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Here's chapter four.
Reunion and mission to Bleack Falls Barrow
Marine's POV
"Hahaha!" I laughed in Glacier's face when she turned around to face me.
"Marine!?" Glacier said with astonishment and I smiled widely.
"The one and only!" I responded with my arms wide like one of those 'Tad ah' moments. "Thanks Orgnar. Here you go." I said while reaching in my pocket to grab thirty septeims and placed them on the bar.
"Y'know you don't have to give this much gold just for keeping watch of your cousin. I mean you might need it for food and other things." Orgnar said with care and I smiled.
"Oh don't worry about. I more gold than you think; besides I gotta show some gratitude and hell you need it more than I do.
"Thanks." He thanked me with a smirk.
"H-How did you get back here? And in one piece?" She asked me. I playfully punched her on the arm then she rubbed the spot where I hit her at.
"What did you want me dead?" I played with her.
"No." Glaze told me. I motioned her to follow me to the table by the door and she followed. We took our seats next to each other before we began to talk about our experiences.
"So, how did you do with Ralof?" I asked curiously.
She began to tell me about her first fight with the Imperials, learning about the three different potions, saving a Stormcloak's ass, the bridge getting crushed and so forth.
"And Marine, did you call me on my IPhone earlier today." I rose a brow at her current question.
"Uh yeah, why?" I asked in curiosity.
"Well, when Ralof and I were sneaking away from a slumbering bear," Oh crap I see where she's going with this. "my Iphone went off, waking the bear and it was about kill me. Yet I had luck on my side, if it weren't for that bow and arrow Ralof gave me I would have been dead." She foretold with a frown. My mouth went to an 'O' formation as my sapphire eyes went wide.
"Yeah, my bad." I apologized to her as she still had that frown on her face.
"So, what dicey outcomes happened on yours and Hadvar component?" I have no idea what big words she just used in that sentence or what she asked me, but I'll answer.
"Almost that same as yours. Except we had to kill some Stormclocks, look for supplies, I stripped some soldiers out of their clothes for money later on, and above all I enjoyed it. My ninja/ material arts techniques really paid off." I laugh a little at my explanation.
"Intriguing. Also Marine, did you happen to see that black dragon fly by Riverwood?" My cousin asked as I raised an eyebrow.
"Alduin? Yeah, I saw the big retarded bitch fly over Riverwood after I left the inn to talk to Alvor." I said lowly.
"Alduin? Is that the name of the black dragon?" My twin questioned again.
"No it's Darth Vader. Yes it's Alduin." I spoke with sarcasm.
"There was no reason to be pungent to me. If you recall I have not ever played this game." Glacier didn't sound please of my playful sarcasm.
"Yeah, I know that. Hehehe." I laughed nervously.
"So, what is to happen soon Marine?" My twin asked.
"Well, I plan to take the items I have from the Keep and sell them at Trader's Market." I said. "But once we do the store owner and his sister, Lucan and Camilla Valerius, will be arguing about there stolen item, The Golden Dragon Claw. Once I sell the items and offer to let us help them recover the claw, we will got to Bleack Falls Barrow; to recover the item from the thief and also retrieve another object, The Dragon Stone." Glacier looked at me with confused eyes with her head tilted.
"What's the Golden Claw and this Dragon Stone?" She questioned.
"The Golden Claw is an ancient artifact of Nord times, it is used as a key for an ancient puzzle to open a gate." I explained as she seemed to understand. "The Dragon Stone is also another ancient artifact, but is used differently than the Claw. It's like a treasure map on stone, except it doesn't show the treasure. Instead it shows the location of the Dragon Mounds or Burials." Glacier nodded her head with understanding.
"Did you have dinner yet?" I shook my noggin no. "Ralof offered us to come over to his sister's house for dinner. And will probably want to speak to you about joining the Stormcloaks. Do you want to go?" I thought for a second before giving my answer.
"Sure. After I sell the items I found." I said. We got up from our seats, exited the inn, and into the Trader's Market across the inn. Once inside my expert Skyrim knowledge was correct, Lucan was arguing with his young sister, Camilla to not go to Bleack Falls Barrow to retrieve the claw.
"No, you will not step one foot out of Riverwood!" Lucan yelled at Camilla, not taking notice we were here yet.
"Well, what do you think we should do? How are we going to get the claw back!?" She shot back with anger.
"I don't know, but you're not going to-" Lucan stopped yelling when he saw us standing here and witnessing the argument. "Oh, hello young ones. Uh, you two need something?" He asked us.
"Yeah, I'm here to sell some items." I pulled out three sets of Stormcloak armor, two swords, and one great sword onto the bar for him to take.
"All of this stuff will be...149 gold." He handed me the money and Glacier motioned me to put the money in the bag on her back (I don't know how much it would really cost in the game, so I made it up the cost).
'When did she have a bag?' I mentally thought, but placed the gold in her backpack. She then went up to Lucan to ask something.
"Excuse me sir, did something happen in your shop?" My mouth dropped at her question. I just told about the Golden Claw and shit! Either she wasn't listen to my explanation (which I doubt cause that's usually me) or she playing along with the game.
"Uh..well yeah..something did happen. Our precious item has been stolen by some thieves sometime today. I would get our claw back, but I have to manage the shop and won't let my sister go!" He ignored the angry growl coming from his sister.
"I have a proposition if you like; me and my cousin can go and retrieve your claw." Camilla had on shocked face, while Lucan dropped his jaw and widen his eyes.
