burstzen - Tumblr blog

[burstzen]

A Pokemon Fan Story - Aura Ranger/Prologue: The Definitive Moment.

Hey Guys.

I’m back.

That is all :D -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"The World of Pokemon is a place of varying ecosystems home to many types of said Pokemon and People, and both vary in motivation and love for present times, past altercations, and future dreams or passions. 

While at face value the world seems in balance and at peace, but that doesn't mean this world has its own dangers and trials for those who pass by them. Many a Person and Pokemon go out into the world to find their place in the world despite this, and grow because of it while creating everlasting bonds with others and to those closest to them. Sometimes this can apply to both Pokemon and Humans in separate, but in many cases with recent history, it is typically that of a bond with Human and Pokemon that drives the light of the world to shine ever brighter and brighter.

However, as many forces as there are to keep balance and prosperity, there are just as many attempting time and time again to bring more darkness into this world without a second thought as to who might be affected by it, those who only seek personal societal gain and profit, or those who only seek chaos when times of tension are so thick that the simple sound of ruffling grass could alarm an entire village to defense.

But none of this is surprising or new, none of it you haven't heard or experienced before, and none of it should be something to enter your conscience so much that it will consume you. Those of you here in front of this stage are bright young men and women who face the world head on! Who face adversity in stride no matter what form it may take! And you face trials that will take your actions to define you for the rest of your life! And yet you are still here! You have passed the entrance exams and now have gained the ability to walk the path of a Ranger! For this, You all have already won!"

Kiri opened her dark blue eyes, recollecting herself from the recent memory and daydream, a speech given by the head of the Ranger Union still playing in the back of her head. The wind caressed her pale white skin, green ranger academy uniform, and bright violet hair as she breathed in and out through her nose, contemplating where she was now.

"The Almia Pokemon Ranger Academy…" Kiri spoke with a soft voice and turned her head to the green-roofed academy building in the short distance from the rock-grassy hill she sat on.

She felt awkward about the situation as a whole and didn't know if this would work. Yes, she performed above standards for the entrance exam, not to mention her parents fought tooth and nail to help her, but she couldn't help but feel as though this was a lost cause in some sense…

‘No, no, no…. I shouldn't be thinking like that, not after everything they went through to do this for me.' Kiri said in her mind, pushing away creeping thoughts of insecurities, ‘they want to help me and I need to show that I'm not a lost cause to my dream! To…. finally be able to bond with at least more than one Pokemon…'

Kiri frowned as a deep feeling of sadness crept into her heart and distant memories she tried to immediately push out of her mind. Although she spent a minute trying to think of a swarm of Butterfree flying right in front of her, her favorite Pokemon game starring legendary trainers and their stories, to no avail she couldn't shake the lingering thought occupying the vacant spot in the back of her mind.

Kiri stood up, and in a last-ditch attempt to keep her mind away from more intruding thoughts, she began to walk back towards the Academy. However, before she left the hill she heard shuffling behind her. She quickly glanced behind her and noticed a bush with a hole in the center of the bush a few feet from the tree. Her eyes foresaw a small translucent blue flame in the bush, yet it didn't burn the bush. The top of the ember swayed erratically side to side, and the ember itself was slightly shaking.

Kiri closed her eyes and shook her head as she suddenly began towards it, tears welling up in her eyes. As soon as she approached her heart the same shuffling, except more sporadic with a yelp that sounded, "Bid!"

Kiri opened her eyes once more, wiping away the edges of her eyes from the liquid that was once held in her eyes, and frowned as she spoke to herself, "I'm not… dangerous… please come back."

Stillness greeted her again, and a mixture of emotions brewed within her mind, channeling the previously pushed back memories.

She just wanted this to stop, everything like what just happened in front of her just goes away. She never wanted to meet every Pokemon she saw, only to have them run away from her like she was the embodiment of all evil! Nothing hurt her more, nothing she ever did felt like it was helping, and after all these 

"Mew!"

The sound came from behind Kiri and before she could even turn around to greet the familiar cry, a small warm sensation hit her right hand and traveled around her body only to travel to the rest of her body.

The building doubts stopped as Kiri stood there with a dumbfounded expression toward her right hand, along with different conflicting emotions as an outside force spoke within the depths of her mind saying, "Don't give up that easily! Come on, You only just got to the school you've been dreaming about since forever!"

Kiri's frown turned neutral and her eyes held a different meaning as she quickly gritted her teeth and stared down the school as though it just challenged her to a Pokemon battle. She began to softly smile as she called on her own motivation that began to race through her body as she held a hand to where her heart was.

"Of course not Mew, I just got a bit sidetracked in thought. Thanks for the reminder."

Kiri left the hill and traveled down towards the school, an obvious lack of Pokemon crossed her mind and the ones that were by other Academy Students currently enjoying the first day at the prodigious school. The Pokemon gave Kiri passing looks as she made her way towards the doors, once inside she was greeted by the start of her journey.

[burstzen]

A Discussion with a Plush Connor - Nvtfoa Short Story.

Hello! I’m back and back at it again!. So let me start this off properly...

*ahem*

SALUTATIONS AND GREETINGS DENIZENS OF THE INTERNET! I’m Burst-Zen and I hope you all forgive me for the long hiatus, I didn’t have a computer to post anything or write anything with, and it was summer vacation for me so I hope you understand.

Both character design and concepts from Svtfoe are belonging to Disney and Disney XD.

Nvtfoa characters and concept designs both belong to @mrevaunit42 and @marionette-j2x I hope you all offer healthy criticism to help me flourish for my writing in the future, and I hope you all have a good day!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The light from the window peered into the room as the young princess stirred from her slumber, her rich brown hair frazzled and unorganized spread across her bed. She slowly opened her light blue eyes as her mental activity began to stir and aroused herself to look around the room haphazardly as she groaned in annoyance. The thought of picking herself up off her bed to get ready for the day seemed almost poisonous to her in a sense, as if the action would cause her unending, annoying, pain for all eternity.

Her sense of touch slowly came back to her, however, and she felt the soft fabric of something plush within her grasp. She brought it to her eyes as she revealed a small doll of a boy that was an avatar of a childhood friend… and whom she enjoyed the thought of sharing a life with one another every day.

Although she would never admit it to anyone, especially to the person previously mentioned.

She stared at the plush form of Connor, the soft white skin of his fabric, the messy black hair, black buttons that acted like eyes, a white T-shirt that held a crescent moon in the center, and dark legs that indicated black pants on the plush. Nova stared at the doll for a moment and sighed as she sat up to stretch her upper body and grabbed a phone that sat on a nightstand beside the bed.

Nova saw the time being only ten minutes until the alarm on the device went off. She sighed and looked back at the bed and flopped her head back down on the pillows, however, her vision soon took hold of the doll that she previously held in her grasp and grumbled.

“Nooooo…. You know I don't do mornings,” Nova said to the doll, “Especially if I wake up early.”

The doll simply stared while Nova kept speaking, “Yes I know It's my fault for staying up all the time, I couldn't have guessed that from the thousands of times you actually told me… The actual you, not the plush you.”

Nova face-planted herself in her pillow and sighed softly, “I don’t want to wake uuuuup.”

A sudden buzz was felt within her grasp and she reflexively looked at the front of her phone, and when she looked, she realized that there was a new text message with a profile picture eerily similar to the stuffed toy in

She was disgruntled at first, but the message read 'Connor: Nova? Can we talk?’

Nova sat up with new found interest, and minor hidden annoyance, as she sat up from laying down and hastily replied “Nova: I'm up, wassup?”

After a few moments, a reply came back that read, “Connor: I can't sleep. Something just keeps waking me up, Any ideas?”

Connor tapped her chin and tried to think of a response for him. Realizing she needed more to go on than simple vague words, she wrote “Nova: What's on your mind?”

Another awkward moment passed, and a reply was sent back after a minute “Connor: I keep thinking about plans for something, but I keep drawing blanks for how to do it.”

Nova rolled her eyes “Nova: Another invention?”

“Connor: Something like that”

She smiled and rolled her eyes as she turned to the doll and said, “Your so predictable, ya know that?” She turned back to the screen and replied with, “Nova: What is it?”

More time passed as Nova awaited for a reply, hints of curiosity and slight worry began to perculate within her mind as she looked back at the ‘friend’ that laid beside her and she said “Do you think that it's a secret project? Is that why he’s taking a little bit to reply?”

She pondered the thoughts for a moment as she began to imagine the what new construct Connor could have made, and what it could have possibly been. However, she soon stopped as she knew that guessing on a whim would be fruitless to know whatever he made in detail. The creation in question, she knew, would be too creative and unique to attempt something like that.

Just when she was about to think of leads to narrow down available options, another text appeared that read, “Connor: It's actually a Sonic screwdriver replica from the “Doctor Who” series that you like to watch with me whenever we hang out. It's taking me a while to find all the right metals to recreate the tenth’s screwdriver, like iron or the bronze…”

Nova’s eyes widened as the rest of the text spoke of various intricacies of what the aforementioned replica was made, and even what it would do. Her excitement began to build within her heart, and she even thought about yelling for joy in a pillow but decided against waking up her neighborhood.

She quickly regained part of her composure, failed, and then looked at her cellular phone to reply back with, “Nova: Really?!?! Why did you make it for me?!”

Nova's felt her chills around her body at the excitement of getting an expertly crafted, real working, and slightly functional Sonic screwdriver from the show. She typed once more before Connor could reply again “Nova: When can I see it?!?!”

Nova got a quick reply that simply read, “Connor: I was actually planning to give it to you today.” The next post was not a text, but instead a picture of the actual screwdriver nearing completion on a familiar work table proudly being displayed in the middle of various bits and pieces of machinery and metal.

Nova turned towards the makeshift plush version of her best friend to embrace it in a gentle hug with a warm smile on her face.

