Okay, so I've been wanting to write a Skyrim fan fiction for some time, but never got round to doing it. It tells the story a little differently than in game so don't be surprised if something isn't the same as it was in the game. Also I'm hoping to do a new chapter every week, depending on the response I get! So enjoy!

I do not own the elder scroll series.

I slowed as I approached the marketplace. It was busy today, which would make it much easier to slip in to the crowd unnoticed. I slowly moved with the crowd who was browsing and looking over various items that appealed to them. Carlotta was trying to push her vegetables as always.

"The finest produce in all of Skyrim if I do say so myself," she boasted, although looking at her stall, there wasn't much to boast about. Few were of fresh quality, and even fewer were edible.

I moved with the crowd, pretending to browse the produce in Carlotta's stall. I could see her looking at me curiously out the corner of my eye, but I ignored her and pulled my hood further over my face.

Come on, I thought to myself whilst tossing an apple in my hand, where is she? My question was soon answered when Ria appeared from behind the inn. My little sister was at the age of innocence, here blonde hair tied back in a knotted ponytail, and he blue eyes were darting back and forth across the crowd to try and find me. Once she found me, her scrawny body twisted and jerked as she jumped down the steps, and she slowed down towards the end, looking at me carefully. I nodded to her, and she jumped off the last step, beginning the performance she had cleverly done several times before. She landed on the cobbled stone, and fell carelessly on to the ground.

"Ouch, help me! I'm hurt!" She squealed dramatically. She had managed to grab the attention of the whole market, and everyone turned and moved to her, trying to help her up. Carlotta gave me a quick glance before going to see to my sister.

"Honestly child, you have to be more careful around here, I've seen those steps take many a drunks life before," she said dramatically as she fled past the crowd to help my sister. She kneeled down besides her, looking over her body, "now, what's your name?"

Whilst this was going on, it was now my part of the plan to come in to action. I opened up my satchel and started to put some of the apples in. Next I moved to Fralia Grey-Mane's stall, who was busy fussing with some cloth, wrapping it around Ria's knee.

We had been planning this for weeks, and I had studied the marketplace from afar, finding out the names of the stall owners and what they were selling, trying to find out which was the most valuable item and how we were going to steal it. I had found out that in a small safety box underneath Fralia's stall was a small amulet that she had said she got it off a traveller, although wouldn't go in to detail. I had overheard this conversation, and knew it was worth quite a bit. This was what I was after.

I looked around quickly making sure no one was looking, and then I quickly made my way over to the stall, kneeling down behind it. Sure enough there was a small, heavy steel box sitting on a shelve underneath and I went to open it, however it was locked. I hadn't planned on this, but I did have so lock picks in my satchel. I grabbed one out and began to twist and turn it inside the lock, listening closely to hear a click. Nothing was happening, and I was starting to get anxious about how long Ria could play this out. Suddenly there was a click, and the box lid opened slightly. I fumbled around with the lock pick, putting it back in my satchel, and then opened the box. There inside was the amulet, a shiny red stone with small gems surrounding it. I admired it quickly, put it carefully up my sleeve, and then got up and started to walk up the steps up to the Wind District. I heard Ria say something like, "I'm fine now, all better!" And soon enough she was beside me.

"Did you get it?" She asked curiously looking at my empty hands. I slipped the amulet out of my sleeve to show her it.

"Of, course," I said smugly and we both laughed. I couldn't believe we had managed to pull it off. Well, almost.

As we reached the top of the steps a guard blocked our way. "Stop right there," his deep voice bellowed, and we both froze and stared at him. I didn't know what to do, and I could feel people's eyes watching us as the silence grew. Suddenly there was a scream and a voice yelling from the marketplace.

"My amulet has been stolen!" There was a long pause as the guard looked from the marketplace to my hand, which held the amulet. What do I do now?

