How the Cycle Continues

Chapter 1: Eden Prime

A/N So yeah I'm back more or less and I've been sucked into both Mass effect and Dragon Age. So I thought what the heck I'd write a crossover. Though not sure if anyone that read my stuff before will come back, uh if you do be sure to leave a review :) Now some info about my PC,

Jane Shepard: Spacer/Sole survivor/Paragon/Adept

Briathara Lavellen: So I'm using some skill sets from Origins mostly cause I liked those ones alot anyways

Spec 1: Spirit Healer, Spec 2: Shapeshifter and she uses mostly creation and primal spells favoring ice. With a hint of knight enchanter due to Vivian's nagging :p

TO THE STORY :D!

This feeling was familiar, an endless fall. I remember last time I was sure I was dying, the pain and fear overwhelming. I thought I had failed everyone, then seeing the future, it showed me what would happen if I failed but it also gave me the motivation to fight even harder. I know better this time around but I have no clue where I'll land. Hopefully though I can find a group of mages to help me reverse this if not…

My thoughts are interrupted when I come out of the other end of the vortex and roll across the floor. I land on my knees and take a moment to steady myself before looking around me. The area is covering in rocky ground with trees dotting the area. I look up and the sky is an angry red color with dark clouds everywhere.

I don't have long to take it in before I head screaming, people being attacked. I run as quickly as I can grabbing ahold of my staff as I come up the hill. What I see is unlike anything I had seen before.

There are rectangular buildings of some sort around the area, some are standing while others appear to be little more than bonfires. The people I heard are being attacked by some sort of creature with a large light coming from where its face should be. Getting past my shock I begin attacking them with several spells. I feel a sharp pain and realize I've been hit with the weapon they are carrying, it reminds me of Varric's crossbow Bianca. I quickly freeze it and shatter it with a fire bolt. I move my staff to one hand and grab the spirit hilt that Vivian made for me and take the remaining two out quickly.

Once they are delt with I begin looking for any survivors. i hear a groan and find a human in armor that looks like it could hardly withstand a few practice swords. He was still alive but barely.

"Who are you?" He asks. I look at him and see he was shot in the arm and the chest though away from anything vital, I should be able to help.

"Briathara Lavellen, hold still and I can help you. I'm no chantry sister but I can heal this." I reassure him.

"What?" He asks confused. I assume he's just delirious from the blood loss. "Heal, you have Medi-gel?"

"Medi- what? Look just hold still." Ignoring his questioning look I begin channeling a strong healing spell from myself into him. A bright blue light surrounds him and soon his wounds are more or less healed. "There you should be better."

The man stood up and looked at me as though I had grown a second head. "What was that? Some form of cybernetics, biotics?"

"I have extensive training in healing magics." I simply said. "Are there any more survivors?" I ask.

"I uh think some of the researchers are still inside those living units. I'm going to go check on them but if you can I saw more of those machines up ahead at the spaceport. The workers there might need help." He explained and walked away before I could ask what a spaceport was. Not thinking on it too much I continued up the hill in the direction the man told me.

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"What the beacon was here someone must have moved it." Ashley Williams, a fellow Alliance soldier who had lost her squad to the Geth.

"Ours or theirs?" I asked.

"Not sure we should check the research camp of the ramp." Ashley suggested and began heading up the ramps. I looked at Kaiden and we followed her up. What we saw was the research camp mostly destroyed.

"Seems like a good place for an ambush." Kaiden said.

"Keep your guard up." I said pulling my pistol up standing ready. Soon after the spikes we saw Geth putting colonists on earlier lowered and the things came off them.

"My god they're still alive!" Kaiden said looking at them in shock and disgust.

We didn't need any motivation to attack when the husks began charging at us. While there were a few of them then they took quite a few bullets to bring down. Once all the husks were dealt with we looked around looking for anymore movement. Once we were sure they were all gone we walked up to one of the living pods.

"What the heck?" I heard Ashley say from across the field.

"What is it Williams?" I ask looking though one of the living pods for any supplies.

"I think you should come see this for yourself ma'am." Grabbing some of the mods that I found in there I headed back outside to where Ashley was. What I saw was strange to say the least. In front of us was another Geth except this time… it was frozen solid. There was also more ice around the area as well.

"What do you think caused this?" Kaidan asked coming up behind me. He walked up to the frozen machine and knocked on it a few times, completely frozen.

"No clue never seen a weapon that can do that not even a cryo blast dose a job like this." I said.

"Come on we better go and check those pods maybe we can come and investigate this some more later." Ashley suggested. We both nodded and they followed me to the other pod.

"The security lock is on there must be someone in there." Kaiden said walking up to one on the right. I was able to crack the code pretty easily and when the door slid open I came face to face with a soldier's gun.

"Oh thank goodness you're human." A voice to the side said. I looked over to see an older woman and a nervous looking man standing on the other side.

"I'm Commander Shepard are you three alright?"I asked the trio.

"Yes we're fine. My god those things out there, and those marines gave their lives to save us!" She said pacing the room slightly.

"What happened to the beacon that was dug up here?" I asked after giving the woman time to relax.

"We moved it to the spaceport this morning to get ready for pickup." She replied.

"Did any of you see a turian come through here?" Kaidan asked.

"Yes he was headed up to the spaceport then soon after he left those things attacked us. We hid here to try and wait it out. Then it became silent before Jonah here came and told us the coast was clear though when we saw those spikes come down we re engaged the locks." She explained again.

