The Curse of Undeath

Arthas and Invincible regroup with his army, killing whatever ponies that were left behind. He makes his way south, taking his army with him as Sindragosa and her two children arrive with her he says, "I need one of you two to carry me to the supply group south of the valley near Yakyakistan and back, I have to give them their next orders while this army keeps moving south towards the low mountains straight south of here."

Sindragosa nods to one of her children and says, "I will let you two choose who goes on this errand."

One of the dragons nods at the other one and flies down to the ground, landing near him and waits for him to get on to begin their journey,

He looks to Invincible and says, "Keep traveling with the army Invincible, I shall return shortly after I issue them their next orders." He then dismounts him and gets onto the dragons body and says, "I'm ready whenever you are."

The dragon takes off into the air, heading towards their destination. Arriving three hours later, the dragon lands at the group of undead near the bay awaiting further orders.

Arthas gets off the dragons back and approaches the group and says, "I have new orders for you. You are to head east towards the Crystal Empire until you get within sight of it. When you are close enough to see it, hide in the trees and wait until the army hits the city after I take its barrier down. After a minute of the attack, head into the city and raid shops and their food storage. Collect coin, gems and food for living servants that shall be with us at home. After the wagons are filled, return home at once and protect them from attackers. I shall assign four abominations to go along with you all for extra protection." He then turns around and heads back towards the dragon and returns to it's back and says, "I'm ready to go back now, my task here is done."

The dragon takes off into the sky as the supply group get moving again and returns to the army three hours later around sunset and lands near Invincible to let Arthas off.

He gets off the dragon's back and turns back to him before it can return to its mother and says, "Thank you for the ride there and back, you have been a great help to me." He then walks to his horse and gets onto its back and says, "At this pace, we should arrive there in a couple days. We will be plenty rested and will be ready to show this world what true fear is."

Two weeks later at the Crystal Empire.

Clover the Clever and the refugees from the north arrive outside the Crystal Empire and are happy to be able to rest their aching hooves and eat a decent meal and looks to Princess Platinum and says, "I wonder when Arthas will return from showing others the way south."

Just then a crystal guard approaches them and says, "Halt in the name of Princess Amore!"

They stop and look to the guard in confusion as Clover says, "Is there a problem sir?"

The crystal guard looks at them sternly and says, "Did you just say the name of Arthas Menethil?"

She smiles and says, "Why yes I did, did he already return here?"

He holds his stern gaze on her and says, "No he hasn't, when are you expecting to see him again? The Princess demands his presence."

Clover looks at him in confusion and asks, "We hope to see him again any day now, did he do something wrong, sir?"

The crystal guard twitches at her question and answers, "Yes, and the Princess has questions for him. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to discuss this matter further with you. I noticed there are many of you that are coming from the north, did something happen?"

She smiles sadly and says, "Yes, we lost our homes and were forced to flee the land and head south to find greener lands. Do you happen to know of anywhere that is habitable?"

He thinks on it a moment and says, "I apologize for your hardships, unfortunately I do not know of anyplace outside of here that might be suitable for you to live. You should seek an audience with Princess Amore, but do not upset her as she is with foals."

Clover the Clever beams a smile and says, "I will convey my congratulations to her majesty, I shall go request an audience with her right now." she then turns to look at Princess Platinum and asks, "Do you want to go with me to speak to the princess of the Crystal Empire?"

Princess Platinum sighs and continues to look down at the ground and says, "No I do not, I am depressed and out of sorts. I need time to recover from the shock of everything that has happened. You go wish her well for me will you, thanks." She then returns to following the group of ponies as they wander through the marvelous city and look at everything they have.

She sighs, but then nods in understanding of her decision. She then travels towards the large crystal castle to seek an audience with the ruler of the Crystal Empire.

One and a half days later, outside of the Crystal Empire.

Arthas gazes down at the crystal city and sneers evilly, then says to his army, "Hold here until I get that barrier down and I return." He then gets off of Invincible and says to him, "I will be back my friend, and we shall have another living guest at the citadel with us." He then heads towards the city with a nullification ring he took from one of the dead guards, remembering when he first learned what it actually was.

