The Wonders of Skyrim
Chapter 3 - Becoming known
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"Oh, this is not good! This is not good!" She glanced around looking for something. I just gave her a quizzical look, "Shouldn't it be fine? Trust me, I've seen weirder things than talking ponies, but how bad could this be seeing a new creature, and a sentient one at that." I said it calmly, she just looked at me like I was crazy. "You cant just walk out there! If they see you there will be a riot!" She started sweating, "Spike, send a letter to Princess Celestia, tell her to get here fast!" I rolled my eyes, I spoke in my home language "Idiot." Then I said in Nordic, "Honestly, you don't need to worry so much. You only found me because of a hole in the top of your tree."
She looked at me and asked, "What was that first thing you said?" she added, "I meant in that other... language of yours." I just laughed and said, "Nothing." I looked back over at the purple dragon, he finished writing the letter, wrapped it in a seal and burned it. "How, is burning a letter supposed to help us?" I asked, he turned around to look at me, "I didn't burn it, I just sent it to the princess." I just shook my head, a minute later a message came from Spike, he unrolled it and read, "I'll be there shortly, I'm busy with some meetings." He looked up from the message, "That's all it says." He said plainly.
My stomach rumbled, I looked down at my belly, I was about to pull out a roasted rabbit leg, but I remembered where I was and instead pulled out a loaf of bread and ate it, the feeling of hunger instantly diminished. I felt a bit tired, "Twilight..." The rest was cut off by a white pony that had both wings and a horn appear with a brilliant flash of light. Its eyes widened the second it saw me, "Let me guess, your Princess Celestia?" The white pony I was eye level with nodded, "So, the situation is, I came here by accidentally, opening the Elder Scrolls a bit early, I don't know if I got sucked into the scroll or got blown up and landed in this land." The white pony regained her composure, "Okay, but please tell me, what are you?"
I groaned, are they all gonna be like this? "I'm an Argonian, a commoner in my race, but I have the abilities of a very deadly assassin, I am a dragonborn, that means I can use the ability of Thu'um, while others can to, they cant grasp it as easily as I can. My job was to kill the dragons that were attacking Skyrim, the place I came from. I have the ability of histskin, which allows me to suck up any magical energies that are enacted upon me. I can also use my own magicka reserves to cast flames, electricity, frostbite (I'm quite the magician!), and other spells like illusions and spells that change my skin from, scales to stone, wood, or iron."
She just nodded as I finished, "Care to demonstrate?" I decided not to use the flames, but I showed her my ability of whirlwind sprint, and paralyzed Twilight's dragon much to her dismay, but I re-assured her he would be fine in a minute or two. I was gasping at the end of my demonstration, (Yes, doing all this REALLY does take a lot of energy.) I drunk a vigor potion instantly feeling better, I also drank a magicka potion, the two ponies and the dragon were impressed with my ability of magic.
"So, I see you have magical ability, now what about physical?" I just grinned, I pulled out my glass enchanted sword, its red hue giving off an eerie light. I unhooked my bow and whipped it out, drawing a Elven arrow with it. The Princess seemed impressed but then her face darkened. "If you didn't know you were coming here, then why are you so heavily armed?" I just looked at her and laughed, "You call this heavily armed? Apparently you guys don't have creatures of the wild coming out of no where, assassins and thugs coming to try and take you out, and dragons attacking just about everywhere." I took a breath, "This is considered light in my world, some people are armed in full iron armor, with a war hammer and that can be considered casual." They both just looked at me, with terrified looks on their faces.
I took my gear and holstered it, "I'm gonna need to get out some time or later. But its late, so where am I going to sleep?" I looked at them both, "Or, I'll just sleep on the library floor." I snorted, "You guys gonna say anything?" Twilight shook her head and said, "Just sleep, in the library, I'll get a pillow and blanket." With that she left, Princess Celestia looked at me, "If you harm this pony, OR ANY PONY I will not hesitate to kill you!" She said in a hushed yet deadly tone, and to top it off she flared her horn. "Jeez, nice to know that someone here doesn't like me."
Twilight came back with a bundle of cloth and laid it out, I stood near the bed putting down frost runes, "If you try and stab me in back while I sleep, these runes will take care of that being a possibility." I laid down, the white pony had already teleported away. The lavender mare just looked askance and went up to her room, I suddenly got a cold feeling when I closed my eyes, she was putting protection spells around her house, to make sure I didn't leave! Well, I guess I could understand that, I am some unknown creature to her. I slipped into sleep shortly after those thoughts.
