Day 21

We started walking down from the tower when the flight master came up to us.

"Hold heroes, captain has given word that you are to be allowed to use the flight points." he stated. "We still will require a fee as these fine birds need to be fed."

"Really we can finally fly?" Fizzle replied.

"Thank you flight master we have business in Stormwind." I requested. He took the fee and one after another we mounted up and the birds took off. Bron and Ginny held on with white knuckles and us gnome giggled in joy. Elvel just smiled. The flight to Stormwind took less then a hour though we could have ported there instantly. I turned in the unsent letter and followed the quest as far as I could in Stormwind. Which of course led me to talk to Prince Anduin. Having flight increased the speed we could travel and during the quest chain I went to the various places and picked up the other quests I needed for the Stockades. Between the experience and the quests I leveled from nineteen to twenty two. The trick was not to fight the last boss as that did end the riots as now they were all dead. A bunch of paladins and priests came in along with a shaman from Ironforge to cleanse the jail, and by the time we walked out workers were entering to repair the damage.

"This is the strangest thing I have ever seen." Fizzle proclaimed. "No wonder most of the guild leaders saw you as a threat."

"Yes that I agree." Elvel added. "Time has not affected this world until now. You are bringing change."

"I know, but will it be for the better or will it just bring the Burning Crusade and the expansions to follow, or will it end for us and take us back to Earth?" I replied.

"That is a question we will quest to answer." Bron added. "Until then we have a guild to form."

"I think I have an easy way to do it." I stated. "I opened trade chat and not a single person was talking on it. People talked to one another in person just like the real world. The others smiled as I had taught them how to use group chat and guild chat to talk silently over distance. "Greetings to all players. Every person in the cities are seeing this text before their eyes. Too Long have you thought that this is a real world and stopped using your UI and your interface. Too long have you sat in the city instead of questing. I, Kit have come recently to this world. Many have heard of me. In the seventeen days that I have been here on Azeroth, I have leveled to twenty two. Seventeen days where many of you took years. I have form a guild a raiding guild. I play this game to run dungeons and raids and not to play house with the locals. Join End Game Raiders. The only requirement is that you join as a group of five. Tank, healer, and three dps." Within minutes trade chat exploded as thousands tried to talk. We gave instructions on how to turn on general and guild chat and officer chat. It was something over powering at first, but you could adjust it to where it was small and out of the way.

"Oh wow you really opened a can of worms." Ginny stated.

"Wait until we tell them about the gryphons." I replied.

"Leave that for guild knowledge." Bron stated. "Come we need to get out of here until it calms down. Even with them knowing the standard channels and how to make private ones it is going to be a few days."

"Then let us fly to Ironforge." I suggested. That we did first flying to Goldshire to advertize and then on to Redridge. Each flight point brought us to the closest one unlike the game where it brought you to the destination only. The trip took a long time and on the morning of sixteen December we landed in the middle of Ironforge shocking nearly every player in sight. Trade chat went nuts when we arrived and a crowd surrounded us all the way to the guild quarter. Then we shocked them again as we all mounted up. Fizzle on a mechanostrider, Elvel on a cat, Ginny on a horse, Bron on his ram, and I made a few pass out or run as I mounted a black war bear. With the reaction I got, I was glad I didn't use one of the dragons.

"What is the meaning of this?" one of the guild leaders asked. "First you blast us with unwanted messages and now you all brag that you have mounts!"

"The time for you all to get off your butts is here. All of you who are over twenty didn't know that you could buy your riding training at level twenty. You just have to go out to the stables." I started out with. "As for the guild I started we are open for new players. People that think like us, but have been held back by fear. Also this guild council of yours is powerless. Only guild masters have any power and that is limited to kicking a player out of his or her guild. No one can steal from you no one can take gold from you or gear, no one can restrict your movement. There is the entire world of Azeroth out there so let's go out there and change the world. I arrived here on the 23rd of November and it is December 16th in that time I have gone from level one to level twenty two. Time for you people to level."

"She is not the only one." Elisa stated. "You all know me as the low level councilor, but not since she has arrived, so I decided to turn in the twenty five quests I have been holding on to and I gained two levels. Ten to twelve quests is all you need per level." She turned to us and knelt. "I request to join your guild, and I have four friends." Her friends stepped up and I saw their classes. We looked at each other and smiled. I think I saw Fizzle smile the most and his eyes lead to a gnome female whose eyes did not waver from his. Each one of us sent out an invite and as they excepted their tabards changed to ours. People were afraid or undecided before, but now the requests piled in. Elisa's group had a warrior, warlock, shaman, druid, and mage. She was the mage and Pria the warlock was sweet on Fizzle. She was also the highest of the group. If I moved to their group we would do that much better as far as experience went, since Elisa at 23 to Tom, the warrior, was 25. Pria was 29 with Fizzle and Elvel being 30, Ginny being thirty four and Bron forty. I kept that in mind as we would have way more than just them.

