Editing The 13th Black Crusade (section)

===The Worse Yet===

Cadia was dying, but the worse was yet to come. All across the planet minor Pylon fields toppled, and with each destroyed pylon, the dark light beam that had shot into the sky flickered, then finally stopped. To Belisarius Cawl, who still continued to monitor the Pylons' dying functions, it was a frustrating experience, especially when they had come so close to closing the Eye once and for all.

Scarce moments passed, before a new and unwelcome sound joined the howling winds. To those alive, it sounded like the dark laughter of gods long-denied their prize, and as the Eye of Terror pulsed high above the burning Cadian skies, it took the planet into its baleful embrace.

Without the Pylons holding the Warp back, Daemons were able to finally manifest at full strength on the savaged planet. They first started on Cadia Tertius, but soon spread through every continent as Cadia was awash in the energies of the Immaterium. The Imperial Psykers still alive after found themselves under assault from perils of the Warp, and the weak-willed found themselves gunned down by their former comrades as Daemons found them ''excellent'' flesh suits. A few iron-willed individuals managed to hold off possession, although only Inquisitor Greyfax forcefully repelled the Daemons from her mind entirely.

And yet at this darkest of moments hope flared anew, as with the return of the Immaterium so did Saint Celestine's and the Geminae Superia's Emperor-given radiance. She led the ragged survivors of the battle in the caverns back to the surface, and beheld a world that was much changed -- rivers of magma wound around the fallen pylons and consumed both the dead and their abandoned armaments, and the stacatto beat of gunfire gradually grew in tempo as the first Daemons returned to the battlefield.

As the Elysion Fields survivors used Celestine's light as a rallying point, the Cadian 8th once more looked to Creed for guidance, but for the first time ever none was forthcoming, for the Lord Castellan had viewed the ruin of their world, and felt his heart collapse at the sight.

Creed's hesitation gave Greyfax the opportunity to take the initiative, and the Inquisitor commandeered what remained of Cadia's vox-net, then ordered a general evacuation of the planet to all those still alive to hear it. She expected resistance from the Living Saint, but there was surprisingly none as Celestine's attention was drawn northward, to where surviving Battle Sisters were now fighting against returned Daemons.