Welcome everyone to my Skyrim Fanfic containing my oc, I don't own Skyrim otherwise I would make it better (if I could :) ) go savage in the reviews as all cristism of the STORY is good critism, enjoy.
The cold wind breathed against my fur, my eyes flickered open to see a nord by the age of 25, he has long blonde hair with a braid to the right of his eyes, he has looked like he has seen better days but as I stirred away after falling asleep on the way to Cyrodiil, he decided to speak to me. "Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there." I look across and see a young nord who I guess is the thief because the older nord sitting beside me gave off a bit of power that you wouldn't get from a thief.
"Damn you Stormcloaks. Skyrim was fine until you came along. Empire was nice and lazy. If they hadn't been looking for you, I could've stolen that horse and been halfway to Hammerfell. You there... You and me, we shouldn't be here. It's these Stormcloaks the Empire wants." The thief said looking at me, I try to move some off my body parts but I can only lean forward and move my tail. "So, why were you captured?" asked the thief with a puzzled look on his face, it's only fair I tell him, we don't know where we going but we both know it isn't good, "Would you believe me if I said I was arrested for being a khajiit and thrown in with the rest of you as we passed Deepwater Crossing?" I reply in a sarcastic tone. I lean back on the cart and close my eyes and I try to think back to the real reason I was caught.
After travelling to Skyrim from Elsweyr, I took a rest at Riften before making my way to Whiterun but the beauty of Skyrim overcome me and I ended up in what looked like a volcanic wasteland/hot spring, after pulling out my map I decided to head to Darkwater Crossing to get to the main road but while traversing the land I came across another Khajiit called Da'hiha who gave me a few bottles of skooma, now being a smart khajiit I went to Darkwater crossing and found a guard, I went to give the guard the information but instead he arrested me for possession of Skooma. I was willing to pay the fine when a caravan of Imperial soldiers arrived, the guard confronted them only to be removed from the area, that's when a group of soldiers arrived but they were wearing different uniforms, like blue leather and that's when the imperial forces surrounded them but one soldier noticed me and saw that I was apprehended and thought I must have been with the other army, even after protests I was thrown in with the captured forces.
I was snapped back to reality when I heard shouting from the one of the soldiers, "General Tullius sir, the headman is waiting." General Tullius (I assume) replies with "Good, lets get this over with."
It's at that point my heart sinks, the headman's block, one doesn't simply survive a headsman's axe. I hear the thief praying to skyrim's gods while I sit there in silence, I have never been much for religion, fate is in our own hands. I look around the town, Helgen, I hear the blonde nord say, impressive but you can't be excited to see a fort like this when you're about to die. The cart stops and we are ushed out of the cart, after we line up in twos the imperial soldiers starts reading off a list. "Ulfric Stormcloak, Jarl of Winterhold" the older nord dressed in fur and emits power stands forth and is sent to an area to wait, "Ralof of Riverwood" he read and Ralof followed Ulfric to the area, "Lokir of Rokistead" the thief stepped forth spewing some gibberish before running pass the captain only to be shot by an imperial archer, "Anyone else feels like running?" the captain says before the soldier with the list ushers me forward, "Who are you?"
"I am Khaj'Ri-Do of Anequina" the soldier writes it down, "You with one of the trade caravans khajiit? Your kind seems to find trouble" I ignored the racist slur as its as true as it racist, he writes down future details such as: muscular, tall with orange fur with black markings around my face, "He's not on the list captain." The Soldier remarked, the captain instead of releasing me decides to screw it and sends me to the chopping block with the other warriors, I had hoped for a warriors' death not a captured death but oh well.
"Ulfric Stormcloak. Some here in Helgen call you a hero, but a hero doesn't use the power like The Voice to murder his king and usurp his throne. You started this war, plunged Skyrim into chaos, now the Empire is going to put you down and restore the peace" General Tullius speak until a low roar can be heard from the background, however they decide to ignore this and continues with the execution, a priestess of Arkay starts giving final rights but I ignore it, they call a young nord who looked like Ralof but with reddish hair to the block, he makes some random remarks about ancestors then his head is removed from his body and tumbles into a box that they had laid down. Another roar rang out but this time at a higher volume unsettling a few soldiers but the captain remained unfazed and called for me to go to the block, I walk up to the block then get into position, I look down and see the beheaded stormcloak soldier in the basket, at least they could change the basket I think to myself before facing the headman, I awaited the slice looking directly into the eyes of headsman, he just about swung it when another roar came out but it sounded like it was right beside me and that's when I see it, a dragon from lore, His scales are black like the darkness and his eyes are as red as blood. This would offset even the hardiest of warriors but I didn't flinch.
