From the most twisted reaches of my mind comes the idea of a crossover story. It's got mainly video game characters, but also comic and anime, all my favorites in the same fanfic.
But why would so many characters from so many different universes that have no link whatsoever with one another come together? Why they all have a point in common, where they come from, they are active fighter in a fight between good and evil. As such, for every hero there is also one of his personal nemesis, in a giant clash of good vs evil.
No how exactly would video game, comic and anime character come together… Well this is fanfiction, they do because I said they do and I think it can make an interesting story. It is however mostly inspired by the animated spiderman series finale where spiderman has to lead marvel superheros against marvel supervillain in a clash of good and evil. Only in my story, it's not just the marvel universe.
So anyway, the hero's cast, along with their opponents, is as follow
Link-Ganondorf (Zelda ocarina of time)
Samus Aran-Ridley (Metroid Prime)
Talim-Nightmare (soul calibur 2)
Terra-Kefka (final fantasy 6)
Jaina-Arthas (warcraft 3)
Zerathul-Kerrigan (starcraft)
Spiderman-Carnage (the spiderman animated series (I didn't read the comics))
Rogue-Mystic (X-men evolution)
Superman-Lex Luthor (justice league (again, I'm not much into comics))
Batman-Scarecrow (justice league (thought I saw Scarecrow in the animated series))
Inuyasha-Naraku (Inuyasha a feudal fairy tale)
Jonas Albrecht-Zyzack (werewolf the apocalypse)
I, of course, do not own any of this.
Lying in the grass on Lake Hylia's shore, Link was slowly lulling into sleep, not even caring that his fishing rod, anchored in the ground next to him was twitching, indicating a catch. Why bother, this was the first free time he'd have since banishing Ganon to the dark realm, it was a bright and sunny day and he didn't feel like struggling anymore, even with a fish.
Suddenly, he felt a slight change in the air; the light breeze seemed to have gained in speed at an abnormal rate. Link wasn't the kind to make a mess out of a small weather change, but he had used enough magic in his life to recognize it at work…
He stood up, grabbed the hilt of the master sword and looked around for whatever was manipulating the elements, but he never found out. He rose in the air, span around for a few seconds and then, everything went black as he vanished into thin air.
Unknown to him, the very same thing was happening to another person in Hyrule, deep in the realm of shadow; a brooding wizard felt the very same pull. Ganondorf's embraced whatever magic was pulling him out of this forsaken prison and vanished from the realm of shadow, along with the triforce of power…
When he woke up, he was in a strange room, apparently made entirely from metal. There was a table with several comfy looking chairs in the middle, two large double doors at each end and several large devices with glass panels that glowed and had text and images on it.
If Link found the room strange, it was nothing compare to the people that occupied it. Eleven other people, each of who he had never seen before, where standing around with a confused look on their faces.
One was a person dressed from head to toes in a large, orange metal armor, the right arm replaced with a gray tube that seemed like a weapon, guessing on the way the person was holding it up.
Next was a small girl who couldn't be more than sixteen years old, she had shoulder length black hair and tan skin. She was wearing a green top, white short and was wielding two elbow blades.
Then was a creepy looking man in a black suit, he had a mask with two small hear that gave him the look of a bat, a flowing black cape and a symbol on his chest that was also that of a bat. Only his eyes could be seen from the shadow where he had slowly skulked, and they were scary eyes, they chilled Link to the bone.
In contrast to the dark figure next to him, the tall man in blue and red was all but stubble. He was very broad shouldered, black hair and he was wearing a red cape over a blue suit with a large yellow S on the front.
Another man was dressed in red and blue, only he was much smaller. He had a full head mask that hid his eyes behind two large white spots and there where spider web pattern over his suit.
On this guy's left was a teenage girl with brown hairs with a white cowlick and who had a sour look on her face. She was wearing a black and green suit with yellow X marked pad on her shoulders.
A woman who looked a little older was next; she had flowing green hair and pale skin. She was wearing a red dress and she had a sword sheathed at her side. Link could sense that magic was strong in this woman, unlike the others so far.
The next person was…not human to Link's knowledge. The gangly humanoid wrapped in weather beaten cloak had a very strange head, no mouth or nose, only glowing eyes on his scaly head. One of his three fingered hand was wielding a device that expelled a glowing green blade.
