Author's note: Alright people! Here it is; the second installment of this story. You know, it was a hard choice for me to decide where and when! Should I have placed Kenshiro for the first time in Azeroth. After much consideration, and taking into account all the other fics of warcraft that have been done with a premise similar to this one before….

I decided for going for something that hasn't been done by other authors, because I like being original in my works (If you check carefully, all my other stories are usually the only ones of their category) I put him during certain events that I'm sure would take many of you by surprise.

BTW! I need help in getting some things for my source material of WOW.

I need you to send me all the information you have about all the string of quests and events that comprise the main campaign of WOW for both, the Horde and the Alliance. Starting with the burning crusade up to mysts of Pandaria so that I may have a very well descripted timeline, although I'm more interested in the events of Cataclysm and Mysts since I haven't played the last 2 expansions because they didn't caught my fancy and I particularly didn't cared about them.

After Arthas died, I stopped playing since I didn't cared anymore what would happen to Azeroth after the most badass villain of the series was dead. All I know about the events of the last 2 expansions is:

Deathwing invades, he fucks the world, then he's killed, Koriastraz dies, and all dragons lose they so called immortality (same like the night elves). From Pandaria, Garrosh destroys Theramore by dropping a mana bomb on the city and Rhonin dies saving Jania from the bomb (this one was a shock when I learn it), The Horde and Alliance goes to war and during the conflict they find Pandaria, tensions mount due to the presence of both factions in the new continent, Garrosh revives some kind of Panda Thunder King (don't know why?), The Alliance invades Orgrimmar, they fuck Garrosh and the pandas take him to stand trial. And Jaina's hair turns white and she starts to act like a militaristic tight-ass (this I didn't like)

As you can see, I really need to broad my knowledge in the latest WOW lore, so any help will be appreciatted. Anyway, with that out of the way... Let's begin with this chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own either World of Warcraft or Hokuto No Ken. They belong to their respective authors. I forgot to put this thing in the last chapter.


CHAPTER 1

The shores of a new land

The first thing Kenshiro felt, after stepping out of the portal, was the blinding light and warmth of a foreign sun. His eyes squinted in irritation and he raised a hand to shield them from the garish light.

He needed a few moments for his senses to adapt to his new surroundings. Once they were settled enough, he began to acertain his position and realized that he was in the middle of a forest.

For a moment, Kenshiro simply stood there, marveling at the beauty and serenity of nature. It had been many, many decades since he had last seen a tree, much less a forest, in such pristine condition. Not since before the nuclear war that had destroyed his world. He had resigned himself long ago to the notion that everything green had been eradicated from earth and all that was left was an arid desolated wasteland.

He could hear birds chirping happily among the canopy of trees, another thing that he had never expected to witness again. The memories of what his world had once been and what it was now began to flood on his mind. Seeing all this long lost beauty was almost enough to bring a tear to the eyes of the imposing warrior.

SPLASSSHHH!

His musings were interrupted by the sound of something big hitting water. Feeling the need to investigate, Kenshiro went towards the direction of the noise.

He was once more surprised when he found himself atop of a cliff, overlooking an immense valley below. From his position he could not only see all the expanse of the forest but also the snow-caped outlying mountains and a great river running through the middle of the valley, it made for a very breathtaking sight.

His mind went back to the reason of what was he doing here when he saw a figure on the river being washed ashore. Immediately, he sprang into action and jumped from the cliff towards the land below. Using the speed and agilty he had gained from his intense training, it wasn't long before he reached the riverbed.

Once there, he discovered that the figure that had been washed on the shore was a man, who by the looks of it, seemed to be wounded. He quickly pulled him out of the water and laid him carefully to rest over a rock, before setting himself to work on his injuries.

He was surprised to see that these man pressure points were radically different from that of a normal human being. Some of them were inverted, others were on total different locations; and many more were unknown to him. He started to suspect that this man may not be entirely human. But he didn't have time to dwell on his suspicious, so he decided to work on the pressure points that he knew and were easy to identify, to heal this man.

