The Dragoon In Skyrim - Volume 1 Chapter 118 Drunk Arthur And Helpful Isabela
The same day Vincent met with Bella and Kaitlyn to get their answer if they wanted to join him to travel to Tamriel as it seemed that they agreed to it after a long debate between the two.
Vincent then brought them to the ship as he wanted to leave with Kaaras to buy some weapons for the children to train them when Isabela says, “I know where you can find the best smith in all Ferelden.”
“Really?” asks Vincent looking at Isabela as she nods.
“Of course the best smith in Ferelden is Wade from Wade’s Emporium. He is quite the perfectionist and has because of that less business,” says Isabela as Vincent walks away with Kaaras without saying anything making Isabela believe that she had to stay.
“Move Isabela or are you going to stay here,” says Tyr who was seeing everything as Isabela looked at Tyr confused.
“I will jus-,” says Isabela when Tyr throws her overboard and Vincent who was under them caught her.
“Bring my daughter safe and sound back do you understand,” says Tyr as he yelled at his father who gave him a look that made Tyr shut his mouth before leaving with a smile.
“Well then, lead the way Isabela,” says Vincent after putting Isabela down.
Isabela did as asked from her and guides the two others towards the Market. They arrive at the Square in the middle of it and Isabela brought them to a big house.
Once in front of the house, Isabela says, “Ta-da. It’s right here.”
Isabela wanted to open the door but it didn’t budge when she notices a note on the door and Isabela reads it out loud saying, “Wade’s Emporium has closed until Wade returns from his duties in the Arling of Amaranthine.”
“Then we will meet him there since we are going to leave tomorrow for Amaranthine. Let’s return then,” says Vincent as he was disappointed that a man with the same craft and maybe proficient wasn’t around to compare notes.
The last time Vincent did that was when Eorlund and Adrianne were still alive. Even if his Orc son became a smith it isn’t the same since his son respects him too much to argue about a silly topic like a handle as he and Eorlund would do.
On their way to the manor, Vincent bought chunks of wood to make wooden weapons for the children so they can choose a weapon to train with.
Once in the Cousland Manor, Vincent walked towards Bryce and informs them that they are ready to leave Denerim for Amaranthine.
“That fast?” asks Bryce surprised as Vincent nods.
“Yes, Maric will be raised by Alistair and Anora will take care of Gwaren as Teyrnar until she has a successor,” says Vincent as Bryce was thinking that everything went faster than expected.
“We should sail right now and we will be able to land in Amaranthine in less than an hour,” says Vincent as Bryce nods.
They both leave to tell everyone in the Manor as they found out that Arthur wasn’t there when Vincent asks, “Vlad, where could Arthur be?”
“Either in the Pearl or by the docks,” says Vlad as Vincent sighs.
They leave for the ship while he sent Isabela to get Arthur. Isabela went alone and it was her first solo mission for the Ambassador. She thought she could earn some trust point in doing this not knowing that she was his granddaughter.
She entered the Pearl and sees the owner and asks, “Sanga have you seen a redhead around here?”
“Ah if it isn’t our beautiful pirate Isabela-,” says Sanga when Isabela interrupts.
“I’m no pirate any longer. I’m Quartermaster of the Imperial ship named Black Emperor. Now have you seen him or not I need to drag him to the ship since we are about to leave Denerim,” says Isabela as Sanga was surprised that Isabela would leave her life behind as a Pirate Captain to be a Quartermaster.
“He should be the man over there drinking ignoring all the women and men,” says Sanga as she pointed at a pretty drunk Arthur.
“Thank you,” says Isabela as she left a Septim on the count for Sanga who pocketed it away while Isabela walked towards Arthur who had one too much and says, “Arthur we are leaving.”
“Where are we leaving to? Back to the Empire?” asks Arthur as Isabela picked Arthur up and began to help him walk towards the ship.
“We are going to Amaranthine. Your parents are going to kill you if not your brother will,” says Isabela as they leave the Pearl.
Arthur suddenly felt sick from the movement and puked everything out on the street making Isabela question if she really wanted to bring Arthur back.
“What is wrong with you?” asks Isabela as Arthur looked at her.
“What can’t I have a drink or two?” asks Arthur in his drunk state as Isabela was now furious.
“You can but not with that attitude they will be leaving without us and I don’t want to travel by horse to Amaranthine if I can take a freaking ship,” says Isabela as she picked Arthur back up.
Isabel a supported Arthur while Arthur was talking to himself, “Why didn’t he adopt me? Am I that worthless?”
“Who didn’t adopt you?” asks Isabela as Arthur had difficulties walking straight even with Isabela’s help.
“Vincent. He adopted my younger sister and my nephew and niece but not me. Why?” asks Arthur as he looked at Isabela for an answer.
“I don’t know maybe because he didn’t want to strip you away from your parents,” says Isabela as they arrived at the ship.
She brought Arthur into his cabin and laid him down on his bed. Then she leaves to report to Vincent who was sitting behind his desk.
“Arthur is in his cabin we are ready to leave,” says Isabela as Vincent looked up and see some stains on her.
“What happened?” asks Vincent worried.
“He was drunk and murmured something about you not adopting him,” says Isabela nervous as Vincent sighs when Isabela asks, “Is something wrong, sir?”
