Tales of Mulgore - Chapter 6: Ignorance is Bliss

Story by SecreT on SoFurry

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#6 of Tales of Mulgore


Writers note: This story contains reminiscense flashback scenes

Flashback scenes are made with Italic text

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Upon further inspection, the room seemed clean. I had checked the whole ship since we departed, trying to find anyone ill-tempered to our presence, but we were the only ones on board apart of the goblin crew and I wanted to relax. But time and experience has shown me over and over that I shouldnt do so. "Geez, I miss Mulgore already."

I came back to the upper deck and Sherinda was still where I left her, observing the inmense ocean while the wind gently carressed her hair. I could watch her like that for an entire day feeling calm in body and spirit, healing my disturbed mind pressured by the burdens of the past. In fact would have probably gone mad if it wasn't for her charming aura. Flamefeather was standing on the main mast, vigilant as always. She bowed as soon as she noticed me watching her, making me smile. I aproached Sherinda from behind and hugged her, placing my chin on her back, her hand reached for my head and stroked at my hair, "The seas are so big, sailing on this ship makes you feel so free."

I gave her a brief kiss on her neck and turned her around to look at her eyes. "We still have quite a few weeks until we reach land, and the trip from Stranglethorn will be long, so we need to rest as much as posible and keep ourselves healthy."

She pressed her muzzle against my lips kissing sofly. "Yeah... we'll 'rest' hehe."

Smiling at her, I got a slightly uneasy feeling, still huging her I turned my head to see the entire goblin crew watching us with wide eyes. "Er... I think... I will go ask around if I can do something to help."

Sherinda chuckled and nodded turning back around to stare at the ocean again. As the days passed, I kept myself busy helping to repair parts of the ship while Sherinda dedicated her time to keeping our gear in good shape, which brought me memories of how our first years of training...

Five years had passed since my arrival to Kalimdor, and the huge explosion which devastated the mount Hyjal. After traveling around the continent we settled up in the lands of Azshara, greeted by the furlbog tribe of the Timbermaw. Luckily for us, they were the only furlbog group who weren't affected by the corruption of the Burning Legion.

Oh yes, I knew about the Burning Legion. The wise old members of the Timbermaw briefed me about the history of Kalimdor up to today, since they were in contact with the Night elves and their leader Tyrande Whisperwind. They told me how ten thousand years ago the continents were whole and the Burning Legion invaded seeking the powers of a mighty magic well, devastating the world and spliting the lands into diferent continents. How they returned after so much time to claim the World Tree, created from the waters of the same well that was the reason of the first invasion. They also told me how all diferent races allied to face the common enemy... including the forces of Lady Jaina Proudmore which I abandoned long ago. The result was victory but at a high cost, as the corruption was completly inevitable. Since that day there was a strange peace and we received news of both humans and orcs creating towns to the south, which alowed us to avoid more conflict for now. During all this time I began teaching Sherinda about survival and found what battle style fit her more.

"Ok, lets go once more."

Another day of practice, holding her bow she tensed it and fired an arrow at me, unable to aim properly. "Open both eyes! You must never loose sight of your enemy!"

Dodging the first two shots easily, I began to rush to her, after this time I abandoned the more heavily armored tactics of the Silverhand's teachings for one more fitting our surroundings, training to increase my speed and my awareness. "If you fail to stop your opponent at a distance, you need to react quickly and switch weapons!"

As I aproached her, she took a diferent stance and withdraw a long old staff from her back waiting for my attack. "I know..." she grumbled.

Raising her weapon over her head, I could easily avoid her chop and thrusted my weapon at her chest. "Dont wait until the last moment to strike, and you must strike faster... Your enemy won't be using just a stick to attack you"

Removing the branch I tossed it away and let out a loud sigh. "Thats enough for today"

She looked at me and nodded, standing up. Her body was much different than when I first met her, she was now taller than me and her feminie traits were fully develoveped. Her mane covering all her back adorned with two small ponytails in front,done by the female furbolgs from our encampment. We returned to the little tent we were given to live, almost night time, we lit up the fire and began to cook some meat siting around it. While tossing more wood onto the fire I realized that latelly we been talking all that much so I tried to break the ice. "We've been here for quite some time now, I actually never asked you how old you were."

She smiled at me, apparently happy that we were talking, relieving some tension from training, then she began to tap her muzzle while looking at the ceiling thinking "Hmmm, we tauren count our life span by looking for the brightest star on the sky which we call the Dabalaba, this star only shows up in the sky once, every 365 nights so we count the amount of times we see it to know how old we are."

