Shadows of Azeroth

by De4thknight

Sauron has conquered Middle Earth thanks to the power of the one ring, he has defeated the race of men but now he has set his eyes to another world called Azeroth, he will summon his armies and champions on both worlds who will join him to create a great war, a war between the Alliance and the shadows of Middle Earth. (Cancelled)

6. Betrayal

"That's what happened in the war Jaina Proudmoore... forces of men and elves defeated Sauron and his army and the world was at peace for a very long time. Me and other men of Gondor stands at the black gate watching over his lands until finally he revealed himself and we were caught by surprised, his armies overrun us and then once he found the one ring he began to reveal himself to the world and started to attack again. After that it was the end for all of us since the king is dead and Gondor was weak and we couldn't deal as much damage as we did long ago."

"That is terrible..."

Both Talion and Jaina walks together in the lands of Tirisfal Glades close to one of the towns called Brill, talking to one another about his world and the war against Sauron. He told him as much as he knows and what happened to him when he became a wraith.

"So Celebrimbor..." Jaina said and he appeared next to Talion and walks with them "You created the ring of power and caused him to have full control over the race of men."

"We both wanted the same thing... wanted to stop a blight that has spread across Middle-Earth, however he was the lord of lies. I was deceived and it became the death of me however i tried to stop Sauron but i failed to defeat him, he got the ring back and he still conquered Middle-Earth."

"I am sorry for what happen to your world i really am, i am glad that you are here so they don't do the same thing to us."

"Actually this kingdom would have been destroyed by the undead by now."

"What are you talking about?" Jaina stopped when he said that.

Both the two looks back at her and they look at one another then back to her, letting Talion speak first "Jaina –"

"There is something else you're not telling me... what did Sauron do in that whole month besides destroying the Horde?"

"There... was another enemy in this land and it was ready to destroy all the towns. A Scourge of undead commanded by a necromancer named Kel'Thuzad, he was about to unleash the plague on you humans however he was stopped and killed by Agandaur. Sauron doesn't want you humans to come back from the dead... he wanted to destroy you all permanently."

"I don't believe this... so there was going to be an apocalypse on either side?"

"Sauron helped you humans but only because he had this feeling that this force of undead and another great force will make his invasion become a failure as something else was happening behind the scenes and he didn't want it to come into Azeroth, so once Agandaur killed Kel'Thuzad he went out along with the three black captains to go after a Dreadlord named Mal'ganis and kill him too, there was another Dreadlord out there named Tichondrius but i don't know what happen to him."

"So he wanted the Scourge gone..."

"Only because the one who commands the Scourge doesn't like Sauron and he doesn't like him, there is an enemy out there who is waiting for him and when Sauron tries to conquer Lordaeron he will reveal himself to him."

"You seem to know alot about their stuff and missions, how long have you been here?"

"For a while now... i was trying to find Gul'dan but he slipped away from my eyes, so i went after Agandaur and spied on him and his captains and saw him killing Mal'ganis near Stratholme and Kel'Thuzad in Brill. Sauron and his spies isn't the only one who wanted to know about this land."

"So what do you think of this land?"

"This land is beautiful..." He looks forward "So many races and cultures all in this one land, this land is similar to Middle-Earth so now i know why Sauron loves this land." He started to walk forward "He wants to destroy it himself."

Jaina goes after him to the town of Brill to see if they can catch a break from all of this, as they go there back at the capital king Terenas and Arthas walks together thinking about everything that prophet said to them, telling them about everything he knows about Sauron and the power he possess, claiming he could be a god and he wishes to challenge this god power against the Alliance, it won't be long before he shows his face to the world but if Saruman succeeds on destroying Stormwind then Sauron will remain hidden until his forces go to the north to invade Khaz Modan.

"The Lord of the Rings..." Terenas said to himself as they walk down the hall and into the throne room "The Lord of the Rings... this sounds really stupid if you asked me."

"I rather not go around saying that milord." The prophet said as he walks behind them "You really don't want to pick a fight with people if you talk about that."

Terenas looks back "I understand the whole situation now but the orcs are a major problem to me and my people." He gets on the throne and looks back at the two "If we leave them be then they will continue to pillage the towns, they already attack Andorhal and Hearthglen."

"Father there is an enemy with the orcs; you need to bring the paladins to go after them while i send forces to secure a defence in the west just in case we get attack from the rear."

"I already sent word for the paladins of the silver hand to head out for battle against the orcs so that will buy us some time to find this... Agandaur and put an end to this war in Lordaeron."

