The Burning Legion
The sky soon became dark and purple clouds seemed to cover the land to no end. Alan and Nadia could sense the fear in the night elves eyes and from their body language. Tyrande told them that for months and months on end, they had to fight off their own bretheren, face untold magic and demonic auras from the Burning Legion and witnessed the destruction of many trees and forests along the center of the island sub continent that led to the Well of Eternity. As Alan and Nadia kept walking alongside the night elves, Nadia then asked Tyrande, "I'm curious. What's so special about the Well of Eternity? It seems like any other old well to me." Tyrande and the others gasped when she said this and Tyrande reassured her group to keep moving as she then said, "The Well of Eternity is a great structure that holds a great portion of our people's enchantments and magic. It is so powerful that our race has been constantly drawn to it. Unfortunately so has the Burning Legion. If they were to get its power and harness it, the world of Azeroth will likely fall as will our homeland of Kalimdor too." Alan then said, "That must be what those Viraltroopers are after." "So that is what you call those purple creatures of darkness.", Tyrande then replied. Yet as they said this, a whole swarm of Viraltroopers arrived on the scene as did Grogonopse with a giant t-rex viraltrooper that was right behind him. Nadia then said in a harsher tone, "Don't you guys ever quit?" Grogonopse then said, "Come now. Is that any way to greet someone? I, Grogonopse, have better manners than that. Don't you see? We're trying to aid our fallen bretheren from their damned state by unlocking the Doors of the Heart ourselves." Alan then summoned out his keyblade as his tree bark beige suit and cape blew in the wind as he said, "You lie. You're trying to control the Doors of the Heart yourselves. Don't try and play dumb Grogonopse, if you all cared about the welfare of your people you wouldn't have created those Doors in the first place."
Grogonopse then lauged as he then replied quickly, "I find that really funny. You see, we just guarded the doors. We didn't really create them in the first place. Our master did." Nadia then asked, "What do you mean your master?" Grogonopse then said, "A long time ago, just during the later years of the Great War of Wars as our people called it, our people just got infected by a great virus known as the Great Plague ( in case you guys aren't catching on yet, I'm basing this war on World War I and the Great Plague is the Spanish Flu Pandemic that killed over forty-million people worldwide. I figured that by doing this, since I am connecting KH to real life events, its sort of like a parallel.) and we were sure that all hope for a cure was lost. Then one day, a general by the name of Colonel Oben created a special cough syrup that made our people impervious to disease that plagued us and we were soon off to war once more. But there was a deep side effect. Some of us actually died from the disease and not just any body. It was people with strong pure hearts that bit the dust and began created a giant rip in the boundaries of our world's atmosphere. So Oben then created five doors you know as the Doors of the Heart and sealed any heart that tried to escape in there, sealing its great power. Yet Oben went mad and the doors started to claim his heart which led to him becoming mad. Soon the doors became to unstable as more and more people died, their hearts started to fill up the doors and they became even more stronger. They soon became so strong that my other fellow knights as well as myself were sent to guard them and their great power." Alan then said, "So this Oben is behind all of this?" Grogonopse then said, "His name has long since changed. You may know him as Obeion!!" Alan and Nadia then yelled, "Obeion!!" Then Grogonopse made a dark portal appear as he said, "I'd love to stay and chat, but I got to get back to the castle. I have muffins cooking in the oven!!" Then he disappeared as the portal shut right behind him. Then the Viraltroopers soon engaged the night elves, yet their strong piercing arrows were no match for the beasts. Alan and Nadia took out their keyblades and slashed a few, but there were new Viraltroopers indigenous to this world as well. They looked like demons themselves and had a tougher skin, so they couldn't be slashed to get at their hearts. Everytime Alan and Nadia slashed one, the other next to it slammed them into the ground with ease. Tyrande then said seeing more and more of her bretheren go down, "Push the attack!! We must get to the rendevous point at once!!" The elves tried as hard they could to push the aggressors back, but sadly, couldn't. Alan and Nadia what's more were exhausted and bruised up from fighting.
