For the HORDE

by Faithless wanderer

The war was fought and won by humanity, or so the story was told, but i choose to see another story be written, lets cross the lines and see the story unfold . For once lets see this through the eyes OF THE HORDE!

2. Chapter 2

Faithless wanderer here to say what's up guys, as you can see im riding a story high right now that demands more chapters

Also guys this chapter may appear like it changes suddenly in mood and that is because i stopped working on it for a few days and lost the flow but i think i did okay near the end

Anyway I'll also continue to work on more stories but enough about that so i give you another installment of the HORDE

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"FIRE"

"THEY JUST KEEP COMING"

"FIRE DAMN IT"

"THERE'S TOO MANY WE NEED TO RETREAT"

"TRY AND RUN AND I'LL KILL YOU MYSELF"

Screams and shouts rang out across the city aflame

I walked and walked lost to the sight before my eyes the blood splashed across my arms and pouring through the stones that cover the earth beneath my feet

I clutched my friend so close to my chest, she was all i had left

Mother had left long ago for a better place and father had gone one day too long

I walked through the fires and blasts that tore the walls apart

"IS THAT A KID"

"SOMEONE GET HIM"

"FUCK NO LEAVE HIM"

"DAMN IT ILL-

BAAM with that sound resounding across the air the man fell still

I walked on, bright flashes burn across my eyes blowing my hair back and forth with heat carrying me along

I walked on too uncertain to turn back

"DIE, BOOM"

A blast of air knocks me to my side but i'm only tired, i couldn't feel more than that not anymore

"For The Horde!"

With that shouted out across the clearing in the city streets large silhouettes began their thunderous march across my sight

"THEY'RE CHARGING"

"HOLD"

"WE'RE GOING TO DIE"

"DAMN IT HOLD"

"RUN"

"COME BACK HERE"

BOOM BOOM BOOM

another body drops

"Hahaha BOOM"

With a final mark the street grew quiet

I listened to pops and snaps far away

More fading away every second

"FIND"

A massive fist grabs hold of me

But i have no strength to rise and flee

No strength to even Struggle

I close my eyes, 'maybe for the last time'

And with that i knew no more

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(Skaar)

"Attack"

Weapons fire roared out across the battlefield

"BWAHHHHHHHHHHGGHHHHH"

I clutched my head with one arm while firing my Boomshot with the other

With a thunderous crash the wretch was silenced and the drones who were affected by its mad shouts focused back on the battle

"Fight for the QUEEN, FOR THE HORDE"

I roared out words to empower the blight under my command

We were stationed at the frontline at the center of the of the largest tunnel.

The battles were long, and the ammunitions ran dry more than i liked

"Bows fire freely"

A sudden barrage of bolts flew across the field and was followed by a wave of blasts intermingled almost as if made by a mad drummer

I received primitive bows of iron and wood derived from torque bows without the explosive bolts

Instead the bolts were pure steel

I almost strangled the drone who dared to have brought me such primitive weapons

But the drone insisted that the Queen sent me such arms

I doubted but made do

I immediately ordered the drones with the best aim with the hammerbursts to be handed the ammunitions of those with less than adequate skill

They protested but after breaking their legs the rest accepted

Once that was done the faux-torque bows were collected and i ordered the drones to practice

Their first attempts were pitiful but they improved

I ordered cresting defences with each higher than the last built

The front held what few traps we could build mainly sharp thorns to impale any madly racing lambent

Then after a few feet was the spot for the drones with the few weapons available

After that was level after level of drones with bows and bolts

In the end for all the many gifts of the hollow we had only what little we could make with what the humans wasted

Until Raam and his forces raided the humans for their resources we would have to make do with what little we have on hand

The bows all made of different materials melted down for our use and the bolts made out of rockworm hides

Their hides so strong that they were useable as bolts to pierce the lambent heart

I felt disgust to know that we had to stand and fight with the refuse left behind by Man

I hated to admit it but fighting here using only what weapons and ammo the humans garbage granted us made me wish i was on the surface to take what we deserved

"Another Wave"

Hearing one of the few drones with a scoped weapon discovering another wave of enemies

"No defeat, No Surrender, FOR THE HORDE!"

