Team Work Doesn't Always Work
Disclaimer: I don't own Oblivion: The elder scrolls IV, I own Rolf, Illus, Ra'jarr and some of the characters who are not seen in the game.
Illus had followed the guards, as well a his friends to the outskirts of the imperial prison and was now contemplating how to get in. A frontal approach was out of the question because the guards would see him for sure, what good would it be to him or his friends if he was caught and thrown into jail as well? The funny thing was that while he had heard of people trying to break out of jail, he had never heard of anyone trying to break into one.
"Those two better be grateful for this!"Illus thought.
He was risking life and limb for two people who were his friends, but had ignored his warnings and got themselves into this mess. If and when he freed them, he was so going to say 'I told you so' to them so many times and never let them forget about this. He got into the prison though a secret passage in the sewers,with only a few problems, mainly rats, goblins and the occasional undead attacking him, one of which had torn a part of his mages clock. A few guards standing watch, he had nearly been caught on a few occasions, he was thankful that he had learnt the cloak spell, that had got him out of those near fatal situations. When he got out of the sewers, he was in a prison, thankful he had allot of lockpicks and got out.
Inside one of the cells sat Rolf and in the one opposite to him was Ra'jarr. They both looked worse for wear, Rolf having one black eye, which made him look even more of a thug and looking and Ra'jarr having a burnt tail.
"You know what Ra'jarr?" Rolf said, lifting his head up.
"What is it Rolf?" Her voice sounded tired and angry.
"This is all your fault!" His tone accusing.
"How is this my fault Rolf?"
"It was your idea, that's how its your fault!"
"You didn't have to listen to me, you could have stayed with Illus!" Ra'jarr began thinking."Wait, Illus is still out there, he'll come and save us!"
"That's if he knows whats happened! Even if he did know, he may not care what happens to us!"
Ra'jarr and Rolf began thinking about they friend and how they treated him, they never listened to him and he was always having to clean up after them, so why would he want to save them, without them he would have more money and less trouble. The pair became quite, realising how they had treated Illus and how he had been right about this.
Illus entered the prison and began looking for his comrades cell by cell, with each cell he looked in, it became harder to search for them because the guards were becoming more aware of his presents there. 'Well at least things can't get worse!' Illus had been far from right, because while Illus had stopped for that short period of time, a guard had spotted him in the hallway.
"You there, what do you think you're doing there?!" The guard yelled after spotting him, his sword and shield at the ready.
'I just had to jinx it, didn't I!'Illus began running away from the guard, only to run into a dead end, he was going to have to talk his was out of this, 'I'm doomed, aren't I?"
" Who're you and what you doin' here?" Illus looked at the guard, he was big and bulky but dumb as a rock with a crack in it. 'Maybe this isn't as bad as it seems.' Iluus thought to himself.
"Well you see sir a...um...a thief stole my um...my horse and I was looking for a guard to report it to you see!" Illus made the lie up on the spot.
"Oka', where did this thief steal it at?" The guard looked at Illus eyebrows raised. '
Maybe he's not as dumb as I thought.' Illus thouhgt/
"Its was...outside the waterfront sir! I tried to find a guard but there wasn't one in sight, so I came here!"
'Please, please let him buy it, please let this work gods, I swear if you do I'll never do anything morally wrong again!' Illus pleaded in his mind.
"So the ho'se was stolen that the Fron' then. Any idea where 'e was headin'?" The guard had brought the story. 'Thank gods, thank you!'
"Um..I think he was heading to Anvil, I-I can't be sure." His nerves were getting the better of him, he was sweating and, if this guard was a bit smart, he would have been in big trouble by now, lucky he wasn't and took the bait.
"I'll go an' inform me higher up 'bout this sir, no need t' worry, the guard are on the case!" The guard ran off with in an abundance of energy and knightly chivalry."
Well that was...interesting, to say the least." Illus paused for a moment,thinking about how much trouble the guard would be in for this, then moved on down the prison.
It was getting darker in the outside world ,from what Ra'jarr and Rolf could see outside their tiny windows, and there still had been no sign that Illus was going to save them."So...what do we do now Ra'jarr?" Asked the Nord, sounding extremely bored.
The khujit woman looked up from the floor."We do the only thing we can do...we wait." The Nord stared at her, his eyes widen."
We wait! Is that you can think of?!"Rolf yelled at he top of his lungs."Do you have a better idea that you would care to tell me Rolf?" There a long silence."I thought not."
Illos ran down the long hallway of the prison, as he ran he could hear faint noises echoing down the hall, as he got closer to them, they became clearer, until he knew that the noises were voices and they belonged to his friends. He sped up his pace, reaching their cells a few moments later.
"Rolf...Ra'jarr...are you okay?" He was having to catch his breath, he was never good at running and got breathless easily."Well, we're bored, but fine apart from that Illus."Ra'jarr said, sounding relieved.
"Hi Illus, buddy! You came back for us, I knew you would! By the way, do you got anything to eat? this place doesn't have any decent food." Illus would have shot his 'friend' in the face with a fireball but didn't due to lack of magic power.
"Rolf, shut up." Ra'jarrs glared at the Nord, eyes glowing with anger.
"Okay, okay shutting up!" This was one of the times Illus was glad for Ra'jarr being so scary, when Rolf had settled down, he could hear footsteps coming their way.
"Guys, I think someones heading this way!"Illus looked for a place to hid, he couldn't clock himself with a spell because he had used all his power, he looked around his surroundings and to his surprise, and luck, there was a barrel to his left that was just big for him to fit into."
Hey Karl, you hear somthin'?" There were two guards were coming from what they could hear.
"Yeah, I think it came from over here!" Illus turned to the barrel and jumped into, not forgetting to put the lid back on of course. The guards were now by his friends cell, one was a huge man that looked like a cave man in armor the other was short and very...feminine to say the least, yet you could tell he was really a man by his lack of chest and deep voice."Nothing here apart for some prisoners, you were hearing things John.
" The two left, but could still be heard talking,"you were to Karl!"
"Okay Illus, its clear" Illus jumped out of the barrel, covered in what could only be described as trash.
"No one say anything!" He glared at the two, his eyes saying 'laugh and its a fireball to the head'. Illus took out some lock-picks and proceed to help his friend, after about an hour and forty lock-picks they were finally free.
"Okay, now which way do we go to get get outta here?" Illus looked around for a while, trying to remember where he had come from."That way." He said pointing to his in front of him.
Illus lead his two friends to the hidden passage he had used, barley dodging the guards that were standing watch, but they made to the cell with the hidden passage. After a few they had reach the outside world. The sun shone brightly as they left the sewers, they had to cover their eyes from the bright light."That is the last time I travel in a sewer! That was something I didn't need!" Ra'jarr just sighed with relief, she was glad to out of the prison. Illus turned around to his friends a small grin on his face."You know...I hate to say but-" Rolf stopped him."Don't say it! I'm warning you!"All Illus did was grin even wider. "I told you sooo...you should have listened to me!" All Rolf and Ra'jarr could sigh and listen to their friends ranting."You're never going to live this down are you?" He nodded his head. The three contiued on, heading into the imperisl city, while they had no food and no money, they had each other and that is what matters.
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AN: I give credit to Sideshow Bob Roberts for this story, thank you for beating Bob!
