Chapter 11

So here is the next chapter and I hope you guys enjoy


"I would like to challenge you Dragonborn." The mysterious adventurer declares.

Everyone stops eating and looking to the adventurer who challenged The Dragonborn, but then the adventurers noticed who is the person.

"Isn't that the Fire Princess, the only level 6 in the Hermes Família in fact didn't hse go to level six a few monthsback? it said she and the Sword Princess had a fight a few years back, I also heard their fight destroyed the canyon it was set in." At that moment everyone took a step back.

"As much as I would like to fight you, I'm not exactly in fighter clothes." He points to the fact he is wearing civilian clothes.

"It isn't an issue; you can send The Little Rookie to get your armour and weapons." She points to Bell.

Drago gets up and tries to intimidate, Her, but it doesn't work "I would advise you to watch your tongue I prize my teammates very highly so I would advise you to think of your next words very carefully."

"Wow, you do have the soul of a dragon, if you are that possessive." She teases.

Everyone could feel the tension in the room as the two first class adventurers' size each other up.

"Hm, Drago I can go get your items." Bell runs out of the building and back to his home.

Drago take a sit as well the mysterious woman on a table on the table adjacent to his own while holding down her hat. All the while Drago is pondering on who she is.

After a while Bell arrived back with his sword and armour, Drago goes to Bell and thanks him for grabbing his stuff.

"Mama Mia, can I use the back room." Drago asks.

"Sure, but are you sure you want to fight her? She isn't going to be an easy fight." Mama Mia warns him.

"Trust me, it will be her having the hard time." Drago shrugs off the warning and enters the back room.

After a while, Drago exits the room in his Nightingale armour with his hood down and his Sword of the Ice Monarch on his back.

"So, lets head outside, I don't think Mama Mia would appreciate it if we messed up her establishment.

Once outside a group of people, were looking on with excitement, Lucien and Kaidan stand next to Bell who has a worried look on his face.

"Don't worry kid, Drago has faced scarier opponents, she shouldn't be more then a stepping stone." Kaidan reassures The Little Rookie.

"Do you know him?" Bell asks to the large warrior.

"Drago saved my life, so I've been working with him, for a few years now." Kaidan explains to the young boy.

"And he has helped me a lot with my research, on dwemer history." Lucien explains how he met Dragonborn.

"So, you are his friends." Bell asks, which they both nods.

"I'll give you one more chance to backdown." Drago draws his sword and a blue mist emanates from the sword, and the runes on the sword glow a gentle blue.

The woman draws her estoc and points it to Drago "No way, I want to see what The Dragonborn can do." She says with confident

Drago readies but he wasn't prepared at how fast she is, the rushes forward with a flurry of thrust, but Drago regains his composure and dodges some of the attacks, and deflecting a few but one was able to scratch on his face, after that the woman jumps back and smiles.

Drago uses his thumb to wipe the blood of his cheeks, and looks at it before smiling, and getting ready to fight.

Everyone looks on with excitement two master swordsman seeing who is the greatest.

Drago rushes in, and does some precises swings aiming for her stomach which she quickly deflects them, she quickly jumps back and lands with elegance as if she is walking on air.

"Not bad, your skills are impressive." She complements, but Drago says nothing and rushes in again this time dragging the sword on the ground, lifting up dust and when he is a close enough, he slashes the sword lifting the dust and obscuring her vision.

The woman quickly closes her eyes and takes a few steps back, but that didn't stop her, as she could feel a change light wind and quickly blocks the slash.

The Dragonborn grunts expecting that to be the winning blow, but she is still able to stop the attack, he pulls the blade back gets back into position to be ready.

The woman rubs her eyes to remove any dust allowing her to see again, "That was a smart move, blinding me and hoping to catch me of guard." She complements Drago, which he didn't respond and keeping his guard up, "Not much of a talker, but I guess you are not underestimating me."

Drago says nothing and goes in for another attack this time prodding her defences by giving light attacks and thrusts, he then does an overhead slash which she block's and she could feel the strength in the attack, she moves the blades so that the swords are in between them in a cross.

