The Inhalation of Ember
As I awoke laying on the cold solid ground I felt energy pulse through my body, as I looked up I could see hideously deformed faces staring at me. "My god is that the grineer?" I say to myself as I feel the cold solid steel clamp onto my ankle.
"Your mine now tenno" I hear come from the one that has just placed the cold steel device on my ankle. It feels so foreign, attached to my ankle, that is until I felt my thoughts slowly slipping away and its cold tendrils burrowing into my ankle and up my leg, slowly as if to torture me.
A voice cuts through my seemingly blank thoughts. "Get up tenno I have lost to many of you to lose another, I am overloading your system with energy, get up and fight." Before my mind could register who all and what all was within my senses my body was shot with vitality. At the moment I could not tell you who I am only that I am Excalibur and I am trained to kill. Seemingly without thought my Skana is drawn and I am leeping forward dancing my way through the advancing grineer. The sword sings with delight as it cuts through all who stand in my way, the only reality of what is happening is my sub-consciousness telling me the shield that has just been charged for me is beginning to run dangerously low. My sword is still moving in the entrancing patterns I was long-ago taught, slicing, cleaving limb from body to my left and right always in constant motion. That was till my sword hit clanging against freezing cold steel, my body surged with adrenaline trying to break this object that has stayed my advance. I pull my blade away in a parry, then spin blade arching through the air toward its deprived target.
A loud concussion sounds and I pay no heed to it until that is I am wounded. Not just damage on my shield, no, hot searing pain wounded as the bullet hit its mark lodging itself inside my chest. I flip backward always retaining my center of gravity in the soles of my feet. I land hard one knee down my blade at guard covering my body protecting my whole body.
"I see tenno you have recovered your strength and skill, to bad your form is sadly off and my guard has weakened you. A simple bullet from my Seer punched deep into your breast, how does that feel?" All this he says as he stands there examining his Seer as if none where above him.
As I stand my mind clears of the haze of battle, my mind slowly coming to realize how weakened I truly am. "Your bullets have no effect on a shield vile grineer" I utter. Deciding he shall not strike at this moment I use my left hand to push myself up, once there I resume my battle stance again only to sway and almost fall. "I cannot let this happen, I will not faint or fall victim to a grineer I think to myself….but how is he so confident?" At length of a minute or so of swaying I decide for his attempting to kill me with his Seer I will punish him. My helmet has fed me enough information to know who this grineer that stands infront of me so confidently is, his name is Vor. "What have you placed on my ankle Vor? Do you wish me to punish you for all the tenno you have killed or injured as of late?"
"Ahhhh so the Lotus has spoken to you I see, well no matter. Before long you will be my own personal body guard." He says laughing. "Now be a good Tenno and come to your master and kneel at my feet, I will not treat you harshly but beware if you do not I will have to use force. We don't want that now do we?" Vor then holsters his gun an looks expectantly toward me.
I see my chance to get by any guard he might have. "I accept your offer Vor, I shall serve you for your mercy." I say as I sheath my weapon on my hip and stand erect swaying. I take a quick glance of the environment I have so long slept enclosed in. I look around to see the orokin white walls laced in gold as always. Large pillars a pedestal of which my cryo-pod now stands upright on. I turn in a circle because I feel two presences other than me and Vor, although all I see is grineer corpses. Severed arms, legs, heads and bodies pollute my once tranquil place of rest. My house of heaven is now stained with the blood of my enemies.
"This way Tenno" Vor says as he stands in front of the void portal my cryo-pod is facing.
I summon all the energy that mysterious voice has given me and I proceed forward staggering. A distance of three bodies lay between us two. Consequently two cleaved bodies lay in front of me in my advance I stumble over one. My vision is blurring as I stumble toward him, ever nearing him slowly. As I get to his feet I collapse as he roars with laughter.
"Tenno where are your fabled powers now? You have been said to fight off a whole hoard of us, now you can barely manage 51, and you have not a ounce of energy to finish off that one. How pitiful" All this he says as he brings up his foot to trample my helmet.
But that had given me my chance, just that split lapse in his guard. With a outraged war cry I thrust upward my Skana toward his heart. The blade slid fast from its sheath on my hip and upward even faster because of its light weight design.
Alas I was not fast enough, Vor dodged back but not before my blade slid over his cheek leaving a deep incision on the right side of his visage. It was my end but not without a fight I promised myself that second. My blade came back to a guard just in time for it to catch his blade racing toward my shoulder. Then in a flash I was hit with the pomell.
"You shall pay for that" I hear him say as I see his sword slicing toward my arm only to be intercepted at the last moment by two swords. Then my vision goes black and all that remains is the sound of swords clashing, screams, running….then all was the void and the void was my world, unconsciousness.
The sounds of swords clashing and war remained and a sense of being pushed came to me. Then all of a sudden a voice burst through along with the feeling of being thrashed.
"Wake up Ag! Wake up! Agros wake up we must leave rhino and ash are fighting again! Wake up!" The female voice wailed into my eyes while I was violently being shaken awake and dragged out of bed. I instinctually grabbed for my Skana on my back but alas it was removed with all my other weapons once brought to the infirmary. Not completely comprehending what was going on I summersaulted between the two gigantic boys fighting and grabbed a steel bar off a bunk and instinctually brought it up to guard. Only to shortly after be grabbed by the back of my shirt and hauled out of the room by a strong and forceful but not rough hand. Once drug into the hall I regained my wits, turned grabbing the skinny arm that held me and forced the person to the floor.
Only to realize then that this person was Alex. "I am so sorr…" is all I got out of my mouth before we were forced into a cold huddle of bodies in slow motion.
Then here came the leader, Frost P we all knew him by striding into the infirmary's dorm to break up the fight.
I looked at Alex and she had the look of pure irritability on her face, and thus started the day of selection.