Titan

Learning Power

"I'm sorry Master, I am! Please don't hurt me!" Master didn't show any mercy, she continued dragging the young boy, Mikal, down the hall. Mikal tried fighting him but it was pointless, Master was too strong. She jerked Mikal into the room he knew too well, the punishment room. Master strapped the boy to the whipping post with a belt. "You have disobeyed me again slave, now I will make sure you never disobey again." Master whipped the Mikal until his shirt was in shreds, he screamed with every strike.

As the whipping continued, he noticed that the pain wasn't as great. It was still there but not as strong. The beating was doing the opposite of what it was meant to do, it was making Mikal stronger. With every stripe he was given he felt strength. He felt his bones stretching and his muscle building. Mikal screamed and pulled against his restraints. They broke away with ease. Master started hitting him in the neck and head with the whip, trying to stop him, but it made Mikal feel so much better. He turned around and faced Master, "You will not hurt me anymore." Mikal tackled Master and started hitting her in the face. He kept hitting her until he thought she was unconscious. "You just made a bad mistake boy!" He watched her face change into the most hideous thing he had ever seen. Her eyes turned black, her hair fell out and turned grey, and her skin turned grey.

Master picked him up and threw him against a wall. Mikal saw Master's total transformation. She had turned into what resembled a demon, only much larger. "When I paid for you, I didn't know I was sold a titan. Luckily, I too, am a titan." Suddenly, Mikal had a huge headache that made him drop to his knees. Then as soon as it came, his headache was gone, only now he remembered something. He remembered his powers of speed, strength, and healing. He also remembered his combat training. Mikal stood up, hands ready. Master's hands turned to fire, "You aren't the only one with power." She jumped at Mikal, he tried dodging her strike but she spun and hit him. She grabbed him by the neck and threw him to the ground. She aimed her hands at his face and sent a pillar of fire into Mikal's face. Mikal felt the flesh on his face peeling back, but didn't feel the pain. He kicked the woman off of him and stood up. He felt his face fix itself, all the skin recovering his skull.

Master ran back up to him and tried hitting him with her fire, but Mikal caught the fire and extinguished it. She covered her whole body in fire and charged him. This time Mikal knew what to expect and sidestepped her attack. He ripped the whipping post out of the floor and hit Master over the head with it. She tried to get back up, but Mikal kept hitting her, his speed and strength refusing to let her. Mikal grabbed master by her wings and implanted her into the wall. He ripped her out of the wall and smashed her into the floor. He grabbed the back of her head and repeatedly beat it into the hard, stone floor until there was a pool of black blood around her head.

Mikal remembered one of his special abilities. He put his foot on Master's back, grabbed both of her wings, and ripped them off. He cut two holes in his back with a piece of stone and put the wings in. His back healed up and joined with the wings. Mikal tested his wings, making sure they worked properly. He moved the left wing, the right, then both. Once he got figured out how to use them, he busted out of the room and flew away.

During his flight Mikal realized something, how was he going to change back to his normal self? That's when he heard a voice, "It will be a difficult process but you can learn to change back." Mikal jumped, he didn't know where that voice was coming from. "Who are you?"

"I am Kamoren, one of the Titans." Mikal kept hearing about these Titans, what is a Titan? The voice spoke again, "The Titans are warriors that rose from elements and emotions. We would fight with the righteous ones in their battles. That way good would be victorious. Sadly some of the Titans went bad. They started fighting for their own selfish gain. They would enjoy the spoils of war instead of leaving them to the humans. They would feast on their food, keep their gold, and rape their women.

The women bore children of the Titans and the children would have the powers of their father. This created female Titans like the one you just killed. The females and males would then mate and produce offspring. Mixing their powers, they thought, would create powerful offspring. It did, but they were unstable. There was no normal for them. They were what you would call bi-polar. They would be fighting for the good but in a moment turn and fight their own colleagues. They were no good for battle so we sent them off. The woman you called Master, was actually one of the Unstables."

"You can read my mind?" This just kept getting stranger.

"In a sense yes, but you can also read mine. I'm actually not speaking right now. I am thinking."

"How can I read your thoughts?"

"I am allowing you to. If I don't want you to, you can't. You will learn this ability soon enough."

"Okay, sounds cool. So am I an Unstable?" Mikal didn't think he was bi-polar but maybe he wasn't aware of it.

"No you aren't. I have been watching you since you were 'born'. You are actually like the original Titans who came from elements and emotions. I don't know how you did though. You have two special abilities and no one has two abilities except the Unstables and you aren't one. Originals, which are the first Titans, can sense Unstables and I can't sense anything wrong with you."

"Wait, you mean to tell me that I am equal to you, an Original?" Mikal was starting to see this as a positive thing.

"Technically yes, but your skills are equal to that of an Unstable. We will work on that, you could be the one who destroys the Unstables."

"Why are you trying to destroy Unstables?""

"They are destroying this world, they are throwing things off balance. They aren't committed to one thing or another. They can barely control themselves. They need to be removed before this world is completely destroyed... You need to get here quickly! Fly straight and you will know where to go. Don't wait anymore, come quickly!"

"What's going on?" Kamoren wasn't answering, it must be very important.

Mikal kept flying straight until he saw a cave. He knew this was where he was going. He flew right into the cave and found himself standing in a garden with a very large man. "Kamoren?"

The man turned around, "Yes, I am Kamoren. I'm glad you did as I said. Now we can begin training."

"Whoa now, I just got here and we are already going to start training?" Mikal was shocked by this.

"Yes, I think you would like to stay alive. If you don't, then have fun dying." Kamoren stared.

"Okay, we will what do I do?"

"Block this." Kamoren spun around and threw a knife right at Mikal. The knife hit Mikal the forehead.

Mikal crossed his eyes and looked stupidly at the knife in his head. "Hey boss, I got something stuck in my head. Is that bad?" Mikal started laughing as he pulled the knife out of his head and tossed it back to the dumbfounded Kamoren.

"I will be honest, I was not expecting that. I saw the battle with the Unstable but I thought you just had heat resistance. Not complete healing powers."

Mikal just kept laughing, "You should have seen the look on your face! You were like..." Mikal made a worried face. When he saw that Kamoren was not laughing he stopped laughing.

"Yes I was shocked, but that doesn't make this any less serious. You still need to learn how to attack. It's obvious that defense isn't needed. Do you not feel any pain?"

"No, not at all. It feels like a bug is on me." Kamoren made a sword of ice appear in his hands. He chopped off Mikal's arm and looked at him.

Mikal just looked back at him, "What, am I supposed to be screaming?" Mikal's arm just grew back, no flaws at all.