After walking for a couple hours, the sun is high in the sky as Arthas finally appears right outside the city and the guards start to sweat bullets as he stands before them and says, "I have returned and wish to see Princess Amore, let me pass!"

The two guards very nervously open a hole in the barrier and allow him to pass saying, "P-Please have a good day Your Highness."

He walks on by them with a chuckle and mentally says, "Oh I will, don't worry. It will be a very good day for me..." He then makes his way to the Crystal Castle where his love is and passes by ponies that bow to him in respect and nods or waves in return.

An hour later...

Princess Amore deals with the last petitioner of the day and prepares to head back to her chambers for the day, feeling another bout of morning sickness coming around. She heads down the halls and thinks, 'I can't believe that i am pregnant by him! When I see him again, I am so going to make him pay for running off like that to repay a favor!'

As she finally reaches her quarters, she turns the handle and pushes the door in to hear someone say, "Hey sexy flank, did you miss me?" Causing her to nearly scream in surprise, she turns beet red, slams the door shut and stomps over to her coltfriend and yells, "WHERE IN THE NAME OF TARTARUS HAVE YOU BEEN, I HAVE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT YOU!" She calms down after beating him with her fists and then sobs and asks, "W-Why did you kill those guards, did they do something wrong to upset you that much?"

Arthas lays there on the bed with only a pillow covering his privates and smirks at her saying, "I do apologize for that, they said that my father was a disgrace for a king and that his nickname should be 'The Fool of Lordaeron'. I do think I went a little overboard and killed them from my rage, but do you think that you can forgive me for my rash behavior this once?" To get his way, he puts on a cute pouty face and looks at her as if he were a child.

She tries to keep being mad at him for ditching her like that, but utterly fails to stay mad due to the insanely adorable face that he has right now and says, "Ohhh...I guess I can pardon you, just this once. Do not let it happen again mister or you are going to be punished!"

He laughs and says mockingly, "Oh you dare to threaten me with punishment, don't you know that I am the rightful king of Lordaeron? Now obey your king and come over here and give me some sugar, chunky butt."

Amore blushes fiercely and stammers saying, "H-HEY, I can't help it if I really like cakes. Though I do have a much bigger appetite now that I have to eat for three, you are going to be a father Arthas."

Arthas's jaw drops open as he hears her say that she is expecting, and says, "I..I don't know...what to say." He then slaps himself internally and forces himself to correct the error he just made and continues, "Y-You're serious aren't you? You are not messing with me?"

She beams a huge smile and nods repeatedly saying, "Of course I am serious, I wouldn't joke about something like this my king. We are going to be a big happy family from now on."

He smiles widely back and says, "That is wonderful to hear chunky butt, now come over here because I missed you." He then holds his arms out wide and hugs her tightly and takes her to the bed in a warm embrace. He grimaces internally as his heart gives him a painful throb, announcing its presence to him.

Amore is in bliss right now at being in the arms of the father of her two foals as she feels him hugging her gently and kissing her face and then trails a finger along her horn and says, "I love you my darling, I look forward to our lives spent together as a family." She then begins to drift off to sleep after her long day at court and begins to dream of the future.

Arthas smiles and waits for her to drift off to sleep before casting a spell to keep her asleep until they were safely back at his citadel. As he hears her begin to snore quietly, he casts the spell on her and slips the ring over her horn to nullify the magic she has. With her taken care of, he can begin the final stage to his plan and thinks to himself, 'Oh don't start with me heart, I may have been cursed with you along with a soul. Don't interfere with the way I do things, or you shall be cut out once more and cast away.' He opens the door and shuts it quietly as he spots a maid just outside walking by and quietly tells her, "The princess is not to be disturbed under any circumstance, understand? She had a long day and needs her rest due to being an expecting mother, be sure to inform the other maids and guards around the castle."

The maid nods quietly and says, "It shall be done Your Highness, I shall inform them at once." She then goes on her way to inform the other staff and guards.

He watches her as she walks swiftly down the hall and makes his way to where the crystal heart is kept and chuckles thinking, 'Everyone around here is just so helpful, that it is just too easy to lay waste to their city.'

