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Chapter 3 Beyond The Spiders Lair
Jango and Jacelyn made their way over to a doorway, that was covered with thick spiderwebs. A few strong slashes from Jacelyn's Scimitars cut the web down, entering a sizable chamber they heard the frantic voice calling out again, "Hurry up and kill that thing, for Arkay's sake don't leave me here!" Jango immediately charged the massive frostbite spider dealing heavy slashing blows from the front while Jacelyn flanked the huge spider and went to work slashing and stabbing it from behind.
Their coordinated efforts made quick work of the huge wounded arachnid. The voice, coming from a Dunmer male who was strung up literally by webbing that held him in place, soon demanded that they cut him down. Jango saw the Golden Claw, that the thief had strapped into his belt, grinning he cut the Dark Elf down. Immediately the thief ran off down the corridor behind him shouting over shoulder, "You fools why should I share any of my discoveries with you?" No sooner had Jango and Jacelyn caught up to the thief, before he was cut down by a Drauger.
Jango pulled out his Dwarven Bow and notched an arrow to it, loosing the shaft at the Drauger with almost blurring speed. The Drauger fell over dead, as two more came shambling towards the two friends. Jango fired off another shaft while Jacelyn rushed the other Drauger and stabbed it with both scimitars. The Drauger now dead, they checked the body of the dunmer thief. Finding a journal in his possession they found his name was Arvel, and they took it along with the golden claw.
Making their way through the ancient darkened crypt, they killed several more drauger. Finally coming to a place known as the hall of stories. There was a large and unusual door with 3 rings each divided into three sections with a different animal on each. Jango looked at the claw and noticed three animals on it, a bear a butterfly and an owl. As he said each animal aloud Jacelyn activated each ring twice, so the animals displayed on the door were the same as those on the claw. Jango inserted the claw into the lock and the door opened.
Once inside Beak Falls Sanctum they made their way to the back of the cavern and saw a stone sarcophagus. And along the back wall of the cavern, they noticed strange glowing words and heard an eerie chant echoing from ages long past. Jango and Jacelyn approached the wall and felt a strange presence and began to understand what they could not. Some ancient power awoke within them, yet they were not aware of it.
A sound from behind them and they spun around to face a Drauger Overlord, climbing out of the stone sarcophagus and said in a gutteral whisper something that sounded to them like "Hal Viik" and it leveled an ancient greatsword at them. Immediately Jango had his bow in hand and a fraction of a second later a golden arrow went sailing through the air embedding itself into the chest of the powerful Drauger. Jango then drew his own Greatsword while Jacelyn drew her scimitars. Jango charged straight toward the Drauger impaling it from the front while Jacelyn circled behind it and delivered a series of lightning fast slashes. Killing the Drauger they began climbing the stairs out of the cavern.
After leaving Bleak Falls Barrow, Jango and Jacelyn made their way back to Riverwood. Killing a few wolves and bandits on the trek back to Riverwood, they made it back shortly before Dusk. Jango headed over to the Riverwood Trader and inquired about the Claw, finding it had actually been stolen from Lucan and Camilla Valerius. Jacelyn went over to the Sleeping Giant Inn, rented a room for her and Jango's second night in Riverwood and caught the latest gossip. It seemed the Companions in Whiterun were taking on new members.
Jango joined his companion at the Inn and paid for a couple of ales which he and Jacelyn downed, while sitting in front of the Inn's fireplace listening to a young Male Nord who worked as the Inn's bard. Jango gave the bard a tip of 10 Septims then he and Jacelyn retired to their room for the night. Before allowing themselves to sleep, Jango and Jacelyn enjoyed their second passionate firey Kiss. It may have been an unusual relationship, Races rarely mixed with one another, but when they did it was always out of true love. Jango and Jacelyn just didn't realize this yet.
Early the next morning the two companions donned their armor again, and immediately began making plans to head to Whiterun. As Jango and Jacelyn walked down the road from Riverwood, they talked about what the Companions might be like. The pair also debated as to what they shoud do with the strange ancient stone tablet they'd found on the Drauger, In the Sanctum of Bleak Falls Barrow.
While on the road to Whiterun Jango and Jacelyn encountered a pair of assassins who immediately attacked them. Jango drew his Greatsword and made short work of the first assassin impaling the Bosmer man who foolishly charged right into the massive golden blade. The other assassin an Argonian woman met her end after a short duel with Jacelyn. The assassin's Elven Daggers couldn't reach as far as Jacelyn's Scimitars and the pretty Redgaurd quickly cut the would-be assassin to pieces.
After slaying the assassin's they checked the bodies and Jacelyn found a note on one of them reading As instructed, you are to eliminate Jango and Jacelyn by any means necessary. We have already received payment for the contract. Failure is not an option. Astrid." Jango looked at Jacelyn with a quizzical expression. "This one wonders, who ordered a hit on us, and why." Jacelyn looking equally puzzled by the situation they'd found themselves in, observed aloud, "I don't know who ordered the hit or why, but I do know that these two, (she indicated the dead assassins) are wearing the armor of the Dark Brotherhood. I can tell because only members of the Dark Brotherhood, wore black and crimson leather armor studded with black steel and decorated with a skull emblem on the chest."
Jango nodded his understanding, placing the assassins note into his satchel they drug the bodies off of the road and hid them below a small cliff in some tall overgrown weeds. That taken care of the friends resumed their journey to Whiterun. Eventually they came across a group of three people who were having a rough time fighting a giant at a farm, deciding to help they rushed in.
Jango drew his Dwarven Bow and immediately began firing off arrows into the head and back of the giant, Jacelyn sprinted up drawing her scimitars she stood side by side with a muscular young Nord man sporting shoulder length jet black hair. A Redheaded Nord woman wearing a set of ancient Nord Armor hung back of the group firing arrows from an Imperial Bow into the chest and face of the giant. Then a sandy haired wiry but athletic looking male Nord charged up to the giant and swung a heavy steel battle-axe straight into the giants stomach. Their combined efforts quickly overwhelmed the giant who soon lay dead at their feet.
The redhead Nord woman introduced herself to Jango and Jacelyn, as Aela the Huntress, "You two handle yourselves well, you may make good Companions." Jacelyn eagerly asked Aela "You're the companions? we've actually been looking for you." At this the dark haired male Nord, spoke up. "If you're hoping to join the companions head on up to Jorvasker in Whiterun and talk to Kodlak. Names Farkas by the way." The sandy haired Nord carrying the Battle-Ax followed up "If there's introductions to made I'm Torvald."