> The Elder Scrolls: Equestria > by werebrony > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All was quiet, TOO quiet. You thought to yourself as you looked around the rolling hills around the city of Whiterun, the central trading hub of Skyrim. It was peaceful yet somehow disturbing actually. There were always a few caravans coming to sell their wares here but nothing. Not good sign since you heard from General Tullius the commander of the Imperial Legion in Skyrim gave you orders to look out for any Stormcloak activity in the area. Your mind wandered as you concentrated on your mission. "Report Officer Je'zra!" a female voice with alot of authority in it interupted your thoughts and you turned to see Legate Rikke stoding up to you on the wall of the city. She was Tullius's second in command and his eyes and ears on the battlefield. "Have you found anything?" she gives you a blank stare which you think is not nessasary. You turn toward the forest that leads to Riverwood. " Je'zra has not seen a single Stormcloak since the raid for the Jagged Crown, Rikke." you tell her with flat tone. You never liked enthusiasum when speaking because it always lead to conflict or confusion. You use your Thu'um, your dragonborn ability to use the dragon's voice, to "see" any living thing. you catch a glimpse of armour reflecting off the noon time sun from the treeline. You imagine it is a traveler but look again to see more coming from the treeline. you presume it was the reinforcements from Solitude but that request was only sent just a few hours ago and they would not be coming from that direction. Your mind reals in the new information and you come to one conclusion. "We are not alone" you tell Rikke and she looks troubled and begins to procces what is happening. The Stormcloaks are attacking Whiterun. "And guess who is leading them personally?" you smirk before telling her "Ulfric Stormcloak himself is leading this battle!" Indeed he was leading the charge but who was the cyriptic looking person beside him? The man beside Ulfric was very old looking. He may have been older than the Greybeards. Rikke was not fairing well. She looked pale as the number of bodies were pouring through the forest. There were hundreds of them, maybe a thousand warriors waiting to sack the city. "By the Eight!" she let out a quick gasp as catapults were brought out of the forest. "We need to send word to all garrisons within an hour's ride to assist us!" "Je'zra believes that Ulfric would have cut off all communications from us. We must fight or die trying." you were great at inspiring even the most cowardly of men and women into a fierce frenzing. You look at Rikke and all fear is gone and a fierce glare replaces it. "ARCHERS TO THE WALLS!" Rikke releases a fierce warcry and a chorus of voices joins in hers. You gaze at the old man beside Ulfric and shudder at what you see. You see the same energy and malice that Alduin emited before his demise. You don't believe he is back but all doubt is confirmed to what comes out of the ancient looking man's mouth "DOVAKIIN!" So it was true he has returned again. "I have come for YOU dovakiin!" he points a crooked finger towards you. "So much for a cap nap" you tell to no one in particular. In Equestria. Twilight Sparkle was reading the scrolls that Princess Celestia sent her from the ancient archives in Canterlot. She began to notive a particular prophecy that foretold of an ancient evil that will destroy the world unless help from an outsider is found. She did notice that the dragons were acting more aggresive after the changeling attack on Canterlot. She was debating wether the events were connected with the prophecy before Spike came in belching messages from Celestia. "Twi*hic*light. the Princess has been sending messages non*hic*stop. She really needs to see you and the other girls in Canter*hic*lot! "Alright Spike I'll go see the Princess I'll be back soon. Watch the shop for me while I see what she wants." She left the library and headed to tell the girls that the Princess needs to see them immediatly. As she closed the door she couldn't over hear Spike mumble on about how peachy this day was starting off and how he missed his date with scootaloo. Indeed this day was getting more and more strange. In Skyrim You looked deep inside yourself and concentrated of your next shout. "FAAS RU MAAR!" your booming voice echoed througt the battlefield. many of the stormcloaks turned tail and ran for the hills. It was an improvement but you still had to fight off the remaining soldiers that didn't run. The battle was only begining. Most of the archers took out the first wave of soldiers and the second wave. It was wave after wave and it seemed that the rebels had an unlimted supply of soldiers to fight you. You shrugged off the feeling and pulled out your dragonbone bow. Which so happend to be made from Alduin's own bones. You fire arrow after arrrow into the onslaught of rebels trying to storm the gate with little success. You then noticed the cryptic old man going over the dead corpses that were being brought back to their ranks. He goes over and you see his mouth move and the dead body jumping back to life. "Impossible!" you panic seeing this battle would never end until the city was taken. "Why did the Greybeards never teach Je'zra that shout?" An image of Cicero being alive again was enough to convince you otherwise. You take aim and Alduin and let the arrow fly toward his hooded head and hls body is engulled in a green fire and then nothing. He disappeared. The revived soldiers fall over after the power that brought them back is dead. You see the rebels retreat and Ulfric is shouting orders to regain command of his disfunctional army. You laugh in triumph before you are interupted from a rock launched by the enemy catapult. The blow would have killed you if not for your Dragonscale armour protecting you. You Fus Ro Dah the rock and hear the comfirmation of a crushed skull against a flying rock. "Now is the time to attack him and end this war for good"! you think to yoursel. You leap down to the ground and start a mad dash toward Ulric thirsting for his blood on your dragonbone