"Ok, day three and we are at the end of the line of the train tracks." Dusk says as they get off.

Sentire hums to herself as she writes in her book. "So where do we go next?"

"Ask Arkon." Dusk says looking to him standing on a rock, looking north before inhaling deeply.

"Hey Arkon, where are we going?" Rainbow calls.

"Getting a feel for the weather and the area…it hasn't changed since I was here last." Arkon says.

Dusk smiles a bit. "So you know where to start us off first?"

"Yes." Arkon says starting to walk towards the mountains. "I suggest no one flies. The winds are strong enough to crush a pegasus against the mountain side." Arkon says.

The pegasus grimaces as they start to follow with Sentire walking up to Arkon. "What are you planning to do once we get there?" She asks still writing in her book.

"I do not know." Arkon says.

Sentire nods. "Are you afraid still?"

"Yes, of what I am sure we will find." Arkon says.

Sentire nods as she writes it down. "You hope to protect it?"

"Personally, I'll be happy if Skyhold is still standing." Arkon whispers to her.

Sentire doesn't write that. "You think it is gone?" She whispers.

"It could have collapsed after so much time has passed." Arkon says.

Sentire looks to him. "Or maybe it hasn't."

"We shall see. Oh and the path takes several days to traverse even knowing where you are going." Arkon says.

Sentire nods and steps back. "I'll allow you to think on your own." She said stepping back to the group.

"Best to stay close. As snowstorms are common and can easily separate." Arkon says.

Sentire nods as she keeps writing and following him. "Is it me or does Sentire not really care anymore about us?" Applejack asks Dusk whispering.

"Oh no, she is just taking it a little slower as she is learning there is more to life and although she will never admit it, I saw her smile when she rolled high enough to know your character is out in the game." Dusk says.

Applejack raises an eyebrow. "You sure about that? It looks like she's back to when we first met her."

"Oh no, watch. Hey Sentire, what was your favorite moment in the game?" Dusk calls.

"When Berry made you and Elusive act out the dance curse that your characters were hit with!" Sentire calls back.

Applejack still frowns. "Okay, but you may have her gone too far at this point. I doubt she will gain any more interest."

"It's all part of a plan." Dusk says making Rainbow groan.

"Another one of those?" Rainbow asks.

Dusk frowns at her. "What's wrong with my plans?"

"They tend to be over complicated and get us in trouble." Rainbow says.

Dusk looks proud. "Yet they happen to work."

"A quarter of the time." Rainbow adds.

Dusk frowns. "Those work too."

The other elements of harmony look at him with a sideways glance.

Dusk sighs. "They still do."

The five say nothing and keep walking.

Sentire writes it down as she cracks a smile. "Back to square one." She said looking to the red marked page corner that was buried under the rest of the pages.

For the next five hours they traveled along the mountain path mostly in silence when the winds kicked up as it started to snow.

Dusk frowns. "How much farther?"

"Days." Arkon says heading into a cave as they sought cover.

They all shiver and try to warm themselves up as they set up a temporary camp. "How long do these storms last?" Dusk asks shivering.

"Depends on the storms." Arkon says sitting.

They all sit down by the fires as they try to warm up. "Well, we might as well try and get some rest of what we can." Berry said chattering his teeth.

"Why aren't you shivering?" Applejack asks shivering in his winter clothing.

"Because I am used to it. I grew up here, remember?" Arkon asks.

"That's expected." Sentire said still writing as the cold didn't stop her.

Arkon watches the outside as the storm raged as the rest tried to warm up and watched out for giant spiders.

"Why aren't you cold?" Dusk asks Sentire who just pauses in her writing and pulls down her shirt to show a mark on her side that was glowing red.

Dusk sighs before unzipping his winter coat and pulls her close and wraps the coat around her.

Sentire stops and takes off the coat and holds it out to him. "A blood ward to keep me warm."

Dusk wraps the coat around both of them. "Just enjoy this." Dusk says.

Sentire sighs and closes her book. "Why would I need to enjoy this? You told me to stop."

"I told you to stop thinking about just intercourse. I never said stop being you." Dusk says.

Sentire looks away. "This is me."

"No, it was you. You're going through a change." Dusk says before petting her, surprising her.

Sentire goes a little wide eyed before smiling and purring as she closes her eyes. "But, it is me." She tries to say while slowly leaning to his petting.

