Sweltering Heat
Rain poured down hard on the bleak and continually miserable day in the Highlands of Arathi. The sun hid itself behind the clouds as the spirit rained down their life giving water to the battlefield below. The remains of once strong proud and brave warriors from all walks of life littered the grounds, dying the soil a watery red as the rainwater flowed. The rain cascaded against a large, lithe seven foot troll. His dark azure hands clinched his twin Blood Fury hatchets as he stood over the dranei shaman with his foot on his chest. "'ey. Des be tryin' times, mon," he said as he held an axe to the dranei's face. "Dey say tomorrow iz nuthin' promist. Ay suppose I'twas just bad juju dat joo met me 'ere today."
The shaman gulped as he eyed the blade of the trolls ax and the way that the rain turned to steam around it. "Do your worst, troll. If I am to meet my end here, at least I can say that I lived my life doing what I thought was right."
"So joo got no regrets den," the trolls inquired as he gazed down at him.
"None that you would understand."
"Ay see," the troll uttered with a sigh as he lifted his ax, drawing back. The dranei clamped shut his eyes as he waited for his impending doom only to feel the pressure upon his chest vanish. Opening his eyes and sitting up in haste, he found the troll meandering away as he was breaking his weapon and tossing it amongst the corpses.
"What trickery do you play at troll? Why do you only break my weapons and not put an end to me."
"Deh name be Zub'ran, mon. An' I dun keel dem dat 'ave regret, ay 'ave enough spirits ta listen to wit'out bein' haunted by dey likes of joo. Go! 'andle jor regrets, so next we meet, ay can put joo down wit'out worry." With that, Zub'ran left the dranei sitting there, weaponless and defeated.
As Zub'ran walked through the rain swept lands back to the horde base, he stared down at all the struck down bodies. His mind flashed back to a similar time years past when he was slave to a arena master and forced to fight or die. He shook his head as he realized nothing much about his life had changed. Sure, now he had earned his freedom and fought only when he desired or needed to, but everything always ended the same for him. He always ended up standing amongst a field of death, hearing the whispers of the newly fallen spirits as he hoped they went for a better place.
Turning in his tally of soldiers he'd slain to the Forsaken Defilers, Zub'ran closed his eyes and called upon the spirits to take him home. Being surrounded by a massive swirl of spirits, Zub'ran took on a translucent visage as he shifted into an astral form before disappearing. Opening his eyes, he came upon the sight of Sen'jin Village, his now reclaimed home. He lumbered through the village as he passed trolls he did not know nor have much care to, until he passed into the thick brush to a secluded hut. Washing the blood from his body and armor at a nearby spring, he walked back to his hut, ascending the stairs to the second tier. Down he fell upon the bed before drifting off to sleep.
His dreams had been of memories of darker times, of slaughters and carnage. And then she came into his mind to claim his attention. The spry young, slender, turquoise skinned, near naked trollish woman danced in to his dreams. He had watched her dance around him with a sparkle in her eye. As he followed her movements, all his memories faded to the darkness, until not but she and himself were left. And as he took a step towards her, he felt the rush of flowing water over his waist as he was swept away with the current.
Opening his eyes to catch sight of the roof of his hut, he became vaguely aware of two strange sensations as he fought back the blur in his eyes: firstly, the breeze that he could feel upon his hips and secondly a moist yet textured pleasure coiling around the appendage between his legs. Sitting up, he found a grass green haired troll attending to him, "Shi...?"
The woman removed herself with a noisy smack and looked up at Zub'ran's face, grinning hungrily. "Mhmm, you're awake," she mused. "Ay was begin'in ta think you'd finish wit'out even openin' your eyes." Her green hair hung to one side of her face as tiny tusks protruded up out from her plush lips. The only thing that guarded her alluring skin was soft leather bindings about her wrists and ankles along. "When you din'tint wake when ay called you, ay looked for more 'subtle' ways ta wake you from your ancestral sleep."