Legion of Shadows, Book 2: Omens of Fate Chapter 4: Sic veritas manifestatur, a Warhammer + Naruto Crossover fanfic

Chapter 4: Sic veritas manifestatur

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Governor Lucient was many things, yet one of his greatest traits was his patience and information gathering, he prided himself on being able to know where anything was in his world at any one point in time, which is why he had a foul mood upon his face at the fact he couldn't keep a Primarch of the Imperium within his sights on his own planet.

"Of all the sons of that blasted Emperor. I had to be assigned to the literal NINJA warrior of his progeny! Two Weeks! It has been two BLASTED WEEKS and not even a hair or peep of his whereabouts!?"

The servants around the Governor shared looks of concern as they had never seen their lord this frustrated before. A sudden crash made them aware that the Governor was now throwing various objects within his office around as cries of frustration echoed from his voice. His bout of rage made all of the servants vacant the room in a rush as his tirade continued.

Two hours had passed as the sound was silent within the room. The servants took a brave step towards the door as one gained the courage to open it.

The once pristine room of the Governor was in shambles, Various shelves and tables were smashed beyond recognition. Priceless heirlooms were in pieces around the area as they looked like they were used as clubs to add violent holes through the room. Lucient was sitting in the middle of the room, a look of barely contained rage behind his cold, unforgiving visage.

"Get me Lord Luron... I wish to have a 'thorough' discussion with him regarding our little problem"

The servants looked with hesitant eyes, fear encapsulating them as they were not prepared for such a scene.

"NOW!"

An hour had passed as the footsteps of another noble lord of this world walked into the room. Looking at the state of Lucient's room, Luron gave a small chuckle as Lucient looked at the noble with barely held restraint.

"You said that the Primarch would be an easy target to contain!"

"I feel that you are a little upset"

"A little upset?! A LITTLE! For two weeks I have received nothing but ignored summons from the Primarch and his standing force on this planet! They have not even the courtesy of informing me where the Primarch is currently residing! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA THE AMOUNT OF TIME AND EFFORT I HAVE TAKEN TO CREATE THIS ELABORATE RUSE! RUINED... IT IS ALL RUINED!"

"And that is my problem how?"

"You know what is at stake here Luron. Our masters will not take failure lightly! Especially when it is my HEAD on the line!"

"Your concern is noted. Yet rest assured... everything is going as planned"

"And how much of this 'plan' requires my survival? Or the survival of the other nobles of this world?"

"Are you saying your life is worth more than our liberation from Imperial rule? To bring the light of the truth to our entire galaxy?"

"How much is our lives against such a thing? We will bring illumination and light to untold trillions... TRILLIONS!" Luron said to Lucient, his voice so passionate as to quell the rage with Lucients being.

"We are the heralds of a beautiful liberation. One that will give this galaxy the glories of times past. We as humanities Shepherds must be willing to bare the responsibility. If that means culling those whom are not willing to accept this new order then we will do as we are commanded"

"Remember this well Lucient. Under the eyes of our masters we are but equals. We serve them first and foremost. Your concerns of material things is irrelevant. For our souls are but vessels of salvation, our masters the crafters that will ensure our eternal reward"

Luron walked away from the room, a smile upon his face as he walked away from Lucients room, the Governors anger from before replaced with a sense of fear and dread, yet unable to shake off the words and conviction that Luron had just given.

He felt like he had just signed his own death, it was only a matter of time.

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"Welcome Back lord Naruto... you feel different"

This was the greeting Naruto and his Meiyo guard received on returning to their base of operations. To the astartes within the compound Naruto felt different than before, as though his journey to where the taint was had changed him, made him stronger somehow.

"I trust that the Governor has been giving you all some trouble?"

"Nothing we cannot handle. Speaking of which, he has returned little one"

The sound of heavy footsteps echoed as the lone servitor that was Naruto's escort walked out from the command structure, it's face was still blank yet it's voice was a higher pitch than normal.

"Lord Naruto... This unit welcomes you back from your exhibition. How may I serve?"

Naruto gave a small smile as he walked up to the lone servitor, and with a gentle touch gave it's head a gentle rub of affection.

"I am happy to see you little one. You do not need to do anything for me."

"I am... Hap...Hap... Error... I must require directive from you lord Naruto"

"Then please little one... follow me for now... Can I count on you to do this?"

"Request Acknowledged, primary directive updated"

"Naruto... Captain Inari is on communications."

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"Welcome back big brother Naruto"

"How's the ship Inari?" Naruto looked upon the holo projector as Inari's image reflected within the room.

"Getting annoying hails from the PDF and incessant hails to allow for planetary personnel to inspect the ship, which I have denied of course. But other than that not much else"

Naruto gave a nod of acknowledge nod, it seems his presence on this planet was more planned than he had initially thought.

"There's something else... I have been getting troubling communications from our allied forces, yet they always seemed to be either garbled together or distorted somehow. Yet it seems it is painting the same picture"

"Conflict"

"Yea... I feel you already knew something about that. Nothing gets past you big bro"

"I don't think this mission was as simple as compliance for a world. I have... troubling information"

"Must be pretty serious if your concerned about it. I'll have the crews on alert in case things go AWOL"

"Thanks Inari... say my hello to Aria to me... and stay safe"

"You too Naruto... Inari Out"

The communicator faded as Naruto turned towards his company. His face was a stern look as his astartes stood at attention.

