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Journey to Whiterun
The Next Day; Tirdas 8:40 Am
Marine was the first person to wake up from her sleep in the rental room of the 'Sleeping Giant Inn'. She let out a long yawn and stretched her arms before getting out of the bed to walk over to her cousin's room. But before she could walk into Glacier's room, the smell of fresh made eggs and meat invaded her nostrils which made her stomach growl with hunger and forget what she was doing. Without thinking, Marine ran over to the bar and placed twenty septeims on the counter startling Orgnar, who was placing beer mugs under the bar counters.
"Morning, Orgnar!" Marine greeted him as he rose up from the floor to look towards her. He then studied over her body; Marine was wearing her blue strapless bra and purple panties.
"Hey little Redguard, what do you need?" He asked her in his usual stone tone.
"First off, I have a name it's Marine." She said as she flung her index finger in the air before raising her middle finger. "Second, I would like two plates of scrambled eggs, two apples, roasted rabbit legs, a mug of water, and one bottle of mead." Orgnar quirked an eyebrow at her when he heard her order a bottle of mead. "The mead is for me only not my cousin." Orgnar still didn't look persuaded.
"Don't you think you're a little too young to be drinking alcohol?" He questioned the insane girl.
"Yes she is, and she will not be drinking any alcoholic beverages. Not on my watch." Marine turned her heel to see her fully clothe twin, Glacier, standing behind her with her arms crossed over her breast.
"Fine, take the mead out of that order." She groaned lowly before walking back to her room.
"Your food will be out in a few minutes, girls." Orgnar told them before preparing their meal. Glacier turned heels to her cousin's room with her disapproval visage. As she entered, she took her seat on the bed and watched her twin get her clothes on.
"What in heaven's name were you thinking? Buying alcohol, are you mentally insane!" Glacier yelled in a whisper for only her and Marine to hear.
"Glacier," Marine called softly when she was done putting her shirt on. "I have been insane since preschool, I thought you learned that by now!" Glacier just gave blinked her eyes and straight face. "Haha, just kidding. I'm just messing with ya on the- OW!" She cried as Glacier knocked down Marine's head with her fist.
"You make that the last time you fool around with me like that again!" Glacier yelled in anger.
"Ahem." Both girls turned towards the door to see Orgnar holding two plates and mugs of water. "Am I interrupting something?" He asked in her baritone voice.
"Oh no, nothing at all." Glacier spoke before taking the plates and mugs away from Orgnar to the bed stand. "Thank you, Orgnar." The twin thanked in unison as Orgnar left them to their breakfast.
"Okay, after we are done eating and getting our bathes then we'll talk about getting you a boyfriend." Marine said irrelevantly. Her twin pouted her lips together and gave her the 'don't play me like that' look. "Yeah sorry, I'll keep my mouth shut." was her last response before stuffing her mouth with scrambled eggs.
"Yeah, you do that." Glacier said before getting back to her meal.
20 minutes later
Once Marine and Glacier had had their warm meals and relaxing bath, the twins exited the inn with their weapons and supplies. Then the twins split up and when to different houses; Marine went over to Alvor and Sigrid's house, while Glacier went over to Gerdur and Hod's home. When Marine was close to the door, she cleared her throat before she knocked lightly on the door three times. As she was done knocking the door was swung open and behind it was...Hadvar.
"Oh, good morning Marine." Hadvar greeted surprised to see her at his uncle's front door.
"Morning to you too." Marine replied back.
"Did you come here for something?" He quirked an eyebrow at her.
"No, I just came here to say thank you and good bye. My cousin and I are leaving to Whiterun soon." She told him.
"What?!" shouted a voice from inside. A second later, Dorthe ran to the door to Marine. "You-you can't leave, you promised me you would teach me how to throw daggers today." She reminded her. Yesterday after Marine and Glacier got back from their adventure at Bleack Falls Barrow, Dorthe asked Marine to teach her how to throw daggers. She agreed and promised her she would teach her tomorrow, which is today.
"Yeah, can you wait a moment I need to sharpen the daggers." Dorthe gave her a smile and nod before she saw Marine run over to the forge.
When Marine was at the forge, she began to pull daggers out of her leather strap till all were on the workbench before getting some out of the back pocket. As she was pulling out the remaining daggers from her back pocket, her hand reached into her other pocket to pull out her IPhone 5. When she looked around to see anyone coming, she started to text Glacier.
