Chapter 2: Surprise
Nirvana mount herself on Shadowmere and road out from Winterhold, 'Wait a second' she thought 'have I even told them my name, in Sithis, I didn't even bother to ask their name', she slapped her forehead with her palm and sighed 'I hope I'll meet them soon'. She then road on hard against the howling of the icy wind, "Come on Shadowmere" she said to Shadowmere "Let's go to Riften"
Riften
Riften, it was known for its sinister reputation of petty thievery but no more, it all changed about a few years ago, thanks to the Dragonborns help the Thieves Guiled has now reclaimed its former glory and it stood a proud a reputation in Riften. Nirvana walked to the cemetery of Riften, she passed a row of headstones on went straight to the coffin in the stone altar, she looked around to see if anyone followed her, after making sure that no one was around she pressed the symbol, it was a diamond, with a circle in it, and had a line in the middle. She smiled when the floor slid underneath the coffin reviling a stone steps, she walked down the steps and open a wooden hatch, as she climbed into the hatch she heard the floor slid back into place.
She walked into the Cistern to see everyone was walking around the place minding their own business, she caught the sight of Brynjolf the former guiled master, at the corner of the eye, and he walked towards her with his hood up.
"Back again guiled master", he said sarcastically, his red hair shined orange in the light of the torches.
"How many times have I told to, to call me by my actual name", said Nirvana with smirk.
"Good to see you Nirvana", he smiled.
She walk next to him, observing the other guild members "So how things here are, did everyone did their job without mucking it", he was rather being silly pulling out a list, and she knew he can memorize many.
"Well Sapphire and Rune almost mucked doing their jobs, Nirune and couple of others wanted to be part with the 'Nightingales' but other than that everything else is fine", he said and put the list back into his pouch.
"Well I'll have a word Sapphire and Rune later, and tell Nirune and the others that it's not my decision whether they can or not join the 'Nightingales' but maybe if I have the time, I'll speak Nocturnal about this further on", said Nirvana as she walked to her chest. She puts most of her unwanted items like dragon scales or bones in the chest, she stood and looked at Brynjolf and her eyes widen in surprise to find him wearing an Amulet of Mara.
He cleared his throat and knelt down and took her hand in his, he looked up to her slightly blushing "Do you Nirvana wish to spend our lives in love till death do us part?" he proposed.
Nirvana looked at him and she notice that the whole guild was looking at them, she pulled down her hood revealing her beautiful face 'What the Oblivion am I supposed to do' she thought to herself 'I like Brynjolf, but not that kind of way', she took a deep breath "I…". Then there was a loud thundering noise above them they heard screaming and shouts, Delvin came jumping through the hatch panting, and sweating.
"The city is under attack by monsters and flaming catapults! They need aid NOW!" he yelled.
It was that instance that Nirvana took action, she broke Brynjolf's hold "Everyone get prepared! We need to arm ourselves with weapon armours", she looked at Vex and Delvin "I need you two to evacuate the towns people through sewers, the rest of you follow me and help fend off these monsters, come on move your ARSES!" she kept issuing her orders to the guild, leaving poor Brynjolf standing still, his proposal not answered.
Riften
The town Riften was in chaos, orcs and Urukhais were everywhere, the houses blazed and burned, he could make out the guards in purple uniforms and some other kind of guards armoured in leather armour, then Aragorn saw Nirvana the Dragonborn clad in black armour, gauntlets, boots, and a helmet that covered her face. She threw one of her daggers at Aragorn, missing him by a centimetre he turned around to see an orc with a dagger through his throat he looked back at her and she nodded. The Fellowship unsheathed their weapons and went to battle.
Gimli was hacking orcs and Urukhai on ground using his iron battle axe, while Legolas shot arrows with his long bows from above, Aragorn battled the army with a sword in his right and a shield in his left, Gandalf cast spells on the enemy using his trusty old staff.
