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Upon returning to the village, Helfdain and his lieutenants were waiting to greet their saviours.


" Ah...my Lord! You have returned...I take it that the dreadful shade creature has been dispatched? Is my village now safe?" asked the cheiftain.


" It is, Helfdain." replied Wulfgar. "The Shade Lord will bother you no more."

" I have little to offer you in the way of payment, I give you this axe. My thanks to you again, my Lord...it is a great relief to know that my village will now be safe. I will tell the townsfolk immediately."

"I would stay and drink you more of your mead, but we must be going, we have a long trek ahead of us." Wulfgar said.

"Our bards will sing of your valor Wulfgar." Helfdain said.

"And my fury will be such that they shall run their quills dry! Yes! Ink shall be scarse where'er I go, Hahahaha!"

As Thasador quickly sped toward the creature it began to work its magic, summoning showowy figures to aid him.


"Cast your pathetic magics monster "Wulfgar bellowed. "Your reign of pain has ended!"

As they others fought with the minions, Wulfgar and Thasador concretrated their efforts on the Shade Lord.


"No my spell is lost!!" cried the Shade Lord. "NOOOO!!!"

"I'm sorry, did I break your concerntration." Wulfgar said snidely.

Thasador's quick attacks and Wulfgar's powerful blows sent the Shade lord to the ground. WUlfgar stood over the creatures body poised to strike the fatl blow.

"Even If I fall you will not stop him, muhahahahahaha."

"What?! Who is your master!" cried Wulfgar. "Talk!!"

"You cannot win, muhahahahaha" the sade lord said with his dying breath. As he died so to did his shade minions.

What is this?" Wulfgar said as he stared down at the body and saw the amulet around the Shade Lord's neck.


"Tha' be the same talisman tha' bloody mage had on him!" Thoradin cried as he eyed the talisman. "He was working fer the mage!"

"This creature was making an army for the mage?" said Wulfgar. "You should feel proud, he must make an army to take you down, hahahahaha."


"I have no idea how long you have been hunting this mage of your's." Kathris interjected. "But from the state the forest is in surrounding this place, this creature has been here many years. But if this mage of your's is the true master here, then perhaps you can enlighten us on the subject on the way back to the village."

"Very well." replied Wulfgar. "During the siege of Dun Craig, we fought a mage who could not be harmed by any weapon or spell that any of those who were there to break the siege possessed. He used vile magic to dissappear."

"But nah befer he seid tha' Ah woold make ae great sacrifice." Thoradin said as he spat on the ground. "An' tha' Ah woold please his dark masters."

"All that remained was a talisman like this one." Wulfgar said as he held up the talisman.



"It is the metal in it that led us here." he continued.

"A most vile mage indeed." Kathris replied. "And what will you do now?"

"We will met up with the others who hunt for this mage." Wulfgar said. "But first we will return to Helfdain, and tell him his village is safe."

"Then let us hurry, this place is beginning to stink somethin' fierce." Throadin moaned.

Climbing to the top of the winding staircase at the far end of the hall, a shadowy figure was in the middle of what appeared to be a ritualistic incantation.




Something is awry... I sense fresh souls. Who intrudes upon me? More unlucky adventurers come to swell the ranks of my dark army?" said the shadowy figure.



"You shall have to kill me first." bellowed Wulfgar. "We've gotten past your pet wyrm. What do you think we shall do to you and your altar?"

"Bravado, of course." replied the shadowy figure. "Your kind grows tiresome and predictable yet you may be of some use to me."

"I shall not be used by the likes of you!" Wulfgar thundered.

"Oh but you shall, mortal. This body that I inhabit grows tired. You shall make an excellent replacement. Come my shades! Open the portal! This brash fool has some strength."

The dragon reared back to unleash it's potent breath attack, but before it could bring up enough poison into it's mouth Wulfgar's axe cut a deep gash in it's neck, expelling the acidic poison all over his armor, disintegrating what little armor he possessed. Though is armor had been reduced to naught but a few patches of leather, the combined effects of the elf priest and Thasador, coupled with that of his own, felled the beast.

Wulfgar pulled out a small dagger and began to hack off several of the dragons scales, from which he fashioned a make shift set of armor.




"This creature is not the source of the evil that taints this place." said the Demon Hunter. "It is it's Master that we must seek out."


