A/N: The entire first paragraph, John's dream is Property of firerwolf. I put it in as a good way to start off the John x Kelly vibe. I also apologize to firerwolf for plagurizing her work in previous chapter versions. Also, if you read this and haven't read anything by her, A) Your a fool and B) go read some of her stuff right now

As The World Comes To An End

Chapter 1: The Beginning OF The End


Cold, the only thing the barley awake corners of his mind could piece together. slowly he pieced together a happy memory in his mind full of warmth and light. It was him and the girl he loved more than he could possibly admit, Kelly. They were still young kids and they had just cut off Kelly's blue hair as is standard for military.
Kelly sat crying against a wall in one of the storage rooms. John tenativly walked up and sat down next to Kelly. "Kelly, why are you so sad?" John asked. "Be-because they cut off my hair!" she replied through tears. "But it will just grow back"
said John slightly confused. "Not-not my blue hair!" she replied. "Kelly, did you know that the best team you can be on in the military is blue team? I promise that no matter what it takes I will get you onto Blue team." said John.
"Also," he continued "I thought you were pretty cool taking down 3 of those guys before they could hold you down and cut your hair". Kelly turned her head and cryed into Johns shoudler. He was caught off-guard by this-he still wasn't sure about girls but he just let Kelly cry into his shoulder. After a while Kelly smiled and said to John "You're the best friend ever". All the warmth of the scene went away and everything became a garbeled mess of thoughts and emotions.

Kelly or Kelly-087 Floated through the back end of the ship known as, "The Forward Unto Dawn". "Kelly, I suggest you keep your heartbeat down before you wake up the rest of the galaxy." Said Kelly's Sarcastic AI, Jason. "Shut up, Jason" Kelly replied obviously annoyed. After a couple of seconds of akwad silence Jason finnaly said, "That distress beacon we picked up is close, just around this bend". Kelly's heart fluttered with hope of what might be around the bend. "Kelly, light's out there might be hostiles around the corner" Said Jason. Kelly flicked off her helmet lights only to turn the corner and see the room illuminated with a blue light. "Cortana?" Kelly asked. "Kelly?" Cortana said just after her.
"What are you doing here, Kelly?". "Looking for something" she replied without emotion. Cortana narrowed her eyelids "Are you sure you don't mean Someone?" Asked Cortana Icily. The two "girls"(or one augmented girl and an AI) just looked at eachother until finally Cortana pointed her finger at a Cryo-Tube. Kelly sprinted over to the Cryo-Tube. "Kelly, is there something you haven't told me?" asked Jason sounding slightly bemused. "Not now" replied Kelly.
"Cortana, wake him". Cortana, reluctantly pressed a button on the floating key-board in front of her. After several minutes the Cryo-Tube made a loud hiss and out came a groggy 7 foot armored green giant. He almost fell over but Kelly caught him and helped him regain his balance. Then the green giant looked at Kelly and said "Who are you?". Kelly's responded with an awkward through-armor hug. John was caught-off guard by this and almost pushed the thing in front of him away but then he heard it whisper something through tears, "John...". He instantly knew who was hugging him. He wrapped his arms around Kelly and smiled.

John wasn't prepared for Cryo-awakening and was groggy as he tumled out of his Cryo-Tube. He felt his foot catch on something and tripped but before he could hit the ground something caught him and helped him regain his balance. John was so confused that the only thing he managed to say was "Who are you?". Before anything else could happen this, thing hugged him so hard he couldn't breath. He was about to shake it off him when he heard it whisper something into his chest through tears. "John...". One single name shot through his head, Kelly. A fraction of a second later John was hugging the female Spartan infront of him. He let her go a couple of minutes later. Although he couldn't see Kellys face through her helmet, he knew her eyes were tearing up. As were his.

There was an awkward silence until Jason broke the silence, "Wellllll... now that you've... finished, I suppose we should head out of this ship before we all die." John walked over to the AI podium and picked up Cortanas data chip and put it in the back of his helmet. With that, Kelly led Them out of the ship and they made it safely back to the ship Kelly took. "Kelly, how come there aren't any other ships out here and why are you alone aside from your AI?" John asked confused. "Soldier, that's highly classified" she joked. "You stole this ship and came alone, didn't you?" John guessed. "Yup, pretty much" Kelly said shamelessly. John smiled under his visor, then one question popped into his head Why did nobody else come to get me? He was about to ask Kelly when an explosion rocked the ship. John got thrown against a wall. He heard Kelly scream and blacked out.


Ok guys, this pretty much sets the standard length for chapter. That's right, this isn't a OneShot. There will be more. I will try to upload twice a week but no promises. Also... Cliff-Hanger :D

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