𝆕𝅘𝅥𝅮♪𝆕Quest: "The Girl in the crystal" 𝆕♪𝅘𝅥𝅮𝆕 - Conscripto19

Greetings, I am Margy and I just couldn't by this, not with having the outline of something, that abides the wished content, at hand already. It's a concept I have done a few years back as almost one of the first blogs in the witcher amino. I just need to add a few things and make it bigger. I hope you enjoy. I ecxuse myself for typos. I am willing to erase them in the last day the challenge goes, but I didn't had much time, because I was and still am away on vacation, so sorry.

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Quest: The Girl in the Crystal

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    Ard Skellige lies before him, beautiful as always with their misty mountains and wild sea. The stunning green of the fields is dulled by the dark grey clouds, that close in quickly. The sea, usually calm with only sirens and drowner dwelling about, is becoming more of a nightmare than those beasts ever could be for a witcher like him.

     Geralt of Rivien, also called the white wolf, is a witcher of the wolf school and he fought many beasts and many man, so hardly anything can shake his spirit, but there a few things, that make him feel uncomfortable. Portals, politics, feelings, humans; anything a sword cant slice in half. The butcher of Blaviken, how many others refer to him, is a master in his field of work and slays any monster, that he gets paid for. Steel for any man that comes in his way and solver for any beasts and if that isnˋt enough, he can craft a potion, oil or cast a little spell to help with his fight.Mostly his years of training in sword fight and and handling a crossbow is enough to carry him through a fight; a bit of luck here and there as well. But this time he will face something he has never seen before.

    The tiny sloop he sits in jumps high into the air, thrown around like a leaf by the waves twice as high as Crach an Craite. Great struggles as he tries to keep his little boat afloat, but he only faces the start of the storm. The further they sail, the darker the sky gets and the wilder the sea. The ocean is a wild beast, this time of the year, and Geralt knew that and Crach knew that, but still, the wolf was kept until now.

     Crach didn't meant to force Geralt to face such a hard time, but the big bear ired his company a lot and Geralt couldn't refuse the invite of an old friend.

     A contract brought Geralt onto the shores of Skellige and he only meant to pay his friend a short visit, but in the end he stayed a month there, needing to take care of some buisness with other people. Not a job Geralt liked to do, nor one he is used to, but a friend is a friend and he helps them, if they request it. However, friend or no friend, Geralt curses him now in all languages he knows and with every word he knows, but it doesn't last long.

     A white light flashes and a loud rumbling thunder follows, shaking the wood and the man inside. A wave, as high as a mountain, forms right before him and the witcher clings onto each side of the boat in hope to not get lost in the raging sea. It was in vain. The wave crashes the sloop into tiny little pieces and the white wolf is pushed deep into the ocean. Luckily even monsters are hiding in these autumn storms.

     Ever so softly the waves splash against his legs, wrapping them into the cold water, while the rest of his body dries in the sun. Splinters of wood are spread around him in a huge mess. Seaweed is all over him and tangled in his hair. His clothes are ripped and his belongings are partly lost and partly covered in the dirt around him. The sea calmed again and the sky is as blue as ever. A few birds are picking on him, which stirs him up and bring him back from the blackness of unconsciousness.

Painfully he groans and tries to take a deeper breath, but it's sand he breathes in not the wanted fresh air. Geralt coughs and spits the dirt out again while he rolls on his back. His lips are white and the salt sucked out all the water until they cracked. The bright sun is blinding him now and he needs to cover his cat like eyes. It takes a couple more minutes until he realizes where he is. Not entirely where, but at least that he is still alive and on land.

     "Kraaa."

    A bird screeches and flutters away, scared by the sudden movement of the man. Slowly, very slowly he gets up and looks around, hoping to find a sign of where he could be. Is he still in Ard Skellige? Is he anywhere near a place he knows?

     "Haaahhh. Time to find out where I am."

    He sighs deeply and starts to collect the bit of items he still got left. Luckily he finds his silver sword and steel sword as well as some potions. The bad of herbs he finds, still partly in water, he decides to leave there on the wood to rot away. There is still nothing in sight, that could tell him where he is and so he turns to wander inland. With no boat, there is no way for him to be able to leave for home again.

     It's been only a few steps into the land when he hears a jingle and a writing pop up right before his eyes.

    'New Island discovered: Paradis'

     Geralt stops and looks around. There is nothing. No sign of any sorceress or any other kind of magic item or witchcraft.

     "Where...? How? What did I just wander into?"

    Not long after and an hour further into the land another jingle rings and another writing pops up.

    'New Quest: Find the Girl in the Crystal'

    "Alright I have enough of this! Come out wherever you are! Show yourself creature!"

