As morning came I groaned as I tossed and turned on my new bed made of hay and a bear fur cover. Arngrim was still asleep a few feet away from me with the fire in between us. I sat up and rubbed my face before stretching out, my back popping a few times as I did. I then began to do something I would need to start doing on a daily bases now, morning warm-up workouts. One hundred push ups, one hundred sit ups, and one hundred yard sprint, which in my new state wasn't very hard to do. As I was just about to head out for my sprint I could hear Arngrim start stir behind me.

"Morning already?" He groaned as he lifted his head and scratched under his chin.

"Sadly, yes." I said with a light chuckle. "I'm going out for a brisk run, I'll be back soon." I said as I walked out of the cave and into the suns rays, its warmth hit my face almost instantly. Sure the fire inside was good but it wasn't as warm as I would have liked.

In front of me was a large plain with Whiterun in the distance with a few homes on the way. To the left of Whiterun I could see a forest and to the right was a mountain that seemed to go up forever, I couldn't even see the top because it was covered in clouds. The morning sun was rising right above Whiterun and turned the sky many shades of red like when I saw the sun set the other day.

I figured to Whiterun and back was more then enough to be considered one hundred yards worth of distance. I stretched my legs a little before I got into running stance and counted down in my head, Three. Two. One. And then I took off, running full speed to Whiterun.

It didn't take long at all for me to reach halfway, or at least what I considered halfway which was a small lake on the way. As I passed it a saw a man fast asleep on a dock with his fishing pole out with the line cast out, I couldn't help but laugh a little as I went on with my run. When I finally reached Whiterun's main gate I figured only two minutes, maybe three had gone by. I was just about to turn and make my way back when I heard a voice call out to me.

"Hey you! Dragonborn!" The voice called, it was a man's voice, deep and strong, more then enough to grab my attention. As I turned I saw a man coming out of the gate in metal armor and large sword on his back. It took me a minute to figure out who it was but eventually I figured out, he was one of the companions, Farkas I think his name was.

"Can I help you?" I asked wondering what it was he wanted of me.

"I'd like to say sorry about what happened last night. We were too careless with what information we let out. We should have known that our enemies would have learned about this and tried to kill you. I hope you can forgive us." He said with a bit of regret in his voice like this was all his fault.

"Ah don't worry about it too much. What happened has happened; as long as no one died I think there's nothing to be sorry about." I said as I scratched the back of my head.

"Well we must atone for this, if there is anything you need, the companions will gladly help you." He said before saying goodbye and went down to the stables and got his horse and went off to his next job I guessed.

'I wonder if they can remodel the cave for me.' I thought to myself as I turned back and headed back to the cave to finish my run. As I looked up to the sky as I passed the stables I could see a bird flying around, I didn't give it so much as a second look after I saw it.

As I reached the lake once again I noticed something was off, the man was gone. His pole was in the exact place as it was when I came on the way along with a tackle box that was opened. I figured he must have had to take a leak or something and I kept on running. As I kept going I soon started to hear this strange sound, but when I looked around nothing was there, I figured it was just my mind playing tricks on me and kept running.

The sound kept coming up every so often; to the point I stopped my run and picked up a larger rock for a weapon. I kept looking around every time I heard the sound, every time getting louder and louder, closer and closer. Before I could react I was hit by something, something big, big enough that it could pin me down and keep me down.

When I was finally able to look up I was greeted by the snout of a dragon the wasn't Arngrim. Its eyes were a sticking blue and its coloring was a light shade of brown and didn't have spikes on its back. It roared in my face, nearly busting my ear drums and burning off my nose with its putrid breath. I could lift the thing off of me but I was at least able to get my arms free. I pulled back as best I could with my back to the ground and punched the thing on the side of its snout. It didn't react like the bear with the skull crushing and eye bursting like I had hoped, but it did pull its ugly face away from me.

I struggled under the beast hold but in the end I wasn't able to get out its hold, and now it was pissed. It roared again and went opened wide to bite my head off. Preferring not to be eaten today I grabbed its jaws and held it back from turning me into a mid-morning snack. After what seemed like forever I could see light in the back of its throat, it was going to breathe fire on me.

