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This is chapter 2 of 'DovahTwiins', hope y'all like it!
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Holy crap we're in Skyrim!
"Hmmm..nu." I moaned as the sound of what sounded like horse hooves pounding the ground woke me up. 'Wait, horse hooves? Since when in hell did we have a horse in the house?!' I pondered to myself before I felt something moving. It took all of my will power to open my eyes til I can see what was going on. When my eyes were open and my vision was clear, I took in the surroundings. However, everything was so different than what I remember.
First off, when in the hell did the sky turn to day cause last time I checked it was nighttime. Second, why the hell am I in a forest, I don't recall coming into a forest nor did I remember seeing a forest around the house. Third, why am I not in my auntie's house, but in a some old wooden 400 b.c. wagon with three grown men who look familiar...and my smart ass cousin sleeping beside me.
'Oh, what in the Lord's name is happening here man?' I thought again.
"Hey, you. You're finally awake." said the blond head sitting across from me with his wrist tied together in bindings. Funny, his appearance looks actually like Ralof from Skyrim...wait THAT IS RALOF! Then this must mean..HOLY CRAP WE'RE IN SKYRIM! "You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into an Imperial ambush, just like us and that thief over there." Ralof and I looked over to the horse thief beside him. Damn, the man is more scrawnier up close.
"Damn you Stormcloaks. Everything was peaceful until you came along." the horse thief said with hatred in his voice. "If they hadn't been looking for you I could have stolen that mare and be halfway to Hammerfell." he grumbled to Ralof. Then he turned his dirty face to me. "You there, we shouldn't be in this mess. It's the Stormcloaks the Empire wants, not you, me, and the girl right there." He said to me, the moved his eyes to my still sleeping twin.
"We are all brothers and sisters in bindings now, thief." spoke Ralof.
"Hey shut up back there!" yelled the Imperial soldier, who was guiding the carriage to Helgen for the execution party and it not a party. Oh crap, we're screwed. As the two men were having their conversation, I tried to figure out a way to wake her up.
"Psst, Glacier! Glacier!" I whispered to her, but she didn't wake up. I tried again.
"Psst, Glacier!" dammit she's still not waking! Man if I didn't have these boy scout ropes tied on my wrist, I would have slapped her sillay. Ok, no time to be thinking like Soldja boy right now, I got to wake her up before we reach Helgen. Well, there is only one left to do...and she will not like.
I rose my right foot up from the wooden boards, leaned a little to the left to rise my foot higher, then as fast as I can my foot clashed with her lower stomach. Glacier's reaction to the impact was a dramatic puff of her breathe.
"Aaacchhh." she coughed, while gaining back her breathe.
"Rise n' shine, sleeping beauty." I joked to my twin as she gave me a frustrated visage. It a few seconds before she realized where the fuck we were. Her face was so priceless, her head was spinning in so many directions that she was imitating a bobble head.
"Marine, what is going on?" She said in a fast pace, she might be smart but can be quite jumpy when it comes to times like this. I better fill her in fast cause the gates to Helgen is a few feet from us.
"See what had happened was," I took in some air before explaining to her. "the blinding light has some how brought us into Skyrim, which is the video game I was playing back at aunt n' uncle's house and right now we are at the beginning of the game thank god, and now we are about to be in Helgen where we will be executed!" I was then huffing out air because I was talking too fast and I doubt see understood what I was saying. Glacier's expression; a shocked and frightened face, but she became calm again.
"So fundamentally, we are in your electronic game of a virtual world that represents Medieval Times and we are about to be executed for no apparent reason. Correct?" Told you she catches on quickly.
"Yeah," I responded with a smile as we were now in Helgen. "but don't get all worked up, cause in this part of the game one of us will got to the block after one of the soldiers of the Stormcloaks, and then..." My smile slowly turned upside down as I recalled what WILL happen after that.
"And then what?" She questioned me.
