Chapter 10- The Ring World Cometh
Master Chief stood up after his sudden stop to the ground. He took in a deep sigh. "And I was beginning to enjoy my break from this 'ring planet'."
"Woah." Dan looked up to the sky seeing the planet curve upward and over making a perfect circle. "Amazing."
"It is a strange world." Raziel agreed.
Master Chief picked up Gex and began walking in a swift pace. "Let's go!"
Trees loomed overhead and plants swayed in the wind as soft rain pittered and pattered onto the planet called Halo. Knowing they were running out of time, Raziel was more than peeved to see Master Chief suddenly stop for no reason.
"Why have you-"
"Shhh!" They all listened. They heard a faint rustling sound accompanied by an odd chittering sound. "They're coming."
"Who?! What?!" Dan said, getting nervous.
Suddenly, thousands of little white creatures came down from the trees and up from the earth. "The Flood!" Master Chief yelled. With one hand still holding Gex, he kept the other rapidly firing his assault rifle.
"Wh-wha-?" Raziel had no time to question, he was soon covered in the little white creatures. They were sucking the life out of him! Dan swung his sword to keep the infection forms of the Flood from chewing on his bones. Raziel growled in aggravation as he pulled the life suckers off of his blue flesh. Once he succeeded in getting them all off, he spotted two of the whitish creatures, only they were larger, with balloon like heads almost too heavy to walk on two feet. "I like the bigger ones!" he chuckled and leapt onto the head of one. He was about to sink his talons into the thing's sick, dead skin when it began to pulsate. Its trembling grew more and more. Then it burst, sending Raziel flying through the air and landing at Master Chief's feet.
"Carrier forms." the Spartan soldier said, "Don't get too close." Raziel knew he was smiling under that helmet of his as he shot the other carrier. "Go for the combat forms, I'll pick off the carriers from a distance, Dan is doing a good job with the infections."
Raziel hated when Chief was right, but he knew what he had to do. He saw the combat forms charging in. They resembled deformed humans with wriggling tentacles and the same off-white, dead skin as the other forms of the Flood. One combat leapt at Raziel. The ex-vampire jumped back and lashed at the Flood. They weren't as easy to kill as the Covenant. It took proper battling techniques to get each of the combats down. After what seemed like an infinity of battle, the Flood was defeated.
"This was only a small group." Chief stated.
"Small?!" Dan cried.
Raziel was quite proud of his achievements in killing each combat.
"Raz! Look out!" screamed Dan.
He turned just in time to see a combat form rise from the dead and leap up. Master Chief quickly pulled out his shotgun and fired into the air, causing a large hole in the creature's head. The last Flood fell dead once again.
"They tend to do that sometimes." Master Chief commented as he began again to walk further into Halo's jungle.
It wasn't long until the group reached the Marine base. An officer greeted them. He saluted, "Master Chief, glad to have you back." he saw Raziel and Dan, "Uh, are they with you?"
"Yes, now take him, he's wounded." he handed Gex to the officer. "Make sure he gets immediate treatment."
"Yes sir!" the officer couldn't salute while holding Gex, so he bowed his head respectfully and trotted off to medical.
"Sir," saluted another officer. "We received your distress signal and found the villains on Halo. They left hours ago. But, we traced them and created a program for your ship to follow their trace into the next world."
"You sent a distress signal?" Raziel asked. "How?"
"When I first got sent to your world, I still got a radio wave through to my world before all communication got cut off. They've been waiting for me since then."
"How do these guys know about our villains?" Dan also questioned.
The officer answered. "We knew something wasn't right when Chief and the Covenant disappeared, so we kept our eyes peeled for further odd occurrences. When we saw the three strange looking people come into our world, we figured they were involved and it would be best to trace them."
"Clever." Raziel complimented. Master Chief was a bit surprised.
"We are just finishing things on your ship." The officer finished. "Your friend should be well soon and you can head off."
Hours passed and the group grew impatient. Finally, an officer approached them, "The ship is prepped and ready."
Raziel glanced at Chief, "Maybe we should consider leaving Gex behind."
"Aww, then I'd miss all the fun!" said a familiar voice. They all turned to see their lizard friend well and standing on a bandaged leg. "Look what they gave me!" Gex held up his new assault rifle. "Pretty ain't it?" The group all smiled. "Now what are we waitin' for?! Let's kick some bad guy bootay!"
Everyone agreed by running into the ship. "Buckle up everyone!" Master Chief called form the pilot's seat.
The engines fired up and a ramp lifted to give them a clear take off. A voice came through on the intercom. "Sir, we've positioned the take off route to go straight into the vortex we found. It should take you right where the villains were. Good luck!"
Master Chief nodded and the ship took off with great speed.
"Waaaa hooooo!" Gex yelled.
"Here we go!" Chief called as the ship was surrounded in a bright blue light.
Next installment: Chapter 11- The Chaos Quickens
AN: Wow, been a long time..Just so everyone's clear...this Raziel is from Soul Reaver 1, so he has not encountered the next 2 games. But, it's getting close to the end!!! hoo haa!!