Spitfire blinked for a few moments as the power of the Tears of Elune, combined with Xe'ra's, withdrew itself from her body and allowed her consciousness to return without delay, where she found that she was definitely back inside the room that Khadgar had been studying in while they were recovering Light's Heart and taking the object to Velen, with Rainbow and the others being a little worried about her, meaning that she must have frozen up or something after activating the Pillar that was in her hands, though as soon as she regained her senses she staggered for a moment and her friends caught her while the Pillar was caught by Khadgar, who summoned a chair for her to sit on.
"Are you alright? You went still for a moment when you activated the power within the Tears." Khadgar asked, where it was easy for them to see that he was worried about her, given his tone at the moment, though it was more due to the fact that he was starting to see both her and Rainbow as friends, even though he suspected that they were the key to defeating the Legion and bringing peace to Azeroth at last, though when the others nodded he focused on what might have happened to her over the last few minutes, as five minutes had passed since she did whatever it was that she had done, "Did Xe'ra show you anything, or did Elune get mad at us for trying something like this in the first place?"
"Surprisingly, I'm fine... for the most part," Spitfire admitted, though she didn't go into great detail about what she meant, as she wasn't entirely sure what might be wrong with her body at the moment and suspected that it might be shock due to what had happened to her consciousness, since it was ripped out of her body and projected across the cosmos, before she sighed for a moment and focused on the group for a few seconds as she recalled everything that had been revealed to her when she spoke to Xe'ra in the astral plane, near a terrifying projection of Argus, "but I was able to talk with Xe'ra, or maybe it was her own consciousness, in an area that she called the 'crucible of all creation', and she told me some things, though most of what I learned isn't good news. Apparently, at some point in the past, the remaining Titans engaged in an epic battle with Sargeras and the Dark Titan cut them all down, so none of them are coming to help us with the Legion, the Army of the Light appears to be fighting a losing battle on Argus right now, possibly keeping the full might of our foes from reaching this world, and Xe'ra came here seeking the child destined to end all of this, the child of 'Light and Shadow', as she called him, who just so happens to be the Lord of the Illidari, Illidan Stormrage himself... she also commented that something had changed, which I'm assuming meant that she had a vision of something else happening: a figure with six different colored wings, even though it was hard to see who the figure was."
"That... is certainly a lot to take in, and I fear that this was the short version of what you were shown," Khadgar said, even though it was clear that he wasn't happy about what they had just heard, as his hand had been brought up near his face, in the sense that he was thinking about things and that he likely didn't want them to see any hints of sadness coming from him, even though it would have been understandable given the mess that Xe'ra claimed they were in, if what Spitfire had seen was any indication, before he sighed for a moment and lowered his left hand, "The Titans, our very gods, have been dead since before any of us were even born, the Army of the Light is fighting an endless battle in our name, and we are unable to do anything to assist them, and Illidan has been dead since the assault on the Black Temple, even though I do know your Illidari are working to retrieve his body from Gul'dan, wherever our foe is hiding... this is too much bad news to hear at once, and I fear that I will need some time before I can share it with the rest of the Council of Seven and the rest of the heroes who are fighting to save Azeroth, so I will leave you to your own devices for a time and contact you when the time is right... oh, and given everything that's happened, it might be best if we stored Light's Heart in a safe place, like one of the Order Halls, and I was either considering Mardum, since it would be the last place the Legion would think to look for such an artifact, or maybe in the Sanctum of Light, under the watchful eyes of the Order of the Silver Hand. Oh, there is one more thing that I have to ask: did you gain any information about the figure at the end, other than the six wings that possessed different colors?"
"All I know is that they seemed to reflect the six Cosmic Forces that exist in our universe," Spitfire replied, as while she had a little information on what those were, given that she was able to identify all six of the wings and their powers when it was shown to her, she had no idea on how someone would go about gathering the power necessary to channel all six of the Cosmic Forces that people could use, like the mages calling on the Arcane or the druids channeling the power of Life to tend to the wild or heal wounds.
