Month / Jun 2022

by Pat

B.E.A.S.T. Story: Long Day, No Break Part II

By Patrick Oliver

This is a follow up from the first Part of Long day no break, If you hadn’t read it yet, I highly recommend reading that first before reading this.

Phantom walked into the coffee room, figure it was the first places to look for a partner to help him in the stakeout he has assign to for the mission. He was still a bit stressed about what happen in the coffee room early this afternoon with Leon being a complete jerk to everyone and that voices that came out of nowhere is still bugging him, even when he agreed it was just this head playing tricks with him. He shakes his head a bit, pulling himself together when as he enters the coffee room which was still cleaning up after the ogre came crashing the places, to find that there was no one was in the room excited for Shay who was on her laptop working on some stuff.

“Alright” nodded Phantom then approaches to Shay, walking around some cleaning equipment that the janitor has left on the floor. “Hey Shay, doing ok?”

“Hmm? Oh yeah, I’m fine. I guess…” said Shay, looking like a strung-out College student. “What ’cha need?” Shay kept her focus on the screen as her left ear lifted a bit like she still in animal form, listen to Phantom.

“I have a case about a person who’s been selling mystical drugs somewhere in Chinatown not far from here and I asking if you wanna join me on a stakeout. Said Phantom, sounded a bit tired.

“Really! …. Sure!” Said Shay looking at him, then back to her computer quickly finishing up stuff on windows and was very excited to finally be going on a mission at lasted. “Oh, what skins do you want me to bring?”

“Just something that people won’t notice out of the blue…… I guess” Phantom nodded. “I just grab a few knifes from my desks very quickly and get the keys to the car and I will meet you at the fort in 10 minutes.” Phantom took off and makes his way into the common room to get his stuff.

“See ya! Ok so my primary, cat, and a mouse. My wolf skin I can pass as a husky or malamute.” Said Shay talking to herself, mentally checking off her animal skin list, grabbing what she needs for the mission and Packed into her bag. Slings her bag over her shoulder as she starts heading to the front of the Agency. But as she enters the hallway out of the Coffee room, Ezekiel accidentally bumps into Shay as she walked out of the entrench and fall on the floor.

“Pardon me Inspector, didn’t see you coming.” Said Ezekiel, helping Shay get back up.

“Oof! That’s ok, it just me being too short? Or just blind” said Shay standing back up and huffed looking up at Ezekiel. “Anyway, me and Phantom are going out on a stakeout mission. All I know is that a person is selling unnatural drugs somewhere not far from here. You could come along if you wanted to, but you’re probably still recovering a bit from the ogre attack.”

“Well, I am tall, and I do need these glasses to see, really sorry about that.” Nodded Ezekiel taking his glasses off to clean them with his jacket so something like this doesn’t happen again and puts them back on. “And sure, I still have a bit more power left in me to tag along, if you’ll have me inspector? Though I don’t know what you would need for the mission.”

“Neither do I, but phantom will brief us more about once’s we meet him at front outside.”

“Then I guess we sound not keep him waiting then.”

Ezekiel and Shay walked down the hallway, threw the lobby and to the exits. Ezekiel being a gentleman’s by open the door and letting Shay past through.

“Thank you” said Shay walking pasted Ezekiel.

“Hey are we ready, or what!” Said Phantom waiting in the driver’s seat of a BMW 90’s car, waiting for Shay.

“Alright we’re coming” said Shay waving at Phantom walking down to the front of the car, opens the door and flings her bag to the back seat with a smirk, as Ezekiel walks down to the car. “Oh, we bumped into each other. Thought he might some help with the stakeout tonight.”

Shay Gestured to Ezekiel as he enters the back seat of the car and puts out his smocking pipe, before getting in.

“Why not mate, the more the marrier.” Said Phantom not minding the extra company, waiting for the two of them to get in buckle their seat belts and tell Ezekiel about the stakeout they about to do, as he drove off to their destination. “Ok, As I told Shay there a person out there that are selling some kind of mystical drugs that can turn people into a mindless person, like not being themselves. And Ten percent of those people who have taken these drugs have died because of it.”

“Ah, I see. So, what’s the plan inspector?” Said Ezekiel, asking Shay since she the higher rank then the two of them.

“Mhm…. well Phantom found the lead, so it pretty much his call. I’m mostly here to help.” She Winked at the both of them, hoping to give them some more experience for the mission. Phantom smiles a nod at her and focus on the road.

“Anyway, from the information that I have found at the offices that a single man has been starting to sloppy and mostly been seen at Chinatown just down a few miles from here. If I’m right, we might be able to get him in the-…. Whoa!!!” Phantom Slammed the breaks after a bunch of teenager’s bike riders came out of nowhere crossing the road almost hitting them. Phantom pocks his head out of the car and started shouting at them. “You C###’s, watch where you’re GOING!!!”

“Uh huh. Keep your eyes on the road mate.” Committed Ezekiel about Phantom driving. “Anyway, so what is your actual plan to get this bloke to come clean?”

