Chapter Thirty-five

A few days later

Sylvanas was sitting in a small pavilion, which was located in the left half of the massive Demacian garden. She had crossed her left leg over her other leg and had crossed her arms in front of her chest while she was staring in the air. Thousands of thoughts rushed through her mind and she felt various emotions at the same time. She was angry, furious and sad. She felt rage, hatred and had aggressions.

She was angry and furious because she lost Azeroth and her people, the Forsaken and the citizens of Horde who didn't fight in the war. She was sad about the loss of Arator and that Vereesa was captured by Noxus. She hated Noxus and its leader Swain. Because of Swain and his allies, Sylvanas had lost almost everything she had cared about. She still had Elise and the remains of her family but because of Swain the people, who had to stay on Azeroth, were suffering under the Wrath of the Darkin. Swain didn't summon Aatrox but years ago he had entered an alliance with the ones who were responsible for the faith of Azeroth.

Sylvanas was angry at herself that she hadn't been able to defend Azeroth and save her people. She was angry that so many people had died trying to defend Azeroth and Runeterra and in the end they died for nothing because Azeroth was lost. Lost to an overpowered creature, who took out his wrath on the wrong people. The people of Azeroth weren't responsible for the almost entire annihilation of the Darkin race.

Sylvanas was pretty sure that Aatrox was slaughtering the inhabitants of Azeroth in this exact moment. Sylvanas was not angry at the people from Runeterra, they were responsible for the almost entire annihilation of the Darkin but they only did it to defend their world. Sylvanas was angry and furious at the Monarch of the Darkness but all of their leaders died so Swain was the only one she could be mad on.

She thought of punishing the imprisoned enemy commanders came in her mind but she quickly decided that this was not the right solutions. Vladimir, Draven and Lana'thel had supported the Monarch and were responsible for the deaths of thousands of soldiers and innocent inhabitants of Azeroth and Runeterra but it was not the right way to torture and punish them. They will get their just punishment after the end of the war and the remaining leaders of the defending force of Azeroth and Runeterra will decide what will happen to them.

Sylvanas kept staring in the air. She noticed that Lor'themar was coming closer towards her. The male blood elf looked around and observed the beautiful surroundings with his healthy eye. Around the pavilions were strings filled with flowers of different size, form and colour. Lor'themar spotted not a single guard who stood in the near of the Warchief.

"Is everything alright Sylvanas? The other leaders are worried about you" Lor'themar said with a calm voice and looked at the Warchief whose back was turned towards him.

"Do I look that everything is alright?" Sylvanas snarled.

"I don't know. You have turned your back towards me. I can't see your face" the leader of the blood elves responded polite.

"Believe me that I'm not fine. We lost Azeroth that's all I need to say. I was not strong enough to protect it and its inhabitants. It's my fault" Sylvanas responded embittered.

"Yes it's your fault" Lor'themar responded coldly. Sylvanas turned around and looked at him, surprised by his harsh respond. "It's your fault and the fault of the other leaders that so many of my people died. This wouldn't have happened if you would have surrender to the Monarchs but you insisted on fighting for your home and doomed the life of millions with your choice" Lor'themar continued talking with an angry and aggressive voice. Sylvanas was heavily surprised by the sudden outburst of one of her best friends. She had never seen him so angry, especially not so angry at her.

"You are an abomination Sylvanas and you need to be cleansed from the universe. Nobody is safe while you are alive" Lor'themar hissed let his massive sword appear out of nowhere. He gave Sylvanas no time to think about what was going to happen as he charged at her.

Sylvanas dodged the first and the second strike and blocked the third with her two blades. "What is wrong with you Lor'themar?…You are not yourself" Sylvanas hissed and jumped backward, drawing her bow and shooting an arrow aimed at his left upper thigh. The Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas dodged the arrow in the last moment and started to create a powerful black sphere between his fingers. Sylvanas' eyes widened as she noticed whose technique that was. She had a suspicion what was going on but she was not one hundred percent sure.

She pulled and arrow out of her quiver, which purpose was to weaken its target and hinder their use of magic. The arrow hit the male blood elf in the left upper arm. The sphere between his fingers disappeared immediately and his appearance started to change.

"I knew it" Sylvanas hissed and drew her bow again, aiming at the person who had taken the appearance of Lor'themar.

