[IC] "Shadows of the Past", a Warcraft Roleplay

[Feychild]

Liaena shot Sharon an ‘are you kidding me’ look as she turned to look up at the Draenei that very effectively loomed over her like a mountain. A very unfriendly looking mountain.

“And here was me thinking we had beaten her already. Ho hum.”
“Sooo….they would really like it if you didn’t hurt anyone”

Liaena said as she jerked her thumb over her shoulder at Kathlin and Silje. There was a painful pause from the girls behind her, before Kathlin finally got the memo: “Oh. Yes. Right! Don’t hurt anyone please”

“Not to denigrate your seduction prowess but….you might be coming on a little strong for them” Liaena stood on her tip toes to pseudo-whisper at the draenei. Behind her, Silje was still looking at Malizia as if the human was a little bird and the draenei was a hungry lion. Kathlin was watching Liaena with a ‘I hope you know what you’re doing’ expression on her face. “humans can be very sensitive about this…it’s important to treat them carefully, you know? Watch:”

“How about we all calm down and go get a drink or something?”

Liaena enquired at normal volume to the room at large. Kathlin gave her a long stare before slowly nodding her head in acquiescence. “Sure….sounds good”

“A drink?” Silje quavered, looking as though Liaena had just suggested they strip off naked and dance in the square.

Liaena turned her back on Malizia to approach the younger girl with a warm, motherly smile and a slight pat on the shoulder (the pair were about the same height). “Sure. Maybe something to eat as well, if you’ve got the stomach for it? You must have been running around all night at this point”

“B-but…what about….her!?”
Silje stuttered, staring past Liaena and Kathlin at the hulking Malizia. Liaena merely placed an arm around the little girl comfortingly, and also to steer her effortlessly towards the stairs. Kathlin glanced around the room briefly, raised her eyes heavenward and trailed after. “It’s okay. She and I have an understanding…..and she’s not going to do anything else to scare you. Right?” (this last was directed at Malizia).

[Rithy]

Vashi would giggle at the comment, staring over at Mei with a funny smile.

"You're already more humble than the rest of my warband combined." She said with an amused tone, before tilting her head playfully to the side as she looked up at the big Draenei next to her.
"Not that it is really such a great achievement in and of itself, now that I think of it... but it doesn't make it any less of a good thing!"

The Night Elf mage chuckled as she walked together with Mei down towards the nearest stairs to find the atrium and the mage. She did not know the High Elf Mage of this house much, but in what limited interaction she had had with him, he did appear like an okay guy! The patience with which he had dealt with the rest of her warband was something to be admired.

Perking one ear up as she listened to the banging from upstairs, presumably from the nightsaber wanting to get out, Vashi would peer back up at Mei.

"And don't worry, the best way to get them to accept newcomers is to just show that you're friend with their boss!"

*

Naliyah was initially taken by surprise when the High Elf mage wanted to drag her off to talk with her, being one of the last kind of people in the house the Night Elf would have expected to take interest in her!

Listening to the High Elf's little speech whilst partly resting on top of his head with her chest, Naliyah would quickly form a frown as she cast a quick glance back at Malizia standing behind them.

"But... are you really sure she is a paragon of evil?" Naliyah asked, her ears perking up as she glanced between Malizia as the Death Knight was standing there, eying Liaena and the rest of the girls with a wicked grin, and then back down at the High Elf who at that point was doing his best not to face palm.

"I mean... well, she may be big and bad, but that describes mistress too!" Naliyah argued, trying her best to think of an argument in favor of Malizia.
"Like, she offered us to team up! Team up! Like, how often is it that you get a big Draenei like that, offering to help out. I think she has some potential that we really shouldn't waste!" Naliyah said as she turned towards the High Elf, grabbing him with both of her arms as she beamed down at him with an enthusiastic smile on her face!

"The Draenei seems already have made good friends with the human girls, and she and Sentinel Luci are practically inseparable!"

Naliyah exclaimed with a big smile, just as across the atrium, at the stairs, where Liaena and Silje were heading. Coming walking down would be Vashi and Mei. Vashi would be the first one to raise an eyebrow when she saw the atrium, initially smiling when she saw Liaena and Silje, but then frowning slightly as she saw Malizia just stand about in the open of the atrium.

"Uhhm... " Vashi paused as she was taken slightly aback by the sight, before prodding Mei in the side as she motioned towards Malizia with one hand.
"Isn't that that Ryuuna girl you just beat up earlier?"

[Sinerathin]

Sharon let out a big sigh in return as he listened to the pink haired Night Elf's defense of the Draenei.

" ... is she drunk? Or High?"

There was a pause in which the High Elf moved his head to the side so that he could get a clearer look up at Naliyah for a moment, just to look at her and study her expression. Alas, despite his suspicions, there was no sign of Naliyah being either drunk or high, at least not to any significant degree.

Instead, it seemed like the source of her weird behaviors was just... well, just Naliyah being Naliyah.

"Look, Naliyah, we don't bed the agents of evil, we... " Sharon started, only to pause for a moment as he rethought his words.

