Hey its me Keiser! I'm starting off with a bit of an author's note for a couple of reasons. First of all is that this chapter is actually being typed up from my phone so if I suddenly have a bunch of grammar and spelling errors let me know in a message but please don't let it ruin the story for you because if I get any complaints I will go back to posting from my computer. Finally is just that I needed to give a bit of setting for the opening setting of the real chapter 1. As I open up link will have been captured by the imperial legion when he decided to sleep at a makeshift campfire he made for himself for the night. The Imperial soldiers were tasked to confiscate only stolen items, such as the thief's gear, and weapons of the stormcloack's or in other words weapons used during the ambush. This is why link will manage to keep everything he owns, not just because he looks like a five year old to them. By the way link is actually going to be in the body of a 9 year old Hylian and will be forced to alter his control on time later on in the story which will allow him to grow at will with the song of time. Furthermore as a 9 year old and not a 13 year old he is stuck with his Deku shield until he upgrades his time magic. Now when I open up link will still be asleep but his hands are bound like the rest. Link will be curled up in the lap of the dovahkiin who is awake and never passed out. The dovahkiin is conversing with Ralof and the thief about the recent events as well as their current situation.
The world traveler Yes yes it is but to answer your question, I havent decided yet. Link is 758 years old in the body of a 9 year old while the dovahkiin and Lydia will both be in their 20s, even serana who is also between 800 to 1000 years old is in the body of a 26 yer old woman. so Im considering an OC because I have officially decided that Link will be the ONLY LOZ character in this story. If you know a good one let me know but Im also doing mods then again there arent many good Children adventurer mods other than the Dovahkiin itself. I hope I answered your question though.
Open scene
"so where do you think it'll be then" the thief said with a grim undertone to his voice.
Ralof cut in at that. "you finally accepted you're death like a man then?"
Before the thief could begin an argument the other captive, an Imperial Nordic half breed of a woman named Sarah who was by no means hard on the eyes cut in. "you didn't answer his question Ralof."
With the fight successfully adverted Ralof then decided that he might as well oblige "my guess would be that we're headed for Helgen. You know I used to be sweet on a girl from Helgen, made the best mead, with juniper berries mixed in! Wonder what she's up to now. Oh well, what's up with the lad? He up yet?"
Sarah looked down at the strange child in her lap, the group had argued for quite a long time as to just who the kid was ultimately leaving everyone, even those who were not part of the argument, in a strange anxiousness, waiting for the boy to wake so they could finally end the argument. Ralof thought he was a wood elf and refused to believe the thief that he was a high elf despite him looking like one simply on his belief that the Thalmor would never execute one of their own like this. Sarah however had a theory that was making the group think she might have come from Sheogorath's domain. Sarah thought he was someone new to Tamriel entirely. While neither of the others could refute her arguments the whole idea just wasn't something they could even imagine. Seeing that the boy was still asleep she answered "no he's out like a drauger, why?"
"we're almost there, you should wake him up now, it wouldn't be nice to wake him at the end." Ralof said.
"very well" said Sarah and the thief was heard in the back mumbling about how Ralof didn't know the half of things as she shook the boy's shoulder "hey, kid, get up, you need to get up!"
"adam el Navi" grumbled the boy as he tried to swat away the offending hands. Eventually the boy let out a long yawn and sat up in Sarah's lap, rubbing his eyes still obviously half asleep. After a few seconds of rubbing his eyelids he woke up for real and noticed that his hands were bound.
"Usami eter arabihs aw ihsataw ezan en! Eradahatana!"
"whoa lad slow down. You speaking some kind of elvish there or something? Don't you know common tongue?" Ralof asked the boy. Link was able to understand Ralof's 'common tongue' simply because he now had control over wisdom as well link guessed that he would have to teach the language to himself. For a few moments everyone stared at the boy in Sarah's lap while he mumbled a few things to himself until the boy looked up and said
"I learn speck lessen you."
"Be quiet back there!"
At this point it was the thief's turn to address the boy. "so you don't know common then, what race are you by the way? We were about to start betting on it but Ralof decided you ought to wake up before we get there."
"I Hylian. Get where?"
This confused the group in the cart. What was a Hylian? Before they could ask Sarah decided that she ought to break the bad news to the kid soon so he wouldn't do anything off the wall.
"we are prisoners and with the way the civil war has been going recently many of us are off to our ends."
What the boys next actions were surprised everyone. His face became distant and pensive as his eyes looked out a great unseen distance .
"war, death, usami etes amayan o iakes onok oyod, aw onom anos."
Ralof looked at the boy when the thief decided it was time for a change of subject.
"Yeah but it's all your stormcloak's fault, if it weren't for you guys I would've stolen that horse and been half way to Hammerfell. That and I could've kept my clothes. Ain't that right Sarah."
Sarah however had entirely different reasons for why she was in rags, reasons that no one in this cart would hear out of her mouth. So rather than tell them the real reason she had shown up at the border looking the way she did she lied.
"I was a worker at the large manor near the border outside of Bruma but heard tale of better opportunity out in Skyrim so I left the first chance I got. I owed a great deal to the master of the land so I sold everything I owned to get rid of my debt. After that I set off with nothing but what you see other than a dagger to keep me safe."
The trio (as link had taken to marveling at the sights of the surrounding land and Ulfric had also lost interest in the conversation) while processing Sarah's made up story a new question came to mind.
"wait a minute where did the kid come from?" said the thief.
"right""right"
After half a minute of silence Ralof asked the driver.
"hey, where did you guys find the lad?"
After an exasperated sigh the imperial soldier looked over his shoulder and asked "if I tell you will you guys please shut up until we get there?"