Alan then said, "There must be a way to stop these guys." Alan then saw the T-rex run towards the elves as it eat a bunch of them and swallowed their hearts as well. Nadia then said, "Maybe we're attacking the wrong target then?" Alan then said, "You've read my mind. This won't be an easy attack though. We'll have to hit good and hard. Otherwise we'll all be its lunch soon enough." Then Alan and Nadia ran up to Tyrande who was holding off countless amounts of demons Viraltroopers and told her of their plan to distract the T-Rex while they went for the heart in its chest. Pretty soon, Alan and Nadia ran faster and faster towards the giant's legs and slashed at them until the beast trying cruching the ground beneath to get a grip on the keywielders. Yet the giant tail smacked Alan and Nadia before they could get a grip on its back unfortunately and the T-Rex stepped on Alan and Nadia together in one spot. Even as the elves tried to hold off the Viraltroopers, they began to seep through and surrounded the keywielders. Yet before the giant monster could get a giant bite into the youths, the Viraltroopers were shot away with magic. Miles behind in front of them was a purple elf on a large goat along with other elves behind him that looked like druids. Tyrande then said with tears in her eyes, "Malfurion!!" The large mand then yelled, "Charge!!" and soon enough with the aid of the druids, the Viraltroopers were in retreat from a perilous fight and then Alan and Nadia then ran up behind the T-Rex and found the hearts in its back. They zapped its back and soon enough a multiple amount of hearts blanketed the sky and the dark purple clouds began to lose their colour leaving only black clouds in their midst. Malfurion then said gazing upon Tyrande, "Thank Elune, you're alright." Tyrande smiled gently as she looked upon her sentinel watchers recovering from bad injuries. Malfurion then gazed upon Alan and Nadia as they introduced themselves and told him of their purpose, Malfurion then said, "Such a great task you two have. I would never have guessed that such great power came from such a simple creation of steel." Alan then said, "I've been recording any finds that we've discovered and believe me there's plenty to tell." Malfurion then said, "I thank you for aiding my love Tyrande. It is a great honour to meet such kind help from good people. We'll need it in our fight tomorrow against the Legion.
As Alan and Nadia got comfortable later on, Alan saw Malfurion sitting near a campfire as the elves got comfortable in the woods with Nadia, he later sat down the noble man as they engaged in conversation about their lives and their journies. Alan then asked Malfurion, "So how'd you guys know where to find us?" Malfurion then said, "The winds guided us here. We sensed danger and soon enough we found you. I'm also sure this heart of the world you spoke of is in the Well of Eternity as well. It would explain why those creatures you call the Viraltroopers would be here causing all sorts of commotion. Now may I ask you something my child?" Alan then said, "Of course." Malfurion asked, "Have you ever felt true pain?" Alan shook his head at this as Malfurion said, "A sad fate. Anyone who hasn't felt the sting of pain is bound to have it so in the future. It's inevitable I'm afraid." Alan then asked, "What are you talking about?" Malfurion then looked to Tyrande talking to Nadia as he said, "That's why. Before I met Tyrande, I grew up as a brother with Illidan Stormrage. He began to grow attracted to Tyrande Whisperwind for her beauty and her great magic since he, being like the Highbourne also enjoyed the fruits of the Well of Eternity's magic and blessings. Yet it has corrupted him to the point where he has betrayed us and because Tyrande chose me as her lover over Illidan, he has never forgiven me for it. That is the pain I am talking about. You see, any living creature, no matter how big or small, feels pain. Eventually aside from any good deed performed, you will find suffering from others just as my people have witnessed it here in our world. We've lost a great many trying to restore peace to Kalimdor and tomorrow we're going to attack the capital near the Well of Eternity to bring an end to all of this chaos." Alan then said, "And you want Nadia and I to go after the Well of Eternity?" "Yes. I believe if you both aimed your 'keyblades' as you call them towards the center of the well, the Heart of the World may appear and you can unlock it and free this world from darkness." Alan then looked at his keyblade and then looked at Nadia who smiled and waved at him. He waved back and then frowned his eye brows a little bit as he replied to Malfurion, "No one has to suffer Malfurion. Not even you should have to go through pain like that either. If Illidan can't understand, than he is just a traitor to you guys. You even said it yourself. The guy told queen Azshara of your betrayal." Malfurion then replied, "I understand. However, a great warrior must also know that even a betrayal can end up leading to great destiny in the long run. I can't be angry with him completely since he'll always be my brother." Malfurion then stood up as he said, "I thank you for your time Alan. My troops will ring the gong tomorrow before dawn hits. We'll surround the temple and then you and Nadia can attack the Well of Eternity and bring the Burning Legion to its knees." Alan then nodded as he sat by the fire to warm himself up for the events to come.
(Weird stuff. Obeion, formally, Colonel Oben, is behind the Doors of the Heart as well. His story has more to be told as well. Onto the conversation between Alan and Malfurion, there is a lot more stuff that has to do with this since he still has the Doors of Happiness, Fear, Anger, and Sorrow to close and enter as well. I'll give you guys a hint as well as to one of the worlds I'll be using as well for the Door to Sorrow. It's one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Crazy idea I know, but this particular play of his really fits into this story nicely and I'll use it in a future chapter. A lot more to come so stay tuned. I'm going to make a chapter or two a day as part of Spring Break since I owe you guys a lot. Again stay tuned.)
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