Obsidian Aspect.
Part III: Mama.
Uther made a slight gesture and the heroes slowly stepped back, away from Sintharia, but she got to her feet and snarled.
"Intruders! Yet I smell…" she snarled, before looking up at Onyxia and smiling. "Daughter, you brought these mortals to be sacrificed? The Master will be pleased."
Onyxia did not reply, she merely landed in the entrance way to Cho'gall's chamber and transformed into her mortal guise.
"Why hide your true form from me? Are you ashamed to stand before your mother?" Sintharia laughed. "Come down and we may destroy these interlopers in Deathwing's name!"
"I hide myself from you because I no longer follow my father's insanity!" Onyxia said boldly. "But you are so blinded by the same insanity that you did not see this for yourself!"
"Blasphemy and lies! You are Deathwing's greatest child, your brother…" Sintharia roared.
"Was killed by Ragnaros!" Onyxia laughed. "His pride and arrogance meant he was outsmarted by a mortal, and fell into the fire lord's domain."
"Then you shall stand at the Master's side and bring about the Hour of Twilight!" Sintharia said proudly. "And it shall start by slaughtering the Lifebinder's champions!"
"You are deluded; if you truly used your senses you would know that I truly no longer follow him!" Onyxia snarled. "I died following him, and was brought back to bring peace and stability, and aid the mortals, not destroy them!"
"Lies!" Sintharia roared, her nostrils flaring, but she froze and sniffed the air intently. "Why do you reek of death?"
"I died!" Onyxia smiled. "Lord Uther resurrected me to serve him and the Light."
"Traitor!" Sintharia roared.
"I see sense, and it is clear that you have lost yourself!" Onxyia roared back, leaping off and transforming back into her natural form. "You are no longer the proud broodmother of the Obsidian Dragonflight, and I must bring you the peace you deserve!"
Onxyia dived and flew toward Sintharia's throat, crashing into her mother and clawing at the Obsidian consort's throat.
"My lord we should leave, we would only get in the way." Jaina said, watching the two black dragons claw at each other.
"Ysondre, do you smell any corruption in these eggs?" Uther asked, looking at the obsidian and twilight eggs that were spread out around them.
"The Twilight eggs are corrupted by the Old Gods, but I smell some black eggs that are free from major corruption." Ysondre said, looking around at the eggs. "What do you have in mind?"
"We get as many of the obsidian eggs as we can, and return them to the temple to be raised in the right environment, so we are not wiping out the Obsidian Dragonflight in this war." Uther explained.
"A wise idea my lord," Ysondre smiled, while Falstad began chanting, all the while Onyxia and Sintharia fought visciously, each trying to kill the other.
"This should help, but we should move quickly, before we're killed by them or the cavern collapsing from their fighting." Falstad said, as a gentle breeze seemed to be drawing them back up to Cho'gall's chamber. "The wind shall help us get the eggs out of here."
"Ladies get the black eggs up there, Ysondre please destroy the Twilight eggs." Uther said, managing to pick up the nearest obsidian egg.
'-Plunge Ashmourne into an egg and you'll have a powerful Black dragon as your servant!-' it whispered.
"Master! Help!" Onyxia roared, and Uther ran to help his ally.
"I will help the Obsidian princess!" a red dragon roared, flying down and joining the fighting dragons. "I must return the favour!"
"No! The Master's children!" Sintharia roared.
"Get the eggs to mother!" Keristrasza roared. "She will care for them!"
The heroes scurried to get the eggs out of the chamber, helped by shamanistic magic carrying them up into the Bastion.
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When the last healthy egg was safely away from Sintharia's clutches, Ysondre burned the remaining eggs and charged the insane obsidian dragon.
"What now Uther?" Arthas asked, as the cavern walls shook and cracked around them.
"We have to get out of here before the entire Bastion comes down on top of us!" Jaina said quickly, as the two dwarves and the Windrunners floated up the air current into the Bastion.
"What about Onyxia?" Sylvanas called.
'-You must step in or she will die!-' the voice hissed.
Uther snarled and plunged both of his swords into the ground and a shockwave erupted outward, breaking the ground as it hurtled toward the dragons.
"Onyxia! Ysondre! Get out of there!" he yelled, as the walls around them cracked and began to crumble. "Keristrasza come on, we'll bury her!"
Onyxia smashed her tail into Sintharia's jaw and escaped while her mother was stunned, followed by Ysondre who summoned clouds to blind Sintharia. Keristrasza snarled and barrelled Sintharia into the wall, causing it to collapse around her and pin them both in place.
"Go without me Lord Uther!" Keristrasza bellowed, as Sintharia raked across the ruby dragon's flank. "Tell mother that I redeemed myself for her!"
Uther wanted to save her, but Onyxia grabbed him with her claws and flew up, as the cavern collapsed completely, burying Sintharia and Keristrasza beneath twisted metal and rock. As predicted, the entire Bastion began to collapse around them, and they hurried out of the deteriorating halls, with the precious black eggs carried by a strong shamanistic breeze.
"That was intense!" Arthas gasped as they burst into the sunlight, quickly finding themselves at the base of the Bastion tower, surrounded by scorched earth and ashen corpses.
"Seems that red dragon finished off the Twilight's Hammer for us," Falstad said, checking the eggs they had rescued, while Onyxia stared at the rubble of the Bastion behind them. "That's quite a legacy for her to be remembered for, as well as sacrificing herself to kill Deathwing's mate."
"Rest in peace mother," Onyxia breathed. "Father will be with you soon."
"You did well my dear," Uther said, putting his hand on her shoulder for comfort. "Do you need time?"
"No master, I shall rest when my father joins my mother in the peaceful grave, it will be the only time I feel at peace." She said coldly. "I feel that only when the corruption is purged from my kin; that I shall be at peace here." She put her hand on her heart and Uther understood.
"Then you are welcome to aid in purging that corruption." He said proudly.
"Where to next?" Falstad asked eagerly.
"I would ask that you get these eggs to the Ruby dragons, while we face off against an old enemy." Uther chuckled. "Lirastrasza will see them delivered to the Dragon Queen."
"As you wish, I shall also get some allies to help in silencing Blackrock Mountain permanently." Falstad smiled, as his gryphon landed at his side.