Before we begin I wish to say, that a Daemon will appear and it's appearance will be based of the theroy in the Warhammer 40,000 Novel "The Masque of Vyle" that if a daemon perceives you as you perceive it time is no barrier. Please be gentle with your reviews of this chapter because it did take some work to write it all out.

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Chapter Two

No, I defy you, my soul remains my own, if I must suffer the torments of hell itself in order to serve the Emperor, then I will, Service is Life." Chapter Master Caedis Blood Drinkers (Death of Integrity)

Athena had thought to end it all with a single blow, she struck him but not with a physical blow, no her weapon of choice was her mind and her target was his.

But she found that she was unable to enter to find the core of his thoughts when she entered.

For his mind was covered in a rolling sea of red and black clouds.

She could feel it again, that rage from before, it was old very old, she could feel that these clouds held anger and a thirst.

She could feel her self began to shiver, this rage it was older than she was, yet it was fresh as if it had just begun the other day.

Mixed with this thirst, she could feel the desire for blood to spill it, to charge a foe and make it bleed, it was terrifying.

But that was not all of it, by far what scared her the most was the flashes that were in the black clouds.

Images of a world she did not know, figures that fought, some was like the one she faced, but the foes they faced she had no idea existed in reality.

Out of all the flashes that came there was one that played over and over again.

This was a scene of an angel, a fair face and a majestic golden armour, it had the most beautiful features and even Athena had to admit that it was beautiful and could compare to her.

But it was also dead, it's body strewn across the ground it's wings shattered and broken.

As she gazed at this scene, she became lost in it, she could see the glory, the majesty, the valour, the honour, the beauty and all that was of this dead angel.

She did not know why, but she felt sadness, the world was robbed of such a thing or rather such a person.

She could feel that it was this scene this ancient memory that was the cause of all this anger, or was it what caused this scene.

In all her wisdom, she did not know the consequences of her next action.

In admits the clouds she saw among the flashes that were there was a pair of eyes, staring at her.

The eyes were a glowing red colour and soon she saw the face the belonged to it.

The flesh was a sick red and the features may have once been human were too large and bestial to be human any longer.

It's feet were hooves and it's head had two large horns with a mouth that sported jagged teeth.

It had demonic bat like wings and was clad in a brass colour of metal for a chest piece.

In it's right hand it held a massive battle axe, in its left a whip.

She saw it's tongue curl out from it's mouth as it spoke in a language she did not know.

But she was able to seen in those red soulless eyes that this, this thing could see her and unlike the flashes that she saw before, it was present and was very real.

It's eyes were hungry and now it spoke again, but this time it was in fluent English.

"I can see you little Goddess, I will bleed you of your blood, I will take your skull, I will crush your world and all those within it beneath my hoofs!"

Athena did not know what this beast was but she was ready to face it.

She was Athena was a master of both armed and hand to hand combat, she was wise and cunning, but right now she felt dwarfed by the sheer rage of this beast.

It was as if it was made up of the rage, the anger, the savagery, the brutality and the violence of uncounted millions.

The teeth of the beast were the seize of any sword to date and the brutal honesty that leaked from its words, that, that scared Athena.

She did not ask if it was the foe she had been facing before, gone from her mind was the thoughts of if this was the man in reds true form, all she needed to do was get out of here now!

As she did so she heard it's voice mocking her saying "It is too late to run, little goddess, it is far too late!"

Real world

Athena was no longer in that man's mind, if she could call him a man, that thing in there was it him, she did not know.

She was about to turn and strike before he was able to change into that form when a she heard a loud laugh echo all around her.

The tone was harsh and mocking and the entire area began to glow red.

"This world, is so weak so innocent, the blood that shall spill here will please the lord of skulls!"

Athena turned her head to look at it and was struck with terror by the sight of it, a beast that was filled with rage and wanton death and the spilling of blood.

"I told it was too late to run little goddess, I told you it was too late!"

At this point Athena threw her spear at this beast only for it to bounce of it as if it was but a twig.

It began to laugh again and said in a mocking voice "Your cowardly natures shows, you dare not face me, perhaps your skull may not suffice?"

It now looked beyond Athena at those who were behind her, Annabeth, Percy, Percy's Mom and Grover.

