Lost Stories of Warcraft

by Video Game Fan Writer

These are stories about the uncommon characters of Warcraft that fought for survival through the events of Warcraft.

10. Chapter 9 Redworm

Redworm

In this universe some people are born into their destiny like keys, unlocking more of the seemly endless cosmos having no connection to the social hierarchy established by the mortal races.

A former blind red haired runaway slave walked the long halls of the Black Temple illuminated by the green torches and the glowing eyes of demons that lurked in the halls. Faint sounds of screams of pain but pleasure as well took place in these halls and the grunts. Fel orcs and elves alike trained in these halls to tame dragons and there skills in battle. One of the grey skinned multi armed shivarra demons held a half-naked elf by her hair, "You do not discriminate elf, they travel too far to be rejected."

"But the Broken are… " She screamed in desperation.

"You are alive to give pleasure to others or I could give you to one of Fel Orc commanders, let his men use you-" a blade was flying through the air and cutting three of shivarra demons arms off dropping the girl on the ground. The demons screams echoed through the halls and the women in den covered their ears. The blade bounded off the walls and came back to the figure that threw it, "We let in Broken now?" he asked.

She looked back at the figure his eyes and tattoos as they were glowed green, "That Broken labored for two years to spend one night in this den. We usually don't, but the stories that one would have brought back could have raised moral among all the other workers."

There were few demons actually loyal to Illidan's cause, but demons always have their own personal agenda, three new arms grew out where her three arms were cut off, and they were soaked in green blood. She moved them around and the elf girl ran off into a corner with other girls, "I really like those arms Redworm, I suppose I'm just going to have to break these ones in."

"You will have greater losses if the women around here have to watch a disgusting act like that, sad women can't pleasure anyone." Redworm stated. "Break into his mind and give him happy thoughts, demon."

The shivarra demon laughed, "That will be more trouble than it's worth."

Redworm smiled and drew both of his blades, "Then let me motivate you."

Redworm walked toward the shivarra demon transformed into his own demon form and was now taller than her. He grabbed her by the throat and took her to the floor, "I could violate you in front of that Broken Draenei that will give him happy thoughts to take home." Redworm's voice was deeper and distorted.

Redworm changed back to his normal size the shiarra demon now twice his size, "You don't have the guts or the equipment to last long enough." She grabbed Redworm by all four of his limbs, with four of her hands she pinned him to the floor, the last set of hands tore off Redworms clothes. "Now I've got you boy." The demon stood up stretched out all of his limbs apart looking at his naked body reaching for his pelvic area with her last set of hands, "It's fitting I should let you taste heaven before I take you to hell." The demon licked the side of his face.

Redworm's eyes glowed from red to green and a beam of fel energy was blasted through his eyes and transformed him into a black and green winged demon again, the shivarra demon disappeared into a dust of red and greed fire, "Looks like I got you." he said, smiled, put his clothes back on, and picked himself up off the floor.

The elf that was being choked ran over to Redworm with her arms open like she wanted to hug him. He just looked at her, moved his arms blades in a slashing movement, and the elf woman's head fell from her body. All the women in the Den of Mortal Delights screamed and gasped. "The next time any of you even speak of fornicating with lesser beings, don't you dare try to touch me. The only reason I killed that demon is because I didn't want to see that disgusting act in front of me!" Redworm placed both of his blades behind his back, looked around, and breathed in, "Now where is that Broken Draenei, maybe I can motivate him too."

The sound of running footsteps like a horse could be heard from far away, "I recognize that hoof clomps anywhere." Redworm said with a smile as he spinned around his blades.

"Lord Illidan will hear of this." The Broken Draenei said as he ran out of the halls and went outside.

"Oh, well I guess I better make sure that he doesn't." Redworm had a smile from ear to ear; it would be an easy hunt and for better purpose that most of his assignments. Redworm blazed forward and when he was outside a large group of his illidari were waiting outside with blades at the ready. The Broken Draenei just stood behind them all.

Redworm turned his face away from the crowd, "Well, I guess I'll be going then." But a giant demon skin fist entered his field of view and he was out cold.

Redworm woke up to cold water and beatings from a whip. He was hanging by both of his arms, but no sound came from the high elf as new slashes dripped green blood on the ground. The blue skinned winged male demonic taskmaster grew more frustrated with every lash of the whip, "What is wrong with you elf?" he grunted. The demon put his beasty face close to the elf and Redworm spit green blood in his face.

"High Elves use nerve poison when they torture." Redworm chuckled.

"This isn't torture, this is punishment. You could at least make some kind of noise; do you know how bad this makes me look? A torture chamber with no screams?" The demon complained

"It couldn't be worst then what I have to look at, demon." Redworm smiled.

The demonic taskmaster eye's went wide, "Demon?! Look at your blood illidari, you and I are the same."

Redworm shook his head and smiled, "Ouch, that's the closest thing to damage you've done since I got here."

The demon taskmaster yelled and let out another six lashes and the most he got out of Redworm was a flitch. The taskmaster stopped and caught his breath and grabbed a pair of giant pliers a clanged them in front of him, "With this you will never hold a sword again, do you still think this is funny? Do you still think you're cute?"

Redworm rolled his eyes and smiled, "You not the first person to say that to me, my last slave master took both of my eyes and bitch I'm adorable."

The taskmaster took one of his pinky fingers and put the pliers around it, sweat fell from Redworm's face but he still looked at the demons face with a smile from ear to ear. The taskmaster crunched one of his finger bones and Redworm let out a scream through his teeth as he clinched down and followed it with more laughter, "That was a push in the right direction." The demon taskmaster stated as he lowered the pliers into the next bone of his pinky. "Let try this one."

"THAT'S ENOUGH!"

A sound of a familiar voice came to the right of Redworm the taskmaster looked behind him. "Lord Illidan." The taskmaster graveled on his knees and a demonic purple skinned winged elf stepped into the chambers. Illidan Stormrage looked at Redworm in his face, the rest of his body, and looked back at the demonic taskmaster, "I said twenty lashes on the back and a day's worth hard labor under your supervision, demon."

"Lord Illidan, these elves must be put into a level of submission before they will even listen to me. The breaking of this one has been more then taxing." The demon complained.

Redworm spit on the ground and looked at the demon, "You could've just asked."

Illidan looked over at Redworm, "Would you have listened?"

Redworm half smiled, "Sure, on one conduction, say my name."

"It's Red-"

Redworm intercepted Illidan Stormrage," Not you Illidan, the demon taskmaster, Ashima."

The taskmaster demon eyes went wide not just because he didn't know who he was torturing but the fact that he knew his name, "Well it's, it's, ah, Red Rose?" he guessed.

Illidan and Redworm repressed a laugh, "Red Rose?" Illidan repeated it; he wasn't hiding it anymore he laughed openly with Redworm. "Red Rose," Redworm said in laughter, "why, you like what you see? Keep your eye to yourselves from now on demon, I don't swing that way, I'm a real man. " Redworm teased.

Ashima started laughing as well and Illidan stopped all of sudden and punched Ashima in the teeth knocking him to the ground, "This isn't a laughing matter for you demon, release Redworm at once."

"Yes, Lord Illidan, at once." The taskmaster wiped the green blood from his month and took the key from his desk and unlocked Redworm from his bindings.

"Where are my blades?" Redworm asked.

"Over there." The demon pointed to a corner of the room Redworm wasn't facing. Redworm grab the blades walked toward the door and swept the blades through the air cutting off the demon task masters head.

"Redworm!" Illidan grabbed him by the hand and lifted him up in the air. Redworm screamed in pain because it was the hand that had the broken finger. "I been hearing whipping sounds for hours and not a peep out of you, what's got you so bothered?"

"He broke my finger you halfwit, and the fact that we need to fill demons in our ranks is a fact that were all screwed." Redworm complained.

Illidan looked at the demons corpse and back at Redworm, he had an angry look on his face, "He disobeyed me so I see why you killed him, but don't you ever dare question my methods, you are not prepared for what we are coming to face."

Redworm scoffed, "Methods, plans, alliances, slaves, I don't care Illidan! All I care about is fighting, getting stronger, and killing. I may die a nameless soldier on a forgotten battlefield, but if I can't live my life the way I want I might as well be, so if you're going to kill me, kill me, but if you're not stop wasting my time! " Redworm kicked Illidan on the side of his face, his head tilted to the right and green blood fell from his lip.

Illidan pushed Redworm back and he landed on his feet, he touched his lip, looked at his hand, and saw that there was blood on it. "I envy you Redworm but that not enough reason to kill you. Rest assured there will more battles to come."

Redworm put both of his blades behind his back, "Good." He said and nodded.

Illidan crossed his arms tilted his head to the side, "Stay out of the Den of Mortal Delights from now on; it seems a fitting punishment for you Redworm." He ordered.

Redworm laughed, "You think I would want to lay with one of those weak loped sided ass hussies, Illidan. I take pride in having standards, I just happen to be passing through. I was curious about the demon though." He looked away as he recalled the thought.

Illidan put his arms down, stepped forward, and glared at Redworm, "Don't let it happen again."

Redworm narrowed his eyes at Illidans gaze nodded once and it was returned, Illidan Stormrage left the room.

Redworm went to his living courters to rest for the night he was beat both figuratively and literally but before he could entered his tent another shivarra demon was waiting outside his tent with all three sets of arms her crossed, but this one had blue skin. "I brought you some wine, I thought it would help with pain." She said and threw a full waterskin at him. He caught it and drank it, but coughed as its sweet bitterness went past his throat. "It will keep you warm throughout the night, but I could keep you warm if wine is not your thing."

Redworm looked away, laughed to himself, and shook his head, "I thought you demons took the forms of people that appealed to the target your trying to seduce."

The shivarra demon shrugged, "My masks wouldn't work on someone with your eyes Redworm, but that's not why I came here."

Redworm looked at the demon that was well over a foot taller the he was and crossed his arms, "Well, what you want then?"

"I got promoted," She explained, " and I know that Illidan forbid you to enter the Den of Mortal Delights so what I'm trying to say is that if you need a favor or two my door will always be open."

Redworm rolled his eyes, "What do you want a metal, supervise your whores, and leave me out of it demon."

The shivarra sucked on her teeth three times and shook her head, "Making a lot of assumptions, Redworm. I wasn't implying sexual, I have other talents in combat and mind control." The shivarra demon threw him a white stone with green markings on it, "Run your fingers down the green parts and it should teleport me to your location, but if you put me in the middle a battlefield or I see you bleeding a pool of your own blood I'll just go back home, I'm not that kind of demon."

"You got a name demon?" Redworm asked.

The shivarra demon half smiled, looked away, and back at Redworm, "It's Malevolence."

