The Warriors Of Light Past And Present
Chapter 2 A Trial By Combat
"right Udax lord Zavala asked to to take you round the tower and show you where everything is so lets go" Volya asides he and Udax walked up the stairs as they entered the plaza they had arrived in.
"right were going to go speak to the most important person on this tower so best manner or he'll rip you in half" Volya said causing Udax to step back only for Volya to laugh " I'm messing with you" Volya said as he waved him off as they began walking across the plaza to a corridor on there right.
"how many guardians are there" Udax said as they walked past several guardians going about there work "we don't know for sure only the vanguard would have the exact numbers but its in the hundreds" Volya said as they entered a corridor.
"so who exactly are we going to speak to" Udax said as Volya looked at his as they walked before talking "were going to go speak to the speaker" Volya said as Udax looked ta him confused.
"the speaker" udax questioned "yes the speaker the one being that is capable of communicating with the traveler the being that gave us all life again" Volya said as they exited the corridor in to a small area with people stood around it.
"the traveler" Udax thought as he looked in the air to see the silent being above the city "so your the reason i live again" Udax thought as he clenched his fist before walking again with Volya as they entered a large room with a large dive in the middle that spun at random intervals and a flight of stairs that lead to a small balcony with a desk and a large amount of book on shelfs around it.
as they walked up the stairs Udax got a look at this being that was stood hunched over a table looked at something "great speaker" Volya said as he kneels down before the speaker as he turned round revealing a being clothed in long white robes with a mask that covered his face completely.
"hunter remove your helmet" the speaker said in a calm wisp like voice as Volya nodded and removed his helmet revealing his face Volya had short black hear with a full beard and sharp eyes with a large scar over his right eyebrow.
"and you young titan Udax its good to meet you" the speaker said exuding an aura of warm and calm causing him to slowly unclench his hand as he looked at him "what is he" Udax thought as the speaker walked soundlessly to him before he stop just in front of him.
"i wait for the day you light shines its brightest" the speaker said before turning and moving back to his desk as Volya stood back up and ushered Udax out with him.
"try to be more respectfully next time you speak to him" Volya said as they walk out of the large room at to a large console nearby next to a small alcove with loads of crates with a woman at the end doing something on a console.
"right onto the tour first thing is this you can come here and get your amour coloured a large number of guardians do his to stand out as one person" Volya said as he walked away from the alcove with Udax before he pointed to a man in red stood with a group of people.
"that is the the leader of the new monarchy one of the three factions in the last city" Volya said as the walked back through the corridor they had come through a couple of minutes ago "three factions" Udax said as they walked through the corridor.
"yes three factions with the situation humanity is in people have be looking for different ways to saves themselves or looking for safety in numbers and such the three factions came up." Volya said as Udax nodded "the first is the new monarchy the next is the future arms cult and finally theres dead orbit" Volya said as they exited the corridor back into the plaza.
"right now were in the plaza so i can show you what you can do here" Volya said as they came to the centre of the plaza "first we have these the vaults" Volya said as he walked up to three large pillars with consoles on them.
"you will be able to store your stuff as information in these vaults" Volya said as he turned and walked way towards to the top corner of the plaza.
"and this is one of the most important places the gunsmith" Volya said as Udax got a good look at the gunsmith. the gunsmith was a sentient robot or an EXO he if remembered the information he received before and around it was shelfs holding weapons of all kinds and a large desk holding five guns of different makes.
"so Udax lets move on" Volya said as he walked away towards another stall with a man in a robe stood in front of it "an awoken" Udax said as he looked at the man "yes awoken are more common that you would think and this one is a very important man" Volya said as he nodded to the awoken.
"hello Cryptarch" Volya said as he lowered his head a bit before he responded "Guardian how are you today".
"Udax this is the Cryptarch one of the special few awoken who have learnt to convert scattered information into blueprints and restore broken things lost centuries ago back to there original condition" Volya said as Udax looked at the the Cryptarch again before Volya walked away as Udax followed him.
"okay Udax look over there" Volya said as he pointed to a robot above the stairs they took to get to the vanguard who was stood next to a large display "yes what about it" Udax said as he looked to were Volya was pointing.
"that is the bounty board if you need glimmer go there it will have targets for you to hunt down specific targets" Volya said before walked off again towards another corridor next to the Cryptarch.
