Sorry I took so long- exam preps, writers block and Mass Effect 3 make for slow updates.
Akuma Emperor of War: It is football I'm British see, your football is my rugby -more or less.
Elliej939: Yeah Yarsa does, and that football match will have to wait for a chapter or two.
Joshabi: Gotta hate those damn bugs with claws. I honestly didn't know that about the Orks, thanks for telling.
I slowly nudged open my brother's room door and cautiously stepped in with bug spray and fly swatter in hand. The room was eerily silent and devoid of life.
"Here Tyranid, Tyranid, Tyranid," I said softly.
'Do you really think that will work?'
Just as Yarsa finished a humongous swarm flowed out from every nook and cranny. I sprayed my spray swung my swatter. I don't know how many of them I killed but more Tyranids would just replace them. Gargoyles latched onto my face and gene-stealers were clambering up my trousers. I clawed at my face and sprayed my legs- but it was all in vain- before I knew it I had been forced to the floor by the sheer volume of Tyranids slamming into me.
'I knew this was a trap,' Yarsa said smugly.
'Nice of you to tell me,'
The Tyranids were acting as a living chain- holding me down by sheer mass and nothing else.
Once again I felt the alien presence in my head.
'Why... Save... Us... When... We... Consume?'
'I don't know- but could you let me go please?'
'Answer.'
'Because, I'd never be able to hide the amount of bodies.'
'That... Is... Not... Answer'
'Yarsa, your intervention would be nice about now,'
I felt the Hive Mind being forcefully expelled from my mind.
'I have to admit, that was impressive, blocking out a normal Psyker is one thing- but actually expelling a Hive Mind once it's inside is virtually impossible.'
'That wasn't you? But I didn't do anything.'
'Now that is, uh what would you say? Oh that's it; Kiff we have a conundrum,'
Then I realised that I wasn't being ripped to pieces by Tyranids, I opened my eyes and the Tyranids were just standing completely still.
'Wow, you didn't just push the Hive Mind from your mind, you completely cut the Swarm off as well.' Yarsa admired.
I stood up, shaking off the various different Tyranid forms and slowly backed out of the room.
"Now that was weird," I said to myself.
'You can say that again,'
'Can I please go and see the Eldar now?'
'Can I please go and see the Eldar now- what?'
'Can I please go and see the Eldar now, Ma'am?'
'Only because you asked so nicely,'
I walked across the hall and rapped my knuckles against the door and opened it. Inside I was greeted by the Eldar still constructing but the majority was done. I turned my head to the shelf and Karha was standing at my eye level.
"Hello Mon-Keigh,"
"Even after everything that happened yesterday, you still won't call me by my name," I whispered.
"I'm coming in,"
Before I could react Karha was already forcing her way into my head and the all to familiar white of my soul scape prevailed over my normal senses. As it cleared I saw Yarsa and Karha arguing.
"You could have killed him!" Karha shouted.
"He would have died when she who thirst caught up to me anyway!" Yarsa screeched.
"And who's fault would that have been, you chose to bind to him!"
"You killed me!"
"You would have killed him and me!"
"It's in my nature!"
"Okay what the hell is going on here," I interrupted.
"You slept with her!" Karha shouted.
"Well... Technically it was rape,"
"You're taking her side!" Yarsa shouted.
I stood in between them to stop them from tearing each others throats out.
"You raped him!"
"In my nature!"
"Just like it's in your nature to be a little slut!"
"Come over here and say that!"
I pushed them apart with my hands and kept them both at arms length.
"Mum always liked you better!" Yarsa moaned.
"Don't get mum involved!"
"Wait you two are sisters?" I asked.
"Shut up Mon-keigh!" They both shouted.
"I thought it was all metaphorical," I murmured.
"I still can't believe you raped him, even though you knew we wanted us to spend the day together!"
"Details, details, you got your afternoon didn't you?"
"How could you say that, I'll kill you!" Karha screamed.
My strength gave out and my arms buckled under the sheer rage of the two Eldar women. Karha tackled Yarsa to the ground. There wasn't any grace or agility in the fight however, it was no holds back cat fight. There was nails, teeth and tearing of armour until I got involved.
I imagined water coming down on top of them and it was there. Yarsa was spluttering on the floor and Karha stormed towards me and slapped me very hard in the face.
"That was for enjoying you morning with Yarsa so much," SLAP, "That was for not telling me," SLAP, "That was for being an idiot," SLAP, "And that was because I felt like it."
Rubbing my cheek, I accidentally said the only thing that couldn't defuse the situation.
"You two are sisters?"
SLAP.
"What was that for?"
"You're an idiot, just like every Mon-keigh, using people only for your own advantage. How could you play my feelings like that?" Karha asked with sincere sadness in her voice.
"I didn't play your feelings, I went to you because I promised you an afternoon together. Wether or not Yarsa slept with me, that was after I made that promise to you, I wasn't going to break that promise for anyone or anything," I said softly.
"Do you have any feelings for Yarsa?"
"I'm right here you know," Yarsa called from her puddle.
Karha gave her a death glare.
"I'll give you some privacy then."
Yarsa disappeared to only God knows where and I turned to face Karha again.
"I won't deny the fact that she's good looking, but I don't have feelings for her. Even if I did it would be awkward considering the fact she only exists inside me."
Karha nodded in acknowledgment before eyeing me again.
"What about me?" She asked.
Just then Lothis Irrian decided to enter my head.
