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Here we go, now the story contains this new Gridi'n race... There is actually a pattern in their speach. I might be releasing the dictionary of their words when i'm finished with the story.

They touched down at an island in the middle of a large ocean, Master Chief rushed out and searched the area. Nobody was there. The voice of the other Gridi'n said to him: "Relax, the covenant of smaller races has not defiled this place yet"

Elceelar answered it: "Sa feratii covena âllige"

Chief didn't bother trying to translate it, he knew he couldn't. Chief asked about the other Gridi'n's name, it was Jaargu. The Gridi'n weaponry was like a hand-held version of the sentinels... Or at least they looked like that. "We must find the silent cartographer on this ring... follow us" Elceelar said "We have to gain control of it in order for the solution to be true" Chief stopped for a second as he heard about this 'solution' again. But he followed them willingly. As they got further down the levels of the silent cartographer he noticed something he hoped was a lie: The unmistakable sound of dripping blood. And to make matters worse it was green. The two Gridi'n were visibly alerted, and started to look cautiously around. As they got down to the deepest levels before they would have the map, they saw the floor littered with dead flood combat forms of a breed Chief had never seen before

Cortana mentioned: "Looks like these corpses are several years old... They must have died of hunger. The infected beings must be a race we have never encountered. No movement detected, i guess we're safe"

They reached the final room containing the silent cartographer... Just as they activated it Chief's movement sensors went berserk, and displayed 'ERROR-01: SYSTEM OVERLOAD"wich basically meant there was too much movement for the sensor to function. Chief yelled to the Gridi'n guards: "Brace yourselfes, they're coming in from all angles!" Jaargu finished his search of the map and downloaded the data into his databank, just as the first flood combat forms came down the hallway. Elceelar's weapon shot off a steady beam like the ones from the sentinels, only much stronger. Jaargu's did the same. Chief activated his light and saw a massive number of floods advancing down the hall. "When i throw this thing" he showed them a grenade "run backwards and try to run towards the surface"

Elceelar answered him "Yes, Laeite"

He pulled the split and let it fly. Jaargu and Elceelar made a break for it the back way. Chief pulled out his M6D-T pistol and fired at the oncoming combat forms. The .58 HE ammunition sure did it's work. Each shot ripped a leg, an arm or even the head off the monstrous beings. After shooting off 3 shots the grenade exploded... Some of the rear combat forms flew over his head. Along with them came their equipment. An MA3A assault rifle and 2 frag grenades... Chief catched one of the frags, and threw it at them agin. A second blow crippled their number, but more just kept coming. He started backing out, just as Elceelar called for him "Hurry Laeite! You cannot stop them!" They all ran back towards the surface. As they got to the 2nd basement floor, Chief noticed the corpses of flood were not intact; someone had been eating them.

Cortana was surprised: "Looks like they actually eat their own in order to survive longer... My god they are beginning to become smart"

As the 3 soldiers got out of the installation, they quickly boarded their fighter and took off the moment the first flood came out. "That went well" Chief said in an ironic voice. They stared at him, not believing their ears

"You think this went well?!?" Jaargu said in surprise

Then Master Chief realized these creatures didn't know what irony was... It didn't exist in their society. After a little explanation they understood him, and then he asked where they were going now.

"To the research facilities, part-... Oh that expression doesn't exist in human language... It is what you would call 1-A or something like that"

As time went by, Chief began to think; This installation was obviously swarming with floods... And the MA3A assault rifle and the 2 frag grenades meant humans had to have been here earlier... An Orion class cruiser was once lost in this part of space... No one ever heard from it again, but it was at the same time as the battle with the covenant began, so no search team was sent.


They arrived in a desert where a single, gigantic, building rised from the sands. They landed on top of it, and got inside. There was no dripping blood and no flood corpses. Elceelar began to talk: "Jel'a kle anoriae... Sa gâere"

Jaargu replied in a reliefed voice: "Sa gâere amiisé... Marl kle duranoi veni'erae kleari Laeite, Korrhra"

" rsai, Kle venial furo Udnaiaroium Korrhra farn... jen'orro" Elceelar answered

They went deeper down the structure. "Where are we going?" Chief asked.

Elceelar answered him without turning his head: "We are taking you to Udnaiaroium... The sacred place of change"

Chief understood none of it but pretended he knew what it was. As they walked deeper down, there was a locked door. Elceelar took a small tube, the size of a pencil, and inserted it into the door's control panel. The door opened, and that was when Chief finally realized how great understanding these beings had of the Halos. They were in a room several times the size of the control room on 04... Along the edge was many numbers and symbols, as well as a number of projectors. In the center was a large white box. It was big enough for Master Chief to stand 4 times his height in it.

"This is where the prophecy comes true, Korrhra. This is where the silver skin and swords of Korrhrania is kept. Please, continue into the box ahead of you. We will do the rest."

Master Chief had a vague idea that he was being given a new 'skin'... A new suit. He walked into the box and stood still in the center of it. Then came the same feeling as when he got his new MK-VI... Neural implants were torn out, replaced by new ones. The armor was stripped from his body. And instead, he got a new one...