"You can't be serious!" Lucan shouted at Glacier with complete shock. "You can't do that it's too dangerous for young people like you two! I mean how old are you two?!" He questioned us.
"Thirteen." She answered for us.
"No, I'm sorry I won't allow that. I know you want to help, but-" I cut him off.
"We can do it!" I spoke up. "Look, just because we're young teenagers doesn't mean we can't handle a situation like this! I mean we can handle ourselves just fine and make it back to your store in one piece." I shouted back and Glacier spoke again.
"Also it would cause you less the trouble. Your sister offer to go get back the claw for both your sakes, yet you turned her down in spite for her safety. To add to that, you just said you couldn't go cause you have a shop to manage and people to supply, correct?" Lucan stayed silent as she talked.
"Brother, let them go." We all turned to Camilla when she said that. "These girls are offering to help us get the claw back and yet you're turning them down too. Who else will you turn down? No one! Cause I doubt anyone in Riverwood would care to help you get the claw!" She shouted at him. "If you don't let these twins help you get the claw themselves, I will go get the claw myself regardless if you tell me not to!" She threatened. Lucan turned to all of us with sad face before he let out the sigh.
"Fine, you two can go get the claw for me." He said in defeat and I cheered in my head. "The bandits took it Bleack Falls Barrow. I will warn you though, it will be dangerous." He warned us, but I scoffed at him.
"Pfft, dangerous or not we will be ready for anything, believe it!" I said adding Naruto's catchphrase at the end.
"Thank you sir, we will bring the claw back to you in one piece." Glacier said as we exit the shop and walked to Gerdur's house, which was high behind the inn. The colors in the sky went from bright blue to a beautiful orange-purple color, meaning it's close to becoming nighttime. When we were at Gerdur's house Glacier knocked on her door two times and waited for someone to open the door.
"Who's there?" Gerdur said behind the door.
"I'm Glacier, I helped your brother Ralof escape Helgen." Glacier answered and in an instant the door was swung open with Ralof sister standing behind it.
"You're Glacier?" She nodded to her before looking at me. "And who would you be?" She asked me.
"I'm Marine, Glacier's twin cousin!" I gave a thumb up and a bright smile after my response. Glacier shook her head as Gerdur did nothing.
"Right. Please both of you come in. I was just preparing for dinner." She led us into her cozy home before closing the door behind us. "Ralof, your friend is here along with her cousin." She called out to Ralof.
Her husband, Hod and their son, Frodnur were seated at the dining table ready for dinner, while Ralof was at the cooking pot stirring the soup. When the men turned to me and Glacier, they gave us a warm smile.
"Glacier, it's good to see you come over for dinner and Marine, I see you are alive and well." Ralof greeted.
"I swear you and Glacier were hoping I was dead." I joked with them, earning a laugh from Ralof and a heavy sigh from Glacier.
"Uncle Ralof, who're the hot twins? Do you know them?" Frodnur questioned him. I coughed when he called us hot.
"Frodnur, do not call our guest such things." Hod told his son. "I apologize for my son's behavior. I'm Hod, Gerdur's husband." Hod introduced himself.
"Greetings, I'm Glacier and this is my twin cousin, Marine." She told the two males.
"Why don't you two sit down at the table, while I get you all some soup." She suggested to us. We went to the picnic table and took our seat between Frodnur, who was 'Checking us out' with a wide grin on his face.
"How old are you two?" The child asked us.
"We're thirteen." We answered at the same time.
"Do you have a lover?" He asked with a gleeful smile. We didn't answer to his question, both of us feeling awkward at the moment.
'This is going to be one long dinner.' was the only thing I though in my head.
During dinner, Frodnur keep asking us questions; our personalities, what type of guys we want, what turns us on (if you know what I mean), and anything else that relates to 'dating stuff'. I was like 'Dude, you're ten and we're thirteen. Where do you get these questions from?!'. It was a good thing his mother threatened that she would not give him a sweetroll if he didn't stop asking us questions. Then Ralof discussed with us about joining him and the Stormcloaks, but I told him we would think about it. I then told them that we offered to help Lucan and Camilla retrieve their Golden Claw from Bleack Falls Barrow. Everyone was flabbergasted like fuck at my saying, but soon calmed down when Glacier told them we would return to Riverwood once we got the claw.
"Can you two do something for me when you come back from the Barrow?" We nodded yes and she continued. "The Jarl needs to know that there is a dragon on the loose. Riverwood is defenseless. We need to get word to Jarl Balgruuf in Whiterun to send whatever soldiers he can. If you girls can do that for me, I'll be in your debt." Gerdur explained as if she's putting Riverwood in our hands like Obi one kenobi and Luke Skywalker from Star Wars.
"We will. Thank you for the delightful dinner, Mrs. Gerdur." My smarty twin thanked Gerdur as I nodded. We said our good byes before leaving the house.
"Btw, take this." I said to her while taking a note out of my back pocket into her hands.
"What is this?" She questioned.
"It's note. I made it before you entered the inn to look for me." I replied. "Give this to Alvor the blacksmith; it tells him who you are, some weapons we'll need for the trip, and where we're going." I informed her.
"You prearranged this whole expedition before I got here?" Her façade looked flabbergasted at the information I wrote on the paper.
"Yeah, and once your done meet me back at the inn." I replied.
"I must say I'm impressed." She told before running off to Alvor at his forge. I walked over to the 'Sleeping Giant Inn' to buy two rooms for us to sleep.
