Chapter 9: Chapter: 9 Twilight Titan

Flint’s POV

Flint the Stone Titan’s day had started so badly that he was sure that it could only get better. He’d woken up with a drunk teenager mistaking him for a tree and peeing on his leg.

Next Gremlock, the wandering adventurer, arrived at the gates with two new additions to his already oversized harem. Flint wondered how the man managed to feed them all.

While Flint was stuck at the city gates keeping an eye out for lost puppies and wandering old women. Gremlock got to see the world and was having strange, crazy sex with each and every race that he encountered.

Flint yearned for a life outside of Alhaven. He’d been a gate guard for longer than most humans had been alive. He knew everybody in town and they all knew him but he was still single and lonely. He’d watch kids grow into adults and go on adventures while he just stood there guarding a gate all damn day long.

He squinted his eyes as someone, carrying two children, cut through the meadow towards the gate shouting like a mad man.

He wasn't sure what the protocol for this kind of behavior was but when in doubt he resorted to the only thing he knew how to do. He stepped in front of the gate and raised his giant hand. It was this particular move that had gotten him the position as gate guard in the first place.

“Halt citizen,” he cried in a voice that sounded slightly higher pitched than he’d intended.

The man’s hair was matted, his clothes were torn, his arms were bleeding and the kid under those arms were shrieking in terror.

“There’s a troop of mad flying baboons after us,” Talasin shouted and pointed at the sky.

There was nothing in the sky of course but Flint smiled reassuringly at Talasin. He was after all the first person to flirt with him since Ol’ Prichard the blind man. The man was a newcomer in town but in that short space of time he had made a big impression on Flint. They had an undeniable chemistry that he didn't fully understand but he knew what his heart wanted and it wanted this sweaty man who was now hunched over and throwing up all over his toes.

Layla snuck up on the titan and jumped and grabbed his arm and swung from it like a monkey all the while making animal sounds and hooting with laughter.

Ned stuck his head through the gate, got stuck and then started yelling that he was in prison.

“Let me through,” said Talasin. “I’ve been beaten, stung and chased for over an hour. I'm having a really bad day and I just want a hot bath and something to drink.”

He was having a bad day? Nobody ever asked Flint how his day was. People generally ignored him or said things like, ‘is that a rock in your pants or are you just glad to see me?’

Layla was beginning to annoy Flint. She’d climbed up his arms and was now standing on his shoulders shouting that she was king of the world. He picked her off from his head like a monkey picking fleas out of its coat and gently put the kid down.

There was something odd about the kids. Kids were strange things but Layla and Ned were acting stranger than usual and Talasin was staring at the sky and flinching at every bird that flew overhead.

“Have you been drinking?”

He couldn't think of another explanation. They were all acting so strangely.

“I am going to have to send a message to the mayor about this.”

“You can't leave,” Talasin stammered and he looked around nervously. “Those things could be here any moment, they were right behind us.”

Flint hadn't taken the man for a nutcase but he was starting to think his mother was right when she said, ‘Flint only a crazy person would be interested in you.’ His mother was wise; she was probably right.

He had to report this though. Maybe Talasin was not a raving lunatic, possibly there were baboons with wings coming this way and perhaps he had found his one true love. Or maybe he was having one of those days when life just kicked you in the nuts and instead of leaving you to wreath in pain it just kept kicking.

He spread a hand and his pinky finger broke loose and transformed into a tiny version of himself. He loved Mini Me. It was his dearest and only friend.

The pinky climbed onto his hand and he held it to his face.

“Stop it," he said, laughing, and then looked at Talasin in embarrassment.

He put Mini Met onto the ground and the stone figure scampered up the street and disappeared around a corner.

“Don't judge me,” he said when he noticed Talasin staring at him. “Being a gate guard gets lonely.”

“Can you summon the city watch or something?” asked Talasin. “There’s a whole troop of chimera heading this way.”

He was still talking about that. Maybe it wasn't alcohol. He'd never been drunk before but he’d seen enough drunk people to know that paranoia was not a typical symptom.

“Don't worry,” Flint said. “The ward protects us from monsters.”

He smiled and then remembered why Talasin had ventured out so early that morning.

“So did you manage to bind that little star of yours?”

Talasin frowned and then rummaged through this spellbag and drew out a single card and handed it to the titan.

“It's a bit of a disappointment,” he said. “I was hoping for a Meteor or at least a Flames of the North Star.”

Flint studied the card and sounded out each letter as he read the title. He wasn't very educated. His mother wouldn't let him go to school. She said that he was too big to fit inside of a classroom and his brain was too small to hold the information.

Finally after sounding the words over and over they finally formed a picture in his head. It was a spell card he’d heard other stone titans talking about.

“By the flaming balls of Nuntuk,” he said. “This is the Heart of The Stone.”

Talasin held out his hand and Flint reluctantly handed it back.

“I didn't think titans could use cards,” said Talasin.

He was right. Magical beasts could not use spell cards they were born with magic instead. It was said that the elder gods gave the spell cards to the humans as a way to look after the magical beasts and to maintain the balance.

“No, but if you cast the Heart of The Stone on me I could possibly evolve,” said Flint.

Talasin gave him a skeptical look.

“Why would I want to do that?”

“I wouldn't be the same person anymore.”

“That does sound tempting but I think I'll just sell it or exchange it for a decent common card.”

Flint shot him a dirty look, or as best he could with a face made of stone.

“What it means Mr. Talasin is that my contract with the town’s guard would be null and void so you and I could finally be to--”

An explosion down the road interrupted Flint. Talasin looked at him and they both began running towards the fire.

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That marketplace was a shitshow. People were screaming. Wagons were flipped over and fires broke out all over the street.

