“Where’s Alex?” Sven asks his titan wife who seems to have taken over the role of leader among the group of large giants that Sven has become a part of.

“He’s with Emma and Phoebe.  Phoebe is still growing.  It didn’t take long for Alex to titan up.  He woke up shortly before you did,” Jane tells her husband, grateful to fit in his arms once again.

“Phoebe is turning into a titan?” Sven said in disbelief.

“Emma feed her the formula shortly before the bombing.  Last time I checked, she looked to be five human years old.  She is growing into quite a beauty,” Jane said with a smile.  Sven felt something was wrong with Jane.  She never brought up Mike or the kids.  She appeared like she could care less about them.  Sven worried despite his new titan status.  Elisabeth and Tomas appeared to be equally as uncaring.  Even though Mike is Jane’s ex, Sven still considered him family.  In fact, Sven considered all the giants his family.

“Janie, aren’t you worried about your other children?  I know you can feel them and read their thoughts, but aren’t you in the least bit worried?” Sven asked his wife and Jane turned away in shame.  She had been too busy enjoying the peacefulness of being a titan the she forgot about those important to her.  “You were like them once,” Sven then said, not just referring to the giants but the humans as well.

“I don’t remember papa,” Elisabeth says.  “I only really remember being a titan.”

“Me too,” Tomas responded.  “From reading the others thoughts, I wish I could have been a child.”

Sven looked up at his son and then at his daughter.  They were perfect and flawless in every way.  Elisabeth and Tomas never experienced life the way most adults have.  They never so much as experienced a paper cut or scrap their knees.  The poor adult titans at that moment weren’t two adults but two children hidden in adult bodies.  Sven wanted to cry for them.  Sven didn’t feel it was right at how quickly the titans had to grow up even though the titans were pretty much immortal.

“I am having feelings for Ethan,” Elisabeth shared with her father.  “I don’t quite understand it.”

Experience had made the infants that evolved into titans almost mechanical Sven thought until he heard his daughter’s confession.  Sven put his arm around his daughter.  Elisabeth returned his hug and that was when Sven realized they understood the love of a parent.

“You are attracted to Ethan sweetheart.  It is a very adult emotion.  You may be knowledgeable on a lot of things but experience is the best teacher.  Your emotions for Ethan are very natural.  You may have understood it more if you had the chance to grow up normal,” Sven explains to his daughter.

Jane turned away in shame again.  Sven saw this and went to his wife.  “I raised them to be robots,” Jane whispers.  “I raised our twins to be robots.  I have been telling the others that we are not like them and that we should never interfere.  I have been pushing my past away in hopes of raising two perfect adults but they are not perfect, they are robots,” Jane sobbed as Sven held her close.

Ethan Black watched as Alex and Emma Anderson held the hands of their daughter who looked like a sleeping cherub.  Both the titans had tears in their eyes as they watched their once infant daughter grow and age before their eyes.  Phoebe was unaware of the growing and shifting going on in her body as her bones could be heard cracking and changing.  Ethan didn’t agree with Jane’s idea of making the infant into a titan but Jane was leading the group of titans.  He looked on at the heartbreaking scene.

Ethan thought he was lucky to have been awake through his growing process.  His father Keith would come to see him every day.  Keith made sure Kyle and Amber were there as well.  Ethan enjoyed these visits.  Sometimes they would even stay the night with the growing boy.  Ethan loved his human siblings.  By the time Ethan took on the physical presence of a five year old, he was already bigger and stronger than his father but this didn’t stop Keith from loving him.  Even Amber started getting nicer to him and it wasn’t because of his size.  Both Kyle and Amber accepted Ethan as a sibling despite his enormous size and Ethan always treated them with a gentle hand.

Ethan was an adult and he showed his concern to his father when Keith decided it was time for Kyle and Amber to join the ranks of the giants.  Ethan knew from his father’s thoughts that Kyle and Amber were going to be the first to receive the new titan shot, little did anyone know that they would be the last.  Ethan wanted his brother and sister to evolve but he didn’t think it was right robbing them of the childhood that he lacked.  Ethan’s happiest days were the days he spent being a kid.  He hated that he had to grow up so quickly but Keith and his siblings were there to show him love.

 Ethan enjoyed the human stories his father and his siblings shared with him. Most of all, Ethan wished he could’ve met his mother.  Ethan loved the stories about Kathleen most of all.  Some nights he would lay on the hard cement floor dreaming about her.  On occasion he went against his father’s no telepathy rule and fish out the memories of her from both Keith and his siblings.  Sometime that was all Ethan had to keep him from becoming like the twins.

Elisabeth Lindquist was all Ethan would think about when he wasn’t thinking of his family.  Elisabeth was the most beautiful creature Ethan had even known.  She was a statuesque ice princess that stole Ethan’s heart but Elisabeth wasn’t raised with warmth and kindness like Ethan was.  Elisabeth was raised by Jane to be a titan and nothing else.  She rarely showed emotion except when Ethan was near.  Elisabeth and her brother Tomas never spoke loudly to what they referred to as the little people.  Even Jane never used her own voice to speak to her husband that Ethan found the behavior to be both cold and odd.

“Oh Alex, Jane told me it would be for the best.  She said this is the only way we could raise our numbers,” Ethan heard Emma say to her husband.

“Our little girl,” Alex chocked out as he nuzzled Phoebe’s growing hand.  “I was hoping to have time to enjoy my sweet little girl.”

“I’m sorry Alex.  She convinced me that this would be our best option.  I should’ve spoke up,” Emma sobbed.

“I should’ve spoke up too,” Ethan whispers to himself as he watched the weeping titans.  Ethan then came up with an idea.  He was going to go to the surface to find the others.

Ethan packed a parachute with as many barrels of the new formula he could.  He decided that as soon as there was distance between him and the hangar he will contact his siblings.  Kyle and Amber didn’t agree with Jane’s fanatical ways either but they also felt they had to respect their elder.  Ethan knew Keith was safe but he wanted to see his father more than anything right now.  Even though Ethan had the knowledge of the world in his brain, his father could always teach him something new.

Ethan went to the automatic door; it was like one of those doors used in a missile silo.  The underground bunker was a hundred feet from ceiling to floor and the ladders were made to fit someone half Ethan’s size.  Ethan then remembered where the cargo elevator was.  The elevator was made to withstand heavy loads.  Ethan could see the he could easily use it.  It must’ve been made to also withstand a titan’s weight and lofty frame.  Ethan had one problem.  He hoped upon all hope that the other titans were distracted enough for him to make his escape.  He knew the others would hear the motors and mechanisms.  Ethan took his chances.

Any humans waiting topside got a few moments of their life erased thanks to a titan who remembered he possessed many talents.  Ethan moved at speeds that the various cameras couldn’t catch.  He easily stepped over the twelve foot chain link fence bordering the Gaea House property and swiftly made his way to the mountains.

Ethan had to stop momentarily when the flash of strong visions hit him.  It was of a miniature giant, the bitter tycoon Calvin Harper.  Ethan found out the evil man’s plot.  Calvin Harper wasn’t out to destroy the giants; he was working on gaining control of them.  Calvin had a recently evolved mentally disabled woman under his control by the invention of a collar.  The collar was made to fit a giant up to forty feet tall and made the giant subservient to Calvin’s every whim.  Ethan then caught sight of an army of innocent giants all under the sadistic tycoon’s control.  Calvin Harper was out to destroy humanity and control the giants.  Calvin Harper wasn’t aware of the new breed, the titans.  Ethan needed to make it to the bolt hole more than ever as he picked up his speed with the ground shaking with each step.