-Nnnngh!-

The man started to stir. It seemed he was waking up. Any word he was about to say was interrupted by the sound of a new voice.

-KALEC!-

-KALEC!-

Kenshiro turned and saw a very young woman of fair hair (who looked barely on her mid-teens) running frantically at his direction with worry etched on her pretty face.

"KALEC! Stay away from him! What are you doing to him!?" She asked him, obviously pretty concerned for the fate of the wounded man.

Kenshiro brought a hand up to signal her to remain calm. "Easy. I saw how you friend here was dragged ashore by the river. So I helped him to get out of the water when I took notice of his wounds. I am just in the middle of treating his injuries."

That answer brought an embarassed response out of the girl, once she realized he wasn't trying to do anything against his friend health. "Oh!?" she offered a little bow as apology "I'm sorry if I seemed a little rash in my assumptions. It wasn't my intention to unlawfully acusse you of any wrongdoing, kind sir. I was just worried for my friend's wellbeing… How is he?" she asked, pretty desperate for his friend.

"He is fine. I was just finishing with my ministrations. He should wake up at any moment now."

-Nnnnnngh!-

True to Kenshiro's words, the man began to stir once more. The girl immediately kneeled at his side to speak to him. She seemed pretty happy to have found him unharmed.

"Kalec! I'm glad to found you alive!"

"An… Anveena?" The man, Kalec, struggled to say.

"Shhh!" The girl shushed him tenderly, clearing a strand of hair away from his face.

"Uuuuugh!" the man was taken by unconciousness once more.

"Kalec!"

Kenshiro decided to speak to dissipate the young girl fears. "He is fine; he's just tired by his ordeal. We should let him rest to allow him to recover his strenght."

"…Yes… You're right…" The girl standed-up and turned towards Kenshiro, who was still on his own prone position on the ground in front of Kalec. "Thank you for taking care of him. My name is Anveena, may I ask yours?" she said really politely.

"My name is Kenshiro." Answered the Hokuto master impassibly.

Anveena happily nodded in acknowledgement "Can ask a favor of you, mister Kenshiro? Can you take good care of Kalec for me? I'm pretty sure he's going to be hungry once he awakes, so I'm going to go look on the woods for something for him to eat."

"Would you be alright on your own?" Kenshiro asked, considering if it was a bad idea to let a young girl go running on her own inside some strange woods.

"Don't worry about me; I've been living among these woods my entire life. I know them like the back of my hand." Anveena said pretty non-chalant.

Still, Kenshiro took his time to consider her request. After a moment he agreed with a wordless nod.

"Great! Just sit tight and keep an eye on him. I'll be back before you know it." The girl said, before heading into the woods and losing herself from sight. In the meantime Kenshiro decided to focus in fixing something up that could help as a bandage for the injured man in front of him.


Just as she promised, the girl returned not too much time later carrying a handful of apples in her slender arms. "Here, Kenshiro! I found some apples!" She announced, before tossing one of the red fruits towards the 64th successor of Hokuto, who caught it pretty deftly by just lifting his palm.

The girl then went to sit over where Kalec was and just in time too, as the bruised man was starting to wake up again. It was safe to say that Kalec was surprised to see the girl.

"A…Anveena… You… You're still here? How much have you been waiting for me to wake up? Why didn't you leave when you had the chance?"

"Don't be silly. I haven't been waiting for long for you to wake up, to tell the truth." Anveena replied with a smile and then motioned towards Kenshiro "Mister Kenshiro - over here! - fished you out of the river and was very kind to treat your wounds and keep watch over you while I went to the woods to find something for us to eat. It is him you should thank for saving your life."

Kalec turned the best he could to look towards Kenshiro. "I thank you for your assistance. If you hadn't helped me, I probably would be dead. I'll make sure to repair you this kindness somehow."

"That it's not necessary. I simply cannot stand iddle when I see someone in danger in front of me. You should not thank me for what I've done." Kenshiro replied with a wave of his hand, trying to dissuade Kalec from any notion of debt that he may feel.

