Yay! Chapter 11! I just want to say that In 9-11 more chapters and…BOOM The Snow Elves is over! But for right now It's still on! LET US BEGIN!
Telind stepped in between Ladia and Alusan.
"Stop! Ladia, we need to leave. Serana might be at the Fort already!" Telind said to Ladia.
He turned and bowed to Alusan
"It's nice to meet you, my lord Alusan, but we must leave to the Dawnguard with the Scroll." Telind said, bowing to Alusan.
"It is the property of Queen River Song, you must ask her, if you want to keep the Scroll." Alusan said.
The door opened and Ulfric and the Queen walked in.
"My daughter, you may leave with the Scroll if you promise on Oblivion that you will return it and you will visit us." The Queen said sternly.
"I swear on Oblivion." Ladia said.
The Queen nodded and handed her the Scroll. Ladia grabbed it and bowed her head to her parents. Telind bowed to The Queen and only dropped his head to Ulfric. They both left the palace and the dreary city.
They were at Fort Dawnguard in three days and Serana was waiting for them, holding a Scroll in her hand. She had gotten there only minutes before them. They gathered in the main chamber, but Dexion was nowhere to be found. Isran said that he was by the fire in the dining room. Dexion was sitting, hunched by the fire. Ladia sat next to him and they talked in low voices. Ladia walked over to Telind and sighed.
"Dexion… is blind, so he can't read the scroll, but I can. He told me about a cave where I can, somehow, read the Scrolls." Ladia said.
"Where's the cave?" Asked Telind.
CRACK!
Thunder boomed and lightning spilt the sky. Telind, Serana and Ladia were all marching up a steep Falkreath mountain.
"It should be around… here… some… somewhere." Ladia said, her teeth chattering.
"There!" Serana said, pointing at a dark cave at the top of the small path they had been on.
They walked in. A soft green filled the cave, it was small and covered with green grass. They walked through a small tunnel into a huge cavern. Small paths wound with the side of the cavern and sulfur pool bubbled in the center. Giant pine trees grew up and swarms of the cream moths were everywhere. The group made their way down the steep path to the center, where a beautiful tree grew and a column of white light shown next to the tree. Ladia grabbed a draw knife from her knapsack and scraped it against the tree leaving an ugly mark on it. Ladia took the light wood and looked around. The cream moths swarmed around her, by the thousands. She walked into the light and pulled out the Blood Scroll.
"I see a map. Yes, there's Solitude and… and Markarth. The location of Auriel's Bow is in a cave called Darkfall, but there's more I… I see a thief! And… the mages! The lost elves and the forgotten princess! The crimson mountain and the Tonal Architect! The return-" Ladia collapsed, her face pale and she shivered.
And Before Telind and Serana could react they heard a vampire shout, "There!" and it was chaos. Three vampires and some gargoyles charged at them, but before long they were dead. Telind picked up up Ladia and they made camp in the first cave.
The Next day…
Ladia awoke when Telind and Serana where deciding when to leave the cave and soon the group was off to the Reach. Telind and Ladia where walking a bit behind Serana when Ladia asked him.
"Do you know about that second prophecy? I don't know what I was saying." Ladia said shakily.
"I thought it was about Auriel's Bow." Telind said.
"No, it wasn't! It.. it was like someone was trying to reach us." Ladia said.
"Reach us? Why?"
"I don't know. Do you know anything about the 'lost elves'?" Ladia asked.
"No." Telind said.
He couldn't help feel a glimmer of hope that… maybe… he wasn't alone after all.
They walked in silence. The next day they were in the Reach and making good progress and by that afternoon they were at the mouth of Darkfall cave and together they plunged into the darkness. They walked through small tunnels and walked into what seemed like a dead end. A wooden bridge stretched across and wide chasm and on the other side was a stone wall with no tunnels entrances or doors. Telind searched on one side and Ladia searched on the other side of the bridge.
"Lorundil? Did you find anything?" Ladia asked.
"No." Telind yelled.
"I'm coming over." Ladia called.
Telind turned and saw ropes hold in the bridge up strain and before he could yell a warning the bridge snapped and Ladia disappeared into the darkness.
"Ladia! Ladia!" Telind yelled into the darkness.
Dread filled his mind and then a crazy idea popped into his mind and he jumped into the inky blackness. He plunged into water and he saw Ladia holding on to the stoney wall.
"Lorundil!… current… wall!" Ladia cried, but her cries were drowned out by the rush the of the water. Telind was suddenly rushed down into the dark water. He tried to come up for air but the roof of a small tunnel stopped him and just when he thought he was going to pass out, he dropped again into a swirling pool and huge spiders leaped from the wall after him. He exploded into a cave onto sharp, black rocks and he laid there catching his breath, but a Frostbite spider jumped on him. He stabbed it with his dagger and leapt to his feet. Four spider circled around him and he shot lightning at them. Telind glanced around and saw Ladia shivering in a corner. She got up slowly and stumbled over to met him.
"What's wrong?" Telind asked Ladia.
"Spiders." She groaned.
And on that note I will end this chapter and say farewell until Chapter 12.