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Let's get dangerous.
Earth.
A planet just as those of its solar system which was the only that teemed with life: humans.
However, they would spread beyond the confines of their planet. Not long, scientists observed and discovered an object that would visit each planet in their system which underwent climate and environmental changes. Wanting to communicate with it, an expedition on Mars was set in order to see what it was.
After contact with the mysterious spherical entity, humanity named it the Traveler which changed everything.
Terraformation on other planets such as Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and even their moons allowed humanity to expand their civilization. Great cities were built on Mars and Venus, the Earth's Moon became a research colony, even Mercury became a garden world. Technological innovations advanced beyond belief, lifespan tripled, sweeping social changes present in their time.
Overall, it was a time of peace and prosperity deemed as the Golden Age.
Sadly, it did not last.
The Traveler's enemy, known as the Darkness, struck without warning and with much strength. Alien species overtook the humans and fought for new grounds. The four main species of this vagueness had found humanity and devastated many of its populations, cities, innovations, worlds; it did not matter.
Whatever was in alignment to the Traveler was lost and known only as the Collapse.
The end of everything.
However, it was the start of the Reclamation Age.
Driven back to Earth, the few that survived took refuge under The Traveler, which sacrificed much of its power to save what remained of humanity, united and built a city.
The Last City.
The final bastion of human civilization which remained in the solar system protected by the defensive aura by the Traveler.
But with the alien species seeking to break this defense, the Traveler in its dying stages created the Ghosts. These levitating, artificial-intelligent, star-like objects sought out corpses, revived, and reanimated them into warriors of light or light-bearers, to protect the remnants of humanity.
Otherwise known as the Guardians.
These specialized soldiers, as noted before, were grouped together to protect their final bastion and one day reclaim what humanity has lost. Split into three different classes are the Hunters, known for being deadly, unpredictable scouts and assailants, Warlocks, labeled 'warrior-scholars' driven by their curiosity and never-ending thirst to find the truth, and Titans, forged in strength and sacrifice to protect those who fall beneath their shadow, unite together against a common foe.
The history of their establishment is... interesting to say the least with different factions running about (however with few turning against the light and humanity).
For now, the focus was placed on the post-apocalyptic worlds where the Guardians now fight on multiple fronts against humanity's enemies to reclaim their lost treasures and hinder enemy lines to keep them breathing for another day along with letting them sleep peacefully through the nights.
However, a new fight for the Guardians would bring them to a near post-traumatic world just like theirs…
Unknown Forestral Location
The forest was… tranquil to say the least.
At least it was calm until a huge object which looked like a ship crashed at the bottom of a cliff shattered the pace. The sounding boom which came was followed by curious growls and snarls in the area.
And those ominous sounds belonged to the creatures of the darkness that inhabited the forest. In full details, the setting was haunted and occupied by these shady animals who hunted for any source of negative feelings.
Grimm.
A different kind of darkness, but the darkness no less.
These creatures have obtained many names over the years they have inhabited along with humanity on this planet, yet were described to be quite destructive. A large contingent of the creatures pressed forward in hopes to feed off their new prey.
But what they would soon stumble was anything but prey.
Fire and screams.
There was nothing but fire, screams, while the creatures of the darkness were devouring their prey. Gunfire responded by chopping down their numbers, but rose back quickly as a rebuttal to saturate their hunger for fresh meat.
"...Jax…"
A voice called out as the cloaked figure kept firing down on each creature that dared to stand in his way. He was not going to fail this mission. The young lightbearer was going to succeed no matter the cost and would dare not let these beasts overtake lest he join the others in death.
"...Pyralis…!"
The voice came again, yet more louder and more urgent. The Hunter Guardian picked up the pace and destroyed all those were foolish to stand in his way. He sprinted down through the fired setting faster and faster as he was nearing the objective and about to reach it...
"BLACKWOOD, WAKE UP!"
The young, cloaked man inside his ship jolted up suddenly, now becoming fully alert. "Wh-what?" He started to look around. "Are we under attack?!" It took the figure known as Blackwood to realize he was strapped into his ship. "Oh, right." He gripped his head as it felt like a melon that would explode any second and groaned. "Agh, man. Did Shaxx punch me in the head?"
"Not even close. It's far worse than you think." The voice in his head replied back.
A floating object flashed beside his head and faced him which proved the originality of the response. "Thank goodness, you're alright." It turned and started to float around the small, confined environment. "The crash placed your vitals in critical condition. Thank goodness your Light was strong enough to fix it. Not many Guardians are known to even survive accidents like this and tell the tale."
Under his helmet and after a quick sigh of exhaustion, Jax raised an eyebrow. "Ugh… how would you know that?"
"Because some crashes would incinerate both Guardian and Ghost." The star-like object replied.
A moment of silence passed them both, until the live Guardian broke it. "...Okay. Don't know how that's possible, but I've seen and heard worse."
