Titans of the Current: Hands of God Edition

Part 10:2:3

Many have fallen to my blade today, maybe even as many where slain by Vlad. What did he mean out there? Was my offer inadequate?

Maybe there is someone else....

"Koto! Above you!"

I raise my sword into the air, as one of the mutated clones is skewered on the end. With the flick of my wrist, my blade pulls through the monster, cutting him in half.

My platoon of eight hundred thousand had been sized to two. The losses are high. Jack and Jazz diviated from our path and took Jhage with him. My men have become stains on the ground in the wake of these monsters. Only me and Vlad have managed to hold our our own to this point.

Bang bang bang

Vlad rips mutant flesh from mutant bone with every shot. But it puzzles me.

Why would they give up a tactical advantage like range and defense just to go on offense? Had we went into this fight like this, we could have sweeped the streets clean.

Cccccccrrrrraaassssssshhhhhhh!!

Two any scrapers fall to the ground, through debris and dust all the way to the dome. We resolved to destroy the buildings as we passed then to shorten their reinforcements. This has left the east side a field of rubble and fire.

So be it! I will win this war! My fallen men and women count on it! Fortunately shini platoons have sheltered themselves along the east wall under my order. Reports say five hundred thousand are still alive, that should be enough to work with.

"Vlad, what's it look like?"

He had a scope, which he forged from hellfire, viewing past the rubble.

"Beyond that pile of rubble, is the plaza. More importantly, Jack is fighting off those things. No sign of Jazz."

"Well, let's go! That means we are moments away from taking the corporate plaza."

Vlad looks towards me and speaks to me soothingly, "you know, if my face wasnt melted, if give you a kiss."

It forces laughter from me.... Laughter, something I haven't done in a long time. Maybe it wasn't his prowess as a warrior that drew me to him... It could just be him.

I want to tell him something... Something trivial that humans would say to each other... Something that expresses how I feel.

What was it about him at the village... Was it his peaceful complexion when he slept. His proud stature, and bravery child be commended as well.

Maybe I am just foolish.

He told me to wait until he could give peace to others. How could that be done in this age? Alas, it was perhaps the most noble of rejections.

Why did I need him anyways? Why dilute the heritage of my ancestors with humanity? Surely my father would not be proud.

" what's makes you think I accept? "

"You offered to have sex with me!"

"I changed my mind, you are no longer my suiter."

He begins to laugh at me. Somehow under ask that intimidating steel, I could feel a soft soul. Before I knew it, I had joined in.

Focus! I have a job to do!

"Vlad, let's get moving, we are only meters away from-"

Smack!

Pain shot through me, before I understood what happened, I was already cleaning debris of myself.

I had been knocked across the street in a single punch! No one is that strong!