Okay first sorry about the long wait, I did my best to word this chapter in a way that a Blood Angel would think. The last 1000 words took up most of the time.

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Chapter One

"No don't stop for me, to the tower, get to the tower!" Yason Annellus Blood Angels Warden (Fear to Tread)

I now stand upon the bridge of y ship, the Strike Cruiser by the name of Illuminate Blood.

All of my brothers, they are not here, they had their orders to leave and they did.

Baal is in peril and will need every scion of Sanguinuis to guard it against to multitude of foes that assail it.

But to be part of such glory, to be part of such a legend is not my fate.

The path I walk I chose, all of my brother Captains did not approve of it, but none of them argued with it.

My ship was the only one in position to pull this ploy off, so the duty fell to me.

I could have left them, I could have left with my brothers, but no that is not our way.

We are children of the Angel, we do not run from a fight, we do not leave others to die for us.

The crew of the Illuminate Blood had accepted their role and were all ready to die for us.

But I can feel it it my veins, the urge to not let them die alone.

I had heard many years ago, that a Captain goes down with his ship, the men and women who are before me now, I had served with their parents as well as their parents and those who had come before them.

Their of service to the Chapter and to all of the Imperium is over as is mine, a final duty, a final desperate mission, that is what this is, that is the path I chose.

Those here now are all of the crew minus the very young, they were sent with our brothers in order to keep some traditions of the company alive.

I had not the heart to refuse the old who chose to fight beside me once more.

Almost a life time ago we had shared in victory with one another, now we shall share a real victory.

The Arch Enemy, they had boarded us rather than just destroy us, foolish heretics.

But this was what I had planned on, right now I had a single plasma pistol and a power sword.

Not my own personal ones, they I had given to the one who would take over my role as Captain of the 2nd Company.

I can hear the whispers of my Gene Sire, I know what is to come and what I have to do, there is nothing more that I or any of us can accomplished from standing here at the bridge.

I close my eyes beating back the red clouds the shroud my thoughts for a little while longer.

Opening them I turn to the crew of the bridge and say "All of you have stayed by me, through the darkness and through the light, we have been boarded."

As I say this I can see many of the crew shudder, I do not begrudge them this, they are still mortal and do not have the discipline nor the training that I have, it is only normal.

"Right now as they defile our decks we stand proud knowing that even if we are to perish here, we have done our duty to the Chapter and to the descendants of the IX Legion."

"Once when I was but an initiate I asked my sergeant how to meet death, do you know what he said?"

I give a short pause as I see the older members of the crew those at least 50 years and more give me a nod, they know of what I speak.

"The only answer is, with as much defiance, with as much resistance as you can give it, all of you here have served the Chapter loyally as your families have for generations!"

I pause again, those who had been quivering in fear I notice have halted, I can see that their chest are swelling with a small measure of pride for their lineage, I let them have that.

I now clench my fist and hold up my power sword, as I say "When I have finished speaking to you, I will be heading out of hear for the engine room, once their I will over load the sub warp-drives that will tear our ship the Illuminate Blood apart."

I now give pause again as I seen a few of the crew turn a little pale at what I said, decades no centuries I have been on this ship, now all the records of service were going to go in the line of duty and for the Imperium.

It is now that I extend an invitation to all of them "To those of you who desire to, I ask that you accompany me, take your place beside me as we purge the traitors from our vessel and if you do choose to remember that I will always be in front of you."

I now turn my back to them as and say "I will not think any less of any of you should you choose to remain here and wait, use your time to make peace with your life before the end."

As I now take the first step towards the door I hear a footstep for every single crew member on board the bridge follow me.

I can hear their hearts beating, all of them beating fast in both fear and excitement.

It would be a lie to say that I was not proud that they all chose to follow me.

Many of them I had been born on board this ship, it was only fitting that they would seek to destroy those that wish to defile it.

I hear a cough and my old serf, he would be in his 7th decade now cough and say "My Lord, permission to march at your side?"

He was always like this in his youth and now in his old age.

The man is old and frail, but his heart beats as if it were any other day in his life.

I can feel no fear ebbing from him.

He was with my in his youth all those years ago and he is with me now.

I turn to him and said "Permission granted, let us go give the hearts of these blasted heretics and traitors to Sanguinuis and the Emperor!"