“Nova: AWESOME! I'll be at school right away then! Thanks, Connie!” She texted this whilst multitasking with both hands. Once more, she looked at the childhood memory and spoke as though she was staring at the real Connor.

“You're the best friend a girl could ask for, you know that?”

The sound of 'friend’ rang in her mind and her smile began to lessen slightly as certain thoughts were thrown into her mind unwillingly, and were thoughts she had before… Thoughts she’d rather have left buried in her soul… in the past...

But nothing she did ever stop the dreams. The ideas. The Love.

Sudden tension could be felt around her as she spoke without thinking, “I both hate and love the fact that I fel-”

RING! RING! - RING! RING!

Nova flinched as she looked at the phone she had placed beside her from picking up and hugging the plush of her friend. She stared at the phone as it continued it’s chime, staring at the picture of her and Connor smiling together behind the numbers that said ‘6:01a.m.’. Nova’s fingers whipped to grab the phone and turned the alarm off, annoyance and sadness fresh and lingering in her mind.

Nova didn't want to move as she picked up a bittersweet feeling from only a momentary series of actions. Still holding onto the Connor plushie, she got up from the bed and laid it next to a heart-shaped box that lay on a desk within her room.

She reflexively wiped something from her eyes and retorted within her mind saying, 'Some pollen might be around the house today…’

With a small smile, she walked out of the room and into the hallway, leaving the Connor plushie to watch light slowly close behind her, eventually having the room in darkness.

[burstzen]

A temporary Road Block

Due to events in the physical realm we all live in, I was not able to post a new prompt for any of you. However, that changes this month as I have just finished a story for you all.

But, as luck would have it, it seems I cannot give it to you straight away. I currently have no working computer of my own to use towards my own pursuits. I apologise for those that look forward to the stories I weave and shape and hope that you may all understand.

[burstzen]

Nvtfoa Destiny Ch. 3: Guardian Partner

Hello everyone! I apologize for not posting anything last month, I just wasn’t feeling it due to apathy and motivation being on the down-low. But i am back with another chapter of this au, which is relatively short. All Nvtfoa characters belong to @mrevaunit42 and @marionette-j2x while all Star vs the forces of evil characters belongs to Disney, enjoy!

-0-0-0-

Connor sighed as he sat in the co-pilot seat as he turned his head to his left side that was towards Nova, who had an irritated look that could intimidate any Fallen. Connor was about to say something but decided against it considering the events that had just transpired.

Connor thought to himself and what had just happened in the abandoned hanger he had cleared out with Nova. He wondered why she even decided to risk so much on this espionage, or why she decided to suddenly appear and ask him directly instead of just leading him to who knows where that nearly got him killed the last time he was there. Not to mention, there was still the lingering mystery of what exactly he could do as a Guardian and how he was able to summon some sort of etheric bow to take out a 10ft Fallen-

“... How did you make it out of there?” Nova asked, making Connor exit his cycle of questions running rampant throughout his head as he turned towards Nova.

“Umm…,” Connor started off, not sure on how to respond with an appropriate answer, “I… Shot them.”

Nova rolled her eyes and sighed in slight frustration, “I know that Mr. Obvious, but how did you make it out with an Archon Priest on your tail? Even if you had my sword with you, it wouldn’t have been enough with how weak you are now,”

Connor felt slight offense to her words, but dismayed the sting that was present, “And you can’t even use the light properly enough for anything to manifest! Seriously, how did you even get out alive!?”

Nova’s voice was filled with concern and frustrated questioning, in a moment of slight panic at her tone, all Connor could do was respond with was, “I shot a purple glowing bow at it…”

Silence took the cockpit of the ship as she turned her head towards Connor, mouth agape and eyes widened in disbelief. Seeming like she didn’t want to nearly collide with a mountain again, Nova turned her head towards were she was flying again and tried to calm down. Unfortunately, Connor still noticed an emotion of panic in her eyes as silently said, “Dad is gonna to kill me…”

“Your Dad tried to catch you when we left right?” Connor asked, trying to get some more context about the situation Nova appeared to be in.

“Y-yea.,” Nova said with hesitance in her voice, showing her discomfort about the topic with sifting eyes going towards Connor and then towards the sky ahead of them. Then after a moment, her face and posture changed from one of nervousness to serious contemplation.

“Why are you so nervous about him? What could he do to you to be so nervous?”

-0-0-0-0-0-0-

Connor felt as though fleeing to fight another day wasn’t such a bad idea as three pairs of eyes looked at Nova and Connor with varying degrees of severity, but the other two gazing eyes could not compare to the level of discernment Marco Diaz had. He alone had a look that could have mountains breaking in a cold sweat in no time.

Marco himself was opposite to the pair of Guardians and he was covered in a mixture of thin, but bulky looking red and black armor that had a rectangular black outlined red plate on his left shoulder. His Titan mark was a cloth of bare red with the Vanguard symbol positioned on the bottom of it.

Star was there again as well on the right of the table, however, she was wearing white plated boots and a cyan blue robe this time with white outlines. She also wore a holographic warlock bond that had a blue version of the Vanguard symbol, but still had a final small white triangle on it. Star herself had a disappointed look on her, however, it was laxer than Marco’s or the other person sitting across from her.

The final Vanguard member was someone who sat on the left wore a maroon cloak that hung from the back of his neck with a black version of the Vanguard symbol and wore all black armor. He himself had Maroon hair that stood up, but more interestingly to Connor, had blue skin with his eyes also slightly glowing the same color as his hair.

Marco sighed as he set both hands down in the table, seeing as though he was trying to not look at Nova or Connor directly.

“Umm…” Connor spoke. The three pairs of eyes shifted in Connor’s direction and he immediately regretted saying anything, but continued to face towards the unknown Vanguard member in the room, “I’m Connor, what’s your name… er, sir?”

“Tom, Tom Lucitor, and judging by your gear and info gathering your our new Guardian that Nova decided to take a walk through enemy territory with,” Tom replied with a cold, yet somewhat understanding gaze as he looked at Connor, “From my understanding, you only just arrived in the Tower just today right?”

Connor nodded as he felt more tension in the room by the line of questioning, “So tell us, why did you decide to go with her? You could have easily opened the cargo door and stopped her from her little adventure, so why risk your life for the second day in a row?”

Connor shifted his head towards Nova who was looking at her father with a half frustrated and a half worried expression on her face and then looked back at the Vanguard leader to say, “I… don't really know. I guess I… wanted to look out for her.”

All eyes were suddenly on Connor as the room got quiet and the three Guardians at the ends of the table looked at each other with a slightly confused, yet impressed looks on their faces.

“You’re definitely a Guardian that’s for sure,” Star said, “But, Connor, there’s no reason why you would just suddenly go with someone you never knew and that applies especially to here because you just got resurrected close to a day and a half ago. Why go with her?”

The question permeated Connor’s mind as well, however, he already knew the answer… He just wasn’t sure on what to think of them.

Every time Connor looked at Nova his mind felt this odd sense of… Nostalgia,. This feeling tethered itself to other emotions like protectiveness, care, and joy that confused him… yet felt like his whole body said yes to just being beside her.

“... I feel like I used to know her, and I don’t know why.” Connor said, gaining the attention of Nova who looked at him in awe.

In fact, the other three Guardians also looked at him in awe as their interest suddenly felt like it was primarily on him and only him.

“That’s something that doesn’t happen every day.” Marco suddenly spoke, “Typically Guardians lose all senses of their previous lives, not to mention it concerns Nova in particular.”

He began eying Connor in suspicion and this made him feel as though he was on trial for crimes he never committed, “This isn’t your typical affair, not to mention an etheric bow to kill one of the main leaders of the Fallen households?”

“Crazier things have happened, but nothing as of recent… Not like this,” Star said gathering the attention of Connor, “I mean, if anything, it just means your someone to keep an eye out for.”

Marco nodded and then turned back to Connor, “But from our understanding, you used a bow to defeat the Archon Priest? That’s also not something that happens every day, considering Nightstalkers are very rare, especially for a brand new Guardian.”

“But it would make sense on how he managed to beat an Archon, I mean there’s Gunslinger and Bladedancer sure, but having a tether from a Nightstalker against something as strong as an Archon is basically game set and match if it was to get hit by it in combination with that sword.”

Star nodded, “Yep! But Nightstalkers have to be more on the calmer or focused personality wise, that must mean that said Newblood is calmer than he looks when he is getting shot at.”

Connor was in an awkward position as the Vanguard leaders talked about him, seeing as they appeared to know more about what was going on with him more so than what he knew himself.

“What’s a Nightstalker?” Connor suddenly asked, gaining the attention of the three in front of him and Nova beside him.

“Whoops, sorry for leaving you in the dark Connor,” Star apologized, “A Nightstalker is someone who can use the void as a Hunter! Which is what you seem to be judging by your story.”

Connor nodded, still confused but slowly getting the grasp of things as she continued, “They very rare among Guardians and don’t typically just come from or start at rebirth of a Guardian, that and you seem to have a history with our daughter is putting up a few red flags that can’t be ignored.” Connor’s head quickly spun around to Nova as he whispered, “Your PARENTS are part of the Vanguard!?”

“I’m guessing Nova didn’t tell you? She tends to do that a lot,” Said Marco, who simply pinched his nose in slight frustration, “She also tends to go out on her own and not report back in on what she is doing. Not to mention she goes in alone without a fireteam.” Connor could see the slight wince as Nova’s eyes flickered slightly in response as her gaze turned towards only Marco.

“So, seeing as that is the main topic at hand…” Marco said, finally meeting his daughters gaze, “Nova, you directly disobeyed orders whilst you were under watch from another Guardian and endangered the life of a freshly rebirthed Guardian all to do a mission which was to be done at a later date my another fireteam.”

“However, you did do the mission and helped the tower greatly by saving time and the potential lives of other Guardians at risk and for that, your punishment will not be one of imprisonment.”

The four other Guardians looked at Marco in slight surprise with their eyes partially open, but Star and Tom smiled a second later with a knowing glance as they turned their attention towards the Red Guardian.

