Chapter 28: Beacon

                                    

                                          
At the Hellmouth...
The fight had come to its awaited end. Leah and her friends lied over the floor of the Moon while taking a very well-deserved rest, Cayde being in charge of keeping an eye for any nearby enemy just in case not all of them had left. "Hey... by the way... That sword you were carrying..." the exo told Leah, noticing the unique worn slim sword lying at one side... The one Leah had used to chop Omnigul's head off.
"It is... my dad's sword" Leah replied in a longing voice. "I've been keeping it safe ever since he died... but I'm glad I was able to use it for everyone's good"
"Yeah, I'm glad about that too... though I don't think you are gonna be able to use it again" Cayde pointed at the blade at that moment, highlighting the fact that this one was actually bent and quite corroded, clearly due to that last desperate attack Leah had used on the hive witch.
The hunter girl took a long sigh, looking at the sword with troubleness in her eyes... but trying to move past it in order to not ruin the moment of victory. "That's... okay... I'm just happy it's all finally over..."
The lightbearers went totally silent out of nowhere. They did not know what exactly to say after Leah's clearly fake words of relief. There was something still troubling her a lot, and what Kadiah ened up telling her moments later... only reminded the huntress of that thing was.
"So... where have you been this whole time? And where's Ravi?" Kadiah asked, Leah tensing up with a troubled expression while explaining the full story to her friend, including Ravi, Gamia, and Shaxx's terrible fate...
"H-he... he is..." muttered the huntress in a broken tone, not being able to finish her sentence... though the awoken girl did understand what she was trying to say while widening her eyes, and covering her mouth in disbelief.
"N-no way... Is he...?"
At that moment however, everyone present exalted again while noticing a huge aglomeration of dark clouds taking form up high in the sky, right at the middle of the Hellmouth's massive pit. The guardians tensed up as they witnessed the clouds rotating and letting out creepy flashes of greenish light from time to time, the clouds soon taking the form of some kind of vortex... while creating a big portal in the sky.
"Oh no... Now what?" Idus asked while standing up.
Either way, the guardians were already fearing the worst possible scenarios that could happen... An even more powerful opponent coming through the portal... Omnigul having tricked them all with her 'death'... Or maybe an entire armada of Hive invading the Moon... 
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But no... None of that happened at all... 
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If anything... what the lightbearers ended up seeing at that moment only made them startle in a weird mix of surprise and... joy... After all, they witnessed their dear friends crossing through the portal while coming back to their world alive... Lord Shaxx... Kadiah... and yes, Ravi as well... The persistent blue-haired boy who Leah couldn't avoid feeling the most shocked for.
"I gotcha! Now hold on!" Shaxx yelled as he caught both Ravi and Gamia in mid-air, after which he propelled himself with his fire in order to reach one of the borders of the Hellmouth. 
"N-no way..." Leah muttered on her side while quickly standing up, forgetting every single bit of pain she was feeling. The others startled as Leah wasted not time in running towards lord Shaxx, though they all soon joined her as well in her great eagerness.