Kirrhys sat against an old rusted out car surrounded by the Devil vandal's and Captain he had killed as he nurtured his wounded shoulder. Luckily his shoulder plates had blocked the sword blow but the blade had still cut a few centimeters into his shoulder. The pain started to become unbearable and he didn't have an effective way of staunching the flow. 'Are you ok?' his ghost asked as it materialized in front of him.
'I have had worse wounds little one, I will be ok' he said with a slight whine. As he tried to move his arm. His blood was running down his armour, staining the white to a purple-red. 'Do you know what I think about pain, little one?' he asked the ghost.
'What?' the ghost asked intently.
'It lets you know you are alive' Kirrhys said with a slight chuckle in his voice. 'Where is Umbra?' he asked.
'He chased off a few of the vandals, his ghost told me they are on their way back now' the ghost said.
'Good, hopefully he will have some medical supplies on him' Kirrhys said, he groaned his way through the sentence as the pain started to increase. His ghost started to look behind him and its eye opened as wide as it could.
'Kirrhys, behind you!' his ghost screamed, kirrhys got up and spun around as fast as he could until he saw a dark shape on top of the car. Something hit his chest pushing the ether out his lungs and caused him to be propelled away from the car, he landed on top of the dead captain's body, hitting his wounded shoulder against the body. Kirrhys groaned in pain and his breathing became heavier with pain. He grabbed his shoulder as it started to bleed more profusely, he looked up to his attacker who was still standing on the car roof.
It was a Devils baron, the insignia of his rank displayed on his chest plate. His armour was covered with an innumerable amount of nicks and scratches and the paint was mostly chipped off. He stepped down from the car and landed with a loud 'THUD'. Kirrhys looked for a weapon as the Baron walked towards him. Kirrhys grabbed a shock pistol from the dead Captain's belt, he aimed it at the baron but before he was able to pull the trigger the Baron kicked the pistol out of his hand. The Baron brought a large fist down onto kirrhys' face, the blow stunned kirrhys and the baron grabbed him by the neck. The Baron had immense strength as he easily lifted Kirrhys up by his neck with one hand.
'You dare challenge the House of Devils?! You are alone and nothing, weak dreg!' the Baron roared as he tightened his grip around kirrhys' throat slowly crushing his windpipe.
'He's not alone!' Umbra stepped out into the clearing with is hand cannon, ace of spades, aimed at the Baron's head.
'A guardian?!' the baron roared into Kirrhys' face. 'You are a traitor to your own kind, vermin! You belong to no house!' he screamed.
'Hey! Asshole' Umbra shouted.
A round from Ace of spaces was fired as the baron's head, his shield deflected the round and it hit the ground, but the hunter now had the baron's attention.
'You shall not harm him!' Umbra roared.
'Then he is weak!' the baron roared, he dropped Kirrhys in one hand and began to charge at Umbra, his hand cannon raised at the challenge. Kirrhys lay on the floor trying to catch his breath, the adrenaline had started to come back and the wound on his shoulder hurt less. Umbra shot a few more rounds from Ace of spaces in one hand at the baron's shield. Four vandal's and two dregs dropped down from the rocky outcrops around Kirrhys and began to charge at him.
'Very well then' Kirrhys said to himself as he pushed himself off the ground, he drew one of his swords with his good arm and charged at the group of Fallen. The first vandal shot at Kirrhys with his shock rifle, the energy bursts landing around Kirrhys as he dodged them. In one clean strike Kirrhys sliced the vandals head off his shoulders, the head went flying off into the group of fallen. A second vandal slashed at Kirrhys, he easily dodged the attack grabbing the vandal's upper left arm and kneeing the elbow. Kirrhys could feel the arm wrap around his knee as the arm bent the wrong way round, the vandal's grip on his sword loosened as it started screaming and tried to pull itself away. Kirrhys grabbed the sword with his lower left arm and as fast as he could he stabbed the vandal through the neck with the sword, Kirrhys did a sweeping kick knocking the vandal down. As the vandal fell Kirrhys pushed the sword further into his neck, when the vandal landed Kirrhys pushed the sword so that it penetrated into the ground, stopping only when the hilt hit the vandal's neck. The vandal began choking on his own blood as he was pinned to the ground by the sword.
