Darkfall Cave

Vincent arrives at the Throat of the World with Odahviing where Paarthurnax was awaiting them and says, {8 Dragons are flying towards us. What do you think will happen?}

{I can only hope they have chosen wisely and are here to plea their loyalty to me,} says Vincent as they could already see the eight Dragons in the distance.

The Dragons land on The Throat of the World and the situation felt tense as Vincent asks, {What are your decision?}

{The Dragons came to a conclusion. We will serve as long as you truly want to unite Nirn,}says one of the Dragons that arrived.

{Is that all?} asks Vincent feeling calm from hearing them.

{Yes, we also don't want to die after being brought back after all. But my question is. When are we going to start to unite Tamriel?} asks the same Dragon.

{In a year when I have dealt with everything around Skyrim,} says Vincent as he closes his eyes.

{One year we will wait for your call and burn your enemies down. If you don't call don't await us to be loyal to you,} says another Dragon as he leaves.

The other Dragons give a slight now before leaving too and Paarthurnax says, {In one year you are going to start the campaign.}

{Yes, the faster I unite Tamriel the faster I can worry about the smaller things that are happening in Tamriel,} says Vincent explaining his decision to Paarthurnax.

Vincent then leaves the Throat of the World with Odahviing bringing him down to his home. Once at home Elisif asks, "What did they say?"

"They will join me but beginning next year I won't be able to stay at home," says Vincent seriously.

"Why?" asks Mina worried.

"War is coming and I will be in the middle of everything. We will have to move to the Imperial City after the war is over," says Vincent as he touches them both on their shoulders as he continues, "But first let us deal with our Vampire problem, shall we. Mina, I want you to sent a letter to Karliah try to convince the people from the other guild faster even if it means by force. We need at least the people from our surrounding provinces under me for when the campaign begins."

"Elisif, try to keep everything as it is and begin to recruit people for the army. We won't need them with the Dragons but we can strengthen our defenses on the wall with them," says Vincent as he looks at Serana and says, "And us two will go for the bow and kill your father. *sighs* Now I'm really under pressure."

"We will begin right now," say Elisif and Mina while Vincent pets his children before leaving the house with Serana as they mount on Odahviing and they take off.

{Where are we going now?} asks Odahviing as he was overflying Skyrim.

{Darkfall Cave. That's where Father told me to go,} says Vincent making Odahviing laugh and Vincent asks, {What's so funny?}

{He wants to make you go on a pilgrimage. It's an old temple of the Snow Elves. Maybe you are lucky and you find some cute elf around there,} says Odahviing as he was about to arrive and he lands Vincent and Serana jump down.

{You can leave for now, friend,} says Vincent as Odahviing takes off again. He looks at the cave entrance and says, "Let's go in while the sun is still up."

"What do you mean we will be in a cave it's not like we will see if the sun is up or down," says Serana angry as she passes Vincent and uses Candlelight once inside while thinking, 'Why does every man I know becomes a greedy bastard that wants to conquer everything.'

"What happened with her," says Vincent to himself as he follows her while also using the Candlelight spell. They encounter a bridge that has seen better days and Vincent sees as Serana just walked on it as it suddenly breaks and Serana just gave a scream out of surprise because the bridge broke under her weight.

Vincent jumps straight after her and catches her in mid-air as he looks down only to see water.

"Take a deep breath," says Vincent as he does so while she didn't listen and they are taken by the current of the cave river. Serana lost her breath while Vincent was trying to bring her to the surface so she could breathe again but the current was quite strong until they arrived where Vincent could stand. He princess carries her until they are at the shore then he begins to bring her back by mouth to mouth.

She coughs the water that was in her lungs as she was still unconscious Vincent uses Candlelight and tries to see if they could camp around here only to find trolls in the vicinity.

"I will have to kill the trolls first," says Vincent as he takes his ax and kills the trolls that were around them before returning to Serana and he starts a fire and takes a bath to clean himself of the troll blood. Then he buts the armor beside the fire and he touches Serana forehead only to find it cold and he says, "She is colder than she was before. I should give her some blood that should bring her back I think."

Then he cuts his hand and begins to pour his blood into Serana's mouth as it slowly drops down her throat and she finally was back to normal as she opened her eyes and sees Vincent's upper body full with scars from the war against the Dragons and she blushed a little and stopped drinking when Vincent puts his hand in her mouth and says, "Drink you won't be of much use if you die here."

