Wayward Magic

(Brom)

I stopped roaring when the strange horse, Mare I guess would be the proper term, was blasted from my mind. I snorted. What gave her the right to try to enter my mind anyway?

“She was trying to protect the ones she cares for, just Like you would do.” I hear from behind me, sounds like a man. I whirl around, leveling my staff’s blade toward where I heard the voice. I see nothing but the blank, black void of my mindscape.

I hear a peal of Feminine laughter from my left, I’m getting very nervous since I can’t sense or see who they are.

“Oh this is just precious love, he’s getting so flustered cause he can’t find us.” I feel the hairs on the back of my neck prickle.

“How adorable.” The female’s husky voice whispers in my ear from behind. I whip my elbow around and hit… nothing. I’m extremely annoyed now, I’ve never liked being played with, it’s why I hate most of the Daedra.

“Show your selves! I do not appreciate being toyed with.” I growl, bracing myself for whatever I may face.

“As you wish/ Killjoy.” Both voices answer at the same time. A streak of red flashed past the right side of my head and I feel something slap my ass making me yelp in surprise and my face blaze with a blush. A single glowing ball of red light hovers in front of me… Giggling?

“Such a nice tush you’ve got there sexy.” The sphere said. It was the women’s voice.

“Don’t embarrass the boy love, he’s confused enough as it is.” A flash of blue and another glowing sphere, this one blue, appears next to the red one.

“But he’s so fun to tease, look how red he’s gone, it’s so adorable I could just lick him.” She practically purrs making me very nervous. I here the male sigh.

“Please forgive my wife’s antics, she’s not normally this flirty.” The blue sphere says making his wife pout… How can she pout without a face?

“I thought you liked it when I teased… You seemed to be enjoying yourself the last time with how loud your ‘exclamations’ were.” The red sphere slightly brushed the blue one making it turn purple.

I felt my face heat up as dirty thoughts started to creep up.

“Who are you two and what are you doing in my head?” I ask a bit too quickly, in my want to change the subject. I felt two gazes turn on me and I had the strange feeling I now know what an ant next to a mammoth feels like.

“I am Zakaz, aspect of order, creator of matter, time and space and god of knowledge, learning and reason.” The blue sphere says, shining brighter and making me feel like I’m nothing more than a speck of dust in the breeze. The sphere shifts, mixing with earth and water and forming the shape of a colossal man.

He’s as tall as any giant I’ve fought back in Skyrim but built like a mountain. His skin is the color of polished bronze and his arms were near bursting with muscle. He wore a pale sky blue robe with gold trim that reached his calfs. A massive circular shield was griped by his left arm. His hair was bright silver and hung to his lower back, with a large beard to his chest. His eyes deep, brown pools that seemed to stare through me like he knew everything that I had ever tried to hide away in the dark corners of my soul..

A shiver runs down my spine, I’ve met the Daedra and even spoke to some of the 9 Divines but I’ve never felt this level of fear and awe as I do before this being.

All of a sudden I feel a warmth blossom in my chest, comforting me, giving me courage and strength. I see the red sphere shine brighter and approach. A wisp reaches out and strokes my cheek, in a soft, comforting manner.

“I am Eris, aspect of Chaos, maker of the soul and emotions, Goddess of creativity, free will and choices.” She says. Her voice is different than before. It’s soothing, like when a mother comforts her child when they have a nightmare.

I see her shift, the red blending with fire and air and now a hand is caressing my cheek. I blink at the visage now before me trying to figure out if I should be asking for comfort and a hug or a romp in the stables. She is just as tall as Zakaz and her skin is a perfect cream color and so soft and smooth. Copper red hair flows from her head, shimmering and looking silky soft, rolling over her shoulders in gentle curls.

She wears a midnight blue cloth wrapped around her shoulder and ample breasts, spun gold thread with rubies threaded on the lower part and a royal purple loincloth/skirt combo shows off her hips and shapely legs.

Her eyes are a bright sea green and filled with mischief and compassion, like she’s planning to prank the hell out of me till I cry then she’ll comfort me while I’m crying so she can prank me again. Needless to say it’s extremely confusing. She giggles as she withdraws her hand.

“Like what you see big boy?” She asks with a breathy voice, doing a slow twirl and rotating her hips slightly. I feel something start to leak out of my nose as I try to look away but can’t budge and inch. Her laugh at my obvious confusion and arousal sounds wonderful and terrifying all at once.

