The city started to go on a lockdown as they saw the army marching towards Whiterun, the Jarl and his soldiers along with the Companions runs to the walls and looks out at the open field seeing the armies with the Ebony armour and no banner has been seen in their formation as they march towards them.
"Signal the other guards outside of the city, get them before the enemy get here" Vignar said to one of the guards then looks out at the army as they walk together towards the city, they would move away from the city and stands on the open fields waiting for something to happen.
Elsewhere in the Whiterun jail Talion sits on the chair waiting for something, suddenly he heard a struggle outside, he walks to the jail door seeing two dead guards on the ground, one of his Arnor soldiers stands in front of him.
"I'm sorry we came but things have changed now..." he unlocks the door "The enemy is outside, there preparing to siege Whiterun." He gives him his two swords.
"Thank you." Talion takes the two swords and puts them on his back "If the covenant takes the city then the Imperials can attack but..."
"If the covenant defeats the Stormcloaks then they will kill everyone here and we would have to fight the covenant once the Stormcloaks are gone..."
"Then we have no choice... we have to side with the Stormcloaks, let's go." He runs outside with the man towards the front gate.
"I want the companions to help defend this city; we are not going to let it fall to this band of invaders." Vignar signals another guard to get the companions for help.
"I can help you know." Olfina said to him while she stands next to him "I can do just like any guard here can do, slay the invaders."
"I cannot lose you Olfina..."
"Then you will lose your city." Talion stands nearby looking at him and the guards. Vignar looks over to him and about to signal the guards "Wait... i have men outside, we can help one another, i cannot let Whiterun fall to the covenant also."
"Just who are you ranger... why should i trust whatever you say?"
"I am Talion, the man from Cyrodiil, i came here to fight the Stormcloaks for the new emperor but now i cannot let this land fall to a new force, my people will help defeat the elves but then we will have to fight the Stormcloaks, if this land plunges into chaos then the Legion will come and will set things right in Skyrim."
"You do know that after this you and I will be back as enemies..."
Talion nods to him, Vignar looks out at the covenant army as they still stand there, he notice his soldiers that was defending a few forts returns to the city and the covenant would let them enter the city. He looks back to Talion "Get your men inside. We must defend the city."
An hour later the sun goes down and the night has come, the rain comes down on the field, wetting all the soldiers on the fields, the dark covenant stands there at a thousand and their leader the man who faced Talion stands there looking out at the city, the defenders of this city stands at almost three hundred Stormcloaks, ten Companions and twelve Arnor guards, they all stand on the walls and on the towers, Talion would walk outside with his sword ready with his men by his side and the Companions nearby, Vignar stays where he was as he looks out and preys to Talos that they will make it out of here in no time.
The covenant stood their ground and ignoring the rain, soon they would start to hit the ground with the bottom of their spears, they all hit the ground at the same time and continues going until finally the leader would signal the charge, they would all stop and raise their spears towards the city and then they would all march towards the city all in a formation. The archers prepare to fire but the soldiers got their shields up and prepare to block, they released arrows and hits the shields and didn't hit anyone, they continue to charge through the path towards them, the guards abandon their post and draws their swords and moves back to defend position, they raise the bridge up and makes a stand against them, Talion then signals the soldiers to charge at them while more archers stands above them, the covenant soon breaks off and charges towards Talion and the others, they all crash through the path, spearing them and colliding swords together on the field, some do run on the path to lower the bridge but they soon get shot a few times with the arrows and falls to the area, Talion continues fighting with his men and the Companions, they keep fighting but soon some got through and attacks the men defending the lever controlling the bridge, one of them suddenly had a staff and sends a fireball towards the group above them, an infantry lowers the bridge and once that went down Talion signals a retreat to the front door, once they run some gets stabbed behind as they retreat but they turn back and they all form back in a curved line and then fights again against the covenant, more Stormcloaks comes through the gate as it was open, they were still fighting and pushing them back a bit but the mages with their staffs stays back and sends fireballs towards the archers on the walls. They continue fighting until they can't go anymore.
Talion continues fighting with Olfina by his side, striking through and pushing them back but then the leader comes out and swings his mace, Talion pushes her to the side to avoid the swing, he rolls to the side and had his sword ready as the man charges towards Talion, thanks to him the armies move away from the two, they start to get inside the city while the covenant still battle outside but they can't last all day, they will soon charge through and Talion still fights that man, still evading his attacks strikes his armour a few times but then he would hit his mace to the ground and the darkness creates a circle on the ground around him then explodes, pushing Talion back and falling to the ground. Talion slowly gets back up seeing the leader striking down a few of the Stormcloaks with an instant, he saw Vignar swinging his axe at him but then he grabs Vignar and lifts him in the air with one hand to his neck, he finishes him with one swing of his mace, breaking his neck before he crashed into the shop called Warmaiden. Talion gets up and charges towards him, grabbing his dagger and stabbing his chest and pushing him to the ground, he stood on top of him and then the man would see his true form, the Wraith takes over and grabs the side of his face, he gives him a bright hand to the side of his face and then he moves away, Talion takes over and looks over to this leader and raise his hand, it started to become wraith like and with that hand mark on his face he can choose to kill him anytime and so he does it here, the man tries to break free but it was too late, his head would then explodes in pieces, he goes on his knees then falls to the ground.
The battle started to get pushed inside the city, they were still holding but they are losing too many soldiers, all of the soldiers of Arnor are now dead and nearly all the Companions fell before the covenant, Tristan charges through and swings his swords down at the covenant, striking them down and pushing them back but they keep going and couldn't wait for them to break off so they can sprint through the entire city.