"Then I shall kill it's Master!" Wulfgar proclaimed.

"Foolish boy." Kathris said to herself as her prepared her spells. "Wulfgar get in the and keep it occupied, it can only be hurt when it's solid. If it's in shadow form your attacks are worthless."


"Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!" Wulfgar cried out as he charged at the dragon.

"Just keep it occupied!" Kathris called out. "Dragon your fate is sealed by the hands of Elune's faithful. Your evil presence shall be vanquished, and the light will shine in this place once again."

Kathris' body began to glow and the shadows surrounding her began to disappear, as she moved she seemed to gain strength with each step she took towards the dragon. The closer she moved to the dragon, the more brighter the light emanating from her became, and the more potent it's damage.

"Now fall before the might of Elune!!" Kathris cried.

The ceiling of the temple began to crumble and break apart as small comet like projectiles broke through and pound upon the flesh of the dragon. yet miraculously leave her companions engaging the dragon in combat unscathed. Though the same could not be said for the chunks of rock and brick which they had to dodge as well as evade the dragons attacks.

"Not the greatest of tactics, but we have no choice." Kathris thought to herself. "Let the stars rain down upon you!!"

As they retreated to the mirror, Wulfgar backed into it, knocking it into the grooves it should rest in. As the moonlight hit it, it glowed with a strange eerie light than slowly spread out in all directions away from the mirror. The light that emanated from the mirror dispelled the illusions of the wolves.


"So you have proved that you are of more use to me alive then dead." Wrathbringer said with a slight hint of mockery in is tone.


"An illusion?" Kathris mused. "They were just illusions?"


"WHERE IS THE MAGE!! WHERE IS THE MAGE! RRAGGGH!!! I WILL KILL HIM!!" bellowed Wulfgar. " Such a dirty trick is the work of a mage. A mage who cannot fight for himself. YOU HEAR THAT MAGE!! WULFGAR IS COMING FOR YOU!!"

"Apparently I was wrong." Wrathbringer quipped. "Come Kathris, I must speak with you alone."

They "I must say I do not care much for the company with which you keep Sister. This one is likely to get us killed. And if not him, the dwarf will no doubt do the same. You actually trust these brutes?"

"Demonhunter tell me" Kathris said. "Are they any worse than those who minds you warp I have no idea how you ever got that druid of the Talon to go along with you. Or do they following you if only to keep an eye on you, least your lust for power consume you entirely?"

"I have done no such thing, Sister." Wrathbringer said with a slightly agitated tone. "They follow of their own free will."

"If you say so." Kathris said.

As they worked their way deeper and deeper into the ruins the carvings and murals that adorned the walls had crumbled away with the ages, or collected various assortments of mosses and other fungi.

"There is evil round every corner.. careful not to step in any." Wulfgar said shortly before he put his foot into something mush-like.

"*sniff sniff* Wyrm excrement." Wulfgar said after he diagnosed the substance. "A big one."


"Good. Ah knoos ae thing or tae aboot killin' wyrms" Thoradin professed. "An' hoo tae cook 'em. Ah could gae fer some meat, none o' this foraging fer berries like ye bloody elves!"

As the continued they came at last to a great hall. One much more lit up than the other rooms they passed through. The mosaic of the former Night Elf Queen Azshara, that made up the floor was covered in what appeared to be scratchings made by a very large claw. A beam of light shone directly into the centre of the mosaic. as the light refracted off various mirrors that surrounded the mosaic it created shadows. One was that of a extremely large beast.


"How amusing that you petty fleshlings would dare disturb the slumber of the Shadow Dragon? Are you daft? Blind? Whatever, I shall tear your bodies apart and feast on your innards while you whimper and cry for mercy."

"No effect!" cried Wulfgar. "What manner of beast is this, that it cannot be cut with my axe."


"They demons!" cried Wrathbringer. "Incertus Pulcher Imperium!"

And with that his entire body became surrounded by a green flame, that scorched the earth as he moved.

"Impossible!!!" he screamed as his magic was powerless to damaged his opponent. "No creature can withstand my immolation!"


"There are too many of them!" cried Kathris as she diverted her attentions from healing her comrades to fending off the attack of a shade wolf. Fall back!"


