The city was gorgeous. The stones that made up the road were a pristine white even with the constant clomp of shoes. Flowers littered the side of the street. Pinkish purple star shaped flowers, purple blue bell shaped flowers, flowers the shade of fire, and lavender were the most common as you walked around. The air was filled with the smell of salt from the sea and fish.

Once you walked in, to the right the first building you saw had a sign swinging in the slight breeze. The name scrawled on it with the design of a needle and thread was 'Radiant Raiment'. And to the left was the inn. The sign above it held the depiction of a skeever sitting on a wheel. In the center of the wheel was its name 'The Winking Skeever'.

Lucy had fallen in love with the capital of Skyrim. From the white cobble streets to the blue roofed houses all around them. It was defiantly a place she would love to live.

The little group of seven walked the streets passing the market place with the vendors selling their wares. Past the blacksmith on a higher level of the city and headed to the general direction of the palace in the distance. Endoura went on about what was happening.

The land was caught in a civil war and the warring parties each had convincing arguments. But in the end Endoura was placing her gold on the side that the Empire that ruled all of Tamriel would fall. She even told them what the Greybeards told her about war.

"Season unending. Where ever life is there will always be strife. Whether over territory, food, or religion. It will never end. I'm trying to stay out of this and let the bones lie where they fall. Let them tear themselves apart, it solves nothing in the end."

"Why don't you stop them?"

"Erza it's not that simple. You have not truly met a Nord. I happen to have married one. But I would never change my mind about marrying him for the world. The closest I came to stopping the war was a temporary peace treaty so that I had the means to trap a dragon and go kill the master dragon."

"I've been meaning to ask how come the dragons here have only back legs. It's very strange."

Lucy was interested in the inner workings of dragons now having a second added to her team and being in the presence of someone with 'dragon blood' coursing through her veins. The first dragon she saw was the corpse of Isis but she had had four legs and a pair of wings.

"Ahh. Yes they might seem strange to you but to put it simply they are a species known as Wyverns. They are a species that only have two legs and a pair of wings. But wyverns is a very broad category. There are quite a few species in the category. The look of the dragon helps differentiate their breed.

Blood dragons are always a dark murky green color. Their most distinguishing features are the horns on their head making a kind of crown and the large part of their tail looking like a leaf in a way.

There are serpentine dragons that have not scales on their body, fins, and a pronounce under-bite.

Legendary and ancient dragons are kind of golden bronze in color symbolizing their power.

And then revered dragons. They have snake like heads. As in they are quite flat and as is their tail. I'd have to say they are the prettiest I've seen. And of course the dragon's skeleton."

Natsu had awe in his eyes as he heard about the dragons that flew the skies above them. As they continued to walk they past a small courtyard that had people singing and playing instruments. The most recognizable being the flute and drum. But the last instrument was strange. It was a stringed instrument, the number of strings it had was eight.

It was beautiful and the music played was as well. But they passed the stone yard and went into a large house right next to it. The house was called Proudspire Manor.

"We'll stay here for now so that we can rest and so you can look around the capital city. It is very beautiful. And perhaps we could explore one of the nearby caves."

Everyone nodded and started to help themselves to the food in the storage barrels and cabinets because Endoura not eating any plant life. Natsu was still munched on the fire salts that Gray got for him. But for some reason the treat was slowly making his blood boil and his skin to exude more heat than normal.

He couldn't understand what was happening but just shrugged it off. Gray did say that these salts burned as hot as Red Mountain lava. Which was a volcano that caused a huge amount of trouble.

Gray looked on as Natsu ate the salts. It caused him to release a silent sigh of relief. He could feel his heat progressing rapidly and with the rate it was coming Gray knew that Natsu's body wouldn't be near the same level as his when his heat came.

The most basic way to explain it would be a teenage dragon experiencing his first rut trying to mate with an adult dragon who happened to be experiencing their fifteenth heat. The younger one would be over confident and attempt to mate. But it would just end with the older dragon killing the younger for trying to mate with it.

It wouldn't be pretty. The thought of Natsu trying to mount him but just before Natsu could start to mate with him Gray would lift his tail, spikes turned up ready to be slammed down onto Natsu to crush and puncture his body.

Now if Natsu went into rut and Gray wasn't in heat it would very different. Mostly for the fact that Natsu would still mate Gray and it would just end in Gray being covered in bruises, bite marks, and very sore.

So in an effort to get Natsu's body ready Gray gave him the fire salts. The salts when ingested by the dragonslayer of that element type will be like a very slow acting aphrodisiac that can simulate a heat or rut. Gray wasn't proud of himself but it was the only way to make sure that Natsu made it out of his heat alive.

