45 Surviving the Fallen Ones

Vincent was furious and pierced one of the wings of the Dragon he was riding at the moment as the Dragon loses its balance and falls from the sky.

Vincent was then jumped from the Dragon and landed on the ice while the dragon broke through the ice and landed in the lake.

{Brother,} says the Dragon that was still flying over the surface.

Vincent roared into the sky marking his territory as he shouts "MUL QAH DIIV" and turns into a Black Dragon that was three times the size of the normal Dragons.

He flew towards the other Dragon that was still flying and says, {You shouldn't have provoked me.}

As he takes the dragon from the sky as he rips it wings from its body with his front limbs making the Dragon scream in pain as he wanted to say something when Vincent just takes the head into his front limbs and shouts in its mouth "YOL TOOR SHUL" until the Dragon's head was separated from its body.

Then Vincent jumped into one of the holes into the lake to drag the other Dragon out of it. He rips the neck of the wounded Dragon apart as the soul enters his body and he goes up with the skeleton and on the surface, the same happened again with the other Dragon.

Then Vincent turned back to his normal form and Serana runs to his side and asks, "Are you alright?"

"Yes, just exhausted," says Vincent as he puts both Skeleton into his bag, for now, to give them later to Eorlund so he can make masterpieces out of it.

"Should we rest after the next shrine then. It is right there beside the shore. Then you could explain how you can turn into a Dragon," says Kirvena interested in Vincent now.

"Alright," says Vincent as he knows his body the best and knew he needed the rest for now. He never fought as a Dragon before and it's quite taxing on his body.

He sits down beside the stairs and hands over the ewer to Serana and says, "I will rest here for now. Go and collect the water please."

"Yes," says Serana worried about Vincent since she only saw him as a power that was not to mess with. To see him like that was something new for her.

She goes over to the shrine with Vyrve while Kirvena stayed with Vincent who was laying flat on the ground recuperating from the fight as Kirvena asks, "Now how is it possible that you could absorb those Dragon's souls?"

"I'm the Dragonborn. I thought you knew that since I'm Akatosh's son after all," says Vincent as he looks at her.

"We didn't know you were a Dragonborn. You could also be a normal Humanoid while being his son too," says Kirvena as she sits beside Vincent and says, "You know I really want to go with you after this is over."

That shocks Vincent, who blushes and Kirvena realizes that what she said could be misunderstood and blushes before correcting herself saying, "What I mean is as a retrainer. My brother would also like to join you. My father is behind this decision because you are Auri-El's son."

"Alright, you almost gave me a heart attack. A beautiful woman confessing to me out of nowhere," says Vincent when Kirvena makes some circles in the snow.

"Maybe when we know each other a bit better we can talk about a confession," says Kirvena showing her feminine side that she hasn't shown the whole time since she is more of a tomboy.

"Can you two stop flirting with each other," says Serana angry seeing Vincent flirting with Kirvena.

"We weren't flirting it was I that said something that could be misunderstood. Why are you jealous that he flirted with me and not with you?" says Kirvena as a joke triggering Serana as the ewer flies through the air and Vincent catches it out of the air but lands on the ice and slides away on it.

"We Vampires don't have any feeling," says Serana denying having feeling for anyone or anything.

"Now you are lying. Just admit it and maybe you can be together with him," says Kirvena as Serana sighs.

"Even if I did it he has already two wives. Do you think they would allow having another one in their midst," says Serana losing hope thinking about it and continues, "The family is quite happy and they have children. It would be hard to separate them because of my selfishness."

"Sometimes you need to be selfish. You say he has two wives right," says Kirvena as Serana nods.

"Yes, one was a political marriage while the first was out of love," says Serana.

"Then why did it look like he would chase this so-called Ysayle. Do you think he will just go after her and do nothing. Think twice he will most likely try to persuade her to marry him if she feels the same way as he does," says Kirvena and Vyrve only coughs as Vincent was about to arrive from the ice.

"What were the two of you talking about?" asks Vincent as the ewer was secure.

"Nothing," says Serana as she blushes and takes the lead as Vincent smiles and follows her as the other two do the same.

They follow the path and find two ways one was ascending and the other was following the river up.

They first ascend and get attacked by Fallen Ones that they take care swiftly as the continue using bridges that were quite insecure since once they lose their balance they would fall to their death. So Vincent took a rope out of the bag and they knot each other together so if someone loses his or her balance they won't fall into the Abyss.

