The Dragoon In Skyrim

Chapter 44 - Forgotten Valley

After talking with Gelebor about what Vincent had to do to get to the bow when he asks, "I thought all Snow Elves turned to monsters?"

"You mean the fallen ones. No not everyone turned into them. There is still a small tribe hiding on the border between Orsinium and Skyrim," says Gelebor making Kirvena giggle.

"Father, Orsinium doesn't exist any longer. What he means is that the village is between the borders of Hammerfell, High Rock and Skyrim," says Kirvena explaining to them where the last Snow Elves lived in peace.

"Right, I forgot. I'm almost never out there like you and your brother," says Gelebor as he really forgot about Orsinium not existing any longer. He sits down on a chair they had there and says, "You will go and do the pilgrimage like everyone before you. My daughter and son will accompany you two. My brother should be in the Temple if he is still alive. I haven't heard from him since the fallen ones stormed the Temple."

"Don't worry we will protect you," says Vyrve as he stands up from his chair and walks over to Vincent side as does Kirvena.

"So we have to go and collect water so we can enter the temple to get the bow," says Serana as she was beside Vincent.

"That's how the gates of the Temple open. They wouldn't open another way," says Gelebor as he opens the way making the first shrine appear and continues, "Many fallen ones are in the valley to get to the temple be careful."

Vincent enters the shrine and takes the ewer that was inside and fill it with some water before putting it away and a path opened inside the shrine.

"I will get to you once the last shrine is opened at the Temple," says Gelebor as the group pass through the portal and the find themselves surrounded by darkness.

They use Candlelight to brighten the cave they landed in and begin to march forwards. Finding some Falmer for the first time Vincent asks quietly, "What are those things?"

"Those are the fallen ones. They were Snow Elves before they turned to those things over the centuries of being stripped of their eyesight by the Dwemers," whisper Kirvena as the Falmer turned around and Vyrve takes it out with an arrow.

"They are easy to kill if you are quiet since they can't see us. The Chaurus will be a different story. They can see us I just hope we won't encounter some Chaurus Hunters they are quite nasty," says Vyrve as he takes the arrow out of the Falmer and they continue on their way as a flying insect was in their way.

"You had to jinx it," says Kirvena as she hit Vyrve's backhead softly and they kill it quite shift before it knew they were there.

They continue on their way killing Falmer and Chauruses on their way until they arrive at where the cave seemed to end and Serana says, "This can't be the end. It looks more like they tried to keep something out instead of trying to trap us here with those traps."

"I can feel the wind passing through this wall. There must be a mechanism to open this hidden door," says Kirvena as Vyrve that's his Sledgehammer and give it a clean hit opening the door without the mechanism just with brute force.

A Saber Cat comes jumping straight at them and Vincent swings his ax at it splitting it in two separating the upper body with the lower body.

"There goes the pelt. It could have brought you quite the money outside," says Serana as she inspected the fur of the Saber Cat.

"Better the fur than our friend over there. Now we should continue," says Vincent as he puts his ax back and they continue finding deers with rare fur too. But Vincent thought it would be better to let them alone for now since the search for the bow was more important.

They arrive at the next shrine and a ghost was waiting for them there and when it saw them it says, "Welcome it been long since someone made the pilgrimage to Auri-El's Temple."

"Yes, the old man is forcing me to do so," says Vincent confusing the ghost.

"Well anyway," says the ghost as the shrine showed itself and continues, "Take some of the water within the ewer and the path should open for you."

Then the ghost turns to the two Snow Elves and says, "It seems they still train Paladins even when the temple was abandoned. That gives me hope that the temple might become lively again."

The pass the portal and ended in a hole. They looked up and found moonlight shining down on them. They follow the path and arrive at the Forgotten Valley.

There Vincent says, "We should rest here for today."

"Really again," says Serana as Vincent already build the tents.

"Yes, I and Vyrve will sleep in one and you two in the other," says Vincent as he ignited the campfire.

