The Hive
A Warcraft Fanfiction
by Somniums
Prologue
The sun was dimmed and obscured by a torrent of dust and swarming insects, where once there was unbearable heat now a chilling air began to settle on the desert of Silithus. Half buried in blood shaded sand and half alive was the shaking form of an alliance soldier, bruised and battered as he came to consciousness from previous trauma that had rendered him incapacitated. Surrounding the footman were the countless bodies of others, not just human and not just alliance. Dwarfs, orcs, all that had made up the 'Might of Kalimdor' now lay lifeless and mangled in a sea of death around him. The sheer thousands of corpses that were strewn about the desert in all directions and the weight of his own injuries brought the soldier to painful tears of agony and despair, misting the inside of his shattered and dented helmet.
"Uhnn...!" Cried the broken man as he tried to pull himself to his feet.
Using his arms to try and push himself up into a sitting posture till a horrid agony shot through his entirety, stunning him and causing him to wretch and vomit a mixture of blood and bile. The soldier looked at his midsection in horror, from the hips down he had been cleanly severed from his legs. Even the armor that was the pride of his military lay in a mocking, sliced belt around his lower half as he inadvertently drug himself apart. Darkness grasping for the mortally wounded soldier who was held to life only by shock and fear, another shadow loomed over him as he tearfully looked up to the sight of an insectoid monstrosity chittering deeply above him. Soulless and copious eyes observed him with a cold prediction before the beast raised twin appendages that were to each side of its otherwise humanoid posture, soon two chitin bladed arms came splitting through the soldier's chest, ending his life as he joined the growing graveyard. The Might of Kalimdor had failed.