Like a good father, Keith Black kept constant watch over his evolving children. He cringed at the sight of the IV needles being administered to his two titans. All Kyle and Amber did was drink shakes when they were awake and get stuck with a large IV needle while they slept. Keith worried about his kids but Kyle and Amber took it all in stride until the moment of truth came.
Kyle and Amber went through their final stages of evolution in their sleep. Both kids were still looking up to their father before they went to bed that night but when they woke the next morning, Amber stood a few feet taller than her father while Kyle stood forty feet tall. Keith felt like the little man of the house now as he looked up at his two titans. Even giants like Sven Lindquist looked small next the new titans. Kyle and Amber both knew that they were bigger and stronger than almost all the adult giant except for one. They were also smarter too. Kyle and Amber gave the giants of Gaea House a glimpse into their near future as not giants but titans.
Amber helped Keith with her little brother. Both Amber and Kyle cared for Baby Ethan since Keith found the arrangement easier. Ethan could be a strain on the giant. Kyle and Amber seemed more than capable without a nanny or sitter but Kristy King still stayed at the Black’s hangar to keep an eye on them when Keith wasn’t around. Kristy observed that the much larger giants were even more docile. The rowdy Black children had changed.
The two new giants kept mainly to themselves except when it came to caring for Ethan or whenever Keith talked about Jane Lindquist and her twins. Kyle and Amber seemed genuinely interested in the Titans and her two bundles of joy. Titans are the name of the new breed of giants. They are ten times the size of humans with even much higher functions than the original giants. The seven Titan’s kept secret their extraordinary abilities from the original giants. The Gaea giants were unaware that the new titans possess every ability and every strength that all the smaller giants possess. The titans believed in peace among all and felt the smaller giants lost sight of this.
The children seemed to change by the day. The blood samples taken from the titan children proved that they were growing in more ways than one. Sven Lindquist and Doctor Vincent Gunderson studied the children and found something startling.
“The children are developing and growing faster than even the orginals,” Sven tells the giant. Vin scratched his head. “Jane’s blood hasn’t changed but the children are getting … older.”
Vin looked through the microscope which was a modified telescope. Vin’s brows knitted together.
“It makes sense. Your children and Ethan Black have been developing much faster than the Titan 5 children. Their growth and aging is much different. Keith’s Titan 10 children are still growing despite the fact their evolution ended. The speed of the aging shows that we will be having six titan adults to hide instead of one,” Vin said as he looked into the microscope.
“What about Jane and all of us that have recently started growing again?” Sven asked.
“Jane’s blood seems different. I will have to study it some more but I suspect that Jane has stopped aging all together,” Vin said as he looked up from the makeshift microscope. Something was on Sven’s mind by the way the giant stood there. Vin could see that it wasn’t Jane’s aging that concerned him. “What’s wrong Sven?” Vin then asked the giant.
“It’s Jane, she’s different now. It’s not just how big she is either. I’ve noticed a change in her. She wants me to take her and the twins to see Keith’s kids. She won’t tell me why, just that she needs to see them. She is more than large enough to overpower me but she doesn’t. She spends most of her time with the twins instead of with the other children. Elisabeth and Tomas even act strange. Jane doesn’t even spend much time with me. Sometimes I wonder if this is how the humans felt about us,” Sven confided in his fellow doctor.
“I’m sure she feels more comfortable around the twins. She probably wants to see Keith kids for the same reasons. Maybe we should look into moving the titans into a different hangar. I know Jane is too tall for the clinic doors. I’ll talk to Keith and see what he thinks. Moving the titans into one spot might not be a bad idea,” Vin tells his friend. “The years of growing up is going to happen in a matter of months for the children anyway. It’ll be easier to hide the titans.”
Months did pass and the giants continued to grow but the Lindquist twins and Keith Black’s children were the biggest surprise of all. Little Ethan Black was now a sixty-two foot titan and his older brother Kyle stood at sixty-four feet. Elisabeth Lindquist stood sixty feet and Tomas at sixty-seven feet. Amber stood fifty-eight feet tall. All the children titans were now adults and the biggest secret Gaea House had. Jane Lindquist played house mother to the titans. She was the oldest and only adult titan until the children came into their own. To the casual onlooker, the titans barely spoke a word but to the telepathic there was a lot of chatting. The titans didn’t speak unless there was something truly important to say. Needless to say, this took a strain on Sven and Jane’s relationship.
