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"Alright lets catch our breath here for a moment"says Johnathon. "Good idea but afterwards we should head to Riverwood,my uncle is a blacksmith there and should be able to help us" Hadvar says."How long will it take us to get there" asks Desmon."About five hours,so around night fall" replies Hadvar.
"Well we've rested enough,lead the way hadvar" said James. They headed down the hill and along the path towards Riverwood. After three hours of walking they came upon the standing stones. Hadvar explained that their supposed to make learning certain types of skills faster.
Desmon went up and touched the theif stone, James the mage stone and Johnathon the warrior stone. They all felt something shift in the back of their minds as the stones lit up. "Huh they don't usually react to most people" comments Hadvar. As they walk the rest of the way they were attacked by a pack of wolves that they make short work of and that Desmon consumes leaving the the dirt path clear.
When they reach the gates of Riverwood by nightfall Hadvar leads them to a forge where a man is just finishing his work for the day." Uncle alvor" Hadvar says as he walks up to the man. His uncle gives him a hug then looks him over saying that he looks like he just came out of a battle." who's your friends nephew " asks Alvor. "This is James,Johnathon and Desmon, they helped me escape helgan when it was destroyed by a dragon" replies Hadvar. His uncle looks at him for a moment before welcoming the brothers, saying any friends of Hadvar's is a friend of mine.
As hadvar talks to his family about what happened, the brothers sit down and try to plan on how do go from here. "Well were in Riverwood, so we can go straight to Whiterun or first stop at bleak falls barrow" says Johnathon."We can decide that tomorrow, first we need supplies and some better armor" replied Desmon. "We also need to learn to control our powers because i lost control for a moment when that bitch of a captain was trying to leave us for dead" continues James. "Yeah i know what you mean,all i felt after getting hit with the arrow was the urge to consume and heal" replies Desmon. They turn to look at Johnathon after hearing glass break to see him with mead all over him and pieces of glass on the ground. " yeah and I'm not used to the amount of strength i have now" Johnathon responds while grimacing. "looks like we should add training to get used to our abilities to the list of things to do" comments James.
Before they could add anything thing else to their list,Alvor walks over and asks them if they can head to Whiterun within a few days and warn the Jarl of the dragon." We don't have enough guards to protect us from something like that" says Alvor. The brothers agreed and Alvor's wife Singrid speaks up saying she'll have some supplies ready for them when they leave. Desmon asks singrid directions for a trader while Johnathon and James ask Alvor to help around the forge to learn blacksmithing and for a custom set of armor respectively, which he says yes to but that the armor would take some time."thats fine" replies James before going to find a place to meditate and practice his control of the force while Johnathon went with Advor to learn to work a forge.
While they were doing that Desmon had just entered the Riverwood Trader. Upon entering Desmon hears Lucan and Camilla Valerius arguing about the golden claw."No and thats final Camilla, I don't want to talk about this anymore" shouts Lucan. Lucan turns and spots Desmon and asks what he could do for him.
Desmon opens and pulls out of his sack all the spare weapons and armor they looted from helgan and stacked them on the counter. "How much can I get for these?" Desmon asks. "Well with the amount you have here and the quality, after looking it all over, about 5,000 septims" replies Lucan. "4,500 septims and all the spell tome's you have" bargains Desmon."Sure not like anyone wants the damn things anymore anyway" agrees Lucan.
When Desmon got back to Alvors home he noticed some of the spell books weren't from the skyrim game,but from oblivion,morrowind and some mods. There was conjure zombie,conjure skeleton mage,conjure dragur and reanimate corpse from the conjuration branch and frostbite,choking grasp,poison and black hand from destruction. He smirked as he put the spell books and 4,500 septims back in his sack.
While Desmon was imagining all the stuff they could do in this world and Johnathon was learning to blacksmith, James was out by the river meditating,trying to sense through the force and connect to things around him. While meditating he noticed a presence watching Desmon but when he tried to look closer all he saw was a woman with white hair and blood red eyes looking back shocking him out of his trance.
When they got up in the morning James told his brothers what he saw but none of them could figure out who it could be so they decided to take a wait an see approach because whoever it was haven't done anything to them and might reveal themselves in the future. Around noon Alvor told James his armor was finished and handed it to him to go change into.
When James came back he was wearing a steel plate curriass with a belt holding two banner like cloth pieces ending in a triangle with a skull on the one covering the crotch of the armor and a yin/yang symbol on the one on the back. His steal plate gauntlets only go down to the wrist leaving his hands bare and each have three blades curved back for blocking and breaking blades. His steel plate helmet lacks the usual wing decoration and instead looks like the one the witch king in lord of the rings wore, he has a pair of steel plate boots. The entire armor is insulated to stop chaffing and from being electrocuted from being hit by lightning and over it is a black open ended robe with the hood up so you could only see his eyes and hidden by the robe were two steel swords,one on each side of his waist.
