Here is the Second Chapter of MANY for The Legend Of Kotera
Please Note: Bare With me through punctuation errors and grammar mistakes for as a writer I am still trying to locate the sweet spot in my writing style.
The only thing I managed to hear was a few names, Ulfric, General Tullius, Thalmor but I think that was more of a kind of Guild or Order run by high elves unlike myself the Elves of Tamriel are of different blood, Hylians don't belong to any of the blood relations of Tamriel's Elven Folk, though we're easily mistaken for them, which I guess helps since we've been hiding our true selves since my Great Grandfather escaped Hyrule. "Get these prisoners out of the carts, Now!" A woman's voice rang out as my head finally cleared of whatever was disorienting me, I can only hope it's not a concussion but that would be being hopeful; after the hit I took to my head. I looked around as we stepped from the carts, no longer listening to the man that was talking from the ride I think I recognized a few of the older soldiers, some I've patched up from wounds just a few years ago though I'm sure none would recognize me as my face had changed quite a bit as I grew from my teens. "Ulfric Stormcloak, Jarl of Windhelm." A mans voice fairly familiar said "It has been an honor, Jarl Ulfric" the man from the cart again said at this point I wish he would just keep his mouth shut, he was too prideful and it made my skin crawl just looking in his direction for some reason.
"Ralof of Riverwood." The soldier said again and the man from the cart moved to the crowd, I took a quick glance but there were already too many people crowded there to see where we were going what brought me back was the mans voice again "Lokir of Rorikstead." he had said just as I had turned my head I heard the prisoner next to me "No, I'm not a rebel you can't do this!" he had shouted just as he pushed passed the two soldiers hearing the woman yell halt just before she ordered the archers to bring him down, I breathed a little too loud I imagine because it brought the soldier's attention back to me. "Wait, you there step forward." He had said I gulped a little knowing they weren't exactly playing around and I wasn't going to talk myself out of this one. "Who are you?" the man asked as he stepped up to me to get a closer look he walked around me as if to completely look me over, "My name is Kotera Kilyerd, I am just a traveler that I guess was in the wrong place at the wrong time and I apologize if I caused any trouble." I had said bowing a little but I was stopped short of doing so "Captain, what do we do? She's not on the list, The Name is familiar to me but I can't place from where." He had said and the more I looked at him the more I gathered he wasn't wrong his stature and figure seemed familiar to someone I had to spend a few days taking care of after Ataxia plagued his wounds and festered, poor man was down for those days I believed it was going to kill him until my father told me to step out and the morning after the soldier was gone. "It doesn't matter, She goes to the block." The woman said, my heart sank and my gut wanted to evacuate everything I had eaten before being captured, I looked at the man in fear and hoped that my eyes and face alone would be able to spark his memory.
He only sighed and acknowledged his orders and told me to follow the captain, my hands shook and my heart was pounding; Was this truly the end? I thought to myself in fear that Hyrule would never be put to rest or given its justice my mind went blank and I stopped paying attention to what General Tullius was saying, Tullius was a man I finally fully recognized he brought his men to our cottage for help while they were on the road, he was honorable and he cared for every last one of the people under him, that was a trait I looked up to him for when they first arrived when i was just ten. I looked down at my hands and wanted to weep I came so far, I had just learned of my destiny and who I really was and here i stood in line for the headsman's axe. A roar in the distance brought me back to reality as I looked up, a man was already beheaded at the block. "There it is again, what was that?" the soldier from earlier said "I SAID BRING THE ELF!" The captain shouted annoyed, it was like she didn't pay attention to the roar "To the block prisoner, nice and easy." He had said, I knew they meant me and I slowly shuffled over to the block.
"This is it huh? I don't finish the journey I started out on, but only meet the axe and be put face to face with Hylia herself, I guess we aren't suppose to put the old to rest but only rest ourselves." I had said without thinking as I felt the woman's hand on my back, it was oddly warm as I was forced to my knees and my head bent down to the divot in the wood. I looked towards my killer in just enough time to be enraged by what I saw behind him, jet black and soaring toward the tower behind him. Every Fiber in my body wanted to scream and rip that dreadful thing to pieces but I was bound and held down, Alduin had arrived and landed on the tower causing the headsman to stumble and completely forgot about me.
Alduin shouted twice causing everyone around me to be knocked back quite a bit and then Meteors began to rain from the sky crashing down to my left and right. I was frozen in my anger and shaking "Hey you, Get Up! Come on the Gods won't give us another chance!" I heard Ralof yell to me as he had grabbed my wrist and pulled me along to the other tower, I could only look back and see Alduin take off to cause havoc across the little town, as we got in the tower Ralof and Ulfric had a brief conversation about the dragon, before it roared again and Ulfric Shouted at us to move. As we ran up the tower its wall was pushed in and knocked me back into Ulfric, thank Hylia he caught me I didn't want to die with my target so close to me "Are you alright?" Ulfric said as he helped me back up granted it caused me to blush since he was being gentle but I just nodded and went to check the hole in the wall, Alduin had already moved on so fast it made me wonder how I'd go about removing his head later.
