A/N: Alright everyone, things are about to get interesting, and we'll meet some new faces.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Godzilla, which belongs to Toho. I only own my OCs and concepts.
"You can't possibly mean to put him with the others so soon," Joanna said angrily to Dr. Riley, while the latter dusted off his lab coat, "we don't know how strong he is or how he will react to them." Dr. Riley replied, "Sorry Jo, boss's orders." To which she stormed off to go oversee the transition. It had been barely a week of their new creature, now named Dragulus, being born, and now he was being corralled in with the others, some of them nearly as big as he was. She couldn't help it, but she worried about what would happen if Dragulus got into a fight, despite the fact that she feared him. Surprisingly, Mr. Savage had not ordered Dragulus destroyed, instead he had seemed pleased, which was odd; Mr. Savage was never outwardly pleased with any of their creations. She had to find out the reason behind this, and fast.
The tiny humans were absolutely buzzing today, thought Dragulus; they were almost frantic making preparations. He could guess what, because even though they had erected barriers against his mind, he could still sense their intentions. They were moving him somewhere, and there were others like him at that place; he could smell them. And so it came that a large steel door to a long steel passage opened in his chamber, and Dragulus walked through it, reveling in his chance to meet new creatures like him, to dominate them. And so when he came to his destination, another steel door met him there, he could break it down himself if he wanted, but where was the fun it that? The humans would just get mad and yap at him uselessly, boring him to no end; and besides, they opened the doors for him anyway. Once this one opened, he found himself in a chamber so big it was spacious even to him, and it was filled with the scents other creatures, some almost as big as he was. He could sense the humans watching him from another of their small dens that were clear on one side. Striding confidently, he went forward into this unknown.
"So far, so good," said Dr. Saki, the head handler on the island, to Joanna. "He's doing fine, although a bit cocky," said another handler. The handlers, even though they never physically handled the monsters, were called that because they oversaw the monster pen. If anything went wrong, such as a fight or a breakout attempt, they could fill the chamber with tranquilizer gas, or use electronic tranquilizer turrets to sedate the troublemaker. In response to the last statement another handler, a woman with long blonde hair and blue eyes, said confidently, "Yeah, well I bet he won't be so confident when he meets Ripper." Ripper was a monster based off the DNA of a Megalodon, who kept most of his shark attributes, and was the biggest bully. In addition, Ripper had had to be tranquilized a total of 19 times, more than half of them for fighting. "No way, I think Gladiator will wipe that smirk off his face," said a handler from Japan. Gladiator was a creation inspired by King Kong, created with ape DNA but biologically altered to have an almost unstoppable rage, and to produce a natural steroid instead of adrenaline, giving him an unnatural boost to speed and strength. These facts were the reason the two were never out together, and hardly when there were other monsters in the pen, they were too aggressive, but that was what made them the darlings of Mr. Savage's pet project.
It was time to start releasing some of the others, and then Mr. Savage and his ever-present circle appeared. Upon his arrival, Mr. Savage said to Dr. Saki, "Is everything going well doctor; is Dragulus adjusting well?" Joanna thought to herself, "He has decided he likes him; he never refers to any of the others by name, except for Ripper and Gladiator." Dr. Saki replied, "Yes sir, we were just getting ready to release some of the others, starting with the least aggressive…" Mr. Savage cut him off, "Doctor, I hope you actually meant that you were going to release Ripper now," and despite the man's objections, "You know that the only way for Dragulus to get any respect from Ripper is for him to fight him; now release Ripper." With a sigh, Dr. Saki hit the release for Ripper to be brought in. The 90 meters tall shark walked in on his two legs, swinging his head from side to side, scanning with his eyes and other senses. It didn't take him long to spot Dragulus. And with a roar, he charged, his arms wide and teeth bared.
Dragulus had almost finished his own inspection of the room when he heard the door open and smelled the other creature coming. It smelled of salt, and water, but also of blood; to Dragulus it was intoxicating. Whatever this creature was, he thought, it was going to be a fun playmate. He didn't have to wait long until he saw it; it was a shark, but instead of the fins, it had arms and legs, but kept its dorsal fin, and gills, the arms themselves were muscular, and the four-fingered hands had sharp-looking black claws. Dragulus also noted the creature's legs, muscular like the arms, and the feet were like a reptile's, three-toed and possessing claws as well, but also had webbing between them. The shark-creature had kept its tail as well, but that would not help it in this fight, Dragulus thought; then he noticed the rows of teeth in its mouth, which amused him, why would anything need so many teeth. Finally the other creature spotted him, fixed his black eyes on him, and roared a challenge for Dragulus to submit. Dragulus had no intention of submitting to him, and so the shark-creature charged.
