A/N: Yo! This is a Skyrim fanfic that I have decided to make.
Name of OC: AI
I am going to do my version of the game starting from the choice in Helgen. This means very many differences throughout the game.
I am going to present a quote from the actual screen of the game.
Disclaimer: I do not own Skyrim, the elder scrolls, or any of the characters presented in the game. I do own any ocs in the game, though.
Chapter 1: Dragon strikes
And the scrolls have foretold, of black wings in the cold, that when brothers wage war come unfurled! Alduin, Bane of kings, ancient shadow unbound, With a hunger to swallow the world!-Song of the Dragonborn
AI had opened his eyes from the darkness to see white all around him. Snow was falling from the sky, and he was moving in the carriage of an imperial. He cursed as soon as he saw Ulfric, supposed 'true king' of Skyrim. AI knew that he was heading for the chopping blocks.
AI looked around and tried to use a skiv that he had from his escape from the mine. He cursed himself for having to free the forsworn bastards from their imprisonment, but it was either let them go free or die in the mines, having been blamed by the so-called 'king' of the forsworn due to his heritage. AI cursed as he realized that whoever caught him must have found it. He cursed even worse when he looked down at himself and saw that his armor had been removed from his body.
"Hey, you," A guy adjacent to me said, "finally awake? You were trying to cross the border, right?"
AI just sighed and nodded his head.
"Walked right into that imperial ambush? Same as us, and that thief over there!" The guy continued before pointing out the guy in rags close to me.
"Damn Stormcloaks, Skyrim was fine until you came along!" The thief said.
AI snorted real quietly, unnoticed by everyone.
"Empire was nice and lazy. If they hadn't been looking for you, I would've stolen that horse and been halfway to Emerfeld!" The thief finished.
AI, unable to contain himself anymore, said, "That's a load of shit. Skyrim was decaying from the inside out before the stormcloaks came in! The forsworn were vying for control, while the merchants held the money and goods in their hands and were just continuing to give it to the Thalmor for free, while being forced to sell it to everyone else at inflated prices because of this, actually giving people reasons to join the four different forces vying for control! It's laziness happened to be what created the forsworn, and helped the corrupt. Plus, don't go blaming your problems on others, judging by your attire, you probably weren't very stealthy to begin with."
"You there, you and me, we shouldn't be here. It's these stormcloaks the empire wants." The idiot thief said, ignoring my interruption completely.
"We're all brothers and sisters in bonds, now, thief." The blonde said.
"Shut up back there!" The imperial up front said.
"What's wrong with him, huh?" The thief said, completely ignoring both me, the blonde, and the imperial.
"Watch your tongue!" The blonde said, "You're speaking to Ulfric Stormcloak, the true high king!"
"Ulfric," the thief said, "the Jarl of Windhelm? You are the leader of the rebellion. If they captured you... Oh gods! Where are they taking us?"
"I don't know where we're going, but soveirgngard awaits us." The blonde said.
AI just smirked at him before saying, "You know what? I don't think a thief should go to soveirgngard, they belong in the void!"
The blonde said, "Yes, that's true enough!"
AI got up, slightly startling the wagon and annoying the imperial ("Sit back down!"), before going over to the thief and throwing him off the wagon. The thief was thought to be trying to escape and was killed quickly with an arrow through the chest.
AI then sighed and said, "I hate people like him. They do not deserve to be called a thief!"
The blonde quirked a brow, before saying, "You feel very strongly about this, are you a guild member?"
AI said, "No, I wanted to become one, but was born in the wrong place."
The blonde said, "Hey, what village are you from, fish person? A person's last thoughts should be of home."
AI said, "It doesn't exist anymore. Wiped out completely for worshipping Talos."
"General Talios, sir! The headsmen is waiting." One of the imperials exclaimed as Helgen came into view.
"Good, let's get this over with." One of the imperials said.
"Look at him, general Talios, the military general, and it looks like Thalmor are with him." The blonde said.
"Damn elves, I bet they have something to do with this." The blonde continued.
Ai sighed, before saying, "You know, not all Thalmor think themselves superior, one of them actually saved my life when my village was destroyed."
The blonde looked extremely interested to hear that, as he had obviously only met with the stereotypical Thalmor. Ulfric, in his first reaction since I met him, just scoffed.
"This is Helgen. I used to be sweet on a girl from here. Wonder if Ilyad is still making that mead with Juniper berries." The blonde said, trying to get Ulfric's reaction out of his mind. "When I was a boy, the imperial walls used to make me feel safe."
The guards stopped the carriage and let us out.
"Let's go, shouldn't keep the gods waiting for us." The blonde said.
"Step towards the block when we call your name." A female voice said. "One at a time!"
"Empire loves their damn lists." The blonde muttered with contempt.
"Ulfric Stormcloak, Jarl of Windhelm," A scribe read off.
"It has been an honor, Jarl Ulfric." the blonde said.
"Ralof of Riverwood," The scribe continued reading names.
Ralof, the blonde, stepped forward and up behind the Jarl.
"Nokir of Rorriksted," The scribe said. "Nokir of Rorriksted!"
"Killed him. Petty thief who couldn't take what he got dealt." Ai said.
"Wait, you there, step forward." The scribe said.
Ai did what they asked.
"Who are you?" The imperial asked.
"Ai the last Maormer." Ai said with lots of pride.
"Ralof looked back in shock, and the imperials all stared at Ai.
"What should we do? He is not on the list." the scribe said, coming back to himself.
"Kill him with the rest." The woman said with scorn.
Ai just stepped up as the scribe offered some apologies. "Save it," Ai barked, "it is not your fault that your superior is a racist idiot."
Ai just went up to the block before they could do anything to him.