Another magically attuned woman stood next, with blond hair showing from under a hooded blue cloak. She was carrying a gem tipped staff and was wearing white top and pants under her cloak.
Then was a young man wearing a red kimono and a beaded necklace. He had flowing silver hair down to his ankle, claws at the end of his fingertips, yellow eyes, doglike ears and had a katana sheath at his side, his hand on the hilt.
Last was an imposing man with something about him that made Link uneasy. He had a patch on his left eye and was wearing fur bracer and belt, along with a blue pang and metal shoulder pads. He had a long sliver sword in hand and seemed ready to lash out at anyone.
This peculiar crowd eyes each other for a moment, each one as confused as the next, not daring to make the first move. Some, like the man with the patch, the guy in orange armor and the one in red kimono seemed ready for a fight. Link himself wondered if he should not maybe grab the hilt of the master sword before it was too late. Before he could do anything however, a voice resonated in his head, and judging by everyone's reaction, in theirs heads as well.
"At ease friends, no one here wishes the other any ill, we have all been pulled from our respective location and none knows how we made it here. I am Zeratul, prelate of the protoss dark templar; I believe it would do well to everyone to introduce himself, so that then we can find out where we are, and why."
Link stepped in first: "Well…my name his Link, and where I'm from, I'm known as the hero of time."
"I'm Talim, a priestess of the wind…please to meet you all." The small girl said in a shy voice, bowing slightly.
The person in armor putted down her weapon and removed her helmet, under which was a woman's head with blond hair: "The name's Samus Aran, intergalactic bounty hunter."
A voice spoke from the shadow: "You can call me Batman."
"And I'm Superman, Leader of the justice league." The guy with the large S on his costume said.
"Protoss, wind priestess, hero of time, intergalactic bounty hunter, why do I have the feeling I'm not in my own world anymore, that, and a crippling case of déjà vu. Anyway, I'm Peter Parker, better known a Spiderman where I come from." The smaller man in blue and red said.
The woman with the blue cloak stepped forth: "I am Jaina Proudmoore, sorceress and leader of the alliance, not that I seem to be anywhere close to alliance ground."
"I'm…this is all too weird, I'm called Rogue…" the teenage girl said.
The tall man with the eye patch stepped forth: "I am Jonas Albrecht of the Silver fangs, King of the garou nation."
"My name is Terra…" the woman with green hair whispered.
The boy with dog ears sniffed the air around as if trying to figure out what was going on… "The name's Inuyasha, now, if the presentation are over, someone's better start telling me what's going on here."
"Maybe I can answer that!" a voice shot out from the middle of the room.
A glowing sphere was hovering in the middle of the table; it seemed to be what was talking. The twelve gathered stepped forth around it.
"You have all been gathered here from your respective world to come here, on this specially created battle ground to fight the greatest of all battles, together, no mister Albrecht, it is not the apocalypse your kind had foreseen, this battle is the greatest struggle in all worlds, the one of good versus evil."
"I was doing a pretty good evil vanquishing job before you warped me here." Inuyasha said.
"Naraku may well be the greatest evil in your world, Inuyasha, but it his as a collective ideal that evil gains power, thus why you are here, along with your greatest foes." The sphere replied.
This was followed by several name shouted, most of which Link had never heard of, as for him, he grimly tough back of Ganondorf.
"The computer in this room contain all the information you need, I believe Mister Parker and Mister Wayne here knows a lot about them, you should do fine. You must learn to work with each other in order to overcome your greatest trial yet. Good luck now, for good to prevail in all your worlds." And on that, the sphere vanished.
Meanwhile, on the other hand of the flat plane on which all the hero had been transported, another similar complex was greeting a much darker assembly…
Ganondorf, like his archenemy, had also woken up surrounded by eleven strangers. Unlike the hero of time however, the king of evil was not one to simply stand idle and wait for one of them to make the first move, he drew his twin gerudo blades, levitated in the air and got ready to strike.
He wasn't the only one, a twisted red an black humanoid seemingly with no fixed shape other than white spot as eyes and a gaping toothy maw was also about to leap at the nearest throat.