"Yeah, but are you the same person you started as?" Dusk asks making her think of the friends she made.

Sentire still leans into his petting. "Maybe."

Dusk say nothing as he keeps petting and lets her lean on him.

Sentire hums happily before quickly pulling away and turns herself away. Dusk then hugs her and they sit there until one falls asleep. Dusk snores quietly as Sentire writes again in her book as she spies Applejack watching her out of the corner of her eye with a slight glare and curious look.

Sentire didn't know what to make of this and wrote it down as well.

Dusk mumbles from her side and she lets a smile through. 'Alicorns are sometimes cute.' She wrote down before having the coat just wrap him up and gets up and walks off deeper in the crevice.

"The storm will stop before dawn." Arkon says getting everyone's attention as he had been silent the entire time with his thoughts.

"How long is that?" Butterscotch asks.

"Ten hours." Arkon says.

They all groan before most of them try getting some sleep bundled together.

Arkon remains silent as he keeps watching.

"Arkon?" Glide asks behind him as she stayed bundled up.

Arkon says nothing before looking back at her.

Glide shuffles a bit. "Want some company?"

Arkon scoots over to give her room.

Glide smiles a bit and sits beside him and leans against him. "What are you going to do when we get there?"

"Still working on that." Arkon says.

Glide hums and looks up at him. "What about us?"

Arkon says nothing and wraps an arm around her.

Glide smiles and nuzzles him as she leans in more. "You are a great stallion Arkon."

Arkon says nothing as he wraps his robes around her.

Glide giggles and sighs as she puts her head against his chest. "The many things you do, possibly more when we get there, the way you almost treat us, I love it and I hope to see more of it soon."

Arkon pets her mane.

Glide purrs as she leans under his petting and almost sits in his lap. "Can you…can you give a kiss?"

Arkon holds her close to let her finish it.

Glide smiles as she keeps purring before she leans in and kisses him while sliding her hands down him and puts them into his shirt and slides up again.

"You happy?" Arkon asks.

Glide moves slowly to his neck and kisses there. "You like it?" She whispered.

"Did you?" Arkon asks.

Glide hums and nods. "Yeah, but are you liking it?"

"Mostly distracted with my thoughts. So tell me about you." Arkon says.

Glide nuzzles him as she hugs him. "Well…there isn't much. Just that I'm in a flight team and that's it's."

"Go on. Tell me." Arkon says.

Glide shrugs. "There isn't much to tell. I just am in a flight team and competing and that's it. I don't do much."

"It's highly unlikely." Arkon says leaning onto her.

Glide hums as she looks up to him. "I'm sure. I just fly and do tricks to wow an audience. I'm just like any other member of the crew."

"Really, no hobbies or anything?" Arkon asks.

Glide shakes her head. "No. Just flying."

"Oh Spitfire, what are Glide's hobbies?" Arkon calls.

"She likes to cuddle and sleep in the clouds a lot." Spitfire calls back.

"Oh?" Arkon asks Glide as he pulls her onto him and lays back.

Glide eeps and sits up a bit. "Um…she's joking about that."

"Are you not comfortable?" Arkon asks.

Glide chuckles nervously as she blushes. "A bit. But she was joking."

"Shh, it's okay." Arkon says petting her.

Glide yelps and then slowly purrs as she curls under his petting. "That's nice."

"You can sleep here if you want." Arkon says.

Glide smiles and nuzzles his petting hand. "Okay, that sounds nice."

"Now get some sleep. We will be leaving early in the morning." Arkon says.

Glide nods and starts to sleep on his chest. "Okay." She said sleepily.

Arkon starts to close his eyes when he felt a blanket thrown over him and Glide. He smiles as he looks up to see Spitfire giving another blanket over them before walking away.

"Thanks firecracker." Arkon says.

Spitfire blushes and looks back to him before quickly looking away and walks away.

"OMC, I can't believe you said that and got away with it." Glide says.

Arkon raises an eyebrow to her. "OMC?"

"Oh my Solaris." Glide clarifies.

"Ah." Arkon says.

Glide sighs and snuggles into his chest. "Good night."

"Good night…need to come up with a nickname for you." Arkon says.

Glide lightly hits his chest. "Don't even."

"I give everyone a nickname when I get close." Arkon says.

Glide lifts her head up at him. "Have you already made some?"

"Yes, they are a work in progress." Arkon says.

