Back again wow. I'm going to make this short and clear. I'm hyper as hell and am very anxious to get this chapter started and finished. So here we go chapter 18 or 17 whatever I'm writing it… Here you guys go!
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Zamamee sat next to Yayap in a collapsed structure that may have once been an old building as the humans referred to it as. Yayap hadn't moved. Not for 15 hours had he made a peep. No motion… Just silence. There was a feeling in the air that felt of death over coming life, but death was missing. Zamamee felt as if his world was going to crumble, he felt as if he was going to be killed for failing to do his duty in protecting Yayap. And probably was. He needed to think. They were hiding for now, but sooner or later they would have to come out from hiding. Zamamee would have to face the prophets and he would certainly be killed for letting Yayap die, but Zamamee couldn't come out of hiding just yet. He felt as if hope was close by. He felt as if the whole world would just full into his lap and every divine power would be his. He didn't really know what to think was the truth. He just wanted everything to go back to normal. He wanted to be back home. He wanted to have nothing to do with the Human/Covenant war. Zamamee stared out onto the starry sky hoping that a miracle would happen. Zamamee heard movement and turned to see Yayap move in his sleep. Zamamee felt hope once again.
Meanwhile…
Yayap saw nothing and saw everything. He saw color and blackness, he saw more than anyone should see and he was petrified. He didn't know where he was. He didn't know why he was where he was or even if he was alive or dreaming. Yayap felt like the world was twisting and spinning and swirling around him and in him. He felt to be falling yet he was standing. He felt himself become both light and heavy at the same time. He felt…. He felt annoyed. He stood straighter on nothing and walked around the… He walked in a set place. He felt dizzy. He saw flashes and hallucinations of himself and memories of his childhood, the war, and the lie that was him.
"Why am I seeing this!" yelled Yayap out loud. "Why am I here?"
Yayap fell silent as his voice echoed over and over into the void around him… And jumped at a reply.
"You are a lie…" came Yayap's voice in anger. It wasn't him though or his thoughts.
"You lied… You lied to the prophets… To the whole Covenant army…"
"And what! It got me this far!" replied Yayap.
"Look at what you've become! You're a disgrace to your kind and to this world!" replied Yayap's echo.
"Well what would have you done? I said I killed the demon which was true! And if I had said otherwise I would have been killed for lying to the prophets anyway!" replied Yayap.
"You should have told the truth. Now thanks to you the entire universe is going to be destroyed just because you had to lie to save your small ass!" shouted the echo.
Yayap was dumbstruck. He pressed on for an answer.
"What do you mean?" asked Yayap.
"Look…" said the echo as a vision filled the room.
There was void and then millions of stars. Yayap saw no place he had seen before, but there were zillions of stars. And then a flash as a purple void began to consume the stars at rapid pace and more and more and more purple holes opened and consumed more around them. Yayap felt a cold sweat on his body. He couldn't comprehend what was going on, but primal instinct told him it wasn't cookies and cake. Bad shit was happening and bad shit was going to spread it seemed.
"What is this!" shouted Yayap.
"This is what your lie has caused and this is what is to become of your universe and there's nothing that can be done about it now. If you hadn't lied you would have been killed and the human you referred to as the demon would have never destroyed paradise because you would have been there to satisfy the demon, but instead you didn't and the demon destroyed paradise and you continued to lie!" replied the echo now a dark and deeply terrifying voice.
"NO!" shouted Yayap in lament.
"There is nothing you can do! Enjoy your last days in existence liar!" said the voice.
The world around Yayap spun and fell even greater as voices rushed through his head and then nothing. Yayap woke in a cold sweat and Zamamee welcomed his waking with sudden joy. Yayap turned to him his expression unchanged.
"What is it?" asked Zamamee.
Yayap blinked.
"There's something I gotta tell you." said Yayap.