Stopping to breath a bit, she stood up and began walking outside poiting at the sky "Of course when we are born we have no way of watching the star for ourselves, so our parents do it for us. My mother... she counted the star thirteen times before she died and from that day I began counting it for myself. Today... is the 18th time I see the star..."

I could notice a single tear drop down her eye, I imagined she was remembering her parents. I couldn't help to feel a twinge of pain in my heart and felt powerless to say anything to cheer her up. "I have to speak with the Timbermaw sages tonight. You should get some sleep so we can wake up early tomorrow Sherinda."

She nodded and walked back inside the tent, laying down at the bear fur she used to sleep on. I walked outside and noticed a friendly figure standing on top of our tent, calmed and serene as always "Take care of her as always Flamefeather."

About once every week, I was called by the elders of the tribe to share our knowledge, even though I obtained more from them than I could ever give. Going inside the small hutt I noticed the scent from the burning herbs in a cauldron in the middle. Around it, three old furbolgs raised their heads at me and invited me to sit down. "Greetings again human, there is something we wish to discuss with you."

About me? I feel intrigued yet a bit scared. "What do you need to know from me, elder ones?"

The first of the furlborgs, grey fur and aparently the 'younger' of them began with his question. "As you know, we alowed you to stay because the Earthmother told us to, as you were asigned to protect that female tauren. We know your beliefs are not the same as ours, so we want to know the real reason why you have accepted this task."

I thought for a moment, trying to find the exact words. "My brethen killed her parents, coldblooded and with no reason at all... I wanted to repay her somehow."

The second furbolrg, with brown fur pointed at me "So you are not following a request but you claim it is your own will? Your race has tried to shroud themselves on a cloak of rightousness to reach their owl goals, tell me... what are your true intentions?"

What was the meaning of this? They suddenly seemed rather aggresive. "My true intentions? I just want her to be alive as long as posible, I've got nothing I would ever want to recieve in exchange!"

The third furbolg, with a red fur color and eldest of them all stoped smoking from his pipe and talked for the first time. "Young one, the last weeks we have noticed something growing withing you, something which is not meant to be. We must ask you to leave tomorrow. We cannot shelter someone who angers the Earthmother, and we are sorry for it as you have been helpfull aiding our village."

Closing my eyes I stood up and let out a sigh, bowing down, "I don't fully understand what you mean but I will respect your wishes, thank you for all the help you gave us."

Leaving the tent, my mind was riddled with questions. What did they mean? 'My real intentions'? A bunch of nonsense. I walked back to the tent where Sherinda was sleeping and sat down outside as I didn't want to wake her up. I looked at the sky, watching the Dalaraba, shining alone. It wasnt long before I began hearing some strange sounds. At first I didn't know their source, but they were like soft moans and noticed they were actually comming from inside the tent so I slowly lifted one of the corners that closed the tent, just a bit, and peaked inside. At first my eyes couldn't see anything, but as they were getting used to the dark I gasped and opened my mouth sightly... Sherinda was laying down, naked, with her legs spread. One hand was grasping one of her breasts while the other was rubbing between her legs, and she arched her back everytime she thrusted her fingers inside her sex. She had her eyes closed and breathed loudly between her moans. At first I wanted to stop peeking, but something was preventing me. It was strangely, but intesely arousing; even though her traits were completly diferent than a female human, her sex organs just drew my eyes to them, giving me an exotic feel of curiosity. "NNNGGG..."

One last, loud, poorly muffled moan seemed to mark the end of her selfpleasure as her hand stopped its movement. Her head was resting at the ground with her muzzle opened trying to catch her breath. Feeling a tingling in my stomach I looked other way and dropped the corner of the tent flap, hearing a last soft sound from inside the tent... "Secret..."

"Laaaaand!" The goblin at the mast pointed forward and anounced our arrival to the Eastern Kingdoms and our destination, the coastal town of Booty Bay. As we aproached the docks, we noticed a huge marble goblin statue in the middle of a island, hands opens as if it was welcoming us... What the hell were they thinking? While we aproachd, we inspected a map provided by the ship's navigator to try and find the best route. We were planing on traveling on foot so we had to cross Stranglethorn Vale, Duskwood, Redridge Mountains, the Burning Steppes, through the dwarven and orc fortress of Blackrock Mountain, the Badlands, ugh we had a long road to walk. Total of estimated time would be more than five months... we needed something faster.

