Chapter 15D
Onboard the chaos Carrack class transport ship "the Silence of the Ducks", Tzeentch worshipping tramp Oliver Cratchit was feeling really weird as he repeated the strange words of power he had been taught.
All around him were multitudes of his fellow former Mia Rho slum dwellers, all of them sitting around in ritual prayer circles and speaking unholy words of darkest power for the giant ritual their daemon queen TigerLily demanded of them. All of them had spent much of the warp journey memorising these words and phrases while being pumped full of memory enhancing drugs to make sure that they were all remembered perfectly.
Oliver felt feverish from the drugs he was currently dosed with, he was absolutely high as shit to be honest. All of them were savagely off their tits on some extremely potent drugs and were all shaking as intense feelings of chemical enhanced raw hope flooded their brains.
Music laced with subliminal messages filled the entire ship from speaker systems, triggering hypnotic commands indoctrinated into them to keep them in a frenzy of ritual activities. Oliver and the others didn't really know what they were doing nor why they felt so strongly compelled to keep this ritual going, but they were all so drug mad that they didn't care.
Oliver's throat felt raw and burnt as he pronounced the filthy unholy arcane words of power. The words carried so much power that they burned the throat to say. Despite the temporary damage this was causing their throats the mass of Tzeentch worshippers were so drugged up that they barely even noticed the pain and just kept speaking.
The room he was in blazed with warp energy, indeed every room in the entire ship was crackling with blinding awesome power from the terrible words spoken by so many in unison.
The lowly Tzeentch worshippers didn't know what the words meant nor the purpose of saying them, but TigerLily did. TigerLily seethed with purpose and understood more than they could possibly know. With her access to the forbidden archive of Tzeentch deep within the Impossible Fortress that Tzeentch dwelt in in the deepest reaches of the warp, TigerLily currently knew more than any one mortal had EVER known. She was not omniscient, not even close, but she knew enough to appear omniscient to mortals.
In high orbit of Beta Kyoto Epsilon, billions of Tzeentch worshippers on every ship in the Royal family Night Lords fleet were pumped to the eyeballs with drugs to enhance their latent psychic powers and mobilised in a mighty ritual of blackest evil. The warp for light years around was whipped up into a screaming warp hurricane as the mobilised combined might of billions of people with temporary drug induced psychic powers focused together.
The entire star system erupted in warp rifts that spewed out the terrible power of the warp, causing havoc on an apocalyptic scale. It wouldn't be long before the billions temporarily lost their voices from the burning of their throats, it was unsustainable, but for as long as it lasted it was completely unstoppable.
This terrible spell was the Rubric of TigerLily, a spell of her own devising, and in the face of it's awesome power the very planets quaked.
***...
Egg grabbed Yuki and held him tightly, TigerLily wouldn't risk harming Egg with getting those terrible flames on her. As long as Yuki was tight against her he would be safe.
All around them roared a blazing inferno of indigo flames, spinning around them like the eye of a tempest. The buildings of the town were mutating and changing, getting bigger and taller until they were impossibly tall towers, all with moving faces on every wall, all of them cackling in mad hope.
The people were mutating horribly, some becoming horrors or chaos spawn and others becoming simply mutants. The people were all screaming in terror and horror, those still possessing minds felt their new mutated bodies and shrieked themselves hoarse in sheer horror.
Egg wailed in horror and tugged desperately at her psychic nullifying helmet uselessly, it was securely locked in place and all the storm troopers who had carried keys were now gibbering horrors of Tzeentch. The horrors held up the keys mockingly with cruel smiles.
Egg spat angry curses and put one of her razor sharp bird talon claws to her jugular to kill herself, TigerLily must NOT acquire Egg!
Suddenly the fire stopped and vanished, the eyes of every horror were gazing at what Egg was about to do with terrible fear. The warp rifts still blazed in the sky but at least on the ground the destruction had paused.
"That's right, BACK OFF!" Egg snarled at them threateningly.
Suddenly a wonderful voice spoke frantically, a voice that Egg had never dared hope to hear again, the voice of her crèche mother Octavia.
"Egg! Egg please don't do it, please baby don't do it!" Octavia's voice screaming.
Egg darted around to see TigerLily holding Mum Octavia in a taloned hand, Mum was crying.
"Mum!" Egg shouted in frantic desperation.
TigerLily put Mum down on the ground and let go of her. Mum ran to Egg as fast as her legs would carry her and hugged her frantically, wailing with tears of a thousand different emotions. Egg felt her resolve to kill herself completely erode and she hugged Mum back, crying her eyes out.
With horror and hell all around them, the mother and daughter simply sat on the ground hugging for all their might, weeping at being reunited. All thought of suicide left Egg, she was constitutionally incapable of killing herself while her mother wept happy tears hugging her in reunion.
