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After leaving Morthal with the deed that used to be alva's house and a stretch of land outside of the town, Desmon sent a courier with a letter to Johnathon about needing to build another base on the land, before him and Potema split to carry on their tasks.
Johnathon left a wood clone to govern his growing city before he and Aela headed to fallkreath. After talking with the jarl johnathon led Aela to a couple and a preist who were about to lower a casket into the ground. Johnathon asked how long ago did their daughter die and they replied sadly four days ago. He then went up to Runil the priest and asked him to go get a random bandit from the prison after telling the jarl that this is his alternative payment for clearing out the bandits.
The confused priest came back with two guards escorting a struggling prisoner in chains. The couple were confused and asked what this was all about and Johnathon told them about his ability of the outer path but as its already been more than three day's he had to use a person that was to be executed to get around that restriction as after three days of passing the dead soul has already passed on, he had to trade one soul for another or sacrifice his own to bring someone back after the time limit and he had to reassure them and the priest that it was not necromancy before they calmed down.
Johnathon unfurled a scroll covered in seals and motioned for the guards to put the prisoner there before he took a sample of their daughters hair and went through the hand signs, tiger, serpent, dog, dragon and then slamming his palms together as if praying. The prisoner let out a silent scream as the couples dead daughters body turned to ash, then covered the prisoner from head to toe before reforming into the reanimated girl with the former nowhere to be seen.
Johnathon's eye's became the rinnegan and he clasped his hands and said rinne rebirth(now i know the data books say you die when you use this but considering he has kratos body which has divinity I'm going to say it just weakens him for awhile afterwards so it has a week long cool down if used like nagato but a day or two if a single person,plus after three days he has to use a sacrifice for each person or he would still die)and the king of hell rose from the ground and a green light shot into the reanimated Lavinia, causing the cracks to fade and dark sclera to turn white as she took a breath before falling into the arms of Runil and being surrounded by her hopeful parents.
As Runil pronounced her alive but unconscious, Johnathon looked like he ran a marathon as a normal out of shape human and had to sit down due to exhaustion. After resting for a few day's Johnathon and aela headed into fallkreath prison to talk to Sinding. When they came upon him, Johnathon asked him why in the world he thought it was a good idea to steal from the deadric prince hircine, getting shocked looks from him and aela before she scowled.
"I was desperate" he said, aela not happy with that excuse replied " No you were stupid". " Not to mention lucky that he just cursed the ring on your finger" commented Johnathon, making Aela look to what he was talking about, only to recognize it and get angrier. Johnathon whispered something into her ear and after a minute she nodded before walking off. Johnathon turned back to sinding and told him even though she is hesitant, that you would have a chance in Whiterun with the companions but would have to give up the ring.
Sinding dropped the ring in a bag johnathon held open before transforming and climbing out of the jail through the skylight to head to jorrvaskr to see if he could join. Johnathon tied the bag back to his waist as Aela came back. " Now were to" she asked. " Time for us to hunt a stag" Johnathon replied before they both left fallkreath.
As James and ingun went to meet her mother, Serana went towards the jarl's longhouse as she sensed a vampire and wanted to see what they were up to. As she entered, the vampire having spotted her paled further when he saw her and her eye's flash,before jumping up and grabbing the jarls steward Anuriel. He digged his claws into her throat making the steward drip small amounts of blood and wimper in pain as the guards drew their weapons and a couple came to stand in front of the jarl protectively.
The panicking vampire hid behind his captive as Serana calmly walked forwards, not seemingly caring about the captive, making the guards tense up and the vampire to panic further. "Lady Serana how are you awake and here, your father has just sent his people to retrieve you" the vampire spoke uncertain and fearfully. Serana hummed before commenting that she hoped that the people sent liked surprises before asking what one of her fathers lackeys was doing here.
