Alas! One of my favorite characters finally makes his appearance!

Sorry it took a few days to get this chapter out, writes block SUCKS! XD So enjoy!

Now they take their venture back to BitterBlack and you get to experience just how skilled of a hunter Alixx really is.

And just as a note- My Dragon's Dogma save file is like this except Riven is the Arisen and Alixx is the pawn XD So if you want to use her you're more then welcome to!

Duke Skylar spoke with Aldous when someone burst through the doors of the castle. The Arisen walked towards him in determination.

"You!" you called. "We need to talk."

The duke smiled. "I see you have survived. But the dragon left my city in ruins. Half of it, gone." He looked at the Arisen. "Would you mind taking a look?"

She scoffed, "I have come to find out that everything you said you did was a lie, yet you still ask for my assistance? Find another meal ticket."

She smiled. "You know Madeleine is still alive right? I struck a bargain with Grigori before we fought."

Skylar stood, "Where is she?"

"Gone," Alixx answered quickly. "You'll never see her again."

"You will tell me where she is!"

She grinned evilly, "Else suffer what consequence? You're not fit to rule this land. I could take it away from you with the snap of fingers."

"You think yourself a fit ruler."

"I'm the daughter if duke Edmun Dragonsbane. Do the math."

Skylar smiled. "So your the love child the capital swirled about. So what do you plan to do? Take my castle and my wife?"

"I could take it all away as I am the rightful heir. Your castle, your crown, and your wife who doesn't even love you. I could have taken it all away, but I didn't."

He laughed, "No. Because your in love with my traitor of a knight, am I wrong? I know you broke him out, but alas I did not send my guards after you."

"Julien is innocent." She turned her back to him. "I bid you good day, ser. May the maker forgive you for your sins."

Before she left the castle she stopped by Mercedes room, but she wasn't there. Alixx stuck around for a bit and waited. The sun poured into the room shinning against something in her eye. Alixx turned her attention to the closet, and opened it with caution when Mercedes walked in.

"Arisen," she stumbled. "What are you doing here?"

"You trick me," Alixx said. "You where the one working with Salvation." When Alixx stepped aside, Juliens armor fell out on to the floor. "You tricked me into locking Julien up, you anticipated me dying. You knew I would choose Julien over eternal power."

Mercedes smiled and Alixx slammed her against the wall, putting a dagger to her throat. She laughed.

"What do you plan to do? Kill me?"

"No. Your head is a meager trophy." Castle guards walked in at that moment, having heard every word they had said. "But You'll see to your death by a life behind irons."

"You'll pay for this Arisen," she called as the guards dragged her away. "I will have m,y revenge!"

Alixx smiled, "I look forward to it."

Julien and Riven awaited her outside the city.

"Where's Mellyssa and Duccio?" she asked.

"Gone," Riven explained. "You no longer require their assistance. It is just me now."

"Where do we go from here?" Julien asked.

"Well your name is cleared in the castle," she informed him. "Mercedes tricked all of us, so she could over throw the duke when I died. You could restore your knighthood."

"Pray, I do not wish to return to the court. Not this time. I wish to stay with you, and our son."

"Son?" Riven had not known.

Alixx placed his hand on her stomach. "Julien and I are having a baby, Riven. I saw it when I was captured by Salomet."

"What will you name him?"

Alixx and Julien looked at each other. "We haven't really thought that far." Alixx looked up at the sky. "I need to go back to the isle."

Both Julien and Riven protested. "Why would you go back there?"

"I told you that story about the epitaph, Julien. I need to go back to the isle and unlock its secrets. The longer I stay here, the longer its going to take me to figure out whats going on, on that island and why Olra cant leave. I need her here with me."

"Then let me come with you."

She held his hands. "As much as I wish I could you could, you're not an Arisen or a pawn."

"Then what is Olra?"

"She's a pawn; Barroch is an Arisen. Something is keeping them there, and I want to find out what."

"The dragon is gone, my love. Is there any possible way I can accompany you to your homeland?"

Alixx thought for a moment. "There maybe one way. We have to make for Cassardis, I have a ship there that will take us to BitterBlack Isle."

Julien and Riven sat in silents as Alixx led the ship. Julien could notice a great deal of distress on her face. She never took her eyes off the sea.

"What is wrong my dear?" he asked.

"Lore of isle is that power monsters reside within the walls. And from my short lived experience, the tales render true."

"That bad?"

Her eyes never left the sea. "I've heard tales of a city, within the depths of the isle. It contains a large collection of houses with narrow alleys and easily accessible roofs, allowing for travel using the rooftops. Bodies of the past inhabitants litter the street corners. Said that the demon lays somewhere within."

"Is it really that bad?"

"It's worse then everything from your nightmares."

The ship hit the shores of BitterBlack, both Riven and Julien fell forward. Alixx laughed as she helped them up. Riven jumped off the ship and she stood in front of Julien, taking his hands.

"You have to swear as my companion," she started. "to always stay by my side. Forever and always."

"I swear it."

"You have to mean it, Julien."

He grabbed her face. "I do."

She led him to the edge of the ship, and he stepped ashore. She quickly let go of his hand and ran across the beach.

"Olra!" She yelled. "Olra, I'm home!"

Alixx ran into the hut. After looking around for a bit, she exited the hut. Julien and Riven could tell she was very distraught.