Jane barely spoke to her husband these days, whether it is vocal or telepathic. The twins would only tell him that they loved him but other than that the twins pretty much stayed to themselves too. The titans proved to be different from their smaller counterparts. The titans didn’t mean to separate themselves from the giants; it was just that they didn’t fully agree with the giants. To the titans the giants were not as peaceful or calm. They were like anxious children to the titans but the titans understood the secrecy. The mouse sized humans would definitely war with the giants if they knew about the titans.
“I wish you would talk to me Janie,” Sven said as he looked up at his wife. “I wonder if you and the others have lost your capabilities to speak.” Jane bent down and kissed Sven’s forehead and smiled.
I speak. It is just that my voice is so loud. I love you. Jane’s thoughts flooded Sven’s mind as she still smiled at him. She messed his hair and let out a silent giggle.
“I have yet to hear my full grown kids speak and I don’t mean telepathic either. Janie, I miss your voice and your stubbornness. I miss my old Jane,” Sven said with his accent escaping. Jane’s smile turned to concern.
I’m still here. I miss the way you used to hold me but Sven can’t you see, I am different now. I can’t wait till you can join me. You’ll see that being a titan is much more different than being a giant. I could see clearly as a giant but as a titan I see so much more.
“Oh Janie, I wish I could. If there was a way for me to become a titan, I would. Our children never got to be children. I feel bad for them,” Sven said, fighting with his accent and the tears.
They don’t mind. They both take after you. Elisabeth and Tomas have your heart and kindness as well as your looks. Jane’s thoughts came through. It was true. Both children turned out to be blond with Sven’s blue eyes. Tomas is the spitting image of his father but on a bigger scale. Elisabeth had Jane’s delicate nose and full lips. They love you too.
Jane and the other titans shared a secure hangar that went underground. The titans barely got to go outside and if they did it was supervised. The hangar felt like a necessary prison for the six titans. Gaea House was extremely careful in handling the titans. The titans were aware of the humans breeching the campus security and the military flying overhead but the titans decided it would be best to let the giants handle this. Their only option was to sit and wait.
Calvin Harper came forth with his condition. The public couldn’t believe the sight of the nine foot tycoon. Calvin milked it for what it was worth. His goal: to bring down The Gaea Foundation and the giants for good. He came forth to the unevolved public about Titan XL5. Backlash against the giants flooded the human community. The days of Gaea House were numbered.
Protesters began flooding the Gaea Houses worldwide. The people demanded the giants come out since all the giants went into hiding months earlier. Even the president of the United States and leaders of various countries began questioning the giants and their motives. The titans just waited but their number had expanded to seven after the giantess Emma Anderson came into her own. She insisted she be put with the other titans but never told her husband Alex why. The giants were getting irritated by the titans’ secrecy but knew they couldn’t quite fight people twice their size.
“Has it always been like this with you and Jane?” Alex asked Sven as he held his daughter.
“Ever since she grew into a titan. She acted like herself for about a week but then she began to change much like the twins. They are very quiet and secretive,” Sven tells Alex who knew that soon he would be joining the titans.
“Emma quit talking other than if she is taking care of Phoebe. It’s strange,” Alex said as he had to look down at Sven. Alex was on the verge of titanhood.
“There is something truly strange going on with our large friends. The children stopped aging. They look to be in their mid-twenties. I was hoping to have time to enjoy my twins but it never happened. Elisabeth and Ethan seemed to be a couple but they never tell me anything. It’s just the way he glances at my daughter. They haven’t shown any abilities either other than Jane reformulating the shakes and growing a garden of vegetation that puts the Gaea House gardens to shame,” Sven said.
“The humans are restless. Calvin Harper changed his game plan. The little ones still outnumber us and their hatred of us is growing stronger. Even some of the Gaea staff is turning on us. I have shelters being built for any new titans at the other houses but war looks like it’s upon us. Our small bands of aggressors are at the ready. I don’t want this but it’s going to happen. The president has sent out military orders. We need to be careful of the innocent if it comes down to it,” Alex said and an explosion erupted.