H E Y E L L E D A S he was thrust through the strange white mass of energy before finally being flushed out and hitting the ground hard, rolling severally as he did so.
The man then quickly began to undo his parachute bag when he sat up and gasped after seeing hundreds of creatures coming at him from the same energy mass he had just sprung out of.
He fumbled with the straps.
Shit!
They had been intertwined.
The creatures roared as they charged at full speed.
There were so many of them, coming out from different energy masses.
Come on!
The straps were tightly locked into each other. He turned to look at the creatures that were then only a foot away.
Having run out of options, the man frantically raised his arms over his head and awaited to be stampeded by hordes of ali
T H E S K I E S H A D lit up with the colors of blood. Celestial blood. Blood that had been shed following the Titanomachy or as the gods would most commonly identify it — the first Ultimate Speedverse war. The great cosmic battle saw the fall of many a powerful Celestials as they tore each other apart trying to acquire the three entities that made up the cosmos—the three Heralds of the Ultimate Speedverse. Of the trio, the most potent and most coveted Herald—Reign—had been too solemn of an entity for a Celestial to just take and wield which was why it got easily lost throughout the great battle. Hurtling at incredible speeds exceeding that of light itself, the entity was cruising through the cosmos until its immense power had led to the creation of a singularity. The singularity fed from the voluminous amounts of energy dissipated by the entity until it had grown so massive
T H E M A D A M S E C R E T A R Y’ S eyes widened when she saw the sparkling flashes of lightning coming at her.Both her and the Director ducked in opposite directions just before she felt the strong gust of wind hit her in the face, causing a few strands of her cropped hair to dance over her head.Following the lightning flashes, Courtney watched them move so fast as they darted from one point of the NASA base to another.She could make out three distinct sets of color from the flashes: green, blue and white. The white flashes seemed to be moving exceptionally faster than the green and blue.Viper powerfully thrust her arms up and down across her chest, cutting through the air and was sure she was clocking at her highest speed, moving close to twenty times faster than the speed of sound as she hurtled through the Kennedy Space Center.Her spe
"A N Y S I G N O F them yet?" asked a bolting Diana Roberts after she had just come from ripping apart a creature with a lightning bolt to its hairy core."Can't see them anywhere!" responded Spartan who blasted the ground with a bolt of lightning and sent a couple of creatures sprawling.They were still at Piedmont Park battling with the creatures that they had then learned were known as 'Amaroks' after the goddess had called them from their stationary state earlier on.Jenna had informed everyone about Lucas's and Viper's emergency trip to Florida when Elektris had gone after them before being followed by Hermes later on.The Amaroks had started to spread outside the park just as Captain Susan Claire's police unit came around to help. She had alighted the Osiris supersonic aircraft alongside Detective Brian Pierce and Mayor Andrews leaving pilot Carter to steer the craft bac
H E R M E S W A S A L R E A D Y charging at Elektris when he was intercepted by the Gorgon Sisters.“Remember ussss?” they hissed at him, literally.Hermes watched Elektris vanish in a burst of white lightning.He turned his attention back to the two goddesses. Of course he remembered them.Stheno and Euryale, the daughters of the Celestials Keto and Phorcys.There had actually been three of them.“You’ll pay for what you did to Medusssa!” Stheno hissed at him and a thin forked tongue slid through her tiny sharp teeth.“You brought that upon yourself,” Hermes evenly responded.This sort of personal grudge actually had its origins dating back to the first Ultimate Speedverse battle, the one that took place back on Hermes’s and the rest of the gods’
T H E A I R W A S calm, with a light gale blowing across a chain of green hills and descending to a cool flowing spring, causing the leaves of trees alongside it to flutter. A few leaves fell to the grass covered ground where a cow was busy feeding on it.The sky was partly cloudy and the midday sun could be seen with its bright yellow rays penetrating through the whiteness.Back on the ground, the fallen leaves began to stir and so did the grass.The air around it suddenly felt disturbed and the cow, with its black and white fur, sensed this and began to move away from that area.The disturbance increased up to a point that the leaves were then levitating and swirling wildly as if an invisible twister had just formed up.They swirled faster and faster, picking up speed until something stranger began to manifest.Right in the middle of th
N A T A S H A J O H N S O N W A S still admiring the strange landscape with her arm still around Lucas’s lean shoulders when a voice came out from across where they both stood. Turning her head to the left, Natasha’s blue eyes were then looking at a thin, dark-haired boy and was shorter than both her and Lucas. He looked to be about around twelve to fourteen years old and just like Lucas—as Natasha noticed—was clad in a similar apparel of a loose pasty white shirt and brown rumpled pants. “You’re awake!” the boy beamed and Natasha caught his inflected accent. “Yeah,” Lucas responded, introducing Natasha to the boy. “this is Sang.” -“Hi, Sang,” said Natasha - “he’s the one who found us when we-we. . .got here.” “Already walking,” said Sang, his light brown face still beaming, looking at Natasha, “that progress very good.” Natasha then turned from Sang t
T H E Y W E R E S T I L L contemplating over the dark and ominous thought of being stranded in a time that was not of their own when Sang’s cheery voice filled the hut once more.“I have many questions! Don't know where to start—”His voice trailed off and he turned his head towards the open wooden door.Both Natasha and Lucas followed his gaze and were soon staring at a tall man of slim built but a lean body covered in large baggy brown pants and a long white shirt with a Mandarin collar similar to that of Natasha's silk dress. The shirt had its sleeves rolled up to his elbows and was holding in his right hand a bundle of three silvery slabs that glinted sleek in the light. They were fish.The man said something to Sang that neither Natasha nor Lucas could understand, but Lucas suspected he was speaking in Nepalese.Sang spoke back to hi
I T W A S A L R E A D Y getting dark out, with the usual starry night sky then covered with patches of dark clouds but there was enough light illuminating high up throughout the village as excited chattering emanated from people who seemed to be really preoccupied by one or two things. Natasha, Lucas and Sang were setting down a small round table at the heart of the village which was one of the many similarly placed tables—about twenty of them—all positioned in a circular manner such that there was a vast empty space in between. Sang had gone on to explain what was particularly happening that night. The night that had Natasha wear an immaculately flowing dark red dress, decorated with white lotus flowers and large jade buttons cascading from the Mandarin collar at her neck all the way to her ankles. Even her blond hair had been done, pulled t