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The Elder Scrolls: The Dragonborn of Equestria

by Urimas Ebonheart

Chapter 16: Chapter 15

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The Elder Scrolls: The Dragonborn of Equestria
Chapter 15

"LOOK OUT BELOW!" I open my eyes to see a blue blur with a rainbow trail spiralling straight for me.

I react quickly as I drop my bags and throw my arms wide open, I plant my right foot behind me and my left in front, I bend my knees ready to absorb the impact.

A second later it hits me like a minotaur and I wrap my arms around it as I slide back a good five feet. The wind gets knocked out of me as I fall to my knee, I'm sure I heard someone say 'Wow'. After a few seconds to catch my breath I look at what I caught.

I then raise an eyebrow. "Rainbow Dash?" She's curled up into a ball in my arms, her head pokes out from under her forelegs and opens an eye.

"Farengar?" She looks at how I'm holding her and pushes me away. "Err, thanks for catching me. Though I had it all under control!" she says hovering in place.

"Uh huh," I reply as I stand back up. "What happened?" I ask her.

"Oh, I was trying out a new stunt, but I caught my wing on a cloud and lost it there." She looks away with a frown. "So..." She looks back to me and smiles. "What you up to?" she asks.

"Oh not much, got some food and supplies for our new house," I say and pick up my bags, she notices two objects poking out from my hips.

"Why'd you get a bow and knife?" she asks with a raise brow and tilted head.

"Hmmm? Oh, it's so I can be ready for any situation," I answer. "Though I'm not that good with a bow, but some practice will sort that out."

"Okay, well I gotta get back to practising myself, see ya! OH! Also, thanks for saving scoots and the others! You'll have to tell me what happened sometime." And with that she flies off over the town, I'm guessing this scoots is one of those three fillies.

Moonbeam and I head back to our house, along the way we pass a light brown earth pony stallion with a slicked back black mane and tail, he has blue eyes and a mark of three bags with a bit symbol on them. He's also wearing some form of collar with a red thin piece of cloth hanging from it also with a bit symbol.

Next to him is a little pink filly with a light purple mane and tail with a white stripe through it, she has azure eyes and a mark of a tiara.

As I pass him he gives me a disgusted look, I just raise an eyebrow at him, he scoffs and continues onward.

The filly looks at Moonbeam with a mean grin which causes her to hide behind my leg, I sigh, even in a nice little town like this there are those who think they're better than everyone else.

Ignoring them, we make it back home and unlock the door. Once inside I pack everything away with Moonbeams help.

I head up stairs, refill my bit pouch with two-hundred bits and head back down. "Right, now that that's done, let's head over to the schoolhouse," I say to Moonbeam. She says okay and we head back out, after locking the door we head back into town.

I ask for directions from a yellow-green mare with a two-toned orange curly mane and tail with green eyes.

She points to the west saying it's near the edge of town, I thank her and move on. I have to admit, this town has a really calm atmosphere to it, after a nine minute walk we arrive to a small building.

I just stare at it, looks like a small colourful wooden temple to a divine than a schoolhouse, also there are a lot of hearts on it.

Shrugging it off, I head to the door. I open it to find myself in a small room with lots of desks and in the middle, windows lined the walls with green curtains, books and other objects cover the side counters next to the walls, a big black board with a green frame hangs on the back wall with a large desk in front of it.

Sitting at the desk is a dark fuschia mare with a two-toned pink mane and tail, her eyes are a light faded green and her mark is three smiling daisies.

She looks up from the sound of the closing door, her eyes widen when she spots me.

"Oh, hello. Can I help you?" she asks, a slight nervousness in her tone, probably due to the weapons I'm carrying.

I walk up to her with Moonbeam and use a desk to sit on. "Greetings, my name is Farengar, and this is Moonbeam." I pat Moonbeam on the head. "We just moved here yesterday, I'd like to enrol her in this school," I tell the mare. She looks from Moonbeam to me.

"Well it's nice to meet you. My name is Cheerilee, are you the parent or guardian of her?" she asks, Moonbeam wanders off looking around the room.

I give a sad smile. "Guardian yes, I adopted her when she lost her parents in the Canterlot invasion," I say making sure Moonbeam could not hear me.

