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// Shore: Saving Azsuna 
// Story: World of Warcraft: The Ties that Bind 
// by Blackdrag-rose 
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Lyra remained near the command table that Chambers was standing at, waiting for Trixie to return with some of the heroes that she knew would be good in the upcoming war with the Legion, though she smiled when she noticed her friend walking towards her with her chosen allies. Kruost and Maraa were among the heroes that Trixie had picked out for their assault on the points that the Legion had set up on Azsuna, though Lyra wasn't surprised to see that Azuregos had come searching for Trixie and was ready to offer them some assistance as well. Since there happened to be thirty-six different heroes, split evenly between the Alliance and the Horde, Khadgar and the other commanders of the Armies of Legionfall agreed that sending teams of nine to each of the four regions would be best. Lyra knew that she hadn't actually met the other heroes that had been picked for her team, though she knew they were one member stronger thanks to Azuregos coming along with them for the assault.

That was, however, before she noticed that Lyndraxa, the other Illidari that help a powerful pair of warglaives, was walking beside Trixie as well, effectively making their force even stronger than what she was expecting it to be, but that didn't stop Lyra from smiling anyway.

"So, we know that the Legion has dispatched ships to Azsuna, Val'sharah, Highmountain, and Stormheim," Lyra said, drawing the attention of the assembled heroes, while also noticing that the other three groups must have departed for their respective regions already, "but do we actually know what the Legion is doing in Azsuna?"

"We know that they have set up some soul harvesters in the Nor'Danil Wellspring," Lyndraxa replied, though at the same time she unfurled a map and pointed at an area that was dangerously close to where the Azurewing's home was located, before her finger moved to an area near where the Illidari were stationed in Azsuna, "there's also a number of infernals raining down on a shore near our outpost, so much so that the troops still stationed there might be overrun if we leave them along. I have also detected a rather powerful demon, one Felcaller Thalezra, stationed near the outpost as well, though whatever she is planning will never see the light of day."

"There is also the matter of a large group of demons capturing several of the Azurewing's scalewardens and binding them in fel chains," Azuregos added, to which he placed his finger near an area that was on the other side of the Azurewing Repose, though it was closer to the ruins they fought through to get at the Nightborne 'Prince'.

"I see," Lyra commented, taking note of what she had heard and what needed to be done, though it appeared that she and the others would be helping a good number of allies this time around, "Lyndraxa, you should take some of the others and head to our outpost, though I would recommend starting with the area that the infernals are attacking. Trixie and I will take the remaining heroes and attack the demons that are harassing the Azurewing, though once that's done we'll come down and help you take out Thalezra. Hopefully Farondis will have discovered how to end the assault on Azsuna by the time we terminate the Legion's forces, but I'm sure that we can figure that out if he can't."

She knew that Lyndraxa was strong and that their outpost didn't need the two of them there at the same time, but her orders told her companions that she, Trixie, and those that followed them would join up with them once they were done rescuing the Azurewing. After a few seconds Lyndraxa nodded her head and selected the heroes that Lyra knew nothing about, before they walked over to the flightmaster and flew off towards Azsuna, leaving Lyra standing there with Trixie, Azuregos, and Kurost. Trixie and Azuregos chuckled as they moved to a more open area, one that Khadgar has purposely set aside for the two of them, and transformed into their dragon forms, allowing Lyra and Kurost to climb onto their backs before they took off and started their flight towards Azsuna.

As they flew, however, Lyra waved at Lyndraxa and the others, who seemed to have forgotten that Trixie and Azuregos were blue dragons and could transform at will, before the two groups turned in different directions, with Lyra's group heading to the north while Lyndraxa's group headed towards the west.

It didn't take Lyra's group too long before they noticed the Legion structures that had been created since the last time they came to Azsuna, where they found demons patrolling the area and a good number of scalewardens tied up with fel chains wrapped around them. With their targets found Trixie and Azuregos descended towards the ground and landed in a clear part of the area, to which Kurost drew his swords, let out a mighty roar, and charged at the felguard that was walking down the road. The trio watched as he literally hacked and slashed at the demon that he had chosen as his first target, disarming the demon within mere seconds before cutting it apart, allowing him to target another demon and continue the trend. Lyra, deciding not to let him have all the fun, climbed off of Trixie's back and followed after the orc as both Trixie and Azuregos reverted to their hero forms.