'Omg, I so forgot that...ALDUIN WILL BE COMING AND WILL DESTROY HELGEN ATFER THE BLOCK!' Oh man, we are totally screwed.
"Uhh Glacier, if I go to the block after the other person goes and you hear a roar the second time, I want you to slowly back up into the stone tower behind you and stay there." I warned my innocent twin, cause the last thing I want to do is make her more frightened that 'The First Bitch of Akatosh' is coming to destroy the town and everyone in it. Nope, not telling her that.
"Why and what roar should I be redolent of?" Damn her curiosity.
"Trust me Glacier, you don't want to know." She didn't bother to ask on further after the wagon stopped in front of the stone wall protecting Helgen.
"Get these prisoners out of the carts! Move it!" ordered the Imperial Captain with her usual stern and loud voice.
"W..Why are we stopping?" asked the thief, who's name I don't give shit about because he going to do something very retarded in a few minutes.
"Why do you think? It's the end of the line." Ralof said lowly, thinking it will end for him and his friends. Half right and half wrong! "Let's go, shouldn't be keeping the gods waiting for us." He suggested as he, the thief, and Ulfric Stormclock rose up and exited the cart leaving me and Glacier hanging.
"No! Wait! Please, we're not rebels!" the thief cried for his life like a fucking wuss.
"Dude, suck it up and grow some balls. Damn." I mumbled low enough that no one can hear me. Well except Glacier.
"Marine!" She shouted in a whisper and a disapproving face.
"What?" I laughed at her face and all she could do was shake her head.
"What will happen after the block, cousin?" I heart dropped at the her question, she was still on that.
"Look Glacier the last thing I want to do is tell you what is to come soon and-" I was cut off by her.
"Will you please tell me. Just because I am intelligent doesn't mean I am easily terrified." Glacier stated in a serious tone. I was about to say something, until the idiotic thief yelled out to the guards and I knew he was asking for the death wish.
"No, I'm not a rebel! You can't do this!" He then went running to the entrance of Helgen hoping to get away.
"Halt!" commanded the Captain.
"You're not going to kill me!" He responded as he kept running as if he was in a marathon.
'Dude, you are like so dead,..' I thought to myself.
"Archers!" the Imperial woman shouted and signaled for the archer to ready their bows and arrows. A moment later, three arrow pierced themselves into the back of the dumb ass thief as he fell dead on the ground.
'and gone. Dead and gone.' I sang the song 'Dead n' Gone' by T.I. and Justin Timberlake with a small smile. Glacier's eyes were wide open in shock of what just happened in front of her.
"Anyone else feel like running?!" she questioned for all the prisoners to hear. The man with the list beside her was now looking at Glacier and I with a visage of both shock and confusion. Got to admit he look cute in Imperial armor.
"Wait, you two there step down." asked Hadvar. Me and my twin looked at each other before we both stood and exited the cart. Glacier stood on my left side putting on her placid face on and I was doing my regular expression, which was smiling like a little girl.
"Who are you two?" Hardvar asked as he and the Captain stared at us probably cause of our height, clothing, or the face that we almost look alike.
"I'm Marine." I introduced myself as it was now my counterpart's turn.
"And I am Glacier." She introduced herself.
"We're twin cousins." We said at the same time and pace.
"And how old are you two?" He questioned us.
"13." We said at the same time again. The Imperial assistant was amused, but also dismayed by out twiness and our age. The Captain on the other hand, was not amused by how young we are.
"Captain, what do we do? They're not on the list." He asked his superior.
"Forget the list, they go to the block." She answered in a rough tone, the response earned her a whole shit load of shocked looks from the prisoners and civilians of Helgen. I looked over to Glacier to see her shacking a little from fear. I would try to comfort my cousin by these damn binding will not allow me to do so.
"By your orders Captain. I'm sorry girls, we will return your remains safely back to Hammerfell." Hadvar said to us with a hearty voice that would bring peace to any poor soul. "Please, follow the Captain prisoners." He said as he walked away from us and we had to follow the Captain to the two rows of Stormclocks.
