Arrogance
Silvery eyes scanned the large dark chamber, their glow revealing a furry white face bent close to the iced over floor. The large cat sniffed the ground and air delicately while twitching her long ears to catch any odd sounds. Relaxing, she looked behind herself at a group of shadowed figures huddled at the doorway and flicked her tail. With a mix of soft padding and harsh clunking the group moved in. An incredibly short being in dark plate armor stepped up to the elfish feline and patted her on the head with a hidden smirk. With a squeaky feminine voice it spoke, "See? I knew we would be fine without some hunter and their smelly pet. One less mouth to feed too!"
The feline snorted and smacked the gnome warrior with a paw, sending her back on her rear with a loud clang. Amidst their companions' chuckling the gnome grumbled about no respect as she rolled back onto her feet. A tall woman in resplendent silver and blue armor stepped forward and spoke softly, "All right now, let's stay focused you two. The Lich King's guards get stronger the farther we go and thanks to our… eagerness we have no back up from either the Argent Crusade, the Ebon Blade, or even another guild."
Looking suitably chastised the large cat smoothly shifted into her burlier bear form to take her place beside the shield carrying paladin. With one last grumble the gnome stepped behind them and withdrew a sword bigger than herself, ready for any possible attacks. The party moved deeper into the chamber, the robed members huddled up in the middle with a single mail wearer. A slender draenei female in golden plate and wielding a huge mace looked around uneasily as she walked at the rear of the group. She spoke up after a moment, "I do not think we should have moved ahead. Most unwise…"
A dwarf in deep reddish brown leather peered up at her and patted her hand as he spoke with a gruff voice. "Don't worry 'Moria. Ain't nothing here we can't handle."
With a small frown a robed elfish man corrected him. "As Nania said, his guards only get stronger so do not assume Farthen."
A small white haired gnome in dark robes chirped from beside the elf, "Do not invite trouble when there's none to be had! This room is completely empty. Perhaps the Lich King is gathering his minions to him thus leaving the way clear?"
A rumble near the front drew their attention then. The druid was sniffing about and flicking her ears again and her paladin partner stood alert with sword and shield at ready. The human woman spoke softly once more, "Erydani? What do-"
She stopped abruptly just after the feral druid turned her head sharply to their right. Rattles and clicks echoed through the chamber and slowly blue lights began to appear. Two of the smaller frosty glows rose up high in the air while the larger glow remained below them. A whisper then echoed through the chamber, "You dare… enter my room… interrupt my rest?"
Memith, the robed elf, muttered quietly to the gnome as he absentmindedly tightened his grip on a small glowing mace and an ancient tomb. 'Oh yes, completely empty.'
The party then silently rearranged themselves, Erydani and Nania moving between their companions and the huge rattling figure moving closer. Sevarmoria, Farthen, a female night elf death knight, and the gnome warrior moved behind the two while the night elf priest, a male draenei shaman, the gnome warlock Silvari, and a male human mage stayed a distance in the back. The human paladin and the druid settled into a defensive position as the chamber slowly started to light up and reveal the horror before them. With a loud reverberating roar Sindragosa swiped at the two in front. Erydani swiftly jumped back dodging the sharp claws and Nania moved her shield, bracing herself as the claws slid along it and sent sparks flying. With quickly muttered words Memith sent holy magic at them, incasing the group's protectors in a shimmering bubble. With a word of his own the shaman surrounded Nania with a healing shield of earth magic.
With a surprisingly loud shout the gnome warrior, Fujin, ran to the back right paw and swung her sword at a joint. Dianta, the Death Knight, blew on a horn hanging at her side, followed Fujin, and aimed her two smaller axes at another joint. Sevarmoria and Fathern raced to the left back paw swinging their own holy and poison covered weapons as shadow and fire magic flew over head.
Sindragosa roared again in irritation and kicked out sending Fujin and Dianta flying back. 'Pathetic!'
Erydani let out a roar of her own and clamped down on a finger joint, cracking it and gaining the dragon's attention. Almaya ran towards the fallen melee and skidded to a halt the moment he was close enough to shower them with healing magic. As the cool waves enveloped them the warrior and death knight quickly recovered, ready to strike again.
Back in the fray, Sindragosa swiped again catching Erydani on the side this time and missing Nania completely. A flash of painful holy magic drew the undead dragon's attention away from the injured druid and Memith embraced Erydani in the warmth of the Light. Koran quickly aimed a powerful fireball at the dragon's face, shoving it just enough to save Nania from being snatched up. Sindragosa shook her head of debris after the incredible smash against the floor and rattled. 'You don't stand a chance mortals!'
Drawing a deep breath she blew out a torrent of frost and hail at the defenders and the casters. They cried out in pain, but a flood of friendly fire kept them from freezing and a chain of elemental magic quickly healed their wounds. Gritting their teeth they continued to fight and the two protectors started to slowly move to the side away from the less sturdy members of their group. As she moved to follow them Sindragosa lashed out with her tail catching the paladin and rogue. With a painful clash and thump they hit a wall, slumping down with twin groans. Another wave of magic had them back up and carefully running towards the inner front side of the paw this time. Fujin and Dianta smartly followed their example on the right paw.
As the minutes ticked on the group began to tire and Sindragosa looked barely touched with only a few cracked bones and damaged joints. The she dragon swiped once again sliding her claws along Nania's shield, but this time slashing across Erydani's face. The bear druid growled in pain and backed off as blood dripped down her face and Nania slammed her shield against the dragon's face as she came down for a bite. With a swig from a bottle previously filled with blue liquid Memith flashed with holy magic partially healing Erydani's wound. He panted then, 'W-we must retreat… I c-cant keep this up.'
Just then Sindragosa roared and sent a wave of icy breath towards the group of casters. Almaya dropped a new totem rejuvenating the group as Dianta created a dome to absorb some of the frost. The group swiftly spread out staying at her side away from face and tail while Nania stuck a cracking blow on the dragon's lower jaw. Sent into a fury Sindragosa let loose another wave of frost and swiped again right after. Erydani dodged the swipe while cringing at the feel of icy spears sliding against and into her popping the weak shimmering bubble around her. Nania was flung back when the swipe hit her and broke her shield. Dianta attempted to summon an army of ghouls and Erydani boldly charged biting and clinging to the side of the undead monstrosity's jaw.
Low on mana, both healers were forced to ignore the unconscious paladin in order to keep Erydani in shape. Desperate now, Koran created copies of himself and Almaya triggered heroism. The army of ghouls finally summon Dianta went back to frantically hacking away at bone while the army climbed all over biting and scratching. Farthen grunted as he sped up his stabbing strikes and Sevarmoria sported golden wings as she brought down her large mace.
Sindragosa seemed to only grow more in fury and slammed her head against the ground to shake off the druid. Dazed and stumbling Erydani didn't stand a chance as the next swipe caught her. With an echoing cackle Sindragosa turned towards the others. 'Fools… Your time is up.'
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Author Notes: The main story here will focus on Erydani, an actual RP character of mine on WrA. She's been killed off and the story will veer off from what happened in game eventually. I'll readily admit I'm indulging myself with her, but the other characters will be more... lore appropriate. Fujin is the only one that will have a side story for sure since she's also an RP character of mine, but I will try to create stories for each character in the group.
I can't promise regular updates as I'm rather terrible with procrastinating and what not.