A/N- Check out my Deviantart. I made some pictures of Vicky and Ivan. User name YoshiPikachu.

In other news. I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to update. Things haven't been going so well lately and the start of the new year hasn't been good.

Chapter 23: The Blades

Ivan's POV

It's been a week and a half since Vicky and Tori left to go to Ustengrav with the two housecarls. It's a cool evening and as I'm walking home I get stopped by a courier. "I've been looking for you. Got something to deliver. Your hands only."

"Thank you." I say and as he walks away I open it and smile when I see that it's a letter from Vicky. As I read the letter though I frown. Seems like they won't be back for awhile yet, the four of them had to go father then they expected.

I sigh to myself and walk until I am by the lake. I sit down and watch as the sun sets. I usually spend my evenings here while Vicky is gone. She loves the water and I feel closer to her when I'm here. I sigh again. My family went to Whiterun the other day with Vicky's family. I should of went with them. At least I have friends there. I sigh and standing back up decided that tomorrow morning I was going to join them.

Early the next morning.

It's early. Way to early to be up but I had a nightmare and am too shaken to go back to sleep. I haven't had a nightmare this bad in a few years. I take a drink of water trying to clam myself down. But when I stop my mind goes back to the nightmare and I can help but let out a cry.

Suddenly there is an unexpected knock on the door. Wiping my eyes I get up and walk over and open it. Looking out I smile when I see that it's my friend Dagur. I let him in and close the door behind him.

Dagur is a high elf that absolutely despises the Thalmor. He is in fact known to the Thalmor as the Thalmor betrayer even know he was never really with them in the first place.

I met Dagur when I was six years old. He healed my leg after a fell off of a small cliff. It also just so happens that when Dagur himself was just three years old both of my parents had saved him from drowning.

Anyway once Dagur lit a candle so he could see he immediately could tell that I was upset. He's good at reading people like that. "What's wrong?" he asked.

I sign,"I had a bad nightmare. I haven't had one this bad in years."

Dagur looks at me sympathetically,"Was it about your mother and your brothers?"

"Yes it was."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No."

"Okay. If you change your mind you know you can talk to me."

" I know."

"So..." Dagur says after a few minutes of quiet,"Is there anything you would like to talk about?"

I smile and say,"Actually there is. I'm betrothed."

"What? No way!"

"It's true."

"Well damn. Congratulations!" Dagur says smiling.

"Thanks." I say a little bit embarrassed.

"So where's the lucky girl at?"

I go to answer and yawn so loud that we both burst out laughing.

"When then." Dagur says once he is done laughing,"As I was saying, where's your betrothed?"

"Her and her friend had to go somewhere. I don't know when they will be back." I say. "Oh and her friend is actually the Dragonborn."

"What? No way."

"I'm serious."

Dagur looks at me in complete amazement,"That's crazy!"

"I know. But then again. Is anything in this life not crazy?"

"Haha so true."

Meanwhile with the 4 girls sometime later, Vicky's POV

"I'm sworn to carry your burdens." Lydia says after Tori asks her to carry a bunch of stuff that we had just looted off a bunch of bandits.

Tori rolled her eyes,"Why do you always say that?"

"It's part of my job as a housecarl."

I laugh as Tori rolls her eyes for the second time. "Whenever."

The four of us are currently walking toward Kynesgrove after stopping at Windhelm last night. A Breton women by the name of Delphine wants Tori to prove that she really is Dragonborn. "We should be there any time now" Lydia says.

"Good." Tori says,"Then we can get this over with."

"Agreed." I say. "We've been walking so much lately that my claws hurt."

"I know what you mean. My feet are killing me."

About an hour late we hear a loud roaring and people screaming.

I grasp, "That sounds like a dragon!"

The four of is then take off running.

"Look there's a Inn we're here!"

Running faster we run into Delphine. "Just in time." She says running in front of us.

Soon we see a women running away. "DRAGON!" She screams in terror.

Running even faster still, the five of us stop dead in our tracks when we see a big black dragon flying over a skeleton of a dragon.

"The fuck?" Tori says while I look on in shock.

As we watch the skeleton dragon and the black speak to each other. Suddenly the skeleton dragon starts glowing and right before our eyes changes into a normal looking dragon.

Tori then takes out her weapon and says,"I've seen enough." And runs up to the two dragons. Following her I grasp as I now recognize the black dragon as the one from Helgen. This dragon then begins speaking so can understand. "You should not of come here Dragonborn."

He then says something else that we can't understand and then suddenly takes off and fly's away. The no long a skeleton dragon then flys ups and says,"Die!"

The five of us are now fighting trying to get the dragon to land. Unable go do anything with my two handed warhammer I watch as the two housecarls fire arrows at the dragon.

