Ok so its been quite a while so I figured I should give you what I currently have written if for those who have been waiting patiently. Thank you for being extremely patient I was hit with an unfortunate case of writers block but its gone now.

There was a request to have a character put in by someone and i agreed to so i will place them in the upcoming chapter or the one after

ODST
Name Casey Ellis
Gender male
Height 6ft
Age 21
Rank corporal
Back ground: has a good sense of humor. Can have psychopathic episodes. When he was 5 he watched the Covenant kill his parents and his 3 year old little brother.
Weapons: smg, sniper rifle, assault rifle knife
Is friendly towards unsc personal.

Unexpected Events

Amanda Pov

It's been a few weeks since my transfer to the Arbiters security detail and it has not been boring to say the least. My first day on the job I ended up angering the Arbiters wife and almost was thrown out of a twenty floor window, then there was the unpleasant job of dealing with the Arbiters head of security on my first day of reporting for a duty assignment which had me escorting one of the daughters of the Arbiter who was near obsessed with asking me millions of questions. Needless to say when I found out i had this day to myself I roamed around the I found myself at the training grounds where they train the next generation of sangheili soldiers to prepare them to enter the planetary academy and immediately saw one of the instructors yelling at one of the children so I decided to see if I could help. As i got closer the instructor took notice and stopped the class and walked up to me.

"Greetings human. What do we owe the honor of your presence for today?" He said in a partially mocking manner.

"I was given what your people called a rest day so I went exploring and ended up here. Saw you having issues with this particular kid. Whats he doing wrong?" I asked ignoring his attitude.

"Why do you wish to know. Your race has no desire to fight hand to hand except your demons." He snorted out

"Actually I happen to be a force recon CQB hand to hand specialist. So I might be able to help provided you stop being smug with me. AND for the record im on the Arbiters personal security team." I stated as a matter of fact.

He eyed me carefully for a moment then sighed. "Very well if you really wish to know this youngling here is over confident and over reaches which I have chastised him numerous times. He does not hear reason even though i have to admit he has not lost against other younlings it will serve him no good on the battlefields in the future." He said as he shrugged non caring fashion.

"May i have a try at it?" I asked while taking off my helmet.

"Do what you wish human I was going to dismiss the whelp for the day and send him off to run errands for one of the keep staff. VORDAS! COME HERE!" He yelled out causing the kid to jump and walk over."

"Yes instructor Dahisk?" He respectfully bowed asking. As if he had done this dance plenty of times over.

"Go with the human she wishes to see your forms." He snorted out and walked back to his remaining turned to me but I was already off to an empty area of the training grounds so he made his way over quickly. Once he was standing in front of me I looked at him closely taking note of how he held himself. He was a little talker than me and he was decently built. I quickly noticed he was staring at me with contempt as if he thought of me as a lesser quality than him which made me quickly realize i needed to fix his attitude before I do anything with him. I sighed thinking to myself that this was going to be a tough nut to crack.

"Alright i see we have a problem. First let me state your stance right now is wrong. If your going to stand at attention bring your legs closer together as well as sitting up straighter. Second its clearly obvious you have problems with authority so we will have to fix that before I do anything with you. Lastly... from what I've heard you over step and use to much energy in your movements that is easily fixed." I said as i was circling him taking note he fixed his issue with standing at attention.

"Good. Very good. Your a fast learner I see. Next I'm going to have to work you to the bone so you don't have the energy to use exaggerated movements. Any questions before we begin?" I said as I stopped in front of him once more.

"What exactly do you have planned for me? And why the interest in me." He cautiously asked narrowing his eyes wary by my demeanor.

"Relax kid. Just some... Exercises to start. First give me 100 push ups, 100 crunches, then I want you to make 30 laps around the training yard." I said casually.

His eyes bulged. Clearly not understanding. "What are those? The 30 runs I understand but the first two I'm not sure what you mean." He said clearly distressed.

"Push ups mean laying on the ground and using your arms to push yourself off then bringing yourself all the way back down. I want 100 of those from you. Crunches are where you lay on your back with your legs are brought up and your feet are placed on the ground. That's when you bring your upper body up to your knees and then back down. I want 100 of those as that you know what they are get to it your burning day light." I said calmly.

