I wake up and am greeted by my ghost.

Ghost - "Welcome back Guardian"

Me - "Thanks, where am I?"

Ghost "Ishtar Sink, Venus."

Me - "Well that's broad, where in Ishtar Sink, little light?"

Ghost - "I told you, I am a Ghost! Just because someone called me that once, doesn't mean you can do it now! And we are in the Ishtar Academy, didn't realize you would have to ask with all these shelves around."

Me - "My bad little light, just figuring out what to do next I guess."

Ghost - "Well there's a bounty out for the new Archon Priest, Dradimus, got put out a week ago, 4 Guardians have died and had there ghosts stolen since."

Me - "Sounds like our cup of tea, now doesn't it, little light?"

Ghost glares at me.

Ghost - "Sure does Guardian."

Me - "Well we should head to the Amber Caves then!"

I start back tracking and heading to the Amber Caves. I do a check on all my gear, I notice my Crest of Alpha Lupi is dented at the bottom, and remind myself to have the blacksmith look at it later when I turn in my Bounty for Dradimus.

As I walk out of the underground passage leading to the Shattered Coast, I'm greeted with 2 Captains and his Underlings.

Me - "looks like we gotta fight or run, little light."

Ghost - "You got this, Guardian, here's your Plan C."

The Ghost materializes my weapon, and I grab it in a flash. I fire at the first captain and my shot releases instantly. Got most hits on that first captain, and I pull the trigger again as I'm heading for cover on the right. Get the second shot off just as I make cover, and the first captain is down before they realize what's going on.

I sit in cover for a second, 3 shots left, and all hell breaks loose. There is 1 Captain and 6 underlings left, 2 sniper Vandals, 1 Shock rifle Vandal, and 3 Dregs.

The snipers immediately start backing up, taking cover. The Dregs move forward, and the Captain teleported mid way between the Dregs and the snipers. The Shock rifle Vandal moved to the captain.

I pull out The Last Word, look up from behind my cover. The Dregs are perfectly lined up in front of the cement block wall.

Me - "Gotta love the cannon fodder, easy kills everytime."

Ghost - "They sure are, careful of the snipers though."

Me - "Always am, little light."

I lift myself up, and get the first Dreg lined up in my sights. Boom, boom, boom. The three Dregs are down, and I start getting behind cover again, as I'm lowering myself, I hear a sniper round whiz by my head.

Ghost - "Would you like your Praedyth's Revenge now?"

Me - "Sure, I'll get them next."

I grabbed my rifle from the Ghost, and creep along the wall behind cover. I need to change spots, I know they're aimed in waiting for me to come up from cover again. I gotta do this quick, the Vandals are close enough I think.

I pull up from cover again, and the Captain starts firing his Shrapnel Launcher at me. His first two shots were way off mark, I breath deep, get the Vandal in my sight, exhale, and fire. BOOM, the first Vandal down, and had gotten the second with the explosion.

Me - "Oww! Dammit!"

I lower myself down, I had been hit by the Captain, and the remaining Vandal.

Ghost - "Brush it off Guardian, they didn't even break your shield."

Me - "Doesn't mean it feels good! I don't see you getting hit!"

Ghost - "That's what you're for Guardian."

Me - "Thanks for caring about my well being, now gimme my scout rifle!"

Ghost materializes my Vision of Confluence. I grab it, check the mag.

Me - "Still got 10 shots in this clip, don't wanna waste em."

I scooted a little more right, putting me in the corner of my balcony. Pull myself up, and start firing at the first Vandal, 2 shots, the Vandal is down.

I immediately start firing at the Captain and realize his shield isn't going down. As I'm firing I hear the Captain laugh, and he started firing. Boom, boom, boom.

Me - "Oww, that son of a bitch!"

Ghost - "I didn't want to argue, but I was going to recommend your non elemental scout rifle."

Me - "I know dammit! I do all the work here! Give me my MIDA."

My ghost materializes it in an instant.

Ghost - "Here you go, you're shield is recharging by the way, don't miss."

I grab it, don't even check the mag, pull up from cover, and start firing. One, two, three, four, five, six. Captain is dead.

Me - "Phew, well that was easy."

