Chapter 1: Flood

Disclaimer: The Mona Lisa does not belong to me and neither do the Arbiter, Master Chief or any other characters besides my oc's. C: The Mona Lisa belongs to Jeff Vandermeer and Tessa Kum. I hope you all like my story because this is my first time ever trying to write a Halo fanfic.

A little heads up…there's going to be some physical contact in the story. I mean who doesn't love an awkward moment between two different species. Any way I hope that you will like the moment and my writing.

-O-O

All Kris could hear was the screaming and the agony that the prisoners were going through. Their screams then silenced by a closing of the door and then banging or thrashing of the metal. The security and the professionals on board the Mona Lisa were doing something terribly wrong. Kris only thought to herself that she was going to die next. That they would choose her next and make her horrible life come to an end. They had experimented on her but they had put her to sleep with injections and when she woke up that day she was on the cell floor.

Kris heard a new sound a mumbling and she looked behind her at the woman in the corner curled up. The woman had been there for a while mumbling to herself but Kris just ignored her. She was saying things that made no sense like the beasts and a green decaying something. Kris knew that the beasts must be the elites that the Mona Lisa had on board as prisoners but the green thing? What the hell was she talking about? Kris got up from the floor and approached the lady, slowly but surely. The women just kept rocking back and forth till Kris touched her elbow.

The woman screamed but soon looked up. Her graying hair flicking and falling down her face back to its mangled state again. Kris asked "What are you talking about…something about a green thing?" Kris furrowed her brows and backed away a bit.

"The suckers…there here. They're going to kill us all. Make us all pay!" The woman yelled and she got up and looked around. Just then the Mona Lisa's sirens began to go off. Someone had escaped Kris guessed. She heard footsteps and then a man came and unlocked her jail cell door. He was bloody and his knuckles were bloodied, his whole orange suit was speckled with blood that may have been the guards. He was only holding the keys in his hands and running now to other jail cell doors.

Kris ran out the jail cell gates and tripped over a security's body. His body was beaten and bloody with his suit torn in places that usually weren't supposed to be ripped. She had run so fast away from the body that she nearly knocked herself out when she ran around a corner and hit a tall person. She got up and noticed that it wasn't a person at all but an elite without any armor on. He towered over her and made her fall within his shadow. He was looking down at her with what Kris seemed to notice was hatred, but then again Kris wasn't an expert on Sangheili expressions. He was carrying a pistol in his hand, rare that an elite even touched a human gun. Kris could only think to herself that she was in the path of death again and he wouldn't give her that second chance, But simply the Sangheili just narrowed his eyes and looked up from her to shot at something far off. Kris turned around on her bottom to look back at what he had shot at. The noise of people screaming and the sirens hadn't left her mind as they still blared. There was something lying on the floor all decayed and glob looking.

The Sangheili looked back down at her and grabbed her arm to pull her up, pulling a little to fast and hurting Kris's shoulder. Then as soon as he had come into her way, he left quite fast as if he was being followed. Kris ran after him and went to grab his arm since she could not reach his shoulder without tippy-toeing to reach, but he turned around and had the pistol barrel aimed at the middle of her forehead. His mandibles twitched and Kris fumbled for the right word to say.

"What was that thing?...Why didn't you just let it kill me?" Kris wanted to take back what she had said but she couldn't. What was I thinking, he probably didn't even understand me.

He just stared at her and began to speech in his own native tongue leaving Kris to wonder just what the hell he was saying. Behind Kris was chaos. Security and prisoners going at it and elites among the crowd hit any human no matter who was on their side. Behind them in the shadows came out white beach ball looking blobs. Bouncing and suddenly latching onto men and women prisoners, the blobs made them give a shriek and begin to convulse. The elites suddenly becoming victims as well and falling over tipped furniture. They then were covered in those blobs and each elite giving a roar agony. Kris was pulled from behind and kris felt her memories surge forward like before your life was to end. It never came and Kris only struggled to turn around and look at who or what had done it. She turned around only to see that it was still the same elite that had been there before. He hadn't left her…he was still there to her amazement. He looked at kris and turned around to make his way toward the direction of the escape pods. Kris picked up a fallen rifle and like a little child after their mother took off to follow the elite.

They passed by doors and blood smeared wall, the flicking lights making the halls look like a horror house. Foot steps were heard behind them a little ways back and then a hair raising roar. Nothing like a roar of an elite but a beast that was hungry for them. Kris let out a scream that caused the elite she was following to turn around and grab her arm to make her run. Kris still screamed but it was drowned out by many roars from behind. Loud steps could be felt through the floor and slamming of things against the walls. The elite shot at the same time as he practically dragged his human decoy behind him, at least that's what Kris thought to herself. Those things were gaining speed and in the flicks of the light showing their many branch looking arms mangled arms. The prisoners' faces no longer looking recognizable anymore. Their skin turned a gray and greenish color. Their eye's being glazed over or no pupils at all. What the hell are they? One came close to grabbing her leg before she put a round to it's chest, it crashed to the ground giving her just another reason to scream for her life.