"Shouldn't we continue instead of wasting time?" asks Vyrve confused with Vincent's decision.

"We were fighting the whole day if we continue we could make mistakes from exhaustion and our reflects would suffer from it too. It's better to rest well for now and continue tomorrow," explains Vincent the others as he sat down beside the fire without his armor on as he was grilling the Saber Cat they killed before.

They were sitting around the fire when the food was ready and they begin to eat except for Serana who didn't feel hungry at the moment and they begin to tell tales around the campfire until Vincent asks, "What did you just say?"

"There are some rumors about a Snow Elf living alone in the North on an Island. One of our Snow Elves that live in the village at the border had to go to Winterhold to get some information from the College there when they were attacked by pirates but they were saved by another Snow Elf that turned the water under her to ice as she was walking on it. The pirates froze solid and died as their ship get safely away," says Vyrve as Vincent gives him a stare of disbelief and happiness at the same time as a tear falls down his cheek.

"What is going on why are you crying?" asks Serana not understanding why Vincent was showing those emotions.

Vincent begins to paint an Elezen on the paper and asks, "Did she look like this?"

"A little bit. They couldn't recognize the face but the hair and clothes come near to it. Why do you know her?" asks Vyrve seeing the portray of the Elezen.

"She is Ysayle Dangoulain, my first crush. She was also known as Lady Iceheart. We thought she died after the battle against the Garlean," says Vincent happy to find out that she was alive but also curious how she came to be here since she turned to Blue Aether.

"Is she from your continent then?" asks Serana since she didn't know Vincent was from another world yet.

"Yes, she resembles the Snow Elves a bit but she isn't one. Now I really want to meet her," says Vincent as he really wanted to say goodbye to the three and go to the North to find her put remembers that he has now duties to fulfill as the High King of Skyrim when he says, "*sighs* I will go to sleep now. See you all tomorrow."

Vincent then leaves the three alone and goes to sleep and Kirvena asks, "So what is the story between you two?"

"Nothing much he and his wife saved me from a crypt I was imprisoned in. They even gave me shelter and are helping me fight against my father," says Serana.

"Really? It must be my imagination telling me that something is between you two since he is helping a vampire," says Kirvena as she makes Serana blush and she says, "I will go to sleep too now. See you both tomorrow."

"I will go with you," says Serana as she also stands up and follows Kirvena as Vyrve was sitting alone in front of the fire before standing up and entering the tent to sleep too.

The next day they begin to travel again. They encounter one shrine walking up a hill. And another one as the ghost protecting the shrine points to another hill where the next shrine would be. They continue to find some of those rare Saber Cats and kill them as Vincent puts them away.

After having the first four shrines now Vincent asks, "How many are still left?"

"I think two or three more and we should be done," says Vyrve as he had his hammer resting on his shoulder.

They follow the path and get attacked by Giant Spiders that they take care of as they arrive at a frozen river and the next shrine. From there the ghost shows them to pass the river and walk the stairs up to get to the next shrine in their pilgrimage to the Temple.

They walk the stairs up and find a frozen lake there and Serana asks, "Do you think it's safe to walk on the ice?"

Vincent takes his ax and hits it lightly and the ice seemed to withstand it easily. "We should be alright," says Vincent as they begin to walk on it when he feels uneasy and the ice begin to shake under them as he shouts, "Run!"

Everyone ran forwards trying to get to the shore on the other end before the ice breaks. Then a shadow appears under them that swims pass them and another one appears that disappears as fast when suddenly the ice broke near Kirvena and Vincent grabs her before she falls into the cold water and throws her towards Vyrve.

He turns to the others and says, "Keep running to the shore I will take care of them."

His ax and Warriors-set armor disappeared and his spear and Drachen-set armor appeared on his body as he took two steps before jumping and he pierces the back of one of the two dragons before saying, {The punishment for going against your King means Death.}

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