Heartless

Chapter 34 - Part 47

This chapter will hopefully contain some Brickjolf Humor for TheSweetroll_Thief because we both love "Brickyyyyyyyyyyy"

Brynjolf

Nothing I have ever seen was more vile than Shadow being forced into something she never agreed to. First of all, she was wearing a breathtaking wedding dress... but it was PINK. And Shadow HATES pink.

Sure she looked dazzling in her dress, but her eyes were glassy as she was led up the isle by her brother, to where her groom was waiting. Karliah had an arrow aimed straight at Robin Umbranox, and Ulylle had her arrows aimed at the guards around the event (the Wood elf had nocked eight at once).

As soon as I gave the signal, pandemonium broke loose. Karliah shot at Robin, who was brutally stabbed by Shadow, who had been hiding an ebony dagger in the folds of her dress. Ulylle took out the guards as Shadow's eldest sister ran at her, dagger raised. Shadow spun around and began a fierce duel with her sister while keeping an eye on me.

'BRICKY, BEHIND YOU!' She yelled at me, surprising her opponent with some beautiful bladework.

I spun on my heels and parried the strikes of a brown furred Khajiit, who mistook me for an attacker.

'I'm not going to hurt Shadow.' I said, blocking his strikes. 'I'm going to take her back to Skyrim and protect her with my life.'

The Khajiit nodded and sheathed his blades as we turned to watch the dueling sisters. I was impressed by Shadow, who was fighting in a full length wedding dress... until in one smooth motion she disarmed her sister and gathered up the train of her dress, wrapping it around her so she could fight easier.

By now, Shadow's sister had retrieved her steel dagger and had attacked Shadow again, screeching about gold. Shadow scowled and blocked the attacks, pushing her sister back until with a mighty splashed, she ended up in the waters surrounding the Imperial City. Shadow didn't stop there, she held her sister's head underneath the water just as I felt something cold and sharp tear through my body and exit the other side.

She heard my strangled gasp, and pushed her sister deeper underwater. Without mercy, Shadow was drowning her sister. That was when I realised that Shadow could take down anyone if she knew them well. She must have known her sister couldn't swim, and she probably knew my weakness too. When Shadow's sister stopped flailing in the water, she rushed over to me and slid the dagger smoothly from my torso. Blood gushed out with it as the Khajiit placed her cold hands over my wound and let a healing spell flow through me, rapidly closing my wound.

'Brickjolf you idiot, you could have died.'

'Did you just call me Brickjolf?'

'Yep.'

'Did you really just drown your sister?'

'Oh no, she's just sleeping in the water.' Shadow Replied, sarcasm dripping from every word. 'Yes, she just died.'

'Is that... normal?'

'Ha. Yep.'