Redworm raised his eyebrows looked at Malevolence's whole body, "I'll take you up of that first favor if you don't mind, on all fours and no mask." Redworm laughed to himself, "Or eight."

Malevolence breathed out and walked toward Redworms into tent It was still big enough for her not to lower her head to much, when she was close to him she said, "Don't make this a habit, it can be quite addicting you know. I don't need Lord Illidan blaming me that one of his precious illidari had gotten sloppy."

Redworm pushed Malevolence from her butt into his tent and closed the door behind him.

Malevolence put her clothes back on and looked at the naked demon hunter asleep in his bed and put a blanket over him. Redworm opened his eyes with anger and suspension at Malevolence, "I don't sleep if you were hoping to snuggle. Just, you might catch a cold, I thought." She explained. Malevolence took the waterskin filled with wine and took a drink of it. Redworm held the blanket, pulled it closer to his face and closed his eyes, but his ears still twitched like they had when he was blind. Illidan had given him new eyes but he still "saw" things clearer when his eyes were closed. Everything was still black but his blind vision could see 360 degrees just in small tiny white dots that responded to the sounds of his breathing or anything that was in the background. But when colors started to show and his thoughts began to race he knew he was dreaming.

He dreamed that he was trapped and he could move but his path was narrowed like being in between two large walls that were being closed around him, "Demons." He said, sighed and realized he shouldn't have laid with that shivarra demon. The green symbols on his chest started to burn, he looked at his body and the whip marks where gone, but the tattoos on his chest started to bleed. "I will take this body for my own, demon hunter." A voice said.

Redworm scoffed, "Oh good, it's you. I might be able to take Malevolence up on another 'favor'."

"You ate my heart did you really think I was just going to just go and let you take my powers?" the demon complained.

"Well even though I ate your heart you will always be part of mine." Redworm said sarcastically.

"Watch your words, boy! Hundreds demon hunters at Illidans command and I get stuck with the one with the smart ass mouth."

Redworm looked down at his feet and saw that he was standing in water now and was still naked. He felt something like the wind behind him and he turned his head and he felt a stabbing pain in his eyes. The magical vision he had before was gone, blind once more. Redworm held on to his wounded eyes surprised that he could feel such immense pain if his dreams, "You think because you have something new that it can't be taken away again?" the demon taunted.

Redworm whistled like he did when he was blind to give somethings structure to his surroundings, but waves of water drowned out any sound he could make with his voice and the water was getting deeper and more violent. "I can still find you without my eyes demon. I still remember your smell!" Redworm screamed.

It was true, but there was a still a strong smell of salt in the air. He was truly blind as the water was now at his waist and he heard more waves crashing at his chest. He heard the sound of a big wave coming, Redworm put out his hands in defense hoping to swim over or under the incoming wave. But it crashed into him taking him with the current and the salt from the water stringed his wounded eyes and salt water went into his gapping wounds. He thought the pain couldn't get any worst but he was plugged into a bed of steel trap spikes and they went through two parts of shoulder and chest. He screamed with his whole voice, there was no laughing off this pain. No sound couldn't be heard because he was still completely underwater. The water subsided and he coughed out what was in his lungs but another wave crashed into him pushing his body deeper onto the spikes. The water subsided again but this time Redworm took a deep breath, "Redworm." He heard the demons voice say. He put his arms to feel if there was anything around him. He could feel the one eyed beholders gaze, the demon he killed and whose heart he had consumed. He heard another wave of water coming to him he pulled and picked himself off the spikes that had impaled his shoulder and chest and drove toward in the water but he felt something wrap around his neck like a sticky tentacle pulled him out of the water, "In the land of blind, Redworm." He heard the beholder demons voice close to him.

Redworm woke up suddenly seeing everything around him and a green demon eye was staring at him, he grabbed it with his hand crushed it in his grip, but there was a tight pain on his chest where his tattoos uses to be, they were bleeding on his sheets but wounds from his torture were completely gone. "The runes." He said in panic, and looked at the areas he uses to have tattoos, "The runes were supposed to keep the demons in check." He said to himself.

Redworm ran out of his living courters and sprint to Illidan's living courters that was in the middle of the Den of Mortal Delights. Illidan woke up from his sleep and saw the angry high elf with his blades drawn, Redworm rushed toward him but he had blades of his own and in a flash Illidan blocked his first attack and followed with a kick to Redworms chest sending him back flying on his feet, "What is the meaning of this Redworm, you were forbidden to!-"

"SHUT UP!" Redworm screamed.

Illidan stood up, "I knew I was too lenient with you, this time-"

"The runes are gone Illidan and it drawing lesser demons to me; they will not give me the peace of a nights rest." Redworm explained.

"So, you stormed into my halls and attacked me in my sleep because you had a nightmare?!" Illidan yelled angrily.

"This wasn't a nightmare Illidan, I went through more of your stupid visions, when I saw the invasion I accepted it. I have proved that I had what it took to be a demon hunter. You said that the runes would stop the visions and keep the demons in check." Redworm explained.

"You have proved nothing high elf," Illidan argued, "I only gave you the same test that I gave everyone else and you passed because you had nothing to lose. You never knew what it was like having everything that made you happy and knowing that the Legion will take it away." A set of fel orc guards and the illidari showed up around Redworm and Illidan. "Each and every one of my Illidari has had to relive past traumas that was caused by the Burning Legion. You're nothing but a magicless high elf, a former slave with no idea what to do with your freedom, Keal'Thas was right about you, I should have killed you when you killed your former master in Hellfire Peninsula."

"You're welcome to try again." The illidari and fel orcs all drew there blades, but Illidan held out his hand, dropped his green moon shaped warglaives on the ground and stepped forward. "You not going to fight me with your warglaives, they will never find your body when I'm done with you." Redworm had his blades at the ready but Illidan kept moving forward, "Well are we going to do this or what?" Redworm taunted.

Redworm transformed into his demon form taking on a size that towered over illidan and hit Illidan in the face with the blunt part of his blades and knocking him into a wall. Redworm charged up his eye beam and shot Illidan with fel energy leaving a cloud of dust and destruction in his path. The dust settled and Illidan was unscathed, he laughed to himself, and gestured Redworm to come toward him.

Redworm went back into an elf again and ran toward him, but Illidan ran away to a corridor outside. Redworm followed suit and saw Illidan fly into the air. He looked up in the sky and saw Illidan waiting for him and he flew down to the top of the Black Temple. Redworm put his blades behind him and used his wings to climb to the top and gave himself a boost, but he couldn't fly like Illidan could. Redworm got to the top of the temple and took his blades off his back. Illidan just stood there with his arms crossed, Redworm rushed him with his blades in his hands and Illidan flew up and put his knee in his face knocking back Redworm a few meters back on his back. Redworm wiped the blood from his face; it was red now, he was surprised because it had always been green since he had become a Demon Hunter. "You did this to me." Redworm stated and got back up.

"Are we going to do this or what?" Illidan teased. Redworm went on the offence with his blades slashing, striking, and stabbing but Illidan just dodged, parried, and blocked with his leather gauntlets. Redworm screamed with a downward slash with the last of his stamina and Illidan dodged to the right and slammed his elbow on the back of his head putting Redworm on the floor again. Illidan walked away as he lay on the ground, members of the illidari and fel orcs came to the top of the Black Temple to watch what seemed like a fight, but Redworm was on the ground face down. Illidan looked at his men and Redworm used that distraction to get up and plunge both of his blades into Illidan stomach and looked at his green blood dripping out, but he looked up at Illidan, and he wasn't fazed. Illidan grabbed him by waist lifted him up in the air, flew up into the sky, and dropped Redworm fifty yards into the ground on the back of his head in a winged demon power bomb. Everyone that was watching made gaps and ow noises, they felt his pain as he lay on the now cracked ground. Illidan grabbed Redworm by the leg in the air upside down and looked at his face, "You are not-"

"-done yet." Redworm opened his eyes, interrupted Illidan with a blast of fel energy to Illidans face from his eyes, knocking Illidan to the ground. The crowd gasps as both of them lay on the ground. Redworm got up completely out of breath and his face dipping with red blood and he reached for his blades and put them in his hand. Illidan got up as well; he had been quiet and calm for the whole fight, but now he looked completely pissed off. Illidan ran toward Redworm and kneed him in the stomach striking him so hard Redworm went airborne but before he could land Illidan grabbed Redworm by the face and slammed his horns into Redworms horns breaking his into pieces, but following up with twelve more head-butts to Redworm's face. Illidan took Redworms body and threw him yards away from the Black Temple. "Well you're done now." Illidan said out of breath, as he watched Redworm fall to his death.

One of the illidari stepped forward, "Lord Illidan, there are chances with Redworm's wings that he could survive that fall."

"I know," Illidan looked over at the demon hunter, "but he won't think of coming back after that humiliation."

Redworm woke up surrounded by the demon skulls that littered the outskirts of the Black Temple his face and body partly covered in blood but the pain in his chest had stopped. The tattoos he had was now a red infected wound that was turning to heal. His face bloodstained, numb, and swollen and there was a constant burning sting where his horns use to be, but he was alive, he didn't let go of his blades, and most of all he could walk. He was thankful for that most of all. "Wow Redworm that was worst then anything I could have dreamed up." A voice said.

Redworm got his blades ready and looked around but there was nothing, "Why ya hiding, come back to finish the job? Come out and fight like a man!"

"I'm not Illidan, but I could come out if I wanted." The voice continued, there was pain in his chest as the wound started to breed again. "I could now rip myself from your chest cavity if I wanted to. But I can feel your pain, your suffering, your anger, your sadness, and your fear, you can't escape me. You belong to me now." The demon inside him, "Now I can feed on it all, I don't think I'm going anywhere for a long time."

Redworm clitched his teeth went into his transformation "SHUT UP!" he screamed his voice deep and distorted and he blasted the sky with fel energy from his eyes. He went back in his elven body and was out of breath, and he felt something he hadn't felt in a long time. A hunger for food, water, and mana, he looked back at the Black Temple and knew he wouldn't get any aid from his brothers in arms and if more demons came because of him, then again he wouldn't be able to stay in the Black Temple even if he did leave on good terms. His head hurt, his mouth was dry, and he had injuries that needed to be attended to, the demon that was no out of control in his body, and the unyielding rage to beat Illidan Stormrage to a blood pulp. He couldn't get any of these standing where he was. He put his blade behind him and started walking.

He walked for a bit taking in a bit of his new found freedom and a large crowd of nether drakes where being ridden by fel orcs passed by. Before his ascension he found them to be worthy opponents, now weak minded fools, all brawl, no brains.

"Hey over here, what's up guys?!" Redworm screamed.

