Okay everyone here is the next chapter and I'm so sorry it took so long and before we begin I'd like to give credit to 117Jorn for helping me and giving me such great ideas, thanks!
Dragon's Reach
Akatsuki Guild
"Alright Josh, what's the status on the war?" A young man with brown eyes, short brown hair and dressed in leather Armour with Dark Brotherhood shrouded boots and hand wraps, and an iron helmet, says looking down at a map on a table. He had an Ancient Nordic Bow and Arrows strapped on his back, with an ancient Nordic sword strapped to his left waist and an Orcish Dagger strapped on his right waist.
"Balgruuf still hasn't told either side who he is going to side with but we know it'll be the imperials. It's only a matter of time until he does, Jordan," says another young man, short Reddish Blonde hair, blue eyes, and banded iron armour with a pair of Steel War Axes says from behind Jordan.
Jordan sighs as he sits down in a chair "Damn it, how long is the Dragonborn going to take getting here? He/She is going to miss everything if they don't get here soon Josh," Jordan complains, "And we don't know if any of us could have the Dragonborn's ability yet."
"What the hell do you want us to do? We can't just make him or her magically appear!" Josh irritably says back. "Not like how we got here!"
"Guys, relax." Says another voice, this one coming from a person with short brown hair and darker brown eyes, wearing an Iron Helmet, Studded armour, hide bracers and fur boots. He was armed with some Elvin Arrows and an Elvin Bow, and had an Elvin sword strapped to his side "The Dragonborn will show up, it's only a matter of time."
Jordan sighs, "I wish I was as encouraged as you were Tom," he says. Before Tom could answer, someone else runs into the room, huffing his guts out. The boy looked as old as Jordan was, with tanned skin, onyx eyes, and short black hair. He was wearing full leather armour, and armed with a hunting bow, iron arrows, and had a steel mace. "Guys! Guys!" The boy, named Dennis shouted. "One of the messengers just brought me news that a Dragon destroyed Helgen! It's starting!"
"When did this happen?" Josh, Jordan and Tom say at the same time.
"Yesterday, I guesstimate that tomorrow is when the dragon, Mirmulnir, will attack the Whiterun Watch Tower. So amigos what shall we do?" Dennis replies.
Jordan grins a bit as he stands back up "Josh, Saren, and I will go and meet up with the Dragonborn after they talk to the Jarl, before he or she goes up to High Hrothgar, and tell them about the guild so they can come see us later on."
"Alright, but how are we going to tell when the Dragonborn gets here?" Asks a young man with dark coloured hair and brown eyes, wearing Wolf Armour, and armed with an Imperial Bow and steel arrows, along with an ebony blade and shield.
"Easy," Jordan says. "D.J, I want you and Dennis to keep your eyes on the gates of Whiterun, and look out for anyone out of the ordinary entering the city. We need to find out who the Dovahkiin is, and what he or she looks like."
"Sounds like a plan to me," a guy with dark hair, light green eyes, wearing Ebony armour, Daniel, says from the doorway. "Once we find out who it is, we should prepare to fight Mirmulnir."
Jordan walks around the table and socks Daniel on the arm, "just try not to get yourself turned into toast, okay dude?"
"It's not like I'm going to be charging the dragon head on, I don't have a death wish, that's Dovahkin's job," Daniel says punching Jordan back as he leaves the room. "Personally I think seeing a real dragon is going to be sick," he shouts from the hall.
"Hell Ya!" Tom shouts with a grin "I'm totally gonna collect the bones and scales, and make some Dragonbone and Dragonscale armour for all of us!"
"Damn straight!" D.J says with his own grin.
"Dovahkin better not mess this up," Josh mutters, "this isn't a game anymore, where you can die over and over."
"Who knows buddy? Lets just hope Dovahkin is up to the task, he or she may be a complete klutz," Dennis says.
"Nah, hopefully they have some decent combat experience before hand." D.J says as he leaned back into his chair, "One thing's for sure though…thing are going to be getting interesting around here at last!"
