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The Elder Scrolls: The Dragonborn of Equestria

by Urimas Ebonheart

Chapter 34: Chapter 33

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The Elder Scrolls: the Dragonborn of Equestria
Chapter 33

I regain consciousness in a plain looking room, Looks like the medical wing of the castle. I'm on a bed feeling terrible as my body feels like it's being twisted.

I groan as I try to sit up and raise an arm over my forehead. I raise my other hand but stop as I realise something, I can't feel my fingers, I open my eyes to find that where my hands should be is a light grey hoof taking its place.

I manage to take the covers off and look at my body, my shirt is slightly torn and ripped now but my trousers and underwear were completely torn off.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" I scream as I realise I'm now a pony, I try to get off of the bed to find a mirror but slip as I tried to stand on two legs instead of four, I swear I hear a faint light echo of laughter.

The door opens and a nurse gasps as she runs to my side and helps me up, I have a panicked expression as I ask her for a mirror, she helps me to the bathroom with a shocked look of her own and I get a good look at myself, I'm now a grey earth pony with an unkempt brown mane and tail with a slight beard, my scars are also still in their places.

I look to my rear... or I guess my 'flank' now and see a mark there, a dragon's head with two great swords crossing each other diagonally behind it.

"W-What happened to m-me?!" I ask the nurse with a shaky voice.

"Erm, you were brought in after you were drugged from something you ate, b-but you were... Different last time we checked," she replies.

"How l-long was I out for?"

"Erm, about twelve hours? We last checked on you four hours ago before most of the staff went to sleep."

I just stare at my reflection as I press a hand... Errr, hoof against my cheek.

"C-Can you get Luna for me?" I ask.

She nodded and leads me back to the bed, she leaves the room after I place an arm... foreleg on the bed for balance.

While I wait, I just stand there examining my new body. I remove the shirt as it's too tight and torn, I notice I'm a lot more muscular than most of the ponies are.

Took me a minute to remove it with hooves, how do ponies do anything without hands? I sit down and just wait for Luna, if anyone knows what's going on, she would.

Eight minutes later Luna bursts through the door, the moment she sees me her eyes go wide as she blushes and her wings pop out to her sides with a light 'pompf' sound. "Oh my stars," she says in a whisper.

"Luna! W-What's happened to me?!" I ask her with a worried tone.

Luna slowly walks forward and can't seem to get her wings to close. "Y-You were drugged, somepony tampered with the mess hall’s food, most of the fish was laced with a heavy sedative, Sloppy Joe was furious and ordered all of the contaminated food taken for investigation." She then frowns. "But that should not have caused you to change like this!" she says, I frown as well as a doctor walks in, his jaw drops as he walks next to me.

He's speechless but casts a scanning spell on me. "T-There's a strange type of magic in him, it's not pony or his own," the doctor informs us, Luna scans me and gasps.

"That's chaos magic!" She has a look of horror on her face. "I'll be right back, I have to check on something very quickly," she says and teleports away.

I stand up and wobble slightly, I practice walking with mild success, the doctor is just standing there keeping an eye on me.

"Do you feel okay? No pain or discomfort?" he asks.

I stop and look at him. "I felt queasy when I woke up but I feel fine now." I reply but slip at the end and face plant the floor, the doctor levitates me onto the bed as I groan.

I'm set onto the bed and just lay there until Luna returns.

Ten minutes later, Luna returns with a tired looking Celestia who also has the same reaction Luna had as her wings pop open with wide eyes and a blush, Luna gives Celestia a glare as the white alicorn tries to close her wings with an apologetic look.

They both walk over to me and Celestia scans me, she sighs and looks to Luna. "As I thought, it's Discord's magic."

"Who's this Discord? I remember him being mentioned a few times," I ask.

Celestia looks at me. "He's a being of chaos, he ruled these lands before we arrived and we sealed him in stone, he distorted the land and terrorized innocents for his own amusement," she tells me.

"So how is he responsible for this?" I ask them.

Celestia and Luna share a look. "We don't know, we checked his prison but it looks intact still, if he really is the cause of this then we don't know how," she replies.

"Can you reverse it?" I ask.