Twenty minutes later, Clover the Clever is exploring the city and passes in front of the citadel and spots Arthas exiting the castle and walks over to him swiftly and says, "Arthas, it is so good you are finally back! The princess told me earlier that there might be some habitable land south of here, It would be nice if you could come with us when we leave here to search for it tonight. Did you happen to find any other survivors when you were up there?"

Arthas stays in character and answers her with a sigh and a shake of his head saying, "Unfortunately, I didn't. I would like to go along with you to the new land but I sense something foul in the air, so I suggest that you all gather what you need and head south." He hopes that she takes the bait and prepares to leave very shortly.

Something inside her tells her that something is amiss about what he says, but she ignores it and says, "Thank you for warning me, you haven't led us astray yet. I shall trust your feeling and advise the others about leaving in a few hours. I hope we meet again one day Arthas." She then turns and makes her way to find where the other leaders are at, waving goodbye to her friend Arthas.

He nods his head in goodbye and continues on his journey towards the crystal heart, waving or smiling at the passing pony that notices him. After walking for a couple more minutes, he spots the thing he is looking for. He examines it for a way to deactivate it but isn't able to and looks around to see if anyone is watching him when a crystal pony notices him looking at the heart and smiles and approaches him.

The crystal pony smiles at Arthas and says, "It is beautiful isn't it, that is what keeps this city safe from the dangers outside. We are not sure who made it, but we found it somewhere underneath the castle. It has kept us safe from harm ever since, would you like to know more about the Crystal Empire's mysteries?"

Arthas smiles and looks at the annoying pony with kindness and says, "Perhaps in a little bit, I am just going to admire the beautiful craftsmanship of this object a little longer out of curiosity."

The pony smiles and then turns and walks away, heading back towards his shop and says, "I will be around the shop if you do come by later, have a nice day!"

He watches as the pony leaves him near the crystal heart, then looks around discreetly to see if anybody will notice. When he notices that he has an opening to take the heart and tuck it into his armor, he seizes it and tears the crystal heart from the pedestal and swiftly tucks the heart into his armor and wonders where he might hide it and spots an outhouse not to far away and walks to it. Entering the rather small outhouse, Arthas takes the crystal out and lifts up the lid and drops it into the deep hole then puts the lid back down and exits it and makes his way out of the city back to his army to attack the city.

Three hours later, back at the army atop of a ridge overlooking the Crystal Empire

Sindragosa watches as Arthas stands atop the ridge with a sinister grin on his face and asks, "Is everything finally ready, sir?"

Arthas glances to her and nods his head and then draws Frostmourne and holds it in the air and waves it forward saying, "Onward to the far edge of the field soldiers, it is time to introduce ourselves to the living! Sindragosa you wait here until you hear me shout, FEAR ME or I shall kill you all, then return you to life as my slaves. Then you shall bow to YOUR NEW KING!." He then sits atop his companion Invincible and rides in front of them, leading them to stand outside the edge of the city.

A guard stands beside the north road, leading out of the city and watches numerous bodies make their way down from the ridge from the north. Not liking the size of the group, they speak to the other guard, "I am going to inform the captain about the large group coming from the north, keep watch until I return." He then turns and hightails it to the captain.

The other guard nods and says, "What else am I supposed to do, let them in without getting the higher-ups' judgement on this? I am not that big of an idiot." He then stares at the huge group with more still coming over the ridge with wide eyes, praying they are not going to attack the city.

Five minutes pass by as the captain and the other guard arrive at the north road, having to force their way through the massive crowd of curious and freaked out ponies that are staring at something. They get through the crowd and stare in horror at the sheer number of dead bodies that have gathered north of the city, struggling to believe what he is seeing before his eyes he says, "How can this be possible! The dead just cannot walk on their own, and who or what is that in front of the army." His wide eyes shift to a large banner that one of the corpses wields, seeing the emblem of a kingdom that is not known to him.

A weary Princess Amore wakes from a nice nap and hears a commotion comes from outside and rises from bed, curious as to what is going on and makes her way across the room to the balcony. As she reaches her balcony, she looks out to the north of the city and sees a massive group gathered just north of the city. She sees a banner waving among the group and focuses on it then says, "That crest looks familiar, but where have I seen it before..." She then recalls where she saw it before and thinks, 'Oh, that is just the crest that I saw on Arthas's armor. I wonder why he brought such a large group here?'

