Welcome to Cyrodiil
(A/N) Sorry it took so long to update, I had a lot of stuff to do and a mild case of writers block. But here it is and I think you'll be happy with it.
Special thanks to Angel-sweetness66 for such a positive review, enjoy the chapter.
Eddy stared at his new surroundings. He had never seen this place before. He looked around at the hills covered with dry, yellow long grass. He could smell smoke and turned around. He could see, off in the distance, a city surrounded by tall walls. He couldn't find Ed or Edd nearby, so he decided that maybe they too had gone to the city.
Eddy tried to stand up but his legs felt weak and he crumbled back down. He tried again and this time he managed to stay up. He slowly began to make his way to the city.
Eddy found a road leading to the city and so followed that. Slowly the high walls got closer until he could two armour clad men standing on either side of a large wooden door. Eddy approached them and took in more detail about their armour. They wore chain mail armour with an armless robe over it that went down to just above his knees. Eddy noticed that one was carrying a silver sword and a shield with the same pattern as on his robe. The other was carrying a bow and arrow set.
As Eddy approached one of the guards say him and said "Halt! Who goes there?". Eddy didn't quite know what to say, so he simply replied "um... My name is Eddy" "What is your business here?" enquired the guard, "Isn't it obvious" interrupted the other guard, "he's that Bosmer merchant we were told to look out for"he finished. "uh... Yeah, that's me" said Eddy seizing the opportunity.
"Your friend told us you'd be coming and that we should take you to him" explained the second guard. The guard opened the big city gate and prompted Eddy to follow. Eddy walked through after the guard who led him through the city. Eddy looked around the strange place. The buildings were a nice clean white colour with orange roofs. Eddy noticed some signs hanging from several buildings.
One, a red shield with two swords crossing under it. He also saw a sign that read "Morvayn's Peacemakers".
The guard led Eddy into a tavern called "The Count's arms". "Morning Wilbur" said the guard, "Morning. What brings you in here so early" replied Wilbur, the proprietor . "That mage you got living here, his friend just arrived" explained the guard. "ah, of course. He's just down there friend" said Wilbur to Eddy pointing at a door. "Thanks" said Eddy as he walked through the door.
Eddy walked down the stone hallway, suddenly he heard voices just around the corner. "For goodness sake Ed, put that down. It cost me a lot to get that" came one of the voices. Eddy recognized it immediately as Edd's. Eddy stepped round the corner and saw Ed holding a glass flask while Edd tried to take the flask from him. Ed saw Eddy first and immediately dropped the flask, which Edd caught just before it hit the stone floor. "EDDY"! Exclaimed Ed as he saw Eddy . Ed ran over to Eddy and embraced him in a hug.
Eddy's breath was swiftly squeezed out of him, but managed to utter one sentence, "Hi Ed". Ed let go and let Eddy fall to floor gasping for air. Edd had placed the flask on a table and greeted joined Eddy, "Eddy, you finally arrived. Ed and I were worried you'd been teleported to a completely different region. "Yeah, do you mind explaining what exactly has happened here?" asked Eddy surprised at how calm the other two were.
"Yes, indeed. Please Eddy, take a seat while I explain our circumstance" said Edd motioning to a couch near the back of the room. In front of the couch was a coffee table with a metal pitcher and a few glasses. Eddy sat down and Edd sat opposite him. Edd poured a glass of water from the pitcher and handed it Eddy. "Ok Eddy, in the teleportation experiment, something went very wrong, somehow we got sent to this place, a separate dimension altogether. Ed and I got here two weeks ago, why you only arrived now, I don't know. Ed's game, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, was interpreted as a real place by my computers, so they ran millions of calculations and found a way to jump through dimensions and landed us here, fascinating isn't it" explained Edd. "Yeah, but where the hell is HERE?" asked Eddy. "Tamrial, in the Imperial province of Cyrodiil" replied Edd, "ask Ed, he knows more about this place than I do".
"We are the continent of Tamrial, on the planet Nirn. The continent is under control of the emperor Urial Septim VII. This land is divided into several provinces, Morrowind to the east, Black Marsh to the south-east, Elsweyr to the south, Valenwood to the south-west, Hammerfell to the north-west, Skyrim to the north, High Rock north-west of Hammerfell and the Summerset Isles off the south-west coast. We are in the centre, in the city of Anvil on the west coast of Cyrodiil." explained Ed as Eddy just listened.
"Ok, so double D. What have you two been up to while I was flying through the the blackness of space?" asked Eddy. "Well, luckily for me, Ed knew exactly where we were, so I let him take charge. We spent our first night in the chapel, I passed myself off as an Imperial mage and Ed as my Nord companion. Ed managed to find us some gold coins to rent out this room and get some food. I started collecting plants from the surrounding forests and made some interesting potions, which I sold to the local Mages Guild." explained Edd as Eddy listened.
Eddy suddenly noticed that Edd and Ed were wearing different clothes. Edd was wearing a red robe with a black hood with red edges and Ed was wearing a shirt and long shorts that looked as if they were made from a old sack. "Where'd you get those clothes?" asked Eddy, "Oh right, I was getting to that, I joined the Mages Guild here, I'm just an associate right now, but they gave me this robe as a welcome gift, I quite like it." said Edd looking at his robe.
