Author's Note

Many thanks to a reader and friend Xarmar13 for all the help with answering my hundreds of questions and telling me histories, you really help make a difference with this story.

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Nightmare (Edited 6/29/21)

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Nightmare

Arthas grunts at feeling the sword being thrust through him by his old friend Tirion, he looks down to see the hilt of Ashbringer sticking through his armor. He shifts his gaze upwards to meet Tirion's hate-filled eyes and chuckles saying, "At last you manage to run me through, old friend."

Tirion scowls and squints his eyes, still gripping the hilt of his sword tightly as he replies, "Indeed I have, it feels good to finally be rid of the monster that has betrayed so many friends and allies for his own gain. I haven't killed you yet, regardless of how much I hate you and want to give you the punishment you deserve, justice yet needs to be dealt. One of the mages found a tome a couple months ago with a banishing spell in it. It took some time to convince them, but we are going to use that spell to banish you from this world." He takes a step back and raises his foot up and sets it against Arthas's chest plate and kicks him off of it.

He lands on the floor and slides a few feet as the sound of armor hitting the floor and scraping against it echoes into the sky above the frozen throne, clutching his stomach as he turns to look at his shattered Frostmourne lying on the floor out of his reach. With a grunt, Arthas shifts his gaze towards the rune teleporter to watch his friend head for the door as a ghostly appearance catches his eye and notices that it is his father.

Terenas strides over to where his son lies and kneels down beside him when his son's gauntlet reaches up to grab his shoulder. A tear leaves a trail down his cheek as he looks at his son's weakening body.

Tirion halts and looks back towards the ghostly figure of the slain King Terenas Menethil II with shock on his face and continues to watch the two and thinks, 'How can he still love his son after all that he has done?'

Arthas lets out a cough and looks into his father's eyes and says, "Father, is it over?"

He places his left hand over top of it and softly says to him, "At long last, my son. No king rules forever." He then turns his gaze to Tirion and says, "Without the Lich King keeping them under control, the restless scourge will greatly endanger the world of the living. There always needs to be a Lich King."

Tirion sighs and shrugs his shoulders saying, "If the spell we found works, the scourge won't be a threat to us anymore."

Terenas's eyes widen at hearing that and asks, "By the light, what do you mean? There is no spell big enough that can get rid of the scourge!"

He looks harder into Terenas's ghostly eyes and says, "There is such a spell, Brann stumbled upon the book after Yogg-Saron was dealt with in Ulduar by several brave people. After studying it for a time, the mages learned that it can banish things. After several weeks of arguing over what the punishment for Arthas's crimes should be, I managed to convince them that banishment to another world would be better than just outright killing him."

He lets go of his son's hand and rises to his feet suddenly and says, "I strongly advise against banishing him. If you were to banish him from here, what would become of that world if he should return to power? Their blood would be on your hands forever, are you sure you want that Tirion?"

Tirion turns around and starts to head for the door and looks at Terenas over his shoulder and replies, "If the scourge wants a fight, we will give them one. If he rises to power once more, it won't be our problem anymore, it will be their headache to deal with. I have made bad calls before, I already have blood on my hands. A little more won't make a difference, all I will feel is a bit of guilt. I can deal with the guilt just fine..." He pauses a bit then turns and looks down to Arthas and says, "...I hope you suffer wherever you are going Arthas, farewell." With that said, he turns back around and heads to the rune teleporter and then teleports to the entrance on the bottom floor.

Arthas looks to his fathers face and sheds a tear and says, "I wonder where I will be going, will I continue to live or will I breathe my last after I get there?"

The slain king gazes lovingly at his son and says, "I'm only disappointed in you son, I can never truly hate you. I do not know if you will die soon after arriving, but I do hope that you find love one day and are able to allow others into your heart. I must go now son, we will meet again after your time is done on that world and you breathe your last. Fare thee well my son, Crown Prince of Lordaeron. I guess I should call you King Arthas since I am dead after all." He looks straight ahead of him and turns into a wisp of glowing blue frost and joins the other spirits into the beyond.

