The thumping in my head told me I had one hell of a hangover. How was that possible though I don't remember drinking because I caught the train to the Ed Sheeran concert for my birthday.

The bright light in my face made me squint harder to keep my eyes closed, I must still be on the train because of all the jostling around. But something just seemed…off….

Without opening my eyes, I reached for my jacket to pull over my face to get the light out of my eyes, but both hands moved at once. I cracked my eyes open. Then I shut them again, immediately.

What the hell! I swear on my mum's life it looked like I was in a shitty wooden, horse-drawn cart. I took a deep breath to calm my nerves and settle my stomach and immediately regretted that choice as my nose was abused with the stench of body odour, piss, shit, and vomit. I realize its my puke as its pooled around my feet and some of it had crusted over my potato sack tunic. Wait what? Why the fuck am I wearing this and not my normal clothes

I open my eyes again to look through the blurriness. A forest…horses…the cart…three other people with me. The cart was bouncing pretty badly over a rough mostly unpaved road except for small sections paved with stone. The sun was shining, but it was unnaturally cold, almost like the middle of July. But that's not right. It was the fifteenth of January I knew that because apart from being the day of the concert it was also the day of my twenty first birthday. I had to struggle to sit up so I pushed up against the back of the cart.

On the other side of the cart were two people. In front of me was a large and thick blonde man who wore some kind of leather and steel Armor in shades of blue, silver and bronze; a thin little dark-haired man who looked like he was wearing an oversized potato sack like me and looked as horrible as I felt myself; . Everyone was bound by handcuffs made by rope just like I was.

Next to me, on my right was another man, as large and overwhelming as the blonde man across from him, but he was gagged as well as bound. He looked at me shrewdly, seemed to make up his mind about me then turned away.

At this time the blonde guy in Armor noticed I was awake, and started talking to me but I didn't pay attention to him as I was more concerned as to where I was, the area, the people, the Armor blonde guy and the people on the horses in front of me seemed so familiar I couldn't place it but it still scared me to no end. Had I been kidnapped? No, I don't know why anybody would kidnap me I was well liked my family was average in wealth and I was only 21. this had to be some kind of dream. That must be it! I must be in some really deep nightmare and I'm still on the train so all I have to do is close my eyes and wait for this to end.

Except I didn't wake up from this dream because this felt too real.

"where are they taking us" the little guy ask

"no idea" blondie said "but Sovngarde awaits"

When blondie said this the little guy started to panic and called out some words or names that once again felt familiar but I couldn't place, ending with a plea to the "divines"

"What's your name Breton?" Blondie asked me

Breton. Holy shit I'm in Skyrim how the fuck did I get in a video game?

"Hey Breton. I said what's your name?"

"Moric. Moric Travern?" I say, Ralof looked at me and asked "you from High Rock Moric?" "No, I'm actually from the imperial city"

I ask Ralof his name and where he's from to stop the questions I'm being asked so I don't seem like an outsider not just to Skyrim but to Tamriel. "I'm Ralof I hail from Riverwood. Where do you come from horse thief?" he asked the little man next to him

"Why do you care?" he said rudely

Ralof shrugged." A Nord's last thoughts should be of home."

He paused for a moment as if he wanted to actually say who he was and where he came from until he finally replied. "Lokir, I'm Lokir I come from Rorikstead".

We all were silent for a few moments until Lokir asked.

"What's up with him" he asked pointing to gagged guy.

Ralof instantly became irritated "watch your tongue!" he warned Lokir. "That's Ulfric Stormcloak, the true high king!"

Lokir couldn't say anything because of shock, I stared at Ulfric and suddenly a knot tied itself in my stomach. I'm in Skyrim its actually real I'm sitting next to Ulfric Stormcloak and we're all bound in carts to Helgen at which point I'm nearly going to get my head chopped off and of course how could I forget the return of the fucking dragons.

We were coming up to Helgen now, it resembled one of them Renaissance festivals I've seen online but better and more real, compared to the game it looked amazing.

All of a sudden, we were being pulled aggressively from the cart and forced to stand with the others two by two in a line in front of a male Imperial in brown leather Armor who I recognize as Hadvar and the Imperial captain in heavy Imperial Armor who then proceeded to read names off the list. Ralof went first, then Ulfric. When Lokir's name was called, he panicked.

