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After resting up they headed out, after James sent a missive through a courier telling Falk firebeard that the cave was filled with necromancers that looked like they were trying to amass a army of undead deliberately not mentioning Potema.
As they headed up to Windhelm, James taught Potema the cruciatus curse ,after having worked out how to make witchcraft work with magika, on a few bandits who spoke of using the females of the group for fun before moving on to duro the hardening charm used to turn things to stone,the next few days as they headed to Windhelm he taught her firestorm to make a ring of fire around her which she could expand, everte statum used to throw people backwards as if thrown, fumos and fumos duo used to make a smoke screen to hinder visibility for a get away and the gytrash conjuring spell used to summon serpent like dogs to attack the target but are weak to light type magic.
They finally made it to Windhelm around around noon the next day. Johnathon and Potema went to the grey quarter to offer the dark elves a new home, while Desmon went to hunt down a certain killer that his patron wanted dead for killing one of her followers.
James,Serana and Lydia went to the market area to shop for supplies and to pass the time till the others got done with their business. As they enter the white phial they hear Nurelion ranting about not being able to get the legendary white phial because of his age.
James asks if they could help and promising to return with the phial after receiving the mixture and buying potions and ingredients.
They next head to the book shop and James picks up a copy of noxiphilic sanguivoria, one staff many staves, practical necromancy, proper torturing techniques volume 8 and 13, ritual of resonance, which got him a searching look from Serana, ritual of unbinding,tea's and tisanes for aches and pains and eight steps of mummification, while Serana broused and Lydia got some books on weapons and shield techniques to learn.
After leaving the book shop they headed to the docks to see if the argonians wanted a new home. After sending the argonians through to Pridehold with the sling ring they headed to ask the same of the flower girl Sofie.
"Hey mister,would you or your friends like some flowers"? asks Sofie. "Do you happen to have any night shade flowers,if so I'd like to buy one" James says. She nods and he pays for it before giving the flower to Serana. At her questioning look he explained that the flower represents her,beautiful but deadly. She nods before putting the deadly flower in her hair and giving him a fanged grin cuasing him to look away with a blush now that he no longer wore his helmet unless it was needed or when traveling.
"Sofie would you like a new home without the cold and snow"? he asks. "Really and could you be my papa"? she asks excitedly. "Sure but we travel for periods of time so you'll have to stay with my brother at your new home so he can watch over you" James says. "Thats fine papa I'm just happy to have a family again"she responds before James opens a portal to their home to get her settled in.
As Johnathon, James and company were finding new citizens for Pridehold, Desmon was hunting Calixto corrium and had just entered the house of curiosities. After he enters noting only him and his target are inside he secretly locks the door before heading towards Calixto.
(WARNING MAY BE A BIT DARK)
Before he has a chance to say anything Calixto is bound in red and black tendrils, with a tendril going into his neck,disabling his voice box. Using his other hand Desmon opens a portal using the sling ring to Hjerim that he visited before coming and stepping through with his captive,with the portal closing behind them.
As Desmon walks to the ritual room, Calixto eye's widen before he starts to struggle, his panic overtaking his fear. "Now now it's to late for that,as Desmon ties him to the alter, if you didn't want this to happen you shouldn't have killed Evetna fair-heart for she was a worshiper of my patron" Desmon says.
As Calixto tried to speak but all that came out were weizes as Desmon picked up some shears. "Shh shh it's going to be alright,your going to join your sister in the after life soon enough,though not without feeling alot of pain first" he says.
Calixto eye's widen as Desmon brings a dagger down leaving deep cuts across his body, making sure to miss arteries and organs to keep him alive as long as possible before using fire magic to cauterize the wounds.
As Desmon brings the cutting shears up to take Calixto's fingers one by one,Calixto tries to beg but all that comes out are weizes again. Desmon spends the next few hours cutting pieces of Calixto off before cauterizing the wounds to keep him from bleeding out.
"Were almost done but just to let you know I've never done what I'm about to do to a living person or slowly like I'm about to but the good news is you get to see your sister afterwards" Desmon says.
Desmon sends a few tendrils into what's left of Calixto before slowly absorbing his mass getting a silent scream from him. After 30 minutes all that was left was a mummified husk which he burned to ashes.
(DARK PART OVER)
After grabbing the necromancers necklace for James he took Calixtos journals to Wuunferth to let him know he solved the case, after emptying his stomach outside the house,indirectly saving Susanne the wicked, becuase she would have been targeted that night.
As the brothers meet at the inn for the night they sit on the second floor talking. Potema spotting the flower in Serana's hair narrows her eye's cuasing Serana to look over and grin. Potema puts on a indifferent look before looking away cuasing Serana's grin to widen.
As everyone sleeps,Serana knocks on Potema's door. After a few minutes Potema opens the door. "What do you want" asks Potema. "I want to talk" she replies. Potema let's her in and they each take a seat. "What do you want to talk about" Potema asks. "James" Serana responds. "Don't see what there is to talk about he's obviously interested in you" Potema says with a small amount of distain. "Don't be like that I'm willing to share him if you prove you don't just want to use him" Serana says.
Potema looks at her for a moment before asking why she would share him. "Can you not sense the power he wields because I can and it keeps growing the more he wields it, not to mention he does have some desire for you as well that I can sense, that's how I know you desire him as well" she replies.
Potema agrees to share him but says that Serana has to get him to agree as well. She agreed and says if he keeps impressing her she may share her gift with him, which he would no doubt be willing to share with her. As Serana heads back to her room she can't help but muse to herself that maybe her,James and Potema can start their own coven and not screw it up like her father.
