The Scaly Legionnaire

by mercyspace

Praefect Black Sail, an Argonian soldier for the Imperial Legion, doesn't see himself as anything besides a soldier with a past that he needs to keep secret. But on his journeys he meets a Khajiit female that he has no idea how to feel about her since he gets along with her but also argues mainly over the reason that she is trying to get his past out of him, but he won't allow it.

3. Chapter 3: Lightning

The Scaly Legionnaire Chapter 3: Lightning

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As Black Sail had his back to the ground he looked into the Khajiit's eyes as she kept her claws over his throat. He looked into her amber eyes; he could see fear in them. He could even smell it.

"Your magic is weak, you were lucky you caught me off guard, or else you might have just made me stumble," said Black Sail with a cocky tone, trying to aggravate the woman on top of him. It worked like a witch's charm.

"How do you know? I could have just been holding back," the female said, surprisingly not in the usual dialect of the Khajiits.

"Now I have a question, where did you learn to talk like-" Black Sail was cut off as he heard the sound of one of his soldiers screaming then saw the Legionnaire fly out of nowhere and land not far from the two with an iron war axe wedged in the side of his neck. Black Sail got a little annoyed when he saw that it was Vertus, poor bastard didn't even get to live through his first mission.

Black Sail looked towards the doorway of where Vertus had fallen and saw a small group of Stormcloak soldiers walking into the cell block, one was missing his weapon. The soldiers walked down the stairs and while they did one spoke, who might have been the commanding officer by the fact of the bear skin clothing.

"Good thing me and my men were hiding or else we would have been slaughtered, now all we have to do is escape and send word out to the other generals, once we kill you two lovers," he said as he walked down the steps, receiving a laugh out of the rest of his men.

Black Sail decided to take this moment to act; he had felt the woman's grip on his throat lessen and so punched the woman on top of him in the gut then pushed her off of him. The soldiers stopped in their tracks, and watched what was going on, not surprised at all but just in amusement. Black Sail then grabbed the collar and bottom of the female's ragged robes and threw her back into her cell then closed it and yanked the battle axe in Vertus' neck and used it to jam it shut. He then turned around and saw his swords on the floor and made a dive for them. But before he could get to them a Battleaxe fell and cut them both in two. As Black Sail hit the ground he looked up at the officer and bared his teeth then hurriedly stood up and took several steps back.

"What now lizard; you going to fight us with just your hands?" said one of the Stormcloaks with a cocky tone.

"In a way," Black Sail said smugly.

"What in Oblivion is that supposed to…" the soldier was unable to finish as a blast of lightning hit the man's helmeted face causing him to tumble backwards and fall dead on the ground with smoke coming out of the area where the lightning hit. As another Stormcloak looked at his fallen comrade he saw a gruesome sight. The faceplate of the helmet had been burnt through and the man's face looked like it was thrown into the Red Mountain in Marrowind and pulled out after a few seconds, it was nothing but some bit of burnt flesh and a blackened skull.

"How did- argh!" The front soldier was then bombarded by lightning, it didn't take the officer long to realize that besides being a dual wielder, the Imperial soldier was also a mage and was using storm magic to kill his men. The officer ordered a war cry, and he and his last four soldiers charged at the Imperial. He drew a dagger out of his belt and started to run towards Black Sail.

Black Sail had finished the man he was bombarding with Sparks and left him a pile of ash, burnt clothing, and bits and pieces of burnt flesh and semi-disintegrated bone. He was so focused on the poor soul that he didn't realize the five soldiers charging at him. He was barely able to duck in time to avoid the officer's dagger. Black Sail scrambled back a ways and saw one of the soldiers try to bash his head in with an iron mace. Before he could the skilled Legionnaire kicked the man in the gut to get him back. After he did that the Praefect quickly got away from the soldiers and focused his aim on the one he kicked. He got two lightning bolts ready and fired them at the soldier he kicked, one of each got him in a shoulder, they weren't powerful enough to kill him but they would hurt him, immensely. Black Sail then used both his hands and charged up a powerful Lightning Bolt and fired it into the man's chest area; the blast caused the soldier to fly a few meters and flip once before he hit the ground dead. The next soldier swung his war axe towards Black Sail but had missed whenever the Argonian ducked. He then turned around and ran backwards into the soldier ramming him into a cell door. Before he got off the soldier he grabbed the iron dagger on the man's tool belt. Before the rebel could do anything the Legionnaire turned around and thrust the dagger into the eye socket of the closed face helmet. As the man screeched out of pain and tried to remove the dagger, Black Sail slammed the palm of his hand onto the butt of the dagger and it went in deeper. The pain was causing the man to screech even louder. Black Sail then got a few feet in front of him before he did a roundhouse kick to the man's head, causing it to snap very hard sideways, killing him instantly. He saw the three other soldiers ready to kill him but he was quick enough to fire two almost simultaneous bolts into one man's head, the first one was hot enough to melt the faceplate metal then the second killed him. Before he could react to the other soldiers, one of them rammed him with his shoulder hard enough to where he lifted him up. Once Black Sail was rammed into the steel bars of a cage he was oblivious to the fact that they weren't ready to kill him. Next thing he knew he was lifted up then slammed into a nearby table. The officer walked up next to him and knelt down.

