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Okay everyone here is the next chapter, finally. You guys have every right to be mad and I apologize but enough of that enjoy the chapter!


"Okay we take the road back past Riverwood and Helgen to Ivarstead and up the steps to High Hrothgar," I say pointing down the road past the meadery.

"Why not go straight up the mountain?" Crystal asks me.

"Because it's a mountain for one and this isn't the game where you can glitch up said mountain." I said with a chuckle "Naw were going the long way."

I lead Crystal down the road with the sun rising before us over the hills, I watch the sun as it rises and I fell a small twinge of homesickness. I miss home. Plain and simple, sure everything wasn't perfect but what is? But this is a wonderful opportunity to live another life and besides I always wanted to be sucked into one of my games; I just wish I knew how.

"Jack," Crystal said, running beside me, "We've been too busy to think of this before hand due to past days events but after we kill that dragon, Alduin right? What happens then? Do we go home or are we stuck here?"

"Honestly? I really don't know," I replied "we will just have to find out when the time comes,"

"Yea I guess your right," Crystal says looking off to the side.

Yeah I am and maybe when this is all over I will wake up to find this all to be the wackiest and coolest dream ever known and it could have been worse. I could have been sent back to the Oblivion Crisis, which would have been cool too but then I would have to go into Oblivion Gates and they are pretty damn scary at times! "Crystal?" I say looking over at her to see she is still long off into the distance with a frown on her face. "Whatcha looking at?"

"I thought I heard something," she says seriously.

"Really?" I say looking past her. "I didn't hear anything, then again I do often miss things. We better be careful it could be anything out there."

Just then the bushes rustle making me jump and two people, not including a dark elf, walk out. Come to think of it they are apart of that group of people who showed up at the watchtower, what do they want? "Well I definitely heard that," I say to Crystal. "Stay back!" I add to the strangers pulling my sword from its scabbard.

The one leading the group, a guy with short brown hair and leather armour, holds his hands up in a caught by a cop freeze! Pose. "It's okay! We're not trying to hurt you, we only want to talk to you," the leader says.

"How do we know we can trust you?" Crystal pipes up her axe ready to swing.

"You don't." The one with reddish blonde hair and banded iron armour says to us, shrugging. "Even if we were to attack you, which we won't, despite the fact you both are dragonborns you are severely out numbered and wouldn't stand a chance against us so please hear us out,"

I look over at Crystal to see is if she agrees. She nods and I lower my sword but still keeping it in my hand, I take a step forward. "Okay so what is it you want to talk about?" I say cautiously.

"Well first we should all be introduced properly," the leader says turning to introduce his friends.

"This is Saren Aranea, he is our expert in Dwemer ruins and their technology and is an incredible archaeologist. He is also a member of a special group my friends and me made up which I will tell you about in just a minute," he says pointing at the dark elf.

"And this is Joshua, he is one of the co-founders of the group and loves to run head first in battle."

"HEY!" Josh shouted in protest, while Saren just chuckled and Jordan ignored him, but with a grin on his face.

"What about you?" Crystal asks.

"I'm Jordan, and I'm the Leader amongst my friends and also a co-founder of the Akatsuki Guild which has just under forty members all across Skyrim."

"Akatsuki Guild? Never heard of it," I say suspiciously.

"That's because we haven't been around long." Jordan answered, "We accept pretty much everyone unless they are bad of course here at the Akatsuki Guild. We accept Mages, Assassins, Necromancers, Warriors, etc and we follow these rules. One: NEVER harm the innocent. Two: If you're in over your head call for back up. Three: Never harm another member of the guild unless in self-defence. And four: do not get yourselves caught stealing from other members of the guild. Any questions?

"Yes," I pause. "Never harm the innocent? That so does not go along with necromancers and assassins, that's what they do."

"The assassins aren't like the Dark Brotherhood ones. They only take out those who are evil and as for the necromancers we've cut a deal saying that they can do all of their necromancy, only they can't do it on any guild members, civilians or allies. They can only do it with Bandits, Forsworn, and so on as much as they want," Jordan answers.

"I don't think that is right. Right Crystal?" I say looking at her.

"Well… yeah it does sound bad but at least its not on innocent people. Which is a plus," she says looking doubtful.

"They are still harming people. The people they are harming may be bad but who has the right to kill, and the necromancer's favourite form of entertainment torture, any being? How can you condone it knowing what they do to those people? Especially the Forsworn, they aren't as bad as you'd think," I say getting a little mad.