One of the fel orc riding a nether drake stopped, "A demon hunter outside the walls of the Black Temple. Oh that is rich."

"What are you doing?" Redworm demanded.

"Heading to attack." The orc pointed at the nearby orcs heading in a direction the other orcs were going.

"Heading to attack?" Redworm asked.

"Yes, flying to attack the Sanctum of Stars." He explained.

"Thwarting my plans?"

"Aww, what?"

"Are you?"

"No."

"Good, because that would be bad."

"How bad?"

"I'd have to kill you."

"That would be bad."

"Indeed, stupid looking dragon ya got there, can it hold two people?"

"No he can't, can I help you, some message from Illidan I take it?"

"Good, I came to help you actually. " Redworm used his wings to fly up a few yards and kneed the fel orc in the face knocking him off his Nether Drake, "I'm not exactly working for Illidan anymore, creep." He laughed as he got on the dragon and took off.

The orc grabbed his face and screamed, "Why do you need a dragon when you already have wings?!"

"Eat a dick!" Redworm looked back screamed as he took off on the stolen Nether Drake.

Redworm caught up with the rest of the fel orcs and they were indeed attacking. He saw them flying into a volley arrows some of them went down but Redworm blocked the incoming arrows with his blades but his dragon wasn't so lucky. Redworm fell on his feet and he felt mage fire incoming in, it smacked him in the face, and he threw his blade at the one who cast it and he fell back like a bag of potatoes. He saw all the other blood elves gasp as this human male mage died and they all started running in all directions. The Fel Orcs were finally winning, "Lay down your arms." A red haired blood elf with a red axe and black and green armor stepped forward and said, "Please, name your demands and leave my people in peace."

One of Fel orcs got off his dragon and stepped forward, "Good because we know you've been stealing our-"

Redworm pushed the fel orc out of the way, "Food, water, and whatever you people use for mana these days."

The black armored blood elf had a shock of surprise, "Wait, you don't want our eggs anymore?"

Redworm shrugged, "If you got eggs that's good too, I like mine over-easy, not too much salt."

The fel orc commander stepped forward, "Who the hell do you thinking you are, wait I know you're…?" Redworm turned around and looked at him.

"Aw look it's Mor'ghor, you want a bone boy? You want a bone?" Redworm teased.

Both the armored blood elf and and Mor'ghor had a look of shock, "Do you think I'm a dog?" Mor'ghor asked.

"You, red haired elf, food now!" Redworm demanded toward the armored blood elf.

The red haired blood elf hunter looked in shock, "Innkeeper, food if you'd be so kind." he said. The innkeeper came with a plate full of assorted meat. Redworm took off the meat from a cooked bird "Have a bone." He said and threw the bone at Mor'ghor face and it dropped on the floor. "Lord Illidan." He said, trying to repress his rage, "Lord Illidan, said to try to minimize casualties, but I will not-"

"Mor'Ghor?!" Redworm yelled as he smiled.

"What!" Mor'Ghor yelled back.

"You better duck, because I'm about to turn right and I down wanna smack you down with my dick." Mor'Ghor did indeed duck and in a flash Redworm slashed, strike, and stabbed anyone behind him and the only sounds that could be heard was the clank of steel, the stabbing of soft tissue, the spay of blood, and the gurgle of choking as the fel orcs behind him choked on their own blood. "Now I heard that blood is good for the skin, but you fel orcs eat some much pork I might actually have high cholesterol now." Redworm teased.

Mor'Ghor looked at Redworm who was now covered in his men's blood from head to toe and he fell backwards and held his hand in defense, "Redworm, listen, you've won us a harsh battle but we need those eggs to train more Dragonmaw Skybreakers, now I can keep my mouth shut to about this incident, but I can't go back to Lord Illidan empty handed."

Redworm put his blades behind his back, walked forward until he was in striking range, and crossed his arms. "Tell him what happen Mor'Ghor, but I'm thinking I want a healthy breakfast today so no eggs for you, but here if you don't want to go back empty handed, I want you to give him a little message." Redworm pulled a piece of paper out, concentrated his fel energy into his finger, wrote his message, folded it, and sealed it with fel magic. "You give him this and don't you even think about opening it until it's in Illidans hands."

Mor'Ghor took the paper and ran to the Black Temple, an hour of running and he found Illidan in his throne room, "Lord Illidan, " He said out of breath, "one of your Demon Hunters went rogue, he wanted me to give you this message."

"Redworm… I suppose it's not surprising that he survived, I threw him off the Black Temple."

Mor'Ghor looked at him, "I was unaware of that. He killed all my Dragonmaw orcs and told me to give this to you."

Mor'Ghor handed the paper to Illidan, he looked at the message, and back at Mor'Ghor, "Mor'Ghor why did you give this to me?"

Mor'Ghor came closer to Illidan, "Why, what does it say?" Illidan showed him the piece of paper and he read, "Dear Illidan, and there a picture of a butt." Mor'Ghor tried to repress a laugh, "There's poop on the bottom and it spells F-K YOU." Mor'Ghor tired with all his might not to laugh and Illidan grew angrier. "I'm sorry my lord." He said smiling. Illidan punched him in the face will all his might and yelled out. He charged up his fel magic from his eyes, but another illidari grabbed him by the shoulder.

"Please Lord Illidan." The female illidari said, "Redworm is less than quarter of a century old, you can't expect any level of maturity from him."

Illidan let out a sigh and looked at the fel orc lying unconscious on the ground, "I suppose your right, when he wakes up tell him to go back to his post, I'm going to bed." He began to walk outside his throne room, stopped and looked back at his fellow demon hunter, "Would you think it was strange if I said I actually miss him?" He asked.

The illidari shook her head, "No, he did tend to lighten things up around here."

Illidan looked down, sighed, shook his head, and left for his bedroom. The Illidari never saw Illidan in such a state of depression. For as long as Illidan had been freed from his 10,000 year prison and maybe even before that he had always had a look of discontent and only smiled when he had reached a milestone of in own personal conquest or ambition. Did Illidan ever get depressed or mourned. "Why didn't you just kill him?!" She shouted. The illidari followed to the last place she saw Illidan and met his gaze in the hallway. Illidan was standing upright and confident as he usually did, but she continued. "You have killed for so much less, any lesser person would have stabbed him the heart it he attacked them in there bed chambers and he openly challenged you, attacked you clumsily and cowardly, and you still spared him!"

Illidan narrowed his vision and knew what she was thinking. She was mistaking his kindness for weakness, "I broke his horns and threw him off the top of the Black Temple!" Illidan raised his voice and implied that it could happen to her as well, but he calmed himself, "But tell me Moirasil, would you kill a child for misbehaving, would you kill your own child?"

"No, but we are not children. Many elves have died in the attempt to become demon hunters and you never so much a batted an eye lash at the deaths that occur in this temple." Moirasil stated.

Illidan half smile and rolled eyes in the way that he could "True, I have tested you all and most of you failed, but your wrong. Some of the elves that have died at this point were friends, friends that supported my efforts even before my imprisonment, but Redworm is 16, young even for a human and has passed all my test with flying colors."

Moirasil was in disbelief, "How?" She recalled her visions, her own physical and mental torture, and disembowelment of her own eyeballs.

Illidain sighed and smiled as he recalled Redworm's initiation, "The same way a person can walk across burning hot coals, by never owning a pair of shoes."

Moirasil looked at him quisitively but Illidan continued, "Redworm was born a slave to some cruel owners and when I met him he was already blind. The ritual is somewhat depenent on the user adjusting to the new power, it was risky but he never wavered. He accepted every pain with laughter, the hopeless visions with confidence and optimism, and the transformation like a new uniform. An even now he still manages to make me the butt of his childish jokes." He smiled and held up the massage that was given to him. "But then again, I was guilted by the fact, maybe even jealous, that what felt like a hellfire for most was nothing more then a hot bath for him."

Moirasil laughed at her fearless leader speaking like a child that had just lost his puppy, "So that why you were so easy in him. Because he was better then us, better then you."

Illidan slamed his hand into Morisasil thoat and pinned her to the wall, "Spend the majority of your existence craving death more then freedom and being denied both, spend your existence knowing only subservience to greater power is your only law, and knowing only the promise of anguish as payment for services rendered, then... " Illidan stopped, put her down, and she gasp for breath. "The destruction of the Burning Legion is the reason for my existence I have come to accept that, but I have looked into the minds of thousands of demons and they are not always wrong about the cruelty of humanity."

Illidan turned away and continued toward his bed chambers. Moirasil thought of pressing the issue of the Broken slaves that were kept but knew they had a purpose. Illidan had shown mercy, compassion, and even doubt and wasn't a leader that was cruel for the sake of cruelty, even if some of his subjects did. "I hope he comes back." Moirasil said. In the distance she saw him nod in acknowledgement.

Meanwhile Redworm at the Sanctum of Stars was being waited on hand a foot by the innkeepers there. He scarfed down meat and wine sitting in a chair while other female elves tended to his injuries. The red haired blood elf hunter step forward into the inn, "I'm glad to see you're enjoying yourself, but how do you plan on paying for all the services we're providing?" he asked.

Redworm looked at the blood elf, laughed for a few seconds, and stopped, "How about, no." he answered.

All the blood elves in the room calmly walked out of the room and took his food and wine away and left Redworm by himself with the red haired blood elf, "Listen, my name is Commander Hobb and I know I can't best you in battle, but I've never seen anyone fight like you, where are you from."

Redworm laughed, "Sheesh and I thought my name was stupid, did your mom name you after some kind of corn or beer?"

Commander Hobb looked at him questionable, "It was my grandfather's name, and could you just answer the question?"

Redworm looked back at Hobb, "A cage mostly, I only left to be overworked and over beaten."

"What about parents?" Hobb asked.

Redworm rolled his eyes, "Do you think my parents would name me Redworm? That was a name given to me by slave masters."

"Because you were a magicless high elf, but those were names of the past, were all blood elves now." He gestured toward his surroundings.

Redworm shook his head, "Don't think you share any level of kinsmen ship with me just because we have the same color skin and the same ears, your people, your politics, kept me a slave."

"How old were you?" Hobb asked.

"Why the hell do you care?!" Redworm retorted.

Hobbs crossed his arms and thought back, "Judging by the way you seem to talk and fight. You seem to have very little regard for yourself or the people around you. You seem to live too much in the moment never any regard for the future, and you seem reckless, and brash. You killed a group of you own men, quite swiftly I might add, just to send a massage to your former master."

Redworm nose twitched angry "He is not my master; he never has, and never will be."

Hobb looked at him questionably, "Then what was he to you?"

Redworm looked down and shook his head, "A teacher and a friend."

