Author's Note:

It's an updaaate! I've been taking my sweet time exploring the broken shore and doing the new quests/dungeon! Am I the only one who hates Maiev to no end?

Thanks once again for all the views/follows/favourites and messages! It's really encouraging just to see that people are reading this!

We have lots of action today! I have drawn the cover of the story so that you can see how Selina looks like!

13/4/2017 update: FFN had some words/paragraphs scrambled ending up with sentences that didn't make sense, they are now fixed.

Chapter 2: Demon Hunters

A pleasant breeze ran through her silver hair, tickling her nose and caressing her skin. She lazily opened her eyes. The first rays of sun had shyly appeared behind the mountains and the first morning birds had already started their concert. Despite her lack of rest the past few days, she felt refreshed, she always was one to wake up early after all and didn't want to miss her morning practice. The campfire they had set the other night was out and there was just a thin trail of smoke emerging from the was then, she remember she wasn't travelling alone this time. Her companion was resting on the branch of the tree across her. She recalled falling asleep while he was talking about a demonic Dreadlord, rude. But hey he was rather rude to her as well.

She sat there for a moment staring at him. His chest rising rhythmically up and down, he was sleeping? Who was her to judge him; quietly standing up, she decided not to wake up the sleeping Behemoth, she could startle him and end up with her throat slit. She heard the flowing waters of a nearby river,she decided to walk there and wash her face. It was only a few meters away from their camp, and it looked like a really good spot to exercise, they should be fine even if Demons or random beasts attacked them.

~•~

The sound of a mockingbird's song made him open his eyeless eyes. For a single moment he thought that all these horrors and suffering he had endured for millennia was but a nightmare. His wife would be waiting for him to scold him for dozing off somewhere while serving him breakfast, he would return to the Moon Guard to mess with the newcomers and teach them how to use adept spells. Then reality hit him, the only people waiting for him was his Illidari, no other family to return to, only Demons and death.

Utter terror seized him upon realizing he had fallen asleep. Illidan wasn't the kind of person who would doze off,much more fall into a deep slumber. That accursed forest reminded him of old times,making him relax ; then again he had to recover his strength and his body might had acted by itself in order to do so. But that was preposterous, what if the demons had attacked them while they were asleep? They? That's right, he wasn't travelling alone, a young elf would escort him back to his Demon hunters? He was Illidan -fucking- Stormrage, why would he need an escort by a hectic elf; how could he agree to that mage's stupid plan, how obvious it was he was oblivious of what information the Legion could get. His resurrection had caused him the after effects of a hangover, that's why he never recalled protesting to that horrible plan, or given a stern scold to the elf that had experimented with the power of life to bring back Ragnaros.

Fully awake and with his strength almost fully recovered, he realized the hectic elf was missing. What was her name again? He stood up in fear the demons had taken her away, he sat down again calling himself an idiot. Taking a deep breath he used his Spectral Sight to locate elf was nearby the river, working out probably, using fighting moves in a certain pattern, as if dancing. Illidan could see her clearly despite his sight, something that made him wonder. Selina's hair was dripping wet, she probably had taken a bath, continuing her warlike dance without noticing him watching.

~•~

No more than an hour had passed and Selina decided it was time to return. On her way back she found an apple tree, she took a couple and put them in her leather backpack while eating one. She was so happy this place was like demon-free area, it almost amazed her. The Demon Hunter was sitting with his legs crossed under the same tree as before,but now his fel "eyes" were wide open.

"Good morning! When did you wake up?" She asked smiling.

"I don't sleep. " He answered coldly. He wasn't used on people being all nice to him without wanting something in return.

"Oh... you had your eyes closed so I thought..."

"I don't have eyes, I was meditating." He snapped at her.

"I'd swear I heard you snore..." She joked and,if looks could kill, Selina would be dead in an instant."You're not a morning person I take it...here I brought breakfast!" She said and handed him an apple.

It took him off guard, he looked at the apple then back at her.

"It's poisoned!" He said suspiciously.

"Why the hell would I poison it?!" She shouted in return.

