The Rise

Behemoth stared up at the tower in silence. The 1400ft steel tower was a marvel of human ingenuity and teamwork. It's tinted windows giving it the illusion it was made of gold. Unfortunately, the sun had already gone down behind the mountains. At the moment, the towers entrance was lit up by the street lights that lined the street. Behemoth huffed and approached the towers main entrance. Behemoth saw a stone slab on the front of the building. He walked over and read it.

The Gold Tower
Constructed in 1974
on the grounds of the famous Canterlot Castle of old.
Meant to be a shining beacon of English expansion.
Until the castle was burned to the ground during the Revolutionary War.
Now a museum to Canterlot's rich medieval history.

Behemoth read the title with interest. He hadn't expected to find out a castle used to be here of all places. The place looked like the ghetto. There was more text, but behemoth ignored it. Opting for the inside experience. He opened the doors and proceeded inside. The door was locked, but behemoth easily pulled the knob off. It was a good thing behemoth disguised himself as an elderly old man. He summoned a cane with his magic and slowly walked inside. A security guard saw behemoth enter and walked up to him.

"I'm sorry, sir. The museums closed for tonight." The guard said, wondering how behemoth walked in. He kept his right hand on his side with the taser just in case. Behemoth looked at him with oblivious eyes as he was tugged back to the door.

"This is a museum, I thought this was the car garage? Behemoth innocently asked. Behemoth made note of the security cameras locations before being turned back to the door. He dropped his cane on purpose with a devious smile.

"Ooh, would you be a lad and pick my cane up, sonny." Behemoth asked politely. The guard bent down to grab the cane, not noticing behemoth wave his arm towards the security cameras. He channeled his magic and turned them off.

"Here you are, sir." He smiled giving the cane to behemoth. He happily grabbed the cane and turned around.

"Thanks for the help." Behemoth said. The guard turned around and walked back to his post. Behemoth used his magic to turn the cane into a spear and turned back around. He lunged it towards the guard who hadn't noticed a thing. The tip of the spear made impact and stabbed him straight through the chest. He fell to the ground with a thud.

Behemoth smiled at his deception and and pulled the spear off the guard. He used his magic and split the spear into two wooden blades. He whistled towards the elevator, twirling the blades around in his magical grasp.

He clicked the button that went to the top floor and stood there waiting. The elevator closed with a ding and moved upwards, music playing in the background. Behemoth recognized the multiuniversal tune and whistled to it. He didn't know why he was suddenly feeling so happy, but who was he to deny a good time when it had him involved.

The elevator stopped and dinged a final time before opening up infront of two lone guards in an empty hallway. They turned around not expecting anyone to come up here. Behemoth walked forward, flicking the wooden knifes into the men's heads before they could even react. He grabbed a gun from the men's body and walked to the end of the hallway. He opened the door infront of him and walked into a lounge area. The men were playing pool or sitting on the couch watching a movie. The men were so busy playing pool and watching the movie they didn't notice behemoth had walked into the room. He fired into the men playing pool first and landed each shot in the chest. They all fell on the ground and bled out from their injuries.

The men watching the film quickly stood up, pulling out their own guns. They fired at behemoth who rolled over to the pool table . He flipped it over and used it as cover, the hard surface blocking the bullets from penetrating. The men also flipped the couch over and used it as cover. Behemoth could hear the men holler to each other. The audio from the movie blocked his advanced hearing from advancely hearing their dialogue. He shot the Tv in anger. The screen flickered and died out. The men watched as the Tv behind them died. One of them started to sniffle from its untimely demise. They fired into the pool in retaliation, their bullets having no luck in getting through.

One of the men lifted their head up from the couch and was shot immediately in the face by behemoth. His head bobbed back and fell down. He could hear their cries directed at their fallen comrade. Behemoth whispered a song while he was reloading. The men took the chance and fired more bullets into the pool table. One of them hitting behemoth in the shoulder. He looked at the bullet hole in his suit and roared. He crouched up and pushed the pool table forwards until he was a foot away from the couch. He jumped over the pool table and shot the men. The men were too busy reloading to do anything. They screamed and fell on the ground.

Behemoth didn't have time to relax when he suddenly heard a door getting kicked down. He turned to see a man with a shotgun aim towards his face. He ducked in cover under the couch, avoiding the bullets in time.

"Do you have any idea who you're dealing with? You're dead you son of a bitch!" He yelled, firing into the couch. Fluff and leather flew off the couch in an explosion as the couch crumbled to pieces. Behemoth quickly slid on the wooden tile and shot the man. The gun shot causing the man to accidentally fire the shotgun upwards to the room above him. He fell on the floor with a thud and made no move.

