Author's note: This take place after the events after Tokyo SOS. It ties in with the group's role play sessions. This story explains jr's life before the events of our role plays take place, before heisei returns. These are to meant to show how Jr grows and matures.

Publisher's Note: This is another story our group has published titled "Ballad of a Rising Legend", This is made by one of our members named "Squdge". We hope you enjoy another one of our stories.

December 23, 2003. It was day time, mid morning the sun high in the sky. The ocean was its usual blue, and its water hitting a beach of an island. On the beach a massive near black charcoal grey creature lay down.

This was Godzilla Jr son of the now passed on King of the Monsters. He just lost a battle with humanity, and now he lay on the beach of his home "Monster Island". He came back after losing the fight with Kiryu, Humanity's weapon against the kaiju, now laying in the bottom of a trench in the ocean and its target, Junior, on the beach.

Junior was laying on his chest and abdominal region, his tail, feet and lower legs were partially submerged in the water. Jr's jagged dorsal fins stretch up towards the sky. They were bone white in color with light grey highlights at the base of each fin. Both of his arms were placed out in front of jr's body; hand pointing in the direction of jr's head, and palms faced down at the wet sandy beach.

Jr had the look of pain on his face; like something hurt. Both eyes were shut tight, and his mouth was in a position that made his teeth and gums visible. Jr lay completely still on the island's beach no movements not voluntary anyways. The only movements he had were the waves making his tail move back and forth the the rhythm of the ocean.

Suddenly Jr moved. He used his arms to push himself upward slowly, though his arms were shaking rapidly. He coughed violently, and then vomited water and blood, some form his lungs and some from his stomach. He groaned after he ejected the water from his body, but he didn't talk. There was a pain on his chest, so he used his left hand to see where the pain was coming from.

He was confused and he finally said to himself quietly

"what the hell?"

He put his hand in front of his face so he could see it. It was covered in blood. He grunted,

Jr: "That's my blood. That's a lot of my blood."

He looked down finally and noticed he was surrounded by his own blood. It was mixed in with the water, and made a circular shape around Jr. The waves washed some of the blood away further mixing it in with the sand.

It was then Jr noticed how bad the sharp pain in his chest actually was. It hit him like a brick. He roared loudly upwards, and then he layed down on his right side while at the same time groaning.

Jr: "owwww fuck."

He was in pain. He was in so much pain he didn't notice the sound of footsteps coming towards his direction. He shut his eyes tightly. The humans had apparently reopened the wound from the previous year.
Jr finally noticed he wasn't alone. He could hear and feel breathing on the top of his head. He opened his eyes finally, and looked up. A brownish grey snout with a spike on it was looking down at him though jr's vision was still hazy. Jr looked up the snout, and saw two eyes with brown irises looking at, but they weren't of a predator or attacker, but instead they looked disappointed.

Jr's vision finally came back, and saw that the kaiju looking down at him was anguirus. They both stayed silent until Jr finally spoke up.

"Alright who's going to talk first? Me or you? Cmon i don't have all day…."

Anguirus finally spoke up.
"You really going to give an old friend that attitude kid? I've been worried sick for you, and you come back in a pool of your own blood."

Anguirus sighed finally, but he wasn't yelling, though he had a disappointed tone to his voice. Jr just crossed his arms and tried to ignore the pain in his chest. Anguirus finally sat down on all 4s

Anguirus: " You know you're going to give me a heart attack one of these days kid?"

Jr: "Are you going to help me up or not?"

Anguirus: "only if you cut the attitude."

Jr: "fine…"

Anguirus kneeled down, and he extended his neck for Jr. Jr grabbed onto anguirus's neck, and anguirus lifted him his feet though Jr was a bit wobbly at the legs. Jr's hand was still covering his chest wound, a big hole in his chest leaking blood.

"Aw jeez you really messed kid."
Jr said nothing. Anguirus on all 4s stood nearly as tall as Jr because Jr was still only 55 meters tall. Standing on his hind legs anguirus could stand at 90 meters easily though he acted as Jr's guardian after the disappearance of Heisei Godzilla.

Jr: "I can walk from here on out. Just leave me be."

He let go of Anguirus's neck, and he stumbled forward, and then to the side slightly, he was trying to regain his balance.

Anguirus: "Yeah clearly you're okay…" Anguirus said this sarcastically.

