"Rise and Shine, everybody!"
Li-Ming stepped out from her tent, in her purple and white bathrobe.
"Nova. It's 6 AM."
"So?"
"SO?! WE WENT TO BED AT 2:09! WE ONLY GOT 4 HOURS OF SLEEP!"
Kael'thas stepped out of his tent, in a red nightgown with a gold lace around the neck.
"Woman, i'll pay you 5,000 gold to shut your trap."
"You have 5,000 gold on you right now?"
"Yes. So can we please go back to sleep?"
"Well, as much as i'd like 5,000 gold, i'll have to pass up. We have to make it to Blackheart's Bay as soon as possible!"
"Don't we have to find Tyrande first?" Sylvanas asked, still in her armor.
"Oh. Right. Forgot about that." Nova's face fell, but then picked up again.
"We have to find her as soon as possible! Everyone, no time for getting your armor on! We have to go as soon as possible!"
"At least i'll have some armor to protect me!" Sylvanas grinned.
"Of course, because a plate mail bikini is protecting so much of you." Kael told her sarcastically.
"Kael'thas, she'd punch you if you weren't so-" Li-Ming began.
"So far away! That's what you meant, right Li-Ming?" Sylvanas growled at her.
"Friends! Do not argue! Brightwing is here!" Brightwing burst from her tent, yelling as loud as she could with her tiny lungs.
"All right, what's happening now?" Jaina emerged from her and Nova's blue tent, looking weary.
"Untie me." Penelope was muffled, as she was stuck in her chair.
"I think we can trust her now." Jaina said to Nova.
"Fine. I'll untie her." Nova sighed, walking into the tent to untie her.
"I'M FREE! AT LONG LAST!" The girl burst through. She must've been biologically 13 now, as 5 days had gone by since her creation. Her hair was slightly shorter, and her cheeks were rosier than before. She was wearing red overalls instead of armour, with a pink t-shirt underneath.
"Haha, nice armor!" Li-Ming teased.
"No time to waste! Make post-haste!" Nova sang.
"Please don't sing that the entire way." Penelope told her.
"ON OUR GRAAAND ADVENTUUURE!" Nova sang even louder. The entire group let out a collective groan.
3 hours had gone by, looking at the treetops and in bushes, looking for Tyrande. Nova was still singing the song she had made up.
"And when our face bones break after getting hit in the head with a cake, we'll all be there for each otheeeerrrrr!"
"No, we won't." Sylvanas muttered.
"AND WHEN THE MOOOON HITS YOUR EYYEEE LIKE A BIG PIIIIIZA PIE-" Nova started on a new song.
Sylvanas turned around. "OKAY! BRIGHTWING SINGING I CAN TOLERATE, SHE'S A CHILD! YOU, HOWEVER, ARE A FULL GROWN ADULT! ACT LIKE ONE, AND STOP SINGING!" She went off on Nova, yelling at her like never seen before.
"That's amore…." Nova whispered.
"THAT'S IT!" Sylvanas shrieked. She tackled Nova, knocking the air out of her lungs.
"Sylvanas! Don't get in another fight!' Jaina feebly attempted to yell.
Nova shoved Sylvanas, sending her into a rock.
"As the leader, I order you to stop!" Nova smugly said.
"Or else what?" Sylvanas replied through clenched teeth
"Or else," Nova leaned in and whispered into Sylvanas' long ear. Sylvanas' eyes widened, and she kept whispering "No. I'll stop." Over and over. She got up, and rubbed the bruise on her back the rock had left. Kael'thas walked up to her.
"What in the Sunwell's name did she threaten you with so much that you got that frightened?" He asked her curiously.
"I'd rather not tell, Sunstrider. Now, please, go on with your merry day." She told him bitterly. Li-Ming breathed through her teeth when she heard Sylvanas' harsh tone towards him. Kael'thas scowled at her, and walked up next to Li-Ming.
"Li-Ming, I am very curious about Sylvanas." He told her. "Can you please tell me what's happening with her?"
"Always with the vocabulary." She teased. "I'll tell you later, when we get to Blackheart's Bay. It will…. Quite shock you."
"Shut your damn mouth, girl." Sylvanas shouted to her.
"Do you all smell saltwater?" Jaina asked the group.
"'Yeah...Me too!" Nova replied.
