My creative mind is going to be the end of me one of these days. It's going to bring an angry mob to my doorstep. For all the fics I leave hanging. Why must I have so many ideas in my head? More importantly why must I be so easily distracted? Anyway this is an idea I've had in my head for a while. Originally I was going to wait until I got to a good stopping point in 5th Kingdom of Remnant, but considering I'm still having writer's block there, that's gonna be tough. And I want to write this idea while it's still fresh in my head.
So as for the name Team SVGD (Sovengarde) it's basically for Stormblade, Vulcan, Getsuga, and Draconis. Those of you who've read 5th Kingdom of Remnant will recognize Getsuga's name. His backstory will be altered a bit, but other qualities will remain the same. He is basically one of my reserve OCs. You will likely see a lot of versions of him in different RWBY fics I write. Or in some you might not see him at all, I'll use him as I see fit.
I will reveal the full names of the characters as they appear, but I will start with star of this story the Dragonborn.
Disclaimer: I do not own Skyrim or RWBY. They belong to Bethesda and Rooster Teeth respectively.
Prologue
4th Era – 2nd Great War – location unknown
Kyr Stormblade, the Dragonborn, Harbinger of the Companions, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, Archmage of the College of Winterhold, and General of Skyrim's Stormcloak army (as well as other titles that aren't as important to the plot as of this moment) had been through many trials.
He journeyed to Sovengarde and defeated Alduin the World Eater.
He thwarted Ancano from using the Eye of Magnus to rip holes in reality.
He drove at the Empire from Skyrim and assisted Ulfric Stormcloak in becoming High King of Skyrim.
He brought the Dark Brotherhood out of the ashes of its near destruction.
He slew the mad Vampire Lord Harkon, and stopped his plot blot out the sun.
He journeyed to the Apocrypha and fought Miraak, the First Dragonborn, to the death at the summit.
Now he was fighting in what would later be known as the turning point in the Second Great War between Skyrim and the Aldmeri Dominion.
Kyr as well as a few Stormcloak soldiers, Aela the Huntress, Farkas, and a couple of Dark Brotherhood Initiates were preparing to storm a Dwemer device that the Thalmor were going to use to rain down death on all of Tamriel.
Ulfric was meanwhile leading a charge on the devices mission control center, for the device was an airship.
Kyr was decked out in a modified ebony Armor, with fur trims, and a Stormcloak emblem on the chest piece.
"Talos guide us all," Kyr said as he drew his signature weapon, the Storm Blade (like the one used in the Civil War Overhaul Mod) which crackled with electricity.
"FOR SKYRIM!" he shouted as he led the charge onto the craft and they got on right before it took off.
(Dwemer airship mission control)
Ulfric Stormcloak, High King of Skyrim, was standing before his army, at least those who weren't currently holding the fort Kyr had recently occupied from the Thalmor, holding his Daedric sword and about to deliver the speech.
"Sons and Daughters of Skyrim! After General Stormblade conquered that Thalmor fort, these heathens became unable to accept that despite their popular belief, we are not the mere barbarians they think we are! So they seek to use some sort of doomsday weapon to wipe us out! But we will not just stand by and let them do that! We will deliver not just the Thalmor, but the entire Aldmeri Dominion a message! We will tell them that we will not go quietly into the night! We will not go without a fight! We fight for our right to live! We fight for all the people of Skyrim! Because no matter our race, we are all facing a common enemy in the Thalmor, and we are all brothers and sisters in arms! We are all sons and daughters of Skyrim!" he shouted. (see AN for important note on that speech)
He then led the charge into the mission control.
(Dwemer Airship)
Kyr's Storm Blade was crackling with electricity as he cut through one of the Thalmor soldiers.
He mourned the Dark Brotherhood Initiate and the two Stormcloak soldiers that were felled by the Thalmor.
But he could only move on as he was just now reaching the command bridge.
"Fus Ro Dah!" he shouted blasted the door open.
