AN: alright this is my first story here and if I don't post it now I won't so here it is. tell me what you think about.
and keep in mind that I am dyslectic, dislectic? dis?dys? fuck it you know what I mean. and that this is my second languish.
I also don't have a beta but am trying to get a buddy of mine to do that, so it hasn't really been proofread. sorry about that.
I am also using dice to help decide what is going to happen so that was an interesting experience.
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I have been wandering this void for a while now, I lost track of time a long 'time' ago namely the moment I woke up. When I woke up I started panicking I was scared I mean who wouldn't be just waking up in this abysmal void. But after a while I stopped being scared because there was no reason to be scared.
The only thing that ever really got to me was the sheer nothingness of this void. To keep myself sane and occupied I tried everything I could think of even singing for a bit but mostly I just wandered the void. The feeling of my feet hitting the 'ground' of the void was one of the things that kept me sane. The monotonous rhythm of putting one foot in front of the other filled my thought for quite a while.
But even this has reached its limits and just as I was once again just thinking of lying down on the 'ground' and giving up, I saw it. A faint mote of LIGHT even now fading away into the distance.
in this void was a miracle. I was shocked out of my reverie by finally noticing the LIGHT faint a bit more. Immediately I started running after the LIGHT. It was working, I was slowly, ever so agonisingly slow getting closer to the light.
At first it stopped shrinking, than slowly growing until instead of a small mote of LIGHT it had grown to a small ball of LIGHT in the distance. It felt like I had never been so happy before just seeing something.
I should have known it was too good to be true. As suddenly I was frozen in terror, it was like a gigantic beast was looking right at me. I tried looking around but I saw nothing but the void and the small ball of LIGHT. Now instead of merely running at the LIGHT I was full on sprinting towards it.
It was good that I did because the void for a lack of a better word slowly came alive and was starting to go after me. it looked like tentacles made out of the void but instead of just being dark, they seemed to be actively sucking in the light cast out by the LIGHT. In response I tried going even faster.
I had limited success as the void started to cling to me and so bit by bit I started slowing down. Luckily the light had an adverse effect on the living void, namely it was slowly burned away leaving only a slightly less dark smoke than the void behind.
There was just one problem that I didn't notice till it was too late namely as what I first assumed was just heat from the living void being transferred to me was instead myself slowly starting to warm up as I got closer to the LIGHT.
As I got closer, the living void had to change tactics as the small tentacle like grabbers couldn't get close enough anymore, instead the living void turned to large grabbing hands that were shot at me. Some hit, most missed.
One thing that I learned was that when I was hit with enough of them I could be dragged back. I found this out when I was brought down by the void grabbers and the only thing that saved me was my ever increasing proximity to the LIGHT that saved me from being dragged back to the void.
The LIGHT was getting ever brighter the closer I got to it. Eventually the living void had to switch tactics again and this time they went back to the tentacles, if the tentacles were as thick as my waist was wide.
Dodging these giant tentacles was not easy even with them being slowed down by the fact that they were burning down. Eventually I got so close to the light that I could almost see what the source of the LIGHT was.
There was just one problem as I got closer to the light, I was starting to burn too. I had to reach the source of the light faster than I would burn up. So I made a decision that would change everything for ever… I made one final sprint towards the light and jumped right at it.
Flying forward with an outstretched arm like that was one of the best feelings I ever had felt, at least until I felt the distinct feeling of the touch of a living void tentacle on my legs. It appeared that as I jumped to the LIGHT, the living void launched a final attack, one massive tentacle that had hit my legs just as I touched the source of the light with a single finger.
The LIGHT reacted when I was pulled away from it by emitting a beam of LIGHT that also started pulling at me. Sufficed to say I was pulled apart by the living void and the LIGHT.
The only thing I remember from that moment was a mix of fear, hope and soul rending pain, then only darkness.
When I opened my eyes I saw one of the worst things I could imagine… a void stretching ever onwards, with no LIGHT in sight.
I screamed in despair, at the thought spending such a long 'time' trapped in the void. At least I was till I was interrupted by someone.
