Night has come in the town of Hearthglen populated with three thousand people and a thousand infantry guarding the whole town as a great threat is coming from the risen, Orc threats are coming closer to the town and other neighbouring towns were force to retreat back into Hearthglen to either fight or flee to the south as both Blackrock orcs and Warsong orcs unite and prepare for war, this is a difficult time but the Warsong has finally joined sides with the Blackrock clan for unknown reason but only a few have already know why and one of them is here to try to deal with this mess before more slaughter comes to this land.
Talion comes walking from the south looking at the western entrance of Hearthglen seeing many people preparing for war. "This is Hearthglen isn't it... the town next in line to be destroyed by the enemy."
Inside the town one of the Paladins of the Silver Hand was there claiming he is Dagren the Orc slayer and he is here to help bring peace and protection in this time of need, mustering his forces ready to meet the orcs in battle to protect this town and protecting his honour by being at the frontlines when the orcs come clashing down upon them. He isn't the only Paladin coming as Prince Arthas and Jaina comes to the town in the south to greet the Paladin and maybe help defend this town against the orcs.
Arthas comes walking towards Dagren and both handshakes one another. "Prince Arthas it is good to see your face again."
"Same here brother... i am here to help protect this town against the orcs."
"Yes i have heard that the orcs hit Andorhal hard but luckily you and your beloved made it out of there." He looks at Jaina "How are you anyway Jaina are you injured?"
Arthas slightly laughs "That is my job to watch over her Dagren."
"My mistake but i need you two by my side more than ever, the orcs are massing their forces maybe standing at five hundred or more i don't know but somehow they are getting stronger by the minute."
Arthas looks out at the people doing everything they can to defend this town, he walks forward for a bit while Jaina stands there looking at Dagren. "I thought the orcs were broken... split in many clans, so how exactly did they all form together so quickly?"
"I don't know... one minute they were scattered ever since their leaders were killed, now there –"
"They must have found someone who could have formed them together." Arthas said and looks back to them
"But how?" Dagren asked "How do they simply adapt to this and is ready for an all out war, they don't even have the numbers to actually destroy the Alliance."
"Something is wrong... the orcs... something is happening behind the scenes and we don't know it yet... somehow the orcs feel like they can actually defeat Lordaeron."
"Whatever is happening the holy light will protect us and Lordaeron against these brutes... let us prepare for battle and think about this mess to the king." Dagren walks past them heading to his men
Arthas looks over to Jaina who looks away for the moment he walks closer to her. "Hey are you alright?"
"We are never going to get that wedding done aren't we?"
"Why would you say that?"
She looks at him "Because ever since your father found out that you propose to me something has happened and we are pretty much running around in Lordaeron dealing with orcs and trouble."
"Are you saying that my father doesn't want us to be married? Jaina this is just a test for my father, he wants me to rule this kingdom one day and i have to do everything in my power to stop any evil from destroying it, i will protect this kingdom and you included. I will not let anything happen to you Jaina and no one will get in the way for our wedding."
"Arthas we ju –" She gets kissed by Arthas all the sudden, she was going to break that kiss but she started to kiss him back and wraps her arms around him.
Arthas stops and leans back "We are in this together Jaina no matter what..."
She smiles at him then hugs him tight and he hugs her back. "Just... when this is over... promise me that you can speak to your father on speeding up the wedding... i already have a dress ready and i really don't want to leave it hanging there."
"I will Jaina... i promise you."
Back to Talion who is wondering around in the place he notices that a band of orcs are coming towards his way on the road, he is force to take cover and turn into wraith form to see how many there were, counting there are eight of them and notices they are not green skins they are Uruks from Mordor. Celebrimbor had his eyes to this Orc Warchief who he knows well in Mordor, the Orc Warchief named Mozgog.
"Mozgog..."
"Can we take him?" Talion asked when he takes over
"Maybe... but i bet he is here for a reason, let's shadow him and find out what he knows. He could lead us to him or someone else."
"Like the three black captains..."
"Yes."
Talion watches Mozgog in the shadows who walks past his position and heads to the Orc base of the Warsong Clan to speak to Garrosh and another Orc leader who is controlling the Blackrock clan known as Throk'Feroth a Seer who is commanding these raiders in battle. Both Garrosh and Throk started to walk together to the Blackrock base entrance where they will meet Mozgog to speak to them about a situation and Talion would stop and try to hear the conversation where he is now.
