//------------------------------// // Prologue - Equestria // Story: The Dragonborn Chronicles: Part 1 - Ponies in Skyrim // by Barix123 //------------------------------// Prologue – Equestria         Twilight Sparkle was in the library in the middle of reshelving day and was already halfway through her task. It wasn’t even noon and hope was touching the fact that she might get done early for once. Suddenly the front door flew open and a cyan blue form came flying in. Twilight barely had time to react before the cyan body hit her and both got slammed against the wall. The flouting books still in the air dropped to the floor. “RAINBOW DASH!” Twilight shouted out. “Oh…hey.” said Rainbow Dash, now feeling bad “Sorry about that. I just heard that the new Daring Do book came out and I had to see if you had it.” “Well first I would need you to get off of me before I can get it.” Twilight said with anger “Oh right…sorry about that too.” Rainbow apologized as she got off Twilight who then resumed her task of reshelving books. “Sooo…when can I see the book?” Twilight was getting a little more frustrated. “After I’m done with reshelving the rest of the books.” “Come on you can take all day doing this. The faster you give me the book the faster I can get out of here,” Rainbow almost started begging.         Twilight turned to her friend and was about to explain the rules of procedure when she saw a good sized hole where Rainbow had slammed her against. “Great! Now look what you’ve done Rainbow.” Twilight grew even more angry, “Now I have to get a repair pony to get this fixed.” “Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh,” Rainbow started to panic, “I’m so sorry Twilight. I swear I’ll pay for it.”         Twilight began to calm down. She sighed but began again, “No it’s fine. I’ll just…wait. What’s that?”         Rainbow saw Twilight look in the hole so she took a peek as well. She saw a faint glow come from inside. Twilight decided to take a closer look. “It’s…a book!” “A book…really? You’re excited over a...” Rainbow face-hoofed herself. “And I forgot who I’m talking to.”         Twilight levitated the book out of the hole and blew a small layer of dust off the cover. “The Secrets of Expert Level Teleportation. WOOO! I can’t wait to read this!” “But what about Daring Do?” Rainbow was wining again. “In a second.” Twilight levitated the few remaining books to the center table and took the Daring Do book off the shelves and gave it to Rainbow Dash. “Thanks Twilight, See ya.”         Rainbow Flew out of the library somewhat hoping Twilight would forget about the hole she made. The wind from her soaring speed closing the door as Twilight walked over to her study table. She opened the book with her magic and began reading. After a while Spike walked in and saw the new book as well as the hole in the wall. “Don’t tell me Rainbow Dash was here again.” Spike said with an exhausted sign. After all this seemed to happen alot around the time a new Daring Do book came out. “I’ll send for a repair pony tomorrow. I’m too tired for it today. Hey, is that a new book?” “Yes. I found it in the hole over there. It’s called ‘The Secrets of Expert Level Teleportation’. Spike get a quill and parchment out, I need to write a letter to the Princess about this.” Twilight was a little too excited about a book but Spike new that's how she normally got whenever she got her hooves on a new book, especially one about magic.         Spike got the quill and parchment seemingly out of nowhere, “Ok I’m ready.” "Dear Princess Celestia,         I have recently found an ancient book in the library called “The Secrets of Expert Level Teleportation”. It details in one very specific type of teleporting called “Dimensional Shifting”. I will be conducting some experiments within the next few days and will be sending reports on my progress as I learn more.         Forever you’re faithful student                 Twilight Sparkle" “Send it.”         Spike rolled up the scroll and breathed fire on it to send it on it’s way. He was then headed upstairs ready to call it a day. “Alright well I’m gonna hit the hay.” “What? Already?” Twilight was stunned a little, “Didn’t you just get back from shopping?” “Yeah, but it was a busy day and the sun has been down for a while.”         Twilight was stunned for a second second time but looks out the window to see that it was, in fact, dark outside dimly lit by the moon and stars. “Wow…I didn’t realize it was getting so late.” “Come on Twilight you know how you can get when you get your hooves on a new book.”         Twilight yawned then started to walk up the stairs with spike. She realized how tired she was after all, “I guess I am getting pretty tired. I’ll try some experiments tomorrow.” With that the duo went to bed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------         The next morning Twilight had Spike write up invites for her friends to attend the experiments that morning while she was preparing the spells just like in the book. The other ponies where not to thrilled about coming over for some spell they knew little about, much less getting up so early in the morning, at least Rainbow Dash wasn’t. When the five friends arrived with Spike they saw the floor clear of everything except a large circle with six smaller circles evenly spaced around the larger one. All of which had very detailed symbols inside the round borders. An apple sat in the middle on top of a diamond shaped object that looked oddly enough like a dragon. Twilight came downstairs levitating the book next to her. Twilight started