The Elder Scrolls: the Dragonborn of Equestria
Chapter 12
I awaken to the sound of a loud whistle and the hissing of steam, my eyes slowly open to see Twilight looking to me with a look of concern.
"Are you alright? You were mumbling in your sleep, something about 'not again'," she asks with worry. Once again I remember everything that happened in the Dreamscape.
"I'm fine, just a bad dream," I reply. I look down and see Moonbeam starting to stir.
She looks up as she yawns, still holding on to her bear. "Where are we?" she asks groggily.
Twilight stands up and starts levitating my stuff down. "We've arrived in Ponyville. It's getting late so we’re going to my place for the night," Twilight replies. Before I could take my belongings, she floats it along with hers and she heads for the door.
I shrug as I pick up Moonbeam and head for the door as well.
Once outside I look around, the place looks a lot different than Canterlot. It looks kinda like Helgen with all the thatched buildings with wooden support beams, just a lot more brighter.
Twilight turns to me as I carry a still yawning Moonbeam under my arm. "Welcome to Ponyville!" she says in a happy tone, her right foreleg pointing to the town.
"Next train leaves in ten minutes to Appleloosa!" shouts a pony with a uniform on.
"I live in the south side of town," she says with a smile and starts walking, or is it trotting? I lift Moonbeam so she's sitting on my left shoulder. She giggles and starts looking around, seems like she doesn't remember her nightmare.
We're walking through town as the ponies around us stop and stare at me, not surprising since they've most likely never seen anything like me before, or the fact I have a large sword on me.
After about ten minutes, we reach what looks like a market area with ponies starting to close their stalls. There's a tall cylindrical building in the middle of the place with flags on the roof.
"There's the Ponyville market," Twilight says and points to a stream. I can see many tents and stands on the other side. "The tall building is the Town Hall, we'll head there tomorrow so you can inquire about a house," she informs me, it also means I know where to hand in the adoption papers now.
"Alright, so which way to your place?" I ask looking around the town as I yawn, I notice a building with what looks to be a strange hat as it's roof with bells hanging from it.
Shaking my head from the odd looking building, Twilight leads us through an archway connecting two buildings together, the ponies I pass are still giving me odd looks, that is until I hear three different screams.
"EVERYPONY RUN! A MONSTER HAS COME FROM THE FOREST!" My eyes widen as my right hand grabs the grip of my sword... but then I notice the three ponies running away from me.
I let go of the grip and look at Twilight. "Did they mean me?" I ask her, Moonbeam's hiding a giggle behind her hoof.
Twilight looks up at me with an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry about that. They run the local flower store, I'm afraid they're very easy to spook." I look back to see them turn a corner still screaming.
"Okay... So how much further till we get there?" I ask as we continue walking.
She stops and points to a large tree. "We're here," she says. I look at the tree then back to her, my expression giving off the word 'seriously?'.
"What?" she asks. I just shrug which makes Moonbeam bounce on my shoulder. I set her down and we all walk to the tree. I notice some balconies on the branches, looks like something a bosmer would live in.
Her horn glows as the door opens and we all walk in, I have to duck under the low doorway. I stop at what I see, shelves upon shelves of books, I turn to Twilight again with another 'seriously?' look.
"What?" she asks again, this time sounding a bit more annoyed.
I see she really likes to read and learn, if it's any indication of the times she's asked me questions. "Nothing," I reply.
She just rolls her eyes and walks to the stairs. "Come on you two, I'll show you to your beds." We make our way to the stairs and I can hear a sweeping sound to my left, I look to an open door and see a small purple and green lizard holding a broom and sweeping the floor. It kinda reminds me of an argonian... a really short one.
I follow Twilight up to the top, Moonbeam close behind me. I can see two beds, one with a blue sheet with stars on it, the other with plain white sheets.
"The white bed is yours, Farengar. I'm afraid I only have the one spare bed, Moonbeam you'll have to share mine," Twilight says. Moonbeam looks up to me and I nodded to her, she looks a bit sad at that but nodded in return. Twilight places my stuff and sword next to the bed.
"Perfect, now let’s head back down for dinner, I'm starving!" she says. My stomach growls in response.
Twilight chuckles as we all head back down. When I reach the bottom, the small purple lizard is sweeping the main room floor, it stops and looks up at me. Instantly its eyes fly wide open, they have a look of complete terror and fear.
He starts backing away slowly, holding his broom up pointing it at me while shaking violently. Twilight notices his sudden change in behaviour and walks over to him.
