The six Stormcloaks and two Equestrians ran (or Rainbow's case, carried) through the forest hopelessly searching for an exit to get them to  Windhelm. They ran as fast as they could jumping over the occasional rock or log that happened to cross their paths. Looking back they saw eighteen other hunters appear in the distance.

'Lucky we got out of there in time' he thought looking over to Rainbow Dash. 'By Akatosh, she's a stubborn one'

He began to recall what it took to actually get her out of the woods.

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"We run", he said

"Run, but sir", Brandon complained.

"Hey Brandon, shut up", Thorald said calmly.

Brandon threw Thorald an annoyed look as Edwin strolled over to Rainbow Dash and Twilight.

"Breton, Altmer", Edwin said, insultingly saying the word Altmer.

"They have names sir, Twilight and -"

"Rainbow", he said.

"Yes, how did you know?", Rienna asked.

"They said it earlier", he answered calmly.

"Wait a second"

Edwin turned his head towards the voice to see the Altmer looked rather irritated.

"That's what you were laughing at, you were laughing at my name", she snapped angrily.

"I neither deny, or confirm that", he answered. "Now, how fast can you run?".

"Run who needs to do that I'm the fastest flyer in all of Equestria", Rainbow responded arrogantly.

'Equestria? flying? what is this Altmer on', he thought to himself. "Doesn't matter, because we need to get out of here".

"Get out of here?", hold on buster we're not going anywhere with anyone who killed somepony in cold blood", Rainbow responded.

"Did she just say "Somepony"?", Edwin heard Brandon say.

"I see well, if it's going to be like that, RALOF", he called.

"Yeah", Ralof said strolling over.

"Carry her".

"WHAT", Ralof and Rainbow said simultaneously exclaimed.

"You heard me", Edwin said calmly.

Ralof walked over to Ralof. She heard him say "sorry" before picking her up and placing her on his shoulders. Edwin looked down to the Breton.

"Twilit"

"Twilight", she corrected.

"How fast can you run", he said, being able to hear the complaints of Rainbow from behind him.

"Well In races I usually run at a slow pace so that when everybody is tired I run past them", she said smiling at the end as if were relevant.

"You ever played tag?".

"No"

"Well in the game just run as fast as you can away from the people chasing you and don't let them catch you, the only difference is that they are going to kill you when they catch you", He said.

"K-kill", she gulped.

"Yes kill, death, die, murder, that kind of thing now can we get going", he said hearing the sound of horses getting near.

" Um, okay", she gulped, getting up.

Edwin turned to the others.

"Alright everyone let's get out of this forest and get to Windhelm", he called to the others.

Everyone who was sitting down got up and made a dash towards the trees and ran.

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The sound of a horse drawing closer snapped him from his thoughts, looking back he saw one of the hunters upon his horses approaching him from behind. He drew his sword, continuing to run until he felt the horse was close enough. He halted then hit the horse with his sword causing it to flip over. He continued running, picking up the rider and hurled it at another hunter, knocking him off his horse. Edwin then quickly ran back to the group.

Avulstein looked to his side and saw a hunter approaching him. He pulled out his war hammer and slammed into the rider. Further to the right, Thorald ran up a log that led to higher ground to give him an advantage and followed the group close by and looked for a rider that was near to him. Eventually he saw one, he jumped onto the back of the horse startling the rider. When the rider turned around, Thorald used his axe to decapitate the rider and then jumped off, stumbling a bit when he hit the ground.

Edwin looked to his left and above the trees he saw...

"Windhelm", he muttered. "Everyone we're almost there".

Him and his group took a turn and saw the forest's exit. They dashed as fast as they could, their spirits raised when they saw Windhelm not to far away from them. Edwin turned around and saw who he could assume was the leader of the group and someone who most warriors admired in terms of strength and power. He skidded against the snow and turned to face his new foe.

"CAPTAIN, WHAT'RE YOU DOING?", Brandon yelled to him.

"Get to Windhelm, NOW!", he ordered.

His team followed his orders and unwillingly left for Windhelm. He prepared his sword, which shone in reflection of setting sun, he charged towards the leader of the group. He knew who he was taking on and knew that it was suicide, but a question still rang in his. Why?, why do something so foolish?, then he remembered why.

