Chapter 3: The Dead King
All the Black Brigade members were half drunk and scared, Martellus walked forward with Eastas in his arms. He looked over the thousands of Eldar who resembled Elves but they were different, taller more graceful and slender.
"I am Warmaster Martellus of the Imperium and servant of the God Emperor, I demand to talk to Teagan!" Martellus said.
A man came through the crowd in a robe with a triangle in an eye on the hood, as he walked forward all the Eldar put their weapons down. As he came to the front he said, "I apologize for the hostilities of your visit, we believed you had Eldar slaves aboard your ship but as we can clearly see they are related to us but we have never seen such a species before with a closer DNA structure other than humans."
"You say humans, have you met humans before?" Martellus asked.
"Yes there are humans spattered throughout the Galaxy, you seem to be related to humans as well, though not as much as us by your bio reading and looks, you are twice the size of them and have wings and fangs. Come walk with me I will make sure your crew is treated well, I wish to speak to you." Teagan said.
Martellus peeled poor Eastas off him and gave her to Col. Maelstrom and told him to vox him if they need anything. He nodded and started to walk with Teagan, when he looked back it seemed the Eldar and the Elves were starting to mingle and loosen up.
"First of all I am the Prince of this Craftworld, we call it An-lolsus, Eldar stay apart from other species as we are the oldest living race in the Galaxy. We have been observing you for a long time now, as far a the evolution as races go you have advanced faster than anything we have observed." Teagan said.
"What brought you to seek us out." Martellus asked.
"80 years ago our farseers saw the awakening of your and hopefully our God on the planet you call Terra, we paid did not pay it close attention as many time prophecies can be mistaken, but then 5 years ago a bright light could be seen all across the Ether and even in the webway. Craftwolds that have thought been long missing in the webway are showing up around your system. Then a great power matching the power of the dark one emerged but it did not bring as death, despair and depravity as all other agents of Chaos bring and but instead brought life, order and progress." Teagan said.
"This dark one must be the Slaanesh cult that we ran into on the planet." Martellus said.
"You already know of Slaanesh? You barely have gone out into the Galaxy and learned of the one who thirsts? These elves you speak of where do they come from." Teagan
asked?
"Everyone from our world comes from a crashed ship that allowed us the technology to come here, except for the dragons who were the original owners of the planet but most did not submit and died or a virus, from what I suspppddddddddddddddddvt the one we call Elves are your ancestors as their legends say, that they had a great Empire in the sky but they became corrupt and a terrible rip came through sky. Then Slaa
nesh devoured all the ones who could not hide and searches for those that made her to this day" Martellus said what the Elves told him while they were at the bar.
"What they say is more or less true they must have been Ancient Eldar that left and found and saved other beings with them on a craft ship then interbred with other beings, your planet is one of Multi-species is it not." Teagan said.
"Yes we have hundreds of species all with gifts, I am one of four Chaos Guardians that who you call the Dead King imbued with power." Martellus said.
"You are a Prince as well a Daemon Prince correct?" Teagan asked nervously.
"Yes but although our Emperor is a "Chaos" God he wants order and interspecies harmony." Martellus said.
"So the new Chaos God the Dead King is actually not enslaving you but setting you all free, what power did he give you." Teagan asked.
"Mostly the power of life and death and for those that follow him life everlasting through his Etheric craft." Martellus said.
"Can you show us your craft, while we bring you the patient, I will tell you that each of our of Ships has a Rathbone that has Infinity circuit that keeps all the spirits of the Eldar safe from Slaanesh and we can use all the wisdom from it to give us advice on the future." Teagan said.
"Our Emperor has a crystalline multiphase structure called an World tree, that acts like your cricut he attaches all his subjects using ether connection so when we die we are judged at the Golden Throne on Terra and are stored in paradise, reborn, or consumed by what we have done it life." Martellus said.
"It sounds like the same way we keep our dead, he protects you from the demons that prowel the ether and feast on souls and try to become gods, we must use soulstones to capture our essinse and put us into the system." Teagan said.
"He is truly a God, we do not have to worry about soul stones like you." Martellus said
"I do not doubt his Ether Craft, here were are." Two Eldar brought an injured Eldar in a life stasis pod. "Can you do anything for him he was a mighty warrior you was injured past our medical knowledge if we take him out he will die." Teagan asked.
A group of Eldar all surrounded them to see what would happen, Martellus reached out his hand and muttered an echantation, a brown circle within a circle appeared around him with runes of fire on it. Then the Eldar's wounds glowed then healed. Everyone was amazed at the ether craft just done in front of them.
"Amazing I have seen psychic power used to kill but never to heal!" Teagan said.
"This is what we call magic, or simply many of our people can manipulate the power of ether to do whatever we wish from create rain, to fire and even heal." Martellus said.
"Really, the way your people use Ether is rather different than the way the rest of the Galaxy uses it." Tegan relied,
"We understand Ether and its nature but only few can really understand it," That is when he took off his band and opened his third eye." With this I can see all things in the Ether and learn the mysterious nature of it."
"You have the ability to see the Ether as I can see you, is was a trait that only the most advanceds farseerers can accomplish, do you have any other gifts." Teagan said.
"No that was my last trick." As he put his crown band back on. Then he pointed to his armour. "This circle with the cross is our Emperors symbol, each one of the symbols within are the Guardians symbols, this on is mine and marked on my eye by the Emperor." He pointed out.
"Ahh, we have seen all these symbols in our visions, they have good and evil in them." They old Eldar said.
"Yes the Dead King is so strong he can just create beings, and he created these three and brought me back from death and remade me. I am the balance of the Chaos Guardians some are evil daemons and other are Kind Elfs but since the balance of us was created none or to good or evil we just serve the Emperor." Martellus said.
"One of your Daemon prince is an Elf, a direct descendant like us?" Teagan asked.
"Yes he is very young and strong, he can destroy entire planets but has a good heart and is only 161 in Elf years." Martellus said.
"So what species are you?" Tegan asked.
"I was remade in the Image of the Emperor, I along with all our strongest warriors the Adeptus Astartes and the 10 primarchs are call the Emperor's sons." Martellus said proudly tapping on the royal seal.
