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the jackal brothers by new1nab113
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the jackal brothers:episode 1
Date: 16 January 2004, 8:08 PM
the wind whistled past, over our shields, as they reflected the falling snow on halo, I looked across and saw fear in his eyes, I comforted him, we had no wish to be here, but we were dragged into this by our cultures, everyone in the ranks knew, we were outsiders, our faces recognisable due to the holographic pages, he was too young to be in a situation like this, I had to help him......Adam arose from his bunk after a hard days work out in the snow yesterday with Jamie... speaking of which, Jamie wasn't in his bunk, he must of got up early to get ready for today..... There had been rumours of a defeat at the beaches of the silent cartographer, but these were unconfirmed by the elites at this time... Adam hated the elites.... bloodthirsty gits... dragging us into this...., just as he thought this he heard the low wart wart wart of an elite outside.....Translated to mean all jackals and grunts report to the armoury..... Adam needed a new plasma pistol.....perhaps that was where Jamie was.... he would see... he picked up his blue shield to which the veteran, Alex, brandishing his orange shield snorted from the other corner of the room.... a red elite walked in, Adam and Alex saluted, the red elite strode over to Alex and whispered in his ear..... Alex nodded, and ran off, towards the ice fields... strange....... on his way to the armoury Adam passed high command, every time he did he couldn't resist peeking at the gold elites, he heard the main elite, known only as general glory, talking to he red elite from the room.... "Yes sir... we have relocated our best warriors and the uuuum... traitor to the battlefield, he will die out there, if the rumours from the beaches are true...."
"Good... continue with your duties....."
Traitor? Adam thought quickly.... Jamie.... uh oh..., Adam ran in screaming like a falcon....
"You can't do that to him you cant! He is too young! You are gonna kill him!"
"That is correct, its too late now, he will fall, you are next...."
"How can you do that?!?!?! Call yourself general glory and sentence a youngster to death for his beliefs! Which happen to be true!"
"Guards, take him away..."
Two gold elites walked over and grab Adam, they throw him out side..., as he was being dragged Adam was shouting...
"Don't do this! Whatever happened to your honour!"
"THEY ARE ORDRERS FROM THE PROPHETS! I MUST OBEY!!!"
"..... Your father would be ashamed of you!!!!....." then they threw Adam out... he lay there on the floor, it was a mistake for him to have mentioned glory's dad... he was the greatest fighter, and defended the elites when they were attacked by a renegade gang of hunters, he died taking down the last one of the renegades... he would be turning in his grave if he knew they had now wimped out and allied with them and the others.... before now the elites had quite liked the jackals, they lived on the same world, in harmony... times have changed since the new races came into play.... Adam got up and ran..... He came to a bridge; he looked to the adjacent bridge, could it be??? The master chief? He looked over the edge... JAMIE! A pelican descended, Adam jumped on the top and slowly dropped down.... master chief had got down by the time they landed.... he was in a warthog... driving towards Alex and Jamie..... He ran..... Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!! The spray of bullets from the gauss gun cut straight through Jamie's shields and through his arm..... Suddenly a banshee swooped in; all gauss gun fire was concentrated on the banshee then.... The banshee exploded... and a silhouette figure came tumbling out of the flames that low deep voice... the light of the flames bouncing off his armour.... General glory...."AAAAAAAARRRGGGH!!" his plasma sword charged and he dived in front of the warthog, Adam grabbed Jamie and they ran to one of the corridors, they looked out. General glory was literally cutting the warthog in half! Gauss gun fire bounced off him like ping pong balls, master chief dived out the side, the marines perished.... Glory sliced downwards then upwards, cutting master chiefs assault rifle into 3, the master chief ducked and jumped to the back of general glory THWACK! "NOOOOOOOO!" ADAM and Jamie turned around, and faced about 50 grunts and jackals, they stared at them, and Adam could here whispers... "The traitors... they killed off glory?!? Oh god, they are in for it....." then Adam heard the sliding of doors, the elites had come to take them... but the door ahead was not open... all the beady little eyes of the grunts lit with fear... Adam turned, and towering above him, shining in his green MJOLNIR armour... the master chief... he grabbed Jamie and dived to the side... master chief dispatched the fronts with a plasma grenade, the jackal pair, ducked into a hole and placed their strange hands over their head, the master chief moved on... a few marines followed... the moved back outside.... Carnage... the wrecked banshee, still whirring, but motionless.... The body of general glory... he was a good fighter, the pride of the covenant forces on halo...but also a good alien, and his morals had been good in the end... if only his father could of seen... no one was here.... A drop ship came down, and a few survivors came out of a door on the other side of the battlefield, he heard a voice from within the drop ship "all forces to be rerouted to a swamp on the other side of this ring... important business, specific orders form the prophets!" all the jackals and grunts still alive boarded, Adam spoke to Jamie in a whisper "this is our chance to escape! Hide!" Adam ducked behind a rock... Jamie ran to join him, but was spotted, "you too! No exceptions!" Jamie boarded, a tear in his eye, Adam couldn't let him go alone, he gave himself up and got on board... he turned and looked at the battlefield as the craft took off... he saw Alex, his body mangled... his shield fading into nothing, and the last thing Adam saw, was general glory's body... no less valiant now that it had been in his final hours...
