Rated M for strong language, and some violence in later chapters.

Allison sat on the couch eager to play the game her and her half-sister, Vivian, had chosen to play. While she sat waiting, Vivian was setting up the recently returned Xbox Slim that had been recently returned from Microsoft for repair. Both girls looked back with their blue eyes as their other room mate descended the stairs behind them.

"Well, you lucky bitches. I'm off to work," Aislinn stated as she turned around the banister at the bottom of the stairs and headed toward the front door.

"And while you do that, Allison and I will be playing some good ol' Halo!" Vivian exclaimed as she finished setting up the Xbox 360 Slim.

"I'm glad we finally go the slim back," Aislinn called from the front door, "let me know how well it works now."

"Will do!" Vivian called out as she plopped down on the opposite end of the couch from Allison. The two sisters heard the door open and close as their friend left for work. Vivian looked to Allison, smirking, "ready to get your ass kicked?"

"Oh, you're the bitch goin' down, not me," she said as the Xbox was powered on. The two started a custom game for a one-on-one match of swat.

The round was on Pinnacle and they used mainly DMRs, with their secondary weapon being the golf club simply for Vivian's entertainment. The match lasted about ten minutes and was filled with evil laughter and cursing. The matched ended with Vivian being the victor with a 2-point lead, and Allison cussing her out.

"You camping bitch! I would have totally have pwned your ass if you didn't have the best spot in the game!" Allison shouted at Vivian, glaring at her.

"It's a legitimate strategy!" Vivian she shouted back with a smile.

"Alright Ms. Bitch Titties," Allison started.

"What did you just call me?" Vivian asked, more surprised than anything else.

"You heard what I called you. I'm gonna take you out in Infection!" she stated confidently.

"Oh, you're on you crack whore!" Vivian said as she went to matchmaking and selected the 'living dead' game type. It didn't take long to find other players, and in the first round of voting, the boardwalk map was selected. Vivian started out as a human, while Allison was a zombie.

"God dammit," Allison growled lowly as soon as she read the 'brainsssss…..' description of her Zombie Status. Vivian chuckled and ran down some stairs as soon as the match began. She found a decent hiding spot in a corner and crouched down in it. Being sure not to move and set off the zombies' motion trackers who she could see running above her.

After a few kills made by her team mates and zombies alike, she noticed a particular red dot moving down the stairs on her motion tracker. She aimed the shot gun near the stairs incase they turned in her direction, and as soon as she saw the sword wielding zombie, she made a quick dash toward it and fired, hitting the zombie perfectly for a one shot kill.

"SON OF A BITCH!" Allison suddenly shouted and Vivian burst out in a fit of laughter, realizing the zombie she had killed was her sister. Allison looked over at her glaring, "I'll get you for that!"

"Sure you will," Vivian said grinning. Vivian waited patiently, glad no other zombies had come after her. Then she saw Allison's gamer tag come around a corner, and her red armored zombie Spartan there. She watched with slight amusement as Allison's Spartan crouched and tried to hide behind a column. Vivian ran to her right, then around the other side of the columns. She laughed as Allison began jumping toward her previous spot in the corner, and then took her out with another round from her shotgun.

"Son of a-!" Allison exclaimed, fuming.

Vivian laughed, and then frowned in surprise when she heard the 'last man standing' from the matchmaking voice.

"Uh oh…." She said, and watched as a couple of zombies entered the room, she managed to take out one, and then she was killed, as more filtered in from the stairs.

"Oh well, at least I made it to last man standing," she said sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her head. They played a few more rounds of infection, some where Allison cursed as someone infected her and others where Vivian cursed as she couldn't find any of the few surviving humans as a zombie.

During the last round they played on Sword Base, Vivian grinned evilly as she saw Allison running in her direction. She ran up to her and slashed her plasma sword down on her fellow zombie, killing her.

"You backstabbing cockbite!" she shouted and she pointed at her from across the couch. Vivian responded with an evil chuckle then ran off to find those damn humans.

After that round, the two sisters decided to switch to an old fashioned game of 'team slayer'. They played for a few hours; those hours were filled with cursing, shouting, name calling, camping, and the occasional backstabbing. During one particular round, Allison tea-bagged Vivian's dead Spartan, getting a remote for the TV thrown at her.

