Chapter 4 Bleak Fall's Barrow
The next morning the teen's packed up and tied there satchel's to there dragon's saddle's.
Hiccup pulled out his map and began searching for Wightrun "Here it is! It's just over the river and around that mountain!" Hiccup called out and they took off, forming a triangle.
They got to the kingdom in a matter of second's. They landed there dragon's a little way's away from the gate's, out of site.
The six teen's walked up to the gate but where stopped by a guard. "Hault! No one's allowed in with the dragon's about!" he said "Riverwood call's for the jarl's aid" said Hiccup "Alright then, the king will want to see you. Go in" he said.
The teen's entered through the gate's and into the city. There was a barrack's to the left, a forge to the right, and further down the path a couple of house's and a market.
The teen's entered the market and up the stair's to the left. Up the stair's was a couple more house's, a dead looking tree in the middle and a place that looked like an up turned boat to the right. They went round the tree and up the step's leading to the palace.
They opened the giant wooden door's and entered.
In side there was a stair well, going up it was two long dinning table's with a fire place in the middle and up against the wall was the king's throne, with the king siting in it.
The king had long blond hair, he wore a blue tunic, a fur cape, fine boot's and pant's and a golden crown with three jewel's in it. A dark elf drew her sword and walked towards them.
"What is the meaning of this?! The Jarl is not expecting visitor's" she said "We where at Helgan. We have new's about the dragon" Astrid explained. The dark elf put her sword back in it's scabbard "Then the Jarl will want to speak to you personally. Come on" she said turning and walking back towards the Jarl.
When the reached it the Jarl turned to the group of teen's "So you, kid's where at Helgan? You saw this dragon with your own eye's?" he asked "Yes, we did." Hiccup said "And back where we come from we're the Dragon Rider's and Trainer's. Hiccup here is our leader." said Fishlegs "You... train dragon's? Can you... " the Jarl looked at Hiccup stopping his sentence there. Hiccup shook his head sadly "These dragon's aren't the same as our dragon's"
The Jarl sighed sadly. "Jarl Barlgruf, we should send troop's to Riverwood at once! It's in the most amediant danger! If that dragon's lurking in the mountain's..." the dark elf, Iraleath, interrupted "Yes, yes... send some men down there" the Jarl said. Iraleath nodded and left to do what was told.
"Now... as for you teen's... I have a job for you, something in need of your talent's, perhaps" Jarl Balgruf said "Alright what do you want us to do?" asked Astrid "Follow me. I'll take you to my court wizard and he will fill you in" Fishlegs squeaked at the mention of a court wizard.
The Jarl got up and leaded them to the right side of the room and into the court wizard's room.
"Farengar, I've found some one that can help you with your project" the Jarl said to Farengar the court wizard.
"So the Jarl thinks you could be of use to me? Ah, yes he must be referring to my research into the dragon's" said Farengar "And, yes I could have some one 'fetch' some thing for me. Well, when I say 'fetch' I really mean delve into a dangerous ruin in search of an ancient stone tablet that may or may not actually be there"
"Let me get this straight... you want us to go into a complete off limit ruin in search of a slab of rock that may not actually be there?" asked Astrid "Well, ya, sort of" Farengar answered. a moment of silence. "Okay" "Ya, sure" "Why not" where the thing's the teen's said.
Fishlegs stepped forward "Um, excuse me, sir, but, um, could you possibly sell me some spell book's?" Farengar smiled at him "Ah, practicing magic are we? Well, of course you can buy some spell's! And if you return with the stone tablet I'll teach you how to enchant weapon's and create potion's if you like" Farengar said kindly. "Yes! Thank you, sir!" thanked Fishlegs "So, where are we going and what are we 'fetching'?" asked Astrid "Ah, yes. Well, at the top of the mountain near Riverwood, there is an ancient ruin called Bleak Fall's Barrow. Deep in Bleak Fall's Barrow, in the master chamber, there is a stone map. This map show's all the dragon grave's in Skyrim" answered Farengar "Okay, why do you need a map of dragon grave's?" asked Hiccup "Because I believe the dragon's aren't just coming back... They're coming back to life" he said "I'll tell you more if you bring me the map" Farengar asured "Okay, and Jarl Balgruf..." said Hiccup "Yes?" asked the Jarl "If we get this map can our dragon's come into the city? It would help a lot" Hiccup asked "I dont see why not. Go now, you cant waset any more time" the Jarl said. The teen's nodded. Farengar handed Fishlegs some book's. "Here take these, there basic's. It's all I can do to help, for now" Fishlegs nodded his thanks and the teen's ran out the Castle and into the city, down the step's and out the gate's, on there dragon's and out of sight.
Time skip
The group reached the top of the mountain in a matter of minute's. It was snowing and there was some spot's covered in blood.
They entered through the door's. It was a large room, with spot's of blood, dead bodies and dead skeever's. "Wow, look at the size of that thing!" said Ruffnut walking up to a dead skeever body. "That's got to be the biggest rat I've ever seen!" exclaimed Tuffnut.