Glide nods. "What do you have for me?" Glide hums. "Maybe. How about Slide? No, I already have a nice name and it can work as a nickname."

"I prefer Breeze, as in gentle breeze." Arkon whispers.

Glide blushes. "That sounds nice."

"Breeze it is then." Arkon says.

Glide giggles and lays her head down on his chest again. "I really like you Arkon."

"Sleep now. It's going to get no easier tomorrow." Arkon says.

Glide nods against him and closes her eyes.

The next three days were a harsh hike as the snow storms were frequent enough to predict and visibility was no more than ten feet at best, but soon Arkon stops and examines a moss and snow covered stone.

Dusk leans down near him. "What is it?"

Arkon says nothing before racing to the cliff top not a hundred yards away.

They all see him rush off and run after him. "What's going on?!" Agilis asks as he struggled to carry all the equipment.

Arkon stops at the summit and waits for them. They all cross over the ridge and stop at the sight of what was ahead. "Wow." Most of them said at the sight of the giant castle in the distance.

"This is the same view that the original ponies that discovered it saw." Arkon says looking in between the mountains.

Dusk grins as he sees the large castle that looks like a kingdom on its own. "Oh I'm so getting five bookfuls of this."

"Wait, you said the ponies found it." Daring says.

"Yes, Skyhold has been lost and rediscovered several times. No one knows who built it." Arkon says.

Sentire comes up beside him. "Shall we?"

"Alright, let's go." Daring says excited.

Dusk chuckles as he follows her. "Wait for me."

Arkon sighs. "Time to go." Arkon says following.

They all chuckle at the sight of the two excited learners and hurry to catch up. "Yes, he's always been like this." Elusive said to Sentire who was looking confused.

The trip to Skyhold from there on was much quicker as they walked downhill and found a beaten road as well.

Dusk smiles as he looks around. "Seems I was right. There has been a lot of trading with this place."

"Maybe it was a trading hub at one point." Berry says.

"Tell me, how did you major in economics in college again?" Elusive asks.

Berry grins. "Because of my life with my parents and being poor."

"Is that why you handle the financial of them and your three sisters now?" Elusive asks.

Berry nods. "Yeppers. I just need to send more bits once I get back and my checkbook balancing will be done."

"The bridge is still solid." Arkon says.

Daring chuckles as she taps the stone of the bridge as they cross it. "Amazing that it is still holding up."

"Too bad the rest of Skyhold isn't holding up as well." Arkon says.

They all look to the castle and sees it has been crumbling and the wood rotted away. "Wow, this place is old." Berry said spinning around as they go through the gate.

"You have no idea." Arkon says as they enter to see it was a little worse on the inside.

Daring hums. "Nothing a little deviated fixing won't do. I'm sure Artemis will spring for the bits and labor force and materials."

Arkon just looks around a sad look in his eyes hidden by his hood. He then sees a shield on the ground and goes over to it.

Glide notices his movements and walks over to him as he picks up the shield. "What is it?"

"This is a Templar shield. They were our warrior and rogues." Arkon says looking at the sword symbol on the front.

Glide leans close to him. "Are you okay?"

"I knew it would be deserted and no one would be here." Arkon says.

Glide nods as she looks around. "Yeah, most of the houses have old and rotten doors and a lot of the ceilings are crumbling. I don't think I would come here even for shelter." She said now walking deeper in the city.

Sentire hums as she keeps writing down things and recording all that she sees before seeing a glint from another level. "What is…?" She stops and quickly rushes over to Glide and tacklers her out of the way as a spear took her place. "Cover!" She yells dragging Glide behind a wall.

Arkon hears this, throws up the shield in front of him, angling it down, causing the next spear to imbed itself into the ground.

"Move!" Dusk yells tackling him as a crate fell from above and lands with a crash where he stood. "You okay?" Dusk asks getting behind a wall.

"I'm fine." Arkon says before throwing a ball of magic straight up.

Dusk growls and was ready to charge up magic of his own before sniffing the air. "Magnesium?" He asks himself before looking to the crates and the dust in the air. "Shit." He said before looking up and sees an arrow on fire. "Everypony hit the dirt!" He yells lying face down and covering himself.

"Sentire, how far could you throw me?" Arkon asks as a fireball went through the area over them and almost singe them.

Sentire grins. "A bit. You better right yourself in the air through." She said trying to find a way to hold him.

"Don't worry, just get me onto the wall." Arkon says.

