Note that this story is a work in progress story and i’m Simply posting it in an unfinished state for feedback
The Zealot
By Just a Shadow
Two people struggle to climb up a snow covered mountain. The sky is both white and red while the snow itself has blood in it at some places. As they are climbing they hear constant crunching underneath their feet. After a day of struggling up the mountain one of the people reach down and feel under the snow with their hand and feels something odd. What’s under the snow wasn’t jagged rock but something smooth “any idea what is under this snow?” He asks the other person “nah, do you? If you don’t just scoop up a piece of the ground and check what is under the snow” the other says. The first one then scoops up a piece of the ground and almost stumbles off the mountain side because the ground they were standing on he found out was all made of bone. “Who’s mountain is this again?” The other asks trembling because of what he’s standing on. “I don’t remember but I know this mountain is the place of one of the largest massacres in history” he replies. “Are ya sure it wasn’t a genocide with the millions of bodies it would take to make a mountain of bones that goes up this high?” The other one says. They then continue up the mountain until they reach the top which to their surprise and horror is a plateau that has a throne made of both vex tech and bones. The man sitting on the throne stands up. He seems to be a strong vex mind, he has the height and proportions of a 7’0 human guardian but he’s obviously vex because he looks exactly like a vex just with human proportions. In his right hand is a large sword made of vex parts and it’s drenched in human blood. His head had one large eye in the middle just like any other vex. However he wore a cape that was interesting and unnatural because it was transparent blue making it look like it was made of constantly flowing Knowledge. Before the men decided to speak they looked around a bit more and see around 50-60 vex Minotaurs and goblins bowing to him like in the past people saw the vex bowing to the heart of the black garden. Unlike the rest of the mountain the sky about the plateau was golden and angelicly shining down on the vex making them look a lot more good than evil that vex are supposed to be according to humanity. Infront of the main vex mind were three vex Minotaur equivalents of what a field marshal would be in the covenant army in halo (yes I know no one in destiny would know what that is but it’s a reference for the reader not for the characters). The Vex only notice the travelers because they hear the crunch of bone underneath their boots. The vex mind points at the travelers and nods to a Minotaur whom picks up the travelers and carries them over to the vex mind and sits them on their knees in front of the vex mind. The Vex mind looks at the travelers and then states “look at these pathetic ants who have disturbed my speech, it seems they don’t know what manners are” in a manner that seems like he’s both laughing at them and angry at them all at the same time. “Well it doesn’t matter because I’ll simply end you and absorb your memories” the vex mind states which is replied with “what? Absorb memories?” From one of the travelers. “Yes absorb memories, I am a vex mind after all, my purpose is to gain knowledge and the easiest way to do that is absorb the memories of those I end the life of” the vex mind states with a bored tone. “If we are going to be killed anyways mind explaining who you are?” The other traveler asks “being as you are so respectful with your question and it can be considered as a last request I will explain who I am “ the vex mind says before motioning to a vex Minotaur who walks up to behind the travelers and points his guns at their heads. “Now I am Reksis, the currently master Vex Mind with the title of Zealot of the Looking Glass” the vex mind states before turning away and the Minotaur shoots the two travelers killing them.
A man wakes up in a forest, he looks around seeing the large green and brown oak trees surrounding him. He also sees hundreds of dead bodies which at this point are just bones with metal armor on them surrounding him. There are also swords and shields next to the bodies which the man himself also has a sword next to himself that was a bit more ornate than the other swords near him. By the proportions of the sword he assumed it was a great sword because it had a large blade that at the guard it had a large width and it tapered to a very fine point at the end of the blade.
The guard of the sword had the words Farron Keep etched on it while the handle was long enough for it to be held by anything from one hand to four hands and it had plenty of grooves in the handle to increase the grip of the sword’s wielder. Next to the sword was a very crude knife that had a curved blade. The man stood up and silently looked at his own armor which looked like it dated back to medieval times if not farther, the armor was a mix of leather armor and metal plates. He found that his armor had a cloak on the back, it also had a leather face mask that covers up to right above his nose.
He also notices a metal hat that was next to him when he was still on the ground which the has was a metal cone like hat which he deemed too heavy for combat and thus left it to wither like the countless bodies on the ground around him. He finally noticed his ghost who had been silently watching what was happening the entire time. He backs up for a second and realizes that the ghost won’t attack him so due to curiosity he takes a closer look at it. He decided to take a guess on what it is which he speaks aloud “hmm did they perfect machine building using magic?” He asks due to the fact that it seemed to be made of standard cogs and other mechanical parts from his time yet it can float.
“No I am a ghost, specifically your ghost, I have been created to resurrect and stay by the side of one warrior, you” The ghost states. “Intriguing, does that mean I am immortal? And how long have i been dead because when I was alive the newest technology was the Guillotine” he replies to the ghost. “yes you are almost immortal, i mean if I die or you go into specific areas you can permanently die but other than that you are immortal, also you have been dead for at least two or three millennia it seems by your armor” the ghost states. “Huh, well then do you know a safe place we can go to live?” He asks the ghost. “I believe there is a large city in Russia” the ghost replies.
“I don’t know what Russia is so let’s go find it” he states before picking up his greatsword and knife then he walks off towards the horizon. After two months of traveling he finds a fallen dropship and attempts to tell them that he means no harm but they can’t understand him so they attack and he is forced to draw his sword which he finds surprising that his sword allows him to remember how he’s supposed to fight using it. The captain walks up to him and tries to attack him with it’s swords but he is five steps ahead so he stabs the knife he has into the ground and then starts spinning around it using the weight of his great sword to propel himself making himself spin fast enough to shred the captain into shards.
He then lets go of the knife sending himself flying into one of the dregs and breaking it’s spine with the force of his bodies’ impact on the dreg then cuts down the other dreg eliminating the only three enemies that were still in the drop ship. He then hops into the ship and asks his ghost “hey can you take us to this city? I don’t know how to use this machine” which the ghost replies with sure. After two days they get to the last city and dock in the ship port after showing that it was a guardian piloting the ship and not a fallen.
BOI, ether way try to consider what I’ve said when editing, been too damn long since I’ve had a CC to review