Arthas strides forth atop Invincible and enhances his voice with his magic and bellows, "My name is Arthas Menethil, I am the Lich King of the Scourge! You shall receive a new ruler this very day, and that is I! If you bow before me now, I shall be merciful! If you swear your allegiance to me, I shall leave this city unharmed."

Princess Amore scowls at the pitiful prank that Arthas must be trying to pull now and attempts to amplify her voice, but fails completely and looks up to see a null ring on her horn and grumbles angrily and takes to the air. She arrives at the north road beside the captain of the Crystal Guard within a minute and stomps forth and yells out to him, "How dare you attempt to pull such a pathetic prank, I am not very happy with you right now. Come with me right now, we need to talk!" She then taps her hoof and crosses her arms, feeling very angry at her lover for pulling something like this.

He strides forth a bit further on Invincible and bellows back, "I think NOT my love, for I meant every single thing I said. Bow down to me and acknowledge me as king and I shall not leave your city in ruins!"

For the first time in her life, Princess Amore finds herself backing up in fear of the one she loved. She finally shifts her eyes around to look at the creatures standing in formation behind him, realizing that he outclasses her in might and magic. Forcing herself to stop backing up, she stands firm and exclaims, "WE ARE PROUD CITIZENS OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE, WE SHALL NOT BOW TO A FOREIGN RULER! BEGONE FROM HERE AT ONCE OR FEEL OUR WRATH!"

Arthas smiles widely at hearing her response and bellows with all his might, "FEAR ME or I shall kill you all, then return you to life as my slaves. Then you shall bow to YOUR NEW KING! Come Sindragosa, and teach these fools what it means to refuse THE LICH KING!"

Clover the Clever gets an unexpected shiver down her spine, causing her to turn around right when a massive roar is heard in the distance and spots a strangely familiar shape of something she can't quite see yet and focuses harder on it. She then realizes that it is the dragon from before and yells to the group, "There is not enough time to go help the Crystal Empire! We have to hurry south and hope that they can fend it off by themselves."

Amore physically trembles as she watches the massive dead dragon flying through the air towards the Crystal Empire. Suddenly she hears ponies screaming in horror and start fleeing for their houses, she turns her gaze to her subjects and sees everypony panicking in fear and start running home in safety. She tries to calm them down but nothing she does works.

He smiles at the mayhem that is running amok right now and thrusts his sword high in the air and bellows, "All warriors, kill any pony that fights against you!" With his link to them through his helm, he adds to that and uses telepathy to send them the rest of the order and thinks, "Do not kill women or children unless they attack first, and leave Princess Amore to me."

She is forced to scream out an order above the cacophony of screams and yells, "Guards of the Crystal Empire, TO ARMS! Defend the empire from these invaders!" She looks around at the gathering guard with calm faces, prepared to fight these monsters. She then says, "Defenders of the Crystal Empire, go forth and drive the enemy back!"

The attack on the Crystal Empire

The army of undead rushes forth towards the defenders, eager to shed the blood of the living and crash against their shields. A few go over the shields trying to break through their shield wall, but are quickly dispatched.

Arthas watches as his forces slowly begin to overwhelm the defenders, smiling with glee as Sindragosa swoops overhead of the defenders. She breathes a stream of frost and strafes them as she passes over them, freezing them to the bone instantly and goes back to terrorizing the city with her frost breath and encasing ponies in ice, leaving their heads exposed so they can still breathe.

The screams of terror and battle fill the air, signalling the group with the wagons to begin their job and pull the wagons out of the trees. The trip to the city takes them a little time, but at least they are doing something now.

Princess Amore's eyes shrink to pinpricks as she watches these huge, hideous creatures lumber forth and use strange, curved blades on chains to tear her guards apart literally. She slowly begins to snicker as her mind slowly begins to go insane, then she bursts into hysterical laughter as she loses it completely and just watches her soldiers be cut down.

An hour later...

As he watches his army chase down the few remaining guards, he then approaches his love and ceases her laughter by putting her to sleep and then says, "Sindragosa, please come down here." He picks her body up and cradles her tenderly due to her newly discovered state.