Sentire chuckles and gets a hold of him and reels him back before throwing him to the wall as she takes cover right by Dusk who was making the winds blow the magnesium away.

Arkon curls into a ball as he nears the top of the wall and lands on it before turning on the dogs he sees.

The dogs yelp before starting to run away and throws some spears at him as he catches them with his magic before turning it around and throws it right back at them and catches their armor and clothing to the ground. Arkon slowly approaches the dogs, his hands holding magic fire and anger in his eyes. "Tell me why I should let you live." Arkon says.

"We were…just following orders?" One of the dogs meekly offers.

Arkon extinguished his fire and looks to them and waits for the others.

They all pant as some of them had their weapons and magic ready. "Dogs?" Daring asks looking over them.

"Talk now." Arkon says.

The dogs shrink from all the glares. "We were…just following Azkiz's orders. He said to not let anyone inside."

"He send you on ahead or he inside?" Arkon asks.

"Inside!" The littlest dog yells as Sentire holds her blade to his throat.

Arkon says nothing as he takes the stairs down to the ground.

Glide immediately follows him as they rest of the group tie and gag the dogs. Arkon walks up the stairs to the front door and stops. Glide catches his hand as he reaches to push open the door. "Whatever it is, just tell me and I'll be there." She said now letting him go.

"There is going to be screaming." Arkon says.

Glide nods and walks back to the others. "Good luck."

Arkon sighs as he enters through the doorway and walks through the halls, following the trail of disturbed dust as he relives his memories.

"Ah, good. You mastered the basic healing spell." He heard and looks over to see a ghostly image with the castle repaired with him in his colt days as he held a yellow ball of magic in his hands as an older stallion who was wearing almost the same exact robes as him except he had a green coat with a grey mane and wore a red Templar sash stood by him.

The younger Arkon looks up to the older mage. "Now can I learn more?" He asks innocently and expectedly.

The older mage grins. "Sure…once you clean up the mess." He said as they look to the numerous books lying on the floor and Arkon pouts as he drops his magic and lets it dissipate.

Arkon faintly smiles as the memory disappears and continues walking on down another hallway as he comes upon a room and stops. "And that's a windigo. There are a few types, but the most dangerous ones are one bred of desperation." Arkon walks in and sees it's a small study and looks over to a desk to see himself now in his older days as a teenager, as Rainbow described, with the same old mage who was pointing out some of the pages in a book they were reading in the candlelight.

"So what's the least?" Younger Arkon asks flipping through the pages.

"The one bred from hatred and anger. Just light a fire." The older mage said chuckling.

"How about banishing it permanently?" Younger Arkon asks frowning as he got a funny answer.

The older mage smiles gently. "Can you quell a being's anger permanently? Let that anger and hatred be gone from their lives entirely?"

Younger Arkon looks to him slightly shocked before looking down sadly. "No."

The older mage nods. "But what you can do is douse it so it can be just embers. One must never take anything such as a single emotion for granted. Anger, sadness, hate, jealousy, they all lead to one fulfilling themselves."

Younger Arkon sighs. "I understand."

The older mage chuckles. "No you don't. You haven't reached your highest point yet. And even then, you will still learn. Now then…" He said before the memory faded and Arkon goes to the open book on the desk and closes it. He sighs as he goes back outside and takes one last look before closing the door.

As Arkon walks, he then stops and looks out into the garden. "Alright now then, this is going to be dangerous, you ready?" The old mage asks as his features started to wrinkle from old age.

A younger almost preteen Arkon sits with several other students waiting to be taught.

The old mage sighs. "Alright, Arkon. You're up. Let's see you make this deal." He said getting out a scroll and throwing it to him.

Arkon misses the catch and picks it up off the ground before reading it. The old mage chuckles as he sits down nearby out of the training field. Arkon sighs as he goes to the middle of the field and opens the scroll before chanting and soon a ball of a blue light appears. Arkon wordlessly reaches out his hand and the ball of blue light lands in it.

Arkon hums as he looks closely at it as it seems to looks to in his direction flare a few times.

"Partner." Arkon says.

The blue wisp keeps flaring at him before starting to fly around him.

Arkon smiled as he remembers that and then closes his eyes and concentrates and soon a light blue ball appears before him. "Hello old friend."

The blue wisp flares as it floats around him while going up and down.

"Yes, it has been a long time. So want to help reclaim Skyhold?" Arkon asks.

