AN:

here we go, Chapter 4

Chapter 4:

When Aurora was about hundred meters in front of the cave, she saw two figures standing in front of the entry. She could hear their heartbeat when she concentrated. With a great jump, she suddenly was within reach of the two men. They had heard her soft landing, but absolutely were not quick enough to defend themselves against her. The first took a blow of her fist to his face, she felt his bones broke under her vampire strength. The second one was grabbed by the throat and lifted into the air. With a quick pressure of her hand she snapped his neck.

A bandit cave, at least they were easy prey.

Without any hesitation, she made her way into the cave. She was surprised at how well she could see in the dark. In front of her, just behind the cave entrance, a small waterfall made its way down a wall. It was the only way further into the cave. A framework made of long wood pieces made it possible to reach the upper riverbed dry footed. A single man stood on top of wood construction and seemed to keep watch over the inner entrance. He hadn't noticed her. With a little jump, Aurora landed on the railing of the framework, in front of him.

He stared at her with anxious eyes. Aurora could feel his rising fear. He took a breath to call for help, but before a sound could leave his lips, she had ripped out his throat with her teeth. Without watching his dead body fall to the ground, she let her instincts rule her doing, and stormed further into the cave. She killed everyone without any hesitation, with the mere power of her hands and jaws.

As Aurora opened her eyes, she found herself laying on the ground, in the middle of a bloodbath. Dozens of men, mostly Nord and some elves lay dead on the floor. Some had missing limbs, others had a bite mark on the throat or had a broken neck. Shuddering Aurora got up. She saw a small lake in the middle of the cave chamber. When she started walking the disgusting smell of Molag Bal, that still radiated from her body, hit her face.

Without thinking twice she dropped into the water, dressed as she was. She began to wash her hair, as she had always done. As she did so, her eyes fell onto her reflection in the water. She flinched and jumped out of the water, with her back against the rear wall of the cave. Her once icy blue eyes were now red ruby eyes, with an elongated Iris in their middle. Their looked scary similar to cat eyes. Her blonde hair, just like her face where splattered with blood. From her mouth the last remaining blood of the bandits dripped.

Incredulous she collapsed. What had he done to her? Why had he not just killed her? Molag Bal had taken everything she had, away from her. She could not return to Witherun, the companions would hunt and kill her if she would come anywhere near the city. Thanks to their beasts blood they could feel vampires already from a great distance. All she had was in this city, her family, her friends. Even if it would be possible to go back to the city, she didn't want them to see her like this. Without being able to do something about it, she let the tears flow, but couldn't bring herself care to about it. Slowly, she noticed that she was overcome by sleep.

Heat, unbearable heat.

Cold, icecold.Boring painin her chest.

Suddenly afirethatis spreading through her bodyandburning everything, the pain is unbearable.

She opensher eyesandhis faceisthe only thingshe is able to see.

Unbearablefearstarts to rise in her and starts mixing withthe pain.

She hearshis laughers as hewithdrawsfrom herfield of vision.

Aurora tore open her eyes and looked around frantically. The foul smell of Molag Bal stabbed in her nose and she felt her fangs grew slowly.

Only when she had calmed down, she felt how they retreated slowly. She felt as calm as never since her transformation. She was able to think clearly and the first thing she wanted to do was to wash herself to not be reminded more often than necessary to him.

After she had bathed herself extensively in the small lake, her clothes had stopped smelling as a rotting wolf as a bonus, she began to examine the bodies of the bandits. Since no woman was among them, her leather outfit she wore at the moment would have to be enough. In a chest that stood in the far corner of the cave she found a short sword. The blade was about two feet long and apparently was made out of malachite. The blade and the hilt had been elaborately worked out from the stone and adorned with some gold. The narrow blade looked sharp and had a slight but elegant swing on both sides of the blade, so it was slightly at the beginning of the blade. The sheath of the weapon was the exact opposite of it. It consisted of plain, black leather that fit in well to the appearance of her clothes.

Aurora decided to take it in. She also found another small steel dagger which could be attached to her thigh thanks to some leather straps on the sheath. From the corpses of the bandits she took a total of about one hundred and fifty Septim and made her way to the exit of the cave. Her instinct told her that it still was day, but she wanted to check it anyway.

As she had suspected, the sun was still high in the sky. Aurora had no desire to move in daylight. She had the presumption that she would stand out more if she protected herself from the sun, as if she would at night on the road, it also gave her the opportunity to think about where she wanted to go.

AN:

So I got two questions for you guys:

First, which side in the civil war should Aurora take part in.

Stormcloaks or Imperial army or maybe something entirely different.

I got some ideas how she will act in this conflict, but your thoughts are more than welcome.

Second question:

What do you think of the name of Aurora. In German it fits perfectly, but when I translated a Chapter where the English word aurora was used, I noticed it was slight irritating for me. SO I thought I would ask you if I should change the name for the English version.
Just leave me a comment and I will do as you wish.