EPISODE 7 THE PLACE THE LIGHT SURVIVES Written by SmartAurum75 “My Grace!” Petra screamed in disbelief. “You walk the stars once again!” Mara Sov smiled. She was glad that her time in hiding hadn't gone to waste. Petra walked up to her in joy to see her again. She was walking in for an awkward hug and but stopped in front of the Queen. She bowed. Osiris walked up to the group. “If we are ever going to fight back against Oryx, then we must train. The void has been consumed by the Darkness. Your arc is unchanneled. So I will teach you the sun. The power of sol is unmatched and controllable. First power it into an orb of light! You will form your first solar grenade!” Hemera tried to form the grenade. She failed. Instead her Arc had become channeled into a gun. An arc powered golden gun. Or a blue gun in this case. She fired it at the Vex targets that the rest of the team were throwing their grenades at. It exploded in a fury of lightning. Then the gun disappeared. The others looked at her. She turned to Osiris. He nodded. Hemera then turned back to Bladedancer. She threw her grenades at the Vex. They immediately collapsed from the lightning. Erax was actually mastering the sun. He was naturally good at it. He used vanish in smoke and poison too much and was a pro at this kind of thing. Petra pretty much gave up and threw her dagger at the Vex. Exypnos was already a gunslinger and really had nothing to prove. Within a few days everyone had mastered the power of the solar subclasses other than Petra (she wasn’t even a Guardian so it wasn’t really possible) and Hemera who managed to get out of it by channeling her lightning. They each collected a badge with the Iron Crest on it. “Under normal circumstances, if I were to make you into Iron Lords, I would probably expect you to reach Iron Banner Rank 25 or stop a new resurgence of SIVA. But as it seems, you have already proved you can master a new Subclass or ‘perfect’ your current one in just 4 days. You have also in all of this terror, kept yourself alive. I am now honored to call you the New Iron. You are all officially Iron Lords” Saladin said. “You have survived the long night. Now let your fire create a new dawn.” All the Guardians had been given Iron Lord armor. (Armour for Europe) “We lost so many at the Tower. Our Traveler is dying by the second. You are the last that remains of the light. The Exo Stranger, as she prefers to be called, has seen a world where The Chosen Guardian and his fireteam succeeded. We will make that happen.” “Osiris will supply you with his Trials weapons.” Mara explained. “I will give you all one of my weapons as well.” She pointed to wall covered in Trials and Reef weaponry. Saladin walked up to it. He spoke. “For Zavala, I grant you, the Binary Dawn shotgun and the Her Memory auto rifle. For Petra Venj, our first non Guardian Iron Lord, The Inward Lamp (adept) scout rifle and the Her Champion shotgun. For Hemera, the Reflection Sum (adept) pulse rifle and the Glass Promontory sniper rifle. For Erax, the Doctrine of Passing (adept) auto rifle and the Elevating Vision fusion rifle. For Exypnos, the Water Star (adept) hand cannon and the Queen’s Choice sidearm. And for our grace, Mara Sov, Aegis of the Reef and the Her Fury sniper rifle.” He put his helmet on. “We must now plan our next mission.” It had been 2 hours. The entire group sat at a long table. There were maps, jumpship schematics, and weapon blueprints on it. Toland’s Journal also sat waiting to be read. Mara Sov stood to speak. “As we know. An attack on the Dreadnaught is simply suicidal. Even if the weapon is disabled it can be repaired. In addition to the weapon, the Dreadnaught has a shell which is as I personally know is unbreakable unless fired upon by the Sword of Crota or another Ascendant weapon such as it. The Cabal needed to crash their ship in order to even get on board. We can take control of the Dantalion Exodus and establish a base out of those Exclusion Zone beast’s ship. But taking the ship won’t be easy. We will only be able to deploy Zavala, Petra, and I onto the Dreadnaught. Osiris will explain the next part of the mission.” “The rest of us will invade Crota’s Ascendant realm and fill the Reef Amethyst I am holding with the remnants of Crota’s soul.” Osiris says. “It will be heavily guarded and the Oversoul is on high alert. Which is why I’m giving you these.” He passed a solar sword to each of them. “They can block out the life consuming energy of the Oversoul. Not to mention deflecting Ogre and Wizard blasts.” This instructional lesson continued for the next half hour. Erax looked down at the ground. Right now he would have been picking up a kumakatok from Banshee-44. It was those little things he liked that hurt him the most to see go. When Osiris finally stopped talking, Erax walked to the edge of the Lighthouse. He looked out at the Sun and at the Vex spires. He had taken his helmet off at the table. “So this is the last place the Light survives. A wasteland.” Erax said silently. Hemera walked next to him. “Funny thing is that this is also the last place we're going to be before we die.. A good part of our team is going to die on this mission. Exypnos said that she might not be strong enough to fight the Oversoul. I believe her.” Hemera said sadly. “I'm going to go get ready for launch tomorrow. We leave at dawn… Whenever that is on this Traveler Forsaken planet.” She walked away. Erax closed his eyes. Then it went dark. He woke up surrounded in the Tower. It was in ruin. He was in the plaza again. The sky had become a sea of blight and the Traveler had become an Oversoul. He turned around. It got worse. Hemera, Exypnos, Zavala, Petra ,and Saladin’s were dead. They were being eaten by Hive Worms. Erax immediately ran up to Hemera. Her helmet was off and her eyes had become pale. She had been hit in the chest by a shotgun shell. He spoke to her in a scared voice. “Hemera?” He became desperate “Hemera are you alive!” He yelled. Then Hemera awoke. “stab nokris… after I shoot him...” She said. “behind you…” Erax looked back. Oryx stood behind him. The Taken King reached out and grabbed Erax. Oryx then took Hemera. She rose and shivered. Her solar sword had became Taken as well. No. This wasn't happening. Then, suddenly The Taken King crushed Erax to pieces. Erax awoke. Was that a dream. Could Exos dream? He was in terror from what he had just witnessed. Was it the future? A prophecy? He looked around. He grabbed his guns and checked his clock. Launch was in 15 minutes. He would have enough time to ponder these questions during the ride to the Moon. Then he heard a voice. The voice of Toland the Shattered. It spoke to him. “Don't worry Erax. It will all make sense soon.” The voice died. Erax then asked himself if any of this would ever make sense. MASTER POST: [url]https://www.bungie.net/en/Clan/Post/1585496/210973245/0/0[/url]