By all accounts, the City was buzzing with the news of free samples. They weren't discussing having gotten the goods themselves but more the manner in which Titan was trying to give them away.
He was yelling at the top of his lungs. The noise was so audible that when the doorways opened at the right time, the noise even penetrated into Kinky Tower. Needless to say, Titan was determined to find someone worthy of being his Guinea Pig. They would squeal to all their friends and then, like magic, he'd have a line of volunteers.
While musing to himself, Titan kept a strict eye out of potential people to `boast` about his cookies.
".. I guess I don't have the right milkshake." Titan waded through people for about an hour until he had had enough. The news had spread, it just hadn't spread at a speed that he could see.
Vella deposited the most recent batch of cookies to the girl at the counter, this time, she just left the spacial ring as well. Walking outside, she saw Titan hovering above a crowd asking if anyone was sick and willing to eat his cookie. The sight was something unexpected, she fell into a fit of laughter.
Titan immediately noticed and landed next to her rolling body.
'HAH Hahh ha' Vella held her stomach while she laughed. "Gimme those.." Vella jumped up and snagged the four cookies from Titan's hand and flew back to where he was flying just moments before.
"Free cookies but only for sick people. Its four cookies, doesn't anyone in this place need help?" Vella waited and she swore she heard a cricket sounding but that was impossible, they were in the City.
Titan was about to call her back but his speech was interrupted. A man in marshmallow-like pants came through the crowd. "I'll take one."
"You don't look sick." Vella doubted the man outright, she continued, "Free Medicine Cookies for the Sick!" Her voice traveled just as far as Titans.
"It's not for me, its for.. my Brother." The puffy pants man stuck his hand out.
"Sorry, these will only make it into the hands of the sick. Anyone else??" Vella spun in the air, her tits swung with her dress but had a slight lag.
The onlookers couldn't look away.
"I can use one." A mousy voice came from inside the crowd of people, they were noisy and even she could barely hear her own words.
Vella immediately noticed but waited for the girl to have the courage to come up.
A few objections started flying around, someone pushed the little girl out of the way and rushed toward the circle of people to see what all the fuss was about like they hadn't heard a word of the yelling.
Titan's eyes glared the man but it was Vella who had lost her patience.
A deep violent urge crept in from behind the man's shoulders.
Vella had wrapped her tail around the man's throat and thrown him clear across the street. "You dare hit a child.. in front of ME!" Ripping threads of energy started to arrive around her wings, Vella was supporting herself in the air but she was thoroughly pissed off.
Five blades of dark energy flew toward the man, Titan stepped in and blocked the killing blow. It stung more than he thought it would. Giving it some more thought, he knew that he should have used nature magic to dispel the incoming attack but he also figured that Vella would withdraw the attack.
"Vella!" Titan's wrist was scored, he pointed at her hands and the four cookies had been crushed into oblivion.
"FUCK!" Vella stamped her foot.
Landing, she approached the little girl and picked her up. "Sorry, I got angry and crushed those cookies but its okay, I know where to get some more." Vella booped the girl's nose and flew way from the crowd.
Titan saw some people collecting the crumbs that had fallen to taste the medicine's efficacy, most of them didn't eat it.
One man in particular caught his interest, he was more interested in the properties within the cookie itself. Instead of the usual taste testing, he brought out a vial and put the cookie inside. When the vial had enough of the bits inside of it, he pulled a strange bottle from his storage and poured a single drop of its contents into the Vial with the cookie.
"Um... Excuse me. Is there something wrong with my cookie? Are you testing for poisons?" Titan knew alarmists would just at anything to demonize that which they do not understand. He was ready to jump out in front of the slander but the man shrugged.
"Poison? Hmm.. Yes, Poison.." the man looked like he was deep in thought and paying close attention to the sample vs cookie vial to observe their interaction. After speaking, he didn't respond again.
Titan had seem some strange people before but the man was giving him the creeps. "So, what's the conclusion?" He already knew the cookie wasn't poisoned, there was no way the middle aged man could accuse him otherwise.
