The Crash Site

"How are we even going to get there?" Luna asked, standing in the middle of Windrunner Village. "It's not like we can just sail to the Broken Shore. We will have a similar fate to those who didn't make it back."

"My sister." Sylvanas told them. "We will go to Dalaran and talk to my sister, see if she and Rhonin can help us get to the Broken Shore safely so we can look for our family." She looked over to Athrodar who nodded in agreement to her plan. "We just need you to open a portal to Dalaran." Sylvanas said, looking at Thalina who remained silent throughout their gathering. "Thal?"

"Yes, right... Sorry." Thalina wiped away a small tear present in her eye and began to conjure a portal to Dalaran.

When it materialised, Elaria and Luna were the first through, followed by Sylvanas and then Athrodar, but not until he had spoken to Thalina who still looked upset. "We will find them, Thal. They will be okay, do you hear me?"

Thalina smiled a little and nodded her head when Athrodar did. "We will find our daughter." She said, watching him smile. "She is safe with Victoria and Sera."

"Yes she is, now come on." Athrodar gestured towards the portal. "Let's go talk to Vereesa and Rhonin."

The five of them made their way to the Violet Citadel that looked to be very busy, especially now since they had just been attacked whilst floating above Karazhan and teleported the entire city to the Broken Isle, just west of the Broken Shore. The City was so busy that they almost missed the younger Windrunner sister as she made to leave with a group of rangers. "Vereesa!" Sylvanas yelled over all the talking, making her turn around to look for the source of the voice and locking eyes with Sylvanas.

"Lady Moon..." Vereesa muttered, pushing her way through the crowds and hugging her sister when they were close enough. "I'm so sorry about Victoria... I heard what happened."

"That's why we're here, Little Moon." Sylvanas saw her sister frown, rubbing her arm when she saw sadness on her face too. "She is still alive. Athrodar believes she would have escaped with some of her guard and her sister, and I agree."

Vereesa's eyes narrowed at her sister. "So why are you here exactly? Because it doesn't look like you're here to help me out."

"We're here to find a way onto the Broken Shore to look for her." Sylvanas began to frown at her sister when her words hit her. "Wait, help you with what?"

Vereesa began to smile and look down at the necklace she was wearing. "I think Alleria is alive. Some of my rangers interrogated a demon and they said she was on a planet named Niskara."

"Little Moon..." Sylvanas muttered, watching her sister's smile widen. "How can you trust the word of a demon? It might be a trap."

The smile was wiped away from Vereesa's face when she heard her sister's question. "I have to take that chance, sister." Vereesa told her. "Our sister might be alive, we can't sit here and do nothing. I'm willing to take this risk, just like you five are all willing to go to the Broken Shore to save members of our family."

Sylvanas smiled when she looked back to her sister's company waiting for her, returning her attention to Vereesa who had a look of certainty about her. Certainty and confidence in her task. "Then go find our sister, Little Moon." She told her, hugging Vereesa tightly. "Bring her home to us."

"I will." Vereesa said, pulling back to look at Sylvanas. "Rhonin is coming with me, so he can't help you either... But Khadgar is serving as ruler of the Kirin Tor until we return, so maybe he can help."

"Thank you, Vereesa." Athrodar said whilst Sylvanas hugged her sister again. "And good luck with your task."

"You too." Vereesa smiled at Athrodar. "I hope both Victoria and Tanadia are alive and well, I couldn't imagine losing two daughters on the same day."

"Stay here and look after her." Tanadia stroked Snow's head, leaning down and kissing the top of it shortly after. "I need to find us a way off this land and to safety." The Priestess sighed. "Something that is becoming increasingly difficult the more they send out those patrols."

"Tana... wait.." Victoria said weakly, trying to stand up and letting out a sharp scream as she applied pressure to her broken leg, falling back down and clenching her teeth as the pain shot through her. "I'm... I'm coming with you."

"No, Vic." Tanadia crouched down beside her sister, helping her sit up and placing her hands on her leg just to heal it. "You're in no condition to do anything. Snow will look after you, okay? I will be quick, I promise." She kissed Victoria on the forehead, watching Snow lay down beside her when she began to leave. "I'll stay low and make sure I am hidden."

Setting off into the unknown, Tanadia crept around the Broken Shore, keeping to the water and looking for anything that could be used as a raft to cross the vast body of blue liquid between them and the rest of the Broken Isle. "With the death of their Highlord and former King, the armies of Azeroth will be left reeling from the losses of their soldiers and commanders."

