Chapter 1
Helllo there and welcome in another idea of mine, I happened to have a Lotr Marathon and thanks to the new expansion and the new season that will drop soon I just shrugged and said "sure why not?"
Three ships were orbiting the orbit of the dreaming cities, each of them was being ridden by a guardian of the vanguard, they had just left the city after a good day of work ensuring that the few planets that weren't eaten by the darkness were still somewhat okay or at least not worse than before.
"Phew, I am beat" Amelia, the huntress of the trio as she leaned on the seat of her Obsidian Wings.
"We did a good job, we helped Petra and got some nice bounties" Aaron, said from his Platinum Starling as he looked at his inventory through his ghost
A sigh came from the warlock of the group, Nathan "We should go back to the tower, I want to rest a bit, I think we earned it" he said putting the coordinates of the Tower of the computer of his Callisto Lancer
"Incoming emergency transmission from commander Zavala" Suddenly, Aaron's Ghost, Morpheus, said causing the three to tense up as the link was established
"Guardians! The Vanguard requires your immediate assistance! A vex portal has been sighted the EDZ, we need to be quick or they will teleport their troops here and I don't want to imagine what will happen if that happens...Earth is already full of invaders and with the Darkness approaching I rather not have to deal with a new threat" Commander Zavala said in a rather worried tone "Your mission is to find and destroy the portal and anything that can lead to a full scale invasion"
"Oh shit this is serious" Amelia said shocked from what she just heard
"Indeed it is" Suddenly Osiris said joining the transmission "The Vex would never appear on Earth without a plan, especially after the Traveler's new awakening, they are up to something...I wish I could help you but without Sagira I would be more of a dead weight but if you come across anything strange contact me immediately and I'll help you however I can from here"
"Gotcha, if anything happens, prepare for the worst, protect the city" Aaron replied setting up the coordinates for the EZD
"Do not worry friend, this time I will protect everyone" Saint 14 said joining the channel "But knowing you three, I am sure I can relax" he added before booming with laughter
"Well, I will still be ready with my redjacks...you know for safety" Shaxx also joined the call "The mission is dangerous guardians but if you'll fight half as hard as in my crucible, you will be able to defeat your opponents without any problem...also remember to throw grenades...those are important"
"Well now I feel inspired" Nathan joked "Damn Titans...You just can't hate them, they are like a child eating crayons, adorable"
"Or like Gorillas" Amelia added giggling
"I will shoulder bash you in that Vex Portal I swear" Aaron said shaking his head as the three ships started traveling to their destination.
Once arrived the ships entered Earth's orbit and flew past their usual stop in the Trostland "So where is this portal?" Amelia asked through the comms looking down at the ground with her ship
"Apparently the clans have seen them around...this location" Hawthorne said sending the coordinates to the trio
Aaron noticed "It's not too far away from the fragment of the traveler we found after the attack of the red legion" he pointed out looking at the map Prometheus was projecting
"I know the area, I've been scouting that place...we'll have to land now, the forest is too thick father away" Amelia said starting to lower her ship
Nathan sighed in relief "Thankfully the traveler absorbed that fragment back otherwise I would suspect they were trying to use it to study the light"
The ships dropped off their guardians who after scanning the area to see if there was any fallen or Vex, oddly enough neither of those were present, the forest was also oddly silent not even the wind was present
"Keep your eyes open...this...is the first time I've heard the forest so quite" Amelia said raising the Ace of Spades as she went forward
Aaron slowly nodded scanning the area through the sight of his Sweet Business "How far is the place from here?"
"According to the coordinates not much..." Nathan replied looking at his Ghost, Paz, before grabbing his No Time To Explain
"Yeah but you have to keep in mind that there is no straight path and we can't use our sparrows" Amelia replied as the trio ventured deeper and deeper into the forest
The only sounds that could be heard were Aaron's and Nathan's, while the huntress silently marched towards their objective...The entire place had an eerie aura around it until Amelia gestured the group to stop and get closer to her...In front of them, there was a vast crinal, and in the middle of it dozens of Vex patrolled the area, and behind them, two giant Minotaurs and a Cyclop guarded one of their gates.
Aaron scanned the area as a plan came to his head "Alright listen here, Amelia you kill all the Hobgoblins you see from here, me and Nathan go down there and clear the area, before going to kill the three big baddies back there, you regroup and kick their asses"
Amelia grabbed her Cloudstrike and nodded "I got your backs" she replied before Aaron and Nathan nodded to themselves before sprinting towards the crinal and jumping down and landing in front of the dozens of Vex.
Amelia's shots echoed through the forest soon followed by Lighting Bolts striking down the Hobgoblins that were about to snipe her comrades. Aaron's Sweet Business' barrels started spinning unleashing a barrage of bullets that ripped apart the clankers in front of him
Nathan lifted himself up in the air charging up his void grenade making it more powerful before launching it towards a group of Goblins that immediately vaporized, he then fired several bursts of his pulse rifle and taking down a few harpies.
