Youll like this chapter everyone I put a nice cliff hanger at the end of it. I may only be doing another 1 or 2 chapters but will be starting another "book" after this one hope you enjoy it
Chapter 8
Below him was a blood stained field. There were empty red husks of space marine armor with horns on them and gold trim, littered around them and amongst them there were necrons in their hundreds, they swarmed the ruble filled make shift arena. Even from up here Cameron could hear the din of battle and taste the metallic flavor of blood and gun powder on the air.
"it seems our wake up call broke the hold over the necrons" said the grand master loading his wrist mounted storm bolter.
"let us go sow havoc among their ranks" and with that he was gone leaping and bounding into the battle far below. Cameron was the first to join him.
The slope was steep and footing was sparse but Cameron did not care he was leaping and bounding over bent twisted metal frames that could have been holding the building up or be parts of necrons, he didn't care. A dust smeared form burst from the rubble in front of him, instead of slowing Cameron leapt feet first into the iron body throwing it through the air with him. When they both landed he blasted 2 holes in the horned helmet of his adversary drawing a glowing liquid from the wounds, but cameorn was already running back down the path and did not notice. When he finaly reached the flat bottom he was met by the red suited power armor of a chaos space marine. It was fully 2 heads taller than Cameron and much bigger, this was emphasized by the 2 handed chain sword he wielded with one hand.
The marine swung at Cameron's head with the rip snarling blade and succeeded in only cutting through air. Cameron had ducked under the arm and now grabbed the sword wrist with his free hand. With the other he rammed the bolt pistols muzzle in the armpit of the thick armor and blasted through it drawing a tortured scream of pain from the chaos marine. The arm let go of the sword and spazmed as it was now only held together by a fragment or armor, the marine clumsily swung his own bolter around trying to shoot Cameron point blank, Cameron did not give him the chance he solidly kicked the marine in the chest and placed half a clip of ammunition through his torso as he fell.
His victory was short lived, he was suddenly thrown through the air by what felt like a dreadnaught punching him. The power of the hit was followed by a wash of green light. He ducked and rolled as he hit the ground covering his dark armor in grey dust. He rolled with the blow and ended up being narrowly missed by another green pulsating shot. A necron stood at the other end of the gun, its lifeless eyes staring straight at Cameron coldly calculating how to kill him. He jumped over the dead chaos marine and rolled as the necron fired again and again at him. He was now next to the machine, while crouching he kicked out and struck the legs from under it. The necron fell like a sentinel with only one leg. As soon as it hit the ground Cameron crushed the head under his boot and was satisfied to hear the squeal of metal as it was twisted and snapped.
To his right Cameron saw the grand master impale a chaos heretic on his power glaive and blast a fighting group of necrons and chaos worshipers with his wrist mounted storm bolter. As the grand master turned looking for more targets and throwing the heretic of his glaive he was met face to face with a necron that had 2 long scythes for arms. The necron plunged both of them into the grand masters abdomen and Cameron could hear him grunt with pain over the short range vox. The necron lifted the grand master into the air and made ready to rip him in two. It never got the chance. The grand master dropped his power glaive and roared over the vox net.
"IN THE NAME OF THE EMPORER. FEAST!" and slammed both his hands on the dead grinning skull twisting and pulling it up until he ripped it and its power source from the heavily armored body.
The grand master and the necron body dropped. The master cleanly pulled the blades from his body and picked up his glaive. Cameron ran over behind the grandmaster and punched the heretic that was trying to raise a lass pistol to the grand masters back. With his augmented strength Cameron's punch removed the heretic's lower jaw spraying him and the ground In a welter of blood. The grand master turned to Cameron and nodded his thanks. Already the bloody stains on his armor had clotted and the grand master ran off to another area kicking aside a half alive body of a chaos marine.
Cameron turned and reloaded his pistol taking another magazine from his chest belt. Now drawing his second pistol he moved back out heading towards the middle of the arena, where the heaviest fighting was going on. He came across two chaos cultists, their skinny and bent frames barley worth noticing. That almost cost him his life.
The first one ran at him screaming with his arms flung wide, Cameron coolly shot him through the chest dropping him. Then he noticed the cultist standing right behind the other one running straight at Cameron. around his chest was a mould of plastic explosives. The cultists rammed into Cameron sending him sprawling backwards. Cameron saw the cultist raise his hand with the detonator in it so he kicked as hard as he could. The body flew through the air and exploded about 4 meters from Cameron. the explosion made the ground rock and threw Cameron through the air. He landed on his front face down now missing one of his bolt pistols.