"Heeeyyy, Orgnar." I greeted to him as I entered while skipped like a little girl to the bar. "Where is Delphine?" I questioned him, he probably doesn't care that I know her name.
"She's at the Alchemy table." He pointed at the blond head women in a long blue rag dress making potions at the table. My cousin came in a few minutes later with the weapons I asked for from Alvor, Hadvar's uncle and blacksmith of Riverwood.
"You got the weapons?" I asked her as if I was one of those thugs asking a drug dealer for some type of drug.
"Yes, I do." She dropped the weapons from her back pocket to the floor.
"Great, so what did Alvor say?" I said with a giggly tone.
"Well, after I gave him the note you had in your pocket. He said "Oh, you're her cousin!" and "I have to tell you, your cousin is crazy." that sort of thing." She said with a straight face.
"Good enough. I'll inform Delphine that we need two rooms for the night. We'll need the energy to make it through Bleack Falls Barrow. Plus, I checked into your bag and you appear to have the first spell book 'Spark'. Learn that spell and you will have the power electricity in your prowess." I grinned at her.
"You have been watching too much C.S.I haven't you?" She joked.
"You know me all too well cousin. All too well." I said with a sly smirk. Before going over to Delphine to ask for two rooms for the night and paid her twenty gold. After paying her the gold and making sure Glacier was reading the book (I already have 'spark'. How? Read one page of that book and two seconds later I have 'spark'), I went to my rented room to sleep the night away.
10 hours later; 7:05 Am
"Marine! Marine, wake up!" I groaned in my sleep before opening my sapphire eyes to see Glacier standing above me.
"Morning already?" I said sleepily and she nodded in response.
"I read the book and gathered the supplies into my bag. We should be leaving now, if we want to be back by midday." Glaze says. I jumped out of the bed, grabbed an apple, and went out the door with my twin behind me. When we were out of the Riverwood gates, I stopped from moving forward. Time to show my twin an ability I have discovered.
"Why the hell are we stopping?" My counterpart asked, but I ignored her.
"Grab my hand." I demanded.
"Excuse me?" She questioned.
"Did I stuttered, grab my hand." I demanded again. She did as she was told and I smirked to myself.
"Cousin, how fast do you think I can run from here to Bleack Falls Barrow?" I asked playfully.
"Well, the distance between here to the Barrow is approximately-" she stopped talking.
VOOOMM!
I dashed off to the Barrow within the speed of light like Sonic from 'Sonic X' or those ninjas from 'Naruto'. I looked back at my twin to see her holding on for dear life as I kept running. Ten seconds later, the grass turned to snow, snowflakes fell from the sky, and three large upside down 'U' like structures were seen on the mountain. This means we're close to Bleack Falls Barrow. When I knew we were close enough to our destination, I stopped to let my pumping blood and heart slow down a bit before continuing on.
"What the fuck was that?!" I covered her mouth with a hand because I knew there were three bandits up ahead and I don't want them to know we're here yet.
"It's a new ability I made back when we were escaping Helgen. I used it when I raced Hadvar back to Riverwood. Cool right?" I said as her face was like 'What!' I removed my hand off her mouth, so she can talk.
"That is amusing. However, I would advise you to be more semiconscious with that 'Sonic Dash' ability. You might not know what people will say if they saw your power." She warned.
"Right and F.Y.I, I would like to call it 'Ninja Speed' not 'Sonic Dash'. Follow me, but keep low and quite. There are three bandits up ahead; two are archers and the other is a swordsman. So Glacier, I want you to use your bow and arrow to take down the swordsman, while I deal with the two bastards." I explained the plan to her. "Got it?" I questioned.
"Affirmative." I swear that is like so military and doesn't fit her at all.
Once we agreed on the plan, Glacier snoop low to the ground at get a good sight of the bandit with the sword. Once the bandit was in her sight, she pulled out her long bow and iron arrow to get ready for the attack. Then with ease she shot the arrow into the air for the bandit's head, but to our dismay it missed by an inch and to add to that the archers began shooting a rainfall of arrows, while the swordsman ran to Glacier direction.
"Glacier, get back!" I commanded, but she continued to fire arrows at the guy.
The bandit was two feet away from her and was ready to attack her with his sword in the air. Without hesitation, I ran at him before doing an aerial kick to his side sending him dead to a boulder. I looked around to see the bowmen coming down the stoney stairs still firing arrows at us, which we dodged the best we can. Glacier fired some arrow at them, but it did little damage to them. I pulled out two daggers from my pocket, threw them at the bowmen like ninja kunais, and watched as they were lodged into their throats which caused the bandits to fall backwards to the stairs dead.
"Phew, glad that's done with." I said. I turned back to Glacier to see if she wasn't penetrated with arrows, but no she had a sad face on. "What wrong Glaze?" I asked my depressed twin.
"Hn, oh nothing Marine I was just thinking about something." She told me. I know there's something bothering her and she won't tell me, but I'll leave her be for now.
"Okay! Let's get going! Into Bleack Falls Barrow!" I shouted out with a leader pose before dragging my smart twin to the large black door that lead inside the barrow.
Once we were inside the ancient building, I told her to crouch low and stay quiet. I knew there will be two more bandit's in here as the game foretold. We sneaked quietly around the two large pillars in the middle of this abandoned structure, ignoring the dead bandit with a warhammer and the dead rat on the floor (I almost screamed when I saw that rat) to see two more bandit's around a set up camp.
