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Void Tyrant
By Nim Maj
A Necron Familiar Challenge Response Fic Alternate Universe
Chapter 1: Leviathan
Within a bioship, biomass swirled and took form. Filling an amniotic sac, it was moved to a birthing chamber. Biomass hardened, becoming bone, chitin, and flesh.
This element of Hive Fleet Leviathan was headed to Octarius, where the main elements of the Hive Fleet were engaged in battling the Ork Empire belonging to the Overfiend of Octarius, under whose leadership more and more Orks were coming to join one of the largest land engagements seen since the battles for Armageddon and the Black Crusades.
Orks and Tyranids, two biological weapons, duking it out for a single system. Should the Orks win, the largest WAAAGH ever assembled will be poised to strike into the Segmentum Solar, the heart of the Imperium of Mankind and home to Holy Terra, the homeworld of humanity, bolstered by Ork reinforcements from all over the galaxy arriving in Octarius via Space Hulks directed by Gork and Mork, the gods of the Orks, itching for a good fight.
Should the Tyranids win the battle however, they would be able to convert the uncountable masses of Orkish flesh into Tyranid biomass, replenishing their losses sustained by Inquisitor Kryptman's desperate strategy, which led to the Octarius conflict in the first place.
With the Overfiend of Octarius on one side, and the appearance of the legendary Tyranid Swarmlord on the other, the battle has ground to an ever escalating stalemate.
Scything claws took form and armoured chitin hardened while a powerful brain with an instinctive connection to the Tyranid Hive Mind formed the Tyrant which would aid the Fleet in close quarters combat.
... Or it would have, had the egg, carrying the fully grown and matured but sleeping Monstrous Creature landed in the ship and boarded the waiting Mycetic Spore. Instead, before it hit the bottom of the cavernous birthing chamber, it disappeared into a glowing green portal which seemed to have materialized out of nowhere.
The waiting Tervigons looked at each other before sending the bad news to the Hive mind... which proceeded to have a collective WTF? moment.
"My servant who exists somewhere in the universe! Oh Divine, beautiful and powerful familiar spirit! I wish and assert from the bottom of my heart! Answer to my guidance!"
An explosion, once again. Her heart fell as she expected yet another failed spell. As the dust cleared Louise Valliere carefully peeked out at what she had summoned. A wall of flesh greeted her. Towering over the people gathered there at over sixteen feet, mucus covering its' sides."This... is my Divine, beautiful and powerful familiar?" Louise whispered to herself.
"What did you do Louise the Zero?"
"Yeah watch it!"
Professor Colbert simply gazed up at the massive egg. The students also began noticing the immense size of it.
"H-Hah! It hasn't even hatched yet! Knowing you, it'll probably die before it can be of any use!" came a half-hearted taunt.
"Y-Yeah, considering it's made of flesh, it looks like you got some kind of big baby straight out of the womb. Hah!"
"Shut up!" Turning to the advising teacher Louise asked, "Mr. Colbert!"
"What is it?" he asked distractedly.
"Can I try summoning again?"
"I can't allow that."
"Why?"
"This ritual is one that decides the mages entire life. Trying again is blasphemy against the ritual itself!"
He gazed at her with a serious stare."Whether you like it or not, this creature has been chosen as your familiar."
"But I've never heard of an unborn baby as a familiar!"
"It is still your familiar."
Seeing nothing left to do Louise lowered her head and closed her eyes. She resigned herself to what she had to do. Lifting her head and beginning to chant, "My name is Louise Francois Le Blanc de la Valliere, Pentagon that rules the five powers, bless this individual and make it my familiar." She grimaced as she was forced to kiss the mucus covered membrane.
As she jerked back in revulsion she wiped away the mucus from her mouth. She stewed in impotent fury as her peers laughed it up at her disgrace, kissing something so slimy. She turned her back to the egg so she could glare at her classmates.
Everyone stopped dead as a massive blood red claw sliced down embedding itself in the ground next to Louise.
The egg rocked from the movement, which was arrested when another claw pierced through the egg sac and balanced it, landing on Louise's other side. Then, two more claws appeared from the top, back to back, and sliced down through the membrane.
As the membrane fell apart, the creature within emerged from its' egg fully grown and ready for battle. On its' upper right scything claw runes glowed. All the students trembled in fear and awe at the beast before them. It roared striking terror into their hearts.