'He's a demon!' one of the dregs screamed, it darted off into the tree line, the other dreg and the two remaining vandals followed the dreg leaving the Baron to his fate. Kirrhys checked for anymore opponents that would try to pick of Umbra while he was locked in combat with the Baron. Once clear Kirrhys looked at Umbra, he was almost dancing around the Baron in combat, hacking away at his shields, while moving too quickly for the massive Baron to get any hits in on the smaller guardian. The Baron roared in prostration into the sky, he raised his four arms up and energy began to coruscate across them, he then crashed his arms down into the ground causing Umbra to fly backwards. He landed on his feet and stumbled, Kirrhys launched himself into the fight as the Baron took his sudden advantage over his much quicker opponent. He swung the butt of his rifle into the hunter, launching him into the ground with a pained grunt. His ghost popped into view hovering closely by him.
Kirrhys charged at the Baron who had foolishly left himself vulnerable from behind, Kirrhys pulled out his second sword with one of his left lower arm, as the wound on his shoulder wasn't allowing his upper arm to move. 'Over here!' Kirrhys screamed to the Baron, Kirrhys held his swords in front of him as he prepared to thrust them into the Barons chest and the baron turned around, the look of shock flashed across his eyes. Kirrhys pushed himself with all his might to reach the Baron, Kirrhys saw a flash of light and suddenly he was only a few steps away from the baron, Kirrhys had teleported!
'What!' the Baron roared as Kirrhys closed the small gap between them. His swords easily cut through the Barons shields as if they weren't there, Kirrhys stabbed into the Barons chest plate with ease as the swords punctured his ribcage in a split second. The devil Baron roared in pain as he pushed Kirrhys off him, Kirrhys landed against one of the dead vandals as the Baron tried to walk towards him. He was coughing and gurgling at the same time while he shuffled towards Kirrhys, he tried to pull the swords out of his chest but his arms were too weak, he finally reached Kirrhys and stopped over him. Kirrhys saw the light in the Barons eyes go out and collapsed onto Kirrhys, the blades of his swords protruding from his back.
Kirrhys sighed in relief for a moment, just lying there, stuck under the body of the large Baron. He heard chuckling from somewhere behind the baron, after a while he saw Umbra walking over to him. 'Thanks Kirrhys, that was a close one' the hunter said as he grabbed the underside of Kirrhys' good arm with both hands and pulled him out from under the corpse, then proceeding to fall back onto his backside to the ground with a heavy exhale 'thanks again' he said.
'It was nothing, you were about to be killed, I protect my friends' he replied pushing himself up with his lower arms, while he cradled his injured shoulder with his good upper arm. Kirrhys' left shin started to hurt and he looked down to see what was wrong, Kirrhys saw that there was a hole in his shin from when one of the vandals had been shooting at him. 'Great…... that's not going to make this day any easier' he said to himself.
'You need medical attention Kirrhys' his ghost said as he formed into view, 'you're hurt pretty bad' the ghost chirped.
'Kayrin?' Umbra asked and his ghost popped into view next to him.
'Yeah?' the ghost asked.
'Go bring round the ship, oh and could you give me one of the med kits?' Umbra said as he held out his hand.
'Okay' his ghost chirped, a small bag materialized into Umbra's hand, then his ghost dematerialized into small orbs of light and faster than Kirrhys could track they shot off into the distance. Umbra began looking through the bag and pulled out some medical items
'Ghost?' Kirrhys asked with a pained grunt.
'Yeah' his ghost replied.
'Could you gather the ether capsules from the body's?' Kirrhys asked.
'Sure thing' the ghost chirped, as it started to scan the body's and gathering the ether from them.
