A few days later while Jaina’s funeral was being conducted Arthas and Twilight had almost arrived at the village of Hearthglen, Twilight frowned “Are you sure we shouldn’t have attended Jaina’s funeral?”

Arthas shook his head “I am the Prince, I must put my people before my own desires.”

Twilight smiled “You will be a great King one day.”

Arthas frowned “I have to, it’s what is expected of me.” Twilight was about to speak when they arrived in Hearthglen, Arthas frowned as everyone was arming up “What is going on here?”

The Captain of the local guard bowed “Prince Arthas, it’s pleasure to meet you. An undead force is planning on attacking this town.”

Twilight turned to Arthas “We’ll send a messenger to Uther, the defence will need the both of us to hold of the attacking forces.”

Arthas nodded as he summon a messenger and gave him a message “Find Uther, we need his help we aren’t sure if we can hold onto the position with reinforcements.”

As soon as the messenger headed off Twilight looked at the crates “Where did you get those crates?!”

The Captain bowed “Lady Twiley, we received a grain shipment for Andorhal it’s already been distributed to the villagers.” Soon the villages around them feel asleep then mutated into vicious Zombies.

Arthas roared “It’s an ambush, defend yourselves!”

Twilight, Arthas and the few footmen had slain the zombies quickly. Arthas then got the peasants being produced by the Town Hall as well as footmen being produced by the barracks, Twilight repelled a small ghoul assault as she took charge of base defence.

Twilight growled “We need more than just Footmen, can you get the Keep started so we can get some healers, Holy Light only goes so far!”

Arthas shouted “On it!”

Twilight meanwhile began upgrading the towers into both guards towers and cannon towers while a few peasants began constructing more scout towers by the order of Arthas. An abomination assault killed several footmen as Twilight repelled the attack, The keep had just finished construction, a Workshop, Arcane Sanctum were being constructed and riflemen were added to the forces.

Arthas grimaced a she ran over to Twilight “There is a caravan carrying plagued grain to the outlying villages, we need to stop it or we have more enemies to deal with.”

Twilight nodded “I’ll take care of it, can you maintain the base defence for a few minutes.”

Arthas nodded as he put a hand on her wither “Sure, just be careful I have already lost Jaina, I can’t bare to lose you as well.”

Twilight nodded “I’ll be careful, I promise to come back safe.” Twilight took off with a boom flying towards the first village only to see the Caravan just arrive, she slammed into the first meat wagon crushing it and the grabbing the next using it as a hammer destroying the rest of the caravan. She then mopped up the remaining guards before flying back to the base with a smile, she landed to see Mortar teams with priests and sorceresses supporting footmen and riflemen holding off undead abominations, meat wagons and necromancers.

Twilight dived in helping them quickly dispose of the attacking force, Twilight sighed “They are getting desperate, we need to keep our guard up we may be expecting a large attack.”

Arthas grimaced “Agreed, I’ll join you on the defence the buildings are constructed and will continue to pump out troops.”

Twilight nodded “Good because here they come.” Hoards of Abominations, Ghouls, Crypt Friends plus Meat Wagons and a few Lichs rush forward, Twilight begins to tear into them with her troops while Arthas at at the back healing the defenders.

Screams and the stench of death fill the air as corpse of Footmen Ghouls and Abomination litter the ground. Twilight growls as her forces get decimated “Fall back, we need to get closer to the centre of the base.

Arthas grimaced as he called out to her “What do you think our chances are?!”

Twilight growled as cut an abomination in half “Not good, there are too many of them!”

Arthas growled “I hope we can get reinforcements Watson.” Just as he finished saying that he heard the sound of trumpets, Uther ran over with a huge army of knights and with their help they destroyed the Undead.

Uther frowned “What happened here!”

Twilight grimaced “The plagued grain from Andorhal was used to turn the villagers here to undead, their leader Mal’Ganis resides in the city of Strathholme.”

Arthas frowned “We need to head there as soon as possible, leaving an enemy in our midst like this is foolish.”

Uther smiled “Arthas, you make me proud always willing to do what is right for your people.”

Arthas grimaced “The weight of the crown is heavy Uther, someday I may make a choice you will not agree with because you are a Paladin and I am a Prince.”

Uther nodded “I understand lad.” Twilight, Arthas and Uther left the village heading for Strathholme, Twilight was blissfully unaware of the hard choice she would have to make in Strathholme.

Author's Note

Next chapter will be the Culling.