"It's been five months." Orion thought to himself while sitting on the cobblestone wall of Whiterun near the companions training yard. The training yard just received a fresh new batch of dummies and target boards after the old ones were too riddled with arrow puncture marks, dents, slashes from swords, axes and the like, and were deteriorating in general. Though the ship like structure that represented the Companion's hall was still the same ol' building he remembered seeing decades ago and this brought a certain sense of relief knowing not much had changed since his 20 years of false imprisonment. It was very early in the morning and the crisp morning air and wind brought a specific type of peace and harmony for him and he would enjoy it for awhile until he was interrupted.

He opened his eyes to see his shield-brother, Farkas, approaching him in a brown linen tunic and pants with a certain stature like he had just woken up from slumber and was holding a steak in his hand, munching on it.

"Mornin Farkas, have a good rest did we?"

"Yea, just woke up now," the dark haired nord said whilst yawning at the exact same time.

"How are the new recruits we received back in Last Seed? Is their training going well I presume?"

"Ah yes, the recruits, I am currently training two out of the five, Aela is training an aspiring archer, and Athis and Torvar have their share with a recruit each" Farkas inputted, now seeming more awake than a couple of moments ago as he mentioned this.

Farkas soon joined on the cobblestone wall that Orion was planted on and passed a bottle of mead to Orion that he didn't notice he'd had on him before. They enjoyed drinking and conversing with each other about what's happened in the last twenty years whilst Orion was locked up and this went on for a couple hours before a very familiar nord walked up to them wearing her under garments and tunic pants.

"Hello Ori, How did you sleep last night? Betcha still sore from yesterday's training session" the women said firstly in greeting way but soon switching to more of a playful tone to her voice. This was Karliana and by the divines did she look incredibly revealing and the male companions: Old to New, couldn't help but stare at her enchanting figure. Orion sighed slightly and spoke up after she helped herself to the cobblestone wall that him and Farkas were relaxing on. She sat comfortably near Orion, laying her head onto his shoulders and letting her arms hang to the side.

"Aren't you cold Karliana?" Farkas asked quizzingly

Looking at Farkas, she answered, " Eh, once you've settled in Skyrim all your life, especially Windhelm, anywhere else in Tamriel just seems like a miniscule daft" finishing with a small shrug of her shoulders before hopping down a while later and facing Orion with her hands on her hips and leaning forward.

"I feel like we should have one spar before I feel like you're ready to accept Elisif's request" she said taking her left hand and pointing at Orion.

"Heh, that sounds like a magnificent idea Karli" he said answering to her request with slight excitement.

The two were now soon outfitted in their custom armour and weapons: Karliana with her ebony and gold lined armour alongside Dawnbreaker and Orion was in his dragonbone armour along his unique axe: It was a one sided greyish green serrated battle-axe but there was something unique about it in that when swinging it, he could control a green, slimy, and grotesque tentacle of Herma Mora, allowing him to swing it in any direction he wanted. His renewed muscular frame was now apparent to everyone and all the female companions: Old to New, couldn't help resist looking and mumbling to other females about him.

As they stood on opposite sides of the yard within 10 feet of each other, Farkas was in the middle. He gave a speech about this being Orion's last training session and then waved his hand downwards and said, " Let the finale commence" before stepping onto the back porch of the companions building.

They waited and stood the ground with stoic facial expressions as they stared down one another. This would be the last time him and Karliana would train together before he would be trying to solve the mystery of Elisif's second husbands unfortunate death and so he took in one final deep breath but he shouted, " WULD NAH." Within mere seconds, he was already within centimeters of Karliana and connected the shout by bring his axe down onto her head with sheer dragon force. She reacted with his move by immediately bring up her blade in a upwards block with her right gloved hand near the tip of the blade, left hand wielding the hilt of Dawnbreaker and parried it straight up before doing a sideways spin kick that connected with his gut. The air left his lungs that instant and retaliated backwards in order to catch his breath quickly. As he did this, Karliana grabbed his head and shove it into her knee, bloodied his nose, then taking the side of his head and smashing it against a training dummy's helmet before letting go. His face was now bruised, bloodied and to counteract what she did, he'd soon swing the blunt side of his battle-axe and wrapped the tentacle around her waist before flinging her in the rocky hill that stationed the Skyforge. Karliana had the oxygen from her lungs instantaneously leave her and before she could recover she heard Orion take in another breath to shout once again.

