/much later\ Phantom was coming into orbit of Mars. But he wasn't going to Mars, he was going to its moon. Phobos. Half way to Phobos, reaper, his ghost popped over his shoulder. "Wow! What a view!" He said cheerily. "It would be better if it wasn't full of death!" He said. "Well that's why we're here reaper" Phantom, a warlock from the last safe city on earth replied. "Well, I guess that's true" reaper responded. They continued flying and found themselves at the front door of the cabal. Reaper put the ship on auto pilot, and dropped us off at the cabal base. Pulling out his favorite rifle: Red death, Phantom slowly continued up the rocky terrain of Phobos. Coming up to an incline, he saw a cabal legionnaire crawl towards him. He quickly lifted his rifle, planning on giving him a painless death. But the legionnaire died on the spot. Confused he lowered his rifle, walking over to check for any bullet holes. None were found, but instead cabal slugs wounds were found. Shocked, he told his ghost. "Reaper!" He said. "Yes guardian?" He asked. "There's cabal slug wounds in his body." "What!? Impossible" "Does that mean that it was, cabal against cabal?" I asked. "Possibl-" my ghost was cut off by a massive explosion not too far off. Quickly phantom stood up and sprinted toward the sound. When he got to the top of the incline, he saw the cabal base exploding from the inside-out! Cabal ran wildly from the blast. Sirens blared. It was a Melee! Phantom and his ghost quickly ran inside the cabal base. Checking every corner, phantom then spotted something very odd. There were floating pieces of metal everywhere. He entered a big room full of the floating pieces of debris. Eris blasted over the commlink saying. "He! Is here!" Phantom looked up at the center to see a giant looming figure of shadow. The figure said. "Light! Give your will, to me!" A shadow appeared and began forming an enemy all to familiar. It was a hive knight, but made out of the shadows itself! Phantom flipped out of the way of the blasts of hive boomer. He dodged again, the boomer missing mostly but some hit him. A burn started, but it wasn't a arc burn, something more, empty. "A void boomer!?" He asked. Again he dodged out of the way. Coming back up, he felt the travelers light fill him. He leaped up into the air releasing void into small balls of matter. The void hit the knight making him stagger. He lifted up his head, cackling at his failure to kill him. He waited and the knight then noticed the small void burn on his arm. Slowly it disintegrated him, leaving nothing but bone dust. Phantom stood up triumphantly from where I took cover, only to hear Zavala urgently say over the comm. "Guardian, this mission is scrubbed, get to your ship and get out of there!" Chapter 16 It was like hell. I was in my body but could not think. I was in my body but could not talk. I was in my body but could not move. And at one point, my soul awoke inside. My soul opened its eyes to see my body cutting down my brothers. Fallen. I, was cutting down, Every. Single. One. I tried to move, it only resulted in a shiver and a quake in my body. I tried to stay my hand against my brethren. I failed. It was hell. Then, my soul lost its sanity. ~I'm a prisoner of my own body!~ ~How could I kill my brethren!?~ ~Why would I kill them!?~ ~I can't control myself, I am a puppet controlled by a master~ ~I REFUSE!~ With this thought my body shook and the black glow started to disappear. I regained my sanity and The Elinski metal of my armor shone through the black like a star. I kept thinking the same thing. ~I REFUSE!.....I REFUSE!~ Then the unthinkable happened. The same shadow that took me came looming over me again. It reached out into the night with its power and grasped my soul once again bending it to his purpose. The fallen that I was cutting down now turned on me. They cut me and ran me through as I was being taken once again. The shadow loomed over and using his power commanded me to bow. My mind refused but my body listened. My body slowly knelt to a knee. The shadow commanded that the fallen stop attacking and took them as well. As the last bit of my mind was being taken i had one last thought. ~he can take anything, he can command anything. This is the taken king~