Authors Notes. As mentioned this is the sequel to Realm of Madness. Sister Insane is a short 12 part story of horror and violence. This story is finished and my plan is to release 2 parts combined into 1 every week after re-reading and refining it, meaning a total of 6 full chapters. As it was written in segments rather than chapters some may be slightly longer or shorter than others. This story contains some grahpic descriptions of violence so be warned. Anyways hope you enjoy, please let me know what you think.


Her eyes begged release but Damasious could not move. Ava opened her mouth but no sounds came, just a dribble of blood.

"Holy Throne!"

Damasious heard Mira's quiet voice behind, then the sound of Rebecca vomiting.

"Ava!" Amendera stepped around Damasious and approached the stricken Sister. She was openly weeping.

Ava looked up, and Amendera placed her hand on her cheek. "I'm so sorry."

"Sister, it isn't your fault." Mira muttered. She stood close to Damasious, her eye liner trailing down her cheeks. Damasious took her hand and squeezed.

Amendera laid a gentle kiss on Ava's forehead and stepped back drawing her Bolt pistol.

"I'm so sorry." she repeated.

Ava nodded slowly the barest hint of a smile creasing her lips. "Send... me... home." she managed and closed her eyes.

Amendera choked back more tears and squeezed the trigger. Rebecca moaned. Mira turned to rest her head against Damasious shoulder. Damasious pulled her close and kissed the top of her head, feeling tears welling in her own eyes once more.

"We should leave..." Amendera trailed off, composed herself and said, "Someone might have heard that."

"We can't leave her like this." Rebecca sobbed.

Amendera unclipped a melta grenade from her belt. "No we can't."

By the time they reached the street the whole building was aflame and Amendera was shaking. Damasious wondered if shooting her own Sister had broken the woman. She sincerely hoped that wasn't the case but after a moment of silence the Sister Superior lashed out and punched the wall in front of her.

"I should never have left them behind." She finally said aloud, the flames casting solemn shadows on her perfect features.

Mira shook her head. "You had no way of knowing..."

"They're my Sisters. My responsibility!" Amendera snapped. "You all are."

Damasious put her hand on Amendera's shoulder and turned her. Amendera looked into Damasious eyes and saw the others Sisters pain, long years of regret and guilt. Damasious shook her head slowly.

Do not blame yourself for something you could not control, do not become like me.

She didn't say it, she couldn't but Amendera nodded. She understood. Damasious clenched Amendera's wrist and felt fingers tighten on her own in response. A warriors grip.

Amendera took a deep breath. "Everyone on this world must die. Whether it be by Bolter, chain blade or orbital bombardment, this planet will burn and it will bathe in heretic blood. Stealth is no longer a priority, we find the jamming devise and we kill anyone in our way . Let us avenge our fallen Sisters." She looked at Damasious. "All of them." she touched her finger to where Damasious had carved Kai's name into her arm.

Damasious nodded.

Mira drew back the slide of her Boltgun. "I'm with you."

Rebecca's face was pale but she shrugged. "As am I."

As if on cue a group of traitors appeared at the end of the street, drawn by the fire and smoke billowing from behind the Sisters. They stood in stunned silence, none of them were armed. Mira raised her Bolter and opened fire anyway. Blood mist filled the street, gore and bone shards erupting in geysers from ruptured bodies. Not one of them survived but the echo of Bolter fire took a long time to die away.

"They will be coming for us." Rebecca muttered.

"Good." Amendera snarled.

Damasious bared her teeth drawing Storm Fang from his sheath and her Bolt pistol from its holster.

Now there were shouts and footsteps in the streets.

"Where too?" Rebecca demanded, it sounded like they were being surrounded.

Amendera peered into the shadows and raised her pistol. She snapped off a shot and a body spilled out of the dark, a hole through his chest.

"That way." Amendera replied confidently and drew her power sword as she stalked away.

"Has she gone mad?" Rebecca murmured.

Mira shrugged, slotting a fresh magazine into her weapon. "Meeting the enemy head on? I like it." With that she began to sing and followed Amendera's retreating back. Damasious at her side. Rebecca smirked and hurried after them.

