The Wonders of Skyrim

Darkness

I gasped, my eyes fluttered as I stared around in the sluggish blank, black landscape the surrounded me, my feet touched down on a invisible ground, a light shone in the distance, I walked towards it as it grew brighter. My feet stopped, I stared into the light to see it ripple and a old, wrinkled, decrepit woman come out from the bright orb. I stepped back in disgust and shock by the creature before me, she stared at me with black orbs that seemed to want to suck me in. She smiled causing her wrinkles to get wrinkles, but it wasn't a kind smile, it was a menacing smile. "Ahhh," She said in a rather leathery and raspy voice, "There you are, I have a message for you." She grinned, making me shiver. The world flashed around me and I felt pain, immense pain, it wasn't physical, it was coming from inside, I lay on the blackness, pain enveloping me.

The darkness flashed causing me to wince and shut my eyes, when I opened them I was on a field, a gold sword brandished in my hand, I felt the swoosh of an enormous beast behind me. I spun around to see the town I had barely begun to call home being burnt and smashed by a startling onyx colored dragon. I watched in horror as the very tree I slept in was in a blazing inferno, the SugarCube corner decimated, ponies ran and screamed everywhere as it began to rain rock and fire. The sky turned a blood red, I screamed and ran, not away as you might expect, but towards, I knew this dragon by heart, my skin was chilled by what I saw, this dragon was attacking something that never harmed it, he had a feud with me, this dragon's name was... "Alduin!" I screamed.

He turned his large head towards me and blew a spume of fire, after that I saw blackness, nothingness.

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Twilight jumped, she heard a screaming from downstairs, she dashed downstairs, spike following in toll. They reached Jiques to see him screaming and thrashing around, one word was clearly distinguished against the rest, "Alduin!" Twilight tried shaking him to see if she could wake him only to get smacked in the face. She was getting angry at this point and just decided to hold him up with magic after Spike suggested it. Spike went off to make breakfast because it was already practically morning, Twilight held him aloft while she ate, shortly after she held him up in the air, he stopped thrashing around, a unexpected voice made her jump, "You can put me down now."

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I softly gasped as my eyes fluttered open, my breathing became ragged, I remembered the dream about Vaermina quite vividly, Alduin attacking Ponyville and me, burning alive. If she sent me this dream, it wouldn't be wise to pass this off as a crazy nightmare, this had to be an omen. My hood fell over my head and I finally realized I was being held aloft by a purple bubble. Annoyed I said, "You can put me down now." She started and turned around to see me staring back with deep green eyes, cut through the center by a black vertical line. She gently lay me down, I put my legs under me and got up, I asked, "Why were you holding me up in your magic?" I tried to look calm but inside my thoughts were raging around like tempests.

She answered simply, "You were thrashing around and screaming, what were you dreaming about and, what happened last night?" That was the question I didn't want to ask her; Spike however jumped in to save me from answering by saying, "Yeah, you also smacked Twilight in the face." Twilight gave him a look and turned back to me. After a few moments she sighed, "Are you ever going to answer?" I hadn't realized that I was staring at her, I was lost in my own thoughts about what happened last night. "I never told you about gods in my world have I?" She just shook her head, "Well, each and everyone of them is real," At this she seemed shocked and was about to say something but I cut her off, "I was visited by two, one in my dreams the other is the one you saw that teleported me away." She nodded and I continued, "The first one, Boethiah, is a god of competition, assassinations, treason and secret plots, she wanted to see if I really was powerful enough to command the thu'um, she wanted me to fight five waves of enemies from my world, I proved to her by killing them all, and she offered me this beauty." I pulled out GoldBrand, "This is GoldBrand, a enchanted katana." She stared in awe at the beautiful yet deadly blade that beheld her. I snapped my fingers, she came back to reality, "Wow." She cooed in amazement.

"Now its time to tell you about the dream." I was quite hesitant about this part of my story, "I was in a world of blackness, a speck of light appeared, I ran towards it, and what came out was a old woman, she said, 'Ahhh, there you are, I have a message for you.' I felt excruciating pain, my entire being compressed and stretched until I found myself on a field, in fact, the field over yonder." I pointed out at the grassland that was behind this very house, "I turned to look at Ponyville, GoldBrand in my hand, what I saw nearly made me pass out, it was Alduin," She looked at me confused, "Alduin is a dragon that was imprisoned in the Elder Scrolls, he escaped and began reviving dragons across the country, it was my duty to stop or kill Alduin," Spike had finally come over from cooking his gem encrusted pancakes and sat down at the table to also listen to my tale of the night before, "He was ravaging the town, setting everything ablaze, I screamed at him 'Alduin!' he had a fight to pick with me, not you peaceful ponies, he looked towards me with a lazy motion of his head and blew a spume of fire in my direction, that's when I woke up." I ended the tale and took a bite of a chaurus egg, Damn these things are good! I finished my egg and saw Twilight looking at me with a quizzical glance before returning to her oats.