Meanwhile…
Ryan and Danny headed for earth in slip space as they gave commands to grunts and kept the monsters that were now all tightly packed inside the cruisers from killing each other or the grunts. So far the only thing that was really happening was that Danny was attempting to sort through some random memory blocks that some grunts had. The ship hummed silently as it sailed through the void of space and Ryan was bored for the moment. He flipped through some random com links and tried to see if they could pick up anything. A silent static noise filled the air around the console Ryan sat at and nothing was coming through the com. Ryan was about to give up when he heard a voice of desperation. He listened carefully and Danny came over to see what the hell was going on.
Static rushed through then a crackled voice came in…
"Ze—can't sur---It's destroying--- Oh my god! ---Bsshhhhhhhhhh….." the com cut off.
Ryan tried to get back the signal, but couldn't. Danny looked at him and Ryan thought for a moment. He shrugged.
"Their problem not ours I think we couldn't have done anything for them anyway and-"the radio burst into a desperate call for help.
"Send immediate evac! I repeat Immediate Evac! Coordinates 65.903.5771.8990 Alpha Centari system Centari 7! Shit it's getting bigger! (Someone in the back ground: It took out a third of our fleet sir!) Shit!" The com went silent again.
Danny's face was grim.
"We gotta help them Ryan." Said Danny.
"We can't do that what about our plan?" said Ryan.
"Yea big whoop take over the earth! These people are in serious shit I think we should at least try to show up save them and then hold them as slaves." Said Danny and he couldn't believe that was what he had said. He had been hanging around Ryan too long.
"Okay…"said Ryan. "Maybe we can use the survivors for a later plan."
Ryan hit in the coordinates that were frantically given over the com and the ships lurched toward their new destination.
"ETA is 5 minutes…" said a grunt whose only job was to announce the ETA.
Ryan waited. Once again wanting more action. Maybe he would go skydiving when this was all over.
Meanwhile….
Zamamee stared at his so called savior and leader. He felt repulsed and sick beyond anything he could ever imagine. He always knew from the beginning that there was something very strange about a grunt killing the demon all along, but now he knew the truth. His whole time with Yayap had been a lie. And now Yayap sat before him and stared at the ground in utter shame. He was disgusted at the truth and couldn't even look at the dirty liar, but that wasn't the only thing that was on Zamamee's mind. The dream Yayap had mentioned was disturbing, but it too may well be a lie. He thought about what he was going to do with Yayap. A penalty to such an act that Yayap committed would be death, but Zamamee still couldn't bring himself to turn him in. He was like a mouse stuck in a trap by the tail. Deciding on weather to be fed to the cat or get away without a tail. Yayap stood up and walked out from under the crumbled building.
"Where…"started Zamamee.
Yayap stopped and glanced at Zamamee and kept walking.
"Where I can go die in peace." Said Yayap as he kept walking off.
Zamamee felt no pointing stopping Yayap. He stared at him as he walked away and never came back. Suddenly Zamamee felt a mass amount of electricity enter his body as he lost control of himself and fell limp to the ground. He tried to call for help, but nothing came out of his mouth. He saw the demon and fell into a deep sleep as the demon hit him in the head with his fist.
Meanwhile…
Johnson still fought on and the battle field didn't seem like it was getting less crowded. Instead it was becoming packed and starting to become hard to move. Johnson grabbed a sword and sliced through a horde of Covenant and was once again in a jam of enemies and allies. He kept fighting and began to notice a very strange detail, but couldn't think of it ad then it hit him. There were no dead bodies. The horde of aliens he had sliced through was no longer there. Johnson felt plasma wiz by his head and he ducked and sliced at enemies around him. In the sky there were no more ships as they now either had landed or were floating around in orbit. The battlefield seemed to span beyond human sight as a mesh of purple and gray and green filled the land around Johnson. He found a grenade and he threw. It landed and sent twenty enemies flying into the air. One landed in front of him. Half of an elite. Its eyes stared up at him blankly. And then its body vanished in a flash of gray. Suddenly he saw the same elite run at him and try to kill him. He was unarmed and Johnson stuck in the face with the butt of a pistol. The elite was out cold. Johnson stared at the unconscious body and confirmed that it was the same elite that he had killed. Johnson thought he was going insane. He then found himself put his pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. There wasn't even a flash of death. Johnson found himself 9 feet from where he had shot himself and uninjured. He looked at his gun and dropped it in fear and confusion. He backed away and a grenade stuck to his face. He screamed as it blew up and suddenly was looking at the smoke coming form the grenade blast now 15 feet away from where he died. Johnson freaked out and then something hit his mind. He smiled and picked up a nearby shotgun. He pointed it at a marine.
