Dragon Age Inquisition:
The Tale of the Clumsy Inquisitor
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CONTAINS SPOILERS OF INQUISITION MAIN QUEST LINE AND CULLEN ROMANCE!
Title: Tale of the Clumsy Inquisitor
Chapter Three: What Remains?
Fandom: Dragon Age Universe
Characters: Corinne Trevelyan, Seeker Cassandra Pentagast, Lady Leliana, Varric Tethras, Commander Cullen Stanton Rutherford and Solas
Pairing: Eventual Cullen x Corinne
Rating: Teen +
Word count: 1468 words (excludes Title and Previously)
Author's comments:
Basically my inquisitor was attracted to Cullen from day one but she is as useless as it comes to acting confident and hiding biased feeling towards someone. So yeah from Day one the awkward biased nature will show... Just warning you before any of those comments would show...
Previously:
"I say we charge. I won't survive long enough for your trial. Whatever happens, happens now" I reply frustrated and in pain.
Cassandra nods in agreement.
"Bring everyone from the valley Leliana"
"On your head be the consequences, Seeker." Roderick say, seemingly determined to have the last word.
Leliana nods, leaving followed by a group of scouts heading out into the mountain pass.
Chapter Three: What remains?
We continue to head up the hill as the soldiers jogged past us. Weapons drawn ready to attack whatever comes next out of the breach. We climb through the snow quickly as we are able due to the previous fights causing us to be more exhausted. There are piles of burning rubble and maker knows what dotting the landscape. We turn right and head up another set of rocky stairs and quickly walk past a chantry member who is counting more corpses of the fallen victims. There is a wagon on the right side ablaze. A Soldier is just staring into flames muttering a prayer still in shock of the loss of his comrades. He looks about twenty at most.
"Maker… how could something like this pass" I mumble.
We finally make it to the start of where the rubble starts to form where the temple would have been. There are soldiers resting on the staircase. One is clutching his stomach as the other tries to heal him as best as she can. Even though from a distance he hasn't got much time left. There is a guard standing at the top of the stairs beckoning us forward to help. As we approach the doorway, a flaming meteor hits a running soldier and throws the solider calling us forward into the air. The other body falls down the stairs lands at our feet.
Maker's breath… how could something like this happen?
"Be wary – another Fade rift." Comments Solas. A group of soldiers are fighting a variety of demons falling through the rift.
"Well done. Next time we want someone to state the obvious I will let you know" I comment abruptly charging forward. I see a soldier in a different kind of uniform fighting a couple of shades on his own. Due to the way he was fighting I could tell straight away he was a Templar. I fight alongside him as the others help the soldiers with another type of demon that seems to be able to teleport underneath the ground and attacking whoever is showing a sign of weakness. The demon towering over them kills a soldier to Cassandra's left as she shield bashes the other demon trying to get towards Varric. I stab the closer demon constantly and as quickly as I'm able trying to out manoeuvre the beast before it can cause any proper damage to either of us.
"How many rifts are there?" yells Varric as he takes out a lesser terror attacking from behind me.
"We must seal it! If we are able to get past!" snaps Solas.
"Quickly then" Cassandra yells.
We kill the other demon quickly. Their remains disappear before either of us can collect anymore evidence. I reached up my hand in the air and use the power from the mark to seal the rift. I hold my wrist again as it still rather painful every time I do that. I walk over to where others are standing.
"Sealed, as before. You are becoming quite proficient at this." Solas remarks as the rift closes as before.
"Let's hope it works on the big one." Varric adds
"Hopefully…" I mutter as I look in the direction as he walks over.
"Lady Cassandra, you managed to close the rift? Well done." comments the Templar as he joins us.
"Do not congratulate me, Commander. This is the prisoner's doing." Cassandra replies glancing in my direction.
"Is it? I hope they're right about you. We've lost a lot of people getting you here." He adds.
"Y-You're not the only one hoping that." I reply trying to act confident for a change and failing miserably.
"We'll see soon enough, won't we…? The way to the temple should be clear. Leliana will try to meet you there." He adds before walking off.
