The Ebony Renegades (Skyrim)

chapter eighteen

The group had started their work the moment the sun rose into the sky Asadelf and Lianya split the enchanting chore exchanging small talk regarding magicka, and other related topics. Gentu and Yamma take up the smithing chores with Yamma crafting the weapons from the ingots found in the keep while Gentu improves the weapons and armor passed to him by Yamma and loads them into a cart then passes them over to Asadelf and Lianya for the enchanting. Nearby Myra and Sabrina were reading a book while waiting for the pawn loot so she and Sabrina could count and estimate the income. Severin and Salazar were perched on one of the lookout points keeping watch as the door to the keep was wide open to allow easy access for the group although Salazar was blind he used the detect life spell and was acting as a sentinel. Gila was roasting a large elk over an open fire for their lunch as the els's hide was being tanned on a rack in the courtyard. Ebon-shi, Tully, and Suvvan went to Falkreath to pick up supplies and pick up Tully's helmet from Lod the blacksmith. As fortune had it, Lod was finishing the final repairs when Tully had entered his workshop. " Ah, there you are my friend, your timing is perfect I just finished the repairs on your helmet." Said Lod as he handed over the formally heavily damaged daedric helmet now looking brand new. " I'm shocked, it looks just like I did when I first got it." Tully said as he paid the man and met up with Suvvan who was unsurprisingly eating an elder cheese wedge while leaning against the border walls of Falkreath. " Hey, cheese nut, wheres the boss?" asked Tully who put the helmet in his bag. as he noticed the madness armored nord pointing at the guard's barracks where a skooma crazed breton was trying to pick a fight with Ebon-shi as the ebony shadow true to his reputation remained indifferent to the frantic man waving his arms not being hostile towards him, that was until the breton pulled out an elven dagger and stabbed it in the side of the ebony mail the moonstone blade not even scratching the dark armor as Ebon-shi turned his head slightly his blood red eyes peering from theeye opening the ebony helmet he was wearing. " was that your best shot? Now let me show you mine." He said as he turned swiftly smashing his ebony boot into the side of the breton's head and knocking him clean out. The Falkreath guards ran over investigating what happened as the local good trader explained that the breton was drunk with skooma and attacked Ebon-shi who then defended himself. Before the guards could ask Ebon-shi he was already gone along with Tully and Suvvan who silently were making their way back to cracked tusk keep in a triangular formation as these tall trees and the dense foliage provided the perfect cover for a sneak attack. The three heavily armored trio kept their guard up as they made their way back to the rest of the group but after a few more steps Ebon-shi pulled the bow of shadows from his back and trained an arrow about ten feet behind them in the bushes and loosed an ebony arrow into a bandit highwayman's torso pinning him to the large pine tree as Tully pulled the bloodskal blade off of his back while Suvvan pulled nerveshatter off of his back while they scanned their surroundings knowing these bandits never travel solo, like Falmer, where there's one there are always a whole infestation nearby. " Alright lads, to the keep and haul ass!" Ebon-shi said as the trio maneuvered back to back just in case there were any bandits following them just as the keep came into view a bandit marauder rushed them just to be dropped by a crossbow bolt between the eyes courtesy of Severin as Salazar was using detect life and pointing where the enemies were as Severin took them out. "We're back guys, and we got some small jobs to handle while we await Shadow-step, we'll wait for everyone to assemble before we start." Ebon-shi said as he laid the few papers on the table inside at the top of the stairs as he waited for the rest to finish their own collective work. After a bit the group reconvened at the table to hear Ebon-shi's report. " Alright we have three local jobs here, one is clearing out a bandit hideout about twenty minutes northwest of here, next we have a hunting job there's a herd of elk that the tavern wants to be hunted down to restock their supply, then lastly we have an extermination job some miners dug into a nordic tomb filled with ores, and infested with draugr and they offered a big reward if they were all eliminated so what do you all say?" Ebon-shi asked as he looks to his group. " I'll handle the hunting job, I love a good hunt." Gila said as she took the hunting bounty. " Since it involves undead, ill go, there are some new necromancy spells I wanna try." Tully said as Gentu stood up " I'll go to, destroying undead is one of my specialties." Gentu said as Lianya nods as she got up going with them Tully took the extermination job as Gentu and lianya grouped up with him. " And lastly there's the bandit hideout." Ebon-shi said. " We'll go." said Severin as he lightly pats Salazar's shoulder. " Me too, i wanna kick some ass." Added Sabrina as she walks up with Severin and Salazar. " I'll join up with you too." Said Ebon-shi as he walks to the group heading to the bandit hideout. " This leaves Asadelf, Suvvan, Myra, and Yamma, to guard the fort and wait for Shadow-step to return." Ebon-shi said as the group split up to take care of their own separate tasks. Gila left first her mouth watering at the thrill of the hunt as she rushed down the forested path, Tully's group went to the excavated nord ruin to deal with the draugr infestation, while Ebon-shi led Severin, Salazar, and Sabrina to clear out the bandit camp