"Glacier, we will have to stay here for another 15-30 minutes. Something just came up." She texted her. A minutes later her phone received Glacier's response.
"Why the hell did you text me, I was still in the house! My IPhone went off and everyone is curious to where the sound was coming from before I ran out the house! What situation?" Glacier texted.
"Sorry about that again. I promised Dorthe that I would teach her how to throw daggers today, so we'll leave in 15 minutes." Marine replied.
"Fine, but next time came talk me directly." Glacier responded.
"Yeah sure." was her last response before putting her IPhone back in her pocket and began to sharpen the daggers.
15 minutes later
"Wow, you're getting better at this Dorthe!" Marine said with pride towards the youth. "You keep this up and you'll become an excellent marksman or should I say marks girl." Marine complimented.
"Haha, you're funny." Dorthe said as she threw her fifteenth dagger into the tree in the forest. As Dorthe was about to throw another dagger at the tree, Marine was tackled to the ground by Frodnar's dog.
"Marine, Dorthe what are you guys doing?" Frodnar asked as he ran to the girls with Glacier in tow.
"Marine is teaching me how to throw daggers." Dorthe mocked.
"You didn't cut yourself, right? Daggers can be dangerous you know." Glacier warned.
"Don't worry, Marine gave me her gloves to prevent from getting cut."
"I hate to interrupt this little safety session, but can anyone get this dog off me!" Glacier's twin cried as the trio laughed before helping her.
When everyone was had begun to head back to the village, the youths gave both girls a large hug. The twins returned the hugs before releasing them and getting their stuff together. As they were ready to head out, Alvor and his wife Sigrid came walking up to the twins. Both adults gave Marine a light hug before they spoke to her.
"Good luck on your journey, Marine and Glacier. Here I made this pie for your trip." Sigrid handed the native girls a homemade apple pie. The sweet aroma of the apple pie filled their nostrils as they took it in like a drug attic sniffing crack.
"That is too OD!" They said in unison as Glacier placed the pie him her bag. Then Alvor pulled out two pairs of new iron swords and maces out of his pocket to the young teens.
"I crafted these for you two when I heard you two were leaving yesterday. Call it a present for your travels. Don't break them now; they were a piece of work." Alvor warn as he shot them a warming smile like a proud father smiling at his children.
"Thank you all for your hospitality. We'll come visit you all." The twins gave them a bow before turning heels and out of Riverwood.
The girls looked back to the miniscule bunch behind them and gave them a wave goodbye. The twins walked the stone bridge till they reached the fork road. Marine told her cousin they are to go right and under the cliff. The Water-Ice girls continued on their path to Whiterun in silence, until Marine began to sing.
"We're off to see the Jarl, the wonderful Jarl of Whiterun!" Marine sang ever-changing the words from the 'Wizard of Oz' to match the journey they're on.
"No!" Glaze yelled, which caused Marine to stop singing to look back at her. "Instead of singing like you're on American Idol, you could modify me what will occur once we compass Whiterun." the astute twin suggested.
"Alright fine. When we get close enough to Whiterun, we practically run into Aela and two more members of the Companions. They'll be fighting a giant at the Pelagia Farm garden." Glaze raised an eyebrow.
"Who are the Companions?" Marine intelligent counterpart inquiry.
"God dammit lady, I feel like we're playing Twenty Question here." She complained.
"I don't know the dialogue on this game; you're more of the expert on this virtual world than I." Glacier shot back at Marine.
"I can't answer all of your questions! Look, when we reach the Companions ask Aela, Farkas, or Ria they'll tell you." She told her as they passed by a line of Imperial soldiers and a prisoner in bindings.
The twins proceeded to walk down the dirt road to the gates of Whiterun. Suddenly, the ground shook under their feet for an unknown reason till they saw the cause of the random earthquake. Like Marine foretold, a giant man with a large mallet like weapon was attacking the people attacking below it. One of the attackers was a strong muscular man in steel armor wielding a steel greatsword, another was woman wearing green Nord armor wielding a bow while shooting arrows, and the last one was a dark skin Imperial woman in fur armor wielding a sword and shield.
"Are they the Companions?" Glacier asked in curiosity.
