What's up guys, Diamond here. Here is another chapter for the story. I will be doing quite a few time skips in the story because I don't want to right a really long one thousand chapter story, I have an erratic schedule as it is. Anyway, I will try to write as much as I can. I'm thinking of the future stories and how everything will go. I'm glad you guys like the story though. And I'm sorry for the unexpected hiatus, I have been quite busy. I am glad to say that I'm back and I'm going to continue this fic. And I'm glad that everyone is still following and liking it. With some more stuff at the end of the chapter.

"Speaking"
"Ghost"
Reading
"Radio"
Recording
Thinking

Pre-Dark Below

Diamond POV

I was heading to the shooting range the morning after my mission. I felt like I could have used the Khvostov a bit more efficiently when fighting those Acolyte's during the mission. It was early in the morning and I wanted to try out an idea I had. "Hey Cole, I just had an ideal." I simply stated as Cole appeared in front of me. "I know, and I actually agree with it. Since we aren't in the video game you know, it could increase our fighting proficiency." Cole said actually agreeing with me on my idea.

"Sweet, let's try it as soon as we get into the shooting range." I said. We entered the 'range and I proceeded to make all the adjustments to my gear. I held my lovely Khvostov in my hands, Thunder Lord on the left side of my back, with the Black Spindle on the right side of my back. I looked to my right thigh and saw the Havoc Pigeon there in its own holster. "Sweet it worked!" I exclaimed happily. My idea was that if I could have a Primary able to be holstered on the left side of my stomach, and my Secondary and Heavy on my back, then I could put a Sidearm or Hand Cannon on my thigh like I did with the Havoc Pigeon.

"Wow, I actually didn't think that would work." My Ghost said as he appeared and looked at the pistol holster and my other guns. "Of course it worked, but I was skeptical as well." I stated to Cole while holstering my Khvostov and pulling out Havoc Pigeon. I had proceeded to do target practice for a few hours while quickly switching to each of my guns and using the dummy rounds for them.

Later

I was heading to the Courtyard of the Tower when Cole had received a message from Cayde. "Hey Diamond, I just got a message from Cayde-6 saying he wants to see you. He says it's important." Cole said to me as I entered the Courtyard. "Alright, tell him I'm coming to meet him now." I told Cole as I made a b-line towards the Vanguard Hall.

I saw Cayde motioning for me as soon as I entered. "Sup Cayde." I said to the Exo. "Hey Diamond, listen I need you to check on something in the Cosmodrome for me." Cayde said in a hushed voice so that Zavala and Ikora didn't hear him. "What'd you need?" I asked, genuinely surprised that he is being serious about this. "It may not look like it, but Hunters have another job other than scouting and pathfinding. And I don't just give these missions to anyone. But select few Hunters also are ordered to find and exterminate Guardians who have either abandoned the Light or who have been killing other Guardians. I oversee these missions because not many Hunters know about it." Cayde explained to me. "I'm guessing that you want me to do one of these missions for you?" I asked, trying to figure out why he was telling me this and why he was trusting me this much as to give this information. "Yes, I do. And I'm telling you this because with your luck, you will most likely have to come into contact with one of these monsters." Cayde said while putting emphasis on monster. "Why did you call them monsters like that?" I asked, truly wondering why he did. "Because they will kill any Guardians that come across them by using the Red Death. And everyone knows what happens with those guns, it's almost like a trademark for them." Cayde said in disgust.

"But why would you need me? I'm not a Hunter." I said simply. "Because I saw how you handled certain scenarios and how you could topple them. As well as a note of approval of your sniper skills from one of my best Hunters. And he is not easily impressed mind you." Cayde said with pride. "Heh, thanks Cayde. I can try the mission out to see if I am up for it." I said, unsure if I could kill another Guardian outside of controlled environments, like the Crucible, and extinguish their Light. "I know you are, because bastards like them won't hesitate to eliminate anything to take what they want, Guardians included." Cayde said while sensing my inner argument. "Alright, I'll try it out." I said, surer of myself now. "Good, because your first mission from me is tomorrow, I will also have one of my Extinguishers to watch over your mission." Cayde said to me while he started typing on his computer. "'Extinguishers'?" I asked trying to figure out what that was. I never heard of them from the game nor did I really hear about Guardians leaving the Light, it was only hinted at. "Yeah that's what they are called. Because they Extinguish a Guardians' Light." Cayde said to me. "What you are about to be after this mission too." Cayde added right before I could respond.

