Dead Sky, Black Sun by Graham McNeill

Author:Graham McNeill
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Black Library
Published: 2011-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

‘You survived the bedlam portals,’ said the warrior, sounding faintly impressed as he walked towards the Space Marines. His armour was utterly black, not even the bright flames reflecting on its mirror-smooth surfaces. Uriel saw that the warrior did not carry a gun, but that did not put him any more at ease. After all, how supremely confident must a warrior be to come before more than two-dozen Space Marines unarmed?

Though to call this warrior unarmed was a misnomer, thought Uriel, seeing his long, glittering bronze claws.

‘Who are you?’ called Uriel.

The warrior smiled, dull silver light spilling from his mouth as he spoke. ‘You have not the aural or vocal configurations to hear or speak my name, so you will know me as Onyx.’

The Space Marines turned their guns on Onyx, the crackling flames beginning to die as more ripples of shadow slithered into the street and quenched them in darkness.

‘Are these your creatures?’ asked Uriel, raising his own weapon.

‘The Exuviae? No, they are nothing more than the polluted filth of Khalan-Ghol, waste matter shed by its industry that mutated to idiot life. They infest this place, but they have their uses.’

‘You would do well to let us pass,’ snarled Vaanes.

Onyx shook his head. ‘No, my master has commanded me to bring you to him.’

‘Your master?’ said Uriel. ‘Honsou?’

‘Indeed,’ said Onyx.

Uriel could see that there was no they were going to get past Onyx without violence. He had no idea how fearsome the enemy warrior Onyx was in blade-to-blade combat and had no desire to find out.

Calmly, he said, ‘Kill him.’

Bolter fire ripped along the street, but Onyx moved like quicksilver, a darting shadow that slipped between the shells and pirouetted above the hail of gunfire. Bronze claws slashed for Uriel’s belly and he threw himself back against the wall, only just avoiding being disembowelled by Onyx’s stroke.

Pasanius stepped in and hammered his boot towards Onyx, but the black warrior spun away and cracked his elbow into Pasanius’s face before leaping over him and delivering a spinning kick to Ardaric Vaanes. Kyama Shae fired his bolter at point blank range, the shells ricocheting from the gleaming black armour of his target.

Onyx lunged close and hammered his fist into Shae’s gut, the bronze claws tearing through the Crimson Fist’s armour and ripping upwards. Onyx spun away from his victim with a tortured crack of bone, Shae’s spinal column clenched in his fist. The Space Marine collapsed to his knees, blood flooding from the great wound torn in his body. His eyes stared in horrid fascination at his spinal column in another’s hands for the briefest second before he pitched face first to the ground.

Uriel’s jaw dropped open in horror at the sight, as the dripping, bloody spinal column was enveloped within the glassy darkness of Onyx’s armour, and the silver-eyed killer leapt upwards as more bolter fire raked the wall behind him. He pushed off from the wall, twisting in midair to lash out with his claws and feet, crushing windpipes and decapitating Space Marines with every blow.

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