As they all got to the top of a hill, there they saw a great sight. A wooden dock was leading into a lake, with wooden stadiums surrounding it. In the center there was a grand stadium. There were two cores in the shape of Neptune made out of beautiful crystal, except the red one was cracked and destroyed, and Lost Minion armor lay all around it. The heroes had stopped the wave of them, but at the cost of a respawn point. At the blue core, there was a wave of people. Heroes, normal people, and some captured Lost Minions.
"My people!" Penelope cried.
"Pipe down!" Hissed Nova. "We're going to try and convince them that you're a normal kid."
"Oh yes, we're going to try and convince them that Bug Eyes Mcgee over here is a normal girl, a normal girl who's shorter than normal, and ages backwards." Kael'thas snarkily told her.
"Whatever. If they catch on, we'll just tell them…" Nova stopped and sniffed the air. "The Butchers down there! He's making food! I could so go for a steak right now!"
"Wait...Weren't we supposed to look for Tyrande?" Jaina told her.
"Indeed you were." Came a smooth, calm feminine voice behind them.
"Friend Tyrande!" Brightwing called, before latching herself onto the Night Elf's leg.
"I see you looked far and wide for me." She told the group gently, but it still had a sting to it.
The entire group looked at their feet or pinched the bridges of their noses in guilt and embarrassment.
"Let us waste no time. I've been eating nothing but berries for the past few days now. I wonder if the Butcher sells fruit salads."
The Heroes greeted their long lost comrades with handshakes and "Long time no see, dude"'s. Nova immediately asked if anybody had seen Sonya and Li Li.
"We're right here!" Came a young girl's voice, and soon Sonya and Li Li came rushing over.
"I have missed you, Li-Ming." Sonya's rough, muscular voice told the girl wizard.
Li-Ming blushed. "M-me too." She told her. Sylvanas chuckled and elbowed her in the ribcage, in a similar way to what Li-Ming had done to Sylvanas before.
"Li Li, where is your uncle Chen? A child of your age should be with a relative." Tyrande said to the small girl.
"Oh…" Li Li began sadly. "I don't know where he is. I respawned with Sonya here after we died. Other people started to respawn here, too. We've been setting up shop, giving people food, taking in scared civilians. The Raven Lord hasn't been much help to us. Whenever we try to talk to the guy he never answers!"
Everybody mumbled in agreement about how useless the Raven Lord was being.
Nova stood up for him though. "Yeah, it was kind of douche-baggy of him to not tell us that the respawn points weren't invincible. But maybe he didn't tell us because he didn't want to scare us, you know."
"And look where 'not scarin' us' has got us to, darlin'. I say he should've, and he should've had some type o' security around em'." Sgt. Hammer called from her tank.
"I agree with the cowgirl. The douchebag basically lied to us so we wouldn't 'panic'." Kerrigan said.
"Yeah! The Raven Lord is a major-league jerkwad!" Penelope called. Everyone's eyes widened when they realized what she was.
"Oh, oh, so just because i'm a Lost Minion i'm suddenly evil? That's racist! And I only participated in, like, one battle!"
Another Lost Minion called out to her. "Sister Penelope! Sister Penelope! Free me!" He must've been biologically 12, and apparently he was horrible.
"Oh look, it's 'Sephiroth'. Real nice name you gave yourself there, it totally won't backfire in any way shape or form." she started.
As they were distracted, Li-Ming nudged Kael'thas.
"Remember that thing I said I was going to tell you when we got here earlier?" She whispered to him.
"Oh good, I was starting to think you had forgotten." He whispered back.
"Follow me."
He followed her into a darkened alley, where no Hero could hear them.
"Ok, Kael'thas, you might want to conjure yourself an inhaler because the reason Sylvanas is acting so weird is because..." She paused and looked around.
"Because why? Why did you stop talking?" He asked her.
"I just feel like somebody's watching me...Anyways, the reason she's acting so strange is because she likes you. Not in a 'Polite Allies' kind of way, in the kind of way where you guys get married and somehow have half-undead kids kind of way."
Kael'thas just froze, his mouth hanging agape for about 2 minutes.
"Um..Kael'thas?"
Kael began to tip over.
"Oh, wait, he's blacking out."
Kael'thas fell over, and Li-Ming caught him by the hair.
"Oh jeez… What do I tell the others? And more importantly, what do I tell Sylvanas?"
Consort: Li-Ming told Kael now. And then he blacked out. Next chapters going to be focusing on Kael and Sylvanas' relationship a bit more.
Stockholm syndrome? Maybe. She is sort of getting to like them.
Just like how gross pictures of favorite characters get burned in, don't they? And then they dont go away fOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS.