Author's Note: Ok so now we get to some good stuff. And to answer you bitches question the Elite is going to make an appearance this chapter. That is all enjoy.
Andrew woke several times during the night, screaming or falling out of his bed. Deciding enough is enough Andrew just got out of bed and began his routine. Once he was finished he contemplated on what he was going to wear at school. 'I'm going to need every advantage I can get.' he thought. He left the coat where it lay and grabbed his upper body armor. Andrew quickly strapped it on, and then magnetized his weapons to his thighs. He grabbed his helmet and walked out of his room.
As he made his was to class he felt a shiver go down his spine. "Come on out Mizore." he called not even breaking his stride. Mizore popped out from behind the tree she had been hiding behind and watched him walk. "How were you able to find me?" she asked. "Kinda hard to ignore the shiver going up my spine from your presence." he replied. "Plus I'm paranoid." he continued. She looked at him for a moment and was about to ask why when she stopped. Mizore then remembered that night in the infirmary, the look in his eyes as he almost hurt her.
She didn't know what event caused him to have that look in his eyes… if she really thought about it she didn't know much of anything about him at all. "You're going to be late for school if you keep standing there gawking at me." he called over his shoulder. Mizore was broken out of her reverie and quickly followed him.
Eventually they arrived at the school in time for breakfast. They both sat down and Andrew wolfed down his food. When he was finished his face became intimate with the table top. Mizore could only watch with worry in her eyes. Eventually Tsukune and his harem arrived and they sat at the same table as them. When Mizore looked at Moka she noticed that she had the same bags under her eyes as Andrew had. That's when she remembered that Vampires could see the memories in a person's blood. 'She must have seen his memories when she saved him.' she thought.
Mizore instantly didn't like it 'How dare she know more about him than I do!' she thought. Although, just by looking at her, she wondered if she really wanted to know. Of course she wouldn't ever be able to have the same experience as Moka had had and for that she was secretly grateful.
Tsukune was very concerned for Moka. She looked like she was hardly getting any sleep at all and it was showing. Her grades had dropped substantially, her mood was almost always in the dumps, and she was worse than Andrew with her face becoming intimate with desks and tables. If Tsukune was that kind of guy, he would have been jealous that the furniture was getting more action than him. But he wasn't and he was just concerned for her health. He was a little put off that Andrew and Moka seemed to be having the same problem however but he decided that he wasn't going to bring it up. He didn't want them to grow closer because of it.
He looked over at Andrew and noticed that he was wearing his armor instead of the coat, as though he was expecting trouble today. The bell rang and they went to their first class. The instant they sat down both Moka's and Andrew's faces became intimate with their respective desks. Ms. Nekonome was concerned for her two students. They seemed to not be getting any sleep and were almost always tired all day. She was about to start the day's lesson when the door opened and Keito and four other enforcers entered.
The room was quiet as they entered and low murmurs raced throughout it. "Mizore Shirayuki, you are coming with us for questioning concerning the death of Okuto Kotsubo." Keito said with a smug grin. The room went quiet at that and Mizore was slowly standing when she stopped as she saw Andrew rise. Even though he was tired beyond belief, he had fought under those conditions before, and besides he had a VIP to protect. He turned to look at Keito "She's not going anywhere with you." he said calmly.
There was a massive intake of breath from the entire class at his declaration. Mizore was blushing from his declaration but moved forward. "It's ok, I'll go with them." she said as she gently put her hand on his shoulder. "They're here to hurt me through you, and I won't let that happen." he said directing the last part of his statement at the Student Police members.
Keito brushed it off and motioned for her goons forward. "Take her." she said. The two goons closest to Keito stepped forward and made their way over to Mizore. One moved his hand forward to grab her shoulder. His hand was millimeter from touching her when… snap-hiss, a light thud and a scream of pain was heard.