He made the move to complain but then stopped noticing I wasn't going to budge on the matter so he went to start the things I told him to do.

Dahisk Pov

I watched the human curiously as I instructed my younglings without any hindrances since the human took my problem off my hands. To my shock she seemed to be training him but not in any sort of way I was familiar with. The female had him doing exercises. It took me a moment to understand then it hit me like a phantom. She was wearing him out so he didn't have the energy to spend on those viscous moves. To that end my respect for the human was gained as one of the other instructors came up to me.

"Lux good to see you brother." I nodded to him as i called the younglings to be dismissed for the evening.

"Good to see you as well. I see Amanda has taken the youngling under her wing as humans say." He chuckled.

"You know her?" I snorted.

"Yes she beat me in single hand combat last night. Even held her own against Dar and Vrask for a time but still lost." He said rubbing his left lower mandible.

"Surely you jest. That human couldn't possibly... Then again... I did hear a report of a human stopping an assassination attempt on the Arbiter and cleaning the floor with two minors. This is her I'm assuming?" I asked curiously.

"Yes this is the human. She knocked a few of my teeth loose during our sparring match" He said showing me that he indeed was missing a tooth and having a broken one.

"Interesting... How skilled is she? I'm assuming decently so to hold up to you three." I said suddenly thinking about some possibilities.

"I know that look brother. And yes shes quite skilled. She has learned quite a few martial styles that took us by surprise." He chuckled while patting me on the shoulder while walking off to the human.

I started wondering if there were more of her kind somewhere. Shrugging to myself I walked off to the dinning hall to get some food and to make my report on the progress of the younglings.

Lux Pov

I made my way to the Human Amanda to check to see how the youngling was holding up seeing he was now running the area of the training ground.
She had removed her upper armor showing her disturbingly slim figure in her combat suit as she stretched a bit for what i was guessing her morning training. she she still had not noticed me as I came up next to her I smirked. "Amanda it's good seeing your well today." I said making her spin around startling her.

"Lux. Jesus I almost about hit you!" She half yelped out.

"Were it so easy Amanda. So why the exercises?" I chuckled out pointing to the gasping youngling.

"Oh that? Nothing major actually. Back in boot camp there were plenty like him. The easiest way to deal with attitudes like that is work them to the ground then do what you need to train without them having any energy to fight. Although I will admit its the first time I've actually done this so its going to be interesting." She said smirking.

"I was actually about to do my morning routine. But since your here would you like to be my partner for the morning?" She asked with a smile indicating she was hoping for another match.

"Hmm. What about your youngling? The instructor has to keep an eye out to make sure they follow the training." I said casually.

"Hes got 15 more laps around the courtyard and at the rate hes going he will be finished in a half hour at least. If not then maybe an hour." She said shrugging.

"Besides showing him what I have in mind for him might make him more willing to learn. Unless you don't want me to knock another tooth loose" She grinned as said it sitting down and stretching her legs.

"You got lucky. Besides I know what you like to do now so it will be far from easy to beat me again." I laughed out as I said it.

"So? Yes or no big guy? Not every day a woman gets throttled by a big strong man or in my case a sangheili." She said with a grin making me turn a whole new color of dark grey.

"You... Your... So strange... That. What?" I stammered out as she laughed at my profound lack of words.

"HAHAHA! Relax Lux I was only teasing you. I'm guessing flirting is not something your race is used to." She said smirking as she stood back up to face me.

"Sangheili female flirt also! That was not flirting... That was something else entirely!" Finally finding my words as my blushing faded as I'm sure her seeing my blushing would've caused me untold amounts of grief.

"Oh? So you prefer the flattering kind of flirting? Well I shouldn't expect any less. You like your women dainty and feminine in that case? maybe with a hint of mischievousness?" She purred out while grinning ear to ear.

"Your enjoying making me uncomfortable... Your far from what I expected." I grumbled.

"HA! And what did you expect me to be? Some straight faced no humor killing machine?" She giggled throwing a punch that made me grab her wrist gently.