"You heartless Imperials, ending the lives of innocent children too. You make me sick." Ralof said under his breathe. I can feel the anger and hatred of his body increasing bit by bit. Then the big man of the Imperials in gold and red armor walked over to Ulfric with a grin on his face, General Tullius.
"Ulfric Stormcloak. Some people here say you're a hero," General Tullius said to Ulfric. "but a hero doesn't use a power like the Voice to murder his King and usurp the thrown. You started this war and plunged Skyrim into complete chaos. Now the Empire is going to put you down and restore the peace." The Imperial General announced, while feeling relief that this conflict is now at its end. Yeah, no it's not.
Then as I expected, Alduin was wailing over the mountains and echoing in the skies like a raving banshee, which he is. Everyone was looking around the town looking for the source of that wailing, but couldn't find it. My cousin Glacier was also looking around the area before she leaned to her right to whisper into my ear.
"Marine, what was that scrofulous roar and is that the howl you said I should aware about?" My twin asked me.
"Like I said you don't want to know and yeah that's the roar I warned you about." I answered with another smile that told her she is right.
"What was that?" questioned Hadvar.
"It's probably nothing, carry on with the execution." commanded General Tullius.
"Yes General Tullius!" said the Imperial woman as she saluted him by pounding her heart with her fist. And now here comes the priestess in her long dark yellow robe and the hood over her head, but showing part of her face. I was thinking to myself 'If she was wearing black robe and her hood hid her face completely, she be looking like them Organization 13 people from Kingdom Hearts' cause that's what I think all priest/priestess would look like. The lady held both her hands out and up as if she was communicating with Jesus, or in their case 'The Nine Divines'.
"As we commend your souls to Aetherius, blessings of the Eight Divines upon you, for you are the salt and earth of Nirm. Our beloved..." the priestess kept going on until one of the Stormcloak soldiers stepped forward.
"For the love of Talos, shut up and let's get this over with." the soldier said probably because the lady was boring him to death with her fancy smancy speech. I was like 'thank you soldier' because I have no idea what the fuck she was talking about.
"As you wish." she replied not like that rude interupion.
"Let go I ain't go all morning." the man grumbled to the Imperials. As that was happening, someone was trying to gain mine and Glacier's attention. We looked over to see Ralof looking at us with soft eyes.
"Hey, have you two ever seen an execution before back at you homeland?" Ralof asked us with concern for us, but we shook our heads no. "It's a terrible sight to see; whether it's a family member, friend, or a loved one those cursed Imperials will not give no remorse to those who are innocent or not. They are just heartless bastards." His words made Glacier think about something in her head, but she won't tell me about what it was. I turned my gaze back to the man who was now on the block with the Captain's foot on his back.
"My ancestors are smiling down at me, Imperials! Can you say the same!?" the male yelled out loud before the large executioner rose his massive axe into the air and swung it down into the decapitated man's neck. The man's head fell to the basket below as his blood squirted out of the neck of the young soldier.
"You Imperial bastards!" yelled the female Stormcloak. The Captain removed the headless corpse from the block with her steel boot.
"Justice!" shouted a villager.
"Death to the Stormcloaks!" supported another villager.
"Man, they must really hate the Stormcloaks this much." I whispered to my twin cousin, who only let out a light sigh.
"As fearless in death as he was in life." Ralof commented with sadness in his voice. I closed my eyes to let out a light breathe because I knew I would be going next. But to my demise, it was not me.
"Next up, the young Redguard in blue and white!" My eyes shot open and widen at what I just heard her say; they are calling up Glacier! My twin cousin!
Everyone was looking at Glacier with shock and a mix of sadness. Glacier was also shocked to hear the Captain call her up to the block, but she didn't bother to reject. My little twin slowly walked to the stone block with her head held high. The villagers and Stormcloaks started to yell insults and other bad things to the Imperials because of how young she was and how could they kill an innocent child, but the Imperials didn't give a care. Before Glacier could turn to me, Alduin roared again, however he was coming closer to Helgen. The people stopped their angry protests to look around the town again with confusion and concern.
