A.N: Wow! Didn't expect to see so many reviews after only a day of this story being up. Thanks so much guys! I love you all (Joke, I really despise all of you. (Joke, you are all cool (Maybe ...)))! Anyway, in the last chapter Kelt escaped Helgen using a scroll of Summon Flame Atronach, showing that he is like, the worst mage ever because he's a faker and a cheater. The atronach helped him, we learned of Ralof's secret love of magic, Hadvar was killed and the atronach set his soul free. There we are. Now on with the story.

P.S. Make sure to read "The Fire in my Hands" and "The Dragon War". They are epic!

True Colours

Kelt and Ralof crouch down by a rock, hiding from the tremendous black dragon that is flying over a Nordic ruin. He breathes a sigh of relief as it soars away from them. Ralof stands up and Kelt does likewise.
"We made it!" He shouts triumphantly. Kelt stays silent. "Come on, let me show you to my hometown of Riverwood, we'll be safe there. The only problem is that it's by that creepy ruin, Bleak Falls Barrow. What am I saying? We just got attacked by about 100 Imperial soldiers and wizards, lots of spiders and a dragon! We can handle staying by some freaky old ruins. Let's go." Ralof set off at a run, with Kelt trailing behind him. They don't run into any opposition, soon they come by three large pillars.
"These are three of Skyrim's standing stones correct?" Kelt asks, Ralof nods.
"The Thief, Mage and Warrior Stones. When I was a young teenager me, my sister and my friends came all the way here to impress a girl, she came with us too. She now runs the Inn in Riverwood. That was a great day, just me, Delphine - the girl - Gerdur - my sister - Hod and Hadvar. Hadvar and Delphine chose Warrior, Gerdur and I chose Mage and Hod chose Thief, for whatever reason - probably to be different, or to sneak away and meet my sister! Either way, those stones benefitted all of us. Why don't you choose one?" He explains. Kelt walks towards the Warrior stone but then changes his path and heads to the Thief stone. Ralof frowns at this while Kelt smiles. This is turning out well, thanks to this dummy I am now a better thief. It'll serve him right when he wakes up with no gold, weapons or precious spell books. He thinks to himself.
"Come on, I'm curious to see Riverwood." He says, they set off again. And don't stop or speak to each other until they arrive at Riverwood.

"Thank you Kelt. You saved my brother, for that I personally give you my Ring of Smithing, 200 septims and my Staff of Flames. Take anything you want from the house, within reason of course." Gerdur says, Kelt smirks and thanks her, walking towards her house. "Wait!" Gerdur calls. "I wish to ask a favour of you, please tell the Jarl of Whiterun about Helgen, if a dragon attacks Riverwood we will be defenceless. If you do this for me, I will be in your debt." Kelt nods and continues walking towards her house. He may do it or he may not. Whichever way included the least effort and most profit, he would chose. He unlocks the door with the key and looks at all of the items, there are several coin purses, many potions, and a few weapons. He takes the gold and potions, when he is helping himself to the weapons he hears a person walk in.
"Who's there? Gerdur, is it you? The door is open." A voice says, probably Hod. Kelt draws his sword and jumps on the unsuspecting man's back. Driving the blade through his heart. Hod falls over dead, Kelt grabs the last weapon and runs out, locking the door and jamming a stone in the keyhole. No-one will get in for a while now. He runs to the general store and goes in.

As soon as he enters he hears the shopkeeper and a woman arguing.
"You can't go! No! I'll hire someone to do it."
"When Lucan? I feel like I need to do something."
"You can't go to Bleak Falls Barrow! It's too dangerous, there will be spiders and skeletons and all sorts of horrible creatures! Not to mention those thieves. No!"
"He-hum." Kelt coughs. "May I please get some service?" The two stop arguing and the woman walks off.
"I'd like to sell all of this." He says, handing the shopkeeper everything from Gerdur's house. The man looks shocked at the vast amount of items.
"That'll sell for about... 1000 gold." The man works out. Kelt nods and takes the gold. As he walks out the two start to argue again. Soon they wouldn't need to argue, soon he would solve that problem.