"Prepare the Thunderhawk. We are going to the governor, I have many questions and he will answer them"

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The servants to the Governor were in awe and confusion as Naruto's Thunderhawk landed on the personal pad of the governors palace. Their looks were more of fear as an entire squadron of astartes disembarked with a Primarch who's look screamed seriousness, stunned at such a display of power the servants could do nothing as Naruto and his company marched past the guards and opened the massive doors into the governors palace.

"Umm... lord Naruto! Governor Lucient is currently busy! He specifically requested that he should not be disturbed!"

The secretary's voice faded as two Meiyo guard stood on each side of the secretary, their faces pointed towards her as their gaze alone made her shy away from fear.

Naruto continued to walk ahead as his company remained in the foyer. Pushing the massive double doors the governor gave a look of surprise and shock as the figure of a Primarch walked towards him.

"Lord Naruto! What a surprise to see you here. I am right to assume you are here to accept my various request?"

Whatever Governor Lucient was expecting, he did not expect Naruto to point a single finger towards his head, an orb of darkness no bigger than a pea appearing from the tip of that finger, nor did he expect to see a scowling look upon Naruto's face.

"Shut up! I'm gonna ask you a few questions and you will answer the Truth and only that"

The Governor gave an audible gulp as his eyes looked towards the orb of nothingness, he could feel upon his skin that whatever that Thing was, it was going to leave him not just dead.

"Su..urely my lord Naruto... Whatever you are angry about is nothing of concern... I only wish to extend a hand of friendship to you and."

Whatever he was going to say was silenced as part of his desk was obliterated in front of his eyes. As a reflex he screamed, ducking behind what was left of his desk, as Naruto prepared another orb on his finger.

"FRAGGIN HELL! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Lucient shouted as the blast left a ringing sound in his ears.

After the shock of whatever he experience had passed, Lucient looked at the damage and was horrified at what he saw.

Nothing remained where the orb was fired, a perfect sphere that bypassed everything and showed parts of the lower floor, various personnel were seen on the lower level screaming and running from the room as his heart thumped loud within his chest. Yet the cold, indifferent look on Naruto put a true fear into his face as he merely still had his hand pointed towards his head. It was only now that he could see Naruto's eyes had changed, no longer an ocean blue they now had changed to a golden colour, with a cross replacing the pupil.

"I will not Repeat myself... now you will answer my questions TRUTHFULLY"

Lucient, fear palpable in his face, only gave a nod of acknowledgement.

"Now... was this mission I was given planned by yourself and Horus?"

"What? Of course not my lord. I have no idea what you are implying"

Lucient felt he made a grave mistake saying that as Naruto's eyes were glaring straight into his very being, a golden glow giving him a monstrous presence before him. He felt sweat run down his face as he could not stop the shaking upon his hand.

"You are lying to me"

Lucient screamed again as the wall behind him was obliterated, the ringing in his ears becoming a tone that was impaling his very soul. He tried to scream out but something was making him quail in fear and panic. He felt as though he was in the jaws of an apex predator, one simple mistake away from oblivion.

"Please... I... I did not plan this but lord Horus knew what was to happen here"

"What was Horus trying to do here. What was he trying to do to me?!"

Lucient was now frozen in pure terror. Naruto's presence now brought a true fear in his eyes as he could only look on in frozen silence.

"ANSWER ME!"

Naruto's power shook the entire planet, a quake that sent entire populations of the world into a hysterical frenzy, many within the lower floors of the hive started to degrade to lunacy. As though the wrath of a vengeful god was finally here to deliver judgement to their souls.

Lucient's will had broken. In his eyes he could only see a true monster before him, one that only wished for his death for his lies, so his heart spilled before him, his mind closing down to only respond to this being before him.

"He wanted to bring you into the light of the truth. He wanted our planet to enlighten you to our ways, so that you may join him on his liberation of the Imperium when the time was right... I SWEAR... I SWEAR I AM TELLING THE TRUTH... PLEASE JUST LET ME LIVE!"

Lucient was now grovelling before Naruto, his wails of mercy being a pathetic sight for one whom ruled a world. Yet Naruto ignored this for the information he was given.

It seemed the bitter pill of hatred had crept itself into the heart of his family. Something had to be done about it, before all that he knew would perish in the coming conflict.

His aura ceased, he looked towards the Governor whom was now a grovelling mess, his heart was heavy for what he had done yet he knew that it had to be for the truth to reveal itself. It left a bitter taste in his mouth which he hated.

"Thank you... for your co-operation"

Naruto walked out of the room, the crying sobs of the planetary governor echoing in the room as the massive doors slammed shut.

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"Lord Naruto"

"Have the Thunderhawk ready for launch. We're done here"

Naruto still felt a sting of pain on what Horus wanted to do here with him. He felt that he would be better off taking this information directly to his father than rely on communication methods as they could be tampered with, this would mean he had to make the journey to Terra.

His Meiyo guard and a small company of astartes, along with his servitor escort were waiting for him in the main Foyer heading outwards to the landing pad, where the Thunderhawks engines were beginning to spool.

As he walked pass them they all fell in formation around him, yet he could not shake this feeling that this was going all too easy.

"Canathon... What's your ETA for take off?" Naruto called through his vox.

"Two minutes my lord. We are ready for Orbital jump"

As Naruto and his company was beginning their walk towards the thunderhawk, a sudden hydraulic hiss put Naruto on alert. Taking a quick glance around he could see that the orbital defence platforms had come online, their guns beginning to target the aircraft on the platform.

"GET DOWN!" Naruto shouted, as a thundering sound of flak fire echoed around the landing platform.

"CANATHON!... EXFILTRATE NOW!"

