest, Nickulas repeated this motion and entered the inn. Rarity, Applejack and Edwin continued walking down the street towards the palace. "Ah thought he said he was goin' to help", Applejack said angrily. "He is, it's just when he was a Stormcloak, like me, during the, you know what, never mind", Edwin stopped what he was going to say. "During the what?", Rarity asked. "I'm not going to tell you, if he knew that you knew of this story, well to put it lightly, you could probably see the fire from the Imperial City", Edwin warned. "I can see he's quite touchy on this topic", Rarity said. "Oh yes, now let's get to the Palace", Edwin said calmly walking to the palace. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Candlehearth hall, remained dimly as usual. People strolling around and ordering drinks. Nikulas walked down the stairs to the bar counter there was one seat left. He quickly took the seat and looked up to Elda, the owner of the establishment. "Ah Nickulas, I haven't seen you here in a long time, so anyway what would you like?", Elda asked. "Water, please", He answered giving her the gold. "I would also like to rent a room for the night". "Sorry all the rooms are sold out", she apologized, handing him a glass of water. Nickulas cursed under his breath. "You can have my room if you'd like". Nickulas turned his head to see an imperial with black hair, goatee. He wore chain mail armor and had a silver sword. "Sorry?", he asked. "Sorry you can have my room, of course, it's not free", the man said. "No thanks, I think I can get along without a room for one night ", Nickulas said. "Suit yourself", he said. "You wouldn't happen to be the new mercenary would you?", Nickulas asked. "That's me, Caveleinn son of that guy you've probably never heard of", he said. "I'm Nickulas from Dunlain Falls", Nickulas responded. *RRRAAAAAWWWWRRRR* Upon hearing the roar, knowing exactly what it meant, Nickulas and Caveleinn rose from their stools and took out their weapons. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Palace of the Kings, the oldest building in all of Skyrim and perhaps the oldest building in all of Tamriel. Inside this building was the high king of Skyrim, Ulfric Stormcloak, Galmar Stone-Fist and many more Stormcloak soldiers. The doors opened and Edwin, Rarity and Applejack entered. "Rarity, Applejack", Twilight and Rainbow called. "Rainbow Dash, Twilight", Rarity and Applejack called. The four of them pulled each other in for a hug. The others just watched silently until Brandon broke the silence. "I'm so glad we don't do that in reunions", he scoffed, receiving a hard punch on the arm from Rienna. "I'm so glad you guys are okay", Twilight said relieved. "Well if it wasn't for Nickulas Spellcaster, we wouldn't be here", Rarity explained. "Who?", Rainbow Dash asked. "Edwin", an authoritative voice called. Edwin looked up to see Ulfric was the one who called him. "Who are these people?", he asked. "These are Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Twilit Sprinkle" "Guurggh, It's Twilight Sparkle", Twilight corrected, frustrated at him. "And when I say where they are from, don't laugh or say they're on Skooma,*sigh*, they are from a land mainly dominated by colourful horses that can fly and use magic, they are ruled by two horses that raise the sun and moon each day", Edwin explained calmly. Brandon and the guards in the room suddenly burst into laughter. Rienna just looked confused. Avulstein and Thorald just looked to the four women then back to each other, Ralof and Ulfric just scratched their heads in confusion and Galmar said "I've heard weirder". "It's true", Rainbow Dash complained. *RRRAAAAAWWWWRRRR* "What was that?", Rarity asked frightened. "That", Edwin's face became incredibly serious. "was a dragon".
fire wing dreadLike thunder, the roar rolled down from the mountains. Wolves abandoned their deer and elk prey, running as far as they could. The horses and neighed in their stables. Guards drew their bows in preparation, townsfolk ran and cowered. A shadow soon fell across the town and fire rained down from the sky, consuming anyone who was caught in it. Edwin and the others raced outside the palace looking up to the sky. All view of the dragon was either obscured by fire or debris that fell from the sky. He drew his sword from it's sheath. Guards were completely helpless against the dragon, they were being picked up and thrown from great heights, crushed by falling debris or burnt alive. "Brandon, Rienna, get the girls out of here, Thorald, Ralof, Avulstein help the guards pelt that thing arrows", he ordered. "We can do that", Thorald said confidently. "Wait, where are you going?", Rainbow asked him "Going after that dragon", he responded confidently before bolting down the street. "Can he really fight that dragon?", Twilight asked. "Probably", Brandon responded. