It was a cold and windy night in the city of Windhelm, as that was to be expected. All the animals had hidden any place they could and everybody had retired for the night. Barely a sound could be heard all except for the sound of the occasional guard patrolling the town. In that city was a house called Hjerim home of the Wolf-Blood family. Hjerim was a large house with seven rooms two bedrooms, a secret room, a kitchen, an alchemy laboratory, enchanting laboratory and an armory. Most of these rooms were empty all except for the living room which had two nord children a boy and a girl, the girl eleven and the other was eight and an old nord in his seventies sitting around a dimly lit fireplace, both of which wanting to hear one of their grandfather's stories form during his adventuring days.

"Grandad, can we here the one about the dragon lord again, please?" the boy asked his grandfather with puppy eyes.

"But we've heard that one already, can't we hear a new one?", the girl moaned.

"well children as much as I would like to say that there is one more, I regret to tell you that most of the stories that I remember, I have already told you. However", their grandfather paused remembering something from long ago.

"What is it grandad", the young boy said with excitement.

"There may be one that I haven't told you yet", he said with a smile on his face.

"What is it", his grandson said sitting up eagerly to hear what their grandad had to say.

"Have I told you the one were women from another world entered our own, and we teamed up in order to defeat an evil hellbent on returning to our own world", he said, sure that his children had not heard this story.

"Beings from another world, doesn't that sound a bit far fe-hmpph", she interrupted before having her younger brother stick his hand over her mouth, silencing her.

"Tell us the story grandad", his grandson asked eagerly.

"I guess I should start my story from the land where they come from, I believe they called the land, Equestria, but the story really starts in their hometown of Ponyville", he began.

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*forty one years ago*

"SPIKE, get me the eyepiece from my telescope"

"Twilight, are you sure you won't need that", Spike responded.

"I can go get a new one from the shops", Twilight answered.

Spike ran up the stairs to get the eyepiece from the telescope. He ran down the stairs as fast as he could and gave the eyepiece to Twilight, who added the eyepiece to the potion.

"Um twilight if you're making a spell, why are you making a potion", Spike asked.

"eureka" Twilight cried, a smile of joy quickly appeared on her face. "I've done it I have created the best astronomy spell yet".

"But you created a potion", Spike said confused.

"Quick, you must get our friends, they need to be here when the spell is created"

Spike quickly ran out of the library in order to gather their, friends. Seeking out each of their friends to allow them the chance to see the spell's creation.

"So Twilight what is it you wanted to see us about", her cow mare friend asked her.

"It better be important because If I don't go soon I'll miss the wonderbolt's performance", her rainbow maned friend moaned.

"Oh it is, you see I am on the breakthrough of creating a spell that will allow us to see other worlds and I wanted you guys to watch as I finished it", Twilight said sounding like a mad scientist.

"But you created a potion", Rainbow said confused.

"Rainbow darling, to create a spell one must first create a formula first then take a drop of the formula and drop it onto a page of the spell book", Rarity explained to her friends receiving mainly "oh"'s from her friends. "However this method has been known for going incredibly wrong, Twilight are you sure you know what you 're doing".

"Oh rarity, I'm Celestia's personal student, I think I know what I'm doing", Twilight assured her friend.

Twilight used her telekinesis to lift up the vial and placed it into the cauldron she was using to create the formula for the spell. she removed the vial and took out the blank spell book, slowly dropping a droplet of the formula onto the spell book. At first everything seemed fine, but then.

"What's happening" Twilight panicked.

The spell book began to shake violently, electricity bolts shooting off of it. The book shot open creating a portal as black as night, trying to suck every living being through it. Twilight grabbed on to her banister, Applejack grabbed onto one of the holes in the floorboards, Rarity grabbed onto Applejack, Pinkie brought out the party canon and both her and Fluttershy and her grabbed onto it. Rainbow Dash attempted to fly out of the window but the pressure yanked her back into the room leaving her with one option, to grab onto the window and Spike grabbed onto Twilight's hoof.

"Everypony, hang on" Twilight yelled to her friends.

Spike slowly began to feel his grip onto what he was holding slipping.

"TWILIGHT I'M SLIPEAAHH", Spike yelled as he was pulled through the portal.

"SPIKEY WIKIEY", Rarity yelled, letting go of Applejack in shock at the loss of her friend, and nearly went into the portal before Applejack grabbed onto her hand. After a few creeks the floorboard which Applejack was holding onto gave out under pressure and broke of, pulling Applejack and Rarity through the portal. Eventually the party submitted to the force of the portal and was pulled through along with Fluttershy and Pinkie who yelled "weeee" as she was pulled through. After a while Rainbow Dash who was putting up a good struggle was pulled through leaving Twilight alone with a portal that would not stop until she was pulled through. With one final pull Twilight was pulled through leaving an empty library, the book slammed shut, almost satisfied with what it had done.

