How to become LEGEND

by tigershark8600

This is the experience of me and my friends playing destiny, but in story format. All made up characters are friends of mine tat played destiny with me.( Will follow into destiny 2, but as a sperate story that won't be started until this one is completed.)

4. Chapter 4

"Everyone listen up. Incoming message from the vanguard. Its Ikora Ray." Spas said as we were hyperjumping to the moon.

Something dark stirs in the depths of the Hellmouth. We can feel it. A Hive avomination bred for unthinkable evil We must pierce the veil of their Summoning Pits and destroy this creature before the Hive unleash it upon us all.

10 minutes after landing...

BAM*

Just like that, the acolytes head exploded into pulp as its entire body dissolves into ashes and chitin.

"HA! Gotcha ya stupid drone!" Spas screamed as she walked towards the entrance to the Hellmouth while aiming her sights--completely out in the open. As the swarm of acolytes started firing back at her, me and BearBear fly past Spas on our sparrows to engage them alittle closer. BearBear leaped off his sparrow, the EV-35 Arc Runner, allowing it to smash into one of the acolytes. I on the other hand decided to stay on my sparrow, the EV-36 Solscout, and just ram him into one of the boulders they were using as cover. I cracked the rock and caved in the acolyte's chest. It struggled for a moment before it died and turned into mush and ash. All over my lovely sparrow.

"Gross dude, I just got it repainted."

I hopped off my sparrow and smashed my fist into a nearby acolyte, only to get shot in the back by the last remaining one.

"Dammit! That stings like hell."

"I gotcha."

*SWOOSH*

*SHINK*

Just like that, one of BearBear's signature throwing knives was buried deep in the head of the last acolyte. It jerked in response and then slowly slumped to the ground as it dissolved into nothingness.

"Man I love shooting. Alright you two, its time to take out those three knights and descend into the Hell Mouth and taker of this 'hive weapon' Ikora was talking about during orbital reentry."

We enter the passage and crouched as to not be detected. We look over the stairs to see two knights below us, one kneeling down to inspect his hive boomer while the one was looking away from him, and the last one at the bottom of the second set of stairs.

"Ok, heres the plan. BearBear you turn invisible and sneak up to the knight thats directly below us while Sam you...Samster?"

She looked over fo me and noticed I wasn't still there. I already ran out into the open and ruined whatever plan she was making.

"Come and get a piece of me you over grown bug!" I screamed as I ran past the first two knight and straight to the one standing alone.

"RAAAAAGAAAAAH" The knights roared as they turned around, only to taste the bottom of BearBear's boot as he leaped off its face and Spas came in and used his Scorched Touch. I ran ahead to the last one as he prepared his sword. I could feel the power of my light flaring in excitment as I approach him. He swings his cleaver down on me, but I managed to catch the blade. The only problem is the blades cut straight into a guardian's light once it touches them, so the moment I touched it burned. Like. HELL.

"Godammit. Stupid light-eating swords!!!"

I released the damn blade and sidestepped the big bastard and punched the side of exoskeleton, cracking it. I tapped into the power of the void and used it to make a barrier over my body. The knight swung again and I caught it. It still burned, but it was tolerable enough for my to keep my grip. I lung forward and headbutted the big bug in the face, staggering him. I ripped the blade from him and tossed it to the ground. I pulled out my shotgun, the Comedian, and blasted the knights head off.

"Haaa! Eat it you damn overgrown space roach!"

"Real reckless Sam, real reckless." BearBear deadpanned.

"Screw you it worked. Now lets head down to the pits."

We head down the mulriple flights of stairs until we enter a wide hallway filled with the bones of dead guardians.

And in here we see thralls, these big skeletons look alikes with teeth, on their knees. They were devouring what little light had remained in the old bones.

"Thralls." I said as I cracked my knuckles. I hate thralls. The only thing I like about them is how they run head long into battle without any care of bodily harm. My kinda fighting, but thats it.

"Sam." Spas called out.

I looked at her and she gave me a devilish smirk.

"You know what to do."

I gave her a smirk of my own. Oh yeah this is going to be fun. I screamed to the top of my lungs getting everythings attention, which revealed the presence of a hiding wizard. The thralls all came at us in a big cluster. I feel my light flaring back up again, but this time it was much bigger. Oh yeah, its time for the Fist of Havoc. I charge up my power and feel the power of arc consume me and course through body. As the hunger thralls closed the distance between us, I stepped forward and take a small leap into the air and slam down with both my fist. The area around us was lit up by the power of my arc. Every single thrall was consumed by the arc and was erased on the molecular level. The wizard thought she could make a last ditch effort and blast us to death, but Spas and BearBear wasn't having it. They whipped out their snipers, the Devil's Dawn and

Ex Machina~ respectively, and obliterated her head with a double headshot.

