Azeroth - Deepholm.
The portal takes her to the middle pillar of the realm. It looks the same. But it blew Aelkara's mind, the land's rocks kept molding together and breaking apart. Magical based stone creatures and dwarves everywhere. Deathwing's corpse was seen from the north. This center location was a hub for portals that linked to the surface, but only appears at the end of a month.
"How are you even here?" A Shaman spoke to her as she warped in.
"By those portals, and where's Deathwing's corpse?" She then replied and asks about Deathwing.
"North of here. Beware of his blood, it says that it attacks anyone that gets near." That's all he says, then Aelkara leaves the tower. Outside of Deepholm was different, it was an entire world, there was plateaus everywhere. All looking different than the last.
"What are you guys doing?" She asks a set of adventurers waiting outside the wall.
"The village north of here asked us to dispose of Deathwing's corpse. You're going there?" The leader replied.
"Yep." She agrees, then moves out with the group.
At the giant crash site of Deathwing's dead body. Still resonating power within the area. But hold on, how did Deathwing end up in Azeroth, while the corpse was down in Deepholm. Either Deathwing was cloned, or it was the shell of his essence that escaped and was re-created later on. But the energy of the Dragon Soul shouldn't allow this to happen.
So the plot was to gather the essence of his original power, where he served alongside his brothers and sisters in the Dragon Flight. Then she would bring it back to the temple to purify it, then absorb it once more to become the Aspect of Earth. She may have the power that is enough to defeat her enemies.
A disturbed spirit of Neltharion's original personality came out, disrupting the earth around the village and killing the boiling blood creations. When Aelkara arrived to face him, he was silent. His original personality was there, but confused. How it was so possible for him to know his past when it was long gone from eons ago. He'd wondered how his body looked like this, even ended up dead.
As he disappeared, she went close and knew the method of absorbing the power. However, the essence caused the power suit to malfunction due to the tremendous levels of corruption within. Cortana decided that it was safe to shut the suit off to prevent permanent damage, but it puts the user into a coma for safe measure.
Back at the temple, no one could had figured out how to purge the corruption. Cortana was trying to keep it back, but things ended up worse. In the last few moments, it was clear that McKnight won't survive, but only by Neltharion's random intervention. She was able to wake up and cure the corruption that lies within, but retained the energy.
Unfortunately. The Mjolnir-type suit was destroyed in the process, but she survives.
"So, the ones in the Sunless Worlds had to send you to absorb my corpse. I know that Yogg-Saron corrupted my mentality, but how did I end up here?" He speaks, still confused as ever.
"Long story. I was really sent to become an Aspect of the Earth, to kill one of the only beings that can't be killed." Aelkara reminded him. "All of the people on Azeroth had to kill you that time, you were about to destroy this entire planet."
"As far as my understanding of these events go, I'm just stuck under confusion. But I understand that I've lost my own title, and you're taking my place."
"That's all that I know." As she spoke, a shaman walks in with something to say about the Sunless Knights.
"One of those Knights spoke to me, we were trying to know the Dragon Aspects were trying to appoint you as an Aspect. They said that they were contacted by Prime, and even the Titans knew that they were endangered by the Old Gods. So far in the last few hundred years, this place has been not the same without an proper Earthern Aspect. So you must embrace this, to restore stability within this shattered order." He brings Aelkara back in the central chamber. Neltharion followed her also.
When they entered the chamber. All of the four Dragon Aspects and a Titan was here to appoint her. "This is an Titan?" She looks at the golden-looking figure. Giant and fearsome.
"Of course. You must be Aelkara McKnight. The only one that can slay the immortals." The Titan knew her, before she was even born. He referred the Hamasaki bloodlines as an immortal family.
"The one and only." She only said those same words, it's hard to believe that she was from an ODST soldier, to an Dragon Aspect herself. "How long will that title last?" Aelkara had wondered how long that the power will last.
"It's nearly forever. I would say for eons, but you shall see countless of your descendants that will have power just like you." The being had spoken that she may live for nearly an eternity, but she may see her children. It may be a boring life ahead of her, but she may save the entire universe and be the first human to survive the great, mythical powers of this planet.
"No choice, but I have to do this." Aelkara spoke, and agrees nervously.
Aelkara was soon transported up at the forge, where the Dragon Aspects had stood at the four colored pillars that represented their powers. The fifth was for the new Aspect of Earth. She had arrived here, and it was time to become the power to reunite the elements of Azeroth after all of these years.