But the injured man was not going to let the matter drop that easily. "Still, you deserve my thanks. Not many people would have stop to lend aid to some stranger, especially in these times. Your kindness should not go unrequitted so easily."

Kenshiro stared at the injured man for a moment. After considering his words in his mind, he decided that maybe there could be a way to settle this man's conciousness. He gave a slight nod. "Very well, if you are so kind as to answer me a question then, I would consider your debt repaid."

Kalec acknowledged Kenshiro's proposal. "Very well, ask your question."

"You are not human are you?" Asked Kenshiro in a tone that seemed more a statement than a question.

For a moment Kalec became briefly nervous by that question, but then as if realizing that if Kenshiro had wanted to do him any harm he should had already done it by now, he calmed again and replied. "Yes, you are correct. Did you realize this when treating my wounds?"

Kenshiro replied with another nod. "Correct. I noticed certain aspects of your physiology to be radically different from that of a common man."

Kalec let out an amused laugh after hearing that. "Ha! And here I thought my disguise was pretty flawless… In any case, yes I'm not human. In truth I'm a dragon in human form, I've been running from some hunters for a while now and to my great distress, I've unwillingly put Anveena in danger too since she found me when I was first attacked by the hunters and nursed me back to health and has stubbornly remained by my side despite my constant warnings of how dangerous it is for her to remain close to me."

Understandably, the answer caught Kenshiro by surprise. It's not everyday when he finds someone who claims to be a real living dragon, if Lorkhan hadn't told him beforehand that this new world was inhabited by other species besides humans, we would had tought Kalec a madman. He didn't let any of his surprise to be shown in his face, however, other than just a brief rise of his eyebrow.

Kalec then turned the best he could to adress the young girl. "Which reminds me as to why you are still here Anveena? You shouldn't have stayed, it's too dangerous."

"I couldn't leave without knowing if you were still alive." Replied Anveena while, at the same time, offering one of the apples in her posession to him.

Kalec however, ignored her offerings, still concerned by what he believed to be Anveena's predilection for courting danger. "They could have found you." Still burdened by his thoughts, the Dragonkin finally accepted the girl's gift and took a bite out of the apple. "We were lucky; they must have thought we drowned."

After consuming the apple, Kalec began to look at his hands intently, as if he couldn't believe some revelation that only he realized. "I should have drowned, long before Kenshiro could have found me. The fall should have been enough to kill me! I don't understand how I'm still alive… or how I ended up changing back again."

A yawn escaped from Kalec's mouth, he tried to stiffle it the best he could "But it's a good thing I did. It allowed me to be washed up on the shore." He then lay back on the rocks; he was finally succumbing to weariness. "If I had stayed on my true form, I would have sunk to the bottom of the river and truly drowned."

The girl tried to reassure him. "Don't worry anymore. You just rest for now."

The injured dragonkin tried to resist, however. "I Sh… Shouldn't… you need… to go back to your parents…

Anveena gently sushed him and put a hand on his temple, tenderly. "Shhh… Tomorrow… Now, you sleep." And unable to disobey that order, Kalec was finally taken by the dream. Only Kenshiro and the girl remained awake now, looking over him and the sun was beginning to set already.

"You should do the same and try to get some sleep for yourself" Kenshiro said, impassive. "I'll guard over you two while you sleep and keep an eye out for trouble."

The girl couldn't supress the need to stretch and let her own yawn out. She was beginning to feel tired too. "I wouldn't want to impose mister Kenshiro. You have done much already to help us, it wouldn't be proper to make you sacrifice your own hours of sleep for our sakes."

"It is no trouble." Replied the impossing man, reassuringly. "This is not the first time that I have to camp while guarding over others or sleeping with an eye open. I assure you; I will not stay up for too long nor lose too many hours of sleep if that's what concerns you. Trust me."

Anveena decided to take him on his word withouth any complaint "Very well, I'll take your word for it." She began to snuggle on Kalec's side "Have a good night mister Kenshiro and don't let the bedbugs bite you." she said before promptly falling asleep. Kenshiro remained awake and alert until he was sure there were no dangers nearby and once he was sattisfied, he too, decided to take his 20 winks.