"You truly are powerful, in fact you could be stronger than even the Sword Princess, you truly earn the title of a dragon." The woman tries pushing back, but Drago turns the blade so it is flat and puts his hand on the blade to give him the extra support. "But you haven't seen what a Master of Fire can do." With that said a vortex of fire envelops her.

Drago didn't even flinch, the heat coming of her is no were close to the heat of a Dragon he has faced in the past, heck Alduin's fire was hotter.

"Wow you are really not afraid of fire, I expected nothing much from a dragon." She complemented

Drago uses even more of his strength to push the woman back with pure strength, realising that she is being overpowered, she tries to push back but realises it is a fruitless endeavour.

"FOH KRAH DIIN." Drago unleashes a wave of cold ice point blank rang, it was a so cold even with the fire enveloping the woman, she still could feel the cold, making her lose her concentration, and making her tumble back.

"What was that magic, he just shouted and magic just came out of his mouth." A random adventure comments.

"What was that magic." The woman asks while trying to get some heat back.

"It is what one would call a Thu'um a powerful ability only I possess." Drago gets ready to go in for another round.

The woman shakes of the cold and gets ready this time, she decides to take him seriously, she summons another vortex of fire and now everyone can feel the heat coming of her.

"Well now you taking me seriously? Well then I might to give it my all." Drago takes a deep breath "MUL QUAH DIIV" his dragon aspect has taken shape, as an ethereal armour in the shape of dragon.

Everyone looks on in both awe and fear, so that is why they call him dragonborn, his abilities make him look like a dragon.

She channels her fire on her blade and with a slash a wave of fire rushes to Drago hitting him dead centre and a tower of fire erupts.

Everyone had to take steps back to avoid getting burn all the while Bell has a look of fear on his face, but it quickly goes away when he hears a familiar voice.

"LOK VAH KOOR" With a loud shout it disperses the flame, making the woman have a look of disbelief, no one has ever survived her Tower of Fire.

"I am rather impressed, had I not been in my Dragon Aspect, I would probably have a few burns, and it would have hurt quite a bit." He gives her some praise.

She still feels like her pride is wounded, but no matter if magic won't work then she will use her skill to take down Drago.

She rushes forward and does several strikes and Drago easily blocks them with ease, using one thrust he deflects the attack to the side allowing her to move forward and giving her a kick pushing her back.

She grabs her stomach in pain as if a goliath stuck her, she looks on at Drago who rests his sword on his shoulders and has a smile on his face.

"Now, can we end this little fight, or would you like me to continue to humiliate you." Drago taunts her.

She ignores the taunt and gets back to a stance, but she is shaking slightly, she shakes it off and goes in again, Drago leaps over her and lands behind her, he quickly spins around to try and met up with him.

This time Drago goes in for the attack, slashing at her which she tries to block but his speed is far faster than hers, dare she say it, he could be faster than Aiz.

Drago's and the woman's sword lock in place, and now with a bit of control he rotates her sword and with a flick of his wrist, he is able to disarm her the sword flying in the air and with her wide open he gives her a hard front kick, making her lose her breath and she slides on the ground.

As the sword comes down Drago catches it and allowing him to see it a finely crafted sword only a noble would have.

The woman looks at her hand to see her sword gone then she looks to Drago who is admiring her sword, "Give that back!" she demands.

Drago hears her request and toss it to her and it lands on the ground which she picks up and gets up but is a bit wobbly.

"hmph, I give you a light tap and you're already on your last leg, as far as I see it this fight is over." Drago sheathes his sword. "If it is true that you were able to keep up with the sword princess, then I see it was more luck then pure skill." With that said he walks away.

That struck a nerve as she goes in for the kill, Drago turns around to see the sword coming at him, but he doesn't move.

"Maria!" A new voice shouts, which makes her stop a few cm from his face.

Maria retracts her sword and looks behind her to see a young woman with blue hair wearing glasses and wearing a large cloak.

"Maria what are you doing challenging a member of another Família." The woman scolds her.

"But Captain Asfi, I was just…" she couldn't finish as Asfi cut her off.

"Silence, you know very well that fighting other Família members outside of a war game is against the rules." She tells Maria off, in which Maria couldn't or rather she didn't want to reply, "We will decide your punishment when we arrive back home."