Flint saw a baboon with the tail of a green snake and bat-like wings.

“Pound me sideways with a plowshare,” he muttered under his breath.

It seemed like Talasin was right, there were chimera baboons everywhere and they were pissed off about something. A large chimera rose high above the marketplace holding a pig in its arms while the rest of the chimera troop tore tents apart and dropped animals and pumpkins from high places and spattered them in the streets below.

A patrol of city guards arrived on the scene and began firing volleys of crossbow bolts at the creatures. The baboons didn't seem to care about their casualties. They swooped down like eagles, lifted guards off the ground and flung them into buildings.

Talasin used a spell card and a whip covered in shards of glass appeared in his hands. He slashed a chimera across the face and ran at two more.

Flint crushed the skull of a baboon with one hand then grabbed another by the tail and swung it overhand smashing its face into the ground. He was fighting like a beast, he just hoped Talasin was watching.

Three baboons pounced at them. Talasin ducked and avoided the first one. Flint punched another square in the chest and it caved in and it burst into a puff of smoke.

“They are summons,” he shouted to Talasin. “Look for the cardmage, he must be close by.”

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The chimeras kept on coming in waves. Whatever spell was multiplying them was powerful. Flint tore a baboon off of Talasin’s back and flung it away.

“Give me the Heart of Stone,” he yelled. “It will give me enough power to fight them off.”

Flint could see Talasin’s forehead wrinkled in concentration. Maybe Talasin didn't trust him; he probably thought Flint would take the card and make a run for it.

“I'll give you the card,” said Talasin. “But only if I can bind you.”

That was not what Flint had expected him to say. Be bound by a human. Be it's slave, at its beck and call, doing freaky things for his master in the middle of night.

Hell yeah.

The stone titan smiled.

“You sadistic sexy man. Let's bond.”

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Talasin placed the Heart of Stone card on Flint's forehead. The card disintegrated and purple veins crisscrossed Flint’s body. The purple grew brighter and then the veins burst into flames.

“What’s happening?” he shouted.

He fell to the ground and rolled in the dirt but the flames burned brighter. It hurt so badly. It felt like every cell in his body had been ignited and whipped like scrambled eggs.

What if the spell didn't work, what if the burning never stopped? He’d go mad and become a flame atronach, monster of fire and agony.

“It hurts. Do something, Talasin.”

Talasin ran over and emptied his water container on Flint. Most of the water missed and the rest evaporated before it even penetrated the flames.

“I don't have any more water,” he said. “Should I pee on it?”

Flint knew it was bad when the thought of being peed on didn't excite him. He writhed in pain on the ground and a baboon chasing a screaming child sped past him and leapt through the air and caught the child. It beat its wings and lifted the kid into the air.

Oh shit.

He didn't like kids but a child splattered on the ground would be all kinds of wrong and would be hard to explain to the guard captain.

Talasin shouted for help, but the city guards were doing all they could to defend the merchants. He turned to the titan.

“Flint, we need you now. A child is about to die.”

Flint realized that he wasn't strong enough to absorb the Heart of Stone. It was destroying his mind.

“Bind me Talasin. Your level will add to mine, making me strong enough to evolve.”

Talasin threw his whip at an advancing baboon, reached into the spellbag and drew out a binding card.

“Here goes nothing,” he yelled and he tossed the card at Flint just before a chimera slammed him to the ground.

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High above Flint, the child screamed for help as the baboon rose higher and higher. It was getting close to the right height for full splatter.

The binding card swirled above Flint's head. He felt a prodding from the card as it tried to overcome his resistance to it. He knew he could fight back and reject the card but the pain was too much for him.

“I accept,” he yelled. “Bind me now.”

Flint felt a tether of energy lancing out of the card and penetrating to his very core. He felt strength flood into him and an awareness of his new Master.

He took a deep breath and inhaled deeply sucking in the flames. The fires entered his lungs and his stone skin turned from gray to black and began to glow from the inside, sparkling like a stone dipped in purple glitter.

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Talasin POV

* Binding complete

* Congratulations you have bound: Stone Titan

* Congratulations Stone Titan has evolved into Twilight Titan

I stood up and looked at Flint. He'd changed. His skin now looked like the midnight sky. I could feel his core pulsing in my mind. We were connected, the thought wasn't very comforting.

I sent a request through the connection and his status appeared.

*

Name: Flint

Race: Twilight Titan

Level: 5

Health: 45

Skills: Gravity Arm

Status: Angry

*

He was Hulk levels of angry. He pulled a chimera off of a woman and crushed it like a teenager squeezing a zit, of course the head popped covering me in a shower of blood.

More blood really?

I’d just showered the night before.

The woman pointed at the sky and let out a gut-wrenching scream that rang out throughout the marketplace just then the chimera released the airborne child and it began to plummet to earth.

“Do something, Flint.”

The Twilight Titan spun around and aimed his arm like it was a rocket launcher.

“Gravity Arm,” he yelled and his fist detached and sped through the air. It opened up and caught the child inches from the ground.

Flint recalled his hand and the appendage flew back and reattached to his arm.

The child slid out of his hand and the woman was there to catch him. She threw her arms around the child and both of them sobbed.

“That was bloody brilliant,” I said breathlessly.

Flint beamed, like a child whose parents had just pinned his drawing to the fridge.

Just then fireballs streaked through the sky overhead and I looked around and saw card mages led by a miniature version of Flint descending onto the scene.

Chimera’s burst into flames or were electrocuted mid air and through the smoke and chaos I saw a man on the city walls sitting on the back of a colossal grasshopper and watching the city burn.

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Acquired Spell Card: Twilight Titan

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