As they moved through the area Lyra discovered that the Legion had brought in felguards, fel hounds, felbats, and a fair number of beholders, though as they cut down the demons Lyra took the opportunity to shatter every set of chains that she could find, freeing the scalewardens in the process. Several of the scalewardens actually stuck around and aided the group in dealing with the demons that had chained them and their family to the ground like they were mere beasts, to which they took to the skies and either breathed fire on their targets or clawed them to death. Lyra was very happy to have such aggressive allies on their side, because when it was time to rid Azsuna of the Legion the Azurewing would definitely come in handy, maybe even help them assault the demons of the Broken Shore in the future. When the dragons joined their side the demons definitely took a step back, as they weren't expecting this to happen when they got their orders, though Lyra was more than willing to punish them for their actions.

One other thing Lyra noticed was that Azuregos was happy to see his kind be freed from the chains that the demons had placed on them, to which she smiled as she dodged the attack from a felguard and sliced off the demon's arm, before ending the demon's life... though a few more minutes passed before they destroyed the Legion structure that the demons had been using and freed all the scalewardens that had been captured. As they prepared to move out, and meet up with Lyndraxa's group, Azuregos spent a moment speaking with the Azurewing that they had rescued, who apparently insisted on aiding them and riding the land of the demons that had thought that they were the masters of everyone. Lyra was more than happy to have some additional help, since some of them were bound to stop by Senegos' place and tell them the news... before she and her reinforced group took to the skies, where they started the flight towards the Illidari outpost and the demons that were gathering nearby.

It wasn't long before Lyra noticed that the Illidari were still under attack by the infernals, and the large infernal commander that Lyndraxa was fighting on her own, though since it appeared that they had things under control she had her friends hunt down Thalerza... while at the same time she jumped off Trixie's back and drove one of her warglaives into the back of the larger infernal.

"I wasn't expecting you to come back so quickly commander," Lyndraxa said, though at the same time she avoided the punch that was coming her way and cut a gash into the demon's arm, while Lyra cut a long gash into the infernal's back before landing on the ground.

"The demon's that were imprisoning the scalewardens were weaker than what I was expecting," Lyra replied, to which she threw one of the Twinblades through the air and let it hit the infernal in the face, before catching it and pointing the blades at her foe, "though I think that the dragons understood that we would come the moment we heard that they were under attack and feigned defeat... but even if that's not the case they're angry."

"Good, we can use that against the Legion." Lyndraxa stated, though that was followed by the two of them jumping onto the demon's arms before they pierced the core, to which the infernal crumpled to the ground as Lyndraxa's group finished off the rest of the demons.

From there the two demon hunters lead the way towards the location that Thalerza was supposed to be overseeing, though when they arrived at her location they discovered that she was already under attack by the other heroes, but Lyra found that the eredar was actually being mauled to death by the scalewardens. She honestly just watched the angry demons rip the vile eredar apart, basically meaning that when she reformed in the future Sargeras would definitely punish her for failing in her mission. Once the eredar was dead, and Lyra was sure of it, the scalewardens followed Azuregos towards the Nor'Danil Wellspring, where he lead them in their attack against the demons that were trying to steal the souls of the dead... who definitely were surprised by an invasion of dragons, but it turned the tide of the battle in their favor once more.

Lyra had to chuckle as she and the other heroes watched the rage filled members of the Azurewing ripped their foes apart, allowing her and the others to free the shackled spirits while watching the demon that was leading this particular invasion was being torn to pieces by the enraged dragons... until the heroes finished freeing the spirits and the commander laid dead on the ground.