He chuckles and says to no one in particular, "Well Calia and Jaina, it looks like you two won't ever have to worry about me trying to kill you anymore." He looks at the hilt of Frostmourne and can still feel some faint magic coming from it and thinks, 'It's not enough to be of any help to me of course, but maybe it can be repaired. If I survive long enough to find aid of course, but nobody could ever love me after they hear of the things I have done. That is if I decide to tell them, but I think I will be keeping that a secret until I gather my strength once more.'

Tirion walks over to his horse, mounts it and returns to the large group outside of the corpse-filled grounds of Icecrown Citadel and stops in front of Archmage Malin and says, "Is everything in place for the spell?"

The Archmage looks at Tirion and says, "Y-Yes sir, everything is ready to go. A-Are you sure we should do this, we really don't understand this spell all too well. We were only able to understand that it is a complex banishment spell, for all we know it could banish all of Northrend!"

A couple minutes ago in Equestria

Princess Platinum is with the members of the other pony races discussing what they all should do about the looming threat of the temperatures making it harder for the earth ponies to produce food for them all and says, "Somepony needs to do something about this cold weather, it is really putting a drain on all unicorn's magic."

Commander Hurricane frowns and says, "I'm sorry would YOU like to try dealing with those clouds? If I went up there I would freeze my wings off. I don't need a UNICORN telling me how to do my job."

Clover sighs as the leaders continue to bicker and argue, clearly not making progress as the weather gradually gets worse when she senses a great deal of magic a great distance away. Turning her head in the direction where the magic is coming from, the frozen corner of their current home that they have no need to explore. She then turns the rest of her body away from the others and cocks her head at an angle in wonder and says, "I wonder what could possibly be emitting such intense magic."

Princess Platinum notices movement in the corner of her eye and stops her arguing for the moment and looks to Clover the Clever, seeing that she is focusing on something and says to her, "What are you looking at Clover?"

She continues to focus in the direction where the magic is coming from and answers, "I am sensing a great deal of magic coming from the frozen land. There is something... different about this magic, from what I can tell... it is not our magic."

The princess squints her eyes and says, "How curious, I wasn't aware of anything besides us unicorns that could wield magic. I do think that we should investigate this mystery, we may benefit from it." She turns to the others and says to them, "Unfortunately, we will have to continue this discussion for another time. Farewell."

Just then Commander Hurricane raises his voice and yells, "Where do you think you're going UNICORN, we aren't going to allow you to get an advantage over us! We will be coming with you to claim this discovery for ourselves."

Chancellor Puddinghead grins and sees an opportunity to join a race to get something that the other two races are fighting to take for themselves and says, "This sounds like a fun adventure, I'm coming along too."

Clover the Clever sighs in disappointment that the leaders are more concerned with gaining power over the other races and begins to head for the door to find the source of the mysterious magic and says, "Ok let's get a hoofin, we better hurry if we wanna get there by nightfall. It is a ways away from here after all, but I am curious as to what we might find."

Smart Cookie thinks of an idea and says, "Since it would be quite a ways for us earth ponies to walk, why don't we find a way to make it a faster trip?"

Princess Platinum sighs and looks to Smart Cookie then answers her, "Getting there faster is a good idea, but we can't teleport many ponies at a single time unfortunately."

Commander Hurricane scoffs and says, "Wow, UNICORNS really are weak then if they can't teleport five other ponies across a distance."

Before another argument can break out, Clover the Clever intervenes and says, "Since we all want the same thing, why don't we just work together this once. We can all go back to hating each others' guts after our journey there okay?"

Everypony turns their head to look intensely at Clover and mull over the offer as they hesitate to answer the question and reluctantly agree to it just this once.

Clover huffs in annoyance and says, "Good, now that we are on the same page, we will think of a way that we can all get there together. Smart Cookie, do you have any idea what we all could use to get there faster?"

Smart looks up and puts a thumb and forefinger to her chin in thought and says, "Maybe a wagon or a carriage big enough for us all?"