"That dark elf wants to go on ahead, let him. Better than us risking our necks." said a male bandit talking to a female bandit.
I got out my dagger as Glaze let the 'Spark' spell fill her hand. A second later, we attacked the bandits, who were off guard by our appearance. I took care of the male bandit, while Glacier took care of the other one. The bandit I was fighting pulled out his sword and swung at me, but I dodged it and plunged the iron dagger to his left hip. He dropped his weapon in favor of stopping the blood from dripping out of him, but unfortunately for the poor fellow I took out a second dagger and slit his throat open, killing him with ease. After I was done, I went back to the camp site to see Glacier putting some more arrow on her back and the female bandit dead on the ground.
"I'm going to open the chest over there, in case the is something useful for later." Glacier told me while heading to that chest to our right. Not a moment too soon, the chest opened and Glaze placed anything to help us in her bag.
"Ready, let's go." I demanded as she nodded. We traveled down a long tunnel, while grabbing some gold and potions along the way till we came onto a chamber.
In the chamber was a guy in fur clothing walking towards the lever in the middle of the chamber. I know what's gonna happen next; he pulls the lever, doesn't bother to solve the puzzle thingy, and gets killed by poisonous needles. Few second later, my game prediction came true and the guy fell dead to the ground.
Glacier's POV
I gasped as I saw the poor man get ambushed by multiple needles that attacked from five directions. I don't know tactically how it happened, but I suppose it has something to do with that lever and those stone tablets. I pondered him my mind for a second to figure out why it happened, til it clinked to me.
'It's a puzzle. The tablets on the left side must be solved, which means it has to match the ones on the wall and ground.' I cheered in my head. Without Marine noticing, I sneaked around her to the movable tablets on the ground. Once I was close, I turned them by the matching animal symbols on the pillars I adage and memorized; it was snake, snake, then dolphin.
"Glacier, what are you doing? You don't-" I cut her off.
"I know this mystifier Marine, it's elementary." I said to her. "Plus I already solved it." I ran over to the lever and pulled it back to me. Then to my relief, the gate flew open and we're able to pass through.
"Good going Glacier! Now, let's roll!" She said as I rolled my eyes.
"Aie aie, Captain." I said sheepishly like a sailor at sea.
We went through the gate and ended up into another room with a wooden staircase that lead downstairs. Marine went to the check for gold at that little stone table in front of us. I came behind her to observe the chest for anything inside, I took up mostly everything inside it into my bag.
"Here Glaze, a book for you knowledge." Marine says while placing the publication in my bag.
"What was it about?" I bespoke her.
"Thief, it about being a thief." She resulted. "It increases your chances of becoming a pickpocker, lockpicker, and sneaking." My crazy cousin stated me.
"Let's get going, we don't have much time to waste." I recommended her as she smiled. I was about to go down the staircase, when Marine took hold of my left wrist.
"Hold up, there are skeevers down there." She shivered when she warned me about the large rats. Splendid, now we have to deal with rats in the building.
"I'll use my 'Spark' spell to kill them. You just wait here." She quickly nodded before she ran to the wall. Oh and F.Y.I, Marine has a phobia of rodents.
I crept down the stairwell with silence, hoping the does rats don't hear me. As I got to the bottom of the stairwell, three dog size rodents were in the room. Quickly, I activated my electricity spell and struck one of the rats. However, they sought me out and were about to jump at me, but my spell electrocute them all at once. I kept at this until the rats were dead or when I felt my magicka drain away, but lucky for me they were dead before I felt tried.
"Marine, you can come down now. I killed the rodents." I called to her as her head peeped out from above.
"Oh thank God." My cousin foretold as she came running down the steps.
We scanned the chamber for any signs of potions, but all there was is a scroll and a dark gray vile. I took both item into my bag before we proceeded with our journey. As went walked in the short tunnel, I couldn't help but notice a lot of cobwebs were everywhere. I couldn't help but become frightened at the sight of cobwebs. Suddenly, from close by we heard someone calling for help.
"Is someone there? Help! Help!" called the person in peril.
I looked over to my left to see where the voice came from and to my repulsion, there was a sizeable gathering of spider webs in the next area. My body started to shiver and I couldn't stop the large blows of air coming from my orifice. Marine noticed my horrendous disruption and placed her hands on my shoulders for my comfort.
"Glacier, Glacier calm down." I tried to be placid as I can, but I couldn't. "Okay, um...you stay here and try to relax, while I go take care of 'Miss Spider'. Okay?" Oh Lord, please tell me she didn't say SPIDER.
"Cr..cr..cr..cr..crystal." I stuttered as she began to cut down the spider webs. I sloped down to the ground, still shivering like a cat in the water. I hear my twin do a battle cry, the person in trouble telling her to kill the spider, and I saw a... gigantic spider attacking my twin. I closed my eyes shut and placed my hands over my hat hoping that this was an illusion. After a while, all went silent. I uncovered my hat and slowly raised my head from it's position before I heard the mystifying person speak up from the uneasy silence.
"Great you killed the spider, now cut me down." the mystery person demanded my twin, but she didn't answer. "What are you waiting for, I said- wait what are you doing?" I heard the person ask. "Why are you aiming you dagger at me? Wait your not-somebody help me!" that was the last thing I heard the person say before he went silent and the sound of ripping cobwebs was heard. I stood up to see what happened.