…
Meanwhile
With Crystal and Jack
"Ouch!" Jack yells tripping over a rock and nearly impaling himself on his sword. "That hurt!" He complains rubbing his toe.
"Stop tripping over rocks and help me get this guy down," I sigh shaking my head, it was the tenth rock Jack had tripped on.
"I told you I was clumsy," Jack says limping over and sawing at the webs holding the Dark Elf in place.
"I didn't know it was this bad, are you like this all the time? Or does this happen all the time?"
"Hey it's not that bad! Just some minor tripping and bumping into things, now stand back," Jack says as the dark elf fell from his bindings.
The dark elf stands and brushes himself off, then abruptly turns around and runs off yelling." You fools, why should I share the treasure with anyone?"
"Damn, I forgot he did that," Jack swears, "let's go after him but carefully, there are draugr ahead."
Jack and I run after the elf and we soon find him and several draugr he had managed to take down, dead on the floor. "Well at least he got rid of them for us," I whisper staring at his broken form.
"Greedy bastard got what he deserved," Jack says removing a journal and a golden claw from the body, "oh and pardon my French there but there will be more so be careful," he adds.
"Jack I can take care of myself," I say rolling my eyes.
"Ya but I'm just saying these things are creepy as hell, Crystal," Jack says as we move on, stowing away the journal and claw in a pouch of his new studded imperial armour.
I nudge one of the draugr and shiver. Jack is right these things are creepy, shrivelled grey mummies with glowing eyes so creepy. But I will not let them scare me, I will not! "Are you coming Crystal?" Jack says looking back.
"Of course."
We continue on through the ruin for hours until we reach a strange wall (that is really hard to describe) with four weird symbols on it but no clear way to continue on. "How do we get through this? Is there some sort of secret entrance?" I say studying the wall.
"You mean you don't remember this? I used to collect the claws to these things, I can't remember what they are called if they even have a name, but they are easy to solve once you figure out how they work. You match up the symbols on the claw to the door," Jack says fishing out the claw.
"So the outer ring would be a bear right?" I say looking at the back of the claw.
"Right and the one after that is a dragon, then a thing that looks like an owl and the centre is the keyhole where the fingers of the claw fit in."
Jack touches the rings one at the time and they turn until he gets the right pictures. He then puts the claw in they keyhole and twists it, the whole wall shakes and sinks into the ground! We travel down the revealed tunnel which soon opens up into a very large cave with waterfalls coming down the sides, a platform with a casket and a wall covered in odd symbols, a word wall, and a staircase beside it. "Okay watch out for that casket after we get Fus from the wall," Jack says pointing.
"Yeah there's a draugr in there right?" I say grabbing my axe.
"Right gave me quite a scare the first time I was here, so be ready for a fight, now let's get this over with."
I follow Jack up to the platform and as we get closer I can hear the sound of many people chanting something… I don't know what and as we get closer the rest of the world grows dark and this set of symbols glow bright, nearly blinding me.
Suddenly there is this white energy flowing from the glowing symbols to me and I feel white hot, then just as suddenly the world fades back in and the symbols stop glowing. It's weird I feel different now and there is something at the back of my mind like I know it but it's locked away and I can't get to it. "Wicked," Jack mutters blinking his eyes.
I'm about to agree when I hear a resounding crack behind us and we both turn to see a draugr coming at us! Both Jack and I move away from the word wall so not to get trapped and the draugr blasts us with a shout that nearly forces me to my knees, but clumsy Jack gets knocked off into the water below. I duck an axe swing and running around it really fast, I take a swipe at the back of its neck breaking the spine, causing it to collapse to the floor dead. "Wow that was fast, good Job Crystal," Jack says pulling himself up and kneeling down next to the draugr.
"You didn't think I had it in me did you?"
"Yea but I know better now and I'm glad I have you to watch my back," Jack says hefting a large stone, "anyways lets get out of here and get this stone back up to Dragonsreach so I can hopefully dry off."