It was true. Jax 'Pyralis' Blackwood had been through a lot. When the Traveler died, he was one of the chosen many to fight for humanity's survival at nearly any cost every passing day which brought new, more powerful cosmic horrors to face clawing for the Light's extinction. Time and time again, he would be there to show that, despite their losses, the Guardians were no pushovers. He would be present to defeat threats from the Black Garden's Heart, Crota the Son of Oryx, Skolas, Oryx, The Taken King, and finally, Aksis the Archon Prime.
His feats may be well-accomplished, but it all came at a cost.
Fireteam after fireteam, friend after friend, and comrade after comrade were lost to the darkness as their Light would be extinguished. The servants of the Darkness were unmerciful to anything that wasn't them, especially the Light. Still, they learned the hard way that the Light would not just shine bright, but vaporize every single speck of the Darkness it would dare touch.
Needless to say, Jax was just one of the lights that helped avenged lost comrades along with his other fireteam members Ki'lera Lojir, and Jethor-4, who were still alive and probably worrying about him at that moment.
"True." His Ghost, Jiro, agreed with him. He too had witnessed all the deaths and grievances that day. The Ghost was bearing his Pursuer Shell. "But enough expositions, we should talk on our... current situation."
Jax sighed. Of course, there was always bad news. He might as well get it over with. "Alright, what's the bad news?"
"The warp drive incident by the Cabal ported us to an unknown world." Jiro started. "While you were unconscious, I've been trying to re-establish contact with the Vanguard. Needless to say, no one has answered within the last seven hours even when I set up the distress beacon up afterwards immediately." The Ghost would look dejected if he could. "Worse still, wherever we're at, it's unknown to any database the Vanguard has."
The Hunter made a concerned look under his helmet. "Even the files from the Ishtar Sink Academy?"
The Ghost nodded itself. "Even those. Wherever we are, we're way outside the Solar System."
A solemn moment passed. Stranded outside the Solar System? Well, it could always be worse. After all, there many situations where enemies would have him outmanned and outgunned.
It was something he was used to. After all, Guardians were known to run solo missions by themselves.
"Hm… what's the good news?" Jax replied.
"The good news is, if I'm reading my scans correctly, there are other lifeforms around this planet; more importantly, a live civilization."
That was surprising to say the least. Humans on another planet? Last time he checked, Jax was sure there were no other survivors of the Collapse except for those who built and/or journeyed to the Last City on Earth. Unless the Ishtar Academy had not been able to track humans this far out in the galaxy?
To be fair, the Hunter and Ghost were stranded outside the solar system and it was only a possibility.
"But, I've got more bad news."
More bad news? Well, the heartwarming feeling was good while it lasted, the Hunter bemused to himself.
"Tell me once I stretch my legs for a bit." Jax said, already feeling cramped and wanting to take care of whatever the problem was in the first place. Even though it might've seem practical, but Cayde's suggestion on 'shooting everything' was the solution to almost everything the Guardians have encountered so far.
"Right. Let's get out of here." Jiro nodded his head and disappeared into invisibility. "Just pull the lever on the left side of the ship and I'll fulfill on what I've intercepted."
Jax did so, and as a result a small hatched opened above him. He used all the strength he recovered and pull himself out, revealing the outside world of his Ornamented Days of Iron Armor, except for his helmet which was his Achlyophage Symbiote that granted an additional shot for his currently equipped Gunslinger class.
Even though he had the choice of switching to Bladedancer and Nightstalker, Jax missed the old days where he would use his Golden Gun to mow down enemies in one or two shots.
And now, his prowess would be on full display to show that even powerful entities should fear the Guardians.
When he jumped off his ship, Jiro equipped Jax with his Lingering Song in hand, mag-locked his But Not Forgotten void Sniper Rifle, and his Young Wolf's Howl, a personal solar sword given to him by Saladin Forge after successfully stopping the production of SIVA the Splicers were currently using against their enemies, on his right side in case the situation called for it.
One would wonder who would need this much firepower and ammo or even have the capacity to carry it. For the Guardians, it would be for one out in the dangerous wilds and would easily handle it no problem at all.
As Jax left the area, a certain group of dark creatures emerged from a good distance behind him with malevolent growls along with snarls and stalked their 'prey' in the shadows.
City of Vale
Chaos and pandemonium.
It was that and nothing more.
The entire city was under attack by Grimm and the White Fang who were offloading the creatures into the city. Friendly Atlesian robots suddenly turned against their allies and turned their objectives to mow them down as a result of the virus. Battlemech robots being piloted by the White Fang, which originally belonged to the latter company, were now being used against their allies in a bid to defeat all those who stood in their way for new world order.
This didn't faze the Huntsmen and Huntresses-in-training and those who were teachers among them in the slightest as they bravely fought back their opponents who were trying their best to destroy them but with limited success.
In the midst of the battle, Glynda Goodwitch and Qrow Branwen joined by Cardin Winchester fought off both Grimm and Atlesian-Knights, which suddenly turned hostile, along with General Ironwood as the group dealt with the contingent of enemies.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Huntsmen stood as tall as they defended Beacon from multiple White Fang and Grimm breaches throughout the academy.
