Chapter 2- Ulfric

Arwen stood at the front door glaring dangerously at the high king who stared back eye to eye smirking as if not feeling threatened by the red guards glare while a few members of the Stormcloak army stood behind him. Balgruuf whispers to his to be ready in case him and the Dragonborn get caught off guard be to protect Runa with their lives before walking outside and closing the door giving Ulfric the same glare Arwen was giving not trusting the prideful nord one bit. "What are you doing here Ulfric", Balgruuf demanded as his hands tighten to the point where it was almost completely white.

Ulfric: "Balgruuf, I did not expect to see you here at this time".

Balgruuf: "Really because I could say the same thing about you".

The high king ignored the Jarls comment as his sights now set on the red guard who does not look really happy to see him even after a few years. "I'm not here for you Jarl Balgruuf I'm here for the Dragonborn", Ulfric replied not taking his eyes off Arwen as he continues to speak, " and it be of great importance if you did come with me Dragonborn for their is an evil going on, something more powerful then you think and we need your power for only you can help us".

Arwen huffs and turns around ready to open the door replying back, "Find someone else to stop this so called powerful evil Ulfric, I did what had to be done, I will never join you or the imperial army".

Before she opens the door the high king quickly replies saying, " But this evil is far greater than you think, For if these attacks keep going it would put even Alduin to shame". And from there is where the female warrior stops wondering if he's telling the truth or not. "What kind of thing could be more dangerous then The World Eater himself", Arwen questions Ulfric giving him her full attention on what is about to come next.

Ulfric: "Thank you Dragonborn now to get to business. There were strange attacks going on as of late while you remained hidden from the world these past few months, very strange way as if hunting for sport, but these kills were very clean".

Balgruuf: "What are you tryin' to say Ulfric if thou' don't mind to just get to the point already"?!

Ulfric: "Where I'm getting at is the victims were strangely killed by bite marks on different parts of the victims body like a pack of wolves would do to large game like sabre cats. Bodies drained to the point where they were pale as snow itself, barely any blood in them".

Now the Dragonborn was getting a bad feeling about what he speaks of whether he was telling the or not she is probably the only one in Skyrim who can solve and relate these kind of attacks, but also does not want to be involved with this for if word got out that the Dragonborn has returned more enemies will be made and will go after not only her but her daughter as well. "Were there any witnesses that can describe this animal or creature that is doing this", Arwen asks wanting to know more about this 'thing' before deciding whether or not stay and leave it to them or look more into these attacks.

Ulfric: " We only have one who survived an attack from a village a few miles north from my kingdom, young lass who lost her family to these monsters and is right now living in my home as we speak and still trying to recover from a fever she has gotten from the recent storm we had and from the sight of losing her home, the poor lass walked miles to my cities doors Talos knows how she was strong enough to fight that hard to come to me to find you".

The Dragonborn gave a deep sigh knowing what it was like to see such a horrifying sight of losing something or someone at that age even when at adulthood. She turns her attention to her old nord friend who gives her a nod telling that this is her call to make and that he will respect her choice. "I will respect your decisions old friend but make sure it's the right one to make", Balgruuf said reassuringly receiving a nod from her. She then turns her attention to the high king who was waiting for her answer.

Arwen: "I have givin some long and hard thoughts on what you told us Ulfric about these attacks".

Ulfric: "...".

Arwen: "*sigh* I will come with you to your city and examine the bodies and if not there then I'll search in the village but if I don't anything I can use to track them to get a certain lead on, and by doing this I have one condition, I'm done and that this will be the last time I help anyone with anything like this again".

Ulfric gave a sigh of relief for the slayer of Alduin agreeing to help investigate the recent attack in the village, so now with that being said the Dragonborn and jarl of Whiterun went back inside to get ready for the journey to Windhelm. "Mama who was at the door", Runa asks following her mother upstairs where her armor was suited to one of the mannequins. It was heavy dragon bone armor from head to toe along with a dragon bone shield, scratches and dents were visible on some places from battles with draugrs in old ruins. "Just a man who needs my help with something is all", Arwen answers as she removes the armor from the wooden figure piece by piece, putting them on one of the guest beds and walks to the long glass box to take out Vollendrung which still radiates with strong magic and heads towards the weapons closet where her other things are kept and may now need for the long journey to the Kingdom of Kings. She grabs a large traditional like dagger, two ebony swords, a leather bag which she had someone enchant to put almost anything in it until she could not handle a certain amount of weight, a sack full of steel arrows and another sack of ebony arrows.

Runa: "But who mama"?

Arwen: "Like I said, it's just a man who is asking for help is all".

As the red guard starts putting her armor on she heard footsteps and saw that it was only one of the Whiterun guards saying, "He wishes me to tell you he is waiting outside", earning a nod from the dragon slayer as she finishes getting the body size chain mail on and then puts the rest of the armor on.

Runa: "Are you going to be back home soon mama"?

Arwen: "I don't know honey, depending on what the situation is and how long it's going to take me from there and coming back might take me a few days".

The young nord groans a little, upset that she's going to not see her mother for a while until she finds out what the problem is. Arwen saw the look on her daughters face and once fully armored accept for the helmet, she starts with her weapons next. She puts her ebony bow, steel and ebony arrows in her bag, she then equips Vollendrung to her back, places the two ebony swords on her left side of her waist, and then jams her large dagger in its sheathe her boot to where the handle was the thing that was out. She saw how sad Runa was feeling and kneels in front of her placing both hands gently on her small shoulders, "Runa it's gonna be okay", the mother spoke speaking softly trying to get her daughter to feel better, "I would never forget you or leave you like this ever, unless there was someone around that I can trust and Balgruufs men are the type of people I can trust the most so don't worry once I come back, it will be the last time I leave you again and spend as much time in the forest and slide in that giant pile of snow again".

Runa quickly embraces around her mothers neck catching her off guard a little but returns the embrace back as she started hearing her daughter crying a little bit burying her face in her mothers neck remembering all those times she spent in the orphanage and how alone and unloved she felt there before her mother brought herself to be part of Runa's new life. "Please comeback soon mommy", her child asked not wanting to let go making the Dragonborn feel a small amount of guilt building up inside her from the idea of leaving her daughter for a few days not knowing what might happen next once she leaves. She hesitantly puts her daughter down kissing her on her forehead and walks down with her child behind to the front and stops. Arwen looks back at Runa and hugs her again saying goodbye to her child knowing she was going to be safe with both of Ulfrics and Balgruufs guards and heads outside looking at her one last time before closing it.

The Dragonborn looks turns her attention to the two and says, "Let's move out now to Windhelm."