title: Blood Shinobi: Revenge to Redemption
author:  Edmund Kolbusz 
description: Edmund Kolbusz is a teacher, tutor, theatrical director, and now an author. He works for the Forsyth County School Board in Georgia at Lambert High School teaching seniors British Literature and Composition. He lives in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
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  IMMORTALIS
  
  by Andy Smillie
  
  I am dying. But this is not my first death. I have died twice before.
  
  Blood. Blood was everywhere. It coated my armour like a second skin and hid
  the serrate symbol of my Chapter. It clogged the blunted teeth of my
  chainsword, silencing its adamantium roar. My brothers’ weapons had fallen
  silent too, their wrath extinguished on the bodies of the enemy. The green
  skins lay waist high, a torn wall of copses heaped around gore-filled craters.
  They had met us head-on, braying like maddened hounds as their crude weapons
  barked in their hands.
  
  But they knew nothing of true fury. Nothing of the bloodlust that drives all
  sons of Sanguinius to war.
  
  My own blood still thrummed in my veins, burning like the smouldering husks of
  the ork war-engines that studded the plain. A cloud of battle-rage hung over
  me, boiling my brain. Untempered anger wrenched a growl from my lips,
  demanding I kill again.
  
  I obeyed without pause, slaying the nea