"So, you're saying that Ponyville is going to be attacked by some dragon that you may or may not have brought here by your clumsiness?" Twilight asked staring down at her oats, "Yeah," Noticing the look Twilight had I quickly added, "But I can stop this dragon, I just need some help." I looked at Twilight hopefully, just hoping she would understand and that she would accept. Fortunately she did both, "Okay, I'll help you, but we do need the Princesses here." She nodded to Spike who ran off and was probably writing a letter to one of the Princesses. I was surprised, "I hadn't expected you to agree so whole-heartedly." She looked sadly at me, "I believe you, I trust you as a friend, you hadn't really lied to me, or done anything to harm us. Why should I not trust you?" Twilight finished, "Well, that escalated quickly." I thought to myself. Spike came back and handed the letter to Twilight who proof-read it and said, "Okay Spike you can send it."

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Princess Celestia was busy reading a book about helping sociopaths come back to society, seemed good enough to use on Princess Luna, She thought to herself. Luna opened the door and walked into the bedroom that Celestia was in, it had gold poles in the four corners of the room, a window to let the sunrise in, a lush red carpet, and a large royal looking bed where Celestia lay. Luna put a scroll down onto the bed in front of Celestia with her magic and said, "Sister, Twilight says we need to hurry to Ponyville to hear about important news that cannot be heard from any other pony then us." Celestia sighed picked up the scroll and read it, she got up and stretched, they both lit their horns and teleported to Twilight's house.

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Twilight had decided on getting the other ponies he had met, after the all gathered, they waited for the two Princesses to show. Rainbow Dash still gave me distrustful looks, Twilight looked around worriedly, Fluttershy shied away from me, Rarity was trying on trying on different dresses, Applejack watched Twilight pace looking worried herself, Pinkie Pie was hopping around energetically and the occasional puff of confetti would pop out of no where.

The two Princesses had decided on teleporting because one second they weren't there, the next they materialized out of nothing, Princess Luna gave me oblong looks, obviously trying to figure out if this was the important news or if it was something else. I bowed as did every other pony, Twilight looked relieved that they were finally here and began to spout out words almost as fast as Pinkie, scratch that, nothing could copy Pinkie. Celestia raised a hoof and instantly she stopped, she turned and looked at me, "Jiques, I do believe you could tell us." And so I told her everything I said to Twilight, I was bashful at first, then I became more confident over time.

All of the ponies, even Pinkie Pie weren't expecting that last line. Rainbow Dash suddenly spoke up, "And how do we know you're not lying?" She said that rather smugly, I couldn't help but feel anger build but I quickly pushed it down, as I been taught the ways of Mara, it's not good to become angry over every little thing. I answered coolly, "Please tell me why you wouldn't believe this being said from someone, or somepony, that has never lied to you before?" She answered immediately, "Because I barely know you, you're not a pony and I have no reason to trust you." I just kept my cool, "Twilight trusts me, Celestia has some trust in me, otherwise I wouldn't be alive right now, in fact some ponies out in town know of my existence because of my brave regime," I put on a dramatic tone, "I single handedly slayed a dragon, riding it till I got a lucky strike at its eye causing it to tumble towards the ground at a last attempt to kill me but only snapping its neck and acting as a cushion for our hero, the walking lizard!" I finished staring at Rainbow Dash who seemed to be furious at being told off by a different species.

Applejack stepped in before this could get any worse and said, "Okay y'all that was fine and dandy but righ' 'bout I reckon we need to get workin' on somethin' 'bout this Omen." I backed down much to the contempt of Rainbow, the room became uncomfortably silent, Celestia spoke up shattering the unnerving silence, "I do believe we need to get working on this Omen, and I'll be trying to figure out where this dragon may be, I will also be sending out Pegasi scouts to pinpoint his location." Luna added, "Thoust watch the skies, and never let your guard down." With that they disappeared in a flash of light.

I looked back over at the assembled ponies, one by one they filed out, Twilight of course stayed. I looked around the library, wondering out loud, "Now, we need to fireproof this place..."