Hobbs eyes went wide, "What?"

Redworm looked angry at Hobbs, "A friend, are you deaf, why are you asking me all these stupid questions, don't talk to me like I'm some kind of interrogated prisoner. We've never talked before, why would you want know anything about me?"

Hobb looked away and back at Redworm, "I don't know anything about you… I just have a feeling about you."

Redworm stood up and was somewhat dizzy from all the wine he drank and the bandages on his face impaired his vision, but he closed his eyes drew his blades and clanged them together. He noticed the whole time they had been talking a group of archers were waiting outside and were waiting on the top of the building as well. He opened his eyes again and looked at Hobbs. "I may not be on good terms with Illidan anymore, but if you think I'm going to throw in my lot with his enemies you got another thing coming. So Commander Corn-On-Cobb, if you're going to kill me you better order your men to do it now."

Commander Hobb's eye went wide and he backed away held up his hand up and heard the surrounding blood elves draw arrows, "Wait a second can you block that many arrows?" the demons voice asked and time began to slow down.

"Nope." Redworm said in his head.

"But we both live here, you going to a let least try right, like draw your blades at least, Demon Hunter?"

"Nope were going to die regardless." Redworm said in his head and smiled.

"But I'm the one in control."

Redworm crossed his arms and laughed, "Not for long."

"What about Illidan he took your pride Redworm, he built you up just throw you back down in the dirt, and tried to take your life, and now you going to let some scared, cowardly elves that wouldn't dare cross blades with you take your life, don't you want to see that buffoon grovel at your feet?" Redworm didn't say anything, not even in his head, but he did think about what he said, "I'll take that silence as a maybe, but you have to show me a little faith."

"Why should I trust you, you haven't even told me your name?" Redworm stated.

"You know that it's not good for people to know a demons name, but since I don't want to die and you seem to want to build our relationship, it's Xantam."

Redworm heart started beating fast and his life began to flash before his eyes and everything was still in slow motion, "No, no, no, no, don't do that." Xantam pleaded.

He did see an image of his mother, her beautiful long red hair, glowing green eyes, and the sweet smell of her hair and breast milk. He remembered the waters of the sunwell and being dipped into it. His father saying, "Come on Red, glow." He saw him look over at his mother and shake his head. Then she ran toward him and tried to fight him, but he back handed her knocking her in the water and said, "We can't afford to take care of one that doesn't have magic."

Redworm mother just laid there for a moment, run toward his father and saw her trying to take away a dagger from his father and put it in his stomach and grabbed baby Redworm and ran, but she didn't get far, guards arrested her they took him away from her. He remembered her screaming and crying as they took him away from her and a tear fell from Redworms face.

"My mother, they took me away from her? I need to find her!" Redworm said in his head

The beholder demon Xantam showed up in front of the image and slapped him in the face with his tentacle and brought him back into the moment still in slow motion, arrows were already flying as Commander Hobbs put his arm down. "I can help you, I can heal those wounds, we can kill him, make Illidan Stormrage grovel at your feet, and if you still remember, we can find your mother."

Redworm felt the first three arrows go into his chest and another two in the right of his neck. "If you trust me and let me take control…" Xantam continued

"I will not take a contract-" Redworm retorted.

"This isn't a contract; this is trust between two friends that just happen to share the same house." He felt three more arrows go into his chest and it knocked him on the ground. Redworm lifted his hand in the air as he felt himself slip away, he saw Xantam tentacle go toward his hand, "Deal?" he asked.

Redworm grabbed it and nodded his head, "Deal."

Redworm saw the image of Xantam go into his body and his spine begin to shock as every fiber of his bones radiated with pain. Redworm arched his back as he screamed in pain, he rolled around as more arrows were shot in his back but he didn't feel that, he heard Commander Hobbs scream, "Cease fire."

He grabbed his burning chest wound that would bleed sometimes, but it was now drawing in blood into him. He stood up and continued to scream and balled his fist and clinched his teeth as tightly as he could. His left side gained some swelling mass, ripping his leather battle vest, he felt his own muscles break his bones in his shoulder, and his voice became deeper and beastlike, "Quit whinning." Xantam said. "Did I say this was going to be easy?" He fell back on the ground from the weight of his left side and screamed as the other side continued to grow. He arched his back and it felt like the demon was trying to push his way out of his chest, but the muscles in his chest grew out breaking the rest of his battle vest. He felt his bones and muscles in his legs break and build back together and when he got up his time he felt the monstrous strength like he never felt before. It was bigger than his last demon form and so much stronger, "What is this?" Redworm asked in his head.

He heard the demon laugh, "You mine Redworm, until we find your mother and you kill Illidan Stormrage or he admits defeat you're mine."

"I will make him grovel before I kill him." Redworm voice was deeper and raspy.

"That's the spirit." Xantam cheered.

Redworm looked down at Commander Hobbs, "Fire at will!" he ordered, but his blood elves ran for their lives, he looked back and saw there cowardice and Redworm grabbed Commander Hobb with his giant hands. Redworm saw a green orc coming off a wyvern and he charged him with his sword. Redworm grew bones out of his forearms and stabbed them through the orcs plate armor, lifted him up and threw him aside. "Where is my mother?" Redword shouted, his voice deep and beast like.

"Wait, what? I don't know, what did she look like? A name, please?" Hobbs asked in panic.

"Red hair, green eyes, Arwen Rider, smells of Mage Royal." Redworm said.

"Wow you remember her name?" Xantam stated.

"I don't know." Hobb's said. Redworm got his bone forearm ready to stab and other bones started to show up on his back and neck, "Wait, Tempest Keep, you won't find more high elves in Outland then in Tempest Keep if I were looking for any elf I would start there." Redworm threw him to the side and a female gnome put daggers in his lower leg. Redworm grabbed her like a mosquito and crushed her into the ground and continued to walk away from the Sanctum of Stars.

"Wait you not going to kill him?" Xantam asked.

"He gave me seemly good information, if it was bad well I'll come back, and I imagine I will haunt his dreams for quite a few nights, also the hunt will be a lot more fun." Redworm said in his head as he walked away.

"Can't argue with that, but how are we going to get there, it's all the way across Outland." Xantam stated.

"I know an orc I've been looking forward to paying him a… what's it called again." Redworm asked

"A visit?" Xantam answered

"No, a beating, I need to pay him a beating." Redworm joked.

Redworm walked in this demon form are a long time but more spikes from his back kept coming out and each one hurt more than the other. Redworm loved having this much power but even he had his limits, he fell down and another set of spikes came out of his back and with every spike a cup of his own red blood fell on the floor. "Oops, I may have gone a bit overboard, you mortals are so fragile." Redworm fell on the ground on all fours and the spikes went back into his body and his began revert back into an elf again.

"I held that form for more than five minutes. I usually can only subtend Illidan's demonic form for few seconds." Redworm stated as he looked at his hands.

"Is it really surprising that Illidan kept secrets and limitations on his illidari so no one could surpass him? Beside even among the most powerful demons what I'm doing right now is completely forbidden."

"And were just abusing it?"

"Like a redheaded stepchild… No offence."

"None taken, but if I've become so powerful maybe I should head back to the Black Temple now."

"With great power comes great risk of getting yourself dead, kid. You might be able to hold your own toe to toe against Illidan, but he has an army and knows a lot more techniques then you do. "

"Like what?"

"Well for starters he can fly, you can't. I'm sorry kid, but you're not-"

"Don't, don't say it."

" -you're not ready to face Illidan. But Tempest Keep is a good place to start, not just to find your mom but a lot demons we could feed off that will enhance our fel magic."

Redworm was coming into the Dragonmaw Fortress and the front guard came and stopped him, "State your business, demon hunter." One of the orc guards demanded.

"I need to speak with Zuhuled, your chieftain." Redworm stated.

"He's just over that hill, I will send a massager and tell you're here." The orc pointed

Redworm walked past them, "Why you just told me where he was."

"You idiot you were supposed to send word first then give him directions to the chieftain." One orc said to the other.

"Wait demon hunter, you not supposed to go any farther until we send word that you're here."

"You know I could kill you both and Illidan wouldn't care right?" Redworm stated still walking away.

"Ha, that would create tension on our already fragile alliance between the Illidari and the Dragonmaw clan and we would be pushed into civil war if you just slaughtered us like cattle."

Redworm stopped with his back stilled turned to the orcs but looked at them and they both had there axes drawn, "Wow that actually sounded intelligent and makes not want to kill you, but tell me, what's your favorite internal organ?" he asked.

"Don't answer that, just let him go!" The other orc yelled.

Redworm laughed and put his hand on his hip, "Wow two smart ones; if I were you I would try to not stay on the front lines it would a shame to lose two soldiers of your caliber."

"Thank you, demon hunter." They both said and bowed their heads.

"Wow, you let another two go, you usually just kill whoever gets in your way, what is wrong with you today?" The voice of Xantam said.

"I don't know, maybe seeing images of my mother has made me go soft."

"How do you know for sure that that was your mother?" Xantam asked.

"I don't it just. I've never been that close to death before."

"A demon hunter that has never brushed with death before, I'm sorry if that seems a little odd."

"As a slave there were beatings, the hunger, the unrealistic exceptions, the exhaustion at the end of every night, and the fear that someone can just take you and do whatever they wanted to you. Most of the time you would just hope that you were to pathetic for people to notice you and at times I wished for death but the masters wouldn't even give me that."

"So that why you told those men to fire."

"Yes, while I trained under Illidan every other orc, elf, or demon I beat put me above the ones that couldn't beat me and I felt like I was finally in charge of the slaves. I suppose I was acting out against all my masters by treating the ones bellow me as slaves. Frankly I wanted them all to be below me, so no one could ever enslave me again." Redworm laughed, "Really there wasn't much difference between him and the other slaves master I had, other than the things I was doing were different."

"So that's why you challenged Illidan?"

"No, I challenged Illidan because I didn't like being ordered around and it turned out that everything he said to me was a lie, these runes, these visions, and of course you."

"Yeah kid, can't say it was your best plan, but I don't expect you to really think things through, but back to the near death experience."

"Well this is my first taste at true freedom, not under a master that gives beatings. At that moment I said 'kill me' I didn't think I was going to regret it."

"But you did, you do, right?"

"Yes, Death showed me a memory of her, when I was almost killed by my father and showed me that someone will miss me if I died."

"Can I help you with something, elf?" Redworm heard a voice behind him as he was talking to his inner head demon.

Redworm looked over at the orc and half smiled, "Yeah Zuluhed, the first thing you can do is go die and save me the trouble."

Zuluhed scoffed, "We in strict orders not to let in any demon hunters in this post, weakling. So maybe you better high tail it out of here before you get on my last nerve."

