The Elder Scrolls IV: The Equestrian Crisis

Chapters

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12

Chapter 1

A month has passed since the coronation. Most creatures still remember the last act of Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow and their punishment, some would argue it was fitting and others think it was excessive.

But today the theme for debate was the start of the new reign of Princess Twilight Sparkle, some are nervous about how she will change Equestria, if for the better of for the worse. But most are looking forward to the future, certainly will take a time to get used to it, but all parties hope a new era of prosperity for Equestria and beyond.

But now at the present Twilight was with the council of friendship, at the outskirts of Cantelort.

¨wow, a month has passed, almost feel like it was yesterday since we last saw each other¨ Rarity said, everypony but Twilight nodded.

¨well to me almost feel like an eternity has passed, maybe I’m still not getting used to rule¨ Twilight said with a little of sadness in her voice, something picked by Applejack

¨something happen suggarcube?¨ Applejack asked worried.

¨aside from not having not much time to read like I would want, I seen Spike travel from one side from equestria to another, he really took his duties as ambassador of friendship seriously. Yesterday he decided to go to the Dragon Lands, but I have to remain in Canterlot…¨

Twilight took a deep breath

¨and I’m missing those sorts of adventures, going and exploring new places, even with the school of friendship we still could go and-¨ she was interrumpted by Pinkie pie

¨save Equestria from world threatening menaces? I personally prefer parties but I understand completely, maybe you could ask discord to organize some villains again and-¨ Pinkie Pie paused realizing that she was about to propose something stupid ¨I’m sorry¨

Rainbow Dash smiled ¨not worry, I too loved to save the day, maybe we could try again the mare do well stunt, i would not mind using that disguise¨

¨I’m still don’t understand why so many disasters happened in those couple of days.¨ said Fluttershy in a quiet tone, almost mumbling to herself.

Rarity said to the group ¨well I for once I think is good than we don’t have to deal anymore with such threats, it give us time to enjoy with our friends and family, isn't that why we fought right? Now changellins are good and dragons are not so mean anymore, now there is peace¨

Twilight responded ¨I know, but I was not referring just to fight, I miss exploring and meeting new creatures, discover places that no pony seen before, and be there to help anypony right there, not from a chair¨

Pinkie Pie answered ¨well maybe we just have to wait, maybe next time we see at the sky we discover our next adven-¨ while Pinkie pie was saying that she saw at the sky and ended up frozen, no more words. Her sudden silence made the rest worry.

¨Pinkie? Equestria to Pinkie¨ Applejack said to Pinkie who was still completely silent watching at the sky.

Pinkie Pie simply limited to say ¨just look at the sky¨

Everypony look at the sky just to see an image that would terrify them, it was another planet, right above them, it was so far away that it was impossible to fly there, but it was just close enough to let them see an entire continent. Everypony was silent, no words were exchanged. The six friends were trying to process what they were seeing.

The silence broke when a green flame appears in front of Twilight. It was a letter from Spike. The alicorn decided to read out loud.

¨can you see it too?¨

Twilight put her hooves in her face and screamed in a tone very similar to the royal cantertlot voice

¨THIS IS THE LAST TIME I FEEL NOSTALGIC ABOUT HAVING ADVENTURES!!!¨

Everycreature could see it, from Canterlot to the Dragon Lands and perhaps even Yakyakistan. The six rushed into Canterlot, everypony in Canterlot was trying to ask Twilight what was happening, Twilight and her friends felt like jerks of ignoring them, but they knew as much as them, they finally got to the castle, security was on high alert.

Applejack said to Twilight ¨do you know where is Starlight? She could help us¨

Rarity responded saying ¨she probably know as little as us¨

Twilight quickly said ¨true, but we together we can figure out what is happening, I don’t know where she is right now but I know a spell that can get me next to her, by the way Fluttershy do you know where is discord?¨

¨at my home, I don’t think he is responsible, at least for this one…¨

Twilight responded in a calmed tone ¨I know he is unpredictable, but even if he has nothing to do I think he can help us¨

Twilight activated a teleportation spell, Fluttershy and Twilight were now in front of the pegasus home. ¨please talk to him, ask him to help us¨ Twilight said to Fluttershy before teleporting right next to Starlight

A few minutes passed and Pinkie pie, Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow dash were trying to calm the multitude forming in front of the castle.

¨this is another of discord pranks?¨ some pony in the multitude said.

¨darling we don’t know, but if that ruffian had anything to do with this I promise you we will-¨

Before Rarity could finish her sentence a strong sound and a light sipping thou the windows inside the palace behind her pretty much told her that Twilight was back.

The 4 ponies entered the castle, ready to face the crisis at hand. There they could see Starlight and Sunburts. Both blushing while Twilight had some bruises in her face.

Everypony guessed that Twilight teleported in front of starlight and sunburst in a… bad moment and Applejack said ¨I guess is better not to ask¨

With a bit of frustration Sunburst responded to Applejack ¨at least certain alicorn learned to not teleport to my room unannounced¨

Rainbow Dash smirked, but before she could make any comment a stare from Starlight, one almost as vicious as one from Fluttershy pretty much made Rainbow back down from doing any comment.

In an attempt to move to another topic and stay focused on the current crisis Applejack made an important question ¨and Starswirl? I reckon he could help us with this¨

With a face of disappointment Twilight said to Applejack ¨I’m sorry, I don’t know where Starswirl is, and I don’t have a spell to teleport in front of him¨

¨there is no need¨ a very familiar voice said, there is no need to say who he was.

Rainbow Dash smirked and joked ¨so, there is a way I can learn how to do such dramatic entrances?¨

Starswirl ignored the blue Pegasus and walked right in front of Twilight to tell her ¨I guess both of us have the same knowledge on what cause this, none. But we have a gamble¨

Twilight knew exactly what Starswirl was suggesting, and was ready to shut his idea down ¨I’m sorry but I don’t think neither us or starlight can teleport into that thing in the sky, maybe discord but who knows how he would behave¨

Starswirl answered to Twilight ¨and that’s why I think this is the only alternative, do you remember the mirror that brings you to the world where one of your pupil lives?¨

Twilight understood what Starswirl had in mind, build either a portal or a teleporter that went right into the new planet, she knew it would be a journey, one maybe dangerous… and exiting, but she felt like her whim for an adventure was the causing factor for this crisis.

But before she could refuse to participate in Starswirl idea, Starlight who also realized Starwild plan told to Twilight ¨Listen, maybe going to another world, one we know less about than the mirror one could be dangerous, but we sure survived worse, and maybe, just maybe wasn’t the intention of the creatures from that place to have their world orbiting ours, maybe they could help¨

After saying that Starlight had an awkward pause, maybe she was feeling guilty for the bruises she left in her friend face a few minutes ago… But could be also because she was realizing that Twilight wasn’t afraid of doing the journey, it was something else… ¨what’s wrong Twilight?¨ starlight was confused on the doubts of Twilight.

¨I know sounds silly, but I was talking with my friends about how I was missing having adventures, the excitement of saving Equestria and meeting new places. And now a crisis that for what we know could destroy Equestria just presented itself¨ Twilight voice reflected her guilt. ¨I can’t help but feel responsible¨

Pinkie pie approached Twilight and tried to cheer her up ¨maybe you could be right, maybe it was just a coincidence, but Princess Celestia and Princess luna also wanted to have adventures, don’t remember how they had to take a vacations for over helping us? they got a little annoying true but King Sombra didn’t return because of that. So is doubtful you cause this¨ it worked, Twilight thought that maybe it was not her fault

¨thanks Pinkie¨ Twilight was a little relieved that nopony was blaming her. But there was another creature… one that everypony, everycreature was probably blaming.

Before Twilight tried to teleport into Fluttershy home a portal opened in front of everypony, both discord and Fluttershy came out of the portal.

¨I know you would not believe me, Fluttershy almost did not, but I’m not responsible for this¨ Discord knew that after his stunt at the first attempt to coronate Twilight many would think he was responsible for the new incident. ¨but I admit, it is rater creative, plus no creature is in danger¨

¨for now¨ said Applejack, with a little of anger in her voice.

Fluttershy responded ¨please, Discord is saying the truth¨

Starlight tried to break the tension between the two and intervened ¨well… anyway, I guess Discord could help us, maybe he could help us clear the royal garden and with that we can help with the wherever Twilight and Starswirl plan to build¨

Rainbow confused asked ¨build what? ¨

Starswirl answered ¨a machine specifically made to travel there, with it would be possible to explore that mysterious world and discover what it happen, maybe in a day we could had it ready¨

Applejack made a silly question, but a justified one ¨can’t just teleport there? y'all use magic to teleport all the time!¨ the question to advanced unicorn sorcerers was silly… but one fair to anypony else.

It would be Discord who would answer ¨the distance is too large. And you might not notice but I can feel than the planet has magical energy totally… alien, totally different to anything we dealt before. Its power causes a little of interference so I don’t think even I can safely open a portal there¨

Starswirl hearing that said ¨true, but I had plans for the creation of a machine that can help anycreature to travel to faraway places, like the EEA medallions. With a special protection so any magical interference would not be a problem, I left the blueprints here in the castle, I just need to build it and we can start to explore that thing¨

Twilight was relieved, starting from scratch the blueprints for such a device to then building it could take a long time, time they might don’t have, Discord could clear up part of the royal garden, and she alongside Starswirl, Sunburst and Starlight would build the machine.

The rest limited to go outside the castle to calm down the multitude, they eventually managed but because neither of them could too much to help with the construction of the machine. So they limited themselves to spend their time either reading or exploring the Canterlot.

While helping build the machine Starswirl made a question to Twilight ¨then princess, you already choose with who you will go? We can only send 2 or 3 creatures at the time¨

¨then I go with Starlight¨ that was Twilight response, she already decided.

¨why me? Sure you could count with Starswirl or even Rainbow Dash¨ Starlight argued

¨you went to visit Sunset Shimmer and spend a couple of days with her, you have experience on traveling to other worlds, Spike is in the Dragons Lands and Rainbow… well if we need to negotiate you know how well things would turn out with her… also Starswirl needs to be here if anything happen to the machine, he could repair without any problem¨ that was Twilight answer, she knew starlight was the best choice.

¨I’m thankful you trust in me, even after… well you know¨ starlight said a little embarrassed.

¨well I guess it was my fault for teleporting without warning¨ Twilight said also embarrased at the memory of what it happened.

Without even glaring at Twilight sunburst said to Twilight ¨I just hope you learn your lesson¨

¨yeah… lets back to the machine shall we? ¨ Twilight sure wasn’t too keen on talking anymore about the incident.

By tomorrow they would be ready.

Chapter 2

Has been a month since I defeated Jyggalag and mantled the title of the Daedric Prince of madness.

A month has passed since then, I protected the isles from dangers coming from outside and inside the realm. To think some time ago I was rotting in the Imperial City, being taunted by an annoying dunmer on how I was going to be executed that night.

How much time has passed since then? For me looks like an eternity but for everyone… a year I think. Has been a year since Uriel Septim freed me from prison, almost a year since I helped solve the oblivion crisis, even if that cost martin his… well it was his sacrifice, his choice. Is what he and the Nine wanted and I should not judge.

Still I had more adventures that i care to remember, good thing I keep a dairy. I still can’t believe that I would be proclaimed the successor of Pelinal Whiestrake, or that I would go into oblivion once more…

Do I really become Sheogorath? Or is simply a delusion and the true Sheogorath is laughing somewhere? Either way I expend enough time at the shivering isles.

If is true what Haskill told me yesterday, that now that I’m a daedric prince that means my power in Tamriel is limited, and eventually i would only be able to enter mundus under specific conditions, but for now i still have my ¨mortal shell¨ so I can enter without much restrictions aside for reduced power.

In another hand if all of this is a machination of sheogorath… I think if I can go out of the shivering isles and go back to Tamriel I can find a cure for whatever affliction he casted on me. I think Elsweyr has a strong presence of Sheogorath cultist, maybe there i could find a cure or my doom.

Either way a last adventure before my final fate could not be bad, but first I should go and visit my old friend Ocato… well we are not so close but he named me ¨champion of cyrodill¨ and maybe he can send me pointers, by the nine maybe if I survive this he can send me to solve problems in other parts of the continent, I almost feel like I only step foot on cyrodill…

I crossed the portal out of the isles, I arrived… on that cursed island, why Sheogorath put that island with the pathway to his realm? Does he like swimmers? I guess he likes islands, which would explain why his realm is an island. Or does he love ships crashing in the coast for trying to avoid crashing on his island? Because the news about the huge amounts of ships destroyed nearby were the reason I became aware of the island with the portal in the first place, I’m surprised neither the guilds or the imperial legion didn’t blew up this floating junk.

Either way I tried to speak with that guard that was still taking note who enters and exits.

¨Stay away from me. You've already spent too much time... over there¨

I would be offended for his rudeness… but I think he is right, a month in a daedric realm is too much for many, and I might be a madmad… or a daedric prince.

I swim back to the continent, I would think that these nice clothes similar to the ones of Sheogorath would be ruined, but it wasn’t the case, I guess daedra get the best toys. I just hope Shadowmere still recognizes me… I whistle for him…

And waited…

And wai… oh he is back.

I mounted Shafowmere and parted to the imperial city. Maybe in a day I will get there.

Well it took less than I expected, 12 hours. I guess could be because no bandit or bear attack me on the way, but why? The imperial legion finally protects the roads? Or all the bandits and wild animals went to Skyrim? Either way just then I was close to the imperial city, by a few kilometers i find a big group of people, too big and disorganized to be merchants, those people are… refugees? what they were fleeing? I got close to them and then I got off the horse. I ask them what was happening, what they were they fleeing

¨are you blind? Watch at the sky, the divines abandoned us¨

What? I mean I know weather can be nasty this part of the year but can be that ba-

¨BY THE NINE¨

I screamed at the top of my lungs.

Hey, I’m someone that keeps calm even in extreme circumstances, but this completely took me off guard, A WORLD IN THE SKY? HOW? HOW? HOW? Is extremely close, so damn close. I think is closer to Nirn that the moons. I can see clearly a continent, now I see why these villagers are so scared, now i feel like the king of idiots for not noticing it before.

I calm myself and process the situation.

Looks like Tamriel is facing another crisis, how this is possible and what being caused this is unclear. But what is clear is that these refugees were fleeing their homes in the belief that if any forced tried to attack Tamriel a walled city would be safer than a defenseless settlement.

I offered my help but they said that they were going to Bruma. They know the walls of the city could defend them, I guess the imperial city is still not recovered from the attack of Mehrunes Dagon, either that or people no longer trust their defenses. I decided to go with them, if any group of bandits or monsters decided to attack these refuges they would had to go through me… yeah being the hero and help people can really consume my time...

And it did, it took us more than 9 hours of walking, I was sleepy and completely tired but we finally got to Bruma, I walked into the palace talked with the countess, she promised me to take care of the refugees. I told them the good news and parted from the city, but before I could get to the gates and mount Shadowmere a child run towards me and told me this:

¨thank you, you really deserve your title of champion of cyrodill¨ he said that with an innocent smile.

It was worth it to take so much time watching over those refugees? Yes, remembering the faces and smiles of the people I saved make everything worth it.

It was a god idea to depart while I was so tired sleepy I could barely think straight? Nope.

I should have stayed in Bruma. It has been almost a day since I slept and I’m too tired. But I can lament later, either I fall to sleep while riding Shadowmere or get into the imperial city and get some rest.

I’m getting closer to the imperial city, I guess the lack of sleep is finally getting the best of me or… the affliction of Sheogorath was taking his effect, because I saw a pillar of lighting coming from the… world that was in the sky, right in the middle of the road, could be simply an hallucination… but if its real I can’t take chances on any threat that thing could pose.

I decided to move alongside Shadowmere out of the road, close to some trees. I got off the horse to get closer without being seen. If any creature just got to Tamriel thou that light i can take them with a surprise attack and kill them quickly before they can flee.