After passing the little canyon they arrive at the entrance of a frozen cave and they separate from the rope as Vincent puts it back in his bag.

They enter the cave and Serana says, "Why do I have a bad feeling about this cave."

"Not only you," says Kirvena.

"We should be careful proceed then," says Vincent as he was holding his spear ready to attack the enemy.

They find some traps made by the Fallen Ones and Serana says, "They are really good at making traps how comes they make so horrible bridges."

"Maybe because no one in their right mind would use those bridges," says Kirvena as they pass the bridge and get ambushed by the Fallen Ones.

Vincent jumps straight at them with Vyrve running behind him. Kirvena used her bow while Serana used magic to fight from the backline.

After taking care of them they need to walk up and Vincent says, "This smells like a trap to me what do you all think."

"Definitely," say both, Serana and Kirvena, while Vyrve says, "Now come on I don't think they would build a trap that would separate themselves from each other right."

Vyrve takes the first steps and says, "See nothing happened." He takes another step and they hear a mechanism and something rolling downhill while they make space to the side while Vyrve runs to their side and says, "I'm sorry."

"Don't worry little brother," says Kirvena as rocks pass them and roll into the Abyss.

After the rocks stopped coming they continue walking through the passage and encounter more of the Fallen Ones that wanted to make sure the people that fell for that trap are dead.

The group attack silently taking the Fallen Ones by surprise as they didn't expect them to pass them to pincer attack them. After killing them the group continues while Vyrve says, "They really are as cunning as father told us."

"That's why you should keep your eyes and ears open," says Kirvena as they find the exit after killing another group of Fallen Ones and find themselves surrounded by Fallen Ones.

"We entered a nest," says Serana quietly to not draw the attention to them as they see Fallen Ones walk around them but didn't hear them yet.

"Buy me some time and try to line them up in the corridor in front of us. When I give the sign run to the side. The attack doesn't know who is friend or foe," says Vincent as Vyrve runs in front while the both women gave him cover while Vincent goes in position and light was gathering around him.

He was like a bright star in the sky when a Dragon Head appears behind him and he says, "Out of the way."

The White Dragon Head flew over to the Fallen Ones as Vyrve and the other two made way as the others were vaporized by Dragonsong Dive. The Dragon Head vaporized even the houses and everything else that was in its way.

Vincent was feeling how weak his legs were and was holding his spear tightly to not fall to the ground. Serana and the other arrive at his side and were saying something but Vincent couldn't even hear him as he was standing unconsciously there.

"He is unconscious," says Vyrve as he sees both women worried about him not making a move or responding to them.

Vyrve takes him over the shoulder and began carrying Vincent while saying, "The way is free we should go to the shrine and rest there before going for the Temple fully rested."

They arrive at the shrine and find cover in it from the snow and icy wind since no one could open Vincent bag and take out the tents nor the ewer they needed to wait for him to wake up.

In Vincent's mindscape, Vincent was training his jobs with the others when a man unknown to the others appear but not to Vincent.

"It seems you are working hard. That's good even as an immortal you need to train so you can ascend and become one of us," says the man.

"Who are you and what do you want?" says Ardbert as he draws his weapon like the others when Vincent stops them.

"That is Talos. He is a God from Tamriel. But he used to be a mere man like we all," says Vincent recognizing Talos.

"Good you still remember me. I thought it would end in a fight but this way it's better," says Talos as he puts his hand on Vincent's shoulder and Vincent begins to light up.

"What are you doing?" asks Vincent not knowing what Talos was doing.

"Reinforcing my blessing. I'm been taken as a fool because you always fall unconscious because you use too much stamina. I just want to give you even more and a stronger body that can handle the output of such immense power you have shown so far," says Talos as the light stopped around Vincent.

"Now you should be able to stay awake even if you use three of those attacks in a row," says Talos as he laughs and fades away from the mindscape while saying, "We are interested in what you are going to do next."

"So a god?" asks Bultechu confused since he only met Hydaelyn before but not the other twelve.

"Yes, now talking about Gods. I heard that someone that looks like Ysayle is in Skyrim. I still need to go there to confirm it but if that is true it means that she is still alive as I," says Vincent shocking everyone who knew Ysayle while others asked who she was as Vincent began to train again as they were discussing.