The next morning they headed out after Desmon helped a shopkeeper with a stolen ring before him and Johnathon helped him set up shop in Pridehold. They stop at the forsaken cave for James to collect the white phial which he uses repairo to fix before using the geminio charm to make copies of it for themselves. He then used his sling ring to return the original getting 1000 septims before they continued on there way to the college of Winterhold.
As they were walking James sensed a large group of people following them, around a 100 people, so the group waited until whoever they were caught up.
After waiting for forty-five minutes,James stops meditating and stands as the others follow suit as a small army of stormcloaks head towards them. The army stops a mere twenty feet away.
"Why have you been following us" asks Johnathon. " By order of the jarl of Windhelm Ulfric Stormcloak the true high King you and your friends are under arrest for the the kidnapping of Windhelms citizens and laborers" says the one wearing officers armor. "So he only gives a rats ass about the dumner and argonians when their gone because he realizes that the nords actually have to work without them" Desmon says while laughing.
The soldiers bristle and start drawing weapons but before they could do any thing Johnathon slams his copy of kubikiribocho into the ground cracking it cuasing the soldiers to all take a step back. "You have two options here,you can either leave or die your choice" says James. The soldier snorts before responding "We're not leaving without you as prisoners and you can't take on this many soldiers". "Don't say we didn't warn you" says Johnathon before lifting his sword out of the ground and leaning it against his right shoulder, his eye's widening into the rinnegan before lifting his left arm.
A black sphere forms at the end of his two pointer fingers. "Allow me to show you the headway I've made in my newest move" says Johnathon before the black sphere flies toward the army. "planetary devastation" says Johnathon closing his fist when the sphere reached the middle of the group,leaving nothing behind of a third of the troops but blood and a ball made of rock the size of a small house.
As Johnathon takes a breather from over extending his chakra and before the troops get over their shock,James draws both of his swords and make them float above his hands before with some concentration they start to spin faster and faster until they both looked like buzz saws. With a casual flick of his fingers they went flying, cutting and dismembering another third of the group before summoning them back to him.
As the rest of the army break out of their shock and rush forward in a attempt of desperation, Desmon steps forward using shapeshifting to grow to the size of a giant before he started running to gather momentum. As he ran towards the last of the incoming soldiers he mused that maybe he should get a helmet like juggernauts.
As Desmon reached the charging soldiers they tried to bring him down with their weapons but he just kept up running,knocking them all flying, their necks snapping as they are reintroduced to the ground leaving none alive. After making it back to the group he returns to his regular size before collapsing to the ground exhausted.
"These powers still take alot out of us,so we'll have to rest for the night" says James sweating from using that much control on his powers getting nods from the rest of the group.
The next day they continued towards the college. After a couple of days journey they finally enter Winterhold. The group splits up with Johnathon heading to the jarls longhouse, while Desmon went to buy the coral dragon claw from Birna at her shop. James escorted the rest of the group to the local inn for something to eat.
(With Johnathon)
As he walks into the longhouse he see the jarl Korir lounging on his thrown. "So what does one of the dragonborn brothers want in my city" Asks Korir. "I came to see if you wanted help rebuilding the city and mending Bridges with the college" responds Johnathon. "Why would I want to mend relations with the very people who caused the great collapse" the jarl asks irritated. "Are you saying the people in the college have the power to do something like that and a proud nord like yourself self can't or more likely the storms caused by the erupting red mountain destabilized the cliffs" spoke Johnathon cuasing the jarl to scowl.
"Even if you are right,I still can't trust their type,with their better than you attitude,not to mention they leave destruction in their wake." Korir says. "How do you plan on keeping the Thalmor out of skyrim if Ulfric wins,since you will no longer have the rest of the races to fight by your side since you will be no longer part of the empire over the banning of Talos which was a temporary thing anyway" asks Johnathon.
The jarl is quite for a minute before remembering the last of Johnathon's sentence. "What do you mean the banning of Talos was only temporary" he asks. "Well why don't you look at these files that my brother Desmon took after sneaking into the Thalmors embassy" Johnathon says handing him the files.
After reading the files Korir looks up and asks if the Ulfric knows. "No but he will soon I've sent a copy to him and General Tullius, what they do with that information is up to them" he says. "Now tell me what would be a good counter to the Thalmor mages" asks Johnathon. "I see your point but I don't have to like it, so what's first?" asks jarl korir. "First let's decide how to rebuild Winterhold and mend the towns connection to the college,then we could ask my brother to deal with a certain Thalmor problem the college is having" Johnathon responds smirking. The jarl leans forward with a smile and says "do tell".
Later that night the group were sitting at a table in the inn, having something to eat while talking about what they are going to do now that their here.
"I still can't believe you got the Jarl to agree, James tells Johnathon, i was sure he would have to be replaced". "All i had to do was show him the proof and capitalize on his hatred of the elves,mainly the Thalmor" Johnathon replies. " I can't wait to see what both sides of this silly war do with the information we gave them" Desmon says before laughing.
"What information are you talking about" Serana asks James who was sitting between her and Potema. "The fact that the Thalmor pretty much orchestrated the Civil war to weaken the empire so when they start the great war back up they have the advantage and that Ulfric was unknowingly helping the Thalmor with his war" he replies.
"I'm sure it will be a interesting read for the both of them" Desmon says while still chuckling before turning to look at Johnathon. "So you want me to get rid of Ancano, do you have a preference of when"? " Before sarthal would be appreciated and if you can discredit him and by extension the Thalmor so we can have a good reason to deny anymore entry into the city that would be great" replies Johnathon getting a nod from Desmon before they all decided to go to bed but not before Desmon handed Johnathon all the books he would need to become a seal master which was his reward for killing Calixto.