“Huh? …. Right the plan.” Said Phantom started to drive again, after making sure there wasn’t anyone else randomly crossing the streets. “Were going to lay low, blend in and when we spot him, were going to follow him to until he’s at a corner or if we’re lucky, he will lead us to his apartment.  We’ll jump him before he could even get a change to make his move.”

“Do you have experiences tailing people?”

“Uhh…yeah, at least a bunch of times.”

“Great, what will you do inspector?”

“I’ve got my skins, so if either of you needs to look like something civilian, I got you both covered.” Said Shay turn to looked at Ezekiel. “I brought a lovely pet dog, cat and brought a mouse skin along just in case we need it”

Smiled Shay, awaited excited to be able to shift into one of her skins on a mission. It had been a long time since anyone brought her out onto the field, which is making her feel giddy. She mainly doing IT for BEAST servers for over the past year now and been complains about how she wasn’t out there on the field.

“Don’t you have a bird skin, also what would you be cover Ezekiel” said Phantom a bit curious, while focusing on the road.

“I do, but you didn’t tell me to bring one.” Sizzed Shay, holding back a grow and hates the fact how restricted she is with BEAST. “But if you can find me a dead and still very fresh, then I can use it. However, I can only carry up to at least three skins on outing and missions. Plus, these were the only skins that I had were clean…” Shay started to grumble, looking like she was Pouting.

“And as for my cover…..” Sigh Ezekiel. “…. Phantom you do realize that I look like I probably would be buying food from the food stands. Also, how can you skin a bird and a mouse inspector?”

Phantom made a understand nod at Ezekiel, as Shay cleared her throat, before turning to look at Ezekiel and answer his question. “Oh, it’s very hard to explain, let’s just Say that Skin a mouse is easier to do, then the bird because I have to make sure not to damage the feathers.”

“I have another question, why is there a limit of skins you can uses on missions?” Asked Phantom curiously.

“Uhh… I’m a Skinwalker remember?! Powerful beings! If I loss control, it could mean catastrophic! Ring any bells?!” Said Shay rolled her eyes, she was kind of surprised that no one had thought how BEAST kept their people in line. “Especially what would you think could happen if I got a hold on a mythical skin. Or would happen if I had a full arsenal if I went into rage or out of control!?”

She stair looking at both of them, waiting for a resource. Ezekiel just nodded and takes a sip from his flask.

“Alright, alright I’m sorry. I was just asking.” Said Phantom didn’t know how to respond after what Shay just said, and something was bothering him. “Sorry, it’s just I got a lot on my mind right now.”

“Then spill it!” Shay nagging to know and sounded like an Annoying little daughter or sister, getting really bored on a road trip. “Distractions cause Injuries or death, so spill it or I’ll make you spill!”

“Hrrr…. bloody hell” Mumbling Phantom sounded like an old man. He tightens his gripped on to the steering wheel, with frustration in his eyes. But stays focus on the road “It’s just what happen earlier today with Doctor Death and felt so foolish trying to stand up to him since he second in command of the building, no doubt that man is going to tell the chief about that. I just don’t understand what that bastard problem, I mean he has no respect or cares that someone either got hurt or killed from that ogre we just took down that nearly destroy BEAST HQ today at all!!!

“Everyone has their ghosts and ways to cope with them. But Dustcloak I never could crack and all I know is that he would have my skin mounted in a wall” Shay gulp as she pulls the collar of her shirt a bit. “But don’t let that old man fester you, just let it go and move on. He does help us catch the killers usually and help treat our wounds in the infirmary.”

“Your-…. your right, your right. Sorry, just in a bit of a bad mood that’s all.” Said Phantom taken a few slow calming breaths to himself to get rid of all the frustrations away.

“I Have nothing to say for the creator director, only that he is my superior and I may not enjoy it at times, I understand where I’m stand.” Said Ezekiel, putting his flask back in his coat. “And as for this undercover mission, I haven’t fully regained my magic after the fight with the ugly ogre today, but it should be enough if things get out of hand.”

“Well hopefully it doesn’t come to that, oh I almost to tell you guys.” Said Phantom stopping at the red lights, quickly taking this opportunity to pick up the cases files from the side of the car door and taking out a photo taken for a servant’s camera of a close look of the target they are looking for, hands the photo to Shay. “The person we’re looking for is wearing a dark grey hoodie, a black fabric marks covering his mouth and a small grey backpack.

Quickly put the file back to where he picks it up and continued driving after the lights turn green again. There were a lot more cars going in the directions of where Phantom and his team are heading.

“Hmm… seems easy enough.” Shay Nods looking at the photo before handing it to Ezekiel. “Got any scents I may be able to track? Or we’re going to go on guts for this one?

“Guts I’m afraid.”

Ezekiel grabs the photo and studies it before he responds. “Are we bringing down the dealer or we’re going after the supplier as well?”

“Just the dealer, both if we’re lucky. We’re going to follow the dealer around and see where he goes when we find him. But if he sees us or something goes wrong, we’re going to take matters into our own hands by grabbing him or she by forces.”