There was a faint ringing in his ear and he realized he couldn't hear anything. The battle field was quiet. Cameron picked himself up watching in awe as the grey knights slashed their way through throngs of enemies and blasted away would be attackers in total silence. He also watched as another red armored figure ran at him with a power sword raised.
The chaos marine swung at his head and Cameron reacted to slow, the blade caugh his helmet and ripped it from his head, and that's when the noise came back in. he wasn't deaf his helmet was broken. The blade left a deep gash along the side of his face. The marine swung again aiming for Cameron's belly. Cameron jumped back now on the defensive. He stepped on a smooth necron skull and fell back to the earth.
The chaos marine reversed his grip and rammed the red glowing sword down where Cameron's head had been, but he was sliding under the chaos marine. With his back to the ground Cameron kicked out for the groin hearing ceramite plates crack and feeling his leg go numb with the same shock as if he kicked the side of a tank. The chaos marine roared and swung out more clumsily now, Cameron scrabbled to his feet and raised his bolt pistol. But the chaos marine had seen it. He swung I a wide arc cutting through the pistols muzzle and throwing it from Cameron's hands.
Now the two faced off sword to unarmed. The chaos marine limped towards Cameron in a desperate lunge and Cameron easily sidestepped it a bit slower with his numbed leg. The marine and Cameron circled again staring each other down. Cameron couldn't go for his bolter on his belt because the marine was to was and would kill him. Cameron would have to do this with his hands.
The chaos marine lunged in again with his sword trying to impale cameorn on its blade. Cameron spun on the outside of the sword and behind the marine before he could swing back at him. He kicked at the back of the legs at the knee joint making the marine fall to his knees.
The chaos marine swung his sword back and up at Cameron's head. Cameron leaned in and caught the blood red vambrace on his neck and wrapped his arm around the chaos marines. With his other hand he began punching me chaos marines helmet making crack and spreading hair line fractures across it. The chaos marine tried punching Cameron but he was out of reach and totally at Cameron's mercy, and he had none to give. He continued to punch the helmet until finally it broke open in pieces. Below the helmet was a pale skinned head with no hair and many scars. Some of the skin seemed to be different colors and as if not from the same body, as if he had some one else's skin on his face.
The chaos marine hissed and twisted his tongue forming fowl words. Before he could say whatever it was Cameron brought his black gauntlet back down into the top of the skull pulping the grey flesh and spraying everything with chunks of bone and brain.
The body spazmmed and went limp dropping the sword. Cameron picked up the now simmering red blade and unhooked his bolter from his belt making sure it was loaded. He then ran over to a knot of grey nights near the arenas side. The 2 sides had pulled back and had regrouped and dug in both having suffered heavy losses.
The knights were in a circular defense with the grand master at the wall pulling off heavy metal scaffolding and rubble trying to free a tank sized hatch in the wall. Cameron noticed the two bloody marks on the grandmasters back. The gran master stood up and motioned for one of the other knights to resume the work. He turned and looked at Cameron.
"good to see you have survived, we have lost two men but have killed many of the emperors enemies today, we are bringing their bodies with us." He motioned towards the 2 armored grey husks on the ground next to the door.
"we will have them buried in the moon titan along with all our other fallen battle brothers." Cameron looked at the grand master and bowed his head.
"I will offer a prayer for your men when we are rid of this place I feel a dark presence pressing on my mind as we talk." The grandmaster nodded and went back to the door now almost free of rubble. When it was free and slowly being opened one of the grey knights called over the vox.
"they are attacking again. Three small squads of chaos headed our way. I think we should hurry with the door." Cameron saw the chaos forces, they were terminators and seemed to be carrying heavy weaponry.
Two other grey nights moved back and helped the grand master lift open the hatch.
"Move through now!" shouted the grand master his strain evident over the vox. Cameron was the first through the hatch. The tunnel was lit with sporadic glow globes hanging at random heights off the walls. Some flickered and others burned brightly. Now they were in the belly of the chaotic beast.
The grey knights followed him in filling the tunnel until finally the grand master and others holding open the hatch let go and rolled in has the heavy steel door clanged shut.
"the auspex is showing we are not far from the center of the city we should be able to follow this access tunnel to it." Said a justicar. He had a horrible green tinge to his left arm and was missing a large chunk of ceramite plate on it.
