AN: Hello and welcome to Chapter 2 of Zero's Wolf Pack. I hope you all enjoy this chapter, its a long one (In my opinion.)
Chapter 2: Bronzed Helljumper
Henry walked through the halls of the magic academy mumbling to himself. "I shouldn't have said that when Colbert left…"
Flashback
"Ok, now do what you would normally do with a familiar?" Henry said with a smile, thinking it would be an easy job. The girl in front of him, only moments ago had a face of slight fear of him, now had a smirk you would normally find with a spoilt brat. 'Oh god, what have I done?'
Flashback End
"Me and my nice attitude…" Henry mumbled before he felt something crash into his chest. He heard a thud and looked down towards his feet to see a young woman, around the age of 18 with short black hair, sitting her butt as she rubbed her head; she wore a maid's outfit. "Are you alright Ma'am?" Henry asked as the woman looked up and her eyes went wide in shook at the dark blue visor staring at her. "Oh?! Sorry." He quickly depolarized his visor to show his face. The maid's expression went from one of shook to embarrassment in moments.
"Oh, I'm so, so sorry. Please forgive me." She said as she quickly tried to get to her feet but was stopped by Henry putting an arm out.
"Please, let me help you up." Henry said with a smile as he helped the girl to her feet. "Are you alright?"
"Yes, yes, I'm quite fine Mr…"
"Henry, Henry Little. And you are Miss?"
"Siesta." She said shyly
"Siesta, what a wonderful name." Henry nodded as he looked back to the pile of Louise's clothes he had "Do you by any chance know where I can find someone to wash these?"
"Oh yes, I can help you there, if you would follow me." Siesta said with a smile as they walked off down the corridor.
A few minutes later and the pair arrived at a small fountain that was used to wash the student's clothes. Henry looked up into the sky to see two moons sitting there, staring at him. Siesta noticed his constant stare at the moons. "What are you thinking about Mr Little?"
"Please, call me Henry, and I'm thinking of my friends." Henry explained as he gave a quick glance at the woman.
"What were they like?" Siesta asked
"We were a tight group, we went through everything together." He remarked
"You and they must have had a lot of adventures over your life." She said, Henry's thoughts wandered off to a memory after Siestas words.
Flashback
In the reflection of a puddle a Covenant banshee flew over it quickly, a few seconds later a foot splashed into the puddle. Henry, along with the rest of his squad, Kilo 3-5, sprinted down the small dirt track that ran through the forest. Henry led the squad as he gave a small glance over his shoulder. Directly behind him were Sasha, the squad's sniper and Dominic, the squads CQC specialist while a meter behind 3 others ran. One was Simmons, the squads heavy weapon experts and carried a large rocket launcher, while his partner, a strong, silent type blonde, called May sprinted next to him with a Spartan laser on her shoulder. Covering the squad's rear was Wilson, the squad's newest member and medic. "Come on, Pelicans are leaving soon, and I'll be damned if I'm left to die on this rock." Henry stated over the squad radio as the track turned right slightly.
"We know, none of us want to die here." Dominic remarked with a smirk as they ran, the roar of gunfire loomed over the green covered forest.
Henry skidded to a halt and raised his left fist, forcing all the squad to stop their running. "I got movement on motion tracker, 5 contacts at our 11 o'clock." He whispered as he pointed to their 11 o'clock. The squad moved forward slowly for about a minute until they reached a small clearing where they found what they were looking for.
In the clearing was a lone group of 5 Grunts surrounding two warthogs, one had a chain gun on its back while the other had a gauss cannon. From the squads perspective they could not see the Elite that normally lead the squad. "Want to take the hogs?" Simmons asked quietly.
"Where's the Elite?" Wilson asked as he took a frag grenade from a pocket. "Don't they normally keep an eye on the Grunts?"
"Yeah, so where is it?" Henry muttered to himself as he took a small step forward, then he heard the growl. He only had a second to turn before be ploughed into the opening by the Elite, alerting the grunts.
"WHERE DID HE COME FROM?!" Dominic shouted as he and the rest of the squad rushed into the opening trying to help their sergeant.
"KILL THIS THING!" Henry yelled as he rolled out of the way of the Elite. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" Then Grunts had, by now, saw the ODST's and were attacking them. The Elite pulled out his plasma rifle and aimed it at Henry. Henry watched the Elite take a step forward.
BOOM
The Elites left side exploded into bits as Henry turned to see Dominic on one knee with his rocket launcher on his shoulder. "SIR!" He could hear Wilson shout as he slid to a halt over his him. "You alright?"
"Agh… I'm fine…" Henry said, a bit of shock coursing through his body. Henry, with the help of Wilson, stood up to see the squad killing the last Grunt. "Ok people, into the hogs. Let's get to that evac and get the hell of this god-forsaken planet."
Flashback End
"Mr Little?" Henry shook his head and turned to face Siesta "You were quite for a few minutes then."
"Oh, sorry. Just had a memory of an adventure we had." Henry replied with a sigh, he had only been on this new planet for a few hours and already he was missing his squad mates. "Anyway, how is life working here as a maid anyway, seems a bit hard with all these 'Noble' kids about."
