Yes, flashbacks are over. Hope everyone enjoys this chapter. Lol. Sorry for getting distracted by WoW again, Been farmin' achievements. :P
I've also been looking for Edd/Eddy slash stuff, If ya come across any, link it to me, please! XD
Xanna quickly shook her head and addressed her attention back to Ixxy; whom still had her hands on her shoulders. "There's no time to explain!" She told her in a rush. Her twin slowly removed her hands from her and stared at her blankly for a moment, then slowly pointed a finger at her. "I saw that brief flashback you had…" She said.
Xanna turned a bright pink and then avoided eye contact with Ixxy. "Eh…"
"And you're right… You are a floozy!" Ixxy exclaimed, still pointing to her. "First you're in love with him,-" She said, pointing to Akazil. "-then you're in love with your own damn cousin,-"
"Hey! That was before I knew he was OUR cousin!"
"-then you MAKE-OUT with that damned troll, and now you're in love with him again!" Ixxy finished as if Xanna never interrupted, pointing to Akazil once again.
"You WHAT?" Akazil and Mokoki exclaimed simultaneously. "You made-out with Gizzy?" The orc yelled in shock, his jaw dropping. "That lucky bastard!" Mokoki pouted, slamming his right hand down on his left palm.
"Akazil! Baby! It's not what it seems!" Xanna said, turning her attention to the bald orc.
"Baby?…" Ixxy asked her, quirking an eyebrow.
"Um… Wait, did I actually say what I said? I didn't mean it! I mean, I did! N-No, wait! Let me explain! I MEANT-Hey, where'd that lady go?" Xanna quickly changed the subject to save her ass, looking around for Rebecca and Stacy.
"Stacy and her mom left right after you saved them, remember?" Akazil said, no longer blushing when the two humans were brought to attention.
"What? No!" The elf girl exclaimed, turning around and running for the gates. "Lady! Hey, lady! Lady, wait!" She shouted repeatedly, frantically waving her arms in the air.
"Xanna! Wait!" Akazil exclaimed, running after her. "Xanna!"
"Should we go after them?" Mokoki asked Ixxy. "Nah." She said, shaking her head. "We need to get every able-bodied person we can find prepared for a fight." She ordered, turning to shoo off her friends. "Go and be quick about it."
Without question, everyone; aside from Makaza; nodded and ran off.
"You too." Ixxy told Makaza, giving him a stern look. Unexpectedly, the orc wrapped his arms around her in a bear hug. "Thanks for bringing Eek back to me." He said, kissing her on the cheek sweetly.
Albeit not noticeable, Ixxy couldn't help the blush that spread across her face. "Whatever. If you wanna keep him and yourself alive, let go now and get to work." She said, keeping her arms to her sides.
With a smile, Makaza let go, grabbed his imp and ran off.
"Damn kids…" Ixxy muttered, wiping at her cheek.
"Lady! Lady, wait!" Xanna exclaimed, sprinting to catch up with Rebecca, tripping and tackling her to the ground. "Get off me!" She growled viciously, shoving the girl away and getting back up with her daughter.
"Lady, please! Listen to me!" Xanna yelled to the lady, hopping in front of her, grabbing her by the shoulders. "If Elros is as crazy as I positively think he is, then there will be monsters and beasts throughout all of Azeroth and Outlands any minute! Trust me, you're better off finding a nice basement to hide in back in the city than running off into the forest!"
Rebecca didn't respond to Xanna at all, removed her hands from her shoulders, picked up her daughter and began to walk off once again.
"Lady!" Xanna exclaimed, following the woman again. "If you love your child, then go back now! Elros will do horrible things to you! He'll probably hook you up to torture devices! Keep you as slaves! You'll WISH he'd killed you!"
Again; Rebecca ignored Xanna and kept walking.
"Rebecca, listen to her!" Akazil yelled out when he'd finally caught up, panting and trying to catch his breath. "Dude, I think all of that muscle you have is weighing you down…" Xanna said, looking to her worn out friend. He would have been blushing and maybe even flexing if it weren't for their current situation.
"Akazil!" Stacy exclaimed, squirming free of her mother to run to her orc friend. "Stacy!" Her mother yelled, quickly catching her and holding her tight in her arms. "I don't care what you freaks say!" She yelled to Xanna and Akazil and she tried to keep Stacy from squirming. "I am getting my daughter out of here!"
The two teens were quiet, no longer protesting. Rebecca would have been happy if it weren't for the strange looks on their faces and that they were not even staring at her, but at something just behind her. Slowly, she turned around to see, her eyes widening and jaw dropping at the sight. Instinctively, she covered her daughter's mouth to keep her from screaming so much that she'd make herself faint.
"You'd best listen to them." Elros smirked down at the woman with her daughter, sitting high atop of his red core hound.
'How the hell did he get here so fast?' Xanna thought, staring at the elf in horror. 'He's part mage, remember?' Ixxy replied, still looking for people to fight. 'How the hell did he get that thing through a portal? And what the hell is it?' Xanna exclaimed, staring at the two-headed dog thing. 'That's a red core hound and is known as The Beast. He's known for being in the upper half of the Blackrock Spire. How Elros got him through a portal, I'm not sure. But it just means he's that skilled and that we're in deep shit.'
As Xanna was having a conversation with Ixxy, Elros skillfully leapt down in front of the woman. "I might lock you both away." He went on, still smirking. "Or maybe just lock you up and sell your daughter as a slave." He said, gently brushing some of Stacy's hair behind her ear. "The younger, the better. Though…has she bled yet?"
'What the hell does her bleeding have to do with being a slave? I'm positive that she's bled before! She's a little kid! Little kids get scratches and owwies all the time! But what the hell does that have to do with selling her as a slave?'
'You and I need to have a long talk… A very long…disturbing…horrifying…mortifying…talk…'
"Don't touch my daughter, you sick bastard!" Rebecca snarled, making a kick for Elros' stomach. The elf effortlessly caught her leg and pushed her to the ground. Just when she was about to get back up, Xanna hopped in front of her. "Lady, get hell out of here while you still have the chance!"
