By now, everyone, I want you to take a moment to think about
the last time that you truly listen to someone. What if your ability to
do so was the difference between life and death. In today's matchup, a
twelve year old girl has forged a powerful bond with an ancient extra dimensional being,
learning many things about the creature's world over the course of several months.
However, the shadowy government agency tasked with capturing these creatures have their own method
of controlling them, a method that doesn't involve listening to a child. My
name is Aaron David Harris, and this is Tales of Fists and Fireballs.
The mid sized classroom auditorium hosts approximately sixty newly minted government agents, clad in
plain colored suits and neatly knotted ties. These recruits are young and fresh,
as evidenced by the constant and shallow chatter filling up the room. Undoubtedly,
they are all graduates from some prestigious military academy or exclusive university. All of
them had been chosen for something special and highly classified. Suddenly, the wooden
double doors swing open. The chatter stops almost immediately as a woman power walks
her way inside mid fifties, short gray hair, very serious. This is
Maxine berry Hill. She eyes the room full of agents as she approaches the
center of the stage, her expression brimming with contempt and resentment. Maxine's antipathetic
energy is palpable. She takes a deep, long breath, as if she
were absorbing all the cocky, youthful energy out of the room and expelling it
through her nostrils. Then Maxine makes her address. Her haunting voice delivers with
a striking echo. In the last two decades, we have discovered planes of
existence that produce no sound. Living in these silent dimensions are sentient beings who
use sound waves as a form of sustenance. These creatures vary in size,
abilities, intelligence, and threat levels, but they all share a common primal
instinct to feed, and so they come to our world hungry for the sound,
hungry for the noise. Welcome to project silence. An idyllic constellation of
glimmering stars illuminate the surface of a small lake, as well as the modest
country home nearby. Contrasting the peaceful imagery are abrasive, chaotic voices emanating from
inside the lake house. A man and a woman argue it is the same
argument. The back door kicks open, a young girl runs out, twelve
years old, brown hair, completely distraught. Her name is Julia. She
runs to the edge of the lake frantically wipes her face with her sleeves.
Julia sits by the lake and spends several moments trying to gather herself, and
then she speaks seemingly to herself, Well, I uh got suspended from school,
and big surprise, my parents are in there, blaming each other.
I try to explain, but they don't listen. No one ever does.
It's the same routine. Dad's off to the bar, Mom is gonna go
to Aunt Laura's, and I'm alone again. The next few words from Julia
are a song, A strange song, her meek voice irrupting with something both
powerful and angelic. Me me, Me, And then, rising out of
the bubbling blue green murk of the lake's surface, a creature emerges eleven feet
tall, sandy grayskin, a long, sharp tail, orange glowing eyes.
The creature makes its brooch with slow, heavy footsteps until it reaches Julia.
It kneels in front of her, and she smiles, rubbing its face with
a gentle touch as she continues to sing. The creature's orange eyes flicker with
life, matching the cadence in Julie's voice. Then suddenly, the creature growls
and turns its head, and Julia stops singing and pets the creature. I
feel it too, someone's here. Don't worry. I won't let them hurt
you. Seconds later, emerging from the large trees and thick bushes, clad
in heavy black gear, are the Agents of Project Silence. As they surround
the little girl and the big gray creature. A black car screeches towards the
home. When it stops, an agent opens the back door. Maxine Barry
Hill steps out. She surveys the scene with a pensive expression, her eyes
remaining fixed on the creature for several moments. Then, as her attention turns
to Julia, Maxine attempts to soften her severe gaze. Flanked by two soldiers,
Maxine flashes a badge and approaches the girl. Good evening. My name
is Maxine berry Hill, director of Project Silence, and you are Julia Beatty,
twelve years old, currently suspended from Haven Valley Middle School. It would
appear that you have made contact with an SME. SME silent monster entity is
the official designation acronym, but since we government types love our alphabet, so
we just say sim And this is s Emy four, of whom we have
been pursuing for quite some time. So here's what's gonna happen. A couple
of my friends here are going to escort you to safety. We will take
SIM four into our custody. And that's not his name. Excuse me,
I said that's not his name. His true name translates as Song, his
true name. Why, because that's the type of sound the creature fads on.
Song has told me all about you, and I won't let you hurt
him. No one has to get hurt, Julia, not if you cooperate.
