-Coming of the Darkness, 5:22 A.M. Monday, Date Unknown He ran. He ran as fast as humanly possible as he heard thunder behind him. A storm? He looked up towards the sky and saw almost pitch black clouds envelop the atmosphere above him. What in the world was going on? He started to pick up the pace as he came closer to the address. He noticed everything was getting slummy and slummier looking as he was going deeper into the southern part of town. He rounded a corner and saw them. Hundreds of black masses shuffling around in the city below him. He knew what was happening...the Darkness had spread as the Traveler had foretold...the city was overrun by thousands...no...millions of shifting black waves. He could see the sun become covered as it rose in the eastern horizon. As if the sun itself was being consumed by the coming tide. He ran as fast as he could down the hill that came down from the scenic view of the city and reached the address he was looking for. He stopped in front of a pre-war russian base. Covered in dirt and grime and nearly falling apart from years of neglect. What in the world was the professor doing in a place like this? It looked like it had been abandoned years ago...yet it still stood tall. Suddenly a number of shrieks sounded from inside the base and rung in his head. He saw at least 10 black masses dash form the building carrying...something. He hid behind a bush and saw as they ran past. They black mass was the body of Professor Geist. Holy shit. They killed him. But...why did they kill him specifically and...why did they need the body of all things? He decided it was futile to follow them so he decided to investigate the building...hopefully there wasn't any of those 'things' waiting for him inside. -Coming of the Darkness, 6:00 A.M. Monday, Date unknown It was quiet...and yes...it was too quiet. He shuffled through the dimly lit building as he walked through corridors littered with old tech, pipes and wires. Everywhere he saw a monitor flickering with indecipherable information across the different rooms. Then he came to a room...covered in blood. He almost doubled over as he saw it and sighed. He walked into the room as the stench of death reeked through it. He walked through, scanning the room for any signs of a clue to what happened to Professor Geist...then he saw it. In the center of the room sat a pedestal. On it rested a small thing that looked like...a Ghost! He looked closer and realized it was the same Ghost that scanned him. He shuddered as he remembered the pain he felt...then he reached his hand out to touch it. Suddenly the light that was its eye blinked on and it shot up abruptly and stopped in midair above the pedestal. "Oh...hello Guardian." It called him a Guardian again, "Listen Ghost, I don't know what kind of beef you have with me but that last scan you gave me hurt...a lot." "Yes, humans feel pain," he echoed in his robot-sounding voice, "I do not however have the capacity to experience it. I am merely an AI created to guide you against the Darkness." An AI? That explains why it could answer his questions so fluently. "So...Ghost...who are you?" "I am your Ghost. I am you. I searched for you at the request of my Master." More cryptic words, "Who is your master?" The small AI just sat there floating in the air the stale air and stench of blood hanging in the air between him and the floating robot and suddenly it blared out, "I do not know." Suddenly a quake started below them, shaking the ground and throwing debris around the building. What in the world? An earthquake?! He looked behind him to see that the Ghost had suddenly vanished, what...again?! He didn't have time to debate it as he dashed towards the exit of the building. -Coming of the Darkness, 7:10 A.M. Monday, Date unknown As he ran from the deteriorating building, he saw that the sky was even darker than it was when he went inside. In fact...it was pretty much pitch black. What he saw before him though...in the city below, was both terrifying...and beautiful at the same time. Lights shown in specks across the city surrounded by a sea of darkness. Like little atolls surrounded by water in the ocean as the tall buildings barely poked out above it. The lights were all that were left, then he saw a highway leading towards a wall and a sea of cars, their lights shining like red and white stars, leading down it. That was the wall that led towards the Cosmodrome...the people hoped to take refuge there...but from here he could see that it was impossible. The entire side of the wall was covered by a sea of black...covering the floodlights that shown on top of it. It was as if the world was being consumed by blackness itself...the Darkness was here. What happens next? He saw a car at the front of the base...probably the car that- Suddenly he had the utmost desire to up-check his dinner as he remembered that Professor Geist was dead...along with whatever secrets he held about his Ghost. He ran towards the car and got in it seeing that the keys were still in the car. Thank god, fortune was smiling upon him in that moment. He started the car and started to drive down the road towards the highway... -Coming of the Darkness, 2:45 P.M. Monday, September 9th, Year Unknown The wall was looming up above him...the darkness showing in waves around them...except for one specific point on the wall. This was it...the Darkness had come and he was no closer to achieving his dreams. As he sat there in the car...waiting for death to come in a sea of darkness...he thought back to his University days with Professor Geist... "Mister Garen, before we commit a sin in the eyes of the lord...I must tell you something important. Tampering with human life...let alone another living being...should never be condoned. I say this as I am doing just that...you can leave if you want before it is too late. Before I become less than human and take you down with me..." He could make out whispers as he felt words being spoken by him and see his wrinkled face rise up as a smile broke across his face, "goodbye than old friend...may we meet in the next life." Then the world became black. Authors note: Thank you to those who read all the way through it! I honestly thought it wasn't that well written but if you read all the way through it than...awesome! There is more where that came from! I'm going to be making a small novel about my characters journeys in Destiny when it releases September 9th. You can look forward to some more stories about [b][i]Ghost[/i][/b]! Stay tuned!