Delta Halo

by Cossacks250

The war between the Covenant and humanity is reaching It's height. The Covenant have discovered the long hidden location of Earth. When they attack, the fate of the human race in this battle will once again lie in the hands of their last hope. Some OC's.

20. Epilogue

Location: High Charity

High Charity. The Covenant holy city, or was the Covenant holy city. It was once the home world of the San 'Shyuum and the birthplace and headquarters of the Covenant. Seven alien races that formed the Covenant once called this planet their home in the war against Humanity. That is until it was attacked by an old enemy of both the Covenant and the Humans. The Inferi Redivivus, or as it was well known, the Flood.

The Flood managed to get to High Charity on the Human ship Amber Clad after capturing it whilst it was above the library on Delta Halo. They flew it into a tower and an army of Flood, along with the Gravemind, the leader of the Flood, escaped from the ship and used the pelicans aboard it to land all over the city. Within hours, the city had been overwhelmed and most of those that had been left behind were now either dead or made into one of the Flood to join their ever growing ranks.

Outside the council hall tower, the entrance to the building was broken. Half of the door was wide open but the other half was stuck about halfway from closing. The air around the tower was filled with Flood spores and all the lights in the city had either been destroyed or had shut down, making the city look like a ghost town.

Then, something big behind the door moved. It was long and was made up of flesh that had a green top. It was a tentacle. The tentacle moved out of the building and began to move about in the air as if it were searching for something. Another came out, followed by another, and another, and another. Soon, seven long tentacles were sticking out of the tower waving about in the air.

"Silence fills the empty grave, now that I am gone" a shuddering voice that would have bested the Devil's said.

It seemed to fill the air around the city. The large tentacles began to move down the pathway towards the platform at the end towards a pedestal, that was raised earlier on during the first few hours of the fighting in the city.

"But my mind is not at rest," the voice went on. "There are questions that I have asked but have been left to linger on. But now I will ask, and you will answer."

As the tentacles approached the pedestal, a small seven inch high avatar rose up out of the object. It was Auto. One of the tentacles went to touch him, but he held up a hand and the tentacle back off as if Auto had some kind of power. He replied with two words to Gravemind.

"Alright. Shoot,"