"Spike what's wrong?" she asks, a worried expression on her face as she looks between me and Spike.
"I-I don't know, but s-something about h-him feels w-wrong to me." I raise an eyebrow at him, this must be the dragon Twilight mentioned.
I'm not sure why he's scared of me, I look back to Twilight for an answer.
"I don't feel anything wrong about him, sure he looks scary," she says.
"Hey!" I reply with a mock frown and smirk.
Twilight smiles and continues. "But he's a nice guy, he saved the Princesses and Canterlot from the changelings." Spike looks back and forth between me and her, Moonbeam just looks confused.
Spike looks like he's calming down but still looks a bit scared. "Oh, Farengar. This is Spike, my number one assistant. Spike, this is Farengar, remember? I told you about him when I came back for those items." Once again Spike looks like he was calming down.
With a bit of hesitation he walks over to me and looks up, I kneel down so I'm more to his height. I extend my hand and he flinches slightly, after a few seconds he takes my hand with his and we shake.
"Greetings, I'm sorry if I scared you," I tell him, he lets go after a few shakes.
"I-It's alright. I don't know what came over me, I had a feeling that you were gonna take my soul or something," he says. I then remember the legends about the Dragonborn my father told me about. The Dragonborn was able to absorb the soul or life energy of a dragon to make him or herself stronger.
That's probably why he started to panic, maybe dragons can sense a Dragonborn? I mentally shrug off these thoughts for later.
Twilight then replies. "Don't be silly spike, he can’t take your soul," she assures him.
I chuckle nervously at that, Moonbeam then walks up to Spike and stares at him. "I've never met a dragon before," she says.
Twilight then speaks up. "Ah yes. Spike, this is Moonbeam. Farengar will be looking after her, they'll also be staying with us tonight," she explains.
"Huh, okay then," he replies, Twilight looks around and notices a few books lying around.
"Oh by the way spike, if you finish your chores before bed time, I'll let you pick a gem to snack on." His eyes light up as he salutes and runs off back into the other room.
"He can eats gems?" I ask her, she smiles and nods.
"Yes, dragons are able to digest gemstones and basalt, it helps them to generate fire within them," she explains to me.
I raise an eyebrow. "Hmmmm strange, don't remember anything about that from what I read about dragons," I reply.
"Not many do, I had to learn it to help keep him healthy," she tells me.
I look to her confused. "I thought dragons would be carnivorous?" I ask her.
"Oh they can be, but meat just helps them grow bigger. In about twenty years, he should grow to be as big as you and then no further, though he does get fish sometimes," she replies.
"Huh." Spike walks back in announcing that dinner was ready.
We all step into the smell of something good, Looks like a large pie. Twilight floats a knife over to her and starts cutting it into eight pieces, she then levitates each of us two slices on some plates. After that she gives me and Spike a fork and Moonbeam a fork with a bracelet of some sort attached to it, she also floats over four glasses of dark purple liquid.
After Moonbeam clips it onto her hoof, we all start eating our food, and I have to say, best damn pie I've ever had. It was an apple pie and it was very good. I finish off my meal and pick up my drink, I take a sniff and a sip. 'tastes like grapes,' I think to myself as I down the rest.
Once everyone was done, I feel my stomach gurgle a bit then followed by a loud rumbling belch. I just smile while Spike is chuckling, Twilight just gives me an unamused look while Moonbeam snorts while she was taking a drink from her glass, which makes spike go into a laughing fit.
After he calms down the sun is gone and the moon can be seen rising, the dishes are washed and Spike finished his chores.
Twilight pulls out a small sack of gems from a cabinet above the sink, I ask to look at them and she floats the bag to me. The gems inside don't look that special, I see many flaws in them.
"These don't look very nice," I mutter. "Twilight, you mind if I give Spike one of my gems? Maybe it will help him warm up to me?" I smile as she thinks, she agrees only if I take some of these gems as a trade.
I agree and ask her what his favourite kind is, she tells me it's rubies. I head upstairs to my case and take out one of the rubies. After retrieving it, I head back down and see Spike sitting on the couch with Twilight.
"Here you go, Spike," I say as I toss him the ruby, he catches it and stares at it wide eyed. Drool starts flowing down his chin as he takes a lick of it, he must of liked it since he shoved the whole thing in his mouth and started to suck and chew on it.
"Oh man, this is gooood," he says slightly slurred with the gem in his mouth and a dreamy expression. Twilight giggles and leads us all upstairs.
