As soon as we watched him appear from where he was hiding I had a bad feeling.

Looking around at everyone else in my fireteam I could tell they felt the same way.

"Ghost get ready for transmat" I say to my ghost who looks just as worried as the rest of us. "Will do" he replies. That's when I see it a black and white explosion with similar patterns as the taken.

Just as the explosion reaches us I get pulled into my Ceres Galliot ship I purchased from Petra. "Noooooooooo" I cry out. "Ghost get us to the tower immediately, we have to tell the Vanguards".

"Will do" he replies, I am honestly getting real tired of that response. As soon as we land in the tower I run straight to the hall of guardians.

Halfway between the vanguards and Eris Morn I stopped running and thought about who I should tell. Eris would know what happened, however the Vanguards would take initiative.

I decide to go straight to the vanguards.

Being a Titan I naturally headed to Commander Zavala the Titan vanguard. "What is it Mike?" he asks clearly seeing I'm worried about something.

I explain the whole story to him about how we were in the raid just about to finish Oryx, The Taken King once and for all when the explosion went off.

"Ah, yes he has stolen your fellow guardians" whispers Eris eavesdropping on our conversation. "In English Eris, in English" replies Cayde-6 the Hunter vanguard. "He is holding them prisoner" she mutters. "Where?" I yell a little too loudly.

Everyone turns to look at us, civilians, guardians and even vendors. I feel my face going red with embarrassment.

"I do not know where, Oryx has many strongholds in many dimensions" Eris answers. "We need a Warlock on the case" suggests Ikora Rey the Warlock vanguard. "Here we go" Cayde-6 mutters under his breath.

"Warlocks could find out what happened to these guardians faster than anyone else" she says.

"I guess we could" mutters a new voice. "I know that voice!" Eris whispers with surprise. I turn around to see who this new person was.

"Hiiiiiiivvvvvveeeeee" I yell pulling out my Hawkmoon ready to blast its head off. Everyone around us gets to cover.

"No don't shoot him" yells Eris. I holster my Hawkmoon looking warily at Eris. "His name is Toland" she explains.

"Toland the Shattered, as in Toland's Journal?" I ask a little too excitedly. "Yes Toland the betrayer" whispers Ikora. "He ditched the light of the Traveler and went to live with the hive". "The Warlocks' biggest disgrace" she finishes.

"I didn't know that" I apologize. "Yes to do research for his journal just after saving me from the pit" Eris says trying to help. "What are you doing here?" she asks.

"I felt a disturbance in the darkness, five beacons of light appeared in the bottom of the Hellmouth today -". "My fireteam" I interrupt. "Indeed, their light will be drained in a week from now leaving them like Eris and I, they will no longer be guardians at that point" Toland points out.

"We need to rescue them" I suggest. "You'd need a strong fireteam for that, Mike". Zavala points out. "I think I can manage that" I mutter just before running off to assemble my fireteam.

An hour later we all meet in the tower hangar. Toland, Eris, my Trials of Osiris team mates Dav-9 and Phat-13, and my friend Toby. I begin to brief them on our mission.

"This is a search and rescue mission, engage enemies only if necessary" I begin to explain. "This is a stealth mission remain in the shadows at all times, Toland and Eris will be our guides we must protect them, they are unable to regenerate health like us". "Got it" I finish.

Everyone nods in agreement. "Well let's go then" we all board our ships and head off towards the moon.