She smiles and likes the idea and says, "Yes, a carriage will work fine, maybe the pegasi can fly and pull it while we unicorns use our magic to keep it above the ground."

Commander Hurricane rolls his eyes and mumbles under his breath, "Great, we are doing what earth ponies should be doing."

Clover squints her eyes suspiciously and says, "I'm sorry Commander, I did not hear what you said, can you please repeat that?"

He puts on an embarrassed smile and chuckles then says, "Oh, I was just looking forward to getting the chance to exercise my wings. We have a good plan, lets put it into action!"

Thirty seconds ago, Back in Azeroth

Arthas holds a hand over his wound and looks around him when he notices that strange ribbons of multicolored lights are beginning to form above the citadel, gradually beginning to intensify until it is too bright to look at anymore and closes his eyes.

Suddenly, he feels sick to his stomach and fights the urge to throw up all over the floor. As he waits for the blinding light and the sensation to fade, he impatiently says, "This is a real annoying inconvenience, how long is this damn spell going to take!"

After a few moments pass, the urge to puke goes away as the blinding light also fades. Arthas finally opens his eyes to look around at his new surroundings, only to discover that nothing has changed and he is still atop his citadel in front of the base of the stairs leading to his throne and says, "Nothing has changed at all, I wonder if their banishment spell failed?"

He slowly begins to feel a little weaker and an emotion slowly comes over him. Arthas tries to remember what this emotion is, when it finally hits him and he realizes that what he is feeling right now is sadness. Oddly, he starts to feel the urge to sing that is slowlygetting stronger, and starts to resist it. He only sang once in his life, and that was to Jaina as a young boy. She laughed at him and thought that his ballad was hilarious and didn't realize he was singing a love song to her.

Finding this new urge very uncomfortable and unpleasant, he fights it harder and hopes it passes. He angrily looks around the area to see if someone is causing this unpleasant urge, only to find no one around him.

Meanwhile...back with the Founders in Equestria

Commander Hurricane finally sees a shape of a structure in the distance and pushes his wings harder and exclaims, "Finally, we are almost where you claim the mysterious magic came from. I can see a structure in the distance, from what I can tell, it seems to be quite large to be spotted from so far away. Come on Private Pansy, flap harder, we are finally closing in!"

Princess Platinum harrumphs at hearing they are nearing their destination and says, "It is about time we got close enough to see it, my flank is aching from this hard seat! One more thing Commander...WHY DO YOU HAVE TO GO SO FAST!"

He grumbles and calls back, "Well let me think, who was it that wanted to get back before nightfall? It is pretty far away you know. If we flew at a normal speed, it would take us a full day just to get this far!"

Clover the Clever is surprised to hear that and says, "Are you serious?! I can't believe that what I sensed came from so far away, just how much magic was used up for it to be sensed from where we were?"

Hurricane's eyes look at the massive castle rushing towards them, he then notices something different on the ground a ways ahead of them and suddenly says, "NORMAL SPEED PRIVATE, THERE IS SOMETHING UNUSUAL ON THE GROUND UP AHEAD THAT WE NEED TO CHECK OUT!" Without warning, they both rapidly decelerate.

Smart Cookie hears what he says and responds with, "Wait...what...ooof" She finds herself up against the other side of the carriage and untangles herself from the pile of ponies saying, "Oww my head hit something harder than wood, why would you slow down so suddenly?!" She then begins to help the others to their hooves as she waits for his answer.

Commander is shocked to see what lies before him on the ground below them...dead bodies of strange creatures numbering well into the thousands, if not into the tens of thousands. Struggling to recover from his shocked state, he finally says, "See for yourselves, we are landing now so be ready for a swift descent." He and Private Pansy go into a swift dive and start to land.

After the carriage stops moving, Clover and Princess set the carriage down on the ground and exit it then gasp at what lies before them.

Clover gazes at the enormous number of bodies and corpses laying atop the ground and walks a short distance when she gazes upon a body cleaved nearly in half and pukes at how revolting it is and says, "This is absolutely horrible, I wonder what happened here. All this death is very...disturbing to no end, let's keep moving forward towards the castle. Maybe there could be a few survivors within that can tell us what happened here."