to really get excited when she saw her friends. “Oh good, you’re all here. Now we can begin.” Applejack normally got up early so this little visit wasn’t much of a bother. “Twi, Ah don’t mind helping ya out from time ta time but isn’t it a little early fer this. I mean I still got ta do my morning chores.” “I had some sleeping to do,” Rainbow Dash is even more annoyed than AJ “…or a new book to finish reading…something else other than this.” “Now now everypony,” Twilight tried to sound reassuring, “I know that you all have things to do but I needed six ponies to do this and this will only take about ten minutes…give or take.” “Well I don’t see why we can’t help out with a new spell,” Rarity continues further, “as long as it doesn’t take too long of course. I still haven't fully groomed myself this morning.” Rainbow signed then continued, “Fine lets just get this over with, I don’t want to turn into an egg head.” “Great!” Twilight was ecstatic by the change of heart. “Girls, I’ll need you to get into one of these circles that’s around the large one.”         All six ponies grouped around the large circle while Twilight opened the book one last time to make sure everything was in order. “Um Twi…,” The country mare said with slight concern, “before we jump into this could ya maybe give us a run down bout what’s gonna happen?” “Of course. This circle represents the interdimensional travel gate that will allow any object to turn into tiny particles that can travel at light speed. The said object will then travel fast enough in such a short distance towards the center that they will enter something called the multi-dimensional time stream. There the particles will-“ “-TWILIGHT!” Dash had to cut her off before things got too out of hoof. “Use smaller words.” She made sure to emphasise every word. Realizing her mistake the lavender princess face hoofed then looked at her friends. She then flatly stated, “The spell lets you travel to any dimension you wish.” “Ooohhh.” All her friends were awe struck by this new revelation. All of them with the exception except Fluttershy. “So…we’re going to travel…to another dimension?” Fluttershy spoke with her usual softly tone. “No,” Twilight explained further, “we are going to send that apple to another dimension and then bring it back.” “Oh that’s a relief.” The canary mare was relaxed for now. Rainbow Dash, on the other hoof, couldn’t contain herself, “NO WAY! THAT’S SO AWSOME! But why don’t we travel instead of the dumb apple?” “Because I don’t know if we would be able to come back,”  She went on to address her concerns, “I also need to test out if a dimension can sustain life or if it’s even habitable. If an apple can’t even last a few minutes in one dimension then chances are we can’t either.”         The group agreed with that notion. “Ok darling but what are the circles for?” Rarity curiously inquired. It seemed Twilight wasn’t too sure about them as well. “As far as I can tell they're meant for protection. The spell is vague in some details but pretty straight forward in the execution so I have confidence that I can pull it off.” “It’s alright Twi, we trust you.” “Y-you can do Twilight. We all beleive in you.” “Yeah you’re like the best at magic so of course you can do it.” What’s all the worry for darling? Of course you can do it. “If anypony can pull off a difficult spell, it’s you.”         It was comforting to hear all her friends praise and support. Twilight almost began to tear up, “Thank you girls. I promise I won’t fail you.” Pinkie Pie was a slightly different story, “Come on already, I really want to see how this works.” Between excited and annoyed for taking for long not much could stop that half crazed pony. “Here we go. Brace yourselves.”         The others looked on as Twilight’s horn began to glow. All the circles on the floor soon followed and the five ponies looked on wondering what marvel would happen next. In the back Spike burped up a letter. He opened it and began reading. The more he read the more nervous he got. Then he began to look scared. The marks on the floor kept getting brighter as time went on, so did the ominous noise that waved off the spell. When he finished he was terrified for Twilight and the others. Spike rushed to the princesses side. “TWILIGHT YOU NEED TO STOP THE SPELL!” Spike was yelling at the top of lungs trying to reach her over the radiating noise caused from the spell. “PRINCESS CELESTIA JUST SENT TERRIBLE NEWS ABOUT THE BOOK! YOU HAVE TO STOP!!!” “I…I can’t stop the spell, it’s in some kind of lock!” Twilight started to panic. “SPIKE I’M SCARED!” “DON’T WORRY I’LL BREAK THE CIRCLE! THAT SHOULD DO SOMETHING!”         Spike reached for the large circle but an explosion sent him flying back into a bookcase. Books came raining down on Spike covering him it the annoying texts. When he poked his head out all he saw was black burn marks where the others were standing. The markings in the middle was scorched, not even recognizable any more, and the apple that once stood was now nothing but ashes. “Oh no…where…Twilight?” Spike felt helpless and alone now more than ever. “TWILIGHT! TWIIIIIILIIIIIIIIGHT!!!???”         