As Ruby Rose was navigating her way through the battle, she fired her way through Grimm, hostile AK's, and White Fang that stood in her way and was able to land on the airship and promptly exit out her locker that she launched to get on board. According to General Ironwood, veteran criminal Roman Torchwick and his partner Neo had hijacked creating complications for the battle. Why the criminal duo would take away such significant firepower that could be used against their enemies to back this losing battle was beyond her the silver-eyed Huntress.
But there was no way she would let such a notion slide on by while people were dying in the streets of Vale as the ongoing fires were rapidly spreading along with gunfire and melee weapon clashing ensued in the metropolis.
Her attention was soon caught when a Gryphon, followed by a smaller flock, landed on the aircraft and released loud shriek at the girl.
In response, Ruby twirled her Crescent Rose with a determined expression before charging at the dark creatures.
Vale Wilderness, Three Klicks from the City
As the Hunter was walking through the forest, he was taking a look around the enclosed space. It was… peaceful. But as he was getting closer, his helmet started to get pings of enemies in the distance from time to time. His Hunter instincts telling him that whatever it was that was following him he was gonna meet more of their kin right after the first.
He kept his guard up just as his Ghost was giving him the information that he had intercepted not too long ago.
"While trying to send out the distress signal to the Vanguard, I picked up a transmission soon after. Sadly, it's not from them exactly. In fact, it came from the city not too far out. However, it's laced with a lot of static." Jiro explained. "Here's what I have so far."
The transmission played in the Hunter's helmet.
"Si-bzzzzt-overrun-bzzzt-mm have brea-bzzzt- White Fa-bazzt offloa-bzzzt-robots have tur-bzzzt-the airship-bzzzt-situation-bzzzzt-..."
The Hunter tilted his head in curiosity. "What kind of transmission was that?"
"Not sure. I can only assume that it's some kind of automated distress signal." As if he could hear the Hunter's mind crossing many thoughts (which he could), Jiro responded. "I wouldn't get your hopes too high. After all, this could be like the time we tried to rescue Praedyth."
The Hunter frowned under his helmet. It was sorrowful that the Guardian was long dead before he could even get to him. Still, the Guardian remained optimistic that this time there would be rescuing. "Well, let's still hope for the best that we're able to rescue somebody this time."
As the waypoint was set up, he began to go on a full on sprint to his objective. It was a long way from here, but he couldn't set up his sparrow as the area was thick to navigate through. He'd have to leg it to his objective as always.
Jax was now casually walking through the forest as Jiro was almost done clearing up the signal laced with static. The forest was a bit tranquil, but the gnawing feeling the Hunter felt was getting stronger. He knew for sure that he was being watched and followed by someone.
Or something in this case.
No matter. A Hunter's instincts were sharper than his or her own small blade they would carry with them. There was little chance one could possibly sneak up on someone his class even if they had cloaking technology.
That and there were also these things called 'motion sensors' installed in his helmet.
The area was becoming a bit more clear, he spotted of what appeared to be some kind of metal humanoid with small sparks erupting every few seconds.
Jiro updated at the sight of this… object that was laying on the ground. "There. That's the source of the distress signal."
Jax looked at the object in confusion had his Ghost examine the human-sized metal toy. "So what is it, some kind of Vex prototype?"
After performing a few scans, Jiro turned back to him and shook itself. "No. It's definitely not Vex for sure. There aren't any hints of organic readings or traces to any of the hiveminds I've analyzed so far. The only thing I've been able to get are descriptions and names on this planet's enemies. Codenames are 'Grimm' and 'White Fang'." He paused for a moment before continuing. "As much as hate to admit this, there is little I could possibly compare to right-"
A sudden growl tore through and disrupted the atmosphere, making the Ghost disappear in invisibility for safety, while Jax turned to the source of the noise pointing his primary at the bushes. The origin of the sound stepped out from its hiding spot and revealed itself to the lone Hunter.
"What the…?" Jax looked on in perplexity at seeing the beast.
It was nothing the Guardian had seen before. The creature was hunched over on all fours like a werewolf, possessed black fur, spikes formed out of its shoulder-legs, claws, spike-like spines on its back, a bone-mask on its face with red-orange eyes gazing at him with malevolent intent.
A terrifying sight for anyone who had not encountered such a being before.
For Guardian of his standards, it was just another small wisp of the Darkness that required extermination.
After letting out a roaring howl that would be heard throughout the area, the creature leaped toward the Hunter in hopes to feed off its prey. Still, its hopes were shattered instantly when Jax planted only one round into its head and the creature succumbed to death in an instant.
When his helmet read that the creature's vitals were gone, the curious Hunter stepped forward and looked down upon the creature as black wisps were starting to emanate off of it.
"It's remains are disappearing. Let me commence a quick scan before they're completely gone." Jiro suggested. The Hunter conformed, and the Ghost gathered whatever intel he could on this… endeavor.
"What in Traveler is that thing?" The Hunter questioned as soon as Jiro completed his examinations.
Jiro flashed back to him in invisibility. "I… have no idea. Whatever this thing is, it did correspond to the description of that robot had in its memory banks. Grimm. According to the information I was able to get out of it along with my scans, there's no lifesource in that thing whatsoever. Not even a heartbeat. Almost as if it's made of pure Darkness. More species of these creatures exist and seem to get smarter the older they live and thrive for."