Egg wept bitterly, TigerLily had played Egg's ultimate weakness and TigerLily had now won. There was no way in hell that Egg would let Mum be harmed, she knew that she would do anything TigerLily told her just to spare Mum.
"You are a MONSTER!" Egg hissed at TigerLily, "why did you have to hurt all these innocent people! All of the people in this town have been extremely kind to me. They are good people and don't deserve the terrible harm you have inflicted upon them! You sicken me more than Nurgle himself, I hate you with all of my being!"
"Oh my dear daughter, did you really think that this was going to end any other way? Events have happened EXACTLY as I have planned at every stage. These people who have been so kind to you can go on being kind to you, this planet is my new daemon world where we can all live together as one big happy family." TigerLily said with sick glee.
"Undo their mutations!" Egg shouted.
"As you wish daughter." TigerLily said.
TigerLily snapped her fingers and suddenly all the people and all the plant life and all the buildings grew back into their original forms. The horrors jumped back into the remains of the flesh that birthed them and the flesh turned back into people. The restored people were in deep shock but could talk and were themselves again.
Egg blinked in wonder at everything restored back to normal, the beautiful garden, the people, all of it was as it should be!
Egg was flabbergasted, "you showed mercy?!"
"Yes. As long as you cooperate with me I will continue to be merciful. If you disobey me then these people will suffer for it." TigerLily said with terrible certainty.
Egg wept, TigerLily had won now even more than she had already. Egg would not dare disobey if it undid all of this restoration.
Suddenly weapons fire erupted at Egg. Bullets and lasers hit into an invisible barrier of psychic force that seemed to have surrounded Egg. Egg looked around to see the entire regiment of Inquisition Storm Troopers firing their weapons, every single weapon was aimed at Egg herself, they were trying to kill her to keep her out of the clutches of chaos!
Egg watched for a long time as the weapons fire tried unsuccessfully to kill her, it just went on and on. Eventually they ran out of ammunition and they changed tactics and ran at her with knives. TigerLily gave Egg a look.
"This is what the Imperium is. To them you are either there own weapon or else you are dead. Shall I kill them?" TigerLily said with surprising sympathy.
"No don't kill them, please don't kill them." Egg pleaded.
TigerLily shrugged and collected Egg, Yuki and Mum up in her arms and flew off into the air, leaving the ammo-less storm Troopers behind down on the ground.
***...
Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman's eyes widened in horror as he saw the dreaded Daemon Princess TigerLily alight from the air in the Tagawa family's backyard holding Egg, Yuki and Egg's crèche mother Octavia in her arms.
He had been trapped inside the building by a strange psychic force as soon as the disasters started. Egg and Yuki and Inquisitor Hoffman had been visiting the park 300 meters away from the house, accompanied by the entire regiment of storm troopers. Inquisitor Hoffman had returned home for just a moment to get something and had then found himself trapped inside by some sort of psychic barrier.
He and the Tagawa family had been trapped inside but had been spared as they watched hell break loose outside. They had seen everything through the windows but hadn't had a view of the park to see Egg.
The terrible TigerLily put the 3 people down on the ground and stretched theatrically. Inquisitor Hoffman took out his sanctified bolt pistol, loading it with rounds designed to destroy daemons and pointed it at TigerLily. Without preamble he shot her.
TigerLily instantly fell apart into blue smoke and vanished.
The 3 people TigerLily had been carrying fled inside the house. Hoffman closed the door behind them and radioed his ship in orbit for immediate teleportation of everyone inside the house.
The cruel laughter of TigerLily answered him over the radio and she suddenly reappeared in the room. Hoffman shot her again and she fell apart once more, only to reappear 10 seconds later. He just kept shooting her every time she reappeared.
"How many bullets do you have in that gun Inquisitor? I can do this all day." The voice of the daemon reverberated through the room supernaturally before she reappeared yet again. Hoffman wasted another bullet shooting her back into vapour before thinking about her words.
Inquisitor Hoffman instead held the gun to Egg's head. The daemon princess paused, not reappearing.
Egg looked up at him with her sad little eyes as he held the gun to her head, looking trustingly that he wouldn't do it. Hoffman felt a lump of sadness in his throat.
"This is the sticking point Inquisitor, the fork in the road for you. From here there is no going back. Either you do your duty and shoot your own daughter, or you spare her life and betray the Imperium. Choose carefully." TigerLily's disembodied voice told him gravely.
Horatio paused, feeling a terrible dilemma. He considered his options and then did neither, he instead took out a key and unlocked Egg's Psychic Nullifying Helmet. It fell to the ground with a thud.
Egg smiled triumphantly and tried to use her powers... And absolutely nothing happened!
