Warcraft 3: Broken Blessings

Chapter 25

True to his thoughts, Arthas was, indeed, rebuilding his forces. He was making massive fiends of flesh to try and topple the stone golem. If he knew there were now three golems added to the force, he would have changed his tactics. The Naga had been killing the scouts to keep him unaware.

"Something is very amiss," Kel'Thuzad sighed.

"Oh?" Arthas asked. They were standing in the middle of their new camp. They had retreated a bit to the north where the mountains were. It would be difficult to find them, but, if they were found, it would be even harder to get to them from all the traps they set up. The ghouls would have no problem, but the Naga were always ready. They knew where the camp was with all the ways in and out. In many ways, the undead army was trapped in until they moved in force.

"I've been sending out scouts. Not one has returned. Do you think that something is intervening?" the Lich asked. Arthas narrowed his eyes in thought.

"At this point, I'm sure of it. Send out a larger scout. Something harder to kill," he ordered mildly. "I'm still going over what maps we have from what we uncovered. My Master is getting anxious. I need to find her."

"Of course," Kel'Thuzad nodded. He floated over to where the necromancers were crafting together various parts of flesh to make a stronger ghoul. Two abominations would be escorting this one now. An hour later, the small group quickly left to see what was going on.

"So, they sent a group?" Lady Vashj frowned. She had finally regrouped with the Naga there after acquiring the aged woman. They had her carefully stranded on a boat with some supplies so she wouldn't starve or thirst.

"Looksss like it. What do we do?" a Naga warrior asked her.

"Let's set a trap. We have a stone creature nearby. Let's lure them to it," she mused. "Also, the woman in our midst. Is she still wailing about the end of times?"

"She keepsss sssaying that by usss befriending the female that our Massster likesss will ssspeed usss to our deathsss. I jussst want to kill her..." he growled.

"We shall let our Master make that call," she said and moved to slither quickly through the trees. She scented out for Rosalia's magic to find the stone golem nearby. The others couldn't fully speak yet, but they all understood. Rosalia would have to fix them up to speak like the first one.

When she approached it, it stopped in its path to look at her. She rose up her hand and said, "We are allies. The enemy is sending out an escort for a scout. The scout is to report where the girl is with hopes of kidnapping her. We have been lucky so far, but this one may prove troubling. We hope to lay a trap. Can you assist us?"

At this, the stone golem nodded. It would help. She was quick to direct it on where to be. Now it was her turn to pause when it bent down to send out a vibrating signal with its stony fingers moving over the dirt. Another golem appeared to assist. The one that Rosalia had helped in the Outlands was able to be sent back for more support. They both now looked at Lady Vashj with a sensation that they were ready to help. At the rather wide, wicked grin she showed now, it was only too obvious how pleased she was.

"This way," she told them. They moved slowly to follow her and set up where they had to stand. When the abominations moved into view with the larger ghoul, they moved out of hiding. Little did they know that the true scout was the gargoyle hovering in the air nearby. Now that it saw there were two golems out there, it was quick to fly back. It landed by Kel'Thuzad and relayed what it saw.

"Arthas. We have a problem," the Lich sighed.

"And?" the Death Knight growled.

"There is no longer one of those stone monsters. We have two of them..."