Prologue
Larath was scratching her back hoping to get rid of the annoying itch that's been there a while, she was being escorted with her fellow marines by a groups of man vesturing in attire that is clothed over their black leather pants and armored shoulder pads, on their right along with a silver helmet with his face showed.
One of the guards poked her a little to hard with his spear and she reacted by back kicking him resulting in her to being restraint by more ropes one wrapped around her mouth to shutting her up from cursing out the guards, and on one other vines came wrapping around her legs while she was being carried by rohan who volunteered to take her something that she wished hadn't happened seeing that his hair was brushing against her face every so often.
"Alright alright, I'll stop!" Caitlyn said as she was pushed forth by another guard.
Next to the female marine were both mike and Franklin who were trying their best to to hold back from fighting the guards who were doing the exact same thing by pursuing forth with every poke of their spears.
"Silence wrench," Said one guard as he wrapped a wrag around caitlyn's mouth.
Mike seeing that went for the guards shield pulling it away with force and bashed it against his face and did the same with the other guard sending the man smashed against the wall.
One of the guards went for his sword only to be stopped by his civic leader who was the lead guardsmen.
The old men watched as mike landed his sight on him and immediately rushed at him with the shield. With simply three steps to his left the civic guardsmen grabbed mike by the scruff of his armor and slammed him onto the ground and put his elbow in his neck forcing the marine to gasp for air.
"I suggest you calm down young man unless you wish for me to silence you,"
The old man waited for the marine to give him a word of confirmation as he let go of the young man as he didn't need to go for his sword to cut him down not that he wanted to but because there were other guardsmen surrounding the marine with their spears pointing at the man ready to end the marine under his words.
"Stand aside guardsmen, this boy here is only one man,"
The guards bowed their heads and stepped back with their spears slammed strait up to the sky allowing the marine some space to stand up.
Mike wanted to fight them again but stopped when Franklin told him not to do anything to foolish we're he'd sure would've gotten himself killed. The marine looked at the shield and dropped it to the ground and followed the old men advise.
Though he was a marine mike hadn't expected the old men to be that quick on his feet and was mad at himself for getting put down that easily and wished his fellow marines hadn't seen that knowing how witty they are whenever they get the chance to make fun of him.
"Will you heed my words young men," The old men spoke to which the marine nods his head when Caitlyn told him so.
"Yes I will,"
"Good, then I wish for you to not do anything that'll get you slain by my sword, now walk with your fellows and not do that again,"
Mike listened as one guard came and put some sort of stone handcuffs around his arms and made his brow raised when it glowed green.
"What sort of rock is this?"
The old men merely answered him elucidating in a emotionless way. "That right there is a magi stone, able to shut off any magic users from working their little light,"
Mike wondered why it was necessary for that to lock his hands a normal handcuff was enough for him. He attempted to mess with it only for it to tighten when it reacted in response.
It would look like to him that this would be quite difficult to break out of it but that doesn't mean he'll give up on it mainly because he was familiar with such as it.
As they were strolling through the active street filled with people roaming here and there the old man face and the presence of his guards were enough for the people to part ways in allowing he and the others to walked past them without as so much telling them.
In front of them was a large building with it's roof colored in green and multiple clear windows and a twenty foot door guarded only with four guardsmen, while two were standing down guarding the stairs the other two were guarding the door with their keen eyes landing upon their arrival.
"Sir gander," One guard said in greetings.
"Guardsmen, I'm simply only here to hand over these strange people to the grand elder herself, if you would be so kind as to let me pass I won't bother you four from doing your job," Gander stated solemnly.
"Of course forgive me sir gander, please you may pass,"
Gander happy that was over with put his arm in a cross position with his fist to were his heart is at.
The guardsmen alongside those that worked under him did the same out of greetings a fellow guardsmen of welleryn and pressed forth with the marines.
"Wonder why they made this large a* door for?" Commented Caitlyn as she looked around the inside of the building.
"Quiet outsider, I will not stand aside as you disgrace the work of the grand elder herself," Spoke a woman who was part of the guards.
"Yes yes I will gladly do so ma damn," Responded the marine in a manner of mocking her.
"Steady yourself stralla, this woman will be dealt with later," Ordered gander before the guardswoman could even pull out her sword.
"Caitlyn eso es suficiente," Franklin said to her in Spanish.
[Translation, that is enough]
The marine listened and continued on as they passed through a couple of guardsmen who were giving the newcomers a looks of haze not well familiar with the way they are clothed and the weird weapons that were carried by one of the guards.
"Xala, go ahead and drop those strange sticks in one of the weapons room,"
"Yes sir gander," Responded the guardswoman as she head off to a different direction.
"Hey don't take our weapons you bastard," Yelled mike.
"Mike now is not the time, we will get it back," Speaked Franklin getting a slight bitterness at how his two squad members were acting especially since he only was the one having to be the parent of the team.
"Yes sir," The two marines responded gravely.
Gander the old man stopped and turned to face the marines after rohan had set larath down to her feet.
"Madam, I expect of you to control your emotion for you and your fellows will be locked into a separate cell from each other," Spoke the civic guardsmen told her.
"What are you planning to do to us?" Questioned larath with a meaningful glare that gander was very well aware of.
"I planned to do nothing lady for the daughter of the grand elder had requested for you all to be in her presence, but right now for the time being you four will wait behind bars until she arrival," Stated gander motioning for them to be sent away.
"Ma'am what do we do?" Franklin asked.
"Do not worry Franklin, I'm sure this people meant no harm, we'll find a way out of this,"
"And what of the spartan how will he know where we are now," The marine said asking.
"Unfortunately I would've called him in but one of those people manage to stripped me of every one of my belongings along with the radio," Answered larath.
