Hey guys! DeltaSandman here with my third attempt with my Dragon Age fanfic: The Outworlder
To anyone who was reading it and were looking forward to more, I'm truly sorry, but I felt like I was rushing it or it was getting off on the wrong foot, and if I don't like where this story is heading, you guys won't either. So again I'm sorry and I'll give you guys the story you all deserve. Now just a reminder that this is a self insert fanfic with eighteen-year-old Chris as our protagonist (as well as FemHawke and the rest of the gang) and since my favorite romance is Isabela, that's who Chris is going to be with. But before you guys go all "Dude that's low class!" Or "That's disgusting!" Or something like that, this takes place in Dragon Age 2, which is like seven years game wise. So in act three, Chris will be in her mid 20's and Isabela in her early 30's. Not creepy now right? :P
Okay enough of me babbling, here goes my THIRD attempt!
As always, enjoy! :D
Chapter 1
A muffled chime tune went off non-stop for five minutes, before eighteen-year-old, Christina Autumn (Chris) shuffled hand towards the serene, yet irritating music. It didn't take long until she felt the smooth surface of her new iPhone that was hiding beneath the sheets and got a firm grip on the sides setting it on her stomach facing up shutting off her alarm. Before she could set it back down again and drift off while she still can, Chris needed to check the time on the phone. She waited a few seconds before her blurry vision cleared up and glanced at the time before dropping down on her side letting out an annoyed groan.
Six, already? You think time could go by really slow when you're sleeping.
Chris forced herself up letting out another disapproving groan rubbing her eyes fiercely before wiggling herself out of her sleeping bag and to her backpack to put on her clothes. She pulled out her wrinkled shirt and jeans slipping them on and stuffed her PJ's into the back pocket struggling to zip it all the way. She unzipped her front pocket, which was carrying her sketch book, colored pencils, and a sharpener and then unzipped the entrance to the tent stepping out into the peaceful sounding woods with a barely lit sky with no sun and 5 other nearby tents along with very trees towering over the campsite.
"First field trip into the woods. Very peaceful." Chris whispered to herself breathing in the slightly cold air that sent a little shiver through her body before sitting down on the dirt. "We're gonna get dirty anyways, so why bother?"
Chris opened her sketch book up going through many amazing drawings that she had created. One of them was a drawing of a tough dwarf wielding it's trusty crossbow ready to fight. Chris chuckled. "If I could have Bianca for a day, Varric, It would be the best day ever."
But she answers to Varric and Varric alone.
She turned the page to a drawing of what looked like a knight in light grey armor wielding a sword and shield as it is about to strike against a young woman wearing a light blue robe and a staff aimed directly at the knight with fire razing from the very top.
"Would be a tough fight, but I'm betting Mage over Templar." She predicted silently.
"You're betting over a battle you drew?" A young woman's voice called from from behind Chris.
She turned to see that it was none other than Ashley, her best friend for six years. Ashley was 2 years older than Chris and she was wearing a black sleeveless shirt with a white skeleton playing the drums and ripped jeans and a Steelers Ball cap backwards with streaks of her dyed dark purple hair.
Most people think of girls of going out to the mall getting their nail polished, talking about new shoes, reality TV shows or guys. And in most cases that's true, but not for Christina and Ashley. They were tomboys to the core, wearing t-shirts and jeans, playing video games, and other stuff.
Chris rolled her eyes. "And good morning to you, too, Ash."
Ash took a seat right next to Chris and peaked at the drawing. "I'm voting for the chick too."
Chris smirked. "Is it because she's pretty badass or you love the body?"
Ash motioned her hand to the drawn Mage. "How can you say no to hot bod like that?"
Chris scoffed. "Apparently the Templar can."
They both laughed and continued to check out more of Chris's amazing creations on paper. The relationship between Chris and Ash is more complex than it seems. When they first met, they were best of friends playing games, bikes, movies, ect. But as time passed, their friendship strained greatly. Now, both girls are doing their best to rebuild their friendship as best they can. It has been a challenge for them, but one thing they both had in common is that they like a challenge.
Ash reached over to Chris's sketchbook and skipped about 4 pages resulting in Chris blurting out, "Hey!"
"Okay, that's pretty sick!" Ash commented mentioning the picture showing infinite amounts of calm ocean with a few dotted islands filled with trees and waterfalls pouring down from the top and into the ocean. But what really caught her attention was what was on one of the islands, the largest one, has a city with smooth swirling dome silver roofs with pointed edges at the top and the sterile white marble as the buildings along with the trees and waterfalls adding to this city's beauty. At the very top showed what looked like a majestic palace almost eclipsing the midday sun.
"I'm gonna take a guess, and say that's an elven city." Ash concluded still looking at Chris's masterpiece.
