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The Halo of the Hero

Chapter 1 The Forerunner

In the beginning, silence, darkness. Then something happened, there is light, light from a single young sun, the first of many yet to come. The sun was the first thing in the entire universe, the first of creation.

Only moments after the first sun was born, something else was born on a small, bleak and dark planet orbiting the sun, the Forerunner.

The Forerunner, after only a few eons began to explore the galaxy, in hope of finding life somewhere else, so they could share their knowledge and culture. They explored a galaxy, then another one, then another one, and so it continued.

After many thousand years and after exploring the entire universe, they found to their sorrow they were all alone. By this time the entire Forerunner race was involved in the searching for another life form.

 Putting all their hope in their scientists who where working on theories about different dimensions, in hopes of getting new places to continue their search. After finding proof of the existent of other dimensions, they began to build the Gateways, gigantic constructs which enabled the Forerunner to travel between them. They worked as doors in the walls which separated the different realities.

 By now the Forerunners had accumulated a huge amount of knowledge on all forms of science, there wasn't any limit, with what they could to with their technology. They learned to control the ethereal and elemental energies around them, and also learned to use their own energies, ki, chi and psi, the energies of the body, spirit and mind(1). Because of this, they had godlike powers, and thanks to geneticall engineering they where basically immortal.

Travelling and searching the entire multiverse, they soon found that not only where their dimension the only one with any form of life, but also the only one which consisted of materia, all the others where just a black void.

The Forerunner went into despair, what where the meaning of their existence, if not to find and exchange knowledge with other species. Where their creation just an isolated freak event? What should they do now, they had dedicated their lives to find life, but they found nothing, not even bacteria.

Then they knew, they shouldn't find life, they should create it. Taking small samples of their own DNA, they broke it down to a basic enzyme and then planted it on different worlds. Then they began to monitor the evolution of the different life forms.

With their technology the where able to create entire galaxies in the dimensions lacking such. Planting the seeds of the future in most of the dimensions.

The observed and waited, never interfering with the life of their children. Fore millions of years they kept an eye on their children, but soon they began to take onboard small samples on their ships to scan and examine them more closely.

One of those samples, a basic parasite, came in contact with a blood sample of the Forerunner. It quickly mutated and altered to an extremely dangerous virus. It infected the entire crew of the ship and then slowly but surely began to infest many different worlds which was populated with other of the Forunners children. The Forerunners, after trying to stop the Flood, as it now was know as, in a great war, failed, as a last solution they began to build the Halos, weapons of mass destruction. They also began to work on a genetically enhanced forerunner that was immune against the Flood virus, the Reclaimers.

The plan was to build the Halos and then leave this dimension trough one of the Gateways, there they would be safe against the Halos weapons. Then they should let the Reclaimers activate the 10 Halos spread across the universe.

Every Halo had a small group of AIs called Guilty Sparks, a big number of robots responsible for building the Halo called Sentinels, and one Forerunner, that would be the Reclaimer once injected whit the Reclaimer serum.

When the Reclaimer serum was finished one vial of the serum was sent to each Halo. Nine of the ten transports made it. The ship caring the vial to installation 04 never made it because a group of flood attacked 04 before the ship could arrive there. The Flood killed the chosen Reclaimer and fired the Halo. The other nine installations followed suit and fired of their Halos. Because of the attack on 04 and its early firing, the colony ships with the Forerunners never made it through the Gateways. All Reclaimers died because they didn't get into the protection chambers due to the early firing. On 04 the Flood had managed to get into the safety of the protection chambers, where the Guilty Sparks where able to seal them in. One of the Guilty Sparks, 343 Guilty Spark to be exact, went renegade after the death of the Reclaimer and destroyed the other Guilty Sparks.

The ship carrying the fourth vial of the Reclaimer serum, due to the loss of the crew(2), crashed on a remote planet on the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy.

All life was destroyed, or was it?

On a very few planets, deep within their crusts, simple, small and basic bacteria managed to survive the blast.

The small flame of life wasn't yet extinguished, and given time would grow into a roaring fire.

In the other dimensions, the Foreruners children newer knew the Forerunner, the Firstborn, the Builders, the Creators of life, even existed, and didn't know or care of their tragic ending.    

Billions of years later the humans began to walk in the Forerunners footsteps, as they began to reach for the stars. The small imperium of mankind was born.

Authors Notes

(1)Ki is the energy that the body creates. All living things have ki. If someone uses all his/her ki then they die, because a body needs ki to survive. Using ki makes a person tired and they only have a limited supply of it. It is the most basic form of energy manipulation. Often used by skilled fighters and healers.

Chi is the energy that the soul creates, basically it is the soul and if someone uses all of his/her chi they die because the soul has left the body. Using chi doesn't tire the body but chi has a very limited supply. It is harder to learn to use chi than ki. Most living things have chi. Used mostly by advanced fighters, and healers.   

Psi is the energy of the mind and is unlike the other sources of energy unlimited. Using psi makes the body tired. If someone uses too much psi then they die of exhaustion. Only very few species on the entire universe has psi, and even fewer can use it. Used mostly by telepaths, psychics and psionics.

Ethereal, is the energy that magic consists of. More common then ki, chi and psi. It is unlimited, but just like psi, it tires the body. Most things have a connection to the ethereal streams. Used by mages, wizard, and witches.

Elemental, is like magic energy form that doesn't come from the users body. It is not common as magic or ki, but more common than chi and psi. It is unlimited, but just like psi and ethereal, it tires the body .It is the life-force of the universe, basically the universes own ki. Used mostly by extremely advanced fighter/mages.

These fives are the five basic energies that exist in the universe. There are more, but they consist of only bits and pieces of one of the five energies. Some species may have melted together small parts of 2 or more energies and are then usually more powerful than others, but they are extremely rare. Most species have at least a few that's able to use one of the energies but no one have even been near to use one energy at 100% percent like the Forerunner could. The knowledge to do so disappeared with the Forunner.

(2). The reason why the crew dies and the ship still is intact is because of the weapon Halo uses. It fires some kind of radioactive pulse that kills all organic material but doesn't do any harm to anything else. The lead in some of the planets crusts dampens the effect and might make it possible fore bacteria to survive. That and the fact that i am the author of this story.

-Well that went well, expect at least a week between every chapter. Ranma will appear I the 4 or 5 chapter.

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