[u][i][b]A tribute to my clan.[/b][/i][/u] [b]The Ancient Ones[/b] [i]"Knowledge is the path to Victory. Wisdom is the path to Knowledge." –Creed of The Ancient Ones[/i] The hunter was being hunted. We holed ourselves up in one of the rooms down inside this dank earth. I should have turned us around, but now we hide and pray their shrill hiss don't find us. My team stranded in the heart of the Hive's lair, we wondered if we could make it out alive. Then their piercing screams echoed just outside our door, and hundreds of heavy stamping feet shook our bones. It was until we heard the crack of a familiar sound that hope sprung back up in our soul, hearing their sharp cries cut short. Second by second, we could hear their unholy screech grow weaker until the final shriek was silenced. We all felt a brief solus within that eerie calm until the door creaked open. There stood three Guardians, our saviors, welcoming us back home. Back in the safety of the Last City, we were more than curious as to how our saviors were able to dispatch the Hive with what seemed like ease to us. We asked them to teach us, for guidance, but it was apparent they seemed reluctant for some reason. However we counted ourselves lucky as they decided to invite us in the end and were to meet at dawn the next day. But strange, we were invited on the condition that we would only observe and nothing more they vehemently asserted. We didn't give it much thought at the time. Continued: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10627511/1/The-Ancient-Ones [u]Thank you for reading. Please leave a like and comment what you think.[/u]