Hey everyone, here is a little experiment by me! I hope you like it and tell me if I should make more!
Disclaimer: I do not own For Honor and Elder Scrolls, all franchises depicted in this story belong to their respective owners.
The rain fell hard in the swamps of the Myre, water levels were high and the floods began to swallow the land. Then, a shadow moved. A Nobushi was running in the rain, setting her sets on one target as she ran through the swamp with much quickness. In front of her, a metal figure, whose armor gleamed from the nearby lanterns, running from her at great speed. The Nobushi could hear the words of her companions.
"Momiji! Don't run off without us! You must wait for help!"
Momiji ignored their warnings as she ran after her target.
"Please just surrender knight!"
The Warden ignores her as he kept running. As they neared the cliff, the Warden is suddenly tackled by another figure. Momiji stops for a moment and analyzes the newcomer, it was clearly a Berserker, a female one. The Warden pushes her off him as he drew his longsword, eyeing both Momiji and the Berserker. The Berserker growled at him.
"You… You have to answer for all the death you have caused!" the Berserker growled. "I will avenge Helvar's death!"
"No! He is a prisoner of the Samurai!" Momiji countered. "He attacked Empress Ayu and gravely injured her champion!"
"Stay back samurai!" the Berserker growled. "We're only here for the Warden!"
"So are we!" Momiji protested.
But their exchange is interrupted by the arrival of Vikings and Samurai, who surround them. The leader of the samurai group reveals herself to be Ayu. The leader of the Vikings reveals himself to be the Raider.
"Surrender to us, Warden!" Ayu called out. "And we will guarantee fair treatment!"
"The Warden is ours! Helvar must be avenged!" The Raider snarled.
The Warden was shaken as he saw none of his allies come for him. He prayed as he muttered to himself.
"In nomine patre, et filii, et spiritui sancti…"
"I have done only what Sir Holden Cross asked me to!" The knight shouted.
"Shut it, Warden!" The Raider demanded.
"I have a name! Robert Ackerman!" Robert protested.
"Well, Robert, surrender! Or we will be forced to—"
Their negotiations were interrupted as they saw the familiar Buddha statue next to them begin to creak. The soil underneath it began to give way as the giant statue came crashing down, together with a ton of soil. The Vikings and Samurai were able to keep a safe distance, but three unfortunate individuals were caught in the landslide. Ayu screamed as she saw her friend go falling down.
"Momiji!"
The Raider saw one of his best soldiers fall into the darkness as the landslide took her away.
"Valhalla awaits… Eira."
Robert felt his strength return to him as he opened his eyes to see himself in the middle of a forest. He looks left and right to see no one is around as he tries to move. But his body felt heavy at the moment and he chooses to lie for awhile.
"This certainly does not look like the swamps of Myre… Am I… Back in Ashfeld?"
Robert summons his strength and sits up, carefully analyzing his environment. He hears the sound of carts as he saw what looked like legionnaires transporting prisoners. He stands up and sneaks over to takes a closer look to see two familiar faces on the carts.
"The Nobushi and the Berserker girl…"
Robert decides to lay low as he follows the carts.
"Maybe they can lead me back to Ashfeld."
Momiji gets shaken awake by a sudden tremble from the cart. She sees that her hands are tied and her weapon is out of her hands. She sees the Berserker next to her, tied to the cart, instead of simply having her hands bound.
"Hey you! Stranger in the white mask!"
Momiji turns to see a brown-haired man sitting next to her.
"Me?"
"Yes, you. You're finally awake, you were trying to cross the border, right?"
"B-Border?"
"Yes, you and your vicious friend over there." the brown haired man said while referring to the Berserker in chains. "You put up a valiant effort in fighting those Imperials."
"Imperials? Friend? I don't understand anything you're saying!" Momiji replied.
"Ah, my apologies, you must be tired and confused as it is."
"Shut up back there!" the cart driver reprimanded.
"Damned Imperial…" the brown-haired man muttered.
Momiji looked around and saw nothing familiar about the environment they were in. Foggy mountains, pine forests and rocky terrain. None of it looked like home to her.
"Where are we?" Momiji asked.
"We're on a cart going straight to Helgen, where all the criminals go."
"W-Wait! But who's in charge!?"
"I said quite back there!" the cart driver demanded as he turned to face them, giving Momiji a good look of who she was facing.
"A-A Centurion?"
"Hah! You'd wish! All those mechs are down in the Dwemer ruins!"
"Dwemer ruins?"
"Well you see—"
"Shut it, we're here." the driver announced.
Both stop and turn their attention to the fort, which was made of stone walls and hay roofing. While her companions seemed awed by the structure, Momiji has honestly seen better from the Iron Legion. But she hears a shout from the soldiers.
"General Tullius, sir! The headsman is waiting!"
