A Jedi in Azeroth: Legacies
Prelude
With swift feet and sure step the kaldorei sentinel ran through this small forest in the southwestern part of Ashenvale. She did not look behind her nor did she have time to. Using her bow was pointless as her quiver was empty from all of her previous and useless shots. She jumped over a fallen log and pushed a low hanging branch from her face as she ran…her breath giving the hint of exhaustion and her violet skin paled from it's normal dark complexion…she had been running for miles. The beast was long behind her. Along with another sentinel she had come to this forest to investigate reports of large creatures that would rampage and slaughter entire villages of furbolgs. They had come upon one such village recently attacked. The blood and gore reminded the sentinels of the war with the Burning Legion, but this did not reek of demon taint. Bodies had been rendered sometimes into more than two pieces and many furbolgs had been eviscerated. As they investigated the last hut the creature had come from behind them and struck her partner shredding his back. The armor tore as easily as paper as the massive claw nearly ripped the sentinel in half. She looked in shock at her partner as blood gurgled from his mouth as he slumped…dead before he hit the ground. The beast was massive standing close to twenty feet tall. It hunched over on a bipedal form with each leg as massive as a tree truck. The four-fingered claws ended in black, razor sharp points. Its head bore a large bony crest that spread back and outward from the front of its head, and its mouth was filled with many needle-like fangs with two large tusk-like protrusions sprouting from each side. After killing her partner it reared back and roared deafeningly into the treetops. She had emptied her quiver of arrows into the beast, but each one just bounced off its plated skin. Acting enraged at her feeble attack it swiped its massive claw at her, but with quick reflexes she barely dodged it. She turned to run and never looked back. For the first mile she could hear it following her…heavy footfalls shook the ground beneath her and that deafening roar repeated over and over…and the cracking of trees as it simply broke them from its path like a smaller being would break toothpicks. Those sounds lessened during the second mile and by the third she no longer heard them, but she would not stop running….fear had gripped her tightly. Never had she seen such a creature. No demon of the Burning Legion or of any locale on Azeroth or Outland matched the ferocity of this beast and it was no natural creature she knew of. If this was the beast that was responsible for all the reports and left villages devastated like the one she just left then she had to warn the other sentinels. They had to get word to High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind about the new danger lurking in these forests. Doing that meant she had to reach Astranaar. She would warn them as soon as possible even if it meant her life to do it.