“Ugh! Damn it!” Liaena cursed, torn between trying to wipe her bleeding nose and clutch at the crazed box that was in her hand. The stupid thing took another pot shot at her, smacking into her midriff hard before falling innocently to the ground. “Kitty! Little help!?”

“Hm?” Kathlin gave her a vague look, before raising an eyebrow at her. “Help?”

“SHUT DOWN THAT BOX – if you can. Light, do I have to do everything!?” Liaena snarled, before forcing the Malizia box into her satchel. The thing promptly started to jump about as if it were alive, but at this point at least it was in a big enough thing for her to be able to cling onto effectively. “Cancel the spell, would you!?”

“That won’t stop her recasting it. And I expect Death Knights have considerable stamina”
Kathlin remarked in an indifferent tone as she peered at the satchel. To illustrate her point, the girl waved a hand and the satchel went limp. A moment later it started to jump about again, with Malizia’s voice faintly emenating in a thin cackle of laughter. “HAHAHAAA! You fools! You think you can stand against my might!?”

“A mage would be better suited to polymorph her, or freeze her solid. Hey, Vashi could do that. Maybe we should go help her out with Serphia so she could come with”

“OR – Sharon could do that as well. Quit being obtuse, unless you’re volunteering as the replacement to pacify Serphia!” Liaena snapped, gathering the badly behaved satchel up in her arms. Kathlin followed her gaze towards Sharon.
“I don’t know. He seems preoccupied…”

“LEAVE ME BE, INSOLENT WRETCH! OR I WILL REMOVE YOU FROM THIS EARTH….later…mmmhhh”

The words upstairs tailing away into nothing but grumbly murmurs as Serphia presumably retreated back into her love nest, Kathlin eyed the bouncing satchel askance. “You know…she could always be the replacement”

“….”

“Eh. Maybe.” Liaena muttered, taking a firm grasp on the bag again and peering upstairs. “Just give it a moment, would you. Let’s see how this plays out”

Serphia decided to go with the approach of trying of ignore the annoying Draenei outside. After all, she had to get tired of shouting eventually!

Bracing herself as Rithrynn threw another ferocious tantrum, Serphia gasped, before reflexively squeezing against the tiny elf, sending the tiny Sentinel yet deeper up inside of her big, purple and all-too welcoming butt in a never-ending slide of pure joy!

"Goddess, this is amazing! ... " Serphia said, as a moan of pure joy escaped her.

"I’ve heard and seen a lot better of the kaldorei warbands… have it all been a lie?”

" ... "

Serphia suddenly took an eerie pause in her bed as the sound of the annoying Draenei filled the room, opening one silver eye; which as it appeared, flashed with a malicious red glow!

"Has that bitch no idea what privacy means?!" Serphia growled to herself in a low voice, gaining a furious expression on her face as she slowly rose to her feet; the constant babble of that infuriating Draenei having successfully succeeded in destroying her perfect moment!

"Later... "

"Is it... over?" Rithrynn muttered cautiously within the darkness deep within Serphia's butt, before she was summarily thrown deeper as Serphia straightened her back without warning, giving Rithrynn a last shove; before grabbing her belt, loincloth and sheathed double swords.

"This better be important... or someone dies!" Serphia muttered to herself as she tied the weapon belt and loincloth around her waist, and began to venture towards the door of the dimly lit room.

*

"Uhhhm... to clear a potion, I would probably need a serious detox treatment!" Vashi muttered as she watched Mei's stalward attempts at gaining any kind of contact with the Captain.
"That's the thing with potions, they are half magical, half physical in nature; so a pure magical remedy is not always eno,-"

*CRASH*

"WHAT IS IT?!"

Vashi visibly jumped a few feet into the air and towards Mei as the door to the room in front of them suddenly slammed open as if by a thunderwave.
Lo and behold, in the doorway stood Serphia, the 8ft tall white haired Night Elven Captain glaring at them with eyes of pure fury and maximum annoyance - and wearing nothing other than her weapon belt and silk loincloth.

"I have designated Sentinels in charge of relaying information about my warband to me personally!" Serphia growled, her predatory eyes soon finding Mei, the one responsible for ruining her wonderful private time!

"LIEUTENANT SENTINEL FALERE!"

" ... "

For a moment, Serphia merely glared at Mei, before suddenly realizing why no Falere came running towards her.

"Ohhh, I almost forgot you were on an important mission, Fali!" Serphia's voice suddenly gained a more amused tone as she looked down at her own wide hips, giving her big butt a slap; all which succeeded in garnering some angry squirming from Falere, who was... somewhere even deeper in her butt than Rithrynn!

Then, as if her personality changed again in an instant; Serphia would once again be glaring daggers at Mei!

If looks could kill, Mei would at this point be very, very, very dead!

"What is the emergency? Last I checked, my soldiers had this all under control!"

*

Aleena continued to lean over Sharon, giving the High Elf the same, mischiveous smirk she had been giving him since she had arrived.

At the mention of the natural and obvious superiority of Kaldorei smiths over that of the simple denizens of Stormwind, and whatever petty artefacts they might cobble together; there was a visible blush on Aleena's cheeks.

"Ohhh, well, of course, hihi." She giggled, looking down at Sharon with a sly smile.
"But, I still need to pay them... "

Moving both of her arms around the High Elf's shoulders, Aleena would lean her forehead against his as she gazed down at him with an intense look.

"Aaaand, you are a mage! I was hoping you could give the sword some of those fancy magical properties, like make it spew fire or be coated with frigid ice winds... after all, I did take down that evil mage for you, didn't I?" Aleena said with a wink, at that moment playfully wriggling her butt about.

"I coul... ohhh."

Almost as if stunned, Aleena's face would shift slightly to the side to stare up in bewilderment at something behind Sharon.
Which would in fact be Sentinel Lithrielle, who had positioned herself directly behind the High Elf with her arms folded around her chest, and was currently staring down at Aleena past Sharon with a very accusing look.

