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Halo

The Blood Of Brothers

Section 2: To our Dying Breath.

“Phantom, requesting drop.” The Phantom pilot transmitted though his Helmet mounted Transmitter.
“Bridge to Alpha. Drop Authorized”
The Phantom dropship dropped into the free fall of space. Then though the darkness the blue thrusters took the ship into acceleration. Inside all the forces checked Weaponry.
Once they entered the Fog filled atmosphere and Thick water filled every pore of the Dropship, Jinv deiced to speak.
“Jiralhanae weather, no question.”
As he adjusted his Carbine Scopes. He then placed extra Carbine cells on his gravity belt, Made of forerunner relics. One…two…three…four… Should hold him. Then 2 plasma grenades on his Left side. Then grabbed a Plasma rifle and placed it on his Leg holster. Sde’hegt took one plasma Rifle from the holster and placed one more on his leg holster. Just in case, Four Plasma Grenades. Rohle, is his glistening White armor shined bright in the Phantom. Plasma rifles on each leg holster and his Sword held right above them. Four Plasma grenades. Jakrotak grabbed his needler and handed his Brother a Plasma pistol.

A Crashed Phantom off in the distance caught the pilots view and they decided to investigate. The phantom came to a low altitude and the Unggoy inside dropped out of the ships gravity drop, followed by the Sangheili. Rohle stayed aboard. A voice came over the transmitters.
“Examine the crash area and the Parasites presence” the Phantom bolted away over there heads
Jinv leveled his Carbine, walking slowly to the crash site. Sde’hegt followed with his plasma rifle leveled as the Unggoy made sure no forces would come behind them. And by making sure this meant the Unggoy would surely die thus warning the others of an attack. Jinv lowed his Carbine once he realized the Area was safe. He looked into the wreckage and saw dead Jiralhanae. He took steps closer and then looked down. A Jiralhanae with his mouth open in a roar with a piece of shrapnel over his mid section. Sde’hegt Investigated the Crash as Jinv walked slightly outside the site for ones who survived. He noticed one Jiralhanae. He kicked its dead corpse over. There was a bloody whole in his thick skull. It did not looked like a Plasma shot because the area around the initial whole was not burned. Plasma boils metal and would burn the flesh from the skull on impact. Nor a Carbine shot. He bent his two jointed knee to crouch over the Jiralhanae corpse. He placed his Carbine on his back and looked into the whole. He saw metal. He walked farther to exam the point of assault. He moved into the deep Jungle.

Benice sat on the Phantom scarp pile and crossed his arms. Sde’hegt Looked up at him and sighed at Sangheili youth. The Unggoy watched as if every tiny insect in the planet wished to kill them. Though, Unggoy always acted that way. The Thick pungent air bothered Sde’hegt and made him a bit un easy. There was a strange silence to the area. Nothing moved. Not a bush was ruffled, nor a leaf turned. Complete Silence. This made Sde’hegt Even more concerned. He raised his plasma rifle and squinted his eyes. The Unggoy had this same reaction seeing their commander in battle stance. Not an Unggoy made a move in fear it would anger there officer. Benice raised his weapon and the thick air clouded their view. But though this Sde’hegt could only think of one fatal mistake. Where was Jinv? Blasts of small explosives followed by dirt throwing into the sky and pounding the grass. Masses of screaming metal bullets filled the forest. Human words of shouting came though. Sde’hegt looked to the point of attack. The Unggoy scrambled in fear and Sde’hegt roared. The Unggoy quickly got to there Ranks and readied the plasma turret. Taking places near the point of assault as dirt pelted His plasma shield and he grabbed his other plasma rifle. This would be a fight they would not be losing.

