It's London and Its raining. The windows of the 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment make this creaking sound that Theo just can't bear hearing. When it shakes he can feel the cold attack his feet right through his blanket. It's a bitter sweet feeling cause it gives you a chance to cling to his blanket even harder.
The man sleeping in the bed has disheveled long hair. His hair is a light brown and he has bright blue eyes. His skin is oddly pale and his body is large and heavy.
Theo usually wakes up by 6, most superheroes do have to wake up early. Cause crime could happen any time, a fiend could spawn at any time.
Not that Theo could stop anything.
His only superpower is limitless regeneration without the immortal part cause God said oh you'll regenerate, you can't be killed and you can't get sick but you're still going to die though.
What bull shit
The only plus side to being unkillable is the part where Theo drinks his life away and still not drink his life away. He can get high and not worry about cancer. That's the only good thing about this cursed superpower if you can even call it that.
He sits up slowly emerging from the blankets like the hung over human abomination he is. He had no idea how last night went, and not in the He got lucky and finds a girl asleep way.
He basically emptied a bar he thinks. Across him is a counter with what, you could count like 10 empty bottles there. His room is damp with large windows to the left where he gets a nice view of the screaming dumb driving fucks the country calls civilians.
He feels like going to America. The people there are more mean but at least his accent doesn't stand out there.
" Aaaagh "
He clings to his forehead hard. Theres a sting as his brain tries to recall fleeting memories.
Shit. Having a hangover sucks. His mother did always say drinking is enjoy now and wish you hadn't later. Advising a son you'd eventually disown. Well it was good advice.
Theo moves to the side of his white sheet bed. His muscles are weak enough to lose an arm wrestling match with an old lady. He looks to the windows and then rubs his eyes, gets up feeling like a cripple. To the right of his room are five doors and at the other side of them is a hall that leads to any other part of the apartment.
He can feel each hair of his rug on his feet.
Theo's room is like a cess pool of stinky clothes, emptied beer bottles, magazines and half eaten pizzas.
The best thing about it are his large TV and his pc.
He takes off his pajamas and walked through his hall way half naked. He's walking slowly while putting his hands on the wall so he doesn't fall.
His long brown hair is left in a mess. He washes his face or at least does something close and puts his toothpaste on his...,
Wait where is it. Ah there. He grabs his toothbrush and applies the paste then holds the paste to his mouth and presses hard.
Then he just brushes away till it all dissolves and turns white.
When he's done he throws water to his face and holds the sink staring at his reflection in the mirror
His eyes are baggy, he hasn't shaved, he's probably going to get killed today, maybe twice. Enduring all that pain for 5000 dollars a month. He's currently posted in London but he works under one of the worst superhero cooperations in America stationed in miami.
And everyday they get closer to laying him off.
Why did he even become a superhero in the first place. 10 years, more than a third of his life thrown away into this and for what
" How the fuck did I get he_
Happened faster than any body could react. The exploson was loud and just like that the skyscrapers top half was gone.
It was Ike a bomb. In a second half of Theo's apartment was gone and so was his upper body. He looks up and there's nothing there.
Thank god his room wasn't a floor higher.
He was sent flying into the rubble. His whole apartment was reduced to dust and debris.
He had lost half his upper body.
That fleshy sound began and he instantly regenerated from under the rubble.
Veins pulling out of and into each other, his bone marrow multiplying, his muscles coming back, tendons clinging, arteries being made.
The Skelton's form first and then the nerves and artiees cling, the muscle grows itself on the nerves. The body makes adjustments s it regenerates ( sometimes it doesn't get on the first try ).
The hair forms just as it was before being disintegrated and then his eyeballs are usually the last thing to form. But the nerve and veins were always the most painful.
He pushed the rubble from his top and the first thought that came to his mind was to scream. Even though Theo regenerates he still feels all the pain of losing half his upper body. If you decapitate him it would take a few seconds or even less for his head to comeback but it'll comeback screaming because Theo feels the pain of being decapitated for about an hour.
But it does get better as time passes. The shitty part is sleeping on a pillow or having a kid tap your neck.