"Well I am glad I am talking to you leader to leader, we believe that your God Emperor or as we know him the Dead King might be a fulfilling of a prophecy for us Eldar the birth of the Death or whispering God Ynnead. We might have been too focused on ourselves and the Dead King is a God to bring a peace in death to all beings. As you know since the fall we have to live in the webways of the Ether hiding and making sure our souls are not consumed to Slaanesh. That is why we along with countless other Eldar have been watching your planet, we were just the first to make contact." Teagan said.
"This makes sense, our God Emperor said that he was reborn of the Ether from a great catastrophe, He said he knew that some type of consciousness brought him along the etheric tides. But to be completely honest he mention that there were crafty Xenos species and specifically mentioned the Eldar." Martellus said.
"Yes, if he has seen what I suspect, then he knows that we are divided, there are those who still worship Slaanesh even though they know their ends, you see we feel thousands of times more than regular species like hate and love. These emotions are what led us to ruin to find the excess and infinite pleasure cults that rotted our souls to the core. Even though we lost all of our worlds and Empire there are those who still worship Slaanesh they are call Dark Eldar and their evil knows no end." Teagan said.
"I could see how that could be and issue, so I hate to ask so un diplomatically but here I am on your ship and you have me at a disadvantage your highness but what is do you want?" Martellus finally asked.
"We or I desire to speak with your Dead King and based on what if we find out what we think we would like to strike some kind of alliance." Prince Teagan said with a bow.
"I understand, I will need to return to our ship, the only problem I foresee is that you must accept the God Emperor as your God and King and then submit to the Imperium. Could you do that as a people, I know you are very proud." Martellus said.
"I think we can come to an arrangement if needed, could we have one request if we were to join your Imperium could we live separate from everyone else?" Teagan asked.
"I think that would be possible, we could send emissaries to share technology of the webway and Gate Drives we could reach an agreement on my name." Martellus replied.
"Are you sure you can make such a promise?" Teagan asked knowing he was not the ultimate authority.
"Yes, because the Emperor sees and knows all and has not shown up to say otherwise." Martellus said with a smile.
Teagan shook his head as one of the farseers came to him and said, "What he said was true we saw his holy avatar as you were speaking then he left." As the old Eldar was backing up Teagan still was in disbelief so Martellus asked the Eldar Farseer a question.
"Did he have a white mask with one red eye like mine showing?" He asked.
"Yes it is as you say, he wore a robe with nothing showing but a white mask showing one red eye." The Old Farseer said with tears in his eyes.
"I believe you I would like to go with my Elders 6 in all back to Terra." Teagan said.
"We still have a war to finish and we do not have Gate drives yet." Martellus started to say when he was interrupted.
"We can Dock your ship and take the Webway which is a series of paths in a area between the Ether and real space made by the Old Ones, the creators of all life. It will only take a few days." Prince Teagan said.
"I will call a council of the Guardians and we can decide on a course of action." He replied.
"Very good we will await your answer let me walk you back to our teleporter, I hope that we can have our cultures can reach a good collaboration." Teagan said as he directed him back towards the where they came from. As Martellus walked back he saw all the Elves of the Black Brigade standing in the same place, as he figured they were all not allowed to move, the he saw Eastas with her arms crossed he could see the anger coming off of her.
As everyone saw him and he met with their eyes he could tell that were not afraid but also not treated with respect. Eastas eyes lit up and ran to Martellus and gave him a hug, for a moment he forgot who she was and hugged her back to the sound of some chuckles from some of the men, so he politely pushed her away and asked if she was ok and if she was treated well.
She stood up straight remembering to be professional and straighten her hair made sure her ear were straight and said, "I am fine they made up stay here but they did not mistreat us, are we going now?"
"Yes lets us head back," Martellus said as he walked over with her to the platform, as they walked over Martellus handed Teagan a vox and said, "I will get ahold of you by this encrypted vox set that you put in your ear." Tegan accepted it and put it in his ear and thanked them.
All the Imperium soldiers got on the platform and with a flash were all returned to where they were. After they left Teagan asked the Farseers, "What do you think of them?"
"If we do not join them we will be consumed by them, I saw them go across the Galaxy and even crush the tendels of the Tyranid hive fleets from the Galaxy, we must swallow our pride and join them, wait our time, Prince Teagan." The Old Eldar said.
"Then we were right to come to them first." Teagan said.
In the shadow of the webway another craft world watch and observed.
2
While Vaperious was being resettled the only leaders were the 9 other primarchs of the Imperium were on the planet. All of the Guardians were shut up in a small room discussing what to do with the new Eldar issue. The Four Chaos Guardians were all on the Green Juggernaut, Mare The destroyer and Creators ship.
Mare stood up he was no longer the young 14 year looking girl but a 20 human year old young man that wore his druid cape over his Emperor given suit that made him look like royalty, it had tall black boots with bloused black pants with a western suit jacket with Epaulets and a Imperial hat with the Mortus skull in Imperial style. He had the look but still did not have the command of the rest, he slouched and always clutched his staff close to himself as a child would hold a toy.
"First order of business is what to Terra form the bombed out continent into. Right now we are having a food shortages and since the first planet was too hot to terraform we vulcanized it and are currently extracting all minerals and metals. The third planet will take 10 years to terraform with my new carbon dioxide plants that will turn the atmosphere breathable in 5 and then we can plant new foods. For Vaperious I have found rich deposits of promethium, which we all know is a fuel we diversely use so. I propose we turn it into a mining and agricultural planet as a whole, as it has diverse plant and animal life in the oceans to sustain the population for the next 60 years." Mare was pleased as he had study his speech for a week and did not mess up once.
"All in favor of Guardian Mare's proposition say Aye." Martellus said.
"Aye" Everyone said, Demiurge and Shalteer said staring at the ground waiting for the next piece of business, "Ayes, have it next to take the floor is Martellus."
Martellus stood up and started to speak, "As you all know we encountered the Eldar in their moon size Craftworld, I was transported their and they have significantly great technological knowledge than we have to this point."