From there the group waited for Trixie and Azuregos to figure out where Prince Farondis was located, though when they looked at the map Trixie pointed at an area that appeared to be a temple, to which the Azurewing nodded their heads and took off with the entirety of the group on their backs. The group flew over the landscape of Azsuna, where Lyra discovered that the Legion ship had moved over to the Nightborne ruins she and her part of the group had been at moments ago. She knew that the Legion moved fast and had to wonder where the ship had been hiding the entire time they had been flying through the air, but at the same time it didn't matter as they turned towards the large temple that the dragons were taking them towards... one that had fel energy dancing around it, indicating that a commander was lurking somewhere inside the ruins.

A few seconds later the Azurewing brought them to a landing in front of Prince Farondis, though as Lyra and the others touched the ground, however, the members of the Azurewing took to the air and started attacking the flying demons that were in the air around the temple, weakening the demon's forces immediately.

"I'm afraid our fight has only brought us so far." Farondis said, to which he beckoned to the temple that was resting behind him, where there was a large Legion presence that Lyra wanted to take out, "We must press our attack before the Legion advances beyond their stronghold within the Temple of a Thousand Lights! The demons appear to be harnessing an ancient power within the Temple itself. They've managed to twist and corrupt these sacred grounds with fel magic. We must remove the demonic presence before we press our final advance."

Lyra, Trixie, and the other heroes nodded as they made their way towards the temple that was in front of them, though as they walked forward the group dealt with the felguards that were guarding the bridge that connected where they were standing to where the temple was located. At the same time Lyra spotted another pair of felguards on the other edge of the bridge and noticed an Inquisitor, a low powered one by the looks of it, standing guard with them, though before she said anything Lyndraxa leapt over to their next group of enemies and started hacking at them with her own warglaives. Lyra chuckled as her fellow demon hunter tore through the demons that were in front of her, because when her group finished they rushed the demons and took them out, allowing them to access the actual temple grounds, where they discovered that the ground was starting to be contaminated by the fel energy... and that the demons guarding the temple grounds had brought in cannons to help them out, in addition to two portals for additional allies.

While Trixie and the others spread out a little, to ensure that they pulled every demon possible in the area in front of them, Lyra brought off from the group and smashed the cannons with her fel energy, shattering them into a thousand pieces, and made sure that she broke all of them in the immediate area before rejoining the group.

As the group continued their attack against the felguards and the inquisitors, since they were the only demons in the area at the moment, a group of whelps, from the Azurewing no less, flew around them and aided them in attacking the demons, though Lyra was happy to see that if they got hurt they would fall back to avoid falling. Lyra, Trixie, and Azuregos veered off to the building on the left and took out the group of demons that had started to make their base in that structure, though once the demons were dead they rejoined the group. Kurost and the other heroes that Lyra didn't know did the same thing with the group of demons on the right side of the grounds, slaughtering them within seconds as Lyra smashed the cannons, before they got back together again. That was when Lyra smiled as she noticed several Annihilator class felguards, essentially larger felguards that were much stronger than their smaller counterparts, though she was glad to see that there were only three Annihilators instead of an army... because even she would have trouble with an army of Annihilators, without resorting to her combination attack anyway.

Fighting an Annihilator class felguard was the same as fighting a normal felguard, as their size meant that they could carved up a greater area, but it proved to be ineffective against their group, as Lyra, Trixie, and the others toppled the first one they came across and continued on their way... to which they killed the remaining two Annihilators that were in their way, before engaging the large Inquisitor demon, the portal master, in a battle to the death.

Thanks to their experience in fighting several inquisitor demons in the Nighthold the group was able to take the demon, who called itself V'thaal, and destroyed the portals around him, while at the same time unsealing the doorway that would allow them to access the temple itself. With the way open the group headed into the temple and kept their guard up, where they killed the felguards and eredar that were channeling the temple's energy into keeping the land tied to whatever Legion world these demons had come from. After that they came to a split in the path and discovered that there were no demons on the right path, to which they headed down the path on their left and found a demon that was definitely responsible for what was going on... as there was beholder demon, Zor'thduun as it called itself, waiting for them in the area they were heading towards.

