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Naruto's Oblivion
By DireSquirrel
Chapter Two
In a DUNGEON
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"We're in a DUNGEON!" Naruto proudly proclaimed. The pink haired girl's eyes snapped open. Yes, they were in a dungeon. Stone walls, manacles on their wrists and they were all wearing rags. All four of them. Wait, four?
"Who are you?" Sakura asked, looking at the pretty girl next to her.
"I'm Haku," she said.
"I met him when he was picking medicinal herbs," Naruto said.
"Wait...HIM?" Sakura asked, gawking at the pretty face.
"Yeah, I was pretty surprised too," Naruto prattled on. "He's cuter than you, Sakura!"
That earned Naruto a lump on the head.
Haku just shrugged. "It's a fair cop."
Sakura growled a bit before attempting to snuggle up to Sasuke. "You're going to help us get out of this, right, Sasuke?"
"hn," the dark eyed boy replied as he shook her off. He proceeded to attempt to beat his previous brood record of 43 hours that he had achieved on first anniversary of the Uchiha massacre. It wasn't a sure bet he would be able to beat that record, but there was potential, and he had been going on for about a day already. Unfortunately, he probably wouldn't beat the all time Uchiha brood record of 146 days, 23 hours set by Izuna Uchiha after his brother stole his eyes without asking. Other Uchiha had come close, but Izuna was still the epitome of the Way of the Brood, the closest thing the Uchiha Clan had to a religion. Seeing this, and having observed such behavior in her crush in stalkings past, Sakura sighed and assumed the fetal position until Naruto got into a verbal altercation with the prisoner across the hall.
"All you stupid Akaviri, coming here with your fancy weapons and your stupid clothes," Valen Dreth snarled. "You try, and you try and you try, but you always fail when you invade. But now? Now you're all stuck in here with me! But Ha! You're going to DIE in here!"
"Shows what you know, bastard!" Naruto said with a superior grin. "I'm gonna get out of here, and you're gonna see my face on mountains! I'm gonna live and become Hokage! Believe it!"
"What's a hoe-cag-ay?"
"The Hokage is the Hokage!" Naruto unhelpfully explained.
"Ah, you hear that? It's the guards," Valen taunted, deliberately changing the subject so he didn't look like a complete putz. In this, it was a failure, though the plot did ramble on. "They're coming-for you! Ha-hahahaha"
Naruto promptly stuck out his tongue and gave the detestable individual a raspberry in response.
Soon enough men and women dressed like samurai started walking down the steps.
"My sons," an old man said. "They're dead, aren't they?"
"No, your majesty, we only heard that they were attacked," a woman replied. She walked slowly and purposefully with a watchful eye as she and a man dressed in purple robes entered view. She kept a hand on her sword at all times. "What are those children doing in there? That cell is supposed to be off limits!"
"I don't know," a dark-skinned man replied. "There must be some mix up with the guards."
"Whatever," the woman growled. "Back up, by the window, we won't hesitate to kill you if you get in our way."
As they walked into the room, two of the three backed up, but Sasuke just brooded in the corner and Sakura just clutched her knees.
The old man, who Haku now assumed was the local lord, or whatever, broke out in surprise as he saw their faces. "You three, I know you," he said. "You are the three from my dreams... Then the stars were right, and this is the day. Gods give me strength "
"Uh, what's going on?" Naruto asked.
"Assassins attacked my sons, and I'm next," the old man said. "My Blades are leading me out of the city along a secret escape route. By chance, the entrance to that escape route leads through your cell. "
"Why am I in jail?" Haku asked curiously, as he pondered the possibilities.
"I'm wondering why he's handing out sensitive information to a bunch of criminals he's never met before," Glenroy muttered just barely loud enough for his Captain to hear. She shot him a glare and elbowed him in the side.
"Perhaps the Gods have placed you here so that we may meet," the old man with the fancy robes replied, undaunted by his bodyguard's comment. "As for what you have done... it does not matter. That is not what you will be remembered for."
"We didn't do anything; we just woke up here," Sakura muttered from the corner. "It wasn't our fault. We didn't do anything."
The Blades looked at them again. They were quite a bit younger than the usual sort of criminal one finds in a prison, and they were in entirely too high spirits for those destined for long incarceration. Well, except for the brood-meister and the pink haired girl. Something fishy was going on here.
Naruto grunted rudely. "Uh, well, old man, then who are you?"