The goon was now holding the stump of the hand he had almost touched Mizore with. "I said, Mizore isn't going anywhere with you corrupt sons-of-bitches." Andrew said with his activated energy sword in his hand.
Keito's face was contorted in rage. 'HOW DARE HE DEFIE ME!' she screamed in her head. "FORGET THE BITCH, GET HIM!" she screamed. Andrew smiled, quickly donned his helmet and jumped out the window. Surprisingly, the window gave little resistance as he smashed through it and plummeted to the ground. He knew it was going to hurt and he didn't want to cripple himself from the fall even if it was only the second story, so he rolled as he hit the ground and it dispersed the pain across his body.
Keito and the three goons who were still in one piece followed soon after, landing easily from the drop and facing him. Andrew drew his combat knife and held it in a reverse grip as well as the energy sword. He mocked them then when he made the hand gesture for 'Bring it on'. Keito was absolutely furious at this point. This low-life had defied her in front of an entire class of students. He was not going to get away with that.
Her goons and her transformed after Andrew made his gesture, revealing their true forms. As Andrew watched, Keito's torso split open to reveal six legs, her mouth gained a set of mandibles and her eyes shifted into a different shape and color. One of the goons transformed into an Orc, another turned into a Lizard Man, and the third transformed into a Minotaur. Andrew began calculating the strengths and weaknesses of each monster.
The Orc, Lizard Man and Minotaur were all pretty straight forward. They all needed to get close to do anything and close was his domain when he had both his sword and knife. However the Jorougumo was an entirely different story. She could spit out silk as strong as steel at a pretty good range.
She was probably going to tie him up with her silk and allow her minions to attack him unimpeded. He smirked under his helmet, that tactic usually denoted a coward and oh how he hated cowards. "KILL HIM!" she screeched. They did exactly what he thought they were going to do.
She shot silk at him and he intercepted it on his left wrist. "I have you now! You can't escape!" she screamed. He waited for the others to close with him then made his own move. He swung his sword cutting the line of silk that was holding his hand then continued his swing through the neck of the Orc. Andrew continued his spin and impaled the Lizard Man, slamming him on the ground with the sword in his chest. The Minotaur was frozen at how quickly his two compatriots were dispatched but shook it off and prepared to charge.
By that time, the entire school was watching the fight. The vast majority of them had already heard about his first encounter with the Student Police and how he had eliminated them without any emotion. He wasn't like a vampire who thrived in combat; if anything he treated it like an occupation, like it was no big deal to kill three people with nothing like happiness or glee in the kill. It was brutal, in a strange elegant sort-a way.
Mizore had followed them out of the window and was now standing at the head of a large crowd as Andrew faced off with the last two standing Student Police officers. The Minotaur lowered its head and charged at Andrew. Mizore had to suppress a scream when the Minotaur was almost on top of Andrew but he did a flip over the creature and laid his back open with the sword.
The Minotaur dropped to the ground dead and the only one left was Keito. She was furious and absolutely terrified at the same time. This guy had been outnumbered 5-1 and he had reduced it down to 1-1. Her eyes began frantically scanning the crowd for something she could use as an advantage when they fell on a certain Yuki-onna. Her face split in an evil grin and she drew up to her full height.
Andrew was watching as she was sweating bullets, then she spotted something and she drew up to her full height. He didn't like the new amount of courage she had, it spoke of a cowardly ploy. She darted forward and Andrew raised his sword to strike her but she flew past him. He was confused for a moment but when he heard a cry of pain in a soft voice, Andrew knew what the bitch had done.
He turned and his fear was realized. The Jorougumo had Mizore pinned with her spider legs and was holding her tight to her body. This caused Andrew's anger to escalate to immeasurable levels. What happened next made Andrew's blood boil and his vision start to cloud red. Keito licked Mizore's cheek. "Mmmmmm, just like a popsicle. I can see why you would want her. Now why don't you drop your weapons, and come with me and I won't eat her." she said with a smug grin.