"i was sent here to keep a eye on the town and report back to your father but it seems like you've been awake for some time and yet have not returned home, so please don't mind me hiding behind a hostage as the reason my mind comes up for the reasons you haven't makes me nervous". he spoke while moving backwards with anuriel to try and keep distance from what his instincts were screaming was a threat.
"When i first awoke i was meet with a man that held such dark power and had a hidden darkness in his heart that i grew curious about, before without realizing it i also grew to love him, because no matter how cruel he could be he never turned it on me, even in my true form he cared" Serana spoke making the vampire eye's widen before he started laughing.
"The standoffish princess finally lets someone in when everyone from lord Harkons court tried and failed" laughed the vampire who slightly tightened his grip when her eye's focused on him, getting a wimper from Anuriel.
" Unlike them he has ambition and wouldn't be happy feeding on the scraps from father, making the vampire eye's narrow, and just as father was willing to sacrifice me for power, i am also willing to sacrifice him to achieve my beloved goals, she chuckled, after all like father like daughter".She spoke before wispering something as the Vampire's eye's clouded before releasing his hostage, which a guard helped in getting to safety.
As thanks to James her power has grown considerably making it impossible for a weak vampire like him to resist her curse. As she walked passed she told him to kill himself, which he did by slitting his own throat, only being released from the curse a second before he died in a pool of his own blood on the floor.
As Serana moved towards the Jarl the guards gripped their weapons tighter, not that she cared as she bowed her head and asked if their was anything else she could help riften with.
As Serana was being told about riftens skooma problem, James now wearing embroidered mage robes followed Ingun into her family's home. Maven who was forwarned of their aproach by her guards, sat back in her chair, sipping ale. The door to dinning room opened, her guards escorting her duaghter and guest into the room.
Spotting who he was, maven became more alert, knowing james backed and was the power behind the throne's of the neutral province's. She quirked her lips before her face went back to being inpassive, revaluating her duaghter, if she could form connections with someone like him, she may be worth investing in still, unlike her stupid son's.
"Please have a seat" Maven said while waving them over. James nodded before taking a seat, along with ingun. Maven had the cooks bring out more food and black briar mead, while she and James engaged in small talk, while ingun listened and chipped in occasionally.
"So what bring's the person, who people in power are calling the shadow to my home" Maven asked cuasing ingun to perk up at the name. "An alliance through a betrothed contract" James answered. Maven looked at her duaghters impassive face before asking what he could offer. "Places in all neutral provinces to open breweries, eventual jarldom,a list of recipes of other types of alcohol, and if you desire i can make you younger by a decade if you don't mind sacrificing someone, a prisoner perhaps, as well as my services at a discount price, and not to forget the bride price, a chest of personally inchanted item's of consideral value" James spoke cuasing maven's and igun's eye's to widen the more he spoke.
"well i'm interested, let's talk over the finishing touches of the contract, over some black brair reserve" Maven said before calling a servent over again, while thinking, that yes, her duaghter is still worth investing in.
After getting ingun settled into their home in winterhold with the help of a portal, James sat on the ground in the forests surrounding riften as the sun began to rise. The darkside swirled around him as he meditated on his anger, his face stretched into a snarl as his teeth and face shifted before going back to normal, only to repeat itself.
Serana watching from a tree branch she was perched on and asked why if he was hesitant to do so before, why he desided to embrace it during their trip for the eye.
" As i talked with the elf from the phyjik monks, i had multiple visions spanning seconds" James said after he opening his eye's, in each one i died before i could complete my goal, only through embracing the darkside could i access powers needed to suceed"." But in your journals you contradict yourself, you say the darkside is more powerful but that both the light and the dark would let you reach your full potential with time" serana said.
"Time i don't have, people would say that the dark side is quick and easy but would only be half right, the light side would be like slowly training yourself to fill yourself with the force, slowly strengthening yourself and being able to call on more of it with time, to a point. The dark side is bending the living force to flow through you fully and without restraint, breaking your limits but at the cost of your physical and metal stability degrading, basically burning yourself from the inside out, precision vs brute force kinda" james responded.
