Chapter 7- Warrior from Beyond

"Desert of the Ancients", Outskirts of Suna.

Two days before the Konoha arena events.

Inuzaki Benajuki looked in awe at the colossal star that fell from the sky and couldn't help but be stricken with fear as it streaked its way towards him. Not only was it one star but several smaller stars accompanied its mother star as they screamed towards the sandy earth. Geysers of sand shot into the sky as some of the smaller stars crashed into the ground. One hit just feet away from and he shielded his face from the torrent of sand that struck at him.

"Inuzaki get the hell out of the way!" yelled his fellow team mate as she sprinted towards him to drag him out of the fiery stars plummeting trajectory. Amaya winced in pain at the sound the star was making as it approached even closer. It reminded her of the same sound that the waves of the distant oceans made as they crashed into the rocky beach, but amplified twenty fold. She finally made it to Inuzaki who was shaking thick Suna sand off of his body.

"Come on! If we stay here longer we are going to get killed!" she yelled at the top of her lungs, the sound of the falling star almost drowning her voice out. His eyes were two grey blanks as he just stared at the ground below him in shock. Amaya grunted in anger as she brought one hand in a full slap that smacked at the cheek of his face. In an instant he snapped out of his fear induced trance.

"Amaya?" he asked wearily, his stature weak. She grabbed at the hand of her team mate and pulled him along as she broke out in a sprint that would hopefully take both of them away from ground zero.

"Just keep running!" she yelled, taking a glance behind her to make sure that her team mate was alright.

"Inuzaki keep goi-" her command was cut short as the mother of all the falling stars impacted into the desert, its descent throwing up a massive tidal wave of sand that knocked them both down. Amaya Kara's vision began to fade as she went unconscious while the children of the mother star plummeted towards the earth.

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She could hear her own heart beating… but it sounded distant, or perhaps it wasn't hers?

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The memory of that one special night only one month ago was still clear in her head as it replayed itself even further.

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Another memory came into play, the pregnancy test that her and her husband both stared at, anxiously waiting for it to read positive for pregnancy.

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"Congratulations, shes going to be a girl." the doctors voice resonated through out her mind.

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No… it wasn't her heart beat at all. It was her daughters, and Amaya knew that she had to protect her no matter what. She forced all her will to wake up from whatever limbo she was in for she knew that the most important life was the unborn life of her daughter.

Her eyes flickered open. The deepest blue sky of the desert meeting her cerulean gaze, both seeming to reflect the others appearance. She sat up, her blonde mane saturated in the fine grain sand that was the very flesh of the Suna desert. A sharp lance of pain trailed down her back, making her spasm and cry out in pain. She ignored the ache and tried to stand up, but her legs gave out from underneath her as her bottom hit the sandy ground.

All around her, she could see the damage that the mother star and her children had caused upon the sandy dunes of Suna. The ground was littered with thousands of varying pieces of a strange dark metal that Amaya couldn't recognize. Whether it was luck or maybe some blessing she was unscathed by any of the debris that, had it hit her, would have shredded her body to pieces. The larger pieces of the star were a sight too look at, their grey-black bodies darkened by the searing heat of entering the earth at a high velocity. Some of the pieces shot sparks of electricity out in blue angry tongues that would have killed her in an instant had she touched them. Amaya took note and stayed as far away from the sparks as possible. She heard a moan of pain in the distance and she instantly remembered Inuzaki and how she had lost sight of him when she fell unconscious. She ran through the debris field of the star looking for her lost comrade as she called out his name.

"Inuzaki! Inuzaki where are you?" she called in a frantic tone of voice.

A groan of pain answered her back and she knew which direction it was coming from. She continued through the debris as quick as her feet would carry her, darting through smoking metal and shards that jutted from the ground like the rib cages of some long dead animal. Amaya ran into the central part of where the metallic star had crashed and stopped dead in her tracks at the sight she saw.