"I grow tired of waiting so long Mozgog... just how long until this big great army shows up?!" Garrosh said to him.
"He will be here... Stormwind will be the first to fall and if your clans do your job then we can destroy Lordaeron from the rear."
Throk sighs and looks at Garrosh "Just why are we joining them anyway... just because they brought back Gul'dan doesn't mean that we can win this war against the humans." He looks back to Mozgog. "If the Burning Legion was here we would have dominated these lands by now."
"Do not think that these demons can help you!" Mozgog yells at him. "The Dark Lord can do a better job than them and when he comes with this army you will be thanking him. Besides this war is going to become bigger than any war that has ever seen, orcs and humans, bandits and creatures, every single one will bow to the dark lord if they want all the wealth and power they want." Mozgog looks back looking towards the town. "This is just the beginning; the south and the west will fall." Then he looks back at them "And if you win this fight... pull back to the west, Agandaur is summoning all forces to join him in the west."
Garrosh takes a step forward starring at Mozgog as he stares at him back. "We will win this fight... but don't expect us there siding with the humans."
"Fine then... do whatever you want but you will serve your legions to him." He turns back and leaves the sight with his Uruks, heading back down the road again and making his way out of this fight and going to the west.
While the two orcs looks at one another they turn back and return to work while Talion watches Mozgog. "Can we take him now... he has to be taken care of."
"Yes... however if what he says is true then there is probably a secret army in the west that the Alliance doesn't know... we should warn the defenders of Hearthglen about this."
"First we take out Mozgog then we head to the town and help them." He started to sneak his way out of the shadows to go after Mozgog "Right now i want to know what Agandaur is planning."
With him going after one of the Warchief of Mordor back at Hearthglen they have enough stuff to prepare a defence, cannons being stationed on the towers and soldiers with rifles standing on the walls, elven priests staying at the back just for medical attention for those who are injured and everyone else who can fight started to defend two entrances of Hearthglen and they are ready for a fight. In the orcs side they are already to begin the operation, getting their catapults ready and orcs with trolls standing by ready for a charge, both clans will attack both entrances of Hearthglen and they will hit them hard.
As Mozgog was holding position in the western part of the land Talion was ready to make a move on him, as the sun slowly rises up the Blackrock and Warsong are preparing for war they start to march together but they held position for the moment as they all line up in this curve rectangular formation, Garrosh standing ready with Throk'Feroth looking out as the humans standing their ground, peasants on the towers ready to fire the cannons and also gunners taking aim to fire with Jaina standing up there with them to get the view of the place, holding her staff ready and had a worried look thinking about Arthas who was below her on the ground drawing his sword and standing next to Dagren.
"Let's hope we last for the day..." Dagren said "I have already sent for reinforcements from Stratholme so they will likely come by if they do."
"We will still be here."
Garrosh looks left to right then swings his axe down. "Let the ground fill with their blood! For the dark lord!"
The orcs charges after that, charging towards them with all they have and their catapults started to rain down at them sending three fireballs down at the buildings, two goes over the walls and destroying two buildings while the other crashes on top of the wall killing three men and burning another.
"All cannons... fire!" A captain signals the shooters to fire down at the orcs and the cannons to fire down at them taking out many of the orcs and blasting a few before they clash against the humans hard.
This force split in two before they crash against the humans hard, holding them back with their shields for now but the trolls started throwing their spears up at the shooters on the walls and throwing others over the shield wall hitting some people while they try to push forward, the humans hold them back for now but can't hold out much longer, Jaina looking down seeing the orcs are pushing them back she sends a fireball down there to send some of the orcs falling to the ground for one entrance to push forward and strike. Dagren rushes towards the entrance on the west south side, the ones who Jaina helped, he rushes through and started to slam his hammer down once he made it past the shield wall to send this holy light of a shockwave to push back the orcs and after that he signals his men to charge forward to fight back. Arthas and his men were struggling but Arthas keeps going, swinging his sword and striking down many orcs until an Orc holding a spear comes through and impales Arthas on the left shoulder causing him to move back and holding the spear he moves forward and stabs right through that Orc before he pulls the spear out of his body, pulling back and leaving his men to fight them while he recovers.
