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Prologue: Boot
Planet Brime
November 22nd (Earth Time) 2543
As a fall back Military Base, Brime is run by a Lieutenant Colonel who goes by the name of James Mendoza. He is brother of one of his stationed soldiers Gabriel Mendoza, who he himself considers a freak. His brother is a man assigned to the platoon with the highest death rate in the entire UNSC Military that everyone calls; 'Ghosts' because they figure that everyone in that platoon is already dead. Formally it is Third Platoon, Gamma Company, 5th Battalion.
The newest 'Ghost' who was Gabriel Mendoza stared at himself in the mirror, he had a genetic defect that caused his hair to go completely white and his irises were naturally a bright Silver that seemed to glitter in the sun like diamonds. He seemed to be hypnotised by his own eyes as he stared into them, his hands placed on either side of the sink and his face had small clear droplets dripping from his chin and the tip of his nose.
He squinted his eyes and let a single tear fall, he had just finished cryo sleep and the first thing that came to him was the pain of his mother screaming in his face about his decision to join the marines. She had begged for them to place him where his older brother was who pretty much hated Gabriel in his own personal opinion. Always on his case and telling him that he was doing something wrong or terribly.
He smiled somberly as he locked his emotions away and exited the small restroom in his dorm, taking a towel and drying his face off with it. He sat down quickly on his cot and slumped against the wall of the small metal room.
He still had three days until they arrived at Brime, that was an exceedingly long time but he asked for his tube to be set three days before they arrived.
Ghost closed his eyes for what he thought to be a few moments, but when he opened them again he saw a blurry figure standing in the doorway. "-y uhm... is this the right place?" A very feminine voice asked him and he sat up immediately.
"If you are staying in Dorm D-47... then yes." He said to her, forcing a smile on his face as he looked at her facial features.
She had green eyes, auburn hair, and looked... interesting; to him atleast. She had colour in her hair, that was different... she looked cuter than most girls.
"Yes. Thats where I'm staying." She said and sat down at the cot on the other side of the small and enclosed room that was his dorm, he had a small kitchen for cooking and a shower for getting cleaned up.
"So, what made you get out of cryo three days early?" He asked her out of curiosity.
"Less disorientation." She said, "You?" she asked him after a moment.
"I thought the same, I was hoping I'd feel less..."
"-blam!-?"
"You could say that."
"Yeah." She said and brushed a stray strand of hair from her eyes and looked back at Gabriel.
"Why did you dye your hair white?" She asked him.
Gabriel blinked a few times, confused slightly but he placed a hand on the top of his head and felt of his white hair. "I was born like this." He said to her after a moment of thinking and looked like he had answered that question alot.
She nodded. "Oh, sorry if I offended you." She half-mumbled and looked at him. "How long have you been in the corps?"
"I just enlisted, you?" He answered and then asked quietly, feeling slightly embarrassed.
"Had this Job for about a year, I'm a corpsman, being transferred to Brime for leave." She said, smiling slightly as he showed some interest in her.
"Cool." He said and grinned. "I'll see you on the ground."
She smiled and nodded. "I'm going to catch some sleep. I was frozen before I could get any, so technically I was already up for the day." She said and slowly laid down.
"Alright. Same." He said and fell asleep, most likely more quickly than her.
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Gabriel awoke to the smell of bacon and a speck of hot grease hitting him on the face. He sat up with extraordinary immediateness and rose from the sad-little cot of his in a single fluid motion, he saw her, cooking food and he stood at ease.
"Morning roomy." She said to him and Gabriel simply blinked.
"I never got your name." He said to her blinking as he held out his hand.
"Julienne, everyone calls me Jewels though." She said and shook his hand.
"Gabriel, Gabriel Mendoza." He said and introduced himself finally.
"Nice to meet you. You hungry?" She asked and gestured to the cooking Bacon and scrambled eggs.
"I just realized how hungry I am." He said to her and stared at the food, something was gnawing at him to unleash some sort of beast, ready to devour all of its food.
"Good... it will be done soon." He said to her.
After a few moments, he was given a plate of food to devour, and devour he did, they made simple conversation getting to know one another better and a little more. One could say that they were beginning to become friends.
The food he ate tasted absolutely delicious in all honesty and sense of the word, or so his thoughts said.
That was nearly half-an-hour ago and he could still taste it...
For a few moments Gabriel was lost in thought. He thought about his mother, how she screwed him over so badly that he was an anti-social bastard with close to no friends at all.
He continued to stay lost in his thoughts... wondering curiously, about his... crush - his thoughts were cut off abruptly as he began to think about bootcamp and where he was going. He teared up slightly as he stood in the restroom, staring at the mirror over the small sink.
[Edited on 08.05.2011 6:21 PM PDT]