So the group set off cautiously walking through the tunnel. On the walls were random sigils that caused the eyes to water. The farther Cameron walked the more pressure he felt on his head, he could even hear voices slight quiet voices that whispered things he could not hear or understand. Not that he wanted to.
When Cameron heard voices he thought he was hearing louder whispers in his head but they were different more worldly and real. Then he halted and realized what it was. He halted and held up a closed fist gauntlet. The grey knights all stopped behind him and raised storm bolters. Cameron motioned for them to wait and sneaked forward. His black armor blended in with the dark shadows. He peeked around a corner and saw 3 chaos space marines all talking in the strange tongue that the one he killed was speaking in. but this was different he could almost.. understand them.
"almost…..done" said one of the marines. Or at least he thought it did. He listened for another few seconds only catching random words and then dismissed it surely he couldn't be hearing the voices of the followers of chaos?
Before his worries could sink in he spun around the corner flashing out with the power sword which now leapt to life with a red fire. He spun and sliced off the leg of the first marine and plunged it into the chest of the second marine. The third jumped back and withdrew his own power knife and leapt at Cameron. Cameron brought his sword up in time to d deflect the blow sending waves of power out lighting the room up. The marine missing a leg now lifted his bolter and fired at Cameron catching him in the back of the leg. He dropped down to one knee and the chaos marine pushed home his advantage kneeing Cameron in the face. His nose broke and blood flowed freely over his armor and he was thrown back. Before the 3 marines could fire at Cameron again the grand master stepped out and slashed out with his power glaive slicing open the marines in 3 swipes. He then placed a bolt into each of their heads just to be sure they were dead.
"next time don't go off into battle on your own. You're no space marine your just a man in light power armor." Cameron looked down in embarrassment, he was taking unnecessary risks but why, he knew better than this.
"im sorry grand master I will be more careful in the future." The grand master nodded and moved down the hall way following his radar built into the helm Cameron no longer had.
The path way moved on going deeper and deeper into the tunnel still with the randomly placed glow globes and sigils all over the walls. Now the sigils were more frequent and moved when looked at. Cameron swore once one of them hissed at him, and there was still that cursed pushing on his mind. When the pathway dipped down to a gentle slope Cameron was grateful, it was easier to walk and less evil sigils decorated the walls. Final the tunnel ended.
What the tunnel dumped out onto was a reverse dome. In the middle was a single structure surrounded by what looked like a maze of 11 meter high black walls. The area was dimly lit by glowing balls high upon the roof with could barley be seen and only because of the lights. Cameron and the grey knights walked straight for the structer with weapons at the ready and all power weapons lit and humming. When they finally reached the structure it was revealed to be a large rectangle with a single door. The grand master promptly kicked the door in with the same effect as if they had shot it with a rocket. Bright white light poured out of the room.
The grey knights rushed in and checked the room. Inside was a giant gresy silver machine with pistons and tubes covering the whole thing. When the room was called clear the grand master walked over to Cameron.
"stay here with justicar Grendol while we clear the rest of the dome. If anyone but a grey knight walks through that door shoot them, you understand? I mean any one." The grand master was leaning close to Cameron and the seriousness in his voice scared Cameron.
"I will grand master" said Cameron rubbing his temples now, it seemed the voices had receded for a bit.
With this the grey knights except for justicar Grendol left the room to clear the mazes around it. Almost immediately Cameron could hear the retort of gun fire. Cameron and the justicar stood in the room in total silence. They did not talk for there was nothing to talk about.
After what seemed like 2 hours the sounds of gun fire slowly silenced and there was an eerie silence. Cameron could hear the servos in his and the grey knights armor whir as they breathed in and out. The glare of the room became over bearing and the machine sat ominously in the middle of the room dead and quiet like the outside of the room. …Then foot steps.
Both Cameron and the justicar aimed their weapons at the door. Cameron ignited his red power sword. The foot steps got closer and louder. Then a voice called out.
"Cameron justicar? Its me Aaron don't shoot" the voice was followed by a pair of hands poking through the door then followed up by inquisitor Aaron. He was sweaty and bleeding from many minor cuts and one large gash across his arm.
"justicar I need you to go out and help your squad mates, they are mopping up the rest of the sorceress personally guard, I killed the sorcerer myself." Said the inquisitor motioning toward the door.
"yes inquisitor will you stay here with Cameron?"
"yes I will, you'll find your squad at the south end of the dome." Said the inquisitor turning back toward the door as the justicar walked past him.
Before another breath could pass before another heart beat could pound the justicar head turned to a blue ball of molten slag.