Illidan stood there for a moment, realizing she really had no reason to poison him, probably was just being nice and didn't want something in return. Something he had forgotten. To him nice people were fools, and fools died fast in battle. He was better off without them.

He ate the apple with just two bites. The woman had already gone to their mounts, feeding her glowing blue horse and Illidan's nightsaber two juicy apples. The nightsaber would rather have a nice mouse for breakfast, but it didn't complain.

~•~

Illidan wasn't the most pleasant of the companies she could have, it made her stressed how much he distrusted her, he couldn't blame him either though, the man had been betrayed several times in the past and she was a total stranger to him. " You know, I don't think Khadgar's plan is the best... I mean, wouldn't the Demons know by now that Gul'dan has failed...?" She stated her concern to the Demon Hunter.

"Why didn't you tell him your thoughts then?" he replied.

" I did... "

"Well I can always just use a portal to get to the broken shore in an instant... " he shrugged.

"I can't disobey my orders!" Selina replied surprised.

"I will net no mortal order me around..." He answered irritated.

A tremor shook them. From beneath the earth, fel lava started pouring out, melting the grass and the daisies that had the bad luck of being there. Panicked murlocs ran past them, seeking shelter inside the forest. The happy chirping of the birds had ceased. A bunch of felhounds and felstalkers attacked them head on.

Both Illidan and Selina jumped off their steeds in an instant.

"It was getting too quiet after all!" She said summoning her weapon.

"Watch your footing." Illidan said remarking the fel energies that puddled under their feet.

All four of magic leeching beasts attacked Illidan eager to suck his magical energy, to him it was child's play. He used his fallen's Illidari warglaive to easily cut the head of the attacking monster. With a graceful spin of his body he used his second blade to cut in two the second attacking beast. He repeated in the same process on the remaining hounds.

He noticed a bit too late a Doomguard attacking Selina. He didn't have to help her though, the girl had fend for herself just fine. As the giant Doomguard sprinted to attack her with his huge Fel Axe, she had run under his colossal legs and assaulted him from behind with a small jump, striking with her weapon at full force on the base of the Demon's spine, its weak spot. The blade although blunt, easily cut to the demon's bones. Its massive form fell lifeless into the ground raising a wave of sand ,pebbles and blood.

~•~

"You're a natural... well done!"Illidan was surprised the girl acted so swiftly, going immediately for the creature's weak spot with such a reckless move. Maybe she wasn't as weak as she thought.

"You sound almost surprised mister Illidan!" The girl replied smiling, a single drop of sweat running down her temples.

"Quit calling me mister... you're irritating me." He said looking around for more demons.

Selina shrugged."I see no active demonic portals nearby..."He didn't complete his sentence as he noticed that the other elf was looking at the sky clunching her teeth.

"Oh crap..." she said. He sensed an enormous amount of fel power gathering into one place.

A Legion Spaceship had appeared above Dalaran. Two demonic portals conjured nearby them. Their steeds yelped scared.

" I knew it! They ambushed us instead!" The girl complained her fists tightly closed. " They never listen to me...! Had they listened to me in the first place we would be on Argus by now!"

Illidan left a short gasp, he didn't really understand what Selina meant, before he could ask her, the girl looked angrily at him, the first time he had seen her showing that kind of emotion.

"We need that portal...in Dalaran...Now!" She asked, more like demanded,pointing her finger to the floating city that laid a couple of miles ahead of them. Illidan didn't hesitate and created it, he knew the demons would be on them at any giving moment, so they went through the portal dragging their scared mounts along. When they emerged out of the portal in Krasus' Landing, Selina ran to Khadgar furious.

"I told you that would happen! We had no advantage in the first place!" She snapped at him startling him.

"We...had to try!" He defended himself.

"Why do you guys never listen?! Last time that happened, the Legion almost overtook us!"

"Calm down my dear, anger will only cloud your thoughts". The wise and old Draenei Prophet Velen replied.

In her fury she hadn't noticed his presence. Selina greatly respected the priest and always took his words in a high regard. Bowing to him she apologized.

