A Bloody Rose Story

Belief… What does it mean… to believe… to have faith… in what… in whom… such a simple word… that holds so much power. Power to unite a people… power to make the impossible seem possible… but how else can you explain it… explain, how our weak arms… Are weak human arms, can parry attacks made by daemons… by their princes… by their deities… how can our guns make impossible shots, or how the great titans themselves move on their own accord… 

A machine God… a God emperor… to question them is to question being human… to question them… is to spit on the faces of all those who died believing their deaths had meaning… So, I ask you again… what does it mean to believe… 

→→→→→→→→→→→→ log number unknown… found in Librium archive… under name Lotimer Renwyck 

As Layla turned away from the burning corpse of the Flesh hound, she saw her friend's unconscious on the floor! Deeply concerned, she turned to the women in armor next to her and asked 

{what happened to them?} 

[umm… let me ask you one question and you need to answer honestly! Were you responding to a voice you heard in your head! Or was it a spur of the moment thing and all you heard was a screeching noise in your mind?] question the women 

{I heard… I heard a voice of a man… but it sounded like… well, I don't know exactly how to describe it… it was deep and mysterious…} replied Layla 

[I see… but you did hear a voice, correct.] replied the women 

{Yes?} replied Layla confusingly 

[ And I take it you understood what it said right...] replied the women 

{yes} replied Layla 

The woman then squinted her eyes behind her helmet and thought for moment before saying: 

[you're in luck then recruit… most people can't withstand the power of a psyker influence into their heads… I guess you're just lucky… really lucky considering it was a daemon to boot] 

{I guess so…} replied Layla in deep thought 

But she wasn't the only one in deep thought, for in the woman's mind: 

[this… doesn't make sense... How can this recruit be fine after having her mind blasted with a daemon psyker… but speaking of psyker, the flesh hound doesn't have the ability or at least it has never been recorded before I think… No! I don't believe the voice she heard came from the flesh hound… but then where did it come from…] 

But while the pair were busy with their thoughts, the jungle trees creaked and thumped! All while the sweet sound of the jungle grass bends by the wind, as the red glowing light cast its shadow over the mountain of bones and pikes of the dead, laid many deep orange eyes. But while they glowed with such ominousness, the team of women all dressed in a beautiful tone that matched the moonlight, aimed their guns forward… but while they all believed for a fight… the deep venomous eyes retreated back into the jungle forest! 

[that is not possible…] said the women out loud 

{what do you mean?} asked Layla in return 

[flesh hound never retreats...unless...] replied the woman 

{unless what?} replied Layla 

[unless they have bigger prey!] replied the woman. 

Meanwhile back at the Canoness 

[HAHA! Great and here I thought I wouldn't get a chance to kill a Canoness! HAHA GLORY TO THE BLOOD GOD! Watch me now! Watch me kill this wench in your name!] said Drazet 

[disgusting… this is why the followers of that god should all just be exterminated in sight, but no, the higher ups what to feed the recruit hatred for them…] thought the Canoness 

With, Drazet declaration, the followers of Khorne bravery or foolishly charge headfirst into bolter rounds that seemed to come out of the very shadows of the jungle, but not one to be deterred by such trivialities, the crazy fanatics managed to reach the sisters! 

But through missing limbs or internal chunks rips from their bare chest, they pushed on to bring their hammers down onto the sisters! But while their hammers came down, the sister didn't move an inch. For they had the sister next to them set fire to the mad and insane! 

But while the sisters were preoccupied by what was in front of them, they didn't see that just behind them! The shadows were moving… running… breathing! With hunger and blood, the only things to drive them… they pounced from their trees, from the safety of their shadows. 

As sister after sister fell to monsters that could kill his angels, the woman gave into their rage, into their doctrine! If not killed instantly, the sister, fueled by their rage, would stab, cut, shoot, hell even use their own pointy bones that broke away to achieve a kill! 

[Haha! Canoness… it looks like you didn't bring enough warriors! Shouldn't you try to help them?] question Drazet with much mockery 

[Don't worry about my sisters… they can handle their own in a brawl! Besides, who said I didn't bring enough warriors!] yelled the Canoness as Layla arrived with reinforcements 

But as Layla arrived at a string of corpses, all with their smells of blood and iron mixed in their bonds, her eyes stood shocked at seeing fresh bodies torn in many places, with many of them being devoured by the hellish dogs that attacked her before. While her friends weren't with her, she stood her ground and fired her borrowed gun! As her laughable aim missed every time, the hellish dogs were but few in number now, dwindling as the moon changed its pace. 

But as the largest of the dogs finished killing a sister under its claws, it turned and saw Layla! Coupled with an evil grin it ignored the other sister's attempts to draw its attention away, all while it slowly made its way to her! Seeing such a monstrosity heading her way, Layla thought: 

{God emperor! If you're real give me strength! Oh! Why the hell did I decide to come here!}