"Hm… either way, humanity's just made a new friend they can visit to settle down with." Jax snarked a bit.
"In a sense, I guess you could say that." Jiro agreed, before updating. "Heads up, I'm detecting multiple instances of movement all around us. "
A few seconds later, about twenty of the same creatures presented themselves in shadows before revealing themselves to the Hunter, except some took the shape of boars and were heavily armored but extremely susceptible on its underbelly according to Jiro's quick scans on the other species of the beasts.
"Hm… its friends are finally here and wanted to pay a visit." Jiro responded at the growling creatures. "Let's give them a proper welcome."
Jax smiled under his helmet before replying through the psychic link. "With pleasure."
The stygian beasts quickly launched themselves at the cloaked, young man, yet the Hunter was too fast for them. In a flash, he drew his weapon and fired four precise shots rapidly into the creatures' skulls.
Jax then dodged a claw swipe from the left that had every right to slice him to submission. He retaliated by firing two shots at the creature before it dropped dead. As some of the remaining creatures closed distance at him, the Hunter threw two of his Throwing Knifes at two of them before they too joined their kin in death as the solar burn took effect on them. The third one, a boar, lunged at the Guardian to feed off of him, but the Hunter took advantage of this move and slid under the creature firing his last bullet in the magazine which damaged the creature before finishing it off with a quick melee attack.
The remaining 13 beasts realized that this was no ordinary warrior, but pressed on anyway as five tried to to run at the Hunter forward. Jax quickly threw down a trip mine on top of one of them in the middle which took out the group instantly and placed a new cylinder into his Lingering Song. The last 8 then strategized and aimed to surround their prey.
Clever. However, the Hunter was more unpredictable than they thought.
At the same time, the creatures jumped from all directions also converged into the middle. The Hunter used his jump packs to avoid the claws of the eager creatures and fell down some feet away from them before using his most powerful gun of all which was tainted in Solar Light. He quickly disposed of the group in all four shots as the explosions took their toll on the Grimm which vaporized them out of existence.
The Hunter then equipped his Hand Cannon back in hand which he held to the side for a moment before Jiro warned him. "Almost all of all them. One's coming in at your right side… and this one's not to mess around with."
"Neither are we." Jax thought back.
He quickly swapped his primary out and handled his But Not Forgotten Sniper Rifle. When the last one emerged, it resembled the boar, but this was bearing even more armor and was bigger compared to the ones the Gunslinger just faced. Jax aimed and punched an armor-piercing round into the boar's skull. The creature snarled in pain and pressed on, but the second bullet shattered its mask making it go ballistic. The moonless beast's misery was finally ended when Jax fired one last shot into the Grimm's body as it collapsed into a messy heap and its remains disappeared into the air like the rest of its species.
"That's the last of them… for the moment anyway." Jiro said after he appeared next to Jax.
Jax stretched for a small amount of time before commenting. "Well, that was nice warmup. Would've appreciated a bit more action." He then turned serious and to his Ghost. "So, about that transmission..."
"Ah, yes. While you were fighting off the Grimm, I've been able to clean up most of the static. It's patchy, but clear enough to understand… and assuming whatever the situation is, it's bad."
"How bad?" Jax tilted his head.
"Just…. take a listen…" Jiro then played the Transmission.
"...Sir, this is Atlesian Squad Delta-Zulu! We're being overrun at the gates! Grimm have breached the city gates and the White Fang are offloading them into the city! Many of our robots have turned against us by an unknown source, the airship is now in control of the enemy, and they're firing down on friendly forces! The situation is going critical! Requesting immediate assistance! I repeat we need backup right n- ON YOUR FEET WILSON! GET FIRE ON THAT SQUAD!"
"There's too many of them Praxon! We can't hold them off!"
"Just hold 'em off! Hold this position! Hold this positio-bzt..."
The transmission ended abruptly with the signal cut out at the end.
The Hunter stood quietly for a moment before he questioned. "Where did this come from?"
"Give me a moment. I'll have to trace it from its original central network." The Ghost paused before answering. "If I'm reading these coordinates correctly, it's a few klicks North from our current position." Jiro answered. "It's coming from a heavy populated area… which according to the surveillance I've now currently hacked through, is now under attack."
Jax clenched his left fist. Great. It hadn't even been five minutes and potential survivors of the Golden Age were dying already. On the bright side, the people were able to hold out this long without the Guardians' assistance it seems, but that didn't matter at the moment. It was only a short amount of time before these people would succumb to the forces of the Darkness and be overtaken per se. However, the Hunter's presence on this planet could have unforeseen consequences that might bring more of the Guardians' enemies to this planet and devastate all within. Would it be better if he stayed and help turn the tide on the attack? Or worse if the Fallen, Hive, Cabal, or Vex somehow found out he was alive and used these humans for bait to draw him out?
After a few short moments, the Hunter looked back to where his ship presumably crashed before he made his final decision.
The Gunslinger responded before his Ghost could. "Jiro, prep all of the ammo synthesis you can. We're gonna need plenty of it."