"Hey you, the human!" I turned around as the ship had already docked and one goblin waiting at the wooden bridge pointed at me. "Are you Secret?" I nodded, "Galozwe has sent a message for you, he sent his fastest courier to deliver it to you so you must have given him a good impression." Handing me a rolled scroll the goblin turned around and walked away.Unwraping the tie on the leather while Sherinda placed her muzzle on my shoulder to read along: 'Heya boy, I still remember you telling me you wanted to reach Lordaeron right? Well I'm gonna give you another push here, but it will be dangerous. Find my cousin Nez'raz, he is the zeppelin master at the orcish town of Grom'gol, he can sneak you in one of the transports but is up to you to find the way to not get butchered by the horde. Hope to see you back in one piece! Oh by the way, and keep that tasty tauren healthy allright?'

Sherinda must have reached the end as she grabbed the scroll and threw it to the sea sighing loud, I could not help to chuckle. "Grom'gol... I heard about these zeppelins once, they're flying transports invented by the goblins to travel from their home at the Undermire to the other continents, flying could be really helpfull."

Checking our map once more, I drew an imaginary line from our position to the horde settlement, we would need to follow the coast and avoid the main path, then think of a plan to get inside unoticed to talk with the goblin. It was definately risky, but anything could happen to me, I was sure Sherinda would be safe from any attack. Without too much more thought, we departed and began to follow the coast to the north. Our weapons in hand, informed by the guards from Booty Bay as the Bloodsail Bucaners had been sieging them for several weeks now, but so far we squared off against a few crocolisks and some raptors that didn't prove to be that much of a challenge, yet we avoided them as much as posible. After several hours of walking the trees were getting bigger and the savage vegetation was more abundant; almost with the sun setting we could see our objetive in the distance, two huge zeppelins were stationated on a large tower within the confines of a wooden barrier settlement rigth near the coast. "There it is, lets get closer and wait for night time, then we will..."

Turning around quickly with my sword at my hand, I unsheted one of my daggers and crossed it to block the incoming attack, a huge trident was now trapped betwen my weapons pressing trying to overpower me to slice me down "Sssssssso... You notizzzzzzzzed my attack, thatsss impressssive I musssst say."

A naga... the huge and muscled creature placed his disgusting face over mine while making me kneel down from his brute strenght pressing his weapon to me. I could hear the sound of a stretching bow and an arrow was now aiming at the creature at point blank, Sherinda let out a cold tone voice and almost whispering "Let go or I will pierce your brain, if you even have one."

But then she raised her head and turned around shooting the arrow behind her, getting deflected by another naga wielding the same trident, the naga then rushed to her zigzaging with an incredible speed for a water creature, avoiding every arrow she fired. As the naga got closer Sherinda tossed her bow away, drawing a massive battle axe from her back getting ready for the incoming attack. "Hishishis you are to ssssslow!"

Holding the trident over his head the naga arched his back gathering strenght to make the fatal blow, but then Sherinda swiftly swinged her axe efectivily cutting the enemy in half, the upper half colapsed instanly leaving a shocking expresion on the naga's face and the lower standed still for some seconds then followed its other half to the ground. "Idiot... don't raise your weapon like that, you are to predictable."

"NNgggg!"

In the mean time the naga was winning distance of his trident with my face and now the tip began scratching my cheek but then I could heard some strange words like a whisper in the wind "Sendo balana exshala tol darek!"

Instantly, the naga was engulfed in a massive fireball and began to run around screaming in pain, its watery skin getting melted from the heat until the head took completly over his body before he could reach the sea, the strong smell of burning flesh and scales now emanating from his charred carcass. I moved my head around trying to find the source of that attack, when my eyes spotted a bush where a tiny and thin figure began to emerge from it, intense dark long hair, long pointy ears, angelical face expresion with thin red lips. An elf, her voice soft and deep "It was true after all... so the little Serimus is now an exiled from humans as well and is traveling with a tauren"

Still holding my weapons and surprised from her words, I tried to stay calm, observing her. She was definetly a high elf from Quel'thalas just like I remember them from my childhood as my mother was once a sorceress training at the Dalaran school of magic. But something was strange because her eyes were glowing with a strange greenish color, as she once more began to talk "My my... so you don't remember after all, well I guess that's normal, you were barelly a child I could hold on my lap by that time. Aren't you going to say hi to your mother's teacher?"

Mother's teacher... the image of the same face but with delicate blue glowing eyes siting me on her lap and pocking my nose came to my mind. "Terezane!"

The wild sounds of the jungle could be heard more clearly now in the night, we camped at the outskirts of Grom'gol following Terezane's advice, there the elf told me of her past and how Quel'thalas was almost wiped off of the map. Now all their race called themselves the Blood Elfs and they began infusing their bodies with a new kind of magic now that the Sunwell was gone. Also how humans betrayed them, forcing their race to join the horde which was the reason why she was there. "A mere scout, that's what I am now. It's a relatively low position for someone who has been teaching at the Dalaran school for more than 100 years don't you think?"

