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The Elder Scrolls: The Dragonborn of Equestria

by Urimas Ebonheart

Chapter 18: Chapter 17

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The Elder Scrolls: The Dragonborn of Equestria
Chapter 17

I yawn as I slowly wake up. I stretch my limbs as my eyes open, the sun can be seen outside and it appears to be around noon.

I sit up and rub my eyes, I then look to the chair next to me and see a clean set of clothes with a note.

Hello, darling. I've taken the opportunity to make you some more clothes, please do be careful and look after them this time!

Also, all of the girls and I thank you for protecting Twilight, Spike, Moonbeam and Twist.

Till next time, darling, best regards.

Rarity.

I smile and get dressed with a white shirt, blue trousers, black socks and shoes. Once that's done, I lie back down and wait for the doctor. After a short while he walks back in.

"Hello, feeling better?" he asks.

"Very, so when can I leave?" I reply and ask.

"Please lie still," he tells me and he casts his scanning spell again. "From what I can see, you look perfectly fine." He pulls out a board with paper on it.

"Okay, I'll need you to sign this paper and then you're free to go," he says as he levitates it over to me with a quill.

I read the paper which just says that my bill was paid for by Luna and was discharged by the doctor, I sign it and hand it back to him.

"Right then, I'll get a nurse to escort you out." I nodded and sit on the bed, after a few minutes a nurse arrives asking me to follow her.

"Before I leave, there's a filly I'd like to visit," I ask the nurse.

"Hmmmm? Oh you mean Twist?" she asks and I nodded. "Alright then, please follow me." We head down the hall to another room.

She opens the door and we both walk in, Peppermint is sitting next to the filly who is sitting up and talking with her.

The mare turns and sees me. "Oh, hello. I'm happy to see you're up and about already. I know I've said it so many times already, but thank you so much." She says and gives me a smile, then turns to the filly. "I just can’t imagine life without my little filly." She nuzzles her and the filly giggles.

The filly I now know as Twist has a tube attached to her foreleg which is connected to a bag of blood. She looks at me with a toothy smile.

"Thank you misther for helping me!" she says with a lisp.

"You're welcome, I'm glad to see you're doing okay." She just smiles again and I turn to leave.

The mare speaks up. "I meant what I said. If there's anything you need, I'll be happy to help." I smile and nodded to her.

I'm led to the exit with lots of nurse's and doctor's all thanking me for saving Twist, I exit outside into the sunny afternoon day. I smile and take a deep breath as I look up and close my eyes.

"It's the monster..." I can hear whispers around me. "Did you see what it did to that pony?" I keep my eyes closed and slowly breath, the smile slowly falling from my face. "I did, how can anypony be so barbaric! And did you see its eyes?" I open my eyes and head for home, ignoring the rest.

I get stares and ponies moving or running away from me, a stallion walks up to me and throws a rather ripe looking tomato straight at my face.

It misses me as I just simply lean my head to the left, I hear it impact as a pony says 'eewww!' behind me. I look down at the pony.

He's got a blue coat and a darker blue mane and tail with a musical note for a mark, he's also glaring up at me as well as some others around me. "We don't need a monster like you here!" he says in a threatening tone.

I just snort and walk around him, seems he did not like that as a pair of hooves hit me in the back. I stumble but stay upright, I turn around and look at him with a frown.

"For your sake I hope you can fight," I tell him as I walk slowly towards him, cracking my knuckles. "I don't take attacks towards me lightly."

He starts backing up with a worried expression. As I'm about to reach him, Rainbow Dash lands next to me.

"Hey, Farengar!" She then notices my frown. "Dude, you alright?"

My frown fades as I turn to her. "Yeah I'm fine, just having a chat with this guy," I tell her and turn back to him. "Better remember my advice for next time," I warn him with another frown.

He nervously chuckles and leaves hastily. "That was weird," Rainbow says as I look back to her. "Anyway, Twilight was looking for you, I was told to ask you to meet her at the library." She was about to leave but turns back to me. "Oh I heard what happened last night, while the town might hate you, I think you were awesome!" And with that, she flies off.

I change direction and head to the library while ignoring the glares I'm getting. I don't regret my actions, it was kill or be killed, they were no different than the bandits in Skyrim.

After a few minutes of walking, I make it to the library. I knock on the door and wait, I hear a 'Come in!' from inside, I open the door and enter.

Twilight is sitting behind a desk reading a book while Spike is putting books away, she looks up to see who it is and smiles at me.

"I take it the Princess gave you your new armour?" she asks, I nodded. "That's good, oh! Also, Nightwing said to go for your test tomorrow at ten in the morning," she tells me.

"Alright, anything else?" I ask, I'm not in a very good mood and it seems she also notices it.

"Are you okay? You seem a bit upset," she asks me with concern.

"I'm fine, just didn't have a warm welcome after leaving the hospital," I inform her.