Jiro knew that tone of voice. His Guardian was already going to pick a new fight with this planet's enemies and they had little information except for the fact that bullets could stop them very easily. It seemed like a hasty move.
Still, the Hunter was not to be trifled with as he was among the top Vanguard Elite Specialists and had the feats to prove it. Along with that, innocent people in the city were dying every passing second so time was not on their side. A Guardian's duties were in alignment with the Vanguard, but their oaths belonged to protecting humanity as well.
Besides, what could they do? Send a letter that said, 'Please stop attacking. It's causing some upset'?
The Ghost complied and nodded himself before going back to invisibility. The Gunslinger then was seated into his sparrow before taking off like rocket through the forest navigating through its narrow pathways.
Whether he wanted it or not, Jax, and possibly the other Guardians, would inevitably step into war with this planet's enemies.
There would be no turning back.
City of Vale, Outer Limits
As the Hunter was getting closer to his destination, he began notice large clouds of smoke were plaguing in the sky. He jumped off his sparrow and got too good of gorning sight that was developing in front of him. There were screams, fires among buildings, and multiple instances of explosions and gunfire happening all throughout.
"Wow… you weren't kidding when you said the city was under attack." Jax commented in the link at the scene unfolding.
"Well, what did you expect? Some kind of tea party?" Jiro replied back.
"Point taken."
The Hunter slipped a new cylinder into his mag before he rushed forward.
Jax jumped down from the hills and sprinted through the city gates. It felt as though he was in the middle of an attack in the Collapse with many people dying, but on a much smaller scale.
He fired two shots of his Lingering Song at the first Grimm he caught sight of that was about to feast on a civilian. At the first impact, it lunged forward, then dropped dead at the second jab.
The other Grimm took notice of this, yet didn't get the chance to fully face the Hunter when he took them down with two more individual precise shots total.
He turned to the left and faced another group that was already emerging from the broken fences of homes near the outer limits. Jax threw a trip mine grenade that was able to land on one of the four beasts. The ensuing explosion took three of them out while fourth one was struggling to gain its sense back. The Beowolf was finished off with one heavy shot.
More of the Grimm were heading to his location fast, but were far away. Jax quickly switched to his But Not Forgotten and fired a precise another beast in the middle of a pack of five as he kept moving forward. The firefly effect took its toll as the explosion shook the beasts up. The Hunter let loose another shot into the second of the pack's head causing another small eruption. The next detonation took out the third of the group.
Seeing that the Hunter was too good, the last two retreated and got out of sight before Jax could get a lock on them. Presumably, to regroup in larger numbers.
Taking the chance, Jax reloaded and sprinted forward, firing and exterminating more the beasts attacking citizens and what it appeared to be other holding custom weapons that he had never seen before. As he kept sweeping through the area, some looked at the lightbearer in awe before realizing the battle was still in the making.
According to Jiro, Grimm activity was growing the heaviest downtown so that was where Jax was heading to cut down their numbers.
As he got further into the city, the amount of beasts were growing abundant crawling and spewing from all different places. He placed two bullets into a Grimm's body before turning toward another and assaulted the next.
Only after two kills, a large group noticed the Hunter was the biggest threat at the moment emanating growls and snarls of hate. One of them released a howl as the others began running at the Gunslinger. Jax released his Super and triggered his solar weapon that took only one shot to take two of the beasts lives thanks to the Keyhole perk. Not only that but the explosions also claimed several more of the Grimm. He fired another shot at the pack, his Golden Gun taking a toll of them. The large group was already cleared, but more pings sprang up on his radar another moment later.
The Beowolf's howl not only attracted another pack, but it seemed an entire waves of the Grimm came at the Hunter just to end his life. It would take more than large contingents of these smaller animals to even so much as lay a claw on him.
Besides that, there was also the factor that he, among other Guardians, was immortal thanks to his Ghost.
After releasing the last two shots of his Super, the Guardian turned back to his Hand Cannon that was declaring death on each target it was pointed to every time it spoke. In the span of three minutes, he was able to clear the enormous wave that attacked him.
From afar, he saw a blonde woman with a riding crop using powers to repel the beasts along with a three other men with a mace, scythe, and revolver along with androids. Their teamwork seemed efficient to say the least. As they were spreading out, Jax noticed a similar creature with wings that was about to get the drop on one of the men.
"Better do something, Jax! That creature has the jump on that man!" Jiro hastily.
Without a moment's hesitation, the Hunter switched to his sniper, reloaded a new mag, and aimed at the beast that began to land on top of the man.
To say Vale was in deep trouble was quite an understatement.
Various species of Grimm had breached many parts of the city due to the panic of public and things had escalated into complete chaos in the city. Building were on fire, streets teeming with these creatures, and even the White Fang were taking advantage of this by attacking government buildings together with releasing these creatures against the populace.
General Ironwood couldn't even imagine the amount of trouble he was going to deal with after the attack, but that wasn't even the least of worries as he was dispatching a large group of the Atlesian androids that suddenly turned against its allies and were firing at them. He easily dealt with the large group of AK-200s but not before a Griffon caught him off guard from above and threatened to finish him off by landing on top of him.
