Yelling and screaming filled the streets of Whiterun, Seradia hid in her room. She was crouching in the corner hugging her knees to her chest. 'What do I do...What do I do...' She asked herself many times. Heavy rain was falling from the sky and thunder shook the building. She could hear the fighting outside. She ran her hands up into her hair and closed her eyes. 'Gods..What do I do..' Tears ran down her face as her fear struck her like any blade would. Her heart was thumping hard against her chest, it felt like it was going to explode any moment.

She felt like a scared little girl hiding in the dark, she felt weak and useless. She was no match for the Thalmor, what could she possibly do? In that moment she heard a loud scream making her snap out of it. It was a child's scream. 'The only children that would be in here would be the Yarl's...The Thalmor must of found them!' Seradia quickly jumped up with no hesitation. She grabbed the staff that Iraka gave her and bolted out of the room.

She heard the screams again and rushed down the hall way towards them. She turned a couple corners and looked into a couple rooms but didn't find them. "Help!" She heard the child call. She turned seeing the door leading to the basement. She quickly opened it and rushed downstairs. "Yell all you like but no one is here to save you!" The Thalmor soldier yelled at them. The three children were huddled in the corner crying and holding each other.

The Thalmor soldier swung his sword up in the air but before he could struck it at the children Seradia quickly swung her staff casting a line of fire at him. The Thalmor quickly caught fire and he was only able to scream in pain for a minute before he died. The children covered the eyes and ears shielding themselves from his burning body. Seradia rushed over to them and knelt down in front of them. "Are you guys okay?" She asked. They slowly looked at her and nodded, they were full of sniffles with tears running down their face.

Seradia sighed in relief and gave them a soft smile. "You guys are safe now, just stay down here and no one will hurt you." She whispered to them in a soothing voice. "You're not going to stay here with us?" The little girl's lip trembled. Seradia blinked and just stared at her for a moment. "No, I can't. I need to go out and help in any way I can. There are more children out there." Seradia gave her another soft smile. "Don't worry, I'm going to lock the door. Don't let anyone in unless your absolutely sure it's your father." Seradia ordered them. They looked at each other and than looked back at her nodding.

Seradia stood up and left the basement, she locked the door behind her and put crates in front of it to make sure that no one would try and get in. She turned and started walking back down the hall. Seradia was still scared, her stomach hurt and her heart never slowed down but if she hadn't acted those children would of died. More children will die if she doesn't do something. It would of been easier to go back in her room and hide but she wouldn't dare. She would never forgive herself if innocent's died because she was too afraid to help.

The guards were clearly out numbered so they needed as much help as they could get. Seradia ran down the stairs, the Yarl's palace was completely empty. It seemed even the Yarl was out fighting, he was fighting for his people. Seradia stopped at the giant double doors, she could hear the fighting outside. She took in a deep breath and than pushed them open. High winds almost knocked her back but she managed to stand her ground. Her hair whipped around her and the cold rain made her shiver.

She ran across the bridge, she gasped as she saw the battle before her. Citizens laid on the ground dead, along with many guards. She saw all of the Companions were fighting against the Thalmor, protecting all that they could. Seradia clenched her jaw and quickly bolted down the stairs, she had to join them. When she reached the bottom she was about to run to where the Companions were but a scream in the distance stopped her.

She quickly looked and saw a woman had fallen to the ground, she had an arrow sticking out of her leg and in her arms was a small child. A Thalmor soldier was charging at her. Seradia quickly took off towards them, before the Thalmor soldier got any closer to the woman Seradia spun her staff in her hands and slammed it on the ground sending lighting into the stream of water on the street. The Thalmor was quickly electrocuted and fell to the ground dead.

Seradia rushed to the woman. "Are you okay?!" Seradia yelled over the fighting and high winds. "My leg is hurt and my child is unconscious!" The woman cried. Seradia looked at the child and saw that her eyes were closed, bruises decorated the childs face and burns ran down her neck. Seradia quickly knelt to the ground and held her hands over the child. A warm glow came from her hands, a gold aura left her palms and surrounded the child. The aura slowly soaked into the body of the little girl and once it did the little girl gasped and started to cough.

The woman hugged her child and started to sob. "Thank you! Oh thank you!" She cried as she held her child close to her. "Come on, I'll get you to the Temple of Kynareth." Seradia quickly helped the woman up and walked her to the Temple. When they came inside the building was already full of citizens and the injured. "Over here." The Priestess led them to an empty bench. The woman sat down and hugged her child again.

"Are these people safe here?" Seradia asked looking around. "I don't know.." The Priestess sighed. "The Temple is holy ground but that doesn't mean the Thalmor will respect that.." The Priestess started to work on the woman's wound. "Is there any place that's safe?" Seradia asked as she looked at everybody. "Well.." The Priestess stopped for a moment and looked down at the ground. "There are Catacombs underneath the Temple..It connects to the Hall of the Dead." The Priestess looked up at Seradia. "Get everybody there as fast as you can, I'm going to go see if anybody else needs help out there." Seradia quickly turned and ran out of the Temple.

Of course there were more that needed help, everybody needed help. But Seradia was just one person, she was going to do what ever she could to save them all. Seradia rushed outside, she held her arm up above her eyes trying to shield them from the heavy rain. Screams filled the city, it seemed like the Thalmor was winning. Seradia quickly took off down the street, she saw an old man cornered by two Thalmor soldiers. Seradia quickly shot lighting at them stopping them in their place. Seradia ran to him and instructed him to go to the Temple.

Once she saw him off she ran down the stairs that led to the main gate to Whiterun. When she reached the bottom she saw that the gate had been completely knocked down. "Burn them down! Burn them all down dammit!" She heard a general command. The Thalmor soldiers were all lined up and were throwing fire balls a the houses. Despite the rain the hay on the roof top's quickly caught on fire and began to burn. It seemed like the Thalmor weren't even going to let the rain stop them, no matter how much fire the rain washed away the Thalmor just kept throwing more.