    His tone is angry and he raises his hand over his shoulder to reach for his blades. Not sure if it's a human or a monster, he let's his hand hover over both handles. Every muscle is tensed up in his body and he is ready to launch at whatever comes out, but nothing happens. The birds keep chirping in the trees as if it is absolutely normal, that writings pop up out of nowhere with a weird sound. For now the witcher is defeated and he relaxes again, a bit, and continues to travel further.

     On his way he spots remnants of human life. Ruins now taken over by nature are here and there. Leftovers of walls, that can only be spotted by little holes in the vast green, where the concrete shows his grey face. As he travels further and further into the land, he es more and more buildings, all left a long long time ago with nothing inside, that is of use for him, no food, no water, no equipment, only a few herbs here and there, but many he doesn't recognize.

     "Hm Paradis eh? An Island? hm", Geralt starts to think and he wonders what might have happened here and why this island seems to be abandoned by its owner.

     Further he goes and arrives by a few remaining pieces of a tall wall and a gateway. He es through it and almost cracks his neck from looking up.

     "Who build this? Giants?"

    Behind the gate lies leftovers of what seems to have been a big city. It lies in prices before him. The roofs mostly crashed in, cause the rotten wood wasn't able to carry the weight anymore. Weeds are taking over in the streets, trees grow out of a few houses. No soul is left in there, not even bones can be discovered, besides those of a few wild animals.

     "And in this pile of ruins is a girl? A girl in a crystal? How by all means should I find this one? Maybe there is a sorcerer somewhere."

    Geralt keeps muttering to himself while he walks down the streets. He was able to find a well, that still holds drinkable water, so he was able to satisfy his dire need of water and rest a moment there to gather his strength and think about his situation.

     A short rest later, Geralt walks straight to the next gate. It is broken down, the emblem showing a woman's head rests on the ground, partly buried by dirt and grass. The city buildings continue behind the gate, but soon the vast land opens up to him. Silently he wishes for Roach to be with him, but he left his horse at home and it doesn't seem like he could get a horse here. Geralt almost forgot now, that a strange writing had popped up before and he continues to a ruin, that his eyes had spotted in the distance.

     It is a big building, similar to a small castle, which makes him hope to find something useful in there. The witcher is still unsure where he is and how he can leave this place again. Time is ticking and he is low on food and water.

     Most of the building is still intact. The little wall surrounding a court with stables at the side and a big main building in the middle is still there perfectly as if someone took care of it. Yet no one can be seen. Cautiously Geralt surrounds the building first to make sure, that no monster hides outside, that could follow him and slay him from behind.

     Just when he is about to open the door leading into the main building, who's backside is so destroyed, that only the main gate offers an entrance, when suddenly the door swings open and an amoured knight stumbles out of it.

     "Woah, watch out!"

    He shouts and Geralt almost jumps to the side so the stranger won't land in his arms. Right away Geralt draws his steel sword to face any attack, that might come.

     "Hey careful! I don't want to fight!"

    This person seems to be all over the place and his armory looks out of place. He wears a two horned helmet, that covers most of his face and doesn't look as if it was made for him. His breastplate is black with a strange pulsing red on the front. The gloves he wears are metal combined with some fur as it seems and his boots are of metal as well, but of a better value. Geralt amulet reacts heavily to this stranger and right away the Wolf assumes, that this one is responsible for the messages he got when he first stepped into the land.

     "Who are you and what do you want from me?"

    His voice resonates lowly and his eyes are fixed onto the man before him, who raises his hands in a defensive way, giving off the message of being no threat.

     "Hey, hey! Put your weapons down. I dont want to fight alright? I am the Dragonborn, the Listener, the champion of Azura and Nemora and …", the man keeps on talking, but Geralt stopped after he said the fourth name. One would have been enough for him. The witcher sheath his weapon again and walks right past this Dragonborn, while he still keeps talking.

    "Say," mutters Geralt bringing the attention of the champion to him and away from his talk, "Is there anything down there?"

    "Well, you see - Uff how should i put this?"

    "Just spit it out already."

    Clearly agiated and short in temper, geralt loses his cool a bit and glares at the stranger.

    "I dont have a torch with me and it is freaking dark down there! I am sick of fighting draugr and spider, you know man?"

The wolf raises an eyebrow and sighs. Darkness doesnˋt affect him much, usually, but right now, he doesnˋt got his potion with him, that allows him to see in the darkness, but Geralt isnˋt stupid and he knows how to make a simple torch.

    "Sir you are brilliant. What name do you go by?"

    "Geralt."

    "Geralt, great name."

     The dragonborn isnˋt fazed by the name at all and just nods his head. Geralt isnˋt giving him any attention, but he is interested in one thing and he needs a bit of company in this strange area.

    "Why are you called 'Dragonborn'? You dont look like you are an offspring of a dragon."

    "Pfff what? Hahaha, no, well, maybe. Honestly I donˋt know. You know I was in Helgen and they wanted to behead me along with Ulfric. Great man, but a bit strange with his opinions, but anyway. So I was just putting my head down, when a huge black dragon came and turned this town into chaos. It was my luck, cause I was able to run away and not die! Man, my knees are still shaking from this."