“Therefore, my only choice is to put you on patrol duty for a month, With this order, the patrols will take place on earth, and only earth, understood?”

Connor turned to Nova who looked like she had been a statue all of her life as she mouthed words, but no sound came out, “You will have an average of twenty-five patrols a day starting today and will only be able to come back towards the end of sunrise. Are we clear?”

Nova’s face was contorted to a face of anger, frustration, shock, disbelief, and incomprehension all into one face. Connor looked back towards Nova as sympathy began to wash over him and turned towards the Vanguard leaders in response to her reaction.

Connor felt as though he knew her, but to no end, he could not figure out why. With her leaving like this, and for that long, he may never find out the answers he was looking for for a very long time. So he turned to the three Guardians in front of him with a determined, yet nervous glance as he spoke out a question.

“May I go along with Nova?”

The Vanguard leaders looked at Connor with confused, yet intrigued glances as Nova simply stopped walking as Nova turned her head around towards the black haired Guardian. “Why?” Was all Marco asked as he and the two other leaders stared at Connor, waiting to see what his response was.

Nervousness crept up Connor’s spine as he scrambled for a reason. A moment passed and he said, “I’m a new Guardian right? So I’m going to need someone to teach me what to do and how to do it. From what I can guess, patrols are pretty boring and aren’t the riskiest thing in the world, wouldn’t that be a great way for me to get to grips with the situation and train me to become more of a Guardian than I am now?”

Tom chuckled, Star squealed with slight giddy, and Marco simply lets out a disgruntled sigh at the situation. Connor looked at the sudden shift in tone with surprise as, at this point, he felt as though he might have said something wrong. “Give me a moment with to discuss your request Connor, for now, I ask that you wait outside the door with Nova.” Connor nodded and walked out of the room with Nova and onto the plaza of the Tower. The view itself was gorgeous as they looked out to see the city and its various buildings and countless lights that flickered off just as the sun was about to fully escape the peak the distant mountains with the massive dormant Traveler floating in the center of the city. Behind them was a community of Guardians doing there own business and only taking a few glances towards the two who were on the balcony. “Why did you want to stay with me?” Spoke out Nova, grabbing his attention from his gazes at the surroundings, “You could have just been done with me or never have seen me again so that I wouldn’t get you in trouble again… or in danger again for that matter…” Connor felt a ping of sadness and empathy creep into his chest as Nova’s face was conflicted with emotions, and Connor guessed that it wasn’t one due to her punishment just now.

“I’m the person responsible for… taking you against your will,” Connor smiled slightly and slightly rolled his eyes as he stayed quiet while she continued, “I’m the one who wanted to be selfish there and-”

“Who said you took me against your will?” Connor suddenly spoke out, catching Nova off guard and buying a look from her.

“I could have easily done the right thing and stopped you, and I could have easily ignored you, but I didn’t,” Connor said with a calming tone. He didn’t know what he was doing, only pure instinctual thought and natural reaction were determining his success, and the same type of nervousness from being in the vicinity of the Vanguard leaders began to form in his spine as he continually made eye contact.

“I could have done a lot of things in that situation, but I didn’t… and I probably wouldn’t have,” Great confusion filled Nova’s eyes as to where Connor was going with this and Connor just kept a calm smiling, despite Connor’s rising feeling of tension throughout his body.

“And knowing I had the option of to purposely stop whatever you were doing and then choosing not to do anything about, but to instead support you, means that I have become just as guilty as you in all of this… so it’s not entirely your fault.”

Connor looked away for a moment before staring at the Big ball of white in front of him that was the Traveler to distract himself from Nova’s gaze as he felt more confused, yet invested in her that he wanted to admit. Every part of his conscious wanted to remember these feelings towards the girl beside him, to remember why he even knew her name before he even heard her say it.

But nothing came to pass as he struggled in vain with his memories, as only recent events began to surface and nothing else.

Connor sighed a little as he looked back at Nova, for she too began to gaze upon the Traveler and wonder her own thoughts that Connor could not even begin, or dare to guess. Eventually, she looked back at Connor who was staring at her and then smiled, she quickly looked away as Connor noticed small a small tint of pink at the center of her cheeks.

“Even if you’re right, I shouldn’t have even allowed you to confront ahead of command with one of the enemies… even if you did take him out almost single-handedly.” Nova said after a moment.

“Almost?” Connor said in a mocking tone, gaining the attention of Nova who responded with her own mocking smile.

“Yea! if it wasn’t for my sword, you wouldn’t have made it out of that situation, Nightstalker or not!” Nova’s words caused an eye roll from Connor as the argument continued.

“Well, who was the one who dealt the final blow?”

“Who was the one who damaged AND dragged the crew away whilst said Guardian made the killing blow?!”

“Who was the one who used the sword to were him down?!”

“Who was the one who gave you the sword in the first place?!”

At this point the two of them had their arms crossed and Connor couldn’t help but begin to break his own facade with a smile and laugh. Nova did this as well and the two laughed in the middle of the tower plaza as passing Guardians looked at the two with varying glances.

“Okay, okay. Almost single-handedly, but that just means we make a good team.” Connor said as his brief moment of laughter passed, “Think we should stay together and figure this whole thing out?”

Nova looked Connor in the eyes as he felt the answer before the words even left her mount, but she still said, “Sure. Let’s stick together Connor.”

[burstzen]

A fields breeze.

Hey there everyone, sorry for the short prompt and all, but I’ve had some complications with my frienemy called “Life” and needed to sort some things out.However, I’m feeling better and ready to see where everything takes me next.

Prompt - It’s a short story between Nova and Connor during their first year of dating, and something serious happens to Harry, and Connor has recently been doing nothing but try to help and fix harry.

All stories and writings are non-profit and original characters belong to @mrevaunit42 , or his alternate account @nova-friends, and are not canon.

Enjoy the story! - Zen

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Both Connor and Nova were laying on the ground next to each other starting up at the stars, heads crown to crown as they looked up in a slight daze. The trance was endearing to both of them as they felt each others presence as their bodies relaxed at the sight of the Universe above.

Both of them didn’t say anything as they wanted the silence was what they wanted in this hushed moment. The wind was gently blowing across their bodies as the grass field they were in was in the middle of nowhere as Nova had just dragged Connor through a portal and they arrived in a field to where there was nothing but grass for what appeared to be miles.

The reason for Nova’s departure was she wanted to spend time with Connor considering all he was doing was messing with his inventions recently, so she decided to, “take” him on a trip. Connor rolled his eyes at the thought of her antics for attention… Although if he was being honest, she was right as he forgot to call her back.

“What have you been working on?” Nova said, breaking the peaceful silence that led to the comfort of the young couple.

“I’ve been working on Harry… He’s been acting strangely lately, and I don’t know what’s going on… I was worried.” Connor replied. Nova Immediately sat up and crawled to him and sat next to him in a hurry.

“Why didn’t you tell me? I could have been some help!” She exclaimed Connor didn’t move or avert his eyes anywhere from the sky as he sighed.

“I didn’t know what was wrong with him, and when I did find out what was going on, I wanted to make sure he was safe,” Connor began to sit up as he looked into Nova’s eyes, “I was worried that if I didn’t act fast enough that his software would go haywire, or that it would glitch to the point of unrepair!”

Connor tilted his head down in shame, “I’m sorry for ignoring you Nova, I just wanted to make sure my friend was-”

Before Connor could finish his sentence Nova cupped her hands around his face and looked at him with a gentle smile, “Don’t worry too much about it, I get it.”

Connor had lost his vocabulary at that moment for he hugged Nova, emotions running through him at an extreme pace. Nova, who expected this, hugged back slowly as Connor was forming tears at the far edges of each eye.

“I know how much he means to you, I mean, I’ve been with him as long as you have. I probably couldn’t have done much, to be honest…”

Connor held on to Nova, but shook his head slightly, “No, you could’ve helped by just being there. You just being there is enough for me.”

As the words hung in the air, Nova’s chest fluttered, and she strengthened the hug. She felt relieved and happy that Connor was alright. She knew he was doing something important, but always felt a sense of worry whenever she caught sight of his house.

Nova pulled back from the hug and stood up, “Wanna see how he’s doing?”

Connor also stood up and nodded his head, “Yea, whatever you want princess.”

Nova giggles slightly as she cut into realities thin fabric and walked through with Connor following soon after leaving the area as calm as it was before with a gentle breeze bearing a few leaves on it’s current.

[burstzen]

A Christmas Nvtfoa short story

Hey guys, gal’s, and everybody else! Just came by to show a quick Christmas story. As always, constructive criticism is appreciated and welcome. Enjoy the short prompt.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

It was quiet in the sanctuary of the Butterflies and in the living room as the only thing that was lit was the Christmas tree lit in a silent glow in front of Nova as she sat down to contemplate and wonder in her thoughts. Her heart was heavy with worry as she was looked out at the night covered neighborhood with no signs of activity. She was waiting for someone and decided to wander the house, pacing silently with nothing else to do. However, her thoughts only drifted to the loved one she was waiting for.

Nova herself was in pajamas with a white base and a red butterfly pattern stricken all across the body and leg ware. She had all of her hair down and looked worried with her eyes looking as if she was about to cry. She looked up the stairs her mind desperately seeking something to distract her without waking the slumbering family.

She went upstairs to which she made no sound as quiet ambiance still held the household and the slightest sound could make a sleeping dweller of the household stir in their slumber.Nove decided to enter her old room to which was untouched since she last since saw it when she left for Mewni. She walked inside and looked around the room that had aesthetics of Mewnian culture, but still had the mixture of mundane earth room architecture to complement it.