With the battle going off Talion sprung into action to take out that Mozgog by going on top of a tree and started to turn into wraith, going into a slow motion state he started to pick his targets and shoots them in the head with his arrows taking all the Uruks before he is force to return to normal. With five Uruks dead he jumps down and draws his long sword when he becomes normal looking at Mozgog and the other two Uruks.
"The ranger... i thought we took care of you in Gondor!"
"Osgiliath may have fallen to you brutes... but Lordaeron will not fall to this day."
"Fool! This war is good as ours... we are winning without even doing anything. You can't stop what is coming!" He held his sword ready
"We shall see..." He stands ready then walks forward looking at the two Uruks who charges towards him, he clashes against one and stabs through him before swinging his sword out of his body and striking the other one through the neck killing the both of them.
Mozgog charges once they were dead, clashing against Talion's sword then hits him across the face with his arm pushing him back and almost falling to the ground, he runs forward again and lays a kick to his chest finally sending him to the ground but he rolled back and jumped back up ready for another round seeing Mozgog laughing at him he charges again but he throws an ethereal dagger at him before swinging his sword against his chest then lays a kick also at his chest hitting the wound and pushing him back a bit, he charges again and Mozgog swings his sword at him but he ducks and gets behind, rolling to the ground and quickly turning to wraith to take aim with his bow and held two arrows ready then fires hitting his chest and his right shoulder before turning back to normal so he can block another attack of Mozgog, clashing against his sword then gets hit to the face with the end of his blade pushing Talion to the ground then he lays a kick to his chest to send him forward.
"Come on human!" He said as he walks closer to him. "I fought better orcs than you and they were pretty weak!"
Talion spits his blood on the ground then looks up at him. "Oh yeah... well i fought a black captain once... and he fights better than you." He jumps up and started swinging his sword against his great sword.
Both the two keeps clashing their weapons together but Mozgog started to move back, Talion lays another strike to the side of his waist then strikes again but when Mozgog tries to lay a stab at Talion he moves out of the way and he draws his dagger out also, stabbing his dagger through his arm then stands next to Mozgog and stabs him from behind sending this cyan ethereal energy that was wrapped around his sword through the orcs body.
Mozgog stands there for the moment but he looks at Talion and uses his other arm to lay a punch across his face yet again and pushes him away from him, holding only the dagger while Mozgog pulls the sword out of his back and throws it away. Mozgog had this angry look meaning he is really pissed, looking at Talion and spits blood on the ground and ready for another round.
"Talion... if you can't kill this Orc..."
"I got this." Talion charges again and he rolls past him to avoid his sword just to grab his sword that was on the ground.
Talion turns back and so did Mozgog and he stabs his sword through his chest and before he could swing his sword Talion uses his dagger and stabs right through his chin finally ending this once and for all, pulling his weapons out of his body then strikes again just to make sure, making an X on his chest with both his swords before Mozgog would fall back on the ground dead in front of Talion.
Talion lets a deep sighs as he looks at him then places his weapons away. "And that makes... the sixth Warchief we killed..." He started to cough a bit and place his hand over his chest.
"Indeed... and whatever the enemy is planning it is happening in the south and in the west. I can tell what's in the south, Stormwind."
Talion turns back and started to walk back to Hearthglen to see if he can help against the orcs. "Stormwind... that's their target... he wants to take out Stormwind..."
"And Lordaeron..."
"No way Sauron can attack both kingdoms at the same time... can he?" He looks at him when he reveals himself walking next to him.
"The darkness can appear anywhere... i bet Agandaur is planning an attack on Lordaeron... since he is the right hand of Sauron i bet the left hand is the Witch King of Angmar, he must be the one preparing an attack on Stormwind."
"If these people would understand..."
"They do not... so all we could do is do what we always do, remove as many of their leaders as quickly as possible before they begin their invasion across the Eastern Kingdoms, the prophet will try his best to convince the king but if he doesn't help then this world will be the next to fall against the might of the shadows of Middle Earth." He vanishes after that.
Talion sighs "Guess i got work to do." He tries to run towards Hearthglen since he can still hear battling going on in that town, still hearing that the humans is still fighting against the orcs.
A cannon ball goes smashing through one of the catapults, the last one in fact since the others were destroyed during the battle and the orcs and humans fight across the streets inside the town, getting pushed back again and again thanks to Garrosh who's striking down two humans at the same time and kicking another one, getting his orcs pushing through while Dagren is still fighting and smiting down against the orcs while Arthas was behind him stabbing through one of the orcs before looking at him seeing his divine shield just turned off, Throk notices that and started to push through holding his staff and charging a lightning bolt.
