Chapter 1.- The Blood in the Night
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Winterhold was always a a great city, full of life and magic. Even if it was the northest city in Skyrim or even in all Tamriel, it was one of the most important cities for merchants, travelers and mages. That was because the College of Winterhold, a great college where mages from all over Tamriel congregate to study the arcane arts, many people considerate that this is a more important facility to the practice of magic than the Arcane University of the Imperial City in Cirodyl. The population of the city was mainly composed by Nords, it's a funny fact that many Nords didn't trusted or liked the magic or the mages, they considered all the mages to be a bunch of milk drinkers.
In that great city lived a Nord Family, Thornlad is the head of the family he is a city guard, he used to be an adventurer, then he took an arrow to the knee, and got retired from adventures but being a city guard is less dangerous than being an adventurer, and he could get time to his family, his dislike to the College, the mages and the specialy the elves, is far known in the city, his wife is Aeta, a beautiful merchant she sells jewelry, in the market of the city, they have a daughter, a cute looking and playful girl named Freyja, she played a lot around the market, looking allthe customers in the alive city. Within one of the customers she saw an elf woman, one of the College, her father told her to stay out of the College bussines, and not talk with elves, her mother didn't had a problem neither with the College or the elves, the elf walked to the store of her mother and curiusly she went to see her.
"Hi Aeta, it's good to see you", said the elf in a friendly tone.
"Hello, Faralda, I thought Sergius was the one who would come for the necklace", said the nord woman clearly surpised to see her friend in the store.
"Well he was coming, but I letted him know that I would come and get it for him to enchant it, jaja, not everyday I have time to pay a visit to a friend, the College duties keep us busy", answered Faralda.
"Jaja, I can imagine", replied Aeta, while taking out an ebony amulet with the shape of a dragon from a strongbox, "I want to give it to my daughter when she grows up".
"That's great but, what spell do you want in it?", asked Faralda
"Jeje, I'm not sure, surprise me", said the nord with a playing tone.
"I knew that would be your answer", said Faralda, while taking the amulet.
After that another person entered to the store, she was Freyja, saw her mother talking with the costumer, and when both saw her.
"So, is this your daughter?, Aeta", asked Faralda.
"Aye, she is my precious girl, her name's Freyja", said with great pride, after she called the girl who ran to the arms of her mother, the woman hugged the girl and said "My love, she is my friend Faralda, she is one of the scholars of the College"
"Nice to meet you, are you a mage?, my dad don't like the mages but I think you are great, but I want to be a mage when I grow up", said the girl very fast and with an annoying voice.
"Jeje, I can see that you will become a great mage", replied the altmer with a smile
"Yeah!", answered the girl
Faralda got out of the store and returned to the college.
During that night Thornlad was on service in the main street of Winterhold, all the guards heard a lot of noises, they were like animals, their first tought was about wolves, a few guard draw their bows and readied to take them out but were surprised and killed by strange undead dog-like creatures, the rest of the guards in the street draw their weapons but were attaked with magic, a weird spell that absorbed their live, the attakers were vampires, killed most of the guards almost instantly, and attaked the entire city, the surviving guards ataked with their swords but it was useless, there was no resistance.
The vampires in their attack, used fire spells to burn the houses and that drain spell to kill the inhabitants, even used necromancy spells to use reanimate the dead bodies like thralls.
All the stange noises awakened Freyja who was alredy sleeping, when she got up saw her mother scared, Aeta got closer and hugged the girl.
"Don't worry, no one's gonna hurt you", said Aeta while took a steel sword from her husband chest.
One of the dog-like cratures crashed the door, and entered the house, was about to jump to the scared girl but her mother slashed it's head and killing instantly, in that instant one of the dead bodies reanimated by the vampires entered the house, she saw the person, was one of the other shop owners of the market district, he was a good friend, he used to be the blacksmith, he was an orc, he was the only non nord that her husband respected, the thrall had an orcish warhammer, that was not a joke, one swing from those could kill her instantly, with her free hand started to concentrate the magic energy and formed a fire ball, wich threw to the dead orc, the orc survived the firs round and she kept throwing fireballs while the orc got nearer to her, when the orc got her at distance started to swing the heavy warhammer, she used her sword faster to pierce him through the chest, "Thank you" just said the orc, his soul was free at last, then the body just turned to ashes. The girl was crying, she knew too the orc, he seemed to be very scary but was so good with her, he made wodden swords for the kids of the town to play, and sometimes he played with the kids.
The two got out of the house trying to scape of the city, they were trying to go to the College, but soon Aeta fell in pain, her life was being drained by a vampire, "Freyja, my love, run!", shouted with all her strengh, the girl couldn't move, she saw the vampire taking out the life of her mother.
