Yo people it's time for another chapter of Halo: Understanding this one will be longer than the last couple of chapters since I'm splitting the POV from James and Raza both, so that should be fun any way enjoy.
James yawned as he turned off his alarms buzzer, stretching his arms he pulled off the comforter and made his way to the bathroom, taking a shower and brushing his teeth, James readied himself for his normal walk to work.
"You humans have strange morning habits indeed." He heard a gravelly voice speak; this in turn made James jump in surprise. It was James brother-in-law kind of, Na'lle
"God damn what the fuck man where the hell did you come from!?" James asked as he tried his best to calm down.
"It does not matter where I originated from I require your person in a dire matter." Na'lle said James as would be expected gave the alien a strange look.
"And what would that matter be?" James asked a little bit unsure, Na'lle for all the short time he'd known the alien male was still a scary man who had the power to make him disappear for a few days and then show up in his mother's house flayed alive and dangling upside down Predator style, so it was best he tread softly.
"Revenge simply revenge nothing more nothing less." Na'lle spoke.
"I thought you had given up on the whole you know revenge thing." James stated Na'lle simply shook his head.
"No on the contrary I simply postponed my revenge until after my sister and yours wedding." He started as he looked out the window, "And now I am here to ensure it will be carried out with your help of course." Na'lle finished James just simply shook his head.
"Look I don't know what your Viking Samurai code indicates but I'm not the guy who you want to call for that kind of shit." James said as he tried to leave his room, but he was stopped by the eleven foot tall alien blocking his doorway.
"Ugh fine but, here's the thing dude I was in the Navy." James stated.
"So many great warriors have come from the Navy, why my mate was a shipmistress and has many kills to her name." Na'lle spoke James pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.
"Look in human terms the navy is the not shooty part of our armed forces like I only know how to fire a riffle at the bare minimum, plus I don't own any kind of gun besides a pistol." He retorted picking up his M6 pistol for emphasis.
"Hmm that could prove to be a problem, do you have a way to remedy this?" Na'lle asked.
"I might, we'll need to make a trip to a friend of mines house he was a marine and kept a lot of guns, might spoke the hell out of him and his wife when we get there but whatever I don't have time for this shit." James said as he and Na'lle made their way out of the door after borrowing his mother's car they drove for a few hours to a friend of James named Dan, a marine who James knew from his time in the service that lived relatively close by. Arriving at the residence James knocked a few times he heard a female voice.
"Coming!" He heard the voice speak it was Dan's wife Yolanda, the door opened and a woman a few years older than James appeared.
"Oh James it's you...and your...um." She tried to think of what to say about Na'lle that might not get her killed.
"Oh, that's Na'lle he's my brother-in-law."James said nonchalantly.
"...right um any way is there something you wanted?" Yolanda asked.
"I need to talk to Dan about borrowing a few guns because my brother-in-law wants me to go exact revenge on some guys who killed his mom." James said without a hint of sarcasm or joke.
"Um...okay Dan; James wants' to see you." His wife called out as she ushered James and Na'lle inside, next came a man with black hair and ebony skin it was Dan.
"Hey James...um why?" Dan started as he lost the words when he looked at Na'lle
"Brother-in-law, don't ask it's a long and weird story that I don't want to get into." James replied.
"Right um so what do you and your brother-in-law want dude?" Dan asked as he sat down at a table in the room they were in.
"I need some guns." James stated plainly, in return Dan simply gave him a look.
"Okay look this guy needs me to do some revenge type stuff on his planet and I only have that shitty pistol I need something more powerful than an M6." Dan then looked at his friend and sighed.
"Right um can you maybe explain this from the beginning?" Dan asked James sighed and began explaining the turn of events that lead to the current situation.
Meanwhile Raza was sweeping the floor inside the store humming a Sanghilian battle hem while several customers browed the wares of the store. She turned when she heard the bell on the stores entrance ring.
