War of the Kaiju: Chapter 1- Godzilla's Rebirth
Shrouded heavens, shattered earth, Death comes for us all. Will you go in peace to your eternal slumber or will you fight until the last of your ashes are consumed by the flames of war?Mothra The grey skies now grow darker with each passing moment as poisonous clouds of nuclear energy cover the desolate landscape. I fly over the crumbling ruins of what used to be the capital of Japan, Tokyo. We have failed in protecting the humans from attacks of our own kind and they paid a costly price. My heart aches at the sight of what befalls me. The screams of countless lives innocent lives lost still echoing through the dark shadows of my most recent memories. They prayed for a savior, I answered along with my ally Kaiju to fight the threat of our ultimate enemies. The combined forces of our worst foes King Ghidorah and Gigan were hard enough to fend off. But when our leader Godzilla left us and joined forces with our enemy, many of us were left betrayed, some even heartbroken such as I. Our ranks were so distraught that most of them just left to all corners of the world, having lost hope in winning this struggling war. We all knew our chances of now putting up a fight were diminished when Godzilla left us. But now events may take a turn for the worst if he has truly been lost to us in this battlefield, laying as nothing more than another lifeless husk for the earth to reclaim. Moreover, I grow increasingly desperate with each passing day as to why Godzilla chose to turn against us and side with the likes of King Ghidorah and Gigan. It couldn't simply just have been because of his loathing for humanity's ignorance? No matter what the cause was, all that matters now is finding my once good friend. King Caesar tried to discourage me from seeking out our fallen leader, but I couldn't leave him here to suffer in his own agony, much as like I would not dare to leave him or anyone else behind. This was how I came to be brought back to this horrid reminder of our failure and loss. I had to find him and bring him home, he meant so much more to me than the others realize. The other Kaiju, including the ones who are no longer with us, couldn't understand why I fought so hard to bring back Godzilla, let alone protect humanity and take the lead in Godzilla's absence to win this war. I fight for more than just myself. I gladly give my all to protect my friends, fellow Kaiju, my home, humanity, but most of all to secure a safe future for my
yet unborn children. I keep looking through the rubble for any sign of him, worrying that perhaps this time humans succeeded in destroying Godzilla. As I travel closer to the epicenter of the disaster zone, I notice a massive crater in the middle of former Tokyo. I fly over to the center of the city where I remember we left Godzilla trapped under the rubble to face his fate alone. I regret leaving him here, gliding over this titanic crater as I survey the ground for any signs of Godzilla, all I am able to see so far are crumbled structures and miles of ash and soot covering in a layer much like snow. All seems hopeless until I notice a slight shifting form in a lump of concrete and ashes. Using my multicolored elegant wings, I blow away most of the ash and concrete to reveal a still body. A gigantic mutant dinosaur with rough bumpy charcoal gray scales, a long powerful tail, and bone colored dorsal plates shaped like maple leaves. His chest rose slowly, I have found Godzilla, barely alive. Godzilla The air feel thick and heavy with the deep scent of sulfur permeating the atmosphere. I hear a distant flapping sound slowly approaching me, whoever I am. I feel like I should know something but at this point I am clueless as to who I am or where I am. Where am I? Who am I? Why can't I remember anything?! I have so many questions that need to be answered but first if only I could open my eyes to see what was approaching me. The flapping sound comes closer, becoming stronger and louder with every minute it draws near me. My eyes feel heavy and when I try to open them, they won't. Even when I try to move my body, I can't for I feel stuck under an immovable pile of some sort. Then the flapping slows down to an easy pace, the presence gliding just above me. I am desperate to have a glimpse at who has found me. To find if they mean to help me or quite the opposite, hoping it was the former rather now of all times. After what seems like an eternity, the mysterious presence resumed flapping to what it sounds like are its wings to produce gusts of wind. The gusts becoming more so powerful that they blow away most of the heavy debris that was on top of me off my body along with the soft grainy substance over my face and eyes. Fluttering my eyes open until the become adjusted to my new surroundings, what beholds me is the most beautiful sight I may ever see
so far. I was met with two deep turquoise eyes staring straight into my own eyes, as if into my very soul and filling it with a sense of warmth and kindness from the insectoid creature. Its membranous wings slowly fluttering in the darkened skies with their beautiful rainbow of vibrant colors, the only light of what I come to see is a hellish sight for anyone sane to behold. A human wasteland of broken buildings covered in a layer of noxious soot and ash. I fine this sight to be heart wrenching and appalling but also strange as I find what I believe to be a fallen city much smaller compared to my gargantuan size. Stranger is that this lustrous moth in front of me appears to be just as large in comparison. The only relief I look in this whole stressful situation is I do not appear to be alone in this world right now as I have a kindred spirit in my fellow