But it was them that caught it's eye and Athena now came to realise that this thing, was not in fact the man whose mind she had jumped into, no, it was not him at all.

The creature now looked at the man in red armour with an almost amused look in its eyes.

Scion of Sanguinius

I look up at the greater daemon, I know it for I have faced it before, I can tell that the witch as well a the mutant, that goddess and the two mortals are in shock at seeing this daemon.

A snarl forms and a roar is heard from it's mouth "To think that I would have this chance, that you would be alive and present!"

I can see in now as it drops to the earth that sends a massive quake around us I do not move but all bar that goddess do.

"Your brothers are no where to be seen, you are alone, submit to your true nature give into it and praise the Lord of Skulls!"

I stand with a snarl upon my lips and a snarl in my voice "I am the Emperor's chosen, I am a scion of Sanguinius, I will defy you and all that you are just as he did!"

It began to laugh at me and the red clouds now roll in like a storm within my mind.

"That is good, it will be much more satisfying to take your skull!"

I see the self claimed goddess look at me in horror, I can see that she clearly.

My eyes now flash to the mutant, the witch and the two mortals that are in the immediate area.

I was sure that this foe had seen them too as if now made the most wicked smile as it saw the 3 of them.

It now turned back to Athena and said "And what of you, will you accept your fate or will you fight me tiny little goddess!"

I saw the woman form a spear in her right hand and charge at the beast, I myself put a few more paces between myself and the two of them.

I turn and look at the mother and her child "Take your son and run, this is no place for mortals."

I almost snarl these words as I feel the thirst upon me, but I can utilise this, I need not use my will power to will both it and the Daemon away.

I turn to see the self claimed goddess avoid a blow from the axe, only to be caught by the whip.

It latched on to her leg and brought her right into the path of its fist.

While it is distracted I must make haste to find a way to best it but no strategy comes to mind.

I can see this goddess rising to her feet, she looks like she is in pain, not that it matters to me.

I see her now try and parry the Greater Daemons blow, only to be pushed back, my eyes no lock with hers for a moment.

Her eyes are now filled with fear, she clearly has never had to face a foe of this level before, while I have.

With my inception blade in hand I yell at this foe "For the Emperor!"

I now charge as it turns to face me, bring its cursed battle axe down upon me, I manage to evade to the side and I scream the war cry of the chapter as I slice through it's arm.

"Blood is duty, we will soak the earth, stain the sky and smear the stars, we are the Crimson Dawn!"

As I skid past it at inhuman speeds I see that it is actually smiling, I know that I have not hurt it badly, not yet.

It now spoke to be with a rather amused smile "He cares not where it's from just that it flows."

I can feel the urge to charge at it, to rip at it with my hands and teeth.

I push that urge down and I am aware that it knows that I did so.

"To deny what it is you truly are, it matters not now, for your skull I shall claim!"

It launches itself at me and I in turn launch myself to the side with blade out held I manage to avoid it's axe but not the fist the came after it.

As it collided with me body, I slam my inception blade into it and let go as I feel my armour as well as my rips crack from the force that hit me.

I feel myself break through an object if not multiple ones before I land.

As I land the earth upon which I do, is ripped up as I am sent skidding back and I feel my body break through some sort of barrier, I am not sure what type it is, but it is not natural by any means.

The force that sent my this way is stopped as my back hits a large and strong object.

I turn for but a brief moment and see an object that is similar to what a cousin from the Space Wolves called a tree.

But I do not tarry to stare at it for long, I can feel there is a rather unnatural presence within it as if it was once a mortal.

Turning back I can see that my foe the Bloodthirster has not take notice of or already finished off that self proclaimed goddess and has come straight for me.

As I now ready myself I have no weapons to fight with, I can see them my inception blade is lodge in my foes fist.

It must think to highly of itself to remove it from there.

I ready myself, I know no fear, I am a Blood Angel, he who is the scion of our most beloved Primarch.

I clear my mind and push back the red and black clouds that swarm it, if I shall fall this day it will be as myself.

"Blood is duty in death it flows!"

I know that I am not match for this foe, I know that I will fall against it.

Mustering up my voice I yell out as I charge at it a litany of hate "By the blood of the Primarch I will bring you down, I will do so even if it drains the last drop of blood in my body!"

"I serve mankind and I will, break you with blood, bone and ash!"