"Kit Jenkins and Bron Ironshot we need you in the council chambers." Darius requested. "I know you resigned and you are trying to build your guild but I think this will affect you as well."

"Not more than an hour." I replied. He lead the way into the chamber and silence fell quickly. Even I was shocked. King Magni Bronzbeard, High Lord Fordragon, and General Shandris Feathermoon were sitting at the council table. Magni was the only one with a smile on his face as the others looked more serious.

"Mi lord." Bron said as he bowed.

"Lord Fordragon nice to see you again and General Feathermoon a pleasure to meet you as well." I stated. "King of the Dwarves, Magni Bronzbeard it is a pleasure and an honor to meet you as well." Bolvar and Shandris nodded in turn and Magni smiled even more.

"I see those gears grinding in your head wondering what we are doing in your little council chamber." he stated. "Well word has come to all of our ear about a little hero who has done a few changes. I want to thank you for your work in Dun Morogh as I have never seen such a peace time for the area. Not a trogg or troll to be seen for miles."

"The same goes for Teldrassil though we still have problems, but the tree is moving towards balance." Shandris stated as well.

"I found your work in Northshire, Elwynn Forest, and Westfall above and beyond the duty of any alliance member. I had reports of no Defias seen anywhere and with VanCleef in custody and all his officers dead it will not be long before we mop up the rest of them. Cleaning out the Stockades was notable as well." Bolvar finished. "Though that is only part of what we came here to discuss. We are looking for King Varian and we think you can find him." I paled at their request. I knew who had both Varians but I had no proof. Plus the quest chain to find the king was not offered until fifty four. This was way too soon.

"All the guilds will be out in all the realms, so it will not be too hard to tell them to be on the look out for information." I replied. "However this is a sensitive matter and one that will be handled with care. There is much to be done and we are not strong enough as of this moment."

"That is what I told them, but they insisted on meeting you." Mathias Shaw said as he came out of the shadows. "SI:7's resources are at your disposal if you need us."

"I will let you know and I will make it my personal mission to find the king." I stated. "But know one thing I have a feeling he will not be the same." It was their turn to pale and even Magni lost his smile for a second. The meeting went on to other matters and the leaders of the Alliance took their leave. The rest of the meeting was lost to me as I couldn't shake the feeling that I was changing too much. After the meeting we handled the applications to our guild. I didn't really want a full guild but it filled up quickly. My goal was to have a raid group of forty members, and only trial and error would show us the ones that would be a perfect fit. I laid out what I wanted. Eight groups of five all working together as a team. Able to do their best and look out for their teammates at the same time. Getting along would be the hardest part in the beginning as we took them and divided them and put them back together as close to each others level as possible.

The other thing that some how worked was that you had either two melee or two ranged. Shaman could be either and so could druids. Having four of each class came to thirty six so what classes would fill the last four slots? Would eight healers and eight tanks be enough? I thought back to vanilla wow and if we would have the same mana issues as the raiders of that time maybe four more healers would be wise. Though that left only half of the raid as dps, so would such a combination be viable? How could I know this now? How could I plan for it?

"Grr, this is driving me nuts." I yelled as got up and went to the window. "We have half of all the players trying to join us and the other half creating guilds to be like us."

"You have brought change and with this change you will have problems." Bron replied as he puffed on his pipe. "They will weed themselves out by how fast they level."

"But they might not be the best or the ones that will work well in a forty man team. Not to mention what combination of classes should be in that team. Balanced, unbalanced? Each class in vanilla had a role and the way it was set up was bad. This is what will kill us. The fights won't be that bad as long as everyone knows what to do, but I shudder at the thought of the tanks not being able to taunt the bosses or not having the threat to hold aggro when the dps do too much damage." I explained. "I don't want to worry about it now but we will pay if we don't."

"First we all have to level and then we will see if you need to worry." Bron stated. "I have been hunting for ten years and the rest of these players have been playing their class for ten years. They know what they can do and that will be the difference. No lag issues no chance of disconnecting. Our abilities are natural to us. You have adapted quickly and you will only get better, but your gear is filling in the gaps. High health overpowered enchants protect you when you make mistakes, where we don't make those mistakes. I have seen a thousand duals were the winner won by a few health, and it didn't matter what class it was."

"Okay, okay I get it." I replied. "Easier to say then do, so I will just do what I can."

"Now that is the human behind the gnome." Bron stated. "Don't over think things it may cost more then the final effort." He was right I was over thinking and thinking about stuff too soon. The next day our guild was full and over the next few days we changed up all the groups. I found myself in a group with Elisa and three other level twenty three's. Jake, a gnome warrior, Harold, a dwarven shaman, and Petrel, a night elf druid. Elisa was human so we had a balance of races and armor types. The fact that I had the BOA gear most of the good gear would go to Harold, but it was all dependent on whether it would fit. We then traveled to Redridge Mountains even though it was lower level it was a good area to learn how to work together and even Elisa had not done the area as she had quested mostly in Kaz Modan.