As literally everyone drew whatever kind of weapons they had, axe or sword and magical attacks, I shouted to the Alliance commander from before to send out people to get any kind of siege weapons we had to this place. I did the same for the Horde commander before I flew back to the portal. The blazing skeleton dogs exited a few seconds later and immediately focused their attention on me. I managed to hold them off bit found myself fatiguing quickly after slaying the last one. Knowing I had bought the time we needed to send out messengers I returned to our forces where Aelana was eagerly waiting to restore my strength with her holy magic.
"Thanks, love."
I saw a wave of elementals approaching and archers ready to rain down hails of arrows upon them. I sighed, that wouldn't work.
"If any of you want to live tomorrow you're going to have to come up with better ways to kill your enemies than normal battle tactics. Arrows alone won't do the trick, any mages here should imbue them with frost magic before firing them. Let any shamans take the frontline with frost imbued weapons, we will need the brute force of any warriors with standard weapons later." I shouted before they made any errors.
They took my advice and used the natural element against fire in an utmost efficient way. Most of the elements did not survive focused fire from both hunters and mages and those that did get through were struck down by frost enhanced axes and maces. I helped out in the frontline wherever I could, extinguishing the flames with the cold wrath of Icecrown. I made sure we would lose nobody today, neither Horde nor Alliance.
After the seemingly final wave of fiery elementals we had several parties of night elves bringing glaive throwers with them. Not too much later a band of goblins showed up with a demolisher and a siege engine; a massive tank of triple plated armour and battering ram in the front, armed with two mannable rocket turrets as anti air defence.
Their party leader saw me gawking at the craftmanship of which I had never seen anything like it before.
"You like 'er ey? Now this is the pinnacle of some precision goblin engineering. Pioneered in the siege of Ulduar and a grand success. Not even the mighty Flame Leviathan could dent this one, no doubt it will achieve our goals today."
"I'll be honest with you, it does look like it can take a hit."
"I hope our enemy gets a chance to demonstrate that, whaddaya need em for anyway missie?"
"There are a few giant smoldering constructs lumbering around in the ŕealm behind that portal. We need excessive firepower to take them down."
"Aye, sounds good, shall we begin?"
"Let's go"
"Everyone make way!" the goblin foreman shouted. "We're rolling through".
Everyone parted as the siege engine, the demolisher and behind that, the four glaive throwers moved their way to the portal. When they were almost there I realised something and ,notified the two commanders.
"About a minute or so after I get through, we need every single soldier inside, prepare to take defensive formations, oh, and do tell them to be prepared for a horrible stench once they get through."
"Aelana, be careful, I will see you on the other side with the rest."
"You too," she gave me a small smile.
I quickly flew to the portal at the base of Sulfuron spire and entered just before the siege engine.
Once back in the Firelands I saw that the rock throwing abomination was ready to take another shot at taking me down. I easily dodged it in the same was as I did before and flew to and past him so he was forced to turn around and look the other way. I drew my sword and unleashed some basic slashes without any magic in them upon the creature to keep him occupied. I could already see two glaive throwers in position when i looked the first time. When the fourth one was ready and loading its ammunition I channeled deathfrost magic into my sword and unleashed all of it in one slash across its eyes, effectively blinding it for an extended period.
During this time the demolisher and glaive throwers unleashed several volleys of projectiles that cut deep into the creature's natural armour. Pieces of it started falling to the ground. The battle started going fairly well until the huge elemental picked up a boulder and, still blinded, tossed it at our vehicles in blind rage. The surprisingly well aimed toss hit the siege engine straight on, bounced off with a very audible clunk and shattered the demolisher behind it in a thousand pieces, its operators barely had the time to jump off and one of them didn't get out in time.
One more volley of glaives seemed to embed it deep enough into the giant to pierce its heart or whatever was in place and it fell to the ground, dead. A few seconds after our troops poured through the portal and set up a defense next to the vehicles. I flew in to see them remove the orc that was beneath the rubble of the destroyed demolisher. The bone in his left leg was completely shattered but he was still alive, which was a miracle in itself. His leg would have to go but he was extremely lucky to be alive. He, himself was less happy, he was in a world of pain and was begging to be killed. If only he knew that death wasn't always the end. He was taken apart to have his leg amputated a bit later and Aelana quickly averted her attention to me.
"Angel, are you alright?" she took me in for a hug.
"Don't worry I'm fine, better than him at least."
I closed my eyes as the orc in question screamed his lungs out as his leg was cut of by an especially sharp axe. Knowing that these kind of surgical procedures had a fairly high mortality rate I made my way over to him.
"I don't think it's a good idea to look this way, it looks quite nasty, honestly."
While it did look nasty, I was used to worse, much worse. It was kind of shocking to think about all the things that I had seen that were worse. His leg came off clean and a few healers were bandaging him to stop the bleeding. The colour was retracting from his face and he was panting heavily.
"Can I have him please?" I asked to the forsaken priest that just bandaged him.
"Of course, milady, do as you wish," he politely answered.
The orc opened an eye and looked relieved.
"An angel! Please take me away from this world, end my torment please. What kind of orc am I if I can't even walk to fight. End it, please!" he begged me.
"I am flattered, but I am not going to take you to a better place, we need you right here."
I sighed. Orcs and war, have they nothing else to do?
I froze whatever was left of his leg and numbed his pain. I then started working my holy magics on him to heal his stump and infections should they have been there. He was sound asleep by the time I was done.
I walked up to Aelana and watched the path that led down to the main plateau that was absolutely infested with terrifying looking creatures.
I looked up and saw a few firehawks spiraling around a massive crater to the right.
The Horde commander, an orc and the Alliance commander, a night elf, were both looking at the same problem I was facing.
"I reckon those birds should be disposed of first before we assault on land yes?" I questioned.
The Alliance commander agreed with me in very crude Orcish. The Orc said he had already set up a supply line of wind riders delivering ammunition to operate the anti-air turrets on the siege engine.
"Ok, seeing as you two seem to go along for now, except for one thing, I will just translate what you just said."
The Common tongue used by humans was very well known to all High Elves, we used to be part of the Alliance after all. I informed the Night elf of the supply line and asked him to send word out to not attack any wind riders between Orgrimmar and Hyjal. I also informed him to set up his own supply line to get more glaives for the glaive throwers here, seeing as there were five more giants lumbering about who, fortunately for us, hadn't minded our presence yet somehow. I translated this to Orcish again for the sake of protecting the night elf couriers.
"Okay then, what do we have, it seems we got some ammo ready to be deployed, get the crew ready, I'll grab some of those hawks."
"Angel!" a female voice called for me.
Lana'thel waved at me as I turned around.
"Going to steal all the fun aren't you? I am afraid I cannot let you do that"
"Lana! I assume both you and Shaestra are doing well?"
"Of course we are, she is making sure that all the arrows we have are enchanted with frost magic at the moment, it sounded a bit boring to me so I decided to look for you guys."
"Well I was just about to get some of those hawks to chase me."
"Sounds exciting, let's go."
She flew up before I could even say anything, I quickly kissed Aelana's cheek and went after her.
Once I caught up to her she spoke: "How many do you think we can kill together?"
"Honestly?" I answered, "Probably all of them, but we're going to be dead tired at the end of that, and this is just the beginning."
"You're probably right, here comes the first one, lets take that creep down."
"Agreed." I drew my sword.