Later
At The Gates of Whiterun
"Hey D.J how long have we been standing here?" Dennis says yawning.
"Well we started at five and it's noon now so it's been a good seven hours now," D.J replies leaning against the wall next to the gate.
"Okay, how do we know the Dragonborn hasn't gone past us yet? I mean none of the people have looked even remotely suspicious in anyway," Dennis says sitting down.
"Oh yeah? What do you call that?" D.J says pointing.
Coming up the road were two people a girl and a guy, the girl in full iron armour (no helmet) with an iron axe at her side and a long bow with iron arrows strapped across her back, she had semi-long blond, brown hair, and muddy brown eyes. The guy was dressed in studded imperial armour, imperial gauntlets, and boots with an imperial sword at his belt, he also had a hunting bow and iron arrows, his hair was black and messy, his eyes a bright green. But what really made these two stand out was the big stone covered in markings that the guy was carrying. D.J and Dennis watch carefully as the two move past, studying everything about them right down to their clothes. "Do you need a hand with that Jack?" The girl says looking over at the guy.
"No thanks, I think I can manage," the guy huffs.
"Okay just don't drop it."
"You think I'd drop it after all that? No I got this," the guy glances at Dennis and D.J, "Don't look now but those guys are staring at us."
"Really?" The girl looks over as they go through the gates. "Hasn't anyone ever told you it's rude to stare?" He voice floats back as the doors close.
"Nice isn't she?" Dennis mutters.
"Looks like this guy is Dragonborn. Dennis let's go tell the others," D.J says ignoring Dennis, "the dragon will be attacking any minute."
Later
At the Watchtower
"Here we are. Man it looks worse than it did in the game," Jack whispers to me as we, along with Irileth, arrive at the Watch Tower.
"No signs of any dragon right now, but it sure looks like he's been here," Irileth says looking skyward.
"Should we spread out and look for survivors?" I ask Irileth.
"Yes," Irileth narrows her eyes at me, "we need to know what we are dealing with."
As we move up to the wreckage I see with even greater clarity, how much damage has been done. The Watch Tower is a half crumbled mess with burning debris surrounding it and plumes of thick black smoke rising from it in places. Seeing such destruction scares me, how are Jack and I, two ordinary people not even of this world, supposed to kill a dragon? I mean come on; it's a giant fire-breathing lizard, what chance do we have? "Jack, I'm not sure we can do this," I breathe.
"I know Crystal, I'm scared too," Jack says with a weak smile, "but we mustn't let this dragon do anymore damage, it's only right."
Just as I'm about to agree, we reach the tower and a man, who is clearly a Whiterun guard, comes out waving his arms at us. "No! Get back! It's still here somewhere! Hroki and Tor just got grabbed when they tried to make a run for it!"
Just then over then mountains a roar echoes and a dragon appears making a beeline right for us! "Oh Kynerath save us! Here he comes again!" the guard yelps before running back inside.
"Come on!" Jack yells pulling his bow out and knocking an arrow, "Let's take this dragon down!"
Pulling out my own bow I ready an arrow and take aim, as the dragon swoops down I let loose my arrow but it comes up way short and the dragon belts out a blast of fire which would of burned me to a crisp had not a guy, with banded iron armour and a pair of steel war axes on his back, tackled me to the ground. "Watch it girlie, wouldn't want to be burnt now would ya?" The guy smiles at me before running off to join two dark haired guys, one in Ebony armour, one in wolf armour, who are sending arrow after arrow up at the dragon.
Looking around I see others who did not come with us, attacking the dragon along with the guards. All young men, one with an iron helmet, leather armour, shrouded boots & hand wraps and ancient Nordic bow, arrows, and sword. Another was also wearing an iron helmet, studded armour; hide bracers and boots with eleven bow, arrows and sword, shooting with amazing accuracy. Beside him were two others, a guy with short black hair, full leather armour, armed with a hunting bow, arrows and a steel mace, the other was a dark elf in eleven armour shooting flames and stuff up at the dragon, okay who are these people? "Watch it!" Someone yells at me, but the warning comes too late and a giant swoop of air from the dragon landing in front of me, throws me off my feet and send me sprawling.