Thinking quickly I forced the beast to close its mouth, preventing the fire to get out. It flailed in my arms until it finally pulled away from me completely so it could spray the flames in its mouth before it suffered internal damage. I smirked as I was finally free, I got up and jumped behind the huge rock I was going to use as a weapon just in time for it to act as a shield from it's flame breathe.

After I was sure it was finished I grabbed the rock where it wasn't scorched and got ready to bash this thing's head in. To my surprise the dragon was already dead; its head was on the ground with its mouth still wide open and a man, a large sword in his right hand dripping with blood at the tip. He stood maybe only a half a head shorter then me, which was new for me since I got here. His hair was an orange-red coloring, a long nose with freckles on his face, he looked like a ginger.

He glanced at me and his expression had about as much surprise as mine did, I mean it's probably not every day you see a guy holding up a rock about his size over his head with ease. I tossed the rock aside and his eyes seemed to follow it in disbelief that I just threw it. I couldn't help but laugh a little at him as I walked over to him; he shoved his sword into the ground and pulled it back out to clean it. This guy had to be strong to do something like that, and why wouldn't he be? He sure looked the part; he was wearing armor made out bones and some scale plates on top of that with two sword sheaths on his back.

"Who are you?" He asked plainly as he put the one sword back in its sheath on his back as he looked at me.

"Oh no one important." I said as I got closer to him and the body of the dragon. He raised an eyebrow at me with a look of doubt on his face.

"Well just don't try to take my prize from me or I'll cut your head off too." He said, in all honesty I had no plans to take anything from the dragon; I was only fighting in defense. I was about to leave when I saw parts of the dragon start to glow and seem to burn away, this was too much like the video game, but it wasn't like it wasn't cool to watch. As the body burned I could hear a word being repeated in my head. Fus. Fus. Fus. Over and over again, I knew already what it was from the game. As the man started at the corpse that burned right before his eyes he had no idea what I was seeing and hearing.

"Well… at least it saves me the need for cleaning and gutting." He said as he walked over to the Dragon skull on the ground and opened its jaws. He stomped on it and broke the bottom jaw off and put the top part on his head like a helmet.

"Are you going to use anything else from this thing?" I asked as I pointed to the body that was left to just bones and scales.

"Knock yourself out Dragonborn." He said as he started to walk away.

"I never got your name." I called out to him. He stopped and looked back with a smile on his face.

"My name is Lynch." He said and then kept walking to where ever he was going before.

After he left I grabbed as many scales off the dragon as I could before making my way back to the cave where Arngrim was still asleep. I set the scales down by my bed and walked over to the sleeping beast. I sighed as I walked over to him and started to shake him.

"Hey get up! We have to go find a job so we can get a better place then this!" I yelled at him, but he remained sound asleep and I was starting to get annoyed. After some thinking I found the perfect way to wake him. I took a step back and took in a deep breath.

"FUS!"…nothing. "FUS!" again, nothing. What was wrong? I got a dragon soul I should be able to use the shout now right? That's when I remembered, from the game I had to find the words on those walls written in dragon language.

"Where did you learn that word?" Arngrim said as his eyes opened and stared at me, his eyes had some type of feeling in them, either it was anger or seriousness, I couldn't tell.

"Well good morning to you too sunshine." I said back as I walked back over to my bed and got the scales and bones and carried them over to a flat rock that I had been using as a sort of table. "And as for where I learned it I was attacked while on my run, I think you can figure the rest." I said as I laid out the bones and scales on the rock table.

"I see…" He said as he got up and made his way to the cave entrance. "Well, it doesn't do you much good to have the knowledge if you do not comprehend its meaning." He said as he got outside and stretched his wings out so they wouldn't get stiff for being folded in for a long time.

"What does that mean?" I asked as I looked over to him with an expression of confusion.

"Come outside and I'll show you." He said as he walked out of my line of sight. The next thing I heard was him shouting 'FUS' and a loud rumbling sound as the cave shook a little. I came outside sprinting in fair of a cave collapse.

"What the hell was that for?" I yelled at Arngrim who was looking at the side of the rocky wall next to the cave entrance. As I got closer I could see some strange symbols glowing in the rock, I smirked a little as I got closer and I could see a light engulf me, I could hear 'FUS' being repeated in my head once again but it felt different, the voice was louder and stronger. After the light had passed and I was now able to see clearly I held a smirk on my face as I glanced over at a small tree.

