The army charges over to Alduin, jumping over the large crevices and cracks in the ground, avoiding the sweeping tornados, and barely blocking the occasional meteor that falls their way. Twenty more people fall in this venture alone, but finally, they reach the World-Eater...
Alduin was still struggling with the effects of the empowered mortality shout he'd just taken, and so was ill-prepared to defend against the sudden attack.
Ysgramor goes first, leaps high and smashing his own Wuuthrad down at Alduin's head. It connects and knocks the dragon's vision downwards, but doesn't manage fully penetrate the scales, simply leaving a large gash there instead.
A similar phenomenon occurs with everyone else too, their weapons doing little to no damage against Alduin's impenetrable defences. A few men and women try their luck with some shouts, but most simply dissipate or bounce off of the dragon, accomplishing nothing at all.
"DAMN DRAGON! JUST! DIE!" Surtr roars in fury as his every attack simply fails, something that hadn't happened since his first fight against a dragon. "MID VUR SHAAN! SU GRAH DUN!" he shouts to empower his attacks, yet they still don't break through.
"SAAALUUUUK!!!" Alduin roars at the top of his lungs as he stands upright, his shout literally causing the weaker members of the army to drop dead where they stand. "MEYUS KLAV! BONU!" (FOOLISH ANTS! BEGONE!)
Alduin begins biting, clawing, and tearing at the men and women around him, each swipe of his claws bisected someone, his bites devouring them whole. It was an absolute slaughter with little to no progress at actually defeating the God-like dragon.
"GRONSULEYK FAHDON ULD!" hurriedly shouts Surtr, prompting the other Tongues to use similar shouts to empower their allies. This proves to be a wise decision, as Aela lines up an enchanted ebony arrow before firing it.
*SUKI!*
The arrow goes straight through one of Alduin's eyes, causing the apocalyptic dragon to let out an ear-bursting roar that literally throws many people clear from their feet.
Alduin recovers quickly however, turning to face Aela who was rapidly retreating... "YOL TOOR SHUL!"
"AELA MOV-" Surtr starts but is too late.
*THWOOOOOM!*
A wave of fire catches the female Werewolf and incinerates her, leaving nothing but ashes behind. The remaining Companions give wrathful screams in response and begin making risky attacks, which have them be picked off one by one.
"RII VAAZ SOL!" Surt uses the Soul Tear shout in a panic, only to find it doing literally nothing, as if Alduin's soul was simply too strong to be affected by such pitiful means. "GODS BE DAMNED! IS THERE NO END TO THIS BEAST!? TIID KLO UI!" he shouts, using Time Slow this time.
Only to feel the effect of his shout shatter, and Alduin's eyes land on him.
"ZU'U LOS FAAL WUTH KUL DO BORMAH! RAH DO TIID! HI LOS DILON MEY, DOVAHKIIN!" (I AM THE ELDEST SON OF AKATOSH! GOD OF TIME! YOU ARE A DEAD FOOL, DRAGONBORN!)
"SHUT UP AND FIGHT ME, 'ELDEST WORM!" Surtr roars as he runs forwards, his blood thrumming with power as Alduin makes his own attack.
He tries to jump as the dragon bites at him, but finds Alduin too fast to avoid, leaving him vulnerable in the air.
"TAKE THIS!" Ysgramor shouts from nowhere and slashes Wuuthrad into Alduin's open mouth, carving out one of the dragon's canines and wetting his axe with divine blood.
Surtr rolls to a stop, momentarily dazed at not being dead, but recovers soon enough to chop up at Alduin's neck. To try and break through the scales he adds a shout atop it, "KINZ VAHZAH NOS!"
*CRACK!*
Wuutrhad's blade chops deeply into Alduin's neck, breaching the scales and drawing blood... But it isn't quite deep enough, allowing the dragon to swat him away, forcing him to leave his weapon where it's stuck...
