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Brothers in Spirit
Chapter 7
Ninth Age of Reclaimation
Athenos, capital city, Sangheilios
Nastar met Aron and Rick on the steps of the gold toned building that contained the Council of Scholars. "This way," Nastar said as he gestured toward the door. The bright sun shown in the cloudless blue shy.
The trio walked into the dimly light building. They walked down a hallway the turned left. The doors to their right opened with a swish. Nastar cleared his throat then said with growing pride, "Nobel High Scholar, here are the Aborchrith."
The High Scholar, an older Sangheili named Mo'ses turned from the young scholar in training and said, "Nastar you have done well. Your dream of finding the Aborchrith has been fulfilled. I have just received the ancient text if our Forefathers and what you presented us with are true."
Nastar was filling with pride; he had just had a great honor bestowed upon him. The High Scholar continued as he took out the Book of Scripture and a Book of History, "According to these books there has been several Aborchriths."
Rick, seeing one of the books looked like a Bible, took out his own. He looked at the High Scholar and said, "May I see your Book of Scripture?"
"I shall show all of you the book in due time. First I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is Mo'ses. I am of the house of Dol. I am one of a few who did not join the military but instead devoted my life to preserving the old ways of my people. We are not only scholars but historians."
Rick looked at the High Scholar and said in shock, "Your name sounds like one from our Holy Bible. An ancient man who received…"
"The Ten Great Laws. Yes I was named after that Forerunner." Mo'ses said with pride.
"He was no Forerunner he was a Human." Rick said argumentatively, "I was brought up in a Christian home."
"I will have to argue with you there Mo'ses along with his brother Aron defeated a mighty king, King Ram'ses, to free our people. I was named after Aron." Aron said as he looked at Rick.
Rick turned to Aron and said quickly, "In this Bible in the last of the first book, Genesis, and the second book, Exodus, tells the story of Moses and Aaron. Yes, they did fight a great king his name was Ramses. But they were Human. I can show you."
Rick proceeded to read the Sangheili the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments. When he was done the Sangheili all looked at each other. Mo'ses had to bring his mandibles together for they were agape. He turned to Rick and said, "That is the same story we have here. Word for word. Except Mo'ses and Aron were the Abochrith."
Rick thought for a moment. He turned to Aron and said, "Remember I told you back at the Hanging Garden that Sangheilios looked like Ancient Earth?"
Aron nodded in reply. Rick continued, "Well this explains it. Identical stories from our ancient past."
Mo'ses trying to get the meeting under control took out an ancient parchment. This is another of our Aborchrith. Would you like to have a look/"
Rick walked up to the desk of Mo'ses. He looked at the parchment. He took his holopad and scanned the parchment. The reading came on the screen and Rick looked up in shock. He said in a voice that couldn't contain his shock and surprise, "This is Ancient English. It is the story of Beowulf!"
"Yes," the older Sangheili said in disbelief, "How did you know this? It is the story of the ancient Forerunner Aborchrith Beo'wulf and Hrothgar. It was their first fight with the parasite known as the Flood."
Rick started pacing like he does when he gets nervous. "This can't be. These Elites have the same ancient stories as we do. Their planet looks like ours." He stopped and turned to Mo'ses and said in a tone that expressed his curiosity, "High Scholar. I have noticed, as I'm sure you have there are too many similarities to our ancient texts. I noticed your home world looks like Ancient Earth. To be exact Ancient Greece, the name of this beautiful city, I think Aron called it Athenos. On Earth we have a city in Greece named Athens. This city also looks like the Ancient city if Atlantis. Could there be a connection between our races?"
"Did you say Atlantis?" the elder Sangheili said in astonishment as his emerald robes brushed the ground as he walked toward Rick, "There was ancient text of how in one battle against the Forerunners ancient enemy the city if pearl was destroyed and sunk into an ocean of one of the Forerunner's many …"
"Earth." Rick finished for him.
"No I was going to say Eden," Mo'ses said in a matter of fact tone.
"If you look in my Bible and in you Book of Scripture for they are the same Eden is another name for Earth. Earth had a mystical garden called Eden," Rick said as he faced the tall elder Sangheili.
Nastar hearing the heated argument, said in a matter of fact tone, "I have a solution to the problem let's run a cell test to see if we are similar."
"You mean a DNA test?" Rick said in a questioningly tone.
"Yes," Nastar replied in a tone full of excitement, "This will determine the level of which we are connected to have in all our Aborchriths to be half human. I can take the samples from Aron and Rick and run the test now if all are in agreement."
Aron and Rick nodded they were ready. Nastar took the samples and ran the test. The test too less than a quarter unit. Nastar came into the Council Chambers and said excitedly, "I have the results. We are…"