The silence was eerie within the old tombs and ruins of the ayleid, the stone architect long abandoned for reasons yet unknown. The walls were made of marble and covered in dirt and grime, the floor had suffered the same fate due to lack of use.

A lone blue hooded cloaked figure explored the ruins, stopping everso often to check on old green stones that have lost their shine and magic long ago. His name was Magic-Eyes, Arch-battlemage of the Arcane University. His upper body was covered by ebony armor of gold and black with steel pauldrons on his shoulders. In his right hand held a staff of silver and gold, its tip held red and black opal stone that glowed with magic. At his side he held a white and gold Mithril Axe in a leather strap. His gauntlets were made of the same material as well with his fingers covered with chainmail so as to provide protection without limiting dexterity. Around his neck he wore what appeared an silver amulet holding two aqua blue gems together.

He was no ordinary being though, he had a long blue scalie tail moving behind him with his movements as he traveled through the dusty ruins. He enters a rather large room that made his eyes spark with interest, he saw rows of marble blocks with rusty metal that held silvery stones. What really grabbed his interest the most were the floating stones at the end of the room, each of the seven held a glowing rune.

“Discovery of the era..” He said as he reached up to pull back his hood to reveal a lizard-like head, the top had mohawk like finin green and brown, his eyes were gleaming bright purple softly within the darkness. He strides across the room over to the floating runes.

“Kenshutsu Majikku,” Magic-Eyes whispered, causing magic to surround his body and travel up to his eyes. Within his sight, the runes glowed purple, signaling to him that they indeed held magic. With a hand held aloft with finger and index extended, he mumbles out a magic-bonded word. “Terekineshisu.” Slowly, each of the runed stones were coated in blue magic and levitated over to him. He gave them a firm studying and begins to put each piece together, each time he tried, the runes would glow brighter or take on a different color. Eventually finding the correct combination, the stones suddenly floated out of his magic’s grip and started to form a gate.

Suddenly, all of varla stones that standing on their pillars started to react to the runes, slowly connecting a stream of magic and linking up with each other. The cloaked being took a step back in fear as a sudden force of Magicka shot out of the stones to form a portal that started sucking in everything around it. The mage turned to run just as the magicka started affecting him, his body absorbed small portions of it but it wasn’t enough to stop the gravitational pull.

The poor scalie mage is thrown through the portal and into the void, he spun out of control through the vastness of unknown space.

“..What in the name of..” Magic-Eyes never got to finish that sentence as the moment he looked up, he found himself being stared upon by a large group of ponies, except their head and eyes look far to big to be considered normal.

What made them stranger was the fact that they were wearing clothing, although a bit altered to fit their shape. Each pony had varying expression of fear and curiosity.

Despite their strangeness, what caught his eye the most was the purple winged unicorn in the back of the group, her eyes held volumes of wonder, awe, curiosity, and intelligence. In Tamriel, unicorns were a very rare sight to behold, some may consider the beast to possible be the last of its kind considering the lack of reports or history books on the subject. Magic-Eyes however believes the unicorn possesses magic that allows itself to be invisible to naked eye and thus there may be many more out there. Thus, low and behold that Magic-Eyes would see another of its kind even if it is a different coloration than its original counterpart, even if it had wings for that matter.

“Fascinating,” Magic-Eyes commented with awe in his sights. When he spoke, the group of ponies including the Purple winged unicorn, ears perked up when he spoke, there was murmuring among the group as if they sounded unsure of how to respond.

The largest of the archeologists seemed to lift his hoof to his chin in thought as there was a loud bang from a nearby coffin, a muffled voice coming from within the coffin “Hey! I can hear someone out there! A little help? I’m kinda stuck! By the sapphire star it smells like a congalalas arse in here! Oogh… I’m gonna lose my lunch...”

The lavender unicorn was the first to react, running over to the coffin, she opened it up using her own telekinesis. But what she saw made her back away in fear.

Magic-Eyes, seeing this, made him twirl his hands as magicka started to gather around him and into the palm of his black claws.

The draconic undead waved his hands placatingly “Wait! I only hunt monsters! I’ve never hurt sapient beings!” He then thought a moment and corrected himself “Unless if you count my experiments with dragon blood, that ended rather poorly a few times, and I fear I may have accidentally scalded mewlther once or twice! But I always healed him back up, and after the second time I started to pay better attention to containment!” He shuddered “Effluvium is nasty stuff… Can’t say I am too fond of the fact that I generate it now…”

Magic-Eyes narrowed his eyes, not trusting the draconic creature in the coffin, especially due to its appearance. Back in his world after he had became the Arch-Mage, he had continued the ban on the practice of necromancy. “Are you some sort of victim from a necromancer’s experimentation or did you do this to yourself?” the blue scalie asked.