These weren't the armed priests the Sisters had encountered in the temple, Damasious mused as she hacked a man in half. He wore normal clothing, did not carry a weapon as such, just a knife he'd obviously grabbed from the kitchen. These were just normal citizens driven mad by the corruption of Chaos. Damasious almost pitied them. Almost. Storm Fang made light work of the rabble of angry townsfolk swarming around her. They carried fire pokers and brandished chair legs. It was embarrassing really. Damasious cleaved apart bodies with every swing. Frozen blood clattered against her armour where it became dislodged from a steaming Storm Fang. A shrieking woman came at her, in her hand a broken bottle. Damasious laughed at the absurdity of it and smashed the butt of her bolt gun against the woman's skull, she felt it cave in and the woman fell without a sound. Damasious shot the next man in the neck and separated his head from his shoulders. This was how a purge should be carried out. Up close and personal so the enemy could see the face of their executioner.

Mira's perfect tones cut through the angry screams of the traitors. She filled her Sisters hearts with vigour and divine light. Even as she cut swathes of people down with her Bolter her voice did not waver. Even more satisfyingly, it seemed to hurt the ears of their enemies. Damasious could see them twitching and clawing at themselves. This whole world was mad. Mira caught Damasious eye and winked. Despite herself Damasious could not help but smile seductively in response, the blood lust was upon her. All other senses were heightened with it, even her desire and Mira was a desirable woman.

Damasious side stepped another wailing traitor and buried Storm Fang down through his shoulder. His death screech was piercing but Damasious ignored it and tore weapon from his twitching body, utterly ripping him apart. Storm Fang barked and Damasious instinctively ducked, heeding the weapons warning. An iron bar whistled over her head. The Silent Sister turned ready to gut her attacker but as she rounded on him, his torso exploded, splattering her with hot blood. Damasious looked to her right and found Amendera staring at her with raised eyebrows, her bolt pistol smoking.

"You owe me one." she yelled over the din of Rebecca's Bolter.

Damasious rolled her eyes. Another one. Amendera had already saved Damasious life at least a dozen times but then the favour had been returned many times again.

Abruptly Mira stopped singing. Damasious saw her dragged to the ground as she attempted to re-load. Rebecca had become distracted by another group emerging from the opposite end of the street. Amender wasn't close enough to help. Damasious threw herself forwards, unwilling to see another sister fall. Storm Fang howled and she howled with it. She saw Mira's war knife flash, a body tumbled out of the fray but then her arm was pinned. Damasious cut down two more traitors in her way and barrelled into the press of bodies. She bowled three off their feet with the impact of her charge alone. Storm Fang cleaved through six traitors, spilling innards and blood across the ground. Damasious protectively stepped over Mira so the sister was between her legs and hacked into the crowd. There were screams and sprays of crimson as limbs were severed. Those that remained unscathed turned and fled.

Suddenly there was silence, save thing moaning of the wounded. Surviving traitors ran off into the darkness leaving their downed brethren behind. Damasious looked around her, at least four dozen, maybe more, traitors lay dead at the hands of the Battle Sisters. Blood flowed in the gutters like miniature streams and its copper stink filled the air.

"They flee the wrath of the Emperor!" Rebecca shouted. She loosed off a shot and a retreating traitor slammed into the ground, his lower back blown out in a shower of glittering liquids. "You all pay for what you have done!" Rebecca added and let off another volley into the darkness. At least one scream echoed back in return.

Damasious turned and clasped Mira's outstretched hand and hauled the Sister to her feet.

"Thank you." she grimaced brushing pieces of meat from her blood drenched armour.

Damasious shrugged.

Mira kissed her cheek. "I owe you." she bit her bottom lip and walked away.

Damasious stared after her. There was that guilt again.

Amendera re-loaded her Bolt pistol. "Come one. There's more work to be done.


"This is insane we are walking in circles. This city will be the death of us, its streets seem alive!" Rebecca moaned two hours after the battle ended.