The next morning the 3 companions by circumstance were ready to depart. Both Anveena and Kalec were a little astounded when they saw Kenshiro stand to his full-height, they had already saw he was pretty brawny -it was really hard not to notice all his muscles- but they didn't imagined he would be so tall and impressive, he easily towered over both of them. Kalec couldn't help but feel a little intimidated by such a great and hard wall of muscle while Anveena was marveled by his physical fitness. It was safe to assume for both of them that Kenshiro must be quite the powerful warrior.

They set off back towards Anveena's home; Kenshiro was assisting Kalec to walk while Anveena guided both of them through the woods. Soon enough, they began to converse among themselves.

"Sh-shouldn't be long now. I can walk the rest of the way." Kalec said, wanting to stop being a burden for the others.

The young girl wasn't keen of that idea, however. "I would not think of it! Kenshiro, don't let him go!"

"You two have done far too much for me already." The disguised dragon said, demurely. "And you, Anveena, need to run back home! You need to let your parents know you're…" but his words were cut abrubtly when the trio saw a column of smoke rising above the canopy of trees, and it was coming from the direction of Anveena's home.

"NOOOOO! MOTHER! FATHER!"

The girl took off the moment she saw the smoke, a horrible feeling of dread swelling inside her heart. His companions tried to stop her from doing anything rash. Whatever that had struck her home could still be lingering around.

"A-Anveena! Hold on!" Of course, any word of caution simply fell on deaf ears.

Kenshiro went after the girl, dragging Kalec with him; he was not going to leave the girl alone with danger prowling around. The two of them soon catched-up with the girl and found her standing in helpless desperation in front of the fiery crumbled remains of what had once been her home.

There was no word of comfort that they could offer her and could only stare somberly how she shed tears for her parents and tried in vain to look for any sign of them among the burning remains.

"No… No… No… Mother… Father… I can't find them…"

Kalec could only curse at their bad fortune. "Those damn monsters! Why!?"

Crack!

Their thoughts were interrupted by the sound of wood being cracked behind them. The moment they looked behind their backs, they found themselves by attacked by horrible crature lunging at them.

KRAAAAA!

It looked like a man, except his visage was horrible, wretched and disfigured. He was tall, almost 2 and half meters tall and he looked pretty overweight. His entire body was covered by stitches, his skin looked dry and sick, his nails were long and sharpened into claws, there were no irises in his eyes only an unnatural and disturbing whiteness, his prominent stomach was burst open leaving his intestines hanging for all to see, and there were pieces of bone and ribs protruding from out his body. In short, it looked like their attacker was a reanimated corpse.

Kenshiro didn't wasted time and knocked Kalec out of harm's way, leaving him to face this creature head-on. The undead monstruosity used his momentum to launch a slash with one of his big chubby arms intending to tear Kenshiro apart with his claws. Both the creature and Kenshiro's two companions were utterly surprised when he stopped that devastating attack abruptly with only one finger.

-Urk!?-

Taking advantage of the creature's confusion, Kalec stood up back again and summoned a sword out of thin air which he then used to decapitate the creature in one single motion.

AAAAAAAH!

SLASH!

THUD!

But to the surprise of all, the creature kept moving and the headless body turned around and lunged at Kalec.

"Hooooooooo! HYA!" Kenshiro reacted by kicking the creature in the back and send it flying at least 10 meters away from them. It was a very good kick, to tell the truth.

The creature stood up and was getting ready to attack again, Kalec raised his sword and was about to rush at the creature to meet it in combat when the unded abomination froze in his steps and began to spasm and trash wildly.

BLLLHHH! BLEEEEEEEERGH!

The body of the creature began to bloat horribly; it looked as if tumors were suddenly growing on him out of nothing, disfiguring the dimensions of his body most disturbingly by pulsating and expanding through bone and tendons and giving the impression that at any moment they could rip the boddy apart from the inside. The tumors reached a critical point and ended up exploding in a gory fashion, spewing corrupted blood and tissue everywhere, and leaving of the undead abomination nothing but a blood-stained smear on the floor.