People had gathered around the seats that surrounded the room. Behind her is the forge, the same power from the Earthern Realm that flows in the air. It fell into the magma, then the Aspects mended it around her. It didn't harm her, but the energy had created some sort of tattoo on the two sides of her eyes, or a mark of an Dragon. It glowed orange with the flame around her. Her clothes changed into armor, yellow and blue metal surrounding her with runes and flames flowing out of the shoulder pads, there was red cloak that had embers and ash flowing outwards. Her old axe was replaced with a new one, fashioned from sharp stone, metal and magma, along with a new shield of the same brand. Neltharion had to be sacrificed to form a new, pure Aspect of the Earth.
The barrier clears off. She was a new person, and her form as a Dragon was a dark stone skin with red-colored curved runes all over her body. But her main body was slightly altered, she had a wolf tail, thanks to the radiation from Deathwing's corpse. She was now a worgen because of it. But she didn't worry that issue. She was now title as the Warden Of The Earthern Ring.
"Huh? A wolf tail? Doesn't matter to me." Aelkara spoke, huffing out steam out of her nose.
"How are you feeling the effects?" Ysera asked eagerly.
"Nothing negative, but it feels like I'm in a desert. Sweating like hell." She replied, feeling dizzy and heated.
"You will get used to it, but now. What is your plan?" Ysera had asked her again, with every powerful being now under danger from that family. Aelkara's move could define survival and extinction of all sentient life forms. McKnight had sense great danger back into the catacombs of the Draenei city that Infinity's fleet had engaged.
"Let's see what I can do." She knew how to get to them, even with her powers. Saving Master Chief was one of her plans.
Eastern Kingdoms - Draenei Catacombs.
The UNSC were beating the L'Karian soldiers by every advantage they had, but Blue Team and Osiris had been noticing a super-weapon hidden in the catacombs. Once they had found it, they had tried to open it but nothing worked.
"Let's see what lies inside." Said Locke as he found a password, and opened a giant dome. When they did, tentacles slipped out and it was so clear, Yogg-Saron was there. He was reforged by the family and several traitors of the Titans. He looked the same as before
"I can't count how much mouths that thing have, wait a minute... Am I holding a hot dog right now?" Buck had already felt hallucinations from him. Chief wasn't affected yet. Everyone else felt the effects. But they should get out before those same hallucinations turn into violent insanity outbursts.
"It doesn't matter, engage the target!" Chief immediately fired at him, but of course. Conventional weapons can deal nearly no damage to him.
"Wait. I'm a mermaid?" Tanaka spoke, everything in her vision was underwater.
"What? Did Infinity reverse my visor?" Vale's visor was upside down, and when she walks forward, she walks backwards.
When things didn't get weird. Aelkara bursts through the ground and slams Yogg-Saron's head with the shield. It stuns and cures the delusions of Osiris and Blue Team. She wards off several tentacles with her axe, which as a whip function for it's blades. Yogg-Saron's power was too weak to fight her off or use any psychological power against her. The Spartans had aided her, but she didn't need any of it. But Tiaria had to make a scene.
"You again? I killed you, can't you just stay dead?" She was still pissed that this same 'Daughter of Light' was alive, plus annoying as well.
"My dreams may never let me die, so you should know that already." Tiaria replied.
"We all know that, but this axe cuts through that armor, and bullshit." Aelkara was going straight to the point, she needs to die, but after that first axe swing, she was like a ghost. In real terms, she was a hologram. So is Yogg-Saron. Both of them had vanished in sight. This place was a test site, and the UNSC doesn't want to know what happens down there.
The Spartans had both returned with McKnight, they had also found Maria. Halsey was gathering evidence on that place when she saw Aelkara.
"W-What's this?" Halsey saw her, now with her armor with the flames of the deep, the mark of an Earthern Aspect, the wolf tail and the smouldering red cloak.
"I've went to the signal, and it turns out to be actually one of the Sunless Knights, the people that can stop the Hamasaki family, to increase my power, those four Dragon Aspects and a Titan had to appoint me as the Aspect of Earth. Neltharion was the first, but the Old Gods messed him up and I got this position. I should take you to the Sunless Knights. They should explain." She had told her about the journey in the last few hours.
"What happened to the augmentations? Are they..." Halsey wasn't worried, but confused in a calm way.
"I was corrupted on the way. They forced me to remove those things, but it's better than those things anyways." She replied happily. But felt dizzy.
"You're feeling sick?" Halsey helped her up.
"No. It's just the power I've received. I should be fine after some time." She had to remind her that she was in control. She laid down on a bed nearby and slept for now. Halsey hasn't really trusted the powers given onto her, but soon she may know the extent of the dangers given to all sentient life forms.