There an entire squad of Justiciars were waiting for him as was
"First Emissary Elenwen," said Kyr, "Haven't seen you since the Thalmor were run out of Skyrim and your Embassy was razed to the ground."
Elenwen snarled, "All who defy the Thalmor shall perish," she said as she conjured two bound blades.
"Deal with the others as you will," she said, "The Dragonborn is mine!"
"You have no idea what you're getting into Elenwan," declared Kyr as he decided to draw upon the power he hadn't drawn on since he fought Miraak.
"Mul Qal Diiv!" he shouted as he was covered in a Dragonic Aura. Complete with Wings.
He also drew his secondary weapon, his dagger, the Blade of Woe, and got into a duel wielding stance.
"Now then. Shall we?" declared Kyr as he and Elenwen launched at each other.
Aela shifted into her werewolf form and the others engaged the other Thalmor.
"Yol Tor Shal!" shouted Kyr breathing fire at the High Emiisary as he tried to counter with her own fire only for Kyr's to be stronger.
"In this form my strength, speed, endurance, magic, and even my dragon shouts are increased in power. I am a dragon in human form!" Kyr taunted.
Elenwen growled as she conjured a bound bow and fired an arrow, but she wasn't aiming for Kyr, she was aiming for
"Farkas!" shouted Kyr. For the Bound Arrow pierced Farkas's heart.
Elenwean grinned as she conjured two bound blades once again.
"You will pay for that!" shouted Kyr, "Su Grah Dun!"
And with that Kyr came at Elenwen like a Hurricane, but he saw all of his troops fall one by one.
"Krii lun Aus!" Kyr shouted as Elenwen felt herself weaken.
Kyr then ran her through with Storm Blade.
In her last attempt she fired a bolt of lightning at the controls.
Aela, being the last one standing had finished off the last of the Thalmor but had taken too much damage and would eventually succumb to her injuries.
"I'm coming Sjiorr," she said.
Kyr let his Aura fade as he sheathed his blades.
He looked at the controls and cursed Elenwen's name.
He decided to contact Ulfric via the communications to mission control.
"Ulfric this Kyr Stormblade. Do you copy?" he asked after taking off his helmet revealing the face of a 19 year old, long black haired Nord, with blue war paint, light skin, a scar down his right eye and blue eyes.
(Mission Control)
Luckily Ulfric's forces finished up seconds before that.
"Ulfric this is Kyr Stormblade. Do you copy?" said Kyr's voice out the speakers.
Ulfric stepped over the Thalmor corpses and accessed the communicator.
"This Ulfric, I read you Stormblade. What's your status?" he asked.
"The Thalmor are dead and the ship is ours. But there is some terrible news." Kyr stated with sadness in his voice.
"What's wrong," Ulfric asked concerned.
"I messed up. My entire squad is dead. And to make matters worse, the leader shorted out the navigation systems. I won't be able to turn this around, and it's on crash course for Windhelm," Kyr said.
"I see," said Ulfric in a somber tone, "Is there nothing we can do?"
"Actually there is,." said Kyr.
"I am over the Sea of Ghosts, I can crash the airship into it and thwart the Thalmor's plan."
"But that means you'll…" began Ulfric before stopping "Very well, I will be the one to tell Seranna."
"Also look for a jester named Cicero in Dawnstar. Tell him silence has returned, he'll know what it means," said Kyr.
"You know Ulfric I just realized something funny that I never realized before," said Kyr as he was directing the ship into the Sea of Ghosts.
"What's that," asked Ulfric deciding to be there for Kyr in his final moments.
"There are many stories and songs out there, where some great hero sacrifice their life to save the day. And because of their sacrifice, the good guys win, the survivors celebrate, and everyone lives happily ever after" Kyr began.
Ulfric waited with baited breath wondering where this was going.
"But the hero… never gets to see that ending," Kyr added as he heard the gasps of realization from the Stormcloaks on Ulfrics end.
"They never know that the day was saved. They never know whether or not their sacrifice actually made a difference. In the end all they can do is have faith."