A group of small minotaurs started firing their cannons at the two which forced them to look for cover, fortunately, Aaron was a titan and was quick to place a barrier using his light, Nathan immediately hid behind it and reloading his weapon, the titan looked at him smirking under his helmet as he grabbed his Felwinter's Lie "Cover me" he said before literally running through the barrier charging towards the minotaurs
"Traveler give me strength with this titan!" Nathan shouted annoyed before switching to his Telesto and peeking out of the cover and shooting vaporizing a pair of minotaurs
Aaron launched his throwing hammer stunning one of the minotaurs, he turned to another one and instantly killed it with a blast of his shotgun before turning once again and to the stunned one and punching through its weak spot, he was ready to turn around and shoot another incoming minotaur when the sounds of the Ace of Spades boomed behind him and the Minotaur fell to the ground lifeless.
"What would you do without me?" Amelia said giggling
Aaron shook his head "Please, I was so going to blast it back on to Nessus"
Nathan walked past them "GUYS THEY ARE GETTING AWAY!" he shouted seeing the two Giant Minotaurs walking through the portal as the Cyclop aimed its eye at the three Guardians
"Oh, you are not going to save your buddies!" Amelia shouted summoning her arc staff and running towards the cyclops and stabbing through its eye causing it to start exploding.
The group was about to go after the two minotaurs but a 6 meters tall Hydra appeared in front of them firing its cannons, Amelia jumped away and Aaron boosted himself in front of its eye before firing his shotgun at causing it to recoil backward.
Nathan threw another grenade at it which sent it crashing against a tree damaging it quite heavily, Amelia jumped above it and struck it on top of its head finally destroying it. The trio wasted no time and immediately went through the portal, Aaron summoned his burning maul and immediately smashed it against one of the minotaurs as soon as they exited the portal causing it to fall on the ground, he then proceeded to smash it into small bits.
Nathan boosted himself in the air and launched his Nova Bomb to the second leaving nothing but a crater.
"Well that was easy" Amelia said chuckling as the portal closed behind them, she summoned her Ghost, Kaileena, "Contact the tower, they will be glad to hear that we took care of the problem...and call the ship, I want to relax a bit"
"Uhm...I don't know how to tell you..." The small object said seemingly mildly concerned "But since you crossed that portal...I lost all contacts with both the tower and the ship..."
Both Aaron and Nathan were immediately alarmed and also summoned their ghosts
"Same thing here" Paz said shaking itself "All contacts are gone"
The titan looked at Morpheus which simply sighed "Sorry, we're stuck here"
"Well they will eventually find us" Amelia said shrugging "Where are we anyway?"
"According to my initial scans...we are on Earth..." Kaileena said causing the three to sigh in relief "But..."
"But...?" Nathan asked now worried as the three Ghosts stared at each other probably enhancing info
"The scans have revealed that the levels of pollution has dropped so much that it can't belong to Earth...unless we were significantly...well...went back in the past" Paz explained dumbfounded
"And...I am not sure since without a ship I can't confirm it...but the Geography of this place is totally off..." Prometheus concluded
"So you are basically saying that by going in that portal we went so far back in the past that the Earth doesn't even have the same continents as the one we know? What is this Pangea? " Nathan summed up thanks to the information given
"What in the world are the Vex even doing here? Killing that one ape that generated Humanity?" Aaron replied puzzled by the situation
"Why is there light here?" suddenly Amelia interrupted the two causing them to realize that they indeed still felt both of the light and the darkness within them
The Ghosts flew where the portal was and started scanning the area "Well, it's not like the portal was destroyed, it just returned dormant, it's still here so perhaps the light can still reach us" Paz said calmly
"or...it's just coming from the Traveler..." Keileena replied "I am pretty sure it existed for a very long time and we know that its reach is quite long, so perhaps it's still fueling our lights"
Aaron sighed before creating a chair with his light and sitting down "Well, sooner or later the Vanguard will realize we are missing and send someone to look for us, they'll figure out what happened and get Osiris to get us back"
"well that is going to take a while, after all, they will think that a Vex army is coming towards the city, but sooner or later they'll realize we already took care of the problem and get us out of here"
"Sounds like a plan to me" Amelia said looking around at the trees before simply sitting down and removing her helmet and letting loose her long silvery hair which exalted her vibrant sky blue eyes, the sun heated up her awoken skin and she let out some air as she enjoyed the sensation "Wow...this feels nicer than I thought"
"Well, the air is probably significantly better than the polluted one we have" Aaron said also removing his helmet revealing his caucasian features that included his short black hair and amber eyes
Nathan took off his helmet and took a deep breath despite not needing it since he was an Exo, he also created a chair with his light and sat down, his green LED eyes looked around as he placed his hands behind his blue head "Well, this is a nice occasion to relax, we worked non-stop today, and in the current state the greatest danger to us is an Australopithecus with a stick..."
