Today I was walking up from Riften toward Windhelm, harvesting jazbay grapes and creep clusters as I went. I was on my way to find Kharjo and bring his moon amulet to him.
While I was passing a giant camp south of Kynesgrove, a dragon attacked. I'm playing a Dunmer pure mage, so I'm mainly hitting it with the sparks spell. Not that strong of a spell, but it's still early in the game and I'm not very powerful yet, and if I use a stronger spell it will drain my limited magicka faster. And anyway I had my follower Faendal to back me up with his bow and arrow, plus a flaming sword I gave to him to toughen him up in melee. On our side also are two Vigilants of Stendarr who happened to be passing by when the dragon showed up, so they jumped in as well.
The dragon takes off before too much damage was done to it. At first it looked like it might fly off and that would be the end of it, but it just went to terrorize the nearby giant camp instead. As I'm leaping over the rocky terrain trying to catch up with the dragon, I see it fighting a giant and a mammoth. Then it takes off again and comes back our way, bringing the giant and mammoth with it.
So now I've got a pissed-off giant on my hands as well as a dragon. The mammoth didn't really cause any problems, but the giant kept wanting to attack me. I conjured a flame atronach to try and keep the giant away from me.
Then at this point everything went crazy, and a SECOND dragon joined the fray. This second one was the dragon that flies around a dragon lair in the middle of the volcanic tundra south of Windhelm. You can see it from Darkwater Crossing. I forget what the place is called. But the battle had gotten too close to that place and the dragon took notice of our fight and came to join in.
So at this point it's pretty hairy. It's myself, Faendal, two Vigilants of Stendarr, a giant, a mammoth and two damn dragons. This battle is taking place at night, as well; it was dusk when the first dragon appeared, and it quickly got completely dark. So it's night, these dragons are flying around in circles, my flame atronach is tossing fireballs all over the place, I'm throwing lightning wherever it looks like an enemy is, the dragons are blasting fire and ice everywhere, and the giant is running around attacking everyone and everything. All this with the dragon theme playing made it quite the epic scene lol. You can imagine how hard it was to even keep track of what was going on and who or what was where amid all this chaos in the dark (though the campfire in the giant camp helped a little).
I had to fight both dragons while also keeping an eye on that giant as he kept wanting to get closer to me so he could attack me; despite the fact that the dragon was the one that attacked him, I seemed to be his primary target. I kept having to hit him with my shout, and so far I only have the "fus" of fus-ro-dah, so it wasn't all that effective. But it was enough to delay him while I would dodge around behind a dragon or my flame atronach so the giant would go after one of those instead.
Meanwhile I was having a heck of a time keeping my magicka up, and I periodically had to withdraw to let it replenish. I also had to use healing hands a few times on Faendal and the Vigilants to keep them going, though they were doing fairly well on their own.
Finally when the smoke cleared we had two dead dragons, a dead giant, a dead mammoth and a dead Vigilant of Stendarr. Remarkably, Faendal and one of the Vigilants survived, and we somehow managed to avoid any friendly fire incidents during all this chaos. I wished I could have recorded the battle. It was really quite impressive.
About a minute after the battle ended, Kharjo and his Khajiit caravan came strolling by on their way to Riften, barely missing their chance to take part in the battle.
........... then my game froze 