I now say in not so loud a voice so my mortal allies are not harmed "Blood is Duty, in death it Flows!"

As I begin the charge I see a person who is not supposed to be there, a lady dressed in a garb of grey.

Her hair was long and black, but what stood out most were here eyes, they were unnaturally grey.

I stare at her and see my past self lead the change to the Engine room.

She has become aware that I have noticed her and as I look into her eyes, she seems a little confused as to how I have noticed here.

It is now that I muster all the strength I have and growl single word in al the hatred I can muster "Begone!"

Athena

Athena reeled back from where she was seated, she felt sick, so much anger, so much hate, it was just not right.

Gasping for breath she struggled to her feet and looked at the being in red, its mind was well guarded, she could not hear his thoughts, but she was able to take a look into his memories.

She did not know how, but it or rather he had she had just learned, had thrown her out of his mind.

But that was not what worried her.

In all her wisdom, Athena had no idea what was that anger, beneath what he put up, it was as if there was a more sinister thing deep within him.

The anger the rage she had felt, part of it if not most of it was beyond any mortal.

More like an emotion that had been caught and imprinted for many many years.

But there was no time to think on just that, this figure, he was a Captain a 2ndCaptain, of some sort of ship.

There was much that she did not know, no doubt there may just be a meeting due to this man's arrival.

Athena did not wish to admit it, but she had felt a tinge of an ancient entity that none of her kind, not even the Titans dared to touch.

Regaining some of her composure she now stood up and said "The Maelstrom, he has its taint on him, no in him, faint, but it is still there, just what is he?"

With Percy

I open my eyes, the foul witch that trespassed with in the confines of my mind had been expelled.

I look to the child, his mother and the mutant.

They are all staring at me as if I was in some type of trance, I was only partly aware that the mother had been asking me my name.

"Uh, my Lord, not to be rude, but you just stood in that one spot with your eyes shut for like a whole minute?"

I turn tilt my head down to look at them, I can feel the fear rise in all three of their hearts.

"It is not for you to know, but I do know that we are being watched, be on your guard, foul sorcery is afoot, steel your mind less you be reduced to a mindless lump of flesh."

The mutant, by the name of Grover then tried to speak to me, my patience for such a creature is wearing very thin.

"Well um sir, you see there are the Gods, who are-."

I do not have the patience nor heretical laxity to let him finish his sentence.

"Do not call them by that, it is not wise to do so, no in my presence or that of any of my brothers."

I realise that I am being a bit too cruel, it is the rage that I had called upon in my mind, the red and black clouds that had pushed the witch out.

I take in a deep breath and think of my Chapter, the legacy of it, my brother within it and my role within it."

I am calm again and I now look the boy in the eyes as I say "Tell the mutant to go on, I am ready to hear what it says."

The mutant seemed ready to speak, but the boy stopped him and said to me "Not it, him, my lord."

His heart beating fast in fear gave away the fact that he must be scared, but he still stood up to me for his friend.

He did so the last two words, so perhaps I can forgive this, yet again.

"Their is a fine line between courage and foolishness, be sure that you never cross that line."

I now feel the need to tell him that I can just take was I want from the mutant if I desired to do so.

"In this case you should know that you have crossed it, I do not need your friend to be living to gain what I want to know from him, be aware of that."

I say this with as little emotion as possible, I do not have the time for such things, right now all I need to do is find out if this world really is Ancient Terra or not.

The one that called itself Grover locks eyes with me, I can see the fear in them.

I can hear the beating of his heart as it builds up in fear, I am tempted to end its beating once and for all.

I now hear another set of footsteps, lighter like that of a child or whatever they call it.

"I can hear a child approaching, but be on guard, suffer not the witch to live."

I slowly walk forth towards where I can hear the foot falls as well as the heart beat from.

I raise my hand and signal for the two humans and the mutant to take cover.

This presence, it I similar to that I felt in my mind, though it is as powerful as that one was.

I can hear its approach, for now I beat down the urge to charge forth and confront it.

And stand sill beside on of these trees I believe they are called, its heart rate has not increased nor as it's breath, I take it that the child or witch has not detected my presence yet. I feel the urge to let go, to rush forth to meet it head on, but I know to rush head long into a witch with no support is folly.

