"It's about time this moment came!" I was surprised Tegan came back to her cheerful, peppy self. "Tegan don't sneak up on me like that you scared me." I said as I playfully pushed her. "Sorry I was starting to get bored up in my ship and I have to say you are right big bro you two make a pretty good pair if I say so myself." The two got into another argument but this time it felt funny. I just let it happen as I giggled and smiled at the two.
"Urgent transmission, incoming, on all channels. From the Speaker." Tegan and Kai got the message too and from the Speaker! This should be interesting. My Ghost played the message from the Speaker.
"Nothing is more important believe the Hive are engaged in a ritual that is draining the Traveler of its Light. Whatever power they wield must be understood... and destroyed."
"This ritual could be happening in any one of their thousands of chambers. If we can find cracks deep enough, I can map the entire Hive Fortress." Now this gets personal for the Vanguard. We can't let the Hive continue with this ritual. "Since we're already on the Moon let's get to searching." I said.
"You can say that again. I can't imagine a life without the Light." We all summoned our Sparrows and rode our way back to the Hellmouth where a bunch of cracks can be found on the terrain.
We were scanning the area for any good cracks but so far nothing. "Okay good scan, but not enough to locate the ritual yet. Let's keep looking... Hold on I got it but we have to go deeper into the Temple of Crota." I was afraid we would have to go in there. We rode out back to the entrance and the feeling was back. The feeling that someone was watching me was back. I wonder if that Exo is back.
"Someone's trying to establish contact. Could be the Speaker." All we just heard was a bunch of radio static. "No luck. Too much interference."
"Maybe we should go out more into the open. That should help." said Tegan. "Good idea." We walked out more into the open space and we were lucky to find something but it wasn't the Speaker calling us. It was someone else.
"You're interesting. Not entirely interesting, but... you have promise." I lowered Kai's gun when he looked like he was about to attack. "I don't think this would be an enemy. I have a feeling that I know this voice or person. The same feeling I felt when I saw the Exo is back. This must be her. I think she's trying to help us. But still who is that?"
"I don't know I'm losing signal." My Ghost was fighting to keep the signal alive. "Guardian, I know what you're about to do. It's brave. There are enemies out here you would not believe."
"Out where?"
"Go down and face the Hive , and if you live, come find me."
"Signal dropped. I got some broken coordinates-Venus, Northern Hemisphere. Ishtar region. Great. What do we do now?"
"We go down." I said. "I don't get it whoever wants us to go to Venus why? There's nothing there. It's been abandoned for years." said Kai. "I don't know but this is as close to I'll get for finding answers to the questions I ask myself. This may seem weird but I feel like that Exo may know something about my future or my destiny."
As soon as we walked in we had to face an Ogre. Of course the Hive would have Ogres to guard their Fortress. Seems like they learned something since the last time we faced them. The more down we went the more the dreading feeling doubled in size. I could smell the rotting flesh of the poor victims trapped down under here. I could sense the Thralls crawling desperate for food. Desperate to tear off the limbs of an unlucky victim and drain the life out of them until there's nothing left.
"What was that and that?" asked Tegan. "That wasn't just an ordinary Thrall. That was a Cursed Thrall. They explode when they reach their target and that... that is... I don't know what that is." I said staring into a big pole like figure.
"Hive Seeder, just like the ones invading Earth. If we don't finish this, there'll be more of these hitting home." While we ventured deep into the Temple we were told to go into the Chamber of Night. That is where the ritual was taking place.
"Here it is, the darkest of all Hive's chambers." After killing off all three Siphon Witches a whole army came for us. So much for my plan to lay low. I think maybe after the fourth or fifth rush they gave up. They sent an Ogre who breathes dangerous aura like fire from it's face.
"Okay I think we scared them off for now. This is really a good seventeen on the weird o meter right now." said Tegan. I deployed my Ghost to investigate what the dark object was. "It's the shard of the Traveler!"
Then suddenly the darkness that was engulfing it dissipated and it soon covered itself in glowing light and disappeared. Probably went back to Earth or something. For all I know as long as it's anywhere but here then we should be good. The last thing we need is to worry about a piece of the Traveler being in enemy hands.
"They were using it against the Traveler. Devouring it's Light. But we freed it... And our new friend said there are enemies on Venus worse than this? Great."
"We should still go. If the Hive are in on this with the whole draining the Light trick then I bet the enemies on Venus are in on this too. I bet those enemies are with the great Darkness as we speak." said Tegan.
"She's right and if any other enemies been keeping tabs on us it would be a good idea to team up and swoop in and attack us. We are the only fireteam that's been devastating the enemies greatly even though this isn't a mission given to us by the Vanguard still they need us. They're depending on us." said Kai.
So looks like our next stop will be Venus at least I can get away from the Moon and take a break from the Hive.