Egg touched her bare scalp in confusion, it was totally bare, exposing a hideously disfigured feathery scalp, rubbed bald in places from the constant rubbing of the helmet, with a lifetime of angry pressure sores, tangled mats of old shed feathers caught in her current feathers and knobbly bulges of bone grown as a result of the constant rubbing of the helmet. There should be absolutely nothing stopping her from using her powers but despite clearly straining with all her might, absolutely nothing was happening.
"I, I can't use my powers!" Egg stammered in bewilderment.
TigerLily's cruel laughter filled the apartment and she reappeared yet again.
"Marvellous isn't it? I call it the Rubric of TigerLily, it's a spell I wrote myself. Billions of psykers are working together right now to contain your powers Egg, you are completely harmless right now." TigerLily laughed joyfully.
Egg gulped as Horatio once again put his gun to her head.
"Don't force my hand. Leave now and she will be unharmed." Hoffman demanded.
"This is not about me Inquisitor, this is about you alone, about what you choose. What sort of man are you? Do your duty or kill your daughter, it's your choice." TigerLily said smugly.
"At the end of the day, I am a servant of the immortal God-Emperor, Egg's soul will find paradise in the Emperor's feast hall, my duty is clear." Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman said.
Without further ado he pulled the trigger.
***...
TigerLily clapped her hands in delight as Egg's head exploded in a blast of gore as the explosive bolt round detonated inside her skull a split second after penetration.
Inquisitor Horatio Hoffman felt a more intense pain in his heart then he had ever felt before. His heart was blazing on fire with grief, his heart was broken beyond anything he had ever felt before. He had just killed his own daughter! His entire existence was nothing but the purest pain.
The vile TigerLily howled with laughter like a maniac, completely unfazed by the death of Egg. Inquisitor Hoffman turned hatefully to face the insane daemon princess.
"Your plans to use Egg to destroy the Imperium have failed abomination! You will NEVER corrupt me unclean thing." The Inquisitor spat in defiance.
TigerLily cackled with sick laughter and said, "actually the Rubric of TigerLily does more than just block her powers, it also resurrects her if she dies. All you have done is cause irreparable damage to your relationship with your daughter Inquisitor."
Inquisitor Hoffman tore around to look at Egg's body on the floor. The head was still blown apart but even as he watched it started to heal and grow back. He watched in a combination of horror and relief as her entire head reformed and she coughed back to life!
Egg blinked and looked at Inquisitor Hoffman, a look of stunned betrayal on her face. Inquisitor Hoffman fell to his knees, feeling an entirely new level of low. Egg started to cry, and Inquisitor Hoffman was soon crying too, his sanity all but destroyed by the cruel trick the daemon had played on him. With his mind quaking with grief beyond endurance, the mighty Inquisitor simply wept, his sanity too broken to do anything other than weep.
***...
Mr Tagawa and his wife trembled as they stood watching the chaos in their family home. The Inquisitor was crying, they had a hell spawned daemon in their home and it sounded like a terrible gun battle was going on outside.
Mr Tagawa observed the uninvited visitors to their home. The daemon was huge and blue and was bending down just to fit in the room, filling half the lounge room all by herself. It looked like a bird, except for having arms and having a pale blue face that looked like a woman's face. She was clearly female with quite large breasts under her strange white robes.
The other guest was easily the most attractive woman Mr Tagawa had ever seen, with a tiny waist, perfect figure and absolutely massive breasts. She looked like something from a pornographic manga rather than a real person, her proportions were too perfect and completely unnatural. Her face was stunningly beautiful and she wore a lot of makeup which enhanced her still further. She was wearing very little clothing, leaving little to the imagination. She was currently extremely distressed after seeing Egg shot in the head.
Mr Tagawa had no idea who the woman was and with a daemon in the house, he honestly had bigger things to worry about then the identity of this mystery woman.
The Inquisitor looked like a broken man, he was an emotional wreck after the cruel trick the daemon had played on him. Mr Tagawa didn't blame him, he himself would be a wreck if he had just shot his own child too. Egg had a look of terrible betrayal on her face and ran away from the Inquisitor and into the arms of the mystery woman who hugged her frantically in tears.
The gun battle outside got louder and louder before then suddenly going silent. There was not a single sound outside beyond the weeping and screaming of the traumatised locals.
Without warning the silence was broken by a giant space marine terminator kicking the front door down and stomping into the house uninvited. He entered the room and removed his helmet to reveal a face similar to Egg's face. He was focused intently on Egg and walked up to her and crouched down at her side, ignoring everyone else in the room.
Other space marines entered through the front door, terrifying armoured giants holding smoking bolters. Their armour was marked with symbols of the Night Lords traitor legion and they were fearsome to behold. Clearly they had just been involved in acts of violence in an extremely one sided fire fight. Some of them carried the severed heads of Inquisitorial storm troopers, apparently just having slaughtered the entire regiment during the noisy gun battle outside.
