Warcraft is Magic

“Hurry up, Cow!” yelled Soul, “I don't have all day and we don't know when Malygos will be back!” She tapped her bony foot impatiently as the Paladin approached the center of the blue gray platform.

“Well if you didn’t run so fast you wouldn't have to wait for me,” he shouted with a snort “and don’t call me cow, that is insulting; my name is-”

“Ya ya ya, I don’t care,” she interrupted. “Listen, I have been working on this spell for two weeks and I will be damned if some walking wall of beef makes me miss my only chance to cast it. Do you know how hard it is to gather this much arcane energy.”

“I know, Soul, I was just checking all my gear and making sure my hearthstone was working right, I don’t want a repeat of what happened last time you shot me through one of these god awful things...” he said with a grimace. “I was spitting up sea water for a month.”

“I apologized for that! Now if you’re done making yourself look purty suggest you get furry ass over here and get in the damn portal.” Soul was mildly angry at this time and I could see her face (what was left of it) getting red.

“Ok Ok,” he said while stretching. “So, do you have any idea where this will take me?”he asked hoping to know what to expect.

Sadly Soul looked up at me with a sadistic grin and said “Nope.”

Azok slowly walked towards the portal and then ran at it at full speed. Soul yelled “RUN, BITCH, RUN.”  As he was nearing the portal, the familiar pull of magic sucked him in.  He appeared in an open field, or rather, a couple hundred feet above and open field.

He plummeted to the earth, but seconds before he hit the ground he activated his Divine shield[1] negating all the damage he would have taken from that fall.  After landing with a thud on a grassy field he began to re-check his armor, thankfully finding no damage.

He decided to get a birds eye view of the area; after transforming into his Sandstone Drake form he looked back at his body.  It was about fifteen feet long with clear golden spikes and large sand colored wings.

Azok flew what he believed to be north, and after several minutes of flying he spotted a forest to his right. He activated his Crusader Aura[2] and quickly sped off in that direction.  As he approached the forest the sun had begun to set. Not knowing what to expect the next day, Azok set down and quickly fell asleep.

A loud howl awoke the Paladin from his sleep. Thinking nothing of it he began to fall back to sleep until he heard a scream.  He charged through the underbrush, smashing several small trees and small bushes ‘till he appeared in a small clearing. On the far side there were several Worg like mobs[3] surrounding what looked like a Zhevra. The largest worg lunged at the Zhevra, slashing its flank; the now wounded animal let out an all to humanoid scream before collapsing.

Azok charged the nearest Worg slashing it with his axe- he expected his weapon to be coated in blood but instead it was coated in sap. The rest of the pack turned to face the new threat, but were quickly dispatched with several blasts of magic[4].  He walked over to the wounded Zhevra his hooves making almost no noise on the soft grass. When he got close enough to the animal he bent over and inspected the gash on its flank. The Zhevra’s eyes shot open and in scanned about for a second before resting on the armor clad figure above her.

“I thank you so much, kind stranger, for removing the danger!”

“By the light, you can talk!”

“Yes, I do speak quite well. You are surprised by this, I can tell.”

“Yes, but... Never mind. Hold still for a second, I need to heal the gash on your flank.”  The not-Zhervra’s eyes shot down to her side and rested on the large cut.  Azok bent down and began to charge his hands with Light. The Zherva started to scoot away, but stopped when he put his hands on her.

        Golden light began to dance across the cut seeping into the flesh and healing the wound.  After several seconds the light faded and the cut was completely healed.

“I am known as Zecora”

“I was just in this clearing gathering flora.”

“When those unknown creatures attacked” she chuckled a bit “Well as you can see they cut my back.”

“Now brave knight, so kind and true”

“Please tell me, who are you?”

“Azok.”

“A strange name for a minotaur.”

“Im not a minotaur.”

“Well if not what land are you from is it far?

“I dont know im actually kinda lost could you point me towards the nearest town.”

“Ponyville is that way” she pointed

“If you leave now you can make it while still in the night”

“But be careful or you might give them all a fright.”

Upon waking in the morning, he set off in the direction of the village. The flight wouldn't take long and he was hopeful to get there by midday.

In fact, the flight only lasted about five minutes; after clearing the tree line he could already see the tops of the buildings. Each one had a different color set unlike the horde basses that were blood and steel.  Now directly over the village he could see more of the horse like animals, but that was the only species he could see. He assumed that they were a neutral faction and decided to land in the town square.

        “DRAGON, RUN!!!” the screams of ponies filled the air as the unknown sand colored drake set down in the middle of town. The entire populus was hidden inside their homes in a matter of seconds.

Azok was confused by their fear, didn't they know that only the black dragonflight were evil?  Thinking it best to be seen in his normal form, he reverted and began to explore the town, he didn't get very far when suddenly a lavender unicorn slammed into him.