“Oh you mortals are just so adorable when you’re flustered.” She says, sounding like a mother again and making my head hurt from trying to comprehend what’s going on.

A small wash cloth appears in her hand and she holds it out to me. I take it and stare at it then look back to Eris wondering what she gave me this for. She giggles and taps the side of her nose. She tsked at me and mock scolds me while shaking her head.

“You were thinking such naughty things about me that you got a nosebleed, didn’t you, my little perverted mortal.” She says before turning and walking back to Zakaz, swaying her hips way more than necessary. I feel my mouth open and close multiple times trying to form words but they just don’t seem to be there at the moment.

“Don’t tease the boy to much my love, we need him sane after all.” Zakaz says, his voice a deep baritone. Hearing him speak snaps me out of my confusion. I wipe the blood dripping from my nose before I ask.

“What do you want of me?” I’m no stranger to gods and the like, messing with my life. This is the first time I’ll be happy to do what they ask for once though… it’ll give me something to focus on other then… I shake my head banishing that lane of thought.

“God’s such as yourselves never appear before us without wanting something so what do you want?” I say with more venom than I intended. Zakaz’s eye’s harden slightly and I mentally smack myself for my stupid outburst. You do your best to not piss off a god, not the other way around.

“Do not presume to know the mind of a god mortal.” Zakaz says, his voice calm making it all the more scary.

“While you may be correct in your reasoning, you do not know what the future is or could be so you do not dictate what we can and can not want.” His voice, while calm, sounded like earthquakes, full of power and with no mercy for those in its path.

Eris had a look of surprise flash across her face then she gripped her husband's arm.

“You know the future!? Why haven’t you told me anything yet?” She whined and pouted cutely at him. Zakaz raised an eyebrow at his wife.

“You told me not to give spoilers.” He said, making Eris blink. She released his arm and turned away crossing her arms grumbling and pouting.

“Bastard.” She grumbles. Zakaz smiled for the first time since I’ve seen him.

“She never says that.” He told me as he waved his hand in a ‘forget you saw that’ motion. Eris spoke next giving me a kind smile.

“While my husband doesn’t like to admit it, since he’s more stubborn than any mule, we need your help.” She said, Zakaz grumbling slightly. The request for actual aid made me raise an eyebrow.

“What would god’s need the help of a mortal with? You’re gods after all.” I ask, honestly curious about what they’d need help with, not every day a god asks you for help. Eris smile, and intern her whole form, dims slightly and Zakaz places a hand on her shoulder in comfort.

“I’m dying.” She said, like it was a fact about last week's news. I blinked as my mind tried to process those two words. Zakaz spoke before I could get a question out.

“More specifically, she’ll fade. You are here to make sure she doesn’t.” He said, my mind was whirling with different emotions and thoughts as I tried to piece them together.

“You may not have realized this but your planar circle would’ve worked, just not in the way you thought.” Zakaz said.

“It would have acted like a drain and your world the basin of water, everything you knew along with your entire universe, would have been pulled into the void between the worlds, into nothingness and destruction if you had completed it.” Zakaz said, his eyes piercing me with judgement making me squirm underneath his gaze.

“But your experiment granted us a unique opportunity, we were able to pluck you from your universe and bring you to ours without any backlash to the universal laws.” My brain was swimming in confusion so I just listened numbly. The only real thought going through my head was how I was never going to see Alea again.

I felt two arms wrap around me from behind making me stiffen and look back to find Eris embracing me, soothing the ache and fear in my heart, giving me courage and hope.

“You see, little mortal,” She said.

“My husband and I, while beings of creation and power, are bound by laws that are unbreakable. We may create but we can never directly interfere with our creations. When you activated your portal, you would have been killed in the resulting aftermath.” While the news was terrifying to hear, I found myself able to cope and understand what she was saying without losing my mind.

“We are only at our most powerful when our universe, our creation… our home is in balance. But for the last thousand years, order has reigned, un broken, unchanged and my power grows weaker with every passing year.”

I felt pity for Eris, her own creation was killing her. Never had I felt such empathy and drive to help anyone before. Maybe Eris was instilling these feelings inside me but I didn’t care, I wanted… no, needed to help them making things right. It’s what I was born to do, what the Dragonborn was meant to do, make things right.

