Fluttershy eyelids rose from the deep slumber which they were originally positioned in. She rose up and placed her hand in something wet. She turned her head to the source and found a small clear puddle. She looked around and saw that she was mainly surrounded by darkness, she could only assume that she was in a cave of some sort. She arose to her hoofs but while doing so noticed small little stubs at the end of her hoofs. She moved over to the pool to look at her reflection in an attempt to see what she had been turned into. When she looked into the pool she noticed that her hair color had stayed the same however, she had now lost all pf her fur, she had pale skin and had large pointy ears. She gasped at the sight of what she had turned into. She moved down the cave silently in fear of what could be in the cave.

"Psst".

Fluttershy turned her head to the source find the source of the 'psst', but found nothing. She continued to walk on her four legs and move down the cave, slightly unnerved at what just happened.

"Psst, Fluttershy".

Fluttershy turned her head yet again and saw nothing. Fluttershy began to whimper silently. She tripped up on something while she was looking back to find the voice and fell into something sticky. She tried to get up only fall back in. She then tried trying to pull the sticky stuff only to get more tied up in it sending of vibrations. In her situation she then began to notice what it was and during her years as an animal caretaker she knew exactly what it was, giving her even more reason to to try and get out. She was stuck in a web. She began to her sounds of multiple legs walking against the ground. In time she could see a large figure moving closer to her, the figure moved closer until she could see it's eight eyes and legs clearly. It's pincers began to click together violently and it disappeared into the darkness.

'I don't want to die', Fluttershy thought.

*Shwiing*

Fluttershy's panicking was interrupted by the sound of metal hitting hitting the side of the web. Her webbed prison hit the ground and she noticed a blue crystalline sword cutting the webbing off of Fluttershy. She looked up to be greeted by something with a similar anatomy to her new form, but the main thing that stood out was the bright pink fluffy mane.

"HeyFluttershydidn'tyouheremewhenIwentpsstbutyouwentoffsomewhereelsesoIwentoffafteryoubutIsawyoutrappedinwebbingsoIdecidedtocutyououtbythewaywhenwe'relikethiswewalkontwolegsnotfour -"

Pinkie was interrupted by the familiar sound of eight legs patting against stone.

"IT'S BACK, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES", Pinkie yelled at the top of her lungs unintentionally alerting the spider.

Fluttershy and Pinkie ran down the cave as fast as they could with the frostbite spider not far behind, occasionally spitting a kind of venom at them. They ran and soon found two directions in the cave. Down the left path they saw another spider biting into something that looked bipedal and wore blue armor that looked as though it was made from the same material that the sword was made from. the new spider turned his head and revealed it's blood stained pincers and began to click them violently.

Fluttershy and Pinkie looked back down the path they came from and saw that the spider was catching up to them turning back to the other one, they saw the other one running towards them. They made a split second to take the right path and bolted down it, taking lefts and rights in order to find their way out of the cave until they reached a dead end. Both of them began to slam their fists against the wall violently yelling about "how this couldn't be happening". They looked downwards and saw marks that looked as though they had been dragged out from something, looking further to the left they saw a small hole in the cave wall small enough for them to fit through next to them.

They squeezed themselves through as quick as they could, hearing the sounds of the spiders approaching them. They crawled through as quick as they could and found their way out. They forced themselves out of the hole and quickly ran down the caves again. Running down they could not tell whether the sounds of spider legs hitting stone were real or not. Dismissing this they turned upwards and saw the very thing they were looking for. The way out.

They jolted to the light as fast as they could. Turning around they could see the spiders emerging from the darkness of the caves. They climbed as fast as they could upwards, with the two spiders not far behind. They emerged from the caves into a windy forest. They stumbled out of the cave, quickly regaining their balance. They let out a sigh of relief.

"He's gone", Fluttershy sighed.

Just after that, the blood stained spider jumped out of the cave and prepared to get it's next meal.