Of course the only instinct I had was to run. The many times that we had stolen, there were a few times where we were almost caught, and each time we had ran and usually gotten away with it. I didn't quite know what to do, but I knew it was no good just standing there waiting to be caught. I grabbed the guard by the arm and with all my strength I pulled him towards me. Moving out the way of his falling body, I grabbed my sister's hand and started to run whilst the guard fell down the hard stone steps. "Catch them!" He yelled after us. We moved quickly, pushing past people and avoiding guards, but they were catching up with us. We made a run for the steps that made their way towards Dragonsreach, and I knew instantly that it was a bad idea. When we reached the top guards proceeded to chase us back down the steps where we were met by another group of guards. We were surrounded.

"Halt! You are under arrest for theft and disturbance of the peace in Whiterun, what say you in your defence?" I said nothing. Instead I tossed the amulet aside and bowed my head. I could see my sister looking up at me, but I ignored her. "And the rest," the same guard said, pointing his sword to my satchel. I dropped the satchel by my side, and a guard hesitantly picked it up, searching in the bag.

"What do we have?" said another guard to the left of me.

"Not much," he responded, "A few apples, some lock picks and some bread."

"Take her in," the guard to the left of me said, and I remained silent as they bound my hands together.

The room was silent. I kneeled before a man who slouched on his thrown, a Septim twisting quickly around his fingers. The Jarl looked at me, and turned to his steward.

"Proventus, why is this young lady here?" he asked his steward, and the steward looked at a scroll he was holding in his hand.

"Lets see here. She was caught stealing from several owners in the marketplace. Guards say she won't talk. We don't where she's from or who she is." The Jarl sighed, as if this was standard practice for him.

"What is your name, child?" I stayed silent. I was damned if I was giving him the satisfaction. "You are a Nord aren't you? You can't have lived far from here?"

"She's not from Whiterun, my Jarl. She isn't on any of the lists and no one has ever heard of her," Proventus interrupted, but the Jarl was dismissive of him. The Jarl kept eye contact with me, but I wouldn't speak. He sighed once more and got up. Slowly walking towards me. He kneeled down beside me, and inspected my face, his eyes wondering.

"Are you going to talk, or do we have to get my Court Wizard to loosen your tongue?" I knew he meant he wanted to torture me, and I looked over at the Court Wizard, whom I could see in his eyes detested the thought of torturing someone. I chose to remain silent. "No?" He said as he came ever nearer to my face, "How about if we torture your sister?" I gasped at the thought, and almost forgot that they had captured my sister too. The Jarl could see the fear grow in my eyes, and his lips turned slightly, almost smiling. "Farengar, get the girl would you?"

The Wizard hesitantly turned on his feet, exiting the room to get Ria. I screamed at him.

"NO! Don't hurt her, please don't hurt her!" Everyone in the room turned to me, and the Jarl nodded his head towards me.

"Okay then." He sat back down on his thrown, continuing to twist the Septim between his fingers. "What is your name?"

"Ariana. Ariana Fire-Eye."

"And what brings you here to Whiterun?"

"My sister and I are travellers," I began to explain. "We don't have a home you see, and we have very little gold."

"So is that why you stole from the marketplace?"

"Yes. I was hoping the amulet would fetch us some gold. We were hoping to travel to Solitude so I could get a job and start earning so I could feed us both and eventually buy a home." Of course I was lying. Well not all of it was a lie. I was intending on travelling to Solitude, but not so I could settle down, but I thought the sad story would swing in my favour.

"What should we do with her, my Jarl?" Proventus asked.

"She's just a teenager, a beggar nonetheless. Take the stolen good from her and let her serve her time in prison," he then turned to me, "your sister will serve here until you have done your time." I nodded silently, knowing that at least if I served my time in prison, Ria would be safe, sheltered and fed, even if she was being held by her own will. One of the guards started to lift me up, when someone burst through the wooden doors as there was panic and frantic screams coming from outside.

"My jarl, There is a giant outside the walls of Whiterun! It's trying to break through our defences!" The Jarl, shocked, rose from his throne and put a hand on his sword.

"But that's impossible. Why would a giant attack our city?"

Just then there was a loud crack of stone from outside and the screaming got louder.

So what do you think? Kinda left it on a cliffhanger, and sorry if its a boring start, but there is action to come! Please leave a review. Thanks :)