Umbra shuffled closer to Kirrhys and laid out some bandages, a can with a red cross on it amongst a few other things. 'Let's see the damage' he said as he unclipped Kirrhys' shoulder plates and then his greave. Umbra pulled the cut in Kirrhys' under shirt wider so he could see the wound better. 'Ouch, that looks bad' he said.
'Trust me, I have had worse' Kirrhys said as the hunter began shaking the can.
'All right Mr. tough guy, this is going to sting' Umbra said in a joke way as he took the lid off the can, he held it about 10 centimeters away from the wound, he pushed the button and a clear spray went over the wound. Kirrhys grunted in pain as the wound began to sting, 'don't worry, it is an antiseptic, which means it stops the wound becoming infected' he said. He pulled out a canteen and unscrewed the lid. He poured some water into the lid then pouring the water onto the wound. The water began washing away the blood around the wound.
'I see you have a clear understanding of apothecial duties' Kirrhys said as umbra pulled out an odd handheld device and a small bag with a few medical staples inside.
'Yeah, I do some solo missions mostly, so I need to know how to self-medicate or help anyone else of I'm not going solo' he said as he loaded the staples into the back of the device. 'This is a medical staple gun so don't get freaked out' he said, realizing Kirrhys' eyes had locked onto the odd looking device. 'This is going to hurt a little' he said as he held the wound closed with one hand and the staple gun to the wound with the other. He pulled the trigger and Kirrhys felt the small staple dig into his skin closing a small portion of the wound.
'Ow' Kirrhys grunted as Umbra moved along the wound with the staple gun. 'Are you not hurt, I saw the Baron hit you in the chest, he would have broken your ribcage' Kirrhys said, grunting when another staple was shot into him.
'yeah, I kinda don't have a ribcage' he said as he shot another staple into Kirrhys' wound.
'you…. don't have one?' Kirrhys asked as Umbra shot another staple into him.
'Yeah, I'm an exo' he replied, shooting another staple into Kirrhys.
'An exo?... oh I remember' Kirrhys grumbled, Umbra shot another staple into him.
'You have?... wait you still have your memories?' he asked as he put the staple gun back into the small medical bag.
'Yes I do…... a lot happened I would rather forget' Kirrhys grumbled, his tone darkened as he said the sentence.
'That bad, huh? Being an exo I still get some memories of before' Umbra said pulling out a packet with a square cloth in it, he ripped open the bag and pulled the cloth out. He placed it on Kirrhys' shoulder 'could you hold this in place?' he asked. With his good arm Kirrhys held the square cloth, that covered most of his shoulder in place while the hunter pulled out some medical tape.
'Like what?' Kirrhys asked.
'Well if it's the right phrase, being born is one of them' Umbra replied.
'Being born?' Kirrhys asked, the phrase confused him.
'Well… more like being turned on for the first time' Umbra said.
'Ah' Kirrhys muttered as he began to wonder what Umbra was putting on him. 'What are you putting on me?' Kirrhys asked as Umbra ripped some tape off the roll.
'It's a dressing, covers wounds, keeps them clean, absorbs blood that kind of thing' Umbra said as he put the tape on the bottom of the dressing.
'Ah, ok' Kirrhys replied as Umbra placed another piece of tape on another part of the dressing.
'You had any family?' Umbra asked, interested to find out Kirrhys' past.
'I had a brother, Chelchis, he died shortly before I did' Kirrhys said, the sadness growing in his voice.
'How did he die?' Umbra asked while placing more tape on the dressing.
'I was off world at the time, our planet came under attack, the darkness came to our world. Their Kell killed my brother in combat, which among my people is honorable. But I will never forget the name of my brother's killer, Oryx the taken king. He came to my planet to exact his vengeance on me, and he did, so I swore I would kill him and any of his family that could fight.' He uttered in a monotone voice.
'What did you do to Oryx?' Umbra asked.
'I had launched a crusade against him in the name of the great machine, I killed many of his warriors and followers' Kirrhys said.
'The great machine?' Umbra asked while placing the tape back into the bag.
'It's what your predecessors called the traveler' Kirrhys said as Umbra pulled out a long cloth.
