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Chapter 36: Upgrades
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The Doomhammer swung home again, cracking open another Dragonkin's skull. Thrall then punched his slain opponent in the side of the head sending it to floor where its exposed brains oozed out.
"Clear?" He called.
"Clear," Vol'jin replied wiping his blade on a dead gnolls ragged garments.
"Clear," Cairne replied rubbing the Dragonkin intestines off his hoofs.
"Clear," Sylvanas hissed plucking one of her arrows out of a corpse.
Thrall nodded and wiped the sweat from his brow. They were hopefully nearing the server chamber judging from the increased volume of Gnolls they were fighting.
"We go on then," Thrall said grimly leading them to the next door.
Suddenly the entire room shook and Thrall looked up just in time to jump out of the way as falling debris nearly hit him! He dove into a side room only to watch as the door way he gone through was blocked up by debris.
"Thrall ya okay?" Vol'jin called from behind the rubble.
"I am unharmed," Thrall answered.
"It will take us a while to shift all of this rubble," Cairne said.
"Nevermind," Thrall replied. "Keep going onwards I'll try to find an alternate route."
"You sure brotha?" Vol'jin asked.
"You're wasting time," Thrall answered. "Get moving."
"Understood," Sylvanas replied.
"Be careful Brotha," Vol'jin said.
Thrall pushed himself to his feet.
"Can this get any harder?" He muttered.
RToM
Vereesa, Rhonin, Koltira, and Thassarian finally reached the bottom of the stairs completely out of breath.
"Who... The... Hell... Puts... Some many stairs... In one building?" Rhonin panted.
"Oh so glad you could join us!" Illidan said with sarcasm as he tried to keep Hogger from clawing off his face.
"Hiyah!" Kael'thas cried out leaping at Hogger from behind. Hogger however offhand, back handed Kael'thas in the face sending him to the floor.
"Get off the Night elf demon hybrid guy!" Rhonin proclaimed sending a fireball at Hogger.
Hogger leaped off Illidan and then some how spin kicked the fire ball right back into Rhonin's face setting his beard on fire.
"AH!" Rhonin screamed quiet literally like a man with his head on fire. "Put it out!"
"Hold still hold still!" Thassarian said raising his rune blades.
Vareesa however whacked him with her bow.
"You aren't casting frost spells on my husbands head!" She snapped.
Before either of them could do anything however Hogger tackled both of them to the ground and brought up his axe to finish them!
Then once again Koltira hit him with a death grip and dragged him in with his rune blade ready.
Hogger however once again surprised them swinging his axe right into Koltira's chest. The axe failed to cut through the death knights armor but still knocked him to the ground.
"Its on now!" Illidan snarled charging the Gnoll.
Hogger however pulled out a detonator and hit its one red button.
C4 planted under the stairs showered Illidan in rubble halting his charge and forcing him to ward off the debrie.
"There's no stopping this gnoll!" Vereesa exclaimed.
"Stop drop roll! Stop drop roll!" Rhonin wailed trying to put out the flames on his beard.
Hogger charged Vereesa who yanked out and knife and managed to sink it into Hogger's shoulders before he tackled her right into the wall. He yanked the knife out and threw it at Thassarian who barely ducked it in time.
Vereesa then slammed her knee into Hogger's stomach and the gnoll howled in pain and rage and stumble back. In to close to draw her swords Vereesa punched the gnoll in the face striking Hogger in the eye. Hogger snarled and then sank his fangs into her arm. Vereesa swore violently and began repeatedly punching Hogger in the face before the Gnoll released his bite leaving bloody wounds on Vereesa's arm.
Now with some leverage Vereesa drew in her legs and mule kicked Hogger full in the chest sending him back. The gnoll was thrown half way across the room but he landed deftly on his feet and snatched up his fallen axe. Vereesa drew out her sword and rushed to face him head on.
Hogger met her charge and the steel of their weapons rang as it clashed. She swung at his head but Hogger easily ducked and struck at her legs. Vereesa back stepped and Hogger's blow missed. Then suddenly he brought his axe around and struck her behind the knee with the flat side of his weapon. With a cry Vereesa toppled to the floor and Hogger raised his axe for the kill!
Then suddenly a hand wrapped around the haft of his axe holding it in place.
"I'm sorry," Kael'thas said in a deadly smooth tone. "But we're not done."
Then he snapped the axe's head off and brought it down into Hogger's shoulder. Hogger howled in pain before Kael'thas kicked him in the face and then to cap it off raised his hands which ignited.
"This is for stealing my line," he said coldly before incinerating the gnoll.
Illidan pulled himself out of the rubble and sighed.
"Oh great," he muttered. "Crazy evil Kael'thas is out."
RToM
Lor'themar stumbled into another office room as the office four doors down exploded in flames.
"Come out come out where ever you are!" Dar'khan called. "I need to thank you for telling me every last little secret about Quel'thalas's defenses."
Lor'themar held back a curse as he yanked a crossbow bolt out of his arm and slumped to the floor.
"You wouldn't believe how pleased Arthas was when I told him every last one of the little secrets you told me," Dar'khan continued. "We simply couldn't have pulled it off with such speed and ease without your. It could have taken us ages to find all of the keys to the gates."