Redworm held up his fist in a fighting position, "Well trust me you don't want to get in my way. So why don't you hand over a Nether Drake and I'll be on my way." He ordered.

Zuluhed put up his fist too, "Well come on I got the keys, bring your mana sucking ass over here and try to take one."

The orc rushed over and punched Redworm across the jaw but Redworm used the momentum to put a spinning hook kick to the orcs face. Redworm looked at the orcs face and saw he cut on the area he hit, "First blood asshole."

"Maybe you better check again." The orc pointed out.

Redworm bit his lip and tasted his own blood and touched his hand to his lip and saw there was indeed blood on it, "Damn it all." He said and laughed. Redworm and the orc connected there punches by hitting each other in the fist hard and a range of punches to the face and body continued. Redworm was shorter but faster and the orc was stronger but wasn't completely overpowering Redworm. None of them blocked, they just kept beating each other up putting bruises and cuts on each other face and body with their fist, but Redworm caught the orcs arm and punched the back of his elbow and triceps trying to break the orcs arm. The orcs arm went limp and on the same side Redworm came up with an uppercut with all his might. But he backed his head away dodging the attack but Redworm grabbed the orc by the the back of his neck and put his knee in his chin, but the orc hit him across the face with the broken arm and knocked Redworm to the side on the ground. "That was dirty, faking injury and waiting until I left myself open." Redworm said as he wiped the blood from his mouth still on the ground.

"You never did learn Red." The orc grabbed Redworm by the wrist, picked him up, hugged him and let him go, "Red, how the hell have you been, I thought they didn't let you people out."

"Wait a second, when you said 'beating' you were being literal?" The demons voice in Redworm's head asked.

"Yeah I got fired; I was hoping you could help me get back on my feet until I landed another job." Redworm joked.

Zuluhed thought back, "Not too many openings here, unless you were willing to strip down to your small clothes and dance the 'coconut tree' for tips."

"Hey." Redworm pointed his finger at him, "Hey, that dance it harder than you think, and only if I get to wear a pretty dress."

Zuluhed laughed, "Seriously, I can't let you take a Nether Drake. Word came down that you were still alive and if anyone sees you just flying off on one I'll most likely be dead the next day. Why do you need one in the first place?"

"I need to go to Tempest Keep." Redworm answered.

Zuluhed rolled his eyes, "Oh please don't tell me you're siding with that sneaky blood elf Keal'Thus Sunstrider."

Redworm looked at Zuluhed questionably, "I thought we were on the same team?"

Zuluhed looked away and breathed in, "Yeah Illidan knows that he plans on betraying him."

Redworm shrugged, "What? Why? I guess that explains why haven't gotten many blood elf recruits and why Illidan got so mad about me killing one of his blood elf girls. Oh speaking of killing, those guards on the front didn't even try to stop me from coming in."

Zuluhed rolled his eyes, "If they would have tried to stopped you wouldn't have you killed them anyway?" he asked.

"No." Redworm tried repressed a smile, "Maybe, okay yes, but things have changed since we last met."

"Yeah I can tell you graduated to two warglaives now and you flavor your left arm, but maybe you should ask Keal'Thus why he plans on betraying Illidan."

"Well I'm not going to be able to do anything without a Nether Drake."

"I'm sorry Red I can't help you."

Redworm paused, thought, and looked around, "What about that drake, it doesn't look like the others." he looked at the shining blue dragon that was chained by the edge of the fort.

"That's because it's not a drake, that a dragon, and yeah she might give you enough cover to fly out of here unnoticed, but no one can mount her."

"Have you tried hitting her, that uses to work for me?" Redworm asked.

Zuluhed laughed, "Yeah it uses to, I heard things about you. Hours in those discipline rooms and not a peep. In that she's a lot like you."

Redworm thought back and thought about Illidan, "You can lie to her and tell her that following you is for the greater good and will save all mortal races in the universe from the Burning Legion."

"I can hear you, you know!" the dragon spoke.

"She speaks?!" Redworm asked in surprised.

The dragon nodded, "Yes and I can also see and listen." The dragon continued.

"Zuluhed can I have a moment with her?" Redworm asked.

Zuluhed looked at him questionably, "What? No, if she can understand then she should know what I'll do if she doesn't submit."

"Let me speak to her." Redworm insisted.

Zuluhed scoffed, "You got five minutes and only because were friends, after that I want you gone. If you can convince her to submit to the Dragonmaw clan I'll pick you up someplace secluded and that the best I can do for you."

Redworm walked up to the big blue dragon, "You people are all the same you think I will submit to someone that would, beat, starve, and enslave my children." She said.

Enslave, the word hurt like a punch to the gut. Redworm looked at her eye and face from the beatings they gave her, "What did you say?" He asked.

The dragon looked out in the distance, "I see them every day, and I feel there pain, there struggle, there desire to be free, to fly and hunt peacefully, I want to free them. I want them to know that I still love them even if they don't remember me. Please, you must free my children." Redworm saw the visions of his mother as a baby "Are you crying?" The dragon asked, "I feel so much pain in your heart, why would you be friends with someone that would take a mother away from her children." Redworm couldn't hold it in anymore, tears were falling from his eyes, he had given up on hope so many times that he would ever be free, wished for death because he felt like no one would miss him but his slave masters, because they would have to buy another slave to do there work, but this dragon looked at her children with tears in her eyes trying to tell them in some way that she hadn't given up hope on freeing them. It made him feel like his mother might still be out there, that maybe she might have been watching like this dragon. He looked around and saw the Nether Drakes they kept in being cages, the beatings and screams, some were being dragged and choked with magical chains and the whelps that he found to be cute only to see them blasted with shadow magic by their taskmasters.

"Why would they do this?" Redworm asked.

The dragon pointed her noise at the sky and Redworm saw one of the foul fel orcs beating one of the mature Nether Drakes as he flew from one side to the other. Redworm walked toward her, he looked around as the riders glanced over once or twice, fell on his knees, put his face in the ground, covered his face, and cried with his voice.

Zuluhed heard him and showed up, walked close with his boot near his face. Redworm slowing lifted his head with rage and tears in his eyes, he clinched his teeth, "She has that effect on some people," Zuluhed stated, "never thought you were the type though."

In a flash Zuluhed drew his axe and brought it down and Redworm head but he caught it with his hands cutting through his flesh and bones. The muscles in Redworms arms began to grow and he left up the axe, "Changing into your demon form Redworm, how long can you keep that up, five, ten seconds at the most. You're not the first Demon Hunter I've killed and you won't be the last."

Zuluhed screamed and turned red and he had more strength to come down with his axe, but Redworm body continued to change and grow. The changes were just as painful as they were before but it was overshadowed by all of Redworm's blinding rage. "You're going to let her go and you're going to free every single Nether Drake and whelp you've enslaved." He screamed.

"You're insane!" Zuluhed spit in his face.

Redworm felt his legs break and rebuild and now he was twice as tall as Zuluhed, Redworm grabbed Zuluhed's axe, kicked him to the floor, and threw his axe on the ground, and bone spikes came out of his forearms. "Riders to my aid!" Zuluhed ordered.

The Dragonmaw riders attacked Redworm like bats and there spears went into his body, Redworm bone spikes grew four meters long and he slice the Nether Drakes apart. Some of them fell on their backs and feet, some of died on impact, some fell on broken legs but they all met Redworm's forearm spears when they hit the ground. Redworm was surprised how fast this form was but he couldn't glade with his wings. He felt his sheer weight as he stomped around freeing Nether Drakes and killing there Dragonmaw masters. He came back up to the top of the tower. "Dragon where is Zuluhed?" he asked voice still deep and beastlike. He felt something go through and break the spikes on his back and an axe went into his back.

"You held that form for a long time Redworm, I'm impressed." Zuluhed said.

Redworm grabbed Zuluhed with his huge hands and put his forearm spike through his armor and Zuluhed screamed out in pain, "Red, what have you become, your a monster."

Redworm had a pain convolution as another spike came through his body, "You're the monster, slave keeper." And he threw him off the cliff that over looked the whole fort. Redworm looked out in the distance and was about to run back and run to free more Nether Drakes "Wait where you going, you've been holding this form for more than ten minutes?" Xantam stated.

"I have to save more." Redworm said in his head.

"You not going to make it kid, a spike if going to go through your heart of you keep this up" Redworm was indeed covered in spikes and another came out.

Redworm looked out into the distance, "I'll jump, I might be able to save a few more."

"No kid, you going to shatter like glass if you jump. You can't hold this form for so long or it will kill you."

"I have to try." He continued to walk forward from the cliff.

Redworm was about to jump off and before he could the dragon caught him with her teeth and threw him back. Redworm fell back flat and felt his body retract some of the spikes, but they were still painful. She breathed magical blue fire on him to ease his pain as the spikes reversed and he went back into a high elf again and lost consciousness.

Redworm woke up with white linen in front of his eyes and a warm feeling around his body he could move his body and it still hurt from all the spikes, but he was alive, but this time he couldn't walk. "Is he going to make it?" he heard a familiar voice say.

"Why do you have to risk your life so much, why do you have to be so reckless?" Xantam paused "…Don't think of anything right now kid, just rest and we'll make it through this." Xantam said.

"Let the healers do their jobs, but he was in rough shape when they brought him here." Redworm went back to sleep.

Redworm felt something that felt like singing while he body was covered in bandages he opened his eyes and saw white with black and gray faded silhouettes of people, horses, and elves walking across a landscape. He remembered what this was. Keal'Thus's campaign to free his people and find a cure for their mana addiction but he couldn't see them. The sound of footsteps on harden sand that would only leave prints for people carrying loads, but he could see it now. Sort of see the images of the exhausted elves as they walked, as he sat in his cage, there black and white images showing how weak and sickly his people had become and yet they had overcome so many odds. Sided with the naga, escaped execution, and fleed to this wasteland to aid Illidan Stormrage from his hunters, they were tired, dying, and starving. Redworm could now see all of it. Just heard that the lock on his cage did not fasten.

I remember I was treated like a pit dog in all since of the word. Because I couldn't see, but I could track with my smell, the mana signature elves gave off, and hear them to the point that I could pick up on figures. There is, was, a memory of the past, everything I missed with these new eyes. The naga, the people, the flag banners, the army Illidan put together to free the brokens world that was under the thumb of Magtheridon. I wasn't there, I ran, I felt that first chance of freedom, killed my former master, and I ran for as long as I could, but even though I was blind I could still fight. Killed two fel orcs and took their axes, but I did take some bad falls while on the sands of Hellfire Peninsula. It's hard to feel out a place that was mostly sand and when on hard roads I knew dangerous people would find me. I knew when they came, I could feel, and smell their arcane signatures. I could taste the fel energy that swelled in the fel orcs vains and the click of teeth as the predators approached. On sand though, I had to walk on all fours but most part, the dangerous things left me alone, but I don't know how many days I might have wasted, days I spent crawling in a circle, why there were some many cliffs or how far they went down. I should have died a hundred times and this feeling I felt, this since of freedom did not taste good anymore, and l longed for my cage where I had food, water, and mana.

