It was a busy day for Lucette, managing the construction of the Festival. She had to make sure the decorations were right, had to once more initiate a Lockdown, this time Level Green, she had to check on her troops that were going to be essential for the opening ceremonies, and she had to get her Champions ready.

After a whole month of preparing, she still had at least three more days (Ventus calculated) before things would be presentable. She groaned as she dragged herself to her personal tavern in the castle, having only gotten a break a half hour ago. Right now she just wanted to rest and get a bit of a buzz in her, something to put a spring in her step, before she went back to the tiresome work of being a leader.

She opened the doors and ordered a Storm Wine after sitting down at the bar, nursing her drink.

There was a gentle hum that slowly increased in volume and before anyone could question as to what it was, there was a short flash and something tumbled along the ground near Lucette’s feet. On the floor appeared to be a strange, glowing bright diamond with metal grids along its edges. At a glance, some could see glowing energy particles seeping around it.

Lucette glanced down at it in mild interest. She took a sip of her drink, put it down, then picked up the gem and looked it over.

The gem glowed softly and soon a voice echoed from within the crystal. “Interesting, only a day and it’s made first contact already,”

Lucette blinked a moment, then stood up, took a long sip of her drink, and asked the crystal, “So, Displaced? Or do you not know about that yet?”

“Displaced? I don’t know what that means, this crystal is merely an experiment in a attempt to get back home since the main Ayleid portal has not reactivated for months,” The voice said, it sounded low but a little roughly suave.

“Hmm… New guy then. And I’m guessing you’re not from Earth, either, more like a similar world,” Lucette surmised. Once more she gulped down some more Storm Wine. “Try and focus on the energy of this Token, and bring yourself here. I’d rather talk to ya face to face.”

The crystal suddenly rose into the air, suddenly shooting a beam of blue energy into the ground. A strange power started pulling and stripping bits of the stone floor and started to form a gate with runes forming around it. That same humming came back again and with a flash, a humanoid, blue robed being stood before Lucette, the covering itself bearing yellow patterns along its sleeves and around the neck area. In the middle of the robe, he wore a leather belt with a book attached to his hip. Within the hood were a pair of glowing and slitted purple eyes, along with a reptilian snout.

Lucette just finished what was in her glass before putting it down. She’d grown used to these kinds of things, things she used to call bullshit. She pointed to the ground.

“You’re either fixing that yourself or paying for it,” she said, making the figure take note of the ruined stone floor, before she continued with, “Anyways, want a drink? We have some very exotic spirits here.”

“No, thank you. But don't worry about your floor,” The lizard said as he lifted his hand, waving it in a circular motion to allow the stones to return from where they were. A blue scaly tail made its presence known when it moved into view as he looked back to her. “My name is Athre’us-Ei, or Magic-Eyes if you cannot pronounce my Argonian name.”

“Argonian...?" She muttered to herself, low enough he couldn't hear. 'Guess he's from an Elder Scrolls world, then.' She shook her head before responding with, "In my old world, I was a Marine, and we usually settled for nicknames in the force, so I’ll just go with calling you Bluey,” Lucette said with a shrug. She raised a hand to the bartender, who, understanding the signal, gave her another drink. She took a long gulp of it before slamming it down. “So, you seem the scholarly type. Maybe you can help me figure out these scrolls I got when I was brought here.” Lucette opened her palm, Ventus appearing in it, before a flash of blue particles heralded the arrival of several scrolls.

One was notably glowing, and the handle was made of pure, magical crystals that glimmered and shined in the dim light of the bar. The papyrus itself was a striking light blue.

Another was also glowing, but bore a golden sheen to it's smooth, paper surface.

The other scrolls were more dull than the glowing one, but looked just as worn. And all of them had scripts and algorithms and equations so alien that Magic-Eyes couldn’t help but be intrigued.

“Of all writing languages I’ve seen in my life, I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Magic-Eyes said as he lowered his hood to reveal more of his lizard-like qualities, especially the short head-fin along his scalp.

“Tell me about it. Not even my second-in-command could figure this shit out,” Lucette agreed. She blinked. “Oh, right, Name’s Lucette Petremol. Storm Queen, ruler of this little island nation.”