"Aleena, what are you doing? ... " Lithrielle asked, her brows furrowing as they fixed themselves upon Aleena.

Sharon gazed at Aleena's purple face which was currently taking up most of his view, before craning his head up and backwards; enough so to be able to see the other Sentinel Lithrielle standing behind him.

"Sounds like a lover's quarrel."

He thought to himself, his mind already working on how he could get himself out of this situation as soon as possible. He was not so sure whether he liked his position so much. Although Night Elven sentinels did indeed look good, being stuck between two of them was like being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

And he was also within eyesight of Liaena...

"I wish that I knew enough to tell... " Sharon muttered as he gazed back at Sentinel Lithrielle with a slight frown of confused innocence.
"Sentinel Aleena here appears to have a great interest in my magic tricks. In fact, she wondered if she and me could head upstairs so that I could do some "enchantments" for her."

Sharon said, raising a not-so-subtle eyebrow in a wink as he glanced back at the currently mute Aleena. As he turned his sea blue eyes back to look at Lithrielle, trying to gauge her reaction, he could almost have sworn he saw a sudden flash of lightning shoot past in her left eye.

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"Let’s see how this plays out”

"YES! LET'S!" Suddenly sounded the maniacal cackle of Malizia, and shortly after the announced warning, Liaena could suddenly feel herself hoisted up in the air by her satchel as she clutched on to it, forced into a mid air barrel roll before crashing back into the floor on her back!

Malizia's crazed and evil laughter still emanating from within the satchel, and Liaena would find herself suddenly pulled along the floor after the satchel by one of its straps; girl and bag beginning to zoom around in the room as if it was haunted. Tables were knocked over and Night Elves had to jump up as Liaena was dragged around the room by whatever invisible force it had taken hold of the bag, a sense of chaos beginning to return to the room.

And through the carnage that was beginning to unfold in the room with poor Liaena currently being used as a makeshift human wrecking ball, Malizia's laughter only grew louder and louder!

“Electricity works best to snap out of enchantments and potions effects, also pain. We don’t need her to go through full detox, just to snap out of it a little.” Mei whispered back to Vashi as she heard the steps beyond the door. Sure enough her plan seemed to have worked! She got Serphia’s attention alright, but now stood the problem of actually getting the captain to do what she was supposed to do. This had the potential to turn really ugly alright.

*CRASH*

As expected the night elf captain truly packed one hell of a punch, considering the strength with which she opened the door. Meirie wouldn’t be surprised if the door handle and hinges were busted with this forceful opening. She sighed at her mind, potions… how much she disliked having to deal with magic users shaenanigans when they got bored. She could still remember when she herself was the victim of a potion similar to what must have hit the captain. Granted Mei didn’t act like Serphia, Mei turned into more of a gigolo…She still didn’t know the names of all the girls with whom she woke up with. She didn’t stop receiving gifts and proposals to marry from those girls for weeks.

Mei stood there calm as the sentinel captain was on her little rampage for the moment, her emotions outbursting clearly. The Naaru protect from crazy alchemists and their potions, Mei thought.

Standing there as a granite statue until Serphia talked to her straight to the issue, Mei was silent and finally the captain got to the point.

“The emergency being your people are currently a mess without your lead.” Mei stated, looking completely serious.” The mansion is under no control, the enemy death knight slipped their fingers like 2 times. Heck I even saw one of your sentinels being pretty much ready to join hands with the death knight for some goals of theirs.” The draenei berserker stated, her ears perking up as she heard a sound.

*SLAP*

A wound facepalm followed as she realized what must have been happening for this incredibly noise to be coming from downstairs.” They… let… her… loose enough to cause problems… AGAIN!” She grind her teeth.

“I – SWEAR – I – WILL – DESTROY – THIS – STUPID – FEL-DAMNED – THING!” Liaena screamed in pure fury as she was dragged after the satchel like one of those manic cat-toys. “KITTY!”

“Sigh”

The other apprentice waved a hand at the satchel, and it suddenly once again dropped to the floor as a lifeless receptacle of baggage once more. Liaena now found herself tangled up with what remained of a table before the Night Elves had apparently used it as a bed the night before. It was slightly sticky to touch as she fought her way out of it with much accompanied crashes and snarling. “Light, I am so sick of this stupid thing. Why will it not just sit down, and shut up, and accept that we’ve won. I swear, I am just going to destroy it…”

“Don’t do that” Kathlin said in a long suffering tone as she looked down at the satchel, and it suddenly bobbed into the air before them. The thing was behaving distinctly erratically, as it kept doing short darts forward every few seconds, before each time the girl waved a hand over it and it went limp again. “You can’t exactly begrudge people for not knowing when to quit, Li”

“Hmph. Well, I’m better at it” Liaena scowled, before looking over at Aleena and Sharon. The former was looking slightly discomforted from being caught out in her rather overt seduction attempts – apparently, attempting to shove the entire squad in ones but was fair game, but to stray outside the fold? Sacrilege.

Not that she wasn’t entirely in agreement with Lithrielle, but for somewhat different motives…

“Keep that up, would you?” Liaena commanded Kathlin in a much quieter tone, as she grabbed the shoulder sling of the satchel and started to trail it carefully towards Aleena. The two elves seemed to be mostly preoccupied by themselves – and Sharon – to notice Liaena as she snooped up behind, and quietly looped the sling around some convenient leather ties that held Aleena’s quiver to her back – and then tied a knot in it. Meanwhile, Kathlin was giving her a look that could have frozen hell over as she smirked back, and then stepped away to trail around and enter into the conversation. “Hey Sharon? What’s going on?”

Throwing her arms around the High Elf, Liaena gave Aleena an incredibly butter-wouldn’t-melt smile as she gave Sharon an extremely possessive tug away from the Night Elves. “Weren’t we going to talk to Captain Serphia now? Are those two coming with us, or something?”

"LIEUTENANT SENTINEL FALERE!"

