Chapter 26

Harry had just finished his final preparations for the search when he was hailed over the vox by his Warmaster, with swiftness and a small amount of trepidation, he picked it up.

"This is Lord Potter responding Warmaster Horus, reading you loud and clear, awaiting your command over."

A crackle rings through the vox before sounds of bolter and lasgun fire erupt from the reciever, then the voice of Horus comes through.

"Lord Potter, Myself, two ships full of Greyknights and one ship with sisters of silence are here to commence the cleansing of Terra from the filth that is the warp, you are to join the Greyknights in England and cleanse it of their foul taint to the fullest."

An explosion sounded from the receiver almost drowning out Horus, but Harry heard his orders, and like any soldier of the Imperium, he would follow his orders.

"Understood Warmaster, my team is ready to rendezvous with the Greyknights, we will not fail you."

Harry moved to Emma and placed himself upon the saddle on her back as Belica drove his attack bike forward with Quilia and Dominacca in the side care, heavy bolter replaced with a heavy flamer. Harry knew that they would have to take every back road and every off road chance they could to avoid being seen by the normal humans of Terra, but they werent going to be found unprepared for the battle they would soon find themselves in.

The sounds of battle coming out of the vox reciever almost drowned out the next words Horus spoke.

"Go forth Lord Potter, and let the enemies of the Imperium tremble at your approach."

The soind of the vox clicking off signals the start of the teams journey, Emma howls and charges out while Belica guns the attack bike, leaving skid marks as they hurry to cleanse the taint of the warp from humanities cradle.

Horus hung up the vox and turned to watch as the small contingent of gaurds men fire out of the trench they had dug out not even an hour ago as a mass of shambling rotting corpses rush their position. Flys the size of large dogs buzz over head as hydra fire accompanies the sound of lasgun and bolter fire, the Luna Wolves firing down the great unclean ones that seem to be absorbing most of the fire.

Horus watches from his spot in the trench as a squad of guardsmen charge out, bayonets fixed, into the enemy lines shouting their devotion to the Emperor.

Horus knew that they could be found soon but this was the fastest way to cleanse this taint from Terra without bombing or exterminatus.

The hill which once had a house and graveyard was now a portal to the warp from which putride and rancide creatures boiled out of, the town which once existed at the bottom of the hill was a shell of what it once was. It was turned into a flesh and diseased covered hellscape that had pools of rancide and foul smelling concotions that spawned more of the shambling corpses and creatures of Nurgle.

Horus knew that to stop this taint and the endless tide of abominations they would have to close the portal, which means finding what opened it in the first place.

With a sweeping motion, Horus rakes his claws across several torsos belong to former members of the guard who had transformed and then started roamong the trench line looking for new hosts.

A Greyknight joined Horus and unleased a salvo of heavy bolter fire into the horde, Horus raised the talons of Horus and unleashed hi twin bolters eliminating the horde that bore down on their line, for now.

"Brother Damocles, have your brothers found what feeds this foul portal?"

Horus turned on a guardsman thay had turned after he had died and raises worldbreaker, before smashing the corpse with his maul turning it into a fine paste.

"Yes Warmaster, it appears to be a ring with what appears to be the soul of a powerful psyker powering it."

Horus was surprised that such a mundane thing was what had lead to so many being condemned, but he wasn't here to question the why or how, he was here to ensure this didn't continue.

"Take a squad of the sisters of silence and destroy that soul and the ring along with it."

Damocles nods before saluting and heading off to join his brothers, Horus turns back to face a new hord of corpses, with even more great unclean ones leading the charge then normal.

"Be swift Brother Damocles, for soon, something truly dangerous may come."

The soldiers of the grinning moon had finally finished the last mission of securing their home world, and had received a startling communication from the main fleet.

Their lord was facing creatures of the warp on holy Terra, the brith place of humanity and the most holy land in the galaxy, and the soldiers were ordered to stay put and await further orders. They would not follow such orders, their most hated enemy now tried to lay claim to their most sacred planet, their most treasured planet, and the soldiers of the grinning moon would not let this stand.

So with the warp thrumming and the ships shaking from the contained rage of each individual, they left for Terra, ready to burn all that dared to taint it, and to support their lord who gave them their home back.

The greyknights had finally found another warp tainted item and had just secured it when something ambushed them, they had gotten the item away bit had sustained serious injuries. Their equipment was heavily corroded and was almost falling apart at the seams, their skin had boils and puss bursting from their skin, but they remained strong as they moved to a secure space to deal with the item.

It looked so small and innocent, a simple silver locket with a small S inscribed into it, yet it held a malicious and powerful energy that wanted to control and corrupt them further.

They had to let the warmaster know that a beast of Nurgle roamed the wilds of the country and had a horde of nurglings infecting eberything they could.

Of course none of them knew that attached to the oitside of their flyer was one such nurgling, and it carried a very special gift from the plaugfather.

Harry finally met up with the greyknight team and was given a run down of what they had found, a small cave imbedded into some cliffs was spewing forth a large quantity of walking corpses. The knights also said that their scouts had seen a demon prince leading this particular group, and that it was trapped in the caves as far as they could tell.

They would have to travel a few hours to get to the first squad that was holding the corpse tide back, so with a land raider now added to their little convoy they moved to pick up the third and forth squads.

Harry was unsure if he would be able to lead a mission such as this one, he had lead missons to secure a base or to exterminate a threat to his people.

But this mission was slightly different, his team was going to not only secure this location, but they had to eliminate every single peice of evidence that this had happened. They where going to have to make sure not a single thing escaped or was left to continue to contaminate Terra beyond this point, else the future of terra was doomed.

Soon their small convoy found the third and fourth squad, each with their own land raider, they had been running a perimeter check from the initial zone in order to ensure nothing had escaped earlier.

So with an all clear confirmed the two squads joined the convoy and they headed towards the cliffs, ready to cleanse this taint from holy Terra and to see these Daemons sent back to the warp.

Soon the sound of bolter and plasma fire could be heard, so with determination and the bite of Fenris raised, Harry urged Emma on faster and prepared to meet this new challange head on, and show just what his training had made him into.

The creature that resided within the cave raised its head and a smile broke across its face, broken mishappen teeth poking out of its mouth as a wet gutteral laugh erupets from it.

"So the young lord descends into the pits, now to see if he will be swallowed by the wastes, or rise stronger and mighter then any before him."

A great buzzing sound filled the cave along with the sounds of creatures screeching in a mix of pain and laughs echoed about as the only light came from a cauldron from which green smoke billowed out, leaving everythjng covered in a thick oily film.

"Yes, the time for papa Nurgles blessings to be shared had come, and the young lord will be his new champion, wether he wishes too or not."