Chapter 4
Now here is chapter 4 I hope you enjoy it
As the sun shines through the window, it stirs The Last Dragonborn so he uses the blanket to cover his face and gurgles.
Bell on the other hand wakes up with a big yawn and rubs his eye to get rid of the tired, he looks around to see Drago still sleeping "Come on Drago we have to get up, and head to the dungeon." Once he finished that, he starts changing his clothes.
Drago sits up and stretches loosening his muscles, he then creaking his neck side to side and one can hear a loud church.
Bell cringes at the sound, but he sees him getting up and putting his armour leaving his hood down and once he does that, he rearms himself and turns to Bell to is placing a small chest on his body, "How can such a small piece of metal be considered armour, bandits wore better then this kid." Drago then remembers that this Família is quite poor, so Bell getting decent piece of armour is out of the question.
Finishing putting on his bag he smiles and looks to the last Dragonborn "Alright I'm ready." With that said Bell rushes out followed behind by Drago, who's cape swings back and forth as he walks.
The city is different then usual, one could say more festive as food stalls and other types of stalls litter the streets enticing kids to spend their parents hard earned coin, of course not with a particular Dragonborn's itchy fingers.
"Excuse me!" A feminine voice calls out.
Drago and Bell turn around to see the cat waitress of the Hostess of Fertility standing outside the tavern.
"Good meowrning." She bows in greeting.
"Meowrning." Drago hides his laughter.
"Good Morning." Bell bows back.
The girl then hands him a purse full of coins, and Drago could feel his hands twitch wanting to see how much coins in there, but he has to restrain himself.
"Could you like give this to that silly Syr person who forgot her purse, that would be like very kind." The cat girl says something.
Drago and Bell have a look confusion on their face, trying to figure out the meaning behind her words.
"What in the nine is she talking about."
"Um, could you repeat that please." Bell asks for clarification which annoys the cat maid
Thankfully Ryuu comes outside holding a bucket full of water "I don't think Mr Cranel and Drago understand what you are saying Anya."
"It's not my fault that they don't understand, that Syr left in a rush and forgot her purse and I'm just asking if they can give it back to her." Anya now clearly explains.
"Now she explains it clearly, she's an air head if I've ever saw one." Dragon thinks to himself.
"Did you get all that?" Ryuu asks the young adventurer.
"Yeah, we'll give this back to Syr." Bell puts the purse away, but before he could run Drago stops him.
"Listen Bell, I'm going to look around myself, we can meet back at the church later." Drago informs the young adventurer.
"Ok, I'll see you later." Bell waves as he runs off.
Lifting up his mask and raises his hood and goes off and picks a few pockets, well he won't pick the pockets of families he does have standards; drunks are usually his targets and maybe the occasional rich bloke, who is so distracted that they don't notice anything.
Leaning against a wall in an alleyway he looks at a few decent size coins purses "Drunks make it to easy, heck those nobles are so busy smelling each other's assholes they didn't notice anything, putting the coins purses in his sack he takes off, this time going to get something to eat.
The stans are choked full of foods he's never seen, like these fried potatoes, he never potatoes of all things could be cooked in that style, so out of curiosity he buys one.
"And what flavour would you like sir?" The chef asks.
"Hm, I don't know, what would you recommend." Drago asks not knowing.
"Well depends we have plain and Azuki bean cream." He offers the flavours.
Feeling a bit adventures, he asks for the Azuki bean cream flavoured, after a bit the chef hands over a potato wrapped in a white fabric, he takes it and then he takes out the amount and give it to him, of course he pulls down his mask and hood to take a bite.
Crunch!
He chews it tasting it carefully and is rather surprise at the flavour and the texture, he swallows it and smiles satisfied at the meal "Thanks." And with that he moves own to study the other stales.
All is peaceful, he even decided to try a game where he had too throw a ball and knock down a stack of cups to win a prize, it was easy as he is a master marksmen and throwing a ball to hit a stack of cups, his reward a stuff dragon, well since he is a Dragonborn keeping a toy dragon won't hurt.
Drago suddenly stops something isn't right he can see men with arms running in the opposite direction, moving his hand to the back to grab the hilt of his sword and draw the Nightingale Sword, he then hears a roar and turns around.