“No, no….I was just talking to the Queldorei, that’s all” Aleena muttered as she took a half step after Sharon as the pair backed away, before frowning as she felt something bobbing behind her, before reaching back. “Wha…”
“MWAHAHAHAH! YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD CONTAIN ME!”
-THUD-

AHHHHH!

*CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH*

“I think you’re warming up to her”

Kathlin said in her driest tone as the pair, plus Sharon, plus Silje beat a hasty retreat towards the stairs. Liaena meanwhile shrugged indifferently. “Eh. I just make the best of the tools I have. And she’s a tool”

“So. I guess we’re going to help Vashi and the Draenei then” Kathlin remarked lightly as she stepped up the stairs. Liaena gave her a sour look, before lighting back into a smirk again as she studied the chaos downstairs. Apparently, it was quite hard to remove the quiver from her shoulders – for some reason, it was built to last.
“Eh. Fine. If Sharon’s up for it”

Serphia's face was a mix of anger, impatience and even confusion as she looked at Mei, the Draenei suddenly facepalming to the sounds of the ruckus going on downstairs.

The Captain furrowed a brow at the Draenei for a moment, wondering if things truly could have gone out of hands downstairs. Or at least more than usual! Taking a moment, Serphia would perk up with one ear as she listened to the chaos downstairs, identifying the individual sounds.

The sounds of relentless brawling? Nothing out of the ordinary. Check!
Screaming Sentinels? Nothing out of the ordinary. Check!
The crashing noise of furniture being broken? Nothing out of the ordinary. Check!

The distinct sound of a pint sized voice, belonging to none of her sentinels, and cackling with maddening glee? ... that was not ordinary.

"Don't tell me they accidentally summoned an Imp or something!" Serphia grumbled to herself as her eyes passed over to Vashi and Mei. With a sigh, she'd clench her big, purple butt one last time, giving Rithrynn a last good shove, before she took a step forward.

"Alright, we will go investigate this death knight problem of yours, Draenei!" Serphia said, sounding none too thrilled about the prospect at all. Placing one hand behind Mei's back and the other behind Vashi's, the Captain started ushering them forward without asking down through the corridor as they headed towards the stairs.
"But if this is some kind of joke, Draenei, or if this turns out to be a false alarm - I WILL throw you out the nearest window!"

Serphia said as a warning to Mei, her silvery eyes burning like hellish torches as she threw the creature a deathly glare!

Mei would not be given much of a chance to respond however, when ahead of them, Serphia could already see the familiar party of Sharon, Liaena, Kathlin and another, still unknown girl, just as they came walking up the stairs.

The very fact that Sharon and Liaena had ever ventured down from the relative safety of the second floor, and down into elf-territory at the first floor, obviously meant that something was going on.

And probably something they didn't want to tell her...

"Quel'Dorei, Sharon! His consort!" Serphia called out to them as they saw her in return, alongside Vashi and Mei. However, neither of the two parties would be able to exchange much further words, before a rythmic series of crashes, followed by Aleena's screams, would soon reach them from behind!

*Thud!*
*Thud!*
*Thud!*
*Thud!*

"AAAAHHHHH! GET THIS CURSED THING OFF OF ME!!"

Aleena screamed as she was being dragged up the stairs behind Sharon and the party by the possessed satchel currently towing her along, using the word 'curse' perhaps in a more literal sense! Following right behind her where at least four other sentinels; consisting of Lithrielle running first, a second Lelili, Naliyah behind her and a rather shrunk disheveled and shrunk Luci currently stuck in Naliyah's cleavage; that came charging up the steps to try to help the most unfortunate Aleena!

Lithrielle had unsheathed a dagger as she lunged past Aleena towards the bag, only for Aleena to frantically wave her arms.

"NO-NO! THAT'S THE BAG OF THE MIDGET WITCH! IT COULD EXPLODE!!" Aleena shouted out through her constant battering against the steps until they reached the top, where the party of elves followed Aleena as the satchel pulled her behind Sharon and Liaena, past them into a wall, crashing; reoriented itself, and then shot into a door on the right, pulling a squirming Aleena with it; and quickly luring the other sentinels with it into the room as well!

Serphia, simply gazing at the sight that had just taken place behind Liaena and Sharon with a look of disbelief, slowly gazed back at the group; her gaze now lingering on Sharon and Liaena, but perhaps weighing more down on the black haired human female...

" ... you may begin by explaining who's satchel that is... " Serphia began slowly, her icy voice almost being as intimidating as the deep and expectant glare she was now casting towards Sharon's group, as the Captain came to rest her hands on her hips impatiently!

“Eh. Fine. If Sharon’s up for it”

"We probably should anyway... " Sharon muttered as he thought over the matter. Knowing what he did about Serphia and how receptive she was to her supposed allies, let alone to strangers, it might be a good idea to present themselves as backup for Mei.

Hopefully the Draenei would do fine on her own. Hopefully. Yet he knew too much to be an optimist around the Captain.

Yet when they finally found the Captain, the ensuing chaos that followed them from downstairs left Sharon dumbstruck for a moment. Gazing ahead at the trail left behind by Aleena and the rest of the Night Elves trying to rescue her, the High Elf quietly shook his head to the sound of a vase being knocked over and promptly crushed to fine dust in the room that the Night Elves had went into, before he leaned in towards Liaena to mutter quietly to her.

"I appreciate the assist, but are you really sure that was the best idea?" He asked, though fully aware that Serphia, what with her elven hearing, might very well be able to overhear even their quiet conversation!

"I think, Captain Serphia... " Sharon eventually started, throwing an uncertain look towards the Captain, and then back at the room into which Aleena and the other elves had gone. The sounds of chaos and destruction emanated clearly from the open door, and Sharon felt his stomach turn at the thought of the price tag of that little shenanigan.
" ... that the problem is in the most able bodied hands."

Sharon finished, trying his best to avoid sounding sarcastic.

He had a nagging idea that it would be bad to try to lie about the satchel or who it belonged to. He had a lingering suspicion that Serphia already knew, and lying to a power-mad officer was probably one of the worse ideas. No, perhaps it might help to play her megalomaniac side with some flattery.