Jordan just rose his eyebrow "Do you think this world is full candy and gumdrops?" he asked rhetorically, "This is freaking Skyrim, and we are in the middle of a civil war. If you want to survive, you need allies and as many as you can get. So what if a few of them have shady pasts?"

"On an ethical level sometimes you need to know when to draw the line at who is your ally."

"The Forsworn do atrocious things too," Saren said, "what do you say to that?"

"Yes they do, do atrocious things and I can't say I approve of their methods but can you really blame them?" I say angrily looking at the group of people. Why can't they see my point? "The necromancers are worse and they do what they do because they want to, what is their reason behind it all? They have none but the Forsworn at least do. The Forsworn do what they do because they are trying to take back their homeland. The homeland that was stolen from them, wouldn't you do the same thing? If you were put in their place?"

"Yeah, theirs a thing called 'Negotiations' and 'Non-Violence'." Josh said, "The Forsworn never had to become savage, they could have tried to take their homeland back with more peaceful methods! Hell, couldn't they have just remained as warriors, but not as body mutilating psycho's! Not even Necromancer's go that far."

"Why do you care so much? Are you with the Forsworn?" Saren says eyeing me suspiciously.

"No," I say calming down. "I'm not but I know more about them than you think,"

Jordan rose a suspicious eyebrow at that, eying both me and Crystal. "Okay then, anything else?" he asked.

"Yes," Crystal gets in before I say something else. "How are you supposed to call back up if you need help?'

"We have a spell we can teach members once they have joined," Jordan answered, "When cast, it sends out a distress message to the nearest guild member who will then come and help you out as fast as possible. This doesn't always work because sometimes the nearest guild member is too far away to be of any use but at least it tells them where you are, now is that all?"

"That's all," Crystal and I say. "So what now?"

"Well, we would like you to join our guild and come with us to see our headquarters and meet the rest of the gang before you go up to High Hrothgar," Josh tells us.

This is all too weird. I have never heard of this guild, it certainly wasn't included in the game and another thing… These people don't seem to be like the other people we've met in Skyrim so far. They are different including their names; those aren't normal Elder Scroll type names. They sound like modern day names, Real world commonplace names, so how could these people have them?

"I'm sorry but I don't think I want to join at the moment but that is just me. If Crystal agrees I think we can spare some time to see your place though, to help make up our minds," I say to Jordan after a minute of thought.

"I agree with Jack, I'd like to see this place and I like what I've heard so far but I'm not ready to join just yet," Crystal says.

Jordan sighs and waves his friends a little ways away where they commence into a huddle and they all start talking in whispers and darting glances over at Crystal and me occasionally. A minute or two later they return to us and Jordan looks from me to Crystal and back again. "Okay…" he says slowly not looking too happy. "We have agreed to let you see our headquarters on one condition."

"And that condition is?" I ask curiosity prickling me.

"What you see and hear you must not and I cannot stress this enough, you must not reveal to anyone. Make no mention of our operation or location to anyone, if you do there will be… consequences."

"Sounds fair right Jack?" Crystal says putting away her axe away.

"Right." I say doing the same with my sword.

"Okay!" Jordan says clapping his hand together. "Lets go then and get out of this cold."

Later at Akatsuki HQ…

"Here it is. Our Headquarters and this is our war room," Jordan says his arms spread out wide.

Their HQ is an old fort at the bottom of a tall rocky cliff, camouflaged among the other large rocks scattered along the bottom and while it may not appear very big on the outside, it is much larger on the inside. Currently we are in a room they call their war room, which is about the size of a classroom. It has bookcases and cupboards, with chairs sitting in front of them, lining the walls with the odd tapestry, torches and plenty of plaques holding various weapons and staffs around the edges of the room. In the centre of the room there are two pillars on each end of a table bearing a map in the middle with inkpots and what not scattered around it and more chairs placed at the table. "Spiffy, I like what you've done with the place," I say looking around.

"Thanks and now that you have met the rest of my friends we…"

"Excuse me, Jordan?" A young Breton lady in black robes says walking in holding a scroll. She looks up from the scroll and… wait a minute are those red eyes?

"Yes Meyrin? What is it?" Jordan says turning around.

"Ummm…" Meyrin says playing with her long dark red hair, not quite meeting his eyes. "It's nothing. I can see you are busy, I'll just be going now," she says turning to leave.

