Hey guys! So ima try my hand at a destiny fic, following my actual character. Just so you know; Characters and Scenes will be OOC or AU when I see it fit, the ghost is voiced by Peter Dinklage, the main character will be OP because writing op shit is fun, the story will include parts of D1 and D2. But out of order.
The Timeline goes like this:
D1 - House Of Wolves - The Dark Below - Black Armory - The Taken King - Joker's Wild - Rise Of Iron - Warmind - D2 - Curse Of Osiris - and Forsaken
And this fic is inspired by other stories like Remnant Of a Rose, Guardians and Hunters, Guardian of a New Light, Remnant Of Light, and other legends in the RWBY X Destiny universe. That's all and I apologize for wrong dialogue and lore if there is any and here's the usual warning : I do not own RWBY or Destiny in any way, shape or form. RWBY belongs to Roosterteeth, Destiny belongs to Bungie, and I only own my oc's and the storyline.
Finally let's follow the story of our warrior of light, Echo Aveil.
Prologue Part 1 - Legends Rise
THE COSMODROME - SOME TIME IN THE COLLAPSE
Darkness, absolute darkness surrounds the corners of my mind as the walls cave in and gunfire rang out while my brother was tending to my wounds. Guardian,
"TAKE OUT THAT SNIPER!" My brother yelled aggressively as one of ours blew up the Vex unit known as a Hobgoblin, and most of the low flying Harpies as well with a grenade. But that was not a good idea as the enemy forces just doubled in numbers.
Darker, my vision was getting darker and my leg grew more and more numb. Guardian wake up,
"Shit," I said softly as I coughed up blood.
"Save your breath Echo." My brother replies at the moment when Minotaurs start pouring in. Guardian just get up it's a memory.
My vision gets even darker somehow while the mechanical titans tear through our front lines with ease. And the only line of defense to the transport gate is us. The injured.
"Echo get to safet-AAGGHH!" My brother cried out as there was a gaping hole in his left shoulder. I DID NOT FLOAT ALL THE WAY TO RUSSIA TO FIND A DEAD GUARDIAN,
I widen my eyes with pain as darkness almost took over. My bro was then crushed by the massive plasma launcher on a massive minotaur, my brother was dead and the onslaught continued but I only had one thought…
We're going to die.
Echo Aveil POV
"GUARDIAN!" I heard as I woke got up encased in some different armor then I remember.
"Finally! It worked, you're alive!" said a voice.
"What in the name of the Traveller are you?" I reasonably responded to a floating cube thingy in front of me.
It was a miniature drone of some kind, high tech. It had a shell of a black and white color that's separated by a vertical crevice that goes down the middle
"I'm a ghost, well I'm your ghost now." The "ghost" responded.
"That still doesn't really help." I replied.
The ghost lightly explains "Look, you've been dead for a long time so you're going to see a lot of things you don't understand." A loud sound resonated through the air. "I'll explain once we get to safety in the city. For now we need to move, the Fallen are coming, we have to get inside the wall. Hold on, stand still." The ghost dematerialized.
I felt a rush a energy flow through me. "Where'd ya go?" I looked around.
I heard a voice inside my head. "Don't worry. I'm still with you. We're communicating via coms in your helmet, now move."
"Okaaay...Let's go then." I replied and took into a sprint toward the large compound in front of us.
I ran past a bunch of decayed cars and trucks and I think I saw a skeleton or two but it was mostly a blur as I running really fast. Like, faster than human standards fast.
In a couple seconds I made my way through a rusty doorway and into the wall, then I take a 90 degree left turn up some stairs and take a right, up some stairs then take another right and go straight across a bridge of sorts.
"I need a gun." I say out loud.
"Working on it, and quiet cause' the fallen are right above us. Turn on coms, there's a switch near your right ear." Ghost responded.
I fumble a bit but then find a switch smack dab in the middle of the place my ear is on the surface of my helmet. I turn it on and speak.