Hopefully Liaena and Kathlin were thinking the same...

Noticing Mei walking next to Serphia, Sharon threw a smile as he looked over at the towering Draenei; the only other figure in the corridor that stood head to head with the already towering figure of the 8ft tall Night Elven Captain. Giving Mei a motion with his hand, a gesture of acknowledgement, the High Elf called out to her.

"I presume your mission is going as planned, Mei?"

“Of course, I never expected anything less in case my call for you was under needless reasons, but sadly what’s happening downstairs is beyond that and requires attention of the one who rules the warband in this mansion.” Meirie stated with sure and confident voice, but her statement was barely heard through the sudden loud noises.

“That’s what happens when you shrink a death knight and then put her in a satchel… I think.” Mei replied to Serphia, her eyes focused on the satchel as if it was her pray and she was a predator.” After the battle in the study room, we beat her in the basement after destroying everything in our path.” Mei explained.” Well she got away and got captured and then got away… almost managed to drag one of your sentinels in her schemes and then we got her again and I see now she’s on the rampage again…” The berserker quickly explained without getting into too many details for those weren’t needed.

“Ahhh master Sharon, indeed it’s going quite fine, but…” She stated throwing him a slightly angry look.” For second time I leave her in your care to deal with for just a while and she goes on a rampage once more… HOW HARD IS TO KEEP ONE DEATH KNIGHT UNCONCIOUS AND UNDER CONTROL AFTER WE ALREADY BEAT HER TO UNCONCIOUS ONCE!?” She asked with agitated voice.” Do I need to cut away all her limbs?” She asked, rubbing her temples.

“So yeah, that’s our problems, Captain Serphia. You sentinels are currently a mess without direct chain of command controlling them, we have a rogue death knight trying to kill Master Sharon and Liaena, and every time I take my eyes of said death knight, she gets out and starts causing troubles again.” The berserker added.” I’d have killed her right away, but it seems she has vital info we need to extract and what’s more I need to bring her to justice before the draenei emissaries in Stormwind after that.”

“HOW HARD IS TO KEEP ONE DEATH KNIGHT UNCONCIOUS AND UNDER CONTROL AFTER WE ALREADY BEAT HER TO UNCONCIOUS ONCE!?”

“I never realised it before, but this Draenei and I may actually be…kindred spirits. Move over Vashi. Sorry Sharon”
Liaena rubbed a hand against her temple as she tried to locate the best way to articulate herself to a very bad-tempered Serphia. Not for the first time, her body was informing her she had been awake for over 48 hours and counting. “Your sentinel bravely volunteered to take down the crazy Death Knight. A true warrior – not to mention it’s her job, being employed as Sharon’s bodyguard and all”

Kathlin glanced her way, raising an eyebrow slightly as an obvious non-verbal communication. “That wasn’t your most tactful”

“Shut up”

“So yeah. It’s very gracious of you to come and assist, Captain. I hope she didn’t disturb you in the middle of anything” Liaena finished in a relatively consolatory tone, gesturing at Mei to indicate the ‘she’. “This Death Knight is….hard to put down. Apparently”

“At this point, if Serphia does end up going for her, that Death Knight probably will end up destroyed. Which I would be okay with frankly”

“They are going to go out of a window eventually” Kathlin observed, listening to the crashes and screams that was going on inside the room – a sitting room, if Liaena remembered correctly. The dark haired girl frowned as she threw Kathlin a quick glance. “…Fair point. We should probably avoid—“

*CRASH*

“AIIIIIIEEE!”

“ALLIE!”

“—That”

Faced with a stare from both Kathlin and Serphia, Liaena coughed slightly with a light shrug of her shoulders. “Your sentinel –is very dedicated. A true credit to her squad”

"ARE YOU OKAY, ALI?!"

"GRH-GNUH-URKK!"

To the chaotic sounds of the sentinels in the guestroom right over, Serphia's eyes narrowed visibly as a great sense of disappointment turned into that of a fuming, boiling rage deep down. And the one who would find herself most in the Captain's insidious, silvery gaze would be none other than the would-be-diplomatic Liaena.

Even Rithrynn; trapped firmly within the Captain's voluptuous behind; seemed to have calmed down for the moment, presumably from the fact she was probably cringing after having overheard Liaena.

"As if the High Elf's own diplomatic attempts weren't insufferable enough!"

Rubbing her brows in just a moment where she simply took in all the ineptitude, incompetence and sheer mediocrity that was currently surrounding her, she would suddenly call out!

"Move aside!" Serphia exclaimed as she suddenly started to march forward without a warning, pushing Sharon and Liaena aside(almost tossing the latter one up into the air), as she marched towards the guest room!
"What is the point of having a full warband and supposed allies if you always end up having to do things yourself?!"

She growled as she headed towards the now broken window of the guest room, wher the other sentinels, minus Aleena, were huddled around the frame and currently looking down.

"Hold on, Aleena, you'll be,-"

"Out of my way!"

Lithrielle, Lelili and Naliyah were all thrown back and aside by the Captain as she walked up to the window to look down herself. Glaring down and out of the window, she could see Aleena, currently stuck in one of the branches of a tree some ten feet below. And not far below her, seemingly pulling against her cloak with an unnatural weight or force would be midget witch's bag of potions. Aleena was making weird gurgling noises while grabbing the collar of her belt, which had somehow gotten around her throat and was in the process of strangling her from the pull of the satchel!

With a sigh, Serphia would reach over to Lithrielle's hip as the Sentinel was getting back on her feet; snatch her dagger, and then toss it out the window, arching it a deadly spin past Aleena; who's face at this point had gained a very dark shade of purple; and right into the leather strap of her quiver!

"MWHAHAHAHAA! I AM FREE, FOOLS!"

