AC: Here's the prologue of a short story with very few characters. Beware of darkness.

Sometime, when you are alone in the darkness, you believe you see things but they are illusion, or are they. In the darkness, we fear the secret it contains. The darkness will hunt you.

I've done some corrections to the chapter suggested by Guess. I've done it for this chapter. I'll revise the other chapters eventually. I'll finish the story and they checked everything.

I was fighting in a battlefield. Bullets from the inferior humans come around me and also against the energy shield I have on my armor. I charged at the enemy and slew them with my energy sword when I was close enough and used my plasma rifle when I was away. I saw them shooting at me and I quickly ran and I hid behind a wall. I looked around and I saw an opportunity to accomplish my mission. I wasn't there to kill the humans in an honorable fight. I was there to infiltrate a bunker and find valuable information about the human's military location on their home planet Earth.

I am a Stealth Sangheili. I am an infiltrator and an assassin. I slay so many humans that I couldn't count them. If you want to know what I look likes well:

I'm a 8,5 ft. tall Sangheili. I have quadruple-hinged jaws, with an upper jaw and four mandible-like "lips" with 6 teeth. My skin is dark gray over all of his body on his reptilian body. My eyes are sharp and seem like piercing your souls; that's what I guess from my enemies when they looked in my eyes and trembled in fear. My body is muscular and a little thin. I wear his light blue armor of his rank and under it, blue clothes and a blue pant.

Anyway, I focused on my mission and I activated my stealth camo and I walked at the direction of the bunker. I was quiet and I passed being the human soldiers fighting my brothers and some Unggoy. I walked inside quietly. I entered inside and I started searching for files when I saw that no one was watching. I searched fast and I found a computer. I used my special gear and I downloaded all of the strategic location humans possess on Earth.

"Got what I need." I whispered in my language.

He turned around and I ran outside the bunker and I saw the battle continuing. I saw an opportunity to kill them...But...I couldn't do that. I had a mission to accomplish and it will cause trouble. I ran far away from the bunker when I lose my balance. An earthquake occurred during the fight at the worst time. I felt on the ground and suddenly, I heard a sound. The ground around me cracked and I knew I had to get out or I'm doomed. I stood up and I ran as fast as I could. The ground continued to crack around me and I saw that the ground collapsed in front of me. I used my speed and strength and jumped as far as I could. I was in the air and I raised my hand. I grabbed the rock and I was hanging on the cliff. My life stood on this rock. I raised my other hand when I heard a sound and the earthquake continued again. My hand slipped and I stopped hanging against the wall.

"Nonono...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed.

I then felt in the Earth. I felt strait into the darkness.

Beware the darkness

Prologue: We are two

Pain...It's the only thing I could fell right now. My eyes were close by the pain. I grunted for a few seconds when he remembered that I felt in the underground after an earthquake. I looked up and I saw no light. I only saw the darkness. I started to breathe a little faster, but I forced my body to breathe slowly. I cannot lose my calm now. I'm a Sangheili and I'm a powerful warrior. I tried to activate my flashlight, but nothing appeared.

"By the Halo...It must be broken." I grunted with frustration. I tried again and nothing happened.

I tried to move my body and I felt greatly restrain. I wondered why. I decided to improvise some light with my plasma sword. I activated it and a weak light is made. The light shined on my body and I saw my armor. It was bent and gravely damage. The armor is now useless to me. I took it off my body and I checked myself. I saw that I am relatively fine. My body is painful and it was a little hard to move. The good news is that nothing is broken. I can deal with the pain without trouble. I already block it out and I stood up after grunting. I looked around. My plasma sword gave me a little light around me and I inspected myself more. My weapons were all damages and unusable except my sword. I needed to be careful if I want to survive.

I then looked at my inventory. I checked and except my weapon, my ration of food and water were still present. I checked well and I had enough three days of supplies before I'll start to starve. It is good that I'm good at rationing this. I can probably extend it to five days.

After the inspection of my body, I stood up with my remaining strength and I used my sword to guide me around. I walked on the solid ground of rock in the cavern, large enough for me to walk in there without problem. The light of my sword can only reveal what is a small distance in front of me. I am almost blind in this cavern. My left foot step on a rock and I almost lose balance. I managed to regain my balance. I made a sound when I heard something.

I heard something breathing and also walking away from him. I looked at the direction of the sound and I moved my plasma sword there. I saw another track and I decide to go there. I decide to put an arrow on the ground to know which direction I should continue if I reached a dead end.

I followed the source of the sound and I am sure that someone is walking away from me silently. I couldn't hear a lot but I knew something was there. I walked silently with all my skills.

I wondered if it was an Unggoy walking away from me...But I cannot be sure and I refuse to take the risk. If it is a human ready to ambush me...I will not die by getting into a trap. I walked carefully at the direction of the sound and I then heard no more. Whatever it was...It wasn't walking anymore.

I suddenly heard something breathing near me. I jumped surprise, because I didn't detect anything behind me until now. Something caught me off-guard and I might pay the price. I turned around with my blade and...I saw nothing. Only the darkness covering the place.

What was that? It wasn't the wind...Something was definitely behind me...And now...It is gone. I said in my mind. I shook his head and I walked forward. Maybe it was all in my mind.

