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Posted by: Hackzz
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Posted by: 7S McLovin
Weird I found this in the .svg
Apathy..Is..A..Jew.
Alright, so here's the deal. I'm not a novel writer, I've never really written anything like this in my life. I did horrible in English class and my creativity is usually expressed through music and photography, not literature. However, I've had the bones of this story lodged in my mind for far too long, I've got to do something with it.
The novel itself describes the events as told by an ODST, a SPARTAN-I, and a forerunner that date back to decades before Eric Nylund's The Fall of Reach. If you haven't already, I recommend reading FoR not only because it is an AMAZING novel but because it will make my fanfic much easier to read.
As of now, I have the prologue finished. I just started yesterday though. There's not enough room here, so I hope ya don't mind if I link.
www(d0t)mediafire(d0t)com/download.php?dzxvfmmwexu
The password is "Goat-Rope". Got it from a captcha.
My friends actually all say that they like it a lot so far and can't wait until the next part! =D
I did get bad feedback on Sapphira's battle with the flood in the alleyway near the end and I planned on completely rewriting that part.
I just came to this particular board for the first time, straying rather far away from my comfort zone in the Halo 3 forums. I started by reading a few of the other fanfics and am greatly impressed! I'm hoping for some honest opinions from the experienced writers here.
Another thing, the title of the fanfic itself is not final. I don't even like it. If anyone has any better ideas, please let me know!
If anyone takes a liking to it, they can track my releases at www(d0t)mediafire(dot)com/HaloTLF. Message me on here to get the new passwords. (I do passwords to build up suspense ;) )
Also, I use PDF files for universal access and a small amount of protection for my works, but if you are unable to render PDFs I can always privately upload HTML or TXT files in ANSI, Unicode, or UTF-8 as requested.
Now, for as close to a preview as you can get, here's part of the prologue.
Prologue |
Sapphira was falling fast. The world around her was a gray, cloudy blur with air that seemed to rip straight through her, chilling every inch of her body. She looked at her feet and could see the ground approaching at supersonic speeds and knew that impact was inevitable. As she fell closer to the surface, she could faintly hear her father's voice, "promise me....promise me." As she hit the ground, the rock shattered around her and she rolled forward, using the momentum from the fall to get a running start and immediately ducked behind a large boulder just as a plasma bolt arced across the shoulder of her armor. Withdrawing her energy rifle, she peered around the edge of the rock and returned fire on the distant sniper with several of her own searing hot projectiles. She dove back behind the rock and took a moment to observe her surroundings. She recognized the landscape as the base of a large mountain on the outskirts of the city she called home most of her life. She had spent countless hours in combat training around this very mountain and knew every inch of the landscape, but for some reason every last detail seemed blurred. She blamed it on the weather and decided to try and get another shot at her attacker. She looked around the corner once more and was met with an eerie, uncomfortable silence. She could no longer see the dark outline of her opponent through the mist and did not receive any return fire. Carefully, she began to move around her cover, trying to locate the mysterious sniper. Concluding to take a back route in a flanking attempt, she toggles her active camouflage. The armor did not respond to her, so she assumed it had been damaged in the fall. As she turned back around to get behind her cover and plan her next move, she ran into a tall male figure, clad in armor like hers and wielding a sniper rifle.
"Jonah!" she breathed, relieved, "what are you doing out here? Were you shooting at me?"
Jonah had been the closest to a friend she had her whole life and had taught her everything she knew. She had trained at his side since the first time she pulled a trigger and they had not only been inseparable, but undefeatable since then.
But just as she got her last words out, Jonah began to fade into the mist around them, and soon the rest of the world followed. As the mist cleared, she was standing next to Jonah outside their home, watching the sky.
For some reason she found herself thinking about Jonah. She and Jonah had been selected as Mtangulizi warriors, the most elite division in the Septi army. Her father, Abraham, had been one of the most recognized faces in their war against the Mafuriko began several years ago. The Mafuriko are parasitic beings that were discovered on a planet far away from Sapphira's. The infection forms tear into their victim and release DNA-altering spores that turn their prey into combat forms. The combat forms are extremely powerful and immune to pain, making them a difficult opponent. For the first few years, the Septi army confronted and destroyed as many of these creatures as possible, but as the flood evolved the war gradually switched sides. Many of Sapphira's people began falling back, allowing entire worlds to be consumed to save themselves. Septi Uri is the home world or their entire civilization, and one of the last planets left in their control.
