CHAPTER 1
Guardian
"Pay attention Daughter. This is the part of the story that's really important. Now this is The Law Of The Jungle as old and as true as the sky. The wolf that shall keep it may prosper but the wolf that shall break it must Die." her father continued on with the story as his daughter listened on as if trying to remember the information for all time.
Once the story was finished her parents tucked her into bed each one giving her a kiss on the cheek "Remember my little wolf the strength of the wolf is the Pack." Her father said as he cut off the light to her room both parents exited out just as a giant explosion could be heard in the distance.
Years later since the story's telling.
"Guardian Wake up Guardian."
"Ow My head." A noise that wasn't my own was racing across my brain. I thought my mind would explode until a refreshing light started to fill my mind and my body I slowly opened my eyes it was really dark around me except for a floating light that seemed to be shining a light in my face. I looked at the light one hand raised so that my eyes could adjust and it began moving its body around as if it was talking the voice had returned.
"Guardian you don't know how long I've been looking for you i'm a ghost well actually i'm your ghost now and well this may be hard to believe but you...you've been dead a really long time now." the ghost female robotic voice rung in my head.
"I died?" my voice echoed around me and my head started to burn slightly I felt as if I was starting to remember something but it quickly faded away.
I slowly lifted myself up off the ground while my hands were reaching outwards hoping to find something to help me keep my balance my hands suddenly felt a wall and I balanced myself on it.
I looked at the ghost it didn't seem to be worried about me then again it was a small orb with spikes that rotated all around it. So it was kinda hard to tell. I looked around and I seemed to be inside of a cave a small amount of light could be seen shining on a bit of the wall in front of me and I assumed that was the exit to the cave. The ghost had stopped shining its light in my face before it began projecting light all around the cave.
As the cave lit up i noticed seven white fur, four legged tailed creatures laying in a Ball at my feet there eyes seemed to have lost all the life from them and they were cold to the touch as my hand rubbed across the soft fur of one of them my head flashed with pain and I seemed to be remembering something.
A paradise was what I saw first Trees filled my view endless ones like that of a rain forest and I seemed to remember a river that if I looked outwards towards it's end there would be this huge waterfall. I seemed to remember living there however I also remembered what happened to it.
All of that land was now nothing more then a barren waste fires spread for what seemed like miles I could hear myself yelling out seven wolves howling next to me on top of a cliff eight other warriors clad in different armor standing with us we charged forwards at our enemy's. They had four arms and seemed to be wielding daggers or short swords that coursed with energy of different colors. I remembered calling them Fallen however that somehow felt wrong.
A howl from within the cave shook me from the memory. I turned around looking behind me to notice a hole that i couldn't see pass as if the darkness surrounding it would not let any light past it. Ghost shined light in front of me and i could see what seemed like a tunnel that connected to the cave.
I felt around my body for any weapons that i might have on me while also noticing that I had a helmet and some armor on when i found nothing on me I searched on the ground for any weapons yet none were there. I started looking around the cave for any weapons I could use. I felt a small pang in my heart as I moved around the cave moving the bodies of the now dead wolfs at my side searching for anything that could be used as a weapon.
Finally the handle of a blade stuck out from underneath one of the wolfs body, While an old hand cannon laid next to it. I pulled them both out from underneath the wolf the hand cannon in my left hand and the blade in my right hand. Unfortunately the blade was broken and slightly rusted it was probably only good enough to use as a dagger.
"Better that then nothing." I thought. The Pistol seemed to be in working condition however I checked the gun over before holding it tightly in my hand as it was now the only thing keeping me alive. The howl from before was heard again from the cave it didn't sound like the wolfs from my vision it sounded more twisted different.
"Guardian you should take this as well." Ghost shined light down at the ground a small white box seemed to be glowing I reached down towards it as my hand touched it the small box disappeared and a few numbers seemed to appear downwards in my field of view.
"Ammo." I said mainly to myself I seemed to remember there being different colors for different types but i only had a hand cannon with 75 shots that could be fired. "There should be plenty If need to defend myself." I thought.
My body felt like it's strength had returned and I slowly made my way towards the noise. Call me insane which the ghost literally did but I had to know what had happened to me or at the very least gain some clue as to what caused it.
As I reached the end of the cave the ghost light slowly disappeared in front of me almost as if it was being devoured by darkness. When I thought the cave couldn't get any darker the cave opened up to what appeared to be a dead end however it was huge as if I was standing inside a crater only underground. There were strange green markings burning brightly in the cave like runes and four small floating pillars spinning effortless in place.
The room was also filled with light it was amazing and terrifying because the light that was shining in the the room was being devoured by something covered in darkness. It was huge it looked almost like smoke but as I tired to look at it i could almost make out a figure to it.
It seemed to be feasting on the light tearing into it with its massive body it didn't seem to have hands but these long Claws which were slamming into the light. It also seemed like the light was being held in place by seven claws its appearance was the same as the darkness except it didn't have claws.
I don't know what I was thinking or why I did it but I fired a shot off at the darkness the shot rang through out the cave and the tempest of darkness stopped and seemed to look at me. My heart raced but I wasn't scared no it felt more like I was getting angry.
I rushed down into the cave firing off shot after shot I didn't seem to be doing any damage to it. The darkness lunged at me and i jumped in the air I used my momentum to rush along side one of the pillars that were floating before jumping off it and landing on my feet. I saw nine balls of light fly outwards and slam into the darkness with a loud explosion I covered my hand over my face so that I wouldn't go blind as the room lit up with light.