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edwin ran through the streets towards his enemy, citizens were either fleeing in terror or looking in horror and disbelief at their loved ones lifeless bodies. He saw the dragon in the distance approaching him. He came to the conclusion that this was the dragon that he heard had nested in the mountains. He took a deep breath and shouted to the heavens. "JOOR ZAH FRU" The dragon stopped on it's rampage and writhed about as soon as the shout caught it in midair. The dragon crashed onto the cold ground of the city of Windhelm. "What kind of foul tongue is this", the dragon boomed. "Surely rumour of the Dragonrend shout has reached your ears, has it not?", he asked. "Dragonrend? I cannot be harmed by your pitiful man-made words", the dragon said arrogantly. "Who said it was meant to harm you", he said, hitting the dragon with tip of his blade. The dragon yelled in pain before receiving a second blow to his head. The dragon's chest began to glow a bright orange before it unleashed a torrent of dragon fire. Edwin jumped behind a piece of debris which he used for cover. The dragon began to move closer towards that area used for cover preparing to knock it and Edwin towards the wall, the dragon prepared to finish him off, however a bolt of electricity prevented this from happening, temporarily happening. The dragon shot his gaze to were the lucky shot had come from. Seeing two people coming towards his direction the dragon shot his fire breath at them, but this was prevented from doing any damage when he used a ward to block this. Nickulas and Caveleinn raced towards the dragon using magical and physical attacks alike until the dragon flared his wing knocking them off their feet. "Ha, you think you can defeat me, I am Yol Viing Gruin, fire wing dread, you are nothing", he yelled, irritated. "Well we are here right in front of you, so technically we aren't nothing", Caveleinn said wittily. "SILENCE, I did not want or ask for any response to that", Yolviinggruin yelled. "Someone's got their knickers in a twist", Caveleinn said mockingly. 'Wait, this could be used to our advantage', Nickulas thought to himself. "DID I NOT TELL YOU TO BE SILENT", he yelled at Caveleinn. "Why should we be silent? you don't give us orders", Nickulas said, noticing Edwin getting to his feet. "What did you just say?" he asked. "Why, do we need to be silent?", he asked nervously. "Oh, your fears prevent you from completing your goal, I see what you are doing you are distract me -" "HERE! YOU WEAKLING" Yolviinggruin looked in the direction of the voice that interrupted him, only to have Edwin jump onto his head and start stabbing him repeatedly until the dragon's dead body slumped onto the floor. The body of Yolviinggruin began to glow and burn away, the dragon's soul slowly withdrew itself from the dragon's husk and was absorbed by Edwin, surrounding him with a bright glow which stood out under the night's sky as the dragon slowly burnt into a skeleton. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The sun arose from the far horizons, and shone above the trees. Rarity walked through the ruined city of Windhelm, looking in horror at what had happened to the city. While walking she saw something down in the rubble below, upon inspection it was a large egg shaped jewel. It was dark maroon with a few glowing red lines that would occasionally shift and change. Rarity, completely enthralled by the jewel ran over to the nearest guard to find out if anyone owned it. "Excuse me sir, do you know where the owner of this fine jewel?", she asked. "I've been to every shop and I don't think I've ever seen it before", the guard responded. Rarity gave a squeee in delight and ran off clutching the jewel like a child would with a sweet. Nearby Nickulas approached Edwin and his squad. Upon approaching Rienna ran forward to hug Nickulas, nearly knocking him off balance, Rienna upon realizing what she was doing immediately let go and both of them began blushing like crazy. "Okay guys, I think I know a way to help our four friends be reunited with the others and get them home", Nickulas said. "Don't tell me you believe them?", Brandon asked. "Yes, I do", Nickulas answered. "Alright then, how do you think we can help them?", Edwin asked. "Well have you ever heard of Soven Rahn".