    The stranger isnˋt finished and keeps on talking, but the two of them just went back into the building and Geralt is heading downstairs into the underground area of it and into total blackness. He doesnt know if there will be any threat or not and even if he asked himself, he didnt expected to recieve a report on the mans journey.

    "Make it short and lower your voice."

    "OH yes sorry. Silence is more suited here. I hate to be silent. I can finally talk, but now i have to shut up again, you know how hard that is. All these years just wandering around, slaying whatever crosses my way in hope to find good armour, weapons and giant toes."

    Geraltt turns with a disgusted look. Giant toes? Better donˋt ask.

    "Yes silence is what we need here. You Draugr and Spider?"

    "Right. Shhh."

    Finally he is quiet. Very Quiet. Too quiet. Geralt cant hear anything coming from the man, not even footsteps. He turns around quickly, just to look straight into the mans helmet face. A bit shocked the wolf continues his way and finally they come to a place, where a ray of sun managed to make their way through the scattered rocks. This ray illuminates a big crystal, causing the surrounding area to shimmer in all kind of colours.

    "Woah. Beautiful."

    The dragonborn whispers and stops, while Geralt moves in closer, but very careful to not steps into any traps or awaken creatures. The closer he gets, the less the light is blinding him and the features of a human become visible inside the crystal, but also many bones, a few what seems to be weapons and a book, on the ground. Geralt is careful to not step onto any of these and to get closer to the crystal to see who it is that is hidden in there.

    Once again a sound rings and a writing pops up.

    'Completed Quest: Find the Girl in the Crystal'

    'New Quest: Find out who she is'

    "This again. Hey you! Dragonborn! Are you casting these spells on me?"

    The man turns around from investigating one of the weapons on the ground, clearly not interested in the woman in the crystal. He points his finger at himself and his voice is a bit higher pitched than usual.

    "Me? I can cast spells, but i am more of an axe swinger, than a mage, tho I am an archmage as well, but more by accident than willingly."

    "How do you -? No nevermind. So you are not responsible for these writings that pop up and tell me where i am and what quests i got?"

    The dragonborn laughs out loud and shakes his head.

    "No man I am not responsible for that. I have that for as long as i can think about. They give us a meaning in life you know? Without them i wouldnt know what to do at all."

    Geralt feels more and more uneasy with this being and decides to ignore him as best as he can. He seems to hold no threat at all for him and so he can concentrate on his finding. Geralt musters the crystal and the girl inside of it.

    She looked very young, maybe around the age of 15, maybe 16. Her hair was blonde, her nose rather sharp and big, but her face is still cute. Her eyes are shut in an endless sleep, but what seems strange to Geralt and even the Dragonborn, who just ed the witcher. She wears a white long sleeved shirt with what seems to be a hood attached, her pants are simple and white as well, a s far as Geralt can tell through the crystal. Not that odd, but her brown jacket is so short, that Geralt wonders why she even wears it, when the most vial organs won't be protected from wind or cold. Also she wears from her torso down to her feet various belts, who's functions are unclear for them. The two men exchange a look and the Dragonborn just shrugs.

     "So we are supposed to get her out? But how? "

    The man wonders and surrounds the crystal. Geralt sighs and just wants to tell him, that it most likely isn't even possible to get her out without harming her, when the man already slashes his axe into the crystal. Of course the crystal doesn't break, neither does the weapon, but it gets stuck. Spitting out and cursing he suddenly got another much bigger axe in his hands. This one makes Geralt amulet wild. Some kind of magic must be attached to it. But no matter what magic it holds, not even this black axe with the same vibrating red in it like the breast plate of the wielder, can destroy the crystal. The axe gets stuck in it as well and the man curses even more.

     "I don't think this will break with sheer force."

    Geralt says and leans back on a wall. He won't try to hit it with his sword, not even with Igni, his fire magic, or aard. It would be in vain and only cost energy.

     "You don't say. Well I'll take these swords with me an am gone."

    Geralt takes a look at another pair of these. They seem sturdy, but they are very light, too light for his taste, but maybe he can sell them off and so he takes two of them with him, but he als picks up the book on the ground. He takes a look inside of it to see if there is anything useful for him, but, besides a few images, he can't read anything. This book contains information, yes, but it is written in a language he doesn't know. Never before did he encountered a writing like this. Yet he still takes it with him to see if maybe Yennefer or Vesemir know what it is. Or maybe even a merchant. He will see. On his travel back to Khaer Morhen he will encounter a few people, that might know an answer. Stuffing everything in a bag he follows the Dragonborn back out of the building.

     "Where does he even put that stuff in?"

    He wonders quietly. Clearly this man is still a mystery for him, but Geralt won't bother for too long to find out. As long as he isn't his enemy, he is fine with him.

