"... These mammoths weren’t mad to begin with."
"..."
Grandpa’s words were right on point. The mammoths that went mad seek death to rest from a certain pain as far as we know but there was nothing heard before about the mammoths being cured of that state.
This only ant that the mammoth returned back from the madness for the first ti in history (as far as we know) or there madness wasn’t natural.
"They were triggered by sothing!"
We all looked at the one who spoke and that was Nurina.
"Arch-Wizard Nurina, do you have an explanation?"
"I am not sure myself. It was fascinating to witness a mammoth in its rage but that wasn’t normal. By the signs I read, this mammoth over here is too young to go on madness. Sothing or soone must have caused it to go mad. Don’t you think so too, Jon?"
Why is he asking ?
I am not sure why she said that but I managed to take a hint.
Right as I got the idea, I turned around and walked to the mammoth that was lying on a mound over there. I didn’t even get triggered at at all.
"Hey, Furball! I need you to keep calm, no one will hurt you anymore."
The mammoth opened its eye and looked at for a second then closed it calmly again. It sohow ant that it is fine with getting close.
Uncle Balder followed closely as he was to act with , he is the most knowledgeable one in the clan about the animals and he even developed so dicines regarding there cases.
After a fast examination, he already guessed up what was going on.
"It seems what Arch-Wizard Nurina said was true. The last mammoth has traces of a strange substance around its snot. It seed that these two hotheads have caused a high amount of heat to purge that substance out of the mammoth’s body. Truly, idiots can be marvelous sotis."
"Hey, Balder. You can call Jonrad whatever you like but Jon is a genius."
"I apologize, father."
I don’t understand why but Uncle Balder usually treats the other people coldly. And regarding what Grandpa said about being a genius, it is not only my case. Every Firemane is a genius.
Still, for a pacifist like Uncle Balder, he doesn’t like warmongers like Jonrad the most. He may be the weakest uncle but he is a poet and a dicine master, his knowledge of alchemy is over what I have seen in even the College.
Anyway, he could determine that the mammoth was indeed acting under the effect of so drug that it inhaled.
"From the engravings on the tusks of the mammoth, this one was raised by giants. The giants value mammoths the most and will never hurt them."
"Which ans this was done by a man."
"But for what reason?"
The conversation started going around in circles and most of the people around were trying to deny the fact that it may be what they think of.
"If what I am thinking about is correct, then this matter won’t end by just this mammoth here. More will appear very soon." I said what was in my mind.
Once I said that, the people around looked at with displeasure. Of course no one would want my words to be true. Oblivion! Even I don’t want them to be true.
But reality has proven to be a bitch as usual when we heard another loud cry of a mammoth.
Those who looked at in disdain before glared at this ti. I could only shrug my shoulders saying ’I told you so!’
"You jinxed it, Jon!" Even Jull and Alina who were carrying Nurina’s tools as if her maidservants were glaring at .
"It seems like what we didn’t want to think of is true. I think we have to fend off the mammoths that will co and send a team to investigate..." Grandpa started putting a plan, "... Any volunteers that will go with Jon?"
"Hey, Old Man! Why should I go?"
"You jinxed it, boy! Rules are rules."
"... What rules? And since when do the clan’s rules get applied on ?"
"The punishnt does."
"Tsk!"
These people!
"Fine! I am the only one that can fly anyway. Who wants to co with ? Good news... we will fly, bad news... we will fly!"
The family mbers in front of looked at each other and sighed.
"I am coming!" Jonrad said.
"No! They will need you to use the strong Fla Magic to finish the mammoth faster." I said.
"I will co then." Hilda said.
"Okay!"
Hilda is easier to deal with that Jonrad anyway.
"You guys need to call reinforcents. This matter should be handled as soone trying to draw so of us out to deal a blow to us. I don’t know what strategies you use in that situation but the number we have here is not promising to fend off two more mammoths."
I started bossing the Firemanes around.
