the shadow of skyrim Chapter 1, an elder scroll series fanfic

THIS IS A REWORK OF THE FIRST CHAPTER, I'M SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG!

(Chapter 1: intro and, song?)

(NO POV)

Two figures are seen walking down the road to the border of Skyrim. One standing at 6ft'4 wearing purple tinted armor that was made up of a dwarven chest piece with ebony gauntlets, boots, plus an ebony helmet. He also had two dwarven great swords strapped to his back. While the other was standing at 6ft'6 and wore what looked like a modified version of a ebony helmet that resembled some kind of dog or wolves head, a black tinted chest piece with some kind of animal head engraved in to the center outlined with white, ebony gauntlets and black Nordic boots, it also had two black Nordic swords strapped to its back in an x formation.

"Are we there yet?" asked a gruff voice that came from the purple clad figure, a sigh then came from the black themed figure "Ben what did I say about complaining?"

(? POV)

I replied to my brother Ben who lets out a sigh as well and replies "I'm not allowed to complain until we bust out of Helgen, I know, I know, but still could we take a break?" Ben ask's "Ben we took a break ten minutes ago!" I exclaimed "WHAT! I THOUGHT THAT WAS TWO HOURS AGO!" Ben screamed, I sigh again and place my palm upon my face. My brother was a bit of a jar head here and there, not to mention his obsession with purple unlike me who just likes black. Oh where are my manners? My name is Wolf, Wolf Fenris Kagerosea and my brother's name is Ben Ursa Dragneel. It has been ten years since me and Ben found ourselves in the land of Tamriel. ten years of pain, suffering and wonder. I still remember the day when we woke up in one of the forest near black marsh.

(Flashback 10 years ago)

(WOLF'S POV)

Darkness, darkness is all I saw, my body ached, and my head felt like an animal that rolled and slammed against a cage. "Where…..where am I?...why can't I hear him?...where is everyone?" I slowly open my eyes which sting from the sun shining bright into them. Everything was blurry and foggy, I rubbed my eye's trying to regain my sight which starts to return and show that I'm in some kind of forest. I groan as I try to sit up and look around "where the hell am I?" as soon as I finished talking I freeze in place and place my left hand on my throat "my…my voice…this isn't my voice" I then noticed that my hand was different as well. I start to panic till I see a pond a couple of feet away, I scramble over and peer into the crystal clear water, I place my hands on my face in shock as I gaze at my reflection. "This….this can't be…..this body…..it's….his" my body was somewhat pale and it seemed to be smaller like I was de-aged, my hair was colored pitch black while my eyes where the same yet different, instead of a grey like color, they were split. My right eye was brown and my left was silver and there were two long scars running over my right eye in a x formation, which was something MY body had, why was it there? And why was it younger?, "what happened to me?...why am I in his body? What's going on?, all I remember is-" my thoughts stop in place as I can't remember what happened.

I look more closely to my reflection to see that this indeed was his body, my height was close to 3ft'5, I had a black t-shirt on and black sweat pants with a silver chain necklace around my neck. As well as a pendent on a black chain that looked like a wolves head colored with tan, white, and grey colors, I noticed as well that I was wearing black tennis shoes with black laces.

I heard a groan and looked behind me to see a kid lying on his side, he had brownish hair and a rough looking face with freckles all over and he wore glasses. I knew who this was from watching my friend's life, this was Ben who was my friend's brother in everything but blood, I run over to him and try to wake him up.

"hey Ben wake up man something has happened" this earned a groan from Ben as he mutters "five more minutes mom" I roll my eyes, I knew that when he was like this it would take a lot to wake him up. Then a thought came to my head, I cup my hands around my mouth and yell "oh my god NaLu got changed to GrLu" that did it because as soon as I finish my sentence Ben jolts up awake with pure fury in his eyes " WHAT? WHAT MOTHER FUCKER DID IT? GODDAMNIT I'LL KILL THEM!" Ben then realizes that he's not in whatever place he was before and looks around. Then he looks to me and gets ready to, my guess is babble on about where are we.