"now to the hanger" Volya said as they entered a corridor before he looked to Udax "so any questions so far" he said as they turned and walked down a flight of stairs entering the hanger.
"no I'm okay" Udax said as he looked round the hanger at all the ships stored inside it "its good isn't it" Volya said as they bother looked at the ships.
"right come on stop drooling" Volya said as he let out a short laugh as Udax turned and glared at him "whoa thats a scary look" Volya said as they walked down a flight of stairs.
"right here we have two of the three factions over there are dead orbit" Volya said as he pointed to three awoken with pale grey skin "and up in that room is the future war cult" Volya said as he then pointed at a room above them that Udax could see an ex standing in.
you can also get materials from here" Volya said as he walked up to a robot standing at a desk "welcome guardians what do you require" it said as Volya waved it off "nothing at the moment" he said as the robot nodded and turned away from them to continue its work.
"and now i will take you to the one person you will be thanking a lot in the near future" Volya said as he and Udax walked up another smaller flight of stairs to a small area.
in the smaller area was a large console and a couple of crates of varying sizes with on large on in the corner with somebody sat on "hey Amanda feel like giving me a free ship" Volya said as he walked up only to get a wrench thrown at him causing him to duck.
"stupid hunters and there reflexes" she grumbled as she looked up to see Udax "who's this Volya got yourself a shield now" she said as she looked at Udax.
"no no you know how i work i just have to show him round the tower" Volya said as she nodded before turning to Udax "i'll be seeing you soon then try not to damage it to much before bragging it to me" she said as Volya took Udax away from the area and back to the stairs they had entered the hanger on.
"look its that fallen" Udax said as he looked to the mouth of the hanger to see the fallen looked out onto the traveler as Cayde stood next to it with two hunters nearby "yes its there" Volya said as his eyes narrowed a bit.
"lets get down there then" Volya said as he started walked away to a small flight of stairs leading down into the hanger "so whats going to happen to that fallen" Udax said as they walked down the stairs to the hanger floor.
"from what Cayde said the fallen will live and were going to work with it well that might be stretching it a bit but at the very least we're going to be exchanging information with it" Volya said as they walked across the hanger floor to the fallen.
as they approached Cayde noticed them "oh guardians finished the tour" he said as the two stopped in front of him as the fallen turned round "ahh guardians" the fallen said as it looked at them.
"Guardian i have connected to the tower" Udax's ghost said as it floated out of of him as it floated next to him "good to hear Guardian now Udax take this" Cayde said as he handed a small card to Udax.
"take this to the gunsmith he with update your arms and armour and then head back here and you will be taken to the cosmodrome to find the ship components you need for a ship" Cayde said before turning to Volya.
"Volya you going to be doing the drop off so ready your ship" Cayde said as Volya nodded his head as he walked off to find his ship as Udax walked off back to the tower plaza to talk with the gunsmith.
"so i will be going back to the cosmodrome soon then" the fallen said as Cayde nodded as the fallen turned back to the traveler before cayde spoke again.
"remember the deal"
(an hour later cosmodrome)
"right I'm dropping you off good luck" Volya said as Udax nodded as he and the fallen were engulfed in light as the teleported from the ship to the ground.
"gah" Udax went as he hit the ground as he looked round as he stood next to a device stabbed into the ground flashing in his new armour gone was his light combat suit replaced with thicker combat suit with thin metal plates all over it but thicker on there hands, chest and shoulders and a dome style helmet.
"i have uploaded the coordinates for a fallen jump ship to your HUD the warp drive should still be intact" Udax's ghost said as he got ready to move before the fallen spoke "if you seek to salvage you must hurry fallen leave things for long" the fallen said as Udax started to run to the location of the fallen ship.
it didn't take him long to get to the ship "shit" he thought as he ducked behind a rock as he look around the oner to see the fallen ship with fallen dregs crawling all over it "lets do this" he thought as he breathed in before breathing out and opening fire.
as he pulled the trigger his his bullets rang through the air downing several dregs before they turned to him and fired back causing him to get back behind cover before he held out his hand as sparks gathered in his hand before he threw it over the rock hitting the ground before exploding and hitting three of the dregs finishing the group off.
"right lets get over to that ship" Udax said as he ran over to the ship before climbing onto of it as his ghost floated out and began scanning the ship "the warp drive is gone taken i can detect it its not far" the ghost said as Udax turned just in time to see a two flashes.