"Good. Let's get this over with."
Momiji took a moment to look at the scenery, while not as awe-inspiring as the castles of Ashfeld, it was cool to see all the different clothing and people. Based on the scenery, she could have sworn that she was in Valkenheim. She could hear the voice of the children watching as the cart finally came to a stop.
"Get these prisoners out of the carts. Move it!" a captain in familiar Centurion armor barked.
Momiji and her fellow prisoners got off their carts, leaving the Berserker behind. The captain then asks the cart driver.
"Why isn't she getting off!?"
"She's not normal, commander… She took on and killed five of us. Even when we cuffed her she still was able to take a few of us down."
"Well, get her off then! I want full weights on her chains, you hear me!?"
"Yes, captain!"
Before the Berserker wakes up, they successfully attach iron weights to her hands, so that she may not get free.
"What's this!?"
"Get off the cart prisoner, come on!"
"I'd like to see you make me!" Eira sneered.
A soldier then pushes the Berserker off, and she grumbles as they were brought before the headsman. Now Momiji was not far off, and she calmly kept her distance from the volatile Berserker. Momiji was frantically searching for her naginata, but she found it, alas, in another cart, too far for her to make a run for it. Now the captain then shouted.
"Step towards the block when we call your name!"
Momiji gulped as she realized that the end was nearing and she had to act fast. She saw a brown-haired man with a roll of paper as he read.
"Ulfric Stormcloak. Jarl of Windhelm."
A man from another cart, bound and gagged, walked near the block.
"Ralof of Riverwood."
A blonde man from the other cart walked to the block.
"Lokir of Rorikstead."
Momiji noticed the commotion and saw the man run away.
"Halt!"
"You're not going to kill me!"
"Archers!" the captain commanded as they shot the man dead. "Anyone else feel like running!?"
Momiji shook her head as she saw the poor man fall, but the Berserker sneers at the display.
"Coward." Eira spat.
The man with the roll of paper then looks at Momiji. Momiji could see the confusion and curiosity written all over his face.
"Wait, you in the mask. Step forward."
Momiji stepped forward and asked.
"So… Where am I? Am I in Ashfeld or Valkenheim? Because this place seems—"
"Shut it!" the captain shouted, cowing Momiji.
"Someone please take off this girl's mask and hat! Gods, why didn't you remove it earlier?"
The soldiers removed the mask and hat, to reveal the Oriental features of Momiji. Her face, white and smooth as porcelain. Her natural thin eyes and her pink lips. Her eyes were a shade of brown and her jet black hair was tied into a braid. Everyone around seemed shocked at her features. No one could clearly tell what she was, until a nearby priest pointed a shaking finger at her.
"An Akaviri!"
The soldiers obviously shocked, take a step back to see if it was true. Everyone gasped as Momiji's clothing and facial features resembled that of the long-dead race. The priest then said.
"She must be a member of the Blades! We must eliminate her now!"
The old man with graying hair couldn't help but agree. He gestures for the soldiers to take Momiji to the chopping block.
"W-Wait! What are the Blades!? Why do you hate them so much!? What's an Akaviri!?" Momiji spewed endlessly as she was brought to the chopping block.
The captain holds Momiji down with her foot as Momiji prepared for what was coming. The executioner holds his axe high and gets ready to plunge it down on Momiji's head. But Momiji then kicks the captain in the shins with her free foot. She then stands up, knees the executioner and uses his weapon unbound her hands. She then holds the weapon in stance as the soldiers readied to fight her. She puts the axe near the captain's neck and holds the soldier hostage.
Robert ran down the road where the carts passed, he then saw a settlement up ahead and runs up to it. But a patrol then stops him.
"Halt! State your name and business here in Helgen!"
"I am Robert Ackerman, Warden of the Iron Legion! And I wish to go inside!"
The patrol then seemed confused at this and called up to the man in the tower.
"Commander! This armored man is claiming to be from an army called "The Iron Legion"!"
"Bah! It must be one of the Emperor's newest counters against the Stormcloaks, let him in!"
"May I ask you to surrender your weapon?"
"No, only I may touch my weapon." Robert declined.
"Then we cannot let you in."
"But I must—"
The soldier, clearly irritated, draws his sword and points it at Robert.
"Look, I don't care if you're some fancy new soldier that the Emperor sent us, you follow the camp rules or you stay out!"
Robert looked at him, with cold steely eyes through his visor.
"I do not serve your Emperor."
The soldier had not time to react as Robert thrust his longsword into his stomach, with the nearby patrols shouting as Robert ran straight inside.
Momiji backed up as she held the axe close to the captains.
"I don't want any trouble! I'll just get my weapon and then leave!"
"No! You Akaviri have been to meddlesome in Thalmor affairs! We can't any Blades member survive!" the priest hissed.