"He's not here" I cut Ben off before he gets to say a word, he looks at me with a confused look "who?" he asks I roll my eyes again but it should be expected, he only met me twice in all of our life "it's me Wolf" as soon as I say my name his face went pale as a ghost and he moves back slightly in fear, as I expected him to, the last time me and him met, I tried to kill him. Same with the time before that, I close my eyes and sigh "don't worry I may be in control but I'm calm right now which is weird cause I'm usually rarely calm" I open my eyes again and walk towards Ben and offer my hand to him "I won't hurt you" Ben then loses all signs of fear and smiles. He then grabbed my hand "so wolf, do you know where we are?" Ben asks me, "I don't know but yet this place seems familiar, no?" I replied "now that you mention it, this place does seem familiar" ben replied, now that he's standing I get a better look of him. Ben stood at 4ft4' and wore a bright 'KILL ME, I'M RIGHT HERE, COME ON, KILL ME!' hoodie and blue jeans with brown combat boots, "hey, why are you younger and why is this place so huge?" Ben asks me "I look younger because I AM younger and so are you, that's why this place is so huge, we shrunk" as soon as I finished ben starts to panic while looking over himself and yelling nonononono over and over again. I face palm and sigh "oh this will be so much fun".

(Flashback end)

After that, well that can be told another time, for it was at this moment that I heard muffled yelling coming from behind me. I quickly turn my head in that direction to see if I could hear any more of the yelling "what is it?" Ben asks me, "yelling, and lots of it, let's go check it out" I had an idea of what it was.

Ben and I start heading towards the place where we believe was the source of the yelling, and we come upon a brick road with several men on it. There were 4 men and two women wearing armor, which really wasn't much, if anything it looked like a blue cloth that wraped around quilted armor underneath it with leather belts fastening around the torso. I also saw small parts of chain mail underneath the quilted part of the armor, which was probably for extra protection. The other group that was surrounding the first group was made of at least 7 to 12 men wearing brown leather like armor and matching helmets, it looked like normal clothes if you ask me.

These were the imperials and Storm cloaks, right on time.

Looks like it's going the same pace as the game. It was at this moment I heard a shout and looked to see four of the imperial's with swords out ,pointed at us "I said surrender Storm cloaks, your surrounded and there's no escape" one of the soldiers barked, I knew that a conflict was going to happen and that it would only make things so much worse.

I sigh and look to Ben who was ready for a fight, his hand already resting on the handle for one of his swords "fine, we surrender" I replied to the soldier looking back to him and holding out my hands to be bound. I look to Ben who had a look of anger and disappointment "just do it brother" Ben gave me a glare as he slowly held out his hands. With our weapons taken by the imperials they loaded us on to wooden carts pulled by horses with the now captured storm cloak soldiers. Ben and I were on a cart with two storm cloak soldiers, Ralof and Ulfric, and a man wearing rags, the horse thief If I remember right. The cart starts to move as we are being taken, to if it fallows the games story, Helgen. Where we would face the headsmen's block and meet Alduin. I have to thank the huntress that I paid attention when he played this game because with that knowledge we will survive, we trained for this. The ride to Helgen my guess would be long and it seemed that everyone was in a gloomy mood, even the imperials were rather brooding, a song came to my mind that I enjoyed and so I had an idea. I laid my head back, close my eyes and spoke,

(No POV) (Song name: gods gonna cut you down by Johnny cash)

You can run long for a long time

Run long for a long time

Sooner or later god'll cut you down

The men in the cart and the driver looked towards the black haired boy as he was singing a song that none of them knew of and tapping his foot in pace of his words, and were confused as to why he was singing in the first place. Although before one of them could ask he started again, tapping his foot in tow.

Go and tell that long tongue liar, go and tell that midnight rider

Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter

Tell'em that god's gonna cut'em down

The more the boy sang, the more the soldiers felt like they could relate to the song, this kept them quiet so the boy could continue.