"Rebecca. Please, listen to her!" Akazil exclaimed, offering a hand to help her up.
"You too!" Xanna told the orc. "Take them both and get out of here!"
"What? No! I'm not leaving you!"
Elros scoffed and rolled his eyes at Akazil. "You still have some sort of crush on her? How pathetic." He chuckled, taking a few steps forward and pushing him to the ground as well. "Leave." He smirked, wrapping his arms around Xanna's waist. "While you still have a chance." He said, leaning down and burying his face in Xanna's neck.
"Keep your damn hands off her!" Akazil shouted, getting back up, only to be kicked back down; by Xanna. He looked up at her, confused. She frowned slightly and avoided eye contact, hoping he'd get the message.
Sadly, he did not.
Hurt more emotionally than physically, Akazil got back onto his feet and helped Rebecca up. "C'mon." He said, grabbing her hand. "We need to get out of here." He said, begrudgingly taking her and Stacy back to Stormwind.
Elros smirked as he watched them leave, lightly kissing Xanna's neck. "I must admit that I rather enjoy watching you give orders."
In her mind, Xanna could hear Ixxy fake a cough. 'Pedophile.' She said, following it up with another fake cough.
Elros then kissed her earlobe tenderly. "And; albeit I hate it; I will have you know that I am an expert at "Hide-N-Seek"."
'Oh, is that what he calls it now?'
Holding back a laugh, Xanna turned to face Elros, pointing a finger to him and opening her mouth to say something, only to be quiet and direct her eyes to her right. "…Okay, gimme a sec." She said, then quickly ran off to the core hound. "Puppy!" She exclaimed, hugging the huge beast's paw. "Puuuuppyyy…" She said, nuzzling it for a moment, then quickly climbing up to scratch behind one of his heads. "Such a cute puppy. Yes you are." She said, speaking to him like he was a baby as he rolled over to reveal his belly.
'Idiot…' Ixxy muttered.
Elros gave a genuine half smile at the sight. 'I must be sure to give her a puppy…' He made a mental note, letting a small chuckle slip out. He then began to walk toward the girl. "Come, Xanna. Let us go back home." He said, suddenly feeling a sharp pain in his shoulder. "Aghn!" He cried out.
"Hmm?" Xanna and the core hound both perked their heads up to see Elros groan in pain from having a dagger in his shoulder. 'Least he knows how that shit feels now…' She thought a tad bitterly. She then simply shrugged it off and cringed when Elros began to pull out the dagger.
"Did you throw this dagger at me!" The angry elf bellowed, displaying the bloody dagger. "What? N-No! I didn't throw it!" Xanna exclaimed, contemplating on using the core hound as a shield.
"Then who did!" Elros demanded an answer, his ear twitching. With his guard back up, he used his quick reflexes to hit the next flying dagger down with the first.
"See? I was right here. So I didn't throw it!" Xanna said, retreating behind one of The Beast's heads.
Elros growled in response. He knew who'd thrown the daggers now.
"Your aim is getting better." The psychopath chuckled, putting on his trademark smirk as he tossed the bloody dagger aside and healed his shoulder. With no reply, he snapped his fingers to have Niamh bring Louis and Seda out from behind the tree they'd been using as a hiding spot. "You still need to work on hiding, though." The cocky elf smirked to his old friends.
'Hooray! A distraction! A sign for you to GET THE HELL OUT!' Ixxy yelled to Xanna as she only stared at the two elves.
If she had heard the advice, Xanna would have taken it. Though, she had not due to her heart beating so loudly in her chest at the sight of her parents. Now that she knew it was them, her heart couldn't help but race. It also could not help the anger. She had heard the story of why she was left and she knew it was for her own good, but she still felt so angry and hurt when she saw them. So betrayed.
So bitter.
Xanna turned away when her mother finally gave into the desire to look at her, climbing off of the core hound and making a getaway.
"Xan-" Seda tried to call after her blood elf looking daughter, being held back when her husband placed a hand on her shoulder. "No, Seda." He told her, making her retreat back into her battle stance.
A dark chuckle build itself inside Elros' throat, escaping and finding its way to Louis and Seda's ears. "Perhaps you should let her follow her, Louis. Because it's the last time either of you will see her again." He said grimly, a rather sadistic smirk spreading across his face as he threw off his cloak. "I'll be sure of it."
Xanna panted as she reentered the city, expecting to see her friends where she had left them. She didn't of course. 'Ixxy, where the hell are you guys?' She thought, unknowingly wandering a bit aimlessly.
'In the center of the city. Get here as fast as possible!'
'Why? What's wrong?' Xanna asked, heading for the center of Stormwind.
'Everyone here is freaking out and they all need a big motivational speech!'
'So…give 'em one?' The pink elf suggested unsurely, quirking an eyebrow a bit. The purple elf growled and ever so slightly blushed in frustration. 'I really, really, really, reeeally hate to admit it, but…even though you're the idiot…' She directed her eyes elsewhere, then finished her sentence in low almost inaudible mutters. If Xanna had not been an elf, it would have been inaudible. Sadly for Ixxy, she was an elf. Hell, she was two.
Xanna then grew a big beaming shit eating ear to ear grin. 'I'm sorry… What was that?' She instigated, her grin amazingly growing bigger. Ixxy's eye twitched as she slowly changed from purple to frustrated red and lowered her head in shame a tad more. She sighed as a little steam began to fume just above her head and repeated what she had said in mutters almost unnoticeably louder. 'Whaaat?…' Xanna instigated more, her eyes twinkling.
Ixxy growled, her eyes going from a lovely light green to a blood red murder intent red, then jumped into the air as the rest of her steam fumed from her ears, quickly changing her back from red to purple. 'YOU HAVE THE BETTER SOCIAL SKILLS!' She shouted, landing back on her feet after doing so, huffing and puffing. 'Happy!' She bellowed.
'Yes.' Xanna rubbed it in, folding her arms and continuing with that damned grin.
'Get the hell over here and motivate these people before I send you back to the spirit world! And I will MAKE SURE that the Spirit Healer doesn't let you live again!'