I bellowed out with all the force in my lungs to insure the drones under my command never faltered, never doubting our survival

I realised only now that i stood in the midst of war and death how little i honored the drones who gave their lives for the horde

They while dull at times bravely gave their lives for the future of our people for the future i fought for as well

In honor of that i fought there beside them, no longer would I stand behind them giving orders to hold a line that i would not hold with my very life

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(Queen Myrrah)

I gazed out over the balcony of my throne room, the treasures of the surface dwellers was being brought in

Vehicles and arms for war were dragged through the tunnels down here for her children to open and learn to teach them more to use to defend their future

For once the humans lust for war would serve a greater purpose than the death of their fellow man

Now they would hold a noble purpose, to hold the line against the parasite and ensure that life would see a tomorrow

Thump..thump...thump...thump..thrack-thoom

I turned my gaze back into the room and met the sight of Gore once more bowing himself before me on his knees

He still refused to ever look down on my form

A silly sentiment of respect from one of my most loyal children

Whenever i look at him i feel a deep sadness that reaffirms my resolve to save my children

The boy I knew was no more, innocence stolen by the parasite

I taught him to lead and guide the horde if my end ever came

But he was stubborn, how amusing it was to learn that my most fit General wished only to stand Watch

I could not deny him though i tried much

Missions and tasks i told him to complete

The honor of being my sworn shield demanded labor and sacrifice

Or so i said to him hoping to dissuade him, wanting him to lead the armies of the horde

Hunt a leviathan i said, and a great beast was felled

Tame the brumaks the first of their kind

Gore left for many days then, i worried for him but i needed to have faith in my child

I had raised him taught him and trained him, to be the King when the Queen has fallen

He refused to bear the title and burden

He was a knight in soul and heart

He had proven his station more than mere symbol

The parasite hunted after me seeking to topple the head of state

Gore was all that ended such schemes

(Flashback)

"Bwahhh"

Queen myrrah flying across the tunnels aboard a reaver with her entourage of Theron guards following close behind on reavers of their own

When a sudden blast of Emulsion fire slammed into the belly of her reaver

With a sharp wail the reaver began its sharp drop

"Queeennnn"

The theron's immediately began to dive towards her attempting to save her before she crashed but they were intercepted by blasts of Imulsion from beneath them as well

Sentinel Oxus shouted out his next orders in sharp hisses

"Dive, land, surround, defend, warn GORE"

With their orders at hand the theron's dived and began to perch their reavers on the nearby rock faces and fired at the gunkers deep below them

The therons lept of their reavors and took up posts wherever they found cover on the rocky outcroppings firing off their torque bows at the greatest threats

Oxus continued to dive towards the location that the queen had landed at

Seeing lambent wretches rushing towards here he fired his torque bow slamming into the back of the wretch at the lead.

Its body rolled and was trampled by the rest, with a blast a dozen blew and sprayed

Oxus lept off his Reaver leaving the pilot orders to continue the cannon fire to hold back the wretches until he could load up the Queen

Oxus ran over to the body if the fallen reaver, its mangled insides were spewing out as the emulsions corrosion ate away

The reaver was on its side, so Oxus ran to the other to find the Myrrah resting sitting leaning her body against the reavers remains

She quickly raise a gorgon pistol at Oxus when he came into her view

Oxus snapped into a salute to secure his allegiance to her even now when she was weak and wounded

Oxus was Gores right hand trained to insure absolute loyalty to the queen with orders to hunt down and eliminate any with plans to harm the Queen

Myrrah recognising a loyal to follower dropped her arm down to her side quickly applying force to her bleeding side where she had slammed into some rocks that scratched and wounded her