"To where?" asked as the archer as she fired an arrow only to have it pass through her target. "These creature lurk in the shadows."

"There! cried Kathris pointing to mirror. It's reflective surface, while dulled, still reflected the moon's light and created a small pocket of light.

"To the mirror!!" shouted Wulfgar. "To the mirror!"

The paved stones that made up the roof of the temple were covered in vines and moss or had fallen into the temple. In front of the entrance stood a large window-like frame, as they neared it the dulled reflective surface of a mirror could be seen. As they drew even closer Wulfgar and Thoradin who had assumed the lead stopped and drew out there weapons.


"There is something here." said Wulfgar. "It stalks us even now."


"Thear!!!" cried Thoradin. "They are comin'! Ah can smell 'em. Foul wee beasties."

From out of the darkness of the shadows lunged a pack of shadowy like wolves.

"Yer barking up the wrong tree doggie!" Thoradin yelled as he swung his axe through one of them onlyy to have it glide through without causing so much as a graze to the wolf.

"WHA' FOUL SORCERY IS THIS!!" he cried. "Me axe it dinnae dae anythin' tae it!"

"Bloody forest..." Thoradin grumbled. "Damn tree-huggers an' daisy-eaters... burn 'em al..."

Before he could finish his sentence a arrow struck the ground naught but a foot in front of him.


"That is a Kaldorei arrow!" exclaimed Kathris. "Fandu-dath-belore?"

A Night Elf emerged from behind a tall tree in front of the group.


"That dwarf is so loud I could have shot him in the dark." said a Night Elf archer as she strung another arrow, and readied herself to let it fly.

"Sister why do you take up arms against us? asked Kathris.


"You better start talking elf! Or my axe will do the talking for you!" bellowed Wulfgar.

"Your axe talks? That would be the work of a demon, were it true, ha ha" laughed a voice in the distance. "And as such, I would have no choice but to destroy it."

A figure cloaked in a green fire emerged from behind another tree and made his way towards Kathris.

"What are you doing here? Master Hellbourne is it?" asked Kathris sarcastically.


"I could ask you the same question Kathris. Such beasts you keep as company, they are not befitting of a Sister of Elune. And I see your memory is dulled as well. Has it been that long Sister since last we met." asked Wrathbringer.

"Wrath this, Hell that. You demonhunters always choose such predictable name to call yourselves." Kathris said. "Was your old name really such a bother?"

"Goad me all you want, Sister." said Wrathbringer. "But answer me this, are our goals really so different? I seek balance same as you, do I not?"

"So like your master." snapped Kathris. "Shall I deprive you of your 'precious' magics, by locking you under ground in a cage of darkness to?"

"Such a tongue you have. but I grow tired of this, you bore me priestess. You seek the evil within the temple yes?" asked the demon hunter.

"We do." Kathris said with a disgruntled look on her face. "As do you I suppose."

"You correct." Wrathbringer replied. "We seek the evil within the temple. A joining of parties, "

"Oh noo this is just grand, more bloody Elves!!" moaned Thoradin. "Ah swear ye buggers groo on trees aroond here!"

Dispite his numerous injuries, Wulfgar led the way to the temple ruins. Kathris surveyed their surroundings.


"A storm crow?" She mused. "Must be a Kaldorei war party nearby. It's unlike a Druid of the Talon to venture alone."

The bird flew off in the direction of the temple ruins.

"Wulfgar. Keep an eye out for a Kaldorei war party. Prehaps we can get them to join us."


"Keep an eye out!" Wulfgar grunted. "That suppose to be funny.


"Dinnae ye be like that laddie." Laughed Thoradin. "Ah happen tae like yer new look. Ye went an' lost an eye, sae ye can look more like me. Thoogh Ah think ye dun mess oop, 'Tis th' other eye. hahaha."


The Storm crow fly down into a clearing not far from where the adventurers were and changed into the form of a Night Elf.


"Master Warthbringer." spoke the Druid of the Talon. "There is a small warband approaching from the south, they have a Kaldorei with them. What are your orders."

The demon hunter sat in a meditative like state as he listen to the druid. He raised his right hand and cloased his hand into a fist, then it glowed shortly before bursting into a greenish flame that surrounded his hand.


"There are demons nearby. they should be our primary concern. If this group gets in our way we will deal with them. How much further to the temple."

