[spoiler]This installment of Exotic History is provided by Major Fluffball (MindOfTheUndying)[/spoiler] Ivan felt a cold pain wash over him as he yelped and hopped up from the ground. He shivered as Red held an empty bucket, her cloak around her shoulders again, despite him hanging on to them earlier. "Rise and shine." "The hell was that for?!" "You wouldn't wake up." "Did you even try to wake me up?!" "Why try when I know this would work just fine?" She laughed and tossed the bucket away. She stamped out the fire and continued walking. Ivan grumbled and walked on. They walked in the early twilight of the morning. Red constantly looked around them for danger while Ivan trudged along behind. They made good time, by mid day and they had reached a hidden bunker area. Ivan sighed in relief. "Thank goodness alright Red lets..." He looked around him at the empty forest. "Red?...." "Hey! You up there!" Yelled a guard that pointed at him. "Hurry up and get down here!" Ivan paused to look around once more before quickly reaching the bunker. "Hello... has my wife and child made it in?!... The girl is this tall and..." "Look I don't know, you can go in and check but once you go in there is no leaving unless we have to." "But what if they are not there?" "Then I'm sorry. We all have lost someone in this war. Man up." The guard looked Ivan square in the eye. He held a reserved sense of sorrow in them. Ivan nodded slowly and waited at the guard opened the bunker and let him in. He descended the steps into the bunker and was met with a large room full of people. He slowly combed through and ended up in the back corner. He couldn't find a trace of his wife or precious Natalia. He sat down and held his head in his hands and cried to himself softly. Something bit into his leg as he winced and pulled it out. Natalia's necklace hung from his fingers. It was a little silver heart on a thin chain with an easy lock to open. The lock and chain however were messed up but the heart wasnt. He gently tapped the top of the heart. It opened and played a very soft passage of music that always calmed Natalia down whenever she was frightened or alone. His eyes welled up in tears as he listened to the song play out. As soon as the last note sounded and a brief silence followed, a loud explosion made the bunker rock. Everyone began to panic as the bunker rocked further and more violently. Ivan managed to bypass everyone and made it to the door. He heard gunfire, yelling, then the guard from earlier scream in pain as the door buckled and warped from something striking it. The door warped further as something continued to strike it. Ivan tensed up in fear but spotted a rifle next to him. He grabbed it and aimed it, not really knowing what he was doing. The door crashed open and he side stepped it as the alien stood froze in an aggressive stance. Ivan fired and blew off its head. He rushed upstairs and faced the other enemies. They all roared at him and tried to charge, only to be stopped one by one, frozen in some sort of fear. He swiftly took each of their heads off except for the last, when he ran out of ammo. It untensed, shook it's head, looked at Ivan and charged before a red streak blew off the things head. It collapsed infront of him as he paused and looked around. He managed to get a glimpse of a red cloak before it vanished in the tree line. He started to move that way when a few of the other men rushed up and looked at him in awe. They looked to each other and then back at Ivan, who simply stared back at them. "Did... you do all of this?.." asked one man. "Of course he did, moron!" Said another. "You think they killed each other?" "Well... no..." "Exactly." The second man looked at Ivan. "What's your name?" "I... Ivan.... Ivan Romanowski." Ivan swallowed and tried to toughen up a bit. The man looked suspiciously at Ivan but shook his head. "You must be either super crazy or super brave..." "Or really drunk." A different man chimed in. "I just wanted to protect... I lost my wife and little girl. I won't let them take yours." Ivan felt sudden power course through him. "We should fight back against them." The men suddenly backed up. "Hold on now Ivan... we are outgunned and outmatched there is no way..." "We will find a way. We will strike like lightning and leave their blood as a red streak on the earth as a reminder." The other men paused and looked between each other. "What then do you propose?" Asked the second man. "We fight back when we get ourselves up to caliber and with the rest of the survivors. We can't let them push us to extinction." The men slowly nodded and went back into the bunker to ponder on this. Ivan was the last to go in. He stopped and looked behind him. He saw Red looking at him from a branch up above. She was reloading her rifle and watching him. She gave a partial thumbs up before hopping down and dissapearing from view. Ivan gave a small smile and went back inside. Thank you all for tuning in! Since I really want this to be a Community thing (and it has been!), your exotics can now be up for grabs in order for me to write about their history! In order to do this all you have to do is create an exotic on my friends Exotic page (listed in the comments below) and in a spoiler have a hashtag, (#writemyexotichistory) and place it in your main thread. I look their frequently so have a go! And if your creativity is stiffled, give me your opinion on what to do for the next installment of Exotic History while I keep up with my to do list. Post your opinions in the comments below and if this story don't suit your fancy there is always an ENTIRE list to browse in my friends exotic post, so pick one and tell me! Until then stay within the Light Guardians, unless there is no Light to cower behind https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/174924018/0/0 link to part 3 https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/185248440/0/0 link to part 5 https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/172164045/0/0/1 link to Spear of the Red Lightning