Chapitre 180: The Snake's Den
[Jon's POV]
My best friend went missing.
My two girls went missing.
My cat went missing.
Four of the most important people in my life went missing while I was tinkering with some tools to create a thing that should be able to secure a good future for those people I care about. And then things got messed up when I was not paying attention.
Well, this made me get too much frustrated and called all the people I have around.
With hasty preparation, I raised the alertness in Winterhold to the max. I probably seemed like some tyrant when I overstepped my authority but I tried not to lose much of my sense. Luckily, Nurina was there for me.
For my important family to go missing, I can't ignore the possibility of it being because of me.
Was I too careless?
For the first time, my house was so empty and boring. Without Jull and Nefertiti around, it was not my home anymore. Even when I sat in my office, I felt too lonely without Wulfur coming over to drink after work. And god knows how much I missed Alina.
If this was because of me… If someone was targeting my people to get to me… it won't end well! It will be ugly, too ugly that I will bring hell down with me.
I couldn't sit still anymore. As my mood went stormy, Winterhold got affected by it. I now have become the ruler of these people even though nothing is official, their fates are tied to my decisions. I can't get carried away.
That night, I gathered all the members of 'Team 0', the personal guards and the intelligence agents at my company. We roamed the streets in silence and paid a visit to every spy that got sent by the all the powers around and started interrogating them.
It was a night full of muffled screams and spilled blood under the basement of the bathhouse.
No one knew what happened to my family as the news about them were not that important in the eyes of the big powers. Still, they had to die.
I even killed the Stormcloak and the Imperial Spies personally. I never thought I would dig a mass grave in my life but that was the price of power. I dug it with my hands.
The last thing I had to do was to leave the matters to the new management team I assembled during the last few weeks. They will keep the ship floating just fine.
Lastly, I asked Nurina to watch over Winterhold for me and even went as far as going to Arch-Mage Savos Aren and asked him to assist Winterhold if it happened to be under any attack. Luckily, I was accepted.
The last thing I needed to do was to travel alone to the Moonblade territory. It was the last place they were seen at and I was welcomed there.
I geared up and rode a Flame Atronach Hawk to the west.
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[A few weeks ago - The Moonblade Clan]
Alina Moonblade, the Crimson Moon and the Child of Kyne, the most prized daughter of the Moonblade Clan returned to her home following her father Sigurd.
"Lady Alina is back!"
"Lady Alina? By the gods, it has been half a year."
The clansmen and the other people who lived here were all excited to hear of Alina, the popular girl who left the clan to find strong mages in Winterhold, leaving behind only a small note.
In their eyes, Alina has only grown more beautiful in this half year. The crimson girl who plays with magic seemed to have soared higher in the sky, on a Flame Atronach Hawk this time.
The Moonblade territory was on the mountains in the west of winterhold right in the south of Dawnstar town. It had a big fort and a village around it, they could be reached by following a very narrow and steep pass up the mountain but there were some tunnels and caves that weren't revealed to anyone, apart from flying with an atronach of course.
Alina gracefully landed in front of the town that had more inhabitants than the one of the Firemane. As a Moonblade, she was seen as a nobility even though she was the most important character in the clan after the patriarch, which made her appearance to be met with a lot of cheers.
Across the town, the main house was there. An old and towering castle built to withstand all cold and wind. This was what Alina knew as 'home' when she was young and 'the hell incarnate' when she grew up.
"Well, another day at the snake's den."
The snake's den, the name Alina calls the fort with, is where all her uncles and cousins live and where she got tortured because of her different eye color after birth. She may have managed to change the opinion around herself lately by getting close to the people and making friendships and relations the way Hilda taught her, but there were always those people who hated her because she was a hindrance in their way.
Such people were watching her arrival from a window in the castle.
"Flying? The bloody eyes sure got arrogant!"
"Kaja, father said to go and welcome her."
"Oh, it's you, Elsa! Fine, I'll be coming."
During Alina's approach to the fort, two girls emerged from the front door, one with an obviously fake smile and the other with a disdainful face.
"Welcome home, Alina."
"Kaja and Elsa, it has been a while."
"Indeed it is." Elsa acted as friendly as possible to Alina. The reason was known as Elsa was to be wed to Gunmar son of Njord Firemane. A word from Alina can destroy Elsa's happy life.
"Why are you back?" Kaja the younger sister, on the other hand, was openly hostile.
"Oh, little Kaja. I had to return at some point."
Nurina smiled and looked at Kaja sharply, she thought; 'Come at me, bitch!'
"Hmm! I heard some talk that you found a master in Winterhold and didn't even manage to be her best apprentice, even though uncle Ornulf went out of his way and provided support for you."
Alina was unfazed and only smiled.
"What was his name… the guy who beat you… Jon Dare? I heard he is a bastard rat from Riften. Not much of a genius mage now, are you?"
Alina sneered in her head.
"That's all you got about Senior Jon?" She said.
"Huh?"
"Never heard about him being adopted by Arch-Wizard Nurina Aren and the Firemanes?"
