Chapter 5

Hadvar wakes up as I'm making breakfast and says, "So I see that you can cook."

"I was my tent's cook," I reply.

"Marcus, don't think I don't know what a contubernium is. Latin is the language of Cyrodiil. But the common language is English."

"Oh, I didn't know you spoke Latin, Hadvar."

"I learned when I was little boy and still remember it."

"Do you want to eat breakfast, Hadvar?"

"What do we have, Master Chef Marcus?"

"Well, with the salted beef, potatoes, carrots, and tomatoes I made beef stew. I also made some Jazbay Grape Crostatas. For drink we have water with fruit flavoring."

"That sounds very good Marcus."

"Dig in."

We eat the delicious food and then go and search for more supplies before we enter the barrow.

"We should go get supplies in Whiterun before we go in," Hadvar says.

"I told the Jarl that I would not come back without the Dragonstone." I reply.

"You can go to Riverwood while I go to Whiterun and we can get double supplies."

"We don't want to carry much because we're going in, getting the Dragonstone, and coming out."

"Doesn't it take a long time to explore a barrow?"

"That's not what the Jarl's court wizard says."

"I despise every magic user that walks the realm of Nirn."

We go our separate ways to get supplies. The town of Riverwood gives a lot of supplies for free in debt of what Hadvar and I had done for the town. We meet back at the Barrow and tell what supplies we managed to get. Hadvar got some fresh produce from Whiterun and some meat as well. I managed to get some arrows, torches, bedrolls, and salt piles. We walk into three Whiterun guards when one asks, "Can we join you on your expedition through the barrow?"

"Sure, what are your names," I reply.

"I'm Erak, the one on the left is Hati, and the archer is Jack."

"Nice to meet you, my companion's name is Hadvar. On this mission I am in charge, got it?"

"Got it sir."

"Please call me Marcus."

We make our way back to Bleak Falls Barrow and find out that the guards have their own bedrolls. We have dinner of venison stew and cold Honningbrew Mead which the guards brought along. I told them that the mead stays out here so we can carry more food.

We enter the barrow the next morning after some shut eye and breakfast of salted beef.

"Watch out for draugr," Erak says.

"What are draugr," I ask.

"Draugr are ancient nords who have fallen in battle and some old enough have the power of the voice." Hati replies.

"Oh, so they are your ancestors."

We continue into the barrow and eventually run into some draugr.

"Battle formations," I call out.

Every one kills two or more draugr and we head on to the swinging axes trap. Jack goes through the trap like he made it himself. He deactivates the trap and we head on to a chamber full of spiders and a man caught in the webs. He tells us to kill the spiders and get him out of the webs and he will helps us. We do that but he takes off with some sort of key to the inner chamber. Jack gets tired of chasing so puts an arrow in the bandit's back. I take the claw shaped key and go towards the door. Erak says that the passcode is on the claw which it is. I put in the passcode top to bottom; bear, hummingbird, owl, and then the door opens revealing a giant chamber behind it with a wall that has strange writing inscribed on it. Our party walks up to it and its power goes into me. A Draugr Deathlord appears and it starts to attack only me but my companions kill it in one blow. I search its corpse and find the Dragonstone. We exit the barrow, grab our stuff, and head back to Whiterun.

"I see you have returned with the Dragonstone and some friends," Farengar says.

"Yes and the guards wanted to join me, here is your stone," I reply.

"Oh I see that you have got Farengar his stone for the dragons." Jarl Balgruff says.

"Yes I have Jarl Balgruff," I reply.

"You have done Whiterun a service, but I need your help with a dragon threat. Go with Irileth to the Western Watchtower and defeat this dragon if it returns. Then return here for further orders."

"At once my Jarl, come on guys we are going to defeat a dragon."

My party and I meet Irileth at the tower just before dawn when she says, "Be careful and watch out for the dragon. Make every arrow and bolt count."

"Five arrows and aim carefully," I tell my crew as I am getting my bow ready.

The dragon comes and lands immediately by the tower, I tell Erak and Hati to charge with their swords and shields. The dragon whose name is Mirmulnir says that only the Dovahkiin can kill him.

"I'm tired of this, for Rome!" I say as I brandish my sword and shield.

"Dovahkiin, Niid!" Mirmulnir says.

As I kill him a burst of energy goes in me and I shout, "Fus!"

"Dovahkiin!" shouts a loud mysterious voice.

"I can't believe it, you're the Dragonborn." all of the guards say.

I go back to Jarl Balgruff and tell him that the dragon is dead and that the guards called me a "Dragonborn".

"I suggest that you go and see the Greybeards to master your gift of the voice. As a token of my gratitude, I name you Thane of Whiterun, an honorary title for those who have done a service to my city. For that I'll give you a house and a housecarl to go with your title. Also a detachment of the guard will help you on your travels, as well as a horse to travel swiftly." Jarl Balgruff says.

I head to my new house to get some sleep and food.