He holds onto his mouth to stop himself from screaming. Whatever caused this was close by.
The tears flow and there's just nothing he can do but hide and not scream. The pain is so severe he's bitting deep into his hand. Regenerating and biting harder.
Whatever monster hit this building. To cause this amount of damage, It had to be a Behemoth or higher. And he couldn't stand a chance against a wraith class last week.
Then he heard it. Growling that had an echo. A voice that was so primal and sinister he could lose his mind from just hearing it.
The voice grew louder. It was getting closer.
Quickly Theo ran to the rubble that used to be his bedroom and hid there.
He tried to be as quiet as he could.
Even if it couldn't kill him. People don't realise how much it hurts to be killed cause they die. They don't get hit by a car again and again and a again and again.
Theo doesn't. The fear of knowing and feeling your body experience life ending injuries over and over and over, thats something he has never gotten used to.
And he's been a superhero for so long. So so long. He doesn't deserve this. He doesn't deserve anything so why this.
The growl grew louder and that thing was getting closer. Theo didn't know if he was just freaking out but he could swear that thing was looking for him.
His breathing grew desperate. What is this thing. He had to know what it looked like.
Not knowing what was looking to kill him seems to make it worse.
He leaned in his whole body covered in dust and saw the creature.
Then he wish he hadn't.
" Why god, why do you create these things ".
A humanoid creature. Crocodile like. It was an all black and had scales that looked like they wouldn't budge only if hit by a homing missile or a torpedo, at least 7 feet tall. Blue glowing horns and eyes.
It had large claws and a very very strong build. It's spine grew out as spikes from its back and ran all through to its tail that was much longer than itself.
The air around it was heavy and seemed to be distorted. Warped in a way. So this is what a titan class looked like up close. It's the second he's ever seen.
The first he'd seen so close. He remembers seeing a glimpse of the 100 metre long dragon that attacked new York just before it died.
But this shit. This is some messed up mutant cosmic crocodile demon.
" What the fuck is that thing ".
The fiend turned to the haggard breathing
Theo directly made eye contact with it. Terrible, terrible glowing blue eyes. Reminded him of the eyes of his family.
He hid behind the rubble. Covering his mouth trying to reduce the sound of his panic but he knew very well what was coming. Those heavy footsteps that quickly grew louder.
" I am fuck_
The explosion erupted. Destroying almost half of the whole building and reducing Theo to a_
Yeah whatever you could call that.
There were pieces of his ribs, spine and a leg.
Like the first explosion but this one was a direct hit. My God the force, it sent him flying out of the building Into another one. The shock waves broke all the glass windows of the second building before he even crashed into it
His leg was on a car wind shield and his head was now a mesh.
His body regenerated again instantly but this time he was butt naked. His pants were reduced to ash.
He screamed very loudly. Felt like his whole body was ripped to shreds.
No.
It WAS ripped to shreds.
He started crying, wailing in pain even after he was fully regenerated and then holds his mouth again but he can't stop. It's just so painful to feel pain that you can't see.
" In and out Theo, oh please, please go away. In and out, in..,arghhh. In and out ".
When the pain subsided, Theo took a big breath. He didn't know why the titan fiend wanted to kill him.
This wasn't the first time a fiend took interest in killing him. But not a Titan and not with this much fucking determination.
Whatever this things deal was. It hated him like it was personal
It was a goal, like he needed to die.
Heh good luck with that. It can make him experience hell on earth but it can't actually send him to hell.
Theo got up from the white office floor. He could see two bright twinkles.
The titans eyes glaring at him. He needed to run. He pulled out remnants of broken glass from his back. Then he ran towards the broken balcony.
Then he leaped.
Theo walked to a broken balcony and looked down. There panicked people and small fires.
Some were already dead.
He took in a deep breath then he raised his leg over the balcony then his other leg till he was sitting on the hand rail keepibg himself up with his hands.
He dared to look forward. Shit that blue flicker was growing brighter. Theo forced himself to look back down. Closed his eyes, let out a deep breath and let go.
