"Dean wake up today's the day we go to Saarthal with the rest of the class" said a blonde Nord "but its only Morndas Oliver the trips on Sundas" replied dean to the Nord now known as oliver. "We didn't drink that much last night you moron its Sundas today now get up before I freeze your bedroll" Oliver said with obvious frustration "all right I'm getting up, just don't freeze my bedroll" dean replied resigning to his fate, "good now hurry up Tolfdir and Brelyna are already waiting for us and I'm sure the others aren't far behind them" Oliver said merrily "how can you be such a morning person?" Dean asked tiredly, "guess I was born that way" Oliver replied.
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"All right students sticking to our theme of safety and vigilance I want you to watch yourselves and keep an eye out for traps. Dean, Oliver I want you two to look for any artifacts..." With an internal groan Dean stopped listening to his teacher at that point and headed in to the ruin with his best friend in tow "so oliver what do you think will be down there?" Dean asked, "not sure but I bet it'll be huge" oliver said to his crimson haired friend, Deans peculiar hair color had been the start of many conversation's throughout his life, "so, Dean... Have you gotten any more Head-way into your hair being that color?" Oliver chuckled out, "ha dee freaking ha, you, are, a dick" Dean managed to groan out.
Twenty minutes later they had pulled an amulet in the shape of a goshawk off of a wall activating a cage trap "good job Dean" Oliver said nonchalantly while trying to be as straight faced as possible, "if I didn't know any better I'd say you were taunting me, Ollie" dean said emphasising the last word. "Screw you to man, screw you to" Oliver said sincerely, Dean put the amulet on and Tolfdir walked up to the bars with Brelyna and the rest of the class "my my, you two certainly seem stuck between a rock and a hard place" said Brelyna before Oliver kissed her between a gap in the bars. "Would you two get a room, oh wait where trapped" Dean replied before Brelyna and Oliver laughed at his expense. That was when Dean noticed a faint red glow on a part of the wall, Dean charged a crimson colored spell in his right hand and touched the wall. The wall exploded away from him and bars slid back into the floor, "well... That was certainly strange" said Tolfdir before adding "Dean, Oliver, Brelyna follow me, every body else remain here and see what you can learn. But most importantly, have fun".
The three of them followed there teacher for about an hour only stopping a few times when Brelyna spotted some magical traps. They were now in a round chamber with a bunch of sarcophagi circling the room, as dean entered however he felt the amulet vibrate as if warning him that something was about to happen "get your spells ready, I have a feeling that its about to get hairy" Dean warned them feeling that something was off.
That was when eight of the sarcophagi opened and a draugur stepped out of each one readying there weapons, dean had his firebolt spells ready when one of the draught made a move for him, he let the spell go and blasted a hole straight through its chest and ricocheting to decapitate another. All eyes were on him, in truth even he was surprised at what his spell had done. hell, even the draught all seemed impressed but after the shock had faded the rest of the draugur went on the attack and as the rest of the mages in the room let there spells loose there was only one draugur left but dean was starting to feel his bones aching an hadn't noticed its presence behind him. As the draugur swung its great sword down Dean seemed to disappear and in his place there stood a large goshawk but it was still short enough that the sword had missed it by mere inches. The goshawk noticed the blade so close to its face, its eyes widened and it gulped as Tolfdir shot an ice spike spell at the startled draugur, piercing its skull and puncturing the brain, "holy shit that was close" the goshawk said with deans voice, the group just stared at him in shock "what, why are you all staring at me do I have something on my face?" Asked the confused bird. Oliver started giggling as he had figured it out quicker than the others and pulled out a mirror to show the bird what it looked like "Dean... Buddy, your a bird" he said before bursting out with laughter, "THIS ISN'T FUNNY YOU DICK!" Dean exclaimed frustrated at his friend for laughing at a serious predicament. "Mr. Switch if I may I remember hearing of a student who went through a similar predicament, I'm going to need you to concentrate on your original form I hear looking in a mirror while doing so may help" Tolfdir said with a hint of wisdom in his words, however as dean was about to do so he noticed Oliver was slowly recovering from his laughing fit so he took the opportunity to test any flight capabilities this form had and he flew to the ceiling the dropped and dive bombed oliver, pulling up at the last second the safely moving to the ground. noticing the look of fear in his friends eyes he moved one of his wing to his eyes then to Oliver as if to say "I'm watching you" when oliver realised what Dean was doing he fell into another fit of laughter before held the mirror for dean to concentrate on. After ten minutes Dean had successfully returned to his original form and they were back on there way
Twenty minutes after that they had hit a dead end at which they found another amulet hanging on the wall this time it was round with some runes on it. It was Oliver who grabbed this one, once he put it on he was enveloped in a light green energy and the wall disappeared and Tolfdir decided they should continue only to stop after twenty minutes of navigating through the ruin but this time there was a bright blue orb in the middle of this room, "well this is wonderful such a discovery is almost unheard of" Tolfdir had said as they approached the orb Brelyna had noticed a staff on a table behind them but when she touched the staff the lid on a sarcophagus shot up and embedded itself in the roof and to the three students there seemed to be music playing from the orb drawing them in, but as they approached it a draugur fired off a spell at them setting them on alert Dean seemed to be enraged by the draugur interrupting the music and his form shifted again this time into what looked like a red skinned gorilla with white hear wearing armour that looked like it was made of bone its legs were much smaller than its arms and as such he accommodated by using his arms to walk, the students charged the draugur. Dean used his arms to launch into the air where he clasped his hands together and tried smashing his arms down onto the draugur but it dodged to the left and started slinging spells at Dean, Brelyna charged the staff as much as she could and oliver charged his strongest spell in his arsenal the draugur fired a spell at dean but dean punched it in the face as Brelyna fired the staff and Oliver let his spell lose all three attacks hit the draugur simultaneously
~~[with Tolfdir]~~~~~~~~~~~
A few moments before
After slinging some lightning at the sphere it seemed to open and Tolfdir turned around just in time to see his students finish the draugur of the resulting explosion threw the three of them around the room, dean reverted to his original form and was thrown into the sphere and screamed a blood curdling scream Tolfdir could only watch as one of his best students was covered in what looked like red lightning leaving glowing red power lines all over his body, Tolfdir was horrified at the immense power leaking from Dean. The brightness of the lines appeared to be fading as was the magic flowing from deans body but he seemed to be regressing in age until he looked about fourteen, Tolfdir thought the worst was over, boy was he wrong. Dean was conscious again having passed out from the pain and a second bout of energy blasted the room, the sphere closed and turned from its original blueish green to blood red almost crimson and black runes were glowing on the surface. "Oliver, Brelyna wake up, come on get up, you need to go get the arch mage" Tolfdir shouted shaking his students awake...
A/N. Sorry for the cliff hanger but this was necessary. Please review with your thoughts so far, reviews aren't needed but are muchly appreciated. And a quick note, the first two chapters are going to be short but the others should be around ten thousand words each if not more :)