"No wait! Stay, I want you to meet Jack and Crystal," He says putting a hand on her shoulder to stop her.

Meyrin blushes deeply and for a moment can't seem to find her words then she looks at us and says. "Who are they Jordan?"

"They are dragonborns and they wanted to see our headquarters first before they thought about joining us," Jordan says also looking at us.

"Really? Dragonborns? That is amazing! Well I hope you two decide to join us and my warmest greetings to you," she smiles at us.

"Jack, Crystal? This is Meyrin Komachi and as you must have guessed she is a vampire," one of the friends Jordan introduced to us, Daniel a dark haired guy in ebony armour, tells us.

"Yea I can see that," Crystal says looking warily at Meyrin.

"You don't have to worry, I-I won't hurt you. I would never hurt anyone," Meyrin says looking down at her feet.

"No worries Meyrin, you don't seem like a person who would want to do any harm," I say smiling at Meyrin.

"Thank you, it was an honour to meet you Dragonborn, now if you'll excuse me…" Meyrin turns and scurries out of the room disappearing down the hall.

"Hey she forgot to tell me what she wanted," Jordan frowns looking after her.

"Why do you have a Vampire in your guild?" Crystal asked.

"She was transformed into a Vampire a few years ago, and she's been on the run from Vampire Hunters for a while." Jordan answered, "We found her one night, and brought her here to be safe. We're hoping to find a cure for her Vampirism one day..." He then shook his head "D.J, Daniel, and I will go see what she wanted, we have other things that need doing anyways," one of the friends Jordan introduced to us, Tom a guy with short brown hair and studded armour, says getting up from his chair.

We watch Tom and Daniel followed by another dark haired guy in wolf armor, D.J, leave and for a minute there is nothing but silence. "So, anything else you want to tell us?" Crystal says clearing her throat.

"Ah ye, well like I said before here at the guild we accept a wide range of jobs but we do not harm or murder any innocent Ever," Jordan tells us.

"Yea and we also accept people from any race! No racism here," one of the friends Jordan introduced to us, a guy with short black hair, tanned skin, and full leather armour, Dennis, says from his chair by a bookcase.

"Is that it?" I ask.

"No there is more but we can't tell you more until you decide to join," Josh says.

"Okay then we must be going. Shouldn't keep the Greybeards wait too long," Crystal says standing up.

"Yea thanks for telling us about your guild. What you have told us certainly is interesting but I'm not sure if I'll take you up on your offer. Like I said I have to think about it," I say stretching.

"Okay, good luck with the Greybeards and hopefully we hear from you again soon. Bye Jack and Crystal," Jordan says waving goodbye.

"Bye!"

Minutes Later…

"So Crystal what do you think?" I ask as we walk away from the hidden fort.

"Well, it does sound pretty cool and they all seem like nice people," she answers looking over her shoulder back at the fort.

"Yea they do but something about them is bugging me…"

"What is it?"

"I don't know," I frown. "I can't quite put my finger on it but something is up with them."

Meanwhile back at the Akatsuki Guild HQ…

"Well that went well don't you think?" Dennis says leaning back in his chair.

"They did seem to be interested, Crystal more so than Jack but don't you think that they were hiding something? Or at least Jack is?" Josh says from across the room at the table.

"What do you mean?" Jordan says from beside Dennis.

"I dunno, it's just a hunch but I get a feeling that he knows a lot more than we think they do, maybe as much as us."

"What makes you think that?" Dennis asks.

"Couldn't you tell? For one they showed no surprise when they discovered that they were dragonborns and that should have blown them away. It's like they knew what was going to happen and the look in Jack's eyes when you told him about the guild? We were watching from a distance just so you know, we wanted to see what they would do. Anyways, it's like he knew that we aren't from here that we don't belong here. Come on something is up," Josh says gesturing with his hands.

"Maybe you're on to something Josh," Jordan says getting up from his chair. "We will have to look into this but for now I think it would be best if we have someone stakeout High Hrothgar to keep an eye on those two."

"Good idea, I'll go get the others on it," Dennis says jumping out of his chair and running out of the room.

"Always with the mystery and drama, eh Jordan? Looks like we will never have a normal say around here," Josh says getting up and taking Dennis's chair.

"Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this without too much mystery and drama," Jordan replies. "But what's for certain is something is up and we are going to find out what."


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