It was kept clean and kept for whenever she needed a place to stay on earth during earth and Nova smiled to herself at the memories she had here not too long ago and entered the room. Wondering the room she looked towards her nightstand and bed to remember a single thing she left there but remembered where she last kept it. Looking under her bed she found a single plush toy that had jet black hair, crude black buttons for eyes, and normal pants with a white tee-shirt that had a black crescent moon. Once she laid eyes on it she held it close to her chest, forcing tears to not fall due to silent frustration, however, her attempts at that were beginning to fail.

In time, anger tore her apart as tears began to fall at the sight of the dusty toy and threw it across the room, frustration building inside her. Her thoughts began to be ones of Anger as she looked at the clock which read, “5:55”.

Connor was late to the point where Nova couldn’t really quite put how upset she was. She would normally shrug these types of situations off like this and let it fade away as a funny story, but this time Connor made a promise to be here and he wasn’t. It hurt her this time because it was such an important holiday today and it was such an important event that even Glossaryck even enjoyed it every now and then!

It was Christmas, and Nova was missing the one person she cared about the most in this or any dimension.

Just as she was about to wreak more havoc in frustration, there was a knock at the door. Nova stood up face in shadows as she practically marched down with fierce footsteps and opened the door with more force than was necessary.

When the door opened she stood in front of the door, and there was a snow covered Connor who had an apologetic and nervous look on his face that was shaking as the warm breath was constantly leaving his mouth.

Nova sighed in relief as, for a moment, the worried part of her conscious was the first to make her ask due to the sight of Connor’s condition asking, “Are you ok?”

Connor nodded saying,”Yea J-just a bit cold.”

Connor was shivering at the cold air as he had warm clothes from head to toe with a white sweater, red scarf, black shoes and brown pants, and a simple blue beanie all of which was covered in snow.

Nova simply shook her head in an upset as she led Connor in to which he sighed in relief at the warmer air that hit his body… only to be shoved down on the couch by Nova speaking with a worried and frustrated tone as she said, “Where have you been?! You look as though you’ve been to Mt. Everest! And we’ve been to Mt. Everest!”

Connor sighed as he himself was tired beyond belief, but complied knowing that Nova deserved an explanation… and that she wasn’t going to stop asking until she got some kind of answer.

Connor took in a breath and started with, “My phone got destroyed by a failed experiment at my dorm and I couldn’t get a new one in time, my flight got canceled, none of my inventions were going to work due to the weather, I got stuck in the middle of nowhere trying to get to your house with a dysfunctional gps in my car, and Jack who is still sitting in the car is currently knocked out from using a spell to get the car out of a ditch,” Nova’s eyes widened in concern and confusion, “He’s fine, just a small bit of head trauma from flying back twenty feet.”

Nova rolled her eyes and sighed as she sat down next to Connor, relief that he was here and frustration at the situations that led him here, Silence fell over the two as Nova began to calm down and looked at Connor as she asked, “Want something warm to drink?”

Connor nodded, trying his best not to pass out due to the sudden change in temperatures, as Nova practically jogged to get a blanket and hot cocoa for him as they both sat on the couch in contemplation.

“Why didn’t you try to get in contact with me? I could’ve found able to find you in a snap!” Nova exclaimed.

“I didn’t want to disturb your Mewni holiday… “Stump Day,” I think? Either way, I didn’t want to intrude on anything you might have been doing…” Connor replied.

Nova shook her head,“I would have dropped everything to find you if i knew what you went through! Not to mention, we have other friends and family who could have got you. Why not ask them for a quick pick up?”

“They were all busy and didn’t have the time to come and get me… I’m sorry I couldn’t get here sooner,” They both sat there, silence hanging over their heads as they both stared at the floor below them.

Nova couldn’t hold anything against Connor for the events that played out, not to mention he was being considerate of her own family. Nova could only sigh in defeat for what was out of her control.

Connor himself felt terrible. Not only was his entire body a shivering wet and cold mess, but he made his girlfriend worry about him when he could have just asked for a quick mote of transportation. Sadness filled both of their eyes at one another's mistakes and the area was silent, aside from the quiet sound of a running car from the outside.

Eventually, Nova gave a sudden hug to Connor, to which his eyes widened, but didn’t move more than he needed to as Nova spoke in a pained tone saying, “Don’t do something like this again, okay?”

Connor returned the hug and simply said, “Okay”

Both of them sat there for a few moments enjoying the moment that they finally were able to appreciate one another’s embrace. Something both of them wouldn’t trade for the world as they hugged each other tightly, silently forgiving themselves and each other.

Moments went passed and eventually, they looked each other in the eyes and simply nuzzled one another in affection in silent moments that seemed to last forever as the sun began to peak up from the horizon.

Unfortunately, Something came into Connor’s mind as his eyes began to be more serious.

“I forgot Jack in the car.”

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I hope you all appreciate and love one another's family and friends on this wonderful holiday. Stay safe, and Merry Christmas my wonderful patrons.

[burstzen]

Nvtfoa Destiny Au- Ch.2

Hey everyone! I’m back after a month of writing and decided to give you another chapter as I have had a few people who enjoyed it. The Original Characters of Nvtfoe belong to @mrevaunit42 and all respected Characters of Star vs. the Forces of Evil belong to Disney and Disney XD Please enjoy the story.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Maybe we could stop for a second!? The ship is in enough bad shape, I don’t want to crash!” Connor exclaimed.

“The area around us is too cluttered for us to land anywhere. We need to get to the tower.” The Ghost said.

The spaceship ride was bumpy, jittery, and Connor was not able to relax as he and his Ghost was bouncing around inside the cockpit. Connor would have asked the Ghost to stop somewhere, but according to the Ghost, they weren’t going to land anywhere soon.

“So while we are jumping around as though we're about to crash, do you mind telling me more about the fallen?” Connor asked, with a few hiccups from the juttering ship.

“The fallen are extraterrestrials that came to earth and are here to get one thing: The Traveler.” The Ghost explained, “They were one of the contributors to the collapse and now we're on our last legs, only having one last surviving city to stand on.”

“Where’s the city,” Connor said as a big “BANG!” sounded from the back of the ship,

“We should be coming up on it now… There over the mountains!” The Ghost said as it came into view from the cockpit.

Just over the horizon of the mountains was the last safe city on earth the ghost had talked about came into view. Connor could only look at the city in awe as he took the next few moments to stare in awe.

That was, until, a massive explosion was heard from the rear of the spacecraft.

Connor frantically looked towards his Ghost saying, “What now!?”

The Ghost looked towards the controls and saw that they were closing in on the destination and made the ship turn a hard left towards a field with a long strip of grey outside the city as he said, “Hang on!”

-0-0-0-

The Guardians around the grey strip of land were silent as it was quiet and calmer than normal, being more quiet than usual they saw it. So much quieter in fact that Guardians decided to goof around on said land strip that they decided to start a game that involved a ball being kicked around the width of the strip. A few of the Guardians around either rolled their eyes had mixtures of laughter and smiles at their antics or had scoffed with various looks of disapproval.

Eventually, a Guardian who was at his post by the end of the land strip saw the incoming ball of fire that was a ship coming in at a very dangerous speed. The Guardian rang the bell to alarm the others in the entire vicinity, but the Guardians in the middle of the land strip realized too soon and faced the consequences.

And the consequence was a ship coming right in front of their faces.

The ship landed with a boom and slid several meters across the strip of land, as Guardians looked around trying to notify others who were preoccupied with other things to help look for survivors. When some of the Guardians arrived at where the ship had rested and Guardians began to surround the ship and began to investigate the damages.

One of the Guardians that had revived himself took off his plain blue helmet from his plain blue body armor to reveal an oddly shaped, blue-haired human that had a light tan complexion. He immediately went to the front of the ship, obviously frustrated by the fact that the game had been interrupted.

However, when he looked inside he furrowed his brow as he saw an unconscious black haired person unconscious from the impact of the crash landing of the ship.

-0-0-0-

Connor’s worldview was thrashing about, even though his eyes were shut, as he tried to focus his vision to see what just happened in front of him. His head felt unhinged from his body, however, could make out what some of the muffled sounds that came from the outside world.

“...diaaan? …… Please get up? I don’t want to revive you again a second time today please,” Connor blinked away the blur and felt himself try to move, but extreme pain in one of his arms kept him from moving.

“Huh, guess that means you’re partially conscious… Welp, Ghost, do your thing then bring him to the front tower,” said an irritated voice. Connor could only assume that it was another Guardian that got upset by the situation…. Or in this case a massive mess.

Connor tried to speak and almost said a different name when he called out, but could only make out a loud painful whisper as he said, “Ghost, who was that?”

“That was Jack. Apparently, he is a bit miffed at us wrecking the soccer ball game,” Connor blinked from the oddities within his eyes as his double vision began to come into focus more on each passing second. His Ghost was healing him, however, him suffering the brunt of the ship’s force of impact as well caused him to stagger slightly as he tried to heal his Guardian.

“Did he tell you that?” Connor asked. He knew the answer, but the question came more out of reflex rather than curiosity.

“No, but I heard him as he stomped towards the ship. Apparently, he was about to pull a trick that no one in the area had ever seen, but got hit by us… He muttered this all under his breath as he came stomping towards us.”

Connor groaned as he rose slightly and looked at the ship. It was completely obliterated of any usable technology that was available on the ship beforehand, and the same went to the front dashboard that only had one section of recognizable features whilst the rest of it was a mixture of broken metal and glass. There were also flames scattered throughout the small ship that threatened to reach the two of them in moments. Connor tried to move a little, however, couldn’t as the pain hand increased but did not vanish.

The flames rose more and the Ghost spoke in a worried tone, “This isn’t good. If we don’t get you out of here, the flames will probably hurt you in a way that I can’t fix,”

The Ghost rose to the cockpit, “Hey can anyone get him out of here?! He can’t move!” After a few moments of silence the cockpit window was lifted out and smoke that was contained inside lifted into the air. The normal air started to enter and mix inside the ship and Connor could breathe slightly as a blurry image of someone reaching out their hand to lift them out of the smoke-filled persecution chamber.