"Oh simpler times...No Fallen...or Hive...or Cabal..." Aaron sighed enjoying the sun on his skin
"Or the Taken...or the darkness..." Amelia added chuckling
"But at the same time, low hygiene, low life expectancy, no top of the food chain race, no modern medicine, no guns, no swords..." Nathan said causing the other two guardians to chuckle
"Uhm..." Suddenly Prometheus said looking somewhere in the distance "Did the Australopithecus...rode horses?"
"Hell no" Nathan said raising an imaginary eyebrow
"Wear makeup?" The ghost asked
"Pretty sure wasn't invented yet"
"Have armors?" The ghost inquired once again
"What the hell are you even..." Amelia started saying before getting up with disbelief on her face before she quickly pulled up her Cloudstrike and aimed it towards the horizon "Uhm...there is a woman with a child being chased by nine hooded and armored figures"
"What the actual..." Nathan whispered
"Well, don't know what's happening but a woman with a child chased by nine hooded figures" he said summoning his sparrow, the Always on Time, and hopped on it before speeding towards the woman
Amelia immediately summoned her own sparrow, The Vanishing Point, and went after Aaron along with Nathan that summoned his Vespulaser. The trio quickly caught with the woman but they couldn't focus on her as the hooded figures' ungodly screeches boomed in their ears
"Shut up!" Aaron shouted aiming his shotgun at one of the knight's head and firing causing it to fall from their horse.
Amelia was also quick to draw out her Ace of Spades and opened fire, the loud bangs seemed to have scared the horses enough to allow the woman to gain some distance.
Nathan on the other hand used his Warlock's abilities to send powerful waves of Void Energy against the dark figures and that caused even more screeching.
The figures drew out their swords, but the Sparrows were too hard to hit due to the short range of the weapons, and not only that, but the guardians didn't need to get close to shoot them and so one by one they were taken out. Once the threats were taken care of, the trio went after the woman who, despite being safe, kept riding away as fast as she could until she crossed a river and stopped.
The guardians caught up to her "Are you okay?! We took care of those things" Aaron said before facepalming mentally "You probably don't understand me, do you?"
The woman seemed to be puzzled "I can understand you just right...but I am afraid that you are wrong" she said worried as the loud screeches of the beings once again reached their ears
"You gotta be shitting me..." Amelia said as the hooded figure appeared once again on the other side of the river riding their horses which seemed to be intimidated by the waters
One of them, who judging by his position among the group seemed to be the leader, looked at the woman "Give Up The Halfling, She-Elf" it said with a rugged voice
"If you want hi, come and claim him." The woman replied drawing out her sword
"She-Elf?" Amelia asked confused raising her hand cannon at them
Aaron lifted his Auto Rifle "Questions for later!" he said aiming at the figures "COME! I HAVE ENOUGH BULLETS TO KILL YOU SEVERAL TIMES OVER!"
The figures forced their horses to go through the waters and this caused Nathan to prepare a Nova Bomb when the woman seemingly started chanting, her voice started echoing around them and Amelia noticed that the water level was rising and so she instinctively backed off grabbing Aaron and pulling him away.
Suddenly a mini tsunami appeared out of nowhere and Nathan could swear he saw water horses in it, the figures tried to get away but they completely struck and taken away by the flow of the river.
The three guardians sighed in relief but didn't have time to relax as the kid started gasping for air, the woman quickly dismounted her horse and took him down before gently laying him on the ground "No No! Frodo no!" she said getting agitated trying to keep the kid awake "Frodo, don't give in! Not Now!" she said as the boy stopped breathing.
Nathan immediately rushed to aid him and placed a healing rift below them, the boy started breathing again but something was keeping him from being healed, the woman seemed to have understood his intentions and let him inspect the boy's body...he was shocked when he saw a stab wound...that had so much darkness in it...it wasn't even the type of darkness he knew but...He knew one thing and that was there was no way he would let it kill this child and so a pair of flaming wings sprouted from his back before stabbing a flaming sword on the ground casting a Well of Radiance around them. The warlock then switched to Stasis and pressed his hand against the wound trying to absorb as much darkness as he could, he then felt the pressure of his comrades' hands as they also switched to stasis and helped him...
The boy was now breathing, although heavily, and gained some color. The woman was shocked but quickly got up "I'll get help! My father is not to far away!" she said before running off before receiving an answer.
The Guardians didn't know how much time passed because they could feel their lights and darkness fighting against whatever dark power trying to take this kid's life, but they kept fighting and focused their forces on keeping it away, they didn't even notice when a group of soldiers led by the woman and two tall men approached them...