"fuaaaaaaaaa" he shouted as he felt a crippling pain in his chest as he looked down to see a hole in his chest before he looked up before everything went black.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Udax screamed as he hit the group "i died i was killed" he said as he gasped for air as he looked round to see he was back where he had started next the the device stabbed into the ground.
"right come on up" he thought as he got to his feet as he sprinted back to where he was shot "theres no body i was killed here wait where…." he thought as he turned to where he had seen the flashes before only to duck as to shot hit the ship behind him.
"ahhhhh" Udax shouted as he jumped ove the ship week and towards the flashes as jumped left and right to avoid the shots before one caught him in the leg causing him to hit the ground as he rolled behind a rock before blind firing round the edge of the rick before leaning to the side and firing this time killing the vandals that had been shooting at him.
"fuck fuck" he swore as he stood up as he started limping towards an entrance with stairs leading down only for a couple of dregs with a vandal rushed out "come on" he shouted as he rushed forward punching one of the dregs sending it flying hitting another one killing it as sparks came off his fist as he turned his gun and downed another before the clip emptied.
"shit" he thought as the two remaining dregs rushed him firing into his side tearing his shields apart as they rushed to finish him off "no not again" Udax thought as he fell back only to see something jump in front of him tackling the two dregs before he heard the sound of static knives before he looked up.
"awoken man are you okay" a voice said it was the fallen that he had arrives with "er yeah" Udax said as he stood back up and looked at the fallen who had killed the two dregs with a static knife.
"right now to go in there" Udax said as the fallen looked at him and then behind him before it shouted at him "AWOKEN MAN MOVE" it shouted as Udax turned round only to see a vandal as an intense pain bag in his stomach as he looked down to see a static knife in his stomach.
"wa" he thought as he hit the ground as he slowly began to bleed out as he looked at the fallen vandal fighting as his eyes began to droop before closing.
"ahhhhhhh FUCK FUCK" Udax shouted as he clawed at his stomach as he looked round at the place ehe had been three times now before he ran to where he was killed it didn't take him long and when he arrive he found the fallen stood there over the body of the vandal that had killed him.
"awoken man dead but not dead returned like the stories" the fallen said as Udax approached it "so then why are you here" Udax said as he looked at the fallen to see a couple of knife wounds on the fallen.
"archon devils priest holds something i want maybe awoke man wants something off him as well perhaps a cooperation of sorts" the fallen said as it looked at him and then back at the entrance "fine then" Udax said as as they walking into the entrance as they went down the stairs into a corridor.
"whats your name" Udax said as they slowly made there way through the corridor "awoken man asks fallen its name why" the fallen said as it looked at him as it adjusted the wire rifle it had picked up.
"yes your name calling you fallen is going to get confusing" Udax said as the fallen looked at him "Yalis this fallen name is Yalis" the fallen said as they got to the end of the corridor.
"okay lets go" Udax said as they entered the room it was a open room with a boxed off area to the right with two entrances and pillars along the side of the room they were in.
"here they come the devils" Yalis said as as they headed a roar as something crawled out of a hole in the wall opposite to them "there it is the archon priest" Udax said as it roared out as other fallen began to crawl out of other holes in the wall.
"ahhhhhhhh" Udax shouted as he opened fire on the fallen downing several of them before jumping behind a pillar to avoid the archon priests gun leaving deep burn marks in the wall "awoken man careful the archons scotch cannon with melt you" Yalis said as it stood behind a pillar as it fired out at the fallen.
"die" Udax said as he threw his spark grenade straight at the archon priest before exploding knocking it back "yes" he thought as he rushed forward with his gun "awoken man don't" Yalis said as it called out to him as he rushed forward.
"why" Udax thought as he looked at the fallen before turning back to the archon only to see the scorch cannon level against him "no" he thought as the cannon fired sending him backwards into the wall.
"ahhh ahhhhhhhhhhh" Udax shouted as he looked down at his body to see the whole left side of his body melted "ahhhhhhhhhhh" he screamed before his eyes dropped before it went black.
"uuauh" Udax groaned as he opened his eyes to see he was back in the corridor they had just come through "fuck" Udax said as he sprinted to where the archon priest was.
as soon as he arrive he found Yalis still behind the pillar shooting at the archon and its underlings that was smaller than before "awoken man died but returned again" Yalis said as Udax rushed behind a pillar before shooting at the archon. "you return again" Yalis said as it looked at him.