Now Sapphira stood on Septi Uri, listening to the alarms piercing the air around her and the gasps of horror coming from the crowd around her that she had just become aware of. She watching as an Mtangulizi Dreadnaught attack ship fell through the distant clouds in a ball of fire, leaving a trail of what could not be mistaken as the vile dust left behind by the Mafuriko. Without a word, Sapphira and Jonah turned around and walked back into their home to armor up and prepare for the coming storm.
As Sapphira finished putting on her armor and strapped on her energy rifle, she walked down the hallway towards Jonah's room and realized that the mist was returning. She took off running, sensing that something was wrong and crashed through the doorway to Jonah's quarters and immediately fell through the ground into the cloudy abyss and the world around her disappeared.
It had been two weeks since the First Mafuriko ship fell on the planet, shortly followed by several more. The Septi army had poured all of its efforts into slowing the spread, but containment protocols were beginning to falter. The blood red glow on the horizon from the original impact site was getting brighter every day and Sapphira knew it was only a matter of time before she began fighting. She had spent her whole life training, preparing for this moment, and she knew she was ready.
But today was not her day to take on the Mafuriko. Her father had requested that she and Jonah meet him in his office for something he claimed was vital to the war. His office was on the edge of the Mafuriko-infested territory but was in a very secure building. Jonah had left earlier to get in on the action, but Sapphira's father would not allow her to leave.
As she stepped outside, she could feel the ground shaking beneath her feet as another carrier launched from the surface, carrying another group of civilians. The teleporter grid had been shut off near the impact site as dictated by containment protocols, so she stepped in and chose the location nearest to Jonah's rendezvous point.
Sapphira stepped out into the uncomfortably thick air. She checked her armor's heads-up display, which showed he was only half a kilometer from Jonah. She clicked her microphone on her and Jonah's private frequency to let him know she was good to go. He did not respond. She sprinted a short distance until she arrived at the alleyway in between her and the plaza she was to meet Jonah. The power in the few buildings was out. Whether the power grid had been damaged or if it had been purposefully shut off, she didn't know, so she proceeded with caution. With active camouflage enabled, she slowly edged into the alleyway. She got about halfway through when she heard it: the sound of something wounded staggering down the pitch-black corridor. She switched to thermal vision and could see three fully-developed combat forms patrolling the hallway in an ambush formation. She armed a grenade and sunk her hand down to the wrist in the first Mafuriko's soft exterior, which closely resembled weakened, rotting flesh. She dove away from the blast and as she rolled across the ground she lit her energy saber, which cast an eerie glow that illuminated her and the second attacker. Without missing a beat, she delivered three quick swipes that left the second creature in harmless, lifeless pieces. She looked up from her destruction at the third Mafuriko, which was nowhere to be seen. She looked up to the ceiling in time to barely see it jump from the wall it had attached itself to and hit the saber out of her hand. As it flew out of her hand and its glow illuminated the creature, she saw outline of a few pieces of Mtangulizi armor still attached to the horribly disfigured body. She tried to jump back but the creature's larger arm found its mark on the side of her head and she went flying head-first into a wall. She rolled out of the way again, this time successfully getting behind the fallen Mtangulizi. Wasting no time, she got it in a choke hold with her left arm, and as her armor delivered a magnetic pulse strong enough to down the parasite she pulled out her energy rifle and shot off its larger arm at the shoulder. She swiftly shattered its backbone and threw it to the ground incapacitated. As she went to download the armor's data, as was required for all Mtangulizi that were killed in action, she saw the most horrible sight of her life. She saw Jonah's eyes looking back at her, and as she watched in horror his lips made the words, "Kill me. Kill me.
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[Edited on 06.15.2010 10:07 AM PDT]