Sindragosa hears Arthas call her and lands nearby in an open spot and waits for him to tell her what he needs and asks, "What do you wish of me my king?"

Arthas approaches her, setting the sleeping body of his lover on top of her back just in front of where he sits and says, "Your task is done, a third of the city lies in ruins. Their army is obliterated with no one left willing to fight us now, let us head back to Icecrown with our guest. I need to make sure that the other group gathered enough food to feed a few mouths for a few months while I figure something out in the meantime." He then makes his way towards where the wagons should be to check their haul and bellows out a new order for the fighting force saying, "Undead warriors, be sure to gather a couple dozen test subjects to bring back for our good doctor. One more thing, make sure they are alive and healthy. If they have horns, make sure to search for rings like the one I placed on their princess. You should be able to find a few on the guards that you fought earlier, and place one over top of each of their horns to be sure they can't use magic to escape. Also, if they have wings, make sure to bind them to their body so they don't fly away."

After walking for a few minutes, he listens to shrieks of terror as several ponies are taken captive. Finally arriving at the wagons, he looks inside of them and is very pleased with the haul, 4 of the ten wagons are filled with gold and gems and a few magic tomes, while the other six are loaded with fruit, vegetables, and grasses and other edibles that herbivores can eat. Pleased with what he sees, he says to the group, "You have done well to gather so much, we shall have to find a way to be able to catch fish, but that is a problem for a different day. Regroup with the rest outside the city, we are finished with this place." He reaches inside a wagon and fetches a bag filled with some food that his servant can eat, then turns and makes his way out to the city limits. He then leaves the caravan behind him to clear the bodies out of the way themselves.

An abomination named Glug smashes around through a home, searching for whoever threw a rock at him. After flipping over a bed and tearing a door off of its hinges, he finds what he has been searching for. His eyes stare at a light pink unicorn with light aquamarine hair with moderate purple streaks with moderate persian blue eyes standing protectively in front of her daughter. Obeying the command that his king has issued them all, he seizes the mature pony and places a ring onto her horn then starts to lumber out of the damaged house while ignoring the screams of the parent trying to return to her daughter.

Lighting Glimmer runs after her mother, trying to get her back and screaming, "MOMMA, MOMMA DON'T LEAVE ME!! MOMMA, MOMMA!!"

Annoyed with the attempts of the daughter, Glug stops and picks up the screaming young pony in his other hand and hurls her through a fence. He watches as she skids across the ground and crashes into an empty merchant stall, falling unconscious and chuckles then says, "Haha, stupid pony thing. Nothing stop us now, we shall rule world one day."

The nearly unconscious daughter tries to get back up but watches and listens to her mother's wailing sobs as she tries to reach out to her and whimpers in pain, "I sowwy momma...I...not save...you." Her head feels too heavy to hold up any more and as her vision darkens, she closes her eyes and falls unconscious.

Arthas stands outside the city and then issues one more command to his forces and bellows, "To me undead warriors, we are returning to Icecrown!" He then approaches his flying mount Sindragosa and sits atop her back and waits for them all to arrive before issuing final orders and leaving them to return on their own.

It takes ten minutes for Glug to return to the gathered undead force of around five thousand undead warriors, including the other group. He stands around and waits for the rest of the fighters to arrive and smiles, feeling happy to see his brother Chug survive through the battle and says, "I unhappy. You take two slaves to me one. Me beat you next time!"

Chug laughs and says, "Keep try, brother! If you beat me, you take best axe." He then looks down to one of the captives he holds and hits them over the head with the curved blade's back, knocking them unconscious again and says, "Screams annoying, me hit to keep quiet, noise of living hurt me head."

He watches the last of the group gather and issues his last orders and shouts, "I must return to Icecrown quickly, ALL of you travel with the wagons. Make sure no prisoners escape or I shall punish you severely! Make sure to keep the wagons safe, they shall guide your path back home where I shall await your return. Now move out!" He then holds the bag firmly by moving his lover closer to trap the bag between them and just before he takes flight, he looks back and bellows to all the surviving crystal ponies, "I hope you enjoy your freedom now, ponies! I have your princess and your city lies in ruins, you have been such gracious hosts! Pleasant nightmares to all of you!" He then nudges Sindragosa to begin their journey back to Icecrown.

