HAI so the story of this part is to set up another cross over with Bravekinkajou14 Landing on the dreadnaught was simple, what wasn't was finding Ezkor. I thought to myself about what happened in the past moons. ~I truly let my guard down, being captured twice. I must find my family's killers, and I must take revenge on the Queen~ ~I must protect Peekis, she is the next kell after me~ we landed and the door to the skiff opened. I walked outside with my crew following behind. We kept going and the looming structure of the dreadnaught was above us. We came to a peculiar place deep inside, a crevasse going down for ever. We came to a massive doorway. We walked inside and we heard massive chains rising and falling, the heavy links hitting each other. ~what is this place?~ I thought. We kept going deeper to find long structures with heavy doors that have been sealed for century's. Chains dangled from the ceiling. ~oh! Good, another prison~ I thought. ~at least I'm not the captive~ we continued and the heavy chains became louder. We came inside a room to see 4 Knights, swords made of bone and sharpened for killing. The Knights had their blades pointed down, they looked up at me and my crew. Startled they lifted their blades and ran at us. "Battle formations! Protect the kell!" Peekis ordered. The crew surrounded me and fired their arc rounds into the bony armor of the Knights. The Knights took round after round and kept charging. I aimed my shrapnel launcher and fired. Three shots flew out the barrel, fire leaping forth to strike the foes. One knight staggered, allowing Peekis to charge forward and jab her blades into the Knights armor. The blades hit their target and the knight went down. I turned my head to see two Knights cutting through my dregs. I aimed my launcher and fired at their heads. The shots hit and one knight fell dead. I turned to Peekis, who I heard a sickening clang from. Her blades broke on a knight and she fell to the ground. "Cover me Skintar!" Peekis said. "No! I can kill the knight." I said. I ran to her, dropping my launcher and pulling out my two swords. I took a stab at the knight and the knight staggered, but held his ground, picking me up and throwing me across the room. I landed and turned my head to see Peekis getting impaled by the knight, ether flying out from the wound with blood following behind. The knight yanked the sword free and the body dropped, and at that moment I wondered why I chose to do what I did. What possessed me to fight that knight? It didn't matter now, I fell down on my knees and dropped my swords. I looked and saw my crew fighting the Knights, and failing. I knew we couldn't win, and how could we? I stood up and limped over to where Peekis lay. I peered over the body and crouched down next to it. ~I killed her, I failed at protecting her~ I thought. The last dreg screamed as a knight's sword went through him. I simply sat there on my knees looking at my friend I failed to protect. The sounds of the knights feet came closer. The knights stood over me and one lifted his sword above my head for the killing blow. ~my family is dead, and I failed to protect Peekis~ then the sword came down, striking me in the shoulder. I yelped in pain, and fell to the floor. Everything went black. Chapter 24 Oortis the knight stood over his most recent kill. He was proud, killing a captain from a house was a feat. The other knight walked over. "good swing Oortis, but are you sure he's dead?" "No, not sure" Oortis replied. He knelt down to the body and checked. No beats suggested that he was dead. Oortis walked off and the other knight followed. "Let us go and sharpen our blades Oortis" "Good idea Malolk" walking off Oortis couldn't wait until becoming hallowed for his kill. ----------- I woke and felt pain shooting down my left shoulder and arm. ~I thought I was dead~ I thought. ~I don't know if being dead would be better right now~ I got up and looked down at Peekis. But Peekis wasn't there. ~was I laying there that long?~ I slowly limped over to my shrapnel launcher. I knelt down to pick it up and pain shot through my arm again. It was to heavy. I would have to get out of here by myself. I limped out of the huge room and into the open section with the crevasse. I stood behind a wall when I heard acolytes laughing and talking. I crouched and snuck past them. I kept sneaking and found a hive door made of unknown material. Knowledge fluttered into my mind like a blood rush. I remembered that I had to speak the hive word "Querissi" "Querissi" I whispered to the door. The door answered by opening up and revealing a room taken by rock over the years. I walked inside to see a hole in the stone wall. I crawled through it and it led to the outside. I crawled out and got to my feet. Looking up I saw my skiff being inspected by acolytes. I looked down at my belt. Two shock grenades, an unloaded shock pistol, and a shock dagger. ~go with the dagger then~ I yanked it off my belt and flipped it over. I crouched and snuck over to the skiff. I walked to the door that led inside and I stabbed the acolyte standing guard. Black blood spurted out and the acolyte silently dropped. I snuck inside and stabbed the first acolyte, as it dropped, the other acolyte saw me and I grabbed the knife by the blade, throwing it at the acolyte with a twirl. It stuck in the head of the acolyte and it fell back on the floor of the skiff. I limped over to the body and yanked the dagger out of the head and dragged the bodies outside. I booted up the skiff and the engines hummed. Before I could take off, the engines get shot. They explode, fire going everywhere it could. Fire leaped up the walls inside the skiff. I quickly got off my chair and sprinted to the door, yanking it open. What I saw outside made my adrenaline run and my anger rise. There in front of me was Peekis, but she was taken! She screamed and snatched my head throwing me to a ledge. I slipped and fell off it and grabbed on with three arms, the fourth hanging loosely with pain shooting up it. Peekis slowly walked to me, white shining out of her eyes. She was lifting her foot to make me fall to my inevitable death, but I quickly reached up and punched her in the gut. She staggered back, shivering all the while. I lifted myself up and tackled her, holding her shivering body down. "ORYX! COME FIGHT ME YOU COWARD!" I challenged. "IF I WIN, YOU LET PEEKIS GO!" Silence. "VERY WELL, SKINTAR" Oryx replied. "WE SHALL HAVE YOUR LITTLE GAME" "BUT IF I WIN, YOU JOIN ME, FOREVER" Blackness shot around us, creating a orb made of shadows and death. It disappeared and the Taken King, in his shadowy form showed himself. I stood up and pulled my sword out of its scabbard. Oryx simply lifted up his massive sword. We stared at each other for a minute then the battle started. He sprinted toward me, massive wings following behind. I darted to one side, Oryx missing me by an inch. I came at him, cutting him from all sides. Blood flew from when I hit flesh, sparks came from when I hit armor. He grunted and readjusted, swinging his massive sword into my legs. Blood flew, and pain shot up my legs. I landed on the floor and blocked the next hit with my sword. Sparks flew and I was losing strength fast. He came for another strike, this one hit my blade and it flew from my hand. I looked up and Oryx shot black at me, he power grasping me and pulling me in. "I WIN SKINTAR, BUT I SHALL LET YOUR FRIEND GO, SHE IS OF NO USE TO ME NOW" Peekis was engulfed in black and disappeared. The black engulfed me, I fought back but my mind was enticed. I entered a sleep, one I thought I would never wake from.