"Well, in Dragon Age, humans wiped out the elven empire. So I decided to draw this island city, and make it one of the few spots untouched by humans." Chris explained. "Sooo... yeah. It's an elven city."
"Does it have a name?" Ash wondered.
"If it did, it would be a sucky name for this city."
"That's a lame way of saying 'no'." Ash smirked she hopped to her feet pulling Chris up as well.
"Woah!" Chris exclaimed. "You're all eager and stuffies."
"C'mon! Still gotta coupla hours 'till the rest of the guys wake up!" Ash said.
"Where are we even going?" Chris asked.
Ash smirked. "I dunno! Hopefully somewhere cool!" She answered pulling Chris further away from the camp.
Chris chuckled. "A bummer Nick's not up. He coulda loved to get away from camp for a bit."
"You sayin' I'm boring?"
"Never said that." Chris answered quickly. "Just saying he's not the only crazy explorer."
"Well it's just you and me right now, bro." Ash told her swinging herself around a tree lazily. "Come on! It'll be like old times!"
Chris sighed. "Well I'm all outta ideas at the moment so, what the heck?"
The two friends moved away from the campsite, and deep into the woods navigating through all the roots sticking out of the ground, and doing a couple of spins around the enormous trees. It felt good to be out here in the wilderness doing something totally dumb and stupid, and they both didn't care at the moment. This was a moment to be savored, although they both wish it could go on for much longer.
"So if you were in the game, who would be your love interest?" Ash asked Chris out of the blue.
Chris raised her eyebrows in a quizzical way. "What kinda question is that?"
"It's a Dragon Age question mostly." Ash said. "Come on! Who is it? I won't judge. Pinky promise."
Chris sighed. "How about you tell me, who would be your LI and I'll tell you mine."
"That wasn't the deal!"
Chris shrugged. "Then I guess you'll never know then."
"Oh my... Alright, you evil woman! Honestly, it would be a 3 way tie with Alistair, Anders, and Fenris."
Chris snickered. "You can always have a foursome!"
"Oh hell no, dude!" Ash shook her head and swing her hands away from her in a refusing way. "You had to put that image into my head."
Chris laughed. "Well I do owe you an answer, plus I think it's more ridiculous than your answer."
"Dear god I hope so!" Ash groaned.
Chris cleared her throat and said only one name. "Isabela."
Ash snorted a bit before letting out a hysterical laugh that sounded a little too dramatic.
"Okay. Don't overdo it." Chris said.
"Isabela? Really?"
Chris rolled her eyes. "I know she's... promiscuous. But she has a heart, and she is one helluva girl if you're with her."
Ash smiled shaking her head. "Chris I'd hate to burst your bubble, but if you even had the chance to sleep with her, she'd just bail as soon as she was done. Plus think of all the STD's she caught!"
Chris countered that with one of Isabela's quotes with an Isabela impression. "Isn't that what magic is for?"
Ash rolled scoffed but smiled before continuing on towards what she wanted to show Chris.
"Okay I admit, It's highly unlikely that she will fall for me. FemHawke much more likely."
"She's like 26 and you're what? Eighteen?"
Chris smirked. "But when when she's 31, I'll be 25."
Ash rolled her eyes. "Dream on, girl!"
They continued their way through the forrest sliding down a steep hill where they started hearing the sound of water nearby. The two friends followed the sound to come across a wide stream that was flowing into an enormous lake. The sight was nothing they had ever seen before. The water in the lake looked like it was pure and untouched, because of the bright blue color is gave out. Ash and Chris were amazed by their discovery, and by the fact they had discovered a place that no ever been found by the other hikers, or hunters or ect.
Chris turned to Ash who looked like she was taking all of this in"Okay I know this doesn't mean much, but this is a pretty awesome place."
Her voice looked like it brought Ash out of a trance as she quickly turned to her and gave her a smile. "Being lost doesn't always have to be a bad thing."
Chris scoffed. "Well that's a nice thought! We're are going to get into alotta trouble when they find us!"
"Ohmygod! You worry too much!" She exclaimed removing her shirt and jeans leaving her only in her black bra and panties.
Chris was taking aback by her eagerly getting out of her clothes. "You're seriously gonna dive into the lake?"
Ash rolled her eyes. "Why wouldn't I? It's not bad outside, and besides it's refreshing!"
"And freezing!" Chris added taking a seat on one of the hard surface of a rock looking down at the lake Ash was going to dive in.
"You're such a wimp!" She said before taking a few steps back before charging towards the edge leaping into the air at the last second bringing her legs up to her chest with her arms clutching them tightly. "Cannon ball!"