Ralof looked at me and told me to jump across and we'll meet on the other side of the towers, I held no objection and jumped across to the building below before he even finished talking and made a sprint for the exit since the building was burning to the ground itself. The soldier from before was there helping a boy get away from a corpse just before Alduin landed, I was just about to run for Alduin to grab those ridiculous horns and pull them off his skull before the soldier grabbed me back before Alduins fire burned bright just feet away from us. "ARE YOU CRAZY PRISONER? NO MATTER, WE NEED TO GET TO THE KEEP!" He had shouted at me "Gods Guide You Hadvar." an old man had said, my eyes at first went wide, It was that soldier who was with us for a few days, Hadvar had led me through the town keeping us as low as possible though enough to move quickly, Alduin was so fast I was losing my determination that I'd be able to ring his ungodly neck, as we rounded to see Tullius at the gate we first entered in on he had yelled for Hadvar to get into the keep because they were leaving, time really caught up with the old war horse it looked like to me, we rounded the corner after hearing the last words from Tullius "RUN YOU IDIOT!" He yelled as we quickly bolted and ran straight into Ralof.
As the two had only begun to bump heads with each other I stepped in front of Hadvar and yelled "Look, we can either stand here having a pissing contest of who's cause is more just than the others But there's death incarnate flying around right now, So save it you blue cloaked toad!" the shock on Ralofs face nearly drained all the color from his body as Hadvar and I ducked into the barracks out of the chaos of Alduins rampage. "I can't believe we made it, was that really a dragon? The bringers of the end times?" Hadvar asked me, I only nodded trying to catch my breath leaning against the wall "Well I guess staying here won't do, Come here let me see if I can cut those binds off." Hadvar said, I stayed on the wall and just held my arms out so he walked over and cut me free "You should probably look in one of these chests for armor and a weapon, we need to keep moving." He had told me offering his hand, I took hold and he pulled me upright once I caught my breath "seven years ago...Do you remember where you were Hadvar?" I had asked him, it was time to just be out with it though he looked puzzled and taken back a little "Seven years ago? hard to say, I had Attaxia while on the road and General Tullius had us stop at some family's home where I was brought back to health by some miracle, we were just told to leave afterwards I never got to say thank you to the young girl that was caring for me at the time." He had said scratching his head as he was trying to remember completely.
I looked up at him and just laughed a little "Well, you're welcome...that was my family home you were in when I was just sixteen, I know I must look different but I did age pretty well for twenty three." I laughed and put my arm on his shoulder. "It was you? I'm sorry Kotera if I would have remembered clearly you would have never been on the block for saving my life back then." Hadvar had said, he was pained about that revelation that I almost died and he would have never known or had gotten to thank me "Well, my target is the reason I'm still alive so we'd better move now, I'll try to find my gear where you morons locked it away at." I had said I almost puked when I mentioned Alduin was the reason I was alive it's so ironic isn't it? "Sounds good to me, it's just down stairs in a chest, we kept all the prisoners weapons there." He motioned towards the door, I took a simple iron sword off the wall, it wasn't my Hylian Rose but it would do, we walked down the hall and a couple of stormcloaks were catching their breath just on the other side of a gate "Hold on, maybe we can reason with them." Hadvar said as he opened the gate and tried to keep them calm, They only got aggressive and the fighting ensued but evidently the woman there wanted me dead for some reason so she ran at me with her battle axe.
That was a mistake I raised the sword and got the axe just underneath the blade and threw off her balance, She tried to retaliate by swinging horizontally towards my hips but my blade again got in the way this time I struck down hard and severed the axe in two and as if it was only a seconds difference I drove the blade through her chest cavity before she even reacted to the axe being split or it even hitting the ground behind me. My father called my reflexes in battle the 'Heroes Bellow' because to me it seemed as if everything slowed around me as swings became easier to see through than clear water. While the other Stormcloak was distracted by the awe of how fast his companion was felled by the sword in my hand, Hadvars own sword struck home between his shoulder blade and neck carving into his skin causing blood to spray free and a look of terror came across the rebels face as his life ebbed away, as an act of mercy I quickly moved over and clocked him across the temple to hasten his departure. "I'm sorry it had to come to a fight, but am I glad you're not on their side Kotera, I could barely see your blade move let alone your body itself was like a blur." Hadvar said as he retrieved his sword from the rebels neck and moved over to unlock the prison gate, we ran down the stairs to the storage room where rage itself had overcome me, two more soldiers were rummaging through the chest my gear was in, and one of them was foolishly holding my rose, As if Hylia herself had let go of my restrictions I tossed the sword by the handle directly into the skull of the thief before charging in and grabbing my sword while it still hung in the air, unsheathing my precious sword the blade rang as I quickly spun and caught the other soldier through his abdomen sending him to the floor dead before he landed, and it was if the flames in my heart settled as I wiped the blade clean on one of them and re-sheathed my sword quickly picking up my great grandfathers armor and hugging the backplate with the carved Triforce against my chest and I let out a sigh of relief that none of it was damaged.
"that was quite a show, again I'm in awe Kotera! How did you learn to fight like that?" Hadvar said walking up to me and checking for potions and other things "My father trained me to fight with a sword, but not very much apparently I have a gift for fighting with a blade. Now would you be so kind as to wait right there" I had said as I took a second to look around and found a walled off area of the room to quickly change into my armor, I can't lie that there was heat rising to my face at the situation but I pushed it aside in order to change back into my armor, Once I had; it was back on the road to escaping Helgan.
Well that was just slightly longer than the previous chapter by about 500 words more, Most of the time when I write like that it takes me a short time before I've gotten that far I don't have a word count on Word pad so I can't tell you exactly how many pages are done or the word count, I hope the second chapter is enjoyed, I posted This chapter after getting One good review and decided that it may do well so perhaps I can make a weekly upload schedule until I've caught up with the story to where it is currently. We'll see but for now Enjoy what you get :)
-The Leviathan
