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Karsein – College of Winterhold
I slowly started to regain my senses after sleeping a good amount of time. It was a good sensation, but it was something that never lasted, and in my case that moment stopped when I saw my own hand, being different as it always were, hitting me the memories of the day before as now I was trapped in a world that I could never have imagined. I stayed in the bed, looking at the ceiling while thinking in what I should do… I already agreed to train, and today I was going to try my proficiency in weaponry… that was a thought that I didn´t like, in my world the physical exercise wasn´t my strength, it was my weakness, and the feeling that I would kill with those weapons weren´t making any good. I sighed, before getting up from my bed, and going to the balcony to see how was the day, and I surprised myself to see how the sunrise started to shine, captivating me for a moment as I saw how it started to rise before it was covered by the clouds… - Well… this maybe isn´t that bad… - I said, as I stayed there watching the scenery that for anyone else could be depressing, as it remained the effects of some type of destruction, but to me it had some kind of mysterious beauty that I liked.
Then, I heard the door opening, and I turned to see who was entering, and I saw Aikanáro going to the balcony to watch the sunrise probably. – I see that I didn´t need to wake you up. – He said, staying at my side as the sun started to be seen again, showing again the beauty of the sunrise. Normally I would have been sleeping at this hour, and not paying attention to the sunrise, but I had to admit that it was a good thing that I woke up to see the sunrise in time. – Watching the sunrise is one of our rituals that you should be paying attention from now on, but I think this one is pleasant. – Aikanáro said with a smile, until he got some kind of a small stone container, which contained some type of ink that he spread in his face making some markings. I step back as I saw that, since I didn´t like being painted in my face, it was a fireproof method of making me stay in a foul mood all the time the paint or ink stayed in my face. Aikanáro saw me stepping back, and made a smile that I knew better than anyone since it was an universal face I saw in most of the people I knew and weren´t my friends, it was the smile of having in mind a treachery.
A few moments later and some struggling, I was paralysed by a spell and Aikanáro using his hand to make the same markings in my face, but at least I could indicate my discontent with a frown that stayed all the time I was paralysed. When I was released, I crossed my arms and I buffed. – Why do I have to wear this? – I asked with a tone that indicated some anger, something relatively new since I rarely got angry. – You have to adapt being a Bosmer, apart from the fact that you are in a different world. If you don´t follow the traditions, something could happen. – Aikanáro said, smiling at the good work he made with the markings on my face, that I noticed clearly and I was trying to not try to wash the ink immediately. I took a moment to think, and I resisted the urge of washing the markings, but the frown stayed. – Alright… Something more that I need to know? – I said, trying to keep calm, but when Aikanáro explained the things of the Green Pact that we have to follow, my frown became more pronounced because the fact I wouldn´t be able to eat another vegetable nor something made with a plant. This wouldn´t be that bad if not for the fact that every type of sweet I liked was forbidden now, and some food too. At least we could bend it in special occasions, but it was a fact that we had to respect it the best we could. I pinched the bridge of my nose trying to avoid the head-ache that I knew it would come sooner or later.
- Well, I know for you will be difficult to adapt, but we have some perks, as to be able to speak with animals. – He said, making my frown become less evident, but still being present with a mix of curiosity. It was a fact that I loved animals, and being able to speak to them was something I always dreamed sometimes, so now that I could do it was making it more bearable all the things we had to pay attention in the Green Pact. I sighed, trying to relax a bit, since it was only my second day here, and I doubted the first one counted since I was asleep almost three quarters of that day or unconscious. But before I was able to say anything, my stomach grumble, making me blush… It seemed that my appetite didn´t disappear along the fat… - Better have something in the stomach, because when we start, you won´t get any rest soon. – Aikanáro said, as I gulped at the possibly intense physical exercise I would be doing. I was already regretting some things, and I was hoping that my new body would be able to keep itself from the exercise and training. After eating the breakfast that consisted in some meat and cheese, we went outside that was cold but the robes were warm enough to keep away most of it. In the yard were a lot of weapons, but my eyes fixed in the dagger, before Aikanáro switched my attention to another place, this time a bow with arrows with some targets. - Let´s start with how good is your accuracy. Try shooting an arrow to the targets. – Aikanáro said with a serious tone, indicating that I better switch my mind to try to do what I was asked.
I caught the bow, and put the arrows in the ground, stabbing them for them to stand up. Then, I put an arrow in the string, using my other hand to keep the bow up and to use it to guide the arrow. As I stood, I tensed the string with the arrow, while trying to focus in the target. After a few moments, I let the string go, making the arrow flew through the air with force, until it hit the border of the target. At least I wasn´t so bad with that, and with a bit of practice my precision would increase, but I felt something in one of my hands, and I saw how it was bleeding a bit for the contact of the arrow. Then, I felt how something was revitalizing me, and the wound disappeared, meaning that I was healed by a healing spell. – Well, not bad for a beginner, but your stance was all wrong. And this time, use this. – He said before giving me some leather gauntlets, surely to avoid more injuries while trying to use the bow. I tried again, but this time, I was being corrected the form to make it the best accuracy possible, using a stick to hit me in the parts that were wrong situated and correct them. This process repeated a few times, with different results, meaning that three quarters of the arrows I shot, didn´t hit the target, but at least it served to make a point that I could become better in marksmanship.