"Hell yeah that's them, well three of them." She answered with a bright gleam in her eyes as if she was seeing her favorite hero up close.
"Ah. Did you join their posse in the game?" the strategist Water-Ice twin asked as Marine shot her a 'Really' face.
"No, I joined Young Money." She spoke sarcastically as her counterpart gave her a disapproving glare. "Yes I joined them, since you have not been paying attention to me playing Skyrim for the past week!" with that said she pulled a dagger from her pocket before aiming at the giant's head.
"Hold on, what are you doing?" Glacier asked with wide eyes.
"Aiming at the giant's head." Glacier eyes widen more as she said that. "Don't worry I did this before with my avatar, except I came in too late to finish the giant...and accidentally hit Farkas." the last part she muttered to herself before she unexpectedly let the dagger fly from her hand to the giant's back.
The large humanoid felt the sharp object stab into its back as he turned to where it came from and to the girls' despair it was looking directly at them before it charging at the duet. The girls stood frozen for a moment as they saw the monster came at them with its mallet in the air. As the giant slammed its powerful weapon towards the earthy ground the dark skin girls were quick enough to dodge the mallet before it made contact with them.
"Time for some 'Ninja Speed'!" Marine told to herself as she used her agility to run around the giant's feet to create a tornado round the feet to the calves.
Much to Marine's advantage the humanoid was too confused to by the tornado and the multiple running clones to know which one was the real her. Once Marine saw the giant in its confused state, she unsheathed her dual iron swords before she jumped to slash at its ankles and calves. She continued this quotidian for a few minutes before the giant fell on its knees in pain stopping the small tornado. At the right moment, Marine signaled Glacier, who was standing eleven feet away from the beast to take her shot. A smirk grew on girl's face as she took positioned herself in her fight stance and locked in her glowing right fist beside her hip. Not a moment too soon she ran at full speed towards the crippled giant. As she was close enough to the giant, Glacier launched out her right fist and aimed it directly at its nose. The powerful fist of Glacier Water-Ice made direct physical contact with the monster's olfactory organ; making the giant's nose break, its face to fall back, and sending the humanoid off the ground into the sky till it landed five hundred feet away from them and back to its camp. Glacier's eyes widen in shock at how strong her power was as Marine was running over to her for a hug before letting Glacier go.
"That was so fucking awesome! Glacier, what the hell was that fist power?" Marine asked energetically while she was jumping up and down like a child getting a present on Christmas.
"I don't know what it was? I just found that out during our battle with the draugr lord." Glacier explained calmly.
"You mean you discovered your power during our fight with the draugr lord!" Marine said shockingly as her twin nodded in response. Then from behind them the sound of footsteps were coming closer to them. The footsteps belonged to non-other than the three members of the Companions.
"In-incredible! Tremendously incredible!" Aela said dumbfounded by the unforeseen power and ability the twins displayed against the giant. "In all my years as a proud warrior I have never seen such strength and speed be used against a giant nor possessed by young blood like yourselves. Tell me who are you, young warriors?" Aela asked them with a mixture of curiosity and amazement.
"I am Glacier Water-Ice and this it my twin cousin, Marine Water-Ice." She said composing herself and her twin to the redhead woman and her comrades.
"Marine and Glacier Water-Ice...such strange names, though you two seem to be of Redguard Heritage." Aela assumed.
"If I may ask are you three the Companions?" Glacier asked to be sure her twin was right.
"Yes, we are." Aela answered. "But there are more members of the Companions than just us three. You'll see them once we return to Jorrvaskr." Aela told her.
"Can you explain to me what are the Companions?" Aela did look amused at her questioned.
"Never heard of the Companions ay? An order of warriors, we are bothers and sisters in honor. We are to solve problems that threaten the people, if the coin is good enough that is." She explained.
"Marine, can we join them?" the black-sky blue hair girl asked her twin, but Aela spoke before Marine can.
"It's not for her or anyone to say except Kodlak Whitemane back at Jorrvaskr. He's the leader of the Companions. The old man has a good sense for people. He can look in your eyes and tell if your worth it or not." Alea informed the girls. "I recommend you girls join the Companions, you both seem to become powerful warrior young or not. If you do, good luck." Alea suggested before her and her team walked back to the Whiterun gates.
