AN: Hello and Welcome to Chapter 1 of Zero's Wolf Pack, I hope you all enjoyed the Prologue. Anyway, let's start up this chapter!

Chapter 1: New Beginnings

Sergeant Henry Little hit the ground running. He hit the ground with a thud but quickly got up and ran forward with all his might, plasma flying past him. He sprinted as fast as he could towards a small make-shift barricade a squad of marines had made, his MA5 in his hands and his breath ragged. He, along with all of the UNSC defence force, had been fighting for days with little to no rest.

He turned around in a dive and slammed his back into the barricade and breathed heavily. He looked behind him to see his squad-mates hiding inside a small alley entrance. "Hold there, don't try to get out here!" He ordered as he checked his MA5's clip. He popped over the barricade to then imminently come back down into cover as plasma rained at him. He looked to his right to see a marine on a mounted machine gun churning away at the enemy. He stared at the marine for a few seconds before looking over the barricade to see a squad of Grunts pushing forward. He gave a quick smirk as he watched the machine gun spray bullets into the Grunts. He then noticed a purple blob behind them. He focused his vision on that to see what it was, and it annoyed him to all hell. It was one of the Covenants main tanks, the wraith.

He came back down behind the barricade and breathed slowly. "Hey marine, we got a wraith coming in, get to some cover or your-" Henry turned to look at the marine and his eyes went wide. He watched as an energy sword was stabbed through the marines stomach as a active camouflaged Elite crushed his neck. The elite turned and stared at him for a few moments while Henry did the same. For a few seconds Henry could swear the battlefield went silent as they stared at each other for a few seconds, but as soon as that moment passed the Elite threw the marines body aside and roared at Henry, Henry replied by trying to pull out his MA5 to engage the Elite but not before the Elite stamped its foot onto Henrys chest. Henry felt his breath leave his body as the pressure hit his lungs. He only had one hope for that day.

Let me die fighting.

Louise was scared. She was scared that she couldn't do it. She was scared that she could not summon a familiar, that she was a zero, a nothing. She breathed slowly as she started her incantation. She was scared of being made fun off, scared that she was a failure to her family. When she finished her spell and pointed her wand at the summoning area a large black explosion went off. She, along with most of the class coughed as the black smoke flew past them. A few short seconds later they all stopped and stared at the large, smoke-covered, area in front of them.

"Did she fail again?" A tanned, red-head called Kirche asked her blue-haired, silent friend called Tabitha.

"Shadow." Tabitha stated before pointing into the cloud. She was speaking the truth, in the smoke was a large shadow; it had a hunched back and seemed much taller than a human at around 8 feet. Louise gave a small smile at the realization that she had summoned something.

And then everything went wrong.

The shadow activated something in its right, three-fingered, hand and two large points appeared to come out. Louise took a step back only a moment before the shadow slashed at her with the blue sword. She fell onto her butt as she looked up to stare at what she had summoned, and it terrified her. The creature wore blue armour and had no mouth but instead 4 mandibles. It roared at her before raising its right hand.

"LOUISE!" Colbert, the classes professor yelled in desperation but he could not reach her in time. The monster was about to bring down the weird sword when something jumped on its back. It roared and tried to shake it off as Louise quickly backed up. That's when her, along with most of the others, noticed it wasn't a something but a someone. This someone wore weird armour and a helmet that covered their entire face, but they could all make out the wolfs head on it.

The monster grasped the person's arm that was holding onto its neck and threw them over its shoulder, sending the person flying a few meters. As the person landed they let out a groan that sounded like a man's. The monster charged the man who was on the floor, as it got closer the man rolled over to face it with a weird weapon in its hand. It looked like a compact musket that the Tristian Army used. Then a buzzing sound went off a it fired into the monster. The monster staggered back as an invisible wall that it was using for defence was destroyed into golden sparkles.

Click, click, click

The man looked at his weapon then back to the monster as it grabbed him by the neck, the man dropping his weapon in the process. The man struggled with one of his hands while his other seemed to go for something on the monsters waist.

