Escape From Helgen, Part 1

As the executioner raised his axe, a large creature landed on the building behind him, the force of the landing knocking everyone near the building to the ground. The Dragon then shouted and meteors came showering down from the sky.

Due to the shout that assaulted her sensitive Khajiit ears and the sudden landing of the dragon, Daro'zami was writhing on the ground stunned, disoriented, and in pain. She would've covered her ears, were it not for the fact that her hands were still bound together. Though her ears were ringing, she could hear the screams and shouts of the residents of Helgen as they tried to run away and the Imperial soldiers as they tried to fight the dragon.

Suddenly, she felt a hand grab her arm and pull her up onto her feet. She looked up at who grabbed her and saw the Stormcloak soldier from earlier, 'What was his name again? Ah, right! Ralof!' she thought.

"Hey, Khajiit. Get up! Come on, the gods won't give us another chance!" Ralof shouted at her, his voice barely heard over the ringing in her ears and the sounds of destruction around her. "This way!" He pointed towards a tower that was somehow still standing and ran inside. Seeing the destruction around her and no clear path she could go, Daro'zami followed.

Once inside, she was able to take breather. She looked at Ralof, 'How'd he get out of his ropes?' she thought, shocked.

After a few moments Ralof ordered, "We need to move, now! Up through the tower, let's go!" We ran up the stairs of the tower and saw that it was blocked off by debris and a Stormcloak soldier was trying to clear it. Shortly after, the dragon's head broke through the wall, killing the soldier, and started breathing fire. "Yool...Toor...Shul!" Due to their proximity, they could feel how hot it was. Afterwards, the dragon flew away.

They got close to the hole made by the dragon and looked out of it. They could see the destruction caused by the dragon. She looked out and saw the destroyed, open roof of an inn. Fortunately for her, it wasn't too high of a jump and she knew how to land properly, so it shouldn't hurt too much. She jumped out of the and landed relatively unharmed in the inn.

"Keep going! We'll follow when we can!" She heard Ralof shout. With that, she continued forth. She encountered another drop, luckily not as high as the previous one, and jumped down. When she landed, she saw the exit of the inn and went throught it to the outside. Once she got outside, she saw that she was behind two Imperial soldiers, one of them being the one calling their names not too long ago.

"Haming, you need to get over here! Now!" He shouted to a boy in the middle of the road and the boy ran to him. "That a boy. You're doing great." He said once the boy reached him. Just in time too, since the dragon landed where the boy was and spit fire at them, "Yool...Toor...Shul!" Fortunately, they were able to avoid it.

The Imperial soldier turned towards Daro'zami, "Still alive, prisoner? Keep close to me if you want to stay that way." He told her.

'No thanks. You guys almost killed me.' She thought bitterly and ignored him, choosing to continue without his help. She ran to an alley and saw another Imperial soldier standing there and ran past him and into the broken house beside him. Unfortunately for him, the dragon landed on the wall behind her and started breathing fire, burning the soldier alive and killing him.

'Oof. That's gonna leave a mark.' She thought jokingly, despite it not being the right time for jokes. She turned around and saw the soldier from before following her. She quickly started running again. Eventually, both of them arrived in front of the Keep and saw Ralof.

"Ralof! You damned traitor. Out of my way!" The soldier shouted.

"We're escaping, Hadvar. You're not stopping us this time." Ralof replied.

"Fine. I hope that dragon takes you all to Sovngarde." The now named Hadvar spat bitterly and ran away.

Ralof looked at Daro'zami and shouted, "You! Come on, into the keep!" So, she followed. They entered the Keep and saw a dead Stormcloak soldier. Ralof walked up to it and kneeled, "We'll meet again in Sovngarde, brother." He got up, "Looks like we're the only ones who made it. That thing was dragon. No doubt. Just like the children's stories and the legends. The harbingers of the End Times. We better get moving. Come here. Let me see if I can get those binds off." 

She walked up to him and he cut off the ropes with a dagger. She rubbed her wrists, trying to soothe the soreness. "There you go. You may as well take Gunjar's gear. He won't be needing it any more."

Daro'zami smirked, 'Don't mind if I do!' She stripped the body of its armor and put it on, removing her prisoner clothes and tossing them away. She also took the body's war axe, 'I wonder if I can sell this.'

"I'm going to see if I can find some way out of here." Ralof told her as he went to a gate on the side of the room. After looking at it for a few moments, he says "This one's locked. Let's see about that gate." They both go to the gate on the other side of the room. "Damn. No way to open this from our side." 

As they stand in front of the gate, they hear a voice, specifically the voice of the Imperial Captain from just a few minutes ago. "It's the Imperials! Take cover!" Ralof says urgently and they both hide behind the walls next to the gate.

The Imperials get closer to the gate and the Imperial Captain barks an order to the Imperial Soldier following her, "Get this gate open." The Imperial Soldier pulls a lever on the other side of the gate, opening it. They stepped through the gate and Ralof and Daro'zami ambushed them. Using her claws, Daro'zami quickly dispatched the Imperials; she scratched their faces and slit their throats open. After the quick battle, Daro'zami shook the blood off her hands in disgust. 'It's been a long time since I had to kill something with my bare hands like this.'

She looked towards the bodies on the floor and saw that one of the Imperials was wearing some lighter armor. 'Perfect!' She thought enthusiastically. Stripping the body of its armor, she removed the Stormcloak and put on the light Imperial armor. Ralof looked down at the bodies as well and wondered aloud, "Maybe one of these Imperials had the key." Since she was already looting the bodies, Daro'zami searched the body of the Imperial Captain and, sure enough, there was a key. She also kept the Captain's armor and weapons, thinking she could probably sell them when she got out. Once she was done looting, she went up to the gate and used the key; she inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it, unlocking the gate and allowing her and Ralof to pass through.

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A/N: Wow! A new chapter?! After so long?! I was bored and had time, so I decided to play Skyrim again and write this while I'm at it.