"How long do you plan on staying like this?" A voice asked

I jumped to my feet and clanged my axes together but the image wasn't clear there was nothing on the ground just the sound of the wind blowing down the cliffs. I could smell something but it was faint it didn't feel monstrous or even big, a bird maybe, but most birds don't talk. I had heard voices before, I wrote it off as more hallucinations from the heat, and then I heard the clomp hoofs on the sand. A pegasus maybe… I heard they all died at the Sundering but were they here, on this new world? "You're blind, how have you managed to survive this long?"

The voice asked. I was considering a Draenei or one of the Broken maybe, they always had food and water. I had been within earshot to hear what would they do to the orcs in this place, feed them, bring them back to their base, imprison them, and later decide to execute. I knew someone was there so I pretended to be weak and helpless and buried my axes in the sand, "Please help, I'm so thirsty." I said in a raspy voice and coughed. I couldn't help but hear the sound of wind blowing through something like a kite or a blanket in the wind.

I heard something far to my feet, "Can you bring it to me, I'm blind you see." I felt around the dirt, but I knew where it was. It walked toward me, "How did you manage to survive this long elf? I heard rumors there…. " But he was close enough now. I got a strong grip on my axes and swung them at the figures legs but felt the blade go into hoof not shin bone. The figure jumped back but I pressed the attack, I could hear it jump back but it was so far, but how I wondered. I heard him breathing even over the wind and I ran toward it with a double overhead strike it was blocked with a blade or a shield, the clang of steel made a sound that sounded like both. Then that loud flap sound again, "So that's how you managed to survive, robbing the people that try to help you."

It was from above, but it wasn't a mount I would have heard something that sounded like a hippogriff or a griffin, "How many of you are here?" I asked.

"Just me." It said, "Redworm, I think your name is, you killed your master and have been out here ever since. Even managed to kill the blood elves that were hunting you."

"They reek of rotten fruit makeup and bad hair product! I can smell them a mile away! How are you moving around like that? " I continued to feel out the area.

"You mean flying? I have wings." It said.

"Have Draenei learn to sprout wings?" I asked.

"Do I sound like a Draenei to you?" He asked.

"You move like one! The hoofs."

The voice had a sigh of realization. "Oh right, no. I'm Kaldorei, but I've gone through some changes over the past year or so. Long story really."

"How do you know who I am?" I retort, standing to my feet as I heard the figure stomp down on the ground.

"Kael'thas told me about you. At first they sent hunters to try to retrieve you, then more elves to kill you and all that Kael'thas hunters have given him was excuses and corpses."

"So now they send some kind of fel magic, elven abomination, with wings to finish the job? Because I wouldn't hear or smell them coming?" I heard I sign of shock come from him, "I've killed birds before, " I continued "and the only reason we're talking is because I've never felt anything like you before and now I'm being hunted by Kael'thas's special flying night elf soldiers." I flapped my arms. "So I guess I'm going to have to kill you, keep an ear out for the sky, and find a way out of here."

I heard the figure bust out in laugher, "What's so funny?" I asked.

"You think… " He couldn't control himself, "I mean I know you're blind but…"

I swung my axe over his head and he caught my arm with his hand, I dropped it hoping the blade would cut something, but it fell on horns? I used my other axe to come low aiming for the kneecap he caught that one too. I pushed him back and put both of my hands in front him, "You are not prepared." He said.

I jumped up and pushed with both of my feet knocking myself backwards, he was stronger and faster, and he could fly. If he used any fel magic I might be able to dodge it, but I needed him to get close, I got into a back stance with the back of my hands facing him.

"I didn't come here to fight you Redworm." He walked toward me. I was focused, and I didn't believe him. I stood there with my hands out and I heard him stop, "You don't believe me. Fine, stay here a die for all I care, sooner or later the fel orcs will send a hunting party that even you can't hide from."

"I'll get out of here before they do." I protested.

"Then why were you crawling for so long?" He asked.

"I do that so people think I'm weak. If they see me they think I need help or I'm an easy target but I'm nether." I explained.

"No, you've been crawling for hours now, almost half the day. A hunter would at least be standing once or twice if they were hunting, but I think your lost."

"I'm not lost!"

"Then where are you?!"

I tear fell down my eye, "I'm not in a cage, I'm not being beaten, or raped, or tortured, or drilled or dieted or treated like cattle and I'm not somewhere my master needs me to be. I'm free." My voice was distorded by tears.

I heard him let him out a sigh, "10,000 years and I never knew what it was like to be a slave."

"10,000 how old are you?"

"11,300 give or take how old are you?"

"Sixteen." I answered.

"You managed to free yourself from imprisonment in that short amount of time, I wish I was resourceful as you when I was your age." His voice was sympathetic.

"Well there was a fight I remember and I escaped once I got here, I just didn't want to be a slave again so I killed them…"

"So that how you got good at it? At killing" He asked.

"No, I've always been killing since I was a child. My master took my eyes because I didn't kill someone that was my age, another kid, after that I couldn't see my targets, if they were young or old, at first it was hard but then it got easier than it was before."

"If I told you things are going to get better, if life wasn't just about pain and suffering, would you believe me?" He asked.

"No." I shook my head.

"Good, because it's not going to get better, but you don't have face these problems alone and I hope you believe me when I say, that I would never make you a slave again, because I need people to help me face this pain and suffering."

"Does that make it hurt less?" I asked

"It does."

"What's your name?" I asked

"It's Illidan, Illidan Stormrage." I heard him get closer, clear his throat, and pause, "Oh right." He realizes that I was blind. He grabbed my hand with his and shook it, "It's nice to meet you Redworm."

A dream, a good dream, the day I met Illidan.

"Odd place to be doing your morning Yoga, Illi-Danny. " Redworm teased.

Illidan had awoken from his jouney from the cosmos, he had found a place to attack, but Redworm, the thorn in his side had found him. The exciled demon hunter had found him when has was most vulnerable, but he didn't attack him, "How long have I been sitting here?" He asked.

Redworm crossed his arms defensively and looked away. "A while, I got hungry, so I killed a clefthoof while waiting for you to wake up."

It must have been a while, long enough for Redworm to track Illidan, fight through borem and doubt that Illidan might wake up before he got back. Hunt, make camp, cook, and eventual eat most of one of these beast. "So a day?" Illidan asked.

"And night it's still early in the morning and those people are after you." Redworm stated.

"Maiev Shadowsong and her Watchers," Illidan remembered, "well I have plans for her, but this would have been the perfect moment for her to strike me down. I appreciate you guarding me in this time of weakness."

Redworm nodded. Illidan smiled, got up, and he reached for Redworms shoulder as he was allowed to indulge in a friendly gesture to someone he thought he would never see again, since there was no one else there, but Redworm pulled away and pushed him back.

That supprised Illidan, if Redworm still considered him an enemy he had every opportunity to strike him down. In that moment Redworm kicked Illidan in the chest with both of his feet and knocked him back. Redworm circled around him like as a smaller predator would take down a larger prey. "Fight me, Illidan Stormrage." Redworm drew both of his warglaives.

Illidan was in a state of anger and confusion, "I'm willing to forgive you for your past transgressions Redworm, but if you continue this line of action I will-" But was interrupted as Illidan was smacked across the face with the blunt part of Redworms warglaives.

Illidan bearly flinched, even though a drop of blood dripped slowly down his face, he scowled down at Redworm as they were both in arms reach. Redworm was just as unflinching looking up at his former master with the same hate and disgust he had for all of his slave masters. "Don't... Ever... Come... Back." Illidan growled trying to keep himself from ripping the blood elf's head off with his bare hands.

"Kill me, if you think you can." Redworm stated nodding his head. He hooked Illidan across the jaw using his warglaves as if they were oversized boxing gloves, punched to him stomach, followed up with a upper cut to his face, and lunged forward with a cross punch that was caught by Illidan's larger stronger hands. He held his fist and warglaves tightly twisting and contorting the muscles in his arms.

"I warned you- " and punched Redworm in his face knocking him back on the ground dropping his warglaives. "You were the best of us." Illidan spoke as he walked forward.

"I am the best." Redworm spit blood on the ground, "Period. Ha, period." He laughed to himself as he looked at his own blood on the ground.

Illidan shook his head, repressed a smile as he got the joke, grabbed Redworm's arm and lifted him on his feet. He heard a cracking noise like the sound of a hundred popping knuckles or breaking bones and saw that Redworm free arm was the size of tree trunk. "Let me show you." Redworm whispered.

Redworms let loose an uppercut to Illidan's gut that made him grunt and knocked him through the stone ceiling and landing on his shoulder on the roof. Redworm climbed out from the hole he made and was in full demon mode. He jumped several feet in the air and nearly stabbing Illidan with his forearm blades, before as Redworm could Illidan rolled out of the way. Redworm stood up and was now looking down a Illidan. "You better not disappoint me, Betrayer! Come on then." Redworms voice was deep and beastlike.

Illidan looked up at Redworm, he knew why he waited for so long, he summoned both of his warglaives and rushed toward the beast that had once been his friend.

Illidan would never let himself be bested in fair combat, he moved with technique as he spun with a back hand, a fury of fast stabs, back elbows, and shield strikes. Redworm stayed defensive being backed away several steps but ultimately striking down at Illidans forearm with his elbow and spun to back elbow him in his solar plexus making Illidan body go into contraction and then knocking him back with a side kick.

Illidan kipped up back to his feet and stabbed Redworm in the leg, then kicked him in the chest with his hoofed leg knocking him back and spun around kicking Redworm in the face.

They both rushed each other, each not wanting to give a inch, each putting there strong limbs forward. Time stood still for both of them as they made eye contact both realizing that they were at one point friends, now they weren't. They both limbs connected, Illidan warglaives and Redworms spiked fist made contact with each other jaw in a explosion of fel magic knocking them both backwards. Illidan landing on his hands and feet and Redworm against a wall.

Illidan walked forward warglaives in hand, the fel magic that came from both of them had partially set the building they were on on fire. Green flames loomed on the corner of each side of the building making no chances for escape. Illidan knew that he was never bested by anyone with warigliaces, but he had never seen really seen what Redworm could do unarmed. Even for as savage as Redworm bestial form was he didn't move with the brutal nature he had come to expect from from fel orcs. Illidan vaguely remembered his first fight with Arthas, "That won't happen again." he thought. If this fight took ten seconds or ten years he was going to finish it.

