Just a Skyrim fanfic: Extended cut

The silver hand

(Leonidas wakes up at nightfall and puts his mask back on while he walks out to the underforge)

Skjor: Are you prepared?

Leonidas: I am ready for whatever test is next

Skjor: There is no test. This is a gift. Come inside

(Leonidas heads inside the underforge with the other companions)

Skjor: I'm glad you came. It's been a long time since we've had a heart like yours among our numbers. That pitiful ceremony behind the hall does not befit warriors like us

(Aela transforms into a werewolf)

Skjor: You are due more honor than some calls and feasting. I would hope you recognize Aela, even in this form. She's agreed to be your forebear. We do this in secret because Kodlak is trying to throw away this great gift we've been granted. He thinks we've been cursed. But we've really been blessed. How can something that gives us this kind of power be a curse? So we take matters into our own hands. To reach the heights of the companions, you must join with us in the shared blood of the wolf. Are you prepared to join your spirit with the beast world, my friend?

(Leonidas knows being a werewolf can make you very powerful, but it keeps you from getting rest, and has a lot of other drawbacks. He comes up with a lie to try and get out of it)

Leonidas: You know not of my blood. I am dragonborn. I am immune to lycanthropy

Skjor: Even if you are immune, to join the circle, your blood must be ours. However, this is a choice. We will not force you

Leonidas: Hmm. Very well

Skjor: Good

(Skjor makes a small cut on Aela's arm in her werewolf form, and she bleeds into a chalice)

(Leonidas participates in the blood ritual, but he does not display any signs of lycanthropy)

(Leonidas remembers he is immune to diseases thanks to the magic in his mask)

Aela: You are now part of the circle. We have a celebration planned for you. There's a pack of werewolf hunters camped nearby at gallows rock. The silver hand. I think you've met them before

Leonidas: Yes. They ambushed me and Farkas before meeting a gruesome demise

Aela: Well, they are all going to join their friends. Skjor's already scouting ahead

(Leonidas glides to gallows rock, where he finds some silver hand soldiers on a stone structure. He glide kicks one off of it, and uses his assassin blades to kill the others)

(Leonidas jumps off the roof, uses the cape to slow his landing, and heads inside)

Silver Hand: There he is! Kill him!

(Leonidas draws his sword and slashes through a few silver hand soldiers. He uses his fire magic in his other hand to burn a couple more)

(He looks in a closet and finds a dead werewolf nailed to the wall)

Leonidas: By the nine...

(Leonidas sees more silver hand soldiers running towards him, and he kills them, but then he sees something big running towards him)

Leonidas: Oh dicknuts!

(A huge werewolf is running at Leonidas)

Leonidas: WULD!

(Leonidas dashes out of the way as the werewolf hits a wall)

Werewolf: (Wimpers)

Leonidas: YOL TOOR SHUL!

(Leonidas uses his fire breath on the werewolf, and hits it with his sword)

(The werewolf falls down dead)

Leonidas: It's not as tough as it looks

(Leonidas hears a commotion down the hall and sees a man named Krev with the head of Skjor in his hand)

Krev: Come out and face us, werewolf!

(Leonidas takes out the ring of Hircine and puts it on, letting him transform into a werewolf)

Leonidas: AWOOO!

Silver Hand: It's huge!

Silver Hand: RUN!

(With pure strength and bloodlust, Leonidas uses his werewolf claws to slash the silver ahnd soldiers and tear them apart)

Krev: RARGH!

(Krev hits Leonidas with a silver blade, but then Leonidas stabs him through the chest with his claws and lifts him up)

Krev: NO!

(Leonidas bites Krev's head off and spits it out. Then he drops his headless body and changes back into a human)

Leonidas: (Thinks) Huh. I guess as long as I have this ring, I can change into a werewolf and not have symptoms. Nice

(Aela walks in)

Aela: Wow... That was the smoothest first transformation I've ever seen! You truly are a natural

Leonidas: Skjor's dead

Aela: What?!

Leonidas: When he scouted ahead, he tried to kill them all alone

Aela: He was one of the strongest warriors we had, but their numbers must have overwhelmed him. He should not have come here without a shield brother. I'm going to make sure we got the last of them, and see if there's any information to be gathered from the bodies. You and I have some work to do. The silver hand will tremble at our sight