Gene Stiles

Colony - Seeds of War Gene Stiles

Atlantis Is Dying And A Madman Must Save Them All. "Who are you, Demons!?" Cronus wailed, the skin flayed from his weakening legs. "Who are you?" He ran in panic through the dead city, the moans and accusations whispered in the wails of the empty streets berating him with each stride steadfastly ignored. The cold, red orb dimly glowing above the cracked and melted sky over his head was weak and sickly, black patches like poisoned boils disfiguring its surface. A demonic sandstorm howled across the rusted carcass of the planet, scouring the last vestiges of life from the blighted and empty landscape. Needles of fine grit stung his naked body, welting his skin like the lashes of a thousand barbed whips. The pack of razor-toothed goblins harried his head-long, desperate flight, darting out of the dark to rip bloody chunks of flesh and sinew from thighs, heels and calves, leaving a wide, jagged crimson trail in the rocky soil behind him. If he did not learn their names and soon, he would fall, his pitted bones bleached and rotting like the world around him. All at once he knew them. They were his very own children. And they must die. Cronus, warped by madness, has swallowed his own children to save himself from death at the hand of his son, yet a hidden child arrives, promising to see the deadly prophesy come to a horrifying fruition. The Izon, Blood Kin of the People, are gone from Atlantis, but as the birthrate of the People plummets, it is the Clan that hold the key to salvation. Cronus must make a mind-shattering decision to save his People from extinction. A decision that will tear apart the very fabric of the world and destroy the Table of Twelve forever. Rhea, consumed with fury at the loss of her children, turns her wrath on Cronus, plotting to make him suffer as no other, but when she finds herself bearing the last child of Atlantis, a terrified Rhea must hide the boy away from herself and his own evil father. Ramathus, Captain of Atlantis and Commander of Aam, is forced into a war he does not want. A lost colony of Atlan is found on Earth. They have declared themselves Gods and hold a power that Atlantis needs and is willing to kill for. Now Ra must fight to save the People of the past and the Izon, the future of mankind. But will he allow Cronus to destroy the Blood Kin again or will he fight all of Atlantis to save them and become a God, himself? The fate of all humanity lies in the hands of two children born of vicious, monstrous rape and malignant fury. Will they rise to save the planet or will they join forces and destroy every living thing on Earth in a war that will deface, defile and reshape our world and our species forever? The Seeds of War have been planted.