"Shut up will you, I've had enough of you daemons screaming all the while I am seeing everything I loved turned to dust or worse. Corrupted" I heard a tired voice say from behind me.
When I turned around to look at who spoke to me I saw something I never thought I would see, at least in the flesh. Namely it was a figure in a giant suit of white armour decorated with red eyes and equally giant wolf pelt dragged across the top of it. It looked magnificent, there was just one problem with it, he was chained, each of his limb was covered in a different type of chain.
His right arm was covered in chains of bronze decorated with skulls, his left arm was covered in chains that looked rusted and were covered in filth, his right leg was covered in a crystal looking chains, the light within it ever shifting never looking exactly the same and last his left leg was covered in wicked looking chains with hooks and other painful looking decorations.
I had to stop and just stare at who I think it was sitting chained before me. It had to me no other than "
Horus" sixteenth Primarch, warmaster and instigator of the Horus Heresy. The arch traitor.
When I said his name he finally looked at me, eyes filled with hatred for what he assumed I was.
"What do you want daemon?" he sneered at me.
"I'm not a daemon." I said and even to me that felt like a weak response.
"Oh, you're not a daemon, really that's great. Why I am just an imperial serf- OF FUCKING COURSE YOU'RE A DAEMON. What else would you be doing here than?" He yelled at me.
I then said something I could never take back.
"I just sort of woke up in here after being ripped apart by a living void tentacle and a beam of LIGHT."
Now that I have said it out loud like that, it really doesn't make any sense at all. Like… I can't even. Looking back at Horus, he seems a bit lost for words too.
He sighed, visibly calming himself while I just awkwardly stood there.
Just as he opened his mouth to speak he was interrupted by a giant image of an empty chaos tainted hallway appearing in the air in front of us.
"You are looking through my body's eyes right now." Horus said after studying the image for a view seconds.
We were both quiet as a we saw through the eyes of Horus's real body and watched as it moved further into the hallway, going through a chaos tainted door and revealing a massive room with giant windows to the side showing an absolutely amazing view of space and the gargantuan battle taking place there, to the far back of the room was a dais with a black throne fit for a giant of a man on it, behind it was a humongous blazing red eye on the wall.
In here stood a winged man with long blond hair in golden power armour decorated with tears of blood and a war cloak.
"
Sangiunius" we said at the same time.
We see saw sanguinius tense when he looked at 'Horus' and started moving his mouth at him.
"Why can't we hear him?" I asked.
"you can't hear what is being said?" Horus responded.
"No I can't. Can you tell me what is being said?" I shook my head and asked Horus.
Horus looked at me for a couple of seconds before relenting and started to tell me the gist of what was being said.
"Sanguinius is trying to convince my corrupted self to stop the heresy and return to their side, while my corrupted self is trying to get Sanguinius to turn to Chaos and fight against my father. But if I know my brother and know him well he would never agree to it. That will be his doom, while he used to be my better in martial affairs such as this, now... now he is out matched." Horus explained
"well shit." I oh so eloquently said.
As I finished those words abruptly the image blurred and suddenly 'Horus' and Sanguinius were fighting. A blood red sword met Chaos corrupted power maul and an even more Chaos infused power claw.
Again and again they would met but even I could see that Sanguinius was on the defensive and starting to lose ground. It started with little nicks getting past his guard but as the battle wore on those nicks turned to gashes and eventually those gashes turned into great furrows in Sanguinius's armour. He was losing.
But even pressed on the defensive Sanguinius attacked 'Horus' at opportune times but most of them just slided of the war master's armour, all but one. At the cost of a grave found Sanguinius managed to find a hole in 'Horus's' guard and strike with his sword right at a nick in 'Horus' his armour. The strike was true and his sword turned the nick into a chink in 'Horus''s armour.
'Horus' enraged by this bursted through Sanguinius's guard shattering the offending sword in two pieces and snapped the still struggling Sanguinius up by the neck. 'Horus' then proceeded to hit Sanguinius with his power maul the Wordbreaker.