Demiurge with his hands together interrupted, "I would like to ask what technology that was and why were you allowed to be drawn so easily in, what if what it was an ambush?"
"Firstly, I would like to say their technology grants access to the webway and world between the ether and the universe that run like paths to each world it allows them to move a speed that do not have the light speed drawbacks. I was told that we could be back to Terra in a few days. Also I was told they have been observing us for the last 80 years since the advent of the God Emperor, the last 5 because the light of the astronomicon can been seen in the far reaches of space. To your last question the same thing could have happen to any of us and I would have released my eye and killed everyone."
Demiurge coughed, "You can not be serious you would have turned into a raging God of Death, you must never remove your limiter." Demiurge scowlded, Martellus knew this he just did it to piss Demiurge off.
"So do we trust these sneaky Elves or not? Shalteer said kicking her feet up.
"They are Eldar, and I think to miss out on the technology would be a major loss for us, and they are willing to submit but they just want to be set apart, we can park them around a star in Imperium Space." Martellus siad.
"So they want to our protection but be completely apart from us, they think they are better than us, I think we could show them a lesson." Demiurge smiled while saying.
"I think such a move with a the Imperium as new as it is would be a mistake, plus we have a being that lives in the same plane as the Emperor and has the same power signature, Shalteer you were are an expert on blood magic and enchantment please shares with us what you think of Slaanesh," Martellus gave the floor to Shallteer who rolled her eyes and stood up.
"What I saw was magic, pure and simple so we are no longer the only beings that can use magic but that being said the magic they were using was blood magic. For those of you who don't know, blood magic uses the life forces of the being to channel a power greater than themselves this means that the real magic was not with the Spike magician but with Slaanesh whom he was trying to channel the power. The insane part is that with this type of magic the person conducting such a ritual has no real power and is at the complete mercy of the being of whom they are summoning. They could be transformed into a beast or be consumed as a reward." Shalteer said.
"There you have it the spike had no real power so was not a threat." Demiurge spat.
"No you dumb Red suited ass clown, what I am trying to say is the followers are insanely devote. I was in the room with the artifact when it was most active and this being is strong, stronger by far than any being on Terra. It is very full of lust, cruelty and hate and that are the only emotions. My theory is that this being was formed from those very emotions thus it cannot be anything else, this brings me to my next point and this is the most important. The way the universe is set up whomever has more followers, whomever the sentient being of this Galaxy believe are strong shall become strong." Shallteer finished.
"Yes I have read of this phenomenon in the libraries of the Emperor in the magic of psychology, it is call "Gestalt" magic spell, it is when you get enough people to believe something it will by in itself come true." Demiurge said while he stroked his chin.
"This must be why the Emperor had to make the Throne he has become to powerful and must have figured it out in his travels, you know he knows the Gestalt spell." Martellus said as he slammed his fist.
"Yes, I think the Mun-Key you know that is what those Eldar call humans, I like two footed sheep better, anyways for our beloved Emperor to grow he must become what everyone wants him to, that is how we harness the Gestalt spell." Demiurge crossing his hands as he awaited from them to ask why but got tired at looking at blank faces.
"If he is the beloved God Emperor to his people the people love him and respect him but if he is the dreaded Dead King to our enemies to keep them scared and our allies as well to keep respect in him we are feeding the God Emperor in every way possible making him the most powerful." Demiurge said as he straightened his tie
"So we forgo making any more assumption of the God Emperor and let anyone think what they want as long as they are thinking about him but their had to be a emotion to go with it?" Martellus quipped.
"The name says it all the Dead King, what do all beings fear, Death and our God Emperor is the God of Death, thus it shall be." Mare said.
Everyone's head turned as they had forgot about him being in the room since he was so quiet. "Although I do wish Lord Ainz was here, I do miss him and I feel like he should be making these decisions." Mare said as he ears dropped from all the attention.
"If the Emperor was unhappy he would tell us, so with all this discussed what do you think we should put it to vote about the Eldar? All those in favor." Martellus asked.
"Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye" They all said.
"Now we have to figure out who is going and who is staying with our new star system, and head to the next possibly." Martellus asked.
"They seemed interested in Mare as they think you are a ancestor, they could be planning to try to sway you?" Martellus said.
"Humm, or possibly something else, maybe our Mare might get his virginity taken!" Shalteer smiled.
"Jokes aside I think I should go along with Demiurge because as much as I hate to say it he is the smartest. The rest should stay with the fleet until we return in a few days." Martellus said with a sigh.
"Have fun!" Shallteer said.
"Tell them three weeks until departure we shall leave on my ship, I think the fleet should be a whole as possible if anyone else shows up." Demiurge said.
"Agreed but I want to take my Chaos Knights and the Templars Red and Black as Primarchs Rogal and Dorn are blood." Martellus said.
"My ship can accommodate 3,333 Space Marines, let us make preparations." Demiurge said.
"I would like you to meet them once before we leave should I arrange a meeting?" Martellus asked.
"Yes, I would like to see more of this webway technology, go ahead and arrange it, we have a few weeks, in the meantime we need to convert this solar system's planets into a fully functional Imperial space that can give the Imperial Tithe." Demiurge said as everyone got up and walked away even though the meeting was not over.
3
Martellus was trying his hardest to get drunk, he would have to drink special herbs in his drink that slowed his bodies instant metabolization of alcohol. Luckily he had some and put some in each jug of Ale. It was really late when he got out of the meeting and forever feeling the outsider of the Guardians he always hated the meetings as they always reminded him he would never belong even if he lived 10 centuries. That was why he was picked though to be the fulcrum that balanced out the guardians because if he were not there all the people would be tested on, or turned into haemovores. He shuddered at the thought of Shallteer and Demiurge on the loose, poor Mare would go along with them.
When Martellus was feeling most vulnerable, that is when Eastas who was quietly acting like she was working in the corner came over to his table and sat down. "I know Marines don't really need a lot of sleep but Warmaster you have not taken rest in one standard week, since your mission on Vaporous, should you not rest." She said.
