I'm going to Wright my fanfics in favour of people who may have already watched or begun to watch or play the series in my fanfics. So not only does it save time but people can proceed to read the story and not spend half a decade reading the same description from multiple fanfics. Unless I decide the character needs a serious uniform change.
Chapter 1: Waking Up, The Usual, Kill A Demon
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"Normal Speech"
"Whisper"
"Shouting, yelling, screaming, ECT"
"Internal speech"
"Thinking"
"Demon speaking"
"Flashback"
Narrators POV
When you wake up from stasis, you would usually expect to be inside a stasis room, inside a ship, in space. Well one Spartan John-117 woke up from stasis in front of what appears to be a shrine. Now usually you would freak out about waking up in a strange place, but not John. With his years of training and experience for and in war, he immediately begins to look the area over for possible exits and any hostile life, whether it is native or alien.
Spartan John-117 POV
Waking up in front of a shrine isn't what had me on edge; no it was the lack of the AI terminal I had put Cortana in and or the general lack of technology. Looking around my stasis pod I noticed there was no weaponry accepts the knife I had on me.
A small flashing light brought my attention to a small terminal inside the pod. Pressing a few buttons I discovered it to be a recorded voice message from... "Cortana". I pressed play.
"John if you're listening to this it means your stasis pod finally kicked it and it was forced to release your from stasis. I'll put things bluntly, your pod was running out of power after about ten years drifting through space, and I finally managed a moment of clear thinking from my rampancy. I won't bother explaining my rampancy there's not enough time. I decided to concentrate power from all systems including the rescue beacon and... My own terminal" My breath hitched at this, even when I had to leave Cortana on High Charity I knew I would get a chance to rescue her later on but now. "John I know what you're thinking, and during normal circumstances I may have been able to transfer myself to the pod but I'm not under normal circumstances. I don't know how long the pod will stay active my rampancy is now even interfering with basic problem solving capabilities. I have also decided to eject the pod because other minor systems may draw on the pods power. This will be the last time you will hear me John and thank you". The terminal soon after the message ended lost all power.
I didn't know what to think, I've been sleeping for an unknown amount of time, and I'm in an unknown location and Cortana is now... gone. But like all good Spartans, like the Spartan I am I will keep moving.
Hitting the emergency release valves the pod door ejected forward slamming into the wall on the far side of the room. Stepping out of the pod I turned around and observed what had been in a way my coffin. The pod stood about three meters tall, and one and half meters wide. The outside looked to have aged considerably; there were signs of damage and rust over the majority of the pod, leaving it looking like a giant lump of useless metal. "I must have been out at the least 100 years and that's considering if the pod kept running into problems. The crumpling at the bottom gives obvious signs of my crash landing on this planet". But what really caught my attention was the large amount of gold and silver varying in shapes and sizes from simple coins to large detailed ingots of gold, paintings ranging from landscapes of places I have never seen, portraits of various women clothed or naked. "I wonder if I can find some way to fix my inhibited sex drive". Not that I'm incapable but it would probably make it easier. And what appeared to be a large number of scrolls surrounding the pod. From this point of view I could now easily see that this was in fact a treasure room. Now if the chair sitting in front of all of this treasure and paintings of multiple women was anything to go on, it appears a man really likes to watch his treasure. The opening of the door brought me back out of my observations.
Guard's POV
Hearing a loud crash coming from the treasure room behind me had me nearly flying through the roof. After calming down a fair a bit I drew my katana took hold of the door handle and made my way in.
What I expected to see was a person attempting to raid the treasure room from the many windows that my employer had to have in here so he could; and I quote, "so I can look upon the natural beauty that is my reward for hard work". If you can call bottle necking a small village's economy through threats, force and lies hard work. No what I saw was what appeared to be a seven foot tall green armoured giant with one single golden eye looking right at me. Now I've never really been one for fighting, not that I can't defend myself, I just don't actively look for trouble. So I proceeded to scream like a little girl and faint.
John's POV
I watched the unconscious form of a human who just entered the room, saw me, freeze, scream, and then faint. "That was unexpected" was all I could say.
I walked over the man and flipped him unto his back. There wasn't anything special about him apart from the sword he had iron-gripped in his hand. Seeing as he had shortly entered after I had ejected the pod door I came to the conclusion he was standing guard outside. I decided that since he was an armed guard it may be safe to assume that anybody else in the building would be armed as well, so I proceeded to easily pry the sword from the unconscious mans grip and using the magnetic plate on my back attached it.
Now being armed with some basic weaponry I decided now would be the best time to leave before more people decided to come and investigate. Walking out of the room I noticed that I was at the end of a decently long hallway. The treasure room was located on the left side of hallway; looking further down I noticed two more doors on the same wall as the treasure room. Making my way down to the first door, I stopped and listened. Hearing nothing from the other side I entered. There were a large number of bags located around the room and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. I exited the room and made my way to the next door.
