02 - Temple of the Serpent by C.L. Werner - (ebook by Undead)

Author:C.L. Werner - (ebook by Undead)
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Warhammer
Published: 2011-02-12T07:00:00+00:00

It took the skaven only a short time to make their way around the pyramid. They would have made it even faster, but the humans slowed them down. Tsang even pointed this out to Thanquol, but the grey seer stubbornly refused to leave his pets behind. By the time they reached the other face of the pyramid, sounds of battle were already coming from the other side.

Thanquol licked his fangs eagerly as he heard the sounds and watched skinks rushing over the top of the pyramid to join the fight raging on the steps below. Kong’s war-rats should be able to keep the lizardmen distracted for a little while at least. Long enough to suit his purposes.

“They are fighting Kong!” Tsang Kweek pointed out. “Now’s our chance!” The gutter runner started to lead his troops towards the steps when Thanquol’s snarl called him back.

“Fool-meat!” Thanquol snapped. He pointed a claw at the top of the pyramid where Xiuhcoatl and the four skink priests still stood. They seemed to be watching the battle raging on the other side of the pyramid, but Thanquol wasn’t deceived. “Xiuhcoatl is waiting for us to attack! It’s a trap-trick, just like before!”

“Then what…”

Thanquol swatted the end of Tsang’s snout with his staff. “Dung-sucking idiot!” he snapped. He gestured with his staff to the opening, the magically protected tunnel that disintegrated any skaven who set paw within it. “We’re going in there, exactly where Xiuhcoatl won’t expect us!”

Understanding started to dawn in Tsang’s eyes, but Thanquol didn’t wait for him to come around. Impatiently, he snarled at Boneripper to bring the humans to the tunnel. Snarling, his huge arms spread wide to prevent anyone from slipping past him, the rat ogre herded the prisoners towards the pyramid.

Thanquol scurried after the huge beast, keeping one anxious eye on the top of the pyramid. If Xiuhcoatl caught on to what he was doing, there might not be enough time to make it back to the jungle before the full force of the lizardmen came down upon them.

The grey seer glowered at the sinister passageway. The skinks had cleaned away the ashes, but Thanquol could still smell the stink of fiery death in the air. He stared hatefully at the glyphs with their depiction of a snake eating a rat.

Irritably, he turned and snarled at his slaves. They had names, but the grey seer found it annoying to try to remember them. They all smelled pretty much the same and it was difficult to match the scent to a name anyway. “Which man-thing is leader?” Thanquol demanded.

Van Sommerhaus pointed frantically at Captain Schachter. “Him! Him, he’s the captain!”

Schachter gave the patroon an icy stare. “Thanks, Lukas.”

At Thanquol’s gesture, Boneripper shoved the man forward. Schachter straightened himself up, trying to appear unafraid as he stood before the horned ratman. His bravado quickly failed and soon he was wringing his hat between his hands and nodding his head in eager servility to everything that was said to him.

“Go-go!” Thanquol snarled. “Take

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