The Elder Scrolls: The Dragonborn of Equestria

by Urimas Ebonheart

Chapter 18

My eyes slowly open to see Luna waiting for me, she's sitting by a small table with cushions around it while smiling. There's also cups on the table with some snacks.

"Greetings, Farengar. Please, have a seat." I smile back and sit across from her.

She takes a sip from her cup. "I have some news about those thugs you dealt with in Ponyville."

"Oh? Who were they?" I ask.

"They were part of a criminal organisation that only just started up in Equestria five months ago. We've caught a few of them before, but they all managed to kill themselves before we got any information from them." She sighs. "We have reason to believe they now know about you and what you did, I ask that you be careful, always keep your sword with you no matter what," she tells me with a worried look as she takes another sip from her cup.

I frown from the news. "Alright, good thing keeping my sword with me is a habit of mine." I lose the frown and smile at her.

I swear I thought I saw a faint blush on her face as she looks down to her cup.

"Also, I've started learning some spells from the magic book with Moonbeam," I say as I levitate a cup to my hand.

Luna's eyes widen as she sees this. "You've learnt levitation already? It takes even those who understand the basics of magic a good two or three weeks to learn it," she says and takes another sip of her drink.

I chuckle. "Then it will come to a surprise to learn that Moonbeam learnt it in just two hours?" I tell her. She sprays out her drink in surprise, fortunately away from me but makes me chuckle at that.

"She what? In just two hours?" I nodded and take a sip from my cup, it's a type of tea, I've never been a tea person. I get an idea and close my eyes.

I open my eyes to a mug of foaming mead on the table. My mouth waters slightly as I grab the mug and take a large mouthful, I gulp it down and sigh. It may not be real, but it tastes just the same, also means no drunken after effects either.

Luna looks at the drink with a raised eyebrow. "What is that?" she asks, I make another appear next to her.

"Nordic mead! Best mead in Tamriel, go ahead try some," I say and take another swig from my mug.

She levitates it to her lips and sips it, her eyes widen as a smile forms on her face, she then takes a massive gulp of it and coughs a bit.

"This is *cough* strong *cough*... but very nice." She takes another drink but more relaxed this time. "Reminds me of the griffins mead, only stronger," she tells me. I finish off my mug and place it on the table.

I pick up an apple and take a bite, Luna looks at me with a curious expression. "So what else is in this book of yours?" she asks.

Rather than tell her, I think of the book and it appears on the table, Luna smiles when she sees it and floats it up and opens it.

"Interesting... oh my... *gasp*... These are very different to how we do magic! I can see why now how Moonbeam managed to learn levitation so quickly, your methods are much easier to do than ours." She continues to read the book, after a few minutes a boulder appears to my left about ten metres away.

Luna's horn starts glowing and static starts forming around it, a second later she points her horn at the boulder and releases a bolt of pale almost white purple lightning at it. The bolt hits the boulder and shatters it to pieces.

Luna looks at the rocky remains with a stunned look. "By the stars, not even my lightning spell could cause that much damage." After a few seconds she looks back at me. "And this magic is common in your world?" she asks.

I simply shrug. "To be honest, I've been hit by that spell before... but you just did it three times stronger!" I say with a impressed look.

She smiles and blushes again. "Could... Could I come and visit you to learn some more of this magic?" she asks. I can see her eyes light up with excitement.

"Sure, I don't mind, I intend to learn more with Moonbeam at around six or seven in the evening everyday." She squeals and walks over and hugs me.

"I'll see you tomorrow then, I have to go and watch over the Dreamscape for nightmares." As she said that a red mist appears next to her, she waves her hoof causing it to open a window.

I can see Diamond Tiara running away from a dark shadowy version of myself dripping in blood while it's swinging a jagged and rusty looking sword at her, I start chuckling.

"And what's so funny about this?" Luna asks, not angrily but confused.