"I mean... we do not team up with the agents of evil, no matter how good or ´sweet´their promise may be! This Draenei, this Death Knight, she is only going to seek to manipulate you! If you follow her, you may never get to see Rithrynn! It is... "

As Sharon was leaning a little bit backwards whilst talking to Naliyah, he could not help but get a glimpse past the pink haired Night Elf only to see Vashi and Meirie as the two of them were just walking down the stairs towards the atrium, only to then notice Malizia standing in the room!

"Oh shii... time for damage control!"

"Naliyah, let's discuss this later! Just... go play with the rest of your sentinels in the meantime!" Sharon then quickly urged Naliyah as he began to push her towards the nearby living room, giving her a slap on one big buttock before he turned about to look at Meirie and Vashi as they were walking down.

Malizia, in the meantime, had also noticed the two newcomers, as her eyes immediately darted over to Vashi and Meirie, but more particularly, the latter, giving the other Draenei a smirk when she saw her and muttered:

"Nice to see you again, sister... "

[rivaan]

As Meirie and Vashi walked down the stairs and eventually came across the sight of Melizia in the room, Mei halted her movement for a moment. Her eyes locked on the death knight as the eyes of a predator upon pray. Still she did not burst into rage from the get go. Her gaze remained somewhat calm, which was due the fact she was no under the influence of alcohol at the moment.” That she is…” The draenei replied to Vashi and started walking down again.

Mei noticed that the high elf quickly evacuated a night elf from the area. His expression said it all, he was trying to protect his home from the incredibly likely devastation that awaited it, considering that Melizia was still alive.

“Despite my greatest wishes, you are still crawling around like an insect that just refuses to die... sister” The berserker said, noting the death knight’s words and even giving them the sarcastic ‘sister’ at the end.

“Master Sharon, I see you’ve avoided my warnings to dispose of this abomination when the chance was clearly present.” Meirie said with a police voice and way fo speaking, addressing the mage with formalities.” Lucky for you, eh… Ryu… no, Melizia. Was that not your new name?”

“That said, you have my thanks for the unexpected hospitality after the earlier battle, Master Sharon.” The draenei said with a slight bow.” Again, I would like to express my urgency to deal with Melizia while we have the chance. She’s too dangerous of a being to be left alive…” Mei stated, throwing a glance at the death knight. Despite her burning desire to squash the head of the death knight and tear her to pieces, in the berserker’s mind she could still remember the Ryuuna from way before the problems with the orcs even started. Such a pity, sadly that woman died long, long ago.” Too bad, I’ve left your master’s blade back at Exodar. Would have made a fine way to execute you for all of your crimes.” The berserker stated, returning her gaze at the high elf.

“She is a criminal, already sentenced to death even before she turned into this…” Mei said to Sharon.” If I have to, I will turn to the draenei delegation here in Stormwind and make this a political matter…”

[Feychild]

” If I have to, I will turn to the draenei delegation here in Stormwind and make this a political matter…”

“….”

Malizia, who had previously been snatching coy glances at Silje and Kathlin, turned aggressively on Mei at this, who was still visibly heavily bandaged from her previous confrontation with the Death Knight. A sneer twisted her face as she studied the latter. “A delegation. Really sister. How did you even survive your first millennia?”

“Do not mock me, Ryunna. You lost this fight, remember?”

“…And besides, she has new loyalties now!”
Liaena attempted to cut in at this point, with a winning smile and a gesture towards Silje and Kathlin with a ‘speak up!’ expression on her face. Her non-verbalised plea was met with the dumb silence of horror from Silje and a raised eyebrow from Kathlin. “I don’t know. This draenei delegation sound like lovely people”

"Thanks, Kitty. Real helpful"

“Oh, is it a rematch you are looking for? Without hiding behind that trollop, maybe?” Malizia sneered, clenching her fists. A gesture towards Vashi made it evident as to exactly who the trollop was that she was referring to, as she gave Kathlin and Silje a quick glance and smile. “Wait for me, my doves, this won’t take long”

“Must I put you down again, sister…”

“…well, I think…”

“Only if you get in my way, sister”

“…that…”

….

Realising she was now being completely ignored in favour of squaring up against Mei, with all the rest of her attention being diverted towards Kathlin and Silje, Liaena stopped talking. A moment passed – before she produced her dart gun out of one pocket, loaded it and shot Malizia in the back at point blank range.

“Whhhuuu…..YOU!”

Swinging around in a dazed rage, Malizia lunged out with a huge fist at Liaena – only to plink against a shimmering golden shield that had appeared hastily out of nowhere. The draenei stared, before turning to look at Kathlin with eyes of pained betrayal as Liaena reloaded her dart gun. “My dove…why!?”

*fwit*

Whhhhyyyy……zzzzzz

*crunch*

“Okay. That's it. I’m done” Liaena said loudly into the silence that followed. Glaring daggers at Mei, the tiny girl poked Malizia on the floor with a foot. “Go on then. Take her. Take her to your Draenei delegation, or whatever, and don’t forget to mention she works for the White Hand. Also, get out, and stop getting in my way when I’m trying to do important things like you know….interrogate somebody. I don’t have the patience for her, or you”

[Rithy]

"I don’t have the patience for her, or you”

"CAPTURE TEH INTRUDER!"

"DON'T LET THE TENTACLE FACE GET AWAY!!"