"Welcome, how may I help you? Oh, Mrs. Evans good to see you." Raza said as the older woman walked inside.
"Oh how's it going Raza." Mrs. Evans spoke as she gave the alien woman a hug.
"So what brings you here today Mrs. Evans?" Raza asked as she went back to sweeping.
"Oh I just wanted to talk about things; James told me you might need a woman to woman talk." Linda said.
"Okay, Racubus I will be taking a short leave watch the store for me." Raza spoke to her friend, who replied with a grunt. The two women walked outside and sat down on the porch of the store.
"So I imagine James told you of our...discussion yesterday." Raza said as she straightened out a fray in her sundress.
"Yes, I'm here to give you some advice. Take your time." The older woman simply spoke.
"What do you mean take my time?" Raza asked flexing her mandibles.
"You told me you were married once before right?" Linda asked Raza nodded her head.
"Then I imagine you know what it's like to wait for love to come from nothing." Linda said reminiscing of when she meet James father for the first time.
"Love is a cruel feeling is it not." Raza said looking up at the clear blue sky, it was much like the day she meet her first husband. She let out a sigh, she never thought a human would make her feel like this but then again she thought Ornac had the same effect on her when she fell in love with him.
"Time, I guess I will wait hopefully James will come around." Raza said as she stood up and made her way back into the store.
"Give him some times James was never one to figure out what was standing right in front of him, he's like his father stubborn but kind just give him time." Linda said hugging Raza and leaving the store. The rest of the day Raza tended to customers, but for some reason something was off like something was missing then it dawned on her where the hell was James!
"Racubus did you see James anywhere?" Raza asked the Jiralhanae male who was restocking shelves.
"I believe I saw him with your brother." Racubus replied Raza sighed she knew exactly why her brother was here.
"Oh no not that stupid revenge thing!" Raza said as she ran out of the store screaming obscenities as she walked out.
"My friends are strange." Racubus spoke as he continued to stalk shelves. Raza was going to have a few words with her brother when she found him again; it would most likely involve an energy sword or plasma riffle. He promised to not bring up this revenge deal again. She kicked in James door and looked around for any idea where he might be. Going to his room she looked around and noticed his chatter was gone, she brought up the one that Mrs. Evans gave her a few weeks ago and tried to track where he was.
'Signal out of range' that means they left the planet already Raza let out an angry cry as she punched the mirror in the room shattering it into pieces, this meant she was going to have to get a shuttle go to the space port and go to her home planet again to deal with her brothers stupidity.
A few hours ago James was just finishing recalling the story to Dan, the man laughed long and hard after his friend finished.
"You really are a weird fucking guy you know that?" Dan said as he continued to laugh at his friends' misfortune, "Well I'll give you some guns you can take one of the MA5, try to bring it back in one piece." Dan finished giving his friend a pat on the back. He handed him the riffle and a few magazines of ammo and sent the two on their way. The two drove to the shuttle port and continued to a ship that was going to Sanghelios how he managed to get past security with a riffle is beyond him, but here he was on a ship headed back to a planet he just left a few weeks ago to go and kill some guys for his sort of brother-in-law.
"So what is the battle plan for this assault?" James said as he looked over the riffle.
"I have gathered a few soldiers under my command most of them members of families that lost members during the attack on the banquet." Na'lle started, "We will then attack their main compound and kill every last one of them, and I will leave no survivors." Na'lle said the bloodlust in his voice shining through.
"Right, right well I guess that will do just don't get me killed I'm not that good at the whole shooting part of the military I was a comms officer." James said as he laid his head down on a desk. This trip was going to be a long and probably painful one, plus he knew one other thing when Raza found out about this, if the people he was going to fight didn't kill him then Raza would probably by flaying him alive and hanging him upside down by his entrails. Sometimes he wished he'd never set foot into that damn store.
To be continued.
Well this took longer to write than I wanted but it was okay I hope you guys liked this chapter and read my Fire Emblem story that I posted since I worked hard on it.
