North America, Western dead zone, Los Angeles

It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and the sky was clear of clouds and Fallen skiffs. Shin Malphur sat on the roof as some building along the coast and had fantastic view of the ocean. His long legs hanged over the edge as the gentle breeze swept his long brown hair out of his face. His favorite hand cannon and sniper rifle rested with in arms reach while his sword remained strapped to his waist. His golden eyes scanned the horizon lazily.

"We've got trouble." His Ghost said, breaking the silence. Shin sighed and stood up, the golden wolf head on his chest sparked in the sunlight. He bent over to grab his hand cannon and slipped it into its leg holster while he grabbed his rifle and slung it over his shoulder. Shin tapped his temple and his helmet, strange piece of armor that was called the Unyielding Casque.

"What is it this time?" he asked. There was a quick whirring sound before Ghost responded.

"There seems to be a source of Light approaching, not a guardian."

Shin walked to the opposite edge and looked over the edge. His helmet enhanced his vison to an almost unnatural degree, he blinked and his helmet made it so the Light showed up off in the distance.

"Any idea what it is?" Shin asked as he took a step back and with a single step leapt off the building.

"By the looks of it, I'd say it was a ghost."

Activating his jet pack a few feet before he smashed into the ground, Shin bounced back up before landing on his feet silently. Still looking at the Light, Shin took a quick judge of the distance that separated him and the Light.

"Two miles." He said absently. Even before he finished, there was the slight zapping sound that told him to look down. Hovering at waist level was his Evo Tumbler, waiting for him. Casting a suspicious look to the top right corner of his visor, Shin mounted his sparrow. Hitting the accelerator then boast, he shot forward at an incredible speed.

"What would a ghost be doing this far from the Tower?" Shin asked as he expertly weaved from the rusting vehicles on the deserted motorway.

"Don't know. Let's ask when we get there." Shin grunted and fell silent as he concentrated on not hitting the cars. The distance shrank rapidly and something began rubbing Shin the wrong way. He couldn't put a finger on the reason but there was something that was putting him on edge. 1000 meters…700 meters.

"Revival sequence detected!" Ghost shouted. Shin cursed in three different languages as his feeling got worse. The last thing he needed was a newborn Guardian to deal with.

"Summon the ship, and sent a message to Cayde that I'm coming with a delivery." Shin growled as he swerved into a narrow alley and nearly scrapped his sparrow. After several life threatening turns and a few low hanging bars, Shin blasted out onto another motor way and pulled hard on the brakes. Leaping off the sparrow, Shin quickly checked his tracker for any life signs. Luckily it was just the one.

"twenty three meters to the north." Ghost said and Shin whirled to the left and took off. It was mere seconds before Shin found a brand new warlock standing between abandoned cars.

"it had to be a warlock." Shin said in annoyance before he could stop himself.

Vienna blinked repeatedly as her vision cleared. She could hear something talking but she couldn't make out what it was saying. The first thing she saw was her fingers; giving them an experimental flex, Vienna found that they reacted perfectly.

"Guardian, we need to get moving Guardian." Vienna looked up at a strange floating…thing. It had a single blue eye and weird looking spikes that rotated randomly. She raised her arms and took a couple steps forward; nothing seemed wrong except the fact that she couldn't remember anything except her name.

"Guardian, this place dangerous and we need to leave." The floating thing said, "Hold still."

The thing flew forward and disappeared right before it hit Vienna.

"Don't worry, I'm still hear." The thing's voice said in her head, "We need to leave. We're a long way from the Tower and we'll be sitting ducks out here."

"What's a duck?" She asked. There was a quiet whir but no response. She took another step forward and wobbled slightly; throwing her arms out to steady herself.

"It had to be a Warlock." A deep voice, rumbling like thunder said. Vienna looked up and the first thing she saw was the golden wolf head. Vienna wondered why she knew it was a wolf. The next was the four armed creature standing not too far behind the man.

"Fallen." The thing shouted. The new person whipped around and a single gunshot echoed off the buildings. Vienna looked in awe as the now headless creature slumped forward onto the ground.

"Come on. My ship is on the way. These Devils won't take to kindly to our presence." The man said as he grabbed her hand and took off, dragging her along. They ran in relative silence for a few moments before a piercing howl could be heard.

"And there's Vel'nok." The man said. It was probably just Vienna but he sounded really annoyed with something. Vienna shot a look back to see dozen of those creatures led by a particularly massive creature that looked similar.

"Who's that?" She asked.

"That's Vel'nok, Kell of the House of Devils. He doesn't like me." The man said, not breaking his stride. Vienna looked up at the rooftops as she heard another howl. Another creature stood there holding a nasty looking gun.

"Who's that?" the man looked up in the same direction and cursed in…Latin. Again how did she know that?

"That's Zenoral, the Devil Baroness, she doesn't like me."

Vienna nodded thoughtfully. What has this man done to earn this kind of hatred? She didn't have time to consider it more as the man skidded to a halt and stared at the large rectangular vehicle that blocked their path. More howls filled the air. Vienna looked at the rooftops on the opposite side and pointed.

"Who are they?" the man growled at her and pulled a pistol from somewhere and handed it to her.

"Let's just assume that everyone doesn't like me." The man grabbed the rifle off his back and looked through the sights at the creatures on the roof tops. Vienna leaned to the side to see past the hood and found that he wore a strange golden helmet; she was surprised, his voice didn't sound like it came from some sort of speaker but wrote it off as another oddity she's faced since waking up. She looked down at the weapon in her hand and studied it for a moment.

It was a beautiful revolver but bigger. Gold and black with golden engravings; Vienna could practically feel the lethality radiating from the gun. She looked up at the man and stared at him.

"What am I supposed to down with this?" the resulting sigh made her feel stupid and worthless.

"Shot it." right after he said those words, there was a loud bang and the make rocked on his heels. Vienna followed the barrel and saw a headless body fall from the roof tops. Vienna looked back at the man, jaw slack as he took another shot. She refused to turn and see the headless body fall.

"Who are you?"

"We're about to be overrun and you want to chat?" he asked.

"Well we can't chat after we've been horribly killed, can we?" She shot back. The man remained silent as he took two more shots and reloaded.

"Names Shin Malphur. You?" If Vienna heard right then there was some admiration in his voice.

"Vienna. No second name, sorry." The man laughed at her. Vienna looked over to the creatures and saw their ranks had thinned out considerably. The only ones left were the first large creature, the Baroness and the other two creatures on the roof tops. She raised the gun and sighted for the largest of the creatures but a hand gently pushed the gun back down. She looked at Shin's mask confused.

"They got the message. And besides, our ride is here."