"My lord... What about you?!"

"Don't worry about us. We'll find another way to ex-fill. JUST GET OUT OF HERE"

"Understood! Taking off"

With a great blaze of fire from it's engines, the thunderhawk pushed itself away from the platform as it's hull was being hit by scores of flak fire. One of it's engines had burst into flames yet through the pilots efforts was still able to achieve vertical lift.

Naruto looked on as his transport had just left him and his company. Yet he could now see those very same defensive guns being pivoted towards their spot.

"GET INSIDE... NOW!"

The company rushed into the door as the sounds of flak fire ripped into their position. The screams of some astartes were heard as their bodies were shredded to pieces from such large caliber of round. A pair of Astartes used hand signs and forcibly ripped the metal from each side of the pad with their chakra, forming a defensive barrier that was being relentlessly pounded by the array of guns.

The last of the company had fled inside, slamming the doors shut and welding the door together with a fire jutsu as the pounding of gunfire tried to destroy it.

"Everyone Okay?!" Naruto shouted, as he took command of the situation.

"Mukama is down! He is bleeding baldly!" one of the astartes said as they helped another that was before them.

"Mizumi... Setomi... help him!"

"Aye Naruto" a duo of apothecaries rushed towards the downed astartes, these being the only two within the party as their hands glowed with a rush of chakra.

"Hang in there Mukama... your going to be fine" the astartes next to the downed comrade said as their only response was groans of pain.

"Head count! Who's missing?" Naruto said as he took a look around the area they were now residing in. He noticed they were in a well exposed area that had too many angles of attack. They would need to move soon.

"Naruto... Natsukaga and Kuhara are missing... they didn't make it"

"Dam defence platforms. Who the hell made them attack us?!" one of Naruto's Meiyo guard shouted as they could only watch Mizumi and Setomi help the downed Mukama while Naruto kneeled beside him.

All of a sudden the loudspeakers of the hive started to blaze with crackling static as the low tone of chanting was heard through the speakers.

"I guess were about to find out" Naruto said as the chanting started to echo throughout the entire hive.

"Believers... friends... disciples of the truth rejoice! For today marks the day of our liberation"

The party was now on full alert, their eyes focused on their surroundings while their ears listened to the vox network of the entire hive city.

"For too long has the Imperium gorged itself on the suffering and misery of the masses. But no longer! For the great truth shall reveal itself and smite the Imperium down!"

"Mukama... can you hear me!" Naruto said as he held Mukama's hand, his eyes opened as blood pooled from his lips, yet he was looking at his primarch with a look of panic and pain.

"I... I can't feel my legs Naruto..." Mukama said, his body was injured severely as both his legs and lower hip had been blown into bloody chunks from a detonating flak round. Blood pooled around him as even his Laramans organ was being overwhelmed by the sheer extensive damage as multiple arteries had been destroyed.

"Your gonna be alright Mukama... You hear me, you are gonna get through this"

"Naruto... I just want to go home... I wanna go home" Mukama said with tears pooling in his eyes

"Listen to me Mukama... were gonna get you home okay... were gonna get you home and you can tell your family you love them"

"Naruto... I... I'm sorry... I'm sorry I can't be there for my brothers and sisters..."

"Listen to me Mukama! I order you not to die Sargent! You HEAR ME... I ORDER YOU NOT TO DIE!"

"Naruto... I..." He gave a strangled breath as his arms gave a last burst of strength, yet in that moment his eyes started to fade as a breath left his mouth, his body no longer able to support his head as it rolled to the side.

Naruto held his hand, even when it loosened from his grasp, his eyes were in denial at what he was seeing, yet he could feel in his final moments Mukama's fear and panic.

"Yet no longer! Brothers and Sisters of the truth. RISE UP, for the time of our salvation is upon us!"

"Yet there is still someone whom is within our city who is ignorant of the Truth! Someone who follows the false Emperor faithfully! He is his flesh and blood and is an insult to all that we wish to achieve"

"Hear me believers... HEAR ME... a Primarch walks among us, a son of the false Emperor. BRING THE SPAWN OF THE FALSE EMPEROR TO THE LIGHT... FOR HIS SON SHALL BE AN OFFERING TO OUR MASTERS"

"GLORY TO THE PRIMORDIAL TRUTH! GLORY TO CHAOS!"

"GLORY TO CHAOS. DEATH TO THE IMPERIUM"

The vox speaker that was shouting that propaganda was obliterated in the blink of an eye, as Naruto's finger extended towards it as he still looked upon the corpse of one of his astartes, his eyes were focused yet tears pooled on either side of them.

"Lord Naruto?!" one of his Meiyo guard said hesitantly as they had never seen their primarch this angry before.

"Mizumi... do what you must for Mukama. We leave in 5 minutes"

"I... I understand Naruto"

"Everyone else. Ready yourselves, it seems we will need to fight our way out from this"

Naruto put his hand towards his ear, the vox coming to life as the distinct sound of mild static was heard on the communication line.

"Inari... do you have a copy?"

"Big bro! Are you guys okay? Were being attacked by the planetary orbital guns"

"Listen Inari, get the Will of Fire to safety. We're on the upper levels of the hive spire. We need whatever tactical data you managed to acquire with your scans"

"On it!" Inari replied as information began to flood Naruto's data pad that was conveniently placed on the side of his armour. Pulling it out he gave a look at the overview of the Hive and it's various networks and systems. A few parts of interest were highlighted to him, these being command centres and control nodes to operate the many planetary weapons arrays and defensive measures.