I rushed towards the light as the room started to dim down A bit the huge mass of darkness looked as though it was trying to piece itself back together. Suddenly the pillar i had recently jumped off of made a huge shock wave among the ground that sent out this green energy. I jumped over it while moving away from the pillar. What appeared to be ash took the form of what looked like a corpse that was twisted and rotten it didn't seem to have eyes and its mouth made this huge screeching noise.
Ghost quickly yelled out Hive as a whole hoard of them started to swarm out of the light the pillar was making. I shot the first one in the head it looked like it had turned into embers before disappearing into smoke I continued shooting them while reloading my gun. I killed maybe 20 of them before Another burst of light happened around the entire cave all of the pillars seemed to be glowing white as if they were surrounded in a bubble. I finished off 10 more Hive that didn't get destroyed by the light before making my way towards it.
I had finally made it to the light and I could see that it seemed to be restrained by the darkness claws which had remained in tact even after the two explosions of light. The darkness seemed to have regained its strength as a sudden gust of wind pushed me out of the way just as its claws had slammed into the light.
I ran backwards never taking my eye off the darkness until i decided speed was needed I timed it just right as I slid under the darkness just as it had lunged another attack at me. This time I used the dagger that was in my right hand and to my surprise the edge of it looked to be glowing blue with electricity I slashed at the darkness with it as it hissed in pain drawing back its claws towards its main body which was still recovering from its wounds.
I began running along the wall firing at the restraints with my hand cannon while dodging the darkness. I used the small dagger to fend off the darkness while reloading my gun. I suddenly noticed the blade appeared to be shining with a white light. This time I took off towards the light while sliding underneath the Darkness claws again but this time it nicked my helmet something told me to yank off my helmet and i did it seemed to explode with darkness just as i had tossed it away.
It took me a second to gather myself i could see the darkness start to ignore me and rush towards the light slamming into it as if trying to absorb it. The loud howl could be heard again I rushed towards one of the restraints of the light and slammed my blade into the claw that was restraining the light. A loud agonizing howl erupted from the darkness and it backed away from the light for just a moment.
I watched as the light shot forth a wave of power towards the darkness sending it back into the cave wall as it tried to recover. The light slowly began to fade and the darkness around the cave was increasing and the white bubble that had been keeping the pillars at bay was slowly starting to fade away.
I looked at the light I didn't wanna leave it but there was no way I would survive down here. The light must have thought the same thing because it shot a small amount of light at my body yet that small amount felt like a wave of power had hit me.
After i received the light my body seemed to shine with it I looked towards the exit and ran towards it I jumped into the air and stopped as I reached the entrance to this part of the cave. I only looked behind me for a second to see the darkness and its hive start to devour the light. I balled my fist in anger but I continued running towards the exit i could hear the howl behind me and the cave was becoming darker.
I rushed past the dead wolfs my heart almost breaking as I ran past them however I had to keep moving. I could see the light at the end of the cave and rushed outside. I stopped only for a moment mostly in shock I knew I had to run but my feet wouldn't move.
The sight before me was just to cruel it looked as though I was surrounded by a fog of darkness fires were still burning brightly on already burned out trees. While scorch marks seemed to scar the ground black everything around me screamed terror. The only relief I found was a ship my ship it seemed a bit worn down and slightly damaged. I just seriously hoped it could fly.
I heard the howl closing in from behind me along with the screeches of the hive. I Rushed towards my ship and felt around it for a release switch to open the hatch once I had found it I gave it a hard pull but it didn't move I yanked on it again and still nothing.
"Damn it!" My body was still covered in the light that was given to me but it was slowly fading away and the howl was getting louder.
"Hang on guardian this may feel a bit weird." The ghost voice came ringing in my head as I felt a strong sensation take over my entire body my vision went blurry before I found myself inside my ship.
"How-" I stopped myself as I saw the sudden form of seven wolf figures along with what seemed like a mist of darkness come roaring outside of the cave. The wolfs were black as night now covered in darkness there golden lifeless eyes now replaced with a purple ones filled with energy.
It took everything I had not to hop out of the ship and charge at the darkness fortunately for me my ghost had already started the ship and we were quickly gaining altitude. The darkness tried to reach out with its claws towards the ship but as the claw got closer the light that surrounded my body disappeared. It created a huge blast of energy around me and the ship. A strong white visible breeze like seeing the wind in the form of a tornado had started to blow sending the darkness back down into the ground.
I took this chance and pressed the Enter orbit button on the ship however the ship didn't move I slammed my fist against the button again still nothing.
"Damn it must have gotten damaged." I Slammed on the button one last time hoping my rage would active it sadly it didn't work.
I Looked on the map while speeding off into the sky and as far away from the cave as I could the map blinked nine times before coming online there were a few places I could land however the closest one seemed to be the Cosmodrone. Hitting the Cosomodrone with my finger on the map I felt my ship go into Auto-pilot.
Curious as to where I Had been before, I moved the map down a bit. All the locations simply read Dead-Zone My eyes felt heavy as if the explosion of light from earlier had drained me of all the strength I had. I yawned loudly before slumping in my chair I wouldn't reach my destination for another five hours I decided to take this time to gather my strength.
"Ghost Wake me when we arrive." I really didn't know what to make of the ghost but if nothing else I felt as though I could trust it. My eyes finally closed the last thing I saw before sleep took me was a nice sunset slowly going down behind a mountain in the distance.