"Interesting. I have never heard of such a thing, being able to channel all six at the same time," Khadgar commented, to which he sighed for a moment as he thought about that, as having someone who could actually channel all six elements of the Cosmic Forces would be a boon to their war with the Legion, given the sheer power such a being would posses, but he did recall something that might interest Spitfire and Rainbow, even if they would focus on the Legion's efforts after leaving this area, "I have heard tales of one Cosmic Force corrupting or altering another, sort of like how the Nightmare is a Void-corrupted version of the Emerald Dream, but like I said, no one has ever been able to channel all of them... I'll have to do some research and get back to you, when I have the time to do so."
Spitfire nodded to that and let Khadgar walk out of the section of Dalaran that they were currently resting inside, mostly allowing Vytheril and Syerea to talking about which Order Hall to store the object inside, since the Archmage was right in thinking that the safest places were either the domain of the Illidari or the hidden area that the paladins that made up the Order of the Silver Hand rested in, though as that happened she felt a brief bout of pain for a few seconds, something that passed by rather quickly and went unseen by both Rainbow and their new friends, to which she glanced around the room for a moment and wondered what in the world that was, before determining that it had to be an after effect of what she had done with the Tears of Elune and Light's Heart.
The pain will subside in time, my champion. a familiar voice said, one that Spitfire recognized as Xe'ra's, though at the same time it appeared that none of the others heard it and that had to mean, in some odd manner, that she was now connected in some way to the Prime Naaru that was imbued with the Light, based on what she had seen earlier, but at the same time she remained silent as she listened to whatever the Naaru had to tell her, since it had to be important enough for her to reach out from her core for a time, which seemed to be glowing a little to show that its owner was in the middle of doing something at the moment, You now carry my mark, and through it I am able to see and feel as you do, though I must now tell you the truth that I didn't want the others to hear. Light's Heart is more than just a vessel that contains all of my knowledge, it is also meant to be the vessel for Illidan's rebirth, as my last act of service to the Light, but before I can help you recover his soul from where its resting, and put it in the hands of your allies, we must prepare the vessel for his eventual return, and to do that you must venture out into this world and the broken world to find echoes of his past, only we'll be starting with the place of his birth, located in Val'sharah.
Spitfire said nothing to that as she listened to what Xe'ra had to tell her, even though she did feel that it was a little odd for the Prime Naaru to even care about Lord Illidan's past, regardless of whether or not it was important to prepare the vessel for his return, but in the end she decided not to worry about it and pulled herself from the chair that she had been sitting in since she returned from the vision she had seen, where Rainbow, Vytheril, and Syerea turned to face her for a moment, something that caused her to make sure Rainbow headed back to the Fel Hammer and made sure the Illidari were fine, and to help them out if they had something that needed to be done, before letting both of her friends head to their own Order Halls as well, even though for now she was entrusting Light's Heart to the paladins, who she knew would do pretty much everything to keep such an important artifact safe. Once that was done she started to make her way towards the teleport pad that would allow her to return to Dalaran, where she found that her body really hadn't suffered due to what had happened to her when she used the Tears of Elune on Xe'ra's core, either due to her nature as a demon hunter or due to the fact that she wasn't from this world and it didn't effect her as much as it would have done to someone that was from Azeroth, meaning that she was able to walk out of the chamber with ease and head out into the city, though it didn't take her long to discover some of the soldiers from the Alliance and Horde working together, preparing for whatever else was coming their way. That made her happy, to see that her work to unite the two forces into a force dedicated to tearing down the Legion was already bearing good fruit and everyone seemed to be embracing what she wanted, especially since the humans and orcs seemed to be getting along just fine, before she took a few moments to look around the city so she could find one of the night elves, as she intended on asking one of them if they knew where Illidan and Malfurion were born in Val'sharah, even if she wouldn't mention her mentor during her questioning, since most heroes didn't trust Lord Illidan and might not tell her anything if she mentioned the person she was really interested in. What surprised her was that the first one she came into contact with was actually a druid, a member of the Cenarion Circle and worked under the guidance of the four Archdruids, who told her of the village of Loriathil, which was down the road from the Temple of Elune that graced the province, and she even pointed out where the location was on Spitfire's map, before wishing her well on her journey to understand more about Malfurion.