Drago is just standing there looking on with a bit of amusement, then Asfi walks over to the Dragonborn and gives a slight bow "I would like to apologise for the inconvenience that she caused you."

"No worries, I should have declined the challenge, I just get a bit defensive when it comes to associates." He tries to lessen the tension by being fair.

"Well regardless of your actions, she still will properly be punished." Asfi says as she turns her head to look back at Maria.

Maria couldn't help but feel a bit of danger run up her spine, as punishment meant doing something you didn't like "Captain, please I am sorry about going overboard." She begs to the captain.

"Come now Maria you will explain your little transgression to Lord Hermes." With that Asfi walks away with Maria following behind her with her head slump down in dread.

"Well now that little problem over and done with, Lets continue the party." Drago says with excitement.

With Asfi and Maria the two are in an alleyway discussing the events that transpired.

"So, he is a strong individual, far stronger than most adventures." Asfi commented on Drago's abilities.

"Yeah, he took on my full power attack, and survived." Maria says a bit shaken up, remembering how he took on his Fire Tower with no marks.

"Yes, and he was speaking two new individuals last night and they look strong as well." Asfi comments remembering the conversation she saw yesterday night, but then something comes to her mind, "Why did you except this mission? It isn't like you take on missions like this."

Maria walks out of the shadow and looks to the moon removing her mask and taking her hat off letting her long hair flow in the wind "I wanted to see him after so long." She says with a tear in her eye.

The next morning Bell went out to get his new armour, and while that is happening, Bell met a new person named Welf Crozzo, a smith and he offered his services if he is allowed to tag along to go the deeper levels.

While Lilly was against the idea, Drago wasn't necessary against it, but he needs to keep an eye on this new person until he is proven not to be a threat.

"Master Bell why did you bring him along?" Lily ask not happy with the current situation.

"Well, he offered me to make some new equipment if he could tag along to the deeper levels." Bell offers the reason why he joined them.

Lilly still looks unhappy at Bell then turns to Drago "Master Drago, please convince Master Bell that it is too risky to let a stranger join us." She asks The Dragonborn to talk to some sense to Bell.

Drago leans into Lily's face "Then perhaps I should convince him to sever all ties with you Lilly, since I still see you the bigger threat to this little group then this Welf Crozzo." Drago threatens her.

"Come one guys we are a team and we need to work together if we want to survive." Welf tries to lessen the tension.

"Wait did you say Welf Crozzo as in the failed family who creates magic swords?" Lilly asks seeing if she heard the name right.

"What so special about that name?" Drago confused about why Crozzo is a popular name.

"You've not heard of the Crozzo smiths, smiths who can create magic swords that can destroy entire kingdoms?" Lilly asks Drago as if he lived under a rock.

Drago says nothing, unable to find an excuse on why he's never heard of the Crozzo name.

"Listen squeaks, I would appreciate it if you didn't go around, shouting my name out loud like that, it makes it awkward." Welf says as he looks away.

"Wow, is this guy really a shame of his family name." Drago looks surprised, but shouldn't be since he gave up his family name up after they were killed.

As he is thinking that he could sense danger and he is right as large pig man sprout from the ground like over grown weeds, wielding clubs, and little creatures that remind him of scamps.

"Do you want me to take them all on?" Drago says as he draws his sword.

"No thanks, if you fought all the monsters it wouldn't be fair." Welf declines the offer.

"We should get into formation this could be trouble." Lilly says as she prepares her crossbow.

Bell says nothing and draws his knives and charges in, at speeds faster than normal which catches The Dragonborn eyes, that level up really did give him a boost, thinking that Drago is distracted, the orc charges in with its weapon raised, but Drago is quicker as he does a quick draw and slices the monster in pieces.

Bell starts slashing at the monsters, and he keeps moving not staying in one place, to everyone except Drago, is amazed at how fast he is.

Welf cuts an orc in half, and it turns into a puff of smoke, "Man he is really good."

Lilly, fires a bolt that hits a scamp, behind Drago, staggering it and Drago slices down the middle, "These monsters aren't even a challenge to me."