"Is this working?" I say and run up a flight of stairs.
"Yes, and—Stand still!" The ghost confirms and suddenly orders.
Turning left I hold my breath as I see a fallen dreg climbing up some pipes then it seemingly disappears. I continue forward and look over a rusty platform into the darkness below.
The ghost then appears out of thin air and essentially acts as a flashlight as he floats around.
"Hang tight. Fallen thrive in the dark, we don't. We need more light. I'll see what I can do." The ghost says out loud.
"What do I call you?" I ask.
The drone pauses for a bit. "We can decide on that later, for now we gotta prioritize getting to the city."
"Alright then. So—?" I get cut off as I hear electricity crackle and the lights finally work at the most inconvenient time because they reveal our direct location to a bunch of fallen.
"There coming for us!" The ghost says then looks around for a solution to this dilemma. "There, I found a rifle. Grab it!" He orders.
I quickly sprint over and pick up the rifle. A small photo of the gun appears in the top right corner of my vision. Under the pic shows its name, The Khvostov 7G-02. It's a classic full auto assault rifle with a cracked holographic sight. I look down to the bottom-left hand corner of my vision to see that the rifle has a twenty-five round magazine, and see that I have 184 rounds in reserves.
"That's your HUD. It's standard with guardian grade armor." The ghost explains and goes to coms.
"Sounds useful." I slightly grin.
"Do you know how to use that thing?" He questioned.
"Yeah." I look at him like he called me an idiot.
"I hope…" He rolls his eyes, I mean eye, as I turn a couple corners and spot a few dregs and a vandal drop down from the ceiling.
I cock the rifle "Then you can stop hoping."
I open fire a few rounds into the vandal then quickly change targets to the dreg on the right side on him and I take the two out, next I unloaded the final few bullets in the mag into the dreg to the left of the dead vandal. Out of bullets I grab the handy knife holstered to my chest and stab the final dreg in the skull. I rip the blade out and stick it back into the holster and immediately reloaded my rifle.
"Guess you do know how to fight." The ghost says, surprised at my sudden skill.
I smirk in a 'I told you so,' way.
One of the fallen had dropped a white box on the floor. I went over near it and it added a little over a hundred rounds into my reserves.
"Enemies sometimes drop their ammo that I can convert into bullets for your weaponry." The ghost explains.
"How convenient…" I reply, wondering how useful that would be in this day forward.
I run down the hall and take a sharp right turn then run forward a bit and take another right turn.
I see a doorway and suddenly a dreg falls down. I reflexively punch it then reach for my knife and ingrave it into the alien's skull.
"Nice try." I pat it on the back and rip out the blade.
I take a left and run forward for a sec but then three dregs and a vandal drop down. I fire at the vandal, aiming for the head, and spray the last of my bullets at the dregs, weakening them.
I take cover for a second to reload and the dregs fire a slow blue projectile from their pistols that I easily dodge.
I promptly returned fire then cleaned up the vandal with a knife.
"Nice shooting, but there's more ahead." Ghost compliments.
I nod then run across a narrow walkway across a gap and come across an unlocked crate.
"It's a cache, might have another gun." The drone says.
I put my hands on the handlebars and lift it open. There lay a revolver of sorts. I pick it up and my hud says it's a; Helios HC1. It's a lightweight frame hand cannon, with an eleven round mag.
I switch to it and reload the arc based firearm. I then put on a magnetic holster on my right leg and turn the corner.
Only to walk straight into a trip mine.
It explodes and I'm launched straight into a wall, without my arms and legs.
"Aaahhh!" I yell in pain.
"Calm down, calm down guardian. You're gonna die in a second and I'll resurrect you." The ghost appears.
He's right. I die and blink to find myself looking over my corpse as a spectator. Shadows cover my vision but then ghost splits apart into a ball of light. Just as suddenly as my life ends, it begins again with flash of light and strong force pulling me into my body like a vacuum to dust.
And with a small groan…I stand back up, limbs attached of course.
