A New Path is Found
By: Starwolf Magic and Friends
Disclaimer: Secielia, Kazijin, Trendle, Scatscratch, and Mongalo belong to me. Kerzal belongs to his player... as do any other characters that will eventually show up in this story. also i do not own World of warcraft or Blizzard :P no mater how much i wish to. Enjoy and have a n ice day!
Note1: I do not have time to pay attention to flames so good comments only thanks. also... for the people out there that hate change in a story line that is already set in stone... THATS WHY IT'S CALLED FAN FICTION! calms down have a nice day!
Deep within Thousand Needles lies an unknown cave. Within this cave there are many candles. The light flickers off the walls as a gental breeze traveled through the cave. Deep within that very cave was a young Female Tauren Shaman. She came to this cave often to sort out her thoughts or to practice her new abilities. This visit however was different. She came to pray.
"Father... I pray to you. Give me strenght to face this new path. Give me strength to find out the truth. Give me the strength to concor this curse... the one that destroied the clan. It has finaly caught up to me. Please.. give me the strength to find a cure..."
Her staff leaned againsed the wall on her left and suddenly fell over. A harsh wind blew through the cave blowing out all of the candles plunging the cave into darkness. She reached for her staff quickly and stood up. Wirling around she came face to face with glowing eyes. The eyes were level with hers... so there was no way it could be one of the Undead...
"Who are you? What do you want here? this is MY Teratory!" she snapped at the eyes. The eyes narrowed at her. A language unknowned to her was spoken. The voice however was male. She cast Rockbiter on her staff... no light. Then it hit her! She cast Lightning shield and saw her unexpected guest. a Night Elf... and he wasn't alone... there was a Human Female, an Dwarf Male and a Gnome Male. All four of them jumped her. she fought them off the best she could. her last thoughts as she was knocked out was of her father and the Troll she had fallen in love with. HELP! If only she told him about the cave... then maybe he would go look for her once he realized that she was gone...
When she came to she was in a cell of some sort. She looked around at her suroundings but to no avail... she didn't know where she was. She just wanted to cry, but held back the urge. Searching the cell and herself curiously she found that all her bags were gone... meaning no totems... and her weapon was gone... no killing her way out... she cursed in her native tounge.
" 'ey, mon. what you be in for?" asked a Troll in the cell next to her's. She looked at him.
"Praying." was her reply.
"Praying? dey got you for praying? Where did dey find you?" he was curious now.
"I was in a cave in Thousand Needles, and was jumped by an elf, a dwarf, a gnome and a human.." she spat evrery one of the races like a curse. It was clear to the troll she wasn't happy about what happened to her.
"What be you're name, mon?" he asked curiously.
"Secielia. what about you?" she didn't want anyone else to know her last name. It was bad enough that one person knew... and she still didn't know what he thought of that.
"Kazijin, da troll priest." he bowed to her and smiled, "Just outa curiosity... you be single by any chance? Cause your very beautiful." She sighed and looked at him.
"I am sorry but my heart is taken. and I will not ever leave him... even when i'm away from him." her reply came from the heart.
"What be his name?" Kazijin asked.par par "Kerzal. He is a Shaman like i am. ... However, he is more usefull to people even without his totems... I on the other hand need them..."
"He be a lucky man to have such devotion. I doubt that you are useless. If you be able to heal with out your totems den you be fine with us."
"Us?"
"Aye. Us." he pointed to the other cells. In them there was an Orc, and 2 more trolls. "Da Orc is called Mongalo. Da troll on his left is called Trendle, and da one on da right is Scatscratch. Mongalo is a hunter, Trendle and Scatscratch are both Rogues. We all been jumped when we let our guard down. Our weapons taken and we be dumped in here. Dis be a labor camp. And de alliance idiots can't tell male tauren from a female and so here you be. ... Uh.. no offence, mon."