I was half way down to the last door in the hallway when a loud scream shattered the silence. I reacted quickly, I sprinted the rest of the way. I booted the door in effectively reducing the wooden door to splinters. What I saw made my blood boil. Now I was never one to get angry easily and only a few people knew what did. Cortana was one of those people. What I saw was a man forcing himself on a woman in her late twenties on bed. Wasting no time I ran to the man and booted him off head first, well that was my intention, but in my anger I forgot about my severely augmented strength and ended up taking his head off instead.
Tsunami POV
I was just an ordinary mother, with average skills with above average looks. The man whose name that no longer deserves to be spoken from my mouth had betrayed my son and me. We had believed him a good man in a time of need. He had saved my son from drowning, and effectively made his way into our lives. But that was never his intention. I had discovered he was in fact a man working for Gatou who had been strangling our economy from the moment he arrived in the land of waves. He sold me off to Gatou's men and gave them the location to our home.
"Flashback Jutsu"
I was inside my home preparing lunch for Inari and Him. My home was small but had two floors. The first was the dining room and kitchen. The entrance was in the dining room that led outside to a bridge into the forest surrounding my home. The top floor had four rooms and one bathroom and toilet.
There was a knock at the door, so I put down the knife I was using and made my way to the front door. When I opened it I was immediately pushed back by a man standing in the entrance with a sinister grin. It was him Inari's adoptive father and my husband "Kaiza". On both sides stood two men armed with katanas.
"Zanti grab the woman, Basu go upstairs and grab the brat, Gato will be happy to know he has another bitch and a brat to sell" Ordered Kaiza loudly.
The last thing I saw was the hilt of the katana coming down on my head.
"Flashback Kai"
My son and I were taken and imprisoned to be sold of as slaves to wealthy men or woman in favour of Daimyos and Kages to gain political foot holds. And here I was now about to be raped by a man who had obviously no idea what a bath was.
During my struggles to not be taken, I never noticed the door being reduced to splinters, or the seven foot tall green armoured giant entering the room. But I noticed him when suddenly the man above had his head taken off by a very large boot. I laid there confused at first but quickly threw it away in favour of escaping the blood shower I was currently under.
Johns POV
The woman I saved seemed to lay there confused at first about what just happened but quickly came to her senses when she found her herself being sprayed in blood. I helped the woman move the body and offered my hand to help her off the bed. She looked at my hand then up to my face or my helmet in this case. She then got off the bed and stood on her own. I lowered my hand. "Who are you, you don't look like one of Gato's men" she asked? I stayed silent for few moments deciding wether to tell her my rank and position or just tell her my name seeing as I have no idea whether I'm in UNSC controlled space, or was I asleep so long it possibly doesn't even exist anymore. I stuck with protocol.
"I am Master Chief Petty Officer Spartan-117 ma'am, and no I don't work for this Gatou you speak of" I stated with practised monotone. She flinched at how dead my voice appeared to be. "Do you require any assistance ma'am" I asked this time with a bit of gentleness in my voice. I had realized during my time that when dealing with women or children who had gone through a traumatic experience needed to be handled with care. She seemed to only slightly relax at my tone, but still had her guard up, understandable considering the situation.
She seemed to think a few moments before letting out a breath. "Yes I do need help, my son and I were kidnapped and brought here to use as blackmail against my father who is building a bridge to open up new trading opportunities". She took a breath. "I want to get my son, escape the land of waves and go to the village of Konoha my father is currently staying in so as to avoid this happening again" She said. Like I said before I was never one to get angry easily, but with every word she spoke my anger increased. I made a simple lead the way gesture so as not to give away the anger that would be in my voice.
Tsunami POV
I lead the way to where I believe they were keeping the children. I looked behind me to the blood covered giant behind me. I shivered at what happened just moments ago. To say he was effective in combat would be a severe understatement.
"Flashback Jutsu"
We made our way out the room only to come face to face with a large number of guards numbering about 13 coming to investigate the disturbance the Spartan- as he called himself- had made. They immediately drew there katanas and made to attack. Thing is they never got the chance. The giant with speed that betrays his size had moved and begun tearing them apart, literally. The first guy he got a hold was by the head and with a quick motion detached it from his body. The head was the thrown at another distracting him long enough for the Spartan to grab his arms and remove them with sheer force. The sound of flesh tearing and bones snapping was all I heard and watched for the couple minutes it took for him to mow his way through them all.
He was flanked by one of the guards who finally managed to get hit in at the Spartans head, only for it to bounce of what appeared to be some kind of barrier surrounding him. Spartan quickly spun around grabbed the offending guards hand and twisted it. A crunch was heard and the guard screamed in agony but was quickly silenced when Spartan drove the now reversed blade into the wielders throat. Spartan continued on uninhibited.