"CHAARGE"

"Ohhh, hai, sisters. Are you so happy to see,-"

*THUNK*

"Owwhh!"

Liaena would barely have a chance to finish her sentence before the combined warcry of at least a dozen armed and semi-armored Night Elven sentinels suddenly came surging out from the door to the living room as they stormed out into the atrium, armed with viciously sharp elven swords, bows, spears and glaives! Naliyah, who had been in the process of leaving, was promptly knocked down by the incoming wave before she had barely even been able to say "hello", and stepped on as they charged on past! Valia and Lelili were running ahead, and judging by how they were yelling the loudest: they were probably the ones in command of the charge as well!

Most of them looked as if they had been drunk, naked and half-awake when they had been rushed to their battle gear on short notice when the alarm had been sounded - which was very likely the case with most of them! The only ones who seemed sober and properly in uniform (by Night Elf standards) were three black cloaked Watchers who were with them.

"WHERE IS THE INTRUDER?!" Sounded the almost unanimous cries of at least three different sentinels as they rapidly scanned the room with their silvery eyes from beneath their helmets, eying everything with utmost suspicion!

As they rumbled into the room, there would be an awkward pause as they gazed out across the current situation. The first thing that caught their attention was the large, slumbering Draenei Death Knight that was currently lying on the carpet in the middle of the atrium, with her face on the floor and big butt wriggling happily about in the air as she slept beautifully, lost in her own dreams. Moving on from the obvious sight(and obviously the least threatening sight), they then flashed over to the familiar Sharon, then the always-suspicious Liaena, the nondescript and totally unimportant looking Kathlin and Silje, and finally, over at Vashi, and; standing next to her, the only person matching the description of a big, fighty Draenei that could escape - as opposed to the one currently sleeping...

2 + ? = 4

...

"GET AWAY FROM THE FIEND, VASHI!"
"SURRENDER, TENTACLE-FACE!"
"YOU ARE SURROUNDED!"
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO LUCI?!"
"SHUFFLE A TENTACLE AND YOU'RE A PIN-CUSHION!"
"ASH FELADORA O´RIN TA(YOU'RE DEAD, BITCH!)"
"THOUGHT YOU COULD ESCAPE?!"

Within the blink of an eye, at least a dozen shiny weapons had been pointed at Mei before she could even say "parley", as a line of battle-hungry Night Elves were glaring down at her!

Vashi, struck by a moment of confusion by all this, would shortly realize what was going on as she stepped out in front of Mei, doing the best she could to block the big Draenei as she raised her arms! Although Vashi was a big, 7ft Night Elf, Mei was an even bigger, 8ft+ Draenei Warrior, which did make hiding her a little bit harder!

"NO! Wait! Sisters! You have the wrong Draenei! She is not the escapee!" Vashi called out to the line of over-zealous and impatient looking Night Elves that were currently enroaching on them!
"PLEASE! DON'T KILL MY ONLY FRIEND!"

[Sinerathin]

Sharon let out a looong sigh.

It was one partially of relief, as Liaena had indeed succeeded in subduing the very dangerous Draenei Death Knight, with a little help on the sideline from Kathlin.
On the other hand, it was also partially one of disappointment, as the Night Elves had now come to the rescue like the cavalry they were, always too loud and usually too late to the fight.

And the fact that they now were confusing the Good Draenei with the Bad Draenei, aka; Mei with Malizia; did not make it any better.

"PLEASE! DON'T KILL MY ONLY FRIEND!"

Looking at the situation with an exhausted look, Sharon would instead gaze over at Liaena as he placed an arm over her shoulders and held her closer.

"You did good, my dear." He smiled down at her as he gave her a kiss on the cheek, before he turned to look towards the mess ahead, or more particularly; the Night Elves.
"I don't know how they even come up with this shit... "

As much as he would have enjoyed watching Liaena sort the entire problem out by setting her dart gun on full auto and letting it rip, the High Elf found himself questioning the practicability of such an idea; and so, with the nod of a man whom may not like it but knew it had to be done; he took one step towards the crowd.

"Let's at least try to limit the friendly fire as to avoid our new friend getting murderized on the first day at the house... "

"She's right, girls! She's right!" Sharon announced loudly as well as he raised his one hand and staff as he walked over to the stairs, brushing through the crowd of Night Elves that had gathered as he moved to stand with Vashi in front of Mei, being then the shortest of the three and facing down the crowd of trigger happy Night Elves.

... which was actually a lot more scarier than you'd think when you were standing right in front of them!

"Sentinel Vashi is right! The Draenei standing with me is a friend. She is not the perpetrator who tried to rob me, steal my house, kill me, kill those I loved, and generally ruin everything I care about. The REAL perpetrator is the one lying on the floor over there... " Sharon said, pointing narrowly at the sleeping body of Malizia currently lying on the floor.
"Let me confirm to you that the danger has passed, and I thank you for showing up... even though you were late."

Sharon peered out across the crowd of Night Elves, and noticed a distinct lack of a big, angry Serphia kicking her Sentinels about. The lack of a leadership element did not make dealing with her warband any easier.

"Light forbid I'd ever actually miss Captain Serphia!"

Turning to Mei, Sharon would quirk a smile as he looked up at the Draenei.