I now manage to avoid its axe and its fist as I rip out my inception blade and plunge it deep into the Daemons arm.

But that was my fatal error, it's other hand grabbed my body and slammed me into the ground.

My inception blade still in hand I hack at the hand that pins me with all that I have.

If I am marked to die then I will slash at it, claw at it, fight it with tooth and nail if that is all that I have, but I will never give in to it.

I can feel the red clouds drawing closer.

Normal POV

Athena was tempted to let this one go, she could see that this monster was more occupied with the fool who was going to kill her daughter.

But she saw the direction that they were heading, at first she felt a little relief that the barrier around the camp would keep the two of them out.

But to her horror she felt as well as she heard the breaking of the barrier.

To her horror she realised that the monster must have been much more powerful than she thought it was.

"To break the barrier as if it was nothing, it must be more that I thought it was."

Her plan had been simple let the monster kill the man, take godly form, kill the monster.

But at this point in time she knew that was not possible, she had to go and take action now!

Athena spared a glance to see that her daughter along with the Satyr and the two others were not dead.

She formed a spear in her hand again and summoned Aegis to her.

She had to take this foe on and best it, before she had only tried to take it on cautiously, but now she knew she had to do what was required of her.

If not the entire of camp half blood and even the entire area would pay the price for her pride.

Even if it pained her to admit it, she could not read the sword or whip of the monster, that annoyed her a lot.

But she saw how that fool in red had fought it and how he was actually able to land a blow on it, to learn more she had to save that fool and learn how it is that he was able to even attempt to fight that monster.

She had seen his eyes and there was no fear in them his words from before now rang true with her.

It was as he had said, he did go to fight 'where others feared to tread'.

"That foolish warrior must have at least some idea of how to defeat this foe."

She ran forth only to see to her horror that the man in red was now pinned to the ground right in front of Thalia's tree.

Athena was able to see that he was hacking at his foe even as he lay pinned to the ground.

She saw that the monster was raising its axe, it was savouring the moment as it was about to cut the head clean of the warrior in red.

Athena knew that if she wished to learn more about this monster and if there were any more of them, she would have to save this man.

By this point she could see that projectiles were useless so she would have to engage this beast in hand to hand combat.

She hurled herself at the monster brandishing her spear and Aegis with all of her power to try to fell it or at least harm it.

Her spear pierced its flesh and sunk right into the monster, most of her spear was no in it, but only a small trickle of blood or at least what appeared to be blood oozed from it.

The monster paused in its action turned it's head to her, made a twisted smile with its face and said in a mocking tone "That's all your getting!"

Now with the hand that pinned the warrior in red, it lifted him up and flung him into Athena.

It all happened so fast Athena did not know what hit her or where she was and why red was covering her vision.

The red moved aside and she now managed to see that the one she had attempted to free hand been thrown at her.

Both of their bodies rang with pain and they both saw how far they had been thrown.

The warrior in red now spoke to Athena saying "Your quarrel with me will have to wait, The Bloodthirster takes precedence here."

Athena now thought "So that is what the name for this monster is or is it just the name he has for it?"

She did not waste any time with useless queries and got straight to the point.

"I have never faced a monster like that before, what is it and how do we bring it down?"

The warrior in red now turned to her and said "I have heard of the ignorant masses of the Imperium, but you claim to be more than human, yet you do not know of the servants of Chaos?"

The word Chaos, it resonated with her, the void, the void of Chaos or as she saw it, the maelstrom of Chaos.

If to be held above the abyss of Chaos was pain enough for Hera the wife of Zeus, then what was the beings that resided in there like?

"As you can see far ranged combat is of no use here and sorcery is even less so, the only way to harm it is to engage it in close combat."

He now looked around and said "If you have any allies, you should call them, if I am correct there is nothing her to contest it for its hold on reality and I am no psyker."

But the time to speak was over for the Bloodthirster came at them with a roar and was about to reach them when fire struck it and engulfed it.

Athena at this moment saw that Apollo her half brother had come.

He must have been drawn by the shattering of the barrier.

He now came up to her in his chariot and said "Well Athena, it seems that you have your hands full, fortunately for you I was nearby."

He looked at the warrior in red who had not take his eyes of the pillar of flame that was now abating as it did so he said "This is far from over."

