SPARTAN 107 by Chad Markus
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SPARTAN 107 CHAPTER 1
Date: 29 November 2005, 2:22 am
Chapter 1 1130 Hours, August 17, 2517 (Military Calendar) / Eridanus Star System, Eridanus 2, Elysium City
My ball was nice and red. Bouncing it against the wall I guess was fun for a kid who didn't have many friends. I heard the sound of a ship land. I turned to look. I saw a lady with gray-black hair and a man with a stern looking face. I popped an eyebrow in confusion. Usually people dressed like they were never came here. They had on nice clothes. At the time I couldn't really think of the word for what there clothes looked like. The only word that came to mind was, nice. My clothes had a few rips in them but not many. I kept watch to see what was going to happen. It seemed as though they were looking for someone. The lady had taken out a silver pad like thing. I few seconds later she set the pad back into her pierce and eyes schemed across the playground. I looked at the women's eyes very closely then I tried tracking her eyes to the distinct destination. I turned my head to see a few kids pushing each other on a hill. I looked back at the man and the women.
I get bored easily so naturally I turned my head back to the wall and went back to playing with my ball.
" Kids it's time for lunch!" Ms. Winter yelled across the playground. Now the people had left. I took my ball and went inside. I saw all the kids crowded around a kid. I think the kids name was John. There were so many kids in my class I forgot a few of there names. I walked over to the crowd of kids and took a look. At first it was hard to penetrate through the crowd. But I managed. What John was holding was a worn out coin. I could make out a man on the front and a bird on the back. It was silver and a portion of it was rusted. I tried grabbing it to take a closer look but John quickly moved his arm back and covered it with the palm of his hand.
" Now children." Said Ms. Winter. And we all new she wanted us to stop what we were doing and eat.
I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with some chips and a juice box. I ate my sandwich and chips. I was thirsty so I downed my juice. After everyone was done with there lunch the teacher handed out cookies. My day just got better. I gobbled up the two cookies like there was no tomorrow. When we were all settled in Ms. Winter took out a book. We all sat around her on the floor. The book was The Lonely Monkey. It had a monkey on the cover with a banana in his hand.
" Once in the jungles of Africa there was a monkey named Fred. Fred was very lonely. He didn't have many friends. But he always loved to spend time with his family." Ms. Winter kept reading. This monkey sounded like me. I began to cry. All the children just looked at me in shock and I went out of the room. I didn't turn my head to see that Ms. Winter got up from her chair and had followed me.
" Why…why do I have no friends?" I repeatedly asked myself. I felt a hand on my shoulder.
" Now-Erik…you have plenty of friends." Said Ms. Winter.
" No I don't…" I said as I cried. She then went up to me and hugged me. Soon it seemed as though all my troubles faded. Ms. Winter's breath felt warm against me.
" Erik want to come back into the room now?" Asked Ms. Winter. I nodded my head and walked back into the classroom with her beside me.
Even after what she had done I still didn't want to listen to the book. So I sat in the corner and looked at my own book. The pictures were cool. It had pictures of dinosaurs. I liked dinosaurs. Especially the Tyrannosaurus Rex. He was the best of them all. His sharp teeth tore through his pray and his giant feet allowed him to run after his pray very quickly. One of the pictures depicted the Tyrannosaurus Rex ripping through his prey. The scene was bloody but it didn't bother me that much. After Ms. Winter was done reading the story to the rest of the kids we all had Nape Time. I went to my cubby and took out my beach towel and pillow. I set them out on the floor. I went back to my cubby to get my stuffed dog. His name was Scruffy. He was black with a white spot around his left eye. I went back into the room and sat on my towel and went to sleep.
SPARTAN 107 CHAPTER 2
Date: 6 December 2005, 11:51 pm
Chapter 2 2240 Hours, September 22, 2516 (Military Calendar)/ Eridanus Star System, Eridanus 2, Elysium City
Threw the week I kept on having a recurring memory. The dream was very hazy. I was looking at a lady. She looked like the lady a few days ago that was watching us. She was looking at my face and body. She made me do things like touching toys, pressing buttons and walking to certain areas in the room. I didn't know what this dream meant at all. I was clueless. Next in the dream I started to breath heavily. I soon blacked out. Always when I woke up my bed was wet.
I didn't know what was happening to me. I was scared.
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Three days passed. The dream stopped. I felt much better. I woke up to use the bathroom. I staggered along the hallway bumping into walls. I rubbed my eyes. I had on a blue shirt and white night pants with blue strips. I came to the bathroom and closed the door behind me. After I was done I washed my hands and closed the door behind me. I heard a sound coming from the hallway. Curious like I was, I went to check out what was making the noise. It came from down stairs. I crept across the floor so my parents would not here. They were very busy all day so they needed there sleep. I came to the stairs. I walked down them. I turned to look around the house. Before I could do anything an arm came around my shoulder and some cloth was put up to my mouth. Soon everything went blank before I could hit the floor.
Chapter 2 Part 1 2300 Hours, September 23, 2517 (Military Calendar)/ Epsilon Erdani System, Reach Military Complex, planet Reach
My head hurt as I walked down the hallway. There were seventy-five other children accompanying me. I didn't know what was going on. All I remembered was me falling asleep and now this. A man in a black and gray suit was gripping my hand. It hurt a little but I didn't try to fight free. I knew if I did I would get hurt. Where was I? And where was my family? I asked myself. I looked to a girl beside me. She had long black hair and was crying. I tried to comfort her but the man who was holding me just yelled at me and gripped my hand even harder. Soon we entered a large room. We were walked up the stairs and sat down. We were high up. I looked through the glass and looked around. There was a stage at the front of the room and rows of seats all around. As soon as we sat down the lady that I saw at my school had began to speak.
" As per Naval Code 45812, you are hereby conscripted into the UNSC Special Project, codenamed SPARTAN II." The lady said. All of us didn't understand at what she just said but we had no choice but to listen. She paused for a little bit. I few of the kids tried to leave but the men behind us pushed them back down into there seats, a few of them gave the men a mean look. Soon the lady began to speak.
" You have been called upon to serve. You will be trained…and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be protectors of Earth and all of her colonies." I few of the kids started to sit up straight as though in interest.
" This will be hard to understand, but you cannot return to your parents." The lady said. The kids and I began to look around trying to leave. Why couldn't we see our family? I thought to myself? The men behind our seats just sat us down.
" This will become your home. Your fellow trainees will be your family now. The training will be difficult. There will be a great deal of hardship on the road ahead, but I know you will all make it." She said. All of us just stared through the glass at her in shock. I suddenly felt a heavy weight on my shoulders. I tried to speck but no words came from my mouth.
" Now rest, we begin tomorrow." The lady said.
" Fall out!" A man shouted. The man was very stern. He had on a black hat. But the other men didn't.
We all left the room scared.
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