A/N: Did this in the car. It's bumpy as fu**.

Disclaimer: I do not own any (hit's bump). Ow. I really did hit a bump. It hurt a lot to. You know the drill to the disclaimer. Let's begin.

Chapter 7: The men fall for reasons

0900 hours

After that bear attack, I felt like crap. I was tired, miserable, and hungry because I haven't eaten in a week. The pack was going to go hunt, and I decided to tag along.

"So what do I do, just stay with you and attack when the time is right or when you attack?" I asked.

"Basically, but just be sure to be careful." Aleu said looking at his leg, which had a long scar on it. "What did you do to your leg?"

"What do you mean?"

"That long scar on your leg, how did you get it?"

"Oh that. It's a long story so I'll give you the short version. It all started on my home world. Planet 29416 or planet Aquarius. It was a planet that had plenty of water on it, so the name was from the word aqua. I was a regular marine before I was accepted into the spartan program. I was a recruit at the time, but I was selected for my extraordinary talents in accuracy and my quick agility. The mission was called,"

(Flashback)

"Operation Night-strike. You have been chosen because you are the best we have. Especially our newest recruit. Born from a family of spartan soldiers, he has already made a quick reputation of himself." General Howard stopped in front of me.

"Eric Jones, you have been in one battle. In that one battle you managed to take down an elite squad of twenty Elites and forty seven Grunts by yourself. You also managed to take over the Covenants stronghold. This alone qualifies you to be in charge of this mission. Congratulations Lieutenant Eric. You've skipped a lot of ranks for that brave and courageous act. The odds were against you, by a lot, and you still managed to do it. You have been promoted to Lieutenant. Your new uniform will be in the barracks. You may go change and come back for your medals and mission."

I saluted him. " Thank you sir." I turned around and walked to the barracks. I saw the new uniform. I walked over to it. "See Jake. I told you I would make you proud." I slipped out of my old uniform and put the new one on and looked at myself in the mirror.

"Oh yeah, now this is something I can love wearing." I liked the uniforms new color. It was blue camouflage instead of instead of green. I walked back to the line.

"God, you look so much like your brother Lieutenant. We truly lost one of our best spartans." He walked over to the desk and picked up a tape.

"Alright, as you know we have a special mission to attack a Covenant vessel that has been over an area for a while. It's in sector G34 and sector L53. We have reason to believe that they have been testing weapons on the natural life of Aquarius. I need you to invade the Covenant vessel and destroy everything on it."

"Yes sir." We all said.

"It's a dangerous mission, but with Eric and your skill sets, you should make it back without any problems. Oh and that reminds me. Eric please step forward."

I stepped forward. "You have been awarded two medals that are the highest medal's for a marine. We give you the Medal of Honor and Purple Heart. These medals are for your bravery, courage and achievements you have done in your first mission. You deserve them and wear them proudly. You saved a lot of lives that day and managed to save ΒΌ of the 200 marines we sent in. This has earned you a lot of honor and respect from the core. Thank you." He saluted me and the others saluted me.

I saluted them back "Thank you sir. I will not fail this mission."

(End of Flashback)

"Little did we know what was on that carrier was more powerful than we could have imagined. We were sent in Pelican drop ships and landed safely on the ship. We breached it and started to make our way to the secret weapon. We faced a lot of resistance, but we managed to make it to the room. We set the charges and breached." I said, as we continued to walk.

" What happened next?" She asked with interest.

"Bang,"

(Flashback)

Boom! The door fell down and we ran in. We were stunned to see what the weapon was.

"Welcome soldiers, to your demise." The weapon said as it started to walk towards us. It was an Elite, modified with mechanical parts. He was still walking slowly towards us.

"What the fuck are you?" I asked looking at him.

"I am a Elite, combined with forerunner tech. You won't survive long in a battle with me because I am unkillable."

"You wish asshole. You may be tough, but you aren't invincible." I said standing in front my soldiers. "Stand back, he's mine."

"But Lieutenant. You can't defeat him, I mean look at him. He looks like he could kill you before you even saw it coming. You need us to help you. No one dies alone." Corporal Jay said to me.

"No, if I fall you can finish him. I will not let you die in my hands. Now stand back and watch until I fall or if he falls."

Jay backed up and gave us room. I pulled out my brother's war knife and we circled each other. He pulled out an energy sword.

"You think you can defeat me with a pathetic knife like that." He laughed and I lunged at him. I missed, but managed to dodge his counter attack.

"So you are a challenge after all."