I settle down and look at her. "She hurt Moonbeam at school today, I guess this is her punishment for it." I start chuckling again as the shadow catches her and the dream fades away, probably woke up screaming.

"Well, mean or not, it's my job to stop all nightmares I come across." Then she sighs. "Though if what you say is true then she does deserve it, but why would she have a nightmare about you?" she asks.

"I picked her up by her tail and told her she'll regret hurting Moonbeam or anyone else again." I snicker as Luna shakes her head.

"Well please don't do it again, should you hurt her, not even I or Tia can keep you out of the dungeons." I sigh and nodded.

"Well then, I must be going now." She again kisses me on the cheek and fades away.

I'm going to have to remember to ask Twilight about this, I close my eyes and drift off into a dreamless sleep.

I wake up to the birds chirping, it's barely light outside, but I manage to get up and head for the bathroom.

I wash myself and clean my teeth, I notice my ring is still on and leave it there. I use the toilet then look in the mirror, my facial hair is getting longer. I have to admit, I look a bit tougher with it, and older too.

After I'm done I head downstairs and have breakfast, it's just some fruit and a glass of apple juice. I'm half-way through it when Moonbeam enters the kitchen yawning.

"Good morning, you washed already?" I ask her with a mouth full of banana.

She looks up at me and nodded, she's still looking half asleep. "Good mo *yawn* orning, daddy." I can't help the smile that forms on my lips.

"Well since I don't know how to make a proper lunch let alone dinner, how about we stop off at Sugarcube Corner to grab you something for school?" I ask her. She yawns again and nodded.

She grabs herself some food and eats it at the table, the time is about seven in the morning. Moonbeam starts school at nine, which leaves me an hour before my test, maybe I can visit Twilight during that time.

We both finish our breakfast and pack a bag with some fruit, a bottled drink and a daffodil and daisy sandwich, which Moonbeam made, then head into the living room. For the next hour we both practice levitating with another game of coin tag. After the giggling and fun, we both head upstairs and get ready for the day, it takes me ten minutes to get all my armour on.

Once the chest plate is strapped on, my new wings burst forth. I'll never get used to that feeling. I notice a slightly glowing sapphire in the centre of the chest plate as well as a few more gems in the other pieces of the armour, must be what's powering the enchantments. I strap on my sword and bow, I then pick up a pouch and place two-hundred bits in it.

I head downstairs and find Moonbeam waiting by the front door, her eyes go wide and her jaw drops when she sees me.

"Are... Are those wings?" she asks. I respond by kneeling down, extending one to her and tickle her with the left wing tip.

She tries swatting it away while giggling and after a few seconds I stop.

"Yes they are, it's an enchantment on my armour, allows me to fly for a whole minute," I tell her. I stand back up and open the door, we both leave and I lock the door.

If I thought the ponies were scared of me before, now they look terrified. My dragon like wings are slightly unfurled and armour lightly clanking as I walk through the town, that same blue stallion from yesterday instantly moves out of my way.

I arrive at Sugarcube Corner and enter, the smell of freshly baked goods floods my nose. I walk up to the counter to see a chubby light blue mare placing cupcakes into the glass display.

She sees Moonbeam through the glass and stands up looking over the counter, she then sees me and makes an 'eep' sound while flinching back a bit.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see you there deary. W-What can I get for you?" She clearly looks nervous.

"Hello, I'm Farengar, I'm here to buy a school lunch for Moonbeam here," I say and point to Moonbeam.

"Hello to you too, my name is Mrs. Cake. We don't make lunches I'm afraid, but you can buy some treats to add to one," she says looking less nervous. "What would you like?" she asks.

I look down to Moonbeam. "What do you want?" I ask her.

"Can I have a cupcake and a strawberry tart please?" she asks Mrs Cake.

"Very well deary, I'll be right back." She heads over to a shelf and places a tart in a bag, then a cupcake from the glass display as well. "That'll be eight bits dear," she says placing the bag on the counter.