A couple of minutes went by, and the the 2 Gridi'n controlled he was okay. They opened the box and saw Master Chief. His armor was now in a strong silver colour, and reflected the surruondings in it's unspoiled and clean surface, his visor was black. On his back were two swords: 'Purifying Flame' and 'Truth's Avenger', they were both shining with an internal white light but they generally looked like his new armor. He stood up. Dropping his human weapons. And he felt as he could sense everything around him, the size of the room, the two Gridi'n guards looking at him and a little something closing in on him. Then he heard an all too familiar voice: "Aahh, reclaimer. So you have sought out the divinity of Korrhra? Why did you do that? I seriously don't believe that a creature as ignorant as you can be the Korrhra... It is really a time when i have to do everything myself. Please, do not resist me"

He could feel him right behind his head. He could feel as he tried to hack Cortana as well as his suit. He could feel his anger grow from his very bones. In a single motion he turned around, took out 'Purifying Flame' and drove it straight through 343 Guilty Spark. A strange electronic sound could be heard as 343 fell to the floor in 2 pieces. Chief looked at his sword... What the destruction of the 'Pillar Of Autumn' couldn't do, he had just done effortlessly. But then the voice spoke again; no, reclaimer... You cannot defeat me that easily. I will make sure the prophecy is fulfilled in the manner it is supposed to be, surrender or take the consequences"

Cortana worked even better in the new suits advanced hardware: "We need to get out, he is trying to hack the suit... I don't know how long i can keep my defence up"

He yelled to Elceelar and Jaargu: "Get out! Get out! He is trying to destroy us!"

They looked confused at him but they followed him as he ran towards the exit. Elceelar was carrying Chief's old MK-VI armor in a gravity dispersing case. As they ran, his head began to hurt like when Ji'Shuu hacked his brain... He kneeled, but Jaargu took his right arm and helped him forward. Chief quickly woke up from his pain and kept running. As they reached their ship they saw a very dark cloud arise from the mountains a couple of miles away. He could already feel the thousands of sentinels these clouds consisted of. 343 couldn't hack him when he was outside so now he was safe, because the fighters could easily outrun the sentinels... Or at least so he thought. As they took off, the cloud began to move faster than before. Elceelar shouted to Chief and Jaargu: "Get into the other control pods, i will get the left. Korrhra, take the middle one!" The main room in the fighter was a long and narrow one, with only 2 strong doors at either side. Elceelar and Jaargu headed through either. Master Chief positioned himself in the control seat, and felt the fighter seperate into 3 smaller fighters. They all turned around, and engaged the sentinels.

The weaponry of these fighter was nothing short of impressive, the 2 front guns fired high speed plasma beams, wich exploded on impact. It wasn't as big an explotion as a fuel rod gun, but the secondary weapon was even more powerfull than such a weapon; it was an advanced shockwave cannon. By overloading the air in the highly reinforced barrel with neutrons and electrons, the air would eventually collapse and send all it's parts into the next line of molecules. Thus, a chainreaction started. The process fueled by the free neutrons and electrons behind the shockwave, the range was approximately 1 kilometer, and had the power of a grenade at 650meters. 200 meters from the first sentinels Chief fired that cannon, he watched as a wave of destruction went through the sentinels, taking out at least 1000 of them. The other 2, smaller, fighters only had their primary weapon, but were more maneuverable.

They broke the formation in an attempt to flank the sentinels. The sentinels began to shoot after Chief's craft, but he was so fast they missed and hit other sentinels, on the other side of the hole he was plowing through them. Then the 2 smaller fighters turned and let off at least 15 shots with both guns before they broke off to make another run. Only half-way through the cloud of sentinels, Chief fired the shockwave cannon again. A cone of total destruction emitted from the fighter as air was pushed forward with a shock exceeding 100 grenades near the muzzle. But now this made a large "hall" in the cloud... With longer distance between Chief's ship and the sentinels more of their fire hit him. The EDD (Equally Distributing Damage) system of the fighter warned him that hull was down to 68%.

Elceelar radioed: "We can't win this battle, break of while we cover you Laeite!"

"Will do" Cortana answered

Luckily, the sentinels couldn't fly more than 4 kilometers above the ring's surface so they were soon out of their range. The ship connected again, and the 2 smaller fighters had only been hit a few times, wich made the EDD system even the damage so all the fighters got to 89% hull integrity.

"Where are we headed now, Elceelar?" Chief was still regaining full strength after the hacking from 343

"Back to your homeplanet... We have a lot to do before the prophecy of Korrhra is finally complete. Get some rest you will need it"

Master Chief sat on one of the seats and started to sleep. Eccoes of the suit's past experiences went through his head. He saw a big city, with spiralling rivers running through the streets... Impossibly clean. He then witnessed a line of smoke and fire coming down towards the city, and then the city vaporized into a puddle of molten stone and boiling water. He was on the top of a mountain now, looking at a man standing besides him; he talked. "Welcome Korrhra, we have waited for your coming..."

By: Shadowrunner
"My name may be Shadow... But i'm far deadlier than such a thing"

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