Inuzkaki Benayuki, her life long comrade, lay broken on his back in a small pool of his own blood that leaked from a hidden wound, but that wasn't all that made her heart drop in fear. A bluish ghostly figure straddled his crotch, staring up into the sky seemingly oblivious to Amaya as she approached with due caution. Upon nearing the ethereal like being she could make out that it had a feminine appearance that was like that of a fit supermodel from those magazines that she liked to read on her down time. Strange symbols moved down its body, like a never ending ocean of information that made up its human like form. Red translucent spots were also apparent on the beings body and some of the spots flashed periodically. The being rolled its eyes towards her as it took notice that Amaya was there. Short, translucent hair turned impossibly gracefully as the being looked at Amaya with a sexually inviting look in its deep purple and blue eyes. Amayas face contorted in a look of shock at the sight before her. She blinked once and just as she had seen it the being disappeared like an angel from heaven.

"I want to know exactly what the hell you are!" Tsunade, fifth Hokage of the Village of the Leaf, screamed at the green armored giant before her.

Her tone and volume was enough to frighten all the attendants and ANBU that surrounded her but the giant was unwavering at her booming voice. The room of the underground interrogation room of the Hokage mansion was filled with the resonating command of Tsunade. She slammed her fists into the metallic table that stood in between her and the giant, two deep dents being implanted into the stainless steel. Still the giant was unmoving, almost as if he was made of stone.

"You sent one of my own ninja into the hospital with a case of insanity so something tells me that you are not anything normal!" she said with a quieter but more menacing tone. Her eyes scanned him up and down for any movement but to her angry surprise there was still none.

"Son of a bitch!" she yelled out in frustration as she lifted the already damaged table and threw it against the wall with her chakra enhanced strength. It clattered against the steel wall and hit the ground with a bang. The attendants watched on in horror at their Hokage's easilsy induced temper. All the ANBU on the other hand, stood watching as Tsunade's anger was just another part of their job. They all waited for Tsunade to give the go ahead to kill the giant but the truth of the matter was that none of them wanted to tangle with this fierce-some warrior that had taken the likes of Might Guy on without any struggle what so ever.

"I want to know what the hell you are, where the fuck you are from, and how the fuck did you get here!" she screamed out again stomping one foot into the metallic ground for emphasis. Several moments paused before the seemingly unmoving giant lifted two armored hands to his helmet. Everyone, including Tsunade, flinched at the surprising action. The ANBU grew even more tense and prepared themselves for anything that the giant might try and do.

His armored gloves reached up to his helmet as the Chief knew that he needed to do this in order to gain there some how broken trust again. His fingers made their way slowly to the release catches located at the back of the MK VI helmet as he turned it slightly to the right. The helmet released a momentary hiss of pressurized air which dissipated quickly in the cold interrogation room air. He lifted his helmet up slowly his features being revealed second by long second. If they really wanted to know who he was he was only going to let them know what he wanted them to know. There was no way in hell that he would betray the UNSC, even if he was stuck on wherever the hell he was.

'Here we go.' the Chief thought, preparing himself for their reaction.

'Oh my god….' was all Shizune could think of as the armored man lifted his helmet up and off his head. He was handsome, ridiculously handsome and she couldn't help but blush at his excellent features. Small freckles dotted his pale exquisite face and he had a firm mouth and a strong jaw that complemented his warrior like features and she couldn't help but slightly lick her lips in lust. Mysterious dark brown eyes that looked as if they seen thousands of unheard battles looked sternly at Tsunade and she could tell that even she was enamored by his strong gaze. The attendants that Shizune stood with tensed as he began speaking.

"I am Master Chief Petty Officer One One Seven of the United Nations Space Command. I was born in Elysium city on the planet of Eridanus Two to two parents that I will never see again."

The choleric leader of the village frowned at what he said.

"I was selected from the UNSC marine corp for my excellent combat skills and fighting prowess to become one of several hundred chosen soldiers for the Spartan Two program. I was augmented beyond the capabilities of a normal human to fight all enemies of mankind." he lied.

'Theres more of him?' Tsunade weighed the thought in her mind and felt frozen at the image of hundreds of armor clad super-warriors like him. His words interrupted her thought as he continued.

"Ive seen the life of thousands slip away, both taken by my hand and the enemy. Some of my brothers and sisters have disappeared during the war against a collective group of xenos known as the Covenant. They hate all human kind an only with the splitting of a race known to us as the Elites we were both able to destroy the Covenant. I fought against organisms known as the Flood that look for new hosts to infest and convert to their way. My armored boots have stepped on hundreds of worlds and Ive seen things that would make most men cry to death. That's who I am. That's who Ill always be. Im a warrior born and raised for battle from here to the rest of my life."

