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I can’t. He’s my only leverage at the moment. I open my mouth with some sort of retort, but it disappears when the roaring, crashing waves drown out everything else around us. Mists and droplets of water spray us all as the waves come crashing again and again with the rising of the tides.
“We’re going to ask you one more time—” another cult member starts before they all take a step back with wide eyes.
Making sure to keep a secure grip on my hostage, I turn to look over my shoulder and almost drop him over the edge of the rocks.
What looks to be the rising of tides keeps growing into a head, shoulders, and finally tentacles beneath the eyes of a great titan. It emerges from the waters like a beast from the depths of the deepest part of the ocean, with a large cranium that juts out to the back. The glowing red eyes cut through the darkness like a demon emerging from hell.
The air intensifies with something I cannot name. It’s thick and suffocating, as if the mere presence of the thing sucks everything into an invisible vacuum. My skin prickles and my soul shrinks inside of my body, trying to escape whatever is happening.
I step back, dragging the cult leader with me, but my eyes refuse to look away from the monstrosity that continues to straighten itself on bipedal legs. A large broad shoulder doesn’t hide the inhuman wings that extrude from its back like a fleshly cape. The tentacles writhe and move as forearms wrapped in seaweed and other unknown plants reach out right in our direction.
“He comes for us!”
“He has heard our calls!”
“Our God has arrived to bless us with his power!”
I listen to the insanity of the cult as my mind races through how I could possibly outrun this creature that looks to stand at ten feet tall. The sound of creaks and water splashing off his body distracts me when his claws come within a few feet. I let the cult leader go, and leap back, slipping on the boulder and landing on my ass.
“Yes, I am the chosen one!” the leader calls out with his arms in the air as if asking for an embrace. “Please bless me with your power, oh great—”
His sentence is cut off as we all watch in horror as the creature brings his torso toward its face tentacles. It wraps around him and his praises fall from his lips, morphing into screams of pain and agony as the appendages twist his body with a loud crunch before tucking him under and shoving his body into the mouth of the God he worshiped.
I’m not staying here for another moment. I quickly scramble off the jagged rocks and toward the sands. Everyone else is still standing in place, their eyes focused on the sight before them. Do they not have any survival instincts?
The sand slows me down but it doesn’t stop me from moving around the cult and finding another hiding spot, away from the titan emerging out of the sea. Exclaims and cries of terror echo behind me as I continue to find the direction of the parking lot.
Bones crunching can be heard filling in the air, battling the screams of agony. One by one, the octofaced God devours his living sacrifices. He has to be stopped, but I wasn’t the one with any of the answers on how to achieve that.
Was he risen to destroy the world as we know it? All that I love is here and if this creature gets past us, he would bring everything we know to its knees.
I stop running. The stupid part of me believes that if I get as far away as I can, I will be safe. How the hell can one be safe from a titan? I make the only decision I can. I turn around slowly and tell myself I have to try to stop the creature alone.
The octopus creature fully exits the ocean, his giant clawed feet dig into the sand with every step. A low, rumbled croak emerges from its gut like laughter, shaking the earth and sky as he destroys everything in its path.
I quickly look around the beach and make my way around him, doubling back to the original rock formation I stood upon when I held the cult leader. What did the robed crazies call it? It had a name. It was…
“Dathrokei!” I cry out, unsure if this will work at all. “Your sacrifice is standing in front of you. Over here!” I wave my hand, telling myself how stupid I am to think this will work. “I offer you my body as a vessel!”
Because in the grand scheme of things, my body, in comparison to his, will do less damage. It makes sense. At the moment, it is the only thing that makes sense and I have to do something before he destroys the world.
The titan turns and looks at me with gleaming, red eyes that pierce the essence of my very soul as it lets out a deep throated voice.
“No mortal body can contain my power.”
My eyes want to bulge out of their sockets. It speaks and it's male. Of course, it is.
“Well, I’m all you got since you apparently killed everyone else,” I deadpan loudly.
“Derrick! Are you out of your mind? What the fuck are you doing?” James’ voice cuts through the sound of the ocean from behind me. I startle and turn to find him and the girl standing there with a look of shock and horror.
Why are they here? He was supposed to take her away from here!
“Get the fuck outta here!” I scream at him, but the ground begins to shake as the monster makes its way toward us with long strides.
“You wish to house my being and become a living sacrifice to my will. Mortal, prepare to become a God,” the creature says, sending a chill down my spine. What have I done?
His laughter booms like thunder as his entire being begins to emit a bioluminescent glow right before he beats his wings and flies high into the air. I run like a coward, going back on my offer and trying to reach James to move him away from the area.
