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Chapter 1:Not in Kansas Anymore
As I dodged another sword strike to my neck, I couldn't help but remember what got me into this situation…
***Flashback***
Olympus, home to the twelve Olympians, is a golden city currently situated on top of the Empire State building. On the main temple, a man with long dark grey hair and a grey-and-black beard with a dark blue pinstriped suit, was sitting on a huge golden throne. This man was Zeus, lord of the sky, king of Gods. In front of him, kneeling was a woman of auburn colored hair and silver eyes, Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
"What do you require of me, father?"
"Recently there has been a surge of great power near the Rocky Mountains. No one has a clue of what it is; even Athena is confused. I need you to go and scout the place."
"It shall be done" Artemis stood and disappeared in a flash of silver light.
Artemis reappeared in the middle of a small camp, where a dozen girls were practicing archery. "Hunters! We have a mission from my father!" All the girls stopped what they were doing and focused on their lady. "There is something strange in the Rocky Mountains, we must investigate it." All the girls nodded and started packing their things. They had a mission now and they would complete it as fast as possible.
Meanwhile, a girl with long, silky black hair, coppery-like skin approached Artemis. "My lady, is there something wrong?"
"No Zoe, Its only I have a bad feeling about this…"
Zoe smiled reassuringly "Don't worry my lady, you have your Hunt with you."
Artemis gave her a half smile before jumping into her chariot. "Zoe, lead them to the mountains. I have something to do beforehand." Without another word, she took off.
She rode towards the sun as she was meeting her annoying brother Apollo, god of the sun and prophecies. She landed in a clearing and waited… and waited… and waited "Damn it Apollo! I now you are watching!" Not a second later, a red flaming Maserati landed in the clearing, scorching the surrounding ground. The door of the car opened and out of it came a young handsome blonde man. "Hello my dear sister, a pleasure to see you as always."
"Annoying as always"
"Why my dear little sister, I am hurt." He smiled charmingly at Artemis only to be hit across the head. "Anyway sis, what do you need?"
Artemis expression became serious "I have been tasked with a mission from father, but I have a bad feeling about it… Do you see something strange in the future?"
Apollo closed his eyes and put his hands together as if meditating. "Hmmm… Nope, nothing. The only thing I see is that you'll change in something. I don't know in what though." He opened his eyes and turned to his car "See you later sis!" Artemis too walked to her chariot but stopped when she heard a sudden crash. She turned only to see her brother lying in the ground convulsing. "Apollo! If this is one of your pranks, I'm going to kill you!" She ran to his brother, but he started glowing in an orange light as a thunderous voice came out of him.
"Nir goddess, Ah of distant lands. Gron Wah Joor. You shall recover your Rii when Dovahkiin Zoor Zah. For Drem to be kept, Dovahkiin Krii Alduin. (Hunt goddess, hunter of distant lands. Bind to mortality. You shall recover your essence when dragonborns legend is finite. For peace to be kept, dragonborn must kill Alduin)" When the last word escaped his mouth, he fell to the floor. Once he hit the floor, he didn't move.
"B-brother?" Artemis approached her brother slowly. When she was besides him, he suddenly inhaled really loudly and then groaned.
"I feel as if a dozen dragons just danced claque inside my head…" He turned to see the worried face of his sister. "Uh… What happened?"
Artemis just looked at him with a blank stare.
When she reappeared next to her hunters she was surprised to see they were already waiting for her at the Mountains. "How did you get here so fast?" She asked Zoe
"What are you speaking about my lady? We set up camp here over a week ago." Zoe was obviously confused "You left twenty days ago."
This only made Artemis more suspicious about this mission altogether.
"Zoe, prepare a hunting group. I want to finish this as soon as possible." Zoe turned around and shouted a few orders; five minutes later a group of ten hunters were armed and ready to accompany their lady.
"Hunters, follow me." She shouted and walked into the depths of the forest.
An hour passed, nothing happened. Two hours in the mountains, nothing wrong. When the watch marked three hours…
"Be alert hunters, I felt something close…" Artemis warned the girls as they entered a clearing. All the hunters nodded and readied their bows. "There!" Shouted one, firing her arrow into the darkness of the forest surrounding them. As the arrow struck its target, a loud primal roar was heard. A moment later, five humanoid, ape-like hairy beings ran out of the trees towards the hunters. They started firing their arrows no stop but it seemed to be nothing but bug bites to the ugly beings. Artemis let loose one of her arrows, piercing the first creatures skull and killing it instantly. The rest of the hunters weren't so lucky.
Four angry beasts closed in the hunters group and quickly wounded two and killed three girls, ripping them apart. The rest of the group quickly took them down with precise arrows to their eyes. The surviving hunters gathered their dead and wounded.
"My lady, something is wrong with these monsters…" Said Zoe, taking a closer look at them. They were the ugliest things she had ever seen: three fingers ended with claws in each arm and leg, three pitch black eyes and sharp fangs. This monster seemed to be designed to be ugly.
"What do you mean Zoe? They were certainly nothing I've ever seen before but… they are not disappearing into dust." She realized wide-eyed.
The other hunters realized it too, suddenly becoming terrorized. "But… Does that mean they are mortals?" Said one "How could a mortal become like that?" Another one. Similar shouts of nervousness and fear where heard all through the clearing.
"Silence!" Shouted Artemis, making all the hunters go mute. "Zoe, gather the hunters and take the dead and wounded back to camp, see to it that they are properly attended. Once you've finished that, send a message to Olympus about what has happened."
