Proluge: the Queen's Plan
"how droll." queen azshara muttered as she sat on her throne, in the darkness at the bottle of the sea. "dont you ever get bored of sitting down here all the time?" she asked the naga royal gaurd next to her. "yes ma'am" he replied in nazja, the language of the naga.
"well how about we move the city someplace a little more beautiful?" she asked. "is that even possible your highness?" the gaurd asked "why, anything is possible with magic" she said "now go spread the word, i want every single naga that knows any magic. i dont care how, but i want them all here now" she said. the gaurd quickly bowed before his queen "yes your highness" he hissed as he slithered away to give the queens orders...
Zara'Zan was slithering as fast he could, but was still falling behind. unlike the other deepsea naga born and raised in nazjatar, zara'zan's eyes never fully adjusted, leaving him nearly blind deep down like this. his lifes goal was to become a soldier like his older brother zarkus.
"we dont need nearly blind warriors" is what he got told time and time again. no matter how hard he trained and how good he got with a blade, it was always no, even when he passed the training test in record time. but now he was excited, rumor around the city was it would be rising to the surface soon. how or why was still unclear in the rumors, but it was all everyone talked about the last few days. each day more and more magically gifted naga showed up in the city, all going to the queens palace.
"hey zarkus what do you thinks going on at the palace?" Zara'Zan asked as they watched another group of naga mages and warlocks walk past them towards Queen Azshara's palace. "somthing that has nothing to do with us brother" he replied as turned from the road they were on to go into the house "im gonna go to sleep, i have an early shift tomarrow" and with that, Zarkus dissapeared into the house, leaving Zara'Zan standing in the yard. "well i wanna know..." Zara'Zan mumbled to himself as he slowly started to walk down the street towards the palace.
As the next group of magicians entered the palace, Zara'Zan slithered under the bridge that led into the palace. his friend Asaria used to work as a cleaning lady in the palace and had found this back enterance years ago. Zara'Zan used to sneak through it to see her while she worked, but then her family had moved to a small naga community on bloodcurse island in a place called bloodmyst. he really missed her. they had been best friends their whole childhood... Zara'Zan quickly shook the thoughts from his head. now wasnt the time to be day dreaming like a moron, about a girl he used to think was cute, now was time for finnese and stealth.
as Zara'Zan quitly slipped through the whole in the lower wall under the bridge, and into the celler, he realized how much trouble he'd be in for spying on the queen. "if im caught they'll have my head on a stick" he thought to himself as he moved stealthily up the stairs and into the next room. now he was standing in the dining room, which was right next to the throne room. Zara'Zan swiftly climbed onto a cupboard in the corner, and pressed his head up against a crack in the wall.
"thats ridiculous" he heard a naga hiss "we can't move an entire city upwards and hold it there, even if we had all of the magic in Azeroth" the naga finished. "maybe thats not the plan?" Queen azshara finished "as i do recall your plan was to sit here and do nothing was it not sark?" she hissed to the naga who had spoken before her. "at least y'res had an idea. now you may continue y'res" the queen said, to which a female naga's voice replied "right your highness. my plan works as so" y'res said. Zara'Zan could hear the sound of magic tingling and figured that y'res was using magic to show the queen what her plan involved. after a few minutes of silence the queen finally spoke "i like it. i want you to start this instant." Azshara said. "give all the people in the city a 20 minute warning to be in their homes so they wont be crushed, then start the re-surfacing" the queen said. As the words escaped her mouth, Zara'Zan froze in fear. "20 minutes?" he thought as he turned and ran as fast as he could back down the cellar stairs, and out the hole. not caring what the gaurds thought, Zara'Zan jumped out of the trench under the bridge, and started running down the street, he needed to get home.
"hey Zara'Zan!" came the shout. as Zara'Zan started to turn, somthing hard and cold hit his head. "oww!" he yelled, only to be assaulted by a volley of laughter. "you blind prick! why dont you just go hide in your house?" came the sharp remark. Zara'Zan instantly recognized the voice "S'ral..." Zara'Zan growled before remembering he needed to get home. "whatever i dont have time for you" Zara'Zan said as he turned to walk away. "oh look at the big man! he thinks im gonna let him walk away!" S'ral said with a laugh. Zara'Zan forced every muscle in his body to walk away. after a few seconds he felt somthing grab his arm. as he turned, somthing hit him in the face hard, and Zara'Zan blacked out while he was laughed at...
the sound of magic filled the air as the hundreds of naga magic wielders expand thier powers into a collosul ball of power around the city of nazjatar. with all thier strength, the naga mages pulled the bottom of the sea floor, expanding it, making it rise. it happened slowly at first, but quickly built up speed. the ground was expanding, duplicating in size, and the more sand and ground appeared, the more it rose. as the city got higher, the surface of the water was visable a few hundred feet above the city now. "SLOW IT DOWN!" came the scream of the mage foreman "we're coming in to fast!" he yelled as the top of the highest building started to emerge from the water...
Zara'Zan woke up laying on the cold hard ground. "what the...what?" Zara'Zan thought as he remembered what was about to happen. he quickly stood up, only to hear a loud rushing sound. as Zara'Zan looked up, he saw that he was moving upwards at an alarming speed. Zara'Zan stood out in the street shrieking, staring up at the sky above him. they where getting closer to the surface by the second, and where coming in fast. As the top of the city started to hit surface, he knew anyone outside was about to get crushed from the force of the city breaking surface at such speeds. Zara'Zan quickly started to pray to every god he could think off as the water came smashing down towards him...