With a sharp snap, the bag fell to the ground of the garden, where it immediately began to shuffle its way erratically through the baroque bushes; with the occasional multi-colored potion falling out from it and breaking, either blowing up a bush or leaving a pool of rainbow colored acid on the ground to sear through the grass.
Aleena, in the meanwhile, laying back first on the branch and gasping for air, would stare back up at her savior in the window, Serphia, while trying to construe a sentence between the gasps for air.

"T-than-kss, miisthresh! *Gasp* sor-rry, misstressh!"

Aleena called out to Serphia, whilst in the background, the satchel reached the edge of the garden perimeter and jumped over the wall, to disappear over on the other side.

Ignoring the mess stuck in the tree below that was Sentinel Aleena, Serphia would turn around to Vashi and point at the satchel just as it went over the wall.

"Vashi, destroy it. Low blast." Serphia said in a quick, strict order. Vashi, seemingly passing out of her confusion to take on a much more orderly pose, would step up to the window and point her staff outside.

"Understood, mistress!"

With some quick words of enchantment, two brilliantly colored white darts would suddenly shoot out from the tip of Vashi's staff, to swivel elegantly if not somewhat erratically through the air as they were homing in on their target, before the two magic missiles disappeared behind the other side of the wall where Malizia and the satchel had just gone earlier.

There was an awkward silence, punctuated only by two faint plopping sounds to begin with, until...

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*
*CRASH*

The lighting in the entire street would for a moment change as a gargantuan, multi-colored explosion appeared from the other side of the wall from the remaining potions being destroyed, rising 40ft up into the air as it demolished the walls and windows of the nearest houses in a terrifying, deafening and yet also very pretty explosion that featured all the colors of the rainbow!

Vashi, Lelili, Lithrielle and Naliyah(as well as the tiny Luci in her cleavage) were all staring out the window with wide eyes, their jaws dropping to the floor at the huge explosion. Aleena dared a careful look up and behind her, to see the colorful bits of debris as it was thrown high into the dark air by the explosion that inspired a brief look of awe in Aleena's face.

"Awwh.. sooo prettehh... "

Serphia, on the other hand, merely turned away from the explosion to look back at the group. Dusting off her hands, her eyes would eventually fall on Mei.

"I'm afraid your death knight may be unable to face justice due to reasons involving premature disintegration... "

When he saw Vashi raise her staff to fire, Sharon would raise his hand as well, as if to say "I think you shouldn't do that... "

However, before the High Elf had barely said "I think you shouldn't... ", Vashi had already fired off her magic missiles, and Sharon watched in silent horror as they slowly dazzled down from the sky... and hit the satchel.

The ensuing explosion did, like it did to many of the surrounding buildings, also succeed fantastically in destroying any facade of calmness or tranquility that Sharon may have been sporting. Seeing the magical cloud of colorful smoke rise up into the air, Sharon's jaw were just as deep into the floor as that of the rest of the sentinels in the room.

It took a couple of seconds of pure astonishment before the High Elf's brain finally managed to make sense of things, and he turned to Serphia with a frantic look on his face.

"YOU JUST BLEW UP THE WHOLE STREET!!" Sharon exclaimed, pointing out the window and his eyes wide with disbelief as he said so!
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, WOMAN?! NO, I SHOULD RATHER SAY; WERE YOU EVEN THINKING AT ALL?!"

Sharon called out to Serphia, this time not holding anything back, or even attempting to be diplomatic!

Deep down, his brain knew the poor idea of inspiring the Captain's ire, but after the recent show she had put on, any concern for that had been placed well in the back when it cames to things that currently worried him.

Quickly looking out the window, Sharon was relieved to see that most of the surrounding buildings had only taken surface damage from the looks of it, featuring charred fronts and walls with some broken windows. He couldn't see anyone injured or dead, or at least from his limited view.

"Dear light, how did it ever come to this... " Sharon leaned against the window, moving his hands through his hair and eventually peering out at the carnage from through his fingers.

Fortunately the potion fires from Liaena's satchel had quickly burnt out, and all in all, the damage had looked more impressive than it truly was. That still did not change the fact that at the very least, even if no one had been seriously injured, they had just shell-shocked an entire street, and caused countless of golds worth of material damage!

Sharon cringed as he stared at the scene, halfway expecting some bizarre after-effect of the potions to manifest in some acidic raincloud that would set itself over all of Stormwind, a demonic portal, or a now-turned-giant Malizia rising out of the yellow smoke!

"How could this get any worse?!"

“Vashi wai…t…” Meirie was about to try to stop the night elven mage, but it was already too late. The magic fired off… moments later the explosions happened. Bright flashes in all colors and deafening thunderous explosions sounded in the air as, Mei stood there not too far from the window, everything outside clearly reflecting into her almost stunned eyes.

That had just happened… they blew it all up… not just Melizia… the area all around… houses damaged, street damaged…. Pure destruction. How long has it been since she had seen such destruction in civilized places? She had no idea… her mind refused to work at this moment. Her subconscious refusing to believe someone could just go ahead and do something that destructive.

There was no need for Serphia to remind her that the death knight was vaporized in that. There was no way someone can just survive such explosions plus the magic attack, especially in tiny form Melizia was.

Mei stood there frozen, still watching the colorful vapors outside vanish slowly as the captain had turned to her, explaining the death knight’s fate. She was dead so that was a fine thing, but…

“…” She tried to say something, but no words came out of her mouth. Then she just sighed, before in the next moment… *SLAP* A loud slapping sound could be heard from Mei’s direction. She had just did an epic facepalm, lacking any other proper reaction and reply to the situation.

“I think… I need a drink…” Mei finally said, throwing a look at Liaena. The look was strange. It was a mixture of: “I feel your pain” and “ Is it like this all the time?” kind of look.

“Alright… yeah I need a drink…” She reaffirmed her realization and looked back at Liaena, wondering if the human just felt like she had to walk away on this chaos sometimes. Mei had just met these people and everything was going insane around them.

“Can someone please detox the captain…I'm pretty sure some people would be glad for that...” Mei finally asked, rubbing her temples.

“….”

