A Clash Between Life And Death.

Chaos had broke out. After arriving in Hearthglen to rest up, the jedi and their allies were only able to rest for a few hours before they were woken up by the soldiers preparing for battle. After being informed that hordes of undead had emerged from seemingly nowhere, Arthas urged Jaina to contact Uther for help, which was only possible with the long range communicator on Lena's ship, which was docked far from where they currently were, so it would take time even for an Jedi to reach it. However, shortly after Jaina left, the situation went from bad to worse as the others discovered to late that the food supply were carrying the undead plague, and they could only watch in horror as the villagers turned in to mindless monsters, forcing the jedi and soldiers to defend themselves.

The zombies ran at them. Some soldiers shot several of them down before they could reach them, allowing Lena, Nova, Arthas and the rest of the soldiers to deal with those that remained. Lena and Nova had seen much horrific things during their long careers as soldiers, but never have they seen anything so horrifying before. Just seeing an innocent person turn in to a monster while they couldn't do anything to stop it... it was horrible sight, and even the rakghouls wasn't as bad. Since a rakghoul transformation, while horrible to witness, still had the mercy of transforming their victims in to unrecognizable monsters, making them easier to kill. But these zombies still had the same face they had when they were alive, making it painfully clear that the monsters they were now killing used to be innocent people, who didn't deserve this.

But they didn't have much time to think about it before the alarm was sounded and hordes of undeads where approaching the camp at an alarming rate... several abominations were with them. Looked like the undead horde they were warned of earlier had finally arrived, right after they had been to distracted with the infected civilians to prepare a defense. It almost felt like it was planned, maybe it was, not that it mattered at the moment.

Nova cursed under her breath. Dealing with one of those freaks was hard enough, but now there was many more of them, and the undead vastly out numbered them "Everyone! Prepare yourselves! Don't let those monsters overwhelm us!".

Everyone hurried to get ready for the oncoming assault. But there was so many of them. It was going to take everything they had just to survive. But they had to last long enough to for Jaina and Uther to join them. But that was going to take a while, and the undead weren't going to wait around.

The soldiers held several riot shields in front of them, forming a wall to block the undead's charge, with no time to build a barricade, riot shields were their best option. While they did that, several gun men stood behind them and took aim at the approaching undead. Arthas stood ready with his lightsaber active, Nova had taken up a sniping positions and Lena could only stand ready with her duel blasters, hoping they could stop the undead before they reached them. They waited in a tense position as the undead came closer and closer... and once they were within range, the gunmen opened fire, killing several of the undead, though body shots did little to slow them down, headshots put them down quickly. But many more where still coming and they slammed against the wall of shields, making the brave men slide back, but they still pushed back, and took out their blasters to shoot the zombies in the heads at pointblank range.

But the undead where not deterred by the loss in numbers as they kept coming, some even climbing over the men that tried to hold them of. Those that made it past the barricade attacked the soldiers behind it, while some sunk their teeth in to anyone unfortunate enough to get trapped. Arthas cut down two ghouls that managed to reach him, he then struck down two zombies in a single strike, before using the force to stop a ghoul that was trying to leap at him, and cut it in half from head to crotch while it was still in mid air. More zombies arrived... dressed in soldier armors... meaning they used to be loyal soldiers of the kingodm... but now they were mindless monsters of death. Arthas growled in anger as she had no choice but to cut them down as well, people who used to be loyal servants of his father and protectors of his people.

But then screams were heard as an Abomination smash through the blockade. The soldiers fired an barrage at it, but the monsters' thick undead body protected it from any lethal wounds and it cleaved through three soldiers with it's sharp metal weapon, before grabbing another with it's large hand and bit his head of... It even chewed the head before swallowing it. A sniper shot to it's eye finally staggered it, and Nova continued scoring more head shots until the disgusting abomination died.

"Aim for the head! It's the only thing that will kill them" Nova ordered.

Following Nova's lead, the soldiers aimed for the abominations heads, and a barrage of blaster fire tore the brutes' heads apart, successfully killing several of them... but more abominations kept coming, crushing the soldiers that tried to stand in their way. Arthas let out a battle cry as he charged one of them. Thankfully he had learned his lesson from the first one as he dodged a strike and ran behind it, cutting it's leg of as he did which made it fall. He then quickly jumped on to it's back and stabbed his lightsaber through the abomination's skull, killing it. But then he looked up to see another abomination ready to crush him... only for it to be blown apart by a shot from Hammer' tank, and luckily the blast didn't hurt Arthas.

