Isaiah fired a dwarven bolt and hit the claymore-carrying vampire directly in the left eye. His body hit the ground before the dropped blade.
Volanaro and J'Skar cast a wide-range chameleon spell on Alderich, Makenna, Alfonso, Ryan, and Druja, who Alderich had led strait into the heart of the battle. The spell did not make them completely invisible to the vampires, but it did mask their number and general movements.
Five balls of fire appeared evenly spaced between the magically camouflaged troops. The flames converged and launched at one of the vampires brandishing a war axe. The spell exploded on the undead's shoulder and sent him flying through the air, ashes hit the ground.
The other undead warrior made a vertical slash at one of the blurs attacking him and his allies. The blow did not hit its mark. It instead sliced through the air between Ryan and Fons. The Nord promptly responded by swinging his hammer horizontally level with the vampire's head, sending it down the mountainside.
Meanwhile, on the top landing outside the entrance to Frostcrag, Xander and Daria battled the two vampire archers and the werewolf. Alderich's Frost Atronach pulled his fist and released it into the wolf's snout. The beast reared and scratched at Xander, scraping some of the ice off his arm. Daria leveled a roundhouse kick at the vampire with the steel bow, causing his chest to explode.
The werewolf then raked Makenna's daedra across the stomach and she fell to the ground badly wounded. The remaining vampire archer pulled back his bow and released a bright orange arrow at Xander. On impact the enchanted arrow exploded, and the Atronach with it.
Makenna used a telekinesis spell to pull his Atronach away from the fight.
"Well," Daria said coughing, "it is time for me to head back to Oblivion. Xander and I enjoyed the fight. Good luck Cards." The daedra's form on Nirn was destroyed and the immortal was sent back to the waters of Oblivion.
Makenna pulled his staff off his back and fired a lightning bolt at the werewolf. It struck the monster in the side of the head and hurled it against the tower's wall. It lay motionless. Makenna was clearly in ill humor due to the exile of his Atronach.
The two vampire mages fired black bolts out of each of their staffs at Thurod. The Orc dodged to the side to avoid one, but the other hit him in the knee. Thurod, wounded and at a distance, threw his axe at the mage whose bolt struck. The axe spun through the air at the vampire. The blade of the axe entered through the top of the vampire's head and exited at the groin, splitting him in two down the middle.
The other undead mage backed up against the wall behind him where Alfonso stood. The huge Nord warrior swung his hammer and crushed the vampire's head against the stone.
The final vampire - the archer with the glass bow - nocked an arrow. Before he could release it, Isaiah fired his own. The dwarven arrow severed the glass bow's string, and its enchanted bolt fell to the ground.
A green orb came from Volanaro and J'Skar and struck the vampire. He fell to the ground paralyzed. Alfonso and Thurod moved slowly and stood over the immobilized vampire and motionless werewolf.
"My master... has... plans for you..." the archer managed to say to Alfonso.
Before the comment could be questioned, a beam of swirling fire, ice, and electricity came out of the tower door and struck Thurod in the chest above the heart. The Orc was flung down the steps all the way to the bottom of the tower.
As Fons was distracted, the vampire broke his magical bonds and the werewolf regained consciousness. The vampire bit the Nord in the neck at the same instant the werewolf wrapped its fangs around his forearm. Using only the strength supplied by the adrenaline of surprise, Fons swung his hammer, decapitating both in one stroke with blunt force. He then also fell to the ground.
While the others checked the fallen, Alderich ran through the door into Frostcrag. It closed behind him.