{no pictures added in this chapter sorry} {disclaimer in author notes.}
The galaxy is in a pendulum… switching between men and gods, between the mutant and the alien… who play their lesser games… but the game is already set... The players chosen… were each moves cost worlds and systems…
Where the golden guardians watch the timelines… and the demons playing for power, were aliens and mutants playing for the right to life… but our king… our emperor… our cosmic god…. Dressed in black… with an army of dead… with hidden sorrow of things that could have been…
Watched from a chair… the lights of the universe slowly dim… as monsters cast shadows into space… where sleeping gods wake to a universe on fire, and innocent aliens, young and ignorant take their first baby steps to a wider sea… they believe themselves ready…
Fools… don't even have a real God… just a whisper of one… but like the fallen away… they will meet their end all the same… the game is set… the players are chosen…
→Excerpt of a madman's 'remembrance', inquisition log number… ←
Feeling the souls of three of her sisters, the leading demoness, looked at Layla with a smile, with horns that glowed and muscles that expanded, with a sexy stomach and a pair of perky breasts. With opened arms in a gesture of expression, she said:
[congratulations… for you, three of my sisters have fallen… you must feel so thankful…]
{why would I be thankful? Aren't you the one with all the power? Isn't that what all demons want?} replied Layla through eye squints.
[power…hmm…yes, power…. But what is power to me? I've already been made perfect… or maybe… this is part of it? You know... Daughter of the corpse one, I wasn't ordered to capture you... At least not yet… nor was I ordered to guard you… my single purpose for being here was only to open the way… yet here I am… as if 'fate' had told me to…] replied the demoness as she continued to slowly absorb more warp energy.
Seeing and feeling the changes happening to the demon in front of her, Layla began to panic in her mind, though not showing it outwardly.
{Miss A any plans? Because if this Bitch attacks, I don't think I'll live!}
[then why did you stop running child? Well, never mind, I suppose it didn't matter… if this demon wanted to, you wouldn't have made it anyway… just keep stalling for time.]
{why?}
[because two can play the absorbing game, listen I have a plan, but we will only get one shot at this… so don't miss!] replied Miss A, as she went eerily silent for a moment.
Not fully understanding the plan but feeling the pressure of a glow in her heart, Layla had some idea what Miss A was going to do, but it was a crazy idea, one that may make things worse later on, but now wasn't the time to worry about future problems.
Inside Miss A World:
The room was dark, and like space and the universe, the room mirrored each other! But at the center was a light that mimicked the astronomican! A beautiful beacon of warmth… in a spaced field with cold… and in one hand, held the heart of a demon and another a red jewel that contained the soul of an Eldar! Where a book and a feather 'lie' floating and talking!
With blank pages and a pen… with runes floated in blue ink, with a blessing with black and pink, came a scream of an Eldar soul! As a heart floated in a white light! Consumed in its warmth… it joined with an Eldar soul! Hammered in by a golden hammer, held by a vestige of a man in gold and black!
Where each swing shook the world, and crumbled the stars, were the lights dimmed! And were the screams of madness ignored, were the Eldar begged for release and the demon laughed as it burned! Held down by a golden glove and hammered into shape!
Cracks in real space began to form around a girl and a demon on a train! As they talked, they each felt the other.
{if you won't order to do any of this, then why are you still here? Don't you have work elsewhere?}
[your right, I should be going, but for some reason, I don't want to… something is demanding I stay… is it my god… or is it me… I don't know… but something is telling me to watch this to the end…]
{...}
[aw… what's with that look? Don't worry I won't use lustful tricks this time…]
{oh! And why should believe the words of a demon?}
[you can't nor you shouldn't, but I… desire… to feel it… something… and you're lucky for by oath, I am bound…]
{bound by what?}
To Layla's return question, the demoness opened her mouth to speak but, paused… thinking for a moment but couldn't find the voice to her words…
[hymn… odd... I don't seem to remember…]
While the two continue to converse, the crack in real space widens, as a particular sound rang in the heart of everyone in the star system!
