A/N I have recently updated the first few chapters and added a new one. Please R&R. If anyone has the time, I would like a volunteer to be my betareader as well.

Blood of the Sentinels

Teradu knew he was dreaming, but it was a pleasant dream. Amira was running before him; her long graceful legs moving rapidly. She seemed to be happy, and her long hair streamed behind her.

Teradu ran after her, equally happy. All around them the forest seemed to blur. Suddenly the landscape began to change. It began to turn less green, and the trees became sparser. The grass turned brown and dead.

A strange feeling of foreboding fell upon Teradu's dreamself. He called out to Amira, but she kept running. He shouted, but he still couldn't get her attention. Suddenly a coast appeared before her.

He shouted again, and Amira turned around smiling. She opened up her arms and let herself fall into the sea.

Teradu ran to the sea and shouted for her; he could see her sinking. A sense of utter panic overwhelmed him, and the sea rose towards, threatening to take him into its embrace.

A scream woke him. He looked around his room. Sunlight flooded in from the window, but the peacefulness was ruined by a second shout. This time Teradu could make out one word "Naga"!

Naga were the terrors of the tide, and the sworn enemies of the night elves. Many sailors had lost their lives and belongings to naga pirates.

Teradu ran out of the small building, ready to fight.

Forest Song was in turmoil. Those night elves and draenei that couldn't fight ran for the nearest buildings while those that could were locked in combat with naga. The Silverwing Sentinels that guarded Forest Song fought with bow and arrows, and a few night elves fought with their deadly throwing glaives.

"Teradu!"

He saw Priestess Sakara running towards him. A wave of relief passed over him. "Akel is fighting the naga at a glade near here. The few priestesses in the outpost are healing the wounded, but the Sentinels are beginning to weaken!"

"Priestess Sakara," Teradu said, "I must go and aid my master."

"No," she shouted. "A group of naga got past the defenders and we are hard pressed. Follow me; I think we can use your talents."

Teradu followed Sakara to the edge of the outpost. There ten Sentinels were fighting against a large group of naga. The naga males were overpowering the Sentinels while the female naga cast their spells from behind. One of the Sentinels fell after a bolt of arcane energy hit her on the chest. Sakara rushed to her side.

"Elements aid me!" Teradu said. The wind began to pick up as the Air Spirit answered Teradu's call. He roared as lightning shot from his hands and into the chest of three naga. One after the other, the naga fell down dead.

One of the naga sirens noticed Teradu for the first time. "A ssspell cassster," she hissed. She began to sing in a surprisingly beautiful voice; her four arms danced in intricate shapes and a strange beast appeared, summoned by her spell. The beast looked like a fel stalker, but its skin was scaly and green.

The naga siren summoned three more.

The creatures began to search the air with their tentacles as they sensed Teradu.

He felt the fear set in as they ran towards him. Sakara saw him frozen in place, and she shouted at him to run, while running towards him.

Right before the first fel stalker reached him Sakara kicked it in the throat, it went down with a squeal. "Run little shaman," Sakara said while calling upon the might of the Naaru. Sakara began to glow with a shining light. "Go! I will hold them back."

"No," Teradu said. "I can help!"

Sakara shot a bolt of light at the fel stalker that jumped at her. The demon glowed and flew backwards. "You have to heal the Sentinels."

"If you insist priestess," Teradu said.

She nodded and smiled while she fought the fel stalker with her Naaru given might.

The fallen Sentinel was still alive but barely. Teradu hurried to her side and called on the healing energies of the water and fire spirits. A healing wave passed through all ten Sentinels, and the fallen one appeared to be stronger.

Then Teradu remembered Sakara. He turned to see the spot where he last saw her. The priestess had killed one of the naga stalkers, but the other three had become more wary. One lunged at her from her from the side. She punched it in the eye, but then she tripped over one of the other two. Sakara screamed as one of the fel stalker tore into her leg. The other two began to drain her magical energy. They acted like any normal fel stalker! Teradu thought in alarm.

"Priestess!" Teradu shouted as Sakara was torn to shreds. Anger surged through him. He called upon the Fire Spirit and sent a wave of fire at the fel stalkers, burning them to a crisp.

Even with Teradu's small victory the naga were still gaining ground. One of the Sentinels fell as a naga myrmidon pierced her body with his trident. Without more aid they would all die.

One of the naga sirens screamed as a shadowy blur crashed into her. It was a large black cat, a druid. The druid ripped the naga's throat out with his claws. Teradu saw one of the naga myrmidons began to charge towards the druid and begged for the Earth Spirit to slow him down. The earth buckled, and the naga fell as the druid attacked him.

When the naga was dead the druid began to transform, to reveal a feminine body; it was Amira. "Good morning shaman," she said with a grin.

Teradu returned the grin, but the oncoming naga caused him a little distraction. "We don't have time to chat Amira."

The naga were surprised by sudden Amira's attack and they faltered, searching for more attackers, but Amira appeared to be the only one. The Sentinels then attacked with more fury. As the naga began to retreat into the forest, Amira caused a few roots to drag them into the ground.