He fell.
As he plunged to the ground, the wind forced his eyes open. He saw his decapitated head in pieces on a broken glass hanging on a broken beam.
So that's what I look like.
Theo held on to his core and exerted all his muscles. The pain of falling 70 metres down would be nothing compare to what that thing did.
He lies to himself
Impact.
His body thuds to the floor and breaks splashing blood all around.
Ahhhahhhhhh Shiiit!
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK_ FUUUUCK. "
He screamed again. A naked man screaming. It regenerates and he holds in his screaming but Theo's crying only Intensifies. For a few seconds he could feel a complete lack of breathing. Likely his lungs being ruptured.
" Hhhh-hughhh. Oh why ".
He grabbed his chest violently trying to force the pain away.
Why would this happen to him. What does a monster want with him. Theo raises himself up holding on to his back even though it has completely healed.
Through years of pain Tho got the habit of biting into the palm of his hand so he could distract himself from whatever fatal injury he just received
Yet sometimes it's never enough. The pain from breaking your spine and lower legs downer go away no matter how hard he bites his hands.
He's walking slowly waiting for the pain to just go away.
As he shuffled step after step, staggering right and left holding his mouth and crying.
Theo looked up at his apartment tower. Half of it was gone.
Is this the power of a Titan.
The black smoke turned the sky black.
Likely it's Archaic dominion, some sort of fucking exploding pin j enough to level a house in seconds.
He squeezed his stomachharder just as he layed eyes on all the dead who were now mere smoke.
He couldn't take it anymore. His knees gave out from fear and Theo fell down hard on his shins brushing it but off course it healed. He's just a regular sad guy, just a regular guy who's family threw him out and lives alone. Loneliness isnt something you get used to but at least it doesn't hurt this much.
No one stopped to see why a large slovenly disheveled naked man was crying. They were either running for their lives, trying to find their children or sadly trying to find their parents.
Theo sat on the hot rough road watching the chaos as it came to him. He knew what he had to do. A plan that involved a shit load of pain A lot of pain huh. That was something he was willing to take.
He got up and he ran but not with the crowd. Away, as fast as he could. Away from the civilians.
Theo was faster and stronger than a regular human. He could not outrun a supercar but he could still reach 160km per hour bare foot.
He was moving fast making sure to change direction so he wouldn't run over anyone.
He ran and he ran and he ra_
BOOM. The sound caused a repelling shockwave that caused windows miles away to shatter.
" Fuck, Fuck, Fuck. Oh why this ". If he had to guess that last punch took the lives of fifty people.
Another hit
And another fifty people. The hits were getting closer. It was looking for him. These things. These Fiends, they don't deserve to live. They don't deserve to fucking live.
. He reached an alleyway far from the commotion.
" Boom ". The dust through the air along with screams and death.
He heard another explosion. Louder than the last two.
There was so much, just so much. In a second a hundred people breath their last.
He knew it would not take long for the monster to find him. He sat and held on to his head, closing his eyes and crying swinging forward and backwards clinching on to his skin as hard as his nails could allow.
Tears dropped down his face. A plan where he simply sat and took it. No pain that he'd ever felt in his life could hold a candle to what was coming.
The Titan jumped 50 metres into the air and landed causing a depression on the ground.
It's distorted grunts made the air so heavy Theo could not get up. He could only sit there waiting for the monster to find him and keep beating him till everyone was evacuated.
The creature sniffed the air and it was getting closer to it's target. Theo could hear the massive footsteps as they came. Closer and closer.
When it found him, Theo was 17 feet away from it. To it's right in an alleyway crying, eyes closed.
Then it let out a loud roar. The roar caused a shockwave that blew away everything within a mile including Theo skin and bones.
The monster appeared instantly to his back. Ben didn't know what was happening. He was prepared to take whatever pain was coming.
Even if he died, what had his life ever amounted to. His loss would be nothing compare to any of the people running and screaming. Dieing would be a small price to pay.
The fact that he wouldn't die and would only feel pain made this not a heroic sacrifice but a way to give value to his sad life.