"I am your Emperor, Uriel Septim," he replied. "By the grace of the Gods, I serve Tamriel as her ruler. You are a citizen of Tamriel, and you, too, shall serve her in your own way."
"Huh, that's funny 'Cuz, I always thought we lived in the Land of Fire," Naruto pondered. "I've never even heard of Tamriel. Do they have ramen in Tamriel?"
"Uh, what's ramen?" the old man asked. Naruto went bug-eyed, froze up, and fell backwards into a heap of horror. Naruto was stuck in a land without Ramen.
"Why are we in jail?" Haku asked, picking up the slack.
"What your crimes are, I do not know," the Emperor said. "For that is the past, but that is not what you will be remembered for."
"What should we do?" Sakura asked. "We're not even from this country."
"You shall find your own path," the Emperor said, ignoring the exasperated sighs of his Blades as he prattled on with children about destiny and such. "But take care... there will be blood and death before the end." He seemed like he was finished, so the captain of his bodyguards pressed a button none of the four ninjas knew about. The button triggered a secret door, that cranked upwards with a steady rattle of chains and gears, revealing a long forgotten passageway that seemed to have more cobwebs and dust than a haunted house in spring.
"Stay back prisoners," Baurus commanded.
"hn," grunted Sasuke in response. He wasn't about to just follow orders of some random bodyguard. He snorted again and rushed the gate, slipping between the last Blade and the door, just as it was being shut.
"Sasuke!" Sakura called out, rushing forward onto to be stopped by the sudden slash of a blade right in front of her nose. It was so sharp pieces of her bangs fluttered to the floor like petals from her eponymous tree.
"I said STAY BACK!"
The black haired boy didn't even look back as he scrambled up the stairs.
"Oh well," said the last Blade. "It isn't like he's going to get far. They'll just assume that he's an escaping prisoner and kill him on sight."
"No!" Sakura moaned.
"If he didn't want that to happen, he shouldn't have gone out that way," Baurus grumbled. "But the rest of you? Looks like it's your lucky day."
"We can go?" Naruto asked, abruptly on his feet and recovered from his brief moment of horror involving the distinct lack of Ramen in Tamriel.
"Just don't get too close," the Blade replied. The man glanced at the sobbing Sakura. "Although you'd better do something about her."
"Right! I'll take care of her!" Naruto said, giving the older man a V for Victory. "And I never go back on my word! That's my way of the Ninja! Believe it!"
"Does everything you say have to end in exclamation points?" Haku asked.
Naruto pondered that idea for a moment, resembling nothing so much as Roden's Thinker. Then he grinned.
"YUP!"
"So, Sakura," Naruto said. "After we get back to-WHAM!
The pink haired girl was not pleased. Sasuke had abandoned her, she was stuck with Naruto and some pretty-boy that she'd never seen before and she was following some crack Emperor through a hole in a dungeon wall.
"That's far enough, prisoners," one of the Blades said a moment before the another screamed.
"ASSASSINS!"
Decked out in Red with strange black metal, they came from all over and assaulted. There were four of them, but it was time to balance the scales. Naruto crossed his hands in the sign for his signature jutsu, creating an army out of nothing.
"What in Oblivion is going on here?" asked Baurus and the Captain simultaneously as the blond kid started beating up everyone in red. "By the Nine! How did he do that?"
The red assassins were too slow and clumsy to fight those numbers, although they did get a few good swings in, causing a few to go up in smoke. It wasn't enough, and soon all four of the assassins were unconscious and tied up in their own robes.
"What are you kids?" the Captain asked. Naruto grinned sheepishly and scratched the back of his head.
"We're Ninja!" the Narutos proclaimed proudly, giving them a thumbs up and a wide, squinty smile that spread from cheek to cheek. The Captain and the other two blades shared a look of confusion before turning towards their Emperor for an explanation.
"The Nine work in mysterious ways," he said with a shrug.
"Alright!" Naruto said with another V for Victory pose. Then he dropped it as the particular words registered in his mind. He was suddenly more worried. "Wait, the nine what?"
Suddenly the Blades looked a bit annoyed.
"Great, the Emperor's new bodyguards are two little girls and an idiot brat," the Captain growled under her breath. Sakura snatched Naruto's collar and covered his mouth with her hand to prevent him from expressing his dislike for the statement. "Very well, come along."
"Captain, are you sure?" Glenroy inquired hesitantly.
"Puhleease," the Captain drawled. "Don't you think we'd be in better off with an army like that kind can make?"