"None taken. it happens alot... Too much for my taste though." she sighed again. "So what is it that you do here?"
"We mine. even if we be knowing nothing about it... we still mine... not one here can mine. Can you?"
"No. I'm an alchemest myself. ...Kerzal can mine... but i would not wish this on him..." she looked at the floor. She studied it carefully and then looked to the wall to find a window. Outside she could see the moon. At that point she dropped to her knees while looking at the moon and started to cry silently. Kazijin just watched quietly knowing that there was no way to comfort her. She soon cried herself to sleep.
Morning came too soon for Secielia. Her wake up call was a whip to the back. A minning pick was shuved into her hands and she was hearded out to join Kazijin and the others. Once in the mines she saw that there was alot more than just the 4 she saw. They were split into groups of 5. Another thing she saw was that they were all men! She was the only girl... that was't good. Already she was getting looks from the men like she was a pice of meat. Looking at Kazijin curiously, she asked "What is it we are minning for?"
"Anyting you find. Copper, tin, gold, rare gems, anyting. all you have to do is mine and stay silent dat be da key to survivle here." he replyed to her and started minning. she nodded and started to mine as well. She knew nothing of minning! For the first hour the Night elf that watched her laughed as all her hits were off ballence. This frustrated her and for the next two hours was finding all kinds of things... she even minned up a long since burried flower that she poketed without notice of the guards. The more she minned the more the guards grew happy with her work. Soon a bell sounded and everyone stopped.
"Whats the bell for?"
"It be time for lunch. and den a tiny bit o free time, den back to work. it be best if you stay close to me... de others seem to have noticed you. you be safe in our group." at that point the two rogues and the hunter nodded to reasure her of her safty with them.
Once out of the mine and into the fresh air, Secielia smelled the formilure scent of flowers... useable flowers! curiously she asked "Are we allowed to pick the flowers?"
"Aye. we are... but what will you do with them?" Trendle asked.
"Keep my alchemy up so it doesn't get rusty."
"Don't you be needin viles for dat?" Kazijin wondered. She nodded yes.
"I'll just have to make due with what i find." from that point on she became deturmind to make new potions.
As they sat down for lunch a Tauren came over to them. Kazijin spoke before he could get a word in. "She be taken, mon. You leave her be." The tauren growled and walked away. They started to eat quickly. Between mouth fulls of food she was informed that only one group at a time can be in the free time area. they were the first ones done and headed to the "backyard" of the place. Once in there the doors were shut behind them and Secielia turned into a ghost wolf and ran around happily. The guys smiled.
"She shouldn't be in here wit us... she should be out of dis place wit her family and friends." Mongalo stated. They all saw a sudden change as he mention family. She seemed almost upset about it, but quickly went from flower to flower gathering herbs for new potions. And as luck would have it she found several viles of different kinds. She poketed them all quickly as they started to head back inside. Shifting back to her tauren form as she walked, she was suprised that the guards didn't check her for anything.
After another five hours of minning, they were hearded back into thier cells. Once the guards left them she brought out all the flowrs and viles she found. She made potion after potion that night with her four new companions watching her silently. Once she was done she passed them out to everyone and told them what they did. They all hid them and told her to do the same. She did so and then turned to the window and watched the sky as the moon came out to join the stars. Her companions all went to sleep but awoke again as Secielia started to sing quietly. They then fell asleep to the sound of her voice. Her mind was on Kerzal and what he was doing this day. Tears rolled down her cheek as she sang quietly. She wanted to be with him so much, but knew that while she was here she would not even get to see him. she cried herself to sleep again that night.
Every day became the same for the group. Whipped awake, hearded to the mines, lunch, free time, back to the mines then hearded back into thier cells where Secielia would sing them to sleep. Months passed. As she worked with her new friends she learned to understand and speek every language of the alliance and had to translate at times (when the guards left) to her friends of what was said. Little did she know that what was to come would change her life... for better or worse was something no one knew.