Thirty minutes pass by as Arthas continues to fight the urge to express his sadness through singing, as tears finally start to make their way from his eyes and run down the sides of his face. Not wanting to lose to the overwhelming urge, Arthas forces himself onto his stomach and pulls his body towards the hilt of Frostmourne, hoping that it can help him banish the urge to sing.

After dragging himself along the floor for a couple minutes, Frostmourne is just out of arm's reach and can move no longer as he begins to sob openly and gives in to the urge to express his sadness and starts to sing.

The group pauses as they arrive just in front of the truly massive structure as music starts to fill the air, hearing someone expressing their sadness and longing through song and listen to it. As they listen to the voice singing the sad song, they start to choke up but shake it off and resume their journey into the massive structure to leave the corpse-filled field behind them.

Clover the Clever leads the others to the slightly open doors and uses her magic to open them further so they can pass through, but struggles to move it at first and tries again. After putting quite a bit of effort into opening the door further, she breathes hard for a moment. She stops briefly to catch her breath and walks through the massive double doors leading inside and looks around and sees even more bodies within the castle and shakes her head saying, "This is absolutely the most horrendous thing I have ever seen in my life, there are so many bodies laying around that it would take way too long to bury them all."

Commander Hurricane follows Clover as she resumes walking past the bodies in the halls and says, "We pegasi have known conflict, but nothing of this magnitude. This is too much, even for me. It is a truly gruesome sight, to see so many bodies laying on the ground like that. I can't believe that the force who won didn't bother burying their dead, why would they just abandon them like that?"

As Clover climbs another set of stairs through yet another room, but this one connects to a room that is larger than the other three were and she sees even more bodies strewn around the room with a large pile of bones laying just off to the side with three large skulls sitting atop of the pile and shudders at the gruesome sight and says, "I cannot imagine the fear these beings must have had when they faced a creature such as that one over there."

Chancellor Puddinghead trembles at the horrifying sight of the large bone pile and says, "I hope we are almost there, I don't like the feeling I'm getting from this place. It feels...wrong here, I can't explain what I'm feeling from being in here too well."

Smart Cookie follows her leader past the bone pile and says, "It feels very creepy in here, doesn't it Clover?"

Clover leads the way into the room beyond that and sees the same thing as in the other room except for there being a large female corpse laying on the floor with heavy chains lying about her body and says, "Let's keep moving forward through here, the sooner we can get to where the singing is coming from, the sooner we can leave this place behind us."

Private Pansy looks around for a way forward but doesn't see anything leading up and says, "Ummm... there isn't any other halls here besides the one we came through. I doubt that this is all there is inside this massive castle, there has to be more to it than this, there is no throne here."

Clover looks around and walks towards the top landing and says, "There has to be a way forward, let's look around for a hidden door." She gasps in surprise as a noise surprises her, she looks behind her and sees a platform coming down to the floor from above and says, "What in Tartarus is happening!?"

Platinum looks at the object coming down and wonders the same thing and follows the others up to the balcony to look at it. She watches as it floats down to the ground, she looks to see if anything is on it and is relieved to see that it is empty. It almost reaches the ground when it strikes something, keeping it from completing it's motion. It then goes back up to where it came from after not moving for a few seconds. Upon seeing that it was striking the legs of the large female's body along with a few other bodies nearby under where the platform tried to land, she sighs and uses her magic to lift her body and slide it further out of the way of the soon-to-return platform and says, "I think that it is some sort of device to move things to a different level, quite an interesting way to use magic. Don't you think so, Clover the Clever?"

She turns her head and nods to her leader saying, "Indeed it is, we will have to study it if we decide to return one day. That would be very useful to know how to use that." She notices that the platform is beginning its descent once more and quickly goes about moving the few bodies away from the landing.

A few seconds is all it takes for Clover to move the few bodies away when the platform completes its landing and says to the others, "Ok everypony, let's get on and see where this takes us next."

