HEY GUYS! I'm back! I'm going to experiment with a darker, perhaps depressing feel this time around. If you like it, give some suggestions for future chapters! Welcome to Dreaded Times!
Prologue: A Dead World
We thought we had him. We thought we fixed all of the world's problems. We thought. We THOUGHT we destroyed Oryx. If it weren't for the Vex, we wouldn't be mourning Cayde right now. The Vex... the damned Vex. Their control over time brought us to a time when the Hive Ascendants, the Cabal Primuses, the Fallen Kells, and the Vex overlords rule supreme, with Oryx behind them all. The loss of the Hunter Vanguard, Cayde-6, was all because of this, and his gambling problem. He bet 20,000 Glimmer that we wouldn't find anything else on the Dreadnaught, and he was so very wrong. The new Vanguard roster consisted only of Exos now. In fact, the entire world consisted of Exos now. The Human race is extinct, the Awoken Reef has been destroyed along with its citizens, and the rest of the Earth, besides The Last City, has been annihilated by darkness. We were artificial, but dead. We kept dying over and over and over, and to what avail? Sometimes, it only seems that we'll be claimed by the Darkness. It almost seems welcoming now. It seems better than what is happening now. The Last City has fallen into chaos, but the new Vanguard roster can keep a tight hold on it.
The Vanguard. They consisted of Torrent-2, the Hunter Vanguard, original slayer of Oryx; Platinum-9 the Titan Vanguard, destroyer of the Fallen House of Devils; and Siphon-8, the Warlock Vanguard, the genius behind breaking the Beckenstein Limit. They watched over The Last City better than anyone ever has. That's only because it's turned to this.
My name is Uranium-3, a voidwalker Warlock. I've known Siphon-8 long enough to know that Warlocks are no joke. We're set off easy, especially during these times. My friends and long-time fireteam consisted of me, Tungsten-10, a striker Titan, and Alpha-5, a Bladedancer Hunter. Alpha-5 hasn't been in the fireteam too long, but she's extremely skilled with a knife, and seems to be hiding something. No idea what it could be. Torrent-2 said something about 'losing the only thing that mattered to him' to the Vex. I'm intrigued, and a little skeptical, about the loss of this 'thing'. I don't know, but Alpha-5 has been involved with the Vex ever since she joined the Guardians. I don't know, I'm just ranting.
How did this all turn to shit? Let me tell you. It all started when Torrent and his 5 fireteam members went on a suicide mission to kill Oryx, with a resounding success. Then the Vex had to exist. They can manipulate time. They can 'think' you away. They can keep you in a single moment for millennia. They can flash-forward you to a time where everything is going to shit, like now for instance. We've been thrown forward 700 years. The Exos have no sense of age, but all other forms of life created by light are extinct. Now, Oryx has returned. He's brought a larger army, an anger strong enough to destroy Earth, and a vengeance so fueled that practically nothing could stop him. Nothing. Not even the strength of The Last City. We're crippled. We're lost. We need a light in the dark. We won't survive this. Guardians have been leaping off the Tower rail to plunge to their death in despair. They couldn't handle the fact that we might not make it through this. They have good reason to, but that shows them as mentally weak.
Now, we're strong. The Guardians won't go down without a fight. We'll hold out as long as possible, even if that means we die out there with our hands on our hearts. These are dreaded times, but we'll push as goddamn hard as we can. Traveler save us now...
That's it for now. Very doom and gloom from the start. I'll try my hardest to make connections to 'A Hunter, a Hero, a Legend' here, and make some connections to lore maybe. Welp, see y'all later!
