So, here's chapter 2! There's a fight scene so I hope it's more exciting for you guys! OvO
DISCLAIMER: I unfortunately do not own World De Warcraft! 0v0 totally worship Blizzard though so bleh!
~~~~Chapter 2~~~~~~~
Her eyes open slowly, maybe as slowly as it took to make her heart start beating again. Her fingers twitch and a soft yawn escapes her lips. She looks to her right, slowly though, her neck was crampt and in too much pain. She stares into grey eyes with swirls of almond barely visible.
"W-where am I?"
She asks barely able to open her lips. The gnome on the stool smiles greatly.
"Shhhh! Don't talk! You're still too weak!"
He urges then jumps off the stool and hurries out of her sight. She stares at the wall behind the stool, it seemed familiar, as if she'd been there before. She closes her eyes and tries to remember what got her into this mess. Nothing came to mind, she couldn't remember anything.
"E-excuse m-me...w-why am...I here?"
The gnome hurries back with a bowl of stew with a cloud of delicious scented steam hovering over its bubbling surface.
"W-why is it...b-bubbling?"
"It's right off the oven miss! You should really eat, you haven't had anything in...well...a while now!"
The gnome says bringing the stew filled spoon to her face. She turns face slowly.
"w-what's i-in it?"
She asks trying to ignore her stomach growling from the sweet smell. Suddenly a knock is heard on the door causing the gnome to jump. She watches as the gnome hurries off of the stool, sets the soup down and runs to the door.
"Hey, I know I've asked this before but have you seen Elliane?"
"No, Crashers you have to stop with your dilusions."
"Mind if we check the place out then, gnome?"
"No, I don't Ellyn, stop trying to invade my privacy and leave."
"Well, if something comes-"
"You're hiding something! I know it, you're doing your little foot twitch!"
"Get out of my house!"
She looks up as two figures come into the room. They both stop frozen in shock. Crash quickly wraps his arms beneath her and hauls her into his arms. Ellyn turns back to the gnome.
"What do you think you're doing?"
The gnome is lifted off of his feet and slammed against the wall.
"Hold on, she just woke up she's too weak!"
Crash turns to the gnome with a dark glare on his face.
"How long have you had her? Why are there so many needle holes in her arms?"
Ellyn turns back to the gnome and slams him harder.
"What did you do to her?"
"I put her body to hibernate! I was testing one of my creations, okay? She's been asleep for a whole year now and finally I've awaken her and she's alive! she didn't die! It worked! It worked!"
Ellyns hand smashes against the gnomes face.
"Stop boasting about your stupidities!"
"Let's go, Ellyn, we have her, she'll be okay now."
Crash growls hoping that Ellyn wouldn't kill the gnome now bleeding profucely from his nose. Ellyn glares at the gnome then throws him down and follows Crash out.
"Take off my cape and wrap it around her, she'll freeze."
Ellyn obeys then does the same with his cape. Elliane only stares at the blue haired night elf in confusion.
"W-who are...you?"
Crash didn't seem to hear her though, he was too busy talking to Ellyn about going to StormWind City. Ellyn shakes his head and points at Elliane.
"You can't ride a hypogriff with her in that condition! If she starts freaking out and tries to pull away from you, you could both fall to your death."
Ellyn growls trying to keep Crash alive so he could atleast celebrate finding Elliane. Crash looks over at him with a pleading face.
"Then what am I suppossed to do Ellyn? Let her freeze to death?"
Ellyn shakes his head.
"Let's take her inside IronFordge, you know, get her back into shape. Then we can work on getting her across the ocean."
Crash shakes his head.
"No, I need to get her back now."
"Get her back where?"
Ellyn practically screams. Crash drops onto his knees and pulls out his hearthstone. Ellyn grabs his wrist quickly.
"Crahsers, don't be foolish! No one has ever hearthed multiple people-"
Crash grins as the three of them now sit on the concrete ground in the Trade Terrace.
"...and lived..."
"I just did."
Crash grins, a bead of sweat rolls down the side of his face.
"That was pretty scary."
"Thank Elliane that she's in your arms, I'd kill you if she wasn't."
Ellyn growls as Crash stands and walks into an inn.
He kicks up his legs on the desk. A single hand motion is all that's needed to shut the blabbing gnome up, another has the two orks taking his life. He throws his head back and stares up at the ceiling and sighs.
