[Dinara]
This was an Illusion- no, a vision. She realized it instantly the moment everything changed.
Her emotions were being manipulated and amplified, forcing her to go along with the flow of the horrifying vision.
And she could only watch as Flora was driven to insanity by Aurash's death. And could only run away in fear when she started slaughtering everything in her path. Nothing survived. Not the humans, not the Dragons, nothing.
The more she killed, the more horrifying she became. Her heart ached at hearing her wails of sorrow and hurt, but her fear was being amplified so much that she couldn't even move!
And so, she watched as Flora killed off Paarthurnax, then blanketed the whole of Skyrim in an ocean of flames and lightning, killing her off in the process too.
Only for the vision to start all over again.
And again.
And again!
She had to move! She had to! No matter how terrifying Flora becomes, how lost she becomes, she knows that as long as she was alive too, then she could be bought back!
She had to fight against this senseless fear of hers! She had to go and speak to the woman she loves and soothe her sorrow and wrath.
She had seen this vision more than ten times now, and remembered everything vividly, and now was the time to step forward, now that Flora was so close!
"Flora!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, smiling through the fear even as her body refused to move forward. But she did it! She called out her name! And Flora froze and turned towards her!
"It's me! I'm alive!" She managed to shakily spread her arms, her aching heart growing heavier when she saw light come back into Flora's dull eyes, tears starting to stream down her cheek as she took a few shaky steps forward through the piles of corpses and puddles of blood that she left behind. "I'm here! Please, this isn't you! Please, just…" She choked out a sob, biting her tongue and using the spark of pain to ignore the fear, then threw herself forward to hug the broken Flora as tightly as she could.
"Please, come back to me. We can find other ways to bring back Aurash, but please, this isn't you…" She begged gently, caressing her head and pulling her closer.
Only for Flora to fade away and for her to crumble on her knees on a grassy ground, gasping for breath.
"I did not expect someone to wake up so fast." Dinara hissed and quickly stood on her feet even as her head and heart kept pounding wildly, those horrifying images from the vision making her heart ache while her anger flared at the sight of the woman standing not that far away in front of her.
It was a woman wearing blackish-gold armor, with claw-like gauntlets and talon-like boots. Her helm was shaped like the head of an eagle, and behind her back were a pair of large, fearsome looking metallic wings.
A sword was stabbed in the ground in front of her, while a golden prysm floated in the air above her head, and Dinara noticed how the prysm was shining light onto the still forms of Aurash and Flora. Clearly, that's the source of the visions.
She gritted her teeth in fury at the thought of what Flora might be going through, and the pained expression on her face made her fury skyrocket even more.
"Move aside. I'm going to break that fucking thing." She bit out, pulling out her butcher-like blade as the Enchantments on her armor activated fully, filling her body with power.
"You'll certainly try." The Valkyrie mused as she slowly pulled out her sword from the ground, then unfolded her wings. "Come then, show me what you got." She taunted, rolling her sword lazily.
A roar of pure fury came from Dinara as she cratered the ground with a single step, then shot towards the Valkyrie with as much strength and speed she could.
Their blades slammed together in a loud ring and powerful shock-wave, but the Valkyrie's eyes soon went wide when a foot slammed into her belly, sending her flying back at breakneck speeds.
"Enchantments? How surprising…" The woman mused, her wings unfurling and flapping once as she regained her footing, landing gracefully and safely on the ground while her eyes narrowed slightly. "This is going to be annoying." She hummed, but didn't have more time to muse to herself as a sonic-boom rang out, making her eyes go wide when Dinara appeared right in front of her in less than a second.
Her metallic wing slammed down to meet the incoming butcher-like blade, creating another ear piercing ring from the impact that forced them both back a few steps.
The Valkyrie was about to go on the offensive, but a massive blast of compressed air came from right next to her right ear as her head whipped to the side, dazing her for a few seconds.
The Dinara that had been pushed back faded away, revealing that it was an illusion, while the real Dinara appeared right in front of the Vakyrie once more, having just delivered a terrifying punch to her face, then spun around and delivered an even more powerful kick to the woman's chest, causing her to release a sonic-boom as she turned into a blur that slammed into a mountain not that far away, creating a crater from the impact.
The Valkyrie grunted and shook her head, then her eyes widened when her instincts screamed at her, making her fold her wings in front of her head just in time to divert Dinara's butcher-like blade that she had thrown with terrifying force.
"Ugh!" She suddenly grunted as an armored fist buried itself into her gut, folding her over Dinara's arm, who proceeded to punch her head again, and again, and again. Each punch being fueled by her anger as the crater into the side of the mountain grew bigger and deeper with each punch.
"You made me watch and listen as the love of my life wailed in grief and despair as she became a monster!" Dinara screamed, venting her fury with each devastating punch that she delivered and connected against the Valkyrie's face, who was caught off guard from the direct onslaught. "I don't give a fuck if you're a Valkyrie or Talos's wife! I'm going to fucking tear you apart!" She roared in fury, delivering another punch that was unfortunately dodged it by leaning her head out of the way and kneeing Dinara in the stomach as a counter-attack, then grabbed her head and turned their positions around by slamming her into the mountain side with even greater force.