"Ah, Eastas has it been that long since I was given this Primarch body believe it or not I need to be reminded to sleep." He said with a sigh. "Then there's this eye of mine, ever since I have been infused with the rage of the God of War it has been a long time since I have been treated like a person, other than the other Primarchs but they treat me more like a father than friend, ahh, as it should be I suppose." He said looking into his tankard and took a big swig.
Eastas had never seen the Warmaster so relaxed and frank, she thought and weighed what she said next, "Well, no normal man would have every man in the military reveres you, and wants to be you." She said.
He looked at her with a serious face and raised one eyebrow and then began to laugh, "Bahahaha, wants to be me, oh to be a soldier again, you know as a soldier life is easy, yes sir and no sir, the enemies in front of you and need not worry about who. Now with one foot in the military and the other in the body politic, I envy the life of a simple soldier but as the wisdom of the Necrotech says, "To have everything is to have nothing." He said with a spark in his eye.
Eastas said,"I also find words of comfort in the Necrotech, as I know my work is for the Emperor's grand plan as I work for "The one who was raised from death, mortal, human, and now walks the stars as a god." She said smiling as she placed her small hand on top of his.
Not noticing at first as the drink and lack of sleep had taken it tool he replied, "When I go to Carne the pilgrims want me to bless them, all I can do is shed blood and the Emperor, what a being like I have ever known. To know is to live in wonder of his divine will, everything he says have plans within plans, I only understand precious few things he says, eye, to serve the God Emperor is to always be humbled." He replied starting to sway back and forth.
"Come lets us get you to rest," Eastas replied. As Martellus nodded back in agreement and said, "Eye, let us go back to our room Nemu. He got up and grabbed Eastas's hand and pulled her along. She looked around but not one was around as the hour was late and everyone up was working on finalizing the troop movement. She was torn she felt the Ambrosia in her pocket but wondered if tonight was the night, the warmaster was so drunk she did not know if he thought she was his wife or not. Then the idea came to her, tonight was the night to use it as the effects of the drug could be blamed on the drink and never suspect her.
They walked to Martellus quarters hand in hand, it was one of the rare occasions he was out of his armor. Martellus though was so drunk that he was using his wings to keep from falling over. They came to the door and he turned to Eastas and said, "This is where I say good night, to your room and I to mine." But before he could turned away Eastas had put the Ambrosia on her lips she reached up and grabbed his head and said, "Kiss me!"
As Martellus was 12 feet tall and Eastas was only upward of six feet tall she could not force his massive frame but he leaned in and absentmindedly did it anyway as he was drunk and though her his wife for a second. When he did he realized what he did but in a split second later the Ambrosia kicked in and he was under its spell. He grabbed her and pulled her into his bed.
Now it was a good thing the biology between bunny women and human women are slightly different as they usually give birth to litters, this meant that they were much more prepared for a primarchs massive frame than a normal women. When he bedded her it he did it with such intensity that she did not know if she would suffer harm since he was intoxicated. As a woman she was taking all that she could and more with no more than letting out yelps as the Ambrosia also gave her uncontainable drive that would only be classified overindulgent. Eastas though knowing what she had done, took more than she normally would encouraging him to enjoy himself fully without fully aware of the consequences of her actions.
It was not until morning when Martellus woke up with his head buzzing he look over to see blood all over the sheets and Eastas who was also covered in his fluid as well. As he looked in horror he saw her body on his bed broken, as though an army had ravaged her. She had two swelled up eyes and what he could hear that she was barely breathing, he grabbed Eastas face and said in a whisper, "Eastas, my Emperor what have I done to you, are you alive." She only could moan in a low sigh a slightly nod her head, seeing the spark of life Martellus dropped his head in relief." He ran over to his amour and pulled out a potion spay. He ran back over to her broken body and said to her, "This will make you feel better and heal your wounds, I want you to inhale when I spray over your face, it will instantly get in your bloodstream." He said in a whisper trying to not yell and alert anyone to this sensitive issue.
He sprayed her body from top to bottom stopping over her face as he said, instantly her surface wounds; cuts, scrapes and bites, began to heal and she felt better but could still tell there were some internal issues. Knowing this already Martellus then hastily cast the strongest healing spell but before he did he said, "Now you will feel better than you have in a long time but do not move your body needs to mend correctly," Nodding her head in agreement he cast the spell and then slowly watched as the light of life came back in her eyes and she looked herself again and not a as a broken doll. She grabbed his trembling hand that had just cast the spell and laid it upon her breast and said, "That is my heart that has always beat for you, please Martellus do not blame yourself I encouraged this."
Martellus said trembling, "What evil had I done, I thought a first sight that I had forced this but to hear you say this encourages me but what I have done is unforgivable I hope you can forgive me?" He asked.
"Forgive you, forgive me Martellus? I knew you drunk and I still let this happen and even encouraged you to have your way with me." She said as she coughed up blood that had come from a healed broken rib.
"I, I, regret.." Martellus started to say as Eastas lunged forward and hugged him crying and said, "My only regret is that you regretted this."
Martellus lied down to let her on her side and wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "I do not regret our union only that you took harm, I am supposed to protect." He said as he kissed her as she wepted which made her stop and smile.
He got up and changed the his own sheets for the first time in years, then brought her amply supplies while she recovered in his bed. He began to put on his armor and started to apologize but she said that it was his divine right to take for himself whomever he wished. He asked her several times if she was fine staying there to recover and if she still need care of a doctor but she declined and said, "The Imperium needs its Warmaster just come back to me within a day." He agreed and left to do his daily work.
After he left she smiled as all had gone according to plan although she did not intentend to get injured but that worked even better. She then staggered up to the Altar of the Emperor keeping her legs closed to keep in his seed and prayed, "I pray to thee God Emperor as your faithful servant let me bear children to the man I love whom serves you, my womb is today most fertile and as my life as a bunny women of royalty I can give you strong and ready servants of the Imperium." She lit a bit on incense and made the sign of mortus.
Eastas got up a laid back down as she drifted off to sleep as she dreamed she found herself in space and saw a god robed in black with a white mask with one eye showing that glowed red like Martellus. He was speaking incantations and weaving the very fabric of reality, making stars and planets with just words and though. Then she was before a golden throne with the very Image of the God Emperor before her, she fell to her face and said, "Forgive me lord I am not worthy to come near."