Jinv jumped behind a rock to seek cover as packs of humans came over the ridge. Rock exploded near his face. Ground exploded with metal near his feet. He waited and waited, his warrior blood boiled. Suddenly his time, He jumped form his cover and blared his carbine. Twelve shots, then his assaulters loaded their weapons and hailed it upon his shields. They lowed his shields from fire, to a quarter. He looked at his carbine ammo counter. He could kill many more with this, no need to exchange. Three human bodies lay on the blood pool that lay on the grass. His Human translator kicked in and he could understand their fear.
“Major Elite, take him out immediately before he calls for reinforcements.”
Another spoke “Damn it, you said there were only Brutes hear!”
Elite, Brute, He hated such strange vocabulary to describe them. He reached into his gravity holster and grasped a plasma grenade. Placed it over his beating Warriors heart, One beat for faith, one for Family, and the final for honor. A common Covenant meditation. He pushed the orange activation key over the fluoresced blue sphere and it shot a blinding blue light from it, radiating plasma he jumped from the rock and threw it to the closes human. It dropped plasma from the back and stuck onto his armor. He screamed in fear and the others dived away. His body exploded and dirt, rock, Blood, and remains flew though the fog. Jinv decided to regroup with his force. But a hail of fire came down on him again. He ran back to a large tree for cover. Bark splintered from it and bolted his shield. Three left. He took a step out of his cover and shot three beams at the closeted one’s skull. One missed, another hit his brutish helmet exposing a clear shot, the final pierced his skull and the back of his head exploded out and his Primitive brain spilled from it.
“Five.” Jinv said to himself. With less accuracy he fired at another, they fired back, their bullets stopped on his shield leaving him harmless but they where dropping fast. Another fell.
“Six” His Carbine opened and a Cell shot from it and heat pored from it. His instinct grabbed carbine cell from his belt, he twisted and spun to doge the fire. Placing the cell in the carbine it closed and reloaded. Jinv’s Shields dropped and his body was exposed to the enemy. He rained fire on the enemy while he ducked, spun, and rolled. All was silence. Nothing moved. Blood poured into the stream, darkening it red. Jinv panted fiercely and his warrior’s blood cooled and he rose to his feet.
“Seven” Jinv stared walking back to his corpses. He looked at the Human that nearly took his life. No human was a match for any Sangheili, yet alone a Major. He knelt near it and gave it a simple sigh. Its hand grasped an object. Jinv pushed its lifeless fingers open. A Small metal pale green sphere was in its hand. Then once open more a metal trigger shot from it and suddenly thousands of pieces of battle information shot into Jinv head. He engaged his plasma shields and turned his back trying to run. The green sphere Exploded.

Sde’hegt heard the fire stop. One final Explosion, Then the forest grew quite again. Rustles of bushes alerted Sde’hegt and he quickly turned his head around, directly behind them.
“Turn the turret!” Sde’hegt Demanded to the Minor Unggoy. Feric yelped in fear of the demand quickly turning the plasma turned completely around and awaited orders. Sde’hegt narrowed his eyes and stared into the fog. More sounds echoed from it, Footsteps.
“Fire!” Sde’hegt shouted to all within hundreds of meters. Feric blindly shot plasma bolts into the area. They sped with poor accuracy. Burning the large leafs, and though the trees. Sde’hegt Unleashed his duel Plasma rifles into the area. Plasma bolts and Needler shards pounded the area. Sde’hegt Plasma rifles overhead, the emergency cool off valves busted open and vapors billowed out from them. He heard many others react the same. Feric continued firing without any hesitation. Once realizing his comrades seized firing even after there weapons cooled, he stopped. Then Benice made his way to the point of assault. His weapon level with any on coming attackers. Pushing destroyed environment form his path he saw dead humans. Burned flesh filled his nostrils, he saw none moving. Counting kills, Four. Sde’hegt walked to it as well.
“Humans.” Sde’hegt sighed.
“What are Humans doing out hear.” Benice asked. “Is this not [light years] from any Human Force?”
“Yes.” Sde’hegt Concluded “Surly the cruisers would have spotted a Human vessel traveling though slipspace to this location.”
Benice pondered his answer for moments until concluding “Perhaps the Jiralhanae did know and did not inquire with the codicils assuming it would be a simple fight. There is no Flood.”
Sde’hegt looked up into the fog filled air unable to see any tree lines. “Perhaps.”

