Lord Hunter - The First Witch Hunter

In a dark hole, on a far away planet... There laid a body. One of broken metal and dying light. Looking upward, all it could do was see. [i]Cor-r-re functionalit-y-y-y decreasing: Please consult repair specialist-t-t-t[/i] All it could do was wait for it's light to die out. Looking above, it could see the stars, it could see the emptiness of space. It tried to reach up, to take in the stars once more, but it's arm would not respond. All it could manage was to turn it's head, to look upon it's dead partner. If only things were different, if only it'd been the only one fighting... Then it could have walked away, a Phoenix of the Light... But it wasn't so. In it's mind, gasping for life, the code of it's light danced in a panicked skip... Trying to attain a sense of order. [i]110r1 H11001ter[/i] A line of text read. [i]Lord hunter[/i] A second line read. It was someone trying to communicate with it, trying to call to it. Looking onto the sky again, he saw streaks of light, shinning through the blackness of space. One stopped over him, blinding him... Making him feel lighter. [i]Was this death?[/i] he thought Looking down, it frantically grabbed at the ground... grabbing it's dead partner, and grabbing whatever lie on the ground below. As it rose into the air, the world turned into darkness, and it's sight died thinking that it itself had died... Code appeared in it's mind, order had arrived, but still remained away from some areas as to signify that something had remained different in it's mind. As his vision activated once again he was aware of the world again, aware of the light. People stood in front of it... In front of him. The people bowed as they saw his eyes flicker, and dart from one side to the other. "Lord Hunter, you have returned." Said a man dressed in white and black robes. Lord Hunter rose from the bed he laid upon, and put his feet upon the floor. He noticed that everyone in the room had been wearing black and white, along with the emblem that he had worn since the beginning of his conquest. "W-who are you people?" he asked. Everyone rose, and the man in the robes smiled placing his hand upon his shoulder where the mark lay. "Lord Hunter... We are guardians you saved. We were in cryostasis upon the ship that the Scarlet Brood had tried to take, but you stopped them, and almost died afterwards." Lord Hunter stepped back. Had he saved them? He only went out on a call to retrieve an artifact that the hive had taken. "There must be a mistake, I saved no one." The man in the robes stepped forward, and placed his hand upon Lord Hunter's shoulder. "You did indeed my lord, and because of this we are in your debt." Looking back at the others, the man smiled again. "We wish to follow you, and fight alongside you if you will let us." Lord Hunter looked upon himself in the mirror by the bed. Red liquid covered his left eye, and it had stained the metal skin around it as well. The man then waved over some of the others that rested in the corner. They walked over to him and handed him an item. The man then turned to Lord Hunter, and lowered down to one knee, raising his hands to Lord Hunter. "This is yours, we used what you managed to grab from the Dead Witch Raghoul and the dead ghost to fashion this for you." Looking down, Lord Hunter saw what they had made. A Chest piece made from the fluttery Hive Chitin of the Wizard bearing his mark made from the ghost. Taking up the armor, and clipping it to his mantle, he placed his hand upon the man's shoulder. Looking up, the man awaited Lord Hunter's words. "I will accept your offer... But you will follow no one. Instead we will be that of a family, holding each others lives in our hands. We will be that which hunts those who hide in the dark, those who would seek out the rage of the light. We will be Hunters of the Dark... Witch Hunters whose only goal is that of the Light." He looked over the rest, and placed his closed hand over his chest. "For what goes bump in the night... We are the ones who bump back." And in unity everyone repeated his words... [i]For what goes bump in the night... We are the ones who bump back![/i]