“The closest I can compare it to is the Dwemer, but even it wouldn’t translate into anything,” Magic-Eyes said as he stroked along his chin. “So no other clues rather than them appearing with you?”

“Well, they have been studied thoroughly by my old world’s inhabitants, but the closest they could get of a comparison was a very, very old language, near the very beginning of my old race’s existence,” Lucette explained. “Think it was called Elder Futhark or some crap.”

“Not even my records say anything about this script,” Ventus agreed, her segments spinning and whirring as she gave mechanical chirps of thought.

“I’m afraid I cannot be of any use to you without anything else to reference too,” the lizard thought for a moment on the subject. He raised his hand with his finger and index finger extended, and waved it over the scrolls, whispering some kind of made up language under his breath. “Majikku kenshutsu,” he spoke as glowing magic materialised in the palm of his clawed hand. “...They’re definitely magical in properties though. I could disenchant it, but that would cause it to fall apart just to learn what they are.”

“Well, I at least know the basic ideas of what these will give me. Albeit they could give me something more, but this one,” Lucette tapped the crystal scroll. “Should let me learn Crystal Sorceries.” She tapped the golden scroll. “This one will let me use Golden Sorceries.” She gestured to the others. “These ones will just be basic Sorceries.” She took her chime off her belt, which Magic-Eyes noted was covered in crystals and colored a dark blue. “This, will let me cast all of them, including Miracles. Don’t have any tomes for Miracles, though.”

“Like a conduit in a way... I once had students who learned to channel their spells though their staff,” Magic-Eyes commented.

"Well, that’s the thing with my kind of Sorcery. You can’t cast it without a catalyst. Period. Same goes for Pyromancies and Miracles. You need a catalyst,” Lucette said, laying back in her seat and taking another sip of her drink.

“Seems I’ve stumbled upon a whole new array of magic then,” the blue lizard said with interest in his eyes.

“Three, if you count Pyromancies and Miracles, though Miracles aren’t considered magic where I come from,” Lucette explained. “Miracles are…” Lucette furrowed her brow, trying to remember. “...If I recall correctly, Miracles are just that, Miracles. They are entirely dependent on your faith, and you have to memorize the tales associated with the Miracle you want to cast before using it. Basically, they’re the God’s powers, but given to mortals.”

“Much like the blessings of the Nine Divines if you abide by their ways,” Magic-Eyes noted, once more stroking along his scaled chin. “Although their interactions with mortals have been limited other than their shrines. Except that one time in history when Martin Septim became Akatosh’s avatar to take down Mehrune’s Dagon”

“Pretty much, yeah,” Lucette said with a nod. Ventus looked back and forth between them.

“...You guys are talking so much nonsense I can’t tell if I’m in a new world myself,” she commented. Lucette lightly swatted her. “Hey!”

“Aw hush,” Lucette shot back. She turned back to Magic-Eyes. “Well Bluey, whaddya say? Want to head to my Study and check these scrolls out? I have a number of devices that never produced the right results for me, but maybe you can gleam something from them.”

“Lead the way, the results may prove useful for my spellcraft,” Magic-Eyes said. He takes a look around the bar. “Despite this being a different world, it appears it has similar races.”

“That’s common for Displaced. Each of us are sent to an Equestria, no matter what world we originally came from,” Lucette explained, standing up from her seat. She finished her drink after slamming it back, then placed the glass back on the bar counter. She grabbed the scrolls, and then started to walk out of the bar. “Come on. We got a pretty long walk ahead of us. My castle was huge to begin with, but I made more additions, so it’s… well, titanic.”

“You ought to look into getting some portals in order to get around. I have one back in my university that leads to places whenever students need to get to somewhere fast,” Magic-Eyes suggested as he began to follow behind Lucette. Lucette shrugged.

“If I can get the right schematics and people with know-how, sure,” she replied.

Lucette opened the doors and and they started their walk around the massive castle. After a literal hour of walking and climbing stairs, they arrived at her Study, which, Magic-Eyes noted, had a very curious stone door. Lucette turned to him.

“Alright, I know you’re from another world, but if you blab about anything in this room or even just the door, I will not hesitate to punish you. I got a lot to keep secret, don’t need others using this stuff against me or for ill,” Lucette warned him.