the journey"Soven Rahn? what's that?" Brandon asked. "*sigh* It's a hidden nordic ruin in the reach", Nickulas answered. "So?", Brandon said. "Well legend has it, there is someone in there who can answer any question, but only ask him once, once that's done you will never be able to see, or talk to him again unless he something else that is necessary for him to say", Nickulas explained. "So, why do you need us?", Thorald asked. "Because, me and Caveleinn can't deal with the amount of Draugr that's in there on our own", Nickulas answered. "And the girls don't seem like fighters". "Wait, you're bringing the mercenary?", Brandon asked. "If you've got a problem take it up with him", Nickulas answered. "So do you want to come?". There was an awkward silence among the group until Ralof spoke up. "Well I did want to become an explorer when I was young", Ralof explained. "I'll go, I've been in plenty of nordic ruins, so you will need my help", Edwin said. "I'll go, you will need a medic", Rienna answered. "Sure, why not" was Avulstein's response. "Well, I'm not an adventurer, but I'll go", Said Thorald. "Then it's settled, We'll get the girls ready we'll be off", Edwin said. "*groan*, this won't end well", Brandon moaned. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity and Applejack sat down outside overlooking the chaos at what had happened. 'Dragons never behave like this in Equestria', Twilight thought. "Excuse me but". Twilight looked to see a woman walking up to one of the guards. "Have you seen my son?, he's a member of the guard", she asked. The guard looked away ashamedly and pointed to a large rock with blood smeared on the edges. "B-but, h-he". The woman burst into tears walking over to the rock and falling on her knees. "Girls" The four of them turned around and saw Nickulas. "I have an idea of how we can get you home and find your friends", he explained. "Really?", Twilight exclaimed. Nickulas told the legend that he told the others about Soven Rahn and the person inside who can answer their questions. "So you want us to enter an ancient ruin that may or may not exist that has an army of undead creatures in it", Rainbow Dash said. "Well, not an army", he responded. "Still, it sounds like a really bad idea", Rainbow complained. "And you sound like Brandon", Nickulas responded. "Rainbow ah think that it is a good idea, ah still don't trust you though", Applejack told her friend. "And we don't really have much of a choice", Rarity added. "Well, I think that Twilight should be the one that chooses, she may be an egghead but she's not stupid enough to go into a -" "We're going", Twilight said. "WHAT!", Rainbow exclaimed. "I know it may be foolish, suicidal even, but we have to go, if we don't take this offer we may never find our friends and go home", Twilight explained. "Well it is decided", Nickulas said. "Great when are we going?", Twilight asked. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "When he said, now I didn't think he meant immediately after he said that", Twilight complained. "Well you asked, and I answered", he responded. "Don't fall behind, we won't wait for you, if you do", they heard Edwin call as they moved out of Winterhold and into the wilderness.
The kingdom under the groundThe journey was a long, harsh and filled with many dangers that plagued the long roads. But, for our heroes, it was another story. For them it was simply another adventure. They wandered around forests, waded through rivers and took strolls along mountain sides, until finally they had reached the reach, where they set up camp on the cliff side. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edwin stared down on the map Nickulas had provided him, according to this map the entrance was on the cliff. "Still staring at that map", a voice called from behind. Edwin turned around to see a familiar, short brown haired man. "Let me give you of advice, never trust a map with a simple circle around the area you're looking for", Brandon explained. "especially, when the map was written hundreds of years ago". "If it was written hundreds of years ago, then how is it still in a good condition?" Edwin asked. Brandon shrugged his shoulders. "Magicka?". "That's not how magicka works", Edwin explained. "Even if that is so, Skyrim has changed since Soven Rahn was built all those years ago", Brandon explained. "That may be, but most nordic ruins still stand to this day", Edwin responded. "Look", Brandon said, attempting to imitate persuasive tone. "I know that you and Nickulas fought alongside each other during the rebellion, but you two haven't seen each other in four years, you two have clearly changed over the years". "Listen, Brandon", Edwin said, walking over to his teammate. "The next time I hear you doubt my friend, I'll throw you off the cliff". Edwin went back to look over his map, leaving Brandon with an angry scowl. 'That little b-' "That didn't look to good". Brandon turned around to see the speaker. "What do you want, mercenary", he spat. "Just observing your little argument", Caveleinn answered innocently. "Well I don't want to talk to you", he snapped, walking over to one of the tents angrily. "Was it something I said?", Caveleinn aksed himself ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight sat down on the edge of the cliff, wandering what was happening to her friends. She heard the sounds of people sitting next to her. "Ya alright Sugarcube?", Applejack asked. "Yes, I'm just worried for our friends, what they might be doing at the moment, if", she paused before continuing. "If they're even still alive". "Ah, they'll be fine", Rainbow Dash said confidently. "But, what if