"Find somewhere you can stay low Inari, keep the Will of fire on stealth, small retro burns if you need to adjust her around orbits. We'll get back in comms with you when the planet is safe to return.

"Go...it... bi... Bro... Sta...s.."

"Dam... comms are jammed" Naruto muttered in frustration as static greeted him on the line.

"It is done Naruto" Mizumi said, holding a single tag while one of her progenoid vials, this one a blue colour contained a small, inconsequential organ, the name and rank of Mukama etched upon it. Naruto had taken the tag and placed it around his neck, the tag sliding within the gap in his armour as he stood before his party.

"Alright... our communication and local planetary space are compromised. Inari and the Will are falling back until we disable those systems. Until then we are stuck here, alone"

"Make sure to check your corners, some of these people are innocents and are not with these traitors. We are not here to purge everyone, we only need to get off this world. If we can save some we will, but make no mistake. There will be some who wish to kills us, don't let them take that chance"

"HAI!"

The group started moving from the upper spire in a tight formation, with Naruto in the middle with their servitor escort next to Naruto's side as a guide within the hive city. The group worked their way from the upper levels, finding passageways and bridges that their servitor escort notified them about as they took a steady pace through the upper hive.

The sound of chanting reached the ears of the group, readying their weapons they advanced towards the noise, as they got closer they noticed other noises, these being muffled crying and the screams of gagged victims.

The noises came from an inconspicuous building, this one was one of many opulent looking houses within the upper spire, most likely where nobles had once gathered in congregation, now the sounds making it seemed a hellish background around such opulence.

Naruto signaled his team, he could see many different emotions broiling in this room, some becoming a bit too much in their potency to continue staring at them, he relaxed his chakra as to muffle these emotions as his eyes reverted back to their natural blue colour.

His astartes all got into position around the building, their voices silent except for distinct clicking noises that his shinobi used for stealth missions.

"This is Harakida, second squad in position"

"Ramo here, fourth squad in position"

"Charles in position, eights squad ready to engage"

All these clicks echoed through their vox as Naruto readied himself for what he was about to witness.

"All units... on my mark... BREACH!"

Like a thunderbolt, all entrances to the building were destroyed and the fury of astartes were unleashed upon the traitors.

They numbered in the hundreds, many partaking in rituals of horror as they willingly spilled the blood of their fellow man upon sacrificial altars. In the span of a single second half of the traitor lives had been ended, either through the precise shot from a boltgun or from a more exoterical weapons in procession by these astartes.

In the next second most of the rest had fallen to the astartes, their precision so deadly that the victims being held in their hands were unharmed as reactive bolts exploded into the heads of their captors. The last of the traitors held their victims close to their bodies, their blades hovering over their victims necks as they looked with maddened fury upon these angels of death.

"DROP YOUR WEAPON!" a Meiyo guard bellowed from their vox, the voice sending the maddened traitor into a panicked stare, slowly the blade inched towards their victims neck as they cried tears and sobbed before the assembled party.

"Death to the false Emperor" a madman said as his eyes shined in finality, his blade inching closer to severing his victims neck as they cried from the sharp pain.

The madman gurgled up blood as he released his victim, they fell to the floor and started crawling to the astartes as he looked down, where the shimmer of a blade edge could be seem popping out from his chest. He gave a strangled laugh as his blood leaked from his body, finally collapsing into the floor. This scene was repeated through a few more places as Naruto's party had systematically neutralized the threats in this room.

"Are you okay?" one of his astartes, this one a female by the name of Mysti said as her hand helped a victims up from the floor, they cried as they gave the astartes a hug of gratitude as they cried tears. Mysti only held on to the lady tenderly, giving her reassuring gestures.

Naruto could see passively that all these victims were in shock at what had happened, not just in the moment but the hours leading up to this. A strangled scream pulled his attention away from the victims to a single traitor, bleeding heavily from his foot as it oozed out his blood.

Naruto walked up to the traitor, took a knee towards him and looked into his eyes as his vision became golden once again, the traitor could see the eyes of a vengeful avatar before him and only gave a mad cackle.

"You are too late Spawn... The revolution has just started... Soon the whole galaxy will burn!"

"Tell me what you know traitor, and your death will be painless" Naruto said, his mind being disgusted at the flood of emotional energy flowing from this person.

"I will never tell you ANYTHING spawn! My life is to CHAOS... my soul to chaos!"

"Fine then... The hard way it is"

Naruto's hand started to glow golden, the power within it becoming almost burning to the traitor as he could not bare to see it.

"What... What are you doing?! NOO... STOP IT!"

Naruto placed his hand upon the traitors head, his screams started to echo across the room as the golden glow bathed him in light. He screamed as he felt his flesh and something else start to burn, his eyes now burned within his sockets as his mouth started blazing with golden fire.

The light shined brilliant before it ceased, yet in Naruto's hand was a spectrum of blue, he inspected it before the gold in his hand faded, the blue fading along with it. Naruto steeled his mind as flashes of memories echoed within.

He now stood at attention, his astartes noticing this helped their victims up as they all stood on shaky legs, there were many genders and ages within this group and each of them were giving praises to the Emperor and his son.

"Naruto?" Weiss said, a hesitant look upon her face at what she had just witnessed. His astartes could feel that Naruto had done something to that traitor, yet they could not find the courage to describe it.

"We head this way. They are holding more victims within these access ways, this will also get us to the lower floors where the main terminals are for the system defences. We must make haste"

"What of these victims Naruto?" Hayashino, the Captain commander of his Meiyo guard asked as he gestured to the frightened victims.