The first thoughts that assailed the newborn Tyrant were "SHOCK! AWE! AMAZEMENT! HAPPINESS!" Sifting through its' connection to the Hive Mind, the Tyrant gained an immediate impression. "ZERO! KIRCHE! RED HAIR! DARK SKIN! ANNOYANCE! I'LL SHOW HER!"
The Tyrant turned toward Kirche and raised a Scything Claw, intending to kill that which would cause harm to the Hive Mind.
"Stop!" cried a panicking Louise as she saw her familiar raise its claw to strike at Kirche. Unbelievably, it stopped! It seemed to look confused before returning to a nonthreatening yet majestic stance.
Looking around, the Tyrant then ROARED, daring any to threaten the Hive Mind.
That night, while Louise dreamed of leading her familiar to the rescue of Princess Henrietta, and then singlehandedly defeating her enemies, the Hive Tyrant considered its' predicament. It needed troops to protect the Hive Mind, and to do that it needed biomass to spawn needed troops. Within the Hive Tyrant was the genetic information necessary for the creation of the various Tyranids. However, this was limited to all known variations. New kinds of Tyranids required the input of a Norn Queen, which was usually safe in the Hive ships in space. Before the Tyrant could craft new variations of Tyranids, it would need to spawn a Norn Queen. But that would be for the future.
Through its connection to the Hive Mind, it could form a plan of action. It had obtained a general overview of the situation in Halkeginia
First off, missing humans may draw attention from the humans, but especially the mages, whom seemed to be some kind of element controlling psyker. It would need to bide its time, considering these... mages... could possibly destroy a lot of minor troops. But they were still human, and the Tyrant was protected somewhat through its association with the Hive Mind.
The obvious solution to a needed infiltration: Genestealers.
It would take many generations for purestrains to aid him, but implanted humans could 'disappear' and purestrains be birthed.
Until the Tyrant could declare itself openly, Infiltration was key. Build up forces until the truth was revealed.
But for a genestealer, some biomass was needed for the initial investment.
The Tyrant cast its mind out into the forest it was lurking in. Lured by the psychic signal, local fauna, deers, wolves, and squirrels came... to be quickly killed their bodies piled together. Standing over its' kills, the Tyrant then pierced its own body with its claws, blood running down its legs onto the mass of flesh. Quickly healing itself, the Tyrant turned its incredible psychic might to directing the microscopic Tyranid cells, slowly ordering it to consume the biomass... and replicate.
By the first light, a Tyranid Hive, complete witha small pool of biomass was ready. The Tyrant would continue calling the local wildlife to the Hive in order to gather the necessary biomass, but first, to protect the Hive Mind in its absence, it spawned one Tyranid.
"Funya..." said a sleepy Louise as she stirred from slumber. She had a good night's rest since she had successfully summoned an amazing familiar! Feeling she was not alone she turned to the side of the bed. The sight that greeted her cause her to yelp and fall of the other side as she scrambled away. Peeking over her bed, her eyes focused on the creature in her room, looking a lot like the familiar she summoned yesterday... if only much smaller.
Its' skin was white. It had an elongated reptilian head, armoured on the top with black chitin. Its' claws were short and stubby, but red. It's long tail curled at the end... and unlike the familiar she summoned yesterday, it was small enough to fit in her room...
Oh yes... it was also floating... in midair.
A.N.
First Chapter of Void Tyrant! Well? How did I do? Comments and suggestions are appreciated!
This will be similar to Herald of the Void, but different enough considering the different races involved. I have to say updating will also be much slower since I need to study the Tyranids more before writing about them. The information here is all from the Lexicanum and what I got from the few hours I spent playing Dawn of War II: Retribution.
I obviously took some artistic license with the Tyranids concerning the familiar and psychic connection messing with each other. This story would be over really quick if the hive Tyrant didn't obey Louise, so it had to see her as something that could command it, hence its' thinking that Louise is the physical manifestation of the Hive Mind. Yes, the familiar contract had its work cut out for it.
Anyway, that's all for now!
If anyone can point me to an online copy of the 5th edition Tyranid rules I would appreciate it and it would lead me to updating much faster (after I've read it).