“I can subdue them probably, want them immobilized or unconscious?”

“Whatever works mates. Are there any other questions you guys wanna asks?”

“Ummm….. yeah, why did you pick one of the ugliest cars to drive us in?” Smirk Ezekiel, joking lightly as he puts the photo away in his pocket.

“Come on it isn’t that bad and second it was either this or a yellow truck from the 60s! Besides this car isn’t that bad, I drove it to the farm once all the way from the city to help a farmer find-….” Phantom pause for a sec, realising what he was about to talk about the weirds mission he had ever done in his BEAST career. “Nap, nope…… never mind that its not important. All I’m say is that this is a good car for this mission to blend in.”

“Uh huh.” Said Ezekiel rising his eyebrow looking at Phantom who’s acting suspiciously.

“Relaxs it’s not that important, look all you need to know about that is that I was tasked to capture a supernatural rooster and it ended very weird.” Said Phantom trying to looked less suspicious by Shay and Ezekiel and shocked his head left and right to get rid of those images of that mission out of his head.

“Right, but next time we’re taking my car.” Sigh Ezekiel at Phantom weirdness and complaining about how bad this car there driving in. He then takes out his smoke pipe out, put a bit of corbito in it and puts it in his mouth, but doesn’t light it.

“Hmm… to bad we don’t have more information about what we’re dealing with, some are into dog fights and always looking for a dog that can dominate his competition. I guess each one of my skins will get used one way or another when we trail this dude, especially tonight.” Mutter Shay to herself, she seemed to be rambling about trying to gather her thoughts and ideas.

“Here, you can follow them on the ground…” Said Ezekiel taking out his pipe out of his mouth and exhale smoke onto his lap until it forms into a smoky hawk with glowing embers for eyes. “…. And this little guy will follow us in the air. Also if he see our target, he will follow the dealer and guides us to follow him.”

“Awesome! But I need to know now if either I’m going to prowling, being a pet or candidate for a dog fight.” Shay looked at the smoky hawk amazed for a few seconds before, looking between Phantom and Ezekiel, waiting for one of them to tell her an idea what she was going to shift into. “I maybe the inspector, but it time to see what you two can offer on the field.”

Shay was smirking at them and was so happy to help other agents out, helping them earn their ranks, just like her friend Chrysalis have done for her when she was in destress in her early days in BEAST.

“Thanks inspector, but I don’t think there will be any dog fight from where we’re going, from Phantom intel.” said Ezekiel patting his Smoky amber Hank and then looked at Phantom Curiously to know what he was going to be for the mission. “Phantom, what would you be doing for the mission?”

“Me? I be on the roofs of the building, looking down from above because most people don’t think to look up over their heads. As for your question, a street cat would be a good way to blend in.” Said Phantom Answering both Ezekiel and Shay questions.

“Alright, hopefully there’s not too large of a gap or a street to cross over”

“Very well, if you both excuse me.” Shay puts on the cat skin she had on her and shifted into one. “Can someone keep an eye on my bag? I don’t need it to be getting lost or stolen.” she winks starting to mewing, waiting for the car to stop and for a window or door to open, so she can jump out and get started prowling for their target.

“Sure thing, Arr….. here we are.” Said Phantom putting Shay bag on his lap, as he parked the car on the other side of the road where China town is. The place looks there already a big crowed going on into the places tonight, and lots of music and chattering of enjoyment coming from within.

“Thanks!” Said Shay Stretching out, purring as she was reacquainting herself with feline anatomy and body language, as Phantom parked the car. “Right, let’s see what we all find and find our dealer. Send a word if you find him or something goes wrong.”

Shay hopped to the back of the car, then onto Ezekiel lap and pawed at the door forgetting that she had no hands and that she was going to sound different then her human form slightly.

“Sorry, no thumbs. Could you open the door please?” said Shay purring at Ezekiel to open the door.

“Woo, woo slow down their mate.” Said Phantom putting the bag down next to his feet and then grab something from the side of the door we’re he put the files a small box out. He then opens the box to see a set of small ear headphones comms. “We can’t go out without a way to contact each other.” Grabs one and puts it in his ear, then grabs another one and hands the boxes to Ezekiel so he can put Shay one on her.

“Oh, yes an earpiece for a cat.” Shay chuckled, sitting there, and letting Phantom leans over the driver’s seats to hook her up with the headphone’s comms on her.

“Thanks.” Nodded Ezekiel grabbing the box, grab one of the ear headphones and placed it on his ear. “Alright let’s do this.”

“Wait a minute, can you guys here me?” Purred Shay as loud as she could be, to see if they can her any scattering on their communications drives.

“Yes, we can here you just fine thanks. Come on, let’s go” said Phantom as he and Ezekiel hearing both the Shay shouting and the terrible feedback sirens effect monitor and gets out of the car, pull his hood over his head.