Darkness clung to the place, thick and unyielding. They had encountered no one else since they burned the torture house down. Instead they had been wandering aimless and lost in the shifting maze that their enemies called home.

"I agree." Mira muttered. "We will find nothing if we do not make some kind of plan."

Amendera shrugged. "How do you fight something you cannot even see!"

"Make a plan?" Rebecca snapped, "I can't focus on my own hand before my eyes let alone devise a plan."

"This place fogs the brain." Amendera rested her forehead against a wall.

Mira shuddered. "It's like the walls are whispering at me."

They had been running in circles the city itself had seen to that. Through black alleys and through narrow roads that twisted like veins through a living, breathing being. Damasious could feel it crawling against her flesh. In some places the very air seem liquid. Roads twisted and changed. She barely noticed these things in truth, they were always in the corner of her eye. Her Sisters on the other hand were obviously feeling its effects.

Damasious sat down, resting her aching back against the cold stone and pondered. Amendera was never this unfocussed. Even when enraged her mind never wavered. Nor Mira or Rebecca. They weren't thinking straight and Damasious suddenly realised why. It was the Demon. Damasious herself had noticed a lack of true clarity in her thoughts but Storm Fang was always there to protect her from the full effects of the things presence. Obviously her Sisters had no such help, perhaps it had crept its way inside, changed their perception of things. Was it trying to corrupt them? Amendera had lead them to slaughter dozens of people, forsaking the advantage of stealth by giving away their position in an act of uncharacteristic violence. Damasious blinked and drew in a deep breath of stale air through her nostrils. Was there anything she could do to prevent this? Would her Sisters turn on each other? Turn on her? Damasious wasn't sure if she could kill any of them of that was the case. She grimaced, that wasn't entirely true. She knew exactly what she would do.

There was grunt inside her mind followed by an encouraging snort. Damasious licked her gums thoughtfully. Storm Fang whimpered and she felt a nudge against her spine. Damasious frowned, she didn't understand. Was it trying to tell her something? For a moment Storm Fang weakened its defence and the Demon crept closer but was forced back again by a savage howl as if Storm Fang was emphasising its point. Damasious felt it push her again. She looked up at Amendera who was leaning against a wall rubbing the bridge of her nose. She looked ill. Storm Fang whined and Damasious understood, her eyes widened. Was that possible she asked herself? Storm Fang barked an affirmative.

Damasious stood straight and crossed to Amendera, she drew Storm Fang from her shoulder. Amendera turned.

"What are you doing?" Her hand dropped to her Bolt pistol.

Damasious shook her head raising an open palm. She offered Storm Fang hilt first to her Sister.

Mira and Rebecca looked on in confusion. Damasious took Amendera's shoulder and nodded to the weapons grip. Amendera placed her fingers around the hilt, below Damasious own and the Silent Sister felt a pulse pass between them. Amender flinched but Damasious pulled her closer and shook her head. Amendera's eyes closed, exhaling loudly. Storm Fang snapped and snarled. Then as quickly as it had begun Amendera released her grip and backed off, shock upon her face.

"What happened? What was that?" she gasped fearfully.

Damasious tapped her temple and jabbed a thumb at the Cathedral.

"The Demon." Amendera breathed. "Your blade, it was in my mind. Is it protecting me?"

Damasious nodded. She turned to Mira and offered the hilt. Storm Fang grumbled in satisfaction.

"Wow!" Mira exclaimed as the deed was done. "Is that what you feel all the time?"

Damasious shrugged, smiling. Rebecca took the hilt.

"I should be repulsed, all of my training and our doctrine tells us to hate such weapons yet it is strangely comforting." Mira rubbed the sides of her head and sighed joyfully.

Storm Fang made a sound that was almost smug. Damasious smirked.

"I can think clearly." Amendera blinked rapidly. "I will not be lead astray by that thrice damned creature anymore."

Damasious returned Storm Fang to its sheath and folded her arms. She was satisfied for the moment that her Sisters were back to their normal selves.

Amendera looked around her, balling her fists. "We cannot be wandering blindly in this place. I fear the influence of the Demon has made us miss the obvious."

