We aren't invincible but we are human...

Please read this before reading the story! Their is a spartan called 'Jackal', he is named after the canine/dog NOT THE ENEMY IN HALO! Please do not argue or make stupid comments about it, he is my brothers OC and i do not know a lot about him, thanks for reading this text!

Hawke dive rolled to cover behind a blown up warthog, enemy fire was coming from nearly all directions possible. She reloaded her assault rifle and fired at a nearby grunt, bringing the alien down and filling it with bullets.
“Wasn’t evac supposed to arrive half an hour ago?” Jackal complained as he threw a plasma grenade onto a passing ghost and watched it blow up into flames, quickly retreating to cover back next to Hawke and sitting down on the ground behind the flaming warthog.
“Yeah, but ‘unfortunately’ they ran into some trouble, they said they are going to be here in five.” Hawke groaned as she peered over the warthog before quickly ducking her head as crystals and plasma flew her way, she sat back down and looked at Jackal. “Just keep your head down and hopefully we can come out of this in one piece, I don’t want to clean up any mess!”
“Spartans, we need some help over here!” A marine called out to them, waving his hands in the distance, he was hiding behind another blown up warthog with some other marines. One on them looked injured so both Hawke and Jackal got up and sprinted over to them all, dodging and returning fire back at the brutes. Hawke and Jackal quickly slid back behind cover and kneeled down next to the marines.
“Joe got shot by some crystals; we are trying to put pressure to reduce the blood flow.” The marine said as he looked at the Spartans then back at his squad, the whole squad ducked their heads as a fuel rod shot exploded close to the group. Hawke and Jackal opened fire and brought the crazy grunt to the ground, both then quickly turned back to the squad an assessed the situation.
“Where’s the medic? She should b-…” Hawke sentence was cut short as another explosion came way to close to the squad, she looked over the warthog once more to make sure none of the brutes and grunts were to close.
“She ended up like the rest of our squad, blown to pieces.” The marine grieved before he looked back at the down marine, Joe. He felt a tough hard rough hand grab his shoulder and spin him around. Hawke looked directly at the marine in the eyes, but did not remove her helmet.
“Listen up, all of you! No one else is dying today so get your sh*t together and stay behind Jackal and I. Evac should be here any second, we are all going to go home without body bags as long as you follow our orders. Now get ready.” Hawke said before releasing her grip on the marine’s shoulder and holding her gun tightly, Jackal copied her and looked back at Hawke. He quietly and privately was contacting her through the coms so the marines didn’t have to hear what they were talking about.
“You’re such a tight a$$, cut these marines some slack. They have a dying comrade here and the situation looks grim.”
“Listen Jackal, the moment they start to lose hope everything turns upside down and I have a huge bloody body count under my name. At least they have more of a chance coming home alive when they still have their heads on their shoulders!”
“Whatever Hawke, just don’t give them such a hard time. They don’t have enhanced bodies, massive tank like armour or the mind to handle events like this. They aren’t invincible like us!” At that very moment Hawke turned to face Jackal. Rain started to pour down from the sky like a dam had broken; the ground became ankle deep mud in seconds and fires around them became drenched by the tears from the clouds above. Jackal could see her release presser on her gun as she looked away from him.
“We aren’t invincible but we are human…” Hawke said before she looked up at the sky in panic as she saw huge masses of plasma ran down from the sky along with the lightening which started to strike down, she quickly peaked between holes in the warthog to see wrath tanks powering towards them, but further in the distance she could see a pelican speeding towards them to evac the squad, chased by multiple banshees. This just wasn’t her day. “Jackal, we have three wrath tanks coming towards us, we need to move this squad further away up that hill… this just got serious.”
“You have got to be kidding me!” Jackal said, no longer using the com-link to chat to Hawke, he looked back at the squad of marines and gave the orders as fast as his mouth could spit them out. “We have to move people, you two grab your injured friend and make haste up the hill, the others cover their six while Hawke and I cause a distraction and take their incoming fire. NOW MOVE!”
The marines quickly got to their feet and ran for their lives towards the hills, not moving all that fast as they were hindered by the thick sticky mud being carried on the bottom of their boots. Jackal and Hawke followed close behind, using their armour as shields for the marines, deliberately standing in the way of any plasma or crystals that would hit the marines.