"What?"
"Or about him being the new trading partner for our wineries?"
"..."
"His company controls the whole hold and he even promised us a shipment of Frost Honey, you sure must have heard the news, right?"
These events were really fresh and should only be announced today, yet Alina shamelessly took a chance and used the ignorance of the crowd to diss at Kaja.
"Tsk tsk, Kaja. I am disappointed! If these words of yours reached Senior Jon, our business will partnership will be in a bad situation and we will lose a lot of faces. Maybe next time before you hurt our families interests, you should watch your goddamn mouth." Alina said what she prepared to say leaving both sisters behind.
At that time, the Moonblade convoy led by Sigurd caught up to Alina who went ahead.
"Elsa and Kaja, you are here to greet your sister?" Sigurd hurried up when he saw Alina being faced with the two sisters.
"Welcome back, uncle! Indeed we were here to greet Alina."
"Haha... How nice of you girls! Alina, you are coming?"
"Yes, father. Just was done with the trash talking anyway."
Alina didn't seem to care anymore and just walked past the two sisters with her magic movement spell. Her movements were fast and graceful like a fairy.
Sigurd was taken aback by Alina's words and looked at the two sisters who were smiling as if nothing was said.
'This girl, did she catch on some bad habits from that Jonrad's kid? And it seemed like not all water is clear, huh!' Sigurd thought to himself as he wasn't used to seeing Alina being carefree like that.
Her action reminded him of a father and son pair who could get on his nerve just by occupying a material form in existence.
After he followed his daughter into their home, the two girls remained outside.
Elsa Moonblade was silent while Kaja was grumbling with anger.
"Did you hear what she said? Would she dare to put me into trouble? That evil witch… she…"
"Shut up, dear." Elsa spoke in a disdainful tone.
"E- E- Elsa! What are you saying? Will you stand and watch her do whatever she likes to me?"
"She would do no such a thing! Are you an idiot or whatever? The news about the Thane of Winterhold is something that only a handful few are aware of and someone like you will never be informed about his existence. There is no way she can prove that you heard of him let alone bad mouthed him, you dumb fool. She knows that too damn well too."
"Eh! But- She just now…"
"She was just screwing around with you? You really have no sense for such thing, sister."
Kaja fell silent and Elsa shook her head helplessly.
"Tha- That bitch! Who does she think herself?" Kaja made a very ugly face.
Elsa looked at her younger sister and wondered if she would ever do well when she is not around.
"She is the daughter of the patriarch, she can screw around as much as she likes. She also managed to win a lot of people and family members, do you think that father is having an easy time to deal with her?"
Elsa stated some facts and walked ahead while thinking…
'Alina, poor child! You have grown a mouth, huh? Then let's see how much can you run your mouth."
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Chapitre 181: Stirring The Muddy Waters
Days passed since Alina returned to her clan and she was always either in meditation or training her Magic and Sword.
The Training style of the Moonblades, as well as their martial tradition and sword dances, were things that were passed down through generations until it reached this age. These traditions hailed from a race that came to invade Tamriel once back during the First Era 2703, that race was known as the Tsaesci [AN: pronounced Say-es-see or Say-chee] that can be described as the Serpent Folk. After they got defeated at the hands of King Reman Cyrodiil I, some escaped and some stayed founding the 'Dragonguard', the modern-day 'Blades'. Some however fled and got mixed with the locals which led later to the appearance of the half Nords half Akavir, the modern day Moonblades.
The Moonblade possess some two very powerful innate abilities which are the 'Snake Blood' that gives them weird abilities regarding poisons which immunity is just the start of it, and the 'Moon Eyes' which is a very enhanced eyesight ability that can do wonders.
On top of all the Moonblades, Alina was the one with the strongest bloodline ability. Her eyes were crimson red and didn't only grant her sight but also 'Foresight'. She can tell lies, predict possibilities of the future, see other places, sometimes she can see places she was not in.
Her eye powers were always highwire and hard to deal with. The part of telling lies and truths was the easiest part and it made her life both easier and harder. She wasn't really happy with the powers that got her alienated by her peers in childhood and the accident from a month ago when she awakened her bloodline to its fullest.
Now, her eyes have a stronger power as she can put powerful people into a state of fear just by looking at her eyes. A power that made her life even more complicated.
Well, there was Jon.
Someone who she met and was a bit arrogant with, he also was cold to her, even though they could get along as Senior and Junior, she was ever so grateful for him when he could withstand her dreadful power and even shut it down.
The crazy thing is… he was not affected by a single strand of her power.
She couldn't tell if he was telling the truth or lying, she couldn't scry or predict him, or even intimidate him with her lately acquired eye power. More to that, when he saw her without a veil for the first time, he became head over heels for her.
Becoming ordinary in the eyes of someone after being seen as either a freak child or an untouchable genius was all good and fine to her. And to be surrounded with people whose power are equal and even stronger than her was a good experience in her opinion. Aside from Jon, Jullanar and Wulfur, as well as the black cat Nefertiti, can all be considered misfits in society for their talents alone. Adding her to the punch meant she won't be alone in this world.
