Into the dark and forward unto dawn

by Ipods-and-buds-1239

His moment, come and gone, his life, turned meaningless. His friends, his family and the love of his life betrayed him for another. As his days slowly draw to a close, hope remains. But to earn a second chance and regain a new meaning, he must explore his ancestry and Reach for the stars. A Chaos story, Book 1 of a series.

2. Revelations

Into the Dark and Forward unto Dawn.

Reveiws:

WingGundamZero98: Thanks for the positive advice and to answer your question, in this story, Percy is Noble 6, meaning he will follow the story from beginning to end, with every bit in between. Thanks for being my number 1 reviewer!

Edboy4296: Thanks for the positive advice and by the way, all the characters will die. I'll be blunt. However, they aren't the original noble team, as you'll see in the following chapter, meaning while they die in one world, they might return to another one. That's all I'll say. By the way, all your stories are videogames, do you read Percy Jackson?

A.N. All right tons of positive review, with some nice comments and constructive criticism and tons of views. Thanks guys. All right before I begin I gotta make a couple things clear, 1) I don't own an Xbox or a Halo game. I like the books though. 2) I didn't realize Bungie wasn't a faction of Microsoft anymore. Now I know thanks to an anonymous review and I'm very grateful for this information. Now the main reason I like halo is 1) I love the books and 2) I played the Halo reach campaign with a friend. I love these stories and I do intend to add Chaos so if you don't like that fact/idea go somewhere else. Please tell me what you think of the new developments, I intend to do a 3-5 part series depending on success, tell me what you think. Thanks!

IPods and Buds 1239

And now, onto the story!

Revelations (Nico)

I spent most of the journey on the Falcon thinking about my old life. I guess this was brought up by Shadow, him having a new beginning and a new cause. Much like me, after my death at the hands of those murderers, those "People" that killed me and left the blame for Percy, who comforted me in my final moments. It also brought the memories of Chaos forward, how he recruited me and gave me new purpose.

As I sat in my seat, well into the final length of the journey, I cast a sidelong glance at the new recruit. Jorge caught my gaze and signaled me on a private channel. "So what do you think of the new recruit" I questioned, right off the bat. "Looks like the average Spartan, but then again, looks can be deceiving." "I wonder what Kat read on his file?" I wondered. "Well, I could tell you the parts that weren't covered in black ink" Kat interrupted.

I double tacked and from the corner of my eye, I'm guessing Jorge did the same thing. "Kat, how did you…" I started but again she interrupted. "Technician, remember, my job is fixing and hacking into machinery." She thought for a second. "That includes channels," she added. "Enough chit-chat" Jorge cut in, "But what were you saying about his file?"

"I couldn't read it all, almost half of the file was classified, and ONI deleted all the combat records." She stated. "From what I got, he's a lone wolf, works on his own. Very cloak and dagger. He's never failed a mission. This is his first time being assigned to a unit." She informed us. "He excels at marksmanship, close quarters combat, piloting, the whole package. Works almost exclusively for the Spook's. It's beyond me on how ONI wasn't able to keep their private "Grim Reaper" out of enlistment for Noble."

"Impressive" I muttered under my breath. "You don't know the half of it." Kat answered, and I could have sworn she was smiling. Carter Signaled us for a channel and simultaneously we joined. "All right Noble, here's the situation, the Visegrad relay station stopped transmitting last night and we've lost contact with the nearby town, we sent in marine Delta company last night, the squadron has since been declared M.I.A. We are going to make our way towards the relay, rendezvous with the Delta company and get Visegrad back online, any questions?" Silence answered him.

"Alright," Carter continued, "Noble I want a bounding movement, June hang make, remain on over watch, stay in the falcon, everyone else follow me."

Just then the Falcons landed, everyone, excluding June piled out as the falcons ascended, Falcon 1 carrying June hovered above us while Falcon 2 went on reconnaissance, its radar on full power as it attempted to find the missing marines. With carter leading the way, I readied my assault rifle and checked the shell amount in my shotgun. 'Strange weapons, guns,' I thought to myself, 'nothing like swords but they get the job done.'

"Noble 1, I'm picking up a small smoke plume on your left, advising that you investigate." June said, shattering my thoughts. "Advice recognized noble 3, we are approaching the plume now. We moved closer, and I mentally prepared myself. "What's the source?" June asked.

Zoe's POV

I looked through my scope, feeling the custom made grip and shuddered, 'how I long for my bow.' As much as I loved the reach and power of the sniper rifle, my memories of the bow and arrow were to wonderful, to beautiful to push aside, Oh my Lady Artemis, how I long for the company of the hunt.'

Thinking of my mistress brought pleasant but distracting memories, everything from my death to Chaos's recruitment. He promised I would see her again, see me family again, if I committed my skills to his cause, in modern words, join his army.

Carter's response soon followed. "The source of the plume appears to be a burned out warthog, standard issue, there's no bodies, no bullet holes, nothing." These words haunted me, bringing back memories of our long campaign against the Covenant and how many of these abominations littered the battlefields of ruined planets. "Plasma maybe." Emile suggested, only confirming my fears.

"Can't be. Not here. Not on Reach." Jorge groaned. Out of all of Noble, Jorge had been facing these vile creatures for the longest period of time.