Connor instinctively grabbed onto the arm and was pulled out to fresh air. The noise became clearer as the voices became louder than before. When he finally got a hold of his senses, Connor looked up to see a beautiful girl with blond hair with a single red streak in it. She also had armor that matched, having red armor, but also has small bits of light and dark orange… almost resembling a sunset.

“Hey, are you okay?” The female Guardian said. She spoke in a normal tone but had a hint of worry that anybody would pick up when they heard it. Connor’s world focused on her and a moment of silence fell on him before he realized what was occurring.

“Uhh... I’m good… thank you.” The Guardian nodded and walked away as Connor got down from the head of the ship, “Follow me. Jack needs to give you a ride back to the tower.”

Connor struggled for a moment trying to get more of his bearings but was soon lifted under one arm by the female Guardian looking slightly sheepish.

“Sorry, thought you were good enough to stand by yourself…,” Slight guilt came over Connor as he quickly spoke out.

“No, no it’s ok, uh… My name is Connor, what’s yours?” Connor was grasping at straws to try and make the conversation any less awkward than it already was.

“The name is Missy, a pleasure to meet you, Connor.” Connor laughed under his breath in nervousness and after a few moments got a good hold on being supported by Missy. The two of them stared at each other for a few moments, not knowing what to say until something caught the eye of Connor as he looked passed Missy.

“Why is the sky purple?” Missy turned around and giggled slightly and the statement.

“It’s not purple, that's just the warding dawn,” Connor tilted his head in confusion, “It’s an ability that we Titans can use to provide cover in a big purple dome… Think of it as a protective bubble.”

Connor looked at the floor of said “bubble” and noticed a white glowing outline that circled around them. Connor nodded in acknowledgment and continued to walk forward towards a destination Connor did not know. After a few paces, they exited the dome and the purple tint around the area of the ship were gone and they saw the area around filled with a couple buildings that were operable with some that were destroyed to the ground.

Connor felt slightly out of place as he said, “So where are we going, and what's going on?”

Missy turned to him and said, “We’re heading to the big messed up tower that’s somehow still up… honestly, i don’t know why we haven’t patched it up yet,” They kept walking towards the crumbled up tower as she continued, “Oh, and the Guardians assigned here today are taking your ship to the hangar bay back towards the city to get patched up!”

Missy turned her head towards the ship and winced at the sight of the ship as she said, “Although… I think it’s going to be a couple of days before you can go on patrols or missions…”

Connor laughed at the comment and said, “I’m guessing I’m getting a briefing about everything when I get to the city then?”

Missy scratched the back of her neck out of nervousness saying, “Yea… I’m sorry everything must be extremely new to you, I'll try my best to not completely overload you with information.”

Connor rolled his eyes at the situation. The entire situation felt oddly normal to him as if he encountered this kind of odd situations beforehand. Connor thought about it and tried to remember something, anything to give him some insight as to what his past was, however, it was to no avail and he made his way towards the beaten and broken tower that was ahead of him with the help of Missy.

After entering Connor saw that the tower itself was entirely hollow, as any semblance or evidence of furniture was removed from the vicinity an extremely long time ago. They hurried to the top of the tower to where two people were talking… and occasionally raising their voice to emphasize some point.

Missy rolled her eyes and sighed as she said, “Jack is a little miffed that you interrupted the crash interrupted the soccer game he was holding. Although, I still question why he even decided to hold it in the middle of the crash strip.”

They turned a left as they headed up the stairs and the conversation got louder as Connor could make out a little of what Jack was saying.

“... yes, Janna, we got another ship coming in…. What? No, there wasn’t any power supplies you could experiment with… Yes, there was a Guardian that came in crashing in with a faulty ship… Please try not to experiment with the ship, there’s a Guardian who needs it… Don’t make me answer that question, I’ve barely seen the guy.” The conversation went on and Missy set Connor on the stairs next to the entryway.

“Jack! I’ve got the Guardian from the crash site… You could’ve helped him by the way.” Jack stopped and turned back towards Missy, “His Ghost was damaged from the crash, he couldn’t heal as fast. Could it have killed you to give him a hand?”

“No, because I needed to inform the Vanguard first. You know how Marco is about being neat and tidy, and that, unfortunately, takes priority,” Jack took a glance behind to look at Missy and continued, “So, it is going to be a little bit before I can give him a ride to the big city and the Tower, so give me a few minutes to request an order.”

Just then, Janna over a radio in front of Jack spoke in a slightly mocking tone saying, “Don’t worry about that Jack, I’ll give “Lord Marco” that we have a Guardian needing a ride and the…. “New blood Briefing.”

Connor’s ears perked up at the sound of that. This briefing, judging by Janna’s tone, was about as inviting as the fallen he took down earlier today.

Thinking back to when he had to fight the fallen only a few hours ago, he noticed the organization the group of aliens had… as well as some of the technology they brought with them…. It stood out to him as a threat, and it worried Connor.

Connor began thinking more on this as a few minutes passed before he felt a nudge on his shoulder and turned to see Missy sitting down beside him.

“So your ride will be here when Marco decides to give the call to pick you up… and that’s when Jackie decides to tell Marco… Soo in the meantime why don’t I tell you a little bit about the tower and the City?” Connor nodded more eagerly that he would have thought and this caused Missy to giggle slightly. This made Connor have a slight blush, however not visible to the mundane eye.

“To start off we are the last safe city on earth. After something called the “Collapse” happened we lost our planet to what we refer to as the Darkness. It swallowed our solar system whole and made us go nigh extinct. However, the big white ball in the sky called the Traveler stopped the incoming Darkness and made a lot of our enemies stop in their traps before we would be blinked out so to speak.”

Connor looked towards Missy and asked, “Are the fallen a part of the darkness? Because I fought them before I even got here.”

Missy looked at Connor in surprise, “You’ve already faced the Fallen and survived all by yourself? That’s impressive… And yes they are a part of the darkness, and while they are a major thorn in our sides, there are bigger advocates of the Darkness or the darkness themselves that come at us…. And during the collapse, they wiped out nearly all of humanity. Destroying thousands of years of technology that we had built under a society that involved reasoning and cooperative thinking.”

Missy stood up and looked at Connor directly in the eye, “After long and hard battles the Traveler managed to push back the darkness, but the Traveler became fractured and broken. With that, he went to what a lot of people say sleep and hasn’t done anything else since.”

Connor followed along, however, he looked at his Ghost and then his hand and asked, “So, where do the Guardians fall into this?”

“Well-,” She was however cut off by Jack who came to the entryway and knocked on the walls for their attention.

“Not to break up the history lesson, but there’s a ride outside. A woman by the name of Amanda Holiday will take you to the hangar bay in the city tower and you’ll be filled in their… Also, i heard your name from you two talking right outside my door… Also again, sorry for not helping you out earlier, but Marco is a bit picky about how things are typically done as you’ll soon see.”

Connor nodded and got up instinctually, a lot faster than he was expecting and turned to his Ghost for an explanation.

“I repaired myself and healed up your wounds with the time that we had.” Connor chuckled under his breath then turned towards Missy who also stood up.

“Thanks for the partial history lesson and thanks for your hospitality…, “ Connor scratched the back of his head out of nervousness, “Sorry if I was a bit of inconvenience today…”

Missy hastily dismayed by waving her hands saying, “Oh no, don’t be! I should be apologizing for not being more helpful in this situation. I mean you must have a lot of questions…”

Both of them laughed and awkwardness fell in the room until Jack knocked on the wall again saying, “The ride? To the city?”

Connor and Missy coughed nervously and said together, “Right! Sorry.”

After a few moments of getting down the stairs there was a ship just as Jack said by the end of the crash strip, as he heard many Guardians call it, and left towards the ship’s cargo hold which was open and within was a blond short-haired woman in a grey mechanical suit with a scarf accessory who was waving to the Approaching Connor.

When Connor jumped on the cargo ship he was greeted with a handshake and a country accent, “Howdy Guardian! I’m Amanda Holiday, a senior engineer. Pleasure.”

Connor nodded and returned the handshake saying, “I’m Connor, new Guardian I guess… I don’t know what to call myself yet.”

Amanda smirked and said, “Well, I’m sure Marco is gonna tell you what’s what back at the Tower.”

Connor was getting more and more nervous with the continued mention about this visit with “Marco” and he soon felt a pressure of some sort of guilt on him that he felt was hard to shake off. Amanda noticed this and put a hand on Connor’s shoulder.

“Don’t worry about it too much, big guy. At the very least he is a bit more calming than the other two Vanguard Tom and Star.”

This didn’t help Connor’s nervousness in the slightest.

-0-0-0-

The Ride there was slightly jostling in Amanda’s cargo hold but was nothing compared to the crash a few minutes ago and one could say it was even slightly relaxing as they came into the city. The city itself was beautiful up close. It shined brilliantly as many buildings looked both old and new from reconstruction to old age as they flew over the city.

“So what we just picked you up from was a crash strip that surrounds the city area. Four on each compass of the map so that we don’t have many accidents against the city walls… The Titans that defend it don’t exactly appreciate the accidents that cause a lot of damage to the walls they spend there life to protect.” Amanda shouted, pulling Connor from his sightseeing of the city near one of the windows.

“Honestly, I was the only one able to pick you up right now. Apparently, the city has been scrambling to try and find more warp drives for Guardianships. Apparently, we're out of stock and Marco has made it a priority for every Guardian in the field to try and find some supply the Fallen may have stashed away, Although he ain’t having much luck.”

Connor nodded as he looked back towards the city for a moment and said, “I wonder if I could help with that…”

Amanda laughed at the comment and said, “You’re already thinking about helping out the city?! Wow! You really are a Guardian!”

Connor laughed at the reply to his statement. Truthfully he felt happy about the comment and was about to say something before Connor’s sight changed from the city to a hangar bay and Amanda exclaimed, “Where here Connor! Welcome to my hometown!”