blade. Before you get five feet from Ulfric, a portal envelopes you in a bluish aura and you find yourself infront of startled purple unicorn before you feel a blow to your head knock you out. Time for a cat nap. > Chapter Two: Bad Skooma > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equestria Celestial felt a disturbance in the cosmic universe. She feared that this day would never come but it has. Her thoughts are interrupted by the loud hinges of the large oak doors opening. She sees her student Twilight and the other Elements of Harmony walk in. Relieved she lets out some tension with a sigh. At least something was going according as planned. The six mares all bow before their ruler before Twilight speaks up. " Princess is something wrong? Is Discord awakening?" She looked a little fearful and curious. " Twilight have you found anything interesting regarding those archives I gave you?" Celestial held up an eyebrow. " Just this riddle When the Elements can not be wielded and the army of Evil is nearing. Look toward the return of the slayer of the Ancient Regal." she finished the riddle with silence following her. Everypony except Rainbow Dash was silent. " woah woah woah. Back up Twilight did you say the Elements of Harmony wouldfail? I don't believe it." Her smug looked impressed nopony. "Rainbow I am afraid that this all true." Celestial spoke up after Rainbow's outburst. " The Elements are powerful artifacts but can be beaten." Dash was silent for a moment to allow Celestial to continue. " Twilight did you learn that spell I sent in that recent message?" She nodded and and Celestia and Twilight began to channel both of their magic and create a portal to this new hero. Unfortunatly, what they got was a bloodthirsty rapid bipedal cat swinging a sword above its head. Sensing her friend and the Princess in danger Applejack leaps into action and bucks the crazed feline in the head. " Well ah take it you din't expect that ta happen now did ya?" Applejack looks over the moaning alien. "Let's get em' to tha hospital I might have bucked em' a lil too hard on the apple." "Why does Je'zra's feel like he had too much skooma last night?" you ask yourself. Your cognitive function is surprisingly working, you can see hear and smell but your arms seem to have tubes that supply body with some liquid of some sort. That and your arms are tied down. No worries a quick flick of the claw and thats one down. As you begin to work on the next strap you realize you are not alone in the white room and an annoying beeping sound close to you. You tense up and easedrop on the conversation. "Well Lets hope that he's alright. AJ may have caused some serious damage." " Like ah said before, ah was only lookin' out for mah freinds and the Princess." " Did you see that huge sword he was wielding! Soooooo cool!" " Oh please, he was such a barbarian wearing that ugly attire." " He was very scary the way he nearly hurt Twilight and the Princess. "LETS THROW A PARTY!!!" "Yeah right! I bet that Pussy Cat can't beat me!" That last line really ticked you off. "No one calls Je'zra a pussy cat and gets a way with it:" you think to yourself. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING A PUSSY CAT!" your shout vibrates with much force that you can hear it echoing throught the building. The screen preventing your feild of view from your insulters is drawn back and you believe that skooma was really doing its wonders. Standing next to your cot are 6 brightly colored horses. Two of them are unicorns another two are pegasi and the last two are regular horses. "Je'zra does not like what his last batch of skooma is doing to him but no matter." you talk aloud and the ponies are taken a back as you hold up your paws and channel a healing spell you came up with the counteract the side effects of your personal skooma. You cast the spell but nothing happens. Maybe you left the fire roaring at home? That usually is the cause but there is no fire only six concerned faces. The purple unicorn gives the blue colored pegasus an angry glare and what happens nexts freaks you out. "Way to go and make him angry Rainbow." Did that unicorn just talk? You come up with a crazy plan so risky it might work. " Tell Je'zra he is hallucinating." you ask to either of them in particular. The purple unicorn that spoke up before does it again. "No you are not hallucinating from your "skoomba" you are in Equestria and I am Twilight Sparkle and these are my freinds; Rarity."you recieve a well met curtsy from the white unicorn to the left. This is Applejack, "nice ta meet ya partnar and sorry about that nasy kick to the head ah gave ya." so this was the one that knocked you out. " Next we have..." the unicorn is interupted by the blue pegasus. "...Rainbow Dash fastest flyer in all of Equestria!" she pumps a hoof in the air to emphasize her claim. "Over there is Fluttershy" she indicates to the yellow pegasus in the back corner. "nd finally we have..." "HI IM PINKIE PIE!" a bubbly pink pony jumps up and down in front of you and begins to rant on all about the fun and freinds your going to have and make while you stay here. That's it you finaly added too much moon sugar to your skooma and are probally in some sort of coma.Your mind drifts to the possibility that you may never wake up in this sort of hellish nightmare. you begin to laugh hysterically and frighten the girls to no end. "HA! Mother was right! Je'zra has finally kicked the milk bucket! Oh mother dearest you were right!". This was going to be a very long day thought Twilight. Skyrim "Has anyone else see Officer Je'zra !" Rikke looked to the captured rebels for an answer and none showed any hint of talking. Rikke did not want to believe from her men that the dragonborn did magically vanish without a trace but she was a doubter. "How am I going to explain this to General Tullius when i have to report directly back to him at Castle Dour." she thought to herself. Meanwhile some of the soldiers were playing with the exploding bombs around the prisoners. "OI! stop that nonsense this instant!" Rikke's reply was that of a bomb exploding and someone shouting for the medic. "A long day indeed." she thought.