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[center][b]Aubrey Adkins[/b][/center]
[i]Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.[/i]

Yes, this is what I want to be doing on a Thursday night: running for my life, in a sewer of all places, trying to escape from this freakish serpentine demon thing. It’s bad enough I have to step in everyone’s sewage, but the snake is the icing on top of the cake. Was this one big joke to Athena? 

[i]Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.[/i]

Oh God, please don’t let me die down here. I have my whole life ahead of me. Of course I don’t know what I am going to be doing with my life, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a future! I have a career ahead of me (whatever that career is, I don’t know). I still have marriage (or at least a stable romantic relationship), parenthood, and more! I just can’t die here.

[i]Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,[/i]

Right when the giant snake was beginning to catch up to me, almost ready to bite at my heels, I felt something rush through me. It was as if fire was rushing through my body and through my veins. However, there was not pain. A warm sensation, but no pain. Then suddenly, when I thought that I had given my all, I found deep inside me the strength to keep moving forward. To keep living.

[i]And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.[/i]

I was creating some breathing room between myself and that monster. Now I needed to find a way out. I couldn’t just continue dashing down this sewer. I needed to get onto the surface. But how?

Lo and behold, there was a manhole. It was one of those moments when you see the light at the end of the tunnel, except there wasn’t any light. I climbed up the ladder that lead to my escape. I can’t tell you how happy I was to see a manhole.

Except when it wouldn’t budge one inch. Even when I exerted all my weight against it, nothing happened. And you know who I blame for my situation. Athena, of course. She probably wanted me to stay down here and become snake food. That woman is starting to get on my nerves.

Then my ‘spider-sense’ started to rattle in my head. I turned my head back toward the direction from whence I came. That demon snake was coming in hot. Nothing I didn’t know already. Thanks for being so useful, you weird tingling in my brain.

Or I at least thought that until something (or rather someone) came crashing down through the ceiling of the sewer and straight into the head of the giant, demon snake. After the dust and debris had settled, I crawled over the walls (who knows what’s in that water now!) and I descended from the ceiling on a dragline.

Below me was a man, dressed in a silver costume, although it has been stained with what looked like blood, tar, and whatever was down in the sewers. He scrambled to his feet when he saw me. I wasn’t too surprised; I would be freaked out if I was in his place and if I saw two giant white eyes staring back at me.

[b] "Uhhh...hi."[/b] The man said. I’ve had extremely shy guys who had crushes on me say more to me than that.

[b]"Let's make a deal, we kill this giant snake thing, and you don't tell anyone I was thrown in here by a tank shot."[/b]

Turning around and attacking the one thing that I had been running away from for the last several minutes. That sounds like an awesome plan! Oh, wait, I need to turn off my sarcasm. Well, Athena has trapped me down here for some reason. I could try to escape through the way this metahuman entered, but I had no clue where that lead.

Oh, what the hell. “Fine, but you go first”.