"Don't worry, this happens all the time around here. Normally we manage to avoid the friendly fire part... normally."

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The arrival of the Night Elves had done little to dissuade Silje's level of concern. Whilst she had initially been hiding on the side of Kathlin furthest away from Malizia, the young girl now found herself rotating slightly as to put Kathlin between herself and the now pack of Night Elves that were crowding the autrium!

"Dear light, sweet mercy, there's so many of them!" Whispered a terrified Silje into Kathlin's ears as she looked at the literal firing line the Night Elves had formed in front of Mei the Draenei.

"What do they want from her? Are they going to kill her?! Should we be running?!?"

Silje continued to whisper into Kathlin's ears as the eyes were glued to the sight in front of them while she used the aforementioned girl as a combined makeshift cover and hiding. Her old boss may have been down for the count, but the fact that the atrium was now filled with the very same elves who's house she had participated in invading did not sit well with the girl!

"I... I think we will be able to escape if we run as soon as they start killing everyone!"

[rivaan]

“I don’t really get what’s your problem, human.” Mei stated with calm voice.” It’s only natural I request her to die… she’s a criminal of the highest degree among my people.” The draenei declared, looking at the incapacitated death knight on the ground.’ At last… now my friends can finally have peace and perhaps even Ryuuna herself.’ The berserker thought as she was just about to lean over to snap the other draenei’s neck to make sure the death knight dies. The body can always be returned later. Important thing was to not have any other problems in the meantime… well problems appeared right away.

As the night elves burst into the room, apparently searching for the intruder, Meirie couldn’t help but notice the state of these so called sentinels. Besides a few that seemed sober, the rest were about to fall over at the slightest push. Her eyes now had a rather serious look about them, she was sizing up all the warriors present. She had the look of a stern trainer who was judging if his apprentices were ready for a test.

As Vashi and the mage tried to defuse the situation, Mei sighted, giving the night elves a stern look.” Your bravery and dedication is commendable to move about even in that condition.” She stated, nodding at Sharon.” Still I’m not the enemy you need to concern yourselves with, sentinels. Take care of your comrades before they start falling about the place and maybe hurt themselves on their own weapons.” She said to the few sober ones.

“Thank you for the concern, master Sharon.” The draenei berserker said with a grateful nod.” But with their current state and with the absence of their warleader, I fear the few sober ones will be the only match I would have had.” She stated with stern voice, her years as a warrior trainer showing up.” Though they do have skills to be able to even move in that condition, most wouldn’t be able to walk, let alone move around to that degree in that state. Sentinels are truly as impressive as I remember from my time in Ashenvale.” The berserker added, giving the night elves some face to try and defuse the growing hostility.

[Feychild]

“They’re not going to start killing everyone…” Kathlin said consolingly as she tried to sooth the frightened girl. The priestess turned to look at her other human companion, who was giving the scene a rather calculating look. “Because that would be bad, right, Li?”

“If they all killed each other, it would actually solve an awful lot of my problems…”

“Right Li?”

“What? Oh, uhh….yes, of course. We couldn’t have that” Liaena grumbled, before devoting slightly more of her attention to the proceedings. “…now now. Play nicely. And who or what is Luci?”

“Uhm, I think she’s one of the Night Elves from earlier” Kathlin said. The girl’s face took on an expression of slight embarrassment as she extended a foot to give Malizia’s hindquarters a gentle poke with a cough. “She got a bit….um, stuck”

“Fine. Fine. The doctor is in”

Liaena produced rather a long pair of tongs from out of a pocket, then stepped forward to roll Malizia over. Given how scantily clad the Draenei was, it was not difficult to access ‘certain areas’. After a few moments of probing, the girl brightened up moments before she withdrew a thing that was, while normally bluish purple, currently bright red in the face from screaming. “—THIS INSTANT! I WILL DESTROY YOU! VILE PURPLE DEMON THING! YOU…whuuuuu the sun, it’s bright…”

“There you go, have some proof it was this things fault. Not the other one. And take your sister, she smells” Liaena informed one of the Night Elves that had just stepped into the room. The Night Elf in question looked completely discombobulated by the sudden retrieval of Luci, before her glowing red eyes of anger blended seamlessly back to silver as she started to titter with laughter. “Ahhhahaha! Luci! You’ve found a friend!”

“I HAVE NOT, you, you –stupid face! Get out of here!”

“It looks like you got into somewhere, tihihihiii!”

“I was attacked---! WE ARE NOT A THING, HER AND ME!”

“Crisis averted? Maybe” Liaena grunted at Kathlin, who merely gave her a smile in response. The girl’s eyes moved around to settle on Mei, then narrowed. “If you hack them off again, you’re on your own though”

[Rithy]

Rows upon silver eyes that had previously been glaring at Mei like daggers, ready to pounce at any moment; would instead be turned around to gaze at the odd sight of a peculiar human priestess; Liaena; as she was probing the enlarged hindquarters of the unconscious Malizia.

After the "evidence", also known as Sentinel Luci, had been handed over to the nearest Sentinel by Liaena, there was a moment of confusion in the room, before some of the nearest ones started to chuckle once they realized where Luci had been!

