Me: Welcome back to The Human Elite! Rtas, Thel, and myself are here to bring the new chapter to you!
Thel 'Vadam: I am not talking.
Rtas 'Vadumee: You just did.
Thel 'Vadam: Why I should- Let me go so I can kill you all!
Me: Sorry, not happening, Thel, or should I say, Arbiter. Anyways, I do not own anything based on Halo, except my OC and the few made up elites. Keep on reading!
Chapter Two
Hyak grew irritated quickly, as members of the Covenant pushed and shoved for a view of what was happening. He had no idea what was so popular to attract all of the residents of the holy city, except that it was big. He could catch glimpses of the balcony where the event was, as well as Tartarus, the brute chieftain that would be finishing whatever was happening.
A cry ran through the crowd, mostly out of excitement. "Heretic, heretic!" That was all Hyak could hear. He jumped onto a pillar and climbed, trying to get a view, and almost fell when he saw his father on the balcony, bound to a spot. He knew what was happening, and gawked as energy scorched the golden armor.
Thel held strong, not crying out in pain as the energy began to burn him as well. The heated plasma was stopped, and a couple of brutes began to tear the armor from his skin, leaving him vulnerable and exposed to everything. Hyak watched in horror as a large tool rose from the balcony and into the brute chieftain's hand, and the brute smirked.
The tool was aimed right at the Sangheili's chest, and with ease, the tool was burning a mark onto Thel's skin. He was unable to stop himself from crying out in pain, and anger for the brute filled Hyak, and he slid down the pillar, making his way through the crowd at a slow but steady pace, his father's cry of pain ringing in his ears.
A cry of pain woke up the human female on the space station. She turned in her bed, trying to find the source. Rose Akiva had heard that cry of pain before. She knew it belonged to an elite, as she had killed many, but was surprised to find no signs of battle.
She sat up and stretched, her brown hair falling to the base of her neck. She clapped, and the lights went on, blinding her for a moment. Rose was a photographer for the UNSC, as well as a soldier. She was only sixteen, but her parents had been the same as she was, before they had died a few months before. She looked to her nightstand where a photo of an elite was. It was an elite she had been looking for lately, and for two reasons.
The first, that elite had killed her parents on the ring that Master Chief had blown up, but the second was less personal. The second was the fact that when the picture was taken, that elite had taken a human child. Rose hated the Covenant for taking that child, and remembered that the picture was from a few days before her birth.
That boy would be my age now, she thought, standing. I wonder if he's still alive.
Hyak waited in his room for Thel to return home. A few hours had passed since the event, and it was around midnight. A door shut a few rooms away, and he stood from his bed, knowing that Thel would be entering soon.
The door crept open, and Thel stuck his head in, a charcoal gray helmet covering a portion of his head. "Hyak, are you in here?"
"Yes, sir. Are you okay? I saw what happened." Thel sighed and walked in, an old version of the Sangheili armor the same color as his helmet on his body. He put a hand to his chest, still pained from the branding.
"I'm fine. I was more worried about you at the moment. I thought that when I was called a heretic that they would, they would-" Thel couldn't bring himself to say it, having failed to do so himself years before, but Hyak got the point.
"You were afraid they would kill me. Dad, I wouldn't let that happen, you know I'd fight."
"Yes, I do, but it wouldn't be worth it." Thel sat on the bed, his hands clasped and under his chin, his legs apart. "We won't be seeing much of each other now." Hyak gave his adoptive father a strange, questioning look, and the older 'Vadam rubbed his temples. "I've become the Arbiter, Hyak. I've been given a second chance, but now-" He stopped and looked his son dead in the eyes. "The hierarchs want you to join the war."
Hyak was confused, as Thel had always wanted him to join the fight for the Covenant's Great Journey. "What's so wrong with that? We have both been wanting me to f-"
"But you're not ready! You don't even have armor, or even your own weapons!" Hyak put a hand on the Sangheili's shoulder, calming him.
"Dad, I am ready. I just need to get ready." Thel sighed and stood, towering the human by a foot or so. "I'll see you soon, hopefully." Hyak smiled at his father and turned, leaving his father. Thel watched his boy, and a feeling of loss flooded him.
"Good luck, Hyak."
"Sergeant Akiva, are you coming," Johnson joked as Rose rolled her eyes.
"Obviously. I'm not a little girl," she said, shifting her battle rifle and walking onto the pelican. A few of the male marines whistled, calling out for her attention, as they were always horny over her. One of them, a sergeant major Rose's age, smacked her as she passed, and she whipped around, punching him in the face and breaking his nose. "I'm not into you guys, if you can't respect personal space." She sat in her spot, smirking as a few marines gave her looks of fright or confusion.
"Okay, people, we're off to battle," Johnson said, the pelican taking off. "Be on the look out for any of those Covenant split jaws. They've been more troublesome as of late. So if you see one, kill it!"
A few "Ooh-rahs" were sounded off from Rose's fellow marines, and the pelican moved through space, towards Earth. Rose looked at the planet that would have been her home, and positioned her weapon so that it was ready for combat.
She noticed a phantom a little bit away, descending towards Earth, and scowled, knowing that she was in for a hell of a fight.
Hyak threw on the helmet for his armor, which covered his entire body, minus the slits in the helmet for his eyes. He grabbed his energy swords, waiting for the phantom to land so he could enter the fray.
"Hey, cool it, trooper," the ship master said. "Save all this tension for the humans. You're getting the others anxious."
"Sorry, sir. First mission." The ship master nodded, understanding.
"Okay. But, just know that half these soldiers are new as well. I want you to just get calmed down. I can't let the tension spread any more, or else these guys'll be more on edge than they al-" The ship master stopped, and Hyak looked out the back to see why.
"I hate other humans," Hyak growled, watching the human vehicle descend in the same direction as the phantom.
Me: And that's the second chapter!
Thel 'Vadam: I would never act like that over a human!
Rtas 'Vadumee: Thank the forerunners that I wasn't that ship master.
Me: Anyways... Anyone got a clue what the significance of the POV switching is? You'll learn later if you don't. So, R&R! And thanks to those of you who reviewed, followed, or favorited the story!