𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 & 𝙈𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙨

Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Titan War Pt5

Below the shadow of the volcano, the city's sirens blared as the evacuation ensued. But mass panic was inevitable. The streets were littered with thousands upon thousands of people all scrambling to reach the choppers and boats leading off the island. At the choppers, capacity was being rapidly reached.

"Tell them to slow it down and stand back. Repeat: stand back!" Barnes ordered to a man with a megaphone speaking spanish to translate the orders.

Behind a dashing crowd and above the building rooftops, a small rising pillar of smoke from the volcano emerged. And following this pillar of smoke, a slightly muffled, but still very audible shriek like nothing any of them had ever heard before pierced the heavens.

The ORCA's pulse began reverberating, pushed out through the speakers atop the volcano's containment barrier. It cut through the silence of the world below as the containment barrier's lid was smashed by something hidden beneath it and sent flying into the air with a fiery explosion. And along with it, a massive plume of smoke and ash emerged and filled the skies like a black mushroom cloud.

Atop the volcano, MONARCH's stationed soldiers ran too and fro to their battle stations as a massive claw emerged, and three long, sharp claws dug into the metallic platform. Shortly after, two massive horns emerged from the fires, and a head still covered in lava was soon to follow. And as the soldiers beheld the reptilian avian's rise, two glowing orange eyes snapped open, pupils dilating against the sun's light, as it shook its head throwing small spurts of lava all across the platform. One of them struck a soldier, who quickly began burning alive beneath it as his friends attempted desperately, and in vain, to free him from his molten death trap.

This winged Titan is 154ft tall, weighing 9,043 tonnes, and with a 871ft wingspan. The physique overall bears a strong resemblance to a bird of prey. The head possesses a large, heavy beak lined with tooth-like spikes and a pair of horn-like spurs curl down from the back of the skull. It has a pair of ridge-like brows and beady, yellow eyes with circular pupils. It possesses large, digitigrade avian legs, with sickle-shaped hooked claws on each foot's three large toes, and a smaller near-vestigial toe at the back similar to tyrannosaurids. The shapes of the wings (which join the wing hinge directly to the tailbone in a bat-like manner, though the legs aren't attached to the wing membrane), along with the head, give him a resemblance to traditional depictions of pterosaurs, while the tail is spade-shaped. It has a hand on each arm that is partly detached from the wing (similar to bats' thumbs), with two long fingers and a thumb which are each equipped with long claws. The skin is burgundy-coloured and possesses a texture similar to molten rock with bumps and ridges along the chest and back. The lower-edges of the wing membrane appear to be lined with heated, red-glowing cracks, making it appear as if it's wings are smoldering or are oozing lava.