The Dragoon In Skyrim - Volume 1 Chapter 138 Sharing A Story
Ciri wakes up and sees a roof over her head. She lifts herself up as she holds her neck feeling some pain there. She looks around and realizes that she wasn’t in Highwind City.
She leaves the bed and puts her clothes on that were beside the fire with her sword and she begins to explore the old temple.
“It is small but it reminds me of Kaer Morhen,” says Ciri to herself as she walked down the passage when she arrived at the hall and finds the sun shining into the building.
She began to hear small voices that became bigger and bigger making her put her hands against her ears to block the voices when Vincent arrives at her side and shouts, {Masters of the Past should quiet down. You are scaring the child in front of you.}
The voices stopped and Vincent looked at Ciri who asks, “What was that?”
“Those were the Voices of the Old Masters. Their voice can still be heard in this hall since it is here where they put the Dragonborn to his last trial. Not every Master performed in the last trial since the last one before me was Tiber Septim himself or how we now call him Talos,” says Vincent as Ciri seemed lost from Vincent’s explanation.
“Anyway, are you feeling better now?” asks Vincent as he takes the cotton out of her nose.
“What exactly happened?” asks Ciri as Vincent explained to her that she lost control of her powers and that he knocked her out.
“And there was not another way to stop me?” asks Ciri as Vincent shakes his head.
“There was but I had to act rapidly because you began to bleed through your nose from the pressure of your power,” says Vincent as he explained why he knocked her out and didn’t use magic to do the trick.
“Anyway, we should go back up after eating,” says Vincent as he walked towards the passage across from Ciri.
Ciri followed and found a large stone table with many stone chairs around it when Vincent took a wooden bowl and filled it with supper before placing it in front of Ciri before serving himself a bowl.
“It isn’t anything special but it should be able to warm you up,” says Vincent as he placed the bowl against his mouth and drank it in one go.
Ciri did the same and found out that the supper was delicious even when it was simple, making her say, “It’s delicious.”
“Thanks, but let us talk about your training beginning today. We had a good day yesterday with you awakening your full power. We will try it today again,” says Vincent as he poured another bowl full of supper.
“What did I do?” asks Ciri not remembering what happened.
“You created an invisible shield that pushed everything away that was around you. I was the exception to that but it still was powerful enough. Then you tried to manipulate time so I had to knock you out,” says Vincent as Ciri was confused why Vincent knocked her out.
“You are asking yourself why he stopped you only because you manipulated time. It’s simple messing with time never brought forth anything good,” says Akatosh as he was sitting on a stone chair surprising Ciri.
Ciri stood up as she wanted to draw her sword when she noticed Vincent finishing his second bowl peacefully.
“Ciri this is Akatosh, Father of all Dragons and Divine of Space and Time. He is also my third father,” says Vincent as Ciri dropped her sword.
She couldn’t believe that a God was sitting at the same table she was eating on. This made Akatosh laugh from seeing her reaction as he looked at Vincent.
“This one is quite cute. She is a keeper,” says Akatosh as Vincent glared at him.
“You sound like my wife. Are you here to help her as I inquired?” asks Vincent as Akatosh smiles at him.
“My hands are tied. I won’t help someone that hasn’t a tie to my family or the Destiny of this Realm. If you want my help she needs to become one of those things,” says Akatosh smiling at them.
Vincent knew that Mina had her hands in this since Akatosh wouldn’t go to such length as he says, “*sigh* I won’t marry anyone for now. I told it to Mina and I will tell the same to you.”
“You don’t have to marry her. But one of your sons could,” says Akatosh as Ciri was feeling like an object right now.
“Why does everyone think that I am an object,” says Ciri as she got angry and unleashed her powers once again.
“She is feisty like Aela,” says Akatosh as he waves his hand annulling her powers while saying, “You do know that I am the Divine of Space and Time, right? Your Elder Blood won’t help you against me.”
{Enough!} shouts Vincent making the room tremble with his voice.
{You dare to use the voice against me?} asks Akatosh surprised by Vincent going against him while the room trembles with every word Akatosh said.
{It was Kynareth that gave us the voice so we could go against our oppressors,} says Vincent as Ciri was hiding under the table fearing the roof will fall over her head.
