Chapter 1: The Recruitment

Monday morning and finally I am looking forward to today's recruiting event to becoming a certified Flight Master. I always dreamed of becoming one, and here was my chance. Never had I ever been more prepared for this than today. I had gone to bed early and now early in the morning I am up. Nothing could possibly go wrong. My father is a flight master for the Nightsong Woods location and I intend to become the next in line. I'm of the age and I am ready, willing and able for this. I can't wait to get there!

"Hey Kai, ready for today's recruitment ceremony?"

"Yep, I am pumped for this dad. Trust me, nothing can go wrong."

"Hmm…well son, I just hope for your sake, your right."

I wonder what he meant by that. I mean what can possibly go wrong?

After getting a lift in one of my dads trained Hippogryph, he patted my shoulder and smiled at me. The intern studying under my dad supervision, which might I add was hot, approached and gave me a good luck kiss. I can't tell but I think I blushed since she chuckled to herself. My dad, the ever so worried man just can't help himself.

"Now son, I don't want you to get too carried away. Listen to your instructor and please, please for the love of Elune, try not to embarrass yourself…And also…"

"Dad…"

"Try to focus, I mean, is it really that hard to …you know…focus"

"Dad…I know, c'mon, I'm not a kid anymore"

"Sigh…be that as it may, just be careful son"

"I will dad"

And off I went to start my journey in becoming the next flight master in the family. It felt like hours had passed and I didn't see a thing. I was starting to think that this bird knew absolutely nothing and made a wrong turn, but before I could even say anything to the animal, there it was. High above the clouds and below is a vast sea where large ships seemed like toy boats.

As the Hipporgryph reached the flight path set up for special entry, I hopped off and the flight master pointed me to the right way. There were many gathering in front of what seemed to be the main recruitment building. The place was packed with gnomes, dwarves, humans, draenies and other night elves like myself. After looking around I went to the front of the crowd. I even noticed the horde gathering on the other side from where I was standing.

"Some sight huh?"

I heard a squeaky voice and when I looked down it was a gnome standing next to me.

"Yea, it sure is. This place is huge"

"That's not what I meant, I was actually talking about the Horde being here as well"

"Aye, who woulda thought they be here." Said a hefty Dwarf on my other side.

"Well, what's wrong with that, isn't this the only school for flight mastery?"

"HMPH!" both the gnome and dwarf said with disgust, I was starting to think I had said something wrong.

I guess this is what father was talking about. I just didn't see what the big deal was. It's not like there aren't any neutral towns all over Azeroth. I glanced one time over to the crowd of Horde and for one split second my eyes caught sight of a dainty young blood elf. There was something about her that I couldn't stop staring. It felt as though time was moving slower than normal. I had seen plenty of blood elves before, but not one like her.

Her eyes captivated me. I felt that looking deep within them I would be lost forever in peace. She stared back at me and it almost made my heart stop. Suddenly another blood elf had abruptly stood in front of our stares. I flinched slightly and took a good look at his face. I embedded that look and stared back with the same feeling he had. I just didn't know why. I never bothered before with the Horde but somehow it seemed right to do it. I didn't like his glare any more than he liked me staring at her.

"Aye Lad, if I were you, I wouldn't be looking at that there lass. Try to remember which side yer on if you know whadda be good fer ya"

Course I didn't take my eyes off the other guy even when the dwarf next to me told me. Seems to me my old man was more right than I had imagined. His words echoed into my mind when he had said to me "well son, I just hope for you sake, your right ". Perhaps having the horde and the alliance in the same training grounds isn't really a good idea. I wonder who in their right mind ever thought it was.

"Good morning everyone, I see you are all in the usual places that your former colleagues once stood when they first stepped foot into our training grounds." A human man wearing red and gold attire with badges and marks of honor from both the alliance and the horde, walked on the road with a smug grin in his face and his hands behind his back. He showed no fear to the enemies that were crowded on the other side of us. I wondered if he was the head coordinator of the training grounds. If so, then I heard much of him from my father stories in his time here.

"But I assure you, that this will all change by the time you have completed your course in becoming a certified Flight Master.!"

Everyone including the horde began to laugh out loud. I personally didn't see what was so funny about it. The human simply looked around and held his posture with that grin of his. He seemed positively sure things were going to change. He obviously didn't see the tension between both crowds. All of a sudden he spoke something in the hordes language. Everyone stopped laughing after that. The horde were shocked on how fluent he was in their languages. He seemed to speak in Orcish, Jibberish and even Sin'dorei. I was amazed on how well he spoke all of it.

"I need not speak all that for you all to understand what I am saying. Surely, you all do realize that you will be learning them here as well. I expect to have great conversations with you with your Non-Native language. So do prepare yourselves." He looked at all of us when he said it, when he suddenly took a good look at me. "You there, you look familiar to me. Have we met before?"

"uh…no sir, but perhaps you know of my father. He used to be a student here and I am simply following him in the same path."

"Ah, I see. I can only imagine who he is by simply looking at you. Striking resemblance."

"Heh, yea, I hear that a lot"

"Well, let us hope you can out do your father. He was quite a student."

"Yes sir, Thank you sir, and I will"

"Good" He turns around walks back the road he came from "You will all be assigned to your dormitories. I will not expect any complaints with any of you. Please enter the main building in front of you and be sure to give the registrars your forms. She will place you to your dorms and hand you your schedules." He stops and looks back slightly "I look forward to seeing you all in your graduation, standing side by side as brothers and sisters from the same league. Good luck!"