Redworm went to offensive fighting stance, Illidan flew up in the air and rushed Redworm with his wargliaves and it was blocked to the side bringing Illidan to the ground on his feet. Redworm kicked to his face, but Illidan ducked, Illidan swang toward Redworm's face with with the blunt part of his warglade. It was Redworm impulse to slip and his face was met with the sharpness of his blade but his elbow got caught with Illidan's blade. With Illidan other hand he sliced down a completely diagonal cut arcoss Redworm's midsection knocking him back. Illidan let out a fury of stabs that he knew were going to be blocked but continued. Redworm with both his hands grabbed one of Illidans arms attempted to trip him with his back leg. Anticipating, Illidan leaned his body sideways and kick him with both of his hoofed feet tripping Redworm making him land on his back. With a roar Illidan used that opportunity to jump up in the air stomp down with both of his hoofs.

Redworm rolled out of the way, while on the ground he kicked the side of Illidan's pelvic and followed up with another kick to Illidan's face knocking him back. With a beast like roar Redworm rushed Illidan with his spiked fist but was blocked and pushed away, with his other hand he pushed Illidan back and kicked toward his head. Illidan slipped forward and was back to back with Redworm, he let go of his warglaives reached behind himself and dug his sharp nails into Redworms neck and attempted to yank off his head. One pull, "He still to strong," Illidan thought to himself, so he settled for tossing him over his shoulder at the nearby wall. Redworm planted both his feet against the wall and pushed his pelvic into Illidans face, spun around his head, arched his back and catapulted Illidan to the bottom of the stadium. Dispite his wings he still fell two stories on his back but whatever it was something kept him going. Demon blood, elven adrenaline, he didn't care. Redworm followed, free falling arms open like Illidan's nearly lifeless body was going to break his fall. But he was up and he was charging fel magic to blast Redworm out of the sky. Redworm, realizing his fally reverted back into his elven form, but the speed was to great, he opened up his wings and the leathery demon skin came clean off. It slowed him down long enough to avoid Illidan fel blast but he still fell on the staduim floor breaking one of his legs. Redworm was a common blood elf now, he screamed has he held on to his broken leg.

Illidan laughed, "Even with all your power your nothing but a common mortal!" Illidan taunted.

Redworm breathed fast shallow breathes trying to will other transformation. This time it started from the feet up, Redworm stood up again. "Oh no you don't." Illidan said as he summoned his warglaives again, they appeared in his hands, but Redworm still rushed him even thought his transformation wasn't complete. Redworm with a strong jumping kick swinged toward Illidan's face, he step backed, Redworm with his other leg he spun to nail him with his heel, Illidan stepped back again. Same kick as before, Illidan lifted up his warglaives so the ends would end up going into his leg. Redworm screamed and attempted to put a fury of punches that were parryed with Illidans warglaices, each atttack in his elven form spilled red blood on Illidan's face and body. Illidan half thought that he maybe trying to drown him in his own blood. Illidan kicked him in the abdominal, came down with a axe kick, but was dodged. Illidan concentrated fel energy into his hoofs and kicked across, but Redworm ducked under it but was burned with fel magic. Illidan jumped up spun around with a flying kick it was blocked but the fel magic was taking effect and landed a good side kick to Redworms abdominal knocking him back a few yards. Illidan concentrated his fel magic again, just like when he attempted to blast him out of the sky.

Redworms eyes went wide, he dug his claws into the concrete floor and broke off a piece and threw it into Illidan's blast. Illidan jump over it and kicked Redworm in his defensve hands. Redworms transformation was complete again, but this time Illidan knew it's limits. Redworm started his fury of punches again but Illidan concentrated fel magic in his legs again. Redworm landed a few roundhouse kicks to Illidans face but it was weaker this time and Illidan still had so much power. His legs and hoofs were winning this fight, fel magic weaken Redworms bestiral form more then physical attacks. Illidan tossed both of his warglives into the air, Redworm looked up and Illidan concentrated fel into both of his fist, striking both Redworm's face and chest. Both of Illidan's warglaives landed into the ground standing upright, Redworm was knocked back and reverted back into a elf again. Illidan rushed Redworm putting his palm into his face, "I'm taking it back!" Illidan said as he drained Redworm's fel magic the same way he absorbed the power from the Skull of Gul'dan. Whatever power Redworm had he was going to take, it was power had nearly rivaled his own, and whatever he learned, it would help the rest of his illidari army. "Redworm served a good purpose for my ambition." he thought.

Until there was no traces of fel magic left he let him go. "I have spared your life but not as a act of mercy. You are nothing but a blind slave now. I will get one of the Broken to pick you up, good bye."

Illidan turned his back on him and he began to flap his wing and go airborne. "No!" Redworm screamed grabbed one of the warigliaces that was sticking out the ground and threw it at one of Illidans wings tearing through the leathery skin temporarily making it useless. Illidan fell only a few feet looked at Redworm and back at his wing he was in that stance he was in when he first met him. Both hands outward open palms facing his own face. Illidan remembered when he was powerless on all fours crawling on the ground.

"You are powerless, weak, Redworm, are you really this desperate to die?" He slamed the bottom of his fist into his palm.

Redworm didn't respond just held out his hands outword palms facing himself.

Illidan looked at his torn wing, it would take some time for it to heal, longer for him to use it to keep himself airborne, "If guess I do owe you this act of mercy, very well."

Illidan summoned his warglaives jumped up and rushed toward him. Redworm caught his striking hand with both of his hands pushing him off balance. Before he lost balanace Illidan kicked him with his back leg and it was blocked. Redworm threw a hook kick to Illidans head but he ducked under it. Redworm bent down and grabbing Illidans arms stay out of his striking way and Redworm striked with suprising amount of force with his palm to Illidan's ribs. Illidan spun around to strike but before you could build any force, Redworm had both of his hands of his striking arm staying out of the way of his other blade. Illidan push him away with his whole body and move his blade forward. Redworm lightly slapped them down getting out of the way of his cutting zone. Illidan furied with his blade moving forward Redworm quickly ducked under grabbing his wrist with one hand and elbowed him on the side of his ribs making him grunt and fall back. Still holding on to his fully extended arm, he striked the base of Illidan's elbow making him scream out in pain knocking one of the Warglaives in the air. Illidan's other hand he attempted a back hand strike Redworm but he duck underneath it, but Redworm broke his pace of attack by kicked Illidan in the chest knocking him back a few yards.

Illidan looked up and saw his falling Warglave, and saw Redworm snatch it out of the air. He smashed it into the ground letting out all the fel magic it was holding. leting green dust particles going in every direction. Redworm breathed it in deeply. "No. This is better." Redworm wispered to himself.

Rage overcame Illidan Stromrage, he rushed Redworm with all the fel magic he could muster, each blast from his hand and made a blast of burning fel energy go through the air, but that's all it hit. Just like before Redworm dodged and grabbed one Illidan arms with both hands tossing him over his shoulder and knee him on the top of his head while he was down. There went the other Warigliace, Illidan looked and it disperately as it bounce off the ground into the air and was caught by Redworm. Illidan called on his Warigliaces to come back to him but they didn't respond. Illidan got up and let out a fury of kicks thinking that Redworm wouldn't be able to catch them the way he had been doing with his arms, but he did. He lifted one of Illidan's legs slightly up throwing Illidan off balance and let a fury blazing fast stabs to Illidan abdomen and one hard one to his face. Redworm had Illidan's back against the wall, he held up his hand in defense, only to have his fel magic be drained out with his own blades, growing weaker with every strike. Redworm readied a final strike that could cut off his head but Illidan ducked under it.

Illidan was weak, as weak as he was before he took the Skull of Gul'Dan, he looked around as the green particles that contained the source of his power was taken away. He felt for his horns, wings, and hoofs. They were all gone, he was temporarily a night elf again. He could get his power back, but not without his blades, and not with this blind monster taking everything he worked for. He stood still, he didn't breathe, he didn't move, he would move silently so maybe Redworm couldn't find him. Redworm smiled, he rushed toward Illidan with his own warigliaces knocking him into a wall.

Redworm put Illidan's oversized warigliaces behind him, pulled something from his pocket and shot it into the air. It made a screeching noise and a exponsion of light.

In the distance Maiev Shadowsong and a group of her hunters made their way into the stadium. A large bird flew down next to Redworm, surrounded itself in black smoke, and transformed itself into the First Druid Malfurion Stormrage, "It nice to see you again Illidan, back to your normal self." He stated.

Illidan didn't say anything, he just looked around as Maiev and her group of Watcher surrounded him. "They are here in case you resist," Malfurion look around at the Watchers, "Come home, Illidan. There is more than enough evidence to clear your good name and the king of Stormwind is quite merciful."

Illidan looked away, there was cave that was clear but he didn't know where it lead. He backed away from him and a pool of red blood fell on the ground as he backed away, his back against the wall. He kicked one the Watchers to the side and ran toward the cave.

"Brother!" Malfurion stepped forward suddenly but was held back Maiev's arm.

"Let them work." she said.

Illidan ran with a swift speed he had missed for a while, he had normal feet. The area seemed to be clear, illuminated by purple sparkling lights and various torches and lamp post.

One of the Watchers blinked in front of him and sliced him across the mid-section knocking him backwards on the ground with his circle hooped blades. Another Watcher jumped up in the air and came down with her circle blade nearly stabbing Illidan in the back while was down, he rolled out of the way toward one of bowls of red fire and kicked it toward one of the Watchers. The Watcher sliced the bowl in half with precision bringing the blade downward. Illidan used that opportunity to punch the Watcher across the face with a right hook. Another Watcher came slicing downward toward Illidans arms. He backed away and let out a spinning hook kick that sent the Watcher spinning in the air.

A third Watcher came down with a flying kick, daggers in both hands, Illidan blocked his kick but was knocked back a few feet. Illidan block and parried the forearm areas of the dagger wielding Watcher, got close enough to put his hands around his head and twisted the skull off its spine. Illidan rushed the first Watcher pushing him back and backflip kicked him under the chin and plating both his feet into the second Watcher chest dropping him on his back. Illidan, lifted up one leg and crunched down on the Watchers skull and helmet as he would a large bug.

Four more Watchers ran into the cave each one ready to slice Illidan in half. Illidan back handspring away to avoid there strikes and using his momentum to back flip onto a ledge. But his eye sight wasn't clear. In midair one of the Watchers sliced him cross the chest and forehead and kick him into the ground before he could.

