Ambush on Triton IV- Grimm omens campaign
The next day Grimm and a small detachment touched down on Triton IV. The planet appeared a lifeless orb wracked by catastrophic geological upheaval as it writhed in the warp real space interspace of the rift. Warp clouds and ash clouds competed to blight the skies. Grimm set off to the coordinates from the distress call alert slowly while Grigor Deathspike muttered about the slow pace and the indecisiveness of Grimm. Grimm felt anger swell but pushed it down. They reached the settlement and in it's center impaled upon a series of girders and spikes was a human psycher. Grimm approached as his men began serching the settlement for plunder. The Psycher appeared to still be alive. As Grimm drew up before him the psycher raised his head and Grimm froze and saw the psycher was not alive. It was a husk puppeted by a warp entity. It said the words of the distress signal and then began to laugh in a thousand voices inhuman and cruel. It threw it's head back and screamed as a beacon of green warplight billowed to the sky like a beacon. Grimm saw the Warp clouds descending to the ground. It was a trap. He ordered his forces out and called for retrieval Grigor was insisting they stay and fight it out but Grimm silenced him with a command. The psycher slumped dead an empty husk devoid now of the daemon within. In the rising wind a soft whisper could be heard with a single word. Prey
A host of Daemons appeared before them led by a daemon prince and moved to cut off Grimm from the pick up zone. Grimm ordeered all vehicles to activate their loci transponders. That way even if they were disabled they could be retireved by the incoming shuttles with magnetic grapples. Grigor was screaming over the vox about the trap and Grimm's incompetence. Suddenly a large group of Juggernaughts thundered towards them they opened fire as they moved forward but to little effect. The daemon cavalry slammed into the vindicator and began hacking at it even as it blasted away at them. Flames engulfed Grimm and his chosen as a group of flamers emerged in front of them bathing them in warp fire. One of his chosen was burning before grimm used his own warp craft to create a psi shield to protect them.
Grimm wasted no time and and with a bellow led his chosen into the daemonic flames and crushed the creatures with his staff. As the creatures fell he and his chosen fired at another group of deamons attempting to bar their path. Bolt rounds pulped bodies but just as suddenly their numbers seemed to multiply. "What was once pink is now Blue where their was one now there is two!" The daemons cried out mockingly. A flight of screamers whipped over Grimm beheading one of his chosen as it passed before biting into Brutus the helbrute severing his legs and leaving him helpless on the ground. More daemons began to appear behind them even as the JDaemonic cavalry hacked at the vindicator disabling it's tracks. The winged daemon prince took to the air and landed by the venomcrawler it's axe laid open the daemon engines side and sent it flying. Grimm seethed in fury but shouted into the vox, "Make for the landing zone!"
"No! go ahead and run coward!" Grigor Deathspike yelled into the vox.
Even as Grimm was shouting orders and blazing a escape path Grigor Deathspike was siezing his opportunity.
"Brothers," Grigor roared " let us slay this daemon prince and when he falls his host will bend to us. Then I will lead us on the eightfold path of glory not some weak and pathetic conjurer. Follow me!
Grigor and his squad charged the daemon Prince firing as they came and Grigor through the mysterious orb of destruction he had plundered without Grimm's knowledge at the mechanicus mining site. The blast of the thing ripped the daemon prince open and Grigor stabbed it as it was stunned. The daemon Prince reeled swinging his axe and cutting three of the chaos space marines in half. It then bellowed in a voice that drowned the world.
The Daemons turned then and rushed to their master. Grigor Deathspike vanished under a tide of daemon claws and blades his brothers hacked apart even as Grigor was forced to his knees by the blows. The daemon Prince hovered above Grigor a wicked grin on his face as it's flesh reknitted itself closed. The axe flashed and Grigor Deathspike's head tumbled in the ash ridden soil. Grimm was fighting desperately a group of daemons that charged him. A few of his chosen fell but the daemons were hacked apart.
Grimm held the escape path open for his remaining forces and the daemons turned in pursuit As they did so the landers swooped in and with mag grapnels hauled out the vindicator, the venomcrawler and the upper half of Brutus the helbrute. The daemon prince bellowed as it advanced and Grimm reached out with his power and grigor's sword flew out of the daemon prince and into the hand of Grimm seconds before Grimm set a wall of warpfire across the daemons path barring their pursuit and garunteeing their escape. This had been a defeat Grimm knew. True Grigor the fool was dead but he had taken a number of his warriors with him to the grave with his stupid and misplaced ambition. This Daemon prince must pay. Grimm took Grigor's sword and saw the blood of the daemonprince upon the blade slowly unraveling as it's warp essence began to unmake itself. Grimm licked the blade and then fell in the lander as the images overtook him. He saw the terror and horror in the warp then and flashes of the daemon princes orgin. It had been mortal once. Harkon the Chosen was suddenly standing over him.
"Grimm, do you live?" Harkon shouted.
"I live Harkon." Grimm answered. "I tasted of this daemon princes blood. this is will help guide me into discovering the beasts true name. With that I will bind it. I will make it serve us for a thousand years as repayment for what it has done here today. This I promise you my loyal warriors, my brothers!"
The Chaos space marines cheered and Grimm nodded in turn. This was a setback nothing more. He would use it to strengthen loyalty and as a springboard for the future.
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