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Yeah, I got bored so now I'm going to try to juggle two fanfics. I hope this one is good...
Here are the links to the chapters.
1. Assignment
2. New Friends
1. Assignment
My name is Floats Higher Than Most. I am a huragok, an engineer. My race was created by the forerunners, an ancient and great species. Our creators our now long gone, and we are now slaves to madmen. I have been branded a heretic by so called Prophets that I have no faith in and I am currently fleeing my own brothers with a demon, a colony of sentient worms, and a construct. How has my life come to this?
The day I was drafted into the Covenant military forces is one I will never forget. My brothers and I were digging at a forerunner site at a previously human occupied world. The Covenant had destroyed the major population centers of the humans and glassed all but the forerunner sites. One ship was left on the planet for the forerunner artifacts we, the huragok, were finding for the pompous Prophets. Once we were done with the forerunner site, we would leave the planet, to most races of the Covenant a holy relic. Our ship would return to high charity with our findings and then be sent out again to recover more holy relics. Why did that carrier have to jump out of slip space? Why did I have to be taken for this ridiculous crusade?
As we worked, a bright flash filled the sky, and a Covenant carrier entered the planet's atmosphere. All of my brothers and all of the grunts securing the relics onto the transport phantoms looked up into the sky. Why was that weapon of destruction here?
My question was soon answered.
"This is ship master Trell Vahar'ee. We request huragok to be sent up for repairs and to inspect recovered human technology." The voice over the comms might as well have been my executioner. Huragok? My exact species. And my artificial mind had calculated that we the closest to the ship. Surely enough, a Sanghelli major garbed in shining crimson armor told eleven of us to follow him. I was one of the eleven. Why me?
The phantom we rode in had only one other occupant besides the major and the pilot: a mgalekgolo. This was strange. Mgalekgolo were always seen with their bond brothers; where was this ones?
I floated over to the armored colony of worms; I wanted to talk to him. But when I tried to communicate, I could only make gestures; my species could only speak in a confusing language none of the other species of the covenant could understand.
"What do you want?" the humongous armored form asked, seeming annoyed.
I tried to ask it a question, but he could not understand what my movements meant. Finally, after several minutes, I pointed at him with a tentacle, split another one of my tentacles into two, and cocked my head inquisivitely. The colony of worms realized what I meant and turned away.
"That is none of your concern," the mgalekgolo said, turning away. I swore that I heard sadness in his voice.
"We are here," the major said, jumping out of the now open phantom. Everyone else followed, including the pilot, who stood in front my brothers,me, and the mgalekgolo with the major.
"You five," he said, pointing to five of the huragok besides me,"go with the major to the engine room to repair it." The five obeyed and they followed the major into the interior of the ship. "As for the rest of you," the pilot said, gesturing at all of us,even the mgalekgolo, "follow me."
We were all taken into the detention center of the ship. Only one cell was in use. What was inside shocked me.
"Your job," the pilot said, pointing to the cell, "is to reverse engineer the armor on that."
Inside the cell was a demon.
[Edited on 04.01.2010 9:20 PM PDT]