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Tucker's back hit the brick wall hard enough to make the world spin a bit. The vampire that had slung him began to charge, screaming at the top of his lungs. Tucker continued to sway and shake his head trying to make the world stop moving. Then, at the last second before the vampire's sword would have pierced his chest, Tucker slid to the side, knocked the sword into a crevice in the wall using his shield and decapitated the vampire before he could even scream.

"By Arkay am I good!"

His back-patting would have to wait as the battle had reached its peak. The Dawnguard had only just made it into the main dining hall. The charge across the bridge had been a slog as gargoyles descended left and right on them. Their troubles only got worse once they got through the main gate and into the main dining hall. Vampires and gargoyles were swarming all over the place. Tucker estimated that they had lost about ten or fifteen soldiers so far.

A gargoyle leaped down from the balcony above and slashed at Tucker. He nimbly dodged it and slammed its face with his shield which sent the creature back. He followed up with a slash across the face with his sword which pushed it back even further and blinded it in one eye. He kept up the rhythm, dodge, bash, slash, and repeat. He was giving it his all but the damn thing wouldn't die. He suddenly felt a presence behind him and dodged to the side.

A second later and a dagger would have gone into the back of his neck. It instead stabbed the gargoyle in its only good eye. He glanced back to see a vampire with a belt full of throwing knives on her. He raised his shield to take the barrage of knives she began slinging at him. The blinded gargoyle behind him was swinging wildly around itself, smashing walls, slinging dawnguard and vampire alike away from it. He took his sword and threw it at the gargoyle. The blade imbedded itself into the beast's chest, causing it to stumble and fall onto its back.

Not able to turn his attention on the knife thrower he summoned a fireball in his hand and slung it at her. She dodged it nimbly, jumping onto a nearby table. She began to run down it throwing more and more knives as she ran towards Tucker. His shield kept catching each knife though her new angle made it much more difficult.

"How many of those damn things do you have?!"

"More than enough to kill the likes of you!" She hissed back

He noticed one of the support legs for the table she was on and, using his shield, bashed it with all of his might. The leg gave immediately and the table collapsed, causing her to lose her balance and stumble. As she tried to regain her footing a large fireball blasted her in the chest, sending her flying from the table.

"Dodge that one you vampiric-"

"BY STENDARR!"

Tucker glanced to his side to see a soldier having his blood sucked out by a vampire. He moved forward but the creature snapped the man's neck and tore its fangs out splattering blood around it and onto its face. Tucker readied his sword and shield only to realize his sword was still imbedded in a gargoyle that was behind the vampire. He beat his hand on the shield and shouted at the vampire.

"Hey you blood sucking creep! Come and take a taste of dragon blood!"

The frenzied man, no, creature, turned on Tucker and began running full pelt. Tucker used his shield to counter and brush the axe swing aside. He slammed his fist into its face, it swung its axe again and he ducked under the stroke. He slammed his shield's tip into its throat, grabbed it by the collar, and slammed his head into it, leaving it dazed and confused. This was why he wore the full Dawnguard helmet. Sure, it was clunky and a bit impairing but it helped a hell of a lot with stuff like that. He didn't let up though, he bashed it in the forehead with his shield, brough flames to his hand and bathed the vampire in it. It began to scream as its flesh burned, at which point Tucker slammed his shield into it again, knocking it out.

He ran to the gargoyle to retrieve his sword. Just as he reached it he was face with another vampire. He pulled the sword with all his might but it didn't budge. The vampire laughed and bared her fangs as Tucker struggled.

"What's the matter, no sword to help you."

"Look, performance issues are surprisingly common okay?"

She hissed as she swung her sword at him, causing him to move away from the sword.

"Oh come on! There's no sport in this!"

"Too bad. Don't really care for sport."

