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Chapter 281: Solving Problems

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*Ysolda's House*

When the two girls were captured last night by Wulfur and Jon, Wulfur took them back to Ysolda's house and made sure to keep an eye on them. An hour passed and Jon came to check on them. He left Nefertiti to keep an eye on the girls and headed to the inn with Wulfur.

The girls woke up at night and found themselves back at their home. It was a terrifying scene to wake up and see each other as the two of them remember clearly that they were attacked while brewing their Skooma. The two of them looked at the window and saw the daylight.

The warm daylight didn't bring them any warmth at all, instead, they broke into cold sweat.

"Why are we here?" Akara asked.

"... I- I don't know. Was it Ulag? Did he betray us?"

"... Akara doesn't think so… Someone sneaked on me and knocked me down. What about you?"

"I remember… I remember now! Someone hanged me from the mill and… Mara's Mercy! They made me say everything."

As Ysolda remembered what happened and told Akara, the later shot out of the bed and looked at Ysolda with terror.

"Then… the guards will come for us! The Jarl! They will execute us!"

The two girls were in a state of terror, it has been two years since they started their business and established themselves well. They were always on alert and never kept a single clue around them. Nothing can be related to them in any way.

Now that Ysolda spilled the beans, no one knew what type of character was that man who interrogated her.

Was he a competitor or one of the Jarl's thanes?

"Let's calm down first. We need a plan?" Akara said as she started thinking.

"… We… we can leave! Let's pack our things and return to Riften." Ysolda said.

"Are you serious? Whoever caught you brought us here? They know who we are and are able to go past the guards! This one thinks we are playing in the palm of that person already." Akara said.

"Dammit! What to do then? I- I- Right! Jon… he and the others are in town! Jon can help us." Ysolda said.

Akara became silent for a while and closed her eyes.

"This one is not sure about that… do you think Svidi told Jon anything?"

"No… we had to be rude to her so she doesn't find out what we are up to. If she already did then… I am not sure anymore!" Ysolda held her head and sat on the ground about to break into tears.

Akara sat beside Ysolda and grabbed her shoulders.

"It's okay… Akara thinks we should better go to them. Jon said he has influence, right? If we told him that we are in some sort of trouble and we need to leave Whiterun, he will help us."

"... Yes, that's better. Let's come up with something fast."

As the two of them started planning how to get out of this situation, a voice interrupted them.

"Hooman already knows."

It was a voice of a young girl but there was no such one in this house, the two girls looked around like mad and their eyes landed on a black cat. She was sitting on a shelf beside Akara's bed and looking down on them.

Not sure if what they heard was right or hallucination, they kept staring at the cat waiting for it to talk again.

Nefertiti calmly jumped down of the shelf to the bed and stretched her back and forelimbs the same way a normal cat would do and sat tall facing Akara and Ysolda.

"You two are in deep trouble."

""Ah!""

The two girls looked at her and exclaimed in a dumb voice. Akara had an enlightenment and spoke.

"You are an Alfiq?"

"No." Nefertiti replied and transformed into her Human Form.

A cute girl appeared instead of the cat and sat on the bed while swinging her legs like a cute child. On top of her head, there were two black cat ears that blended with her hair and a tail appeared behind her.

"You are an Ohmes-Raht?" Akara asked.

"No." Nefertiti replied and transformed into her Werecat Form.

The girls were terrified and hugged each other.

"... Are you a Suthay?" Akara asked.

"No." Nefertiti replied and transformed into her Beast Form.

"A- Are you a Senche?" Akara asked.

"Are you going to keep asking meow? I am obviously a cat." Nefertiti became annoyed and transformed back to her Human Form.

[A/n: Those types of Khajiit are shown in Discord's Gallery.]

""... A cat?"" The girls were not willing to believe that. Even Akara, who is a Khajiit, couldn't wrap her head around the situation.

"Yes, and Jon is my Hooman. We never met before because I was taken a nap. Call me Nefertiti… and no, I won't accept your prayers." Nefertiti said as she acted high and godly.