"What will you do my lady?" Zoe asked worriedly
"I will keep on with this investigation."
Artemis followed the five creatures trail to an ancient set of ruins. It was, basically, a circular hole in the ground, surrounded by pillars with dragon-like heads on the top part. There was a big iron door own in the bottom. She carefully entered, avoiding some bear-like traps and, surprisingly, a pressure plate which activated a flamethrower. She crossed a huge bridge and saw just how big the ruins were below the earth, she couldn't help but whistle in appreciation. It was at least the size of Zeus temple, which matched his ego in size; both were too big for their own good.
She continued walking until the end of the path. There was a really tall wall, surrounded by eight statues of robed men with grown beards. She saw some writings on the wall and went closer to examine them more carefully. There were multiple characters she couldn't understand but something caught her attention: an image of a silver bow. Her symbol. She reached with her hand and touched it. It shone brightly for an instant before it dimmed down. At the same time, all the eight statues seemed to come to life at the same time, throwing their arms to the sky.
"LAAS GRON JOOR!" (Life bond mortal) All the statues shouted at the same time. Artemis felt weak, she fell to her knees gasping for air as all color seemed to leave her hands, becoming as pale a corpse.
"GUT WAH VUS!" (Far to Nirn) All blackened around her.
When Artemis opened her eyes, she was no longer in the cave. She was lying in the snow and her weapons were nowhere to be found. She stood up and looked around. Nothing on sight but snow. She tried to teleport back to Olympus but was unable to do it. "Something must be blocking teleportation" She thought.
Without wasting another moment, she started walking away. After what seemed to be hours walking, Artemis started to feel something strange. It felt cold. That wasn't something a god could feel… "I must have been weakened more than I thought" She quickly looked for a refuge. She saw in the distance some tall ruins so without a second thought started approaching them. Once she arrived, she was met by a half nude man with a bow and a sword "Isn't he freezing?" Artemis asked herself.
"Oh, look there. Are you lost? Follow me; we have fire and warm food inside…" Now Artemis was a smart goddess, maybe not on Athena's level but smart nonetheless, but her hunger and cold experienced for the first time outweighed her common sense, so she nodded and followed the man.
Artemis entered the ruins after the man and what she first saw disgusted her: a rat the size of a Doberman laid dead before a pillar. She immediately perked up when she heard the man from before calling her to a fire where another two figures sat: a man and a woman.
Once she approached the fire, however, everything went wrong. The man pulled out a dagger and quickly put it on Artemis neck. "Now, sweetie, you are going to have to work hard to get a meal, do you understand?" He said as his other hand began to trail her curvaceous body. Meanwhile, Artemis was with her eyes closed, trying with all her might to turn the man into a jackalope. She opened one eye. "Nothing? Not even a fluffy tail? What's wrong with me?"
"I said, do you understand!?" Shouted the man, pressing the dagger to her neck. The woman giggled "Let the dumb bitch be, she will understand once we get started."
Artemis got pissed. These damn mortals thought they were going to force her to do what!? She elbowed the first man in his family jewels before kicking him into the fire. He started shouting before rolling in the floor to stop the flames. Meanwhile, both the other man and the woman unsheathed their swords and charged at Artemis.
Which brings us to our actual situation.
***Flashback End***
I jumped away from their swords and in the brief moment before they started attacking again I took my hand to my neck. It has been stinging since we started to fight. I noticed something humid in my hand. I looked at my hand. This has to be a nightmare. Yes a nightmare, when I open my eyes again everything will be alright. After all there's no way that I had blood, RED blood coming out of a cut in my neck. That's preposterous, all gods have golden ichor flowing through their veins.
I opened my eyes. There were no swords at sight. Good. I looked around only to find a slightly burnt but extremely angry man from before charging at me like crazy with his bare hands "I was going to let you live after we were finished, but YOU HAVE PISSED ME OFF." He started choking me. I looked into his eyes, they were tainted with madness and lust "Don't worry I will make sure you don't die before you have a taste of everything I have in store for y-" He was cut off by an arrow coming out of his neck. I made my move and got his sword. I got ready to face his companions, but they soon carried the same fate, and were put down by the mysterious archer.
"Hey, are you okay?" It was a male voice. "Your wounds need to be taken care of, if you promise not to attack me, I'll help you"
"F-Fine, I p-promise. Come on out" My voice trembled.
First of all, thanks for reading this chapter to its end. Second, English isnt my mother tongue so please if you see something wrong (the tipical "your story is shit" without a proper explanation will be ignored) with my story tell me so that I can improve. Also, remember my "Skyrim" is in spanish so I'll probably make a mess with the names. Please correct me.
Okay, here I need some help. This is going to be an ArtemisXDovahkiin story BUT I need ideas for our favourite dragon killer. I'd like you to send me your ideas about which race will the dragonborn be, choosing from the next list, being the first three the best (in my opinion) options:
Imperial
Breton
Bosmer
Nord (Too proud)
Altmer (Has a stick up his ass)
Dunmer (Too much of a sob story)
Red Guard (I... don't really see it)
Khajit (It would be fun but... I dont see it)
Argonian (This is a bit wierd)
Then, if possible tell me how he looks, some of his backstory, prefered weapons (must use a bow though) etc...
Providing I get some good answers from this fic, next chapter would be up next week.