"TIID VUTH DIIN!" Alduin bellows, causing time to freeze for everyone except Surtr, who was only able to slowly move his eyes and follow Alduin's form... He watches helplessly as the dragon looms over Ysgramor before biting down on him, crunching his body in half before devouring the rest.
Then, Alduin starts moving towards Surtr... "Daar Los Faal Oblaan, Joor." (This is the end, Mortal.)
Just before Alduin reaches him however, time slowly begins resuming all of a sudden. Alduin's head jolts upwards at the sky with a fierce glare, "HI FUND QAHNAAR ZEY, BORMAH!? HI WAHLAAN ZEY FAH DAAR GETIID!" (YOU WOULD DENY ME, FATHER!? YOU CREATED ME FOR THIS MOMENT!) Alduin shouts, and as he's seemingly listening for an answer, Surtr makes his attack.
He grabs Ysgramor's Wuuthrad from the ground and jumps, burying the axe in the same wound where his Wuuthrad is currently located.
*PPUUUCHCHHIIII!* *CRAAKKK!*
Blood explodes from the wound, expelling the two Wuuthrad's as it floods the floor and completely covers Surtr. The pressure of it is like a full-power water hose, and even something as large as Alduin would be emptied of blood in a matter of minutes...
"S-SURTR! YOU DID IT!" Kodlak exclaims.
"Not yet he hasn't!" Jurgen Windcaller shouts as Alduin shakes his head and focuses back on his enemies. The wound would eventually lead to his death, unless he absorbed a Dragon Soul to heal it...
"DOOOOVVAAAAAAAAHHHHHHKIKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNN!!!!!!!!"
"Oh, FUCK!" Surtr exclaims as he grabs the two Wuuthrads and runs in the opposite direction of the dragon that begins chasing him like a mad dog.
"HOLD HIM OFF! DON'T LET HIM REACH THE DRAGONBORN!"
"VRII DIIN GEBLAAN!" Jurgen shouts, freezing Alduin for a moment before the beast breaks out and continues its pursuit, all the while leaving a large trail of boiling blood.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! FUCK!" Surtr exclaims as he leaps over a rupture in the ground and accidentally gets sucked up into a tornado, pulling him away from Alduin but also the safety of the ground...
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Alduin, unable to fly and too heavy to be lifted by the tornado roars at the top of his lungs and follows Surtr, using various shouts to bring him to the ground but failing as they all miss, the dragon's vision becoming blurry due to how much blood it'd lost so far.
Meanwhile, Surtr was using a half-baked Unrelenting Force shout to blast himself in various directions so that he wouldn't instantly die when he hit the floor.
His army was running after him but soon gave up due to the many natural disasters still raging, eventually taking refuge at the Whalebone Bridge with Tsun. Almost the entirety of their original numbers had been lost, leaving but a hundred or so people left out of the ten thousand he'd initially brought...
Soon enough Surtr was plummeting quickly to the ground, he was spinning wildly in the air due to the nearby tornados, but he could vaguely make out Alduin's giant form bounding towards his landing spot like an overgrown dog.
Just as he's about to hit the ground he shouts, "FEIM!" turning himself ethereal and immune to harm. He lands like a stone feather, leaving no mark in the ground and no visible injury to himself... He scrambles to get up however as Alduin was still on his tail.
He runs through narrow stone formations, ruins, forests, anything that was prove even the tiniest obstacle to the dragon... Soon enough, he'd run to the peak of a nearby mountain and turned to find Alduin barely managing to carry himself.
Blood spewed from his neck with less intensity than before, the dragon's lifeblood clearly close to fully depleting... "L-Los daar dii dez? Wah sosaal tir med raan? Vodein naal bormah?" (I-Is this my fate? To bleed out like an animal? Abandoned by father?...)
The dragon pulls itself to the next ledge but collapses onto its chest, sucking in oxygen in exhaustion.
"How's that you big scaly monster!? Defeated by an army of ants at the height of your power! All those souls you devoured! All those people you hurt! All for this!" Surtr can't help but taunt, after all, he had the high ground...