"I-I just…" I stuttered a bit traumatized.
"Died? Yeah. Death has that effect on you, but you'll get used to it after some time." The drone says.
"I'll get used to it?!" I exclaimed, eyes wide.
"You'll be dying a lot in this line of work. And I do mean a lot. Like I said, I'll answer all your questions when we're in the city." Ghost deadpans then reassures his agreement.
I look with frustration. "Fine."
"Thank you guardian. Now let's get going." The ghost disappears.
I look over at the trip mines and shoot the remaining ones to explode them at a distance. Unharmed I switch to my Helios and fire at the two dregs in the corridor. I miss a shot but I still kill both of them with one or two shots each from my hand cannon.
I run a bit then knife another dreg around some pipes. Next I fire a couple rounds into the other dreg around the corner, both hitting the body but still putting him down down. I take cover behind some conveniently placed pipes separating two small corridors. I wait a few seconds and I heard the sound of one of the dregs reloading.
I made my move. I switched to my rifle and leaped out of cover, quickly firing a few shots at the dreg with a grenade in its hand. I tactical roll left and simultaneously switch to my hand cannon. I stand up and fire at the targets while strafing to avoid returned fire.
Bang. Bang. Two rounds hit the skulls of two unlucky aliens as they drop in one. I hip fire a round and it hit the leg and the dreg falls to the ground, still alive. I blind fire another and dodge to cover.
One round…
I switch to the auto and lay waste to the two standing. Missing about half of my shots from spray and pray, I look at the dreg crawling away from me. I put away my rifle and take out my Helios with one round in the chamber.
I knew how the houses worked. My brother taught me all about our enemies before we fought em' during the war. Heh, it's a bit strange that the only thing I remember is how to fight, my brother, and the war that killed me.
Now we're here. In a ruin of our homeland. At least the houses had order, but it was a bit morbid by my standards. From what I remember, the dregs were vandals who had their arms ripped off for failure. Eventually they got promoted and got mechanical arms, I think.
I look at my gun then back at the dreg. They'll probably humiliate him and might remove all his limbs.
I hesitated for a second but my thoughts pushed me forward.
This is mercy.
I pulled the trigger. Bang...the dreg is put out of its misery.
I reload my hand cannon then reload my rifle.
Ghost appears beside me. "That was the right thing to do guardian. The fallen houses are cruel. But let's go."
I turn right then left into a room with a hole in the wall. I ready my rifle as just then fallen dropped from the ceiling.
I aim my gun to the vandal closest right to me and pepper him with bullets till he drops. Next I run to the left onto a platform with a railing that's a slight vantage point with cover. Then I open fire on the dregs out in the open...Which are every single one of them. I take out most of them but run out of bullets in the mag. I immediately switch to my hand cannon and one shot the remaining two and heavily damage a vandal. I go to reload my auto to feel a force hitting my back. I 180, punch the vandal trying to sneak up on me, and follow it up with a knife to the chest. I rip it out and holster it.
Suddenly I hear rockets going off outside, and the fallen hear it too. Distracted I sneak up on the last vandals and two shot them. I reload my Helios again and the ghost speaks through coms.
"Guardian, Get outside. There's other guardians fighting." The drone says.
"How do I get outside exactly?" I question.
The ghost pauses for a bit and a symbol appears on my hud. "There, I marked the path." The ghost brings a solution.
I holster my weapons and run through the doorway marked, I turn left through a large opening in an old turbine. Stepping through puddles I turn right through a small corridor to see two other 'guardians' fighting a hell of a lot of fallen.
"A Hunter and a Warlock." The ghost says.
"Hmm?" I had a look of confusion.
"Ugh, those are the classes those two guardians are. The male in the red robes is the Warlock and the lady with the white cloak like you is a Hunter. If you still don't get it I'll explain in the city." Ghost briefly breaks down.
The Warlock takes a quick glance at us and motions the female hunter to us. The hunter speaks, "Hey guardian! Get over here." She waves enthusiastically.