Oxus ran over to the queen an kneeled at her side to help her stand, myrrah grabbed his outstretched arm trying to raise herself when a loud groan escaped her

She had broken ribs and couldn't stand

Oxus quickly shifted to lift her planning to carry her out of the battlefield

"Tarn come"

Oxus called to his Pilot to walk the reaver back to load Myrrah without exposing her

But a blast that shook the earth beneath him ended that plan

Oxys looked past the reavers body to see Tarn retreating towards him

His reaver in pieces spread across the earth with a large pile of wretches spread around it

Tarn had blown the explosives on their Reaver after ramming it into the pile of wretches

The wretches must have wounded it too much for it to fly them away

Tarn was firing into a marching horde of lambent drones

"Put me down"

Oxus immediately obeyed and lowered the queen down behind the reaver

"I will not die running"

"Queen must Survive"

"The horde lives on regardless now fight"

Oxus wanted to argue, he like Gore was a firm believer that the future of the Horde was always with the Queen

But he his unspoken words were silenced at the furious Roar the queen groaned out through her pain as she turned her body to fire over the body of her mangled Reaver

Oxus obeying the queens command snapped into cover and began to fire his boltok into the Parasitic Drones

With every boom a drones fell with a blast

Oxus aimed taking each shot with care, more enemies than shells to end them

The battle raged too long for Oxus to know, weapons fire rained down from the rocky outcroppings

But with every minute less and less came

Munitions were running dry for those with luck

For those without a fiery blast of emulsion was all they received

A single gunker had survived the barrage of torque bolts with its bladed arm missing as proof of blows received

The reavers that remained focused their fire on the largest groups of lambent

All those that tries to attack the gunker to finish off the threat were blown out of the air

The creature was too well defended but at their range the reavers could easily dodge its blasts

Oxus didn't relent on his attacks knowing that the a reaver had left to deliver the message to Gore to come with reinforcements

Though Gore was not the closest allied force he was the one most loyal to the Queen

And the only one too respected or feared to be denied reinforcements from any Vold too stupid to see the need to protect the queen

Tarns arms soon ran dry, but was too loyal to stand idle and charged the enemy

Tarn raised his sledgehammer, the ends shaped into pointed tips, a weapon scavenged from human refuse

Slamming it into nearby wretch charging him the blow pierced the wretch and blew its body away

The blast was far enough that Tarn marched forward without ailment

Drones charged him, he struck right slamming the hammer into the chest of another drone, turning his body to kick away a charging drone

The blast from the first blew Tarn back, he was slowly getting to his feet

A slithering creature crossed the distance and snapped at Tarn piercing his chest and coiling around him

A drudge serpent had claimed his life as it burrowed inside him

Oxus seeing his friend suffering turned his aim away from the other enemies and fired

The round flew past the lambent into their midst

The bullet zoomed by unobstructed and plowed into Tarns skull blowing it apart

The Drudge serpent released its hold on Tarn seeing its prospective host was now useless

"GRAAAHHHHHH"

A loud roar bellowed out, seemingly vibrating the ground beneath by will alone

BOOOOOOMMMM!

the earth now truly quaked beneath all their feet, as a flaming blast spread up high far behind the incoming wave of lambent

Half the force turned marching away from those still marching against Oxus and Myrrah

The Theron's still remaining on the walls let out a combined bellow of power

Their weapons fire once sporadic to ensure it would last now sprayed around relentlessly picking apart the lambent still marching against the Queen

Oxus continued his attack needing to end the threat before moving the Queen

"Graaahh"

Loud roars and explosions rang out in a chorus

"….g-or-e..."

Oxus snapped his sight down to the queen she had grown silent during the battle and hearing her whisper Gores name immediately drew his attention

The queen still had a chance to survive

"Gore! Queen! HERE!"

