Hillsbrad will soon to be the next place to be consumed in the war against the forces of Sauron thanks to the forces of Kul Tiras who thought of fleeing here instead of getting to Dalaran, with Dalaran retreating after having terrible losses with half a quarter of their forces destroyed and the elves were pretty much all dead except for a few left. The Admiral needs to take what is left of his men of seven hundred to make a defence here and hope that the people of Hillsbrad can help them drive back the orcs.
Garrosh and his warriors held position while Kul Tiras marine's retreats further in. Garrosh calls for reinforcements from Tol Barad who will come soon, bringing a hundred demon orcs who will come to join the fight to defeat the humans since attacking Hillsbrad with what Garrosh has will be difficult. In Hillsbrad he will have to deal with strength of humans, elves and dwarves if they come to help the Admiral which they will since they could have heard the battle.
In Hillsbrad the forces of elves, dwarves and humans have already started to form together since they heard the battle going off and they wish to quickly prepare for war, forming almost a thousand people who can fight and will come to help Kul Tiras who comes closer to their land. Lieutenant Farren Orinelle will be leading the campaign to join the Admiral on the attack against Garrosh and his forces once their army is ready to go.
The Admiral and his men take a break from running. "Alright..." He started coughing "Everyone form up."
His soldiers forms together and looks out seeing Garrosh slowly coming forth with his forces. "We can't defeat them here!" One of them said
"Pull yourself together we can hold them." He stands ready with his sword with two hands to it.
As the orcs are pressing forward a horn goes off from behind the forces of Kul Tiras causing the orcs to hold position for now, seeing a group of humans and elves and dwarves comes forth under lieutenant Farren arrives with the help he gathered to help the forces of Kul Tiras. They come marching towards Kul Tiras then once they get closer they started to charge along with the Admiral and his men, combining together to charge towards the orcs as they are not backing down Garrosh signals the attack and charges towards them until they reign victorious.
They clash against one another striking through and clashing their weapons at each other in the forest, fighting for control and for their survival against the enemy. The Admiral fighting his way through against them until he comes across Garrosh and will soon is fighting him using whatever strength he has in order to defeat him, he must kill Garrosh in order to return and call for help in Kul Tiras as well as helping Lordaeron against the Gilneans and Easterlings.
Back on the other side the capital have already started to prepare a strong defence, placing their soldiers on the walls and evacuating people to the higher levels while their soldiers secures the perimeter across the city and the gate. The forces of Gilneas and Easterlings marches towards the capita and standing far away from their line of fire, holding their position and waiting for those reinforcements who are coming with the siege and two thousand more Gilneans, right now they must wait a little while longer until they prepare a strong siege to the capital.
Inside the throne room Garithos and Arthas speaks to Terenas about the situation outside and wondering what their next move is. "We couldn't defeat them even if we brought more men from the capital..." Arthas said as he walks to the middle looking at his father "The allies of both Dalaran and Kul Tiras couldn't come to aid us they were pulled in a fight against the orcs from Tol Barad."
"Tol Barad... i thought the Admiral of Kul Tiras took care of that mess."
Arthas was about to say something but Garithos interrupts "If i may milord..." He walks forward "Tol Barad is under Orc control and a dragon protected it. But right now we have Stratholme and Tyr's Hand who can come for our aid from the east, i have already sent two paladins to those cities and they will return with maybe several thousand troops."
Arthas looks at Garithos "If we send all of our forces to the west then the orcs can slip in through the east without us knowing it... we can't let them attack the cities while our men are elsewhere."
"Prince Arthas you do realise that we are under siege by Gilneas... the capital is under attack and now is the time to unite our forces and prepare for battle. Gilneas must be taken care of in order to stop the orcs."
"I know..." He looks back to Terenas "But can we at least protect what we still hold?"
"My son... the enemy is at our doorstep... war has come to the capital and right now i will not let this city fall to Gilneas or his new ally." He stands up "I want all forces from Stratholme and Tyr's Hand to come immediately or we will lose the capital and Lordaeron will fall."
"Thank you milord." Garithos turns back and started walking out of the throne room.
Arthas turns back and about to take his leave. "Arthas... stay here."
