Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction / Utena, Revolutionary Girl Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Halo: Death and Rebirth ❯ The Angel ( Chapter 3 )

Aali opened her eyes to see Danny standing over her with a smile on his face. She smiled also, wondering how he could be standing here with her, she witnessed his death, but as real as anything, he took her hand lightly and stood her up, he then ran his index finger on her chin, and lightly led her forward as they engaged in a long awaited kiss.

Then she woke up.

She shot out of bed, and went to brush her hair back, but she realized she had left her digitally enhanced helmet on.

"Stupid thing…" she said as she went to take it off, but then someone else appeared in her mind, the new guy, Mike.

"Mike!?"

Tall, handsome, skinny, pale…he was gorgeous, very nice deep voice too. She closed her eyes to get the image out, but instead when she opened them, she witnessed herself and Mike not only engaged in a kiss, but hands were roaming also, with not much clothes on.

"Errg!" she yelled and she unstrapped her helmet and threw it at the wall, but it just barely missed John, who was standing at her door.

"Something wrong dear?" he asked.

"This Helmet is evil…so many different thoughts have been brought to virtual life with that damn thing…"

"Really?" John stood and smiled, then walked to her again, "Has yours…told you anything?"

"Is it supposed to talk too?" she asked.

"No, I guess not…mine just happens to on occasion, it's pretty weird." Answered John.

He lowered his hand to Aali as she took it and stood up.

"What time is it?" she asked as she looked out the window at all the Spartan's training.

"Just about noon"

"You let me sleep till noon!?" she cried as she threw her shirt up over her head and went to her closet, grabbed another shirt and threw it on.

"I can't believe you, John!" she yelled again, but he just simply disappeared when she turned to look at him again, instead, someone else was standing in his place-Danny.

"I…I…Danny?" she said softly as she walked towards his image, he merely set his hand out to her, but before she grabbed it, she felt her head…she could feel her hair, which meant she wasn't wearing her helmet She continued walking but as she did the image changed again, to Doug. As she took another step it changed to Mike, then, as she went to touch it, the image of John came back.

"Aali…" the image crackled with static, "Don't…" It cracked again, "T…touch…the-Imp…" it crackled and changed to Danny again.

"Danny…" she said as she brought her hand up to where his forehead was, but right before her finger tapped the image, it switched to Doug, "Don't!" is all it could yell, before it turned back into Danny. This startled her and she drew her hand back. For a minute it switched between images, Danny, Jason, Jaime, Doug, Mike…all were changing, until finally it came back to Danny for a final time…she stared into the eyes of the image, it smiled.

"Just one touch can take you back…" is all the image mumbled.

She smiled and took a deep breath as she quickly touched the images chest and it crackled again, but her hand began sinking into the image. It was again changing between looks, she then began feeling a sharp pain through her chest, neck and head, all the image had was her hand, but it seemed to be sucking the life out of her. Finally, it changed into the solid form of one of the Spartan's, Aali could barely get a look of him, and when she did, and they locked eyes, he grinned- and at that very moment, John burst in the room.

"Aali!" he yelled as he ran to the thing, "Get away from her!"

The image slowly dissipated into the air, dropping Aali to the ground, and in a slow wispy voice, it said, "You cannot stop it…It is the fate of the world, the Angel's will come again".

Aali hit the ground and John grabbed her limp body.

"Aali! Come on Aali, wake up, please!"

She slowly opened her eyes and began shaking rapidly, her pupils were dilated and her skin was getting colder to the touch.

"D…Danny…" she mumbled.

"Aali what happened!?" John cried.

She slowly looked out the window, then back to John, "They're coming…"

"Who? Who' coming!?" he asked rapidly.

"The Angels…Death and Destruction will soon follow they're arrival…"

John looked deep into her lost eyes.

"When?"

She looked back at him finally with actually conscience.

"They're here already, within us…one is here." She said slowly, right before she passed out.

"Aali…what did it show you…?"

"How is she?" John asked as he walked in the medical room.

Eric turned around with the clip board.

"She's getting worse every hour, gaining more symptoms, or the one's she has are getting worse, something seriously bad was shown to her, and her mental isn't allowing her to let it go…whatever it was that had her, it really had her, and totally broke her."

"What does she have?" asked John next.

"So far, terrible signs of Paranoia and Schizophrenia, she's awake, but she won't eat, sleep, drink, or let anyone touch her…and she won't speak."

John just looked into the door's small window at her, she was sitting on the edge of her bed, hair totally in array and a blank look on her face.

"Eric, do you think we could be losing our best Spartan?" asked John.

"With my medical expertise, I wouldn't doubt it…I think she's too far gone already to get her back, much less stop this. John, she's gone."

"Have you gotten any information?" asked John.

Eric nodded slowly.

"That is the only good point of this, as I said, she adopted an alter personality, this personality's name is Akasha, and she spilled many different things about what happened in that room a few hours ago."

"Such as?"

"Well, Akasha told me that Aali, being as weak as she is, was drawn to this evil `Angel' as she called it, because it took the image of many people close to her, namely, Danny, and as soon as she came into physical contact with it, it began totally flooding her mind with images of ultimate destruction, death, things of that sort, enough to bring the strongest willed person down. Akasha's reasoning as to why the `Angel' picked her, was that Aali is very smart and strong willed, it had to take her out, and Akasha is the aftermath of what is left of her mentality…"

Eric stopped.

"Don't stop if there's more…" demanded John.

"Well, what Akasha told me next worried me greatly…"

"Tell me now"

"She stated that the `Angel' that did this, is a Spartan, currently even, and is in fact, in this building-but she's unable to tell me who it is, Aali's state of mind `Akasha' doesn't know, and Aali just won't say anything…she is totally broke."

John sat quickly, as if falling into the chair behind him with a blank look on his face.

"I…I can't believe it, we've lost Aali…of all of them, Aali."

Eric looked in at Aali.

"Look at it this way, Akasha knows what she's talking about, all these thing's that she's said, are true. Alter Ego's don't have the ability to lie. The thing that did this to Aali is in here, and will probably do it again, we need to find it."

"Can I talk to Aali?" asked John, "Is it safe?"

"It's perfectly safe, she is totally non-violent, as for speaking to her…good luck."

Eric finished and opened the door, Aail continued looking forward, John brought a chair in with him and sat in front of her.

"Aali…am I speaking to Aali or Akasha?"

There was no answer.

"Ok…Aali, I need to know, who did this to you?"

Again, no answer, just silence.

"Aali! Please, we can't help you unless you tell me who"

She sat silent still.

John stood and began to walk out, but then, she spoke.

"You want to know what they want to know…"

He turned around quickly and stared at her.

"Tell me anything Aali, anything!"

She smirked slightly, then laid on her back on the bed.

"I'll never tell…I'll never tell…"

"Aali, tell me something or I can't do anything!"

"I…I…I'll never tell…" she answered, but quickly cut herself off, and went totally silent again.

John stood up and walked out of her room, and past Eric without saying anything. He walked into his living room where all the other Spartan's were sitting, all he did was look at all of them, they all had confused looks, he then cried out and kicked the wall…leaving a large hole in it. They all cringed and watched him as he walked away, but he turned and looked at all of them.

"When I find out which one of you did this to Aali, I will kill you personally, because right now, we have lost the best damn Spartan there ever was, to something that ISN'T human, and when I find you…I'll kill you." He then walked out.

They all looked at each other, but one sat in the shadows, smiling.