Hey! Its me! I hope you people enjoy my writing… I like to thank Bungie first of all for creating such a inspiring game. The Halo universe is unique and diverse like the Star Wars universe. The game inspired me so much as to write a story that (I don't know what like 30 people read? But besides the fact of the 30, I like to thank you because without you I probably discontinue this story. ) has haunted my dreams and now I can finally tell you.
I also like to thank people who are in my family and those around me. Some of my characters are based off of them. I want to end with this, Bungie created an awe inspiring epic that will continue for the ages to come like many other great games. The possibilities are endless when it comes to the universe of Halo and what comes out of it. I like to also thank other writers for your stories have inspired me.
Let the story continue for the little Spartan.
SPLASH! My entire body was freezing and covered with a liquid. In other words my body was cold and I was now wet. My eyes shot open and I gasped for air, "Gah!" escaped from my mouth.
"Mornin Darlin." Kulu said, all Texan like.
I looked at myself and then back at Kulu. I looked at myself and… my clothes were gone, vanished, not there, disappeared. "AH! I'm naked!" I exclaimed. My face turned red with embarrassment.
"Yah you were filthy, so I decided to give you a bath." Kulu said, rubbing what appeared to be soap on my back.
"So you took my clothes off?!?!?!?!?!" I replied very bewildered.
Kulu began to scrub something into my wet hair, "This should clean your hair." He said not really acknowledging my last remark.
"You still saw me naked!!!" I said not really acknowledging his last remark.
Kulu sighed, "Look Aeia, before I joined the Covenant I had a daughter…I'm not going to be a pervert, get it?"
I sighed also, "Got it."
"Good." He dumped water onto my head, it was still cold.
"There we are officially done." He drained the water and started drying me off, I heard a knock at the door.
"Don't move." Kulu said.
"Okay."
I listened to the growls, grunts, snarls, and whatever language Kulu spoke. Kulu walked back into the bathroom with a jumpsuit for me… it wasn't any better then the last one.
"Aeia…" Kulu said, looking and sounding downcast.
"Judgment time?" I replied, raising an eyebrow and with my cocky smile on my face.
"Sadly yes." Kulu said, he left the jumpsuit in the bathroom.
I got dressed and I knew what was at stake my life… yep just another ordinary day in the life of me. It was just like training and reminded me of my first battle with the chief… I opened the door and walked toward Kulu, "Gammameed…" I said.
He looked at me, "Yes Aeia?" He was putting his armor on.
"I don't wanna die." I replied as I fixed a bodysuit strap.
In the blink of an eye, maybe even faster then a Spartan reflex, Kulu had rushed over, picked me up, and now was hugging me, "Aeia… I wont let you die…I wont ever let you."
I hugged Kulu back, they always told me to shoot the enemy but Kulu was different he cared… Maybe I won't blow this place up just yet…I probably will eventually…on accident or on purpose…mmm chicken…
"Can I fight back?" I asked.
Kulu gave me a smile showing all of his sharp teeth, Wow records from Harvest were very accurate. I thought. "Yes you can, but you cant attack the prophet only the guards."
"Yes kickin ass and taking names." I replied happily. The door knocked again and Kulu answered it with me still in his arms. Behind door 1 was (Drum roll) Rtas and H'el.
We walked down the hall with Rtas and H'el. I looked out a window and watched the ghostly ring slowly turn.
"Come on Aeia." Kulu said.
"Coming." I replied, I looked out the window one last time and there was a strange glow emitting from Halo.
We walked till we reached a large room, that I dubbed 'the Mess Hall'. We heard a rumble, I ran toward the window. I looked at Halo and a bright light came from it, I guessed it was a large explosion, "Oh shit…" I said, I saw the shockwave coming toward us, "Gammameed!" I yelped.
Kulu saw it, grabbed me, and snarled, "Katas! Grmit sa malta!" `Everyone! Hit the deck!'
The shockwave hit us and the ship rocked severely. Everyone was tossed about, Kulu got into a ball and stayed that way till it was over but the worse was yet to come.
When the shaking stopped I looked up and many Sangheili were shaking their heads, everybody had fallen down.
"Is it over?" I asked.
"I think so." Kulu replied, big mistake to ask `is it over?' and then reply `I think so.'