We were around 120 but that is still not good. Only 20 of us are from the main house and we are the true fighting force around here. The soldiers of the clan will soon not be able to keep up.
Grandpa nodded to my words even though he didn’t want to consider it a direct attack on the clan.
What worried the most was the power of the clan itself. It is by no ans bad and every one of the Elders can defeat in less than three moves if they went serious. The thing that worried was how massive and strong these mammoths are.
I tried to compare their size to a dragon like Paarthurnax and really got bad. Paarthurnax is gigantic and there is no clue that the other dragons won’t be as large as him. If that power level of the mammoth can make us troubled like that then the future where dragons will be on every mountain beak is sothing apocalyptic for the current day Nords.
The Firemanes can make it. They may have a free of charge Dragonborn if they encountered trouble but they can fend off a dragon if they worked like hell together.
Anyway, I think it is ti to stop these depressing ideas. I was already done conjuring the Fla Atronach Hawks and rode with Hilda.
The mammoth that was lying around nearby moved up before I could fly and everyone tensed. However, it didn’t move at us. It picked the direction where the angry mammoth cry ca from just a while ago and started moving south.
"What is it doing?" Hilda was worried about the situation.
"Hey, Furball! Where to?"
The mammoth trumpeted as a response and hasted its pace ahead.
"That mammoth! Has it just told you to follow?"
"Seems so! It doesn’t want to et its drugged kin as it seems and wants to lead us sowhere."
I urged the atronach to fly and follow Furball.
It was Hilda’s first ti to fly and she seed to be excited about it. She kept pointing at the places she knew from above and it was rather getting annoying.
Soon enough, we saw a mammoth 200 ters away and it was raging around and destroying stuff. This was the one we heard after I jinxed it. Good news is... it is not out of the marshland and can’t be considered a threat anyti soon.
After a while, we say corpse of a mammoth and it seed that this one got beaten up by another mammoth. Furball convoyed its sadness in a low sound.
"This is more chaotic than we thought."
"I don’t want to say ’I told you so’. Seems like the bigger mammoths could rage around all they wanted and the smaller ones started escaping."
"I think the Giants are trying to deal up with the situation too."
"It won’t matter to them if it is this human or that human, a human in troubled tis like this will always be t with hostility."
I said as I didn’t really care about giants too much. Those who played Skyrim must have experienced the ’Giants’ Space Program’ trauma. [A/N: A bug in the ga that can get any high leveled played killed. Just one hit and you will fly so high that you can see the whole damn Skyrim from above.]
"Who said you can’t reason with giants?" Hilda replied at with sothing that made taken aback.
"Can you?"
"Naturally."
"Naturally!"
"I have a friend."
"A giant friend?"
"Yes, her na is Shuna."
Shuna? Is that a giantess na?
As far as I know, it is hard to reason with giants. There was that annoying quest in the ga where the player will try to trade a goat from a giant called Grok. This is the only possible interaction I know of in the ga and the nas of the giants are weird and primitive so it was hard to deal with these folk, even their language is unique and no one mastered before. (for the lack of interest)
"So, that friend of yours, can she help us with the investigation?"
"If she didn’t find out that the situation is related to us so make sure not to say sothing weird around her if we t her, she can understand the common language very well."
"Okay."
"Also, don’t try to act smart when giants are close by. Just be as peaceful as ever and they won’t be a threat. Shuna is a matriarch so she holds more power than any giant you may have heard of."
I nodded.
Giantesses haven’t appeared in the ga so I am not sure how will they look like. When I asked Hilda more questions about the matters she told that giantesses are few in number and higher in power so they get to be protected by a lot of males.
So giants are feminists, huh? Didn’t see that one coming.
Anyway, we kept following Furball until we reached a cave, it looked rather massive but a bloody sight was beheld in front of the place.
Around three males giants were lying dead. A lot of arrows and wounds all over their bodies.
"I guess you are definitely right, Jonhild. This is Shuna’s cave."
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