Ezekiel rubbed the back of his left ear with the small headphone comms is and opens the car door to let his Hawk smoky familiar out to fly off into the air, as Shay took off Ezekiel lap out of the car and run to the nearest alley. Cause it the best places to end up looking for like an alley cat and best way to roam around detective. Ezekiel sorted out his collar of his coat out and lights his pipe before stepping out of the car and closed the door behind him. As Ezekiel began walking into the busy streets of Chinatown, Phantom locked the car behind him, puts Shay bag around his should and head to find a perfect place to claim up a building, to the roof tops with caution and stealth without anyone noticing him.

Chinatown was filled with Chinese culture. Hot foods being severed on the streets markets and restaurants, red paper lanterns hanging on trees and in front of buildings, fantastic entertainment shows going on in the middle of it like a group people dancing in a big puppet dragon costume, swinging swords, dancing traditions and other art traditions cultures. There was a cheerful and calming harmony of joy in the atmosphere around Chinatown markets at this time of night sky came in.

Fifteen minutes in the mission later, Ezekiel decided to buy some street food, since he had nothing to eat since the little of his steak sandwich when a raging homicidal ogre interrupting his lunch by trying to kill him. Phantom and Shay can hear him munching on it over the comms which sounds like he’s enjoying it for ten long minutes but doesn’t interrupt them with the mission. Shay stretches along fences, hopped between various heights and things to climb, or walk along, while mewing here and there. She mumbles into the comms from time to time when she plays it off as grooming herself. And as for Phantom, he was jumping from building to building and looked below at every angle trying to find their target before moving on the next.

“Anything yet guys!” Shay growled out loud through the comms after escaping some kid who grabbed her unexpectedly, hugging her very tightly around his arms and patting her very roughly. She got out of it without hurting the kid, by squeezing her way out of the kid arms, jump on top of a wall and dash away from the kid. “I don’t think I can stand being pick anymore by anyone around here!”

“Nothing yet, but I keep looking.” Said Phantom who just finish run up on the power lines and climb up over the edge of a building in front of him. “Ezekiel, found anything yet mate.”

“Nope still nothing” Ezekiel mumbling with a tone of food in his mouth after taking a big bite out of his food, while looking through the eyes of his familiar hawk flying for a few seconds to see if where this dude is.

“Bloody hell mate, finish swallowing your food before-”

“Wait!… I think I got something in an alleyway two blocks away on the next right.” Said Ezekiel a few second later, see a person that looks like the person on the photo that Phantom handed to him. After he send word about it to his team on the comms, runs at a deliberated paces as his familiar follow pursuit with him and finishing his food along the way as he heads to the alleyway that the person walked into.

“On it!” Shay wasn’t wasting any time as she hopped from ledge to ledge, dogging people and flowerpots near some of the restaurant windows.

“Copy that.” said Phantom on the comms, then parkouring his way over to Ezekiel coordinates and thinking that this was going to be easy. “This might be easier than I thought it would be. Maybe I can look around Chinatown and see if I can get something to eat and maybe something for the dogs to. Oh wait, hrrr…. Damn I must write a report about this when this is all over. Man, I can’t seem to get away from paperwork these days.”

“Waste of time, I must say.” Whipper the same mystery voices that came out when Phantom was in HQ offices.

“Wha?!…. whose there!”

Phantom panicky stops running quick getting in defensive precious and looked around seeing who was speaking to him. But there was no one around, just pigeons and a few alley cats growling quietly and waiting strike one of them. He takes a deep breath and walks up to the edge of the building to recover himself.

“Keep it together Phantom, it just your mind playing tricks with you again.” Said Phantom talking to himself to keep him calm and focuses into the mission. “Damn me, my insanity is really-…”

Phantom gets over it when he sees someone in the crowd wearing a dark grey hoodie and a small grey backpack that looks like the same one, he on the photo and going the completely different direction then where Ezekiel said he was going. He can’t tell if he wearing a masks from this angle, but if he didn’t follow him he may never find out.

“Hey guy, I see another person that looks like the person we’re looking for.” Said Phantom quickly telling this information on the comms and starts following him before he loses him in the crowed. “You two go ahead with the other guy, I got this one.”

“So, there’s two of them, lovely.” Said Ezekiel sarcastically. “Alright I go get mine and you get the other. My hawk will company you.”

“Copy that!”

The smoky Hawk peels off and made his course to Phantom following the other suspect from above and Ezekiel almost at the alley where the person he was chasing went.

“Ok just-…. Ouch!!!” She meowed loud as she gets stumbling over some rocks and fell like one, rolled over a bit. She gets back up unhurt, apart from the saw left back paw.

“Inspector are you ok?” said Ezekiel stops and turns around Shay after seeing Shay get tripped over.

“Yep, I fine thanks. Isn’t the first time getting tried over.” Chuckled Shay as she stands up off the ground.

“Maybe you should watch we’re you’re going, and you wouldn’t fall over so many.” Smirk Ezekiel, teasing her a bit.

“Oh, piss off.”

The two of them starting to have chuckled a bit and smiled for about a half a minute before getting back to the mission.

“Ok that enough, come on, we got a thug to catch hey.” Said Shay back in action. “Do you have me bag? I go shift into something bigger and fights better than a domestic cat.”