"Yeah it's hard, but I need to do it to save money for my family back home." Siesta explained while helping Henry clean the clothes, soon they finished.
"Thank you for the help, I'm happy to meet someone nice in school." Henry bowed his head slightly.
"Don't mention it." Siesta said with a smile as she walked off to do her duties.
"Now what to do…" Henry frowned slightly as he walked around the school trying to find a nice place to sleep. He a corner and found a blonde haired kid talking to a young girl. He shook his head and attempted to walk pass but the blonde boy noticed him.
"You there, aren't you the one the zero summoned?" The blonde asked.
"Who's 'the zero'?" Henry replied
"Why, Louise of course, she can't cast any magic to save her life, all she can do it blow stuff up."
Henry gave a small chuckle. "Kid, if I had her when I was up against the enemy I face, I would be quite happy." He nodded before turning to walk away "Have a good night blonde, Ma'am." And he walked away from a blushing girl and a slightly angered blonde.
Louise slept soundly as she dreamed. Her vision was dark until an explosion opened her eyes. She was looking up at the sky, dark clouds filled it. She could hear ringing in her ears, her breathing was heavy. As the ringing became to get quitter she could hear what was around her. Screaming and yelling could be heard, along with explosions and something like a musket firing off. She tried to move one of her hands but it wouldn't move. Her body moved on its own as it swung to its right and planted its hand into the dirt ground.
Her eyes were widened in fear as she saw the battle in front of her. Blue and green explosions went off across the battlefield; she could see men and woman wearing strange green armour fighting in the holes the explosions created. She found she could only move her eyes as if the rest of the body was controlled by something else. Her eyes shifted to a helmet that lay on the ground on its side. Her eyes widened when she saw it. The helmet was round and had a piece of what looked like glass covering where the face would be, but what really got her was the wolfs face painted on the helmet. The body lifted itself up slightly and grasped the helmet and dragged it towards her and quickly put it on. She looked to her right to see a person in the same armour that Henry had on when he arrive crouched down next to her. He was speaking something she could understand. She reached out her right hand to towards the man. Suddenly blood exploded across her armour, covering it. Her stance was still for a few seconds as she watched as the soldier fell to the floor, blood coming from the inside of the helmet, a pink spike type object embedded through the helmet. She felt something come up her throat, something she wanted to come out.
A scream.
"LOUISE!" Louise opened her eyes abruptly and sat up ramrod straight, her breath was heavy and tears fell down her face. She turned to her right to see her familiar holding onto both of her shoulders. "You alright, I was passing by and I heard screaming." Henry said as ripped his helmet off and chucked it to the floor.
"Ugh…" She breathed heavily, still in shock. "It… it was just a nightmare, nothing more." She sighed silently and climbed out of her bed. She looked into her familiars face and stared at his features. He had dark brown hair and silver eyes; a small scar was faded on his left cheek. She quickly shook her head as Henry walked over to his helmet and put it on.
"Hey." Louise turned to face Henry as he placed his helmet on and depolarized his visor. "Want to grab some breakfast?"
"It's not even morning yet!" She stated
"Actually it is, look." He pointed towards the window to show that it was indeed morning.
"Fine." She huffed as she began to get changed.
"Ok... I'll wait outside." He quickly turned and walked out of the room.
Minutes later and the pair walked inside the large dining hall, turns out a lot of people were already up and eating breakfast. "Hey, when do your classes start?"
"We don't have any classes today; we get the day off to be with our familiars." Louise explained
"So I can't walk off today…"
"NO!" She yelled as she took a seat and pointed to the floor next to her. "Sit there!"
"Yeah… not happening, I'm going to see if the kitchen staff needs any help." Henry stated and turned and walked towards where he thought the kitchen was. Henry walked for about a minute until he crashed into someone, knocking a plate to the floor. He looked to find Siesta quickly putting a piece of cake on the plate. "Oh, hey Siesta, sorry I knocked you over again."
"Oh, Mr Little, oh it's alright, I wasn't looking where I was going." She said as she stood up.
"Here, let me take this one for you and I'll deliver it to whoever needs it." Henry smiled. Siesta smiled.
"Thank you but I can handle this one. Thank you for the offer though." She nodded before walking past "Sorry, I must get back to work. I will talk to you later." And with that she walked off to deliver her cake.
Henry just waved before looking around to see some of the kids eating cake like the one Siesta had on her plate. 'Wow… these kids must be real spoilt to be having cake in the morning…' He thought as he walked around the dining hall. He walked for a few minutes before he heard a commotion happening. He walked over to see the blonde boy from last night being slapped by two girls, one blonde and the other was from last night. The boy turned to face Siesta, who was cowering in fear.
"You have tarnished my name, you filthy maid!" The boy roared as he held up a letter. "And you will be punished!" The boy raised his hand and slapped Siesta across the face, herself falling to the floor with tears down her eyes. "I will see that you're fired from this school and any other job you attempt to get!" The boy took a step forward towards Siesta but stopped when someone got in his way. The boy looked up to see Henry standing there, his visor now polarized.
