Halo: Shield World

This short-story takes place in between the events of Halo Wars and Halo:CE

A worthy opponent
A rocket flown right pass the Elite head. He stared at the human firing and engaged active camouflage. The human- unaware of the location of his enemy- started to walk back. He heard footsteps, but not his own; he started to panic. Running away, the human dropped his Rocket Launcher. He ran across the hallways until... he reached a dead end. He fell to his knees. He started to rise into the air, he knew the Elite had found him. The Elite silently spoke to him, "And now, you die!"

He started to talk to himself, "No, no, no, no, no, no,". The Elite activated his energy sword and stabbed him in the stomach. Screeching, the human chocked, "No!". The Elite dropped his body, leaving him to die. Two other Elites came out of camouflage, after witnessing the victory.

"Very good, my brother. You'll have to tell me, did he soil himself?" An elite told him. The Elites beside the original started laughing. One elite was dragging the body with him.

The Elites entered a room- open and wide. In the middle, stood a projector. Other Elite Honour Guards circled the center. The grunts stood infront of them. Another Elite stood there, in his new Arbiter armour. He stared at the three entering the room. "Is the package here?"

"Yes, Arbiter. The 'package' is here," the Elite replied.

"Grab his hand and place it on that pedestal," the Arbiter ordered.

The Elite carrying the body grabbed his hand, dragging it across the floor. Lifting his hand, the Elite pushed it onto the pedestal. A small mist appeared above it. Suddenly, a hologram appeared above, showing the stars and the planets. The Elite dropped it's human corpse. The Arbiter approached it, "Magnificent." A Grunt coordinator came over to the pedestal and typed in the coordinates the Covenant wanted. After he was done, the hologram zoomed through space, uncovering another Shield World. "We must set course for the Shield world. The land of the ancients must recovered," the Arbiter bellowed. All the Covenant in the room left, the hologram was still active. Professer Anders entered the room, staring at the hologram.

"Perfect."

We go at Dawn...
High Charity was near the Elite homeworld, Sang'helios, as the Arbiter and his army prepared to travel through space. "Prepare for departure," the Arbiter called. The Army entered their Seraph fighters while the Fleet master and his crew entered the Covenant Fleet. The Arbiter entered the fleet. In a few minutes, the ships started to rise into the air. Flying away from the city, the fleet remained. A notable prophet individual entered the fleet. He was known as the Minister of Exploration. The Fleet exited the area. High Charity became further into the distance. Space was colourful with asteroids and planets. The fleet approached the Shield World. It looked volcanic. The crew decided on how to land. "Don't be cowards you fools. It may be just a little bit hot but that does not mean it is unlandable," the Arbiter called. The Arbiter looked down, it only looked volcanic on a tiny area of the planet.

Then we find out...
The Fleet and the Seraphs started to fly towards the planet. The fleet began to burn as it passed the protective layer which could take a fire from a Halo array (They didn't know that... yet). Eventually, the Fleet was hovering in the atmosphere, it was infact green and bursting with life. A few grunts walked past a telescope. Taking a look, the Grunt descovered something terrible. ODST drop pods were inside the forest. It jumped off the telscope and ran towards the Prophet. "Leader. Me see human thingy."

"What, this can not be!" he replied.

The Prophet paced his way to the telescope, he seen the pod. He acitvated his radio chat with the Arbiter, "Arbiter, the humans are on this planet. They must of somehow descovered our plans." The Arbiter became frustrated with rage. He lifted his hand and punched it on the table, shattering it's glass. A glass shard hit a Grunt's methane tank, bursting it. It started to crawl around suffocating. Two Elites came into the room and carried the Grunt to the onboard hospital.

"Slothful runt," the Arbiter muttered.

The Prophet was still looking in the telescope. He spotted something disturbing; the entire army was inside the shield world.

We were inside the Shield World
The Army started to depart from the fleet and the Seraph pilots exited- carrying their jet packs. The Vehicles were driven to the Gravity Lift. The army began to spread across the shield world and established bases and buildings. Several 'domes of light' were activated to control an area on the planet. Elites in active camouflage searched the forest for human forces.