I'll just drop mine here even though I missed the deadline by a month. Just thought others might like to see what I'm capable of (btw I did this in the last hour). It is exactly 300 words, including title. [b]Hope Renewed[/b] Humanity fell centuries ago. We lost everything. Now we've been given our chance, and I've seized it with both hands, as many around me have. Some fights should not be fought, but this is not war, this is survival. We have been surrounded for so long; encircled by our tireless enemies. Now it's our turn. Today, I take the fight to them. And I am not alone. As a hunter, I have the responsibility to watch our backs. It is my duty to watch the skies, the ground, and everything in between. The buried city. We come to it at last. Like the rest of humanity, this once-great and beautiful place was downtrodden. In this case, it was the Cabal, may their accursed souls never rest. Humanity and its allies are now pushing out against the darkness. I will do the same here. The buried city, lost and forgotten, its pride and beauty extinguished, will be made new. We will make it so, us guardians of the city; of humanity; of the light in the great void we call space. We will force the Cabal from their rest. They will be driven out like the dogs they are, and we will pursue them tirelessly, for that is our purpose. The red sands of Mars will be red again, and then over again. The Cabal may have driven us from Mars, and even held their ground against other guardians. But they have never fought us of the Vanguard. We, the greatest of the guardians, never fell, have never lost. We persevere and inspire where others fall. We drive the lines of battle. The Fallen fled earth in waves before us, when Mars is red with the blood of the Cabal, they will flee too. We conquer. We are Vanguard.