"Aero, Ceru, Nave,Levi and Setomi will act as body escorts for them. The rest of you will follow me."

"Understood Naruto" Hayashino said as Naruto's Meiyo guard with two of 4th Companies astartes, these being Harakida and Fumitsu whom were 4th squads most experienced marksman joined Naruto as they advanced forward, while the rest of 4th company escorted the survivors through the access routes.

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The sound of boltguns echoed in the long hallways, Naruto's party had encountered heavy resistance around every nook and cranny along the entire length of their advance, yet even when outnumbered a hundred to one, his astartes showed time and again why they were not to be underestimated.

They had crossed multiple hostile combat and death zones, yet his Meiyo guard merely advanced with the sound of their weapons echoing fury. Multiple forces of the traitors had used hastily armed autoguns as their main armaments, yet against even normal astartes this would be woefully inadequate.

Against Naruto's Meiyo guard, it would be non existent.

Rounds entered the chakra cloaks of their ghost plate armour, only to stop before even penetrating an inch within their armour. While energy weapons and other more exotic means fared the same against these astartes.

Their armour reflected their chakra, as their will had been forged by their life so too is their armour a reflection of that. Each Meiyo was a veteran of countless fights, each battle adding to their legend and giving them greater strength to endure the darkness.

Advancing through the narrow corridors, Weiss stood proud, the stigma of her family echoed in her soul as the betrayal of her father left a bitter pill for her family to swallow. She had been disgusted by her father, which left her with a fiery conviction to prove herself in the eyes of her peers, this in turn pushed her to advance forward. Yet unlike her father, she chose to also ensure the bonds of family and friendship she obtained from her legionaries was reciprocated, as time went on she valued these bonds, becoming stronger for them.

Now she stood, a member of Naruto's elite guards, at the forefront of her legion. She drew strength from the humility of being accepted in such an exalted position, even before others in her former life.

A flood of cultist gave her pause, the rampaging horde of traitors trying to flank their position. She noticed that the others of her squad were too busy to provide assistance as this horde rushed ever closer, yet Weiss merely gave a smirk as a glowing symbol, this of the Schnee crest glowed underneath her.

Like the tales of ancient humanity these figures appeared from the mist from within the crest, each one a different being yet all were of a pale misty white, echoing the aura of Weiss. This force bared many different shaped and sizes, from hulking Ork beast to various forms of incursion Alien Warriors to even slender and lithe figures that bared sinister shapes as the Asuryani from their previous encounter.

With a silent signal, the horde was met with this line of warriors, yet where the horde focused on quantity, these fighters were all of quality, as thousands of the traitors died in seconds to the focused fury of these fighters. Weiss gave a chuckle as she watched those enemies she defeated with her own strength be used to destroy even more of her enemies, a trait that came from the very bloodline of her family.

A schnee grew stronger in battle, as every foe they defeated became another soldier that can be used to fight their enemies. So long as their chakra remained strong they could draw from these defeated soldiers, in a way becoming commanders in their own rights.

Yet she knew her collection of fighters paled in comparison to her sister Winter. Where she was one of the elites of the legion, Winter was a governor of a province, a much more grand status as fitting for her sister. Where Weiss could command the strength of a company of soldiers, Winter could command a legion of her own.

The hordes of traitors numbered endless, as each meter of ground the company fough was paved by the blood of traitors, the echoes of guns and blade rattled the access way as the party advanced behind their primarch, whom was looking through these paths with a clear goal in sight.

Five minutes later, the party appeared towards a towering blast door, it's latches sealed and shut, Naruto pointed his finger towards the blast door, a shining orb of nothingness on it's tip as he could see a spiraling vortex of colours beyond this door, he signaled his party to rally on his position as he gave a small breath.

"Whatever is through this door, steady your minds and hearts. Know that you stand as liberators this day my kin"

"Strength to stand... Courage to fight" his party members echoed.

The grand door was obliterated by Naruto's orb, as the party walked into the room many of them froze as they witnessed the horrors placed in front of them.

The room was immense, towering hundreds of meters in the air, yet massive columns of cages lined each part of the outer walls of the area, within them were the broken eyes of thousands of humans, each holding tears of despair and anguish as they were forced to watch the center of the chamber.

The room smelled of blood and death, countless bodies were lined upon the floor as the room pooled a feet of blood upon it's floor, a massive altar was placed prominently within the center of the room as thousands of cultist sliced the necks of innocents upon the altars steps, UN-heeding of the destruction of the towering doors.

Within the center of this altar remained the worst of the atrocities, as the bodies of those whom were still alive and moaning in pain were crucified upon eight pointed stars. Their screams echoing along the rituals of the traitors as more blood and bodies were piled upon the altar, a dark malicious fog spewing from it's damned iconography.

"KILL THEM ALL" Naruto bellowed, his eyes filled with nothing but pure hatred and disgust at the atrocity before him, as his party members obeyed.

The sounds of boltgun fire and chakra echoed through the chamber, as these astartes gave screams of hatred and fury upon the traitors. Their advanced across the blood stained their feet yet they continued to advance, their purpose now clear as to destroy this abomination in it's entirety.

The main altar was instantly obliterated as an orb from Naruto's hand, this one the size of a small fruit made the area around it also vanish into nothingness, the fury of these astartes this day rekindled something within the prisoners as their tears no longer came from despair, but rather hope.

The cultist whom weren't destroyed in the initial assault exploded into blood as figures emerged from their forms, these were beings that made Naruto look on in disgust as they melded together from the blood and flesh of those around them, remaking them in an unholy image.