The draconic creature hummed thoughtfully “Well, I never meant to become a Vaal Hazak Elder Dragon, but… The potion was supposed to imbue me with the power of an elder dragon, so that I may better protect the fifth fleet… I suppose that matters little now though…” He then looked to the Purple winged unicorn, who was hyperventilating at the moment “You may want to step away from my coffin while doing that, I tried to melt my way out with effluvium, but the stone seemed to be treated against acid. The fumes will poison you if you are not careful.” He then looked at the fumes and sighed, put off by something “One second, actually.” He then began breathing in, and the greenish brown fumes that were seeping out of the coffin all went down his gullet before he seemed to… heal? His scales grew more glossy, and his flesh seemed tougher, and thicker as well. “Guh… That was not pleasant… But at least the effluvium fumes are gone.”

“What..” She stopped in mid-sentence as she looked between both Argonian and dragon. “Who are you guys?” she asked.

As the swirls of fire, shock, and frost slowly faded from his hands, Magic-Eyes stepped away from the portal.“My name is Athre’us-Ei, or Magic-Eyes if you cannot speak my tongue.” he said.

Sigmund smiled and shrugged “Well, my old name was Sigmund, but… I think getting a new body allows for a new name, yes? Mayhaps I should change it? Hmmmm… no, I’ve engraved my hammer with my name, would be a pain to redo it.” He then looked behind him and pulled out what looked like a giant hammer made of various bones and chiton, as well as claws and fangs from some unknown creature, with a jewel in it’s center that resembled a bloodshot eye.

Before the blue scaled mage could ask another question, there was a sound of shifting stones grinding against each other. Magic-Eyes glanced to his right to see an old stallion holding down a switch with a aqua blue gem, the western wall started to slide down to reveal a skeleton pony wearing old elven armor limping out, it held a elven sword in its mouth. “You fool…” Magic-Eyes commented.

Sigmund frowned “How can bones stay standing without muscle tissue? It makes no sense!” The skeleton pony then took a swing at Sigmund, only for him to instinctively shrink his hammer to a one handed size, and use it to parry the axe swing! “Okay, sense or not, it wants blood! And also how’d I do that!?”

Magic-Eyes extend out his hand as magicka sparked to life in his palm. “Shokku Mahi” he whispered as a thin bolt of lightning flew out from his fingertips, the energy slammed into the skeleton, sending its boney bits all over the place. At the sight of this, all of the archeologist ponies started to scatter to get away from the danger. At this point, more skeletons started pouring in from the wall the first had came out of. “Even in another world, Ayleids always took prisoners.” Magic-Eyes said as he reached down by his side to pull out his Mythril Axe, blue energy sparked along its handle and along the blade’s edge.

Sigmund frowned “Huh, remind me to smack an Ayleid if I see one.” He then looked to the nearest skeleton and leapt at it before it could get to the purple winged unicorn “Leave the cute one alone!”

“You won’t be seeing one.” Magic-Eyes said before blasting another skeleton to pieces. “The ayleids are extinct.”

Sigmund chuckled “Before today, I had never expected to find a cute purple pegasus with a horn...Unicorn with wings?” As he turned to ask her what exactly she was, he saw her crushing a skeleton into dust with a forcefield of some sort. “Jumping Jaggi! The girl’s good in a brawl too? Damn it I wish I was still fresh!”

Magic-Eyes raised his battlestaff and blocked a skeleton pony’s swing, a steel claymore in style although smaller to fit its mouth. Magic-Eyes countered with a swing of his own, the skeleton didn’t fall apart like the others but Magic-Eye’s enchanted axe worked its magic when blue magicka was being pulled out of the skeleton. “Reanimated by magic..” he commented with a scowl.

Only when the skeleton readied to buck Magic-Eyes in the face, Sigmund dropped his hammer and tackled the skelepony to the ground, growling bestially before grabbing its skull and ripping it from the spine before smashing the shoulder joints in with it “No one will EVER hurt my comrades again! Never! AGAIN!”

There was a loud blast as a group of bone-ponies were shattered by the skillful winged unicorn, she was looking around in panic as she kept her senses clear. Magic-Eyes looked over at the draconic zombie with a raised-eyeridge at the comment he made about comrades. Magic-Eyes swung his arm not to use his weapon, but rather to throw a skeleton he had in his magicka grip. It’s remains being shattered to pieces like the rest of its brethren.

As Sigmund finished smashing skeletons, with another skeleton, he looked to the entryway “Hey, is the door supposed to be closing?!” He then noticed that there was no apparent way to open it from the inside and ran with his unfortunate skele-weapon, jamming it in between the door and the floor to slow it as he tried to hold it open “Come on! We gotta go!” he shouted, the other ponies were panicking even more than before. They took their chance and ran through the gap in the doorway. Just as the winged unicorn turned to leave, a skelepony came out of the shadows and swung its weapon down, however Magic-Eyes had teleported in its way and managed to block the attack with his staff, Sigmund didn’t even see him move!