I sprint over, firing rounds into the skulls of dregs with great accuracy, only missing a shot or two.
"Hey." I say.
"Hi! Nice shot! So you—" she shoots a vandal with a hand cannon of a unique design, it felt...dark. "—just got first revived right?" The hunter asks.
"Yeah, I got revived like...Ghost, help me out here." I ask for my companion.
"I resurrected you about…fourteen minutes ago," The drone responds.
"Alright then! Can you—? Ooh! Is that a khvostov?" The Hunter starts to fangirl over my rifle.
She seemingly teleports all over the place but then a ghost appears besides us and says.
"Guardian, calm down, yes that's a Khvostov 7G-02, and you have the exotic version."
"I know Pause, but I have an appreciation for the classics!" The girl responds to her ghost named Pause.
The ghost was a tan color, with four thin spikes sticking out, and it was also embroidered with a red-ish pattern along the front and back of the shell.
"So what were you saying before?" I ask.
"Oh yeah! Sorry, we kinda need some help with that walker over there!" She points backward to a fallen walker.
Great…
The Warlock switches to a sniper. "Hey kinderguardian. What's your name? If you remember of course."
"No I remember. It's—."
"TAKE OUT THAT SNIPER!" My brother yelled aggressively as one of ours blew up the Vex unit known as a Hobgoblin.
I recoil and rub my head.
"Whoa, are you okay?" The female hunter turns back to us holding a rifle.
"Yeah I just, had a flashback…" I reply. "Sorry about that, my name is—."
My vision gets even darker somehow while the mechanical titans tear through our front lines with ease. And the only line of defense to the transport, gate is us. The injured.
I fall, a strong force hitting pushing me. It's…overwhelming. Though it's nothing that's touching me, it's just a force like wind.
"—get to safet-AAGGHH!" My brother cried out as there was a gaping hole in his left shoulder.
I close my eyes and reopen them. "E-Echo. My name is Echo Aveil. I'm an Asian male, black messy hair, green eyes, and I'm approximately fifteen."
The Warlock visibly shakes a bit but says their own name. "I am Jackie."
"Hate to bother ya but there is still a giant walker over there." My ghost buts into our conversation.
We look over to see the female hunter going OFF on that walker.
She's flying all over the place, throwing grenades, firing rounds, a couple rockets, a bunch of shotgun shells, few sniper bullets, and…
Her hand bursts into flames. In her hand is a burning pistol, she fires one shot and it immediately destroys a leg. That caused the walker to break down and reveal its core. We sprinted over and lit up the weak point. Our mags ran out of bullets and the female hunter fired two rounds out of the fire gun and it disappears. (The walker and the burning pistol.)
Bit overkill much? Still though I gaze in awe.
She strolls over, looking all cherie. "Cool huh? That's called the golden gun. It's a special ability exclusive to us hunters in the Gunslinger subclass. You'll use it in time."
"Yep! And looks like you got an upgrade on your subclass partner." My Ghost says.
I look a bit confused. "Well you did a one-eighty in attitude."
The ghost responded "Scuse' me? I have emotions too guardian."
"That's debatable."
"Ughhh...whatever, anyways so you got an upgrade point on your subclass. Open your inventory." The ghost mumbles.
"How...do I do that exactly?" I ask awkwardly.
"Just think about a backpack, or a bin, or anything used to store something." The Warlock replies.
I think about a backpack and a holographic menu appears before me. I see a geometric purple diamond in the top left blinking. I tap on it with my finger.
Nightstalker
Draw from the void. Light the way.
A plethora of icons hit my retina, all with different symbols.
"Whoa. This is a bit overwhelming." I say and look all around for guidance.
Jackie provides some "Heh. You see the blinking icon to your left? That means you can now get that upgrade. Just tap on it twice to unlock it."
"Okay." I say and double tap the symbol.