"This is my last warning Windrunner. Take your soldiers and leave this planet. Runeterra belongs to Noxus, not to you and the inhabitants from Azeroth" the Le Blanc clone hissed, she looked at the Warchief who had drawn another arrow and aimed at her head.

"Give me my sister back and then we can talk about the conditions of your surrender"

Le Blanc started to laugh but her laugher stopped as soon as she noticed that this was not meant to be a joke "Oh you mean it serious?" Le Blanc asked with raised eyebrows.

"I have no time for games or bad jokes. You lost almost all of your warriors and we have enough soldiers left to overrun your capital city, better known as the Immortal Bastion" Sylvanas responded.

The clones' lips formed to an evilly smile. "I will kill your little sister if you dare to attack Noxus. I guess we should talk about your surrender conditions. I will spare your sister, your family and even your traitorous girlfriend" Le Blanc said and kept looking at the undead elf.

"And the others?"

"You mean the other leaders? Don't worry, I will spare every beautiful woman and make sure that they will have a good life as a member of my harem. You will be a member too but you and the female members of your family will have a special position. You will be my favourite sex partners and my clones and I will have our fun with you, Alleria and Vereesa every day and every night" Le Blanc said with a wide grin on her face.

"You are crazy and a pervert"

"No I'm not. This is the only scenario in which you and your family will survive this war… There is no…" the clone said but her head exploded before she was able to complete the sentence because Sylvanas had hit her with an explosive arrow in the head. The Warchief observed the quick dissolution of the clone's body.

"Slavery and being a sex toy is not an option. The death of the over leaders is not an option too" Sylvanas said, predicting that Le Blanc had another spy in the near environment. "Don't you dare to touch my sister or I swear that you will regret it" Sylvanas said, she left the pavilion and followed the paved way out of the garden.

Sylvanas rushed through the long corridor in the Citadel of the Dawn, almost colliding with a patrol of five Demacian soldiers. The soldiers managed to step aside in the last moment and let her pass. They turned around and observed her in surprise. Sylvanas ignored them and kept running until she came to the end of the corridor. She came in a large meeting room. In the middle of the room was a large round table, on which was enough space for fifty people. The only person who was in the room, besides two guards, was King Jarvan who looked surprised at her.

"Lady Windrunner… It's nice to see you but the meeting only begins in three hours"

"Have you seen Lor'themar?" Sylvanas asked without greeting him back.

"No I haven't seen him. Did something happened or why do you seek him so urgent" Jarvan asked and stood up.

"I have the bad feeling that he is dead"

"Dead? Are you sure?" Jarvan asked worried and walked towards Sylvanas.

"One of Le Blanc's clones had copied the appearance of Lor'themar and attacked me. I managed to defeat it but we both know that Le Blanc only take the appearance of the ones she had kidnapped or killed" Sylvanas explained.

"Dammit that's not good. We need to look for him. Hopefully he is still here"

"I don't think that he is but we should look for him" Sylvanas responded and rushed out of the room. Jarvan gave the guards the order to inform other guards and then he followed Sylvanas. Together the informed guards, the service staff and the other leaders. They looked for Lor'themar for over two hours and even used magical abilities and visions to look for him but no one found him or had seen him.

Sylvanas had met with Elise, Alleria and Turalyon. Together they had looked in the near environment of Lor'themar's chamber. They had even looked inside his chamber but they had found not a single hint where he could be. Then they had met with the other ones who had been looking out for him but they hadn't been able to find him too.

The heroes from Azeroth and Runeterra came to the meeting room after almost another hour of search for Lor'themar Theron. They had sat on the chairs, in front of each present person stood a plate with food and a two glasses, one was filled with wine while the other was filled with water. The heroes were silent and just looked at each other, nobody seemed wanting to speak first.

Sylvanas sighed and broke the silence by saying "It seems that Lor'themar Theron was either captured or killed by Noxus. We don't know what happened to him but what we know is that Noxus doesn't sleep. Le Blanc had sent one of her clones to this place. This clone was disguised as Lor'themar and it had tried to kill me. Noxus keeps my sister Vereesa, Queen Ashe and King Tryndamere as hostages but we also have our hostages. We have to options. Options one is that we try to exchange the hostages and then we will attack Noxus and captivate Swain. Options Two would be that we attack Noxus, risking that they could kill the hostages or use them to get and advantage". Sylvanas looked around and noticed that the heroes started to discuss the options with the ones sitting next to them. It was very loud because all of them discussed and were talking all at once.