"Milord..." a knight comes through towards them making them all turn their attention to him, he kneels down to the king in the middle then gets up and speaks. "The High Elves of Quel'Thalas are mobilising now as we speak, they are coming this way claiming that Mehlar sent them here. One of the ranger generals named Sylvanas is leading this force of five hundred to help defend this land against the enemy."

"Mehlar... i knew he would come back."

"Very well then i will allow this." Terenas said "My son... i didn't want you in the frontlines with Uther but this time this kingdom is under attack, go out and prove me right that you are ready to become the king. Go with the elves and the forces here too, go out there and stop this Great War."

"I will not let you down father you can count on me."

"When this war is over... Make sure that your bride is ready to become the queen."

Arthas slightly smiles "You can count on me." he turns back and starts walking out of there with the knight and the prophet "We go to Brill, which is where they are."

"You should be careful Prince Arthas." The prophet said to him "I do not know what will happen out there but i can tell you one thing, when this is over this land will be scarred forever."

Prince Arthas heads outside while the prophet returns to his crow form and flies out of this land and move to the southern lands of Stormwind, seeing how the war is going in there. Arthas takes out a force of three thousand and will be ready to march in two days so the high elves of Quel'Thalas will make it to Brill before they do, with their force of three hundred archers and two hundred infantry soldiers they will be ready for war against the enemy.

In Gilneas there have been boats coming towards Keel harbor that they took from the southern lands, controlled by Corsairs while the army of Easterlings hangs inside the ship waiting to come out and it will be difficult than they thought as they will have to keep going back and forth to Gilneas back to the end of Stormwind to retrieve the rest of that five thousand Easterlings since they only have four boats. Kul Tiras might be a problem to them since there are ships out there and they can't really deal with them right now, if they attack then they will be force to fight and deal damage, they can't outrun them because they will fire so Agandaur has a trump card to deal the ships of Kul Tiras. Sauron not only have full control over the Blackrock orcs he also has control of many things like the black dragons, he tried to have control of Onyxia and Nefarian however their pride was strong and they wouldn't side with Sauron so the next time Sauron sees them again he will kill them. There are other dragons that can join his banner and one of them finally came out of hiding and serves his legions to him now, the black dragon named Darkblaze.

Darkblaze comes through from the south east coming towards the ships while the Corsairs continues going while the fleet of Kul Tiras turns their attention towards the dragon, it breathes down fire upon the ships burning and destroying anything from the top deck and continues going with the others until the Corsairs were safe. After three ships were destroyed the fleet of Corsairs can get to Gilneas to Keel Harbor.

King Graymane and Agandaur comes to the harbor while his Gilneans are still preparing for war and have already started to station men on the walls of Gilneas, preparing for battle and waiting for the forces of the Easterlings to arrive, coming at the harbor seeing hundreds of them coming out of the boats and marching on the main land. King Graymane watches them and looks at their armour as they march together towards the capital and the ship started to sail out of there once they were done and started to head back to retrieve the rest.

"So these are the warriors of Rhun... they better be good."

"Do you want orcs in your lands great king?" Agandaur asked at him

"Okay you have a point there; at least my men can fight side by side with these people."

"With only four ships it will be a while before there all here and then we can merge our forces together and prepare the march to the capital, as long as Lordaeron doesn't know about this we will be able to attack before they can stop us."

"Your lord Sauron... he is a powerful man isn't he?"

"Yes he is..." He looks up seeing the dragon Darkblaze flying over them and heading to the east towards Tol Barad "It seems Sauron has a pet dragon on our side." He starts walking away "At least he can do a better job than what Onyxia can do."

Graymane keeps watching the forces of Easterlings coming off the ships and he turns back and started to return to his manor while Agandaur goes to the capital to organise the Easterlings outside with the rest of the Gilnean infantry.

(Unfortunately the Mumakils will not make an appearance due to i am not going to do an Age of Empires logic with the boats, besides they can't even fit through a freaking gate so no way i can use Mumakils.)

Back at Brill both Jaina and Talion talks to one another in the inn of Brill in the middle of the night, talking about his world and what has happened to it. "Once Gondor fell many people fled to the western part of the world, escaping with their lives while Sauron sits on that throne and renaming our greatest white city into a black city of Minas Morgoth. Rohan was next in line to fall and Saruman began to unleash his Uruk Hai army across the land."

"This Saruman... who is he?"