No matter how old she said she was, her skin seemed still young and delicate, just like I remember when I was just a child. "What about the fate of Lordaeron?"

She crossed her hands and shruged. "I know nothing about it, I heard our leaders got in contact with someone from there, but got no idea the status of those lands."

That seemed strange, the blood elfs were now enemies of the humans, which means that Lordaeron was not in hold of humans anymore? I needed to find out somehow. "First things first, Terezane tell me, do you know where I can find a goblin named Nez'raz at Grom'gol?"

She nodded but it didn't seem to be happy about it. "That little green bastard is the one taking care of the Zeppelins on the top of tower, he is usually there regardless of time. But I warn you, he is a freaky pervert so don't dare to ask me to talk with him for you."

Sherinda who has been silent for the whole time gave Terezane a cool look, as if she suspiced something, but then stood up. "I will go to talk to him, since it is an horde settlement they will alow me to enter, I will tell him what we need. I will also be taking Flamefeather as well to back me up just in case, please be carefull Secret."

Without waiting for aproval, she turned around and began walking towards the main gate. Worried but trusting her I let out a loud sigh and began to decide our next movement but then a feeling of uneasyness began to make my body shiver; it was exactly the opposite feeling I usually got when I looked upon my tauren mate and I turned my head and my eyes locked themselves with Terezane's. Her facial expresion had totally changed and now a lusty grining smile was present, then proceeded to stand up and turn her back to me giving small paced steps away. "So my dear Serimus... or Secret if you want to call yourself that, it has been really a good thing that we met here. Its been a while since I'd seen someone worthy enough to have a fun time. In fact I find all the men around here men disgusting and grotuesque. I'm trapped here unable to break away from murdering stupid pirates and animals in order to feel better, but I need something more... someone to stay here forever. So tell me little one..."

She then slowly began to undress her robe, falling easily from her thin body. Her naked, perfectly lined body was now before me, turning around with her arms crossing under her breast as if she was offering them while shyly crossing her legs hidding her sex. "Would you please love me?"

"Sorry but there is someone I already love"... that should have been my words but they didn't came out, stunned with my mouth half opened my hands dropping the map on the ground. That body was what we could consider perfection, a soft pinkish skin, rounded and pert little breasts, long lengs and arms with delicate hands and thin fingers. Watching my noticiably charmed state she giggled and aproached me and leaned forward over me, forcing me to lay down. Her small breasts now pressed against my chest she began to grind her legs against mine and her hand reached my balls while my cock was getting hard under my pants. Her mouth moved to my ears and began whispering with a soft voice, "Be mine, stay here for eternity and I will show you the greatest pleasures that you could imagine, you will have this body whenever you wish to."

Saying this her tongue began to lick my neck while her hand rubbed her pussy while still grinding her whole body against me, thrusting her fingers inside her while pressing her hand against my nuts letting out soft moans as she sped up. My body numbed and unable to move, sweating and heating up, was it a spell? Or my own wish to give in to lust and forget everything that could be mean anything to me? The blood elf began to thrust herself harder and faster driping her cum as she aproached a self pleasuring climax, "Secret..."

Sudenly my mind reacted and the single figure of a younger Sherinda in the night woke me up making me toss Terezane away violently while standing up quickly, panting and breathing heavily while shaking my head to clear my thoughts, "Sorry Terezane... but there is someone I love and promised to protect forever, I can't stay here with you."

Her fustrated face was followed by a deeper and angered voice, "What, you mean that freaking animal? How can you possibly see anything with her? She is hideous and disgusting, you couldnt posibly have more fun than with her than me."

Cleching my fingers trying to hold myself fron such offenses I tried to calm myself and just ignore all of them, "That is none of your buisness. Now please cover yourself and get out of here, we will be gone by tomorrow so just forget about us."

The proud elf stood up and sighed heavily, but kept her head high. She began to walk away, but not without giving a last bit of dreadful information, "Is that so...? Then if you don't want to do it my way, we will do it the hard way. I will inform the guards about the illegal boarding of one of the zeppelins and you will be discovered, no matter how hard you try to hide I will find you, I can feel your presence. Your dear cow will be acussed of treason and probably executed, and even if she manages to escape I will hunt her down and burn her myself. You have two choices, either be mine and save her life or reject me and lose your life and hers, you have until tomorrow to make up your mind, I will be waiting at the other side of the river near the waterfalls. Oh and... don't try to run away, I have eyes all over this place."