The squad leader was angry at herself for her incompetence, if it wasn't for one of the men's that slapped her in the behind she wouldn't have had punched him square in the face resulting in one of his companions to attack her immediately which then led to the people to call in the guardsmen. Though it only made things worse when the drunken man turned out to be noblemen though she knew full well that if the spartan was there things would've turned out differently and right now she was hoping he'd find out where they are.
"Do not worry yourself lady larath, the daughter of the grand elder is a very good woman, I'll be there once you and your men are freed," Rohan told her as he watched the her being escorted off to another part of the halls.
"What do you know of this woman and her groups ranger rohan?" Asked gander eyeing the man.
"Only the stuff she told me, she is not a bad person sir grander," Replied the ranger.
"Bad person, I doubt that," Said a scoffing planar as he then spoke. "She managed to send ranger naserion flying with a single punch,"
"It was only a blindly attack," Spoke naserion knowing how the others were going to belittle him getting punched by a normal human.
This made the old man in front of them surprised though he kept it to himself without showing any emotion on his face. The ranger naserion particularly was part of the groups of old beings who were descent of beings that inherit the gift of longevity making them live for a long time alongside with certain knowledge of their hidden power something that he was well aware of.
And to hear a normal human able to send naserion tells him that there's more to this strangers then meets the eye.
He thought to find out more of these people and sent rohan and his rangers away.
"Sir gander!" A guard spoke running up to him.
"What is it guardsmen?" Gander said expecting the man to tell him something important.
"The stranger that you've sent for me to find has escaped our sights and had manage to avoid any scenes from the people we've asked,"
Hmph*
Smart man gander said to himself. The one member of the strange group had evaded not only his guards and the loyal people of welleryn but also had detoured away from any known eyes.
"Alright, tell the others to return to their posts... And let me know if anything you hear about this stranger," Gander told him.
The old man watched as the guard saluted him and quickly ran off to do as he was told.
"Sir gander the brots has requested for your presence,"
Gander had almost forgotten about the meeting he was supposed to have with the twins and went nodded to the guard to take him there. One thing for sure is that he would be hearing more of this stranger and wouldn't want to miss it but today he wasn't inquisitive in on finding out about him and left for the meeting.
...
It was almost night time and the sun had already set, people were still up at night as some was either drinking well mostly the adults that is while others were beginning to close their shop.
From uptop of a building a figure could be seen standing in the dark with his visor staring down at the bustling townspeople.
An exact holographic map of the entire of diminutive welleryn appeared on five's helm as he then zoomed in close to a certain parts of the town and stopped to see a distinct building.
"Are you sure this is the place where they were last taken to?" Five said to deha.
"Though we would have to find a way in and retrieve larath and her squad quietly without so much of a problem," Beamed deha with a smile.
"That wouldn't be a problem," Five responded to her.
Deha sensing something was wrong and she could tell that something inconveniencing was going on with koa seeing as how he looked under his helmet.
"What is it koa, what's going on?"
"Nothing we just need to focus on getting the others out," Five said answering her simply by taking three steps back and ran forth leaping over the edge and landed on the building and continued on from building to building.
Afterwards during the night as the clouds part ways with the moon lighting the night sky five was on the move till he jumped onto one more building and came onto a halt. Getting down to one knee he scoured the place down there which were filled with townspeople as roles of horse carriages lined up from almost to fifty yards long.
This may had given five some time to pondering about how problematic this is for him now that there were too many eyes out and didn't yearn for someone to catch sight of him in the opening.
Five looked at the building searching for the adequate spot where he doesn't have to bee seen by the people till he spotted one.
Stepping back five waited for a moment calculating the speed needed for this and ran forth, right as his foot came upon the edge five bent his knees down and leaps towards the main building and with great effort lands as his hand caught onto a piece of the wall while digging his fingers into the solid bricks as so to slow himself and then landed on another part of the roof and then continued through the opening without troubling the two guards occupied in watching the crowds who were unnoticed of a shadow climbing in through a well large gap between the building.
When once five was inside of the the sounds of people could be heard chatting amongst each other. The spartan looked down to see numerous nobles and civilians stretched out for almost a hundred feet, five may had seen size of the building of how big it is on the outside but to be one to see the inside looked to be the size of a coloseum arena, five had to admit that there were surely numbers of people either joining the dance floor and others who were either hesitant on being amongst them while some looked to be dressed differently.
Some of this people were of different species that koa laid eyes on, wearing armor of sorts embroidered in different colors. Handful of the beings had the purple skin along with the few discrepancy which would be their distinctive wings.
Within a span of a minute five found an entrance unoccupied by anyone and started towards with a steadiness step so as to not caused a single pebble to fall off. With that over he had to clamber through the hole with relief as he finally entered into a hall, there weren't too many people like that of the ballroom giving five time to shorten this up and climbed back down on the carpet floor.
The Spartan heard voices and immediately slid into the left hall with his big frame hiding behind a large furniture. Watching as the two people passed by he began again by going forward to where a another set of doors is at.
Slightly moving to get a look from the corner five could see two guards blocking him from the only door that leads him to where the others are kept.
"How do we supposed we do this without alerting them?" Uttered deha as she let out an exasperated sigh knowing what was already on the mind of koa.
"Simple, by knocking," Answered five grabbing a nearby book and prepared to throw it.
One guard was yawning loudly from amount of hours he has been standing guard along with his partner. The man thought he saw something glinting in the hallway till then he turned to his right when something was sent smashing against the face of his colleague who clutched onto his nose in pain, going for his sword the guard was shook when someone ran forth with absurd speed and put a hard slam of his palm right in his chest armor, the guard had felt this pain before it was like having a bull charge at him in full speed if only he could avoided but it was too late as the culprit had his arm around his neck.
