"I see the light, face me; fear quivers in Boethiah's voice from the prospect of your success."

I stepped around the corner and Neloth gasped in my head. "It is Dimitri."

Dimitri was coming down on the lift from the Reeking Tower. Bits and pieces of Frostbite Spiders coming down with him. His arms were crossed as he glowered down on us and the lift finally stopped.

"Neloth sends his regards." I said into the silence of the storm soon to come.

"Neloth," he rolled the names off his tongue and chuckled before muttering something in another language. "I haven't heard that name in a long time."

"He just called me an old cuss. An annoying one at that."

"You understand him?" I muttered out of Dimitri's earshot.

"He's speaking Old Nirn. The Nirn of the 3rd era."

"Then how come Serana wasn't speaking that and she's a Daughter of Coldharbour from the 2nd Era?"

"Who are you talking to?" Dimitri asked.

"Neloth," I admitted, "he heard what you said."

"Wait... what?! She's a-?!" Neloth yelled but Dimitri chuckled. I glanced back at Serana and she pretended to check her nails while she waited for Neloth and I to shut up.

"It's a pity that I'm going to test you."

"What?" I said confused.

"The path you are taking will lead you to a place of great power, one that could free me from Boethiah and I will be mortal again. If you can defeat my beasts, I will let you go to Apocrypha through the Mirror Door."

"But-"

With a dismissive wave of his hand he summoned three red-skinned and Daedric armored men and they brandished their weapons on us.

"Divines," Neloth exclaimed, "three Dremora?!"

"Serana?" I called.

"I see them!" She launched an ice spike and it impaled a Dremora but all it did was stumble and keep coming.

That's not good.

One prepared to blast me with a lightning spell and it wasn't until it hit me and I went flying that I realized it was chain lightning. Serana dived as the bolt struck through my shoulder and landed at where she was once standing. They can cast spells? How come I've never seen these things before? I got up, a painful hole in my shoulder and a Dremora leapt towards me.

Just a little hyper-aggressive, I thought, just a little. Weakened, I just tried to keep my sword level and when he landed I ducked under his swing. When I left my sword in him he fell down and probably for the third or more time in last few days I've been separated from my sword. Drawing a Dawnbreaker with my left arm I battled the other Dremora who used sword and shield.

It shield bashed me and attempted to stab me while I was dazed. Using all the strength I could muster I weaved away and under his sword and then he kicked me. After stumbling backwards the monstrosity charged me but an Ice Spike planted one of his legs in the earth and he face-planted into the ground. I glanced at Serana who had pinned every body part of the Dremora she was trying to kill with Ice Spikes.

My enemy swiped his sword at my feet but I stepped back and shocked him with one hand and stabbed him with the Dawnbreaker in my left hand. Having the holy weapon pierce it's heart it turned into dust.

Holy weapons, Meridia was right about needing these.

The Dremora I impaled from earlier was up, struggling frantically with the Bloodskal blade in his chest. I also saw Serana just axing her poor Dremora over and over but it refused to die even though all it's appendages were pinned with ice spikes. With a deep breath, I cast a Fast Heal spell, got a second wind and drew the other sword to decapitate my other Dremora and I walked towards Serana.

"Why." Shy axed the numb Dremora with each word, "won't. You. Die!"

Once I walked up to it the Dremora looked at me with wide eyes as I threw my sword into the ground...

Through him and turned him into dust.

"Are you alright?" I asked.

She flipped her sweaty hair back with a smile. "Yeah."

I looked at her a moment and she laughed, wiping sweat from her head. "Your heart is pounding."

Crap Serana, I thought and walked towards the cave that Dimitri disappeared into. Dimitri was illuminated by a Candelight spell as he slowly clapped his hands in half-hearted praise. He was sitting against the wall and his voice echoed,

"Good, good-"

"Did I pass, you fiend?"

"Hmph, fiend? Do you want me actually trying to kill you? One more test." This time he bound a visible spell in his hands and when he let it go it released three monsters I again had never seen.

"Neloth?"

"Divines," Neloth sobbed, "Dimitri is making me miss adventuring! I wish I could see your faces!"

"Really?!"