"Legolas!" called out Gimli " I'm on my fifteenth kill", an orc tried to pounce on him but Gimli saw it coming, he spun around and cut the orc in half, he looked back at Legolas "Make it sixteenth kill", and laughed.
Legolas loosened another arrow and peered down "Twenty-second kill" he said and smirked.
"What the?!" exclaimed Gimli and went back to hacking and cutting orcs and Urukhais to relive his stress.
Aragorn helped the guard's battle enemy, they were not so skilled with swords nor with a bows but they had spirit and bravery to protect the good. As Aragorn was getting ready for the next wave a voice called out "Everyone the city has been evacuated fall back and follow me!" said the man, everyone including the Fellowship followed the voice "Come on everyone in here, quickly!" the Fellowship were one of the last ones to flee to a secret passage in a cemetery, with the last soldier in, the man closed the door.
Everyone was panicking but luckily Nirvana had the Thun'um to quite everybody "FUSROHDAH!" her voice thundered through the Cistern then it became quite, minus the confused shrieks from above "Everyone listen! We don't have much time before the invaders find another way into the sewers! So please follow Vex and Delvin they will take you out through the sewers and to in Riftens' harbour", she said out loud.
Then the Jarl of Riften spoke up "But what do we do for transportation, the horses have fled, the boats are burned to ash and we have no way of getting out of here", said the Jarl.
Nirvana looked at the Jarl "Do not worry Jarl Laila I'm going to tell to you what Vex and Delvin said to the citizen, its only temporary", she walked to Vex and Delvin "Get the Jarl and guards to the harbour, I'll follow behind" she said and the two thieves guild members nodded.
"Everyone please follow us" said Vex, she and Delvin led the crowd through the sewers and disappeared out of side.
She saw that only ones left in the Cistern were the elf, man, dwarf, and the wizard she met at the inn, "Hello" she said but realized she didn't have time to chat "I know you probably have tonnes of questions, but we should go now, come on I know the way", and she led them through the sewers and to the harbour.
Everyone was at the harbour whispering in hushed voices, both guards and citizen, Gimli noticed that he still can hear the noise of battle "Excuse me, but who are those maggots still fighting?" he asked.
"Hmm, oh… it's probably my Spectral Assassin fighting distracting them" Nirvana replied.
"Eh?" said Gimli.
"Okay I need everyone to get down and cover your ears, and whatever you hear do not follow", she silently shouted to everyone.
"What, why?" he asked her.
"Just do it" she said and ran to the front gate of Riften.
The front gate of Riften
She saw the wretched creatures destroy her ghost like assassin ally, "Hey!" she called out to them through her ebony helmet they just stared at her, Nirvana imitated a chicken noise while flapping her arms imitating chicken, she stopped and looked at them "Come and get me you CHICKENS!" she yelled at them. Immediately they roared and came charging right at her, she smiled, brought both her hands up one holding a staff the other is glowing purple. She summoned a storm antronach and made a wall of lighting between her and them, 'Well that should hold them for a few seconds' what to expect when an army of thousand vs one storm antronach. She looked at the sky and hope this would work, she breath deep and "ODAHVINNG" she shouted, a second passed and she heard faint roar, she smiled than used the shadow of Nocturnal ability and turned invisible, she ran to the woods and hid there to observe the show.
The Urukhai general came to the front of his soldiers, he looked around "Where the hell did that female mortal go?!" he turned to the puny orcs and Urukhais "Find her and bring her back alive!" but no one moved as if they were frozen in place "What is wrong with you I said MOVE!" he was going to yell again but he heard a deep rumbling voice "YOLTORSHUR" the voice rumbled. The Urukhai general turned and saw a wall of flame heading straight towards him "Son of a…" was the only thing he said before he burned.