The brutal display shocked Kalec to his core. He had never seen such a gruesome and violent death in all his years. "Wha… What… What just happened…?"

"That is the effectiveness of Hokuto Shinken, The Divine Fist of the North Star, the martial art I'm practinioner of." Replied Kenshiro with his grave voice. "This merciless art makes use of the opponent's pressure points to destroy their bodies from within. In its 2000 years of history, the Hokuto has never been defeated by any other art, it is an art so deadly that only one successor per generation can be chosen to wield it. It is the ultimate and invincible killing art."

Kalec was almost speechless after that declaration; even Anveena was physically appealed by the brutality of Hokuto, the death of her parents' semmingly forgotten from her mind at the moment.

"I have never heard nor seen of such a mounstruous art before. To think such a thing exists in this world." Kalec said, still unable to overcome his shock. From the corner of his eye he caught glimpse of a green fire, appearing suddenly, behind Anveena and of the figures coming out from the flames. More undead!

The prescence of this new danger was enough to pull him out of his stupor. "Anveena! Look out! Behind you!

"Huh?" Anveena turned around cluelessly and found herself attacked by another undead.

RAAAAARGH!

"(Gasp) NO!"

If she hadn't jerked back and tripped on the ground at the last moment, she would have been cut in twine. But the problem was that she was now lying helplessly on the ground and open to any kind of attack.

"I'm coming, Anveena!" Kalec said, before rushing in her defense. He didn't see the metal collar, tied with a rope, flying through the air and about to land on his head.

But the girl did. "Kalec! Behind you!"

"What?" was all Kalec could say before the collar constricted around his neck and began to dispense several hundred bolts of electricity down his body.

"AAAAAARGH!"

"Kalec!"

A second metal ring was about to fall around Anveena's neck too… But it was intercepted at the last moment.

"What!?" Anveena turned to look behind her and found Kenshiro with his hand tightly enclosed around the metal ring that was destined for her.

"You should strive to keep a better eye on your surroundings." He said before kicking the undead monster, which was still behind her, in the chin and sending him flying several dozen feets back.

Like his companion before, the undead abomination stood up again, almost immediately, and snarled at the enormous figure of Kenshiro. Only to stop abruptly mid-noise, before his body began to bloat and expand in unnatural proportions. The now familiar tumors appeared and grew to a critical point before exploding in a shower of gore, leaving the rest of the undead horde frozen in shock, alongside their master.

It was then that the 3 companions took notice of the man who seemed to be in control of this undead horde. He had a lot of sharp and pointy features in his person and attire; a pointy long red traveler's hat with wide brim acompanied by a pointy red cape with pointy shoulder guards that rose sligthly up, a long sharp face with long and thin eyebrows, he even had long pointy ears that could be seen among his long dark hair same as his nose. It was clear the man was another non-human.

"Who are you stranger….!? What kind of power you possess, that you are able to destroy one of my minions so utterly with a single strike!?"

Kenshiro bore his gaze upon the man and stared at him long and hard with his impassive face. "I must assume it is you who's behind the destruction of Anveena's home and this unwarranted attack against my companions. This unprovoked agression and murder of innocent people will not go unpunished! Tell me! What wickedness drove you to commit such hineous acts!?"

"Hineous acts!?" replied the man with a smug smile. "You misunderstand; let me introduce myself first before correcting you from your mistake…" The man said before performing an elaborated bow with his cape that had too much cockiness in it that one could believe he was mocking Kenshiro.

"I am Darkhan, a gentle soul by nature… So you should know that what I do; I do it by neccessity! For I am searching for something I have lost, though not from any fault of my own. Recently, I've been led to believe your little friends may know something about it." The man, Darkhan, raised his index finger in front of him, where a ring with a prominent jewel was being sported. There was an odd aura around the ring and Kenshiro could feel his senses telling him it was magical in nature.

Darkhan motioned with his hand towards Kalec with the ring on the lead and the collar around the Dragonkin neck began to tighten and cause him more pain.