"Found something." The falcon hovered over the remains of the warthog, and I saw Emile digging through the wreckage. He pulled out a red ovular shape, a mark IV distress beacon. He threw it to Kat, who eagerly inspected the device.

"The outside appears largely intact," Kat started her analysis and pulled out a small knife and cut through it like tissue paper, "but the inside is scorched, probably with plasma, this was turned and I can see finger prints, from what I'm not sure, and evidence that this was hacked into and destroyed." Shadow whistled, "How does she do that?" Judging from her body language, Kat smirked "You get a masters degree in technological warfare, you'll be able to do the same thing."

This Shadow, everything from his stance, not unlike Carter's, to his voice felt somewhat familiar.

"Enough chit chat," Carter barked, "June, what's our next destination?" I looked around, scanning the horizon and saw the outline of a small house "I see a possibility of a house, keep going in you direction and take a right, it's just along the cliff line, you can't miss it.

Carter looked up then nodded, then darted of at the even pace of 30 miles an hour, a light jog for a Spartan. Shadow followed immediately behind, then Emile and Jorge, then Kat, still distracted by the distress beacon, which was placed in a backpack for further inspection at a later time.

"Long drop, isn't it." Emile said, in his own, mortifying, sort of way. "Sadist." I muttered under my breath, if Emile heard, he didn't respond.

"Keep moving," Carter ordered, "Almost there." Since we were in view of the village, I scoped it out and looked at the main building, town hall apparently, considering the signs, which had been fortified, with wood boards and tables pushed up against windows and doors. The building itself looked like it had been in a battle, it's walls burned and riddled with bullet holes. On a hunch I switched to thermal, which confirmed my suspicions.

"Carter, I'm detecting possible hostiles inside town hall."

Carter paused momentarily then used hand signals to move the team around, with Emile and Shadow on each side of the main doors, Jorge directly in front, setting down his own invention, the Mobile Bipod, quite like a camera stand albeit with a massive chain gun on top, and himself and Kat posed in the distance, pistol and DMR at the ready.

"Open for UNSC authorities," Carter yelled, "I said OPEN FOR UNSC AUTHORITIES!" at this a middle aged main wearing a bonnie cap and a black sweatshirt and Khaki jeans, opened the door quickly and put his hands up, showing he was unarmed.

"O Deo gratias incipit, quaeso, sunt animalia recessit?" (1.)

"MOVE, ON YOUR KNEES!" Emile yelled, raising the shotgun, obviously frightening the stranger, it didn't help that he was 6'1 with armor or a chain gun wielded by a behemoth pointed at him, its laser sight settling calmly on his head.

Last night, we were attacked "Relax gentleman, there not rebels, there farmers," Kat said raising he arms and standing in front of them, "this is a farming village, I can translate what they are saying using my utility pad said Kat, whipping out her arm and, with the press of a few buttons, had selected the translation application. "Explica te."(2) Kat calmly stated.

"Hac in nocte, nos opprimebantur," the villager began "Last night, we were attacked," Kat translated, " vestra classiarios venit," "Our marines came," "Duxerint eos in creaturis convallis mi ibat cum illis," "They lead them, the creatures into the valley, and his son went with them," "

Illis creaturis exanimavit classiarios ... et filium meum." At this the man broke down into tears and a women emerged, maybe his wife or a relative, and ushered him inside, the returned, to take his place.

She put on a brave face and stood tall, a little battered, a truly respectable woman indeed.

"Those creatures killed most of the marines... and his son." Kat finished and then turned towards Carter, looking for his verdict. "Get them back inside, we'll head to the valley to investigate, June lead the way." He looked at me and I nodded. "Pilot, please head towards the village." The pilot responded with a quick yes mam and took of.

"Quisque intrare plures auctores itinere vallem tractabimus in creaturis." (3) Kat told the villagers before following the rest of noble as the sprinted afte my falcon.

The pilot flew slowly towards an abandoned house, which was obviously ransacked and hovered, allowing me to notice the final features of the house. Fortified just like the previous house but this was in much worse condition, the roof was caved in on the left side and multiple doors had been forced open, their once proud doors lying unhinged on the ground. Flies buzzing filled the air and the stench of decay was present.

"Shadow, lead in, we got you back." Carter said. Shadow responded by tapping his helmet and switching on his night vision. "Talk to me noble, what do you see in there?" I asked. "3 mark this location for CASEVAC, we have two dead marines, obviously interrogated, through methods that match covenant technique." Carter said, his head down. "If only we had gotten here sooner."

I had my head down, these poor men, no matter how filthy, didn't deserve this sort of pain. I was so into thought that I barely noticed the bleep of movement on my radar. "Carter, I'm reading movement, be advised, movement is closing in from all directions." "Is it civilan?" Carter asked, but was interrupted by a loud "CONTACT!"

A.N. All right I have a flu week of so I might post another chapter or two soon, thank you to all my readers and good night!

(Translations) These are translated from Latin, as they were the closest language I could find to the native language of Reach 1. Oh thank God, the authorities, please tell me, are those creatures gone?

2. Please explain

3. Everyone get inside, more authorities are on the way, we will deal with the creatures in the valley.