Tanadia looked up at the ledge two Eredar were standing on, talking to each other about the recent battle and having to hold in her gasp when she heard the name of the Highlord. "Tirion..." She whispered to herself, feeling her heart break at the loss of one of her childhood mentors. "No... You can't be dead?"

One of the Eredar laughed. "The way he screamed for his precious light to save him will always make me laugh."

"Very noble of that great King to sacrifice himself to save the others." The other Eredar said, turning around to walk away. "Left his son without his family. Maybe he will actually grow up to be strong instead of depending on his father and the light."

The first Eredar laughed again. "A weak world. I'll be glad to see it burn in fel fire."

Tanadia watched both of the Eredar walk away, collapsing to her knees and sobbing at the thought of never seeing Tirion again, a man that helped her on her journey to becoming a priestess along with Liadrin. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you, Tirion..." She muttered, wiping her eyes. "I won't fail you now, I will show you that your faith in me wasn't misplaced."

Collecting herself, Tanadia got back up onto her feet and kept low, trying to find something to use as a raft of some kind that will ferry her sister and Snow across the sea, as well as herself. "Oh..." She muttered when she saw an Eredar climb off a strange disc like device. "What is this?"

When the Eredar stood off the disc like device, she saw it was hovering above the ground and raised an eyebrow at it. "This could be useful..." She whispered to herself and began to make her way towards it slowly. She made sure to stay low, in the shadows whilst watching the two Eredar walk away from the devices. "Now's my chance." She told herself, reaching for them and dragging them towards her when she got her hands on them and looking around to see if anyone had seen her.

She let out a long sigh when she saw she was safe, placing one down in front of her and inspecting it. "How does this even work?" She asked herself, placing one foot on it and hearing a strange noise, removing her foot and hearing the noise again, but like it was dying instead of coming to life. "Interesting."

Meanwhile, Victoria was trying to climb onto Snow who remained laying beside her, groaning and occasionally gasping when the pain from her leg took over her entire body the second she put any pressure on it. "Help me up, baby..." She pleaded to the nightsaber who remained unmoving. "Please.."

Snow grumbled and moved his head to lay on her good leg, keeping her pinned down. "The one time you choose to sleep... Is when I need you the most?" Victoria rested her head against the rock wall she was leaning against, watching as Snow slept peacefully on her lap and began to let her mind wonder. Where was Sera? Was she okay? Is anyone actually looking for her or Tanadia? "I hope so..." She muttered out loud to that final part, placing a hand on Snow's head. "We won't survive long out here without them."

"Vic?" Tanadia whispered, walking into the cave with both disc like devices in her arms. "Are you still here?"

"Tanadia.. What is that?" Victoria asked, sitting up and grimacing when her leg began to throb. "I need to see a healer quickly, or you're going to have to heal it."

"We will." Tanadia said, placing down the devices. "Get on this." She told her, watching Victoria frown. "Trust me. These things hover and if we're quick enough, we can get across the water without being noticed." She looked over to Snow and watched him sniff the disc. "We need to go now though, I think the Eredar I stole these from have noticed and are searching for them and therefore us."

"Tana..." Victoria shook her head and placed her hands on the disc Tanadia moved over to her. "We'll talk about this when we're in the clear."

Tanadia nodded her head and helped her sister up and onto the disc, followed by tapping on the other one for Snow to climb on and watching him curl up into a ball and take up the majority of it. "Looks like I am sharing with you, sister. Maybe I can work on your leg once we're safe."

"How exactly do you use these things?" Victoria asked once Tanadia sat down in front of her, gasping and clenching her teeth when she picked up her broken leg. "Now!? You said when we were safe!" She screamed.

"Shhh! I know I did, I needed to move it!" Tanadia's ears perked up and twitched when she heard yelling in the distance. "Oh crap... Looks like we have to go, now!"

"You didn't answer me Ques-"

Before she could finish her sentence, both discs began to move quickly across the water and away from the Broken Shore, Snow picking his head up from his curled position and having a look of terror on his face as they moved across water whilst Victoria held onto her sister who was laughing and giggling at the speed. "I love this!" Tanadia cried, zipping across the water quick than she thought possible.

"I hate this!" Victoria yelled shortly after, holding onto her sister tightly who continued to laugh.

"I can't send you to the Broken Shore, not after all the losses we have just endured."