"So going for the sith warrior look" asks Johnathon. "Yeah better protection and before I forget ,pulling the sparks spell book out of is sack,the books don't disappear after learning the spell,so we only need to buy one for a spell for all of us to learn it" says James."Thats good cuase a got quite a few spell books and 4,500 septims from selling the spare weapons and armor we looted and not all of the spell are from the skyrim game" replies Desmon. "We'll have to collect as many of the spell books as we can and study them when we have time or a place of our own" says Johnathon.
Johnathon was wearing a entire set of studded hide armor without a helmet,while Desmon was wearing his biomass as armor in the fashion of rough leather armor with the hood up to obscure his face, a trick he just got down after practicing for a few hours. All three had there equipment and weapons and the supplies Singrid gave them,so now they were headed to bleak falls barrow as they decided to grab the dragonstone before heading to Whiterun.
After killing the bandits outside the barrow they entered and before the next two bandits talking near the entrance could react they were beheaded by Johnathon's axe. Holstering his battle axe he asks his brothers what they want to do with the golden claw. James didn't care but Desmon wanted to keep it as a trophy.
They continued down the corridor until they reached a small room,where they saw a bandit get killed by a trap after pulling a lever. After the now normal procedure of looting everything of value they turned the pillars to snake,snake and whale then pulled the lever opening the way forward.
After going down some winding stairs and killing a few skeevers that Desmon collected the tails of they came upon a wounded gaint frostbite spider but before it could do more than screech James had his hand out lifting it off it's legs. With some effort and feeling himself sweat a bit he made a fist crushing the spider.
"Can one of you cut me down" Arvel the swift asks them fearfully glancing at James from where he's stuck in the web. "Help me down and I'll show you where the treasure is,you won't believe the power the nords have hidden here" says Arvel.
After cutting him down he runs down the corridor calling them fools for believing he'd share the treasure. After walking down the corridor they come across a few dead dragur and the dead body of Arvel. Once they get done looting the body of the golden claw and his journal and anything else of value they come upon the claw door after avoiding a few more traps.
After opening the door using the claw and repockiting it they enter the crypt and see the word wall next to the coffin. dropping their heavy sacks by the door, they walk towards the wall,all three hear chanting as the word fus glows as the knowledge enters their mind. They look at each other bewildered that all three of them are dragonborn but before they can say anything they hear the coffin lid break open and a dragur death overlord getting out of it.
Before any of the brothers could react the overlord shouts fus ra dah sending each of them off their feet to the other side of the room. Once they get up they hear something that shouldn't be possible. Yul toor shul shouts the overlord sending a wave of flames in the direction of the brothers.
In his panic James used to much power in stopping the flames, falling to his knees in exhaustion. Before he could recover the dragur ran forward and hit him in the side of the head with the flat part of his battle axe causing him to skid to the wall unconscious,his helmet saving his life.
Desmon in his anger charges the dragur with one of James swords that fell to the ground when he was knocked aside. Blocking Desmon's sloppy swings for a few minutes the dragur disarms him quite literally before headbutting him and with a low swing of his axe taking his legs from the knee down off and blasting him away with a bolt of lightning knocking him unconscious snapping Johnathon out of his shock.
After seeing what happened to his brothers he started to get angry for the first time since coming to this world. As the dragur came closer his pupils expanded till his eyes had three rings and a small dot in the middle for a pupil with his eyes taking on a metallic purple color. With a roar a force of gravity erupted in every direction around Johnathon throwing the dragur overlord into a wall cracking it.
In his anger his body was engulfed in a fiery aura,as he ran forward in his blind rage the dragur used unrelenting force again but it only pushed him back a few feet before he was upon the dragur beheading it with his battle axe. A few seconds afterwards the aura disappeared but he still felt slightly stronger,putting it at the back of his mind he went and helped his brothers.
He took off James helmet before helping him drink a health potion by massaging his throat, then went out and grabbed Arvels body and dropped it next to Desmon. As soon as the body landed near Desmon, his eyes shot open and black and red tendrils shot from his body absorbing it regenerating his arm and legs before sitting up. A little ways away James stirred before waking up."What the hell was that, he was not that strong in the game" said Desmon. "Yeah but were not in a game are we" responds Johnathon.
As his brothers turn their heads to give him a dry look they notice his eyes. "Well looks like you awakened your second ability" says James. Johnathon's eyes widen before grabbing his axe and using it's reflecting surface to look at his new eyes. "Sweet can't wait to master these" comments Johnathon excitidly. "But i thought you were going to wait to awaken your Chakra until we had a place of our own to stay" asks Desmon." I didn't but I do feel something flowing through my body and I do feel stronger" answered Johnathon. "Awakening the rinnegan most likely unlocked your Chakra pathways" said James.
