Everything started when humanity first landed on Mars. They at first rejoiced but soon came silence, they were awed by what they have found. The Voyager, an entity that took the form of a large sphere laid before them. It soon let out a pulse to the discoverers, with that pulse came knowledge of what it was and what it can do. Soon humanity bowed before him and asked him one thing... "Will you help us become stronger than before?" and so began humanity Golden Age. Technological wonder were found and created, the Exiled, another race that lived in the Sol system came and help humanity flourish even more and with their help they created a machine race called Exo. The Exo were the pinnacle of humanity and the Exiled technology they were considered the Forerunner of Technology, each one had the mind of the most brilliants of both race in form of machines. Then after so many year of peace an unknown ship came and delivered an ominous message ..."Flee! It is coming! It cannot be stopped! Flee!".
When the message went dark humanity and it allies pondered the message and thus began to prepare for this unknown threat. Decades of silence had lowered their guard and so came "the Darkness" an evil so ancient that everything in it path perished in it hands. The first to fall were the outer rim planets, they could do nothing against the Darkness. Planets after planets kept falling Mercury a garden world was turn into machine in matter of days, Jupiter and it moon were erased completely, Mar and Venus two of the most advanced planet were found lifeless. Soon Earth's moon was swallowed by plague. When the humanity and it allies were prepared for one last final stand the Voyager appeared once again. But even with all it might the Voyager could only do so much, with the last of it strength it push the darkness back beyond the Sol system.
With the Darkness pushed back humanity, the Exiled, the Exo all lamented for the Voyager for it has gone silent. Soon they noticed little motes of light falling from the Voyager body, those mote of light where called Phantom. These Phantom were able to bond with anyone dead or alive that they deemed worthy of wielding the power of the Voyager. But not all of them bonded immediately, some went years without finding someone to bond with. During those year humanity and its allies began to recover what they lost, they have found what had happened to the other planets. Mercury was ruled by machines called Vectors, these machine were ruthless and had mysterious power. Venus was ruled by a mutated race that called themselves Fallen, why they called themselves that is unknown perhaps they are remainder of those who lived before. Mar was a barren desert for decade before a militants race called Reptilar decided to occupy a small portion of the planet. Earth's Moon was found to have twisted creatures that we call Ghoul, they corrupts everything they come in contact with and somehow make it bend to their will. Will humanity and it allies rise to it former glory or will the perish this is a story that will span millennia in it making let us see the fate of the Light.
(Chapter 1) The Awakening
On Earth in one of it barren lands. A small light was floating around staring at the remain of a fallen Exo. As it was about to move on it notice something seem strange about it and got closer. "After all those year I have finally found you!" It said and soon it dived into the fallen Exo chest and burst into pieces. The fallen Exo eyes soon start to lighten up as it was coming back to life thanks to the small light.
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"Wa.....e up..... Wake....."
'What was that noise? Argh, everything hurts... I can't move!'
"Wake up already! We need to get out of the open Warlock."
Shocked I tried to open my eyes only to see a small ball light bobing up and down flashing as it speaks.
"Finally Warlock we need to get out of the open. I see that you are having trouble moving, wait a bit you should be able to move in a sec."
The ball of light flew toward my chest and went inside of me. As it flew inside I started to feel my limbs and I spotted a building nearby and started to move toward it heeding the warning. As I reach the building I heard a loud roar echo throughout the plain. Not wanting to meet whatever made that noise I asked the ball of light.
"So, how to start.... Ah, my name is Omega-45 can you tell me yours?"
"My name is Phantom and I am a light of the Voyager. I suggest that we find the ship that I saw in one of the complex some distance away. We do not want to find out what made that roar and we can leave pleasantry for later Warlock."
I agreed with Phantom went further in the abandoned building looking for a steel pipe.
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When I found it, I started to run in the direction Phantom showed me earlier. As I reach the complex Phantom started guiding me toward the ship.
"So Omega care to tell me what you know up still your death?" He asked while I was scanning for anything abnormal.
"Well... I was a soldier during the Dark Age. I was fighting against the darkness in a final stand before I was overwhelmed by a hord-" As I was explaining I heard scampering behind me, I swung around lashing out with the pipe only to slam against the wall. I looked down and saw a rat scampering away to wherever it came from. I sighed as I turned around again only to see 2 set of eye floating in the darkness. They leapt toward me revealing two figure bigger than me. I swung the pipe hitting one in the head with a resounding crack, the other slammed into me pushing me to the ground. I groan before the creature grab me with it hand and threw me toward the wall knocking the wind out of me. It then went to it fellow creature and pulled a glowing sword from it and walked slowly toward me.
"Quick, Omega before it reaches you concentrate on your hand and swipe it in front of you!" He instructed
"Wha-" I was about to ask what he meant before he interrupted me.
"It will save you!" He yelled urgently.
Quickly I focused on my hand and it started to emit a purple mist. I swiped it in front of me and the air started to twist as a wave went toward the creature. The creature howled as it felt the wave hit it, twisting it chest into a blob of flesh. It howled in agony before it went silent. I grabbed the glowing sword it dropped near me and hover it near it body to clearly see what it was.
"Damn a Fallen! Good thing it was one of the Grunts or else it would have killed me." I said while looking at the creature. It had 4 eyes but two of them looked like they were crushed and it had 4 limbs with 2 stubby limbs beneath it's arms. It pale blue skin became paler as I hovered the sword above it.
"Warlock you were indeed lucky that it was a Grunt and that the Space Render worked as it did." He said quietly.
"Space Render? You mean the wave that turn it chest to mush?" I asked as I started to loot the bodies for anything valuable which they did not have aside from the sword.
"Yes, though it would have turn your hand to scrap metal had it not worked well. Anyway the ship is up ahead we need to get out of here." It said as it guided me toward where the ship was.
As I heard phantom explanation I considered myself lucky. Walking toward an open area I saw a sleek spaceship that looked like was made during the Golden Age with all the sign of rust on it. I went toward it and examined it before Phantom flew out of my chest and went toward the ship.
"Hey what are you doing?" I asked the little light as it was inspecting the ship. "Making sure it still works. Last time I saw the ship it was barely operational and but somehow it was still intact even after the length of time it was abandoned."
I shrugged as I started to look around. I found apre-Golden Age era assault rifle in bad shape but it would still fire if needed luckily it still had some ammo in it but not much. As I head back toward the ship I sat beneath the ship and started thinking how I got into this mess. It all started when the little light woke me up with the worst timing. As I was wondering I heard the a roar coming from the complex, then a Fallen come out it was nearly 3 meter tall with six arm and 4 eyes glowing red like an Asura from hell. "There finished lets get out of here!" As I heard Phantom I suddenly found myself inside the ship, he started the engine and lifted us away from the angry giant.
"Wow, Phantom that was too close for comfort. So where are we heading?" I managed to spit out those word as I was still shaking with fear from seeing the giant.
"Toward the Light." It said cryptically "Don't worry it safe for now let me handle the ship. You just relax and enjoy the view."
As we fly toward the Light, I couldn't help but think that what we are going to do it will not be easy. I had the feeling that we were only just getting started.
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Hey there everybody! A new noob author has arrived! Please be kind enough to point out any error in my story as I will try to improve as much as I can. I made this story with the beginning that is similar to the game Destiny, but what I try to do is to make it completely different as I couldn't think of a better way to start the story other than this way....(perhaps I have though of one but I most likely forgot to write it down)