The guard saw his colleague going for a punch only to be caught by five's hand and redirecting it into the wall, the guard grabbed onto his injured hand and widens his eyes when the spartan choked him out after finishing with the other guard.
"You know, we could've done that differently," Commented the A.I. glad that she wasn't one of the guards so that she wouldn't have to deal with five if she were them.
"The quicker the better, besides with mostly everyone too busy to dance and drink we have time to find the the marines and get them out," Five said responding with subtle offense towards her quip while in the middle of a rescue attempt.
"Oh why of course mr. Green giant please that way," Deha jokingly replied as she showed koa their next promenade path.
Before he left the spartan had the sleeping guards hidden in one of the small rooms filled with extra furnitures such as chairs brooms and some empty flower vases.
Pushing through the doors five continued down a long path with only candles giving people a little bit of light but to him it wasn't a problem thanks to his augmentation making him see in near perfect night time meaning even without the candles he can still see if so he could also use the small flash light from his helmet.
It took five for almost a minute to reach his current destination, in front of him was a wall of iron bars five inches wide sticking into the ground separating him from the others. He looked around for anyone only to see none, if there wasn't anyone guarding this then five knew he would have no option but to bent open the iron wall till he snapped two to five poles apart from the rest and walk through.
After a few more minutes five had eventually reached the cell as the marines where seen sleeping with a snoring frankling napping on top of a wooden stool while mike was sitting on the cold floor with his back against the brick wall.
Knocking the iron bar to wake them up which didn't work as deha imitate a laughing motion with her hands covering her mouth when she saw the spartan grunted.
Five for the second time decided to knock a little harder by scraping the iron poles slowly earning him a few groans from the already awaking private and Sergeant.
Franklin being the one to fully stand up with both hands covering his ears to block the excruciating sound spotted a large figure which he immediately knew to be five dropped his hands when koa stopped and waited till mike was fully awake as well.
"I advice that you boys step back," Spoke the A.I.
Both mike and Franklin understood what deha meant and nodded in confirmation and did as asked, next thing they saw was five hands wrapped around the iron rods and began pulling it apart without too much of an effort as the last thing that happened was them being surprised internally when five finished by creating an angular hole for them to both happy to be rescued by someone from their world even though if they didn't know who he was.
"Thank you spartan, we appreciate the sudden rescue," Franklin spoke dusting some critters off of his uniform.
"No problem," Replied five as he watched for anyone who might have had heard the sound of iron pole being twisted.
"I don't mean to be the type to annoy you spa- I'm mean five but how do you suppose we find the others," Mike said referring to larath and Caitlyn.
Five understanding where the private was coming from understood exactly what he meant and responded in a stoic way giving the two marines the usual way of how unsc personals knew the spartan two's to be.
"We just need to find another way around the mass of people for us to get to larath and Caitlyn," Five said answering him.
"You say that like it's easy for us, but how exactly are we supposed to sneak past them," Said Franklin.
"Don't you worry about that sergeant leave that to us, you two just need do the best it is you can to not be seen by any familiar eyes," Suggested deha.
The duo turned to look at each other and then back to five and nodded in agreement believing in the spartan work to get them out safely.
While they were walking back up the stairs towards the door deha had appointed them to do one thing to do which was to have themselves dressed in whether large ensemble drapes which koa had ripped from the wall and gave it to them to wear over their uniforms.
Both marine were glad that they weren't wearing their armor or else the extra weight and mostly the amount of sweat and smell would've given them a discouraging semblance of two unhappy couples who looked miserable after a bad star.
"With all due respect deha, but why the drapes," Commented Franklin as he had to carry the end of the drape like that of a noble woman when greeting others.
"It's the best I can do for you two beside mr. Crumbles over here isn't the type to give buoyant advice in dresses," Responded deha lively.
The trio after traveling through vacant hall came upon door that separately the people from the other side was happily dancing to the sounds of musical instrument being played.
"Five wait where are you going!" Asked mike.
"Do not worry just do exactly as said and follow through it, I'll be with you two on the other side," Koa said answering them and then went to a different direction.
Once the two marines opened the door they were awestruck by the multitude of people roaming around, the two of them gave a deep breath and walked forth closing the door hoping that five knew what he was doing.
...
Five have manage to sneak past a couple of public areas where he had to wait every few moments to let people passed with a slight crack of his patience being tested whenever deha tried to mess it up without exposing him on purpose though he knew she just wanted to pass the time with her travesty of words that sometimes made him glad that she wasn't as annoying when they first met.
The first time he was hesitant on taking the AI chips from doctor Halsey's hands believing he was fine on his own without the help of an artificial a.i. It bummed him out when he heard that deja the dumb a.i. That was like a second mother to him and the cadets had been in words of the doctor herself was put out of service meaning she was terminated.
Though she may have been a dumb a.i. Her passing made some cadet saddened even for a slight moment and he was sure that she would've wanted them to continue and not be held back just cause of her supposed death.
And when it came to doctor halsey she rewarded him after his years of serving as her personal guardian by giving him deha which wasn't very surprising to the doctor when he had the a.i. Named after the passing of deja.
But boy was five tempting to shut her off if only there was a mute button on her something he wished doctor halsey had installed in her but he knew the deha would've overridden that system and have it deleted if she wanted to without trouble.
"Ok here we are," Spoke deha.
Five look upward to where a wooden ladder was sticking into the wall, he didn't want to climb it afraid that he'll cause a ruckus for falling down after breaking it with his weight.
So on the contrary he carefully opened the door and stepped right on through and slowly closed the creaking door. Considering that there weren't anyone around five continued to stroll past rooms by rooms that is until he heard noises coming from the far right corner and he assumed it was just a nonsense as it wasn't that important to him that is until he heard a commotion.