"In my world wizards are not exactly humans, they are just here to help Middle-Earth but Saruman decided to join Saurons side on conquest, he created a strong army in his citadel of Isengard and began to spread throughout Rohan and destroyed everything in their path, leaving a black wave across the lands. I wasn't there when it fell but i can tell it was horrible."

"I am sorry Talion... sorry that you are the last survivor while everyone else is –"

"Dead? Or died on the battlefield while i ran and fought for survival."

"It's not your fault Talion."

"There was a man with me and i helped him protect his lands against the enemy for a while... his name was Glorfindel and he fought against hundreds of orcs until... Sauron finally arrived and he told me to flee before it's too late, he is now dead."

"I am sorry..."

"But enough about me... i know you and Arthas are very close, you don't look like a noble type."

"I... am not..." She looks away smiling "Me and Arthas chose to focus on our work than love but later on Arthas couldn't take it anymore, he asked me to marry me and i said yes and right now it's been three months and the wedding still hasn't been done yet."

"You're upset."

"Of course i am... i want to marry Arthas no matter what."

"Well..." He finishes drinking his drink "Let's change the subject now..." He takes out the map of Lordaeron and places it on the table "Tell me about these areas." He points at Gilneas, Dalaran, Quel'Thalas and Stratholme.

"Quel'Thalas is the home world for the High Elves and Dalaran is a place for the wizards and mages, Gilneas is another human kingdom but they shut everyone out so they don't pose a –"

"Gilneas..." He looks at the map "He couldn't have gone there..."

"No way... Gilneas is a neutral land there is no way they will side with the enemy."

"Unless they are being pulled into this by... persuasion." He looks at her "Gilneas is a perfect position... it can attack the capital from the rear... or attack Dalaran."

"If Gilneas is part of the enemies side then that would mean that..."

"Lordaeron will be attack if they don't know anything about this." He stands up "We have to go."

"Look Talion." Jaina stands up and looks around before saying it "You can't simply declare war against the Gilneans unless you have any proof. We can't attack that place unless we really know he is in there."

"Right... i will go to Gilneas while you stay here and deal with any Orc resistance. I know what i am doing."

"Talion you can't go out there alone... what about the orcs here?"

"Gilneas is the main target so with my wraith friend with me i can slip through there. Look i can do this job alone all you have to do is win the war against the enemy." He started to walk out of there and Jaina would go after him.

Elsewhere the orcs of the Warsong Clan began to prepare to pillage Brill with Garrosh taking the lead on this one however Teron Gorefiend began to come riding towards their camp before they have a chance to attack, coming in the middle of the night coming at the front entrance of their camp, getting off his horse and going towards Garrosh who sits in the middle by the fire with his Orc comrades, they all look up at him and he stands there looking back at them.

"Garrosh... pull your forces to the south. Lord Agandaur is preparing to move over this land and you are in a bad area."

Garrosh stands up "Were not going anywhere... not until we pillage one more place."

"Pull your forces back Garrosh! You have been summoned at Tol Barad, the battle is about to begin and if you don't join the Blackrock armies then someone else will take command. Now get your armies out of here before the humans flank you." Teron turns back and started to take his leave since he was done here, causing Garrosh infuriated about this decision.

"So we cancel the attack?" One of the orcs said to him

"Yes..." He looks back "Pull the forces to Tol Barad... at least we can get action in the south." He looks forward and starts walking off.

With Teron Gorefiend retreating to the south to avoid the forces of Lordaeron who are coming to the capital and another force coming from Hearthglen just for assistance and the High Elves as well, it will be difficult to get by so he must head to the south to join the forces. With the orcs here preparing to move out before they are found, Talion makes his way to the south by getting a horse and riding his way towards the gates of Gilneas called Graymane wall while Jaina stays at Brill for now and waiting for the forces to arrive so she can tag along with them. This is now a time limit because Gilneas is close of ready to march all they need is the rest of the Easterlings to arrive and something is happening in Tol Barad that is under Blackrock control, habited with almost seven hundred orcs at the moment and more will arrive from the north and east.

Stormwind is also preparing for war so when this war begins both the forces of Isengard and Gilneas will prepare to attack both Stormwind and Lordaeron at the same time, the tides of the war will rest on the victory or the defeat on either side, if one of them falls then Sauron is close of winning this war, the fate of the Eastern Kingdoms rest on the heroes who are going to war.

