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Location: Vestian Web, The Reef, Asteroid Belt

Date: 16th January 3246.

"Ha! I had not thought it would be so easy. The Silent Fang brought low." The Queen said in delight as Petra and I delivered the news of our work on Earth to stop the Wolves.

"I do not see why this is funny." The Prince replied, "This Guardian may have dealt with them on Earth, but my Crows say we still have much to fear. More of the Fang survive, nearly every one of them made it out alive."

"I find no humor in any of this, brother." The Queen said. She rises from her throne and descends to the bottom of the stairs, turning in place to take in the chamber. "So empty, now." She reminisced, "No Wolves to sit at my feet. My guards—" she trailed off, leaving the room in silence for a few minutes. "Set more bounties, Petra. Have the Guardians hunt down any of the Fang your Crows can track. They may have escaped the Prison of Elders, but they will not escape my Wrath." She declared.

"Yes, my lady," Petra replied, "Lukas here also has a report on the Wolves' interactions with the Kings." She looked at me. I step forward and clear my throat.

"Yeah. Well, Skolas sent a Baron to try and negotiate a deal with the Kings. They sent two Barons back. When I encountered them they were engaged in a talk around a hologram of the Traveler so I suspect they had a deal in the making along the lines of 'you follow the Kell Of Kells and we reclaim the Great Machine'. Whatever it was, it doesn't matter anymore. I killed all three Barons in there. Didn't hear anything of the Kings' Kell though,"

"Excellent," The Queen commented, "the Fallen do not support Skolas. Variks, what will his next move be? Will he seek to gather the Exiles?"

Variks thought for a moment, "perhaps," he came out with, "but they will not follow. They follow none. No Kell, no Prime, no Archon. All other Houses gone. Lost in Whirlwind. He will find no more support from the Eliksni."

"So what's his next move?" Petra thought aloud.

A pinging noise interrupted the tranquility of the room. The Prince pulled out a tablet and started reading off of it. "What?" I heard him murmur to himself in confusion and then he spoke out, "nearly the whole Wolf Fleet is back in the Ishtar Sink."

"So he's going to rule from Draksis' Ketch having failed his prophecy. The Simiks-Fel?" The Queen asked him.

"Yes that's what I thought," He replied, looking around the room at us, "but he's not there. Even more disturbing, his guard are leading Fallen crews on the Vault Of Glass. It looks to be like a full-scale assault."

"Interesting," The Queen mused, "Petra, Guardian, I've changed my mind. Bring Skolas back to me alive."

"Yes Your Majesty." We both said in unison.

Location: Waking Ruins, Ishtar Sink, Venus

Date: 17th January 3246.

"The House of Wolves is on the march. They're surrounding Vex strongholds across the Ishtar Sink. Every solder under his command is down there. Skolas has either gone completely insane, or he's become a tactical genius. I love fieldwork, but the hunt must end. Now." Petra said to us as we landed at the ruins. We being Dreske, Ellena, and I.

Before we could respond a terrible howl followed by a roar of Fallen tongue rang out. We looked at each other, all of our eyes probably widened with shock at the great noise of it.

"Skolas said, "I am Kell of Kells. All Houses shall burn. All will bow before the Wolf banner."" Variks told us over the comms.

"Wh- who's that?" Ellena asked us. I forgot she has no idea who Variks is.

"That's Variks, don't worry he's on our side. He's still loyal to the Queen." I told her, "we can trust him."

"He's Fallen," She stated, rather bluntly for a Warlock.

"He's fine," I sighed, "right Dre- Dreske?" I looked around for my friend.

Dreske wasn't next to us, where he should be. But the loud whoops and cheers, sounds of rapid gunfire, and energy blasts whizzing over our heads was a telltale sign of where he was. I let out a small chuckle and Ellena and I ran forward towards Dreske and the Vault. Climbing the hill, Vex and Fallen bodies alike littered the each side of us. Dreske stood at the top, reloading his auto rifle. "That was great!" He exclaimed happily.

"Glad you had fun." I replied. We walked towards the large circular door, however whilst we were still a bit away the ground started to rumble and shake, and a loud crumbling noise came from the door, which opened up to reveal a Captain and a group of Fallen.

"They've cracked the seal on the Vault door!" Ellena said in shock. They indeed had. I looked up to watch as the circular door's locks and seals slid away. The Vex ruin was open to us, and to the Fallen. Some of whom had emerged from inside the Vault.

"No time to lose," Dreske said and ran forward, shoulder charging the Captain. It's body turning to arc energy, which crackled away into nothingness. Ellena and I ran forward to join in the fight. I shadestepped forwards in front of a Dreg and slashed its throat with my knife, then drew my hand cannon and shot down two Vandals who were trying to flank me. In my peripheral vision I saw it looked like Dreske was attempting to punch his way through the Wolves and into Vault. Ellena was being more careful; staying by cover and trading shots with a group of Fallen. I, as usual, remained mobile. I jumped and slid and shadestepped around, making sure to stay out of the path of the shock rounds from the Fallen weapons whilst returning fire with my own. The fight lasted about a minute but, honestly, I really wanted it to last longer.

I reloaded my hand cannon and walked to the open entrance of the Vault, where Dreske stood amongst a pile of Vandal bodies. The way the light was hitting him and the shot of him standing atop a Captain's corpse made him look like a battle hardened hero but the effect soon wore off as he tripped and face planted onto the ground. Ellena and I burst out laughing at his misfortune.

"Enjoy your trip?" I asked, to receive groans from my Fireteam at my terrible attempt at humour.

