Chapter 4

Waking from his deep sleep, John looked around the mostly empty U-Haul, noticing that he was now laying on multiple covers, and cuddled up to his torso, with his ex-wife. The small woman almost felt like a doll, only covering part of his chest and stomach, with her full body, as she latched onto him.

Next to the sleeping woman was a running battery generator, with a night light, and small heater attached to it. Pulling his massive arm from out of the covers, he opened up Kristina’s now, toy sized purse, grabbing ahold of her compact mirror, and examined his new form, and system page.

[Titan God System]

Welcome:

Name: John Thornheart

Race: Sitecah giant [Adult]

Height: 12 foot 1 inch

Skills: Bloodhound, Forrest Jumper, Magic Sense

Life expectancy: 150 years

Evolution points: 28/40

System Mission: Retrieve Montezuma Water Orb.

Reward: Giant’s Nature Magic [Novice], Montezuma’s Water Orb

Looking at the new system panel, John was intrigued by the new rewards, and mission. Getting out his phone, he turned it on, only to realize, he couldn’t use the touch screen anymore. His fingers and palm were much too large for the screen. “Kristina… Wake up… I can’t work the phone anymore, my fingers are too big!”

Groaning as she opened her eyes, she shrieked when she noticed the growth in his figure, and the new found base in his voice. “Holy shit, I’m sorry.” Finally fully awake, she took a moment, examining and studying his body, until she was satisfied. Picking up the phone, giggling, she teased him, for not being able to use social media anymore, and search the web, “for her.” Laughing as he frowned, she finally pulled up the information he was looking for.

“There seems to be a Montezuma’s castle in Camp Verde, Arizona. If we were to drive there non-stop, it would only take us around eight or nine hours to reach it, if, we used the freeways, and main roads.

The problem is going to be finding places for you to eat. Although, if we made a bee line for the castle, by the time we got there, it wouldn’t be a problem until after. Also, although it’s not affecting us right now, I don’t have a lot of money left in my account. I’m already broke, and I know you don’t have much left either. If we are planning on leaving this place behind, we are going to need money.”

Thinking for a moment, John had a strange, and horrifying idea, brewing through his mind. “So, money and food….fine”

*POV JOHN'S BROTHER AND WIFE*

Driving to the isolated and barren desert that was pinned by my brother’s ex-wife, we made our way to the geo cache on the map. Both of us were hoping that she was telling the truth, and found something relating to the disappearances of our two daughters.

Inside of our, five hundred thousand dollar, armored SUV, we had me, and my wife, riding along with four black op mercenaries that we had bought, and brought, straight from their tour in the marines. Alongside the mercenaries, we had six bags full of unmarked, hundred dollar bills, and more ammunition and explosives than Kuwait city during the invasion.

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Inside of the SUV’s in front, and behind us, were ten highly effective, and trained mercenaries. Employed by the most infamous, para-military group on the planet, Blackwater. Of course, they had long since changed their name, after the landslide of bad P.R. from Afghanistan, but for all those who are in the know, they are still referred to as blackwater, especially in the higher echelons.

Both the lead, and trailing SUV’s, came with concealed fifty-caliber submachine guns, that deployed from the middle seat's of the center row's, and are able to lock onto the roof's of the SUV’S, forming a rapid deployment, gunner’s nest. Along with the fifty-caliber submachine guns, the SUV itself was armored like a tank.

The front, side, top, and bottom, were all rated to be able to stand a tank shell coming from a 122mm smooth bore cannon. This was, by far, one of the most armored vehicles that was somehow still legal to be able to drive on the road.

As if this was not enough by itself, all three vehicles had enough ammunition and small arms to start a war. Finally pulling into the road less area, that was mapped on the GPS, the three SUV’s stopped on the site and waited, letting the four men from the center SUV get out and secure the area.

Standing alone in the dessert was their goal. James’s brother’s wife, Kristina. Standing by herself, she was surrounded by the group of men with their rifles out, fanning out, to secure the perimeter.

Finally satisfied, they opened the door to the SUV, when James’s wife, came barreling out, screaming and cursing, “WHERE ARE THEY, YOU BITCH! WHAT HAVE YOU, AND THAT FAT LOSER DONE TO THEM?! ALL OF THIS, FOR A PALTRY FEW DOZEN MILLION DOLLARS! YOU POOR PEOPLE DISGUST ME!”

One of the soldiers in black stopped the mad woman from getting closer to, and attacking, Kristina, as James made his way to her, followed by all six bags of money in tow.

Smiling, she couldn’t help but take a jab at his wife in passing, “Maybe we disgust you, because we remind you of who you kicked down to get where you are, but I’m sure you and James wouldn’t waste your time remembering all the people you have walked on your whole lives. Hehehehe.”

Finally standing in front of Kristina, James asked the question that had been gnawing on his mind. “Was it him, at the store?” Smiling, she began speaking to him as she had imagined, for all those years being married.

“I’m not sure, maybe you could ask the professors, from the college that was bought for you. Not that it mattered to you though, as you never used the degree. I suppose you could ask the employees from the gold store bought for you, but money doesn’t seem to buy peoples loyalty, does it?

Tell me, did it ever occur to you that while you had your life bought and paid for all expense, your brother was drowning in debt and clawing to survive? Did you know, that during college, he was so exhausted from working and studying that he collapsed?

Not long after, he ran out of money, and had to walk to class. Five miles there and back to the shitty apartment every day. Finally flunking out, after getting walking pneumonia, and almost dying, but none of your family cared. Not even when he tried to off himself from the stress and failure He only wanted to make a better life for me and him.

Not to mention what you did when you knew your dad was going to pass. Just looking at you now, makes me sick, and your little evil bastards were just as evil as their parents.” Interrupting her, James screamed! “What have you all done to them?!” Tell me!” “We have the money now!” “What the hell difference does it make how I treated everyone?”

Laughing as she began retreating, and walking backwards into the dessert, she pointed down, hysterically laughing. BOOM! A massive 12 foot giant came crashing out of the dessert floor. Grabbing ahold of two of the military men, and smashed them into the nearby SUV. "AAAAAHHHH!!!"

Looking down, James saw the legless torso of one of the guards, previously caught in the grasp of the behemoth, screaming for help, but the attack was not over. BOOM! The SUV was sent tumbling as the giant rammed it, and the back SUV deployed its fifty Cal, rat, tat, tat, tat, tat. AAAAAHHHHHH! FUCK!!!

The monstrous giant, ducked behind the flipped SUV, and ripped its doors off, grabbing and tossing the occupants inside into the fire of the fifty Cal, cutting them in half and pumping them full of steel. Kill IT!! FUCK EM UP!! The fifty Cal kept shooting, as the men from the trailing SUV, and the survivors from the initial assault, began circling the flipped SUV, using the fifty Cal as suppressing fire. RAT, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat.

Finally getting around the destroyed SUV, they circled into the monsters line of fire. Finding nothing behind it. Stunned, they began clearing the area behind the SUV, and circling around the whole area. “Where the hell is he?” shouted James as he tried to console his now terrified wife.