"Ok then, I'll go prepare then." I say as I make to leave the Hall. "Don't tell anyone about what I told you either. I don't want rumors spreading around about them. I'll even provide you some Hunter training for stuff like this." Cayde said to me. "Wait, Hunter training?" I asked Cayde, surprised he would provide that to me. "Yeah, you may be a Titan, but you have the skills of a Hunter as well, maybe even a bit of Warlock in there too, but don't tell Ikora I said that. It would go to her head that I agreed with her on that." Cayde said while adding a joke to the serious mood. "Alright, I can try it out too. I will most likely need it in the future." I said while mulling over what Cayde said near the end. "Ok then, I don't need anything else. But the Hunter who will be watching over you is an Exo named Reynard. Don't try to beat him in a shooting contest by the way. Bastard always learns how to make your shots miss if he can help it." Cayde said the last part more to himself than to me, but I heard it anyway. "Alright then, I'm thinking about adding something to my ship before I go out and do some investigating on Venus." I said to Cayde as I'm heading out of the Hall.

I headed to the docks after my talk with Cayde to look for Amanda. There is something special I want her to add to my ship that will save me from going to the Tower just to do this certain thing. I arrived at her usual workstation to see that she was in the middle of a call with another Guardian. "No, I do not have the upgraded guns for your ship. No, the people in Suros said it won't be done for another few days, so you are going to have to hang in there until it is finished. Goodbye." Amanda said, finishing her call with whoever was on the line and started rubbing her temples at a probable headache that she was getting. "Wow, remind me to buy you a drink later. You look like you need it." I said, making her jump in surprise. "Oh Diamond, I didn't see you there." Amanda said as she sat down. "I might even hold you to that too." Amanda said as I sat down next to her. "Well from that call I can tell you need it." I told her. "Well thanks for worrying about me. Anyway, what did you need?" She asked me. "I always worry about friends, and I was going to ask if you could install a Vault in my ship." I told her, explaining why I needed it as well. "That is a big order Diamond, not many Guardians will do that. Mainly Hunters from my records." Amanda said as she was looking at her datapad. "I know. But I have a feeling that I will need it in the future." I said simply. She seemed to mull it over a bit before she nodded her head. "Alright I'll do it. But you owe me that drink Diamond." Amanda said to me. "Ok, thank you. And I will definitely get you that drink Amanda." I said to her as we shook hands. I then turned and left the Hangar.

Amanda Holliday's POV

I watched as Diamond walked out of the Hangar. He is a good kid, he even comes to check up on me and makes sure I'm ok. It's funny but I actually see the guy as a little brother, one who tries to make everyone happy. I never told him this, but he won't need to know for a while. To me, the guy is just a big teddy bear, tries to look tough on the outside but is kindhearted on the inside. I don't know why but I feel like something major will happen in the future, and that he will be at the center of it. But I can't let that keep me down. I have work to do.

*Ring ring* and there's that work calling me. I hope the modifications come in soon for his ship.

Commander Zavala POV

I was in the Hall with the other Vanguards, just going through the usual reports and paperwork. When something interesting came up, it was a request from Amanda Holliday. It was to install a Vault in a Guardian's ship, I immediately became curious as to who would need a Vault in their ship. And I was surprised that it was Diamond, the only Sunbreaker Titan in the Tower. Of course, I was surprised at first that a newly resurrected Titan wasn't a Striker or Defender, but a Sunbreaker and seemed to have a natural affinity for fire as well. Though, he proved his worth time and again, he even got a recommendation from the fireteam Zulu 14, a very skilled fireteam. The Titan keeps surprising me, even Cayde and Ikora were impressed with him. Though I am still annoyed at the prank Diamond and Cayde pulled when he first joined, mainly at the fact that the "modifications" didn't go straight through to me. But, Ikora talked me down from getting angry at them for long. But what I'm interested in is what Cayde told me and Ikora earlier, that he recruited Diamond, a Titan, into the Extinguishers and got him to accept Hunter training as well. Ikora made it a point to ask him if he would accept Warlock training as well. What surprised me most is the reason for why she wanted him to have that training. "He is educated at a Warlock's level as well as even collecting books for the Tower's library. He even collected 80 books in one trip." I honestly wonder what will happen to the Titan, because we never had a Guardian who had training in all three classes, and we don't have one because we could never agree on a candidate until now. And currently he should be meeting up with the Extinguisher Reynard. I wonder how his mission would go, and I also have to deal with the worry of a Guardian so young and new to the Light going up against one who has turned his back on the Light and hunts those they fought alongside with.