Egg ignored them all and just cried in the woman's arms, uncaring of the terrors in the room with her. The terminator picked up Egg's helmet and gently placed it back on her head and locked it in place, then left her to cry in the woman's arms. The terminator looked at the crying Inquisitor and quickly took his weapons before then ignoring him as a non-threat, he instead gazed at Yuki and recognition filled his face.
"You are the one who put his cock in my daughter. I have been waiting a long time to meet you." The Terminator rumbled in a shockingly deep voice.
Yuki cowered in terror and stammered.
"I'm not going to kill you boy, I just wanted to meet the boyfriend of my heir, to see what sort of person you are." The giant rumbled reassuringly.
Mr Tagawa suddenly realised who this terrible giant was, this fearsome man was Princess Egg's father the warrior king.
"Are you Chaos Lord Luke Sevenson?" Mr Tagawa asked.
The lord turned his gaze to look at him and said, "Yes, I am he. I am Egg's father and this daemon here is Egg's mother, my wife TigerLily. We have been working nonstop to get to reunite with our daughter, and now that we have her my joy is complete."
The daemon princess put an arm around the chaos lord and beamed happily at the Tagawa's. She added, "nice to meet you Mr and Mrs Tagawa, since our kids are romantically involved I think we will be seeing a lot of each other."
The Tagawa's all blinked, this was much more friendly than they had expected.
"So, what happens now?" Mr Tagawa asked.
"Now? Well we now rule this planet. We have conquered you and cut you off from rescue. This is now a daemon world of chaos..." The chaos lord trailed off awkwardly.
An awkward silence followed.
***...
The inhabitants of Beta Kyoto Epsilon cowered fearfully as endless armies of horrors of Tzeentch erected huge towers composed entirely of shiny black crystal. These were the bastions and citadels of TigerLily's vast armies of Tzeentch worshipping chaos cultists.
Billions of armed men and women in the livery of the Night Lords legion marched through the streets gunning down all armed resistance, totally securing the planet.
Endless flights of shuttles delivered ever more of these people down from orbit, easily outnumbering the entire population of Beta Kyoto Epsilon. This multitude marched jubilantly into their towering new homes of black crystal, each tower was the size of a mighty mountain, miles in height and dominating the skylines. The already existing settlements had not been harmed, the towers grew out of the sea, tacked onto the ends of peninsulas.
These crystal structures extended for miles underground as well as miles above ground and were miles in width. They were completely hollowed out with rooms and tunnels, vast supernatural hive cities to house the teaming billions of Tzeentch's faithful.
The Mia Rho tramps cheered with excited hope, TigerLily had given them beautiful homes on this amazing pristine planet. They could enjoy it's clean oceans and green landscapes, it was all so beautiful!
Down in the depths of the new crystal hives, cackling horrors smeared synthetic nutrient paste in thick beds in preparation to grow the population's new food crops. Warp powered nutrient paste synthesisers produced an endless flow of perfectly edible nutrient paste, but the paste wasn't for the PEOPLE to eat. No, TigerLily had something far more diabolical in mind.
Into these endless beds of nutrient paste, the horrors jubilantly sprinkled spores for the highly illegal psychic enhancing mushrooms known as "Spook". These highly addictive mushrooms turbocharge the psychic centres of the brain of the users, causing permanent increases in psychic powers. And these mushrooms were to be the staple food of these billions of people, eaten morning noon and night.
With this, TigerLily could create billions of permanent psykers, all of whom worshipped Tzeentch, and the entire galaxy would tremble!
In the warp Tzeentch laughed his diabolical laugh, this would be GLORIOUS.
***...
The religious studies class at Egg's high school shifted uncomfortably. Sister Yoko was teaching the class as always but TigerLily was trying to "help".
"Complete and total crap, if that's true then drive me away right now in the name of the Emperor." TigerLily taunted sister Yoko.
"In the name of the Immortal God-Emperor I command you to be gone foul daemon!" Sister Yoko invoked.
TigerLily yawned and didn't budge at all.
"That didn't seem to work, it's a load of crap." TigerLily smirked.
Sister Yoko tried again more forcefully and had exactly zero effect on TigerLily.
"Unlike your Emperor, my god Tzeentch actually answers prayers and gets results. I was once as mortal as you are, I looked exactly like my daughter Egg, and Tzeentch granted me Immortality and unimaginable power. Your god can't even get up off his chair on Terra, he is nothing but an Alpha Plus psyker in a perpetual coma." TigerLily told the class.
"Blasphemy! How dare you call the Holy Emperor a filthy psyker!" Sister Yoko screamed.
"Psykers are not filthy, and the Emperor is one. He is the most powerful Alpha Plus psyker ever recorded, it took all the combined power of all 4 chaos gods to defeat him and even then they only managed to put him in a coma rather than kill him. He is a being of AWESOME power, the very equal of the gods, but he is still technically an Alpha Plus psyker." TigerLily explained.