“I doubt anypony back where I came can get back here, not unless they know how Ayleid crystals work, thus any information I learn will not be of any use to them,” Magic-Eyes informed.

“As long as you don’t tell any suspicious characters from there or here, then good,” Lucette said with a nod, before she summoned eight hexagonal keys more reminiscent of medallions made of a bone-like, copper material with a hexagonal gem in the middle, and placed them all in their rune-laden slots. The door let out a quiet hiss and a dim, eerie green glow, before sliding open. Lucette walked inside. “Come on, quick.” Magic-Eyes went in without a second thought.

Inside were tables with lab equipment that Magic-Eyes hadn’t seen before, along with shelves of books and a single desk in the center of the room covered in schematics and other such papers. He noted there were at least three different kinds of microscope devices, one that was made of brass and covered in runes, one that was steel and had no real other decoration, and one that had a number of crystals for knobs and lenses. Lucette pushed a button on the wall, and the door closed with a slam. Magic-Eyes also noted there were no windows in the room.

Lucette just walked over to the microscopes with the scrolls, and Magic-Eyes followed behind. She placed the crystal scroll beneath the first microscope, the brass one, and then gestured for him to use it, standing back. Magic-Eyes looked through it to see what Lucette wanted to show.

Immediately his eyes widened as he saw that each runic letter on the scroll was layered with crystal, and, strangely, the runes started to float in his vision, and changed to runes he had just a bit of knowledge about.

“Anything? For me they just changed to other runes I didn’t know shit about,” Lucette asked.

“It appears they can detect the seer and then alter, although on what factors I don’t know.” Magic-Eyes said before attempting to read the runes.

What he read made his interest piqued. They talked about the lattices naturally inlaid in the soul, and how to bring them out and focus them to such a point that they created crystals of obscene magical strength. It continued to elaborate on several spells, all of which he knew nothing of until now.

One detailed how to launch a spear of these Soul Crystals by using both the caster’s own soul, and the ‘natural flow of the fires of life that surround us constantly.' Another detailed how to coat a weapon in Soul Crystals. Yet another spoke of how to create masses of Soul Crystals that could detect enemy life and seek it out like hound dogs. And a final one spoke of utilizing the flows of soul lattices in the body to harden the entire body with Soul Crystals that also heightened the caster’s magical power.

“Fascinating… It’s like a form of enchantment, except channeling it through.. A Soul Gem?” Magic-Eyes theorised based on what he knew of Tamrielic magic. “Its similar to Mysticism in a way as the user can passively charge their enchanted items.”

“Alright, think you can explain what it showed you to me? I’d like to try casting these spells myself,” Lucette asked. Magic-Eye repeated the message that was written on the scroll.

Lucette hummed in thought, a hand on her dark blue chin. “Okay…” she turned to a bookshelf, walking towards it. She pulled on a book, and the sound of inner mechanisms resounded throughout the room, before the bookcase fell into the floor, and a small shooting range was revealed, a trio of dummy’s at the end of said range. Lucette took her chime, then raised it.

An unearthly blue glow took hold of it, and then, a spear of magic and Soul Crystals shot out and raced towards the dummy with a howl of strange magicks. It impacted one of the dummies and left a ring of crystals around the impact point. Lucette grinned widely and jumped for joy.

“Fuck yeah! I’m a certified magician now bitch!” she cheered. She then noted Magic-Eyes was still present and blushed, before coughing into a fist. “A-Ahem, uh… I mean, cool, I can do actual magic now, eheh…”

“Your reaction is much like my student, except with a few words I’ve never heard before. I suggest you don’t get too excited, there is still much you can learn from this form of magic and considering it’s indifference, it would be wise to take it slow or risk a nasty backfire,” Magic-Eyes suggested with a hidden smirk.

“Oh, uh, right,” Lucette said with a timidness unlike her. Ventus noticed.

“Oooh, someone’s embarrassed~,” she teased. Lucette swatted her.

“Sh-Shut up!” she squeaked. She crossed her arms and pouted, looking away. Magic-Eyes blinked at the sudden change in attitude.

“It’s nothing to worry about, most students get excited when they learn a new spell. I was the same way when I was an associate at the Mage’s Guild.” Magic-Eyes placated, growing worried that he’d upset her.

