Halo: Ancient Elements
Many years ago…long before the first human stood on this world, the ancients ruled the cosmos. They created great monuments of their power and will, made worlds habitable for their divine people. Then the great Flood came upon them and all life.
Seeing themselves as protectors of all, the Ancients created the Rings. According to the legend, before they fired the Rings, a goddess by the name of The Librarian saved many races from extinction. But a handful of humans were brought to a special world…a Shield World.
She would place them there and with the aid of her mighty Sentinels, the humans would be placed into a long sleep. The Rings fired…and all life that was not saved ended…as planned.
"You got a lighter?" A man asked.
"Who needs a lighter when you can firebend?" The other man responded as he lighted a small fire from his thumb. The dark tunnel was then lighted by the small fire.
"Good, now we can see where we are going. " The other explorer said. They continued down the dark tunnel until they came to sudden halt. "What's that?" He asked.
"Looks like a door…made out of metal." The firebending explorer responded. "You can metalbend, open it."
His friend tried to bend it open, but nothing happened.
"Must be platinum or cast iron." He said as he tapped the metallic door. "Doesn't feel like any metal I know of."
Then as he passed his hand down the gate a bright blue light appeared in front of them. They were startled by the light and the thing that came out from it. "What is that?!" The firebending explorer asked.
"I don't know but it looks like typewriter." The earthbending explorer responded as he touched the light construct. "It feels physical." But as soon as he touched it, the gate began to move.
"Gah! Why did you do!?" The firebending explorer yelled.
"I didn't do anything, it's just moving by itself!" The earthbender responded, equally surprised and scared by the sudden movement of the rather alien gate. One it opened, a strange metal corridor was seen inside. With a stair case going down…deeper into the earth and ground.
"What do we do?" The earthbender asked.
"I have never seen anything like this in my life…" The firebender responded as he went down the stairs. "It's dark…" He said as he kept going down.
"Comeback!" The earhtbender yelled at his companion.
"Wait." The firebender said as he found another gate, but this time there was some kind of button in the middle of it. "This could be the greatest find in the history of humanity."
He pressed the button and the gates opened…
Red lights flashed. They flashed across the interior of a derelict human vessel floating in space. Inside the cryo chamber, a blue ball of light floated above a holotank. The ball of light then took the form of a woman, she looked afraid at what she could see from the ship's still working outer cameras.
The remains of the ship known as Forward Unto Dawn was closing in to a nearby planet. Not only was it heading rapidly, but several Covenant cruisers were floating above the planet as well. She began to look for the activation key. She found it and activated it!
"Wake up, Chief. Wake up…" She said in a low tone as the only working cryo tube hushed open.