I still remember the process I undertook to obtain this new power, if I could use it again anyway. The three of us were sent to Mercury with Ikora Rey, the head of the Warlock Vanguard Division. She was the one in charge of the project. I've never been to this part of Mercury usually I'm outside fighting Vex, being inside, with all these technological surfaces that keep appearing and disappearing is rather annoying. I can't tell you how many times I messed up one of those platforms. I must've gotten revived a hundred times back then.
Ikora and three other warlocks extracted pure darkness from a special containment unit. The containment unit wasn't anything technologically advanced. It looks like an urn with a mix of Hive and Vex technology. You can see the markings of the Hive glow on the urn as the Vex technology changes the markings itself by manipulating space and time itself.
As the warlocks removed the pure darkness, they entered Stormtrance. I'm guess without Stormtrance it wouldn't work. I'm not a warlock so I don't know how it works and I really don't care.
The warlocks imbued us the pure darkness extract and I notice that three of us took on different effects.
Sonia, the warlock, glowed a dark red color and you could see fire, lightning, and the void itself spewing out of her body.
Jacob, the titan, was surrounded by three orbs. One of the void, one of lightning, and another of fire. The colors of the three orbs then changed into a dark purple color and a black aura of then surrounded Jacob.
The two seemed to be perfectly fine. Not even a single scream.
For me, as soon as the darkness entered my body. I felt as if I was being torn in two. The power of light and dark fought inside my body. One fighting the other for control. It didn't physically, but mentally, my mind was being torn apart. I couldn't interfere with the battle inside of me. I literally watched two sides fighting. One was a warrior of light, and the other, a dark specter that strangely didn't fight back as much as I thought. The warrior of light put all their effort into fighting the dark specter. The specter raised its hand to tell the warrior to stop. The warrior and the specter walk towards each other and I could feel the two becoming one.
I then automatically see myself back on Mercury surrounded by a black aura with black darts surrounding me.
I can feel this new power. The three of us then raise our hands and shoot into the sky a beam of light and darkness. We then lower our hands and the auras disappear.
Ikora walks up to us and says, "How do you feel Guardians?"
We exchange looks, or well, helmets.
"Peaceful," says Sonia with a calm light soothing voice.
"Powerful," says Jacob with a strong heavy voice.
How do I feel?
For some reason, I can't seem to put the words together.
What did my son always say? Flobitty? Yeah. It's a made up word. But he always says it when he sees something cool.
But all of a sudden the word comes to my mind.
"Chaotic."
Chaotic? Why did I say chaotic?
"Good, then we shall begin your training with your new powers. Come with me." says Ikora.
We follow Ikora to an empty room. The room seems rather large.
"Let us begin," she says. She snaps her fingers.
Three guardians appear in the other side of the room. A hunter, a titan, and a warlock. Don't tell me we're doing Trials of Osiris right now. I've gone solo before, but we just got these powers.
Ikora turns to look at us and says.
"You will be training with the Guardians across the hall with your new powers. Remember, these powers are a gift. You do not have to fear the darkness taking over you. It seems the light, and the dark inside of you, have become one. A whole so to speak."
A whole? What is this yin and yang now?
"Oh and Lord Saladin will be overlooking this part of the project."
Wait what? Did she just say…
"Guardians. Welcome to my personal training grounds." I recognize that voice. I turn around and I see Lord Saladin himself wearing his Iron Banner gear. I've competed in the Iron Banner before, but I've never seen Lord Saladin fight. I've heard stories of him taking down the armies of darkness by himself. In the crucicle he became a monster, destroying everyone that faced him. Shaxx was so impressed he made asked Lord Saladin to form a special training faction, the Iron Banner. Lord Saladin was pleased and he got the best of the best and formed the Iron Banner.
"Lord Saladin. It's an honor," says Jacob.
"Much obliged Jacob. Your reputation has impressed me and the Iron Lords. We speak highly of you," says Lord Saladin.
I'm guessing Jacob is a badass titan that could've fought Crota alone and won. Just guessing.
"Thank you Lord Saladin," says Jacob.
Wow. No emotion. This is going to be great.
Lord Saladin walks around and stands next to Ikora and starts talking, "Alright you three, let's get started. I won't lie. I don't know what your new powers are but I'm willing to bet that it this is an asset we should use. We will be training for the next month here. So get comfortable because it's going to be difficult."
Ikora points at the three guardians and says, "Those three Guardians are the Iron Lords. You will be training with the best. If you ever want to do private lessons or learn more about the light and the darkness. Come find me."
She turns to look at Lord Saladin. "I leave the rest to you Lord Saladin."
She disappears out of thin air.
Boy, transmatting is quite handy don't you think?
Lord Saladin laughs.
"Alright, let's get started." He snaps his fingers.
Platforms come from different direction and move around constantly.
I smirk. This is going to be fun.