A meeting of mercenaries

Characters:

Nac're: A khajit/dovahkiin/dragonborn

Jenassa: Dark elf mercenary

Genre: Romance

Chapter name: Breaking out of bindings

I woke up to a view that in my life had happened multiple times, a cart, my hand unable to move and multiple guards walking around my carriage, the odd thing was the Nords around me. The first one I saw was a tall, blonde haired nord, resembling many of the ones I had seen here in skyrim. The second looked different almost as if he was imperial but held that aura of superiority even if he was full of fear, his hair brown, short and shaggy, and his face full of dirt but possibly a bit tanned. The last one looked very odd, his mouth was covered, his hands tied around his back and finally he wore fur all over his body almost like a cloak.

The first man I saw spoke, "you're finally awake I see", I could understand his language of course all khajit understand it, but he seemed calm through the whole situation as if it didn't matter. I answered with the only thing that came to mind apart from escaping and killing off my guards, "yes this one is awake", the next to speak was the brown haired nord but I couldn't understand I was planning on my scape. No weapons and no armor but I still had my claws, even if my hands were tied I could still jump and make a run for it. I was cut short from my thoughts when I heard a gate open; we were in a big fortress/castle-like place. Imperials were swarming the whole place, the blonde haired one spoke again "We are in helgen".

I was in starting to feel afraid, I had heard of helgen before, a place where you came in but never came out or at least not without losing a limb or two. The carriage stoped and we descended all the while the brown haired nord begged for mercy, I paid little attention to him I knew we were done for. As we waited for our turn I became curious and asked the blonde one his name, "this one wishes to know, what is the name of the nord", he didn't answer his name was actually mentioned right after. "ralof of riverwood", his name was something I wouldn't expect to fit him it sounded out of place but nords were nords. "you there come forward" I looked at the man with the list and waited for my name but he didn't mention it he only asked "who are you?"

"This one's name is Nac're from elsewyre (if its written wrong tells me)" he saw me as if not understanding but asked his female counterpart something I couldn't hear. "I'm sorry we will send your remains to your family", I understood then my name wasn't in the list but anyway I would be killed, "this one has no family to care about him" I walked on with a defeated face, the great Nac're assassin, thief and adventurer would die in a place where he wasn't even known. "Next, the cat", I bared my teeth to the female, 'how dare she call me cat?' I thought. She placed her foot on my back and I struggled to get it off until I felt my face touch the blood of the previous victim, it smelled fresh just like I liked it.

I saw the axe go up and prepare to descend to cut my head off, but the blow never hit for in that moment a black shadow landed on the tower, it roared and the sky changed from clear to darkish yellow, fire fell from the sky, people screaming, I couldn't take it my mind went blank and I fainted. I woke up some second later hearing only a voice that seemed familiar "hey khajit you alive? Come on we need to get out of here", I didn't care who it was, I didn't mind the pain in my head I just ran, I took the stairs when a wall broke and made me stagger backwards. I jumped through the wall and landed on a building that had seen better days. I sprung to action, blood pumping and my feline side taking my body, running at all my capacity I made it to the keep, not without first seeing dead people, multiple burning soldiers and structures falling apart, why the keep was still standing remained a mystery to me.

Inside the keep it felt better than I expected, with Ralof we had made it far enough and were now in the keep. He approached a dead body; I could tell it was his ally for his uniform resembled his in every aspect. "We will meet in sovengard brother", I wasted no time, and while he crouched I took his knife and cut open my bindings. He gave a yelp at my fast motion but was surprised to see me free and moving my arms around, he went to retrieve his dagger but I put it in my belt, "this one thinks it's better to keep a weapon that is familiar", he didn't refute, he offered the gear of his friend but I would touch none of it, the fact that it was a symbol of sides of power would make me a target and I prefer to stay in the shadows.

We made our way through the keep, killing off any imperials, mostly I killed silently but he favored the loud nord ways of fighting. As we approached the torture chamber I heard quite big confrontation, when we arrived the sight was to say the least disturbing. Two stormcloaks 'I believe that is how they were called, they were trying to eliminate two imperials, one which I saw throwing lighting seemed to be the torturer while the other bulky one seemed like the assistant. We approached them, my dagger in my hand and ralof with his two axes, I took the torturer, he was easy to dispatch a cut to the throat and he was gagging on his own blood, all the while the other three took down the bulky one.

We kept on moving, but first I lock picked some of the cages and found some nice gold and a book about magic, I wasn't into magic so I decided it would serve as a selling item and well obtain some coin out of it. We moved into a cave like place, but it seemed made for escaping, the roof was cut to perfection, some bridges were also craved out of the rock. We had an escape route but the only problem being the imperials; the bastards were holding the place completely almost as if waiting. "We have to wait for general talius to arrive" I heard a man say while the other that seemed ranks below him responded "I'm not waiting to be killed by a dragon". We moved silently at the beginning until ralof and his friends decided to charge them, the woman that accompanied them didn't last long, she was taken out by arrows mainly one that hit her head.

We dispatched of the soldiers and moved ahead, finding spiders and a bear, all killed, I did however obtain some eggs of spiders and bear claws, they do serve a great purpose in alchemy and buying them is a big issue with my kind around skyrim. I kept on going with ralof until the exit, when we were approaching I remembered that I didn't know where to go. We exited the cave and finally saw daylight, the dragon went over us and disappeared, ralof finally calming down looked at me, "I thank you I wouldn't had made it out without you", my voice sounded hoarse after all the running but I answered anyway "this one is also grateful to you for this one couldn't have escaped without ralof". We smiled at each other and he finally gave me the news I did like to hear "my sister lives in riverwood near from here we should be able to arrive, she will help you", I looked at the sky and prayed that whatever happened I could at least die knowing that I tried but for now I move on.