“Sorry, but you gave it to Phantom back in the car remember.” Said Ezekiel getting out his pipe in hand, ready for combat.

“Oh god dammit! Hrrr… well, I guess this will had to do.” She sighs, leaps up to Ezekiel and sits on his shoulder. “Go on let’s go!”

Ezekiel nodded and was a bit surprises to when Shay jumped onto his shoulder. Then continued running in the direction that the person that they we’re following but didn’t go far as they enter the alleyway half unclean from some of the trash lining around and the lights wasn’t affected at all and seeing the suspect in the middle of it. He was in a crouching position against the wall, like looking through something, but they can’t tell from where their standing.

“Is this guy our target?” Shay whippers into Ezekiel ear, in a ready position to pounces and tear him apart, if she had to.

“Not sure but stay on your guard in case he is” Whippers Ezekiel scratches Shay around the ear, then picks her up and cradle her around his arms as he walks towards the person slowly and carefully. “Listen, I going to try acting as someone who is addict to drugs. You be like a annoyed cat who just wanna go back to sleep.”

“Can do” said Shay with her cat smile, looking at Ezekiel above and feeling awe in his nice cradling arms.

Ezekiel Gait changes as does his demeanour and walking into a jittery like and his eyes shifting around, to look more of an addictive person. As looking at the person putting up arrogant look on her cat faces and meowing loudly as if she indicates to her lovely addict owner that there a shady person up ahead.

“Hey….. hey, you got something for me.” Said Ezekiel with his accent gone and there’s a shake to his voice, as he looks at the person and strokes the cat with a shaky hand.

“What the hell you want!” Said the person, turning his head around to faced whoever was behind him. The person turns out to be a homeless man, who was looking through the bins for food. “Is it against the law to search through bins! Scram!”

The old man histed at Ezekiel and then return to search through the bins. Ezekiel and Shay were both disappointed to see that it wasn’t the person they were looking for. Ezekiel straightens himself up out of his acting poses, toss the old geezer a hundred dollar note out from his pocket and walks out of the alleyway.

“God bless you!” shouted the old man to him and grabs the note and goes out to find a better place to buy food.

 “Well, it was worth a shot following him.” Said Shay, looking up at Ezekiel trying to make him feel better. “Besides, at least we helped someone today getting a nice meal and he even thanked you for it.”

“That might be true.” Said Ezekiel waking out of the alleyway. “But the dealer is still at large. Phantom, my lead was a bust, heading to your location now.”

Ezekiel trying contacting Phantom while carrying Shay in his arms, while walking through a massive crowed of people and stands. But something was wrong, Phantom wasn’t contacting back.

“Phantom do you copy, Phantom!…. Phantom!”

To be continued.

Thanks, you guys for reading. This world of is a story from animator creator Foxel and if you like to follow him, here a link to his YouTube channel Here: https://www.youtube.com/user/foxelanimated

And if you want to be part of this world of BEAST, you can join the discord server here, but please follow the rules before doing anything on there: Closed at the moment

And if you want to know more about it before joining, I have explain it on the first part of this story at the end: https://sirpatrickstorys.wordpress.com/2022/05/25/b-e-a-s-t-story-long-day-no-break-part-i/

by Pat

Destiny: Black Strom Chapter 2

A Day without Breaks

This story is a fan made story based off first shooter game Destiny

“You crashed- you crashed a Cabal Warship into an abandoned City on Mars, do you have any god damn idea what you have DONE!!!” That’s Zavala yelling at Felax who was standing right in front of him on the other side of the table with a person standing by the door, all inside an empty boxes room. Felax is sitting in an uncappable chair in front of a table tucked in and leaning his head in his hand, elbows on the table while he watches Zavala walk left and right yelling at his face. Zavala is a Titan Guardian and the Vanguard Commander, he runs most all kinds of operations to do anything to protect the last haven of Earth for all humanity, The Last City. He is a tall man in shiny armour (apart from this left shoulder pad is a big, small shield plate pad, which is red and a black phoenix symbol on it and his skin is blue along with his bright blue eyes and a bolded head.

His skin is blue because he is a different race called the Awoken.

The Awoken are humanoid with blues or any cold colour types of skin and with luminescent eyes with glowing irises effect. Felax didn’t get to know much about the Awoken when he was resurrected to bursar Universe, he knows that their descendants were once’s human, until the collapse happen when they were trying to escape some dark entire, something about the Distributary, survived and becoming blue. He even heard rumours about them having ability or power about experiencing visions in form of dreams and other supernatural power which Felax believes it all a bunch of nonsense. Especially the fact that one being interrogated by a bolded head one right now and wasting his time.

“For the hundred time” Moaned Felax who was getting really pissed of his and pull a finger at him hidden under the table, neither him, nor the other person stand by the door. “I didn’t bloody crashed it alright, the thing went down by something else. Better yet, It just an abandoned-”

“Then what caused it, itself!” Zavala deepen his voices ton interrupting Felax.

“I told you, I don’t know” Answered Felax placing both on the table. “I was in engine room, fighting my way off that tin can for one second and the next the whole placed blowed up.

