Chapter 7 Preparing to fight once more

Disclaimer Blah Blah, Thanks to N.Kage and Entilza for some well used advice.

Endimos had been waiting and watching for the past day now. He had been putting his Calipsan node to good use. It allowed him to sleep with having half of his brain still alert. He was watching enemy troop movement through his scope when he saw it. There was a bright flash, his eyelids automatically shut, and when he re-opened them he saw a drop pod had landed. He saw six figures emerge; they were so large it was obvious they were marines for sure. But than he saw something very unusual, the last thing out of the drop pod was twice as large as the marines, and carried itself in a way that showed it to be mutated.

'Holy Throne' whispered Endimos under his breath.

He had to let Brother Captain Triton know about this abomination.

He broke radio silence for the first time in his life, in the back of his mind he knew he would be punished for breaking an order but this was way too important.

"Brother Triton, come in"

-Static-

"I repeat Brother Triton come in!"

"Yes what is it young neophyte? Were you not told to keep radio silence?" replied Triton

"Yes Sir, but this was far to important"

"Well what is it?" inquired Triton

"A…a…a.."

"WHAT!"

"A Damon Prince Sir!"

'Oh dear Emperor' whispered Triton

"Do you have a shot Endimos?"

"Not at the moment but if you could cause them to stutter when they advance I will have a shot"

"Roger that, good job, The Emperor Protects"

Endimos repositioned himself facing towards the city's wall and waited once more.

Triton sounded the get ready alarm and the courtyard where he and his men were positioned suddenly became very, very busy. Men moved every which way. Some carrying munitions some running back to get more. Everyone was heading towards the trenches and their firing positions.

Triton donned his gear and loaded his bolter. He filled every other round his Magazine with fragmentary rounds. They explode just before impact killing the target and wounding anything nearby.

Triton walked to the back of the trench network and checked up on the mortar positions. He made sure they were using high explosive or fragmentary rounds since armor piercing would only kill one man at a time. The mortars were ready.

He made his way towards the front lines checking that the firing positions were correct. He checked on the Heavy bolter positions and they assault cannons. Everything was armed and manned. He had to give these Guardsmen credit they were fast and organized.

Triton took 40 Space Marines and 60 Guardsmen and took them 200 yards in front of the trenches. He could barely make out the mass of enemies in the distance. Each soldier was carrying 3 remote detonated mines. They buried them at staggered intervals and made sure that there was to be major destruction when they were set off. Triton ran through all the schematics and made sure each mine was disguised and armed. The soldiers ran back to the trenches, hunkered down, and waited.

Sergeant Tiber was bored senseless. He had been watching the hole in the pavement for 5 hours now. He and the 3 other men were waiting. They could often hear squealing and scratching of claws inside the cavern but yet nothing felt like climbing up and dying. He was overly anxious to get back to the trenches to kill the vile chaos.

Sabbatine was still shaken but she had recovered almost completely. She had spent 3 consecutive hours praying at the city's shrine hoping for a miracle and for the image of the creature to leave her mind. She pushes the image from her mind and puts in the joyous faces of the men she had saved. Well over 150. Ever since the creature attack, she now carries a sidearm.

She made her way back to the medical tent and got back to work on a stab victim. It was pretty bad but survivable. She started patching him up when he started shaking violently. All over his body, chaos symbols burned themselves into his flash. He jumped up and grabbed the nearest scalpel. She pulled out her gun and fired on shot through the skull. He hit the floor with a sickening thud. She couldn't believe she had just ended a life.

As she is going over the last second's events in her mind she hears a constant thunder. It is the sound of 10,000 men marching in unison towards the City's defenses. All she can do now is wait for the rush of wounded.