The cargo doors opened to reveal noise of metal and metal upon metal sawing, roaring, and destroying one another. Tens of hundreds of voices talking at once and what looked to be robots guarding some of the areas surrounding the area. There were even a few other Guardians that were either just talking or pulling jokes to entertain one another.

Connor stepped down from the ship, uncertain of where to go next until a lady with long blonde hair with two pink hearts on each side of her cheeks exclaiming, “OVER HEREEEEE!”

Connor saw a bright pink robe with some purple accents around the armor with purple stripes on each side of the gauntlets and leg pieces as she rushed towards him and grabbed him by both hands whilst she bounced up and down in almost overwhelming excitement.

“SoyourthenewGuardian!?Ohmygosh,what’syourname?Doyourememberanythingbeforeyouwokeup?What’syourfavoritethingtoeat-”

“Whoa there, Star,” Amanda said from behind Connor, gently trying to put Star’s hands of Connor, “This guy only got resurrected recently, I’d say all he needs is a briefing from Marco. I think that’s all the excitement he needs today… In my personal opinion anyway.”

Star made a slight pout on her face, “But, Amandaaaaaa. There are so many things that I want to show him!” Star let go of Connor’s hand to face towards Amanda saying, “And I believe everyone’s first day here should be exciting AND inviting!”

“So bombarding him with questions he doesn’ have the answers too yet is invintin?” There was a pause before realization struck Star as she scratched the back of her head.

“You have a point…. Sorry for overloading you Guardian,” Almost as if she made a 180, her consideration went right back into curiosity as she asked, “What is your name though?”

Connor who was jostled up slightly by Star’s antics took a moment to shake his head and say, “I’m Connor… I assume you're part of the “Vanguard” that has been mentioned?”

Star nodded her head and said, “Yep! I’m in charge of the Warlocks that are here in the city and you my good Guardian, are probably a Hunter.”

Connor tilted his head to the side and shook his head saying, “Please before you give me all of this information, do you mind if I sit down for a sec? I kinda want to rest before I get bombarded with more information again.”

Connor more overwhelmed by everything now that he was here, and having another round of information thrown at him sounded about as appealing as fighting the Fallen again.

Star looked slightly surprised, but also a bit impressed as she nodded in understanding saying, “Okay! Just ask to come to the Vanguard Hall when you’re want to!”

With that, Star ran off without a second thought giving Connor a chance to breathe as he looked around the hanger some more. In truth, he thought that Star was going to drag him off somewhere, but was surprised at her understanding of his situation.

Connor began to roam the hangar bay, with a small tour thanks to Amanda, as they roamed around Connor started getting ideas for how some parts could be improved, and ,oh, there could be an extra space in the cargo ships if Har- Connor stopped for a moment and thought to himself for a moment and thought to himself.

Where were these ideas coming from? And how was he coming up with these ideas?... Just who was he before everything going on right now.

“And that i believe is about everything in the hangar bay… Hey, you okay?” Connor blinked his eyes as he looked back at Amanda and went back to his thoughts and sighed.

“... If it’s alright with you, I’d probably prefer if I got some sleep. Do you know a place I can stay for the night?” Connor said this with a lot more plea in his voice than he noticed, however it did reach Amanda’s ears.

“Sure, If you take a right by the entryway of the hanger, there is a place where Guardians sleep when they're not registered by the city.” Connor sighed in relief as he said his thanks and walked over towards it.

Connor made his way into the room, which turned out to be one big long hallway with multiple bunk beds on each side of the said hallway. There were a few people in the hallway along with  and In between the bunk beds was a nightstand and at the very end of the hall there was a phone labeled, “Direct messaging to the Vanguard, for emergencies only.”

Connor picked a random bed towards the end of the room and laid down, nearly falling asleep, but he thought of something before he fell asleep. However, something out of the blue plagued his mind as he thought of his Ghost in the spur of the moment.

Something came to him, a name that just repeated in his head and was on the tip of his tongue a couple of times during the day.

Connor spoke softly and almost called him the name he was thinking of when he whispered, “Ghost are you there?”

The Ghost had appeared in front of him and drifted closer to him saying, “What’s up Connor?”

“Do you know anyone by the name of “Harry”?” The Ghost whirred around and made a couple of noises searching in his databanks.

“No, I don’t have anyone that would go by the name of Harry in my databanks that you would have heard about recently. Why what’s up?” Connor turned in his bed and contemplated in thought about what was going on inside his head.

“I think that it’s something that I might have picked up from… somewhere, but I don’t recall, but for now, I think that we should call it a night. Could you do me a favor and see if you could try and see if you couldn’t find anything while I’m asleep?”

The Ghost nodded mid-air saying, “Gotcha, you can always rely on me.”

Connor smiled and said, “Thanks, pal.”

After that Connor’s eyes fell on his body and mind falling asleep. In his sleep he was falling, falling, falling even more. It came to the point where Connor couldn’t figure out what was up or down in some sense.

Until he landed with a thud on a floor of some kind, however.

Connor rose to his feet as he saw machines of many various shapes and styles. Some of them were human, whilst some were being made into metal parts of a spherical shape with energy that appeared unnatural. After that Connor was thrusted into an image of the hangar bay where he found the ship he crash landed with to see an enormous Fallen ominous figure in front of where the spacecraft was originally held. Just when he was about to turn and see Connor a great orange light and flames jettisoned out and cast away the darkness!

“Ah!” Connor woke with a stir and found himself back in the temporary settlement he was sleeping in.

The dream felt too real, in fact, it felt as though it was just more than a dream. However, Connor forgot most of the dream in the panic of waking up and decided to think more about it after he was finished sleeping.

Connor was about to go back to fall back to sleep until he heard he heard shuffling below him with a ‘THUD’ and heard a slight whimper. Connor held still for but a moment and then decided to peek over for a moment to see who was below him.

It was a girl who wore a dark red robe with black outlines and small white outlines on the bottom of the robes. Rubbing her brown hair, Her two pigtails on the side of her head partially in her face as she met Connor’s eyes with her own cyan blue eyes.

Under normal circumstances Connor would have said something along the thought of, “Who are you?” or “What are you doing here?!” but something inside of Connor spoke out to him saying he knew her and he wanted… he wanted nothing more than to get to know her… to ask her name.

Unfortunately, she had a look of panic as she ran towards the end of the hallway.

Connor scrambled out of his bed and chased after her down the hallway. She ran out and the door bursted open with a slam whilst Connor still gave chase. The girl, however, caught on that he was chasing her and immediately threw what looked to be a rock in his general direction. It whiffed over Connor’s head as he barely was able to duck his head in time and kept charging forward.

“Wait!” Connor exclaimed as he ran after the girl, however, she ran with twists and turns until finally she tried to rear around and appeared to throw a fist. Connor’s instinct took over and stopped by throwing his arms over his face.

However nothing hit him, instead, the girl grabbed him by one of the arms and within a moment transmatted within a few seconds and appeared on a ship somewhere in the hanger. Before Connor had the chance to question where he was he was pushed onto a chair and he was now face to face with the girl he had been chasing with her arms crossed, however she had a look of concern rather than anger as she went towards one of the windows on the ship to look out for something.

The girl looked back at Connor saying, “Could you be any louder?! It’s bad enough we probably woke up the whole waiting hallway with the racket we caused,” The girl huffed, “At the very least we're here now, and we’ll be able to get out of here before the guards catch us…”

Connor stood up from the ground and looked a the girl, “Could at least tell me your name before you take me somewhere against my will?”

The girl whipped her head around to Connor, “Excuse me?! I did not take you against your will!”

Connor simply wore a deadpanned look, “Did you ask me?”

The girl almost winced, but held her stance saying, “Well you followed me didn’t you?”

“Without telling me where we were going, which means without my consent, and therefore means against my will.”

“I could have just told you, but you wouldn’t come otherwise!”

“What makes you so sure, Nova?”

The air practically froze when Connor said that name and the girl simply looked at Connor with a worried, yet intrigued expression.

“How… H-how do you know my name?” The girl asked mostly out of curiosity, but there was a bit of nervousness that Connor could see in her eyes as he stared at the cyan orbs.

Connor put on a serious face even though he was panicking inside, “I don’t, and honestly I… doesn't know where that name came from. It just happened to pop into my head whenever I saw you… So what’s your name?”

“... Nova., how do you do.” Connor nodded and looked away for but a moment in acknowledgment as he sighed.

There were so many questions running through Connor’s mind as he looked back into Nova’s eyes. He wanted to know what these names were and they felt as though he has said them a hundred times before all of this today, the same could have been said for the name “Harry” as he almost called his Ghost that multiple times.

Connor made up his plan and asked, “So what do you need me for? You seem like the type that wouldn’t do this unless you really needed to since you were concerned with almost waking up everyone.”

Nova raised an eyebrow and replied, “Why do you want to know? For all you know, I could be here to get you killed!”

Connor had already come to this conclusion, “Because you seem trustworthy. That and you don’t exactly give off an intimidating nature.”

Nova huffed, “Hey!”

Connor continued, “And… There is this feeling… No memory? That I don’t remember, but i guess my body remembers… saying your name…” The air went silent again as Nova still seemed nervous for whatever reason.

Nova said nothing for a moment and said, “... You want to know why I led you here?”

“Kidnapped,” Connor said.

“LED HERE,” Nova exclaimed as Connor simply wore a smug grin. Nova continued, “And I'll take that as a yes…, So… I need help.”

Nova nervously grabbed her left arm with her right hand and said, “I heard from Amanda that you had found a ship somewhere during your resurrection earlier today.”

Connor nodded as he remembered talking to it more in detail during the hangar tour as she continued, “I heard rumors that the Fallen are gathering parts from all over old Russia according to the scouts and I was wondering... If you could take me to where you first found the ship in old Russia. I was hoping to investigate it.”

Connor rolled his eyes and nodded his head saying, “A) You could have asked, and B) Sure, but only one condition..”