He stays where he is then looks back and returns to the middle again. "What is it father?"
"I have heard that your fiancé called for help from both Dalaran and Kul Tiras... you wanted them to join the war and yet you don't want Stratholme and Tyr's Hand to come for our aid?"
"I just... they knew we would call for help and they were pulled into a fight from Tol Barad, they are probably still fighting the orcs so they will not come for our aid we are on our own. I know that if we call for all of our troops from both Stratholme and Tyr's Hand then i know that they will use this for their advantage, right now they are always one step ahead of us."
"I understand you wish to protect what we have but i will not let the capital fall to the hands of the enemy." He stands up off his throne "I will not let Graymane and his soldiers storm this throne room and kill us all. I will not let the people in this city to die in the hands of them, we will fight with all we got and we will drive them back and when this is over Gilneas will pay for what they have done."
After a while later Talion and Sylvanas along with Mehlar stays in another room outside the throne room waiting for Arthas to come out, soon he does and they walk over to him. "What's the news?" Talion asked
"It seems that we will be getting aid from Stratholme and Tyr's Hand so all we have to do is hold out against the enemy."
"They will be coming at us hard you know, can the defences of the capital hold?"
"It will hold." He started to walk out of the palace however all the sudden a teleportation occurred and Jaina appeared near them. "Jaina..."
"Arthas..." She looks over to him "I am so sorry... i thought we could defeat them but i failed to give you the help you need... i am sorry."
"It's fine Jaina you didn't know the orcs would join forces with the humans."
"Actually they didn't really side with them." Mehlar said "They just wanted the orcs to deal with reinforcements from the rear."
"I know..." Jaina looks at him "They also had some troops protecting the walls so even if the orcs failed they would have to deal with the Gilneans."
"What about Kael?" Sylvanas walks over to them "How is my beloved?"
"I am sorry but Kael has suffered a critical hit and will not participate in any more battles. He has also lost nearly all of his elves in that battle with the orcs."
"Damn... Kael..."
"He will likely return to Quel'Thalas." Mehlar said "That means i don't think we will be getting any elves anytime soon."
"What about your father what is going on out there?" Arthas asked
"All i know is that my father pulled what is left of his men to Hillsbrad so they might get aid from there so it's a fight for survival out there, but i hope he is alright."
"Hmmnn Jaina... go to your father he could need your help."
"But Arthas i can't leave you again..."
"You have to be with your father right now... i don't want to let you find out he died in the line of duty while you are elsewhere. You should go be with him and then return once he is safe."
"Alright... just... be careful out there Arthas i can't lose you too."
"I will be fine." He gives her a kiss and she started to move back and teleport out of there, heading to the battlefield of Hillsbrad.
"You did that to get her out of the siege." Talion said "You don't want her here."
Arthas looks back "I just don't want to lose her. Once this battle is done we can reunite again."
"Then i guess we should move out to the walls." Mehlar said and started to leave the room
"I as well... i will still fight for my husband." She walks out of there.
Talion was going to walk out of there but Arthas stopped him. "Before we go i need to know one thing... i need to know the Black Captains and Agandaur."
"If you want to know well... Agandaur is one of Saurons hands in the war in Middle-Earth. Agandaur brought the war in the north while the Witch King attacked Gondor in the south; Agandaur even controlled some parts of elven territory after he destroyed the dwarves."
"So he is a commanding general... but where is the Witch King?"
He shrugs "Probably still in Middle-Earth preparing the armies of Angmar, Sauron hasn't unleashed that kingdom upon this world so he will likely use that army last. You just have to make sure that Agandaur dies before the Witch King comes before it's all over."
"And the captains?"
"They are one of Saurons trusted body guards and watchers over his land of Mordor while he was destroyed, now they serve Agandaur and since the Hammer is dead there is only two left and i can tell one of them is here while the other is elsewhere."
"I understand now what i must do." He turns back and walks off.
"Arthas! One more thing." He walks up to him and he turns back "They possess a powerful blade called the Morgul blade, whatever happens don't get stabbed by it in battle."
"What happens if i do?"
"You will become a wraith..." He shows him a glimpse of Celebrimbor then returns to normal "Like me but on his side."