'What in Oblivion' he thought to himself, he sigh (in his mind) 'what has Dovahkiin gotten herself into now'. He landed and bit the head of one of those creatures, he rose up into the air and spat the head 'Disgusting, that must be the worst one of the worst things I have ever tasted' as he swopped down the hoard and burned them with fire. He landed on some of them and felt their bodies quashed under his talon, he felt faintly disgusted by the smell of their horrid body odour. He breathed out his frost breath and froze the creatures, swiped his tail at them and smashed them to millions of tiny pieces. The carnage lasted for five minutes, even though they were an easy kill he was all tired out, he never fought that many numbers for centauries ever since the Dragon Age 'I hope Dovahkinn isn't here to see me in this kind of humiliating stage' he then felt something heavy landed on his head, he tried to shake it off but it was no use. "Tried to burn me, eh?" said the creature "Nice try, but I'm much tougher than the rest of those weaklings. How about a deal you follow me back to my master and you live, or you can resist and die, your choice", it lightly placed its' sword on Odahvinng's head waiting to strike.
Odahvinng grunted "A good offer, but I only answer to one person and that person only. So I'll pass those two choices", he said.
The creature cackled "Haha! I really admire you're loyalty to your mistress but that loyalty caused your LIFE!" the creature lifted his sword to strike the red dragon down but stop at the sound of voice, it looked to its left and saw the woman in clad in ebony armour "FUSROHDAH" she shouted and the creature was sent flying to the lake where it drowned.
She looked at Odahvinng and took off her helmet, she had a worried look on her face "You okay?" she asked.
"Well apart where I battled an army of thousand that shot multiple arrows at my wing leaving a few holes, and could have had a sword stuck in my skull, but otherwise I'm fine Dovahkinn", said Odahvinng as he winced every time she pulled out an arrow.
"Sorry I made you get all these wounds for me", she said feeling guilty as she healed him with healing hands.
"Do not worry fret about these minor wounds, I had worse during the Dragon Age when I fought, men", he said as he remembered the bloody days, but was pulled back to the present by a sharp pain "Ow!" he cried and saw Nirvana pulled out a bloody sword from his hind legs. After she healed him he looked at his reflection in the lake.
He was admiring himself "I don't want to brag but I am handsome", he looked at Nirvana who rolled her eyes at that comment to himself "Is there anything else?" he asked.
"Yes, actually but I don't want to over work you…"
"Just tell me what you need", he cut her off.
"Keep a look out for anything out of ordinary", she said.
"As you wish Dovahkiin", then he flew off.
Aragorn watch as the red dragon flew, and attack the hoard of Orcs, and Urukhais with fire, and ice. Legolas thought he'd never seen a dragon again, he always thought that Smaug might have been the last dragon but he was wrong. Gandalf stroke his light grey beard with his right hand, and hummed in amusement.
"Amazing", said Gandalf as the red dragon flew away. Nirvana was looking at the sky for a moment then walked back to the harbour, the Fellowship went after the Dragonborn.
"Thank you Dragonborn, once again you saved Riften from chaos", said Jarl Laila.
The Dragonborn smiled "Think nothing of it", the Dragonborn.
Gimli looked puzzled "Again?" he said.
"Aye again. The lass has saved this town more than I can count", said a red haired man in black leather armour "I'm Brynjolf, the former Thieves Guild master", took out his hand.
Aragorn shook it "I am Aragorn son of Atheron, this Gimli son of Gloin, Legolas, and Gandalf Greyhame".
"It is nice knowing you four, I have to help the Jarl fix the building", he took a turn to the gate.
"He is a good man", said Legolas.
The Dragonborn pushed against the river of people, and walk to Aragorn and with a smile on her face "Hello again, I'm sorry that I didn't introduce myself yesterday", she cleared her throat "My name is Nirvana, and I'm the Dragonborn, and you are?"
Gandalf step forward "This is Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and I am Gandalf" he said.
"And we have a few questions that needs answering", said Aragorn.
"Funny you should say, I too have some questions that needs answering as well. So can you answer one question than I'll answer yours", Nirvana said.
