Ok guys here goes chapter 3... btw I cannot wait till chap 4 I have it all planned out it will most likely have a huge battle. No spoilers though XD.

As the festivities died down we began to talk to the crew of Shephards ship the normandy as they had recently arrived here, the most interesting of which was a very powerful looking Krogan named Wrex. We discussed many things over the that whole day, and much of the next we talked much about his people and their world...and the genophage, it is such a cruel punishment to his people taking away their children, their hope. Before we parted with Wrex, we struck a bargain between him and the Salarian leadership... we would cure the genophage but change the Krogan forever, we would make them fertile again but their reproduction rate would be vastly slower and smaller amounts of children would be born... less than before the genophage but more than after their population would have a stable growth rate. This would both solve the population problem that caused the genophage to be created and also to give the Krogans hope. Perhaps before the war with the humans we would not have been able to do this, but since the yoke of the prophets was removed our sciences and research have entered a golden age. All we asked of Wrex was for him to unify his people under the promise of the cure and their future as a species and for when the time comes to help us with a great task that will perhaps right our wrongs in some small way.

2 months later

Me and my crew decided to go to the Krogans homeworld to see the birthplace of such powerful warriors, yet what we saw was a ruined planet. Truly the Krogan have much in common with the Jiralhanae, they however seem much more reasonable than those brutes. As we landed we saw the area in which the urdnot clan inhabited it was a huge area full of rubble from what could at some point have been towers and buildings of some sort, as we all departed our ship to land on the ground below we saw many Krogan gathering in the area in which we were going to set down. The Krogan all had looks of hope in their eyes they had heard the news of our offer, they would surely accept our deal we even offered to allow them to join the joint Jiralhanae-Krogan colonies we had already begun planning. The many leaders of the Krogan clans were already gathered awaiting our arrival. So many clans sent representatives, a few clans refused to even hear our offer as we wanted the urdnot clan to be the ones that administered the new government that would be established for the deal to be complete. The meeting had begun, already Krogan had begun to argue and several fights had broken out. Then one voice shouted out "ORDER we must make our choices, what is best for the Krogan" "what is the nature of this great task that we will be helping you with?" the mystery Krogan asked. "you will be fighting a new enemy, something unlike anything you have ever fought before, a true challenge" I answered "this is your new enemy" I shouted as I pulled out a holo-pad it displayed a small almost harmless looking creature "This is the flood it is an enemy unlike any other". "HA" shouted another Krogan in the crowd "that puny thing is our enemy? It is so tiny, surely a people as great as yourselves could have wiped out such a little tiny creature." he shouted above the rest of his bretheren.

"ENOUGH" I shouted "do not underestimate the flood, it is not to be trifled with." I began to play a series of video reports of our attempt to reclaim earth. "When we burned the original earth we thought the flood to be wiped out... we were wrong. Our forces were overwhelmed and taken from us. The flood is truly an insidious creature, not only does it kill your people, it then turns them against you as their own forces. This will be a hard fight, even for your people as powerful as they are." I held up my hand, in it was a chip, on this chip was the data that was the cure to the genophage and also a solution to possible population problems for when the genophage was cured. "Here" I shouted "Is the cure your people so desperately want, so desperately need." there was a collective silence, they all stared in awe at what I held in my hand. It was truly precious to them. "now will you fight for us and join our covenant?". Every Krogan in that massive space gave a shout of agreement. "then we shall begin production and distribution of the cure immediately, and after your people have had time to recuperate and to begin growing again we will take five thousand of your greatest warriors and we will retake earth from the parasite" the roar of approval of hundreds of krogan was heard for miles around.