She sighs. "I'm sorry to hear that, Ponyville's just not used to violence like that. Sure, we've had a few fights at some bars, but nothing like killing somepony," she replies.

She then hangs her head low. "I do understand why you did it though, while not common, crime and murder still happens in Equestria, it was do or die, and I am glad you stopped them before they hurt anypony else." She looks back up with a smile.

I manage a small smile back. "Well at least the whole town isn't against me." I turn to the door and leave.

Once outside, I look around. Most ponies are still glaring at me, but a few are actually smiling, probably those that got mugged, hurt or harassed by them.

I head back home, there's a piece of paper tacked onto the door, the word 'Monster!' was written on it.

I peel it off and head inside. Putting the note on a table, I head up to my room and find my weapons on a cabinet and my new armour laid out on the bed. I pick up the helmet, it feels very light yet the metal looks thick.

Picking up the chest plate, I strap it on. The moment it's on, a pair of black dragon wings sprout from the back, my eyes go wide as I can actually feel them there. I thought they'd look like pegasi wings...

After a few minutes, I manage to get them moving, it feels very strange. I strap on the rest of the armour, my vision seems sharper, my legs and arms feel stronger, I even feel lighter.

I then pick up my sword, it only feels half as heavy than normal.

I remove my armour and strap my sword on, sure it might not help the ponies feel better around me, but I've survived this long by being at least ready for a fight.

I leave the house and look up to see it's about four pm. I head over to the school to find out when it's done for the day.

Ponies move out of my way as I walk through town to the schoolhouse, I mentally sigh and ignore them for now.

I arrive at the schoolhouse as the colts and fillies leave the building, I spot Moonbeam talking to those three fillies I saved from the manticore. I was about to walk over to them when that pink filly with a tiara I saw earlier starts insulting them.

"Oh look Silver Spoon, it's the newest blank flank in town, she's the filly of that monster who killed someponies yesterday," she says.

"Oh yeah, I heard about that from my daddy, they say he tore them apart, they couldn't even find the remains of the third pony," says the grey filly.

Moonbeam glares at them. "He's not a monster! He saved me in Canterlot from those mean bug ponies!" Moonbeam says to them.

The yellow filly with a red mane and tail and a big pink bow glares as well. "Yeah! Shut up Diamond Tiara! He also saved us from ah manticore!" The other two, a white filly with a two toned purple mane and tail with a horn and an orange filly with a darker purple mane and tail with little wings chip in with a 'Yeah!' and 'That's right!'.

I start to walk over but before I reach them the pink one shoves Moonbeam to the floor, probably did not like the glare she was giving her. Moonbeam starts tearing up, I frown as I walk up behind the pink filly.

I bend down and snatch Diamond Tiara up by the tail and lift her up to my eye level, she screams in a really high pitch and I give her a nasty glare as she stares at me wide eyed.

"AAAAHH! IT'S GONNA CUT ME UP!" she screams, I just snort unamused. The other children stare at us from a distance, the three fillies are just giggling at Diamonds reaction.

Cheerilee comes out of the schoolhouse due to the scream, she sees me and runs over. "What do you think you're doing?" she demands.

I look down at her with Diamond Tiara still in my grip. "I was waiting for this little scamp to apologise to my daughter for hitting her." Moonbeam smiles up at me as I said that.

"Even so, you don't treat foals like this!" she says, I just raise a brow at her.

"Then what punishment do you give misbehaving children?" I ask. "In Skyrim, her provocation would result in a harsh punishment or a duel between the two families."

"Well we're not in your Skyrim, so please put her down." I grumble as I set her down, the filly gets to her hooves and hides behind Cheerilee.

"Don't think you'll get away with this you monster! My father will have you thrown in the dungeons!" I just glare at her with a smirk.

"If the former 'Prince' Blueblood could not even do that, what makes you think your father can?" I tell her. I turn to Cheerilee. "No wonder she's this nasty, no one is disciplining her. If I acted like this to my elders, I would have been given a good beating." I turn to Moonbeam and pick her up, she has a small cut on her face.

"I'll let her off this time," I say and look at Diamond with a neutral expression. "but if you hurt Moonbeam or anyone else In front of me again, you'll regret it." I place a hand on Moonbeams cheek and heal the cut, the little troll just 'hmphs' and runs off with Silver Spoon right behind her.

Cheerilee looks from them to me. "Please don't threaten the foals again." She sighs. "I know she's a bully, we try to make her stop, but because of her father's wealth she's been spoiled rotten, her father is just as bad as she is," she tells me.

I just shake my head. In Skyrim, I've heard of rumours of a wealthy snobbish family getting another poorer family killed just because they didn't like them.

"Well I meant what I said, she hurts anyone in front of me she'll regret it." I say. Hmmm, maybe I should learn a fire spell to melt that tiara of hers, that might remove her smugness a bit.