'The traveler was originally on your planet!?' Umbra asked with surprise.
'Yes, it came to our planet hundreds of years before I was born' Kirrhys said.
'Huh, cool' Umbra said. 'Could you hold your arm to your chest?' he asked and Kirrhys did so. Umbra placed the cloth around Kirrhys' arm the around the back of his neck and tied it into a sling. 'So the wound won't open again' he said. 'Alright let's see that leg' he said shuffling down to Kirrhys' leg.
'I've collected all the ether seeds from the fallen' Kirrhys' ghost said as it floated next to him.
'Ah good, where are they?' Kirrhys asked looking at the ghost confused.
'I'm able to materialize and dematerialize things for storage' the ghost said.
'Interesting, what are you able to store?' Kirrhys asked as Umbra started to tend to his leg.
'Ships, speeders and cargo' the ghost said. Suddenly a screen flashed in front of him, Kirrhys saw that it was an inventory list. He saw the ether seeds in the inventory and nothing else.
'Can you bring this screen up whenever I ask?' Kirrhys asked as the screen disappeared.
'yeah I can, just ask and I'll bring it up'. The ghost chirped.
'Why aren't you able to heal me? but from what I gather you can revive me if I fall in battle' Kirrhys grunted as Umbra was putting some antiseptic in the wound on his leg.
'To be honest I don't even know; I only understand that I can revive you when you are killed' the ghost said.
'hmmmm' Kirrhys grunted in response. 'Do you have a name?' he asked.
'A name? I've never had one, most guardians name their ghosts, you can give me one if you want' the ghost said.
'Ok, how about…. Cerys?' Kirrhys suggested to the ghost.
'Sure, I like it' Cerys replied.
'All right that's your leg wrapped up' Umbra interjected once he finished dressing and bandaging the wound. He put the supplies back into the bag. And placed the bag strap on his right shoulder. A rumbling sound started to come from the east and Kirrhys looked to see what it was. A ship came into view, it looked strange to Kirrhys and it was a grey color.
'That your ship?' Kirrhys asked the hunter. As the ship hovered down to the ground and started to kick up dust.
'Yep, the Kestrel class AX' Umbra replied as the landing gear from the ship came out of their slots and touched the ground. A landing ramp lowered down from the side of the ship and a door opened. A small ghost floated out from the door.
'Took your time, Kayrin' Umbra chuckled.
'Whatever' the ghost deadpanned.
'Could you get my swords from the dead baron and his helmet?' Kirrhys asked Umbra.
'Sure but why the helmet?' Umbra replied.
'I need one, I do not like the prospect of having my brains blown out' Kirrhys replied.
'Fair enough' the hunter replied. He walked over to the dead baron and pushed the body onto its back. He pulled out the first sword and cleaned the blade with the Baron's cloak. He then pulled out the second and did the same. He put the swords down onto the ground and started fiddling with the Baron's helmet. 'how do you get this off? Oh wait never mind' the hunter said as he found a button on the side of the helmet that unlocked the helmet from the Baron's ether mask. He then picked up the two swords in one hand and the helmet in the other. 'Here you go' Umbra said as he plopped the swords onto Kirrhys' lap.
'Thank you' Kirrhys said as he put the swords into their scabbards with his lower arms. Umbra picked up Kirrhys' damaged greave and shoulder plates in the hand holding the Baron's helmet.
'All right big guy, let's get you into the ship' Umbra said as he held out his empty hand for Kirrhys. Kirrhys grabbed the hunters hand and let the hunter help him up. Umbra put Kirrhys' arm around his shoulders and Kirrhys placed his lower arm around the hunter's waist for support. Kirrhys limped his way to the ship with umbra supporting him.
'Thank you for helping me Umbra' Kirrhys groaned as he put weight onto his bad leg.