"No! I'm not a rebel" he yelled "you're not going to kill me"

"LOKIR DON'T" I yell as he bolts to escape

"Archers!" the captain calls. Three men with bows took aim and fired hitting Lokir in the back while running. He fell face first into the ground and even from this distance I could see the blood pooling around him

My face is full of shock and horror as I say to myself "I should've warned him not to run.

"You there" Hadvar calls, asking me "who are you?"

"Moric Travern" I say shakily

"You from Daggerfall, Breton? Fleeing from some court intrigue? I'm sorry. We'll make sure your remains are returned to High Rock."

"Captain, what should we do, both of them aren't on the list.

The captain looks at me, thinking if she should let me go or not. I already know what's going to happen though. "forget the list" the captain orders "he goes to the block".

Once with the other prisoners I see the headsman, a bare-chested man wearing leather straps holding a long evil-looking axe standing next to him at the ready.

"Ulfric Stormcloak" Tullius says. "Some here in Helgen call you a hero. But a hero doesn't use a power like the voice to murder his king and try an usurp the throne". Ulfric grunts at this like he's denying that it happened. "You started this war" Tullius continues, "plunged Skyrim into chaos, now the empire is going to put you down and restore the peace.

After Tullius stops talking a loud roar is heard by all reverberating through the mountains and everyone turns to find the source while my stomach drops and I feel like I'm about to throw up again.

"What was that?" Hadvar asks

It's nothing, just carry on" Tullius commands.

"Yes, General Tullius. Give them their last rites" the captain commands

That's when the priest of Arkay comes forward and says her benediction.

"As we commend your souls to Aetherius, blessings of the eight divines upon you"

"Oh, for the love of Talos," a Stormcloak soldier sneered "let's just get this over with, shall we?

The priest was obviously offended as she stiffly said, "as you wish."

He walked over to the block and stood in front of it

"Come on" he said sarcastically "I haven't got all morning."

"My ancestors are smiling at me Imperial. Can you say the same?" he says as his head is placed on the chopping block

I turn away as the axe falls

Even though I'm looking away I still fall to my knees and throw up. The game made it so tame that I wasn't affected by it but here, this is real life, this is too much.

"Next, the Breton" the captain calls out and I'm hoisted up and pushed to the block.

The roar came again and everyone turns again to look for the source of it while I think to myself that I just want to die by the headsman instead of fighting Alduin.

I felt a foot kick into the back of my knees and I dropped to them. Then the foot went into my back and my head is placed on the block that was all wet with blood from the first victim.

Why? I think to myself. Why have I been pulled from my world to be shoved in a video game? I send a prayer out to my god and the gods of Skyrim hoping one of them will save me.

Something in the corner of my eye gets my attention as the headsman starts to lift the axe. Its as black as midnight and as big as the tower next to me when all of a sudden it lands on top of it and the skies darken as Alduin shouts.

"STRUN BAH FILMAH!"

Huge rocks like mini comets start falling from the sky and rains down on Helgen. The power of his shout knocks everyone that's standing to the ground thankfully that includes the headsman.

"Hey Breton! get up, come on" Ralof yells "come on the gods won't give us another chance!"

I won't argue with that. I think to myself as I stagger to my feet and bolt to the tower with Ralof. While running to the tower I stop and dodge out of the way as a boulder the size of a German Shepard rains down and nearly crushes me "Holy fuck" I scream as I run into the tower.

Once both of us are in the tower Ralof asks "Jarl Ulfric! what is that thing? could the legends be true?"

"Legends don't burn down villages" Ulfric says sternly "Ralof you and the prisoner need to move now. Ill stay as long as I can to heal the injured".

"Up through the tower then prisoner" Ralof says to me "fine but I'm going first. Oh and my name is Moric so stop calling me Prisoner alright" I say as I head halfway up the tower. Once I see the Stormcloak soldier I stop and wait for Alduin to bust through and burn him alive. When Ralof catches up to me he says "what are you waiting for? Help him" "hang on" is all I say when all of a sudden Alduin bursts through and burns him alive in seconds and leaves. "how did" Ralof asks but I'm already running up the rest of the stairs and I jump to the building on the other side.