He sees a large creature with green skin and a pig nose wearing a loin cloth, wielding a large club, with said club about to turn the Dragonborn into paste.
Quickly he dodges out of the way by rolling to the left, but quickly retaliates by running forward and slicing the arm of the monster right off, making the monster squeal like a pig, with the opportunity he jumps and decapitate the monster killing it.
"Great those things are loose on the surface, and here I was hoping to have a nice day off." With his sword and toy dragon in hand Drago, now goes off to hunt those monsters.
As he is killing them, he notices that they aren't attacking anyone, they seem to be looking for something or someone, not thinking too hard on it he kills another beast and sheathes his sword and takes a deep breath.
Well that is until a loud roar could be heard in the distance and it is a sound all too familiar, it is the sound of a dragon coming to test its might against the Dragonborn.
"Dragon!" A man shouts as he runs to the opposite direction, pushing past the Drago followed by other people fleeing for their lives.
"So once again I face against my natural foes." This time he draws Dragonbane, the blade he primarily uses to kill dragons.
He looks up to see the large lizard flying overhead, roaring which announces its presence, judging from its body structure it's a Revered Dragon, a deadly dragon type, and one he needs to handle carefully.
He sees the Dragon land on building looking down at its prey, a few of those men in white mask point bows and arrows at the dragon preparing to shoot at it.
However, the dragon opens its mouth "GAAN LAH HAAS" It shouts hitting the men causing them to fall to their knees in weakens.
"What the hell, why am I so weak." He tries to stand but falls back to his knees.
Drago had to make his move carefully, Revered Dragons are no joke, with that Drain Vitality Shout even a Dragonborn such as himself could find it a bit difficult, that's why he goes in groups when hunting that dragon type.
The dragon then takes off unleashing a loud roar, terrifying all the citizens and a few adventures but Drago runs through the crowed, taking a deep breath "Dovah, luft zey (Dragon, Face me)." Drago shouts, taking a few years to study Dovahzul With the Greybeards was good idea.
The Dragon turns around and descends to the ground, landing with such force that it shakes the ground and lifts up dust.
Drago stops and comes face to face with the slender dragon its jewel like eyes staring at him.
"Hi tinvaak dovah tinvok, you speak my tongue." The Dragon asks.
"Yes, I can speak your language Dragon." The Last Dragon readies his Katana
"Nii trun ni, hi fen dir, it matters not you will die." The dragon pulls back its head and charges its attack "YOL TOOR SHUL."
Drago quickly reacts by shouting "FIEM ZII GRON." Using his Ethereal Shout, the fire pass harmlessly through him however smoke covered the area.
The dragon stops realizing that the attack didn't do anything, once the smoke settled, Drago gains his solidity.
"Vir los tol korasaal, how is that possible." The dragon said with shock.
"Because I am Dovahkiin, Dragonborn!" Drago takes a deep breath and channels the Thu'um "FUS RO DAH" the force pushes the dragon back at least 10 feet toppling it on its side, but the dragon quickly gets up and starts flying hoping to get away.
Knowing that the dragon is trying to escape he uses another Shout, this time to clip its wings and give it a taste of mortality, taking another deep breath he charges another Thu'um "JOR ZAH FRUL"
The Shout hits the Dragon, causing it great pain, as it feels the concept of mortality a foreign sensation to the immortal dragons, forcing it to land in an open area where another fight is happening.
Somewhere else Tione, Tiona and Lefiya are facing a strange you monster serpent in shape with a purple point at the end.
"Geez what is this thing." Tiona asks while dodging
"I don't know, but man that skin is tough." Tione says while dodging.
Lefiya is in the background charging a spell to eliminate this monster "Hear my call, unleash a streak of light arrow to the holy tree, thou art a master of the bow, fire of the one true elven archer may your arrow fly straight and strike deep." She charges her spell, but a roar stops her.
She looks up to see an unfamiliar dragon land on the ground with a large thud looking at the young elf.
"Lefiya get out of there!" Tione shouts to her friend.