"You need to hurry to the broken shore. Your teacher was one of the first to run there." Khadgar told her. He summoned an arcane raven.

It had all the arcane colors on its rich feathers, elegant and ready to carry her on the field of battle.

"He what?!" She shouted. An image of her master laying injured or worse, dead, filled her thoughts. She instantly jumped on the magical bird without a second thought.

She turned to Illidan, pointing her finger on a piece of floating land in front of them. It had a portal, and his Illidari banner was proudly standing next to it. "Your people are there." She stated and took off.

~•~

He'd had liked to follow her into battle. But first he had to see what was left of his followers, and gather them all up to help on the shore where the Demons now were laying waste to the through the portal he appeared inside a Legion spaceship, only now it was inhabited by his Illidari. The previous "captain" of the ship, a spider like demon was lying dead , and was chained on the roof of the enormous vehicle, a grim reminder to what happened to whoever opposed them.

Everyone seemed alert by the new Legion Invasion, then a short pause, all eyeless gazes on his figure. Suddenly all burst into happy shouts and cheering, Kayn ordered them to line up and they all knelt in front of their master. His high ranking officers after kneeling, ran to him, hope filling their hearts once again.

"My faithful Illidari..." He said. In the crowd he saw many familiar faces, and many absent as well. "I need to know what happened to you lot while I was...away." He asked his officers smoothly, dismissing the rest to prepare for their upcoming battle.

Kayn and Allari kept him completely updated, noting who had betrayed him and joined the Legion, who died honorably in battle and who remained to fight by his side. But the first thing he wanted was an answer ,why did they let the mortal elf lead them. He had seen just a portion of her skills in battle, but that wasn't nearly enough to convince him.

"Master... we are ready to pay any price for our decision...but please hear us out first." Allari said in her cool tone but her head lowered.

"Lady Selina... she... when you... perished, and we returned from the mission you had sent us, the Warden was there, ready to slay us all. Before she raised her weapon to strike us, she appeared...She stood in front of us trying to reason with her. We couldn't really understand what was going on at first, until we saw... your corpse...

The Warden was ready to attack her as well, she however kept trying, she told her that killing us would be like destroying their last weapon against the Legion... Maiev somehow got convinced. We were very weary and injured, we had no time to react...the Warden had striked us, killing a couple of us, then we got imprisoned into glacial prisons...

After years, we were finally awaken. The Warden had released us, still treating us as monsters, but then we saw Lady Selina, she was the first to come to lead us outside that hellish prison and was rather happy to do so."

Illidan was listening carefully, that bitch Maiev would of course had messed once again with what was his, even after his death. Anger poured in him. With his arms crossed, he listened to the story,hard to believe that stranger had defended them, trying to sense a motive for her actions.

Kayn also added " Lord Illidan... it was her, who with the help of a Naaru Prime reached out to you. She had been of an incredible assistance, even we had troubles believing it at first, since she wasn't one of our "kin".

But for weeks she kept fighting by our side, and her skills in battle had earned her title... of course now that you have returned Master, you decide what'll happen with her."

His commanders were convinced with Selina's skills in battle, he however had yet to be convinced. From what he had heard though he knew he owed that reckless girl a lot, so she had earned his respect for the time being. "That's enough of that...we need to head back to battle... let's show the Legion that they won't have it their way with our world!"

With that his Illidari raised their weapons and rode their felbats to battle. Illidan had to do a lot of preparations, and gather his strength for opening a portal to Argus. He knew that order to win this war, they had to enter Kil'jaeden's world sooner or later...

~•~

Once again the broken shore was being invaded by the Demonic horde and their fel powers. In that barren piece of land, king Varian Wrynn lost his life in the hands of Gul'dan, and warchief Vol'jin was mortally wounded. In the end both the Horde and the Alliance were mourning the loss of their demons were going all out in brutal attacks. Selina all armored up once again was running along the shore slicing up demons and looking for her master. Seeing guts littered across the ground, and heads smashed or burned, still disgusted her, but she was used to these kind of gruesome sights by now.

