A/N: this story revolves around the adventures during the dragonborn's run around in Skyrim I've designated the dragon born as a female redguard for story sake, and she is on in snippets of it This is more of oc's type of story, so if that's not for you, that ok but this is just a quick warning

There is not one main character and they will not be involved in any of the in game quests, but will be on the side, seeing, or the ones who are just there after some have been finished.

The chapters to come after this will be the tales of these two and a few other as they journey around Skyrim, I'm also including a survival and a deterioration aspect unlike the game.

Disclaimer: I do not own the elder scrolls series nor any places, items or characters in it. The elderscrolls series is owned by Bethesda, again, not me

Chapter 1: the duo of lives

Guard: get in there you filthy lizard

The imperial said as he through the argonian into the prison

Guard: three days for fighting in the brothel and the breaking of the urn to koziker's mother

He then slammed the cell door on the argonian

iealis: it was just a small fight, you have no clue what a fight really is

The guard then walks away, iealis, our argonian stood up from the pile of dirt.
After brushing off all the dirt a voice could be heard from the corner

Ronektas: this land is cold and hard, as are their people, so unlike my homeland of Elsweyr. Warm sands and deep jungle for hunting, souls for enchanting, and powerful wizards to learn from but here is the college, on the shore of the sea of ghosts. I was so close to the entrance and a merchant walked by with some heavy pockets so I decided to help them, too bad I got caught but oh well at least I have company

The khajiit finishes his intro and looks over at iealis

Ronektas: back home there was a lot for a khajiit of my particular skills to accomplish. I was known as the soul hunter for I used a bow my master gave me

Ronektas faded out for a second and snapped back to iealis realizing he drifted off

Iealis: well, hello…nice dramatic entrance…im iealis

Ronektas: im ronektas. So…do you have any skooma by chance?

iealis: I just came out of whore house having fought someone for screwing their mother over, do you REALLY think I have any skooma?

Ronektas: *shrugs* worth a shot

iealis: what even is skooma?

Ronektas: for another time…

iealis leans on a wall and slides down tired from the fight, the scar across his eye pulsated.

Ronektas: would you want out if you had the chance?

iealis looked to the kahjiit in confusion

iealis: what?

Ronektas: can you not hear me? I said, do you. Want. Out?

iealis felt odd toward this question, he didn't know what this kahjiit could want from this

iealis: what do you get if I do, you obiviously want something.

Ronektas: simple, your my meat shield, you take the hits I free us, simple as that.

iealis was compelled on how he would answer this, on one hand he stays here for three day and loses out on a belly full on mead or he could break out and have a .05% chance of surviving

he liked those odds

iealis agreed to his plan, and ronektas stood and walked over to the door and pulled out a lockpick from inside his fur

he tried carefully for hours trying to get through the lock, but after so long it eventually broke

iealis: so much for that plan…

he closed his eyes to rest, now that they were trapped there but ronektas wanted out, three days was enough already. He waited by the cell door trying to think of how he could possibly escape

ronektas: dig, no, have this argonian beat the door open, yes but no, use sneaky hands?

But how…secret massage , no. Do lesbian door unlock? No, have argonian do lesbian door unlock with tongue? No..could I sneak key of a guard? Id have to be cautious

Ronektas came to wait for a guard to come by and see his heavy pockets, but this time only relive him of a key

Very gentle and carefully, ronektas was successful in doing so, he quietly opened the door to their cell and went to the wall and sat so he could wait for food

Hours passed and then an imperial came by with bread for the two of them

Imperial: feeding time you lazy cat and dumb lizard

He said kicking the trey into the cell. Ronektas didn't care that he was doing it, he was going to die soon anyway

iealis felt bread hit him, he awoke to ronektas also eating his bread, so as hungry as iealis was he chomped onto it. At this moment he realized his greatest mistake, there was a key in the bread he spit out the key but it also wasn't the only thing he spat out, a tooth also came out

iealis: hey, hey ,hey.

He whispered and ronektas ignored him

iealis rushed to the gate

ronektas: its already open

he said low, but loud enough to where he could hear him

iealis: how? You broke your lockpick

ronektas: you see that, know how it got there?

iealis took a second

iealis: sexy guard?

Ronektas: me, stupid

iealis looked to his bread

iealis: you purposely broke my tooth

ronektas: no, I just gave you the means, you broke your own tooth.

iealis sighed but decided sneaking out would be better than killing the kahjiit then and there.

They creaked the door open and the two snuck past a sleeping guard and a shirtless man in a smaller cell over to the right. Up the stairs seemed there were three guard talking amongst each other.