We have been monitoring your home for several weeks now, and the irony
isn't last on me. Just when it seems like no one in the whole
world is listening to you, you find a creature who literally needs your voice
to survive. I get it, I really do. But this relationship you
forged with the same it's wrong, Julia. It's dangerous. Song isn't the
one that's dangerous. You are, you and your agents and your scientists kidnapping
the sound creatures and playing with them in your lags. Song wants you to
let them go, little girl. Our primary objective is the detainment of silent
monster entities. We protect you from them now. I'm only gonna say this
once step away from the sme Hm. Noting the defiance in Julia's eyes,
Maxie nods, She's had enough. Have it your way. All units execute
Operation Alpha V six. I want that s ume. The quiet home by
the lake rupts. The agents attack, their high powered projectile weapons, whirling
to life, but they're no match for Song. The energy blasts from their
guns are ineffective. They bounce off the creature's skin like rubber bands, popping
against a brick wall. The soldiers close their distance, cautiously, inging towards
Song, brandishing energy knives and elects shot for tons. They pounce that Song
all at once, but he's too much for them, too big, too
fast, too strong. Once all the soldiers are down, Maxine steps forward,
Bring me the asset. A large tank like vehicle screeches into view.
A handful of Agrians open the doors. Stepping out of the vehicle is another
creature, a bigger, chalky white doppelganger of Song with ominous white eyes and
long red spikes protruding from its shoulders and knuckles. Sharp bones shoot up from
the bottom of its head and threw his chin, locking his face into a
permanent and gruesome smile. Julia's face drops with dread. Julia, meet Simmy
three. I really didn't want it to come to this, but you have
forced my head. No, that's Scream, Its song's blood rifle. It
feeds on the sound of pain. You can't trust that one. Sure we
can. We have an agreement. Maxine nods at Scream. The vile creature
takes out out one of his spikes and jams it into the collarbone of one
of the soldiers. Scream's body pulsates with dark red energy as the soldiers agonizing
cries bring life to the creature's body. See how that works. We give
him the sound he needs, and he does what we tell him to do.
You don't understand, you know, Julia, You are the one who
doesn't understand just how much trouble you're age. Song Julia aside with a gentle
push from his big hand. Song and Scream approach each other, gazing into
each other's eyes in a silent exchange that tells the story of a blood feud
that spans generations. Julia whispers to herself, the Song and the Scream the
deadliest of rifles, the alphas of the sound dominion. Scream unleashous, a
terrifying sound that discombobulates everyone, including Song. Scream uses the opening pummeling Song
with heavy punches to the body, his spiky fists digging into Song's abdomen before
Screen lands the final punch. Song evades the attack, then encounters with a
perfect palm strike to the face, but the attack is not effective. Scream's
perpetually twisted smile remains. Then Scream stretches his arms forward, unleashing a thick
stream of dark red energy from his hands that rips through the chest of his
rival. Orange glowing ooze, along with the sound of Julia's voice, spills
out of songs open veins as he goes down. Julia turns her attention to
Maxine, completely disgusted, as Song lies there helpless. How many what Scream
feeds on the sound of pain and terror? How many people did you torture
in order to get him this strong little girl? The smart thing to do
right now is to keep your mouth shut. You finish him off now.
Scream charges up dark energy into both his hands, then he releases it.
When the blast hits the ground, it transforms into a large column of black
and red energy, fiery and concussive, launching Song high into the air.
When the column fades, Song falls back to the earth with a hard thump.
Maxine and her agents surround Saul, who is unconscious. All right,
team, let's get this thing in a cage we can. Suddenly, a
spike runs through Maxine Maryhill the second after, and Scream removes his fist from
the woman's chest. As she collapses to the ground. Scream cuts down the
rest of the agents like a wild machete in a field of tall grass.
Julia, utterly horrified, approaches Maxie. I tried to warn you, Song
and Scream. Their rivalry is centuries old. Scream was never going to share
its kilt. Then, with blinding speed, Scream zips in front of Julia,
peering down on her with an evil grin. Quickly, Scream grabs Julia
by her collar with one hand and lifts her off her feet. Screen glows
with violent energy. You won't need to feed you. Is that what you
want you never, I will never feed you. I will never feed you.
And then Julia begins to sing her strange melody. He and then covered
in horrific scars, Song stands to his feet. Scream drops Julia, then
throws a spiky fisted song. The spikes shattered against Song's hard balms for the
first time. Scream cries out. As Scream reels back in pain, Song
jumps high into the air, flipping and tumbling, then stopping mid flight,
his hands glowing with a burning orange hue. He points his hands at Scream,
unleashing a searing beam of light, obliterating his rival into ashes. When
the beam dissipates, Song loses consciousness, free falling from the sky until he
plows into the ground near the lake. Julia runs to him. She takes
him into her arms and caresses his grayskin. Song's eyes flicker, his chest
labors, rising and falling in an uneven rhythm. I will I'll find your
friends, I'll set them free. I promise I'm gonna miss you. The
girl sings her strange melody one last time as Song takes a final breath.
Thanks for listening to tales of fists and Fireballs. This episode was narrated by
Alexis Coopan. To learn more about Tales of Fists and Fireballs, as well
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