"FUS!" I could feel a massive weight push on me as the word left my mouth, but I held my ground, barely. The small tree was now up rooted and lying on the ground a few feet away.

"Not bad for your first shout." Arngrim said as he moved a bit closer to me.

"Eh, I thought it would be stronger." I said with a sigh of disappointment.

"Beggars can't be choosers."

"I know, but still." I groaned as I jumped on his neck and grabbed on the rope tied to his horns. "Okay lets head back to Whiterun; we need to find some work." I said as I held on tight as he stretched out his wings.

"As you wish." He said as he flapped his wings and we took off.

As we flew over head Whiterun everything seemed to be normal as far as I could tell from being ten stories high up. We came to a landing just outside the main gate but were stopped by the guards.

"I'm sorry Dovakiin, but I'm afraid your dragon friend can't come in. Jarl's orders." He said which kind of pissed me off, but not as bad if Arngrim didn't say he was okay with it.

"I'll just wait for you right here, just hurry it up." Arngrim said as I got off his neck and went through the main gate.

The town was as busy as ever, the blacksmith chick was forging what looked like new sword. The streets had children running around freely without a care; it was hard to believe these people were in constant danger. As I walked through the streets I was greeted by nearly everyone with the usual 'hello' 'good morning, how are you?' and all that other friendly mumbo-jumbo. I made my way to the inn and found that the whole place was exactly like in the game, a large fire pit in the center with seats all around it, a bar to the left with the bartender cleaning it off with a rag.

"Welcome Dragonborn. How can I help you?" She said with a smile as she stopped cleaning as I came up to the bar.

"I'm looking for work, anything leads?" I asked, I think I even quoted the game.

"As a matter of the fact yes, The Jarl has posted this bounty poster this morning; some hot shot bandits have been causing some trouble in a cave to the east." She said as she handed me a poster with a picture of some guy with a map on how to get to the cave from Whiterun at the bottom. I thanked her before taking my leave and making my way back to Arngrim at the main gate.

"What have you got for us?" He asked as I came out of the gate and walked over to him.

"A wanted poster. Some bandits have been causing trouble in the east." I said as I showed him the poster.

"This is too easy. Why don't you let me handle this, and you can do another job, we'd be working twice as fast this way." He said as he looked over the poster.

"Good point." I mumbled. "Alright, but you better not get yourself killed." I said as I started back into the city.

"Oh please, have a little faith in me, I wasn't hatched yesterday you know." He said as he began to flap his wings and took off. As I came back into Whiterun I was surprised to be greeted by Jol, dressed in his normal armor outfit.

"Staying out of trouble I hope." He said as he walked over to me.

"Yeah, just looking for some work so I can pay for someone to build me a house since I'm not welcome here anymore." I said rubbing the back of my head.

"Really?" He said, almost intrigued. "Well then, I have the perfect job for you, Pay is good…very good." He said as he flashed a sly grin at me.

"How much?" I asked.

"Thirty thousand in gold." The number echoed in my head as I froze in place.

"T-t-t-t-tirty tousan…" I managed stutter out while trying to take breath.

"That's right, thirty thousand. I want you to go to the forbidden cave in the west; they say in the deepest part of the cave there is a hidden treasure the like of which no one has ever seen. I want you to find this 'treasure' and bring it back to me." He said smirking as he handed me a map, before he could utter another word I was in a mad sprint that left a gust of wind behind me that was enough to cause some people to stumble and struggle to stand up straight.

As I left Whiterun and made my way to the cave I found myself panting pretty hard which made me slow down, no use wasting all my energy on the way there right? I slowed from my sprint to a jog and finally to a walk as the cave came into my sight, it had to torches on either side of the entrance and so dark I couldn't see inside past the torches lighting.

I grabbed one of the torches and brought it in with me as I went inside, the cave for the most part was like any other, dark, cold, damp, and filled with cobwebs. As I proceeded further inwards I found myself coming into a big natural opening that was crawling with massive spiders. I shivered; I had a personal fear of spiders, or anything that crawled on more then four legs for that matter, I was just thankful they hadn't noticed me yet.

