Titan Part I: The Fallen Hero

One Night

30 Years Ago

Lyra's POV
I run as fast as I could. It is hard to see in the rain. I could hear voices behind me. They were the ones who tried to capture me and my baby. I saw a big medium house. I ran towards the house. I knocked on the door as hard as possible.

"Please someone. Help me!" She yells

Suddenly I realized that I needed to change my appearance in order to not frighten them. I morph my body into looking like that of a human woman's.

The door opens and a woman is standing in the doorway.

"Hello there. How may I help you?"

"Please help us. We have nowhere to live."

"We?"

I reveal my baby to her. She lets me in and I rush in.

"Thank you so much!"

"Now how about a nice blanket and some hot chocolate?"

"I don't know what that is but thank you?"

The woman retrieves a blanket and wraps it around me.

"So who are you?"

"My name is Lyra."

"My name is Emily Anderson."

A man enters the room.

"Honey who is this?"

I panic and bear fangs at the man. Emily tries to calm her down.

"It is alright Lyra. This is my husband Andrew. Andrew this is Lyra. She has nowhere else to go so she will be staying with us for a while."

Andrew confusingly asks, "Oh okay. Well, you're welcome to stay here."

I look outside of the house and see a group of men looking around. One of them reports to a man.

"So why were you running?" Emily asks.

I try to come up with a lie. However, I can't bear to lie to them after the hospitality that they have shown toward me.

"I am being hunted by a government organization. They have been after me and my baby for several days now."

"Why are they hunting you?"

I was hesitant to show them. I was afraid of how they would react. The last person who I showed my true form to ended up calling the government.

"You promise not to be scared?"

"Why would we be scared?"

"Well here goes nothing," I thought to myself.

I reverse my body back to its alien form. Andrew drops his bottle of beer.

"Oh my God. You're an a-a-a—"

"Alien?" I respond.

"Yeah that," Andrew says.

"It's not like it's anything you haven't seen before Andrew. There are plenty of aliens shown on the news," Emily says.

"You're not scared?" I asked nervously.

"Of course not. There are plenty of aliens here on Earth. What planet are you from?"

"It's a long story and besides I am tired."

"Well make yourself at home. We have a guest room where you can sleep. I can place the baby in a crib."

I hand the baby to Emily and take off my clothes.

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Andrew says.

"What's wrong?" I ask confused.

"You can't just strip your clothes here! How long have you been on this planet for?" Andrew asks.

"Just a few weeks. Why can't I?"

"Just go with it."

I put my clothes back on.

"By the way what is the baby's name?" Emily asks.

"I never actually gave him a name."