Thankfully Andrew's helmet was polarized so she couldn't see the look of disgust and pure unadulterated hatred directed at her. He looked at the ground and dropped his sword. Mizore was stunned, Andrew was complying with this bitches commands? No it wasn't true he was planning something, he had to be. "The knife and the helmet as well, I want to see the look on your face." she said/ Andrew grabbed under his helmet and slowly pulled it off.
With it off she got a good view of his expression and she had to suppress a shudder from the utter hatred in his eyes. As it was she still flinched at the look. Andrew turned his head slightly so that he could look at Mizore "Sorry." he said softly. Mizore was beyond confused at his statement. 'What was he…?' she started thinking before he threw his helmet.
Keito had to act quickly to swat the thing out of the air, but when she did she saw a glint of steel and felt something stab her in the chest. When she looked down she saw that he had thrown the helmet as a distraction to throw his knife which was now imbedded in her chest. She looked back up just as Andrew appeared in front of her and she felt something stab into her abdomen. Keito felt herself be lifted off of her feet and she looked down.
Andrew had used the distraction of both the helmet and the knife to grab his sword and charge her. She was now suspended in the air impaled on the twin prongs of the energy sword. Andrew removed the sword from her abdomen and she fell to the ground. The last thing she saw was Andrew standing over her like an angel of death.
With the battle over, Andrew deactivated his sword and looked at Mizore. The look on her face said it all. She had seen what he did and the expression on his face and that had scared her. He turned back to the corpse and removed the knife from her chest. He wiped the blood off on Keito's uniform and sheathed the knife. Andrew turned and was about to start walking back to the school to get some answers from the last remaining Student Police member when he was stopped by a voice.
"HUUUUUMMMMMAAAAAAANNNNNN!" it cried. Andrew stopped and froze. Everyone around him turned to see who had spoken and who the person was talking to. Andrew slowly turned to face the direction the voice had originated from and all color drained from his face.
There standing before him was the object of his nightmares. The very thing that kept him up at night, that had caused so much pain and suffering for Humanity, a being that caused mass panics to ensue at the mere sight of them. Standing before him was an Elite. Somewhere in the deep recesses of his mind he pondered why there was only one, but the vast majority of his mind was devoted to not panicking. Wait…panicking? He was a fucking ODST, panicking wasn't in his vocabulary. Then why the fuck was he panicking? Then he turned and saw Mizore looking between him and the Elite. 'That's why.' he thought.
Mizore was looking back and forth between Andrew and the creature. Its outburst had caused her to feel fear for Andrew's safety, though some fear of Andrew himself lingered after his emotionless killing of the PSC members. When she saw his face after he looked at the creature she was surprised at how fast it drained of color. She turned back to the creature and wondered what it was to cause that reaction in Andrew. She then recognized the creature standing before her; it was the same one that she saw the previous night when she was searching for Andrew's sword, right down to the armor and headdress. She could see malice in its eyes and it was directed at Andrew. 'Why is that?' she asked herself.
Tsukune and his harem had just arrived and Moka's reaction was much more like a civilian during the H-CW. Well Inners reaction anyway. Inner Moka screamed in terror when Outer turned to look at the creature. "GRAB TSUKUNE AND THE GIRLS AND RUN!" she screamed. "Huh…?" Outer started to say something but Inner cut her off. "DON'T QUESTION ME! JUST GRAB THEM AND RUN GOD DAMNIT!" she screamed.
Outer was flabbergasted, she never sounded like this. Inner was always raring for a fight, so her telling Outer to grab everyone and run was a new experience for her. But she didn't question it; she grabbed Tsukune, Kurumu, and Yukari and ran in the other direction from Andrew and the creature. They all protested and tried to ask questions of Moka but she didn't answer them or stop until Inner told Outer that they were far enough away. They all stopped and hunched over trying to catch their breaths from the sudden sprint. "What the hell?!" Kurumu asked. "Inner freaked out when she saw that creature and told me to grab you guys and run." Moka answered. "Well that's…wait what?" Kurumu was utterly confused. 'Inner Moka always wants a fight, why would she run from that creature?' she asked herself.