Arthas remains silent then started walking out of there and Talion goes after him, heading to battle and will likely attack them at night since the sun is close of coming down upon Lordaeron and they can tell the battle will begin at night, the flames of war will soon come to Lordaeron.
Jaina does arrive to Hillsbrad where Kul Tiras went to however when she arrived it was a battlefield here, hundreds of dead people and orcs lying on the ground. Those who survived have already fled the field but Jaina walks forward looking through the dead bodies until finally she found her father who was part of the bodies, laying there on the ground causing her to run over to him and try to lift him up a bit looking at his face and looking down seeing one of Garrosh axes went through his chest.
"No... father... no..."
She looks back and forth seeing no one around then back to the Admiral "I am sorry... i love you." She gives him a kiss on the forehead then gets up and started to run out of there, returning to Dalaran as quickly as she can.
With the orcs retreating back to Tol Barad Gilneas is getting closer from starting the war in the capital, Agandaur and his forces are nearly ready and it will be a few minutes before they can signal the attack. In the capital all troops are standing by and are ready for war with Arthas standing with Talion and the others on the wall looking out and seeing the lights from a far from their torches getting closer to the walls, the defenders on the walls started to load their rifles and bows ready to take aim waiting for the signal to fire and of course the signal for them to charge towards the wall.
Graymane draws his sword when they slowly walk forward and then he swings it down causing the catapults behind them to fire upon them, sending five fireballs raining down upon them hitting the walls and on the other side destroying the buildings. Arthas signals his forces to open fire when they did that, firing down upon the infantry as they charge, raising their shields to block some attacks but the rest got through however they keep going. Easterling archers firing upon them along with Gilnean rifleman's firing upwards at the soldiers on the walls before they come clashing against the wall and the gate, preparing to raise the ladders off the ground to let them come up the walls while their battering ram slowly goes towards the gate.
"We got ladders!" Arthas said while everyone keeps shooting down.
"Swords!" Talion yelled and drew his sword waiting for them to come up the wall.
Half the men drew their swords and when their attackers got on the wall clashing against them and fighting, Arthas and the others fight for their lives while the others outside started to form a shield wall and raising their shields upwards when they got to the wall to stop the projectiles, standing next to the ram as it gets towards the wall and four men started to pull it back then let's go letting it hit the gate and making it shake.
Garithos and his warriors run towards the front gate and prepare a shield wall waiting for them to break through. "Here they come boys... stand your ground."
They keep going for a few times until finally once the gate opens right up they come charging through and clashes against the defenders of Lordaeron, clashing through their shields and breaking some of their lines as they charge through. They fight for control over the gate and of course the walls as some men started drawing their weapons and fights instead of using their ranged weapons, some even went down the steps to assist the men defending the gate and Talion comes jumping off the wall and landing on some Easterlings by the gate, getting back up and striking a few and punching another one across the face.
Agandaur and Graymane stands there on their horses looking out as the city lies a flame but they cannot take control of the gate yet, as they keep watching the Black Hand of Sauron appears walking forward standing next to Agandaur. "Get them... destroy the ranger." Agandaur said without looking at him. The Black Hand draws his sword and his other sword a Morgul blade and started walking through the soldiers to reach to the gate.
As the battle keeps going to the city Teron Gorefiend on his horse looks out at the battlefield in the east and laughs at the success this is going, he decided to leave the fields and takes a task elsewhere going to Andorhal to see if there is anything useful for him to use while Gul'dan is elsewhere in Stratholme but not alone as two paladins are on the pursue to track him down and kill this warlock, they are getting close but there is something wrong here as he is just alone and preparing something important for the people of Stratholme.
As a half an hour later the battle is going hell in the first level of Lordaeron, Garithos was force to pull his men back and Arthas did the same thing, pulling back and close to the second level where they can fight there and give the gate and the walls to the enemy. Sylvanas who still stands on the wall still shooting arrows down at the men then shoots some soldiers who climb up the ladders, as she keeps going the Black Hand climbs up the ladder from behind her and draws his Morgul blade about to stab through her back with it however the moment he tried to stab her Talion fired his wraith arrow towards him hitting his hand and losing the blade. He looks down at Talion seeing him standing on a building then looks back to Sylvanas who looked back and was about to fire, he drew his other sword and hits her bow and was about to swing at her but she ducked and jumps off the wall and started to flee through the alley ways to regroup with the others while Talion stands there and drew his sword.