"There it is again. Did you hear it?" asked a soldier.
"I said next prisoner!" The Captain growled at Glacier, who swiftly turned back to the Captain. I can feel Glacier's fear gland trying to rise over her calmness and I was making drops of tears drip out of my eyes. Then everyone went back to shouting out fowl words and other things to the Imperial army.
"To the block, prisoner. Nice and easy." Hadvar demanded my twin, but then he leaned forward to Glacier and whispered something to her ear. I wonder what he said.
As my counterpart was standing in front of the stone block, she closed her eyes and reopened them to look back at me. I was still having tears fall from my sapphire eyes as I watched her fall down to the block in an execution position before the damn Imperial Captain placed her dirty boot on my cousin's back. My body couldn't help but shake in anger and rage at the sight of my only cousin about to get her head cut off.
'Damn it Alduin, if you don't get your big black ass here right now and save my cousin! I swear I will hunt yo ass down to the face of Tamriel!' I though in rage.
As the executioner has elevated his ample bloody axe; my eyes went to the skies to see a big, black figure flying to the town, it was him. It was Alduin.
"What in Oblivion is that?" General Tullius shouted causing everyone to turn to the skies.
"Sentries, what do you see!?" The Captain questioned the Imperial sentry.
"It's in the clouds!" responded the Imperial Sentry with fear as Alduin made his appearance be known on top of the stony tower. This made everyone shake in terror.
"DRAGON!" shouted the feminine Stormcloak soldier. Alduin's big black wings caused a gust of wind to blow everyone way from the tower, including the executioner and Glacier. I swiftly ran over to Glacier to help her up off the ground, while stilling binds.
Glacier and I looked up to Alduin, who was also looking back at us. His pupiless glowing crimson eyes staring into our sapphire and snow blue eyes, as if we were having a staring contest. If I wasn't in these binding right now, I would have given Alduin 'The Birdy'. Then as I predicted what came next, 'The World Fucker' let out his 'Shout' at us. It then caused the bright blue skies to transform into a deep red with a swirling mass of black clouds and small meteors began to fall from the skies like fireworks on the fourth of July.
"Don't just stand there, kill the fucker! Guards, get the townspeople to safety!" Tullius commanded his troops to take action and save the town.
The 'Shout' from Alduin's big mouth sent me and my clever twin back a few feet, but we managed to regain our stance. The so called 'World Eater' was probably laughing at us thinking we were weak and vulnerable humans. Oh, I so wish I didn't have these fucking things on my wrist right now, I really wanted to kick that Akatosh's son's ass back into time.
"Hey twins, follow me to the tower! The god's won't give us another chance!" Ralof shouted to us with his binding off. Glacier and I nodded to each other and ran behind Ralof into the tower. The dark shadow of Alduin loomed over us, telling that he took his flight into the air to being his destruction spry. Once Ralof, Glacier, and I entered the stone tower, the leader of the Stormcloaks, Ulfric Stormcloak quickly slammed the door behind me.
"Jarl Ulfric, what is that thing? Could the legends be true?" I looked at the blond hair man like 'Dude, how can you like not know what dragon is!? I mean, you just saw it shout at us!'. My twin and I went to rest by a wall as the two men continued to talk.
"Marine," I looked at Glacier with her serious face. "was that dragon the one you told me and I quote; "Trust me Glacier, you don't want to know." Yes?" she asked me, I swear she can be a little annoying at times.
"Fucking right." I got that off of 'HYFR' by Drake and Lil Wayne, I love that song.
"Marine, will you please not repeat the phrases off of rap and pop song. Not while in a situation like this." she pleaded.
"Fine." I answered with annoyance.
"We need to move, now!" Ulfric shouted to the wounded and non wounded soldiers.
"You two," Ralof called to us. "up through the tower, let's go!" He instructed us and we followed. The three of us jogged up the stairs to the top of the tower.