Kyr could see the sea of Ghosts approaching and with his last words he said, "I look forward to seeing you in Sovengarde."
Then everything went black.
Era of Remnant – Sea of Ghosts
Winter Shnee was answering a call from one of the Shnee Dust Company expedtions.
Normally she would be slightly annoyed with being called all the way out there, but this call concerned the Hero of Atlas, or rather Skyrim as it was called back then.
She was onboard a craft that was submerged in the frozen water.
She went to the soldier who called him here.
"Are certain of what you found?" she asked him.
The soldier nodded, "Any doubts I had were removed once I saw this," he said wiping some of the ice revealing a bear symbol.
Winter nodded, "Contact General Ironwood at once, he'll want to be informed immediately."
"Yes ma'am" the soldier said saluting.
When the soldier walked out Winter just said, "You'll be home soon… Kyr Stormblade."
(Atlas – formerly known as Skyrim)
Harbor warehouse
Getsuga Kuroyin had shoulder length blue hair, blue eyes, a grey hoodie, canines, a claw mark going down his left eye, black sleeveless shirt underneath his hoodie, blue sweat pants, black boots, and black gloves, as well as two bracelets that would turn into his weapon, Tengoku.
He was also currently standing among a bunch of fallen white fang members, some were unconscious, others were dead.
Lieutenant had a sword through his gut.
There were claw marks on the wall, some of which were still sparking electricity.
There was one White fang member who was still alive, and he was trembling in fear.
"Where is the Red Fang?" asked Getsuga, whose eyes were now glowing red.
"I don't know," squeaked the white fang member (which was impressive as he was wolf faunus).
"Don't lie to me. I'm well aware that he's the head of the Atlas branch of the white fang," said Getsuga as he slowly walked to the white fang member.
"We get our orders from a dead drop. We've never even met the guy." He squealed.
"Then you aren't really useful are you?" asked Getsuga rhetoriacly as he took the white fang member with a right hook.
Then the Atlas military arrived as Getsuga's eyes returned to their blue color.
Getsuga looks at the leader of the group of soldiers who was looking at the state of the ware house and just sheepishly says, "Um… sorry about the mess."
The captain just face palms, "Dang it Getsuga, you know you're gonna get a hard lecture from Winter for this."
Getsuga just shrugged, "Hey if getting tounge lashing from Winter is the price I have to pay for keeping the Shnee Dust company safe and stopping the White Fang, then so be it."
The captain just grinned before saying "I'm gonna miss you when you're at Beacon Wolverine."
Mistral – formerly known as Cyrodil
(Arena)
Silver Draconis was wearing leather armor roman style.
He had silver eyes and spiky brown hair, as well as light skin.
He was wielding his two weapons, Goldbrand, and Will of Tiber Septim (basically an Imperial Sword with an enchantment).
And he was covered in sweat as he was panting.
Luckily his opponent Pyrrha Nikos was just as tired as he was.
The audience was waiting with baited breath.
No one had ever pushed Pyrrha to the edge like this before.
Of course nobody else had powerful semblance like Silver's gravity semblance to match Pyrrha's polarity semblance.
They were both grinning.
Both their auras were at the edge of the red.
"Well Nikos, what do you say we finish this with our next attack?" asked Silver.
"I couldn't agree more Draconis," replied Pyrrha grinning.
They then rushed at eachother.
(later in the locker room)
"I can't believe you beat me," said Pyrrha shocked.
"I come from a long line of warriors, since the original silver eyed emperor," Silver replied.
Pyrrha grinned sadly, "I'm gonna miss you while I'm at Beacon," she said.
She had really bonded with Silver throughout the tournament.
Silver gave her a confused look, "What are you talking about I'm going to Beacon as well."
Pyrrha then was happy again as she and Silver high fived each other.
Vacuo – formerly known as hammerfell
(who the frig knows where. It's friggin Vacuo. Some bandit camp?)