Qrow Branwen caught of this and was about to give the beast a taste of his medicine, but was stopped when a loud crack tore through the air and a patch of purple was seen for a second. The Griffon stumbled of the general and snarled in pain as it was trying to gain its senses back to locate the source of pain. A second shot whizzed above the veteran Huntsman and ended the beast's spree.
Ironwood recovered. "Thank you, Qrow."
Said Huntsman turned his head to the general in confusion. "Uh… that wasn't me."
The general raised an eyebrow in confusion and went back to attacking more of the Grimm just as Qrow was able to get a look at their savior. He narrowed his eyes at the figure from afar whose armor and cape was tainted with wolf sigils except on his helmet. The man seemingly took notice of this and waved back him. Qrow released a 'hm' before a loud roar caught the group's attention.
From above, a Grimm dragon was flying high in the sky and was currently heading to Beacon Tower where his niece, Ruby Rose, was sure to be after the ship crashed.
Qrow turned back one last time to where the general's savior was only to be met with an empty space where the caped man once stood. He frowned seeing his chance for to thank, but mostly question him was gone for now at least.
Still, the veteran Huntsman had a feeling he'd seeing the mysterious figure again.
Jax was sprinting through the streets of the city with a purpose. Seconds after he took off, the roar of some kind of monstrous dragon had caught him and his Ghost's attention and landed on top of a tower in the city. Needless to say, it was a huge problem that needed to be taken care of knowing the full consequences should he fail to stop the beast.
Without being told or hinted, the Gunslinger was already moving to his new objective.
"Just so we're clear..." Jiro started to voice his thoughts, "...this would be the part where I would scold and/or tell you that what we're about to do is more than insane… but I've gotten used it by now."
On his way to the tower, Pyralis gunned more of the Grimm creatures that either stood in his way or were about to be chewed up by civilians. Eventually, he made it to the entrance of tower and took one last gaze once more at the dragon up top the tower and could barely see two people who going at it.
Seeing that one of the women seemed to be controlling the monster, the Hunter breached into the building and checked all corners within two seconds. It was already ruined with tables, chairs, and desks that were flipped over, along with some of the consoles offline.
Even worse, the console to the elevator was sparking.
Jax quickly had Jiro check up on the console on the side. "How bad is it?"
Jiro turned back to him. "No good. The elevator's messed up. I can attempt to make repairs which might take a couple minutes-" A roar and earthquake shook the building interrupting the Ghost.
"It'll take too long. We'll have to improvise." Jax replied in a hurry. He ran back outside with his Ghost joining him before flashing back. There were openings throughout the tower along with broken structures that were sticking out that laid out like platforms.
It was perfect.
"Guh… you're not seriously thinking of-" Jax cut Jiro off by jumping onto the laid off platforms, using his jumping pads to get footholds on top of it. "Yup, you were thinking it."
Jax ignored the obvious comment and climbed onto a platform that was not too far from it. He was able to get sight of the two fighters, but one of them, who had red hair and wore gold and brown armor, was pinned down by the woman in the red dress who was smiling deviously and speaking to her.
The speech was faint, however the arrow pointing at the girl ceased all notion of mercy and reason in Jax's mind (not that he was going to do any anyway).
"Once again, another person to rescue. You know what to do." Jiro confirmed that notion.
Jax prepared his jumping pads once more and flared his Golden Gun at the same time as he approached the two women at an alarming pace.
"Ugh!"
Pyrrha Nikos had been pinned down by by her newest foe Cinder Fall.
She was about to be the new candidate for the Fall Maiden, by an arrow into Amber's heart by Cinder said otherwise and had unknowingly stepped into a battle that she had no chance of winning.
She regretted every mistake she's made up to this point, but at least she had the chance to be at peace.
"It's unfortunate that you were promised a power that was never truly yours." Cinder taunted, circling her new victim. "But take comfort knowing that I will use it in ways you could never imagined."
Pyrrha pulls away and gives back a defying stare. "Do you believe in destiny?"
Cinder seemed surprised at her words for second, but frowned and pulled back the arrow. "Yes."
However before anything could be done, a solar beam landed itself on Cinder's back which made her miss the shot by mere inches. Before the new Fall Maiden could turn around, another shot forced her forward into the wall.
Pyrrha got a good look at her savior and had a look of shock and awe. The figure was armored with wolf sigil on fire on the inside, while his helmet seemed to be pulsing with some kind of molten power on the inside. His body was covered in an aura of fire it seemed.
Much the young man's surprise, the shots didn't annihilate Cinder as much as he hoped for (little to Pyrrha's mind).
No matter.
Without hesitation, the young man turned to her and was working to unpin Pyrrha from her trap with one hand, the other still holding his weapon.
"Hang on. I'll get you out of there." Her savior spoke, much to her surprise for the unexpected help.
An irritated growl got both of their attention, which belonged to Cinder, her eyes teeming with fire… literally. She glared at the man who had interfered with her ongoing battle with Pyrrha and sent a fireball at both of them.
