I was bitter and afraid about this. Gertrude was so confident that Slaanesh would be enough to help me win that he was only willing to teach me so little in the ways of hand to hand fighting. He had at least given me this leather armour to wear, with this heavy thick padded glove to serve as shield. Although it wouldn't stop be from being cut if I was hand was stabbed, the glove would at least absorb most the blow. I was then also given dagger that was more like a sword, but was light enough to make it called a dagger.

"Right here's the troops," spoke Gertrude as he led in his cohort into my home. There were actually eighteen of them, but it was meant to be that it was an acceptable number so long as it was a multiple number from six. The Six Sentinels however would only number six, but Gertrude strongly claimed that it they'd need another six men to eliminate the vigilant veterans.

Amongst the Silent six were familiar faces were ones I met with Gertrude for the first time. It reminded me how much I despised and feared Gertrude. It made it strange that I saw him now, it was almost scary.

"Has the little lamb became a tiger has she?" asked one of the goons with a sly grin.

"Actually she still needs to find her claws before she's a tiger," slithered Gertrude. "Maybe once she's struck her knife into Bella she'll have found them."

"Well let's get on with it," grouched another goon. "Eager to put that manipulative cur to rest."

We marched out onto the streets. Like me, they were all armoured in heavy leather, some of them though like Gertrude just dressed casually for some reason, probably because this leather was somewhat restrictive and maybe didn't do as much good than what they were wearing. Besides that they were armed with an assortment of weapons from knives, crossbows and shield. We also all wore our veils so that the Six Sentinels could not read our plans from our expressions.

Really I felt we were making our way to battle then again we were. It made me uncontrollable; I couldn't explain why it made me uncontrollable. Was it the power of having such dangerous men on my side, the idea that I could die or just the sheer excitement. Whatever it was I just had to embrace it and hope it would please Slaanesh, I needed to make him a closer ally than any.

"Right," sneered Gertrude. "Here we go."

As discussed in our plan, there was no real plan. We just waited until it got night when there were no clients around and stormed in.

All the Silent six went in first with Gertrude booting the door open. They made no attempt to be silent and just roared for the Sentinel Six to come for them and like that the four of them did. They crawled out from the corridor armed with bizarre weapons that ranged from barbed whips and these oddly curved swords. They wore little armour, showing off their muscled and pastel skin that had a tint of purple, they however were all wearing helmets and robes and a few wear metal shoulder pads.

The Silent six came at them filled with excitement and overcame with adrenaline, but each attack was parried almost easily. The Silent six was being pushed back by a counter attack of flashed blades and lashing whips. The Silent six were unhindered though and were on the assault again once the Six sentinels were near the centre of the room and began to dance around them forming circles The sentinels were attacked from all sides but the Silent six were still being outmatched, one had gotten his leg half severed, another was slashed across the face and another one was whipped across the chest, while the Six sentinels were unharmed. It was such art and skill, it was beautiful really.

"Okay, that's us opened up a way through," hissed Gertrude. The Silent six had managed to pull the Six sentinels away from the corridor entrance. "Let's go!"

We hurried through the corridor, but there was only six of us. The fact that fourteen were barely standing a chance against four of these elite guards, it… it actually made me look at Gertrude.

"Do I have something on my face girl?"

"Just be careful."

"What an odd request."

It was, but the only person in this world that had truly taken care of me was Gertrude and made me concerned that he would have to take on those warriors.

"Stop," yelled one of the Silent six.

One of the Six sentinels stepped out from the darkness. I could already see the trouble we faced. He blocked the way down the two-man wide corridor and it was far too long and risky to go back.

"Looks like we have no choice but to try and take this one down," sighed Gertrude.

He did make a ratio a four against one ratio to take down a Six sentinel.

One of the Silent six fired his crossbow and the Six sentinel ducked away from it like a viper and lashed out at us. One of the Silent six was already cut down by the sabre in his left hand and another had his sword knocked of his hand.

I was tempted to grab Gertrude soon as he lunged to take the fallen brethren's place. His club and sword were almost invisible with the speed he gave to match the Six sentinel's own, but he already wore out within seconds. His comrade came to had retrieved his weapon though and came to his side, but they were still pushed back by his sheer skill. The reason they probably hadn't been skilled yet was because the Six sentinel bore at halberd, not able to have enough room to maximise his swings.

"You have to do something!" I cried to his friend loading his crossbow.

"How long do you think it takes to load a cruddy crossbow?"