Deciding against running in there in a full out strike I decided to use a little bit of tactics. I set the torch down and picked up a large rock about half my size and hurled it at a group of the spiders, I crushed about four out of what seemed to be ten of them. I picked up another rock just as they saw me and started to come at me all at once. I threw the next rock just as they got half way to me, I got maybe two more.

As the other four got closer to me I started to panic out of my fear and screamed. "FUS!" The one closest to me flattened like a pancake and the others were pushed back a couple feet. It at least granted me enough time to grab another huge rock and throw it at them, getting two more. As the last one came up to me I remembered something, I was about fifteen times their size. Compared to me these things might as well have been a baby chuwawa dog. As it tried to jump at me to bite I simple kicked it hard, enough to make the thing split in two.

As soon as I was sure all of them were dead I picked my torch back up and head further inward. In honesty I was kind of disappointed at how easy that just was. I mean sure they were lowly spiders but in the game I remembered them being much harder to kill. Of course in the game you could smash them with giant rocks like I could. As I got deeper and deeper in the cave I didn't run into anymore spiders thankfully, just some skeletons of people who tried to get through her before. I couldn't help but to start salvaging what I could off of their remains, I always remembered in the games how much better it was to check an corpse for items instead of not checking and missing something big.

I didn't pull much off the skeletons aside from a ruby ring made out of silver and an old sword with some pocket change of gold. After I finished searching the remains I proceeded even deeper into the cave. As I kept going I found that the webbing was starting to decrease greatly, almost stopping completely at on point even. I couldn't help but wonder why, this cave was supposes to be abandon and vacant of people, so why did the spiders not go any further in the cave?

It wasn't until I reached another opening that I soon found out why the spiders didn't go further. In the opening were two hairy beasts tending to a small opening in the face of the wall that was pilled high with dead animals and a few people. They both had three eyes and looked like midget buffed up on steroids. Unlike the spiders these two noticed me the very moment I stepped into the clearing. Each of them gave a roar and one charged straight at me, I smirked. I may have been afraid of spiders but trolls were a completely different story, I wasn't afraid to get my hands dirty in this fight.

As the first troll got up to me and swung a fist at me I grabbed it by the wrist and stopped it dead in its track. I tried to come at me with the other hand but I stopped that one too and now it was struggling to get out of my hold. I didn't give it a chance to break free, I lifted the thing off its feet and began to spin with it and tossed it back at the other troll.

When the troll landed on the ground the other one charged straight from me as fast as it could, which in all honesty wasn't that fast. Just like its other it began to swing at me wildly, I blocked each and every swing easily. Eventually after I got tired of blocking I grabbed its arms with one hand and began to wail on it with my free hand. After it's face was beaten in and I was sure it wouldn't be getting back up any time soon I threw it at the other troll who was struggling to get back up, knocking him back down and unable to get up with the weight of the other troll on it.

After cleaning off my hands I picked my torch back up and went even further. I supposes any normal person would have had trouble getting this far in, but it was far too simple for me with my new strength. As I kept going in deeper in the cave I found that from the trolls up to where I was completely empty of any other life forms. I was just hoping there wasn't anything else deeper in the cave that scared even the trolls.

To my delight the cave seemed to have already thrown it's strongest at me aside from a lame pitfall trap and some tripwires that were way too easy to spot. After going around the traps and finally reaching what I figured was the last large opening in the cave I gave a sigh of relief. As I walked in I found that there was some type of thing on the wall that had oil in it and went around the room. I light it with my torch and found that it went further into opening then just the wall; some of the stone had been carved out into the room and was now carrying the fire into the room in all different directions that light the whole place up for me.

I set my torch on a mount on the wall next to the oil holding rock formation in the wall. As I went further in I found stairs carved out of stone and walls decorated with carvings of dragons breathing fire. In the center of the room was a stand of stone holding up some sort of egg like thing that seemed to be made of gold.

"A gold egg huh? Not exactly my idea of treasure but if I'm getting paid thirty thousand for it who cares?" I said aloud to myself as I picked the egg up off the stand and waited. No arrows, not trap doors, no nothing, talk about disappointing. I was expecting a giant boulder to fall out of the wall and chase me like Indiana Johns, oh well, not like I was complaining about an easier job. With the egg in my arms I made my back out of the cave, this was so worth less then thirty big ones but not like I was complaining.