Jr said "shut up" under his breath, and tried to limp away, but Anguirus out walked him and followed closely by Jr's side.

Anguirus looked at Jr while following him. He smirked slightly and Jr noticed it

Jr: "Anguirus what is it? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Anguirus:"You say you don't need my help, but i think you do… and you're not telling me…"

Jr: "I don't need help i'm King of the Monsters now…"

Jr said this then stumbled slightly.

Anguirus: "Yeah clear as crystal…"

The two walked down the beach to their right a stretch of sand that led into monster island's forest. Palm trees, some the size of the kaiju themselves set the theme of the island. This place was a jungle. To their left the ocean, blue as ever. The 2 walked past an empty cave a future home for Jr. Jr payed no attention to it however. Anguirus:"So uh kid? Where are you going? You seem to be headed somewhere, but i'm not sure if you even know where you're going."

anguirus laughed a little, and jr scowled at Anguirus.

Jr: "Piss off i just want to go home, and lay down. Is that so much to ask?"

Anguirus: "Well you seem to be leaking there pal." anguirus was referring to jr's chest. "You know if you shaped up i can take you to a place that will heal that right up. I'm just tryin to help."
Jr: "I'm a Godzillian. I have hyper regenerative powers. I'll be fine by the morning."

Anguirus: "it's morning now kid. You've been gone nearly for a month, and you still have a massive gash in yah. Stupid."

Jr: "WELL IF I HAD HELP I WOULDN'T BE LIKE THIS NOW WOULD-"

Jr stopped, he clenched his chest, and he heaved heavy breaths. He would have fallen on the ground if not Anguirus had already had his neck out for Jr land cling on to. Anguirus got worried when Jr didn't respond, and he spoke with urgency "Shit you are really fucked up here. Hang on i gotcha"

Jr went limp on Anguirus's neck, and Anguirus quickened his pace towards a dirt path that cut into the jungle. Jr's legs dragged onto the sand making claw marks in the sand and then the dirt. Both sides of the path were covered in trees, and the dirt beneath the kaiju was colored a reddish brown color.

Anguirus finally made it to a clearing. He set jr down on the ground, though he wished he didn't have to. Jr was passed out; possibly from the blood loss, or the pain. Ahead of the two kaiju were bubbling kaiju sized springs of water. The springs were colored a yellow tan color along the rims and were filled with steaming blue water. Ahead of those was a red rock that was left to another spring, and right of that were some trees that bent towards its spring. Behind the massive rock steaming ground and square rocks that were warm to the touch.

Anguirus gave a sigh of relief Anguirus: "Okay we're here kid just hang in there."

He stood on his hind legs, and picked up jr's body. He placed jr in the hot spring; a kaiju sized hot tub almost. Jr' eyes were closed, and had a tired look on his face. His head pointed upwards, his arms floated to the surface, and his feet touched the bottom of the spring itself. Anguirus smiled

Anguirus: "You're just a tired kaiju you are. Alright just stay there and prune for oh... however long you want to stay passed out okay?"

Anguirus of course was talking to himself; Jr was unconscious. Before Anguirus left Jr in the spring he rubbed him on the head and said "Sleep well kid." and walked off to the hot rocks on all 4s.

Inside jr's mind a multitude of things were happening. He saw visions of kaiju all of them faded and hazy, but he couldn't figure out they meant. Then he heard voices and the roars of monsters. Some of them whispers, others voices, some even were shouting or screaming. It was a very surreal place for Jr, but just as soon as he figured out what it could all mean he started gaining consciousness.

His eyes started opening slowly, light peered into his eyes, He squinted heavily, and he groaned. "Too bright." he said to himself. Just as they opened fully he gets startled by something staring back at him. He yelps because he gets startled, but then he relaxes when he sees it's a familiar face staring back at him. It was Rodan grinning

Rodan: "welcome back to the land of the living bud."

Rodan laughed slightly at his quote. Just then Jr's senses all start coming back to him, and he realises he's sitting in hot water, but not to hot.

Jr: "What the hell? Where am I?- Rodan?"

"In the flesh" Rodan said. Rodan was sitting in a spring across the one Jr was sitting in facing Jr. Jr was still squinting from the Sun's brightness, but he had to ask where he was. However Rodan saw that Jr was confused

Rodan: "Oh isn't this place great?".

Rodan put his hands behind his head, and laid back against the spring's wall.

