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Edited by ShadowheartMC: 11/2/2021 8:24:32 AM
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My Father Was the Dark

[i]We have reached Shadowkeep in the timeline of this story. I wrote this page a while ago but I will post the story in order anyways! [/i] Disturbances, not just on Luna but other planets in the Sol system too. Guardians flood the place, and Shadow's eyes flick back and forth nervously behind her mask. Cloaked, as always, to avoid them. It's been a long time since she's set foot on the moon, and she anxiously navigates her surroundings. Shadow's hand canon fires off in rapid succession as she makes her way into the dark below. "These hive, they're not actually hive." Glitch floats closer to Shadow's ear, lighting the path ahead of her. "Their energy signature is entirely unfamiliar." "I'm not surprised to hear you say that. Something doesn't feel right," she grunts in return. It becomes a struggle to hold herself together as fear creeps up her spine. For whatever reason, she could not say. "The source of our... disturbance... should be right around here." The ghost has hardly finished his sentence before the hunter finds... it. Breathing stalled, she stops short. Shadow takes a long moment to take in what was before her very eyes. "What... is that?" The disturbed tone to Glitch's voice only increases the hunter's discomfort. "I... don't want to go near it." Voice unsteady with terror, Shadow takes a step back. "It beckons us to come closer..." Head whipping to face him, the ex guardian's brow furrows in confusion. "Glitch, what?" Before he can answer, something is pulling Shadow in against her will. "What? No!" She can't even struggle— the force of... whatever it is... is too strong. "No, I don't want to!" The hunter shouts out, breath coming in rapid gasps. "Violence. Beauty. Truth. These things await inside," Glitch murmurs, but the voice is not from her ghost. "There's no turning back now." And suddenly, Shadow's feet are touched down inside the pyramid. A muted reverberation pierces her ears. Footsteps and breathing are muffled. "Welcome. We've been waiting." On shaking knees, the hunter turns herself around. It's dark, stiflingly so. [i]We have heard your cries for help.[/i] Unsettling. The hair on the back of her neck stands up. Finally, her ears pop, and when she blinks her wide amber eyes, she is no longer in the ship. Startled, the hunter has to steady herself again. Shadow finds herself staring into her own eyes, diving headfirst into an inferno. Finally finding her voice, she asks, "Who are you?" [i]You serve the light. [/i]Echoing, the voice scoffs. [i]You abandoned the city.[/i] "The city is not the only way to serve the light." And suddenly, unbidden, the thought comes to her mind. "I’m a Queen. Like Mara." Shadow blinks, startled by herself. [i]No, not like the awoken queen[/i], it answers her. [i]You are hunted. They want you dead.[/i] "I can serve the light from where I am." [i]In darkness.[/i] She opens her mouth to object. [i]In [b]shadow[/b]. It calls to you. Do you feel it?[/i] Voices echo around the hunter. She turns her face away, a pressure building in her head. [i]The city needs you[/i]. Zavala's powerful echo. "I will return," Despite knowing the vanguard isn't present, she responds to it. [i]You were a friend I thought I could trust.[/i] "She never said that!" Shadow rejects the voice of Ikora. "She can still trust me. I'll be back..." [i]Shadow, Shadow! Come check this out.[/i] Throat closing with grief, Shadow's head raises against her will, to meet the ghostly figure. "Cayde," she whispers, eyes glassed over with tears. [i]If only he could see what a hero you are now... Look how well he trained you. What a true hunter. You left your city to crumble to ashes. For a fallen.[/i] Shadow's trance is broken— cloak fluttering, she whips her body around to face the darkness. Herself. "If Cayde taught me anything it was to follow my heart as a hunter. A true hunter doesn't wait idly by while the enemy creeps closer day by day." It ignores her. [i]You do know who's fault it is that Cayde is dead, don't you? [/i]The figure of herself comes closer. A feral growl rises in her throat. [i]Or should we go back to the start of it all? If you'd like to speak of standing idly by, your supposed lover is the epitome of cowardice.[/i] "My supposed lover lost limbs for voicing his displeasure." Spitting venomously, Shadow clenches her fists. Her fear begins to melt away like ice in sunlight. [i]Children, women, guardians, slaughtered by the hand of the ones Variks served.[/i] Teeth in flesh, the face of a child. Turning away fiercely, the hunter chokes back a gag at the vivid images. "Get that OUT of my head! Variks never-" [i]Variks never lifted a finger,[/i] it finishes for her. The ex guardian snarls back. "Variks SAVED the awoken!" [i]Variks served the Kell who slaughtered the awoken.[/i] Shadow holds her tongue. Still as a stone. [i]Your vanguard lies six feet under because of the prophet quoting fool.[/i] Fierce aching. Whispers crowd in around her. Suffocating, overwhelming. Shadow's hands raise to cover her ears as the whispers pile onto eachother in a heap of sound. Louder, louder, louder. "[i]Stop it![/i]" [i]It's okay.[/i] Hunched over, Shadow raises her head at the sound of her own voice. She's looking at a mirror image, out of breath. She smiles at herself. [i]He never loved you anyways.[/i] Behind her now. [i]You think you're really welcome? You're nothing but a tool, a weapon to him. When you have been nothing but [b]devoted[/b] to his cause.[/i] "That's not true." Her voice falters with uncertainty. [i]You have been so [b]brave[/b].[/i] A phantom hand trails along her shoulder. [i]You have [b]sacrificed[/b] so much for him... what would he ever sacrifice for you?[/i] Her knees weaken. [i]You would face [b]death[/b] for him...[/i] Shadow fights for breath [i]So far from home. The voice, at her ear. You'll never hear their screams[/i], it whispers. Shadow fights for breath, struggling, now bowed to one knee. [b] W e a r e y o u r s a l v a t i o n.[/b] Darkness crowds into the edges of her vision, swarming around her. Her hand hits the floor. She heaves in oxygen. "No." Tremors course through her small body, but she steadies herself. Feet firm against the ground. Strength builds in her, forcing away the barely audible cries of the void. Slowly, she begins to rise again. "I will NEVER bow to you." She raises irate eyes of smoldering flame to the darkness. The powerful voice of Mara Sov wreathes around her, but this is not the dark. "Queens bow to no one." With a pulsating power, her light begins to push the dark away, their phantom screams drifting on the air. It flickers around her fingertips, singes the edges of the black. Holes of shimmering light are struck through the veil. The huntress takes a firm step foward, shaking reality. "My mother was starlight, and my father was the dark." Pulling her shoulders back, the awoken's voice rings out into the void with the strength of Mara's words. She approaches the retreating darkness with a slow burning power. Arc courses over her pale skin, races through her veins. She has it in her blood, it boils beneath her skin. This is dark, she knows it well. As an awoken, it has always been within her. "I took it upon myself to aid the eliksni. I took their name, and the banner of House Judgement." Her fists close around swells of flame. Fire dances across her eyes. All the while the whispers flit around the edges of her mind. She crushes away the pain in her chest, holding her own. Raising her chin, she calls out, strength pouring into her lungs. Sending oxygen to fuel the solar fire within her. "When the darkness comes, we will face them alongside the city. The eliksni who have joined us will follow me." Shadow's light burns away the last of the dark, a shockwave through the night, washing the garden in brilliance. Starlight streaks down to touch her pale face to silver. Brilliant golden eyes rise to the sky, and with a growing certainty, the hunter breathes life into her destiny. "I will be their Queen."

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