The dragon landed with a thud on a tower in the middle of Helgen, it stares at me directly like I punched it in the face, the headsman falls to the side when he lands stopping the axe from hitting me. The dragon then releases a blood curdling Shout causing meteors to fall from the sky. I quickly get to my feet and look around, a meteor looks around and I hear Ralof call out to me, I stumble towards the tower he is hiding in, I stand there looking at a wounded soldier laying on the ground in a pool of his own blood, I get Ralof to unbind me while he talks to Ulfric, I follow the staircase upwards and I see a stormcloak removing some boulders, I go to help him but the wall shoots inwards which is followed up by flames from the dragon, Ralof arrives and tells me to jump into the inn next door through the roof, I look at him and I back up, then I sprint and jump.
The flames consumed part of the roof so I was able to get in but flames were strong on the wooden planks causing a ring of fire, fire is the one thing that I don't like over general, it was hot enough in the desert so we never had the need for fire but whenever some mage comes into town they would show off how hot their fire was and normally one or two would get burnt. I passed through the ring of fire without getting burnt but I still did a pat down just in case, I look back to see Ralof standing in the hole seeing if I was still alive or not, he then ran down the stairs. I continued through the inn eventually dropping down a level because there was a hole in the floor, I see the imperial soldier from earlier crouching with a civilian, that's when I see a kid staring directly at the black dragon. I sprint forward as the dragon gets ready to breathe fire, I scoop the kid out of the way just before the fire torches the wounded nord behind him, the dragon flies off and the soldier comes and thanks me before he tells the kid and the civilian to hide. the dragon flies off and the soldier comes and thanks me before he tells the kid and the civilian to hide. I follow the soldier through a small alley way then the dragon slams onto the alley wall and torches an archer who was hiding there, we run through a burning house before coming out to the gate at the front when we entered, general Tullius tells us to get to the keep while he fights it off, I would stay too but what can an unarmed khajiit do against a dragon of legend.
I run towards the keep dodging the dragon's fire breath and dodging stray arrows, that's when I meet up with Ralof, I continue to the keep until Ralof calls to the soldier whose name is apparently Hadvar, I'm standing here confused wondering why the hell are they fighting when there is a dragon flying around. "We can finish this fight later, there is a dragon and your worried about a stupid fight, get over yourself and get into the keep unless you want to see how burning alive feels like." I yell at them which gets both of their attentions and they both agree however reluctant but they both follow me into the keep, we search around the room looking for looking for weapons and I find a steel greatsword in a chest, I test out the weight and the momentum by giving it a few practice swings, I also put on a leather chestplate and some boots I found next to a bed. Hadvar pulls down the chain and the door rises giving us access into a small hallway and a small room which leads to another hallway and another door which I open, it looks like imperials and Stormcloaks clashed here and none of them survived, one Stormcloak was riddled with an arrow while the other one was leaning against the wall with a wound to his neck, while one imperial was missing a head and the other one had a sword through his chest. Both Hadvar and Ralof check the corpses both saying something about how the war is dumb and that both sides have suffered enough, I go across the circle room and try the door on the other side which was locked, I turned around and looked at both of them "Did any of you happen to see a key on one of them?" they checked the bodies but there was no key so instead I kicked the door down instead, both Hadvar and Ralof were both impressed as not everyone can kick down a steel door. We all left the room and headed down the stairs to see a long hallway which was shorten when most of the hallway collapsed from the dragon must have attacked the keep exterior and the rubble crushed three soldiers although I couldn't see which side they were on because of the distance. "Damn this dragon, you would think he would be focused on the people outside" I say while walking, I open the door to the right which looks like a kitchen or a storeroom or both, we check the barrels for any supplies we could take but I grabbed a sweet roll and ate it, it was a bit stale but still sweet, we leave the room to hear more fighting further down, Hadvar then turns and says "Up ahead is the torture room, gods I wish we didn't need these." We both continue down to see a fight pursuing between a torturer with his assistant versing two Stormcloaks, "I will handle this", I say since both seemed reluctant to fight with each other when they are on opposite sides of the war, I unsheathe my greatsword and charging in slicing at the assistant when he was focusing on the Stormcloaks, he tumbles down to the ground with a wound that covers half of his hip, the torturer looks at me and shoots sparks at me, while it doesn't hurt that much it still packs a small punch, I hid around a stone pillar before running around to one closer to him, he fires a fire ball at the two Stormcloaks killing them but while he fired the fireball I stabbed him through the back with the greatsword killing him instantly.