"We meet again ranger." He stands there looking at him while the humans run past him ignoring him. "The last time we met i gutted your wife and son... and you too."
"I'm going to kill you... right here and right now."
"Well I'm not going anywhere... try and kill me if you dare."
Talion took a step forward and takes a leap towards him and lands on the wall and clashes against his sword, moving their heads close to one another to stare dead into each other's eyes before they break off and stands ready for a fight.
While they fight the defenders held a defence in the second level and got more men who wish to fight, they come running over to join Garithos and the others who stands at the ready. Mehlar started channelling healing energy to heal some of the men who are wounded so they can fight again. They stand ready and clashes against the enemy yet again while men with rifles go on higher ground and shooting down at them or using their bows to shoot them dead, they hold this position well and was pushing them back and Arthas signals his men to push forward and keeps striking forward and slowly they try to advance and keeps going for a while until they get the upper hand against them all.
As they advance forward Talion and the Black Hand continues clashing against each other for a while until finally the Black Hand got the upper hand, he grabbed Talion's hand who held his sword then lays a knee hit to his chest and pushes him to the ground causing him to land on the edge of the wall, he looks up seeing him about to stab through him but he rolled off the wall with his sword and lands on the ground hard. He got back up and started moving while the Black Hand goes after him by running on the wall until he jumps off and chases him until he turns back and clashes against his sword again.
"Running away huh... i knew you would do that." He swings forward again to clash his sword
"I knew you would come." He tries to push him back, swinging faster and faster and switching places with the wraith every time they clash swords and soon when they got faster the Black Hand lost his balance and lost his sword, Talion returns to normal then moves in front of him and elbows him across the face sending him on the ground and drew his other sword. "I am going to end this now..."
"Go ahead... he is coming... my master is coming... the shadows of war is coming to your world..."
Talion stood there for the moment and places his long sword on his back then grabs him and lifts him up off the ground. "This is for my beloved and my son..." He started stabbing the hell out of the Black Hand six times until finally he strikes his neck twice and lays a kick to send him back on the ground.
With the battle going fierce and pushing them back halfway to the gate they try their best to push back the defenders however Arthas and the others keeps going, fighting their way through and holding them off while they keep going and outside Agandaur was getting upset that his forces can't break through since he underestimated the capital than he thought he would. The attack continues going and they continue killing more of their men and won't be long before they are forced to retreat because the forces of Agandaur and Graymane will not retreat anytime soon.
"They're pushing through..." Graymane said and looks at Agandaur "I thought your men were good enough."
"Remain calm Graymane..." He still watches as the catapults fired their last fireballs upon the capital "There's still time to destroy them... they are bound to retreat further within and when they do." He turns his head to him "We will win."
As the battle continues going rapidly across the capital and their forces won't hold them for long but there was something that wondered them, how come they're not getting any reinforcements from Stratholme and Tyr's Hand they should have been here by now and the enemy is still pushing forward, forcing Arthas to signal another retreat to return to the second level. Garithos have wondered where his army is and yet no one is coming because Tyr's Hand isn't coming to join the fight there elsewhere and is not coming. Garithos was furious to know that there not coming he swung his sword down upon the ground sending this large shockwave towards his enemy sending almost ten or twelve men flying in the air killing them and causing him to turn back and retreat.
"We have to fall back!" Arthas yells out "Back to the second level again!" He looks back to his enemy and clashes against his shield twice before striking him down then running back.
Talion comes forth firing a few arrows down at the enemy from behind and once he jumps down on the ground in front of Arthas and his men his arm quickly turns wraith mode and slams the ground sending this wraith blast to push everyone back, he drew his sword and swings forward cutting someone's neck then started running with Arthas while Sylvanas keeps shooting.
Arthas looks back and notices that some haven't pulled back yet seeing Mehlar still fighting. "Mehlar! Fall back now!"
