(Tzeentch/Change God POV)
Location the Warhammer Old World-Kislev, Open Snow covered Area: Battlefield; Kislev/Daughters of the Hag vs. Forces of Chaos/Dark Legion
The headless corpse of Ulrika, laid in the snow-covered ground, another kill for me.
Ohh how much I want to laugh, and savor this victory, I destroyed my opponent even my brother were cheering in my kill, but...as I focused on my last remaining adversary, the ragged and gasping hag witch, Mother Ostankya, was barely standing, her clothing was in a bad state especially the area where I hit her with a (Penumbral Pendulum), already the blood around the area was frozen, she was resting her weight on her staff.
Noticing the bloody pale head of Ulrika on the snow, I made Ixion use my telekinesis to pull the head into Ixion's grasp, in a swift movement it was in my avatar's hand.
Focusing in my dark divine power, I banished and stored the head for Khorne later, then I turn to the mutilated, almost dismembered arm, body of Ulrika stretching my avatar's arm over to the body, I focused the Warp-energies within the avatar to banish the body away for Nurgle later.
Now I can focus on my first opponent, as the old hag was getting herself straight, and the look on her eerie light blue, glowing eyes, were filled with rage and hatred.
Poor old woman, she has no facsimile idea, on who it is she's dealing with, ohh well it make things more interesting for me.
Unsheathing my scepter and Ixion's daemonic blade, it's time for our duel to finally end, I made Ixion charge forwards, as Ostankya yelled at me, and with a swipe of her staff send out several bolts of magic, at me.
Five blue magical bolts in total, sent flying towards me, and I counter those projectiles with my own, firing pink fireballs causing a clash, and magical explosion.
Causing a smokescreen, which I'd used to my advantage as I can sense her magic and soul, so this smoke was nothing to me, I rushed straight at my target...
(Mother Ostankya POV)
My attack was countered again, and a wide spread of smoke occurred from the clash of my magic against that vile tzeentchian magic.
And this damned smoke, it blocked my view completely, quickly shifting my eyes to find any sign of Ixion Daemonhart, but I couldn't spot him with this smoke, I hiss as the wound on my chest still stung me, at the single slip of lowering my gaze, he struck.
Rushing out the smoke, of all things!?
The only question in my mind was, "How did he spot me, under all this smoke!?" I'd barely was able to rise my staff to block, his sword slash.
His daemonic, tzeentchian sword, digging into the wood of my staff, and the force of strength behind this Chaos Lord, forces my knees to buckle.
As I heard him say, in a teasing manner, "Seems fate, he hasn't abandoned you yet, Hag." this bastard!!
I am the Hag Mother, the Guardian of the Wilds, I'll never be a slave to that accursed entity, that believes he rules over fate and destiny like a child's toy!!!
Using my magical power to strengthen my body and staff, to prevent either from breaking against Ixion's might, which caused him...amusement...as he laughed, and said, "Still trying to defy the fate, I've witnessed for you? Well then...entertain me more." as he smashed his scepter onto my right shoulder, I scream in pain, as he kicked my side, knocking onto my face into the snow.
Hearing the crunching snow, meaning Ixion was rushing in to finish me, I surge fort my magical power to sprout my spider-legs to strike blinding at eight direction, acting like deadly lances and I heard striking metal meaning that I'd hit him, gasping and catching my breath, since I bought myself some time to think about my counterattack...
(General POV)
Ixion was soaring as Tzeentch was struck by surprise from Mother Ostankya's sudden attack, one of her spectral spider-legs manage to hit the avatar directly in the stomach area, like a great battering ram.
Of course this didn't harm the Changer, but it did some minor damage to the avatar, from the deep indentation on the area of the blow, Tzeentch/Ixion crashed hard against the snowy ground, as the Architect made the avatar get back on it's feet, meanwhile his brothers all reacted to the sudden blow that Tzeentch suffered, Laharl made a sound of "Ooff" as he never expect such a action from the Hag Mother, Nurgle had some concern but stayed "quiet" with the exception of some wet coughing, and Khorne was boisterously laugh in excitement, as he enjoying this more than a cowardly magical duel.
