Percy's POV

"Alright that about sums everything up." I say wrapping up the meeting with the other Horde leaders. "Meeting adjourned."

"For the Horde!"

The cheer, uttered so often and always with such passion, filled the hold. Everyone stands up and prepares to leave. However Eitrigg remains where he is. "Wait warchief." He calls out.

"You have told me about how you got here. But I am still curious about something." He continues.

I shrug and sit down. "What's that?"

"I want to know about your childhood and teenage years." He replies smiling. The other leader probably heard this and they all sit down.

I raise an eyebrow. "This will take a while so are you guys sure you wanna listen?"

Sylvanas smirks. "Well we were all supposed to head to Gallywix's welcome to the Horde party. So please make it as long as possible."

I chuckle. "Ok you might wanna sit down."

Flashback (Percy is around six here.)

"Percy wale up." My step father Paul says shaking me. I finally stir and notice at the urgent look on his face. "What wrong daddy?"

"Wake sister and get dressed, we're leaving." He says ignoring my question.

"But why?" I ask.

Paul winces then snaps. "Percy this is not the time. Just get your sister and I'll explain everything later."

I nod before he leaves to talk to my mom. I gently nudge my twin sister Persephone. She sits up and stares at me with a familiar pair of sea green eyes. "What is it?" She asks groggily.

"Mommy and daddy said to get dressed." I say.

Persephone grabs her clothes and changes in the bathroom. I grab a pair of jeans from the drawer along with a T-shirt and slip them on I tug on my socks and shoes. Persephone emerges and I give her socks and sneakers.

Our mom grabs her as soon a she has her sneakers tied. We all pile into the car and my step-dad drives like a maniac.

My mom turns on the radio to listen to the news. The reporter cries out in a frantic tone. "The marine forces have been unsuccessful in holding the Covenant back are now making their way to the capital."

So thats why my parents have been anxious to leave. I heard enough stories about the Covenant to know how scary they are.

"All remaining marine, police and militia forces have been ordered back to the orbital elevator to oversee evacuations"

We head to elevator where a sergeant and four officers are protecting the elevator. We and dozens of other evacuees climb aboard.

"This ones full!" The sergeant says on his radio and the elevator moves up. We reach the top of the elevator. "We'll wait for the ship that is going to pick us up." My step-dad says.

"There it is." My mom says smiling and pointing at a ship about to enter the station. Just when it's about to enter a purple lance of light cut through the ship, turning it into a fiery inferno.

The elevator is suddenly rocked by an explosion.

"What was that!" The sergeant snaps.

"Plasma damage!" One officer says. "The Covenant have boarded the-AHHHH!" He was cut down by Covenant monsters.

"RETURN FIRE!" The sergeant roars firing his pistol.

The officers fire their own guns at the Covenant. One of them shoots a small aliens gas mask off. The small creature panics, running around the grabbing Persephone. The little creature finally runs out of air and dies.

My parents crouch down on the floor covering us with their bodies. The remaining Covenant cut down two of the officers.

The sergeant looks at the last remaining officer whose firing his shotgun."We need to get the civilians out of here."

The officer nods. "This way everyone!" He leads us through a cavernous hallway followed by the Covenant. The aliens fire their weapons at us, killing several civilians.

One plasma round strikes my mom in the back. I cry out in anguish and kneel down to help her. Paul kneels down to help her but is struck by a crystalline needle in the neck.

"Percy…protect your sister." He gasps as a massive split-lip alien in blue armor approaches him. The alien steps on his back then fires his gun at his unprotected neck.

"NO!" Persephone wails, falling to her knees and letting tears from her eyes.

"Persephone we need to leave." I say nudging her.

"We can't leave them Percy." She protests.

The alien looms over us with his gun pointed at Persephone. I rush in front of her determined to protect her.

The officer blasts the alien in the chest with his shotgun. The aliens armor flares up but he gets up and growls.

The officer pumps his gun then shoots the alien in the chest, blowing it up, however more Covenant are heading this way.

"Get your sister." The officer orders me.

"She won't leave." I reply.

The officer swears then picks her up. I run beside him as he orders the door behind us to be closed, cutting the Covenant off from their pursuit.

"We'll wait in this loading docks until another evac ship arrives." The officer says.

I breath a sigh of relief and sit down beside Persephone to comfort her.

"Don't worry sis," I say wrapping my arms around her. "These door will hold the Covenant back."

The doors are then blown open by a small Covenant holding a very large yellow gun. The officer fires his shotgun as everyone else tries to run away or shot down. I grab Persephone's hand and look for a hiding place. The two of us hide under several supply crates in the corner.

I finally let my tears fall and bring Persephone, the last of my family closer to me.

I don't know how long we've been hiding but the Covenant continue scouring the room, looking for survivors. Occasionally dragging someone who tried hiding and executing them with a quick shot in the head. One person hiding near us snaps and makes a run for a rifle in the hands of a dead officer. Three bird headed aliens fire needle guns at his spine, and the man crumples to the ground.

But the bird creatures aren't done, they surround the man who desperately tries to crawl away and tear him to pieces. Persephone makes the mistake of letting out a small squeak.

A split-lip alien in red armor this time approaches our hiding spot with gun raised. I pull Persephone closer, determined to take any fire for her. He's about 5 meters from the crates when I hear gunfire. This gunfire doesn't sound like the hum of plasma, but instead it's the metallic sound of human rifles.

The alien turns back and fires his gun at the new attacker. I risk a quick glance and see a squad of marines driving back the Covenant. One figure I notice stands out from the rest. He's a huge human wearing red/yellow armor that covers every inch of his body, and in both hands is a machine gun turret. A Spartan, I've heard plenty of stories about them from my friends at school. Like how they could take on entire armies by themselves.

He and the marines mow down any Covenant dumb enough to get in their way. The red armored alien fought the hardest firing his rifle until it overheats then draws a small knife made of energy.

The alien charges towards the Spartan but he raises his weapon like a club and smashes the aliens skull in with a single blow.

"Fan out and look for survivors." He orders the marines.

They look around the loading dock for anyone still alive, but everyone else is dead.

The Spartan glances in our direction and we both creep closer to the crates. "It's all right." He calls out heading towards us. "I'm not going to hurt you."

He stops right in front of me and removes his helmet. "Don't worry, I'm here to help you. My name is Jorge." He turns to the marines. "I found survivors, two kids."

"Are you a Spartan?" Persephone asks with shining eyes.

Jorge chuckles. "I see you've heard of us."

Me and Persephone share glances. We've always looked up to them. "The two of us wanted to become Spartans when we get older. I'm Percy, and this is my twin sister Persephone."

Jorge leads us away from the crates and into a gunship that lands on the hanger. "Where are your parents?"

The two of us begin tearing up again. "Dead." Persephone sobs.

Jorge nods sympathetically. "The two of you want to be Spartans when you get older right?"

We both nod vigorously.

"Then come with me and you'll be Spartans." He smiles.

Authors note: This is meant to be warchief Percy and Persephone's backstory and hopefully it will explain how they became a Spartan-IIIs. Also another important thing to remember is that here the second Titan war and the great prophecy has been retconned, but the second Giant war and prophecy of the seven will still happen. Also Rachel Elizabeth Dare is also still the oracle.

And this is the same Jorge as the one in Halo Reach, although he still hasn't joined NOBLE team here.

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