He responded, "I am the one who says is worthy and whom is not, come here before me."
She walked forward shaking and in much fear as the awesome and dreadful power emitted from him as bright as the sun that he had shone. She finally got to where she could go no further about ten feet in front of the throne and fell to her knees sobbing.
Seeing this he finally said, "You indeed have a strong will as most are too terrified to this come close, but you have asked a serious thing of me something I have promised to another." The Emperor said.
"Yes my God King but she is a unfaithful women whom did not go on the crusade of her namesake to grow the name of her house." She cried out.
"I am aware of this and you are right it displeased me much as she lied as well but you have also obtained my servants seed through slight what say you." He replied.
"It is true but nothing that was not given to me by your other Guardian so if I overstep your grace and I found wanting please gather my soul as I sleep and let me dream of that life." Eastas replied.
"I would not require such a thing from a faithful servant of the Imperium, I will grant your wish, that the wife shall be barren for her disobedience and his concubine shall conceive his children." The Emperor agreed.
"Thank you my God Emperor, bless you!" She cried out.
"But be warned your life will be harsh and cruel, and you shall bear two sons, twins for my servant, you shall call them Romulus and Remus,Martellus wild beasts, they will help build my Empire. They shall fight as wild beasts and fight even in your womb, they shall be a constant heartache and worry as they shall be born into battle and live in it. I hope you know what you have asked, they shall take your hair but take no other traits" The Emperor warned.
"I live to serve." She could only reply.
"That is true, no more of your tricks, and I shall be the one to tell my servant, if you can do those things you will find my favor but be warned those that claim my bloodline are destined for great and awful things. The Emperor replied and then there was a blast of light and Eastas awoke from her dream, several hours had passed and she wondered what she dreamed was real or not. Just then she saw two motes of light come from the Altar of the God Emperor go across the room and entered her womb.
4
Martellus walked toward the transport ship to take them from the "Eye of the Emperor" to a Kestrel Class Ship "The Fangs of the Warmaster". It was the Space wolves that named to remind everyone that the Warmaster had fangs link the wolves. Most of the Space Marine ships had some connection to the Warmaster or Emperor or Primarch, but for the Space Marines it was mostly Martellus. For Primarch Sanguinius ship it was the "Wings of the Warmaster" As all of the the Primarchs had to one up each other for their fathers favor. They were called the Emperor's children only Martellus and the Primarchs knew that the Grand Primarch had his body infused with one of ten strands of Emperor's DNA when he went through the primarch procedure. Then every other Primarch inherited 1 of the DNA strands that gave each one a special power from the Emperor. With that known that Martellus went through the primarch procedure that stuck him in a vat with millions of micro-needles, scalpels, lasers, that can cut a cell apart at the quantum level. The Engineer designed a cogitator to reconstruct his body from the cellular and DNA level, after he went through the procedure he had to die to reset his body. After the procedure was done each strand of the Emperor could be given to the Primarch from Martellus live body. For that reason, they consider the Emperor and Martellus both their fathers.
What he did not know nor did anyone but the Emperor, Engineer Adeptus Mechanicus and Demiurge the Chaos Guardian, was that the bioelectrical energy that ran his body was stopped and he died then he was infused with Ether, the very essence of what creates the second dimension. This was all of a grand secrete plan to create a second God of Ether, that is why when Martellus acted about crushing his eye with is sign of Chaos, Demiurge when nuts because if he did a new god of Chaos of War would be created. With Martellus loyalty was not in question but the explosion of a physical body could create another "eye of terror" as of now one of the greatest challenges of the Adeptus Mechanicus is to ascend Martellus into the Ether without opening a tear in space and time. Right now in the center of the forge word in the center of New Mars an EthricTrans Generator is being created, to ultimately have Empress Albedo join by him then destroyed.
Demiurge looked out to the the transport window at all the twinkling lights thinking about the night he was told my his master that we wanted them all to adorn his kingdom. He would sit upon his ruined throne as he did no sleep and think of plans to take over each star but her never in all his 80 plus years of life would have guessed their were a billion billion stars in each Galaxy and just as many Galaxies. He grinned demons did were not afraid of death well much, demons were scared of boredom, they love causing misery, pain, and all those other entertaining emotions because they were fun to watch. He smiled as he thought that his master had given him as many jewels as he wanted in his box to play with, destroy, torture, experiment, oh the endless fun he could have in this world. Of course there were rules he had to live by as the God Emperor warned him of Tyrants and how the populations gathers together to topel them and so they had rule to rule by but those had loopholes.
Demiurge walked down the main hall with Marines to his left and right, the only time he ever saw Space Marines even Wolves nervous was around him, probably because when they were assaulting a bunker with his black legion a captain of the guard questioned his orders to kill the captives who were brogs. Demiurge whipped his tail around and cut his head off then flicked his fingers and the marines head bounced up and attached back on like it had not happened. Then he slashed his tail and cut the marine in half, Demiurge did it again and again until the Marine said, "Please master give me death I am sorry!" Demiurge leaned over and said, "See all you had to do was ask." Turned around and told the same marine to kill all the captives which he did.
He walked down looking at the faces of the Marines taking joy in the fear of the eyes of a warrior who is not supposed to feel it. He could hear the heavy metal clanking that sounded like a 12 kilo beast with metal boots on, he looked up to see Martellus and Leman Russ both walking down the walkway to met him. He strode forward until he was exactly ten feet from them and stood up straight. Martellus was ten feet away while Leman was 9 feet giving Martellus the respect he thought he desired.
"Chaos Guardian Demiurge I venerate you, we are now approaching the Craftworld I advise we go to the bridge right away for transport." Martellus said.