Nova was about to retort before there was some rumbling outside as she quickly looked back at the window. Panic seized her face as she said, “Okay, what’s the second condition.”

“I come with you when start investigating.” Nova whipped around to a still smiling Connor. She was about to say “No” but the rustling got louder as and Nova bolted from her position from the window.

“We’ll discuss this later! Right now guards are after me!” Connor smiled as he walked to the hangar door with an extended hand.

“I didn’t hear a yeees.” Connor knew he was in a situation to where he couldn’t get punished too severely considering he just got here moments ago. However, he knew some kind of serious trouble would befall Nova if he were to expose her right here and now.

Nova’s head whipped around and gasped saying, “YOU WOULDN’T-”

“Yes, say yes,” Connor said, almost tauntingly.

Nova put on her best angry face, but Connor could only smile as it just only gave him a warm feeling… It’s almost as if he missed this feeling.

The sound got closer and eventually, Connor saw through the same window that Nova had used to see that someone was running around and was yelling, “NOVA, COME BACK HERE!”

Nova’s panic had skyrocketed, as she hastily nodded her head and said, “YES! OKAY? YES!”

Connor nodded in satisfaction as he bowed his head saying, “Proceed.”

Nova immediately jumped into the chair where the controls were and started the engines as the craft began to take flight.

Connor heard voices outside saying, “NOVA ANALISE BUTTERFLY NO-” the person didn’t get to finish as the ship blasted out of the hangar bay and skyrocketed, causing Connor to immediately hang onto something as they blasted the big white sphere in the sky known as the Traveler.

-0-0-0-

Eventually, after a while, Connor got his bearings and sat next to Nova in the co-pilot seat. After a couple hours of silence, he said, “Well that was interesting. So do you mind telling me who that was?”

Nova bit her lip as she said, “That was… Marco… my father.”

Connor’s eyes went immediately went wide as he leaned his chair next to Nova’s as he said, “Your Dad?! The same Marco that I've heard is a Vanguard member?!”

Nova sheepishly nodded her head as the sun over the horizon began to come up over some mountains, “I was… trying to help him out, “ Nova dipped her head slightly as she continued, “The warp drive situation is worse than it’s let on to be. Due to an accident, the hanger, trying to create more warp drives a few days before you arrived, the engineering wing had suffered a malfunction and now it could be months or even years before we could even get more Guardians ships repaired. That means less Guardians out there and no one to try and push back the Darkness… Which could be extremely bad for everyone.”

Connor took on a serious face and nodded in understanding as he felt the air take on more of a serious tone. Connor replied with, “His scouts haven’t found anything?”

Nova shook her head and almost looked as though she was in pain, “Dad is really not happy… lately, it’s all he discusses with Mom at home, trying to get more options to fix this.”

It almost pained Connor to see Nova this down, already he felt the situations weight and put a hand on Nova’s shoulder. She looked at him with almost teary eyes.

“Don’t worry too much, we will find something,” Nova raised both of her eyebrows as if to say ‘Are you sure?’

“And even if we don’t find anything, you had a good reason to try and find something to help out your family. That’s what really counts.”

Nova looked at Connor as if she found a treasure and with looks alone they shared a moment that didn’t need words as they stared at each other for a few minutes.

Suddenly a crimson red Ghost appeared and with a deep ladylike accent warned, “Nova! Watch it!” Nova whipped her head around as she saw that they were about to hit a cliff. Nova veered right as she swerved around the mountain cliff and narrowly dodged the rock formation with a ‘phew’.

“Turn left! We’re close to the hanger we were at!” Connor’s Ghost had exclaimed. Nova veered left as she jerked the ship in the appropriate direction.

“Stop!” The Ghost exclaimed once more. Nova struggled to stop the ship and eventually the ship ceased to and they hovered by a cliffside which was surrounded by rusted buildings, cars and a small rusted metal shack towards the left of the scenery.

Both Connor and Nova tried to get there bearings as the senses were partially frazzled by the experience and Connor shook his head as he sat back up. During his daze, Connor looked out at the scenery and saw the change as familiar white snow with brown grass.

Connor put his hand on his head and said, “Ghost. Warnings before you just pop out with screaming.”

Both Ghosts looked at each other and said simultaneously, “Sorry.”

After a few moments of remembering where they were, Connor and Nova both transmatted out of the plane and landed on the ground as their weapons appeared on their backs. While Connor only had the one weapon, Nova appeared to have a hand cannon with a bright red and gold color scheme with three white symbols on the side of the gun, A gun that appeared to almost have a square frame with bright lights straight lines of light blue on the sides, and finally a sword with a brown hilt and a black blade with bright white that outlined the blade.

The blade itself was special all on its own, as the guard made a square around the handle. Finally at the vertex of the handle and blade met was the red butterfly that curved upward around the bottom part of the blade, it acted as the entry point for the blade and hilt, and had a black outline to make the butterfly visible, and at the body of the butterfly was a yellow star. Connor whistled as the selection of guns impressed him from looks alone.

Nova rolled her eyes saying, “I need you to follow me. My gear and strength are a better than anything you have currently if I’m, to be honest.” Connor nodded and the two looked towards their Ghosts as Nova continued, “So where do we need to head to?”

“I recorded that area for future reference and it should be… to your rights.” Connor and Nova looked towards the left as they saw an opening to the rusted fortress of the cosmodrome. With some stairs leading out from the left of the said opening.

“I knew that we were going to come back here eventually, Connor, but barely after a day of your resurrection? I haven’t had this much to do, since that time I had to escape a Fallen sector without getting blown to pieces.”

“Only a Fallen sector? You should try to follow Nova into a Vex stronghold, I swear,” The two Ghosts conversed as they both glided by Nova and Connor’s shoulders, “This girl gets into so much danger that the Vanguard had put her into house arrest for nearly setting an off a bomb early in a hive cave. That’s really the main reason why Marco was so uppity about her leaving.”

Nova blushed out of embarrassment as she jumped up in the air… and started to glide up and into the opening.

Connor had to double take on what just happened with both the conversation and what just happened in front of him as he laughed saying, “How do you do that?!... and house arrest?”

Nova turned her head around, her cheeks still being slightly pink, and said, “I don’t wanna talk about it… Wait, you don’t know how to do your double jump yet?”

“That’s what I have? How do I do that…” Connor furrowed his eyebrows in contemplation.

“Umm…. I don’t really know how Hunter’s do it… Just try.. Jumping I guess?” Connor rolled his eyes at Nova’s words and the only thing that he thought would be to try it and see if it works.

Connor backed up and jumped, aiming for the opening. While Connor jumped relatively high, he didn’t notice anything happen and so at the last moments he lifted his arm up, and barely managed to grasp the edge of the opening. Nova helped pull him up and looked at him with a bit of disappointment.

Nova said, “Not a bad jump, but I don’t think that was a double jump,” Connor simply shrugged and they continued on into the building.

The building itself was buried under dirt and aged rubble with dusty computers, broken lights, and familiar windows that didn’t even give the slightest image outside. In Connor’s mind, the thought it gave off a rather ghost town type of feeling as no one else was in the vicinity.

“Ugh, this place always gives me the creeps,” Nova’s Ghost spoke out, “It always just gives me the creeps just staring at everything broken like this.”

“Crim, focus please,” Nova said softly, “We need to be careful of Fallen that could be here,” ‘Crim’ rolled her eye and disappeared floating into Nova.

Connor eyes flared with curiosity, “Your Ghost has a name?”

Nova nodded her head and put a finger to her lips and made an “shh” noise.

Together they walked the hallways, and after an hour of navigating corridors left from right, Connor spotted something out of the corner of his eye in a bright room. In a small space, he found a golden chest that had a symbol on it.

Connor’s Ghost gasped in an excited tone, “You found a regional chest!”

Connor’s head tilted to the side saying, “Why is it different from a normal chest?... also why is it all the way out here?”

The Ghost opened up the chest and said, “They're chest’s that the Vanguard left and revisit to help inexperienced Guardians that are on patrol. They were first introduced when Star was appointed as a Vanguard to make patrols not as boring for a Guardians first patrol, it must have been moved here by the Fallen and thought it was some kind of recourse cash… That means we might be on the right track!”

Within a second the Ghost made an ‘oh’ at the “This gear isn’t usually seen by many Guardians. It’s protective engineer gear that the hangar bay staff use when they test our ships or prototypes of new spacecraft,” Connor picked up on of the six small green engrams. They were small and almost had a crystalline texture to them, and it could be mistaken for a very big piece of rock candy that someone had crafted.

“We should probably equip that for the fight ahead, hold still for a sec,” With that Connor’s original plain white armor glowed for a second and changed within a few moments of the process is complete. The armor changed into a simple brown and black design with a short cloak that only had a plain black color. The armor had a number of pockets for all types of tools that were empty, except for a small pair of glasses in the left chest pocket.

The glasses caught Connor’s attention as he removed them from their place to inspect them. They had a simple black frame, but with no actual lenses to see through and when he tried to put them on as the Ghost spoke out, “Hold on, I didn’t make you a helmet when I revived you because we were in a rush, so I’m going to make the helmet with all the hud info a Guardian needs-”

Connor interrupted saying, “Um, could we not have said hud? I… don’t feel like it would help me very much.” The Ghost stopped and said, “Why?”

“I just don’t feel like it would be of any help to me, do you mind if we don’t have it?” Connor felt as though so many things in front of his face would mess with him in more ways than one and just felt it would get in the way all when he was fighting things.

“All right. It makes my job a little bit easier not having to manage everything… By the way, you have a great vision already due to being resurrected by the light. Why are you wearing those?” the Ghost said, his voice sounding more inquisitive than criticizing.

Connor just shrugged and heard a giggle from Nova to his right as she said, “You look like a dork.”

Connor just smiled and said, “Glad to know you think I'm smart. Thanks, Nova.” Nova’s eyes rolled and turned away from Connor rather quickly.

