Chapter 6- The Battle for Undercity.

"Hero's of the Alliance, your King calls! Gather behind me at the entrance of the sewers!" Varian spoke, while giving me a 'do as I say' look. "Hidden inside this defiled city is the wretch responsible for murdering our brothers and sisters at the Wrathgate! He must be brought to justice!"
"For the Alliance! For Bolvar!" Allies shouted.
"The march upon the Undercity begins now! Be empowered by your King's strength! Onward brothers and sisters! Destiny awaits! FOR THE GLORY OF THE ALLIANCE!" He yelled and ran into the sewer entrance. "Be on guard here heroes. Jaina lend us your strength!" He looked over to a strong human mage.
"Right away your majesty!" Her hands turned blue and casted a spell on us.

I just sighed. I had this feeling something would happen today as we descended into a city I once called home. Strange how I cannot seem to remember anything about it. We continued through the tunnel to find waves of enemies. Several abominations blocked our way further.
"What is this? Stand your ground soldiers! Don't give them an inch!" Varian shouted before running off to fight.
I smirked. "One thing about the forsaken's army is the fact they give us one as well." Concentrating, I focused on the fake hearts of each Abomination and tugged on them with my mind and got them to stop in the middle of the battle and run off deeper in the city.
Everyone looked at me. "What?" I asked.
"You can control undead?" Cassandra asked me.
"Well yeah. Usually only Unholy Death Knights control undead but you know my back story." I walked ahead of the army. "Come on guys if you want to kill anything today!"

"Soldiers, fall in! Guard the halls!" Soldiers ran through the tunnels and took posts. "Your aberrations are no match for the Alliance, Putress! We're coming for you!"
We continued onward deeper into the city until we entered a room with several dead horde corpses.
"What happened here? There are corpses everywhere… the stench… overwhelming…" Jaina complained, though I can't say I blame her.
"Horde. By the looks of the struggle they are here in force- somewhere…" Varian replied with a mad look on his face.
"Eh let the Horde do what they will. Our focus is Putress." I said. "Stay on alert and on guard guys. No telling what horrors await us!"
"Onward!" Yelled the King.
"Do not let them pass, minions!" We heard Putress yell and demons appeared all over. "Kill them! My work must not be interrupted!"
Varian sliced through several of the demons. "The main chamber is this way! Let's go!"
Cassandra transformed into a bear and began plowing through the hordes of demons. While the rest of us killed any we could until we reached Putress.
"There!" I yelled, pointing at the damn forsaken.
"There's nowhere to hide monster!" Sapphire yelled.
Crystalic threw out a huge ring of frost under Putress. "Nowhere to run."
Putress chuckled. "Stare into the abyss and watch as it blackens your souls!" Putress activated a nearby machine and slimes spewed out. "Yo are no match for my creations!"
"A bunch of slimes won't stop us at all Putress!" I tossed a Death and Decay out and blood boiled the slimes who went down easy.
"This cannot be happening! It will not end like this! I've worked too hard! So many years.. I..I will consume more energy!" Putress drained more and more green sludge energy from his machine. "The power washes through me! I see… EVERYTHING! MORE SUFFERING AWAITS!"