Bushes collapsed and small insects scurried away. Sde’hegt quickly faced the suspicion and roared. “Turn!” The Unggoy scrambled in fear and twist the turret to the Sangheili pointed finger. A Steaming Four finger hand came from the bush. Sde’hegt Yelled back “Cease Fire!” as he walked to the corpse. He pushed large leafs from his vision and saw a Sangheili in Red, no, Black Armor. It looked red at one point, but is more blackened now. Possibly fire charred. He then pushed the body over with his weapon. Looked into his eye lids and its mandibles opened.
“… Brother.” He uttered, and then became unconscious. Sde’hegt knew at that very moment it had been his greatest friend Jinv. He picked up his motionless corpse then hoisted it onto his shoulder. He lugged his fallen ally back to the Crash site.
“Jakrotak” Sde’hegt announced to the group, “Jinv is injured, check all vitals, external, internal wounds. Recalibrate Energy Shields.” He said as he laid Jinv on the cooled Earth. Jakrotak waddled to the Corpse then took out a Metal rod and grabbed the other side and pulled it as a blue holographic screen billowed out of it with a Sangheili body on it with blue line outlining the body. The left side showed a red outline of damage ranging from server, red. To less serve, yellow. No damage, Blue. A dim light shined on the top right corner of the screen, it stated.

Damage: None lethal.
Vitals: Minor damage.
Outer exposures: Server, possible burns.
Shields: 0%
Shield Power Generator: Damaged.

Benice watched the inspection. Jakrotak was a skilled medical Unggoy. Benice then became bored and wanted to kill some humans. He Began to wander into the jungle. He made sure not to wander too far. He broke branches under his massive feet. Pushing and ripping leafs and vines. Then suddenly realizing he had treaded too distant. He then heard jungle tearing under a large mechanical beast. Cushing trees, mashing all within its path. From the information Benice gathered in his head over past exercises, he determined it had been a Human vehicle, a “WARTHOG” they called it. Crashing though the jungle he grabbed his weapon its holster and hid behind a tree looking for the Warthog. Suddenly blinding lights shot into his eyes. The Warthog crashed though trees in front of him as he jumped to avoid the Vehicle. He kicked his translator in, just in case. The vehicle stopped and ripped dirt under it as the one in the passenger seat stood with a cigar in its mouth. “There’s one of those damned squid-faces!” And the rear turret turned to the Sangheili. Its three barrel turret began to spin, Benice jumped behind trees as bullets ripped though the hard bark. Metal casings pooled over the dirt as lighting burned though the trees. Benice ran to another large tree as the turret followed. Large clanking sounds filled the air as the Human slammed his fist to the stopping turret.
“Damn thing is Jammed Sir!” It spoke. The three Humans jumped out of the vehicle and looked for Benice. One turned though the fog to the left as the others went to the right. Benice sat behind the tree awaiting the solo attacker. The Human walked past him as Benice griped his Plasma Rifle. Once the human made four paces past him he jumped out and slammed his rifle onto his skull, crushing the back of it. Killing him instantly. It Grunted softly and fell. Jumping quickly to other cover he peered though the fog and saw the two other Humans giving hand gestures to his location. One moved the other way to flank him, he watched it. That was his mistake. The other human grabbed a Green sphere from his waist. Put it too his mouth, pulling something from it. He tossed it though the air it landed near Benice. He saw the sphere unknowing of its powers and it exploded sending him though the air and draining his energy Shields, throwing him to a tree. The fog began to fade away. Rain started to sprinkle softly. Benices Legs had been broken, he felt it. His right arm was broken to, he felt that also. Benice lifted his hand. Staring at it. It was cold. Very cold. One human came from the cover and put his Weapon onto his back. Grabbing a smaller firearm from his side. Benices Weapon was no where to be found. The human walked slowly to Benice. “According to our station, all without exception.” Benice uttered his Covenant Oath softly staring at his hand.
The other human entered with a cigar in his mouth “Shut that thing up damn it.”
“On the blood of my father, on the blood of my son” Benices hand fell to the ground.
The Human placed the small firearm over Benices head. “Goodnight.”
“I swore to uphold the Covenant” Benice closed his eyes. Listened to his heart beat softly. It became faster. More intense. He grabbed a Plasma Grenade from his holster and pressed the orange button it burst into blue radiating plasma.
“Even to my dying breath!” Benice Screamed as he slammed the grenade to the ones hand pushing it away from his skull. The other human with the Cigar turned as it to run away. Benice grabbed the Humans weapon from its back as it turned from the shock of a plasma grenade. He pulled the trigger. The plasma Sphere exploded. Engulfing Benice and killing the Human which it has been attached too. The Cigar fell into the water and burn out. The human lay with three small metal objects into his skull. A steam of water ran under the Humans head as it dyed the color of red. As it flowed it began to fill with purple.