"Not far." replied the Druid. "Next glen over, many fires"

"Good." said the demon hunter as the flame around is hand dissapeared. "Gather you things, we are moving out!"



How much further to the temple Maes? asked Wulfgar.


"Not much further. Once you see the trees turn lifeless and dead, we will be there." replied the ranger.

After she returned from gathering healing hebs, Kathris entered the room where Wulfgar was recouperating, only to find him no longer there.

Rushing out the far door, she found him sitting on the steps slumped on his axe.


"There you are!" she exclaimed.


"Where else would I be?" asked Wulfgar. "In bed, like an old man on his death bed? Bah!"

"Yes. Rest is what you need." replied Kathris.

"I can walk and swing my axe, that is all I need to do. And that is what I am going to do." Wulfgar said as he grabbed hold of his axe and held it out in front of his body. "There is a great evil in the temple. I cannot rest while it still lives and breathes. You know this."

"Do I warrior?" questioned Kathris.

"Get the dwarf and the best men you can find. I am going to the temple." declared Wulfgar.

"Hurrying to met death, lest your place be taken? Ha Ha" Kathris joked. " Such lust for battle, I can see there is no stopping you, I shall aid you. I will gather who I can."

"Damn fool needs to learn when to stay in bed." said Maes. "Though I have no idea how he managed to haul himself out in the first place. With injuries like that he should have been bedridden for 3 days."


"A fire burns deep in this one." Helfdain said. "It is fueled by combat. It will rage until the body is no more."


"He is certainly proving to be quite the handful, these herbs should sooth his wounds, but he will need much rest." Kathris said.


"Well ge' on wit it witch!" yelled Thoradin. "Gae on, heal 'em oop, If ye think he is goona stay here why'al we gae oop tae th' temple, ye had best think again. He drag himself oop there if he has tae."

"Prehaps you are right dwarf." said Maes. "Should he regain consciousness, I don't think I could restrain him. I doubt even three of us could. He would fight us all the way there. And even in the state he is in, he would probably win."

"Bah! ye humans are nothin' but wimps." scoffed the dwarf. "Quit ye snivelin'. Ah nay stand aroond here waitin' fer him tae wake up. Me axe be..."

"Itching for a skull" Kathris said. "Yeah Yeah we heard you the first time, now why do you go and get drunk like a good dwarf."

"Ah'll hold ye tae tha' elf." Thoradin said with a large maniacal smile. "Noo whear's me drink!! Ye bar maid!! Fetch me me drink."

"You think that's such a good idea getting him drunk?" Maes questioned. "With Wulfgar out, that dwarf is the best fighter we got here."

Day 11 Kythorn, 1500

"Nightfall"


"Jump on my blade while you can troll, I won't be as gentle!" Wulfgar yelled thunderously.


"Pretty words." said the troll mockingly. "Is that all you have warrior, HMPH!"

WUlfgar swang his axe with all the might he could muster but wasunable to do any real damage.

"So your still able to swing that axe of your's. Even after you body absorbed all that poison, muwhaha a worth attempt but futile... as your whole misbegotten race!" said the troll as it evaded Wulfgar's axe with ease.

"Less talk more fight!!!" Wulfgar bellowed intensly.

The troll snarled as if agreeing yet at the same time taking slight offence. The thrustsof his spear were more forcefull. One attack forced Wulfgar to lean back causing the trolls attack to only slice through a few layers of skin and tissue both above and below Wulfgar's right eye, blinding the eye in addition. The attack however left the troll's mid section fairly exposed to attack, an oppurtunity Wulfgar took full advantage of, slicing his opponent in half.

Seeing their leader cut down the remianing few trolls scurried away with a handful of Helfdain's men quick on their trail. Those that remained inthe village cheered loudly. Covered in the blood of his foe and that of his own, Wulfgar took nine stumbling steps backwards and plumped himself down on the nearby barricade and set his axe down with a thud.

"It is done, 'Lo there do I see my father. 'Lo there do I see my mother, and my brothers and my sisters. 'Lo there I see the line of my people back to the beginning, 'Lo and they do call to me, they bid me take my place amongst them. on the slopes of the Kae Huron, where the brave may live forever..."

No sooner had he finished his sentence did his remaining eye close and his body lean to one side and fall over.