In the low I can't see the witch, it must be using some of its heretical sorcery.

From what I have seen this world is not capable of space travel, stealth technology on this level is beyond them.

I can now hear its heart beat and steps coming ever closer.

I cannot see it, but I can hear it, as well as I can smell it.

I hold my breath as I hear it draw close to the other side of this tree, I am ready for what's next.

I make a burst and step out from my side of the tree swing around it and pin it with my gauntlet to ground.

I cannot see it but I can feel it beneath me, I can also hear it screaming, just like a human child.

I do not relent and keep it pinned, witches had many forms of heresy at their disposal, deceit was one of them.

I look back and see the two humans and mutant rushing out to see what I have caught.

I notice that the smell of fear is upon all of them, though the mutant does approach me.

After about ten seconds it speaks to me "Um, sir, Lord, can you release her, she is not here to harm us?"

I look at it and answer "You wear my patience mutant, if it is one of your friends, show it to me."

It was not a question but a challenge that I made to the mutant.

The mutant than came over to where I had pinned the unseen witch and began to feel around it.

After about half a minute it removed an item that turned out to be a cap.

I see a young human girl with blonde hair now pinned to the ground.

"So it is a witch then?"

I make this comment before I noticed the eyes, they were grey, the very same grey of the one who had trespassed in mind.

The rage, the anger, the hate that I felt at this moment, if I had not pulled myself away, the sea of red and black.

I look at the child, I can hear her heart beat race in fear as I smell it ooze of her, her eyes lock with mine and she closed them as if my stare was enough to cause her harm, small and fragile little thing.

The mutant seemed to know the witch, only fitting, that they do know one another, it means if I just am able to follow these two I can find more, it makes them easier to hunt down and kill.

The mutant now said to the witch "Gods, I mean Annabeth, it's you, Gods, you had us all scared their!"

I now raise my left eyebrow at the mutant who quickly corrects himself "You had me sacred out of my mind, I think this guy was not sacred, um what was your name again?"

I look at it as if it is mad and then reply "I did not give you my name mutant."

The witch by the name of Annabeth now spoke up for the first time since she had begun screaming.

"Hey that is not very nice, I bet your just a dumb giant under all that armour."

If I had the patience I would just ignored this, but this witch needed to be put in her place, that of the grave.

I scoop it up before any of them can react and look deep into the eyes of the witch.

"Be afraid witch, I have slain foes beyond count be they mortal or not, I can add you to it with ease if I wished to, witch."

It is there, the fear that I smelled on her before, this time I make sure to let her know that I am aware of it.

"You put on a brave face, but you wreak of fear child, be afraid witch, you stare at an angel of death."

I now slowly squeeze to watch the pain on the witches face, it is in pain, it is fragile and an insult to all those I have cut down in the name of the Emperor of Man and of the Imperium, so I put it down.

I now turn back to the mutant, there is still the anger of the intrusion into my mind, this witch may not be her, but she has ties to her and I will find out what they are!

The witch now edges away from me, but when it is just beyond my arms length it asked "Did the woman who had grey eyes have black hair?"

The reason behind this escapes me, but I am sure that she is right, not that I let it show or inform her of it.

I do not reply to her and just look at the mutant and asked "You said there was a camp by here, take us to it."

The mutant cowardly nods its head at me.

And now begins to lead the way, I am unsure if it is leading us into a trap.

The witch now says in a whisper to the mutant "Surely you aren't go to take it there, it is a big red monster!"

I now let my voice be heard "Do not insult my gene sire witch, if you do so again, I ask that you make peace with yourself before I send you to the fate that awaits all of your kind and those like you."

The witch had the nerve to talk back to me "Oh yeah you closed minded twit, what is that!"

It was as if she had forgotten that I had just recently spared her heretical life.

I close my eyes and take in a deep breath and then say a "Your souls shall be devoured by and if they deem if spat out for other uses I will not speak of."

The witch just looked at me and then began to laugh "Wow you really are stupid as if the Gods do anything like that."

I now look into its eyes and smile, a feature I do not show to many, but when I do, it is either the smile that I show my brothers when I have completed the mission.

Or the smile I give the foe before me, before I kill it, this was the latter.

She or rather it took a step back as it saw my smile, if it was able to see the intent behind my smile, I am unsure, but I can smell fear leaking from her again.