"You jinxed it", Pinkie yelled angrily, drawing the blue sword from its sheath

Just as the spider prepared to lunge down an arrow pierced one of the spiders pincers. The creature stumbled backwards and fell back into the cave landing on top of the other spider. Both girls turned around to see something similar to them but it however wore gold armor with daggers along the chest piece, a black cloak and a mask making them only able to see his eyes.

"Jee, thanks mis-"

Pinkie was cut of when their "savior" had pointed a black, double tipped arrow at Pinkie Pie.

"Were did you get that sword", the stranger asked, by the tone in his voice he was definitely male.

"I found it", Pinkie responded.

"Likely story", he said bitterly. "Allow me to get a better look at it".

Pinkie obediently gave the stranger the crystal blade, he then began to bring the sword close to his eyes and examined it, he removed his mask to prevent it from obscuring his view. The stranger had slightly tanned skin, a square chin and had a five o'clock shadow.

"Stalhrim, one handed blade. Made from stalhrim and leather", he muttered to himself. "This sword belonged to someone I knew, Almor Amaunde, a brute of a Breton, loved a good adventure adventure and enjoyed telling them to others. I forged this sword for him myself, as well as his armor".

Fluttershy recalled the moment in the cave where she saw the spider eating something wearing armor made from the same material. Fluttershy began to tear up at the thought of someone losing a close friend.

"I'm sorry", Fluttershy said sadly.

The cloaked soldier turned his head towards her.

"We saw him get eaten by one of the spiders", Fluttershy said quietly, small tears forming in her eyes. "I'm really sorry about your friend".

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Eldyn Amaunde, champion of High Rock in all his years had never seen someone show pity for him with the exception of his family and friends. Most things he learned in rise to become champion of Daggerfall was that it was every Breton for themselves.

"He wasn't my friend", he stammered before continuing. "He was my brother".

The woman's face saddened even more. Looking at this, he began to feel more conflicted about these two. On one side he wanted to leave them in the forest taking his brother's sword, on the other hand, she was the only stranger to show him complete sympathy.

'This woman was the only stranger to show complete kindness and what kind of a champion would I be if I didn't help them', he thought to himself. Coming to a decision he looked at the girls.

"There's a city not to far from here, I'll take you there", he said solemnly as the thought of his brother still remained in his mind.

He sheathed the stalhrim sword and place his Dwarven black bow of fate into it's holder.

"So what're your names", he asked.

The timid woman was about to open her mouth when her fluffy haired friend interrupted her.

"I'm Pinkie Pie but you can just call me Pinkie and this is Fluttershy what's your name", the bubbly woman said.

'Those are some weird names', he thought. "I'm Eldyn Amaunde".

"Um Eldyn", Fluttershy said quietly.

"Yes?"

"Thanks for helping us", She said politely.

"Your welcome", he responded.

"Also if you don't mind me asking, but where are we?", she asked.

"You're in High Rock, just a few miles from the city of Jehanna", he answered.

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Spike wondered tirelessly through halls of the dimly light underground castle. Tired, hungry and missing his friends.

'Now I really regret skipping out on breakfast', he thought

He turned around a corner to see one of the creepiest things he had ever seen in his life. A tall bipedal figure that looked as though it has had numerous pieces of flesh stitched together and had glowing purple lights coming from it's chest, head, forehoofs and legs on it was numerous symbols.

Spike shuffled back behind the corner hoping the creature didn't see him. Turning back he saw that the thing had not noticed him,he breathed a sigh of relief.

*Growl*

The sound of his stomach growling was enough to turn the creature's attention to the corner and looked very closely. After being unable to see anything it dismissed this and continued patrolling the hallway. spike continued his trek to find his way out of the ruin until he heard a voice shout.

"YOU MEET YOUR END MORTAL"

Spike turned to see a group of green monkey like creatures fighting large horned creatures wearing black armor. He watched in horror as each of the monkey like creatures were cut down by the armored ones. The very sight made Spike sick to his stomach. Spike prepared to leave when he heard a loud hoofstep coming from behind him. He turned to see an armored figure standing behind him. The figure raised what he could assume was it's hoof and brought it into his face and then darkness blurred his vision.

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