Auri-El's Temple

Vincent was waking up and feels one side of hid body was warm while the other side was a little colder as he opens his eyes and sees across of him Vyrve sleeping while on one side Serana was sleeping against his arm while Kirvena was on the other side.

Vincent was trying not to move to not wake them up so he meditated until he opened his eyes and sees Serana looking at him. She had one hand on his face when Vincent opened his eyes and Serana blushed from being caught doing that.

She tries to move her hand away when Vincent catches her hand and puts it back while says, "You can continue if you want. Mina will be happy to know that you have feelings for me."

"Why do you say that?" asks Serana as Vincent let's go of her hand as she continues to pass her fingers over the skin and scales that Vincent has.

"Because it was her that proposed to me to have 9 wives. She only had one rule she has to be the first wife. That's why she allowed me to marry Elisif after they had a heated conversation and she was the winner," says Vincent making Kirvena, who was listening but was playing sleeping beauty, blush as Vincent pets her head and says, "Time to wake your brother up or we won't be able to continue our pilgrimage."

"You knew I was awake," says Kirvena as Vincent tries to stand up.

"Yes, I need to an idiot not to see your cheeks turn red when I told Serana how open my wife is to me having more women than one," says Vincent as the two blush in front of him after hearing that.

Kirvena and Serana stand up so Vincent could stand up. Then Kirvena woke Vyrve up and Vincent took the ewer out to fill it with the water of the last shrine as they then continued on their tracks and Vyrve asks, "You good enough to continue?"

"Yes, the rest was enough to recover," says Vincent as he stretches and moves a bit testing his body feeling refreshed after doing the exercises he asks, "Ok, where do we need to go now?"

"To the Temple. It's just the path up there. I just hope we don't get overrun once inside," says Vyrve as they were walking towards the Temple.

As they walk they see Fallen Ones frozen in ice and Vincent asks, "What happened to them?"

"That must have been the Priests and Paladins work that were defending the Temple from the Fallen Ones. We should be careful since they were frozen but they could still be alive," says Kirvena as they pass the bridge with the frozen Fallen Ones. They arrive at the gates and pass them as they stood in the courtyard of the Temple.

"What now?" asks Vincent as they arrived at the courtyard without problems.

"Now we release the water into the sun over here," says Vyrve as he points at the sun that was on the ground in the middle of the courtyard.

"Then let's begin, we wasted enough time gathering the water," says Serana as she walked in front while Vincent takes the ewer out an lets the water in it, flow into the sun.

Once it was in the sun it was like a four little river formed that went through the whole courtyard even when there wasn't that much water in it as it filled another sun on the other end of the courtyard as the hear a mechanism and Vyrve says, "The gates have opened. We can now enter the Temple. My Uncle should be in the deepest place of the Temple with the bow."

"Well you heard the woman we have no time to waste," says Vincent as they follow the water and arrive at the entrance to the Temple.

"Careful from here on the Temple was hit hard by the Fallen Ones," says Kirvena as they open the entrance and enter the Temple. Once inside the see many frozen Fallen Ones and Chauruses.

"We should break them apart while they are still frozen," says Vincent as he uses his ax to destroy the statues of ice while Vyrve uses his sledgehammer. The other two were melting the ice until the head was shown while the other shot an arrow in the opened head.

They continued with this method until they passed the entrance and some of the frozen Fallen Ones break free from it and attack the group.

But thanks to them being frozen for that long it made them quite slow. The group took that as an advantage and killed them quite easily as they were approaching the Sanctuary of the Temple and Vyrve says, "We are almost there. Our uncle should be waiting for us there."

"Is he a friend or a foe?" asks Vincent as he sees the serious faces on Vyrve and Kirvena.

"My father suspect that my uncle turned into a Fallen One himself. That's why he sent us with you to see and report if that was really the case," says Kirvena as they walk forward prepared to find someone sitting on a chair while the room was full of frozen Fallen Ones.

"Ah, we have visitors it's been so long since we had one," says the man sitting on his chair as they approached and the man says, "Don't come nearer."

"Uncle we are here to check on you," says Kirvena as the man was confused.

"Who is your uncle," says the man as Vyrve tries to approach the man when the man draws the bow and says, "Take one more step and you are dead."