I saw the cavern is getting smaller and smaller and I had to walk on my knee, closer to the source of the breathing I could hear. I walked closer to the source when I saw something brown and thin suddenly disappearing in the darkness. I gasped surprise and I wondered if it was real. I moved closer and I raised his sword, the light moved closer to the end of the cavern. I tried to move closer, but I reached the limit. My body couldn't move closer, the cavern is too thin for me. I then saw the source of the breathing. It was...a human...And a child.

She is a young girl of...around 3,9ft. tall. She had pale brown skin covering her body with chocolate eyes and shined a little when her eyes are lighted and short black hair. Her body is thin and makes her appeared vulnerable. She wears a white shirt cover her arms and her body a white short. Her clothes are covered with gray dirk and dust from the cavern. She had a green bag on her back.

She gasped when she saw me and moved at the end, she was out of my reach and my sword. She then took something and made light at my face. She had a flashlight on her and illuminated the place stronger than my plasma sword...And I cannot reach it. I wondered if what I should do now. I do not know how she ended there...But there is one thing sure...I couldn't- No...I had to. Humans are the enemy of the Covenant, no matter what their age and size are.

I saw her eyes. She was afraid of me and she felt like I'm going to hurt her. She was right...No...Wrong. She is a child...She cannot defend herself...I cannot do that. I'm a warrior with honor. I cannot hurt a child who couldn't protect herself...I looked at her. I reached a dead end and I can leave her there by herself.

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I couldn't. I couldn't leave her behind. It's...It's not honorable. She also had a flashlight that could give me some light in this place. I looked at her and I said nothing for a while. I waited for her to calm down and got use to my presence. I looked at her in a peaceful and non-threatening way. She started to calm down when she saw that I wasn't going to hurt her. She looked and studied me for a while before her body stopped being defensive. She now seemed more open to discussion. I didn't try anything but I could guess that she is more open now.

After fighting so many humans, I started to understand the body language. That is why I knew she would be opened to discussion.

"Do not worry human...I will not hurt you." I said to her calmly in her language.

"..." The little girl said nothing. She didn't trust me.

"Listen...I promise I will not hurt you...My name is Dar 'Mdama." I told her.

She looked at me without saying anything. She was suspicious of me and I was sure she would say nothing.

"...I'm...Lucia." She said to me with her voice shaking with fear.

I looked at her and I said nothing. She looked at me with suspicion, but I might be able to convince her to come if I continued talking to her.

"Why are you here?" She asked.

"I fell in...here." I said calmly to the girl. "An earthquake caused this."

"...You too." She said. She looked at me with some curiosity now.

I think she is starting to give me some trust. It was...fast and I'm surprise. Maybe she was a girl who trusted people easily...Or a little too naïve for her own good.

"Yes...Me too." I told her.

"...It's scary here...The darkness is around us." She suddenly whispered.

"...Maybe for you...But not for me." I told her. "Listen...I want to find a way out of here to the light...I think you should come with me." I proposed her.

She looked at me with some disbelief. She said nothing for a while, but she was considering it.

"You really are going to hang your promise?" She asked me.

The promise to not hurt her. I think this is what she was talking about. I then deactivated my plasma sword back and I putting back on my back. I then showed my hand and silently telling her that I'm unharmed.

"Yes." I told her.

She looked at me and didn't move for a while. She then smiled at me. I think I did it.

"Alright." She said. "I'll trust you."

She then started to move at my direction. I backed away so she could get out of the cave. She was crawling and the flash light shined on my eyes for a second and I closed it so I'm not blind by the light. I heard her moving closer until I didn't heard her anymore. I opened my eyes and I saw her in front of me. She looked at me and she was wondering what I was going to do now.

"Lucia...Do you have anything with you?" I asked when I saw her bag.

"Yes...When the attack occurred...I had the bag with food and water." She said looking at me.

I saw that she was ready to hide in case we attacked them. I saw...For the first time in my life the consequence of the war on their civil...And a child. I did nothing to seem sorry about it. We are here to exterminate the humans...But I couldn't do it strait at her face like that. It's much easier by destroying the planet from space...Where you don't see them.

"It was smart from you...Listen...You better manage what you have...We don't know when we will get out of here." I warned her.

She looked at me.

"Okay." She said.

I smiled at her with my mandible to reassure her.

"Were you in the attack?" She suddenly asked me.

I looked at her and I didn't have to force myself to find a lie.

"No. I wasn't in the attack." I partially lied to her. I wasn't attacking, but collecting information's for the prophet of truth.

"..." She said nothing but she nodded, implying she trusted me with a little doubt.

"We should go now." I told her. "We had to find a way out of here."

"Okay." She said again.

I turned around and I was about to start walking when I felt something on my two fingers and my two thumbs. I looked down at my right hand and I saw the left hand of the little girl on my big hand. I wondered why she did it but she grabbed it lightly. I was a little confused and I didn't like the contact.

"What are you doing?" I asked her. I tried not to look angry at her and lost her trust.

"Grabbing you hand." She said innocently. "I'll be sure I won't lose you."

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"I understand." I told her.

She grabbed my hand to reassure herself. She was a little girl and she surely was afraid. She was in a cavern surrounded by darkness...And I was the only one by her side. I don't let anyone touch me usually...But to survive and the fact that it is a child...I forced myself to hide my displeasure.

We walked together in the cavern when we saw the arrow I made. I looked at her and I pointed the direction we should go. She pointed the flash light at that direction.

We walked deep into the cavern and we searched for a way out of the darkness.

AC: Here's the end of the prologue.

Chapter 1: Revelation of the light.