Rebecca made a clucking sound with her tongue. "Which is?"

"The location of the jamming device would be the most defendable place in the city." Amendera replied and pointed up at the cathedral.

"Oh you have got to be joking." Mira muttered.

"These people clearly aren't versed in the art of war but you'd have to be an idiot not see its strategic value." Amendera sounded furious and Damasious reasoned she probably was. They had all fell prey to the veil created by the Demon to confuse them. Amendera was not a weak willed woman, she'd be angry she had allowed herself to become so clouded.

Rebecca said as much, "An idiot or blinded by demonic possession."

Mira wrinkled her nose in disgust. "That's not funny."

"Either way." Amendera said sternly. "We're going back up. Though I fear our Sisters and perhaps Valten himself will have fallen to the same influence as us."

"We'd be dead were it not for Damasious." Mira said quietly. "I owe you another one."

Damasious half smiled.

Rebecca for a moment seemed lost in thought then said, "Perhaps one of us has already fallen."

Amendera's brow furrowed. "What do you mean?"

"Emilia. She has not been the same since we arrived. Perhaps the Demon has already taken her. In that room when we lay paralysed, only Damasious resisted and now we know why but if the thing got it's claws deep enough?" Rebecca chewed the inside of her mouth. "If she has turned from the Emperor's light..."

"Then it's not of her own choosing." Amendera cut in.

She turned away her finger going to her Vox mic. "Cardinal do you read me?"

Damasious listened for the reply in her own ear piece. Short range was still active, surprisingly, but there was no reply.

Amendera ground her teeth, "Valten can you read me? Carla? Ella?" she paused. "Emilia?"

The Vox clicked. An open link. Amendera glanced at Damasious her eyes watery with bitten back tears.

"Emilia this is Sister Amendera can you hear me?"

Silence for a few seconds, and then; "Yes."

"I'm not getting any reply from anyone else, what's your status." Amendera asked her voice masking desperation.

Mira and Rebecca shared a nervous glance.

Emilia said nothing she just breathed gently into the mic.

"Emilia?" Amendera insisted, "Respond?"

"And then there were four." Emilia replied and the link went dead.

Amendera didn't move. No one did.

Damasious felt her guts churn. Mira swallowed loudly.

"Oh Throne." Rebecca muttered.

Amendera looked to the skies. "If we find her, she's mine understand?"

The others nodded.

"Let's get to the Cathedral and end this!"


They decided to follow the river. It ran directly to the Cathedral, splitting the city in half. The going was still slow but now they had a purpose they made better time than before. Damasious couldn't shake the feeling they were heading into what would likely be their final confrontation. One that none of them would come out of alive. She didn't care for her own life, she hadn't for a long time but she hated the thought of her Sisters dying. Especially Mira.

And there again came the pang of guilt. Damasious hated herself for admitting it but she was slowly falling for Mira, not in the same way she had fallen for Kai but it still felt like a betrayal. In a way Damasious had always taken notice of Mira and had over the years shown more than a passing glance to other women but it had never registered in her brain because there had always been the thought of Kai. Lost and alone on some world without Damasious to protect her, Damasious' shame in that had lead her to take an oath of silence so that she may never make another promise she could not keep. Yet what she had believed had happened was never the case, her Sister had not been killed in battle. Worse she had been possessed and taken away into the Warp to live a life of debauchery and slaughter all the while looking for a way home to Damasious. Now that Kai lay dead by Damasious' own hand she finally had proper closure, even if the truth of Kai's fate had torn her apart inside. Now Damasious began to realise all the desires, however brief, she had felt for others and suppressed without ever realising they existed. Mira had shown her kindness and now it seemed she had desire's above friendship, Damasious was succumbing to her own body's needs. She was only human. The Silent Sister felt tears welling, her cheeks grew hot as she ran behind her Sisters. It was guilt, hurt and anger because of Kai. In her last moments she had begged forgiveness for her actions and told Damasious she had loved her. Damasious had forgiven her but would Kai show her the same kindness if she knew she had feelings for another? Damasious shook her head furiously. Kai was dead and she would never know. She gritted her teeth, this really wasn't the time to be thinking about it.