Suddenly a horn goes off as reinforcements arrive, the forces of the Blades and Arnor sides together in the west and charges towards the covenant from behind, the covenant outside saw this and abandon the city and charges towards them while the rest continues fighting Talion and the others, Olfina was still alive and keeps fighting while the Blades continues fighting them outside, they would notice a few other Arnor soldiers from the east comes to help them, once they come the covenant had no choice but to retreat, they abandon the city and flee the area but they were close from killing nearly all the guards of the city, the Covenant charges outside to push through the enemy outside and then flee to the south, heading back to the caves they went before so they can return to the far south of the land, the Blades and Arnor gave chase but they soon stops and cheers in victory and so do the Stormcloaks. Talion was still breathing heavily as he looks around seeing so much death; they actually won this fight but lost so many people here including his men who fought by his side.
Olfina walks over to him "Victory is ours!"
"No... Victory is yours..." he would then start to walk out of the city
"Wait... aren't you going to-"
"Listen... we are now enemies because you side with the wrong people, after this day we will meet again on the fields." He starts to walk off out of the city.
She just stood there then looks back seeing Vignar dragged out of the building, outside Talion walks towards the army as they all stand in a formation waiting for Talion. He then signals them to move to the west while some returns to the east to stay with the others in the fight against the orcs and the Stormcloaks.
Olfina stands on the wall looking out seeing the forces of the Blades and Arnor moving to the south to deal with the covenant because they can't let them go like this, the Blades would go through the caves first and notices they are not there so the rest moves through and wonders what happen to the covenant. They reach outside on the other side and spreads out, they know they are out there but don't know where exactly they are. The Blades decided to catch a break by resting inside and outside of the caves, Talion stays outside looking out while the others sleep at night, just when the sun was about to rise up he decided to head out there to find them himself, he wonders around the south close to the town of Falkreath but soon he stops when he was close to a tower in the distance, he noticed there are Covenant defending that tower, only a few of them were there so he decided to take them on himself.
Five Covenant defending the tower, two of them are at the top, one inside while two of them outside patrolling, Talion hides behind a tree and looks out and waits for them to move around, he takes out his dagger and moves closer to one of them and will only get them if they are closer to the tower so the ones above don't see it. He grabs the man and stabs through his chest, pushing back on the ground and letting him sit against the tower, he looks around and moves around the tower to find the other one, he was about to walk inside but then he grabs him and stabs him twice in the back before moving him back on the ground, then he walks inside and looks around seeing the man standing there doing some alchemy, it was a dark elf and then notices the other two he killed was dark elves also, he couldn't think about that now so he killed the elf by cutting his neck and then stabbing through his chest to let him fall to the ground. He starts walking up the stairs drawing his long sword and he would stab one of them once one dark elf walks downstairs, he gets stabbed and pushed down the stairs and then he would quickly strike the other one by beheading the elf, sending him falling off the tower and crashing to the ground.
"Dark elves... there in league with the covenant..." Talion said to himself as he starts walking downstairs "They rebelled and sided with the covenant just to take Skyrim by force..." he walks outside and stops "But it doesn't make any sense, why would the dark elves land in the north and come to the south?"
He looks at one of the dark elves and searches the body to see anything useful, he would notice a map and a few places that are crossed, three of them are Helgen, Falkreath and Bloodlet Throne, there all destroyed by the covenant, there is an area that is circled and it was the Cracked Tusk Keep that lies in the south western corner close to Falkreath, the enemy has to be there so he returns to the others to report and see what happens.
Cracked Tusk Keep was well restored thanks to the covenant, now it's probably one of the areas they are stationed at the moment, hundreds of them was standing ready, they stood around the wall with their Ebony bows while the rest were outside of the walls and in the interior of the place, it looks like not all of the covenant who attacked that city is not here, they probably went off elsewhere maybe in the west but right now they need to take that keep.
The Blades and Arnor hides for cover in the trees and looks out at the defence, they think before they act. "If we attack like this, we will lose most of our soldiers..."
"We should have kept the others, why did we have to call them back to the east." One of them said to the other
"We got no choice we can't get in there..."
"But i can." Talion said to them "I can get in there and deal with a few; i will try to move to the side to take out the archers and then get inside, once they find the bodies and start to act, charge through."
"Alright... good luck." They signal the others to move back away for him to move around.
Talion sneaks to the side to avoid being seen, he jumps up the wall and notices one of them is walking to the edge where he is, he grabs his dagger and jumps up and stabs his chest and throws him over the wall and crash to the ground, he looks back up seeing if its cleared so he jumps up and sneaks to the side to the back of the fort then notices someone is coming, he hides for the moment until he gets closer, once he got closer he jumps up and stabs him and then throws him off the wall, he looks over to the archers not seeing him he keeps moving closer to the archers, he gets closer until finally they saw him, he draws his long sword and swings down at two of them and kicks one of them off the wall, the others outside was about to run inside but then the Blades and Arnor charges towards them, they turn back and charges towards them, clashing on the field while Talion still takes out the archers, some try to shoot at the attackers but Talion gets behind them and strikes them down, then he notice more are coming from the inside, he would jump down and crash on top of them then the Blades runs through and helps him up as they charge through and attacks, Talion moves to the side and blocks a few attacks and counter attacks them by striking them down with one hand to his sword, he keeps going to block and counter a few times as they couldn't kill him, he keeps going until finally they are all dead. They cheer yet again for another victory here, they defeated them yet again but lost a few of their men in the process but at least they took out the archers or they would have been in trouble.
"That has to be all of them... should we keep searching?" one of them said to Talion
"No... Let them run... we got other work to do, come on... we go to the west to deal with the Forsworn for now, then we go after the Stormcloaks and end this..." Talion place his sword away
The forces started to form back together and started to move down the road to head to the Blades fortress in the north west, there they can recover and then they can fight the Forsworn on the battle, once they are taken care of they can go after the Stormcloaks.