What's up guys Diamond here bringing a fifth chapter for you all. I hope y'all had a good day or for those reading this in the morning, good morning! Anyway, I will be skipping some missions since everyone doesn't want a repeat of all story missions and neither do I, so I will only put in specific missions where I will put in different things that will fit misadventures that many people could have had and what a few people would say to certain things in the game. I will be using some guns from Destiny 2 as well because they should all have been around at the same timeframe of Destiny 1, so they will be there. I will try to make some other things happen not just out on missions but at the Tower for some possible hilarity. Now on to the story.
BTW I DO NOT OWN DESTINY, ONLY MY CHARACTERS! Forgot to mention that in the other chapters.
"Speaking"
"Ghost"
Reading
"Radio"
Recording
Thinking
Diamond POV
It had been a week since that mission where I met Brandon's team, we all hang out from time to time when neither of us are on missions. I also received a transmission that was encrypted that was from the Reef, apparently Zamon was welcomed into the House of Judgement and could tell me. I also pulled off the prank with Cayde on Zavala without either of us getting into trouble as well. Let's just say that I saw Zavala on multiple occasions with him being pied. I even decided to do expeditions in the Old United States to see if I could find anything from my old life in this universe. I had arrived in Old United States in Tennessee, the state I once lived in, and arrived where my home was.
"It seems like it's been only a few days since I was last here." I said walking up to the back door of the house. "For you it has been a few days." Cole said in my head. I found the back door with its lock broken off the metal piece that held it on. I went into what was the game room for me and noticed that the Xbox One was there where it was left when I guess I vanished. I then decided to go somewhere else in the state. I then brought out my Sparrow and drove towards Nashville. I arrived a few minutes later into the city, surprised that there were no people in the city. "Hey Cole, is there any Fallen House here or Hive here?" I asked my Ghost. "Yes, there is a neutral Fallen House called the Fallen House of Angels*." Cole answered. "House of Angels?" I asked, wanting Cole to explain further. "They are a neutral Fallen House that will either help or attack Guardians in the area. They help Guardians sometimes, but they have a bad reputation with most Houses due to their neutrality." Cole explained to me. "Good, I'd rather not fight any Fallen while going down memory lane." I said as I entered the parking lot to the Grand Opry Mall. I started walking towards the mall when Cole appeared in front of me. "They also use this mall as a base for their House." Cole said, explaining why he stopped me. "Oh, ok then I'll just go to some other places." I said walking back to my parked Sparrow.
I then decided to go and drive to P.F. Changs and remember all the times my family ate here. After that I then decided to go to the Books a Million to see if I could find some intact books to bring back to the Tower and keep for when I'm out on the field for a long time. As I was looking at the books I noticed the store had all volumes of the Halo book series and more after I had disappeared. "Hey, I love this series!" I exclaimed while grabbing two of each book. "Why are you grabbing two of each book?" My Ghost asked while looking at some other books that he might like. "Well I have one for me and one for the library in the Tower if possible." I explained to Cole while he transmatted my books and some of the ones he chose. "Plus, I am going to read the first book of the series, so you can look around some more if you want." I said to Cole as I headed for where the café usually is. I then sat down in one of the chairs and started reading.
? POV
I looked down the scope of my Wire Rifle as I was following a Guardian who was spotted right outside our base. Currently he was reading a book in a store that had its windows blown out. I aimed at his head, but my Wire Rifle malfunctioned, like always, and I shot the book in his hands instead. The thing that got me was the way he reacted, instead of ducking behind cover he simply dropped the book and stared at my location with his arms held out. I ended up laughing and rolling on the floor from that. When I got up and stood up I saw him standing right over me. "Eh, sorry?" I half said/asked. Just when I thought I was going to die by the hands of this Guardian they said something that made me stop in my tracks.
Diamond POV
I was beyond angry right now, I was pissed off. But I asked them the question that was at the front of my mind. "What the hell did that book ever do to you!?" I yelled at the Fallen sniper. I wasn't worried about myself, but I don't know how many of these books were left in the world, and I REALLY like to read. That Fallen Vandal started laughing its ass off, rolling on the floor as well. It's weird seeing a Fallen laugh this much over me being angry. I was still angry that I thought I started seeing fire in my vision. I also saw that the Vandal had stopped laughing and started backing up away from me. I was surprised when I spoke though, "WHAT. DO. YOU. WANT!" We were both surprised when my voice sounded demonic. "I…uh…I was tracking w-what you were doing b-because we saw you s-scouting out our base." The Vandal stuttered out afraid of me as I seemed like an actual demon.
