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// Blood and Thunder! For the Horde! 
// Story: Cross-Realm Raiding 
// by Bishibosh the Shaman 
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Cross Realm Raiding
Chapter Eighteen

Any normal leader would take this situation seriously. They would weigh the consequences and provide a favorable outcome. They would do everything they could to avoid conflict. Garrosh Hellscream is not a normal leader however. Rumors that his Tauren allies were hiding this portal to a new land was all the evidence he needed to brand them traitors. They had motive the day he defeated their leader in single combat, and word that a certain sunwalker was even aiding the son of the Alliance King was just fuel to the fire. Garrosh ordered Mulgore and Thunder Bluff to be burned.

The assault was as brutal as it was swift, and it all started with the assassination of Baine Bloodhoof, chieftain of the tauren. After he fell most of Thunder Bluff fell as well. None of the warriors knew how Garrosh had built such an army, but the invading orcs ravaged the plains of Mulgore. Fires were lit and animals were butchered. The kodo were captured and used as beasts of burden. The remaining tauren were executed. The carnage was unending, watched by the watchful eye of a certain orc warlord. An orc of untold origins, who simply went by Kar'Dash.

"Warlord, we have found the machine" a lone orc grunt reported.
"Really... and what is being done to it?" Kar'Dash responded.
"We have our engineers studying it no."
"And what are YOU doing about it?"
"Uh... I was... reporting our... findings to... you?" The grunt answered nervously.
"Hmmm... I smell something in the air..." Kar'Dash sniffed.
"Wh-what do you smell sir?"
"I smell... fear... doubt... weakness..."
"Uh... sir?" a flash of steel cut the grunts words as Kar'Dashs axe cleaved through the grunts skull. Surrounding orcs watched, as well as the near death tauren captives.
"This grunts... this is a coward... Take a wiff, smell his fear. The TRUE Horde has no place for cowards! And this is their payment for their cowardice!" Kar'Dash ranted as the orcs surrounding him cheered and yelled. Many of them calling for more tauren deaths. Kar'Dash smiled as Mulgore burned...





"NO!" Bishosh jumped from his bed, shaking and quivering. Fluttershy shot up just as fast as he did, then looked at him and frowned.
"Nightmare again? Do we need to take you to get checked? Maybe Twilight can help you" Fluttershy offered softly.
"My home... destroyed..."
"What? You are home love, and it is just the way I left it when we went to bed."
"No... Mulgore... burning... my people are dead..."
"Are you sure? You just woke up, it was only a dream."
"It was too real... I felt it... The axe to my neck." Bishibosh stopped and remained silent. "I'm sorry, I should have kept that to myself. You are right my love, let's go back to sleep."

Bishibosh laid back down and wraped his fore-arms around Fluttershy, who was still worried up until Bishi began to pet her mane as she fell asleep. Bishi couldn't sleep though, he knew his dreams and he knew his visions... this was a vision. He almost crawled out of bed when Fluttershy let out a silent, yet cute, yawning noise. He then decided he wasn't going to worry her anymore, so he forced himself to sleep.





"This is the portal?" Kar'Dash asked as a half legion of goblin engineers hustled with the machine, fearing for their lives.
"Yes, this is it... The beginning of a new conquest" Garroshs eyes gleamed with a dark red.
"If I may inturupt my War Chief, but are we not already spread out across Pandaria?" Kar'Dash's question was answered with a hand held to his throat. Garrosh lifted him up into the air to meet him eye to eye.
"Do you doubt your abilities?" Garrosh asked, strangling Kar'Dash.
"Do you doubt The Horde?" Kar'Dash was gasping for air as he clawed at massive orcs arms.
"Do you doubt... me?"
"N-n..." Kar'Dash gasped as he let out a final breath. "No..." Garrosh let him go.
"Good... now gather your men. I want to see this strange land under Horde control, I have some unfinished business to attend so I leave the conquest in your capable hands."

Kar'Dash was still on the ground clasping his neck, but he understood his War Chief perfectly. This was the glory of the Horde. Gaining his breath he raised a fist in the air screaming at the top of his lungs...

"FOR THE HORDE!"

The countless numbers of grunts just beneath the hill followed, their shouts were heard all across the barrens... War was coming...