Chaplain Darius finished the Rites and turned to face the Chaos Horde
gathering in the distance. It seemed that a few of the far off Heretics
wore the colors of the Fallen, it truly would be a good day for him and his
men.
He scanned over the line of Terminators, and beyond, to the standard
marines and to the Lumbering demon engines beyond.
To the right of the line he saw the Mighty Lord riding proud upon his
beast of war, thinking himself invincible, with the lascannons of his
retinue gleaming in the sun.
To the left, two horrible beasts of war stood behind a hill, a
Bloodthirster and a Dreadnaught, each scanning the marine force for targets.
Rykus signaled the attack, and the two landspeeders zipped to the fore,
followed closely by the jump packing marines, with Darius leading them.
The crew of the Hephaistos manuvered the vehicle to a better firing
position, behind the scouts on the hill, who were drawing beads across the
Bloodthirster's massive frame.
From the Razorback poured squad Paean, taking positions behind the great
war machine, and the Dreadnaught, Mors, changed his angle to get a better
shot.
The gunner of the Aeolus opened fire with the multimelta, and the Mighty
and proud Chaos lord riding atop his awesome Juggernaut ceased to be.
His retinue looked around in shock for a moment, and a second hiss was
heard, this one coming from the Boreas, as it slammed its blast of heat
into the Bloodthirster, drawing forth a bit of its blood.
Squad Ilimanen unleashed their armament upon the mighty bloodthirster, but
the two shots which found thier mark rebounded harmlessly from the beast.
Terminator Squad Alpha unleashed their guns on one of the standard squads
of marines, eliminating two from the field, and the combined fire of the
support tanks eliminated one of the Demonic predators.
Finally, squad Thanatos unleashed a volley of missles at the Terminator
squad in the fore, eliminating one more.
All weapons but those carried by the terminators were brought to bear upon
the Landspeeders, and the air filled with a hail of bolter fire and las
cannon blasts. The Bloodthirster took wing and flew towards the loyalist
terminators, hoping to gain glory for the throne of Khorne, while the two
squads of Terminators slowly advanced.
The salvo of fire directed at the speeders succeeded in destroying the
Aeolus, but merely shook the Boreas and its crew, blasting the multimelta
off of the hull.
The terminators opened fire on the Assault Marines, but managed to kill
only three.
The bloodthirster landed before the Terminators, and proceeded to rend
three of them from limb to limb, the final two attempted to strike in
retribution, but were unable to penetrate its thick hide. Terminator Squad
Alpha headed back to their drop pod with amazing speed, and the
Bloodthirster landed at the fringe of the battle, letting loose a loud
bellow as the members of Alpha squad fled.
With a cry of anger seeing his fallen brothers, Darius revelaed the Relic
he carried, a sealed globe, carrying within it a lock of Lion'El Jonson's
hair. He and the remaining two in his squad took flight, and slammed into
their enemies.
Squad Paena quickly advanced up the battlefield, and behind them Mors took
up a firing position.
Fire and smoke filled the air as Squad Thanatos let loose their deadly
payload, missles slamming into the retinue of the Chaos Lord, and
eliminating their presence from the field, as Squad Ilimanen provided them
with the final two killing blows.
The razorback's Lascannon hissed, and its roar took with it one of the
distand Predators, while Mors leveled his guns at his heretic counterpart,
and in a roar of thunder, smoke, and light, blasted the mechanical beast to
its final doom. Within the shell of the Proud Loyalist Dreadnaught the
ancient soul of a Space Marine could be seen almost smiling.
The Predator annihilators weapons failed to scratch any of its targets,
but the pistol carried by one of the members of Assault Squad blew a gaping
hole in one of the terminators they now faced.
With ferocity Assault Squad Eos fell upon their prey. Darius crushed the
helmet of his opponent with a single fist, while his two compatrots shoved
their pistols into cracks in the armor of the other terminator and fired,
eliminating his pathetic life. They rushed forward, further down the field,
and slammed into a second squad of terminators.
The guns of Chaos lay almost silent now, with a single volley of shots
from the last remaining Chaos marines failing to damage the Boreas.
The Bloodthirster slammed its mighty fists into the hull of the
Hephaistos, but could not penetrate its Blessed armor, only knocking the
crew from their chairs for a moment.
On the opposite side of the fray Darius slew his enemies with three quick
swipes of his Azarius. The two final members of the heretic's squad were
able to defeat one of the last two of Eos, but when Darius turned on them
with fire in his eyes they knew that they were slated to die.
Squad Ilimanen turned their guns upon the mighty bloodthirster, who
thought nothing of the puny mortals behind him, and with two shots to the
back of the head ended the life of the great Daemon, sending him back to
the warp.
With the death of the Bloodthirster the heretical scum quit the field,
leaving the Space marines in possessionof ultimate victory, with only eight
casualties on the field.
Darius ignited his jetpack and flew back to Rykus.
"Twas a good day for the forces of the Emperor, was it not Commander?"
"Aye," responded Rykus. "My only wish is that I was able to do more damage
to those Fallen ones myself."
"From the markings on the armor of two of the deceased, it appears that
they were in the service of the Alpha legion, on a planet in the outer
regions... perhaps there would be a good place to pick up our search,
commander?"
"Yes. Send for reinforcements from the home base, we shall need a squad of
reconnasaince for the next few battles, and a replacement for the speeder."
"I shall get right on it."
End.
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