Proceeding towards it koa can pick up the sound of furnitures being broken and smashed to pieces, not wanting to imagine in his head of what was going on koa was about to turn the other way when suddenly two guards were sent smashing through the wooden door and hit the wall.
Five came to a stop, wondering what the hell that was, he waited to see what happens, and that's when he notices two arms covered in black furs with claws as long as an eight inch knife grabbing the door frames. As the Spartan remained still he then could see what it was that had threw the two man out of the room with ease. The creature was almost as tall as the him, but, it did made up for it's size with the many amount of dark black furs covering it's whole itself from head to toe.
The beast began walking towards the two guards claws scraping against the walls. The two man scurried back as they tried crawling from the beast that was smiling wickedly at them, it raises it's right arm up ready to bring it down end them for good till it stop midway when it was blinded by a light flashing him from the side of it's face, it brought up its hand to block the light from blinding it even more till it eventually shut off.
As it glance to it's left it can finally see who it was that's responsible for that. The beasts puppy expanded when it saw the giant in front it. It stopped to turned towards five's path and gave out a deep growl as it then let out a roar.
Eyes still locked onto the beast in front of him five hand went for his combat knife. The beasts seeing this immediately dashes forward and swipe at the spartan who then moved out of the way, five saw the beast stopped itself with one foot planted on the ground and with it's left paw went to strike him but five brought up his right arm blocking the hit, with the blade he trusted forth puncturing the beast right in it's stomach where he then twisted the blade deepening it to where it struck the costal cartilage. The beast roared out in a painful scream and in a fast movement struck the Spartan again just in time for him to block it as well.
Five gave the beast a hard left hook to the left side of it's face dodging a paw swipe in the process and with a returning right two punch to it's ribcage so hard that the beast hopped back nine feet away, seeing this five didn't let it slide and went in for a hard right hook managing to at least wobble the beast for a while, he then went to grab the blade that was still stuck in the beast stomach and moves back a few feet.
"I believe that right there is a werewolf," Commented deha as she finished analyzing it.
"A what?" Questioned koa as he unsheath his combat knife.
"Nothing important, just do your best not to cause too much commotion," Deha told him and blinked out of his view.
The a.i. Wasn't worried of what might happen to koa, she had watched the Spartan going up against beings that would give the so called werewolf a run for it's money though the brutes would love to hunt this things for their furs.
The werewolf growls at five and dashes forth with both arms aimed for his chest but the spartan quickly acted and moved aside and landed a kick to it's ribcage sending it rolling on it's sides.
It stood back up and touched the part where koa had hit it and gave five a harsh immitating that it was mad. Five and the werewolf circled one another like that of two animals getting ready to fight. With a motion of his hand five made a come on sign with his hand and the werewolf rushed forth with his claws scraping against the wall and went to strike him but five simply stepped back and bent down avoiding two swipes and stabbed his knife right where the heart is supposed to be but the werewolf was quick to act and jumps over him into the roof making a crack when it came back down and strikes again thus almost getting it's target.
Five simply rolled forth and skidded to a stop when he heard the creature coming at him beliving he was opened for an attack, the spartan caught the werewolf by it's right arm and pulled it towards him and stabbed it in the chest and repeated three more time and went for one more, the werewolf tried to used it's other arm to claw him down but five easily dodge it by dropping down spinning around and punched it with the knife digging deep into it's chest as the creature roared loudly as it was sent rolling back creating a trail of blood.
The werewolf stood back up staggered hands on it's bloodied chest while holding onto the wall for support with the other. It turned to look at the spartan staring at it with it's now exposed helmet.
It growled at him with it's fangs and sharp teeths slowly showing indicating that it was infuriated, koa simply took one step forth as the werewolf was willing to fight him again but the sound of footsteps stopped them both.
Both five and his opponent turned to see three people in armor who were running into their direction, that's when they landed their eyes on the werewolf and came to a halt though they were familiar with the creature but once they saw five with most of his Mjolnir armor showned to them due to the cloak being ripped apart during the fight they pulled out there sword and the werewolf immediately launched at them with five jumping after it.
Five knew the creature had picked the guardsman as it seems like the easiest target whether then going after him and so he had rushed forth to stop it but didn't make it on time.
One guard managed to dodge the attack by moving back but his colleague on the left didn't fair so well when he was suddenly sent sprawling from a paw swipe and before it could attack the other guard five had manage to catch the werewolf by the tail and pulled it back with enough power to pull it up into the air and slams it down won't the ground hard enough where it caused a crack.
The werewolf didn't try to stop its self from being dragged and leaped at the Spartan but five not wanting to waste any more time clenched his fist tightly and with a swift punch goes for the heart this one final time and the three guards watched in utter shock as five easily made work of the werewolf with a hole the size of his fist squelching with it's remaining insides still hanging on as five retracted his arm from the werewolf's body.
The three guards were still in shock when five had just killed the werewolf, the beast was one of the many creatures that normal people would have a tough time to slay even for some magic users due to how fast and nimble the werewolves can be.
The spartan stopped when a couple of guards came from the same direction as the other three.
"Halt there," Spoke one female guard who seems to be the squad leader.
"Do not move!" The other guard said with a spear pointed at him.
"I do not mean any harm, I was simply just helping to stop these creatures," The spartan said pointing at the dead werewolf hoping that they'd hear him out.
The female still with her bow n arrow aimed at the spartan awaited a response from one of the guards as she glance down at one of them.
"It is true of what he speaks my lady, he was the one that slain the beast, thanks to him we live," Explained the guard once he got back on his feet.