Diamond POV

I had just gotten to the area of where I am to meet with Reynard. It was actually a bar in the city called 'The Broken Keg'. I entered the bar wearing a black trench coat with red highlights, black cargo pants, black combat boots, and black armored gloves. I looked around until I found a Exo sitting by himself drinking some liquor. What also gave him away was a sniper rifle on his back as well. I walked over to him and sat down across from him. "Are you Reynard?" I asked the Exo. "Yeah, and you are?" Reynard asked. "I'm Diamond, I was supposed to meet you." I said to him. "Then I'm glad you're here. I'm sending a gun that is standard issue to all Extinguishers to your Ghost. As well here is my Ghost Zenith." Raymond said as a black and gold Ghost appeared over his shoulder. "Greetings." Said Zenith in a female voice. "Nice to meet you too Zenith. And here's my Ghost Cole." I said to which Cole appeared over my shoulder. "Greetings Reynard, greetings Zenith, it is nice to meet you both." Cole said as politely as he could. Both Reynard and Zenith said their greetings to Cole.

"Alright I got the…" Cole trailed off at what we received. "What did we get Cole?" I asked to my friend. "The White Witch." Cole said in utter disbelief. I then looked at Reynard and said, "You're kidding me, right?" To which he responded with. "You know the gun?" "Yeah, somewhat but not a lot. But I know it's just like the Red Death." I explained to him. "Well, you are right in that regard, but the gun is mainly used by Extinguishers. So how you know of it kinda speaks of either your resourcefulness or your knowledge of things you shouldn't know about. Either way it doesn't matter, not with the guy you're about to hunt down." He said to me as he pulled out a strange Wanted poster.

Wanted Dead
William Morgan
Race: Human
Class: Warlock
Reward: 9,000 Glimmer

It also showed a heavily scarred face with one scar making his face into an eternal grin. Not only that but he looked to be in his mid-fifties, bald, and uses a fusion rifle and a machine gun. So, he will be covered in quite a good amount of range, which if I get the jump on him it won't matter anyway. "When do we head out?" I asked Reynard as soon as our Ghost's disappeared. "We leave now. Do you have all the supplies you need?" Reynard asked me. "Yeah, just need my ship and I'm good to go." I said to him. "No need, we'll be taking mine. He will be near a strange signal we picked up just today. Our second objective this mission is to check out this energy signal." Reynard explained to me. "Alright, makes sense." I simply said to him.

Skip to the Cosmodrome near Cayde's stash in the Taken King DLC

We ended up near one of the ships that were supposed to evacuate civilians off-planet but never launched. While I was following Reynard, I was having a mental conversation with Cole. "You don't think it's SIVA, do you?" Cole asked me. No, I don't think it is, we're way too early for it. Plus, we haven't even done The Dark Below yet, or faced the Darkness in the gardens yet. I answered Cole mentally. "You're right, but do we need to visit the Queen and her brother. Her brother seems like a major dick though." Cole said which in turn made me laugh a bit. "What's so funny?" Reynard quickly asked. "Nothing, just Cole said something funny that I never would have believed he said." I answered, hoping that that was enough. But he simply asked what it was I found funny. "Well, he found a memory of mine and commented on how the guy that was there was a dick." I said to Reynard. "Yeah, that is not something you would expect a Ghost to say." Reynard said while chuckling. At least I wasn't lying to him. Just veiled the truth with another way to describe our conversation. I mentally thought to Cole. "Are you sure that you're a Titan and not just a heavily armored Warlock?" Cole asked rather surprised by my comment. Yes, I'm sure. After all, I don't even know how I would survive as a Warlock. I thought to Cole.