A few of the Night Elves cast disappointed looks over at Mei, as if they had just missed out on a promising fight.

"NOO! It's not what it looks like... I WAS TRYING TO DESTROY THE INTRUDER!" Luci cried out ever so furiously, to the combined laughter and giggling of her surrounding sentinels; all the while pulling in her own purple hair!

"Ohhhhh, sure you were! We all know the best way to take down a big bootied Draenei is from behind, right?
"Heh, I bet you wouldn't mind staying for a bit longer, eh Luci?!"

"GgggggrrOOOWWLLL!!! I HATE YOU GUYS!" Luci growled as she sat in the open palm of the sentinel holding her, the tiny elf fuming with a rage that currently dwarfed anything else in the room!

Luci glared back over at Liaena for a moment with a hard look. On one hand, she was happy she had been saved from the inexorable depths of Malizia's oversized butt. On the other hand, being stuck in said depths almost beat the rediciule that had been awaiting her on the outside!

"Elune, fuck my life... "

"D'aaaawww, what's wrong, Luci? Are you unhappy?"

That voice...

Luci's eyes shot wide open. She had not paid any attention as to which Sentinel was holding her, but as she carefully turned around from where she sat to glance back up at her face, she noticed Naliyah big, happy face looming over her as the pink haired Sentinel gave her a sly wink!

...

" ... help ... "

*

Over at the other side of the room, Vashi beamed up at Sharon and Mei, appearing excited to see the danger pass as her sisters everywhere turned their weapons away and began to return to their posts... although most would be returning to their drinks!

"We did it!" Vashi exclaimed, before noticing the glances being passed between Liaena and Mei. Placing a reassuring hand on both of them, she instead smiled.

"If she ever acts up again, I promise I'll turn her into a sheep before she can get into any real trouble!" Vashi said with a cheerful tone as she gave Mei a reassuring smile!

[Sinerathin]

As the Night Elves that had just crowded the room started to disperse, and the row of weapons that had once been pointed at him, Mei and Vashi were finally lowered, Sharon let out a quiet sigh of relief.

"I'm not sure if I should even be thankful the ´security´ showed up in the first place at all!"

As some of the elves were returning to their drinks, and Sentinel Luci had succeeded in becoming the main center of attention for the rest of the Night Elves in the room; however much so to said Sentinel's dismay; Sharon turned to the group that had formed close to to him, eying Vashi with a bit of an amused smile.

"It's quite a harmless spell, most of the time." Sharon commented to Mei as he gauged the Draenei's reaction to Vashi's promise about turning her into a sheep to prevent trouble, a promise that Sharon knew would be sufficient to frighten most commoners!

Quietly listening to one of Luci's protests in the background, Sharon turned around to look over at Liaena with a smile.

"We should probably go and find Rithrynn, or at the very least Captain Serphia. I have a feeling we're going to need them for what we're going to do next." Sharon explained, before passing a look between Mei and Liaena.
"And I will go deal with the Draenei. I fear with the current attention of the Night Elves, she might very well be able to simply get up and walk straight out the front door without anyone noticing!"

Sharon said as he motioned towards the big bump in the middle of the floor that was Malizia currently sleeping away, looking a little less dreamy now, presumably because one of her favourite elves had been taken from her.

The High Elf knew they could not keep the Death Knight around. Problems abound by her mere presence, and the sooner they could get her sent away, incarcerated, or fly her off to the Draenei embassy; the better. He could not see any use for her, and Liaena's patience with any interrogation attempt seemed to have worn off completely from what he could tell!
Shaking his head, Sharon would glance back at Malizia, only to notice two half-dressed Sentinels as they were currently using the curves of the big, unconscious Draenei as a soft couch to sit on - seemingly testing Malizia out as some potential new furniture!

*Sigh*

[rivaan]

Meirie tried to not pay any attention to what was going on with Meiliza and the noisy human girl from earlier. That one was interesting, so tiny and yet such voice. Well at the end of the day it really wasn’t all that unique though she hadn’t seen it in a while. Humans being the shortlived and determined race, individuals like that appeared in frequent enough numbers. They made for great companions and horrifying enemies. Especially if they handled potions and from what the berserker gathered this Liaena girl was well versed in potions. She had witnessed a potion hatchel being dropped along with all the potions in it… the result were… fiery.

“We did indeed, Vashi.” The draenei berserker said with a nod at the night elven mage’s joy. Mei gave a small smile and a nod, before throwing a glance at the human girl, giving her a thankful nod also.

“If she acts up again, she won’t get the chance to cause any trouble… or to even make a sound before I snap her neck…” The berserker stated. Bringing the death knight to justice with trial and execution was going to be a grand thing, but considering she was working for someone and from the vague clues she got, that someone must be of substantial power and influence.

“Actually can’t we keep her in a sheep state?” Mei suddenly asked the magic users by her side.” It would be good… she won’t be able to use her magics, won’t be able to really rampage and frankly her allies won’t really recognize her while I escort her to the delegation.”

“Right… their captain? I know where she is…” Meirie stated, making a mental recall of her movement since she was summoned by Vashi.” I’m pretty sure they are where we left them… where, the captain got hit by friendly fire from a certain potion… yeah. You two stay behind me when we approach. Can’t be sure what might fly our way once we open that door and disturb the influenced captain.”