Spike Grenade
A grenade that attaches to any surface and emits a torrent of damaging Void light. UNLOCKED
I exit out of the inventory and a new icon appears on my hud and I feel a small weight on my hip.
I take one and throw it. It sticks against the roof of a car and spews out purple energy like a ghost trap in ghostbusters.
"Wow..! You're a nightstalker!" The female hunter says, impressed.
"Is that good?" I ask awkwardly.
"Yes! Most hunters have to train for a long time to be able to learn how to accept the Void. But you were born as a nightstalker!" The Hunter says enthusiastically.
"Cool, so how what can I do with as nightstalker?" I ask, intrigued.
"As a nightstalker, you act as a support. Your super is called Shadowshot. When you activate shadowshot, you fire shot from a bow composed of complete void light that slightly tracks onto targets and does a decent amount of damage." The Hunter starts.
"That's it? The golden gun is probably a million times more effective than that." I say, unimpressed.
She gives me a short glare then continues, "The point of impact of the shot will create a orb that will tether all enemies in its large range. While tethered, the enemies are slowed, deal less damage, take less damage to kill, blood bound, and can't use any of their abilities."
I stare and blink twice at the OP as fuck shadowshot that I completely underestimated by miles. "I retract my previous statement."
"Good."
"Guardians, I love that you're socializing but we still need to get Echo back to the city." My ghost interrupts our conversation.
"The little light is—Hey!—right, we can talk when we're in the tower." Jackie agrees.
"Right...Uh…How do we get there?" I ask, raising both my hands awkwardly.
"Well you can follow the convenient marker I placed." My ghost says cheerfully. "And don't call me little light." He deadpans. "Also, change to comms on standard team voice channel." He says to the hunter in white and the Warlock in red.
"Whatever, let's go!" The female hunter pressed a button. She then sprints off toward the marker and we follow.
The Warlock presses a similar button and I repeat. We run forward a couple seconds and take a left into the compound before us. We take a right through a door and down a hallway and take another right.
"I'm picking up a ship with my scanners nearby. Guardian, that's our ticket out of here." My ghost says through our coms.
"Wait, Jackie. How did you and the hunter over there get here without a ship?" I ask.
"We did get here with our ships. Well, not intentionally. Me and my fireteam leader were flying back to the tower from a recon mission when we were shot down by fallen aircraft and we decided to hold ground there for a bit while my ghost was reconstructing our ships with my glimmer." Jackie explains.
"What's glimmer?" I question.
"It's a useful material that is also used as currency in the city." The Warlock says.
"Huh."
We continue onward and find some dregs missing their skulls and we sprinted past them, then jumped through the window as the doorway was blocked with debris. We take a left and go through a open doorway into a large opening. And there, hooked up, layed a ship.
I see the female hunter executing attacks nearly flawlessly with precision. Wielding a knife in hand…
Sparking with electricity.
She cut down her final foe and the lightning fades away. The next wave has arrived…
"Guardians! Cover me while I try to get this ship going." My ghost says out loud.
Dregs come in, followed by vandals, followed by captains, followed by a couple servitors.
FOLLOW-CEPTION
Anyways, I see the door they're coming from and throw the spike grenade. It sticks the landing, attached to the door frame it spews out void energy, annihilating the dreg's spawn point and diminishing their numbers.
I then take out my khvostov and open fire on the vandals, peppering the aliens with bullets. I drop a few and roll to cover to reload. I switch over to my hand cannon and look over at Jackie.
The Warlock is wielding a bullpup rifle firing three round bursts into the remaining vandals, killing them. He then throws a grenade and it explodes in a fiery display upon impact with a flaming orb taking off the shields of two of the three captains.
I spot the third one going for the hunter with four swords in its hands and I aim and fire three rounds at the head, two break its shield and the third miraculously hit its mask. More specifically, the remaining tube that provided the alien with its ether supply and the captain suffocates.
I turn to the dregs finding them dead but one crawling towards me. I notice a marking on its back, a wolf, but it's covered a bit with blood.
