Chapter 3 Spare Bullets

Locust as soon as I got situated drove me to his house "gotta get better acquainted if you're gonna be serving the community" is what he told me, as soon as he said "we're here" I remove my helmet and exit the truck and follow him to his front porch, he opens the door and we both step inside "welcome back honey" his wife says while doing dishes "who's the new face?" she asks and I introduce myself and explain where I'm from and she nods in understanding "a long way from home it sounds" she says and I chuckle nodding, I remove my armor from my body suit and set it gently on the floor next to the living room couch where Locust said I could stay for the night, I lay down and begin to fall asleep staring at the ceiling, I saw that damn armor yet again, I quickly looked at the hilt at my feet and the walls in what looks like a sand-made crypt or tomb, the armor was gold but not chrome gold, the hilt looked ancient along with the walls of the crypt I'm in but is more aged than the crypt, I go to pick it up but it turns to dust and I wake up sweating and gasping for air. It's seven in the morning but nobody is awake yet, I get up and go out onto the porch to get some air, watching the sun rise as I process the dream "what does this all mean?" I questioned myself as I rubbed my eyes, it was abnormal that I experienced these dreams or visions I should say because before I landed I'd never experienced these visions about a sandy crypt and that hilt, such materials were foreign to me but looked advanced while also having the impression of being aged hundreds of years. While lost in thought i feel Locust exit the house through the front door to my right "your up early Hyde, too early" he says while yawning, as he does i notice he has a similar hilt hanging on his belt "whats that hilt for?" I asked as i turn to him, he looks at me and grabs it off his belt "its a weapon of great strength and power, made of some old materials and was used by an ancient but still standing order that spans across the land" he explains as he presses a button and a blade made of plasma shoots out of the emitter at 3 feet "how does one find this order you speak of" I ask and his eyes go a tiny bit wide in surprise and turns off the emitter and hangs his hilt back on his belt "would you like to find out?" He asks and i nod.

—2 hours later—

I chamber a round into my Rifle and i put on my helmet as me, Locust and the boss Titan load up into a transport plan called a Pelican, we sit down and the transport hatch closes and we fly to the tundra region called Helheim. an hour or two passes and Titan nudges me to get up and we all do "once we get inside stay close to me and you will be fine" he says while putting on his helmet and pressing the button to let us out, we drop down onto the snow and start walking into the large cave in the mountain, i started sensing a strange energy coming from the cave and i turn on my thermal visor optics and have my hand on my hip holster "no need for that Hyde this is a neutral place so best not disturb that" Titan says to me as we walk down into the cave, as we ventured further in the cave got brighter and before i knew it we were standing in a grand hall with an alter in the middle "a new face greets the hall" The masses cheer and i remove my helmet revealing my true face, all three of us go to the center podium where an elderly hooded man is standing, i shake his hand and step up to the podium where tons of hilt parts are scatter all across it "you know why you are here aren't you?" The hooded man asked and i nod, stating "i sense that I'm part of something bigger yet can't pinpoint what, i seek to understand this bigger thing I'm part of if you allow me" the hooded man nodded and picked at the pieces with a stick and only keeping certain ones together, everyone in the grand hall watched as he did this for a short bit and then suddenly "it is complete" the hooded man said "what is complete?" I asked and he pointed at an incomplete hilt signaling for me to finish what he started, without thinking about it i started putting pieces together and then suddenly the hilt was complete in my right hand, it felt like i zoned out without any recollection of what i was doing yet i was fully aware of what just happened, the hilt radiated with an unknown yet certain aura but couldn't be pinpointed by me but was by everyone else in the Grand Hall "the chosen one has came to our hall" the hooded elder said as he bowed with everyone else in the Grand Hall.