"yeah again" Udax said as he took hold of his left arm before peeking round the pillar only to move his head back to dodge a round from the archons scorch cannon.
"down, down, down" Udax said as he move right from pillar to pillar opening fire upon the fallen killing them leaving only the archon priest "right one left" he said as he rushed into a room just missing being hit by the archons scorch cannon.
"YALIS I'M FLANKING FIRE NOW" Udax shouted as he moved to the other door in the room he was in before opening fire on the archon as Yalis fired from where it was confusing the archon as it turned to Udax before turning to Yalis as it fired wildly.
"dam" Udax cursed as he jumped behind cover as the archon turned on him as he was suppressed preventing him from firing "YALIS" Udax shouted as he tried to get her to draw there fire.
The suddenly a screech rang through the room "HE CALL FOR HIS DEVILS TO PROTECT HIM" Yalis shouted as it opened fire on at the new wave of fallen that was crawling out of the holes in the walls "SHIT" Udax shouted as most of the new fallen rushed at him.
"SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT," Udax said as he began walking backwards as he fired upon the fallen dropping three of them before his clip emptied "no not now" he thought as he dropped his gun and reached for his shotgun and levelling it as a fallen stood just one hand stretch away from him.
"DIE" he shouted as he pulled the trigger killing the fallen as it went backwards dead only for three more to rush past it and pounce on Udax "no" he thought as swung his fist forward only to be pinned as the fallen descended upon him as they rained blows down on his as he tried to defend himself but to no avail as he lay there as his head smashed back and two between the ground and there fists.
"fuck shit fuck" Udax thought as his helmet smashed as he looked the fallen in the eyes before a static knife flew down towards his as it drew closer and closer to his face before he let out a weak groan before the knife hit him as it went back.
"FUCK" he gasped out as as he fell to his knees before he stood up and rushed forward into the room before turning to his right and firing on the fallen in the room that he had just died in catching the fallen off guard killing them before jumping behind the pillars.
"and again you've returned" Yalis said as it looked at him as it finished off the rest of the stray fallen leaving only the archon priest "awoken man work together we should, attack together" Yalis said as he nodded at the fallen.
"right go" Udax said as he rushed to the right as he opened fire getting the archons attention as it turned to fire its scorch cannon at him "SHIT" he shouted as he ducked behind one of the pillars as the archon unleashed round upon rounds of the scorch cannon at the pillar Udax hid behind as it started to break as it got smaller.
"wait for it" he thought as the pillar crumbled behind him as the shots from the scorch cannon began to skim past him and it the wall in front of him "NOW" Udax shouted as Yalis opened fire hitting it in the eyes causing it to shake its head as it head two hands to its now blind eyes before roaring and turning to Yalis.
"now" Udax thought as he rushed forward throwing it grenade of sparks hitting it's arms blowing one off and mangling the other "DIEEEEE" he shouted as he emptied his clip into the archon before landing a punch to its stomach causing it to move back an inch or two before it countered.
"caaaaaa" he spat out as the archon hit him sending him back onto the ground as it lifted its foot to crush his head only to miss as Yalis jumped onto the archons shoulders and began hitting it before being knocked off.
"ARRRR" Udax roared as jumped to his feet as rushed the archon as he and Yalis attacked in unison as the archon would counter one only for the other to hit it "come on" he thought as the archon fell to one knee.
"finish it" he said as they both rushed forward only for the archon to slam his foot down causing the ground to shake causing Udax to fall forwards as it stood back up before kicking Udax sending him flying across the ground as Yalis regained its balance only to receive a punch from the archon sending it back only for the archon to grab hold of Yalis's throat with its other arm.
"shit" Udax thought as he looked up to see the archon land blow after blow upon Yalis with a horrible crunching sound before throwing it into the air before kicking it before it could hit the ground "phaaaa" it let out as the archon grabbed hold of its arms on its left side before slamming it down on the ground twice before crushing its arms.
"ahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaA" Yalis screeched as the archon slammed its fists against it broken body before picking it up before tearing off its mouth piece revealing a line of sharp teeth before biting down of Yalis's shoulder as it screeched as the archon bit down harder and harder as its screeched began weaker and weaker before the archon grabbed its leg and threw it into a wall with a sickening crack as it lay on the ground in a pool of its own blood and as its blood seems to leak from everywhere.