"Let's just move in," Ellena sighed, "I'm sure we all want to get in and out as soon as possible."

We entered into the Vault and it wasn't initially what I expected. It was just like the entrance to any other cave. I followed the pathway to the left and let out a cry of surprise as I ran right off of a large cliff, falling to my death below.

"I suppose that's karma," I grumbled after I resurrected back at the top of the cliff. Dreske and Ellena both got a laugh out of it. Annoyed at myself and them, I led the group into a huge cavern, platforms appearing and disappearing every few seconds.

"I'm picking up some kind of Fallen comm channel interlaced with Vex coding. Whatever he's doing, I've never seen anything like this before. He's mad!" Petra exclaimed over the comms, "Skolas going crazy is the good version here. I've seen reports from Prince Uldren's Crows; reports about the technology of the Vault. Really, just awful stuff."

"Good, I'm hoping this will be a short excursion." I sighed, leaping down from our ledge onto a platform that had just appeared and I waited for the next one to appear, hoping that mine doesn't disappear before it does. I leapt towards it as I appeared and landed on it with a stumble. Looking over the edge and conscious of how long the platform will last I decided to take a run and leap off of the platform, rushing towards the bottom of the Templar's Well. The air rushed past me as I quickly descended, I double jumped to break my fall as a shot from a wire rifle grazed the top of my helmet. I landed behind cover, blocking the large number of shock rounds that had been fired at me.

Ellena gracefully glided down, as soon as she landed she exploded in fiery solar light, clearing vast amounts of Fallen with her seemingly endless amount of solar grenades. Dreske, on the other hand, undershot the jump by a long way, plummeting to his death down below. He revived a few seconds later next to me, and we pushed out of my cover together. Ellena had gone her own way and was near the back of the room, whereas Dreske and I were at the front.

Caught between us, the Fallen were stuck. I'm normally serious and careful when I fight, but Dreske's whooping and excited hollering as he fought brought out a bit of a daredevil in me. I ran close to the Fallen, engaging them at hand-to-hand range. A wannabe bladedancer. My knife went in and out. At some points I stabbed so hard I felt my hand enter the cut with my knife, a sickening feeling but somehow fuelling my bloodlust. I felt a cloud fall over me, dampening my senses, my light. All that mattered was their death. In and out. Around me, the shooting of Dreske and Ellena's weapons had stopped, but I was so engaged I barely even noticed. My body burned from the shock rounds and shrapnel pellets. I didn't care. The shrieks of the Fallen were becoming quieter and quieter. Taking down my last target, I keeled over, hands on my knees catching my breath.

The fogginess around my head cleared and I looked around. Dreske and Ellena were staring at me. Looking down, my armour was coated in blood. I looked like I had just walked through a meat grinder.

"Holy shit," Dreske simply said.

"Lukas are you-" Ellena cut herself off, but then continued, "Lukas- that wasn't you using your light-"

I already know what she meant. Us Awoken are born from light and dark, despite being risen in light through the Traveller there will always be a pit of darkness in us. It's our nature. And in a lightless place like this I had flirted with the dark in me, using it for strength. It's a dangerous game that has lead many Guardians to fall.

"It doesn't matter," I brushed her off, about to start speaking again when I was cut off by a chiming sound.

"Bad. Very bad." Variks said, "Wolves trying to tap Oracles. Big glowing squares. Guardians, destroy the Oracles. Destroy them fast."

"Can do," Dreske said, running and the Oracle that had appeared and shoulder charging into it. It exploded into greenish-black energy.

"Well that wasn't too hard," Dreske turned to us, but them two more of the chimes rang out. We searched for the telltale glow of them, and fired on sight. The otherworldly glowing green cubes each exploded when enough rounds had been poured into them. One last chime rang out.

"I got it," I said, pulling out my Ice Breaker and destroying it with one shot.

"Variks, good work. Guardian, even better! Clear out the rest of those Wolves and we'll talk," Petra said. Sure enough Wolves started to rush in from both the right and left. At the front of the Templar's Well, furthest away from the door leading further into the Vault, I shot some tethers that killed some of the Fallen and bound the others together. Shooting one of them made the damage share to them all making them easy pickings for us.

The tether soon wore off though, and they kept coming. Killing was automatic. Shoot. Dodge. Cover. Reload. Repeat. Over and over. You'd think the Fallen would have learned they're never going to be able to defeat us with sheer numbers. It took time, bullets, and a few supers, but the room was clear. We'd stopped whatever plan Skolas had for the Vault.

"So Skolas wanted to use the Oracles as taps into the Vex network. This isn't just a hunt. A Fallen House with Vex technology is a threat to the whole system." Petra mused over the comms.

"Things simple now, yes? We find Skolas, we put an end to Kell of Kells. Or Wolves put an end to us." Variks added.

"Then we best get to him first." I simply replied.

A/N: The debriefing section was adapted from the grimoire cards The Silent Fang, The Kell Of Kells, and The Ruling House.

As you know, I'm sort of creating my own fic universe in which all my destiny stories will take place. More details will be released in time but right now I have two multi-chapter stories planned out (This and Consume, Enhance, Replicate), and one one-shot in the works. I'm super excited to write all this, but I could do with a little help. If anyone wants to collab on the one-shot PM me I would be more than happy too.

I've wrote the first chapter for the rewritten Consume, Enhance, Replicate. That and this being a bit of a boring mission are why this chapter has taken a while to write. Honestly I really struggled finding any inspiration for this chapter and had a bad case of writer's block. Thank goodness the Skolas arc is finally ending, and original content will be on its way soon! I'm stoked for it, I've got so much in store for this fic!

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