It had been two days since they had left Southshore and headed for the farm. The group of friends stood on of the hill Ehler and James stood upon just a few days ago. Ehler stood there with a cold, clouded gaze as he stared at his once beautiful home. His friends and the other villagers stood there awestruck at the destruction that had befallen their once peaceful home. Aurorieta reached for Ehler's hand but found nothing but air. She looked at where he was standing and saw nothing. She started to look around when she heard a loud, fast voice. "WAITFORMEBOSS!" She looked down at the foot of the hill and saw Ehler walking towards the farm with Clank trying to keep up. Aurorieta started to follow as she shouted, "lets go people. It's not gonna rebuild itself." Ashrin was the first to move but the mask of saddness upon his face didn't change. Rushral was the next to recover. He turned around put on a smile and said, "come on people our fore fathers built a beautiful home before. I know we can do it now." Gimile the dwarf stomped his feet and shouted, "the lad be right ye humans built this place once ye can do it again!" The villagers slowly but surely started to walk their once prosperous home.
Ehler walked right through the village. He walked towards the mountains, and his first battlefield. Rushral and Ratchet split up and went to their homes to see what they could salvage. Ashley led Epona, who pulled the cart that had James' coffin, to what was left of her home. Aurorieta, Gimile, Ashrin, and Clank went after Ehler. They found him leening up against a large rock. Aurorieta saw something she had never seen before his arm had been burnt, his body battered, and his bones broken. Through all of that she never once saw him cry, but now he sat there with his sword across his lap tears falling on the blade. Clank was about to shout something when Gimile clamped his handed over the gnome's mouth and draged him away. Ashrin started to follow when he turned to Aurorieta, "We will let you be alone with him Ms. Aurorieta." Then he turned and followed the dwarf.
Aurorieta walked over and sat next to Ehler. She proped her head on his shoulder and sat there quietly. Ehler tried to quit crying but he couldn't the tears just kept comeing. Aurorieta sat there staring at the Alterac Mountains when she noticed that it suddenly got quiet, well quieter to some degree. She jerked up and looked at Ehler. His eyes were closed and he was...snoring. He had cried himself to sleep. Aurorieta started to giggle. She curled up with her head on his chest and dozed off.
5 hours later
Ehler started to wake up when he felt a weight on his chest. His eyes shot open and he looked down. He saw Aurorieta sleeping quietly. The moonlight made her skin glow a pale white and made her hair silver. All the saddness he had been feeling disappeared. He slowly and gently put his arms around her and pulled her closer. He set his cheek on the top of her head. "GRRR!" Ehler straightend up so quick that he woke Aurorieta. "GRRRRR!" Ehler grabbed his sword and jumped up taking a defensive stance. Ehler saw what was growling. He was staring into the eyes of a wolf. A humongous brown wolf with black eyes. Ehler scooted closer to Aurorieta. "Vakon A Darkthes!" A ball of black fire shot through the trees and was soaring towards Ehler and Aurorieta. Aurorieta shoved the butt of her staff into the ground. She kept one hand on the staff and with the other drew symbols in the air. "Su Sa Shi Setshi!" Aurorieta shouted as a wall of water formed in front of her and Ehler. The black fireball slammed into the wall of water and stopped. The wolf lunged at Aurorieta through the steam that had been created, but Ehler pulled her out of the way and swung his sword at the wolf just as it landed. The wolf caught the blade in its teeth and yanked it out of Ehler's hand. "Vakon A Darkthes!" Another black fireball shot out of the trees at Aurorieta and Ehler. "Su Sa Shi Setshi!" The barrier of water formed as the fireball hit. The wolf ran around the stream and jumped at Ehler with it's claws aimed for Ehler's throat. "Unetosh!" The wolf jerked sideways in midair, but it's claw still raked across Ehler's right shoulder. Ehler spun tossed his sword into his left hand and stabbed sinking his sword 4 inches into the wolf's flank. Ehler jerked the sword free, and the wolf lunged again knocking Ehler to the ground.
The wolf had Ehler pinned with it's jaws around his throat. Aurorieta couldn't figuire out why it didn't bite down. Then she saw it. The point of Ehler's sword was pressing against the wolf's chest. If the wolf bit Ehler would send through it's heart, but if Ehler stabbed the wolf would bite. They were tied! She could end this with one spell. She raised her hand and was about to strike when she was hit in the back of the head. Aurorieta fell to the ground unconcious. Ratchet and Clank ran out of the bushes they had been hiding in. They ran at Aurorieta's attacker. Ratchet raised his hand and shouted words of magic, "Unetosh!" The attacker was sent flying right into the side of the wolf knocking it off balance. Ehler dropped his sword and hit the wolf with all his strength knocking it off him.
He grabbed his sword, jumped up, and ran to Ratchet, Clank, and the sleeping Aurorieta. Ehler took his stance and Clank copied him the best he could. Ratchet untied the waterskin on his belt and poured it on Aurorieta. She woke up shouting, "I swear Rushral fell face first into the pig droppings I didn't puch him!" Ehler and Ratchet both laughed. "We remember that." The wolf got up and started licking the face of the person that slammed into it. "William knock that off your breath reeks." The person stood up and as they did the hood that covered their face fell back revealing two long pointed ears and flowing brown hair. It was an elf, it was a high elf...a female high elf. Ehler and Clank lowered their swords while Ratchet lowered his hand. All three stood wide eyed at the elf. Aurorieta rolled her eyes, stabbed her staff into the ground, smashed Ehler's and Ratchet's heads together, and kicked the gnome where to sun don't shine. "Keep your brains above your shoulders boys," Aurorieta said as she grabbed her staff.
"Will I think we made a mistake. They don't look or act like members of the scourage," the elf said looking at the wolf. "Go ahead and change back." The elf stood up and reached her hand towards the group. The staff that had been knocked out of her hand when she was hit by Ratchet's spell flew to her hand. "I am sorry about attacking you we mistook you members of the scourage. My name is Naturae Lupin and this is my husband William Lupin," The elf said as she gestured at the wolf. Ehler sheathed his sword, "let me get this straight your married to a wolf?" Ehler leened over and whispered to Ratchet, "five gold says doggy style." Ratchet and snickered and the regained his composure. "Actually I'm a werewolf." Everyone looked at where the wolf had been but instead another high elf now stood next to Naturae. Ratchet whispered to Ehler, "ten gold says it get real kinky." Aurorieta heard him and smacked him on the head with her staff. Ehler studied Naturae's robe. It had the mark of the Dalaran. She was apart of the greatest magic users in Azeroth other then the dragons. "My name is Aurorieta. This is Ehler, Ratchet, and the gnome is Clank," said Aurorieta as she pointed at each of the boys who were staring at Naturae.
"Um where did the gnome go?" Naturae asked as everyone started to glance around. "BOSSHELP!" Clank shot out of the bushes and slammed into Ehler toppling them both. Ehler grabbed the gnome by the collar as they got up. "What did you do now?" Ehler asked the gnome he had yanked up to eye level. "NothingISwearIDidn'tStabABigGreenManInTheButt!" Clank blurted out as he tried to wiggle free. The ground began to shake...