"If you're thinking that the old man is a pedophile, he not." Marine joked before walking ahead.
"I was not thinking that!" Glacier shouted at her as she ran to catch up with her.
After a long walk from the Pelagia garden to the Whiterun stables, the twins were able to make to the entrance before noon. Marine began to inform Glacier about the guards at the gates, they need to have a good excuse for coming here in order for the guards to let them inside. When the girls were coming closer the gates of Whiterun, they froze as a Whiterun guard approached the duet.
"Halt! City's closed with the dragons about. Official business only." the guard stated, not caring about the young girls.
"Alright listen pinhead, we have news from Helgen about the dragon attack. That and Riverwood needs the Jarl's aid. So, let us through so we can inform the Jarl, jackass!" Marine commanded with a bored expression as the guard growled at her rude explanation.
"Fine, but we'll be keeping an eye on you. Both of you." warned the guard.
Marine simply ignored the man in favor of continuing completing her task with her twin. Marine pushed open the gates before walking through. Glacier preceded behind her with a nettled visage after seeing her relative put on a rude attitude toward the guard. She was about to pull on her shirt and tell her to apologize to the guard, but she decided not to lecture her twin today. Instead, she let her sky blue eyes wonder around the peaceful village and scenery with bliss; the houses were built perfectly with beautiful designs, children roamed the streets in a playful manner, and flowers were flowing in the breeze. Above all this place is amazing to Glacier.
"We'll pay whatever it takes, but we must have more swords for the Imperial soldiers." said a blond hair man in Imperial armor, who was talking to a dark skin woman in blacksmith clothing.
"I just can't fill in an order that size on my own." She complained to the man. "Why don't you swallow that stubborn pride of yours and ask Eorlund Grey-Mane for help?" the man scoffed at her idea.
"Ha! I'd sooner bend my knee to Ulfric Stormcloak." He replied. Glacier was about to intervene, but her cousin gripped her arm and pulled her away from the adults.
"Dammit, do I have to drag your ass around town to keep up with me?" asked an irritated Marine as she proceeded to drag her twin behind her to Dragons-reach.
"No." Glacier said as she pulled out of her cousin's grip. "I was only wondering what the argument was about." Glacier said as Marine rubbed her eyebrows.
"Can you please focus at the task at hand? We don't have time to lollygag right now and lollygagging is against the law in Skyrim. OMG, I becoming like you and Aunt Sloane(Marine and Glacier's sixth aunt)!" Maine panicked as Glacier rolled her eyes.
"No you're not. If you were you would be using a more larger oral communication than those minuscule utterances of a lexicon expressive style." Marine blinked a few times before asking a question.
"Was that in English? Cause ain't understanding what the hell you just said to me right there." Marine said while giving hand gestures like a diva.
"Preciously my point. Let us sheer our contemporary mission, shall we." Glacier said as she walked on ahead of her confused twin.
The girls proceeded to walk through the market area and pass some guards and children who were roaming the streets. They walked up the stoney steps to the central area where a big tree rested with a few leaves. As the girls walked across the stone bridge a loud voice was heard from the large statue of Talos.
"The very idea is to our Elven overlords! Sharing the heavens with us? With man? Ha!" shouted a man in a yellow hooded robe.
"Oh great, Talos' bitchy banshee is here. Shoot me!" The dark skin girl spoke with sarcasm.
"Who is that guy, Marine?" her cousin questioned again for God knows how many times today.
"That's Hemskr, the preacher of Whiterun. He runs his shitty loud mouth to the public twenty four-seven and NEVER shuts up about Talos, the civil war, the Thalmor, and blah blah blah." Marine spoke as she did a hand puppet motion while walking over and up the three flight of stairs with her cousin in tow.
"Okay Glacier let me explain what is to happen soon from this point. Once we finish with our conversation with Jarl Balgruuf, we give Farengar, the court wizard the Dragonstone which he will be pleased. After that, Irileth, Balgruuf's housejarl will run over to Farengar's office and warn us that a dragon has attacked the west tower. We assist her and the other guards in defeating the dragon, Mirmulnir, and hopefully we win!" the insane twin foretold to her intelligent counterpart.
"Understood." Marine nodded to her twin.
The twins walked toward the tall wooden doors of Dragons-reach before the girls pushed open the door to enter the large home of Balgruuf the Great.
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