''Kay…' Xanna replied, cowering in fear as Ixxy let the rest of her frustration fly out of her ears. 'O-O-On my way…'
As soon as Xanna arrived to her destination, she looked for Ixxy and made sure that she was at least three feet away from her. "Okay, speech." She said quietly to herself as she clasped her hands together, now taking a look at the group she was meant to motivate. "Holy crap!" She squeaked, her eyes widening and her jaw dropping. 'I can't motivate this many people! They'll all kill me! They won't listen! They'll kill me! I'll freeze up! THEY'LL KILL ME!'
'You give them a speech or else I'll-!' Ixxy was mentally shouting at Xanna, outwardly giving her daggers when Cosmo came from nowhere and hugged Xanna from behind.
"Eh!" Xanna exclaimed with surprise. "Cosmo?" She queried, looking to the forearms that had trapped her. "Xanna…I need to tell you something…" The male elf teen managed to get out, shaking with so many emotions as he held his friend tight. "What is it?" The girl replied, turning herself around to look at Cosmo, seeing tears slide down his cheeks. "Cosmo…" She said with a frown, wiping away the tears for him. "Don't cry. What's wrong?"
"I…" The boy squeaked through tears. He then shut his eyes and leaned down. "I can't live without you." He whispered to her. "Please, don't ever leave me again." He added, holding her tightly against himself.
Xanna smiled and hugged her friend in return. "You don't have to worry about that, Cosmo." She whispered sweetly into his ear. "I promise." She added, kissing his cheek. 'So sweet.' She thought after doing so. 'I think he's still upset about my…you know.' She told Ixxy, trying to fight back an embarrassed blush.
'Mhm…' Ixxy replied, directing her eyes elsewhere for a moment or two. 'Yeah, yeah, yeah. Enough of this. On with the speech, woman!'
'Right!' Xanna thought determinedly, releasing herself from her friend's hug. Inhaling deeply and puffing out her chest, Xanna opened her mouth to let everyone know of her presence. "…Hello?" She squeaked, fidgeting with her fingers and sweating nervously.
"…Really?" Ixxy stared blankly to her sister. "What? I'm nervous!" She blushed in return. "Nervous? I'll show you nervous!" The more aggressive of the two halflings shouted, pulling a chainsaw from nowhere. "Oh god, no!"
"Ixxy!" Guy called out, running up to the purple elf. "I-… Why do you have a chainsaw?"
"What the hell do you want?" The irritated elf replied, keeping the chainsaw in her hands. "Uh, right. I just healed some more people. So now we have three more warriors, four more hunters, two more mages and-" Guy cut off when his eyes finally landed on Xanna. "…Hi." He said, half closing his eyes as he smirked to her.
"Hi." She replied, smiling absentmindedly and waving her hand.
"She's under aged!" Cosmo exclaimed, wrapping his arms around his friend as he glared to the young human man.
"Yep. I'm only a hundred and twenty years old."
"What? That's totally legal!"
"But in blood elf and night elf years,-"
"Oh, there's the catch…"
"I'm only fifteen."
"Dammit." Guy muttered. "Pedophile." Ixxy said, smacking him on the shoulder as he went flushed. "Now you…" She said, returning her attention back to Xanna. "Get their attention!"
"Hmm…" Xanna replied, staring at Guy's bag. "Sorry, but I need to look at your stuff for a sec." She said, diving her whole upper half into his things, popping out with a megaphone. "Ha! I knew it!"
"How the hell did you know he had that?…" Ixxy questioned as she and Cosmo both raised their eyebrows at the big plastic voice enhancer. "And why the hell were you carrying that?" She directed toward a blushing Guy.
Xanna shrugged and looked to the megaphone. "He just seemed like the kind of guy that carried one of these. Probably has a purse too. Just has that look about him."
"It's not a purse, it's a handbag…" Guy muttered with a slight growl through gritted teeth. "Hahaha!" Ixxy laughed and pointed to him. "There is nothing wrong with a man carrying a handbag." Cosmo said defensively. "Exactly!" The paladin exclaimed.
"Mokoki!" Xanna called out, ignoring Ixxy laughing and calling the two manly "handbag" carrying men gay. Within a blink of an eye, her friend was right at her side. "Yes, hot stuff?" The tauren replied with a big grin. Xanna then pointed to a low roof; just above a door to a shop for shading purposes; that she'd use for a stand. "Help me get up there." She requested of him. "Yes, ma'am!" He saluted, putting out his arms to carry the girl.
"Ah!" Cosmo squealed as he watched the perverted tauren carry away his friend. "Xan Xan!" He called out as Ixxy pulled on his hair and pinned Guy down with her foot. "Don't you dare fondle her!"
Xanna put the megaphone handle in her mouth and held it tightly between her teeth as she rearranged herself in her friend's arms to climb onto his back. Once done with that, she adjusted herself again and reached for the edge of the low roof, kicking her legs a bit when she couldn't get the bottom half of herself up. "Lil' halp har, Akoki?" She asked her friend, still managing to keep the megaphone in her mouth.
"Uh, sure." Mokoki said, almost nervous as he reached for the girl's glorious backside. Quickly kicking that feeling out of his system, he lightly bit his bottom lip, his eyes twinkling with such happiness as he touched it. 'I'll never wash my hands again…' He thought, carefully pushing the girl up.
Once up, Xanna carefully adjusted herself and took the plastic thing out of her mouth. "Thanks." She said graciously to her friend with a smile.
"No problem." He replied, his eyes turning into pink hearts as he held his hands to his chest.
"Ahem…" Akazil said, now standing next to Mokoki, his eyes narrowed at him. As soon as he had seen just the tiny little pink hands of the girl, he'd rushed over and "walked in" on the tauren touching her posterior. "U-Um… She needed help!" He told him, pointing up to her as she tried to stand up. "Uh-huh…" Akazil said with sarcastic nod. Mokoki whimpered, then shut his eyes tightly as he displayed his shoulder for the punch that would inevitably come.