Wait… are those… horses? No, the 2 of them have horns so I guess those 2 are unicorns. 2 purple unicorns… and one have wings? Neither helps that the shape of their heads is weird, and they are smaller than normal horses, they are the size of ponies. Still they have horns so they are unicorns despite their weird heads and big eyes.

Okay I hunted a unicorn before. That one was supposed to be the last one in cyrodill, hircine is behind this? I know of the great hunt but the last great hunt was not long ago and for what I know his great hunt causes the moon to get red he doesn’t summon entire world. Maybe they don’t serve hircine… but still something bothers me… after Martin sacrifice no longer daedra could invade this realm, the only reason why Sheogorath could summon that cursed island was because it was not a direct threat… the people dying in shipwrecks were indirect deaths, abusing some loophole. So I guess that doesn’t count, which means maybe Peryite still can bring plagues into Tamriel…

Okay enough overthinking, i never used wabbajack in combat before, I know it has unpredictable effects, but it could be amusing, if doesn’t kill them I simply blast those filthy Daedric unicorns away.

I run towards them, they saw me. But before any of them could react I make the first shot. The ball of energy touched the winged one… and I was blinded, didn’t take much time before I could see again but wait a minute…

what?

WHAT?

What it happen? Why I can’t feel my fingers? And where are my clothes? Why my head feels so heavy?

By the divines… my body is right there? I can see it, but I’m here.

¨Twilight? Are you alright? The creature fall unconscious, don’t worry I can take care of him¨

She is speaking to me like she knew me, calling me Twilight… did me and that purple winged unicorn just switched bodies?

Cursed Wabbajack, then all of this is over I will trade you away for cheap wine.

Now, I guess this unicorn was called Twilight or something, does she works for nocturnal? That explains why they are purple. Maybe if I use the Wabbajack i could switch back… of course the problem would be getting at the staff… or handling it.

Fortunately the other unicorn was so rash that run directly towards that Twilight or wherever is called, I was hoping I could sneak towards the Wabbajack and re cast the spell.

The poor Twilight was being levitated and made spin in circles, screaming in confusion at the whole ordeal, it would be funny if not for the fact that thing was in my body… and then spoke

¨Starlight it’s me, me Twilight. Look at him, look how he walks!¨

Yeah, because of instinct I was trying to walk on 2 legs, not my best moment. I was unable to walk properly and gave away what happen.

I didn’t even get to the Wabbajack before that unicorn than I guess is called Starlight turned its attention on me and well… one thing is sure. Even in this body I can still feel pain, fortunately the attack wasn’t lethal but unfortunately leave me unconscious.

Yeah, one thing is sure about all of this:

I should have stayed in Bruma and get some rest instead of going directly towards the Imperial City.

Author's Note

I originally wanted the MC of oblivion to be ambiguous on its race, gender and even storylines completed beyond the main story and DLC. but that would make more difficult to describe the character aspect, so i will work with the notion that this guy is a male breton mage that is weaing Sheogorath regalia.
also to have more references to the game storylines and characters i work with the notion than this Hero of Kvatch fully completed the game.

Chapter 3

A pillar of light of light came from the planet on the sky right into Canterlot, specifically in the Royal Garden. There it was constructed an improvised observatory, lack any roof but it had telescope watching right at the planet, alongside a myriad of books and some beds. And at the center of all there was a platform, it was there where the light from the planet went. After the lights turned off there was Starlight standing alongside an unconscious Twilight, and a strange being.

Sunburst greeted ¨hey you are back, so fast? What it happen?¨ Sunburst did not take long before noticing that Twilight was unconscious and a strange creature stand aside Starlight.

Starlight and the strange being had an awkward smile and the creature spoke ¨yeah, we weren’t much time, but there is much to tell¨

After a clarification it was explained what it happened, shortly after they got to the new planet a estrange creature, which both Twilight and Starlight refereed as ¨human¨ attack them, he used a mysterious staff and with that the creature and Twilight switched bodies, the creature was unable to properly walk in Twilight body so Starlight could subdue him without much difficulty, she noticed how the creature tried to get back to his staff, maybe it was important.

¨do you still have the staff?¨ Starswirl was confused on both why the creature attack them without provocation and what kind of magic had that staff.

Twilight (in the body of the creature) had the staff in her back, she bring it to Starswirl, who examined

¨I can’t recognize anything from this staff, neither the design or the estrange magic that irradiates¨

Discord hovered over starwird and graved the staff, he had a smile he show his joy on holding that staff. Wherever magic had that staff discord could feel it… and enjoy it. ¨oh this is just precious, can I keep it?¨

Everypony put a serious look and said in unison ¨NO!¨

A dusgruntal Discord gave the staff to Twilight (who is still in the creature body) after that she yawn, stretch her arms and said ¨I don’t know why it attack us, but I feel extremely tired and sleepy, maybe the creatures from that world are also scared, and judging by how sleepy I feel in this body, probably this one wasn’t thinking straight¨

Starlight watched at Twilight (in the creature body) and noticed the eye bags ¨yes, I wonder how much time this guy was awake, maybe he is a courier and went over town to town giving the news about the situation¨

Rarity walked towards Twilight (do I need to say it again?) and inspected her clothes ¨I don’t think this human is a courier, it look like something Discord would wear¨

Discord grinned and said ¨of course, maybe one day you could make me clothes like that¨

¨sure, maybe one day. But seriously I may know next to nothing about humans but that set of clothes looks too regal, maybe could be nobility?¨ Rarity still inspected Twilight clothes, it was weird to see clothes like that, she touched the material trying to identify its materials.

Fluttershy flew over to Twilight and said ¨maybe after the human wakes up I could try to talk with him, maybe I can persuade him into revealing why he attacked you¨

Twilight stared the creature now inhabiting her body, it was still unconscious, not a threat now but she knows that in its current state it could be difficult to get answers from him ¨are you sure?, there is not guarantee that he doesn’t turn violent again. Not only because he attack me and Starlight just moments ago, but if he get scared he could turn violent, if he had no reason to attack us before he probably has now¨

Rainbow Dash got close to Fluttershy and said ¨well I trust that fluttershy could calm him, and if that doesn’t work I could try get answers the hard way¨

¨RAINBOW DASH, HE IS STILL IN ME BODY!!!¨ Twilight yelled at rainbow, Seen her body being blasted by starlight wasn’t fun, she understood why she did it but she isn’t too keen on watching another pony attacking her her again. also using violence could get things worse, which would lead to more violence or he trying to flee, certainly using force was a bad idea.

Rainbow Dash step back, a little intimidated by Twilight yelling at her. It was clear that what she said was a bad idea, it was not only that Twilight wasn’t in the mod for any joke… but the masculine voice now Twilight possessed along with its new height really made her more intimidating. ¨look I’m sorry, but maybe we should get him at the castle, if it turns violent instead of giving answers it could be easier to restrain him there¨ Said Rainbow.

Twilight yawn again and said ¨maybe, sorry for screaming at you Rainbow, i really need to get some sleep. I can barely sta-¨ before Twilight could finish her sentence she fell to the ground totally unconscious. Everycreature screamed in unison.

¨TWILIGHT!!!¨

Twilight woke up, she was having trouble standing up. ¨how long this guy was awake? he should have rested instead of walking around and attack us¨ she was picked up by Starlight magic.

¨maybe I could try to get you to bed you can rest, and then this human somewhere where we can watch over him¨ Starlight teleported with both Twilight and the human.

Starswirl decided to walk to the group and inform them of something ¨the machine is overheated and might take some hours before we can teleport somepony again¨

Sunburst added ¨maybe, but we saw how much magic consumed and how much was needed, maybe we could use this time to also modify it a little so it can be used more than twice a day¨ he was ready to try to upgrade the machine.

Starswirl grinned, planning and building the machine was a challenge, but upgrading it? It was be a challenge he could not refuse.

Sunburst and Starswirl were exited for ther duty, while the girls were worried, not only for what they could see at the sky, but also with Twilight situation. How they could get her back in her body?

¨Discord, do you think you could use your magic to get Twilight back at her body? ¨ Fluttershy asked, not knowing what he could answer.

¨well I decided to voice my appreciation at the staff… but you know something? The same magic that the staff irradiates can also be felt in Twili- I mean the creature in Twilight body. Sorry for not saying it sooner¨ Discord said, still fascinated with the magic from the other world.

Applejack got a little angry and told discord ¨and what the hay does that has to do with getting Twilight and that weird creature back in their bodies¨

¨I’m not stupid, the magic that the staff irradiates is one that I never felt before. But also one too similar to mine: unpredictable. I don’t know if any spell I use would work on them, or could backfire or something worse, it would be amusing to see what could happen but I don’t thing neither of you would be happy with the results¨

Sunburst backed Discord claim ¨he is right, foreign magic can be blocked. But canceling or casting a new spell on top of unknown magic is dangerous. That’s is why the better option is to get answers from him, that’s why neither Starlight or Starswirl tried to switch their bodies back with their own magic¨

Rarity then asked a question ¨then maybe we could help to make him talk? He might had been dangerous but Starlight told us that he was barely able to walk properly, so I don’t think he could hurt us¨

Sunburst put his hooves in his chin considering the offer¨well, maybe you five could go, once Starlight gets back you could ask her. We don’t have much options¨

all five of Twilight friends Smiled. Maybe they could help by talking with the creature.

No soon after a flash of light would appear, revealing Starlight, Twilight friends stood up in front of her. It was Fluttershy who said ¨we want to help, we could find a way to make him told us why he attacked Twilight and how we could reverse what he’s done¨

¨Good, he might wake at any moment so maybe you could try to calm him down, I doubt he wants to see me after our last encounter, but if things get bad just yell¨ Starlight then teleported the group.

They teleported at the royal palace, specifically in a small dungeon, the palace might be fancy everywhere but the dungeon was the big exemption, it look terrifying… but also it was any dungeon, and not even the royal palace dungeon was the exemption.

¨i know that in his current state isn’t dangerous, but if you need help don’t doubt to call for help, me and the rest of the guard can help you¨

The girls nodded and decided to sit. Now the current dilemma was… they would wait until he wakes up or they would try to wake him up?

Chapter 4

Damn, that hurts. Looks like the Divines like irony, being trapped inside the body of a unicorn and then being blasted by another one sure is a creative way to make me pay for killing the last unicorn in Cyrodiil. I guess destiny can be vindictive… but happily I am alive…

wait I’m again in a dungeon?

I would make jokes about my life starting again from 0, maybe starting again in the imperial prison being taunted by a dunmer before I get embroiled in a war for the fate of Tamriel, but it was not the time. I’m still a winged purple unicorn, now in a dungeon in an unknown location.

The walls look normal for a dungeon, doesn’t look like a dungeon from Molag Bal realm. Being trapped in his realm is by far the worst thing that can happen to anyone and not even Mankar Camoran or Mannimarco deserve that.

Another good thing is that nobody noticed that I’m awake. I think I awoke after a light came to my face. I can overhear some woman saying that if they need help don’t doubt to call for her.

I can heard them speaking about if is good idea to wake me up or they should wait until I wake up, or in this case they notice I’m already awake. These daedra aren’t too bright it seems.

I had one of my eyes open, just a little so nobody can notice, I could not see anyone but I could notice that I was behind bars. I could try to wait until somebody opens and try to scape… but that would either end with me being captured again or killed. I was lucky that daedra called Starlight decided to capture me instead of kill me, so better not test my luck, maybe I could try to talk with them and see what happen.

I opened my eyes completely, now I could see that around my cell it where 5… horses? Or ponies? daedra, let’s keep it at daedra. I could see 5 daedra, one was a unicorn and alongside her were other 4 ponies, 2 with wings and 2 without neither wings nor horn.

I tried to see my surroundings while I was trying to stand up… great, what I needed, I don’t longer have my dairy, I got it at the imperial prison and since I escaped I never let go of it and always documented my adventures. Maybe that Daedra called Twilight have it, I finally stood up… in 4 legs this time. they noticed me.

¨you are awake, are you alright? Can we help you with something? ¨

The one of the daedric ponies spoke, the winged yellow one specifically. What was her game? Her voice was friendly enough, but something that I learned from the Dark Brotherhood is that the sharpest knives hide behind friendly faces. Well I could try to ask her about my dairy.

¨my dairy, where is? ¨

Not the best introduction I know. But I might need to start somewhere.

Other of the Daedra, one with a silly hat walked towards me and spoke… and I didn’t understand a thing of what it said.

¨can you say that again? I can’t understand¨

Again the one with the silly hat spoke to me, by the tone she probably was a little angry now but aside from that I can´t understand what it says, even the most foreign of khajiits or argonians speak more clearly that this daedra, by the nine I even can understand dremoras but this orange daedra with the silly hat? Not a word.

¨can you speak Tamrielic or your daedric accent is that thick? ¨

In retrospective not my brightest response, but in my defense I just woken up, I’m in a cell in some Daedric realm I can’t recognize, trapped in the body of a purple winged unicorn and now I’m speaking with my captors.

¨can I speak with someone that I can understand? ¨

Then the pink horse of the pack started speaking and… is that daedra on skooma or something? I can get more of what it says not much but what i get is that this pink daedra might be a skooma addict, it speaks too fast so i still have problems understanding.

¨how much skooma did you take? ¨

And then the pink daedra responded.

¨what is skooma? ¨

Is that daedra joking? That daedra is the textbook example of a skooma addict, not even Faelian was so messed up.

¨I don’t know what is skooma but I can offer you cake, in exchange of telling us what is skoo-¨

Then the blue horse with wings give a glare towards the skooma addict it was enough to make her stop talking. Maybe is the leader of the squadron?

¨-or maybe tell us what to do so we can get Twilight back in her body¨

¨Wabbajack¨

As simply as that, it was the wabbajack that put me and that Twilight in this situation, maybe using it again could reverse the effect… or turn us into cheese. Risky but also obvious, just hope they picked up the staff.

¨what is a Wabbajack? ¨

Huh? Wait do they don’t know of the wabbajack? That Is the best daedric arti- is one of the most well know daedric artifacts. I also brought it with me, they sure can recognize it.

¨The Wabbajack, Wabbajack is the Wabbajack¨

I mean is totally obvious, daedra who serve certain daedric prince might not be masters of knowledge of other daedric prince, but even cultist who serve hircine or malacath know must know about artifacts of other daedra… unless… they are not daedra?

¨what Daedric Prince do you serve?¨

All of the 5 daedra watch me in confusion… is this not oblivion? They may not be daedra after all? I was considering the alternatives, what these creatures might be? I was as confused as them until the unicorn of the group decided to speak to me.

¨we have princesses and some princes but what do you mean by daedric princess? ¨

that unicorn has a interesting accent, it seems from nobility, not something you would find in most realms of oblivion. And they are confused then I speak to them about daedric related subjects… these are NOT daedra.

¨you are not daedra. What are you? ¨

¨ponies of course¨

The response was so absurd I couldn’t even recognize who said it. I mean true they look like horses but khajiit also look like cats and they take offense to being called cats. Better to ask for specifics.

¨a little more specific¨

The skooma addict approached my cell and pointed each of the group, thankfully she spoke clearly so I was able to understand her without much trouble this time.

¨right there is Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy and they are pegasus, I am Pinkie pie and me and Applejack and both of us are earth ponies and over there is Rarity who is a unicorn. You are in Twilight Sparkle body and she is an alicorn¨

Now I know their names, daedra are quite reserved about telling their true names. I heard that getting their true name is a key to defeat them but I’m not sure, but if is true then this was further confirmation that they aren’t daedra, I guess is time for introductions.

¨I’m the Champion Of Cyrodill, a breton¨

I could see that Fluttershy was confused by my answer, I should had given her my real name instead of my little?

¨I thought you were human, Starlight and Twilight at least asume that¨

Okay now I’m confused, almost as them. I guess they are aware of humanity but not of the different races of men.