the jackal brothers: parts 2 and 3
Date: 7 March 2004, 1:40 PM
PART 2
Adam used his bird like claws to open his eyes, Jamie had his head rested against his shoulder, no one had patched up his arm since the control room.... Adam found some material and bandaged up his arm. He looked around.... Most were asleep a couple grunts were chattering nervously, he walked over to them and let Jamie slump down on to his seat....
"Oh... um.... hi!" the first grunt invited him into the conversation.....
"So you heard about this new life form they have found?"
Adam was intrigued... "No... What's it all about?"
"Well, apparently it's where we are going... to try and stop it breaking out..."
"Really?"
"That's the rumour..... All forces being rerouted to there, the humans are on to us as well...... a team of marines and their captain entered the area earlier, they won't survive long....."
"But we can beat these guys right?"
"I hope so...."
"Hmmm......" Adam looked over to Jamie, he and quite a few others were stirring...
"Well guys, I will leave you to it, thanks for the Intel..."
"No problem......" Adam moved over to Jamie, he felt the craft descending...
"Wake up... we are landing...." Jamie opened his eyes, it was obvious he had cried him self to sleep.... it was moments like this that made Adam hate the covenant so much.... some individuals were nice, but the prophets propaganda brainwashed them... he almost felt sorry for them... The craft opened and all the jackals and grunts bundled out... like a drink spilling out on to a table.... they faced a structure, he felt a sense of evil about it.... suddenly he was over come....
"I don't want to die!!! They are evil! I can feel it!!! Parasites!! Death!!! NOOOOO!!" he grabbed Jamie and dragged him away, they sheltered behind a rock...
"What was that all about?" Jamie asked, this was the first time he had spoken in a long time....
"We don't want to go in there! Trust me!"
"I can make my own decisions!!! I'm going in! Let's get this over and done with!"
"But you will die!"
"Then so be it!!!!!"
Adam stopped........ that was no way for someone so young to be thinking, only around 9 years old in human times... perhaps he was over protective, but it was only because he cared...... In this moment of paralysis, Jamie broke free of his grasp and ran to join the group; they disappeared into the darkness of a big metal doorway...
An elderly jackal walked up to him...
"Nice lad..."
"I cant help feeling I'm going to lose him... he is the only thing I've got left... my family are all dead, as far as I know...I cant lose him, but there is so many ways of me losing him here! Everyone hates him and what about the mater chief? Add to that this parasite and all... "
"Then make the best of your time with him!"
"Maybe your right...."
"You know I am." And with that Adam nodded, he bid the elderly jackal farewell, and ran through into the darkness, the unknown, and a whole new chapter of his adventure...
PART 3
The walls were grey, forerunner style... made the swamp outside look inviting.... Adam just missed the lift....
"Damn"
He lent against the wall, waiting for the lift, he had to get to Jamie, make peace... if they were to die here, then they should die as brothers, not as enemies...