The conversation between the great mage Khadgar and Sylvanas had been going on for close to ten minutes now, both sides having a stalemate though Khadgar was wavering at the relentless asking and pressing from Sylvanas.

"Khadgar, please." Sylvanas took hold of the human's hand with both of her own, her eyes pleading with him. "Our daughters are still out there." She looked over to Elaria who was standing beside Luna. "Her sister is also on there. Nobody could get to the wreckage, but I know my daughter, I know her sister and their General. They are strong and smart, they are out there somewhere waiting for someone to rescue them."

The human mage sighed and looked over to Athrodar who stood beside Sylvanas. "Look... I knew your sister and if you're anything like her, you're going to find a way there whether or not I help you." He walked over to the nearby window and looked out of it, reaching for his staff Atiesh. "I suppose I might as well help you so you don't get yourselves into trouble."

"Thank you." Sylvanas said, hugging the mage. "You have no idea how much this means to me."

Khadgar saw Athrodar roll his eyes, smiling at the elf. "I have a rough idea."

"I can help with whatever you need us to do." Thalina said, stepping forward. "My father is -"

"I know your father, Thalina." Khadgar said, surprising the elf when he adressed her. "He visited Dalaran when I was a boy and taught my class on occasion." Khadgar looked at the group who came to him, holding onto Atiesh and pointing towards the exit of the Violet Citadel. "This way."

Sylvanas kissed Athrodar as the rest of the group began to follow Khadgar. "Stay by my side and we will find her together." Sylvanas told him, taking hold of his hand. "Then we will take her home with us and inform Stormwind she is safe.".

"Tanadia too." Athrodar told her, watching Sylvanas nod her head in agreement. "We will bring our entire family back to Windrunner Village and away from this war until they want to go back."

"And we will go with them." Sylvanas said, looking Athrodar in the eyes. "I want to keep my family safe and I can only do that if I have them by my side."

"And I am with you on that." Athrodar agreed, kissing his wife again. "Let's go find our missing family."

Khadgar had taken them to Krasus' Landing and began to examine the Broken Shore from the significant distance they were from it. "I am going to need you to help me, Thalina. We are creating a transport system that will take you down there for however long you plan to be there. If you get into trouble or are looking to port back, cast this same spell again and think of this place, got it?"

The Magister nodded her head and took hold of Khadgar's hand when he offered her it. "I got it." She said, listening to him explain the spell.

"We are going to find them and they will be fine." Elaria said to herself, having Luna's hand on her shoulder. "Sera will be fine." She said, this time to Luna who smiled and nodded her head.

"Yes she will." Luna told her, planting a kiss on her cheek. "You will get your sister back."

Khadgar and Thalina spent close to ten minutes conjuring the spell, using up most of the Magister's mana reserves and weakening her a lot by the time she had finished. "Stay hidden." Khadgar told her when the spell was ready. "Get your mana back and be ready for a hasty exit."

Thalina nodded and looked over to Athrodar, Sylvanas, Elaria and Luna. "We're ready." She told them, holding onto the spell in her hand. "Just hold onto me and we will be ported near the crash site, away from any of the demons."

As the four of them help onto Thalina's arm, they all grasped their weapons with their free hands and waited to be ported to the Broken Shore. "When you're ready, Thal." Athrodar said, holding onto the grip of his sword tightly.

The Magister looked at Khadgar and nodded. "We're ready."

"Remember what you are all doing. It's dangerous to go there as an army, so to go as a group of five? Just be careful and don't take risks." Khadgar took hold of Thalina's hand and began to conjure the spell. Purple mist began to swirl around them all, starting from the feet and encasing them within a bubble that invaded their entire vision. "Once the arcane bubble is gone, you'll be on the Broken Shore!" Khadgar yelled at them from outside the bubble. "Be prepared for an immediate assault by the Legion if they spot you."

Sylvanas grasped her bow with her free hand, waiting for the bubble to drop and glancing over to Athrodar who was doing the same, except he was holding onto his sword and not his bow. "Ready?" She asked him, watching him nod.

"I'm ready." He told her.

Once the purple arcane bubble dropped, the five of them all moved out the way for a felfire ball that was thrown at them, having Sylvanas reach for an arrow and letting it loose at the Eredar that launched the spell at them, watching it stick them in the chest and fall to the ground. "Luna!" She yelled, looking over to the Draenei. "Put up a shield!"