     "Geraalt!!! I need help!"

    A scream brings Geralt senses to an alert. With his sword drawn he approaches the door slowly. As soon as he peeks out of it he sees a huge ape and the Dragonborn infront of him, getting the beating of his life. It seems to Geralt, that he would need some potion to be able to beat this giant, when not even his fellow fighter could do anything.

     "Watch out!"

     Geralt screams for the fighter to watch out, but it's too late. The giant ape steps on the Dragonborn, causing his death. Just when Geralt is ready to strike to avenge the man's death an arrow swirls past his head and hits the ape in the knee. An unbearable loud scream echoes, but the ape doesn't budge and just charges towards them. The witcher can only look briefly around to see a cat like thing standing there.

     "Don't stand there! Dodge!"

     In one swift move the cat-ish being moves out of the way.

     "Hey! That's not how it works! You got an arrow through the knee, you shouldn't fight!"

    He or she, or whatever, whines out loudly, but at least they dodge the attacks now until the ape raises his voice.

     "That Crystal is mine! Your weapons can't kill me!"

    A shiver runs down Geralt spine and it seems as if the cat got scared as well as quickly as they are at Geralt's side.

     "That thing is really something else. Maybe we should just run."

    "Who are you?"

    Finally Geralt can ask the question that is bugging him.

     "Me? Hey man it's me the Dragonborn."

    Geralts jaw drops and he looks with question marks all over his face at the 'Dragonborn'.

     "Yeah. I thought I try to be a Kahjit now, but I start to think, that I picked the wrong race. Doesn't matter, because I will run now."

     And with that said the cat scatters into the opposite direction leaving Geralt alone with the Ape. Should he try to reason with him? He sighs and casts Quen to create a shield around himself and rushes over to the giant. Geralt has fought giants before and this one shouldn't be any more difficult.

     The giants hand crashes down on him, but he dodges with a swift roll to the side and takes the opportunity to use the arm as a ladder. Jumping over the next hand, he dodges another attack and the ape gets annoyed, and turns around trying to get the witcher, who is like an annoying fly. The best way to kill a creature is to slice their head off, one of his favorite ways to kill a monster and to earn some more money or to keep it as a trophy. Geralt goes for the neck, which surprises the ape, because he didn't thought, that anyone in this age of time, would still know about this killing method. He is too slow to react and protect the neck and Geralt's silver sword goes smoothly and deep into the flesh, cutting off half of the head. The ape falls loudly to the ground, burying the rest of the ruin underneath him. The witcher makes sure to get the head off and makes another heavy swipe and the hairy ugly face rolls down on the ground. Surprisingly the body starts to steam. Maybe this one was a magical trick? Or it inhabited some magic? Whatever it is, it is dead.

     "Woah you my friend are amazing!"

    "You! You are still here?"

    The Dragonborn didn't left, they were just hiding some feet away to let Geralt do the work and to their luck he killed the giant ape. Now he crawls out again to maybe get some loot for himself. Immediately he, or she; it isn't quite clear; heads towards the toes and starts to cut off the big one.

     "Thanks to you I can get this now. I need it for a potion. Thank you my friend."

    "A giants toe? You are a strange one truly. I could have needed some help big warrior."

    Geralt retorts sarcastically and crosses his arms over his chest. The Khajit pushes the toe, that is steaming like the corpse, into his pocket and shrugs his shoulders.

     "I guess the girl is crushed into pieces now, isn't she? Time to go home."

    Geralt looks worried towards the bones of the ape and wonders if the girl is really lost now forever, but then he notices the corpse.

     "Don't you think, that this is strange? The corpse is almost gone."

    "Eh?"

    The Dragonborn turns and looks at it, stumping a bone with his blade and causing it to crumble. Turning around he shrugs his shoulders.

     "Good that it vanishes. I'll go now."

    "Wait! How do you intent to go and explain to me why you are still alive."

    "Oh that! I can't really explain, but I think it got something to do with me being a Dragonborn. You see whenever I die I don't really die. I can return in any form I want to any time I want. Great isn't it? Shouldn't you be able to do that as well?"

"Not that I know of."

    The being gets stranger and stranger the more time es, so Geralt considers to just leave and find a boat to return.

     "Oh? Strange m white haired friend. We need to find something to leave the island again. If only a dragon would by."

    "Why a dragon? "

    "Because I can force him to let us ride on his back, that's how I got here in the first place, but that stupid thing has thrown me down. I tell you dragons do got their own head. Ah you look quite puzzled about this. Let me tell you how I got to know the shout for let's say taming a dragon. Like always I have been on a journey to the next village to see if there is any job I can take on to earn some money, maybe even getting something better, when I saw a cave. Curious as I am I walked right into it. This cave looked like any other cave, you know the kind where you first walk through some omnious spiderweb, get to some Graves, where strangely enough the candles lit only to realize, that the dead aren't dead yet and you fight them. I hate them. Always coming at me, when I can kill them in one stroke, unless they use Fus Roh, do they know Dah? Hm. Ah I am not sure. Do they use the last word of the shout?"