I notice Luna pouting slightly. "Maybe, I'll have to look up some old scrolls but I'm sure I can turn you back," Celestia tells me.

Luna frowns but then perks up. "Well, until then you and I are going to bed." Celestia gives her a questioning glance. "What? I'm tired," Luna says.

I remember I was wearing my armour before I passed out. "Where's my armour and weapons?" I ask them.

Celestia stops glancing at Luna and turns to me. "They were removed before you were examined, they're back in Luna's room."

I breath a sigh of relief.

"Well then, shall we go Farengar?" Luna says with a yawn at the end.

Before I could say anything Luna's horn glows and I'm levitated out the room behind Luna.

Luna heads for her room with a bit of speed. The guards look confused but the maids look wide eyed at me, we then both arrive at her room.

Luna levitates me over and drops me on the bed. "Wow, you look handsome as a pony, I don't think I've seen so many muscles," she says, I think she's slightly drooling.

"Err, thanks? But to be honest, I'm not comfortable like this, I just hope Celestia can reverse it."

"Well until she does I'm going to enjoy it for as long as I can." She climbs onto the bed and snuggles up to me.

I sigh knowing that there's nothing I can do about it and hug her back as we both fall asleep.


Five hours later and it's now morning, we're both awake and a few minutes later we're both in the bathtub just relaxing together.

"So what are we going to do today? It's not like I can retake the exams like this or even do any training," I ask her.

She hums happily as she leans into me. "Well, you could take me out on a date," she replies with a smile.

I was about to reply but a knock on the door brings me out of my trail of thought. "Yes?" Luna calls out.

A maid walks in and slightly opens the bathroom door. "Breakfast is ready, Princess. Also, Princess Celestia would like to have a word with you when you can."

Luna thanks the maid and the door closes, we both lay there for another minute before we both leave the tub and dry off.

After we're dry, Luna speaks up. "Well time to get Moonbeam up, I think she should at least be enrolled in Celestia's school for an education at least." I can't really argue with her there.

"Alright, we'll tell her during breakfast," I reply.

Luna puts her regalia on while I wobbled over to my armour, as a pony I can't wear it anymore, what worries me more is that I can't hold a sword with my hooves, I've seen ponies do it with spears and hammers, but the thought of how just eludes me.

I at least put the amulet around my neck, but I have no way of wearing my ring.

I think for a second, can I still use magic like I always do? I hold out my right hoof and cast the Aedric Spear spell {90%}, the spear forms in front of my hoof and floats there an inch away, I twist my hoof and the spear moves as well, staying an inch away.

Well at least I'm not defenceless at least, Luna's watching while I test it out. "Well that's good news at least, oh! Maybe you can wear a royal guards armour while we go out," she suggests with a bright smile.

I couldn't say no to that happy face. "Sure, I could even act as your bodyguard," I say as I puff out my chest and hold my head up, I also make my muscles tighten slightly.

I see Luna's wings pop open as her face flushes a light pink, she gives a nervous chuckle as she forces her wings back to her side.

"Is that normal?" I ask her.

She stutters a bit. "Y-Yes, erm, it's a normal r-reaction to when we erm, l-like what we see," she tells me. My eyebrows rise and a smirk forms on my face, I walk over to her slowly without wobbling... much, Once next to her I nuzzle her under her chin with a low groan and once again her wings pop open with a light 'pompf'.

She holds back a moan as she nuzzles back, after a few seconds, I pull back and she has a dreamy look on her face.

"Well then, shall we get Moonbeam?" I ask, I'm kind of interested as to what her reaction will be, before I leave, I grab a bag of bits.

{100%}

Luna nods with a dopey smile and follows me out of the room, I knock on Moonbeam's door and after a minute it opens to her rubbing her eyes.

She looks up and stops. "Who are you?" she asks.

I don't know if I should be upset or amused that she doesn't know me.

"Take a guess," I reply.

She gasps as she recognizes my voice. "Daddy?"

I smile and nodded, her jaw drops. "What happened?"

I have to come up with something. "Oh a, er, magic spell went wrong during the exams and I was turned into a pony, but Celestia is looking for a way to reverse it," I reply with a chuckle.

