Sky Hunter: Halo Phenomenon
I'm sitting in my room just chatting with my friends on Skype and Facebook. I hear a knock at the door and hear my younger brother's voice from the other side, "Sky! Let me in!" he calls. I sigh and shout back at him,
"Its unlocked you moron!" The door opens and he walks inside. He smiles his annoying smile like he always does when he plans on bothering me.
"Hey Sky, guess what?" he asks me louder than he should.
"What?" I reply in an uninterested tone.
"Ok ok, I have something funny I wanna tell you!" he says quickly and as annoying as ever. I sigh and give a little growl to try and scare him, it doesn't work and just goes right past him.
"I don't find anything you do funny you little annoying brat, now get the fuck out of my room." I say with a bit of my dark tone to let him know that I mean it. He looks at me a second and decides to pry a little more. He gives his mischievous smirk like always,
"Your always chatting with those stupid friends of yours, why don't you get a real life scumbag!? " He quickly turns but stops as I look up from my laptop to scare him off. I stop when I see him staring at my poster of Master Chief and Arbiter on the wall by my door.
"What are you looking at dipshit?" I ask in an annoyed tone I still have from his previous comment.
"Do you not see that?" He asks me, his annoying tone gone from his voice. He almost seems serious.
"See what?" I question as I get up and go over to him. He points to the poster,
"That green light." He says as he tilts his head. I give a puzzled look and glance at the poster myself, seeing nothing at first I look back at him.
"Your an idiot." I sigh and go to turn to get back on the laptop, but I stop when I see a light green shimmer and I turn back and focus my full attention to the poster. I see a small green light shining from the Chief's helmet. Kyle puts a shadow over it with his hands to see if it is a reflection. We both gasp when we realize its coming FROM the poster. I reach my hand out for it as Kyle moves closer to it as well. I use my index finger to touch the glowing area and as I do I feel something pulse through my body. My other hand reaches out and grabs Kyle by the front of his shirt. His eyes widen and he looks at my hand as it grips tightly and then looks back up, "Oh sh-" he starts but he is cut off from his exclamation of surprise when we disappear from my room.
I feel myself falling through the air and my arms flail wildly to find something to grab onto. The falling suddenly stops and I hit the hard ground, but it wasn't cushioned by the carpet of my house. It is a hard patch of ground, cold to the touch. My breath is knocked from me as I hit. I hear Kyle from close by also yelp in pain as he hits something hard as well by the sound of it. When I'm able to catch my breath I open my eyes to a hole in the ceiling that has a patch of sunshine raining through.
W-what? Sun? But it's 8'o'clock! I think to myself as I stare puzzled at the sunshine. I finally look around, examining my surroundings. I see broken walls, shattered windows, and burn marks, burn marks everywhere. I sit up, painfully grabbing my back as I look around again. Kyle is beside me on the ground, groaning in pain.
"K-Kyle..." I groan and move over to him, having to crawl on my hands and knees. I shake him and he opens his eyes,
"Oh... ow ow ow." he moans and sits up slowly, rubbing his head. He looks around, checking out the place with the same puzzled look I believe I had.
"Where are we?" he asks again, mostly to the air as I have no idea.
I finally get up and look around more clearly at my surroundings. I see broken walls and the ceiling above me is just another floor to the building me and Kyle are in. It is about late morning but not quite afternoon from what I can tell from the light shining in through the hole in the roof of the building, cascading through the two story building. I look at him and he at me as I say,
"Kyle, wherever we are... it isn't Kansas anymore." He looks at me and nods. Then we both hear a strange sound from outside the room. The door is closed so we can't see through it. It sounds high pitched, but familiar, like an alien. We look at each other as we both then remember what made the sound and I say,
"It can't be..." So we both walk up to the door and I open it slowly. The door itself was easy to open, but as Kyle tried to step through I pull him back as fast as I can. He almost falls back but I hold him upright and he looks at me angerly,
"What was that for?" he gripes but manages to keep his voice low. I point to the ground in front of the door, or shall I say, lack there of. His eyes widen when he sees it and then he looks up at me, nodding in thanks and I nod back. I peek around the corner and I hear the sound again come from down the hall. I look at the gap to see that there is a thin strip of ground on the opposite wall. I point to it and look back at Kyle,
"We have to shimmy it." I tell him and he nods.