"Wait, you know Jon?" Ysolda shot up.

"Told you, he is my Hooman."

"... whatever that is! Can you please help us?" Ysolda said.

"Akara thinks that she just said the 'he knew'."

"What?"

"Yes, Hooman was the one who caught you two last night."

"..." The two girls turned silent.

"In my opinion, you should sit and wait. You are two bad people and Hooman will deal with you." Nefertiti said and walked to Akara. "Also, you do not fluff. Hooman is disappointed in you."

Even though she said that in a serious tone, it was hard to take the word 'fluff' seriously.

Still, the truth that Jon was the one who discovered them made them feel more afraid. Jon's stance towards Skooma and drugs, in general, was clear. He hated them and whoever who deals with them. There were rumors that those who smuggled Skooma in Winterhold were hanged in public and those who were caught using Skooma were put to a special prison to cure them.

There wasn't much time for them to think as the door of the house was opened and Jon came in with Wulfur.

"So you woke up!" Wulfur said. "Feeling uncomfortable?"

The girls didn't reply and looked at the ground instead.

"I suppose that both of you already know what I told Nefertiti to tell you." Jon said. "Well, let's see… I made a mess out of the place yesterday, I killed your Orc dealer and the men that came with him to backstab you with, I also tipped the guards that some Skooma gang fight was going on yesterday at that farm. The farm owner and his wife were dealt with, I sent some of my men to make sure that they don't say anything I don't want them to say about you two. Everything was taken care off."

As Jon said so, Ysolda and Akara looked at each other happily.

"Jon… I don't know what to say."

"Akara is very thankful."

The two of them fell into the illusion of happiness only to see Jon glaring at them.

"Did I say that you would go unpunished?"

To his words, the two of them shivered and looked at the ground again.

"You two are coming with me even if you don't like it. Nurina will hear of what you did and I will decide your punishment." He said.

The girls looked at him and wanted to retaliate but they were afraid of him.

"I know what do you want to say… I am merely your friend and I have no right to do so to you, but guess what! My second option is for the Jarl to hear about your little business on that farm. I have a thousand way to deliver a word to him." He said.

Jon's words were cold and not the friendly ones they used to hear from him but their options were limited in this situation. Unless they follow Jon, they will be having a dark fate from now on.

The two girls nodded without raising their heads.

"Okay, I'll handle the rest. Jull will take care of you." Jon said as he pointed the Haven Cube ring at them and took them in the Cube's space.

Inside the space, Jullanar would be waiting for them to put the girls into shape and keep them there until they go home.

"This was not the kind of reunion I hoped for." Wulfur said.

"None hoped for this, but they had done a mistake and this is the best course of action. Jull will handle them."

"What will happen to them when we get to Winterhold?"

"Not sure. I will have to tell Nurina first and I am sure she will leave them to me after giving him a straight ten hours of scolding."

"Fucking hell!" Wulfur shivered when he remembered Nurina's scolding.

"Yeah, she will make them feel too bad about their sorry selves to the point that they may commit suicide."

"If they survived it, what will you do?" Wulfur asked.

"I am going to enlist them in the boot camp."

"The Dare Troopers boot camp?"

"Yeah, Ysolda will not last two days but Akara has a future as a fighter. After the first week, I will move Ysolda to management if she wanted, she has a knack for business after all."

Wulfur nodded.

He and Jon closed Ysolda's house and made sure to lock the door and send the key to Ysolda. They then headed to the town that started getting lively in the morning.

"So, what scheme are we performing today?" Wulfur asked.

"Not much of scheme, We just have to make sure that Jon Battle-Born gets married to Olfina Grey-Mane."

"Oh! I am curious how will you do that?"

"Hehe! Simple, let's go to Clan Battle-Born Villa and introduce ourselves, we are carrying a large number of gifts so we will sway the money loving Battle-Borns to the benefits of befriending us. By doing so…"

"The opinion of Jon Battle-Born will rise and they will use him as a link to us." Wulfur continued.