After a while all the monsters, are killed and everyone takes a breath and sheaths their weapons, and they notice a new group of people, enter and they decide to take a break, while Lily collected all the magic stones.

"So Welf, what can you tell me about the Crozzo Family." Drago asks as he takes a bite of a meal.

"We were famous smith in the Kingdom of Rakia, we created some of the strongest magical swords in the world, they were so strong that they could defeat an entire army with a single swing." Welf says with a bit of detest in in his voice.

That didn't go over Drago and he notices it "Why such anger to them, I know smiths and enchanters who would to have an ability to create powerful weapons."

"It is what they can do to people." Is all that Welf said, and Drago got what he means by that, the fact they can corrupt people, and give them a false sense of invincibility.

Welf looks to the sword on Drago's back "Can I have a look of that sword?" Welf asks.

Seeing no harm in it, he draws his sword and hands it to the Blacksmith, who looks at with interest, "It is a magic sword, but not one I am familiar with." Welf runs his fingers on the blade and he can feel an unnatural cold coming from it.

"The sword is a few hundred years old, and from what I can tell form it, the sword was created by a powerful Evil Archmage Almion Celmo enchanted the claymore of a great warrior, by infusing the sword with a powerful Frost Monarch." He tries to remember the swords history, "It is said a legendary hero once wielded that sword."

"Wow, who was that hero that wielded the sword?" Bell asks with excitement.

"Well, his name has been lost, but it is said he is the reincarnation of a ancient elf leader, but the people call him The Nerevarine, and also they say he is immortal." He tells them a small snippet of The Nerevarine story.

"So, if he is immortal what happened to him? Have you met him? what was his feet that made him a legendary hero? how did the people know he was the reincarnation of a long dead elf hero?" Bell asks multiple questions at once.

"Calm down Bell, He saved his people from being enslaved by a deadly disease, they knew because he could wear a ring that his original self-wore thousands of years ago, and it is said he ventured out to another continent." He says as he remembers the story he read when he was a child.

"Wow, and he is still around, I hope we can meet him one day, I am sure he is having lot of interesting stories." Bell dreams of actually meeting a hero.

"Well for a guy who isn't a smith the sword is of really high quality, in fact even Hephaestus would be impressed by the craftmanship." Welf hands the sword back and sheaths the sword.

"Thanks, I will take the complement." Drago hands the food box back to Bell and decides to take a drink from his water pack.

"Run it is a Dragon!" An adventure shouts as he and the group run away.

The three of them see a large lizard creature with a long neck and dirty brown scales lumber forward, they notice the monster is heading to Lilly who is still busy picking up stones.

"Lilly run!" Bell shouts to the prum, who looks up to see a large dragon looking down towards her, with fire ready in its mouth.

Drago out of instinct, quickly runs to Lilly and shields her with his body as the dragon releases its fire breath.

Lilly screams as she could feel the heat, but Drago is not even flinching, in fact, to him it only feels like standing next to campfire.

The dragon stops unleashing its fire breath to see Drago completely unharmed his armour emitting hot air, The Dragonborn pushes Lilly out of the way and turns around and is about to show it what a real fire breath looks like, but Bell beat him to the punch.

"FIREBOLT!" A large burst of fire shoots from Bell's hand in fact it looks to be about the size of Drago's full power Fire Breath destroying the monsters head and making it disintegrate into black smoke.

After that incident the group decided to head back to the surface and they went their separate ways, but before that happened Welf asks Bell if he could come over to his forge as he wanted to talk to him about something.

When they got back Bell explains what happened on the 11th floor, and he asks Hestia to have a look.

"Yup, it's your skill Argonaut." Hestia says as she lifts Bell's shirt to see his falna.

"Really?" Bell says as he looks to his hand wheere he unleashed his attack.

"Yeah, all you need to do is figure out what is the trigger of your skill." Hestia says.

All the while Drago was leaning on the wall, and is impressed he blasted a dragon's head clean off with one shot, and even Drago has to emit it, if given the right training and stimulus, Bell could possibly rival his power easily.

"But anyway, we shouldn't worry about that, we should have dinner and then head to bed." Hestia says with a bit of tiredness in her voice.