"Very well than, so what will be your first question?"
As everyone went back into city, the Dragonborns smile faded, and was replaced with an angry look "So tell me how long has it been since Sauron regained his physical form?" the Fellowships face fell at that question, "Come, let us go somewhere private", she said, and entered the city.
Nirvana listened as Gandalf explain that the Fellowship of the Ring had failed. The Nazguls had capture the ring bearer Frodo and his companion Sam, most of the elves have made it to the Undying Lands, and the rest of the Free people of Middle Earth took refuge in Erebor hoping the enemies the won't find them there. Nirvana rubbed her temples with two fingers, she was getting one heck of a headache from all this. They were in Honeyside (Dragonborns house) answering each other's questions, while her Housecart who she did not remember her name served them meals, and Black Briar meads.
"So you're saying that now Sauron is free, has Saruman the White assisting him, and the Balrog on his side", she shuddered at the name, for she has heard gruesome legends of this flames, and shadows.
"Yes, and we believe that his coming here not only for Isildurs' heir but to rule the world in total darkness", said Gandalf as took a bite of his bread.
Gimli sipped his ale, and let out a loud burp "Before, we had a chance to take the path through the Mines of Moria, but the Hobbit choose the mountain path where an ambush laid waiting", he grumbled, and ate an apple.
Legolas looked at him "So you're putting blame on an innocent Hobbit who could have been tortured to death", he said.
"Stay out of this pointed eared princeling", mumbled, then Legolas swung a punch at him. Gimli sprawled to get up "You want a fight, eh? Well a fight it is that you'll be receiving".
The dwarf, and elf were wrestling each other on the floor knocking some furniture along the process, Aragorn grabbed both of them by, and hauled them both up. "That's enough, both of you! Frodo didn't know that there was going to be an ambush, none of us did. Right know we need to focus on Sauron, and figure out where he might strike next", he let go of them both.
Gimli sat at his seat "What's the point, with The Ring of Power on his bloody finger there's no way of stopping him, it's pointless", he said.
Nirvana slammed both palms on the table, causing drinks to spill, and food to fall "Never say that! Nothings pointless, there's always a reason to fight!" she hissed, yes she actually hissed. There was a brief silence that cut through the room like a dagger through the heart, then Aragorn stood.
"I fight to protect the world that I was born in, and to also protect my love", said Aragorn.
Legolas rose next "I fight to avenge my mother, I swore to her grave that I will kill every last orc even if it cause my life".
Gandalf rose "I fight because the world could still be saved from everlasting darkness".
Gimli puffed as the three looked at him, he then sighed "Alright, alright", he muttered as he rose "I fight for my kin back in Erebor, for my father, his father before him, and his father before him. I fight to protect my friends", he faced Legolas but his eyes looked to his left "I-I'm sorry", he said quietly.
"What did you say, I didn't quite catch that", Legolas said.
"You heard me just fine, I won't repeat myself", said Gimli in annoyance.
Nirvana stood "I was too late to save my kin, and family, but life has given me a chance to do good", she said in pride "And think I figured out a few possible locations of where Sauron's ship might dock", she took a map out, and drew circles at the locations.
"Well what are we waiting for lets haunt down a dark lord", Gimli said in excitement.
"I thought you'd never ask", Legolas said with a smirk.
The five of them journeyed out the door for their new quest.
Sorry, Gimli is kind of foolish in this fanfiction. Just wanted to tell you that the last few remaining chapters will be up to you guys, that's right you will get to vote between two possible endings on who will win. And I don't want to give you'll a spoiler so you have to read this till the end to find out on what ending you guys want. o and this reunion is quite crappy sooo…. Sumide Mase Senpai! (Sorry senior) and if you're wondering how the Uruks and orcs got there, well let's just say that a ship followed the Fellowship but magically crashed at the Riftens harbour. What! It's a story, anything can happen. :P