Chapter III: Kel'Thuzad
"I see. Is that all, my King?" The Lich spoke to a small crystal ball, which glimmered in his bony hand. "Yes, yes. Sylvanas is finished and only from my skeleton soldiers." He chuckled, "Seems she wasn't as well equipped as you thought, my king…No, Sylvanas herself isn't dead yet, but I'll deal with her myself, unless you want to…As you wish, my lord. Sylvanas shall be dealt with, quickly and painfully. Long live the might of the Scourge, my Lich King." Then he tucked the ball away in his robes just as Sylvanas's steps filled the room.
"Where are we? This is a dead end."
"Ah, The Banshee Queen Sylvanas. Dark Lady of the Forsaken, a pitiful rebellion from the Scourge."
The undead elf glared at the Lich and readied her bow. "Kel'Thuzad! You bastard! Why are you here?"
"Now, now, is that a way to greet an old friend?"
"Friend!" The hatred in Sylvanas's voice skyrocketed at the word. "How the hell would you know what it means to be a 'friend'! Does it mean you'll reap what benefits you can from your 'friends' before stabbing them in the back? Does it mean you'll serve a…a…A Devil just to gain power? Is that it!"
"Hmm…I suppose you're a bit upset about me attacking your base, aren't you?"
"Bastard!" And she fired at the Lich, who merely waved his hand upward and summoned a small skeleton to take the arrow, killing it instantly.
Kel'thuzad laughed, "Now, now, you'll have to do better than that." With that, he spread his bony arms again and summoned an armada of skull soldiers.
"Kill them!" The Dark Lady ordered her banshees, "Kill them all!" The ghostly women screeched and flung themselves at the skeleton armada. Hisses and screams echoed through the cavern as skeleton's crumbled and banshees shrieked out of existence. Soon enough, it was back to just Sylvanas and Kel'thuzad.
"…Well then, that was wasteful, wasn't it?"
"Grrr…" Sylvanas drew another arrow and fired. It struck into Kel'Thuzad's chest, but the Lich wasn't even phased.
He opened his robe and took the arrow from between his ribs, "You're making this very amusing." He waved his hand at the Dark Lady, summoning several more ice shards and lunged them at her.
Sylvanas quickly dodged several, using her elven reflexes to her advantage, but even that couldn't prevent her from avoiding the last spear of frost. It pierced Sylvanas's left shoulder and pinned her to the ground. "Kyaagg!" She cried in pain, struggling to free herself as her enemy floated over to her.
"You know, this would never have happen if you hadn't defied the Lich King. His powers grant us eternal life, as well as great power to undo our enemies and his."
"At the cost of your will and your being!" Sylvanas growled back. "What's eternal life, when you are a horrid monster? What's the point of having god-like powers when you don't even have the control to use it? You don't even have the ability to control your own self!" She gripped the ice spear tightly and shattered it in her palm, leaving several sharp shards in her shoulder. She lifted her self to face Kel'thuzad eye-to-eye, breathing quickly and overcome with pain. "You hear me, Lich?"
"Hmph, you cling to your old life, regardless of what you've become. Arthas shouldn't have even bothered bringing you back, foolish elf."
Gritting her teeth, Sylvanas reached for her knife and slashed at the Lich's skull, but her attack was stopped short from Kel'Thuzad harder than rock arm. He countered by grabbing the ranger's head and ramming it into the cavern wall. "You still don't get it. The Lich King does grant us will. Just to do his bidding. But you, foolish elf, refuse to see things his way!" He threw Sylvanas into the ground and aimed his hand at her, gather blue energy into his bony hand. "Now you shall perish for refusing to obey your one and only master."
'Send my regards to hell, you son of a bitch.' 'Arthas, rest assure, I'll never stop hunting you.' 'I've sworn that I would have revenge for my people's deaths! I will have revenge for becoming this monster that I am! And nothing, no one shall stop me from having vengeance! Not you, not the Lich King, nor even my own living kin!' She couldn't die yet, she still had a vengeance to do.
Please not yet.
Suddenly, a bright flare struck Kel'thuzad, pushing him back and dropping the Dark Lady. Sylvanas became mildly pleased to see Varimatharas with a squad of Abominations and Ghouls enter their part of cavern. "Defend Lady Sylvanas! Destroy all minions of the Lich King!" He hurried over to the Banshee Queen and helped her up, while Kel'thuzad summoned a vortex and escaped through it. "M'lady, are you all ri—"
"What the hell are you doing! Kill him! Find him and kill him!" She struggled out of her lieutenant's grasp only to fall down again in pain.
"He's gone, Lady Sylvanas, and you're badly wounded."
"What about Undercity? What's happened to it?"
"We've lost a vast majority of our warriors, and our structures are badly damaged, but Odin was able to ward off the Lich King's minions, M'lady."
"Dammit…Just…just recall our forces…we're heading back home." Her lieutenant nodded and went off to gather their forces.
Gemakai: AHAHAHA! The attack has failed before it began! Now Arthas barely has anything to stand in his way! BWAHAHAHA!
Kora: I had no idea you were a Arthas fan.
Gemakai: I'm not! But still, BWAHAHAHAHA!