"Ever heard of necessary evil young lady?" The Valkyrie mused, then her eyes widened when Dinara's legs came up and hugged around her arm, then the side of her head and below her other arm. The last thing she saw before being slammed back into the mountain with colossal force was heterochromatic eyes glowing with rage.
"Just because it's necessary doesn't mean I have to accept it." Dinara spat, jumping back to dodge a wide swipe from the Valkyrie's massive wings and using that chance to recollect her butcher like blade and wipe the blood pouring out from the cut on her forehead.
She spat on the ground, rolled her neck and shoulders, then placed her helmet onto her head as the Valkyrie recovered her own sword.
"You think I don't understand your pain?" The Valkyrie hummed, a bit of anger in her own voice now. "Imagine loosing the one you love because they reach heights you know you'll never reach in your entire life and being left behind to try and make sure the world doesn't get erased by the Apocalypse." Her voice grew louder as she slammed a clawed hand against her own chest, the other clutching around her sword tightly. "What you saw is nothing to what me and my sisters had to live through. Mistake after mistake, loop after loop, thousands of them, every day for every year, until she finally appeared." That bought Dinara pause, her eyes narrowing dangerously. "Not you, not the damn Dragonborn either, but the Nymph. She is the only one that can stop everything. She is someone even the Prysm of Time cannot predict perfectly, so we had to thread carefully until now."
"So what, you're pushing all this bullshit, all these responsibilities and burdens, onto Flora?! Just because that fucking thing can't perfectly predict her!?" Dinara snarled, her Mana fueling her Ebonyflesh even further as the black glow around her grew darker. "You're fucking sick! She just wants to live a life of peace and without burdens! She is forcing herself to fight and kill beings that she loves! She might try and ignore it, but I can tell that it's slowly breaking her! And yet you…" Dinara paused, drawing a deep breath through her nostrils, feeling as if lava was pouring through her veins as her fists clenched tightly. "To think I used to worship you bitches. But it turns out you're all a bunch of fucking cowards ready to push their burdens on someone else." She spat, and the air changed as her Killing Intent was met with the Valkyrie's own, the ancient woman's anger now being clearly visible through her glowing eyes.
"I'll make you regret those words." The woman spat, her wings unfurling menacingly behind her as her armor started glowing faintly, clearly being Enchanted.
"You'll certainly try." Dinara taunted with a smirk on her face before the both of them charged at each other at full speed, leaving a sonic-boom in their wake.
[Aurash]
This was so fake. So clearly fake. An Illusion of some sort.
She would never do such a thing to Flora, ever. Even if someone offered her divine power to slay the Thalmor, she would still refuse if the downside was loosing Flora.
So why was she having a vision of her accepting to become a pure vampire under Serana's father, and hurt Flora in the process?
Why was it that it hurt so much to see this obviously fake vision? Seeing the betrayed and hurt teary expression on Flora's face was worse than eating glass shards. It hurt so much, and she couldn't stop but look at that expression each time, and remain frozen for the rest of the vision.
She would never do that to Flora, ever. She loved that adorable girl. She trusted her with her life and soul, and knew that one day she'll help her gain her revenge on the Thalmors. She just had to wait, and time is all they had now.
"Ah, so you have decided to accept my offer…" Harkon's voice entered her ears, this being probably the twentieth time she watched this scene play through her own eyes.
She watched as she walked in front of Harkon, ready to accept the power and honor of becoming a Pure Vampire, then go on to battle and die against Flora much later on.
She'll never forget those cries of sorrow coming from her as she hugged her dying body.
She'll make sure nothing like that ever happens.
Her disgust turned into rage as her eyes landed on Harkon's smirking face.
Then she gritted her teeth and used all of her willpower to slap the ever living shit out of it.
Only for everything to fade away the moment her slap landed. She grinned in triumph when she realized that she finally passed the vision, so she got ready to go out and kick a Valkyrie's ass for making her see something horrible.
"Live a future of Fulfillment and Peace."
"Babe? What's wrong?" She blinked, finding herself in a large wooden house, sitting on a comfortable couch facing a large window that showed the beautiful scenery of a setting sun.
She glanced down, and her eyes widened when her eyes landed upon the beautiful form of a more mature looking Flora. A very pregnant looking Flora too.
"You were kinda out of it for a second, something wrong?" The love of her life gave her and enchanting smile and gentle kiss on the cheek that made her heart flutter and ache.
And thus she realized that this vision was going to hurt even more than the previous one.
[Flora]
How many did I kill by now?
Thousands? Tens of thousands? Millions?
Everywhere I looked was filled with blood, limbs and corpses. Nothing and no one was spared, even those I used to care about and call friends weren't spared.
