With every droning step, a new corpse was crushed, painting the plate mail boots black with the blood of the fallen. Skulls and chests were burst beneath their march, as they stepped through the corpses that now piled the streets. Vampire abominations, SOLDIER scum, and more than once their own comrades. It did not matter. Those that had fallen would be rewarded in the afterlife, those that were yet to fall would give their lives gladly, for the cause of purity.

A Platoon marched through the streets, the houses echoing with the sound of their ringing steps. As one, they hymmed, a deep tune that carried through the air like a foreboding wind. Lines of warriors, standing side by side, blade by blade. Each had one another's back, each was prepared to die. Nearly 50 men marched througb tight passageways, blades extended, ultraviolet visors active, finding their way by the slight radioation still given off by the corpses of the fallen. Over a trail of blood they walked. On their way, their were several who would attempt to break their lines, lone vampires and SOLDIER vigilantes, only to meet a wall of blades and death. This city would be purged of all evil, even if it were unwilling.

The place where moments before the vampires had gathered was empty, as the Platoon of Crusaders marched into the square. Still this place reeked of abominations, but there was nothing to fight, none were left to kill. They were the last of the Purge Crusaders in the city, those that still lived after all the violence. And yet, as they marched down the next street, they were no more dangerous for it.

It seemed there was but one vampire left of import in the city. Radio broadcasts would place him somewhere ten minutes ahead of the platoon. As one, they marched, blades raised, Baptizers loaded and ready. Stake guns were discarded in favour of alternate weaponry, plucked from the bodies that so littered the floor. As a wall of steel, adorned with thorns of silver, the Crusaders marched, their battle hymns preceding them. This night, they would kill Magnus, leader of the vampire armies.