Angela walked into the clearing surrounded by trees and pulled a chain that was laying upon the snowy ground. Forced to walk out of the shadows the wolf presented itself to the crowd. Razkal gasped giving the first indication that this was no ordinary wolf.
As Kyline looked upon it she first noticed its eyes where fathomless depths of darkness. As the wolf looked at her, an unintentional shiver ran along her spine. Its pelt looked like threads of silver emerging from its black skin. The paws were as large as a full grown bear. Its retracted claws looked as if it was crafted with the strongest metal and sharpened with the precision of an artist. It stood there with its mouth open showing all sharpened metallic looking teeth, with black smoke arising from its mouth. Legends say on the wolf's command the smoke transforms into an orb of darkness capable of blinding those who unfortunately get caught in the sphere. Anyone caught in that globe of darkness was blinded until they were able to escape it. The last thing Kyline noticed was the silver mist surrounding its large frame, giving her an ethereal impression of the beast.
Razkal whistled in appreciation, obviously impressed and surprised that Angela followed through with her promise. He looked at the animal with admiration and greed. Kyline could tell that most of what he was considering was how to make money from this beast.
"He's a beaute." Razkal said without even consulting with his beast trader. "How much of a cut do ya want?"
"75%" Angela said confidently.
"That's absurd! You will run me dry." Razkal yelled.
"Only for this beast. It is the rarest you will ever find so I deserve a bigger cut this time."
"Nope, not happenin'"
"Well I guess our deal is off." Angela said shrugging "I am sure I can find another buyer."
"Hold on for a minute der mon!" the troll said interrupting.
Kyline was very confused at this point expecting an attack from Razkal by now. Yet here they were negotiating the price of this beast that Angela will obviously not want to give away. Or so Kyline thought.
Razkal and the troll communicated in orcish discussing the transaction that is attempting to occur.
"Alright how about 50% with the same amount for other pets that you capture for me?"
"60% with the same deal" Angela stated.
"57% and the same deal" Razkal said.
Angela took some time to think of the deal, but agreed after some time.
"One last thing is what group do you associate with before I get into a deal with you."
"Ahh ya are a smart one. I have the honours to be part of the Steamwheedle Cartel." Razkal said.
"I did think so but had to make sure." Angela gave a high whistle.
Ten hunters all with different pets, left the cover of the forest and pointed their arrows at Razkal. Kyline noticed not one of Razkal's group flinched.
"Razkal you are under arrest by the authority of the Piercing Arrow guild. We shall take you to Dalaran authorities for your crimes." Said a tall night elf which Kyline presumed was the guild leader.
"Pfft like ya could snatch me up that fast. I know much of your guild's actions of trying to disperse of Steamwheedle Cartel. Most in our Cartel do. You need to try harder." Razkal said laughing.
Angela gave Razkal a perplexed look for he was obviously outmanned with the pets included, and not in the position to tempt the Piercing Arrow. He then pulled out some gadget from the Trolls backpack. Kyline recognized it as goblin engineering but was not sure what it was. She hypothesized that it was a sound producing mechanism. After very little time Kyline found out she was right as a high pitched sound resonated from the box. Kyline fell down to the ground in pain, covering her ears in hopes to block out that horrific sound. She then started to feel blood dripping out of her ears.
She expected an ambush not trickery like this.
Kyline started to go dizzy as Razkal stopped the device making the horrible noise. Not that Kyline really noticed, for she could still hear a high pitched tone. Kyline looked up grimacing in pain to see if the device effected all of them. Every single individual that was not a part of Razkal's group was on the ground each with blood dripping from their ears. Kyline noticed that the troll pulled out something from his ears. So did all of the goblin's in Razkal's group.
Kyline attempted to get up but failed miserably as a pounding headache took prominence. That along with her inability to hear incapacitated Kyline for a little bit and she did not like it.
Razkal ignored all of the people crying out in pain on the ground as he sauntered over to the Silverpelt wolf. His mouth moved but Kyline heard nothing of what he was saying to the beast. He then unchained the wolf from the tree, holding the chain like a leash as a way to control the beast. Razkal then turned his head, mouthed something to a night elf lying on the ground and hit him in the head knocking him out.
Walking over to his group Razkal again said something Kyline could not hear, then they left the area as all the hunters and pets were incapacitated. They made sure everyone they encountered received some other form of injury as they left.
After roughly an hour as the last light of the sun set in the sky, Kyline was able to get up. She was able to hear the distorted Crystal's song again. The song that was once melodic and light, sounded dark and ominous with the contortion of her hearing. To fix this she used the power of the light to fix her ruptured ear drum. Able to hear normally again with a large headache walked to each of the hunters and healed their injury.
As all of the Piercing Arrow get up Kyline fell down exhausted with the use of that much healing power. She pulled out some cold Azure tea and some dried up bread to replenish her energy supply.
"HE TOOK MY PET!" yelled the night elf that Razkal knocked out, "It is all YOUR FAULT" he pointed to the guild leader.
"Inridel calm down." Said the other night elf.
"I will not calm down I lost my prized pet because of you!" Inridel said huffing of anger.
"We will get him back!" Angela intervened.
"How you FOOL? He is far ahead of us and we don't know this forest. It is impossible."
"Listen can you not hear the crystals are speaking to us!" Kyline said as she got up.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and listened. Those who could hear the song open up their eyes recognizing that the song changed tones in one direction, showing them the way to go. The humans, dwarves, gnomes, and worgen of the group looked perplexed at their comrades not hearing a thing.
"This way." Kyline stated tiredly walking in the direction Razkal and his group left.