The nearest throat was that of a towering reptilian creature with large membranous wings, a pterodactyl head and a large bladed tail. The creature was patched with several metal plates and seemed every bit as aggressive as the monster Ganondorf had once resurrected, the dreaded Volvagia.
Seeming more amused than angry, a white skinned man dressed like a clown was laughing maniacally, a silly and annoying laugh Ganondorf wished he had never heard.
Two swordsmen had appeared next to each other and seemed ready to get it on, one in large blue armor from which a monstrous arm ended by a three digit clawed hand popped out. He was holding a large sword that seemed made from both metal and flesh, with a large eye tilting around near the hilt. The other was also clad in armor, his adorned with skull ornaments, and only long white hairs and glowing blue eyes were visible from under the crown like helmet he was wearing. His sword seemed made from solid ice, with a skull as the hilt.
A very large woman wearing very little aside from a metal corset and a leather skirt was growling at everyone, something about her unsettled even the stoic king of evil. Then again, maybe it was the large whip she was carrying…
The rest of the assembly made itself more discreet, maybe understanding how clearly outmatched they were. One of them seemed to be wearing a baboon fur cloak, only his mouth was visible, and Ganondorf could swear it was smirking.
Three others seemed to have backed down in the shadows; one was a perfectly normal, bald human with a green metal armor, another was a blue skinned woman wearing a single piece white dress and another was a skinny man wearing a scarecrow mask.
The last one seemed to look around with a self assurance Ganondorf had seen only in the eyes of Link before he struck him down, the eyes of someone who had never known defeat. The woman had greenish skin, strangely shaped exoskeleton armor, complete with the pattern of membranous wings, only without membrane and her hair seemed like solid spikes.
The twelve gathered were about to clash when a sphere appeared in the center of the room where they stood (which was identical to the one their enemies had appeared in). To their general surprise, it spoke: "Welcome all. Before you tear one another apart, you should all know why you are here. This plane on which you have been transported is to be the battleground for the ultimate battle of good versus evil. You are the greatest forces of evil from your respective worlds…the greatest we had the power to bring here that is, and it is now upon you that rest the task of wining the war of good and evil in your cause's favor. You would also like to know, I believe, that your opponent are your respective foes from your dimensions. The details are in the computers around you, Mister Luthor and Miss Kerrigan can surely operate them, and I will now be off."
And the light vanished.
"What the hell was that all about?" Ganondorf was the first one to speak.
"It would seem to me we are expected to team up, use the resources putted at our disposal and dispose of our enemies somewhere on this plane in order for evil to prevail in all our respective worlds, if I did understand that strange entity." The bald man said, "And if we are to be partners, let me introduce myself, I am Lex Luthor."
"I will certainly not frowned upon an opportunity to dispose of Inuyasha while he his without his friends, my name his Naraku, and I will assist in anyway I can." The man with the baboon skin said.
"Uhohohohohohoho, this sounds fun! I'm Kefka!" the clown said.
"I AM ZYZACH, CHOSEN OF GREEN DRAGON AND TRIBE LEADER OF THE BLACK SPIRAL DANCER, I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO DEFY MY LEADERSHIP OF THIS GROUP!" the tall woman said.
"Grrr, loud mouthed woman, if it's a fight you want, I'll take you on, I'm the space pirate lieutenant Ridley." The dragon like creature stepped forth, snarling.
"Enough!" a voice resonated in the eleven heads at once "There are twelve so called good guys on the other side, and they will destroy us if we thin our own number down. We have no advantage in tearing one another up in a struggle for power, Zyzach, Ridley, stand down. I'm Kerrigan by the way, the queen of blades."
Zyzach and Ridley snarled at each other but did not jump at each other's throat.
"While we're up for presentation, I am Ganondorf, the king of evil." The dark warlock said.
"Enough with the fancy titles, I am Carnage and I say we stop this nonsense, find Spiderman and KILL HIM! Then we can kill the other, then, then, I don't know, MORE KILLING!" the strange red and black creature was seething with energy.
"I can certainly enjoy that kind of zeal, if you also know restrain, my name his Arthas, I am known as the lich king." The white haired, armor clad man said.
"Me, I'm surprised and…strangely flattered to be considered a force of evil…I am known, simply, as Scarecrow." The thin man said.