Based on what Spitfire gathered she had to fly over the province of Azsuna, which would allow her to look down and gaze upon the naga that were trying to overrun the place and claim the Tidestone of Golganneth, even though the only reason she was thinking about it was due to the fact that none of the heroes had returned with news that they had recovered the artifact yet, just like those that went to Highmountain hadn't recovered the Hammer of Khaz'goroth, the fourth and final of the four Pillars of Creation they were hunting down right now, leaving the Eye of Aman'thul for later, since the fifth one was resting somewhere in Suramar and they weren't ready for that venture yet, not until the other provinces were safe and the four Pillars were recovered. As such she spread her wings, making sure that nothing was wrong with them, as if her wings or body happened to be in pain this would be impossible for some time, but her body was just fine and she was able to take flight without delay, where she headed for the province of Azsuna and corrected her course so she could head right for Val'sharah, though that didn't stop her from glancing down at the elven ruins that were scattered across the bits of the province, some inhabited by spirits and others seemingly inhabited by the naga, before turning her focus to what seemed to be a massive forest, which was pretty much what Val'sharah was, even though the night elf she talked to did claim that this particular province was as close as Azeroth got to replicating the Emerald Dream. Of course the forest was quite large and she had to adjust her course a few times, due to all of the branches that happened to rest in her way, but even with that fact she was able to find what appeared to be a village resting around one of the tall trees, complete with an elegant home that looked like a night elf had made it, given the design of the few structures she found in the area, and that an inn had been made in the roots of the tall tree, which was rather interesting to her, though there was also a small fountain in the center of the village and some wooden gates, of sorts, that rested around the area, serving as directional markers for those who called this place home. For a moment she wondered what this place might have looked like back during the days that Illidan and Malfurion called this place home, since ten thousand years was enough to change nearly anything that her mentor might have known, but as she landed in the village, and found that the inhabitants were busy tending to the druids who likely tended to this province, who had to be exhausted based on everything she had seen so far, Spitfire approached the fountain and felt something in the air stir, even though Xe'ra's voice chimed in and revealed that the memory was stirring and that they could interact with it.
When Spitfire reached out to touch the faint memory she found something interesting, her vision was teleported into the distant past, no doubt thanks to Xe'ra's power, where she found a bunch of night elves who happened to be standing near two cribs, containing two healthy male children that a priestess claimed were the Stormrage twins, looking nearly identical save for the fact that one had golden colored eyes and the other didn't, where it was the former one that she was focused on, as it was the one who would later become the Lord of Outland and the Lord of the Illidari, and the priestess even took a moment to say that Illidan had a great destiny ahead of him, before her vision snapped back to the present and, after it happened, she staggered for a moment and was thankful that none of the night elves had noticed it, as such a thing let her walk away without anyone noticing her movements.
Illidan's life was one that was full of potential, Xe'ra commented, speaking to Spitfire as she walked away from where the fountain was resting and returned to the main road, more to seem like a wandering traveler or an Illidari that had just a bit of investigation to make sure there were no demons in the area for the druids or the others of this province to worry about, though Spitfire said nothing to that as she walked in the opposite direction of Dalaran, mostly to give her passanger some time to speak her mind before she did anything else, where his destiny was forged in the great ordering and cast to the cosmic winds, where after a long time it, at last, would find a home on Azeroth, and within the tiny vessel that was his body the great cycle began anew. Now, you must continue to the north, to find Dreamgrove, as I sense that the next echo is near the home of the druids.
