Chapter 3: Decent
Yelaris had been walking now for two days. She had picked up some rations and a makeshift canteen made from spinmetal. One thing hadn't changed though. Her eyes were still damp. And her lips were quivering. Sure she had killed before, but those lives she took were of miserable guardians, and they were soon revived by those floating machines. But now,a member of her own race? Yelaris was lost deep in thought, but then an ear piercing scream emminated from the nearby cave." Guardian fire team perhaps?" she thought, "That's the only thing I've ever heard that high pitched". Yelaris decided that she should probably follow the noises, because the guardians may have supplies, if she could take them, it would be brilliant. Yelaris wiped her eyes. And jumped down the into the cave.
Green light shone everywhere, and Yelaris realised her mistake. The sound she heard was not from a Guardian. But instead from a group of Hive. A knight walked around the corner, and Yelaris sprinted to the nearest column, and hid behind it. The knight lumbered around the hall, looking for the source o the noise. The knight looked at a big piece of stone, then walked back to where he came from, and said something illegible to sombody /something else. Yelaris peeked around the corner, and gasped at the sight. A bulky fallen was being struck with a sword. The ether was slowly slipping, and although he was resiting with curses and wriggling, the effort was taking its strain. She wanted to help him. She needed to help him, but with what? She only had a shock pistol. Then it hit her. This was a ceremonial hall. And there was a second sword, brimming with green energy at the foot of the altar. She ran up to the blade, gripped it, and tentacles bonded onto her hand, and started burning her arm. She started screaming, and all the hive turned their heads." Crap." She stated,through gritted teeth.
The sword felt natural to her, she had always complained that shock blades felt too light, and this hive blade defiantly had some weight to it. She shouted her battle cry, and charged at the hive. The thralls rushed her, but with her new weapon in hand, she cleaved through them all, inhumane screams echoing after each of the dismemberments. The knight from earlier had seen her, and had evidently had enough with her, and readied his cannon. A burst of energy flew at Yelatis , but with the adrenaline pumping through her, she rolled out the way, and flipped over the next one, she proceeded to behead the abomination, green blood spurted everywhere. The Fallen who was previously captive suddenly came alive, twisting to the left and bringing down the acolytes which held him down. He crushed their heads before turning to the last knight. He jumped onto him, and twisted the neck of the creature.
"That was quite a show, Baroness." Said the male.
"Wha? No, I'm no baroness, I'm just vandal status."
The male rolled his eyes, and cursed to himself "So the devils sent a vandal to save me? Typical, just because I was exiled..."
"I wasn't sent by the devils... In fact, I'm an exiled King."
"You..." The male walked up to her, before taking a hold of her throat. "You stupid girl! Why did you come down here voluntarily!? This is a high risk hive cave! And I get saved by a damn girl!" The male shouted, directly into her face. The sword, still attached to her, was continually radiating with red energy, before erupting, and sending the male to the end of the hall, smashing a pillar. "What the?" Yelaris exclaimed, examining the blade. Upon inspection, the blade seemed to have shrunk into a cross between a hive cleaver and a shock blade. T'was a broadsword. The blade had an inscription on the hilt. "For the empress". She looked at the blade a bit longer, when she realised a sheathe had appeared on her back, and the tentacles had subsided. She sheathed the blade, before walking to where the Eliksni had been thrown.
"Owww... By the great machine that hurt. I.. I'm sorry for shouting at you, I'm not used to being confronted by another Eliksni, not since I was exiled. What's your name? Mines Kiviks, Previously Devil Baron."