"Yes I think using their technology would be the best approach lets go to the bridge. I think it unwise to show gate just in case we need it." They all three walked to the Bridge were shipman for the Wolves Chapters went about their business mapping stars scanning the craftworld, putting them through cogitators. All the while Adeptus Mechanicus that looked like turtles with all the robotic replacements under their robes or simply looked like bugs from multiple arms and eyes, pour over the new data they were gathering, speaking binary the language of the machines given by the Emperor. The Priestess Julia Albedo Casa Martell that Martellus saved so long ago at the first founding at the Imperium year ago. She was to die his pleasure girl but instead gave her the position of High Priestess over the Martellus household, which explained the last part of her title "The House Martellus". Although she was not a member of the household she now one of the Head Priests of the 7 great Guardian families, Gown the Highest, then the struggle between the four great Guardian Houses, then the great Dragon Family Tain and the Guardian of the King Cocytus and then finally the Sapatos who were not of the 7. The Martallus was in the center of everything and Julia was very keen and aware of the constant scheming of the lower families, she even had the procedure to replace her sleep center of her brain so she did no need to rest unless she desired it. When Martellus had met her all those years ago she was a young beauty but not even the juviant treatments could not hid how much stress and work she was under.
Accusations on the house Martell, always unanimous to be rebutted and discharged, and necessary threatened or killed as she had learned quickly in this world that no one is pious except for the Emperor.
It was somewhat of a awkward meeting as she had been tending to Eagas as he did his duties as she was the only one she could trust with this duty, The first feeling was disbelief then it turned to anger after she found the Ambrosia, as a pleasure girl she knew what it was. After that she treated her nicely but not t0o much for her to overindulge her station. So she walked up in her priestly robe with the signit of mortus on the back and bowed to the Guardians and Primarchs.
"Master I have been briefed by the servator Emeritus itself that we are dealing the a new lifeform that views all forms of life inferior, I have received direction from the Emperor Tarot to take the soonest shuttle to Terra." She Bowed again
"What this is supposed to be a social call not a do you, not a het lets pop over to our system are you sure the cards were read correctly?" He asked
"Yes about 30 times in a row master," She said
Demiurge shrugged and nodded in agreement'. "Very tell the manifests of the changes and of the ships and make sure it was in the Emperor's hand I don't want a mutiny on the other ship," Roger that captain a officer on the deck said.
Martellus walked over to Julia an for the first time he could smell a hint of disappointment, "What of our other issue in my quarters," Martellus said.
"She is sleeping but I sensed a strange after presence in the Ether as well I cannot say." She said as she rubbed her temples.
"Listen, she did tell me of the ambrosia which caused the episode." Martellus said.
"Yes, I thought maybe you would be immune but a high level item can even affect you, this must be a reminder of how to trusting you have been and how yout much have testers , Master" Julia said in an almost scolding him "and master there is one more thing I need to tell you.
"Yes, Martellus looked stoned faced
"In Eastas I could feel two small but strong energies signatures that match yours 6 and 6 for 12 in all."Seeing the blank look on his face from either denial or stupidity she continued, "She is pregnant with twin sons I presume, the ether I felt was most likely a visit from the Emperor. We must keep this secrete as your wife will have her killed so I stowed her on board she is in your chambers on this ship."
"You think she would sully her hands to kill a child," Martellus asked in unbelief.
"You keep her a secret and see what she has done in your presents and see what you think, she is a monster that women has had more men killed that opposed her only the Guardians. You know it in you heart to be true, protect her and protect them I know you will."
Martellus knew that Numu was power hungry but never so much, was he always truly the last one to know in court. If these accusations are true then he would go to the Emperor himself to charge her as such a boil should be lanced from the Imperium even if it was his wife and a saint.
Leman Russ came up to to Martellus and punched him in his armor hard enough to cause a string of sparks, "Eye, Laddie you look like you just saw an ork kill your mum! He said with a hardy laugh.
"Sorry, mate let the world's problems weigh me down a bit to much and who is this pup?" Martellus said grabbing him by both arms and lifting him to his height.
"Bwahahahaha, ok let him down sorry boyo, this here is my newest captain Rangar only 25 suns and if things be going the way they going he will be running the rite of the Chaos Knight!" He said as questely as he could.
"That would be a record I sure but listen to your old Grand Primarch Boy we have enemies I have seen and still are living nightmares so when things get tough train for 20 time wrose and you might jyst make it," Martellus finished thinginking about the tyranids and othe horrors he has seen in the Emperor's throne.
"Lisiten Boy! Those are not empty words so what the plan Grand Primarch? He asked.
"Change of plans we are docking up with this worldcraft and then going too Terra and back in a few days, instead of the meeting and then trip so get your men ready for a two day trip to Terra Leman." Martellus said giving him a hammer fist on his shoulder that dropped the barbarian too his knees,young Ragnar watched in awe,
"Eye, Grand Primarch we will keep the "Fangs of the Grand Primarch" ship shape so giver those shifty elves a taste of Marine Knights! All Primarch were Chaos Marine Knights than a 60 of the best of each Chapter were chosen for Chaos Marine Knights for the Grand Primarch, then the rest of th 40 became Chaos Marines for the Guardians and were Knights in training. The knights has black smoke optical camo that made the impossible to shoot at as they did not have solid shapes and red backlit eyes that struck fear in every soldier.
The transparent adminatium reinforced aluminum windows showed a breathtaking view of the Craftworld, as big as a moon shaped like an yellow arrowhead, It had transparent bubly covering the top and bottom of the ship. Any type of Imperial logical design went out the window when examining the power structures, converters and congitators which confused the Adeptus Mechanicus the more they tried to make sense of the Eldar technology, The Two Chaos Guardians walked to the middle of the bridge surrounded by 50 Chaos Knights in attack formation.
Martellus tapping his ear, "Prince Teagan can you hear me?"
A pop a click sounded by a ,"Yes, Prince Primarch are you ready to be transported?"
"Yes Prince 52 total in all do no be alarmed by are warriors they will resemble your wrathe warriors of what I am told." Martellus stated
"I read 52 similar beings and a Demon is he with you or in disguise." Teagan asked.
"Nay he is the Esteemed Chaos Guardian Demiurge the Great Mutilator, he is with us." Martellus replied.
"Very well only on your command Prince transport in three...two..one.. Suddenly electricity filled the air in the entire room them, then lightening bagan to dance about then and the with a bright flash, they went from a small bridge room to an enormous machine that had mechanical decorations on the ground with strange markings all other the ground. Demiurge looked up to see a yellow sky with walkways crossing here and there at different altitudes, a being with normal vision could not see the top of the dome but for Demiurge he would see the artistic etchings around the windows outside.
