Ancien Nero
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Posted - 2010.03.09 13:52:00 -
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A bright light shone on the child, maybe three years of age. Around stood figures in dark grey robes. As one started, another would finish his sentence, as if they shared the same mind. The child looked up at the cowled faces above, studying them, as if he knew..
"The child has assimilated all of the required knowledge"
"Yes, but it fails to show the required temperament"
"Agreed.."
The tallest of the figures scooped up the child and placed him on a small cart. From the shadows an attendant appeared and wheeled the cart away.
"That makes three hundred and forty seven."
"Yes, though they do show more promise with each incarnation"
"More care must be taken with the genetics and the child's upbringing, we need brutality and hatred, and more of it.."
According to procedure, the child was to be taken to a separate part of the complex, then placed in an incinerator. No drugs were used to put the child to sleep or dull it to the pain, such measures were considered wasteful. With a heavy heart the attendant lifted the child from the cart. For a few moments he considered placing the child in the incinerator, closing the door and walking away. He wouldn't hear a thing, the sound insulation assured that, but the child's eyes were too familiar, to similar. Too much like Tayisha's..
*seven years later*
Father! Father! A young boy laughs with joy as his father returns from the farm. At his side an old dog, worn out from work, but loyal and a good companion for the boy. Every night when Yuhn returned from the fields, his son came out to meet him, to see the boy brought a smile to his face. One day he would help his father run the farm, then have children of his own and it would continue for generations to come.
As they finished their meal, there was a knock at the door, sending a chill down Yuhn's spine. The Covenant wouldn't of forgotten him. The child was supposed to have been disposed of, but Yuhn couldn't bear to put the child to death. Instead he took the child and escaped from the complex, into the country side where they were unlikely to be found. As he answered the door, he was relieved to note that it was his neighbour, Sigus, a man who was obsessed with the buzz and news from the City.
"Yuhn!, Yuhn!, quickly, it is about to happen!"
"What is? Slow down, your not making any sense"
"The chosen one, the child of salvation, Theey're sending him to the Titan! Toa is about the be awakened!"
So, it finally happened thought Yuhn. They found what they were after. After decades of trying, of sorting through genetic material from thousands of Pilots. Mixing and matching, the DNA of various pilots was combined, then the resulting child underwent surgeries and operations, bio-ware installed into its brain to speed up the assimilation rate exponentially..
As Yuhn stared up at the sky, the titan Toa visible even from this distance, he saw the glow from its massive thrusters. Cheering sounded from the Cities around the planet. Celebrations lasted forty two days. Until the Titan began its crash decent into Terra..
*** My entry for the comp, its a few words over but I hope that's ok? Enjoy :)
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