'Ding'
'Ding'
'Ding'
Like a heartbeat in rhythm, the sound is revibrated throughout the star system! Forged in fire people felt the heat, even in cold or dead worlds, while the stars pulsed in joy! But to a demon's ears, the sound was like a physical pain that couldn't be described, not too painful and not too sharp, but a pain in the mind.
Hearing the sound, the Canoness stopped her talking along with the angels! All was silent onboard the ship and out! The silent hymns ceased and the moans and screams onboard the fortress ceased… like a moment of silence throughout the world and beyond, but to two…
Like a raging storm overhead, rain began to fall, but no clouds could be seen, and thunder and lightning flashed in and out of real space! Layla's eyes began to show their signature glow, along with her hair…as her skin and armor toured a slightly glossy finish!
To answer this call, the demoness, pupils shrank, as her skin turned to scales, with hoof feet that shed their leather exterior to something slenderer and softer… but still kept their weight. While towards her back, a pair of odd wings grew! Coated in demon's blood and misshaped to look like two different species! While at the hip, two smaller wings curled her hip! But broken and twisted, as no bones existed, they could spin and twirled any which way they pleased!
With the signature of a succubus tail, the fine fur that covered it, fell apart to a bare tiny-eyed mouth, and a tongue! Were her armor shed its toughness to look more like the beauty of Slaanesh…
For as the thunder flashed, the beauty cast a horrid shadow in false space! While Layla cast a holy shadow with wings. But as the train continued to rip apart the winds, the two stared at each other, through the ringing and the applauses of thunder… with a shield surrounded in a mist and a cavalry sword that grew more demonic in its elegance…
Layla's sword swelled in a burning beam, beautifying and purifying… That even as the Canoness Danicia watched from her ship, her men couldn't help but ask:
[Lady Danicia, what weapon is that trainee using?]
[I… don't believe it…] replied Danicia in shock.
[???] replied the men as the other battle sisters in the room all took a knee!
[by the emperor's grace… it's the true form of the blade of admonition!] continued Danicia with a hand on her chest.
[true form?]
[yes… even I had my doubts, but the legends…. are real!]
[what legend?] Cut in Gabriel over the vox
Taking in the moment, Danicia closed her eyes, before replying:
[when Alicia Dominica welded it… she killed many heretics… during the Age of Apostasy… and none more worthy of them…. when she used it to end the rule of Goge Vandire…]
[Goge Vandire… wait do you mean that Vandire! The one who ruled the ecclesiarch, back in the 36th millennium! The one who murdered all the cardinals!] said Gabriel cutting in.
[the very same….] replied Danicia with a closed fist before continuing
[Vandire, was the very man who was our order's greatest benefactor and our biggest failure, a man who renamed us from "his daughter" to "his brides" ... even now we still keep his descendants under close watch… my poor sister…. Who fell for his 'lies'...]
[All alright, Danicia I think you're getting off-topic…] replied Gabriel as he continued to watch Layla through the monitor.
[my apologies, chapter master, the legends tell that when Alicia went with her sisters to see the emperor on his throne, now, although the words exchange remain a mystery, many sisters who saw her afterwards, swear they saw the blade of admonition as a burning blade, one said to be similar to that of the sword once wielded by the emperor himself!
But different, because as she cut Vandire in half, the sword wasn't just blazing, but coated with sparks of lighting, and an odd double edge…that contained the souls of all the heretics it has slain!... including Vandire! Then as the souls wailed and swirled around the blade… written words appeared in a psyker language only the emperor knows.]
[hmm... Were the words ever recorded?] asked the chapter master with curiosity
Shaking her head, Danicia simply replied by continuing to stare into the monitor…
In darkness there is void… and in perfection, there is only absolution! Words that coated a serpent tattoo, and as it moved alive, its double head split into two! One joined its slithering body with the demon's shield, and another to her sword!
As the demon grew in size, the Incaendius dreadnought fell to its knees, with a broken mechanical arm, and ridden with scars… while the two death guards limped away missing chunks of flesh and armor, with guns battered beyond use!
