Spartan LOG: PLANET EARTH

SOUTHERN POLE

1023 HOURS

As the Chief and his men entered the pyramid, they approached a sarcophagus, which was blown halfway to bits. "What's a sarcophagus doing here?" asked the marine to the Chief, in hoping to get a response from Cortana.

"It's what kings in the past were buried," answered Cortana. As the marines scouted the area, one of them called out, "Hey, I found something!"

Quickly the marines came to see what it was. The marine held up an irregular object, "What do you think it is Cortana?" asked the marine. "I don't know, but we can keep it I suppose to run tests for."

The marine nodded and inserted it into his pack. Then a hell jumper called out, "I found some stairs, I'm gonna go down and check it".

"Not without backup you aint!" snapped Sergeant Johnson. "Patterson! Phillips! You two check out the stairs down there with Jones(the hell jumper)," he ordered. The marines then ran up to catch up with Jones down the stairs.

The Chief decided to take a closer look at the sarcophagus. He gently rubbed his hand against it, "This sarcophagus was blasted open," said the Chief to himself. He the n got up and looked around to see if there was any other sign that could show where the Covenant was. Then he finally found it, he found that the door where they had just come in from had been stained with the blood of a grunt. It was all over the sides of the wall.

"Sir!" cried the marines from down the stairs. As the marines and the Chief came down, the two marines and the hell jumper were just standing speechless with their mouths half opened.

Sergeant Johnson came pushing his way though, "What are you boys looking at?". Johnson then found what had caused their faces. Several elites, grunts and jackals were sprawled all over the floor. Both the elites and the jackals had holes in them, while all the grunts had their neck squeezed to the size of a straw. "What the hell of a thing could do this?" said Johnson as he stepped closer to examine the corpse of an elite.

Both its mouth and its eyes were wide open, as if it were screaming out in pain. Its blood was poured out all over its chest, and its hands were clenched as if it was grabbing for something. The jackals were the same, its eyes and mouths were open and their intestines were ripped to shreds.

All the marines began to back out to the entrance were they came from. "Where do you guys think your going?" asked the Chief to his squadron. "It was a bad idea to come here." stuttered one marine. "I know about you guys, but I'm getting out of here!" said one marine as he began sprinting for the door. Then the place began to shake, and the whole place began to shift like a puzzle.

"What the hell is going on!" shouted Cortana. The marines and a few of the hell jumpers began making a run for the stairs, but only a few made it up for the stairs began lifting. The floor beneath the Master Chief began to split apart, he quickly set both his feet on one side and turned to find that Johnson was falling into one of the areas that was splitting apart.

"I could use a hand Chief!" shouted the sergeant as he was hanging on for his dear life. The Master Chief started to run to his aid but found out that the shotgun slung around his back was caught around the wall which was shifting together with another wall. He then yanked the slung off and ran for Johnson. The Chief quickly slid to grab his hand but it was to late, Johnson fell into the dark craves. The Chief could hear his screams echoing below as the floor closed in front of him. "Johnson," sighed Cortana. The Master Chief began to try to smash the floor, but had to jump out of the way because the wall was coming toward him.

It was at this time that the place stopped shifting, the Chief gave out a sigh of both relief and depression. He turned to see who he had left on his squadron. He had two marines, which were in frozen in shock.

Meanwhile back on the surface, a covenant drop ship landed.

All the elites, grunts, and jackals, jumped out with their gun drawn and ready. Then next out of the drop ship came out Eryee, holding his laser sword. "I though that our team would have been here," he muttered angrily as looked around. As he took another step, he stubbed his foot on something. He looked down to find that it was a battle rifle, covered in blood and snow.

"Look here!" shouted a covert grunt pointing to something down the snowy hill. All the elites and jackals came to look at a very gory site. Both humans and Covenant alike, were scattered all around all. Their bones dislocated, and their bodies smothered in blood.

"Looks like the humans founds out where," said one elite. As they continued walking, Eryee's eyes caught a glimpse of one human body that looked unusual. "What is it sir?" asked one of the elites.

Eryee bent down to take a closer look, he dusted off some of the snow on the torso to find that the human's chest had holes in it. "We're not the only ones here," Eryee whispered to himself.

"What did you say sir?" asked the same elite. Eryee just responded, "Nothing, just be on your guard, the humans could be anywhere."