There were four main abominations that appeared from these explosions, each vastly different than the others yet the astartes looked at them both with disgust and caution.

Skin of molten red and muscle was of the first, their faces in the image of true demons as great horns stretched above their heads, their mouths constantly open as their tongues echoed out, a great molten blade was within their hands as their black eyes looked at the astartes with hatred and rage.

Pink flesh meshed and formed as a shapeless abomination, it's many limbs and legs had no rhyme nor reason to exist, as an ungodly large mouth covered most of it's body, it gave maniacal cackles as a pink flame echoed across it's many limbs, playfully leaping across on it's legs as it gave maddening cackles.

A pustular green pulsed and meshed together, it's body covered in hideous scabs and boils, with a single infected eye upon it's faca, its mouth held together by rotting flesh like substance while bile and puss oozed from all orifices and scabs upon it's unholy body. A single large horn shape was mounted upon it's head, it's shape disturbingly mimicking the roots of a tree.

The last one was a more lithe and androgynous figure, it's skin of a striking purple as a scented musk poured from it's skin, it's fragrance both repulsive and attractive. It's figure was more humanlike that the others but it's appendages ended in massive claws and hoofs as it's face looked pulled back, as though the skin was too tight upon it's face. It's eyes were of a black void as it's mouth showed jagged fangs, it's tongue lapping at the air as it gave a smile of rapture.

Many of these abominations spawned from the bodies of the traitors, as the Shadow foxes readied themselves against this new enemy. They could feel within their souls that whatever manner of being this was, they are everything they stand against, an embodiment of all the wrongs in this galaxy.

The troup of enemies leaped towards the party, the red skinned ones bellowing roars of hatred as they dashed with uncanny agility towards the group, blades burning a vile red. While next to them the purple figures dashed around their red skinned counterparts, their smiles uncanny for many as they leaped and danced across the surface of bodies and blood as though they did not exist.

Weiss along with three of her fellow Meiyo guard, these being Mysti, Mello and Kimitsu rushed at the red skinnned abominations as Hayashino and two others, these being Charles and Fiye rushed the other group of purple ones. The seven Meiyo guard pulled their weapons, these being finely crafted blades that they had forged with their own chakra and skill, from their sheaths as they engaged these beings in close combat.

The dance of death with these beings was harrowing for them, as their blades and claws were carried with unnatural movements towards vulnurable points in their ghost armour. The speed of these beings were beyond what astartes were used to, yet the Meiyo guard were both masters of combat and of chakra, their bodies hummed as their energy moulded them to become even faster and stronger than their baseline forms, as the dance of death became a battle of attrition.

Weiss ducked below a glowing blade, it's edge nearly striking her face as her armour shimmered from the blades heat, she could feel a slither of her chakra was used just by the blade nearly touching her, this put into her mind that if the blade were to strike true it could mean her death. In response she struck forward with her Rapier, the one she had carried from her time within beacon academy, now modified to accommodate her now transhuman figure. The red being in front of her dodged with uncanny accuracy, yet a single nick upon it's cheek was achieved from this feat, yet Weiss gave a grunt of frustration as the wound merely closed up in a instant.

The creature came into her space with a vicious overhead as Weiss used her blade to parry the blow, her body marneuvered out of the way as the blade slid to the side, already she could feel her blade heat up her hand as the edge began to glow red. She poured her chakra into the blade as ice started to coat it's edge, this prevented the blade from becoming unbearably hot as the creature switched from an overhead into a backhand swing.

She used this brief moment to focus chakra into her legs, and leaped into the creatures attack zone, she gave a smile as her blade struck true into the creatures shoulder, but then a flash of pain echoed from her face as she noticed the creature lured her into a feint as it's blade now dug into the side of her hip.

Her armour flickered in that area as it tried to prevent the advance of the blade further, the pain was unlike nothing Weiss had faced before, yet she could see the creature itself was also in great pain, as her blade, coated in her chakra had started to cause the creature to leak out it's flaming esccense from the puncture wound from her blade, it's red fluid that looked like blood pooled upon the floor as flames of red pulsed from the hole itself.

"HONOURLESS WENCH" the being cried out as it's muscles bulged more, trying to dig it's blade further into her side as it's eyes projected hatred. "OFFER YOUR SKULL TO MY MASTER!"

Weiss could see that her blade was causing the creature extensive damage around it's shoulder, yet she could also feel that her constitution would not last as long as the pain got progressively worse. Instead she leaped back as the revolver end of her blade spun around, this one landing upon a yellow mixture that imbued her body and blade with Lightning chakra, her eyes took on a golden spark as the dust changed her nature to be that of living lightning, and with a mighty leap rushed the creature with renewed speed.

It positioned it's blade to do a decapitating swipe when it's movements started to become almost non existent, it's eyes looked towards it's blade as it slowly moved towards the astartes, yet was unable to do anything as it saw Weiss begun to deliver a killing blow.

The creatures head parted from it's body, arks of lightning echoed from the cut as the being began to destabilize, chakra swirled with eldritch energy as a battle of wills began. Yet the energy of the creature could not find purchase upon chakra, as it exploded in a flash of gold.

"You first!"

Weiss placed a hand upon the area where the blade of the being struck her, already she could feel her flesh burn upon it's touch, she applied ice chakra against the wound to begin removing the heat and pain. This seemed to work as she could feel the invasive energy become overwhelmed by her chakra.