“Come on, we need to stay focused, maneuvering around this place is like a maze with no map.” She was right, the area here was extremely broken and in most cases, they had to have Nova blast away all of the debris away with a fusion rifle that Connor had a powerful urge to ask about, but stayed focused on the task ahead.

Just when they almost had a slight inkling of calling it after a couple of hours, a noise was heard from a distant room ahead. It was the sound of a Fallen with its clicks and noises, both Connor and Nova shared a look that told both of them to move quietly. They treaded with care not to make any semblance of abnormal noise.

After a few moments they arrived at the hangar bay that provided Connor with his escape with a ship, however now the hanger contents were different the last time Connor was here.

A lot different.

There were hundreds, maybe even thousands of large to small parts where being into what Connor could only assume to be the Fallen form of crates as the dozen’s of fallen were loading up everything into spheres that had giant oval openings that had many variations in size.

There was also a machine being built that was a sphere in shape that looked one-third of the way complete with most of it being only silver and black but have a tiny hint of purple surrounding the circle inside the sphere. In front of it was a goliath of a Fallen and what Connor could only assume was the leader of the group. His head looked as though it was a helmet of some kind with it having an oval shape on the top with two stubs on the side, four long arms and the massive body previously mentioned was draped in a red cape with red and white clothing, and to top it all of held a massive gun that seemed to have four barrels that emitted a red fiery glow.

The two looked in awe as they saw from the left side of the room and Nova backed up against the wall, out of sight from the fallen and had heavy breathing befall her.

“Those supplies… there probably from the other parts of old Russia. It must have been easy scavenging from other parts of Russian now that there aren’t as many Guardians out, and there’s probably enough there to support the city for weeks!” Nova’s eyes were giddy with excitement but returned to being serious at the moment. Connor could not have tried to hide the smile on his face even if he tried. Even in the situation, they were in at this very moment, there was just something about Nova that made him smile.

Nova took another peek at the Fallen to access the situation further, “… Darn. We need to transmat all of the supplies here as well as the Fallen… and I think I have enough beacons to get all of those supplies out.”

“Here,” Nova said and she handed Connor the sword, “This is only to be used in emergencies. Okay?” Connor’s eyes flared open and looked into Nova’s eyes which were eyes of genuine trust.

Connor nodded in acknowledgment and put the sword on his back. The sword locked into place like a magnet as Nova said, “Crim, give Connor’s Ghost all the transmat beacons I have that go directly to the Tower,” With that a processing noise was made by his Ghost, “Connor I’m going to distract all of them so that you can place all of the transmat beacons on the supplies, okay?”

“What about you? Those Fallen will chew you up!” Connor replied, he knew where this was headed as soon as she gave him the sword, but he sure didn’t like it.

“I’ll buy you some time, besides,” Nova gave a confident smirk, “I’m not gonna die by some ridiculous ether eaters.” Connor still held a worried expression but bit his tongue as he nodded and went along with Nova’s plan.

With that Nova jumped faster than Connor anticipated, and as she flew up into the sky, she burst into light and flames surrounded her body that gave her wings of fire as she threw projectiles that landed whilst floating in the air. Instead of exploding, it created a circle and a ball of fire in the middle that pelted the Fallen with a streak of fire, presumably ending, or seriously damaging their target.

When she landed she returned to normal and immediately got pulled out the hand cannon shooting down a few of the stragglers she missed. Within moments, and a few well-placed headshots, she managed to wipe out everything. However, the massive Fallen roared with fury and within the walls of the compound more fallen that weren’t directly in the compound rallied and began to chase down Nova.

Nova threw up a thumbs up and said out loud, “I’ll meet you back at the ship!” and ran as fast as she could with every Fallen in the vicinity roaring and chasing after her, including the leader soon following suit.

Connor took a moment to stand flabbergasted as he stood there speechless, but his mind told him to focus and his gaze locked onto the recourse cash of recourse cash’s. Connor could have sworn the number of materials here was the Fallen’s collective treasury and that motivated him more than ever.

Connor moved and said, “Ghost, the beacons!”

“Right!” With that, the Ghost flew around everything and beacons transmitted onto each of and every one of the Fallen containers, “It will take a few moments. But it with Nova buying us time, we’ll pull it off.”

“I hope so, I don’t feel like getting resurrected three times within twenty-four hours.” Connor held up his auto rifle listening to his surroundings, hearing distant cries from fallen either roaring or the fire that Nova kept spreading.

Silence fell Connor as his instincts ramped up to twelve… Connor tensed when he heard the crackling of electricity right behind him. Something in Connor awoke again, similar to earlier that day when he was firing against Fallen or when he beat that Fallen captain.

“Connor!” The Ghost cried out. Connor used the back of his rifle to blunt a Fallen who was invisible behind him and the Fallen fell revealing himself and two blades that was surrounded by blue electricity. Just as the Fallen by the Ghost raised his sword, he fired his rifle towards the Ghost’s direction and the Fallen fell. Connor immediately turned to the one which he stunned earlier to take him out, but it got up faster than expected and got in a quick swipe to the shoulder with his blade before being shot down by Connor at close range.

Connor reloaded and the light healed his wound fairly quickly as he surveyed the area for more Fallen threats. After a few moments, Connor eased up a bit to release a breathe to keep him from passing out.

Within that moment the supplies disappeared, and the Ghost said, “We got it, Mission Accomplished! Now we need to get out of here before more Fallen show-”

Just then heavy footfall fell as they looked towards where Nova ran out as the giant leader of the Fallen came through those doors.

“The Archon Priest! Connor get behind cover!” Connor dove to a nearby steel pillar as he heard the furious roar of the Archon and he readied his gun. Almost as if it was a shotgun, four round energy bursts that looked as though it were fire but solid came at the steel pillar and Connor dove from his position to avoid the blast and put away the rifle to bring out the sword that Nova had lent him.

Connor charged as the Ghost’s warnings became distant thoughts and rushed him at speeds that even he didn’t expect and hit the rifle the Fallen was carrying, cutting the weapon in two.

The power of the weapon was extraordinary, it felt as though he could feel multiple people helping him that was in the blade itself, and Connor enjoyed the feeling of confidence that took over him. Unfortunately, the gun sparked and exploded a few moments after he cut it in half. Connor was hurled a few feet back but stood his ground.

The giant Fallen also got back up from being knocked down by the blast and stomped his foot in anger as he roared at Connor. Connor simply smirked and pointed his sword at the Fallen, Connor knew that he was being overconfident, but something from the sword just told him to be focused on this fight and this fight alone. The Archon charged Connor as he dove to his right and got a swing off on the Fallen’s leg and continued to maneuver around the Fallen just like that getting hit after, after hit, after hit. It got to the point to where Connor just simply moved out of the way of the Archon as he fruitlessly tried to get a hit on Connor, but to no avail.

After Connor was about to get one final strike on the Archon before the end, but the Fallen grabbed the blade of the sword as it was being raised. The Archon ripped it away from Connor’s hand, and the power surge soon faded from his body.

Suddenly, Connor didn’t feel that confident anymore.

Connor moved out of the way from one of the arms that swung at him as he reached for his gun in an attempt to finish it off. However, the gun clicked with no ammo in it and Connor threw the gun away as he tried to think of something.

“Use your bow and arrow!” The Ghosts voice rang out, and before Connor could ask why, Ghost continued saying, “When you defeated that Fallen captain I detected void energy! The Nightstalkers are a Hunter class that call upon the Void light and use it to defeat other foes!”

Another arm lumbered from the injured Archon as Connor dodged out of the way, “From some of the notes that I've read that they’re calm and focused when they channel the void!”

Connor dove again as the Archon tried his hardest to catch him. Connor must have thought the giant Fallen overexerted himself as the Archon fell to his knees and sounded as though it was panting heavily.

This was Connor’s only chance as he took a deep breath and tried to stay calm and focus. His focus stayed on only the darkness in front of him. Nothing else, no sound, not object, only silence took his mind. It was easy, easier than he thought as silence took over him and his mind, and he was taken away from the current plane of existence and to somewhere he had no idea.

It was so quiet that there should have been noise… and there was. Suddenly there was a low dull roar that Connor could feel and make out. He could make out what it sounded like, but it was unspeakable and quiet. Small is it was Connor reached out to try and find it.

Connor opened his eyes suddenly, and just as the Ghost said, he started to pull an arrow from an ethereal bow.

Connor could feel a physical arrow and bow even before it appeared in magical purple flames gathered around his hands. As he pulled back the Fallen tried to move towards Connor to stop him. But after a few moments, Connor released the Arrow.

-0-0-0-

Connor sighed as he walked in front of the opening entrance that he first entered when Nova and he first entered. Connor looked down from the elevated position and saw Nova who was pacing and waving her hands in the air as she paced around her small crimson Ghost.

Connor jumped down and walked over to Nova to which he could hear her say, “... I mean I would be responsible for the death of a Guardian WHO HAS NOT EVEN SPEND A DAY ON PATROL!! HOW AM I-”

“Hey Nova,” Connor said, interrupting Nova from going too far into paranoia, “Hey Crim, do you mind if you can get me on the ship?”

“Uhh… sure? H-here you go.” with that, Connor’s vision became data like for a moment before being transmatted on the ship and sat down in the ship and sighed in relief for not being on death’s row for a third time today. Only seconds later Nova immediately got down in her seat and looked directly at Connor.

She didn’t say anything, nor did she look like she wanted to hear anything Connor had to say, but she did something that Connor half expected.

With a slap to Connor’s face, the ship launched off from the cosmodrome and back towards the Tower.

------------------------------------------------

Hope you all enjoyed! keep in mind I am a Novice at writing so please forgive my blemishes on the story. I’m going to be taking a break from writing this series to find something else I can put these two lovebirds through, but until then have a nice day!

[burstzen]

The first part of the au and my first au ever. Hope you enjoy.