The next morning they woke up to darkness. As they stepped out the door they realized it was an unnatural darkness, and that no one was paying attention to anything but a large, cloud-like, man-shaped object in the sky. It was bluish in color and seemed to be holding two swords. As Seraph looked closer he realized that there was an actual person in the cloud thing and that the person was surrounded by a ecto-plasmic type of cloud within the object. "What do you think it is?" asked Kela in an almost whisper. "I have no idea but there's a person in it," replied Seraph in the same almost-whisper.
"I have come for the great lord once more. He struck me down in the deep caverns so ling ago and I am back for my revenge! Show yourself… I know you're in this town." The voice that Seraph heard sounded very familiar, but he couldn't recognize it. The oddest part, Seraph thought, was that the voice was in his head. Just as the voice went away the cloud turned into huge, blue flames and disappeared.
"Whatever that was, it wasn't natural. It had to have been some sort of magicka." The silt strider ride to Vivec seemed to go by quickly, mostly because everyone was thinking so hard on the thing thy saw in Ald'Rhun. "No… it was magicka but it was too powerful to be anything that a normal mage can do. I get the feeling it has something to do with the Feral Four," said Kela as they walked over the bridge into the foreign quarter of Vivec. "I agree. But if they're that powerful, are you sure you should face them?" asked Kela. "We both know he won't be alone Kela. He'll have us, plus the power of his new sword on his side," said Sango, who was pretty quiet the whole ride there. "New sword?" asked Seraph in a sarcasticly worried voice. "Yea. It's your birthday present. It's probably at the mages guild by now."
As they walked into the wooden arched doors of the foreign quarter plaza, they noticed a lack of the normal people, but an influx of Ordinators. "Who are you and what business do you have here!" asked an Ordintor as a group of them surrounded Seraph and the others. "We come here on orders of the high council. We have also come to meet some one who is to give us books for research so we can find and destroy the Feral Four," Said Seraph loud and clear, as he received a nudge and a look of 'why in oblivion did you do that?' look from Kela. The lead Ordinator started to laugh. "Welcome back Seraph. Long time, no see," said the lead Ordinator as he removed his helmet. "We heard you were coming when a sword arrived in the mages guild. The sword is very powerful and we wanted to make sure it didn't end up in the wrong hands, so we decided to guard it."
"Sword?... My sword?" asked Seraph. "Your sword? Aren't you a little young for-"
"Yes it's his sword. We got it for him for his birthday. Wasn't easy to get I'll to you what," said Omni, who also has been very quiet. "The deadric sword?" asked the guard with a screwed up look on his face. "Yea, that's it. Etheral Edge," said creeper, who like the others, has been very quiet.
One of the Ordinators came walking up after getting a hand signal from the leader, and unsheathed a sword. As he handed it to Seraph he saw the same mark on the sword as there is on his armor, and as he grabbed it he realized that the sword was powerful in magicka. "What does it do?" asked Seraph, still starring at his sword. "It does a lot of things, but most of all, when matched up with it's family it can do something called the Etheral edge," said Sango in a voice that seemed smug but not arrogant. "What is the Etheral edge?... wait….. Family?" asked Seraph. "Well we don't quite know what the Etheral Edge is, but the family is other things forged the same as it. There is a full suit of armor, a shield, the sword which you are holding, and an amulet. But most importantly it has to have the right keeper."
After a quick talk about how things have been between the lead Ordinator and Seraph they bid their goodbyes and Seraph and the others got onto a gondola and to the St.Olms canton. They got off of the gondola and started to head towards the temple when they were stopped by a man in a badly worn robe. "Hi. I'm the one the council appointed to you for info. We can't talk here or in the temple, but we can go to the Dunmer temple, they have the info we'll need." And without saying anything, the group followed the informant.
As they walked into the temple, the informant pulled out a silver dagger, and at the exact same time Seraph unsheathed a silver longsword that seemed to just appear on his back. "What's going on?" asked Kela, this time actually whispering. Then after sniffing the air he pulled out a chitin dagger that he keeps in his robe. Just a moment later, the other three pulled out their weapons. "Some one's here."