The Way The Wheels Turn

by mercyspace

Ghost is a Spartan. A Spartan who has believed that his former self is dead, which is why he is called Ghost. He thinks that is called to be a guard for some important human. He's wrong, he is made to watch an Elite female. On the trip to Sanghelios, Ghost finds out that he is developing feelings for this female. Feelings, something that Ghost thought had died with his old self.

10. Chapter 10: A Long Day's Work

The Way The Wheels Turn Chapter 10: A Long Day's Work

Sorry for the long wait, I hit one of my famous writer's block. Yup, and I had to deal with all his complaining about how he can't think of anything. Oh, and if you have any drawings please put it in the review box, if possible or better yet, post it on some website and give us the URL. You really are impatient, aren't you? Whatever. We don't own Halo.

Riyo woke up early the next morning and saw that Ghost wasn't next to her. She got worried for him and got dressed in a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and went to look for him. She had walked around the hotel and passed by the gym. She opened the door with the hotel key card and saw that it was empty then turned to the sound of heavy grunting. She looked and sighed with relief as she saw Ghost on a pull-up bar. She smiled at the sight of him, his upper body bare, revealing his muscular body and his tattoos that for some unknown reason, she loved. She walked over and sat down own a weight lifting bench, admiring her boyfriend. Ghost looked down and stopped to smile before continuing. Riyo turned around to the sound of the door unlocking and watched as a male Sangheili walked in with a gym bag, her people were to adapting to the human's way of life more than she thought just as the humans were to their way of life in some ways. Ghost heard the sound of the door opening and dropped off the bar and was quickly back into his clothes before the Elite saw him. He then went to a weightlifting bench next to the one Riyo was sitting on, his body guard nature had set in when he saw Riyo; he thought since it was still kind of early that she would still be sleeping for another few hours. He started lifting an amount of weight that most humans, even some Sangheili would have trouble with, though it was a bit more difficult due to the fact that he was back in his hoodie and the heat was immense.

Riyo decided that she would get some exercise and started running on a treadmill. Ghost looked at her and stared at her beautiful form on the treadmill before continuing his lifting. A couple of moments had passed before Ghost took another look in Riyo's direction; he scowled as he saw the Elite that came in was looking at her while lifting some dumbbells. It took Ghost a bit to realize that the Elite was much, much older than Riyo and him. He growled lowly and saw the Elite look at him then looked away. Riyo wasn't upset; she found it cute that Ghost was so protective of her. After a couple of hours of exercising, Ghost looked at the time and saw that it was 9:24 a.m. and decided to shower up, Riyo did the same, though she didn't go in the same one with him. When they were done Ghost pointed to his toolbox resting in a corner close to where Ghost was doing his workouts with his katana, indicating that he was going to fix the ship, Riyo put on a pouting face then told him he could go.

Ghost had been working on the Phantom for most of the day and he was in his own little world as he always was when he was using his tools or performing any kind of mechanical task. But just because he was in his little world didn't mean his senses were down or that he wasn't fully aware of his surrundings. The instant the heard the noise behind him he grabbed his katana and unsheathed it in the blink of an eye. He turned around very quickly, sword swung; ready to decapitate whoever was trying to sneak up on him. But he stopped in the split second he saw that it was Riyo, the blade stopped about a foot away from her. He saw the look of surprise on her face, it seemed to have lost all color. When she was done being scared half to death and her legs stopped shaking she looked at Ghost, who was blushing at the dumb thing he did. Riyo smiled at him then put her hands on her hips and cocked them to one side. When Ghost was done blushing, he smelled something pleasing. He lifted his head sniffed the air like a wolf would when tracking an animal; and looked down and saw two brown paper bags in one of Riyo's hands. He cocked his head in confusion, his hoodie staying on and doing what it does best, keeping his face and arms concealed. Ghost couldn't tell what time it was but by the look of one, the paper bags; and two, the fact that the food court nearby got very busy in the past couple of minutes.

