Chapter 4
Yeah! So... I'm sorry I haven't been updating this lately, school and trying to get into college and other stuff. But I'm back!
We slept for what felt like months but were well rested. As we got out I thought it would be a good idea to go and get supplies. So we entered a shop just in time to hear the owner and his sister arguing. "No! For the millionth time you can't go to get it back! No shush, we have customers." And he turned away from the woman and began talking to me. "Anything I can do for you?"
"I'm, is...everything alright?" I ask slowly, not entirely sure if I should be asking such a question.
"Oh it's fine. Some robbers came and stole a golden claw that we had and I'd like it back. My sister want to go to bleak falls barrow and get it back herself but that's crazy." He exclaimed.
"Yeah, who would name something bleak falls barrow, what a stupid name. Am I right?" He apparently didn't find it funny. "Look, we need to go and snoop around there anyway. I'll be on the look out for your claw-thingy." He smiled and looked relieved. I wonder if he was more attached to it than he let on. After we bought some supplies we headed to the place.
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"Wow, that was rude. I said as Camilla and I walked over the dead bodies of the bandits. "You'd think they would've realized that we were no match for them and left." She was about to say something more but stopped and forced me to crouch. There was someone up ahead. He went and pulled a lever, causing some sort of trap to trigger which killed him.
The two of us quickly went inside and Camilla started to ponder over the puzzle. "Hm, this tune means daylight, or is it sunshine... Hm?" While I just looked at her in disbelief.
"How could you not get this?!" I shouted.
Not now," she shushed "I'm concentrating!" I just sighed and moved the pedestals on the floor to match the ones above the door, and the one that fell and caused Camilla so much confusion. "I got it! First we need to do an ancient Nordic dance, then- oh! You already opened it."
"Yeah," I said. She looked a little downtrodden but went on ahead anyways. We forged ahead until we heard someone shouting. We got to the room, but the only entrance was covered with spider webs. I went and cut it down only to be greeted with the face of a giant spider. I promptly screamed and ran back into the hallway. Camilla rolled her eyes and took pot-shots at it with the bow I dropped. When it was dead, she turned to me. "You've faced people trying to kill you, Dragons, and almost impossible odds and this frightens you!" She screamed. "How the- eep!" That last part was because of a small skeever. It was my turn to roll my eyes as we both got over our fear and walked taped the guy who was screaming.
"Thank the nine you came. Now get me down." He said. He was dressed like all the other bandits we had fought.
"What about the claw?" I ask, wanting to break the silence that had formed.
"Yes, yes, I know how it works. The claw, the markings in the hall of stories, I know how it all fits together. You wouldn't believe the power the Nords kept hidden here." So I cut him down. He then proceeded to run off. "Why should I share the treasure with anyone?" He asked before I put my ax through his side.
That's why.
As I caught my breath Camilla came in carrying gold and gems. I looked at her. "What?" She asked.
"Nothing." And we continued foreword. We got to a chamber with tombs. "Finally, a room with no one trying to kill us." And immediately after I said that some of the bodies begin getting up, holding weapons and getting ready to charge at us. "I just had to open my mouth, didn't I?" As the first corpse reached me I swung my ax and opened a gash in its side. Nothing flowed out, but based on its reaction I has wounded it. I slashed again and cleaved its head in two.
I looked over at Camilla but before I could go to help her she burnt them with fire.
Better not piss her off.
We went toward the way out but I stopped when I saw something on the ground. "What, is it more of those undead creeps?" She asks. I just stare at her and her complete obliviousness at the trap right in front of her.
"Here," I say while taking out a cabbage. I then throw the cabbage onto the the very noticeable dot on the floor. A spiked door "hidden" then swung forward, stopping an inch from her nose. "Watch where you step." I say as she tries to stop shaking. We continued to go forward, killing the zombies and avoiding traps. For some reason there were a lot of exploding pots.
But we eventually got to a large room with a semi-circle stone wall. On it was a bunch of glyphs that neither Camilla or I could understand. She went and began to study the coffin that was laying down nearby, but I was drawn toward the wall. With the sound of a powerful wind a single word on the wall glowed and flew into me I covered my ears to try and block out the noise but it was no use. Almost as quickly as it came it ended, leaving only my ears ringing and a single word, Fus, burned into my mind. "Um, Damien." Camilla said, drawing my attention to the coffin as the lid flew off and a large zombie-thing, I really should learn the name of them, lifting itself out of it. It drew a long sword and shouted Fus, causing us to fly backward. We soon regrouped though, and Camilla began shooting ice spikes at it as I swung at it with my ax. Soon we killed it. We looked inside the coffin and found the dragon stone the wizard wanted and took the obvious secret exit and went back to Riverwood. Stopping by the Riverwood trader we gave the claw back to Lucan and his sister. Oddly, she too was named Camilla, no relation.
Our job done and the claw returned, we started the journey back to whiterun, not noticing a shadowy presence following behind.
Well, that's about it. Sorry again that it took this long.
