The group looked around and surveyed the carnage. Luck was on their side it seemed. The sentinels had done a remarkably good job of killing the Covenant attackers. They wondered though, were the sentinels defending the humans? Or had a stray plasma shot hit one and they were defending themselves? There were certainly some destroyed sentinels littering the floor.
“Let’s do a headcount. Check if everyone else is alright” a gruff voice suggested.
They checked out, apart from a few wounds here and there, they were still intact.
“I must say, we have been lucky so far. That’s twice we have been caught off guard. I honestly wasn’t expecting us to fair so well... Wait a second,Ii think we are missing someone. Wasn’t there another person earlier?”
“You’re right !” Another man piped up, “Wasn’t there that quiet guy, who’s suit never looked quite right? What happened to him?”
“Spread out, we need to find out.”
The group fanned out, searching the bodies for signs. They couldn’t see anything, except for some striking red blood, dripping out of the entrance the covenant had used.
“Quickly!” someone cried, “They must have taken him for interrogation! Let’s follow while they are on the retreat!”
They started tracing the trail of blood, and it soon became clear that the blood drops were getting closer together, almost as if the bleeder were slowling down. They rounded a corner, and lo and behold they saw the man collapsed against a wall. The distinguished mark of an energy sword providing the reason for his death. The gruff man bent down turn him over, to see who he was. He immediately jumped back reaching for his assault rifle, for it was not a man’s face that faced him, but that of the Prophet of Truth, very much dead.
“But... Why?!” he spoke out, “why would an elite kill the prophet?”
“Maybe they realised his lies about the great journey?” someone responded helpfully.
“Maybe....” he was interrupted by the sound of plasma fire in the distance. “But I guess it’s not over yet”
Zero was Prophet of Truth, the mafia rolecop and conspiracy theorist.
Night 3 begins.