"Oh my, well I do hope things will get better for her, but as to attending this school, I'd be more than happy to teach her," Cheerilee says with a smile.

"Great, when can she start?" I ask and look back to Moonbeam and see her playing with a globe.

"Tomorrow morning at nine am, does she have her own school supplies?" she asks, I close my eyes and groan. I forgot about that.

"Don't worry, here's a list of what she'll need and where to get them." She passes me a sheet of paper with a list of supplies: pencils, ink and quills, notebooks, stationery... whatever that is and saddlebags to carry them in. Definitely different from how schools in Skyrim are.

"Thank you, I'll go get these now then, it was a pleasure meeting you," I say to her. I stand up and call Moonbeam over.

"Likewise, please do visit again." She smiles and goes back to signing papers.

We both leave and head to the shop on the list, another nine minutes and we're back in the town square. I look around for a store called 'School day supplies'. After a minute of looking, I find it.

The roof looks like an open book with the pages facing down, the building frame work looks like what Moonbeam described as rulers, the window frames look like pencils.

We both enter and look around. There's shelves of paper, books and other utensils. Behind the counter is an elderly cream coloured mare with a white mane and tail tied up into a bun.

"Hello dearies, how may I help you?" she says. I smile from the kindness I feel coming from her.

"Greetings, I'm looking for school supplies for Moonbeam here," I tell her. She chuckles.

"Well you're in the right place sonny, you looking for certain items or the full package?" she asks.

"Erm, full package I guess?" She smiles and walks off to a backroom, a few minutes later she returns.

"Here you go dear, one night sky saddlebag, three notebooks, five pencils, three quills, an inkwell, a sharpener, a ruler, an eraser, and one abacus." The saddle bag is a night blue almost black colour with small dots as stars and a moon to clip the flap down.

I pull out my bit pouch and ask how much. "That'll be fifty bits. Don't worry, thirty of that is just for the bag." I pay her and take the bag, I kneel down and place it on Moonbeam.

Moonbeam is just smiling, I guess she likes the bag.

"Is that everything?" The old mare asks.

I look back at her. "Yes, thank you. I'll be back if we need anything else."

"Alright deary, oh the names Golden Quill by the way." She's still smiling.

"I'm Farengar and this is Moonbeam, it was nice to meet you." I nodded to her and we both leave. I look up at the sun, I guess it's around four in the afternoon now.

I look around and spot a store with wood planks and tools, the building looks like a toolbox. I might as well get supplies to make a target for my bow.

Walking over to the store, I see Big Mac leave with a few tools in a saddlebag. He spots me and gives a small respectful nod, which I return in kind.

As he walks off, I enter and look around. There's a wall full of tools to the left, to the right is a large collection of boards, rods, planks and other materials. To the front of me behind the counter is a scruffy looking tan stallion with a dark brown mane, tail and beard. I find ponies with beards to be amusing.

"Welcome to 'DIY surplus' where we have what you need to build want you want!" he says in greeting.

I head over to the tools section, there's hammers, saws, nails, screws, drills, and hatchets. As well as tools I don't recognise.

I take a hammer, a saw and a box of nails. I place them on the counter and head for the wood section, I pick up a five planks of timber as tall as me and three smaller planks. I go back and place them on the counter.

"So what you building? Can’t be much with so little," he inquires while totalling up the cost.

"Nothing big, just a target board for my bow," I reply.

"Okay then, that'll be sixty-five bits." I pay him and he places the tools into a bag. "Thank you, come again if you need more."

I say goodbye as I carry the tools in my right hand and the planks on my left shoulder, I leave and head back for home.

After a few minutes we're home. I place the tools and wood out back and get started putting it together. While I'm doing that, Moonbeam is looking over her new school supplies.

Ten minutes later, I finish setting it up. Using the dagger, I carve target rings on it. I was about to try it out when a loud smash is heard from in the house. With the dagger still in hand, I run in to find the front door's window broken with a stone wrapped in paper on the floor. Moonbeam's standing at the bottom of the stairs wide eyed at the shards of glass on the floor.

I pick up the rock and unwrap it, there's writing on the paper.

Leave town freak, you're not welcome here! If you don't, there's gonna be trouble!

I raise an eyebrow and snort at the threat, I pocket the note to show Nightwing later. I pick up the glass and use what's left of the wood to board up the window.

