Part 3

A Test of Faith.

Chapter 19(orphan)

Sister Mary Cortez of the Orphanage of Strict Chastisement was praying yet another one of her constant prayers, as she sat all alone by herself in a barely lit meagre prisoner cell onboard the loathsome Night Lord battleship "Nightmare Asylum", trying not to go mad from isolation. She had no way of marking the passage of time in this stark and rude metal cell, but it must surely have been days.

Sister Mary just kept praying, she had seen too many miracles performed by Franklin already to doubt that the Emperor was with them. The Emperor would purge this filthy place of all the unclean chaos creatures and heretics, she would be able to witness every holy step as this vile society was burned into ashes.

It was GLORIOUS to see the Emperor bringing such wonderful JUSTICE to this dark place, to let the mutant and the heretic alike know that no matter what dark pit they tried to hide in, they would NOT escape from the Emperor's wrath!

Sister Mary smiled at this thought, she had been so PROUD of little Franklin when he summoned miraculous flames to burn that foul bird monster. By the Emperor it had been horrifying to just SEE that foul thing, the way it just hobbled around as though it thought it could just get away with such a sinful form! It had even used witchcraft!

This evil place was seemingly infested with monsters, vile shambling mutant things trying to evade the Emperor's wrath by hiding amongst these traitor Astartes. You could just smell the evil on these mutated monsters, that bird monster had STANK, it reeked of inhumanity, the smell of birds not humans! By the Golden Throne the bird monster had been scary!

And that Night Lord with all the skinned human faces! He had been even scarier than the bird monster! By the Emperor, Sister Superior Clementine had been inspiringly brave the way she confronted the Astartes and the bird monster like that! The way she had challenged them for their sins had been a wonderful act of faith in action!

Sister Mary sighed, wishing that she herself had been brave enough to confront those sinners too. She had just stood back and watched as Sister Superior Clementine and Franklin had so fearlessly forged ahead in the Emperor's holy light. At least Sister Mary had helped burn the sinful items the faithful band had found...

The "household" the survivors of the bus had been moved into, by the Emperor it had been FILLED with sin! The homosexual perversions of those two harlots had been UNBELIEVABLE!

The two WOMEN had had... Oh the shame of it... They had had WEDDING PHOTOS! Two WOMEN! DARING to call themselves "Married"!

Oh the filth of it!

Sister Mary had burned no end of their homosexual "wedding" photographs, big fat album books full of the two immoral women in WEDDING DRESSES, photos of them EXCHANGING RINGS, and doing BRIDAL DANCES, and and and KISSING! They were actually KISSING with wedding vales raised as though they had just been PRONOUNCED MARRIED, in violation to everything the Emperor had created!

By the Golden Throne, it had been such a huge relief to burn these sinful pictures! To cleanse their filth before someone might SEE such blasphemy and be led astray!

OVER TWENTY YEARS of photos of their "lives" together in this blasphemy against marriage! Photos of them RAISING CHILDREN together, with these great big joyful SMILES on their faces! They hadn't even looked ASHAMED! Sister Mary could barely burn those disgusting photos fast enough!

Wedding photos, birth photos, baby photos, children's birthday party photos, family gathering photos, celebration photos, it just went on and on! Happy and smiling as though they were HAPPILY MARRIED in some vile perversion of natural marriage! The nuns had burned ALL of these images in a great big fire, and had only felt clean again once they were ashes!

By all that is holy, what if the CHILDREN had seen such photos, of two women in wedding dresses kissing each other on the lips!

Oh they were such evil women! They lay together in one bed! They weren't even ASHAMED of themselves for carrying on like this! They had even ADMITTED to being... LESBIANS! They had actually said that disgusting word! Oh the VILE women they were!

Sister Mary shuddered with holy anger just thinking about the scandal and hubris of those two whores. She had to calm herself with effort.

It had just made Sister Mary so ANGRY to see them carry on in such an unholy coupling. And it was so needless too!

Not only were neither of them too ugly to get a man, thus possibly having some feeble attempt at EXCUSE, but the pair were in fact EASILY the two MOST BEAUTIFUL women Sister Mary had ever seen in her entire life!

Men on every planet in the Imperium of Man would be FIGHTING each other for these women's hands in marriage! These women could have courted GOVERNORS, such was their astonishing loveliness! Why were they WASTING themselves on each other! They were just sinning ON PURPOSE!

Oh it filled Sister Mary with fury!

At least it had turned out that the prettier of the two was redeemable, when the Emperor himself had spoken in His voice through Franklin. Sister Mary had not expected that, but apparently she was just being deceived into sin by the other one, as foolish as she was pretty...

It was ever the way that the prettiest of women were often the least smart, the Emperor it seemed only gave out a certain amount of good traits to each woman, so those of great beauty had nothing left for brains. Given the extreme physical loveliness of this particular specimen, she must therefore easily be the dumbest woman alive to balance out the gifts!

Sister Mary sighed, poor stupid creature, some people were simply too dumb to be properly culpable, the tiny minded were the most easily redeemable, as a small mind is easily filled with faith. If she was this then perhaps she could be saved after all...