I can feel the thirst, the red clouds rolling forth to cover my mind again, urging me to spill and drink.

But I push such thoughts back, it is not fall, not like this.

I taking in a deep breath letting the air fill my three lungs.

This calms my mind and I ask "I will not ask again, take me to this camp, I do not need you to be living if I wish to learn where it is, do not test my patience for it is growing thinner by the minute."

The witch now had the audacity to say to me "Oh yeah, how are you going to do that, is all the muscle restricting the blood flow to your brain?"

I look down at her raise my left eye brow at her and then asked "Did you trade the ability to reason for useless trinket or some other failed deal with your heretical gods as you call them."

I can see that the witch took offence, no doubt she was going to say what all of her kind said about how their gods loved them.

"This cap was a gift, a gift from my mother, who does love me?"

It was not that I had not heard all of this before, but it was that extra word mother that caught me off guard.

I now narrow my eyes at her and ask "All that you said, I have heard before, except for a single word, did you claim to born of a deity?"

There is no further need of words, I can see it in her eyes, she is proud of it or at least was, for now her eyes are full of fear, for she had enough knowledge to know what was about to happen.

My hand shot towards her, but I stop about an inch from her face, there is no force that does this, it is of my own volition.

I turn my head to the right to see a bird, I have not seen it's kind before, it radiates with hostility, it is not a beast of this world, I know no fear, why would I start now.

I speak to it and challenge it by saying "You reek of anger, anger that beasts do not feel, show yourself!"

My tone is calm, but one can tell that there is an anger within my soul that is waiting to be unleashed!

It took the form of a female mortal, but I knew better than to think it was, it hair and eyes were the same of that woman who had intruded into my mind.

The clothes that formed with her were a grey robe and a golden helm.

I could feel that this was not a foe that I could defeat, not without my power sword or my bolter.

I have turned to face her fully, she is not a foe I can take on, but if I have to I will do so. She held a spear and a shield that was bronze.

I can feel her intent, she does desire to kill me, those eyes confirm it for me this must be the being that the witch calls mother.

I take a step back and prepare to drew my neophyte inception blade, she is armed and clearly is ready to fight so I should be all the more ready.

The area smells of a nectar that I do not know, but is rather sickening.

It spoke to me in a female voice as it tried to command me "Move away from my daughter and I shall spare you."

Her words would have made guardsmen tremble in fear, but I am no guardsmen, no I am a scion of Sanguinius I do no yield to my foes.

I have faced down Daemon Princes and their ilk, this foe is no different to those that came before it.

I do not move from where I am and instead draw my neophyte inception blade and say "One does not consort with your kind."

Her eyes narrowed she took what I said as an insult, no she is inspecting my only weapon, I can feel a her mocking gaze fall on my face.

"You think that knife will harm me, you are foolish to think that it can, a weapon that only serves as an initiation blade, what can you hope to achieve with it?"

I decided to play this game of hers and answer "You were the one that trespassed in my mind, I can tell that you must have seen that short skirmish with the mutant I had before, then you know that a dull blade can kill if the intent is right."

Her face now began to frown as she said "Is that any way to talk to one such as myself you do not know your place."

She makes a gesture with her hand and I feel my neophyte inception blade almost fly from my hands, but almost is not enough to get it done.

I can feel the red clouds now washing over me soul as I resist the urge to charge at her.

My hand tightens on my blade as I do so and I begin formulate a plan to deal with this enemy.

She looked into my eyes, I could see the anger in them, had I resisted her sorcery, did she think that I was that weak willed.

Her faces relaxes and takes a more gentle tone as she asks as if to clarify a fact "You do not fear me do you?"

I do not move my body at all but reply in as calm voice to her question "My brother and I fight where many would fear to tread."

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Okay so why did Athena get involved with this even though she is not supposed to, well due to the fact that she had been in his mind, she learnt or more like felt the Warp on him, but she was unaware of what it truly was. That toppled with the way he spoke about gods did piss her off just a little. She can tell that he is not of their world and judged that she should act and apprehend the Blood Angel. Sorry if that annoys you guys as for the fight scene, since she does want to know more and is arrogant, she will go into his mind in the fight and we all know what happens if you perceive a daemon as it perceives you. Look forward to it.

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