[Feychild]

“Weren’t we just going to give her to the city watch?” Liaena enquired, giving Malizia a look of distaste. The girl looked none too thrilled about the prospect of potentially not booting the Death Knight out of the door post haste; given she evidently concurred whole-heartedly with Sharon about Night-Elven competence levels. The last thing that was required was for Malizia to start yet another rampage of destruction.

It had been a long day.

“That sounds like quite a good idea, actually” Kathlin agreed amicably in response to Mei’s sheep-question. The second young woman of the trio appeared considerably less aggravated with the situation than her shorter colleague as she gave the Draenei a light smile. “Would you like me to accompany you? I need to help Silje give a statement anyway”

“Uhhh…what?” Silje stuttered at this. The girl looked caught between conflicting emotions: the joy of finally leaving the (mad)house and the fear of what awaited her on the outside. “They’ll arrest me!”

“Of course they won’t….”
“yeah, they might”

Kathlin exhaled slightly as she gave Liaena a very pointed look of ‘you’re not helping’ over Silje’s shoulder. “You were used like a pawn. They’re not going to arrest you. But you should give a statement. You’re a witness of all of this”

“Uh-huhmmm….” Silje said nervously, not looking entirely on board with all of this. Kathlin frowned slightly, studying the Draenei at their feet again. “Alternatively…we could just call the guard in. That would save us shifting her across the city. But your household is crazy and might attack them. What do you think?” (This was aimed at Sharon)

Liaena meanwhile had been distracted by Mei and the talk of disturbing Serphia at her…play. The young woman merely quirked an eyebrow at the Draenei. “....Why not. After you then”

[Rithy]

“Actually can’t we keep her in a sheep state?”

“That sounds like quite a good idea, actually”

"Uhhh... " Vashi paused for a moment as she gazed back at the enthusiasm that had suddenly gathered around the whole sheep idea, considering how she was going to respond.

"I could polymorph her into a sheep... "

!!

" ... but, it has a duration of only 1 minute, which means I would basically have to constantly recast and reapply the spell for the whole trip! Which I think might garner just as much attention from the townspeople, if not more!"

Vashi frowned a bit, but not because she found the suggestion of non-magic-initiates as foolish, but rather, because she had to break their bubble and the enthusiasm that seemed to have gathered around the idea!

She could probably also have warned them about the increasing risk of a miscast and accident by repeated spellcasts, not to mention a general rise in arcane instability, establishment of an inert flux field, addition to a magical chaos flow, and all the obvious health risks that accompanied such variables, but she felt there was no need for an overkill in the explanation.

Looking at Meirie and Kathlin, she wondered if any of them even knew what multiplicative surge theory was.

Stepping behind Mei and next to Liaena as they were about to head upstairs to find the Captain, Vashi looked up and responded to her concern about potentially encountering flying objects from the Captain.

"Don't worry, Sentinel Lithrielle is the best shot in the warband. Mistress's forte has always been up close and personal, being a bit medicore at range by Night Elf standards... but don't tell her I said that!"

[Sinerathin]

"I think there are limits, even to Night Elven stupidity... " Sharon muttered with a thoughtful expression, throwing a wary look over at the Night Elves to the room to make sure none of them heard that comment.

Fortunately, the Sentinels seemed too preoccupied by making fun of Luci, and watching the interaction between Luci and a very interested Naliyah.

"The main question is how much we can trust the city guard." Sharon replied as he turned to look at Liaena, becoming aware of the all-too-obvious desire to get rid of Malizia as soon as possible. A desire that was understandable, but one that Sharon also realized was one that they couldn't hurry. If they did it wrong and Malizia simply got away, then what would they do?

"If she manages to escape, it would hardly make the situation any better. I doubt she would let herself be caught so easily the next time." The High Elf said as he walked over to where Malizia lay on the ground, motioning for the two Night Elves sitting on top of her to move away as he knelt down next to the sleeping Draenei to poke at her.

He knew he had made plenty of jabs at the Night Elves and their general level of competence when it came to matters of urban security and prisoners in general, but at the same time, Sharon had to admit that his trust in the City Guard was shaky as well.

If they had been doing their job, he wouldn't have to deal with these constant house invasions, let alone have to hire a warband of Night Elves!

"I'm going to make a petition to the Burgmeister for a reevaluation of the City Guard once this is over!"

"I think it is best if we take her with us ourselves. While it would be risky, we would at least be there to see her locked up chains." Sharon reasoned as he looked back up at Liaena.
"It is the surest way to confine her, unless you want to just shrink her and have her exchange place with Rithrynn."

[rivaan]

"Well polymorph out of the question then... doesn't matter. If we have to, we will shrink her and tine her up so much she resembles a ball of rope if we must." Meirie mentioned to Vashi's statement about hte duration of the magic transformation." Main points are to shut her mouth and not give her the ability to muster any physical or magical strenght. We keep her unconcious or something similar and we should be alright."

"Chop her limbs then. Death knights do not bleed, but she also cannot really walk or do anything really without those. It should be a sufficient working plan." Mei stated before she slowly started to climb the stairs up. She knew exactly where the captain and the other sentinel were supposed to be. She also had noted the sentinel captain's strenght.