Instead of saying anything to that, however, Spitfire spread her wings and took to the sky once more, where she headed to the north and headed for the Temple of Elune, since it would be a good place for her to figure out the direction that she needed to go in afterwards, though she did pause for a moment when she found a large Doomguard wandering near the temple with a look of anger on its face, either due to the fact that the Archdruids killed it or that it had been killed at some point in the past and had returned to have his revenge, who revealed that its name was Gravax and that destruction had come to their world, though it didn't get very far as Spitfire picked up her speed and drew her warglaives, removing the Doomguard's head and letting its soul be taken by her weapons. Once that was done she sucked up the Fel power that her newly slain demon had possessed and banished both of her warglaives not a few seconds later, allowing the body to fall backwards and crush some corrupted tree roots, which seemed to be connected to the World Tree known as Shaladrassil, or at least that was what the night elf she had talked to earlier had said, when getting directions to this area, but she kept moving and headed to the west of the temple, where she quickly found a path that headed in two directions once more, one heading to a village that seemed different from what the night elves made and the other leading to an area that she felt held the entrance to the druid Order Hall. Something told her to follow the path that lead right to the druids, which just made her wonder how in the world Xe'ra could have known about this place since she had never been to Azeroth before this point in time, other wise she was sure that Khadgar or the others would have known about her ahead of time, but, at the same time, she decided not to argue with it since Xe'ra was allowing her to peer into her Lord's past and likely ready her for when it was time to claim Illidan's soul from the area that it had been sent to, which was what the rest of the Illidari were working on, or at least some since the others were looking for the body and Gul'dan. The path in question lead her to an area that had a few shrines or wells, something that she would have to ask the night elves about since she had no idea how they designed everything in the areas that they lived in, while the lanterns that lined the walkway seemed to be roots that were growing out of the ground and had bulbs that lit up the area, before she eventually reached the area, one that was outside the Dreamgrove, that the echo was resting in, to which she accessed it without delay.
This time around her vision showed her an image of an older Illidan and Malfurion, who were talking to a projection of the being that had to be Cenarius, a centaur that seemed to radiate a vast amount of Life energy, meaning he had to be one of the Wild Gods she had heard about, where the conversation was about Cenarius telling Illidan that his anger happened to be misplaced, indicating that he hadn't insulted him in any manner, and that to walk the path of a druid meant that one had to sacrifice things, or maybe go through one sacrifice, even though the Wild God indicated that Malfurion was a very dedicated student and Illidan wasn't, something that left Illidan staring at the area the projection had been in when they were done talking to each other, before she snapped back to reality once more.
Few individuals have known such failure and rejection, and while most would have given up, and gone on to tackle a new path, Illidan would continue on, Xe'ra spoke, once more speaking once the memory was done and that Spitfire was back in the present, something that she seemed to be fond of doing when she was showing someone the past, but at the very least this came without harm being done to her body and she was thankful for that, though once she made sure her body was just fine she focused on what the Prime Naaru had to say, even though she knew her Lord didn't care much for fate and would disagree with most of what Xe'ra had said, he was, however, guided by the unseen hand of fate, as his destiny lay elsewhere, in Black rook Hold, where he would become a military leader to Kur'talos Ravencrest.
"And so that becomes my next destination... and I'm in luck, since I'm sure that's the hold in question." Spitfire remarked, as she was referring to the large stone hold that was just across the river from where she was standing at the moment, an area that seemed like it had been the domain of a rather powerful individual at some point in the past and right now she was sure that there were a number of spirits lingering in the area, either due to the Legion's actions or someone that had ruined everything in the past, and while she had no idea if her thoughts were right on their own she could feel an echo that was over in the area in question.
