Chapter Eleven: First Encounter
Chapter Eleven
You jolt awake, breathing heavily and holding your hand to your chest. You look around your tent, and take note after a moment that it's still early morning. You slowly rise, and crawl out into the morning air. Standing, you look around to find that all the ponies are still sleeping, and the sun has just peeked over the horizon. it takes you a moment, but you slowly realize it was all a dream. You sigh mentally, and crawl back into your tent to get a few more minutes of rest. As you do however, your hand bumps into something, sending it rolling across the ground where it stops with a soft 'clink' against something else. Looking, you see a small pile of skooma bottles laying in the dirt. Small being around ten. All empty. Realization dawns, and suddenly the dream makes much more sense. You went to sleep drunk and high at the same time. Groaning, you face plant into your pillow and mentally berate yourself for getting wasted. Again. Oh well, at least you won't have to worry about going into withdrawals while fighting dragons.
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You jolt awake again, this time to a roar. One you're all too familiar with. You put on your armor, run out the tent grabbing your axes on the way, and begin searching the skies. After a few moments, you spot it. A large, bluish-green dragon, flying low over the forest. You could only catch a glimpse now and then through the trees, but it was definitely heading this way. Knowing it was only a matter of time before it realized you were there, you brace for combat, and begin shouting for the mares to wake up.
"Ponies! Rouse yourselves, there is a dragon upon us!" You run over to Twilight's tent, poking your head in to see her sound asleep. "Twilight," you shout. "Wake up! We've got a fight on our hands."
"Hu-wah?" The lavender mare slowly sits up, eyes half lidded and wetting her mouth. "J'Dagna... was goin on," she slurs drowsily, looking in your general direction. Just before you answer her, the roar sounds out over the trees again, this time much closer. Immediately Twilight perks up. She shoots to her hooves and her eyes snap open, both startled and afraid. "Oh no! Dragon!" She shoots out of her tent and into the one closest to hers, this one belonging to Applejack. While Twilight wakes the farm mare, you decide to go and get Rainbow Dash. You run over to her tent, fling the flap open, and see Rainbow already strapping on her armor. You make eye contact with each other, she nods, and you leave to go and get the physics-defying pink mare.
"Pinkie Pie," you call as you enter her tent. "Where are you pink pony?" You look around, but there is no sign of her in the small tent. Just a small impression in the ground where she was lying, and two small divots nearby where her canon sat. You pull out the tent, scratching your head, and begin to look around the clearing. Applejack is almost finished suiting up, with Twilight helping her. Rainbow was giving her armor a final once over, tightening a strap here and there. Even Rarity and Fluttershy were up, setting up a shelter to take cover from the dragon. No sign of Pinkie Pie.
"Have any of you seen Pink-" you begin, but are cut off by a high -pitched noise from above.
"WEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"ROAR!!!!!"
The dragon swoops overhead, roaring in anger at the small pink blob atop its back. You mentally facepalm, and sigh aloud. That pink mare will be the death of what little sanity I have left. You begin to head for the larger clearing nearby, in hopes you can coax the dragon to land. As you race through the trees, you look back and see the ponies you had trained following behind you, with Applejack taking up the rear. You had made her armor out of the lightest thing you could without sacrificing too much protection, this being steel, but it was still heavy, and it slowed her down.
Regardless, she was making good pace, and would arrive with the rest of the group. As you entered the clearing, you heard the dragon roar again, this time back on your right. You look up just in time to see it careen into the ground, sending dirt up in a shower as the colossal beast dug a trench with its own body. This collision also sent Pinkie, who was still atop the dragons back, flying forwards and bouncing along the ground a ways. She moved to stand, but fell again with a cry audible over the sound of the dragon roaring in pain.
"Pinkie!" Twilight immediately began running to the aid of her friend. Leaving her to it, you, Rainbow, and Applejack all looked at one another before nodding and running off to fight the dragon. It began to rise, and you steeled yourself to run faster, shouting as you vaulted into the air once you neared the dazed monster. Raising your axes above your head, you aimed for the dragon's neck, hoping to end this fight before it ever really began, but fate, it seemed, had other ideas.
As you axes made contact with the beasts neck, they didn't slice through it as you had expected. They instead merely shattered against the scale hide. You gazed in complete disbelief at your now destroyed axes. The only thing that could have done that was... no. There's no way the dragon's hide is made of diamond. It would be too heavy. But, if that was the case, as it appeared to be, you would have to get weapons stronger than malachite. In your shock, you failed to notice that the dragon had finally risen to its full height, and was staring angrily at you. You looked up into its cold, dark, unforgiving eyes.
"Mew?" Did I... did I REALLY just MEW at a DRAGON?? I really have gone insane, haven't I? The dragon merely swats you into a nearby tree, shattering it with your body as the wrecking ball. You land a few feet beyond, and groan as you sit up, and take in the scene before you. Applejack has the dragon distracted, and Rainbow is waiting for an opening. Twilight is still trying to resuscitate Pinkie, and you're lying in the dirt, surrounded by splinters. One of these splinters, you notice, seemed to have embedded itself into your left shoulder, somehow finding a chink in your armor.
All in all, the fight was going pretty well, in that nopony had been injured yet. Baring yourself of course. While it would take much more than a swat through a tree to kill you, it still hurt like Oblivion. You stood with a groan and pulled the large splinter out of your shoulder. You were about to rush headlong back into the fighting, but then you remembered your axes. One of the handles had buried itself into the ground a few feet away, the jagged remnants of the blade brought a small tear to your eye. You loved those axes.
"Oh well." You rushed back to your tent in the camp and pulled out your dragon bone axes that you had been saving for a rainy day. While the sky was clear, a diamond skin dragon fit the bill rather well. The only problem was that the dragon bone axes weren't improved at all, and they had no enchantments. That's the reason you kept using your old glass axes. While they didn't do as much damage, watching enemies flail around as they burned to death was fun.