Spas looked so proud of that shot. " Alright guys, lets keep moving."

We head down the next flight of stairs and turn right and enter a large corridor. There were two upper levels and a large ass door, chained up with a large hive lock on it. BearBear approached the door and deployed his ghost to see what it could do.

"A triptych of Hive runes, said to be uncrackable..."

As BearBear's ghost analyzed the runes we hear the entrances on the upper levels open as the hive come pouring out.

"They know were here. I'll get to work."

So now it a game of time. Can we outlast the hive onslaught long enough for Bear's ghost to decode the runes or will we be comsumed? Well only one way to find out.

Spas started spouting out her orders."SPLIT UP! STAY ON THE MOVE AND DON'T LET THEM SURROUND YOU!"

And just like that, the fight was on.

I ran up the stair to the upper level on my right and was greeted by a wave of thralls. Naturally I punched one and activated a force barrier and dived knee deep into a sea of thralls.

*BAM*

One down.

*BAM* *BAM*

Two more down.

*BAM*

There goes another. This is too easy. As I became a unstoppable punching machine (literally) I got a little to punch happy and punched a curse thrall. Yeah, so when a wizard experiments of a thrall they turn into an ogre. Bigger, meaner, and shoot laser beams from their eyeless face, but somnetimes they fail to transform and just soak up the dark magic of the wizards. Atleast thats what the tower's top tier warlocks theorize to be the case. We could be sure if we see it for ourselves and thats not happening, but what I do know is that they explode and it hurts. Knowing whats coming all I could do is brace for impact and say one thing...

"Oh shit."

BAROOM*

The explosion took out everything in its small radius, even the other thralls. If it wasn't for my force barrier, my ghost would be standing by for resurrection. Thankfully, all it manage to was shred my armor . Nothing my ghost can't fix.

BOOM*

Thats if a random knight doesn't delay my ghost by blasting me off my feet with a hive boomer. I swear by the Traveler, I don't understand how the hive craft this stuff, but man is it effective. It shoots a ball of arc coming at you like a cannon. Its not something you want to get hit by.

"Aaah!"

The sneak attack sends me flying back down to the lower levels, crashing down hard. Luckily, my ghost was ready this time and immediately went to work fixing my armor, but before it finished a group of thralls pounced on me. Normally I could have easily batted them off, but I'm still dazed from the boomer shot, my armor is still in need of repairs, and they completely blindsided me. I wasn't prepared and they let me have it. With their claws charged with arc, they tore my already damaged armor into wet paper.

"Aaaaaah!" I was screaming to the top of my lungs. The pain was excruciating and any minute now they were going to destroy my physical body and eat my light.

"I'm coming Sam!"

BearBear came in like a electric phantom. He just zipped in front of me, with his Blade Dancer active, and atomized every thrall around me. I get to my feet only to fall to a knee in sheet agony. Whatever the thralls managed to hit was pretty important because I wasn'r getting up. Ghost materialized and immediately went to work fixing my armor and heal my wounds while BearBear defended me from acolyte fire. When ghost disappear I rose to full height, completely healed. I take out my machine gun, the Thunderlord, and riddled everything with bullets until they hit the floor dead. BearBear, now back to normal, walk up to me.

"Curse thrall?"

"Curse thrall."

He shakes his head and immediately turns around and runs off to take out the wizard floating above the carnage. What can I say? I tend to hit a curse thrall from time to time, so what? I jump back up to see two more knights join up with the first one that shot me. Time for some payback. I boost to my maximum height and slam back down with the power of the

Fist of Havoc, completely erasing the knights from existence. BearBear comes up and joins me as my power disperses.

"Hey, BearBear?"

"What?"

"Do you think Spas needs help over there?"

RAAAGH!

We turn around and look over to the opposite level to see the last knight disintergtrate from the blistering heat that is the Sorch Touch.

"Naaah. I think she gots it under control."

"Definitely."

"Its reconfiguring. Hang tight." The ghost said.

Okay, atleast theres some progress. Now we just got to hold on alittle more. Whats next?

RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGH!!!

Oh great...acolytes.

From the bottom levels, doors open up to reveal waves of acolytes. All of them ready to light us up with their void guns. When they started shooting it looked like a shower of purple firecrackers. Except, they only detonate with pretty lights when they hit

you. A literal shower of void lights went off as we all took to the air to avoid the swarming mass of acolytes below. Spas tossed her solar grenade down, causing a mini sun to develope, slowly eroding the acolytes. Some died from the blistering heat, but others barely flinched.

"Dammit, they released hollows."

By the travelers light, they are annoying. All races have those who are tougher than the rest. Amongst the Hive you have hollows. They have tougher exoskeletons than others in their caste, making them physically more durable. You got hollow wizards, knights, acolytes, hell even hollow thralls. Many curse thralls are usually hollow. Probably due to the power they've grown swollen with. They take more hits and more shots to take down, usually it amounts up to alot of ammo being wasted.