"Uh, this to unaccustomed; first we randomly wake up in a wagon, then there's the execution, and now dragon! What else is next on the agenda?" Glacier complained behind me.
"Umm, you'll see in a few seconds." I told her and she rolled her eyes.
After we jogged up a few more flights of stony stairs, we cam across a Stormcloak soldier who was removing some large boulders out of the way. Again as I predicted, the wall blew wide open and caused the poor soldier to be crushed under the debris. I ran in front of the huge gap in the stone wall, only to see Alduin's head on the other side.
"If you think banging yo head into the tower is gonna bring some sense back into yo damn empty skull, it ain't workin!" I joked at Alduin as he tilted his head some to the left in question. I couldn't help but laugh at how confused he was.
"Get back!" warned Ralof as I continued to laugh at Alduin, who was getting angry. Without hesitation, Ralof placed both hands on my shoulders and pulled me back to Glacier, who was looking a me with disapproval.
"Yol...Toor Shul!" Alduin bellowed out, his jaw wide opened to release a huge burst of inferno on the man in debris. After he was done, Alduin flew off to kill more people below without a care in his damned world. Glacier was looking at the crispy corpse with horror and shock, while Ralof tended to his dead comrade. He did a silent pray to his friend before her rose up and turned to us.
"See that inn on the other side? You girls need to jump through the roof and keep going till you reach to safety. Understand?" I was the only one to nod at the blonde, but my twin she looked unsure about this.
"What's wrong, Glaze" I called her by her nickname. She turned to me with an unreadable face.
"I'm not so sure about jumping into that inn there, Marine." She said to me.
"Oh come on, it's not that hard. All you got to do is jump, land, and run like hell. What's so hard about that."
"You know I'm not that athletic, Marine." I yawned at her before getting a head start for my jump, within a split second I jumped and landed safely inside the broken inn. My cousin looked at me with disbelief.
"Glacier, if I can jump and make it into the inn without a scratch so can you!" I encouraged my cousin, who smiled at me. "Now come on, jump!" I smiled back at her as she nodded to me. She took a head start like I did, within a second she jumped like a deer and made it into the inn. "Woah! Glacier that was awesome!" I cheered for her as she got up off the floor.
"Don't flatter me yet, Marine. We still need to get out of here." She stated and I laughed. "So what else in the game do you remember, is there a way out of here." Glacier inquired me.
"Way out? Oh yeah there is one, right there." I pointed to that open hole behind her. She shot me a dumb founded look before jumping into the hole and landed with 'thud'. I jumped after her and we escaped through the doorway of the inn.
We kept running through the ruined town of Helgen until we stopped at a nearby scene; a man was lying on the ground getting burnt alive by 'Aldubitch', and two Imperial soldiers hiding behind the destroyed house with a little boy in tears behind them. I looked at the man with the sword in his hands and remember that he was Hadvar. He turned around to see me and Glaze still alive in bindings.
"Still alive, twins? You two need to keep close to me if you want to stay alive." He said to me and my cuz.
"Okay whatever, can we go now?" I asked still pissed at him because he almost got my cousin killed back at the block.
"Gunnar, take care of the boy. I have to find General Tullius and join the defense." He told his comrade, who nodded in understanding.
"May the Gods guide you, Hadvar." the guy named Gunnar replied to his friend, Hadvar. I turned my attention to my twin.
"Well Glacier, what do you think we should do?" I questioned Glacier.
"I do not reliance this man for what had almost bechance to me, but if he is consenting to help us get out of this chaos then I will tolerate." She responded using some big words that I don't understand. We ran behind Hadvar to the stone wall, where we will avoid any debris or fire in the process.
"Stay close to the wall!" He instructed us as 'The World Eater' landed on the wall above and made the ground shake violently like an earthquake in Chicago.
"Yol..Toor Shul!" I heard the black bastard shout as he spilled out the inferno in his mouth to the houses. The big fat flying lizard then flew off the wall and to the skies again.