“You’re not answering our questions.” Said a person who was next to the door, walking up to the table. “You’re only going to make thing worse, now what where you-”

“What was I doing on the ship? Taking out a wanted Cabal target.” Interrupted Felax. “Why? Because that’s doing my job. What happen while I was still on the ship? Got attack by Eliksni Raiding party and the Cabal, trying to get off the tin can (meant the ship). How did the ship exploded and crashed? I don’t Bloody know it is either one of the two races that did it. How many times do we have to go through this?”

“Matter how long you’re going to start telling the truth”

“Telling-….. you think I’m lying!”

“Like the other times you did, then yes!!!” Slamming her hand on the table, giving him an aggressive look into Felax.

“That’s enough” said Zavala stopping this competition before things got ugly. “Maybe you should leave this to me Ikora”

Ikora Rey, the Warlock Vanguard, and leader of a secret team call the Hidden, which Felax doesn’t know what it is. But what Felax knows about Ikora is that she was a Legend in the Crucible a long time ago, Apparent of the most power guardian every (Which Felax forgot this name) kick him out of the city after The Speaker order her to for him. She and Felax hate each after what Felax’s did in a strike operation a long time ago, but that is a story for another time.

Ikora wears a purple trench robe coat, a different grey fabric stich on the shoulder and neck parts with a long blue badge on her that goes from the front of her left shoulder to her back and orange in the inside of her coat. She also wears grey-brown long jeans, boats same colour, a metal mark bond on her right shoulder which glow a light purple symbol hover gram has a special big gold coin tide through a rope over her neck. Has bold short brown hair and eyes.

“His Idiot just crash an into an abandoned City and destroy 60% of lost Golden day history and resources” Ikora snapped at Zavala

“So what and here a better question why am I’m in trouble anyway! Said Felax stand straight up out of his chair. “I only bloody destroy a abandoned history trash, curiously even after what happen in that strike operation-”

Ikora instantly destroys the table with her hand placed flat on the table and then spark of light came out under her hand with a powering focus, like something impacted it at high speed. Her eyes sight straight at Felax with a fearsome look into his face, but Felax did not finch, not even a tiny bit.

“Sit Down!” Ikora voice grow to deeper with frustration, looking like she preparing to kill him and be Felax prospective she might do it “Before I break every bone in your-”

“Alright that enough” interrupted by a familiar face to Felax walking into the room with a cane in his left hand, coming to the rescue with another familiar face his warlock assistant behind him. As Felax thought he was about to get his hands dirty, with his fisted ready when she attacks.

“Shade, this is an ongoing Vanguard investigation” said Zavala facing away from Felax to Shade.

“Oh, I know my good sir, which is way I make this a quick one.” Said Shade.

Shade Hamkara is a gentleman Businessman who sell weapons with modification, building working robots that can do jobs that no one like doing and runs a power company that helps most of the city with his amazing new power sources that does not create carbon dioxide (but well get back to that later) and has a British accent. Shade was here to help Felax get out of this because he works for him and that Felax in a program to help Guardians who are having a hard time getting by in their career as Guardians like Felax.

Shade wears an old dark blue long Trench coat with a white dragon printed on his left shoulder sleeve, button up. It has two straps on the right side of his lower chest and has a V shaped to show his black t-shirt underneath the cloak. Wears snazzy black jeans, black business shoes, a black noir rancher hat and a sliver scarf around his neck with the long bits looped together like a noose. His cane was pitch black apart from the big pearl silver parts on the tip and a bit in the centre of the cane, but the handle is a big clear quartz crystal that’s the shape and size of a small ball. He has blue eyes and brown long-short hair which he bows tied on this back.

“Why do you always keep breaking the table, like the other times I come in helping one of my fellow Guardians out.” said Shade as he stops in front of the two Vanguard leaders, put his cane in front between his two legs, with his left hand on top of the cane and his right hand on top of his other hand.

“Don’t mock me Shade” said Ikora sounding little bit less annoyed. “I already had enough with Hunter who can’t do their job properly, without breaking something else in the proses!!!”

“Cayde-6 ruined another one of your-”

“Nova” said Shape stopping her before she makes thing worst. “Please don’t go that far down love.”

“Yes….Shade” moan Nova, sounding like she was shutting down.

Nova-12, Shade most trusted assisted and an ex-Vanguard officer. Felax doesn’t know much about what happen between her and the Vanguard. But all he does know is that it about the most brutal Strike operation on Venus a long time ago. Whatever happen to her that day was unknown because Felax was always being put in the dark of all new information all the time when it comes to dangerous threatens humanity. Also, Felax and Nova are exactly friends, nor enemy’s but they just don’t see eye to eye and have lot of arguments most of the time. But she does help Felax some of the time, but mostly it’s because Shade asks her to.

 Nova had circle shape-based head, her eyes are glow red, two metal antenna curving on both side as ears and the metal is painted primary neon oranges and secondary dark grey. Her long Warlock robes is dark orange with a dark blue warlock symbol on both sides of the flaps of the robes, flat cured armour shoulder pads same colour, long black plants, and a bond with a upside down V around her right shoulder.