Took a day to get to Graymane wall Talion goes to, coming here in the middle of the day and noticing that the wall is guarded by guards with rifles. Talion has to ditch his horse and try to sneak his way up the walls if he can, trying to climb his way up there and hoping that they don't see him climbing up there, once he slowly makes his way up there he needs to stop and turns into wraith form to see when they are moving away or not so he can get on the wall. As they move away Talion quickly gets on the wall and was about to head off the wall on the other side but suddenly he didn't need to do that because where he was he can see what they are dealing with.

"I don't believe this..."

He looks out seeing almost a force of ten thousand at the moment, seeing forces of Easterlings coming in this large square formation outside the capital of Gilneas, probably five thousand Gilneans standing by while the rest of two thousand stands at a reserve while the rest of the force of Easterlings are still coming off the boats and marching towards the army to make it bigger, uniting their force together to get over tens of thousands.

"They are working for Gilneas..." Celebrimbor said to him "An army of reckoning across Lordaeron, they need to be warned."

"Agreed –" Before he had a chance to do anything one of the soldiers aims his rifle at the side of Talion's face. He turns his head towards the man seeing three more coming towards him with rifles.

Talion quickly raise his hand up to hit the rifle in the air then moves his head down so that rifle can fire off, after that he lays a force push to push him back while the others begin to take aim and fire. Talion makes a run for it off the wall he leaps off the wall, turning into a wraith again before he hits the ground perfectly without taking a scratch on him but once he turns human again he makes a run for it while more guards runs to the side of the wall to begin shooting down at him, missing him many times and trying to get into cover.

One of the captains the Black Hand of Sauron was walking on the wall and heard the commotion, he walks over seeing the Gilneans shooting at the ground and when he looks down he spots Talion. "The ranger... he's alive..." He looks back on the side of Gilneas seeing the army then looks back to Talion. "He knows... we have to double the time now." He turns back and walks away.

Talion quickly heads out by finding his horse he rides out towards the north where Arthas and his forces begin to embark on the west to see what they will be dealing with, the orcs fled the north and marches to Tol Barad where they can mass their forces together and they hope that they will not see this coming. Forces of Gilneas and Easterlings in the south while the forces of Blackrock orcs in the south east, this will be a big surprise on the forces of Lordaeron when they see the forces of orcs with the Gilneans, Talion needs to warn them all.

On the march Prince Arthas comes across Mehlar on the road along with three hundred infantry soldiers he brought from Hearthglen, both greet one another before they start to combine their forces together to march to Brill. They talk to one another and while their marching Sylvanas and her High Elves has arrive to prepare a defensive perimeter outside the town of Brill on the road and waiting for Arthas and the others to arrive, Jaina decided to reveal herself to them and come to greet Sylvanas and her forces while they wait for Arthas and Mehlar.

In Gilneas Agandaur stands there looking at the armies of both Gilneans and Easterlings and the Black Hand of Sauron walks over to him to speak to him about something. "Talion is here... he's in this world, he saw the whole thing."

"What?" The Hammer comes forth "I thought we killed that bastard?"

"It seems that we have a survivor." Agandaur said then looks back at them "He's already telling his friends by now." He turns his head to the Tower of Sauron "Go to Tol Barad." He walks forward "Bring forth the red skin orcs."

The Tower laughs and begins to suddenly vanish in this blue energy and the Hammer walks forward to Agandaur "What about us?"

"You will command the first force to deal with the humans and elves in the north. Destroy all of them."

The Hammer laughs and started to walk off to the harbor to wait for the last group of Easterlings. "There will be no end for the humans at this final hour." Agandaur said and looks back at the Black Hand "Both Stormwind and Lordaeron will be hit at the same time... let's see how they both go against the might of Sauron."

"If you guys fail this operation." Genn Graymane appears near them "Then you won't be coming through that gate."

Agandaur looks back at Graymane "Don't worry... they won't know what hit them."

Arthas and his forces finally arrived on the field where Sylvanas and Jaina are at the moment, he started to come forth and merge their forces together and seeing what they are doing. The group started to move away from the army just so they can all talk together in private.

"Good to see your fine Jaina."

"Don't worry about me Arthas... you should worry about the orcs." Jaina said to him

"The orcs were found but they fled to the south." Sylvanas said "They will come back with an army, good thing we arrive because i think they were going to attack Brill."

"You should have gone after them."

"We couldn't we would have gotten in an ambush and we would have lost before the war started."

"Glad you didn't Sylvanas." Mehlar said to her "It's best if we all go together."

"In a few hours we should get underway." He looks back seeing Captain Falric "Captain get the force ready, we can use the –" He looks out seeing a rider coming towards them. "Hmn we got company."