Suddenly a sound, in the corner
"What was that?"
He used his flashlight to look around; the light swept around the room...a flash of yellow.
"What kind of operation is this!?"
The lift came to a halt at the top, so Adam turned, and stepped on to the lift, always aware he wasn't alone... he was only about a meter down... he had a radar, not quite the same as the master chiefs we know... but it could sense movement none the less...
Red, a big wave of red...
"Holy ****! Something's on top of me!"
He looked up, charged his plasma pistol... nothing....
"AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!"
"Who was that? Jamie? JAMIE!!!!!"
The lift was docking, Jamie was being attacked! Suddenly hundreds of yellow flesh eating parasites rained from the sky on to Adam, they swarmed the walls like a tidal wave, and he heard the fire of Jamie's pistol, but he couldn't see him, all he saw was a wave of yellow, on him, eating him.... "NO!" Jamie got covered in flood and was buried under them...
"AAAAAAAAHHHH!!" Adam drew his plasma pistol and unleashed a ball of plasma, the parasites directly in front exploded, he flailed and fought wildly, throwing them off him and dispatching them with his pistol, he looked to the direction where Jamie used to be, shooting crazily at them all, suddenly a big patch of flood glowed green....plasma shot up towards the roof as the flood melted and popped, Adam fired a wild shot that zoomed passed Jamie's ear hitting a ledge, making it collapse and cause a fire, Adam caught his first glimpse of the actual walls, they were green.
"Look out!" Adam dived across and pushed Jamie out of the way, and dispatched a couple more flood
"They just keep coming!"
Then they heard a low growl, as 3 elites dived down form the roof tops, plasma rifle blazingly fast at dispatching multiple floods
"You two, back to the surface! Now!"
Adam and Jamie didn't argue, they ran, but the elites didn't hold them for long...
They got infected; Adam and Jamie ran as fast as they could towards the lift, infected elites gaining on them by leaping through the air over horizontal pillars in the ceiling as the little floods somersaulted and rolled towards the primary target, dinner... the pair got to the lift, Jamie dived on and smashed his bird like hands on the pad...
"Up, up, UP!!!" Adam shot multiple floods with shots form his plasma pistol, the elites arrived, the lift slowly started going up slowly, and Adam tossed a plasma grenade...
"Fire in the hole!"
BANG! One of the elite floods was blown away, along with a few of his little friends, one of the elites jumped for the lift and caught on the side, the lift was still going up
"Battery depleted and no grenades!" said Adam
"Same here!!" Jamie ran up to the elite and started stamping on it
"Get off!" the lift went up, and the elite was cut in two, Adam brought his shied online...
"Get under here!"
Jamie and Adam got under Adams shield, as the little parasites rained down on them, they kicked and stamped and punched until they could punch and kick and stamp no more... the lift got to the top, and Adam smashed his shield down on top of one final flood...
"That was close" said Jamie
"I'm so sorry Jamie, I should respect you so much more, I'm only so protective because I care... why us eh? It's not fair..."
"All is fair in love and war; we are entangled in both..."
"If we work as a team, we can get through this..."
"yeah..."
The lucky duo shook hands, and hugged each other... then they snapped back to reality, and realised where they were...
"Let's get out of here..."
A pelican soared over their heads, and a team of marines got out, along with their captain
"Hide!"
"Psst!"
"Huh?"
"Over here"
They looked across, a pink jackal? A girl? Here? they could question later, they ran to the bush where the pink jackal was hiding and stayed quiet, they heard assault rifle fire and the shouts of a captain calling to their team... they ran to the lift... and it descended, Adam felt sorry for them...
"Guys, lets go, there is accommodation for jackals and grunts over here, they ran to the covenant hideout camp, Jamie and Adam went in the same room...
"Come on Jamie, let's go get dinner..."
Dinner was exactly what Jamie had planned, as Adam hadn't noticed the yellow blob of infection that had taken residence on Jamie's neck...Adam continued
"I've got a feeling something's waiting for me in the near future..."
Jamie could do nothing but agree...
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