A shower of sparks hits the dragon and I hear someone yell my name but I can't look away from the dragon as he gathers himself for a blast of fire. When I finally do look up I see Jack, who was on top apiece of crumbling wall, fall forwards as the wall collapses under him and land on the dragon's back!
Jack's POV
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Shooting arrows at the dragon I see someone tackle Crystal, narrowly avoiding getting roasted and I breathe a sigh of relief that she is okay, although I do wonder who these guys who just randomly showed up are. I pull back on the bowstring again to shoot but it snaps in my hands! I throw the now useless bow to the ground and climb up a piece of wall to get a better view through the smoke. It seems to me that despite the unexpected reinforcements the dragon seems to be holding on and not taking much damage at all, dear god I hope this isn't turning out to be a suicide mission. I'm about to climb down when the dragon lands in front of me and I see Crystal go sprawling, not even thinking of drawing my sword I raise my hands and thinking about the sparks spell, I used in the game, I will it to come true and surprisingly sparks shoot out of my hands! But the dragon doesn't even notice and I yell out Crystal's name in an attempt to get her to run but it appears she is transfixed by the dragon. I start to draw my sword but then the dragon's tail whips around and the wall I am perched on collapses and I fall forwards right onto the dragon's back! The dragon rears up and then takes off with me holding on for dear life. "Holy Shit-aki mushrooms!" I yell as the dragon circles the Tower before it goes into a dive.
"Someone get me the hell off this thing," I yell again as it swoops around again.
Finally the dragon lands and I see Crystal come out of nowhere hacking at the dragon which is all the distraction I need to jump off before I went on another ride. I don't think I'd have been able to hold on any longer. Running around to meet Crystal we stand before the dragon weapons drawn, me with my sword and hand glowing ready with a sparks spell and Crystal with her axe. "Grrrr," the dragon rumbles staring at us.
"You are brave and perhaps crazy. Balaan Hokoron," the dragon says looking at me, "Your defeat brings me honour."
"Think again beastie," I look at Crystal, "ready to finish this?"
"Ready," she nods.
We run at the dragon from both sides and it decides to snap at me but I dodge him and give it a face full of sparks, and with a running leap I drive my blade deep into the dragon's head, just as Crystal cracks it's skull. The dragon screams and most of it is unintelligible but I do distinctly hear "Dovahkiin No!" Before the dragon finally collapses.
Before our very eyes the dragon's skin and organs burn up until all that is left is a pearly white skeleton and then the same white energy from the word wall rushes at me and encompasses both me and Crystal. The light fade and suddenly the shout fus is within my reach and not behind the invisible barrier where it had been hidden. "You two… You must be dragonborns. Prove it, if you are dragonborns you should be able to shout," a stunned guard tells us.
I nod at Crystal and together we face the guard and let loose from deep inside us a thundering force. "FUS!" The force of our shout staggers the guard who only looks ecstatic by it. "You are Dragonborn!" He yells gleefully.
Meanwhile
With Jordan and the others
"Looks like they are both dragonborn. Well I didn't see that coming," Tom says as the group watches the guy and girl nearly blow down the guard. "So what happens now?" He asks.
"Same as before," Jordan says turning away towards Whiterun, "We tell them about the guild and hopefully they join us."
"Jordan something fishy is going on here," Daniel says.
"Yeah, why are there two dragonborns?" Dennis follows.
"How should I know? Maybe that will be revealed in time or maybe those two will know," Jordan says pointing back at the dragonborns. "I've got a strange feeling about those two…"
"Something weird is happening here," Josh mutters.
"Yeah," Jordan replies, "I guess we will just have to find out what."
Hope you enjoyed this chapter and like I've said before in the last one, updates will be really slow due to my lack of an computer and it being summer vacation now, so please be patient and thanks to those who reviewed, hopefully you all keep reviewing, so have a good Summer!