In that moment her mind started making sense of the fight, she noticed the creature could withstand her blade normally yet started to destabilized itself when her blade was coated in ice. Putting this information together she figured that her chakra was able to repel this being somehow, and that if her chakra could do this, perhaps the others can as-well?

"Everyone! These beings are vulnurable to chakra! Make sure to strike true with it!" She shouted in the midst of deadly combat.

The rest of her Meiyo squad received her information, as their blades glowed with the brilliance of their own chakra's. Using their chakra to enhance their bodies like Weiss, the rest of the squad pushed into their enemies, using momentum to push themselves to victory in their skirmishes.

Weiss weaved around her squad members, aiding them where she could by giving precise strikes with her rapier, these little distrations were enough for them to overwhelm their enemies, one by one striking them down in a blaze of chakra.

Naruto on the other hand was with the rest of the party, engaging in a ranged battle against the pink fleshy abominations whom cackled and laughed while throwing pink colored flames towards them. Naruto had seen of the flaming projectiles strike Harakida, she screamed as part of her body transmogrified into a fleshy aberation, Naruto could see now that the fire was more than any ordinary flame.

He rushed towards her position, already he could see her flesh beginning to melt and reform into something hideous as she continued to scream in pain. His sight could see that whatever emotion carried within that flame caused reality to rend itself apart at it's impossibility, so he took a step to re correct it.

Connecting his chakra with her, he managed to stem the corruption, already her screams ceased as he poured more of his chakra into her, as though by a miracle the effects of the flames started to re correct itself, it was though Naruto was bringing reason into the madness and the universe, re correcting the error.

Harakida now was unconscious, yet the damage caused from the flame had been reverted, her side now returned to he normal body as she projected an orange aura, a result of Naruto connecting with her chakra.

Without hesitation, Naruto extended his chakra to the rest of the party, as they all now spotted orange aura's from Naruto's chakra merging with their own. Fumitsu had been struck next by a glancing blow of the flames, yet thanks to the aura of Naruto's chakra she came out of the attack unchanged. Her response to the attacker being a chakra empowered boltgun to it's head, which the fleshy abomination unnaturally dodged at the last second.

The abomination gave an unnatural cackle as it poked it's tongue out at the astartes, skipping on it's legs as if to taunt her, it was promply obliterated when Naruto responded with another orb, this one ensuring the destruction of it's mark.

The rest of the abominations leaped towards the Meiyo guard whom were still engaged within melee, the scuttling cackle and flickering pink fires being used to consume their general area in fire. The Seven had now just finished the last of the fighters with co-ordinated attacks and had now focused their attention to the fleshy pink horrors. Yet before they could engage with them the green bile monstrocities had shambled upon their position. They muttered and moaned towards them as the chakra empowered blades of the Meiyo were used to strike them, however unlike the others whom could not withstand this, these creatures merely laughed in joy as their rusted blades tried to find purchase with their targets.

The fight lasted another two minutes, each time the Meiyo guard tried to engage the pink ones in close assault, the green blocked their way. While their ranged allies tried to strike their targets but most often would miss them at the last second. Naruto tried to assist where he could but focused more on empowering his party then actively joining one group or the other.

The point that changed the battle was when one of the ranged members, this being their second to last member Ramo was able to land a hit with his boltgun, this caused the pink abomination to explode in a conflagration of fire, however instead of being a relief, two new creatures took the pink ones place, these being smaller and of blue instead.

"Weiss!" Naruto said as he saw the split "Slowdown now!"

"Hai!" Weiss replied as her rapier was trusted into the ground, the crest of the Schnee family now encompassing the entire room.

For the creatures, time now slowed to a crawl. They looked to the party as they rushed them, a look of panic in their souless eyes as the rest of the Meiyo guard struck the pink fleshy abominations within close combat. Their splitting becoming moot as their blue counterparts and a final flame like abbreviation of their forms was hacked to pieces by their empowered blades.

Unable to dodge nor move, the green abominations were treated to a full barrage of boltgun fire, empowered by their chakra the creatures stood no chance as their bodies were shredded by the reactive bolts empowered by chakra.

The battle was now over.

-0-

The rest of the human entourage was approaching the blasted doors as the forward astartes pulled the survivors from the horror room out into the hallway. The cries of family and friend was prevalent as survivors gave each other hugs as they cried tears with each other.

Naruto was still in the room, assisting those whom were still trapped in the cages, his Meiyo guard assisting the wounded and the weak across the floor od blood and guts as they gathered outside of the area.

Naruto took a moment to look around the room as he made sure everyone trapped in these cages would be able to escape this horror. Now he came across the last cages, these ones were only children.

"Come now little ones, we will not hurt you." Naruto said with words of encouragement.

The Children timidley crawed out of the cage, each being held in a caring embrace as Naruto passed them along to his Meiyo guard. Until the last child, this one with Brown hair and streaks of blonde was left. This child was rocking back and forward, muttering to themselves as Naruto gave out his hand for her to reach.

"Come child... I have you." Naruto said, his eyes holding nothing but hope and kindness.

The child did not look up, instead crawling towards the primarch and stretching it's hands towards him, asking to be embraced. Naruto obliged the child as he held them close towards his chest, giving a gentle pat on her head as he walked towards the other side of the room.

"It is okay my child. You are safe" Naruto said as he held the child in his hands. The girl nuzzled herself into his chest as she cried silent tears, Naruto could still not believe that his fellow man could be so cruel.

It was sudden... A sharp pain ripped into his chest as he gave a grunt of pain. He looked down towards the child to see that a blade now was stuck between his rib cage. It looked as though the blade ignored his armour as something foul was felt within himself.