"Please don't, I'll have another talk with her tomorrow." I just grunt as she walks back into the school, I put Moonbeam down as the three fillies are now by my feet.

"That was sooooo funny what you did to Diamond Tiara mister!" says the orange one.

I chuckle. "So, what're your names?" I ask them.

The orange one speaks up first. "I'm Scootaloo!" She kinda reminds me of Rainbow Dash.

"I'm Sweetie Belle," says the white one with a squeaky voice.

"And ah'm Applebloom," says the yellow one, her accent sounds a lot like Applejacks.

They all stand next to each other and yell in unison. "AND WE'RE THE CUTIE-MARK CRUSADERS! YAY!"

I rub the insides of my ears to try and stop the ringing in them. After that, I look back at them. "So, about yesterday, why were you three in that forest?" I ask them.

The smiles drop from their faces as they look at the floor. "We... er. We were trying to get our cutie-marks in manticore taming," says Sweetie Belle.

"Yeah, but throwing a stone at it wasn't the smartest thing we could've done," continues Scootaloo.

Applebloom looks up at me. "We were grounded a month fer it, but we're very grateful that ya'll saved us."

They all manage to smile before Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash show up.

"C'mon Applebloom, you got's some chores ta finish!" says Applejack.

"And you're off to your room young lady when we get home," Rarity says to Sweetie Belle.

Rainbow Dash stays behind as the three fillies all say their goodbyes to each other, Applejack and Rarity walk off with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle.

Rainbow looks at me and smirks. "I saw what you did to Diamond." I don't show any change of emotion. "Don't tell anypony about this, but I was glad somepony gave her a taste of her own medicine." I just give a light chuckle.

I get her attention before she walks off. "Oh Dash, before I forget, I got my new armour today, it comes with a flying enchantment. I was wondering if you'll teach me how to fly?" She gets a look of excitement and grins.

"Sure! When and where big guy?" she asks.

"I got a test tomorrow for the Ponyville guard at ten in the morning, I guess after that?" She nodded and starts walking down the road with Scootaloo.

"I'll see ya at Town Hall at ten then!" she calls back and walks off.

"Let's go home." I say to Moonbeam, once again her response was 'Okay'. "So how was school?" I ask as we walked through town.

"It was okay, the cutie-mark crusaders asked if I wanted to join them," she replies.

"And? What did you tell them?"

"I said no thank you, I want to spend my spare time learning magic with you," she says. I smile at her.

"We can go and learn some now if you'd like," I tell her.

She nodded enthusiastically.

After ignoring more stares and glares, we're back home.

Moonbeam places her bag in her room while I put away my sword and get the magic book, we then both head downstairs to the couch.

Once we're both sitting down, she's laying next to me as I open the book to the basics of magicka.

"Okay, so first thing we’re going to do is help you find the magicka within you, close your eyes and clear your mind, try to feel a flow of energy within you," I tell her.

She closes her eyes and starts to breathe slowly, after a minute or two her horn faintly glows a silvery white.

"That's it, I think. Now let’s see here." I flip through the book and notice a Telekinesis spell in the Alteration section.

I look at the Telekinesis spell, I know that all unicorns can use it. Maybe it's a good idea for her to learn it first, it would even help me in a fight.

I follow the instructions on the page. A few minutes later, my hand glows a light blue as I barely lift that note from the door off the table and into the air before it floats back down. I then explain how to do it to Moonbeam, she concentrates and a few minutes later, her horn glows as well as the paper, it lifts up a bit and floats back down.

"Well done!" I say, she smiles and tries again, this time floating it higher and for longer.

"This is a lot easier than I was told casting magic would be," she says.

"That's because pony magic follows a set of rules and laws, Tamrielian magic is, as Celestia called it, a force of will," I tell her. We spend the next two hours practising, we're now both laughing as we have a game of tag with a pair of coins, making them chase each other.

After that little game, I take the coins and head to the kitchen, I ask Moonbeam what she would like. Her horn glows as fruits and vegetables float into a bowl, she cuts them up and mixes them together. Once that's done, she places half of it into another bowl and barely floats it to me.

"Haha, I guess you'll be making dinner from now on," I say with a smile. It's probably true, I have no idea on how to cook pony food or what they even like best, she then adds a few flowers to hers.

We both finish our meals, I look outside and see the sun starting to set. "Well, bed time," I tell her. I place both bowls and the knife into the sink.

We both head upstairs to her room, it's a plain room with a light green wall, a light grey ceiling and a light blue carpet with a dresser, a toy chest and a cabinet on the right wall. She climbs onto her bed and I tuck her in, I then stroke her mane a few times. "Goodnight Moonbeam," I say as I head for the door.

She yawns and you hear her whisper back. "Goodnight... daddy." I smile and close the door.

I'm in my room and I put the book away, I lay on the bed thinking on what tomorrow will bring. I'll deal with whatever comes my way when I get there. Yawning, I close my eyes and drift to sleep.

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