"I figured that you would like some lunch since you've been working on the ship for so long," she said in a cute way. Ghost's stomach growled at the very mention of lunch and food. Riyo giggled at him and his stomach. Riyo looked around and saw that there was nowhere to sit to eat and Ghost immediately went to work. He arranged two small crates for sitting; he made sure they were tall enough to feel like regular chairs as well as wide enough to be comfortable and not to mention sturdy enough not to break or bend. He also grabbed a long crate for the table. Ghost pulled Riyo's "seat" back for her to sit down which received a laugh and afterwards a bow from her as she sat down and was pushed closer to the "table" The couple sat down and started to eat. Ghost ate like a starved wolf while Riyo wasn't really that hungry.

Ghost yawned after eating and nodded at Riyo, thanking her. Ghost cleaned up the mess and put the crates back where he found them. Riyo walked over to Ghost, who was standing near the Phantom's ramp, not knowing if she needed him to do something or if he could get back to work on the repairs. She pointed her finger to the ship's ramp and told him to sit down, which he did with confusion but without question. She would then sit down next to him. She snuggled up next to him; she wanted to be close to him because he was working on the ship while she was walking around. They had spent a total of two months, give or take, on a ship the size of an apartment. She missed being close to him. After a couple of minutes of snuggling up to Ghost, who in return held her close to him, Riyo fell asleep. Ghost picked her up bridal style and carried her all the way to their hotel room, receiving weird looks from people and alerting a few guards whom he outran to avoid the awkward moment of him not being able to answer their questions. He placed her on their bed and sat on a chair. Right when he sat down Riyo decided to wake up and asked where she was.

"You're in the hotel room," said Frank, appearing out of nowhere. "I'd also like to add that the hotel manager is coming, apparently someone has a complaint about your… activity, two days ago. Why so long, I don't know."

A knocking on the door confirmed everything. Ghost went to the door and opened it. The manager was a Jackal and seemed pretty annoyed.

"I've been trying to get to you for a day now. We've been getting complaints about this room because of all the noise in here, I don't care but everyone else staying here does. What the hell was all that screaming for, and why did it sound like there was a damned wolf in here?" The Jackal was obviously livid. He looked inside and saw Riyo sitting up in bed, she didn't notice him though. She yawned cutely and stretched out her arms. In the process her breast jiggled ever so slightly and were basically shown when she stretched her chest. The Jackal whistled at the sight and Ghost turned around and saw what he saw at the last second. Ghost growled lowly and closed the door. He looked down at the Jackal and grabbed it by the neck. Ghost slammed him into the wall and put his face close enough to the Jackal's and growled and exposed his many fangs, and to add to that he pulled his hood far enough back to show his yellow reptilian eye with a black pupil and his dark red human eye with also a black pupil. The eyes seemed to have the ability to practically be seen in the dark, like the Cheshire Cat. The Jackal was chocking through the strength of Ghost's grip. Ghost knew that people would get suspicious if they heard the Jackal's struggling. He then decided that it would be too risky for other people to see what was happening. In an instant Ghost grabbed the Jackal's neck and snapped it in half like a twig. He acted quickly and shoved the Jackal through the garbage chute then quickly closed it. Riyo came out rubbing one of her eyes as Ghost was about to head back into the room. She smiled at the sight of him and hugged him. Ghost was worried that she saw what he did, then found out he was wrong when he felt Riyo straddle him. Ghost looked down and gave Riyo his evil, wolfish grin that she loved almost as much as his tattoos.

"Come on, Ghost," she said in a lustful voice. "Let's give these people something to complain about." Ghost nodded in agreement and went into the room with Riyo.

Really bro, another cliffhanger at the end? Yup, another cliffhanger. And for all the readers, Frank will write the next chapter, gives you a hint what it will be about, but the rest of the chapters will take a while. I'm in a writer's block. You see all the stories were written close together because I wasn't in a writer's block. Just give me a month or two and I'll be able to write chapters one after the other again.