Sylvanas cleared her throat loud enough so that everyone stopped discussing. "It's nice that you all want to discuss the options but we won't come to a conclusion if we keep talking like this. I suggest that all of you could be silent for a few minutes and then we could vote if nobody wants to add another option. Tyrande lifted her left hand and Sylvanas gave her the permission to speak.

"I don't think that we have enough soldiers to attack Noxus. We only have a few thousands left and we don't have a single siege engine. Maybe we should try to make peace with Noxus. We don't know how many soldiers they have left but they have a massive fortress which would protect them." Tyrande sat down after she had spoken and looked at the other participants.

Katarina was the next who wanted to say something. She stood up after Sylvanas had nodded. "I'm pretty sure that Noxus doesn't have enough soldiers left. The fortress is their only advantages but fortunately I know an abandoned place which isn't guarded by soldiers. There are no magical spells which would protect the place. We could go there through a portal and invade Noxus without needing to siege it" Katarina said and looked at the heroes who had started to discuss this possibility, this time with lower voices. The heroes talked for almost half an hour before they went silent cause of Sylvanas cleared her throat again.

Sylvanas extended a large map, which showed the detailed contours, hidden places and important buildings of the Immortal Bastion, on the large table so that every participant was able to see it. Katarina stood up and walked around the table. She stopped after a few steps and pointed at a large abandoned pub in the near of the main gate then she said. "We could create portals here and sent a troop through them. The soldiers will walk to the gate and open it. Meanwhile the rest of our army will appeared through more portals in front of the gate. Our army will rush through the gate then we will conquer the capital city and captivate Le Blanc, Swain and every other Noxian commander" Katarina suggested and looked full of expectation at the other heroes.

"That's sounds like a pretty good plan" Anduin said and looked around, most of the participants nodded immediately, only a few of them were unsure. "Does somebody have to say something against it?" Anduin asked and was glad that nobody raised his or her hand. All participants shook their heads in response and Anduin sat down, his lips were formed to a small smile.

"Then I suggest that we will attack in a week so that we will have enough time to get prepared" Jarvan said.

"I think we all are agreeing with that" Sylvanas responded after she had observed the faces of the other heroes. "Don't forget that you can't tell anyone, who didn't come to this meeting, about our plan. We know that none of us is a disguised Le Blanc clone but we don't know about the soldiers and the officers. We should check them all before we attack Noxus". Everyone agreed with Sylvanas and the participants left the meeting room one by one until only Sylvanas, Elise, Alleria and Turalyon were alone in the room.

"I've a bad feeling about this" Alleria said and looked at her sister.

"I'm also not one hundred percent convinced by the plan. Don't get me wrong, the plan is good and it's the best one we have but Swain still could use Vereesa to get an advantage and blackmail us as soon as we reach him. We can't prevent that this could happen and that really frustrates me" Sylvanas said and stared at the table in front of her.

"I would advise Swain that he shouldn't harm our sister or he will witness our wrath" Alleria responded aggressively.

"Swain is an intelligent man. I think he knows that we would seriously hurt him if something would happen to our little moon. The question is does he respect us or does he underestimate us? If he doesn't take us seriously, the chance that he hurts Vereesa or already had hurt Vereesa is very high. I know him pretty well and normally he doesn't underestimate his enemies. I think he didn't harm Vereesa but I'm not sure because I don't know how the power, he had gotten from the Monarchs, had changed him" Elise said and placed her arms around the two elves, trying to calm them down as best as she could.

Sylvanas placed her left arm around Elise's waist and pulled her close, Alleria hugged her but not as tightly as her sister did.

"So that means we have to get prepared for the siege on the Immortal Bastion so that we can end this war, which already took too long and had cost the lives of countless innocents" Turalyon said.

"Don't forget that we have to retake the lost territories in Freljord, Ionia and Shurima. Not to mention the few Demacian villages which were plundered by Noxian soldiers" Alleria replied and looked at her lover, who was giving her a comforting smile.

"You are right my love. We should rest and help preparing the siege" Turalyon said and took the hand of his lover and guided her out of the room. They were followed by Elise and Sylvanas who had decided to go to their own room.

"I'm not pleased. We didn't lost but we also didn't win this battle. What is so difficult to win this stupid battle? We had more soldiers and the leaders of the Monarchs. We had fel bombs and siege engines. How did you manage to lose this battle?" Swain asked. He was in a very bad mood, he was angry, furious and unhappy about the battle's outcome.