I kind of realized that it was a vision after I slayed Paarthurnax and blanketed the whole of Skyrim in an ocean of flames, only for everything to restart.
"Is this really what you wish to become?" Paarthurnax asked once more, for what was likely the hundreth time.
"There is no other way." And my answer always remained the same. Then I slayed him, again and again.
I killed millions, over and over.
I killed my friends, over and over.
I held the corpse of my loved one, over and over.
I cried and screamed in sorrow and wrath, over and over.
It hurt. Everything hurts. Loosing Aurash, killing so many people, becoming a monster, all for power.
I'm not like that. I'm no monster. I wouldn't do such things just to gain infinite power… but why is it so hard to stop?
129. "Is this really what you wish to become?" I… yes? I need to bring Aurash back…
258. "Is this really what you wish to become?" I… don't know anymore. I don't want to loose Aurash. I want her back.
389. "Is this really what you wish to become?" No… no, I don't want to. Yet, I can't stop.
453. "Is this really what you wish to become?" No. No. No. NO! I… Aurash will forgive me, but I won't be able to forgive myself! I need to stop, but it's so hard!
500. "Is this really what you wish to-" "NO!" I finally managed to scream at the top of my lungs, tears pouring down from my eyes as I fell on my knees. I believe these are tears of joy, joy from finally being able to do something and move my body.
"Then let this be a lesson for you little one. Loss can truly be a horrifying thing, can push one to insanity. I've been there, and I've regretted it my whole life, but it helped me become better." Paarthurnax spoke sagely, his voice quieter, fainter, as if he was disappearing. He leaned down to push his snout against my crying form, making me clutch as his scale for support. "Meditate on this. Use this experience to grow stronger. Grab this hatred and anger and wield it, but do not let it become a raging inferno… No, let it be a deep, bottomless ocean. Drown your enemies in it and keep your calm to deceive them. Do not let anger guide you little one, learn to master it and turn it into a tool." He instructed me gently and soothingly, making my harsh sobs slow down as I nodded my head against his scales, only for my grip over them to slip as everything faded away.
That voice that I heard before this vision started… it said something about a 'future', meaning that this is a future that can happen. But now that I know about it, I'll make sure that it doesn't happen. I refuse to let it happen, and I refuse to lose one of my loved ones.
But… how do I get out of this vision?
"Live a future of Peace and Joy."
No…
Please, not again…
"Mama?" My breath hitched, and I slowly rose my head to stare at the beautiful little girl standing in front of me, a pair of heterochromatic eyes staring right back at me. The left eye being a bright emerald while the other was a bright red, with long and almost glowing golden hair running down her back, some even framing her cute little cheeks.
"Babe? What's wrong?" I looked behind the girl to stare at an older looking Dinara, a small bundle of cloth with a cute baby boy inside of it was cradled in her arms.
The doorway leading outside was open, letting me stare at the worried looking Aurash standing right beside a teenager girl wielding a large sword, her eyes being a bright platinum gold with slitted pupils, her beautiful long hair were the same color too.
These… they were my family. My daughters and son. The oldest is definitely mine, the other two are Dinara's.
This is my family.
"Did you have a bad dream mama?" The adorable little girl in front of me asked, her little eyes staring at me in worry as she stepped forward and wrapped her little arms around my neck. "It's okay mama. It's okay." My eyes reddened, my breath hitched again, then I started sobbing and hugged my daughter tightly.
I don't want to see this, I need to hurry and break out of this… but… maybe I can enjoy this for a little while, no?
[Aurash]
This was something she had been dreaming off for a while now.
A future with Flora, a family with her. Hell, she had even bought an Amulet of Mara recently to pop the question, but decided not to when she remembered that she wasn't the only woman in her life.
It'd be a lie if she said she wasn't jealous, but Flora was somehow able to give them both enough love and attention that Aurash found herself not caring about it all that much.
"Mom, hurry! I wanna train!" I smile spread across her face as she stood up. She already saw this vision at least thirty times by now, and she loved each second of it. "This time I'll beat you, I swear!" The teenager girl proclaimed loudly as she waved the massive sword she forged for her birthday around like with ease, even though it was even heavier than a dragon.
She stared at the teenager girl with platinum-gold hair and eyes, those slitted draconic pupils of hers showing that she was somehow part dragon too, perhaps because of her Dragon Soul.
"You say that everytime, but still end up getting spanked." She mused, her eyes being drawn towards the front of the house as Flora walked outside with a hand on her pregnant belly and a beautiful smile on her face. Each time she laid her eyes on this sight, she fell in love all over again.
And that's when she finally noticed that something was missing.
"Say, where's Dinara?" She found herself asking all of a sudden, causing Flora to blink in confusion. Even her daughter looked confused. A horrible feeling started rising in her belly at that.
"Dinara?" Flora tilted her head in confusion, then her eyes widened slightly with recognition. "Oh, her! You wanted me to pick between either you and her, so I picked you, remember?" Aurash blinked, then gulped. Would she ever do such a thing? Would she really push such a horrible choice onto Flora?