"Send Ivory out to kill the hunter. Tell her...she will receive the greatest reward of all the gods."
"She's really alive!"
Sandtor cheers holding Elliane by her fore arms. She stares awkawrdly at every one surrounding her.
"You were extremely missed."
Ellyn says pointing at Crash who doesn't notice, he was to deep in his thoughts. Elliane pulls away and stares at the three guys.
"So...my name is Elliane...and I've been missing for a year now?"
Ellyn nods propping his elbow on Crashs shoulder.
"This guy here kept looking for you, every where with no limit to privacy or time."
Ellyn says ruffling Crashs hair.
"He almost got killed many times as well!"
Elliane looks over at Crash who was now looking at the ground in what seemed to be sorrow.
"Excuse us one sec."
Ellyn says pulling Crash away from the tiny group. Crash sighs and sits down once Ellyn stops.
"Why are you sad? You finally-"
"I'm a complete stranger to her."
Crash interupts placing his chin in his hands and his elbows on his knees. Ellyn crouches beside him and rubs his back.
"Look, many have said this so don't interupt, it's annoying. Make her remember you."
A few seconds pass before Crash looks back.
"Can I speak now? I don't want to interupt."
Ellyn slaps the back of his head and nods with a chuckle.
"Many have also said: I couldn't bring back the memories."
Crash almost whimpers at the end. Ellyn immediately stops smiling and looks before them at the small creek.
"Crash, don't be so down about this, you seen what Elune did for you. Trust me, she has a plan for you."
Crash nods, stands, and follows Ellyn back to the small camp fire where Sandtor tried eagerly to chat with the quiet druid. Elliane stands quickly and walks over to Crash. For a second he began to believe that she had remembered.
"Crash...thank you for finding me, but I really should be going now."
Crash looks at her confused, going where?"
She stares at his chest with an uncertain look then looks back up at him.
"Uhm...to...Storm Wind..."
It was the only name that came to mind. Crash gently grabs her shoulders receiving her full attention.
"We are in Storm Wind babe."
She pulls away and looks around.
"Really?"
Ellyn stands and walks over to her.
"Yeah, you're really here again."
Sandtor walks over to the three and stretches his arms up while yawning.
"You guys should show her around, I'll rest in the mean while, took me a complete hour or so to get here so I'm tiiiired!"
He says plopping back onto the bed, Ellyn turns to him and points an accusing finger.
"So much of what you said was wrong."
Elliane shakes her head but in the end the two other night elves had her by her forearms and were carring her down the ramp.
"This is the Dwarven District!"
Ellyn points out by standing on a giant statue of a dwarve and stretching out his arm to show how wide the area was.
"That wasn't needed."
Crash chuckles. Elliane slides her hand out of Crashs and looks away as he looks over at her. He grabs her instead by the shoulder and pulls him with her.
"Look there's tons of stuff here!"
Ellyn says then turns around to find them walking away from the district. He sighs and crosses his arms knowing where Crash was taking her.
"you really liked this park."
He says. Elliane looks up at the park and begins to gasp when she catches herself and stops. The grass was a beautiful glissening green that had patches of blue and yellow. A couple of ruby rosed shrubs bordered the out lines of the grass and a few benches sat in closer to the mid section. Crash grabs her hand and leads her into the park on one of the paths. They stop before a fountain and gaze at the clear water.
"You loved to run your fingers through it."
He whispers pulling her hand into the water and gently moving it around. A small smile comes onto her lips and she looks over her shoulder.
"Crash-"
She stops mid sentence, she'd forgotten what she was going to say, now, she barely even remember why this man was behind her holding her hand in the water.
"What is it? Do you remember?"
"CRASH!"
Crash turns around quickly to see Ellyn pointing South of where they stood.
"Storm Wind is being attacked! Get her to the hypogriffs now! Sandtor and I'll meet you in IronFordge!"
Crash nods and takes Ellianes hand. She pulls away and looks back at Ellyn who took off where they had come from.
"What about them?"
"Elliane, I left my weapons with them, if we're ambushed we'll die, let's get out of here before they spot us."