“No nothing. You can return to your duty, Isabela,” says Vincent as she leaves the room immediately.
“Why did you never try to adopt him?” asks Vlad as he appeared behind Vincent as he hands over the contract that Alistair signed.
“If I were to take Arthur away from Ferelden their navy would fall easily since he is a pillar with his mother and grandfather. We will conquer Thedas but before that happens we have to secure that people don’t get the wrong idea and conquer Thedas before we do,” says Vincent as he takes a map out of Thedas.
“We know that Orlais already conquered Ferelden before and it’s something we don’t want to happen until the North is fully under our control. Once the Qunari is completely incorporated we will destroy the Veil and chaos will reign but until then we will wait,” says Vincent as he takes two rings out and a syringe with fluid in it.
“Can you do me a favor and bring those rings to Alistair and Leliana as well as give Alistair the shot so he can be cured of his taint. We don’t want a child that is infected with it,” says Vincent as Vlad nods and disappears while Vincent says, “We will meet in Amaranthine, my friend.”
The ship left the docks without much of a warning as it began sailing west. Vlad arrived at the Palace where Alistair was having a headache from everything that happened today.
He found out that the person he called sister wasn’t his sister and that his mother most likely wasn’t the person he thought it was making his headache even worse that he has to give his son away to a stranger.
Vlad appears in front of Alistair again as Alistair asks, “What does the Ambassador want now?”
“Nothing he sent some gifts,” says Vlad surprising Alistair and Leliana as Vlad takes the rings and the syringe out.
“What are those?” asks Alistair suspicious of the items.
“The rings will make the possibility of your consort getting pregnant more possible. Anora used the same ring to get pregnant with Maric,” says Vlad as both took the rings when Alistair looked at the syringe.
“And this?” asks Alistair now curious.
“This is a cure against the taint you have in your body. Vincent is worried that the child could be born with it and send the cure to inject you with it,” says Vlad as Alistair couldn’t believe it as he fell onto his throne from the shock.
“That… How?” asks Alistair confused.
“Our best researchers worked day and night on it. We have a vaccine and a cure for it after the Commander of the Grey from Ferelden gave us his Amulet that containing enough blood for us to find it,” says Vlad as Alistair opened his eyes wide.
“Duncan helped you before?” asks Alistair as Vlad nods.
“He thought it would help many people and it did in fact remember the vial that Cailan left in the Treasury it was a prototype to strong for one person alone,” says Vlad as both nod.
“But this is the perfect dose. It will cure you completely in one day. You won’t feel anything except for heat as you begin to sweat the taint out of your body,” says Vlad as he walked forward and injected Alistair with it.
“We always remember our debts and today we paid it with saving you from a High Dragon in Haven and by curing you today. We could repay Duncan but we can repay the person that is his legacy,” says Vlad as both Alistair and Leliana were surprised to hear that.
“So Aedan wasn’t lying,” says Alistair surprised.
“He wasn’t, Vincent sent his best woman to protect you after all,” says Vlad as both were surprised.
Flashback Half a Year ago
Haven, Aedan was leading his group of oddballs through an old Temple with a Dragon Cult living in it. They exited the cave only to find a High Dragon sleeping on the mountain top.
It was between the Temple of Andraste and the group when Alistair says, “We should try to be quiet this time if we want to survive.”
“The Bas is right we should be quiet this time. A Dragon is not a fight that we can win for now,” says a Qunari in the group.
“Sten and Alistair are right. I only have two hands to heal you all,” says an old woman as a Dwarf with red hair and beard spits to the ground.
“We should fight it. It is definitely more fun then fighting against those cultist and a good training for our fight against the Archdemon,” says the Dwarf excited about fighting a Dragon.
“Wynne is right even if I like Oghren’s idea of using it as a training session against the real deal,” says an elf as everyone that didn’t agree looked at him.
“Only because we could die and you still can get your reward, Zevran,” says Leliana as everyone nods.
“I will miss you all when you are eaten up by that flying thing,” says a Golem not really sad about it.
“Shale please no jokes now,” says Aedan as he also didn’t want to fight it when a cultist blow into a horn waking the High Dragon up making everyone turn their head towards where the sound came from.
They see the leader of the cult as he says, “You should have made sure that I was dead. Now Andraste will avenge us.”
Then the leader dies and the High Dragon was flying in the air when it landed and the fight began between the group and the High Dragon.
It was more of a massacre as the Dragon was winning. Wynne was laying against a wall with Oghren and Zevran while Sten and Shale were laying on the ground unconscious.
Leliana was looking after Alistair and Aedan was the only one left that could fight when suddenly a person in a Drachen-set holding a Gae Bolg.
She fell from the sky and pierced through the Dragon as it wanted to escape the person just jumped and pierced through one wing making the Dragon lose his balance and crash on the ground.
The person then turned midair and went for the Dragon’s neck killing it at that moment when the person walks over to Aedan and says, “Our debt is almost repaid.”
Aedan could hear that it was a woman and she was shorter than him making it clear that it was an Elf but he never saw someone fight like that before.
Another Dragon appeared out of nowhere as it shouted something he couldn’t understand and the woman just jumped on landed on it making it clear to Aedan that this woman was Tamriel and not Thedas.