NNNNNNNNNGH!

"Although they are not elves, I believe they may be able to help me…"

Kenshiro was having enough of this man's arrogance. "ENOUGH! You say you're kind, yet your actions prove otherwise. Stop hurting my companions or I will be forced to take matters on my own hands"

Darkhan released a bored sigh at Kenshiro's statement. "You know I was hoping I could enlist the help of such impossing warrior like you to aid me in my search. But I see I'll have to dispense of you instead, what a pity…" he said before raising his ring again and using the magic of the jewel to activate the collar in Kenshiro's fist.

The collar locked itself tigthly around Kenshiro's palm and began to shock the imposing martial artist with hundreds of volts.

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH!

Despite the apparent pain that Kenshiro was forced to endure, he refused to kneel in defeat and only a slight foward lurch of his upper body was the single evidence of his discomfort.

KENSHIRO! Screamed Anveena in concern for her friend.

HA! HA! HA!

Darkhan laughed, arrogantly, amused at the martial artist defiance and took the chance to toss another collar towards Anveena. This one found his mark withouth any impediment.

"AH!"

Seeing the successor of Hokuto still standing, The Dark Sorcerer adressed Kenshiro. "You are truly the mighty warrior that you appear. Not many would still be standing after a shock from one of those collars, but your resistance will prove futile in the end. No man, no matter how strong, could hope to break through one of these collars. They are of dwarven make you see… The collar will tighten the more you struggle, so it would pain me to see you suffer needlessly…"

Despite the taunts and the constant pain, Kenshiro was not willing to yield easily. "Do you always underestimate your enemies so? Withouth first learning about their abilities? It will be your doom in the end." He said, before standing tall once more and began making use of the strenght gained thanks to the mastery of Hokuto.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

His muscles bulged and hardened even more, his veins became too tick, so much that they were now easily visible through his skin. Kenshiro began to show an unearthly strenght and the collar attached around his fist cracked and broke in several pieces by just clenching his appendice; leaving all who witnessed this feat of might, spechless and Darkhan with a cold feel of dread at the back of his head.

"Impossible! No mortal has the strength to break trough those bonds! How did you do it!?" Darkhan said, reeling back from shock.

CRACK! CRACK!

The reply came with the noise of Kenshiro cracking his knuckles. "Almost every human being only uses the 30% of their body potential during their entire lives. The art of Hokuto allows for their practitioners to unlock the remaining 70%. So I can use the 100% of my body's power at any given time during a fight."

Darkhan grimaced, unsatisfied with this recent development. He retreated back into his horde of undead and sent them forth. "Tsk… Deal with him, all of you!"

And just like that several dozen of undead monsters lunged at Kenshiro, grunting and snarling all the way.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHH!

"KENSHIRO! LOOK OUT!" Anveena screamed in terror.

Kenshiro's answer was to take deep breath and then his muscles started to bulge and expand even more. His jacket, unable to contain the increaing bulk of his body, slid off from his shoulders and down from his arms before falling on the ground (*). The muscles of Kenshiro turned at least 4 times bigger and his height increased as a result, turning the martial artist from a wall of muscles to a fortress with legs! Anveena and Kalec could only simply stare jaw-slacked as result.

The undead horde was almost upon him and Kenshiro stood his ground ready to face them.

HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…

And then he launched an endless storm of punches. His fists moved too fast for the eye to follow, raining down blow after blow upon the horde of undead in front of him, who were helpless to do anything but just stand there and get their bodies pummeled under the overwhelming barrage of attacks. The giant of a man went through their lines hiting all in his path mercilessly until he found himself behind his opponents.

HATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA… WACHA!

HOKUTO HYAKURETSU KEN

(Hundred Crack Fist)

For a moment, the entire battlefield remained in silence, Kenshiro was simply standing with his back towards his enemies not deeming them worthy enough to even take a glimpse behind to look at them; all the undead remained frozen on their spot, their bodies covered with fists marks and the 3 witness to the battle could only look in disbelief to what did just happened, but then…

U… Urk… BLEEEEERGH

SPLURT!