Johnathon just nods still looking at his eyes."If this guy was so tough we have a long way to go before we can take on the likes of Alduin,Harkon and Miraak,we need to get stronger faster" says James. "I can agree to that,i didn't like the feeling of being dismembered" says Desmon wincing just thinking about it. "Well let's get to Whiterun and see about getting some training and some lessons with a blade" comments Johnathon.
As they leave bleak falls barrow after grabbing their sacks they head to Whiterun only stopping to rest and eat,they arrived on the third day. Whiterun was nearly five times bigger than in the game and the walls protecting the city were around 20ft tall.
While walking past honeybrew meadery they heard screaming and saw a gaint causing havoc down the road with a few companions trying to bring it down. "Well Desmon says to Johnathon,this is your chance to impress Aela. Johnathon without looking his brothers in the eyes begins to sprint to the gaint. Taking his battle axe off his back he jumped the last ten feet, swinging the axe above his head before slicing clean through its neck, Landing just as the headless body fell.
As the companions were getting their bearings he walked over and wiped the blood off his axe on the giants loin cloth before holstering it. By then his brothers had caught up and Aela was the first to break out of her shock. "well aren't you interesting" Aela still a bit shocked at what she saw said,"you would make a fine shield brother" looking at him with interest. As she looked at the three she asked them why they were comming to Whiterun for. Desmon replies that they bring news of helgan and that Riverwood requests aid before finishing cutting off the giants toes. "well for your help I'll take you to the jarl myself" she replies looking the three over, her eyes lingering on Johnathon a moment longer than the other two. "We would appreciate that we've never been to Whiterun before" says James.
Aela looks over to the other two companions Farkas and Ria and told them to head back to Jorrvaskr without her,that she'd show them to the jarl. As they entered Whiterun none of the guards asks them what business they had in the city."Must be because we're being escorted by a member of the companions" thought James.
After entering Dragonsreach and ascending the stairs to the jarl's throne they are stopped by the jarl's housecarl Irileth who asks them what business they have with the jarl with a hand on her weapon. "They have news of helgan and a request from Riverwood " responds Aela. "Well that explains why a companion brought you here,follow me and show respect" says Irileth.
As they approach, jarl Balgruuf looked the three over noting Desmon's indifferent attitude,James armor and Johnathon's size. "So you were at helgan and saw this dragon with your own eyes" asks Balgruuf." Yes sir it completely destroyed helgan and we escaped by the skin of are teeth" replies James. The jarl turned to look at his adviser, what do you say now Proventus shall we continue to trust in the strength of our walls against a dragon. Irileth steps forward and says " my lord we should send troops to Riverwood at once, it's in the most immediate danger if the dragon is lurking in the mountains"."The jarl of Falkreath will view it as a provocation,Proventus cut in, he'll assume we're preparing to join Ulfric's side and attack him"."Enough,Balgruuf said firmly,i will not stand idly by while a dragon burns my hold and slaughters my people,he turns to Irileth,send a detachment to Riverwood at once". Yes my jarl she says with a bow. Proventus failing to hide his disapproval said " if you'll excuse me I'll return to my duties"."That would be for the best" the jarl agrees.
"Well done" jarl Balgruuf addresses them again,you sought me out on your own initiative,you've done Whiterun a great service. If you ever need anything within reason let me know and I'll see it done,the jarl pauses before remembering something,I never got your names travelers. I am Johnathon StormCaller and these are my brothers James and Desmon. Noticing the look on the jarls face Johnathon says "yes we get that alot"."We thank you for the boon and if there's anything else you need please let us know" says James.
"Well,he began,there is another thing you could do for me,suitable for guys of your particular talents perhaps",the jarl stood up and looked to Aela who was standing off to the side. Thank you for bringing them here but we have business with my court wizard if you'll excuse us."Yes my jarl i need to get back to Jorrvaskr" her eyes lingering on Johnathon a moment before leaving. Johnathon was glad for his beard for hiding his blush from her staring as his brothers chuckled."come,the jarl says,my court wizard has been looking into dragons and rumors of dragons".
The brothers followed him to the side room with a alchemy and enchanting table with books and scrolls strewn about."I think I found a few people to help with your dragon project" the jarl says. Farengar secret fire the court wizard turns and looks at the three brothers."So the jarl thinks you could be of use to me,he nodded to himself,I could use someone to fetch something for me from bleak falls barrow,its a tablet depicting the location of dragon burial sites called the dragonstone".
James dug around in one of his sacks before pulling out a stone tablet and setting it on the desk."Is this it" James asks."Yes how did you find this" asks Farengar."We found it when hunting a thief holed up in the barrow" responds James."You three are more reliable than I first thought" says Farengar."Well is there anything I can do for saving my court wizard so much time" Balgruuf asks."Yes my jarl,do you have some people willing to train us" asks Johnathon. "Of course I'll see what I can do" replies the jarl.