"Samster, can you use your Fist of Havoc?" She asked me.

"No. I just used it already. I need more time."

See, in order to use our most badass powers, we need alot of light to harness. We can generate it naturall over time, but can speed up the process if we kill enemies of the darkness. Sort of a symbolic thing really. Kill the darkness and your light grows kinda thing. But right now I'm drain completely.

"Fine, I'll use my Nova Bomb."

She lit up with void power until it condensed into her hand. She blasted one BIG ball of void straight into the ground and consumed them all in void light. Those that didn't die immediately were killed by the energy it left behind. All that was left were the six knights and wizards. Good thing that Nova Bomb made some lovely light orbs. Gonna need the boost. I walk towards them and touch them, instantly absorbing them.

Now to take care of the knights and wizards. Two knights come at me, but I play defensive and jump over them. Narrowly avoiding thier boomer shots. I pulled out my scout rifle, the Hung Jury SR4, and empty my clip into their faces. Every shot to the head made them flinch and stagger back. Armor-piercing rounds are the best aren't they? As I landed I feel an intense pain surround me as everthing around me gets dark. Darkness cloud. Stupid wizard magic. It was getting hard to stand as my legs buckled under my own weight. My light is fading ever so slowly. Inside od the cloud all movement from those made from the light is slowed down considerably. This isn't good. I need help right now. As the knights recover from the intial attack, they walk into the cloud of darkness without any hinderance.They take aim with their boomers to deliver the final blow.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGH!!!!

*BAM*

I look up to see one of the knights's head explode right next to the other, burning him and knocking his shot off course at the wizard. She effortlessly dodges the projectile like nothing and hisses at the person above her.

"Who the hell just-"

"Up here Sam."

I look up to see BearBear. The barrel of his sniper, theStillpiecer, smoking.

"Don't tell me you were about to die by a single knight?"

"There was two you at first. Thats when the wizard Spas was suppose to handle jumped in."

"You try hitting her. The bitch doesn't stay still." Spas said as she emptied her hand cannon, the Ill Will, trying to tag the wizard to no avail. She shoots the final round into the wizard's head, finally hitting her and destroying her weakened shield allong with it

"My god, how powerful is that thing?!" I said in shock and astonishment.

"It has a lovely perk that makes any random round extremely powerful. Guess I lucked out."

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

I look up to see the last knight hit BearBear off the upper platform. He recovered and midair and double jumped to the other platform with Spas. A red energy swirled around the knights as he made an astonishing leap all the way to the other platform.

"I think he might be enraged." BearBear said.

"Nah BearBear, what makes you say that?" Spas loves to be sarcastic.

Spas through a shatter grenade infront of him. the ball of energy split of into multiple little prisms and detonated all together around the knight. Normally the shatter grenade was a oneshot kill to all normal enemies, but this hollowed knight was soaking up damage, but BearBear's throwing knife was a good finisher. The knight froze in place before desintergrating into ash. We stop to take a breath, while our ghosts healed us again.

"I'm starting to sense a pattern! Shouldn't be long!"

"Oh my GOD! How long will this take?!" I screamed. This is starting to get annoying really fast!

"Calm down Samster, the ghost should be almost done. Just hold on." Spas reassured me.

We see the enemies come from the last two doors from the back of the room. The doors reveil two cleaver wielding knights with a small army of curse thralls. Ok thats simple enou-

"BOOMERS!" Spas screamed as a volley of arc energy splash down damaging everything it touch. From behind the swarm of curse thralls comes a group of acolytes, four boomer knights, and the gaurdian of the door Mormu, Xol spawn herself.

"We kill her the rest of the hive will retreat." BearBear said.

"Good to know, but first lets deal with the other hive memebers first."

We each take aim, shooting down every curse thrall from a distance, eradicating the sword knights and some of the acolytes in the process, but thats only the beginning. We still a few acolytes left and those stupid boomer knights are hanging back, shooting their boomers from a distance like mortars. And Mormu is providing cover fire with her hive magic.

I herd the rest of the acolytes into a small enough group and jump off my platfrom. I had my ghost switch my helmet to the Helm of Saint-14 and popped my Ward of Dawn over them all. With this helmet, all enemies in my shield are blinded, leaving them defenseless to my sweet exotic rocket launcher, the Dragon's Breath. With the Armor of Light activated in my bubble, I'm durable enough to take a few rockets to the face without flinching, so I simple aim down at the groung and pulled the trigger.