We didn't have enough time to jump into slipspace when a bigger shockwave came. The ship rocked, lights flickered, men were tossed, and the ship began to lean we were most certainly going to flip over. Another quick jostle and I was thrown from Kulu's arms.
"Aeia!" Kulu called.
The shaking was over, "I'm fine!" I replied, the ship had turned to a 35° angle and I was at the bottom.
The power was low, lights were flickering, people were groaning. My lavender eyes scanned the upper half where everyone was. The Sangheili were bracing themselves against tables, walls, and railing.
"Gammameed." I bleated out.
"Aeia, Come on up." He said in my human tongue.
I began my climb, a memory flashed through my head, It was me and a man who I knew…I couldn't remember his name.
"We're almost to the top." He said, he ran ahead.
"Wait up dad!" I cried. I ran after him.
"Woooohooo!" He cried.
"Dad stop your embarrassing me!" I said.
"Oh you silly willy." He hugged me.
I kept climbing; I was halfway there when we all heard a crack. I looked behind me and the window had a crack in it. "Oh shit!" I said and the window broke.
"Katas, toba es!" `Everyone, hang on!' H'el shouted.
I gripped that table for dear life, "Kulu!" I screamed. My grip faltered for one second and I fell giving me, my one way ticket to deep space. I bumped into another table and grabbed that one for dear fucking life.
"Aeia!" Kulu shouted, but it wasn't very good his voice was nearly droned out by the sound of the void.
'Mary' His voice resounded in my head.
Was it the man before…'Dad?' I thought.
'Mary' The voice said again but it was clearer.
'Chief?'
'Remember Mary, keep fighting even when it seems hopeless; Just keep fighting till you cant fight anymore when you reach that point keep fighting.'
'Chief I'm about to be thrown into the F'in void! Help me!' I realized I was talking to something in my head.
'Hm…Tell me what happened to the Spartan who avoided capture for 2 weeks?'
'…'
'Or what happened to the Spartan that can proudly outdo a Olympic gold medal gymnast?'
'…'
'Now where is that Spartan?'
My eyes shot open "I'm still here." I began furiously climbing, swinging and jumping from what ever I could grab. Adding Olympic gymnastic flairs here and there, I was actually having fun.
"Katan, tulto ras latepn!" Kulu snarled. `Someone, close that window!'
The window began to close, the suction was getting stronger but that didn't matter, I looked at Kulu and smiled.
My eyes were closed when I heard Kulu shout, "Aeia! Lookout!"
I opened my eyes, a table had come loose and was falling, MOMMY! I screamed in my head. The table nailed me right on the forehead, I let go, and fell doing back flips. The funny thing was that everything went slow as I fell I knew I would hit the wall with a ton of speed and force leaving a dent but I didn't care. My eyes fell onto Kulu, he was being held back by others and seemed to be shouting something. I slowly closed my eyes and did my infamous, cocky, Mona Lisa smile.
"Aeia! Aeia!! AEIA!!!" Kulu shouted I heard him.
In my head I snickered, `The other Spartans are going to kill me and laugh at me when they find out how I died… Yah "Death by table." that's a new one.
"Mary…Mary…Mary…Wake up." A stolid voice said.
I groaned and opened my eyes, the forest canopy let some light in.
"Where…What happened?" I groaned.
"You hit your head on a branch, while running from Kelly."
I sat up and my head really hurt.
"Careful your head is bleeding."
"I've been through worst… Oh crap I've been caught."
"Not exactly." Master Chief said.
"What do you mean?"
"I have not moved you or touched you so in other words you're still free."
I smiled, "Well today is my lucky day. You know if I'm captured Johnson is going to kill me… What have I missed in school?"
"Nothing."
"What do you mean nothing! I have been on the run for 2 weeks! And you say nothing!"
"Mary… the last 2 weeks lessons were changed since your escape."
"Master chief, say what?"
"The lessons were changed to Evasion and Capture."
"That kinda explains why after last week the older Spartans started chasing me." I said before pulling out a disk shaped object from my backpack. The center began to glow.
"Lycurgus… are you ok?"
A stumbling suit of armor, with dizzy swirls in his eyes, came into view, "Ugh," He said while attempting to regain his footing, "Did we make it?"
"Umm no." I said sadly.
Lycurgus looked at the Chief, "We were captured!"
"Lycurgus exnay on the emotional!" I said through my teeth.