That was how Theo saw it
The first punch crushed him completely that he looked like a worm only with broken bones protruding out of it. He was about to scream but the second punch took of his head.
Then the flurry began.
The Titan was punching harder, faster than Ben could regenerate. There was enough blood around to drown a person.
The buildings around there were all rubble. Theo was in a state of consciousness and unconsciousnes. Transcending from the present reality and the dark dream world.
He would take this beating till a hero came. Or
He would just take it. Just take it. At least like this no one has to die
He would take the beating till a hero came. He couldn't even scream. Even if just a millimetre of his teeth formed, it would be destroyed again. So how could he form a whole mouth to scream.
Minutes passed and the Titan showed no sign of slowing down. It was punching Thei till he was a mixture of paste and fragments of bone then till he was just blood. With each punch the depression in the ground doubles in diameter.
Now a whole valley formed and in the centre was a pool of red blood and a sickening sound of punching. Everything, died in red.
After some more, everything went black for Ben. He was now away from the present and in the dark dream world.
He was asleep. None existent. If the creature stopped punching his being would form but slower.
That was the difference for Theo.
When he slept his regeneration was 50 percent slower.
The dream world was how Theo lost consciousness. When he received more damage than his body could form and he was in a degenerative state like being a pool of blood and small bits of flesh then he would enetre the dark dream world.
Usually he would see glimpses if the time he still had a family. Glimpses of his younger brother Baran.
Or he would see a fake world where he wasn't such a sad loser.
But now the dream was different
He was in a dark world. There are valleys up in the sky. No a whole new world in the sky. There was no sun only a large glowing moon that illuminated the ever night world and led large wolves the size of mountains to howl. A sound that was the silence itself in this place of dark dreams.
A large water fall of blue sea water connected the sky valley to the terrain which Theo lay.
The mountains all-round were black and the ones in the sky land were covered in fog or were they clouds.
Theo was on the ground staring at another world where the sky should be.
He saw several people there staring back at him. Their faces upside down each of them on long tops of the sky mountains. One of them grabbed a vine from the giant tree and leaped down a cliff towards Theo till the vine swung no more.
She swung back and forth and when the vine paused. She looked to Theo and extended her hands to him.
Theo couldn't make out what she looked like. Only her hair was longer than the dark world itself.
Like a god
Theo raised his hand to her.
He knew what he wanted. A being, an angel to take him away from all of this suffering. When they finally touched...,
Theo rose up from his sleep. He was in a cold sweat. He looked around. It was a hero hospital. He rubbed his eyes and rubbed his whole face. Felt like he was still being punched.
Then he touches his right shoulder and after a second the pain was gone.
Hospital beds always suck.
He held on hard to his temples trying to get out the stinging pain. The pain as memories of his dream were playing in his head. Shit is worse than a hangover.
When was the last time he had a fever dream?
He tried to stand up but ended up coughing blood.
His patient gown was white but the type that had small blue squares spread all around. Well now it has the blood of the unkillable on it.
His body was still regaining his strength and trying to stand was a losing battle so he just let himself fall back down into the white hospital bed.
The room was all blue concrete walls but the ceiling was white. There was a cold AC that made him wish hospital blankets were longer. The cold caused his skin to turn rough.
He coughed again and bit his lip as his body repaired his internal organs.
Then Theo turned his head to his right. There was a curtain there. Transparent enough that he could see a shadow of another patient but opaque enough that that was all He could tell. He didn't want to think about where he was, who the patient was, what happened to the monster or how many people died. All he knew was that he was alive as always and he was tired, really really tired.
Too tired to acknowledge tragedy, too tired to it, too tired to deny it.
He looked to the table to see if any letters or flowers were sent.
Sure enough there were none.
He wouldn't expect less.
He looked backed up and wiped his eyes. Then he let his head fall to the left and slowly closed his eyes. He held his bedcover hard and squinted his eyes harder making the tears trickle down his face and fall of his chin.
" I'm sure many people have died ".
He gasps and rests his eyes. Then He fell asleep.