The day that the kaiju attacked, was the same day my parents met. I thought it was coincidence, but my mom thought there was more to it than timing to it. It was fate, as she called it, which brought her and my dad together and resulted in me.
The city was in shambles. There were people running in every direction, debris scattered the ground, and the air was filled with smoke and fighter jets. That's what mom said she saw out her window. But not through any window. Her cockpit window. That's right my mom was a colonel of MEGTAF.
The mission of the day was to exterminate the three kaiju that are attacking Houston, Texas. It was just a normal day to her, going out and bringing 'beasts', as she used to call them, down. The three kaiju were Darora, Tarragon, and Ngaro.
They were all up there with their king, Belloc. Ngaro was a kaiju that dominated in the water so the navy was busy. Tarragon was terrorizing the city while Darora was overhead taking the best of the best flyers down. Once mom got on the scene, they had already paralyzed Darora and carried him to the base and they dragged Ngaro by his limbs to the secret base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. All that was left was to take Tarragon down.
My mom was flying alone on her Northrop F-20 Tigershark heading towards the final obstacle with a M129 Leaflet Bomb with his name written all over it. She hovered and circled around him to find a weak spot. When she found it, and got ready to fire, they made eye contact.
Mom said, it seemed liked the whole world stopped. Their surroundings seemed to disappear as they gazed in to each other's eyes, she said, and that she felt whole in that moment. And just in case you were wondering, my dad is Tarragon and I am part kaiju. I felt warm inside each time my mom retold me the story of how her and daddy met.
Then reality hits them like gravity. The army lets lose all the ammo that hasn't been used in the artillery. Mom said that a stray projectile nicked her wing causing her to go tumbling towards the ground. She ejected but the parachute had no use because dad caught her in midair. But MEGTAF didn't seem to care that they were also shooting at one of their own. Then again they would do anything to defeat a kaiju.
Dad, she said, changed from a two legged creature to a four and but her on his head as he ran towards the other side of town. The air was full of fighter jets and the ground was covered in tanks and army men. But they were no match for my dad. He used his tail to lead a way out of the city and his fire breathe to shoot the jets out of the sky.
Somehow, they made it out with no major injuries. Once they knew they were no longer being pursued by MEGTAF, dad opened one of the secret passages to the Kaiju realm that hides miles underneath the earth's surface.
It was the most beautiful thing that she's ever seen, she told me. There were blue gems everywhere. Some that could fit in her hand and others that stretched from wall to wall. That's where they got married and that's where they lived for a year before they found out mom was pregnant with me.
The day that my parents met was fourteen years ago. Now I'm thirteen and living in the world of the humans. How I'd rather meet my father and go to his realm but no. I have to stay in the human world and have a normal life as possible.
Your father was an amazing person, she would tell me. He was a gentle and kind giant that was very compassionate. When they were together, the world was at peace. But there moments were it seemed like the world was conspiring against them.
The other kaiju thought that dad was disrespecting their race by 'mating' with a human. They constantly plotted to steal my mother or arrange 'accidents' that would inevitably kill her. Luckily Belloc was on dad's side. Mom didn't find out until much later that the reason he helped them was because he too fell in love with a human.
When they found out that mom was pregnant with me, they tried even harder to kill us. But enough was enough my mom said. Mom and dad decided that the kaiju realm was no place for me. She said Dad was reluctant at first but after three more failed attempts at exterminating me and mom, dad finally agreed. He was heartbroken, mom told me, that he wouldn't be able to be there for most of my life or see me come in to the world.
It was hard for her to leave. She said that her heart still aches from the memory and that she still waits for the day that they will be reunited. When she first told me the story, I thought it was like a Fairy Tale and there will be a happy ending someday. That was ten years ago. Now I know better.
My father has probably long forgotten about me. I mean come on, it's been thirteen years and he has not once tried to get back in contact with us. If he really loved us, he would've come to visit a long time ago. He would've come back and swept mom off her feet but no. He probably hasn't even had me on his mind once. Mom usually says otherwise.
"He does to protect us honey," she explains, "so that we can stay safe. If the other kaiju found out where we are then they can find us and kill us. Plus your father loves us too much to let his own people kill us."
But how do we really know? For all we know, dad could be 'mating' with a female kaiju that could give him pure blood kaiju kids, not hybrids like me. I mean really I don't even know if he is still alive. The other kaiju could've killed him right after mom left. We would have no way of knowing so we should really stop fooling ourselves that he'll comeback someday.
"How do you even know he's still alive?" I asked her one day, "Or if he even loves us anymore?" She just gave a sheepish smile before answering.
"I know this will probably sound really cheesy, but I can just feel it." I always doubted her words. How can you love someone you haven't even met yet or one you haven't seen in a decade? The answer is you can't, or at least that's what I think.
