Just a Skyrim fanfic: Extended cut

Enter the temple

(Leonidas and Serana dock their boat at Solstheim)

Leonidas: Here we are. Raven rock

Maximus: Leonidas? Serana? What are you two doing here?

Serana: Maximus? I could ask you the same thing

Maximus: The east empire company has had alarmingly low activity as of late. Tullius sent me to investigate, but it looks like I'll have some help. Maybe you can help me figure out what's going on here

Leonidas: What do you mean?

Maximus: If you talk to any of the locals, you can see for yourself. Watch this. (Ahem). Hello there

Citizen: Here in his shrine. That they have forgotten. Here do we toil. That we might remember. By night we reclaim. What by day was stolen. Far from ourselves. He grows ever near to us. Our eyes once were blinded. Now through him do we see. Our hands once were idle. Now through them does he speak. And when the world shall listen. And when the world shall see. And when the world remembers. That world shall cease to be

Serana/Maximus: (Confusion)

Leonidas: I can see it in their eyes. They're being controlled. I have no idea how, but Miraak must ve somehow possessing the people of this island

Maximus: You're the history expert. What do you know about him?

Leonidas: He was a dragonborn dragon priest, and he had a temple on Solstheim until it was destroyed. He was defeated by another dragon priest named Vahlok the jailor, and then he went missing. And now he's returned, apparently. Maybe the temple's ruins will shed some light on our situation

(Leonidas, Serana, and Maximus journey to the upper part of Solstheim to find the temple of Miraak being rebuilt by the mind controlled citizens)

Maximus: By the nine...

Leonidas: It appears my suspicions are confirmed

Frea: You there. What brings you to this place? Why are you here?

Leonidas: Exploring. Who are you?

Frea: I am Frea of the skaal. I am here to either save my people, or avenge them. Something has taken control of most of the people on Solstheim. It makes them forget themselves, and work on these horrible creations that corrupt the Stones, the very land itself. My father Storn, our shaman, says Miraak has returned to Solstheim, but that is impossible

Leonidas: I wouldn't say impossible, since he tried to have me killed

Frea: Then you and I both have reason to see what lies beneath us. Let us go. There is nothing more I can do here. The tree stone and my friends are beyond my help for now. We need to find a way into the temple below

(Leonidas, Maximus, Serana, and Frea go down into the temple, and a group of cultists start throwing fireballs at them)

Cultist: You befoul these grounds, deceiver! Begone!

Leonidas: FUS RO DAH!

(Leonidas force shouts the cultists. Serana finishes a few off with her magic, while Maximus and Frea use their bows)

Frea: We should be careful. There could be a lot of traps. Miraak was trying to take power here, and protect himself in the process

(The group wanders through Miraak's temple fighting cultists and finding treasure until they come across a hallway full of swinging axes)