"What happened?" she asks.

I stop hammering and look at her. "Just some idiots with nothing better to do, don't worry about it," I tell her.

Once that's done, I head back out and test the bow. Drawing the bow and an arrow, I pull back the string and aim at the target. after a few seconds I release the string and the arrow soars at the target. It hits about ten inches from the centre.

I try a few more times hitting closer and further from the centre, but never getting a bulls-eye. I retrieve the arrows and sheath the bow and arrows.

It's about five or six pm, I'm starting to feel hungry and call Moonbeam to the kitchen. Now I've never really cooked before, but when I did, it was mostly meat from animals I hunted over an open fire.

So I had no idea on what to do for dinner, Moonbeam arrives and looks up at me.

I look down to her with a worried look. "How about we go out for dinner?" she smiles and nodded.

I still have eighty-five bits in my pouch, that should be more than enough for a meal.

We both leave the house and lock up, the sun is just about to touch the horizon meaning there's about two or three hours left in the day.

As we head into town, we meet Rarity along the way with Fluttershy next to her.

"Ah Farengar darling, I take it you're settled in now?" she asks, Fluttershy using Rarity to hide behind.

"Yeah, though there was an incident earlier," I reply.

She tilts her head to the right. "Oh? You mean with that manticore? And thank you for saving my sister by the way."

"You're welcome, but that's not I meant. Someone threw a rock through my window with a note attached." I pull out the note and show her.

She reads it with a look of disgust. "My word, who would do such a thing?" Fluttershy looks over Rarity's shoulder at the note.

"It could be those mean ponies that arrived a few days ago," Fluttershy says in barely a whisper.

"Yes, those muggings did start after they got here." Rarity looks up at me. "Well do be careful darling, if it is who we're thinking of then there could be trouble," she warns me.

I take the note back. "I'll keep that in mind, so what brings you two out?" I ask them.

"Oh, we were heading to the library to meet the others for supper. Hmmmm, would you like to join us?" she replies. I think for a second.

"Sure, I don't know any places to eat around here other than Sugarcube Corner." Rarity smiles and starts walking off.

"Well come along then," she says. I follow behind them with Moonbeam to my left.

After five minutes of walking we make it to Twilight’s place.

"Here we are!" exclaims Rarity, I duck under the door frame and see the whole gang here.

"Well Howdy, Farengar. Oh and before ah forget, thank ye for savin' mah sister from that varmint," Applejack says and gives me a big smile.

"No problem. So, Twilight. How'd it go at the hospital." I ask, Moonbeam goes over to Spike and starts chatting with him.

"Hmmmm?" She looks up from her book. "Oh it went great, they managed to extract the poison and make a lot of anti-venom." Her horn glows and the stinger floats beside her. "They also preserved the stinger for you." I smile as I take it.

"Great, now I have two trophies." Everyone except Twilight gives me odd looks.

"Two? What's the other one?" Rainbow asks.

I pull out the horn tip and hold it up. "Blueblood's horn."

"WHAT!?" they all yell, except for Fluttershy and Twilight that is.

Twilight explains what happened to the others, they looked horrified at the part where I got stabbed.

"Oh my, darling. I knew he was a self-centred creep, but an honour-less coward as well? How uncouth!" Rarity says flicking her nose up at the end, I put the horn tip away.

"Dude, you're AWESOME! Well not as awesome as me, but close!" says Rainbow, I chuckle at that.

"Wowie, I wondered why my knee was gettin' pinchy," Pinkie says. I ask what that has to do with it. "Oh, that means something scary is about to happen!" I look to Twilight with a 'what?' expression.

Twilight looks at me. "Don't worry about it, it's just Pinkie being Pinkie," she says.

I shake my head. "Well, we won't have to worry about him anymore. He's in the dungeons now and stripped of his title," I tell them.

"Good riddance, Equestria does not need a pony like him in a position of power," says Rarity.

A loud rumble from me causes them all to laugh, I chuckle along as well.

"Well since yer' ere, ah take it you'll be joinin' us?" asks Applejack.

I nodded, still chuckling a bit. "Well then, shall we head out?" Twilight asks looking around.

After a round of nods and 'uh huhs' we head out the door. Moonbeam and I following behind the others as they chat amongst themselves.