"You sound awfully like my father," says Serana back angry.

"It can't be helped," says Vincent he shoves his blood into Serana's mouth putting his hand over her mouth so she couldn't say anything back while he says, "We will continue after you rested. I already took care of potential threats to us."

After she has finished drinking the blood did Vincent heal his hand and sit down while she says timid, "Thanks."

"No problem. Just don't take everything that I say seriously," says Vincent as he sits beside the fire to warm up.

Serana sits beside him and asks, "How did you get all those scars?"

"Fighting Dragons. Not the ones around Skyrim but those from where I'm from," says Vincent as he touches some of his old wounds and touched the last wound that Nidhogg gave him before dying making him flinch.

"Are you alright?" asks Serana as she sees Vincent flinch.

"It's nothing just remembered one of my former enemies," says Vincent as he lays down and says, "I will go to sleep. You should do the same. It could be dangerous not to do so since we don't know what will await us."

"Alright," says Serana as she sees Vincent sleep beside the fire and hears him say, "Damn if the only Behemoth could be here."

They sleep for a while and Vincent wakes up and feels suddenly cold as he feels that he was squeezing something he shouldn't. He opens his eyes and find his hand squeezing one of Serana's boobs.

Serana was blushing and staring at Vincent while saying angrily, "You slept well it seems."

"I'm sorry about that," says Vincent as he apologizes while his hand was still squeezing her boob.

"His about you take your hand away from my chest before I freeze it off," says Serana as it really turned cold for Vincent, who retracted his hand.

'They are quite soft for an undead,' thinks Vincent as Serana stands up and says, "We should keep going then."

They continue to move forwards and find a skeleton with a diary and Vincent read the first few pages and says, "Poor fool. He died in here because of the troll most likely thinking he could share their habitat."

He takes the diary and puts it in his bag with some of the valuable things and Serana asks, "What are you doing? We don't have time to steal from the dead."

"Who says I'm stealing. The diary says he had a sister. She should know that her brother died and receive his things. Many family members of my former comrades didn't get this chance to say goodbye. You might not know but if you fight against Dragons one misstep is your death and it's almost impossible to find out where you were killed since the Dragon could drag your body somewhere else or end in its stomach," says Vincent now angry as he remembered how many of his comrades didn't even have a proper grave because their corpse we're dragged away from the battlefield never to be found again.

He had a stare that intimidated Serana a bit as she says, "I'm sorry, I didn't know."

"*sighs* It's alright you didn't know about it. We should continue, keep your eyes open the diary mentioned traps," says Vincent as they continue and Vincent finds a trap that would release some rock to fall upon them.

After passing the trap they arrive at a troll nest. They take care of them and Vincent says, "To imagine that so many trolls live around here."

"My question is where is the bow. I don't think it is here," says Serana confused with why Akatosh told Vincent to come here.

"Odahviing said that we had to do some pilgrimage to get to the bow. There should also be a shield there," says Vincent as they push forward and they arrive at a place that had a hole in the cellar making sunlight shine down.

They glance over and find three elves sitting in the light as they arrive and one bulky looking elf stands up and says, "Don't come any closer Vampire. This is a sacred place."

"Yeah right a sacred place in a cave full of trolls. How comes they didn't attack you all this time," says Serana as Vincent steps into the light and all three see the Amulet and only the old one of the three elves kneel in front of Vincent.

"Father what are you doing?" asks the woman between the three elves confused while the bulky elf says, "Father didn't you say we should never kneel to someone."

"This is different. As Paladin of Auri-El you both should kneel in front of his son," says the older elf as he drags both down to their knees and says, "I'm sorry for my children. I'm Knight-Paladin Gelebor. Those are my daughter, Kirvena, and my son, Vyrve."

"How do you know that Akatosh sent me?" asks Vincent as he was confused.

"Auri-El himself told it to me in my dream. Telling me that his son will come here. He told me I would recognize him when I see the Amulet you are wearing," says Gelebor as he looks up to Vincent.

"How about you all stand up and we talk about what I have to do to get the bow of my father," says Vincent as he helps Gelebor up and they sit down to talk about it.