He felt a blast of lightning hit him from behind, causing him to fly forward and his shield to fly away. The vampire that had blasted him from behind drew his hand back to launch another blast but was soon decimated by a battle troll that charged him. With one threat gone Tucker focused on the hissing vampire in front of him. She brought her sword down to stab him but he rolled. She stabbed again, he rolled yet again. This game continued, stab, roll, stab, roll, until Tucker used his elbow to wrench the sword from her grasp, grabbed her ankle, and pulled her down. He picked up the sword to stab her but she kicked his stomach, causing him to drop the blade and stumble back. She stood up and readied for another round.

Tucker was unarmed and the closest weapon was his blade stuck in the gargoyle. He smirked as a plan formed. He took off his helmet and threw it at the vampire's face as he charged. She instinctively dropped her sword and caught the helmet. He kicked her back into the wall, stunning her for a second. He grabbed his sword with both hands and swung it in a wide arc over her head, decapitating her. As her head slid off her shoulders and pulled his helmet from her grasp, putting it back on.

"Thanks for holding that. You guys are so considerate."

"Tucker! Get your ass over here!" Isran barked from the balcony above.

"Yes sir!"

Just as he turned he saw the obstacle that he'd have to face to mount the stairs. A large gargoyle, the largest he'd seen so far was staring directly at him. It let loose a roar that made nearby dawnguard and vampires glance from their combat. It began to rush him. Tucker looked for his shield, it was only about ten feet away but the rate that it was advancing he decided to try his luck. He reached out his hand and did his best to use telekinesis to pull the shield to him. It flew forward awkwardly but flopped back down. He tried again but it was too late, the gargoyle slammed into him full force.

"GAH!"

He grunted as he was slammed into the wall once more. The gargoyle's assault didn't end there, it took him by the shoulders and slammed him into the wall, over and over again. He felt his blade slip from his grasp. He could swear he could hear his helmet cracking as he was repeatedly slammed full force into the brick. He tried kicking the beast but it was useless, his kicks were too weak and he was beginning to lose any ability to focus as the blunt force of the repeated slamming caused him to begin to lose consciousness.

Suddenly, an ice bolt pierced through the beast's chest causing it to let go of one of his shoulders, the other clawed hand held on though. The beast gripped at the ice bolt, surprised and trying to comprehend what had happened. This was his chance, he grabbed the wrist of the beast and put every bit of fire power he could, filling the air with burnt gargoyle flesh and causing the gargoyle to let him go. He hit the ground and nearly collapsed but held himself together enough to use telekinesis on his sword, this time focusing purely on making the handle fly to him with no fear of overdoing it. The sword followed his will and slammed into his hand. It hurt but he gripped it and slashed the gargoyle once across the face, once across the side, then the leg. The barrage of sweeps and the ice bolt in its chest caused the beast to keel over rapidly. He looked across the way and saw Serana's hand with frost emanating from it.

"Come on! Let's go to Isran! We've got to finish this!"

Tucker just nodded, grabbed his shield and followed her up the stairs. The pair used a mixture of fire, ice, lightning bolts, dodging, slashing, and hacking to get through the vampires and monsters that blocked their way. They arrived to a set of huge wooden double doors where Isran and a group of dawnguard were holding the line.

"Harkon is in there! We've got to finish this up but you two get in there and use the bow on him!" Isran handed the bow to Serana and made a point of looking her in the eye.

"I still have my doubts about the wisdom of you being here but you and him are a team that has accomplished great feats. Do not make me regret this."

She nodded and looked at Tucker.

"Come on, it's time to face my father."

Tucker readied himself.

"I can hardly wait."

Together the two opened the double doors and entered the chapel.


Author's Note: Yay! Finally got an action sequence! Feel free to tell me your thoughts on this. I never really write combat stuff so I'm very new to this. Please let me know how I am doing with it and send any tips you might have! Hope you enjoyed it. And sorry for the cliffhanger, I really wanted to get some combat for you guys and the next one is gonna have a lot of dialogue before the combat. And yeah, Tucker's combat style is very dodge, shield bash, and deflect style. It's kind of a Captain America with a sword style but far less acrobatic and not a super soldier. Also, he uses light armor but uses the heavy Dawnguard helmet cus it looks badass as hell.