Hard shot and Las blasts smacked into the pavement ahead and the Sisters scattered for cover. Ahead grey robed priests were taking up firing positions in the narrow road. Damasious un-holstered her Bolt pistol. Storm Fang growled impatiently and Damasious silently apologised.

"Who wants to bet they tracked our conversation with Emilia?" Rebecca yelled as an auto gun clattered away on the hill above her. Pieces of stone exploded from the corner of the wall where she crouched.

"Now they know we've cut the Demon's strings they're going to try and stop us by force." Amendera replied.

"More pity them!" Mira retorted, leaning out to loose off a volley of Bolter shells. Two priests burst apart like ripe fruit beneath tank treads and the others ducked into cover.

Damasious snapped off a shot and decapitated another as he crossed the road. Las blasts spat back her and she got a face full of grit where they impacted against the brick work. Damasious wiped her eyes and spat.

"I count at least nine separate weapons." Rebecca yelled. She had a damn good ear.

Damasious popped out from cover again and squeezed off two shots. One caved in the chest of another priest and the second sent the others diving.

Across from her Mira popped the pin off a grenade. "Frag out!" she declared and lobbed it up the street.

There was thump then a wave of displaced air and dust, followed by screaming and scattered body parts. Rebecca and Amendera were on their feet and off into the cloud. Damasious rose from her crouched position. She saw muzzle flashes and heard more shouts of pain. With Mira at her shoulder she waited.

"Clear." Amendera called.

"That was easy." Mira replied, lowering her weapon.

"Resistance will be thicker closer to the target." Amendera re-loaded her pistol. "But this wasn't well organised, I don't think they expected us to come for them head on."

Rebecca chuckled.

"Whatever they throw at us we fight through it." Amendera urged.

"If everyone we face is either a mad citizen or one of these," Rebecca kicked a priests corpse. "Then I don't think we have anything to worry about."

Amendera rolled her eyes.

"Because the Demon under the mountain isn't in any way a danger?" Mira replied sarcastically.

Damasious smirked. It was good to see her Sisters back to normal. Fearless and resilient.

Damasious blinked painfully, she still had brick dust in her eyes and nose. She blocked a nostril with her thumb and exhaled sharply, then the other. Mira noticed and shook her head.

"Come here!" she said tearing a strip of cloth from her sash. "Close your eyes."

Damasious did as commanded and Mira rubbed away the dirt. She did it gently and carefully, and when Damasious opened her eyes again she found Mira's own storm grey gaze staring back, she was chewing the inside of her lip. For a moment neither moved then Mira blinked and turned away, her cheeks flushed. Damasious made a decision and caught her arm before Mira could walk away.

"I'm sorry..." Mira started but Damasious touched a finger to her lips.

She glanced at Amendera and Rebecca. Neither of them were paying any attention. Amendera had climbed onto one of the roof tops to get her bearings and Rebecca was watching the street, her weapon held half ready.

Damasious gently kissed Mira's lips but did not linger long enough for more. When she pulled away Mira's eyes were wide and shocked. "If we make it out of this alive..?" she swallowed.

Damasious simply nodded. Mira grinned, her eyes sparkling.

"Alright, if we follow this road up there's a t-junction, I think we need to turn left." Amendera dropped off the roof in a flurry of robes and hair. "How is everyone for ammo?" she asked pushing strands of her golden waves from her face.

"I'm good for the moment." Rebecca replied.

"Me too." Mira sounded chirpier already.

Damasious checked her stock and gave Amendera the sign for "Okay".

Amendera looked up at the stars. "The Canoness may be wondering what's happened to us by now."

"Was there a time limit on how long she should wait before sending another unit?" Rebecca inquired.

Amendera sighed. "Forty-eight hours."

"Wow." Rebecca murmured.

"Well we can't stand around here waiting." Mira said cheerily and headed off up the road.

"No we can't." Amendera replied with a wry smile, she caught Damasious eye who shrugged and followed.