A strange guardian

Chapter 2, What the hell?

I suddenly jolt up again, I look around to see the bodies of hive around me. I look at the orb in front of me and ask, "where am I? What are you and why can't I remember anything?" The orb looks at me and replies "You are in the Russian Cosmodrome. I am a ghost, actually now I have become your ghost and you, well you have been dead for a long time." Dead? How could I be dead? That's not possible. I shoot back "that's not possible, how could I be dead? You also didn't answer why I can't remember anything." The ghost looks at me and says "No guardian has ever remembered their past lives before being resurrected by their ghosts. Some might have some things on them that could help with who they might have been before but looking into your own past is forbidden by the Vanguard." I reply saying "the Vanguard, who is the Vanguard?" The ghost tells me "I'll fill you in later but right now, we have to find a ship and get to The Last City."

The Last City, these creatures only have one last city? A question for later. I pick myself up from the ground and see a datapad where I was reborn. I proceed to go over to it and read it. The datapad read "Ozyrriks, I am thanking you for going on this mission. I hope you have safe travels. Good luck. Misraaks." Ozyrriks, that must be my name! I look at my ghost and say "Ozyrriks was my name!" My ghost then asks "how do you know?" I continue to say "I read it in this datapad! It was from someone named Misraaks." My ghost then says "Mithrax, I've heard that name from somewhere before. Ah! Mithrax is the Kell of Light! You must be part of his house!" I then reply "Well now that I know my name, perhaps I should ask if you have a name."

My ghost then says "ghosts don't typically name themselves, some go as ghost forever while other ghosts are named by their guardians." I ask "would you like a name?" My ghost then does an action that could be perceived as a nod. I think for a while and then exclaim "Sha!" My ghost then asks "What does that mean?" I answer by saying "Sha in my language means courage, I think it fits you perfectly. Now Sha, let's look for a ship."

Me and Sha proceed towards an open building past some boulders. After walking inside and then up some stairs, I see something crawl up behind a broken wall. I couldn't get a good look at it. I proceed to walk up even more stairs. It was very dark, the ghost spoke "It's a bit dark in here. I'll turn on the lights." The ghost leaves me for a moment. Then the lights came on and I heard the war cries of my people!

I proceed to yell out "my fellow eliks-" I get interrupted by my ghost. "STOP! You are of house Light! These fal-" Sha stops and then says, " these eliksni are part of the house of dusk. They will try to kill you only because you are a part of the house of light. But even more so when they learn that you were reborn as a guardian." I nod in understanding and turn to see a small metal gate rising. On the other side was a hallway with two corpses at the end of it before going left. I proceed to walk towards the two corpses and see that both are dregs.

I proceed to say "rest in peace." Sha materializes and says "they may still be your kind, but they would have probably killed you if they were still alive." I acknowledge what Sha says and then reply saying "maybe you're right, but even if they did somehow kill me permanently. They would have paid me the same respects as I did them. They are here in this system for the same reason I was, to gain The Great Machine's favor. It seems like I gained the favor and they didn't." I pick up the shock pistols that each dreg had along with the holsters that go with them. I equip the holsters on both sides of my waist and sheath my newly acquired weapons after I pay my last respects for my fallen brethren.

I proceed to continue down the corridor before spotting movement on my monitor. I pull out both of my shock pistols with my lower arms and speak in eliksni "Brothers and sisters, I realize that we are part of different houses but perhaps we could talk peacefully about this?" I see three vandals pop out of cover and hear them yell out "Never!" While they rush towards me.

I shoot one in the face and proceed to slice another with one of my swords. But the third one managed to hit me with a spear before I hit it with a forty-five degree arc with both my swords. Sha then quickly heals me from my wound. I continue onward. I enter a large room with a couple of enemy eliksni along with a ship that they were salvaging.

I quickly dispatch them with both my shock blades and pistols. I look up at the ship when Sha materializes next to me, "It's an arcadian class jumpship. It hasn't seen any action for centuries." I ask Sha "Is it able to fly?" Sha replies "I'll have to fix it but I can make it work. Give me five minutes."

After waiting for a bit. I get off the ground and exclaim "This is taking too long! You said it would only be five minutes!" Sha replies "Seems like these scavengers really pillaged this ship, I'll try to hurry up." I thank Sha before before seeing something whiz past my eyes. I quickly pull out my weapons whilst turning to the right.

I see the dark figure that I saw earlier when I was first reborn. I yell out "Who are you?! What do you want from me?!" In a raspy voice I hear the figure speak in perfect eliksni! "I am no one and everyone, I am both nowhere and everywhere. I have no name and yet I have many. I am The Unknown Variable." This figure then draws a strange looking weapon and right before he shoots me, I somehow get transported inside what I presume was the ship and Sha says "we're getting out of here!"

I get in the front seat as we take off. Sha says "we just have enough fuel to get us to The City." I ask Sha "What was the weapon that that figure held?" Sha looks fearfully at and replies "That was a deadly weapon of legend known as Thorn." I ask "What can this weapon do?" Sha then says "It can permanently kill a guardian without the killing of their ghost. You're lucky to be alive." I then ask "what does this person want with me?" Sha replies "I have no idea but we have made a very powerful enemy."

That's the end of the chapter! What did you guys think? Remember to leave some constructive criticism in the comments if you have any! I'll catch you all in the next chapter!