Chapter 18: Settling In

They landed near the base camp again and were able to deliver the good news to Darlen. "Great job!" Darlen praised them. "And she wont have any problems from the horde if it were up to me."

"So, what now? Palkor asked as they walked through the camp.

"Rebuilding will start I guess. At least they wont be needing us for the time being. I think we earned ourselves a nice vacation." Jack said.

"You two are free to go anywhere." Nell said as he indicated Warrick and Jack. "You have no obligations to the Horde or the Alliance. And I have the same thing, I think I will come with, if you are going anywhere of course."

"I don't think they will miss me if I joined you." Grisha added.

"Same here." Palkor said.

"What about me?" Rumbled Occulus.

"You can go back to your petty collections in that wasteland." Nell answered.

The bronze dragon rolled his eyes and flew of to the south, back to his lair. The raptor nudged against Jack's leg and Jack put a hand on her head. "And you can come to of course." Alixia, the raptor / dragon, looked up grateful and licked Jack's hand.

"So, where do we go?" Warrick asked.

"How about a trip to the damp forests of Ashenvale? Or those of Ferelas?" Grisha suggested.

"Maybe another family visit for me." Palkor suggested in turn. "I think I am going to lay of killing dragons for a while."

"I heard it is good fishing in this world. Lets take a boat and sail on the ocean and catch one of those three headed beasts I heard of." Jack suggested.

"A hydra? You want to catch a hydra?" Nell asked surprised. "Lets just lay down on a sunny beach or something. What ever we do, lets do it as far away from civilization as possible."

"And lets not run into demons trying to slaughter entire towns." Warrick joked. For it he received a smack to the head from Jack.

The news of the liberation of Theramore and defeat of the Burning Blade spread though the camp. The naga that were still there began to prepare for departure back to the sea. The goblins filtered out of the camp to Ratchet. The races that had nothing to do in Horde lands followed close behind and the centaur lead by Kir'zas did not want to wait for the orcs to realize they didn't want any centaur in their lands. The news spread to Orgrimmar and from there to all other Horde towns and outposts. The peoples of all the races celebrated like a world disaster had been avoided, which was most likely true. After that came the mourning for two high Warlords and the thousands that had died. A new high Warlord was chosen, and it wasn't Darlen to his disappointment.

Months past, in which the towns of crossroads and Gadgetzan were rebuild and the horde relaxed a bit. They didn't see a threat to the world's survival in every little thing that went wrong anymore. Ties remained between the horde and the naga, although very fragile and expected to last very long.

In the mean time it was time for vacation for a select few.

Fin.

Finished! My lives work! Not really but it still represents the most effort I have put in a single project. It took me six weeks to write these 125 A4 pages of 'Outsiders'. I write multiple chapters before uploading the first. I have already started on my next story, but I am writing it a bit weird, in multiple parts, but I am beginning with part three. Does not really make any sense, does it? Anyway I want to make it to be a lengthy story and have more depth, and this will require time to think of.

Now a little bit of self criticising:

I think 'Outsiders' started out better than it ended. Along the way it weakened a bit, I think. I don't know why, but it did. Anyways, I thank those that reviewed the story. One review actually gave me an idea to put in the story.

Done with self criticising.

I will definitely return to written. You aren't rid of me yet. I enjoyed writing this even though my I sometimes had to grab a dictionary to look up a word. Somewhere in the future I may write a sequel to this, although I will need a story for that first. I would like to know what you thought of it and if you would mind a sequel.

Well, guess I don't have anything else to say anymore.

UPDATE: Oh by the way, before I forget, Palkor is my own character for WoW, RP server Earthen Ring.