they're not?", Twilight asked. "Listen Twilight, those girls are some tough cookies", Applejack explained. Twilight looked at Applejack. "Well, Pinkie's a tough cookie", Applejack corrected. "And what about Spike?", Twilight asked. "Ah, don't know", Applejack responded. "See, what if something's happened to Spike, if he's died, then, I don't know what I would do", Twilight explained. "But that's why we're here, to get answers". The three girls jumped in sound of the voice, they turned and saw Nickulas. "We could have gone in search of the rogues, but some of us are not on good terms with them", Nickulas explained. "Um, the who?", Rainbow Dash asked. "People you would rather not be associated with", he explained. "Now you should get some sleep, It's going to hard to find Soven Rahn at night". "I guess you're right", Twilight said. As soon as Twilight stood up the rocks she was sitting on collapsed causing her to fall off the cliff. "TWILIGHT!", Applejack and Rainbow Dash screamed as they attempted to grab their friends hand. Twilight screamed as she fell down the hole. Edwin and the others raced over from what they were doing. "What the hell just happened?" Avulsteinn yelled. "By Talos she didn't", Edwin said, worried. Rainbow Dash looked down where her friend just fell. "TWILIGHT!", she yelled. "TWILIGHT!". No voice responded to her calls. "No", Rainbow said quietly. "Guys", a feminine voice called back up to them. Edwin and Nickulas breathed a sigh of relief. "Twilight, you're okay", Rainbow called. "Don't worry, I'm coming to get you", Edwin called. "Just stay still. Edwin climbed down the rocks, being very careful not to slip on any of the rocks. With just a few more steps down he saw Twilight, looking very worried. "Don't worry I'm here", Edwin said. "Now let's get you out... of.... here. "What is it?", Twilight asked. Edwin looked very closely at one of the walls, noticing a faint, door-like outline to it. "Nickulas", Edwin called. "Yeah", Nickulas responded. "Could you come down here?" Edwin asked. "Why?", Nickulas asked. "I think I've found something", Edwin called. "Okay, I'l be right down there", he called back. Edwin and Twilight heard the sound of someone climbing down the rocks. "Okay, what did you call me for?", Nckulas asked climbing down. "Could you look at that area of the wall?", Edwin asked. "Sure", Nickulas said looking closely around the wall taking in every detail. He then pulled out a strange key and looked at the side of it. "frolok vahlt do faal miiraad ahrk frolok tum wah faal nivosevild ko vund", Nickulas read quietly. Nickulas scanned the edge of the door and placed the key in a small crack in the wall and turned the key. The area of the door they were looking at began to shift until it opened like a door. Nickulas looked back towards Twilight and Edwin. "Tell the others", he began. "That we've found Soven Rahn.
beginningIt was a cold and windy night in the city of Windhelm, as that was to be expected. All the animals had hidden any place they could and everybody had retired for the night. Barely a sound could be heard all except for the sound of the occasional guard patrolling the town. In that city was a house called Hjerim home of the Wolf-Blood family. Hjerim was a large house with seven rooms two bedrooms, a secret room, a kitchen, an alchemy laboratory, enchanting laboratory and an armory. Most of these rooms were empty all except for the living room which had two nord children a boy and a girl, the girl eleven and the other was eight and an old nord in his seventies sitting around a dimly lit fireplace, both of which wanting to hear one of their grandfather's stories form during his adventuring days. "Grandad, can we here the one about the dragon lord again, please?" the boy asked his grandfather with puppy eyes. "But we've heard that one already, can't we hear a new one?", the girl moaned. "well children as much as I would like to say that there is one more, I regret to tell you that most of the stories that I remember, I have already told you. However", their grandfather paused remembering something from long ago. "What is it grandad", the young boy said with excitement. "There may be one that I haven't told you yet", he said with a smile on his face. "What is it", his grandson said sitting up eagerly to hear what their grandad had to say. "Have I told you the one were women from another world entered our own, and we teamed up in order to defeat an evil hellbent on returning to our own world", he said, sure that his children had not heard this story. "Beings from another world, doesn't that sound a bit far fe-hmpph", she interrupted before having her younger brother stick his hand over her mouth, silencing her. "Tell us the story grandad", his grandson asked eagerly. "I guess I should start my story from the land where they come from, I believe they called the land, Equestria, but the story really starts in their hometown of Ponyville", he began. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *forty one years ago* "SPIKE, get me the eyepiece from my telescope" "Twilight, are you sure you won't need that", Spike responded. "I can go get a new one from the shops", Twilight answered. Spike ran up the stairs to get the eyepiece from the telescope. He ran down the stairs as fast as he could and gave the eyepiece to Twilight, who added the eyepiece to the potion. "Um twilight if you're making a spell, why are you making a potion", Spike asked. "eureka" Twilight cried, a smile of joy quickly appeared on her face. "I've done it I have created the best astronomy spell yet". "But you created a potion", Spike said confused. "Quick, you must get our friends, they need to be here when the spell is created" Spike quickly ran out of the library in order to gather their, friends. Seeking out each of their friends to allow them the chance to see the spell's creation. "So Twilight what is it you wanted to see us about", her cow mare friend asked her. "It better be important because If I don't go soon I'll miss the wonderbolt's performance", her rainbow maned friend moaned. "Oh it is, you see I am on the breakthrough of creating a spell that will allow us to see other worlds and I wanted you guys to watch as I finished it", Twilight said sounding like a mad scientist. "But you created a potion", Rainbow said confused. "Rainbow darling, to create a spell one must first create a formula first then take a drop of the formula and drop it onto a page of the spell book", Rarity explained to her friends receiving mainly "oh"'s from her friends. "However this method has been known for going incredibly wrong, Twilight are you sure you know what you 're doing". "Oh rarity, I'm Celestia's personal student, I think I know what I'm doing", Twilight assured her friend. Twilight used her telekinesis to lift up the vial and placed it into the cauldron she was using to create the formula for the spell. she removed the vial and took out the blank spell book, slowly dropping a droplet of the formula onto the spell book. At first everything seemed fine, but then. "What's happening" Twilight panicked. The spell book began to shake violently, electricity bolts shooting off of it. The book shot open creating a portal as black as night, trying to suck every living being through it. Twilight grabbed on to her banister, Applejack grabbed onto one of the holes in the floorboards, Rarity grabbed onto Applejack, Pinkie brought out the party canon and both her and Fluttershy and her grabbed onto it. Rainbow Dash attempted to fly out of the window but the pressure yanked her back into the room leaving her with one option, to grab onto the window and Spike grabbed onto Twilight's hoof. "Everypony, hang on" Twilight yelled to her friends. Spike slowly began to feel his grip onto what he was holding slipping. "TWILIGHT I'M SLIPEAAHH", Spike yelled as he was pulled through the portal. "SPIKEY WIKIEY", Rarity yelled, letting go of Applejack in shock at the loss of her friend, and nearly went into the portal before Applejack grabbed onto her hand. After a few creeks the floorboard which Applejack was holding onto gave out under pressure and broke of, pulling Applejack and Rarity through the portal. Eventually the party submitted to the force of the portal and was pulled through along with Fluttershy and Pinkie who yelled "weeee" as she was pulled through. After a while Rainbow Dash who was putting up a good struggle was pulled through leaving Twilight alone with a portal that would not stop until she was pulled through. With one final pull Twilight was pulled through leaving an empty library, the book slammed shut, almost satisfied with what it had done. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Wow", the youngest of the two exclaimed. "That's just dumb", the girl snapped abruptly. "Continue the story Grandad", his grandson asked excitedly. "And this is where our stories main character comes in, my brother", he continued. "I'm going to bed", his granddaughter said rudely, getting out of her chair. "Where were we, ah yes so there he was in the middle of the Pale", He continued as his granddaughter left the room and his grandson listened to the story. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edwin Wolf-Blood or ice veins as his fellows called him, drew his ebony sword and struck down another Imperial and threw his dagger at another who was charging his position. He watched as the remaining imperials fled at what they witnessed. A lone Stormcloak defeating an entire camp and legate all by himself. He pulled out his amulet of Talos and thanked the nine for his victory. He went over to the Legate's tent and removed the miniature red flag from the map and replaced it with a blue flag to symbolize that the Stormcloaks now control this area in the Pale. He drew out his horn and blew into it to let Stormcloaks nearby know of his victory here. He soon gathered what he needed from the camp and prepared to head off. Finding the nearby road and walking down it to return back to Windhelm. The cold didn't bother him, being raised in the north of Cyrodiil had it's benefits so as he walked down the road in the middle of the Pale, it only reminded him of home Edwin was a nord warrior in his early thirties, he has dark black hair up to his shoulders like most of his family members and a beard, carries an ebony sword and an ebony dagger which he hides in his boot and wore his usual customized Stormcloak armor and warm blue cape with fur around the edges down to his knees with the Stormcloak symbol, iron gauntlets and leather boots. He took the main road back to Windhelm, which he was following very well until a bright blue light from the forest to the left drew his attention. "Damn mages", he said to himself before heading off to investigate the glow from the forest. He ventured deep into the forest, as he drew closer to the source of the light he heard the sound of two female voices until... "AAAGGGGHHHH". The sound of the scream immediately pick up his pace and run faster towards the light in order to find the cause of the scream. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight woke up in the middle of a snowy forest. She quickly regained her senses and her vision cleared up. A feeling of dread soon rose over her as, she had no idea where she was, she was in the middle of a forest, it was cold and she had no idea were her fri- "Twilight is that you?" Twilight turned around to see a tall bipedal figure standing behind her. The figure reminded her of a hairless ape, however there were features that defined it like, gold skin, green eyes, pointy ears and, wait, rainbow colored hair. "Rainbow?" Twilight asked. "Twilight it is you", her rainbow maned friend said to her relieved. "Rainbow, what have you turned into?" she asked. "I dunno, what have you turned into?", she asked. Twilight raised her hoofs in front of her face to see that her hoofs had been replaced with little stumps. Twilight began to breathe deeply in terror at the abomination that she had become. Soon her became to great and she let out a scream louder then she had ever done before. "AAAGGGGHHHH" "Sweet Celestia, calm down twilight", Rainbow said irritated at the noise. "Calm down, calm down, our species has changed and your telling me to calm down", She panicked. While she ranted she failed to notice a blue armored figure run up behind a tree "STOP RIGHT THERE". They turned around to be greeted by a bipedal figure wearing blue armor holding a dark grey sword, and by the look on it's face it wasn't happy to see them. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A few miles North of their position, a group of cultists upon undead horses waited for their scout to return impatiently. The cold was something they wanted to get out of soon. The leader of their group was a great orc, he had dark green skin and red hair with sideburns. He wore the same armor as Tsun and the shoulder pieces of ancient nordic armor and used an orcish sword. His name was one that struck fear into the hearts of his opponents, mainly because he used the name when he fought in the Imperial arena (and won seven times in a row), Garzug Arsh Kritug. His leftenant was a dark elf by the name of Zenieth. Zenieth had long black hair the went down to his shoulders and had a white tribunal tattoo on his forhead. He wore light Chitn armor and used an Elven dagger and a glass axe. "Sir, pardon the interruption but", Zenieth paused for a second as his master turned to him with an angered expression. "You distracted me from my thoughts", he responded with a deep voice. "Sorry sir, but the others are growing impatient, they want us to -" "I don't care for the others opinions, You should consider yourself lucky I'm not the supreme master or you would surely have your head would be lying on the floor with him raising your headless body to fight for him", Garzug snapped. "Yes sir", Zenieth obeyed. Garzug continued pondering within his thoughts leaving little sound but the wind blowing and the occasional horse stomping it's hoof restlessly.
webs and newcomersFluttershy eyelids rose from the deep slumber which they were originally positioned in. She rose up and placed her hand in something wet. She turned her head to the source and found a small clear puddle. She looked around and saw that she was mainly surrounded by darkness, she could only assume that she was in a cave of some sort. She arose to her hoofs but while doing so noticed small little stubs at the end of her hoofs. She moved over to the pool to look at her reflection in an attempt to see what she had been turned into. When she looked into the pool she noticed that her hair color had stayed the same however, she had now lost all pf her fur, she had pale skin and had large pointy ears. She gasped at the sight of what she had turned into. She moved down the cave silently in