The platform stops at the next level and the ponies all get off and follow the path around and find themselves on a walkway on the side of the castle with Clover looking out over the railing and is in awe of the view and says, "Wow, this is such an amazing view!"

Commander Hurricane huffs in annoyance at her stopping to admire a view like this and says, "We can admire the view after we found what we are looking for, let's move!"

She is about to make a remark when she hears the song continue on, causing a few tears to make their way from the corners of her eyes down her cheek to her chin. "I wonder why this song makes me feel so sad?"

Smart Cookie smiles faintly and says, "I'm not sure why, but it is affecting the rest of us as well."

As Clover continues to follow the path around the side of the castle, they arrive at a dock with a flying ship next to it. She approaches the dock and looks to the others and asks, "Do any of you know how to operate a ship like this?"

The others look back at her and shake their heads saying no, leaving them stranded with no way to the next level when a voice catches their attention. They turn their heads to see a ghost at the steering wheel waving an arm saying, "Ahoy there, do ya need a ride to the landing up above?"

As Clover watches as the other ponies tremble at the sight of the ghostly apparition and rolls her eyes and answers, "Thank you kindly, we accept your offer." She then starts to head onto the ship to ask him a question and looks back to the others and asks, "Are you coming with me or not?"

The others blink in disbelief at what they are seeing and slowly make their way towards the ship to board it, still unsure about getting onto a ship operated by a ghost.

Clover makes her way towards the operator and asks, "Do you know what happened here?"

The ghost looks back at her and says, "I'm sorry, the only thing that I am able to remember is that I operate this ship. Unfortunately I cannot be of any other help to you." As he watches the others get on, he says, "Watch your step, it is a long ways down. Okay everyone, be ready for a little swaying."

Commander Hurricane feels a little queasy when the ship rocks back and forth and goes to the side and breathes deeply to avoid puking on the deck saying, "I hate riding on ships, the rocking gets me every single time."

A couple minutes pass by when Clover looks at him with sympathy as she also fights queasiness, she then watches as the ship comes in to land beside the dock then slowly comes to a stop. Turning her head towards the operator, she says, "Thank you for bringing us up here, we would have been stuck there if it wasn't for you as none of us know how to operate this ship."

The others get off the ship at the next level and begin to head for the open door in front of them leading further into the castle. As they start to head down the corridor, Clover tells them to stop.

Commander Hurricane grows impatient at waiting to proceed and exasperatedly says, "Ugh, what is it now Clover?"

Clover turns her head to look back at them and says, "Something feels off about this part of the castle, I need to check it out first to make sure it's safe to proceed." She walks further ahead and thankfully stops short as a blast of painfully cold air is blown out from hidden vents on the side of the wall and covers the other side with thick frost. She looks back towards the others and says, "Looks like we will have to use our magic to keep barriers up against these traps hidden against the walls."

The others slowly make their way through the freezing traps under the protection of the barrier that the two unicorns are keeping up, and arrive at and a junction and must choose which way to go.

As they make their way through the massive chamber, passing by a few bodies here and there, arriving at a spot where they can either turn left or right, or go straight forward as Clover says to them, "There are multiple paths across the room, which direction do we go now? Do we go to the doorway on the left, the right, or do we go straight forward?"

Princess Platinum and the others look around and think about it, after a few seconds of thinking on it they say in unison, "Left!"

As they walk around the edge of the massive chamber, they get to the doorway and pass by two big hideous corpses, then start to head into the room and up the stairs on either side into the room above them. They see an even bigger corpse laying towards the side of the room and are horrified at how gross it looks and once again have to choose which way to go now and decide to go left again, then head down the hall and run into a room filled with several bodies and one great big hulking monstrosity.

They go back the way they came after hitting a dead end with that room and head across the hall, running into another room filled with the same number of bodies and another great big hulking monstrosity and another dead end. They turn back and head down towards the only place they haven't been to yet.

Clover walks into the room and feels very uneasy being in here, she looks around and learns that it is a lab of some sorts. Not really wanting to know what goes on here, she turns back and says, "I don't like it in here, this room scares me."