Perhaps she would out of jealousy, but that was wrong. She couldn't accept a future like that. Dinara deserved Flora's love just as much as she does.
"Sorry kiddo, guess mom won't be able to train with you now." She sighed as her eyes reddened slightly. Her hand reached out to stroke to top of the girls head, making sure to burn the image in her mind. "I love you." She stated softly, receiving a slightly confused look from her daughter before she just smiled and threw herself in her arms.
"I love you too mom!"
And then the world shattered.
Her blood boiled. She drew in a deep breath and opened her eyes to stare at the real world, the loud sound of metal clashing against metal reached her ears.
She turned her head to the side to notice that Dinara had already broken out of the vision and was now locked into a high speed battle against the Valkyrie, a battle that had torn the surroundings up.
"Aurash! Come help me kill this bitch!" Dinara roared, her eyes glowing with fury.
Aurash turned to stare at Flora's pained face, and the world went red as her Berserker Rage activated by itself.
She was thankful to the Valkyrie for having shown her such a beautiful future, but she'd rather make a future similar like that a reality instead of see it through a vision. One where she didn't do any mistakes.
"I'm going to tear you apart." She spat out, and then shot forth.
The land collapsed under her feet as a sonic boom rang out behind her. She was in front of the Valkyrie not even a second later, then grabbed her helmet with one hand before she could react, then ran through a mountain while holding her head in front of her.
Once on the other side, she slammed her into the ground hard enough to create an immense crater, then unleashed all of her anger through a punch that caved in half of the helm and blasted her deep underground.
She quickly blasted herself out of the debris and tried to take flight, but Aurash refused to let her gain the advantage and quickly grabbed her ankle, then slammed her back down onto the ground.
Over and over.
She didn't give a fuck that this was the wife of a fucking Divine, she had to vent her anger.
It'll take a long time to finally achieve that future, but even then, that beautiful little girl of hers might not even be the one to be born this time.
"Why did you show us that shit?" She bit out, slamming the woman down onto the ground one last time before slamming her foot on her chest, forcing her to stay down as she groaned and coughed a few times.
"It's a test. The Prysm of Time is something made by Akatosh, something that shows you the futures that shouldn't come to be. Futures that you'll regret. You lived through them, and you saw what was wrong in them. Did you see a future where you won against Alduin? Where you truly happy in that future?" The Valkyrie spoke, raising her head to stare straight into Aurash's eyes with her lime green ones while her hands wrapped around her ankle. "If you were truly happy, then you would have never woken up. The Prysm of Time gives you a path to follow, and allows you to learn of the mistakes that will happen so you may correct them. Us Valkyries did the same. We used it, over and over, until we couldn't see the future after 'she' appeared." At that, the Valkyrie moved her hand away to point in the direction of the now destroyed house where Flora was still undergoing her vision. "Her appearance stopped the flow of time and erased all the futures and timelines. Now we can only rely on her, and hope that the Prysm of Time can set her on the right path so that she can stop the destruction of the world." Aurash snarled, absolutely hating how people were pushing so many responsibilities onto Flora. She was the Dragonborn, she had to put an end to all this bullshit!
She lifted her foot to stomp down onto the Valkyrie, but the woman threw her away after grabbing her ankle and jumped into the air, only for one of her wings to be sliced in half by the very furious looking Dinara, who quickly back-flipped out of the way.
"YOL-TOR-SHUL!" The mountain melted in seconds under the second sun that expressed all of Aurash's anger. She hated the fact that the Valkyrie was right, and that now she could do better since she saw such wrong futures.
She'll make sure to not repeat those mistakes, and create a future where all three of them could be happy together.
But first thing first, she had to beat the ever living shit out of a Valkyrie
"I am the fucking Dragonborn, not Dinara, not Flora! Leave them the fuck out of this!" She shouted, her sword appearing in her hand as the Valkyrie flew out of the river of lava that used to be a mountain. "Why do you fucking assholes have to constantly force Flora into this bullshit?! She was so sweet and kind back then, so adorable and pure that she'd have a panic attack just by thinking about killing a fucking spider! And now?! Now she is forced to do something she despises! Killing, over and over! Do you know how many fucking times she cried herself to sleep in my arms because she regretted taking a life!?" Aurash vented her fury, her eyes reddening at the mere thought of the amount of pain Flora was going through, but yet she forced herself to remain strong so she could support her lover as best as she could.
"What about you being the Dragonborn? Would you have even found out about it if Flora didn't go fight the Dragon back then, making you decide to follow her? No, you would have left without a second thought. Because that's what you did, run away, over and over. She is the catalyst to everything! To you rising to power, to meeting Dinara and finding out about the Dragonbane and Dragonslayer armor, thus leading you to us! She is the only one that can save this damned world, that you like it or not!" The Valkyrie spat out, making Aurash roar in fury as she refused to accept it. She knew it was the truth, she knew that without Flora nothing would have happened and that perhaps Whiterun would have fallen against the first Dragon they had fought. So many things would have gone wrong if Flora wasn't there to prevent them.
