The Dragon of Tamriel

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POV: Wolkiimrel (past)

Damn this infernal rain, its making it difficult to fly. I sighed as I regained focus on the task at hand. I remember learning of Paarthurnax from the other lieutenants, supposedly he was one of Alduins best. But that didn't scare me in the slightest, I have faced off against a fair amount of traitorous dragons.

A lot of dragons didn't want anything to do with Alduin all of us knew about his downfall in the past. A lot of dragons opted to become 'independent' and abandoned Alduins mission to take Tamriel. I sided with Alduin mainly because he was the one that brought me back to the world of the living.

I wasn't going to traverse through this weather and try to find Paarthurnax so I landed. I made sure the surrounding area was clear of humans. I never really cared about the other races, but the main ones we were careful about were the Nords. They had been a pain in the side for every dragon, for the most part we are able to fight a good majority of them. But even us dragons have our limits, I may be cocky but I am not stupid.

I found a nearby cave that looked to be almost hidden among the brush in the woods. I stayed there and watched outside the small cave and waited to see if anything was coming towards the cave. After about ten minutes of waiting around I put my head down and kept watching the outside of the cave.

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POV: Celestia

We had heard most of Wolk's thoughts as he was flying and least to say we all remained silent as we listened. To the surprise of absolutely nopony, Twilight had taken notes on pretty much everything that he said. She acts like Pinkie when it comes to studying, or taking notes on the simplest of things.

I heard my sister speak "What do you think caused him to switch sides and oppose Alduin?"

I turned to her and replied saying "I don't know, but whatever it was it made him go from being supportive to being an enemy. We will have to wait and see what transpires." I looked to my student who frantically writing notes on some paper that she brought with her.

I noticed that the others were talking with each other but the one that caught my eye was Spike. He was looking at Wolk and looked like he was deep in thought.

I made my way towards him and said "Spike? Spike!"

His head snapped up to look at me and he quickly replied saying "Oh! Sorry princess I didn't hear you, I was kinda deep in thought."

I noticed that Spike was only partially paying attention to me. I then asked him "What is on your mind Spike? You seem to be distracted by something."

"I'm sorry princess but for whatever reason I feel uneasy about something here, like something bad is going to happen...." I noticed that he was looking around the area and it made me look around before turning back to him.

I raised my eyebrow and asked "How so?"

He sighed and said "Well it just seems like something isn't right, I've had this feeling ever since we went into Wolk's memories. But I won't bother you with my problems, maybe I'm just tired or worried."

I didn't want to press the issue if he didn't want me to get involved. But he seems awfully worried about something. Before I could press the matter with Spike everything around us started to speed up.

"The memory is skipping ahead to the next major event in his mind." Luna said as we watched everything around us move fast, we also seemed to be moving away from the cave. Before any of us could question it we were looking at Wolk flying towards a mountain.

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POV: Wolkiimrel (Past)

There it is.......the Throat of the World, it's the one place I haven't been to and it's the place where I would expect an old dragon to hide. I have to be careful since those 'Greybeards' live up here. I don't fear them but they seem to be very powerful from what I heard from the other dragons.

If I can avoid them that would be nice but if they do get in the way I will eliminate them. I was nearing the top when I noticed another dragon up there. I got closer and when I was close enough I realized that it was Paarthurnax. He definitely saw me so sneaking up on him is out of the question.

I took a deep breathe and I flew towards the ground in front of him. We immediately looked eyes with each other, neither one of us moving. However when I landed I noticed that Paarthurnax was about to get into a battle stance.

It felt like we were both standing for hours but really only a few minutes went by. He finally spoke to me "So...….Alduin sent you to do his dirty work? I'd expect nothing less from that coward of a dragon."

I fired back at him saying "Watch your tongue or else I will remove it myself!" My eyes narrowed as I got ready to attack or defend if we started to fight. I however maintained my composure and said "You should've known Alduin would send another to eliminate you, after all he is busy trying to take all of Tamriel"

I was quite surprised when he laughed at that. After he was done laughing he said "So you think Alduin wants to conquer Skyrim and Tamriel. You don't even know a thing about what is really happening do you?" We both started to move in a circle opposite of each other.

