Pilot: Destinys Three Musketeers
It lunged at him swinging in a downward motion to slice him clean in two. If the player behind the remote wasn't such a good gamer that would have been so. He jumped back out of the reach of his deadly foe pumping his shotgun in one second and in the other using his light propelled jump to throw himself at the being and shoving the barrel of the cold iron in the face of the Hive prince.
"Take that bitch!" Shadow called out into his headset a little bit too loud.
Sprinkle scoffed from his friends reaction at killing the low level Hive knight. "I don't understand how you get excited about killing a level 3 knight when your level 31," his words made their other friend chuckle.
Alex threw a nova bomb at the last prince erasing him with the deadly void blast that eradicated anything around the prince in a five feet radius. "Well, Sparkle, maybe if you weren't a crappy gunslinging hunter you would understand why Shadow and I are the powerhouse of this fireteam."
Shadow and Sprinkle got a chuckle out of that.
It was Just another Saturday afternoon. Shadow, Sprinkle and Alex, were once again playing Destiny. A first-person RPG shooter developed by Bungie. Shadow and Sprinkle had been friends for two years ever since Battlefield 3 had came out in 2013. It was funny how other people saw their friendship because they would always bicker and argue but meant nothing by it. Alex had met Shadow through a random Strike match on Destiny, shortly after that Alex had met Sprinkle and BAM! They were a three man ass kicking fireteam. One Hunter, Titan, Warlock. A perfect team.
Each of them headed back to the tower to turn in the bounty they had just completed on the moon.
"So I see you have finally gotten yourself a legendary Helmet Sparkle" Alex stated as he controlled his Warlock to head towards the bounty tracker.
"Yeah right I got it on the vault of glass with some of my friends a while ago."
"Just because you got better gear doesn't mean you're a better player" Shadow had shot back with a laugh.
Sprinkle controlled his hunter to ram into Shadows Titan sending him plummeting off the tower to his death. It didn't take him that long to respawn but Alex's and Sprinkle's laughing hurt him, not mentally or physically, but his ego.
After about an hour of playing Destiny it began to get dark. In Alaska this wasn't normal but Shadow heard the sound of rumbling outside of his window shocking him. "Hey give me a second, the weather is acting… odd."
Before he could hear his friends replies he had stood up and drew back the curtains revealing a dark black sky crackling with thunder and the winds throwing anything on the streets into the air. "What the hell?" He thought to himself. It was Alaska and their has only been a few times when thunder clouds appeared like this but something seemed off. It was as if the whole sky was coming down on top of Anchorage. Thunder shot out from the sky, whipping around tearing up concrete and the rooftops of houses. He stumbled back when a strike hit a tree outside of his window setting the poor tree on fire with a furious CRACK! Blinded and confused he heard his friends yelling over the headset and put it on.
"HOLY SHIT!" Sprinkle yelled as his wall was torn out by a force so strong it threw him off his couch and into his T.V. His home was being torn apart by a giant black tornado. Even his friends voices were little echoes compared to the monster sized death. Whether out of instinct or fear his body was being tugged and he grabbed a support pillar in his home hoping the thing would hold fast against the tornado. He couldn't breath, his vision grew black and the sky came down on top of him swallowing him whole like a blanket of pure nothing. That was till the thunder began to strike. Fighting back the evil hat refused to let the world be consumed by the darkness. The white cracks of lightning finally found its hope and struck him, killing him, but giving him life so that he may fight in the upcoming war for all of man.
The Darkness had almost gotten them. Something happened in the future that caused this turmoil and destructions. The sky fell, the seas boiled with anger, winds tore and ripped. This was to be the end of mankind, but…
The Light took the ones. The ones who would fight for them and preserve all that is good. Three men and three women all pure of heart. They were to be the knights of the round table, the wall against the darkness, and the slayers of their enemies.
It was… warm, bright, silent, and safe.
Everything was so fast and sudden, none of them knew what happened.
"A-am I dead?" Shadow asked aloud, the light around him so blinding he kept his brown eyes shut. Something hit him in the face and he scowled in anger. He swung back wildly hitting what felt like ribs and someone yelped in pain.
"Stop stop! Why are you two fighting!?" A teen ran over shoving the other two apart before they went at it again.
Shadow stood back finally getting a good view of whoever struck him and glared at him. He was about to 5'9 just a little bit taller than he was. "What the fuck… Shadow?"
Shadow looked at Alex, Alex looked at Sprinkle, and Sprinkle looked at Shadow. All three unsure of what to say or do. The all white scene they were in didn't help either. "Guys how the hell are we here?" Alex asked looking between the two. He couldn't even remember what had happened.