"Foolish human." Kathris scoffed. "Quickly get him back in his bed!! Don't just stand there Thoardin! Pick him up!"


"Bark ye orders ye bloody wood witch!" Thoradin griped. "Dinnae ye be order me aroond, Ah'll nay be takin' any order from an elf!"


"Would you shut up already and get him inside!" Helfdain yelled. "This man has saved my village, for such a warrior to fall here this day would be an abomination."

Grumbling under his own breath Thoradin did as he was told and helped lug Wulfgar back up to the mead hall.

Fighting their way through the throngs of trolls poruing over the walls and through the broken defences, the adventurers and the villagers quickly found themselves retreating to the higher ground.


"Damn" yelled Maes as he loosed an arrow into the head of a troll.
"bloody monsters. There is no end."


"quit yer whining ye bloody human! A SKULL CLEAVER!" yelled Thoradin as his axe split a troll's head clean in two.


"He is here! The Leader, he is coming!" yelled Bors.


"Good!. He is mine!" Wulfgar yelled, with a evil look in his eye, and a devilish smile on his face.

They all turned to see the large warrior, swaying from side to side, dragging his axe along the ground as he moved towards his foe.


"Wulfgar?" Kathris said. "You should rest, your still weak."

"Bah!! "I will rest when that thing! lies dead beneath my feet." Wulfgar proclaimed.

"I see there is no stopping you then, I will offer what aid I can" Kathris said.

"Troll, I am calling you out!!!!" Wulfgar thundered. "Come fight me! And me alone!!! I do not cower behind weak minions, Grant me the same honour!! COME FIGHT ME!!!!!!"

The throng of trolls that stood before the warriors quickly dispersed, and the leader stood, lone, staring Wulfgar in the eyes.


"I praise your battle prowess warrior, but you will not survive this encounter." spoke the troll.

"Ha Ha, hundreds of your kind have made that same threat, all have fallen before my the blade of my axe. Take care of the rabble" This one is all mine." Wulfgar said.

The troll grunted and snorted before he charged towardsthe warrior, who rested upon his axe swaying like a tree in the wind.

"Bring it on monster!" Wulfgar yelled. "Talic guide my blade!"

As the other fought with the trolls, Wulfgar tossed and turned in his bed deleirous with fever.




"Where am I?" he asked himself. He rubbed his eyes with his palms then looked at them, they were youthful. "What is this?" he pondered. "My hands they look like they did during my dajemma." He looked around at his surroundings and sae a familiar sight to him. "I know that boulder, but I cannot be here, not here, not again."

"Wulfgar, Wulfgar hurry up, We are going to be late." called a voice to him from the distance. "That voice! No it can't be her, she's dead." Wulfar said, but still the voice called to him. He ran over the heath and was met by the sight of his previous witch standing there alive and well, with a stern look on her face.


"There you are! dawdling around as usual" she said angrily yet also teasingly. "That is no way to begin a dajemma."

"I am sorry Sonya, I had to grab a bite to eat." said Wulfgar as he threw the boar slung over his shoulders on the ground. "It is a long way back to the village, I am not going to die of hunger before I get there."

"But you ate before we left." Sonya scoffed at him.

"That was 3 hours ago." Wulfgar replied. "I need my strength if I am to protect you on this journey. The road back from the Kae Huron foothills is full of danger, I will not see you harmed. Your brother would not like that."

"I wouldn't worry about Brom." shae said with a smile. "Father might tear you a new one, ha ha ha."

Wulfgar cocked his head to the righ, then the left.

"what is it? What's wrong?" Sonya asked.

"Company." Wulfgar replied. "They are close."

A large group of bandits appeared from out of the nearby thickets.


"Now what do we have here, a barbarian and his witch. This should be fun, come on boys!" yelled the bandit leader.


"The woman is mine!" yelled one of the bandits, with a lustful look in his eyes.

"You will regret that!!!" yelled Wulfgar. "She is a tough one, she will bite it right off!"

"Yeah yeah we will see." said the bandit.

"You ready Sonya?" Wulfgar said "I have been aching for some fighting, now it comes to me!"

"Just do your job Wulfgar." Sonya said with a slightly cold tone.

Several of the bandits ran towards the hulking warrior while a handful headed for his charge.