And Aurash loved her for that. Her little Hero, doing all of that even though she didn't have to just because she wanted to live a life of peace and calm.
Aurash shook her head and threw herself at the Valkyrie, who was caught off-guard by Aurash's immense speed, leaving her unable to dodge the punch that landed onto her chest, causing the armor to warp and cave in under the immense power of the blow before she was blasted away.
"Pull her out of that fucking vision!" She roared, appearing right in front of the staggering Valkyrie once more, her massive blade raised high above her head before she slashed down, cleaving the hill behind the Valkyrie in half when she dodge and causing the entire land around them to shake constantly.
"Even if I could, I wouldn't do that. Even if I can't win against you two, I can still stall for time." The Valkyrie coughed out, shaking her head as she held her chest, right where she was hit, showing that she had clearly felt that punch. "You can only try and come break the Prysm." She taunted, making Aurash grit her teeth in anger as she stepped forward, ready to do her best to put an end to this as fast as possible.
Only for her to freeze when she felt the ground quake, and watched as it started cracking and crumbling into dust.
The Valkyrie herself froze as the Prysm floating above her head dimmed, making her slowly turn towards the ruined house in the distance.
Aurash smiled, but then her smile froze when Flora tilted her head and stared straight towards Valkyrie with cold emotionless eyes.
And then the most immense, horrifying and bone chilling Killing Intent she had ever felt washed over them all as even the sky itself seemed to darken.
[Flora]
"You've been hugging me a lot recently." My daughter hummed, a large pleased smile on her pretty face as she hugged me back and leaned deeper into my arms. She was such a cute sweetie, and was the perfect mix of me and Aurash. She has Aurash's terrifying strength and Dragon Soul, my love for nature and animals, and a passion towards both Magic and Forging.
"What, can't I hug my Little Dragon?" I hummed, cradling her head closer and placing a kiss on her head before pulling back to stare at her even more. She is truly my daughter, so beautiful and cute. So fierce yet so warm and gentle. My love for her is real and it's not some feelings stimulated and amplified by the vision.
And to think that I'm someone that never wanted children. I guess Aurash has a way with words and managed to convince me somehow.
"I'm not little anymore!" Hildr, the name of my beautiful little girl, pouted cutely and crossed her arms with a huff, making me swoon and pinch her cheek to make her blush even more. Of course she can't hide her smile from.
I drew my gaze away to stare around the landscape, and I felt as if I had a dream like this before. But it might just be my imagination.
A titanic tree, the Eldergleam tree, was standing right behind the large house I made for our family, a house made out of it's own wood.
Kirin was peacefully laying on one of the branches, while Fenrir was following Dinara around the house to keep a watch on our babies and make sure the second youngest didn't hurt herself with anything.
Dinara had taken up the role of a housewife very happily apparently, and while she still trained with Hildr sometimes, she had decided to put down her sword for the foreseeable future.
Aurash instead still had a passion for Forging of course, and had reached a terrifying level in her that. In fact, her present for Hildr's recent birthday was a massive sword that was heavier than a dragon somehow and that could possibly hold as many Enchantments as possible. Enchantments that she wanted to place herself of course.
"You look sad. What's wrong mom?" I hummed as Hildr grasped my hand, and I gave her a small smile as I leaned my head against hers. I've enjoyed this vision enough times, and I enjoyed relaxing here for a bit. But now I know what I must do.
"Mommy has to leave sweetie. But I promise I'll be back soon, okay?" I caressed her head as Hildr blinked, then she simply smiled and leaned closer to me.
"Pinky promise?" I chuckled softly as she rose her pinkie, and I didn't waste a second to wrap mine around hers.
Why is this future a mistake? What's so wrong about settling down after saving the world? What's so wrong about finally building a family and settling down with my lovers? There are no more threats, nothing.
But perhaps it's because I stopped growing? Because I stopped embracing my nature as a Gamer? Is there something bigger behind all of this? Perhaps some sort of threat that only I with my immense growth speed can take care of?
My eyes rose from the crossed pinkies and gazed at my daughter, my beautiful Little Dragon. I burned her appearance in my mind as I smiled softly. This was not a mistake, she was not a mistake, and I'll make sure to have her again in the future. One way or the other.
"Pinky promise." I assured her, shaking them up and down a few times before I pulled back and watched as the world started fading away. "I love you sweetheart." I repeated for the last time, making her grin towards me as she leaned forward to place a kiss on my cheek.
"I love you too mom!"
And then the vision of that beautiful future faded away and I was back in the real world.
I breathed out softly and tilted my head, then took a deep breath as I quickly felt my destroyed surroundings.
I guess both Dinara and Aurash woke up before me and were both very pissed, the place is absolutely wrecked.
Oh well, it's going to look even worse soon enough.