Looking through Ixion's eyes, they saw Mother Ostankya used those spider-legs to lift herself off the ground, and also act like a spider-woman using those spectral magical constructs to support herself, and keep fighting, and truth be told Tzeentch was very impressed by this ingenious use of magic, he might use something similar in the future.
Mother Ostankya now having created some distance and opportunity for herself, the Hag Mother accessed the Winds of Magic, harnessing the power of the Lore of the Hag again, using the (Malediction of Madness) spell which causes a sudden rush of nightmarish visions floods the victim's psyche, driving them to a fleeting madness that debilitates even the hardiest warrior, manifesting in a cyan and blue magic energy, and witch-runes, transforming into a haze of witchcraft, once again the Hag Mother was continuing her futile attempts to attack Tzeentch/Ixion's mind.
This made Tzeentch laugh at this stupidity, and as a counter-reaction he used his psychic power to telekinetically slam her onto the snow, making her grunt out in pain, not stopping there, Ixion/Tzeentch began to slam her around over and over, after the fifth slam, the Changer forced her down against the snowy ground.
Ostankya struggled against the invisible pressure on her body, her spectral spider-legs stretching, cracking, swaying around, and scratching on the snow, she was desperately trying to break whatever magical hold that the Chosen of the Gods has on her, just when Tzeentch was about to continue his telekinetic assault on the old hag, when he heard his brother the Blood God call to him, he has a bit of a suggestion/request for him...
Standing there, still was Ixion as Tzeentch and Khorne spoke a bit within the avatar, while Ostankya still struggle against the psyker might of the Scheming God.
Suddenly Mother Ostankya felt a pull, roughly dragging her through the snow and dirt, pulling her scrapping body onto the grasp of Ixion/Tzeentch, she felt her throat suffer a brutal blow as her body stopped flying by coming into contact with Ixion's opened hand.
She choked and coughed, the pain making her break her concentration and the spider-legs constructs faded away, Tzeentch made Ixion let go of his weapons temporarily, as the Changer commanded the avatar to use all four arms to lift up the Hag Mother, getting it her into a familiar position that both the Dark One and the Plague God recognized.
The Dark One chuckled, as he immediately knew what Khorne asked Tzeentch to do, a (Batista Bomb), but he was actually surprised that Tzeentch agreed to do a "brutish move" Khorne must have offered him, for Tzeentch to do this.
With Mother Ostankya, in the unescapable hold of Tzeentch, each hand holding a wrist and ankle of the hag witch, lifting her a bit higher and swinging down Ixion's arms, as Ostankya's body with all the force of the avatar could muster, flung down onto the snowy ground, and a big and brutal slam that would make the Animal himself proud, the broken body of Hag Mother was splattered onto the snow, unmoving and groaning in pain.
Khorne laughed and cheered enjoying the brutality, and truth be told one of his coliseums in his realm is fully dedicated to hand to hand battles, when his brother the Dark Harbinger introduced wrestling both ancient and modern to the Blood God, he made that battle arena for the more brutal version of it, and has been practicing some wrestling moves, still favoring the (Chokeslam) that his brother taught him millenias ago.
Tzeentch looking through the eyes of Ixion, was a little bit impressed at the affectiveness of this (Bastita Bomb), that Khorne requested him to do on the Hag Mother, but he didn't understand Khorne's offering a few thousands souls to just perform a grapple move, it matter not to the Scheming God in the end.
As he psychically made all the weapons of his avatar-state return to the hands of Ixion Daemonhart, he was about to finish the infamous Hag Mother, with both [Balewing & Hellbane] ready to strike down at the unmoving body of the Hag Matriarch, but stopped before both daemonic arms came close of piercing her body.
Tzeentch though of something much better, a scheme that will truly insure his victory of Ostankya and her followers.
Releasing one of his lower-arms of Ixion, in order to reach down and grab Mother Ostankya's hair, with a tight grip he dragged her into the main battle...
Location Kislev, Open Snow covered Area: the Main Battleground
The war between the Dark Legion, against the Daughters of the Hag, was clearly going to the advantage of the forces of Chaos.