It took less than a minute but the Vial started to show some strange changes, it shifted in color and burst.
The glass shattered in the man's hands and he freaked out. Grabbing whatever pills he had on him, he was about to stuff them into his mouth to counteract the poison but he hadn't felt the pain. 'The bits..'
Staring at the bits that were laying on the street, the old man didn't know what to say. His face changed a few times before he said anything. "I can't believe it, the poison.. it's been purged, my best poison, thwarted by a fucking cookie." He picked up the largest chunk that had survived and squished it between his fingertips.
"But how?" His gaze turned to Titan. The man pulled out a long green staff, it held a stinger at one end and was wrapped in delicate metals. He slammed it into the pavement and gasses began to flow outward. "Sixty years of development, more than two thousand slain.. and you beat my poison back with a cookie?"
Everything the Gas touched, it began to erode.
"You can't act like this in the City, Guards!" One of the onlookers ran to get help, he was struck down by the poison that had worked its way through his system.
When the onlooker foamed at the mouth, fell over and died, many others started to flee in terror. They didn't know what was going on and none of them wanted to be the next victim.
Puerto De Paulo was a well guarded City, in a matter of moments, the poisoner was surrounded by soldiers. 'Huah!' they shouted in unison.
The squad leader, Captain Rhodia put his hand up. "Puerto De Paulo is not a playground. Surrender now and the Council will hear your argument fairly."
"Argument!" His eyes turned gloomy. "Argument! This isn't a fucking argument! Six Decades of work, the strongest poison my sect has to offer and this purple bastards fucking cookie breaks it? Like hell this is an argument. This is War!!"
Purple smoke exploded everywhere. Like a huge bomb had gone off, the plume stretched into the sky and filled the western section of the City. It looked like no where was safe.
Screams came from some of the guards, within the purple cloud, they had been attacked.
Titan slammed his feet against the pavement and threw himself into the air. As he beat his wings, the smoke started to clear and he was able to get a better view of the guards who had been slain. Their bodies, although dead, were still foaming and in a state of constant decay.
The extent of the poisonous cloud's potency was unclear, everyone was different in their ability to combat certain poisons and toxins that entered the body.
Corrosive Poison however, was mostly simple to gauge. It was chemistry. Titan knew that if he didn't act, it was likely that many of those around would die.
'The cookie breaks it?' Titan thought about why the cookie would beat the poison back, 'it was just an edible. A powerful one but still, it was just an edible. It could be a combination of the ingredients.'
Titan had fought off poisons before with the Cookie but he even figured that it was due to properties of the cannabis extract. 'The poisoner said the cookie broke a sixty year killing spree, that means it's no ordinary poison.'
There were an abundance of items in Titan's collection but nothing he had was prepared for mass dispersion.
Breaking out a large Jug, then three barrels, Titan sighed.
"This better work." The timing was not important, what was important was that he start immediately. Titan kicked over the jug and elemental fire rolled out. The barrels were consumed by fire and a thick, heavy plume of smoke started to spread. It drifted with the wind and followed the path of the first explosion.
Titan was flying above it with his face covered, he had confidence in his tolerance levels but he wasn't going to risk his concentration. With each beat of his wings, the smoke started to spread and those that were not dead began to show signs of improvement.
The poisoner had used the opportunity to vanish from sight, Titan scanned the area with his spiritual sense but he couldn't find any trace of the man. Knowing that he was on the radar of someone that had the capability to cause massive casualties around him, Titan was not thrilled at the prospect.
After helping the guards up, he turned and went to Kinky Tower.
Though he was mad about the loss of a Jug of elemental Fire Essence, Titan was more pissed off that fifteen gallons of extract had just been consumed to save the residents. That was the harvest he had so planned on keeping to himself for the future.
Titan had burned his stash but it was his own choice to have done so. He could have easily escaped the area and left the others to die but then, he wondered what he would have thought of himself afterward.