Dragon Effect: When Worlds Collide

Chapter I

A/N: So I've been playing around with this idea in my head for some time now and after reading a lot of ME-DA crossovers found that this particular plot hadn't been used yet. Since I've played all the DA and ME games I thought a lot about the plots for each one and the characters before finalizing who, what, when, where, and why everything that's about to happen takes place. Feel free to criticize the story but I do hope you find it an enjoyable experience. Word of Warning however for those of you who haven't played the games, there are spoilers as this is slightly canon-based.

Elven Ruins (9:44 Dragon)

As the last of the qunari fall, Mersa Lavellan the keeper of the Lavellan Clan and Inquisitor of the new age Inquisition breathes a sigh of relief. She can feel the buildup of fade energy in her hand as the anchor once again begins to charge. Leaning on her staff for support the young elven woman begins to walk towards her companions who are also taking a short breather after the tough fight they had just survived.

"Tell me again why I decided to join you on this adventure?" a short stocky man wielding a crossbow asked as he began to reload the weapon.

He wore a smirk on his face as sweat dripped down his slightly crooked nose. He was dressed in leather pants and boots. His chest piece was studded leather however and covered his arms as well. His dusty blond hair was combed back and a faint five o'clock shadow could be seen on his face. He wore three hoop earrings, two in his right ear and one in his left as well as a medallion or pendant of some sort around his neck.

"We are doing this for Lady Inquisitor and the Inquisition, Varric. We need to find out who was behind these attacks and why they are targeting us." A woman, dressed in plate armor spoke as she sheathed her longsword and walked over to the other two.

The woman was almost twice the height of the man although considering his size it was safe to say she was about average height for a human. She wore dark eye shadow and eyeliner. Her face while pretty showed signs of battle, evidenced by the jagged scar on her left cheek leading down her jawline. Her hair was style in a short cut with a braided circlet adorning the back of her head. Her eyes were sharp and held a burning passion within them.

"Well Seeker, I thought it was just for the laughs but thanks for clearing that up." Varric commented earning a disgruntled groan from the woman called Seeker.

The final member of their small group was a female of similar in size, stature, and physique to Mersa. Her eyes were pointed, a bit less than Mersa's own and she carried herself in an extremely exaggerated and playful way. Her dirty-blonde hair was cut unevenly which seemed to match everything about her from a glance.

She wore a sleeveless tunic that was cutoff at the midsection as well as a leather skirt with leggings. Her footwear consisted of simple leather shoes that looked like they had seen better days. Strapped to her back was a quiver that was about half filled with arrows while a pair of daggers were strapped to her waist, one on either side. In her left hand she carried a rather ornate longbow which clashed violently with the simple clothing she wore.

"Really now, I thought we were finished with all this mess two years ago. The giant ole in the sky was taken care of and Coryphullus was sploded. Then Teetness and I pushed the bed off the balcony." She spoke with a giant smile plastered to her face.

Suddenly Mersa ran away from the others as the buildup of energy in her hand reached a critical point. She had been counting the seconds of buildup and decided to discharge the energy away from the others. Raising her left hand to the sky, Mersa began to focus on the magical energy residing in her before crying out and releasing a blast so powerful that it knocked her backwards almost a full yard.

With the energy released she knew that she had some time before it built up to critical levels once more. Twirling her staff in front of her, the woman turned to her companions and motioned for them to follow her through the lone mirror like object ahead of them. The now familiar sensation of transporting through the mirrors rushed throughout Mersa's body.

Her body was rushed through the fabric of reality in seconds before it reappeared on a mesa of some sort. The first thing she saw was the stone statue of a qunari. As she looked around though she realized the entire area was filled with stone qunari. There were too many for them to have been sculpted which meant they were once flesh and bone transformed by powerful magic into stone.

Seconds later her companions appeared. Upon seeing the dozens of stone qunari they each let out various swears of anger or disgust. There was a memorable string of curses spoken by the female archer that actually caused Varric to chuckle despite the situation. This earned him a disapproving glare from the Seeker who shook her head and drew her sword. Readying their weapons the group proceeded up the path towards the sounds of fighting.

The Fade

They knew not how long they had been trapped in this realm, betrayed as they were by one of their own. The Evanuris wandered as a collection of souls, of voices, and of power. They can sense a change in the air. Someone or something powerful seeks to disrupt the fade. The energy the feel is familiar.

It is him!

The one who betrayed us!

The Dread Wolf lives!

We must end him!

Let there be vengeance upon the betrayer.

Enough!

Their collective voices become silent as one speaks above the others. The Evanuris are silent as they feel the ripples of fate reverberate throughout the fade.

Fen'Harel is not alone. Can you feel it, another source of power? It is dwarfed by the Dread Wolf's but it stands against him.