Lycurgus wasn't an ordinary AI, he sometimes acted rampant. He did something to increase his life span, he absorbed other AI's.
"Ah who cares! M'lady…I'm barely a year old and yet I act like a rampant AI." He seemed proud of that.
I sighed, "Goodnight Lycurgus."
His emotions disappeared and like a knight in armor, he bowed and said, "Goodnight M'lady."
I looked at the Chief and he said, "Goodbye Mary." He turned around and was walking away.
"John!" I said.
He turned around and stared into my eyes. I just said, "Do I get anything for evasion and survival skills?"
"Rest, a warm meal, a bed, and writing your name on the `Evasion Wall'."
The Evasion wall was the most holy of things, if you evaded capture the longest you wrote your name on it.
I just said, "Bed…" and my legs gave out. I fell to the ground with an, "Ugh."
John picked me up and carried me back to camp. I had evaded capture for 14 days, 11 hours, 22 minutes, and 34 milliseconds. The longest any Spartan evaded capture for. It was immortalized on that wall, my pictures, and Lycurgus' hard drive.
Kulu was snarling, growling, and roaring curses and pleading to be let go.
"Aeia!." Kulu howled.
The window closed and Aeia's frail body slammed into the wall.
"Aeia!" H'el howled.
The gravity failed in that room. Kulu was worried and saw the dent her body made when it slammed into the wall.
"Is everyone alright?" Rtas called out.
There were various nods and growls of conformation. All eyes still lay on the human child.
"It's a human…" "I'll kill it." "Did Kulu bring it with him?" Those types of questions fluttered about the gravity less room.
Kulu's brown eyes never left the childs' floating body. Kulu spotted a sickly familiar red glob float toward H'el. It carried that all too familiar scent of human blood. Her head turned and Kulu looked in horror for there was a large and deep gash on her forehead.
"AEIA!!" Kulu screamed and ripped himself away. He jumped from table to table finally floating over to Aeia. His eyes scanned the gash, he would have to take her to the medic for it would not heal on its own.
"Oh Aeia…" Kulu said as he wrapped his arms around the child, when she stirred.
Her eyes shot open and she seemed to forget who he was, "Gammameed?" she said, her voice resounded with uncertainty.
"Yes Mary I'm here." His arms, like a father leveling wrapped around the child; well he attempted to that is.
"Gammameed have you forgotten my name already?" she said avoiding Kulu's arms.
Kulu chuckled, but in his mind he wanted to grab that child, hug her and act like a worried parent. "No Aeia, I have not."
Kulu calmly headed for the door while Aeia swam next to him. He looked at her and from what he knew about animals from Earth she swam like a dolphin or an otter. She was doing flips, sharp turns, and spins.
H'el floated over to Rtas and whispered, "Rtas."
"Yes brother?"
"Do you think Aeia could bring us bad luck?"
Rtas slapped the back of his head, "H'el that is absurd."
"Yah you're right." H'el said rubbing the back of his head.
Aeia floated up next to Rtas and H'el. They saw all of her cuts, bruises, scrapes, and that big deep gash on her forehead; but other than that see seemed perfectly fine and unaffected of what just happened. The gravity turned on and all of them heard Aeia say, "Uh-oh." and finally her shriek as she hit the floor.
Many Sangheili laughed at the small human falling. Kaman stuck his head inside the door and said, "Let us get moving."
They all made it out of the mess hall with only a few nicks and cuts.
"Where are we going?" Aeia asked Kulu.
"I am not sure myself little one." Kulu replied.
"Rtas, H'el," Kulu snarled, quietly, "where are we going?" Kulu said in Sangheili.
"I am not sure." H'el replied.
"The second division is going somewhere, I don't know where, but you and Aeia are going to go see someone." Rtas explained.
Kulu walked beside Rtas now, "Who?" Kulu said slightly growling.
"Regret." Rtas said silently.
Kulu's mandibles tensed up and his eyes seemed to bulge out of his head, "Regret!" He exclaimed quietly.
Rtas looked at Kulu, "Word travels fast and he heard about your human pet."
The second division separated from the little group composing of Kaman, H'el, Rtas, Kulu, and Aeia.
Kulu spoke up again, "He-he knows?" Kulu stuttered slightly.