The hundred Eldar soldiers quickly held up their Prism Rifles and Hawks Talons at the site of the fearsome warriors that who very spector looked of death itself.
Demiurge walked forward to whom he assumed was Prince Teagan and bowed, Tegan returned the jesured and then Demiurge said, "I know how much pride you must have swallowed to do that to a lower being and a Demon no less, the way I know is it took me the same amount to bow to you as we born the the Ether from the Emperor of the line of Nazarick see us as all superior. The loweleyest made from nazarick is better that the richest trader but yet the maid would not die before change her station as that is how the God Emperor Made Nazarick." He smiled at Teagan who notice this man could be no more different than Martellus."
"You are very different than any demon I have spoken to most lust for blood war and conquests, and mostly nonsense, what about you? Teagan asked.
"Death, destruction, domination but for the cause of the Emperor, you will find that despite our natures we will allsupress our urges for our God Emperor. "Do you know what a haemovore is?" Demiurge asked.
Teagan shook his head, "NO I cannot say I have heard of this species."
"Quite a species, they live of blood of species, from a bite a single bite one hemovore can turn one into another within minutes. They are fast, can take killing blows and use etheric crafts that can turn you into hermores using weapons.
"If such a species exist this would make the hyve fleets seems a good dream." Teagan said not knowing if he was telling the truth or not.
"We have millions on Terra, Shalltear the Blood Good is one and we plan to take care of Hive fleet Kraken, Leviathan and whom else is rude enough to intrude on our space, did I tell you haemovores are dead so even if captured when digested in the pool the haemovore blood will take over tyranids ad they will become haemovores. They were the perfect bioweapon as their DNA cannot be overwritten I have tried, for that species, oh the slaughter I cannot wait to see them die in millions, The Slaughter oh the Slaughter on such scale.
"Such news would be most welcome if true Prince Demiurge," Teagan said,
"If true, if this a challenge on my honor bring me out you best warrior we shall have a test of power, don't worry Martellus will bring him back to life."
It did not take long for a large crowd form a circle and a fully dressed highest ranked Aspect warrior sanding for him, "Rules are simple first on to die loses and shal be revived using the Imperiums etheric craft. The Aspect warrior had a fusion pistol and a chain sword while Demiurge had no "At the sound of three, one,two,three. Just a the last number was said Demiurge speed toward the Aspect warrior removed his glove and ripped out his hear inspected it lie one would inspect a bug and the through it to Martellus to heal the warrior. Everyone was astonished he leaded Tegan away from the crowd and and said, "That's around a fraction of our strength, we all call Chaos Guardians as we can personally destroy an entire army almost like you old gods of your old.
"I see there are many similarities between your culture and yours." Tegean said.
"Our Priest consulted with the dead king and want us to immediately go to Terra, towing this ship, there was some importants to it can we leave a week early?" Demiurge asked.
"Of course Craft world are always ready to go it will take two days after we dock your ship if that acceptable? Siad Teagan
"Of Course my prince" He responded with a bow, Tegan was a keen study of people and understood that Demiurge value decorum so he bowed back and walked through the ship talking technology.
"The Fangs of the Grand Primarch" was docked in a bay it looked like a transport ship upon a freighter as the craftworld was so large. Strict orders no leaving the ship unless told they were aloud, standard new species protocol.
Martellus spent most of his time making love to Eastas and talking to her womb, as she told him the story of the dream of the Emperor after he found out from Julia. Even though they were only a few days old they were strong big enough to move. He spoke of the perils of Earth and that with her Ecclearical witches she would know. He made her promise to never leave this room and taught her how to shoot a mini bolter for women She was also fitting with a transporter just in case they got past the security if she was hit with a weapon it would replace her somewhere else but where wa the problem bt at least neve in a wall. Thirty wolves were protecting his room and all vents were sealed and air units were put in the room, if someone tried to burn through a place a alarm would immediately go and poison gas could kill the perpetrator that ate through all sorts of masks.
Demiurge enjoyed the rest of his time speaking with the elders of the ships and Prince Teagan, how they were created by the creators to kill the Necrons, s soulless mechanical army, that involved the creature that enslave them the C'tan a species as old as time. They ate stars and enhance for their souls gave them the secrets of the old ones. Right now they are all on tomb shops waiting to return as they have no defenses against etheric powers. Then there was one other Chaos God from the beginning of time NUrgle the god of Pestilence, he uses the "gasalt" magic as well so if he knew his master he would be the first to die.
Then the announcement came the ship was coming out of the webway and was going to emerge 1 light year away from the solar system. Since they were emerging from the webway no one was ready for what the saw. Instead of a solar system it was more like a nebula, made of thousands of stars and even more planets. The shape was like the "eye" of Terror" with Terra as a eye of light in the center emitting a golden power into space of the nebula. The laws of gravity, electromagnetism, quantum physics, and reality
within it the nebula were no long active. Suns set up with a hundred planets spinning around the star but not rotating. Then they began to notice while streams of a plasma like substance connecting each planet. Fear and awe came from both the Eldar and the Imperium for the Eldar it was much like the eye of terror but bathed in Golden Ethereal light radiating from Terra that psychers could feel; hope, safety and absence of the taint of the warp. The Imperium was in awe as they had been gone over 5 years and the seat of the Empire had changed in a short time from a simple solar system to a wonder.
"This is not what we expected from the last time observed, you planet our scanners estimate over 10,000 worlds and 1,500 stars all in some sort of status." Teagan read from the screen.
"Sir you need to see this a helmsman" said as he zoomed in on worlds in the nebula and saw the big five craftworlds: Alaitoc, Biel-tan,Iyanden, Saim-Hann, Ulthwé and countless minor worlds like us are here." He said.
"I see we were not the only ones to seek them out damn!" Teagan said.
"Sir if these reading are to be believed there are several craftworlds that we though lost to us in the warp or the webway ages ago." The Pilot said.
"What is going on here since the fall we have never been together like this nor been so exposed!" He Flipped his hood back and slammed the screen.