"You've got a point."
Naruto grinned, preened under the praise and scratched the back of his neck with his classic fox smile. Haku raised a hand.
"Yes, girl?"
"Uh," Haku said hesitantly. "I'm a boy."
"... … Oh." said the four adults with more than a bit of surprise.
As they were speaking, two giant rats knocked down the wall, revealing a secret passageway.
"Protect the Emperor!" Glenroy commanded as he slashed down with his Katana, the giant rats falling to his blade. The Captain didn't like the looks of another passageway. The Emperor turned to the three children.
"Here you must find your own path. But we will cross paths before the end, I am sure of it."
"No prob, creepy old man," Naruto said with a grin. Glenroy was none to pleased with the boy's tone or word choice.
"The assassins might have come in that way," the Captain said. "Children, we're taking the Emperor through this door. I want you to scout out the passage to make sure there aren't any assassins in there. Baurus, go with them." She handed him a key. "If it is a dead end, here is the key to this door."
"Yes, Captain," Baurus said quickly. He watched as the two Blades and the emperor vanished behind the heavy door.
"What should we do with the assassins?" Sakura asked. "Should we take them to T&I?"
"What's T&I?" Baurus asked.
"Torture and Interrogation," Haku supplied quickly with a pretty smile. Baurus looked down at him for a long moment.
"...You scare me, kid," the Blade told him. He shook his head. "Yeah, might as well bring 'em. Hyperactive kid, can you make some of those...other yous?"
"Shadow Clones?" Naruto asked answering to an appellation used in relation to him many times before.
"Sure, whatever they're called," Baurus asked. "Can you make more?"
"Yup! They'll drag 'em!" And with a simple cross shaped hand sign, ten clones appeared, picking up the unconscious assassins and hauled them along after the motley crew. At first they just dragged them behind, but the heads kept bouncing on stone steps, so Naruto hefted them up with a few more clones.
"Anybody good with Alchemy?" Baurus asked.
"Alchemy?"
"You know, making potions and medicines and stuff," he clarified.
"Haku is," Naruto said, pointing to the girlish boy. At the boy's surprise, Naruto shrugged. "You were picking medicinal herbs when we met in the woods."
"I suppose," Haku agreed.
"Well, Skin and bone those rats, they make a good poison when combined with a few other things, they might come in handy," Baurus instructed.
Haku looked at the dead and bleeding rats and then at Baurus. "I'll, uh, I'll just seal them away for later."
Haku pulled out a scroll from...somewhere and painted a quick seal with blood from his thumb. Placing the dead rats on the scroll, he infused both with Chakra, sealing the rats inside.
"Damn, you can just carry them around like that?" Baurus asked.
"Yup, it's a sealing technique," Haku replied. "It's a lot lighter than carrying around a backpack and all that gear."
"...Right, well, let's go scout out this passageway," the older man decided.
"Yay!"
Later, Kakashi and Zabuza caught back up to compare notes.
"Zero's Drill?" Zabuza asked. "What the hell kinda place is that?"
"I think he said 'Serial Dill' or 'Sealed Dill'," Kakashi said. "He had a weird accent."
"So basically you learned nothing," Zabuza argued.
"Nope," Kakashi shot back. "I learned they sold them off in a place called the Summerset Isle, which is to the east."
"Why's it called the Summerset isle?
"Maybe it's cold there?" Kakashi pondered. "Anyway, I need to head to Konoha to talk to the Third."
"You're not leaving me behind," the swordsman commented, resting a hand on Kakashi's upper arm. "Yeah? I'll tell you what; Until I get back my tool back, you're gonna get more than you bargained for. I'm your goddamn partner!"
They stared at each other for a long moment before Kakashi shrugged.
"When you say that line, I just feel there's something missing," Kakashi pondered. "I'll see if the Hokage will let you in on the rescue mission."
One Week Later - Konoha
Sarutobi leaned back and puffed on his pipe in annoyance.
"Still no word?" The other rookie 9 Senseis were sitting down as the third Hokage bit into his favorite pipe and shook his head.
"Kakashi and Zabuza are on their way back from a port in Lightning Country, but no new leads," the man said, seeming older than his years. "The civilians are up in arms because they blame me for losing that girl and the Uchiha. Danzo's the only one worried about Naruto."
"Do you really think it's that simple?" Asuma asked his father. "They were just...sold?"
"I don't know," the third replied. "but we've been quite serious about controlling who knows about Naruto's status. We should have been better."
