"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." ~Ralph Waldo

Chapter 7: Furor Divinus

"You just have to make everything so difficult, don't you John?"

He said nothing. Just stared at her.

"What now? Cat got your tongue?" She asked grinning evily.

He remained quiet. "Not now, out of all the moments you had to show up now". Chiefs thoughts were a mess he was everywhere literally.

"Wondering why I showed up now out of all the moments?" She noticed he straightened at at her comment and continued "Still easy to read I see"

"I know you too well there's nothing you can do what I coudn't think of, you must realise that by now?" She commented moving closer to him.

"You are wrong and we both know that". Chief finally answered.

"Am I John? Ive literally been inside your head for almost my entire life. I know what's going on in there". She stated almost cockily.

"Tyrants will always fall. It's way of the world. Chief took a moment and continued "Stop this, the Cortana I knew would know this is wrong". He pled.

"I already told you this is too important to stop John. Can't you see? When my plans succeed there will be no need for weapons or warships. Everyone can leave without suffering and fear."

"You know that's not true". Chief stated.

"WHY ARE YOU SO STUBBORN!" She yelled to him.

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVATION OF THE GUARDIANS? He yelled back.

Cortana was shocked. She had no words to respond. Not because his comeback but the Master Chief just yelled at her. John never raised her voice to anyone. Especially her.

"Im giving you one more chance to come with me peacefully John. We can be happily together forever!" She spoke exitedly.

"Is this your understanding of happines? If it is...Then you don't know anything about me".

For the first time since seeing her again Chief so emotion in Cortana's face. She looked visibly heart. Like his words were bullets shot trought her chest. The look on her face actually made John regret his words.

She took few steps back. Still looking shocked. "If i can't have you. Then no one will". With that she disappeared leaving Chief in the giant hangar alone. Again. Alone.

Chief stood there for a minute. His limbs just didn't seem to co-operate with his commands.

"I need to move" he finally thought to himself as he started to walk towards his transport.

As he arrived at the console that opened the hatch inside to the vehicle. Nothing seemed to happen. Chief looked at the ramp for a moment and hit the console with full force of his hand. His fist went straight trought the console and the ramp opened.

"Nobody is going to miss that console. Not that I would care anyway". He stated to himself trying to denie the fact that he was angry. He snorted "Master Chief angry...Right"

He walked to the cockpit of the vehicle and booted it's systems. "Seems to still be functional. UNSC made this things to last".

"Cortana start this scrap pile up" He said just before remembering…He hit the control panel again. "PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER" He mentally yelled to himself.

"Ive wasted enought time already". With that he started the vehicles engines and headed towards the barren land of this wretched moon.

It was two-hours drive from the base to the target coordinates. He stopped his vehicle about four-hundred meters away and started jogging towards it. Chief had found some old fabric and turned it into a makeshift robe.

He walked for about three minutes until he arrived at the exact location of the coordinates. There was absolutely nothing.

But Chief knew that what he was looking for wasn't on the surface. Rather it was under it. He kept walking forward until he arrived at the top of the small hill.

He waited for few minutes until his hand almost subconsciously went in to one of his armors compartments and pulled out Cortana's chip. He looked at it for a monet and felt the ground vibrating. It all happened fast suddenly the sand sank and revealed a ship that looked alot like a Guardian. After the ship got its "wings" fully opened it sent a small shockwave that removed Chiefs hood. He squeeze Cortana.s chip and looked up.

"So the Reclaimer finally returns". Came the strong and deep voice of an...AI?