Kat woke up to the sound of the prophet's droning, shrill voice. She was still hot but only the stickiness remained from the sweat. Only a whisper from the background voice remained too and there was no weightless feeling from the Void. The bad thing: she was weak. Her energy was zapped from the fever. The good thing: she wasn't being controlled by the Covenant.
Kat let all her muscles relax and leaned against her unmoving armor. She didn't have anything else to do now but save her energy and watch the babbling Prophet. At least the Covenant believed she was under their power just because they put the Control Liquid in her. That meant they were going to release her sometime to do their bidding and when they did - she would show them who the master was.
"My Prophet!" An elite said suddenly after hours of waiting, "We have found a good location for a base."
Then, there was chaos as Covenant rushed around to move the Prophet and supplies. Kat, well, she was relocated like she was a statue by one of the elite guards. She certainly felt like a sculpture since she was frozen in one position. She was put near the Prophet on the circular platform that soon lowered and then floated in a gravity lift down to the Halo ring.
Kat wished she could moved her head to look over the area but from what she saw, they were descending down to a temple in the middle of a lake. There was a bridge like structure that stretched from the far end of the lake to the temple but only a gondola could be used to move back and forth from the temple to shore. Unusual, double wined birds caught Kat's attention as a pair of them flew by the gravity beam.
A thump told Kat they had landed on the temple. That, and she was then dragged into the building so her only view was the floor. They propped her up again and she quickly looked over the interior. There were raised walkways along the side of the room with a bridge connecting them in the center. The entry way was raised as well so whoever came in had to come down the ramps on the side. She could hear a waterfall behind her and saw a drainage grate that told her water was prominent in the temple. Kat had been put off to the side of the Prophet next to some crates.
Kat was only an after thought to the Covenant now. It was only when the Covenant became uneasy and started whispering, that a gaze was cast in her direction. An elite finally approached the Prophet of Regret and bent close to his ear.
"The demon?" The Prophet's voice hit a piercing note, "How is he getting so close?" The elite bowed his head in shame. "Are none of you buffoons capable of stopping him?" Again silence greeted his question. "No, I wouldn't expect more from Sangheili..." The Prophet's head turned toward Kat, "But I would from you..." Regret's eyes scanned the half Human-Covenant hybrid armor as if she held some greater answer. "Let the demon come. We will see how well he fares with one of his own kind."
Then, the awful wait. They knew Master Chief was coming now and there was nothing the Covenant could do to stop him. Kat couldn't stop herself from tensing her muscles in suspense, so she resorted to meditating. The trick had her clear her mind or concentrate on one single thing. It passed time like a charm. Before she knew it, Kat focused back on the world a few hours later when a new sound reached her ears.
Weapons fire. It echoed through the room like pin drops in the silent room. The Prophet of Regret wheezed and his eyes darted in fear. "He will not make it..." He murmured to himself as if to reassure himself he wouldn't die. A grunt squealed loudly outside and the Prophet whirled his floating chair towards Kat. He lowered his fear-filled gaze at her and his voice dropped an octave, "Do you know what to do?"
A gasp slipped through Kat's lips as the voice in her head began to shout. Kill the demon! Kill the demon! Kill the demon! The question had brought a subconscious command to her her conscious mind. She didn't know the Covenant had also used mind control on her as well. Unfortunately for them, Kat had been able to clear her mind by meditating and could clearly see the subconscious effects and stop them. She silenced the voice in her head and knew exactly what the Prophet wanted to hear.
"I serve the Prophets." She muttered in a deep emotionless tone.
The Prophet of Regret grinned and hit a button on his chair before turning to face the entrance. "Armor unlocked" flashed across Kat's HUD and then her armor snapped. She almost knelt with the weight of her armor back on her shoulders. The weakness was still haunting her but she could at least hold her armor. Kat straightened from the hunched position, tilted her head from side to side, and loosened up any other muscles felt cramped.
Then Chief walked in. The other Covenant immediately started showering him with bullets and he had to duck behind cover. The Prophet of Regret turned towards Shadow and yelled, "Get him!" Before a knife burrowed itself into his stick-like neck. A gurgle escaped his mouth as his head fell and his neck formed a right angle. The Covenant stopped in shock as their leader fell. Kat simply walked over and pulled out her knife.
"Good work." Master Chief's deep voice hummed in her helmet.
"Time to go..." Cortana trilled in, "The massive Covenant fleet isn't going to wait for us to leave."
Kat quickly looked around as her shields flickered with the enemy fire. "I got my own way out. See you on the other side." She leaned over, ripped a drainage grate off, and jumped down.
Immediately, Kat's feet were pulled out from under her by swift flowing water that pulled her along with it. She slid down stone drain pipes like she was on a water ride. The ride shook as if something had impacted the whole building and then everything went wrong. The pipe started crumbling around her and a large stone swung out of place on the side and pinned her. A yell ripped from her lips as the edge of the block dug into her left leg. Water was spraying all around her now as she pushed the stone block off just enough for her to slip by and out of the tunnel.
Light dosed Kat as she left the drain and started free falling. The building above her was a crumbling mess as she fell down towards to water. Her visor dimmed as she looked behind her where the Covenant beam of death was dangerously close. Luckily, well in a manner of speaking, a large piece of the building swung down and hit her away like she was a baseball. It was lucky because she was thrown away from the beam of death but it hit like a ten ton bat.
The air was knocked from Kat's lungs as she soared through the air and she barely even felt hitting the water. She started gasping for air when she started loosing consciousness. The edges of her vision blurred but she still had the impression that there was something else in the water. She barely noticed the blood swirling in the water around her leg or the deep voice that reverberated through the water, saying something about graves and being welcome in it. Then there was only blackness.
I'd like to thank Bler for being my new beta and catching all my mistakes on this chapter.
Yes I know know in the game we kill the Prophet of Regret as Master Chief but I hope you all can allow me the liberty of letting Kat kill him. The main point is the prophet dies and I figured if he died a little earlier it wouldn't be too bad. I hope it can be seen that I'm not altering the main storyline and that is not my intent at all because I try my best to stick to the storyline.