Spectacular World

She Awakens

"Oh crap!" Cinder yelled out with wide eyes.

"Holy crap, that thing is huge!" A stunned Paragon stated. Destiny clung to the girl, and it was thanks to the bird's eyesight that the healer could tell just how big this monster was.

The Emperor had gone around using his title as Lord of Life to turn many humans and Supers into monsters. This was done to greatly power up his army. Monsters like Polaron or Mars King kept their sanity for the most part and had a vaguely humanoid shape. A majority weren't so lucky, though.

This thing looked like a worm. It was massive, bigger than a skyscraper, and the ground kept breaking away as it got taller and taller, rising out. Its head had hundreds of sharp teeth, and it was falling toward them at insane speeds. Earthquakes seemed to go off for miles all around it, causing Myth to stop and cling to the ground.

Even the Wandering Coin froze as they stared at the monster in shock. They had never really seen one still alive. Most were wiped out by the Victorian the moment they came near a city. Out here in the Wasteland, where there was so much disaster and crime, she didn't bother, so these beasts had grown as big as they needed to, and there would be no golden savior that would come in and save them.

Cinder gritted her teeth and tightened her grip on Paragon. "Hold on tight. It's about to get rough!" Already, the worm was falling over, content to crush or eat them. Her fire roared out of her feet and blasted her away from the beast, but its body kept getting longer and longer, the shadow of it staying over them as it got lower and lower. It was at least forty meters wide and five miles long, maybe even bigger. "I don't think we're going to get away from it in time." She hissed.

"Any chance you could blast a hole through it?!" Paragon shouted.

"Good idea!" She curved her body, pointed her feet at the thing, stopped focusing on escape, and instead poured all her effort into blasting out a massive beam of fire from her legs. It sent her crashing to the ground, and she broke the fall with her back, slamming into their van and breaking it into further pieces. She kept Paragon shielded, and her foot beams twisted together and smashed into the massive worm.

The thing barely slowed down, and while its flesh began to burn and twist into a nasty black, it was still coming down faster than she could destroy it. It was insanely dense, able to survive in the core of the planet, so her fire was barely a warm bath to this thing. They were about to be crushed together. Her and Paragon were about to die.

Myth and Snowdawn were thankfully out of the way, as were the Wandering Coin. The creature seemed focused on just the two of them.

"It's not working." She called out, her beam beginning to die out as the worm was less than fifty feet away and coming down fast.

"Throw me into its mouth." Paragon announced.

"What! Won't you die from that?"

"Maybe, but even if I do die, if I can touch it, then maybe I can do something!"

"I'm not going to throw you at it! I'm a hero!"

"If you don't do something, then we'll both die!" The girl argued. "I can maybe mess with its cells or something, I don't know!"

She dropped Paragon and stood, holding her arms up. "I'll use all my super strength and stop it! When I do, run like hell!"

"You can't pick up something that big! You're doing the same thing I am! You're throwing your life away!"

"I'm going to save us!"

The worm came down only a few feet away. The ground broke and cracked, and she was shoved to her knees from the force. Paragon was knocked over fully, and she squeezed her eyes shut tight, ready to at least try and hold it back-