Spitfire wasted no time in taking to the air and flew over to where the hold was located, though while she did that she also had to avoid being shot at by some of the glaive launchers, the siege weapons of the night elves and elves of old, or that was what she had been told during her time training with Rainbow and the Illidari, but it didn't take her all that long to find the area that the echo was located in, as there was an area that looked like a fighting arena and above it rested an area one could watch the fighting from, while even further above that rested an opening that held a staircase that went down into what she had to assume was a prison, though it was outside the opening that she found the echo in. As such Spitfire landed nearby and raised her hand to the echo, something that allowed her to peer into the past once more, where she found herself following Illidan, who was actually dressed as a mage and carried a staff, as Val'sharah came under siege by the Legion, possibly meaning that this was during the War of the Ancients so long ago in Azeroth's history, and standing near him were the elves that were his forces and one had a more imposing set of armor that showed everyone that he had to be a ruler or high ranking commander, to which she remained silent as she watched what was going on. At first Illidan and his forces teleported into the area and made sure that Kur'talos knew that they were there, before dealing with a few Felbats that emerged from a Felmaw, as Illidan called it, by summoning an Arcane barrier to disintegrate them, which just drained the acolytes that he had either been training or had been put in charge of before this event happened and they did mention that they needed to rest a little, even though his master did order him to do anything and everything in his power to make sure the demons failed in their mission to take them down. The first thing he did was reactivate a nearby portal, to give himself reinforcements and to create a font of energy to replenish his stores for what he was going to do, though as soon as he had some soldiers to fight beside him he had the barrier his master had put up taken down so they could march out and take down the Infernals that were being controlled by an Eredar, who eventually fell as Illidan and his forces took her and her toys down, before he moved deeper into the battlefield and assaulted the demons that dared to attack Black Rook Hold, even though it required sacrificing one of his soldiers to overpower the Eredar and gain a brand new power to strike her down.
The interesting thing Spitfire gathered from his encounter with the Eredar was that the past version of her Lord mentioned that Fel was stronger than Arcane, but based on what she had seen so far all six of the cosmic forces seemed to be equal in power and it all mattered on who wielded the power and their own potential, meaning that the Eredar was clumsy and might be more of a novice in the grand scheme of things, while Illidan, at the time, was a master of the Arcane and his own destiny might have given him more potential than some of the other mages that lived during this time period, even though it was only a matter of time until he switched to Fel to fight Sargeras and the Legion more directly. The Eredar, who went by the name Xalian Felblaze, fell and Spitfire wondered if she had been revived at some point in time, to be thrown at one of the other worlds that the Legion attacked after the War of the Ancients, but before she could think about it too much, as it was possible she might be out there still, the Past Illidan resumed moving and headed down into the courtyard, which allowed him to pass by another portal to create a new font of energy to restock his stores and gather some mages who would aid him in his quest to take down the demonic invasion that was happening at the moment. From there he started to fight Doomguards and Felstalkers, of which there were many of them and his forces seemed surprised by everything that was being thrown against them and their master, not to mention taking down a few Eredar that were trained to hunt down mages and kill them, to weaken whoever they were facing and prevent something like this from happening in the first place, though Past Illidan and his forces tore them down as well as they headed down to the courtyard that a strong Eredar was standing in, a mage killer known as Balaadur, where Spitfire recalled Vytheril mentioning him in a story that the frost Archmage had told him, and since the Eredar had been slain on a floating island in the Twisting Nether recently they didn't have to worry about seeing him ever again. Before facing the Eredar in question Past Illidan and his forces fought to recover two more portals, adding two more focal areas for them to replenish their power at and grant them more soldiers for the big fight, though to breach the barrier that his target had summoned the past version of her Lord unleashed the power of the cosmos, in a beam of energy, which smashed through the barrier and forced his foe to engage them, which resulted in a battle that ended with her past Lord siphoning the energy of another mage to loose enough power to slay the Eredar, which surprised Balaadur as he fell to the ground and died.
That was, however, around the time that they entered the arena that a massive Infernal was assaulting and it caused the past version of her Lord to siphon the power of the remaining Moon Guard to give him the power to destroy the creature and put a stop to the siege entirely, something that clearly didn't sit well with his master and caused an argument to break out between them once they were sure that the demons had been taken care of, which revealed the time when her Lord realized that were some sacrifices that were absolutely necessary to defeat the likes of the Legion, even if the methods would be criticized by those that witnessed them, before the past version of her Lord left and she snapped back to the present once more, even if she paused for a moment to sit down and think about the vision.