It was an established and well known fact that it took a considerable amount to render Liaena speechless, and large explosions were normally something that rendered her relatively complacent – after all, she was normally the source. In this instance however, the girl had nothing witty to add to the situation as she studied the multicoloured cloud dismally. “….That…was the last of my stock”

“Oh dear” Kathlin murmured, also staring at the destruction Her comment was entirely lost in the noises of Sharon raging at Serphia, but Liaena soon became aware of the other girl tugging on her sleeve persistently. “Li. Li. We need to go and help. Wake up, Li”

“Last. Of my stock. Needed two weeks fermentation”
Liaena muttered, tone turning increasingly into a snarl as Kathlin towed her out of the room and down the main staircase. Serphia didn’t seem to bothered with their departure, most of her attention being taken up by a furious Sharon “Well. Maybe you shouldn’t have introduced your stock to a Death Knight and tied it to a Night Elf then”

“I. Hate. Night. Elves.”

“Yes, yes” Kathlin tossed over her shoulder as she broke into a run though the atrium, out of the door/rug and down the path. Exiting through the gate was more than easy to achieve, given the gate was now a pile of twisted metal. “Hello? Is anyone hurt? Is everyone okay!?”

“Aaaggh!” a shrill cry met the pair, who turned to look. A woman had appeared at a pair of completely shattered windows. She looked entirely unhurt, if a little windswept, but stared at them with eyes of madness. “My curtains! My beautiful curtains!”

“I’m sorry Ma’am, we can’t provide treatment for curtains” Kathlin responded as Liaena stared blankly down the street. Thankfully, it did appear that there had only been damage to property and the street. Nobody appeared to have been hurt, which was a small miracle given that it was around eleven on a weekend. The bad weather of late had presumably counted for something – either that or Sharon’s house had already become known as a no-go zone, which made a lot of sense considering past events. “I need to leave this house, Kitty. Before I, or those Night Elves, destroy each other”

“Hmm…” Kathlin said, cocking a head to one side as she looked back at her. “You’ll have a hard time destroying them without potions”

“not helping”

“Sorry”

….

“Well…let’s go back inside, before the city guard show up and try arrest you for this” the taller girl said finally, taking her fuming colleague by the arm to tug her towards the house again. “And talk to Mister Dal’dieb, and make a plan, or something. I’m surprised you’re so mad, Li. Didn’t you do this yourself during Winters Veil 617?”

“again not helping”

“Again sorry”

Serphia simply met the wave of complaints from Sharon with an unimpressed frown as she stared back down at the High Elf with a cold glare.

Under normal circumstances, Serphia would never have tolerated such impudence from a fallen creature like as a High Elf. But, given the High Elf's own great stress, and the quite so literally explosive circumstances surrounding them, there was perhaps a part of Serphia that almost felt sorry for him.

Perhaps because of the luxurious sheets he had installed in every guest room.

Glancing to the side, Serphia could see the other sentinels; at least those whom had managed to recover from the near shell shock; starting to tense. Lithrielle and Lelili were throwing anxious looks between Serphia and Sharon. Though they said nothing, it was clear they were asking her whether they should apprehend the "rampaging & insolent High Elf". Even Naliyah had inched slightly closer to Sharon, her hand twitching as she considered putting it in front of the High Elf's mouth for his own good.

Serphia, however, merely dismissed them with the gesture as she watched the High Elf step over to the window.

"Perhaps don't leave midgets in charge of producing explosives." She mentioned as she lifted her silvery eyes slightly to gaze through the window at the colorful cloud in the distance, before she turned around and headed out of the room; walking past Mei without saying a word.

"As the threat has been eliminated, I will take my leave. You may thank me later."

*

Sentinel Aleena, still stuck in the tree, was slowly but surely trying to balance herself on the too-small branch in the aftermath of the explosion.

"This was not my fault. Not my fault. No matter what anyone says, I'll not take the blame for this one!"

Aleena thought to herself as she was preparing for her climb down the tree. Given its tall-by-human-standards-but-short-by-real-nelf-standards, and her own grace, getting down would be the simple matter of a jump or two. Making a mental note of strangling whoever tried to pin the potion disaster on her, and moving one foot over to the nearest branch, her left ear would suddenly twitch as she heard the cry of a nearby townswoman.

"DEMON! AAAAAHHHHHH"

Her brows furrowing into an annoyed frown, Aleena sneered.

"Gah... I am not a demon, I am a proud Keldore... i?" Aleena was about to turn around to chastise whatever foolish and ignorant human it was that had confused her for a demon, when she gazed back, noticed the slightly middle aged woman staring towards the center of the explosion, and then the strange, horned shadow moving about in the colorful smoke from the epicenter of the explosion.

"Huh? What is... THAT?!"

Aleena immediately backed away when she noticed the large shadow within the colorful smoke suddenly move, almost falling down from the tree in the process if she hadn't been able to grab the two nearby branches!
Behind her, staring now out the window, Lelili, Vashi, Naliyah, Luci and Lithrielle were all staring wide eyed past Aleena in the tree and over to the large and still rising colorful smoke, as the horned shadow rose through the rainbow smoke and emerged from it!

Aleena found herself jaw dropping as she stared directly up ahead at the now massive creature looming over them, a creature that was none other than a massive, gigantic Draenei; Malizia, that now loomed over the entire street. And the Draenei looked just as confused, if not disoriented, as she looked around; the Death Knight's eyes eventually falling on the mansion which by now was just as big... as her.

...

*

"MISTRESS! MISTRESS!"
"ELUNE, HELP US!"

As Serphia was walking down the corridor to head back to her room, a muscle in her forehead twitched as she heard the clamoring from Lithrielle and Lelili back down the corridor she had just come from.

Letting out an annoyed sigh, she threw up a hand without looking back!

"Goddess, I just solved one problem. You can solve the next one!" She roared back through the hallway, before staring forward with a defeated look on her face.
"All I wanted was just some peace... "

She said as she passed over the balcony overlooking the atrium, shaking her head.

"I'm surrounded by idiots and imbeciles."

