Warcraft is Magic

Edited by MrMinimii

Vinny had made it back to the first clearing in the maze when his pets returned looking quite tired.  They released several chirps and growls apiece while looking at Vinny.

“Don't beat yourselves up this, is a big maze.” Vinny pulled out the whistle and blew into it, a shrill noise once again filled the air, causing Vinny’s five pets to slowly sink back into the ground.  There was a loud snap in the distance and the entirety of the maze disappeared leaving behind a large crater.

On the far side of the crater 6 greyish splotches, accompanied by another purple one, were crowded around a couch.  Vinny started to head towards it but was stopped by a yellow glow and a flash as he was teleported for the umpteenth time that day.

When he reappeared he was in the throne room looking at a very upset Celestia.  “What is the meaning of this” She demanded loudly.

“The meaning of what?” Vinny responded, not knowing what the Princess was referring to.

“Not twenty minutes after Discord is released your friend goes on a rampage in my city!” Celestia stomped her hoof on the ground and guards began to file in the room.

“What?”

“You heard me! You have one minute to tell me why I shouldn't send you to the sun.”

“Well first off, that’s a little extreme. Secondly, last I knew, Azok was trying to find your damn elements of harmony or some shit like that. Thirdly, Azok is a Paladin; he won't kill anything unless it is a threat to the innocent.  If he did kill anything against his will he must have been mind controlled or something, and if you take me to him I can find out for sure.”

The Princess nodded and led Vinny to where she had left Azok, the entire castle guard escorted them there as a precaution.

Upon reaching the sight, Vinny walked up to the crater and looked down and his friend.  “Well its not exactly mind control, but he is grey, whatever that means. His HP isnt charging either, which is weird.”

Celestia looked down at Vinny with a look of confusion on her face.  “Fine, let me explain:  where we come from people like us can scan other living things and see how hard something is to kill we gauge this with hit points, HP, and after battle, heroes will naturally heal themselves, but Azok ain't getting healed.”

“What about him being grey?”

“Well, besides the distinct lack of color on the big guy’s fur, I'm not sure. If we had a mage, they could figure it out, but for now I say we just leave him here and hope it wears off.”

“Very well.” Celesta turned to her guards, “I want half of you to stay here and the other half to begin gathering the bodies for burial.”

“If I may, Princess, your guards are about as useful as wet tissue paper and this may sound bad but don't bury the bodies yet; Azok might be able to do something about them if we can get him back to normal.”

“What do you mean ‘do something about them’?”

“Did Sparkle tell you about the time I brought that bunny back to life.”

“Yes she did.”

“Well Azok can do something much, much bigger.”

Vinny went back to the castle with Celestia, but had left his lava turtle, Gamera, to guard Azok just in case.  As soon as they had entered the throne room Celestia’s horn glowed slightly and she rushed over to the window Her horn glowed one more time and she teleported away.

“So... I guess I'll just stay here then?”

Meanwhile in Ponyville, Twilight was gathering her friends and curing them of the Grey... Without the help of the female Hippogryph, Badger, who had had been knocked out by Tom.

Vinny was staring out the throne room window at the town of ponyville when a giant rainbow dome appeared and completely engulfed Ponyville.  When the dome reached Canterlot, it erased all the cotton candy clouds and fixed all the soap roads.  Azok remained grey, untouched by the dome’s magic.

Vinny looked towards the doorway in time to see the Princess return with a note floating next to Her

“Good news from Twilight: the Elements of Harmony were able to defeat Discord. She had also has found a spell that will reverse the Grey.”

“Tell her to meet me at Azok.” Vinny sprinted out of the throne room as fast as his little stubby legs could carry him.

He arrived at the crater housing Azok in several minutes, greeted by Gamera whom he quickly dismissed.  He heard the sound of hoofs and saw turned to see Twilight behind him.  “Ok toots, I’ll cap him, you zap him.”

Twilight nodded and Vinny stepped forward.

The monster still laid in his crater wallowing in his blood and broken body. A sound broke the silence: two sets of hooves approaching from a distance, stopping just as they neared the incredible beast.  The monster turned his head and saw his friend, the goblin.

The Goblin said nothing; he simply drew his bow, aimed at the monster's heart, and fired.  Another sound broke through the silence, but fell upon the monster’s deaf ears. Twilight emerged by The Goblin’s side, tears streaming down her cheeks.

The monster chuckled with his dying breaths, knowing he would soon be back to kill again. Blood returned, bones mended damage undone, the monster rose from his once grave again, hungry for revenge.

The unicorn lowered her head and charged a spell as the monster charged at the pair.  The spell hit the beast directly between the eyes, not causing harm, but forcing his past back into his mind: his friends and family, his hopes and dreams. The monster was no more, now there was only Azok Sunstrider the Paladin.  Azok Sunstrider stood and his body began to glow a pulse of light emanated from him[1] “212,923” was uttered before he changed and flew off into the sky.

Several days past and Vinny had returned to Ponyville, and with the money in the bank, he had bought a two bedroom house on the edge of ponyville.  Azok had still not returned from wherever he had gone, but Vinny was sure he would soon enough.

Vinny had been in the front yard of the house, shooting arrows at a tree for practice when he heard the sounds of wings beating behind him.  He spun around and saw a familiar sandy dragon gliding to the ground.

Azok landed in front of Vinny and changed back to his humanoid form he slowly walked up to Vinny and sat down in front of him.

“Hey big guy, where you been?”

“I just had to be alone for a while, but I’m okay now.”

“Well that’s good. As you’ve probably figured out by now, I got us a house. It drained almost all the savings though.”

“Won't be a problem, I have an idea on how we can make some money.”

Azok pulled out a sheet of blue paper and showed it to Vinny.

“This is going to be fun.”

[1] Mass Resurrection - Resurrects all allies within 100 yards (A/N i will not be using this spell ever again it is too powerful.  But I will give myself some leeway any pony that dies can be brought back once.)