Chapter 2 - The Training

We last left of with Drache Gathol at the Death Knight Training Camp. He was to begin his Death Knight Training with Alexander Frost the Death Knight captain. Drache thought he was ready for this, but it would be more tough than he thought.

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I was given a room of my own, I looked around and wasn't very satified with what I saw. The bed's had stains of a brownish-yellow color, the windows were broken out, cob webs covered the ceiling and there was a table that didn't look very sturdy. I guess I couldn't really complain, at least I had a place to stay and sleep. I decided I didn't really feel like staying here at the moment so I left to go see the captain. He was in the field running drills with the other recruits.

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"Excuse me Captain Frost, a moment of you time?"

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He turned around and motioned me to walk with him

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"Sure thing Gathol. What do you need?"

"How long exactly will this training take me?"

"Well that would depend on how well your mind can grasp the dark arts we teach you. Different individuals can grasp it better than others."

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I stopped and looked at him confused.

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"Well how do I know if I can grasp these concepts?"

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He then stopped with his back still facing to me.

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"We have a special artifact Gathol, an artifact that was salvaged from one of the Dreadlords under the control of the Lich King. This artifact is called Talmathrias. Talmathrias can make you know if you can learn the traits of a Death Knight as well as teach you a skill essential to being a death knight."

"What skill is that?"

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He turned around and looked at me with a devilish grin.

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"The Death Coil. It works like a paladins Holy Light only the opposite, it heals our wounds, but damages our enemies. Only thing is we can't use it on the mindless zombies to destroy them, it will only rejuvenate them.

"Let me see this artifact so that I may learn."

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He looked off into the field as if lost in thought.

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"We cannot today, the artifact may only be used once a day. We already used it today, it killed one of ours."

"Killed?"

"Yes. That's the problem of the artifact, it kill those whom it judges not worthy of being a Death Knight."

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I frowned and thought about this for a second. What if the artifact killed me? I won't be able to know my past then. No...it matters to me no longer, this is my new life and I will sacrifice it or make it powerful.

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"This matters to me not. I would like to use this artifact tomorrow if possible!"

"Permission granted Gathol. First thing in the morning. You had best be ready, the process is dreadfully painfull."

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I turned and walked and started to walk away . No pain can be worse than undeath. Or so I thought.

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"I will be ready."

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I went back to my cabin to see what I assume was the person I was rooming with. He was very scarred like he had seen quite a few scraps in his life. What was strange about him was he had a metal band covering his eyes making an x sort of shape. It had many carvings in it. I decided I would confront him about it.

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"Why do you have those bands covering your eyes?"

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He turned his head as if to look in my direction. The carvings on the bands glew green.

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"None of your business weakling."

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I just looked at him for a little bit and decided he wasn't worth my time. I layed down on my bed and waited for tomorrow to come.

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The next day.

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I once again couldn't sleep. We Undead must not be able to sleep is what I assumed. Captain Frost came in and ordered me to come outside into the field, he said is was time to see Talmathrias, I felt no fear. I walked out of my room then out into the field, I saw Captain Frost standing in the middle of the field with a grin on his face. I walked over to where he was, his grin was starting to kind off piss me off.

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"Are you ready for sure Gathol?"

"Yes"

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Captain Frost reached into his pocket and pulled out a round glowing object, it glew with a darkish green color. He held it out with his hand and motioned for me to grab it.

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"When you take the object you will not be able to stop whatever it may do to you."

"Im aware."

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I took the object and then I felt a surge of warmth hit my entire body. It kept getting hotter and hotter then I started to hear vioces.

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"So you think you are worthy of being a Death Knight?"

"I know Im worthy!"

"Hahahahaha we will see, Unholy Knight!"

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Everthing around me dissapeared and all was dark except for me, I was enveloped in a green glowing aura. Then before me appeared a demon creature.

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"What are you?"

"Fool! I am the Dreadlord Talmathrias!"

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I thought to myself, so this is what a Dreadlord looks like. He had the body figure of a human, but much broader in the shoulders, wings that could span out a couple feet, horns came out of his head spanning upwards, instead of normal hands he had hands with very sharp looking claws, he stood a good 7 feet tall or more, he glew green with bits and parts of black.

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"Im going to delve into your mind, we will see if you are worthy!"

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Talmathrias turned into a fog and motioned into my skull, this was far more painful than anything imaginable. My head throbbed with every second, it was faint, but I could hear Talmathrias laughing at my pain.

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"AHHHHHH! IT FEELS LIKE YOUR TEARING MY SKULL APART!"

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There was nothing I could do, just like what Captain Frost had said to me. I fell to my knees as he coursed through my brain, the process took a good hour, then there he was in front of me again with a grin on his face.

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"Your past is so delightfully dreadful hahaha!"

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I thought to myself...I'll kill him...I'll show him not to laugh! There wasn't a thing I could do except sit on my knees and listen to him laugh.

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"Go to hell!"

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He lunged at me and grabbed me by my throat and his eyes pierced mine.

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"Listen here whelp I just sparred your life! You might make a good Death Knight with that kind of anger coarsing through you hahaha! I saw in your past you were a Paladin, a skilled one at that. The way I see it is that you were a skilled Paladin in life, you will make a skilled Death Knight in death. Have in mind though, I keep a close watch on all the ones I judge 'worthy' and should I be wrong about you, I can kill you at any instant."

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He threw me and had it not been for my sudden stop I would have sworn I was gonna keep falling, I stood up, then looked at him emotionlessly.

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"I could care less Dreadlord! Now aren't you supposed to teach me the Death Coil?"

"You already know it. To use it, channel your anger and your agony into your blade and swing. You will see."

"Good, then take me back!"

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Talmathrias made a strange motion with his hands and then chanted what I though was some demonic language and then the field appeared to me again, as well as Captain Frost. He was holding a sword in his hand he threw it to me.

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"Show me the Death Coil, perform it on this Human we captured last week"

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Captain Frost whistled and a couple undead lackeys pulled out a cage from the stables containing a Human, he looked like he had already gone insane from being here, that or he was an idiot..

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"LET ME LOOSE YOU FOUL CREATURES! YOU WAIT, THE ALLIANCE WILL BE HERE TO SAVE ME ANY DAY NOW!"

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The lackeys opened the cage and he came out screaming. He looked at me then charged.

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"I don't need a weapon! These fist's o mine are weapon enough to take out an Undead!"

"Don't count on it fool!"

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I took the blade in my right hand and thought of how much I hated to be this Undead abomination, how much it angered me that this foolish Human was just sacrificing his life. I could feel the anger coursing through my veins, then my blade had a greenish glow. I swung in the direction of the charging Human and when I did many green skulls emerged from the blade and persued my target. The green skulls wrapped themselves around the Human, I could hear is cries of pain and I enjoyed every second of it. The aftermath was the Human, but blackened and pruned, he was rotted. Captain Frost gave me a slap on the back and let out an evil laugh.

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"Very good Gathol! You will make a promising Death Knight hahaha!"

"Incredi...ble...Power..."

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I fell down, and I guess passed out. I had no strength to continue. All I could remember was how incredible it felt

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