"And that's a Daedroth and two Winged Twilights just so you know. Gosh, the author and I are about to have a nerdgasm!"

"What?!"

There was a roar and two screeches that echoed within this cave. I screamed out an ululation, a battle cry in the form of my Time Slow shout.

"Tiid-Klo-Ul!"

I went under the Daedroth, a half-man-half-lizard abomination and shot chain-lightning through its shoulders which went through and sought the Twilights. The twilights cried out but I couldn't stop, I drew my Bloodskal sword and sliced the Achilles' tendons on the Daedroth before standing before Dimitri for a moment just as time restored itself.

He looked up at me, "What?"

"Your beast is defeated."

Dimitri closed his eyes and shook his head before laughing at me. "What? It can't attack us!"

"I can tell you don't know what you're up against. Daedroth are not only servants of Molag Bal, but besides their immense strength," I heard a watery sucking sound behind me as the beast tried to turn to me, "the Daedroth can also breath fire and poison its prey."

I turned around and quickly rolled, dodging the glob of corrosive poison spat at me. The beast was peppered by Ice Spikes and turned towards Serana to spew fire at her. Please be okay, I worried as I ran towards the beast and slashed its back. It roared in pain and swung a roundhouse strike but I ducked under it. I raised my sword and-

A lightning attack shocked me to my knees.

I glanced back, my body burning in pain, and saw that the Winged Twilight was barely alive and had zapped me. The Daedroth picked me up in it's hand and time slowed.

Serana screamed.

My mask, Konahrik glowed.

My back broke but an explosion of light healed me and the Daedroth threw me into the wall. I sat up to see Serana shooting the giant reptile in the throat with ice before swiping at the beast's stomach with the Rueful Axe, gutting it. Something rustled next to me and I was pinned onto my back by a screaming woman-beast.

Instinctively I punched it, rolled over when it was dazed, and dropped haymakers until my gauntlets pulverized the she-demon's face. I looked over to Serana who went to finish off the other Twilight with the thin lips of her axe.

Dimitri's slow claps filled the silence and he stood. Going to pat his Daedroth saying to us without looking, "Well, he's dead his body just doesn't know it yet," he said about his lizard, "I guess you passed."

He snapped his fingers and unsummoned all his beasts. "I was thinking about making you fight Clannfears and a Golden Saint but this is satisfactory. If you had capitalized on the time slow moment you could have killed my Daedroth quickly. Did you know that those Twilight's had healing abilities as well?"

"You're insane!" I said but he walked up to me with a smirk. Neloth was squawking in the back of my mind that I should be polite, Dimitri is a hero! Whatever...

"Am I the one going to go frolicking around in a Daedra's backyard? No. Hold still."

"Why-"

Before I could finish he began healing me and after he was done he applied the Dragonhide spell to me and Serana. We watched him confused and he patted Serana on the arm. "Good work, the Daedroth has a soft stomach."

He came to me and offered his hand, after some consideration I took it.

"Thank you, Dimitri." I gave him a salute, a fist to my chest. Finally calming down enough to realize that he and I had an honorable engagement, my old Companion honor flowing out on him. I don't know if Neloth or this man are considered the most powerful mages I have ever met.

"Good luck," he said walking away, "my daughter had married into the Wraith-Bloods. I'm glad the bloodline still has heroes, no matter how dumb and inexperienced they may be. I'm glad Akatosh blessed my posterity."

Serana's jaw dropped. "Talion?!"

"Dimitri-"

The man, looking younger than me, began to fade into darkness, "Boethiah isn't happy. I shifted fate in your favor boy." His eyes bore into Serana for some reason. "I can't say the same for your... friends."

"Dimitri!"

But then he was gone...

A/N: Vulthuryol=Lvl 50

Daedroth=Lvl 100 lol

Dimitri?= Lvl 1000 XD

Pronunciation: Dimitri (dim-ee-tree) or (demi like demi-god but demi-tree)

Alterianni (al-tier-ee-an-nee)

Vul- crap I don't know how to say that XD

Anyways, the names I've made thus far are: Ethrellden, Dimitri Alterianni, and Sieriell. Do you think they're good names? Mouthfuls I know, but I just thought them up kinda.