June and Seradia left shorty after they left the Arcanaeum and got their things, Urag told June that the one who stole to books name was Orthon and last he heard he was heading to Fellglow Keep with the necromancers. As they left Winterhold June explained it to Seradia. "So how long do you think it will take to get there?" Seradia shivered a little as the cold wind hit her face. "Depending on the weather and on how many stops we make probably close to a week." June answered keeping her face forward.

"A week!?" Seradia quickly looked at her. "It will seriously take a week?.." She looked down feeling a little uncomfortable with it. She had never been away from the college that long. "Hey, you wanted to come." Just just shrugged. Seradia let out a small sigh as she slowly looked down at the ground, she watched the dusty snow on the road rise up in the air with every step she took. 'I didn't prepare for a week...' A frown appeared on Seradia's face as she thought about it more. "What's the matter? You were excited about it a second ago." June slightly looked at her and her voice sounded like she expected this.

Seradia quickly looked away. "I..I just wish you told me that before we left. I didn't pack much.." She replied quietly. June smiled and looked back a head. "Don't worry about it, I always pack pretty heavy so you can just barrow some of my things if you need to do." Seradia looked at her a bit surprised but than just smiled. "Thanks.." She said. "Don't worry about it." June rubbed the back of her neck as she slightly looked down.

Seradia tilted her head back a little examining June's bag. She didn't know why she didn't notice it before, but now that she did she saw that her bag was full and she had another small pack tied around her waist along with her satchel. Seradia felt a little better now knowing that she wouldn't hold them back due to not being prepared. She let out a relieved smile and looked a head, she saw a snow fox run across the road and she thought she could see a little sun light peaking from the clouds.

They spent most of the day on the road only stopping a couple times to eat and take small breaks. Seradia noticed as they got farther away from Winterhold the sky got clearer. Since it was always cloudy there and mostly snowing she was a little excited to see the stars that night. She had only seen them a few times and she couldn't contain her excitement as she saw the sun setting. "We should find a spot to rest." June said looking up at the darkening sky. Seradia nodded and followed her as she walked off of the road.

It took them a while to find a good spot off the road but once they did it didn't take them long to settle down. June gathered some wood and placed them in a nice pile, Seradia summoned fire in her hands and blew the fire into the pile making them a nice fire. They both un rolled their bed rolls and pulled out their food. "So is it true that you defeated Alduin?" Seradia quickly asked surprising June a bit. Seradia heard many rumors about the Dragonborn and the dragons including the defeat of Alduin. "Yes." June answered her examining her face.

Seradia showed excitement and awe on her face, a smile quickly appeared. "How many dragons have you killed?" Seradia brought her knees to her chest and hugged them tightly. June looked away scratching the side of her face. "Why the sudden questions?" She asked. Seradia looked down at the fire and shrugged. "I'm just curious..I've heard a lot about the things you've done and I just want to know how many of them are true.." She slowly looked back up at June.

June took a bite into some cheese and examined Seradia's face once more. "Well..Let me think.." June said trying to remember the right number of dragons she defeated. "I think if I were to guess I'd have to say...ten?" June rubbed the back of her neck. "Wow!" Seradia said with more excitement in her voice. June couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed from the attention and gave her an awkward smile. "When was it when you defeated the last dragon?" Seradia asked another question.

"The last dragon I defeated was on my way back to Winterhold." June took a quick drink of some ale. "Really!?" Seradia couldn't keep her excitement down. Hearing these things made her want to see a dragon up close but she knew she would probably not do so well up against a dragon. June nodded as she finished her food. "I think it was near Falkreath. Yeah it was!" June crossed her arms and nodded as she remembered. "It was near Falkreath because I remember seeing that the dragon was attacking a couple people. A man and a woman, they weren't just ordinary people though..I think they were warriors.." June tapped her chin as she thought back on them.

"I remember showing up just in time when the dragon was about to eat the guy. I don't know who they were though.." June looked up at the night sky. "I bet they were grateful." Seradia said as she finally picked up her own food and started eating it. June just shrugged. "Maybe. I didn't stick around to talk to them." June examined the stars. "Were they a couple?" Seradia asked with a mouth full of food. "I have no idea, I kind of remember what the guy looked like. He had medium length hair and silver eyes, his eyes were the first thing I noticed when I glanced at him.." June was starting to get lost in her memory.

