"Well, it's simple. We kill her." Azureous said, his foolish statement being heard by unknown ears.
"Kill me? Why?"
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"Why would you want to kill me?" Sasha asked, moving out of the shadows and into the light and making Okan and Azureous jump out of their skin in fright.
But before Okan could do or say anything, the purple-yellow spell was in Azureous's hand and was being casted on Sasha. She fell down to the floor, straight as a log and hitting it just as hard as one. Okan looked at the body in shock as Azureous made the spell dissapate in his hands. Azureous got up and moved over to the body and knelt down next to it, another spell-this one black with green whisps running around it- in his hands. He started to cast the spell as Okan watched in a silent shock and the body was soon covered in a black smoke with green light trying to pierce the fog. After a few seconds, Azureous stopped the spell and checked Sasha's neck for a pulse. After he was satisfied that he had one, he sat back up and looked over to Okan.
"My... my mask..." He sputtered out, pointing to his pack. Okan quickly rustled through Azureous's bag until he found his golden mask. He handed it to him and Azureous quickly slipped it on. "Thanks..."
"Azureous, what happened?" Okan asked, still shocked he did that.
"Simple. I put her to sleep and erased her memory to before she walked in here." Azureous said, sitting back on his hands and sighing.
"Azureous... dude, how do you know spells that don't even exist?" Okan asked as he picked Sasha up and put her on the chair that Azureous was sitting on.
"Um... hello? Dragon Priest reborn?" Azureous said.
"Ok, I admit that Dragon Priests are strong, but that doesn't mean that they know spells that not even the Dragonborn knows." Okan said, still not believing Azureous.
"Are you kidding? Everyone says that the Dragonborn is so strong. He really isn't. I mean, he is part man part Dragon. Meaning that he draws his power from Dragons, much like my brethren." Azureous said, groaning in annoyance from always being compared to the Dragonborn.
"So... your brothers drew power from the Dragons, how?" Okan asked.
"Eh, spells, their masks, some even rode their own Dragons." Azureous said, moving against the wall.
"Did you have your own Dragon?" Okan asked, wondering how it felt to ride a Dragon.
"No." Azureous simply said.
"Did you have the spells?" Okan asked, frowning at the many people who had gathered to see Sasha.
"No, I got my power from my mask." Azureous said, pointing to his mask.
"But I thought all your mask did was heal you and make you invisible..." Okan trailed off.
"Yes, well... I lied." Azureous said.
"Lied?!" Okan exclaimed, shocked at the discovery.
"I am not going to apologize, I could not have trusted you before." Azureous said shamelessly.
"But you can now?" Okan asked indignantly.
"You have more than proven ability to be trusted to me when you took over yesterday." Azureous said, still jot caring wither Okan cared or not.
Okan took a deep sigh and turned to Sasha. He took her head gently and opened her mouth and checked her teeth for further evidence that she was a Vampire. "So... can you tell me what it actually does?"
"It draws power off the strongest entity in a fourty foot premesis. And, well, if the other Dragon Priests were still sleeping, I could take and store their energy. It's why I am one of the strongest beings in all of Nirn." Azureous said, taking off his mask and looking it over like he had many times before. "However, I was not lieing when I said it would make me insane if I had it off for a extended time. In fact... I am still testing this, but I'm pretty sure the mask itself tries to escape from me."
"Escape?" Okan asked, frowning at the new information.
"It won't be where I set it. When we were still in Tarkoftkz, it was on the balcony. I left it on my bed after we brought you back to life." Azureous said, placing the mask back on.
"So... who are you drawing power from now?" Okan asked, worried that it might be him.
Azureous leaned forward and looked at Sasha. "Not either of you, but she is one of them." He said, leaning back.
"Who's the first?" Okan asked, relieved that it was not him or Sasha.
"I do not know, but it is incredibly strong." Azureous said silently. "Now, we should probably go. Sasha shall not remember any of this... meeting."
"Yeah..." Okan said, picking Sasha up and walking through the three people that had gathered with Azureous. "Very convenient..."