One of the marines stumbled as he fell over in exhaustion; Jackal quickly came up from behind and tried his best to get the marine back on his feet and out of the mud. But Jackal was not paying attention to the wrath tank fire from behind; he had his shields right down from all the blasts he had already taken. The blast was going to kill him and the marine he was trying to save, Hawke without another second’s thought ran towards the two and pushed them both well clear out of the way and just had enough time to sprint a short distance from the incoming blast, but she did take a hard impact from the explosion, throwing her into the air and making her shields completely drain dry. She quickly picked herself up off the ground and out of the mud, lucky the thick heavy rain washed the mud away and off her visor.
“Hawke, are you alright?” Jackal called out, he and the marine were wide eyed and completely thankful for the save. Jackal picked up the marine off the ground and pushed him along to quickly join up with the squad; Hawke looked around and checked how far away the wrath tanks were, they were at least one hundred metres and that was all she needed to keep the squad at a fast distance. But as she went to sprint to catch up to Jackal and the squad she saw a small shine on one of the hills ahead, then four quick flashes came from that shine she saw on the hill. She had no time to react as four crystals flew straight at her and lodged themselves through her armour and into her body. Her shields had not enough time to recharge themselves to protect her, it felt like a plank of wood had just wacked her right in the chest.
Hawke started to feel her legs feel ready heavy, she looked down and saw that she had been hit real good. Clearly the enemy had flanked the group and had snipers ready to pick them off one by one as they became vulnerable. She felt herself fall onto her back and the mud stick to her back and grip onto her armour, she felt herself sinking. She tried to reach out to the squad with one hand; no one yet had noticed that she had been hit as they all were facing towards the hills. Hawke started to see blood stain the ground and her arm, she felt her eye lids heavy and struggled to keep them open, eventually it was too hard and she closed them, fearing that she had lost her squad, her brother and her life.
It was all a blur what happened next; she could hear voices, wrath tank engines, the occasional grunt and brute. Then it changed to gun shots, screams, panic and a voice shouting which seemed familiar, she had a feeling that she was taking a rough roller-coaster ride in the air…
Now she could hear her name being shouted at her, it was being repeated over and over like a record player, not only was that annoying but she saw a large bright white light flashing, and then she started to regain consciousness. She could feel someone giving her a slight soft but constant tapping on her cheek, then she heard some cheering and before she knew it she was looking up at some medics and Jackal inside a pelican. “She made it!” They cheered in the pelican, marines and Jackal clapped before they continued to access her.
Hawke finally found out who was calling her name, it was her brother Jackal. Also the flashing light was caused by one of the medics checking her eyes with a small torch, Hawke lifted one weak arm and shoved the light away from her face. “How many times have I told you guys not to flash lights in my eyes, I hate that!” Hawke complained before she started to cough up blood, she felt her brother and many other hands turn her over to one side to let her cough up anymore gunk.
“You had us worried for a while Hawke, couldn’t get through to your thick head. Had a nice sleep?” Jackal smirked, rolling Hawke back onto her back and kneeling down next to her. “Everyone made it out alive, thanks to you.”
“Yeah well… next time you should watch your flank, being blown to pieces ain’t as fun as it looks.” Hawke joked, seeing that the marines around her didn’t quite catch her joke as ‘funny’.
“Well at least you’re alive, now rest up. You have had quite a day Miss Hawke.” Jackal said before strapping himself into a seat and watching the marines.
Hawke just gave a small weak chuckle before resting her eyes once more, well at least this time she went to sleep knowing that everything was fine… for now.


Sorry about any spelling and grammer mistakes! I ain't the most amazing person at this kind of stuff! XD haha

Wow!
This is my first really awesome halo picture i have every drawn. (It was HEAVILY refrenced of some pictures my awesome friend gave me to help draw my OC Hawke )

Got to love those crystals baby! The glowing crystals were so much fun to draw!

Anyways, love to hear what people think about this and i hope to draw more pictures of Hawke and other halo OC's of mine in the future!

Halo (c) 343i (i think that's right )