Vermin Tide Quest

Chapter 1

Victor Saltzpyre and the other four members of his party were clearing out the last of the Skaven that were being sent by their Grey Seer to stall them while he prepared his black magics atop of a stone pillar. The Witch Hunter was currently using his rapier and a pistol, one of the many he had hidden underneath his black trench coat, coated in blood like his hat while standing on a stair case dueling with three Clanrats. Victor stabbed the one to the left in the stomach, and shot the middle one in the head when he rushed to take advantage of the supposed opening the Witch Hunter made. The Bright Wizard Sienna blocked the last one's sword with her own burning one, then parried the ratmans second swing to decapitate it. As the smell of burning fur and flesh could be sensed she turned to her former captor.

"Watch your blind spot, Saltzpyre! It would be a shame for you to lose both eyes!" she yelled out, causing the Witch Hunter to look at her with a scowl.

"We need to destroy the ratman witch while he is distracted." Victor said in a gravelly voice. He then pointed with rapier at a ledge while shooting a Slave rat that tried to sneak up on the two with a second pistol he pulled out from his coat. Sienna wondered how the man carried so many of them to battle, as he almost always seemed to have another one of the devices when you think the Witch Hunter was finally out, espcially noticeable when he had a Volley Crossbow as well. "Go and attack him from above with a flurry of Bolts to wear out his shield. I'll get him from behind with a bomb. Take care not to immolate yourself like you did against those Rat Orges back at the farm." The man said, pulling out a black sphere and a flint and steel, then ran around a corner, where Markus Kruber could be heard shouting out curses at a swarm of Clanrats surrounding him and a Dwarf Ranger.

"All you beasts go rot in the Warp!" Kruber screamed, cleaving at least ten or so Skaven in half with a single swing of his great sword, while the Dwarf Bardin Goreksson pointed his Grudge Raker at a group of Slaverats and blasted them to pieces, the Dwarf shotgun belching clouds of lead and ripping them apart.

"Well done Umgi, reminds me of my cousin Okri! Absolute madman would charge into the Thagoraki and do that as well!" the cheerful Ranger said, laughing boisterously as he reloaded, then sidestepped a surviving Skavens swing with a broken chair leg. Bardin then smashed its skull in by beating it repeatedly with the end of the Grudge Raker, switching to to an axe and shield to charge at a lone Stormvermin. Victor ran inbetween Kruber and the Bardin.

"Oi, Victor where you going?!" Markus yelled.

"To finish this fight!" the Witch Hunter yelled, running through the opened area in the sewers the Uberseik Five as they were called were fighting after being attacked in the Red Moon Inn. The tell-tale signs of the Wood-Elf Kerillian could be seen in the form of dead Skaven, either cut apart with her duel swords or shot with arrows that impaled them on the walls.

The lot of five bickering warriors had stopped a Skaven Vermintide, an attempt of the underground-dwelling ratmen to conquer the world above. The Skaven tried to establish a foothold in Ubersreik, but the five heros banded together despite their differences stop them after seemingly killing the Grey Seer in charge. It quickly turned out otherwise, as they suddenly found themselves almost a day later being attacked in the Red Moon Inn by what remained, and now they were in the sewers once again, in a chamber where what looked by Skaven standards to be a back up plan was being performed.

"Fool fools, kill-stab the interloper-things!" the Geer Seer screeched from the pillar he was standing on, as more Skaven crawled out of their holes to attack the Witch Hunter. He threw his bomb, blowing up the group as he grabbed a second one from his coat. He questioned why he and the others never thought to carry more then one, which soon paid itself in spades when they then started doing so. A number of bolts of fire made by the Wind of Aqshy suddenly pelted the green barrier the Grey Seer surrounded himself in, along with a number of arrows from wherever the Wood Elf was hiding. The Grey Seer turned in anger. "You dare-try to face me breeder-things?! You will die-die for your foolish-idiocy! For you are too late-late!" the Skaven warlock started cackling madly, as he created some form of vile green mist just as Markus and Bardin ran in with the Witch Hunter, whose eyes widened in terror.

"BY SIGMAR NNNNOO-" he screamed, as the Ubersreik Five was shunted away from the Old World, and into a new one. One which would be steeped in heresy and abominations of all kinds in the eyes of those who served the cause of Order...

**POV SHIFT**

As Luka and Alice were walking along one of the countryside roads to the port town of Illias Dock, Alice stopped. The Human looked behind him, and faced the Lamia.

"What's wrong?" he asked, noticing the look of confusion in the half-snake woman. Almost a second later, the sky crackled with green and vile energies, and Alice fell over screaming as she held her head. Luka did as well, feeling the sudden pressure of an uncountable number of eyes looking upon him and everything else in the world. A chattering and high-pitched demonic laugh of triumph resounded in his head, and when it ceased, he turned and saw that his companion was looking around with a shaken look on her face.