The thing that was more terrifying was Jon when he uses the Thu'um. Alina gave up on competing with him in this part even though it hurt her pride a bit but she was completely outmatched. She can only shout two words for now and may faint afterward.
All in all, Alina was in a good mood now that she has some time to think about the past seven months. There were many experiences that changed the behavior of that seventeen years old lass.
Her behavior was a bit… daring! She would cross anyone and trade insults now unlike her old self when she was just a solemn girl who uses her power to prove right from wrong. The concept of 'having fun' while doing things were all things she picked up from Jon.
Finishing up her meditation, which was totally fruitless due to her mind being in Winterhold, Alina walked down from the backyard of the fort. It was a part from the old structure that was built in the Akaviri style, she would sit in one of those pavilions that oversaw the northern sea and the areas around it. She could clearly see the 'Haunted Tower' that was on the hill covering Dawnstar and she also could see Frostflow Lighthouse.
During her thoughtless staring into space, footsteps came from behind her.
"Our Alina is still lost in her thoughts, you have been here since the morning!"
Alina turned around and saw a familiar face.
"Brenda! Where have you been?"
"I was on a mission with Evan, come here let me have a look at you."
Alina and Brenda exchanged hugs.
Brenda Moonblade, and previously Brenda Firemane, is the eldest daughter of Forseti who got married to the Evan Moonblade. She is a fairly tall Nord woman with strong arms and loves to wear armors. Back in the day, she was fond of Hilda and can be considered an elder sister to Alina.
Alina talked to Brenda and started telling her about the long lost cousin of hers as well as all the events that happened. Jon's existence was revealed to the Firemanes main family and a small circle of the Moonblades. It made Brenda ecstatic to hear stories about her cousin.
"By the way, I heard some of the servants talking about you going head to head with Kaja, everything alright?"
"Humph! She is a hundred years too early to affront the most beautiful young lady in Tamriel." Alina started acting all haughty and indifferent which made Brenda lag for a second before falling into laughter.
"Pffft! What is all that about?"
"Haha! I don't know, somehow, that way works with those kinds of people."
"True, but beware of Elsa, from what I know, she wouldn't let you off after what you have done to Kaja."
"She is welcome anytime. I know she will never set still until she sees me getting away from her brother's path."
"I know, you have done a good job until now. It would be nice if yo…"
"I don't want to. Tell your husband to quit lazing around and step up for it, I am not going to become the matriarch."
"Here you go again." Brenda held her head from the headache this topic brings to her.
There were three candidates for the family leadership positions. The Elders picked Alina, Evan and Igor Moonblade as the most talented three which the family has to pick from.
The strongest candidate was Alina who managed to gain a strong popularity and has a lot of connection with the other clans, Evan Moonblade was a prodigy but he was too lazy to do anything, and finally Igor Moonblade, brother of Elsa and Kaja, is a talented person but he was never on the good side of Alina.
The hate that remained inside the Moonblades towards Alina was mainly because of Igor's faction.
Alina wasn't interested in being the matriarch but her late apprenticeship to Arch-Wizard Nurina and achievements in the rooting the Bloodsails outside of the hold as well as establishing a connection with Jon Dare, all of that made her position soar higher and higher. She would argue that none of these were anything worthy of being called achievements but they were really a major change to the big picture in front of the elders.
Brenda started stating these facts to Alina who was not accepting any of them.
"Anyway, I don't care but a lot of people don't want to see Igor in the seat of the patriarch. I will talk to Evan again but no promises."
"Please, I don't want to take part in any of this too. Either marrying in the Firemanes or living with my Master in Winterhold are far better options."
"I am doubting your reasons but something must have made marriage a good option for you, isn't it? I will have to look into that!"
"Bleh! I was just saying."
"Anyway, just watch out for Elsa these days, she might be brewing some troubles for you."
"Hmmm!"
"What are you thinking of, lass?"
"Senior Jon once said something about how to faint and make strange movements to force your enemies to halt back whatever they are planning."
"Enemies! You sure are going all out this time, huh?"
"Come on, I won't do anything harmful. Can I sent a messenger to Winterhold?"
"Not today, tomorrow will be fine. But you need to take permission first."
"Never mind, I will ask father to help me with it."
"In public?"
"Well, that's the point."
"And what will you do?"
"Hehe, just wait and see."
That evening in the dining hall of the clan, Alina requested to send a message to her friends in Winterhold to invite them to visit and form a good relationship with her clan. These friends were Jon, Jullanar and Wulfur.
The names were known to be the top three executives of the Dare Dragon Group which indeed caused a stir in the muddy waters in the Moonblades. It was a timely invitation to make some good bonds with the new rising force in Winterhold.
It indeed forced Elsa to halt her mischievous plan against Alina… but who knows for how long?
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Don't worry guys! This is not something like the Firemane story... I am just using the chance to alter a story from the game and force the MC to make the undesirable choice... but which story do you think?
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