Now I was never one to condone an act of violence but I was giddy with happiness watching him tear his way through these bastards. By the time I came around there was only one guy left. He had pissed himself if the soaking wet patch on the front of his pants was anything to go by and by the smell, also shit himself. Spartan walked towards but I quickly called out "stop". Spartan stopped and turned to look at me, I simply walked up to him and took the sword of his back. I then made my way to the last man alive.
"Wh...wh...What a...are you doing" the last man asked me? I tilted my head to side and put on a thinking face while holding the sword on my shoulder. I then smiled kindly.
"That's simple" I said sweetly, I then scowled "killing you". I drove the sword through the man's heart then let the sword go, leaving it impaled inside the man's chest. I turned around to see Spartan looking at me... well at least I think he is. "What" I asked? He said nothing but made a motion for me to continue.
"Flashback Kai"
I looked at my hands as my thoughts travelled back to the moment I drove the katana the man's chest. I have always wondered if ninja found it easy to kill a person or another ninja and now I know. It's very easy. As I walked a question came to me, "Spartan" I called in a questioning tone. I didn't need to turn around to know he was listening, "do you find it easy to kill"? I heard him stop walking, and I did as well to listen to his response.
John POV
I stopped walking when she asked if I found it easy to kill. Truthfully I had never asked or been asked the question. I never pondered on whether it was easy to kill or not. I simply killed because that was what I was trained to do and it was what I had to do at the time. Thinking back I found it very hard to kill Arbiter, actually I never managed to kill him before we became allies and after that I lost all interest in killing him. "Spartan" I heard the woman call. I looked up at her, trying to find a reason.
"I truly don't know ma'am. I've killed simply because it's what I'm trained to do" I replied. She seems to think for a moment then a small look of confusion crossed her face.
"Have you ever asked why you had to kill before" she asked? Again I stop to think.
"No" is all I said.
Narrators POV
The two eventually found Inari and a large number of other children in cages. After releasing them Tsunami and Inari cried in each other's arms for a few minutes. They just sat there and held each other seeking comfort. Spartan simply stood of to the side keeping Tsunami, Inari and the other children in view. After a little while John walked up to Tsunami and spoke. "Ma'am we need to move, staying here only raise's our chances of been captured or killed before we escape and it will be all the more difficult considering the large number of children we now have following us" John said authoratively. Tsunami looked up at John and nodded. She picked herself up and started giving instructions to the children.
The group moved quickly and quietly. Mainly thanks to John keeping lead while Tsunami worked on keeping the children calm, even Inari was helping by acting brave. Despite the clear sign of fear in his eyes.
They ran into a few patrols and were able to coax (torture) directions out of the survivors of each encounter before killing them.
After some more walking, they finally found the exit.
John's POV
When we finally made it outside, we were treated to the sight of a man carrying a ridiculously large broadsword and a masked person whose gender I couldn't identify through the clothing, standing in a clearing a couple dozen meters in front of us. "Identify yourself" I called out. The man seemed to chuckle while there was no visible response from the woman or man I didn't know yet.
"It seems the little rat attempted a rescue with no Intel on the enemy Haku" the man said. I showed no response to the taunt but kept my guard up. I regretted not grabbing another sword during one of the skirmishes.
"It appears to be that way lord Zabuza" Responded the masked figure, with a voice totally devoid of life but clearly feminine. I flinched at hearing the now identified woman's voice. "She sounds exactly like the Spartans II when they first spoke. No mind of their own" I thought sadly. But knowing the girl had been brainwashed angered me considerably.
"What have you done to that girl" I asked with barely restrained fury. The man now identified as Zabuza laughed loudly and responded.
"Whatever do you mean rat, she is simply a loyal tool with no other purpose than to serve me, on the battlefield" he paused a few moments but I could see the grin forming under his bandages," or off the battlefield" he said laughing.
I moved.
Zabuzas POV
I was shocked this green armoured giant or whatever he was moved with surprising speed. I reached behind me but my body flinched agianst the sudden movement, my body must still be damged from my previous fight and i paused for just a moment, but by the time I was able to grab Kubikiribocho he was already in front of me. "Wha-"I was cut off by a massive right fist to my gut that I crumpled over unconscious.
Hakus POV
I didn't see him move at all and by the time I registered his new position the fight was already over. Zabuza the man who took me then placed loyalty and an obedience seal on me was unconscious, hanging limply over the right arm of the giant.
Narrators POV
Everyone stood still even the children, staring in awe at the display of speed despite the armour being worn. John quickly proceeded to finish the job. He moved both hands up to Zabuzas head and with a quick yet powerful twist, Zabuza was now permanently looking over his shoulder. At that exact moment Haku screamed in agony. She felt like something was crushing her head from all sides, yet as quickly as the pain came it was gone and she finally felt free. "The seals, they're broken" Haku whispered.
John stood over Zabuzas body confused at what this Haku girl said. "What's a seal" He asked.