Elliane hesitantly nods and allows him to take her hand again. Suddenly she was running faster, beside Crash with a smile on her face. She loved competing with him. Crash looks over at her in shock. Is she remembering? He starts stepping harder and so does she. Agh! She's remembering! He turns back to find that they had unfortunately run into a mob of orks that just so happened to guard the flight area. He stops immediately pulling Elliane into his arms.
One of the orks growls something that they couldn't understand and the other orks begin to laugh. Elliane looks from the orks to Crash and back. We're going to die...
"Stay back and don't attack them. I'll fight, you heal me."
Ellianes eyes widen at the familiarity of the sentence and Crash smiles as he realizes this.
"O-okay..."
She nods stepping back, Crash pulls out a small dagger he always had strapped to his calve. The ork he assumed to be the leader said something and thus it began.
Crash was swift and jumpy. He moved from one ork to the next. He flipped onto one orks back using another to jump from, and from there he'd stab into the left shoulder as deeply as possible hoping to reach the damned creatures heart.
"Elliane!"
Elliane turns around to see Ellyn and Sandtor rushing towards the two. She watches as they sprint past her and tackle the orks one by one, quickly killing them.
"Hurry, they're on our tails!"
Ellyn says waving Elliane to come to them. Sandtor, being the closes to her, dipped down and hauled her onto his shoulder. In that instance, an arrow zipped past and struck the blue haired elf in the thigh, knocking him back.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"
Crash screams out in pain. Seeing how Crash was too heavy to carry Ellyn simply wrapped the hunters arm over his shoulders and lifted him onto his good leg.
"Up the ramp, hurry!"
Ellyn screams thanking Elune that it was two ramps and not one long set of stairs.
Once at the top Sandtor and Ellyn are forced to set the two to one side and pull out their weapons.
"C-Crash...are you okay?"
Elliane asks crawling over to him. Crash sighs with a nod.
"Didn't expect it."
He mumbles trying to pull out the arrow. Elliane takes hold of it and gentley slides it out. Crash lays his head back and stares at Ellyn and Sandtor through the corner of his eye as she uses her magic to heal the small wound.
"You remeber how to use your magic?"
Elliane nods then looks back over her shoulder. She lifts her arm to heal Ellyn who crashes against the wall when Crash pulls her arm back down.
"Don't, you'll catch their attention."
He stumbles onto all fours and crawls over to the dead flight master and picks up the mans sword.
"Stay here, I'm going to help."
"do you want me to help you?"
Crash shakes his head.
"These guys are like us, not the animals we'd kill before. They have a mind of their own."
He spins onto his feet and sprints at the orks. Elliane leans forth enough so she could see what was going on. Ellyn was using his sword to block an ork as it tried to slice into him. Sandtor stumbled over and peirced his sword through it's torso while Crash smashed into the other orks chest. They both fall to the ground and begin to brawl after losing their weapons. The ork that Sandtor had stabbed turns and smashes his fist into Sandtors face knocking him ontop of Crash making the three night elves vulnerable. One ork hovers over Crash and Sandtor while the other lifts his axe into the air and begins to bring it down aiming at Ellyn who slauntered weakly against the wall.
"NOOOO!"
Elliane screams falling onto her right hand and knees. Her left hand emiting a green source that knocked the ork infront of Ellyn through the wall. The other ork turns in her direction and smirks. One step is all it takes for the three night elves to jump on him. Ellyn hung half way on his back while Crash grabbed him by his giant waist and attempted to pull him back, Sandtor in the mean time grabbed his legs and pulled. With the sudden heavy weight and the propper jerking of his legs the ork collapses on his front. The three night elves hurry onto their feet and dash over to the hippogryphs, Crash picking up Elliane by the waiste and hurriedly mounting the giant eagle like lion. Elliane hugs onto Crash in fear of falling as they rise into the sky.
"Man! They almost had us there! Good job Elliane!"
Sandtor screams over the air. Elliane looks up and nods slowly.
"Not good job, they were going to kill her."
Ellyn yells back, Sandtor shakes his head.
"Nonsense! We've protected her from the day we all first met!"
Sandtor argues back. Elliane leans into Crashs back and closes her eyes.
"That was bad Elliane. I don't want to lose you again. No matter what, don't put yourself in danger."
Crash says low enough for only the two of them to hear.
"B-but Ellyn-"
"He's strong, he's taken more than a couple of stabs before, and you know this, trust me, you know this."
Elliane sighs and leans back against him again.
"Okay..."
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