"Vashi... I'm not worried about precise targeting." The berserker replied as they reached the floor where Serphia and Rithrynn were." What I'm more worried is something big and heavy hurled in this direction. Sure I can take the hit and probably block a table let's say, but if any of you is even touched by something like that, it won't be pretty." She stated slowly leading the way towards the room they needed.

"The body is capable of producing incredibly amounts of power under the right stimuli.... like my rage for example. Overwhelming lust or love should be similar." The berserker stated.

When they were finally at the door, she made a gesture for hte others to move more behind her in some light distance, before she knocked on the door." Honored captain of the sentinels in this mansion, we need to talk." She stated, loud enough to be heard inside.

[Feychild]

“Chop her limbs then. Death Knights do not bleed, but she also cannot do anything without those. It would be a sufficient working plan”

“Uhm…I think that would count as ‘torture’” Kathlin said cautiously after the Bezerker, who had now gone to start slowly climbing the stairs in a Serphia based direction. “Which isn’t really allowed”

“What are these things you call ‘human rights’? This house disbelieves in their existence!” Liaena drawled, before crouching down next to Malizia’s head. “Fine, whatever, I’m going to shrink her. Kitty, do you think you can stop her if she lets rip with any spells?”

“Some magic, maybe. I’m not good with curses” Kathlin cautioned, before throwing a glance after Mei and Vashi. “Li, weren’t you going to help them with Serphia?”

“….So put it this way: if Serphia gets kill-happy with that Draenei, she can just leave. No harm done” Liaena commented after a pause. Producing a potion, she inserted the neck into Malizia’s mouth and upended it. “If I get stuck between a Serphia that wants me dead, and a Sherpa that wants me dead? Slightly more of a problem. And I’m going to need to do a brew, I’m not made of potions, yeesh”

“She did help us fight the Death Knight”

“Granted! Buuut….if she’s going to stay here, I can’t endlessly babysit her. And if I’m not endlessly babysitting her, she needs to learn how not to piss off Night Elves with her existence” Liaena retorted with some finality in her tone. Malizia having shrunken to the size of a very very small Draenei, the girl straightened up holding her between finger and thumb, produced her now rather grubby tin with air holes and dropped her inside. “Call it a baptism by fire, if you will”

“I seem to recall those not being much fun….” Kathlin murmured, as she gave Liaena a distinctly hard look. “….and she’s also trying to help Rithrynn. Who is your friend”

“—Who has left me in equally embarrassing situations for a extended period any number of times. Quit nagging me!”

“….”

“….”

“Well, the Death Knight still needs to go” Kathlin concluded quietly after a long pause. Glancing around, she briefly caught Sharons eye. “It’d probably be better if you didn’t come with us, Mister Dal’dieb. You being August Personage with a price on your head and everything”

[Rithy]

"No mistress, you have it all wrong! This is not you! You have been confused!" Rithrynn called out, struggling as she was against the insides of Captain Serphia's unnecessarily large bubble butt, but to little avail.

"I am SO gonna kill Liaena for this... !"

Rithrynn thought in her mind, having no doubts about the involvement of Liaena in the Captain's very recent and very surprising affection for her! Surely this was just one of her petty pranks, now directed at her!

She made a mental note that once she got out, the first thing she would do was to strangle that potion-abusing midget!

"LET. ME. GO!" Rithrynn grimaced, as she threw a violent tantrum against the fleshy walls, causing a great commotion in Serphia's rear!

Serphia was lying on her bed in the private guestroom, the large Night Elven Captain lying with her face and chest pressed down against the bed, while her great thighs and big butt was pushed high up in the air in turn; all done to make the "journey" as convenient as possible for Rithrynn.

At the surge of movement from the tiny sentinel now deep within her butt, Serphia let out a long moan of satisfaction.

"Ohhh, Rithrynn, that's perfect... perfect!"

She had no idea why, but for some reason, Rithrynn was just so incredibly adorable, and she felt so good! Even somehow better so than Falere! She did not know why, but frankly, in this moment of pure ecstasy, she didn't much care either!

*BONK*
*BONK*
*BONK*

"Honored captain of the sentinels in this mansion, we need to talk."

"Mmmmffghh.... I'm busy, go away.... aaaahhh!" Serphia called back at the door, slightly annoyed by whoever it was that was trying to ruin her fun.

Closing her silver eyes, she instead focused on the frantically wriggling little sentinel of Rithrynn in her butt, before she climbed halfway out of bed with her arms, opened her mouth, and let out a moan of pure joy as the big, well trained Captain engaged her every muscle to push and send Rithrynn sliding in a near free-fall deep down into her butt!

As she did, a faint, almost inaudible scream of pure rage could almost be heard from the room, muttering something about a series of elven curses and "li".

*

Standing on the outside of the door to Serphia's room, a few feet behind Mei, Vashi was watching the whole interaction with a degree of caution; fully expecting the door to suddenly blow off its hinges and fly into Mei's face any moment now.

Throwing the Draenei a questioning look, Vashi finally opened her lips to ask.

"Are you sure we should be interrupting the Captain in her private moment?" She asked, throwing an uncertain look towards the door, and then back at Mei.