Gertrude's club burst into splinters and his friend was slashed across the chest. The crossbowman had lifted his weapon in time and fired. The Six Sentinel spun around the bolt, blocked the swordsman's blade, but was skewered by Gertrude's. The Six Sentinel tried to haul Gertrude off by his head, but he was decapitated by his friend making the mighty warrior collapse to his knees and then splattered onto the ground lifeless.

"Well that was barely fortunate," grasped Gertrude after being choked in the Six Sentinel's grip. "Can't say the same for Emmerich though, but he's one with Slaanesh now I guess."

"Going to keep examine how lucky we are or can we go and take care of that whore?"

Gertrude smiled. "Was just trying to express how exciting that was."

We continued down the corridor and there we stopped before the door of Bella, the room she had basically stabbed in the back when she drugged me. That poison she gave me was still in my system. It made me want to indulge myself in more of that stuff just to feel what it was like again to feel so good, but to go through that again would take away more time what really meant to me.

"Ready for your duel with Bella?" asked Gertrude.

I gulped and trembled. I actually had to plunge this knife into another woman that made me want to find a way from Gertrude to do the job like he always did, but I felt this feeling in my arm that hissed for me to do it. I nodded. "Alright."

"Good, we'll distract the last Sentinel Six, soon as we drag him out you hurry up and kill her, the sooner the better. These Sentinel Six will have no reason to live when they find out that their only aliment to reliving their pain will no longer exist."

Great to know there was no pressure.

Gertrude had then pressed me against the wall and instructed me to wait here until I had my chance. He then yanked open the door and the Six Sentinel burst through. He was armed with two sabres this time, but he was flanked on both sides.

I gave a glance at Gertrude before slipped through the door and then being intoxicated by the thick smell within. The door was slammed shut, probably by Gertrude, leaving only a purple candle that barely lit the room. I could make out something though that slithered in the darkness.

"Bella?"

"Why do you come child?"

I braced myself, knowing she was coming close. "To kill you."

"You hurt me child if you truly mean that."

I made out the gleam of her own dagger in the darkness that made me choke after hoping she didn't have her own weapon. My resolve to kill her stayed strong however.

"Somehow I really doubt that."

"Do you know? After all I've done for you?"

"Like what?"

She gave a pretend gasp as she came closer. "I took you into the Forbidden Bliss of course, I provided for you and I gave you one of my best warriors at your disposal."

"It was Slaanesh who did that; you are nothing more than a tired instrument who he has abandoned and yet you remain stuck to his fingers."

"You are fool child if you think Slaanesh has grown tired of me."

She was close now, I could feel Slaanesh warning me. "That he has and it is time I took your place."

"Heh, shame that a lamb that has become a lion will die a weasel that got too greedy!"

She lunged at me, I caught her wrist before she could stab me, but she grabbed mine and we wrestled. Our feet shuffled around the cluttered floor, kicking aside books, lifting up the carpets and hitting each other's toes. As we struggled, Bella had pressed her manical grinning face into mine. The intimidation had let her plunge her knife into my side. I exhaled as I felt the cold steel run into me.

"Now die! You horrid child!"

I lifted my head back and butted Bella. She flopped back slipping her knife, but had gripped onto my hair and we both crashed into the floor. We rolled tangled, trying to gain the upper hand, grabbing arms, squeezing legs together and pushing our torsos into each other. We focused on the dagger our fingers trying to pry each other off as we entangled.

I was desperate wanting to live, but I my body was loving this, this thrill of engagement as I did battle with someone else so intertwined sharing someone's last moment, possibly both our last moment. I couldn't let it be my last moment however.

I let Bella have the dagger, but as she adjusted it into her grip, I had sat up on her waist and pinned both her hands to the floor. We both panted as we were still in stalemate, but I had the wound that Bella had buried deep into my stomach.

"What now child? You just going to wait for that wound to fester or will you let me sacrifice you to Slaanesh?"

The wound hadn't cut deep, but the pain was intense, I knew when Bella found an opportunity things would change and for the worst. My eyes got the gleam on Bella's knife. It wasn't far, but I knew I would need to grab it fast, but I needed to distract Bella to give me the best chance I could get.

"Did you truly care about my brother? Did you really try to look after him? Or was he just another pawn."

"How sad. You cared so much about your brother, but do you have any idea that the only real thing he cared about you was if you ratted him out." No! "Yes. I didn't want to tell you this child, but because now that I no longer care about you, you know that Gertrude's too much of a subordinate dog to think of acting on his own." No-No! This was turning against me! Bella's hand was lifting itself off the floor. "He took the fall as ordered by me! The real person that made the order behind my back was-!"

"No!" I screamed. I snatched the knife, but Bella threw me off.