There was a died out fire sorunded by two bed roll's a chest, fire wood and some weapon's, gold, ect. Hiccup took out a lock pick and stuck it in the chest's lock. He turned it and had it opened in a matter of minute's. "Your really good at that" commented Astrid, Hiccup smiled a thanks.
In the chest was some gold, and a healing position. Hiccup took the gold and gave the position to Astrid. "Okay, how many position's do we have?" asked Hiccup "We have four healing position's including the one you gave Astrid, two stamina position's and two magika position's" answered Fishlegs "Okay, Fishlegs get's all the magika, Astrid and Snotlout get all the stamina and we split the healing one's. Astrid and Snotlout will be doing close range so they get one and Fishlegs when you run out of magic you'll be using your dagger so one for you. If any one find's more healing position's give them to Fishlegs who will sort them out later" instructed Hiccup. Fishlegs gave Snotlout a healing position and a stamina position to both warrior's.
"Uh, Hiccup... bad new's" said Fishlegs "What is it?" asked Hiccup "The dragon's aren't gonna be able to get through here. It's to narrow" Fishlegs answered "Oh, great... um, okay, dragon's fly to the other side of the cave-carry Toothless-and, um, wait for us there" Hiccup said to the dragon's. The teen's said there good bye's as the dragon's headed for the door "Bye, bud and dont worry, we'll be fine" Toothless sadly turned and followed the other dragon's out the door.
"Alright gang, let's get going" the teen's started down the stair's and deeper into the ruin's.
They went down a tunnel and more stair's. "Get down!" whispered Hiccup the teen's got as in the room a head a bandit stepped towards a lever and pulled it, arrow's shoot out of the wall, killing him. The teen's gasped in horror.
Hiccup slowly got up and walked over to the dead bandit's body. He pulled out one of the arrow's and examined the tip. Slowly the teen's walked over to him. "Fishlegs do you know what this is?" Hiccup asked "Well according to the book's I've read on the way up here, it look's like there poisoned. Get the puzzle rouge and these same arrow's will shoot out the wall" Fishlegs said "Okay, every one, let's find a way through this puzzle" Hiccup instructed. The six teen's looked around the stone room.
The lever was in the middle of the room, in front of it was a gate, to the right where the pillar's for the puzzle, a wale, a hawk and a snake. Above the gate where two pillar's where, a wale and a hawk, while next to the gate was a snake pillar that looked broken.
"Well, the last one must be a hawk and the middle one must be the wale, so the snake must be the first" said Hiccup "But the snake just look's broken" said Snotlout "Because it's suppose to. The snake is supposed to be a trick" Hiccup explained
Hiccup turned the first to the snake, Astrid turned the second to the wale and Fishlegs turned the third to the hawk.
"If I die, I'm coming back to haunt this place" said Snotlout "Aw that would be awesome!" exclaimed Tuffnut. Hiccup held his breath, as did the other teen's, and pulled the lever. They closed their eye's but nothing hit them. When they opened them the gate was opened.
The teen's let their breath lose. They entered the next room and went down some wooden stair's. When they got to the bottom the place was covered in spider web's. It had a stone table in the center, with a green bottle and a scroll on it.
The teen's stepped in only for skeever's to jump out. They drew their weapon's. "I want to keep it!" exclaimed Tuffnut, putting his hand with his bow in it up in the air.
The skeever's charged. Astrid swung her axe at them, spraying blood every where. Hiccup, Tuffnut and Ruffnut shoot arrow's at them, Fishlegs muttered a spell under his breath making fire appear in the palm of his hand, making him squeak in shock and excitement.
One of the skeever's jumped on top of Astrid making her fall over. The skeever tried to bit her but was held back by Astrid's axe handle under it's chin. Fishlegs saw this and shot a fire ball at the skeever, hitting it dead on.
"I did it!" he exclaimed. After the skeever's where dead, Fishlegs walked up to the table. "This is frostbite spider poison, and this is apparently a fire ball scroll" said Fishlegs picking them up. "Okay, what can we do with the poison?" asked Hiccup "You can poison you weapon's with it" Fishlegs answered "Okay, who want's the poison?" Hiccup asked. Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Snotlout and Astrid raised there hand's. "Okay, how about we do this, who ever answer's this question first and get the right awnser they get the poison" the others nodded in acceptance. "Okay, what dragon make's the best welding torch?" asked Hiccup "Oh, deadly nadder!" answered Astrid "And Astrid win's the poison!" announced Hiccup "Yes!" Fishlegs handed Astrid her prize, who then put it in her satchel.
The six teen's went to the end of the room that was blocked off by web's. Astrid drew her axe to cut through the thick web's. Once done the teen's entered. The room was covered in spider web's, some had dead bodies in them.