"That showed them," she said happily.

Teradu nodded, but then from the forest came a large demonic being. It looked like a doomguard of the Burning Legion, but, just like the fel stalkers, it was changed. Its formerly red skin was now scaly and green. Its ears looked like fins, and its head was more draconic. The weapon that it wielded was a scale and jewel encrusted sword.

"For Azshara!" it roared.

The few Sentinels that still stood fired at it with their arrows. While a few of the braver ones used their glaives.

The doomguard swung its sword, cutting one of the Sentinels in half. Ice fell from the sky as it raised its hand, impaling two of the defenders on long shards.

"I'll hold him off while you prepare a spell," Amira said to Teradu.

"Be careful Amira," Teradu said. "I don't want you to die."

She smiled grimly and ran to face the doomguard. From a pouch she carried she pulled out a handful of seeds and threw them at it.

The doomguard laughed, but when the seeds hit they exploded into a cloud of powder. The doomguard roared as the powder burnt its eyes.

Teradu closed his eyes to concentrate, not just any spell would kill the doomguard. He asked the Earth Spirit for aid and it responded willingly. As the ground began to tremble, both Amira and the doomguard gave it nervous looks.

A large tremble opened up a fissure under the demon. It roared, trying to flap its wings, but Amira called upon roots to pull him under. When the demon was pulled under, the fissure closed.

"That wasn't too hard," Amira said, running towards Teradu.

"I don't think it's over yet," he warned. "Stay alert."

"Of course General Teradu," Amira said with a grin.

A roar sent shivers down Teradu's spine. He looked at the forest and saw more naga, fel stalkers, and doomguards advancing under the command of a naga sea witch.

Amira's face paled; there was no way they could never defeat this legion.

More Sentinels and a few draenei had finally appeared from the other side of the forest.

Teradu ran to one of the draenei, "Where is Master Akel?"

The draenei looked at him solemnly. "We were doing well. Master Akel was dealing with most of the naga and demons until-"

"Until what?" Teradu shouted, grabbing him by the shoulders.

"A large night elf demon appeared, he called himself Illidan," the draenei said. "He- he killed Master Akel and many defenders. Then he left, flying towards Azshara."

Teradu felt the life drain out of him, his master dead? "Who is Azshara?" he asked, all the anger gone from his voice.

"Not who, what," the draenei said. "It is a coastline east of here, where the naga come from."

Teradu frowned, "Thanks," he said walking back towards Amira. It seemed that all of Azeroth was against him. He could feel his eyes start to tear up, but he held the tears back. Now was not the time.

Amira put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm so sorry."

"We'll have time to be sorry later," Teradu told her. "Right now we must defend Forest Song."

She nodded and turned to watch suspiciously as the naga sea witch approached the defenders. She carried a scythe in two of her six hands. The snakes in her hair hissed loudly.

The leader of the Silverwing Sentinels, Melyria Frostshadow, strode forward warily to meet her. "What do you want naga?" she asked.

"Queen Azshara has reclaimed the surface world and everything on it."

"I will never surrender to the accursed queen of the naga," Melyria snarled.

"Then you shall fall like those at Telrandis Point," the sea witch said.

A few Sentinels gasped. Telrandis Point was another Alliance outpost, and many had friends and family had lived there. "They really are invading the Kalimdor," Amira whispered to Teradu.

"We have to tell the rest of the Alliance," he whispered back. "This isn't good at all."

"For that you shall die this day sea witch," Melyria said.

"My name is Lady Mera Silferfang," the naga said, "and it is not I who shall die."

Melyria screamed as Lady Mera cleaved her in two. Most of the Sentinels charged the naga, Lady Mera just laughed. From the skies came icicles; naga doomguard had hidden behind the clouds. The Sentinels died under the onslaught.

It seemed that everything was lost, but from the woods came the call of a hunting horn. The denizens of the forest appeared, led by the dryad Illiyana. In her hands she held two javelins, behind her lumbered two tall walking trees, ancients.

Together with the two Sentinel leaders, Melyria Frostshadow and Luciel Starwhisper, Illiyana had begun the rebuilding of Forest Song. Now she came to defend it.

Ancients, dryads, and a few of the more vicious animals of the forest fought the naga, but Teradu could see that they were too little. "Amira, we should escape with the rest of the survivors."

"I will not run and let these filthy creatures overrun Forest Song!" Amira said.

"We have to."

"You don't understand!" Amira said with tears in her eyes. "My mother and father are probably dead, and so is my uncle. I have to find their bodies and return them to Teldrassil where they belong!"

"You will die if you try, Amira. We have to live to fight again," Teradu said.

Amira frowned, but nodded, wiping tears from her eyes. Luciel, the last remaining leader of the Silverwing Sentinels, came to the same conclusion as Teradu. "Retreat!" she shouted. "Retreat!"

Night elves and draenei began to move quickly. Illiyana and her forces still fought, but they were beginning to falter.

Teradu pulled Amira away from Forest Song; she walked as if in a daze. A place they had once thought safe had been utterly destroyed.