"What was that?!" he yelled while tightening his grip on the Angel Halo sword, shaken by the sudden event that transpired.

"I don't know. This was definitely not from something in our world, I know that much. None of the Elements were used in whatever spell that was." Alice responded, rubbing her arms, which wore black elbow length gloves. Her purple skin had goosebumps. The two then went on alert when a green hole opened in front of them. A distinct yelling could be heard, growing louder as the two went and hid behind a stone wall on one side.

"-EEEIIIIINNNNNNN!" it screamed, before a man dressed in strange attire fell out and hit the ground, groaning in pain before a woman in green cloth and furs landed on top of him. Alice peeked over the wall and looked at them alongside Luka. The woman, who had already jumped over and somersaulted before landing on her feet, was looking around the area, towards the trees of the forest across from them. What stood out most was that she clearly had Elf-ears, and moved like one in how she drew her bow in mid-air. However, she was oddly modest in her clothing,, which also had what looked like wooden armor, and took an unrecognized stance which lowered her profile. Everything was familiar, yet not as far as the two were concerned, before the Elf loosed her glowing blue arrow at something. Two Harpies and a Slug Girl came out to investigate the disturbance, only for one of them to fall over dead as the arrow swerved and stuck itself in the Slug Girls head, an explosion of neon blue mist and gore being released as it went through and finally embedded into one of the Harpies' neck. The other screamed in terror, as the Elf readied and loosed a second one without pause, which chased the flying Monster into the forest. During this, the man got up while the Monster Lord flew out in rage and tackled the Elf, ignoring the Human as she grabbed her prey by the neck.

"MURDERER!" she screamed, her voice bellowing out and threatening to blow out the eardrums of those around her. "WHY DID YOU ATTACK YOUR OWN KIN?!" the Lamia yelled, shaking the Elf before stopping. It looked at Alice with scared eyes that were gold, but Alice noticed that where there should be white, her eyes were black. Just as the Elf was about to say something, Alice sensed the man running towards her. She swiped with her tail, hitting the man and sending him flying over the wall, where Luka went to him.

"Are you alright?" he asked in shock, as the man pulled and drunk a potion of some weird liquid. After a few seconds of what sounded like cracking bones, the man got up and pushed Luka to the side, pulling out two strange wood and metal objects of some kind from his coat, instead of the oddly designed crossbow he had on his back. When he aimed one at Alice, Luka realized they were weapons, and just managed to grab the strangers arm and yanked it as the two began to to struggle. However, the man still managed to fire off a shot.

*Bang!*

Suddenly Alice screamed, as her hip was suddenly bleeding crimson blood, while the Elf stabbed the distracted Lamia in the arm with by the now berserk Lamia until she was unconscious. A second banging sound snapped out, and Alice ducked as she heard something whiz towards her head, dodging the projectile. She turned and saw Luka was struggling with the man,who headbutted the self-proclaimed Hero in the face, before drawing out and raising a rapier of some design she never had seen before. Alice then cast an Earth-based spell, causing the ground to open up and then close on the attacker as he fell, burying him halfway from the chest up. Finally calming down, Alice slithered over to speak with the Human.

"Now then, you two are ballsy as hell to knowingly try to-" Alice was immediately interrupted by the imprisoned Human.

"Was in Sigmars Namen ist das?! Ich werde dich mutierte Hexe toten!" the man screamed, causing the two companions to pause.

"What the hell?" Alice said, as the man screamed and cursed at her and Luka in his strange tongue, while Luka himself grabbed Angel Halo from the ground and sat down. He then meditated, healing his wounds in front of the man, who paused in shock at the display. Instead of calming down however, the man pulled on a wooden bit in his hat, which turned out to have a metal blade in it.

"Chaos verehrendor Verrator!" he yelled, throwing the knife at Luka, who didn't even need to move as the man undershot by a pathetic margin, the position he was in having a limited range of movement. Alice grabbed his arms and snapped them with a loud cracking sound. The man cried out in pain, before he passed out from it. "Oops." Alice said, as she pulled him out of the hole she made with her tail and turned to grab the Elf, who she then saw running away into the forest, cutting off the head of a Worm Girl as she came out of the ground without slowing down. "Well shit." the Lamia said, as the psychopathic Monster was about to disappear into the trees. "Looks like we got our work cut for us." Luka said. When she suddenly fell over, Luka sighed. "Or not."

"Wait. Something's wrong." Alice said. "Not only do I detect something different about those two concerning their souls, that just yelled 'Chaos' at you." Alice said. "We need to take them with us. 'Chaos' is the only word I recognized from the Humans' hideous gibbering."