Pyrrha braced for impact once again by closing her eyes, but the lightbearer forced another shot at the fireball which not only made it explode, but penetrated through which knocked Cinder off of the tower.
He fired his last shot at the dragon who also stared in amazement, blinding the creature since he aimed at one of their eyes providing more time.
The caped figure was able to get Pyrrha out of her trap and freed her. She looked at her ankle for a moment before she looked at him with a sincere smile. "Thank you."
The figure nodded back. "You're welcome."
Before anything else could said or done, the lightbearer turned back to the dragon who was about to focus its efforts back at the fighters and sprinted quickly at the creature, much to Pyrrha's surprise. He tackled into it's neck and took the creature off of the tower into the other rooftops below; the sound of a pained roar tearing throughout the night sky.
She stared off with wide eyes. An amazing turn of events of display of power in the span of a minute.
"Pyrrha!"
A familiar voice caught Pyrrha's attention turned to see one of her friends on the rooftop wielding her scythe.
"Ruby!" Both had embraced each other warmly before the silver-eyed girl had a sad, but innocent twinkle in her eyes.
"Are you okay?" She questioned with concerned.
Pyrrha looked down at her ankle that still had a wound. "I'm fine."
"What's going on?" Ruby asked in a hurry. "Jaune called me in a panic saying that you were about to fight some woman with a fire semblance."
Pyrrha fought a blush. Of course, Jaune would be concerned for her. After all, they did have a mutual relationship with another. "Well…"
Another roar of pain tore through the air and both girls ran toward the edge of the tower to see the caped figure hanging onto the Grimm with all his might as his sword stabbed into its neck as the creature laced about.
With a determined look, Ruby clenched her scythe. "I'll go help him! Just get to safety!" In rush of wind and rose petals, she launched herself toward the Grimm beast and the caped fighter.
Pyrrha looked on for a moment before she shook herself out of her stupor and called for a rocket locker to pick her up.
"I take back my previous statements! This is your most deranged move yet!"
"What else is new?!"
Jax had been able to get the creature off the tower and was grasping with all his strength as the dragon tried to shake him off. He was an experienced warrior of light at heart, but that didn't excuse him from executing a reckless move.
As he was hanging onto the dragon, a locker (that's right; a locker) flew by and barely missed him as he was implementing a new strategy. He could've known for sure he heard an 'I'm sorry!' coming from said locker. Noticing that the dragon was threatening to spew out fire, Jax climbed directly into the beast's head and steered it into the tower from which he stood.
The shock forced the Hunter back on top of the tower and rolled him for a few feet. He held his head as he was doing his best to stand back up again. As soon as the feeling of a melon exploding inside his skull disappeared, the Gunslinger took another look at his surroundings. The rooftop was ruined, but the red haired girl he saved was no longer in sight.
At least there was some more good news so far, assuming the girl had been able to get away from the chaos.
The tranquil moment was ruined when the dragon climbed back on top of the tower and roared at the Hunter. Jax fired rounds toward the beast at a rapid (by Hand Cannon) pace, but the rounds only caused it to flinch slightly and angered the dragon even more. It retaliated with a claw swipe that threw Jax to the side and disoriented him. The monster prepared to finish him with another spew of fire that was charging up from its mouth, but was stopped when Jax was able to reload quickly and shot a round into its mouth causing an explosion to ensue.
The explosion knocked back the dragon and bought the Hunter time to counterattack. He quickly switched to his But Not Forgotten Rifle and fired piercing rounds into the beast's mouth, causing it to choke on its own blood. Jax switched to his sword as he ran toward the dragon and emitted Howling Flames and rapid slashes at the monster. The fire and attacks forced the beast back as its mask was shattered and snarled in pain. The creature swiped its claws in complete rage as Jax was barely dodging each of them, coming close to death each time.
Seeing that hand attacks weren't gonna work, the dragon swiped its tail at the Hunter, who tried to jump up to avoid it, but was caught in the attack radius. The impact knocked Jax back again and caused him to slide into the side wall. The dragon then growled as the Hunter was trying to recover who was grasping onto his sword, but then the sound of gunfire silenced both of them.
A barrage of bullets were shot into the dragon's eye causing it to roar in pain. A long blade was cut into the creature's neck before it find the origin by a sheer amount of speed by a red blur.
The blur revealed to be a girl with dark red hair and silver eyes, wearing a cape along with black and red clothing that included a skirt. She twirled her weapon knowing she already won and turned back to Jax as he was fully recovering.
To the Hunter's surprise, the girl was… well… fangirling. "That... was... awesome! You were so cool when you wrestled the dragon and slashed it all about! Which continent are you from?! Are you a huntsman?! I'd love your weapons- err- I mean you're armor's cool-err- you were so awesome! Where can I learn skills like that?! I'd like to-"
As she was ranting her soul off, Jax noticed the woman in the dark red dress climbing back up with an angry look on her face and aimed her bow at the girl talking. He noticed this and quickly pushed her out of the way as the arrow penetrated the Hunter's armor and stabbed him into his chest. The woman smirked in victory as she hit her mark. However, Jax frowned and looked down at his new wound.
He was fine, by the way. The Hunter was just way more annoyed than hurt.