Tsukune was about to ask the very question on everyone's mind when they heard screaming. Moka tried to stop them from going toward the screaming but they went anyway. She resigned herself to following them; she wasn't going to let them go into danger without her. She quickly followed them as they ran back the way they came, praying that it wasn't as bad as Inner made it sound.
A few minutes earlier; with Andrew and group-
Andrew was sweating bullets. He had faintly noticed that Moka had grabbed Tsukune, the rest of his harem, and had run, which in his opinion was the smartest thing she could have done. But there were still a lot of civilians plus his VIP in range of the Elite. He slowly bent down, grabbed his helmet and placed it on his head.
As he was doing this, the Elite was spouting off about how dare he use the weapons of the righteous against his destroyers or some fucked up shit like that. The part that set him off though was when he began talking again. "You have failed Human; once we are finished with you we will burn this world to the ground, and your heresy will be wiped from the galaxy for eternity!" it cried. Andrew had heard it all before but he couldn't shake the feeling that this time was different. He couldn't call on reinforcements from the UNSC, as he was the only soldier of the UNSC here. Nor could he call in extraction or an air strike for the same reason. Tsukune, his harem and Mizore could probably be turned into soldiers with training, dedication and the right equipment. But that was in the future, right now he was a lone ODST against an Elite with a massive group of students going to get caught in the crossfire.
He turned to Mizore "Mizore, run." he said as his hand goes for his SMG. He turns back as the Elite pulls out two Plasma Rifles and brings them to bear on the ODST. "RUN!" he cries as he dives for cover, brining his SMG up to his shoulder as the Elite opens fire.
Mizore takes a second to realize what was happening then the screams bring her back to her senses and she dives behind a tree. She peaks her head out and what she sees will stay in her memories for the rest of her life. The blue balls of plasma rip through the bodies of the students with frightening ferocity. The screams of the dead, dying, and wounded add a surreal quality to the attack. She looks to the gate that Andrew is taking cover behind. Every so often he pops out and lets loose a burst from his SMG but she is dismayed when they strike a glowing violet field around the creature instead of it.
Andrew knows that this is bad. He can hardly shoot back with the Elite pouring plasma at such a prodigious rate. He knows that his sparse shots are barely damaging it's shields and every time he goes back in cover he is pinned there long enough for its shields to recharge. Andrew steps out of cover to deliver a burst of fire when a searing pain throws him to the ground. He looks down at himself and discovers the blistered and bloody remains of his left shoulder. Andrew looks around and discovers his SMG just out of reach to his right and tries to reach it. A hoofed foot came crashing down and landed on his hand ending his attempt to grab it.
He looked up to the face of the Elite. Andrew could swear that it was smiling as it brought up its two Plasma Rifles and aimed them at him. 'So this is my fate, killed by my enemy in a place that is not my own. Oh the irony, I left one place of my death to die somewhere else.' he thought. He let his helmeted head fall back on the ground accepting what was going to happen.
Mizore was frozen from both shock and fear. The same creature that she had seen that night had just cut down a goodly portion of the student population and she could have swore that it was damn near laughing as it slaughtered them. A few of the more bolder students had started to transform and charged the creature but it simply gunned them down with it's strange weapons. Now it stood over Andrew and was preparing to deliver the final blow.
The Elite couldn't help but cement his victory. "It is over Human, you have failed; soon my brothers will burn this school to the ground and this world will follow." it said. It squeezed the firing mechanisms on his rifles and Mizore screamed. But instead of twin bolts of plasma, the two rifles sputtered and emitted sparks. The Elite was confused for a second and that was all that Andrew needed.
