"The red war saw so many lives lost..." Twinkle says to the trio as they recollect themselves from the battle. "Saw the light taken away so easily... In light there is only weakness..."
"What... What is Twinkle saying?" Gold asks. "I've only been around for a little while..."
"Don't worry about it." Spe-7 replies. "I think it's just the darkness trying to taunt us. Let it slide by, we need to head further in if we want to stop these nightmares from getting out of the moon and all over the place."
"Let's keep moving." Suzuka says as the trio slowly walk past what used to be Ghaul and they find themselves descending a staircase. As they get closer to the next nightmare Twinkle begins to speak again.
"You all remember Fikrul, don't you?" Twinkle asks. "How he took the reef by storm, wrecked the prison of elders, responsible for Cayde-6's death..." The ghost says that last part in an ominous voice, and that alone makes Spe-7's blood boil to the point that she spins her minigun barrels at the nightmarish projection of the fanatic. "Yes... We all feel that anger..."
"Spe-chan... Calm down." Suzuka says, carefully placing a hand on Spe-7's shoulder.
"Wait... Who is Cayde?" Gold asks.
"He was our best friend and a member of the vanguard alongside Zavala and Ikora." Spe-7 replies. "He was a good man, and then he was killed. Let's finish off this nightmare once and for all." And with that the trio steps forward. This time they're ready as they shield their eyes from the blinding light, and when they can see again they've found themselves in what appears to be the watchtower and standing before them is none other than the nightmare of Fikrul himself.
"We meet again... Dead thing... Was slaughtering my children not enough for you...? Not enough for Cayde?" Fikrul snarls.
"We won't stop until you're no more than dust on the bottom of my boots." Spe-7 growls as she spins her barrel. "Let's take him down!"
"Fine by me..." Fikrul says as he aims his staff at Spe-7 and fires off a lightning bolt- one that the equine hunter barely dodges. Suzuka immediately takes aim with her cabal gun and starts shooting, hitting the phantom scorn with powerful flaming slugs.
"Look out! Nightmare scorn incoming!" Spe-7 calls out as a reddish-black mist engulfs the area and nightmare scorn emerge. "I can't see a thing!"
"I can't either! I got these undead things all over me!" Gold shouts as she finds herself resorting to her machine gun and blasting everything around her. When the mist finally dissipates Fikrul stands before them with an army of nightmare scorn and he himself has engulfed himself in red, proving him to be invulnerable for the moment. "I got this! I hope you like the taste of burning steel!" Gold shouts as she leaps high into the air, releases all of her energy in the form of her flaming anchor and dives at the nightmare scorn, wildly spinning her weapon over her head as she does so. Spe-7 and Suzuka can only look in awe as Gold mirrors Taiki's movements and creates a fiery explosion when she finally slams it on the ground, stumbling the fanatic and setting him along with the other nightmare scorn around him ablaze.
"Why does that look so familiar?" Spe-7 mumbles as Fikrul and the nightmare scorn all begin focusing fire on Gold, and Suzuka immediately steps in, leaping high into the air and charging up a powerful nova punch. When she lands she punches the ground and the resulting explosion wipes out a majority of the nightmare scorn, leaving Fikrul with only a couple of chieftains.
"Now Spe-chan! Go for the kill!" Suzuka yells out as Spe-7 mows down the chieftains with her minigun and proceeds to unleash all of her arc energy, creating her arc spear once more.
"Hope you're ready for round two!" Spe-7 shouts as she charges and begins dueling with Fikrul.
"If we're lucky this should go the same way as it did before." Gold says as the equine hunter and the fanatic continue to clash, but this time Fikrul seems to have learned from their last encounter, slamming his staff on the ground and creating an arc field that zaps Spe-7 silly.
"SPE-CHAN!" Suzuka shouts out as she moves in with her sword and takes Spe-7's place as she gets up close and personal with Fikrul.
"She will go down just like Cayde-6..." Fikrul says.
"Over my dead body!" Suzuka yells as she finally manages to land a mighty slash and chops off one of Fikrul's lower arms. He lets out a horrendous, bonechilling scream as Suzuka then proceeds to chop off the other, and he's rendered extremely vulnerable as he now looks more like an oversized dreg.
"YYYOOOOOUUUU!!!!!!" Fikrul screams out in fury and agony as he tosses his staff aside and lifts Suzuka off of the ground. "YOU DARE TARNISH ME LIKE THAT?! I WILL STRANGLE YOU WHERE YOU STAND!!!!!!"
"LIKE HELL YOU WILL!!!" Spe-7 screams as she leaps up at the fanatic and blasts him point blank in the face with her shotgun. Fikrul's helmet goes flying once more as the fanatic slumps to the ground, and Suzuka is supported by Spe-7 as she tries to catch her breath.
"Thank god you saved me!" Suzuka says as the trio is blinded by the light once more, taken back to where they stood in the pyramid.
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Destiny 2: A Lost Soul
FanfictionTaiki and the equine guardians may have survived the Red War and defeated Ghaul, but as time goes on so does the rest of the world. With the darkness advancing on the traveler's location since it woke up, and with new people in the fray that aren't...
