Gray Light

A New Beginning

Darkness. That's all he saw, all he felt, all that was. Slowly, he opened his eyes, but something felt wrong. He wasn't naked or wearing regular clothes; he was wearing armor. It was bulky and had some pieces that were brown and other pieces were white. He was laying on his back, his head turned to the right. Sand enveloped him, the wind blowing harshly around him. He lifted up his wrist and watched the sand trickle off himself. Slowly, he raised his head to take in his surroundings. There were destroyed buildings and large pieces of metal sticking out of the ground. He gradually stood up, stretching out his limbs and brushed the rest of the sand off of him. Suddenly, a floating robotic thing flew up into his face.

"Oh good. You're awake. I've been looking for you for a long time. I'm a ghost. Well, your ghost now," it said. It's blue 'eye' widen at a sound overhead. A large red and black ship flew over them. It's front looked like a giant ball with multiple orange lights all over it.

"Fallen. We have to move. Now." The ghost flew towards him and vanished just as quickly as it had appeared. He jumped backwards and looked around, alarmed at its disappearance.

"Don't worry, I'm still here. Updating your HUD now." He reached for his face and found that he was wearing a helmet. "Follow the path to your left. Hopefully there is a hip near by we can use, be careful I don't know where the Fallen will land. So keep your head down." The man looked around and saw a cobblestone path on his left that led into a gorge. He looked in the sky once more and began to run quickly towards it. As he approached the gorge, he saw an outline of something in the shadows. He moved closer to it, then it jumped at him, it was a small human like creature, with lanky arms and legs. It held a knife in one hand and a pistol in the other. It's eyes were glowing a very white blue color, looked like it had a mask on, as if it couldn't breathe air. The creature pounced on him, pinning him to the ground, it began to speak in a strange language. Suddenly, something clicked in him, he kicked his legs up and launched the creature off him, it landed on its back about five feet away from him. The man jumped up and grabbed the disgusting thing up by its throat. It tried to claw at his forearm, he felt nothing thanks to the armor. He grabbed the mask and pulled it off of it. A white mist came out of it, he looked at its face. It's skin was gray and its teeth were sharp, it began to gasp and screech. The man tighten his grip on its throat and snapped its neck. As it went limp, he dropped its body on the sandy ground. He looks at his hands, 'What was that?' He thought to himself.

"Hmm, interesting. I think you may be a Titan." His ghost said.

"A Titan?" He said.

"I'll explain more on the way, come on. We need to find a ship." The ghost said. The man nodded his head and continued on his path.