So after dinner he laid in one of the spare beds that Endoura had with Natsu being the big spoon and curling around him. He could only hope that his heat wasn't in the morning.

The sun rose and the sound of knocking broke the relative peace. Gray looked at the door to the room him and Natsu slept in. Natsu pushed up on his forearm that wasn't curled around Gray's waist.

Gray got up much to Natsu's disagreement but he couldn't be stopped. The smell at the door was Endoura and she was very worried.

Gray opened the door and Endoura stood in front of him. Her armor was on her body and her bow was strapped to her back over her quiver of dragon bone arrows. And in the pack on her back were other arrows. She seemed to be going out to do a job but the look in her dark eye showed her worry.

Something was very wrong.

"Endoura what's wrong? You seem worried."

"I am. There is something that I need to do."

"What."

Her face pulled back into a deeper frown. As she started to play with the wrappings on her arms. But she looked Gray in the eyes and spoke.

"I need you and your group to come with me to kill the Wolf Queen Potema."

"What?! Why?!"

"You know how the people here are like. They think that you brought this with you. I have to take you with me so that I can make sure that you aren't working with her."

Gray growled and a deep growl followed his but louder. He turned back to see Natsu getting out of the bed and stomp towards Endoura.

"You did this!"

He was angry. And taking out his rage on Endoura because of what little he knew about her. He believed that she was setting them up. But Gray knew she wasn't.

"I didn't even know this would happen skeever brain! I was just told by Jarl Elisef's steward what was happening. And he thinks that you had a hand in it. But I risked my own neck to convince him that you had nothing to do with this.

And if I happen to come out of this alive without you it will be my head on the chopping block again! Do you know how it feels to see the headsman getting ready to chop your head off as you have no power at all. I was saved once by pure luck. I doubt that I'll be saved from death a third time by sheer luck!"

Gray was surprised. Endoura had be nearly killed a second time! By what or who for that matter. Natsu himself was taken aback at her words. After that outburst she turned around and started to walk off. As she was descending the stairs she spoke softly over her shoulder.

"Come if you want. I hope that the sight of my head rolling across the stones is amusing to you and makes you happy."

Natsu turned towards Gray with confusion in his eyes as he spoke.

"She was nearly killed twice?"

Gray nodded.

"One time I know of, the other she hasn't told me about."

He walked past Natsu to start for the first floor. Lucy and Erza walked out of their room and having heard the shouting and their eyes held the same question that Natsu asked.

They followed Endoura out of the house and to the temple of the divines at a slow walk and her the length of a horse away. With Endoura in front they crowded around Gray to get the details. Gray looked to Endoura who didn't turn around and just continued her stride deliberate so that they could talk but she could hear them.

She was giving Gray permission to tell. Sighing he nodded and started to tell the story.

"Endoura was born and raised in Valenwood. She was the daughter of the chief of her tribe. She was one of the best hunters they had. And in her tribe they all go through an insinuation to get their soul beast.

Her's is a large blind white wolf covered in glowing blue ruins that she called Fenrir. Then years later she was to be married for a peace treaty with an Imperial city trying to extend their borders and destroying her tribes lands.

They agreed but the night before the wedding the Imperials started to burn the trees the tribe lived in. They tried to fight back but the Imperials just used their Voice of the Emperor to make them passive and started to slaughter everyone.

Endoura managed to escape but she said it was at a price she wished she never had to pay. Filled with nothing but pain she ran. She passed through the forests in Cyradil and came into Skyrim.

But she passed out due to fatigue and exhaustion. The next thing she knew she was in a cart with her hands tied and listening to the people with her.

They stopped in Helgen and got out of the cart. She wasn't even on the Imperial's list for execution. But she but you know what the captain said. 'Forget the list. She goes to the block.'

Endoura was then made to stand and wait to be called to the chopping block. She was the second to be called. The captain pushed her to her knees and forced her to rest her face toward the headsman and watch as he readied the axe that would take her life.

But just as the headsman was about to bring the axe down on her neck a black dragon came out from behind the mountain and cause enough havoc the allowed her to escape the burning town.

That was the first time she escaped death that she told me. And I'm glad she did. She was the first person Isis told me about and my first friend here."

Gray finished the story just as they came to the door to the temple and entered. They followed Endoura down to the basement to a felled wall and a locked bared door. Endoura pulled out a key and unlocked it. She turned to her little group, her face was flat with no emotion on it at all.

"Once we enter here there is no turning back. I suggest that you let me handle everything and do exactly as I say. Crouch when I do and be as quiet as possible. I'll dispatch the undead as fast as I can. If you have to defend yourself use these."

