Chapter 11: Swordbaring

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It was days we planned this. We were going to destroy Crota in his physical presence once and for all. It was me, Violet, Raven, Carlos, Marcus, Tracey, Indigo, and Felix.

The eight of us landed on the moon, outside of the Hellmouth. There's a platform, which is Hive runed, that we stood on and lit up its green traces.

"Okay. Before I even want to know what's down there, I want to know 'how' are we going to get down there?" Asked Indigo, staring down and leaning over the, soon to be built bridge.

I told her that we could just time our enhanced jumps, (Glide, Double Jump, Blink, & Lift) but then Raven realized that the platform we stood on formed a bridge that had an inverse lift at the end. The lift wasn't soft on the landing, but we made it down unharmed.

It was cold and dark deep down. There was so much Darkness power on us that it literally weighed us down a bit, causing us to slow down. Eris said that she used these lamps that emitted our Light barriers for us. There were about 16 or so lamps, and that by following them would lead us one step closer to Crota. And so we did, but there was one problem. All of the lamps were detonated already. They were red and dark. Dull and unusable.

"We're just gonna have to fight on through it," I told everyone.

And we did. With the strength of our Light combined, we pushed through the endless Thralls that attempted to swarm us. There was another platform that we stood on last time. This time it formed a bridge that got us across the gap to the Descendant realm of the Hive.

That was the easy part, and that almost killed us.

Next we entered the realm and appeared at the Swordbarer Bridge. We all take a break and rest for a moment, while Violet reads a book, which was given by Eris, to know how we get across.

"Why can't we just form it and just go once it's done?" I ask Violet as I walk towards her.

She stares at me like as if I was dumb, which in this case I probably am.

"You can't just do that! You see those things?" She says pointing at one of the two floating objects. "Those are Annihilator Totems. They will kill us if a source of power isn't feeding it while the Bridge is forming."

"Then let's just go feed it then," I said.

I could tell that I pissed her off because just as a say that, she slams the book closed with one hand as she stares at me with such a growly look.

"Okay, fine," she replies.

Suddenly I wasn't so sure about my plan.

"It only takes Light and Dark. So what will it be?" She said.

I smile and turn to Marcus and Felix, who were talking to each other.

"Oh boys!" I wave at them.

They turn and approach me.

"If it's a plan, make sure it's a plan that won't get us killed, Crim," said Felix.

I giggle at them and say, "This won't!... probably."

I make both of them stand underneath both totems, one on each one, and Violet and I stand on the main platform. Once the bridge was fully formed, I turn to Violet as she's reading her book again.

"Okay well, I'll see y'all on the other side," I tell her.

Right as I start walking, Violet calls my name to warn me about something.

"Uh, Crimson? According to-"

"Violet, hon, you can't always read your way when it comes to solving puzzles. Sometimes you gotta yolo," I say, spinning around once.

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