I look at the hunter and Warlock walking towards me. The hunter points her gun at the survivor but I motion no.
"What's a dreg from the house of wolves doing on earth? I thought only the house of devils and the house of kings occupy here." I ask out loud.
"Don't know. We'll inform the vanguard when we get to the tower." Jackie says and points his rifle at the dreg.
I stop him "No, you cannot kill what has already died." I look at the ship, "Hey ghost! You done yet?" I ask/yell.
He appears, "Gimme a sec!"
I turn to the dreg, I hold out my hand, and the dreg takes it. I help him up and he grunts something as to say thank you and runs off.
"Alright Guardians! Prepare for transmat!" My ghost yells over the roaring engines.
"What's a trans—MAAATTT!" I questioned as we're teleported into the ship.
I gulp and furiously look around for a trash can and one appears before me. I then unload my hundred year old lunch.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Heh! That never gets old." Jackie laughed. "Trial? Set course for the tower." The Warlock says to a ghost that's half orange-half blue.
"Yooouuu got it guardian Aveil!"
The ship turns silent. I turn to look at Jackie Aveil. M-My brother.
"Oh, was I not supposed to say that? My bad!"
"I-I-I can't believe it. Remove your helmet." I stutter.
Jackie does, and their sat, basically an older version of myself. A copy and paste if you will.
"Yes you can little bro." He smiles.
I hug him and release after a good few seconds. I then turn to the hunter who is watching the reunion with a smile.
"Hey, miss? I never got your name." I say to the hunter in white.
"Oh yeah! Sorry my name is Summer, Summer Rose." She says and takes off her helmet.
Summer is a woman with short black hair with red tints at the end. She has a soft, comforting/childish face and...Silver eyes?
Hmm. That's unusual.
"Nice to meet ya Summer." I say and turn to my ghost. "Hey ghost? How long till we get to the tower?" I ask.
"About...five minutes." The drone answers.
"Echo, what are you gonna name your ghost?" Summer asks.
I think for a second and everyone looks at me. "Split, ghost? Your name is Split now." I say.
My newly named ghost looks at me at my level. "Split it is then, and I will bear this name proudly. Thank you, guardian."
Suddenly, Summer's hand is placed onto her forehead and she groans.
"What's wrong?" I ask.
"Ugh, it's a flashback, a memory of my previous life. I've been having the same one for the past month now."
"What was it about?" I pushed.
"Something about two little girls, one having a striking resemblance to me and the other calling the first her sister, and they ask me to keep a promise to come home. I leave a house and they call out 'goodbye mommy!' I leave and and…" She starts to cry.
"I broke their promise. I never came home." She burst into tears.
We comfort her and soon she calms down.
"I'm sorry I—."
I cut her off "You don't have anything to be sorry for, it was a memory, you died. The odds were stacked against you. You will find closure, just wait."
She looks at me, "Thank you. Also! Will you join our fireteam?" She's asks cheerfully.
"Of course, you guys are the only people I know." I reply with a grin.
"Awesome!" She throws her arms out.
"Then it's settled, bro. Welcome to fireteam Destiny!" Jackie welcomes.
Split appears alongside Trial and Pause, "Guardians, we are now arriving in the last city of earth."
We look out the cockpit window. The ship breaks through the clouds and the city is in our sites. A massive orb looms over the shining beacon of humankind, the last city of earth.
"Whoa." I say in amazement.
"Breathtaking, isn't it?" Jackie says to me.
Indeed it is. The traveler resurrected me from the dead after the collapse of the golden age It gave me a new family, a new home, a new purpose, and most importantly, It gave me a second chance.
And I'll be damned if it's taken from me.
A/N
THANK YOU FOR WAITING! I have to thank you all for waiting for this chapter to come out. I condemn your patience, now I will focus on this story for a while then go back to The RWBY Event. I can't write both stories simultaneously because it's to much for me to think about and I'll be a typo mess. Anyways! Thank you for reading and wait for part 2!