“Mmrmfmfm…” Lucette mumbled, still not looking at him. She was blushing a bit of a bright purple.

“...Are you alright?” Magic-Eyes asked with concern in his voice.

“Yeah… Just… Just don’t go telling people about this, okay?!” she suddenly pointed at him threateningly. “Seriously, I will not go easy on you if you tell people about this!” She was still blushing.

“About your reaction or your magic? Regardless of whichever, my lips are sealed, Chinmoku.” Magic-Eyes said and even went about making a point of it by silencing his own voice with a spell for a few seconds.

She retracted her finger. “Good.” Her blush died down. “Now, you’re a wizard or mage or whatever, right? Maybe you’d like to see stuff about Light?”

Once his spell wore off, he answered her question. “I’m the Arch-Battle Mage of the Arcane University. I’ve mastered Destruction, Restoration and Alteration, however I do not practice Necromancy. The other two schools such as Mysticism and Illusion I have very little use for. As for the mention of Light, are you talking about the Light spell in which allows one to create a source of light?” Magic-Eyes asked.

Lucette shook her head. “Nope. Light, the essence of the Traveler. Light, according to the Speaker, lives in all places and all things.” Lucette opened her palm, and lightning danced in it. “This is Arc Light.” It changed to a raging ball of fire. “Solar Light.” It changed to a vortex of purple energy. “And finally, Void Light.” The vortex disappeared.

“Perhaps not, the first two are pretty much Destruction spells, although I am curious about the Void Light,” Magic-Eyes answered as he motioned his hand in a small arc as he created three balls of Magicka that swirled around his fingertips. From Lucette’s point of view, she saw Frost, Lightning, and Fire.

“Mmm, Arc Light and Solar Light have more functions than you think,” Lucette said before suddenly a staff appeared in her hand, crackling with lightning. She lunged towards the dummies, jumped not once but twice in the air, like there were platforms there that Magic-Eyes knew didn’t exist, and then she lobbed an object at the dummies that attached to them and suddenly exploded with electricity. She then landed with a slam of her staff that caused an explosion of lightning around her. She stood up and the staff disappeared. “Like that. Also, I can change what effects my staff and grenades have and what they can do. For instance, what I have now allows me to regenerate faster when I kill something with that staff.”

“And all of that is just from pure Arc Light,” Ventus finished.

“Hmm, a combination of levitation, shock and fire, except it’s all done within a staff, interesting.” Magic-Eyes mused quietly to himself as his eyes scanned over what he had witnessed, his mind calculating possibilities on how close he could recreate it, although it would not be in the same method. “As for your staff helping you regenerate magic, it reminds me of my enchanted silver axe that can absorb the Magicka of the enemies that I strike.”

“Oh, it doesn’t regenerate my magic or my Light. It regenerates my body. So, I get hurt, or get a nasty cut, I kill something with the staff, and I regenerate faster,” Lucette explained, walking over to him.

“Ah, so it’s enchanted or created with a life absorb spell, except you’re required to kill the target rather than attack it,” Magic-Eyes surmised. Lucette shook her head, approaching him and lightly flicking his snout.

“Not magic. No spells used in it. It’s all just fundamental powers of the universe, similar to magic, but much more primal,” Lucette explained.

“Basically, the Arc Light transfers the energy from her victim into her through pure electricity,” Ventus added. “Or, well, I think. Not even us Guardians or Ghosts know everything about how Light works. That’s work for Warlocks and the Speaker.”

Magic-Eyes snorted in amusement at her words. “It is how my magic works. Magic, also known as the Clever Craft, is the art or ability to alter the world through Magicka. Magic is the manipulation of Magicka in order to directly control reality in some way, however it is a dangerous art and I’ve seen my fair share of students who went missing or got hurt due to not heeding my warnings as I taught them. As for the powers of the universe, I don’t need to explain it in detail as Magicka is the very thing my body lives and breaths, I don’t think I can learn let alone master your form of power since it works differently.”