Lyra was severely disappointed in Zor'thduun's ability to fight, as he seemed to be a common beholder that was trying to move up in the world instead of a powerful guardian like she would have expected, though she was happy to see the demon die the death it deserved... before she and the others headed back outside the temple, as they were sure that Prince Farondis was waiting for them. Sure enough they found the Prince waiting near some Azurewing who were eager to get moving, though the look on his face told them that they would be heading into the air next.

"Champions, I'm afraid that our fight doesn't end here." Farondis told them, though at the same time Lyra and Trixie knew that there had been more for them to do, because there was always more to do in regards to the Legion, "One final task remains to sever the Burning Legion's connection to other worlds. The Azurewing have insisted that they provide you with transportation to get you close to the source of power, but you must deliver the final blow to the conduit."

Lyra and the others nodded as they climbed onto the couple of dragons that were in front of them, or transformed in the case of Trixie and Azuregos, before they flew into the air and started to circle around the spire that was near them, where they loosed arcane charges at the point where the Legion was connecting this point with their world... though once that shattered the dragons though them back through the main land and carried them to the Nightborne ruins.

"With the conduit destroyed, now may be our only chance." Farondis told them all, to which the group nodded, as this was what they had been working towards the entire time, though Lyra's eyes were on the ship above them, "The vile demon commanding the assault must be stopped. I can get us close, but once we're there I'll rely on you and your allies to help bring down the demonic forces."

As the group turned around a large force of Azurewing flew into the area, or teleported in if they were the ones that resembled centaurs in a fashion, before they launched their attack on the vile demons that were trying to take over the entirety of Azsuna. Lyra and the others chuckled for a few moments before following the Azurewing into battle, where they assaulted the demons that were the closest to where Prince Farondis had the dragons bring them to and started to overwhelm their foes with their numbers. It was painfully clear that the demons were only expecting heroes to come and fight them, and had sent down a number of demons in according to what they believed, so because they were poorly planning this invasion the group of heroes and the assembled Azurewing fought their way through the host of demons that had infested the ruins... only stopping when the demons that were on the ground had been taken out and they were sure that there weren't any more in the immediate area.

From there the Azurewing beckoned for the heroes to climb on and flew up to the ship that was hanging over their heads, dropping them off on a walkway on the side of the ship that would allow them to take out the commander of the assault... and potentially destroy the ship as well.

The interesting thing was that there were flaming vents on the ramp that they were following, so they waited for the one in front of them to stop spewing fire before moving forward, though they did so in small groups so they could reach the top of the ship. When the first group reached the top of the ramp they attacked the eredar that was commanding the fire stations and battled him for a few moments, before both Lyndraxa and Lyra removed the demon's head and stopped it from hurting their companions. From there they gathered together and stared at the commander, a felguard that definitely radiated power, who immediately attacked them the instant they stared walking towards him... though Lyra was pleased by the power that her foe commanded, because he was as tough as he should have been since he was commanding the Legion invasion of Azsuna.

The large felguard, Xeritas as they soon discovered, hurled it's axe at them and let an area of fel energy that damaged whoever his target was, though at the same time that forced him to charge to where the axe landed and pick it up, allowing the group to attack him in full force before he picked his weapon back up. That actually seemed to be his only powerful attack, save for the ship somehow being able to fire fel shots at them, but the group wasn't too worried about that and moved out of the way of the fel shots as they dealt an impressive amount of damage to their foe. A minute passed before the group toppled Xeritas, causing Lyra to be a little disappointed in the demon, before the Azurewing flew up and let them climb back onto their backs... to which they took off before the Legion ship detonated when they were a safe distance away from the ship.

Lyra smiled as she and her friends were carried back to the Broken Shore, to report their success to Maiev and the others, though at the same time she knew that the instant they returned to Deliverance Point they would be asked to do something else... and this time around she was more than willing to kill more demons, as it would ultimately pave the way for them to invade the Tomb of Sargeras and seal it once more. Then it was only a matter of time until they figured out how to stop the Legion entirely, but she knew that time would reveal all to her and the others.