The wisp stops for a bit before going to over his shoulder and flares once.

Arkon continues forward with the wisp lighting the way.

After he walked through almost the whole way, they finally made it to the doors of the throne room and strangely no resistance.

"I don't like this, you old friend?" Arkon asks.

The flare stayed silent before flaring once.

"I thought so." Arkon says before the wisp used its power to blast open the doors.

Azkiz quickly rises up from his seat on the throne as all the dogs in the room quickly brandished their weapons. "What is this?" He bellowed.

"The rightful owners are back to reclaim what is ours and clear house." Arkon says.

The griffon huffs. "So you say. You're just one pony with a light bulb. I have over a hundred dogs here. How does that measure up?"

"You're a fool." Arkon says before summoning fireballs around him.

The griffon laughs as the dogs shield him. "Is that the best the most famous priest can do?"

"Oh, you don't want me to bring my best. That is reserved for demons." Arkon says.

The griffon scoffs. "No such thing." He said waving a talon.

"Then you know nothing." Arkon says.

The griffon rolls his eyes. "Whatever, kill him." He calls to the dogs who rush Arkon.

The wisps releases a flash of intense light blinding them. Arkon then casts the frozen north spell, blasting the entire room with freezing cold winds.

All the dogs shiver as they still tried to get at him as the griffon growls as he stood up from the throne. Arkon increases the power of the spell, starting to blow some of the dogs away.

The griffon growls even more as he takes out his own sword. "You're messing with the wrong griffon."

"And you messed with the wrong order." Arkon says.

The griffon huffs as the dogs all stumble around before one of them hits a stand and knocks something over on it. "You're going to die." The griffon said walking towards him.

"Oh no." Arkon says using his staff to force the sword down and hold it. "You fool; do you know what you just did!?"

The griffon raises an eyebrow. "Um…taken a castle. What else is there?"

"You have disrupted the wards. The reason the order held Skyhold was mainly to watch it as the veil is thin here and demons can slip through and you just disrupted what keeps them out." Arkon says before punching him.

The griffon screeches. "What a load of dung. There are no such things as demons!" He yells trying to strike him again.

Before he reached Arkon, everyone heard the sound of something ripping.

Looking over to where the object once stood, they see a yellow portal on the wall behind it as it swirls violently. A large purple claw and bony talon grasps the side of the portal and pulls itself out to show a dragon like deformed creature with two black horns coming together on its head and some deformed body scales as it growls at everyone.

"Pride demon, everyone run." Arkon says before blasting the demon with magic, disorienting it more from the crossing.

The dogs bark at it as they start to run away from it while throwing some of their weapons at it and making some stick.

The griffon gasps and backs up a little. "Wha…what is that thing?"

"A demon! Now go!" Arkon yells pushing him.

The griffon yells out as he ran with all the dogs running past Arkon who was staring down the demon.

"Blind him." Arkon orders before the wisp lets out a burst of light and Arkon runs towards the outside.

Everyone outside raise an eyebrow at the running dogs were panicking and running past them as they look in in confusion. "What's going on?" Daring asks scratching her head.

Arkon jump off the steps as soon as he got out the door.

Glide looks worried as he ran towards them. "What's going on?"

"The idiot messed up the wards that keep demons in the fade in this area." Arkon says.

Everyone's eyes were now on him. "What was that about demons?" Daring asks.

"A pride demon has come through and is chasing us." Arkon says.

"Doesn't that mean we should go?" Dusk asks holding up a finger.

"No, I just wanted some room and it shoots lightning and has lightning whips." Arkon says.

Daring frowns. "So what do we do?"

"Take cover my old friend. I will call in one of my heavy hitters." Arkon says to the wisp.

The wisp flares before floating away deeper into the city below.

Arkon sighs calmly and closes his eyes to concentrate.

Dusk leans close to Daring. "What do you think they had back in the day?" He whispered.

"So much of Skyhold is unknown." Daring says as the pride demon busts through the front door.

Dusk goes wide eyed. "Wow. That's an ugly demon."

"Um…what's that?" Berry asks pointing into the sky.

They all look up as a dark portal seemed to open up and an anchor like object dropped through it and into the ground which seemed to open another dark portal.

They watched as the hole on the bottom opens up wider as a large wrapped creature in bandages rose out of it and shakes itself as if it was trying to get out of the wrappings as the portal under it closed up and it roared in the pride demon's direction.

