Harbor of Old Tokyo, 2015
Death.
That's all the ocean was now, lifeless red seas. Only the hardiest of plankton species could live in this hell. Or so one would think.
Near the ruins of Old Tokyo, a being was stirring. Born from a specialized bacterium that fed on radiation and a dying creature of a bygone era, it was mutated by nuclear waste dumping and fallout from the Impact Wars.
It had taken years, but now the colony of tiny organisms were gone, as was the dying creature, replaced by a massive cocoon, looking like a mass of congealed flesh with openings constantly releasing boiling LCL tainted water, and glowing a sinister purple. Within something stirred, it's birthing time ready.
A tear started at the side of the cocoon, the light intensifying as it grew in size. Several more tears started, all at weak points in mass. After several hours, the mass started to jerk violently, the being writhing within, wanting to leave its womb. A shriek echoed within the harbor, the being having a hard time leaving the cocoon.
The creature within felt a boiling sensation throughout its body, and massive pain started on it's back and tail, as though something were pushing its way out. From the outside of the cocoon, a large row of black and red maple leaf shaped spines erupted from the mass. Another massive shriek echoed, the being that made it in horrible pain.
It stopped struggling and rested, waiting to regain its strength. After an hour, it started to move again, but slowly, trying not to expend too much energy. But it didn't need to, as at the pointed end of the the cocoon, it opened like a monstrous flower made of decayed flesh. Red light pierced the darkness of waters, the creature wriggling out of the cocoon, trying to escape it's fleshy prison.
When it finally squirmed out, a new creature the world had never seen was shone upon by red light from the waters.
It had a large rotund body mainly just a large mouth for filter feeding, two small webbed legs, no real discernable head, a set of massive maple leaf shaped dorsal spines, and a long, flattened tail, over 38 meters in length. It breathed in, sifting the plankton to feed. It began to swim, no destination in particular.
After several hours, it heard something. New to the creature, as it had never any sound other than its own. The other sound was a deep groaning, like some of the sounds it made. It had felt lonely in its existence, instinct told it to seek out another of its kind, but there were none. But perhaps this was another.
Swimming quickly, it echolocated at the source, trying its hardest to receive and image. When it started getting images back, they confused it. Finally, it reached the source of the sound, and was baffled by what it saw.
A larger organism than it, with four discernable limbs, and no tail, with bony protrusions over much of its body. But what drew the creatures attention, was a large sphere it could see without eyes, glowing with a white light.
The creature whimpered and called to the being, hoping for a response. When the being started to come towards it, it felt joy. Perhaps it wasn't alone in this world after all.
Sachiel would destroy this being. It was an obstacle in his path, and he knew what it was. Jormungandr would have no say in the world order that was to come. It's kind should have been destroyed long ago.
But as he neared, he realized this was no member of Jormungandrs species, this was some sort of abomination, only resembling one of the mighty Leviathans that had governed this world before Adam and Lilith.
Internally laughing, he felt the creature send sonar pings of joy. He didn't care, but it still made him laugh that such an abomination would broadcast it's presence to one of the children of Adam.
He swam up to within a few meters of the abomination, and studied its horrid features. Pale flesh covered it mostly, a small, head like protrusion above a massive filter feeding mouth. Two small legs at the end of the round body, webbed and frail. Massive maple leaf shaped dorsal spines, looking incredibly sharp, and going down the entirety of the back and tail.
Sachiel turned back towards the shore, and decided that the humans could wait. He would destroy the Leviathan mutant in front of him.
He reached out to touch the being with his left arm, then let the energy of the Progenitor flow through him.
The being slowly reached towards the creature. It was filled with joy, another being wanted to touch it. It had never felt the touch of another living thing. It had bumped into numerous carcasses of sea life, but nothing was ever alive.
Though it felt confusion when it saw a light from its chest splinter off into the hand it was reaching with. A cruel thing happened next to the innocent monster.
Sachiel groaned deeply when he saw the abomination in front of him squeal with pain from his energy arrow. It was turning in a circle, not knowing what to do. He reached and grabbed it by a gill slit, and pulled it towards him, savoring the murder he was about to commit against this innocent being.
The creature thrashing and squealing in his arms, he quickly started punching it in the side of its sonar bulge, trying to blind it.
He kept on and on, red ichor started to flow from the bulge, until finally, it burst. He let go, letting it realize how defenseless it was, then swam in for the finishing blow.
He grabbed hold of it legs and activated his AT field, letting the hexagonal force field cut through the flesh of the mutant. The creature squealed loudly, the sound reverberating throughout the ocean. Sachiel watched as it slowly struggled in his arms, dying from shock.
He let it drop down to the filth encrusted seabed. He watched it slowly stop moving, until it finally just layed on the bottom, dead.
He groaned his laughter, and headed back towards shore, never seeing the transformation behind him.
Why? Why had the being hurt it. It had done nothing to deserve this horrible pain and abuse. It was blind, and couldn't swim. It's gills still bled from the powerful blows of the being.
But as with all creatures, sorrow turned into anger. It had done nothing! All it wanted was to find another being to find peace with! But now it lay dying on a filthy seabed, choked with the corpses of numerous sea life.
The creature felt another boiling sensation throughout its body, much like the one it felt when its spines had erupted.
It felt a painful growth of its entire body, its bones stretching. It felt it's mouth shrink, feeling the cells and bone decay. But a new sensation started, sight. Eyes started to form, and with them came a whole new sense, vision. Infrared, ultraviolet, all sorts of sight became available to the previously blind creature. It's mouth stopped shrinking finally, and with it came growth of a new type of feeding mechanism, shark like teeth started to form inside of the new robust mouth.
It felt armor plating grow on it's chest and back. It felt joy at its legs returning, now stronger with gripping talons. The already massive tail grew bigger, more like a mace with a small ball of sharp spines at the end.
The creature made no sound as it turned towards its attacker, New instincts rising, to be silent when the prey does not know that your watching.
It slowly swam towards the now much smaller being, ready to kill and devour it.
To be continued.