Talion comes riding towards them breathing a bit heavily due to getting a bullet through his left leg, once he got closer he tries to get off his horse but he fell off of it causing them to run over towards him while he tries to get up, Falric picks him up off the ground and drags him away from the horse for Jaina to heal and Sylvanas to give him a bottle of water.

"A large force in Gilneas you say?" Arthas asked who stands there crossing his arms looking at Talion who sits on a rock drinking a bottle of water.

"Yes..." He sighs and looks at Jaina who sits there healing the wound "A strong force of Gilneans and Easterlings combined."

"How many." Sylvanas stands next to Arthas.

"Ten thousand strong at least."

"Ten thousand?!" Sylvanas said in astonished way.

"A strong force capable for one thing... to destroy the capital of Lordaeron... they will come soon."

Mehlar walks over and heard the conversation "Do we even have a force to take out that army?" He asks Arthas

"We almost got four thousand forces here... we might get reinforcements of knights of the capital but that's maybe a thousand or more, were outmatched."

Talion looks at the two "Don't you have any more help to defeat the forces of Sauron?"

"Maybe..." He turns back and walks forward "Reinforcements..." He thinks about it before saying anything else. He turns back and looks over to Jaina "Jaina i need your help."

She stands up "What is it?"

"I need you to withdraw from this area."

"What?" she walks closer to him "If you think i am going to abandon you and everyone here you can forget it!"

"I need reinforcements Jaina and your father could help us. Go to both Kul Tiras and Dalaran, they can trust you and so do i, deliver the messages that we are under attack and i need their forces here on the battlefield, tell them what you know and they need to help us."

"But... i can't..."

"Prince Kael'Thas is in Dalaran so maybe he will come with more elves if he finds out i am here."

"What does that mean?" Talion asked and looks at Sylvanas

"Were married if you didn't know that."

"So it was true i didn't know that." Mehlar said to her "Congratulations."

"That was done three years ago."

"Anyways..." Arthas looks back at her "I know you can do this, call forth both armies and help us drive back this force of Gilneans before were overrun."

"Arthas..." She said in a worried look "I might not make it here on time."

"We will hold out Jaina." He places his hand on both her shoulders "I promise you we will win and we will be together but i need those extra people, we can't fight alone on the battlefield."

"I won't fail you." She grabs both sides of his face to kiss him and he kisses her back, causing those who look to look away at the moment until they are done. "I will come as quickly as possible." She lets go and started running off to get into a wide area for her to begin channelling a teleportation.

Arthas looks back at her seeing her smiling a bit and before he knew it she teleported herself to Kul Tiras where she can call forth her father for help, it will be a while but if they come on time they might have enough force to deal with Gilneans. With her gone Arthas begin to take command and prepare for battle for everyone else, Arthas with Talion, Mehlar, Falric and Sylvanas together they begin to prepare their forces to mobilise and march towards the south to Silverpine to maybe clash against the forces there.

Stormwind and their armies as well were preparing for war as both super power countries are about to be attack at the same time of both forces of Isengard and Gilneas, both Lordaeron and Stormwind hope for the best that they win this fight, this war will be heavy but they need to hold the lines and win if they want to defeat their forces but if they fail to defeat both forces then they might as well surrender to the Dark Lord and give him full control over their lands.

The battle over Lordaeron and Stormwind begins soon.

Count of Military forces happening in Lordaeron:
Lordaeron:
3,300 Lordaeron infantry from Hearthglen and the capital
2,000 knights preparing to mobilise from the capital
500 High Elves from Sylvanas in the north and 500 High Elves from Dalaran
2,000 Dalaran infantry forces
2,000 Kul Tiras marines
Full force: 10,300

Vs

Forces of Sauron:
5,000 Gilneans preparing for war and 2,000 on a standby
5,000 Easterlings
700 Blackrock orcs from Tol Barad
1 Dragon
Full force: 12,701

Military forces happening in Stormwind:
10,000 Stormwind infantry and 3,000 on a standby
1,000 knights of Lordaeron and 300 infantry
400 dwarves with their siege weapons from Khaz Modan
Full force: 14,700
Vs

Armies of Isengard:
10,000 Uruk Hai marching and 3,000 coming through the gate right now
500 Warg riders
8 Trolls
4 Ballista's
Full force: 13,512

(Add reviews if anyone is interested in seeing this fight, also place your bets to see how this outcome will go and how many casualties will happen on both these wars over Stormwind and Lordaeron, the battle over Lordaeron will go first then i will add the battle of Stormwind.)