"I don't care if I am a challenge or not, you won't win because you are not going to laugh at me motherfucker." I was angry at him because he laughed at me and my brothers knife. The only thing I have left from him.

I attacked him again and our weapons clashed as we continued to try to out maneuver each other. I stabbed him in his left arm making him bleed.

"You'll pay for that. I will not fail to a pathetic human and his toy knife."

"Well this toy knife just stabbed your arm and it's bleeding. Do you want mommy to kiss it or do you want a bandage with hearts on it."

He was now pissed and lunged at me and he missed as I stabbed him in the back. He tried to hit me in the stomach but I managed to jump away. When I jumped I had forgotten about my leg and he managed to cut to the bone of my leg and it ran from my knee to my ankle.

"Ahhh, sunava..." I was grabbed around the neck which was a big mistake.

"Ha ha ha ha. Whats wrong? Do you need a bandage now?" I smiled. "What are you smiling a..."

SHINK! His eye's went wide as I stabbed him in his through his throat. He dropped me and I managed to land on my good leg. He fell on his knees and fell forward.

"Good night General Organza." I said.

"How did you know his name?"

"I had a little battle with him in the past. Looks like I didn't finish him the last time. Let's get the hell out of here."

Alert! Alert! Alert! Ships self destruct has been enabled! Please evacuate!

(End of Flashback)

"We escaped and managed to get some high valued information. It was a hard battle out, but no one died or got injured besides me." I said as we continued to walk.

"Wow, that must have been very hard to do all this with no injuries." Aleu said as she continued to looked at my leg.

"Yeah, tell me about it. Oh yeah I forgot." I just remembered that I can change forms and that I never attempted it to see if it works.

"Forgot what?" Aleu looked at me when the bright glow started to come over me. The pack stopped and looked at me as I changed. It was a bit painful, but I have had worse. I was back as the pure white wolf I was yesterday.

"How did you do that?" Aleu asked.

"I was told in a dream by another white wolf. I think it was my wolf form telling me how to unleash it." I lied about Aniu because I didn't want it to sound crazy.

Aleu's eye's went a little wide but I shrugged it off. "So you can change between each?"

"Yup."

"Neat, but let's get ready. I think we are getting close to the hunting grounds."

"Oh okay just give me a second. I can kill more if I use my knife." I changed back and my armor finally started to work. "Oh now you work, crappy armor device." I pulled out my knife and crouch walked with them until we saw the caribou.

The pack split up into teams. I was with Aleu and the beta's. We sneaked around a single caribou and he was a big one too. We waited for the others to attack. When they attacked, the one we were watching started to run for safety. We sprinted after him. The bet's managed to cut him off and Aleu jumped on his back and started to bite at his neck. He was running right at me and as we passed I stabbed him right in his side and twirled myself onto his back with Aleu. I took my knife cut it's throat and it fell down bleeding.

"Good job. He was a hard one to take down." Aleu looked down at him.

"Well with me I could always use a gun and take five down before they even heard me coming." I changed back to my wolf form and walked next to Aleu. "How many did all of us take down?"

"I think at least five." She looked around. I counted five.

"Okay, Aleu and Eric over here." Jack yelled at us from the middle.

We walked over and I noticed that the others were at the kill me and Aleu just killed.

"What's wrong?" Wondering on why we moved from there to here.

"Nothing, this is the kill alpha's get. We are in the middle so we can see what is happening around us." Jacky said.

"Ah, I see. Very clever." I nodded and they started to rip it apart. Eating raw meat seemed to be okay so I started to eat to only to find the wolf side loving it and the human side hating it later.

"So, how is it Eric?" Aleu asked because I never have eaten raw meet before.

"It's okay. I'm not used to the taste, but it's better then nothing. I'll get used to it."

She nodded and we continued to eat and tear the caribou into more pieces. My muzzle dripped of blood and to tell you the truth it kinda felt good in a way. I think it was the wolf side of me talking.

We started to walk home and slowly my stomach started turning from good to horrible. I had the sudden urge to throw up and I ran behind the bush's. I didn't want to throw up in front of them. I threw up because the human side of me couldn't take the raw meat.

"Eric are you okay?" I heard Aleu say.

I walked out from behind the bushes and by the look of it I seemed to look horrible. I looked sick and weak. I don't know how I figured that out besides me collapsing on the ground and blacking out.

Aleu's POV

I looked at him and he just collapsed on the ground. I ran over to him.

"Eric are you okay? Eric?" I shook him. Crap, looks like he's is out cold.