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"Okan, have you seen Kent anywhere?" Azureous asked as he opened the door to Okan's room.
"Get out!" Okan yelled, covering up his exposed legs.
Azureous immediately closed the door and put his back to it. "Er... um... you ok in there Okan?" He asked.
A few seconds passed before Azureous heard any movement in the room and there was a slight pause before any response was called out from the room.
"Come in." Okan said, his voice sounding sad and defeated.
"Um... ok. I'm coming in." Azureous called out, slowly lifting the door nob.
The door was opened again, and Okan was still on the bed, but his legs were covered up and the color had been drained from his face, making his once midnight black scales a murky-white color. By his side was a Sasha's dagger and a few scales, indicating that something bad had happened. Azureous closed the door and walked over to a chair near the bed and sat down, and he fixed his robes as he did so.
"Yes?" He said, now aware that Okan was in pain.
"Um... I need you to take a look at me." Okan said, cringing at how dumb the statement sounded.
"I am, Okan." Azureous said.
"N-no. I think... I think Sasha... bit me. I think that I am a... a Vampire." Okan said, looking down at the floor in shame and embarrassment. "I need you to check me for any... well, bite scars."
"Okan, you can't be serious!" Azureous said incredulously.
"Look." Okan said, holding up a scale for Azureous to take.
Azureous took the scale after he found out Okan's intentions and looked at it, and was very shocked. The scale had once been a scale on Okan's thigh, so it had been one of his darkest on his body. But now, the scale was an incredibly greyish color. He flipped it over and the blood that had once been on it had been dried and cracked. He flipped it over once more and looked it over again, this time peeling away some of the small scale. A light green pus slowly oozed out of it, and Azureous chucked it on the floor when he saw that.
"Okan..." Azureous said, speechless.
"Azureous, I have a small pile of scales like that. That was one of the first I pulled off." Okan said, shuttering at the cold air that blew on his legs from out of nowhere.
"Balls." Azureous cursed, taking off his mask and rubbing his eyes.
"Azureous..." Okan said, a small tear running down his eye. "Azureous, this is... this is a common problem for Argonian Vampries. Something about the body rejects the... the disease and it tries to get rid of it."
"So... your scales fall off?" Azureous asked, a fool in the subject.
"Yes. Yes, it's rather hard to explain, but my scales fall of in extreme sickness." He said.
"Okan, I am afraid I don't understand. I haven't really seen an Argonian Vamprie in Skyrim." Azureous said, scratching his head in a relatively itchey spot.
"Can you go get Sasha? If she still is asleep?" Okan asked.
Azureous nodded and brought Sasha in. He set her down next to Okan and sat back down.
"Why did I just do that?" Azureous questioned, frowning.
"Because, I need to check her scales, as weard as that sounds." Okan said, lifting up her skirt just enough to see that her legs had many scars on them, and there were barely any scales on them. Okan cursed deeply and pulled her skirt back down. He looked up at Azureous. "Well... heh... I guess I'm a Vampire. That's just great!"
"Okan... are you ok?" Azureous asked, moving closer to Okan.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Okan giggled, looking down at the floor.
Azureous suddenely punched Okan straight in the face, knocking him out cold. As Okan fell back, Azureous snapped his fingers and Sasha slowly rose and looked at him.
"Oh. It's you." She said, frowning,
"Shut up. Now, you will answer my questions..." Azureous said, moving dangerously close with a Flame spell in his hand. "Or I will kill you. Understand?"
Sasha's eyes widened in fear and she gulped as she nodded her head. "Y-yeah." She said softly.
"Good." Azureous said, sitting back. "Now, when did you find out you were a Vampire?"
"Vampire? I'm not a Vampire!" Sasha said defensively.
Azureous grabbed Sasha's right wrist with his hand-the one with the Fire spell in it- and casted it at a small percentage of its power. Sasha let out a shreak as her wrist was burnt and fought against Azureous's grip. After a few seconds, Azureous let go of her wrist and she grabbed it and she tried to nurse it back to health, but Azureous grabbed her other wrist.