Ghost - "Good work Guardian, now let's get a move on, we got some distance to cover before we get to the Amber Caves."

Me - "Always about the mission aren't we, little light?"

Ghost - "You can sightsee on the way."

My Ghost pulls my sparrow out, and I hop on.

I'm on my way, going along the Shattered Coast, heading to the Headlands. I pass some buildings, and I see some Shanks, and Dregs and Vandals coming out of one of them. I figure I'm already moving so I wave, toss a grenade there way, and keep going. Wish I knew if I got any, guess it doesn't matter. But what if they dropped something? Ahh oh well, probably only a blue anyway. I'm pretty set on gear right now.

Passing through the Headlands, almost to Amber Caves, I see a vein of bright blue liquid. I pull of next to it.

Me - "Ghost what is that stuff?"

Ghost - "I'm not sure, it's a liquid only found on Venus, but as to what it is, or what it's used for, I do not know."

Me - "C'mon, little light, thought you knew everything."

Ghost - "Not everything, just a lot. Maybe after we take down Dradimus we should head over to The Archive, see if we can dig anything up."

Me - "Sounds good to me, so any idea what we're going to be facing at the Amber Caves, before we head into Winter's Lair?"

Ghost - "Not sure, but we might want to call in backup before heading into the Lair. Might run into trouble."

Me - "Alright, see if you can find that Sunsinger again, he's always helped me out. I do the work, he's gets my back."

Ghost - "Tubicus? I'll see what I can do, his Ghosts com is off at the moment, but I'll keep trying."

Me - "He's probably eating dinner, he always shuts his com off when he's eating.

Hey, how are we on rounds for Praedyth's?"

Ghost - "We're fine, got plenty of synthesis, you have 3 rounds right now, would you like me to fill it?"

Me - "Yeah, and bring it out please, we're about to make contact."

Ghost - "Got it!"

I go through a underpass, and get off my sparrow.

I start looking around the valley, trying to spot any enemies.

At first glance, I only see some Shanks, Dregs and Vandals off in the distance.

I zero in my scope, and start looking for clusters.

I see two clusters, then one Shock Vandal left, and one right.

I zoom in, get the Dregs head in sight, judge my distance, and time to move from him to the second cluster, and deem it fast enough to take out 6 in seconds.

I fire the first round, boom, his head blows off, and he explodes killing four more. I look right, boom, another head shot, taking out two more.

The other Vandals start moving around frantically, looking for where it take from.

Surprising they moved next to each other, aim in on one of their heads, boom, got those two.

Still got 3 shots. After a few moments of silence, I hear something roar.

Ghost - "I think you pissed them off, that sounded like a Reaver Captain."

Me - "Damn, was hoping I could make it through this area easily."

Ghost - "Oh it'll be easy, I forgot to tell you, I got Gjallahorn back from the blacksmith before we came to Venus."

Me - "REALLY?! And you decided not to tell me this when I was in that giant battle back at the Academy, that got me killed! AGAIN!"

Ghost - "Well, it wasn't your fault you got bad intel, how were we supposed to know there was a new leader there."

Me - "Well if I had known I had Gjallahorn back, that clan of Titans, wouldn't have had to clear the area, could've done it myself."

I look up at the cliff, and see the Reaver Captain staring at me. He shouts again. All of a sudden there are 4 sniper Vandals appearing around him.

Ghost - "Get cover, NOW!"

I break into a sprint, going for the nearest rock face for cover, sniper rounds whizzing by me as I run.

I pop up from behind cover, grabbing my Golden Gun sidearm.

Me - "I got this, pull out Gjallahorn!"

I fire three shots, 3 Vandals down.

I grab Gjallahorn, start sprinting up the giant rock in front of me. The Captain starts firing, and the remaining Vandal is trying to hit me.

I jump off the rock, one, two. I aim in, hear confirmation that Gjallahorn has locked on, and fire.

Gjallahorn's missiles shoots out, and heads straight for the Reaver Captain. I land, and listen, BOOM.

I hear it hit, waiting, then I hear all of the tiny missles scatter and rehome in.

Ghost - "Alright, alright, if I'd given you Gjallahorn, those Titans wouldn't have had to save you."

Me - "Told you."

I stare at him.

End of this part.