The dragon then flies down a little lower. Look out!" Someone then yells just as the dragon starts to shoot out a bolt of fire. Making sure the stay away from the mouth I hit the dragon with a uppercut . The dragon screams in rage realizing that it had flew to close to the ground. But before it could fly higher again Tori jumps onto its back and slashes one of its wings.

The dragon screams again as it crashes to the ground. Wasting no time the five of us take out the dragon. Once it's dead I sit down on the ground, exhausted and watch as the familiar bright light and soft breeze surrounds Tori.

I look over to Delphine when I hear her gasp, "So you really are Dragonborn."

I then stand back up and yell,"Yay for the Dovahkiin!"

"Yay for the Dovahkinn!" Lydia and Iona repeat.

Laughing we stand by Delphine and wait for her to speak, "Alright so what do you want to know?" She asks.

Tori frowns,"Who are you and why are all the secrets? "

"I am the last surviving member of the Blades."

"The Blades? I didn't expected that."

"Ah so you know who the Blades are. Not many people knows who we are anymore." Delphine says surprised.

"Oh yes." Tori says. "My mother's family used to be members of the Blades long ago."

"Is that so? Well do you know that the Thalmor are responsible for wiping us out?"

"That doesn't surprise me." Both me and Tori say in unison.

Sometime later we agree to go back to Riverwood to decide what to do next. Walking back to Windhelm we stay another night at the Inn and wake up early in the morning to catch a carriage back to Whiterun.

Two days later Ivan's POV

"Waaa waa!"

I yawn as I sit up in bed. Rubbing my eyes I stand up and walk out of the room and the down the stairs where Gretchen is sitting in the rocking chair trying to get Stepal back to sleep.

"Morning." I say.

"Morning." Gretchen says back.

Yawning again I sit down in a chair next to the fire. Once I'm awake more I cook us breakfast. Just as I was finishing up Simba came home.

"Good morning family." He did.

"Morning." I say. "You came back just in time for breakfast"

"Ah good. Here I brought us some milk." He handed me a bucket full of milk.

"Oh this is prefect." I say. "Food's done now so let's eat!"

After breakfast I walk over to The Bannered Mare to look for Dagur. I find him sitting with his girlfriend, a dark elf named Talia. "Hello Ivan." She greets me.

"Hi. How goes it?" I ask.

"Oh you know. Just doing Companion stuff."

"Yeah we just broke up a fight." Dagur said.

"Never a dull moment around here is there?" I ask laughing.

"Certainty not."

"So anything going on today?"

"Not really. We're taking a break today after spending all day yesterday fighting bandits."

"I see. I was thinking of going hunting myself. Maybe I.."

"Excuse me sir."Someone interrupted what I was going g to say.

Turning around I see Mila Valentia.

" Yes what is it?" I ask.

"I have a letter for you." She hands me a piece of parchment.

"Thank you."

"No problem."

Once she leaves, I open the letter. I smile big when I see that it's from Vicky. Once I finish reading it I stand up.

Looking at Dagur and Talia I say,"Vicky is here and wants to meet me at the stables. Want to come with and meet her?"

Daugr stands up,"Of course let's go!"

Following Talia we walk outside and down to the stables. When we get there I see the two housecarls feeding a horse. Looking around I see Tori talking to the carriage driver. I then spot Vicky sitting down on a large rock. Smiling I run over her.

"Vicky I'm so glad to see you." I say pulling her into a hug. "How did you know I was here?"

Vicky puts her head on my chest and says,"I saw your father. He's taking a walk around the farms. I would of looked for you myself, but I'm so tired I can barely move." She then yawn with tears coming out of her eyes.

"You should go to bed." I tell her with a yawn of my own.

"I can't. Have to go to Riverwood with Tori."

"Riverwood?"

"Long story..."

In Riverwood a few hours later.

Getting out of the carriage I help Vicky and Tori get down. Both of them can barely move from all the walking they have been doing. We left the two housecarls in Whiterun so that Dagur and Talia ride could with us.

Walking inside the Inn, I follow Vicky and Tori into a room. Once we are all inside Delphine closes the door. She then opens a secret door inside a cabinet. We then follow her inside where she starts talking before all of us are even in the room.

"I've figured out how to get one of you into the Thalmor Embassy. Which one of you is going."

"I am." Says Talia. "I'm the only one here that's not on the Thalmor's to kill list."

Delphine then goes over the plan with her while the rest of us listen. After they make their plans and the two of them leave, the rest of us decide to stay the night here.

Vicky and me are sitting together by the river making plans for tomorrow. We have decided that the two of us will stay here tomorrow when the others leave and at night we will go out and I'll turn her into a werewolf.