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Chapter 1:

The sky was dark… Stars littered the sky in a dazzling display of astral beauty as the night reigned over the atmosphere. The moon gazed down upon all it's children, or so the Kaldorei thought, but the way things were going now it seemed as if Elune had given up on her Night Elven children. The battle for Alterac Valley would be decided by sunrise. This was by far one of the Horde's fastest attempts at any territory in over a decade and everyone knew who to thank. The Blood Elves had joined the Horde's forces a year ago and had already quickly bolstered the Horde's ranks to those rivaling even the undead scourge. Now nothing could stop their onslaught.

But as they say, numbers don't win battles.

Shiboito Moonreaper and Apfelkuchen Darkspear had been operating as a special mage strike team for a little over a week now. Apfelkuchen, a light blue troll with dark red runes tattooed all over his body suddenly started to fade into thin air. Shiboito quickly mimicked his actions and as the last bits of their war torn robes faded into the air a patrol of Night Elven Riders galloped past. Shiboito smirked to himself as he made his way to the Stonehearth tower right behind his senior mage Apfelkuchen.

Shiboito, a pale skinned Blood Elf with narrow green eyes and long blue hair complete with a short beard, climbed the ramp and took his station on the right side of the doorway at the top of the tower. Apfelkuchen signaled for him to get down under the table in the center so that when the invisibility wore off they could plan their course of action.

Immediately after laying down prone under the map table of the tower the room began to show up to their formerly dull eyes as the invisibility's adverse affects wore off. Luckily, the room was devoid of alliance forces. Even better, the room was being used as a temporary store room for gun ammunition. What kind of fools were these guards?

"Cover me mon" Apfelkuchen whispered. Shiboito nodded. He knew the plan! He eagerly crept to the doorway right behind one of the guards. He started to wave his hands in the pattern for a fireball when all of the sudden…

"BEHIND YOU!" A gnome had alerted his human ally of Shiboito's presence. Shiboito did the only thing he could think of… turn into a block of ice, covering the doorway. Apfelkuchen knew he didn't have much time before Shiboito suffered from hypothermia so he acted swiftly.

Expertly removing the bottle of flammable liquid from his brown and red robe which he quickly opened and scattered all around the hut for maximum potency.

Apfelkuchen leapt over Shiboito just as the top of the block of ice had faded away enough. He threw a quick and effective blast of flame at the guard zealously hammering away at the ice. The guard was flung over the edge of the tower and onto the snowy ground below. Shiboito had freed himself of his own prison and immediately threw a gout of flame at another of his assailants, engulfing him in fire.

Apfelkuchen used the arcane energies around him to fling the flaming gnome into the gunpowder room. Shiboito's eyes widened momentarily before he quickly leapt off the edge not wanting to be anywhere near that place when it blew. Apfelkuchen quickly jumped after him.

Apfelkuchen landed with belying grace on the ground as if he were light as a feather whereas Shiboito had simply teleported to the ground below him once he was close enough. With no time to spare they rushed out to a ditch close to where the blazing tower was. It was only a matter of time until… KABOOOM

Shiboito looked around just as the tower had exploded only to see a large chunk of wood fly directly at his forehead. He managed to avoid taking a killing blow but he was hit hard enough to knock him out cold. Apfelkuchen quickly turned around to assist his Blood Elven comrade.

Unfortunately he hadn't made it halfway there when a new stream of people appeared ones that he hadn't seen before. They were blue skinned and bulky like their Tauren allies yet they had no fur and their eyes glowed silver much like the Night Elves. Not knowing whether they were friend or foe Apfelkuchen shoved his teammate off into a ditch nearby and attempted to fade just enough so the newcomers wouldn't notice. Luckily for the two mages they would not be captured because the riders reared around to assist with the collapsing tower, there was no saving it however. The explosion from the gunpowder had completely reduced it to rubble and ash and there were no surviving guards, just as they had planned. But now was not the time to dwell on a small victory, Shiboito needed urgent care and there wasn't any way he could manage to get him back to Iceblood Garrison by himself.

They've gotten themselves in a big hole this time.