"You're huge!" she says, I did notice that even the guards were smaller than me, Luna's just four inches taller than me now. As a nord, I was the same height as Luna.

"I guess I am, but enough chit chat, it's time for breakfast, have you washed?" I ask Moonbeam.

"Erm, be right back!" she says and heads to her bathroom, Tala walks over and sniffs my leg. After a few seconds she looks up, happily barks and nuzzles my leg, at least she recognizes me.

A few minutes later Moonbeam returns with her necklace on.

We all head to the dining hall, Moonbeam keeps looking at me now and then. The stallions look at me with mixed looks, some of jealousy, probably at my build, some look intimidated and I even saw one with a flushed face. Yeah, did not want that image in my head at all.

The mares though, Luna looked ready to chase them off, I'm getting a lot of bedroom eyes and even some whistling at me.

We make it to the dining hall to find Celestia and the Greybeards at the table already eating.

"Good morning, sister, Farengar. I've managed to find a spell to turn you back but it'll take me a few hours to prepare it, also once you're turned back, you, Luna, and I with a regiment of the Elite Forces will head into the Dreamscape to put up the barrier and remove this Daedric Prince as well, your role will be to protect us while we cast the spell," she says.

Luna looks a bit upset but nodded with understanding, the Greybeards look at me with slight amusement.

"Great, I was going to take Luna out for lunch later, what time would you like us back?" I ask Celestia.

"Before two pm please, I should be ready by then, after that we will have a meeting with everypony involved to discuss the best course of action to take," she replies.

I nodded and order breakfast. While eating, I ask Moonbeam a question. "Moonbeam, I know you want to learn Tamrielan magic, but Luna suggested that you go to school to learn other subjects as well, maybe you can learn about illnesses and anatomy so you can be a better healer."

She swallows what she's eating and looks at me. "I... I guess so, but I'll still be learning your magic right?"

"Yes, I'll still help you with Tamrielan magic," I reply and she says 'yay' before continuing her breakfast.

Once We've all eaten, I tell Tala to stay with Celestia. I excuse myself and head over to Celestia's school for gifted unicorns with a letter from Celestia.

Nothing much happened, I've learnt to walk fine now and we arrive. I explain our situation, give the letter to the headmaster and Moonbeam was taken to an examination room. We sat in the back behind the school staff while Moonbeam was in front of a chalk board, they ask her to levitate some objects and then ask if she knew any other spells.

She told them she knew a healing spell and they all went silent. They ask for a demonstration and I volunteer myself as the test subject, I ask Luna to make a small cut in my foreleg and then sit next to Moonbeam, the examiners murmur to each other as they watch my cut heal.

"Was that the new type of magic Princess Celestia told us about?" one of the examiners asks Luna.

"Yes, I believe you received copies of the healing spells correct?" Luna replies.

"Yes we did, along with a spell similar to our levitation spell called telekinesis, we already have some of the castle’s medical staff learning it with mild success, even earth ponies and pegasi are learning it, this method of magic is astounding, it breaks all the rules and laws of our way of casting, but most unicorns can't cast it due to them being unwilling to accept the way it's cast, I believe this is something best taught at a young age," an elderly mare replies.

They continue talking to each other and agree to letting her in, she'll be learning non-magical medical treatments as well as learning more about healing magic from the copies they have from my book.

Luna and I leave and head towards the Barracks. On my way past the forge, I spot a minotaur hammering away next to a unicorn, I see a pile of bones next to him as well as an armour stand with what looks like a half finished helmet and boots.

We both enter the armoury and find a suit of armour big enough for me. Luna straps it on me and takes a step back, she fights her wings urge to spread and shakes her head. "You look very dashing in that." I chuckle and thank her.

We walk back to the courtyard and head for the main gate, the guards posted offered their services as an escort, but one look at me stopped them, I'm a good foot or two taller than them and beefier to boot.

"Oh erm, never mind then, have a pleasant day, Princess," they say with a bow.

Luna thanks them for the offer and we both head out into Canterlot. We're walking down the main street with shops, cafés, and restaurants on each side, ponies stop and stare at both Luna and me.

"Twilight mentioned a delightful doughnut shop she used to visit, where did she say it was again?" she murmurs to herself.