The woman heeded the guardsmen words as she slowly put her bow down and had it strapped on a piece of metal hook in the back of her armor and doing the same with her arrows. Once she confirms the three guards were telling the truth the guardswoman attention was on five who looked like he didn't want to be there at all.
She thought at the first that five was a golem one of the creation of the forest people that lives there, she couldn't believe that it spoke, the sound of his voice tolled like an emotionless person. She ordered her guardsmen to have the slain beast who's body contorted from that of the werewolf back into the shape of a human. Figures that she already knew this person, he was one of the uptight noblemen who were exposed by one of the other nobles for treason on trying to have the grand elder assassinated so they could take over the town by having the title for themselves.
But thanks to the warning of a noblewoman the grandelder and her family they were well prepared, for they arranged a plan to have her second daughter birthday party with the ball room dance and not long after the two other culprit were seized by the old man gander and rohan's assistance with of course with the help of the rangers and guardsmen too.
Though the good thing is that they reacted quickly and chased down the illicit nobleman that tried to escape once he fled the scene after two of it's comrades was slain. They feared the worst when the man ran off in the middle of the night especially when the moon was out which would give them a leverage over time. She had thought the two guards that she sent would die when she arrived and rather it turned out someone had beat them to it.
She had many question for the being in front of her, walking forth expecting it to answer her instead he turned the other way and walked off till she had one of the guardsmen surrounding it in circles with their spears pointed at him.
"I do not have time for this," Spoke five irritated by them for holding him back even further.
"I'm afraid you don't have a choice. I xandra daughter of sir gander commander of the grand elder guardsmen hereby order you to stand down and hand over your blade and weapons," Ordered the woman after stating her name and title to which she expected the spartan to heed her and do as asked.
"And I'm afraid that won't happened," Answered five earning a sounds of the guardsmen shifting when he puts his hands down and watched the tension between him and the guardsmen and guardswomen began rising when he stopped.
Unfortunately he received a transmission call from the two marines Franklin and mike.
"Uh hey five, I know it isn't too much trouble for for Ya, but do you happen to be near by any chance?" Asked private mike.
"Affirmative, what seems to be the problem?" Responded five.
"Uhm well you wouldn't believe this but we happened to have been caught by some well weird looking people in armors and they happen to be very angry," Answered mike.
"Copy that, make sure to get out of there, I'll meet up with you two with Sergeant larath and private Caitlyn," Five told them as he then hangs up on them and faced Xandra straight.
"Well do you yield stranger?" Spoke xandra.
"No," Said five as he dashes forth.
Without even uttering a single sentence xandra and her fellow guardsmen went in to attack, a guardswomen tried to grab onto his arm in an attempt to cuff him with a magi stone cuff but widen her eyes in shock when the spartan grabbed a guardsmen and threw him at her. Hearing a yell coming from xandra who was coming down with her sword in hand five lingered back from her with a back flip and caught the sword with a shield he took from a surprised guardswomen after he had sent her rolling with a palm push.
Xandra seeing the spartan blocking her attack skid back and dashes forward with the head of her sword pointing right at an opening right where his midsection is underneath his Mjolnir armor. Just as she was about to strike him five had caught the sword by the palm of his hand and twisted in a circular angle causing her to yell out in pain and so without a chance of taking it back by force xandra had no choice but watch as koa tosses it few yards away from where they stood.
"Five behind you!", Alerted deha.
A guardsmen gave out a battle cry as he jumps at him with his axe in hand and swung it at the Spartan head. Five seeing this caught the man by the throat and threw him at an incoming xandra knocking them both down on their rear in the process.
"Stop!" Two guards announced who were easily taken care of by the spartan as he pushed past them with a shoulder bump though not too hard to the point it'll injure them any further.
"Deha set a shortcut waypoint for sergeant larath and Caitlyn's location, I can't keep on waiting any longer," Says five.
The Spartan ran at a fast pace and with a shoulder push broke through the door with ease. Once the he got through onto the other side he was met with shocked faces and looks of surprises and fears of people who were looking at him.
Five could easily hear the murmurs and stuttering of those around him, in the dance hall the people began shuffling away in keeping their distance from him as he excused himself through groups.
Fifty six feet away from where the spartan is was crystal like wooden podium and from each side of it stood a middle age woman and a few of her children such as relatives and on the left side of the podium was sir gander and a few of his guardsman and not only that it seems like five saw rohan and his fellow rangers looking at him in surprised of what had just transpired after they just gotten done with the attempted murder of the grand elder.
The spartan disregarded them and proceeded through the large mass of people as they all shifted from the path he was going in. Sir gander soon shook himself from what he was feeling and ordered his guardsman to seized the green-armored behemoth. The spartan seeing this had to hurry up, he went for a gate that leads to where larath and Caitlyns is, but when he does he came upon two guardsman with bronze armored knights guarding it, the two knights got onto a defensive position and pointed their halberd spears at his direction and spoke in a jointly demanding voice.
"Five i'd suggest you hurry up, we got knights enclosing in on our position!" Says deha sounding uneasy.
Within merely a few moments the spartan waited as the two knightguards moved in towards his position and before the two could utter a word of demands five ran forth grabbed the head of the halberd spears pulled it towards himself got down and swept the legs of the right knight guard. The left one on the other hand tried to stab five and instead of hitting his target he found himself hurled back from a light push by five as all he could feel was the back of his steel armor hitting the brick wall.
Before sir gander's guardsman and rohan's rangers could get nine feet to the spartan he had already left by bashing through the gate. Everyone was shocked by that wondering how armored behemoth had managed to break opened the twenty foot wooden gate, it would have taken four men to open it though that meant it wouldn't be hard for a single person to open it either way but it would take time for one man to do it.