Endoura pulled out four daggers from her pack. One was bronze colored and very generic looking, another had a gold tone to it and feather details, another was made from sharpened dragon bones and scales, and the last one looked like the blade was made from ice itself.

The bronze one went to Natsu, the gold tone with feather details to Lucy, dragon parts went to Erza, and ice went to Gray.

With everyone armed they walked deep under the city.

(A/N : It has been awhile since I did the Wolf Queen quest and I only really remember the battle at the end. So I'm just going to be explaining that part. If you want to find out how it goes then I suggest you play it yourself or watch a play-through of it.)

The catacombs under Solitude were long and full of the undead. Skeletons and zombie like creatures walked the halls with glowing white eyes and ancient weapons. Vampires also roamed the halls with leather armor and their glowing red eyes.

And the ghostly voice of a woman taunted Endoura as they went. Saying how she couldn't wait to kill Endoura and use her corpse in an undead army. It didn't phase Endoura she just simply sneaked through with the fairies behind her following her every order.

She killed all the walking dead, looted their bodies, and disabled traps for her companions. But as she entered a large room with coffins and a glowing purple mass near the ceiling. Before anyone else could enter a large gate fell before the entrance locking her inside and the others out.

Gray reached through the bars as the first coffins were broken open from the inside and a beam was blasted from the purple mass. The blast had Endoura down on a knee as the draugr started to advance on her. But Endoura just grit her teeth and started to fire her arrows.

The beam that hit her then started to circle the room in bursts as more draugr came out and large golems made of ice started to be summoned by the black and purple portals. She was starting to get outnumbered quickly and with no place for her to disappear into the shadows she could barely hold them back with her bow.

She resorted to using her sword to cut down the last of the enemies baring down on her. With the last of them now truly dead at her feet Endoura breathed for a moment as she clutched her side.

She walked through a door and before her stood a glowing blue woman who drew her sword and started slashing. Endoura groaned as she was forced to find out that one of her legs was damaged badly. It didn't want any pressure on it as the weight of the sword being swung at her forced her back.

Her back hit the ground and she struggled to hold the sword ready to cut her down at bay. And for a second she was starting to want it to end her life. But as she looked towards the gate and saw the group of people that she was trying to defend.

Their eyes showed concern as she was about to let the ghost take her life. Gray had tears slowly slipping from his eyes.

'Why are you crying? You don't need me with you. Do you?'

His eyes spoke the one thing she needed to make her remember what she had. Her husband and their adopted children. The family that took her in that she knew no others would. And the guild that lost a great man all because she wanted vengeance to help with her grief.

Endoura slowly turned her head to look at the smiling visage of Potema's ghost. She thought that she had won. But before anything could happen the sound of a wispy gasp escaped her. In her belly sat the blade of a black dagger with sharpened white edges.

The ghost was then thrown off and once the dagger was removed the body disapperated into a puddle of blue ectoplasm. Endoura slowly rose from the ground blood dripping from all of her cuts. She limped over to the gated doorway and pulled a lever to make if open.

She was quickly crushed in a large hug from everyone in their group.

"Ow. Okay that's enough I've been cut up and no more adrenaline means massive amounts of pain."

She was quickly let go and everyone said their sorry. Endoura just shook her head and headed back for where Potema's ghost sat in its throne and picked up the skull. It was all that remained of Potema. She smiled to herself and started to lead the way out of the tomb.

The walked out into the snow covered mountains but once he took a breath of the fresh cold air pain erupted in his abdomen. It felt like fire was burning through out his body. When Endoura heard she seemed to forget about her own pain and went to hold Gray up.

"Gray what's wrong?!"

Gray groaned as the pain just persisted. It was so much that the injured Endoura had to take most of his weight. He could hear her body protest and fighting just to keep the both of them up.

"Ugguuhh . . . starting. . . now."

"Oh no. The only place close enough is Shadowgreen Cavarn. And that's home to spriggans."

"Please. . . need to . . . hurry. . . ahhh!"

Endoura just looked around at the others that had horrified looks on their faces at what was happening to Gray.

"Listen we don't have time for explanations so don't ask."

Endoura then put her fingers to her lips and blew a sharp whistle. After a second the sound of hooves clomping against the snow, ice, and rock could be heard. Shadowmere, Frost, and Blaze were running at a full gallop towards them. Erza got the idea as she summoned her own horse.

Endoura just pushed Gray on top of Shadowmere and hopped up onto the horse as well.

"Come on we have to be fast!"

After the words left her lips she set Shadowmere off at a gallop further into the mountians.