Chapter 2

G-Baby8991: Heys... We got bored and wrote another chapter.
iStoleUrPant: No I didn't get bored, you got bored. I was perfectly content until you came and disrupted my zen by saying we were writing another chapter right then.
G-Baby8991: Why do you always blame me for everything when you're cranky?!
iStoleUrPantz: Cuz you make it so easy. Now get on with the story so I can go back to zenness. Is zenness a word? Huh...

The boat trip to Kirkwall was less than pleasant. There were vermin, illness and not to mention Bethany's complaining the entire way there. After 2 days of this Julianna decided to strictly stay where Lycaenion was staying, which happened to be away from there little rag tag family/group. The two sisters sat with one another throughout the remainder of the trip.
Julianna dozed off and soon she awoke to Lycaenion shaking her awake. They were in Kirkwall.
Kirkwall was very different than what they were used to. It was lacking green and life. The only places you saw plants were in Hightown. The siblings ended up having to work for a year for a smuggler named Athenril. Lycaenion could care less what kind of work they did but Julianna tended to refrain from illegal activity which was hard to do in Low Town. As the twins were were working their usual cases around Kirkwall they met a dwarf named Varric who turned out to be very helpful. They were staying with a very despicable and cowardly uncle of theirs named Gamlen. They ended up getting quite a few companions who went on adventures, as some may call it.

First there was Varric of course. The funny and sarcastic rogue dwarf who was also a writer on the sidelines. He told stories of the twins that were based on truth but he exaggerated quite a lot. He cracked jokes at every moment to crack tension. He surprised them all by becoming the second person ever to make a Lycaenion grin appear. He also knew she was not a hard or cold. He caught her and Isabella once slipping coins into the hands of starving and homeless children.
Which brings us to the second companion they obtained. Isabella. A former pirate with an amazing sense of humor. This woman seemed to always have one thing on her mind. Sex. It was ridiculous how many dirty jokes she made. Lycaenion didn't mind and Julianna laughed her ass off every single time. She ended up being one of Lycaenion's best friends along with her sister and Varric...occasionally.

Now here is where the story gets interesting. It all began when the sisters got a letter. The letter was from a contact of Varric's named Anso. He was also a dwarf. He had a job for them. The sisters went to pick up two of their companions for this job. Lycaenion didn't want Aveline going so they were left with Isabela and Varric going with met at night in Low Town, or as Varric calls it: "The spiked nail district" or something resembling that statement. The girls met with Anso. Anso was a very nervous dwarf but eventually they got out of him that some of his cargo had been stolen. It also turned out to be lyrium and in the Alienage. They immediately set off.

When they got to that particular house they threw caution to the wind and burst through and dealt with the thieves quickly.

"Didn't he say to find a chest?" Julianna asked.

"Yep. I believe so," Isabela answered hardly answered anything anymore. She really didn't like the city. She preferred being in the woods. There was a reason Varric nicknamed her Wolf. Julianna was nicknamed Fox or Sly Fox for her ability to adapt and trick people into believing things.

Lycaenion had already found the box while they were talking. She stormed back into the room with a very pissed off look in her eyes.
"Who sent us here?" She growled out, looking very much like what she was named and nicknamed after.

"What do you mean?" Julianna asked shooting a confused look at her sister.

"Its damned thing is empty." Lycaenion belted out.

"We've been set up? This whole thing is a diversion?" Jules asked.

"Guess we're about to find out." Lycaenion said leading the group outside of the house where they were greeted by a pack of slavers.

They circled them.

"You're not the elf." A woman who appeared in charge said looking confused.

"The orders were to kill whoever enters the house," a soldier hissed at her. The woman nodded and the slavers descended upon them. A small battle broke out in the Alienage. It was the dead of night. Nobody would help.

They finished the slavers easily. Lycaenion had taken a knife to the stomach but it hadn't hit anything important and she was walking like it was nothing.

"That girl has a pain threshold beyond belief. How does she do it, Fox?" Varric exclaimed to Julianna.

"She's like that too, you just don't see her getting hurt as often because shes careful unlike me," Lycaenion responded instead of Julianna.

"Wow, She-Wolf. I think that's the longest sentence I have ever heard come out of your mouth." Varric teased. Though they couldn't see it, Lycaenion grinned as they walked to the steps even though anger burned behind her eyes still from being heard footsteps behind them. The group turned to the stairs, almost simultaneously, to see another slaver.

"Lieutenant, send the rest." The slaver yelled.

"Maker, where are they hiding them all!?" Julianna exclaimed. The lieutenant stumbled into their view choking on his own blood and he fell to the ground dead. An elf with very odd markings stepped out of the shadows and a heated somewhat conversation occurred which none of the group could follow until...

"You coming with me slave," the slaver yelled at the elf.

"I am no one's slave," the elf ground out before... could it be... his markings started to glow and he seemed to stick his hand into the mans chest and crush his heart.

"Alrighty then...that ends for an exciting night" Julianna said looking around the group.

"Who are you exactly?" Lycaenion asked. Lycaenion could tell he had something to do with them getting tricked.

"I apologize. When I asked Anso to create a distraction I didn't expect them to be so numerous," when Fenris spoke the word them he gestured towards the slave bodies.

"Well that clears some things up," Julianna said tucking her bow away. Lycaenion was now seriously pissed off and getting madder by the second. Julianna was behind Lycaenion and could feel the anger pouring off of her and Lycaenion shuddering with the effort of trying to keep her anger in.

