[i]"Will this madness never end?!"[/i] Adrianne thought to herself as she looked up at the gruesome abomination situated on top of the platform in the center of the room. It was difficult to tell if there was anything left of Astrid in the warpspawn, the creature studying them as a newcomer. "Are we sure we are fighting the forces of Slannesh? I could swear that the animal in front of us is a beast of Nurgle!" The arrival of Zhevon seemed to draw the creature´s attention, as it turned its mutilated head slowly towards the door Zhevon had entered from. Though it was difficult to tell whether he had managed to offend it or anything. The misshapen face of the monstrosity hardly left any room for expression, its bulging eyes twitching curiously around in the room. But the creature would soon break the silence as it suddenly unleashed a horrifying, psychic shriek that pierced the room, stunning anyone in it! The lack of a visible mouth did not seem to prevent it from screeching. Or had the shriek merely been a product of their mind, brought forth by the wicked powers of the abomination in front of them. "Bring it down!" Adrianne would call out as the psyker staggered back onto her feet, having been brought down by the deafening psychic howl of the creature. Her head was still ringing, the creature´s mere presence filling her mind with numerous whispers that caressed her every thought. But she did not need to think. She knew what had to be done. The creature had to die! Extending an arm, she targeted Astrid´s spear which lay on the platform, pulling it away from the creature´s feet and sending it back back into her grip! As she catched the spear, she brought it around, raising it over her shoulder and threw it forward with great force, amplifying her throw with further kinetic energies through her psychic might! The spear flew through the room at a frightening speed, zooming straight for the grotesque monstrosity! *TWACK!* A sickening squelch could be heard as the spear plunged right through the narrow waist of the abomination, entering in the front and piercing through all the way to the back where it exploded in a shower of blood and gore, leaving the middle of the spear lodged inside the creature´s torso. Yet Astrid´s abomination seemed to barely even register the wound. It merely gazed down at the spear lodged inside of its body, before raising its fleshy, skinless arms to either side. A sickening aura began to pulse through the room, leaving a sense of lethargy and weakness among anyone in the room. But it was merely the beginning. As if the laws of gravity had ceased to function entirely, Stukov, Zhevon, Aviza, Maltheus and Adrianne soon found themselves being lifted up from the ground! Even the mutilated bodies of the dead guards floated into the air, blood starting to stream out of their mutilated limbs. Even blood scattered around the floor began to drip up into the air, floating towards the monstrosity in thousands of small drops! Across the bodies of everyone in the party, thousands of tiny, microscopic wounds began appearing all over their skin; causing blood to flow from every pore and fill the insides of their clothes and armor with blood that struggled to escape through any crack or opening! Any blood that escaped would levitate through the air, floating towards the abomination and coagulating into its twisted body. The air around the monstrosity began to crackle even more with blood red warp power in the forming of tendrils of pure energy! Adrianne could feel the power building within the creature, literally pulsating out of it. Stukov could feel it too, as the blood seemed to fuel the monstrosity´s dark power. It was an utterly overwhelming feeling, as if standing in front of a burning hot star! The pain caused by the monster´s lifedrain would almost be equal in the sheer sense of vigor and power radiating from the abomination´s wretched corpse! "I have faced worse hellspawns than you, wretch!" Adrianne exclaimed beneath her helmet, clenching her fists as her hands began to crackle with purple energy! Fueled by fury, Adrianne would launch her hand forward, releasing a crackling wave of bright, purple electric tendrils of pure warp energy! The crackling wave would wash over the grotesque creature, causing it to back away and the invisible threads holding Adrianne to cease, allowing her to fall to her feet. Without hesitation, Adrianne reached forth, using her powers to pull Astrid´s spear right out of the abomination´s abdomen, releasing a shower of blood as it fell onto the ground! Feeling the veil separating their world from the immaterium growing immediately weaker following the gaping wound in the abomination created by the removal of the spear, Adrianne rose to her feet, her fist clenched together and crackling with purple electric tendrils! "I will not be defied by a freakspawn with the audacity to think it can oppose me!" Adrianne sneered behind her helmet, the sockets on her skull mask literally burning with purple flames! "FACE TRUE POWER!" Adrianne screamed, before shooting her arms forward and unleashing a wild torrent of released, crackling purple energy that raced towards the abomination! The screams of a thousand lost souls filled the room as psyker unleashed her wrath, filling the room with a bright, purple light! The abomination would respond, raising its twisted arms before releasing a current of blood red energy to collide into Adrianne´s own! The two powers collided in the air, scorching the ground and shooting sparks all around! "POWERRR!" Adrianne screamed through her voicebox, stepping closer towards the warpspawn as she increased her effort, causing the electric current flowing out from her hands to amplify in both size and brightness! "UNLIMITED POWER!" The sorcery duel between the abomination and Adrianne would soon turn in favor of the latter, as the crackling wave brought forth by the psyker raced towards the monstrosity, pushing back its own blood red lightning! The purple, consuming wave of warp energies would reach the limbs of the monstrosity, immediately stunning it and causing it to its focus! The monster emitted a sickening gurgle as the purple lightning raged through its body, a large electric tendril burrowing itself between its large, twitching eyes to suddenly split its skull in two; continuing down the monstrosity´s torso until the entire creature exploded in a shower of blood, bones and blood red flames that flew around the room! Zhevon, Aviza, Stukov and Maltheus who had previously been suspended in the air by the abomination´s magic would suddenly feel the powers holding them vanish, allowing them all to slump down into the ground below! Breathing heavily behind her mask, Adrianne would look across the scorched and bloodied scene where the monster had once stood. To call it a bloodied mess would be an understatement, with blood and gore as well as scorch marks now littering the chamber which had once been ´beautiful´, at least by Slaaneshi standards. Raising her hands in the air, Adrianne would exclaim in triumph! "I won! ... " " ... " *CRASH* No sooner had Adrianne proclaimed her own victory, than had the psyker lost all consciousness on the spot and began falling forward; landing face down onto the floor, her mask slamming into the ground with a heavy crash!