The girl turned back and noticed this with shock written all over her face. "No." She muttered to herself. Before anyone could react, she screamed. "NOOOOO!" Not only that, but white light was pouring at of her eyes much to both fighters' surprise and awe.
"WHAT?!" The woman screamed in complete disbelief.
"Huh?!" Jax released as well as the light engulfed the area.
"By Traveler...!" Jiro piped in amazement.
The Hunter covered his helmet and closed his eyes as he heard painful screaming for what seemed like years until the light finally died down.
His vision came back for a few seconds as he grasped his helmet for what it seemed as if it was the millionth time. The Gunslinger noticed that the girl who somehow unleashed the light within herself was lying unconscious on the ground, while the woman was trying to regain her senses.
Wasting no time, Jax grabbed onto the arrow in his chest and used his remaining strength to pull it out. It was painful for sure, but the discomfort was nothing compared to the torment of failure that Crucible exercises had emphasized in each of the Guardians' daily training and everyday combat against alien monsters which sought to destroy humanity each passing day.
At last, he was able to remove the arrow from his chest and toss it aside. Thanks to his own Light, his wound was already being treated and armor's shields were regenerating. He pushed himself forward and struggled a little to stand back up again. Jax clasped his sword once again and started walking up the woman as she was coming to with one of her eyes severely burned.
"So… I presume that you're the one who caused all this destruction and chaos, huh?" The woman snapped up at hearing his voice.
Jax casually swung his sword a bit as the woman's confidence seen earlier was now gone. "I'll take that as yes." She then started to back up helplessly with an expression of shock and fear.
He smiled deviously under his helmet. "Aw, what's the matter? You looked like you've seen a ghost." He paused for a moment. "Good. Because there are things are out there that you wouldn't believe or imagine. I'm one of them."
The woman tried to give a glare back and speak, but nothing came out. "What's the matter? Cat your tongue? It's okay. You don't need to respond… I'll give you a live demonstration."
In a flash, Jax was already over the woman and assaulted her with slashes across her weakened state and couldn't muster the strength to fight back. She tried sending a fireball his way, but the Hunter drew his Lingering Song and the attack bursted in mid-air while still holding his sword in the other hand. The Hunter continued his assault as the woman summoned crystal swords to counter-attack but her opponent's attacks were faster and more efficient. He was able to slash her in her stomach at which she recoiled in pain. He punched her in the face in a second causing her to be knocked back onto the floor a few feet away as she backed away in fear.
"You should know that are places for monsters like you who dare to kill innocents for the fun of it." He started casually talking to her and stood over. "But let me tell you something else that you already know." He crouched down to her level as she now adorned an expression of complete terror. "Fear is not just a feeling perceived as a danger… it's a weapon we all use to unsettle our enemies." His whisper caused a shiver to go up his foe's spine. He swiftly kicked her in the face and stepped unto her as horror was still being stricken unto her face. "And there's a reason why you should fear the Guardians." Some confusion was crossed, but that didn't matter. Jax raised his sword to end this monster's life, but was stopped was a gunshot to his back forced his forward.
He turned back to see some girl with tri-colored hair with a cross between angry and concerned. Jax turned with a glare under his helmet at her. "Big mistake."
He drew his primary and fired at her, the force stifling her back. The Gunslinger rushed and sliced the girl, completely ignoring his instincts and motion sensor, only to find the remnants of glass remaining. He turned back to see the girl had somehow went through his guard and already was getting away with the woman he had faced.
"Well… that was interesting." Jiro commented.
The Hunter glared out in the distance and stood forward. He ran, jumped down from the tower, and landed on another rooftop below and caught sight of them. Both targets were too far away for him to even use his special weapon just as an airship was approaching the present evac site and was aiming light on the rooftop he had just got off of.
Whoever he had just faced were fortunate enough to get away this time, but the Hunter was resigned. He was sure he'd see that woman along with her lackey(s) again for future confrontations.
As smoke continue to linger the air, the Hunter released one final statement.
"There'll be another time."
Author's Note: Hey guys. I've been wanting to write this story for a long time since it's been on my mind. So let's get down to the basics: for one thing our main character is a Hunter class Guardian, he is a gunslinger (for now, the other subclasses will be switched around and used in the story), Pyrrha has been saved from her death (unfortunate in the actual show BTW spoilers), and Ruby has still managed to use her powers that come from her silver eyes.
I've decided to start the story here during the Battle of Beacon and continue onward because I think it's appropriate since the Guardians are usually introduced to a new story/quest after the post-apocalyptic battleground has been set when they are deployed. I wanted to change that setting to where one Guardian is introduced into chaos of battle against the environment (which will probably be one of Destiny 2's starting missions with the invasion of the Red Legion I hope).
Also, I've now made a correction to that little mistake a few people kept pointing out that Ruby was Qrow's daughter. I've changed it to where it says Ruby is Qrow's niece. Thank you for those pointing out that little mishap as I thought it said 'niece' instead of 'daughter'. Sincerest apologies, I did not notice it until I read it even more thoroughly.
Please read and review and give me any pointers to make the story flow better.