Nova is an Exo, a robot to be precise well not really. Exo were once humans’ ones until they were foolish enough to think they can achieve immortality but turning themselves into life less machines where they always must rest set their memories. They were built to fight some forgotten war during the golden age times and during the great collapse they have be rebooted all their memories of their about themselves and their creation. Everything else about their origin point and where they were created was lost in history ever. Now days Humanity live beside Exo and see them as people as like the Awoken and can also be risen by ghost and become Guardians to. However, that works.

“Anyhow I’m here to-”

“I already know why you’re here” Interrupted Zavala with his serious faces going on at Shade. “Like the other few times that Felix came into this room”

“Umm sir, Its actually pro-”

“SIT DOWN!” Zavala turns back at Felax, say it not loud, but in a deeper voice. Felax swallowed, shocked after hearing him in that kind of voice and didn’t say a word, sat down back in the chair as he was told.

“Anyway, as I was saying” Zavala Looking at Felax, making sure that he doesn’t stay quiet and turn back at Shade. “His Guardian just cost us almost the lives of researcher who were looking into that buried city to know more of our enemies before this idiot crashed a F###en Cabal Warship into it!”

“That was just by chances lad” committed Shade not being afraid by both Zavala and Ikora integrated faces.

“By Chances?!” Question Zavala with his left eye brawl up, while Ikora stands up against the wall keeping a good eye on Zavala composition with Shade and Felax, making sure that he remains quiet.

“You heard me well. Let’s say that this young gentleman did blowed up the ship, which by the looks of him he didn’t cause it. The ship was spotted in orbit at the time before the ship was going down right. So, what are the chances for that the warship was going to crashed into this city you mention earlier?”

Zavala didn’t know what to think about what to say after hearing Shade word. Felax made a hidden smirk while watching Shade outsmarting the Commanding Vanguard leader and even Nova made a robotic smirk, with her right hand covered her mouth. She might have been an advents AI machine, but Felax can tell by her expiation.

“No!” said Ikora stopping Zavala before he could say something and Felax was back to being miserable after having he thought that this pointless interrogation was finally over. But by the looks of Ikora aggressive look, he wasn’t getting away that easy as she walks away from the wall and facing Shade, Zavala, and Nova.

“You might have been right about the Warship being an unfortunate accident.” She stopped right in the centre of the room next to the destroyed table, then points at Felax with her left hand and faced him over her shoulder. “But he has been causing so many problems ever since he came to this city and no matter wherever he goes, he just going to mess everything up. Like that time where he crashed a speeder drunk into a statue that’s been up since the city been built, he….”

Felax went into stasis mood, not listening Ikora’s speech about how Felax keeps messing things up and her long listed about of all his failure, most of them wasn’t even his fault. Felax wanted so hard to beat her up, he wanted to be the one who has power over them all and being respected for once. But he can’t cause Felax knew that he only going to make things even worsted for himself no matter what he does. Felax thought about what happen to him before he woke up in that broken elevator gasping for air, just keep him from hearing what going on in the room. That voice has been bugging him ever since he left Mars, who was she, why does it sound familiar but don’t remember it. Could it be possible….

“Felix Starborn” said Zavala calling out Felax name wrong in a calmer voice this time, waking him from his stasis mind world. Felax looked up realising that Ikora Rey was no longer in the integration room shouting bad things about him and just seeing Zavala, Shade, and Nova in the room. Felax felt like he been out cold for a long time, because of his stiffed neck that’s killing him. But some tells him that Zavala wasn’t going to give him any good news, if it was good news there probably a catch just around the corner.

“Your free to go”

Call it.

“What’s the catch?” asked Felax trying fix his stiffed neck.

“Not so fast Guardian, you think you can-…. Sorry what” said Zavala going to make an aggressive speech in Felax’s face, before realising he said something unexcepted.

“Every time you tell something good to someone after they done something wrong…. which I didn’t do. You always have that kind of face that you have a catch behind it, to make them pay for wasting your time.”

“Is it really that obsessive?” Asked Zavala looking speechless.

“YES!!!” Said everyone in the room.

“No defence friend, but you do have that type of face for bad news” smirked Shade on the left side of his face rising his left eyebrow up. Shade always does that, said that he makes him feel more like a gentleman but really it makes him a bit more wield.

“Anyway, back to the point” face straight back at Felax who’s repairing for the worst. “You can go, but with a costed. You must prove yourself that you can be trusted responsibly to all others to the city, or we be focusing you to be banish from the city just like Osiris.”

“Understood Commander, give me a month of doing labor-”

“You have until Guardian Day” Interrupted Zavala, saying those word gave a shocking chill in Felax’s body with his eyes were wide open.

“Guardian Day!!!…. That’s less than a week away mate! How in hell am I going to provide my responsibilities to you guys in that short amount of time!”