The Sangheili came to a halt at a hatch door and pulled Kris in behind him. Kris's impulse was to slam down on the pad and lock the damn hatch door. Kris did exactly that as the zombie living dead prisoners were about a meter from them. The doors closing with a hiss and then a loud banging from the beasts outside the hatch door trying to come in. Kris sobbed and let her rifle fall from her grasp. She was so afraid of dieing that she almost about soiled her self but didn't. The elite looked at her and was probably wondering if he should have killed the human back at the beginning. Kris's bronze hair was wet from sweat and her face drained of color from what she had saw on the Mona Lisa. How was she going to make it out in outer space if she wasn't found within days by another ship. She had to tell that ship that there was a dangerous thing on the Mona Lisa.

Kris became angry at herself for breaking down and crying like a child, especially in front of an Sangheili that already thought humans were weak minded. Well who cares! Kris got her composure back together and just looked over at the escape pod the thudding becoming louder and heavier behind them. She looked up at the elite and back up at the pod. The only thing that was going to give her that chance to live. But only one person could fit? Thought ran through Kris's mind and as if the elite knew what she was thinking he lifted his pistol to aim it at Kris, Kris just looked at him in fear and made a movement to grab the gun. The elite moved it and her hand missed to even touch it. The elite hadn't shot her but was only thinking. He backed away and moved toward the escape pod never taking his eye's off of Kris. He climbed into the pod and was waiting for something. Maybe just to see Kris scream at what she must have realized that she was being left behind for those things. Nothing happened and he didn't close the hatch. The air around Kris becoming stale and her ears becoming hot. The elite was actually going to let her in with him, but how would they fit? He practically was about three times as thick as Kris. Maybe he was assuming humans could shrink or just fit in smoothly with them.

Kris walked over to the hatch and glanced in the pod to see that the Sangheili was looking at her. He was waiting for her to climb in and fit, which was probably going to be impossible. She wasn't going to stay here on the Mona Lisa for those things to eat her alive, she didn't care how she would fit just that she would make herself fit. Kris climbed into the pod and put her back toward the Sangheili's chest and tucked her legs in between his legs. Her face almost touching the pods closed hatch door as she closed it. She hit the button for the pod to be ejected from the Mona Lisa and with a hiss of air they were sent of into the deep arms of Space. Kris was frightened and yet relieved to be away from the Prison ship, but she still was in this pod with a possible killer and especially it being a male Sangheili. He could have easily killed her but he didn't, so maybe he was trusting her just as much as she was supposedly trusting him or maybe it was the other way around.

Kris just tried to relax but what was the use she was almost going to die today if it hadn't been for this unknown elite. He was actually civilized and allowed a human to live. Kris moved her hands, a habit she had when she was nervous, and felt her hand hit the elites thigh. It felt like reptilian skin but it was smoother. She could smell him almost. His smell was a leathery smell and his muscles moved below his skin. He was just as tense as her. His skin was grayish-brown compared to her pale skin. Kris was exhausted and was light headed from crying and screaming. The adrenaline now out of her system and it drained her of her energy. She would have to trust the elite to not try to kill her and she would fall into darkness of her dreamlands. Soon after she stopped twitching her hand, Kris blacked out.

She awoke to a thudding and something trying to unlock the pods hatch. Kris's heat rate peaked and she was worried that maybe the covenant had found their pod. The pod gave a hiss and before Kris stood a soldier and a couple of officers. They opened their mouths when they saw that an elite was behind her. Rather that she was lying on him and he was there with her, but immediately the top officer silenced the soldiers.

"You must be from the Mona Lisa am I correct?" the middle aged officer said. "We got the distress signal from her just an hour ago and have ran the pods numbers to see that they match the Mona Lisa's."

The soldier took out their rifles and aimed it at the elite who's eye's widened a bit. "No! please don't he's friendly. He saved my life. Please don't hurt him!" Kris yelled and got up and out of the pod. "He saved me from these zombie looking things. He allowed me to live." The soldiers looked at her like she was a crazy person. She was protecting an elite!

The Sangheili climbed out of the pod as soon as a person approached Kris. The person was none other than Commander Hood. He took Kris's hand and led her and her elite into a secluded room with guards standing post outside. The guards hand cuffing her elite and forcing him another way. The elite only looking back one last time and giving a slite roar at his enforcers. Hood spent the whole time explaining to Kris that she was now under ONI secrecy and she would no longer be able to talk about what happened back on the Mona Lisa. She was given clothes to change out of her gory orange prison suit and a room/quarter to live in. She was separated from her elite and after that she didn't seem to ever see him again.

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I really hope you liked this chapter. I am going to have the next one up soon when I get enough reviews :D. I love reviews and you have yet to find out more about her and her elite. Please review and I will love you all. ^~^ still are some Spartans to come into the story and a couple of elites, because me's loved elites. :)