When I jump to the other side I land and trip into a burning bed which hurts like hell but thankfully also burns off the ropes binding my hands. I jump through the hole in the floor and run out to see Hadvar grabbing a kid and pulling him behind some cover and then yells "everyone get back" as Alduin shouted "YOL TOOR" and a gout of flame blasted the position Hadvar and the kid were in just moments ago. Unfortunately, I got some burns for hiding too late.

"still alive prisoner? keep close if you want to stay that way" says Hadvar. "screw that" I yell and I run for it. When I come to a house on one side and a wall on the other with a small path way in the middle I hug the wall as much as I can when Alduin lands on it his huge black talons nearly taking my head off right there and then lifts himself back in the air to which I take as a signal to keep running. I keep running until I get to a tower with two doors I recognize this as the point when I have to choose between going with Ralof or Hadvar.

I run to the door closest to me open it and fall inside and I just lay against the wall for a few minutes catching my breath till Ralof runs in and does the same.

I let Ralof rest for a few minutes then I say to him "we need to move now. The dragon will bring this down on top of us if we just sit here" Ralof gets up and says "let's move on then"

We start to move but then Ralof went to the middle of the room and there laying against the wall a dead body which Ralof goes over to check I almost couldn't hear him when he says "we'll meet again in Sovngarde brother". He turns to me and says "we rose through the ranks together he was like a brother to me" that broke my heart all I can do is put my hand on his shoulder and say "I'm sorry".

We stay unmoving for a couple seconds until we hear a roar and the keep shakes and I say "we need to go now" "right" says Ralof "you may as well take Gunjar's gear he won't be needing it now". "Wait, are you sure?" "yes, now hurry".

I spend the next five minutes slipping into the Armor and boots fortunately the boots are a size too big and the Armor just fits me. While Ralof looks for a way out I swing the axe to get used to it and I also think to myself if I can use any spells so I focus on a regular flame spell that the game always starts me with and a ball of fire appears in my hand. I somehow know what spells i can use just by thinking about my magi. I can use flames, healing which I cast to get rid of the burns I suffered fleeing. After casting the healing spell, I collapse to my knees in exhaustion Ralof asks "you don't have a lot of magicka do you"? "No not at the moment but I'll get more" I say as I get back to my feet.

All of a sudden Ralof tells me "get down I hear someone coming" I tell him "you get down and attack from the back ill be fine if there friendly I'll lay down the axe" Ralof just nods at that then I see the imperial captain and another imperial but in light Armor come to the gate and pull a lever which brings the gate up. I summon the wolf familiar to give Ralof a hand with light armoured imperial while I deal with the captain.

For about ten minutes it was chaos I had to re summon the wolf twice to help him out. For me it was just blocking and dodging the captains blade when she made a mistake and tripped which I was able to take the opportunity to backhand swing the axe into her neck nearly decapitating but killing her in one move. I see Ralof trip and fall to the ground just as my wolf disappears so I pick up the captain's sword and run the imperial through.

For five minutes, we take a break then we get up when Ralof says "one of them must have the key to get through that gate" I say to him "you look for the key I'll go the way they came to find anything valuable". When he looks at me funny I say to him "what? When we get out of here both of us are going to need some coin so might as well get as much as we can." "I suppose so" he says cautiously.

Before I go I take the captains helmet and put it on but I leave the braces as they don't fit properly. Once in the other room I find a knapsack a quiver full of iron arrows an enchanted ring and a book titled mixed unit tactics. I place the book in the sack for some reading tonight and I have no idea what enchantment lies on it but I'll find out later as I head back to Ralof to see him wearing the braces and the light imperial helmet with the gate opened.

We head down the stairs and turn some corners when we get to a hallway. Ralof is about to run in front of me when I pull him back and the roof in the middle collapses. He asks me "that's twice now, how did you know that was going to happen?" "I can sort of see the future" is all I say. I open the door to my left and summon the wolf to help deal with another captain but lucky for me I catch him by surprise when I run him through. The other imperial isn't so lucky when my wolf jumps on him tearing his throat out before he can yell out.

