Preface

Hello, and thank you for clicking the link to read this story. Ahead of time, I do hope you enjoy everything I have worked so hard to create in the name of entertainment and an elaborate exercise for Character Building. The Chapters that follow are all typed and given a rough over edit within approximately a week and a half's time, they are formatted in a way that Fan Fiction doesn't do it justice, so things may look different or might not translate as well as they would on a word or PDF file.

This stated, these chapters for now are all Rough Copies. The First Draft to a chapter book styled story that is being treated as if it is to be published (Though I doubt 343 Studios will ever know it exists)

As this is a First Draft, you can expect

Awkward exposition

Clunky sections

Plot points that might not make sense

Small grammar or spelling errors that I overlooked

Things that just don't make sense

While I read over every chapter once I'm done with it, there will always be things that escape my eyes that you all will see. Feel free to point them out when commenting!

Additionally, since these are First Drafts, I encourage creative criticism. I would love to hear how the chapter flowed, or if it needed to be changed, or if there's something that needs adding or take it out. You lovely readers are my editors as well, and praise is always nice along with the cautionary "This part here could have been worded differently". I don't expect college level responses nor do I expect people to give any responses at all. But when I'm done typing all the chapters, I will go through and refine them.

For now, or until I catch up on my writing, chapters will be released bi-weekly starting the second Saturday of January 2016. This schedule cannot be guaranteed, but will tried to be met

Now, the last thing to cover is purely copyright stuff and rating stuff.

Halo is a franchise owned formerly by Bungie, now 343 Studios and in some respect, Microsoft. Like everything that is submitted on Fan Fiction, there is no monetary gain to writing these stories and using characters, themes, concepts and so on that have already been pre-established. I write these for entertainment and intricacy of story telling.

And lastly, this story is rated M because of violence, gritty themes, and war. While there might be mentions of sexual activity later in the story, there will be no smut typed out. At best touchy feely moments that turn to implied 'fade to blacks'. Even that cannot be guaranteed.

Thank you very much for your time, and please enjoy the story!