I know, this isn't the first time I've started again on this thing, but this time I'm sticking with it! Godzilla will be the only monster seen here, and the story takes some inspiration from Godzilla: The Series- for my money, the greatest animated TV show ever created.

Short opening chapter here, too. Consider this to be like the pre-credits scene at the start of a TV show.

Godzilla is © Toho

PRELUDE

The mushroom cloud rose high into the air, fanning out at the top above a column of fire and ash, the sea churning around the tiny island. The sky darkened as the cloud of the nuclear explosion spread out, solid rock disintegrating as, with deafening rumbling that was still drowned out by the roar of the blast, the island began to split apart.

Solid rock was torn apart like paper as the cracks spread over the island, pulled away from each other in showers of rock and churning sea. Cliffs collapsed into floods of debris pouring into the frothing water as the chunks of rock that had once been an island started to sink.

"My God," Douglas Gordon whispered from the side of the ship as it pulled away, surrounded by evacuees.

"Not a chance of getting the place put back together now," One of his subordinated stated the blatantly obvious, "Nothing to build it on."

"Always told 'em not to mess around with that stuff," Gordon shrugged, "A nuclear research facility's no more good on an Island than it is at the bottom of the ocean. Just be glad we're out of the danger zone."

"Sir!" A voice shouted from behind him, the door swinging open, "The Geiger counters!"

Gordon immediately turned and bolted inside after the soldier.

"The radiation's going up?" He demanded.

"No, sir," The soldier answered, "The opposite… it's going down!"

The Colonel turned his gaze down to the computer screen, the digitised reading going further and further down… and quickly.

"The hell?" He finally asked, "Going down? No way; the damn explosion isn't even over! The science boys said the place'd be uninhabitable for…"

"I know, sir," The soldier answered, "But we've checked the equipment, there's no mistake; the radiation is just… vanishing."

Colonel Gordon looked from the soldier, to the screen, then back again.

"Then where the hell's it going?"

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The explosion had finally ceased, the remains of the Island either floating aimlessly on the surface or sinking into the water below.

Nestled within an outcropping of rocks, something moved.

It was an egg, eight feet long, of a murky, brownish-green colour. The sides were perfectly smooth, albeit covered with dust and ash.

Again, the egg gave a sudden jerk of movement, as the unborn creature inside stirred with life.

And guess what's in the egg! Go on, guess!

OK, next chapter we'll be meeting our human cast; one in particular who… ah, I won't spoil it for you.

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