"My name is Mystique, and I can't say I'm glad to be stuck here with you and all your egos, but since I have no other choice, let's try to make this work." The blue skinned woman said.
"I am Nightmare, wielder of soul edge, if it so happen that you are not my foes, show them to me so that I can feast on their souls."
"That all being said, you ladies and gentlemen should make yourselves comfortable while I search these machines for further details, please try to get along now, for surely our opponents will." Lex Luthor said.
Meanwhile, back at the good guy's base, Batman, Spiderman and Samus were searching the computer's data files for more information about their current situation. Those heroes less skilled with a keyboard all kept a pious silence as they either sat on the chairs or paced around the room.
It was Inuyasha, who had been resting against a wall, eyes closed, who first broke the silence by answering a rather personal question asked telepathically by the dark templar.
"Excuse me young sir, this may not be any of my business, but who is this Kagome person?"
The half-demon's faced turned red, briefly from blushing but quickly turning into anger.
"How do you know about Kagome?" he asked out loud suspiciously.
"We protoss communicate solely by telepathy, thus I can hear the surface though of each of you since you have no training in concealing them. Yours, about this Kagome are…louder, for lack of a better term." He explained to Inuyasha only.
"Well you were right, this ISN'T any of your business, now stay the hell out of my head, will ya!" he shouted from the corner.
Rogue, irritated by the half-demon's rants, intervened.
"What are you raving about dog-ears?"
"You stay out of this!" Inuyasha replied.
"Forgive me everyone, I should probably address everyone at once to avoid these circumstances…" the protoss apologized.
"Better still, you could shut up and leave everyone's private thoughts where they belong!" Inuyasha lashed back.
"There's…no need to get angry…he did apologize." Talim suggested shyly.
Rogue was also about to add something, but Talim's intervention seemed to cool everyone's spirit and the argument stopped there. Just in time for Spiderman's good news.
"I think I found what we were looking for, I've got a list of twelve names here, including one that unfortunately sounds familiar, it seems like Carnage is here too…"
"Who else?" Batman asked.
"Ganondorf…am I pronouncing this right?"
"Yes." Link answered, trying not to sound alarmed that his old enemy would soon be getting a rematch.
"Ridley…hey, I wait there are even images linked to each files…whoa, he's a big one…"
"Yeah, let me see…" Samus looked over Spidey's shoulder "…great, it's the phazon augmented one from talon IV, doesn't this guy ever die?"
"Next up we've got a creepy looking bald man by the name of Lex Luthor…"
"He's from my world, he doesn't look like much, but he's a genius." Superman said.
"And this is…ouch, who knows this handsome devil?" Spidey asked sarcastically showing the picture of the deformed wielder of soul edge.
"He's nightmare, I've…heard of him. He wields the soul stealing sword soul edge; in fact, he's much more a vessel of the sword's power than its owner." Talim said.
"Ok, next we got another freak with a creepy sword by the name of…"
Jaina saw the image appear but couldn't believe her eyes.
"Arthas…so it was true, he did join the scourge and become their leader…" a single tear flowed on her cheek.
"Oh…heu, sorry about that…next we got. Kefka…some sort of evil clown guy…" Spiderman continued.
"Kefka is surely as evil as he is insane, but do not underestimate him, he commands tremendous powers…" Terra warned.
"Ok and in the "doesn't look like much" category, who knows the scarecrow guy?"
"I do, he brings out the worse fear in people in order to accomplish his goals, and he could be very dangerous if anyone here has something that truly terrifies him or her." Batman said.
"This one has three images associated to it, some sort of floating baboon skin, the same baboon skin with a long haired guy and the same guy mounted on what is probably supposed to look like a spider body…name is…"
"Naraku!" Inuyasha completed with hatred in his tone.
"Now we get on with the female cast of villains starting with this blue skinned diva, Mystique's her name." Spidey said, trying to cheer everyone up.
"Her, a force of evil, Kurt would surely be protesting loudly right now…but I kinda agree." Rogue said.
"Next is Kerrigan, yuck, that's all I got to say."
"The queen of blades, at long last I will have my revenge; without her swarm to protect her, she will fall before my warp blade."