Lucette grinned. “Well, at the least I can show you Light Runes. Albeit they’re what I had to come up with instead of the mods for, well, advanced as shit firearms, but hey, when you apply ‘em to regular melee weapons? Can’t be beat.” Lucette walked over to a chest near the desk. She flipped the lid and bent over, digging around in it. “Where is it..?” She wondered aloud, before saying, “Ah!” and pulling out a greatsword made of Stormwill. It was simple aside from the Stormwill blade of sea green reflective metal, no decorations, but there was a rune on it that Magic-Eyes took note of. It was a purple, glowing rune of a vortex.

“I was planning on giving this to the winner of the Festival, but I still have to add a bunch more to it, like concealment runes on top of the Void Light Rune so that whoever gets it has a hard time making sense of how the whole thing works,” Lucette explained. She presented it to Magic-Eyes. The Argonian took it in his hands.

“And which Festival would that be?” He asked incase it was any different than where he came from.

“Just the Skili traditional Festival of Fellowship and Strength. I’m inviting the other world leaders here to have their own Champions partake in the event,” Lucette informed, walking back to the chest, closing it's lid before sitting down on it.

“It is a good idea of what you are going for, only the most knowledgeable may be worthy of its power,” Magic-Eyes noted as he gave the blade a slow swing to test its weight. It arced with a bit of lightning at this, along with a vorp of purple energy. The lizard nodded in approval before giving it back to Lucette. With a hand held aloft, purple magic started to swirl around as he concentrated. It took a while but he managed to conjure an axe he left at home. At a glance, it appeared to be silvery with gold trims. “This is my weapon of choice, a Mithril Axe enchanted with the spell I mentioned that helps me absorb Magicka with each strike. I still remember the soul I had trapped in order to create it.”

“Cool,” Lucette said with an appreciative nod. She looked to a clock on the wall and groaned. “Ugh, I gotta get back to managing the set up for the Festival.” She looked to him. “Maybe you could help?”

“I would be honored to see more of this world,” Magic-Eyes said with a smile to reveal sharp teeth.

Lucette grinned. “Sweet! Oh, I should go change first though. Mind waiting here?” she asked. She gestured to her current attire. “While this get-up is awesome and all, I kinda only need to wear casual stuff and a crown. It’s honestly what I prefer.”

“Take your time,” Magic-Eyes replied kindly. As he took a seat, he unstrapped the satchel by his waist and took out a book from it’s bindings. He began reading through it as a way to pass the time. On its front was a flame-like symbol.

Lucette walked out of the room. An hour and a half passed before she came back in, and when she did, Magic-Eye’s eyes widened in shock after he looked up.

Lucette was wearing a simple black tank top with black jean shorts, an iron crown on top of her silvery hair being the last article of clothing. The tank top was tight, not too much, but still tight, and the jean shorts were low, showing a bit of her hips. It was a fair bit more skin then he’d seen on a woman, especially one who was supposedly wearing ‘casual’ clothes, the blue scalie’s tail had pointed straight upward.

“Umm… Why are you staring at me like that?” Lucette asked, quirking her head to the side.

Magic-Eyes realized he was staring and quickly turned his head away. “It’s just I’ve n-never seen this sort of clothing...” the Argonian said. The red hue in his cheeks was easily seen through his dark blue scales. Lucette blinked a few times.

“Uhhh… Okay then,” she shrugged. She motioned him over. “Come on then, Bluey. We got work to do.”

“R-right,” Magic-Eyes said before coughing into his fist, taking a moment to compose himself before making his way over. Lucette smirked up at him, before opening the door and walking out. Magic-Eyes walked with her through the long winding hallways, and was growing increasingly uncomfortable as she walked in front of him, her tight shorts leaving little to his imagination.

She glanced back and noticed his stare once more. “Okay, now you’re being a helluva lot more obvious. I can feel your eyes down there, buddy.” She stopped and turned to face him, hands on her hips. She tapped her foot in wait for an answer or excuse. The Argonian took a step back.

“H-how can I not?” Magic-Eyes said as he raised his clawed hands. “What you’re wearing is something I’ve never seen being worn in Tamriel, to show so..” the lizard quickly cut his voice off before he could say something he’d regret . Lucette just narrowed her glowing golden eyes at him and stalked closer, right up to him and in his face.