With the forces of Change and Blood, causing the most damage and devastation to the Kislevite wild warriors, several akshina have been slaughtered along with their beasts, bears, leopards, spiders, and unknown creatures (things in the woods), were littering the snow of the battlefield.
Many Hags were killed or captured by the Dark Legion, under the command of the Chosen of the Gods, but the number of dead among the Kislevites eclipsed those of Chaos, Throgg and Kholek destroying everything in their path leading the monsters of Chaos, and their kin to a great butchery of their victims.
Dullahan and Ammon, cutting down everyone and adding the souls of those slain to his blade and great shield, many fled from the Knight of Slaughter, and many attempts to kill the great chaotic knight, have ended the same in failure, especially those attacks aimed at his "head" being his familiar and partner Ammon.
The headless carnage align knight, slashed, crushed, and even unleashed the wailing souls of previous victims to slaughter those around him, the other Chaos Knight/Champion, Harald Hammerstorm, smited everyone with his mighty warhammer, the Bane of the Undead, was causing a much death as Dullahan himself.
The Traitor Prince, the Slayer of the Bear God, Yuri Godslayer, empowered by his latest gift from the new Chaos God, the Chaos God of Carnage, Laharl Valboga, he was utterly slaughtering drones of his former countrymen.
Many, many Kislev men and women, overcome and fueled by rage and hatred toward the former Kislevite prince, caused them to ignore fear and reason to charge straight at the Exalted Daemon Prince, which he greatly welcomed.
Dozens, hundreds fell to his [Plagueblade] or his new daemonic claw gifted to him by the Dark Harbinger, one of the more armored and stronger member of the akshina, challenged the Godslayer, to a duel and a vicious and brutal battle occurred between them.
Every swing from Yuri's daemonic, diseased blade against the akshina's greataxe, made the muscles of the mortal man, buckle and strain in pain, against the strength and might of a immortal daemon, after a long exchange of blows, Yuri broke the weapon of the akshina and stabbed his huge claws into the belly of the man, easily piercing through the armor of the akshina.
Barely breathing and bleeding in the daemonic claw of Yuri, he spread his wings wide and with a great flap he leap into the air, with his opponent still impaled and still alive as they soar straight up, and then turning them around with Yuri and dive down, placing his victim straight down with his back to the fast approaching ground below. (Think of the execution animation of several Daemon Princes and even Azazel has a variation of it.)
The impact of that man in Yuri's claws, was soo great that it kicked-up snow and pushed away those close to see the duel between them.
Smoothly standing back up, Yuri removed the broken corpse from his clawed hand, and stared at the rest of the human, and laughed as he can continue slaughtering hundreds more for the Dark Gods.
Another part of the battle the beastmen were causing the most havoc onto the Daughters of the Hag, with Tai Tai and her clutter of catsabers, literally slicing through the masses of enemies in flash of swiftness and agility that few in the Old World, could match.
The gor beastlord causing as much bloodshed and carnage, as the recently arrived doombull and his khornate worshipping warherd, under the command of the Blood Witch herself.
And speaking of Skarlet, she along with the forces of the Blood God, were fighting and killing everything even taking down several Incarnate of Beast Magic, just like Skarlet did before, at the near beginning of this war, Skarlet feed in unimaginable amounts, while all the blood spilled and skull collected were all for Lord Khorne, his gaze (Warp Khorne) was firmly upon her.
Ohh how she found it exhilarating, and quite enjoyable, for Khorne was a true God and bringer of great conquest and blood, nothing like the puppet that Shao Kahn is to Primordial One that sought to merge all realms to be reborn, (Yes Khorne showed her the truth of the Mortal Kombat world, apart from Liu Kang's timeline, since she doesn't even exist there...but I personally would love to have her back again.) Skarlet never felt such power, masculinity, and attraction before, she swears that she'll earn even more favor from the Blood God, and eventually ascend to more than just a immortal servent...
Lastly Yuma Trollvile, and the adoring children of the Grandfather, were enjoying themselves quite a bit in this battle.
Yuma apart from cutting down and slowing everything that her nurglish cleaver has killed, she has brought fort from the deepest parts of the Garden untold magical, retching horrors onto the world with nurglish magic, all while having a cheery smile and aura around her, sometimes taking a brief moment to collect "ingredients" for the offering feast to the Grandfather, at the end of the battle.