'Akatosh, your son is a real piece of work.' I pondered, hoping he heard my mind.
"Quickly, follow me!" Hadvar shouted as I snapped out of my thoughts. We then ran up the steps of a burnt down home with walls smashed and everything else burnt.
"Damn it, the thing won't die! It just keeps on coming!" whined an Imperial soldier as he kept firing arrows into the sky.
"Please, t..tell..my family..I fought..bravely." said a dying soldier.
"Come on, give me your hand. I'm going to get you out of here." another soldier said as he helped the dying man to his feet as the Imperial mages rapidly shot out balls of fire into the sky to hit Alduin, but he didn't fall.
"I want every arrow in the air, now!" commanded General Tullius in a distance.
'Oh thank god we found him.' I pondered with relief.
"Hadvar, into the keep soldier we're leaving!" the General announced as everyone else proceeded to take down Akatosh's stupid black biatch.
"By Ysmir, nothing is killing it!" one of the mages shouted out.
"Girls follow me!" Hadvar commanded us and we nodded. We ran past the archers and mages into an arch where more archers we're shooting arrows at Alduin, but we're still failing to take him down cause that's imposable in this part of the game. Hadvar suddenly stopped in his tracks when he foresaw Ralof heading into the keep as well. Ralof also stopped in front of Hadvar with his iron axe out and ready to kill him. The two men stared at each other for a few moments before one of them spoke.
"Ralof, you damned traitor! Get out of my way!" He yelled at the Nord with hatred.
"We're escaping too, Hadvar! You're not stopping us this time or ever!" He shot back gripping his axe tighter in his hand.
"Fine, I hope that dragon takes you and all you comrades to Sovengarde!" Hadvar said to Ralof before they went their separate ways into the keep. I turned back to Glacier to see her looking at Alduin swooping down, grabbing a soldier off the wall with his claws and flinging the guy across the sky like a Frisbee.
"Glacier," she looked back at me. "you okay?" she looked at me for a few seconds before she responded.
"Marine, I want you to go with Hadvar into the Keep." I rose my eyebrows in confusion.
"Why?" I questioned her.
"Because I had an idea. You know how the Stormcloaks and the Imperials are at each other throats and both have their different point of orientations?" I nodded yes and she continued. "Well, if both of us were go onto different sides of the conflict, we will be able to find a way to resolve this ambivalency." I looked at her as if she had lost her mind when she jumped from the tower.
"Are you saying you want us to join different sides of the war?" she nodded and my mouth dropped. "No!" I yelled to her.
"Oh come on, what side were you on before we got here?" She asked me.
"Stormcloaks." I said ignoring Hadvar calling for us to get moving.
"Well, now you will be connexion on the Imperial side okay." I was too shocked to respond to her. "Or we could could go with one of the men and meet somewhere to plow which side to join on. So which would you promote?" I go with B, cause there is no way in hell am I going against my cousin.
"B, final answer!" I said as if we were on 'Millionaire'.
"Satisfactory, I'll go with Ralof. Marine where do we meet because you know more about this game and its places?" I smiled at her before answering.
"There's a town call 'Riverwood', both Ralof and Hadvar live there. We can meet at the inn called 'The Sleeping Giant', I meet you their when I done talking with Hadvar, got it?" She smiled back at me.
"Affirmative." saying it like a soldier in the American Army. I turned my back to her before running to Hadvar, who was tapping his foot to the ground like an impatient mother waiting for her child.
"Marine!" I turned my head to face her. "Promise me you will be careful." Her face showed me that she was worried. I swiftly ran to her and gave her an ackward hug, while still in binds. "I will, if you promise the same." we pinky swore on it before we departed bodies. "I will, arigato." she said in Japanese.
We gave each other one more ackward binded hug before she left to where Ralof was and I went back to Hadvar, who frowned at me before it changed to a small smile. Me and Hadvar entered the Keep door and hoped that we get out of Helgen alive.
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