"Are you ready for your next training session Mon-keigh?" He said drawing two wraith bone swords. Karha threw me one of my own.
"Come and have a go."
I don't know how long I had been training for but I was slowly getting better than Lothis and he was knocking me down less and less.
Parry then slash. Parry then slash. Then I saw my opening and slammed my shoulder into his chest and sent him reeling. While he stumbled I raised my foot and kicked his chest knocking him to the floor.
I offered him my hand and he reluctantly grabbed it and I pulled him to his feet. He steadied himself and swung his blade at my head. Expecting this, I ducked under it and whacked him on the side of the head with the hilt of my wraith bone sword.
"Fighting dirty will not get you anywhere," I said.
"You think daemons will fight honourably?"
"No, but I thought you would."
Karha walked over to us.
"Lothis, it is obvious that we will not be needing you in these training sessions anymore," She said.
"What!"
"You are not proving a challenge for him anymore, he needs to be constantly challenged to be able to defeat daemons."
"I will not allow this, my honour has been tarnished by allowing a Mon-keigh to repeatedly best me," Lothis growled, "Anyway who will take my place?"
"I will," Karha said.
"You will regret this Farseer!"
"I sincerely doubt that."
Lothis growled once more and left.
"What's his deal?" I asked.
"He thinks that I am unworthy of my position and he has tried courting me several times through our lives."
"Ah the classic; hates you because you rejected him, but why does he hate me?"
"You've bested him in combat several times and what's more of an insult is the fact that you're a Mon-keigh and you can do it. There are other reasons as well but we'll be here all night if I told you."
"Is this the bit where you start to kick my ass?"
She dropped into a combat position and created her own wraith bone sword.
"I'll take that as a yes then."
She held her ground and waited for me to strike the first blow -so I complied. I brought the sword down in a huge arc but she effortlessly knocked it away. I tried to land more blows but she just danced around them -laughing as she did. She lightly struck my back to knock me off balance before bashing my undefended sides. I was knocked to the floor and my weapon skittered away. I rolled to the side to avoid another one of Karha's punishing attacks. I couldn't get to my weapon so I would have to fight unarmed.
I swung my right fist, Karha dodged and struck my back. I swung my left fist, Karha danced around it and tapped my face. Then it hit me, while I was giving it my all just trying to actually land a blow, she was playing with me, slowly wearing me down while she was conserving her strength. I adopted a defensive pose and let her take the offensive for a change. She smirked and feigned right and while I moved to block she struck left. I quickly recovered and raised my palm to deflect her next blow. Her blade dug deep into my hand and blood flooded from the gash, but I had her where I wanted her. I closed my other hand around the blunt side of her weapon, wrestled it out of her grip and threw it to the side. Now on more equal terms I took the offensive again. I swung but she dodged, slapped my temples and punched my chest. Stunned and disorientated Karha struck my neck with her fingers and slammed her elbow into my gut.
I dropped to my knees and Khara's foot connected with my face. As I fell backwards I reached out and grabbed her foot and she fell on top of me.
I was flat on my back and Karha was lying on top. Her head was in front of mine and her lips were mere inches away from mine. I tried to lean forward but I felt something sharp against my chest.
Karha's eyes met mine and a smirk came to her lips.
"I win," She said smugly.
I looked down and I saw she was holding a small dagger to my chest.
She rolled off of me and helped me to my feet.
"I seem to have developed the trend of having my ass handed to me by women," I joked.
"It's a likeable trait."
"Only when you're a girl."
Karha chuckled and looked at the blood dripping from my hand.
"Let me have a look at your hand," She said with genuine concern in her voice.
I raised my hand and she studied it in depth. She thought up a bandage and skilfully applied it to the wound.
"I walked the path of a healer long ago. You don't have to worry much about the wound, you'll have a scar at most," She said holding my hand for longer than she should have needed and her eyes met mine.
"Well training went well," I said looking away to hide my blush.
"You didn't answer my question from earlier, you know the one when we were interrupted by Lothis," Karha said timidly.
I was about to answer her again when Joe Dredd interrupted us.
"Sir, the Techmarines have something to show you."
"Duty calls," I said to Karha before I returned to reality.
I was on the couch and surrounded by all the armies watching football on tv.
'I put it on for them.'
'Thank you Yarsa, are you okay?'
'I'm fine, I'm an Archon it happens to me nearly on a daily basis.'
'Okay, what did they want to show me?'
'Take a look.'
Two techmarines were walking towards me holding a blue tooth set.
"This is for you, we apologise for what happened to your oven," One said.
"It has been set for our Vox frequencies so it will be easier to communicate to us," The other stated.
I picked it up and my ear was bombarded by chatter. I turned down the volume so nothing could be heard from it.
"You can set it to specific channels as well."
"And there's this sir," As the techmarine spoke a large object under a sheet was wheeled into the centre of the room and a full sized football was pushed in front of it. The sheet was pulled back to reveal a laser.
"It's a shrinking device so it can be used to make things you need us to have our sized, observe;"
The shrinking device powered up and blue lights lit up the side. A small ball was starting to form on the end creating a crackling noise. Cindy was shocked by the noise and jumped of the couch, as she ran away she pushed the laser and it pointed at me just before it fired. The blue ball of energy flew towards me and struck me in the gut. Every thing went black.
I could hear mumbling and soft talking around me. I opened my eyes slowly to find I was completely surrounded by the various different races. Two guardsmen helped me two my feet, then it hit me -I was their size!
One thought came to mind and I voiced it.
"Oh bugger."