"Spirit of punishment, it is time to punish the demon for intruding." Arkon says. The punishment spirit roars as it shakes itself and the pride demon roars louder as it brandished its claws at them. "Find cover. I'll help take care of this."

Dusk huffs as he steps up beside him. "Please, you need more than one set of hands here." He said charging his magic.

"I mean because the pride demon is about to throw a major hit and it could hurt you from the blow back." Arkon says as the spirit charges magic at its eye.

Dusk raises an eyebrow. "Really now? You do realize I can make some strong shields. Not as good as my sister, but good enough to match her."

The spirit unleashes a powerful blast of magic that destroys most of the demon in an instant and sends all who didn't take cover, flying.

Dusk and Arkon plants themselves against the ground as the shockwave went throughout the area. "Did that do it?" Dusk asks looking up.

"Yes, no, quickly come with me to repair what that griffon did so another doesn't come through." Arkon says.

Dusk nods as they both run inside the castle again and make it to the throne room. "How do we fix this?" Dusk asks looking around.

"Ok, set it back up and charge it with magic." Arkon says holding his hand over his left eye.

Dusk nods as he carefully puts the object back up and puts some magic into his hands before sending it to the object. "How much?"

"Just keep going till the portal is sealed." Arkon says.

Dusk nods as he watches the portal start to shrink. "What about you?"

"I don't have enough power to do anything else while my spirit of punishment is still here in case another demon comes through." Arkon says before they hear it roar again.

Dusk frowns. "Is that good or bad?" He asks as the portal was almost closed.

"He killed another so just keep going." Arkon says.

Dusk nods and keeps pumping magic into the object before the portal finally closed on itself and left behind just the dust and rocks it was sucking up fall to the ground. "There. That should do it."

"Keep pumping magic into it until it is glowing." Arkon instructs.

Dusk sighs as he returns to putting magic into the object and just sits there then. "How much does this take?"

"I don't know." Arkon admits.

Dusk huffs and looks back to him. "Write a letter to Artemis. Tell him what happened."

"Might be a little trouble with that." Arkon says after the orb starts glowing once more.

Dusk sighs and puts his hands down. "This good now?"

"Yeah, that is good. It is now time to connect back up with the others." Arkon says removing his hand to show he was bleeding from his eye.

Dusk looks shocked slightly. "Okay, I see what you mean by you can't write. I'll make it, but the girls are not going to be happy." He said taking out a letter as they walk back out.

Arkon puts his hand back over his eye as he felt the spirit of punishment return from whence it came.

Dusk looks to him worried. "What do you want to say to Prince Artemis?"

"Just inform him what happened." Arkon says walking away.

Dusk sighs and continues walking out as Arkon heads out of the castle.

Arkon walks out to see the rest of the group ok and Daring was tying up the Griffon. Everyone looks over to Arkon as he walks over. "Hey Arkon, did you, WHAT HAPPEN?!" Daring yells as she and the other three girls rushed to him.

"My eye?" Arkon asks.

All the girls instantly crowd him as they try and fix him up as Arkon sighs and sits on the ground and lets them work.

"Everything has a price and this is mine for being able to summon and command that spirit. When it uses that attack, it hurts itself and me." Arkon says.

Daring and the other girls frown. "You are not doing that again." She said poking his chest.

"For something like the pride demons, anything less might not hurt them." Arkon says.

They still frown. "Arkon." They said.

"I'm being serious." Arkon says as the wisp from earlier returns.

Rainbow raises an eyebrow as she leans into the wisp. "What the heck is this thing?"

"A wisp, a spirit like what I summoned earlier, but not nearly as dangerous and an old friend of mine." Arkon says.

The wisp flares as it looks to the four mares before favoring around their heads in a pattern.

"So this is a wisp." Daring says before poking it and it reacts as if it was tickled.

Spitfire chuckles and pokes it too as it flares at her and floats around her while flaring multiple times.

"Come here old friend." Arkon says before the wisp flew behind his back.

Glide smiles as she leans down to him. "So…do you still feel like there is nothing here anymore?"

"Yes…they abandoned it." Arkon says after a pause to think.

Glide grins. "So there's still hope that there maybe is a group out there still following the teachings in some way, right?"

"No, it means they disbanded and abandoned their duties." Arkon says.

Glide raises an eyebrow. "Are you sure about that?"