Blows went back and forth for awhile before he dropped his axe and finally shouted, "WULD" and he was right up in her face and delivered two blows with his fists: one in the stomach and another in her thigh, then proceeding to pick her up from her hips. raising her up to where he saw her kneecaps and then body slamming her full forcibly downwards. A loud CRACK was heard as she instantly screamed in pain then went limp before he slammed the butt end of his hilt down onto her stomach.

Farkas and one of the new recruits soon raced over with Farkas restraining Orion and the new female recruit investigating to see if Karliana was ok.

"ORION THIS ISN'T A REAL FIGHT! REMEMBER WHO YOU'RE FIGHTING!" Farkas screamed at him. While he was screaming at Orion for what happened, the younger archer quickly remove some parts of her armour, mostly being the chest piece and her thigh pieces.

Orion looked over and saw what he did to her and was disgusted with himself: Bruises on her thigh and stomach, the back of her head was bleeding profusely, and from what he noticed was that he may have broken something in her. Combine with the fact that she doesn't making sound nor was moving sent him in a panic and even more when the female recruit said,

"She isn't breathing!"

"Damnit! Torvar book your ass and get Arcadia and the Priestess NOW!" Farkas Commanded.

The older blonde nord didn't even answer as he took off in a sprint to collect the two women. As this happened the female recruit known as Desaria, an aspiring wood elf archer, flipped her over, put her hand over where the blood was bleeding on the back of her head and her hand glowed a light reddish pink has she proceeded to stop the bleeding. Minutes passed as Torvar came back with a fair brown haired imperial along with a women in a priestess robes.

The Imperial known as Arcadia spoke, " What is happening is there a problem!?"

She looked over and saw what she perceived as Karliana's lifeless body and rushed over with several different unknown potions and got to work with the young archer. As with every minute that passed, felt like an eternity and what felt like the forever that was 15 minutes, Arcadia soon was done alongside with the priestess and young archer at her side and marched up to Orion. What came up next was without a doubt, the most audible slap across his face and with that came angry speech from the smaller but older imperial.

" Orion, have you lost your damn mind! What I got from Torvar was that you and Karli were sparring and that you went out of control."

Orion unable to speak until she snapped in his face signaling him to speak. His facial features sadden and said, " I...I.. I didn't mean to.. I swear, It's just that I haven't had a spar let alone a fight in so long. I guess I just perceived her as an enemy and went all out. I'm so sorry Arcadia, I didn't mean to kill her."

At this point tears were starting to peer out through his eyes and she sighed, saying, " She's not dead, just unconscious but would have been if not for your wood elf friend there," as she points at Desaria before proceeding with, " Though if this happens again and you are the reason she dies," her facial expression changing to something incredibly menacing and then finishing with, "I will make you feel the power of Oblivion it fucking self. Understand?"

He swallowed a gulp in his throat before answering with shakiness, "Yes ma'am.."

"Anyways take her to a bed so she can rest up and don't drop her whilst you do this, ok?"

Orion picked up Karli's body and started heading towards the direction of the Harbinger's chambers. As he descended into the lower half of the companion's building that held the sleeping chambers, he heard Karliana make a slight groan of pain and this made him hurry his step to the chambers. When he arrived in the quarters, he carefully removed the rest of her armour, laid her into the bed and covered her up with the sabre cat pelt that acted as a blanket. He sat on a wooden chair that was adjacent to the bed on the western side of it and watched over her body for the rest of the day until the next morning.

A/N: Hello my friends! Muahahaha I didn't mean to go all out there. Though this chapter ended off with 1500+ words \^-^/ huzzah! I hope you enjoy the rest of you're week and that you'll return with me next week as Orion and Karliana begin the their quest to find out who murdered Torygg II. Buh Bye

~Skully