Chapter 28: Träume des Meeres

Covenant Brig, Forbidden City, All other info unknown…

Will opened his eyes and jerked up right as he felt for his armor. All he had on was his black under suit. He looked around and saw that he was in a small cell made out of a white marble about ten by ten feet. In front of him was a pulsing blue shield that looked like waves moving back and forth. Next to him was a small raised platform with a hole. He rubbed his eyes and saw Kat sitting up against the wall of his cell across the room.

"Hey," she called out quietly. Will grunted and slid back to mirror Kat. "You've been sleeping for a while."

"I feel like I was hit by a Warthog," he responded.

"Yeah, they were pretty rough with us. Not sure what they poked us with but whatever it was it hurts," she replied, slowly massaging her thigh.

"Are we the only ones in here?"

"I think so, don't want us to team up I guess." When she finished there was a deep rumbling as the wall to their left split and then retracted away. An Elite in gold armor along with two more in red walked in and took their places as they changed shifts. Will swung his legs over the edge of his bed and stood up. His legs were shaky but he was able to keep his balance. He walked over to the edge of the shield and put his hands on it. Red energy pulsed around his finger tips as he put the pressure of his fingers against the energy. But Will knew it was useless to try and break out, even if he was able to bring the shield down, namely because of the fact that he had no weapons and would be cut down by the Elites' plasma rifles. He looked to his left and saw something that startled him. On a platform was an Elite with an energy sword, but behind him were two glass doors. Leading out of them appeared to be a walkway headed towards something he couldn't see. He looked over at Kat who was slowly getting up. She lowered her legs and tried to stand up but had a hard time. Her muscles flexed under her suit but she couldn't manage to get up. Will knocked on the wall and got her attention. He shook his head and then pointed two fingers at his eyes and then pointed towards the door. She leaned out and looked down the other side of the room. Leaning back she walked two fingers over her palm and then had them swoop down and stop on her palm. A walkway towards a landing pad. Again he felt the despair come over him. There was no way that they'd be able to escape without being killed or caught again. Kat saw his despair and sunk down.

"Don't worry, it'll be okay," he said, trying to comfort her. She looked at him and tears were slowly moving down her cheeks.

"Träume des meeres," she said. Will looked at her with a quizzical look on his face.

"Träume des meeres. Dreams of the sea. My mother used to always say it to me when I was a child, kind of a motto of my family. If they're still around…" she said trailing off, "But the last words she said to me were träume des meeres. She said that if I ever got lonely or despaired, dream of the sea and everything would be better. So I'm following her advice," she said, her voice becoming stronger. Kat stood up and looked at the shield. She rubbed her hands along it watching the redness follow it. Quickly she raised her head and looked over at the Elites before turning around.

"What are you doing?" Will asked but received no reply. She tore a chunk of her suit away from her thigh and pulled out a serrated combat knife from a sheath. Kat set it down and tore the bottom her suit's legs off and then proceeded to tear the arms off. This caught the attention of the Elite closest to her and he walked over. He shut the shield off and Kat instantly lunged at him. The knife appeared in the back of his neck as blood poured out of his neck. She grabbed his rifle and started to fire at the other two Elites. Their shields flared and blew off. They both fell to the ground, their wounds smoking. She immediately spun around and fired at the Elite with the sword. One of the plasma bolts struck his right hand and the sword evaporated. He roared with rage but was shut up with a volley of bolts in the face.

"Jesus, why'd you do that?" Will called out.

"Why the hell do you think?!" she replied while shutting his shield down. He walked over to an Elite and grabbed its weapon.

"Dumb Elites, wondering why I was stripping down."

"How far were you willing to go?" Will asked inventively. Kat just looked at him and smiled, her white teeth showing.

"C'mon, we need to move." The two of them ran towards the glass door and out onto the walkway. Outside the rain was coming down in sheets putting a haze around everything. Will squinted into the distance and saw a Phantom sitting on the landing platform in front of them. Something else caught his eye. Being unloaded were four black suits of armor.

"Hey, is that our armor?" Kat asked.

"Mmmhmmm," he replied. The only guards were a small contingent of Grunts who were huddling under the Phantom. Will raised his rifle and started to fire. Plasma splashed against the Grunts who fell quickly. He ran down the walkway and towards the platform. Kat ran past him and up to her armor.

"Shit, the messed with it." Will looked at her and then started to take his armor off.

"We need to get going so we can help Chris and Linda." Kat nodded but something caught her attention. She flared her nose before walking towards the edge of the platform and looking over. Will followed her and saw what she was looking at.

"Träume des meeres," she said slowly. Below them was a deep blue ocean stretching as far as they could see.