“Excuse me, sir,” she asked in a polite voice .“Did you see where the dragon went?”

“I'm sorry, that was me. I didn't know the townspeople would be so scared of me...”

“No seriously, where is he? I need to make sure the town is safe.” She replied, sounding more annoyed.

        “I already said, I was that dragon and I didn't mean to scare the town.”

She brought her hoof to the area above her nose pinching it abit “Can you please just tell me where it went” she yelled.

“Know what, here!” Azok once again took the form of a dragon. “Here is the dragon, happy!?” As soon as he stopped talking she passed out with a thud.

“WAKE UP! WAKE UP!” Azok yelled as he shook the little horse. No response. He set her down and began to rub his hands together so they gathered a charge of Light[5] “CLEAR!” He slammed his hands down on the mares side.  Her eyes shot open and she started to babble.

“What-happened-you’re-a-dragon-you-can’t-be-a-dragon!?” She then began rocking back and forth on the ground.

“Hey, you okay lady? I didn’t mean to scare you...”

She quickly composed herself and stood up. “Yes, I am fine.  Now if you would kindly explain what kind of magic that was- I have seen all kinds of magic, but nothing like that.”

“Uhh, what do you mean? There are a lot of people who can do that kind of spell.”

“Not around here, I have never seen a transformation like that. Not even in the libraries at Canterlot.”

“Damn, how far did I get teleported...?”

“Well if you wouldn't mind showing me that spell again, I might be able to help you.”

“Sure.”

Azok followed the Pony to a tree that had been hollowed out to make a library. He had to duck to get through the door, but the inside was quite spacious.

“So,” he began, “Do you know what part of Azeroth this is?”

“Its the name of this planet?”

“No this planet is named Equis.”

“Damn Soul, shot me to another planet.”

“So you're from another-”

Before she could finish her sentence another one of the horse like animals burst through a window.

“TWILIGHT THERE'S A HYDRA HEADING STRAIGHT TOWARDS TOWN! WE HAVE TO GET OUT NOW!”

“Anything I can do to help?”

The rainbow colored horse noticed the newcomer in the room and spoke again. “Sure, whoever you are, if you can kill a hydra be my guest.”

“Ok.”

“Huh?”

“I'll go kill it.” Azok began to head out the door when he realized he had no idea where the monster was. “Which way is it exactly?”

“You're crazy! Not even I could take down an hydra!” shouted they cyan Pegasus .

“Well I've killed plenty of monsters in my day, so a hydra won't be a problem.”

“Oh yeah? Prove it.”

“Im trying to, now tell me where the hydra is.”

After getting directions from the very annoying Pegasi, Azok charged off into combat against his new target.

        The Hydra was attacking the south part of the town which was surprisingly larger than the garden variety of Hydra.  Its four heads toward at least  twenty feet over the roof of the tallest building. It had just entered the town proper and had started to munch on one of the buildings.

        Azok charged towards it while blasting it several bolts of magic. Each one tore a bit of flesh and scale from the beast.  One of its fore heads whipped forward trying to devour the attacker.  He dodged the attack and lopped the head off with his axe.  The Hydra reared back in pain and began to stomp at the Paladin.

        Azok slammed his axe into the earth and the ground begun to glow.[6] Another foot quickly came down inside the circle of glowing earth.  When it made contact it all but disintegrated.  The Hydra now with only one foot and three heads fell and was dispatched with one more swing of the axe.

        Twilight stood a little distance away from the battle in awe; never had she seen magic used so effectively for combat.  Then again she had never seen anything that could materialize a seven foot long golden axe either.  She began to slowly walk towards the monster that killed a monster.

        “Is it dead?”

        “Well I should hope so,” he responded. “I chopped all its heads off.”

        “That was incredible! How did you do that with magic, and what was that thing where the ground glowed and...”

        “Well not that it hasn't been fun, but I better get back to my own world.”

        “You’re leaving so soon? But I had so many questions.”

        “You can guess why I am leaving.”  Azok pulled out a white egg shaped stone with a blue spiral in the center and squeezed it, a green glow enveloped him and seconds later it flashed.

        He opened his eyes expecting to see Orgrimmar but instead he saw the lavender unicorn and a dead Hydra.  He was stuck.

[1] Divine Shield - Protects the paladin from all damage and spells for 8 sec

[2] Crusader Aura - Increases mount speed by 20%, including flying mounts

[3] Term for monsters in a group

[4] Judgment – Blasts the foe with holy light shaped like a hammer

[5] Flash of Light - heals a friendly target

[6] Consecration - Consecrates the land beneath the Paladin  causing damage to enemies

[7] Hearthstone - Returns the caster to an inn