Mehlar nods and signals the others to retreat, he looks at the enemy while he walks backwards and clashes against another solder and strikes him down then stabs another one, he was about to strike an Easterling but he hit his shield bouncing his sword back and taking a stab to the chest with his spear. He gasp and held the spear and strikes that Easterling down but he hit his shield and when he looks to the side seeing a Gilnean loading his rifle and fired towards him, his eyes widen seeing him shooting and taking a shot through the side of his armour and sending the bullet a quarter through him, that Easterling still had his spear through him he uses his shield to hit his chest and sending him falling to the ground. Sylvanas looks over seeing him fall she shouts his name to him but all he heard was nothing just a quiet echo, he fell to the ground and slowly dies while his enemy runs past his body and keeps charging forth clashing against the defenders of Lordaeron while they retreat, cutting them down when they catch up to those who can't run fast enough.
"Where the bloody hell are those reinforcements!" Garithos yelled out and pulls a broken sword out of his armour and throws it to the ground. "They should have been here how can they get into a wrong turn!?"
"Perhaps..." Sylvanas ran out of arrows (She actually ran out of arrows...) "There fighting elsewhere."
"But there is no force out there right?" Talion asked and looks at Arthas
"You said they could hold several thousand men who would come here..." He shakes his head "No way can a band of orcs push them back, most of the orcs fled to the south to join the forces of Tol Barad."
"If we don't get any help then it's all over." She ditches her bow and draws two daggers "Because we can't keep fighting like this."
"Then what do we do?" He looks out seeing the men holding them with their shield wall but can't hold them. "We keep fighting..." He charges towards them and takes a jump over a soldier and strikes down a few men.
Sylvanas lets a deep sighs "I just hope i can return to my husband..." she returns to the others.
"Yeah... i hope Jaina is alright." He runs out and charges a divine shield and runs through his shield wall and strikes a few soldiers while his shield blocks any attacks they do, helping Talion out to strike down many as they can get.
As the battle continues going pushing them back and forth and losing more people and getting more the fight is going at a stalemate and won't be long before on side has to retreat, Graymane did start to wonder if they are winning this or not and is getting upset that his men are dying in there and he doesn't know if there winning or not. One rider comes out and tells them whats going on, telling them that the Black Hand has fallen while their forces are pushing back and forth.
"This fight is going nowhere..."
"Calm down Graymane..."
"My men are dying." He rides forward "There being pulled back and your soldiers are not doing a good job."
"Let them keep going... let them –" They heard a horn go off in the east of the capital causing him and Graymane to look out of whats going on.
A force from Tyr's Hand estimated at two thousand along with a force of high elves of a thousand comes marching upon them and taking control of the field of battle, finally they got their reinforcements as the sun rises up seeing how much they are seeing out there. A force inside the capital started to retreat outside to deal with this threat while others continues going, pushing the defenders back and sending them to the last level of this city where the innocents are, if they can't hold them then they will scatter and will kill anyone in their way.
"You said they wouldn't come!" Graymane shouts to Agandaur "This is not going well for the both of us."
"They shouldn't be here... i thought..." He looks to the side "Gul'dan... Teron... damn them!"
The allied forces clashes against the enemy outside the city, Jaina and other characters join them on the push to drive them back and they do, they keep going and keep pushing them back until there was nothing left of them. Graymane watches as his forces getting killed and pushed back causing him to turn back and ride back to Gilneas along with whats left of his men, Agandaur stood there for a while until he is force to retreat back, causing what is left of their forces to flee with their leaders back to Gilneas where they will discuss their plan.
After an hour later the battle was finally lifted and the forces have fled to Gilneas, King Terenas stands outside with Arthas and the others looking at the battlefield seeing dead bodies everywhere. "What a waste... Gilneas is going to pay for this..." he looks over to Arthas seeing him hugging Jaina, ignoring them and looks at Garithos. "Prepare the men to move... take back Tol Barad before attacking Gilneas."
"Will do milord... but i need to see what's taking Stratholme so long.."
"That's because there's a problem with that." Jaina said and walks over to them. "We have a big problem... Stratholme... has fallen..."