Prologue

Screaming, that was the first word that was supplied into Ailke's mind. The next was danger. The little girl, of about four or five, cried soft enough to be undistinguished from the moans and screams while hiding. Something, that looked close to human but more…evil had came out of nowhere and begun to take prisoners and kill the city of Heroine. Her father, a man who was in the Imperial Guard before her birth, had brought out his old saber sword and then tossed a laspistol to her mother. Several minutes into the invasion, her mother was dead and Ailke was holding the laspistol while hiding behind their now turned onto its side dining table, which was made the safest spot in the house and maybe even the city in the small corner she was in but that couldn't last for long. A scream was heard and she looked out the window to see her father fighting one of the monsters. She climbed through the window and ran to her father to help.

"Daddy!" The two turned and saw her coming at them. The dark eldar smiled evilly while the father looked to his daughter in fear.

"Stay right there, Ailke!" She stopped and the father sighed in relief. The dark one crackled from behind her father and swung its axe in a low sweeping arc that impacted under her father's ear and then went diagonally up to cut off half of her father's head. His body fell to the ground and the eldar advanced towards Ailke. She looked at him with terror and he spoke.

"Are you going to put a fight up like your father, little Ailke or are you going to make this more pleasurable with your screams of pain as my Torturer slowly injects you with a poison that make your insides feel as if they are burning?" Ailke's hand was shaking as she brought up the laspistol and shot at him. He dodged gracefully then picked her up by her neck, and held her as she struggled weakly, the oxygen unable to fully get to her brain. He laughed at her as the other dark eldar began to go back through the portals, their ships filled with prisoners but their plan failed when a woman shouted out.

"Come on you idiots, let's kill these damn heretical bastards in one great blaze of glory! The emperor wants these mother-fuckers dead!" The man holding Ailke looked up to see a Basilisk, with a woman on top of it giving orders, running through the ranks of the dark eldar with Imperial Guards following back.

"Archon Damien! We need to leave now! We don't have the necessary." Damien grabbed Ailke's laspistol and shot the dark eldar who was talking.

"Thank you for tell me. Next time, don't order me around, scum." He dropped Ailke and walked past the body, pausing only to step on it harshly enough to crush the body's skull. Ailke looked at his back shaking, he killed her whole family…he would pay.