The Dragon opens its mouth and shouts "GAAN LAH HAAS" the shout connects to Lefiya who topples to the ground with her vitality being sucked away.
"Why Can't I move? what was that magic." Lefiya still struggles.
The Dragon opens it mouth and you can see fire forming in its mouth, the two amazons try to save the young elf, but the plant monster wraps them up.
Lefiya uses all her remaining to look up "Miss Aiz please save me." Lefiya closes her eyes and prepares to except her fate.
"Tempest!" A voice calls out
The Dragon roars in pain as a force pushes it back, but it manages to maintain its balance and didn't topple over like before.
"Miss Aiz you made it." Lefiya says with excitement, with the Sword Princess here the dragon is finished.
"Aiz you deal with the dragon, Tione and I will deal with this thing!" Tiona shouts to her team mate.
Aiz nods and turns to her younger member "Lefiya can you stand?" she asks her partner
"Yes." She tries to get up, what falls back down, "I'm sorry miss Aiz, but whatever that dragon did it has weakened me." She apologises.
Aiz turns away and starts walking to the dragon "It's okay, just try and regain some of your strength."
The Dragon does a low growl with smoke coming out of its mouth trying to intimidate the young mortal, it's still angry at how the Dragonborn was able to some how ground it with a shout, but that doesn't mean it is completely out of the picture "YOL TOOR SHUL."
"Tempest" a volley of green wind surrounds Aiz and the flames harmlessly move pass her, she charges forward and manages to strike at the side of the dragon's head, making small amount of blood drip.
The dragon shakes its head and this time it goes for a physical assault, so it lunges forward and takes a snap, but Aiz jumps back avoiding its powerful jaws.
She then charges forward and gives another slice making it bleed even further.
The dragon shakes its head again, suddenly it feels lighter so it quickly flaps its wings and starts to fly to gain some advantage.
"Tempest." Aiz powers up her magic and crouches down and jumps forward hoping to impale the dragon in the heart and kill it.
The dragon sees her and quickly opens its mouth, Lefiya remembers what happened when it first opened its mouth "Miss Aiz, move quickly!"
"GAAN LAH HAAS" The dragon shouts.
Thinking Tempest will protect her from the attack she charges forward, but that was a mistake as the shout goes through the winds and weakens her as she loses her magic and her strength so she losses her momentum and plummets to the ground.
Aiz tries to get up, but the strength leaves her body "What was that magic, all it did was shout some weird words and now all my strength is gone." She looks up to see the dragon flying over her, with fire entering its mouth.
"JOR ZH FRUL" A another shout hits the Dragon, causing it great pain, it turns its head to see Drago with his cape blowing in the wind.
Drago runs to the dragon with his katana drawn its electrical sparks dancing with each slash.
Due to the enchantment that is on Dragonsbane, when facing any dragon, it hurts them a great deal more than any other blade.
Drago does a horizontal slash under its eye, it pulls its head back and roars in pain, the dragon quickly tries to do a tail swing but Drago being the nimble fighter ducks and avoids being splattered to a wall.
Unfortunately he didn't notice a green tentacle strike from behind him, so he is sent rolling on the ground, but quickly centres picks himself up and looks at the monster "How could I miss that thing, the dragon is one thing, but this is another, I may be dragonborn, but this is a bit much." He sees the tanned skin girls attack the monster, but thinking they need a hand to completely kill this thing.
"DUR NEH VIIR" Drago shouts in an open space and a decaying green Dragon appears and looks at The Last Dragonborn.
"Did that guy just shout a dragon into existence?" Tiona looks dumfounded.
Tione rubs her eyes to see if she is seeing things "I think he did and it looks all gross and rotting."
Lefiya is also dumfounded, she has never seen or heard of spell that can summon a dragon just from a few words, "Who is this guy, with skills like that he should be more well known."
"Drem yol lok Qahnaarin, how may I serve you?" The Dragon asks.
Drago points to the monster "Help those girls kill that thing, while I deal with a dragon."
"Of course, Zu'u fen luft tol ulfah, I will face that monster." Durnehviir starts flapping his wings and takes off, he lands on a building and opens its mouth "FO KRAH DIIN" a blast of cold air hitting the monster and slowing its movements down, with that he takes to the air again.