The heavy sound of the Spartan's boots can be heard quite clearly by anyone that could have wandered in by mishap though he didn't care he had to hurry up and get to larath's and caitlyn's he had to get there, it was the only thing that was on his mind right now.
There was one time during one of his mission were he was in, being sent to do a rescue operation but due to battling the covenant mostly every civilians that he was supposed to evacuate were killed off by the elites and grunts that was watching over them, but others did live thanks to him and yet he still thought about the ones he couldn't save. Sometimes he wondered if they could've lived if his team were with him during that mission but he knew it wouldn't change anything, the same outcome could've still happened anyway.
As soon as he reached the bottom five glanced left and right, there were no lights like that of the modern world but normal medieval ones, torches, roles and roles of them lit up the dark and deep halls from left to right. Thanks to his augmentation five could still see in the dark way better then an average human being.
Five listened in onto the slightest sound of ruffling as if to find out where the two ladies were locked in and dashes to his left.
Laraths P.O.V.
"You know I blame you right," Says Caitlyn while using a needle size stick as a toothpick and then flicking it away hitting a guard in the back of his head.
"Hey!" The man said sounding irritated. "Enough, or else I shall set you in different cell separated from your friend woman!"
"You got armor man," Replied Caitlyn teasingly.
The guard just grunted in annoyance and turned around.
"How do you suppose we should get out of here commander?" Asked Caitlyn.
Larath just heaved letting out a deep sigh and responded. "I'm thinking of one, just give me a second"
Larath was not worried that she and Caitlyn were locked up im some sort of medieval dungeon, she could've just busted the door and take care of the guard and find a way of escape. But one of the reasons why she hadn't chosen to do it yet was one rohan had mentioned that the people of this town weren't ominous foreboding people that she knew of, but that doesn't mean she was keen to find out about it. The other reason was that there was only one way out once she and Caitlyn break down the door, and she was for sure not taking the way up there were there was a lot of people having some sort of party. She knew of that thanks to the ranger telling her about some noblewoman named the grand elder throwing a party for her daughter.
Though it did came to her whether if she could lure in a couple of civilian woman put them to sleep and use their outfit so she and Caitlyn can make their way out of this damn castle of a place.
Just as she was going through many roads pondering herself of planning to escape she and Caitlyn overheard the guard shifting to the left side where the torches lit up the hall. The guard winced in fright and turned to look at the direction where the sound came from, about twenty feet from where the two woman's cell is were two wooden doors was in. They watched as the man put his hand over his eyes as if trying to see if someone was there, now the two woman weren't sure what was going on but to them it looked like the guard was spooked by something. They watched as he pulled out his sword the moment the door opened frightening him with the sound of it creaking opened.
Both larath and Caitlyn watched in amusement as the guard spoke out loudly in a dreadful voice.
Then seconds later just as the man was relaxing thinking it was just nothing else serious he let down his sword still holding onto it, then immediately he was spooked by the sound of squeaking rats. He turned to the two woman who were cackling in laughter and told them to shut up and yet the two of them dismissed his words of demand. And just as he was going to opened the door and deal with them the sound of heavy boots were heard by them, this got the guard attention and he turned to face the dusky lit hallway. Larath saw the man's eyes widening in shock of what he saw. Now this got her interested and both she and Caitlyn had their faces stick into the iron poles of their cell trying to see what seems to have gotten the guard scared.
Larath smiled in satisfaction as Caitlyn let out a merry comment saying how happy she was to see the big armored behemoth.
"Well at least his here," Spoke larath.
"Why hello spartan! It is good to see you, again that is," Said Caitlyn putting her arm out as she waved down and up at the spartan.
The guard glanced at the two woman then to the spartan then back to them over and over again.
"You two know of this, this thing, this creature!"
Larath and Caitlyn glanced at one another and smiled as they turned to looking back at the poor guard, they felt sorry for the man, they understood that he was just doing his job and seemed like a good and decent person, and they both agreed that they would've reacted the same way as the man.
"Yes, just do yourself a favor and don't try fighting him, please it's the only way for you to not get hurt by him," Advised Caitlyn.
They watched as the spartan walked forth and came to a stop just few feet from the guard.
"sta-stay back giant! I will not let you continue any further," The man said with both hands clasps around the handle of his sword pointing at the spartan in a middle form position.
Five glanced at the two imprisoned woman. "Ms. Larath. Ms. Caitlyn," He said greeting them.
"Hey there five," Waved Caitlyn as she smiled in return.
"Don't hurt him five, go easy on him," Said larath.
"Or put him to sleep," Spoke out Caitlyn.
This got Caitlyn a look of chagrin from larath as if telling her to quiet in which she put both her hands up in surrender and moved back.
Just as the spartan moved an in the guard let out a yell and moved in to stab him and instead five just caught the sword by the palm of his hand and squeezed the sharp edged of the sword till it cracked as the man watched the head his sword falling to the ground as it broke.
Glancing down at the guard as he then was about to speak, and rather than just standing there the guard backed off scooting backward not wanting to deal with the spartan which five appreciated.
"Thanks," Spoke five while the guard just nodded profusely.
Five then walked up to the cell and gestures for the two woman to move back a few feet away from the door. He then pu his hands in between the two iron poles holding the door and wrapped his fingers around it, and without much effort the top of the ceiling shook the slightest as the dust fell, moments later the door was beginning to bend outward as finally five manages to yank the door off from it's frame and threw it to the side.
Both woman gradually walked out from their imprisonment, patting some dusts off from their clothes the two of them thanked their spartan companion and turned to look at the stunned guard.
"You, where's the other way out of this place, and don't lie, we both know that your woman king up there had built another escape door somewhere in this dungeon of hers," Demanded Caitlyn with pointing finger.