¨they aren’t wrong, I’m human, like you can be a pony classified as pegasus. I’m a human classified as breton¨

Fluttershy saw me with curiosity, like she never seen something like me before, instead of extreme caution like before she now looked interested in knowing more about me, she looked less reserved and more confident.

If something i learned thanks to haggling merchants is that initiating small talk can make more easy to get low prices or persuade someone into doing something they didn’t want to do before, maybe she was about to ask critical information, either of the Empire or the Shivering Isles. I might need to be more cautious about my answers.

¨anyway, about that Wabbajack thing, how does look? ¨

Interesting accent coming from that Rainbow Dash, maybe she is from the army or could be a bandit, either way I can tell she is the strongest of the group.

Interesting team: a skooma addict, a quiet assassin or negotiator, someone from royalty, a warrior and someone unintelligible. They sure are a weird group. But they share the same need for answers.

¨a staff, a grey one that looks made of stone¨

All five of the girls saw themselves in unison, they recognized the artifact. I think after I got knocked out Starlight and Twilight brought the staff with me. Thank the nine it would had been a total headache to locate Wabbajack in Tamriel.

Then Fluttershy decided to make another question.

¨and do you know something about… the world that is in the sky? ¨

World in the sky… of course, they are from the world in the sky. I don’t know how they call this world or if they are aware of Nirn. Looks like they know too little about the current crisis, I need to see how much they know.

¨how much do you know? ¨

Pinkie Pie over speak and said just what I needed.

¨not much really, one moment we were having a picnic, the next one a huge world appear out of nowhere and everycreature in Equestria could see it in the sky. Twilight and Starlight went there to find answers but decided to come back after you switched bodies with Twilight¨

Yeah, over speak is an understatement. But now it was clear that at least these creatures know nothing about the current crisis, neither are responsible so maybe they are also victims, also this place is called Equestria, weird name but i take it.

Before this conversation could continue a voice called the ponies.

¨girls, Spike just gave a message to Twilight, you need to see this¨

Rainbow dash rush to the door following by the rest, sure this was important.

¨We coming Starlight!¨

I hoped that Starlight would to come thru the door… instead the ponies exited the room and closed the door. They left me alone, they didn’t gave me back my dairy and now the only thing I can hope is that they don’t kill me or hold me prisoner forever.

…jerks…

Now I could be here waiting for anything, but I think i could escape. They really care about Twilight, maybe is one of its commanders or greatest heroes. They put a lot of importance on her taking back her body. I can understand the need of getting back at my body, I feel cold and I would not mind having at least a loincloth.

How I would do magic in this alicorn body? That’s a big question, magic is supposed to be tied to the soul, but in my current state maybe could be difficult, either because of any side effect from the Wabbajack or my new biology.

Maybe I could do it with the horn? Yeah I doubt it.

I decided to stand up in 2 legs. It is difficult but let’s see, I will set a small healing spell, I weaver my han- forelegs in this case and…

IT WORKS!!! BLESS THE NINE!!!

I decided to practice a little how to walk, I walked on circles on my cell. Trying to find a pattern, one where these fe- hooves don’t do much noise… and I did.

Combined with an invisibility spell I can be undetectable. I once managed to sneak into the White Gold Tower and steal an Elder Scroll so I might have a chance.

…wait a minute…

MY DAIRY!!! There i detailed my adventures… and much of it could reveal many secrets, true these ponies are also victims of the current crisis but if they think the empire is responsible for this they could declare war on the empire.

The information about the different factions across Cyrodill in their han- hooves would be disastrous. It might be dangerous to take my dairy back but i can destroy it. I don’t like the idea but with that I can ensure the safety of Tamriel.

A shame really, I grew attached to that thing since i got it a day before Uriel Septim freed me.

Chapter 5

Twilight was in the body of a estrange creature, she doesn’t know its name, neither of what species could be. It look familiar to the humans from the world the other side of the mirror where Sunset Shimmer lives, but she can’t be sure if is really a human. Still she and Starlight decided to work under the assumption that is a human.

Under normal conditions Twilight would be researching everything about her new body. But she was too exhausted so she decided to rest.

Twilight Sparkle might have problems adapting to her new role as ruler of Equestria, but her new bed in the royal palace was one of the best things about her role as ruler, combined how tired she was in her new body she was sleeping like she never did in years.

A shame that a letter from Spike appear in front of her, a loud sound and a bright green light coming from the flame ensure she woke up. Most ponies would try to sleep again... Twilight wasn’t like most ponies, she picked up and read the letter.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle, I don’t know how much you discover about the current situation with the planet in the sky since my last letter, sorry if I didn’t write you more letters but I was helping Ember to organize the dragons to scout the Dragon Lands so they can find any other anomaly, and they did.

I don’t know how to describe it, it appear to be some kind of flying stone in the shape of a circle, in the circle there is a portal from witch comes a chain that goes directly to the ground. The portal is big enough to make possible for many dragons to enter, but Ember gave the order to not approach.

Maybe you could get some insight into this. I know is too far away to teleport so maybe you could send Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy here while you continue to research the issue in Canterlot.

-Your Royal Advisor and Friendship Ambassador Spike

Twilight read the letter a few times to see if she read it well and to imagine what Spike was describing. ¨A portal where appears a chain that nails itself to the ground? Might be some kind of anchor? ¨

Twilight exited the room and yelled for somepony to come, she was still getting used to her new voice. Back when she turned into a human when she chased Sunset Shimmer at least had an appearance similar to the one she had before along with the exact same voice. Even then she turn into a breezie she still had a similar voice. But this male body had a voice completely different.

After a few minutes Starlight came running and said to Twilight ¨sorry, with your new voice I mistook you with one of the guards¨

Twilight couldn't identify if it was a joke or was genuine, still she instead of answering to her comment she gave her Spike letter, Starlight quickly read it

¨A portal appear and from it fell some kind of anchor? Do you think it has to do with the planet in the sky? ¨ Starlight was puzzled, maybe could be connected with the other planet, but Spike suggestion was a good one.

¨you know Starlight, I would normally send you there alongside Rainbow and Fluttershy, but I think it would be for the best if you came with me again to the world in the sky¨

Starlight gave a confused look to Twilight, it was a weird suggestion.

¨Twilight, we only spend like five minutes there and we were attacked¨ Starlight argued

¨True, but by the way he freak out maybe he probably mistook us for monsters, now I’m in the body of somecreature native from that world, so maybe I can blend it, you could use a invisibility spell and remain hidden¨ Twilight answered.

Starlight consider Twilight offer. Maybe with her and Twilight exploring the world in the sky, while Rainbow Dash and fluttershy investigating the anchor they could find the source of the problem more quickly.

¨okay, but we will go back after 2 or 3 days, along with any discovery Rainbow and Fluttershy make we might discover how to solve this problem¨ Starlight left Twilight, going directly to the dungeon of the castle to talk with the girls.

Twilight still felt a little sleepy, but decided that instead of trying to sleep again she would go and search the belongings of whoever is the body she is inhabiting. It might feel a little bad to search thou somecreature personal belongings but she wasn't going to steal anything.

¨let’s see, a bag of coins… weird, the currency has something engraved, it look like one side is shaped with the face of a human and the other is a…dragon?… do dragons live there too? And every coin shares the same engraving? Amazing! ¨

Twilight was fascinated. Bits don’t have such level of detail, maybe once this is over she might order to engrave bits like that… or maybe don’t, it would be too costly.

Twilight then noticed also that it had something written.

The Empire is law. The law is sacred.

¨So this creature is from some empire¨ then she turned the coin to see the other side.

Praise be Akatosh and all the divines.

¨is Akatosh their leader? I hope I can reason with him or her, but what it means by divines? ¨ Twilight put all of the coins in the bag and continued to search the belongings again, not much of note aside from some weird mask and… a dagger. That send a chill down her spine, true the creature it might had a sword wich Twilight and Starlight already dispose of, but the thought of hidden weapons trouble her. What other hidden weapons might have this creature in its belongings?

Finally she found something useful: a small book… it wasn’t a normal book, it was a dairy. ¨maybe its last page would help me to know what he was doing before I encounter him¨

After hours of travel I finally got these refugees to Bruma, The countess promise me to keep them safe and feed. But Before I had the chance to leave the city a child walked towards me and thank me personally, he told me that I really deserved my tittle as champion of Cyrodill. Seen such a smile for a good deed was all the reward i needed.

But definitely I should had stayed and get rest instead of parting immediately towards the Imperial City, it might be not so far down the south but now in retrospective I can see that is still too far away, I hope I don’t fall asleep while traveling. But if I get there I will talk to potentate Ocato, maybe he will point me towards the solution, or maybe he will simply send to towards the blades.

¨Ocato? Who that might be? Maybe a friend of him¨

That might be only one page she read but she got a lot of information, that Imperial City might be the capital of the kingdom, this guy isn’t so bad as she thought considering he helped some refugees to get safety and maybe that Ocato guy could help her… ¨but what it means to be send towards the Blades? It might be some organization? Or an expression of him turning violent?¨ Twilight said, this was a very difficult puzzle to solve, maybe once she get enough rest she could try to talk with the creature.

Before Twilight could continue to elaborate theories about Ocato her friends rush to her room.

¨are you crazy? First we should get you back at your body¨ Rainbow Dash protested.

¨we managed to make him talk, maybe he is not so aggressive and could help us¨ said Fluttershy who wanted to cooperate with the so called champion of Cyrodill.

Twilight put her hands in her chin and said ¨i see, I read a little of his dairy, maybe while you could try to speak with him again while i continue to see what it says¨

Starlight had a small laugh ¨you never miss a chance to read doesn’t? ¨

Applejack walked forward ¨Anyway, when we ask him how to get you back in your body he rambled about something called Wabbajack, I think is the staff that made discord droll, maybe that thing could get you back on your bodies¨

Twilight decided to sit and consider her options:

She could either trust a total stranger that attack her not so long ago to cast a spell on her.

Or could try to travel to a mysterious land with only second hand information….

It was a difficult choice, either way the petition of Spike was one that should be done, Starlight instructed Rainbow dash and fluttershy to leave to the dragons lands to help him. Before either of them leave rainbow dash said to Twilight ¨either way, i think we will manage to save equestrian, we survived worst and came stronger each time, I doubt it will be different. ¨

And with that both Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy parted.

¨I think I will made the best decision after getting some rest, I will read more of the dairy once I wake up, it would be useful to know more about the empire he apparently work for¨ Twilight again yawned, she barely managed to get sleep before Spike message woke her up.

¨I think I could read this dairy while you sleep, they told me that he is a Human Breton and he is the champion of Cyrodill... wharever that is, this dairy might help me verify that¨ said Starlight while levitated the dairy towards her.

¨in his last chapter he said that helped a group of refugees to get to safety, so he might be saying the truth about being a champion. Either way I hope you find something useful¨ and with that Twilight came back to her bed and quickly fell sleep.

The rest of the group leave her room to let her rest.

Applejack and Rarity decided to come back to ponyville, even thou this crisis was important they needed to have a little time with their families, also with what they learn they could try to calm them down.

Pinkie pie in another hand accompanied Starlight while she was reading the journal in a hallway. A lot to unpack there.

¨so, this guy was an in prison but a mix up in paperwork caused he ending up in a cell that was in truth an escape route for the Emperor in case assassins went after him, they didn’t manage to close the door so he managed to follow the Emperor and saw him being assassinated? ¨ Pinkie Pie was trying to process what just read, Starlight simply limited to nod.

¨and before the assassins killed him the emperor gave have him a magical amulet witch could prevent great disaster. And went searching to the last heir of the emperor in a city just to discover that was being besieged by creatures called daedra? ¨ Pinkie pie was surprised of how detail was the dairy, but the word daedra was a too similar word…

Starlight found weird to see Pinkie so… quiet, Pinkie pie was trying to remember something, what could it be?

¨he call us Daedra, and then he ask us what daedric prince we serve, looks like his world suffered an invasion from the daedra and he think we must be daedra too¨ Pinkie Pie now knew why the creature attacked her friends, it was a misunderstanding and not malice.

¨don’t forget about the portal where it appear the army of daedra that devastated the city of Kvatch, considering the description that Spike gave us about the anchor in the dragon lands, and the description of the portal that caused the destruction of that city i wonder if those daedra have something to do, they probably do¨ Starlight now was hopeful, if her supposition was correct that would mean that after a few explanations Equestria and the Empire could join forces to face the new crisis.

¨but if those jerks destroyed an antire city to get to Martin don’t you think they would try the same here? ¨ Pinkie Pie comment scared Starlight, the thought of any city in Equestria destroyed like Kvatch was truly terrifying , maybe the only reason why the daedra tried the same trick in the could ruler temple was because was full of trained warriors ready for an attack?

¨Then we should warn everycreature to make sure they can defend themselves, I just hope the daedra don’t have anything to do with this. At least this dairy explains that to close a portal one simply needs to remove a sphere know as sigil stone, so we might had a chance. Still that would mean we would had to fight throu an army of angry daedra¨ Starlight was trying to get her head around on how they would even manage to do that.

¨well, maybe instead of fighting them we could try to enter the portal, ignore any daedra and run directly to the stone, I mean that strategy works in dark souls¨ Pinkie smiled totally confident

Starlight simply saw Pinkie in confusion ¨dark what? ¨ just after making that question Starlight remembered that is better to not make questions about Pinkie Pie shenanigans, so she decided to talk again about the dairy ¨anyways, do you think we could get help from that Martin? If the so called oblivion crisis is already resolved that means than martin is now emperor, maybe we could make him know that we aren’t responsible for this¨

¨maybe after all of this is over we could try to organize a party in the style of Kvatch, he might miss his home. Anyways, do you want a snack? I heard than Pony Joe is still selling donuts in spite of the crisis¨ for it seems Pinkie Pie had her priorities straight.

¨you know what? I’m in, Twilight might take a time to wake up so we could get a donut and get back here to continue reading the journal¨ and with that both mares started walking in the hallway, leaving behind the dairy in the floor, after all who would pick it up?

Ten seconds, is that all it took. Starlight noticed a sound and turned to see the dairy and… it was gone.

Starlight run towards where she left the dairy, she was panicking and screamed ¨THE DAIRY!!!¨

Pinkie Pie run all over the hallway trying to locate whoever stole it, it could be the champion?

¨okay, hold still Pinkie, I have an idea! ¨ Said Starlight, while the unicorn prepared a spell Pinkie Pie made sure to shield herself with a piece of furniture.

Starlight spell caused a great flash of lightning… along with a small explosion that shake the floor, enough to both wake up Twilight… and broke the invisibility spell of the Champion of Cyrodill in Twilight body with the dairy in mouth.

¨gotcha¨ Said Starlight, with a smug face, she managed to capture him before, so she could do it again. But the champion quickly ran away and evaded every single spell she launched at him.

Both Starlight and Pinkie perused the champion, who still holds the dairy in its mouth. Because the Champion still didn’t know much about the castle they run in circles.

It would be like that for various minutes until Pinkie Pie yelled ¨PINKIE SENSE!!!¨ she stopped and started to recount was happening to her body ¨ear flop, eye flutter, knee twitch….¨

¨CAREFUL WITH OPENING DOORS STARLIGHT!!!¨

¨what? ¨ said Starlight, who turned her head while continued running, because of that she was not seen where she was going… is not surprising when a door opened she crashed directly into it.

¨ouch¨ said both starlight and Twilight in the ground.

¨so, I can’t even get five minutes of rest? ¨ said Twilight while trying to get up.

¨worse than that, the crea- The Champion just escaped and took the dairy!!!¨ Said Pinkie Pie while helping Starlight to get up.

Starlight said ¨okay, we have to find him, I will go and close any door in the castle and alert the guards.¨ and then she run off.

Pinkie Pie yelled ¨make sure they don’t hurt him, he isn’t our enemy¨ and after that both of them continued reaching.

If Twilight were still an alicorn she would already do a spell to immediately find him, but without horn that was out of the question, even a pair of wings would help her to move more quickly around the palace.