giant. Even though we appeared to be two completely different beings, even species, I still felt a strange and deep connection to the moth. That no matter what else, it would understand what I am going through. My moment of slight relief was interrupted when I soon feel someone inside my mind and then a voice echoes into the fog of emptiness which should have been my memories. "Godzilla...Godzilla can you hear me? Focus on my voice and try to say something if you understand. Please be alright Godzilla..." said the sweet and soothing voice inside my head. I turn to look up at the large moth once more and find that the feminine voice is coming from...her! I nodded slowly to let her know that I could hear her and then she spoke to me clearly in her real voice and not in a thought, but sounded the same but much clearer, "Can you hear me Godzilla?" Godzilla? Is that who I am? What my name is? I have to know for clearly she knows me, "Is that my name...Am I this Godzilla you speak of?" The moth looked a little saddened and even a lot more distressed at the current situation, "You don't remember me...or anything before...do you?" "No, I'm afraid not. All I can recall is waking up in this crater, covered in chalky ash and crumbling debris and looking up to see you. Beyond that I have no recollection of who I was or where I came from. My past is lost to me, permanently perhaps. But who are you and how do you know me?" I said with both curiosity and sadness in my expression and voice. "My name is Mothra and I am a Guardian Kaiju," she said with a hint of regality. "Kaiju? Is that what you are...what I am?" She nods and continues, "Yes, though we are both of completely
different species, we both belong to a special class of titanic biological entities known as Kaiju. Many of us come from different backgrounds but we all came about to the rest of the world when human nuclear activity began over six decades ago, causing the birth of what human's call us as "monsters". Many Kaiju believe the humans are to be destroyed for they mistrust us and because of our size and power. We constantly endanger their delicate lives and their civilization. Thus this has led to a war between Kaiju who seek to annihilate humanity to make room for our kind and those Kaiju like us who seek to live in peace and coexist with them." "Alright so you are Mothra and you have told me so far where Kaiju may have come from, not to mention a decade's long civil war between two rivaling factions of Kaiju is still going on. But you have yet to explain how you know me." I was becoming quite stressful at this point. "Well the reason I know you is that we used to be friends, even more we were allies in our faction who fought to protect humanity, Junsuina Kaiju, the Pure Kaiju. However you turned on us and sided with the Jaakuna Kaiju, the Evil Kaiju, our rivaling faction, for you grew tired of defending them when they try so hard to kill all of us. Maybe even for more reasons unknown now," she said with pain in her tone. "I betrayed you all?" I said with disbelief. "You did Godzilla, it was even more devastating considering you were our leader because you were the strongest, bravest, and most powerful of us all. You were abandoned by your former evil allies when the missiles came, but so did we...I'm so sorry to have left you...." she said to the point she may cry right now. I stand up, a little dizzy at first as I try to regain my balance, and then slowly make my way to Mothra. I come up just underneath and reach up to caress her soft fluffy round head, looking deep into her blue orbs, "All is forgiven, I am the one who should be apologizing for putting you and the others through this ordeal. Please forgive me Mothra for causing you so much pain." Mothra nods as I caress her cheek, "Thank you Godzilla. Though you may not be the same one I knew before, you are still my dear friend and comrade. I promise to never leave you again." As she makes this promise we both the distant sirens and see off in the far horizon the military mobilizing to deal with our presence in the remnants of what was once their city, "They're coming to do away with us. Where are we to go Mothra?" We must go back to Hebun'airando, Haven Island. As the name suggests
it is a hidden sanctuary in the seas around the Indonesian Archipelago to keep Kaiju safe from harm. Hurry Godzilla, we have no time to waste!" she said with urgency as she flew out to sea with me following in pursuit. As I stumble through the crumbling ruins of what I now know as Tokyo, Japan, I think about what my life could've been like had I continued with the previous path I had chosen. I don't know what compelled me to make such a reckless decision but I don't plan on repeating history. I mean look at where it's got me, nearly abandoned and without identity. I finally reached the edge of the waters of the bay, tentatively looking over the expansive body of blue that once I entered would mark the beginning of my new life as a Kaiju. Mothra looks to me and motions me to follow her. Hesitantly I enter into the water and wade, as I go in deeper I panic as the water steadily rises to my neck. Once completely submerged, by instinct, I swim, clumsily at first but soon getting the hang of it and making my way to the surface. Swimming with my head and dorsal plates popping out as I follow Mothra out to sea. My name is Godzilla, I am a Kaiju without a past who now seeks my home, where I belong. There is a war going on and I have absolutely no idea what to do about it. But what I do know is that whatever happens now. I won't turn my back on my friends, not on Mothra, because now more than ever I need them as much as they needed me. I only hope it is not too late to set things right...