The door seemed to push harder to close with every moment “H-hey guys, I get that this weird stuff you can both do is cool and all, I do! B-but… I’d really like to stop fighting a door!”

Magic-Eyes unleashes a bolt of lightning to send the last skeleton’s remains across the room. The horned pegasus turned to look at scalie mage with slight concern. “Just go!” he demanded. She listens this time and starts to gallop toward the entryway.

Only, as she ran, a sickening crunch to be heard as Sigmund right arm broke and he rolled out of the way of the door right before it crushed him, making sure the purple pegacorn was okay before the pain registered “Gah! Sh-shit… This is gonna be gross…” He walked over to a pile of bones and breathed those same fumes all over them, causing them to become a soupy liquid before evaporating and getting inhaled by him. “Ugh… nasty…” He then looked to his arm as the bones poking out of his flesh seemed to sink back in, before his arm repaired itself. The purple unicorn cringed and appeared to look she was going to throw up.

Magic-Eyes takes a look around, seeing a few dropped or tipped over lanterns. With a raised fist with two fingers extended out, he casts out a spell. “Hikari..” he said, causing a ball of light to form in his hand, he lets it go as it floats above him and within his distance. He makes his way over to where the floating runes had lost their glowing luster. He reaches out to place his hand on one of them. He lets out a gentle groan as he finds out he came in was not accessible at the moment. “We can either find a way out, or wait a while as I try to reactivate the portal.” he says as he takes a look at the runes, only to see they were in yet another different language than the first row he came across. “They’re together but…” he taps his chin in thought. “Kenshutsu Majikku,” He whispers, his eyes once again glowing. “..N-no magic?”

Sigmund shrugged and picked up his hammer as he looked down the hallway that was opposite where the Archaeologists were looking “Logic dictates that this would be the best place to try to leave, especially since there’s only one other way, and it’s full of boney ponys.”

“No matter, as long as they’re weak to shock spells or don’t gain the intelligence to learn resist spells, we should do fine.” Magic-Eyes as as he placed his axe back into its leather holster.

Sigmund sighed “Don’t say stuff like that, you will tempt fate, you NEVER want to do that.” He looks to the purple pegacorn “So what’s yer name, cutie?”

“Unless Sheogorath himself is watching, I doubt my own words would betray me without his chaotic nature.” Magic-Eyes commented as he readied a shock spell in his hands, he slowly makes his way over to the wall that lowered before the skeleton fight.

“Now wait just a minute!” the unicorn demanded. “You don’t go calling others cuties you just met.” she said. “As for what my name is, its Twilight Sparkle. Right now, I’m rather freaked out, I mean you two appearing, him through the portal we’ve been trying to figure out for the past few months, and then there’s you in the coffin when it was empty a moment ago.” Twilight explained.

Sigmund shrugged “Hey, in the New world, we lost people to monsters on a daily basis. It was kinda important we got friendly quick, so we could work together in a fight.” he looked downcast, as if he just remembered something horrible right as he said that “Um… Let’s switch topics, okay?”

She appeared to be concentrating as her horn lighted up, only for it to spark out. “..something is blocking my magic..” Twilight said as she looked over at Magic-Eyes.

Magic-Eye’s scanned the room as his sights picked up every magical item or person in the room, Sigmund’s magical signature was weak in nature, either due to his lack of magic usage or his life force. “I’m detecting an unusual pattern in the room, a possible Damage Magicka enchantment, possibly an extra trap. We’d best try to get out before it drains my magically reserves..” he explained, he started heading toward the exit where skeletons came from.

Sigmund frowned as he looked to us with concern “Does it hurt? If it does, could you tell me where it’s hurting you from? Maybe we can pinpoint the source of the enchantment thing and stop it? Breaking it would work, right? Or… would that make another trap happen? I’m not used to this sort of thing...”

“I think we should follow Magic-Eyes’s advice, he sounds like he knows of the Ayleid Ponys more than I do…” Twilight said as she looked over at where he went, she had a barrage of questions on her mind.

Sigmund walked after them, looking to his legs with irritation as he wobbled after them, seemingly unused to his current form “This is worse than when I drank Boris’s moonshine…” He looked to Twilight with worry, seemingly hyper aware of anything near her that could hurt her, he then looked to Magic-Eyes, equally hyper aware of potential danger, it seemed that he was extremely paranoid about harm coming to either of them.

As the three walked through, there were many chains along the walls, including some remaining skeletons that did not come to life. Something within the scalie mage’s eyes were detected by his spell. “Seems one of the prisoners withheld his or her weapon, yet still enchanted despite years down here..” Magic-eye said.