"And last but now least, this giant scary lady, wait, there are for more images…"
As Spiderman revealed the image of Zyzack's glabro, crinos, hispo and lupus form, several of the other heroes, including Albrecht, gasped at the sigh of the towering werewolf.
"Zyzack, I'd advise any of you against trying to engage her…" Jonas said.
"If the map of the plane I just found is accurate, their base is at a hundred and a half kilometers from hours..." Samus said, removing her arm cannon from a computer port "…on a side note, I'm surprise that these computers are compatible with my power suit…"
"I found detailed information about our base, it seem that aside from this room, the other main features include dormitories, like any of us could sleep in these circumstances, training rooms, warp engine, hangar, infirmary and defense outpost. The building is defended by both technological and magical defense system, just like the other. We'll have to take this fight to the fields between the bases; it's unlikely we can pierce the established defenses." Batman reported.
"I think we should all try to get some rest, if there is really no way they can strike at us in here, we'd better go out there at the top of our game." Link proposed.
"I doubt our foes will share your view, they wills surely want to attack as soon as possible." Jonas objected.
"Many of them do seem rash enough to employ this tactic, but there are some of them who favor brain over brawn, and they might restrain their comrades." Superman added.
"Now one can restrain Zyzack…"
"Then maybe we should take watch turn, so we can react if some of them come over, because they won't all come that's for sure, Mystique isn't the direct assault kind…" rogue said.
"Neither is Naraku." Inuyasha added.
But is was Batman who closed the arguments: "The defense grid will alert us if anything other than the twelve of us comes too close to the base, you can rest easy."
"And like Link said, we all should, we can't go get all sleepy in front of our enemies when the stakes is the victory of good in all worlds!" Spidey added.
On that, the twelve heroes went to the dormitories, some gruntingly, but none of them could deny he or she needed rest.
A similar scene took place at the bad guy's base. Only the situation was far from silent, mostly due to the snarling of Ridley and Zyzack who where circling one another while Luthor, Kerrigan and Mystique where searching the computers. Most others where spread out around the room, waiting for the werewolf and the space pirate to get it on.
Luthor interrupted what promised to be the start of a very violent clash.
"Ladies and gentlemen, if you would please stop this nonsense, I have here the list of our opponent, including my old friend Superman…a shame I have no kryptonite with me…"
"I'll take it you have Link on your little list…" Ganondorf said.
"Yes, Link, that pointy eared kid dressed in green, he thwarted your plans, king of evil?" Luthor said in a slightly mocking tone.
"Unless you wish such disrespect to be your last words, Luthor, you'd better watch your mouth, that kid may not look like much, but he wields several powerful magical items, including the evil banishing master sword and a third of the triforce!" Ganondorf replied in anger.
"A puny elf, I'll crush him like I did the rest of his kind, I'd like to see how that magical sword of his stand against Frostmourne." The lich king said quietly.
"Link is mine, undead; this is my opportunity for vengeance." Ganon warned.
Luthor interrupted: "King Arthas, it seems the opponent chosen for you is a quite charming young lady by the name of Jaina Proudmoore…"
"Jaina…" the Lich king muttered, memories of his former love resurfacing…
"What was that, the name brings back painful memories?" Kerrigan sneered?
Arthas seized the hilt of his sword and pointed the blade toward the queen of blades.
"Don't go there, or you'll regret it."
"Hit a little too close to home did I?" she kept on.
Again, Luthor stopped what would have been a vicious battle with a well placed interruption: "Oh, and you miss Kerrigan, it seems you have a quite singular creature as your opponent, Zerathul."
"The dark templar? HA! He is of no concern to me; an army of protoss couldn't defeat me. A single one won't stand in my way." She assured.
"What about me, who's in for me, it's Spiderman right, it has to be him, well it could be Venom, but no, not Venom, it must be Parker, Spiderman, is it him…" Carnage was jumping in place.
"Yes mister Carnage, your opponent is indeed Spiderman." Lex said, slightly irritated.
"YEAH!" the alien symbioses screamed, turning his mouth in a wicked grin.
"Which of the X-men was chosen to stand against me?" Mystique asked.
"Oh my, we'll have two kids against us; it seems yours is a teenager who calls herself Rogue."
"Of all of them, why did it have to be her?" she asked, more to herself than the others.
