Godzilla: The Birth
AN: The films always seem to imply that GZ was an adult Gojirasaur mutated by an atomic blast. However, I have an alternative theory. What if he didn't become Godzilla, but was born Godzilla? (not all that original, the GINO movie implied the same idea, I'm just saying that it also would make sense here.)
Chapter 1
The Crucible
The Pacific Ocean, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. 1951.
The waters were sparkling in the mid-day sun. A school of dolphins jumped across the surface, peacefully enjoying the air and sea. This ended quickly and violently as a large set of jaws clamped down around three or four of them, causing the rest to scatter. The owner of the jaws dived back down after swallowing its snack.
The creature was a large reptilian beast. Its stout head was set upon a long muscular neck. Its body was well muscled, but looked sort of tanky to the untrained observer. Its feet and hands were webbed. Its neck had a series of thin gill-slits, threw which it breathed. Along its back, a series of soft blue-grey fins swayed against the water. The creature's long tail swung behind it as it moved to rejoin the others of its kind.
The group of saurian monsters were out hunting in the open ocean. They were all relatively the same size, which was over 70 feet in length. There were a few adolescents along. For some, this was their first hunt.
The herd managed to track down a pod of whales. They were about to dig in when something else crossed their path. It was a giant lobster-like creature. Its right claw was a giant pincer, while its left was thinner and more of a spear. The monster was almost three times as big as the saurians. The creature screeched at them as it swam towards them.
The saurians scattered as the monster drove its spear claw into one of their number, killing it instantly. The monster then crushed another in its pincer. The saurians' fins began to glow blue as a caustic substance shot from their mouths. The blue colored spray burned on the arthropod's flesh, but didn't deter it.
One of the saurians, a female, was slashed on its side by the lobster's claw. Roaring in pain, it broke away from the fight. It would never know what became of its herd. It came up on shore of a nearby island. Its side flowed with blood. But this wasn't all that caused it pain.
The remainder of the herd continued to fight the massive arthropod. The males dug their powerful jaws and the claws on their hands and feet into the monster's exoskeleton. The females gathered the young and guarded them. The crustacean struggled against the combined assault. The saurians shot their spray into its wounds, burning it on the inside. Finally it began to swim off, its assalents lettling loose after driving the shelled fiend away.
On land, the female moved the sand over the two eggs she just laid. The attack had made her give birth far earlier than she should have. These would not be born in the hatching grounds. She dropped down and laid beside her un-hatched offspring, nuzzling her snout against the shells affectionately.
She laid there for several hours, with no other members of the herd coming for her, probably assuming her death. She slept on the sand, determined to watch over her young.
Then came the blast.
Immediately she shot up as the sound reached her. In the distance she saw the formation of a mushroom cloud. The temperature was already rising as she roared into the air, her voice silenced as the wave of destruction passed, tearing flesh from bone and burning away all life in the area.
In the aftermath of the fiery atomic holocaust, all that remained on the island were the burnt bones of the saurian mother and the two eggs partially buried in the dirt. In the deathly silence of this place, the eggs began to glow bright red from the inside.
AN. I actually looked up places where nuclear tests had been done to get this setting. Presuming that GZ Junior from the Heisei movies is a proper representation of his species and their growth patterns, then it should take about two years for a baby Godzilla to grow into a full-sized Tokyo crushing death machine.