We got to our knees and threw ourselves at each other. I grazed her cheek with her knife, but she got my shoulder with my dagger. The blade scythed through the leather and was eating my collar bone. Before I could readjust my knife, Bella grabbed my face and slammed my head into the desk. I fell to the floor and Bella pulled the dagger out of my shoulder, readying it to stab again.

"Now you shall join Slaanesh!"

I prayed to Slaanesh and banged the desk. My prayer was answered when one of Bella's toxins crashed to the floor. It burst into glass and powder. The crash distract Bella to allow me to throw her off, but the toxin was effecting us both. We choked on its contents and were blinded by the powder. Whatever this was it was making my whole body tingle and spasm and the pain in me worse and the fear consumed me.

"You entertain Slaanesh with the pain and desperation you put yourself through to avoid death," wheezed Bella.

I scrambled around the carpet trying to find something. My fingers ached and I wasn't sure if they were numb or heightened but everything felt the same. But finding something barrel shaped, I rubbed on the other end and was sure this had to be the knife I dropped. I had to take chances though; I knew Gertrude wouldn't be able to hold of the Six sentinel any longer. I needed to lure Bella if I was going to find her.

"I'm sure though that Slaanesh has grown dull at your grasp at power," I coughed. "Right now he stamps at your fingers that cling to him."

"Perhaps he enjoys my struggle. Perhaps he likes me cling to him knowing how much I embrace him." She was getting closer, I get make out her knees shuffling across the floor and the strong stir in my arm that vibrated each time she got closer. "I love Slaanesh, he is everything to me and I will never let go. I was nothing in this world before he embraced me! I was just a little girl with no parents! Just a slimy rat catcher for an uncle. He only kept me so I could crawl into sewage pipes and hold his dogs for him and use me for his sob stories. I had no chance at love, men just wanted a rich wife, not a one gifted with beauty and passion. That was when Slaanesh showed me real love; true feelings I will not let go nor let it be-."

I got her. I felt the blade grit through her ribs and pluck one of her organs.

"You are nothing but a cat full of life and entertainment!" I hissed. "But got boring when all you did was cuddle Slaanesh like the lost child he found." I held onto Bella and drove the knife harder. "The only reason you stuck for this long was because he liked how easily jealous you got and how hard you fought for him. But that was only-."

I was stabbed thrice now, right in the stomach. Bella now pulled on me and hissed.

"You shut up you ungrateful wretch."

I grabbed her face and pried her off. She may have stabbed me three times, but I was sure where I stabbed was a lot more severe. I pulled my knife out and my enhanced ears from the toxins or Slaanesh's blessing could hear her blood bubble out.

"It is you who should shut up!" I stabbed her one more time. I heard Bella try to scream, but she could only gargle. I waited until she stopped trying to make sounds and finally let go, I let go of everything and fumbled back onto my feet. I needed Gertrude, being stabbed once was never a good thing, letting alone three times. I hurried to the door, needing him to be there.

I crumbled to my knees however, holding myself up when I saw the door open. No!

My reaction changed however when I heard that familiar grunt.

"Gertrude!" I wheezed.

"At your service." He limped in, followed by five others of the Silent Six. They were all cut up and injured just as much as I was. "Barely." He crumbled to the floor.

"Gertrude!"

"He'll be alright," said one of the Silent six not really caring. "He just exerted himself fighting that Sentinel six to the last man." He was the healthiest amongst them and he knelt before me. "Oh heavy stuff you've got in your face." I was surprised he could make it out in this faint light, but Bella probably hadn't kept many powders on her desk. "Must feel like you've got some griffons latched onto you with those cuts combined, but you'll live. Is the whore dead?"

"I-I don't know," I bubbled.

He signalled to one of the men and he hobbled over to find Bella, he checked her.

"No, but she's going to be dead soon. Punctured the heart and the weapons still embedded."

"Ah, a slow and gruesome death, just the way Slaanesh loves it." He patted me. "You did good girl. You will make an excellent knew leader when we get you back to full health."

"Please!" I gasped. "Just let me be next to Gertrude?"

"Gertrude?" He chuckled. He did as commanded though and carried me next to his side. "Looks like you've found yourself an admirer Gertrude."

"Don't I always," panted Gertrude. "I think this is one just a pup that needs me."

It was so. I stroked Gertrude's freshly scared face. "You are my brother now," I whispered.

"And you are my new boss," he chuckled.

"She is our new boss," added one of Silent six. "And things are about to get interesting."

I doubt they'd be any more interesting after what happened this bloody night, but I knew there was work to be done.