Still, it is what it is. You hoist the axes, and rush back into the fray. As you re-enter the clearing, you once again asses the situation. Twilight, it seemed, had given up trying to bring back Pinkie, and instead had begun herling fire balls, ice spikes, lighning bolts, and any other spell she knew at the dragon. Most weren't doing a thing. A few seemed to annoy it, but nothing more. AJ and Rainbow were still up close, trying to find a soft spot, but a dragon with daimond scales was something you had never even considered.
"Darling... shouldn't you be helping?" Rarity was sitting beside you, nearly scaring you. How'd she do that? It was nearly impossible to sneak up on you. Though, she had a point.
"Uh... yes. Right." You sprinted into the open, working out a plan to take this beast down. No matter what happened, you would not be bested by a dragon.
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You couldn't believe it. You've been bested by a dragon. Your axes had been of no use, Twilight, AJ, and Rainbow lay in heaps, knocked unconcious by swats from the beast's wings. It now had a claw pinning you to the ground, and despite struggling with all of your strength, you could not move it. You had even tried shouting it it the face, but all that did was piss it off. It had it's head not two feet from your own, glaring at you, ready to eat you alive. You thought this was the end. After everything that you had done, all of your achievements, you were going to be eaten alive by the very enemy you were born to slay. Then, something rather... unexpected happened.
"How dare you! How DARE you!" Fluttershy. the last pony you expected to be anywhere near a dragon suddenly flew into your field of vision. The dragon looked at her, confused. "Just because you're big, doesn't mean you get to be a bully! You may have daimond skin and snore smoke and breathe fire, but you do not, I repeat you do NOT HURT. MY. FRIENDS." The dragon only blinked, unamused by the small yellow pony staring him down. You, on the other hand, were quite thankful you chose to wear brown underpants.
"Kril, Brave, but foolish. Bovul, jool. Run." The dragon snapped it's jaws at Fluttershy, but missed. Fluttershy froze in terror. Why she thought that would work, you have no idea. The dragon was undeterred by his misse dbite however, and settled on swatting the yellow mare across the field. She landed several yards away, not moving once her body came to a rest.
"Fluttershy!" You tried again to move the dragon's claw off of you, this time with slightly better reseults. It amounted to nothing however, ans the dragon's massive weight hardly budged. You had failed your pony friends. You had gotten them all killed, and you hadn't even stopped one dragon. Maybe you should have retired after beating Alduin the first go around. Then you wouldn't have even been fighting that deadra. Still, none of that mattered now. Your death was at hand.
"Hi there Mister Cat man! Miss me?" Pinkie Pie... of course. Her head popped into your field of vision from the top, and she smiled down at you. then, she gave the dragon a heated glare that could melt steel. You think you did actually see a bit of steam rise off of AJ's armor. "Alright then Mister Dragon. Nopony hurts Fluttershy!!!" She pulled out her cannon from Akatosh knows where, and shot the dragon square in it's gaping maw. The cannonball traveled down the monster's throat, choking it. This didn't last, as the beast managed to choke it down, swallowing the lead ball.
"Pinkie, it seems your plan has failed. Dragon's eat things like lead all the time." She merely giggled.
"I know that silly! H-E rounds!" You stared at her in cofusion.
"What are H-" just then, you heard a muted 'BOOM'. The dragon keeled over, smoke rising from it's mouth. The life fading from it's eyes.
"H-E. High Explosive! Never leave home without 'em!" You shook your head and stood. There were more pressing matters than how Pinkie managed that. You had four unconcious ponies to deal with. First up, Fluttershy. "I'll get Fluttershy J'Dagna, you get Twilight!" First up, Twilight Sparkle. You rushed over to the unicorn, who seemed to already be coming to. You helped her up, and noticed that Pinkie was now carrying Fluttershy. Rarity was helping AJ, and Rainbow was sitting up, rubbing her head.
"Wha-... what happened? J'Dagna? Did... di we get it?" Twilight looked over at the fallen dragon, the around at her friends, all of which were now awake save Fluttershy.
"Yes, Twilight. Pinkie Pie managed to... defeat the dragon." You thought it best not to asy 'kill', seeing as it was Pinkie that had done it. She seemed to be the truly innocent one, so best not to spoil that. "I then killed it. I'm not sure why I haven't absorbed it's power though. Maybe your dragon's are different from the one's in my world. I do think Fluttershy needs your attention however." She looked past you, and saw Fluttershy still unconcious on Pinkie's back.
"Oh! Oh no!" She rushed over to help her friend, leaving you alone. You walked to where your axes had fallen, and looked them over. No damage. They'd have to be sharpened though.
"Woohoo!" You looked to Pinkie. It seemed Fluttershy had woken up, and was unharmed. You smiled, glad that everything had worked out. You just hoped you wouldn't have that much of a fight every time you fought a dragon. THAT would suck.
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1) Joor is "mortal". "Jool" - or rather "jul" means "man/mankind".
2) Why does this one not speak like his people, hm? Do you not like how Khajiit's kin speak?
6502220 Hm... I got the translation off the SkyrimWiki. I'll double check it. As for why J'Dagna doesn't speak like a Khajiit, it's because.for the first few chapters, I actually forgot about it. Once I realized, it was too late to go back and change everything. Rather, I'm too lazy. I do like the way they speak though. It's just, this is easier, plus the aforementioned reasons.
Nice to see it isn't dead... Cant wait for the next one.
6589738 You've made your point, lol.
6745162 Straight out of wiki.
The name 'Elsweyr' arose from an old Khajiiti proverb that went along the lines of "perfect society is always elsewhere."
If you think about it, it's quite clever.
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