"My my, make that three kids, a young girl called Talim rings a bell to anyone?"
"To me, the wind priestess who swore to destroy me, let her try, I'll break her frail body and consume her soul…" Nightmare growled from under his helmet.
"I must say I like your style." Arthas smiled.
"Of course you do, it seems very similar to your own, death knight." Nightmare replied.
"Tell me, Mister Luthor, of the many people who wish my death where I come from, was it, as I though, Inuyasha who was chosen?" Naraku asked from the shadows, everyone had almost forgotten about him.
"The arrogant looking boy in a red kimono with dog ears…yes he's on the list."
"Perfect…" the half-demon simply said.
"Now, mmm, another lovely young woman, which of you has issues with Terra?"
"ME! The little half esper is here, ohohohoho, this is gonna be fun!" Kefka sneered.
"Please, would you please stop laughing" Mystique asked, irritated.
"ohoho, but if my laugh annoys you, please come here and shut me up!"
"I'll shut you up, clown!" Scarecrow stepped in between Mystique and Kefka, bearing his fear gas shooters.
"The rag doll wants to fight, ohohoho!"
"Mystique is right, that laugh of yours is annoying!" Scarecrow replied.
"Scarecrow, I trust you are interested in knowing that Batman is on this plane." Luthor interrupted.
"Yes, thanks, Lex." But Scarecrow's attention seemed more on Mystique's flirting smile than the fact that his archenemy was part of this conflict."
Meanwhile, Zyzack and Ridley where still staring each other down, Ridley was surprisingly not flinching from the sustained glare of the legendary werewolf.
"Oh please, would you two cut it out, aren't you remotely interested in knowing who your opponents are?" Lex said, bored by this little conflict.
"It's that hunter bitch, Samus Aran, who else." Ridley snarled.
"IT MATTERS NOT WHO STANDS IN MY WAY, THEY SHALL ALL BE CRUSHED!" Zyzack screamed.
"We're right here you know…we hear you when you just talk…" Kerrigan said, but Zyzack paid no heed to her.
"Well, as you guessed Ridley, your opponent is indeed a metal clad woman called Samus. As for you Zyzack, it seems to be a…why judging by these five pictures I'd say a werewolf, by the name of Jonas Albrecht." Luthor said, finishing the list.
"OF COURSE HE'S A WEREWOLF, JUST LIKE I AM, THAT WEAKLING WILL BE CRUSHED UNDER MY HEEL AS IT HAS BEEN FORETOLD!" the black spiral dancer replied.
"I see we are all, well most of us (he looked at Arthas and Mystique) are bursting with confidence. Well then, where do we go from here?"
"I found out a plan of the base and the surrounding area, we are several miles away from the enemy base and it seems we are equipped with high power magical and technological defense grid, training room, living quarter, supply bay, infirmary, warp room, whatever that does, training room and defense station. It seems we're expected to stay here for a while…" Kerrigan reported from her own research.
"It seems logical that, since this is meant to be a fight between good and evil, they have the same resources that we do, so tell me Kerrigan, could our actual defense be breached if all our enemies attacked at once?" Ganondorf asked.
"Unlikely, anything aside from us that come too close to this base would be localized and exterminated very quickly, all that without passing the energy shields…" she answered.
"So it is in the fields around the base that this war will be fought…these bases are meant as safe haven for us…interesting." Luthor commented.
"I don't know about you guys, but getting torn away from my reality and pitted in a fight of good versus evil without my consent has taken its toll on me, you said there were living quarters, I'm going there. I'll fight good guys tomorrow." Mystique said.
"I must say the realm of shadow as also weakened me, I could use the rest…" Ganon added.
"The dead, luckily, do not sleep." Arthas said.
"Well, obviously, the transport has drained all of us, and surely it has the others, we should all make sure we are at the top of our shape tomorrow, those who do not need to sleep, please don't go out alone to get mob stabbed by twelve good guys will you?" Lex said as he followed Mystique.
Most of the other evil figures did go to sleep, some quite unhappy to admit that they needed it. Zyzack and Ridley promised one another that they would settle their different once in for all first time tomorrow.