"Get outta my way!" She screamed slicing mindlessly a giant Imp that dared cross her. Her adrenaline was at top peak as she had yet to find her master. "Where is he?!" she shouted once again, cutting off the legs of a Darkhound. She heard an explosion and looked up. Khadgar had a plan, to plant some bombs on a Legion Ship and blow it up. One of their allies had accepted to do so and it seemed like they had accomplished their mission. And the battle was still going on.

"We'll back you up Slayer!" Maiev said appearing out of nowhere. She wasn't really font of the Warden, mostly because of her nature of treating everyone as if they were inferior, or trash, but she would always accept any help given to Velen was in the fields of battle as well. Casting holy spells that burned his demonic foes and healing his allies. He nodded when he saw her, praying to the Naaru for her safety as he helped out a group of humans battling a Doomlord.

Upon reaching a hill, she noticed an Eredar fighting a group of people . Two dead bodies were lying on the ground and two others , barely standing tried to fend the demon off,one of them was Adatin. The Eredar named Kalgorath was wounded, but he could still go on, coughing up some blood and taunting the two standing figures.

Selina left an angry battlecry. "You ugly son of a bitch!" she yelled slicing a fel hound who thought it was a good idea to attack the raging female.

"Don't you dare try to stop me ugly bastards!Off your filthy hands from my master you murloc testicle!" with that she leapt from the rock she was running onto and kicked with her full force the sides of the demon, she had actually used her knee. The impact was strong, the Eredar collapsed into the ground and before he could react Selina cut off his head with her keyblade.

Illidan was flying above them, witnessing the whole fight. This girl was stupidly reckless, but somehow she still had won. Kicking her foe caught him by surprise, mostly because it had worked, pondering if that was her hidden ace. Until he realised what had happened and facepalmed leaving a sigh. She tried to walk to her teacher dragging her right leg. Her knee was fractured, which was normal since she attacked a demon like that , what was surprising was how she didn't break her whole leg.

~•~

"Master! Are you ok?!" She hopscotched to her Paladin teacher. He smacked her softly on her head.

"What have I told you about swearing?" He scolded her.

Selina pouted "Sorry...are you feeling well?!"

"Oh there is still some fightin' left in this old Tauren" Adatin arched his back, he had a nasty looking wound on his left side.

"I'll fetch a medic!" She said. She wasn't sure if she could run in her condition, the pain on her knee had suddenly grew bigger.

"How exactly will you do that?" A voice asked above looked up and saw Illidan flapping with his bat wings over them.

" I contacted your mage friend, he's sending a healer this way."

Selina smiled and nodded. "Thanks!"He waved his hand as if he said "No problem".

She looked around and saw the demons backing away further, the Demon Hunters had arrived. "Did you find your Illidari?" She asked trying to ignore the pain.

"What do you think?" He asked coldly.

She saw Adatin giving a fast glare on Illidan, one that said "Be more thankful".

Illidan also told them that Maiev was on the broken shore to welcome him back.

"Of course that bi...woman!..." She said as her teacher almost smacked her again "...she wouldn't miss her chance..." She sighed.

There was a short pause, as if there was something that should be told, but it never did.

"But hey, in the end it all worked out...see?" She pointed her finger at the top of the hill,where a camp was being set, and a flag was being risen, it was purple with rectangular patterns, and inside it a circle that resembled a green sun . "Now the Armies of Legionfall is using mostly your banner as a unity, a force to defeat the Burning Legion." Selina said smiling,as Illidan watched proudly his sigil glowing in several parts of the upper hill.

His usual grumpy face was soon to return however. "This is only the beginning..." He remarked.

At the long distance, the battle was still wagering, a healer had finally approached them. It was an undead woman dressed in blood stained robes. She was tall,with black hair that fell down on her face. Her eyes were gone and her jaw was missing as well,leaving her tongue hang around freely. Despite that she seemed eager and happy to help the injured group.

