Turning Trash Into Treasure: Marcos Longinus "The Great" And Robert Powers

By Isaiah Drone III

This book was written for teenage boys across the world and especially in the inner cities of America.

Summary: A New York City teenager is released from a juvenile facility and shortly after falling unconscious from a fail rescue attempt in a burning apartment, waking up in Hell where he must fight. [1. Warfare tactics – Fiction. 2. Adventure and adventurers – Fiction.]

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483553719

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PROLOGUE

Marcos Longinus The Great

The man they call Marcos The Great, walks pompously around his slaughtered victims after every defeat, with a grimace spine-chilling smirk of triumph on his face. A masculine man by description with broad shoulders and a face the tint of olive leaves. His eyes stained red from the constant torture of battles with men and spirits of the dead awaiting him in Hell. He is in a battle to the death against a confident warrior that has never been defeated and twice his size but with a tenth of his roar. As he quickly maneuvers and draws his sword out of the flesh of another victim, still to find no peace against the war and bounty on his head from the Roman Emperor. The blood of battle drenches his sword as he wipes the fragments of death from his blade onto his padded trousers.

The air is frost cold as the winds whistle through the coastline from the sea like a Nightingale. Marcos’ heart beats against his chest heavily as he crushes down on his teeth to stop some of the pain from the cracked skin splitting his bloody chapped lips even wider.

Marcos Longinus The Great, is a hybrid decedent of the great Cleopatra Egyptian Queen IV and Marius Emperor of Greece they are his grandparents. The Egyptian Queen was born in 40 B.C. she was both called Cleopatra and the Ptolemaic Princess being half Egyptian by her mother Helene II and half Greek by her father Marius Anthony. Her parents died during a naval invasion by the Roman Empire that left her and the rest of her siblings at the mercy of the Roman government. She was separated from her twin brother and younger sister to be prepared for her future arranged marriage to the Roman Emperor’s son. Helene III was raised and educated in East Africa where she learned many languages and customs needed for her to reign with her future husband the Prince of Rome. She wasn’t informed that her siblings were sold into slavery and later executed until the week of her summons back to Rome, Italy to be married to the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar in 24 B.C. Two years within the marriage she was with child and when Caesar got word that his first child was to be a girl he went mad, banishing his daughter and wife away to an island far off the coast of Africa in the city of Carthage. The land of the seafaring people known for its beautifully decorated trading ports and rich history of war and conquest. This was also the command post of one of the world’s greatest warriors of all time whose battles are mentioned even to this day, General Hannibal son of Railcar Barco.

In that same year Augustus Caesar took Lady Volusia Cornelia as his new wife and never remembered Cleopatra again that is until the day of his official certificate of divorce was demanded by his new wife who was driven with ambition to have absolute power. So he enlisted Cleopatra II once more, this time awaiting for her to sign the divorce certificate relinquishing any rights to his empire. Cleopatra II in return of his request preposterously refused to sign any documents sent by her husband’s messengers. The Emperor raged by her failure to compromise with his orders and made a personal trip to the city of Carthage himself, and after that day she was never seen again. One year later, however, the Emperor Augustus Caesar himself is sought after in an unsuccessful assassination attempt, leaving him with a horrid scar on the upper left side of his throat. The foul play attempt was orchestrated by one of his own council members that later led to the extermination of his entire council. The fear of Caesar’s world domination increased even more throughout the land like a plague after the bloody massacre of Rome’s Consul and most powerful senators. Augustus Caesar decided to adopt two young boys of Roman descent and train them, the stronger of the two would be Rome’s third new heir to the throne to wipe away all uncleansed by our Roman supremacy.

Caesar’s daughter Lady Drusilla is still alive and is given asylum at the Emperor’s estate but every claim to the throne is restricted to her. Her conversations with her father the Emperor Augustus Caesar are shrewd and emotionless leaving her feeling worthless like a servant girl.

Despite her father’s lack of attention Drusilla is encouraged to meet people abroad so she travels great distances and becomes friends with powerful rulers and governors within the confines of the Roman providences. These journeys are strategically set in place by her malicious father the Emperor so that Drusilla might encounter a man, to someday wed as her husband in a Province far away from Italy; so that the Emperor may rid himself of his daunting past. One day while travelling on her six manned human carriage laced in fine rubies and filled with rose petals, she notices a Roman centurion soldier making eye contact with her and giving her taunting smiles. He is one of the new Roman guards handpicked to escort her to the new jurisdiction of Judea inhabited by the Mosaic people south of the Roman Empire.

The centurion’s name is Longinus and he is riding his heavily armored horse in the front ranks of the convoy while posting security, as the noble Drusilla is escorted to meet her old friend that has just been promoted to governor. Drusilla is outraged by Longinus’ behavior as a Roman soldier and is ready to report his conduct to his commander upon her arrival to Judea. These gestures were outlawed in those days and the penalty was death by crucifixion so it was hard for Drusilla to understand why this soldier was livid enough to pull such a stunt. Suddenly, in the midst of the horizons a shout rings out, protect her majesty at all cost. Apparently, a starving wild boar was charging straight toward Drusilla perhaps it could smell the assortment of berries and wine in her carriage. This hideous creature’s body was solid as a rock with two six inch fangs like a tusk slobbering and grunting at the mouth and now it was airborne in the direction of Drusilla’s scream. Longinus jumps off his horse and with one blow to the head from his spear the beast is killed in mid-flight landing right beside the princess in a ghostlike façade on the ground. Drusilla is already on the ground from falling off her carriage in utter terror trying to escape the attack from the gruesome beast, and all she sees when the dust clears is Longinus’ eyes looking upon her. Drusilla immediately saw a different image of the centurion that day as he asked her, we’re you hurt your majesty?

Word of the attack spread making Longinus a hero and talk finally reaches the ears of the Emperor Drusilla’s father. But, he remains unaffected by his daughter’s near death experience so much to the point that he; shortly after hearing of this incident, insists that she move to that region permanently. His explanation to this decision is that she should keep an eye out because the declaration of a new king and savior born in Jerusalem has challenged the strength of the Roman forces. A new king meant a new empire which meant a new threat to the world power of Rome so she really had no other choice but to help her father keep an eye on his throne. She reluctantly agreed to relocate to Judea under the protection of her longtime friend the governor. Drusilla accustomed to those lands even before her mother’s Cleopatra’s disappearance because of their former experiences in that land. From time to time they would get many invitations and special occasions to sit in the homes of important council members and great politicians as they visited the city of Carthage, the sea-faring people. The council members and statesmen would let Drusilla listen in as they showed her how to negotiate political points of view in front of an audience.

Pontius Pilate a newly stated governor by her father the Emperor also would be in debate in this region because he had a trading port in that city so he too often visited to store his soldier’s supplies, making them readily accessible for wartime efforts. Governor Pontius Pilate would also be at these auctions to negotiate trade so Drusilla already knew him from the days of her mother’s still political affiliations to Rome despite her banishment. The Emperor orders Governor Pontius Pilate to arrange for his daughters travel to his home and also commissions him to find her a centurion soldier to marry in hopes to have a grandson that would one day be the general of the Roman Empire. Because of Drusilla’s royal ancestry, the Governor orders his most skilled soldiers to accommodate her majesty throughout the Eastern Providence. Shortly after Drusilla turns 24 and is settled in Judea she is wedded to Longinus in during the festival season. Perhaps she fell in love with