"I ca- can't tell you!"
"Perhaps we should ask you in a different manner," Said a grinning Caitlyn.
While the two woman were berating the poor man five had walked towards the other end of the hall fifteen feet from where the trios were at.
Five had scanned the whole underground prison for the time being till he found out that the guard might have been trying to hold them here long enough for the guardsman to get down here. It was a good thing that he had tore down a piece of the walls and blocked the entrance before he had reach the prison cells, he wasn't willing to be staying down here to find out which was why he was looking through the dark and murky hallways examining the place, it took him a moment till he finally found a trace of heavy footprints that led all the way into another end where there was just nothing but a wall with no door, the funny thing to deha was that it was rather obvious to both her and five that they've found a hidden door thanks to the two torches that hanged on the opposite sides just six feet up from the ground.
As larath and Caitlyn were chastising the guard for as long as they gotten out of their cell regardless of what was happening in the entrance they were still castigating the guard with questions till the sound of the entrance ceiling shook when a heavy thumb resounded throughout the halls gaining both caitlyn's and the guard attention. Larath looked on for a moment when suddenly their was a golden light shining the inside of the entrance when shortly after they could overhear multiple footsteps coming down from the stairs.
This immediately gotten the two Marines get out of their shocks when the spartan abruptly called out to the two of them. They both glanced at five's direction and were met with a satisfying scene, just three feet away from where the spartan stood was an opening as the brick and mossy rock slowly rolling up as it made a door, outside they could see the dark and cloudy night as the
moon lit up most of the night.
"I suggest we get moving now ma'am," Spoke the Spartan awaiting the two woman.
"Oh don't mind if I do," Said Caitlyn running at their new found exit.
As the squad leader larath tied a knot around the guard hands she immediately ran off towards five just as the entrance door slammed opened, roles of guardsman and a couple of rohan's rangers came storming in, their eyes landed on the back of five's Mjolnir armor. Ranger aulorah and naserion called after the spartan to halt but instead he just ignored the two of them and stepped outside and before they could run after him he had grabbed the brick door and pulled it slamming it back down hard onto the floor as dusts of debris scattered through the hallway practically blinding nearly everyone that came to close.
While the guardsman and two of the rangers were running after the spartan captain rohan was called back by the grand elder before he could join the others to stay behind in helping out to keep the multitude of people from freaking out in terror.
First they scattered the ball room terrified of the werewolves appearing in the middle of the dance floor though gander wouldn't blame them, they were just excited about the grand elder's daughter ball dance and weren't aware of what the old woman was planning, but in the bright side they were informed by the grand elder to stay calm. She herself had told them about the reason as why they had been here which was to draw in the nobles who were making endeavoring scheme on assassinating her.
Yet she lived thanks to the aid and supports of her long time friend sir gander, especially when it made it all the more easier for her and the others was that captain rohan ranger of the empress had arrived on the right day and right time. It was they that managed to kill off the nobles lackeys who were part of the confidantes in the attempted murder.
Rohan strolled past a couple of people who stepped aside to let him pass. Over onto the stands were ser gander alongside with the grand elder and her families.
The grand elder had requested for the ranger captain presence to come to her, with of course the man would heed her words which of courss one of the guardsman had told him to.
The ranger came up to ser grander and put his fist over his chest in greetings amongst each other, ser gander did the same and returned the favor with a smile.
"Ser rohan, I see you doing the same old thing, tell me old friend how's it going out for you?" Says the old man.
"I could say the same to you too as well ser gander," Replied rohan as he shook hands with the old man. "And you still look as young as ever,"
Ser gander gave out a small laughter and slapped rohan's left shoulder lightly. He chatted with the ranger for a while catching up on one another past till finally ser gander stood aside and let the man passed him. grand elder called for rohan in greetings as he came down two feet away from her and knelt down onto one knee.
"Grand elder visian. It is an honor to see you again my lady," Rohan said speaking in a formal admiration to the woman in front of him.
The grand elder otherwise known as visian had a greyish brown hair that was tied into a side ponytail, she had fair lightish brown tanned skin. The armor she wore was made of that of silver color yet with a few cuts and
"I to you as well ser rohan. Please stand up," The grand elder says responding in a ceremonial tone as she offered the ranger a helping hand.
"Thank you my lady," Said the ranger as he accepted the woman's hand.
A woman dressed in a fall greenish black dress along with a golden necklace around her neck, she also had a bracelet of gold on both of her forearms, and on her right shoulder bares a tattoo of a black sun with feather like wings spread out.
"Hello rohan, It's been years since I haven't seen you,"
"Ah, it is good to see you too mada'm varlian. You've grown" Responded rohan.
Letting out a subtle chuckle as she then strolled into the middle of the two the grand elder then coughs one to two times. The guards including ser grander seeing that most people weren't paying visian even a look stepped forth and slams the bottom of their spears on the ground harder five times succeeding in getting the peoples attention.
Thanking gander and the guardsman's service visian took three steps forth and began giving out a homily speech.
"People of the greens I am pleased you've come to my little girls ball dance, and im glad you all had enjoyed your time here, but unfortunately after the two occurrences that ensued tonight im afraid I gonna have to ask you all to kindly please leave, please go home, for I do not want another incident to happen again,"
Ser gander after waiting patiently walks forth and spoke out to the people in a loud and decisive voice. "What are you all standing around for! Get going now,"
The people and nobles alike immediately bent their heads down in a formal way and left without a second thought of questioning the grand elder neither were they willing to stay long enough for another problem like the werewolf to come up again.
Thereon after having to wait six minutes and more for the people and nobles to leave the grand elder visian her family and one of her two companions were just about to head on out as well when two of the rangers naserion and aulora came running. The guardsman and the other ranger's alike stood aside making way for both of them.