Sure this day was turning worse every minute.

Chapter 6

You know, is very iconic. As a child I always wondered why not everyone used magic. I mean is not that difficult. I might be a Breton and that might help but I imagine even the most brutes of orcs could do magic too.

but then as an adult I discover why most people don’t use magic… magic is a scam, even the most basic of spell cost a fortune. Now I see why magic is associated with wealth.

By the nine for creating MY OWN SPELL I needed to pay a tax to the Empire, Empire that I saved by the way, looks like even heroes need to pay taxes… now I see why Mannimarco got so many followers. Perhaps it wasn’t just the banning of necromancy the reason why so many mages join him.

Either way, I learned the spell of ¨unlock very easy locks¨ one extremely useless, even with a brooch pin I could open a weak lock, still bought it anyways and never use it, big waste of septims.

But now even if I had something to improvise a lockpick i would still be unable to open this door thanks to my lack of fingers. But now thanks to this spell I managed to escape.

After I opened both the door of my cell and later the door of the dungeon i casted a invisibility spell and boom, invisible.

I might have to sneak up all over this place trying to get at my dairy but it would be worth it.

I walked all over the place, I noticed pony guards who whore armor who look like a blend of golden saint and imperial legion armor, I miss the Shive- Cyrodill, yes I miss Cyrodill.

Not a single one noticed me, I was silent and my invisibility spell was effective. I continued scouting the place, exploring every floor, soon enough I would either start exploring rooms instead of only the hallways or I would had to explore outside this palace.

Still I’m impressed with how beautiful is this place, is even hard to think that the imperial palace isn’t nowhere as fancy as this place, is almost terrifying… but either way I must continue.

I ended up finding Starlight and Pinkie Pie, Both where… reading my dairy. Damn it all just what I wanted to avoid. Attacking them was out of my options, my invisibility spell is strong enough to let me wait, so I think I will wait until they get distracted with something.

I guess I was so frustrated with what they were saying that I didn’t pay attention on what they were saying, then I heard Starlight say something.

¨anyways, do you think we could get help from that Martin?¨

What? Damn it all. They know about Martin… but they think he is alive?

¨If the so called oblivion crisis is already resolved that means than martin is now emperor, maybe we could make him know that we aren’t responsible for this¨

Martin is death, now the de facto ruler of the Empire is Ocato who for some reason refused to take the title of emperor. But like him Ocato could see reason, these ponies aren’t responsible for this. Still I can’t let this ponies continue to have a hold on this dairy full of critical information.

Anyway I continued to spy them.

¨maybe after all of this is over we could try to organize a party in the style of Kvatch, he might miss his home¨

Really? A party? That is the priority of that pink skooma addict? And again Martin is death, I can´t avoid thinking than Pinkie Pie might be a sanguine worshipper, maybe could be his champion.

¨Anyways, do you want a snack? I heard than Pony Joe is still selling donuts in spite of the crisis¨

What is a donut? Is that a euphemism for skooma here?

¨you know what? I’m in, Twilight might take a time to wake up so we could get a donut and get back here to continue reading the journal ¨

So Starlight is also a skooma addict? Or maybe a donut is simply a type of food and nothing devious. Either way those idiots left the dairy behind.

I waited a couple of seconds before doing anything, waiting so they get some distance.

Once there was some distance I picked up the dairy with my teeth and…

The spell broke... DAMN IT ALL!!! I quickly get up and casted a spell of invisibility again, but that produced a noise than alerted both ponies.

They quickly turn and saw nothing, the spell worked but they were now in high alert. I decided to walk slowly tryng to not make any noice.

¨okay, hold still Pinkie, I have an idea¨

Cursed unicorn I really wish Hircine and a legion of werewolves were here you tear her to pieces. That lunatic just casted a small explosion that caused my invisibility spell to fail.

¨gotcha¨

The cursed unicorn made the most puncheable face I ever say in my life, and I saw very puncheable faces before but this one takes the cake.

Either way I decided to run away, still with the dairy in my mouth and somehow evading every spell she launched at me.

She and the skooma addict chase after me, I would need a miracle to get away from this, a help of the divines or…

¨PINKIE SENSE!!!¨

What? Maybe a distraction I continued to run away.

¨CAREFUL WITH OPENING DOORS STARLIGHT!!!¨

And shortly after that a door in the hallway started to open, I managed to avoid crashing into it, but Starlight got distracted with the scream of the skooma addict and crashed.

honestly the most difficult part was not busting into a laughing fit. After I got some distance I casted another spell of invisibility and slip away.

I was quick and managed to sneak up out of the castle before the guards were alerted of my escape… I wonder why aren’t they in full alert after that explotion caused by that crazy unicorn? I guess explosions are common here.

I ran towards a small alley, there was nobody and was isolated enough that no one could see me. So I dropped the dairy and… well I did what I needed to do.

¨Farewell. You've been a good friend¨

I casted a fire spell and burned the dairy, I had that thing for a long time, it was by far my most valuable possession. It was really sad to let it go… but I know it was necessary, for the good of Tamriel, for the good of the Empire.

Still that don’t make the pain go away, i let go a small tear. Yeah I admit it I have emotions okay? And now just noticed that my invisibility spell broke… AGAIN. I casted it again and continue to move.

I went towards a garden, I would enjoy the view or the statues but I needed to find somewhere to hide, then I saw some kind of estructure… look like some kind of improvised observatory that lacks any roof, it has many books and some beds… any idiot would think this isn’t important, but I deduced quickly this was the way to get back to Tamriel.

I got close and saw 2 unicorns, one with a cape and other with a cape and hat.

¨Twilight is going to be exited, now we can teleport her from equestria to the world in the sky and back here without needing to wait¨

The unicorn with the cape certainly was happy with his work, i still find the name of Equestria a weird one... but not weirder than ¨Twilight Sparkle¨

¨still, we still need to upgrade this machine so we can teleport her back here immediately, if she gets in too much trouble there we will be able to get her back here before she gets hurt¨

The unicorn with the hat was still unsatisfied with his work.

I decided to spy them, wait for the opportunity to come… and it did.

Starlight, Pinkie pie and Twilight came here. Totally stressed for me escaping their clutches.

¨THE CREATURE ESCAPED!!! HE COULD BE ANYWHERE!!!¨

Twilight yelled, she was totally distressed with the idea of a stranger running around in her body… and I don’t blame her.

¨calm down, we will find him, any clue about how he fled? ¨

The unicorn with the hat remained calm, better than the caped one who looked also distressed.

¨an invisibility spell, I manage to broke it with an explosion, but he snuck away¨

Starlight avoided speaking about the part where she crashed with an opening door, very convenient.

¨Maybe forced movement could broke his spell, i have some spells in mind to broke his invisibility, I will start here and then we will try it elsewhere¨

Damn, that unicorn with the hat is perceptive, but I noticed something… in the machine there is a small lever, maybe is how they activate the machine to get to Tamriel. They could had chained that cursed thing to make sure i were unable to do what I’m going to do now.

I got to the lever and move it, that activated a contraption and I quickly run towards the platform, my invisibility broke but even if not they would still notice me... but they maintain their distance, Starlight tried to use her magic to forcefully stop the machine… I might don’t know how this piece of junk works but I know that is bad idea.

A piece of the machine move in a way clearly shouldn't. But before I could jump out or they could levitate me away the machine activated and a pillar of light came from the platform. I started to fly direcly towards Nirn, but I noticed that I wasn’t going to the Imperial City or even Cyrodill, I was going north… too north.

Finally the light turned off, I wasn’t any more in that place… but where I am? It was cold, too cold… even colder than Bruma.

I still haven’t frozen to death so this isn’t Atmora.

I must be in Skyrim.

Chapter 7

¨THE MACHINE IS STILL MOVING!!!¨ Twilight yelled while trying to still process the fact that the guy who was in his body managed to escape and now the only way to get to him probably was going to explode.

Starlight was crying ¨I’M SORRY TWILIGHT!!!¨ she knew because of her rash action the machine could blew up at any minute dooming everycreature in Canterlot, maybe in all of Equestria.

Starswirl decided to use his magic to stabilize the machine that was still emitting energy, sunburst by instinct put himself between Starlight and the machine and casted a shield that enveloped everypony with the exception of starwild who was closer to the machine that anypony.

Everypony was ready for the worst… but Starswirl managed to stabilize the machine.

¨Starlight, never do that again¨ said Starswirl in a relieved tone… but one could notice a little bit of anger in his tone.

Twilight run straight into the telescope and… the telescope pointed at some place close to the center of the continent, not the place where the guy with her body just jumped.

Starlight was in the ground crying. Having she done something different all of this could had been avoided. Maybe the machine now isn’t going to blew up Canterlot but still things where grim.

The dairy with information about the mysterious planet in the sky was gone, alongside the Champion of Cyrodill who could be anywhere in that mysterious planet.

She continued crying, for her all of this was her fault. Sunburst hugged her, trying to calm her down.

Twilight was silent, still trying to use the telescope to find the champion, and Starswirl too was silent, he was starting to repair the machine, it could take hours but any upgrade would be preserved.

It was Pinkie Pie who finally said a word. It was to Starlight ¨maybe you screw things up… but you and sunburst could try to make more of those telescopes? We call some of the girls and we can use them to locate him¨

Twilight with a serious tone said ¨Pinkie, that’s is like trying to find a needle in a haystack ¨

Pinkie pie quickly counter her argument ¨well once Dashie and Applejack competed on that and somehow both found each a needle at the same time, maybe they could get that lucky again¨

Twilight signed ¨I guess, still I guess is better that only one telescope¨ she yawned. Truly this day was getting worse by the minute and wanted to sleep to think more clearly on how salvage this disaster. She didn’t bother to get back at the palace, she simply took one of the sleeping sheets and finally fall sleep.

Pinkie Pie left canterlot, she was going to inform Applejack and Rarity of what it happen, it would be a matter of time before Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy came back so they would help too.

Starlight and Sunburst were occupied trying to make new telescopes, these ones were smaller but each of them as effective as the first one they created, they learned from their mistakes and they make something better in return.

Starswirl continued working on the machine, the attempt of Starlight to stop the machine from teleporting the creature ended up in sending him towards an unknown location, even if they managed to track down where he landed he would probably be long gone, so teleporting Twilight directly at the creature location wasn’t an option… at least for now.

Twilight was sleeping, this time without any interruption, fortunately her friends worked without doing any noise so she slept well this time.

The time of nightfall finally came. Time ago this was the job of Luna, for a long time it became the job of Celestia. Now it was supposed to be the work of Twilight… but she was unable to do any magic. Before the time of alicorns Starswirl alongside a team of unicorns would do it for themselves.

He, alongside Starlight, Sunburst and some unicorns sorcerers from canterlot used their combined magic to do just that, they moved the sun and put the moon in its place. It was extremely difficult and it was clear for them why the Princesses job was so important.

Now the majority of questria was sleeping, including Twilight, Starlight and Sunburst. But Starswirl continued to work on the machine, for him this was more important than a good night rest. It was a matter of hours before it came the time to put the sun again, and was then when Twilight finally woke up.

¨hello Starswirl, the machine is still not ready? ¨ Twilight asked

¨not yet, give me a couple of hours and it will be done¨ Starswirl voice reflected how tired he was.

¨please don’t be angry at Starlight, she tried to help¨ said Twilight while seen Starlight sleeping.

¨don’t worry, it was a mistake in a tense situation. But do you still want to go there with her? ¨ said Starswirl in a worried tone

¨even thou she make rash decisions sometimes, she never surrenders and always take motivation to continue. When we were enemies she was stubborn… But as a friend she made sure I would never give up when she knew I was doing the right thing, she alongside Spike are the ones I trust the most that I’m safe even in a mysterious new world¨ Twilight was sure that if she was going again to world in the sky she would need her help.

¨maybe, is a misfortune I can’t accompany you, somepony need to repair this machine if something happen¨ said Starswirl in a sarcastic tone, even thou exploring the world in the sky sounded exiting… he knew his priorities.

Twilight let a small chuckle and said in a happy tone¨you know, part of me wants to explore that world, to see what it has to offer, what friends I could meet there and what adventures I could have but…¨ and then Twilight tone changed to a sad one ¨...I know that isn’t possible, we need to solve this crisis as soon as possible. And then I will be again relegated again to a chair only hear about wonderful creatures and amazing places while being unable to meet them¨

Starswirl sit close to Twilight ¨you know Princess Twilight, I miss the old days. The ponies and creatures I meet all over ancient equestria are long gone, but I rest easier knowing that they lived peaceful lives thanks to me and my friend’s efforts, you maybe can’t befriend everycreature in Equestria, but you can still help them and make their lives better ¨

Twilight had a small chuckle ¨funny, a few years ago I only worried about my studies and I believed I could get any answer from books. I would relax reading stories from time to time, and sometimes I would have the chance to spend time with my family. I guess the things i do now are to ensure future generations also have the opportunity to grew up safely without needing to worry of not knowing if equestria is going to be in one piece by tomorrow, I wonder what small me would do if she knew the things I do now¨

Starswirl chuckle and said ¨well, maybe she would be jumping all over the place yelling yes yes yes again and again, Princess Celestia told me the story¨

Twilight blush at the memory and then turn her head towards Starlight and Sunburst who were sleeping very close together ¨I guess, maybe in the future I could train some talented filly unicorn to do great things once it grows up, maybe after we are all gone future generations will continue defending Equestria and spreading the magic of friendship with all the lessons that we learned, maybe learn even more. I think that would be our greatest achievement¨

After saying that Twilight stood up and picked at random one book, then she sit down and started to read it while being illuminated by Starswirl magic who started working again in the machine.

Rainbow Dash and Fluttetshy finally arrived to the Dragon Lands, it was just a matter of time before the sun rise again, but the Dragons Lands were already full of activity, the dragons were doing patrols and looked ready for a fight. This would intimidate both Pegasus… but they knew the dragons didn’t see them as a threat… or victims to abuse. They quickly found Spike who immediately identified them

¨guys, you’re here!¨ said Spike, who couldn't wait until his friends landed and fled towards them.

Rainbow Dash smiled at Spike ¨of course we are here, you summon us and we obey¨ Rainbow sarcastic tone made one thing clear, she was ready for anything that the dragon lands have in store for her.

¨you said something about some weird stone in the shape of a circle where is a portal than left an anchor¨ said fluttershy

¨you could say that, but there is… more than that, Ember is around here and she could tell you all about it… but I think you can see it by youself¨ said Spike

¨why did Ember forbid going directly to the portal? ¨ asked Rainbow Dash.

¨sorry, i should have sent more letters informing about any update. Please try to have an open mind and don’t panic¨ Spike sounded… serious, wherever happen with the stone sure is severe to make the dragons prepared like they were about to get invaded.

The night finally turn day by the time the 3 of them finally got to the place where it was the stone… it was just as Spike describe it, a stone in a shape of a circle floating in the sky. Where a portal could be seen and an anchor was going directly to the ground…

What Spike failed to mention (it was the recent development that he warned his friends about) was that from the portal descended army after army of monsters, all of them screaming with fury and ready to unleash carnage across the land… until they are quickly burn to ashes by an army of angry dragons… who will repeat the process of burning the place all over again once another swarm of monsters descends from the portal again.

To say Fluttershy was horrified at the sight was an understatement, Rainbow Dash would be normally amazed at such big fight... but even Rainbow found it too brutal.

Spike then explain to the pair of pegasus ¨an army of monsters came from that portal, they badly injured some dragons, you can guess how they retaliated. The problem now is that they don’t stop coming, before that Dragon Lord Ember gave the order to not enter the portal for being completely unknown to us what is behind it, but now? Is clear that if a dragon get there it would probably be immediately ki-¨

¨we get it, any idea where is Ember? We could talk with her about what she learned, but for now I think you should send a letter to Twilight to tell her that we finally got to the dragon lands¨ said Rainbow Dash, who after that went to try to help Fluttershy to regain her composure.