Oxus screeched out with the strength of his powerful lungs calling to his superior

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I awaited my queen as is my duty, She had done as she willed and ordered me to remain while she went to survey the lands newly retaken from the parasitic menace

The drones wandered around doing their duty without falter, i had made it clear that no drone was to fail their duty within my presence

I had made an example of the drone who dared to indulge in fumes before the queen's arrival

His entrails still hung high above them from the cables above the camp

I plucked the infidel and threw him high aiming for the wires

The cables met him at his core and split him im two

My queen was silent neither taking pleasure or distaste from seeing my actions

She was Queen it was my duty to punish those who disrespect her grace

I turn away from my thoughts and turned my sight out towards the looming tunnels awaiting the queens return

She had been scheduled to return hours ago, i dared not order the locust from this camp to search for her yet

To do so would be seen as questioning her strength, her power as if she was frail

She may not be as large and powerful as the mothers but she was the guiding will of the horde and i would see that continue

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"Grrr"

Without meaning to i found myself grinding my teeth in anxious rage, who dared to disrupt the Queens mission for her to be so late

"Sir..look"

I look to the location that the nearby scout was pointing

I could just make out the image of an incoming reaver

'Good she returns'

But as the reaver grew closer i noticed that it was not the queens reaver she took to explore the lesser tunnels

It continued growing closer until we could make out the sight of missing limbs on its sides

The reaver was coming in for a landing, far too quickly at that

Quickly i moved into its trajectory and slammed my shield and halbert deep into the earth behind me and prepared myself for the impact

In an instant the beast slammed into my waiting arms and collapsed on itself

Its bones crushed by the sudden stop and its wounded flesh now pulp

"Grrr"

With a groan leaving me i pushed its body off myself and collected my weapons

The rider had a lot to explain and i wasn't about to be denied my answers

"Grrrnn"

I made my displeasure heard when i saw the state of the rider

He looked shaken by the stop but the harness for the riders held him on place atop the mount when i stopped it

Hearing me snarl at him he snapped into a quick salute and rambled out his excuses but he did not finish even a single word before he moved on the next

"sss-ooo-rrr ffff-ooo-rrrr nnn-o oo-fff-eeenn"

"Talk"

I bellowed out a short word demanding an answer

All the drones around me looked on in bewilderment, i rarely talk if at all

Some cretins even dare assume i am simple for it

I crush their skulls if they dare utter it

The wounded drone finally getting his head straight finally answered me

"Queen, Danger, Lambent, atta-

That was the last thing he said before i snarled and turned away

Heading to the local Volds chambers.

I found him sitting there eating

'How dare he'

He looks up at me with a panicked look on his face

"Guardian..why...enter"

I detested talking too often mainly to discourage the queen from making me the Uzil

If she believed i was becoming more receptive to the idea of leading the hordes armies she would make it happen

But this was no time such hesitation

" the queen is under attack gather your men and get me every reaver you have"

He stood there his jaw open without an answer

"No"

I stared at him with a piercing glare warning him to explain or die

"My men fought..too long to regain this... outpost for to just give it up"

This was why i hated the smarter drones, they were raised through the ranks without loyalty to the Queen

Without hesitation i swung my halbert and buried in in his chest

He was unworthy of anything else

I raised his body still attached to my weapon and marched out of his base out into the open

"This traitor is dead for denying me in marching off to save the Queen, WHO ELSE DARES SAY NO"

the drones all stayed silent and stiff

The blight while loyal to their dead Vold none among them would want to meet the same end at the hands of Gore

"Good Now Gather Arms and bring me all the reavers"

"Send orders to the nearby Vold strongholds and order them to all send 10 Reavers here and THEY WILL SEND THEM TO ME"

The drones stood stiff waiting for my every word

"NOW"

Their stiff stances broke apart as they all ran to obey my command

It took some time but i gathered a 5 dozen reavers and i tied 3 reavers together with a harness so that i could ride

My personal mount was far too large to fit through as was the queens

But this would have to do

With a sudden roar my mounts rose up and led way towards the Queen

I had the wounded scout with me guiding us, i had no time to be lost while the queen was in Danger