Blackblooded Kane was one of the biggest baddest bandits in Vacuo.
Was being the key word.
Now his hide out was in flames.
Literally, his hide out was on fire.
His men were all dead, and he was dying.
All because of a blasted Fox Faunus Bounty hunter.
Speaking of which he began to hear a familiar whistling.
(Think a slowed down version of the chorus of Battle On by One eyed doll)
Kuyou "The Kitsune" Vulcan was slowly walking towards Kane swinging his chain with the Kunai attached.
He was covered in Orange flame with three flaming tails coming out as a result of his semblance, fox spirit.
"Remember, nobody escapes The Kitsune," he said while blasting a stream of fire at Kane.
(later in the same desert)
Kuyou Vulcan was dragging the burnt corpse of Black-blooded Kane with him by his chain weapon to the village that put the bounty on his head.
Kuyou Vulcan technically didn't need to go for bounties any more.
He could have done this for free, but a Faunus has gotta eat.
But he didn't have to worry about money troubles anymore since that Ozpin guy offered him a place in Beacon.
The coffee drinking human then had to go to Atlas.
Something about a dragon?
Kuyou didn't really know.
He mainly wanted to collect this last bounty before he left for Beacon.
He was currently wearing white cloth pants, no shoes, a white cloth jacket around his waist, and no other shirt. (Hey deserts are hot as hell)
He had orange eyes with slits for pupils, dirty blonde hair and fox ears.
Since he didn't have his semblance activated he was not on fire.
At his hip he carried two weapons other than his chain weapon which he named Fox Fang, he was carrying a scimitar he named Fox Claw, and a repeater he named Fox breath.
Now he was off to deliver the bounty.
(somewhere?)
Kyr Stormblade woke up in a bed.
He appeared to be in some kind of inn.
He was wearing some weird clothes.
His shirt was white and his pants were blue.
There was a woman standing near a cauldron, cooking some soup.
His Stormblade was at the wall as was his armor.
The woman might have been the inn keeper, but something didn't feel right.
Kyr didn't get to where he was by being naïve and trusting.
The women turned toward Kyr and he saw her face.
She had Green eyes and long blond hair.
"Lord Stormblade, you're awake," she said.
Kyr tensed at this.
"Where am I and how do you know who I am?" he asked.n
The woman then tensed, before speaking, "Why everyone in Skyrim knows who you are," she said.
But Kyr wasn't buying it.
"I know everyone in Skyrim, but I have never seen your face, and you are clearly not native to Skyrim!" he shouted before jumping out of bed, grabbing Storm Blade, and jumping out the window.
What he failed to realize was he was on the 3rd story, he was in unfamiliar territory, and there were machines everywhere that made the Dwemer tech look like they were made by savages.
He saw a bunch of Automatons surrounding him pointing weapons at him.
He charged the Storm Blade as it crackled with electricity.
"Stand down!" shouted a voice that carried authority.
The automatons lowered their weapons and stepped aside as two figures approached Kyr.
One was in a strange white outfit with dark hair, and wearing dark gloves.
The other was in a strange green outfit holding a cane in one hand, and a mug of some drink in the other.
"Kyr Stormblade, I am General Ironwood, and this is Professor Ozpin," said the man in the white suit.
"I'd like to apologize for your deceiving accomadations but we felt it would be best to break the news to you in a more familiar environment."
"What news?" asked Kyr confused.
The man called Ozpin decided to speak, "Kyr Stormblade, you've been gone for 10,000 years."
Kyr dropped his Storm Blade and fell to his knees.
"Tell me, did we at least win?" he asked barely able to keep the sorrow out of his voice.
General Ironwood nodded, "When you crashed into the Sea of Ghosts, your name became a rallying cry for all of Tamriel. The emperor of Cyrodil, Cyronin Draconis, declared the White Gold Concordat null and void and joined Skyrim in attacking the Thalmor. Your status of nobility in Morrowind caused them to be enraged by your fall, Hammerfell enjoyed the thought of sticking it to the Thalmor, Blackmarsh didn't want to be left out. As mighty as the Aldmeri Dominion claimed to be, they could not take on all of Tamriel. The Dominion was obliterated. Afterwards, resources were used looking for you."