She pressed a finger to his chest as she stared him dead in the eyes. “I have one rule. No touchy unless I give express permission. Oh, and if you’re gonna stare, at least try and be more discrete.” With that, she stepped away from him and started to walk away. He could’ve sworn she had a slight sway to her hips as she walked, but a quick glance from her and he immediately looked away again. The Argonian started questioning himself about all of this, for in all of his life, this was the first female he had ever recalled being attracted to, but of course a mental reminder told him that he made magic and his students a main priority and thus didn’t allow himself to have a moment to notice.

Silence fell over them as they walked, and Magic-Eyes was growing more uncomfortable. There were no guards or anything around, just them. The silence was making the uneasiness worse. Thankfully, she spoke up.

“Is it normal for your tail to swish back and forth so much? Kinda reminds me of a dog who’s excited,” she asked, pointing to said swishing tail.

“What a-” Magic-Eyes started to say, but a look at his tail cut him off. He mumbled something under his breath in minor annoyance. He was the Arch-Mage for crying out loud! He shouldn't be so easily excited! Or, that's what he thought. He was now starting to question himself on why he was being so easily swayed by a woman not even of his species! Lucette snorted, interrupting his frenzied thoughts.

“Geez, you’re a real hound dog. How old are you anyway? Thirty? Twenty eight?” she asked as they walked.

“Your second guess was correct…” Magic-Eyes said slightly nervously.

“Well, least you’re not a cradle robber,” she mused. “I’m twenty six, though after my Displacement, age literally means nothing to me. I can’t age, so, I now have a youthful form forever.”

“There’s that word again, where did you learn of this?” Magic-Eyes asked as to give him something to focus on rather than the other distraction.

“What, Displacement? I learned it from my Displacer, a Void Dweller bitch named The Trader. Basically, all Displaced are beings from one world brought to an Equestria with new powers or abilities or forms. Usually all of the above. Of course, you seem to be an exception,” Lucette explained.

“Or a magical accident. It wasn’t my intention to activate that old Ayleid structure. It was the first of it’s kind, I simply couldn’t resist trying to make it work,” Magic-Eyes said when he pointed at the Varla stone that was currently in her short’s pocket. Lucette shrugged.

“For all you know a Void Dweller messed with it and made it send you to your Equestria,” she replied. They kept walking. “Oh, and call me Lucy. I feel like I can trust you to not misuse it.” Honestly, she didn’t know why, she just felt… comfortable around him. Not warm or fuzzy, just… comfortable. Similar to the Marines, yet different, not as raucous or loud. She wasn’t sure how to feel about that idea. She shook her head. ‘Probably nothing.’

They eventually made it outside into the courtyard, and quickly Magic-Eyes felt the soothing caress of heavy rainfall, and the clap of thunder all over. Lucette just strode through it all and across the courtyard without a care. Magic-Eyes did the same as the rain never bothered him anyways. In fact, rain was rather welcoming to his skin.

As they walked out onto the streets, past the farms where Skili were tending the few crops they had, Magic-Eyes saw a stadium made nearly completely of metal in the distance, and banners and decorations hanging around the buildings of the city in the distance, even on the farms that were currently around them.

He noted that there were also countless poles all over that looked like lightning bolts and were made of pure gold. “What do those tribute too?” the blue scaled Argonian asked. Lucette looked to the poles.

“Those? They’re tributes to the Earth and Sky. The tips actually have Stormwill on them, if you look closely. It’s the sea green reflective metal. Skili believe that Stormwill is the product of the Earth and Sky’s consummation, and also that they themselves were born from the very metal. Thus, they make these to present the ‘Children’ to the Father Sky while keeping them rooted to the Mother Earth,” Lucette explained as she kept walking.

“So a religion of some sort,” Magic-Eyes theorized.

“Yup,” Lucette confirmed with a nod. Magic-Eyes took his eyes away from the poles to look back to her and saw that she was, in fact, shivering. She seemed to be hiding it though.

“Would you like some warmth? I could cast a resist spell for you,” Magic-Eyes suggested.

“Huh? Oh, uh, yeah, sure, thanks,” she said, slowing down so she was next to him and thus closer and easier for him to cast a spell on. Using the same closed hand with finger and index finger extended, he started tracing an invisible pattern in the air.

“Rejisuto,” He whispered as blue and white energy started to circle Lucette, causing whatever chill or coldness affecting her to fade away. She felt like she was near a flame that wasn’t really there, and there was no indication other than the gentle blue glow she had on her that a spell had been cast.