Sigmund walked over and took it from the skeleton “Might as well take it, right? I mean, It might be worth some cash, I doubt my worlds currency is any good here.”

Magic-eyes walked over and held his hand over it. “Not the best weapon material wise, but its been enchanted with Fire properties.” he explained.

Sigmund then snapped his claws as if he just realized something before he quickly handed the weapon to Twilight “You should have it, sweetie, you need something to fight with if your magic keeps getting sapped, now that I think of it. Don’t want you to die on us, cutie!”

“Hey! I’ve had my fair share of evil.” Twilight in a slightly annoyed voice. With nothing else to discuss, the two continued down the hallways.

Sigmund looked confused “I’m trying to be nice! Was I rude back there?! I’m sorry!”

“And stop calling me cutie!” Twilight said with a huff. Magic-Eyes shook his head at the exchange between the two. There was a moment of silence before Twilight spoke again. “Soo.. Where did you two come from? In all my life and in the many books i’ve read, I’ve never seen your kind before..” She asked.

“As I’ve mentioned before, I’m the Arch-battlemage of the arcane university back in Cyrodil, from time and time again I tend to teach my students on the proper use on magicka.” Magic-Eyes said, Twilight’s ears perked up at this bit of information as she held the enchanted iron long sword in her teeth.

Sigmund sighed “I was the scientist of my Hunting party for the research commissions fifth fleet, before Xeno jiiva killed the others… I kinda got obsessed with toughening up the monster hunters after that, big ton of good it did, my god kicked me outta my world for ‘Awakening to the mystical arts long forbidden to mankind’ Big jerk… How was I supposed to know my mutagenic serum would give me forbidden power? There was ZERO warning, no scripture, nothing!”

“You should of studied a bit further into it or at least did some tests. Alchemy is just as difficult as Magicka if not properly handled.” Magic-Eyes said with a shake of his head at such carelessness.

Sigmund grunted “It’s not like I could test it on a monster, if it worked, we’d have a monster capable of killing us all. I tested it on a blood sample and nothing bad happened, so I injected myself to see if it worked right. I refused to risk my Palico Mewlther on that, I mean, I was dating his sister!” He sighed “I sure will miss Catherine…”

“One test and you assume it would work just fine on yourself?” Magic-eyes asked with a sigh. “For all you know, your ingredients might of been tampered with, possibly a necromancer considering your appearance.” he held venom in his words when he mentioned the word necromancer. Twilight continued to listen with interest.

Sigmund thought a moment “You know, I think I need to take a break… I don’t… I don’t think I can’t keep this going… phew!” He then put his clawed hands on his knees as he bent over slightly, breathing hard… yet as he went down, his body changed, no longer rotten and now a handsome young man with long, shoulder length black hair and a thin nose as he was now in cloaked armor that resembled his draconic form, yet was obviously only armor, and not an actual part of him. He then paused “... Wait, I feel much better!” He looked to Twilight as his pointed ears perked up, his fiery eyes no longer glowing as he frowned “Why are you staring at me like that?” He gasped “Did I do something wrong again?!”

Twilight blinked and would of been furiously scribbling it down if she could teleport a quill, paper, and inkwell.

“Interesting..” Magic-Eyes commented as he stroked his scalie chin.

Sigmund seemed to grow upset, still thinking he upset what he saw as his only friends in this strange situation. He didn’t want them mad at him, he wanted them to be his friends. Damn it, he wished he was better at socializing! “What’d I do? I mean, I just… I just rested a bit… Did I do something wrong?”

“I’ve never seen zombification handled this way, usually its permanent, yet it wore off as if it was a common diseased being cleansed by a cure spell.” Magic-eyes explained.

Sigmund looked hopefully to Magic-Eyes “S-so… I didn’t make you mad?” He then looked to Twilight “You either? I want us to be friends… I don’t want to make you two mad at me…”

“No, merely sparked my curiosity. If I could figure out how it works, I could turn it into a spell that’ll deny the effects of a necromancer’s control over the undead.” Magic-Eyes said, realization soon dawned on him. “...I’m going to need to find an amulet and enchant it, if your zombie dragon form is similar to the undead, a necromancer might try to control you.”

Sigmund shuddered “I don’t like the thought of that… I’d much prefer being my own person.” He then smiled at Twilight as he held out his hand “How about we start fresh? I’m Sigmund Freyton, it is nice to meet you!”

Twilight smiled as she placed her hoof in Sigmund’s hand. “Twilight Sparkle.” she said. “And it’s always good to make new friends.”

Author's Notes:

This is a collaborative launch with Lord Krahtorra
Also note, cross-overs will limited, I'll be focusing mostly on the story. However if anyone needs him, please PM me and we shall discuss.