After the summit Wrex and I had a discussion about the results of the summit, he gave me a nod of approval "you gave my people both hope, and a new enemy, thats exactly what was needed good job. You do not understand it but a powerful enemy to overcome gives us Krogan a great sense of purpose, you did a great thing today I think it may even be enough to actually unite the Krogans into once force, one army, one people." he liked my proposal and genuinely believes his people will be strong and united again. "you Thel 'Vandamee are a friend of the Krogan, he continued They may even make a monument to us and our honor. Remember this moment when the Krogan are part of your covenant

and strong again, we will rebuild our homeworld and then... we shall begin regaining our glory and with any luck earn a place among the council." after that day me and Wrex formed a close friendship we were almost like brothers, perhaps we are brothers in spirit.

Meanwhile in covenant space...

staring into the vast emptiness of space ship master Belg 'Morodee was contemplating the message he had just received, it seems that a human ship was found.. with its crew intact. He reviewed the transmission that led to the discovery of the ship. "This is the UNSC Spirit Of Fire. We are in cryo-sleep pending contact with allied forces." he was deep in thought. He had thought to send troops into the ship to awake the humans... but that did not seem to be the right thing to do. So rather he sent a small group of sangheili in to wake a couple of the humans from their sleep and then bring them to his ship so they could discuss the happenings and ensure that these humans knew of the peace treaty and could learn of what happened to their species. Just then his soldiers reported that they had brought the commanding officers of the human ship aboard and are awaiting my arrival in the officers quarters, as I went to the room in which they were being kept I was wondering how I would break the news to them. It was truly a thing of luck that their ships A.I had shut itself down long ago, otherwise they would not have been able to talk peacefully with the humans. The door opens and both the humans stand in fright "my name" I said " is Belg 'Morodee I am the shipmaster of this vessel. We long ago made a peace treaty with you humans, but the humans on earth and in your navy all were killed." I had decided to be upfront about it, it was for the best "we did our best to save them but the flood overwhelmed the earths population, and the prophets final act finished off their fleets." The human that we had determined was the captain stood up "so the human race is gone? Extinct except for us?" "not entirely" I replied "we recently found a new population of humans in a galaxy adjacent to us" at this the woman next to the captain looked skeptical. "how can you listen to this elite, cutter?" she shouted. "because" said captain cutter "the covenant are not really known for talking to their enemies, so when they talk like this I tend to listen. Plus my instincts tell me he is not lying." "I have instructed my men to give you free reign inside the ship, to prove myself to be telling the truth you will of course have guards to keep you out of trouble. Also I will be providing the last messages of your people and video recordings of the events that led to the fall of earth." "after we have proven ourselves to you we will take you to your ships and allow you to awake your crew and tell them of what has happened. Then we can take you to a planet we have found so that you humans have a secure place to stay until earth has been reclaimed from the flood."

word had been spreading among my people that Thel 'vandamee had been working on gathering a large force of our new allies, the Krogan to wipe out the parasite once and for all. This would be a relief... so many of our brothers died in the battle for earth that took place several months after earth was burned. All we could do was enact a quarantine, the earth had too many places for the flood to hide. Luckily all ships capable of space travel had been destroyed when the earth was cleansed, otherwise the flood would have spread and infested everything. I truly cannot imagine how the forerunners lasted so long against the flood. Such a powerful enemy, deceptively so. The flood is the entire reason we still have not explored or even landed on the many installations that we have found, perhaps that will change when the Krogan assist us with their soldiers from what have heard they are even more resilient and powerful than the Jiralhanae, much smarter than them as well. And when we can finally access the halo facilities we can finally decommission their weapons systems and end that threat. Even the shield worlds were of interest to our scientists. Maybe we could even find living forerunners! Now that would be something, perhaps they would even integrate into our covenant. Well enough of my musings there is much work to do to prepare for when we eventually wake the humans up...

ALRIGHTY guys there is chapter 3 I hope you like it! I know its too much dialogue not enough action, but you will get enough of that awesome action next chapter. So enjoy that tidbit and enjoy the suspense and go read Drake S. Hellions halo stories while you wait for mine :D his are rather good! They are what inspired me.