"So you think that someone's going to find Naruto and turn him into a weapon," Kurenai inquired.
"I hope not," the Third said. "but it could be worse."
"How so?"
"What I am about to tell you is a SS secret," the Third said.
"What about Kakashi?" Asuma asked.
"He already knows," the Third replied. He turned and looked at his son and Kurenai. "Naruto's mother was the previous container of the Nine Tails. In fact, all the Containers have been from the Uzumaki family. It escaped when she was attacked before giving birth to her son, Naruto. If something should happen, if he's harmed enough, the Nine Tails could be released. Contrary to popular belief, it won't be killed when Naruto is."
Silence followed the revelation.
"I just hope that being sold as a slave won't ruin Naruto's idealism," the Third commented as he glanced at the face next to his on the nearby mountain.
Fifteen rats and a whole bunch of loot later, the quartet came across a more dangerous foe. It took little time for the four of them to subdue it, but the result was less than desirable.
"I HATE zombies!" Sakura declared, flicking zombie juice from her fingers. Haku nodded in agreement. They were only slightly tougher to take down than normal people, but unlike people, Zombies tend to splatter when you kick, stab, slash or otherwise injure them; and Zombie-juice is a lot filthier than blood.
"They smell nasty," Naruto commented, making a show of pinching his nose.
"Yeah, well, they've got an ingredient, so you might as well seal it," Baurus instructed. Haku reluctantly did so, hefting the piece of mortified flesh with two fingers onto a fresh stretch of scroll. "It might gross you out, but there are times when a bit of Alchemy can save your life."
"Fine." Haku grumbled.
"Hey! I found a gem in this chest! And a bunch of senbon thingies!" Naruto's clone called out. Naruto's clones were responsible for prisoners, loot and scouting.
"What's a senbon?" Baurus asked.
"It's a needle used in acupuncture," Haku explained. "Although I don't think I'd trust them until they've been sterilized. And those are bent, so they'd require more precision than usual. Not good for my more common techniques."
"Akh-you-what?"
"A healing art," Haku explained. It was getting too tiresome to explain all the little differences between their cultures, though it had yet to cross the threshold from tiresome to troublesome. Any more, and the Mist native would start to feel like a Nara. Naruto's clone ran back over and showed the "senbon" to the group.
"Uh, those aren't needles, they're lockpicks," the Blade corrected. "What would you use them for?"
"Well, things like this," Haku said as he jammed one into a waking prisoner's neck. "It creates a death like state until the needle is removed."
"Wow, that's pretty useful," Baurus mused.
And then there were goblins:
"WOW! THEY LOOK LIKE GIANT GREEN MONKEYS!" Naruto bellowed into the clan's cavern, the echoes increasing the effect since the cavern had rather good acoustics. And then, every green head turned to look at them.
Baurus gave the boy a look. "The concept of stealth in combat is lost on you, isn't it?"
"Thank you, Naruto," Sakura said as she slid into a perfect facepalm. "Thank you ever so much for getting ALL their attention instead of letting us fight them one at a time."
"Sure! No problem!" Naruto agreed. "Wait, was that sarcasm?"
"YES!" all three of his companions agreed.
"I guess I'd better take care of them, shouldn't I?" Naruto said hesitantly. Showing his talent for being a one trick pony, Naruto created fifty clones and attacked. The first four goblins went down easy, falling to Naruto's superior numbers. Then there were MORE rats that Sakura released by pulling on a rope switch. Then came the problem: the Goblin Shaman. Baurus quickly explained that the Shamans were more dangerous and could cast many spells of various types. They could also channel power through their clan totem. Twenty clones went down to a lighting spell that crackled and sizzled all the way across the cavern. Haku sighed and threw a lock-pick like a senbon, catching the goblin Shaman in the throat. It spewed blood, but then went silent. Baurus looked at the dead shaman, then looked at the serenely smiling Haku, and then back at the dead goblin.
"You still freak me out, kid," Baurus told him.
Haku just shrugged.
Sakura was gaping at him for a different reason.
"You!" she said in a tone usually reserved for Naruto. "You're the Hunter-Nin!"
"What?!" Naruto asked, spinning to look at his new found friend. "REALLY?"
Baurus winced as every Naruto clone yelled along with the original. In the cavern the echoes were deafening.
"Well, yes," Haku replied. He smiled and scratched the back of his head like Naruto. "Didn't think it was a big deal, so I didn't bring it up. Hehehe..."