"But who's going to make sure YOU are safe material" the girl within his arms said as the blade began to crumble to dust as lightning crackled from the child's body.

Naruto on reflex dropped the girl, whom was now covered in a green vile aura as his Meiyo guard rushed back into the room, seeing the girl now floating in the air they drew their weapons out again as Naruto fell to the floor on one knee, his hand holding the hole that now appeared upon his chest.

The girl gave a mad cackle as she phased before Kumitsu, she had no time to defend herself as the girl ripped into her chest with her fingers, these now growing to an impossible length and coated in a vile green energy.

Her ghost plate armour defended her from the first barrage of strikes by the possesed girl, but was unable to resists the second barrage as her flesh was torn away from her in bloody chunks.

Mello and Mysti took their stances around Kimitsu as Mizumi rushed to her side, already she could see that Kumitsu was convulsing in pain as the smell of blood and burnt flesh warfed into the air.

The girl was instantly upon the rest of the Meiyo guard, now cackling with a demented laughter as it tried to rip into more astartes.

The daemon within was laughing with mad glee, the master's plan had worked without a hitch and the primarch now had suffered a wound from a chaos blade, this being the tenebrae aeternae which was forged by his master to not kill the victim, but poison their mind and soul to make it easier for them to claim as their own. Even with this so called chakra that made his grand masters consider this spawn a threat, the daemon was filled with confidence that its master will claim their prize.

The soul of this host was a delicious morsel for it's insatiable appetite, already it could still hear her cries of despair as she witnessed herself harm her saviors. Her tears were so satisfying.

The daemon was caught by surprise as the hand of Naruto grasped it mid teleport, it felt itself unable to phase out of the primarchs hand as he stared at it's host eyes with a golden glow.

"You are too late material... This vessel has been a fine meal for my enjoyment. You have lost"

"You talk too much"

Naruto's left hand began to glow orange, his form shifting to something he had not used in a long time. A great cloak of golden orange covered his form as two horns of energy projected from his head, his eyes now golden with a cross shaped pupil was looking at the girl, seeing something that others could not.

The Daemon felt it had made a grave error in underestimating this primarch, already it could feel Naruto's hand phase through the body of the girl, it was alarmed when it felt the presence of that hand actually grip him.

"Wha...What are you doing?!"

"You are not welcomed in that body. So you need to get out... NOW"

"No... NO!... THIS IS MY BOUNTY OF SOUL...MY FLESH!"

The daemon struggled to remain with the body as Naruto's hand slowly started to drag it's form out of it's unwilling host. It tried to do anything and everything to remain in this host body, yet Naruto's chakra not only prevented it to sustain any grip but also began to burn it in an indescribable pain.

"STOP...STOP!... IF YOU PULL ME OUT THE GIRL DIES! DO YOU WISH HER TO DIE SPAWN!"

The daemon could only look as Naruto stared with those golden eyes, unflinching, unrelenting.

"Your lying... daemon"

Naruto now poured his chakra into the girl. This began to burn the daemon as it was being pulled out screaming from the child. It tried to purchase any grip within it's host but it could feel the chakra within the child empower it, change it, restoring the girl back to who they were and more.

As it screamed in the burning miasma of Naruto's Chakra, it let out a vicious scream of pain as it phased out of it's host and once more into the material, where it's pain doubled as it's very essence was now on fire.

"IT BURNSS!... IT BURNSS!... MASTER!...SAVE MEEEEE"

The daemon combusted into flames, it's screams of pain being silent as it's essence was destroyed utterly. This true death sent an echo within the Immaterium, as four leviathans looked on in alarm as one of their own ceased to exist.

"Such is the fate that awaits you... daemon" Naruto said as his form returned to normal.

Looking at the girl he now noticed their hair had begun to become more blonde like as her streaks became more prominent, he could also feel his chakra restoring her soul. It found solace within the girl, empowering her.

Naruto looked in fascination as he continued to stare at his chakra, already it made it's new host body form a network for it to better travel around the body. Her soul and physical self started to become more invigorated, changing her beyond what he thought was possible.

She groaned a bit as her eyes opened, these carrying a bit of gold now among her hazel. On looking at the face of Naruto tears started to pool around her eyes as she leaped up towards the primarch. Her tears and cries of pain being heard as Naruto gave her a gentle embrace.

"You are safe little one... you are safe now"

Mira could only cry as the events she had to witness came to her, she felt pain and anguish as she attached herself to Naruto, finding solace and safety within his gentle arms.

-0-

Well hello there fellow humans... human fellas.

This chapter came out surprisingly easy considering i had a general outline of how i wanted things to happen. You gotta love the power of creative thinking sometimes.

To answer a few people that are asking about chakra... I have plans regarding general power level and stuff. But I will tell you now that chakra is indeed going to be BULLSHIT powerful... but not too much that the grim dark element doesn't feel right. I know that chakra is straight OP hacks most of the time, but I gotta tone it down somewhat. But that won't be the case forever. Cause when I do fully reveal the true might of chakra. You can bet your ass it will change events... and I MEAN BIG EVENTS

Don't expect the same Heresy as Cannon. Obviously I ain't gonna address the series as a whole. But rather conflicts that directly involve the Shadow foxes in one way or another.

Also as an additional heads up. I ain't read the HH series of books cause quite frankly it is a loooong list of events and stuff and aint nobody got time for that... so don't expect accuracy

Anyway... hope you guys enjoy... Until next time