Luna slammed her staff down into the ground and summoned a holy shield around their group, watching as several felfire spells bombarded the shield and weakening it a little. "I can hold it for a few minutes only!" She told Sylvanas.

"That's more than enough time." Sylvanas responded, looking to her left and watching Athrodar switch to his bow and let loose a couple arrows into the swarming demons. "Athrodar."

Athrodar watched as his arrow found a fel bat, the bat like creatures they were told ripped apart the gunship they were searching for, and land on a group of imps. "Yeah?" He glanced over to Sylvanas, knocking another arrow in place and pulling back the bowstring to aim at another bat.

"Take Elaria and find us a way through these demons." Sylvanas told him, letting loose an arrow into a fel hound that was trying to sap the energy from the holy shield around them. "We need to move out of the open and," she looked back at Thalina who was conjuring weak balls of fire due to the teleportation sapping her energy, "Thal needs to recover before our journey back. Something we can't do here."

Elaria followed Athrodar through a small pass to the side of them, watching as a stream of demons charged and clashed against the bubble of holy magic around the rest of their group, throwing away their lives just to weaken the shield. "They're killing themselves just to get to us?" The Night Elf asked, looking over to Athrodar who was watching the same thing. "That's madness."

"That's the Burning Legion." Athrodar told her, patting her on the arm and nodding towards an unguarded passage. "There's our exit."

Elaria nodded and began to make her way towards it, stopping when she was halfway down it and looking back to Athrodar. "Go get the others, Luna will block off the entrance with a spell that should last a few minutes."

"Giving us enough time to get away." Athrodar smirked and nodded at her. "Stay here, I'll go get them."

"Have you found a way out?" Sylvanas asked, reaching for her final arrow. "Because we are going to need it very soon."

Athrodar nodded and took out all the arrows from his quiver and placed them in Sylvanas'. "We have. There's a small passage on our left that Luna can place a shield in front of to block their entry. If we go now, Elaria is waiting for us and will hold them back whilst we get Thalina to safety."

Sylvanas nodded and reached for one of the arrows Athrodar placed in her quiver. "Then let's get going." She said, letting it loose into a fel bat that was attacking the weakened shield.

"When you're ready." Athrodar said to Luna as Sylvanas helped Thalina to safety.

"When I drop this, they will swarm us immediately. I need you to watch my back when we start running."

Athrodar smiled at the Draenei. "Don't worry, I'm already one step ahead of you."

Tanadia pulled on the Legion disc that had Victoria laying on it, walking beside Snow and occasionally looking back to her sister who was drifting in and out of consciousness once more. "She needs a healer, Snow." The priestess told the nightsaber, knowing he wouldn't respond but finding it easier to talk to him than to herself. "I have no idea where we are, but the land is green and I've seen no demons, so there's that."

Tanadia continued to pull the Legion disc for twenty more minutes before finding a small cave, letting out a sigh of relief and dragging her sister towards it. "Keep an eye out for danger." She told Snow, lifting Victoria off the disc and placing her on the floor before placing her hands on her broken leg. "I need to focus on her and fixing her leg."

When Victoria next woke up, she was greeting by the feeling of warmth coming from Tanadia's hands on her leg, smiling and looking down her body towards her sister. "That feels really nice, considering the state of that leg."

"Good." Tanadia said with a smile, looking up to her face. "We are safe for now, Snow is on lookout whilst we stay in this cave."

"We're going to have to start looking for food and water." Victoria told her, looking over to Snow who was laying down by the entrance. "You done the right things getting us off the Broken Shore, but now it's made it harder for people to look for us."

"I know..." Tanadia muttered, stopping the healing on her sister's leg and sighing, wiping at her nose as she sniffed. "Tirion is dead... And Varian." She told her sister who snapped her attention back to the priestess with wide eyes. "I... I don't know who else, but I heard two Eredar laugh at their deaths."

Victoria watched her sister begin to cry at the loss of one of her mentors and gestured for her to come closer, pulling her in for a warm hug when Tanadia shuffled towards her. "I'm so sorry, Tana." She whispered, kissing her on the temple. "Tirion was a good man, they both were."

"I never even got to say goodbye." Tanadia muttered. "The last thing I said to him was that I'd see him next month."

Victoria stroked her sister's hair, being reminded that she was still a child that had not yet experienced war or loss. "I'm sure they are having a funeral for them both as we speak, and anyone else that died during the assault."