    The Dragonborn continues to wonder and starts to recab various encounter with he Draugr and similar. Geralt stopped listening to the man's rambling. he even stopped wondering about him and just decided to go back home, leaving the Dragonborn behind, who is so much into his monolog, that he doesn't even notices that the witcher is gone.

     To Geralts luck he finds a boat floating peacefully on the shores of the Island. He didn't returned to the place, where he stranded first, ing that there wasn't any boat near by. This eastern coast is a bit rougher and without sand, but the sea seems quiet today. Throwing the weapons into the little wooden ship, he gets ready to depart. The witcher still doesn't know where he is, but he hopes for the wind to bring him some place he re. And luck is on his side.

     The weather is nice with the sun shining bright and some clouds in the sky to cast some shadows now and then. The Wolf is exhausted and so he lies down in the ship to rest a bit and watch the clouds by. However the sea is so peaceful and the clouds so nice, that his thoughts drift off and soon after he is asleep.

     Geralt wakes up to the cries of seagulls. Shocked he sits up and looks around. The sight brings a surprise to him. The misty mountains of Ard Skellige are right before him like he never left the place.

     "What in the name of...? "

     Geralt wonders, but quickly grabs the paddles to bring himself to the shore. Solid known ground under his feet. He never thought he would feel so happy about it. For a moment he stands there and watches the people ing by. This awfully normal scene helps him to collect his thoughts and to where the next sorcerer or better said druid is to show what he found on that island. Maybe one of them could help him.

     "If only Yen or Triss would be here. I'm sure they would know."

    A high pitched whistle echoes over the dock and the shrill answer of a horse echoes back.

     "I knew I left you here Roach. "

    And for sure Roach is heading straight towards Geralt, but in his euphoria it shoves a fisherman to the side, causing his basket full of fish to fall down and scatter all over the ground. The man curses the horse and waves his fist in the air. Geralt scrunches his face and shakes his head. Roach has never been the brightest light under the sun, but this was sheer stupid. Yet he is glad to have him with him. After apologizing to the man and giving him the last bit of money Geralt possesses he rides off to a small village in the woods to hopefully find an answer.

     Thick fog billows over his path, growing thicker before vanishing upon entering the forest. The darkness of the night is already upon him, when he closes in on the little village. The druid, as far as he knows, lives a bit outside of the village, but Geralt needs some food and beer before meeting him. The lights of the houses shine pale in the cold night and the air smells as if snow will fall soon on the already frozen ground. Roach snorts and a grey cloud vanishes into the night.

     A well filled plate and some beer later, Geralt feels strong enough to see the druid. He didn't uttered any word towards the maid, knowing quite well, that druids aren't everyone's cup. A little path leads right outside of the village and deeper into the woods. The closer Geralt gets the wilder and more mysterious this part of the forest grows. Only a faint shimmer can be see in the slight mist. The area seems unholy for those, that don't know, who don't know who lives here, but for Geralt there is no threat around here. He knows the druid, that lives here and even Roach is calm and trotts happily towards the little overgrown hut. The witcher doesn't even need to tie him to keep him there, cause no animal would want to leave this place own their own.

     "Geralt! What a rare sight! How are you my friend? "

    An older man with a long grey beard greets him. he is bend over a little bit and s his weight on a stick, that looks more like a tree branch, than a stick.

     "Old man. I don't wonder anymore why you know that I wanted to come to you."

    "Hahaha come in my friend."

     The Hut is cozy and filled with herbs, potions and pickled goods. A small fire crackles in the fireplace and Geralt takes the invite to sit down and have a warm tea. He takes out the book and blade he took with him from the island.

     "I have stumbled across a strange place. It was abandoned besides a girl in a crystal and a giant talking ape. I found this by the girl and thought maybe you can help me."

    "Hmm a giant and a girl in a crystal? hmm."

    The druid takes a while to think and puffs out little smoke clouds from the pipe he is smoking. He takes the book nd skips through it.

      "I heard a tale about an Island, that has been abandoned for many years now. The things that happened there are beyond our imagination, but this book, besides the technical descriptions there, tells the story of said island and how the girl got in that crystal. Is she still there Geralt?"

    The Wolf makes a sad face and looks down into his cup.

     "She is, but she is most likely crushed into pieces. I killed the ape and he fell on the remains of the ruin, where she is buried."

    "I see."

    Silence follows and the wind howls through a gap in the roof.

     "Tell me the story you have heard."