"I'll meet you later at the camp." Illidan said flying away without leaving them a moment to upset her, she didn't know why she was getting all worked up about it, but she'd gladly accept a simple "thanks" from him, something she clearly was not worthy of , despite her hard work.

~•~

Illidan flew to the newly set camp. Pleased to see his banners almost everywhere and people bowing at his presence. It was about time he thought. However, he was having an internal conflict. He felt as if he should have helped Selina with that fight, she wouldn't get injured had he interfered. But then again, you couldn't become a true Demon Hunter if you hadn't felt pain, she wasn't a real Demon Hunter though, only the elves trained by his hand had the privilege to be called with that title . On the back of his mind, he knew that thanking her was in line. But he couldn't bring himself to thank a mortal, for saving him, for leading his Illidari. He was too stuck up and selfish to do that. After all he had praised her for defeating that Doom guard back there.

Soon he saw Kor'vas and Allari approaching, a little bit farther was Kayn. Each one of them had trapped a demon and were bringing them for interrogation and research. They all bowed to their Master.

A distant shout was heard "Myyy gloomyyy babieees!" somebody was running to them.

It was Selina, her knee appeared to be completely healed and it seemed she wasted no time in using it. Her arms were wide open...was she running for a hug? Illidan noticed Kor'vas slowly backing away.

She ran right past him, completely ignoring him and she literally jumped on Allari and Kayn,hugging them both happily. She had to tip toe to get to their height, especially Kayn's whom she had to pull him a bit down to her height.

"I'm so glad to see you again!" She squeezed them a bit more. Allari patted gently the girl's back and Kayn shuffled playfully his hand on her hair making it a glorious mess.

Illidan then noticed the hyperactive elf approaching him, having an evil smirk on her face. He then realised she was going for the figure that was trying to hide behind him.

"Kor'vas you thought you'd escape my grasp after not seeing you for so long?! " She asked approaching slowly and grabbing her hand.

"S...slayer...please behave..." She said shyly.

Selina smiled and held the Demon Hunter's hand gently "I'm very happy to see you again!" She said.

"I'm glad you are safe as well." Kor'vas replied with relief.

Illidan was once again left speechless. At first with himself, for thinking that she'd run to hug him, and for still expecting some sort of tease from Selina, but never receiving it. Then with his Illidari, for so casually interacting with her, looking as if she had lifted their spirits. After all, he knew that all of his trainees were serious and devoted to their cause, rarely smiling or joking around.

Selina walked a bit further to check on the newly imprisoned demons.

"She's a handful..." Kor'vas said, not quite annoyed, but rather tired.

"Her fighting spirit is all we need!" Kayn said in his usual loud and aggressive tone. Illidan had almost forgotten how his officers were.

It was nearly high noon, the fighting had calmed down a bit, but there were still many open portals and demons kept pouring from it. Thankfully there were many people who had joined the fight. Selina had asked her teacher to go back to Sanctum of Light, in Light's Hall Chapel where the Paladins were residing, and rest. She wouldn't stop pestering him until he finally agreed. She on the other hand kept running on the broken shore, pushing back the forces and closing portals. They had to deal with the spaceship that flew above them though. One way was to summon the demons who were inside it and defeat them, the other one was getting inside the ship itself and destroy the time being they focused on summoning the demonic forces through portals.

The Alliance and Horde conflict wasn't forgotten, despite being united under the same banner. They both competed in who would destroy the most demons, which concluded in many portals being opened young elf was getting fed up with that, she knew soon the demons would overwhelm them and they will be in a pinch.

"Quit opening so many portals at once you fools!" She shouted at them. Her advice was only heard when an Elite demon appeared in one of the portals, an enormous Infernal. It took way too many people to bring it down. Thankfully they had a lot of help from their powerful allies. Even Odyn and his mighty warriors had arrived to lend their aid. Illidan was also one of those who assisted in the fights, he finally got the action he was looking for. He caught himself checking on Selina quite a few times, not sure if he was judging her silently or making sure she wouldn't get herself randomly hurt again. Maybe he was admiring her skill that even though was lacking, it was full of energy and determination. Maybe it was all of the above.