"No. Nothing like that. Just did not expect this. Besides if I were to flirt I would be doing more than just offer platitudes. Many males like dainty and feminine I however prefer strong and upfront in a mate." I said as i gently released her hand chuckling as my statement made her turn a bright red indicating a blush which sent me in a fit of laughter.

"That's not fair! You sounded like that on purpose! UGH... Beat at my own game by a eight foot mountain of death." She said as she feigned innocence.

"On another topic I intended to go to the settlement and was hoping to catch either you, Dar, or Vrask in hopes of having some company showing me around." She said as she shifted to check the progress of her charge which made me chuckle in the fact I seemed to have won her little game.

"Hmm. Sure I have nothing else planned for my day. So it would be nice getting out of the keep for once seeing as I need to meed my sister and mother for lunch." I said thinking out loud.

Just then the youngling came in and collapsed to the ground making us chuckle at his state. Which indicated our time for conversing was up as it was now her time to finish his training. We both agreed to meed in a few hours at the keep entrance to journey to the settlement.

Amanda Pov

A few hours after the training I put the kid through I sent him to do his other duties and went and cleaned myself up a bit. Then made my way to the keep entrance wearing a tight black v-neck t-shirt , cargo pants and my boots to wait for Lux. The morning with the elite was certainly a high point in the day so I figured it would be interesting getting a tour from the big guy. After a few minutes passed I was leaning against the gate wall with my hands behind my head with a ear piece playing some music and humming in tune with the song while I waited. Once Lux met up with me we made our way to the Settlement and talked about each others histories in the war which mine was much less compared to his. At least we both fought on Halo the prophet of regret fled to, then there the fighting trying to contain the flood that came to earth on a damaged infected CRS Covenant light cruiser, lastly fighting on the Ark which was hell. We reached the settlement and walked to meet his mother first saying it was an important matter that needed attention. As we rounded a corner i walked face first into Vrask which put me on my ass bringing a stream of creative curses which made him turn around and helped me back up with him offering apologies.

"Damn if I knew I was gonna be put on my ass by walking into you I would've at least hoped to at least make you flinch. your a tank Vrask jesus." I grumbled.

"Ah. Good your here Lux. The Arbiter has tasked us with something that must be taken care of tactfully. But it is good you brought Amanda with you she could be of use to us." Vrask said in a lowered voice.

"Dar make sure we arnt followed were going to the Serene Truth. Once were aboard i shall notify the Arbiter we have brought Amanda to help us in our mission. He will not complain in either case since he game me the choice to take whoever." He said as he turned around to walk off.

"Whoa whoa whoa. Hold the hell up I don't even have my gear!" I said in alarm.

"Dar change of plans hurry to Amanda's quarters back in the keep. Collect her Armor and weapons. I shall send a phantom to collect you after you gather it up." Vrask said into his communicator.

"I guess I have no choice in any of this do I?" I sighed with resignation.

"No. No i suppose not." Vrask chuckled as we hurried to a phantom on the outskirts to make our way to his ship.

Vrask Pov

We reached my ship and Amanda had her armor delivered in short order and her reaction to the ship that was under command was amusing since I commanded the newly constructed CAS Assault Carrier with a redesigned hull. Instead of the standard to two energy projectors she was given six. Instead of the standard two plasma torpedoes she was given four. The planetary bombardment beam was removed to allow for more power distribution. Next was the new reactor system which supported two reactors to allow for easier power distribution. Then lastly the most impressive feature about my ship was instead of the one shield system she hefted not just one CAS class shield system but two allowing her to take greater punishment. There are many more improvements but those were the most impressive.

I reached the bridge and opened the mission file reading over it before deciding the course of action to take. Apparently there was a small human fleet on patrol along our boarder that had gone missing and was reported there was a small fleet of Jiralhanae or remnants of Jul'Mdama's fleet. The reports were disturbingly vague which made me wonder why exactly just one ship was being sent no matter how refined the design was. My only conclusion is that we would work in tandem with the UNSC which fouled my mood. Even though i respected a few UNSC personnel they were few in number which one of them happened to be aboard my ship. Which brought my thoughts to the human Amanda. Her rank in the UNSC was poor her skill and intuition was absurdly high and she had a shockingly large aura of authority to her. I knew the decision was going to make a few heads spin as humans say.