'It's nothing, I help my friends' Umbra replied as the hunter helped Kirrhys up the landing ramp. Once they reached the inside of the ship Kirrhys was surprised how roomy the interior was. There was the main flight console and the pilots chair in front of it. There were also a few seats behind the pilot's seat, presumably for missions that required more than one guardian. Umbra kicked one of the passenger chairs round so Kirrhys could sit down onto it. 'careful now' he said as he slowly let Kirrhys down onto the chair. Kirrhys was groaning with pain as he was lowered into the chair.
'you okay?' Cerys asked as he floated in front of Kirrhys.
'I could be better honestly, I'm just tired' Kirrhys replied, his eyes feeling heavy. 'I am going to rest until we reach your base' he said sinking back into the chair.
'Ok, you deserve a rest' Cerys said. The ghost dematerialized and went into Kirrhys, Umbra sat down into the pilot's seat, sighing as he did.
'Is he okay?' Kayrin asked as he stared at the sleeping Kirrhys.
'He lost quite a bit of blood, I'm going to have to take him to the medical wing when we get to the tower' Umbra replied as he started the warm up sequence of the engines.
'What a day!' the ghost said with a sigh.
'Yeah' Umbra replied.
'The vanguard is not going to be happy that you went against orders' his ghost added in.
'Yeah, they might sing another tune when I show them Kirrhys' Umbra replied.
'Why do you think he was chosen?' his ghost asked.
'He told me the traveler was on his planet before it came to us. And that it fled when from what I gather the hive attacked and their king killed his brother. Kirrhys also led a crusade against the darkness in the traveler's name. Perhaps the traveler wants Kirrhys to redeem the Fallen?' Umbra said as the engines had fully warmed up.
'I don't know maybe' Kayrin chirped. Umbra fired up the engines, the sudden gust of wind sending dust to fly around the ship. The ship slowly raising up in hover mode and with the quick press of a button press by the hunter the engines went back into fly mode. The ship shot off from the fallen campsite, Umbra steered the ship into the direction of the tower hoping Kirrhys would be ok.
'Kirrhys?'
A voice called out to him but it was different this time, it was female.
'Where are you?'
Why did it sound so familiar, could it be Urvez?
'Please, come back to me my love'
How could he be hearing her, true mates link psychically for life, could she be alive somehow?
The tower, hanger bay
'Kirrhys?' Umbra asked and Kirrhys jumped awake in a panic, 'whoa it's okay, we're at the tower' Umbra said reassuringly. Kirrhys felt tired and dizzy, his eyelids still felt heavy and he struggled to keep them open.
'How long have I been sleeping?' Kirrhys asked sluggishly.
'It's been half an hour' Umbra said as he helped the now weak Kirrhys up from the chair. 'Need to get you to the med bay, for proper treatment of those wounds' he grunted not having to support more of Kirrhys' weight as he was now struggling to walk. They slowly approached the door and Umbra smacked his fist against a button to open the door, slowly making their way out of the skip and into the hangar. It obviously isn't busy Kirrhys noted as there were only a few guardians, other humans, robots and people with strange grey skin that Kirrhys gathered were only there to maintain the ships from the lack of combat gear they wore. At first all was going smoothly, nobody noticed the hunter supporting the wounded Kirrhys, since they were so used to the comings and goings of guardians. That was until they passed a humanoid looking robot that whose single eye went red as soon as it saw Kirrhys.
'ERROR, UNIDENTIFIED TARGET, INTRUDER, INTRUDER ALERT! ALL NEARBY GUARDIANS, LONE INTRUDER SPOTTED!'
All eyes darted onto them, and there was a rush of more guardians that Kirrhys hadn't noticed before, since his vision began to blur, that started to surround them with their guns drawn and aimed at him. Kirrhys felt like shrinking down in submissiveness as his odds were very stacked against him but he was too exhausted to even attempt it. He looked at the hunter who had brought him here and Umbra seemed surprisingly unfazed with all the guns pointing in his direction but he had stopped walking.
'Jesus Christ guys! it's all right, he is with me!' the hunter exclaimed t the crowd of agitated guardians.
A large titan in black armour stepped out of the crowd and he still wore his helmet, the front of it looked like a skull with glowing eyes, and two glowing horns jutted out the top the helmet but refused to lower his weapon an inch.