"I want to make you suffer you miserable piece of…" he was cut short by a dagger to his forehead and when the Stormcloak on top of Black Sail looked up, he grabbed the man's throat and choked him until he broke his larynx. Once Black Sail got the soldier off him he rolled slowly to his stomach and backwards crawled away from the cell he was near and saw the Khajiit female holding the bloody dagger that was in the Stormcloak officer's forehead. He groaned a little bit as he pushed himself up off the ground and stood. He lifted his right arm up and got a lightning bolt ready as he walked towards the cell door. The female got the memo and dropped the dagger and backed up from the door. Black Sail released the magica charge and lowered his arm. The female still noticed that he had purple magica energy in his hand. Once Black Sail got to the door he grabbed the war axe's handle and used sparks to disintegrate the part of the handle he was holding. As the two pieces of the axe fell Black Sail kicked the door open and walked into the cell, he then proceeded to charge up a bolt as he got closer the female and grabbed her by the back of her neck with his hand and move her in closer so he could get a better look at her face. He tilted his head as he got a closer look at her face and smiled devilishly. The Khajiit started to shake as he moved his head by the side of her neck. She shook even harder when she felt his hot breath on the side of her neck. The feeling of the Argonian's long, cold tongue on the side of her neck made her start kicking and punching at the Legionnaire. In frustration the Praefect reactivated electric magica energy in his hand and the volts made the woman start vibrating and her eyes went up until the point where Black Sail thought she had enough and let go of her. He knelt down in front of her and smiled.

"You're coming with me, sweetheart," Black Sail said before he picked the Khajiit up and tossed her over his shoulder and headed out of the fort.

MANY HOURS LATER

"Hey, girlie, wake up," those words echoed quietly in the Khajiit female's mind. When she opened her eyes everything was fuzzy and spinning.

"Wake up dammit," again the words just echoed quietly in her mind. Her eyes were starting to close and she felt herself going back to sleep. A blast was heard right next to her ear and she bolted upright as fast as lightning. When her vision went back to normal she saw the magic energy disappearing from Black Sail's hands and glared at him. He just grinned at her. She noticed that he wasn't wearing his helmet or his gauntlets. She looked around and saw that she was lying on a bit of deer skin. She looked around again and noticed that there was some snow on the ground and a river nearby. She sniffed at the skin and found out it was fresh and reeled back quickly due to the smell of it, she shook her head when she saw burn marks on it indicating that more than likely that Black Sail had shot the deer with a bolt. She sighed heavily and looked at the burning fire and saw a skinned rabbit with a long sharpened stick impaled through it. Said pike was impaled into the ground at an angle near the fire so that it could cook. She looked back to the Argonian who had kidnapped her and got ready to attack, but backed down when she saw the threatening look in his eyes. She sat back down and just looked into the fire. Eventually the Argonian got up and went towards the fire and yanked the cooked rabbit off the spit and handed it to the female Khajiit, who took it cautiously. He went back to sitting on the other side of the fire and kept an eye on her.

"Why didn't you just cook the venison from the deer," the female asked, patting the deerskin she was sitting on. The Argonian seemed set aback by her forwardness, most people were. The Khajiit always talked a bit while in captivity, Fort Kastav was different though, Khajiit and cold don't mix.

"The stag was old," Black Sail said, now it was the Kajiit's turn to be taken aback, the Argonian was calm and didn't have any malice in his voice. "The meat would have been tough and tasteless, so I used it to distract the wolves that were close to eating you."

"Well... thank y-"

"But now that I think about it, I think they might have prefered a fresh meal." The Argonian snickered after his smart-ass remark at the snarl on the Khajiit's face.

As the female continued eating angrily she looked at the Argonian. It took her a while to calm down so that she wouldn't cut his throat. When she had finally calmed down she started asking questions.