As I made my way out of the cave I found the sun was now high in the sky, it must have been noon. I couldn't believe I took so long, it felt like I was in there for half an hour tops. Either way I made my back to Whiterun to get my money. The birds above were chirping and singing songs while the wind blew at my back whit the suns rays hitting my face, something told me my new life here was going to be a good one.

Just as I reached the small lake on my way to Whiterun I felt something shake me. I froze for a minute and waited to see if it was my arms shaking at the idea I was getting rich, or something else. It happened again, but it wasn't me, the egg, it was moving? I thought this thing was solid gold? I shook my in my arms again, harder this time. I quickly set it on the ground and stood back a little, incases what was in it tried to jump at me and try and kill me like I saw in some old horror movies.

After about five minutes of shaking and fidgeting a piece of the shell broke off away from me, preventing me from seeing what was in it. Slowly, piece by piece the egg broke off and what was in it made my jaw drop lower then I though physically possible. In place of the egg was a tiny dragon, its scales where golden with small horns on it's head and little claws on it's toes with small wings folded on it's back. Its eyes were closed as it moved around and started to make sounds that I couldn't describe better then calling them baby roars, but for some reason, I could understand it, I guess it was this telepathy thing that came with being dragonborn.

"Mama…papa…" I heard it's voice, it was soft, gentle, and it made me smile a bit as I watched it's small eyes open, they were shade of light blue that looked bluer then the sky itself. It struggled to turn its head eventually it locked on to me and started to try and stand and come towards me.

"Mama….mama…" I heard it say which made my eyes widen a little, it was calling ME Mama?

"Oh crud…." I said as I face-palmed before going over to it and helping it up. I figured it wasn't going to believe me if I told it I wasn't it's mother since I was the first thing it saw.

"Mama?" I said as it finally got standing up right down since I figured dragons developed faster then humans.

"That's right…" I said smiling. "…I'm your mommy now." I said softly, even though I'd rather be daddy instead of mommy, but what could I do aside wait till it was smart enough to understand things and tell it I was the dad instead? It gave a happy growl as It nuzzled into my arms, it's head was about twice as big as my hand and its body was about the size of one of my arms stretched out. I picked it up in my arms and began to walk back to Whiterun with it in my arms; I was just hoping this didn't affect my payment.

"What the hell is that?" Jol nearly screamed at me as I showed up at the main gate with the baby dragon still in my arms fast asleep.

"Shhh! You'll wake it up!" I whispered as loud as I could as I got closer to him. "And this is your so called 'great treasure'!" I said as Jol moved in closer so we could whisper.

"This thing?" Jol asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, it was in some weird room in the furthest part of the cave and was the only thing of value I could find since it's egg was pure gold."

"You really think someone would have turned the gold into the shape of an egg?" Jol said with a bit of annoyance in his voice.

"Well either way this was the treasure, now about my payment." I said smirking, wanting my money.

"Well sadly I can't take this, therefore our agreement is now null in void, sorry." Jol said, I felt the smirk on my face disappear quicker than a beer in an AA meeting. As if on cue Arngrim came in over head and landed next to us, his eye quickly locked on my and more specifically what was in my arms.

"Where did you get that?" Arngrim roared as he quickly came up to me, Jol took that as his cue to get out of there while I wasn't looking.

"Well, uh, um, its kind of, a long story." I said as he stared me down, only looking between me and the baby in my arms.

"I hope it's a damn good one." He growled lowly. "You better not have taken that from a nest." He snarled.

"Of course not! I'm not that stupid!" I said as I went on to give him the story about the cave and how I thought it was an egg of solid gold and that I was the first thing it saw. As I finished up the baby began to stir in my arms, meaning he'd wake up soon.

"Well, we might want to hold off on the rest of the facts later, lets take this little guy back to our place for now." Arngrim said as he lowered his neck and I got on, holding the baby in one arm and the rope in the other.

"Just fly slowly okay, I don't want him to freak out on us before we get there." I said as he flapped his wings and we took off.

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