Rodan:"Yeah this place is the spa part of monster island, and I didn't even know we had one. It was well hidden for a while until Anguirus found it."

Rodan said this while smiling. Jr nodded, and he looked down at himself. He wasn't bleeding anymore, but he had leaves on him covering the wound, basically a bandage.

Jr:"who did this? Why do i have leaves on me?"

Rodan:"Ah i thought you'd ask. Yeah Angy got worried about you, and asked me to cover your owies (he said this mockingly) with the leaves."

Jr frowned a little. "Why did Anguirus bring me to a hot spring?"

Rodan: "The leaves and this water heal peeps faster. Also he thought your bones were sore, and he knew the water would help with that."

Jr scratched his face "So this place is a spa and a medical place?"

Rodan: "Yeah basically. Oh wait i was supposed to give you something."

Rodan jumped out of the spring he was in and walked to his left. He picked up something, but Jr couldn't see what it was due to Rodan's wings blocking the object. Rodan then walked over to Jr, but he had a wooden bowl in his hands. It had a wooden spoon.

Rodan:"Here eat this. Angy said it'll make you feel better. I don't know how, but i trust. Him"

Rodan handed Jr the bowl. In it was a clear liquid, and oats of some sort along with some yellow fruits. Apparently Anguirus was trying to play doctor and Rodan was the nurse.
Jr put the spoon full of the stuff in his mouth and chewed. He squinted he didn't know what to make of it really.

Jr:"Rody this doesn't really taste like anything besides the fruits…"

Rodan "Well you know they say: if it tastes like crap then it must be good for you." rodan smiled.

Jr:"No one has ever said that..."

Rodan just shrugged. Jr got up from his spring, and put the bowl down. He had already finished it. He sighed, but he felt alot better, though the bandage on his chest would get tedious.

Rodan:"Here, i think angy may want to see you. You should also probably apologise to him. He told me you had an attitude last night."

Jr: "Why? I didn't say shit. I was pissed off at the-"

rodan cut him off, and he was frowning. Rodan: "You know Anguirus would go the the ends of the Earth for you. So you better show some respect towards him. Okay?"

Jr nodded slightly at this, though he didn't want to.

Rodan: "Cmon. I'll show you where he is."

Rodan led Jr past the big red rock, and to Anguirus. Jr looked to his left and saw a kaiju he's never seen before resting on one of the hot rock. The kaiju had a frill like a cobra, but was jet black with purple striping along the back. Both Jr and the kaiju just raised their hands to each other as a gesture to say hello.

Anguirus was sitting criss cross on a hot rock, and his arms were in his lap. He was also smoking a cigar he had rolled, its tobacco probably from the island itself. Rodan nudged Jr on the back of the head with his hand to make him go forward, though Jr growled at Rodan for this. Jr didn't like being told what to do. Jr walked over to Anguirus, but Anguirus heard him walking towards him.

Anguirus:"Hey kid. Come up here with me, please." Jr did as he was asked to. "Here sit like like me, and put your arms in your lap. I'm going to teach you a way to relax." Jr nodded, and positioned himself accordingly.

Jr: "Hey Angy… i'm sorry about going off… like that."

Anguirus smiled: "Hmm nice to hear you apologize for once"

Jr then asked "What are we doing anyways?"

Anguirus:"meditating."

Jr:"Well what do i do?"

Anguirus: "Well relax first of all. Then close your eyes, and clear all thoughts from your head, and keep doing that until you feel at peace."

Jr nodded. Jr closed his eyes, and bowed his head. He had trouble clearing thoughts from his head, but he managed. He didn't know what to expect next. Then all of a sudden the voices and images came back. Jr slipped into a trance like state, his sense were telling him something, but he didn't know what. He saw images of sleeping kaiju voices and questions he couldn't answer. Some of the kaiju were of his species.

The voices only grew louder until Jr snapped out of his trance.

Jr:"AH JEEZ HOW LONG WAS I OUT!?"

Anguirus: "only five minutes. feel any relaxed yet kid?"

Jr did feel a little relaxed. So he nodded. He went back into his meditation next to Anguirus. Anguirus patted Jr on the back of the neck.

Anguirus:"I'm still here for you"

Jr finally smiled"yeah thanks for that."

They both continued their meditation exercise together. Jr, Anguirus, and Rodan are really the only family they got together, and Jr's father was taken from him too soon. Together though they made their own family. Together they were stronger.