He then continued to speak, I had to resist the urge to attack him. "You ever wonder why they call him Alduin the World-Eater?"

I lowered my guard a bit and replied saying "I never did care for names and I never will care for them. I don't even know why I was given the name of 'The Striker', and I don't care why I have it." I think he noticed that my guard was down so instead of attacking me he lowered his. I didn't like how calm he was but I admit that I was interested in what he had to tell me.

He began to speak "You see how I've been ever since I abandoned Alduin's army. I live a peaceful life up here in the mountain, secure from any of the violence that Alduin causes."

We both stopped moving and he turned to look over the edge of the mountain. He sighed and turned back to me, he continued "I know why you fight for Alduin, its because he promised you peace. Isn't that all you ever wanted Wolk, peace and no violence? However you are to blind to see that Alduin is only using you for his own gain, and eventually he will kill you. I mean look at Teykrin he wanted nothing to do with Alduin and when he left, Alduin sent you to kill him and you succeeded, he will keep using you until you can no longer be of any use to him."

I replied saying "And how did you know I killed Teykrin, as far as I know you haven't left this mountain.' I was growing suspicious of how much Paarthurnax actually knew about the events that transpired away from the mountain.

Paarthurnax then said "Alduin may be a coward but he isn't a fool. I know you cannot defeat me and so do you, if you went back to Alduin and said that you killed me he would believe you...…."

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POV: Celestia

We were all watching the exchange the two dragons were having and needless to say no pony broke the silence. However when I looked towards Spike I noticed him a lot more nervous the before. I knew something was wrong with him and I had to find out. I wasn't the only one to notice this either, Luna and Twilight also saw this and I walked towards them.

They both noticed me and I asked them "Is it me or is there something wrong with Spike?"

Twilight then said "Yeah I noticed that too, when we were going forward in time he spoke to me. He said that something doesn't feel right in the memory. He said it felt like something is watching us as we were all watching Wolk's memories play out."

"If there is something in here then it would've had to already been in his head. I would've felt it if something came in here with us." My sister told us, but just as she finished talking a chill went down my spine. I noticed that the other girls must've felt it to because all of us including Spike stopped.

"You all felt that too right? It felt like a cold breeze just went through my body." I heard Rainbow say from up front.

Applejack replied saying "You aren't the only one to feel that partner, I didn't like that one bit." Just then the memory faded away and all of the sudden it was dark everywhere. Sensing something I watched as Fluttershy ducked behind everypony and we pretty much formed a circle with Fluttershy hiding in the center.

Just when I was about to say something I heard a voice from the darkness.

Well...….if it isn't the ponies who should've mind their own business. I've been expecting the lot of you for sometime now...…...all I had to do was wait.

Whatever was talking was cut off when Luna yelled "Show yourself creature!" I heard a light chuckle and then I heard that voice again.….

Very well...…...

We all heard loud footsteps and we all turned to one direction and we saw a figure start to walk towards us. The figure stopped moving just close enough so we could see its dark red eyes.

I recognized the eyes immediately as I saw them and my horn started to light up. I muttered to the others saying "When I say move you move, we may have to fight him"

I heard Twilight say "Princess who is that?"

I opened my mouth to say something but the figure beat me to it.

I can introduce myself thank you very much. My name is Alduin The World-Eater and you are sticking your noses where it doesn't belong.

We were fully able to Alduin now as he stood in front of us and we all slowly began to back away as Alduin began to flap his wings. All of the sudden the environment began to change all around us. I didn't recognize where we were but we all began to spread out to fight. Except for Fluttershy who hid behind a nearby rock and peeked up to watch.

Alduin spoke in a much deeper voice "You ponies actually think you stand a chance against me" He laughed really loudly and I noticed that the others grew a bit agitated at Alduin. He stopped laughing and said "Very well lets see what you can do...." With that Alduin flew up into the air and we all got ready to defend ourselves...…..

(YAY!! Cliffhanger!!!)