Spike quickly wrote a letter with news and send it. ¨done, now we will go to see Ember¨

But before that Rainbow told something to Spike ¨hold it Spike, we need first to tell you something about Twilight¨

¨What? Did something happened to her?¨ said Spike totally unsettled.

Both of them fled to some hill and there both pegasus told the dragon the story about… the little incident.

¨Holy guacamole, Twilight sure knows just how to get herself into the crazies of situations, you never knew what else is going to happen around her next time¨ said Spike while laughing.

¨Says the baby dragon who casually send their friends towards a warzone¨ said Fluttershy unamused.

¨point taken, I’m sorry I didn’t knew how to explain it. I thought it would be better if you saw it for yourselves¨ said Spike being totally honest.

¨please spike, next time warn us before you send us at such gruesome sight¨ said Fluttershy in a serious tone, it was clear by her expression she was one step away from using the stare on him.

¨okay I’m sorry, that will not happen again¨ his face of remorse made clear that wasn’t his intention to make his friends watch something so brutal.

After that both of them flied directly at the location of Dragon Lord Ember, hopefully they would discover something about the crisis they are facing.

Meanwhile a mysterious figure was floating around the castle, like it was looking for something….

¨oh, I remember that I saw the creature without the dairy before leaving, I could tell Princess Twilight about this… but why ruin the fun?¨ it was discord, who just found himself in a small alleyway… where he could see the burned remains of a dairy.

With a snap of his fingers the chattered remains of the dairy was restored into its original form. ¨I never quite understood Twilight obsession with books, but maybe this could prove an interesting read¨

Chapter 8

I will I get rest when I die? Not if those cursed daedra have anything to say about it.

I know than the world in the sky isn’t of daedric origin, but I still think that the daedra have something to do with this.

Supposedly I’m now a daedric prince, but I’m now in the body of a winged unic- of an alicorn somewhere in skyrim. So I think is more probable that I’m now mad and sheogorath is laughing at me somewhere.

I mean that is better that the alternative, imagine what the other daedra would think of one of their fellow degenerates getting turned into a pony for misusing its own artifact, only to be later was jailed in pony land and its now freezing in the worst region of tamriel… well second worse, Black Marsh still takes the cake, being covered in weird gunk while being poisoned by some gross creature before dying from an unknown disease that would make Peryite proud is far worse than freezing to death.

Either way a Daedic Prince suffering such fate would be the laughing stock of the entire pantheon for the rest of eternity.

Okay enough moping. Crying about my misfortune isn’t going to make it go away.

The majority of folk think that Skyrim is just snow, but in truth skyrim has variety of climates and fauna, true the majority of that fauna is more dangerous than the one of Cyrodill… but at the center of Skyrim there is the hold of Whiterun. There the climate is a little warmer and few monsters.

I could go there, find a town and steal some map and compass. It would be difficult to carry but I will manage..

You know, having a world in the sky is still unsettling, but not so much as being IN that world. But what I find unsettling is how the sun moved and almost immediately came the moon… a moon… ONLY ONE MOON???

That moon look nothing like Masser or Secunda, my horror can only be topped with the thought of how much would be suffering the khajiits, a good portion of their society revolve about the moons , part of me is thankful I’m in skyrim instead of Elsweyr.

But again this came with the moon appearing so soon. This might be an artificial moon?

I must hurry, I need to go to the imperial city and speak with Ocato… or go to cloud ruler temple and speak with Jauffre, is closer now than I think about it.

I walked for hours, I don’t know where I’m going, but i stop seen snow and the temperature is getting warmer.

I’m aware that now I have wings and I could potentially fly, I saw those Pegasus having their wings folded in a certain way, I imitate it and these wings don’t cause much trouble… but I’m still unable to fly with them like any of those Pegasus.

…I wonder if I would be even allowed to fly. The levitation act forbids using magic to fly… but technically I would be using wings to fly, not some sort of levitation spell.

Either way the only way I have to travel thou skyrim is on fo- hooves.

I walked for a long time without seen anything interesting… then I saw something weird at the distance… a piece of rock floating at the sky?

I decided to run towards it, I was curious at what it was. I doubt it has anything to do with the crisis but I needed to know what it could be, call it my adventurer insists.

After running for some minutes I finally got there… it was some kind of rock in the shape of a circle, at the center there was a portal where an anchor came from it and nails itself to the ground.

I think I heard of this before… but I can’t recall…

I think before Tiber Septim founded the empire there was a war between 3 alliances that wanted control of Cyrodill, i heard the war got bloodier after Molag Bal invaded tamriel.

This could be the work of Molag Bal? Either way, I went there and I found a group of nord warriors fighting a group of daedra.

¨BY YSMIR ALL OF YOU SHALL SUFFER MY WRATH!!!¨

The warcries of nords are legendary, and by each nord fallen there was 30 more daedra that fell. Still those numbers were unacceptable, I join in… hoping they don’t confuse me with a daedra. Just to make sure i will try to not use magic, specially a summoning spell.

¨WHAT IN THE NAME OF TALOS IS THAT???¨

Yeah… seen a purple pony with wings and a horn appearing out of nowhere and joining the fight sure is going to raise some eyebrows. Either way I will not let these nords die over nothing, they quickly realized I came as an ally and didn’t attack me.

I was a little limited in my options, I mostly did kicks, i would latter manag to take a steel sword from a fallen nord and use it to slay some daedra. Yeah I used my teeth, yeah it took me a time to get used to it, but I continue to kill some of those daedra.

We continued to kill horde after horde of daedra. These nords refuse to either surrender or flee. Maybe is their bravery that inspire me to continue fighting, but things look grim, I took a well couple of hits and I was bleeding. The daedra didn’t give me time to cast a healing spell, I didn’t have any potion. It was a matter of time before one of these daedra landed the killing blow.

Then an idea came, it was suicidal but… I noticed that the daedra made some effort to make sure I didn’t get to close to the chain… maybe that’s their equivalent to the sigil stone. Doesn’t look like something I can remove… but maybe I can break it, i dropped the sword from my mouth and scream at the top of my lungs:

¨THE CHAIN!!! IT MUST BE THEIR WEAKNESS!!!¨

They were an army of daedra, I think was 50 of them... and I was an injured pony standing alongside 10 equally injured nords, we would had to fight that army just to destroy something that maybe is just decoration… any master tactician would say we should run away to safety, but you know what these 10 nords and their pet pony did?

¨CHARGE!!!¨

We did just that, who give that order? Not me, I couldn’t recognize who say it.

Maybe it was the gods, because it looks like they were on our side, we kill daedra after daedra, from smelly scamps, passing from dreadful dremora and even one dangerous xivilai.

We either kill them or left them in the ground while we continued to march on. We were going to get at that chain…

And we did just that, we hit the chain with everything we had. Finally one of the nords who had a big war hammer struck the blow that finally broke the chain, it would made a batter story if I did it? Yes… it matters? Not really.

Fortunately the chain didn’t strike anyone… but neither struck a daedra unfortunately. The stone in the sky ended up dissapearing and the portal was closed, the daedra were still here. But now it only remain the clean up like in the battle of Kvatch, this was the easy part.

The daedra are now death… well send back to oblivion if we are being technical. This counted as a victory.

¨THIS VICTORY SHALL BE REMEMBER BY YEARS TO COME!!!¨

The nords are now celebrating, they know how to take punishment and keep standing… but I was barely able to keep at my fe- hooves. I was bleeding and if I didn’t receive proper care I would surely die…

¨take it, you survived this battle and you deserve to survive this day¨

One of the nords, a red hair woman put a healing potion in my mouth. I drink it gladly, I really needed one. After finish it she brought me a stamina potion. They sure are glad than I help them.

¨What are you? I doubt you are a daedra¨

From where to being? You know what, I know what to say.

¨I’m a pony, specifically an alicorn¨

The nord woman laughed, she found my response amusing. The fact is, I can´t tell them the whole story, they wouldn't believe me, so I guess I should lie to them. Also they might be needed in skyrim more than in cyrodill, these are not normal warriors.

¨who are you? some kind of order of warriors?”

The woman laughed at my question… sure they aren’t bandits right? they were too brave for that.

¨The Companions, we are an order of warriors always ready for a fight. We were out here trying to organize a hunting game when those cursed daedra opened that portal, we thank you for the help, you fought well¨

I nodded. I think I heard of The Companions before, they are one of the most powerful and ancient order of warriors not just of Skyrim but all of Tamriel. The only order of warriors that can rival them i think could be The Blades…

Yeah, getting a compliment from them is really that big of an honor.

¨this fight was unexpected, but we welcome it, as it does our dear shield-brothers and shield-sisters who fell and now are feasting at Sovengarde. But now that we are done celebrating I shall make a question… what is your name? ¨

Yeah I think is better to keep the lie.

¨Twilight Sparkle¨

Yeah is a silly name, who names their kids like that anyway? ¨Fluttershy¨ ¨Rainbow Dash¨ sure living in Cyrodill made me used to hear weird names, but these ones really takes the cake. Either way that is the name than i used to present myself.

One of the nords approach me, it was the big one who demolished the chain.

¨is an honor Twilight Sparkle, I guess you are from the world in the sky, you might have your own mission but we invite you at Jorrvaskr to feast in honor of this victory¨

Well with the help of the companions the worry of how getting back at cyrodill is now a no longer a problem. Maybe they could get me some provisions and from there i can walk all the way to Cloud Ruler Temple. I nodded and we walked in direction to the city of Whiterun.

After some hours of walking we got to the city of Whiterun, it is a very interesting place. It was totally different from the cities of Cyrodill… and at the same time it feels like a very hospitable place.

I guess isn’t just the location why this is considered the trade capital of Skyrim. Is true that solitude will be the official capital of Skyrim while the empire still holds this region, but for many this is the hearth of the province.

I marched alongside this little band of warriors, the citizens saw me totally amazed, don’t blame them… I found interesting seeing so many children putting more attention to me rather than the honorable warriors they aspire to one day be.

Meanwhile I say amazed at my surrounding. There were a lot of flags with the symbol of an eagle, maybe the flag of the city?. But there was no imperial flag on sight. Even thou this city is part of the Empire they pretty much rule themselves.

The architecture was interesting, I thought the architecture would be the same as Bruma… but it was totally different, it felt totally different from Bruma. It might don’t be have big walls like any city of Cyrodill, but knowing how brave the nord warriors are it looks like the walls are made to keep the wildlife out instead of an impending army.

I can imagine that if an imperial ask them where is their walls, you know in mockery for having walls so small… a nord commander would simply point at his troops.

Anyway, I like this city. I continued to appreciate it while me and the companions marched towards Jorrvaskr.

Sure things are going to be interesting from here.

I’m now drinking alongside the Companions, to my surprise there was not only nords. They were minotiry but I saw a couple of imperials and even an orc. I guess The Companions isn’t a nord exclusive organization as I thought.

Either way I enjoyed the mead, I don’t think I drink something this good since I left for the shivering isles more than a month ago.

I think this is the only good thing that has happened to me in this couple of days, maybe it would had been a better idea to remain in the Shivering Isles rather than going to the imperial city, but I can´t simply go back in time every time I screw things up…. But I admit that if I had that ability I would abuse it.

After the celebration ended I was called to go to the lower floor, there it was the leader of the Companions.

¨I hope you enjoyed your mead, you must be from the world in the sky. For what I was told you haven’t come as an aggressor.¨

By the nine… is very humiliating to think than these bloodthirsty nords are more sensible than me, I attacked this mare and well… still suffering the consequences, but I guess it can be because I help them in that bloody fight.

¨yes, I was send here to know how to solve this crisis¨

I need to be cautious with any… question that really I don’t know, aside that this pony is called Twilight Sparkle and she comes from Equestria i know next to nothing about that place.

¨I will not ask details about the world in the sky. I will let that to the scholars , but do you have any idea of how to solve this crisis?¨

I don’t, but… I think that i would find a way either in the Imperial City or Cloud Ruler Temple. With the might of the empire, the blades or the mages guild I might have a chance.

¨when I went to this world I found a dairy in the corpse of a fallen warrior, he too was trying to fix this disaster¨

The best story i could come up with.

¨and the dairy? ¨

Damn that is a good question... but i know what to say.

¨it was burned, long story¨

Well that is true, it still saddens me that I destroy it, but I don’t trust those ponies with information so critical about the Empire… yeah it was a bad idea write in such detail about my travels, if I write another dairy I will be more vague about important information. It would had been a complete disaster if the Mythic Dawn captured me along with the dairy…

¨the Mages Guild doesn’t have a hall in this city, the only mage here is the court mage. He probably is exited at the opportunity to talk with you and help you in your journey. But I guess you are tired so I invite you to rest in some of the beds we have here¨

Well, I can get some rest, tomorrow morning I will speak with that court mage, if i have any luck soon i will be in Cyrodill.

Chapter 9

The machine was finally repaired, but now it was time to lower the moon and raise the sun, Starswirl alongside Starlight and Sunburst went out to pick up some unicorn sorecerers from canterlot to do just that.

Meanwhile Twilight would be experimenting, trying to see if she can access to magic, she was now in a human body, breton to be specific… wherever that might be.

Twilight lacked an horn so magic was out of her reach, the events of yesterday made clear that the so called champion of cyrodill is capable of doing magic, but they don’t know if his magic is thanks to its new horn or had some magic that managed to keep in spite of the switching of the bodies.

Certainly with each question only came more questions instead of answers. She almost regrets letting Starlight go to the rising of the sun instead of being with her trying to recall anything about the dairy.

By the time that deed was done and the tree unicorn came back they discover Twilight… with a lot of equipment

¨Twilight? Why you bring that electric guitar and those speakers?¨ asked sunburst trying to get his read around on what the Princess was doing.

Twilight with a huge smile said to the three ¨did I ever told you about my adventures with sunset shimmer? Well to access magic there we used either help of certain artifacts or… music¨ she grab a guitar, ready to use it.

¨are you sure that might work? I mean the humans of that world still use magic that originated from equestria, for what we know the magic from the world in the s- I mean Tamriel is native from there and work differently¨ Starlight was doubtful that it would work.

Starswirl also has his doubt if it would work, he didn’t get the opportunity to study how humans use magic according to the reports of sunset shimmer, but if it works… ¨just do it, if it works then things will be easier, if don’t I doubt much of our plan will change¨

And with that Twilight started to use the guitar. Twilight used from time to time she went to visit the rainbooms to learn how to use it, she never became an expert on them but was able to use them properly at least.

She made different songs with the guitar, sometimes only the guitar, others trying to sing… and no matter how many times she tried… nothing.

¨not even unicorn foal level magic?¨ Asked Twilight with her arms tired.

¨not even that¨ said Sunburst while holding with his magic a small magic detector.

Twilight signed in frustration, and then walked towards some boxes ¨well, that might have been a waste of time. But you know? a time ago, shortly after the Storm King defeat, Tempess gave me some of the smoke grenades of the same type that were used to… well petrify the princesses, I decided disassemble them and study them in my pastime while I was running the school of friendship and made new ones, unlike the ones used in the attack in Canterlot these ones only petrify creatures for 15 minutes¨

¨and why we never use them on King Sombra, Tirek, Chrysalis or Cozy Glow?¨ Starlight ask a little frustrated.

Twilight with one of the grenades on hand responded to Starlight ¨because powerful creatures can free themselves in only seconds, in other cases directly doesn’t work. So i send them with celestia and they were here collecting dust since¨

¨In another words, it was a big waste of time. But now it might be useful¨ said Starswirl who was still surprised than Twilight had… such weapons hidden.

¨to be honest, I was about to disassemble them and forget all about them, I hoped I never needed to use them. But after this is over I will destroy them¨ It was clear that Twilight was uncomfortable holding such things in her hand, even more with the idea that she could use them, still she put them in her bag. She needed something to defend herself after fall.

But before Twilight and Starlight stepped into the machine Twilight decided to ask something to Starlight ¨do you recall something about the dairy?¨

Starlight nodded and started to recall to twilight everything she remember, it was not much… but it was better than nothing.