A minute of walking and many stares later, we arrive at a shop with an enticing smell, Luna walks in and I follow.

I look around to see no one around, Luna walks over to the counter and I can practically see her drooling at the treats behind the glass counter, a larger than average stallion walks in from the back room and his eyes widen.

"Princess, a pleasure to have you here, looking for anything in particular?" he asks her.

"Do you have any vanilla glazed doughnuts with chocolate sprinkles?" Luna replies.

"Sure do, how many would you like?"

She looks back at me and smiles, she looks back at the Pony. "Six please, could we also have a strawberry milkshake with two straws please?"

"Coming right up! That'll be fifteen bits."

Luna ushers me to a booth in the corner, once sat down I try to open my bit pouch but fumble with it, Luna giggles and empties the contents onto the table.

He returns with her order and takes the bits. "The names Doughnut Joe by the way, enjoy your meal." Before he leaves, I speak up.

"Do you know a Sloppy Joe?" I ask.

"Huh? Oh sure, he's my brother, told me he's working at the castle last time we talked." And with that he goes into the back room again, we both finish off our doughnuts, which were very nice. After that, we both start drinking from a straw each as Luna just stares at me. Once we both finish it Luna giggles and leans over and kisses me.

I hear the door open followed by a gasp, my ears face behind me which feels very strange. I turn my head and spot Twilight and Spike, Twilight looks shocked while spike goes over to the counter.

"Princess Luna! What are you doing? I thought you were together with Farengar!?" Twilight says practically getting in Luna's face with a frown.

I tap Twilight's shoulder and was about to talk but she cuts me off. "Who are you and why are you with Luna!" she demands.

"The names Farengar, pleased to meet you," I say with a smirk.

She scowls for a few seconds but her eyes widen. "Wait a minute, Farengar? I-Is that really you?"

I chuckle. "Yes, Twilight. It's me," I reply.

"What happened to you?" she asks me.

"Long story short, I was knocked out by some drugged food and woke up as a pony," I tell her. I notice Spike talking to Joe.

"But that doesn't tell me how!" she complains.

I look to Luna and she takes over. "We believe it was the work of Discord, he has some chaos magic inside him."

Twilight looks uneasy. "B-But he's sealed away! Has he got out?"

"No his prison is still intact so we have no idea how he did it," Luna replies.

Twilight still looks uneasy but brightens up a bit. "So why are you two here?"

"Oh Farengar and I are on a date," Luna says with a smile.

Twilight stutters a bit. "O-Oh, I-I'll just get out of your mane then, have fun!" she says and joins spike over at the counter.

I chuckle as Luna and I leave. "So what do you want to do now?" I ask.

"Hmmm, how about a walk in the park?" she suggests.

"Sure, sounds nice," I reply.

And so we both spend an hour at the park, a lot of ponies stopped to stare. Solnara tells me that we're being followed and saw a flash of light from somewhere but couldn't find it, I keep an eye out for anything else.

As we walk by a pond, Luna was greeted by some ponies which I stood by her side as if I was a guard, especially after the griffin incident.

Once we were both alone, we sat under a tree and have a pleasant conversation, she even tried to convince me to stay as a pony, which of course I refused politely.

The time is now one pm and we head back to the castle to prepare for Celestia's counterspell, Tala greets us happily and follows me back to Luna's room, I put away my bit pouch and then we all head to the throne room.

I arrive to see Celestia just about ready to start. "Ah, you're back earlier than I thought, I need a few more minutes and then we can begin," she says walking around what looks like a circular rune on the floor.

Over the next five minutes, Luna has removed the armour I'm wearing. Celestia then finishes and calls me over. "Alright, please stand within the rune." I do so. "Now bite down on this," she says as a wooden stick with cloth wrapped around it floats to my mouth.

"Why?" I ask.

"Because this will hurt, a lot," she replies with an apologetic look.

I sigh with a frown and bite down on the stick. Celestia's horn glows and the next thing I knew, it feels like I'm being torn apart.

Author's Notes:

Next chapter will be the retaking of the Dreamscape, a lot of stuff will happen, but I wont spoil it here :)

Next Chapter: Chapter 34 Estimated time remaining: 23 Minutes
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