fear of what could be in the cave. "Psst". Fluttershy turned her head to the source find the source of the 'psst', but found nothing. She continued to walk on her four legs and move down the cave, slightly unnerved at what just happened. "Psst, Fluttershy". Fluttershy turned her head yet again and saw nothing. Fluttershy began to whimper silently. She tripped up on something while she was looking back to find the voice and fell into something sticky. She tried to get up only fall back in. She then tried trying to pull the sticky stuff only to get more tied up in it sending of vibrations. In her situation she then began to notice what it was and during her years as an animal caretaker she knew exactly what it was, giving her even more reason to to try and get out. She was stuck in a web. She began to her sounds of multiple legs walking against the ground. In time she could see a large figure moving closer to her, the figure moved closer until she could see it's eight eyes and legs clearly. It's pincers began to click together violently and it disappeared into the darkness. 'I don't want to die', Fluttershy thought. *Shwiing* Fluttershy's panicking was interrupted by the sound of metal hitting hitting the side of the web. Her webbed prison hit the ground and she noticed a blue crystalline sword cutting the webbing off of Fluttershy. She looked up to be greeted by something with a similar anatomy to her new form, but the main thing that stood out was the bright pink fluffy mane. "HeyFluttershydidn'tyouheremewhenIwentpsstbutyouwentoffsomewhereelsesoIwentoffafteryoubutIsawyoutrappedinwebbingsoIdecidedtocutyououtbythewaywhenwe'relikethiswewalkontwolegsnotfour -" Pinkie was interrupted by the familiar sound of eight legs patting against stone. "IT'S BACK, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES", Pinkie yelled at the top of her lungs unintentionally alerting the spider. Fluttershy and Pinkie ran down the cave as fast as they could with the frostbite spider not far behind, occasionally spitting a kind of venom at them. They ran and soon found two directions in the cave. Down the left path they saw another spider biting into something that looked bipedal and wore blue armor that looked as though it was made from the same material that the sword was made from. the new spider turned his head and revealed it's blood stained pincers and began to click them violently. Fluttershy and Pinkie looked back down the path they came from and saw that the spider was catching up to them turning back to the other one, they saw the other one running towards them. They made a split second to take the right path and bolted down it, taking lefts and rights in order to find their way out of the cave until they reached a dead end. Both of them began to slam their fists against the wall violently yelling about "how this couldn't be happening". They looked downwards and saw marks that looked as though they had been dragged out from something, looking further to the left they saw a small hole in the cave wall small enough for them to fit through next to them. They squeezed themselves through as quick as they could, hearing the sounds of the spiders approaching them. They crawled through as quick as they could and found their way out. They forced themselves out of the hole and quickly ran down the caves again. Running down they could not tell whether the sounds of spider legs hitting stone were real or not. Dismissing this they turned upwards and saw the very thing they were looking for. The way out. They jolted to the light as fast as they could. Turning around they could see the spiders emerging from the darkness of the caves. They climbed as fast as they could upwards, with the two spiders not far behind. They emerged from the caves into a windy forest. They stumbled out of the cave, quickly regaining their balance. They let out a sigh of relief. "He's gone", Fluttershy sighed. Just after that, the blood stained spider jumped out of the cave and prepared to get it's next meal. "You jinxed it", Pinkie yelled angrily, drawing the blue sword from its sheath Just as the spider prepared to lunge down an arrow pierced one of the spiders pincers. The creature stumbled backwards and fell back into the cave landing on top of the other spider. Both girls turned around to see something similar to them but it however wore gold armor with daggers along the chest piece, a black cloak and a mask making them only able to see his eyes. "Jee, thanks mis-" Pinkie was cut of when their "savior" had pointed a black, double tipped arrow at Pinkie Pie. "Were did you get that sword", the stranger asked, by the tone in his voice he was definitely male. "I found it", Pinkie responded. "Likely story", he said bitterly. "Allow me to get a better look at it". Pinkie obediently gave the stranger the crystal blade, he then began to bring the sword close to his eyes and examined it, he removed his mask to prevent it from obscuring his