'Umbra….' he glowered.
'Hey Luca, it's ok' Umbra calmly replied.
'What is the meaning of this?!' he shouted.
'Calm the fuck down Luca! he is with me, he got revived and we ran into a fallen raiding party' Umbra retorted back.
'Where is his ghost then?' the titan growled, he stormed up to Kirrhys and pointing his pistol point-blank to his face. It was hard for him not to react in the way that he wanted to, which was to hit this guardian in the face as hard as he could.
Luckily Umbra didn't appreciate the fact that Kirrhys had a gun pointed to his face either. He brought his knee up between the titan's legs as hard as he could with no warning, Kirrhys had never seen anyone do such a thing. The titan groaned and winced as he dropped to his knees letting go of the pistol, the hunter kicked the machine gun away and didn't give the titan any more attention, he started to look and see if any other guardians wanted to stand in his way.
'It's okay Umbra' Kirrhys wheezed placing a hand on the exo's shoulder.
'Humph, I told them' the hunter grumbled.
'Cerys' Kirrhys whispered, his ghost materialized in front of him and many of the guardians gave looks of shock or surprise.
'How dare you' Cerys whispered in anger. 'How dare you!' he roared. 'To a fellow guardian!' he roared again. The crowd went silent; guns were lowered or put away entirely. There were some murmurs and glares still shot their way but the obvious hint was taken to back off. The titan slowly got back up, when he did he didn't look up to Kirrhys or Umbra, he slowly picked his gun up and sheepishly stepped back into the crowd.
Suddenly Kirrhys' legs felt weak and he fell to the floor, nearly taking Umbra with him. 'Kirrhys!' the hunter said in surprise, 'god dammit, someone get a doctor!' he shouted. One of the guardians ran off to where Kirrhys couldn't see. 'It's going to be all right Kirrhys, just stay with me' the hunter said, sitting on his knees right next to Kirrhys. The crowd closed around Kirrhys and the hunter, but they had become blurry to Kirrhys. Umbra pulled back his hood and with a slight clicking sound he pulled of his helmet. His face or at least his face plates were a black, interrupted but by the white glow of his mouth and the golden-yellow of his eyes. Umbra had an odd identifying mark on his face, there were two lines running down his face, each line being cut off by his eyes and continuing underneath them.
'So that is your face' Kirrhys said weakly while chuckling to himself. His vision had become so blurry that Umbra's face was the only thing he could see clearly.
'Yeah, I know I ain't that handsome' Umbra said trying to brighten to mood. Kirrhys reached his hand out to Umbra and the hunter held Kirrhys' hand in his. 'It's going to be all right' he said, tightening his grip on Kirrhys' hand
'He he he', chuckling came from behind the hunter's shoulder. Kirrhys turned his head to see who was chuckling, behind Umbra was a dark shadow with three green glowing eyes and that was the last thing Kirrhys saw before everything went black
Ocean of storms, the moon
Omnigul had called Sardon to the moon; he had also received word that the rest of the followers had been called to deep within the hellmouth to the summoning crystal. 'This is all a waste of time' he grumbled to himself as he approached the rune inscribed doors where the summoning crystal was being held. The pale green light emanating from the wall braziers lit up the dark hallway.
'It has been a long time' a shrill voice called out to him, it was Krovak, the heart of Crota. The wizard floated close to the ground, his robes slightly dragging on the ground behind him. His hood was up over his head, the glow of his eyes only just visible. On his left stood Zandux, the hand of Crota, on his right stood Urzok, the hated.
'Yes it has' Sardon replied trying his best to not look at the wizard as his mere presence irritated him.
'How have you fared?' the wizard asked him.
'I have been fine, Krovak' Sardon replied, he didn't like small talk so he usually kept it short.
'Zandux, Urzok' Sardon in a gravelly voice. 'how have you both been?' he asked them.