I could almost hear Sanguinius cry out in pain and looking at horus he actually could hear it, if his tear streaked face and mumblings of 'please no's' is any indication. It's weird feeling this helpless, watching this happen and if I was feeling like this it must be a billion times worse for Horus, to see your closed brother being beaten to death by 'yourself'.
After 'Horus' was done beating Sanguinius he threw Sanguinius to the ground to die in his own blood. But Sanguinius was not done yet and looked right at 'horus' and said what I thought was "Brother please stop this."
'Horus' just looked down at his fallen brother and hit him one last time with his power maul finally killing Sanguinius.
The only thing I could do after watching this was say that it went too fast and that I didn't have enough time to do anything to stop it.
It was to the scene of 'Horus' standing over his recently expired brother that a giant man in gold power armour, wielding a giant flaming sword.
entered the room.
I finally got out of my stupor when the Emperor entered the room and the realization hit that both 'Horus' and Horus would die and quite possibly me along with them. I looked over at Horus to see him openly crying about the death of his closest brother by 'his' own hand.
With this new realization in the front of my mind I finally did something, namely I tried freeing Horus from his chains. While in theory it might seem like a good ide—no never mind even in theory I don't have a chance of getting those chains of of him myself.
I realized this after I tried pulling Khorne's chains of of Horus. Like hell I'm touching Nurgle's or Slaanesh's chains I don't feel like getting all the STD's those two can make together. After pulling on the chains for a moment and failing to move them even an inch away from Horus's arm I gave up on that idea and thought.
I came up with a new idea. So I grabbed one of the loose chains of khorne a bit further away from Horus's body and brought them over to the chains of slaanesh. The moment they touched there was an immediate and violent reactio , where the chains touched each other they fought each other and broke each other apart. I watched with glee as the chains on Horus's his body got a tiny bit looser.
Horus finally reacted and looked at me the moment the chains loosened up a bit.
"What are you doing?" he asked me in a defeated tone.
"I am trying to free you" I responded
Horus looked me in the eye and asked "Why?" in a voice filled with grief over the loss of his brother.
"Honestly, right now I have barely an idea why I am even trying to do this except that I don't want to die accomplishing nothing. I can do nothing to stop
what's going on outside, I could do nothing to stop Sanguinius from being killed but I am going to do something now and that is freeing you so YOU can do something to stop Emps there from being mortally wounded and turning the future into a dystopian hellhole the likes of which you have barely thought of."
"So YOU are going to help me, help you, help emps there not get mortally wounded,capisce. So get your ass in gear because we are getting you out of those chains." And with those words I finished my slight rant and didn't wait for Horus to respond as I started bringing more chains of the Chaos gods together to loosen their hold on Horus.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see Horus visibly steel himself and start pulling at his chains. He was making an increasingly amount of success as I managed to bring more chains together. Horus finally got an arm out as I started running out of to put together.
With one arm out Horus started breaking the other chains surrounding his other limbs and finally broke free.
"I am going to try and take back control of my body" he announced and got a look of constipation on his face as he tried to take his body back.
I looked at the image again and saw that 'Horus' had at some point started fighting Emps. The fight between them was awe inspiring but the Emperor was visibly hard pressed. But now with horus trying to take back his body the fight started going to the emperor as 'Horus' started twitching every time he was trying to hit the emperor.
The emperor started taking advantage of 'Horus' his twitching and pressed his attack. During the fight he also started mid battle talking that I still couldn't hear.
Suddenly in the corner of eye I spotted something and as I turned to look at it I got hit in the gut. I was thrown back by the hit and landed a bit further back. When I looked up to get a good look at what hit me I saw a vast amount of dark chains hovering in the air all around Horus and I with even more coming out of holes in reality. I could do but one thing.
"HORUS THEY SPOTTED US!" I yelled at him but he couldn't hear me as busy as he was fighting for his body.
I slowly started moving behind Horus hoping to let him take the brunt of the attack with his armour and superhuman constitution.
It was a good thing that I hid behind Horus because when the wave of chains came towards us I became certain that I wouldn't have been able to survive it. But now with Horus as a shield I survived.
There was but one problem namely that Horus was starting to get wrapped up again, by all the chains and with him now occupied with getting out of the chains the other 'Horus' was once again free to fight against Emps unhindered. '
A quick look at the image showed a hard pressed Emps shouting at 'Horus'.