Just as Akazil balled up his hand and leaned back for a good hard frogging, Mokoki was knocked down. "What the-?" He asked the air, looking down to the black eyed, dazed, snaggletoothed tauren. He then looked up to see a blushing, huffing and puffing Cosmo.
"I said…don't fondle her…" The blood elf growled. Akazil could only widen his eyes at him and take a couple just in case steps back for safety.
"Excu-" Xanna spoke into the megaphone, cringing when it made that high pitched ear piercing sound. She adjusted the volume, then tried to speak into again. "Excuse me!" She managed to say. "May I have everyone's attention, please!"
Just as she'd asked for, everyone paid Xanna their attention. Some scowled to her, some quirked their eyebrow, some drooled at her body; not seeing the death glares from Akazil and Cosmo; and others whispered about why a halfling was in their city. Soon after, everyone was doing that.
"Um, hello?" Xanna said into the megaphone as she looked over the big crowd.
"It's that halfling from earlier!" The manly sounding little girl shouted, pointing an accusing finger. "Let's get her!"
Everything was quiet for a moment. The citizens of Stormwind had to ponder the manly voiced girl's suggestion for a moment.
"…Yeah!" One man shouted out after making his personal decision. "Death to the Horde!" He added, pulling a pitchfork from nowhere.
It was silent for another moment.
"…DEATH TO THE HORDE!" Everyone agreed, all pulling out their weapons from somewhere on their person.
"Um…?" Xanan said into the megaphone, quirking a nervous and confused brow.
"Why I oughtta-!" Cosmo growled, reaching for the manly little girl to strangle her, being held back by Akazil. 'Isn't Mittens suppose to be in charge of this kind of thing?' He thought, looking for said lioness.
She was introducing herself to Terokkarantuala.
Akazil quirked his eyebrow at the sight. 'Where's Na-?' He was thinking, his eyes landing on the smaller red spider hiding his face in humiliation just a short distance away from the two girls. 'Ohhh, that must be his mom…' He thought, chuckling as he imagined what embarrassing things the giant spider was telling Mittens.
"Terry; don't mean to interrupt, but; I could use your help here…" Xanna said into the megaphone, not even moving as the seemed to be hand-eyed coordination lacking Stormwind folk lousily tossed their weapons at her. "Please…" She said a tad irritably, staring blankly at the flaming pitchfork that had landed to her left.
Terry skittered a sigh, told Mittens something along the lines of how this would take just a second, then stomped one of her eight legs a few times, forcing everyone to fall and land on either their behind or each other.
"Thank you, Terry." Xanna; somehow being the only person that had managed to keep their balance through the miniature earthquake; said into the plastic thing into her hands.
The giant spider nodded in return, directed her attention back to Mittens, helped the lioness up, dusted her off, and then skittered something asking if she was "Skittish".
Before speaking again, Xanna closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, letting it out slowly. "Okay… I know that there's a lot of things you guys are wondering." She said to the crowd as they all helped each other back to their feet. ""Why is there a halfling here?","Why does she have an awesome megaphone and where can I get one?","Why should we listen to her?","Ow, my butt hurts.","That giant spider is scaring the shit out of me.","Did I leave the stove on?",-"
"Don't got all day, dumbass…" Ixxy said to Xanna, holding her face in her hand.
"Right." Xanna said sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head. "Well…anyway… Uh… Let me try to explain as much as I can." She smiled nervously to the crowd. "The guy that took the gems all those years back… Well, he's back. He's right outside the gates." She said, pointing in the direction of the city's gates. "He's gonna use the gems to take over all of Azeroth and Outlands!"
"Pfft. That's just a myth!" Someone scoffed. "Yeah, everyone knows that those things ain't real!"
"No, it's true! He stole them and he's gonna use them to take over both worlds! And he's right outside the gates!" Xanna urged for the people to listen to her. "See all these dead monsters?" She brought up, pointing to all of the corpses around everyone. "This is just PART of what he has in mind! Just a little fraction! Not even a tenth of a tenth of a hundredth of a thousandth! And any minute now, he'll probably unleash a whole damn army across Azeroth and Outlands! No one will be safe! He might even kill everyone here with just the snap of his finger!"
"This is just a load of cricket!" Another random man "sweared". "It is not!" Xanna told him. "Okay… If he's right outside the city, then why hasn't he come busting through the gates, then?"
"Because there's some people holding him off! They probably won't last much longer… And then he'll come with this giant core hound thing and destroy the city!" Xanna yelled out, a stern look spreading across her face. "And if any of you care for this city, you'll fight for it! Fight for your loved ones! Fight for yourselves!"
"Screw this poppycock! I'm going home!" Yet another townsfolk scoffed, turning to head back to his hovel. Not even a second after, others began to do the same.
Xanna growled, gripping the megaphone so tightly it broke in her hands. With quick frustrated thinking, she leapt back down onto the ground and grabbed someone. "You're coming with me." She told him as he screamed and kicked for his life, running off with him.
"Oi! Get back 'ere!" A farmer called out, he and everyone else about to chase after the halfling. Just when they'd all pulled out their weapons, Xanna had come back with the shaky middle aged man, tossing him to the ground carelessly.
"Gary!" A younger man called out, running to his side. "What did she do to you!"
"It's true… Gi-Giant…core hound…cackling elf… S-So much power…"
"What?" The man replied, quirking an eyebrow. Behind him, the huge crowd began to murmur about what the "evil halfling" had done to him and such.
"If all of you would stop being so self absorbed and stop thinking about all this Alliance against Horde against halfling BULLSHIT and LISTEN to me, then maybe things'd go a little more smoothly!" Xanna bellowed at the crowd, her anger silencing them all. "There is a lunatic right outside your gates! Your home! And none of you give a DAMN!" She growled, quickly shooting as many people as she could a disapproving look. "This man will kill all of you without a second thought! Without a morsel of respect! Decency! HUMANITY! He may even very well burn your children to death! And that'd actually be a BLESSING! He might sell them! And there are people almost as bad as him! If you have a child, just think of what a slaver would do to him or her! All of the horrible things! Does this not move you to fight at all? !"
Begrudgingly, everyone that had or knew a small child that they cared for thought of things they usually did every other day.