Several building's had already been burned enough to where only pillars stood. 'If they can make fire burn than so can I!' Seradia glared at them and quickly swung her staff sending a wall of fire out at them. The fire was bright and it burned greatly. Before they could act they were quickly set on fire, it didn't seem to kill them but it did injure them bad enough to where they couldn't move. The General quickly looked at Seradia and glared at her. He took his sword out and charged at her.

Seradia managed to dodge his swinging sword but he was also making sure she wasn't having enough time to cast any spells. Several times she blocked his attacks with her staff. The General managed to back her up against a wall, he was pushing his blade against her staff hard. She thought her staff was going to break in half. The General looked into her eyes and glared at her deeply, Seradia glared right back. Her green eyes burned right into his, she did not back down.

Her arms started ache and his blade got closer to her, she wasn't sure how much longer she was going to last. 'Dammit.' Seradia winced as he slammed his sword back on her staff. She started to loose grip but before she did an arrow came flying out of the distance and hit the General in the side of his throat. The General gagged on his own blood and fell to the ground choking. Seradia looked at the arrow, of course June was the first one to come to her mind when she saw it.

She quickly looked up with hope in her eyes but instead June it was an army of Stormcloak soldiers running in through the gate with Ulfric Stormcloak leading them. Seradia dropped her arms and watched them run by. She was happy and relieved to see them but she was disappointed that it wasn't June. She stepped over the body of the General and watched them take out the Thalmor in the streets like it was nothing.

They have seemed to show up just in time. The Stormcloak soldiers were taking the Thalmor out with barely a struggle. Seradia could hear Ulfric's loud booming shouts echo through the city. "Help! Somebody help!" Seradia heard a man shouting. She looked around but couldn't see anything. She than realized that the shouting was coming from inside a burning house.

She ran to the building and she could hear the yells from inside. There was more than one person in there! Seradia tried opening the door but it was burning hot, she winced at the pain and jumped back. She looked up at the house and tried finding a new way inside. When she didn't see another way in she just took in a big breath of air and summoned all of her magic at once. She than used the force of her magic to break down the door. Luckily the house didn't come down with it.

She rushed inside and once she got in she immediately started coughing from the smoke. "Is someone there!? Please help us we're trapped!" She heard the man's call again. Seradia covered her mouth and nose in her sleeve and started walking, dodging falling planks of wood and flames. "Over here!" She heard the man cough out. She looked and saw the man along with a woman who was his wife and a boy who was his son. They were trapped in a room that had collapsed, the fallen roof had blocked the door and they were trapped in a small corner surrounded by flames.

"Hold on!" Seradia yelled as she started moving the wood pieces. But once she moved one of them it caused more of the roof to fall and it made a giant piece fall near the family almost landing on them. 'Dammit..I can't move this without the whole roof falling down on them.' Seradia started to quickly look around in a panic. She looked up and saw the hole in the roof that fell in, she could see that it was low enough for them to climb through to the second floor if she helped them.

Seradia quickly turned and rushed up the stairs, she had to jump over several fallen pillars. She made it to the room that was over the room with the family in it. "Up here!" She called to them. They looked up at her confused. "Here, take my hand." She grabbed a hold of a post that was sticking out of the wall and leaned down stretching her arm out.

The mother quickly picked her son up and held him up first. Seradia grabbed his hand and pulled him up. After him it was the mothers turn, the father helped the mother up by pushing her up when Seradia grabbed her hand. After the mother than it was the fathers turn. "Here." Seradia held her hand out. The mother also held her hand out knowing that Seradia wouldn't be able to bring the large man up by herself.

The father grabbed both of their hands and though they struggled they managed to bring him up to the second floor. "Alright this way!" Seradia coughed out. They carefully made their way to the stairs and walked down it covering their mouths and noses. Once they reached the bottom floor they ran out of the house together. As soon as they stepped outside the house collapsed on its self and quickly burned to ashes. Seradia gasped and just stared at it, if they had been in there any longer they would've gone down with it.

"Thank you!" The man quickly took her hand into his grabbing her attention back. "Thank you so much!" He had tears running down his eyes. Seradia nodded and quickly pointed. "Go to the Temple and go into the catacombs you'll be able to stay safe there!" She instructed them. They nodded and quickly took off for the Temple. Seradia watched them and than suddenly winced from a quick pain in her arm. She looked at it and saw that it as burned, her adrenaline must of kept her from feeling the burn when she was inside.

"Fall back!" A Thalmor soldier bumped her hard as he ran past her. Whatever Thalmor were left were now fleeing with the Stormcloaks right behind them. "Leave non of them alive men!" She heard Ulfric order. She watched them being chased out of the city, she suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion hit her and her whole body ached. Seradia slowly looked around at the city, the scene in front of her looked familiar and it took her a moment to realize why.

Her eyes widened as she looked up at the sky, she saw the flames from the buildings stretch towards the sky as if they were reaching for the heavens and than she started walking around in a hurry and saw blood soaked blades laying on the ground. Iraka had told her of this, it was one of her visions...It was a warning of war. Seradia felt her heart sink and her stomach ache, so much death and so much blood had been spread today...She slowly looked up at the sky letting the cold rain hit her face.

If it wasn't for the Stormcloak's than Whiterun would of surely fallen, Seradia would of fallen. She remembered something else that Iraka had told her. 'What you may think is the end is the very beginning..' The words repeated in her mind in the voice of Iraka. At first Seradia didn't know what it meant but now she does. It was definitely the beginning of something horrible, it was the beginning of a real war in Skyrim but between who was still a mystery.