Sighing deeply, Selina walked on the camp. She wanted to rest. She had been so into battle that she had forgotten to eat, she also wanted to take a long hot bath and sleep for as long as she was allowed. She greeted Khadgar who was talking eagerly with Illidan, as a sorcerer, Illidan had taken a liking to him, since he could discuss about the arcane arts without being looked down, as if he was a mana addict or them Prophet Velen was resting and Maiev standing like a guard, ready to snap at any demon hunter who might look at her with shifty "eyes". She was in fact standing ready to imprison these foul creatures whom she had set free in her desperation. Especially keeping an eye to their leader. She was positive he'd do something horrible again and she'd have to imprison him. For now she just waited.

"Hey Ryletha, can you open a portal for me..." Selina asked a Priestess of Dementia, but got interrupted by Illidan.

"Leaving the battlefield already?" He asked.

Selina stretched her arms, her plate covered in demon blood.

"I just want to take a bath and sleep for a couple of hours...or years." She protested.

She tapped on her left shoulder's crest and her armor vanished. Her inner clothes were not in any better condition. She had dried blood everywhere, some of which was chuckled. Selina was a fighter, but she also was an elf, so not being neat and clean made her feel uneasy. "I think I've earned myself some rest..." She said.

"That you have." Illidan replied and stretched his hand opening a portal to Fel Hammer .

"Thank you!" She replied bidding goodnight to the rest who were in her line of sight, only a few responded though. She entered the portal, but she wasn't expecting Illidan to paid him no mind as she walked downstairs the Illidari battleship, going to the kitchen. "Hold on." He told her. She returned to look at him, his hands where glowing and it seemed he was casting a spell, conjuring a silver plate with some food appeared on his hands. He handed it to her. Her jaw slightly dropped at that action, the last thing she'd expect from the Demon Hunter to be honest.

"Uhm...thanks?..." Was all she managed to say.

An awkward silence

"It is poisoned right?!" She asked.

Illidan's face from soft had taken its common frown "Why would I poison it?!"

Selina stuck out her tongue. "Hehe thanks Illidan!" She said walking further inside the large halls of the spaceship,entering a room and closing softly the large door behind her. Illidan stood there for a couple of minutes, staring the empty hall,lost into his thoughts, it was only when he heard water running that he decided it was time for him to leave before he was taken for a creep. He wasn't Maiev to stalk on people after all, he thought as he opened a portal to return to the broken shore, attacking head on a Fel Lord.

The girl was sinking in her bathtub, still surprised by Illidan's act of kindness. She let a soft sigh as her muscles relaxed under the hot running water. They had seriously long and difficult tasks ahead of them, one of them being the infiltration inside the Tomb Of Sargeras. Her friend Khadgar had barely mentioned it, but Illidan had let her know it was their top priority as a target. Selina decided to let those thoughts of battle slide aside, she needed a moment for herself, to relax. She stretched her legs spilling some water on the black marble of the bathroom's floor, maybe she could think of something nice, like buying a house that had the architecture of Suramar, when all this was over...if she made it out alive.

Author's note part 2:

Ooooh what is this! Improvement! Action! Illidan being an asshole, again! Come on Illidan just get in the tub with her already and rub her back, can't you see she can't do it alone? :(

Jokes aside, I'm doing my best to not stray off Illidan's personality, while trying to form some mental "bridges" with Selina. I didn't want to rush it, it would feel a bit off. But as you can see those two are doing some progress!

Also you might have noticed, Selina is rather a happy go lucky person, she's like a tank with a dps spec, constantly in need of a healer, she can be quite the blockhead during combat.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and forgive possible grammatical/vocabulary errors.

I am eagerly awaiting your PM'S to tell me your opinion about it or just tell me of how you're liking the new patch so far if you're playing it!

Next chapter will most likely take part into the Tomb of Sargeras, which might contain spoilers! I will put a warning just in case, or simply skip the spoilers part!.

Until then have a wonderful time!