I am once again useless, I can't help Horus out of the chains for fear of dying and to make matters worse there are more holes in reality opening to let in even more chains. At this rate Hours is going to lose and get chained up again and – (boom-schrek)
There was a humongous explosion of golden light that opened a giant tear in reality, blowing away a huge portion of the chains.
Looking at the image the emperor had gone kalima and had shoved his power claw into 'Horus' his chest but instead of a fatal wound there was a tear in reality.
Connecting the dots I was filled with hope for the split second it took for the four different coloured hole's in reality to open up and release a greater daemon of each of their respective gods.
Luckily out of the golden tear in reality had come an
all-golden version of the Emperor who upon seeing the demons and his son being chained up charged right at Horus to save him But it was not to be as all the greater daemons worked together to hold back the Emperor from reaching his son.
The greater daemons of the dark gods were successfully holding of the emperor. Eventually the
greater daemon of Tzeentch split off from the rest of his ilk and attacked Horus directly with a beam of chaotic light that when it hit, turned Horus into a ball of golden light, splattered with splotches of green, red, blue and pink.
The Emperor seeing this became enraged and once again tried to charge through the greater daemons to reach his son but he was once again rebuked but not without being able to touch the ball of light that his son had become with a finger of his lighting claw before being dragged back into the fight by the
greater daemon of Khorne.
The Emperor was not done yet and attacked the greater daemons with such great fury that all the daemons had to work together to survive. The greater daemons of
nurgle and
slaaneesh
And all I could do was watch this happen, no I refuse. So I ran to the ball of light that was Horus and touched it-him. He felt extremely light to the touch. So I figured that I could do but one thing… run the fuck away with Horus the ball of light.
So I picked him up and he weighs almost nothing compared to his real weight which made it possible for me to run away with him in the first place. I ran straight at the golden hole in reality that the Emperor had made but it was not to be as sixth tear in reality opened right in between me and my escape, this one was dark in colour and spawned another
greater daemon probably belonging to Chaos undivided.
I didn't recognise it but I figured it belonged to Chaos undivided because it only had the Chaos undivided mark on its chest.
The greater daemon bellowed a roar of challenge and prepared to charge at the Emperor but then it just had to see me carting away Horus the light bulb.
I gave it a slight grin, turned around and promptly ran for it.
I got three steps into my run before being hit on my back and was sent flying. When I landed I was crippled by pain and it felt like I broke a couple of ribs. But I still held onto Horus so that was a plus.
The ground trembled at the approach of the greater daemon of Chaos undivided and I whimpered in fear and pain.
As I looked around I saw the daemon approach me, the Emperor fight in the distance and a LIGHT to the side of the daemon. It was the same light I saw I the void.
Seeing as it saved me before I tried crawling towards it but the progress was too slow so the greater daemon caught up with me. It picked me up in one hand and held me in front of it's disgusting face. It proceeded to mock me.
"Where do you think you're going little worm, did you think you could escape the might of chaos undivided. I am going to enjoy mutilating you for your impuden-."
I was struggling weakling in his hand listening to him mock before he was tackled by the Emperor and I flew from his hand a bit further away from the LIGHT then I started. Shit.
As I started crawling back to the LIGHT I was picked up again but his time by the changer of ways of Tzeentch, luckily it just cawed ominously at me. It stopped cawing when it was hit by a flying bloodthirster courtesy of the Emperor.
But because of this I was sent flying again only this time I was thrown closer to the Light and just needed to clear a few more meters and then I would be there.
Once again I made a desperate crawl to the light still holding onto Horus.
I got so close, just one more meter and I would have been there but my right leg got stepped on by the keeper of secrets and was completely crushed sending waves of pain through my body. This left me unable to move till I gritted my teeth and continued crawling.
As I got closer to the LIGHT the sounds of battle got closer, so close in fact that they were fighting above me. Through this all I kept on crawling to the light hoping to get out of here.
After a couple of very close misses I eventually got to the LIGHT and touched it.
Everything went black.
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