Behemoth looked around and saw no one left alive and continued on his way. He picked up the dead man's shotgun and walked to a door. He opened the door to see a hallway filled with men and a flipped over table. A man came out from the side and knocked his shotgun off his hands. Behemoth growled and uppercutted the mans head, turning it upwards at a impossible angle. The men on the other side of the hallway fired into behemoth. He grabbed the man's body and used it as a shield. The bullets landing on the body decorated the walls with blood splatter. The guards took cover behind the table and reloaded. Behemoth grabbed his shotgun and fired into the table. The shotgun blast was enough to tear a hole through and hit both men hiding behind it.

Their screams echoed in the narrow hall before bleeding out from their wounds. Behemoth walked through the now empty hallway and was greeted by a door covered in lion drawings. They were roaring and striking a pose. One of the illustrations had a lion biting into a gazelle. It was a nice door. The knob was also a lion face. He turned the lion door knob and entered a nice apartment room with 2 floors. The apartment took one side of the entire building. He saw a couch on the side and a small kitchen. In the front of the room was a man sitting in his desk, smoking a cigarette. He was a beige man with grey hair and a large scar across his eye. He looked at behemoth with a smile and started slow clapping.

"You must have the biggest balls to ever walk the earth to get here like you did." He said, turning the security monitor on his desk.

"I saw what you did back there. How you uppercutted that guys neck and used his body as a shield. That makes you cool as fuck in my book." He compliments, pointing at the bodies behemoth made. Behemoth saw the bodies and could only grin at his work.

"But... I know that's not why you're here." Neo said, getting up from his chair. He turns and looks out the night sky of the city. Smoking the cigar as he looked at the moon.

"It's for Dodge, am I right?" Neo said, turning towards Behemoth. Behemoth only turns his head in response. Neo raises his eyebrow and stifles a laugh.

"So it's not for, Dodge." He said, walking towards a refrigerator in the room. He grabs two glass cups and walks to the couch. He puts them on the table in the middle and relaxes on the recliner. He looks at behemoth with an uninterested stare. He makes a motion for behemoth to sit on the couch. Behemoth follows along and calmly walks toward the couch. He sits on the couch and feels the warmth on it.

"Got a name?"

"I have had many names in my lifeti-"

"Alright, shut the fuck up. I asked for a name not a damn backstory. " Neo calmly mumbled. Behemoth's nostrils flare up and he leans in forward in anger. Neo sees this and smiles at the reaction, behemoth restrains himself and leans back into the couch.

"Behemoth." He growls, folding his arms in anger. Neo smiles and pours alcohol into both and grabs a cup.

"Mine's Neo." He said. He gives the cup to behemoth, who takes it and drinks it in one gulp. Behemoth makes no hint to any pain after chugging down the alcohol, which interests Neo. Neo drinks his while looking at behemoths face. When nothing happens, he could only look on in silent disbelief.

"Well, damn." Neo said out loud, pouring more into both cups. Neo takes the cigarette out of his mouth and put it in the ashtray in the middle of the table. He leans to the side and spits into the trash can. He leans back and reorientates himself back into his relaxed position.

"So, what the hell are you?" He asks, knocking behemoth off guard. Neo should not have known he wasn't human. He tried remembering if he gave himself away on those cameras. He was sure there was none on him when he absorbed the bodies. Neo was grinning the whole time, like he had solved a puzzle.

"Bet you're wondering how I knew you weren't human." Neo said, calmly drinking a sip of alcohol. Behemoth nodded his head

"I poisoned your cup with the amount that could kill a human. Yet you're still alive." Behemoth looks at his cup, and crushes it in anger. He roars, standing up and flips the table, breaking its glass surface. He could not believe he was found out by a human. He looked at Neos face and only saw the same uninterested stare. He snorts his nose and closes his eyes. Neo was about ask what he was doing, until the building started to shake. He looked at behemoth and saw a yellow mist begin to travel around his body. When it did the yellow mist flashed brighter and brighter. Neo couldn't see anything except the light.

"Now we're getting somewhere." Neo said, looking on at the yellow light. He pulls out sunglasses from his jacket and puts them on.

When the light died down, the building stopped shaking and behemoths true form appeared throught the mist. Neo looked at him in amazement. He had been expecting a little green reptilian. Behemoth looked around. He looked down at Neo, who was laughing and clapping his hands.

"Holy shit! Now why didn't you come to me looking like that?" He said, getting up. Behemoth sat back down on the couch. It's supports somehow handling the weight of the minotaur. Neo sat back down and they started talking.

"So, you're not here because of dodge and you're clearly not here to kill me." He inquired.

"Why are you here and not talking with the president?" He asked, drinking his alcohol.

"I'm not here to talk with presidents. I have a more destructive goal."

"You planning to blow a building up?" He asked, pouring more alcohol into their glasses.

"The planet." He said. Neo smiled and laughed as he looked up at his face. He stopped smiling and ended his laughter when he saw his serious expression.

