"I think I know where to get one, follow me." I instructed. We left the auction house and we went deep into the woods surrounding the city. "Wait here," I instructed. She nodded and I went a bit farther away from her. After I felt safe a dark blue runic circle coated the ground. I started chanting in a foreign language for a few minutes and a small kitten appeared in the center of the circle. It looked at me in curiosity then a massive blue tiger image appeared above it for a second then it drained into the kitten. The kitten's fur darkened to a deep blue with navy blue tiger stripes and a light yellow underbelly, his eyes were a bright blue. I slowly made my way back to Kimber making sure the kitten is following. "Hey Kimber here's a runt I found." I lied. She saw it and started to hug it to death but then it scratched her making her jump up and let it down. The kitten was looking at Kimber with hunger and interest. Kimber looked mad and started casting Tame Beast on the reincarnation of the tiger animal god. It was about to attack her but I casted Bind on it making it stay in place. Kimber's spell finished casting and the kitten's posture switched from aggressive to friendly. I canceled my spell on the kitten and it jumped into Kimber's arms.
"What are you going to name it Kimber?" I asked.
"Aqua, I'm calling him Aqua." She replied scratching behind his ears.
"Let's see what he can do." I suggested. Aqua jumped from Kimber's grasp and turned invisible. I had to use magic to increase my senses to find him and I barely dodged his pounce from behind. He started turning as he landed and ran straight at me with the intent to kill. I wasn't surprised until he grew larger and more feral-like the second time he pounced. His fur was on end, is eyes were purple and in slits, his fangs were like a saber tooth tiger's, and his claws were longer with a purple glow. I dodged the pounce but he grazed my shoulder with a claw then I felt poison flooding my system, thinking quickly I casted Sleep on Aqua and Poisona on myself. "Looks like he has poisonous claws, he's a strong beast." I told Kimber. Aqua turned into his kitten for and woke up.
"Hey Dark do you want to try doing a Battle Grounds with me?" she asked.
"Sure, touch the trinket." I replied holding out the lion head trinket. She touched it and we saw a flash of light before it faded and we were in a flag room of some sort. There were two entrances that were closed, a floor above, and to our left there was a small room that stuck out the wall that had a flat roof and a tunnel next to the roof. There were a few other people and a blue flag behind us.
"Okay everyone will follow me when the gates open and we will win, for I am the almighty Brian Lightcleaver." boasted a human in chain mail. On his back was a large wooden hammer that was glowing yellow. He's definitely rookie paladin.
"How about we use a strategy instead of following an arrogant fool?" I suggested bluntly. Kimber started giggling and the others laughed. Long range attackers attack those in the middle of the field, healers would stay near the back, and the melee would attack up close. For getting a flag we'd send a group of five, two hunters, a melee to take the flag, a healer, and a spell caster. The gates raised and we rushed out there. I looked and noticed all of the other team was exiting in a sing file formation. Too easy, I channeled some wind magic and fired t at them. The effect was instant, all but three of them dropped dead from a shot through the heart. The last three people somewhat surprised me, they were zombies. Thinking quickly I charged up some fire magic and fired a beam of it at the entrance. Once it cleared I noticed one of them was panting with a few burns and bits of ice falling on the ground. All of a sudden all the people I killed reappeared on top a cliff next to the entrance unharmed. I saw a few hunters on my team at the bottom of the cliff so I sent a massive blast of thunder magic at the group on the cliff, frying them. I looked and saw everyone attacking the three zombies in their formation. The hunters backed up a bit from the cliff and armed their gun and bows for when the other team appeared again. When they did they were killed in a storm of bullets and arrows.
Another undead walked out of their base entrance and started casting spells that made everyone run around in fear while an imp attacked the hunters. I grinned and morphed into an Elvaan with my special pole arm Cursed Relief. On the blade there were two runes, on one side it was a rune that put a curse that inflicted massive damage when removed or when it wears off, and the rune on the other side of the blade removes curses. I charged at the undead and I horizontal swing and I used my momentum to keep spinning and sliced his legs at his knees. He looked shocked as his torso slid apart and his exposed knees turned to dust.
The imp he controlled faded away and then I heard a bunch of screams. The other team had gotten behind the hunters and was fighting them off despite the hunter's pets attacking their backs. On the cliff were a cow-like person and large blue elf-like person with tusks healing their team. Thinking fast I channeled wind magic into my weapon and swung, the magic sliced them in half then I ran into their flag room. Their base had parts of it that looked like a saw mill and I grabbed the flag from their abandoned flag room and turned into a large hawk. Lifting the flag with my taloned feet I soared up into the sky and took off towards my team's flag room. Arrows started going high in the air. I had to be careful because they were getting too close for comfort. I heard a loud boom like a canon then a searing pain in my abdomen. My form started plummeting down to the earth. Then I heard Kimber shout, "Dark!" and I swooped back up into the air!
I saw spiders launching themselves in the air towards me while vultures trailed behind me. One of the massive spiders nicked my wing and a vulture tore out a few tail feathers. Ice magic started to pour off of me in waves, freezing the spiders and the vultures when they go close enough. After a while they stopped coming and instead balls of magic of all kinds were flung at my form. I grinned and teleported to our flag room. The horde flag dissolved when it connected with the blue alliance flag and a loud horn was heard.
I changed into an Elvaan mage clad in red and gold robes complete with a hood and blood red gloves. In my hands a large scarlet staff lied with a copper crescent moon at the top and a large red gem afloat in the middle. I slung the staff over my shoulder and calmly strode out of the flag room. "Identify yourself," a feminine voice commanded. I turned slightly and saw a paler version of an Elvaan with glowing green eyes shakily pointing an armed bow at me with a glazed yet determined expression on her face. The way she spoke allowed me to figure out her language was different from the official languages the alliance used.
I smirked and replied, "Dark the Dread Mage, and why are you looking at me with intense hunger?" then she lowered her bow when she heard I "spoke" orcish.
"Sorry, I have been neglecting my need to feed on mana." She answered. A panther stalked around the corner and walked over to her mistress. "My name is Autumn Magestorm." She introduced. I have seen a few others of her kind getting killed by me and Autumn has a larger chest and behind than most humans do, where as the others of her kind barely have chests and round behinds.
"If you want I have a scroll that can teach you how to drain mana from a distance." I offered. She looked surprised and excited.
"May I have it Dark?" she asked. I chuckled at her response and tossed a scroll of the spell Aspir to her. She caught it easily and smiled. Autumn has flawless light tan skin, red-orange wavy hair that curled at places giving her a sexy and seductive look. For armor she was wearing elbow length brown leather gloves, matching boots, light red skin-tight leather pants with gold patterns, her chest armor did nothing to conceal her bust and it looked like either her breasts would spill out or the vest would explode. Attached to a studded leather belt on her waist was a thin dagger.
"Nice panther, may I check her?" I asked. She looked confused but nodded slowly. I squatted next to the creature, the first thing I noticed were the faded marks of a druid on its front limbs. I was intrigued by this, but didn't focus on that, this cat was a female from the way she smelled, and was very well built and fed. "She is in top shape, that's good." I informed.
"Her name is Diana, I found her when I was out lost after training." She explained.
"Great name, well let's get this over with" I said. I then trapped her and the panther in an illusion before teleporting to the horde flag room and taking their flag for the second point. When I got the last of the three flag points Autumn broke out of the illusion and grabbed my arm then used her trinket to exit the Battle Grounds.
"Welcome to Silvermoon City, Dark." She greeted.