"There was something else ma'am. When we were fighting those machines a woman appeared almost out of nowhere and began fighting them. I don't know how though as I barely got to see before I was shot twice." Jonah explained.

"You look pretty good for being shot twice." Ashley stated.

"Yeah that was her too. I don't know how she did it but I was completely healed, well except for some discomfort, all I could see though the pain was a bright blue light and then it was over." He explained further. "No medi-gel or nothing didn't even seem to know what it was. I pointed her towards the spaceport to help some of the others likely she met up with your turian friend."

"Thanks for the info we'll be heading up you all be ok here?" I asked signaling Ashley and Kaidan to get ready to move again.

"Yes thank you again." Jonah said as we left.

"I'm curious to meet this mystery person." Ashley said as we started to the spaceport.

"I bet she is the one that froze those Geth." Kaidan said.

"Hopefully she is on our side. She may have helped them but a little suspicion has helped before. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled."

"Yes ma'am" They both responded.

The spaceport that the man had talked about was not too far from those buildings I had seen before. To be honest it looked mostly like a busy dock in Orlais except there were no boats or water and it was completely empty. Or at least I had thought it was. Once I got closer I could make out two shapes. They both looked strange to say the least. They were tall like the Qunari and looked like some sort of bird or lizard type thing. They seemed to be talking. Not wanting to get spotted easily I shifted into an owl and flew overhead. I noticed though this would end badly when the one that was mostly white pulled out another of those weapons and pointed it at the red one. Acting quickly I flew down and shifted with my spirit blade already in hand and landed nearly on top of him.

He yelled out in a terrible sound that was reminiscent of a shade and attempted to throw me off. I swung my spirit blade at him but it seemed to bounce off his armor. Soon enough I was knocked from it and landed on the ground near by.

"Saren what are you doing!?" The red one said.

"Well this might complicate things. I don't want to kill you Nihlus but I will if you don't step away right now." The white one, Saren, said aiming at Nihlus again. \

Since he was distracted I was able to hit him from behind with a few fire blasts from my staff. He turned around and while he was distracted Nihlus took a shot at him. Somehow he seemed to know what would happen and dodged it. The shot went right past him and got me in the lower chest. I couldn't tell what happened next but I heard another loud bang and then footsteps walking away. Using what was left of my magic I was able to mostly heal the wound but I wasn't careful, I had used too much power in a short time with the shapeshifting and strong healing spells from earlier coupled with time travel.

All I heard before blacking out was the sound of heavy footsteps coming near.

"Commander look its Nihlus." Kaidan said as we went up the ramps further into the spaceport.

"That the turian you were looking for?" Ashley asked scoping the area.

"Yeah he's a spectre." I replied. We began looking around for some more clues as to what had happened when Kaiden yelled to get my attention.

"Hey commander I found someone." He said. I went over to him and saw him kneeling next to a woman on the ground. "I don't think she is one of the colonists and look at what I found near her." He said holding up staff that had a bright red gem on the top with a long wooden shaft made of a bright wood and what looked like a dark blade attached to the end of it with flames depicted along the staff. She had long red hair and pale skin. What she was wearing looked like something out of a video game or something. All over her face were gold markings that looked like tree roots on her forehead, cheeks, and chin.

(A/N I'm not even going to attempt to explain the outfit basically its the ancient elven robes from DA:I)

"I think I found some of her stuff over here." Ashley said holding up a brown leather bag with white details on it including something that looks like an ornate mask. "Should we look inside?"

"It looks like she's still breathing just out cold. Maybe we shouldn't it's likely there might be some personal stuff." I responded after scanning her with my omni-tool. "Ashley can you stay here with her I'm gonna radio Joker to pick you too up."

"Are you sure ma'am?" Ashley asked. I could tell she was disappointed but I needed to know more about this strange person.

"Yes don't worry I doubt it will be quiet here for long." I answered with a smirk. Once we were sure Ashley was set me and Kaiden went off to find out where the beacon was at. We decided to start off with a worker we had found hiding behind some crates…

It had been about half an hour since Sheperd and Alenko had left to track down the beacon. I decided to move her to a slightly more covered area when I started hearing some more geth coming. While doing that though I noticed something weird. Her ears ended in a point like those super old stories.

I put us both behind some cover just in time as the geth soon showed up. I looked over and saw that there were about ten of them looking around the port for any survivors. I pulled out my gun and got ready to start attacking when I heard the sound of engines and rapid gunfire.

I looked over the cover and saw what looks like the ship Alenko described as being the SSV Normandy I see Kaiden come out along with a few others.

"Hey Williams need some help?" I head Kaiden yell.

"Ha thanks for the help. Where's Shepard?" I asked as we headed on to the ship with me carrying the staff and bag and Kaiden carrying the girl on his shoulder.

"She got knocked cold when the beacon well exploded." He said.

"What!?" I asked stopping in my tracks.

"She's in the med-bay Chakwas says she should be fine though. I'll take our guest here up too to see what the doc says. Why don't you bring her stuff up too." Kaiden suggests. I nod and follow him to the elevator. When we get to the medbay I see the doctor working on the commander and Kaiden puts the girl on the bed next to Shepard.

"Now we will just have to wait for the commander or our new guest to wake up. You two should report to Captain Anderson and tell him what you guys saw." The doctor said. We both nodded and went to see Anderson as our course was set to go to the Citadel.