Reflections

 

by Lord Akora

 

The Chaos Lord lay wounded on the battlefield, he could feel the life flowing out as his heart beat.  Knowing that death would claim him soon, his thoughts started to wander and he wondered where it all went wrong.

It was going to be a standard raid.  Saven 7 was supposed to be in the hands of the local Cult Leader and his followers. The Chaos Lord and his men were to help with cleaning up any resistance. 

But from the beginning everything was wrong.  The Planet was more over grown then was reported and the local cult was not at the rendezvous point.  The Chaos Lord ordered his men to set up camp and he would contact the command ship for instruction.  As he was heading toward the drop ship they were attacked by Space Wolves.  The first rounds from enemy missiles took out the Drop Ship and left them stranded. They were being hit from all sides as the Chaos Lord launched a message pod into space alerting Akora on the command ship of the betrayal.  Then as the Lord and his men fought like daemons, selling their lives at high cost, it happened he was hit.

The first round struck him in the arm causing him to spin around 180 degrees and stagger backwards.  Still he tried to fight it, the next was the finisher and struck him in the gut.  The Lord dropped his Bolter and he fell to the ground. The pain was intense but he would not give his enemy the satisfaction of hearing him cry out.  Instead the Chaos Lord removed his helmet and glared at his enemy as if his eyes could kill him by force of will.  Slowly as his thoughts came back to where he was he knew the end had come, he closed his eyes and died knowing his honor was still intact.

The Wolf Guard Champion watched as the light went out of the Chaos Lord’s eyes and in his mind he wondered when his time came could he die as well as that.