“Then I suggest you figure it out yourself” Zavala formed a fisted and suddenly turn create a super fist of electricity around it, while giving Felax a hard angry looking stair in his face. After a few seconds, Zavala release his fist away and along with the electric power that was surrounding it. “Your free to go now, get out before I throw you out myself.”

Then turns away from Felax, walk straight through Shade and Nova and storms at of the room. The second Zavala left the room, Shade slowly moves his head to faced Felax in the face with a little bit pissed off face.

Felax walked up to Shade. “Well that could have gone worst, Thanks boss.”

“Bold it right their dear sir” Shade sounded a bit nice but had a bad mood in it pointing his walking cane at his face. “Your still not out of the woods yet old cap, remember your still in a little pickle.”

Felax felt a bit bad after hearing his words coming from him and shocked after seeing him point this cane in his face. Felax was about to say sorry to Shade, until….

“Come lad, let’s walk the fences before you end up in another buzzard scenario again.” Said Shade puts his cane away from Felax face, turn around and started walking out of the room. “We’ll discuss more when we get to my offices”

“You really F### up his time” said Nova going Felax a robotic smirk.

“Shut up, mate!!” Felax pushed her out of his way and stormed out of the room. “This day just never ends”

Nova waited in the for a bit after Phantom left, then she left the room and catch on to Phantom and Shade.

*

An hour later Felax was in the waiting room near Shades offices, looking through big window screens down below the Last City while Shade and Nova take care a few clients of there about their contract and shipments orders.

The Last City is the last haven left on Earth and the only place that the Traveler can still protect. The city which big as Melbourne City of Australia (Well that what Felax think), has huge walls around the city to protect out world threat and the remains of The Traveler floating above in the centre of the city in the sky. This City was built over hundreds of years ago during the dark ages when Warlords and Rogue Guardians form free after the Collapse, robbing, stealing, living in the wilds, killing….you get the picture. Humans, Awokens, Exo’s and Guardians travelled far and wide to the Traveler and they started to shelter beneath it, believing it will protect them. In time for and me people started showing up here and they advance this once flatten land into what Felax before him, a Utopia City.

Felax was only looking up at the Traveler, the dead god who sacrifices itself to save humanity from the blink of excision and created the Ghosts in it dying breath to guardians. He was thinking about many things that happen today and all the misfortunes he been having ever since he been risen. Felax stood there saying nothing for since he’s been waiting, until he decided to talk to the Traveler.

“G’day mate how you’re doing” Said Felax feeling a bit talking to a big dead sphere god in the sky. “Myself? Not going well. Cause I got myself into trouble again and this is one of those times that wasn’t my bloody fault! Like that one time where they fought, I was shipping 2000kg of cocaine around the city, which took two hours to realise that it was 2000kg of sherbets and I was shipping to a candy ship to gain a bit of glimmer, also trying to be nice for someone and they threaten me that if they ever see me…. well, you get the idea.”

Felax stood they quietly for a moment facepalmed his face to the glass, filling so confuse of everything around him and angry of all the people blaming him for everything he done to do the right thing, twice as worst when he gets it wrong.

“I just…. I just don’t…. know what to do” Muttering Felax unsure with himself. “It like whenever do, I make thing worst for everyone around me and cause destruction wherever I go. I try to be like the other Guardians who saved countless lives and be a hero. But they just look at me like I’m nothing to them but trash and say things like I’m not suppose or a mistake to be a guardian in the first places.”

Felax formed a fisted and lightly punch the glass, because he didn’t want to add another thing to Shade bill list. He felt so tired and weak, like weight is pushing down on him as he closed his eyes tightly taking slow deep breaths.

“Why did you bring me back, why did you choose to be a guardian” Open his eyes, looking back at the Traveler. “You brought me back for a reason, at least you can do is tell me. What should I do to prove them all wrong about me? How can I get through this? And…..what is my Destiny?”

Felax waited for a bit hoping he could see a sign or anything from the Traveler that would help him guide him into the right direction. But after a minute and saw nothing, just still the same view he been looking at for the past half an hour he stood there.

“Fine, I figure it out myself” Pushed himself away from the glass and took two steps away from it with frustration on his face. “It’s not like I been talking to you several times before!”

Second after he had his quick outburst, the doors flung open to Shade with Nova behind them and looked a bit concerned about him.

“Shade finish talking to Lakshmi-2, he now ready for you to come in” walks out of the doors and look at Felax looking stressful. She way a bit concern about him “Hey, are you ok?”

“Ummmm…ye-yeah, I’m fine, just a bit tired that’s all. One hell of a day hasn’t it” Said Felax quickly sorting out his hair out, trying to look ok-ish.

“For all of us at least, because of yo-” she stops because she knew that Felax is already going through hell now and the last thing he needs is more discomfit and stress as he already is. “Sorry about that didn’t mean to…. Come on he’s excepting you.”

Felaxs nodded, taking a deep breath, and walked in the through the doors, passes Nova and enter Shades office, while thinking about how screwed he is in and how mad Shades really is?

“Oh Karama” muttered Felax

To be continued……

Note: All Picture I found on images.