Only Arthas and Naraku remained, though the demon was quite silent and Arthas wasn't in the mood to talk. Jaina was here, he had not confronted her since she had refused to watch him slay the villagers to keep them from becoming Malganis's slaves. He wasn't even sure she was still alive until today; he had expected her to be among the victims of the burning legion's invasion. But no, Jaina Proudmoore lived on, and she was now here for the sole purpose of opposing him.
Did she know he had killed his father, Muradin, Uther, Antonidas? Did she know he had ascended from first death knight of the lich king to fusing with Ner'zhul himself? How would she look at him now that he had become the undead leader of the scourge?
Would she forgive him, certainly not and why would he care, had he not damned everything he cared about in order to get where he was. Everything but that. He had always expected he could make up with Jaina after his return from Northrend, make her see that it had to be done, but that was before he became the lich king's servant. Now he knew he was beyond redemption, he had become a monster, a monster Jaina would never love.
That made the issue of their meeting clear; one of them would not walk away from it. Would he have the courage to kill Jaina, would he be able to feed her soul to Frostmourne? Of course he would, he had kill father, friends, mentors and innocents by the hundredth and committed unspeakable atrocities. What would one more murder be? But then, why was he asking himself all those questions in the first place, could there still be room for Jaina in his long frozen heart?
"You do not require sleep, dead one, but if you did, it would be quite troubled, would it not?" Naraku asked after what seemed like hours of introspection.
"Nothing troubles me, I was merely…thinking."
"About the woman who is here to oppose you, were you not?"
"You dare claim insight on my thoughts?" the Lich king replied, frustrated that the demon could see trough him so clearly.
"It was rather easy to deduce, seeing how you reacted when Luthor announced her name, and when Kerrigan taunted you…I will guess that even damned as you seem to be, your once human heart still yearns for that woman, am I wrong?"
"You seem like you talk from experience."
"I was once mortal Arthas, a foul, despicable mortal guilty of enough crime to damn my souls trice. One day however, I was horribly burned after betraying one of my allies. After the burns made me incapacitated beyond being able to move, only one person would care for my dying husk of a body, a young priestess named Kikyo."
"She would care for you, did she knew what a horrible man you were?"
"She did, but could not bear to let me whiter and die, the soft hearted fool. Anyway, after some time, the situation frustrated me, I wanted to have this priestess as my woman, but I was crippled beyond healing, so I did what made me what I am today. I offered my body to demons, so that they would feast on it and create a new one for my soul to inhabit. But it didn't went that way, the man I talked to you about, Onigumo the thief who desired Kikyo was sealed away, only I remained, the demon Naraku. After I was born from Onigumo's lust, frustration and greed, I mounted Kikyo against her lover, the half demon Inuyasha and tried to steal the sacred relic she was suppose to guard, but I failed when she had the jewel burned in her funeral pyre…
But I am straying. You see, fifty years later, Kikyo was resurrected and it was then that I discovered that a part of Onigumo's soul still lingers within me…and that it still bears its twisted love for the priestess. Thus, I Naraku, am powerless to harm the clay husk that is the reanimated Kikyo, all because I am prey to the human I once was. Somehow I feel your case is similar, death knight."
"Quite a strange story, so you are a demon then…Well no, Naraku, our stories are not so similar. I was once a champion of light, a paladin, and Jaina was indeed the woman I loved, although I was also prince of my kingdom and thus, we were always unable to be together. The last time I saw her was before I massacred hundreds of villager for what I though was a noble cause. I know now that I was being manipulated by the lich king of the time in order to turn me away from my kingdom and the path of light in order to become his champion. It has been many years since I've seen or even heard of her, I have become so much more now… yet the though of killing her stills brings much torment to me."
"You are right, there is a major difference between us Arthas, you have the power to kill this Jaina, and you simply hesitate to use it. If the inhuman creature you have become still desire this woman, do you not have the power to make her yours?"
"What foul course of action are you suggesting?"
"If you were once yourself a champion of light but was coerced into serving and ultimately becoming the Lich King, do you not now wield the power to do the same to Jaina? If ending her life is so painful to you, why not make it eternal by your side?"
"I had not seen things this way…you have given me much to think about, demon. Now be quiet, if not physically, I still require rest."
And both demon and death knight went silent although neither was sleeping. A satisfied smirk could be seen on Naraku's face.