Starlight told to everypony present the tale of a Prisoner who by chance was freed by the Emperor of Tamriel who was about to being assassinated by a deadly cult. But shortly before dying he gave to the prisoner the mission of bringing a mysterious amulet to a monk who was in truth the leader of an order of warriors at the service of the Emperor called the Blades.

They explained to the former prisoner than the reason why Oblivion doesn’t overrun Tamriel in an apocalyptic invasion is because descendants of the dragon blood make a ritual with the amulet to shut the jaws of oblivion, so with the Emperor and all of his heir’s death all seems lost…

But the Emperor had one last son, an illegitimate son to be precise. A man called Martin who lived a peaceful life as a priest in the city of Kvatch, but before the prisoner got there… the forces of oblivion known as the daedra ransacked the city.

But this prisoner run straight into the gates of oblivion and close the door shut. after that he alongside the surviving guards charged the doomed city to save its last survivors… and thanks to that he found Martin.

After that the Hero of Kvatch told Martin about his true lineage and brought him to custody of the blades, unfortunately the evil cult that killed the emperor just attacked the Blades and stole the amulet. But with Martin safe the Hero of Kvatch and the Blades had one last hope of saving Tamriel.

Twilight was totally impressed by the tale ¨no wonder why he called himself champion of Cyrodill. I thought he had an inflated ego like Trixie, but if he really did all of those things including further heroic acts after that I could say that he is worthy of that title¨

Starswirl was a little skeptical ¨assuming he isn’t lying or embellishing the truth¨

Sunburst then argued ¨to be fair he was smart enough to outsmart Starlight and escape back to Tamriel, all while being in a completely different body. So it might be possible that he did a lot of impossible things¨

Twilight put her hands on her head, a little embarrassed and scared at the same time ¨to me was difficult and really took time to get used to walk on 2 legs. Even then I still had a lot of trouble moving around. Yet he adapted quickly on going in 4 legs, it’s scary to think what else he was able to do in his own body¨

Starswirl then told to Twilight ¨at least that mean that wherever he is he might be safe¨

Twilight sign in relief, the idea of the champion dying and as a result she ending up trapped in that body forever was so terrifying… that really refused to even think about it.

Starlight then joked ¨well, if you are uncomfortable in that body we could try to make a potion to turn you into a pony¨

Everpony shared a small laugh, after that Twilight inform everypony of her plan.

¨moments before the lowering of the moon Spike send me a letter telling me that Rainbow dash and Fluttershy got to the Dragon Lands, they probably told spike about… my condition so he probably understands why I would be unable so send him any letter. I think me and Starlight should go to Tamriel, and once Rainbow and Fluttershy get back here you will send us back here, i want to know personally what they learn¨

Starlight nodded ¨I guess that’s a good plan, we might don’t know how is Tamriel but probably the champion has a map somewhere¨

If the champion has a map it would be in his belongings, fortunately Twilight also brought the bag of the champion items, she started to search for a map and quickly found it ¨great a map… wait, two? ¨ Twilight expected to find a map of Tamriel… but not one of an unknown location ¨shivering isles, where it could be located?¨

¨is odd, for what I read in the dairy isn’t any mention of this place, maybe he went there shortly after the oblivion crisis was solved¨ Starlight tried to make sense of this.

Everypony was silent, then Sunburst broke the silence ¨well, I doubt it could be too important, but just to be safe I think you would bring two maps¨

Starlight then used a Spell to make some copies of the two maps. ¨either way, I think we should go already, who knows what else could happen if we take too much time¨

Everypony nodded, and started packing the rest of the things, included it was all the septims that the Champion carried and the Wabbajack.

Once ready Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer step in the platform, and shortly after a pillar of light cover them and were send back to tamriel.

Unknown to anypony, certain creature was watching at the distance. Who it was? None other than Discord.

¨should I had tell them that I found and restored the dairy of that little Breton? Meh, they will be fine. Also Princess Twilight wanted to have adventures in unknown places, so using this dairy would ruin all the fun¨ Discord then moved into the shadows, with the dairy in hand.

Approximately at the same time in the dragon lands there was Fluttershy and spike… watching how Rainbow dash was arguing with Dragon Lord Ember.

¨are you kidding me? Why we don’t simply charge there, dragons are supposed to be fearless¨ Rainbow Dash was not happy at Ember neither sending the dragons at the portal… or letting her go with a small group of dragons to do it alongside her.

¨we are fearless, not suicidal. It would be little reward on getting there and for now we have them under control¨ Ember wanted to protect her kind, she was not willing to send them to a suicidal mission. Even less when the dragons had kept the monsters at bay.

¨you call that under control?¨ Rainbow pointed at the battlefield where legion of monsters descended from the portal… just to be obliterated by the dragons breath.

¨pretty much¨ the sight of the dragons annihilating the army of monsters without much effort just reaffirmed Ember position.

Rainbow dash was not one of baking down of course ¨common, those monsters are total pushovers, and if anything there keeps the portal open we could easly destr-¨

¨and then you would be trapped there without means of escape¨ Ember made her last point… a good one that pretty much shut Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash now just stood there with a face of frustration, not answers to Ember argument came from her mouth, if Twilight was here she would tell her that she just lost the debate.

Ember then left to speak with some other dragons, probably to discuss who will keep the monsters at bay once the current dragons doing it get tired.

Spike and Fluttershy then approached Rainbow dash, worried on seen the blue pegasus so frustrated.

¨really spike, they are strong and all, but they can’t be like this forever, we should find a way to close that portal¨ Rainbow Dash was persistent, even thou it was clear she lacked the support of Ember.

Fluttershy decided to change the subject ¨Spike, you mentioned before that some dragons got hurt by those creatures, I want to see if I can help them¨

Spike and Fluttershy then flew directly towards the injured dragons. Rainbow Dash would still stand in the ground lamenting her little defeat, but decided to fly up and accompany her friends.

The three got quickly, once there Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy discovered than the dragons lack any sort of modern medicine so they were mended with herbs and fungus.

¨is that bad?¨ Rainbow noticed the amount of herbs and fungus in some of the dragon bodies.

¨they took us by surprise, there wasn’t any creature there, so we thought we could get close to inspect it. But before we knew it a small army of those things appeared and almost cut us to pieces¨ by way that the dragon had trouble moving it was clear he wasn’t exaggerating.

Rainbow Dash then asked the dragon a question… that many would take offense ¨but how? I mean dragons are supposed to be powerful an-¨

A familiar voice interrupted Rainbow Dash ¨if you are taken by surprise by a small army doesn’t matter if you are a Pony, Dragon or Yak¨

¨Smolder!¨ the three were happy at seen smolder… but then they noticed that she also was injured.

¨I didn’t knew you were here, I thought you were at the School of Friendship¨ Spike was surprised to see Smolder here.

¨The School of Friendship is in a break now. I should had taken Ocellus offer of spending the break time with her at the Changeling Empire instead of getting back here¨ Smolder was also injured, but by the way she was moving it was clear than her wounds weren’t severe, if anything she was more frustrated of being also covered on gunk.

Rainbow dash wanted to know details of that moment ¨I see, so you were there, did you notice something? Did the monsters said something?¨

Smolder decided to tell Rainbow what she remember ¨not really, thou after we managed to get out of there I think I saw them making some sort of defensive position¨

¨defensive position? Did the dragons retaliated so soon?¨ Rainbow was curious, they were expecting the dragons getting back at them?

¨not really, the rest of the dragons came later, strangely I saw them in formation around the anchor, maybe they are trying to defend it?¨

¨then maybe that’s the way to close that portal!¨ Rainbow just realized thay maybe isn’t nesesary to get inside, she was totally happy.

Fluttershy then decided to tell her something that maybe rainbow didn’t account for ¨Maybe, but dragons keep spiting fire at the area, I don’t think they will stop because we ask them, we would ask Ember about it¨

Spike felt a chill down his spine, is truth that Ember is his friend and she trust them, but he spend enough time at the Dragon Lands to learn that once a Dragon Lord gave an order, it would be difficult to make her back down.

Rainbow Dash of course was not too happy on the idea of arguing with Ember again, but she understood it would be for the best.

Before any of them could part another familiar voice call of them.

¨I want to go too¨ it was none other than Garble

¨hi… Garble¨ Spike knows Garble might not be the same jerk what was before, but still being around with him was uncomfortable.

¨I know what we weren’t always on the best of terms, but those creatures hurt my sister. And apparently you have a plan on how to stop them, so you will get my help¨ Garble wasn’t intended on backing off.

And the three couldn't reject his help, either on arguing their case with Lord Ember or trying to break the chain, they would need his help.

¨I going too¨ said smolder, but after remembering that she still need medical help and then consider than if she gets even more injured she would be covered on way more gunk… decided to better stay here with the rest of injured dragons.

¨don’t worry kiddo, once this is over I will teach you some flying moves. It might be even more exciting than trying to break a chain¨ Said Rainbow Dash to smolder trying to cheer her up.

now the 2 pegasus and 2 dragons flew towards Ember, maybe this plan might convince her.

Chapter 10

You know, if I didn’t have my suspicion than all of this is sheogorath fault I would start to think that all of this is no more than a dream, specifically a nightmare orchestrated by Vaermina, why it would do that? For its amusement of course, that would be better that the alternative…

I wake up, still in the body of a deformed unicorn with wings, alicorn if I remember correctly.

Either way I I’m in a bed trying to recall the events of yesterday, to say that it was an eventful day would be the understatement to end all understatements.

The day before if i remember correctly I exited the Shivering Isles and got back to Tamriel, I was so focused on the road and getting quickly to the Imperial City that I didn’t notice than a whole planet started to be visible from the sky.

And then just before getting to the Imperial City I found a group of refugees who wanted some safety in Bruma, I escort them all the way there. I still think the thank you and the smile of the children made the travel be worth it… everything that happened after that? I would blame it on me for not getting rest instead of the kid for wanting to be safe.

By that point I was awake for almost an entire day, how I didn’t faint stills eludes me.

In the way to the imperial city I attacked a couple of… ponies I guess, and thanks to the Wabbajack I switched bodies with one of them, they brought me to their realm, a place called Equestria, i somehoy managed to escape but I still remain in this body. I think this mare was called Twilight Sparkle, odd name I know but not worse than Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash.

The problem I face now is than I ended up in Skyrim instead of Cyrodill. So this is unfamiliar territory for me.

And because it would be less plausible than I’m the champion of cyrodill rather than a representative or explorer from Equestria… I guess it would for the best than I presented myself as Twilight Sparkle.

Yeah I think that Sheogorath is somewhere laughing at me, and I thought he was creative when he brought a tiny little bird to defeat a monster made by Hircine

I don’t think it matters anyhow, machination of Sheogorath, Vaermina or simply yesterday was a bad day. I decided to get out of bed. I walked out of Jorrvaskr and went directly towards a small park, from there I could go the palace of the local ki- I mean the Jarl.

But before I could get there a group of little girls appeared out of nowhere and… after surrounding me they started to pet me, call me cute and so on. Completely patronizing and one of the biggest humiliations I had on my whole life.

I somehow managed to slip away from that crown of kids and got back into Jorrvaskr. Then I asked some of the Companions to help me get into the palace without being seen by the children’s.

Then the Leader of the companions approached.

¨I saw what it happen, the kids got a liking into you, specially the girls. Don’t you worry, i will help you with those little pups¨

The face of that nord made clear that he found the whole situation amusing, and to be fair it is. The creature that descended from the world in the sky and fought an army of daedra… can’t pass children.

Wherever, he accompanied me to the park.

Fortunately the leader of the Companions is so well respected than with a small explanation of where I come from and how important was my mission combined with a small speech about personal space and how important is being respectful with strangers made the kids stop bothering me.

After a goodbye I went directly into the palace, I was informed than it was called Dragonsreach.

I opened the door and nord in a nice suit receive me.

¨I know than you want to see the court mage, but Jarl Solgar summon your presence¨

Yeah, the Jarl of Whiterun wants to speak with me, not what I expected but make sense, I followed the nord in until we got to the throne.

¨I welcome you Twilight Sparkle, the Harbinger of the Companions told me about how you saved a group of Companions from an attack from the daedra¨

I nodded and answered to the jarl

¨is a pleasure to meet you jarl Solgar, I don’t know much about this world. Even thou I would want to know more about this place and its people I need to follow any trail I can found to find a way to stop wherever is causing the current crisis¨

The jarl without wasting time told the guard he had at his side to bring the court mage, then he spoke to me again.

¨even thou I’m a warrior at heart and I crave a good fight more than nothing. I know that diplomacy is important, by your actions you shown that your people didn’t came here as enemies. You are victims like we are, even thou we have little knowledge of what is happening you have my guarantee that you will get my help¨

Yeah… really generous… he wants something in return I know.

¨and in return?¨

His jovial face changed to one serious and told me his conditions

¨in return you will tell me how much the people from the planet of the sky knows about the crisis, we need cooperation. But cooperation isn’t charging blindly into a doomed battle under the leadership of a clueless general or an apathetic monarch.

Yeah, he got a point. I don’t blame him, he help me and in exchange I share him what I know about… the crisis in the point of view of Equestria.

¨for once realm you can see in the sky is called Equestria, I’m not authorized to say much about it aside than I’m an alicorn. Got these wings recently so I’m still unable to use them, still I had many victories before so it was natural they send me here in spite of that, unfortunately the machine that I used to travel here suffered a malfunction. I survived but it will take time before my kind send reinforcements, as for what we know about why we can see our respective worlds in the sky, we know nothing, that’s precisely why I was send here, we thought you would know something¨

By the nine, what a mouthful, I don’t normally talk so much, but I really wanted to be convincing.

¨as unlikely as your story sounds I’m inclined to believe you, you shown initiative when you helped the Companions and temperance then you had to deal with those kids down below ¨

Damn, he knows about the incident with the kids, I really had to put all of my effort to keep myself from falling to the ground and cover my face in shame with my han-hooves.

¨anyway Twilight Sparkle, i said that I will cooperate with you and so I will, Vulken?¨

The Nord with the fancy suit approached to Jarl Solgar and receive an order from him I didn’t manage to heard what they talk unfortunately, then he run towards the exit. Looks like the Jarl just gave him an important task.

After that a fellow Breton appear, I guess this woman is the court mage judging by her robes. She was very excited to work with me, and like the child’s didn’t waste the opportunity to pet me, I will let it pass… just this time.

¨hello Twilight Sparkle, I’m Talia Rositte. It with be a pleasure to work with such a specimen¨

Then she had a small awkward pause, I guess she realized that calling me specimen can be a little offensive.

¨sorry, no offence intended¨

¨none taken¨

After that I follow her to her lab

We got quickly at the lab. It was a lot of books and scrolls, along with an enchantment table. She had a well stacked lab.

¨sorry for what it happened before, I just got very excited. I study a lot about magical creatures and alike, so you can guess how I felt when I saw a being from a species that I never heard before¨

Yeah, I guess acting like a child in front of the Jarl was not the best of introductions, either way I decided to no resent her and… well I sit in the ground, it would be difficult to sit un a proper chair.

¨I overheard that you are incapable of flying correctly, how it works? How did you earn your wings?¨

Just what I needed, questions I don’t have the real answer for, fortunately already thought on something…

¨I got these wings after defeating a great challenge, thanks to that I’m an alicorn. My people, the ponies have 3 main subspecies: the unicorns who are known for having a horn, the pegasus that have wings and thanks to that are able to fly. And finally the earth ponies who had neither horns or wings. The greatest of our people become alicorns and from there we become champions of all pony kind¨

Yeah. Totally bizarre and very insane if you think about it… but judging by the face of amazement coming from Talia is clear that she believe the horse dung that I’m telling her.

¨fascinating, I would like to hear more but I think we need to get back to business¨

I nodded, I completely agree on stop talking about Equestria.