The flames that were coming off me died down and my voice returned to normal, "I was not scouting out your base, it's that in my childhood before I was awakened my family used to got to the mall that y'all inhabit as you're base." The Vandal was surprised by that I was sure. "Wait, you used to go there?" The Vandal asked. "Yes, a long time ago." I said. The Vandal didn't ask or say anything after that. "Just don't shoot at me again, I have no quarrels with the House of Angels." I said as I started walking off to go and grab more books for the Tower Library. "What are you doing?" The Vandal asked. "I am grabbing books for the Tower and the Last City's libraries. I have my Ghost check all the libraries book stocks so that I can get them some new books." I explained as I started looking through the books. "Uhm, The Last City doesn't have many libraries. We could open up a book store." Cole said as he appeared on my shoulder. "That could be a good idea in the future, but as we know we will have to wait a long while until we can." I said as I finished grabbing books for Cole to dematerialize. "But that would be a good way to retire once Guardians aren't really needed anymore." I said once Cole finished. It was then that we noticed the Vandal left as me and Cole were talking. I then left the bookstore and looked around for the Vandal, but I didn't find them.
"Oh well, let's head out back home." I said as I got onto my Sparrow. It was then that we headed back to my old home to get on my ship and head back to the Tower. We arrived at the time the sun started setting. I then headed to the Tower's library to drop off the books I gathered while away. "Greetings Guardian, what is a Titan like you doing here?" Asked a Warlock skeptically as he walked towards me. "Hello, I was just going to drop off a few books that the library doesn't have." I explained to the Warlock when he reached me. He genuinely seemed surprised by that since, from what Cole had told me, Warlocks are usually the ones to go out and search for books and such. "That is surprising and unexpected, why did you look for books?" The Warlock asked me. "It's because I love to read." I said simply to the Warlock. "I'm serious, why did you look for the books? Was it a Patrol mission or something?" The Warlock asked, apparently not believing me. It was at this moment Cole came out to say something. "No, he really does love books. He even had a Fallen Vandal scared because they had shot through the book he was reading." Cole said to the Warlock. At this the Warlock was surprised and believing me now. "I have never met a Titan who has cared about books as much as a Warlock before. How many books did you bring?" The Warlock asked me and Cole. "About 90 books in total since we went through a few bookstores while out there. I am keeping a few myself, so that will leave about 80 left that I'm giving to the library." I said making some mental calculations. "That would be more than enough. We haven't gotten that many books in one time in a while. How did you even know what books we didn't have?" The Warlock asked. "I had Cole here memorize what books we had so that I could grab any that the library didn't have." I explained to the Warlock.
"Well I thank you, by the way what is your name?" The Warlock asked. "Diamond, what is yours?" I said and asked the Warlock. "Bishop, nice to meet you Diamond." Bishop said to me. "Nice to meet you too Bishop." I said. "Well you are always welcome to the library, I am going to go give the good news to the other Warlocks." Bishop said as Cole finished transferring the books to Bishop's Ghost. "What good news? The books, or that a Titan interested in reading brought them?" I asked Bishop. "Both." He simply said heading towards a door in the back of the library. "Well I'm going to go. I just got a message from Holliday." I said as I was leaving. "Well see you later Diamond!" Bishop yelled as he reached the back of the library.
I reached the Hangar and headed to where Holliday was. "Hey there Diamond. I got a gift for ya." Amanda said as I approached her. "What is it?" I asked her when I got to her. "You know those two Fallen Tanks you brought us? Well the Speaker decided that since you brought them and killed the Devils' Kell you should be able to keep one for yourself. Brandon and his team vouched for you as well." Amanda said as she typed something on her datapad. "Wow." I said, not knowing what to say. "I did not expect that." I said after a few moments of neither of us saying anything. "Me neither, but you get a tank out of the deal, so it can't hurt to accept it." Amanda said. "That is true, but I'm going to have to find out where to store it." I said, noticing a problem of where it must go. "That is why I made it to where you can store it in you Ghost just like your ship." Amanda said to me. She then explained to me and Cole on how to dematerialize it into storage. After we said our goodbyes I headed to the Speakers Observation area.
When I reached the place, I headed towards the usual place you can find him. "Hey Speaker!" I said kinda loudly. The Speaker turned to me calmly, obviously having this done to him before. "Ah Diamond, it is good to see you. What did you need?" The Speaker asked. "I decided to swing on by to say thank you for letting me keep one of the tanks I brought." I said to the Speaker. "Well you are welcome. Is there anything else you need?" The Speaker asked. "No not really. But I'm going to head off to bed, I had a long day." I explained to him. I started heading out before I turned around to say something. "Good night Speaker." I said and turned back around to head out. "You too Diamond." The Speaker said as I left.
I arrived into my room and started putting the books I kept in the bookshelf. "Today was a rather interesting day." Cole said as he materialized in front of me. "Yes it was, I'm going to have to ask Zavala about the flames and the voice change that happened earlier today. But that can wait until the morning." I said as I laid down onto my bed in my armor. I then fell into a peaceful sleep.
Sup guys, Diamond here to finally end this chapter. It took me a while to write this, not because it was hard, but it was because of schoolwork, gaming, and general laziness that everyone has. I'm also sorry that the paragraphs I usually have are long but it's just how I write. I'm also very glad that people are taking an interest in my story and following it and stuff. This was a pretty big chapter, but I believe that there might be longer ones in the future for story missions that actually matter. I also hope that y'all have had a good day.
Diamond signing out.