SPLURT!

SPLURT!

All the undead began to bloat and their bodies contorted and disfigured in unnatural proportions because of the tumors that were growing exponentially and tearing through limb and muscle, before reaching a critical mass and exploding in the now familiar shower of gore and fluids. By the end of the gory display, all the undead horde of Darkhan had been compleately anihilated leaving the elven sorcerer alone to face the wrath of Hokuto.

"Stay back! Don't get near me!" Darkhan yelled in fear, retreating back a few steps in desperation, knowing he was no match against such formidable foe in a straight confrontation.

He raised his ring once more and pointed it in the direction of his companions. "Maybe you are strong enough to break through my bonds, but your friends aren't! Take a single step towards me and their lives are forfited."

To make his point across he activated the collars once more wich began to electrocute both Kalec and Anveena.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGCK!

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH!

Darkhan began to gloat, safe in his assumption of holding the upper hand. "See? Your friends are helpless against my magic, better do what I say from now on or your friends will suffer the consequences."

Kenshiro didn't reply and only gazed at the sorcerer with a somber look, Anveena however, was horrified and Kalec could barely stand.

Darkhan began carrying on with his demands "Now I will just say this once more, you will help find what I'm looking for. You will answer my questions and you will do so truthfully, or else…"

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!

But before he could finish his tirade, Darkhan was distracted by a sudden roar.

"What!?"

And a blue dragon suddenly landed in front of him, teeth bearing.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!

The dragon spewed a torrent of flames at the elven sorcerer and he was forced to jump away to avoid being burned alive. Darkhan knew he had to shift his attention from Kenshiro and his friends and deal with this new menace if he wanted to see another sunrise. Seeing no other choice, he turned and faced the dragon and began to chant a spell.

"KY IBRI INOCH TODT…"

Taking a glimpse of a discarded weapon lying close in front of him, Kalec saw his chance and dived for it before running towards the distracted sorcerer just as he was finishing his spell. Meanwhile Kenshiro and Anveena were marveled at the sight of the impossing creature of fables battling the dark sorcerer.

"VEROT!"

A magical net of energy suddenly materialized above the dragon, trapping the creature compleately and leaving it unable to move. But because Darkhan was distracted in keeping his hold over the spell, he didn't saw Kalec rushing at him from the side and the disguised Dragonkin promptly cut off the finger where were the elf was wearing his ring.

SLASH!

AAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Losing his concentration over the spell, the net trapping the dragon dissipated and the creature promptly released another stream of flames, incinerating the cercenated appendage of the sorcerer alongside his ring.

Seeing the key to get rid of the collar around his neck being destroyed, Kalec couldn't help but scream his desperation. "NOOOOOOOOOO!"

Meanwhile Darkhan took his chance to run into the nearby woods and dissapear. Kenshiro saw him making his escape, but he didn't took pursuit, he rarely goes after retreating enemies when they have lost their will to fight, not unless there's a specific reason like tracking them back to their bases or trying to save a hostage. Often putting the fear of god in them is enough, the raider gangs of his world always did tended to disperse once he killed their leaders.

Kalec didn't noticed that the dark sorcerer had escaped though, he just stood there looking solem over the burning remains of the ring. A voice spoke behind him.

"Are you alright, Kalecgos?"

He answered withouth turning. "What are you doing here, Tyrygosa? I know Malygos didn't send you…"

The voice behind him replied and in that moment Kalec finnaly turned just as a hand was reaching for him "I feared for you, and I was right to do so. I only did what I should." It belonged to a beatiful auburn haired elven woman wearing a cape and a travel breastplate. "After all, I have to protect my future mate."


The small group of people took a few minutes to collect themselves, Kalec solely needed them after enduring Darkhan's tender ministrations and Anveena resumed her search for her parents among the burning wreackage of her home, Kenshiro lend her a hand to keep her safe from injury after putting his jacket back on. The newcomer, Tyrygosa, for some reason, was pretty adamant in leaving with Kalecgos as soon as possible and was growing impatient by his idleness.