As the flames did abate it revealed that the monster or rather Bloodthirster was unharmed or rather looked so.

It now roared as it said "To think that you were so foolish enough to expect that too kill me, you are by far the strongest here, I shall take your skull fist!"

Apollo had no idea how but the monster he thought he had just crisped was very much alive and kicking!

It charged the three of them and went straight for Apollo who, thanks to his chariot managed to get out of the way in time.

"By Zeus himself, what in the River Styx is this creature to be alive as well as clearly unharmed by my efforts?"

Said Bloodthirster let loose a roar as it yelled in a language a name that caused both Apollo and Athena to cupped their hands to their ears in pain.

A word or was it a name hurt them so much that Apollo almost fell out of his chariot.

Athena managed to open her eyes and see that the man or rather the warrior in red or perhaps it was crimson felt no such pain.

"My Brothers and I have brought you down before and I shall do so in their stead, you will be banished from this place your kind is never welcome in the domains of man!"

Athena was sure she saw some type of hunger in his eyes as he said this or was it more of a thirst.

The warrior in red charged forth at the Bloodthirster full pelt with no weapon in hand determined to fight it with tooth and nail.

It in turn charged him and the pain that was in the heads of the two Olympians began to fade, but it was still lingering in their minds.

But despite this Athena did have to had to admit that this man did go where even Gods feared to tread!

Scion of Sanguinius

I feel my entire body ring with pain as I am smashed against the ground once more, I am sure that all the ribs within my body are broken.

I can feel the my third lung is on the verge of collapse and that only my primary heart still beats.

I can feel the red cloud wash over me, I have let them in, I can feel them easing the pain and bolstering my strength so that I may defy this foe even with a broken body.

I smash at the giant red hoof that holds my body down.

If it wished to crush my body, it would have down so, no it desires my head as a trophy for its twisted thirsting gods.

I pummel my fist into the hoof with all knowledge that no matter what I do I am damned, I use my head to try and smash at it, I can feel the damage to my skull as I do so.

But I do not care, if I am to die, then I will die, but I will not go down with my neck bent quietly, I will die kicking and scream lashing out at what I can, I will not submit to it ever!

I know no fear, I will never so, I can see the axe and I make my last desperate attempts to do as much damage as I can before I am no longer in this world.

I can feel the black clouds now about to reach into me, about to take hold to empower me, but the clouds are pushed back by a magnificent golden light.

I can hear his wings, I can see his golden armour, his face shrouded in the shadows cast by his own light.

He offers me his hand and I take it, have a fallen, did the blow fall upon me, am I dead and my father is here to take me?

No, I do not believe in an afterlife of any kind, I know better and as I am pulled up I see that it is not the Primarch who has come to my aid, but a legend among all those from the IX legion.

He is The Sanguinor, the exemplar of the host, he who come when the aid of the Blood Angels and those who are descendant from them need is dire.

I know not why he has come to my aid nor why he is not aiding my brothers of the first found chapter.

But I know that he is not a saviour, he merely make that which was not possible possible.

Now at my feat he gestures to a sword that is at my feet.

I do not know it, but I do not question from whence it came, I pick it up.

He nods and me, his face covered by the death mask he wears.

No words pass between us, none are need for we both know what to do, we both turn and look at the servant of the dark gods that is before us, and we both ready our swords and charge it, together.

First of if I did screw up Apollo do forgive me, in his place Zeus was meant to come, but since his lightning bolt is currently stolen, he can't use it. As for why Apollo, to me he seemed the most decent out of the male Gods bar for good old Hephaestus, who I have no desire to pit against a Bloodthirster by the way. As for why they aren't going all out, well the Warp is currently rather dangerous to them and can limit their influence and power. As an example, Ares is the war and battle and stuff like that on earth, a Bloodthirster, feeds of world and star systems, by default it is more powerful than him. Athena can't get a read on Daemon weapons due to the fact that they both exist and don't exist and are bound to an entity that makes her look like an Ant to Zeus. Also I do apologize for cutting it off there but I want to do the fight between the angel and the devil justice so I can't fit it within a thousand words so next chapter. I also want to say due to her Hubris, Athena thought to go into my Blood Angels mind and break him, but due to the black rage making the visions of the past reality she saw a Daemon as it saw her and thus it came to be, silly little Athena, but any one can screw up like that badly.

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