'I would rather be on earth, fighting the guardians' Zandux replied the boredom heavy in his voice. Sardon knew that Zandux had always preferred to fight rather than talk. It was in his nature, Sardon understood this all too well he preferred to let others to strategize while he was on the frontlines.
'If Omnigul has called us then it must be important, we have not gathered for a long time…. but I have been well' Urzok said. Urzok didn't speak much but whenever he did they were usually wise words of council. 'I felt… something a few days ago, perhaps that is why we are gathering he said'.
'Perhaps, I too felt… a change in the darkness and the light' Krovak said, his voice darkened to a grimmer tone. 'It is a presence I have not felt since we attacked earth' he said as he floated towards the door. He waved his hand in front of the door and the runes upon it began to glow. The doors began to open with a loud screeching sound.
There was silence until the doors fully opened; when they opened they revealed a large cave like room. In the center of the room was a large black-green crystal, smaller shards surrounded the crystal and glowed brighter than the larger one, small wisps of green energy circled the center crystal, some wisps went into the crystal and others came out of it. There was bright green smoke swirling inside of the crystal, some of the smoke just barely formed the shape of a knight inside the crystal. Omnigul was floating by the crystal, she stayed very close to the ground and bowed respectfully. There were the four storm princes, they each took a knee and bowed. Sardon bowed his head in humility as he approached the crystal, the wizard and the two knights followed closely behind him.
'Sardon' Omnigul called out with a raspy voice, turning her head towards him.
'Omnigul' he replied keeping his eyes to the ground. 'It has been a long time' he said.
'Yes it has been' she replied slowly rising up.
'Why are we here?' Sardon asked.
'Has he called us?' Krovak asked, the curiosity rising in his voice.
'Yes, he has, he contacted me suddenly and had me gather us here' she said as she turned towards Sardon. 'He told me that it was of the utmost importance and possibly the end of our war against the traveler' Omnigul said. The shape inside the crystal turned around, three bright glowing eyes could be seen. The room began to shake as the voice spoke.
'Finally, you are all here' a voice boomed. The shape in the crystal began to slowly turn towards the group and the eyes in the crystal looked down at them. '
'The vanquisher of darkness has returned 'the voice said, there was a small hint of concern in the voice.
'How? My lord you killed him' Sardon asked as he looked up to the crystal.
'One of the traveler's servants has revived him' the voice said. 'I could feel his soul leave the void and return to this plane'. The voice said as the eyes in the crystal turned to Omnigul. 'Prepare for my return, all of you shall prepare, ensure that the vanquisher does not interfere, you Omnigul shall find the warmind known as Rasputin and convert him to our side. He would be a powerful ally in the fight to come' the voice ordered.
'Yes my lord Crota, all shall be done as you say' Omnigul said.
'Sardon, you shall gather what is left of our forces on earth and prepare them for war the voice said as the shape turned to his direction.
'Yes my lord' Sardon said in an almost whisper like tone.
'Swarm princes?' the voice asked.
'Yes our lord' the four knights said in unison.
'Gather the pieces to my sword and prepare them' the voice said.
'yes our lord' the four knights replied.
'Krovak, Zandux, Urzok?' the voice asked the wizard and two knights.
'Yes my lord?' the wizard said, his gleeful tone visible in his words.
'Yes lord?' the two knights said together.
'You two will assist Sardon' the voice said to the two knights. 'And you Krovak you shall perform a ritual of veiling to ensure the guardians will not notice our forces gathering' the voice said.
'Yes lord Crota' the wizard and the knights replied.
'Now all of you go, soon we shall exterminate the last of the light on earth' the voice said.
Soon the room was silent, each of the followers had left and it was only the crystal left in the room 'This time your soul shall be mine, Kirrhys, vanquisher of darkness' Crota said to himself. Slowly he began to laugh and his laughter grew in volume and power so much that it could be heard by the acolytes on the surface.
thats it for chapter 3. This chapter was going to be shorter and have a longer tower sequence but i wanted to do that in the next chapter. I am going to add some more of Kirrhys' backstory in the next chapter as well. so see you guys until next time.