So I explain her about my encounter with the portal where it descended a lot of daedra, she took note of every word I said… and then compare them with a scroll that I guess could be a report from the Companions about yesterday battle.

¨this really doesn’t make sense, I know than the dragonfires are no more, but there is no more need for them, there is supposed to be a barrier that prevent the daedra from harming the people of Tamriel¨

Good point, but i remember that the island that Sheogorath put in Cyrodill caused many ships to crash killing many people, so the daedra are still capable of harming mortals.

¨and if they can harm us indirectly? Looks like summoning a giant portal in the sea, ships that shipwreck for trying to avoid the portal are destroyed not because of their reaction instead of direct action from the daedra¨

Talia then had a face of surprise, like she had a sudden realization.

¨a loophole!¨

Yeah, that makes sense.

¨almost a year ago Tamriel was invaded by the daedra. Specifically by the Daedric Prince of destruction known as Mehrunes Dagon, the daedra reported by the companions are the same ones that took part in his invasion, I guess now we know who is responsible for this¨

So, Mehrunes dagon refuse to surrender, make sense. The daedra I fought yesterday were the exact same ones that were used by the Daedric Prince of destruction. Now I know who is responsible for this, the question is would be… what is his plan? I can’t get my head around on why putting a world in the sky would help him take over Tamriel.

¨ï will send letters to the Mages Guild and College of Winterhold, they might get an idea of what Mehrunes Dagon could planning.¨

She then started to write those letters, even thou what I found was small still could be useful, especially if gets in the ears of the Empire.

Then I noticed that she only mentioned the Mages Guild and wherever is the College of Winterhold, she already wrote the 2 leters she was supposed to write but she was still writing something on other papers… or probably not, by the way she was moving the quill she was… drawing something? I get up and walked towards her, and then I could see what she was drawing.

It was a drawing of me, well of Twilight Sparkle if we are being precise. It took me a lot of strength of my part to not take that drawing with my teeth and tear it to pieces.

But before she said something or I lose my patience the nord in a niece suit, Vulken if I remember correctly entered the lab and spoke to me.

¨The Jarl said that he would give you help, well I spoke with a local smith and paid him to make you a leather armor¨

Leather armor he said, not steel or elven. I would be disappointed but steel would be too heavy for my current body, and nords doesn’t have much love for anything related with elves. So I can understand why they would give me leather.

Anyway, free armor isn’t something I would reject, I walked alongside Vulken and Talia and went directly towards a local smith shop that almost at the gates of the city, it might be annoying than that woman is going with me but I don’t want to sound ungrateful for this reward.

I found weird that I didn’t went to the legendary sky forge, but I guess because the armor is made of leather would be redundant to get it made from the best forge of Skyrim.

We finally got to the local smith, he didn’t waste time and started to take measures of me, Vulken leave, probably to send the letters to the Mages Guild and the Winterhold College. And Talia again started to make drawings of me.

Being harassed by little girls was humiliating, but this was far worse. Did some Divine or Daedric Prince got angry at me for killing the last unicorn in cyrodill? The worst part is that the face of Talia made clear that she found cute the embarrassment on my face.

I’m completely sure this is my punishment for killing the last unicorn of Cyrodill.

¨thanks for standing still, I made horse armor before but never of your size¨

I’m sure he didn’t intended to offend but that was the cherry on top, this day was getting worse than yesterday.

then he went to other room to start working on the leather, at this point Talia was finally done with making drawings of me, could be that or she ran out of paper.

I sit in the ground waiting for the blacksmith to be done with my new armor.

After half an hour he was done, I must say it is a nice armor. Cover a good portion of my body and was very conformable to wear. It might cover my wings but because I’m unable to fly that wasn’t really a problem. Also had a hole in the helmet so no need to cut this useless horn.

But after he put me that armor noticed something… how I would be able to remove this armor? I started to think of the possibilities… oh no, please not. I have enough of annoying fans for an eternity.

¨I guess you will accompany me to Cyrodill?¨

Please say no, i prefer to go alone on my adventures. I hate being the nanny of dumb people that inevitable fall over traps, I still remember that mage who got crush to death in front of me.

¨of course, I talked with the Jarl this morning. I send a letter to my sister who lives in a nearby town. She will fulfill my duties as court mage while I go with you¨

Gods give me Strength to NOT kick this woman in the face. I would prefer to go alone or even with one of the Companions, I would even take that annoying fan from the arena over this crazy hag.

I was about to cordially reject her offer. It would be uncomfortable to wear this armor all day, but I take that over keep enduring her. But before I could say anything I heard a BIG scream that almost blew my eardrums.

¨I KNOW YOU ARE HERE TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!!¨

By the nine, who is that? What does he wants? By the way that man or creature yelled this mare name I guess isn’t a friend of hers. Well duty calls, time to show this fool what happens when someone tries to left me deaf.

Author's Note

I know that the companions doesn’t have a leader, the Harbinger isn’t anything more than an advisor. For them their only true leader was Ysgramor.

But considering than the Hero of Kvatch never went to Skyrim we could excuse him for making the mistake of thinking that the companions have a proper leader.

I had the same detail regarding the College of Winterhold, According to Skyrim the College of Winterhold was never affiliated with the Mages Guild. So it can be understood why the Hero of Kvatch doesn’t know about the college and why the mage send 2 letters separately like they were 2 different entities… because they are.

Chapter 11

Twilight and Starlight finally got to the Mysterius land of Tamriel. Specifically the province of Cyrodill. A place quite mysterius, and for some reason too familiar, maybe could be because they were here not so long ago, but also because the fauna isn’t too different from equestria, at least in the area where they are in.

Both Twilight and Starlight saw their surroundings, they teleported to the same location they did before. But thanks to the map they know now that they are close to the city of Bruma, and down south they would get to the Imperial City.

Both Twilight and Starlight saw their surroundings, they teleported to almost the same location they did before. A few kilometers south but that wasn’t a problem, they didn’t wanted to go up nort to Bruma, instead they wanted to go more far down south to the Imperial City.

¨well, at least in this body I won’t be attacked, but just to be sure¨ Twilight gave a glare to Starlight, it was clear what she was going to suggest

¨fortunately that incident from yesterday isn’t going to repeat again¨ Starlight immediately turned invisible.

Both friends walked down south with direction to the Imperial City.

It might take some time so both friends decided to have a little chat.

¨you know, i rarely visit Sunset Shimmer aside when there is a problem, maybe I should visit her more often. Maybe pass the time with the Rainbooms or-¨

¨make more exercise with a body with 2 legs? I know how difficult and tiresome is to walk in 2 legs, I wonder how sunset got used to it¨ even thou Starlight was invisible it was clear by the tone of her voice she was happy.

¨You know, back when i was a little filly, Princess Celestia gave me a routine exercise that I followed since then. She told me that a healthy body helps to keep a mind healthy. I guess Celestia said the same to Sunset and she took it to heart, both as a pony and as a human¨ Twilight stop for a second to look at her hands ¨well not this kind of human, I never became athletic or anything. It is weird how this body somehow feels… lighter¨

Starlight pointed out ¨well, that guy might had done a lot of running¨ Starlight had a small chuckle but then thought of something else ¨now I think about it, I wonder what Rainbow Rash would win a competition¨

¨what do you mean?¨ Twilight was caught a little by surprise.

¨well, both Rainbow Dashes, both the pegasus and the human are quite athletic. There might be differences between them but both of them love sports, and they are quite competitive. I wonder how a competition between them would be¨ Starlight question was an interesting one… but one that it had a ratter obvious answer.

¨I think who would win the competition would depend if they are playing as either pony or human, it is difficult to move around in such an unfamiliar body, and all the training they had for their respective fields would rarely work if for example a pegasus try to run in 2 legs¨ even Twilight was disappointed with that, watching both Rainbow Dashes and maybe both applejacks competing would be a sight to behold.

¨yeah, it would be a little unfair to get them such disadvantages, but at least would be entertaining ¨ Starlight was amused at the whole ordeal, she was going to suggest the possibility of one remaining as human and the other as a pegasus for such competition. but then she noticed how little they walked. So she became visible again and told to Twilight ¨I think it would be for the best if we throated instead of just walk, it would be for the best if we got to the Imperial City before night¨

Twilight nodded and started to throat, Starlight became invisible again and troted alongside her friend.

They throated for a few hours, the forest and road started to get less and less snow, until they finally stop feeling cold.

The relief of no longer dealing with freezing winds it was only topped with something that stop them right in their tracks, they started to see at the distance none other than the Imperial City.

¨amazing!, looks very similar to the crystal empire at the distance¨ Twilight was impressed by the sight, a giant tower while the rest of the city rest below. She almost dared to say than it was bigger.

¨what impress me is the huge walls, I know than the daedric invation was devastating but I doubt they made such huge walls so soon, it looks so… militarized¨ Starlight was expecting something like Canterlot. A city that looks like a giant palace that welcome everycreature, not an impenetrable fortress where nothing gets in or out without express authorization.

¨I imagine than inside is quite beautiful, maybe if they recognize me as the champion they might be more friendly¨ Twilight was optimistic, maybe it was the hope than the creatures from the empire would recognize the need for working together, or could be also the thrill of finally discovering a new place and new cultures.

¨knowing you, you probably want to scour the local library. But seriously i think we should be cautious, you know how things went with their little champion, and by the way how protected that city looks I doubt they will be welcoming to outsiders¨ Starlight was cautious.

¨eventually the truth will come out, I think would be for the best if we told them instead of being discovered. Maybe Ocato is important in the Empire, so if we make a good impression then the empire might help us¨ Twilight knew that this conflict would only be resolve with cooperation of both Equestria and the empire.

Both agreed than getting to the imperial city would be for the best, they continued to walk a few meters, the trees stop obstructing the view and then they saw something that… annoyed both of them

¨REALLY?¨ Starlight couldn't believe what she could see.

¨i can understand the need for protecting their city, but constructing it in an island in the middle of a huge lake is completely going overboard¨ even Twilight agree, these humans are paranoid.

Before any of them consider the option of swimming there they notice a small sing.

Imperial city =>

¨So the bridge must be there, this is completely ridiculous¨ Twilight was completely frustrated with idea of surrounding the lake until they found a bridge.

¨I’m starting to dislike these humans¨ Starlight was very close to simply teleporting into that city and get this travel over with… but suddengly appearing out of nowhere would freak out the people from the Imperial city so…

¨then we have to walk for even more miles?¨ Starlight asked, knowing the answer but at the same time fearing it.

Twilight nodded, confirming Starlight fear.

After a couple of hours walking both of them finally got to the bridge.

To the surprise of both there wasn’t guards, at least none they could see. Still they aren’t taking chances so Starlight would keep invisible and walk slowly to avoid producing noise, while Twilight would also walk slowly so they both keep track.

Finally after crossing the bridge they finally got to a gate, it was smaller than they were expecting but at this point nothing could surprise them of this city.

¨ok here goes or nothing¨ Twilight opened the door. Making sure to leave it open enough time so Starlight could enter too once Twilight close the door… she turned to the incredible sight of a enormous statue of a dragon.

¨wow, looks like Ember…¨ Twilight quickly shut her mouth, even thou she planned to reveal she wasn’t the champion of cyrodill eventually she didn’t wanted to blew her cover.

Even so Twilight couldn't stop being impressed at the statue of the dragon, it was big. She expected dragons to be important to the empire considering how their currency has dragons engraved on it. She almost wonder if the ruler is a dragon.

But before Starlight could try to call her out so she start searching for Ocato instead of watching at the statue a human in a big bulky armor walked towards Twilight

¨By the nine, the champion of Cyrodill, is good that you finally here. Ocato will be pleased to see you¨ the human in armor thought he was talking with the champion, if only he knew…

¨and where is Ocato?¨ Twilight asked on Instinct, she was now deeply worried thinking that she just blew her cover.

¨at the imperial palace of course, you can’t miss it. It was an honor to see you¨ and then the guy in bulky armor continued his path. By the way his armor look is probable than he was a guard.

Starlight whispered to Twilight. ¨do you think the imperial palace is the huge tower?¨

Twilight smiled ¨I guess, it was easier than expected¨

Meanwhile at the dragon lands Rainbow Dash was arguing her case.

¨come on, just give us a couple of minutes and we will break that chain¨ Rainbow Dash was sure of her plan.

¨just if you aren’t swarmed by those monsters, and that would be assuming the 4 of you go there. I doubt your yellow friend wants to fight¨ fluttershy nodded at Ember comment ¨and Spike would die instantly in such a fight, no offense but even if I agree with this plan you would not go¨ Spike understood Ember worry.

¨come on, just tell the dragons to stop covering the place on fire so we can go there and break the chain…¨ and then Rainbow remembered how resistant to fire dragons are ¨…or simply send Garble to break the chain while the place is on fire¨

Garble was not amused by the comment, neither Ember.

Spike finally interjected ¨Well, maybe more dragons could go and charge in there. And fly under the portal and spire fire constantly there, they probably would refuse to enter here and we will have enough time to break the chain¨

Rainbow Dash flied over spike and pick him up with her hooves totally exhilarated ¨that’s a good idea, you see Ember? We will break that chain and close the portal¨

¨you sure change your plans quickly, now I see why Spike said that Twilight is the one with the plans¨ Ember comment caused Rainbow to drop spike.

¨then, you will do it?¨ fluttershy asked

¨I guess so, I will call some dragons and then we will plan something. Maybe this could work¨ Finally Ember agreed on this crazy plan.

A couple of hours passed, dragons positions themselves into 3 teams.

The first team would charge until they get close to the portal, once there they will spit fire directly into the portal, with that making sure no monster came from it. The dragons that were covering the place on fire would finally get their well-deserved rest

The second team would go directly to the chain, they would hit it until it finally breaks, they would be below the first team.

And the Third team would be on hold, waiting to assist any injured dragon in case some monster manages to break through the improvised shield of fire. Hopefully that wouldn't happen…

Unfortunately it did happen.

¨dammit, they are more that I thought¨ garble was in the first team, trying to reduce to ashes the descending monsters, until one of them finally got to him and started to bite and scratch him.

Meanwhile Fluttershy was flying at the battlefield with the third team, before they got close she said to the dragons ¨things are bad out there, remember the plan. we will get the injured ones out of there, we don’t fight we save¨ is true that Fluttershy wanted to be OUT of that battle, but she wasn’t going to sit by and let dragons just die, she flew alongside the third team to the battle, not to fight but to evacuate any injured dragon.

¨just keep kicking and punching, we can do this!¨ Rainbow Dash was slaming her body with the chain trying to broke it, it was tougher that she thought but the cracks on the metal made clear than it would break sooner or later.

Meanwhile outside of this battlefield at a small hill there was both Spike and Ember, watching the battle.

¨I never liked violence, but I think you should had let me go¨ Spike might be young and small, but he wanted to contribute, Ember simply limited to point at a dragon falling to the ground... with a huge spider monster on top of him, it was clear that spike wouldn't last long there.

¨I admit I too want to go there. But I as Dragon Lord I’m the only one capable of giving a signal to call the dragons, I know that if i do it that would mean that i have to announce my retirement and the competition for a new Dragon Lord, but I take that if that means they retreat instead of dying¨ Ember watched at her scepter, considering at what point she should make the call.

The battle continued for more minutes and things now look grim, the dragons of the first team were almost completely defeated, most of them were safely evacuated but with less and less dragons throwing their flames towards the portal more and more monsters came from it.

The second team also got attacked, now they spended more time fighting the monsters rather than attacking the chain. The dragons would throw fire all over the place but because that would kill Rainbow and Fluttershy they were ordered to not do it.

The third team didn’t fare well neither, some members got hurt or directly went to assist the other teams, leaving many injured dragons unattended.

¨come on, just, one, more¨ Rainbow Dash keep attacking the chain, ignoring any monster that could hurt her.

Finally, after much strife the chain finally broke.

¨YES¨ Rainbow Dash was exhilarated at the sight of the portal closing.

