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Marius steps between the two wolfs, "Niether of you will fight, we are all sons of Russ here, i will have no fighting, or both of you will answer to me"

"Yes Marius"
Kainkruth bows while the other seems shocked
"But it is a holy duel Marius we must continue!"

Uhhhhhh, sorry, where am I?

I seemed to have missed a lot

You're on a moon with the group because the crusier Glassed the planet.

Ohhh crap...

... and what is happeneing at the moment?

Marius found another Space Wolf and not everyone is happy about it. Read the posts above.

Ahhh, and where am I specifically right now? As I assume I am not right there as they said they were looking forward to meeting me and Mikal

With the Farseer and Mikal.

"well brothers if it is true that the base can be destroyed we need to check it out follow me."
i begin to walk in the direction of the base

So I am also with shas and mikal?

Cool thanks

Do post later

Mikal sees the developing conflict from afar and sighs. The space wolves were always a confrontational bunch. He contacted his teams on his vox

"All teams, stay in position, I'll be back shortly. Tau! Your on me! Come on, lets go break this up before it gets worse."

Mikal soon makes it to the site where the Space wolves are and hears one yelling about how the new one is tainted because of his time in the warp.

"You would persecute one of your own without proof?" Mikal asks indignantly, the Space wolves suddenly become aware of his presence and Mikal steps forward.

"You and your brothers have been fighting here in the eye for a long time, does that mean you are tainted? I and my men have been fighting for a long time as well, does that mean we're tainted?"

Mikal thinks of Argosh's men, how so many of them were driven insane by the dark powers. "If there's one thing I've learned in the eye, its that the pure CAN become tainted"

Mikal then thinks of Hunter. "And that the tainted can be pure..." Mikal pauses and speaks again.

"Your commander is right, and further more he is your commander, those who do not follow orders are considered traitors." Mikal unsheathes his sword and activates its power field.

"Are you a traitor, wolf brother?" Mikal asks the challenger.

The Group
The Imperials and Xenos surround the Space Wolves confused by their bikering and fighting.
"Mikal I am not tainted this place has taught me the ways of war against Chaos!"
Argosh
Somthing crashes into the ground and cracks opean reaveling a massive Centiped like Daemon with a Lizard head.

I'm sorry for the sort posts.

Marius leans in to the offending Wolf Brother, "I understand your concern, and it was my concern for a time, but even if he is tanted there are enough of us to subdue him, but unless he kills one of our own or one of our allies i do not want him dead. The deul will go ahead, but i will be the one who decides his skill, I have that right"

(to the group, and especially to Kainkruth) "The Deul will be held, but I will be the one to enter the ring of stones with this one, i would have you fight me Kainkruth, to prove your purity, first to submit, no injuries, if you are pinned then you submit, now remove your armour."

The pack begins setting out the circle of stones, "Mikal, will you come and watch my armour and weapons for me?"

Marius begins to unclip and remove his armour, slowly and carefully until it is in a neat pile on the dusty ground, his axes and grenades beside it all. Undeerneath his armour Marius wears little but one of his brothers brings him a wolfskin loincloth for the battle, he ties it cerimonially around his waist.

When he turns to the now assembled crowd they shudder and gasp, Marius's chest is his prime canvas and swirling tattoos of gory bloodshed and violence surround his body.

Kainkruth unlike Marius Kainkruth wears a light chainmail and robe loin cloth and his chest has a single broken daemon skull tattoo. The two grapel and push but Marius pushes and pins Kainkruth after several minutes. Kainkruth submits and shakes hands with Marius in respect.

Mikal bows to the Space wolf and backs away, doing as he is told and watching the "duel" as the wolf lord called it, commence. He would not have it this way himself, but he had no authority in such things, let them fight amongst themselves harmlessly now while there were no enemies to fight rather than harmfully when there were enemies to fight.

Mikal looked at the power armor, a tremendous piece of archaeotech to be sure, Mikal could only guess how old it was, probably thousands of years...

A gasping was heard and Mikal turned to see what the commotion was about. He too drew a surprised breathe when he saw the images that covered Marius' body. He really wasn't sure what to make of them. He simply kept his hand on his sword and motioned for his men to stay back, whatever happened, for now, at least, they would only watch.

Marius and Kainkruth walk into the circle opposing each other and both drop to their knees, muttering a prayer to the allfather, then they spring at each other.