A giant spider, bigger than the other one's, came down from a hole in the roof. It landed before the horrified teen's, reveling it's true size. The teen's stared on in pure horror "I think I pissed my pant's" Tuffnut squeaked out.
The teen's drew there weapon's. The giant spider ran at Snotlout, who let out a high pitched scream but was saved when Astrid jumped on it's back and started hitting it with her axe. Fishlegs started shooting fire at it, while Hiccup, Tuffnut and Ruffnut shoot it at a distance. One, because there useing bow's. Two, because Tuffnut would faint or piss his pant's more. Snotlout got out of his horror trance and helped by hitting it's leg's with his mace.
Soon the Giant Frostbite Spider fell on it's side, dead. "You did it! You killed it! Now get me out of here!" the teen's looked towards the voice to find a dark elf tied up in spider web's.
The teen's nodded at each other and Astrid cut him lose. The dark elf got up and ran down the tunnel "You fool's! Why should I share the treasurer with any one?" he said "What! Why you little-! GET BACK HERE!" screamed Astrid.
She and the others ran after the dark elf bandit. The dark elf rounded a corner and was soon followed by the teen's, who stopped when they saw the sight before them. Two men and one women with skin wight as bone and glowing blue eye's, had killed the dark elf.
"I think I pissed my pant's again" Tuffnut squeaked. The thing's then noticed them and started slowly walking towards them. "Um, Fishlegs, what are these thing's?" asked Hiccup "Um... G-glowing blue eye's, skin wight as b-bone... I think it's a... D-Dragur" Fishlegs stuttered "Uh, a 'Dragur'?" asked Ruffnut "'Dragur' Nord's that where enchanted to come back to life to protect Skyrim's ruin's from the selfish and greedy" Fishlegs explained
"Oh, okay... so we kill them?" asked Snotlout "Obviously" said Astrid with a roll of her eye's. One of the Dragur swung it's sword at Hiccup who nearly dodged it, reminding the teen's about the enemy.
Astrid swung her axe, chopping it's head off. Hiccup shoot an arrow at the female dragur, hitting it in the head, while Fishlegs burned the other.
Once the dragur where dead Hiccup searched the dark elf's body.
He took what looked like a golder dragon's claw. "What is this?" asked Hiccup "Look's like some sort of claw" said Astrid "Duh" said Snotlout.
Hiccup took out a journal and opened it. "Well, it look's like he stole it from the trading shop in riverwood. We can give it back when we're done here" said Hiccup putting the claw in his satchel.
They went through more chamber's, killed more dragur, till finally coming to the hall of story's.
The teen's walked down the hall way and stopped at a round bronze door with a claw plate in the middle above it was a pillar, and another and another.
"I wonder" Hiccup muttered. He pulled the claw out his satchel and looked at the palm.
On the palm was three pitcher's. At the top was a owl, in the middle was a bear and at the bottom was dragon fly.
Hiccup turned the top pillar to the owl, the middle to the bear and the bottom to the dargon fly, then he put the claw in and turned it.
The door slowly open to reveal, the master chamber.
"Wow" said the teen's in awe. As they entered the chamber a group of bat's flew above them "WOW!" the teen's said in surprise.
After recovering from their shock they continued down the path. They crossed a bridge and headed up the stair's.
At the top there was a black confine, a chest, a black shelf and a wall covered in ancient writing.
When the teen's got closer to the wall one of the word's started glowing blue. "Uh, guy's... do you see what I see?" asked Astrid "Do you see a glowing word in a writing I've never heard of? Then yes." said Hiccup.
The teen's slowly got closer to the glowing word, till it was gone. There was a bang from behind them, the group of six slowly turned around to see the dragur over lord getting out it's confine.
"I pissed my pant's again" squeaked Tuffnut. It got up and started shouting some powerful source at them. The teen's drew their weapon's and started attacking.
Astrid attacked it's front while Snotlout attacked it's back. Fishlegs shot fire at it's leg's and Hiccup, Tuffnut and Ruffnut shot it.
Hiccup finished it off with a shot to the head.
"Fishlegs, give me a healing position" panted Astrid. Fishlegs reached into his satchel and pulled out a healing position. He handed it to Astrid who drained it.
Hiccup searched the dragur over lord's body and found what looked like a map of stone. "Guy's I got the stone map!" he said "Yes! It wasn't for nothing!" exclaimed Snotlout happily.
Hiccup packed the map and the group headed up another set of stair's. They pulled a lever and a secret tunnel opened.
Down the secret tunnel was a small jump. Hiccup, Astrid, Ruff, Tuff and Snotlout landed on their feet, while Fishlegs landed on his back. He got up and followed the others down the tunnel.
They reached the exit to find the dragon's waiting for them.
They shot up when they saw there rider's and ran over.
"Hey, bud! We got the stone! Now let's get back to Farengar"
With that the dragon rider's flew back to Wightrun, leaving the glowing stone behind.
To be Continued...
Next time: Chapter 5: The Six Dragons at the Western Watch Tower