He was starting to freak out as he searched relentlessly for the others in the library in a desperate attempt to find them. The basement. The attic. The bathroom. The kitchen. Even under the book pile. But to no avail. He was lossing hope fast when he noticed the letter in his claw being held by a death grip. “The princess…she’ll know what to do.” Spike was hopeful once again and immediately started to write a letter to the princess. -------------------------------------------------------------------------         Twilight opened her eyes, instantly wishing she didn’t. She saw a tunnel of images, consisting of things she knew nothing about rushing past her at seemingly light speeds. Each had an image of something else entirely and most seemed to have a different...style of life or palette of color. She barely had time to figure out what an image might be before it flew past her. Whatever they were it was clear this was the Dimensional Time-stream. “TWILIGHT!”         The voice sounded nervous but familiar. She turned to see Applejack floating in an empty space-like manner. A small glowing circle held its place just under her as if keeping her in place. The others were visible to her as well. They were in the exact same positions as they were in the library with a glowing circle under each of them.  They either looked nervous or scared…except Pinkie Pie who looked a little happy. Twilight frantically asked, “GIRLS! Are you all ok!?” Rarity tried to sound calm but failed miserable. “We’re fine but you were knocked out for a few minutes. We were all starting worry that you were…” “No I’m fine.” She responds back not wanting to hear what would come next.         Twilight noticed Fluttershy in a fetal position and Rainbow Dash trying, but failing, to console her. She seemed to be stuck in that circle as if a barrier was keeping her from moving. She looked down to see she also had a circle under her and seemed to float in mid-space, as if defying gravity. She stuck her hoof out and found an invisible barrier holding her in that spot as well. She was soon snapped back into reality. “TWILIGHT SNAP OUT OF IT! We need to figure out what to do!” AJ Successfully brought Twilight back to her senses. “Oh, right.” Twilight just now returning from her thoughts. “Um…well we need to get back to Equestria. One of these images must get us back somehow.” “At this point I’ll take any path that leads out of here. It’s a little creepy here.” Rarity interjected. “In that case what about that one?” They looked their pink friend who was pointing at a distant light. It was coming closer by the second. “Good enough for me. As long as we can get out of here so I can calm Fluttershy down.” “Ok but how do we move to it?” Applejack asks the group. “Just aim yourself forward towards it and you can enter.” Pinkie again put forth her knowledge.         Twilight had a lot of questions at Pinkie’s knowledge of this place but for now she just wanted to leave so she made a mental note to ask her later. Twilight aimed forward and stuck a hoof out as if she was flying. On instinct her wings opened as well. The others soon followed her motion. They seemed to be moving straight towards the light that was radiating up ahead. The images were rushing past even faster. Rainbow looked over to Fluttershy who slightly unrolled herself and looked forward, “Don’t worry Fluttershy we’re almost out of this, just hang on.” “I-I hope s-so…” Fluttershy said to herself more than anypony else.         The group sped up to the light somehow keeping their formation. As they seemingly flew faster the light came up to the group. They barley missed it as they took a sharp turn into the never ending bright glare of light. All six ponies felt blinded as a small chill came around them. A few seconds later they could feel solid ground under their hooves and didn’t hesitate to plant themselves fermly on it. The blinding light slowly faded to reveal a lightly dense forest the chill was felt a little more now. Fluttershy became less scared but still ran to her closest friend, wrapping her arms around the cyan mare. Rainbow Dash gave her a reassuring nuzzle which Fluttershy happily returned. The circles that held them in place were gone. The ponies gathered closer to try to figure out where they were now. Rainbow Dash, like the rest of her friends, were confused. “Are we…in the Everfree Forest?” “I don’t think so,” Fluttershy said with fear still in her voice, “I’ve never seen the forest with trees like these before.” “It looks more like White Tail Woods but at the same time it doesn’t.” Twilight observed. Rarity had to get her two bits in. “Well I say we find the nearest town or something. I don’t want to end up sleeping out here in the woods.” “That sounds good, we can’t very well establish a plan without some place to rest…or food for that matter.” Their lavender friend held her title of smartest and most reasonable of the group. To which they all agreed to. “So where do we start?” The country mare asks.         Something groaning could be heard not to far away. “I say we start with that.” Twilight said. “What is it?” Rainbow asked to nopony directly.         The groans could be heard again. This time it was clear somepony was in pain. “Oh no. What if some poor critter is hurt? We have to help it.” Fluttershy franticly ran to the sound. “Fluttershy wait,” Twilight turned to the other’s, “Lets go girls.”         The rest of the group followed close behind as they all came to the sight for a four limbed being on the ground. It was bleed profusely with a clear wound in it’s body. It looked as if an object was shoved into the creature but was no longer there. Multiple scratches, cuts, and bruises covered it’s mostly uncovered body. Some tan looking tough clothing covered some of it’s body, most of it on the lower half. The group was completely shocked and didn’t know what to do. The creature raised one of its limb’s to the group, its eyes half closed. It was weak but audible. “…help…me……please…”