Sakura gaped while Naruto mused about how cool it was to throw senbon like that.
"Nuts," Baurus said. "All three of you are nuts."
Later on they meandered through a few holes and came out in the original passageway just as the Emperor and his Blades arrived. The strange sand and wood beams were replaced by the classical white marble ruins of the ancient days of the Empire, though not Ayleid. Baurus jumped down to the same level.
"Nothing there but rats, some goblins and the remains of a few escaped prisoners, Captain," he reported. "But the passageway goes all the way through. EMPEROR! LOOK OUT!"
And then more assassins arrived. Unfortunately, summoned armor does nothing to protect against lock-pick senbon, and Haku quickly subdued the new attackers. A short while later, they were similarly trussed up by tearing their rags into bonds.
"Why are all those assassins still alive?" Glenroy demanded.
"For interrogation," Baurus replied. "Haku noted that they might as well be brought along to find out what their organization is and why they're doing this."
"You have a point, but ensure that they cannot wake up at an ill opportune moment, Baurus," the Captain instructed. "But why do you have goblins too?"
"We have goblins?" the Blade turned around and saw about twenty sheepish Narutos holding five unconscious, but alive goblins. "Why do we have goblins?"
"Weeeelllll," Naruto began. "Gramps-Hokage really likes monkeys and his summons's a monkey kind and so's his name, so I thought maybe I should keep them for him?"
That earned Naruto a pink haired fist of clarity. Sakura pulled her hand back and harumphed.
"Don't you get it? We're not anywhere near home! We don't even know where we are!" Sakura bellowed. "You can't just let them hang around like this!"
"So we should let them go?" Naruto asked.
"No," Glenroy said gruffly. "We should kill them."
Haku nodded, the Emperor shrugged (mentioning he saw nothing of their fate on this day), Captain Renault agreed with Glenroy and Baurus bowed to his Captain's command.
"Could I keep 'em?" Naruto asked with big eyes like a little kid. Combined with his small stature and whiskers, the effect was disturbingly cute. Even stalwart Glenroy had a hard time resisting puppy-eyes no jutsu. The Captain turned to the Emperor, who just shrugged again.
"I have no issue with a subject asking for compassion," he intoned. The Captain sighed and nodded towards Naruto. The resulting cheer from all the Narutos was so loud, six would-be assassins fell unconscious out of their hiding places in the room ahead. Glenroy looked at the unconscious assassins, then at Naruto and shrugged.
"Don't know how you did that, kid, but I got no problems with you after that," the Blade replied. The blond boy flashed a fox-like grin and gave the older man a friendly punch in the arm. "Ow! You're stronger than you look kid."
"You should have seen what he did to the zombie," Baurus muttered with a slightly shell-shocked expression. Sakura and Haku shuddered at the thought of the walking corpse.
The Emperor looked around, shrugged once more and nodded. "Perhaps we should continue on our way?"
"Right," the Captain agreed quickly as they started off again, this time with a blond army behind them. As they walked along, the Emperor smiled down at Sakura.
"They do not know why I trust you," he told the girl.
"Why do you?" Haku asked. "Because you don't know us from nobody."
"Most men are ignorant of their deaths and so fear it," the old man replied. "I am blessed with the knowledge of my final hour and I am at peace that my time is short."
Sakura looked up confused.
"How do you know? Do you have some kind of future sight technique, or something?" she asked. Haku nodded, listening in.
"The Septim bloodline is blessed with a talent for foresight, a gift we have received from the Nine," the old man replied. Haku grinned at hearing that Bloodlines weren't looked down upon or persecuted in this strange land.
"The Nine?" Sakura asked. "You mean the Nine Tailed Kitsune that the 4th Hokage defeated?"
In the back of the party, all the Narutos started sweating nervously. The Blades and Emperor blinked at her in confusion.
"No, I'm not familiar with this Kitsune, is it a daedra of some kind?" the old man asked. He wasn't used to having people interrupt him. Behind them, Naruto started sweating even more and even let out a nervous little giggle. He'd never admit that he giggled, but if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
...Unless it's Sasuke's hair.
"It's one of the nine great demon beasts, the Bijuu," Sakura explained. "The more tails they have, the more powerful they are. Years ago, before we were born, the Kitsune, it's a big fox with nine tails and all fire and tsunamis, attacked our village."