Sharon, with his face covered by his hand, raised one finger to gaze through; before promptly closing it again. He then moved his other finger, gazing again with his left eye this time, and promptly did the same; letting out a deep sigh as he pressed his palm against his face.

"Nnnnaaaw... naaaaaww.... naaaaawww!" He groaned, in truly mental anguish, before he threw his hand away from his face and held out his arms as he stood in the window between the four Night Elves, before shouting out up at the now towering figure of the massive, ebony skinned Draenei now looming over the house like a shadow of the past come to haunt them, and shouted out;

"WHY?!"

"QUILL AND VELUM! NOW!" Sharon called out as he turned around and ushered his way past the already retreating Night Elves as he headed back towards the main corridor.

By then, his trusty butler, Frederick, had already appeared with a freshly dipped quil in one hand and a blank piece of velum in the other, standing ready.

"You called, sir?" He asked with his usual dry tone, raising a slight eyebrow as the other Night Elves fled past them, and the voice of a frightened Aleena squeaked from outside the window.

"I want a letter written to Specialist Alissah of the Purifier Order. I have a favor to ask, in return for a favor... or two." Sharon explained as he walked through the mansion with his butler in tow. Frederick had already acknowledged and was almost done with the formal introduction of the letter, his hand with the quill zooming across the once blank velum with such a dashing speed, it was as if the elder man possessed some kind of superhuman speed.

"You may have to be more specific. You know how the members of the order are." Frederick remarked dryly.

"Tell her I need to cover up some evidence... in essence, the gigantic explosion that occurred outside of our house is in no way related to either me, my staff, or my... guests."

Frederick simply nodded as he continued writing, before he raised one eye up from the letter to look at Sharon.

"And what about our big guest outside?"

"She is... part of the new problem. Perhaps it is best we keep it vague and simply inform her when Alissah arrives."

"Do you wish me to escort our guest off the perimeter?" Frederick asked in his usual courtly voice. Sharon paused to throw him a momentary look of disbelief, before shaking his head.

"No, I don't think she's in quite such a talkative mood."

Sharon reasoned, before he suddenly noticed Liaena and Kathlin as they were heading back into the house. Liaena looked mad enough, alright, but not quite enough alarmed to give any indication that she truly knew what was going on on the other side of the house.

The High Elf's initial smile of seeing his loved one quickly faded into that of a frown as he came closer, as he looked down at Liaena with a slightly hurried look.

"Liaena... your bag did not contain any growth potions, did it?" Sharon asked, his crystal blue eyes shifting between the two girls. In the back, Frederick let out a sigh as he shrugged his shoulders, as if he had seen a similar episode to this a million times before.

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"My head... owh... owhhhh... " Malizia muttered with a pained breath, as she rubbed her template with one hand as she tried to get back on her feet.

She had been trapped in total darkness, toying with her powers to the agony of the fools that had dared capture her, when suddenly a blinding yellow flash had come before her. The breath had been knocked out of her, and she opened her eyes to gaze groggily about.

"This was not the plan, no no, not at... huuh... I thought the Mage Tower was bigger than that."

Raising an eyebrow in confusion as she gazed out across the rooftops, Malizia studied the distant mage tower that now looked much smaller than she had last seen it! With a curious gesture and a 'hummh', she looked around, to spot the large mansion of the High Elf, Sharon Dal'Dieb. Except that now, it wasn't so big. No, more along the lines of a big doll house. And all around her, she saw similarly small houses.

She felt bigger, and heavier, and when the realization suddenly struck her, the Draenei's dark blue lips would break into a massive grin as she gazed down at the mansion, and the odd Night Elf, Aleena, still stuck in the tree just outside.

"Now THIS opens up possibilities, it does... !"

It took a few moments for Meirie to realize that there was also something else inside the smoke out there. Something was casting giant shadows through it as a giant figure appeared into the smoke. She blinked a few times, recognizing the basic outline.

“ARE YOU BLOODY KIDDING ME!” Mei suddenly shouted as she closed her eyes. When she opened them, a burning rage could be seen within. She had enough of this blasted death knight. Melizia was dying right now!

“Give me those!” She suddenly roared, pulling two daggers from the sentinels around her and a sword. She threw them a warning glare not to try to stop her for this time she was really going to throw them over her knee and spank them till they had trouble walking and no amount of being drunk was going to safe them.

“Will be back soon…”She replied, bit the sword blade in the middle for a good grip while she held the two daggers in her arms.

Following that, she made a mad dash towards the nearby stairs leading up to the final floors. The entire thing took her like 20 seconds tops with the speed she ran.

She finally made her way to the roof and onto the roof tiles. She could see the giant Melizia, grinning to herself. She liked it, but well MEI DIDN’T!

“I’VE HAD ENOUGH WHITH THESE BLASTED DEATHKNIGHTS IN THIS BLASTED CITY!” She roared, her sentence quite impossible to understand as she had still a sword clenched between her teeth.

Next moment in a surge of berserker rage, she dashed forward and jumped, straight out the edge of the roof onto the side of Melizia’s leg. Her twin daggers pierced sideways, allowing her to stay hanging on it on the moving giant Melizia. Next moment she quickly started making her way up, still piercing the giant’s skin with the daggers, climbing up and around fast to avoid the death knight’s hands while also surely causing a lot of pain in the mean time.

‘For Naaru’s sake, I’ve wrestled abominations… this is nothing!’ She thought, suddenly turning her head right, so she slashes a big cut across Melizia’s leg with the sword held in her teeth. Mei was already half way up Melizia’s hip!

“Liaena…your bag did not contain any growth potions, did it?”

“…Maybe..?” Liaena shrugged tiredly, before giving Sharon a quizzical look. “Why?”

“Now THIS opens up possibilities, it does!”

The booming voice from outside vibrated through the entire room. This was followed immediately by a series of crashing noises that shook the room, causing the occupants to duck, and maniacal laughter. Judging from the splintering sounds, Malizia was trying to pull the roof off.