Illidan laid on the ground and two more Watchers blinked into the cave. Now Maiev Shadowsong was in the cave, in a higher area, arm crossed taking pleasure as her pack cornered their prey. Four archers blinked into both sides of Maiev.

Illidan got up, kicked one the attacking Watchers to push himself backwards, grabbed of the one white lamppost from it stone hinges, taking a piece of concrete with it, knock back another Watcher putting the heavy put end in his face. The lamp let out an electric buzz as Illidan held it like a quarterstaff. Illidan spun around the lamppost knocking the concrete into three of the Watchers. Planting down the lamppost, Illidan stood on it and hook kicked one the Watchers in the face, that was coming at his back. A second one came down with his circular blade, but Illidan blocked it with his heavy staff and used the concrete to trip the Watchers feet from under him, bring it back into another Watcher knee cap hearing it break as if made contact. Illidan stood on the concrete end, hook kicked the already injured Watch in the face. Using his momentum, he pulled the heavy polearm on his shoulder, knocking back more Watchers as he spun the pole around his neck, and finally smashing it down onto another Watcher's collar bone. With force Illidan swang the heavy end freeing the concrete from the pole and catapulting it into Maiev Shadowsong. She moved to the side, surprised and mesmerized at Illidan's technique and ferocity, but he still looked like a cornered dog.

The pole arm was lighter now, Illidan used it to block an incoming attack from a Watcher attacking with daggers. He hit the watcher in the leg, face, shoulder, extended out the pole into the Watchers chest, and finally hitting him in the face again. Illidan regretted that polearms were a weapon of pacifist it did not kill the Watcher he just attacked, but he still flurried with it like he had been using them for millenniums. Using momentum from the flurry he knocked one of the Watchers in the head and blocked a circular blade to his back. He strikes the backstabbing Watcher in the leg knocking him on the floor and strike the other Watcher in across face.

A third watcher came down with a circular blade, but Illidan blocked it with the center of his polearm and strike the Watcher in his back and followed to a strike to his face swinging it from the other side.

Illidan furried, smacked another Watcher in his head and holding the pole behind his back. The backstabber got up quietly, but Illidan jumped and brought down the pole with as much force as he could down on the Watcher's head insuring the kill.

Another four from all corners. One sliced at Illidan's leg but he rolled out the way. Illidan flurried downward with the polearm the Watcher that tried to cut his leg, knocking his circular blade out of his hand and throwing it into one of the four Watchers cutting him nearly in two, but using what motion that was left to land a shot to on another Watcher's face.

One of the Watcher was armed and sliced down with his blade but Illidan turned his back on him by putting the pole behind himself and blocking the attacking one and came down with full force to the unarmed watcher's head.

Two new Watchers joined the fray, one was slicing with the same overhead strike most of the Watchers started with. With one end, he tripped the last Watcher that was part of the original four, with his polearm and with one of the two new ones, he kicked the circular blade out the Watchers hand upwards. While the blade was in midair he knocked with his polearm into the circular blade and sent it into the chest of another Watcher. Finally pushing and extending the polearm into the last Watchers chest. His pole arm wasn't incredibly lethal, but the Watchers circular blades were.

Another five, showed up. "How many did Maiev have?" Illidan thought. "If she had an army this big with so many well trained soldiers I would have noticed." But then he remembered, he was in a mortal form. "The Watcher's she commanded must have come from the prison, it was probably the first time any of them saw combat." but he didn't relish the thought, he was still grossly outnumbered.

One of the Watcher's came in with an upward strike, it was a change of tactic, but it was blocked, but it actually sliced his polearm in half. The watcher backflip kicked Illidan in the chin knocking him backwards on the ground. One of the other Watcher jumped up in the air hoping to stab him in the ground with daggers. He rolled out of the way holding to his broken polearm. "No, not polearm." He thought. "Fighting sticks."

Illidan thought back and remembered the sparring sessions with his brother deep in the woods. They were one of the first weapons he learned how to use.

Mid thought, a Watcher sliced him in the back with one there circular blade pushing him into another Watcher. Illidan hit him three times onto the floor. He brandished his new improvised weapons in front of Maiev Shadowsong looking up at her. "Fire." Maiev ordered.

Six archers let loose a volley of arrows, Illidan stepped forward and parried them as he would with his Warglaives, but they weren't his warglaives, they were sticks, and he back handspring backwards in until he hit a wall. Five arrows went into his body missing vital organs, but protruded out of him letting more of his blood on the ground.

The pain was finally setting in to this mortal body. His lungs burned, his muscles ached, and the blood loss was making him feel dizzy. A memory, a life, before the Maelstrom, the first invasion of the Legion. He told his brother he was siding with the Legion, but he should remand on the side of Azeroth. His eye were still gold at that time. "Do you want us to be on opposing battlefields for all eternity?! It doesn't make sense. Why brother?" Malfurion asked.

"You are just going to have to trust me brother. Hate me if you wish, but this is the path I've choosen." Illidan he remembered. He remembered Malfurion holding out his hand for a brief second like if there was some way he could force him to stay. Illidan looked back at him "Trust me." Illidan said to him.

Illidan remembered that, there was still so much that needed to be done and he was so close to reaching his goal, he couldn't die here.

He rushed forward and slamming a fighting stick straight into a Watchers helmet and eye. Climbed up the ledge where Maiev was, lifted up one the archers over his head and threw him down the ledge. Kicking another Watcher in the face and Illidan slamed his fist into Maiev face. It was defected with magic and he was thrown off the ledge and slammed into the back wall.

More Watchers came, but with killing intent he let loose a strong punch to one there faces, and an elbow and side kicked the predictable back stabber. A Watcher used an upper ward strike with a circular blade and Illidan dodged and grabbed the weapon from his hand and elbowed the Watcher in the face.

One of the Watcher's furried with his circular blade, but Illidan had one too. Illidan blocked three of his attacks and slammed the bladed side into his leg cutting it off.

Another two daggers wielding Watchers came to the front and back of Illidan, he lunged forward with the circular blade, and kicked the another at his back leg, but then followed through to cutting head off the Watcher that was behind him.

The Watcher that lunged first at Illidan had a hidden dagger and stabbed it into Illidan's arm. With Illidan's other arm he sliced the Watcher that stabbed him completely across from collar bone to pelvis, but he still had a dagger in his arm and he couldn't just fight through that pain as he tried to use his stabbed arm. Illidan grunted as he pulled it out, one bloody dagger in one hand, and a circular blade in the other.

Mercilessly Illidan sliced through a team of five of them, the archers jumped off the ledge as they came down with circular blades at the ready, slicing at Illidan's head. Illidan jump out of the way onto the wall Maiev was standing above, kicked onto a Watcher chest and slice his throat with his dagger as Illidan used his body for leverage. Jumping off his victim Illidan spun around, came down, and sliced the other Watcher clear down the center in half. Illidan ran up the side of the wall onto the ledge Maiev was on, he jumped off it to kick her, but she blinked backwards out of the way. Illidan didn't let up, he continued to slice at her with her own weapons, but she blinked behind him out the way of every strike.

In her place two Watchers, Illidan stab one in the chest with a dagger and cut off his head with the circular blade. Two Watcher climbed onto the Ledge with chains, they tossed them at Illidan's at forearms wrapping round him, another around his neck. He grunted as he tried to pull away toward Maiev, but they pulled Illidan to the floor with their chains. He tried to stab one of them, but he was pulled away by the chains.

Illidan dropped both of his blades, grabbed one of the chain with both hands and pulled one the Watcher toward him. Then pulled in the opposite direction again, slamming him onto the floor going the other way. New chains were wrapped around his foot and his other arm by two more Watchers. Dragging all the Watchers behind him Illidan rushed toward Maiev, she casually walked past him clopping him in the back of the head rendering him unconscious. Maiev walked over Illidan for a few seconds, what for her was a hour pure bliss, picked him up and lifted him in the air, "We have the Betrayer!" She shouted.

The Watcher's that were left just looked at her, dissatisfied with the capture, they were in fact, from the prisons, and only heard stories of who Maiev Shadowsong was. More importantly how high the dead pool of her soldiers was. Now it was flooded. The Watchers cared for injured and the dead, but there was no cheering that Maiev would have come expect from her own team.

"Just go. We would have lost a lot less people if you would have joined the fight sooner." One of them said.

"Fine but know that you will rewarded and remembered for all time." Maiev said overjoyed. The Watcher pointed toward the outside of the cave, she carried her prize outside, and let the prison Watchers clean up the mess.

Redworm eyes went wide as he saw that a third of Illidan's body was covered in red blood and took him away from her. He held Illidan face close to his, "He's not breathing." Redworm was in a panic, "Malfurion he's not breathing!"

He laid Illidan body down next Malfurion. Malfurion kneeled, looked at his little brother's corpse, placing his hand under his head, "You said you were going to arrest him, not kill him!" Malfurion shouted, tears distorting his voice.

"He was alive, for a time." Maiev said with a glimmer of satisfaction.

Redworm was pressing into Illidan chest, but Malfurion push him away. "Redworm stop, I'll handle this. Just make sure she doesn't come anywhere near my brother." He asked.

Redworm stood up and walked toward Maiev, "Wait, this was your idea in the first place." Maiev pleaded, "If it wasn't for you-"

Redworm smashed an oversized spiked fist across Maiev jaw knocking her out cold.

Malfurion breathed out a yellow light into Illidan mouth and Illidan coughed, Malfurion healing spells closed his wounds and mended his bones, but Illidan's breathing with quick and shallow, "He's breathing. Come on Illidan were going home." Malfurion picked up Illidan.

Redworm grab onto Malfurion shoulder, "Where are you going to take him?"

"To Moonglade, it's free of Azerothian politics, at least until he recovers." Malfurion answered with optimism.

"Brother... You... Have to trust me." Illidan whispered.

Redworm shook his head, "He's lost to much blood, he'll go into shock, and then he'll die. You need to take him back to the Black Temple and give him the Skull of Gul'Dan, that's how he'll recover."

"He'll transform back into a demon again, why would you even suggest that?!" Malfurion shouted.

"I would take him there myself but..." Redworm thought back, "Malfurion it will take hours for A'dal to open a portal to Moonglade, we don't have that kind of time. When you get to the Dark Temple look for a Broken named Akama he'll know what to do." He explained.

Tears were falling in Malfurion's eyes as he cradled Illidan as if he were a newborn, "Is there really no other way?" He asked.

"Even if you could get him Moonglade there no guarantee he'll make a full recovery. Azeroth needs the Lord of Outland, I trust that now. You need to trust him too." Redworm explained.

Malfurion looked into Redworm face and back into his brother's, he nodded his head, and in an explosion of black smoke Malfurion transformed into and great bird of prey, holding Illidan in his talons, and flew away.