Dunehvirr does a sweep "DILL QOTH ZAMM" as he shouted three creatures appears from the ground.
One was a skeleton wearing black armour wielding a sword and shield made out of bones.
The second is a black skeleton with purple energy coming from its head wielding a bow with arrows.
The third and final one is like the second, but its lower half is none existence, and all there is a cloud of black smoke.
The three skeletons start attacking, the plant monster.
The Monster quickly strikes the Wrathman but it raises its shield to block the attack, it then quickly slices and cuts one of the tentacles and it disappears.
The Boneman start firing a volley of arrows making the monster roar in annoyance so it tries to slam it down, but the Wrathman runs forward and tanks the hit.
The Mistman fires ice spikes at the body and causes it to form frost on its body, slowing it down.
Durnevhiir lands on another building and breathes a frost breath, slowing the monster down further and more frost forming on its body.
Having enough the monster tries to impale the undead dragon but it was to slow so Durnehviir clamps down on the appendage, and with yank of its head pulls it off quite easily, flapping its wing it takes to the sky.
Tione and Tiona rush in and gives a powerful kick to the side, making its tuff outer shell crack like and egg.
While that is happening, Drago is facing quite a difficult dragon, as he jumps back avoiding another bite of the dragon, so he quickly counters by slashing his katana leaving a deep cut under its eye.
It roars in pain and moves back trying to gain some distance, but Drago isn't giving it any room to breath has he charges in again.
"YOL TOOR SHUL" the dragon shouts its Fire Breath, so The Dragonborn rolls to the side, missing him, but hitting a few stands setting them on fire.
He stops rolling only to be met by a large tail slamming into him, sending him back and crashing into a different stall.
Seeing an opportunity, the dragon takes off and retreats, trying to kill these mortals is not worth hassle especially if one of those mortals is a dragonborn so he needs to heal his wounds.
Pushing the wood of him he quickly gets up and tries to use another Dragonrend shout but the dragon pass over the city and soars over the mountains, Drago takes a deep breath to relax his blood and cool his dragon soul down.
Walking over to his sword which fell out his hand he picks and sheathes his blade.
"FO KRAH DIIN" Drago hears a frost breath; he turns to see the undead dragon hovering over the monster and blasting it with its shout.
The Wrathman, Boneman, and Mistman continue the attack, despite the size different the three creatures of the Soul Carin are putting up a valent fight.
Remembering that the elf and human that got hit with the Drain Vitality shout, he heads to the downed elf and casts a healing the elf, then he heads to the human and heals her he looks to the dragon to see the end to the fight
Durnehviir does a sweep and aims under the head of the monster with additional weight of Durnehviir he is able to make the plant monster topple, as it tries to remove the dragon on top of it, and with a might snap of his jaws severs the head of the body killing it instantly.
In his victory Durnehviir unleashes a mighty showing his strength, but Drago runs over to his summon.
"Durnehviir, take to the skies and find anymore monsters and kill them!" Drago tells the dragon.
The undead dragon doesn't say anything and takes off in search of new prey, Drago sees Durnehviir's summons just standing around looking at Drago "What are you standing around for, get moving there are monster for you to kill."
With that said the skeletons start running down the road hoping to kill some more monsters.
"Well that was an interesting fight, especially with that dragon." Everyone turns to see the Goddess Loki wielding a sword in one hand and a child holding the other.
Now with his job done he decides to go on the hunt and take out the reaming monster, but a mischievous goddess stands in his way.
"Well aren't you an interesting mortal, taking on a dragon on your own." Loki leans in trying to take a closer look at Drago.
The Nightingale stands his ground and not showing any emotion.
"Lady Loki, he also summoned a dragon just by shouting and that dragon also summoned other creature just by shouting." Lefiya tells the mischief goddess.
Loki opens her eyes and her piercing red eyes study Drago in every which way "Hm really, I find it hard to believe that this guy could summon a dragon by just shouting."
Aiz points her sword at Drago stopping him in has place with a not to happy look, "Who are you?"
"I'm just a simple adventurer, who wonders the lands fighting creatures like dragons and other horrible creatures, that plague the land." He pushes the sword to the side away from his neck.