Tunnel as tunnel turn after turn, we rode at full speed

3 Reavers were lost to subpar riders who slammed into stone walls or outcropping arches

The rest did not hesitate to continue knowing my wrath was not to be questioned

We finally exited into another larger tunnel where i could make out weapons fire coming from the tunnels walls into the central chamber where i could just make out glowing motions advancing towards the body of a fallen reaver

"Grrrrrrraaaaahhhhhh"

With a powerful bellow arriving before me i swooped down towards the back of the advancing lambent soldiers and leapt off my mount and slammed shield first into a Gunker hiding between some stones

The impact knocked it on its back, i quickly reached behind me for my flail and slammed it down into the gunkers flesh

The creature screeched and began to glow before it blew with a mighty blasts

The stones and my shield blew the blast high instead of out

I turned from its flames when the blast rose high and began my attack against those who dare to attract my queen

The Flying reavers made constant passes slamming the groups of lambent with explosive shells

Quicky they were falling away but i continued my march through them ignoring the weapons fire pinging off my armor as i swung my halbert left to right again and again

Cleaving through each and every parasite that stood in my way

But this battle had an effect i was getting lost in their midst i did had lost track of the queen

"Gore! Queen! HERE!"

That answered my problem, i charged towards the sound of my followers voice

Shield raised high I slammed into and through every lambent creature in my way charging through their feeble horde

Explosions roared out around me as the lambent drones were crushed underfoot or blown away when struck by my shield

Only my armor swallowed the blasts and left me with minor burns but that was nothing

The queen needed me to save her

"Graahhg"

I roared out strongly pushing with all of my might

Dozens were thrown away and plenty more fired at me from all around

My armor doing what it was forged to do and deflecting their attacks

My halbert strapped to me like my flails dangling from my waist, I was tiring but the battle wasn't done

'How many of these bastards are here trying to kill her'

Finally i snapped through the last of them and saw the downed reaver

As i stopped i stomped the ground and turned my sprint into a rotation while pullion my halbert

I cut a swatch of drones down their explosions ringing out in a chorus of death

"OXUS THE QUEEN"

"Queen here, hurt, alive"

"Grraaahhh"

Hearing that the queen was hurt filled me with me new strength

These filthy parasitic infidels dared to harm my liege, drones weapons fire rained down on me

I slowly retreated towards Oxus and the Queen

My shield raised high to protect them while from weapons fire

"REAVERS"

i bellowed out my command calling to the reavers to make a pass and drop down their explosives

With a sudden pass the beasts fired their cannons blowing holes in the seemingly endless host of enemies

"LANCE"

The reavers pulled up from their last attack and made a round turn around the chamber each taking position to use the weapons i ordered them to wield

The reavers returned in arcs each dragging a long chains with large flails attached

The reavers flew low enough for the balls to drag and slam through the infected drones

The majority of the parasites didn't have the weapons or ammunition necessary to equip every last one of their creatures with guns

Many of them here carried clubs and were unable to even fire at the passing reavers

At the end of their first pass through the next group of reavers came through continuing the assault on the parasites drones

Each a group of ten dragging through weapons to grind away and crush the parasite

The battle was soon finishing when the final drones fell all the locusts within the chamber roared out their bellow of victory

Only Gore and Oxus were silent

Gore turned to look at Oxus who hadn't spoken

'No'

Gore turned to see Oxus impaled through his stomach with a lambent serpent coiling around and through him

Oxus was still struggling fighting to slow the creature, no not slow it

The creature kept trying to turn towards the Queens unmoving body only to have it be yanked on by Oxus flailing limbs

"Loyal to the end my friend"

Oxus still fighting the worm rasped out

"Lo..yal to-End"

I raised my shield high honoring Oxus by giving him the right to look upon the symbol of the horde crowned with a halo of flames

The undying flame of the Loyal the fire in the hearts of those who would rather meet gruesome death than betray the queen and the horde