When Ai got to the block, a guy was going on and on about how they were going to kill Ulfric and use his death to restore the peace. He just ignored the idiot and the priestess till a stormcloak jumped up and said, "Enough with the talking! I thought you were going to execute us!"
Ai just smirked at the guy, knowing that he would've done the same thing in a few minutes.
Ai's ears then picked up a sound of wings beating. Ai looked around to see what would be making it, then ignored it.
"My ancestors are smiling at me, imperials, can you say the same?" The Stormcloak questioned before getting his head chopped off.
"Next, the fish," The woman said.
Ai moved up and heard a fierce roar, before seeing a black beast with wings and scales on its back.
The beast shot down on top of the tallest tower and landed there. It then roared and caused meteors to fall from the sky. The Imperials were distracted by the beast and Ralof started talking to him.
"Come on, the gods won't give us another chance," he said. "This way. Follow me!"
Ralof then started running past the debris the dragon was causing, and into a tower.
"Jarl Ulfric, what is that thing! Could the legends be true!" Ralof said.
"Legends don't burn down villages." Ulfric stated.
"We need to move now!" Ralof said after hearing a closer roar. "Up through the tower. Let's go!"
Ai then rushed up the tower, only to be blocked as the dragon rammed into it. The dragon then shot flames inside, which forced Ai down a few steps so he could avoid the fire.
"See you on the other side, jump through the roof and keep going!" Ralof improvised.
Ai did as he was told, but got a small burn on the way down.
Ai met up with some imperials on the way down, getting a child away from the wreckage.
"Still alive prisoner? Keep close to me if you want to stay that way."
Ai started following the imperial when he went in between a house and a wall, barely avoiding the dragon's fire.
"Ralof, you damn traitor, out of my way!" the imperial exclaimed.
"We are escaping. You are not stopping us this time!" Ralof responded.
"He's right, you aren't stopping us from escaping, in fact, you're helping us!" Ai said.
"Huh?" They both replied eloquently.
"Do you really think a dragon attack is a good time to fight? We need to work together to escape this thing!" Ai said exasperatedly.
"Okay, you have a point." Ralof conceded.
"Let's go! I know a way out of here!" Hadvar said.
Ai and Ralof quickly followed Hadvar through the keep, carefully avoiding the stormcloaks and imperials so as to not get accused of being traitors.
Hadvar then said, "Hold up, there is no way to avoid this next room, so let me cut you loose. I will not be able to go back to the keep after this, but it is worth it to escape a dragon."
They then burst into the room after stealing some weapons off the ground.
Hadvar actually blinked in shock as he saw the dead bodies of stormcloaks and imperials. "Okay, looks like they took each other out." Ralof said, in slight shock at seeing his dead men.
"Let's just keep going before this place collapses." Ai urged.
They both nodded before sprinting through the keep in order to avoid the debris.
The group had barely managed to cross a bridge before the debris destroyed it, but they had to keep going and would no matter what.
"Dead end!" Hadvar gasped out.
"No its not!" Ai said as he saw a small tunnel. "Through here!"
They rushed through, only to meet a few large spiders. Ai, remembering these particular animals from a book thought like an encyclopedia.
Frostbite Spider- a large, venomous spider that is as deadly as it is named for. It has a deadly poison and can spit the poison with a long distance attack. Not very deadly. Poison is slow acting. Avoid the larger ones. Danger level if faced: nonexistent-low.
The three rushed the spider and took it out with relative ease, as it was startled and could not attack three targets at once.
The three kept going through the cavern, until they spotted a bear.
Cave Bear- a large, deadly bear that is common in caves. It has deadly claws and fangs. Relatively slow. No defensive capabilities. Avoid if possible. Danger level if faced: low-medium.
"We can take it out, or try our luck at sneaking past." Ralof said.
Ai replied, "The only way we are sneaking past, is dead."
Ai then saw something that made his blood boil, two wolf cubs on their own trying to hid from the bear.
Ai then readied his arrows and shot two of them very quickly before stepping on a twig to make sure the bear turned away from the cubs.
The bear roared as it started trying to attack him, only to get shot by five more arrows and go down with relative ease from a well placed sword swing from Ai.
Ai then walked over to the cubs before picking them up and putting them inside the hood of his shirt.
"What did you do that for?" Hadvar asked, a bit confused by the action.
"I couldn't leave them to die like I may have had I not been saved, besides that, they are too young to take care of themselves and would die in a few days without help."
Hadvar just nodded his acceptance at the answer, remembering who he was dealing with.
The trio then got out of the cave without a lot of incidents.
Hadvar said, "Get down!" suddenly.
The other two complied, sensing the urgency. In a few seconds, they were glad they did as the dragon flew over them.
The trio let out a breath they did not realize that they were holding and sagged their shoulders in relief that the dragon had passed overhead.
"Let's go to riverwood, it is not far from here." Ralof said.
"What's that?" Ai asked as they passed a trio of monuments.
"Oh, those are known as standing stones. You can only receive a blessing from one at a time though. They are (pointing left to right) the mage stone, thief stone, and warrior stone." Hadvar said.
Ai immediately felt a calling from the middle one and grabbed it.
"That was the thief stone. It ups your abilities in stealth, pickpocketing, lockpicking, speech, and alchemy. Neither of us are any good at those skills, we prefer the warrior path." Ralof said.
"Well, it is a good thing I have it then. Someone has to be good at subtlety." Ai teased.
"Hey!" They both shouted.
Ai just burst out laughing before saying, "come on, let's go to riverwood."
Done! This is the first chapter to my Skyrim story. This will be a harem.
The girls in it so far are:
Aela
Astrid
Babette
Camilla
recommend other girls please and review!