"Where are we?"

"At the mouth of the White River," Black Sail answered.

"Why?"

"We're heading to my camp," he answered.

"Where's the rest of your team?"

"The Legate gave me a direct order to bring you to my camp via a separate route."

"Really?"

MANY HOURS EARLIER

Black Sail had left the Fort expecting to see the Legate Fasendil waiting for him to leave so that he could yell at the Praefect for taking too long. But when he walked out the outer walls of the Fort, there were no Legionnaires to be found. Not one single living being was around, except for a wounded Stormcloak who made a wisecrack about him and the Khajiit, which got him a bolt to the chest. After several minutes of looking around the fort he then realized that Fasendil had probably ordered them to leave him here and thanks to the falling snow their footsteps were gone.

"Damn you, Fasendil!" the Praefect yelled so loudly he believed that he might have caused an avalanche before making his own way back to camp.

PRESENT TIME

"Yes," Black Sail said.

"Why did you take me with you?"

"You're worth a lot of money, miss Ri'jita."

That last answer caught the female off guard, for it seems that this man knew who she was. She lowered her head and tossed the rest of the meat in the air towards the Legionnaire. He caught the rabbit then tossed it into the fire to burn. Ri'jita just shook her head and lied down on the deer skin and tried to sleep. After about an hour of trying to sleep she noticed that the lighting dropped dramatically in an instant and so she got up and saw the Legionnaire dump another bucket of water on the fire. He tossed the bucket away and equipped his helmet and gauntlets. He walked towards Ri'jita and offered her a hand up. She accepted it thinking he'd be nicer to her this time, but when their hands met he yanked her up with so much strength that she almost fell back onto the ground. The Argonian then gave her a slight shove as he started walking. The Khajiit stopped moving when they got to the mouth of the river about twenty feet away. The Argonian passed her and started crossing it with no problem. When Black Sail turned his head and saw that Ri'jita was just standing there he walked over to her and asked her what was wrong.

"I'm not dressed well enough to cross that," she groaned, receiving a groan from Black Sail. "I'll likely freeze to death."

"I got a solution," Black Sail said with a grin on his face. The Khajiit was about to move away when all of the sudden the Argonian grabbed her by the waist and tossed her over his shoulder and started wading through the ice cold water, though he was unfazed by it. He did this for close to a mile mainly because sometimes he had to backtrack and go sideways so as to not get in too deep, all this took close to an hour and the sun had risen in the sky. Ri'jita at first complained about the way she was being held for it was quite embarrassing, not to mention how short her raggedy robes were. Once they got across Black Sail put Ri'jita down, though he received a slap across the face that left claw marks. Instead of killing her on the spot, which he could have easily done with his superior size and strength, he decided that they would just continue walking.

After about another four hours of seemingly endless walking Ri'jita started falling behind and after threatening to claw off Black Sail's war paint if he threw her over his shoulder again they decided to stop and rest. Black Sail could have easily continued on for the rest of the day but he didn't feel like listening to her. When Ri'jita sat down on a rock she started rubbing her feet and Black Sail realized why she wanted to stop, her foot wraps had torn off and her feet were bruised and looked close to bleeding. The Praefect then looked around and saw a few miles away an Orc Stronghold up on a mountain and went towards it. It was about an hour later that the Praefect had returned with a two pairs of fur boots with two holes on each side of them with a rope holding them, obviously so you can carry the other pair easier. She thanked him and noticed that his face was bruised, very badly, with some cuts that weren't caused by her. After she got one of the pairs of the fur boots on she went up to him and asked him what happened in a calm and soft voice.

"I'll do anything for a big paycheck," was all he said in a very irritable tone as he spat out a wad of blood that had formed in his mouth.

"That doesn't answer my question," she said irritably hearing how her try at being friendly wasn't taken too well.

"I wanted to buy two pairs of fur boots so that I wouldn't spend too much and you would be able to walk longer, but they didn't want to sell me anything since I wasn't "blood-kin" so I wagered that I could beat their chief at a fight. They agreed but they boosted the ante up and instead of a regular fist fight we had to make the other beg for forgiveness," he said that last part with a pained grin.