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Many years before your time, there was a race of humans, that were linked to titans. However this folk was chased away to a small island called Paradis. In hope to find peace again, they build high walls to protect themselves from the man eating tita s, that were send to annihilate them. Hardly anyone from this island re their past, because their king erased with his powers their memory. Many centuries they lived a happy life behind three giant walls until the threat from outside found a way in. This is the story of the last people of Paradis and their fight for freedom and knowledge.

Eren Jaeger, a young boy with the dream of seeing the world outside of the walls. He has the wish to the survey corps, an organization, that thrives to explore the outside of their cage and to find the source of their thread; the titans. Where those titans come from and why they only eat humans is unknown to them, but the more they explore the more they find out.

One day a terrible event happens, threatening the whole existence of the people inside the walls. A titan crashes the very first gate leveling the way for another titan to crash through the next gate. Each wall got villages, protected by another wall, in all com ways. The first wall; wall Maria; is lost for humankind and many lives got smashed by stones or eaten by titans. The few survivors are marked for the rest of their lives, but Eren hasn't lost his will to fight, however his ambition shifted a bit and he wants to kill all titans now.

Years by and Eren and his friends start their training and make even more friends, but not all follow him into the survey corps, a few go into other regiments. Erens ing into the survey corps is paired with another big event. It's the south district again, this time it's Trost, who's gates get smashed, like in the past. But this time the titan has no chance to get to the inner part of the wall. Still in training Eren and his friends have to fight and during this fight the young boy gets eaten. Strange things are happening once a titan appears, that fights against his own kind to the joy of the warrior inside the walls.

Before the fight is over the people come to know that this titan is one of them. Eren Jeager peels out of the titan body. He proves himself to his people, who of course doubt his ambition, by closing the hole and saving the city. What they didn't knew is that he isn't the only one to be able to transform into a titan and that their ranks are already infiltrated.

The enemies of the people of Paradis have send their spies over. They know, that they got at least one titan power within the walls and they want to possess it to use it in their own fights. In legends it is said that there exist nine titan powers and Paradis enemies, called Marley, who use Eldian soldiers, wants these powers for themselves. Eldian and Marley are folks of old, but only Eldians are able to use these titan powers, but their folk gets surpressed by the Marley an race. Most people in Paradis are Eldians as well, but they don't know and Eldians themselves see them as traitors and their enemies.

The group of young soldiers, that has been send are Annie, who inhabits the female titan, Reiner, who possesses the amoured titan and who is responsible for breaking through wall Maria, and Berthold, who got the colossal titan and who is the largest one and responsible for breaking the gates of Trost and shiganshia, the town in which Eren lived when he was young.

These three are send to retrieve the powers, that got stolen from Marley, one of them the founding titans powers, that can alter the memories of Eldians. The three teens are also of the 14th training corps in which Eren and his friends are as well, but only two the survey corps.

Annie is the first one to try and capture Eren, when he and a few others of the 14th go on their first mission with the survey corps. Annie is known afterwards as female titan, that is responsible for the death of many good soldiers. However she was almost captured, but the survey corps didn't knew then, that she is like eren and that she can transform. Only when she had to fight Eren one on one, they notice a similarity in the fighting style.

It takes a risky plan to capture her, but the survey corps with ErenS help is able to get her. Unfortunately the girl possesses one ability to save herself from getting interrogated or possibly tortured, and that is forming a crystal around herself and putting her to sleep. Her crystal gets stored in the basements of the headquarter to keep it save and to test various methods to get her out of there, but no weapon can destroy the hard stone.

While she is locked away and sleeping peacefully, the fight for knowledge and freedom goes on. Many good soldiers on Paradis side get lost and Annie's friends have a mission to fulfill and have no other choice than to abandon her. Even if they promise to return to save her, they never have a chance again.

The survey corps fights long inside the walls and outside to free the people of the island from the boundaries they were forced into and they succeed. The enemies are forced back into their own lands and the island is freed from roaming mindless titans and finally they found out more about those creatures.

Every titan was once a human being. Originally they should have been there to help the humans to forms their land, build their homes, but the more powerful humans get the greedier they get and soon the eldian race started to look down on other races. A big war is the result and now the Eldians are surpressed and get abused for the Marley will.

Marleyans researched on them until they found out how to make a serum, that turns every Eldian into a titan, but most of them are mindless and will just go around and eat the humans. Other creatures do not affect them and they can only be killed by slicing their neck deep enough to reach what is left of the human body. Only the titan shifters can take control of their titan and act on will, but only nine shifters can exist to the same time and all have different abilities.

Marleyans want to use them to win in wars with other countries and to widen their territory, but there is one Shifter, that got his own plans. Zeke Jeager, half brother of Eren Jeager, is also a titan shifter. He is the only titan that is able to communicate with humans and his thrive is to annihilate every Eldian so that the titan powers will die out.

The great war goes on and while a few soldiers of Paradis invade Marley territory, Zeke bonds with them and brings them to take him with them to Paradis, where he starts his rage. He is able to defeat Paradis, but the Walls and towns get destroyed in the fight. However, due to the fight on Marley ground before, he is the last one left of his kind, but Annie.