"I love it when you read my mind."

"So you will raise his value in his own family, very sly! What about the Grey-Manes."

"Alina and Bjorna will visit Olfina with Svidi, they also will carry gifts and we will join them later with Jon Battle-Born. Do the same thing with the Grey-Manes in regards to Olfina."

"I like it. If Alina was here she would be so happy seeing you doing good things with sly means." Wulfur said.

"Yeah yeah, she won't shut up about it."

Jon and Wulfur walked together the path to Clan Battle-Born's home. Little did they know that things won't be as simple as they have planned.


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Chapter 282: Shadow Agents

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In Whiterun, there are two large clans known as the Grey-Manes and the Battle-Borns. In the game, both Clans lived in the Wind District and owned the largest houses in the city, they boast about their history and fame like all Nords and have some kind of feud.

In reality, things are a bit different. The feud hasn't started yet but it started to show signs after Ulfric's messenger spreading the word of resisting the Empire's laws and all. Instead of the feud, there is what one can call a rivalry.

The Battle-Borns own a large farm business on the White River which is not something to look down on in this part of the world. Owning farms make people very rich very fast and that's why I started the reclamation project to the roadside lands south to Winterhold. The Grey-Manes own a high quality yet small scale blacksmithing business as Eorlund Grey-Mane is the best in Skyrim and has the honor to forge in the famous Skyforge.

The other major difference from the game was that the families were much larger. Just like the Firemanes and the Moonblades, the Grey-Manes and the Battle-Borns do have a lot of people and more houses around their houses, more relatives that share the same last name and all else.

With the current friendship and rivalry between the two clans, it is possible to wrap make the marriage of Olfina and Jon become reality.

Announcing my identity in front of the Battle-Born house sure brought up a stir and soon the news of me being here will reach the Jarl but I was on a hurry. I stated the reason for my visit as coming to see Jon Battle-Born and we were led directly to the Clan's largest building. Not only did I see Jon but the other senior members of the Clan too including Olfrid Battle-Born the patriarch of the Clan and his son-in-law Idolaf.

Showing up my gifts which are expensive sure made the Battle-Borns happy. They are an ancient clan and all but they sure love money as much as Imperials do. I also tried to avoid talking with the senior members unless it was business and focused on Jon Battle-Born. This will surely prove that the Dare Dragon Company can be linked to them by Jon.

Not long after we opened the matter regarding Jon and Olfina and the air got electrified all of a sudden. It seems that the political views of the two families have already taken form and started clashing but I am sure that Ulfric hasn't brought up anything regarding an armed conflict so far but he heads of the clans are surely expecting one.

Still, the best thing Jon Battle-Born could take from his father was an unenthusiastic acceptance regarding his wish to marry the daughter of Eorlund Grey-Mane.

We couldn't stay long and moved to the Grey-Manes with Jon Battle-Born with us. The reason we had to do this fast was to not give anyone the chance of going back on their words.

Clan Grey-Mane was a bit different than Battle-Born. Eorlund Grey-Mane didn't come out to see us at the beginning (which made Wulfur's heart almost break from sadness) and the one who met us were Vignar Grey-Mane, Eorlund's brother and the one who oversees the public relations of the Grey-Manes as well as Olfina's brothers Avulstein and Thorald.

The atmosphere was a bit intense at first but I took care of 'breaking the ice' at first and made a good trade deal by luck. I knew that the Grey-Manes were expecting Jon Battle-Born to be asking for Olfina's hand but he had to have some merit he can show off with in front of them.

Luckily, Jon Battle-Born has a lot of those. He worked himself lately in Jorrvaskr and was accepted as a Companion, he won a tournament with me and Wulfur, he is a full-fledged warrior bard, and he works for me now… yep, I told him that he can take an important job and gave him a good position to manage the company's outpost in Whiterun. Having an outpost in Whiterun meant that we can sell to the whole Skyrim as it is the hold that shares borders with all the other holds except Haafingar and Winterhold which still doesn't pose a problem.

