The Elder Scrolls: the Dragonborn of Equestria
Chapter 32
I draw my sword but it's instantly teleported out of my hands, my eyes widen as I look at my now empty hand.
"I'm afraid you can't use that sword," Luna says from the sidelines. "Moonsteel can cut through certain types of magical barriers, we're not going to take that chance here." With a flash, another sword is floating in front of her.
It's my old Dwarven Greatsword.
My jaw drops as tears form at the corner of my eyes, my old broken sword looks like it was never broken in the first place.
She levitates it over to me and I grab the grip with both hands, it feels just like it has for the last three and a half years. It feels lighter due to my gauntlets and a smile spreads on my face as I swing it around a few times.
The fire enchantment it had isn't there anymore, guess the damage it took was too much and it got dispelled.
I hear everyone gasp and mumble around me, I look to Honour and my eyes widen, his hooves are glowing and a Greatsword like the one I had before of his own is floating next to him.
I blink a few times and shake my head. "When did you learn to do that?" I ask.
He chuckles. "Actually, Moonbeam taught me while you were off to Mount Drakan and during the times I kept an eye on her," he replies.
Huh, well what do you know? Moonbeam might make a good teacher one day.
I get into a ready stance with my sword pointing behind me at the hip and he does the same. Mine and Honours swords glow a golden colour and we both glow a faint white, I guess that's the anti magic shield. After a few seconds, I rush forward and try uppercutting him but he jumps to my left and swings his sword back at me.
The hushed whispers and discussions of the ponies can be heard as we fight, I bring my sword back down and it stabs into the dirt, Honours sword clangs against mine but due to my sword being buried in the ground, it doesn't budge.
I pull my sword out and leap back, I can't use my Aedric Spear because I think it might go through the anti magic shield, I instead cast the Sun Fire spell with my left hand and fire off a fireball at Honour {80%}. He jumps to the right this time but the ball just singes the end of his tail.
The fireball hits the magic barrier encircling the ring and gets absorbed, Honour charges at me and spins around swinging his sword along with him, I flap my wings and jump over the blade.
I retract my wings and raise my sword above my head, on the way back down I swing the sword vertically at Honour, he raises his sword to a horizontal angle and spreads his legs to brace himself.
The swords clang loudly from the force, Honour does something I wasn't expecting, he keeps his sword raised so I couldn't move it down and rams head first into my gut. Sure, I'm armoured there, but it still knocked the wind out of my lungs.
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I'm sent back a metre and lose my grip on my sword, the blade bounces off Honours armour plated back and onto the floor next to him.
I recover and without any options left, I use the slow time shout, hoping it will give me a slight edge.
I inhale and shout. "Tiid Klo UL!" Once again an orb of white energy surrounds me {0%} as everything slows down, I burst forward with the greaves enchantment and get right in his face {80%}, he looks surprised which was amusing to see in slow motion.
Honour tries to uppercut me but I parry the blade by hitting my armoured left forearm against the side of the sword, deflecting it to the side. I then thrust my right arm and hit Honour on his left cheek causing his hooves to stop glowing.
His sword drops to the floor and I quickly pick up my one, I then grasp his throat and place the edge of the sword against it.
The Thu'um runs out and time returns to normal, Honour’s eyes widen and he’s breathing heavily as he looks like he has no idea what just happened.
Honour suddenly vanishes from my grasp. "That's enough! Farengar wins!" Hammer Strike calls out, I relax and look at my sword.
I spend a good minute just looking over the sword, it looks better than the day I first found it, the notches it had on the blade are gone, the blade itself looks like it was never even snapped and was polished to a shine.
I'm brought out of my thoughts by Luna's voice. "Farengar! Come on, they need to start the next match." I smile and sheath the sword, at least it fits in the scabbard.
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I walk out of the ring and over to Luna, I can see Honour surrounded by the other earth pony applicants and even Hammer Strike is asking him questions.
"How in Tartarus did you do that? I don't think I've ever heard of an earth pony using magic before! It shouldn't be possible!" Hammer asks flabbergasted.
Honour just scrunches his nose and looks at me, silently asking for my help. I sigh and give Luna a smile as I walk over to him, I notice Silver Spear giving Honour an angry look.
"It's Tamreielan magic," I tell them.
"Tamreielan magic? You mean your kind of magic?" Hammer asks.
"Yes," I reply.
"Can anypony learn it?"
"I guess so." I look to Honour and notice his cheek is swelling. "Honour, you might want to sort that out," I say pointing to his cheek, I smirk slightly knowing what he's going to do about it.
"Huh? Oh right." His hoof glows a light golden colour as he places it next to his cheek, the swelling starts to go down slowly and I look at the others, they're all just as flabbergasted as Hammer is now with wide eyes and hanging jaws.
After a minute, the swelling is gone and he looks good as new, Hammer shakes his head and asks me to talk in private.
We both walk away from everyone else, once far enough away he speaks up. "Will you be willing to teach us? To be honest, I've been jealous of unicorns and their magic, always felt like they had an advantage over us."
