Well, this is the last chapter. Kind of quick and short, like the rest of them, I know.

It was entertaining scribbling this down. I hope y'all enjoyed this little dinky bit of literature. I don't know if we will ever get around to continuing this little rp session (I'm trying to nudge the guildmaster in that direction). So, maybe someday this will be continued. We'll just have to see.

Thank you all for reading!

The Takeover

Part Four

He gritted his teeth and as stumbled against a building. The volume of the voice in his head increased as it tried to take him over again. He grabbed his head and groaned as he attempted to drown out the voice. He had to find someone, anyone, before the voice took over again. He had to save them…

Vork and Selinc looked up in shock when Ailious burst through the door and collapsed on the floor of the guild house. They rushed over and pulled him up into their arms. He struggled briefly, then his eyes seemed to focus on them.

"You…you ha..have to help…them…" Ailious said, clearly struggling to get it out. Slowly, in a strain roughened voice, he told Vork and Selinc what had happened, and where each of the kidnapped guild members could be found. By the end of the tale, Selinc stared at Ailious in shock, while Vork frowned in anger. He thought a moment, then took his hearthstone out of his pocket.

"You stay with him," he told Selinc. "I'm going to go after the others." Selinc nodded at him. Vork gripped the hearthstone tightly and was whisked away to Booty Bay. Selinc helped Ailious stand and moved him to sit at one of the tables.

Sciezka sat at the foot of the statue and shivered. The sun had long since sunk below the horizon, and the temperature had gone down significantly. Luckily, the huge stone statue had absorbed some heat during the day. Despite this, though, Sciezka shivered and wrapped her cloak tightly around her. While this certainly not the most uncomfortable or cold she had ever been, those other times, she'd had the ability to get away from what was causing it. She cringed as she heard the giant on the other side of the tiny island bellow again. Luckily enough, it seemed like he had no intention of coming to her side of the island, for which she was very grateful.

Suddenly, she heard a voice calling from the base of the island, on her side. She pulled as far as the chains would let her and saw Vork climbing up the north side of the island. She had never been so happy to see another person in her life. He pulled himself up beside her and looked at her attire with a raised eyebrow. She wrapped her arms around her body and glared.

"He took my armor, okay. I'm just lucky I had this in my pack." Vork's eyebrow raised even higher, if that was possible. "Just get me out of this, okay?" she said, yanking on the chains. With a little smirk that belied the seriousness of the situation, Vork make quick work of chains holding Sciezka in place.

"We have to hurry. Kyai and Telefor have also be captured, and we have to get them quickly," Vork said as Sciezka grabbed up her pack. She nodded and followed him to the gryphon master.

Soon after, Vork and Sciezka made their way to where Kyai had been hidden. The Priestess shivered violently in water that had reached her chest. They wasted no time with words. Vork made quick work of the chains and pulled the nearly hypothermic Night Elf out of the water. He moved her onto dry land, and Sciezka quickly fed a healing potion to her. Kyai looked up at them with questioning eyes.

"Something has happened to Ailious," Vork explained to Kyai. "He took you, Sciezka and Telefor to try and force the guild to turn themselves over to him." Kyai blinked up at him, still to cold to speak. "I have to go get Telefor before the start up the forges for the day. Can you take care of her?" Vork asked Sciezka. She nodded to him and he hurried off towards the Dwarven District.

"Well, lets see what we can do to get you warm," Sciezka said to Kyai as they headed into the city to find fireplace to put the chilled priestess in front of.

Telefor mentally cursed as he struggled against the chains holding him. He was determined to get out and stop the creature who had taken over Ailious, before the others were hurt. He kicked his feet against the bottom of the forge in frustration. He'd started pulling against he chains again when the door at the far end of the forge was yanked open. Several people looked back into the forge at him, including his guild mate Vork. One of the dwarven smiths started cursing about "people trying to ruin his good forge". Ignoring the profanities coming from the forge master, two of his assistants crawled into forge and freed the bound man. They pulled Telefor out of the forge, attempting to knock some of the soot from the forge off of his armor. Vork looked him over to make sure he was alright, then bowed to the forge master.

