The Fall Of Alduin (ON HOLD)

Ch 4: the end of a battle

....how do I end up like this?....out of potions and magical energy, but the world eater himself bloodied and beaten like myself. My bones ached for relief and the cuts on me bled, dripping down from the cracks of my dragon bone armor. I panted as I licked the blood from the cut on my lip, it felt as though my leg was broken from Alduin's powerful jaws that clamped down on it just minutes ago. I sucked in painful breathes, unable to do anymore dovah shouts. It now felt as though my ebony ax weighted so much due to my weakened state, but I dragged it across the ground with both hands as I limped on my leg. I only had enough stamina for one more powerful blow as I weakly walked up to Alduin's weak form.

He too didn't look in good shape as he laid on the ground growling in pain without much energy. It felt as if we where equally matched for each other, both of us might die at the same time, but not yet. Alduin was now unable to fly from our fight and was now waiting for me to make the final blow. His red eyes looked up to my blue ones, while I raised the ax above me, ready to end this once and for all, but.....hesitated for some reason.

My body begged for relief as I kept my ax over my shoulder, still ready, but I couldn't. Why was I hesitating now? Alduin looked at me with a curious look probably wondering why I didn't end his life then and their. I tried to figure it out myself, maybe it was the way he looked at me with his red eyes looking at me softly. I felt my heart tug, it could be because in reality I actually felt sorry for the dovah. paarthurnax, odahviing, and a few other dragons learned the error of their ways from following someone such as this, maybe he could too?

I shook my head, no I'm just being too nice now. I have to do this...for all of Skyrim, an evil person such as this can't change. Reading my battle ax I swung it down for one more killing blow.....but it did not come, instead I swung it down to him where it did not kill him, but weakened him for the final time to where he no longer couldn't keep the souls he ate. His black scales cracked with orange light as colored light escaped from his body, until he didn't have another soul left in him. He limped weakly on the ground as if he was dead, but only passed out. taking in a breath I thought of something else and got ready for a painful shout to him.

"...gol-hah-dov!"i shouted clearly at him, but afterwards I struggled to catch my breath as I coughed a few time with blood coming out."go back to Skyrim and hide so nobody can find you,besides me. I will come back when I am ready."

turning around, the thick fog around the road to sovngarde started to disappear and the souls started to find their way to the bridge already. In the trance I sent him on Alduin got up and start to fly away in the fog, heading out of this place before the fog could clearly disappear. Me on the other hand, I limped back to the bridge where the Nordic warriors and the tsun guard waited for me. They congratulated me on my 'defeat' and the tsun warrior returned me safely to the throat of the world.

As the white flash started to clear from my eyes I started to see a dovah before me, but as I looked around I noticed I was surrounded by other dragons before me. I almost panicked when I saw odahviing by himself and paarthurnax on the word wall. It seems they where waiting for me and ironically I was on the throat of the world.

"Alduin mahlaan!"they all chanted.

"Sahrot thur qahnaraan,"I heard another dragon say.

"Alduin mahlaan!"

"Dovahkiin los ok dovahkriid."

"Alduin mahlaan!"

"Thu'umii los nahlot."

"Alduin mahlaan!"

"Mu los vomir,"the dragon said lastly as the first dragon flew off it's perch and breathed it's fire across the sky.

After the first, then the second and so forth. I looked over to paarthurnax who looked at me, ready for questions or our talk.

"It's done. Alduin dilon. The eldest is no more, he who came before all the others, and has always been,"Paarthurnaz said with sadness in his voice.

I sighed,"Alduin brought this on himself."

He nodded,"Indeed. Alduin wahlaan daanii. His doom was written when he claimed for himself the lordship that properly belongs to bormahu-our father akatosh. But I cannot celebrate his fall. Zu'u tiiraaz ahst ok mah. He was my brother once. This world will never be the same."

"But this world is better off without him."

"Perhaps. At least it will continue to exist. Grik los lein and as you told me once the world will have to take care of itself."He sighed."But I forgot myself. krosis. so los mid fahdon. melancholy is an easy trap for a dovah to fall into. you have won a mighty victory, one that will echo through all ages of this world for those who have eyes to see it. Savor your triumph dovahkiin. This is not the last of what you will write upon the currents of time."

After that he flew up in the sky joining his fellow dovah, but he shouted for one last time," goraan! I feel younger then I have in many an age!"

He told me his last plans for the dovah while flying over me and soon flew off into the distance with the others following them, until I couldn't see them anymore in the cloudy sky. I looked at the sky confused when i saw odahviing land in front of me, instead of joining the others in their flight away from here. Though he did not had to explain it to me because I think I understood and he made a promise to serve me and in my continue journey since he did not want to meditate on the words of power. Still in pain from the battle I had to request that he fly me back home to be healed and properly cared for.