Fresh holy anger filled Sister Mary, at the realisation that the filthy Slaanesh Champion woman had preyed upon this poor stupid woman for TWENTY YEARS, leading her into homosexuality and depriving her of an Emperor fearing husband who would surely have her! The sheer EVIL of this crime was UNBELIEVABLE!

Well this reign of evil was over now. Franklin would continue to use the powers of the Emperor working through him, burn away every mutant and lesbian and deviant. This poor stupid woman could then be rescued from her depraved "happy marriage", and get to join the Painful Path and enter into a life of celibacy and service. She would be much happier, as would any others like her who could be redeemed.

Sister Mary smiled with triumphant faith at this thought, great good was happening here, the Emperor would sanitise this unclean place, without mutants or lesbians or any other deviants. It would be so wonderful!

Sister Mary thanked the Emperor anew for the holy work he was doing to purge away the sin from this disgusting place, "THANK THE EMPEROR!" Sister Mary shouted aloud.

"Thank the Emperor indeed," a tiny high pitched female voice said warmly from the outside of the cell door.

Sister Mary felt herself fill with fresh joy and faith, a believer had come to rescue her from this cell!

Sister Mary joyfully went up to the thick glass door and looked out of it to see an absolutely tiny happily smiling oriental woman in a crisply clean pressed white surgical gown. Sister Mary gazed at the tiny little woman beyond the glass in curiosity.

She was a very elegant little thing, slender and petite, she didn't even look to be 5 feet tall, barely bigger than a child. She had a very pretty and elegant face, a face that looked almost like it had been... Sculpted somehow?, with a yellowish skin tone that suited her, and elegantly slanted eyes. Her jet black long straight hair was elegantly done up out of the way with numerous hair ties, and a plastic transparent surgery hairnet covered this hair effortlessly.

The strange little woman was obviously young, but her happily smiling eyes betrayed a hint of true intelligence behind them.

Sister Mary immediately dismissed this tiny little woman as being any sort of threat, and smiled back happily at the elegant little thing.

"Well met friend, I... LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" Sister Mary warmly began then shouted in warning!

Standing hidden in the dark behind this smiling young woman was the giant flying Night Lord from the bus!

The minuscule woman turned around, and gazed up at the horrifying giant behind her.

Sister Mary's heart was in her throat! The giant was EASILY over 9 feet tall and looked brutally well muscled!

"Run away girl! RUN!" Sister Mary screamed.

The doomed woman raised a tiny hand to point a very small finger at the giant, not even slightly afraid!

"Kneel," the woman commanded dominantly in a high pitched voice.

The giant dropped to one knee so fast that Sister Mary flinched back in fright!

"Stand," the little woman ordered.

The giant stood bolt upright with eye watering speed!

"Stand on your head," the woman commanded.

In a blur of speed the giant was actually balancing awkwardly on his armoured head!

"Kneel at my feet and remove your helmet," the woman's high pitched little bossy voice commanded.

The giant moved with another blur of motion and was kneeling at her in complete submission, the giant then reached up with his hands, and lifted away his helmet after a small magnetic click.

A mane of curly dark brown hair hung down his neck, framing a brutal face, a face that looked remarkably similar to the face of Franklin. The face had tiny piggish eyes with massive black pupils, ringed by dark brown irises...

And those eyes were gazing at the tiny woman in worshipful submissive adoration, the same way Franklin always looked at the nuns...

Sister Mary gasped in relief. This minuscule little woman CONTROLLED the giant! She could use this power to RESCUE Sister Mary.

"Thank the Emperor!" Sister Mary sighed in relief.

"Indeed," the woman said with a small smile.

The woman turned to one side to give a side on view, and the woman's reassuringly happy cheerful face suddenly got a slightly cruel edge to it that Sister Mary didn't quite like.

"Kiss me, HUSBAND!" The woman said with a smile of terrifying cruelty!

"Yes WIFE," the giant said with complete submission in a harsh demonic voice!

The pair were then kissing passionately!

Sister Mary scrambled back with all her might, not wanting to be near them.

The pair broke their kiss and slowly turned their heads to look at Sister Mary, horrifyingly cruel expressions on their suddenly psychotic faces!

"Husband, open the cell," the tiny woman said with a deceptive sweetness for such a suddenly savagely cruel face.

In the blink of an eye the giant unlocked the door and hurled it open!

Sister Mary yelped in fright, but the giant didn't move, he was waiting for the small woman to tell him what to do.

Sister Mary looked frantically into her eyes, desperately shaking her head, pleading the woman not to order him to do anything to her!

Sister Mary gazed pleadingly into those slanted eyes, desperate to find a hint of mercy!

The tiny woman's elegant face suddenly changed into a snarling demonic face of raw undiluted cruelty! She gave a hell spawned distorted snarl!

"Fetch me my plaything husband!" The demonic little woman said in a voice devoid of mercy!

"NO!" Sister Mary shrieked as the giant was suddenly on her in the blink of an eye!

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