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It was daylight in the Imperial Arena, the crowd watched Garzug Arsh Kritug stab his newest opponent in his chest, winning the title of champion for the fifth time. The crowd roared at his triumph at what he had accomplished. In the crowd were two children and and one teenager. The child and the teenager had black hair while the other child had blonde hair.

The black haired child looked to his blonde haired friend and back. His face adorned a large smile.

"That was amazing, it's like he doesn't know the meaning of impossible", the black haired child cheerfully said.

"Well it's good to see you have idol", the blonde said.

"Oh no, the Hero of Kvatch is my hero", he responded.

"Didn't become a Daedra?", The blonde asked

"Don't get him started Nickulas, I've tried to tell him that before", the teenager said. Now Edwin, we need to get him back his mother, then we need to get back to Dad".

"Ughhh you sound like Mum", Edwin groaned.

"Edwin", his brother jokingly warned.

"Sorry Robert", Edwin apologized

"It's okay, now let's go", Robert said the two children.

The three of them left, while walking down the streets of the Imperial city Edwin looked towards his brother and said.

"Hey Robert"

"Yeah", he responded.

"One day I'm going to fight Garzug Arsh Kritug", he declared. "I will train and train until I'm strong enough".

Robert looked at him knowing his brother meant what he said fully, he smiled at how willing to do this his brother was.

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Edwin charged his new opponent with fire in his eyes and nerves of steel. Garzug, who knew what he was doing ordered his soldiers to stand down and leave him to battle him. He ran towards him, took a deep breathe and shouted.

"FUS RO DAH"

The force was enough to throw Garzug off of his horse and onto the snow. Garzug got to his feet noticing his foe approaching him, sword in hand, he whipped out his Orcish sword to greet his opponent's Ebony sword.

Edwin swung his sword to his left in to have it parried by Garzug's sword. He swung his sword to the right, left, up , down but found himself unable to land a successful strike on Garzug. He swung his sword and ended up put in a position where Garzug was trying to force his strength down so hard that it either break his sword, but if he moved his would most likely get slashed at which was no good to him, but he was prepared.

He drew his dagger from his boot and and prepared to stab Garzug in the gut, however this was noticed. Garzug used his free hand to grab the blade of his sword ignoring any kind of pain and half sworded (when someone grabs their blade and thrusts with it) him with end of the handle and knocked the sword out of his hand.

Edwin was left helpless, the only thought that comforted him was that his team most likely made it back to Windhelm safely. Garzug raised his sword to deliver his final strike but the sound of someone preparing a spell drew his attention. Garzug turned around and received a large amount of fire to the right side of his face.

"AAARRGGGHH", he yelled.

Zenieth and another one of Garzug's followers grabbed the screaming Garzug and carried him away.

"KILL THEM", Zenieth yelled.

Edwin tried to look at the person who attacked Garzug however his vision was blurred because of the Garzug half swording him all he could see was that he had blonde hair and blue robes. The new challenger began to fire off green spells incinerating the hunters and their horses.

When the robed figure had finished chasing off the remaining hunters looked down on him and two more figures approached from the trees, one with blonde hair and the other with, purple hair?.

"My, my when you said you were going to challenge him you weren't kidding", he joked.

Edwin instantly knew who he was now. His vision cleared and his suspicion was proved correct.

"Nickulas", Edwin said. "Where the hell have you been.

"Could ask you the same question, it's been more than four years", he responded.

Edwin turned his attention to the women behind him.

"NIckulas, I'm ashamed of you", he teased.

"Sorry", he asked confused.

"Well aren't you already seeing someone", Edwin said.

"What no, I'm just helping them find their friends, you of all people know I would never have an affair", he exclaimed

"Yeah, who are they anyway?", he asked

"Oh yeah, these are Applejack and Rarity", he responded.

"Charmed", Rarity said

"Yeah what she said", Applejack mumbled.

"The blonde one reminds me of an Altmer I met, I believe her name was Rainbow", he explained.

"Wait Rainbow, do you mean Rainbow Dash?", he asked.

"I don't her last name but there was another I believe her name was Twilit", Edwin explained.

"Twilight", Nickulas corrected.

"Sure, wait how did you know", he explained.

"I promised I would help them find their friends, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash and their baby dragon spike", Nickulas explained.

"Huh, well if you want to know where the other two are, they're in Windhelm", he told him.

"Well let's go then", he said cheerfully to his friend as the four of them headed down the road to Windhelm. Next Chapter: city in the mountains Estimated time remaining: 19 Minutes