Glorious knights clad in blue and violet,
We rally forth in our great journey.
The gods command us into battle.
I duck under repelling fire, whizzing past us,
As others become shadows, unseen.
We ascend into their steel castle, throwing blinding fire.
Hot death flies from our weapons.
We burn the green-clad heretics.
The demons toss bouncing doom and killing metal.
Some beside us fall, but they will be honored.
Their fortress walls crumbled under our might.
We surge forth to reclaim what is ours.
The cavalry, on their gliding steeds, destroy the enemy ranks.
The villains bring forth a loud, wild boar,
But it is slain by our cannon of blue light.
Their archers are smited by a great beam from the heavens.
At them I throw bolts of crystal,
And my enemies become mist in the wind.
Their grip on the sacred artifact has been loosened.
Rushing to retrieve the relic, my comrades are killed,
By their bellowing cannons and roaring weapons.
A metal behemoth is sent at us,
As our brethren descend from the skies to combat it.
We retaliate with mighty beasts of our own:
A mauve giant, burning the earth,
And an amethyst angel, screaming through the sky.
I storm into the dungeon of their blasphemous lair,
And I spot the scared icon, glowing in holy light.
Only one stands between me and it,
A demon staring at me with its single golden eye.
Unsheathing my blade of searing white flame,
I dash at the insult to my forerunners,
Plunge my sword through its emerald armor,
And into its black heart.
Relic in tow, I tour the battlefield.
In the sand, their crimson blood mixes with ours, cobalt.
Screams of persecuted heathens and fallen warriors,
Echo across these soiled grounds.
My men follow me, keeping the infidels away,
From the artifact,
A vestige of our gods.
I climb a pillar and offer our prize to a lavender apparition.
Victory and honor is ours today.
We may now find the heretics' hive,
And cleanse them from the journey.
Author's Note
This was a little ditty I wrote up some time ago, when the Halo Reach beta had been live for a day or two. I had been assigned a poetry project in school and, having Halo on the brain, this was what I came up with. Nothing special, but I like it.
