Mark read through Serizawa's notes on Godzilla. The notes were very deep and intriguing, he never once saw Godzilla the way Ishiro Serizawa did. "Hey dad?" Mark turned and saw Madison standing in the doorway of his bedroom.
"Hey," he said with a smile, "I was just reading." He set down his journal, "What do you need?"
"I just wanted to know if you were coming downstairs."
"Downstairs?"
"Yes, for dinner?"
"Oh yes!" He smiled and stood up, "What'd you make?"
"Just some pasta, salad, and garlic bread."
"Sounds delicious." He smiled and the two headed downstairs. They were now living in a Monarch outpost on the island of Okinawa Japan. Mark walked into the dinning room, "Wow, Madi, this looks delicious!"
"Thank you." The two sat down and they started to eat. "Hey, have you been seeing the news lately?"
"I can't say I have, what's on the news?"
"I don't know," she pulled up her laptop and then looked up images, she then showed it to her dad, "They say it looks like a UFO, but some people think it's a titan." Mark looked at the image. It seemed to be a circle of white light, it could've been flames but he had no clue what moved that fast.
"What the hell is that?"
"I don't know, Sam thinks it could be something related to Godzilla."
"Possibly, I could do some more reading."
"That's good." Madison then closed the laptop, she sighed and went back to eating. "Anything interesting that you're reading?"
"Yeah actually, Serizawa had a theory that Godzilla was once capable of flight."
Madison snickered, "You aren't serious are you?"
"I'm totally serious. There's even a picture that he drew." Mark took out his phone, "I took a picture of it because I thought it was hilarious." He showed Madison the picture, Godzilla was facing backwards and firing his atomic breath at the ground. Madison laughed so hard some spaghetti almost came out her nose.
"Oh my god!"
"Right?!" He smiled. The two enjoyed the rest of their dinner, and eventually had dessert. It wasn't too long before Madison went to sleep, Mark stayed up reading more of Serizawa's journal. He then noticed something in the bottom left hand corner on one of the pages. "Call Yaguchi on his birthday." Mark said silently to himself, "Yaguchi...?" he paused, he flipped back and forth through pages, this was the only mention of Yaguchi. In the back of the journal was phone numbers. He dialed each one of them, one at a time, the first one was for Dr. Graham, most of the people in this list were either dead, or Mark already had the numbers for until he got to the last number. He sighed before he dialed it in. He waited for the phone to ring, it was suddenly answered.
"Yo!"
"Hello?"
"Ah, I see, you are American. I suppose I will have to speak English."
"Is this Yaguchi?" Mark asked, he could tell he was talking to a young man. When speaking English he, like Serizawa, had a Japanese accent.
"Yep. And who is this?"
"My name is Mark Russell, I am with Monarch. I have Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's journal, and he seems to mention you. Are you of any relation to him?"
"I am, but I doubt you've heard of me. He didn't mix his personal life with his work life. Now tell me Mr. Mark Russell. Why do you have my father's journal?" Mark paused, "Let me guess, he went out in a kamikaze fireball trying to help his work pet Godzilla am I right? That's just like him, and I guess you inherited his notes."
"He never did mention you."
"That's probably for the best." He said, "Listen, I would love to meet up with you sometime. When is the next time you'll be in Japan?"
"I'm actually in a Monarch Outpost with my daughter Madison in Okinawa."
"Okinawa, I see." he said, "I am in Tokyo, can you meet me there?"
"I can do that."
"Good, you can head down first thing tomorrow."
"Alright, I'll see you there."
"Good. Sayonara!" He then hung up. Mark sighed, he added Yaguchi's number to his list of contacts. He then exited to the home screen, he sighed when he saw it was a family photo of him, Andrew, Emma, and Madison when they were all out at a picnic. It had been 5 years since Emma had died and Godzilla defeated Ghidorah, and 4 years since Godzilla fought Kong. He put his phone on the desk beside his bed, he got dressed in pajamas before he went down the hall to the bathroom to brush his teeth. as he did he looked over at Madison's room which was right across from the bathroom. Madison was sound asleep. Mark finished brushing his teeth before he spat into the sink and then went to bed.
The next morning Mark woke up and started to get dressed. Once dressed he picked up the journal and put it in his jacket pocket. He grabbed his keys, wallet and phone before he went to the kitchen. Madison was up and was in the middle of making dinner. Mark came up behind her and kissed her forehead, "Good morning." HE said,
"Morning, I didn't think you'd be up this early. I was going to surprise you with breakfast."
"I see that." He said, she looked at him.
"You're dressed already, are you going out?"
"Yes, I'm going to Tokyo, would you like to come with?"
"Sure, that sounds like it could be fun." She smiled,
"Alright, let's have breakfast, and then you get dressed and we'll head out."
"Alright." Madison then turned back to the bacon and made sure not to burn it this time. Once breakfast was done and Madison was dressed the two headed out to Tokyo. Madison looked out the window of the plane, they were just barely passing over Janjira. It appeared to be a wasteland. It didn't take long before they landed in Tokyo.
"Madi stay close to me." Mark said taking her hand. He didn't know this Yaguchi person, but if he was an absolute creep he wanted to protect his daughter. He took his phone out of his pocket and dialed Yaguchi's number.
"Moshi Moshi!"
"Yaguchi, it's Mark."
"Ah, Mark."
"We just landed in Japan, where do you want to meet?"
"We can meet at the airport, seeing as how I am here. If you come outside you will see me with a car."
"Alright." Mark then hung up. Mark and Madison made it outside the airport. Mark spotted who he thought was Yaguchi, he was tall, about six foot even. He had sunglasses and he looked directly at Mark, he smiled and removed his sunglasses. He walked over to them.