“Thanks,” she said with a warm smile up at him. The lizard returned the smile, even if his version of it looked different compared to a human smile.

They quickly made it into the city, where Skili were setting up shops and the like. Eventually, they arrived at the stadium, walking inside it’s iron gates and through the tunnel to the field, where a number of other Skili with construction hats were carrying iron I-Beams and other materials. A Skili walked up to her and spoke in a language Magic-Eyes did not understand. To his surprise, she responded in kind, pointing to an area of the stadium, where the Skili ran off to.

She turned back to him. “Can you go over there and help Tempest and the others set up the light fixtures?” she asked, pointing to where a mare in purple barding was overseeing the placement of glowing crystals. Magic-Eyes nodded before going over to help out with whatever they needed. Admittedly it had been a while since he did normal physical work, unless you counted fighting against Necromancers as a form of work.

Magic-Eyes let out a sigh as the memory of fighting Mannimarco and his undead army came to his mind. Even after slaying the King of Worms, the necromancer came back as a scythe wielding wraith. That battle was the most life threatening he was ever in and he would have become Mannimarco’s thrall if it weren’t for Traven’s sacrifice.

A number of hours passed, throughout all of which Magic-Eyes was wondering how the people of this island told the time if a storm was over them all day and night. He got his answer when Lucette came over and placed her hand on his shoulder.

“Oi, time to head in,” she said, gesturing with a thumb to the entrance they came in from. “That is, unless you need to head back to your world.” He wasn’t sure why, but that thought made him feel the tiniest bit sad inside. The Argonian was silent for a moment not only due to his current emotion, but due to how he had to do some calculations as to how many hours had passed. The blue Argoanian blinked as realization dawned on him.

“...Would it be possible if this world and the other’s flow of time work differently?” Magic-Eyes asked in consideration.

“I think so, yeah. Though, with there being infinite possibilities, they could also be exactly the same. Depends on how close our universes are if my recollection of String Theory is correct,” Lucette affirmed.

“I’ll need to study the difference once I return home, wouldn’t want to stay an hour only to realize a minute or a day has passed in another...” Magic-Eyes mused as he started thinking deeply about it.

Lucette gave him an amused smirk and a raised brow. “So, what, you’re staying Bluey?” She gained a mischievous grin and made a pose where she leaned over and clasped her hands together, squishing her mounds together and making her look like she was begging. She gave him false pleading eyes. “~Does the big ol’ lizard want to snuggle wuggle in bed with little old me~?” this caused Magic-Eyes to tumble backwards in shock.

“W-what… but… we… I..” Magic-Eyes was even stumbling over his own words, never had he witnessed anyone go so suddenly straight forward. She grinned wider and went in for the kill.

She walked over and grabbed his arm, pulling it into the embrace of her soft chest as she turned the pleading in her eyes up to eleven. “~Pweease? Lil’ Lucy is scared of being alone in her big castle in her big Queen sized bed~.”

“Terekineshisu,” A word burst from his mouth, and Lucette found her body glowing with a golden hue and floating. “Now Lucy, l-let’s not go that far...” Magic-Eyes said as he directed his hand to put Lucette down, although keeping her at a fair distance in case she goes for the cute attack again.

Lucette pouted. “Awww! Dammit, I almost broke you!” she crossed her arms. “Well, either way, still got to see your cute reaction.”

“My reaction? Cute??” Magic-Eyes said, flabbergasted. “In an Argonian like myself?” he asked before crossing his arms. “I’m not sure if you’re just playing with me, or you… somehow find some sort of fancy with me.”

“Fancy? Jesus you’re old fashioned,” Lucette laughed a bit before shaking her head. “To answer your question, it’s less ‘fancy’ and more that you’re just interesting. No romantic interest, I just find you interesting and nice to hang with.”

“It must be that harmony magic I’ve heard before...” Magic-Eyes muttered, and then blamed it upon how he was feeling about her. He made a mental note to study it when he returns home to see if there was a way to resist its effects. She interrupted his thoughts.

“Do you got a thing for me?” She asked him. “You sure did blush pretty red when I teased you there~.” She sing-songed. The lizard let out a nervous chuckle.