Akatosh begins to laugh out loud and says, “Fine, I will teach her. But is she ready is the right question. I have seen her fight and saw too much hesitation in it. You can’t hesitate when you are manipulating Space and Time. Either you do it or die trying.”
Ciri was looking if the coast was clear after the trembling stopped as Vincent says, “She will be ready soon.”
Akatosh then disappears leaving the two behind while his voice says, “I will wait for that day.”
Vincent then turned to Ciri and says, “We will resume your training. Pick your sword and await me in the courtyard.”
“Why was the building trembling?” asks Ciri as Vincent took her empty bowl.
“The tongue is powerful than any other weapon out there. Those that harness the tongue are called Greybeards. Once this was their home until they transferred to Akavir to stay with their Mentor,” says Vincent as he cleaned both bowls before placing them on a pile of bowls.
“The tongue is also called the Dragon Language or Dovahzul. Just speaking a word can make the world tremble if you understand the word to the fullest. That’s why when you see two Dragons fight, you shouldn’t believe it. They could just have a discussion as I and my father had right now,” says Vincent explaining why everything trembled while talking.
Ciri picked her sword up as she felt scared from how powerful only the words Akatosh and Vincent spoke to each other when she looked at her sword.
“Why does everyone want to possess me?” asks Ciri as Vincent sighs.
“Because of your blood. If you really want people to stop seeing you as an object you need strength,” says Vincent as Ciri looked at him.
“How much strength?” asks Ciri as Vincent could see the seriousness in her eyes.
It was the first time that he saw those eyes on her as he smiled and says, “Quite simple. You need to be on top of everyone else.”
Vincent had his spear at hand and swings it around while saying, “You walk a different path than me, but I can tell you what I had to do and repeat to you what I already told you when the Wild Hunt attacked.”
Vincent stops his spear before hitting the wall making the pressure behind the spear hit the wall making the impact echo through High Hrothgar.
“I had to prove my strength with every step I took in my life. I can tell you that I was afraid like you but that was one thing that made me stronger because I didn’t flee from my fear but stepped against it. I fought enemies that were stronger than me but in the end, I survived every battle except for one,” says Vincent as he closed his eyes.
His enemies appeared behind him and Ciri could see them all. They all looked serious at her as the pressure seemed to form around them making Ciri feel it.
Everyone had a different scale some were weak while others were taking her breath as her actual enemy.
“You see the one in dark armor like the one you saw in the bas.e.m.e.nt just that two eyes are implanted on them,” says Vincent as Ciri sees the Elezen named Estinien who was possessed by Nidhogg.
“He was the person I lost my life to and I will never regret it because he was my friend. I sacrificed myself to save him and we succeeded,” says Vincent as Estinien disappears entering Vincent’s body.
“They all were challenges that I needed to master on my road in becoming the strongest on Nirn. Every single one of them shaped me,” says Vincent as they all slowly entered his body when only one shadow remained.
It took form and looked exactly like Vincent when Vincent says, “But my true enemy is still walking on this world just like me. Do you know why?”
“Because it is you,” says Ciri seeing the shadow smile at her.
“That’s right,” says Vincent as the shadow entered Vincent’s body.
“They all were stepping stones so I can face my real enemy who is myself. The same goes for you. You might think that the Wild Hunt is your enemy but they are only stepping stones to grow stronger. Your real enemy is right,” says Vincent as he turns around to Ciri and walks towards her.
Once in front of her, he stretches his hand out and touches her chest with his finger pointing at her heart while saying, “Here. It’s the shadow of limitation you gave yourself. The voice that tells you that you can’t do certain things. You need to overcome that shadow but never free yourself of it. But never let it disappear or you will lose your fear of dying.”
“It is that shadow that makes you hesitate as well making you doubt your decision,” says Vincent as he then inflames a will inside Ciri that would soon become a flame big enough to sustain herself by saying, “Now you have to choose between standing up and fight your destiny or fail to do so becoming a puppet in the theater of the strongest beings.”
“I will know your choice if you come to the courtyard,” says Vincent as he leaves Ciri behind to think about what he just told her.
“You think she will come out?” asks Akatosh as he appears beside Vincent.
“She will,” says Vincent as they waited for a moment when the door opened and Ciri walk towards them having a fire resembling a candlelight for now.
