A Taste Of Lightning

"I like me better when I'm with you... I like me better when I'm with you-uh. I knew from the first time..."

Driving with the speed of 60 kph, a young man sang while playing drums on the wheels. A smile still plastered across his face, but it soon turned distorted.

"Shit! What is that kid doing?!" At a distance he saw a kid running after a ball he was chasing, in the middle of the road.

He turned to his side and saw a speeding truck. A truck at that speed, with his momentum, he might never make it in time even if the truck stop, the cargo falls and might squish the child just the same.

"What do I do?" A frantic feeling grew in his heart. He has never been in this type of situation before, he doesn't know what he should do.

The child who caught his ball giggled happily, oblivious to his approaching death.

I must do something! Zeke thought.

He grabbed the wheels and swerved it at the truck to slow and change it's direction. But the truck relented and stayed in its lane.

"Fuck the driver must be sleeping!" Zeke cursed the truck driver.

"Now what?" Only a few seconds, but every decision he did might change the outcome so he sped up.

The child was still unaware and played with his ball happily letting it bounce under his palm. Soon he heard a horn, and saw 4 approaching lights. The child screamed and ran, out of harms way.

"Whew!" Zeke breathed out, he stopped breathing when he started speeding up, he was too tensed. He slowed his car and planned to check up on the kid.

Bang!

The truck crashed at a tree, and tipped over. Zeke stopped his car and ran to the truck. The front was beyond repair, it was crushed to the point he couldn't recognize whether it was the same truck.

"Hello can you hear me?" He cupped his hands and shouted. As he got closer, he heard screams inside the trucks cargo. A scream one can say as pure agony, pain and fear.

'What in the hell was that?!' Zeke flinched. He grew cautious as he approached the cargo.

The cargo walls banged and boomed, the echo's of each hit resounded in the silent night.

"Open Us! Open Us! Free Us!" A voice, no not a voice, but a myriad of voice saying the same thing as if a robot.

Zeke raised his hand and opened the cargo. A scream and a gush of wind came out, but left the cargo with nothing inside.

Thunder cackled and a bolt of lightning shot down from the sky landing in front of Zeke.

"Mortal What have you done!?" A man surrounded by lightning appeared in front of him.

Zeke did not understand hence he did not reply.

"You have doomed your kind, and it will all be on your shoulder." The man spoke.

"I did what? and Who are you?" Zeke got a rough outline on who this guy is, but he didn't believe so, he didn't believe in any word associated with Magic.

"I am the Lord of the Skies and the King of Gods. I am Zeus the thunderer."

Shock filled Zeke, but he didn't get the moment to have hold of him. He stayed rationalized, but something irrational is happening, how could he keep calm? Well he did.

"You... You are Zeus?" Zeke asked clearly felt the situation questionable.

"I am Mortal."

"Well you should just bother your own problem you Gods of shit or whatever!"

Zeus was shocked on how a mortal would act so unbridled in front of him, a God? While he, a lowly mortal dared do so. He must be punished for his actions.

Zeus flicked his fingers and Zeke screamed. He had no eyes. Another flick, he had no ears. Then came another, he had no mouth to scream. Zeke kneeled on the floor, whoever looks at him now, may see a monster not a person anymore.

"That would teach you a lesson not to fuck with Gods" Zeus said to Zeke.

Wait? Did he just say fuck?! Oh man he just did! Zeke thought but his thoughts were ruined when he heard Zeus once more flicked his hands.

Zeke closed his non-existant eyes and waited.. waited till he understood that it stopped, Zeus stopped. Zeke put his hand over his face to feel his eyes, mouth and ears where there, fully intact!

"Forgive me Lord Zeus for my behavior, I seek alms. What is it that you want from me." Zeke did what he felt right, he kneeled to Zeus and asked what he did that made him this mad.