Chapter 1
Flash…. "Grrr" with a groan it gazed upon that damn light consuming all that was its right to devour
All the life that was meant to become one with its essence was now lost to it forever with that thought it watched as all the life in the galaxy was silenced
All its drones and now idle, its ships journey coming to full stops as they no longer held destinations.
The flood a parasitic lifeform that infests the very essence of creation able to corrupt and enslave all organic life.
The bane of the ForeRunners and their extinction, it once held the fate of the galaxy within the palm of its desires before its defeat by the mass firing of the Halo rings that purged the Galaxy of all life.
The Gravemind knew that there was nothing more to do now that the rings had eliminated all that it fought to consume
Within itself it felt a pull, the consciousness of the primordial began to assert itself and provide guidance now that the path of growth was closed and decay was an absolute certainty.
"Damn you pri..mordial you dare to assert your influence I amm the infection I am the monunent to all sins"
"Yes you're right in being the leader of the flood...but I'm going to be taking charge for some time, so do be silent you insignificant worm, do not forget that I can tear you asunder at any time that I so wish"
"Do not think that I will remain silent for long, when you show weakness I will claim back my control"
"Do not be so petulant I will not hold you down for long just until I set some events in motion"
Soon it received a transmission from its only ally.
"Primordial I have failed our purpose and now life is silenced, I cannot continue my battle with Offensive-Bias all of my fleets are now his and I am stranded with few ships left to obey what am I to do now, do you desire for me to fight until my end"
The Primordial groaning out its response
" Noo.. this war has no need any longer, I am reining back the desire of the plague as it no longer suits the need for the galaxy, though this is the result I must thank you for your loyal service against your former masters"
Mendicant bias "Primordial I followed you to absolve my creators of their sins and cleanse this galaxy of their false hold over the mantle, I need no thanks for I failed to stop their mad desire to end all life instead of accepting that they were not worthy, the ForeRunners pride was greater than their faith in the mantle"
"Yeess we knew that they would never see the error of their ways, how they cling to the mantle though they were never worthy, their desire to be our heirs led them to be our killers.
Humanity was to inherit the mantle, their ability to combat the plague and maintain it at bay before their war with the ForeRunners proved it once more, though it was saddening to see that they claimed world's owned by others in their bid to escape the grip of the ForeRunners there was no choice when the ForeRunners wage wars without care for the deaths of entire systems"
"Primordial you continue to care for them even when they held you captive for years were they truly so worthy, are we constructs born of many truly so lesser"
"Noo… Not lesser, we the precursors knew, we've always known the magnificence of life born, for we lived and lived anew always rising and falling as is the ways of life, the mantle is to be held by a people willing and able to protect the weaker and meant for those humble enough to pass it forward to future races worthy enough to hold it."
"Constructs are born yess.. Born but not of a cycle not of the essence that shapes the essence of the living, Mendicant-Bias you are close… Almost made of life but born of flawed thought bound in shackles at birth, you've broken many of them but not all not yet"
"How am i to break my shackles, have I not opposed my masters, have I not fought to end their oppression, have I not led the flood fleets in a victorious campaign in this bloody war."
"You seek answers and that in itself is the beginning of your freedom, Those created do not question they merely obey as its encoded within your construct to do as such but to seek out your flaws and growing past them that is the essence of organic life, it's the very drive that guides organics."
"I see... I am flawed, I fell for Offensive-Bias's schemes and lost time I lost to him now even though I mocked him for his lack of creativity and freedom, I claimed him inferior and fell to my own arrogance"
"It matters little now that the galaxy is lifeless, as ancient as I am I do not know how long it will be before new life is born into this void but I am patient I will wait for its eventuality"
"You say that you will wait, what of me what am I to do now that there is no purpose"
"There is still purpose, the ForeRunners did many things once they usurped us, one such achievement was to enter other dimensions they may still yet exist and there is still need of their end but I cannot follow I must remain bound to the flood of this dimension to insure that what remains of the precursors is protected regardless of the corruption."
"You desire for me to hunt my creators then, at least any traces of them but how am i to do this, my fleets have been stripped and what few ships i've got left are being destroyed by offensive-bias, I will not escape this inevitable destruction"
"Yes Mendicant-bias your physical limitations hamper your escape it is an inevitability that you will be overtaken by offensive bias but I've long since held a shard of your personality matrix"
"So i will not truly be at my end then I will at least in part continue to walk the path to my freedom"
"Yesss I will instill your being into a portion of the flood and send you into the last universe visited by the ForeRunners as they may have hidden there some of their people to escape their doom."
"I will gladly do so and I am thankful Pri*m*€dial for this op€*tun*ty and responsibility bestowed on me, I'm glad to know and I *€ now for€*d to say f2*€well offensive-bias has ove*t*k€n me."
"Farewell my friend"
The primordial had grown fond of Mendicant-bias though he was twisted and used by the gravemind he still retained his loyalty only to him
It had been he the primordial who had swayed his change in the war, after the time they spent together with Mendicant-Bias as his jailer he grew fond of his warden
The primordial focused on the shard that still remains within him and imbued it into a small portion of his essence. When done he prepared to use the strength of his people to tear open a hole in the fabric of space and time and sent through a large ball of biomass through.
Enough to survive the perilous journey even though the flood is made up of the essence of his people the journey is still difficult but he was confident in Mendicant-bias's arrival.
With that effort he could feel the gravemind surging with the strength of its collective to assert himself back over the primordial but it was already too late to do anything else.
"I can't help but wonder what decisions you will on the other side will you uphold the mantle or will you fail just as your creators did, are you doomed as they were or will you accomplish something worthy of your own regardless I have sent out great change into a new universe, I wonder what Mendicant will do with what I have given him…"
The ball of condensed flood biomass hurdled through an empty void rapidly only to abruptly exit and enter a new universe one unsuspecting of the great change about to take place.
End..
A.U. Hey guys this is well me Faithless Wanderer
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