Drago could feel a bit of sleepiness hit him so he does a stretch "Yeah it has been a long day and I could let Vermina take my dreams."

"Who?" Hestia asks wondering what deity is named Vermina.

"Oh, she is the goddess of dreams." He quickly explains not trying to let to much out, he quickly removes his clothes and puts on a more comfortable trousers and hops into bed.

Hestia looks to the sleeping Dragonborn and just shrugs it off, thinking it isn't too important.

The next morning Bell said that Welf wanted to craft a new weapon and Drago didn't want to got to the dungeon so he decide to go find Lucien and Kaidan.

As he is walking, he notices a small loose pouch and using artful stealing techniques he takes the pouch, with out the guy noticing, well for a few minutes till the guy stops and looks to his belt to see his coin purse missing he looks around but couldn't find the guy who did it.

Using the sphere Lucien gave him he arrives at a small café where Lucien is drinking some tea while Kaidan is drinking some ale, he heads over and takes a open seat.

"So, it would seem you made an interesting friend last night." Kaidan comments on his little fight

Drago sighs and beckons a waiter to the table, "I would like some tea, with the breakfast special." He orders his drink in which the waiter bows and heads to the kitchen.

"She was an interesting one, her fighting style was totally different, she also managed to get the advantage over me." Drago thinks of the fight.

"Indeed, her style was nothing I've ever seen, and her reaction to you surviving the attack, she expected an easy fight." Kaidan commented on the fight.

"Yeah, she underestimated you, which always seems to be a common theme for your enemies, they keep thinking that you are an easy opponent." Lucien comments on a theme with Drago's fight.

As Lucien says that, the waiter arrives and puts the items on the table, so Drago pulls his hood and mask down and picks up the cup. "I don't know why either, but still I swear I've felt like I've seen her before, but I can't put my fingers on it."

Kaidan and Lucien shrugs at the statement not knowing what to say.

Drago rolls his eyes, and takes a bite of his breakfast and chews for a while then swallows "Anyway besides my mysterious fighter, have you learned anything new?"

"Apparently there are monster outside the city to, so we've been going around and clearing that up near the villages." Lucien puts a modest size bag of valis of valis.

"Good job, I'm sure the villagers were happy they didn't need to go to the guild and some adventures were nearby." Drago commented on their success.

"Oh, also a few of the ladies actually proposed to Kaidan saying 'Oh I would love a big strong adventurer to be my husband'" Lucien pretends to be the girl making Drago laugh, and Kaidan looks away embarrassed.

"Don't worry Kaidan, I'm sure you'll find a beautiful maidan who you could sweep of her feet and marry her, and I could be uncle Drago." The Dragonborn chuckles at the thought.

"You two can shut up." The swordsman looks away with annoyance.

"Oh, don't be like that we are just having a little fun." He chuckles before taking a drink.

"Besides that, the monsters here are quite tough, but compared to the ones back on Tamriel, they are nothing." Kaidan says with some pride.

"Really? Thinking about it, you are right, I've been killing the monster here quickly." Drago says while thinking about his time here.

"Well, I wouldn't expect any less from The Dragonborn, slayer of…" Lucien couldn't finish as Drago reaches over the table and pulls the Imperial close to his face.

"Quite Lucien, saying his name around these parts is considered bad luck and I do not want them to know I slayed him!" Drago quickly silences the scholar.

"Oh, my apologise." Lucien apologises.

Drago let goes of Lucien and quickly sits back down, with Kaidan looking a bit smug.

"You know Lucien, that big mouth of yours always gets us into big trouble." Kaidan says with a bit of smugness.

"Well sorry about that, I just wanted to remember the times we went through slaying that dragon, and the adventurer we went through." Lucien talks back.

"Well, he doesn't want to announce the whole thing to the entire city and cause trouble for himself." Kaidan response back.

While the two nag at each other like an old couple, Drago's mind wonder about and he notices a particular maid, Syr, who is in simple street clothes holding a large bag.

"Hey guys, lets go, I want to check on something." Drago puts some coin on the table and leaves with his two friends following behind him.

Following that girl has been interesting, as it seems she has been wondering about for quite a while, not going to any particular area, but she stops in front of a flower shop and starts admiring them.