"Did you just hit a poor, INNOSENT GIRL!" Henry yelled at him. Everyone around him felt a bit of fear inside themselves because most of them had seen what he had done to the monster at the summoning ritual. "WHAT TYPE OF MAN ARE YOU, YOUR NOT EVEN WORTHY OF BEING CALLED A MAN!"
The boy recomposed himself quickly "She tarnished my name and made up a lie that I two timed on the two girls."
"BUT YOU DID, I SAW YOU ATTEMPT TO GET IN WITH THE BROWN HAIRED ONE LAST NIGHT, SO DON'T GIVE ME THAT CRAP YOU WORTHLESS BOY!" Henry roared once again, he was clearly annoyed at how a stupid, spoilt, boy treated the only nice person he had found at this stupid school apart from Professor Colbert.
The boy snapped "WHAT DID YOU SAY COMMONER! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!"
"GO RIGHT AHEAD YOU BLONDE BOY!"
"CENTER SQUARE, 15 MINUTES!" And with that, the boy left with most of the crowd following. Henry turned back to face Siesta, who was looking up at him from the floor. He crouched down and hugged her, she sobbed into his chest.
"Ssshh… It's alright, I'll make him pay." Henry said.
"'Sniff' it's not that, Guiche is a mage, he'll kill you where you stand." Siesta sobbed.
"No he won't. He won't kill me, I promise." And with that he stood up and turned to see Louise standing a few feet away, he depolarized his visor "Make sure she's ok." And he turned and started to walk off.
"What are you doing ordering me around like-" Louise started, she fell silent when Henry turned around with a mad glare in his eye.
"Take care of her now!" He ordered, Louise could see a flame of anger in his eyes and nodded quickly. "Good, now to beating this blonde idiot to a pulp." And with that he walked out of the dining hall.
15 minutes later Henry walked through the crowd of gathered students to the centre where Guiche waited "I thought you would chicken out." Guiche stated
"I wouldn't dream of." Henry said as he readied his MA5 caseless SMG In his hands.
"I'm known as Guiche the Bronze, therefore, a Bronze golem, a Valkyrie will be your opponent." He said as he waved some sort of metal flower and one of the petals fell to the floor and turned into a metal person with a spear. Henry just smirked under his helmet and waved the universal hand signal for 'Come at me bro'. The golem charged forward at speed, but still got riddled with bullets as it fell to the ground at Henrys feet. Henry could hear gasps coming from the crowd. Guiche looked even more shocked. He quickly summoned 5 more golems, each ready to kill Henry. "Kill him!" He ordered as they attacked. As one closed on Henry he dived to his left and rolled only for him to quickly dive out of the way from another attack almost instantly. When he landed he knew his SMG had flown from his hands. He looked to his right to see it slide under one of the golems. 'Just perfect…' Henry thought as he got to his knees just to then have to dive out of the way once again. As he dived he noticed Siesta and Louise standing there, watching him. He narrowed his eyes as he landed on the ground. He got to his feet as grasped something on his waist. A golem with a sword came down with the slice and everyone in the crowd gasped. Guiche took a step back in shock thinking he had killed him, only to then hear the clatter of metal on the floor. Everyone's eyes were wide in shock when they saw Henry cut the golem in half. As the golem fell to the floor Guiche noticed something that made him fear for his life. In Henry's hand was the weapons used by the monster that almost killed Henry and Louise during the summoning ritual. Its two blades pointed outwards as Henry smirked, no one noticing the rune under his fingerless glove glowing. Henry charged forward at the closest golem and drove the energy sword through its chest and stomach, he pulled it out and turned around and cut through the spear of a golem attempting to kill him. He upper-cutted the golem and turned and charged another one, the one that stood above his MA5. Henry slid under the golem and cut through its feet while grasping his SMG in his left hand. As he finished his slide he rolled on the floor and levelled his weapon on the last golem and filled it with holes. He stood up to his feet and looked at the mess of golems he had killed; he then turned back the Guiche and walked up him.
"What… What are you?!" Guiche yelled in fear as he collapsed onto his back and tried to crawl away. Henry stood above him with his MA5 in his left hand pointed directly at Guiche's head and his energy sword in his right hand.
"I'm a helljumper." Henry said in a cold, emotionless tone. And with that Guiche fainted. Henry sighed and deactivated the sword and placed it on his waist while magnetizing his MA5. He turned to see the crowd in a state of shock and fear. He then noticed Louise walking over. "You want to know who I am now, don't you?" He looked at her as she nodded. Suddenly a voice came over Henry's radio. Everyone wondered who the voice was but he knew who it was, and it was on a close signal which meant they were nearby, and he HAD to find them.
"This is Sasha of Kilo 3-5, is anyone out there? I am on an unidentified world. Does anyone copy nearby?"
AN: And there's the 2nd chapter, i hope you all enjoyed it. What did you guys think of the fight scene with Guiche and about the flashback and Louise's dream? And to leave it on a cliff hanger we find out theirs another helljumper in Tristain. See you guys in the next chapter. Rookie117