"sure" was the unanimous reply.
"we found him curled up next to a campfire not even 50 paces away from the site of the ambush. The Thalmor on site said to take him but I just don't know you see, I mean he's just a kid. But there really nothing I can do now, all he can do now is pray the officer can't handle executing children."
After that everyone was silent the rest of the way until they made it to the gates of Helgen.
"Looks like we're here then, Helgen" said Ralof.
As the carts pulled to a stop two imperial soldiers were calling names of those present. At the name of the thief he fled and when it came time for Sarah she was told to go to the block despite not being on the list it was taking longer for the officer to decide on whether or not to send link until a Thalmor official stepped in and sent the boy personally. So there they were when the officer suddenly calls Sarah, but before she could even make a move link steps up instead. Confounded the officer agrees to the situation and link sets his neck upon the stone. A strange noise echos out through the mountains and 768 years of experience kick in alerting him to exactly the creature that is just beyond the mountain. All of the sudden a dragon black as the night with no moon comes barreling around the mountain letting out a bone chilling roar.
"what in oblivion is that!""sentries what do you see?""dragon!"
Just as the headsman axe reached it's peak the dragon landed on the top of the near by tower creating a large Shockwave knocking over the large man with the axe just barely saving the small boy in green. For a moment everything was silent and no one dared to move until suddenly the dragon let out thunderous boom like roar which darkened the sky and then all hell broke loose. Imperial soldiers scrambled to regroup and the stormcloaks made a break for the nearby guard tower. Ralof stayed behind just long enough to help the two friends he made in the cart get to the tower before the rocks falling from the sky killed them all. Now in the tower the stormcloaks were regrouping.
"jarl Ulfric! Could the legends be true! Is that really a dragon."
"legends don't burn down villages." Ulfric said calmly with a power in his voice.
"come on, we need to move up." Called Ralof.
At that link started running up the stairs followed by Sarah and then Ralof a few paces back. Just before the three got to a man clearing out some rocks link suddenly stopped blocking the way for everyone else as they piled up behind him. Just as Ralof was about to say something the dragon burst through the wall and link shouted out at the man clearing the rocks.
"MOVE!"
Before he could do anything though the dragon opened its mouth and shot out a jet of flames that instantly killed the man. Happy with its kill the dragon once again took to the skies leaving behind the company of three to their own devices.
"Go on ahead, you two should be able to jump to the next building over. We have things we need to do so we'll regroup later on so go." Said Ralof.
Link looked to Sarah and nodded after the silent agreement was made link ran a few steps and leapt. As he neared the house he reached out grabbing the support beam for the roof and swung himself into the room rolling twice, on the second roll rolling off the edge of what existed of the second floor finally landing in the door way of the first floor. Sarah caught herself admiring the boys skill. Sarah decided to just follow the boys lead and copied him move for move. As the two of them exited the house they came face to face with their bookkeeper.
"Haming, you need to get over here. Now! Torolf! Gods... Everyone get back!"
"usamihs ironi oow ukufiem og."
"Still alive, prisoner? Keep close to me if you want to stay that way. Gunnar, take care of the boy. I have to find General Tullius and join their defense."
After hearing that the two prisoners had no complaints as they traversed the wrecked city behind the imperial soldier.
"stick close to the wall!"
As the three pressed their bodies against the wall with the two adults on either side of the small boy a sharp claw suddenly flew through an arch over the top of the wall, around, back, and embedded itself in between the two adults just a few inches above the head of link. The three held their breath as the dragon shot down another soldier right in front of them. At this point link was getting angry at his inability to help these people. Links anger was not going unnoticed by Sarah, however she decided to keep it to herself. After escaping the dragon the two convicts followed Hadvar to the keep where Ralof showed back up and argued with Hadvar. Ralof and Hadvar went to different entrances of the keep and called for the two 'others' but this left them at a dilemma. Link who was used to the antics of soldiers and knew of the was of politics walked towards Hadvar. Sarah who had spent two hours in Skyrim before being ambushed by imperial soldiers and had proceeded to found a friend in Ralof walked to said stormcloak. The second the two started walking away they stopped and turned to each other.
"I'm sure we'll see each other soon enough" said Sarah
"iog"
"well then see you around." Was all Sarah could think of to say.
"Erakaw"
At that the two separated and Sarah entered a room with Ralof and another dead stormcloak. Ralof told Sarah to just change into the dead woman's gear and take her axe which she did reluctantly more so because of the axe and the armor didn't fit than that it belonged to a dead woman. After some searching the two determined that they were trapped until the barred gate behind them pulled up revealing Hadvar and link. Ralof instantly readied his weapon but link jumped in front of him with his hands in the air.
"no fight!"
"why so I can succumb to this imperial dog!" shouted Ralof.
Before link could retort Sarah jumped in "you know he has a point, there is a dragon out there, we ought to be working together."
Ralof turned to Sarah with a betrayed look on his face but eventually put away his sword.
"well what now then."
AND THAT'S IT FOR THIS CHAPTER HOPE YOU GUYS ARE LOVING IT. TELL ME IN THE REVIEWS IF YOU LIKED THIS CHAPTER MORE OR THE FIRST ONE AND WHY IF I DON'T GET ENOUGH I'M GONNA PUT THE SONY ON A HIATUS. OTHER THAN THAT IS A MESSAGE TO ALL YOU PC GAMERS I FIXED MY SKYRIM FILE SO IF YOU HAVE A MOD THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE STORY JUST SEND A LINK TO IT IN A COMMENT OR TELL ME WHAT IT IS. NEXT CHAPTER EVERYONE WILL MAKE THEIR WAY TO RIVERWOOD!