Commander Hurricane puffs up his chest and follows after her saying, "I don't find this room that bad, it just creeps me out a little."

She then heads back to the corridor to choose a new direction to go and asks, "Where should we go now, the corridor to the left of us or the one straight ahead?"

The others talk it over and then Chancellor Puddinghead speaks up saying, "Let's go down the corridor to the left and see if that leads to the next level."

As Clover leads the way to the corridor she thinks, 'There are so many bodies here it boggles the mind. I really want to know what happened here, and why this was such an intense fight.'

Commander Hurricane follows Clover down the corridor past a room with a few bodies in it and into a big room. They then turn left and go up a ramp that winds around and leads them to a landing with a handful of bodies there with another ramp that leads up and around to the next landing and gets annoyed and says, "I can't believe how big this bucking place is, it feels like we have been walking forever. I can't wait until we can fly again because this is boring me to death!"

Clover reaches the next landing and turns her head back and looks at Commander Hurricane in annoyance and says, "I'm sorry you find this so boring, would you want to get started with digging holes for the bodies instead of figuring out who is still alive among this death-filled nightmare castle?"

He grumbles and looks around at the room and says, "...No I do not, we can't let the unicorns get the upper hand."

She turns her head back around and resumes their journey into the unknown rooms of the castle saying, "Okay then, calm down and we will get to where whomponyever is at that much sooner."

As they reach the next room, they are disappointed to find it empty besides having more dead bodies in it and then turn around to go back down the ramp. Just then a chandelier falls from its' chain and lands on a circular pattern on the floor, making a loud noise that startles the group. They watch as the floor around it cracks and breaks apart, allowing it to fall through the hole to the floor below. As the crash echoes throughout the floor, the group goes around the hole and make their way back down the ramp.

Chancellor Puddinghead sighs in annoyance and says, "Now there is only one way left to go, is it just me or did that lab give you the impression that it had some dark and dangerous purpose?"

Clover makes her way through the last remaining unexplored corridor and answers him, "I got that impression too, but you know they say 'don't judge a book by its' cover right?" She continues down the hall, passing by a few bodies here and there and passes by some strange devices with blue fire blowing upwards when she comes to a corner. Her eyes fall upon a large female corpse and wonders at what it could be.

She leads the way up the stairs and stops at the top landing and says, "Whoa...this is...different. There is a huge dragon laying up here among several other bodies." As numerous questions fly through her head, she continues to go around the body and down the hall on the other side.

Princess Platinum passes by the dragon and sighs saying, "I feel sorry for the poor dragon to have to face so many foes, I wish there was something we could do for her, but we don't have the time to do anything for her."

They reach another dead end when another platform rises up to the top and pauses there a moment to take them down to the next part. They get onto the platform and ride it down and once they reach the bottom, they look at the wall in front of them and turn around and see a hall before them again leading to another room and make their way there.

Clover enters the large room and looks at all the numerous creatures that lie around the room lifeless and passes through another corridor that leads to a balcony outside. She spots a few bodies laying around some massive dragon skeletons, one of which is far larger than them and wonders who that skeleton belongs to. As she doesn't see any other way forward she looks back to the others and says, "I don't see any other way forward from here, let's head back and check if we missed anything."

The group grumbles in aggravation at having to go back to where they were before and follow Clover back through the halls. They reach the room with multiple paths when Smart Cookie says, "Hey why don't we try the middle path, we haven't tried that one yet."

She makes her way towards the center of the massive chamber, spotting a device on the floor with a beam of bluish light reaching towards the roof of the structure in the middle that they somehow missed. Curious at what it is Clover goes to check it and says, "I wonder what this thing is and what it does." She tries to examine it with her magic. After a few moments, she turns back to the others and says, "I think this is a teleporting device that will take us to the next place, follow me everypony." She then steps into the portal and vanishes from sight.

They all feel unsure about using a strange device, but after a few moments of hesitation they decide to go through with it and join Clover at the next part of the enormous castle, standing on a strange device with a large rune in the center surrounded by smaller runes above it on either side. They look around to see something laying on the floor clutching its stomach.