One walk to a different ship then Cayde's stash later

"We're here. You are the one that is going to take him out, don't try to kill him with any regular gun that is not the Red Death or White Witch, if you do so he will just come back to life and kill you. And remember, use the White Witch to finish him off." Reynard instructed me. "Don't worry Reynard, I already figured out a plan." I said as I brought out the Black Spindle. "How do you have that gun?" Reynard asked me with a hint of worry in his voice. "It was in my Vault when I got to the Tower." I answered him as I looked for William. I later spotted him in a standoff with a House of Devils Captain and they both looked worn out. "Found him with a Fallen Captain as well." I said to Reynard as I looked down my scope aiming for a certain part of his body that would make it hard for him to escape. "Are they working together?" Reynard asked me. "No, there are Fallen corpses everywhere and they are both worn out and circling each other." I said waiting to get a good look on the Captain. When I waited long enough I noticed it was the clumsy Captain from my first day of being resurrected. And how do I know this you ask, it's because his armor still has the full-armor indention from the pillar he ran into. "Well I'll be…" I said trailing off. "What is it?" Reynard asked. "That Captain is one I watched run headfirst into a pillar on my first day resurrected." I said chuckling a little bit at the memory. "Really?" Reynard asked in disbelief. "Yep, it's also not the craziest thing I've seen." I said as I lined up my shot on William.

Aksis House of Devils Captain POV (yes THAT Aksis)

I was growing weary from my fight with this accursed Guardian. Just looking at him sickens me, but I must if I am to survive against him. But as soon as I was about to make another strike against him I heard a large *crack* sound and watched the Guardian in front of me fall to the ground holding his crotch area while screaming in pain. I simply took this as a sign to get away and live for another day. Though I can probably take control of my House if my theory on the laboratory is correct. Soon not only the House of Devils, but everything will be mine. I thought to myself as I ran away from the area to check up on my wounds.

Diamond POV

"Heugh…" Reynard moaned as he brought out his sniper rifle and saw where my shot landed. "Did you HAVE to shoot him in the testicles?" Reynard half asked half moaned from just watching my sniper round do its work. "Yes, because he can't escape while in the fetal position." I explained to Reynard as I made my way to William. All the while also feeling the ghosting pain of what I did to this man. I walked up to him with the White Witch in my hands. "Now then, how are you enjoying the ground there William?" I asked in a condescending manner. "Go…to…hell…" He managed to groan out at me. "Please, the Devil filed a restraining order against me, so that's out of the question." I said as I brought the barrel of the gun to his head. "So…you're just gonna…snuff out my Light like that?" William half groaned half asked. "Hmmm…yep!" I said as I pulled the trigger, shooting five rounds into his head. I wanted to make sure he was dead after all. I then went to where Reynard was watching the whole thing. "So, how did I do?" I asked him. "Firstly, are you a Warlock in disguise because that worked perfectly. And secondly, you passed." Reynard said while giving me a strange look. "Okay, why does everyone keep asking me that? And I'm glad I passed." I said the first part out loud to no one in particular. "Yeah, let's go home. I feel like I'm going to need some ice later," Reynard said as we made our way back to his ship. But one thing on my mind is that that Captain from before was here and I have yet to know his name. I'll figure it out later, because right now I feel like I could fall asleep walking.

Time skip to after a debriefing and me being made an Extinguisher

Well I am finally back in my dorm room and I just head straight for my room, not worrying about dinner. Then I remembered that tomorrow I have to head to Venus and meet with her about the Black Garden. Well at least I can do more of the story.

Hey guys, Diamond here to say that I'm sorry for the hiatus that was unforeseen. But I'm back and I'm glad that people are enjoying my story. The reason for my hiatus is life, college, and video games. But I will try to make as many chapters as I can, though I can't promise to keep a schedule, it's not something I can do right now. Now from a previous topic in my other chapters is me including guns from Destiny 2, which I still will. Though only if they make sense to the story. I am also making some background story for Aksis as you can tell, after all who knew that the clumsy Captain from day one would become Aksis the Machine God. Funny part is I never even thought of it until now when I wrote it. But as you all can tell I am adding my own lore into the story for whatever can happen in this story. But I am also gonna say that I don't actually know what to write after this because my mind keeps coming up with new ideas for things. So yeah that is all the time I have since it's 12:13 AM for me and I have class tomorrow. Anyway, all the Guardians out there stay safe, and may the Traveler guide you.

Diamond signing out.