"A store room, see if you can find any potions" asks Ralof. For about five minutes we look and I find the third volume of a Biography of Barenziah, 14 gold, five minor healing potions, two magicka and only one stamina, along with some bread, four carrots 2 piles of salt and some fish that I recognize from the game that are used in alchemy.

We get moving once again heading down a tunnel when I hear fighting so I re summon wolfie and enter a torture chamber where two Stormcloak's are fighting two imperials who are most likely the torturers so I get wolfie to attack the furthest one while I get a lucky hit on the one closest to me. He has his back to me so try to bring the sword down on his head but he dodges it because of the Stormcloak he's fighting but my sword cleaves his arm off instead. "ARGGHHHHH" is all that's said before the soldier brings her axe down on his neck. I look over to see the other soldier finishing off the other imperial with wolfie biting down on his leg before disappearing.

"Have you seen Jarl Ulfric" asks Ralof "no, we haven't seen him since the dragon showed up" the female soldier says. While there talking I go look in a cage that has a dead mage in it and I ask if anybody has any lockpicks. Ralof hands me a dozen of them and says "you can try but don't ask me I'm lousy at picking locks".

For about 5 minutes I unlock all three cages, two of them didn't have anything in them but I opened them anyway so for later in life it'll be easier. The cage with the mage in it had a spell book called sparks, a few septims and magicka potions I also take his robes and hood. Looking around the rest of the room I find a couple more books and a shield "hey Ralof, do you want this shield" I ask him. He accepts it and places it on his back then we're off. On the way, I unlock two more doors finding some gold and an empty bottle on a skeleton. I keep the bottle in case I ever need it for some reason. We keep going till the building ends and a cave system begins.

We keep going till I hear a voice say "orders are to wait until General Tullius arrives" "I'm not waiting to be killed by a dragon" another voice says. I summon wolfie again and charge in running through the heavy armoured imperial and taking him out instantly. A lightly armoured imperial runs across a small bridge to attack but wolfie crunches down on his leg but before he can scream I relieve him of his head. Unfortunately, there's another two imperials but with bows so I send wolfie over to draw them to circle around them. While they get pushed back they're walking towards a pool of oil on the ground once they do I summon a flame spell and ignite them in fire. It only takes a couple seconds but they both go down and once the flames die they're nothing but beyond recognizable, even there Armor and weapons melted and burned with them. The two soldiers stay behind and wait for Ulfric or anyone else on their side to come through.

We come to a pulled up wooden bridge Ralof pulls the lever and down it goes and I tell him to hurry up. Ralof just makes it before some rocks collapse because of the chaos outside and destroys the bridge. "no going back that way now huh" he jokes I laugh to myself a little bit and we keep going. Off to the side there's a small tunnel that I quickly go down and find a skeleton with a coin purse a healing potion and an empty bottle laying around it so I put them in my bag and when I get back with Ralof I offer him the pouch, he takes it says "thank you."

We continue on and turn right and lying on the ground is another skeleton with another coin purse Ralof says "keep it I've got enough" "thanks." We keep moving till I stop and pull out two magicka potions I summon wolfie then drink them Ralof asks "why" and then he sees them spiders and not just any ordinary spider but multiple spiders that are the size of a chair. I've got plenty of fear flowing through my body at the moment but seeing the spiders just sends a new wave of it through my body.

I summon a flame spell and send wolfie in first then I let loose with fire after wolfie disappears killing them. I walk over to one and I'm able milk some of its venom into the empty bottles which I then place in the backpack then I go to one of the huge eggs and find some smaller eggs and I take them "why" Ralof asks "alchemy" is all I say.

We move again and it doesn't take long to get a new obstacle. A bear in the middle of the cave Ralof whispers "do you want to sneak past it or fight" "fight" I say so Ralof hands me one of his bows and says "make them count" I pull out one of the spider poisons and pour it on an arrow we both take aim but I shoot first and get it in the stomach then Ralof fires and hits it in the shoulder the bear starts to get up but falls down and dies from both injury and poison.

I go over to the bear and rip some claws off because I know they can be used for alchemy as well. After that we head off further down the cave when we see the exit and Ralof calls out "there that must be the exist. See I told you we'd make it." "oh, thank the gods for that" I say as we exist the cave.