"Erm, sure. Nightwing suggested that I should teach the forces as well."
"Nightwing? How do you know him?" he asks.
"I went to live in Ponyville, but due to complications I came back to the castle. During my stay there I applied for the guard and he gave me some tests, it was his recommendation that I join the Elite Forces and teach my kind of magic here," I reply.
"Well, that would certainly be great for us, to be honest we're on bad terms with the diamond dogs at the moment and war could be just around the corner."
"War? What did they or you do?" I ask.
"We didn't start it if that's what you're asking, they trespassed onto our lands and started strip mining our gem and crystal deposits. We asked them to leave, but they didn’t listen, so we forced them to leave, at first we were nice about it, but then they started to get aggressive and fight back, we had no choice but to retaliate and blood has been spilled on both sides," he explains.
"So what's going on now then? Are they still trying to mine Equestrian resources?"
"Yes they are, but we've managed so far to chase them off without losing too much to them."
While we're talking, I can hear the combat exams continue on, I finish up my talk with Hammer and head back over to Luna, I arrive and look to the arena.
Silver Spear is now fighting against a pegasus, he's using an actual silver coloured spear while the pegasus mare has what looks like blades attached to her wings, both weapons are glowing gold as they circle each other.
Lightning Strike calls the start of the match and spear rushes forward, he thrusts at her which she avoids by quickly jumping to her left, Spear reacts quickly and swipes his spear horizontally at her, she tries to jump over it but the spear clips her legs causing her to spin out and land on her back.
Silver Spear swings the spear around his back with a fluid motion and ends up pointing the tip at her throat, the mare is teleported out of the ring as Spear spins his weapon a few times before placing it across his back.
He looks over to me and smirks as he exits the arena floor, I just raise an eyebrow as I watch him walk over to some other stallions, they look just as stuck up as he does.
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I turn to Luna with a smile. "So, how did you fix my old sword?" I ask her.
"Remember that we had Thunderfist's son make your armour?" I 'Uh-huh' and she continues. "Well, he got back two days ago to start working with the bones, I... kinda kept hold of the sword's tip and shards on the day it was broken, I then took the other half when you weren't looking and asked him if he could reforge it," she tells me.
I just raise an eyebrow at her with a slight smile. "He managed to finish it this morning, I just hope it's just like you remember it."
I draw the sword and really get a good look at it, it looks just like it did before but much sharper looking and at the base of the blade on each side is an insignia of some sort, it's a circle with two crossed hammers in the middle, I ask her what it's doing there.
"Oh, it's Hammerhoof's mark, he said he'd only repair it if he could place his mark proving it was his work that repaired and improved it, I hope you don't mind." Huh, while not happy it's there, I am happy the sword is back in one piece.
"Well, I have my sword back at least, I can live with it being there," I reply to her. Honour then walks over to us.
My stomach lets me know it's hungry by loudly rumbling, Luna giggles while Honour chuckles as I sheath my sword.
"So where do we get lunch?" I ask her as I notice the combat exams are over.
"In the Garrison Mess Hall, be warned, the food is not as good as the castle’s," she whispers the last part.
I chuckle. "I don't mind, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse..." My eyes widen after I said that and I place a hand over my mouth.
Everypony that heard looks horrified at me, I place my hands out and wave them in a 'wait don't take that seriously' gesture. "It's only an expression from my world, I wouldn't really eat a horse!" I say defending myself.
Luna looks more amused than insulted, I look to her and give a sheepish smile, she smiles as well while shaking her head.
"Come on you, before you make a foal of yourself any more," she says as she pushes me to the Garrison.
We enter to see it's sparsely decorated, banners with Celestia's and Luna's mark adorn the walls as well as weapon plaques and armour stands. Me, Luna, and Honour head through the halls and arrive at the mess hall, I see ponies sitting at the tables eating very sloppy looking food.
Honour and I walk over to the food counter and my eyes widen when I see who's cooking, a scruffy and quite buff looking tan unicorn with a cropped black mane and a rough looking beard looks over his shoulder, he bows to Luna then looks at us two.
"Ooo's dis den?" he says, wow, that's quite the accent he has.
"This is Farengar and Armoured Honour, they're here for the Elite Forces exams. Farenger, Honour, this is Sloppy Joe," Luna introduces us.
"Well? Wha ye be avin den?" he asks.
I look at what's behind the glass counter, it all looks very... greasy... I didn't think hay or daisy's could be that greasy, but there it is, I see why he's named Sloppy Joe.
I ask for the salmon with a salad and Honour gets a couple of hay burgers.
"Ere' ya go, jus soo ya knaw, ah don' serve seconds." He turns back to his stove and I take my food to an empty table with Honour.
I notice Luna has nothing. "You're not going to eat?" I ask her.
She looks a bit queasy then looks fine. "No thank you, I'd rather have a lunch that doesn't look like it's about to run off my plate," she says as she sits down next to me.
I chuckle and pick up a fork, I take a bite of the salmon and the next thing I know, I'm falling backwards and passing out.