//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: Destiny: The Five // by THOSEideas //------------------------------// Eris walked through the dust of the moon and slumped against the rocks. Her mind had been scorched and cursed, she and her team had been caught by the Son of Oryx and he has no mercy. That beast had caught the fire team of six and slaughtered them with hast, as if he had something better to do... "Is everyone prepared?" The team all nodded and prepared for the long drop down into the inner depths of the moon. The team didn't know how long the drop and they couldn't see the bottom because of all the fog that the Hive seem to be able to create. "Does anyone else hate the color green?" Eris turned towards the warlock that was looking down into the massive hole, obviously not scared of heights. Warlocks were the most knowledgeable of the Light that resurrected all of their bodies, also the most annoying. They constantly corrected you if you got something wrong and always chose the most boring fighting tactics, but the most safe. "Hell no, I love the color green, especially when it squirts out of the necks of those damn Hive when you blow their heads off." Shin Malphur...a hunter himself, hunters were usually quiet and introverted which helped with how they chose to fight the Darkness. The hunters were the quiet and stealthy, the silent and deadly fighters of Guardians the ones who scouted out the field so the Titans could lumber in and destroy anything in their path. Titans, the beasts of the Guardians, they had two inch thick armor and carried the biggest guns they could find, loud as hell. The team was just going in to the unexplored area to explore it, and then get out of their without dying. They had no clue what was down their, and the entire team realized that it was a suicide mission. The information that they could gather, however, could change the course of the war and free the Solar System from the darkness that coursed through it. It was just like a fairy tale. "Alright chums, lets do this...Wooohoooo!!" the rest of the team chuckled at Shin as he jumped straight into the massive crater, he did have a sense of humor. Eris and the rest of the team all took a running start and jumped in with various styles. Eris herself did a swan dive and rocketed ahead of the group as she dove head first and caught up with Shin. "You know...I probably should have checked my equipment before I jumped..." Eris struggled to turn her head towards Shin as the wind tried to force it backwards. Eris had heard his voice through the intercom that was in their helmets, which also meant she couldn't see his smile. "Doesn't your Ghost do that?" Ghosts were the beings that traveled with the Guardians, they were pure light. The Ghosts had focused the Light and coursed it through the dead bodies of beings to revive them and make them fight for all of life. In one way they were assholes, and in the other they were one of the most helpful things to have. inside their tiny bodies they could store impossible amounts of data, as well as take the technological coding of something and store it in their bodies to use for another time. "Well...Ok good, he did do it. TO THE LEFT!!" Eris whipped her head forward just in time to see a Hive bridge approaching her at an alarming speed. She yanked her body to the left and altered her course so that she didn't splatter her guts on the ground for the Hive to eat. She also noticed that the four team members behind them were taking a slower pace, letting the two daredevils do the hardest stuff. The team had been falling for three minutes before all of their Ghosts warned them to slow their descent and ready their jump packs. The Warlocks and Titans would have an easier time landing without injury because they had jump jets that they could accurately control. The Hunters on the other hand had ones that they could use once and that had an immediate and single use effect. This caused massive strain on the body and could kill you, didn't stop the Hunters from doing it though. Shin ignored the advice from his Ghost as usual and sped up, dumbass. "He's going to die..." My Ghost said into my ear "What is he thinking?" Eris just watched as Shin used his jump jets, and made himself go even faster, he then used a second burst which she didn't think was possible, and was know a blur as he sped towards the ground. Eris used her jump jets and jarred her teeth from the sudden slow of her decent, she carried on by feathering her jump jets until they ran out and she dropped the rest of the twenty feet. "Oooof!" Eris got up from her kneeling position and looked around for the bloody corpse of Shin's body, but instead she saw him kneeling on three dead Hive corpses. "Took you long enough, this kind gentleman here broke my fall and would you believe it? his friends decided that they wanted to make out with my gun! How could I resist their pleas?" Eris looked above the Hunters shoulder where she could see his Ghost floating and visibly shaking. Eris was about to say something but was interrupted by the rest of the team landing safely on the ground. The team gathered together and re-checked their equipment for damage, even Shin did. "Alright team, from here on out, hand-signals and minimal chatter." Everyone followed Eris' lead as she went down one of the many tunnels in search of hidden secrets. They had been traveling for about two hours before the tunnel reached into a massive cavern that had no lights, not even from the eyes of the Hive. Shin silently walked forward and knelt in the entrance for a couple of seconds until his body vanished into thin air. Hunter trick, one of them was invisibility why hadn't her Ghost given her that ability? she was slightly jealous. The rest of the team waited patiently until Shin came back with the all clear. In the distance Eris saw a bright, green, glowing light travel up from a single point in the floor, it then proceeded to swirl around the floor until it formed a circle with an interesting pattern. the bright light that traveled up suddenly was lifted and Eris heard the deafening roar of a massive being as the stick of light smashed down in the ground. "RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIVES!!!" Shin came running back towards the entrance at full speed and jumped clean over the team as he retreated. Eris and the others took the hint and opened fire on the general area of the being as they slowly backed up. The beast roared again and charged towards them, each massive step it took shook the ground and messed up the Guardians shots. as the Guardians reloaded they started sprinting away from the beast but it was closing in fast, too fast. As Eris turned around she saw Shin channel all the light he could spare into his Hand cannon and fire off the most explosive and deadly rounds she had ever seen in her life. The beast visibly staggered as the three rounds penetrated his Chitin armor and sunk into his bod. Shin's gun smoked and extinguished itself as the heat from the bullets caught the gun on fire. The team starred at the Beast as it slowly righted itself and smashed it's sword into the ground causing a shock-wave of green fire to spread outwards from the Beast. The Guardians all jumped out of the way and landed safely back on the ground. "Eris!! That is no normal Hive, that is the Son of Oryx! we need to leave, now!!" Eris' Ghost shouted into the intercom so that all the Guardians could hear. as soon as the other Ghosts heard, they started doing calculations to figure out their percentage of survival, all of them came up with the possibility of only ONE person walking out alive. The Fire team looked at each other and all nodded. Eris was forced back as the other team members pushed her back with their backs. "Eris...we all agreed that if such an occasion arose, you were going to be the one to survive. Do not thank us, you will be faced with the troubles of remembering what happened here, and teaching others of our sacrifice. Now run while you still can!" The quietest of the team had turned around and stiff armed her away from the rest forcing her to stumble backwards and away from her friends. Eris silently nodded and ran through the tunnel as tears started forming in her eyes, all she could here were the sounds of gun fire and the persistent swearing of the Guardians as they strung curse after curse on the Beast that was going to deliver their fate. "DIE YOU FUCKER!! ROT IN HELL, I WILL BE WAITING THERE TO PISS ON YOUR CORPSE...reloading...BUR-" Eris' Coms shut off as she heard a massive explosion and felt a shock-wave pass through her. Eris turned around to see the tunnel collapsing on itself and started sprinting towards the opposite end, her friends must have blown up the tunnel so that she could escape. She will never forget them.