There was a long, uncomfortable silence as he finished his words but it wasn't because nobody had nothing to say. Everyone was in strict awe from the short but deep self evaluation of his life. John looked around at everybody and tried to distantly understand how they felt. It was normal to him though becase after so many years of war killing is the only thing you know how to do. To most of them the thought of anything beyond the world they lived in was a shock, albeit the thought of other races existing as well. As much as he tried he couldn't relate at all to how they felt. He glanced back at their blonde leader, who was looking at the ground deep in thought, her hand at her chin in a pondering motion. To him it looked like she was almost over loaded with the amount of information he had given but only her vocal response would tell. Unfortunatly there was a long list of things that he couldn't tell them. John decided it was best for them not to know the grand scheme of things.

"How did you end up on earth?" the leader of the Village of the Leaf asked still rubbing her chin in thought. The statement confused him for a moment, but he quickly realized that these people believed that the planet that they lived on for god knows how long, was called earth. A more important question in his mind was how did they get on this planet? He knew he couldn't tell her about the halo rings just yet but he did know that at least he can tell her about his last battle against the Covenant. And so he did.

It took him exactly three hours to explain all the happenings from the battle of earth, to the arrival on delta halo, and even to the second battle of earth from where he then explained the battle of the Ark. They all stared at him in awe at the glory of all these battles that he told them about but there was nothing glorious about the number of lives that had been lost. He frowned as the memories of his lost teammates filled his mind.

And Cortana…

His eyes widened as he remembered about her again. Where could she be? Was she safe? He needed to know as soon as he could possibly know.

Tsunade looked the warrior up and down and marveled at the thought of all the great battles he's been through. Now she knew why Ino Yamanaka had gone temporarily insane while peering into his mind. All the bloodshed, violence, hardship, pain, suffering, and anguish that this man had bottled inside over the years of battle finally found a way to vent out and unfortunately it was through Ino. The medical ninja could handle that but the green armored warrior standing before her was another matter on the hand. Now she knew though, she knew what she wanted to know and she something inside her was making her regret asking. She almost forgot were she was as she thought about the seemingly impossible things that he was telling her and looked up at him. Tsunade could tell that he was waiting for a response. Nothing came to her mind as she just felt weak from the weight of all the things told, she could even feel that the others in the room felt the same way. A messenger burst into the room and it startled everyone save Tsunade, 'John' as he called himself, and the ANBU.

"Lady Tsunade!" the short bald man exclaimed, rushing in with papers in his hands.

"What is it Zumubami?" she asked as the short man handed her papers quickly.

He waved her closer to him and whispered in her ear, slightly panting from his run.

"Lady Tsunade, the Village Hidden in the Sand reports that a unknown object has fallen from the sky on the outskirts of the village and the Hokage is requesting that we send an investigation team to assist them in identifying the object in question. Also the sentry team that discovered the object report that "ghosts" had been sighted around the object. I don't know about you my lady but I think it has to do with him." he motioned over to the giant who Tsunade had no doubt caught every bit of the conversation. She nodded her head and dismissed Zumubami. He made his way passed the giant who dwarfed him with his superior stature. Tsunade was once again left with even more questions at what these "ghost" sightings meant but she had a good idea that the man before her knew.

"It seems like there is even more to your story my friend." she began "now prove yourself to me and accompany a team of my own shinobi to this object.

The Chief weighed his options and decided that it was the best thing to do. Using his super human hearing he had heard the entire conversation that had gone on between Tsunade and the short messenger and he already knew what the object was. He needed to go because he knew that this was the only chance to know what happened to Cortana. Helmet in hand he raised it up again and slipped it in place, locking it to the neck seal. A small hiss was heard as the suit pressurized again.

"As you wish." was all that he said.

Chapter seven in the series. Well it seems like Im on a roll. Hopefully my streak of time continues for a long while so I can get more Chapter up and running. Thanks for the views and support and keep the comments coming. I like what you guys are telling me. Thanks again - Hydra Alpharius

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*Edited a bit for story telling and stuff*