After that, it took place what I was fearing, the close quarter combat, and I was sure that I would be trying each type of weapon once, so it would be a long morning doing so. But before that, Aikanáro stood in the middle of the yard, standing in his guard unarmed. – Before trying some weapons, let´s see how you go with unarmed combat. – He said, as he waited for me to get into guard. I breathed, trying to relax, as I tried to recall the few; and I meant that, lessons of martial arts as judo or taekwondo. I put my guard, but my left leg prepared to react in case for movement and my right leg to pivot and being the base. Then, he come at me prepared to attack me with a punch, but I kept my distance and threw a kick directly to his face while testing my body´s flexibility, and it felt good, as I didn´t feel any strain in that fact. The kick didn´t connect as he blocked it with his arm, going into my range and throwing a punch into my stomach, that connected and I felt without air for a moment, but I could protect myself from an uppercut into the chin with both of my arms, as I put some distance between us with a jump, but he followed, so I tried to maintain my distance again doing another kick that he evaded before grabbing my leg and with a spin made me flew to the ground.
- Lets revise the weapons now. – He said, going to the weapons while I got up on my own, feeling the pain installing on my body. It wasn´t that painful, but it was present and surely he was going easy on me. And that tone indicated that he surely was disappointed at the result of our combat. I said I had no experience, and the only experience I had was the similar of a boxing bag receiving punches and kicks, but that didn´t I didn´t say it. I breathed trying to recover a bit, before seeing the weapons, as there were swords, axes, hammers, shields… except the staff and spear stuff and another exotic weaponry, it was a good quantity, but I wanted to avoid the dagger… Even though that was the weapon with less weight and being able to take it nearly anywhere with ease, it wasn´t my option since I remembered how a dagger pierced me, trying to finish my life. I breathed again, trying to relax and try to at least become a bit more than a wimp.
But the fact was clear, and it was that he needed to work on the very basics, as to increase his natural reflexes, strength, agility and the proficiency of the use of weapons, since the most I could use was the weapons of one hand, and most of the time only using that as the other hand I couldn´t keep up to double the attacks or doing anything useful. After that, the morning finished and I was in the ground, trying to catch my breath as Aikanáro was without even breaking a sweat… - Well… at least now I know that your educating system is faulty in things like self-defence, maybe because in there you don´t need it, but being unable to defend yourself is unacceptable. – He said with a harsh tone, making me feel ashamed… My inner fears were reacting again, feeling how I disappointed someone again, and being left behind as trash that wasn´t worth to look back. – But you have some good points, in the unarmed fight you had good legs, being able to have a good footwork, but at the part of defending and attacking you lack experience. And for the weapons, I think you should avoid the two-handed weapons, sticking with a weapon on one hand, and in the other a shield or a spell. – He said after that, softening his voice a bit, as I looked surprised at him after all those tips. – You didn´t make it THAT bad, I was expecting worse. No wonders you avoided all those spells yesterday. – He said then, laughing a bit as I felt now how I didn´t mess up… Hell, who I wanted to lie? I messed up badly, but at least not to a degree that wasn´t too bad. – Come on, drink this. – He said, tending me a bottle with what it seemed a red liquid. Well… that was some strange medicine, but now the potions should be a custom here, so I have to deal with it.
But then, I saw J'zargo coming to us, at first was walking normally, but then I saw how his face got worried and ran towards us, snatching the potion and taking a look at it. – Again, you messed up… You nearly turned blue your pup. – J'zargo said, looking in a reprimanding look at Aikanáro, which was surprised to hear that. – But I made that following the recipe… - He said, looking rather puzzled. – Well, at least we will make sure that another disaster on alchemy doesn´t happen… - J'zargo said with determination… - What disaster do you talk about? – I asked curious, as Aikanáro tried to change the topic. – Well, I think after we eat a bit, focus on learning some spells, don´t you think J'zargo? – He said, looking at J'zargo with a look that was clearly deathly if he said anything. – J'zargo agrees… but if you try alchemy again, let it be with supervision… - He said a bit in defeat, but he looked at me before giving me another universal signal that I learned, that was "I will tell you later when he is not around". I smiled and got up, feeling tired and wanting to rest a bit with a book or sleeping. I started walking, but I felt the pain in all my body, making me groan in pain. At that, J'zargo gave me another potion, as I drank and I felt better almost instantly. – That was good stuff. – I said, feeling renovated as we walked to eat some more meat and cheese. I missed some different things to eat, but I had to admit that the meat and cheese were so different in taste without any stuff they added in my world.