"At least they lost the world they wanted to protect so badly. We could count that as a win" Le Blanc threw in.

"Our goal was to conquer Azeroth with all of its many sources of power…Our plan was not to unleash a powerful being, whose race had tried to conquer Runeterra in the past. Now it is destroying the world we wanted to conquer. " Swain hissed and shot angry and deadly glares at Darius and Le Blanc, who were his last remaining commanders.

"Now the survivors came to our world and I'm pretty sure that they want to attack this city" Swain continued.

"We have a lot of defensive engines and enough soldiers left to defend Noxus. You forgot that they didn't take their siege engines to Runeterra, and rebuilding them would take too long for them, especially because they don't have enough resources. Attacking us would be their death sentence" Le Blanc said and looked at Swain whose facial expression and mood didn't changed at all.

"Don't underestimate our enemies Emilia" Swain hissed.

"I don't underestimate them but we don't need to worry. There is no chance that they can take the Immortal Bastion with their resources"

"I hope you are right Le Blanc. Now go, both of you. I need some time to think about our current situation" Swain demanded and at looked Le Blanc and Darius full of expectation. The two commanders stood up and walked out of the room as fast as possible, not wanting that Swain got angrier than he already was.

A few days later

Sylvanas sat in the bathtub and stared at the wall in front of her while she was thinking of the approaching future events. She still couldn't believe that this is war was finally going to be over soon. She thought of her sister and how she could save her. She thought of how a hostage exchange or a deal with Swain would look like. Sylvanas wasn't sure if a deal would work out but she was sure that she would spare Swain as long as he spares Vereesa. She missed her little moon so much and she would never forgive herself if something would happen to her, especially because she hadn't been able to rescue her from Bolvar and his foes. Old memories of her spending time with her sister, when all of them were alive, came in Sylvanas' mind.

There had been one day were all three sister went in beautiful dresses to a party. They had gone on a birthday party of one of Alleria's best friends. While her sisters had looked out for nice and handsome men, Sylvanas had hung out with Lady Liadrin. They had talked, laughed, drank together then they had started kissing in a guest room. At the end of the day they had laid naked next to each other, heavily breathing and they had been exhausted by a certain activity.

She also remembered the talk of Alleria and Vereesa, on the way home, about the men they had met on the party. They had asked if Sylvanas had also met a nice young man. Sylvanas had lied that she had only talked with Lor'themar a bit. Indeed she had, only for a few minutes before she had left the party. Vereesa had started to probe if Sylvanas feels something for him, she had denied it and told them that they were only friends. This had been the truth, and still was.

Lor'themar was still one of Sylvanas closest friends, he and Blackfire were the only real friends Sylvanas got. She cared for him and hoped that he was alive and was not killed by Le Blanc. She counted the people she had met on Peresia to her friends too but she counted only Lor'themar and Blackfire to her closest friends.

Sylvanas thought about the events of the past years. Starting with the events on Peresia then the search for allies and then the countless, ruthless and never ending battles. She thought about the loss hundreds of thousands soldiers and the loss of beloved personalities like Genn Greymane, Nasus, Arator and others.

She was brought back out of her thoughts as she felt soft lips on her left shoulder and a wet spoon on her back while another hand soaped her breasts. "What do you have in mind? Hopefully you thought about me, about my big breasts and my sexy body" Elise said with a playful and erotic voice.

"I was thinking about the past few years and some memories from my youth with my sisters came in my mind" Sylvanas responded.

"The last years were hard but we are about to win this war… finally. Swain will pay for what he did to your family"

"It's your family too. We are not married but you count as a family member for Alleria and the others.

"Oh that is so sweet" Elise responded and continued soaping Sylvanas body, focusing especially on her curves. Elise placed her arms around Sylvanas' neck and hugged her tightly from behind. Sylvanas closed her eyes and enjoyed the warm touch of Elise's skin against her cold skin. It felt so incredible good, it was only topped by Elise's warm fingers which kneaded Sylvanas' breasts softly and toyed with her stiff and excited nipples. Elise placed a soft kiss on her lover's right check and trailed her hand over Sylvanas' body until it reached her core. "Let the fun begin darling" Elise whispered softly with an erotic voice in Sylvanas' right ear.