Seeing that she had started to make her point, Xanna continued. "Please, just put all differences aside for the time being and work together. Brother, sister, mother, father, cheating lovers, Alliance, Horde, halfling and so on and so forth. Just throw any and all differences and bitter grudges aside for now and help out one another. For the sake of your home, yourselves, and your loved ones."
Quickly, everyone in the crowd began to mutter to themselves and then to each other. Xanna could only smile and pull out her dagger. "C'mon, everyone! We can do this!" She told them, coming to what felt like the climax of her great speech. "For… For…!" She quickly tried to think of something great that didn't seem too cliché to use as a warcry. "For… FOR EVERYONE!" She cheered, throwing her hand into the air.
Surprisingly, everyone else did the same.
"Sheep…" Ixxy muttered.
"That speech was awesome, Xan Xan!" Cosmo beamed, hugging his friend tightly when she had made her way back to the group. "Heh. Thanks." She blushed, rubbing the back of her head. "I thought it may have been a little too dramatic, but…" She shrugged. "Oh well."
"It was amazing! You were fantastic! And don't you ever doubt that!" Cosmo told his friend, leaning down to place many kisses on her cheeks.
"Hmm…" Xanna pursed her lips, paying half a mind to her friend and his kisses. "One moment." She told him, pulling away and going back to Mokoki; whom was missing some teeth and had a black eye for some reason. "I need to barrow you again. Just for a moment." She said, quickly climbing onto his back again before he had a chance to even comprehend what she had said. "Everyone! Everyone, I have one more thing to say!" She yelled out to the crowd once more.
Unlike the first time, everyone immediately turned to listen.
"This battle will probably be epic! Maybe even on the same scale as going up against Illidan!" She told everyone, gesturing with her hands a little bit. "If you have something to do-anything at all- that can be done quickly, do it now or forever hold your peace!" She told them. "It's now or never!" She said, looking to everyone before climbing off her friend.
Another moment of silence came, the words echoing through everyone's minds as they debated on actually settling differences, admitting old truths and secrets, telling loved ones what could be their last goodbye.
Finally, someone began the chain reaction.
Rebecca; having been hidden amongst the crowd; walked up to Akazil. "I'm…sorry." She told him, not looking him in the eye. "I shouldn't have tried to kill you or your friends. You saved me and my daughter. I thank you for that." She said, finally looking him in his red eyes. "I just had a bad experience with orcs when I was younger."
Akazil smiled and waved a passive hand. "Don't worry about it. I'm just glad you and Stacy are safe."
When said little girl's named was mentioned, she ran out from her own hiding spot; shocking her mother; and hugged the orc.
"Hey, there's my girl!" Akazil chuckled, picking her up. "And how're you?"
"I'm good!" She said with a big smile that only reminded him a certain girl he could never get off his mind.
"Um…give me one second, Stacy." The orc said, handing her back to her mother. Once the little girl was no longer in his arms, he inhaled deeply to regain what composure that had not run off in terror of the thought that had come to mind, turned around and placed a gentle hand on Xanna's shoulder' whom been talking with Cosmo.
"Xanna, I-" The hunter was saying.
"Sorry, Cosmo, I need to talk t her for a moment." Akazil said, pulling Xanna away just a couple steps, placing his other hand on her other shoulder, looking deeply into her beautiful yellow eyes. "Xanna, I…" He paused for a moment, freezing up as some of his sanity came back. 'What the hell am I doing?' He thought.
"Akazil?" Xanna asked, tilting her head.
'He better not. He better not. He better not…' Cosmo repeated over and over in his mind as he glared at the orc that was stealing his thunder.
"Spit it out, ya damn rapist!" Ixxy yelled at him, throwing a pebble at his bald head.
"I've always loved you!" The orc blurted out. "Wha-?" Xanna exclaimed, being dramatically dipped as Akazil went in for the kill.
"Oh good lord…" Ixxy rolled her eyes. 'That sonova-!' Cosmo thought, growling viciously as he tried to tackle the orc, only to be held back by Mittens; that had finally managed to get away from Terry.
"Mmph!" Xanna protested, lightly smacking Akazil's shoulder to get him off. "Mmph! Mmph!… Mmm…" She said, finally accepting Akazil with her lips and her heart, wrapping her arms around him and returning the favor. 'So…right…' She thought as she and the orc's tongues lovingly played with each other.
After a moment, they finally broke apart and Akazil stood Xanna upright again. "So, uh…yeah…" He said, looking away from her, keep his hands to his sides. "Nice speech."
Xanna; whom was now completely love dazed; only giggled and made little circles on his shoulder with her finger. "Hmhmhm…" She giggled as an idiot ear to ear grin appeared on her face at the sight of Akazil's face turning a bright pink.
"WooOOooOOooo!" The townsfolk cheered after the two teens were done playing a quick game of tonsil hockey.
"~Akazil and Xanna~ ~Sittin' in a tree~" Stacy sang.
"Great! Now they're gonna grow up and have idiot hybrid rapist babies together!" Ixxy exclaimed, throwing her arms in the air out of frustration.
"Nice, man!" Mokoki said, giving Akazil a thumbs up.
"That mother-!" Cosmo growled, giving the love stealing orc his glare of ultimate death, still being held back by his pet; whom was pondering on where Dethiam, Fëanáro and Kadgaa had gone off to. 'Meow meow…'
"C'mon, ya damn idiot." Ixxy said, grabbing Xanna by the hand when she saw the chance to do so. "We gotta go help 'em out." She said, staring to walk, not feeling the need to specify who they were going to help. Partly because she felt that Xanna would get mad, and partly because Xanna was in too much of a love daze to probably even care.
"Mmkay…" The girl giggled, only proving Ixxy's point.
Suddenly, Ixxy was yanked away from her sister by the shoulders . "Baby…" Makaza told her, looking deeply into her eyes, then dipping her. "You're my everything." He said, going in for his kill.
"No…" Ixxy said, having quickly put up her hand to stop the idiot. "Just…no."
