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Chapter 7:

After a few minutes of walking Aurora looked towards the mountain and could see the old Nord Buildings. Some stone arches swung themself from cliff to cliff and gave an impressive sight. However, most of the ruin was in the mountain itself. She had been once before in such ruins. It was with Farkas, where she learned that the members of the circle were werewolves.

After about twenty minutes they reached steps that led on the left side of the road up the mountain.

"I think we should get to an entrance, if we follow these steps", Onmund said, but made no move to take the lead.

Aurora nodded and began to climb the stairs. She looked to the left, the mountain was steep and she could see Falkreath. Despite the distance to the city, Aurora's vampire eyes could see the people moving through the streets. Her senses were as clear as never before. She could feel every breath of the wind, heard every leaf rustle in the trees and saw each needle of the needle trees on the other side of the valley. She couldn't deny that she was fascinated by her new skills.

A sudden noise on the right side startled Aurora out of her thoughts. A loud impact of stone on stone and then an unnatural sounding gurgle was to be heard.
Draugr.
In a quick movement, Aurora turned to the now open coffin and pulled her blade from its sheath. Just in time, she brought her blade up to block the blow of the Draugr. The fresh blood that flowed through her body, gave her the strength to blow the Draugr's sword with her own one from his hand and then pulling him with her free left hand to her. The movement threw him over the railing of the stairs, with a gurgling noise the creature fell to its deaths.

Without taking another look after Draugr, Aurora started to continue to walk the path ahead of her. She felt that Onmund was following her, she could hear his heartbeat and feel his body heat.

Another set of stairs on her right led further up the mountain. At the upper end, an old door could be seen. The pattern on it reminded Aurora of an eagle or a dragon. With her sword drawn, she made her way to the top.
Another Draugr rushed suddenly from left in her direction, but this time she had noticed it in time, and could kill it with a targeted blow in its neck.

"Looks like we're coming through this door into the ruin," Onmund said.

"You have a real talent, to determine the obvious," Aurora replied to him with a slight smile on her lips.

The heavy doors could be opened surprisingly easy, as if they were used regularly. Perhaps the mage was right and vampires lived here. Maybe she would finally find out what she was.

A strong wind was blowing in to her face. Behind the door a small hall stretched out, in its middle a big, thick stone pillar that carried the weight of the mountain above. Over the entire width of the room, steps led down and eventually led to a small opening at the end of the hall.
Carefully Aurora began to move downwards.

"Are these ruins are full hidden mechanisms and traps, be careful" she whispered to him.

When they reached the end of the hall, the door trough which they were originally come, was about ten meters above them. The passage they had entered was narrow and low. It looked more like a cave than a ruin. After a few corners, a stone wall apeard in front of them. Onmund stepped forward and moved toward the wall. He looked at it and turned disappointed to Aurora.

"Looks as if it were a dead end," he began to talk.

But Aurora wasn't listening, she had now also approached the wall and ran her hand over the rock. Suddenly, the wall moved and disappeared into the ground. Behind the wall another little hall was to be seen.

Reluctantly Aurora stepped through the opening and looked around. On the left, another passage opened. On the right side, the hall lasted until around a corner, there a door was blocking the way.

"We go right," Aurora said, "Right leads upstairs. Apart from the left passage the smell of fresh blood spreads through the air. ".

"As you wish, I will follow you".

To Aurora's astonishment the door was not locked and could be opened without problems. A staircase led upward and opened into a huge hall. The path led on the left side of the round hall to the other side. On the right side of the narrow ridge, the ground was opening in an about a hundred meters in the depth. On other levels, some skeletons ran around and patrolled their ways. Apparently, there were really vampires here, or at least other necromancers.

When they arrived on the other side of the hall and entered the new corridor, she noted that their way was blocked. A large iron gate reached from the bottom to the top of the hallway. Slowly Aurora made her way to the gate to exam it more closely. Carefully she placed a hand on one of the grid struts, but nothing happened. With both hands she griped a bar and tried to get it to move, nothing happened.

"I got a switch her, maybe it opens the door," Onmund said.

"Don't touch it", Aurora called, but it was too late.

The gate opened. Relieved Aurora turned to Onmund to tell him that he could come, when suddenly fire beams shot from the ground. Only with a great leap backwards, that carried her through the still open gate, she could avoid the flames. With a heavy blow, she bumped her head on the doorway and landed just a few meters behind the Gate on her back. The last beam had hit her arm, but thanks to her leather jacket did no damage.

When she got up, she touched the back of her head and found blood on her hand. She could see how Onmund carefully pushed himself through the gaps between the flames and came to her.

"Never do this again," she hissed at him and showed her fangs.

Onmund looked down and said nothing.

"Be focused, I can feel a powerful vampire, he is very close. And since I can feel him, he probably knows we are here, "Aurora said in a gentler tone.

Onmund nodded at her and gathered Magica in his hand. Aurora moved her focus towards the door, which blocked the view into the neighbor room and pulled her sword from its sheath.

With a targeted kick on the lock, the door flew open, revealing a further hall behind itself. A podium was to see in the middle. An old vampire was behind it and smiled at her.

"Ah, I see we have a visitor," he said with a very friendly voice, "Say, what are you doing here?".

"I want to know what I am," Aurora replied.

She could see his eyes wandered to a book that was on the podium in front of him.

"Ah, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid we cannot accept vampires in our rows that were so recently turned as you, my dear".

Aurora could feel he was getting ready to attack them without thinking, she jumped without any trouble the twenty meters that separated her from the other vampire and landed gently on her feet in front of him. She could see a scared look in his eyes, then he attacked. His magic was strong, but couldn't harm Aurora. She felt as he tried to absorb her life energy. She thought about how handy it would be to attack him in the same way as a reddish light began to glow in her left hand.
She held out her hand toward him and imagined that his energy was transferred to her.
To her surprise, the magic felt like perfectly normal Destruction magic. It didn't took long, because the vampire Master was weakened from her spell, before she could manage to set a blow direct at his throat und pierce. His body disintegrated to ash in front of her eyes and was blown away by the still strong blowing wind. What remained was the empty armor he had worn.

She turned to the podium and looked at the book that was laying there.

Opusculus Lamae Bal

Lamae Bal? Why did this name sound familiar to her? Lamae Bal. Like a light that was turnd on, she remembered. Lamae Beoflag the first vampire, her mother had once told her about her. Satisfied to have found something that might be able to give some information, she put the book in to her pocket. The staff they hadn't found yet, so Aurora began to move again.

At the end of the hall, which was otherwise empty, a wooden spiral staircase rose in a shaft leading upwards. After several minutes they silently walked up the stairs, they reached a further hall. A broad path led through it and ended in front of a large stone wall, which was described with strange symbols.
Left and right of the path stylized dragon heads rose in the air and backed it up on the way to the wall. A stone sarcophagus stood in front of the wall and opened as they approached. A Draugr started to climbed out of it and attack them.

As Aurora approached the wall, she had forgotten the attacking the Draugr, she started to hear whispering in her head, with each step in the direction of the Wall it was getting louder and clearer.

GRAH.

She felt her entire concentration shifted to the wall. An indescribable power went through her. When the Draugr was inn striking range to her, her hand jerked forward and broke its neck in one quick motion.

GRAH.

Suddenly, blue light started to spread from the wall and pulled her towards it. Aurora put a hand on the now glowing words on the wall. She couldn't read it, but she knew what it meant.

GRAH. Battle.

She felt deep down that she would never again forget this word.

"I found it," Onmund called to her and held the staff triumphantly in the air.

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