30Hey guys, I'm a new user, and this is my first story, a Halo-Inheritance crossover! This first chapter will have a few spoilers or side notes, but they help explain some things that others may be confused about. I decided to do Halo and Eragon because most of the other crossovers were either inactive or just plain bad, so I decided to try for myself. Enough about me, (I hardly think anyone is reading this, but whatever.) let's get on with the story! One more thing though, so I don't get in trouble. I don't own Halo, Inheritance, or any references made in the story.
Eragon was meditating the way Oromis had taught him… Things were peaceful, and Eragon reveled in it silently; He had not seen peace for weeks after the battle of Du' Weldenvarden and fighting on the Burning Plains. But here, Eragon was at peace. He felt the presences of even the tiniest creatures around him… Until he encountered something very different… Huge, colder than the void, and darker than the lowest depths of the oceans…
Chief was in a good mood. After being gone for years, he had made contact with the Arbiter again. But there was bad news too. (This takes place after Halo 4, but Cortana doesn't die. Don't ask why, don't ask how she survived, just go with it.) Even after slaying the Didact, and even though the Prometheans had no leader, and stood motionless like statues, there were still creatures that would like nothing more than to see his head lopped off or blown to bits. The Storm Covenant, although weakened, was still fighting. But they had made a dangerous discovery… One that made the Flood look as pitiful as a swarm of flies… (Starcraft reference.) Amon and his followers, the Tal' Darim. The Storm Covenant were quick to join with him, and now pursued the UNSC and Neo-Covenant across the vast expanse of space… Snapping out of his thoughts, Chief paused to read an info display. Amon had fought other factions before, but had left relics behind. A science team found a large collection of blueprints for new vehicles, infantry armor and weapons, and aircraft. Cortana interrupted his observations, "We've been found again. The Arbiter's gone back to his own ship, and we're preparing for a slipspace jump." Suddenly a voice blared over the ship's intercom. "Sierra 117 requested at control room ASAP." Shrugging, he made his way there.
A little while later, the Chief stepped through the retracting double-doors and into the control room. Lasky was standing in front of a holographic reading of the ship's status. Turning, he faced the Chief, and was about to speak, but was cut off. "Sir, we will be entering Slipspace in 20 seconds." A man announced. Sighing, Lasky decided to talk after the jump was finished. Looking through the window, the Chief saw that the Arbiter's ship, (I forgot the name, so let's say his old one got broke, he escaped, got a new one and I made the name up.) the Eternal Seeker, was already opening up its own portal. As the UNSC Infinity passed in, he thought he felt a small tremble unlike the usual tremors felt while passing through Slipspace…
Cautiously extending a mental probe into the vast darkness, he jolted as a phrase in the Ancient Language he could only half understand was thrust into his mind by… nothing? It was not the void, and he knew that none of the nearby creatures could use magic… The words burned into is mind intensely, and trapped his consciousness, preventing escape. Quickly, Eragon realized that they were the words for a spell, and having no other choice, chanted the phrase almost sub-consciously. (If you've read Inheritance, the last book in the series, you'll know about the hidden cluster of Eldunari manipulating events such as sending Saphira's egg to him. This is just another one of said events.)
The Chief jolted himself alert as alarms started blaring. Reading the data displays quickly, "Something is interfering with our Slipspace path! Almost as if it's altering the fabric of Slipspace itself!" Lasky shouted. This shocked the Chief, and that was quite an accomplishment. He was no egg-head, but he knew enough that bending Slipspace mid-flight from the outside was unheard of, even in Forerunner scriptures. "We're nearing the end of our path…" Switching on the intercom, Lasky gave out orders quickly, "Begin manning Hornets and Pelicans, and prepare the Banshee prototypes! Have 5 squads of scouting aircraft and drones ready for release!" Stepping back, he spoke quietly. "Now we just wait to see what's out there…"
Drawing upon the surprisingly vast stores of energy of the void, Eragon finished the spell. Even though he had drawn from the churning blackness, the spell still exhausted him. He slumped down on a nearby rock so as not to collapse. Wondering what the spell had done, but seeing no evident results, he quickly got Saphira's attention, and told her to bring Glaedr and Oromis. He did not tell her what had just happened, and Saphira's curiosity got the better of her.
He had just seen Saphira and Glaedr flying in the distance, and he assumed Oromis was riding atop his golden dragon, when 2 enormous spherical rifts seemingly tore open the sky itself. He thankfully saw that the 2 rifts were far behind the 2 dragons, and so did not harm them, but it still had an effect on them. They redoubled their speed, and quickly reached Eragon. Not having time for words, he swiftly relayed the previous events to the trio before him. Oromis was about to speak up when a sonic boom rocked the landscape. Looking up to the pair of rifts, the 4 saw something that briefly struck fear into even Saphira's crystal heart…
A noble in Galbatorix's court was just finishing up his lunch, when an ear-splitting wave of sound rushed into the building. Leaping to the window, he saw two impossibly large… he had no words for it… emerge from 2 even larger, mystifying vortexes in the sky. His eyes glazing over, he fell to the ground wordlessly, with a very large, dark (easily noticeable) spot covering his crotch area. (If someone doesn't soil their pants at some point, it gets a big fat F in humor. That's just my opinion.)
As the Infinity and the Eternal Seeker emerged from the portals, the 2 ships re-established communications. A quick survey of the land identified the status of the unknown world. Surveying biological activity… Dominant races seem to be humans, a few human-like unknown species, and what seems to be… dragons. Chief, we've arrived in a land of fairy tales. Cortana announced. Technology is around stage 3 or 4, the Medieval Era of Earth's ancient history. Wait a minute… on another note, magic seems to exist as well. The Chief inhaled deeply, thinking, Looks like the game's changed…
End of Chapter 1! Hope you liked it, fights will come next chapter, and yeah, there will be more action than I love bacon. I'm open to suggestions, but please don't comment saying, "NYAAAAAH I HATE THIS IT SUCKS MONKEY BALLS!" If you don't like, it keep it to yourself. If you actually have something to say, say it. Thanks, and The next chapter will be soon, just as soon as I take a break… All this typing is making my fingers ache.
