- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The beast in question, I'm sure, is going to be a larger Flood form. Bungie has already said that the Flood will make a return, and if there are to be new human NPCs (ODSTs) and new covie baddies (prophets, brutes), wouldn't it make sense that there would be new Flood forms as well?
If you read the Vang series, by Christopher Rowley, the inspiration for Halo, you'll see that the Flood aren't merely a parasitic species, they are parasites on the lower drone levels, but higher up they have their own physiology. Granted they spawn from host bodies like the Keyes blob on 'Keyes', but I assure you, there will be new Flood types in Halo2.