With several well executed swings, Wulfgar did away with the initial assulting bandits.

"Who is this guy! He taking these guys out, like their nothing, I’m getting out of here!" one of the bandits yelled.

"Where are you going? This weapon is blunt, it does not cut all that deep but it is much heavier and thicker than normal, if it doesn’t kill you in one hit, you will wish it had." Wulfgar said with much arrogance.

"Don't just stand there, kill him!" yelled the leader. "You are all useless, prehaps you need better motivation, to the man who bests him I will give 3 no 5 times the bounty."

"Did he say 5 times? Ok boys lets do this!" yelled another bandit.

"Yeah, yeah that’s how bandits are supposed to be, RRAAGGHHH!!!!" bellowed Wulfgar.

"Ha Ha, I got ‘em" yelled a bandit as his crossbow bolt went through Wulfgar's hand.

"Good work now he can’t swing that massive axe so easily" said another.

"He He Now things have gotten interesting." Wulfgar said mockingly as he closed his fist, breaking the arrow. "Muwhahaha!!"

Swinging the large axe in one hand with ease Wulfgar slew another three bandits, without so much as breaking a sweat.

"impossible!!" exclaimed the Bandit leader. "With one hand he still fighting!"

"What? Is that all? By the time I cut your head off we will see the sun rise!" Wulfgar shouted.

"come on all at once! Get him!" yelled the leader of the bandits.

"What am I doing here?" questioned WUlgar to himself. "I am risking my life fighting. Is this for her? My father? No it is not. I have got no time to think now, I just have to concentrate on killing. That is all."


Not to be out done by her guardian, Sonya had managed to slay a few with ease, her arcane knowledge was vast, well vast for the those who lived a life sheltered from the majority of society. The bandits weak leathery armor was no respite from the onslaught of her bolts of firey energy. But the bandits soon gained the upper hand by flanking her, and then pinning her to the ground.


"you’ve caused us a lot of trouble girly" said the bandit with an interest in the young spell caster. "We’ll put you outta your misery soon enough, but you stuck it to a bunch of our guys, so as thanks we’re gonna stick it to you before you go"

Sonya turned her face up at the bandit who was now directly on top of her.

"Don’t look that way." said the bandit. "We’re gonna give you some fun before we send you to the afterlife, so much fun you’ll thank us. Don’t even think of biting off your tongue, I don’t want you to die before I get to have fun"


"I won’t bite off my tongue" she said.

"OOHH now she is given in? She wants to play with us some more" said the bandit.

"however, I don’t want you riding on top of me either." Sonya said

"What?!" exclaimed the bandit.

Sonya reached for a large twig on the ground and stabbed the bandit in the eye and freed herself.

"ARGGGHHHH" screamed the bandit. "You'll pay for that!!!"

"So there is some fight left in you, good." said another bandit as her grabbed Sonya.

"WULFGARRRR!!!" Sonya yelled. "WULFGUGHHHH!!!!!"

"whoops my hand slipped, hahahahahaha" said the bandit and he drove his knife through he back into her heart.

Wulfgar having dealt with his immediate target, turned to see the tip of the blade protrude through sonya's chest.

"SONYA!!! RRAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled and in a fit or rage began wildy swing his axe, lopping on limbs and barely killing others instead of the much more accruate and dealy attacked he had dished out previously.

"I think we made him mad, ooops" yelled one of the bandits shortly before he was decapiated by Wulfgar's axe.

despite his ferocity and effectiveness with the one hand, the remaining bandits overcame him without much trouble.


"Such strength, you will do will in the pit arenas my fine young warrior, though it was a shame you killed the girl, she would have made a fine slave.

Wulfgar struggled within the net he was now a prisoner in.

"I will kill you all!!! Mark my face bastards!! It will be the last you ever see!!! I will kill you!!!" He yelled.

"Silence dog!" yelled the leader as he delivered a powerful blow knocked ensnared warrior out cold.



Wulfgar sat upright in his bed, but a little groggy still from the poison.

"Never again" he said. "Never again will Iallow it to happen, I will not let Kathris and the others die, before the Ancient Talic I swear this!!"

Grabbing his axe that lay next to his bed, he rushed out the door to aid his friends, and prehaps more imortant to him, allow no harm to come to Kathris.

"Let battle be joined!!" he proclaimed.