"Akaviri, Thalmor, Stormcloak. What are those!? I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Archers! Get ready to fire!"
A roar was heard throughout the sky, but it was ignored as the Imperials and Momiji eyed each other intensely. Momiji backed up close to the cart, where all her belongings were, and she looked home-free. But the hostage situation was complicated as a man in armor came running in. Momiji recognized him as Robert. She pushes her hostage and quickly dives for her hat and mask, while also grabbing her Naginata from the cart.
All eyes were now on the heavily-armored man with the longsword. The Warden drew his sword and circled the Imperials as they eyed him carefully. The man in gray hair and centurion armor walks up and says.
"Who are you?
"Robert Ackerman, Warden of the Iron Legion."
"I am General Tullius, of the Imperial Legion and I haven't seen the likes of you in the Imperial Legion!"
"That's because the Iron Legion isn't part of your empire!"
The crowd muttered as they wondered where this "Iron Legion" came from. But the General Tullius persists in asking questions.
"Where is this "Iron Legion" stationed?"
"In the lands of Ashfeld, southwest of Valkenheim and west of the Myre. Any of those places sound familair?"
The conversation seemed to go on for a bit but the Warden then sees the Berserker charge at him and he blocks the strike. The captain is surprised at this and barks.
"Who let this woman escape!?"
Eira then holds up the keys triumphantly.
"Never leave your keys in your back pocket!"
"Archers!" the captain commanded.
Eira then throws her axes at the archers, silencing them as she rolled forward to pick them up.
"Now we got those meddling archers out of the way…"
Eira then proceeds to do a full assault on Robert, who was struggling to keep up with her fast and furious attacks.
"We can't do this here! We have more important matters to attend to!"
"I'll only stop when you drop dead Warden!"
The Imperials and Stormcloaks are awed by the furious duel between the Nordic axewoman and the knightly swordsman. But Momiji joins in, blocking the strike of both Robert and the Berserker.
"This isn't the time! We have other problems too!"
Another roar is heard as the Imperials finally saw something in the air.
"What in Oblivion is that!?"
Robert and Eira briefly stop their fight as they stared up the tower, a dragon, a real-life dragon, sitting on top of the tower. Momiji was immediately amazed and awed by it.
"Whoah! A real dragon! It must be the size of a house or bigger!"
The dragon then proceeds to make an thundering roar that made meteors fall from the sky. It then proceeded to spread destruction as fire fell from the sky. Momiji still stood in awe, failing to notice the debris about to fall on her. The Warden pushes her out of the way, saving her. He reprimands her.
"Your reaction really isn't the most appropriate kind for this disaster!"
"S-Sorry…"
"Look, while I would love to continue this conflict, I'm more inclined towards surviving the dragon attack!" Robert said while pulling Momiji up. "So let's just get along for a moment okay?"
"Hai!" Momiji replied.
Robert then stares at Eira, who seemed hesitant to comply with Robert's proposal.
"Let's call a truce for now, we have to escape the dragon!"
"Fine!" Eira conceded. "But once we're in the clear, the gloves are off!"
"Okay, now where do we go?"
"There!" Momiji pointed. "Into that building!"
"You heard her! Into the keep!"
All three warriors scrambled to get inside amidst all the mayhem and chaos. They run as fast as they could to the large building with the double door entrance. The Warden opens the doors by shoulder bashing it and then lets everyone inside before closing the door and reinforcing it. All three of them breathe as they take a breather from their little sprint, but they soon notice another presence in the room. The blond man from the other cart, Ralof. Ralof seemed wary as he drew his axe, but Robert sheathes his sword and says.
"Peace, we're not here to hurt you."
"Are you with those damned Imperials?"
"No, we are from a different land, so we have no knowledge of your disputes."
With that, Ralof sheathed his axe with a sigh.
"Thank Talos we all made it out alive. That dragon would have taken us all to Sovngarde."
"With all due respect Ralof, what was that?"
"Have you not heard the legends?"
"Is it the one where the knight has to slay the dragon to save the princess?" Momiji asked innocently.
"You know very well that that's not true!" Robert protested.
"Really? I thought it was the knight's job to kill dragons." Eira said while tilting her head in confusion.
"Don't tell me you two actually believe that!" Robert said while sighing exasperatedly.
Robert then turns to Ralof, who was amused by the exchange.
"Do you know the way out of here?"
"Well, the gate to the underground tunnels is locked and the other rooms are also locked."
Momiji then hears sounds coming from the gate.
"Shhhh! Someone's coming!"
All readied their weapons as they prepared to face what was behind the gate
Bad place to end story, I know, but this is how far I can go for now. Don't worry! I'll update if there is enough positive feedback on it, since I have to make sure I did a good job on this one!