My gaze snapped towards the flying Valkyrie in the distance as I started using Quake, making sure to pour all of my anger and disgust towards her. I was grateful to her for showing me Hildr and my other cute darlings, that's for sure, but a little warning would have been appreciated so I could have prepared mentally, especially since Gamer Mind somehow didn't work inside those visions.
But it's too late for that now.
"Aurash, Dinara, please step aside. I need to have a… chat, with our friend here." I hummed out softly as the Valkyrie stood slowly, clearly very way as I took slow and measured steps towards her while Aurash and Dinara shared a glance before falling back together. "I'm going to vent my anger on you now, and I hope you survive long enough to tell me where your dear sisters are. I'd rather not waste my time going around on a goose chase after all." I stated as I rolled my neck, then chanted Paarthurnax's words inside my head over and over, like a Mantra.
"You'll have to force that information out of-" Her words were cut of as a loud whistle blasted right past her ear, leaving her eyes wide in shock and horror as an enormous explosion happened in the distance behind her, courtesy of a Comet.
"Oh, I plan to." I raise my staff while keeping my dull calm eyes firmly locked onto the Valkyrie wide ones, then slam it onto the ground, sending a titanic tidal wave of earth forward, forcing the Valkyrie to take flight- only for an enormous Lightning Strike to slam into her and force her back down with a pained grunt.
She lands heavily, then slams a fist into the ground, making me raise a brow as I feel it morph, then an enormous rock the size of Dragonsreach flipped up and towards me.
I hummed before instantly switching all of my Enchantments to Destruction Boosts. Then twirled my staff and reached forward with my right hand, and then released the hottest flames I could.
Everything melted. The ground, the giant piece of stone, everything. I waved my hand, causing the flames to grow even hotter as the wave of boiling and bubbling lava beneath me just kept growing more and more massive.
I released a breath, then used Pyrokinesis and Psychokinesis to gather all the flames and heat inside a Comet, this one being bigger than my whole body this time, then hurled it towards the Valkyrie.
The Comet screamed as it broke the sound barrier, leaving behind a molten trail in it's wake.
The armored woman summoned dozens of massive earthen walls, but they all melted instantly in front of the terrifying heat contained within that enormous ball of fire, but she still managed to move out of the way with her wings and could only watch as an immense explosion lit up the sky in the distance.
I didn't give her time to recover as I placed a Teleportation Rune behind her through my Domain, then instantly used it to take me to her, causing her eyes to go wide as I slammed my staff towards her.
Strength Enchantments and Impact Multiplier Enchantments instantly covered my whole armor and staff as an immense shock-wave was released from the impact, shattering the Valkyrie's sword and sending her flying into the distance.
I followed closely and quickly by inverting my gravity, keeping my guard up for any kind of attack coming from the ground.
And come they did. Dozens of small spikes appeared all over the place and started spinning at incredible speed like drills, quickly glowing orange and aiming towards me, forcing me to slam down onto the ground and raise a massive Ward to endure the ensuing bombardment.
I can just teleport far away from this, but I had sent the Valkyrie flying out of my Domain with that previous blow so I'd rather way she enters it again so to hopefully get the drop on her.
I compressed the Ward down to make it stronger as the dozens of earthen drills blasted towards me with a whistling sound, some slamming against the Ward and making it crack and shake while others were diverted by my Geokinesis and Psychokinesis.
My eyes widened when the Valkyrie came flying back into the Domain at insane speeds, quickly reaching my position in less than a second as the bombardment came to a stop with me grabbing the last drill out of the air and tossing it aside without a care.
"Trying to force me into close combat huh?" I hummed as I twirled my staff and watched the Valkyrie pluck two feathers from her metallic wings, then give them a swing, causing them to turn into two long curved blades. "Fine, I'll amuse you." I grinned as a scroll appeared in the air before me. I reached forward and tapped it with my staff, causing it to bloom with green light as the staff started morphing and changing according to my will, then quickly turned into a long and heavy Glaive.
"I may not be skilled in close combat yet, but I can make up for said difference with magic and Enchantments." I switched all of my Enchantments to strength and speed multipliers while the ones on my staff remained impact multipliers. But I wasn't done just yet!
Thanks to Ariana making the empowered Mana Potions, I was finally able to make quite a few Master Class Scrolls, and one of them is a very special one.
Another scroll appeared in my left hand, glowing with brilliant emerald light that showed the power it held within, thus making the Valkyrie tense and prepare for a fight. "It's funny how no one knows the empowering Master Class Alteration spell that comes after Ebonyflesh. I've looked it up far and wide, but it truly seems that this day and age has forgotten a lot." I activated the scroll, causing a smile to spread across my face as I felt the pure power flooding through my limbs as a glowing ashen light enveloped my whole body, with scale like patterns appearing all over my body.
I breathed in, then breathed out as I got used to the raw power coursing through my vein, then relaxed and grabbed my Glaive with both hands as I threw a confident smile towards the Valkyrie. Now I truly evened the playing field, albeit just for a few minutes.