"Then we'd best move quickly. Give us time, Commander." Cassandra asks.
"Maker watches over you – for all our sakes." He replies looking at all of us. I glance back and watch as he helps one of the soldiers who were fighting alongside the others.
"Focus…" I mutter to myself as I have Thedas to save as I catch up with the others.
We move forward careful as we can. Avoiding the burnt corpses that seem frozen in place. There is rubble everywhere, broken weaponry plus the scattered remains of both Soldiers and demons.
"The Temple of Sacred Ashes" Solas comments aloud as we walk towards one of the remaining archways.
"What's left of it" Varric adds
"That is where you walked out of the Fade and our soldiers found you. They said a woman was in the rift behind you. No one knows who she was." Cassandra adds she points at broken column still barely standing.
"Well at least I remembered something on what happened… I'm just still in shock I survived all this so far" I comment as I glance where she is pointing.
I see another corpse. Templar in full armour surprisingly still intact compared to rest of the corpses we've seen. We walk through the remaining corridor connecting to centre of the temple. There are skulls and rubble beneath my feet and I see another one of the soldier's corpses laid down in the dirt. We all look up as you can feel the strange force rippling from the Breach above our heads.
I gulp knowing that somehow I had to seal it before it kills everyone.
"The breach is a long way up" comments Varric.
I was too busy staring up at the breach as Leliana ran over to us.
"You're here! Thank the Maker." She comments as Cassandra walks over to her.
"Leliana, have your men take up positions around the temple." She asks.
Leliana doesn't reply and nods. She returns where her men are standing and gives them orders as they pan out.
"This is your chance to end this. Are you ready?" Cassandra asks as she looks in my direction.
"I'll try, but I don't know if I can reach that, much less close it." I reply trying to be as optimistic as possible even with the weight of the world on my shoulders.
"No. This rift was the first and it is the key. Seal it, and perhaps we seal the Breach." Solas replies confidently.
"Then let's find a way down and be careful." Commands Cassandra.
I don't respond and just stroll pass ahead of them all as all I want to get this over and done with.
We turn right and walk down another pathway that connects to where the base of the breach is. All around us is lies the crater where the temple once stood. We tread being careful as possible as we know that all of us are to have a major fight on our hands.
"Now is the hour of our victory. Bring forth the sacrifice" booms a mysterious male voice from the Breach.
"What are we hearing?" comments Cassandra as we pass two of Leliana's men readying their weapons.
"At a guess: The person who created the Breach." Adds Solas looking upwards again.
There are strange crystals growing from the walls glowing crimson.
"You know this stuff is red lyrium, Seeker" comments Varric sounding more on edge than before.
"I see it, Varric" comments Cassandra knowing exactly what he is referring too.
"But what it's doing here?" he questions.
"Magic could have drawn on lyrium beneath the temple, corrupted it…" comments Solas trying to find a reason for it being here.
"It's evil. Whatever you do don't touch it." Replies Varric frantically.
This red lyrium really bothers him.
"Wasn't planning too…" I comment trying to keep things on the bright side even though I was failing miserably at this point.
We quickly jog past the giant crystals of red lyrium protruding out of the ground and walls. Heading downwards getting closer to the centre. There are two more archers ready in position.
"Keep the sacrifice still" boomed the mysterious voice echoing around the crater.
No matter how hard I tried I couldn't block that voice out.
"Someone… Help me!" a female voiced screamed out from fade. I recognise the accent its orlesian like Leliana's.
"That's Divine Justina's voice" yells Cassandra concerned. We pick up the pace and charge down the set stairs that leads to the pit where a few soldiers and Leliana wait on guard.
We notice a rift above them that looks closed but is still pulsating wildly. My hand starts to flare up again and glow similarly as we get closer.
"Someone… helps me!" the voice repeats again.
"What's going on here?" a distorted version of my own voice answers.
"That was your voice. Most Holy called out to you. But…" Cassandra responds quickly but is interrupted by a white light that blinds all of us.