"But I love you!" Makaza protested, almost biting his cheek because Ixxy was squishing it into his jaw. "Smooth, boss…" Ezekiel muttered in the background. "If you wanna kiss something, kiss this." The purple girl said, pulling out some mace and spraying it into the young boy's face.
"Aaaah!" He screamed in horrible pain, letting Ixxy go and throwing his hands onto his face, running around blindly. "IT BUUURNS!"
"Just shake it off, boss!" The little imp laughed, rolling around on the ground as the warlock screamed in horrible, horrible pain.
Ixxy rolled her eyes and grabbed her twin's hand once more. "Come-" She was saying, feeling the ground shake. "-on… Shit."
"Greetings…" Elros smirked down to the crowd from atop the core hound. "-everyone."
Elros chuckled at the crowd. "I'm touched." He said with his sick smile. "You all decided to throw a welcoming party just for me. How sweet." He sneered, striking fear into everyone looking up at him. "Sadly, I have no time for parties. I only came for something that is rightfully mine." He ended with a low growl, eyeing the somewhat dazed blood elf girl in the back of the crowd.
Everyone turned to look at Xanna and her goofy smile in silence for a moment.
"…Take her!" The closest man to her shouted, grabbing the giggling girl and shoving her to the person in front of him. Almost petrified with fear at the sight of Elros, the other citizens helped in tossing the girl to the front, ignoring all protests from her friends.
"Traitors." Ixxy muttered, shaking her head. She then quickly forced her way through the crowd to catch up to Xanna, grabbing her away from the person that had her. "Xanna, c'mon! Give these people one more speech to help them fight!" She yelled, shaking her. The only reply that was given was a giggle. "Xanna?" She said, waving a hand in front of her twin's face, still only receiving a damn giggle. "Great!" Ixxy shouted, turning her head to Akazil's direction. "You broke her!"
"Wha-What?"
"You took what little brain that she had and BROKE it!" Ixxy emphasized her frustration, letting go of Xanna. "Now we're screwed! Possibly literally!"
"But-!"
"Yeah! Wait to go, bro! You completely destroyed our chance to live!" Makaza nagged to his brother, only wanting to get on Ixxy's good side. "I don't even know why I'm related to you." He turned and folded his arms over his chest with a huff. "You didn't necessarily have a choice in the matter…" His brother muttered, staring blankly at him.
Elros quirked an eyebrow to Xanna as the mob began to argue with each other out of fear, curious of why she appeared so happy. Without anyone seeming to notice, he leapt down from his monstrous beast of a pet and made his way for his queen. He placed a hand on her shoulder to keep her in place, using his other hand to hold her chin sternly as he looked into her eyes; those beautiful yellow eyes that reminded him of his own pain.
They were dewy, twinkling with delight, matching her goofy grin perfectly. Elros scowled at them, looking to the bald orc for a second before holding Xanna in place with both of his strong arms. Once sure she wouldn't try to flee or be taken away, he leaned down, closing his eyes, and inhaled her scent deeply. When her smell was analyzed, Elros' eyes snapped open.
Quickly; yet without hurting the girl; the angry elf shoved Xanna aside and scanned the crowd for the orc. "You touched her!" He shouted once he had found him again. "I'll kill you!"
'Shit!' Ixxy thought, quickly reaching into Xanna's bag, pulling out a frying pan. '…Sure, this'll work.' She thought, then, with quick and light feet, ran up to Elros and smacked him as hard as she could in the face with the cooking utensil, knocking him backwards a few short feet with the surprise attack.
"Aghn!" Elros wailed as he stumbled, holding his broken nose.
"What the hell are you people waiting for!" Ixxy shouted to the crowd. "Don't just stand there like a bunch of brainless idiots! Fight!" She told them, throwing the frying pan at the angered elf.
Elros snarled as he healed his nose, catching the frying pan with his quick reflexes. "Filthy harlot!" He called Ixxy, running up to her and slapping her so hard, she fell to the ground.
"Ixxy!" Makaza called out, beginning to make his way for the purple girl.
"This will teach you to stay in your place!" Elros growled, tossing the frying pan aside, then quickly pulling out his sword. Everyone screamed, backing away in fear as he lifted it high above his head to strike down the girl.
Ixxy, terrified, shut her eyes tightly and threw her arms in front of her face, waiting for the blow. Still feeling alive for a whole short moment, she peeked open an eye, seeing Elros had paused from being shot in the side with an arrow. The elf looked around, spotting Rebecca with Cosmo's bow.
"Nuisances! All of you!" Elros shouted, pulling out the arrow and tossing it aside. He then narrowed his eyes to the blonde woman and conjured up a fireball in his hand, quickly pinning Ixxy down with his foot when she tried to stop the act.
"Hmhmhm…" Ixxy heard a silent giggle from just behind Elros. 'Xanna?' She quirked an eyebrow, seeing only the air. Not even a second later, she watched as Elros' trousers were pulled down to his ankles. 'What the hell? !' The purple halfling shouted, her face a bright red as she stared at the blood elf in his briefs. 'That'll just make it easier for him to rape people, you idiot!'
"The hell? !" Elros exclaimed as he stared downward, doing his best to ignore the slowly rising giggles and chuckles from the crowd just a little distance away from him. Before he had a chance to even think of pulling them back up, he was kicked in the rear, sending him flying a small distance forward and making him land flat on his face. What's more, he was forced to show off more of his backside from how he landed.
Xanna only giggled as she helped Ixxy up. "'Bout time you snapped outa-!" She began to yell, seeing Xanna was still in a daze. "No, you're still broken…" She muttered, her eyes wandering to a certain orc semi-buried in the crowd of people. "Just so you know, this is all your fault." She told him. "You broke her. Ya just…ya just broke her." She said irritably, turning away before he could reply.
"I will not be made a fool of…" Elros said with a low growl, snapping his fingers before getting up to pull up his trousers. "First my nose, and now this." He continued to mutter, seeing that his belt had been cut. "You all will suffer." He finished, pulling out a spare belt from his bag.