"I apologize for this, and I thank you for helping me retrieve my guild mate." The dwarf just snorted and waved his hand towards the two.

"You can thank me by getting on so we can get to work." The two men just nodded and moved away, as the dwarf started whacking his assistants to get them moving.

"Where is Ailious?" Telefor asked quickly. "He said he'd taken Kyai and Sciezka as well…" Vork nodded quickly.

"Don't worry, they are safe…"

Before he could continue a form rose up in front of them and struck them both down. The furbolg roared and was about to hit them again when he was stuck by an axe wielded by Selinc. The paladin moved between the furbolg and the two men, but the monster just growled and ran towards the front gate of Stormwind.

Selinc bent down to help Telefor up, and noted that Vork had been rendered unconscious. The two looked at each other and frowned. They couldn't just leave Vork there, but they couldn't let the furbolg get away either. Luckily, a priestess, who had been nearby, had seen the attack. "Leave him to me, I'll take care of him. You go after that thing," she said. Selinc and Telefor nodded and raced off after the furbolg.

Sciezka and Kyai had just walked out of the inn when they had to dive out of the way of the furbolg that ran past them. They stared a moment when Telefor and Selinc ran past them, clearly chasing the furbolg. The two women looked at each other a moment then followed after their guild mates.

The furbolg ran out of the gates, furious. All his plans had come apart before his eyes. He roared in frustration and spun around to face down his pursuers. He slashed his claws at Selinc, causing her to jump back. He roared again as the four of them faced him down.

"You think you have won, but I am still in control. I shall not…,"

Suddenly, a white light surrounded him, and the furbolg was replaced by Ailious. He trembled and fell to his knees. The guild mates made to go to him, and he waved them back.

"No, stay away," Ailious said frantically. "I don't know how long I can hold him back. You…you have to defeat us. It's the only way!"

"No! We cannot kill you! You are our leader!" Kyai yelled, denying his words.

"You have to…" Ailious started, then he choked, and, in another flash of white light, the furbolg re-appeared.

"Yes, little one, kill us, it is the only way," the furbolg said in a mocking tone. "You won't save him. I've got him, and I won't let him go now." Telefor ran forward and attacked the furbolg, only to be knocked away. Kyai knelt beside him, casting a quick healing spell.

"Why are you doing this?" demanded Selinc. She kept her eye on the furbolg, knowing she was no match for this monster who had somehow managed to take over their guild leader. But they were also the only ones who could do anything about it. She spotted something tucked into the monsters belt, some kind of rod. Suddenly, the light appeared again and Ailious stood in front of them. Selinc had kept her eye on the rod, though, and came to the conclusion that it was what was causing all this. She nudged Sciezka and nodded towards the item. Sciezka looked at it and frowned. They had to get it away from them. Before they could try anything, though, the light flashed again and the furbolg had reappeared.

"Power, little human. Nothing more than that. And I will have it, one way or another." The furbolg ran towards them, ready to attack, when a sword swung down in front of him. The furbolg fell back and growled at the newcomer. None of them recognized the man. He pushed forward, attacking the creature. Selinc called out to him, "The rod, that's what's causing this." The man nodded and swung again, slicing through the belt and knocking the rod away onto the ground.

Almost instantly the light flashed again and Ailious reappeared. He fell to the ground, unconscious. The stranger nodded to the group and strode away, not waiting for greetings or thanks. The four surrounded their guild leader, and Kyai healed his wounds. As the other three helped Ailious to his feet, Selinc removed some cloth from her pack and used it to pick up the rod from the ground. She wrapped it in more cloth and stuck it in her pack, following after her guild mates as they escorted their guild leader back to the guild house. She wasn't sure what had happened, but she was going to find out someway or another.