I hand her the bits and take the bag. "I must say though, how you handled those thugs was a bit extreme, but thank you for saving Twist," she says. I give a sad smile.

"I had no choice, I had to kill them quickly so I could go help her. The longer the fight, the less time she had," I explain to her.

"I understand deary, and to be honest, I'm grateful you did. They said they'd hurt our foals if we didn't pay them for 'protection'," she says, making me frown. I did not realise the pain and fear they caused.

"Well, thank you, but I need to get her to school now, I'll stop by later for lunch," I reply.

She smiles back at me. "And I'll be looking forward to it." We say our goodbyes and head out.

We make it to the schoolhouse with no trouble. Diamond Tiara spots me and her eyes go wide, I'm guessing she remembers her nightmare. I smirk as I reach up for my sword and spread my wings, she sees this and runs screaming into the school. Moonbeam and I chuckle as the CMC walk up behind us.

"Howdy, Mister Farengar, Howdy Moonbeam," says Applebloom as all three walk up to Moonbeam.

"Good morning," I reply.

"Hello," Replies Moonbeam.

I pass her the bags with her lunch, which she takes with her levitation. Sweetie Belle gasps and gets right in her face.

"Yesterday you said you couldn't use magic!" she yells with a surprised tone.

Moonbeam steps back a bit. "Daddy taught me some yesterday," she says with a nervous smile.

Sweetie gasps. "You learnt magic in one evening? I've been trying to cast magic for over a year now!" She looks up at me with the most heart ripping pout I've ever seen.

"Can you teach me!?" she asks me.

"Depends. I don't have many spells that might be helpful to you. My magic is different than pony magic, it means you might have to give up on the more complex and possibly helpful spells that you ponies have, the spells I have are more combat based," I explain to her.

Her ears folded back with a look of defeat. "Don't feel too upset about it, it also means Moonbeam may never be able to learn pony magic now, she's learning a different method of casting spells, and as such pony magic might not make sense to her." I'm just guessing at this point.

"Okay, it's just taking too long," she says.

"Why not ask Twilight to teach you? She knows a lot about magic," I tell her. Her ears perk up a bit.

"I could do that," she replies, a bell is heard and the fillies all look to the school.

"Well, class is starting, see ya later, Farengar!" Scootaloo says, the CMC rush off to the school, Moonbeam then hugs my leg.

"I'll pick you up after school," I tell her. She nodded and heads off for class.

After she enters, I turn back to the town and head for Twilight's tree. Ten minutes later, I arrive at the library and knock on the door.

"Door's open!" Twilight calls out from inside, I enter and see her with a cup floating next to her.

"Oh good morning, Fare... Are those dragon wings!?" she blurts out, almost dropping her cup, I chuckle at her reaction.

"I think so, though I was told they'd be pegasus wings," I tell her. She walks around me and examines the wings.

Her horn then starts glowing, followed by a gasp. "It's a very strong enchantment, the only pony I know to be able to do this would be Arcane Charm in the R&D chambers or the Princesses!" she says.

"Good guess, but this is not why I'm here," I tell her. "I met Luna in the Dreamscape last night, and again before she left she kissed me on the cheek, is it just a friendly gesture or does it mean more?" I ask her.

Twilight's face turns a slightly deeper shade. "Well I did say I thought Luna liked you, but it looks like she's starting to feel something more for you." She places a hoof on her chin as she looks down. "I think it might have started when you saved her from being blasted by Queen Chrysalis, but I'm not sure."

So the Princess of the night has a crush on me, I'm not sure what to think of this, inter-racial relationships on Tamriel were common, I knew a bosmer who was married to a khajiit and an orc who married an breton.

"I'll worry about that later, though. I'll admit she's very interesting." But then, Maren's still waiting for me in Sovngarde, I wonder how she's doing right now.

"Well you better make your decision soon, your lack of interest might seem like rejection to her." I frown, I'm going to have to think hard about this.