"I didn't believed that someone would kill the orc", said the vampire, while killed Aeta, "Well kid, I'm not gonna kill you, your mother's the one who's gonna make it", saying that the vampire used another spell in the corpse of Aeta, Aeta rised again, but she wasn't the lovely mother that Freyja loved, the vampire ordered the thrall to kill the girl, but before that the heart of the vampire was pierced with a sword, it was Thornlad who killed the vampire, Aeta saw her husband while starting to turn into ashes, just managed to say, "Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you", while falling lookes the girl "I love you, more than anything", she turned into ashes.
Thornlad was just gonna hug his daughter but his chest got pierced by another vampire, the vampire took the sword out of the chest and decapitated the City guard and father, the vampire saw the girl and was about to use his sword but a great fireball came from behind and completely burned the vamp, she saw behind her and the people who saw were all from the college, the masters, the one who threw the fire ball was the same elf that was on the store on the afternoon, a breton woman came to her and started to heal her, all the physical wounds healed fast, but the ones of the heart maybe would never heal.
Faralda and the other mages advanced though the city the breton man and the orc summoned strange creatures who looked like statues with lightning, these statues attacked and killed a lot of vampires, the reanimated bodies tried to attack, but all were turned into ashes almost instantly, "To try to attack me with so weak reanimations, I think I should teach them how to make a proper reanimation", said the breton mage, "Better not use necromagic here, just stick to the atronach, Phinis", replied the orc, "hmm". And the atronachs continued their attack.
Faralda was on another street, the vamps were coming at her but got caught by strange runes on the floor that exploded when they were near, Faralda was attacking with fire, she used an strange dance, and a lot of meteorites fell from the sky, killing all the vampires.
The elder nord mage, was being attacked with the spell that killed most of the people in the town, the one that drains the lifeforce, but it was being useless, he had a spell which was like a shield, and attacked the vampires with a dagger, used a spell to throw the vampires near of him and pierce their heart with the dagger, after the vamps burned like if they were attacked with the fire spells, a vampire attacked him with an elven sword from behind but when the sowrd was going to pierce him it stoped, his skin was tougher than the sword, "It's the ebonyflesh spell, my skin is so hard as an ebony armor", said the elder mage while piercing the vampire with his enchanted dagger.
Freyja stayed in the bridge entrance, another survivors were coming and being attended by the breton woman, "just remember that the restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic", she said, but was another mage with them, a dark elf, the dark elf looked at the girl, "Hi, I'm Drevis Neloren, don't worry we are gonna protect you", said the blue skinned elf, then a group of 5 vampires appeared and charged to the survivors group, the elf used a spell, the vampires just stoped, and started to search for them, "I made us invisible, so please be quiet", said to everyone with a low voice, then used another spell, and the vamps started to atck themselves, when the last vampire survived to the battle, his heart was pierced with a dagger, and started to burn, Drevis sneaked during the battle with an invisibility spell and attacked him just after he killed the other vampires.
The battle won't lasted long the College mages managed to defeat the monsters, but almost everyone in the city were killed, and the city almost destroyed.
All the mages went to the bridge with the survivors, the elder nord asked about the situation of the survivors, "How are they?, Colette", "Most of them should be fine, some will need a deeper threatment in the college, Tolfdir", replied the healer Colette, "Phinis, Urag we will need a lot of frost attronach to carry the ones who could not walk, and Faralda and Drevis you chech the city again searching another survivors or vampires", said Tolfdir.
Some days have passed since the incident, in the College Freyja was being attended with another survivors, Faralda passed to visit her many times, but didn't said a lot, Tolfdir and Nevis were helping Colette to attend the survivors, so she had seen them a lot.
Faralda payed another visit to the girl's bed, she didn't said anything, when was about to leave the girl spoke, "Thank you for saving me", the altmer got in shock, almost weeping "I'm sorry, I couldn't save them", "Don't worry, it's not your fault", she said trying to make a smile, after a few seconds Freyja asked, "Do you wanna stay and become an student of the College girl?", Said an elder nord man from outside the room, the person entered, he was Tolfdir, Freyja with a smile noded.
She was now a student of the College of Winterhold.
Author Notes:
1.- English is not my first language, so I would appreciate any correction on orthography and grammar.
2.- The amulet of the dragon is the symbol of the video game (just search skyrim symbol, just in case)
3.- In this story we will follow the adventures of Freyja during her stance in the College of Winterhold (College Questline)
4.- Eat fruits and vegetables
5.- Don't use Skooma
6.- Hope you liked this capter