I go first and jump across the small gap with sharp rocks just below, one slip means death. I hug the wall tightly as I start to shimmy along the thin walkway down the hall. I see another door back on the wall opposite me and when I get close enough, I jump from the ledge and into the room. It's door missing so I didn't slam into it. I step into the room and look back down the hall at the room Kyle is still in. I wave for him to come. I watch only long enough to make sure he makes it to the thin ledge. When he does and starts to shimmy my direction I turn back into the room. I look around and don't see anything at first, but then this foul smell attacks my nostrils. I cover my nose and mouth and look around for whatever is causing the disgusting smell. I then see a hand sticking out from a pile of rubble on the ground a few feet from me. As I make my way to it Kyle jumps in from behind me. I look back at him and wave at him to stay back. He gives me a curious look and then sees the hand under the rubble and nods. I go over to the pile and throw off the large pieces of building that have gathered on top of the person. When I throw the last big piece off I see it is an adult man. His face is horribly burnt but I'm able to tell it is a man still. He is wearing the armor of the military but something is off about it. It looks normal but there are some differences I can't point out. I look him over and see his dog tags. I pull them off his neck and look for his name. 'Pvt. Peter Johnson. 3rd Battalion.' Then I stop when I read the third part. I just stare at it and before long Kyle comes over and taps my shoulder,
"Sky, something up?" he asks me and I look at him. I point the the part of the dog tag and he looks at it. His eyes also widen and I finally speak,
"UNSC." I say drily. He looks at me and shakes his head,
"I-It can't be... we're..." he stops and I nod,
"Yeah, I suppose we are... in Halo." I say, even unbelievable to myself.
We then hear the noise again, now not even questioning what it is, a Grunt. I search the dead trooper for anything useful. After searching I find a M6A standard pistol with a single clip and a knife. I hand the knife to Kyle and I pick up the pistol, pulling out the clip so I can count the bullets. I count six and I shake my head. I've never even fired a gun before. I think to myself and I look at Kyle, holding my hand out for the knife. He hands it to me and I grab the holster from the man, tying it around me and I holster the gun. I pull out the knife from its sheath and I look it over; a 7 almost 8 inch black blade with a curved sharp edge, and the back edge rigid like that of a chainsaw. I hand the sheath to Kyle and I walk to the door. I look around the edge of the doorway and into a large room just beyond. I see a single Grunt just looking at the ground, kicking at something, but his back is to me and I can't tell what. I look to my immediate right and up a flight of stairs. I hear movement up there but I don't hear anything coming close to the stairs. I look back at the Grunt to see him walking away from me. I take this opportunity to move into the room. I hide behind a broken down wall and peek around it to see the Grunt still walking away from me. I quickly move out from behind it and rush the grunt. I don't make a sound while sneaking up on him and I get right behind him. I hold the knife tightly in my hand and I smile, finding it comical how easy it is to sneak up on him. I tap him and he jumps, turning around to see me, his tiny purple eyes full of fear when he sees me holding the knife in the air. Before he can even make a sound I slam the knife deep into the top of his head. His body ragdolls and falls to the floor when I pull it out. I pick up the body and I carry it back to the room where Kyle still is. I toss it into the room and look at him,
"Well... that was easy." I smirk and shake my head, but I stop when I hear a voice, also high pitched, definitely from a Grunt, but the funny thing is, I can understand it.
"Hey, you there? Hello? Where did you go? Are you sleeping on the job again?" it says in a Grunt's voice. I look at Kyle to see if he heard it to and by the look on his face I can tell he had. We hear footsteps on the stairs and I wait by the bottom of the stairs in the room. I see the Grunt look into the room and step off to walk in. I step up behind him and I grab him, pulling him back onto his back as I stab him in the face. I toss him back into the room and I sigh,
"Man, these guys are heavier than I thought." I tell Kyle and he chuckles.