Chapter Fourteen- The Rage Part One: Descent into Darkness
"I feel the weight, I feel the shadows surrounding me.. I will survive if but only with a fragment of my old self" -Enali Raku in talk with Variks.
Jungles of South America
Enali sat quietly, picking at her nails which had grown a bit to resemble talons. She sighed and closed her eyes.
"Ma'am, pardon me for asking, but why did you erase David's memory along with everyone else in the vanguard" Isaac asked.
Enali looked over at him something stirring deep within her eyes. A hunger, a blood thirst.
"I'd like to keep that to myself" she said in a quick hushed tone.
Variks sat down, gazing at Enali.
"If you would, please vacate the room" he said glancing over at Isaac.
Isaac nodded and went to rejoin his team.
Enali began to dig her nails into the metal on the table, leaving deep scrapes. Variks had never seen her like this.
"My kell, what is wrong.." He asked.
"I feel everything Variks..." She said as she placed her face in her palms, "I feel the weight of the darkness, of the shadows, pressing around me, as if they're seeping into my very being"
Variks tapped his metallic finger on the table. This was not a good sign.
"You must understand that if it comes to it, we will have to..."
Enali allowed a tear to fall from her face as she sunk in her chair.
"I don't want to die Variks... I want to be able to see him grow up, I want to see him again"
Nyxx stepped through the door, a wire rifle slung to her back and a computer tablet in the other.
"Missstress Enali, David and his team are in trouble.."
Enali looked up, a dark cold stare within her irises.
"We are tracking them now, but there are some issues"
"Like what?" Enali asked as she closed her hands into a fist.
"Shadows moving towards their location, time of arrival unknown... But we may be able to head them off and lure them away from their sights"
Enali smirked as she pressed a comms button on the table.
"Fireteam Umbra, ready yourselves for a fight, meet me in the armory in twenty"
Variks looked at her, concerned about the growing darkness within herself.
"There is another contact with which we can co-op this mission" he said sliding her a file.
Enali looked down at the folder.
"Who is it?" Enali asked before even opening the file.
"Tai Kumori, the original warlock vanguard mentor"
Enali scanned the files, taking note of the numerous successful missions against the darkness and the battles he led with Saint-14 and Andal Brask.
"Where is he now?" Enali asked as she slid the files over to him.
"I cannot disclose his location to you, but I can give him the coordinates to where to meet you and Fireteam Umbra"
Enali closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"Send them, maybe we can manage to intercept the shadows and save David at the same time"
"Consider it done"
Prefect Transcendence, Unknown Location
Tai took a sip from his coffee mug, watching his creations work to repair Saint and create a new body for Andal.
"What is your plan" his ghost asked as it hovered around.
Tai smiled and rubbed his beard, lighting a cigarette.
"Well ghost, seems that a prodigy to my line of warlocks has risen and is causing quite a lot of commotion. But my plan is to repair Saint and get Andal back up and running for what is coming"
His ghost shifted its outer edges.
"The shadows?"
Tai shook his head.
"Before I left, the Priestess Eleri Raku was to take over the Warlock Mentor Place. But thanks to Ikora and her shitty attitude, she took over"
"So the vanguard plot something?"
"Not so much the vanguard as the consensus.. They knew of the prophecy, they knew because I told them and warned them but I think it's more or less frightening them"
"What's frightening who?" Saint asked as he stepped over to Tai.
"Ah my friend, your just in time"
Saint flexed his mechanical hands, "Tai, why are we keeping this from my father? I mean I figure he'd like to at least see me?"
"In time Saint, we have issues to attend to first before we return to the tower to weed out the traitors"
"So we are still following through with the original plan, good.. I want to snap some necks and put some people in their places"
Both Saint and Tai turned to see an Exo wearing an old tattered cloak.
"Ah Andal, good to see you again"
"Thank you for transferring me from my human body to an Exo, maybe now I can understand Cayde a little more instead of lagging behind him" Andal said with a chuckle.
Tai laid out a map, placing several markers all around it.
"We have the opportunity to assault the cabal base on Mars, the vex on Venus and the hive on Luna, but we have received a message from a contact of mine describing a situation in which several guardians lives will be lost if we do not intervene"
Saint noted the name of the ship.
"Shadow Fang, wasn't that Eleri and Shins ship? Why is it still in commission?"
Tai pulled up the image of a female Hunter.
"Enali Raku, the daughter of Eleri and Shin, the most dangerous Hunter since Andal, Shin, and Dredgen"
Andal whistled low.
"Damn, to be more dangerous than me is a feat.. But why does she have the Shadow Fang?"
"Your successor, Cayde-6 is the reason she has the ship. In a gift for her after she graduated from training, he gave her parents ship to her"
"The girl walks through the void, look at the readings from her last known mission, Tai wouldn't that pin her as a Warlock?" Saint said as he flipped the screen towards him.
Tai checked the numbers and calculations.
"I'll be damned..."
"She walks two paths..."
"We need to get to her fast"
Shadow Fang, En Route To Tychi's Last Location
Enali stared at the armor that was hanging in front of her. A solid black set of Voidfang Vestments. A Warlocks robe.
"Are you sure you want to touch this side right now?" Aracela asked as she watched her mentor, "you know this could tear you apart..."
Enali took a deep breath. She had only chosen to confide this information with Aracela.
"There are some things worth risking everything for Aracela, for me.." Enali wiped a tear away, "David is worth risking my very being for.."
Aracela nodded and handed her a special made warlock bond that she had been working on.
"Umbra's Call, it will boost the intensity of your abilities"
Enali smiled and placed her hand on Aracela's head, "thank you for showing me the same kindness I gave you"
Enali strapped herself into her body suit before piecing her armor together.
"You know Mistress Enali, a Warlocks Robe suits you very well" Nyxx said as she had appeared at the door.
Enali blushed before slipping her boots on.
"Thanks, let's get ready, we are almost there"