"I was obviously successful, but it still hurt like a bitch," he said with a groan then turned around and started walking but stopped when he heard whimpering. He turned his head and saw Ri'jita limping as she walked, she was obviously still hurting. He sighed and signaled her to stop and then walked around picking up dry looking branches and logs from nearby fallen trees. He dumped the logs and branches in a pile, he wasn't planning on moving for a while so that Ri'jita could heal and he wouldn't have to worry about his war paint getting clawed off or his throat getting torn out. Even though he could easily kill her with one well charged bolt to any specific spot on her body. Before he could do anything else he rummaged through his knapsack and pulled out two pairs of shackles. He went to her and without much resistance had her left hand shackled to the right foot and vice versa. As he was heading out he turned around and laughed at the sight of Ri'jita, which received a snarl from her.

After close to an hour had passed, Ri'jita was about to fall asleep from sheer boredom despite her uncomfortable position when she heard footsteps getting closer. When she opened her eyes she saw that it was the Legionnaire with several rabbits tied together. After dumping them on the ground he jumped up and climbed into a tree and retrieved several apples from it and dropped them down to the ground, then proceeded to jump down himself, squishing an apple as he lands.

TEN HOURS LATER

The Legionnaire had just finished cooking one of the rabbits when he handed it to Ri'jita and stabbed another one on a stake a near the fire, more than likely his. He sat down on a batch of grass when he looked at Ri'jita. He saw her rubbing one of her feet against the other's ankle, more than likely because of the shackles. He didn't care, he was going to get that bounty from the Legion, maybe then he'll finally be allowed a promotion to Tribune. Black Sail was brought out of his trance whenever the Khajiit started talking to him.

"Hello…" she said aggravated.

"What?" he answered, a little annoyed.

"Where are we headed?"

"My camp, like I already told you. From there I can get a couple horses and a change of clothes for until we get out of Stormcloak territory, from there we'll be heading to Solitude."

"Why?"

"I'm turning you in for your bounty."

"Why?"

"My own reasons," he finished his sentence with an angry hiss as he grabbed the side of his face where his claw cuts stung.

"What's wrong," the question lacked any emotion, which didn't bother the Praefect. He didn't answer and just snatched his rabbit off the spike and ate it.

"Okay, what's your name?"

"None of your business."

Ri'jita grunted in annoyance as she looked at her rabbit as it cooked.

"How did you cast that fireball spell, you don't show any mage training, scroll?"

"Yes."

Black Sail now grunted as he took a large bite out of his own rabbit.

There was nothing said for nearly, the two were passing the slow pass of time in their own ways. Ri'jita was blankly starring into the fire as she thought on her situation while the Praefect lied on his back with a stem of wild straw in his mouth. They were like that for half an hour until there was a bit of rustling from some nearby foliage. When Black Sail heard it he raised himself with his hands and immediately went invisible. After a moment of silence a figure, no two figures came out of the darkness and both had menacing smiles on their faces. Then out of nowhere one pulled out a dagger and lodged it into Black Sail's chest, who didn't expect it since he thought the figures wouldn't know where he was. He fell to the ground with a thud as the two figures went close to Ri'jita. She was about to get up and run but before she could get far she was paralyzed by an arrow in the leg. She was horrified at what was going to happen to her. She then felt the arrow pulled out of her leg and was flipped onto her back. Her blood went cold whenever she saw the sharp fangs protruding from the two figures mouths. The figures stood up and the two removed their hoods and to her surprise they were teenagers, one male and one female both no older than sixteen. They embraced each other and did a little dance as they talked about some nonsense about blood and romance, usual teenager bullshit. When the two finally got separated after doing some ridiculous crap with hissing and their tongues the male come close and bared his fangs in a way too flashy way, it was now a little harder to be scared. He then lowered himself slowly and sniffed her neck the way the Legionnaire did but this kid did it just to look cool unlike the Legionnaire who did it to scare her. Before the boy could put his fangs into her there was a high pitched scream from the girl as something clamped onto her shoulder, both Ri'jita and the boy looked at her and saw that the Legionnaire had his jaw latched onto her. The sickening part was whenever he decided to look up quickly at them, the movement and strength of the Argonian's jaw and neck broke the girl's clavicle like a toothpick; both Ri'jita and the boy over her could see the anger and bloodlust in Black Sail's eyes. As he eyed them his eyes darted to the girl still in his jaws. He let go and as the girl fell to the ground Black Sail wrapped his left hand around her neck and squeezed. As the girl desperately clawed at his hand the boy came at him with his dagger, yelling like an idiot. As the boy got within two meters of Black Sail he didn't expect to see the Argonian let go of the girl nor did he expect a punch coming from his right hand. The punch was delivered with such force and velocity that the boy practically did a sideways flip. As Black Sail saw the two teenagers on the ground he ripped the dagger out of his chest and stabbed it into the boy's back and he screamed just like the girl had, which caused a grin to form on Black Sail's face.