It takes him long to find out where the girl is hidden and he can't reach her. Zeke inhabits now almost every titan power and only Annie is left to recreate the original titan, the mother of this all, but with having eight powers he is unable to return into his human Form and therefor isn't able to reach Annie. He could destroy the building, but he fears to destroy her and so he waits.

Paradis is destroyed and Eldians don't exist anymore, but the fear of getting on this island remains. There are no written words about what happened there, only tales told by old people, sorcerer or druids remain. No one who ventured there came back alive and no one knows what became of the girl in the crystal.

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    "A girl in a crystal? Sounds interesting, too bad that this isn't a quest. I would love to see what we could find there."

    Just when the Dragonborn is about to leave the dungeon again he hears the familiar sound paired with the writing, that a new quest has been added.

     "Aha! I knew it! Time to find my way, but first I have to sell some products, I think I carry too much again. Where is a horse when you need one?"

    He sighs and starts his journey to the next village, very slowly.

     The Dragonborn, or Archmage; one of his many names; has just finished this dungeon, that he found on his way to another mission, which he has already forgotten what it was. Just like any other dugeon he found there some Draugr to fight, a spider or two, many riddles and traps, that almost killed him and at the end of it by using the dragonclaw he found before, a shout and a treasure chest. The Dragonborn is no one to leave any axe, arrow or sword behind, not even the dirty cloth he finds everywhere. It can be sold in the end or be used for something else, but he always forgets, that he can't carry around so much and that he can't whistle to get his horse, if it got killed, because he thought he could climb a mountain with it.

     Without a horse and without being able to run he walks the dirty path, hoping to not stumble across wolves or a bandit, that thinks they can rob him. At least the landscape is beautiful, even if he has seen it countless times already, for this dungeon wasn't his first one. He has ventured Skyrim for many hours already and fought many beasts and many man. He even earned the title of champion from various Deadric gods, but he is still missing the full Armour of them, but at least he can enchant his existing weapons a bit.

     He can't for how long he is traveling, but finally he arrives at a little village, that just looks like any other village around whiterun. There is one goat there, but he takes a longer route to avoid this thing.

     Once he had a not so happy encounter with one and ever since then he avoids them as best as he can. He even avoids chicken, that walk around on the streets everywhere and he would warn everyone to not kill any chicken. He tried it and wasn't able to step into Rifton for many days and even now he has to be careful.

     In this village, from which he has forgotten the name and is too lazy to look it up, there is also a tavern, where he could get another mission; a bounty hunt most likely; and where he could sell some good, but he knows that there is a merchant somewhere in this town and he can only hope that this one got enough money to buy all that he got to offer.

     He is able to sell almost everything, that he got, but while he was talking with the merchant, he accidentally accepted another mission.

     "Well can't walk around here without getting one these days. I'll do this later, but now how do I get to this crystal girl mission? What did this scribbling on paper say again?"

     He rumages in his pockets and finally finds the paper, where the story of titans, an island and a girl in a crystal is written down. It is torn and a few words can't be read already, but he can identify the name of the island.

     "Paradis."

    The mage got no clue where this island is supposed to be, but his first thought is that an island is most likely somewhere in the ocean. He has never been that far out and if he is honest with himself, he is a tiny bit afraid to venture into these new lands.

     "I was once an adventurer as well, but then I got an arrow in my knee."

    A Guard suddenly stops besides him, while he is studying his map, and speaks up to him. Somehow there is always one of the guards that has been an adventurer in every town. He doesn't even pay any attention to it anymore, but at the same time he tries to avoid to get arrows in his knees. The Dragonborn likes to be an adventurer. He leaves the town and now stands in an open field, when he hears a dragon roar in the distance.

     "Perfect!"

    He mutters to himself. Either he takes his chance to get this dragons soul or he uses the dragon to fly to the ocean. It needs a bit of strong will to get the dragon to fly where he wants to, but that seems to be the best way for him now. With light feet and a brave heart he heads right to the dragon and before this creature can do anything it couches already before him and offers him to carry him around. High up in the sky they fly and towards the ocean. The air is cool up here, but the armour keeps him fairly warn. The only thing that annoys him are the scales of the dragon. They rub everywhere and he can't even shift his position or else he would fall down and that would end in his death. The Dragonborn doesn't even know where he could resurrect himself. In the town? Outside? Maybe?

     They fly further and further, until not only the blue sky is above him, but also a sea as blue as the sky underneath him. The adventurer stopped wondering and was just looking at his map again, when suddenly the dragon took a turn and the man lost his balance completely. Only the dragon in the sky, that gets smaller and smaller, tells him, that he is falling, but he is falling and he might end up being dead Form the impact.

     The Dragonborn crashes into the sea, he is injured, but not dead and still able to swim to the shore of the land. Once there he hears the familiar sound and a writing tells him, that he discovered Paradis.

