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Spartan 118, Part 1 Chapter 1

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I don't remember much of my childhood before I became what I am. But I remember that day; I remember the day that they took me from my home in Alpha City on Planet Mystic. My Mother and I were spending that day together in one of the many cell-block gardens that Alpha City had. The air had the sweet smell of a nice spring mid afternoon day; you could smell all the different flower scents that were carried on the wind, or the smell of sweet freshly dewed grass. You could listen to all the birds and animals that lived around the gardens, I always loved to spend time here with my Mother playing and laughing like a normal child. I wanted to explore, so I slipped away from my Mother's sight...till this day I don't know whether to regret that mistake or to be thankful for it...On my 'adventure' I came to a large leafy evergreen bush, I crawled underneath it and to my surprise I came to a medium sized circle that was made up of evergreen bushes and all kinds of tall trees, in the circle of trees and bushes was a small pond and in the center of it was a water fountain. Water fountains had always fascinated me even as a small child. I got as close to the water's edge and watched the water flow through the fantastic machine. Hours had passed and afternoon had turned to dusk, planet Mystic's sun (Apollo) was setting and its three moons were rising (largest moon Tor, 2nd largest Kar, smallest moon Lera). By now I was on my stomach and propped my head up on my elbows, I had drifted off into sleep while watching the fountain in the distance. I remember I awoke to a noise in the bushes. Being a child I was a bit frightened but also bold. I stood my ground to face whatever might show itself.

I waited, the night was fast approaching and the shadows of the trees and bushes yawned out from their daytime sleep turning the comforting little meadow with the pond in the middle as black as oil. I could hear whatever was near, knocking branches away in the bushy overgrowth. It felt unnerving as the noise came closer to me; I then saw a shadowy human silhouette standing tall over the black bushes I squinted in the darkness for a better look, but the shadow just darted back into the blackness of the bushes. I waited again and listened, this time I caught a silhouette out of my peripheral vision so I turned to it. This one seemed different, this one was shorter than the first one I had seen; it also looked like it had a short medium haircut. I approached it curiously but it too had darted back into the dark bushes. I was a little confused and frightened, but most of all curious. I was turning my head back and forth looking for these shadow people now. Finally I heard whispering which seemed to be coming from all around me in the little meadow. At first I couldn't hear what it was saying, so I moved closer to the edge of the bush line, I listened and heard a few words spoken.

"Is he 'the one'?" asked a deep and gruff male voice.

"I don't know, we'll have to test him." answered a calm serious female voice.

Startled I backed away from the bushes and readied myself for whatever this "test" was. It grew quite around the circular meadow; there was a light breeze that blew by ruffling the trees and bushes like bird's feathers around me. Then the larger silhouette stepped out from the overgrowth's edge, it stepped forward with large heavy boots from the sound it made when it moved. A cloud that had been covering the largest of the moons Tor, slowly begun to move out of the way, letting the light from Tor slowly illuminate the meadow. Tor's light was just bright enough for me to make out features of the lightly shadowed silhouetted figure. It was a tall and bulky man, he was wearing a black suit and tie, his eyes were concealed behind thin black glasses, this man had no hair he was bald the only place he had hair was a small upside-down triangular goatee. We stood there for it seemed like ages, a light breeze blew over the meadow again, it seemed so fragile and gentle as it wrapped around our bodies. Then suddenly the man bolted for me, at first I froze from fear thinking "he's so fast", that cost me greatly for the man grabbed me in a choke hold. I struggled and tried to fight my way out of his strong grip, it was no use, so instead I used my teeth that shaped just like a Saber Ligelf's magnificently sharp saber-fangs. I bit down hard on the man's arms that were around my neck, he reacted with a loud scream.

"AAAAAH! You little brat!" he screamed as he grabbed me by the scuff of my shirt and threw me down hard to the cool grass. "You're going to pay for that!" he shouted as he began to beat me.

"Butcher! That's enough!" yelled a strong female voice. Out of the shadows stepped a woman. She seemed to be in her early thirties; this woman had light brownish-blonde hair that came midway down her neck, she stunning blue eyes that were ringed with an emerald green around her pupils. "I think he's proven himself enough." she said calmly while looking down on me.

"Humph, fine he's your hands...for now." grubbed the bulky man known now as 'Butcher'. "Do what you want with him, I'm done..." said Butcher as he started to storm away.

"Butcher..." said the woman calmly "...I need you to carry him."

Butcher stopped and let out a long sigh that made his shoulder's bob up and down. He turned and walked back towards the woman, each step he took seemed to thunder like a small quake or tremor in a planet's crust. "Fine...but you owe me woman..." he said in an annoyed voice as he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder.

I remember after that I watched the ground pass beneath me is this brute (which I will meet the real ones later on in life) carried my almost seamlessly lifeless body. I heard an aircraft's engines in the distance, they got louder as the woman and Butcher walked toward it. What I didn't know what the aircraft was at the time it was a Pelican, but I would find that out much later. The woman stepped on the Pelican's dropdown door platform, then Butcher along with me on his shoulder followed. After that I remember I blanked out unconscious. Everything faded to black as I closed my eyes; I didn't know or even remember what happened after that or even what happened to me.
Well here it is. Chapter 1 of Part 1.

Enjoy and please comment. Thank you :D

Prologue: [link]
Chapter 2: [link]
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Lawenforcer96's avatar
Freakin' crazies. They kidnap kids for the freakin' program.