"Are you suggesting that Egg could be the Emperor?!" Sister Yoko demanded in outrage.
"No, my dear sweet daughter is slightly less than half as powerful as the Emperor. The problem with the psychic assignment system is that it can't properly categorise anything above Alpha level, it just lumps them all together as Alpha Plus even if they differ hugely in power level." TigerLily explained patiently.
The pair of them bickered and argued over philosophical details about the Emperor until Egg wanted to scream.
"What about learning about Slaanesh? I am sick of hearing about only Tzeentch and the Emperor!" Mandy Sevenson complained. She had joined Egg's class out of interest, as had Egg's other female crèche siblings, and all of them were getting frustrated.
"I refuse to teach heresy you heretic!" Sister Yoko spat at Mandy venomously.
"This is supposed to be a "religious studies" class, so why are we not learning about other religions? I'm not a heretic as I never worshipped the Emperor in the first place, I am perfectly orthodox in my own religion as a Slaanesh worshipper and have never once been a heretic to my religion." Mandy countered.
A muscle in Sister Yoko's face twitched violently and Egg face palmed, this really was getting ridiculous!
"I am here to learn about the Emperor! Stop disrupting the class Mother, and Mandy you can learn about Slaanesh any time at home. Can we PLEASE just have our class in peace!" Egg shouted, her patience completely gone.
"I AM teaching you about the Emperor, the TRUTH about the Emperor." TigerLily insisted.
"You are a pathological liar, you are not a reliable source of learning the truth about anything." Egg snapped irritably.
TigerLily laughed happily and said, "yes I always lie, you are right."
"See children the daemon admits to telling only lies!" Sister Yoko proclaimed triumphantly.
"If I only lie then how could I tell the truth that I always lie?" TigerLily challenged.
"Don't pull that logic paradox on Sister Yoko", Egg cut in, "the truth is that you USUALLY lie but tell the truth occasionally when you want to."
This generated a fresh bout of bickering that wasted even more time on useless philosophical points. The class quickly ran out of time, achieving precisely nothing from all the time spent arguing. Egg was trembling with frustration as she walked out of the class, she had really wanted to learn!
The hallway outside the classroom was infested with minor daemons of Tzeentch who gibbered happily to each other and graffitied the walls with logic puzzles using stolen markers. Egg angrily snatched the stolen markers off these daemonic pests and handed them to a shell shocked looking teacher.
The students and staff huddled fearfully, terrified of the chaos daemons but Egg and the rest of her crèche had grown up around minor daemons and didn't find them particularly scary. They wouldn't harm the children with TigerLily in control of them, Egg would refuse to cooperate if they did anything dangerous.
Egg grabbed one of the horrors by the hand and dragged it to the terrified class.
"Look, it won't hurt you. I'm touching it and am completely unharmed. As long as I cooperate with TigerLily none of you will be harmed, that was the deal I made with her. It won't dare disobey the will of TigerLily. It's nothing but a nuisance." Egg reassured the others.
The horror of Tzeentch made scary noises at the fearful group to unnerve them and Egg grabbed a knife from the belt of a passing Tzeentch cultist and stabbed the horror until it disappeared in a puff of pink smoke and turned into two smaller horrors. Egg stabbed these too and with puffs of blue smoke the things disappeared.
"If they bother you then just stab them, they are only harassing you because you fear them, if you stop being afraid of them then they will stop bothering you." Egg explained.
Sister Yoko got a gleam in her eyes and immediately started stabbing TigerLily, "I don't fear you daemon, begone!"
"Do you mind? That is really rude." TigerLily said sounding irritated but not making any moves to retaliate nor defend herself.
Sister Yoko redoubled her efforts stabbing in a frenzy, drawing a lot of blue daemonic ichor but TigerLily did not disappear, merely looking increasingly irritated.
TigerLily conjured a giant blade from thin air and said, "my turn".
Egg cleared her throat in warning and TigerLily paused in her stabbing motion, stopping millimetres from Sister Yoko's skin. Sister Yoko wet herself in terror and fled away for her life.
Egg held Yuki's hand and stalked off to get away from TigerLily. Mandy, Liling and Violet ran to catch up with Egg and Egg went to the next class, a sports class outside in the swimming pool.
The magenta warp rifts were still blazing brightly in the sky drowning out the blue sky, and the air was thick with flying shark-like daemonic screamers of Tzeentch flying together in vast schools far up above the ground. Off in the distance of the sky, strange rocky islands floated supernaturally in the sky and much closer to the north of the town towered the impossibly tall and very wide citadel. The citadel was careful placed so that it didn't block the sunlight from the town, merely dominating the entire skyline with its terrifying vastness.
Egg sighed bitterly at the sight of her new "house", Egg now lived in that stupidly large structure with the Chaos Lord and TigerLily. Egg's entire crèche had been given their own vast side palace inside the massive fortification, a unbelievably large collection of cathedral sized rooms, all surrounded by the even bigger palace of the daemon princess!