He struck out with his leg at the elite and it stumbled just enough for Andrew to roll out from under it, wincing as he rolled over his injured shoulder. He jumped to his feet drawing his sword and holding his injured arm close to his body. The Elite looked over at Andrew, and then threw his useless rifles away, drawing his own sword. The Elite advanced quickly on Andrew with a downward strike.
Andrew barely swatted the strike away as it came at him. The two combatants then engaged in a brutal melee with the two swords swinging back and forth. Throughout the combat Andrew was unable to land a single hit on the Elite whereas the Elite was able to land small hits that added up. The Elite came in with an underhand strike, and Andrew barely blocked it but his sword was knocked out of the way. The Elite quickly reversed direction and cut Andrew from his right hip to his left shoulder, further damaging it.
"AHHHHHH!" Andrew screamed as he flew backwards from the hit. He dropped the sword as he landed and covered the smoking and bleeding wound with his right hand, his left practically lying uselessly next to him. The Elite walked up to the prone form of Andrew and stood over him. "Just like the rest of your race. Weak and incompetent." it said as it picked him up by the neck and threw him away. Andrew sat up on his knees holding his injured chest and letting his arm hang loosely. "Say that to my face." he said. "As you wish." the Elite said. It walked up behind him, grabbed him and lifted him off the ground. "My face will be the last thing your pathetic eyes see." it said as it drew back its arm to impale Andrew. Andrew was faster. He drew his combat knife that he was holding and plunged it into the Elite's neck. The Elite dropped him and grabbed onto his neck trying to stop the blood flow as he took a few steps back in surprise. Andrew grabbed the hilt of the sword the Elite dropped, activated it and plunged it into the Elites abdomen.
Andrew stood over the fallen form of the Elite holding his injuries and couldn't help but make a comment. "Nothing's over while I'm still breathing." he said. At this point Tsukune and his harem returned from their little vanishing act. Kurumu took one look at all of the dead bodies and blood on the ground and couldn't keep her breakfast. She went behind a tree and retched until there was nothing left and still she retched. Yukari joined her as she laid her eyes on the devastation before her. Tsukune looked then turned away, unable to bring himself to look at them. Moka looked at all the carnage and couldn't stop the tears that ran down her face as she covered her mouth in horror. Andrew looked at them then back at the Elite. He withdrew the sword in its abdomen, and then limped over to where his sword lie. He magnetized both to his thighs then went over to his SMG and grabbed it. Andrew started walking toward the school at a very slow pace, as his blood flowed freely from his wounds.
It was at that moment that Kuyou decided that he was going to show up. "You, Andrew Sampson, are under arrest for being…" he started to say before he was interrupted by the cough of a silenced weapon and the blossoming of roses on Kuyou's shirt. He fell back with an expression of surprise on his face. Everyone's eyes went from Kuyou's body to Andrew. His right arm was raised and his silenced SMG was aimed where Kuyou was standing. "Anyone else feeling brave?" he asked. No one moved or said anything so he let his arm fall back down. He managed to magnetize the weapon to his thigh and take a step forward before his leg buckled from under him.
Mizore rushed forward and barely caught him. He was too heavy for her to carry all the way to the infirmary but she tried anyway. As she was about to fall from Andrew's weight, she felt someone else helping her. She turned her head to see who it was and saw Moka of all people helping her. Moka smiled at mizore and the two of them carried Andrew's limp form to the school's infirmary.
Author's Note: Holy shit it took me forever to finally hit a creative spark and finish this chapter but here it is. So to recap, the PSC has been practically gutted with the loss of both their leader and the Second-in-Command, the Covenant has made the first move, and Andrew is once again on his way to the infirmary. I was asked by a reviewer why Andrew was protecting Mizore. The answer is in the story in the second chapter but I guess I'll explain it for you. It is Andrew's mission to protect her that is why he does. Of course what good would this story be if we didn't have someone try to break through the shell of our favorite and bring him into the light? Up next is The Great Journey Review as you see fit. Chow.