Three hours later, back at Icecrown...

Sindragosa lands on top of her balcony and lies down to let Arthas get off her back and says, "Now what will our plan be my king?" She looks to him thoughtfully for an answer.

Arthas holds the bag of food in his hand and turns back to her and says, "Now we shall study this world and learn from it and improve our home. First we get this land around our castle cleaned up, then we get the walls repaired properly. Then we begin our search for saronite to use as weapons, though I doubt there is any on this world and build walls across the access points to this land and put gates at each one. After that, we shall see what progress the doctor has made with improving the plague."

She looks to him in curiosity and asks, "What about after all that is done, what shall we do then sir?"

With a malicious grin he says to her, "After that is finished, we shall teach the world to fear us and we will bring it under our rule. I must go feed the slave now, I shall return for my love shortly. Do keep her company until I return, I sure hope that she won't be too much trouble. I eagerly await the day my children are born, and I shall teach them what they need to know to be able to survive in life." He then walks away towards the hall, making his way to where the teleporter will send him to the ground floor to give his servant some food.

Sapphy is making good progress on burying the dead bodies, with three hundred of them sorted and buried already. She is extremely hungry and hopes that Arthas brought back food for her and says, "I'm so hungry that I could eat a pony!" She continues to dig as she waits for her master to bring her food, when she spots him making his way towards her with a bag of food in hand and sighs happily at being able to eat real food now.

Arthas stops on the road beside a grave she is currently digging and looks at how many bodies she has managed to bury so far and says, "You are progressing adequately, you have definitely earned this meal. Do try to make it last as long as possible without starving yourself, eat a decent meal then take a short break and keep working. You will need to make sure the road is cleared of bodies, the undead group will be returning in just over a couple weeks."

She looks to him gratefully and takes the bag of food and then says, "Thank you so much for this food master, I survived this long because I searched around for some grass to eat and a nearby stream for water."

He turns around and waves a hand in the air dismissively and says, "Uh huh, just keep working after your break is over and get those bodies into the ground. They are beginning to become an eyesore. We will be getting some temporary prisoners in a couple weeks to aid you in burying this many corpses quicker." He then turns and heads back towards where he left his love with Sindragosa.

Amore slowly stirs and comes to, feeling uncomfortable for some reason and her eyes slowly flutter open to reveal blurry images. They slowly come into focus as she blinks her eyes a few times and shakes her head once or twice, and notices that she is laying on top of the back of the dragon that caused so much damage to her city and chuckles saying, "I'm terribly sorry, but I seem to have found my way onto your back. Can you please tell me what happened?"

Sindragosa swivels her neck around and looks back at her and says, "Since you are awake now, do me a favor and get off my back would you? Do you want the long version or the short version?"

She chuckles and says, "I think I would like the long version please." She then gets off of her back and walks in front of her a little ways and makes herself comfortable as two smaller skeletal dragons take off into the sky, not really wanting to hear the story.

It takes Arthas fifteen minutes to return to the floor, informing Professor Putricide of the incoming subjects as well as raising a few banshees to serve as spies for him. He then turns down the hall where Sindragosa's balcony is located and hears his love laughing at something.

Amore smiles and slaps her side lightly and says, "Then what happened?"

Sindragosa chuckles and says, "Then when I sneezed, his head got stuck!"

They both erupt into laughter as Arthas walks down the hall to where the two girls are laughing about something and he announces his presence and says, "Welcome to Icecrown, did you miss me my love?"

The insane princess looks back to her love and runs towards her lover saying, "Of course I have missed you silly! What an amazing view you have here Sindy, I am rather jealous of you right now. This view is better than from my balcony in the Crystal Empire, it was so fun watching you wreak so much death and destruction upon innocent mortals. There is no way they will ever forget what you did to them, nothing can undo the scar you just created by announcing your existence to the world. After all, it was you who threw me over the edge into the abyss of insanity. Worry not, my love. I will never wish to bring you harm, I just want to be by your side forever."