They forgot how they knew what each other looked like but playing hours on hours with each pretty made it easy remember their voices.
Not even answering his question Shadow pointed at Sprinkle with a shocked expression. "We've known each other for TWO YEARS and the first thing you do when you see me is deck me in the face!?"
Sprinkle shook his trying not to laugh "hey man what else was I suppose to do?"
"That does make you look like an ass Sparkle" Alex chimed in.
"Ok ok my bad damn."
Shadow just gave him the pat on the shoulder "its alright my friend you hit like a girl anyways." Sprinkle shoved him and Alex laughed. "No seriously though. What happened?" The texan asked again. All of them took a moment to think about it and for some reason none of them could. It wasn't just that. Family, friends, hobbies, women. The only thing they could remember was each other and some sort of game. Was it a game now or some means of their next life.
All of them stared at each other not knowing what to do. The silence was madding in this vast void of burning white. "Destiny," a single word that Shadow spoke made the remember something.
"Become legend? Does that mean anything?" Sprinkle asked running a hand through his black hair. Alex snapped his fingers with a smile. "Its a game… or a thing… something." Both Shadow and Sprinkle looked at him, "What?" He asked confused at the "what the fuck are you talking about" expression.
Shadow just chuckled to himself. "Bro the only thing I remember is you two fools and actually something about the light and dark. This doesn't even make any sense; I was in Alaska." He pointed at himself then at Alex, "you were in Texas," then he pointed at Sprinkle who was digging in his pockets for something, "and you were in california." They took five minutes to put together what they remember and it didn't help at all. Shadow finally just laid back putting his hoodie over his head and his hands in his pockets. Alex dug into his pockets and froze. He pulled out a glass cube.
Inside of it was beautiful. What looked like blue arcs of lightning danced around a sphere of deadly looking solar orange fire and in the middle of that was a purple empty void.
"What the h-" Sprinkle pulled out the note he had found in his pockets that read in big bold letters "the choice is I'm your hands."
Each of them stood in a circle looking at the note and the fragile looking cube Alex held in his left hand. "I don't understand why this looks familiar, as if we don't hold the memory but we know." Alex's words made sense but inside Sprinkle was wondering if he was taking some sort of psychedelic drug. "What should we do?" Sprinkle asked, almost getting lost in the way that fire looked.
Shadow just got sick of it. The complete white that surrounded them, the loss of memory. He just wanted to be done with this place and leave this warm prison. So he made the decision for them.
Quick like lightning he grabbed the cube and raised it over his head with a look of fear and excitement sketched across his face. "Only one way to find out!" he shouted before smashing the cube on to whatever they stood upon. There was a sound like a vacuum then they were suddenly falling out of the sky. Shadow had a strange nostalgic feeling and thought of something called kingdom hearts for some reason. White became black then black became orange, blue, and purple.
None of them screamed as the air was taken out of there lungs, there entire being rewritten by the power held in that cube.
Arc whipped around Shadows body fusing with his body, changing him. It danced across his dark skin for a moment. The raw power of thunder turning him into a wrecking ball of pure Zeus like power and strength.
Void almost ripped Alex to shreds atom by atom. It was the lights gift to him so this was not to be. A gift of pure power that is not bounded by the laws of space and time. It changed not only his body but his mind, how he thought and how the smallest things held so much wonder. Everything was something to discover and he was the explorer filled with the power to do anything now.
Solar filled him with something different than his comrades. It was a small spark at first but then it grew into a fiery inferno that couldn't be extinguished by anything, not even the darkness. It molded his body into the solar light. A weapon of pure destruction and awesomeness.
Out with the old and in with the new.
Centuries upon centuries they slept. Waiting. For their time to rise out of the ashes of time. The darkness had hit earth with just a little bit of its power. Killing hundreds of people in the process. No one knew what it was but when it showed up, everything changed. It was known as the traveller. When it arrived it spoke to us, took our memories so that we may be reborn as new. It old us that many centuries from now we would arise new men to fight its mortal enemy, the darkness. Long Before the darkness arrived this traveller shared its knowledge with mankind, rose us to higher planes with its advanced technology and tripled our life span. The golden age of mankind would thrive for centuries. We spanned out across space building cities and colonies amongst our neighboring planets such as mars, mercury, the moon, and even venus. But the darkness had taken this away from humanity and now the last great city is our only home. Guardians, the cities noble army of soldiers who protect their home using the power they harness from the travellers energy gave them the ability to fight against humanity's enemies. All this time we've been "sleeping," waiting until we were to be awoken to fight for the light, and banish the dark.
Now Ghost was searching for them. Looking for not one guardian… but three. The ones who would become legend.