[b]Episode 5: Part 1[/b] Johns arc filled fist came at me like a strike of lightning, he was fast, VERY fast. He threw punches left and right hitting me multiple times taki g me down to meet the floor each time. "Saladin is a expert at hand tp hand combat and his team will be trained by him so expect them all tp be as good." John said holding his hand out to pick me up off the training room floor. I pushed his hand away and stood up, ready for more strikes. "Well then lets get to work shall we?" john smirks and throws another fist towards me. I catch it with my forearm and push it away to try and get a hit in, but as i thought, he was faster. He stoped my hand kicking me back down to the floor where i kissed it ever so gracefully. He sighed, "you're not thinking straight." he said walking to the bench at gis side. I got up and prepare for more sparing. "Give it a rest boy, right now you need it." he says waving his hand for me to go. I fall to the floor and lie there, "we arent going to beat Saladin are we." I say discouraged. John lays back in his seat and takes a sip of the liquid in his flask. "If Saladin is as good as you say without weapons it will be that much harder to defeat him and his men." John gets back up and waves for me to stand up. I arise and prepare for more sparing. He walks over to me, "Channel within yourself, focus your light and strength on your strikes, do it as if you were making a granade or throwing knife but engulf your fist in flames." he says holding his fists to me while they charge with arc light. I stare at him, dumbfounded, "thats titan training your spouting" He looks at me with a serious glare and nods. I roll my eyes. This wouldnt work, hunters cant do what titans do. "Think of the warlock that killed your buddy, think of the pain he caused." john says turning back to his bench. How dare he say such things, he's making a mockery of my friend. My fists begin to heat and i clench them tight. They feel as if fire was engulfing them, making my fists a burning strike. I run at him with my fiery fist and punch his armour plating causing a fiery explosion when the two forces colide. We both fell back. Titans came to our aid to see what the training room was on fire for and i arose from the floor. John got up and turned to me. I could anticipate his fury for almost possibly killing someone. He smiles, "next time control your fire kid" he says from across the room. I smile back at him and look to my fists. Mabye we can beat Saladin, just mabye. *** The night sky Glisten in the reflrction of my barrel. Three Vandals stood at the bottom of the rock i was standing on. I created a solar flare from my light and tossed it down onto them. They burnt like the fires of my radiance. I hopped down to what used to be vandals, now ash and armour plating. One of them had a small device in its hand. I crouched down and inspected it. The device blinked a blue light and continued for the time being. What was it? A communications device? No theres no speaker or buttons. I looked to my right and saw a blue light charge and quickly maneuvered over to dodge the arc energy flying towards me. I raised my sniper and scoped out the vandal puting a bullet in its skull. I saw crackling of fallen invisibility tech and knew what i walked into. Pulling back the bolt on my weapon i shot at down two more vandals. Noticing thr sound of the fallen tech closer i glided above the stealth vandal behind me and shot him in the back. There were too many, i knew i needed some sort of back up. I activated my distress signal for one of my squadmates to come assist and decided to hold out for the time being. I stepped out from the rock and shot a vandal scoping in on me. His body fell, "You fallen bastards want me?! COME GET ME!" *** It was late at the tower and most all guardians were returning from patrol to rest. I had just returned from a crucible match when i notice Kierans distress signal. "Hm strange?" i quander, its not like Kieran to use this at all. I turned on my comms system and began calling Kieran on a channel, "Kieran do you read? Whats your status?" i question through my helmet. A loud static sound began in my ear and Kieran starts speaking through. "Cat... fallen ambush.... help" he said through the static. The conversation was cut short and i knew that he needed my help. I made my way to the ship bay and geared myself up. I have no clue what he got himself into but if he needs to use the distress signal it must be bad. My ship arose from the docks and i hopped in. I thought to myself, "wait how am i supposed to get there if he didnt tell me where to go? God damnit Kieran." I started my ship and set quardinates for the distress signal. From what it says hes in a heavily occupied zone in Old Russia. Flying there would be suicide. Ill fly my ship about a quarter mile away and hope to make it in time. *** I fired my last sniper round into a captains head and took cover behind my rock. They just kept comming. All i had left was my auto rifle and it couldnt hit that far. I sat behind the rock hoping Cat got the message. I looked past the rock and saw stealth vandals and captains all coming towards me. These fallen werent like the ones ive faced before and they look like a Diffrent house as well. Their blue armour confuguration didnt match up with any house ive seen. I disreguard it and fire my auto rifle towards the oncoming fallen. I noticed a crackling noise behind me and turned to see a steath captain. I began firing into his armour but he kicked me down. My auto rifle slid across the dirt and i looked up at the captain. Held his arc blade to my chest and began sayung something in his language. Before he could speak a loud noise of a shotgun sounded behind him and he fell on top of me. From under the body i saw Cat cocking back her pump action gun. I took the body off of me and looked at her, "The -blam!- Cat no warning?" i said with a glare at her visor. She chuckled, "Bitch dont laugh that thing was on top of me" i say pointing at the now dead captain. She laughed louder. "Fine laugh -blam!- you then too" she handed me some sniper rounds and i loaded up my weapon. "Now lets -blam!- up some fallen." *** Thats all folks look out for part two soon :D