It was just plain showing off what TigerLily had done with this place. Most of it was a hive city that housed multitudes of TigerLily's Mia Rho converts, and those bits were a bit on the showy side but still fairly sensible, with each person given a large but manageable apartment rent free to keep them loyal. But TigerLily had kept maybe 1 percent of the internal space for her own palace and had gone completely over the top with it.
Egg left Yuki to get changed into her swim wear in the girls changing room with her crèche sisters. She stripped down naked in front of her sisters, used to being naked around them. She was about to put her swim wear on when she felt Mandy grabbing her.
Egg tensed and felt her boobs being cupped.
"You have grown sister, you actually have boobs now, well sort of." Mandy told her appreciatively.
Egg squirmed, feeling masochistic thrill at her sister's touch, learned from a lifetime of highly sadistic quasi-incestuous treatment by her older sister. Mandy's hands explored Egg's naked body curiously and it sent thrills up Egg's spine.
"Where else have you grown?" Mandy purred seductively, her hands getting ever closer to Egg's vagina.
Egg felt petrified, frozen in place. She wanted to be touched down there, YEARNED for it. The terrible unholy temptations of Slaanesh tugged at Egg's loins and promised her that it would be wonderful.
Egg screamed and broke away, she was a holy servant of the God-Emperor, not a Slaanesh whore!
Egg breathed deeply, terrified and her mind in turmoil. She was so deeply confused now, uncertain about who she was. She claimed to be a servant of the Emperor but she had surrendered to a daemon princess! She lived in fellowship with chaos worshippers, and had resumed her apprenticeship to become a chaos sorceress!
Egg was surrounded by the most terrible temptation to abandon her hard won faith in the Emperor. For months Egg had been working her ass off to learn the Imperial Creed and be a faithful servant of the Emperor. She had massively limited her sexual acts with Yuki, had turned away from everything she had been taught growing up. She had been in a completely new environment, letting her establish new habits, without corrupting influences.
But now that had all changed, suddenly the entire ensemble of people who she knew growing up, all of them were here, and they were triggering old habits in her. But it was more than just that, it was the terrible temptations of TigerLily that were the worst.
Egg's duty to the Emperor was to leave this wonderful planet, get on a grim black ship and be taken away to a life of misery and gloom in the most terrifying planet in the galaxy, the terrible planet earth. If Egg somehow got on that black ship (which was permanently delayed by the warp rifts around this place), then TigerLily would do terrible things to the people of Beta Kyoto Epsilon, burn the entire planet with that terrible mutating fire!
But if Egg ignored her duty to the Emperor then she got to live here in this wonderful place, surrounded by her loved ones. She lived in a magnificent palace, had been given wealth and luxury beyond her wildest dreams. The people of Beta Kyoto Epsilon were safe and well treated. Even Inquisitor Hoffman had not been harmed and she could visit him any time. She had Yuki and if she wished she could be having as much sex as she liked with him.
Egg had it all, everything she desired in life, if only she turned away from an Emperor who wanted to give her a terrible life of abstinence and service. The temptation to just give in and accept this gift that TigerLily wanted her to take, it was terrible to endure!
Egg was the only Alpha Plus that TigerLily had, one of only like 30 in the entire galaxy, and by far one of the oldest currently alive. A few were older, but these would resist TigerLily. Most were babies and were being killed by the Inquisition with extreme prejudice. Egg was all that TigerLily had, Egg was orders of magnitude more powerful than TigerLily herself, and TigerLily would pay any price for Egg's cooperation.
As a result, Egg was being bribed with everything her heart desired. TigerLily ruled this daemon world as her personal domain and could reshape it as she saw fit. She had transmuted entire fields of large rocks into solid gold and given it to Egg. She had given Egg a magnificent palace. Egg got to keep going to school here, got to keep all the friends she had made. Anything Egg desired Egg got, she was treated like a queen.
TigerLily had even promised Egg that when she was older she would get to keep this planet as her own personal domain. All she had to do was occasionally accompany TigerLily to other places in the galaxy and use her powers as TigerLily commanded. And in exchange Egg got EVERYTHING, absolutely everything she ever wanted!
Egg sighed deeply and cuddled Mandy in reconciliation. She then got into her swim wear, her mind thick with thoughts. What would she end up doing?
***...
Brigadier General Otto Armstrong was less than impressed with his new brigade of Tzeentch worshipping rabble. Otto had a just been promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General in the last few days, in TigerLily's blanket promoting of all veterans of the Hapela Theta Rho campaign.
All the former privates and corporals had been promoted to sergeants, all the former sergeants had been promoted to lieutenants, and everyone else had gone up one rank. The catch was that every one of the new sergeants now had to command 20 man units of the greenest white shields Otto had ever seen!