     "I am here! What a harsh way to land here. I need a potion first and some cheese. Oh no I sold every piece. Well then bread, or beer oh I still got skooma."

    Happily he is rummaging in his pockets and finally finds some bread to eat and a small potion to refill his health a bit. He looks around a bit if he can find some herbs to gather or something else, but then he marches forward to find the place of his destination. The champion has seen many ruins and many strange things, so he doesn't pay much attention to his surroundings and he stopped to look for a tavern after the second village he es by. Every town here seems to be abandoned and so he just walks on. He has read the scribbling on the paper, but he already forgot what was in there, the only thing that is of interest for him is to see if there is any weapon, that he can use or sell.

     It takes some time before he reaches the ruins with the big door that leads downstairs. At first he doesn't think about it and just walks in. Every dungeon no matter how old it was supposed to be, has light in it, some lit candles or anything like that. He didn't expected to encounter one that is pitch black. So black, that even black wouldn't be seen anymore. That scares him and he rushes out.

     "By Sithis, no no. I need to find a torch or anything!"

    Luck is on his side again when he rushes out right into the arms of a white haired angry looking man.

     Geralt a truly odd name for a fighter like him. He doesn't seem to be one of those, that just pretend to be a fighter and then are of no use. No, not him, but still this one is very strange. He acts as if he isn't used to quest sounds and writings that tell him where to go, where he is and what to do. Strange, very strange.

     "What are we waiting for, let's destroy this crystal and get the girl out."

    The Dragonborn doesn't hesitate and ruins both axes he carries around. His favorite weapons. He is very angry and kicks a few things around until he sees some of the swords on the grounds.

     'YOU broke mine so I take yours. Only fair.'

     With that he strides out without giving Geralt another look. He didn't warned him, nor helped him so it is partly his fault as well. One thing the champion didn't expected to encounter as he left was another being. A giant hairy ape is waiting outside for him. Shocked he needs a minute to find another weapon and only got a tiny partly broken axe with a lock picking enchantment, absolutely not useful at all.

     "Geraaalt!"

     He screams and finally the white haired man appears, but that distracted him and he was hit and killed, of course. A mission like this without getting killed once isn't a true mission. In his hurry he came back as a Khajit and found a bow nearby and an arrow.

     "I'll end your threat with the worst possible wound!"

    Swiftly the arrow flies right to the knee of the beast, but besides an angry roar and the attention back to him, it hasn't done much. That was his call to just run and hide. Of course he wouldn't go far away and just wait for his companion to do the work so he can get his things back and get this giants toe to make a potion out of it.

     With an open mouth he stares at the fast moves of the witcher and the skilled wielding of his blade. He was truly envious of the man, but of course with only bow he won't be able to do much anyway.

     "With my axe I would be as good."

    He mutters with hsi pride a bit broken, but once the beast is dead and flies way too close to his hiding spot down on the ground, the Khajit jumps out. We'll done m friend he thinks and walks up to take what beings to him. He can change later, but first things first.

     "Really? Have I heard them using Rah? I don't think so. Urgh I need to get back and check. Oh hey Geralt how do you... Wait! Where are you?"

    The Dragonborn has talked so much, that he didn't noticed that his companion left already. Quickly he looks around, but there is no sight of Geralt.

     "Great and how am I supposed to get back now? I can't kill myself to get back and it doesn't seem as if dragons are here. Oh! Wait I ! I can call Odahviing!"

    The sentence is not even finished yet, when he decides to just call him and let him carry him home. His good old friend would do that right? He took so many risks to get to know his name so he can do him this favor at least. It takes a couple of tries to get the shout right, but in the end the dragon appears.

     "Drem yol lok Dovahkiin, why do you call me here?"

    "Greetings my friend! I need you to bring me back to Skyrim."

    "Hmm, Mindoraan Dovahkiin. Get on my back."

    The low voice of the dragon rumbles in the chest of the Khajit, but he is fairly happy, that the dragon is willing to follow his plea. Safely they return back and the Dragonborn is able to sell one of the two words he took with him, for a good price. The steel these swords are made of is very unique and the smithy is more than happy to give all of his money and even some masterly crafted weapons to him.

     In the end he got his lsot weapons replaced in value and even got something to hang on the walls of the home, he has build and hardly visits. The quest wasn't boring and he still wonders where the white haired man called Geralt comes from and if the girl survived in her crystal or not. Even if his quest didn't failed, it remains unsolved in one tiny optional task; to free her from her crystal. Whenever he has the chance to get in his house he will be reminded of his strange encounter by the blade on his wall, but many days by, before he ever returns home to leave some more cheese there and some skooma, we'll hidden from any bandits, that may come.

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Cover edit by me

Picture of Annie from an colored manga .

Pictures of goods from various sites using the original game art.

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