Ultra Marines 03 - Dead Sky Black Sun by Warhammer

Author:Warhammer [Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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They drove stinking clouds of vapours straight from the abyss itself before them,

vile toxic fumes and indescribable pollutants. Shapeless congeries of protoplasmic

bubbles erupted across their amorphous forms, and Uriel now saw the source of the

pallid, emerald glow that suffused the city as myriad temporary eyes formed and

unformed in the hideous depths, glowing with their own luminescence.

“What are they?” he cried as the slithering mass of filthy, stinking creatures—or

creature—oozed forwards.

“What does it matter?” shouted Vaanes. “Kill them!”

Bolters fired explosive bolts into the heaving mass of corruption, exploding

within the jelly-like mass of the things’ bodies and the overpowering stench of

chemical and biological pollutants gusted from the wounds.

Uriel caught a breath of the fumes and immediately dropped to his knees and

vomited copiously across the ground. Even the formidable biological enhancements

of a Space Marine were unable to overcome the sickening, horrific stench their

bolters had unleashed.

More and more Space Marines dropped to the ground, retching and convulsing at

the foulness of the creatures.

“Pasanius!” gasped Uriel. “Use your flamer!”

He could not tell whether his battle-brother had heard his exclamation, but

seconds later Pasanius bathed the advancing beasts in sheets of flame from his

hissing weapon. The fires engulfed the beasts, leaping high and burning with

terrifying force, as though they contained every flammable substance known to man.

Crackling ooze burned with a white flame and Pasanius switched his aim to the

approaching shadow creatures behind them. More liquid flame sprayed and the

deafening cries of the burning creatures reached new heights as they burned.

Insensate eyes immolated and new ones formed in the fluid flesh of the beasts as the

flames burned them. Eye-watering fumes were released from the conflagration, but

even though it seemed the beasts were in pain, they did not retreat, holding them

trapped within the narrow street.

The heat was intense, but protected by power armour, the Space Marines were

immune to the lethal temperatures. The Space Marines sheltered the two Guardsmen

as best they could from the killing heat, but Uriel could see that both Leonid and

Ellard were on the verge of collapse. The fires killed the worst of the stench and

Uriel pulled himself to his feet using the wall.

“Why don’t they die?” cursed Vaanes. He held his bolter at the ready and Uriel

could see he desperately wanted to fire, but kept his finger clear of the trigger guard,

having seen how little effect their initial volley had had. Space Marines picked

themselves up, forming a defensive cordon between the walls of flame at either end

of the street.

“And why aren’t they attacking?” wondered Pasanius. “Until they went up in

flames, it looked like they were ready to overrun us.”

“I’m not sure,” answered Uriel, as an unsettling suspicion began to settle in his

gut. “I think that maybe they never intended to kill us, that maybe they intended

something else.”

“What?” asked Vaanes.

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