A couple minutes ago atop Icecrown Citadel...

Arthas finishes the final words of the song and growls in aggravation at doing something he hated ever since Jaina laughed at him for it. The music dies down as Arthas puts more pressure on his stomach as the arm he propped himself up with gives out and stretches out before him, leaving his head to rest against his armor uncomfortably. As he starts to grow tired, he fights to stay awake as his vision begins to blur. He then hears the sound of the rune teleporter activating and uses what strength he has left to shift his body enough to look at who came to kill him. Seeing only vague outlines standing on two legs before him he asks, "Have you come to end my reign at last Tirion? Will you kill me as I lie helpless here on the floor as you left me?

Clover the Clever looks to the fallen being lying in a large pool of blood that thought that she was this 'Tirion' and starts walking towards them slowly, unsure if they are friend or foe. She stops a distance away from them and answers, "I'm sorry, I do not know this 'Tirion' you called me, nor am I them. I am called Clover the Clever, what happened here?"

He coughs as blood enters his mouth, expelling it onto the floor as he prepares an answer and says, "Many champions disliked the choices I made and came here to put an end to my decision making. The fight was a major effort as you can tell from what lies in the lower floors, and obviously my forces lost and now I lay here bleeding to death because my old friend ran me through with his sword ..." He says no more as he falls asleep due to blood loss, his head falling upon his arm and rests there.

Princess Platinum steps up beside her assistant to introduce herself when Clover rushes to the strange being's side and examines the wound and calls out for her help saying, "Princess, I need your help here now, he has a serious injury!"

Commander Hurricane steps forward with a frown and says, "This is just another strange and useless creature, let's leave it behind and search this castle for what we came for and leave!"

Princess Platinum scowls at Commander Hurricane and yells at him, "Leave this being behind? How can you be so cold and uncaring towards another that may be able to help us out and answer our questions when he realizes that we saved his life and feels indebted to us? This wound is terrible, we need to use magic to heal this wound or he will die from it! She then runs over and helps Clover heal the being. After healing them, the two wait patiently and hope that he will survive because they have questions they need answered.

Arthas slowly comes to and tries to open his eyes, finding it difficult with feeling so weak right now. After a few moments pass by, he tries again. This time they slowly flutter open, only to find that his vision isn't getting much better and asks, "W-What is going on, am I dead?"

Clover gasps in relief as the being stirs, proving that there is still life in them. After taking a short relaxing breath, she asks him, "No, you are definitely not dead. You have been unconscious for a couple hours, luckily we were able to heal your serious wound. Sorry to have to ask you questions right when you come to but, what is this place and who are you?"

He ponders on it, deciding to tell them part of what they want to know and says, "I am known as Arthas Menethil and this, this place is called Icecrown Citadel. How did you manage to save my life?"

Princess Platinum speaks up and answers for her, "We obviously used magic to heal your grave wound, there was no way that wrapping it up would make a significant difference. Since we saved your life, I request that you help us do something to get rid of the cold weather that has been troubling us for a few years now. Food stores are beginning to decrease to the point it worries us. If nothing is done, we will be forced to leave this place for somewhere better suited for us to live."

Arthas keeps a calm face as he ponders on the order he just got from someone who does not rule him. Unintentionally discovering a way to expand his territory and responds to their request, "Very well, I shall return this favor and aid you. Before I do that though, I will need to get my sword repaired. Do any of you know who might be able to repair this blade?"

Clover walks around Arthas and encompasses the shattered sword with her magic, getting an awful feeling from the sword. She shakes the feeling off and decides that it is too damaged to be repaired by the unicorns and says, "I'm sorry, even us unicorns won't be able to repair this sword, the only other ones that might be able to help would be the Crystal Empire."

He raises a brow in curiosity and says, "I have never heard of there being a Crystal Empire in Azeroth, where is it located at and why haven't I heard of it before?"

Chancellor Puddinghead scoffs at hearing the name Azeroth and laughs saying, "Maybe you haven't realized it yet, but you are in a world full of ponies right now!"