"Now I see how you figured out where I was," said Black Sail in a dark and foreboding voice. "You used a Detect Life spell, such an advanced spell, and you're able to do it as such a young age, you had great potential to become a great mage."

"How did you know that, you damned lizard?" asked the boy between gasps of air, but he would have to ask greater because his last comment received him a kick in the gut.

"When you've been around for as long as I have you can tell what kind of spell is cast, such an ignorant boy," he said the last part with a grunt as he kicked the boy in the ribs, he obviously was feeling insulted.

"Why do you think mages can use magicka, we can feel it in and around us, magicka is everywhere and in everyone, mages can tap into it and use it to cast our spells. It was Magnus who first allowed magicka to leak into Mundus and he created the sun, then the Magnagi followed suit and thus we have the stars. But ignorant pests like you are too stupid to feel it! If you've been around for as long as I have, you can feel magicka energy from farther away and eventually you can differentiate what kind of spell someone has cast, that part doesn't take too long to learn though. It's mainly observation and memorization," Ri'jita could tell that every word said to the boy was true making Black Sail angrier. Black Sail stood up and walked by the fire and yanked the cooking stake out of the ground and went back to the teenagers and stabbed it into the boy's back, and as the poor boy yelled, lifted it up into the air and started shaking it.

"You two have pissed me off, first you stab me in the chest, then you two start acting like vampires from those stupid books teenagers like to write and sell, then you are too ignorant to act like and be like a true RESPECTABLE mage," after saying that Black Sail lowered the stake and faced the boy whose mouth was making a large O shape. He looked deep into the boy's eyes before he showed him his fangs.

"You've made someone like me look bad, you've disgraced both vampires and mages and for that," he rips the stake out of the boy's back and throws both it and the boy on the ground. "I'll kill you're little girlfriend." Ri'jita shivered at the sound of the bloodlust in Black Sail's voice, she was really starting to get annoyed by the paralysis poison, then suddenly it wore off, and she had to make a plan at how to help Black Sail in case the boy made any quick movements. But the boy looked stunned as Black Sail loomed over the poor girl that was still in shock, which quickly wore off as Black Sail grabbed a hold of her throat.

Note: May or may not get brutal

Black Sail threw the girl into a tree and stomped on her left leg until it broke. These fledglings can't even regenerate faster in the dark yet, Black Sail thought to himself. After he broke her leg he started beating on the girl with his fist until her nose was broken beyond repair, both her eyes were swollen until they were nearly closed, and her lips were swollen and bleeding. After that he grabbed her by the back of the head and slammed her face into the same tree many times. After there was a large blood splatter on the tree, but by Black Sail had gotten bored and decided to kill her. But he wasn't going to make it simple. He put his fingers in the girl's mouth and to both the surprise of the boy and Ri'jita, he made his fingers break through the tissue and flesh so that the broke out through the bottom of her jaw, and then yanked her jaw off her head. As the girl dropped to the ground so did her jaw. Black Sail didn't expect to hear the yell from the boy, he immediately looked behind him and in an instant, saw that Ri'jita had tackled him just as the stake that Black Sail had used to impale the boy went in front of his eyes. After being dazed by his near death Black Sail looked quickly to where Ri'jita and the boy had landed and saw that the boy had overpowered her. He was choking her and by the looks of it she was about to have a broken larynx. Black Sail quickly took action and ran behind the boy, both hands ready with sparks. He got behind the boy and grabbed his head and yanked him off Ri'jita and they both fell to the ground. Black Sail pulled a classic restraining move as he wrapped his legs around the boy's waist as he tried to get his hands behind him to try and harm Black Sail. But Black Sail was already starting the boy's death. He still had his hands on the sides of the boy's head, around the ear area. He started unleashing sparks; the boy immediately started screaming in pain. Before anyone knew it, the boy's flesh was starting to get burnt and disintegrating. This continued on for a minute until the boy had finally died, but Black Sail didn't stop there, he kept going until the boy's very skull had disintegrated. After he was successful in that he tossed the corpse off him and stood up looking at Ri'jita. She was massaging her throat; Black Sail helped her up and used the Healing Hands spell to heal any wounds she had gotten during the fight as well as heal the wounds on her feet. After that he tossed the bodies onto his shoulders and went to go get rid of them, more than likely by disintegration. When he returned he just dropped down to the ground and lied down flat. He lifted his head and looked over to Ri'jita but then he suddenly lowered his head back down.

"They call me Black Sail," was all he said before he fell asleep.

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