"Now that I actually think about it..He was kind of good looking." A crooked smile appeared on June's face. "You should of talked to him then!" Seradia said finishing her food. June just shrugged again. "Eh, I'll probably never see him again.." June laid back onto the ground. "You never know. Some day fate might kick in and make you two run into each other." Seradia smiled as she watched June. "Doubt it." June yawned loudly.

"I don't have time for romance anyways.." June mumbled as she quickly got up from the ground and walked over to her bed roll. "We should call it a night now, we have an early start tomorrow." June snuggled into her bed roll. Seradia nodded and got up walking over to her own bed roll. She got into it and let out a comfortable sigh as she looked up at the stars, she couldn't help but smile at the beautiful night sky as she slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Days have passed and it seemed like their journy was taking forever. Seradia was already getting tired of it, she let out a loud and long sigh as they walked down a path they turned down from the road. The sun was moving from the middle of the sky downwards, evening seemed to be approaching quickly. On the journey she got to know June better and June got to know her better as well. Seradia still couldn't figure out why Ancano didn't like June, she was nice and brave.

Maybe he was afraid she would disrupt the order in the college since she was knew and since she was straight out of Nord legend. The Thalmor seemed to hate anything that had something to do with Nords, especially their legends. So maybe seeing one actually coming true angers him. Seradia let out a small sigh as she thought about him some more, she thought about the way he would look at her and she wondered what it was they had. She was too afraid to ask him, most of the time she was to shy to even look him in the eye.

June quickly stopped making Seradia almost run into her, Seradia quickly looked up at her. "There it is." June said pointing at a building in the distance. Seradia looked at it and examined its structure, she saw that it was mostly rubble-whether from age or war. It was impossible to tell. "Get down!" June quickly commanded as she grabbed Seradia's arm and pulled her down to the ground with her. They hid behind a large bush and peaked out at the building. Seradia's eyes widened as she saw a flame atronach approach the entrance and look around.

Behind it there was a mage in a black robe, Seradia felt her stomach tighten into knots as she saw more of them patrolling on top of the walls. June examined them, they looked pretty skilled but the only way to be able to tell was to fight them. But June wasn't really in the mood for a close fight and she knew there was probably more inside. June slowly un sheathed her bow and redied an arrow. "Just stay still and stay quiet, I'm going to take care of this." June whispered as she slightly stood up on her knees.

She pulled back her arrow and aimed in carefully for the flame atronach, she took in a deep breath and held it. She waited till the mage was close to it and than she released her arrow. The arrow struck the atronach's head causing it to immediately fall to the ground and explode into flames once it died. The mage screamed in pain as he ran around on fire till he fell to the ground and burned to death. The other mage's gasped and jumped down from the wall and ran do his burning body.

They quickly readied their spells and looked around. "I'm going to kill whoever-" They didn't get a chance to speak because June's arrows came flying from the distance and hit them directly in the heads. As soon as they both hit the ground June quickly knelt back down and waited patiently. She didn't see anybody else run out and she didn't' see anybody run to the bodies. "Alright I think we got them all out here." She said putting her bow back in its place.

Seradia stood up along with June and looked around as they walked up to the fort. She watched carefully for anyone June might of missed. "How many more do you think are inside?" Seradia asked looking at June. "Impossible to tell, we'll just have to go in and find out for ourselves." She shrugged and walked up to the door. Seradia stopped and looked down, she felt un easy about it. June looked at her and noticed the look on her face, she couldn't tell if it was fear or not.

June walked up to Seradia and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I wouldn't worry about any draugr being here. Looks like it's just these mages." June said pointing at the door with her thumb. Seradia kept her eyes to the ground. "I know..." She replied quietly. It wasn't that she was scared, she just knew she wasn't really much help. She was useless against that draugr in Saarthal and she would probably be useless against these mages depending on what magic they used. "Are you still feeling weak?" June asked raising an eyebrow at her. Seradia shook her head and quickly looked up at her. "No, I'm fine. Let's go in and get this done." She gave June a small smile and quickly walked past her and into the building.

They walked into a large room that didn't have much in it-a broken book case stood against a wall on one side of the room and there was a table on the other side of the room with burnt books. Seradia frowned as she saw the ruined books. "This way." June said seeing a stair way lead down. Seradia followed her as she walked down the stairs and slowly opened the door. "Let's try to be quiet, we don't know what or who is ahead." June said slightly looking back at Seradia. Seradia nodded and agreed with her. The stairs led to a path that had several twists and turns. The long path finally ended and they reached a room that was flooded, Seradia stepped into the room and looked around seeing that there was also spider webs hanging from the ceiling.