“I think she’s trying to pull the roof off”

“Really, you think!?” Liaena snarled as she braced herself against a wall, before catching Sharon’s eye. “How big?”

“Er. Well, do you remember that demon…?”

“Light damn it….fel cursed Night Elves. I am going to shove Serphia so far up that wretched creatures ass, she’ll come out of its mouth. That’s a two for the price of one…” Liaena growled, the little girl’s skin pink with anger as she devolved into inconsequential mutterings. Kathlin shot an extremely worried look at the ceiling, as another sprinkling of plaster reigned down on them.

“Li, do you have an antidote?”

“….Maybe!?” Liaena snapped back at her, before looking about wildly. “So my supplies have exploded – twice – I’m running on reserves here! There might be something down in the lab – did you expect there to be a catalogue or something!?”

“…could you make some?”

“Sure, just give me a few hours! Sharon’ll still have a house by then, right?”

“Liaena!”

Sharon had cut himself into the rapidly building argument to give his girlfriend a pleading look. “sweetheart, even if there might be something – could you please check?”

*CRASH*

This noise really did shake the house, sending the four in the room onto the floor as it distinctly sounded as though most of the rafters and tiles had come clean off. Liaena scrambled to her feet, stabbing a finger at Kathlin as she turned towards the corridor to the cellars. “Okay – okay – Kitty, go with the Night Elves and stall her, would you!? I’ll be back asap!”

“Uh, sure, Li” Kathlin muttered as the former went haring down the corridors, before turning to look at Sharon and shrugging her shoulders slightly. “I’ll follow you, Mister Dal’dieb”

"Owwwh!"

Malizia, having for a moment been too consumed by her own happy little(or rather giant) rampage to notice the little impudent whelp, would soon let out a sharp sound as Meirie slashed across her hips with her tiny daggers! However, the sound was not as much of pain as it was that of offense, as Malizia turned to look over her shoulder and down at the impudent little thing that had dared try to disturb her rampage, which was in the form of a persistent Mei clinging to her lower body!

"Well, it seems the appetizer has arrived... !" Malizia muttered beneath a wide, evil grin as the giantess suddenly spun into action!

Swinging her large(both relatively and actually speaking!) hips, she would slam the side with Meirie on into the side of the mansion; a loud crash as stones and timber were loosened from the side of the house!

Finishing her spin, now facing away from the house, Malizia would bent over and reach down with both of her hands towards a ruffled looking Meirie; the smaller draenei still somehow managing to cling onto her; as she aimed to surround and catch the smaller Draenei with her open hands!

"Got'cha!" Malizia exclaimed, already prophesying her own triumph!

"DIE, FIEND!" Suddenly sounded the valiant; slightly hysterical; shout from behind Malizia from the mansion, as Sentinel Aleena had succeeded in climbing back up onto the nearest balcony from the tree; and upon witnessing the epic fight that she was totally missing out on; had thrown herself straight at an unsuspecting, gigantic death knight that was currently bent over and up until now; completely unaware of the incoming Aleena as she flew towards her from the rear!

Aleena had prided herself on her reputation for doing crazy things, be it sending her blade into the skull of a large demonic guard from a 30ft drop from above, or be the first to brave a shroud of curses, and so Aleena had made up her mind NOT to be outdone by a simple Draenei! I, e Meirie!

Especially not when Lithrielle was watching her from the nearby window, a rather mortified look on Lithrielle's face as she had just paused nocking her arrow; as Lithrielle was gazing at the leaping Aleena with wide eyes!

At the sight of Liaena hurrying down the corridors, and her 'little helper' Kathlin, looking up at him; Sharon would let out a sigh.

As he could hear the entire structure creak and tremble all around him, let closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and counted to four...

1...
2...

"Well, it seems the appetizer has arrived... !"

3...

"DIE, FIEND!"

4...

Opening his eyes once more, Sharon felt a certain degree of stability had returned to his mind. Although there was currently a Death Knight right outside of his house, wildly out of proportions, and chaos was ensuing all around him, he had at least managed to avoid panicking.

At least so far.

"If we do not find a solution to this mess anytime really soon... I dare not think of the results."

"Mister Friedrick!"

"Yes, Master Dal'dieb?" His butler, Friedrick, replied in with his usual calm, professional and disaffected tone; his older face neutral and almost seemingly bored, despite the utter chaos going on around them. Leave it to Friedrick to stay calm even if it was the end of the world, his professional pride and all!

"Fetch me mine mana crystals!" Sharon called out, raising his hand; and Friedrick had already vanished, hurriedly trailing down the nearby corridor! Despite his injured leg, the man moved with a brisk pace enough to outrun even a healthy lad!

Turning to Kathlin, Sharon smiled.

"Tell me, what do you know about teleportation?" He asked with a suggestive tone, his previous worry seemingly having given way to a slight smirk as he motioned for the apprentice to follow him back up to his sanctum.

“NOT ENOUGH!” The berserker roared as she clung to the gaint’s body as the giant leg was pulled away from the wall. It sure hurt like hell, but it didn’t cause any real damages to her body. Besides the fact she dropped the sword she had bit on.” Still enough to take you down!” She roared as two giant hands clasped at her.

Suddenly Mei picked up on the shouting of another who also appeared to be storming the giant Melizia. Well wasn’t this just a peachy party? The berserker roared suddenly as her muscles flexed, her entire body surging with rage.

Suddenly in a violent display she pushed away from Melizia’s hands and made a mad climb up, using the daggers to pull up at each stab.

“ROOOOOOOOOOOOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!” Mei let out a loud berserker roar as she suddenly jumped forward making a curve around the deathknight’s body, using one of the dagger to slash a big cut all the way from Melizia’s side to the base of her tail.

She then pierced both the daggers around Melizia’s backbone and started the mad climb up again.

There was no way Meirie was going to let herself be outdone by a bratty night elf that failed to stop Melizia when she was palm sized… NO BLOODY WAY! She then suddenly just pulled her weight down, to do a big slash around Mel’s backbone.