Lor'themar closed his eyes trying to block out Dar'khan's words but he couldn't. They cut straight to his guilt and ripped him apart like a ravening demon.
"But thanks to you we had the whole thing done in a few short days. Why given enough time those old fools in Silvermoon could have raised the Sunwell's barrier against us, or prepared more thoroughly for us." Dar'khan continued. "And of course you were well compensated for your help, first I manage to pull enough strings to get you into the Farstriders, then thanks to myself and Lord Arthas you became Regent Lord of a ruined city and a dying people."
He was trying to goad him out. Lor'themar's inner discipline fought against his rising fury for control of his body.
"And you know for all your talk of honor you really are quiet the gutless coward Lor," Dar'khan resumed. "At least that little banshee whore had the balls to try and face Lord Arthas. You put your tail between your legs and slunk away in disgrace as soon as the Sunwell fell. And I though you would have made such a wonderful Death Knight. But I guess you would have done better as a simple mindless ghoul."
Lor'themar shook with rage, his blood and soul screamed at him to rip Dar'khan's forked tongue out and then make him eat it. He wanted to fight, to kill, to make Dar'khan suffer for every last elven live lost because of his treason...
His treason...
Lor'themar put his face in his hands and realized there were tears running down his face from his good eye.
The bastard was right. It was his fault. He had allowed Silvermoon to fall, his foolish trust had gotten so many killed. Thalorien Dawnseeker... Anasterian Sunstrider... Sylvanas...
She suffered because of his foolishness.
"Hey," a gruff voice suddenly said quietly. "Get up Lor."
Lor'themar looked up to see to his shock Halduron Brightwing leaning over him.
"Hal?" He said confused. "How?"
"Somebody figured you could use some help." Halduron answered pulling him to his feet. "Can't have you lying down on the job."
As he stood up Lor'themar's arm shot with pain and he bit back a wince.
"We should get you fixed up," Halduron added taking note of his arm.
"Why bother?" Lor'themar asked. "The bastards right, I'm just one big screw up Azeroth could do with out."
Halduron then punched him in the face.
Lor'themar swore under his breath recovering from the blow.
"That knock the crap bull shit out of you?" Halduron snapped. "If anyone else had been in charge after the fall of Silvermoon the casualties could have been even worse. If he didn't dupe you into doing his dirty work it would have been someone a lot stupider. Now pull yourself together."
Lor'themar shook his head.
"If we weren't old friends I'd probably have struck you for what you just did." He stated.
Halduron grinned. "What would you do? Break your arm at me?"
"Funny," Lor'themar said dryly. "Now how exactly are we going to get me fixed up."
Halduron then led him quickly into another room inside of which there was a massive array of Memory cards.
"Behold," Halduron proclaimed. "The Cataclysm files."
"Okay," Lor'themar said grimly. "How does this help us?"
The Halduron pulled two cards off a shelf and held them up to the light.
Updates: Lor'themar Theron
Updates: Halduron Brightwing
"Your kidding me," Lor'themar said his face lighting up.
Halduron grinned.
"Welcome to the big leagues pal," he said offering the card to Lor'themar.
Meanwhile out in the hall Dar'khan finally found the blood trail Lor'themar had left in his wake. The living were so easy to track.
He leaped into the room a shadow bolt ready only to find a small puddle of blood against the wall.
"Come out my old friend," he called. "Come out and play!"
Then suddenly a light burst forth from a door across the room and Dar'khan sent his spell flying at it. Door exploded and Dar'khan cackled.
"I have you now!" He proclaimed triumphantly.
Then an arrow shot out of the room and struck him right in the chest for heavy damage. He stumbled back with a curse.
"You sure that isn't the other way around?" Lor'themar asked.
Dar'khan looked up and to his alarm saw the two blood elves emerge. No longer in their somewhat customized models Lor'themar was in solid crimson plate armor and hefting a Great sword of the Sin'dorei where as Halduron was wearing as of yet unknown blue Hunter armor and wielding Thori'Dal, the stars fury. Worse still both were skulled Level ? with over a million HP a piece.
"So Dar'khan," Lor'themar said testing his new weapons weight and his new voice. "What do you think of the upgrades?"
"You sound funny," Dar'khan replied.
The next thing he knew his head was sailing through the air before it landed perfectly on the flat of Lor'themar's great sword.
"Wrong answer," Lor'themar said shaking his head.
"I'm just glad the writer is spelling my name correctly for once," Halduron said with a shrug.
"Yeah I know," Lor'themar agreed. "What was up with that?"
"No idea," Halduron answered as Lor'themar tossed Dar'khan's head into the air and then cut in half. "Anyways whats new with you?"
"Oh you know," Lor'themar answered. "The usual crazy crap."
"I heard you scored Sylvanas again," Halduron continued.
"Oh yeah," Lor'themar said with a grin. "Even undead she can't keep her hands off me."
"Would that be considered necrophilia though?"
"Lets leave that to the courts."
"Yeah probably for the best."
Ranger24: Yes I am a huge Lor'themar fan. I think I might be his only real fan but hey that makes me special. (If anyone makes a retardation joke I will slap them. I have aspergers douche bag.) Anyways the next chapter will be whenever so keep your eyes open. Read and review!