Serana thought about it before saying his regeneration would keep his body from degrading, but what about mentaly, and why he says it's stronger than the light.
" mind arts keep away the worst of it, but i still enjoy violence more than i used to, and why i say it's stronger is preferance" he replied.
When she raised her eyebrow he explained that he places value on power that allows him to seize more power or to win a battle, afterall who do you send to the frontlines in war, a master of restoration or destruction.
Just then Isran and five others in dawnguard armor walked into the clearing.
Johnathan and Aela ran after a glowing deer, John from tree to tree while Aela kept up slightly behind using her were form. After awhile of chasing, john with his sharigan activated and spinning, tossed a few throwing knives, one stabbing the deer through the throat after it tried to evade by going behind a tree by ricochet off each other.
As he landed ahead of aela a unkown were jumped from the bushes, johns eye's pulsed flinging the the werewolf back but before five seconds passed another jumped him from behind. john's eye's turned to the ems and the werewolf phased right through him.
After the were went through him, john grabbed the werewolf by the back of the neck and broke it before turning to the other and using unrelenting force shout to kill the other. all this happened within fifteen seconds. As Aela caught up, a figure stepped out of the tree's, a humanoid covered in fur, with antlers and houved feet.
Aela in were form bowed her head. Hircine noticing john not doing the same, projected his presence through his avatar, assualting john's mind with bloodlust. john's eye's started to change color and his face to elongate before he forced his transformation back, making him sense a feeling of intrigue from the god.
Hircine asked what two of his children wanted and john spoke of what James wanted to achieve. The god of beasts asked what happens if his brother fails, as he would gain nothing. johnathan spoke of leverging his soul as collateral, knowing even if he was a werewolf, his soul would still in the end go back to akatosh, but akatosh was willing to let him go if james failed, to get Hircine to agree and to not seperate him from Aela.
"Very well my child, if your brother succeeds than he will have my support and you and those of jorvasker and thoose you personally turn will have the choice of entering my hunting grounds upon death or going elsewhere, but for that to happen, you must hunt down the glenmoril witches for using my gift as leverage to gain personal power" Hircine spoke, after getting a nod from John, he turned and heading back into the woods, but before he disappeared he said, he was also looking forward to seeing how high he could reach aswell.
As James turned to isran, he asked for the reason for the meeting. " I wanted to see this so called vampire, that was "different" then the others and to see if you had a idea of what the increase in vampire activity and attacks were about" Isran said. James hummed before commeting that he would deal with what was behind the increased activity, as it was now a family problem and isran just had to deal with the attacks, while he handled the rest.
"Why would i believe you wouldn't side with family and why does sun not weaken, let alone kill you two like other vampire's?" Isran demanded. "You not the scholar type, so i'll just say this,would you help someone who sacrificed you for power and for your second question, the curse of natural light is in response to arkay hatred of undead and molag bal, we are technically neighther, we are no enemy of arkay" James said.
"Liar, your a monster like the rest" Vigilant Tolan spoke. " monster i may be but of my own making, not molags" James countered before asking if their was anything else, anyone of them wanted, getting a sigh from isran. " just one more thing, what is it that this so called family member hopes to achieve?" he asked. " let's just say if my dear agreed with her father, i might never see the sunrise again, because if i had to choose at this time between her and the sun, i'd be one nocturnal son of a bow" james said, making isran eye's widen before looking at james weird for the son of a bow comment.
"very well, we'll go for now, time will tell if we can be allies" Isran said before leaving. As they left, serana jumped down from her perch on the tree before commenting that he promised Potema a date, and that she has a few theories she wants to research.
In the forests of falkreath, a ominous door that stood between desmon and his amused Babette, and the outside world, a man stood. " oh mother, hopefully the family has been good, while you were gone".
As James and Potema sat down at the local inn in solitude for their date, in the background a man in a suit was being served the huge amount of food he ordered.
" Look at all this cheese".