"no shit come on" Udax said as he pulled himself to his feet only to fall as he coughed up blood causing his helmet to fill with blood causing him to take it off as he gasped out as blood leaked from his mouth.
"come on" Udax said as he pulled himself to his feet again as the archon turned to him as his eyes met the archons remain ones yellow to blue before he started walking before running towards the archon.
"ahhhhhhhhhh"he screamed as he rushed the archon before pulling his fist back and punching with all his might as sparks flew off his fist as it slammed into the archon causing it to move back before swinging its fists before Udax jumped back only just dodging.
"raraaaaaaaaaaaaa" Udax shouted as he laid into the archon as punched as fast as he could in a rapid barrage as sparks flew of his body as the archon was being pushed back under the strength of Udax's punches "raaaararaaaaaaaa" Udax continued to shout before the archon dug its feet in and swing its fist at Udax hitting him knocking him into the air.
"kaaaaaaaaa" he spat out before he punched down as he returned to the ground catching the archon in the face knocking its head down before Udax landed "FALL" he shouted as he delivered a brutal uppercut to the archon smashing its head up before it let out a roar before bringing its fist down on Udax's shoulder as he raised his arm to block.
"ahhhhhhhhhh" he shouted as the archons fist hit his arm as it broke under the force before the second fist hit hi in the stomach sending him back a couple of feet.
"aaaa…..aaaaa….aaaa…a" Udax gasped out as he tried to regain his breath as the archon roared at him as he started to run at it " fall….fall…fall…faaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll" Udax shouted as he rushed forward as sparks came off his whole body as he drew closer as the archon ran towards him.
"faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall" Udax shouted at the top of his voice as he jumped into the air as he pulled both arms above his head before slamming them down as the archon tried to block as Udax's fist smashed in it as he struck with the force of lighting as it exploded around as the archon fell onto his back dead.
"YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHH" Udax shouted out as he stood up before falling on his knees as he slowly got his breath back as his ghost floated out of his body "titan signature fully active now" the ghost said as it looked round.
"guardian look here" the ghost said as it moved towards the corpse of the archon and a ball of light "whats that" Udax said as he stared at the light ball before the ghost spoke again.
"thats what we came for guardian the jump drive it converted onto hard light information when the ship was wrecked so the archon must have been holding on to it until he could find a way to turn it back into a jump drive" the ghost said as Udax went to grab the ball of light only for it to disappear "ghost where did it go" he said as he looked round for it only to not find it.
"i have absorbed the information and stored it for later use" the ghost said as it floated back to him before entering his body again before he turned to the fallen lay on the fall next to the wall in a puddle of its blood.
"Yalis" Udax said as he walked up to the body before kneeling down next to the fallen "fuck its dead" he said as he looked at it only to jump when the body move.
"dead…..not…..yet…awoken…man" Yalis struggled out as it used its two none broken arms to push itself up as it lent against the wall "archon…strong…..we…..are…...stronger" Yalis said as it breath slowly as to not aggravate its injures.
"awoken…..man…found…what…..you…seek…..have….you" Yalis said as Udax nodded as he looked at the injured fallen with its broken arms shattered chest and what looked like a broken leg.
"fine….i…will…be…..go…find…you….again…i….will" Yalis said as Udax nodded before standing up and walkeding out of the room and leaving the area to send a signal for pick up "ha…..ha…..ha…..the…weak…..die…the….strong…..live" Yalis said as it began crawling towards the archon before looking down at the body.
"ha…..ha…what….i…..seek…..have…it….you…do…not…yet…shall ….take….what…..you…..need…not" Yalis said as it removed its face plate revealing its teeth before it bit down on the body of the archon as it began eating the body as it swallowed the chunks of the archon.
"die…not….yet" Yalis said between bites before it continued to feed on the body of the archon leaving only the sound of teeth tearing flesh in the room.
(Outside)
"ghost contact the tower tell them mission complete" Udax said as the ghost began contacting the tower to report there success and request for pick up "that fallen should be dead" he thought as he thought over its injures two broken arms a shattered chest and a mauled shoulder with a broken leg to top it off.
"if it docent die here it won't make it far before its killed" he thought as he looked at his helmet and placed it back on as the pain of his injures finally finished healing.