"Yes, there is no signs of a battle, no destroyed towers or a force occupying it." Arkon says.

Glide sighs. "Would they ever leave on their own for a reason?"

"Only if somewhere down the line they abandon their duty." Arkon says.

Daring shakes her head as she bandaged his eye. "Or maybe they have moved from this place. There are certain reason to leave entirely. Now then, let's get up and head somewhere safe for now. I doubt the castle is good enough in its state." She said helping him up.

"If a pride demon rampage and a punishment spirit attacking in it didn't level it, then nothing will." Arkon says.

Daring taps his head. "Just to make sure. Besides, there might be some things that made the castle its home after all this time."

Arkon wordlessly gets up hearing that.

Daring frowns and grabs his arm. "Leave for now. We are here and it won't go away in one night. Just rest for now. You've through Tartarus with this whole thing."

"It wasn't as painful as I thought." Arkon says.

Daring rolls her eyes. "Let's just get some sleep for now."

"I…I wish to see what state my old room is in." Arkon says.

Daring then leads him back to the castle. "Then why did you say so?"

Arkon says nothing as they walk through the keep of the castle till Arkon stops at a door.

Daring sighs as she slowly opens the door to find a sees a modest room with the remains of a seat, a stand, and bed that had long since rotted from time. "This is it." Arkon says.

Daring smiles as she helps him inside. "Yeah, you aren't sleeping here."

"I know, just wanted to see it." Arkon says.

Daring sighs as she lets him go and leaves him to find anything of the past. "So…how to relive the good days here?" Arkon inhales and bends down to the floor and feels around, confusing Daring. "What are you doing?"

"Looking for something I hid away." Arkon says moving the remains of a bed with his magic.

Daring tilts her head. "And that is?"

Arkon moves around the floor till he finds a loose stone and removes it to find a book still in good condition. "There you are. The grand monk gave me this book preserved by magic before he passed away." Arkon says.

Daring smiles. "What book is it?"

"It is a guide on our training and techniques. Including how to summon like you saw me do." Arkon says.

Daring nods and looks around. "Is that all?"

"Yes, this contains are teachings. Most of Skyhold's mysteries and secrets are in here." Arkon says really getting Daring excited.

Daring grins. "Might I take a peek?"

"I might let it, but you can't reveal it to anyone. This is knowledge you must keep to yourself." Arkon says.

Daring nods as she takes the book. "Thanks, want to read together?"

"You may read. I must rest. Summoning him took a lot out of me." Arkon says.

Daring giggles as she sat by him. "Yeah, you put a lot of work into that. Now rest."

"Help me find a good place and I will ok?" Arkon asks leaning onto her.

Daring nods ask helps him up as they walk out. "You feel any better?"

"A little." Arkon says. "So now that you have time to think on it. What about me?"

Daring sighs. "You are great Arkon. More so than I ever thought. Maybe even good enough for…" She stops as she blushes.

Arkon stops and wraps an arm around her.

Daring smiles and hugs him tightly. "Arkon?"

"Am I worthy to be with you?" Arkon asks.

Daring stops and looks to him. "Yes, you can be."

"Then can you sleep beside me?" Arkon asks.

Daring smiles. "Sure, just be sure to at least sleep and not spend that much time on me."

"I know that." Arkon says before they made it out the door.

Rainbow raises an eyebrow as the two come out of the castle. "Hey, we got some tents and they are just getting them set up over there." She said pointing behind her.

Daring nods, leading the half asleep Arkon to the tents and find everyone else there settling in and heads to a far off tent and places Arkon inside. Daring then smiles as she lays down beside him.

"Miss Daring?" Arkon asks as he starts to drift off to sleep.

"No miss, it's Daring for you." Daring says.

Arkon faintly smiles. "Daring?"

"Yeah?" Daring says before wrapping her arms around him.

Arkon sighs in relief as he rests his head against hers. "You make me feel more complete than I ever have been."

"Oh, so then how about I take you as mine then? You can be my treasure from this expedition." Daring jokes.

Arkon slowly chuckles. "No. Though I fear of what the others would say."

"Oh, I can include them as well." Daring jokes.

"Daring." Arkon said as his eyes closed.

"I know. I will get the wedding dress." Daring jokes before kissing his cheek. Arkon blushes heavily as he finally snores and Daring hugs him close. "Good night sweet priest." She whispered before joining him.