Hey! Second-to-last Chapter! Remember the dead back at the Alpha base? Read below and find out whats going down for the endings!
CHAPTER 10
GROUND TEAM
Sergeant Zayzik snuck away from the ground team when no one was looking. He went over the hill that held a small tent. He went through and gagged slightly. The dead smell was starting to get strong. There in front of him was the dead hatchlings he snuck away and tried to reassemble them. He had to make sure that no one knew about this or all his attempts to find, at least, some magical item that could revive the dead, were over. He remembered the time when he saw them shoved into a hole back at Alpha Base and decided to take them with him. He had sewn the heads and ripped open guts back together. All that remains is if there was something that could make them live. For all his years, he couldn't remember when he actually cared for losses. All he cared for was the victory or send in more troops and move on. But since the time everyone saw the vid about the dragon family, he was slightly shaken by the scenes of murder before his eyes. Knowing that if anyone found out, he would be officially screwed. The black dragon would have his head if she knew. He then decided to sneak them upon a Pelican that was going to the castle, and hide them, then search the castle for anything.
He did find something that did help. But he had to kill its possessor. He didn't have enough experience to kill a dragon nor the firepower to kill him. He noticed that a group searching for the machine that Zayzik was hiding behind find the dragon, and opened fire.
Kilosomee overcharged his plasma pistol and let it fly. It splashed against the Drakemaster's head and his head reared up and retaliated with fire. Kilosomee dodged and lost a Hunter, who boiled in his own armor. The Elite heard a howl of anger and loss and saw the twin brother charge and fired and slammed his shield as much as he could against the Drakemaster. It had great effect. The Drakemaster started limping and tried to dodge each attack the enraged Hunter threw. The Hunter was squashed when the dark dragon had enough, only to howl when he impaled his claw against the spines of the Hunter. 'There's your vengeance, big guy.' Kilosomee smiled. Kilosomee primed and threw two plasma grenades; one landed on the Drakemaster's horn, the other planted itself on the tail. The dragon twisted and turned to remove the grenades. They exploded and removed the horn entirely and a third of his tail. The Drakemaster roared in pain and anger. But he kept his distance and everyone stopped firing and stared at what they all saw, but it didn't shock Sergeant Zayzik. The limbs that were shredded and torn regrew, the tail regrew at a fast pace. Even the horn that was gone regrew.
"Great, now we've gotta destroy him entirely! Hit him hard, troops. Give him everything you've got!" Kilosomee barked. The Covenant snapped out of their stupor and fired again. But for every hit they made, the wound would heal faster than they could dish out. Anders and Morrison joined in and asked, "Why isn't that dragon dead yet?" Kilosomee looked and replied, "He's got regenerative abilities of some sort. We can't hurt him fast enough." Morrison nodded, "That's cause plasma hurts like hell, but they are a bit slow. Bullets can rip faster than you could spit. Open fire, Marines! Let him have those nice calibers for lunch!" The Marines opened fire and the bullets started tearing through the Drakemaster's flesh. One lucky bullet made his leg break and he hobbled.
Commander Morison nodded, "Heh heh! Ya see! If that lizard can regenerate. Simply overwhelm that ability of his." He looked again and gasped. The bullets were tearing through, all right. But they would be pushed back out and would show healthy scales and skin from where the dragon was hurt. He lifted his now mended leg up. Anders looked at the dragon, "Damn! This is troublesome!" But before they could say anything, Kilosomee noticed a Sergeant rip across an open would that was still healing and dove inside.
"What in Great Beings name is that Marine doing?" He pointed out to the two Commanders and they stared at the Marine dive in and started searching through the innards of the Drakemaster.
The result was spectacular. The Drakemaster started howling incessantly and rolled around. Some of the Marines looked at their weapons as if to check they had a few lucky shots.
Zayzik heard some muffled voices, as well as the dragon's howling. He continued to dig and rip apart the wound so he could go in deeper. He entered the stomach and found what he was looking for. There, hanging in the center attached to rope like sinew was a crystal in the shape of a large pendant.
"NOOOOOO!" The dragon roared. Zayzik ignored the voice and moved in to see if he could get the pendant out. When it looked like he couldn't free it from the sinew, Zayzik stood there and thought of what to do.
The Drakemaster was now clawing at his stomach as if to get something that was there. Blood was pouring out, but the wounds would heal too fast for him to go any deeper. Morrison crowed, "Poor lizard's stuck by his own abilities!" Kilosomee the said, "Hold your fire! Let that Marine get whatever is in there. When you see him… Let that lizard have it!" The group armed their weapons and Kilosomee overcharged his pistol once more and waited.
'Come on, Marine. Get that cursed thing out of him!'
Zayzik stood there, and then he realized something. He took out a plasma sword and hacked at the stomach that held one of the sinewy rope. The rope fell and the wound started healing slower than he saw last time. Brightened by the result, Zayzik started freeing the sinew rope from the stomach before the regenerative pendant could heal the cuts. The last cut had to be under all the stomach juices. The Marine shuddered at the possibility that he might get eaten by the juices, but held his breath, and plunged in. He felt his skin starting to wilt and peel, but he swam as hard as he could, following the rope down to the bottom. When he reached the bottom, he activated the sword and cut the rope free. Zayzik swam as fast as he could out of the juices and was able to get out before he felt his skin wilt and peel. He gasped at the air he could use and watched the juices drain slowly out of the dragon's stomach. The howls and roars in pain became louder by the second. Zayzik saw the pendant sink and grabbed it before it disappeared. He looked at the design with the beam of light from his helmet. The pendant had the same sign as the shield regenerative bubble the UNSC designed for the Spartans. Zayzik pocketed the thing and looked around. He could hack and slash his way free. But he wasn't in the mood. So he looked for an opening and found one at the roof of the stomach. He used his knives to climb up there and started his long climb up the dragon's throat.
Anders saw a suspicious lump and saw the Drakemaster try and swallow the lump down. But the lump continued to climb and every trooper there saw small glitters of steel appear and disappear from the dragon's throat. The Drakemaster howled much more weakly now and collapsed. The knives disappeared and out came a very disgusting looking Sergeant. He had a few rope like sinews appearing out of his pocket as the Marine wiped his face and smiled, "He's all yours, sirs!" Some Marines came up and congratulated him while others made fun of his new look. They all deactivated their weapons, seeing that the mighty Drakemaster was easily taken down. The Two Commanders and Shipmaster stayed where they were. Anders keyed his mike, "Strike-force One to ground team, cease fire. We are done. I repeat, cease fire. We are done." He heard the last mortar impact and heard thousands of cheers coming from his com-link. He walked up to the dragon and stared long and hard. He heard padding and saw Teklania there and heard the Drakemaster say rather weakly, "Teklania! Tek-liana! Please! Help me!" Teklania looked down at the dragon and replied, "I don't think so." She started to pad away when Anders saw a yellow glow in his eyes and yelled, "Teklania! Get out of there!" Teklania looked and saw the glow. Her eyes started to glow slowly before Kilosomee jumped in and took the glow in his eyes full blast.
"NO!" Anders screamed. The Elite fell, then a dark shadow enveloped him as he stood and laughed evilly, "Yes!"
Well, this ain't good for Anders! Ask me for some endings... I'm still developing them! I'm taking a break from the fast-making story and letting YOU readers review me an ending. Make sure they're good! I'll make the final chapter at 8/10/11. So start thinking!