In one of those occasions that she was scavenging through the innards, and entrilles of a bear, humming cheerfully as maggotkin and plague daemons lay waste to enemies around her, some akshina archers spotted her, the infamous Priestess of Putrefaction, and they immediately fired arrows at her, but Yuma already knowing that her would be attackers intentions, cause Gul'galg warned her, so he use her Morana Scepter to protect her from her harm.
Getting up and stopping her happy humming, Yuma turned to the archers, showing some fear at her being completely unharmed, and worse wearing some nurglish horror, as a hooded clothing, as Gul'galg's tentacle pushed her scepter close, she began to channel the Winds of Magic, unleashing the vile, love from the Grandfather through the Lore of Nurgle.
Opening her mouth of jagged, yellow dirty teeth, and spew thick, sickly, multi-toned green clouds of contagion, and along with swarms of small rot-flies that surged forwards at her enemies, as they hacked, puked, and swatted away the mini rot-flies infecting them with Nurgle's pestilence, Yuma's troll regeneration repaired everything caused by the (Gifts of Contagion) spell she'd used, as she watched as the love of the Plague God is infecting them.
Once again she started humming, as she made her way through all the mutating, infecting, and dying akshina people futilely try to resist the Grandfather's gift, Yuma thanked her sweet Gul'galg for always protecting her, as she rejoined the rest of the followers of the Decaying God.
All of this and much worse was happening, the only thing keeping the proud sons and daughters of Kislev fighting, is the hope that Hag Mother is still alive and fighting.
Having lost sight of their leader, once the vile Chaos Lord, Ixion Daemonhart, soared across the battlefield on a massive Chaos beast (Exalted Chimera), and went to challenge the Hag Matriarch to battle.
But suddenly a wave of power, surged throughout the battleground, affecting both forces, it was a telepathic command, said by several different voices speaking in unison, "Stop!! All look at me, and see the fate of those that stand against us!!!" and just as the voices instructed, all fighting stopped and both armies turned towards a large snowy hill, covered in remains of fallen warriors.
Then he emerged, the azure, electric-blue, and gold tinted, armored, four-armed tzeentchian Chaos Lord, Ixion Daemonhart, within his lower-right hand was Mother Ostankya, being dragged along by her grey hair, she was utterly beaten and broken but still barely alive.
Tzeentch made Ixion lift up and present the defeated Ostankya to all, holding the barely conscious hag by the head, as he spoke, "Already the vampire, Ulrika Magdova has fallen to me...and now. So too will this hag. Her soul, her power, her knowledge, shall be mine to use in the transformation of this land, in the name of Change!!" Tzeentch painfully and slowly tore out the magic, experience and soul from Mother Ostankya, as she screamed in utter pain!!!
Her screams driving the Kislevite warriors to horror, as she withered away in the grip of the Chosen of the Gods, becoming a withered, grayish husk in his grasp.
But he was finished, as she died and her vitality was drained away, Tzeentch channeled his magical power, the power of fire magic to ignite and burn her body, becoming akin to a witch pyre, completely breaking the spirits and wills of the remaining Daughters of the Hag forces, while in turn rising morale and strength amongst the Dark Legion's ranks.
The Chaos warriors, monsters, mutants, and daemons cheered, and the Kislevite men and women started to flee in terror, in a desperate act to save themselves.
Seeing this Tzeentch/Ixion threw away the still burning corpse of Ostankya, and gave his order, "Leave non-alive!! Hunt all survivors, offer their souls to the Dark Gods!!!" this sparked the murderous impulses of the Chaos forces, and with this Tzeentch has won this battle!!!
Spreading his arms, and laughing, embracing the glory and joy of his victory, as soon the rest of Kislev shall join in the thrall of Change and Arcane of his eternal rule!!!
[Author Note: There you have it the last chapter of the Mother Ostankya saga. After a few chapter it'll be the Tzarina battle, and then the Vampire Counts. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and have a pleasant day/nite. Cyall in the next chapter. 👍]