Arthas gave Hammer a grateful salute before rejoining the battle. Meanwhile, Lena killed several zombie with perfect head shots from her two blasters. A ghoul tried to bite her, only for her to push her blaster in to it's mouth and blew it's head apart. Lena then dodged a zombie's attempt to grab her and shot it in the back of the head. She took a moment to catch her breath, but that moment was short lived as another Abomination burst through a wall, killing several soldiers in the process. Lena looked at the disgusting beast as it stomped towards her. She dodged a smashing strike before using the force out of pure instinct to leap on to it's shoulders, aimed her blasters at it's head before unloading a barrage of blaster fire in to it's rotten skull, making it fall to the ground dead.

But things weren't going to get any easier as an terrifying roar was heard. Everyone looked and to their horror, an undead Rancor had been unleashed. Rancors weren't native to Azeroth so they had no idea how it got here. Not that it mattered, as the undead Rancor quickly began tearing in to Hammer's tank, forcing her to jump out. She punched a zombie that tried to grab her, but the Rancor was ready to crush her, ignoring all blaster fire that was hitting it. But it could not ignore Arthas as leapt on to it's back, stabbing his light saber in to it. The Rancor shook him of and tried to crush him under it's massive paw, but Arthas cut it's finger off, before throwing his lightsaber in to it's eye, blinding it. He then used the force to lift the large beast in to the air before slamming it back down in to the ground, before pulling his saber back in to his hand and stabbed the rancor through it's brain, finally killing it.

But even with the largest of them dead, the undead just kept coming and coming. Nova killed several with her sniper, but she was running out of clips, meaning she would soon need to resort to close combat, which would be very dangerous with so many undead foes. Some even climbed the house she was on, so she would soon be overwhelmed if she didn't think of something fast.

"I'm one with the force and the force is with me!" Arthas said as he killed a ghoul, but he was getting tired.

But the familiar sounds of republic battle ships were heard was heard, and Uther along with an army of republic soldiers come charging in. Jaina is with them, she had been successful in calling for help. The ships unleashed an areal attack, taking huge chunks out of the undead horde, which also allowed several drop ships to land, releasing republic troopers, who carried rotary blaster cannons. They fired at the undeads, who were easily shredded apart by the more powerful weapons.

Leaps down from his own ship, and as he landed on the ground he sent a powerful force wave through it, which scattered several unead, allowing him to quickly pull out his lightsaber and cut a path to his former Padawan.

"Uther! Your timing couldn't have been better!" Arthas said in relief.

"Don't celebrate yet, my old padawan. This battle's far from over!" Uther said as he and Arthas combined their power to blast large groups of undead in to nothing but stains on the ground.

Jaina used her own force abilities to lift several heavy objects and sent them flying at the speed of missiles, which oblidirated several undead. She was however forced to use her lightsaber to cut down several undead that managed to reach her. Nova regrouped with Lena and the two stood back to back, gunning down as many undead as they could.

The battle was long and brutal... but with the help from the republican soldiers, the undead was finally defeated. They won, but it came at a heavy cost.

Once the battle was over, the soldiers and workers took care of the dead, while the exhausted survivors rested inside the non damaged buildings. Lena was shaken up by what happened, so Nova sat next to her, put a hand around her shoulders and pulled her in to a gentle hug, which Lena gladly accepted, she really needed it.

Uther walked up to Arthas who was sitting in front of the fire place "I'm surprised that you kept things together as long as you did, Arthas. If I hadn't arrived just then-".

Arthas cut Uther of, taking his compliment as an insult he was angry "Look, I did the best I could, Uther. If I'd had an army worth of soldiers at my back, I would've-".

"Control your feelings Arthas! Now is not the time to be choking on pride! What we faced here was only the beginning. Our scouts report undead ranks across the entire continent and their numbers are bolstered every time one of our soldiers falls in battle" Uther interrupted, this was not the time or place to argue. And he could sense Arthas' growing frustration, which is dangerous for any jedi.

"Then we should strike at their leader! I'll go to Stratholme and kill Mal'Ganis myself if I have to!" Arthas declared.

Uther puts an hand on his shoulder "Easy, Arthas. Brave and powerful as you are, you can't hope to defeat a man who commands the dead all by yourself".

"Then feel free to tag along, Uther. I'm going, with or without you!" Arthas said as he brushed of Uther's handand stormed of.

Jaina had a worried look, sure they all were shaken up by the horrors they had to face, but there was no need for Arthas to snap at his former master and friend like that. Uther also looked worried about Arthas' sudden change in attitude. He hoped it would't grow worse later. Last thing they needed now was for the prince to make rash and dangerous decisions due to anger... The dark side was beginning to take hold in him, and that worried them more than anything else.

"You three, go with him, I will catch up once everything is under control here" Uther ordered

Nova, Lena and Jaina shared worried looks but nodded and followed Arthas... hoping things wouldn't get even worse.

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