"Ok, so how do we get back?" asked Eddy, "um, yeah. Well here's the thing... I don't know" said Edd quietly. "WHAT!? You've been here for how long and haven't figured out a way of getting us back? You're supposed to be the smart one, don't mess with the group dynamics Double D" exclaimed Eddy in shock and anger. "I know, I know. I was working on a way out of here, but I reached a dead end. Then I discovered all the plant life and all the stuff we could do here I got distracted. But just look at this stuff Eddy" explained Edd, picking up a small flask with some red liquid inside it.
"What? Some red drink? Big deal." said Eddy uninterested in Edd's creation. Edd drank the potion and began to fade away. Eddy stood back in awe, all that was left of Edd was a few ripples when he moved. "Invisibility potion" stated Edd, "Made it myself this morning" Slowly Edd began to reappear, "It only lasts a few seconds though, I need purer ingredients". "Double D, do you know what we could do with this?" Eddy said excitedly, "We could rob a bank and no one would have a clue as to who did it, or we sneak into adult movies and not have to worry about getting caught or having to pay or anything".
"Yeah, but like I said: It only lasts for a few seconds" repeated Edd, "I know where to get better ingredients, but it's quite far from here" said Edd, "Don't sweat it sock head, me and Ed'll come with you and you can find a way to get us back home where we can use this stuff" interrupted Eddy.
"Wel, ok then. Give me an hour to pack up. In the mean time, Ed, why don't you take Eddy to go get some more appropriate clothing" said Edd summoning Ed. "Sure thing, I know just the place" said Ed happily as he led Eddy back upstairs and onto the streets of Anvil.
Edd got out a backpack and picked up a staff from the corner. He laid out everything he would need and pointed the staff at them, he closed his eyes and concentrated on a spell he had been taught. The staff vibrated in his hands and he heard a sound like wind rustling dry leaves. When he opened his eyes all his stuff had been shrunk down to the size of a match box.
He carefully placed each item in a pocket inside his backpack, then began sorting out his alchemical ingredients.
Ed and Eddy walked down the cobbled streets on Anvil, Eddy could smell the salt of the ocean and hear the seagulls everywhere. The arrived at an armour shop where Eddy bought a complete set of leather armour. It suited him quite well, as he didn't want anything too heavy to slow him down if he ever needed to run away.
When Ed and Eddy returned to the Inn, Edd was all packed up and ready to leave, but it was sun set and none of really wanted to go, so they decided to stay one last night and leave come dawn.
At day break the trio left the pleasant city of Anvil and headed North-West. They walked along the golden plains that surrounded Anvil. They walked for about an hour before...
"I'm bored, when are we gonna get there?" complained Eddy, "Jeez Eddy, I said it was gonna take a while" said Edd, "Yeah, but I just wish something interesting would happen, you know" replied Eddy. As he these words a scream echoed from the surrounding woodland. "What was that?" said Eddy as he looked through the thick forest. "It came from that direction" said Edd, pointing to a cluster of rocks. Ed pulled out his long sword and Edd readied his staff. "Hey! How come I don't get a weapon?" demanded Eddy, "You didn't buy one and you don't know how to use one anyway" said Edd as he continued to monitor the rock cluster.
"Not true. I can use a bow, my bro taught me, before he went away" explained Eddy, "Then why didn't you buy one" asked Edd annoyed at Eddy's lack of forethought. "I spent all of it of this armour and the arrows were over priced" said Eddy, almost whispering, trying to hear another clue as to where the scream came from.
Suddenly a girl ran out from behind the rocks, she a deep cut across her chest, starting from her shoulder and ending at near her belly button. She was bleeding pretty badly and limping at a fast pace. A strange creature followed her out from behind the rocks. It looked like a triceratops/raptor crossbreed. It stood on two legs, but had the shield thing on it's head but without the horns. It was taller than the boys, about 7 feet tall.
"Quick, it's after that girl" said Edd as he cast a spell, a trail of light green smoke shot from Edd's hand and hit the creature it the side. It froze instantly. Ed pulled out his sword, an iron claymore, he removed it from his harness on his back and ran over to paralysed creature, as he approached the spell wore off and the creature went limp, before standing up again and turning to face Ed. He swung the long blade, it sliced through the creatures skull, killing it instantly, as it fell it a fountain of blood, Ed stabbed it it through the ribs to make sure it was dead.
Edd, went over to a tree where the girl was hiding. "You're badly hurt. Come here, I'll fix it" said Edd holding out his hand. The girl grabbed his hand and he pulled her to her feet. He looked at the deep cut across her chest and cast a spell at it. A blue glow appeared in his hand and jumped into her wound, healing it almost immediately.
"Thanks, you saved my life" she said weakly, "It's ok" replied Edd. He let go off her hand, but she nearly collapsed so he quickly grabbed her. "Sorry, still pretty weak" she said, "Yeah, you lost a lot of blood. Do you live nearby, somewhere we could drop you off?" asked Edd. "Yeah, Me and my sisters have a farm about an hour north of here" she replied pointing up a dirt road that came off the main cobble road. Ed and Eddy arrived next to the two, "Hey, you OK?" Eddy asked the girl, "Yeah, she's fine" Edd said for her, "We gotta take her to her sisters' farm up the road" Edd continued. Ed carried the girl in his arms while Eddy and Edd led the way to the farm...
And that concludes this chapter, review it and I'll continue.