view. The stranger had slightly tanned skin, a square chin and had a five o'clock shadow. "Stalhrim, one handed blade. Made from stalhrim and leather", he muttered to himself. "This sword belonged to someone I knew, Almor Amaunde, a brute of a Breton, loved a good adventure adventure and enjoyed telling them to others. I forged this sword for him myself, as well as his armor". Fluttershy recalled the moment in the cave where she saw the spider eating something wearing armor made from the same material. Fluttershy began to tear up at the thought of someone losing a close friend. "I'm sorry", Fluttershy said sadly. The cloaked soldier turned his head towards her. "We saw him get eaten by one of the spiders", Fluttershy said quietly, small tears forming in her eyes. "I'm really sorry about your friend". _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Eldyn Amaunde, champion of High Rock in all his years had never seen someone show pity for him with the exception of his family and friends. Most things he learned in rise to become champion of Daggerfall was that it was every Breton for themselves. "He wasn't my friend", he stammered before continuing. "He was my brother". The woman's face saddened even more. Looking at this, he began to feel more conflicted about these two. On one side he wanted to leave them in the forest taking his brother's sword, on the other hand, she was the only stranger to show him complete sympathy. 'This woman was the only stranger to show complete kindness and what kind of a champion would I be if I didn't help them', he thought to himself. Coming to a decision he looked at the girls. "There's a city not to far from here, I'll take you there", he said solemnly as the thought of his brother still remained in his mind. He sheathed the stalhrim sword and place his Dwarven black bow of fate into it's holder. "So what're your names", he asked. The timid woman was about to open her mouth when her fluffy haired friend interrupted her. "I'm Pinkie Pie but you can just call me Pinkie and this is Fluttershy what's your name", the bubbly woman said. 'Those are some weird names', he thought. "I'm Eldyn Amaunde". "Um Eldyn", Fluttershy said quietly. "Yes?" "Thanks for helping us", She said politely. "Your welcome", he responded. "Also if you don't mind me asking, but where are we?", she asked. "You're in High Rock, just a few miles from the city of Jehanna", he answered. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Spike wondered tirelessly through halls of the dimly light underground castle. Tired, hungry and missing his friends. 'Now I really regret skipping out on breakfast', he thought He turned around a corner to see one of the creepiest things he had ever seen in his life. A tall bipedal figure that looked as though it has had numerous pieces of flesh stitched together and had glowing purple lights coming from it's chest, head, forehoofs and legs on it was numerous symbols. Spike shuffled back behind the corner hoping the creature didn't see him. Turning back he saw that the thing had not noticed him,he breathed a sigh of relief. *Growl* The sound of his stomach growling was enough to turn the creature's attention to the corner and looked very closely. After being unable to see anything it dismissed this and continued patrolling the hallway. spike continued his trek to find his way out of the ruin until he heard a voice shout. "YOU MEET YOUR END MORTAL" Spike turned to see a group of green monkey like creatures fighting large horned creatures wearing black armor. He watched in horror as each of the monkey like creatures were cut down by the armored ones. The very sight made Spike sick to his stomach. Spike prepared to leave when he heard a loud hoofstep coming from behind him. He turned to see an armored figure standing behind him. The figure raised what he could assume was it's hoof and brought it into his face and then darkness blurred his vision.
Notes and IdeasIdea Okay I thought of this idea and I want to know your opinions on it, I had an idea to split the story into 3 parts to cover certain arcs separately to give it like somewhat of this movie/television series feel to keep this feeling build up and anticipation for the next part so like this will be the New World, the next will be Shadow Arisen and last will be Age of Fire. If you like or don't like this idea put it down in the comments. Notes In the Skyrim timeline this takes place a few years after Skyrim and Dragonborn, the mage character is the one who completed the Dawnguard questline and lastly I have added my own new armor types which are the Stormcloak Ranger armor (Edwin's armor) and Augur robes (Mage characters robes) and location that did not appear in the game called soven rahn, the relevance of this place will not be revealed until later on the story. Anyway what do you think of these ideas, and let me know I like hearing ideas chapters will be added as usual and have a good day/ night.
