The Dragon Vessel

I know that I used The Dragon Within as the title in the previous chapter. But when I published it, it it turns out someone has used the same title. So I changed it to The Dragon Vessel.

Chapter 2

It turns out that it was the Khajiit before. He was opening Inge's drawers.

"Hey-"

The Khajiit, as fast as lightning, turned and covered my mouth with his hand. Then he put a finger to his lips, gesturing me to keep quiet. I nodded.

He released his hand from my mouth. His other hand was still in his lips.

Suddenly, the windows of the room opened, and guards entered. I could also hear footsteps from below.

The Khajiit tensed. One of the guards approached us. "It's time to put an end to your crimes, Lynx." he said, looking at the Khajiit.

Then he looked at me. "And you must be his fellow thief. You two, come to jail."

I widened my eyes. "What! I'm not a thief! In fact, I found this thief sneaking up on Inge's room." I said, flailing my hands.

"So you already do crimes on the first day you enter the college, hm?" said the woman I was talking about.

What? Why did she say that? I didn't do anything to her, why would she say I was a thief to the guards?

"Now come with me, you two."

"But I-"

"I don't care. Come with me." he said, drawing his sword. The blade flashed when the light emitted from a candle lighted it. Ooh, it made me shiver in fear. I hate pointy things, especially when it was pointed at me.

The Khajiit, quick as a lightning, reached to his pocket and threw salt to the guard's eyes. Then he ran to the window. The other guards started to chase him, but time seemed to slow.

"Run. Follow the cat. Staying will do you no good."

I thought it was my instinct saying things. So I just obeyed and followed the Khajiit. The remaining guards tried to slash me with their swords, but I succeeded in dodging them all. I never knew that I had such quick reflexes.

I jumped out of the window, and fell to the ground. But I managed to roll myself to reduce the impact. The Khajiit was running ahead. I could reach him.

Yes, I could reach him. I was on his side a moments later. No words was exchanged between us as we ran. The Khajiit had a look of anger and fury in his face.

We exited through the massive gate of Solitude. Strange, there were no guards guarding it.

And then we were surrounded by the guards outside, just as we got out. That explains why the guards didn't guard the gate. They knew we were going here, and had set a trap for us.

Looking back, the guards from before ran towards us. We're surrounded. I looked at the Khajiit, he had a look of anger and desperation.

I got an idea.

"Cover your ears," I whispered to the Khajiit's ears. He raised an eyebrow, but did what he was told.

I flicked my hand and a green aura formed in it. Then I cast it on myself. I took a deep breath, and then screamed my lungs into a high pitched voice.

The result was the guards recoiling for a moment. Illusion magic can be useful if you know how to use it. I jerked my head to signal the Khajiit to go. We ran past the guards that were still covering their ears. I didn't realize that voice manipulating spell would be useful at times like this.

We just ran and ran, until the Khajiit deemed it was safe.

"Thank you for the help back there. You have saved my life." The Khajiit said. Hm, he didn't say Khajiit or this one to refer himself.

I just nodded. "Why did you follow me? You know that I am a thief. A Master Thief, at that."

I widened my eyes. "M-master thief?!" The Khajiit nodded.

"Uh, well, I knew that they're going to capture me if I stayed there."

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I left the college. I left my life as a bard. I won't be marked as a bard.

"I'm not... I'm not a bard anymore..." then I looked at the Khajiit with anger.

"And it's all because of you!" I shouted, pointing a finger at the cat. I... I felt very empty. My dream is taken away.

The cat widened his eyes and then hung down his head.

"If you hadn't been sneaking there, my dreams would come true, and I would live a happy life! You took it all away." I said. Tears were coming out of my eyes.

Then the Khajiit exploded in anger too. "You think you're the only one who lost everything? No! I also lost everything! The Guild... they said they're going to send backup. But no, they wouldn't help a fellow thief because the Gray Fox didn't want me to take over his position! They even sent someone to tell the guards about my next location."

"They betrayed me. What should I do? I don't know anything aside from being a thief." he said, hugging his knees.

It was Inge. She's the one who told the guards about this cat. They way she woke up, they way she felt sure of everything... she knew he was going to do his job there.

And she told the guards that I, a new member of the Bard's College, was also a thief that tried to steal something from her. Ugh, that bitch.

I turned to look at the cat that was still hugging his knees. He looked so desperate. It wasn't his fault, I told myself.

"I don't know. You'll find it out soon enough. Same goes to me." I said as I approached him.

He looked up from his sitting position. And then he sighed. "For the meantime, I think it's better if we stick together." he said.

"What's your name again?" I asked him.

"Ak'ari. What's yours?"

"Neema." I told him my name as I helped him stand up.

We were going to walk as two purposeless beast-like creatures when there was shouting nearby. We turned to the source of the shout.

Several men in blue cuirasses came into our view, wielding two handed weapons. They looked like they were running from something.

We were going to turn around for a run when we saw men in red armors march from the opposite of the blue.

Shit. Looks like we found ourselves in the middle of a battle.

Confused, we just stood there, unmoving. There was another group of red armors behind the blue, so it appears the blue was surrounded. And unfortunately, we were too.

The red armors formed a circle and made it smaller and smaller, trapping us inside.

"Hey! What's going on? We're no part of this!" I shouted.

"Yes! That's right!" Ak'ari shouted beside me.

"Capture them all!" the man who appears to be the commander ordered.

"Hey! But-" and that was the last thing I said before a warhammer hit my head.

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