Tanada wiped her eyes and looked at her sister with a small smile. "I need to go find us something to eat. Help you get your strength back."

"You don't even know how to hunt, Tana. Are you sure you want to go out there and get us some food?"

Tanadia smiled at her sister. "You can't stand, someone has to get us food and it won't be you." She went back to healing Victoria's leg. "I'll leave in an hour, I just need to heal you some more."

"I'm going to need a splint for this leg, so it can heal properly." Victoria told her, watching Tanadia smile a litlte. "What?"

"Nothing... It's just, Tirion taught me about splints to help heal broken bones. He also taught me how to make normal water turn into holy water and using rags with the holy water to help heal pains." Tanadia looked up at Victoria who frowned at her, knowing the story sounded familiar. "He used it on our father to heal him after the attack on the Wrathgate."

"That's right..." Victoria muttered. "Not the best day for Sylvanas, having a group of her Forsaken betray her and hurt the man she loves so much that he almost died for good." She smiled a little when Tanadia went back to healing her leg. "We will be fine. I'm sure they will move onto these lands to secure a garrison of some sort before attacking the demons. Then we will be saved."

"I know." Tanadia said, smiling at her sister and returning her attention to Victoria's leg. "Our parents will come for us, I'm sure of it."

"The crash site is just up ahead." Sylvanas said, remaiing low an some rocks and looking out at the destroyed gunship. "If we're quick, we can search it without being caught."

Athrodar looked back at Thalina who was taking a drink from her water pouch, noticing she looked exhausted already. "Someone will have to stay back with Thalina to protect her and make sure she recovers enough strength to port us back to Dalaran."

"I'll stay." Luna said, placing a hand on Thalina's arm. "I can help heal her, perhaps it will help."

Sylvanas nodded, looking back to Elaria and Athrodar. "Sounds like a plan. We're faster anyway, no offence."

Thalina shook her head. "None taken. I'd prefer it if the three people lightest on their feet were going anyway." She smiled at them. "Just find our daughters and her sister."

Staying light and quick on their feet, the three of them found themselves at the back on the gunship, climbing in through one of the torn open holes in the cabin and finding it to be empty, save for the few discarded weapons and slain demons. "There was definately a fight here, but where are all the bodies that aren't demons?" Athrodar asked, looking around the cabin and finding dry patches of blood.

"Maybe they all got out?" Elaria asked, pushing the body of a demon with her foot and making it roll over.

"No, not with this much blood loss." Sylvanas told her. "And with the state of the gunship, somebody would have died for sure. So why can't we find any of the bodies?"

"The Scourge used to use the bodies to create abominations and other monstrosities... Seeing as they were a part of the Burning Legion, it wouldn't be too reaching to think they would do the same." Athrodar looked at both Elaria and Sylvanas, the pair of them not wanting to think about their family being taken. "Or not, maybe they did escape."

Sylvanas nodded towards the exit of the cabin and towards what used to be the deck of the gunship. "Let's move out, see if we can find some tracks."

As soon as they left the cabin however, they were all face to face with what they feared. "No..." Elaria muttered, looking at the many heads on spikes. "No!" She screamed when she saw her sister's head on a spike, all the bodies piled up together and burnt beside the spikes.

Athrodar and Sylvanas both looked on in horror, though it was the latter who had her finger stroking the fletching of one of her arrows. "Do you see Victoria or Tanadia?" She asked Athrodar, watching him shake his head.

"Maybe they got out." Athrodar told her, covering his mouth and nose with his hand whilst he searched the burnt corpses with his sword. "These are all headless, so whoever didn't make it are there." He pointed to the rows upon rows of heads on spikes.

Elaria was brought to her knees, screaming at her sister's head the remained on the pike in front of her. "I'm going to kill them all!" She cursed, fists clenched tightly. "Every single demon will burn for this until there are no more!"

Sylvanas' ears perked up first when she heard distant shouting, followed by Athrodar who quickly ran to Elaria to get her to calm down. "We need to move, we don't have the numbers to take on any more, nor do we have the arrows." Sylvanas looked over to Athrodar who nodded at her assessment. "We will move further in land when they aren't so high on alert. For now we have to wait this out until it's safe to get around again."

Athrodar lifted Elaria up onto her feet, gently pushing her back the way they came and looking back to the head of Sera they were leaving behind. "Victoria is going to be crushed." He told Sylvanas who sighed.

"I know... Let's hope she is safe and we can return to her before anything similar happens."