*

Back in the atrium, a Sentinel would suddenly push her way past Liaena to make her way towards Sharon; nonchalantly almost knocking the smaller human over.

"Do not worry, lesser monkey!" Sentinel Aleena spoke out proudly as she walked over to the High Elf, Sharon; standing over him before throwing a look back at Kathlin.
"He will be safe under the protection of the warriors of the night!"

She proclaimed, smiling confidently down at Kathlin, before suddenly turning over to Sharon, grabbing him by the side of his cloak, and suddenly bending over down towards him; with that result that Liaena was promptly pushed back by the Sentinel's big butt!

Lowering herself down to eye level with Sharon, Aleena gave him a smirk as she spoke in a slightly more hushed, private tone.

"You know, about your brother... he DID break my sword. I was thinking you might help... well, you know, seeing as you are family and all; cover for it! It was a really good sword!"

...

"And we are almost running out of wine too, I think."

[Sinerathin]

Sharon cast a glance towards Kathlin's voice of concern, before he smiled at her.

"Sure I may be the VIP target here, but that doesn't make the lives of those around me any less valuable." He said, giving Kathlin a consoling nod as he studied the expression of the girl, although her mention of his personage made him furrow one brow; for whatever such a saying could entail for their upcoming adventure.
"At the very least, perhaps you should bring a Night Elf or two with you. For all their flaws, they do their body guard job rather well... "

Speaking of Night Elves, there was one coming right towards him.

Eying Aleena as she marched forward like an unstoppable juggernaut, casually brushing Liaena aside as if she was but a leaf in the path of a brewing storm, she stepped up to him and leaned in down to him, before starting to complain; first about her sword, and then about the wine.

"Ahem... "

Sharon coughed, eying Aleena as if he wasn't really sure where she was going with it all, or what her intentions truly were.
He studied her expression. Was she really going to complain about his evil brother destroying her favourite toy, or was there something else she was trying to say?

Admittedly, given the intelligence and subtlety displayed so far by the Night Elves, it was difficult to say...

"First of all... " Sharon started, assuming as much of a diplomatic posture as he could with Aleena's face literally looming over his.
"I am not responsible for any actions of my brother. He is a free man, and anything he does, he does out of his own free will, on his own accord. As are his actions his own, so well as the responsibility of those actions. Now, I will not pretend to be an expert in Night Elven tradition, but in the tradition of both Humans and High Elves, the blame of a son or brother does not extend itself to the rest of the family."

Sharon said, constantly eying Aleena's expression throughout the whole talk, trying to gauge whether he was about to step on a verbal landmine or something.

"As for the wine... are we truly empty? I thought I had enough to last a dwarven army through the month." He said, trying to sound surprised. Though in all honesty, he was not surprised at all that the wine storage was empty, for he had full well seen and witnessed the partying of the elves.

Light save his wallet... this elven protection was expensive.

Smiling, he placed one hand on Aleena's shoulder, moving it slightly behind her head.

"Besides, I do not think any sword made here in Stormwind could ever truly match the skill of a Keldorei smith... "

All the while, the tin in Liaena's hands that was holding Malizia moved slightly as the Draenei seemed to be waking up, slowly. There was a moment of silent, before it suddenly began to shake again.

"What foul trickery is this?!" Suddenly sounded Malizia's voice from the tin, just before it started to shake violently.
"You are a fool if you think this mortal prison can hold me!"

Without a warning, almost as if some invisible hands had grabbed the tin can, it shot straight up in Liaena's hands to smack her right in the lower face; as if fired by a rubber band.

"This feeble box can never contain my great power! BEHOLD!"

And without a warning, the tin flew back up again, giving Liaena another smack square in the face.

Sharon heard the commotion coming from behind Aleena, but with the big Sentinel currently looming over him, it was impossible for him to tell what was actually going on behind Aleena with Liaena, the smaller girl hidden away by the purple obstacle in his path.

However, stuck as he was in the negotiations with Aleena, he continued to smile up at her; firm in the belief that whatever it was, Liaena would be able to solve it herself.

[rivaan]

“Well.. this has to happen one way or another.” Mei stated at Vashi’s question. Serphia had to be snapped out of the potion soon. The warband without it’s leader appeared a complete mess and it was her responsibility to keep them both in line and in operational duty both of which they were not at present.

“Captain Serphia of the night elves, since when has a kaldorei officer, abandons her own unit during times of emergency in order to satisfy desires caused by a love potion?” Mei replied, hitting the door once more with her knuckles.” Your people are out of control, enemy target almost twice caused a great danger to the person you should be protecting!”

“We have an enemy death knight who’s bound to cause troubles again unless she’s dealt with right away… There are going to be times for pleasure later. I’ve heard and seen a lot better of the kaldorei warbands… have it all been a lie?” She asked, obviously trying to irk Serphia into taking any action whatsoever.

“Vashi it may be a potion, but even potions are magical effects almost all the time. If you have any cleansing or debuffing magics avaible be ready to use them, we may be able to snap your captain out of it if she doesn’t realize what’s happening.” Still the draenei hoped the woman’s sense of duty and pride, clears up some of the love haze caused by the potion. At least enough for now.