Then they left in the direction the Crystals told them. Even with some navigation issues they were able to reach Razkal. He looked at the small group surprised.
"Attack!" He yelled in orcish.
Recognizing the word, Piercing arrow and Kyline got ready to fight. Kyline stood in front so she could distract the attackers while the hunters and their pets picked off each combatant. Shoot not to kill but to capture was the agreement.
Kyline threw her shield at an oncoming goblin. With the power of light, she was able to throw it in such a way that it hit three other attackers before coming to her hands again. Before the first Goblin dared to approach her she harnessed her inner power and let it seep into the ground. The spell produced venation of light upon the ground, in a circular fashion. As the Goblin approached her his face contorted in pain. The consecrated ground worked. With daggers in his hands, the Goblin approached her. Kyline smashed her shield forward. The Goblin dodged to the left and slashed at Kyline. Her armor stopped the attack. She swung low with her axe aiming for the Goblin's hip. Quickly he dodged, then cast a spell that landed him behind her. She was exposed with her back toward an enemy and suffered for that by receiving a large blow to her back. The strike to her kidney, sent bolts of pain incapacitating her for a few minutes. She heard a growl from behind her indicating that Garaan dispatched of her enemy.
Unable to move from the pain coursing through her abdomen, she was exposed. Two Goblins noticed this and charged forth towards her. One was shot down by Angela's arrow before he made it to the consecrated ground. The other was trampled to death as a hunter's corehound charged through.
After waiting for a while in the midst of battle, the pain eventually subsided enough for her to be able to move again. She tested a few swings with her axe, coming to the conclusion that she needed healing soon. She used the Light to heal the wound but, with her limited healing knowledge and the lack of magical energy, she knew she had to go to a professional healer soon. In front her are the unidentifiable remains of the Goblin trampled to death. Behind her the Goblin that kidney punched her, was lying on the ground. He had a large bite wound that was frozen around the edges. He would die within the hour for that wound was poisoned. She could do nothing for him.
Kyline looked over to Angela and noticed that she was fighting the Troll shaman. Her red hair was flowing in the conjured up wind as fire bolts from a totem shot out at her. Kyline cursed under her breath and ran despite the pain, to help Angela. Angela was shooting arrows with insane accuracy at the fire bolt totem, while avoiding the chain of lightning that came out of the troll's hands. She used that to her advantage though as she leaped up into the air shooting the Troll's hands casting that spell. Kyline heard the troll curse loudly as an arrow protrudes from the Troll's hand, blood dripping down the shaft.
Angela then used a specialized arrows she has that would bind the shaman to that spot. Staying a good distances away still avoiding the fire bolts Angela shot rapidly at the Troll. Kyline noticed Garaan flying past her in the direction of the Troll as he sensed the urgency of his companion. He leaped two meters in the air covering a distance of half a kilometer, and landed hard on the Trolls back. Before Kyline could get close enough to aid in the fight, Garaan crashed into the troll pinning him to the ground. Already weak from Angela's barrage of arrows, he was unable to move.
"You be good fighters." He said in common tongue to Angela, gritting his teeth with pain.
"Your fault for siding with Razkal." Angela replied.
She quickly turned around with a notched arrow pointing at Kyline. Picking up on Angela's cue, Kyline turned around with her axe leading. She felt resistance as she hit the invisible rogue behind her. His invisibility spell broke. With a glazed look indicating that he was dead, the goblin fell to the ground. Taking Kyline's axe with him. She pulled the axe from the large gash on his head. Kyline wiped her stained axe on the ground in attempt to get rid of the gore and grey brain matter off her weapon.
"So much for shoot but not kill." Angela stated, after shooting a goblin in the head.
With all but a few goblin's still standing from the fight Kyline searched for the ugly face of Razkal. She noticed that he was standing by a tall hooded figure. She noticed Inridel's wolf, The Silverpelt Wolf standing beside Razkal. She walked over to Razkal weapon ready, and heard Angela following with Garaan in tow.
"RAZKAL" Kyline yelled over the sounds of fighting "You are losing! You should give up before you're the one that dies."
Razkal let out a loud ominous laugh sending shivers down Kyline's spine. She kept moving forward anyway. As she walked she used the last of her magical energy to summon a hammer of judgement to hit Razkal. The hammer of light originated from the top of his head then crashed down hitting him in the shoulder before exploding into a wave of light. The flash of light blinded Razkal and the surrounding Goblins. This gave Kyline ample time to rush Razkal. Then she stopped in her tracks literally frozen to the ground. Looking up with confusion she saw the robed man for who he was, a mage. Not only that, he was the wealthy merchant at the Lounge.
"I see ya recognize my retired Kirin Tor mage here, Kyline." Razkal said.
Kyline looked at Razkal with confusion. How did he know her name?
"Ahhh I see ya are confused. Well when you first mentioned that you were Omadera I obviously checked my sources and found out she is in Icecrown right now. I looked a little further and found out that she abandoned the light and became a death knight. Intrigued I asked my mage here to look in on ya and he has learned much Kyline. But that is of little consequence ya see I still have my prize and ya wont be takin' it from me this day. Neither of ya." He pointedly looked at Angela.
Kyline was unable to move and therefore, could not counter his statement especially with the Kirin Tor mage helping him out. The troll that Angela dispatched was slowly walking his way to Razkal.
The mage then started casting a spell. Blue and white wisps circled around his hands as he cast the spell. Then the next thing Kyline knew was seeing a brilliant blue flash in front of her, and a light sound as the mage ported all of Razkal's group from the area. As Kyline's legs got colder so did the area for they lost Razkal and Kyline could tell it was not the only time.