I reached up and gave Eris’s hand a comforting squeeze getting a small hum of contentment from the goddess.

“But there is still hope for this world.” Zakaz said, drawing my attention back to him.

“Not to long from the present day, there will be a chance to set the balance of the world back onto the path toward balance. A being of chaos that has been sealed away will reemerge and sow the seeds of his wrath upon the ones who sealed him, causing enough chaos and mayhem to empower my love for untold millenia.” Zakaz said then paused a bit and seemed to think. I felt a massive but coming after he paused.

“Though if he is not stopped, and his chaos reigns over order, then I will loose power and will eventually fade into nothingness.” Zakaz shook his head.

“Chaos cannot exist without order, order cannot exist without chaos, if there is to be hope for our home there must be balance or all will fall to ruin.” Zakaz said as a plate spinning on a stick appeared before me, with white beads on one side and black beads on the other. As it spun I saw the beads were even on both sides, till one black bead dropped down; the whole plate started to wobble and shake till it fell and clattered to the floor sending beads every which way before vanishing.

I stayed quiet for a few moment trying to sort out my thoughts.

“But why me? Surely there were hundreds if not thousands of better choices than me to pick from to help.” My body stiffened and a shiver ran down my spine as I felt Eris lick and nibble my earlobe.

“Don’t sell yourself short big boy.” She said, her hot breath on my neck giving me goosebumps.

“While what you say is true, we could not just take them from their worlds without reason as it would cause the exact same problem to their world that is happening to this one.” I felt one of her hands snake around me and grope my chest. She could probably feel my pounding heart.

“There was one mortal who we would have chosen, and he had an amusing fashion sense, always wore bright orange when his job was stealth he was quite the character.” She giggled and I felt a single nail trace over my collarbone to my neck making it’s way up. I was highly aroused and extremely uncomfortable but I couldn’t struggle against her touch and I let out a small moan despite my trying not to.

“But we’d have to doom his world to destruction, so we needed to find someone who, while they had the ability to help, were no longer bound to their world, hence why we choose you.” Her finger curled around my chin guiding my head till I was looking face to face with her. She started to lean closer. Her breath and scent an intoxicating smell of cinnamon and cedar wood.

“You died in your world, the poison killed you, we simply pulled you here before you had died.” Her face inched closer, her soft, full lips, so enticing so tauntingly, beckoning me to kiss them.

Eris raised a hand and cupped my cheek pulling me closer. I was trying to fight the insane amount of arousal and pull away but my body would not listen to me at all. Our lips so close, I felt her warm, stick breath on me. She was a goddess and I couldn’t deny that I wanted her, to worship her with every fiber of my being.

“Boop.” She said and her finger darted in and poked my nose making my face scrunch up and my eyes cross. I blinked trying to wrap my mind around what just happened. I was suddenly lifted off the ground and twirled around by a laughing Chaos goddess while being smashed between her two voluptuous breasts.

“He’s so adorable when he’s confused! Zakaz can I keep him? PLEEEEEASE?” I heard her plead with her husband. I had the distinct feeling her eyes had gotten bigger and were shining, even though I couldn’t see them from behind the large mounds of soft flesh in my face.

I realized something then and there. I can’t breath... huh… I CAN’T BREATH!!!! I started to flail and struggle but couldn’t pull my head away from Eris’s chest. Hearing her moan softly as I struggled didn’t help me either.

“My dear you can’t just keep every little mortal you pull from the universes. Where would he sleep, and then there’s the bathing, the food, the shots when he get’s sick and the clean up when he needs to go to the bathroom. It’s too big of a responsibility.” Zakaz lectured Eris.

“I’M NOT A PET!” I screamed but being smashed between Eris’s breasts it probably sounded like ‘mm hm hh mm pphm.’ At least it got Eris’s attention and I felt myself released from her heavenly soft chest pillows. I gasped and drew in as much air as my tortured lungs wanted.

“Were you trying suffocate me with those?!” I asked heatedly. I wish I hadn’t.

“You..Sniff.. D-don’t like m-m-me anymore aaaaaaaah!” Eris’s eye’s spouting tears and she wailed in sorrow as I panicked and rushed to fix my mistake. Did I even mess up? I don’t know, all I know is there a woman in front of me who I upset.

“No no! I do like you, I just don’t like being suffocated, it was an accident that all, it’s okay.” I said trying to reassure her. She looked at me with big, hopeful eyes, her bottom lip trembling.