Both Ralof and Hadvar comes out from the hallway and looks around the room seeing the carnage before them, the both look at me wondering how the hell I survived four people, I assure them I'm fine and we continue down the pathway, cells and cages line the hallway and the next room, I look at Hadvar who says that he hasn't seen this part before and by the look on his face it's true as this isn't right. Ralof looks at Hadvar and says "This is the will of the Empire, let them starve to death while you torture their brothers" Hadvar looks a bit sad but then replies "It didn't want to happen that way, none of us did, we didn't like it when the Aldmeri Dominion defeated us but we can't change that now can we?" It was silence for a few moments before I tell them to come on, one of the walls have collapsed revealing a path forward, I follow the path which leads to an open room which has been built up with stone, some imperial soldiers were waiting for general Tullius to arrive before they continue, I look around the room and find two pathways, one way was guarded while another was emptyish but bright, I tell Hadvar to wait for the signal and for Ralof to follow me, we sneak down the empty area, about halfway I tell Ralof to wait for the signal in which I continue ahead sliding under a railing and I sneak up to an imperial soldier and impale them with my weapon, both Hadvar and Ralof gets the signals and starts to attack, while Hadvar didn't kill anyone he did distract them so Ralof could instead. We meet up near a bridge that leads to a large open room, we all get across before we hear the dragon's roar pierce the air and another piece of the keep collapses and destroys the bridge, "They'll find another way pass, they'll live." We continue through the cave and we come up to a part that looks like spiders have infested the place, I turn to look at Hadvar and he said that he didn't even know this cave existed so we walked into the area with our weapons draw, a few small frostbite spiders attacked us but they were no trouble, once we finished off the last of them I look up to see a giant frostbite spider directly above us, "Move" I yell out to both and I jump out of the way, my weapon sliding to the side.
Hadvar and Ralof were both knocked out from the spider landing on top of them, I charged at the spider with my claws out, I dive under the spider and claw at the spider's leg toppling it to one side, I jump on top of the spider and start attacking it's eyes with my claws, I jam my claws into its neck and slides down the side slicing its throat and killing it. Both Hadvar and Ralof stir awake now as I pick up my weapon from the ground, "Come on now slackers, do you want to chill here with dead spiders?" I say and they both shake their heads and get up, we keep going the way we were until we came up to a large room until we saw that there was a troll currently eating a skeever, we all look at each other and decide to charge at the troll, we each slice at the troll but it's health is slowing regenerating, I slice at the troll's legs making it drop to the ground then Hadvar chops its head off using his sword. We all take a breather from taking down a troll, I walk back to a cart from a bit back that had some alto wine in it, I grab it and takes a big gulp of it, Elswyer's wine tastes better than this but wine is wine. I pass it to Ralof than to Hadvar, after we had finished resting we continued the pathway then we see the exit, we all ran outside the cave and took a deep breath of fresh air, but the scenery was amazing, the trees are so green and lively, nothing like where I grew up. After spinning around looking at the scenery I tell the others to crouch down as the dragon flies overhead, after the dragon is a safe distance from us, we head down the dirt pathway until we get to a main road, while I wanted to head to Darkwater Crossing they both urged me to go to Riverwood to get supplies first, we all head down the stone path, we came along a cliff side in which we could see an old Nordic tomb, which both Hadvar and Ralof said gave them the creeps, I scoffed lightly and continued down the path, we came across three special standing stones. "It's said that these stones give you special powers like boosting your strength or making it harder to detect you or attunes you to your more magical side" Hadvar said, I walked up to the warrior standing stone and placed my palm on the stone, it felt weird like I could take down trolls by myself now. Both Hadvar and Ralof said that the warrior path was a good and honest path. We walked along the river to Riverwood, encountering a wolf or two, once we arrived to Riverwood, it was a small town about twenty people or so but there is a tavern and a saw mill, plus a few houses. I head into the Riverwood trader only to enter to people arguing, "One of us have to get the claw" the young Imperial woman said, "I said NO" the older man replied, "Ah we have a customer" the Imperial man said, I walk up to the counter and I check a list of all the stuff he has here, I buy some food and some camping gear, and I store it and a bag I purchased, I exited the trader and headed to the Whiterun.
That's it, Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is already in production and i'm doing my best to continue the story until the finaly