Twilight of the Light
Chapter 20: Unexpected Assistance
Previous ChapterNext ChapterSeveral months after the death of Archimonde Twilight, Arthas, Jaina and Kel’Thuzad had begun hunting the few remaining Dreadlords. Arthas is standing there in their Necropolis when he feels a searing pain in his head “Arthas, I am in danger!”
Twilight galloped over to him “What’s wrong?!”
Arthas grimaced “We must return to Northrend, Ner’zhul warned me that he was in danger.”
They began to prepare for departure, a few days later Jaina scowled “This is really bad!”
Kel’Thuzad grimaced “Indeed, without a Lich King the world will fall to the Scourge.”
Twilight grimaced “And that may even be what our enemy wants.”
Suddenly a bunch of undead attacked them, Arthas growled “What’s the meaning of this?!”
Three Dreadlords appeared one red, another green and the last purple. They out a dark chuckle “You aren’t going anywhere, we…”
The undead surrounding them were slain by a flurry of arrows, they looked up to see a group of archers and a woman that they all knew. Twilight shouted out “Sylvanas!”
Sylvanas nodded “Yes and I’m hear to slay these demons, my forces have secured a route to your ship. Also beware, Prince Kael’thas has joined the forces assaulting the North.”
The four of them fled to their ship and headed to the frozen continent of Northrend, they arrive to see a what appeared to be a large variant of a Crypt Fiend Kel’Thuzad bowed “This Anub’arak, a Crypt Lord and a powerful member of the Scourge.”
Anub’arak bowed “King Arthas, our scouts have discovered that a set of creatures know as Naga and the Blood Elves are assisting Illidan’s assault on the Icecrown Glacier.”
Twilight growled “We don’t have time to make it there at this rate!”
Anub’arak nodded “Lady Twilight, there is underground passage through the former kingdom of Azjol-Nerub.” The group arrived at his base, Anub’arak had a fully constructed base full of warriors at a ready with them the group quickly destroyed the Blood Elf and Naga bases before entering the underground Kingdom of Azjol-Nerub.
Jaina grimaced “This place is strange and…”
Arthas blinked as he say a familiar dwarf “Muradin!”
Muradin frowned “Arthas! Well you’re a sight for sore eyes, there are some nasty things down there. Still I do have a lot of questions about what happened in Lordaeron.”
Arthas frowned “I killed my father because he refused to take his people out of what could easily become a war zone, Uther thankfully was reasonable.”
Muradin grimaced “Where are you going Arthas?”
Jaina frowned as she pointed at the stairs “We are heading down there, we have to get the Icecrown Glacier as soon as possible.”
Muradin sighed “Just be careful all of you, don’t want you ending up dead from what’s down there.”
Arthas nodded as he lead the small force down into the depths, Anub’arak backed away “Careful this is a Nerubian trap.” They managed to flood the area and move past the trap.
Twilight smiled “Good work.” She frowned as Anub’arak mumbled something, soon they came upon a large group of Nerubians which had several Crypt Friends captured. After quick battle they freed their allies and pushed forward tearing through more Nerubians including a Nerubian nest.
Soon they came upon strange creature , Jaina grimaced “What are those!”
Kel’Thuzad grimaced “Faceless Ones, we must slay them in order to proceed!” With a swift attack they were able to avoid any causalities while eliminating the Faceless Ones.”
Soon they break down a gate and spotted a massive writhing creature made of flesh with an eyeball staring at them. Anub’arak grimaced “That’s a Forgotten One we must be…”
Anub’arak blinked in shock as Twilight slammed her sword into causing it to explode in a mess of blood and gore, Twilight frowned “I believe we are done here.”
Jaina nodded “Indeed, we need to get moving.”
Arthas lead the group forward only for a huge group of Faceless ones to emerge, Arthas shouted “We need to move!”
As soon as they arrive in the upper part of the ruined kingdom, the roof collapsed separating the group in two, Twilight and Arthas on one side while the rest were on the other. After a long and arduous series of battles they managed to meet up at the end of the ruins and headed upwards ready to face their goal.
Author's Note
Yes they got some assistance from Sylvanas.
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