Difficult decisions had to be made, especially during one of the Legion's invasions, but you need to understand Illidan's perspective if we are to succeed in our mission. Xe'ra commented, to which Spitfire resisted the urge to sigh as that was said, because she and Rainbow had a good understanding of what their Lord's methods were and understood them just as well as the rest of the Illidari did, but so far the Prime Naaru was starting to be more of a pain and less of an ally, which she kept to herself as she listened to what was being said at the moment, What would you have done differently, if you had been in his shoes?
"Given that he's my Lord and mentor, I would have likely done the same thing," Spitfire replied, as while she'd rather not sacrifice some of her soldiers in the manner that her Lord had done, even if it gave him the power to defeat the demons and save Black Rook Hold, she knew that there were some sacrifices that needed to be done to bring about the Legion's end, as it was something that Lord Illidan had made sure she, Rainbow, and the rest of the Illidari knew and accepted, and so far it had been rather successful in bringing down the various worlds they had assaulted, save for when Maiev stopped them by having the Alliance and Horde assault the Black Temple, before she sighed for a moment, "though that hardly matters at the moment, as we're hunting down all of the echoes that he left before he was slain... speaking of which, do you have an idea of where the next one might be located?"
Yes, we must now go to the continent of Kalimdor and visit the province of Azshara, which is to the north of where the city of Orgrimmar rests, Xe'ra stated, which was a bit of a surprise to Spitfire, mostly in the sense that they were going to be heading back to Kalimdor, since she had been thinking that they would be heading to Outland at some point so they could see the end of Illidan's reign in the Black Temple, though even as the voice said that Spitfire was under the belief that the Naaru was thinking about who she was showing all of these memories to, once we have seen this memory, the last of the ones on Azeroth, we have one more to track down and witness.
Spitfire thought about that as she pulled out her own hearthstone, one of the magical stones that Khadgar gave to her and the rest of the Illidari, so they could attune it to either the main cities of either the Alliance or Horde, being Stormwind or Orgrimmar respectively, or to Dalaran, so they could teleport from one point to another, even though the stones only had a single charge and needed a break to recharge the magic that was inside them, though hers was connected to Dalaran, for when she had no mages with her, and it wasn't long before she used the stone to teleport herself back to the city that Khadgar and the others were using as their main base of operations against the Legion. Once that was done she walked over to the part of Dalaran that was normally under the control of the Horde, as there was a portal back to Orgimmar in a fountain area, one she was able to find within a matter of seconds after entering the section of the city, so it didn't take her all that long to teleport back to the city that she had left Saurfang in command of, for the time being since she was in the middle of dealing with the Legion, and based on what she had seen nothing was out of the ordinary, to which she nodded to the guards for a moment before spreading her wings and took off once more. From there she headed for the north, as she was purely following Xe'ra's directions at this point, though at the same time she had come here at one point during the Legion's previous attempts to break the Alliance and Horde, as in before they discovered the need for the Pillars and before the strongest heroes had gained all of their artifact weapons to use against the demons, so she was sort of familiar with this landscape, where part of the harbor that was on the eastern side of the province had been shifted by the goblins and transformed into an image of the Horde's logo, something she was totally against and really couldn't change at this point in time, since all of the maps had been changed accordingly, so she focused on tracking down the ruins that held the echo she was looking for. The ruin she was looking for, as she suspected, happened to be the large one which rested near a beach, not to mention near what was the center of the Horde symbol the goblins had created, and it was the circular dome that Xe'ra directed her to, where it only took her a few moments to land nearby and fold her wings up as she walked up to the area that the echo was resting in, though since there were no enemies or allies here she didn't have to worry all that much, about someone seeing what might happen to her, before she accessed the echo and braced herself for what it was going to show her.