Arthas looks back at Sindragosa for any advice on what is going on but sighs as she shrugs her shoulders and shakes her head not knowing. Unsure of how to react to this recent development, he continues his sweet lover act and says to her, "Do you want to see our new home and kingdom, my love?" He then offers her an arm to take to lead her around the citadel.

Amore takes his arm in glee and says, "Of course I do, I can't wait to see what your throne room looks like...and our chambers." she says the last part with a bit of lust and mischief in her voice, squinting her eyes in a way that would turn any pony into a stallion rearing to have their way with a mare.

He begins leading her down the hall towards the center platform to show her the throne room first and says, "Unfortunately, there is no private chambers as of yet. I have never had need of those since I became the king of the undead Scourge." He mentally berates himself for allowing that slip of the tongue and then continues telling her more about the citadel.

She listens intently to him telling her about this citadel that was built by the first scourge lords and interrupts him briefly and threatens him lightly, "You need to get those private chambers built within four months so I can begin nesting, but if you fail I assure you will have a very angry and violent lover to deal with every day until they are ready. Do you understand me?"

Arthas winces mentally at her words and answers her, "It shall be done within three months, my love. Follow me onto this plate up here my love, I think you will absolutely adore the view from there even more." He then backs up onto the plate and disappears, reappearing on top of the citadel. He then walks forward to the base of the stairs and sits in the Frozen Throne, waiting for his love to appear on the plate.

Amore steps into the light and feels a tingle as she is teleported somewhere and looks around to see something truly remarkable, she sees a mirrorlike mint green floor with the symbol of the Scourge engraved on it. She is in awe at what she sees before her, her lover sitting atop a throne appearing to be made of either ice or the same material as the floor and says, "Oh wow, the view is beautiful from up here my love. I guess this is the throne room then?"

He looks at her from under his helm and says, "Indeed it is my love, this is the Frozen Throne that sits atop this citadel. Please come sit upon my lap for awhile, we have plenty of time to allow you to rest up before we continue with your tour of the citadel."

She hastily makes her way up to the steps, but is careful with going up them as they are iced over. She reaches the top and sits down on top of Arthas's lap and gazes out at the lands surrounding the citadel and says, "Oh wow, you were right. I do like the view much better up here, it really makes you feel like a ruler. The Crystal Empire will have to take care of itself for awhile, because I like this place much better now. Please continue to show me around this massive citadel my love, I would like to begin to memorize where everything is."

Three Hours Later at the base of Icecrown Citadel...

Arthas finishes up his tour of the Citadel and the grounds around it and stands in front of his love and turns around and stretches his arms out to each side and says evilly, "Welcome to Icecrown Citadel Princess Amore, my love. One day, we might marry and you would be the very first queen the Citadel has ever had."

Amore beams a wide smile and rushes forth and hugs him and whispers to him, "I hope that day comes soon, for it is a bad omen to father children before marriage."

Time Skip

Three weeks passes by with the army returning to the castle with their prisoners and the wagons. Arthas assigns the prisoners to help Sapphy out with burying the bodies, following her orders as she works alongside them. In the meantime, he has them assist Professor Putricide with his research and studies. He assigns a few volunteers from the army to begin building him and his love a private chambers at the top of the citadel.

Three months passes by as the chambers are finally completed, with Amore taking over the interior decorating. She then uses most of her time shouting orders to a few female workers after the males screwed up, getting them to correct their mistake.

As the months start to fly by, Arthas begins to get complaints about the wild nature of his lover. Largely he ignores those complaints, as they bring him much amusement after a few problems spring up with the constructing of the walls around the kingdom.

Temporary end of time skip.

One day, Arthas holds court atop Icecrown while his consort rests with a larger belly than before. He looks at a female Frost vrykul approaches him and complains saying, "This is insufferable! She is an absolute nightmare to deal with, she demands that I bring her some pickled herring. When I bring it to her, she throws it back at me and accuses me of trying to kill her. Then she asks me politely to bring her some salad with calamari in it, when I bring it to her, she throws it across the room. She then screams at me to bring her some bucking hay or grass. I am reaching my limit as to how much more of this I can take sir, please do something about it."