Around a corner, the trio pop there heads out to see Syr, browsing flowers.

"May I ask why we are tailing her? It just seems she is just having some alone time." Lucien comments on his friends reasoning.

"Something about that girl just rubs me the wrong way, I can't explain it, but there is more to her than meets the eye and that is troublesome." Drago keeps an eye on her.

"Still, you're being a bit paranoid, maybe she is just a normal girl enjoying her free time." Kaidan tries to reason with The Dragonborn.

Drago doesn't say anything, as he sees the waitress move which they sneak around but and they follow, her until she stops in front of a large building that reminds him of a church.

"You stay here, I'll see if I can see what she is doing." Drago then sneaks to a window and peaks his head over to see Syr handing some children food and he sees the children enjoying the food and smiling and for a moment it made him smile a little bit, seeing these kids having a nice home cooked meal makes him remember his old home, seeing what he needs to he sneaks back to the group

"So, what is Syr doing?" Lucien asks.

"Apparently Syr gives orphans some cooked meals, to kids." Drago simply says and walks away.

With that trio walk away, and head to the centre of the town and now the three were discussing the next plan of action.

"So, what is your next plan Drago?" Kaidan asks.

"I think I'm going to pay the guild a little visit, I need leverage in this town and from what I've been told, the Guild Master is the most influential person." Drago says as he looks up, with a smile.

"I see you're going to get some blackmail on him so that way he is under your thumb, a bit risky, but in your line of work, not having risk is a luxury." Kaidan smiles knowing what he is planning.

"Hm, what exactly is Drago going to do?" Lucien asks making the other two facepalm.

Later that evening the Guild Master is late at work, finishing off some paperwork before turning in for the night, he would have given it to a lower member but it was too important for a mere underling to do, so he did it himself.

The Guild Master is an obese elf looking more like a small fat goblin wearing more stylish guild clothes, and as he finishes the last of his paper work he hears a window open, he looks to his left to see said window open, so he gets up and heads to it and takes a look outside to see if anyone is outside, once he sees no one outside he closes the window he heads back to his desk and takes a seat.

When is in his seat, he could feel a dagger at this throat, making him tense up, but he tries to keep his cool "Who are you, do you have any idea who you are messing with?"

The man says nothing for a moment but moves the knife closer to the elf's neck making a small slice in the man neck "I wouldn't act so tough elf."

"I am the Guild's Master, I wield supreme authority in the city of Orario, if you wish to leave here alive I would…" He couldn't finish as the knife starts to dig into his flesh.

"I hold all the cards elf, if I wanted, I could slice your neck and leave you to bleed on the desk and no one would have a clue on who sliced your fat neck open, so I could advise you to say your next words very carefully." The figure threatens again.

"What do you want?" The Guild Master says fear in his neck.

"I want you to keep tabs on any Família that mention a man wearing a Grey Cowl, and I want you to dissuade any information and say it is just rumours." he says his demand.

"Wait, you are the one who stole form the Loki Família a few days ago, I will not be intimidated by such crass methods." The fat elf keeps his composure.

"Oh, I know that, but I think you will my methods quite convincing." Drago turns the man around letting him see him, in his cowl, but he quickly places his hand on the elf's head and starts using his Illusion magic, "Now to make sure you don't try and getting revenge, I'm making sure that you will say any of your crimes in public if you try and cross me in anyway, as well as writing anything you've done, for example lying stealing and cheating and you will give it to me now!"

The elf could feel his head in pain as he feels another soul excreting its will over his own, The Guild Master tries to resist but he quickly gets a pen and paper and starts writing everything he has done and once completed he hands it over to the thief.

Drago takes the note and looks it over and smirks "And people say I've got a bad reputation, but you, you make me look clean." Drago puts the paper away and heads to the window, "Now remember you cross me in anyway you'll be shouting your crimes and this paper in your hand writing will be posted on the front door of the guild." With a snap of his finger the Guild Master collapse on his knee as he has the worst headache he has ever had, he looks up to see the man jump from the window, before collapsing.


So Here is the enxt chapter sorry about the long wait, but I hope you enjoy it and have a nice day.