KABOOOOOM*

Those that weren't killed by the initial explosion was killed by the tiny sun my Dragon's Breath left behind. All thats left is Mormu and the-

BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BABOOM*

I stumble as my Ward of Dawn comes under assult by the boomers' powerful arc energy, but that left a small window of opportunity that Spas happily took. She leapt off the platform and into the air and activated her Sunbringer. Her golden wings sprung to life as she was consumed by so much light that she combusted into great flames of power. She flung grenade after grenade, slinging sticky grenades all over the knights and the area around them. When they went off they consumed tue small space in fire and all that was left was ash. As my Ward of Dawn ended and Spas's Sunbringers light faded like the passing sun, we took ain at her. Me with my scout rifle, the Hung Jury SR4, and Spas with her exotic auto rifle, the Red Death, respectively.

The wizard screamed at us and turned tail to try and make a hasty escape.

BOOM*

Thats if BearBear's Gunslinger wasn't aimed and ready. He fired once and she combusted in miniture explosions as she was swallowed in fire. She released one last banshee scream before falling apart into ash and fire. I walked up to BearBear with Spas as we regroup back at the door.

"Great job team, good work. With Mormu gone, the Hive should leave us alone for now." Spas said.

"Sweet, I don't think I had enough bullets in my Gunslinger for anymors Hive."

"Speaking of which, you mind turning that thing off? It starting to give my optical receptors and overload."

"Oh right." He takes a deep breath and the fires around him die off as he reverts back to normal.

"Got it! The gate's opening!" BearBear's ghost said as he dematerialized back into his armor.

The gates split open to reveal a narrow cave opening, which we hurry through. We pass run through the cave tunnel with the only thing lighting our way being green crystals. We get through the tunnel to a small circular space with a massive chain coming through the ceiling and floor. A small set of stairs lead down to the middle of the room and another back up. A few acolytes and thralls run out from cover to ambush us, only to be put down by our might. As we get to the door we go around the structural foundations to see a hollow knight and a ogre. Uh oh.

The knight pointed his gun up into the air as he roared his orders at the ogre. Commanding it to direct its rage at us. The ogres face lit up purple as it blast a purple beam of energy at us. BearBear and Spas managed to get out of the way in time, but I was too close to avoid the ogre and his unholy wrath. The beam burned through my armor and my mechnical body altogether. My circuitry melted away and all that was left was my ghost, slowly reviving me. BearBear and Spas must of killed them because when I came to, the ogre was breaking down into fire alongside the knight.

"That. Hurt. Alot."

"Put a bandage over it later. Lets go." Spas said as she walked through the door. Smart ass.

As we walk through the door and are met with nothing but darkness and emptiness, our ghost lit the way. We exit out the end of the corridors to see a small bridge. As we cross it we look to our left to see similar bridges connecting to the otherside of the cave space. Suddenly, a monstrous howl is heard from further below. Echoing throughout the cavern.

"We must be getting close to our target" Spas said.

We enter down a corridor with a flight of stairs and made our way down. As we make it to the bottom, we entered the Circle of Bones, one of their many central chambers. We get halted by a few knights, a bunch of acolytes, and a couple of thralls, but we sweep through them no problem. As we approach the holding chambers we see a Hive Tomb Ship in the distance drop off a new batch of Hive. We decided to leave them be and move on with the mission. As we approuch the doors to the chambers two sword wielding hollow knights block our path. We pull out out shotguns and aim for the head. Lets jist said it was over before it started. Run throught door and into the holding chamber and stop as we see something we wish we could unsee.

With large altars surrounding it and chains to keep it in the center, we see the largest ogre ever documented. It was covered in a thick armory hide. It had disgusting sores on the top of its head and large braces on its arms glowing with a green energy (probably some sorta hive magic). It arms and chest were restrained by chains in the middle of the flor to keep it there. I know ogres are said to be uncontrollable, but atleast they are allowed to move about with other Hive. To have this...this thing restrained goes to show the level of power this thing has. If the Hive fear this things power to such an extent we need to stay alert. For now its chained up and unaware of our presence. That should give us time to come up with a plan to-

"Well, at least it's chained up..." My ghost was said.

It must have heard him because no sooner did he say that, Phogoth pull against his chains and with little effort, shattered them. Immediately, it blasted a void beam with a vengeful roar. We took cover, not wanting to get hit by the ogre's rage.

"You just had to jinx it for us didn't you?Why not just say 'least it doesn't have an army to back him up' ."

Suddenly a barrage of arc shots splashed against the pillar I was behind. I peek out of cover to see a group of knights, all with boomers, roaring mockingly at us from a ledge. Waves of thralls started coming from every door in the area and acolytes swarm the beast's feet.

A literal army of Hive just came to give us a welcoming party.

"I guess this is the 'Phogoth the Untamed' Ikora's hidden was talking about." BearBear said.

"Well guys, its time to bring goliath down. Anyone got a rock?" Spas said jokingly.

"This is NOT the time for jokes!" I shouted.

"Alright guys, lets show these walking bugs what happens when you step up to the light of a guardian!"

Its time to shine.

End of Chapter