“Really?” She asked, almost pleading. I felt like my heart was going to explode.

HHHHHRRRRRGGGHH! How is she doing that with her face? I thought as I tried to breath through the pure adorableness.

“Really really.” I said with considerable effort. Eris leapt to her feet in an instant with a happy shout.

“YAY!” She yelled and skipped off to where I know not. I just stood there blinking while my brain was busy breaking into pieces trying to figure her out. I heard a slight chuckle from my left and turned to see Zakaz with a smirk on his face.

“Best not to try and analyze her, you’ll go mad.” I just nodded my head, already feeling the headache starting to form. Zakaz waved his hand and my mind scape changed to a simple sitting room. Two comfortable arm chairs sat on either side of a small table with plain tea set on it.

“Come sit, no doubt you have many questions that plague your mind.” Zakaz said as he took one of the chairs and started pouring us both a cup of tea. I sat down and picked up my cup, taking a sip and raising an eyebrow in surprise but letting the refreshing and reenergizing taste of peppermint linger in my mouth.

I let out a sigh as I feel my body relax, my mind sharpen and clear.

“Thanks for that.” I say, lifting my cup. Zakaz nodded. I took a deep breath, I had many question but I had a feeling not all of them would be answered so I had to pick them carefully.

“What do you want me to do here? Specifically I mean. I know I am not longer in my home Eris explained that in… her own way, but I’m still not clear what you want me to do here.” I said. Zakaz leaned back in his chair never breaking eye contact.

“The answer is quite simple, we want you to live.” He said, I blinked.

“You, mortal, are a wild card, you know next to nothing of this world, it’s people, law’s, ideals and a host of things inbetween. You are a breath of fresh air, a new pair of eyes that will see things others overlook and call them out on it and force them to see the mistakes and errors they’ve made.” Zakaz said.

I started to understand why I was here and I felt the weight of that responsibility on my shoulders.

“As Eris said, we cannot interfere with our creations directly, that would break the laws in place, but we can bend them to a certain extent.” He explained to which I nodded.

“Like pulling a soul away from his universe since he no longer will exist there.” I said, slightly bitter but accepting of it.. Zakaz nodded.

“I’m glad you understand.” Zakoz said. Then something changed, his face became soft, almost sad. He set his sup on the table and leaned forward, his shoulder seeming to almost sag under an unimaginable weight.

“There is one other reason, why you were brought here other than to restore balance to our world… A personal one.” He said. Something in his voice made me listen all the closer. He looked almost… tired.

“I waited till Eris was away to tell you this, since she worries something powerful when…” He paused and took a deep breath.

“Our daughter, Harmony, has gone missing.” He said with a bitter chuckle. I could hardly comprehend what he was saying.

“You’d think a god of creation like me, with the power to see nearly every future that could possibly come to pass would be able to find his child but…” He paused, I saw his countenance fall and grief was plainly written on his face.

“For the first time since we created our home, I cannot see what will be. Something is blocking my sight and this troubles me. I have kept this from Eris so not to add more burdens on her then she already has.” He said and I could understand what he was going through.

Once the Silver hand had kidnapped Alea and I didn’t know where she was for over a month. The possibility that I could loose her eating away at me like acid in my veins. Her friends had wondered where she was and I didn’t have the heart to tell them that their sister had been taken.

Zakaz sighed heavily.

“She may not act it, but she is weak from the lack of balance and I fear the disappearance of Harmony would break her.” I understood why he wouldn’t want her to hear.

“Why me though? I’m a mortal and your a god. If you can’t find her then how can I?” I asked. Zakaz smiled,

“You underestimate your value to the universe mortal.” he said, making me cock my head in confusion.

“We gods are powerful, can create and destroy the cosmos with the snap of our fingers but,” Zakaz leaned back in his chair.

“We are constrained and bound by rules, things no god, no matter how powerful, is allowed to break, but you mortals,” He said as he pointed to me.

“You have no such restrictions. You control your own fate. Your future is yours to choose, you are the commander of you lives, no one decides where your future goes unless you let them.” I was shocked. Did I really have that much choice.

Zakaz chuckled slightly drawing me from my thoughts. He looked me in the eyes and I swear I say stars being born, exploding and being reborn over and over again.