"Marine?" I called out as I saw her standing in front of the passage to the next room with a dead unknown dark green foreigner at her feet. She gave me a straight face for a second before it changed to a smile.
"Hey Glaze, guess what? I got the Golden Dragon Claw!" She raised the large gold claw in the air and I couldn't help but be amazed at the claw. However, my amazed visage went back to being serious.
"What happen to that person, who was calling for help." I asked Marine as she kept smiling, but then she frowned.
"Oh nothing, I just killed Arvel the Swift here." She pointed to the dead person on the ground. My eyes vary with stupefaction at what she said and did. "Before you give me a lecture, I have a good reason for it. He was the one who stole the claw in the first place and if I let him go, he would have been killed by the Draugr; Undead Nords." She explained as I let out an uneasy sigh.
"Well as long as you had a good reason for your actions, that's fine. Now that we have the claw, we can look for the Dragonstone." I told as we went into the catacomb chamber.
"Can you handle a few undead corpse, Glacier?" I smirked at her inquiry. "Cause I'm telling you, there will be three draugrs coming after us." She pulled out two swords this time instead of daggers.
"Only if you don't die." I joked and Marine laughed. When we walked over to the side gate trap, three draugrs rose from their sleeping beds and charged at us with their ancient Nord weapons. But instead of fighting we jumped over the trap trigger and onto the stairs. When the three zombies tried to pursue us, one of them stepped on the trigger and clang the trap activated and slammed the three draugrs to the wall.
"Did we come up with that plan?"Marine asked me.
"No, but I though of it when I first saw the trap and trigger there." I replied to her as we continued our quest. We came into another area with more catacombs, but this time three more draugrs rose up from their eternal sleep and the worst part is that there were no traps.
"Marine, your the expert in this game, is there something we can use to our advantage?" I asked her before grabbing my wrist and did her 'Ninja Dash' to get us away from the draugrs and past the death trap of three large axes.
"Yeah, I just used it." She says and I gave a frustrated look.
"Your 'Ninja Dash'." I said.
"Well...yeah, but also the death trap." She nodded with a smile as we looked back to see three undead try to get us, but were getting debacle by the large axes. "We can handle the next draugr down the steps, but will also need to use the fireball scroll on the next few draugrs." I let out a heavy suspiration as we continued.
As she expected, the draugr onslaught us with an ancient sword, but we were able to kill it. Marine has requested me to get out the fireball scroll and take a few baby steps forward, until I detected a few draugrs move out of the sleeping place and were ready to attack me. I open the fireball scroll to see what will happen and to my utter surprise, a parade of infernos balls shot out of the paper and destroyed the draugrs. I let my mouth drop at the sudden attack as Marine gave me a wide smile.
"Swag Glaze, you might know more things in this game that you think." She complimented me before going ahead with me following behind. We came running into another area of the Borrow; there was a stream of water running east of the glowing cavern, there was a few little specimens on a solid rock that had a visible radiation coming of of them almost like jellyfishes, at the end of the stream was a waterfall and a blanket of snow covering the rocks and a bridge below.
"Yo Glaze, come on the road leads down there," Marine pointed to the pathway on her left, which should take us to the bridge. "and also there's a draugr on the bridge below, so I want you to take it out with your arrows." She demanded to me.
I let out a slow breathe before walking ahead of her and down the pathway until I spotted the walking dead on the stone bridge. My hands brought out my bow and arrow as I kept my eyes on the undead walking to the other end of the bridge and away from me. I positioned the arrow on the string of the long bow, I let out a soft breathe to calm my nerves then I let go of the arrow to let it fly through the air like a sparrow. The pierced itself into the back of the draugr's head which it caused the it to fall forward and without movement.
"Marine, the target has been dealt with." I conversant her as she came behind me. "What is to come soon?" I quirked her as she walked ahead of me.
"Um, there will be another draugr up ahead and it'll be guarding the gate to the next area." She resulted then endeavored towards our incoming destination.
After a long voyage via the tunnel later, we approached our current terminus. Evidently Marine was accurate again, another draugr with an ancient waraxe was viewed in the chamber and it appears to be protecting whatever it is behind those gates. Marine clutched my wrist to gain my attention, which worked and caused my wrist to ache in pain.
"Stay here cuz," I looked at her with disbelief and a hint of confusion, but I let here continue to talk. "I'm gonna use my 'Ninja Speed' to take that piece of rotten fuck back to where it should be...and that's hell!" She let out a loud 'Yahoo', which caught the draugr's attention and charged forward with her swords in hand. As I watched her battle on with the draugr, I couldn't help be feel angered at her protectiveness.
'Why the hell would she tell me to stand by? I just as hefty as she is." I pondered to myself, but I couldn't help be feel weak at the moment. 'Who am I kidding, I can't do anything to help her. I don't have a special power like Marine does only an electrical energy spell, bow and arrow, and my intelligent knowledge. I can't possibly survive a difficult battle with a dragon or anything in this virtual world." I let out a sad sigh at my pondering mind, but I didn't notice my twin standing in front of me.
"Hey Glacier, what's wrong?" My curious cousin inquired.
"It..it's nothing, let just go on." I suggested to her, but her expression didn't look persuaded nor pleased by my answer.
"Glaze, I have been your twin cousin for more than thirteen years. I can tell something is bothering you. So what is it?" I let out a huff of laughter at her, she almost sounds like my Aunt Michelle (Marine's mom).