"Then how come we've never heard of you, someone of your skill would make a name for himself?" The Elf asks.
"This world is vast, and not everyone knows every adventurer who is trying to make his fame and glory." Drago tries to make and excuse.
"What about that magic you used, magic that powerful requires time and a focus, yet you just shout it and it happens." Lefiya questions the magic she saw.
"That power can be learned by anybody, but it takes years if not decades for one to master even a single voice."
"But you are only, what 25 years old, so you've been training since you were a little kid?" Lefiya says not believing him.
"Krosis Fahliil, nuz Zu'u los bo wah genun pah dii soven… until we meet again." Drago heads down a random road to try and find Bell.
Lefiya has look of confusion, she has never heard of that tongue before, but something about it shakes her to her core.
Aiz just stares at Drago with caution, someone as powerful as him but not well known is quite dangerous, especially with his unknown person, but the words he spoke also shake her, but more out of fear.
As he is walking Durnehviir lands on the building next to him, "I've searched for any more Riil, but I'm unable to see them, Nuz Zu'u drey koraav kaviir."
Drago looks with surprise, a rabbit, the only person he can think of is Bell, as he looks like a rabbit with his white hair and blood red eyes, "Where is he heading?"
"I saw him heading wer, he was also holding a mal kon." With that last word, Durnevhirr disappears back to the Soul Carin.
Realising that little girl could be Hestia he quickly heads to the rough location, that Bell might be near here, then realising that this Hostess of Fertility is nearby and that they may give him shelter
He arrives at the tavern and barges in which gains the attention of Mama Mia, Ryuu, Chloe, Anya, Lunoire and Syr who is coming down the stairs.
"Quite rude of you to barge into my tavern thinking you own the place." Mia tells the Dragonborn off.
"Where is Hestia and Bell!?" Drago asks.
"They're upstairs, Goddess Hestia is exhausted from running around she just needs some rest." Syr explains.
Entering the tavern, he heads up stairs to see Bell's face red as a tomato, embarrassed about something.
"Bell! Are you alright?" Drago shakes Bell to snap him out of his daze.
Bell shakes his head and looks to Drago a bit surprised, "Yeah, I'm just glad that Goddess Hestia is alright, just tired form running away from that silver back."
Drago nods and is rather impressed Bell was able to kill a powerful monster on his own, he then notices a knife he hasn't seen before strapped to his back, "Is that a new weapon?"
Bell takes the knife and shows it to Drago, which he asks to examine it, Bell happily allowed it and hands it to The Last Dragonborn.
The Nightingale might not be a smith, but he can appreciate a well-crafted blade, in fact he would dare say, it rivalled Mehruns' Razor in turns of craftmanship. "The craftmanship is impressive"
"Really?" Bell is surprised someone could match the Goddess of the Smith.
"Yeah." He hands back the knife to Bell who sheaths it, he then remembers something Hestia asked him, "Drago, Goddess want to see you about something."
Drago's eye brows raises, wondering what she would be wanting to talk about, but regardless he shouldn't keep her waiting.
He enters the room to see Hestia lying on the bed with a towel on her forehead.
"Lady Hestia, you wish to see me." Drago tries to get the attention of the little goddess.
Hestia turns her head to see who it was, and when she sees it is Drago she seats up and removes the towel from her forehead.
"Yes, I wanted to ask you about one of your skills, it is called Shard of Akatosh and how it works I am curious, what is a Thu'um and what does it mean, you absorb the soul of a dragon?"
Drago sighs he knew that he had to explain sooner or later, but that doesn't mean he has to tell the whole truth, a certain dragon taught him that. "A Thu'um is basically a shout, a word of power of sort, you see dragons in my home land have their own language, but unlike the words of a mortal, a dragon shout is a form of magic, from breathing fire, or creating a force so powerful it can demolish a mountain."
The Lolli Goddess listens in, taking mental notes on how it works "and does it take a long time to cast your magic?"
The Dragonborn shakes his head "No, that magic is very fast, it's not like normal magic, when I shout, I bend reality to my will."
