Control Room, Battle Barge Aeternus, Unidentified Warpspace,
The Aeternus was a brilliant machine and bore an Aquila on the front of its hull. The Ultramarines Chapter emblem was blackened with age and soot, obvious marks of being hit with the crude cannons of the vile Orks to the sophisticated laser weapons of the Eldar. Although recently it had been rammed by an Ork Battleship it still functioned as well, if not better, than usual. Although Adrio never truly understood how space travel worked, he knew that it would move him swiftly to the world on which he would next be serving on. His initial plan was to run combat drills with his new squad until he arrived. Today however, he and Skale, a mountain of a scout almost the size of an Ogryn, were on Astropath watch for the day.
In most cases while travelling through the warp the trip was harmless, but sometimes a daemon would possess an Astropath. Skale secretly hoped that this would be one of the times there would be no daemon although if he were to destroy it he would surely get the Gene-seed. Skale had heard the stories about daemons, huge creatures with impenetrable skin and weapons the size of mountains. Adrio was sat at a table six or so feet in front of him. Skale thought he saw a flash of red light in the eyes of the Astropath behind Adrio but dismissed it instantly as a light to show the arming of the weapons as they would soon drop out of the warp. Adrio shifted in his seat leaning forward to grab his bolter and then aimed it at the Astropath.
It was a Daemon although not as mighty as Skale imagined it. It was still as large as a Dreadnought, larger maybe and had a large axe. Instantly there was a burst of fire from Adrio's bolter and Skale followed with a burst of his own. The daemon slammed its mighty axe into the ground Skale was stood on. Skale had dodged this huge blade and leapt onto the daemon's hand he ran up the arm towards its head and wrenched a horn off. He slammed it into the monster's back. He then leapt onto the horn and fired at the daemon's innards with his bolter whilst the horn was pulled down its back by gravity. The light left the daemon's eyes as it slumped to the ground. "Well done rookie," said Adrio, "you've made your first kill." Skale was to be given a Gene-seed for this triumph and would be the fifth member of The Deathblades should they lose a member.