"It's just that," I let out a breathe before speaking out "what if I don't have what it takes to survive in this world. I mean it's quite obvious that I will practically die or injured here. While you on the other hand, you basically know how to fight and made up an ability to help you with your battle. I don't have a power Marine, I'll just be in your way. I'm just not-" Marine slapped me across the face to keep me from talking. I looked at her with wonder before she harshly grabbed my shoulders.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, GLACIER! WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT STRONG WILL COUSIN I KNOW IN LOVE?! THE TWIN COUSIN I KNOW WOULD NEVER EVER DOUBT HERSELF, THINK SO LOW ABOUT WHAT SHE WAS, OR THINK SHE WAS HOLDING BACK THE PERSON SHE'S WITH!" I saw the little pools of tears gather in her sapphire eyes. "WHAT HAPPENED TO HER?! YOU THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO BELIEVES THAT IS WEAK? I USE TO BELIVE I WAS WEAK TOO, YOU KNOW! IT WAS EVERY DIFUCULT AND HURTING FOR ME BACK THEN, BUT ALL OF THAT HAS CHANGED! CAUSE YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE OF YOU, GLACIER! YOU WERE ALWAYS BY MY SIDE BACK AT HOME." The tears in her eyes began to fall down her face to the rock ground.
"Marine." I said softly as she cried. She began to speak again.
"People back at elementary school would call me foolish or dumb or pathetic when I five cause of my grades, but you Glaze you told them all that they were wrong about me that I was as smart as you are, they just couldn't see it. You helped me by making me do my homework, study for quizzes, tests, gateways, and the CRCT, you even asked our teachers to help me during reuses everyday." Marine wiped the tears off her face with the back of her hand before smiling at me. "Best of all, you helped me gain my confidence and pride, I got all my grades up to A's and the people who used to looked down on me were now looking up at me. All because of you, Glacier." We gave each other a comforting hug and cried for a few minutes till we let go. "Glacier, you will do the same for me no matter what, understand?" She asked.
"Yes Marine, I will do whatever it takes. No matter what obstacle we may come upon." I said with pride.
"Now, let's get that Dragonstone." I nodded my head before we opened the gates to the next area.
We stumbled into another tunnel and like always we ran down the path. However, as we did another death trap stood in the way, it's three large sharp axes swung carelessly left to right. I looked up ahead to see if there were any draugrs, but there was none. Yet I have a feeling there will be when we make it across the trap.
"We have to run across the trap." I recommended as Marine nodded to me.
"I'll go first, since there will be a draugr coming soon." She took three steps back before saying the motto from Dizzy Drake's songs. "Y.O.L.O!" She shouted as she ran across the trap and to my relief she made it. "I'll take care of draugr then pull this chain to stop the trap." She told me as I watched the draugr pop out of its coffin and try to attack Marine, but her quick movements were too swift for any of its attacks. She sent the dead soul a roundhouse kick to its visible ribs making it cripple for a while, then sent her right leg up high to its chin knocking its head off the body. When the draugr was down, Marine pulled the mechanism, which stopped the trap and let me cross over to her side.
"Thank you," Marine let out a laugh while scratching the back of her head. "I will take care of the two monsters above if you don't mind." Her response was a thumbs up.
I crouched low and ran to the wooden stairs, I stepped into a purplish-red liquid that looked like it could be gasoline and under a Chinese paper lantern. As I neared the stair top, my snow blue eyes sought out a draugr coming my way, my hand when into my backpack to get out my mace I got from the keep. The draugr was coming close and I still didn't grab the mace, but once I did the draugr swung its sword at face but it sliced the top of my blouse instead. With luck, I got the mace out the bag and performed a sword like combo to the undead soul. It was landed on it knee for a second before mace swung to it left rib cage and it caused the monster to fly to the was. I was about to signal Marine to come, but an arrow flew past my head to the wall. The other draugr held a bow and arrow at me and was ready to fire, but I ran over to it with my mace in hand and ready to attack it. The reflex of the undead was slow and did little to protect its self as my mace clashed down to its skull. My other hand commended the electrical energy to stick the monster. As a positive result, the draugr fell off the stone bridge and to the ground below.
"Marine, the undead are down." I reported to her, but to my surprise she wasn't down below.
"Yeah, I know." I turned behind me to see her leaning on a wooden pole with a smirk.
"Where-" She cut me off while walking ahead.
"I was looking inside the urns and draugrs for gold and there was plenty of them." She stated as I face-palmed my face.
"Well, since you're done 'shopping' what's next?" I said with a hint of sarcasm when I said 'shopping'.
"Well to tell you the good new we're almost done here. The next part we'll be going to is the Hall of History. Inside is another ancient puzzle made by the Nords, we have to match the symbols on the wheel with the ones on the claw. Once that's done we'll be in our last destination." I sighed in relief as we ran to into the tunnel, opened the gates, and down the Hall of History to the wheel puzzle Marine mentioned.
"This is it?" I inquirked. Marine gave me a nod before going through my bag for the claw.
"Correct, now the combinations are-" I cut her off.
"The bear on the outer ring, butterfly in the middle ring, and owl on the inner ring." I answered before pressing the rings multiple time till I got the right symbols in place. "It's a common guess, Marine. Is it right?" She looked shocked as she looked at the making under the claw.
"You're right." I cheered to myself as my twin placed the claw inside the three holes and pushed, which made the rings turn to owl signs and lowered to the ground to a leading of more stairs. However, before I could move my ears caught a foreign sound. It sounded like warrior cheering like singer out of an opera, the orchestra of drums were playing, and it was as if they were calling out to me.