"Well, then no, that has nothing to do with the Nine Divines," replied the Emperor (who sounded like he should have been commanding a starship. Sakura wasn't sure why she felt that, but it seemed right). "They are the goodly deities that guide our lives. Tell me, children, what signs guide your lives?"
"I'm a rooster," Sakura said.
"Rat," Naruto said from the back.
"Not too sure," Haku replied.
"I'm, er...not too familiar with those signs," the Emperor admitted. Luckily they hit a dead end before Sakura could give a lecture on the Animal zodiac.
Glenroy grabbed the gate and shook it. "Blast! It's barred from the other side, it's a trap!"
"What about that side passage?" Baurus asked, pointing down the other way.
"Worth a shot," The Captain said as she pushed the Emperor and the children (plus about ten of Naurto's clones) into the side passage.
"FOR THE EMPEROR!" the three Blades bellowed as they started cutting down the competition. In the side passage, the Emperor rested a hand on Sakura's shoulder.
"Child, should anything happen to me, please, you must get the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre," the old man told her, nodding to the other too, to show that they were included. "I just know that-"
He was cut off by a snorting taunt by an assassin that jumped through a new secret passageway. He leapt up high, his mace held in both hands as he swung down at the Emperor, only to be pinned to the wall by Haku's lockpicks. The Emperor stared at the girlish boy, stared at the would-be assassin, and scratched his cheek in confusion.
"That's rather odd, I was sure I'd die this day," the old man commented. Haku grinned.
"Sorry to disappoint," he chuckled. A moment later, the Blades rushed in.
"Emperor, are you safe?"
"Yes, quite alright, thanks to these children," the old man chuckled.
"What now?" Sakura asked.
"Children, you must go to Jauffre," the Emperor instructed.
"So, we've got a mission?" Naruto grinned.
"Yes, your first quest as subjects of the Emperor," Uriel replied with a grandfatherly smile.
"I've got an idea, though," Haku said. "Why don't we have you switch clothes with one of the assassins? That way they'll think you're dead?"
"That'd be a great idea if his face wasn't on every coin in the realm," Glenroy grumbled.
"So take the corpse's head?" Haku suggested. Naruto and Sakura looked at him with a gasp of horror. "Please, I used to travel with Zabuza, I've seen worse."
"Glenroy, do it," the Captain instructed. "But what about the Amulet of Kings?"
Naruto raised his hand and hopped up and down. "OO! OO! Pick me!"
"Yes, Naruto?"
"I'll have one of my clones turn into a copy and it'll go with them, and then it can sneak out and tell us where their base is!" he suggested in his usual overly excited style.
"You can do that?"
"Yeah!" and Naruto's closest clone clattered to the ground as a perfect copy of the Amulet.
"Where the hell did you guys come from, any way?" Glenroy asked.
"Konoha, the Hidden Leaf Village," Naruto and Sakura replied.
"The Bloody Mist Village," Haku said.
"Never heard of them," the Blade replied before pointing at Haku. "And you're starting to creep me out even more, kid."
It took some time, but they finally managed to escape back out the sewers. Once they were outside, Baurus handed them a map. "Here's where we are, and there's Weynon Priory," he told them. "Be safe, but be quick."
"We will!" Naruto said as he, Sakura, Haku and all his clones and goblin prisoners started running across the water. Naruto lost control about half way across and fell in with a splash, getting his companions soaking wet. He made some comment the Blades couldn't make out which earned him a pink haired punch to the head, but soon, the strange trio had made it across the river towards the ruins on the other side.
"What strange children," The Emperor commented, summing up exactly what the others were thinking. "Oh, I forgot to tell them to close shut the jaws of Oblivion. Oh well, they'll figure it out, I'm sure."
With that, they picked up their prisoners, headed northward towards the safety of Cloud Ruler Temple. Unfortunately, the Emperor's vision was right, he did die that day, but peacefully in his sleep. When the others awoke, they sighed before hoisting his body up and taking him to Bruma.
"It was the way he would have wanted to go," Captain Renault said with a sad sigh. "Peaceful and without a violent end."
"No, it's not," Glenroy corrected with a shake of his head. The Captain looked at him confused. The Blade just shrugged. "He always wanted to die under twin redheaded nurses named Mary and Clio. He made sure I knew that, although that was after a few bottles of Cyrodiilic Brandy on his part."
"Who are Mary and Clio?" Baurus asked.
Glenroy shrugged. "Not a clue."
The Captain rolled her eyes and grunted. "Come along, let's get the Emperor to his final rest."
Next Time: A Forbidden Technique