"Sir what are you-"Johnson pulled the trigger and smiled manically.
He laughed a crazy and amused laugh and shot at anything that moved around him friend or foe. He had completely lost it. He saw no end to the war he was fighting and no death to carry him away. Johnson cracked and killed anything that he saw. His shotgun ran out of ammo and he threw it aside and pulled out a machete and started to slaughter everyone. There was no end. There was no death. And Johnson found no reason to fight for anything. He killed. And the murdered or killed would come back all the same. And the world grew heavy with blood and death.
Meanwhile…
Zamamee woke up and was hit in the face again. He felt his back up to a wall and saw the demon in a blurred vision coming toward him. He took a blow to his abdomen and the breath left him. He coughed up blood. And some of it hit the demon and he was hit again in the face. He was chained to a wall in some sort of building and the demon now looked at him. He held up his face to his.
"Where is the grunt?" Demanded the demon.
Zamamee looked at him and looked down. He didn't know and he wasn't sure what the demon had in plan for Yayap anyway. Not that it mattered to him now anyway. Or at least that's what he kept telling himself. Zamamee searched for an answer and couldn't think of one to give, but then his sub-consciousness over took him and he blurted out an answer.
"He is dead…" managed Zamamee.
He received a blow to the head again.
"Bullshit!" said the demon.
Zamamee had no idea why he was trying to protect Yayap. He couldn't control himself though. He continued.
"No… It's true… he… was killed shortly after I rescued him." Said Zamamee.
"Wrong answer." Said the demon.
Zamamee took a blow to his gut and he threw up, but not on the demon.
"Your little friend and me need to have a little talk and you are going to take me to him or you're going to die very, very slowly." Said the demon coldly.
Zamamee said nothing. He was not afraid to die. His life was wasted and without honor. Nothing could get him to paradise now. Not even the great journey. He closed his eyes and did not speak. He felt more pain all over his body, but his mind made it all numb. He no longer felt pain and sleep took him over. His vision faded and the world around him went slowly muffled and silent. The last thing Zamamee heard was a muffled explosion and shouting. Then he saw his home…
Meanwhile…
Ryan and Danny arrived at the planet the distress call came from to see the planet in complete flame and smoke. No more transmissions came through the com and all they could see on the planet were flashes of purple light and blackness and flame. Then suddenly the whole planet disappeared into a flash of light. Ryan and Danny and several grunts watching with them all stared at each other in shock. Ryan ran back to the controls and hit in coordinates for earth. They would leave the area they were in, forget it and continue their plan. No fucking way in hell were they going to end up like the planet that no longer stood before them. They continued their journey and Danny and the grunts still stared in the direction of the late planet. And they wondered, and feared.
Meanwhile…
Regret continued to beat Truth and Mercy at poker and Truth and Mercy continued to play compelled that they might win the next game, but that never happened and the game consumed their minds and thoughts and were soon oblivious to the chaos around them. Their game continued on
Next chapter to come up soon I hope you like this one I was pretty wired when I did it (SUUUGGGGAAARRRR!). Anyway I will have maybe 3 more chapters up again before I go back to school and then lots of people will be slightly happier than they were before. I would like to thank all of you who read this and review or just read this and laugh until their lungs collapse (I'm not responsible for any deaths.). Anyway keep Reading and Reviewing!