Otto's brigade was far larger than a normal brigade, slightly under 100000 (one hundred thousand) soldiers in strength and composed of 4 regiments of slightly over twenty thousand men each. His pay rise with this promotion was absolutely staggering, chaos generals were among the richest men in the forces of chaos, he was now the equivalent of an upper class aristocrat in the sheer wealth he now would earn each year!
Daemon Princess TigerLily expected and demanded that her new grand army be battle ready ASAP, and Brigadier General Armstrong had far too much respect for TigerLily to let her down. She had saved his men time and time again during the Hapela Theta Rho campaign, as well as during the Mia Rho campaign. She had done right by Otto so he would do right by her.
Otto walked through the massive formation at attention on the parade ground in one of the new black crystal hive towers. The new privates were green as can be, only in day one of their basic training right now. Most of them were not even standing at attention and some were even talking amongst themselves.
"Disgraceful! All of you listen up! You are in da army of da exalted TigerLily, and by da chaos gods you won't let her down! You are not here to have a good time, you are not here to be lazy, you are here because your daemon princess has called on you to fight against her enemies. I will train you hard, I will push you to da limit. You will hate my guts but I don't care, I will do whatever it takes to turn you into soldiers worthy of da Daemon Princess as soon as humanly possible." Otto bellowed at the brigade.
Otto went on addressing them, getting it into their thick heads what a ruthless taskmaster he would be and the level of discipline he demanded. He would make them absolutely hate him, but this would keep them alive in battle. He expected nothing less than 100 percent and he would not stop riding their asses until they got it.
Otto quickly organised these sorry excuses for soldiers into savage training regimes. His officers delegated tasks for him and Otto returned to his command headquarters, he had a lot of work to do.
For the entire day Brigadier General Armstrong worked very hard, organising the huge amounts of training that his new men needed to get battle ready. These raw recruits had so much to learn and they had to get fit and strong too. They needed everything from weapons training to discipline to turn them into efficient killing machines.
Otto worked late into the night that day, he was determined to do everything he possibly could to get his brigade ready. Only when it was too late to continue did he go home.
Otto walked into his magnificent general's palace and was greeted at the door by his female butler who had waited up for him. Otto greeted the middle aged worshipper of chaos undivided and spent a little while talking to her. He was not the sort of man who took people for granted and made a point of talking to people when he could.
Otto eventually said good night to the butler and went into the bedroom he shared with his large harem of women. The girls were all already asleep in the massive bed they all shared and Otto tried his best not to wake them as he went into the on suet bathroom and did his nightly rituals to get himself ready for bed.
A quick wash, shave, teeth brushing and piss later and Otto was ready for bed. He and his girls all slept naked whenever it wasn't too cold, and in this luxurious climate controlled apartment they all wore not a thing in bed.
Otto clambered over the sleeping bodies as gently as he could and took his usual place right in the centre of the bed with 3 girls on each side of him. The women had left the spot bare for him, deliberately leaving a gap, and Otto slipped in under the sheet.
The sounds of feminine sleepy murmurs groaned softly, partially stirred to wakefulness by Otto's movements to get in the bed, and the two closest women snuggled against him half awake and he felt a hand from one of them softly grab his penis and give him a sleepy hand job.
Otto grabbed one of the many bits of rag off the shelf built into the headboard and held it at the ready to collect the eventual ejaculation, not wanting to mess up the sheets. Otto identified that the woman giving him a handjob was his wife Sarah and he kissed her passionately as she wanked him to a very sleepy orgasm.
This rather boring act of intimacy was largely because of the very late hour and the early start in the morning. Normally Otto got home at a much more reasonable hour and got to enjoy his harem in the funnest possible way. The 5 bed slaves that shared his bed in addition to his wife were not for show, he had a wonderful time most nights.
Otto careful put the rag in a special plastic container on the headboard shelf, the container specifically for used cum rags, and then settled down to sleep. He was asleep in mere minutes.
***...
As Brigadier General Otto Armstrong and multitudes of others slept, the surrounding areas belonged to the Night Lords. In every settlement, farm and wilderness area on the entire island that Egg called home, the Night Lords were engaged in night fighting training exercises.
The entire Royal family faction of chaos space marines had barely over 30 fully grown chaos space marines, just two tactical squads and a command squad. But one thing they did have was neophytes, many hundreds of them in fact. Every time the Royal family got hold of a gene seed they used it to create a new neophyte.
Legitimate Sevenson male children automatically became neophytes, but despite feverish breeding over the last 15 years, the family just could not produce legitimate children fast enough to meet demand.