I activated the ship intercom and cleared my throat. "Human Amanda report to the bridge with Dar and Lux." I said and shut off the intercom. getting a few side way glances from the crew on the bridge but I paid them no mind. Some minutes passed and the three came to the with Amanda in her armor again and her helmet under her arm and all stood at attention before me waiting for me to speak.

"Human Amanda it has come under my attention from the times we have sparred within the few weeks we have known each other and for what im bringing you into on this mission im using my authority as shipmaster to promote you to the Sangheili rank as major and you will command a lance of Sangheili warriors." As I finished my sentence there was a dead silence on the bridge and then everyone on the bridge all at once amusingly shouted "WHAT?!" at the same time but most in our native tongue.

The Second in command of the ship stared at me with an aghast stare and Amanda as well as my brothers looked as if they were struck by phantoms which filled me with a small amount of mirth.

"Shipmaster! Surely you must be Jesting! This is unheard of this. This HUMAN is not as competent as you say!" My second was in a fit as I stared at him calmly.

"Amanda?" I asked.

"Yes sir?" She recomposed herself quickly enough standing solidly at attention.

"Clear a space on the bridge. Amanda you will face me to prove you are up to the new rank. Do not fail you must beat me. Am i clear?" I deadpanned clearly showing the seriousness of this fight. The air on the bridge was constricting.

"Sir. With respect for your orders I will comply but in the two weeks we have sparred I have yet to win but I will do my very best to live up to your expectations. I will not fail so do what you must and so shall I." She said putting her helmet on while getting into position Drawing her blade from her shoulder guard and getting into position. I knew this was different from her usual demeanor everyone could sense one word from her aura emanating from her and it screamed 'Lethal'

Dar Pov

We all sat dead silent as they circled even the Second in command watched with a smug but intent interest at the sudden change in both demeanor's. Amanda had drawn her blade indicating that she saw this as more than just a fight. My eldest brother seeing her change in the posture she was giving made him draw his energy sword. Both Lux and I looked at each other and the look he gave was all he had to do so we split apart in case we needed to intervene to keep either from killing each other. This wasn't just a fight anymore, This was a duel of honor. One of which could very well escalate into a fight to the death. Then they both charged. Amanda slid under him grabbing his left leg and pistoning off the ground onto his back swinging herself just as fast over him as he swung his sword missing her she brought a armored boot to the top of Vrasks head making him stagger back and dropping to a knee and then she tackled him to the ground but Vrask was not an idiot he grabbed her and threw her off him. She rolled onto her feet not letting up charging back into the fight, my brother doing the same. Vrask swinging low causing Amanda to go high catching her by the arm and driving her into the ground. But surprising to everyone she didn't even acknowledge the blow my brother landed as she used and arm to spin her body using her then launching herself back up kicking my brothers mandibles hard enough to cause blood to splatter to the floor and a few teeth to fall to the ground. They circled each other once more. I looked at Lux questioning him without voice. Still shook his head as we looked back. It was bad. Amanda was holding her shoulder. Still holding her knife in a death grip. They circled once more everyone knew this was the last push for Amanda. She needed to win this one but Lux and I knew even this was a very tall order for her. Vrask couldn't risk showing mercy and Amanda knew this. she needed to incapacitate him. Or force him to submit. Sangheili culture however knew that his honor would take a blow but this had to be done if he lost. And that was a big if at this point. They both charged in again. Vrask Swung his blade from below but not surprisingly Amanda was quick to side step and Swung her knife across Vrasks back knee severing tendons dropping him to his knee then she used her momentum to drive her knife into Vrasks sword arm and grabbing his neck and using her built up speed and the little remaining strength she had and shocking even my brother vrask hurled him even if it was just a couple of feet in front of her.

