DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN DESTINY OR ITS CHARACTERS ONLY THE ONES I MADE.

Prolog

A lone hunter sits inside of his ships cockpit waiting for the tower to clear him for landing. As he waits his left hand takes out a small device out of one of the cockpits storage units next to it rests an old side arm from back before the collapse. The small device is his hunter's journal where all the things he has done in his life are told. Just then he hears the a beeping on the console signaling an incoming transmission.

"This is the tower to Guardian Zeno. Your cleanse codes check out. You are cleared for landing."

With that the line goes dead once again and he brings his ship, "Ketch Me If You Can," into the landing pad. As he gets up from the pilots set and picks up the backpack lying next to the chair he whispers silently to himself, "Time for one last report old friend," as he puts on the pack and heads down the exit ramp into the hanger buzzing with noises of Frames doing repairs to ships and sparrows. As he makes his way to leave the hanger he is stopped by a woman with short blond hair as she calls out to him.

"Zeno. wasn't expecting to see you for another few weeks. Already done with you recon mission?"

"Ah, Holliday. You could say that. Something happened and I came back to report it to Cayde."

"Just Cayde? Not Zavala and Ikora?"

"Eh. they can hear it too if they are around I guess."

"Hehe, ok. So how long you staying this time? Will i be able to fix those gun emplacements of yours this time or will it be just fuel again?"

"You know me, won't be here long enough for you to start tinkering so fuel is fine."

"You know one of these days you're going to need those guns and then you will say, 'Man should have let Holliday fix the guns.'"

"Hay! I don't sound like that."

"Yes , you do."

"Whatever. I got a report to give so see you later."

"Yea, yea just don't go breaking that ship."

And with that Zeno made his way to The Hall of Guardians to tell Cayde what happened on his recon mission.

XXX

"Come on Ikora it's only a little bit of glimmer, I'll pay you back i promise."

"'Just a little bit of glimmer?' Cayde you are asking for 30,000 pieces, and don't give me that, 'I'll pay you back bullshit you still owe me 10,000 from that last SRL race."

"Hay that race was rigged I tell you. Rigged! How else can you explain how Sam went from a 10 second lead to last place 20 ft from the finish line?"

"It doesn't matter, what do you need the gimmer for any ways you are not trying to get some other hunter to become the Vanguard now are you?"

"What don't be ridiculous I just need it for-. Oh look a hunter needs my help with something. Wait is that Zeno?"

As the warlock Vanguard turns to the entrance towards the plaza she sees a hunter with an Achlyophage Symbiote helmet and blue cloak coming towards them.

"Zeno what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with Mike on a recon mission of Moscow? Why are you here and where is Mike?" Ikora asks with one eyebrow raised waiting for an answer.

Turning his head towards the Warlock Vanguard Zeno walks up to the end of the table and puts the backpack down on it and says to her, "That is what i am here to tell you about. Mike is currently lying down underneath a tree overlooking Lake Michigan. As to why I am here-"

"Lake Michigan? Why is he there? North America is a dark zone that no guardian or ghost is allowed to go to unless the vanguard gives them permission, and last i check neither me nor Zavala gave anyone permission to go to. Cayde?"

"Hay don't look at me. I am innocent this time."

"This time? What do you-"

"Ikora! If i may finish without you interrupting me then maybe your questions will be answered. Now then, as i was saying. The reason I am here now is because I came to report that during the recon Mike was corrupted by the darkness and killed his ghost and wounded both me and my ghost Charley before I was able to…to take him down." The vanguard were quiet for a minute as they took in this information. Right as Ikora opened her mouth to ask another question Zeno said. "Charley didn't make it."

Zeno then turns towards Cayde and opens the pack taking out both his and Mike's ghosts as well as a gray cloak which he then takes of his own folds it and puts on the gray one. When he is done he turns to Cayde and hands him a small device then turns to leave. As he does so Ikora says, "hold on. Where do you think you are going? You still need to tell us what you found in Moscow."

This causes Zeno to stop momentarily and glance at the Warlock over his left shoulder before continuing his walk back to the plaza.

"Hay! Get back-"

"Hold it Ikora. I'll go talk to him. I still think he is mad at you for what happened in 'Austria'."

"What that was 3 years ago. Why is he still mad?"

"Actually it was 2 years 11 months and 16 days ago."

"What? Oh, never mind just go get him."

XXX

"Hay, Zeno wait up."

"What do you want Cayde?"

"Two things. First what is this device you gave me, and second where are you going?"

"Well that device is a storage unit that i have stored my journal in and if you want to know what happened in Moscow you have to listen to the hole thing."

"Wait listen not read? Well whatever how long is it?"

"Well it starts from day one so, long? And as for where I am going. Well lets just say I am going back where it all began. Goodbye old friend, may we meet again under better circumstances."

"Wait what am I going to tell the others?"

"Tell them that what they are looking for is on that and that there is no fast forward or skip buttons. Oh and there might be apart about you in there that is the only part that you can skip but if you want to listen to it you already know the pass code."

Authors note:

Well here it is the prolog for my first story. Tell me what you think.