Isa was minding her own business when Skyhold shook beneath her feet. The sky filled with an eerie green glow, and Isa turned in horror to see the breach, pulsing in all of its former glory. "Shit!" Isa shouted. Vhera burst out of the main hall, "Isa! We've gotta go, now! Grab who you can, we can't wait!" Solas and Dorian were with her. Isa ran down towards the stables, catching Bull and Varric along the way, calling out to Iovoren and Blackwall as she jumped on Feynthorn. "We need to go! Corypheus has made his move!"

Before long, they were riding through the mountains on their way to the remains of Haven. They reached the ruins of the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Isa hopped off of Feynthorn, rushing up the stairs to come face to face with Corypheus. Fortunately, he was far more interested in Vhera, threatening her, telling her to bow down before her new god. Isa swelled with pride when Vhera just snorted, "you talk too much," and attacked him.

The ground shattered around them, and Isa held on for dear life as the whole temple rose into the sky, floating as if they were in the fade. "Foolish girl," Corypheus's voice surrounded them, "running around with your stolen mark and slave markings on your face. You will fall before my power." Vhera staggered to her feet, and the others followed suit.

The lyrium dragon flew overhead. Isa closed her eyes and called out for her own secret weapon, smiling when she heard the mighty roar of her ally. The green beast swooped in, attacking the lyrium dragon before it could blast them to bits. Corypheus was clearly furious. "A dragon, oh, very clever." Isa fired an arrow at him while the others attacked. She tried getting close, but he turned on her, "you think you can face me? The blighted lyrium in your body makes you weak!" Suddenly, it was as if her blood was on fire, and she stumbled away. "Stay back!" Vhera shouted over the chaos. "We'll handle this!" Isa slumped against a wall, taking deep, shaky breaths. She looked up to see her dragon fighting the other beast.

She was losing.

She watched her dragon plummet to the earth, defeated. The red lyrium dragon turned its attention to the others, its throat glowing as it prepared to smother them in lyrium shards. Isa reached out, feeling the Fade around her. The veil was so thin here, torn by the breach. Maybe she wouldn't need a mage. Maybe she could do it on her own. She prayed, and stood, her eyes ablaze, her hair rising around her, glowing like molten gold. The lyrium dragon stopped its attack and turned to her. It let out a thundering roar and dove at her.

She met it with a wave of force, raw power flowing from her body. She threw blow after blow at the dragon, battling it with all of her might, destroying everything around her in the process. She could feel her energy draining, but the dragon was faltering as well. With one last mighty blow, she brought all of her force down upon it, smashing its skull, splitting it in two and splattering its blood everywhere. Isa stood, breathless, victorious over the tainted beast.

The soul fragment leaked out of it and rose to where Isa and the others were fighting Corypheus. Isa felt her glow of power fading, having spent up all of her energy; she knew better than to approach the battle, so she watched at a distance as the others wore down Corypheus. Finally, Vhera had him on his knees and defeated him with the anchor. There was a huge blast of power, and Isa ran towards them, hoping Vhera was okay.

She was. She stood victorious, closing the breach. Isa was so proud of her, unable to keep the grin off her face. Finally, the breach was sealed, leaving only the glowing scar in the sky. The temple lowered back to the ground, knocking them off balance as the world returned to normal. Well, mostly normal.

The orb Corypheus used lay shattered on the ground. Solas approached it, a strange look of despair on his face. He knelt down, picking up one of the shattered pieces. "I know you wanted to study the orb," Vhera began, "but at least it can't hurt anyone else now." Solas nodded, sighing sadly. "So much knowledge, lost. It will be alright. We must move forward." He stood. "Thank you, Inquisitor. You will always have my respect." Vhera nodded, "thank you, Solas." She headed down to check on the others.

Solas turned to Isa, a look of deep sadness on his face. Isa felt a pit in her stomach. He smiled slightly. "You seem to have discovered a way to activate your power without a mage." Isa shook her head, "only because the veil was torn. Still, it is a step. Are you hurt? The fight was a rough one."

He walked over to her, taking her hand and kissing her fingers gently. He ignored her question. Her breath caught in her throat, and she couldn't bring herself to pull her hand away. He looked at her with sad grey eyes. "No matter what happens," his voice trembled, "I want you to know that what we had was real."

"Isa!" Vhera called out to her. Solas let her go, stepping aside. Isa stood still for a moment until Vhera called for her again. She left Solas standing there, heading down to where Vhera waited. When she looked over her shoulder, Solas was gone.

Suddenly, Isa was held up high on Bull's shoulder. "Look at you, dragon slayer!" Vhera was on his other shoulder. Isa grinned, "yeah, I guess that was pretty cool." "Pretty cool?" Varric laughed incredulously. "You killed the damn beast with your bare hands! That was fucking awesome, Bones!" Vhera whooped, "we did it! We have slain Corypheus for good!" Isa let out a shout of victory, "to the Inquisitor!"

They celebrated for a week. Isa spent most of that week plastered, partially because people kept her drunk, and partially because she didn't want to think about the fact that Solas was gone, and even Leliana hadn't been able to track him down. He had vanished. Isa was so confused, and felt so lost, but she was content enough to drink with her friends and allies in celebration for the time. They had certainly earned it.

AN: Hey stick around because we're not even close to being done yet. 3