Hestia couldn't believe what she hearing, all her time spent on the lower world, she has never heard of a mortal with powers that could possibly rival a god, but there is one other thing she needs to know "What about absorbing a dragon soul?"
"That is how I obtain my power, when I slay a dragon, I take its knowledge and wisdom into myself." He explains how his powers work.
Hestia doesn't say anything processing all the information Drago told her, but she could tell he is hiding more then he is telling, but decides to not to push it as she has had a long day and wants to rest. She turns and lies down on her bed.
"If that's all, may I leave?" Drago asks.
"Yes, you may leave." Hestia lets Drago go.
Bowing he heads off, to the slums to see if he can find any beggars to know the ins and outs to the city.
The Slums are as he thought dirty, miserable, and full of opportunistic thieves, its almost like being in Riften all over again.
The people around him watch him waiting for him to drop his guard so they can steal his stuff, but of course he knows what to expect.
He notices a man eyeing him with a look akin to a predator waiting for a moment to strike, Drago nudges his cape to the side to show his weapon which deters the would-be thief.
Continuing on his search as that man was no beggar, just an ordinary thief looking for an easy score.
After a little while search he found the type of person he was looking for, a young lady with dirty brown hair dirt covering her face wearing old worn out clothes, sitting in a corner with a bowl with a few vails in it.
He walks over an kneels down to her height to stare into her blue eyes "Hello."
"What do you want, if you are looking to do tricks, I'm not that sort of girl." She tries to send him away.
Drago shakes his head, "No I'm not looking for that sort of thing, but what I am looking for is information."
"Information? Why would you come to a beggar for that?" She asks perplexed.
"Simple where I'm from, if you want to know the ins and outs of a city beggars are your best bet." He tells her a small paragraph of The Beggar Prince book.
The girl says nothing staring at Drago seeing if he is to something unsavoury to her, but something about this man makes her able to trust him, "If I had information, what will you give me in return?"
Saying nothing he reaches in and take a sack of coin and place at least 300 valis in the bowl.
The girl picks up the bowl and gives it a shake and is surprised that a man would pay her that much for simple information, she then looks up to Drago "I think I heard that the Loki Família dealt with new breed of monster in the dungeon on the 18th floor, they had to make a retreat, and cancel their journey to the 59th floor.
"Do they describe what the monsters look like?"
"Yeah, they said it looks a giant caterpillar with acidic blood, destroyed all their weapons." She continues to explain what happened to the Loki Família.
Drago places his hand on his chin and thinks for a moment, and once he ponders his thought he gets up "Listen tell your friends this, if they have any more information, I'll gladly pay for it." He starts heading home, but stops "what is your name girl."
"My name is Janet."
"Well Janet, pleasure doing business with you." Drago heads back to the church.
At another location the Loki Família some members are gathered in the captain's office to discuss what happen at todays events, such as the appearance of a new species of monster the man in black armour and a dragon attack all happening in the same day.
Finn is sitting at his desk, with Loki sitting on the desk, Riveria on the right and Gareth on the left and Aiz, Lefiya and the Amazon twins standing in front of the desk
"So, you are saying that the man shouted a rotting dragon into existence and started to fight the new species and the it shouted three new fighters and proceeded to take on the new species while the man in armour fought a dragon all alone and speaks a language you didn't recognise." Finn asks making sure he has all the details correct.
"Yes, that is everything that happened." Lefiya conforms all the events that happened
Finn puts his hands on his chin and starts to think of the situation, first another new species appeared, then this man who shouted a dragon into existence, "What do you think Riveria?"
The High Elf looks to the pallum "From what Lefiya and Aiz told us, he doesn't seem to be an enemy, but we should be careful, a wild card such as him could cause problems."
The dwarf nods his head in agreement "I agree, a man with powers we do not know about can be dangerous, especially one that can summon a dragon and speak an unknown language."
"I don't know the guy seems really fishy, if a guy wears armour as dark as night, he must be hiding secrets." Loki adds her opinion.
"Regardless we should keep an eye on him, if he is a threat, we will need to take him out." Finn informs his guild.
Nothing to say but that Chapter 5 is in the works, and hop you guys have a Merry Christmas.