We all arrive to a place called 'The Hay Barrel' and sit at a large table. A waiter then walks up to us, he's a light creamy coloured earth pony with a slicked back navy blue mane and tail, he's wearing a white collar with a red bow around his neck.

"May I take your order?" he asks with a strange accent.

"Do you have any rubies?" Spike asks. The waiter just raises an eyebrow. "No? Okay then, I'll have the hay fries," he then says, the others make their orders and wait for me. I look over the menu trying to decide what I want.

I spot something that I like the look of. "I'll have the baked sea bass with romesco sauce with a mug of ale please." After our orders were taken, he leaves.

"So how was your day?" I ask no one in particular.

For the next ten minutes the mares explain what they did.

Applejack sold a lot of apples and baked apple goods, Big Mac had to go get new tools to fix the barn due to a pack of timberwolves trying to break into it.

Rarity made some dresses and suits for some clients, she even dropped a hint that she's making me a formal outfit.

Rainbow Dash is making some headway on her routine for the Wonderbolts... whoever they are.

Twilight took the manticore stinger to the hospital and then did some more research on magical effects on specific plants.

Fluttershy tended to her animals and was looking after a sick bear.

Pinkie mentioned my visit, after that she looked after the cake twins. The cakes are the owners of Sugarcube Corner and were out at the time we were there.

I told them about my trip to the market, but left out what the dagger really is, though I might have to tell Celestia and Luna. Moonbeam's enrolment at the school, and I also told them about the broken window and note.

"So somepony in town don't want ya here?" Applejack asks.

I turn to her. "Would seem so, but I'm not bothered, they try anything and they'll answer to my sword." I pat the sword grip on my back.

"Why do you insist on carrying it around everywhere with you darling?" Rarity inquires.

"Well it's a habit. Back in Skyrim there was danger around every corner: bandits, daedra, savage beasts and undead. But after what I've been through so far here, I'm not taking anymore chances," I tell her. As I finish saying that, the waiter returns with our food.

Dinner was eaten quietly. My meal was rather good, I'll have to remember this place.

Moonbeam seemed to be eating a vegetable pie, with a glass of apple juice. I wasn’t bothered with what the others had.

After everything was eaten, the waiter returns with a piece of paper. The mares all got out their bits, I was about to as well before Twilight spoke up.

"Don't worry, it's on us tonight," she says with a smile.

"You sure? I can pay for mine and Moonbeam's," I tell her. They insisted on it so I drop the matter. After it was paid for, we all say goodbye and went our separate ways. Twilight and Spike went with us as our house was in the same direction as their home.

"So tomorrow you have your guard test, how'd you think you'll do?" Twilight asks.

"I think I'll do just fine, I had to go through a test when I joined the Falkrea..." I was cut of as a knife whizzed past my head.

"Looks like the freak's still here," a unicorn with a belt of knives says as he walks out from behind a building. "but there's still a chance for you to go, just leave all your stuff and run along, or we’ll have to get rough," he says as two more step out, one is an earth pony with a warhammer, the other is a pegasus with a spear.

I can't tell any features from them apart from the horn and wings, they look identical with matching leather armour, mane, tail, eyes, and coat colour.

"They're using enchanted armour!" Twilight informs me. "It's an illusion spell to make them look the same."

I step in front of Twilight, Spike and Moonbeam and draw my sword. "Twilight, get Spike and Moonbeam out of here then go find Nightwing," I tell her and she looks up at me.

"I can't leave you here alone!" she replies. I turn to her with a look that won't take no for an answer.

"Go now! I can handle these fools," I tell her sternly. The ponies just laugh at my declaration.

"Oh can you now?" asks the unicorn as he throws another knife at me. I react quickly and catch it by the grip, I look at my hand to make sure my ring is on, it is, so I put the knife in my belt.

The unicorn actually looks surprised at that, he then flings another one at Twilight which I respond by hitting it away with my sword.

Taking the hint Twilight puts a foreleg over Moonbeam and Spike then with a glow of her horn they disappear in a flash of light.

I point my sword at the unicorn, anger now on my face.

"Big mistake," I say and grip my sword with both hands and charge at them.

Author's Notes:

OH here comes the first pony fight! this will be gooooood!

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