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Chapter Five
The Truth of the Halo Rings
We made our way into an abandoned monastery. I mentally counted the group. We had Zelda, Linkle, Aryll, Ganondorf,
The Arbiter, Saria, Mari, and me. That made eight. Eight people that had survived the Covenant attack. Mari was
clutching my leg so hard, I was worried it would break. Once we took positions where we could take turns keeping an
eye out for more Covenant warriors (we had seen five patrols on our way in), Mari crawled up against me and would not
leg go of me. I gently pried her arms off. "I need to be able to move so that I can fight. That means you can't be holding
on to me." Linkle and Aryll gently called her over, so she went over to them. Saria walked over to me. "You did good
back at the Forest Temple, Saria. I've never seen a kid take out that many Grunts and Jackals." She smiled slightly, but
frowned again. "Why did they kill us?" I was wondering that myself. Better yet, since the Hylians weren't technologically
advanced yet, I also wondered how the Covenant had even found them. "I have a better question. How'd they find you?
You have no technology." The Arbiter walked over. "That is not completely true. Are you familiar with Halo Rings?" I
looked at him. "Yeah, they're large, blue, and float in a planet's orbit." He shook his head. "Wherever you heard that, it
is false. The Rings are actually small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. They can be worn as pendants." That
seemed to spark something in Zelda. "My mother gave me something like that." The Arbiter faced me again. "This
planet, like fifteen others, was gifted milleniums ago with one of the Rings. Together, they have the power to eliminate
all life in this galaxy." Saria piped up. "What's a galaxy?" I faced her. "How can I put it so you can understand?" The
Arbiter took out a device and set it on the floor. "Perhaps this can help." He activated it. The Milky Way Galaxy was
projected above us. "That's a galaxy. They contain as many as 200 billion stars. Some planets, which is what we live on,
can be called stars from far away." I got curious. "Is this a live feed?" The Arbiter nodded. "Huh." I touched one of the
arms, and instantly, it zoomed in to that. "That is the Second Quadrant, which Hyrule is in." "What Quadrant is Earth
in?" "What is Earth?" I glanced at him. "You mean the Covenant found Hyrule, which is supposed to have no technology,
but they haven't found Earth, which has plenty of it?" The Arbiter shook his head. "Such a world was prophesied, but has
never been found." I shook my head with a sigh. "I grew up there!" That got his attention. "In that case, only you can
answer that question." I noticed a system that caught my eye. I pressed on it. It was Earth's solar system. "There.
That's the system. Earth is the third planet orbiting the sun." The Arbiter nodded. Saria looked at me. "It has green."
"Yeah, like Hyrule, it has various climates. Some areas are deserts, some are mountains, some are by the ocean, some
are frozen solid, like Alaska, the 49th State of America." When she faced me, I said, "I'll tell you later." I pressed Earth's
icon, and it appeared, and for a second, I thought Saria was going to swoon.
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