"We are here to get the bow and it seems you have it in your hands," says Vincent as the man stared at Vincent and sees the Amulet making the man angry.

"You have no place here," says the man angry as he pulls the string and an arrow of light appeared as the man let go of the string sending the arrow directly at Vincent.

The others were nervous while Vincent was seeing smoke coming from the hand of the man making him suspicious why the man who was a priest of Auri-El was suffering from using Auri-El's weapon.

Vincent deflects the arrow of light as he says, "You dare to go after the son of your god. I think I will have to show you the consequences of attacking me."

Vincent wanted to approach when a layer of ice blocked his way as the man laughs and says, "If you want the bow you need to get past the Fallen Ones."

"I think your uncle is crazy," says Vincent as Kirvena and Vyrve looked serious at him.

"What my father was suspecting seems to be true. We need to put him down so he doesn't continue to sully the name of Auri-El," says Vyrve was holding the sledgehammer ready to swing it while the other two were prepared when Vincent was holding his ax prepared to fight.

The Fallen Ones broke out of the ice as they began to attack the group who defeated them easily when an arrow of light comes out of nowhere as it was going for Serana out of all four.

Vincent ax turned into a two-hander as his armor turned into his Dark Knight armor and he blocks the arrow as he was surrounded by Dark Energy.

"You are playing with fire old man," says Vincent angry as the arrow almost hit Serana. At this moment Vincent realized something and points his sword at the ice blocking his way as a ball of Darkness was flying in front of Vincent before it broke and the whole Darkness slipped surrounding the whole room in Darkness.

Vincent slips away the moment everything was dark to try something out. He was almost in front of the man when Vincent swings his sword when the man uses a shield to block his attack as smoke was coming from the hand the man was holding the shield.

"I knew it," says Vincent as he now knew what the man was. He uses his basic combo to try to defeat the man while saying, "You are a vampire."

"What?" say all three at the same time being shocked that the Priest was about to release the damaged the shield was saving up as light began to surround both Vincent and the man.

The man screamed in pain while Vincent used his Dark Aura to neutralize the light coming from the shield. Vincent looked at the man who was still holding the shield but had burns all over his body as smoke was coming from the body as if he was being fried by the light.

"So you were a vampire instead of a Fallen One," says Vincent as he takes the Shield and Bow from the man as he dragged the man down to the other and asks, "What do we do with him?"

"We should kill him if he really turned into a vampire we should do it. He brought shame over the Temple," says Vyrve as Serana was feeling uncomfortable.

"We should first inform our father. He is after all our uncle," says Kirvena as she walks the stairs behind the chair up and the last shrine comes out of the floor.

Gelebor comes out of the shrine and hugs his daughter as he says, "I thought I lost you two."

"Brother and Vincent were taking good care of us. But we have another thing to deal with," says Kirvena as she leads Gelebor down and he sees his brother who had some burns.

"What happened?" asks Gelebor as Kirvena explained to him that his brother was a Vampire and Gelebor says, "That can't be he should have been protected by Auri-El."

"Pah, the moment I bite one of my followers I was shunned out of Auri-El's grace as he wasn't protecting me any longer. That's why I used an Elder Scroll and made the Prophecy of Blood. So someone would come here. What I didn't know was that a Daughter of Coldharbour would come here from alone," says the man as Serana was now angry after hearing that.

"It was you because my family broke into pieces," says Serana as she was holding the man in the air strangling the man when Vincent touches her shoulder to calm her down.

She let's go and says, "Your brother will decide your punishment. I'm too good to pass my judgment over you."

"Vyrthur in my power as Paladin of Auri-El I sentence you to death. Auri-El's son will perform the execution," says Gelebor as he takes his sword and hands it to Vincent.

Vincent takes the sword and walks to Vyrthur's side while Kirvena and Vyrve were holding him down when Vincent says, "I, Vincent Highwing, will take your life. I hope you can redeem yourself in your next life."

The Vincent swings the sword as he decapitated Vyrthur as his head was now rolling on the ground when Gelebor says, "You have done well. You got what you wanted?"

"Yes, I got far more than that," says Vincent as he looked at Kirvena and Vyrve.