"You're serious?" Neo asked. Behemoth nodded and drank his alcohol.

"Now why the fuck would you want to do that?" He asked, feeling like a headache was forming.

"Reasons you personally would not understand."

"So you just gonna blow the whole planet up with your alien buddies?" Neo assumed.

"I don't have friends."

"Oh lord." Neo facepalmed, leaning back into the couch. The stress was starting to give him a headache. Neo looked back up at him, an idea forming in his head. He pulled out his phone and checked the time, placing down on the table.

"I'm getting some air, come with me!" He ordered. Behemoth followed closely behind him as they walked up the stairs towards to a door. Neo opened the door revealing it to be a landing pad. Neo lit up a cigarette as the breeze flew the smoke away. He took a breathe and turned and faced behemoth.

"Alright here's the deal. I help you in exchange for my life and whoever I choose." Neo bargained. Behemoth raised an eyebrow at the sudden offer. He didn't expect this to come up. Behemoth realized this could be a chance incase things went wrong with satellite. He smiled at Neo and nodded in agreement.

"Deal." He said, raising his hand. Neo smiled and shook his hand.

"Glad that we could make an agreement. Oh, damn!" Neo shouted, remembering something he left down stairs.

"I left my phone on the table. I need to make some calls how about you go get it for me, please." He grinned, behemoth narrowed his eyes.

"I'm not your butler."

"No, right now we're friends. And friends do stuff together." Neo stated, behemoth groaned and turned around. He headed back down stairs and walked over to the table. He saw the phone on the table and reached for it. Then he felt something inside him. He had suddenly felt a headache in his mind.

He put his hand on his head and rubbed it. The pain inside started to double. He groaned and placed both hands on his head. The pain intensified even more, causing behemoth to lose balance. He fell onto the ground with a thud and started twitching and squirming around the floor. Something was looking inside his head. He tried to think, but couldn't think of anyone in the world who could do this. Then he realized only adagio could do this.

"No. No! That's not possible!" He roared, slamming his fist on the table. The table broke in half from the force of the slam. He growled in pain and rolled around the floor. He could feel the sweat from his body dampen his fur.

He felt the pain get sharper and sharper, until he could felt another inside his mind. He knew who it was and he was afraid.

"No!" He shouted, trying to concentrate. He tried and tried to get adagio out, but couldn't do anything to resist. He could feel it get stronger and stronger. He then heard a small weak voice call out.

"Help."

Behemoth was hyperventilating and the veins in his head were bulging out, he stood on his knees and kept his hands on his head. He knew what to do to make it stop and had no choice. He drew all his power into his mind and screamed from the mental wound in his mind. He drew as many magic as he could and fired. Everything then stopped and went quiet in his mind. He fell on the floor, completely exhausted. He heard the phone vibrate and looked up to see a text message.

"We're here." He wondered what it meant until he heard the sound of blades whirring around outside and realized a helicopter was flying. He could hear land above him and he got up as fast as he could. He ran up the stairs and reached for the door knob. He turned it and found out it was locked. He punched it and charged right through it.

He rushed up to the landing pad and saw the helicopter taking off. He looked up to see Neo looking down at him from the side of the helicopter. He had a smile on his face and began to laugh at him.

"You really think I would help you destroy the earth? I'm one of the assholes that live on it!" He laughed, pointing at behemoth. Behemoth roared in rage and pointed his hand towards the helicopter. Behemoth tried to use his magic, but couldn't do anything. He looked at his hand in surprise. He could hear Neo laughing again and looked up to see him flipping him off with both fingers.

The side door closed on the helicopter and behemoth watched as the helicopter flew away. He slammed his fists on the ground as hard as he could, causing the metal to crack. Neo turned around and lit up another cigarette in the helicopter. Leaning on the side of the door, smiling at his friends inside.

"That guys an idiot." He said, walking towards his seat. He sat on his seat, happily enjoying his cigarette.

Behemoth watched as the helicopter flew into the night sky. Watching as it became a tiny light and disappear into the clouds. His body was filled with rage. He let Neo escape and adagio had somehow broken his mind and almost released him. He didn't care about the plan anymore, he only cared about killing adagio.

"Holy shit, what the hell is that!" A man yelled, behemoth turned his head around and saw men with guns walk through the broken door. He looked down at his hands and the broken floor. He needed to let off some steam. He felt the rage inside him reach a breaking point. He clenched his fists and got up.

The men reacted to his sudden action and backed up, firing rounds into him. Behemoth took them all and walked towards them. They shouted to each other and falled back inside the building. Behemoths mind went blank at that moment. But when he snapped out of his trance, everyone in the room was dead and he could feel magic inside of his body again. So with one last roar, he powered all the magic inside him. Causing the building to explode.