Ronketas turned to iealis

Ronektas: do you know any way we can sneak, if not we will need to fight, and by we I mean you

Iealis: looks like im fighting and your running…get a horse

Ronektas: will any do?

Iealis didn't know what he meant

Iealis: yes?

Ronektas: good, you distract them while I sneak out and get us a horse to escape on.

Iealis stood up and took a breath, then charged one of the guards standing up. In confusion the guard couldn't draw his sword before getting down to the ground and knocking out. Iealis grabbed his sword and shield, he now had to deal with two more guards as they stood and charged him. Ronektas was long gone out the door by now, but iealis was still in trouble. He could only block for so long, his strength was depleted for only fighting in the inn just hours ago. One strike, two strikes, three; the wooden shield couldn't hold this for long. He tried to push back but their force was stronger and just as they broke the shield he rolled past them and through the door so they could slice him but still caught his skin just enough to leave a long thin slice in his back cutting down his torso rags.

As he reached outside and saw the sun, he saw his accomplice riding by on a black horse with red eyes. He ran to him even in the immense amount of pain he was now in and jumped on to the horse.

Iealis: what is this, some kind of conjured horse?

Ronektas stays quiet to that question and on the whole ride out side of town.

Meanwhile as they're being chased outside the town, the dragonborn could be seen coming back into town to pick up her horse shadowmere and as the two ride out she shouts

Dragonborn: hey, stop that's my horse! Shadowmere!

Dropping a lot of stolen goods as she does. As the guards run past her they stop chasing the two humanoid beasts and turn back to her

Imperial guard: hey you, stop right there!

Later the two stop just a little ways outside Riverwood they got off the horse known as shadowmere

Iealis: thank you shadowmere, you may return to your master now, you've helped us enough.

She then ran and backtracked the way they came

Iealis: so is this it?

Ronektas: no, does my meat shield think we're done? Im on my way to the college, and you are coming with me until at least eastmarch.

Iealis: eastmarch will be the farthest we go, I am to head to the rift…we'll split up at windhelm

The two agreed that it would take a while to get there so they stopped into Riverwood to get money and a place for a night's stay, even if it would be quite a time after that, that they would be in an inn again.

While iealis was working by chopping up wood, ronektas went around catching more, heavy, pockets full of gold, eventually getting caught after the 5 pocket. Iealis bailed him out with 125 of the 275 gold he earned, the guard let go of ronektas and let him back to iealis.

Iealis: so, NOW, I have 150 gold, that should get us enough for a room and good food. What were you able to get

Ronektas: oh you know 25 gold an amethyst and this *shows iron dagger* so we can rob some people on the road if we need to

Iealis: well…fuck let's…lets just go to the *inspects around the area* the….the sleeping giant inn over there

They saw the inn and slowly headed to it

As they entered iealis walked up to the counter and spoke to the inn keeper, Delphine

Delphine: welcome to the sleeping giant inn, here for a room, food or ale?

Iealis: how much for a room with two beds and some ale?

Delphine: well, we don't have two beds in one room, but there is a room open for 10 gold and an ale will also cost you 10 septims.

Iealis: well ill take one room and two ales

Ronektas: ill be in the room, while…..you stay here

He then starts to walk

Ronektas: you stupid drunk

Iealis: hey! At least im not sanguine

Ronektas: just as bad I'd say

With that he closed the door and iealis downed both his ale's

As the night rolled on he drank mead after ale after wine

Ronektas woke at around 7:50 the next morning, next to him on the floor iealis was drunk and hungover.

Ronektas with joy in doing so punted a kick right into the lizard

Iealis woke straight to vomit spewing out, all the alcohol now was pouring out from him

After he stopped him looked up to seeing a chuckling kahjiit

Regretting his decision to head to eastmarch with him already.

Iealis: you, couldn't be closer to being a dick…im happy I spent all our money

Ronektas: hahaa, well looks like this dagger will come in handy then.

Both of them began to head out on the road again and a courier appeared not too far outside Riverwood limits to give them a pamphlet on a museum opening in dawnstar. Little to say ronektas killed him and iealis took his clothes and boots

They made their way past white run and along the white river. When they come along a caravan on the Darkwater River they were lucky enough to point the two in the right direction toward windhelm, the snowy temperature hit the kahjiit and the argonian quick but they ignored it as much as they could. Soon they approached the gates of windhelm the kahjiit took to being with the kahjiit caravan and through the dagger to the argonian since he wouldn't need it And so departed the duo one to the rift the other to college

But what neither of them would know is that this would not be their last encounter, far from last

But for now it was for the next few months…

A/N: so ends the first chapter the duo of lives stay tuned for the next chapter roads of crosses & splits this has been xi and I hope to see you all on my next chapter of how the otherworld lives