Aeia had a frown on her face and Kaman could see she was getting frustrated of not knowing what they were saying. Aeia stopped and stomped her foot in frustration, "Hey what are you guys talking about?" She said.
Kaman grunted in slight distain on how the child act like…well acted like a child.
Kulu turned around and gave a low growl, "Aeia just be patient." He continued to walk, and Aeia trotted after him.
"Yes Kulu he knows." Rtas replied.
"But how?" Kulu asked.
"Men have a tendency to not be quiet." Rtas said lightly smirking.
Kulu had to admit that it would have eventually happened but he never expected it to be so soon.
"Okay, is he here 'here', or here?" H'el asked.
Kaman walked next to H'el and said, "Here 'here'."
"Crap…" Kulu said.
"Shit…" H'el said.
"She is fucked." Rtas said.
They turned the corner and Kulu immediately dreaded what he saw, Honor Guard Ultras. The presence of the guards only confirmed that The Prophet of Regret was here.
"Kulu…" Aeia whispered.
Kulu looked down at the child, her head was still bleeding but not as heavily, her small nimble hands gripped the back of his crimson cape, her fingers moved along the frayed edges. She shivered not out of cold but out of fear, and Kulu could smell her fear it was always something about humans even if they are brave, cursing and smiling at their own demise you could almost always smell their true emotions.
"Yes Aeia." Kulu said calmly.
"I'm," she swallowed her demonic pride, "kinda scared."
Kaman, H'el, and Rtas could not believe that the child was scared. She, this lowly human child, suffered through explosions, fights, and was nearly sucked into space…was afraid of Honor Guard Ultras.
Kulu gave her his warmest smile and said, "Aeia just be calm and stay near me, I will not let anything or anyone hurt you." Kulu was biting his own words as he said them. For if the Prophet of Regret says she is to die…so it must then be. Kulu thought.
"Kulu…" Rtas grumbled.
Kulu's brown eyes just glanced at the silver armor covering the SpecOps commander.
"Why do you lie to it?" Rtas said coldly, "It has the right to know its rate of survival."
Kulu walked over to his comrade, "I learned a human saying that 'Ignorance is Bliss'. Also I will never understand you ways of detaching previous emotions to previous acquaintances that are now dead."
Rtas crossed his powerful arms over his chest and just grunted.
"Kulu." The small child spoke up.
"Yes Aeia?"
"Your hiding something from me." She said with a distinct tone of an adult. "Just don't deny it or try to hide it, because I am a part of this." She said, her posture changed and the air of the child was gone.
"Aeia…" Kulu replied. He was stunned at how the childlike air about the girl was ripped away and replaced with an air about the child that was strange to him. She was still Aeia but not Aeia at the same time.
She smiled the same way, "I have a pretty good chance of dying," she said bluntly with another smirk and a lighthearted laugh, "well Kulu maybe Ignorance is Blissful but Knowledge is Delightful."
Kulu looked at the child and his heart sank as he said to her, "Yes Aeia you may die."
"May? Ha! I should be dead," She said smiling widely, "remember Gammameed," she spoke in the childlike tone that Kulu was familiar with, "in war you must deceive the enemy into thinking what you want them to think and fool them with your appearance, that is the trick of the bluff." she said and as she spoke her voice floated between that of a child and that of an adult.
"Are you trying to trick us human?" Rtas said growling from the back of his throat.
"No," she said holding up her arm defensively, "I respect you too much to ever do that."
H'el looked around the corner and one of the Ultras signaled them that it was time, "It's time." H'el said solemnly.
Aeia hugged H'el and Kaman for what would most likely be for her final time. Rtas gave in and hugged her for the final time.
"Goodbye Comrades." She said.
They watched the human and Kulu walk toward the Honor Guard Ultras. As they approached her heart began to pound like a train, they could smell her nervousness and fear. Kulu calmly walked passed them into the room, Aeia followed eyeing the guards. One of them growled and that sent her clinging to Kulu.
As they walked into the room the musical language of the covenant floated through the room. The eerie glow off the Honor Guards armor sent chills down her spine, she began to whimper.
"Hush Aeia," Kulu said quietly, "show no fear for if you do they will exploit it and feed off it."
She took in a deep breath and kept pace with Kulu. She remained calm but her scent still had fear lingering in it. They walked into view and that is when she saw the Prophet of Regret.
Done this chapter took a while but I hope you guys like it.