After that, we went to the Hall of Elements to follow the lessons about magic, or so I thought, but I found myself trapped in the arcaneum, with a huge quantity of books and an orc that was looking at us defiantly, if he was saying directly what would happen if one of us defiled one of those books. – Will we have a theory lesson? – I asked curious, but then Aikanáro passed me a list that indicated something that soon I identified as an alphabet… I was going to learn how to read in the language of this world. – Well, it´s appreciated, but first let me try something. – I said, as I knew that if we could speak right now surely was thanks to the help of Sheogorath making something in the transformation that helped me to speak in the same language as everybody else, so maybe that included reading and understanding the language written. I opened one of the books, as I could read without too much effort. – Well, my suspicions were confirmed, I can read and possibly write at the same language. – I said, seeing the surprise of Aikanáro, but that changed to a smile. – Alright then, that's something less to worry about. Now, you will be spending most of your time here, reading and learning about this world. I can cover up some things, but at least you have to know the general parts. – He said, leaving me then to let me read in peace. I sighed, meaning that I wouldn´t be able to learn some magic this time, so I started reading, getting hooked in some books. After a while, I finished a book of history of Skyrim, and learned some things but it would take a while to remember everything.
I went out of the arcaneum, trying to relax my mind for a bit before starting to read again. It seemed that for the moment I was in Skyrim, a part of the world I was part now, and they had a very good pantheon of gods, as well as daedric princes to avoid, the first one Sheogorath in my opinion, but now I couldn´t do anything as they usually do what they wanted. I started to take a walk around the yard, as I watched by the side-lines how other people were training with spells or in combat with ease. Surely they were much more capable than me at this moment, but maybe I would go by their level one day. After a while, something caught my attention, and it was a smell. After a few moments, I noticed that it was my smell, probably because the exercise in the morning, and the fact that probably I needed a shower or a bath, most likely a bath since I doubted the existence of showers and indoor plumbing in this world. I would be lucky if there is an actual thing near to taking a bath. I started looking for the bath to wash myself.
Aikanáro Dragonborn – College of Winterhold
Today wasn´t as good as expected… Normally, thinking about it, the results were better than expected since he didn´t have any type of training, and he learned what he could, being his accuracy good for a beginner, and the use of unarmed combat weren´t half bad, the only faults were his lack of experience. But when it came to the weapons, he nearly decapitated someone when he threw that two handed sword after a swing because he couldn´t hold the weapon right. After all, his strength relied in his agility, showing some progress in the weapons with one hand, but when it came to two weapons at the same time it was like he had two left hands… At least, he could mix one weapon with spells in the future. After that, it was a relief that he didn´t need to learn our language, as he was now learning by himself the culture. I started making notes to give to the teachers, as he would be studying with all the people soon, and I couldn´t show any favouritism as the Arch-Mage. But we had some freedom in the part of self-study, so one thing would be helping him in those moments.
- Well, let's wait how it work… - I said to myself, while thinking on how I would approach the moment of teaching him about another parts of himself, like how to tame his dragon soul to use the Thu'um before it dominates him again. Luckily, nothing happened as his dragon was trying to torture him. I didn´t preach in the contents, because it was private and it was better that he told me when he was ready. But I felt that I was forgetting something, as I stretched a bit to help my sore muscles… Maybe I was going to take a bath to… - Oh shit! – I shouted alarmed, since I forgot to tell Karsein one of the most important things in here: The timetables of what gender took the bath to wash themselves. If it was dangerous with a normal woman, with women that knew powerful magic was like fighting a dragon unarmed and with depleted magicka. When I was about to run towards Karsein, I heard a scream that indicated I was too late… I started to run to reach the possible now dead body of Karsein, but the situation was… better than I thought… at least Karsein wasn´t hurt and was wearing his robe, but was unconscious and had some blood flowing out of his nose.
- What type of spell did you use? – I asked, worried at the perspective of a dangerous spell, but one of the students, a female dummer student that was wearing her students clothes approached. – Well, he opened the door and saw us. Then, a moment passed and one of us screamed, and that seemed to do something as he fainted. We expected him to run, not to faint. – She said, making every female student in the bath nod in agreement, feeling that it was the truth. – It was an accident, he didn´t know what was the timetable for the baths. A new student, if you want to know. – I said, trying to maintain myself calm, even though I wanted to laugh so badly since nobody was able to escape the wrath of the female students when they discover someone spying them in the bath. Some male students were still recovering from the wounds they received and probably it would be very hard for them to have children in the future. The female students considered for a moment, looking at me, and then to Karsein, and I saw a smirk that made me feel a chill in my spine. – Well, I will take care of him now. – I said, using a telekinetic spell to lift him and started to go back to the dorm. Surely he wouldn´t be stupid and start bragging about it, but the rumour was something that will appear without any form of stopping it. – Let's brace ourselves… - I said, trying to think of something for tomorrow, since it would be a long day, because Aela and Farkas would come to start teaching the new students in the physical combat, and surely they would catch right away the scent of Karsein being similar to me, and the possible rumour wouldn´t do any good… At least he avoided one arrow by a hair…