He moves a hand over his mouth and pretends to think about it, when he is actually fighting hard to keep from bursting out laughing. He forces himself to remain calm and says to her, "Many apologies for my consort's behavior. As you already know that she is literally insane and pregnant with two children. Do try to deal with it some way, Things will improve once they are born in five more months. I would say you could deal with it by digging holes or carving pillars out of stone to mark the graves, but the last bodies were buried two weeks ago."

She chuckles and bows to the king and says, "I actually wish that some fools would attack us, I could take out my aggression on them."

Arthas arches a brow as an idea strikes him and says, "You remind me of a problem I am having in the east beyond the ruined pony village Sindragosa reduced to ash. There are some pony-like creatures that are killing my workers, and keeping them from working on the walls and gates. I do think they called themselves, Umbrum or something, I want you to take a large fast group and drive them from our land. Oh and do visit Sindragosa and tell her that I request her to travel with you along with her children, your orders are to instill terror into their hearts. In fact, I think I shall go with you on this mission. So go and gather a large group to drive these mortals from Icecrown lands, I shall meet you at the front gates of the citadel."

Time Skip Continues.

After driving the Umbrum south out of their land, Arthas begins to start work on a port to allow him to send out scouting parties. Once it is built, he sends out a few scout groups to gather information about foreign lands. He starts to gather curious information about different species on other lands across the sea. He finds out from a few scouts from land parties that creatures resembling the Tauren on Azeroth, piquing his interest into investigating them more closely.

Several months pass by until Arthas stands by his consort's side and takes a first look at his two new daughters, both are strange creatures to him. Both having wings and horns, with one being white with a multicolored mane and tail with magenta eyes. He names her Celestine, he looks at the other, being dark blue and having a lighter mane and tail of varying hues of blues with cyan eyes. He takes off his helm and sets it onto the floor and lifts them both up, one in each arm as he looks at the unnamed child and thinks for a moment before saying, "Your name will be...Lunetha"

Five years pass by as Arthas teaches his heirs how to talk and walk, he then schools them on how to be cunning and intelligent with what they do. He ignores their repeated requests to make this place nicer and says, "This is our home and MY citadel, I shall have it look the way I please and rule it like I want. If you two don't like it, just shut up and deal with it until you can live on your own. Until then, its my citadel and my rules."

End of Time Skip

Amore slowly starts to regain her sanity, but continues to pretend like she is still insane. It takes two years before she gathers up the courage to take the girls out of this foul, evil place. She approaches Arthas one day and says, "I am going to take the girls on a two day camping trip to the crags just north of here, would you like to come along with us my love?"

Arthas waves his hand dismissively and answers spitefully, "Hell no I do not, I have too many things to deal with right now. Go on and enjoy yourselves, I need to stay here and deal with this new headache that calls itself Discord. He keeps turning my walls to jelly and my soldiers to toys!"

Taking the girls and leaving the castle with what the need to escape this place, feeling grateful that Arthas removed the ring from her horn to allow her to help out around the citadel. She takes them to a forest far to the south, she hears Celestine speak up first asking, "Momma, why dost thou lie to Papa?"

Keeping silent for a moment to think of an answer, she says, "I lied to your father because I do not want you two girls to continue growing up in that dark and evil place, picking up his nasty habbits. You two deserve to live a life full of happiness and love, not only knowing hate and fear for the living. I would go with you but he is able to find me easily, so I must return. Please remember I will always love you two girls, I want you and your sister Luna to take these two family portraits of happier days. If you ever get lonely or sad, just think back on better days to improve your mood. Don't hate your father girls, he truly does love you but a new nuisance has recently came around to pester your father for a while."

Celestia and Luna take the family photos of happier times and hold onto them dearly and begin walking away when Luna stops and runs back to hug her mother one more time before saying, "I shall love thou forever Mamma, may we meet again some day." She then catches up to her sister Celestia and follows her into the fields.

Amore sheds a tear, knowing that it won't ever happen and returns to Icecrown Citadel to face her lover to find out what punishment awaits her.

A few moments later...

Arthas is enraged right now at hearing how his consort took their children away from him and abandoned them by the woods, far from his reach. He raises his hand and backhands her across the face, sending her sprawling across the floor and storming forth to replace the ring back on her horn. After setting the ring back into place, he goes to speak to Professor Putricide about what to do with the prisoners now...including his consort.