What she discovered was an ancient city, one that the memory didn't show her all that much of, and the focus of this was on a female highborne elf, or the Quel'dorei who served as the upper class and upper sect of the ancient elven civilization, who was wearing an elegant gown and seemed to radiate power, making Spitfire wonder if she was staring at the elf who was known as Queen Azshara, who also seemed to be standing between a large Fel portal and a kneeling Illidan, though all of this told her that this had to be before the Sundering of the world, before she heard Sargeras speak as he channeled a bit of power into Illidan's eyes, burning them out and allowing him to see the endless armies of the Legion, something that wouldn't stop his drive to see the Legion defeated, which was followed by Spitfire coming back to the present, just as fast as the other times she tapped into the echoes.
"And that explains the Illidari custom of stabbing one's eyes out, with Rainbow and I being the only ones to somehow keep our eyes and not lose them," Spitfire commented, as she had always wondered how Lord Illidan had lost his eyes and why he wore the blindfold all the time, and due to him saying nothing about what might have happened both she and Rainbow had taken on the same belief that the rest of the Illidari had in relation to it, that he must have lost both of them in a battle against the Legion, or against a powerful enemy before he focused on the Legion with his full attention, but now she had an understanding of what had happened, he had likely sought out power by making the enemy believe he was joing them, which came at the cost of his eyes, but it had granted him both a decent amount of power and a new sight, with the latter showing him the truth of the matter.
Illidan sought out the truth, in addition to power, and he was blinded by what he saw. Xe'ra said, though it didn't even sound like she cared about what Spitfire was talking about, meaning she didn't seem to feel anything towards the Illidari replicating what their Lord did to their eyes, which also served as the best way to force the Fel energy into their bodies, so the runic tattoos could be placed on their bodies once the shift to being a demon hunter was made, before she seemed to focus on something else for a few seconds, He was beginning to understand his destiny, but there was one final sacrifice that he needed to make... one that resides inside the final echo, located outside the Black Temple.
Once more Spitfire said nothing to that as she headed back towards Orgrimmar, as there happened to be a portal to her destination in the depths of the city and it would take her to the other side of the Dark Portal, which was rather weird as she thought about it, but she decided not to bother with worrying about it, even though she was sure that the mages who controlled those portals were closing them down since there was no reason to keep them open, and as such it didn't take her all that long to reappear in Hellfire Peninsula, a province that she couldn't believe she was in once more, especially given everything that had happened to her recently. She paused for a moment, to stare up at the odd humanoid creatures who stood on either side of the Dark Portal, the stone sentinels that she and the scholars were still confused by since the only ones who might have known why they were important were Gul'dan and Medivh, and given that one was dead, with an alternate version running around, and the other was more interested in watching a modified history play out before his eyes, she had the feeling that no one would figure out why the statues looked like this in the first place. Not even a few seconds later Spitfire sighed and took to the air once more, where she headed to the south and decided to cut through the part of the Twisting Nether that rested between Hellfire Peninsula and Shadowmoon Valley, mostly because if there were demons nearby, waiting to ambush her, and she was slain in battle, as unlikely as it sounded in her mind, the Legion would be unable to capture her soul and her body would be lost, but for the most part she wasn't worried about that since this world seemed to be no one's focus at the moment and that meant she could get to her destination with ease. When she reached Shadowmoon Valley, however, she deviated from her path for a moment and flew over to the areas of this foul province that both she and Rainbow had landed in when they first arrived in this world, though nothing had changed since the last time they had been here, as she was mostly looking in case someone, like Discord or one of the Princesses, broke through to this world as they tracked down the magic that brought them to Outland and, eventually, Azeroth, before she sighed and headed for the Black Temple, which still had the Light based barrier around it and was keeping out any of the Legion's forces, keepings its secrets contained inside while Akama and his Broken worked to make it what it had been at one point in time, even if it took a lifetime of work on their part, where she eventually landed before the main gate and raised her hand once more as the vision took hold of her.
