Training with the Group

Orug was leading Ciri and Avallac'h towards his house as both could see that Orug was living alone having a picture of himself and two children on a table as Ciri sees the picture and asks, "Are those your children?"

"They are my late sister's children. She died when she gave birth to my nephew. It seems my part of the family is cursed to have our wife die after giving birth to only two children," says Orug as he looked at the picture.

"I'm sorry to hear that," says Avallac'h as Orug just waves his hand.

"Don't worry that has been years ago. My father suffered far more with the death of my sister and mother," says Orug as he puts the picture on the table.

"Anyway the girl on that picture is a mother of three children and Queen of the Orsimer. I had to kill the bastard of her father for abandoning them," says Orug as the other two were confused about it.

"Didn't your father do something when your sister died?" asks Ciri as Orug smiles from hearing that.

"He gave me Volendrung and told me to deal with it in the way of the Orsimer. I challenged my brother-in-law and smashed his head with my Volendrung. He should have remembered that he was only on that throne because my sister wanted him there and not because he was strong," says Orug as they still were confused.

"My father can't just mobilize the Dragons just because his son-in-law is a bastard and if he did it behind closed doors the public would become scared learning that we could do that. So he used the public way to deal with that problem sending me," says Orug explaining it to them making them see what they were missing.

"Anyway did you already eat or are you hungry?" asks Orug as he walked towards the kitchen.

"We already ate in your father's place but maybe you can tell us some of your adventures," says Ciri as she was curious how Orug received his scars.

"I really didn't have many adventures. Compared to my father my adventures are quite boring," says Orug as he sat down.

"Hmm... let me think. There was once a fight against a rogue giant. He almost killed me with one swing of his club. It was the hardest challenge I ever had," says Orug not kidding about it.

He told them some stories about his adventures of killing some monsters like Trolls or Hagravens as the day came to an end and says, "Let me show you to your rooms."

They walk up the stairs up as they arrive at one room and it was quite girly when he says, "This is the room of my grand-niece. It would be best if Ciri sleeps here."

"Thank you," says Ciri as she was fascinated by the stories Orug shared with her and Avallac'h.

"Then let me show you your room," says Orug to Avallac'h as they arrived at a room that had fake weapons hanging on the walls.

"This is the room of my grand-nephew. As you can see he is into weapons since he was young," says Orug as Avallac'h nods.

"I can see that. Did your father make those?" asks Avallac'h as Orug shakes his head.

"They aren't manmade. We have machines to make such replicas that can't be used to fight for children to play with. They aren't sharp after all," says Orug surprising Avallac'h again in how advanced they were.

"Well then I will go to sleep it will be quite some time until the old man allows you to leave," says Orug as he leaves for his room that was at the end of the hall.

Two weeks passed as Ciri joined the morning practice that Vincent was leading with the other Highwind members while Avallac'h was studying under Mina the history of Nirn.

Vincent made an Energy Weapon for Ciri so she could participate in the practice. She mostly fought against younger members of the family because the older ones wanted a challenge.

Ciri was using her magic while fighting trying to find an advantage only to find out that what she thought was her advantage was her disadvantage as she was always beaten making her get frustrated from losing.

"Girl you still have a long way to go," says Vincent as he looked at Ciri who was sitting on the ground seeing Naosane and Orug fight.

"Why can't I win?" asks Ciri as she looked at how Naosane and Orug were just staring at each other not moving.

"Look at this fight and you will understand," says Vincent as both didn't move making Ciri look at Vincent.

"Why aren't they fighting?" asks Ciri as Vincent smiles.

"They are already fighting in their mind. They are calculating every move they could make and the move the opponent could take," says Vincent as he takes a branch that was laying around.

"Do you want to see an epic fight?" asks Vincent as Ciri looked excited when Vincent throws the branch between both fighters.

Before the branch landed on the ground both rushed at each other and collided against each other. Orug pushes Naosane back as he uses the end of his hammer to hit his brother's stomach only to find the shield of his brother blocking it.

Naosane went for Orug's head with his sword. Orug just moves his head out of the way as he made space between both while spinning his hammer making it to behind his back while facing the ground.

Orug rushes at Naosane again while Naosane did the same. Naosane used his shield to attack Orug first only to find Orug dodge it and attack swing his hammer upwards making Naosane use his sword to block.

The sword flew out of Naosane's hand when Orug made his hammer spin hitting his brother in the stomach with the other end of Volendrung.

"You win," says Naosane as he walked towards his sword and picked it up.

"That was a quick fight," says Ciri as she clapped her hands.

"That wasn't really quick," says Vincent as they fight took far too long.

"You might see it as a fast battle but in reality, it was quite a long battle. Let me show you a fast battle," says Vincent as he picked up his spear and stood in front of everyone.