Visian motioned for ser gander to halt before he could order the two rangers to stop.
Walking towards her both aulora and naserion came and dropped down to one knee and rose up once again and spoke.
"Madam visian, I am terribly sorry for we have failed to stop the green armored giant you've sent us to stop,"
Sighing deeply visian then spoke out to the two. "Tell me, what made you two and many other man and two mages failed to stop a being that big?" Inquired visian with a questioning look.
"Grand elder," Says aulora who spoke up for naserion. "The golem had manages to slow us all down by breaking part of the stairs, he had also managed to block the door entrance that led to the iron cells,"
Rohan stepped forth with a luring expression of spread upon his face. "How is that possible it would've taken moments for you two and Ser ganders guardsman to catch up to the spartan without a problem!"
Both visian and gander caught the word spartan when rohan had said it but the two of them chose not to intervene and were willing to wait and question the man once after he was done.
The two rangers turned and glanced at each other as naserion then took a turn to speak up for both of them. "The giant or five that is captain, he had barricade the door, but it took the two mages a while to fix the broken stairs and the door till we finally managed to get through, but unfortunately before we could even reach the cells two of the previous prisoners five as we call him had freed his comrades, two of which were woman. We tried to call for the spartan to stop but he had ignored us and left after that madam,"
Grand elder visian cursed at herself internally, she had wanted to chase after five but remained still in the podium as her first priority was to protect her family and if they weren't here she was sure that she could've caught five without so much as a trouble.
"Visian, what do you suppose we do? Or I can just order my man to hunt this thing down," Ser gander said stepping up.
Seeing that there is not much time left and not wanting to waste any visian replied back. "No need to ser gander, you and your guardsman have done enough for the day, please tell them to just head on back to their normal shift,"
"As you wish ma'am," Responded grander as he left with his guardsman who followed behind in a straight line one after the other.
Visian after watching ser grander departing with his fellow guardsman then turned facing rohan and motioned for him to follow.
"Ranger rohan, walk with me,"
"Of course grand elder," Replied rohan.
As they were trekking throughout the halls for a couple of minutes visian had been waiting for a while to ask rohan about something that's been on her mind ever since the appearance of the spartan.
"Ser rohan, I've been wanting to ask you about something," Visian said to him.
Giving her his full attention rohan spoke answering her. "Of course grand elder, what is it you wish for me to tell you?"
"It's about the green armored giant that thrashed my granddaughter ball dance with his sudden arrival," visian said with some embellishment of inquisitiveness "I've overheard one of your rangers calling that thing, what was it?"
Visian daughter strolled next to her with her hands behind her back. "I believe I've overheard one of the ranger's call the thing a Spartan mother,"
"Why yes, thank you daughter, although, something tells me that isn't the actual name of the spartan, am I right Mr. Rohan," Visian said looking at the man with an inquiry of novelty.
When the grand elder had said that rohan could see the looks of curiosity spread upon many of visian's family when they overheard of what he said before as well, of course he doesn't blame them for he knew that eventually the spartans or five that is would ultimately reveal himself over time.
"Yes madam visian, though I may not know much about him, he only ever calls himself five and would whether be stuck to that then his actual name," Responded rohan earning a reasonable response from visian.
"Five I see," The grand elder says thinking to herself. "Rohan I want you to do me a favor and help me send a message to the empress, and make sure that it get to her and her only. Am I clear," Visian told him stating her words clearly.
With his fist to the chest and bowing his head slightly rohan answers her. "No need to worry grand elder, I will make sure that the empress receives your message. Although madam visian. What is you wish for me to tell the empress?"
"Something that regards the spartan and his comrades sudden appearance, cause for somehow, I have a feeling that they are an anomaly to our world,"
For that rohan agreed with the grand elder statements as he had once questioned larath about it once and all she had told him was that she and her squad and especially the spartan did not belong here on their world and what she had said that caught his attention was that they wanted to go back home to their world. Thus rohan had heard of realms that differs from the very ground he walks on but to hear how larath had spoken about traveling the stars something he thought impossible, he didn't want to question larath about it seeing how she had reacted towards ranger naserion and ranger wren.
He shook his head when hearing the voice of visian daughter varlian who was waving her hand in front of his face.
She smiled once rohan pulled himself together and gave her a reassuring smile.
"By the light rohan, you've been lost in your own world for a while there," Varlian said with concern on her face. "Tell me are you well?"
"I hope you are ranger, for I had almost called in a maester to help you," Visian says.
"Of course grand elder, please forgive my thoughtlessness for I was just a little light headed," Said a dumbfounded rohan.
Knowing that he was lying visian motions for her daughter and the rest of their family to start moving once again.
Rohan shook his head and trek after the family as they all continued onto the left hall, as they then too another turn they see two guards standing guarding a room with a large ten feet tall door.
The two man notices the grand elder and immediately stiffened back into position as they took two steps towards each other and turned facing the door, they held the door knob twisted it and began stepping back while opening the door for them to enter.
"Thank you gentleman," Says visian acknowledging the routnr drudgery. She then glanced to her left where rohan came walking next to her. "So ranger, are you ready?"
Answering her rohan was prepared for what inquires of visian for he understands now why the woman was not willing to let any prying ears eavesdrop on them especially not after what had happened between her and the nobles.
With the sound of the door closing as the last of them enters, the grand elder motions for the rest of her family including some of the rangers who had all chose to stand guard with the exception of rohan who sit down just six feet away from her while her daughter varlian sit next to her alongside with her daughter took a chair pulled it out and sit down while cursing her large dress that was in the way.
"So shall we begin,"