“All mortals think we god's created you, but this is not so, we may create the situations and places for you to be born but we do not create you. We merely govern the worlds you inhabit.” Zakaz gazed at me with a look akin to wonder.

“You mortal, capable of such insight and destruction, the potential to gain power and knowledge that even us gods envy and crave. You, simple, finite mortals are one of the true unknowns in any universe, why do you think we gods take such pleasure from interacting with you? It’s because you always surprise us.”

I felt my mouth go dry. What Zakaz had revealed put everything that had happened in my life into a new perspective. Was Alduin really juut evil, or was he jealous of our freedom. What of the preachers of the divines? Were most of their beliefs just made from a lack of understanding.

My head whirled with thoughts, ideas, theories so many things bouncing around that I gripped my head cause it felt like it was gonna explode. I felt a large hand gently rest on my shoulder and turned to look at Zakaz standing at my side.

I felt my body stop shaking with uncertainty and doubt. My fears vanished like the phantom shadows of the night when the first rays of the sun touch the world. I felt sure, like I had the right people in my corner to make everything work. I smiled at him in thanks and he inclined his head in acknowledgment.

“Truth is always a daunting and painful thing to learn. Truth makes wounds so one can let the infections of lies and deceit bleed away.” He said as he kneeled down to look at me at my eye level.

“And so I offer you a truth that only a father could give.” He said.

“Please, help me find and bring my daughter back.” The pure honesty, hope and fear that came with his request made my heart swell with compassion. Here was a father putting aside his pride to ask for help and damn me to oblivion if I won’t lend a hand.

I straightened my spine and squared my shoulders. I felt determination flow through me like a raging river.

“When do I begin?” I asked. Zakaz got to his feet and nodded. I could see the relief on his face before he placed his mask of indifference back on.

“Very soon, but first I have a gift I wish to give you.” He said placing his hand on my head. My mind erupted with words and numbers, systems of counting and dozens of languages poured into my head.

I collapsed on the ground cradling my throbbing skull as the torrent faded to nothing. I panted and gasped heavily trying to understand what I had been given.

“This world of ours does not speak in the same tongue as your original world does. My gift to you is the gift of understanding. You will be able to understand and communicate in any language that is spoken here, as well as use their number systems.” Zakaz explained to my astonished mind.

“Thank you for this.” I said, feeling truly grateful. It would have been a pain trying to breach a language barrier. A small, genuine smile graced his face before he hid it as Eris popped back up.

“OH! Gifts! I like gifts.” She said and I saw a look of worry flash across Zakaz’s face so quickly I questioned if I had actually seen it. Eris just tapped her chin in thought.

“Hmmm… What could I give you? no , I did that duck one last week, and I already gave my special baking gift the her, hmmm.” She pondered for a few more seconds till a light flashed over her head with a small ding sound.

“That’s it!” She exclaimed brightly. She walked over to me, slowly lowering down, giving me a perfect view of her cleavage. My face reddened and she leaned in and planted a soft kiss on my forehead.

I saw red energy swirl around me as she leaned stood back up. I felt like something in my body was building up, getting stronger. My chest started to feel like it would explode from the pressure that was building. I needed to let it out or I was going to exploded

“VOL TOL SHUR!!!” I screamed as I felt the power pour out of me, the flames a bright blue and far hotter than the red orange. As the blazing hot flames died down and the pressure inside me left as well I stood there panting. I could hear Eris giggling off to my left. I turned and gave her a questioning look. She gave me a warm smile but her eyes sparkled with untold mischief.

“I enlarged your magicka reserves a bit as well as increased the potency of your shouts.” She explained, even though she looked strained. I was thankful and excited. One would normally have to train years to increase the power of their shouts. Me being dragonborn cut that time down a bit but it would’ve still taken me many years to get to the power Eris brought them to.

She winked at me and I started to sweat from nervousness.

“The second part you’ll have to figure out on your own.” She said turning and walking away, clearly enjoying that I was staring at his ass and hips as they swayed. She disappeared in a vortex of fire and leaving me with a ton of questions and frayed nervous as to what the second part of her gift could be.

Zakaz just shook his head while smiling.

“She always keep you guessing doesn’t she?” I asked him and he just nodded his head then he jerked his head to look behind me and gasped. I whirled around and saw nothing… Then I felt a solid thump on the back of my head and heard Eris cackling

“He actually fell for it!” Was what I heard her say before every went blank.