Ch.02 “The Dragon Awakens”
As the sun lazily climbed over the horizon the dragonborn’s eyes slowly slid open and he rolled out of bed. Nurse Redheart who had been keeping watch trotted up to him with a smile on her face. Had anyone been observing they would have seen her trot in place as she came to a halt near him before stopping completely.
“Glad to see you are awake. Your clothes are in the dresser next to you and I will be off to fetch the princesses. Stay put.”
After flickering in and out of existence for a moment Nurse Redheart trotted off to grab the royals. To the Dovahkiin this was nothing new. He did have some problems with his homicidal cat Karjo after all. As he turned to the side of his bed he did in fact see a wooden dresser. The prompt of ‘Search Dresser’ popped up as well as an X in a circle appeared. Again business as usual. The dresser opened up without him touching it and a box appeared. The box in his vision told him there where three bits, a clothes iron, and blue fine clothes and fine boots lay inside. The Dovahkiin grabbed these with the exception of the iron and closed the dresser.
As he started to look around the rather bland room Twilight and company started to walk in, that is until everybody froze in place and mid conversation except for Twilight. She could only look at her friends in confustion. Figuring this must be the cause of a powerful sorcerer she immediately looked to her ‘guest’. What she saw only served to confuse her though. In front of his face was a compass of sorts. The top needle read “Skills”. The bottom read “Map”. The left and right respectively read as “Magic” and “Items”. The needle reading map glowed before the compass disappeared and a map of Equestria replaced it. The man wasn’t even holding it. It was simply floating in front of his face. The only thing on the map was an image of Twilight’s cutie mark and the text ‘Ponyville’. A second later the map disappeared and the compass was back. The items needle glowed and a large black box appeared. In it where the words “apparel” and “misc”. Apparel glowed and another box slid open. Arrows now appeared around fine clothes and fine boots. The boxes disappeared and Twilight saw the man was now magically in the clothes. The compass disappeared and life seemed to resume again. Twilight could only sit there mentally broken as her jaw hung lazily open.
Twilight now was the one frozen in place as her friends continued to walk forward unaware of what just transpired. As Pinkie Pie started hopping by humming to herself Twilight’s hoof shot out grabbing her and pulling her close.
“Please tell me you of all ponies saw that.”
“Saw what Twi? I was just hopping and humming like usual.”
With that the pink party pony resumed her hopping and humming. There was now a visible twitch to Twilight’s eye and a single hair in her mane sprung up. Celestia continued to trot up to the man and had the same exact problem Nurse Redheart had. She trotted in place, flickered in and out of existence, and stopped. The princess gave a bow of her head and the dragonborn rather creepily turned to the princess as if drawn to her as she addressed him. Her name mysteriously appeared between them as well as an arrow pointing to a parallel line. Twilight had a feeling another box would appear there. And as before no one noted the odd behavior. Twilight also noted with mild horror that whenever one of her friends trotted within a certain proximity of Celestia that the princesses head would twist in their direction at an odd angle but would still be continuing her talk with the dragonborn as if nothing was wrong despite her head being at an odd and unnatural angle.
Twilight fought the urdge to simply crawl into the nearest corner and rock back and forth clutching her Smarty Pants doll.
“Greetings, I am Princess Celestia of Equestria. Who may I ask are you?”
As Twilight predicted a box appeared and three lines of text also appeared.
‘I am Dragonborn.’
‘What is Equestria?’
‘Where in Tamriel am I?’
Another arrow appeared and started moving around the selections, until the ‘Where in Tamriel am I?’ selection went from white to a dark grey. Twilight could only assume that was what he intended to say, but nothing was spoken. Celestia’s brow furrowed and Twilight only could hope that she wasn’t hearing voices in her head now. But it seemed the fates gave Twilight a massive middle finger and a royal buck you, as all of her friends began asking what Tamriel was. Twilight was now resisting the urge to smash her face into the wall repeatedly.
“I’m afraid I don’t know what Tamriel is. You emerged from a portal along with eight others of your look and a large black dragon.”
Again more options appeared.
‘Alduin is here!?’
‘Those wheren’t humans, they are undead.’
The selection ‘Alduin is here!?’ went dark and Celestia stepped back as if she was just yelled at.
“Who is Alduin?”
This time only one selection appeared.
‘Alduin is an ancient dragon, who seeks to rule all of Skyrim as he did 4000 years ago.’
Celestia closed her eyes and nodded as if a fear of her’s was confirmed.
“I didn’t get a good vibe from that portal. And of the other eight?”
‘They are undead sorcerers. They were dragon priests of old who served their dragon masters and ruled over Tamriel.’
Celestia shook her head and sighed. This day was just getting worse and worse.
“And you? Are you friend or foe?”
‘Friend.’
That got a small smile out of the princess. If they had to face yet another terrible creature they might as well as have a new ally at the same time.
“Ah yes that reminds me. We found some articles of clothing on you that you might want back. Now you may take one of the four but we would like to keep the others for study, after all they do have fascinating enchantments on them.”
The dragonborn looked down and saw his garments. One was Miraak’s helmet and robes, along with his weapons. Another was his Dark Brotherhood clothes along with his Ebony Dagger. The Third was his Nightingale armor and blade. Finally was his classic iron armor.
To be continued