Their powerful arms wrap around each others torso's trying to forse the other to the ground, then the changes start to occur, Marius feels them first, his fingers streaching out into claws, his feet lengthening into paws and his back splitting as his spine lengthens, his opponent also feels the change of the helix, his body warping and changing as Marius's does, slowly becoming a Wulfen. Finally the two push each other back, the massive beasts nearly thrice the hieght of a human, the surrounding races, human Tau and Eldar, now see why the circle of stone was made so large. and they witness a ritual deul never seen ourside of the Space Wolfs fortress of the fang.

The two massive beasts clash into each other, beastial growls rippling from their throats, the only way to distinghish them is the bionic eye of Marius, still in place on the massive beasts socket. Eventually Marius will not be bested, his formidable strength and traing outweighing the older wolfs age, and slowly the old bends before the young and Marius has his opponent pinned by his massive shaggy arms.

Slowly the two begin to morph again, their bodies returning to their natural shape and size, and eventually there are two ordainary Space wolves in the circle, both heavily exerted but niether seem to be truly spent.

The two giants soon don their power once again and new arrivle gains the respect of the new arrivle , but soon an Eldar Ranger appers from the Webway. The Ranger is tired and shocked and nearly collapses but is assisted by a Warlock.
"Farseer ... the ship ... is attacking a Imperial and Tau fleet."
"What has happened? Have the allies damaged it?"
"No Farseer they will soon fall."

The two giants soon don their power once again and new arrivle gains the respect of the new arrivle , but soon an Eldar Ranger appers from the Webway. The Ranger is tired and shocked and nearly collapses but is assisted by a Warlock.
"Farseer ... the ship ... is attacking a Imperial and Tau fleet."
"What has happened? Have the allies damaged it?"
"No Farseer they will soon fall."

Marius nods at his new brother, "collect your kinsman, we leave in 20 minutes".

He then turns to the rest of the assembled group
"Pack brothers and sisters, all of you, Space wolves, Tau, Guardsmen, Eldar, I may not have had the time to meet all of you individually, but you are all my brothers and sisters, in the battle we go to, I ask for one thing only, that you treat me as your brother too, I will fight to the death for anyone of you, as will the rest of my pack, and whether or not i have met you, you will all be my family today."

(I'm just wondering, but what was the point of that fight?)

Long had Mikal heard of the stories surrounding the Space wolves, of their fury and beast like animalism in the field, he'd seen as much before, but the fight between the two Space wolves was more than anything he'd imagined and he watched it with horrid fascination.

After the fight, things returned to normal thankfully, and the everyone went about their separate ways. That was, until the appearance of the ranger.

"You heard em lads! The war's not over yet, we've still got a job to do, so reload and lets go!"

Mikal gathered his men around as the eldar and space wolves did the same.

(prove hes not tainted, it would show in his wulfen)
As Kainkruth's kin turn up with him he nods to them, we go to battle now brothers, there will be time for introductions later.

The space wolves around him howl into the darkness as they cluster around the eldar and guardsmen waiting for the time to move

The group arrive on a Daemon Wolrd not far from the orbital battle as the Imperial and Tau ships despretly try to hold the line against the massive crusiers strange energy weapons and plasma shots , while the Imperial/Tau alliance ships are heavily damaged and not far from defeat the Crusier appers to be barely scrathed at all.

"brothers i will attack this vile deamon help me with it and we can continue."
i activate my flamer while i run to it i let an inferno come out of it and than i use my thunder hammer to finish it.

The Daemon resembles a Lizard but has large wings covered in eyes while its head has 4 insect like eyes and manibles. It growls and uses its claws to try and block Argosh's attack but has one of its arms torn of and set alight. It howls in pain but flys into the sky and charges the Salamanders.

Marius scans the terrain quickly seeing daemons slinking into the shadows he fingers a wolftail talisman on his armour before battle signing to his men to spread out, then to mikal to make a tight ring around the tau with three loops and the eldar to fan out behind the marines, into his vox on a frequency channel to all his allies he mutters, "Weve got company"

(boarding torpedoes? I thought we were on the world, wouldn't we have to find a ship first?)

whoops, thought we were on a ship, lemmie edit that

Flying Daemons depart from the ship and speed towards the Imperials with terrifing speed and cast bolts of energy at the group. They are lead by a Daemon of Tzeentch and have no eyes but a pair of massive wings dotted with maws.

Marius growls that they are out of range of him and his brothers, he ant the rest of the pack form a wall with their bodies, those with storm shiled spread out beteen those without, (out of interest what are the new marines equipped with?)