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Dawn of the Dragon	By : RotSeele Category: +S through Z > World of Warcraft Views: 3875 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Five
Karidormi soared down into the Caverns of Time and landed lightly on the sandy floor. She assumed her smaller form and made her way toward the back of the cave, toward a long path that would have a time portal at the end. She'd spent a great deal of time - probably more than she should have - trying to convince Kalec to let her into the Nexus and access the great archives of knowledge stored there. Of course, Kalecgos, Aspect of the Blue Dragonflight, had continuously refuted her requests, and eventually ignored her altogether, forcibly removing her from the Nexus. That left her final choice the Caverns of Time, where she hoped to glean some answers and formulate a plan to save Go’el and Azeroth.
Though Nozdormu had lost his powers, the Caverns still retained theirs. The magic here was beyond the bronze dragons' ken, and so they still decided to watch over the place, even though few people journeyed here anymore. Still, there were some adventurers who showed up to head into a timeway, either to relive some event or obtain some item otherwise unobtainable in the normal flow of time. So, several bronze dragons made this place their home, and watched over the different paths, perhaps to make sure no one tried to use the Caverns for evil or perhaps because the dragons just didn't want to interact with anything but each other.
Karidormi wended her way toward the timeway that would take her into the past. It was the timeway that took adventurers as far back as the War of the Ancients. She hoped that she could use the timeway not to see the events of the past, but to see if she could find a connection between the power of the Earth Warder and the corruption plaguing Go’el.
She stepped into the swirling portal and felt her body twisted this way and that as time flowed around her, taking her close enough to the exact point in the past where she wanted to be.
The portal dropped her into a battle.
Karidormi gasped and ducked under a swing from a felguard's cleaving blade. She spun, a spell already in her hand. She brushed her fingers against the felguard's forearm as she passed, and in a few short minutes, the demon froze. The expression on his face was one of surprise, and that look soon became horror as his body started to wrinkle and shrivel, years of his life sucked away in an instant. Karidormi quickly scrambled for cover, hurrying into a copse of trees and huddling under a dense collection of bushes. This was not what she had expected. She'd been dropped into a battle she'd never heard of before! She could see the Burning Legion and the armies of the night elves. She didn't see anyone she recognized from the stories, not did she see any dragons. Had she really landed where she wanted to be?
A shadow suddenly engulfed the field. Both the demons and night elves scattered, trying to seek cover. A moment later, Karidormi saw why.
Deathwing.
Karidormi watched as the black dragon soared overhead, his maw half-open. Molten earth sprang from his gullet, spraying the ground below with the fury of earth. That in itself didn't surprise her; what did was the fact Deathwing hadn't yet begun to cover himself in the adamantium plates. He was still Neltharion, still the Aspect of Earth. And he was fighting against the Burning Legion.
What time had she dropped into? According to history it was before the Burning Legion had come that Neltharion had begun his descent into madness. And it was as the Burning Legion was sweeping across Kalimdor that Neltharion had created the Dragon Soul, and had plotted to enslave the other flights to his will. So why was he here, fighting?
She got her answer soon enough. A blue streak shot overhead, and a cold snap washed across the field, freezing the demons in their tracks. Malygos laughed as he came about, dancing in the air as Neltharion banked, coming around to land gracefully among the icy statues, shattering them with his heavy claws. Malygos landed beside him, his tail swiping through more frozen demons.
"Nearly a legion!" Crowed the blue dragon Aspect. "I think I won this time."
"You think?" Neltharion laughed. "If it weren't for me burning them to ashes, you never would've gotten near them."
"Ah, but I did. So the win is mine."
"If that will help you sleep at night." Neltharion replied, his lips pulled back in a draconic grin. Malygos only gave him a sour look.
Karidormi watched, unsure of what to do. She could continue to observe the two dragons, or she could reveal herself. The latter was certainly a decision she was reluctant to make. She didn't know if Neltharion had already begun his evil machinations or if she had been dropped in an alternate timeline where he was never corrupted in the first place. Watching would be the safest option; she could observe from afar, and hopefully hear something that would be of use.
Malygos suddenly laughed. Karidormi belatedly realized she'd missed whatever Neltharion had said, so wrapped up in her own musing as she was. Malygos chortled, "Whatever would I do without you, my friend?"
"Suffer, I suppose." Neltharion replied. "We both know what would befall Azeroth should a flight vanish. I surmise the same would happen if there was no balance between the Aspects. As it is, I don't think we have to worry about that - the Burning Legion will make sure there isn't an Azeroth for us to protect."
"You're certainly pessimistic today."
Neltharion gave Malygos a toothy smile. There. Karidormi could see it, in that smile, in the way Neltharion's eyes focused on Malygos. This wasn't an alternate timeline - this was the days before Neltharion focused his energies in creating the Dragon Soul.
Karidormi didn't know why both Aspects were out here, killing the demons. According to her own history, the dragons didn't enter the fight until Rhonin and Krasus were able to convince them to do so. But perhaps not everything was how it was written in the history books. Even Nozdormu, who had been there in the War of the Ancients, rarely talked about what had actually transpired, and no one had actually been fool enough to try and go that far into the past.
But Karidormi had her answer. It was all about balance. The Aspects were out of balance. The Go’el in her dream had told her the same thing that Neltharion had just told Malygos, though in different words. There was a power flux, with four dragons on one side and an Orc on the other. The scales were tipped in the favor of the dragons, three of which had had millennia to become used to their Titan-given powers. Even Kalec had a natural affinity for the powers bestowed upon him before Deathwing's demise, because he had been born an immortal blue dragon.
But Go’el was mortal. He didn't have the time to learn to control the power of the Earth Warder. Even now, when the dragons were mortal, they would still outlive the younger races by thousands of years. There was no telling what would happen when the four Aspects finally died, but she couldn't even begin to imagine that. All she knew that the cause of Go’el’s corruption was because he simply couldn't handle the full extent of the Earth Warder's power. It was like trying to fill a jar with a drum of water; the jar would only hold so much before the water began to spill over the edges and flood the room.
But why was it affecting Go’el this way? Was it because, as the Go’el in her dream had said, the other Aspects had simply left him on his own? Or was it another reason? The disease, if she could call it that, was starting to manifest as a physical ailment. Why was that?
The two Aspects before her suddenly took off, buffeting her with the wind from their wings. She watched them go, staring at the retreating black form of Neltharion. Then it hit her - Deathwing had used adamantium plates to hold his body together as the corruption had begun to tear apart his body. The power of the Earth Warder had been literally tearing its corrupted guardian apart. The only reason anything - or anyone - would tear anything apart would be to escape. And escape was generally the first step into going elsewhere.
Karidormi quickly transformed and launched into the air, speeding with all haste to the portal that would take her back to the Caverns of Time. She knew why Go’el was starting to become like Deathwing, at least in appearance. His body was a much smaller container for the power than the Aspects', so the power was seeking somewhere else to go. That happened to be outward, causing enough pain that eventually Go’el would simply snap. But why was the new question Karidormi had to answer. Why was the power of the Earth Warder doing this, and why now? What was there that she wasn't seeing?
She raced through the portal, and once back in the Caverns of Time, she flew as fast as she could up through the tunnel and out into Tanaris. Then she angled her body north. She had to talk to Go’el now, and tell him what she'd learned. Maybe then, between the three of them, they could figure out what to do next.
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