"Marine, do you hear that?" She didn't answer and what was weird was she had a serious face like an old leader of a powerful clan.
"As a matter of fact, I do. That sound you're hearing is the word of dragons. The ancient Nords would try to meditate on the word and us it for irrelevant reasons." She tells me with knowledge. "Wait, but if you can hear it and I can too does that mean..?" She stopped her sentence in favor of running ahead. I ran behind her.
As we enter another cavern, a flock of bats descent down from above and over our heads. My eyes looked over to the coffins on my right, hoping to god the draugrs don't pop out of them. Marine was already across the bridge and up the petite steps as I rushed across the bridge to the platform to the stairs with Marine. We walked over the stone horizontal surface with a larger casket, a table with some items on it, and a chest by the casket. However something else got my attention and Marine's. A gigantic stone wall with a large marking that's not expressible on top and many foreign written words at the bottom.
"This is the word wall." My cousin said softly with awe. My twin and I walked slowly towards the wall with too much amazement. Then something bursar happened, one of the markings in the middle began to glow a bright blue color. "That's the first word of the game, Glacier." She stated as we got closer to the glowing word.
"This is truly an excellent discovery, Marine." I said to her as the closer we walked the more powerful the sound gets. Ripples of glowing blue light were forming around us and into our bodies, my vision was becoming deep and dark, but the only thing I could see was the glowing words. The ripples disappeared into our souls and for the first time I felt powerful in the myself, then a word appeared in my head and out my mouth.
"Fus- Unrelenting Force." Marine and I said at the same time with soothing calmness.
Bang!
We quickly turned our heads around to see what happened, to our dismay the top to the casket burst open and out came a very redoubtable draugr with its large battle axe. Marine reached into my bag and pulled out our weapon; two iron swords for Marine, and an axe for me because I have my mace.
"Time for you to go back to sleep, pal!" Marine mocked the undead warrior. We charged at the draugr at the same pace, but little did we know the draugr knew the shout as well.
"Ro...Da!" It shout a blue blast at us and it made us lose our balance.
It was then the zombie was heading for Marine, who was trying to regain her balance. However, she was having trouble with her balancing that she fell to her knees as the zombie swung its axe to her shoulder.
"AAAAGGG!" I heard her cry out in pain as her blood fell out of her shoulder wound.
I regained my balance and ran to the monster with anger. I performed a combo attack to its back as it turned its attention to me. It swung it's axe across my stomach with my blood splatted on its blade as my blood was dripping down my shirt. I stumbled back some while holding my wound, then the draugr opened its mouth and shouted again.
"Ro...Da!" The draugr shout at me, which caused me to drop my weapons and fell on my back to the stone flooring in pain.
The undead above me rose its axe and swung it down at me, but luckily I rolled out of the way in time before it made contact with my chest. My legs and arms helped me off the floor and ready for the next attack, ignoring the blood and pain I charged at the draugr with all my might, but I froze as I remembered I don't have my weapons. I looked back at the draugr and its attention when to Marine as she ignored her wound and battled the monster, but Marine was having problems with her injured right hand; the pain in her right shoulder was too wounded that it cause her hand to shake and drop her iron sword. Then the draugr swung the axe into her left hip then to her hind legs with a strong blow.
"Marine!" I cried out to her as she rolled to the end of the platform with her blood pooling out of her hip and the undead Nord running at her with its axe in the air. She struggled to get up, but plowed back down. The sight of the monster coming at my blooding and unprotected twin, made my blood boil with sadness and rage mixed together.
"I won't let the dead bastard hurt you, Marine." I spoke with venom in my voice.
My mind began to flash memories of Marine and I together with our family, which only caused me more anger. Then suddenly, I felt all of anger build up into my right fist. My fist began to have a dark blue aura around it and was growing stronger as I got madder. The draugr was standing at Marine's side with the axe still in the air. Before it was ready to set the axe down on her back, I attempted to attack it and save my twin. My legs gave it all they could to help me run to the dead Nord, my dark blue fist positioned behind me, and I was ready to kill it.
'Bump bump...bump bump..bump bump. bump bump bump bump' I can hear my heart beating faster as I ran closer to the undead Nord's back.
"GET AWAY FROM HER, YOU DISGUSTING FUCK!" I shouted out as I shot my fist to its open back and it made contact.
The draugr dropped its axe at my attack and my fist did something I have not expected. The power of my fist was so strong, it cracked open the ribs and sent the zombie flying off its feet and the platform like a rocket. The dead corpse was sent in the rocky ceiling with a powerful force, which made large boulder crumble to the ground. However, as it happened a tan stone object fell form the rock and landed near my feet. I fell on my knees to pick up the object that was on the ground. It looked solid, brownish tan, and had weird curvy marking on it and the deep dots looked like stars.
"This must be the Dragonstone." I analyzed. "Marine, we found the Dragon-" I stopped talking as I forgot my twin was still injured. I pulled off my bag and searched for anything that would help save her, to my luck there were six 'Minor Healing' potions. I pulled the top open and plunged the bottle into her mouth to let the liquid slide down her throat.
"Aaaahhhgggg!" She cried with disgust. I drowned two more down her throat, then I took two more from my bag and drank them. My mouth did not like it at all, the liquid was too bitter for me, but at least it regenerated my health. I helped my cousin to her feet and up the stairs to another tunnel.