“I’d r-rather not answer that, it's a confliction at this point and I plan to study why its… there..” Magic-Eyes said before taking a moment to breath, he shook his head to clear his thoughts, although it seemed a bit futile each time he looked at her. He whispered something under his breath and secretly casted the detect spell to see if she might have been using some sort of charm spell or if she was wearing any enchantments that did the same. He found nothing.

She just laughed and giggle snorted. “He-Hahahaha! Oh my God, you literally said you didn’t want to answer but you literally did it anyway!” she slapped her knee. “Fucking hell, the fact that ‘you’re conflicted’ means you just might have feelings for me!” She let out another giggle snort. “Aww shit that’s just adorable!”

“I’m not confirming it!” Magic-Eyes reacted, he quickly glanced around as he didn’t want to create a scene. Sadly, many Skili and even the mare, Tempest, were looking at the two like they were crazy. They had already made a scene. His tail slowly raised and his teeth clenched. “Let’s just go inside already before this gets any worse!” He said in a strained whisper.

Lucette giggled again, before nodding and standing up. “A’ight, lover boy,” she teased before leading the way out of the stadium. The comment almost tempted Magic-Eyes to cast a Frenzy spell on himself so she’d stop, however he held himself back as he didn’t want her to get the wrong impression or lose the truth. He was starting to wish he had studied up on illusion magic better, however.

After a good while of walking, they made it back to the castle. Lucette turned to him and smirked at him, hands on her hips. Then to his shock, she drew closer, pursed her lips, and just when he thought she would kiss him, she bonked him on the head.

“Gotcha!” she teased again, giggling at his massive blush. She then took out the Varla Stone. “Sorry, couldn’t resist. Anyways, just let me know when you want to go home.”

“I c-can do it on my own, thank you, I just-” Magic-Eyes stopped as he focused, trying to find his other Varla stone he owns back to his world, but there appeared to be something interrupting him picking up on its magical signature. “..I may need assistance..”

“That’d be because your Stone here duplicated in the Void. It's essentially your Token now, speaking of which…” she pulled a knife made of a rust-like metal similar to iron, but with a dull orange glow. “...Here’s mine.” She handed it to him. The Argonian took it from her.

“The more you speak of the mystery, the more I question it. Whomever this Trader is, I’d like to have a good word with him or her,” Magic-Eyes said, his flustered state temporarily forgotten.

“Trust me, it’ll just end in a headache. Plus, she literally Displaced me just because I gave her cake in return for my gun. Fucking, cake,” Lucette growled a little, before shaking her head. “Anyways, I’ll just send you home the Displaced way, guaranteed to work.” She cleared her throat. “Magic-Eyes, our contract is complete.” A portal opened up behind him. “See?”

“Ah, so don’t bother trying to understand, much like the enigma known as Pinkie Pie,” Magic-Eyes said with a sigh. “Before I go in, is there any possibility I could make the connection more solid as to allow me to go back anytime I want or is there some greater power beyond my understanding that desires for it to not be done?”

“It’s already pretty solid. As long we don’t add new features to either of our tokens banning one or the other from coming to our respective universes, I can come over anytime just by you whistling a tune at my knife, and I imagine I can do the same for you just by calling you up on this Stone,” Lucette explained, hefting the stone. Magic-Eyes went silent as he gave it some thought. He looked over at his stone and it clicked in his mind in understanding.

“It is a simple form of communication, just don’t try it of its energy and all will be well,” Magic-Eyes explained as he got closer to the portal. “May the time of Akatosh permit us to meet again.” He said. Lucette nodded, before giving him a sly wink and a teasing blowed kiss.

“Bye lover boy~,” she said with a seductive flutter of her eyelashes.

“...You’re never going to let that go,” Magic-Eyes realised as he sighed with a bright blush to his cheeks, before he walked through the portal without another word.

EDIT: Added a new, better intro, complete with a new, more fitting song.

EDIT: Fixed errors that should have been obvious to me earlier.

EDIT: Fixed a bunch of errors and mistakes. Added an intro, complete with a song.

More character development crossover. It might be a bit confusing, but I promise the behaviors that seem erratic will be explained.

Hope you enjoyed. Thanks for reading.

-Timeless Celestial