"Well thanks for answering my question," I say. I turn to the door and open it.

"You're welcome! And just so you know, I think you'd make a cute couple. OH! And before I forget, can I come over to your house to study that magic book some more?" she asks. I chuckle at her excited tone.

"Sure, stop by at around six, that's when I'll be learning more with Moonbeam and even Luna." She squeals and starts jumping on the spot, I laugh as I leave and head for the Town Hall.

On the way I get less glares and more moving out of my way from the scared ponies. After a while I arrive at the Town Hall.

I spot Dash waiting for me at the door. "Hey big guy! So you ready to learn how to fly?" she asks with a grin.

"Sure, but first I have to take the guard test," I tell her. She nodded and we both enter.

The same mare from before, Skybloom if I remember her name correctly, is sitting behind the desk reading something. I walk over to her as my armour clanks along the way.

She looks up and screams from my appearance, she falls back off her cushion in her panic. Nightwing and the Mayor look out their doors at what the noise was, Dash is just laughing her ass off next to me.

"What's going on out here?..." asks the Mayor.

"It's the monster!" Skybloom says pointing at me, I roll my eyes and head towards Nightwing's door.

He opens it for me and I step through. "Sorry but you'll have to wait out there." Nightwing says as he looks at Rainbow and points to the waiting area, she groans and walks off. I stand in the middle of the room as Nightwing examines my armour.

"Impressive armour you got there." He then looks at my wings. "Are those wings functional?" he asks.

"I'm told so, but I haven't tried them yet," I reply.

"Alright, we'll worry about that later, right now though it's time for your tests, follow me." He leads me to a room downstairs underground. once inside, I can see a desk with a few cushions, some practice dummies, archery targets, and what looks to be like a painted circle on the floor.

Standing by the desk is Armoured Honour and a light greyish blue unicorn with a white mane and tail with a slightly grey streak going through it.

"Take a seat at the desk," Nightwing tells me.

I take a seat and cross my legs on a cushion. I then look at honour, he has a smirk on his face.

Nightwing sits behind the desk and looks at me. "Alright, first things first. What makes you want to be a guard?" he asks me.

"To protect those that can't protect themselves, to punish those that would harm an innocent, and to defend my homeland from any and all invaders, even at the cost of my own life," I reply, it's the same oath I made joining the Falkreath guards.

"Very good, now." He pulls out a form with a quill. "What's your full name?" he asks, quill at the ready.

"Farenger of the clan Battle-Blade," I answer.

"Age?"

"Twenty-five."

"Skills?"

"Greatsword, healing magic, bow and still learning other schools of magic."

He writes this all down and resumes. "Do you have any history with illnesses?"

"None that I can remember."

"Final question, how many years of combat experience do you have."

"Around six years."

"Okay then, now for your physical test." He gets up and heads to one of the practice dummies, I follow behind him along with the other two.

"I want you to hit this dummy with your hoof... er... fist?" I nodded and stand in front of it, I pull my arm back and punch.

My fist impacts the dummy with the force of a hammer and shatters the dummy's head in half.

"Impressive, now try kicking it," he tells me. I bring my right leg back and swing it at the dummy. It hits, but not as strong as the punch and only causes the dummy to wobble a bit.

"So your arms are stronger than your legs," he says and writes down some more.

"Last task, draw your weapon and attack the dummy." I do as he says and draw my sword, I swing from the right horizontally with as much strength as I can muster, the sword cleaves through the dummy splitting it in two.

Nightwing nodded. "Okay, next test. Magic." He pulls out a knife and cuts his own foreleg but not very deeply. "Heal this wound." He holds his blood dripping leg out.

I sheath my sword and place both hands on his leg and start healing. After ten seconds the wound is closed and not even a scar remains.

"Very good, we can always use a skilled healer... What other spells do you know?" he asks.

"I just learnt levitation yesterday," I tell him.

"Very well, follow me." He leads me to a set of ten weighted disks. "Lift these up, start with the lightest to the heaviest," he tells me.

"Okay," I reply. I hold out my left hand and focus on the small metal disk, my hand glows light blue and the disk floats up effortlessly. I continue lifting the disks until I get to the fifth one, I frown as I strain to lift it. I manage to get it off the ground for two seconds before I give out, causing it to thud on the floor.

"So fifty pounds is your limit for now." He writes it down. "How many objects can you lift at one time?"

"Not sure, I've only tried it on one object so far," I reply, he requests I try.

I focus on three of the light weights, I only manage to lift up one though. "Max objects levitated one." he mumbles as he writes.

"Alright, next test." He heads over to the archery range. "I want you to take five shots and try to hit the bullseye," he orders.

I draw my bow and five arrows, I line the arrows up on a rack next to the shooting line. My first shot hit five inches above the centre, the next three shots hit two, six and three and a half inches. I draw the last arrow and concentrate, I release and hit one inch away.

"Archery skills need work but other then that, not bad." I levitate the arrows back one by one.

"Okay, final test." We all head over to the painted circle on the floor. "Stamina and endurance, HONOUR!" he yells.

Honour steps forward and salutes. "Yes sir?"

"I want you to kick Farengar as hard as you can." I'm not going to like this.

Honour gives me a look that says 'sorry' and turns around, I brace myself for the hit, Honour bucks his legs back with great force hitting me in the gut causing me to slide back a few feet.

That didn't hurt as bad as I thought, it might leave a bruise but I'm not winded, this armour is tough, not even a scratch on it.

"That's some fine armour you got there, next is magical resistance, Thunderstrike! You're up." The unicorn steps forward and points his horn at me.

I cross my arms in front of my face and brace myself again.

I hear electricity crackle then the sound of a discharge. The magic hits my chest, causing me to tense up as the electricity courses through me.

After a few seconds I fall to a knee as the spell stops, I'm breathing heavily. "Not very resilient, okay next up, magical manipulation."

The unicorn lights his horn up and I start to tingle, my ring reacts and cancels out the spell. The unicorn blinks and tries again but with the same result.

"Good, you're immune to manipulation at least." He writes it all down as I catch my breath.

"Night... *cough*... Nightwing, that's because of my ring, it cancels out manipulation spells," I tell him as I fall on my ass and remove my helmet.

"Ah, okay then." He scribbles out something and adds another.

"Okay that's everything, report back same time tomorrow for my decision." I place a hand to my chest and heal myself from the shock I received, I put my helmet back on and stand up.

Honour leads me back to the lobby and smiles at me. "I'm sure you'll make the cut, you did better than even most of the royal guard recruits," he says.

I chuckle and pat his shoulder. "Thanks for the confidence... You busy today?" I ask.

"Hmmm, not really, I get off my shift at three, why?" he replies.

"Want to head out for a drink at three then?"

"Sure, sounds fun." I bump his hoof with my fist and he heads back in.

"About time!" Dash says as she trots over to me.

I chuckle and ruffle her mane up. "Sorry, had to go through a few tests, but I think I did good." I look over to Skybloom and grin causing her to 'Eep' and duck under her desk.

We both laugh and head out, Dash leads me to a empty park outside of town and faces me.

"So, you ready to learn from the best?" she asks, a smug grin on her face.

"I guess, so what do I do?" I reply.

"Alright, so first spread your wings out wide." I do so, she whistles and looks them over. "Those look soooo awesome! They remind me of Luna's night guard’s wings."

Huh, maybe that's why they look like this, Luna must of been the one who enchanted it.

"Okay, now lift them up and flap them down a few times like this." She demonstrates a few times, I try and lift off the ground by a foot.

"Good! Now let’s try a little harder this time!" She flaps her wings and takes off ten feet into the air.

"Right, I can do this!" I lift my wings, give a mighty flap and launch into the air.