"Let show her a fast fight," says Vincent as Orug and Naosane looked at each other before rushing at Vincent who only makes two strikes and brings them down rapidly.

"That is a fast fight," says Vincent as Naosane and Orug were laying on the ground out cold.

"Let me get them home so Anra can heal them," says Vincent as he picked both up as if it was nothing.

"You all continue training. Ciri, you come with me," says Vincent as he began moving to his house while Ciri followed.

"You wanted to know why you couldn't win right," says Vincent as Ciri nods.

"It's quite simple," says Vincent as Ciri seemed to have hope hearing that.

"What is it?" asks Ciri excited.

"You have almost no experience in fighting and have no patience making the others see your flaws on your technique by attacking first instead of waiting for your opponent to attack you. It's like you never knew that your style is defensive and not offensive. If you go into the offense you are at a disadvantage," says Vincent as they arrived at his house.

Vincent puts his sons down on the floor while calling for Ellana and Anra they came over and healed the two before Vincent kissed both of them.

"Do you love all of your wives?" asks Ciri seeing the affection he was giving Anra and Ellana making Ellana laugh from hearing that question.

"No, I didn't love all my wives. For example, I didn't love my Nevarran wife. I still showed her affection but didn't love her and she didn't love me but quite hated me for what I did," says Vincent as Ciri was surprised.

"Isn't it normal for only a loving couple to marry?" asks Ciri as Vincent nods.

"That is always the case but Mina accepted Cassandra as Vincent's wife and once she decides there is no going back. I also hated Vincent when I first arrived here like every other woman that married him under those conditions. But he showed me affection and after he showed me that he really cared for my children as he did with the other I fell for him," says Ellana explaining to Ciri that you don't need to have love in the beginning as long as it will develop sooner or later.

"So you had many wives that hated you?" asks Ciri as Vincent nods.

"Elisif, Cassandra, Ellana, Evelyn, and Karliah for a bit I think," says Anra as she knew Vincent the longest of all the women that call him husband.

"Cassandra hated me until she died that's when she made peace with me for destroying the Chantry," says Vincent as he sat down on a chair.

"The Chantry was the religious group that was formed in Thedas that was worshipping your Divine Akatosh under another name right," says Ciri as Vincent nods.

"That's right, she was a Seeker and fought for the Chantry. I already knew that she would hate me for what I did but the children never suffered under our bad relationship. Our daughter became Queen of Nevarra and right now her grandchild is the King of Nevarra," says Vincent as he stood up and walked towards a picture that was hanging on the wall.

"This is me with Cassandra," says Vincent as Ciri saw the smiles on the two children in the picture with their father and mother.

Cassandra seemed to have an angered smile while Vincent smiled normally as Ciri's look wanders to the picture next to it seeing only Vincent with two Orsimer while a picture of an Orsimer woman was on the top right of the frame.

"Is that-" says Ciri curious as Vincent smiles

"That's Orug and his sister. The woman on the top right is their mother. I wanted her included so I had to find an old painted picture and make it into a foto like every other foto on this wall," says Vincent as he touched the foto passing his fingers over her picture.

The Orsimer was more refined than a normal Orsimer that was a bit stockier normally as Vincent says, "She was called a weak woman between the Orsimer but she could hit quite hard for a woman that was called weak since she defeated many people that called her weak."

"Our daughter inherits her frame as you can see on the picture while Orug got my stocky build. It is quite curious that all the women of her part of the family are like that while the males are stocky like me," says Vincent as he puts the picture back on the wall.

"Like said I didn't love all my wives but my first batch of wives I love wholeheartedly and I would have killed myself to let them live. Anyway we should address the elephant in the room and begin your serious training," says Vincent as Ciri was confused.

"I am trained," says Ciri as Vincent begins to laugh about the naivete of Ciri.

"You are not. All your moves are crude. They might work against people that never learned how to swing a sword but compared to someone that swings his sword for years it is nothing. We will begin in the morning with your serious training," says Vincent as he stood back up and left the house leaving an angry Ciri behind with the two unconscious men, Anra, and Ellana.

Ellana and Anra giggled seeing the angry Ciri as Ellana says, "If he really thinks you need training then take his offer. I was like you as well stubborn thinking I was the best in the world but Vincent killed Dragons when I wasn't even born yet."

"Is he that strong?" asks Ciri as she only saw one fight of Vincent.

"He was going easy on those two. I remember how he once ripped a hole into the chest of a Dragon and it was in his early days," says Mina that entered the room with Avallac'h.

"He was sleeping for some days afterward but he killed Alduin and absorbed his soul," says Mina as she sat down and continues, "And a bit of serious training won't damage you from what I heard from Avallac'h about your world."

"Fine," says Ciri pouting that she had to train all over again.