Well, my goodness gracious let me tell you the news

My head's been wet with the midnight dew

I've been down on bended knee

Talkin' to the man from Galilee

He spoke to me in the voice so sweet

I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet

He called my name and my heart stood still

When he said "John, go do my will"

Go and tell that long tongue lair, go and tell that midnight rider

Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter

Tell'em that god's gonna cut'em down

The more the boy would sing the more the men would feel confused yet feel in peace of the song.

You can run long for a long time

Run long for a long time

Sooner or later god'll cut you down

Ben sat back and closed his eyes and enjoyed the nice tune that came from his brother.

Well you may throw your rock hide your hand

Workin' in the dark against your fellow man

But as sure as God made black and white

What's down in the dark will be brought to the light

You can run long for a long time

Run long for a long time

Sooner or later god'll cut you down

Go and tell that long tongue lair, go and tell that midnight rider

Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter

Tell'em that god's gonna cut you down

(song end) (wolfs POV)

"That song….I've never heard of it before, what does it mean?" Ralof asked me. "To be honest I don't know myself, I always thought it was about men or women who commit sin's thinking they can get away with it, but in the end god cuts them down for their evil deeds" (A/N my honest opinion)

Raylof gave me a look then nodded slowly like he understood the meaning. I feel Ben nudge my shoulder and look to him "were here" I look around me to my surprise, we were indeed in Helgen, the song I sung must have passed time more than I thought. I look at the wooden and stone homes and the crowd of people coming out of their homes, muttering and whispering. I close my eyes again and wait for the cart to stop. When it did, me, Ben, Raylof, the horse thief, and Ulfric storm cloak, one of the few people in Skyrim I had a deep hatred for and number 3 on my Skyrim shit list, the blades being number 2, Harkon being number 1, and the people who I want dead the most take the space for zero, because after I'm done with them there will be ZERO trace of their existence, who are these people? Well that's a secret for now but there are two of them.

"LINE UP PRISONERS!" one of the soldiers yelled next, I hear Raylof mumble "the imperials and their damn list" I look ahead of us and see a man wearing leather armor with what looks like a clip board in his hands. Next to him was a women wearing metal armor that showed she was a captain, if I was right with the rank system of the empire, and a sword at her hip. I knew these two, well at least I knew the man I really couldn't give two shits about the women, she was always a real bitch, and the man was Hadvar, one of the few imperial soldiers who I had great respect for. The imperial's start sorting us out one by one till they got to the horse thief who tried to make a run for it. I close my eyes and counted down in my head from 5 and when I hit 0 "GAAAAAH" yep, I saw that coming. In all honesty this whole thing was a bit of an annoyance "YOU!" the captain's voice shrieks, I bring up my hand to clean out one of my ears, open my eyes and look to the captain "huh, you say something?" the captain ground her teeth "Who are you?" the captain snarled towards me, I was about to answer when a thought hit me and I decide to have a bit of fun

"Um I don't even know where to start with you?, I mean do you even know who your talking to?," I ask the captain

"No that's why I ordered you to answer me" the captain growled,

"do..do you have any idea?. …any idea who I am?" I ask the captain again and she started to growl more while Hadvar had a look of concern and amusement on his face "basically kind of a big deal…you listening? Ok" I start to slowly walk up to the captain

"Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother… I hurt people" I tapped the captains armor "I'm a force of nature, if you were from where I was from you would be fucking DEAD!"

I then quickly raise my arms up to the air and yelled to the sky "WHOOO"…..The silence that came after was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, I remembered that line from one of the games he would play, Team fortress two I believe it was called, I always liked the scout.

The silence was broken by Hadvar who cleared his throat to get my attention, which I hope was him taking the bait "but the captain is female?" Hadvar asked for the brother comment, oh Hadvar you cheeky innocent puppy, thank you so much,

I proceed to put on a false look of horror and shock, and quickly point to the captain with my bound hands and scream "THAT'S A WOMEN? BY MARA AND THE EIGHT ABOVE WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO YOU?!"

what happened next was almost endless laughter from everyone in the village, some were on the ground trying not to die from lack of air (the stormcloaks) and others were using their homes or weapons to keep them from falling to the ground (the headsmen, imperials, and villagers) "OH, BURN, BURN BITCH, YOU JUST GOT FUCKING BURNED, YOU WANT SOME ICE FOR THAT?" Ben whooped to the captain who was blood red and shaking with anger, "in all honesty, a burn mark or two won't fix that face, hell it's fugly enough to give Molag Bal nightmares."