"Ah! new test subject's! Get them my pets!" A loud voice came from across the room. "Look out!" June yelled quickly grabbing Seradia and pulling her back. Venom was shot out at Seradia and it barely missed her. Spiders came running at them but they weren't normal spiders, they were colored differently and they were glowing red. June quickly got her bow and shot an arrow at one of the hitting in the middle of its face. Once it died it exploded into flames. "What the hell!" June yelled as the burst of fire just barely missed her. "They're enchanted!" Seradia summoned ice spike's in her hands and shot them out at the spiders.

"Well that's a new one." June jumped back and shot out two more arrows hitting another one. Seradia quickly ran from it dodging its exploding flames. "AHAHA!" The crazy mage laughed hysterically as he started to shoot lighting bolts at them. "Damn!" June yelled as she dodged a bolt. "AHAHAHA! I HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR YOU!" The crazy mage yelled and laughed loudly. "Ah shut up!" June yelled as she quickly shot an arrow at him. The mage laughed some more and was cut off by the arrow hitting him straight in the forehead. Seradia shot an icebolt at the last spider killing it, she shielded her face from the exploding flames.

"I really hope there's no more of that one.." June mumbled refering to the crazy mage. June put her bow up and they stepped over the dead spiders continuing through the building. It didn't take long for them to reach the next room, they both walked in and the first thing that they see are several jail cells aligned against the walls. Every single one of them had a person inside, Seradia furrowed her eyebrows down as she approached one of the cells.

The person that was inside was a woman, her features weren't normal. Her cheeks were sunken in and her eyes were dark. Seradia looked at the woman closely, the woman slowly looked up at her and Seradia gasped when she saw she had glowing gold eyes. She quickly stepped back from the cell. "Vampires." June said kicking one of the cells making the vampire inside hiss at her. "Obviously." She heard a woman's voice, she thought it was Seradia's. "Well that was rude." June furrowed her eyebrows down at her. "It wasn't me." Seradia crossed her arms. "Over here." They heard the voice again.

They both turned their heads seeing that it was one of the vampires. She was a dark elf, she had dark slick black hair and her golden eyes seemed to pop out more than the others. Probably because her skin was so dark. They both walked up to the cell and examined her, the vampire had her arm on the door and she was leaning on it. "I want to make a deal with you two." Her voice was dark and they could tell by it that she was very old. "A deal?" June asked furrowing her eyebrows down at her.

The vampire nodded. "You see that door over there." She pointed to the door on the other side of the room. They both looked at it and than looked back at her. "Behind that door there is a large room full of mages, too many for just the two of you to handle." The vampire walked away from the cage door and turned her back to them. "Get to the point." June crossed her arms.

The vampire slightly turned its head towards June. "Release us, and we shall take care of them for you." She turned around and walked back up to the door. June and Seradia exchanged looks and than quickly looked back at her. "Do you think we're stupid?" June glared at the vampire a little. "You are if you don't accept my help." The vampire examined them both closely. "How do we know you won't turn on us if we let you out." Seradia finally spoke. "Because you two are not the one's we want." The vampire looked at the door.

"We have been trapped here for who knows how long..They've studies us..They've tortured us..They've used us.." The vampire slowly looked down with anger showing in her eyes. "We've been nothing but test subject's.." She started to pace in her cell. She stopped and tilted her head towards them. "If you let us out, you have my word that not one of us will harm you." She slowly walked back up to the cell door. June let out a small sigh as she looked down rubbing the back of her neck.

Seradia couldn't help but feel bad for them, she examined the vampires face and saw her moving her eyes towards something. Seradia looked to where the vampire was looking and she was looking at a chain on the wall. She looked back at the vampire and than looked at June. June slightly met Seradia's eyes. "Do what you want but don't expect me to help if they turn on us.." June looked away. Seradia nodded and walked over to the chain, as she did all the vampires stepped up to their jail doors and watched her carefully.

She reached up to the chain, she slightly hesitated but than knew she was doing the right thing. No creature should have to go through something like this. Seradia quickly pulled the chain and as she did all the doors opened at once. The vampire's were a little surprised that she actually did it but than they kept their promise and walked out of their cells. They walked past them both and right through the door. "The subjects have escaped!" They heard one of the mages yell.

Not long after they heard the fight begin, Seradia started to walk towards the room but June quickly grabbed her shoulder stopped her. "I'd wait.." She said letting the vampires take their revenge. Seradia nodded and did what June suggested and waited.