DESTINY
The Clock Worker
"A Child asked me if I was a clock…I told her yes, I was keeping time until the world would be safe for her."
Chapter One: Ghost
Cold was what Ghost was getting from this ship, a long since drifting derelict heading towards Mercury, an unknown destination long since forgotten since days of old. Ghost floated around the drifting ship, his journey had taken him here for reasons unknown, just that his destiny awaited him here…
Ghost sat in a small room for a while, scanning the dead that were lying about, air was minimal on board the derelict and was a miracle that the air filtration unit was still operational after so many years.
A noise caught Ghosts attention and he dimmed his eye slightly before hiding behind some crates, and soon enough, a Fallen soldier moved down the corridor, they had come aboard the ship a while ago before he had made it there, so he was playing a dangerous game finding what he was looking for.
Once the Fallen had moved on, Ghost continued his search, sifting through the dead before finally coming upon one he found interesting.
Lying on the floor was what appeared to be a scientist of some kind, tattered cloth still clinging against the bones, signifying that this person might have been one at some point, Ghost would never know as his shell opened up and his central eye shown a brilliant light down on the corpse.
A Ghost's purpose was to find a Guardian to help fight against the growing darkness, the very thing walking aboard this old derelict ship, and this one had found what it was looking for as it used its functions to reconstruct the dead into a living being again, a Guardian.
After some work, the body was reconstructed again and there lied a women, pale pink skin with light brown hair flowing down to her shoulders, Ghost looked at his "creation" in awe, he had finally found his destiny, which would now be hers to bear.
Soon the person awoke with a sudden start, gasping as if the air in the room had escaped before looking around, taking in shallow breaths before breathing normally.
This Guardian interested Ghost as he reconstructed himself back together, looking at her with his central blue eye, "Hello Guardian!" He said almost cheerfully, in honesty, he was excited for this, The Traveler had given him a purpose and his long journey payed off.
"W…were am I?" the women asked, looking down at herself at the ripped cloth that barely covered her body.
"That I do not know, but this ship you are currently aboard has been drifting for quite some time."
"Drifting?" She asked, looking up at Ghost now.
Ghosts' body began to rotate as he processed this, "Yes, I don't have an exact date of how long though." He said softly before looking at the doorway and then back at the women, "Quickly Guardian, I have no time to explain, but you must follow me!" He exclaimed.
The women got up and looked around before following, listening to the cries of monsters down the hall.
What bothered her more however was that she couldn't remember who she was exactly save for her name, Karen walked behind this strange floating object, seemingly trusting the object as if it was a friend she's known for a long time…or she just chose to trust this object instead of finding out what was making all those noises.
Ghost stopped down the hallway and looked down the T Corridor before moving left, "This way!" He said, Karen heard the noise getting closer, clicking sounds as something was running at them.
The two of them picked up their pace as they ran down the hallway, passing by many rooms as Karen was focused on what was in front of her, soon however, she ran into something with a loud grunt before falling against the deck.
Looking up, she looked straight at a thing creature with two arms and what appeared to be a space suit like clothing on it and a mask over its head, two piercing white eyes looking down at her as it reeled back from being run into.
Beside Karen was a pistol that the creature had dropped, the thing itself saw this and pulled out a knife and lunged at her before she picked up the gun and fired.
Karen hadn't realized she had closed her eyes when she fired, but when she opened them, she saw the creature slump to its knees, smoking holes in its chest and head flowed from its wounds before it fell to the deck in between Karen's legs.
She was shaking now, dropping the pistol before getting up, clinging against the wall as she avoided the thing, thinking it would somehow get back up.
"Guardian, are you alright?!" Ghost spoke, looking down at her and scanning her for injuries, to his surprise, there was none save for mental stress.
Karen nodded and moved past the creature, "L…let's just go…" She said before continuing on down the hallway to an unknown destination.
Soon, they made it to a small hanger on the ship, parts strewn about everywhere as Ghost moved forward, scanning the area, a ship sat at the center of the hanger, silent and undamaged through the years, save for some paneling that had been taken off, but those were an easy fix.
Karen looked at it with a relieved smile, Ghost looked through the ship, plunging into an opening it found before coming out a few minutes later, "Good news, this Jumpship is still functional!" It exclaimed, its back end rotating, "Shall we get out of here?" It asked.
Karen nodded and opened up the cockpit before climbing inside, somehow she also remembered how to operate a ship like this.
Ghost began to move inside before a shot rang out and struck the machine in the side, causing a quick "yelping" sound to come out of it as it suddenly dropped into the cockpit with Karen, in a panic, she closed the cockpit and started up the engines as Fallen started to almost flood into the room, more of those strange creatures pouring in like a broken faucet.
"Shit, shit, shit!" Karen swore, the engines sputtered slightly before finally coming to life, the jumpship soon lifted up off the deck and Ghost, with his damaged shell, did his best to open up the hanger as Karen flew the ship out, striking the doors slightly as they escaped the ship.
Karen woke up from her sleep, deciding that she needed a nap as the ship drifted to an unknown destination, Ghost was in her lap, still functioning but no longer speaking, a few sparks flying from it.
"Thank you little guy…" She said with a frown, looking at the thing, this very object saved her life, or more like GAVE her life somehow, and she was strangely grateful for it.
Looking out into space, out into the empty expanse, soothed her, no sign of strange creatures coming at her…it was tranquil.
Ghost sputtered a bit as his eye moved around the cockpit, looking for something before lifting up slightly and looking outside with her.
Ghost tried to say something to Karen, but was unable to, much to his dismay, but he motioned towards an unknown destination that she looked at before directing the ship that way.
Not knowing where she was going, she continued forward in space, almost lost, but thankful to be out of danger…
Soon…Karen drifted off back to sleep, letting darkness take her into a deep sleep for now, Ghost drifted down back into her lap and decided to power down for now.