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Chapter 5-The Death of a Spartan

The team lead the force into the next level of the base, to find that the room had been splattered in covenant forces. In the middle of the room, stood a great beast, blood flowing from its mouth. The team noticed that the beast that had taken Leon's life was the same beast that was in this room. The beast was chained down with anti-gravity holds.

"Arbiter, what we do?" a little pint-sized grunt asked the elite with the sword. Rob just remembered, that the Arbiter was the one who helped the legendary Master Chief. The Arbiter had a shiny metallic helmet on, with a odd cut on the dull gray armor he was wearing. It looked like….the Spartan symbol! So, this…this…arbiter was real, and he wanted to help! Rob turned on the HUD on his helmet, and he talked to the rest of the team…

"Guys! That elite was the one who helped Master Chief! He's the arbiter!" Rob almost yelling. Taylor and Corbin turned to look at the Arbiter, taking in how he looked, from the cut on his armor, the energy sword, the burn on his skin, all of this, finally fit into place. That was actually the Arbiter.

"Yeah, I noticed." Taylor said, with a slight hint of excitement, for he always wanted to fight along side the Arbiter or Master Chief. He silently thought that somehow, the team would end up fighting along side of Master Chief also. Drowning in all of his thoughts, he totally forgot about the beast, until it let out a mirth growl. He and the rest of the team turned there heads towards the beast, hoping not to have to fight it once more.

"We shall take out the beast." The Arbiter growled, not showing even a slight bit of fear towards the beast. He moved his head up and down, analyzing the beast, trying to see what it was doing. He noticed, that it was being fed, but in a very weird sort of way. It was being fed bodys, and then a very bright entity was flowing to the body of the beast. Everytime a entity flew to the beast's body, it grew bigger. The Arbiter finally sufficed that they had to stop the flow of entities to the beast.

"Go for the bodies being fed to the beast! Or take out the Covenant feeding it!" Corbin yelled, taking hold of the situation before the Arbiter pronounced his plan. Corbin ran towards the top level of the room to take out the brutes feeding the beast. Taylor started to shoot brute shots at the bodies being thrown at the beast. The bodies blew up in mid air, making a shower of body parts fly all over the room. Blood splattered the beast, and the room. It made everybody look like they were wearing green and blue war paint.

Corbin made it to the top of the room, taking out his brute shot, using the blade part of it to cut off the limbs of the brutes. He severed an arm off of a particularly large brute, watching blood spew out of the socket, he took the arm and hit the brute with it. The brutes head snapped in two. He moved towards the other brutes, firing brute shoots, watching the brute's bodies fly and explode in mid-air. He started to laugh, finally getting pay-back to what the covenant did to him. He jumped in front of a brute that was feeding the beast, and he stuck the brute shot up to the brutes head, and pulled the trigger. Green blood and brains flew on the covenant being fed to the beast. "Sorry about that" Corbin said, laughing.

He started running towards a brute that was leading more covenants, and he felt something grab him from behind. "Wha?" Corbin yelled. A brute had grabbed Corbin, taking his weapon out of his hands. The brute raised Corbin over his head. "NO!NO!" Corbin screamed, fear coursing through his body. The brute raised him higher, finally bringing Corbin down, on the brutes knee. SNAP! "AHHH!" Corbin screamed, as his last breath left his body.

It seemed that the battle had stopped in slow motion. Taylor finally made It up to the stairs, only to notice Corbin lying on the floor, blood seeping from his body, a pool of blood puddled around Corbin's body. Taylor was not thinking. He went crazy. He ran to the brute, moving faster than he ever ran. He kicked the brute, making it fall down below, blood seeping from the brutes body below…

"Watch out!" Rob yelled, noticing the brute falling from above. He wondered what was happening. He had not heard anything from Corbin or Taylor. He didn't have time to think, A elite jumped on him, sticking a plasma rifle to his head. A blue spike impaled the elite in the midsection, pinning it against a wall.

Taylor knelt down next to Corbin's body. He took his helmet off, tears streaming down his face. He picked up Corbin's body, and sat him up right. "Corbin, im so sorry!" Taylor gasping, a heavy flow off tears streaming from his face. Taylor had lost his best friend, he was tired of losing all of his friends, all to this damn beast shit. What was so important about this beast, that he had to keep losing friends?

"Taylor, are you there?" Came Donald's voice from his helmet. Taylor put his helmet back,on. He turned on the HUD, channeling it to Donald's HUD. There was a moment of silence, and the Donald signaled in again, with a faint whisper. "Is Corbin ok?" Donald whispered, thinking the worst.

A great big sigh came from Taylor's end. Donald noticed that he was crying. "He died, Donald." Taylor spoke, in a voice unlike his own. Donald was about to reply, when the beast broke free from his holdings. The beast made a growl, that shook the whole base. The beast was moving slowly towards the battle happening a few feet away from him.

The arbiter than came out of nowhere, jumping on the beast's head, stabbing his energy sword in the beast's head, making a hole in its head. He stuck a plasma grenade down the hole he made, and jumped off. The beast's movements staggered, as the grenade finally went off. There was no explosion, only the beast fell on to the floor, shaking the base. A giant entity flew out of the beasts body, and flew to Taylor.

The entity merged in Taylor's body, making his body shake violently, a great blue light shining on Taylor's body. Taylor fell on the floor, knocked out cold. Donald and Rob ran up to the top floor. They noticed Corbin and Taylor's body lying on the ground. Donald's worse fears had come true. They both died.

"NO!" Donald yelled. He fell on his knee's the black aura engulfing him again. Tears flowed from his eyes, burning the cuts on his face. Donald fell on the ground, picking up Corbin and Taylor. Rob, looked at the bodies of his two best friends, suddenly losing his voice.

"What are you doing?" Taylor's voice came out in a faint whisper, scaring Donald, making him drop Taylor. Donald looked at Taylor, the color returning in his skin. He didn't die. He didn't die!" I thought you were dead!" Donald yelled, jumping at Taylor, hugging him. "Well, im not, now stop hugging me, your making a fool of yourself." Taylor said,laughing. He looked at Donald, and then Corbin's body. He started to cry again…

"Corbin is dead though. I want to give him an appropriate burial." Taylor said, now feeling pride, reminiscing at Corbin's selflessness. "We can not do that. We have to keep moving" The Arbiter pronounced. "We have to meet up with John." The Arbiter said wisely.

"Who's John?" Rob asked, pondering what everybody was thinking. He scanned his brain for a guy named John, but he could not think of anybody by the name John. "I believe you call him Master Chief? Yes. We have to meet up with him." The Arbiter this time, looking at Corbin, a tear falling from his eyes.

Octant was the end of Chapter 5,I hope you like it! read and Review please!