After a long while of talking, Eorlund Grey-Mane joined us and I barely managed to shut Wulfur up so that Jon can talk to Eorlund.

It took a while and we had to endure the glares of all the Grey-Mane senior members for an hour before the meeting came to a conclusion. Jon Battle-Born received the initial approval of Eorlund and we waited for the approval of Olfina herself and the rest of the family. Normally, Olfina's and Eorlund's words are what matters but the Battle-Borns and the Dare Dragon Company were involved in this matter so they Grey-Mane had to start giving it some thoughts too.

The marriage in this world is sure complicated even though the relationships are loose. Marriage as a sacred bond also depends on benefit, wealth and titles which made things hard for a lot of people.

I had a good feeling about the attitude of both the Grey-Manes and the Battle-Borns. They were not harboring any bad feeling towards each other and as far as my knowledge goes, before Ulfric's words go around, the two clans were actually fixing their relationship and getting along.

Even though if they started their feud, things won't go that bad. In the game, Thorald Grey-Mane was captured by the Thalmor when he was fighting for Ulfric Stormcloak, to get the news about him, one must know it through the Battle-Borns. From my point of view, it seemed that the Battle-Borns were concerned about Thorald Grey-Mane and asked around for him even though they feigned ignorance in public to not hurt the Grey-Manes with the fact that the Thalmor were involved. The Thalmor are relentless after all.

Still, we all were walking on eggshells here and we had to be swift.

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Three days later, trouble started to happen.

The members of [Team 0] were attacked last night by an unknown force when they were doing business for me around the city. It was a night attack and both sides were made of highly trained assassins and rangers. The fight alerted the Jarl and his men but I hid my men fast in the Cube and made sure that no trace link back to me.

When I questioned my men, it seemed that some people captured one of our own and interrogated him about me. The man was badly hurt and lost some finger in the process but Alina worked on his wounds and he soon recovered.

A lot of eyes and ears started to pop around us since then.

These were all 'Sleeper Agents'. People that the other forces planted in Whiterun to gather information and spread words. I was a bit inexperienced on how to deal with that kind of operatives. In Riften, there was only the Thieves Guild which I knew how they play and in Winterhold, all the 'Sleeper Agents' were weeded out periodically.

But to an established town like Whiterun, there were too many Sleeper Agents. Even the College of Winterhold had some of those around even though they don't do politics.

'Sleeper Agents' can sometimes serve more than one master as double agents or even triple agents.

Anyway, my priority right now was to point out the loose ends and tie it up. In Whiterun, the Dare Dragon Company has an outpost and I started from there. I picked up all the weird movements and talked to some of those eyes and ears to see where I can reach with them. Sadly, it was hard to pull them to my side.

During the night, I sent Jullanar and Nefertiti to capture the ones that attacked my men. Jullanar always comes with results and she captured a Breton man for me and we pulled him in a dark alleyway for interrogation. The man proved to be hard to crack and tried to run on multiple occasions but I soon found a better way to handle him. The [Skeleton Key]!

I just had to 'lock' a part of his awareness and the truth was revealed as soon as I asked to next question.

"The Empire!"

This was the answer I received. The Empire was targeting me or to be more specific, the [Penitus Oculatus].

They are the new Imperial Guards and the Intelligence Agency of the Empire, known to the public as the [Penitus Oculatus] and to the underground as the [Specters].

The reason they came after me was not clear even to them but they were tasked to keep an eye on the Empire's Loyalists and secure a foothold in Whiterun. Any presence that may affect the Empire's influence in Whiterun was to be dealt with.

As I appeared in the Battle-Born Clan and started bringing them closer to the Grey-Mane Clan, the Imperial Operatives started to feel threatened that their supporters may switch sides by my actions and so they started targeting me.

Just by trying to prevent a feud in Whiterun to lessen the severity of the future Civil War and help a friend marry the girl he loves, I attracted the attention of the largest shadow organization in the Empire.

What a thrill!


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