"Oh, it's no big deal. This happens to us a lot actually...," Isabella trailed off. Isabela found unusually tall elf to be quite handsome. But she knew not to use her charm just yet because she didn't know all that much about him. Lycaenion would never admit it to the others, well maybe her sister, but she found the elf to be highly attractive.

"Impressive," the elf observed. "Let me introduce myself properly. My name is Fenris. These men were imperial bounty hunters seeking to retrieve a magister's lost property, namely myself. They were trying to lure me out into the open. Crude as their methods were, I could not face them alone. Thankfully Anso chose wisely."

"Well, I'm glad we helped you then. We would leave nobody in the hands of slavers. Right sister?" Julianna nudged Lycaenion in the spot where she had been stabbed. Lycaenion just shot her glare and reluctantly nodded in answer to the question.

"I must admit that I have met few people in my travels who feel that way," Fenris was surprised. He truly hadn't met that many people. They watched as he knelt down next to the body and started to rummage around saying a few things here and there. He asked them politely if they could assist him with confronting his old master. Everybody said yes except Lycaenion who just let her sister pull her along. He had told them to meet him at a mansion in High Town at midnight.

Lycaenion and Julianna made it there first. Fenris, Varric, and Isabela arrived about 30 minutes after. When they arrived they found what looked like a sleeping Lycaenion and a Julianna who was drawing with a stick on the ground with the blood and gore that was on Lycaenion's clothing and body. Julianna was hardly touched by the blood in the battle but Lycaenion was in the middle so of course she was covered in it. And because it was so hot and humid out it hadn't dried yet.

"Andraste's tits! Is Wolfy asleep?! I honestly didn't think sleep the girl slept, let alone close her eyes!" Varric exclaimed, honestly surprised. But once he thought about it he knew shouldn't have been surprised she was asleep. She had had circles under her eyes all week that were starting to look like bruises. To look like she had earlier today she must've not slept in a week and a half.

"Well, she's not anymore," Lycaenion retorted but for once there was no bite in her words. She sat up and looked at the group. She stood up and held out a hand to her sister to help her up. When Lycaenion pulled Julianna up she had to grit her teeth because of the pain in her side. Jules shot a look of concern at her sister before turning to the group.

"Everybody ready?" Julianna asked the group. Varric responded with a hilarious way of saying yes that made Lycaenion give a pained smile. Isabela made a dirty joke to say yes. Fenris just nodded.

"Hey sis. You wanted me?" Bethany jogged up to Julianna. Lycaenion stared at her in surprise.

"Yes. You will be joining the group tonight. Kany will be going home to patch up that wound and rest," Julianna informed not only Bethany but the rest of the group. Bethany looked like she was about to argue.

"Don't you dare argue with me girl. Kany would never admit it, but she is not in shape to battle. She hasn't slept in over two and a half weeks, hasn't eaten in one, and she has wounds out the ass, all just to make sure you, mother, and Gamlen get fed. The least you can do is switch places with her for one night," Julianna's voice slowly started rising. Varric and Isabela hadn't known it was that bad. They shot worried looks at each other.

"Fine," Bethany looked like she couldn't care less what happened to Lycaenion.

"Everything is fine you guys, no need to worry." Julianna said walking towards the group.

"Kan, you're going to go home and rest, patch that shit up while you're at it," said Julianna.

"Like hell I'm going to miss this fight, Jules you can't do this to me" Lycaenion said.

"The hell I can, look I'm the eldest by 3 minutes so get your ass home." Juliana said giving her sister a warning look.

"Fine," Lycaenion said "but only because this," she said gesturing to her wound, "is going to make me pass out." Julianna looked pleased with her sister as she trudged home.

"Alright everyone, no time for anymore waiting. Lets go in." Julianna said and the group followed her. The mansion looked ran-sacked. Before anyone could finish a thought or even start a sentence, shades began to crowd around the group. The team took them down easily, going through every door and hallway looking for Danarius.

"Come out Danarius! Your pets cannot stop us!" Fenris belted out, taking the lead of the group and heading up the stairs to the main room. As soon as they opened the door they regretted it. An arcane horror appeared along with waves of shades and other various demons. Danarius was long gone.

"There might be some valuable items in the chests. Take what you will. I...I need some air,"with that Fenris stormed out of the mansion.

"Well that went well i thought." Julianna said sarcastically. Varric let out a scoff and Isabela laughed a bit.

"You think we should check on him?" Bethany asked.

"I got this." Julianna sighed and jogged to catch up with the elf. Fenris was leaning up against a wall outside of the mansion.

"I fought so hard to get away from mages and yet I find myself in the company yet again." Fenris practically snarled. Julianna didn't need to look behind her to know that the others had followed behind them.

"I'm right here," Bethany snorted out.

"You harbour a viper in your midst," Fenris told Jules.

"She's my sister. She wouldn't hurt a fly," Julianna scoffed.

"She may be good now but even the best of consciences can fall prey to temptation," Fenris reasoned. Julianna laughed at the thought of her sister turning bad. Fenris eyed her warily yet handed her a small pouch of gold.

"Here is all the gold I have as Anso promised. And you may have my assistance if you need it."

"But where will you stay?" asked Julianna, confused.

"Well, this is mansion isn't occupied. I guess I'm staying here," Fenris shrugged.

"You could stay with me if you like," Isabela purred.

"Back off Bela," Julianna snapped at Isabela. Lycaenion had told her what she thought about the elf. Lycaenion had told her that she thought he was cute yet she didn't trust him.

"Oh I see, me-ow!" Isabela said and Juliana just shook her head at the captain.

"Well if that's all you need from us we'll be on our way" Juliana said to the elf and began to walk back to their small, decrepit house.

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