Ariel stepped inside the shower, and opened the flow of water.
The warm water rushed down on her tall body, making her release a long, pleasant sigh.
"Well there's the highlight of my day..."
Being a (literal) daughter of the Emperor can be very difficult at times. Especially when you live surrounded by sisters of battle.
That's why Ariel lives in the highest summits of the Metropolitan world known as Ophelia VII. Now, don't go thinking Ariel is a hermit, not at all. She very often travels the galaxy, sticking mostly to imperial worlds of course. Even though she gets adventurous sometimes. She just tends to avoid the streets of Ophelia, due to them being filled with crazed, overzealous worshippers of the "God" Emperor. She doesn't live there by choice, but she makes the most of it still.
So, back to our hero.
Ariel, in all of her primarch-sized glory, stood in the shower, letting the warm water flow on her body. She took the time to clean herself up nicely, wash her hair and...
With her eyes closed, she couldn't tell what happened. But suddenly, the water had stopped.
"Hey! Who turned off the water?!"
She opened her eyes, frustrated, as her shampooed hair was still bubbling with the, well, shampoo. When she opened her eyes, she saw that she wasn't in the shower anymore. In a fit of panick, she covered her exposed parts. Luckily for her, her oversized towel had come with her to the bloodwrath. Rapidly, she wrapped herself in the towel.
"Well this is [i]JUST[/i] perfect! As if the day couldn't get any worse!"
She crossed her arms, flicking her black, soaped hair backwards so it wouldn't drip all over her face. She let out a long sigh.
"Might as well try to find out where I am... or at least find some damned clothes!"
And so, the Cynical daughter of the Emperor, Ariel, set off into the bloodwrath in the search of answers. Or denim.
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"I can imagine. But how do you know there will be clothing this way? This is as far out as the scouts have been."
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"Well, since I was brought here with my towel, I'm hoping that the rest of my apparel came through. Besides, I can sense my pendant is here. I just know."
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"Pendant?"
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"It's a little pendant that dad gave me."
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"What's it do?" The tribune stopped then and pulled his sword out a quarter of the way. "Somethings ahead, I can't tell what though."
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She raised an eyebrow. "It's a pendant. With a picture in it. It helps remember the good times?" She seemed somewhat puzzled by his question.
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He nodded and stepped forward more, unsheathing his sword, and raising his shield to cover his front.
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"Anyway... I think my stuff might be just around the corner." She does as said, turning the corner. "There it is!" She runs to a pile on the ground. It was, indeed, her clothes. "Don't look!" She waited for the man to turn around.
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He walks past her sword at the ready and blocking an oncoming hall. "Make it quick and quiet." He hissed, he knew he saw something the shadows
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Ariel drops her towel, making her naked. First, she slips on her cute little pink panties. After that, the satin bra made just for her own size, considering sizes don't yet exist for women many feet in height. After that, she slipped on her pale, tight jeans. They are a bit worn, but it is her favourite pair. Then comes her tee shirt, upon which rests the logo of one of her favourite bands, Rush. It was a bit tight as well, lifting her breasts up just slightly in a nice way, giving her a very busty cleavage. She put on her shoes, then placed the little pendant around her neck, the head resting in between her breasts. "Much, much better. Now, all I need is my gear... and if it isn't here, I can only assume somebody took it. But who?" She had a sudden realization. "Please, please, please don't be bugs. If it's bugs, I will cry."
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"I'd rather not find out ma'am, whoever or whatever they are there's a lot of them." The tribune was a veteran legionary but whatever was out there deeply concerned him.
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"Hmm... hold on. If I focus hard enough, I can maybe see what's ahead." She concentrates her mind, seeing through the warp, moving beyond the walls of the ship to see ahead of her. [spoiler]she's using her psyker powers to forsee ahead, so you can put whatever it is we're against in your next reply, like a vision.[/spoiler]
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She sees all, but in the immediate area are creatures o shadow. They edge closer and closer towards the tribune in the darkness, they number over forty, and bear crude weapons of bone and rusted metal.
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"Well, it's not bugs, but it isn't worth smiling. From what I can tell, it's chaos related."
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"Chaos? Well, this will end poorly." He held fast. "I'll hold them you go back to my men."
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"And leave you alone here? Are you crazy? Now I enjoy living very much, but I won't run while a friend dies!" She thinks. "Can't you call them or something?"
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"I can hold out until they get here, I've already called them."
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"Well then, I'm not leaving you behind. I may not have armour or guns right now, but I can still hold my own!"
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"With? Whatever that is out there has both weapons and armor. You are a living relative of the emperor, I'm just a tribune, in the grand scheme of things a lot more men like me will die, but you need to live."
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"No. You don't need to die. And I won't let you die if I have the power to stop it. Besides, I got my fists. And my mind bullets." She smirks. "We can take them on. Don't you have a spare gun I could use?"
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"Left side, laspistol. And for the record, I'd gladly do it."
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"Eh... in that case, I'll abstain. I'll focus on my pyskic powers."
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"Let's hope that's enough." He said as the shapes of the shades crept out of the darkness.
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"I think I have a way to clear them out. Just give me a second or two." She crouched behind the corner, her eyes shut and her mind focusing.
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The shades threw themselves against the shield of the tribune but he held them at bay. His sword flicking out to stab every now and again.