"Olra's gone," she finally said. "I don't know where she could have gone. We have to find her!"

"Is there anything I can do?" came a soft voice.

The three whirled around. A dark haired man stood on the beach. He was wearing tattered fishermen's nets.

"Valmiro?" Alixx asked confused. "Is that you?"

She ran up to him and the other two followed.

"Hello again, Alixx," he smiled hugging her. "I see the years have been kind to you."

"Valmiro!" she hugged him back, then looked at him concerned. "What are you doing here? How did you get here? WHY are you here?"

"Well I saw your ship docked in Cassardis," he explained, "And then I saw you in Cassardis."

"You stowed away on my ship?"

Julien walked in the middle of the two. "How do you two know each other? And why does he know your name?"

Alixx grinned. "Do I sense a bit of jealousy, Julien?"

His face turned bright red, "No!"

She laughed. "I haven't seen Valmiro since I was seven. Olra had something to do on the mainland and had me go with her. I stayed in Cassardis while she went off to do whatever and thats when I met Valmiro here."

"I was just a lonely boy on the shore."

"So I'll ask again," she stated, "what are you doing here Valmiro?"

"I thought you could use some help with what ever you intend to do."

She laughed. "I don't think so, Val. It's way to dangerous here."

"Yet safe enough for you and your... lover?"

Both Alixx's and Julien's faces turned red. "He's a knight."

"I know how to defend myself."

"Go home Val."

"Unless you're willing to take me there, I'm going with you."

Alixx sighed angrily. "There's some armor and weapons on the ship. Suit yourself up and lets go."

When Valmiro walked to the ship, Riven pulled his master aside.

"Do you think it wise to let him come along with us? You said yourself, anything and everything will try to kill us."

"No, it's not wise. But what choice do I have? I can't take him home, and we could use all the help we can get. This place is way more hostile and the enemies are twice as hard to kill. I don't even know what lays at the heart of this place. But I screwed up years ago, and now Olra is missing. There's no other place she could be then in there. So either you're with me or you're not."

Riven sighed. "I'm with you master."

Valmiro walked back over and Alixx led them all inside. It was dark and damp, and way to quiet. But they progressed further in.

"Something isn't right," she said. "Normally this place is crawling with beasts, just like last time."

"Then where are they?"Julien asked.

Alixx raised an eyebrow. "You think I know?"

She pushed the door open to the labyrinth base. It was empty as well.

"This doesn't make any sense. There use to be dear here. And rabbits, snakes, spiders. There was a waterfall right over there." Her shoulders sunk. "It was so beautiful. What happened to this place?"

There was a loud thud when a dark figure fell out from behind a wall. Valmiro and Julien had froze.

Alixx ran towards the figure. "Barroch!" She dropped by his side and lifted him up. He had aged dramaticly. "Barroch, what happened here?Where is Olra?"

"He took her," he wheezed. "To the Fallen City."

"He? Who's he?"

"The one keeping us here."

"That's why you're not dead yet. I defeated the dragon but whoever is preventing you from moving on."

Barroch reached up and touched the silver necklace. "You are strong enough, young Arisen." He handed her a scroll. "Go. Save her. Save this isle, and let me rest in peace. I am so proud of you Alixx."

He passed out next to her.

"What does the scroll say?" Valmiro asked.

When Alixx rolled it out, names jumped out at her. "I read about this, on the epitaph. Listen."

"Still a child, I stood amid the ashes of my village.
Through the driving rains two figures came.
One, a women of golden hair, extended me her hand, perhaps in pity.
Grette was the name she gave. A hunter of sorts, she said.
Her quarry, the wyrm.
As she spoke, the woman at her side simply stood and watched me, wordless.
She was a pawn, come of a different world—the first I had seen.
Her air was strange, yet somehow alluring.
I chose to join them, this Arisen and her pawn.
It seemed that, or stand forever in the ruins of a lost life.
They offered no words of invitation, yet neither did they turn me away as I followed.
As we traveled, I was taught to fight.
Grette was my mentor, my mother.
She breathed new life into my parched soul.
Then came the day the huntress found her mark. She left to face the wyrm.
That day's parting proved final.
Her pawn returned, alone and scarce alive.
Gone was the bold and faithful Myrmidon who had served as Grette's steel.
Her empty eyes stared through me now.
And what of the wyrm?
Had our mistress felled the beat and stayed calamity?
The pawn held no answers, her mind and soul as broken as her body.
Yet no more of the earth was swallowed up.
No more was the sky stained black.
It seemed the world had been ransomed.
Or left, at least, to fester in the custody of humankind.
I was left with a single hope.
A single wish.
To bring back light to the deadened eyes of a masterless Myrmidon.
She was a pawn I knew it well.
Not human.
Not of this land.
And what of it?
She bore Grette's mien.
Her face.
Will or nil,
I soon found myself in love."

"Grette?" Riven repeated. "Who is Grette?"

"She must have been Olra's master. But she slew the dragon, thus having Olra take her form. Olra is human," Alixx realized.

Riven's eyes darkened in sadness. "So the only why for me to live as a human, is for you to die?"

"I guess so."

Alixx folded the scroll and put it in her pocket and stood up.

"I will unlock the secrets of this isle. And I will respect Barroch's last wishes if its the last thing I do."

The others stood up and Julien took her hand.

"We will figure this out," he assured. "Now lets go."