"Snap out of it!" Ixxy yelled at Xanna, shaking her as Elros fixed his pants. She then froze when her ear twitched, slowly turning her head to her right, her eyes widening when she saw a hand slowly rising out of the ground. 'Oh god…' She thought, horrified that it was the beginning the battle. She then turned back to Xanna, shaking her roughly just a little more. "Snap out of it!" She screamed again, slapping Xanna across the face.
The pink girl's face was blank for a moment, giving Ixxy hope. A split second later, she simply just smiled again, turning her head to see Akazil. She giggled at him, stuck her tongue out and threw her arms over her face.
"We're doomed…"
"No we're not, Ixxy." Xanna told her sister, smiling with bliss. "Can't you hear the music?" She asked, pulling herself away. "Can't you hear it? It's amazing… It's so…beautiful…" She spoke as if she truly had lost her mind.
"Are you HIGH? !" Ixxy exclaimed, almost pulling out her hair again. Xanna sighed blissfully, pulling out her dagger. She then spun herself gracefully to face the petrified and greatly confused crowd. "Charge." She told them with a simple shrug and smile. Not even a second later, she leapt backwards and landed gracefully, crushing the skull of the ghoul that had popped out of the ground. After that, she began to twirl and dance, killing any other Stormwind invaders; humming and giggling while doing so.
Everyone stared blankly as Xanna wandered off on her own. 'The hell is she doing going off like that ? !' Ixxy thought, quickly about to chase her sister.
"You heard her, everyone! Let's move!" Rebecca shouted out to the crowd, making her way for the front to be the first to hit Elros, only finding an empty spot where he had been. "Where'd he go?" She said to no one in particular.
"Who gives a damn!" Dethiam appeared from nowhere, tackling some ghouls with great delight. "Let's get to fighting!" She said, yanking off a bone of the monster she was attacking mercilessly.
"Where the hell have you been?" Makaza asked the undead girl as the citizens finally came to their senses and started fighting back the invaders. "Do you have any idea how rare it is for an undead to get a FREE all you can eat buffet?" The undead girl snarled at the orc warlock, continuing to rip apart the poor ghoul, shoving his delicious body parts into her soggy and smelly bags.
"Right…" Makaza replied, taking a few steps back with his imp. "What do we do, Ix?" He asked, turning to see the purple elf girl had run off already. "Okay… What do we do, Ak?" He repeated, turning to see that all of his friends had left and gone into the battle. "Great… Alone again."
"Hey, ya got me, Boss." Ezekiel piped in, looking up to his master. "That's suppose to make me feel better how?…" The orc replied, quirking a brow at his minion; whom was staring blankly at him.
Xanna continued to laugh and twirl as she fought, not being touched by a single Stormwind invader, skillfully and gracefully killing them all if they tried; and with great ease, as if they were butter. "Such pretty music." She giggled to herself, cutting a bear up the middle. She fought this way for what seemed like hours, ignoring everyone that called for her. She was in a place she'd never been to before. She was in a happy place, and she didn't want to let it go.
"Hello…" Came an ominous voice, stopping Xanna dead in her tracks. "My queen." Elros almost growled, holding Xanna tight by her wrists.
'Oh shit…' Xanna thought, her eyes widening as she finally snapped back to reality. 'Ix-!' She tried to call out in her mind, her surroundings fading to black for what seemed to be the hundredth time in her life.
"Xanna!" Ixxy called out again, dodging a few flying bodies. 'Answer me, damn-!' She shouted in her mind, seeing the girl unconscious in the black abyss. 'What the hell? !' She exclaimed, almost panicking at the sight. 'Oh god, where is she! Dammit, I knew this would happen if we came here! If we even dared to associate with people! I knew it! We should have just stayed alone in the Barrens! Dammit!' She shouted in her mind, tears almost forming in her eyes for only God knew how long. "XANNA!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, slicing her way through everyone in front of her as she looked for her sister.
Ixxy tried to keep herself together as she fought, keeping on her toes, thinking sharply. 'Where the hell is that freakin' fairy!' She thought as she looked for Cosmo. 'His damned pets have got to be able to track her down!' She thought more, slicing a few more ghouls as she leapt atop a bat's head, making her way for a nice high place to scout for the hunter. She growled as she looked over the city. 'Dammit, where is he!' She thought, leaping back down to the ground, almost falling down as the ground began to shake. Her ears twitched and she leapt out of the way as Elros' giant corehound threw Terry into a building. She watched as the spider got back to its feet and leapt at the Beast, taking a moment to catch her breath. She had been forgetting to breath this whole time.
"Naraxis, get back here!" The purple elf girl heard a familiar voice. Her eyes quickly darted to the racist draenei boy chasing after his spider again. 'Kad!' She thought hopefully, running to him as he tried not to stumble over his hooves with his pet. "Kad, have you seen Xanna!" She went straight to the point, ignoring the young lad's slight jump of surprise at the sight of her. He shook his head in reply, fighting with his squirming pet. "No."
"What about Cosmo?"
"Haven't seen him either. Sor-" He was saying when Ixxy tackled him to the ground. "Agh! Get off-!" He was shouting when he realized the girl had just saved his life from some magma of some sort the Beast had spat at Terry. "Can Naraxis track people?" She asked, almost as if the magma spit had never happened. The draenei boy hadn't heard, still in shock from seeing that his life could have ended just then. "Kad? Kad!"
"Huh? Oh, uh… Th-…Thanks." He said, snapping back to reality. "Yeah, whatever. Can Naraxis track people?" Ixxy repeated, grabbing the boy tightly and rolling the two over; making him on top of her; to dodge the corehound's big flame breath. "Uh, no. I haven't gotten the chance to teach him anything like that."
"Dammit!" Ixxy exclaimed yet again, rolling the draenei boy off of her, leaping to her feet gracefully and helping him up, pulling him to a more safer spot. "Keep your eye out for Xanna. If you find her, making sure she's safe." She told Kadgaa, her attention quickly going to the squirming spider. She roughly grabbed it's head out of annoyance. "And you!" She yelled at it. "I know you care about Terry, but right now, you need to look after Kad! He is not only your master but your family as well!" She glared daggers to him. "Make sure he stays safe."