Seeing his chance, the great devour that hid, opened the floor! The forest cried as the sinkhole expanded for a mile! As the two reposed themselves at the bottom of the basin, they looked up to the few burning branches that lit up the dark canyon, only to see in the shadows, glowing Tyranid eyes!
While on a cliff edge, Bourgidus, had to make a choice, jump or continue to the fight, but battered and broken, and out of bombs, he chose to drop his weapon and to pull from his back… the flail of corruption!
[Akios… I do not have the time to entertain you anymore!] yelled Bourgidus as he spread his flail onto the plant life at his feet! Corrupting them with pathogens of mutations! Growing faster than the bullet could put down, the plants became monsters of an enormous size!
[ugh! Keep them blood bugs busy, will you?] continued Bourgidus as the sight of the train was getting closer.
With snake eyes, the demoness continued to observe Layla, as their warp energies communed with each other! Feeling it, she sensed the greed of followers of Nurgle getting closer, and the gluttony of the great beast! But ignoring them, even as the wrath of man drew near, the demoness sank into her world, one that was her own, that not even Slaanesh was a part of!
There all the living desires swirled about abundantly as she found a horrid truth… one that made her seethe… once leaving it, she now understood why she was giving this sword in particular…for once it was a golden blade that held the aspect of a firebird! Now purple and swallowed in the image of a snake, the sword that once she wielded with pride, now… made her feel sick and disturbed! To the point, she even questioned her oath….
Cursing out a scream in frustration, she sent out a shock wave of uncontrolled warp energy into real space! Feeling the brunt of her force, Layla closed her eyes, as a golden bobble shell protected her, but as she weathered the storm, her mind was placed in a beam of pure light!
Warm and comfortable, she looked up at a beating heart in purple-pink chains! While a man dressed in half black and gold looked at her with a head tilt! Seeing the man, Layla reached out to him, only for the figure to disappear into nothing! But having an idea who it was, Layla bowed her head to honor the man. But it was only then… as she looked up that she noticed, she wasn't in the body of Layla but in her earthly soul!
In that moment the world spun in his eyes, till he faced the girl known as Layla! But unable to speak and with no readable emotions coming from the girl, the man looked down to see a golden chain that linked him to her soul. Curiously he touched it, only for words to spread apart in blue ink. Of course, he couldn't read them, but that didn't stop him trying…
But written in pure gothic, he soon gave up as he felt a subtle pull coming from the chains! Noticing it nudging him towards the girl's soul! In an instant, the man understood what was happening, and said in words that became audio:
{I'm sorry…}
To his words, the girl simply smiled and said:
[it's "his" will and my duty…]
And so… with a smile and a fusion kiss, a silhouette of Miss A appeared in a purple and pink haze, where the green stains from her Necron captors began to loosen in color and fade weakly, while her pink outline grew stronger by the day. Without words exchanged, Miss A floated up to the heart and embraced it!
Squeezing it! And causing the veins inside to show the soul of a trapped Eldar! Although the Eldar didn't look to be in pain now, even as the heart was squeezed. But even so, Layla did feel a little for it… and so, Layla looked to Miss A with many questions but found it impossible to talk!
Miss A only smiled at Layla's silly attempts to communicate, as Layla didn't even fully understand what was going on. She did though, watch as Miss A continued to pour the blood from the heart onto the top of her head, while she bathed in the light!
Feeling the rich blood, that contains the purified essence of a demon of Slaanesh, and the richness of an Eldar, caused her to suddenly open her eyes in real space! Regaining consciousness, a beam of light shot out from within her into the atmosphere!
With its all-encompassing light, the battle sister and all the guardsmen in the world or out bent the knee! While the angel questioned everything! And the hive queen's eyes sank in joy! While the navigators in the warp stared in wonder even as the light didn't burn their minds or their eyes… While the demons that swirled in the warp burned by its touch!
Seeing the light, one of the battle sisters screamed:
[is it Saint Celestine?]
[no! It's not her…] replied Danicia not daring to look away. While a certain man on board the red tear got up from his hidden throne and clenched his fist!
[then... If it's not her… Who is it?] replied the battle sister excitedly.
[it's… a true daughter of his majesty!] replied Danicia unblinkingly.