Ash breached the serenity of the lake looking like she was all the way at the bottom, she made such a big splash, that Chris's jeans and shoes got wet letting out a startled shriek. Ash instantly popped her head out of the water with only her eyes, damp blue hair, and her nose.
"That was uncalled for!" Chris shouted trying to hold back her laugh.
Ash's head fully emerged from the water giving Chris a toothy grin. "C'mon in! Waters fine!"
Chris shook her head. "I am not getting into that water!"
"It's not even that cold!" Ash persisted. "C'mon pwetty pweese?"
Chris let out an annoyed sigh before rising to her feet slowly slipping off her shoes and socks, and rolling up her jeans until they were up to her knees.
"Wow! Weaksauce!"
Chris ignored her sprinting forward into the water springing into midair doing the same pose as Ash by bringing her knees to her stomach and grasping her knees as tight as she could with her hands before she punched through the water feeling an instant freezing sensation that died out after a few seconds before swimming up to the surface letting in a huge breath of air and letting out a loud whoo.
Ash cackled. "Atta girl!"
"Wow! Okay. That feels good!
"Told ya!"
Both girls then started to fool around when Ash surprised Chris by splashing her face with water, making Chris retaliate with the same thing. Both girls continued their little splash war until Chris decided to jump onto Ash's back but quickly slipped off her deciding to lay on her back looking up at the sky that was slowly but surely getting brighter.
"This isn't half bad." Chris said exhaling taking in all the serenity this place had to offer.
"Amen, dude. Amen." Ash concurred doing the same thing as Chris by floating on her back and looking up at the sky. Both friends felt a sense of peace in this area, and they we're going to savior every moment of it. "Yo, Chris?"
Chris turned to her friend. "What's up?"
Ash opened her mouth about to say something, but no words came out and just sighed before finding something else to say. "I'm just really grateful we're still friends after everything."
Chris gave her a comforting smile. "What's done is done, Ash. It's over. Your home and safe, and that's all that matters now."
"Okay! Don't get all lovey dovey on me now." Ash warned jokingly. "I swear I feel like I'm in a Twilight movie."
"Really?" Chris laughed. "Which one are you thinking of?"
Ash smiled rolling her eyes before rolling back looking back up at the sky. "Whatevs."
Chris suddenly felt the water giving her a soft push. Something she choose to ignore thinking it was Ash moving her hands in the water. It happened again only a little bit stronger this time causing Chris to rise from her back initially going to tell Ash to relax a little bit and stop pushing her. That was until she saw that the water started to form a swirl around Chris and was slowly expanding.
"I think we need to get outta the water!" Chris said sounding a little alarmed but was remaining calm knowing that panicking will not help them both. Ash didn't seem hear her due to her still on her back with her eyes closed.
Chris looked down at the swirl to see that that it was glowing a cyan color and started flashing and was expanding all across the lake. Chris nudged Ash in the arm causing her to rise from her back.
"What's u-" Ash's eyes rose with both surprise and fear. "The fuck?!"
"Let's get outta the water! NOW!" Chris shouted.
Both girls swam as fast as they could to dry land, but the pushing water was getting stronger by the second as the bright swirl started to take shape into a glowing whirl pool.
"It's getting stronger!" Chris yelled.
"Just keep swimming!" Ash shouted back.
In the end, the situation seemed hopeless as the glow reached the edges of the lake causing both girls to be pulled away from nearby land and twirling around the lake at such speed making it's way into the middle feeling like they were both sinking.
"Hold your breath as long as you-" Ash didn't have time to finish her advice as she was instantly pulled down into the lake with Chris watching in horror.
"ASH!" And just like that, she was pulled down too and didn't even struggle thinking it will only tire her out. Instead she was glancing all around at her surroundings seeing the glow getting brighter and brighter until that was all she was seeing for the last ten seconds while still feeling like she was being pulled down.
Stay calm! Whatever you do, just stay calm!
She no longer felt she was being pulled down and the bright glow quickly dyed out making the water return to it's natural color. Chris wasted no time using all of her strength swimming up to the surface seeing the sun shinning bright. Feeling the strong suffocating feeling squeezing the life out of her body, she paddled her arms and legs faster and rammed her head out of the water inhaling as much air as she can.
Paying no attention to her surroundings Chris instinctively free styled towards the shoreline of the lake. She finally made it to land and flopped on her back taking in short shallow breaths with a cloudy vision before it suddenly went black making her lose all consciences.
What she would find out soon is that she was not in her world anymore and her journey has just begun.
So here is finally the first chapter of this hope you guys liked it. There will be more up soon.
If anyone has heard of the game Life is Strabgethis will help to know at Chris AND Ash look like. Chris looks like Max and Ash looks like Chloe
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DeltaSandman out! :D