"What are you waiting for, Kalecgos?" She asked, with a hint of impatience. "We can leave any time now."

"I'm not going to abandon her." Kalec replied in determination, glancing at Anveena while she scoured trough the remains of her home. "That would be cruel."

"She is not one of us." Replied Tyrygosa a little too despodently. "Her concerns are not ours."

"She saved my life and lost her family because of me." Kalec said guilt evident in his voice.

"Tsk… you worry too much Kalecgos. It's not like she would be all defenseless if you leave, not with that wall of muscles following her around." Tyrygosa said, referring obviously to Kenshiro.

Kalec had to repress a sight at his future mate stuborness. "That aside, I can't remove these collars; and neither can you. At the very least, we need to find someone who can."

"You worry over nothing. Malygos should be able to remove yours." Tyrygosa replied, unconcerned.

"But he would not allow a human to enter in our realm" Kalec said, not considering that idea as a viable option.

While the two dragonkin were busy bickering back and forth, Anveena made a discovery among the burning remains. There was an egg, of an amber color so bright and shiny as if it was made of gold. The young girl couldn't help but grab the egg with both of her petite hands in fascination.

The moment she took hold of the egg, the creature inside was starting to come out of its shell. "Oh, my!"

"What is it, Anveena? Is something the matter?" said Kenshiro, distracted by his perusal of the wreckage by the girl sudden gasp of surprise. He too became mildly surprised when he saw the girl holding a golden egg with a creature gestating out of it.

RAAAAC

RAAAAC

It was winged red lizard, not unlike a dragon except his body was long and thin like a snake, he was missing both of his legs only having the upper extremities as limbs, and his head looked too disproportionated big when compared with the rest of his body. But for some strange reason, Anveena found the little creature cute. The creature didn't wasted time to learn to fly.

The two dragonkins stopped their bickering for a moment to stare at the creature in surprise. "Kalecgos! What is that!?"

"I don't know." Was Kalec dumbfounded answer.

Ignoring the two Dragonkin talking about the creature, Kenshiro focused his attention solely on the girl. It seemed the little dragon had taken a liking to her quite fast as he was now licking and rubbing himself against her cheek.

The voice of Kalec coming closer pulled everybody out of their thoughts "Anveena."

The girl answered quite startled. "Kalec!? I am sorry. I lost track…"

Kalec interrupted her mid-statement "Anveena… Your family… I'm sorry…"

The mood of the girl went down a little when she was reminded of her recent loss. "It… It's all right, Kalec. You could have done nothing about it."

"Forgive me for asking… but did you know anything about their past." Kalec asked as most gently as he could.

"We have always lived here…" Replied the girl, mildly surprised by that question. "But they know someone in Tarren Mill, I think."

"Who?" Kalec asked.

"I've never meet him." Anveena admitted. "But they spoke of him a lot. His name is Borel; and he seems to know quite a lot." She said while petting the little creature curled around her hand.

"Borel? Maybe he can help. Tarren Mill isn't far from here…" Kalec said, thinking out loud.

"This is preposterous." Said Tyrygosa with derision. "We are supposed to go to some human town and track down someone she's never even seen? Let her go herself, the walk will do her good."

"Yes we are going too, Tyry." Said Kalec with determination "It doesn't sound like it will take long, then it will be safe for us to return to the lair."

That little tidbit seemed to perk up the dragoness quite a bit. "Well, if that's the case." She said saucily before she began to emanate a white light and turn into her imposing dragon form. "Then climb aboard and let's be off from this place!"


Well here you have it, the second chapter for this story. Took me quite a bit to have it ready since I haven't had much time to write because of work, now that I'm done with this chapter I better focus on updating my other story since I haven't done it in a while.

Anyway, don't forget to review and tell me how you liked this story.

(*) Something that has always baffled me is the number of jackets and shirts, Kenshiro can rip in a single episode every time he gets buff, how the hell he does to replace all those shirts is something beyond me. So in order to avoid such issue, I'm just going to say that Kenshiro's jacket falls off him every time his muscles bulge.