Jaina stands away from the fight having her water elemental in front of her to push back the orcs; she looks over seeing one of the orcs seers aiming his staff at Dagren. "Dagren watch out!"
Dagren strikes down one more Orc then looks over seeing this lightning strike coming from the seers staff hitting his chest and electrifying his whole body, stunning him but not ending his life however Garrosh comes striking down one more soldier before he strikes his axe through the back of Dagren. Arthas keeps fighting but when he looks back he sees Dagren falling to the ground, Dagren the Orc slayer is dead.
"Light... guide him..." He ducks before he takes a swing at then he runs his sword through the Orc.
As the battle was getting tense across the town finally the reinforcements finally arrive, coming at three hundred soldiers appearing in the south clashing against the orcs with the leader named Mehlar Dawnblade who is a High Elf of Quel'Thalas and is a student to Uther. Mehlar comes striking his sword through the orcs with his men behind him striking down one by one just to help Arthas and Jaina out; pushing back the orcs as they finally got the higher numbers than them.
Talion also joins in this fight noticing the orcs are getting pushed back. "I think we got a little bit more strength to fight right?"
"Yes... go for it."
Talion runs forward then becomes the wraith, vanishing so fast and ending up in front of an Orc with his sword through him, pulling his sword out and beheading the Orc and then vanishes again near another Orc and does the same thing almost five times now before he is force to turn to normal, swinging his sword to the side to strike down another Orc and runs through cutting more orcs until he reaches Arthas and the other heroes, seeing Arthas reuniting with Jaina and fighting next to her while Mehlar keeps fighting so Talion runs to him.
Garrosh strikes down one more human before he realises that this battle is not going well for them. "Blast these humans... we will get our revenge... fall back all of you!" He shouts at the orcs "Fall back!"
Throk looks back seeing Garrosh and his forces retreating "Unbelievable... we can't quit now..." He looks back and sends a chain of lightning through five humans killing them instantly. Suddenly he took a sword from behind by Mehlar, running his sword through him then pulls the sword out letting him fall to the ground dead with the rest of the orcs.
The last surviving orcs flee after they lost to take Hearthglen, giving the humans a victory over this town however this town was pretty much a wreck and destroyed but at least they got the innocents out of here and left the men out here to fight against the orcs, those who defended here pretty much half a quarter of them are dead while the quarter of them are still alive and injured so good thing Dagren called for help when he really knew there was no chance they could win this fight.
As Garrosh and the rest of the orcs fled to the west the four heroes comes together looking at all the dead bodies and seeing Dagren on the ground holding the handle of the hammer, leaning it on his chest while he lies there dead with his eyes opened. Mehlar walks over and goes on one knee to place his hand over his eyes to close them before looking up at Arthas and the others.
"The Silver Hand must know about this..." He stands up "At least he died with honour."
"Yes... shame he died here..." Arthas said
"At least... the enemy is on a retreat for now..." Said Talion
"And who are you?" Mehlar asked as he looks at him "I have never seen you before."
"My name is Talion... and don't worry i am just leaving." He turns back and was about to walk out of the town.
"But wait..." Jaina said as she takes a step forward "You can't leave now..." She looks at his ripped cape seeing this white tree on it. "A white tree... i don't know any organisation that has that."
Arthas steps forward "Start talking Talion... who are you? Of all my time of seeing so many warriors and champions of the Alliance i have never seen or heard of you before."
Talion looks back "If you want to know... you should make your way to the west... the enemy is making a move in the west and if you want answers then you should really talk sense to your king. He doesn't know the real enemy until it's too late." He looks forward and keeps walking.
"What does he mean by that?" Mehlar asked and looks at Arthas.
"I don't know... but i want to find out what he meant by that about my father." He looks back to Jaina "You in?"
"Of course i am in Arthas... i will go anywhere with you."
"I would come but i have to clean this mess up." Mehlar said "Go on ahead Arthas, if the orcs are preparing a strike i will send my forces there you can believe that."
Both Arthas and Jaina started to go after Talion while he keeps walking, Talion notices them coming and looks at Celebrimbor. "The enemy has been defeated but they already dealt damage."
"Indeed... but the real problem now is where is Agandaur, if he is commanding the forces here then he is somewhere in Lordaeron."
"I guess we have to find out."