II
A week earlier on the hidden island of Themyscira
"Hmmm…" I muttered to myself. "That old witch was right. This island is beautiful."
Themyscira, that was what she called it. An island of unbreakable women. I couldn't help but scoff as I hovered over a sandy beach.
Off in the distance I heard the sound of at least 15 women rushing towards me. Their breaths were hash and quick. I couldn't help but smile.
"It's been a long while since I've had someone try to fight me," I thought.
I lower myself closer to the ground. As my feet touch the ground i heard a hellish growl.
Through the tree line I saw a projectile hurtling towards me. In a flash I reached out and plucked the wooden spear out of the air. I tilted my head to the side and laughed.
"I like how you say hello," I called out.
"You are intruding on Themysciran sole male," a voice called out from the tree line. "Leave or we will kill you…"
I raised my eyebrow. I shifted the tip of the spear into my hand. I crushed the tip between my fingers. Turning the metal into mere dust.
"A woman called Circe sent me here," I replied. "She said you could…"
From the tree line a sole woman walked out with a golden crown atop her head.
"What did that witch tell you we would give you?" she said as she walked towards me.
"Nothing," I replied. "Just that you hand an unbreakable woman… Clay she called her."
"Hippolyta don't," another voice said.
I heard clinking of swords being drawn.
The woman before me lifted her hand and looked back towards the tree line.
"Is this your price Circe?" she muttered under her breath.
The woman stared beyond me and into the ocean behind me.
"How perspective 'old friend'," I heard Circe's voice behind me.
I felt rage well up within me. I wasn't some kind of pawn.
"Give this man you daughter and we shall be even," Circe added. "A life for a life."
… I am no one's pawn…
Metropolis, present day
"You belong to me… Diana,"
I heard the towering man's word and felt sick to my stomach
"Amazon's belong to no man or god," my mother's words rang in my ear.
"Just keep it your head down," I muttered to myself.
I watched Circe walk around me and walk right beside the towering man.
"I believe I have lived up to my end of our agreement," she said.
"That you have," he replied.
She lifted her hand up to his massive chest.
"Now it's time for me to collect mine…" she added ad she leaned up towards his face.
She placed her face right next to his lips. The towering man never took his eyes off of me as Circe placed a kiss upon his lips.
"Hmm, you taste of…" she continued as she broke their kiss.
As she spoke the towering man's eyes started to glow crimson red. He turned his gaze away from me and towards Circe. There was a hunger in her eyes. The towering man placed his hand under her chin. He licked his lips and let out a growl.
"I am no one's pawn," he growled.
I a flash two beams of crimson light surged from out of his eyes and into Circe's face. She let out a scream that shook me to my core. I jumped back as the flesh about her face melted and fell to the floor in front of me.
"By the gods," I gasped as I placed my hands over my mouth.
I watched in horror as Circe's body crumpled to the ground. The towering man face was covered in blood.
"JIMMY!" he shouted.
With his hands he tried to wipe the blood off of his face, but it only spreads the blood more.
"Yes boss," a voice replied.
A slim red haired man came running into the room. He stumbled back as he entered the room and saw the headless woman blood lying on the floor.
"Jesus…" he said.
"Have the crew clean up this mess," the towering man ordered.
"Sure thing boss," the red-head man replied.
The towering man turned his attention back towards me. I scooted back away from him
until my back reached the wall behind me.
"I can't kill a man who can do that," I thought to myself.
"Come with me," he said as he walked towards me.
My back against the wall I reached around to my side. I felt my lasso around my fingers.
"But I have to try," I continued.
The days before on Themyscira
"Diana come here my dear," my mother called out to me.
I ran to her said and knelt beside her as she sat on her throne. I placed my head into her lap.
"What is it mother?" I asked.
My mother gulped hard.
"You are going to go on a little trip," she said.
I perked up and looked up into my mother's face.
"Really?!" I beamed.
My mother's face was stone cold. My smile dimmed.
"Circe will be taking you to Metropolis," she added her voice cold.
I looked at my mother puzzled. Circe wasn't a family friend. I'd heard rumors about Circe and my mother not even getting along. Hell I'd heard that Circe even tried to kill my mother. Why would she send my anywhere with her.
"Mother?"
My mother placed her hand atop my head and brushed my hair.
"You will go with Circe and then you will kill the man she gives you to," my mother added.
Kill? I'd never killed anyone before.
"Remember Diana, an Amazon belongs to no man or god," she continued. "And I will owe that man nothing…."
Present day in Metropolis
Grasping my lasso I tossed it in the towering man's direction. It latched onto his neck. Wrapping around it several times. The towering man placed his hands around his lasso covered neck. I pulled the lasso towards me. The towering man fell forward. I leaped off the over the towering man's body and land atop him. I wrapped the lasso between my hands. The towering man head wrenched backwards trying to hit me, but I place my lasso latent hands under his neck and pulled tightly.
"Boss!" the red-headed man shouted.
I felt him dig his hands into my shoulder as he tried to break my hold on the towering man. He failed.
"Leave…" the towering my hissed.
I tightened my grip once more as the towering man spoke. I felt his barreled chest laugh underneath me. I felt the grip on my shoulder disappear. I glanced back behind me to see the red-headed man was gone. Before I could turn my attention back to the towering man underneath me we started to lift off the ground.
I started to lose my balance. I started to fall off of his back. In a flash I found myself hanging underneath him. His eyes ever crimson red. Still clasping the lasso I tried to swing myself back onto his back. He smirked at me before he slammed us back onto the ground. I felt the ground beneath me crack. For a moment my vision was blurry. I shook my head trying to shake the cobwebs from my head.
"You are beautiful…" he growled.
I opened my eyes to his crimson eyes locked with mine. My golden lasso burned bright against his neck.
"And lethal," he added.
His eyes burned through my very soul. It was as if he was able to see right through me.
"You don't want to kill me," he continued.
I stumbled over my words, "I have to."
"So you can be forced to go back home to that island,"
"It is my home," I replied.
"Or you can stay here with me and see the world," he said.
"I belong to no man or god," I replied.
The towering man smirked, "But I am neither."