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"Wow", the youngest of the two exclaimed.

"That's just dumb", the girl snapped abruptly.

"Continue the story Grandad", his grandson asked excitedly.

"And this is where our stories main character comes in, my brother", he continued.

"I'm going to bed", his granddaughter said rudely, getting out of her chair.

"Where were we, ah yes so there he was in the middle of the Pale", He continued as his granddaughter left the room and his grandson listened to the story.  

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Edwin Wolf-Blood or ice veins as his fellows called him, drew his ebony sword and struck down another Imperial and threw his dagger at another who was charging his position. He watched as the remaining imperials fled at what they witnessed. A lone Stormcloak defeating an entire camp and legate all by himself. He pulled out his amulet of Talos and thanked the nine for his victory. He went over to the Legate's tent and removed the miniature red flag from the map and replaced it with a blue flag to symbolize that the Stormcloaks now control this area in the Pale.

He drew out his horn and blew into it to let Stormcloaks nearby know of his victory here. He soon gathered what he needed from the camp and prepared to head off. Finding the nearby road and walking down it to return back to Windhelm. The cold didn't bother him, being raised in the north of Cyrodiil had it's benefits so as he walked down the road in the middle of the Pale, it only reminded him of home

Edwin was a nord warrior in his early thirties, he has dark black hair up to his shoulders like most of his family members and a beard, carries an ebony sword and an ebony dagger which he hides in his boot and wore his usual customized Stormcloak armor and warm blue cape with fur around the edges down to his knees with the Stormcloak symbol, iron gauntlets and leather boots.

He took the main road back to Windhelm, which he was following very well until a bright blue light from the forest to the left drew his attention.

"Damn mages", he said to himself before heading off to investigate the glow from the forest. He ventured deep into the forest, as he drew closer to the source of the light he heard the sound of two female voices until...

"AAAGGGGHHHH".

The sound of the scream immediately pick up his pace and run faster towards the light in order to find the cause of the scream.

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Twilight woke up in the middle of a snowy forest. She quickly regained her senses and her vision cleared up. A feeling of dread soon rose over her as, she had no idea where she was, she was in the middle of a forest, it was cold and she had no idea were her fri-

"Twilight is that you?"

Twilight turned around to see a tall bipedal figure standing behind her. The figure reminded her of a hairless ape, however there were features that defined it like, gold skin, green eyes, pointy ears and, wait, rainbow colored hair.

"Rainbow?" Twilight asked.

"Twilight it is you", her rainbow maned friend said to her relieved.

"Rainbow, what have you turned into?" she asked.

"I dunno, what have you turned into?", she asked.

Twilight raised her hoofs in front of her face to see that her hoofs had been replaced with little stumps. Twilight began to breathe deeply in terror at the abomination that she had become. Soon her became to great and she let out a scream louder then she had ever done before.

"AAAGGGGHHHH"

"Sweet Celestia, calm down twilight", Rainbow said irritated at the noise.

"Calm down, calm down, our species has changed and your telling me to calm down", She panicked.

While she ranted she failed to notice a blue armored figure run up behind a tree

"STOP RIGHT THERE".

They turned around to be greeted by a bipedal figure wearing blue armor holding a dark grey sword, and by the look on it's face it wasn't happy to see them.

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A few miles North of their position, a group of cultists upon undead horses waited for their scout to return impatiently. The cold was something they wanted to get out of soon. The leader of their group was a great orc, he had dark green skin and red hair with sideburns. He wore the same armor as Tsun and the shoulder pieces of ancient nordic armor and used an orcish sword. His name was one that struck fear into the hearts of his opponents, mainly because he used the name when he fought in the Imperial arena (and won seven times in a row), Garzug Arsh Kritug. His leftenant was a dark elf by the name of Zenieth. Zenieth had long black hair the went down to his shoulders and had a white tribunal tattoo on his forhead. He wore light Chitn armor and used an Elven dagger and a glass axe.

"Sir, pardon the interruption but", Zenieth paused for a second as his master turned to him with an angered expression.

"You distracted me from my thoughts", he responded with a deep voice.

"Sorry sir, but the others are growing impatient, they want us to -"

"I don't care for the others opinions, You should consider yourself lucky I'm not the supreme master or you would surely have your head would be lying on the floor with him raising your headless body to fight for him", Garzug snapped.

"Yes sir", Zenieth obeyed.

Garzug continued pondering within his thoughts leaving little sound but the wind blowing and the occasional horse stomping it's hoof restlessly.

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