Cetus

Cetus is the name given to the second Calamity.

## Abilities and Powers

While the extent of Cetus' powers are unknown, she is primarily known for her water generation and manipulation. Her attacks are often preluded with massive tsunamis and torrential downpours, both becoming progressively more dangerous as the battle continues. The water eventually becomes strongest enough to topple buildings. She has been able to sink entire continental shelves via water pressure, as she did with Honolulu and Rio de Janeiro.

Along with her hyrdokinesis, she constantly pours water from her mass of tentacles that cover her face. Official video show this water is forcibly and rapidly generated, producing several hundred thousand gallons of water in a span of a handful of seconds. The water appears to maintain its speed, peeling down like a massive faucet. She is able to manipulate this water.

Cetus is also known to be able to move at alarmingly fast speeds, allowing her to traverse a battlefield faster than most capes can react and easily dodging slower ranged attacks. She is reportedly to be even faster when moving underneath water. She can sprint across its surface if there isn't enough water to dive into.

However, by far Cetus' most crippling ability is the 'song' she constantly screams. The scream is almost certainly a mental effect and is able to be heard even while she is underwater. The ability has shown itself to be extremely crippling against certain Thinkers, making certain abilities either unreliable or completely useless. This ability seems to magnify the closer a person is to Cetus. Those effected by the scream are known to become hyper violent and dangerous several days, weeks or even months after one of her attacks. This effect is dangerous enough that some of her attack sites have been quarantined by PRO and their movements highly monitored.

As with the other two Calamities, Cetus' is impossible durable. She has been reported to survive attacks that would level small towns. She has also survived attacks from Warrior with little trouble.

## Appearance

Cetus is far smaller than one would expect, though she still stands roughly 30 feet tall. She appears like a vaguely Lovecraftian monster with an impossibly lanky body and green-black skin. Her arms are massive cords of muscle that violently twist to connect her neck, upper torso and shoulders. Her torso is serpentine, unnaturally long and corded with muscle, though it still ends in sinewy calves and thighs. She has digitigrade feet. The end of her body ends in a massive, whip like tail almost the length of her body. She lacks any sort of visible mouth, nose or ears, her entire face buried behind a writhing mass of muscular tentacles that make up her head.

While she walks hunched over on two legs, she is far more dangerous once on all fours.

## History

Cetus is the second of the Calamities to appear. She has killed hundreds of capes and tens of millions of people and displacing dozens of million more. Cetus alone has caused a water crisis with repercussion felt worldwide, in addition to destroying many deep water ports.

### Timeline of Attacks

* August 22nd, 1996: Cetus first appears and attacks Istanbul, Turkey.
* May 7th, 1997: Cetus attacks Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Warrior does not arrive. The continental shelf holding the city is destroyed, sinking the entire landmass.
* January 11th, 1998: Cetus attacks Halifax, Nova Scotia.
* September 2nd, 1999: Cetus attacks Sevastopol, Russia.
* March 17th, 2000: Cetus attacks La Paz, Baja California.
* June 6th, 2001: Cetus attacks Shanghai, China. Six million are killed, ten million more displaced. One of the most devastating Calamity attacks in history.
* January 1st, 2002: Cetus attacks Wellington, New Zealand.
* April 28th, 2003: Cetus attacks New Orleans, Louisiana.
* February 18th, 2004: Cetus attack Panama City, Panama causing irrevocable damage to the countries who rely on the Panama Canal . Many countries struggle economically. One of the most, if not the most, crippling Calamity attacks felt on a global scale.
* May 2nd, 2005: Cetus attacks Honolulu, Hawaii. Warrior does not arrive. The island of Oahu is virtually destroyed, more than 90% of the island underwater.
* December 20th, 2006: Cetus attack Mumbai, India. Six and half million are killed, millions more are displaced. One of the most devastating Calamity attacks in history.
* March 20th, 2007: Cetus attacks Perth, Australia.
* November 12th, 2007: Cetus attacks Luanda, Angola. This is the first time a Calamity has attacked twice in the same year. It becomes a regular occurrence.
* May 28th, 2008: Cetus attacks Stockholm, Sweden.
* July 10th, 2009: Cetus attack Alexandria, Egypt.
* January 5th, 2010: Cetus attacks San Francisco, California. The city is not sunk, but still receives irreparable damage. The northern half of the city is quickly quarantined. The city is condemned a two weeks later.