Warcraft is Magic

Azok spent the next several days flying to the nearby cities and dropping flyers advertising their new business. They had gotten some work but it was all low pay, hardly enough to sustain themselves. Vinny, in the meantime, was hard at work in Ponyville trying to find somebody to field the job requests that they were expected to receive; it wasn't going very well.

Azok landed outside of his house as usual, but this time -but this time, instead of Vinny greeting him, he was met with a small brown earth pony standing by the door.

“Can I help you?”

“I hope so!” the pony tore through his bag and produced a ripped up flyer “My village is getting attacked and we need help!”

“What’s is attacking your village?”

“You wouldn't believe me if I told you..” the brown Pony hung his head.

“Just tell me.”

“We don't know what they are exactly, but they look just like us- except they have glowing green eyes.”

“Well, considering we have no other jobs, well take yours. You're welcome to stay at our house till we are ready to go.”

“Thank you sir; by the way, my name is Clip.”

The next day Vinny, Azok and Clip were ready to leave.  They all gathered around the portal device as Azok dialed in the destination; there was a flash as the portal opened.  Azok was the first to step through, followed by Vinny then Clip. There was the same hum as before when the portal opened a small way outside of Clips village.

“Damn. I thought I fixed that.”

On the walk into the village, Clip would frantically look around at the smallest rustle of a bush or snap of a twig.

“Yo, calm down. With me and the big guy here there ain't nothing that can get at ya.”

“I hope your right..” Clip muttered under his breath.

The party got into town at about noon, giving Azok and Vinny time to make a plan.

“Ok how about this I will stay here and shoot whatever comes out of the forest while you go in and find where these things are coming from and take it out.”

“Why don't you go in the forest, you’re smaller?”

“Because I said so.”

“Fine.”

Azok dug around in his bag and pulled out a potion and an orb.  He squeezed the orb[1], releasing its magic. A purple aura surrounded him, shrinking the Tauren down to about two feet tall. His hair and horns vanished, and his body took the exact shape of a gnome.

“Well I’m off,” He waddled into the forest, leaving Vinny and Clip to defend the town.

Azok jogged through the forrest, easily avoiding the branches, trees and various other obstacles that plagued his path.  He had been going for almost an hour before stumbled out of the forest and into a large clearing in the very center was a large hole that emitted green light.  As he started to creep towards it, the ground began shaking and the hole erupted black smoke.  The smoke settled in the air several hundred feet up most of the cloud started towards the town some of it however wasa headed straight towards Azok.

As the smoke got closer, Azok noticed it was in fact hundreds of small black pony like animals.  Twenty of them began blasting at him with green bolts of magic while the rest flew towards the village.  He did his best at dodging them, but there were too many bolts distracting him. Several struck him in the chest, paralyzing him.  Unable to move the pony-like animals levitated him and flew him back into the hole in the ground.  There was another blast of magic and he passed out.

Azok began to regain consciousness his entire body was immobilized by some sort of cocoon deep underground.  He began to look around at his new surroundings; the ground was almost fifty feet from this cocoon and the only light source was a single door on the far side of the room.

There was a slight buzzing sound that increased in volume every passing second until two identical black ponies flew up to Azok’s cage and cut it loose; it plummeted towards the ground but was caught by a green glow and floated the rest of the way to the floor.  A large insectoid looking alicorn walked over to his prison.

“My my, what do we have here?” Its layered voice echoed throughout the room. “It’s not one of my minions, but it has transformed itself- and that simply won't do.”  There was another flash of green light the; effects of the orb dissipated and Azok changed but something was wrong.  The Insect spoke again, “Huh I expected you to be a pony... No matter, you will be hive soon enough.”  The Insect left the room leaving him alone in his prison.

He had laid there for hours when a familiar sensation began to manifest itself at the base of his skull, one he hadn't felt in years: hunger.  He struggled hopelessly against his bonds when he heard a small clicking noise.  He pushed with all his might and at last, freedom! He rolled out of the cocoon onto the ground gasping for air.

Azok stood up and realized why he felt different: he was an Elf again! That Alicorn had changed him all the way back to his original form.  He didn't know how he was back, but he did knew two things: he was angry and he was hungry. And he knew how to fix both of these problems.

Almost instantly, several guards charged him, blasting at him with green bolts of magic. Azok’s new, lighter form was able to dodge the oncoming blasts with ease.  The guards took a circular formation around him and closed the gap all the while attempting to blast him.  When the guards were five yards away Azok let loose a blue wave of magic.[2] The wave slammed into the, guards stunning them.

“Good but im still hungry”  He quickly dispatched the guards with his mace before exiting the room in search of the Alicorn.

Queen Chrysalis sat in her throne room, content that she had just added another slave to her drone army, when an explosion rocked the castle.  Several more followed suit until the door of the throne room was blasted open.

“Who dares to attack my castle!?” she bellowed through the sound of the doors hitting the floor.

 A large metal orb was launched towards her. She shot it away with her magic; it impacted a far wall and blew a hole in it the size of a buffalo.

Azok steadied his mace and charged at the Alicorn, tossing several more of his grenades at her She blasted them all with bolts of magic. She fired at Azok, but he dodged it.  He sent out another blue wave of magic hitting and stunning the his attacker.

“Well that is some nice mana you got there, I forgot how tasty it was.” Azok walked towards the disabled queen and grabbed her horn, lifting her face to his.  “Are you the one who is attacking the village on the outskirts of the forest?”

“Why should I answer?” Azok started to bend bend the horn.

“YES YES PLEASE STOP!”        She yelped in pain.

“Good, now if you ever attack that village again I will comeback and I will rip your horn off your head and skewer you with it.” He began to bend the horn again, “Do you understand?”

“Yes!” the queen was almost passing out from the pain.

“Good.” He dropped her and flew out of the castle and into the night sky.

Azok flew low over the forest as he approached the small village. He noticed several of the insect ponies fleeing back towards the hive, most of them with arrows stuck in their bodies.  He scanned the village till he saw Vinny waving at him from a rooftop.  After landing Azok used his tail to sweep the dead bodies off the roof.

“Yo big guy, how did it go?” Vinny was sitting on a small pile of bodies cleaning his bow.

“Well I kinda got changed back.”

“What's that mean?”

“I found the hive of these bug things, then their leader zapped me with some magic and I got turned back into an elf.”

“You're pulling my leg? Not even Soul could change you back and she is the one that did it to you.”

Azok dismissed his drake form returning to his new, old, Elvish body. “Holy hell! You weren't kidding.  Well anyway, good to have you back to normal.”

Vinny hopped off the roof and went inside the building across the street to get the payment for their job.  After assuring them that they were safe, Vinny returned to the roof and they both Hearthed[3] home.

[1] Orb of Deception transforms the user into the opposite race (ie a Gnome)

[2] Arcane Torrent silences and absorbs magic from nearby enemies.

[3] Hearthstone returns the user to their home

(A/N so ya I change Azok into an elf but if you get all pissy re read chapter 3 he was an elf to start with so calm yo tits.  And now a brief description of Blood Elves they are addicted to arcane energy (its magic that isn't selected for a use yet) if they can have a steady intake of arcane energy they will be fine but if they gorge themselves on it they turn into monsters.  Arcane Torrent is is how they syphon arcane energy from their enemies.  There are other ways for them to satisfy their addiction but sadly they do not exist in Equestria.)