Letting out a huff, she blended in the night and disapeared. What was going on? What was going on with this era and making all women go mad and get in my way? Now I had the worst desition I would have ever have to make. A dead end, no way of getting out of this, in pure anger and fustration I knelt down and punched the ground below me, "Dammit!"

"Awww mon, you be havin a sorta big problem do ya?"

Swiftly grabing my sword and turning around I faced a figure in the dark which aproached me. A troll, blue skined with long tusks, face painted and holding a pipe on one of his hand while the other was placed at his back. "Now now don't be like dat ma friend, I don't seek to be battling with ya."

His words didn't inspire my trust but for some reason I felt like he was telling the truth, so I lowered my sword back and stood up. "Who are you?"

The blue haired troll gave a silly smile inhaling his pipe before saying any word "Ma name be Se'jib, but that be unimportant for what I want to offer you. I can help you with that elf with a solution we both will benefit from."

Inevitably doubting I wiped the sweat from my forehead, "How can I trust you?"

Like if he was waiting for that question he awnsered without wating "You can't, yet what else can you do?"

I sighted... "I'll listen to you..."

The subtle sound of the water droping at the waterfall could be heard clearly as I aproached, under it a naked blood elf showered her heavenly body. I ducked behind a bush while the troll approached her. From my hiding place, I could see she once more had that lustfull smile printed on her face while leaning her neck backwards to wash her face, I had to strain slightly to hear her words, but I cought most of them.

"You are here... well then, what is your desition?" Without saying a word, the troll began undressing himself and got into the water moving towards her, the waterfall washing over his back as he took both her arms and forced her against the rock wall. Giving a little giggle of satisfaction she opened her legs in an inviting way while arching her back and stretching her arms towards the wall, an offer he didn't decline so he took his dick and rubbed it against her already wet pussy... but instead and without any teasing he thrusted it up her tiny butthole and began to mercilessly hump her while she made loud gasps and moaned everytime that big blue lance impaled her little ass. "Oh.. Ah... you sure... start hard don't you... but thats ok... now that you are mine I will allow you this and even more!" Talking betwen pantings she reached her hand to his face and began to caress it... but what she didn't seem to notice were the huge nose and troll tusk. "It worked" I said to myself while I was hidding. Just like the troll told me, all I had to do was to get close to her while he approached, wearing the talisman he crafted the night before. The effect of the talisman as the troll taught me was to permantly create an illusion which would make the first one aproaching her to belive it was me, as the talisman was crafted with my own blood, so at her eyes Se'jib would be forever myself. I still remember his words, "Equal trade mon, you get to continue on your journey and I get a little slave forever. That be da power of da Voodoo" But still I couldn't help to feel a bit guilty about what I had just done, even if it was for our own sake I just made someone live in a lie for the rest of her existence, a perfect example of ignorance is bliss... "Sorry Terezane."

As I came back to our encampment, Sherinda was there pacing around, still aparently worried. "Secret! We were you? I though you had left me alone." With a soft smile I approached her and took my lips to hers, giving a brief kiss, "I just went to say goodbye to Terezane, she had to return to her patrolling duty. But anyway, what did you find out? Were you able to find him?" She nodded "He is atop the tower and I showed him Galozwe's letter, so he accepted to take us in with one condition: To sleep with me." What the hell was wrong with goblins nowadays, they are all a bunch of perverts, so I sighed and asked her, somewhat sure of her answer, "And...?"

She flexed and gave me an ample smile, "I beat him up and he accepted in exchange of not getting more pain from me. The zeppelin will be departing tomorrow morning and he also told me the best way to sneak you in it!"

"This... is... so... humilliating..." Almost naked, just a cloth to cover my private parts, Sherinda was now carrying me with a rope tied to a collar at my neck, giggling and aparently happy about it. It seems like the pervert goblin had this... toy and told her that he used to see a lot of orcs carrying night elf slaves on board the zeppelin, so this would alow me to pass. "Come on honey, let me enjoy having a slave for once." I sighed... we entered Grom'gol fooling the guards, though embarassingly as every orc in the camp pointed and laughed, and climbed the tower, where a little goblin awaited us with bandages all over his body yet holding a huge smile mark of their race and inviting us inside, laughing nervously when he saw Sherinda. A huge horn announced the start of the journey as the zeppelin began its movement. So all we could do for now is try to relax in our private quarters. I lay down on the bed and couldn't help but think about Terezane, but then I noticed the rope of my neck being pulled and Sherinda at the other end of it looking at me with a lusty grin, "Oh no no... don't think it will be like that, remember that for the rest of this trip you are my slave..."