Vivian sighed and went back to the main menu, "How 'bout some campaign before we go to bed for the night?"

Allison yawned, "Sounds good to me." Vivian selected the campaign option then stared at the TV in confusion as the screen went black.

"What the hell?" she said as she looked to the Xbox 360 Slim. "WHAT THE HELL!" she reiterated as she saw the Xbox Slim red ring, "We just had this thing fixed!"

"Turn it off and turn it back on," Allison suggested while sitting up on the couch.
Vivian let out an aggravated sigh and got off the couch and went to the Xbox. She did as Allison instructed, and was even more confused when the Xbox came back on.

"Blue? Why is it a blue ring? What the hell does that mean?" she asked, glaring down at it with her arms crossed over her chest.

"I don't fucking know! I didn't even know it could have a blue ring," Allison said as she looked at the Xbox, stumped.

Then the TV flashed a bright blue light, surprising both the girls.

"FUCK!" Allison shouted as she jumped over the back of the couch and hid behind it.

"What the hell!" Vivian exclaimed as she staggered around, trying to get her vision back. She bumped into something that felt like metal, and growled, "Allison that was a horrible prank to pull! Why did you…." Her eyes finally focused and she looked up to see what she had thought her sister had set up for her to run into blindly.

Her eyes widened with shock and disbelief when she saw the gold reflective visor on a blue commando helmet staring down from her. She shrieked and made a mad dash for the stairs leading to the basement. Vivian's foot slipped and within seconds she was falling down the stairs, a loud crash sounded as she smashed into some boxes of Christmas decorations.

Allison had watched her sister fall in fear, then decided to peak over the back of the couch to see what had cause her to make a wild escape. She tensed up and straightened her back when she saw six large Spartans staring at her with their reflective visors. She just stared back at them, not saying a word. She didn't look away until she heard the front door open and she looked over to see Aislinn walking in.

"Well, did you two have fun playing-" she stopped as she saw six large and armored figures in their living room. She stared in disbelief at the scene before her. Then she and the Spartans looked over to Allison as she spoke up.

"So, uh… what's up?" she asked, and the group still stood there, unsure of what exacting was going on. Then Aislinn turned to Allison and glared at her.

"What the fuck did you two do?" she asked, slightly annoyed, and slightly confused.

"I don't fucking know!" Allison exclaimed, and crouched lower behind the couch. Then a pained moan filtered up from the basement stairs, getting everyone's attention. Aislinn walked over to them and looked down the stairs.

"What the fuck are you doing?" she growled as she saw Vivian sprawled out on top of their Christmas decorations.

Vivian groaned, "I wanted to see if I could fly like a bird, so I jumped from the top of the stairs. Unfortunately I learned in mid-air that I can not in fact fly, and I made a crash landing. I thought the tree ornaments would make my landing all soft and cushy. But it turns out that glass is not cushy or soft."

"Well that may very well be," Allison started as she stood up from behind the couch and walked over to the stairs to look down at Vivian, "but we have the entire Noble Team in our god damned living room!" There was some grumbling heard and the rustling of broken glass as Vivian stood up and came back upstairs.

As soon as she got back up the stairs, everyone looked around at each other, not sure what to say and looking to see if someone had an answer to what had happened. Vivian rubbed the back of her head where she had smashed in to the boxes of Christmas ornaments and spoke up, "So, Umm….. What's up?"

The Spartans finally took off their helmets, with the exception of Emile. Carter looked over the three girls, "So who are you three?"

"Well, I'm Vivian Schreiber," Vivian said with a sheepish grin.

"Aislinn," Aislinn spoke, her arms crossed over her chest in annoyance.

"And that idiot over there is my half-sister, Allison," Vivian said before letting Allison introduce her self.

"Bitch," Allison said, crossing her arms over her chest with a huff.

"So, what happened?" Kat asked in annoyance. Vivian simply shrugged, not sure completely how the Spartans ended up in their house still.

"How would I know? I just got home from work?" Aislinn said and placed her hands on her hips.

"How the fuck should I know?" Allison questioned. Kat let out a growl of frustration and Carter took a step forward.

"Explain what Happened. Now," he demanded.

Allison threw her arms up in the air and walked into the kitchen, saying something about calling the Microsoft Customer Care line. Aislinn looked over to Vivian, not saying a word.