"Raaaahhhhhh"

With a great slam i cut the head of the serpent dropping my boot attop its head to muffle the small blast that would produce and detonating the rest of it wrapped around Oxus

With the roar of death and the flames of detonation the imulsion serpent exploded

I didn't look past my shield to see my fallen friends remains

He deserved to remembered in his moment of triumph, he saved the Queen's life

I left my shield there buried deep in the earth where it marked Oxus final battle

I turned to the Queen, Lady Myrrah she looked so frail so feeble but that didn't matter to me

Many would have seen an opportunity to strike but i saw something else

Slowly and gently i came closer slipping my massive fingers underneath her delicate frame and raised her off the earth

I pulled her close to me and turned walking towards the reavers, drones and Theron's ahead

I stayed silent i only walked onward

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(Raam)

Weapons fire roars past me but I'm too quick too agile for their weapons to tag me before i reach them

The first tries to turn his lancer towards me but my blade snaps into his chest before he finishes turning

The man behind him doesn't even notice me when i raise my boltok and fire into his temple

I turn my blade pulling it free of the dead human

The others in the room noticed their comrades skull slam open and turn to me

Before even the first can fire i raise my aim and fire into the next blowing through him

I then leap to my left snapping into a roll entering the next room in a flurry

I quickly stand seeing a room filled with wounded soldiers

I almost smile at how easy this is i quickly put away my blade and pull out a gorgon pistol and run it across the room and execute the wounded

Their final screams were satisfaction

"Ah Die monster"

The idiot shouted out before shooting at me, i kept rolling and turning to shoot at the doorway i just came in through

The look on his face the fear exactly what i wanted to see

With a boom my boltok fired through his skull

I made out the sound of booming feet, his friends were coming

I stood and ran past him back into the room i came in through

The men coming to help their friend stood frozen when they saw me but i did not hesitate

I fired my boltok into the first threw my gorgon into the helmetless face of the second and pulled my blade out and threw it into the third

By then my boltok was ready and fired into the fourth

The fifth fell down in panic dropping his lancer

I almost laughed at his weakness, i raised my boltok and fired ending him

I walked over to the window and gazed out at the battle raging below

The humans were falling, karn selected the best locations to breach the surface to quickly overwhelm their defences with the least casualties

My plans to fill the sky with kryll in the darkness were still going unused as Karn convinced me to hold off and save it as a surprise tactic for enemy strongholds

I watched a group of those humans called cogs surrounded by drones

They were surrounded on all sides but they stood firm

Firing at all the drones incoming

They had quickly sealed all the nearby breaches

And were now costing me dozens of drones

I calmly reloaded my boltok and collected my gorgon and my blade

When i had it all in hand i armed a fire grenade the kind we use to curve the kryll hives when they get too close to our homes

I waited for the time to be right

….there

I tossed it into the humans when they ducked to trade ammo again

The bomb traveled across slowly almost tossed casually

Second by second i watched it fall

And then in a sudden flash the oils spilled and the agitated imulsion detonated and lit the oils aflame

The gears burned and i grinned seeing them fall

I raised my sight looking on at the blackened buildings in the distance

The humans a despicable race, they burned their homes and their own people

When we first attacked they didn't hesitate to light their own homes and their own people aflame

Fewer drones that humans died then, the few drones who questioned our cause were silenced when they walked through the city streets across the bodies of the dead young who were trampled and burned as the flames spread out

'We do this for our future...and for theirs'

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Faithless here what up people, im having lots of fun with this one

I had a slight hiccup but when i decided to just enjoy myself like i wanted to then things just fell into place

Like you'll notice there's 'fights' something i normally don't write but i decided that gears of war demanded battle because endless talking bores me sometimes

Anyway guys so once again

If anyone is interested in helping me or my stories let me know id love having someone help me or even just suggesting new ideas or even new characters because i'm always looking for things to make my stories better

So review comment all that good stuff byes