"Vervisk pah hi hind, Dovahkiin, hin dez los ol daniik ol dii. Zu'u kuz sulvek mindok aus fen kos lot." (Celebrate all you wish, Dovahkiin, your fate is as doomed as mine. I take solace in knowing your suffering will be great.)
...
Surtr waits for the dragon to elaborate but lets out a growl at the silence, "What do you mean!? With your death my destiny is complete! I'll absorb your soul and become the greatest man that has ever lived!"
Alduin lets out a low, silent chuckle that burns his almost lifeless body, "Laat Dovahkiin, hi fen lahney naalein, dir naalein. Zu'u fen kos orkiin fod tiid los viilut, hi? Hi fen liiv hond, Joglat tey. Vir joor fen mirodah do hi, hun tol led tens do tuuran wah niist dinok." (Last Dragonborn, you will live alone, die alone. I will be reborn when the time is right, you? You will wither away, an undeserving tale. How the mortals will sing of you, the hero that led tens of thousands to their deaths.)
"Explain you damn worm! Speak what you know!" Surtr exclaims as he angrily marches down to the dragon, sure that it served no threat any longer.
"Zu'u fen lingraav nau. Kovir daar 'victory', hi fen bo wah groso nii." (I will watch on. Enjoy this 'victory', you will come to regret it.)
With that, the glow in Alduin's eyes peters out, the dragon's head falling lifelessly to the ground.
Unfortunately for Surtr, the expected absorption of Alduin's soul doesn't occur, instead, the dragon's body crackles and burns, eventually disintegrating and turning into dust that washes away in the wind. Not even a single scale is left behind, leaving him with nothing, not even its soul.
"W-what... T-this can't be! WHERE'S MY POWER!" Surtr erratically exclaims as he pounds the floor where Alduin's body had previously been. "ALL OF THIS FOR NOTHING! AKATOSH! IS THIS MY REWARD!? AKAAATOSH!"
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With Alduin's defeat the many natural disasters afflicting Sovngarde quickly fade away, though, it's only two hours after that Surtr actually returns to the Whalebone Bridge, his expression unlike that of someone who'd just saved the world.
"Surtr, you did it... Alduin's dead! The world is safe!" Kodlak exclaims as he marches over to the Dragonborn.
Surtr brushes past him however, "Enough, there wasn't any point in this! All this effort! The lives lost! And for what!? To fix the problem the gods created!?
"Hold your tongue, Dragonborn. Speak ill of the gods and you'll find the sharp of my axe." Tsun warns with a hard look.
Surtr snarls at him, "DO IT THEN! IF YOU, AND AKATOSH ARE WHAT COUNT AS GODS THEN I'D BE HAPPIER SERVING THE DAEDRA!"
"Pathetic whelp-" Tsun growls as he draws his axe, only to be stopped by a heavy presence overtaking the area.
"YOU HAVE COMPLAINTS, DRAGONBORN!? YOUR DESTINY WAS DECIDED, YET YOU FAILED ON EVERY FRONT! YOU WERE GRANTED THE SOUL OF A DRAGON, YET YOU DARE COMPLAIN!?" Shor's voice caused the region to tremble.
"BEGONE FROM THIS PLACE! DO NOT RETURN UNTIL YOU HAVE EARNED A SEAT AND QUELLED YOUR ARROGANCE!" Shor commands, causing every remaining living person to be sucked up in a portal.
*CHIIING!*
Then unceremoniously dropped off at the top of the Throat of the World.
...
Surtr gets to his feet and glares up at the sky in a manner not dissimilar from Alduin, "YOU HAVE STARTED A DOOMED WAR! I WILL HAVE THE LAST WORD, I SWEAR IT!" he roars, challenging the gods.
As if to respond, stormclouds form overhead, but he clears them with a shout and begins marching down the mountain, two Wuuthrad's on his back, completely ignoring the injured survivors who were struggling to hobble after him.
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