"Whatever you are thinking trust in our God ask your farseers do they sense a inch of evil?" Martellus said. He looked over to his six Elders and they all agreed, "This whatever it is I would say it is the safest place in the Galaxy trust the Dead king! The golden color is not a gas but some sort of protective shell from the warp which no demon can enter.e other men nodded.
Just as Prince Teagan a Momonga came on the screen and said, "I am Prince Momonga Albedo Gown son of the Dead King. Transport ships will be sent to gather all Eldar Princes and Elders, then taken to the Terra and then given gifts, a feast and hopefully at the end of the day a alliance. I know there is animosity between some of you but if you could sustain from hostilities you shall be most pleased." Momonga said.
A ship was sent to each ship to keep any old animosities from arising, before he left Martellus spent time with Eastas and told her to be carefull. The ship came and Demiurge, Martellus, Prince Teagan and six of his advisors on the Thunderhawk. When they got on the ship it took much longer to take off than usual, he was about to say something when the engines turned on and they were in front of the Imperial Place.
"Was that a jump gate engine?" That is when he looked at the navigator and saw his third eye a Family crest a skull with one red eye and two hammers crossed behind it.
"Tell me son, were you treated well as a part of the Navis Nobilite part of my family?" He asked.
"The young man turned around and said, "Sir we are treated like princes, more money than we can spend, you purchased a continent called by the Emperor Australia which is bigger than the old nations. The province of Martellus is one of the most prosperous due to the alliance with the Navigators and the Adeptus Mechanicus." He said with a smile.
"Good! Enjoy the rest of your day! Martellus said.
All the ships auto landed at once and all of the thousands of leaders came out of the ship, when Martellus went outside he noticed it was bright but not to his eyes, it must have been his third eye seeing this. So her asked Demiurge, "Can you see this bright golden color coming from the Imperial Shrine?"
Demiurge looked over and said, "Yes, but not the brightness that you can I suggest you put your partial helmet on it has physic dampeners, I has installed after our bout with Slaanesh cult as you still need to develop your psychic powers. He touched the button on his collar and his half helm came up covering this third eye and both his etheric sensitive eyes.
It was a sight to behold as thousands upon thousands of Eldar converged on the Imperial throne room, which was different from the hidden Golden Throne Room underneath it along with the entry to Nazarick. As they all filed in a statue of the Dread King that looked so real it could have been, he had his white mask with one red eye showing with a gown that looked like dark as space, as all the Eldar filed in some found long lost families while others kept their space. While everyone became uncomfortable The Engineer came up and plugged a C'tan power cube into the chest and then suddenly everyone watched as the statue came to life.
"Greetings Eldar, I am the Dead King when my entire Galaxy was destroyed your will for a God of justice,love, afterlife, and protection. I was born unto this world with no reason why I was reborn, then I created a way to travel the Etheric tides that brought me here, I could travel a billion miles in a second. The longer I stayed in the Ether the more I learned about the universe, I to unweave the old webways and reweave a new one, all of this you yellow you see is the new webway impenetrable by the warp. The statue then stood up, I then went to the Commarah the home of your sworn enemies, soldiers came out in chaines we have Asdrubael Vect and his Kabal of the Black Heart leaders of the Commoraga and for your execution.
Gasps could be heard as hundreds of men were led in by chain and utterly beaten and hang their head low, even Vect the supreme overlord of Commorragh the dark city that had become a bastion of Kabals. We also awaited and capture the Kabal of the: Splintered Talon, Shadowed Thornes, Crimson wow. One of my favorite to catch Saline Morn - Archon of the Kabal of the Shadowed Thorns, just because she had the Galilean Sphere she was untouchable.
So my enemies are my first gift to you so will you take it and slay these Dark Eldar? If any of you have claim on their lives come forward we have over 100,000 God Emperor said.
Voices from all over came up and Demiurge led group after group to neal and the were read rights and beheaded their soul eaten by the Dead King to keep Slaanesh from growing stronger. With the hundreds of thousands of leaders their and the chance to slay the worst of the Kabals which the hideouts were destroyed as well. After the thought of blood were filled and the God Emperor was satiated from hundreds of thousands of old souls he felt better that he had in years. The avatar he was controlling was made from a machine that he put in consciousness in, he destroyed a tomb world and took a piece of a C'tan in a impossible puzzle box to power his avatar.
"Before I share a table with you I want to show you something very special, I walked through the eye of terror and visited nurgle, I must say what a putrud being, in his ignorance her tried to capture me, so I conjured a level 9 healing spell that made him not be able to move for a few days. Then I found the most lovely women who had been in a jail for thousands of years, she turned out to be one of your old Gods, we went along and healed all his worlds killed all his demons and destroyed the planets that could not be saved. and he grew weaker and weaker. I put him in this tezarach box. He grows power by people believing in him the longer we forget about him the weaker he gets untils I will kill and absorb him. I told her that I have my own Pantheon and if you wish I would like you to marry my Elven Guardian him first for love and then for alliance between the mother of all Eldar Isha and Imperial Mare Bello Fiore. Both Mare and Isha both came out from behind the a tapestry holding hands.
"I Prince Mare Bello Fiore wish to make an alliance between our two people with a child as well as pledge my body to you!" Mare said with the most confidence he had.
"Isha found Mare's uncertainty in himself found it as even more a reason to love him, he was more powerful than the Eldar Gods but cared for her and loved what he did and her as well. For Isha if it would have been anyone else she would have said no but what she saw with Mare was not that she thought she could walk all over him but help him become a stronger person. With the thousands of years of wisdoms she had and she needed someone to make her happy and companionship he was just it.
"I Goddess of the Eldar Marry Prince Mare Bello Fiore in the creation of a child and give my body to you"!
The Emperor began the the clapping and Demiurge helped the shock of it all and it turned into a thunderous applause. "The Wedding feast is in the banquet hall were we can drink and be merry. Also in the garden Nurgle is in the change I made him do not worry lock him all you want he could not hurt a fly.
WOW lots of crap how did it all happen what is the end game and are there any other chaos Gods? We shall see, who is playing who, hehehe!