Two years ago the Royal family Night Lords had watched from the sidelines as several ultramarine's successor chapters of loyalist space marines fought a vicious war against the Tau Empire. The Night Lords had let both sides of the war exhaust each other until the space marines narrowly won the war, before then swooping in in complete surprise to hit the exhausted space marine fleet hard in the rear and forcing the heavily damaged surviving ships to flee. The Night Lords had then combed through the wreckage to recover loyalist space marine bodies and recovered hundreds of extremely pure gene seeds.
They had also looted the science centres of the defeated Tau and stole hundreds more gene seeds that the Tau had recovered from space marine bodies over many years of fighting against the Imperium and made cloned copies of. The Tau had been working on a method of cloning gene seeds back in their primary sept worlds and had succeeded in cloning many many thousands using their terrifyingly advanced science. The Night Lords had sadly been unable to get hold of the Tau methods of cloning gene seeds but had sufficed for stealing hundreds of the cloned gene seeds for themselves.
On top of this bonanza of gene seeds, the Night Lords had stolen over 100 rather corrupted gene seeds from the Steel Brethren Iron Warriors which were not ideal but would do in a pinch. They also had quite a few gene seeds taken from loyalist space marines during the Hapela Theta Rho campaign, giving them more gene seeds than they had enough Sevenson kids for.
The neophytes came from 3 main recruiting pools, the legitimate Sevenson children, the illegitimate bastard sons of space marines, and a group of recruits taken from conquered or raided planets, mostly from the ice planet Akranes on the frontier between the Imperium and the Tau Empire.
At the moment these hundreds of neophytes were out in force in many different training groups. Sevenson boys rubbed shoulders with boys from Akranes, Cocowango, Mia Rho, Aumaom as well as an army of favoured bastard sons. They were a diverse lot, but the Sevensons and bastards made up the majority and were loyal to the Sevenson family dynasty rather than TigerLily.
Armed with silenced paintball guns (and holstered bolt pistols with live rounds) the neophytes waged energetic mock war with each other. The training was graded by stealth as well as winning the fire fights. Discrete auspex scanners hidden in the ceilings of houses throughout each settlement on the island monitored the occupants for signs of being woken up or otherwise aware of the presence of the fighting outside. If the locals detected the neophytes then they failed.
In the pitch black streets and alleys the groups of neophytes battled, each silent as spiders. It was after midnight and a curfew on street lights and vehicle use was in place from 11pm till 4am, giving the Night Lords 5 hours of darkness. The warp rifts still glowed magenta at all times but TigerLily had cast a spell of darkness over the planet's night facing surfaces to block out all this light.
The locals slept peacefully, even as massive silent fire fights raged just outside their homes. The neophytes were just THAT silent. In the morning they would find their homes pelted with paint splatters of water based easily washed off paint, maybe the odd boot print, but apart from that absolutely no evidence that the neophytes had been there.
This sort of silent night fighting was the very namesake of the Night Lords legion. They were specialist night fighters, the best of any space marine legion at this sort of fighting. They were of course as able as any space marines to fight in almost any combat environment, in fact they were a hell of a lot more tactically flexible than the crazy nutters of the Word Bearers legion or the stick-up-their-ass Iron Warriors. It was just that they had the real edge in the dark.
The Night Lords were actually one of the most sensible of all the traitor legions, perhaps second only to the Alpha Legion in "reasonableness". The Night Lords were notoriously irreligious as chaos space marines went, a few could be quite devoted worshippers of the chaos gods, but certainly on the whole they did not let things like religion cloud their military judgements in battle.
The Night Lords waged war simply for material worldly gain and for strategic objectives. They enjoyed war as much as the next chaos marines but they never waged war without a reason, and never fought fair if they could help it.
The loyalist space marines fought for foolish things like honour and bravery, delighting in heroic antics that sounded great in heroic ballads and rousing tales. The Night Lords preferred surprise ambushes to the rear of a far weaker enemy who couldn't even see them because it was too dark. Cowardly attacks against civilians and weak points, and then running from anyone who could really fight back, that was the Night Lords style.
The Night Lords were sneaky slimy gits without a shred of honour in battle. They excelled in kicking only when a foe was down, loved terror tactics that maximised psychological effect for minimum effort on their part, and especially loved waging war against noncombatants who couldn't defend themselves.
And the Sevenson family Night Lords were no exception. They were predatory slave raiders, plunderers and hit only soft targets. The only honest battle they had ever fought had been the Hapela Theta Rho campaign, that last stand only because of the unimaginable strategic value of an Alpha Plus psyker, and even there they mostly just ran away while the chaos militia regiments and mutant hoards did all the real fighting.
And now entire new generations of Night Lords neophytes were running around in the dark being taught in the art of sneaky underhanded fighting. And it was in sneaky fighting that the advantages of a space marine was really maximised. If only they could be sneaky enough then they could capture entire worlds without a single casualty. The Royal family was raising hundreds of new underhanded sneaky assholes to terrorise the galaxy, and the galaxy really didn't appreciate it at all!