Warcraft IV: War of Legends

Chapter 4: Unfortunate Reminders

Deep below the ruined capital city of the once-proud Lordaeron, several acolytes were extremely worried. Lady Sylvanas had left with no word to her tireless undead who served her apothecary. She had left with Varimathras and her elite banshees. The abomination guards served no help, as they could not tell the worried Forsaken where their mistress had gone.

Sylvanas did not feel bad about leaving her forces unaware. The only question that came to her mind was whether or not they would be there when she returned. After all, without them, she could not destroy all life in the world. Once, she would have cared whether they survived, but the powerr of undeath had affected her in the same way it had all others: she no longer cared for anything other than revenge and death. She was flying west as fast as she could, for the oppurtunity could very likely never arise again. Arthas had left Northrend to attack Theramoore Isle. For a while, he would not be surrounded by an army of Scourge warriors. She had hoped to bring a navy, but the ships would be too slow. Besides, she had already made it to Kalimdor.

She mused about the irony that she only knew where he was because she was undead. All the undead could sense their creator, their one-time master. The Lich King had put much power into Arthas, she knew that much, but she did not know that they had become two minds with one body. She took the motion of the Lich King as Arthas alone. If she had known the truth, she would have moved with more speed, for his power would wane across the world, but would be much stronger in his general area. She needed to destroy him quickly, or else there would be dire consequences. However, she knew nothing of this, so she went at a normal pace.

Bored, she looked outside in time to see a human ship speeding at the front of a small navy. They all headed in the same way she did. Curious, she made the goblin hostage turn left. The ships did not follow her, and so she knew that they also chased Arthas. Confident, she told the goblin to follow the ships. She noticed at the rear that a single transport ship held two men speaking.

"How many messengers have left?"

"One for the Night Elves, one for the Dwarves and Gnomes, one for the Orcs..."

"The Orcs? If they got the message, then where are they?"

Both were surprised as a skeletal figure came out of the hull and said, "I slew him. I don't want any damn orcs interfering with this chase! Sorry, but I'm commandeering your navy."

The two men looked at him with horror. One drew his sword as the other tried to hide. "No undead warrior will take the navy of Theramoore Isle!"

The bony man frowned. "Undead? Do you mean me? I am no undead! I am Admiral Daelin Proudmoore of Kul'Tiras, and a paladin to boot!" He promptly tried to use his power of Holy Light, but instead used Death Coil, on the man. Shock in his eyes, he slumped over, dead. Walking over his corpse, he looked over the edge at the water. He briefly saw that he was, in fact, an undead. As he turned, he noticed that the man stood once more. All at once, he remembered his death. Instantly, rage filled him. He thought of those responsible for his current situation. He awaited the blade of the man to bite him, but it never came. The man was undead, and would serve Proudmoore until the end.

Interested, he struck down the other man. However, he did not rise. He then knew that he could turn one into an undead servant with his Death Coil power. Somehow, he knew that this was not normal, even for a Death Knight, but he could not understand why. Then he remembered his rage towards Thrall, Rexxar, Rok'han, Arthas, and even Jaina, for putting him in this situation. He then went on, taking other ships, using his Death Coil, until the human fleet became his.

"Hello. I see you hate humanity. Perhaps you would like to help me get revenge on Arthas?" said Sylvanas, as she landed on one of the ships.

AN: Well, the players are all in place, a.k.a. most of them are in the story already. A few will be introduced later, but these are the main people for now...