Skyrim: The True Story

Chapter 16: The Escape

Ralof walked over to me and pheonix

"It's time for us to go." Ralof pointed up the stairs. Phoenix picked me up and carried me up the stairs. Before we could make it to the top the dragon bashed his head through the side of the tower almost knocking Phoenix over. The dragon shot fire out of his mouth and burned a soldier to death. Phoenix stood against the wall and waited for the dragon to fly away. When the dragon flew away Phoenix jumped down to a damaged house below. Ralof was right behind us as Phoenix ran through ruined houses. When we were running through one of the houses I saw I burnt corpse wearing my mother's necklace. I knew it was her.
"Phoenix set me down!" I demanded.
"Are you crazy? If I do that we'll end up burnt just like them!"
"Phoenix set me down right now or I swear to Sithis I will rip your neck out with my teeth!" I yelled at him. Phoenix stopped and set me down in front of my mother's corpse. I took the necklace off of her and put it on. Tears began running down my face.
"I'm sorry......I'm so so sorry." I sobbed over and over again. Phoenix picked me back up and kept on running. He ran after Ralof, who was running towards a mostly undamaged building.
"In there! Hurry!" Ralof shouted as he pointed towards the building. We quickly got into the building and stayed put for a few moments.
"So what now?" Phoenix asked, setting me down on a chair next to a dead soldier laying on the ground.
"We get our sorry hides out of here before this building crushes us." Ralof said, grabbing weapons out of a chest nearby. He tossed us our weapons. Ralof tried to open a door so we could leave but the door was locked. Imperial soldiers began walking toward a door on the other side of the round room. Ralof told us to get down and ready our weapons. Pheonix quickly healed my ankle with a healing spell and grabbed his weapons. I crouched down next to Pheonix and held my weapons tightly. As soon as the walked in the room they saw and drew their weapons. We charged the imperial soldiers. We killed them both. Ralof took a key off of one of the dead bodies. Ralof took the key and opened the locked door. Phoenix and I followed him down the stairs and into a what looked like a torture room. Their were two more imperial gaurds and a couple of dead stormcloacks on the ground Ralf killed the both of them and kept on walking.

After passing through the underground part of the building and killing a few more imperials, we ended up somewhere in a cave as we were walking through the cave everyone was silent. I kept on replaying that whole moment of seeing my mother dead like that. I still couldn't believe any of it and was hoping I was in a terrible dream. We stumbled upon a bear sleeping near a pile of bones.
"Who wants to take care of this one?" Ralof asked us.
"I'll do it." I said. I held out my hand and Ralof handed me a bow with a few arrows. I held the bow, put the arrow in place, and pulled the arrow back to my cheek. I took a deep breath and let go of the string. The arrow flew straight through to bears head. I gave Ralof his arrows and bow back. We all stood up and headed out of that area. Sure enough we found ourselves surrounded by frostbite spiders. We finished those off and headed out of the cave. When we finally got out of the cave we had to crouch behind a rock and wait for the dragon to pass over head. When the dragon passed we all stood up.
"Y'know if you two need anything you could follow me back to riverwood. I have a sister that lives there, and I know she would be more than happy to help you out in any way she could." Rapid said.
"Thanks, but no thanks. I think we are ok." I replied.
"Well if you ever are in windhelm you should go and join the stormcloaks. Tell them Ralof sent you. Oh, and you might want to tell the jarl of whiterun that there is a dragon headed his way."
"Sure thing. We need to rest up a bit anyways." Pheonix said.
"Well hopefully I will see you two again some day." Ralof waved and walked down the road.