She and the dragons quickly retreated to make sure none of them are whipped by the chain, unfortunately…

Rainbow Dash was hit by the chain, didn’t managed to struck her directly, but did manage to scrape her back in such a way that she would bleed. But instead of simply bleeding she was somehow disintegrated, wherever magic that things is made off, it just disintegrated Rainbow Dash.

¨RAINBOW!!!¨ Fluttershy yelled at the sight, unable to hold her tears, unable to move away from the battlefield. In the end some dragons would drag her to safety, away from any monsters that could harm her.

Meanwhile Spike and Ember saw at the distance what it happen.

Spike was paralized. He just saw a friend who he know for a long time just die and couldn't do anything to save her, the sight of a traumatized Fluttershy being dragged by the dragons didn’t help either. Along with the fact than he or fluttershy would probably be the ones who will give the news of Rainbow Dash death to her friends and family…

Ember felt responsible, it might be true that not a single dragon died in this battle, something any other Dragon Lord would be proud of. But she only felt shame, she just send that Rainbow Dash to her death.

The invasion might had been stopped, but this wasn’t a victory in the slightest

Chapter 12

Seriously, my eardrums hurt. Not even the imperial watch yell so damn laud.

By the way that thing screamed for this mare I clear that isn’t a friend of hers.

And is clear that he is not searching for Sheo- The Champion of Cyrodill, but instead searching for Twilight Sparkle.

I run in the city towards the direction of the scream, I saw some guard ready to fight wherever just invaded their home. If this screamer is an enemy then he just choose one of the worst locations of Tamriel to attack me, well attack Twilight.

Finally I got close to the probable location of the scream, yeah the park where the kids harassed me, the guards were on formation, ready to charge but they are not yet charging, looks they were waiting…

I managed to peek thou the group of guards and I saw something that would be funny, if wasn't so terrible.

There was a blue goat, its horns were too similar to sheep... Anyway he was threatening the town, that alone would be funny in itself, I would make jokes about him being cooked for dinner by the companions. But accompanying him was a group of people in robes… By the Nine!!!

I recognize those robes, the cursed Mythic Dawn, or at least some kind of remnant.

I thought they were totally eradicated, at least this was my final confirmation that Mehrunes Dagon is responsible. By the Nine, part of me wants to go and just tell them about the supposed paradise that merhunes created for them: a circle of torture, death and resurrection, the fitting punishment they deserve.

I would do that, or simply charge in and kill everyone, but I quickly saw why no guard charge in already, they had hostages… children.

That’s low, but it was effective at making the guards refuse to charge in and take their heads as trophies. The children were in their knees and totally scared, the warriors of course refuse to attack because the cultist could burn those children alive, one thing is clear: I will kill that goat and all of those cultists.

¨release the children’s foul monster, harm a single one and we will skin you alive¨

I don’t think making threats would be the most convincing way to make them relase the hostages. He wants me, well Twilight. But if I go there he or the mythic dawn could kill the children just to spite me.

10 cultists and one deformed goat. I dealth worse numbers but I can’t risk the children, and to be fair these nords would simply make me charge to battle instead of going with a plan. I decided to use a invisibility spell, nobody noticed and slip away.

I went directly to Jorrvaskr and I saw the companions reading their weapons, they were ready to fight the group of cultist who are threatening the city.

My invisibility spell worn out and the leader of the companions saw me.

¨looks like one of your friends came to visit, ready to give him a warm welcome?¨

By how calm is about it I can say that they aren’t aware of one factor…

¨they took children as hostages¨

The face of the nord change for jovial to one serious with that little tip of information, he just realized how bad things are.

¨then we will need a plan, we can’t risk those children lives. such dishonorable tactics only deserve the cruelest of deaths ¨

Yeah, but what plan? Think, there are 10 Mythic Dawn cultist. We charge in and a single one of those cultists could kill the children while we dealt with the rest of them, I know nothing about the weird goat, so can’t be sure if is capable of doing magic or what kind of spells have.

¨by the way he shouted your name I can guess he only wants you, he want us to choose between you and the children¨

Yeah he could be right, but… I think I have an idea, the companions are not only warriors, they are also hunters no? I think I have an idea.

I walk through the crown of guards. The guards saw me with surprise, they probably weren’t expecting I would go and try to talk with the cursed goat.

Even thou some minutes have pass the cultist still are in their robes, they still don’t summon their armors yet, so maybe my silly plan can work.

¨so you are Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship. Is good than you finally came out of hiding¨

Princess of friendship? I thought this mare was some kind of warrior, I know next to nothing about the real Twilight or Equestria, I not even know the name of this blue monster.

¨not, I’m Sheogorath. But enough of me, what about you? Who are you?¨

¨you don’t know who i am? I’m part of history, one of the biggest terrors that ever walked Equestria, you must know me¨

Yeah he could be right, but I will continue to play fool, and maybe see if I can get some answers

¨sorry, Equestria has many terrors and monsters, is difficult to keep track of them. Care to remind me who you are?¨

¨i am Grogar, the father of monsters. You next to me are nothing¨

¨and yet you seek me out, you were trying to get to me before I become a threat? Admit it, you are scared¨

Damn, not my brightest response, he got angry, his horns started to shine. Maybe he does magic with his horns? doesn’t matter, I will try to keep him talking.

¨and those cultist? They aren’t from equestrian, probably from this realm¨

¨thy are the Mythic Dawn, what is left of them at least. They alongside their prophet and Mehrunes Dagon tried to merge this realm with-¨

Yeah, I know that part. I still wish I could tell them about the part were the fallen cultist souls just got eternal torment for their trouble instead of the paradise they were promised.

¨and how the legendary Grogar ended up with daedric cultist? You don’t even refer to Mehrunes ' as my lord'' so you probably aren’t a worshiper¨

He smirked at my question.

¨Mankar Camoran, their founder and leader might be death. But these royal followers who survived their onslaught managed to keep hidden, when I approached Merhunes Dagon with the plan he lend me the assistance of last royal members of Mythic Dawn, it was only luck than those cultist were hiding in the same city when you took refuge, they told me all about you and I’m here now¨

Well. at least i now I know how they realized I- i mean Twilight was here, but he doesn’t mention for who he work for. So better ask him directly about that.

¨so, you aren’t a Mehrunes Dagon worshipper, who you serve then?¨

¨in the past I served none other than Molag Bal, but right now I have my sights much higher. I could tell you my objective, but I want to enjoy the knowledge that you will die in ignorance¨

Well, he will not tell me anything else, and this only can end in one way.

Also I have in front of me the last trace of the Mythic Dawn, at least the ones who are still active. But they aren’t going to be a problem anymore.

¨I will tell you something, you will let the children go unharmed, and you and I fight to the death one at one¨

Grogar of course wasn’t intimidated, I didn’t have much to intimidate him really.

¨I have a better idea, i will kill these brats myself now, and then I will kill you. After that I will burn this city to the ground¨

And I thought the nords were bloodthirsty, but I think enough time happen, I think they are ready and the Mythic Dawn and Grogar are in my trap.

¨sorry, I wasn’t doing a deal with you. I was telling you what is going to happen. You don’t have any choice on this¨

And then a barrage of arrows went directly towards the mythic dawn, in one second there was 10 cultist threatening children, in the next those same cultist were in the ground bleeding to death. The children are unharmed and quickly ran away.

My plan was to keep the cultist and Grogar distracted while the best archers of the Companions surrounded the place and prepare themselves to shoot, once I said ¨you don’t have any choice on this¨ they would shoot and kill every one of them.

I would say that my plan went perfectly… but that would be a lie, Grogar horns started to glow for some reason and the arrows were stuck in the air, he has telekinesis and good reflexes.

¨did you really thought some patetic arrows would kill me? You are nothing, I will enjoy killing you¨

And then he used his telekinesis to pick me up and send my flying, that wasn’t part of the plan.

I crash in some house, surprisingly I was alive and without broken bones. But now that thing is in the middle of a city and would probably kill a lot of nords before going after me.

The problem? I’m stuck, only my head and one of my han-hooves are out of the rubble. I make some effort to get out to no avail.

Fortunately some civilians came and move the ruble. I was finally free, one of the nords gave me a sword and well…

I grab that sword with my teeth again, I might be able to fight in my current state. but is really annoying and I would give anything for getting my hands back.

I run towards the battlefield, the nords were fighting grogar who used magic to keep them at bay. Maybe they have numbers on their side but that don’t mean anything if the enemy is too strong, certain group of orcs learn it the hard way.

… and what plan do I have? I mean if those nords have problem what could I do? Well… before i went towards him I noticed that his horns glowed. So is not difficult to deduce that those horns are important.

Yeah recieved this sword as a gift, not being ungrateful but this is not going to help me, I went towards one of the guards and ask him for a mace, I told him that he tap into his magic with his horns, so I would need to break them.

¨smash the rest of his head while you are at it¨

I hope I do.

I finally got to the battlefield, the defenders of whiterun are now injured and in their knees, trying to catch their breath or accept their death. He was torturing one of the warriors while taunting him. Yeah I was fighting another sadist.

A sadist too distracted to see me coming, no stealth, no invisibility spell or even the gray fox mask. I needed none of that to get close and finally hit him.

And I did, right in one of his horns, I could hear how it cracked.

¨HOW DARE YOU!!!¨

Dammit, that shout hurt my ears again. But then again, probably one of his horn shattering to pieces is more painful.

by the way I never taunt my opponents, I’m not talkative in such tense moments. Sometimes I wish I could rub in some of my victories over the face of my foes. But I prefer to concentrate in the fight rather that give some creative insults.

And thanks to that I noticed that his remaining horn was glowing, hopefully without one of his horns this mean that he is weaker… I expected an attack, But he instead did a spell to fly up, away from the battle.

¨YOU KNOW SOMETHING TWILIGHT? THIS IS NOT MUNDUS OR OBLIVION!!!¨

Can you stop yelling like that? or your plan is to kill me with shouts? this is getting really ann- wait a minute, we are not in mundus? How? we are clearly in skyrim, part of Tamriel. there is even a barrier that keep Tamriel safe from daedra… no I think the barrier applies to all of Mundus… or only applies to Nirn?

I remember than Mankar Camoran plan was to send this land to oblivion. Make it part of the deadlands, the barrier is supposed to make sure that doesn’t happen, but if the world in- i mean Equestria is not part of oblivion… BY THE NINE!!!

I watch at the sky, there I could see Equestria, it was not part of oblivion, not affected by the rules and… no a barrier to keep the daedra at bay.

¨THERE IS NO BARRIER HERE!!! THE DAEDRA HAVE FREE REIGN!!!¨

And here we have it, the worst case scenario.

I know what this means, no longer going through loopholes to summon daedra or open portals. I can figure out what Grogar is about to do… and I don’t like it.

¨ENJOY YOUR DOOM PRINCESS!!!¨

And then a portal opened right above Grogar, from it chunks of rock crossed and took shape of a circle. And finally an anchor came from it and nail itself to the ground.

I would complain about my ears, but i am more worried about the army of daedra that came from the portal, the coward Grogar crossed the portal to safety. I now I have to deal with an army of daedra in the middle of the city, with only injured nords as allies, the Companions might help me but numbers weren’t in our favor, and with more daedra coming every second things were bad.

This is Kvatch all over again, just than this time I was in the fire.

If this is my end, so be it.

I fought those monsters for a while now, the guards and companions were either fighting in this hopeless battle or help children and non-combatant flee this carnage.

At least this time I had an armor that protects me from some blows, but they still hurt.

I alternated between fighting the horde of daedra and attacking the anchor. But I doubt I made any difference, I need help to break this cursed thing.

Finally a dremora pin me to the ground, I was about to receive the killing blow…

And then I could hear the sound of thunder, a lightning bolt just hit right at the dremora head killing him instantly, I guess Talia finally came to fight.

She send some other magical attacks, I guess she was trying to get the daedra attention while I attacked the anchor… I would call it a good plan but I’m not strong enough to destroy this thing on my own.

I stood up and watched at the anchor, I started to visualize that cursed thing being smashed, a fist punching it. I really wanted my hands back to do that at least.

And well… maybe I was too distracted on my fantasies that I didn’t notice how my little horn started to glow… or how some beam came from it summoning a big hand.

The hand was on the size of a small house and was made of magika, but the weirder part of all is… that I could feel like I was in control of that hand, it was ratter obvious what I did with that giant floating hand.

I made that hand form a fist and then made it punch the chain repeatedly, again, again and again. Until the cursed chain finally breaks.

It was a sight to behold, the hand slowly disappear as my horn stop glowing. All while the portal closed, the chain didn’t hit any daedra sadly, but fortunately didn’t destroy any building. When I turned to join the cleanup I could see that the nordic warriors were invigorated with the sight. All of their morale up and ready to send these daedra back to oblivon.

The battle took us like 10 to 20 minutes, it took more time than the time Grogar little portal was open. But was difficult to tell considering that we were the ones in control, it felt like 30 seconds.

Now I was resting, trying to catch my breath and think of the estrange form of magic I just used.

Yeah I think that day, when I first encounter those cursed ponies. Starlight used magic to levitate Twilight when she got in my body, i didn’t notice right away that her horn was glowing. Maybe that’s how they get access to their magic.

The same could be applied with Grogar with his horns I guess.

The more I think about it the less sense it has, magic is supposed to be tied to the soul. But the magic from those creatures looks like comes from their bodies, at least their horns.

I can feel when I used my own pool of magika the moment I do a spell. But I didn’t feel like that pool was being drained with the summoning of the hand.

This goes against everything I know about magic, but if I’m right that mean that unicorns and alicorns are capable of doing magic from either an external source… or from these horns.

How did I manage to make that spell? I visualize an action or objet and from sheer will or some other reason I was able to do what I wanted.

Don’t make much sense, but considering all I the things watched andtook part, I guess I’m the last one to talk about normal or sense.

… And assuming that I’m really the daedric prince of madness I guess that type of craziness would be expected.

Really, I might had getting more or less get used to be on 4 legs, but the more I discover about this mare the more I want to be in my body… and the more I worry of what Twilight might be doing with my body.

Yeah, I think I spend quite enough time sulking, I was about to leave town and get back to Cyrodill. But then I saw the Jarl approach me. it would be unwise to walk out on him, so I listen to what he has to say.

¨Twilight sparkle, you not only saved honorable members of the companions, but you also organized the rescue of hostage children and after that you saved this city from a daedric invasion¨

Yeah, he was right. I sometimes wish I could have saved Kvatch, I always found uncomfortable than people call me hero of kvatch when I barely managed to save anyone… I’m glad the same didn’t happen here.

¨and for your actions you were declared a hero by the people of Whiterun, and in my right as Jarl I declare you Thane of Whiterun¨

… What is a thane? Some kind of rank in the army? Or an honor title?

¨no offence, but… what happens now?¨

The jarl simply gave me a sword… I can see that is enchanted.

¨you get a personal weapon from my armory, this sword has an enchantment that absorbs the health from your opponents, and of crouse you will get a housecarl to protect you¨

Oh no, please not, I don’t want anyone on my travels.

¨and by insistence from her part, Talia will be your housecarl¨

Dammit, at least give me one of the compaions, she will spend the entire journey making drawings of me.

I was about to tell them that I refuse the title of Thane, having a follower, specially that girl and leave already… and then a small child approach me… it wasn’t one of the girls that harassed me in the park?

¨thanks you for saving me and my sister life, you are a hero worthy of Sovengarde¨

And then she gave me an apple…

...

yeah I think i shouldn't be ungrateful with these people, I should simply ask Talia to not make drawings of me.

Talia appeared, with a full leather armor and ready for the journey. This is going to be a long journey, but it might be worth it... might.

Specially if i get the opportunity to avenge my ears, i really need to kill that goat for destroying my earsdrums.

Yeah i know that i have to kill him for being threat to all of Tamriel. but i can say the same about a lot of lunatics, but not many of them are so annoyingas as Grogar.

Anyway, next stop: Cloud Ruler Temple