What she discovered was the epic battle that was between two forces, the first being the combined heroes of the Alliance and Horde, where Spitfire wondered if Vytheril, Syerea, or any of the others were here, while the second was Lord Illidan, in all of his demonic glory, meaning that this was the battle before she and the rest of the Illidari returned from Mardum with the Keystone, even though the heroes made all the preparations that each of them could think of before actually engaging her Lord, who proclaimed that none of them were prepared and fought against them with all of his might, but at the start of the battle she quickly determined one thing right off the bat. That was that, at the start of the battle, her Lord wasn't going full power, nor was he channeling all of the power that she and the other Illidari knew about, rather he was holding most of it back for when his forces returned, as in her, Rainbow, and everyone else that he sent after the Keystone, which made her realize that the reason behind it was because his hope was that if he revealed his intentions in such a way, with the key to literally every demon world in hand, they would stand down, accuse Maiev of lying to them, and ally all of their forces with the Illidari so they could take down the Legion at long last. She knew that it was both a bold move and a costly one at the same time, due to the fact that it required him to buy as much time as he could so they could return from their mission, but, based on what she had learned and what she was seeing at the moment, as her Lord lashed out at the heroes with nearly lethal moves, with a few being lethal enough to end a few heroes that later became death knights and fought against the Lich King sometime later, he was forced to reveal more and more of his powers to the heroes that he was fighting, some she and Rainbow had seen during their training, since he eventually became the only one that could even train them, and some that neither of them had witnessed, before eventually weakening due to Maiev's arrival, as she wanted him dead and was willing to do anything and everything to bring him down. It was due to the untimely intervention of the Warden that Lord Illidan started to lose the flow of the battle and had to fight harder than he had done previously, especially with Maiev stopping him from taking out any healers that the heroes had brought with them, until eventually he fell to the ground and his warglaives fell to the sides, where one of the greedy heroes, a rogue based on what Spitfire saw, grabbed both of them and claimed them, even though Lord Illidan seemed to glance at the sky for a moment, no doubt thinking about Tyrande, before he collapsed and his body went still, with his soul leaving as Maiev imprisoned his body to be stored inside the Vault that the Illidari appeared in later.
A few seconds later Spitfire found herself back in the present, though instead of being mad she just sighed as she thought about what she had seen and knew that her Lord's plans had been foiled by Maiev, someone none of the Illidari liked all that much, but what she was really doing was waiting for Xe'ra to say something about what they had seen, since it was the custom of the Prime Naaru to say something about one of the echoes before trying to direct Spitfire to whatever area she wanted her to go to next, but with this being the last memory she had to witness she figured that returning to Dalaran was in order, to resume the fight with the Legion.
Forgive me, noble soul, for I have mislead you. Xe'ra commented, surprising Spitfire for a moment, since she wasn't talking about the memory that they had just seen, where she expected the Naaru to mention Tyrande or something, which caused Spitfire to remain silent as she listened to what she was being told at the moment, though if this was a massive waste of her time she was going to have words with the Prime Naaru and then find a way to block her from speaking into her mind like this, even though its possible that such a thing would fade on its own accord, Light's Heart was not the vessel that required preparation, rather it was yours that we were preparing. You, who sacrificed much for the sake of a world that isn't even your home world and served your master dutifully until his end, these memories served as a way to strengthen your resolve and to look to them when the dark temptation surrounds you once more, to let them grant you the strength to resist and rise against the Dark Titan and his allies. Worry not, we will save Illidan Stormrage and, once more, you will battle at the side of your master for the fate of all worlds.
Normally Spitfire would frown at this, since it would seem like Xe'ra was wasting her time, before deciding not to do that as she smiled for a moment, because she was more focused on the fact that the Prime Naaru had said that they were going to save her Lord and bring him back to her, Rainbow, the rest of the Illidari, and the rest of Azeroth, to put an end to the Legion and their foul master to save the rest of creation from their Burning Crusade, to which she took off and headed for the portal back to Orgrimmar, as now she was all the more eager to find her Lord's body and soul and take the fight to their enemies at long last, and soon the Legion would fear the revival of Illidan Stormrage and his campaign to bring them and their master down.