Kyr didn't know what to think.
So many of his friends gone.
And that's the end of the chapter. A bit depressing.
Anyway first before anyone comments on the speech, I'd like to say, despite popular belief ULFRIC IS NOT RACIST. It has been stated that the only reason that he wasn't improving the living conditions in the Gray quarter was because he felt Skyrim as a whole was the bigger priority.
Also, I'd like to say, even though I'm a Stormcloak guy, I do not hate the empire. Heck I friggin love General Tullius. It's hard not to when he has lines like this "You Nords and your honor." I just like the Stormcloaks better. It's not even just because executing you at the beginning of the game. It's more that I find them ignorant.
First example, at Victoria Vicci's wedding when an imperial and a Snow-Shod were arguing, when the imperial woman said that what the stormcloaks were doing was treason,
Snow-Shod: Then did the empire commit treason against the Dominion when they went to war with them.
Imperial: That was different, our very way of life was at risk
Snow-Shod: My point exactly.
It had been stated in the lore in game that part of the Stormcloak's reason for rebelling was they felt their very way of life was at risk.
Second example, I feel the very fact that the empire and their supporters are demonizing Ulfric is ignorant.
First of all they ignore the duel and just say Ulfric murdered Torryg,
Second while they say Ulfric killed Torryg with his voice, when asked about it, Ulfric will say, while he did use his voice, it was his sword the delivered the killing blow.
Now before any of you go off on me, I do also see somethings from the empires perspective. It had been stated that if Ulfric just asked Torryg to split from the empire he would have done so.
Also I can see why the empire would demonize Ulfric. The reason is summed up by a quote from Kimbal from Red vs Blue
"When you spend every waking moment fighting a war, you learn to demonize your enemy, you begin to see them as something less then human. You have to. Otherwise, what does that make you?"
While the quote is very much ahead of Skyrim's time, I still feel it applies.
Also a bit of a fun fact, a heathen is someone who goes against the word of God. The Thalmor decided to ban the worship of Talos the God of war. Therefore they are heathen's by definition. I would tend to find it ironic when Olfrid Battle-born would call the Stormcloaks heathens when they are literally the complete opposite.
Anyway all of the Skyrim x RWBY crossovers that I've read (and actually liked) involve the Dragonborn being sent to Remnant via dimension hopping. I was trying to go for a more Captain America theme where he woke up in an era that he was completely unfamiliar with. Heck I drew inspiration for this chapter from the first Captain America movie.
Also Kyr's name means: a thousand years,
I found it fitting.
Kuyou's weapon was inspired by Hellfire's weapon in Agents of Shield.
Also, Kyr's age: I made Kyr 19, because I wanted to expand the shipping options. In 5th Kingdom of remnant, I was asked why I wasn't going to do a pairing for Naruto. Well besides the fact that it would be Taboo (Naruto's already married to Hinata in this time line) Naruto is old enough to be a teacher. Who the fuck am I gonna pair him with? Goodwitch?
Finally pairings.
So far the pairings will be
Getsuga x Weiss
Jaune x Pyrrha
Blake x Sun
Kuyou x Velvet
That's it for now. And now I'm gonna do something I've never done before. I'd like you, the reader to suggest pairings for Kyr and Silver. You can even suggest alternate pairings for other characters. Hey I'm flexible here. If you want I can even pair Kyr with Seranna. (that's the only Skyrim character I will pair someone with btw).
Please also check out 5th Kingdom of Remnant and Shadows of Beacon Hills, two of my other more recent fics.
As always, if you have any questions comments, concerns, constructive criticism, or even suggestions please leave a review.
Send suggestions for pairings either via review or pm.
Oh and I need a beta and/or someone good at writing fight scenes.