I replied which caused even more people to laugh and caused the captain to sprout steam from her ears with pure fury on her face, it took a solid 5 minutes for everyone to stop laughing which surprised me since Alduin should have been at Helgen in less than three minutes when we got off the cart.

"Come on lizard breath where are you?" I step up to Hadvar "my name is Wolf Fenris Kagerosea and this is my brother Ben Ursa Dragneel" I looked Hadvar in the eye "we left our home at the black marsh and came to Skyrim to help the people who were affected by the war." I stated,

"So you joined the storm cloaks then?" Hadvar asked me with disappointment in his tone

"No we want to help those that were AFFECTED by the war, not join it. You know, help rebuild homes that were caught in the crossfire, provide security, take care of bandits, hunt for food to cook up and give to the poor and homeless." I replied to Hadvar who gave me a look of shock and respect, but he then got a confused look upon his face "wait, brothers?" he looked over my shoulder to look at Ben.

"But you two have different names and look nothing alike, how are you two brothers? And you said you two came from the black marsh, a home to Argonians yet you look like an imperial and your 'brother' looks like a nord or Breton?" Hadvar asked being confused by the 'brothers' comment.

I also forgot that our helmets were removed when we got off. So that means people know what we look like, great "We are brothers in everything but blood, we have had each other's back since our early years of childhood, both of our parents were killed from this war and we were left alone, we were 6 when a mixed family of Argonians and Khajiit's found us and took us in."

I replied again to Hadvar who flinched from the "this war" part, he then looked to the captain "captain what should-" "THEY GO TO THE BLOCK!" the gender confused captain roared, cutting off Hadvar and causing him to step back and look towards to me with a frown on his face "I'm sorry, we'll make sure your remains are-" "their all dead Hadvar" I cut off Hadvar before he could finish his sentence, with no emotion in my voice.

He stood there with shock on his face "wha…..what?" he stuttered, I didn't even need to look back to hear the growl of fury that Ben let out "our Argonian family was killed in a Stormcloak raid when they tried to force us to fight and die for them, we barely made it out alive, if it wasn't for our Khajiit family we would have never made it out." This caused the villagers and imperial soldiers to send death glares at the storm cloaks "but sadly later we were found by imperials who were looking for storm cloaks and attacked us because we were seen 'aiding the enemy', they killed all of our remaining family, it was only because of our mother figures that we're even still alive" after that bit of info the villager's and imperials stopped the glares and had looks of shock, horror, and disgust.Hadvar looked at me like he just got flashed by a Hargraven "when?" Hadvar asks me, I sigh "three years Ago they were killed when we were nine" I replied.

This proved to give Hadvar even more shock, but he then had a face of confusion and horror as did some of the villagers, storm cloaks, and imperial soldiers "wait when you were nine? and it was three years ago, that would mean your" he left off for me to finish "twelve, yes we are" I replied, he looked to the general with a silent plea and begging look on his face who I just noticed as well, all he did was look away "coward" I said to myself as I walk towards the block, I guess I made the captain mad because she was yelling for me to be the first even if all the villagers were screaming for me and Ben to be released, hell even the storm cloaks were screaming things like "they're not with us" or "you're going to execute children!?" I looked back to Ben giving him a nod which he returned.

As I walked down to the block I could only replay our plan for as Ben would call it "GET THE FUCKING HELL OUT OF DODGE!" or GTF HOOD for short, when Alduin would make his big scaly entrance. I stand in front of the block and feel something harshly shove me down onto the block, my guess the captain, I look to the headsmen who even wearing his hood I could still see regret and pity in his eyes, "don't, you're just following orders" I told the headsmen with conviction, who nodded and readied his axe, I close my eyes and breath in, then I heard what I was waiting for "RRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!" I smirked "took you long enough lizard breath"

REWORK OF CHAPTER TWO IS IN PROGRESS