The ruins stand before him, dark and foreboding, he sees some bandits walking around and whistles a short three note tune. He is answered with a series of staccato notes, slowly ascending in pitch. He runs up the stairs and sees a small Wood Elf standing at the top, she has two Ebony Daggers strapped to her Elven Armour. On her head she wears an Iron Helmet and on her feet Orcish Boots, with hide bracers on her arms. He embraces her.
"Daedri! Good to see you!" He says.
"And you. How did you get out of that Imperial... situation?" She asks.
"I swallowed a Flame Atronach scroll, made an agreement with the leader of Skyrim's rebellion and then a dragon attacked the town where I was to be executed allowing me to escape!" He laughs. Daedri chuckles too. "What about you?"
"Invisibility potion. Duh! Ha!" They both continue to laugh endlessly. Eventually, they both control themselves enough to speak again.
"How did Alima and Luka get away?" Kelt asks.
"Alima was wearing that heavy Imperial Armour so he snuck away on his horse, Luka - and you won't believe this - climbed under your carriage. She probably dropped off it after a little bit and if I'm right she'll probably be halfway to Riften by now!" Daedri smirks. Kelt frowns.
"Riften? Why?" He asks.
"The Thieves Guild." Daedri states. "She's gathering information on the... artefacts." Kelt's face shows realisation.
"You mean she has a lead?" He says, astounded. Daedri nodded.
"Last I heard she was saying something about Falkreath... She was hoping that a member could help her."
"Anyway, this is your latest scheme? Robbing a shop?" Kelt asks, clearly displeased at the simplicity of it. Daedri smiles.
"Get this, the thing we robbed is the key to the depths of these ruins. There is a valuable treasure here, don't know exactly what but it's valuable." Kelt grins. "But there was a small... mishap." His grin fades. Daedri explains "One of these guys, Arvel, stole it and ran off. We were about to follow him when you arrived." Kelt nods.
"What are we waiting for? Let's get him!" He shouts. The bandits, Daedri, Kelt and two Atronachs charge into the ruins.

The Atronach goes through the doors, she is glad of her new companion, a being of storm. They stride through the opening chamber. She sees that there are many scrolls of summon Storm Atronach, her fellow daedra must be scroll summoned like her. She follows her master and his new companion down some stairs and into another chamber. She follows her master, fighting off anything hostile that comes her way, until she fades away. But she is re-summoned. They come to a large chamber, covered in cobwebs, a spider the size of a small building descends on them. The Storm Atronach attacks it quickly, the Flame Atronach supporting it with a quick onslaught of flames and it soon lies dead. She sees her master cutting down a Dunmer from a large cobweb, then killing him. She notices a solid gold dragon claw in the Dunmer's bag which her master removes and places in his bag. She continues through the dungeon and kills many draugr. Her master and his companion each pick up an Ancient Nord Bow along with some arrows. Eventually she fades back to Oblivion, for a while at least.

Daedri runs forward to a large wall. It has several rotating panels on it. She turns them in a specific way and asks Kelt for the claw. She inserts it into the three slots in the wall and the wall lowers. They walk down the passageway behind it and come to a cave. They walk down a path a come face to face with a draugr. Daedri and Kelt attack it and it dies. They move the rest of the way through the dungeon until they find a large chamber, there is a chest and a large wall with strange engravings on it. They loot the chest and walk to the wall, suddenly, one set of engravings light up blue and a surge of energy rushes from it to Kelt, he absorbs it and the coffin bursts open, revealing a powerful draugr. It says something in a strange language. They are blown back. Kelt drops his scroll bag. He is without his magical resource. His sword lies somewhere across the room, he runs away from the hideous skeleton, desperately trying to find a weapon. He finds nothing, with nothing else left to try, he tries his hardest and a small flame appears in his palm, he feels the heat welling up and he launches it at the skeleton. It is burned and he is about to kill it when the flame stops. He trips over trying to escape and the monster raises its sword. Suddenly, Daedri, the hero of the hour, shoves her dark Ebony Dagger through the ribcage of the monstrosity, killing it. She helps Kelt up. He searches the corpse and finds nothing but a two measly septims and a stone with marks on it. The sword is not worth taking so he gets up.
"What happened?" Daedri asks "That draugr blasted us across the room! What was it that it said? Oh, by the way, I found your stuff." Kelt accepts his scroll bag and sword gratefully.
"I don't know. I think he said something like BUS RO-TA. Why we were flown across the room I have no idea. Do you have any idea what that energy was?" He replies. Daedri shakes her head.
"No, but I don't like it here, let's get out." She says. Kelt has no problems with this. They are back in fresh air before Kelt realises that all of his Atronach scrolls are spilled across the chamber floor.

A.N: Yay! Chapter 2 finished! Same deadline as before. Around 6 reviews needed before I post chapter 3. Thanks for reviewing so quickly.
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OnesiePenguin: It is now. Alima was mentioned here. All I shall say is that he is Kelt's friend. Anything else would be divulging major hush hush plot secrets. Thanks.

If I can afford to be picky can you please say in your reviews, what you liked and disliked? And any errors. Like OnesiePenguin did. Did anyone like Ralof's magical secret? Was my alternate escape good? These are the sort of things I want to know. So if you can do that for this chapter (and for the last) in your review here I would be very, very, very grateful.

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