The ground exploded as I closed the short gap between us, going in for a thrust that the Valkyrie barely diverged with her blades, sending sparks flying everywhere from the short contact.
I slammed my foot into the ground, cratering it in the process, and spun around quickly, then delivered a slash towards her right side that she blocked by crossing her blades. She wasn't sent flying from the immense shock-wave created from the monstrous multiplied impact since she was prepared this time, but she did grunt and skid across the ground.
She quickly recovered and rushed in to press her own assault, my eyes never blinking as I twirled, spun and swung my Glaive faster and faster, quickly getting used to my incredibly enhanced speed and strength.
Impact after impact, clash after clash, the crater we were in deepened as the sound of clashing metal became akin to a gatling gun shooting at full speed.
I was swinging and slashing out faster than even my eyes could track, some swings going too wide or too short, but still being a threat to the Valkyrie as she was forced to use her wings too in order to divert some blows.
Even with my much higher speed and power, I was unable to gain an advantage over her because of her much better technique. Albeit she is incredibly powerful too in her own right, enough to make my arms shake with each clash and block.
My eyes widened slightly when the ground shifted, causing one of my upward swings to miss by a lot, thus giving the Valkyrie a chance to strike my wrists and send the Glaive flying above us with a swing of her wing while the other one slashed down with enough force to override my weakened Dragonflesh spell and strike my left shoulder, successfully cutting off my arm.
I barely reacted and kept my eyes on her as I lifted my right arm up, calling down my Glaive with Psychokinesis and swiftly grabbing the flat end of it, then slamming it down with enough force to create an immense crescent moon wave that obliterated the ground in front of me.
I clicked my tongue when I realized that the Valkyrie had managed to dodge that too. Albeit not fully apparently since a third of her left wing was missing now.
"How can you remain unfazed even after I cut off your arm?" She asked in disbelief, slight pants ringing out from behind her helmet while I tilted my head in confusion.
"Are you not aware of what kind of visions you put us through?" I questioned as a brilliant golden scroll appeared above me. It released a bright soothing light that quickly regrew my arm, and I swiftly collected my Enchanted Gauntlet and threw away the severed bleeding limb without a care. Good thing I prepared quite a few limb regrowing scrolls since I'm still not Expert Class when it comes to my Restoration Magic. "I've suffered far, far worse in my first vision. I had my body burnt, cut, severed, pierced. I had my limbs torn off, bit off, burned off, frozen off, cut off. And I felt every last thing." My smile became chilling enough to make the Valkyrie give a visible shiver as her hands clutched her blades tighter. I doubt I'll ever recover and be the same after going through that, but at least it has made me much stronger.
I won't hesitate anymore.
I twirled my heavy Glaive again, feeling Dragonflesh almost reach it's limit. It seems that I can't surpass her technique with pure power, so I'll have to resort to my specialty. Nothing can beat magic after all.
A lightning cloak sprung up around me as I blasted towards the Valkyrie, my speed further enhanced by my newly created lightning cloak spell.
I quickly caught up with her, each clash obliterating the ground around us as we pushed each other back, with the final clash creating an immense reverberating sound-wave, akin to a titanic church bell ringing.
I flipped through the air as scorching flames and booming lightning converged around my Glaive, quickly turning it white hot before I hurled it at the Valkyrie, who leaned out of the way and dodged it, but I smirked as I teleported behind her and grabbed the staff, then swung upward before she could realize, thus severing the rest of her left wing, limiting her ability to fly a great deal.
I was rewarded with a kick across my chest that made me grunt as I was sent flying back at great speed, then grunted again when I slammed into the side of a mountain, my ears ringing and my chest and lugs burning from the impact.
I felt that alright.
I breathed out and chuckled, rolling my shoulders as I walked out of the small hole I made from the impact, then gathered my Glaive and switched it back into a staff. That blow had fully broken my Dragonflesh spell, so it's useless to keep competing in close combat. She has me beat in that.
"I'll admit that you are far better than me in combat." I chuckled as she came into view, giving my much lighter staff a twirl as I smirked. "But you can't beat me when it comes to magic." After going through my first vision, I quickly realized that I was truly an idiot when it comes to using magic. I relied on mostly already created spells, then overcharged them to make them powerful. My only creations were the Cruel Sun, and then the Comet spells. But I still didn't realize the full potential of magic, and the power the Gamer System granted me.
I could create any spell with just a thought. Any spell.
"I wonder…" I chuckled as I floated my staff between my hands, flames starting to gather and condense around it. "Will you be able to survive this simple spell?" The Valkyrie tensed as the air shifted, then, without warning, an immense vacuum of air appeared out of nowhere, all the air and oxygen around us starting to gather towards the flames coating my staff, said flames quickly becoming white-hot.
And then going further beyond.
A simple spell, something incredibly simple, but that no one ever came up with. Flames that devoured air to grow hotter. A spell so simple, yet with the power to end the whole world.
Now, that's magic!