"Ah, well, I don't exactly understand it," Vivian started, "Allison and I were playing some multiplayer online on the Xbox, then after a few hours we decided to play some co-op campaign. When we selected Campaign, the Xbox shut itself off. I got up, turned it back on and it was flashing this Blue Ring, and I didn't know that it meant it was going to bring you all to life in my living room. So there was a bright blue flash, then bam, you're all here and I go falling down a set of stairs."

"Okay, so your gaming console-" Kat began, but was interrupted.

"Xbox," Vivian said.

"Xbox, Whatever," Kat said, then before she could continue the sound of a door opening and shutting came from the kitchen and the sound of running came in. A German Shepherd dashed into the living room and jumped up on Vivian, who smiled as the dog came running in.

"Hey Bentley!" she said sweetly and pet the dog. The dog landed back down on all fours and turned around, finally noticing the Spartans. He stared at them for a moment, ears perked up, but showing no aggression.

"Boo," Emile muttered and shifted his weight toward the dog. The dog responded by making a confused vocal sound and tilting his head.

Allison stormed into the room, angrier than from before she had left.

"What's wrong with you?" Aislinn asked, only slightly interested.

"The guy told me to call if we had a serious problem and to stop doing drugs! Asshole!" She said then growled and stormed up the stairs, and a door could be heard slamming shut.

"Screw it! I'm going to Bed too! Night!" Aislinn said, exasperated. She quickly went up the stairs and not long after that a door could be heard closing from upstairs.

Bentley, who had watched the two women storm up the stairs, looked up to his human, Vivian. She looked down at him and he let out a confused whine and tilted his head again.

"Boy, I'm just as confused as you are," she sighed and looked over to see the Spartan's looking back at her.

"Well, I guess we'll just have to figure it out tomorrow. Let me grab some extra blankets and pillows and we'll see where you all can sleep for the night," she said. She when down to the basement and after a couple of minutes returned to the main floor with a large plastic bin. "There should be plenty of Blankets in here, and I'm sure some pillows. You can also grab the pillows off the couches and the arm chair if you want," she said as she opened the lid to the bin.

After ripping them out of the plastic they had been put into for storage, she threw them on the couch for the Spartans to grab.

"For now, some of you are going to have to stay in here in the living room. However, rather than cramming yourselves in here, there is also a spare room that we haven't used for anything a few of you could sleep in. And Kat, if you prefer it, you can stay in my room on the floor on a spare air mattress I have in a box in my closet I usually use for camping. I'll got out and buy some air mattresses' or something similar for you all tomorrow to sleep on," Vivian explained.

She was slightly surprised when Kat accepted her offer and showed her where the air mattress was and where she could put it. And while Kat inflated the air mattress, Vivian showed the other Spartans the bonus room, with Bentley following her the entire time as she tried to get the Spartans settled down.

Vivian returned to her room and finished inflating the air mattress for Kat as she went and removed her armor in the large walk in closet, leaving on her black suit that was worn underneath on.

"I'll also have to remember to get you all some clothes to wear," Vivian said, mostly to herself.

"It would be greatly appreciated," Kat replied as she settled down on the air mattress. Vivian climbed into bed and checked on Bentley, who had already climbed up onto the foot of her bed to sleep.

"Well, good night," Vivian said, not sure if it would be rude or not to just go to sleep without saying anything.

"Night," Kat said groggily. Not long after, Vivian could hear the even breathing of both Kat and Bentley. She relaxed a bit and sighed, turning to her side and falling asleep not long after.

Written By: Phoenix Trenkamp

Note: Hey, Phoenix here, I'm just gonna give you all a bit of info.

Shadow Fayne is actually a writing group, myself and two other friends put together so that we could write stories together. This is the first story we have started right now, but we have a lot of stories lined up for you all to enjoy.

You may be wondering what 'BRS' stands for. It stands for "Blue Ring Series". So this is going to be the first story of a series of stories. We already have the next to stories lined up and how those will go down and what characters will be involved. Then we have I think three other games and one web series lined up to do.

We will also have other stories going on that won't be apart of the Blue Ring Series.

Anyway, if you have anymore questions let us know.

If you'd like to know more about myself and/or the other members, visit the Shadow Fayne Profile here on Fan Fiction . Net

See you all later when I write chapter four!