As Spike goes to his bed, he calls out to me. "Thanks for the gem, Farenger, and sorry about how I reacted." I smile and kneel down and pat his shoulder.
"No problem," I reply and head over to my bed. I remove my shirt, now noticing a hole with blood staining around it, I smirk as I and no one else has to deal with that royal pain again, I hear the others gasp as they see my scars.
"Dude... what happened to you?" Spike asks, Twilight just has a look of mild horror as Moonbeam just stares at me with wide eyes.
I look down at my new additions, a circle of burned and discoloured skin in the centre of my chest as well as on my right hip, along with a small scar from where Blueblood stabbed me. I look back to Spike as I put on another shirt.
"I'll tell you another time." He nodded and goes back to his gem.
I walk over to a door that leads to a balcony and step outside. I grip the low handrails and look towards the rising moon.
"You okay?" Twilight asks as she stands next to me.
I take a deep breath and exhale. "Yeah, just taking in everything that's happened so far," I tell her, and to think, this all started from a simple job.
"Well, I'm glad that what ever brought you here did. Because if it wasn't for you, we'd all be dead or as food for the changelings right now." She pauses and looks up at me. "I know I've said this already, but thank you for saving us." She smiles as I look down at her.
I ruffle up her mane and she giggles. "You're welcome," I reply. With one last look at the moon I head back in.
I slip under the covers but my feet hang over the edge at the bottom, the bed is a bit too small for me, but I still manage to fall asleep.
Dreamscape
I find myself in the white void once again with Luna sitting next to Celestia.
"Ah there you are, Luna has told me what has happened, and since she could not see this Akatosh herself, would you allow us to see your memory of him?" Celestia asks, I nodded and think of the event, a golden door with a black border appears and they enter.
I waited outside for them, Celestia returns with the same look Luna had after I used the shout. They both turn to me and after a few seconds speak.
"T-That was one of your Divines?" Luna asks.
"Yes, that was Akatosh, Dragon God of Time. It's said that he created the dragons, but other than that I don't know much else," I reply.
Celestia now speaks up. "So you're this 'Dragonborn' he spoke of?" she asks. I just nodded and shrug.
"And just what is the purpose of a Dragonborn?" she asks.
"Well according to history and legends, the Dragonborn only shows up when a great crisis or threat appears, well that's what my father told me at least," I tell her. I don't know for sure if that's true or not.
Luna hums in thought for a second. "So what is a Dragonborn fully capable of?" Luna inquires.
I sigh and reply. "I'm not entirely sure, legends say he or she is able to take the soul or power from a slain dragon to strengthen themselves. They're also able to use the dragon thu'um or language to cause an effect without any training, as you saw." I'm not sure if they're intrigued or terrified by this news, they spend a few minutes talking to each other.
Celestia then turns to me. "So you're saying you have these abilities now?" she asks in a very serious tone and a neutral expression.
I flinch back a bit, not expecting the sudden shift in her behaviour. "Maybe? As I said I'm not entirely sure, the last Dragonborn was said to be Tiber Septim two eras ago." Luna looked confused.
"Eras? How long is one of your eras?" she asks.
"The second era ended about two-thousand years ago," I reply
"What was the date of your world when you got here?" Celestia asks.
"Errr, I think fourth era, third century, year two-hundred and one." I tell her. I was never that good with remembering what date or even day it was.
Once again they converse with each other and I just sit there waiting. After six minutes of discussion they turn back to me.
"If this is all true, then the warning this Akatosh gave you explains why a Dragonborn would be here." Celestia raises her hoof to her chin.
"I'll have to send a letter to the Dragon Council and see if they know anything about this Alduin." She nodded to me and Luna before fading away, I turn to Luna who looks slightly troubled.
"You alright?" I ask her.
"Hmmm? Oh yes, I'm fine. Just thinking about what's to come," she replies. I stand up and walk over to Luna and place a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sure things will turn out fine," I tell her.
She looks up to me and smiles. "Maybe, we've had our share of villains before and we came out victorious." She then leans up and kisses my cheek again. "Pleasant dreams, Farengar," she says before fading away.
Once again I'm dumbstruck as she kissed me. I'm still unsure of what to make of this, perhaps I should ask Twilight what it means in the morning, but then Twilight’s words come to mind 'Oh nothing, I just think Luna likes you.' I shake my head and sit down.
I close my eyes and drift off, unfortunately, I fall into a dream of one of my worst memories.