I grinned as the land melted. The flames roared as they grew hotter and hotter, becoming a literal black hole devouring all the air in the vicinity. I had to close my eyes once the white brilliance coming from the flames became blinding, but that didn't really help me much.
I felt everything within my Domain melt and turn into an immense crater, with me floating in the middle. I grabbed the staff, not feeling the absurd heat of my own spell, then rose higher into the sky.
The immense roar of the air vacuum and flames was making my head ring, but I couldn't hold back the giant smile across my face. So much power within a simple spell!
There are so many chemical reactions I could use too, make them a reality with Magic and create spells with immense power! I was such a fool to not realize this before!
But that's for later, now I have a Valkyrie to kill.
I moved my staff out of the way and blinked my eyes open, getting my eyes used to the blinding light coming from beside me as I stared down at the frozen Valkyrie floating above the flowing magma. My entire Domain had now become an immense molten crater several dozen meters deep.
"Where are your sisters?!" I questioned loudly, giving her one last chance to speak up before I put an end to her. Because there's no way in hell she's going to dodge or survive this spell.
My eyes met hers, but she remained quiet for a few more seconds before I saw her drop her blades into the magma below.
"North of Solitude. One kilometer into the sea." It was a whisper, but I somehow still heard it as if it was next to my ear. And for a second I felt like she was smiling.
But I did not hesitate, and did not show a shred of mercy. I threw my staff, thus threw my newly created spell, and watched as it pierced right through her chest effortlessly, then released a blinding flash.
Booom!
And then everything went white.
I was hurled far away as an immense spherical explosion grew bigger and bigger, obliterating the surroundings before it started to shrink down at a visible rate. My eyes widened when the next minute it became a small glowing ball into the sky that distorted the air around it with the immense heat and power compressed within.
Well, fuck.
BOOOOOOOM!
Sound itself distorted from the next explosion, it being so powerful and big that it obliterated the clouds out of the sky and turned it dark red! Holy fucking shit I did not expect it to be so powerful and explode twice!
I floated myself far away from that immense destruction, kissing my staff good riddance as I quickly reached Aurash's and Dinara's position, the both of them gaping at the immense explosion I had just unleashed.
"Remind me to never piss her off…" Aurash whispered to Dinara, said woman nodding slowly as their eyes never moved away from the destruction.
"I doubt you'll ever be able to piss me off." I hummed, making my presence known as I floated down behind them. My eyes reddened and burned when they landed on Aurash face once she turned around, and I was unable to hold back and threw myself into her arms, hugging her as tightly as I could.
"You died." I whimpered, causing her to freeze before she tightly wrapped her arms around me. "I held your corpse. Went insane. Became a monster equal to Alduin and destroyed the entire continent. I…" I released a shaky breath, grasping her back tightly as I held back my tears. "Please never leave me." I begged softly, unable to even handle such a thought as she knelt down and kissed me softly, the simple action alone being enough to make me relax as Dinara rubbed my back softly.
"I fucked up too." She stated with a guilty embarrassed smile. "I got enticed by promises of power coming from Serana's ugly ass dad, which led to us fighting and you killing me. That'll never happen. Especially after I broke that vision with a vicious bitch slap. Man was that satisfying." I laughed at that, wrapping my arms around her shoulders and leaning my head against Dinara as we had a three way hug.
"I was apart of your vision. I survived the battle, but wasn't there when you lost Aurash and could only watch as you destroyed the continent and slaughtered everything." Dinara spoke up, kissing my cheek softly as she rested her head against my shoulder. "I'll never let you go down that path. I'll never let either of you two to die. Not on my watch." I smiled and kissed her softly, releasing a content sigh as I enjoyed their presence and warmth. Albeit the armor really gets in the way.
"I had a second vision, with a family. I had two children with Dinara, two wonderful little babies. An adorable little girl named Nadira and a cute little boy named Magnus. While I had a kid with Aurash. A beautiful little girl named-"
"Hildr." Aurash finished for me, our eyes growing wide before we chuckled. "Our Little Dragon. Vicious little shit with that sword and mouth of hers. Took from the best." She puffed out her chest, making me pinch her cheek as I chuckled. Hildr really did have a foul mouth on her.
"Babies with Flora…" Dinara muttered, seemingly stuck in a daydream as she stared off towards nothing with a blissful smile on her face.
"Think we can get her back?" Aurash hummed softly, leaning her head against my chest as she caressed my back, making me hum back as I stroked her hair and enjoyed her presence.
"Once this is all over, we'll certainly try a lot." I felt her shiver as she realized the true meaning of my words, making me chuckle softly as I kissed the top of her head, thus quickly falling in a comfortable silence.
"I don't wanna break the mood, but… where the fuck is the Dragonslayer armor piece?" I blinked at that, then my eyes soon blew open in a panic.
Oh shit! I forgot about that!
A.N. So yeah, rewrote this, made this less of a curbstomp, made it as better as I could. Hope y'all enjoy it regardless
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