I woke to see the sun on my face, I got up and deactivated the runes, I yawned stretching causing my feathers to quiver. I using the shout to see heart beats, I saw Spike's was slow, which meant he was sleeping, I looked for Twilight's, to see her's was in the kitchen. I groggily got up and walked into the kitchen. Twilight jumped at my silent entry, "Good morning Twilight, sleep well?" I said reaching into my bag for a sweet roll, and took a bite, "Not too well, I kept on thinking you'd slice my neck in my sleep." She really didn't look to well, she had bags under her eyes, and her mane was unkempt.
I looked worriedly at her, "You shouldn't worry so much, I'm not gonna hurt you, in fact if I wanted to kill you I could've done it many times over." I gave her a sad smile, she didn't smile back. "How come you don't eat meat? I've seen your teeth, yet all you eat is vegetarian products." I already had an answer for this question, "Even though I can eat meat, I prefer vegetarian foods in your presence because, you are vegetarian, don't you think it would be awkward if I were to whip out a chunk of venison and devour it right before your eyes?" She gave me a curious stare before returning to her toast.
I finished my sweet roll, and said, "I really need to meet more ponies, I cant stay here forever and you know that." Twilight didn't look to happy about this but knew we had to some point or another. I got up, and Twilight followed, I took a breath, this was the moment I would meet something that would be the thing that would eith... My train of thought was interrupted by a knocking on the door.
Twilight used her magic and opened the door, that was when a pink blur came in followed by 3 other ponies, they all came in as Twilight tried to slow the pink one down enough to ask her a question. But when they all saw me they froze, but the pink one seemed to become even more energized if that was even possible. She started gibbering about a party, and the decoration, where it would be and other things. Applejack talked first before the other 2 could say anything, "Twi, what is that thing?" I gave her a look feeling offended, Twilight grasped the pink pony with her magic and closed the door, she instantly settled down.
Before Twilight could say anything I said, "I'm an Argonian, from the lands of Skyrim." Applejack just looked even more confused, the white one with a purple mane spoke up, "Darling, what is an Argonian?" the yellow one with a pink mane behind her gave a squeak once she saw me and dove under the white one. "Well, I think introductions are in order," I said rather cheerfully, giving them all a toothy smile, "I'm an Argonian, a race of bipedal lizards, we can breathe in water and have the ability of histskin which allows us to suck up magic that attacks us, we have different colors to green is common, red is rare and blue you will probably never see, with that being said, my name is Jiques, I am also talented in magic, now you." Applejack looked at the other two expectantly before saying her own, "Ah'm Applejack, mah family runs an apple orchard, we supply the apples 'round here." Next was the white one, "I'm Rarity, I own a dress shop, and I would really like to touch up on your clothes, ooooo! It would be a thrill to make clothes for a new species!"
Next was the pink which literally broke through Twilight's magic and jumped on me, (let me tell you it hurts to get trampled by a horse!) "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie! OOHH! I got the perfect welcome to Ponyville party! Its gonna need streamers, and balloons and cake never forget the cake! Its gonna need ponies and especially YOU!" She hopped off me, starting hopping around spouting out details of the party. When I finally stood up I noticed I chipped one of my horns, which is where the pain I was experiencing was coming from. I gasped when I touched it, it really did hurt, I took out a small glowing sphere in my hand and healed myself, causing the ponies to gasp, as my horn mended itself.
"Okay, Pinkie, can you cool it for a bit? I don't want to get trampled again." I looked at Pinkie to see she stopped hopping around. but was still talking about preparations. I looked at the cowering yellow Pegasus, that's what they were called right? "What's your name?" The yellow pony squeaked and said very quietly, but I was able to catch it because of my finely tuned Argonian ears. "Fluttershy...."
"Fluttershy," I started, "Why are you so... shy?"
"Because your big, scary, and you have very sharp teeth."
"I'm sorry for scaring you Fluttershy, but I really don't like it when you're scared, its okay, I wont hurt you."
I said this as I tried to coax her out from behind Rarity's back, she finally came out and I gave her a reassuring smile, she just looked pale at the sight of me. I focused my gaze back on Twilight with a resigned sigh, "So, how are we going to introduce Ponyville to me?" I asked.
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