Soren of the Dark Brotherhood, The Life of a Courier and Assassin Options

[DarkZerker]

I'm back in the fan fiction thing again. Now that mid-terms have passed, I can redo my original fan fiction buried somewhere around here.

But I'm not going to dabble on about my personal life here. This first post is going to lay down some STUFF before I edit this into a full fledged chapter.

Firstly, Soren Snowe is going to be much like Riden, only more developed with a different back story. And this time, I'm going to follow the main quest line...a little bit. YAY FOR STUFF.

Secondly, I like feedback so please feed me back . But in all seriousness, there's no point in writing if people aren't going to read it and I won't get better that much if I don't know what to correct. So let's go.

Oh and no Bladesong. Sorry, it feels too forced, the quest line.

[DarkZerker]

Thank you all for those inspiring words. In this chapter, Soren goes through the most hated part of any game. The tutorial -_-. I made it as good as good as I could. But bear in mind if this isn't as good as my last two chapters. I'm pretty much forcing myself to finish this tutorial stage in less than 3 chapters.

Chapter 3, Tunnel Rats

I headed down through the secret passageway to see what lied on the other side. After a long walk through the darkness of the escape tunnel, there was a sound of somebody taking out a weapon. Scared that it might be one of the assassins or one of the Blades wanting to remove me, the weak link as of right now, I got up in a fighting stance.

In a blink of an eye, two strangely clothed masked people dropped down from nowhere. Both of them were wearing some sort of strange summoned armor and both of them rushed at the Emperor with maces. Before I could react, one of the Blades killed the one with the torch.

The moment the Blade's katana impacted, the armor dissipated into a glowing yellow mist before revealing a regular man wearing nothing but purplish red robes. He dropped the torch and I sprang to get it as a weapon.

The other one rushed, not after me or the Emperor, but the female Blade. Without thinking, I smacked the man with the burning end of the torch, setting his armor on fire. But he seemed to be on some kind of pain killer as he kept going, the fire extinguishing a couple seconds later.

I sighed and rushed to him and cast a weak touch fire spell. It seemed to stun him just a little bit and that was enough time for me to punch him straight in the face, knocking him out. Then the Blades, who seemingly did NOTHING for the entire fight finally came in and impaled the assassin.

My heart was beating as fast as ever. I had killed a couple people, mostly pirates and other annoyances that attacked me first but never had I fought against somebody with a real weapon with only my bare fists...and won. But that display of fighting prowess seemed to agitate the Blades, who were staring at me a couple times during our trek down the dark corridor. They seemed as paranoid as ever now. And why would they not? I just eliminated an assassin pretty much by myself and that would entail some sort of paranoia on how I could beat an assassin although they got through the Emperor's son's bodyguards.

Those thoughts were scattered when the Emperor examined the dead female Blade's body. "Captain Renault?"

One of the male Blades shook his head sadly. "She didn't make it sir. But we must keep moving."

Most would've honored the Blade but I needed a weapon fast. When the convoy moved up a little bit, I quickly snagged a steel sword and katana from her dead body before I caught up with the convoy. Trying to stay incognito after that, I simply held the torch and moved silently amongst the group.

Soon enough, we got to a gate and after a quick conversation between the Emperor and one of the Blades, they headed through the gate and the dark skinned one pointed to the spot I was standing. "You stay here prisoner, don't try and follow us," He said sternly.

I sighed and waited for them to leave. Then I tried to open the gate. The rusty iron gate wouldn't budge as I shook it for what seemed like an eternity. I slumped down on one of the walls, about ready to go back to my cell and get executed. But as I leaned on the wall, it felt strangely weak and sandy.

Curious and desperate, I kicked the wall with all my might and suddenly, the wall crumbled away, revealing a natural passageway, overgrown with moss and fungi. I wasn't really happy, heck I had to run around in a dark dank tunnel system, but it was better than getting executed and I HAD to take it.

I headed through the cavern and soon enough, I found the body of a Goblin shaman and on its waist was a key to what a sign on the door said, "Natural Caverns." When I opened the door with the key, the scene made me want to cringe.

Skulls of who knows what were hung all around and rats, not just regular rats but massive rats were all around. Thankfully, the rats were mostly docile except when I got too close. But what most interested me in this area was the sound of brawls coming off in the distance. Curious, I ran towards the linear pathway of the caverns, not caring if I stepped on any rats or not.

When I reached the end of my trek, bypassing the rats and then the zombies that roamed the area, what I saw almost made me throw up. I was no stranger to death but never had I killed brutally unless there was no other way. But the goblins that made their residence in these caverns were savages and nothing else.

Skulls of humans and goblins and what looked like mauled flesh decorated the main room of the cavern. not wanting to be the next victim of the goblin hoards, I carefully sneaked around the small pit of goblins, taking care not to kill any of them. From there, it was simple trek back to a door that lead back to the tunnel systems.

I opened the door and saw the Emperor and the two remaining Blades combating the assassins. Trying to help, I grabbed my steel sword I picked up early and headed to the battleground. The assassins, focused on fighting the Blades, was too distracted to notice I was there. In one slash, the assassin fighting the dark skinned Imperial was dead. But the other Blade was very unlucky as he fell like the female Blade from before, taking out the assassin with him.

The last remaining Blade headed towards me with his sword drawn after the fighting died down. "I'm going to kill him...he might be working with the assassins!"

As I drew my own sword, hoping that even without Lamina, I could fight a Blade, the Emperor intervened. "No, he is not one of them."

The Emperor looked at me and then asked, "Do you know the nine?"

I scoffed. "Yes...I do."

He then asked for my birth. "Evening's Dawn the 7th. I'm the sign of the Thief, why?"

The Emperor nodded and the convoy started to move again. Soon the last Blade placed me in a small square room with the Emperor. "Guard him with your life. I'll scout out for any more of those damn assassins."

I nodded and the Emperor solemnly took off his pendant, the Amulet of Kings and handed it to me. He looked at me with sad weary eyes and spoke in a very serious and foreboding voice. "My time is up. Take the Amulet of Kings and travel to Weynon Priory. There, give it to a man named Jauffre."

Then without me realizing it, an assassin popped out of a hole in the wall and stuck his blade in the Emperor's neck. Instinct then ran wild as I kicked him back, stunning the assassin and impaled him three times over with the steel blade.

The Blade came in and surveyed the scene. It looked as though both I or the assassin could've killed the Emperor but he went down on his knees and grasped his hand. "No...the Emperor is dead...we failed..." His eyes widened when he realized the Amulet of Kings was gone. "The Amulet, where's the Amulet of Kings?!"

I sighed and presented it to him. "The Emperor gave this to me to give to a man named Jauffre."

The Blade extended his hand. "Well it seemed the Emperor really did trust you after all. My name's Baurus."

I nodded and Baurus gestured towards another door and when I looked there, the creepy air coming from that area sent chills down my spine. There had to be goblins, the savage beasts...

Baurus didn't seem to notice as he went on. "There are rats and goblins down there. But from the looks of you, I say you're an experienced bard, am I right?"

"No. I'm just a simple courier for the Golden Horse services. The only reason I fight so good is because I kill bandits every time I do an inter-city delivery," I explained. Baurus nodded and he patted me on the back with cold steel gauntlets. "Well if you ever stop by the Imperial City, we should get a drink. I'll notify the Imperial Legion that you're free of charges."

I gave him a smile and looked down at the sewer system. The dark air started to suffocate me as I headed in, hoping for the best.