"Hm, Glacier..agh..what happened?" She questioned.
"The draugr was about to kill went you were down, but I killed it before it could end your life." I answered. "And on the bright side, we obtained the Dragonstone." I chuckled as she laughed a little.
"That's good." Marine tried to stand up for herself, but almost fell if I didn't catch her. "Damn draugr, slashed me at my legs. They're numb." She said.
"I'll get us out of here, Marine. You just hold on to me." I placed her arm around my shoulder before we walked up the tunnel. We came to a dead end of the tunnel, till I foresaw a switch and pulled it. The mechanism opened a passage way down the tunnel and to a wide space. I told Marine told hold on tight as I jumped down stumbled on my feet.
"Go look in that chest, there is gold, a hide helmet, and a potion inside." I let her down by the pillar, and went to the chest. I put the helmet, gold, and potion in the bag before picking up Marine again and walked us both through the light opening.
When we came outside and out the terrible dungeon; the sun was high in the sky, clouds flowed in the atmosphere, and the wind flowed in the air. However, we were a steep cliff and was twenty four feet from the ground. I looked to my left to see a way, which there was, yet I couldn't jump because I might hurt Marine.
"Jump down." I did as she said and jumped down the rocks to the ground. "We need to get back to Riverwood and return the claw." She demanded. "There is a cabin near by and an old wizard named Anise lives there." I nodded my head before continuing a long the path.
After a long walk, we managed to get to the cabin Marine was talking about. I looked around for the woman and saw her in her garden with a broom.
"Excuse me madam." Anise looked away from her garden to our injured selves with shock. "Came you please help us?" I asked kindly.
"Yes, yes of course. Come inside." She walked over to us and took Marine off my shoulder into the little cabin of hers as I follow pursuit.
10 minutes later
After about 10 minutes in Anise's cabin and explaining to her how we ended up like this, she finished healing Marine and I of our wounds and cooked us some cabbage apple soup. I asked the elder woman how she managed to live here in the wildlife and if she gets any visitors lately. Her answer was simple, she wanted to practice her magic away from Riverwood because she feared she would destroy the town and no she doesn't get much visitors. Marine was too absorbed in the soup to ask the lady anything. The sun was positioned to two o'clock and it was time for us to leave.
"Thank you Miss Anise for healing our injuries, hope we didn't bother you or anything." I gave her a thankful bow.
"Yeah thanks, if it wasn't for you healing spell I would be dead. Hahaha!" She laughed as Anise gave us a warm smile.
"No a problem at all dearies, you are welcomed here anytime you like. It's very nice to have visitors." Her smile widen as she talked.
"We'll come back to visit you Miss Anise. Bye." Marine and I said at the same time before running to Riverwood and hearing the elder woman laughing heartily.
We ran through the forest for a long while before the gates of Riverwood came to view. We walked into the village like regular teens while making our way towards Lucan's shop, but then we were tackled to the ground by Frodnur's dog and was getting our faces licked.
"Marine! Glacier!" We heard two little kids shout our names. Marine pushed the dog off of us in favor of seeing Frodnur and a blond hair girl with a gray skirt and red blouse coming our way.
"Dorthe, Frodnur hey!" My zealous counterpart greeted the two young children.
"Where have you two been? Our parents were worried sick about you guys including Hadvar and Mr. Ralof." Dorthe asked us.
"I told you seventeen million times, they went to Bleack Falls Barrow." Frodnur answered and his dog barked in agreement.
"I want to hear it from them." Dorthe said not at all sounding pleased with his answer.
"Frodnur's right, we went to the terrifying dungeon of Bleack Falls Barrow." She imitated the voice of a spooky storyteller.
"Really, for real? That is so cool! What happened there?!" Dorthe asked with curiosity and Frodnur jumped with glee along with his dog.
"We'll tell you guys at dinner. We need to return the claw to Lucan first." Marine told them before she went into my bag again to bring out the claw making the children mouths drop with awe. I followed my twin down the road and into the shop. "We got a special delivery of a Golden Claw for a Lucan and Camille Valerius!" She joked as the sibling looked at us with shock, til Lucan spoke.
"Y..you two..got the claw?" He asked with shock.
"Hell yeah we got it!" She waved the claw in the air like a trophy before putting it on the counter.
"Oh my, th..thank you, thank you both so much. Here you two girls take these." Camille handed me a three spell books of 'Frostbit', 'Flames', and 'Healing' as Lucan gave Marine a leather weapon waist strap to hold her weapons and a few iron daggers.
"Arigoto Lucan-san and Camille-chan." We thanked them in Japanese. They shot each other a confused visage before smiling at us as we exit the store.
"Now that we have completed. What is soon to happen next?" I questioned the 'Skyrim Expert'.
"Hmm, we have dinner with friends!" I dropped my head at her remark.
"I mean in the game." I clarified.
"Oh yeah, tomorrow we'll be having a short travel to Whiterun the powerhouse of the Imperial Empire. Once there; we'll run into the three members of the Companions, tell the guard at the gate we came there to inform Balgruuf that Riverwood needs some of his guards, then we tell them about the dragon, Alduhoe, destroying Helgen." Marine said. "But for now let relax and enjoy the day." She suggested.
"Yes, let's do that." As we agreed we walked over to the river, pulled out our Iphone 5s and did what we like. I was reading a story on my phone, while Marine played 'Pop that' by French Montana, Rick Ross, Drake, and Lil Wayne.
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