The Evanuris feel the energy and in their collective minds realize it is old magic from their time.

We should take it.

We need it.

Let us assimilate it.

Let us empower it.

Change it for our own purposes.

It stands against Fen'Harel and that alone makes it an ally, for now.

The Evanuris began to channel their energies amongst themselves as they figured out the best course of action. For too long they had been trapped. Now a rare opportunity had presented itself and they would not squander it. As they moved their collective consciousness towards the tear between realms the Evanuris finally came to a consensus.

It shall be our avatar. Our will be done through its power.

Elgar'nan.

The other five voices spoke the name in unison.

We know not who you are but you stand against Fen'Harel. We will aid your cause and with the power bestowed upon you, you shall be our avatar.

Elven Ruins

Mersa and her group stood in front of another man. His features were similar to Mersa and the female archer. His head was bare which pronounced his pointed ears even more. He was dressed in thick clothing and stared at the group with a mostly stoic expression on his face.

"Solas, you know that we can't allow you to go through with your plans." Mersa stated. She had confronted Solas and revealed to him that she knew about his identity as Fen'Harel.

He was only mildly surprised when he heard it however. Two years prior Solas and Mersa had been close. They had a mutual attraction to one another and to the magic arts. Their relationship stayed purely academic and platonic however once Mersa realized who her heart truly yearned for.

Now here they stood on opposite sides of the line. Solas wanted to destroy the world as it was and start over. He wanted to bring it back to the age of his people, the elves. Although Mersa and her archer companion were also elves they were not swayed by the notion.

The young female spell caster had tried to reason with Solas to show him another way but he would not accept any alternative. In his view he had already shed too much blood to turn back from his goal. Mersa knew how powerful Solas had grown. The way he had taken care of the qunari was proof enough.

She could not however allow him to unleash mass genocide. Crying out in pain Mersa dropped to the ground as the anchor in her left hand being to blaze with power. Solas frowned and began to walk over to her. The elven archer and crossbow wielding dwarf each fired off a shot at him but the projectiles did nothing to him as they crumpled mid-flight.

"This mark is killing you. If anyone but me bears it then the effects are fatal. I shall release you from this burden." Solas spoke as he raised Mersa's hand up.

"I will stop you." Mersa groaned as the pain intensified.

"You will try." Solas replied as his hand began to glow.

We know not who you are but you stand against Fen'Harel. We will aid your cause and with the power bestowed upon you, you shall be our avatar.

Mersa suddenly felt the voice in her head speaking to her. Her perception of time changed as everything slowed to a crawl and the pain in her hand vanished.

"Who are you?" Mersa called out as she felt the familiar energy of the Fade begin to envelope her.

We are all that is and all that should be. Betrayed by Fen'Harel we now seek out vengeance against him and you shall be our vessel. We sense the old magic in you Mersa Lavellan. Without our aid it will kill you and with it you cannot defeat Fen'Harel.

Mersa could feel the mighty presence of the being as its power began to flow through her. More than power however was knowledge and memories. She could see things as they were in the past, the elves and their prosperity which eventually led to their ruin. She witnessed an eon's worth of lifetimes in a matter of seconds. Had she not already been attuned to the Fade then the magic might have overwhelmed and killed her already.

Then just as suddenly as it had begun, the sensation left her and everything returned to normal. Mersa looked at Solas as she felt the power rush through her body and with a mighty cry blasted the man away from her.

Solas flew backwards several yards before crashing onto the ground. Looking up and over to Mersa the evident look of surprise on his face spoke volumes on how he felt. The elf's expression quickly changed from shock to anger as he formed a sphere of energy in his hand.

"I don't know where you got that surge of power from but if you won't accept my mercy then you will accept my wrath!" Solas exclaimed.

"No Solas, this ends now!" Mersa cried out as she raised her hand to the sky and began to release waves of Fade energy.

As the waves rushed out from Mersa the mirror-like object which the group had used began to react. There was another one of the objects behind Solas as well that reacted to the energy.

"What are you doing?!" Solas frantically asked as he looked around at the destruction that was beginning to form.

"You need the eluvian network to proceed with your plans. I'm going to take it down and trap you here for eternity!" Mersa replied, yelling over the sounds of rocks falling.

"Are you daft?! We're 'ere to you know!" The female archer cried out as she tried to keep her balance.

Mersa looked at the woman and smiled sadly.

"Yes, Sera I know this but it is the only way to keep the world safe from him." She spoke with a soft almost sad tone.

"Teetness this is why I hate elfy stuff. It just screws up everything in the world." Sera cried out as she made her way over to Mersa.

Wrapping her arms around the woman Mersa pulled Sera close to her body before kissing the woman's lips.

If I have to be trapped forever then I'm glad that I'll be trapped with you, Sera.