"Now, unless you want me to burn this one, the question, please." Azureous said, frowning.
Sasha yelled in pain and there was a sharp knock on the door.
"WHAT?" Azureous yelled, looking at the door.
"What's going on in there?" The bartender asked.
"None of your business!" Azureous yelled, using a spell to lock the door.
"What?!" The bartender said.
"Now, when did you find out you were a Vampire?" Azureous asked, ignoring the knocking at the door.
"S-seventy-five years ago." Sasha said, cringing as she felt the pain in her wrists intensify.
"Good. Now, did you turn Okan?" Azureous asked.
"Y-yes. Yes, I did." Sasha said, looking up with an evil grin on her face. "And now, I'm going to turn you!"
Azureous was sent flying across the room from a shove from Sasha, and he crashed against the wall. He didn't move as Sasha got up and walked over to where he was lying. When she got close to him, she knelt down and took his wrist and brought it to her mouth so she could bite it. As she brought it to her mouth, she suddenely found herself with a hand on her throat. She was lifted up as Azureous stood to his feet and was shocked when she saw that he had his mask on. As Azureous rose, he made eye contact with Sasha the whole time, making her terrified of her attacker. Once he was at his full hight, Azureous let out a small chuckle.
"Do honestly think for a second that a-a eighty year old child could kill me? Do you know who I am?" Azureous said, murder in his eyes under his mask. "Do you understand that I... that I am one of the strongest beings? NO! NO, YOU DON'T!"
Azureous threw Sasha on the floor like a rag doll, and she hit the floor like a bag full of bricks. Any type of resistance was kicked out of her from Azureous's boot. When she tried to get up again, Azureous put his boot on her head so she couldn't get up again.
"Now. Now, I'll ask you again. Why did you turn Okan?" Azureous said, kneeling down to her level.
"I was hungry..." Sasha said, her voice nearly suppressed by Azureous's boot.
"Hungry? Well, then. Hungry indeed." Azureous said in a shock. He picked her up by her shirt and grabbed on to one of her horns and moved over to the door.
He opened the door to find the bartender behind it with a drawn sword. Any attempt that the bartender made was foiled by a disarming spell by Azureous. He made his way to the door, a screaming girl in his hands and opened the door. As he stepped outside, he saw a couple of guards with their swords drawn. For a split second, he wondered why they weren't in the inn, but it was only for a split second. Azureous let out a loud shout that flung the guards backward and into the snow and he walked away with Sasha. Azureous continued on his path until he found a small cave.
"Now, here's what's going to happen. I am going to paralyze you. Then, I am going to throw you in this cave. Next, I will collapse the cave, crushing you under the snow. After, I will find a cure for Okan." Azureous said.
Sasha shreaked as she tried to get out of his grasp, but could not. Soon, Azureous had a shimmereing green spell in is his hand and was casting it on Sasha. She became as stiff as a log and fell down at Azureous's feet. Azureous smiled and picked her up and walked into the cave with her. He found a small place where he could drop her and lay her down on the small snow bank. After he was satisfied that she was a little bit comfortable, he walked out of the chilly cave and outside.
He sighed as he thought about what he was going to do, but a rush of deranged excitement also impacted his thought process. Azureous summoned up a very destructive spell in his arsenal of spells and wondered when the last he used it was. He didn't know the answer, and soon, his body was overflowing with magic and he wasn't in control of his body anymore. It moved around as if he was casting a spell from a scroll and soon, he was at full power. He loosed the spell and a red beem of energy flew out of his hands and around the top of the entrance to the cave. It melted the ice instantly and bore through the snow faster that a startled horse, and soon, the top of the cave was groaning and creaking. Chunck by chunck, large ice blocks fell to the ground and covered the entrance. After ten seconds of the spell, the entire cave collapsed, trapping Sasha inside.
Azureous groaned and stopped the spell, his magic taking a small toll in his body. He walked away from the cave and back to Winterhold, thinking about a cure for Okan. As he walked into Winterhold, he was greeted by a group of soldiers with drawn swords and bows.
"Stop right there! You are under arrest!" One of the guards said.
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