Naraxis stopped squirming, taken aback by Ixxy's words, watching her as she ran off shouting for Mittens' owner. He'd never been ordered around like that before. After a moment of pondering, he looked up to Kadgaa. "So…gonna behave now?"
The spider took another moment for himself before answering, skittering something apologetically and then something with annoyance. He would be behave. For the time being.
"Xanna! Cosmo! Someone! Answer me!" Ixxy shouted, staying out of the way of fighters and burning buildings. "Xanna!" She yelled at the top of her lungs again, her heart pounding so much, it felt as if it would somehow fall into her stomach and then she would throw it up. She needed to keep it together, but she was so worried for her sister, she didn't know what to do. "Someone help me!" She screamed, falling to her knees, holding her head in her hands, only staring at her sister's unconscious body in her mind.
"Ix-!" Akazil tried to call out to the girl as he fought a dragonhawk. "Ix-dammit! I thought these things couldn't be tamed! How the hell does Elros have one!" He grunted, slicing the thing's head off, catching it on his sword. "At least they're still killable. So I'm not going completely insane." He chuckled to himself.
"Akazil!" The orc heard his name being called. He looked to see Ixxy running to him. "Ixxy, what's wrong?" He asked, seeing the girl look genuinely worried. He could see why; considering the situation; but exactly what about the battle was his question. "Have you seen Xanna?" She sounded rushed, grabbing the boy tightly by his shoulders. "No. Is she okay?"
"She's-"
"Are you gonna eat that?" Dethiam; whom popped out of nowhere again; asked Akazil, tapping on his shoulder and pointing to the head on his blade. The orc stared blankly at her for a moment, rolled his eyes, then lightly shook his sword for her to take the dragonhawk head, ignoring her cackling happily when she wandered off for more of the "free buffet". "As you were saying…" He said, addressing his attention back to Ixxy.
"She's unconscious!"
"What? !"
"She's out there somewhere! Unconscious! Only God knows what'll happen to her body if we don't find her in time!" Ixxy said, taking her hands off the orc, using them to address the battlefield. "She could be killed! And this time…she might not come back."
"Then we have to find her!"
"I know!" Ixxy exclaimed with irritation. "I've been looking for Cosmo because maybe Mittens can track her down. Do you know where he might be?"
"Yeah, I just saw him a minute ago. He went this way to help Rebecca hide Stacy. C'mon!" Akazil said, leading Ixxy to the hunter. 'Oh god, Xanna…please be okay.'
"Cosmo! Cosmo!" Ixxy called out, seeing the hunter just a short distance away. "Cosmo!"
"Hmm?" The blood elf boy turned his head after send out his lioness and mouse to fight his next target, seeing two of his two friends. He smiled happily and waved his arm in the air. "Hey, guys! Isn't this a great workout!" He laughed, his smile quickly fading when he saw the worried expressions of Akazil and Ixxy. He quickly thought of the worst, beginning to panic as the thoughts of what had happened to Xanna raced through his mind. "What's wrong? Is Xanna okay?" He asked when they had reached him.
"She's unconscious." Ixxy answered as Akazil tried to catch his breath. "What? !" Cosmo exclaimed. He needn't anymore information than that, whistling for his pets as they finished mauling the ravager they had been attacking. "Mittens!" He said, pointing to his lioness, looking to her very strictly. "Find Xanna!" He ordered of her. The lioness quickly looked away, embarrassed and a bit ashamed. Cosmo quirked an eyebrow at her. "You've spent enough time with her to remember her scent, haven't you?" He asked, strict authority still in his voice. The lioness lowered her head a little more. "Mittens…" Cosmo almost growled. His pet slowly winced at what was to come as she answered. "Meow…"
"You FORGOT her scent? !" The elf exclaimed, almost blinded with rage immediately. "How could you FORGET her scent? !" He yelled at his pet. "How could you forget what she; of all people; smells like? ! How could you-!… How could you… How could you forget her scent…" His voice lowered as he thought of the sweet smell of Xanna. She'd always smelled like a pretty flower he remembered his birth mother would bring to him when he was very young. 'Icecaps…' He thought, almost wanting to cry at the old memories he'd buried long ago.
"How're we gonna find her now?" Akazil asked Ixxy after catching his breath. After all the questing and training he'd done, he was still very not used to running around. 'Maybe I do have too much muscle…' He thought, remembering the nice compliment Xanna had given him just a little while ago.
"Icecaps." Cosmo quickly answered, looking for a nearby flower shop of some sort. "What?" The other two asked, raising an eyebrow. "Icecap. It's a flower." He said, continuing to look through the battlefield for something to help him find what he needed. "How will finding a flower help us find Xanna?" Ixxy asked irritably. "Just trust me!" Cosmo yelled at her, making his way to a building a little ways from where they were. "It looks like a…like a… It's a purplish blue with little white puffballs at the top and the leaves are… They're beautiful." He said aloud, not really caring if the other two were following and listening or not. "If we find one, we'll find Xanna." He said, stopping for a moment as a dead ghoul flew in front of him and crashed into a wall. Akazil and Ixxy exchanged looks and shrugs as they followed him.
"How exactly will finding a flower help us find Xanna?" Akazil muttered to Ixxy, trying to keep up the pace with the hunter. "Jerry, Mittens, search that building." He watched as Cosmo sent his pets into an empty looking building. Ixxy shrugged at the orc again. "I have no clue." She said, seeing a light turn on in the build the two animals went in to, watching their shadows as they searched for the Icecap. "But if it helps us find Xanna, then we're gonna need it."
Yes. It finally happened. Akazil FINALLY admitted his love for Xanna. Lol. Is everyone happy now? :P
Note: "Has she bled yet?" Yeah, anyone ever heard of "old enough to bleed, old enough to breed"?
Second Note: "Are you Skittish?" = "Are you Jewish?" Lol.
Third Note: Eh, I kinda liked and kinda hated the speech. DX
Last Note: Ixxy tracked down Seda to bring Eek back. I was planning on making a scene for it, but I never did. If I do, I'll add it.
Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. Lol. Just hang in there. We're getting close to the end. :)