In the Clutches of
the Leviathan pt. 1
Bullets
flew, tires squealed, and sirens wailed as the police cruisers closed in on the
old Dodge as it careened through traffic attempting its getaway. The Dodge
scraped and bounced off of other cars on the road as it attempted to lose the
three police cruisers closing in on them. A passenger from the Dodge hung out
the open window as he fired shots at the police which bounced off the hoods,
grills and windshields of the cruisers.
“Okay,
let’s wrap this up quickly. I have a date with Carly and don’t want to be late
again.” Titan was bounding over rooftops as he joined the pursuit of the old
Dodge. “She was so mad last time. Of course I was like three hours late, so I
guess I don’t blame her too much.”
Titan, you must still focus at the job at hand, and not your personal
affairs. Do not act too hasty.
“It’s
okay, Azure, I got this.”
Titan
then launched himself into the air and over the busy street below. The Dodge
was moving as fast it could through the dense downtown traffic. Titan was
really only guessing when he leaped after the getaway car, but his guess was
accurate as he landed hard on the hood of the Dodge. The nose of the Dodge
drove into the pavement sending up big chunks of asphalt like a snowplough
clearing the roads. The back end instantly began to come off the ground from
the force of Titan’s landing. Then the car began to flip completely over
sending it flying end for end through the packed street.
Titan
had been tossed aside as the Dodge became airborne, but was able to look back
over his shoulder and see the car crash to a grinding halt into a parked SUV.
He scrambled to his feet, panicked, and made his way to the cars which were now
practically melded as one. Glass
crunched under his feet as he walked toward the crashed cars. He checked the
SUV first and was relieved to see that it was empty. The passengers in the Dodge
were banged up, but they would live. With police moving in, Titan was not going
to stick around to see how things turned out.
Titan, take us from here so we may speak.
“Azure,
I’m sorry I didn’t think…” Titan began before Azure could interject. He was
already to the nearest rooftop and looking where to go next.
Please, take us from here now.
Without
another word, Titan moved east over the rooftops of downtown Delta City.
Finally, when he was twenty stories above the city and a good two dozen blocks
from the crash he rested on a heating duct and waited for Azure to scold him.
Titan, your performance tonight was hasty
and dangerous. Many could have been hurt by such quick and poorly thought out
methods.
“I
know it was bad. I just didn’t think that would happen.”
You also were too preoccupied with your own
personal plans. I want to show you something, Titan. It is the story of the
third Titan, Regulus. His story from so many centuries ago may help you now.
“What
do you mean, show me? Don’t you mean tell me his story?”
No, I will show you. I want to you to look
closely into the jewel at the end of your staff and there you will see his
story played out to you as I saw it.
Titan
pulled out his staff and looked inside its jewelled end. At first he only saw
the same swirling sparkling blue light. Then, an image suddenly came into
view. He saw a small city sitting on a
harbour with rolling green hills as its backdrop.
“This
is amazing. I had no idea it could do this,” Titan said, with the staff’s jewel
less than an inch from his face.
There is much you still do not know about
the powers you possess, young Titan. Now, watch and hopefully you will learn a
valuable lesson here tonight.
Titan,
watched as the scene moved inland and through the city. Suddenly his view was
filled with a giant Cyclops. The Cyclops had to be ten feet tall at least. He
wore only a fur loin cloth. His massive body was weathered and covered with
multiple scars. Of course, one would hardly notice as it was hard to look away
from his bald head and single eye in the middle of his forehead. The Cyclops
carried a double bladed axe and was swinging it wildly about. The axe crashed
into a two wheeled cart that was loaded with hay and the cart instantly
exploded into bits of wooden shrapnel. The town’s people scattered and ran for
cover. His axe came down again and took out a massive chunk from the corner of
a nearby building.
“That
is enough, creature!” came a commanding voice. Titan could not see who the
voice belonged to.
Then,
coming into view was a person who could only have been Regulus. He wore a
sandals and blue shin and knee armour. He had blue forearm armour that had yellow
bands. He wore a gladiator helmet left only his eyes and mouth and chin exposed,
and there were two long yellow strands of fabric that hung down his back. He
was armed with a small round shield in his left arm and a short sword in his
right. Most distinctive of all was the chest armour which had the same
lightning bolt T that Titan now wore on his own chest.
“You have terrorized
these people enough, now face me!”
TO BE CONTINUED…
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