"Guy's, looks like we have to carry him home."

"Why should we even bother? I mean come on, we have been dragging his ass all around the place. He is a human not a wolf. He should just die and leave us all alone." A pack member said.

I looked at pack as Jacky and Jack walked over to me. "I don't think so guys. This human here sure looks human right now doesn't he?" I looked at the others. "You know what he has done for us. We have been in space, looked at an entire galaxy that was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. We saw the black hole that he fell through and it was the scariest thing I have ever seen. He is a hero of his people and he has sacrificed so much to them and now us. Yes, we almost got killed in space, but we didn't. He showed us so much that if we died it would have been okay with me and he also showed us how turn on the power to his ship even though he was unconscious."

"That was just to get the air on so he wouldn't suffocate." The same wolf yelled out and I noticed it was Kodak.

"Yeah, the only problem with that is his armor supplies air! If he didn't care then he would have just let us die. He even pushed me out of the way when that bear attacked us saving me, but not himself and he almost lost his life. Then he killed the bear as fast as possible before bear killed me saving my life three times." I said. The pack walked over to us and defended Eric.

"Oh fine! Let's save his life because he saved all of ours! Jeez, just tired of dragging him around." Kodak complained.

They lifted him onto there backs and we started to walk back to the cave. When we got there we put him down and I got close to him to keep him warm. The temperature was dropping and fast. This may be our coldest night. The others sat there until one by one they came over to keep us warm until Kodak was the last one to come over. Then we all fell asleep, warming each other up with our body heat.

Humphrey and Kate

We were walking back to the party when we heard some noise coming from the left of us.

"Anybody there... Humphrey let's get out of he..." He pushed me and I heard a loud bang. Then a loud yelp and I looked at Humphrey who was laying on the ground. I looked closer and saw blood! When he pushed me, I landed in a bush so I hid because the hunter(who is hunting illegally) would need to get to Humphrey and finish him, but I won't let that happen, not to my lover. I'll die with him if I have to.

"Why did you leave me Kate?" I felt bad for him. He thinks I left him.

The hunter came out of his hiding spot and walked up to Humphrey. "Sorry buddy, but I need the money for a debt." He pulled his knife out and then I attacked.

I bit him right in his neck, instantly killing him. He fell down and started to choke on his own blood.

"K-Kate... you d-didn't... leave... me b-behind." He had a hard time talking.

"I would never leave you behind Humphrey." I said licking the wound. "Hold on I'm gonna get help. They are close but they wont hear my howl because they are partying. I hate leaving you like this, but I need to get help or you'll die. I'll be back as fast as possible." I gave him a kiss and ran the fastest I have ever run. I saw the pack and ran to Winston.

"Kate where have been and what's..." I cut Winston off.

"Humphrey... he's hurt... need's help... explain later." I said panting and I ran off back to Humphrey as I heard Winston howl to gather the pack for an emergency. I had an adrenalin rush and my speed picked up. I saw Humphrey still laying were he was before. I ran up to him. He was breathing, but he was unconscious. I heard the pack getting closer and I wished they come here faster. I finally saw them running right towards us.

"A hunter! How dare he shoot at my daughter." Eve said angry. Kinda obvious though.

"Humphrey saved me. He pushed me out of the way saving me but getting himself hurt instead. Mom and dad, please we have to help Humphrey." I said with tears in my eye's.

"We will sweety. I wont let him die. Hutch can you carry Humphrey?"Winston asked.

"Yes I can." Hutch said coming up to Humphrey crouching. We slowly placed him on his back and We started walking speedily back to the den.

"That's a nice flower Kate. Where did you find it?" Winston asked when he noticed the flower.

"Humphrey gave it to me. He also asked me if I would marry him. I said yes." Eve stumbled over and recovered.

"He what!" Winston and Eve both said.

"He asked me to marry him and I said yes." Kate said again.

"When?" Winston asked.

"He didn't say."

"Well we're happy for you. If it makes you happy so be it."

"Thanks dad."

They walked into the cave and froze as they Garth and Lilly asleep and tied together.

(Eve's Thoughts)

I am going to kill Garth and (Censored/ Extremely valiant. Alert Censor breaking)

A/N Oh, Sh**! Run Garth! Eve's going to blow! Ahhhh!(Author and Garth run away) "Please Review".(The author said Thirteen million light years away. "And be nicer then my new Mother in law! Help!"(Garth said going faster than the speed of light.) "I'm going to kill you both!" Eve said running after us.