Mersa's last thoughts as the eluvians began to explode was how unfair it was that Varric and Cassandra would be trapped alongside them for the rest of their lives and a twinge of regret filled her mind.

Viper Nebula - Bahak System (2186 CE)

Malyganya Shepard watched from the view of her ship, the Normandy's cameras as asteroid she rigged to hit the relay moves closer and closer. Her pilot, Jeff "Joker" Moreau had been close with the dust off as the raced to hit the relay before the asteroid could. With mere seconds to spare the Normandy hit the relay and was blasted out of the system at faster than light speeds.

With a relay of camera buoys still in the area Shepard was able to see the explosion of the ancient device. The reapers invasion had been halted, but by how long, a month, maybe two? The decision to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives in the system to save the trillions more left in the galaxy hadn't been exactly hard for her. Shepard had been making tough calls all her life ever since she enlisted. While others called her cold, calculating, and brutal there was one thing Malyganya knew about herself; she always got the job done, no matter the cost.

Now as she flew away from the destruction of the relay Shepard became profoundly aware of the warning lights going off on the CICs main console. Pressing a few keys the dark haired woman began to pull up information regarding the warnings.

"EDI, what do these readings mean?" Shepard asked as she was unable to make heads or tails of the numbers in front of her.

"These are energy readings of the mass relay's destruction." A computerized female voice spoke through the ships intercom system.

"Why are we getting readings of a system we just escaped from?" Malyganya asked.

"It appears that the explosion caused some sort of tear and compounded with an additional energy source. This lead too much larger explosion than we initially calculated." EDI answered.

"What does that mean for the ship?" Malyganya asked almost annoyed at how long it was taking to get to the point of the matter.

"We are about to be hit with waves of unknown unquantifiable energy. I'd recommend bracing for impact." EDI replied.

Almost immediately Shepard felt the impact as the ship was launched to the side.

"Hang on everyone things are going to get a bit bumpy here!" a man's voice spoke through the system as the ship began to try and steady itself after two more hits.

"Joker I swear to god if we die from this, I'll kill you!" Shepard swore as she held onto a rail for dear life.

"Commander, have a little faith." Joker replied with a laugh.

"I rescued you from an erupting volcano, a collector ship, the collector base and from an asteroid that was heading towards a mass relay." Joker continued to talk.

"That asteroid one JUST happened."

"I know it did, but still worth mentioning how awesome my piloting skills are. You think a few waves of-" Joker was suddenly cut off as more waves hit the ship.

The lights briefly went out as the ship experienced a full system failure before restarting itself. As Shepard steadied herself and rose to her feet she looked around the area and saw the crew in similar states of recovery.

"EDI, give me a status report." Shepard commanded.

"Kinetic Barriers are down. Hull integrity is at eighty-six percent. Weapons systems are online. Targeting systems are offline. Flight controls are online. Propulsion systems are rebooting."

Shepard sighed heavily as EDI continued to list various systems that were functioning or compromised. The ship was basically running at half capacity at the moment until they got propulsion systems back online the best defense they had was to shoot anything line of sight from their weapons array.

"Shepard, you might want to come up here. Cameras are down and you'll wanna see what I see." Joker said.

Walking around some debris, the woman made her way towards the cockpit to see what it was that Joker had spotted. Of all the things she could have expected, see a pair of floating bodies surrounded by a seemingly thin blue shell was at the very bottom of the list.

"EDI can you read any life signs from them?" Shepard asked as the bodies continued to float.

"At the most basic level of bio-scan it seems they are still alive but for how much longer I could not say. Shepard I should not that the energy surrounding them is similar to the unknown energies that were in relay explosion." EDI stated.

"Great, let's grab the shuttle and pick them up. Maybe they'll have some answers as to what the hell is going on." Shepard stated as she turned away and began to head towards the elevator.

Dark Space

Solas knew not where he was as he floated. This place wasn't the fade. It was dark as if all light had been absorbed by eternal nothingness.

Organic

The voice that spoke to Solas was cold. It was devoid of life and emotion. He knew, on a subconscious level that it wasn't a natural voice.

"If you are to have words with me then speak." Solas said.

His only protection was the cocoon of energy surrounding him. He could feel something trying to invade his mind but easily staved it off.

You are not of this cycle. What are you?

"What are you?" Solas asked.

"You are clearly not natural. I sense no trace of life energy within you. Make your presence known to me and let us converse like civilized and rational creatures." Solas demanded.

Suddenly a shape flew into his view. Solas had never seen a creature such as this before. In all his travels of the world and of the fade there was nothing as horrific as the being before him.

We are Harbinger and we bring salvation through destruction.

A/N: So that's it. Leave a review with your thoughts on the matter. For those of you who follow me, my other stories should be getting updates soon. I've had a lot to deal with in the two months that have interrupted my writing.