My brother and the bridge crew stood stunned. never had we seen a human do what we just saw. Even if Lux, Vrask and I had sparred with her the past few weeks. This was something else entirely. she had thrown a Sangheili. Thrown him a few all knew the momentum that can allow such an action but from a human? Never had this crossed our minds.

"Get a Medical team here now!" Lux yelled out causing everyone to rush to Vrask and Amanda. I rushed over to Amanda.

"Nice of you to join me Dar. But I'm afraid my shoulder is pretty banged up maybe fractured." She collapsed into my arms and passed out from the ordeal.

Lux carried Vrask with the help of two others and I carried Amanda in my arms as she slumbered. I removed her helmet and to everyone's shock she was bleeding from a large gash on her head. All sangheili knew of how easy head trauma could hurt humans in a number of ways so we hurried to the infirmary getting both of them checked out. they had done a number to each other. Vrask had a slight concussion, ripped tendons, and a broken arm from the knife of Amanda. Amanda had mild concussion, fractured shoulder and three broken ribs. Both suffering either moderate to minor blood loss. Vrask more so in the regard of blood loss but his energy sword would've killed her if it connected, thankfully it did not.

Amanda Pov

I came to with a killer headache and my vision was blurry as all hell at first. Recalling the event with the fight with Vrask filled me with regret for hurting him as I did but he told me not to fail in proving myself. So I resorted to finishing the fight with my knife. Trying to shift my body screamed in protest I knew at that moment i had broken ribs though how many was yet to be known to me. Forcing myself to sit up slowly I saw Vrask in a hover chair talking to one of the sangheili in the room so I waited for him to turn his attention to me. Ince he took notice of me he floated over to me eyeing me carefully.

"You know... If i didnt know any better that knife that pierced my arm was meant for another blow other than my arm before you threw me." He grumbled out rubbing his injured leg.

"Actually not really. Sorry what I did to you. You game me a tall order to live up to so I had to improvise." I said rubbing my head wishing the headache would disappear.

"Contrary to popular belief you did well. Even though I'm in this chair for the moment your injuries are more severe. How are you feeling?" He asked a little concerned.

"Like I went head to head with a shipmaster and nearly died. Which I may add looked as though he was trying to kill me." I hissed out in frustration knowing that was very well the case.

"Ah yes. That... Um. You have my apologies in that regard Major Amanda." he said grinning.

"You could always make it up to me by treating me to dinner." I chuckled and half groaned gripping my ribs.

"If that is your wish. Then so be it. But first You must go meet your lance. they have been expecting you for the past three days. And to my surprise they wish to meet you." He said smirking.

"Now go. As our commander prepare your lance. Even though your still on a medical leave of light work only you still must patrol the ship with your lance." He finally said with a serious voice.

I got up and made my way to the crew quarters to meet the squad I was to command. I still couldn't believe I was going to be commanding a squad of sangheili. This whole deal of me being stationed on shangheilios has been one curve ball after another. Though not all of them bad this one I just couldn't even wrap my head around. Dar and Lux took it upon themselves to mark my shoulder guards and helmet with the color of a major. No sooner had my thoughts had come to the conclusion I was becoming more and more integrated member to the sangheili people than the UNSC. As far fetched as that sounded it felt that was the case. Technically since i was one of the Arbiters personal guard I had sufficient rank to command a lance but to have actually gained a proper rank it felt to surreal. And technically the alliance between the Sangheili and UNSC the ranks were on par with one another and a shipmaster was technically the equivalent of a general and had the authority to do such a promotion and depending on the situation it dawned on me that i may have to command more than one lance if there was the need. My head was spinning at the implications of the whole deal. I realized quickly that I was standing dumbly in front of the legion hall and i prepared myself for what would happen. I sighed to myself in resignation to my new situations. It was an ODST's duty to adapt to any situation no matter what it was.

"You know what fuck it lets just get this over with." I said to myself and putting my helmet on and entered the large room.

AND thats the end of this chapter! Hope it shocked you with what happened. And that this was a good cliff hanger :) dont forget to leave a review and if you want drop a character and i will get back to you with any questions or concerns you have. chapter 3 will be up within the next week or so :)