All the students, along with Professor Colbert, were stunned the fight between the man and monster. Quickly Colbert shook of his shock and raised his wand and fired a fireball into the monster, knocking it away from the man and making it realise the man from its grip. The man fell to the floor for a few seconds as the monster staggered back. The man quickly got to his feet and looked like it was about to punch the monster in the face... area... but instead revealed something in their hand.

It was a light blue ball type object that seemed to burn with a blue flame around it. The man smacked it against the beasts face kicked the monster in the stomach, again staggering it backwards with the blue ball stuck to its face. The monster roared as the blue ball expanded and exploded, killing the monster. Everyone stared at where the monster stood only a few moments ago and then towards the man. The man was breathing heavily as he turned and picked up his weapon along with the sword object the monster used. The man then fell to his knees as he coughed. Professor Colbert turned to look at Louise. "Miss Valliere, I think you have your familiar."

Louise turned to face the professor, a mix of shock and fear etched across her face. "What? He just killed my Familiar!" She roared

"No, I believe HE is your familiar." Colbert explained "So please finish the contract."

"Louise turned back to the man on his knees. 'Brimir why me?" She wondered to herself as she walked up to the man and gave him a small kiss on the top of his helmet. The man's head quickly darted to his left hand as his rune was etched into his hand, seconds later he fell to the floor from pure tiredness.

As some of the students went off to get a few water mages to heal the man Colbert just thought about the man. Colbert himself had been in the military and had seen his fair share of soldiers, and this man fit the bill perfectly. He looked like he could jump through hell and come out without a scratch. He looked like he had seen the devil and fought him. 'Who are you?'

Henry awoke with a choking feeling in his throat. He sat up and gave a heavy cough. He realized he did not have his helmet on and he was in some sort of medical room. He looked to his right to see on the night stand his weapon and his helmet. He grasped both objects and quickly placed them on his lap. He placed his helmet on his head and magnetised his MA5 to his waist. He groaned in pain as he held his helmet as he began to remember what had happened. The explosion, the elite and the pink haired girl, the plasma grenade to the face.

Suddenly a Bald man walked into the room and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Henry with his weapon pointed at him. Realizing that he wasn't Covenant he quickly lowered his weapon "Sorry."

"It's alright, my names Professor Colbert. Do you know where you are?"

"No."

"Do you remember what happened before you collapsed?"

"Yes."

"Ok, what's your name?"

"Sergeant Henry Little of the 118th ODST, Wolf Pack company, 35th squad." Henry stated like he had hundreds of times, and in truth, he had repeated it hundreds of times.

"Ok Mr Little, I'm going to have to tell you a few things and you may not like some of them." And with that Colbert explained where Henry was and he had become of familiar of a student by the name of Louise. Colbert was surprised to find that Henry took it surprisingly well, only interrupting to ask what a few things were such as a familiar. But to Henry, he was imagining the other men and women of his squad mocking him for what was happening to him. "Ok, would you like to meet your new master?"

"And clean these!" Louise ordered as she threw a pair of pink panties on top of the ODST's head. The ODST, at that moment, was not enjoying his new occupation. 'This is worse than I thought it could of got. My squad mates would be dead of laughter right now...' He thought

"Are you insane?" He said as he grasped the panties and took them off his head, he then looked back up at Louise. She had the face that someone would had if you had just insulted their mother.

"What did you say..." the Pink haired girl said with a red face full of rage, she was visibly shaking.

"It's a honest question, are you insane?" Henry said with a honest voice.

"You... You... YOU DOG!" She yelled as she pointed at the door. "GET OUT NOW AND GO CLEAN MY CLOTHS! AND NO FOOD FOR A DAY!"

"Well bye then." Henry said as he stood up and walked to the door. "Have a good night." And with that Henry walked off and out of the building.

AN: Welcome to the end of Chapter 1 of Zero's Wolf Pack. So what did you guys think? We got the reveal of our main ODST, had a cool fight scene and Louise almost got killed. So yeah, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter.

KingArthur3: I'm sorry for the spelling mistakes in the prologue, all of the ones word could find have now been fixed. Thank you for bringing it to my attention