"You must be Mark," he held out his hand, "Yaguchi."
"Pleasure to meet you."
"This must be the daughter you mentioned." Yaguchi smiled at Madison, Madison not wanting to offend him smiled back. "Come, we have much to discuss." Yaguchi took them in the car back to his home, on the car ride there Madison noticed he had a taste in J-Pop music as well as American music. It was rather large modern house. They walked in the front door, "I'm home." Yaguchi said in Japanese.
"Welcome home!" A woman's voice called back, a older looking woman walked out. She came up to Yaguchi and hugged him. She looked at him, "How was your trip?"
"It was fine." He then turned to Mark and Madison, "These are friends of father, Mark and Madison Russell. They are American."
"Nice to meet you!" She said in her best English. She shook their hands.
"Mark, Madison, this is my mother Kimi. My older brother Ren should be around here." He looked to his mother and started to speak Japanese again, "Mama, where is Ren?"
"Oh, Ren said he was going out to the University. He should be back late tonight."
"Alright. Would you like to prepare some treats for our guests?"
"Yes, that sounds lovely!" She smiled and nodded at him, she nodded at Madison and Mark before she walked off. Yaguchi looked back to Mark and Madison, he clapped his hands together.
"Well, let's see what we can do."
"You said older brother, how old are you?"
"I am 17 about to turn 18." He said, a small smile perked Madi's lips, at least she was finally able to get to know someone around her age. "Ren is about 22."
"I see,"
"Come, we have much to discuss." He took them to the living room, Madi's eyes widened in awe.
"You have such a beautiful home." She said,
"Yes, my father made a lot of money, and Ren makes a lot of money. Where as I just work at a Teriyaki Grill, and do Kaiju studies as a side hobby."
"Kaiju Studies?" Mark said,
"Yes, Kaiju as in giant monsters. You American called them Titans." He then sat down with them in the living room. Kimi came in with a tray, on the tray was some tea as well as some cookies and other treats.
"Here you are!" She said,
"Thank you." Yaguchi said to her in Japanese. She smiled.
"Thank you!" Madison said, Kimi smiled at Madison. she then looked to Yaguchi.
"You know, she is very cute. Maybe you could ask her out?" She said to him
"No, right now we have a strict business relationship." He said back,
"Alright." She smiled and looked to Madison and Mark, "Enjoy." She said in English, she then smiled and walked off.
"What did she say?" Madison asked,
"She said that you are very pretty." Yaguchi said, he then poured them all some tea, "Now then, you have my father's research journal?"
"Yes," Mark set down the Godzilla journal, "Everything he had on Godzilla he put in here."
"I see." Yaguchi took the journal, he flipped through it, "That's my fathers handwriting alright." He looked through more pages, "I see he was interested in my work as well."
"Your work?"
"Yes, it's what the rest of this Japanes is." He smiled, Yaguchi stood up and walked over to a bookshelf and grabbed a journal, "In my family, we are all fond of Kaiju, Gojira, Mosura, Radon." He then came back and sat down, "This was the center of my research, he handed Mark the journal. Mark opened it and was able to read some of the English words.
"Ga-Mer-A?"
"Yes," Yaguchi said crossing his legs, he slashed his fingers through the air making quotations, "Gamera, the Super Monster."
"Super monster?"
"Yes, there are very few Super Monsters out there. Gojira is one of them, the one that attacked Boston, Ghidrah, that is also a Super Monster. As well as Kong and Mosura."
"What makes a monster a "super monster" ?"
"Wouldn't you like to know." Yaguchi smiled, he leaned back and rested his hands behind his head, "Gamera is really the first Super Monster, I have studied him since he protected my mother and I as a child. Originally he was in hibernation in the Arctic for a few years where I would occasionally go to study him. Recently, within the past 5 years he was woken up. And now he's all over the news."
"This Gamera is the UFO?" Madison asked,
"Yes, Gamera can fly at top speeds."
"How?"
"It's mostly in the journal, though most of my journal is in Japanese. I suppose I could make you a translation."
"That would be great." mark said, "Can I ask you something about Gamera?"
"Sure, I'm an open book."
"Is Gamera a part of an ancient species like Godzilla?"
"Yes," he said, "Gamera is very old, he is a genetically altered monster from an ancient civilization. Gamera may even be older than Godzilla."
"I see," Mark said, "Have you ever considered working for Monarch?"
"Not really? Monarch kind of sucked my father away from my family, now that he's gone I don't want to do the same thing to my mother."
"I see."
"Is Gamera an Alpha Predator?" Madison asked,
"Alpha Predator?" Yaguchi smiled, "Absolutely. Though he has never fought the likes of Gojira." He then leaned back, "Though if he did, that would be a legendary battle."
Osaka, Japan
It was night. The people in the city were enjoying themselves. Soon all the lights flashed off. An explosion wen toff followed by a roar. People screamed, and started to run. A large Muto had showed up. it roared and started to attack the city. A large ring of light flew through the clouds, it came close to the city and slowed down revealing it be some form of large shell with fire shooting from four different vents. The fire shot downwards stopping the shell, the shell enlarged itself and a head came from the shell, followed by arms and legs. The large monster then crashed and landed feet first on the ground. people stopped when they saw this large creature. It had around six toes, with a spikes coming out of the calves, and as they looked up the creatures hard body it had somewhat long arms, and spikes that protruded from it's elbows, further up the body was the head, resembling that of a turtle with a row of spikes going down it's head sort of like a mohawk. Large tusks protruded upwards out of the back of it's jaw. The creature snarled and glared at the Muto with it's piercing green eyes. The creature let out an air shaking roar. This...was Gamera.