Putress broke away from his machine growing huge and a hazy green smog filled the room. Varian took the lead and attacked first with Jaina's water elementals providing backup.
"Arcane barrage!" Crystalic fired arcane magic at Putress and caused him to be slowed.
Cassandra ripped and shredded Putress from behind in her cat form While Sapphire snuck up behind and backstabbed him. But he continued to summon more of his slime creations that began to overwhelm us to the point we couldn't reach him.
"Ishanah!" I locked my hands together and got them to the ground. She ran towards me and jumped on my cupped hands, in which I gave her a boost and she flew and stuck her sword right into Putress and killed him.
"And justice is served!" Varian said.
I spat on his corpse. "What say you now Putress? That's for everyone that died because of you."
Varian didn't seem to be done though when he spoke next. "Look around you, brothers and sisters. Open your eyes! Look what they have done to our kingdom!"
"Lordaeron looked a lot nicer that this from what I heard." Alexavis said, first time I even noticed she was there.
"I can't remember much…" I said, "But I do remember this being a bright place with smiling people."
"How much longer will we allow these savages free reign in our world?" Varian shouted. "I have seen the hordes world. I have been inside their cities… inside their minds.."
"This can't be good." Alexavis said.
"I know what evil lied in the hearts of orcs.. They are nothing but.." Varian was cut off.
"The Undercity belongs to the horde once more! Lok'tar!" Someone shouted in orcish tounge.
"THRALL? HERE?" Varian spun around to the direction it came from. "Onward! We end this now!"
"Varian stop!" Jaina yelled at him but he refused to listen. "I won't help you do this!" She stayed behind as the rest of us followed Varian towards the sound of the horde army inside.
"Your father's gonna mess things up if this turns out the way I think it is." I said to Crystalic and Sapphire.
"I can't blame him for what happened… but sometimes I just wish he would stop and think." Crystalic said.
"We've all met horde leaders and they are all great people, well minus the whole Kael'thas incident, but never the less they are just like us but with harder trials." Sapphire said.

We ran through the tunnels further into the city before we reached the trone room and Varian stopped us.
"You should all know, the orcs have a battle cry : Lok'Tar Ogar! It means Victory or Death. Fitting…" Varian ran in the room. "Thrall!"
"What's this?" The orcish leader turned to Varian. "So the pesky Alliance finally decided to show up? I must thank you for dealing with Putress but Undercity belongs again to the horde!"
"I was away for too long. My absence cost us the lives of some of our greatest heroes. Trash like you and this evil witch were allowed to roam free—unchecked."
Thrall laughed. "We're trash? You slaughtered my people without a second thought Varain."
"The time has come to make things right. To disband your treacherous kingdom of murderers and thieves. Putress was the first strike, many more will come."
"Varian don't even think about it." I murmured.
"I've waited a long time for this, Thrall. For every time I was thrown into one of your damned arenas.. for everytime I killed a green-skinned aberration like you.. I could only think of one thing… What our world could be without you and your twisted horde.. it ends now… Warchief."
Varian charged at thrall and attacked while alliance soldiers followed his command and took on horde troops.
"VARIAN STOP!" I yelled and parried his attack on Thrall.
"Why should I Alex?" Varian smirked. "Don't you want us to reclaim Lordaeron? Your home? Your kingdom? Why would you give it to these beasts… Alex Menethil?"
"So you know huh?" I tossed my sword over to Ishanah. "I see already that you never liked nor trusted me. Our little spar showed you my true strength." I let my memories flow back to me or the days after I lost my memory. The training with Arthas, the powers and authority he gave me.
"I knew the moment I met you but was uncertain until I saw Alexavis in you. You always acted like the Alex I knew long ago."
"But you think I'm a monster right? Keeping Alexavis trapped in her own body while I control it day and night? Oh how little you really know. Yes I WAS
Arthas's second in command; yes I had almost as much power as he did. I was never evil though." I looked at him and Thrall. "As much as I can remember of my own life from Alexavis's point of view the entire time I was trying to save her. She's filled with a powerful light you know that's why Arthas wanted her."
"The truth is I did some bad things but I think the reason why was I wanted to see if the Arthas we knew, the proud and noble paladin we all knew, was still inside him. He may be there but I have realized there isn't enough of him left to save. The Lich King must be stopped."
I turned to Slyvannas who seemed now to recognize me for reasons I can't remember. "As the only remaining royalty of Lordaeron I will allow the forsaken and the horde to keep control of Undercity, it's the least I can do to compensate for the pain and struggles the forsaken went through. There's also nothing left for the Alliance here."
I turned back to Varian. "And as for you… your majesty… if this is the way you lead your people in a war against people different form us and just trying to survive then I don't want a damn thing to do with it. TO HELL WITH YOUR ALLIANCE! From now on I'm flying solo and I'll kill the Lich King myself with none of your help."
I turned and left the throne room to the horde and alliance and left them all alone.