Dragulus also ran to meet his opponent, and so they grappled, Dragulus noted that his opponent's skin was lined with what looked like small teeth, but they either didn't penetrate his armor or broke on contact with it; this was going to be fun. Dragulus turned with his opponent in his arms and hip tossed him to land on the chamber floor with a loud thud. This only seemed to enrage the shark and he charged, but at the last moment Dragulus stepped aside with his arm extended, clothes lining Ripper. Ripper flew end over end through the air by his own momentum and landed with a bone-jarring impact against the floor again, this was really irritating him now. But right as he got up, Dragulus was there in a flash and raked his hand across Ripper's head, sending a spray of blood. Smelling the blood, Ripper went into a frenzy, but that was what Dragulus wanted, Ripper became wild, slashing and attempting to bite with wild abandon. In a heartbeat, Dragulus raked his pointed hand across Ripper's face once, twice, then three times, letting loose a torrent of blood, and partially blinding Ripper. Acting on instinct now, Ripper used his electrical sense to find Dragulus, and attacked wildly. Ripper managed to land a lucky blow to Dragulus' torso, but the clawed hand only skated off of Dragulus' armored torso. In Dragulus' mind, now was the time to finish it; he grabbed Ripper by the neck, lifting him with one hand; then making a fist, he punched Ripper with a sickening crunch in the torso, cracking his partially cartilage bones. Then he punched him again, but this time let go when he connected, sending Ripper flying to land in a wheezing heap in a corner of the pen. Dragulus looked down on Ripper, contempt in his eyes, at the claw-marked face, the staved in chest; he then took hold of Ripper's shoulder, to hold him in place, and then punched him again, this time in the head, then punched him repeatedly until the head was nothing more than a pulp. Stepping away, with Ripper's blood dripping from his hand, Dragulus roared in victory. Before he could savor his victory however, a mass of fur and muscle blindsided him.
This newcomer was Gladiator, a massive ape, with thick brown fur with a dark splash on his back. Gladiator had been released when Dragulus was distracted, and Gladiator had used this time to learn his opponent's style of fighting. What Gladiator had seen, however, was not encouraging, Ripper's claws hadn't been able to penetrate the armor of Dragulus, and Dragulus was strong enough to lift Ripper with one hand, and Gladiator was about the same mass as Ripper. So, he would have to find the weak spot of his opponent, even if he didn't know his opponent's entire repertoire; but he couldn't leave this youngling to challenge him. So, Gladiator backed away from Dragulus, content to let him make the first move.
This new opponent had backed away almost as soon as he had attacked, which was strange to Dragulus. Maybe this opponent is smarter, or he has a secret weapon, he thought. If so, he was going to have fun with this one. So when Gladiator waited, Dragulus sprung. His speed must have surprised Gladiator, because he managed to grab the ape and tossed him into the opposite wall before Gladiator knew what had hit him. But the ape shook off the daze quickly, and rose and beat his chest and hooted at Dragulus. If this was an attempt to bait him, thought Dragulus, the ape wasn't doing a good job; Dragulus knew he had the upper hand in a physical fight. He decided he would do it the ape's way, and charged, then realized his mistake as Gladiator jumped and grabbed him in a choke hold.
Gladiator was actually desperate, and he felt his energy levels rising, the steroid taking over, that was what had caused him to try to bait Dragulus, and why he was trying to choke him now. But then Gladiator realized that the choke wasn't working, his opponent's armor was a little slippery and unbreakable by even his enhanced strength. But before he could try to fix his mistake, Dragulus' tail sprung to life and stung Gladiator on the shoulder, which erupted into pain immediately. Gladiator could feel the poison moving through his veins as he let go of Dragulus, but what was worse was that Dragulus was seemingly smirking at the ape, he was enjoying this! But then Gladiator had a bigger problem, the poison wasn't killing him, but instead he was becoming sluggish, his muscles were stiffening, he was being paralyzed! He tried to get away, but ended up tripping over his own unresponsive feet, and fell to the floor.
Dragulus watched his opponent trip and fumble as the poison paralyzed him, it wouldn't kill him of course, but then again, it would have been funny watching the expression in the ape's eyes if it did. But no, killing was for Dragulus, and it was his playtime. Dragulus decided that he would just use one of his other abilities to kill this ape; he was bored just slugging it out with his playmates. But as he advanced on the fallen ape, savoring the terror in the ape's eyes, he felt something collide with his armor, but it didn't penetrate and shattered; it was a tranquilizer dart, but Dragulus ignored it. Dragulus sucked in a great lungful of air, and then let loose with a great torrent of dark red fire from his maw. This fire breath he had inherited from Baragon, and he was making use of it as a great river of fire erupted from within him. Starting at the ape's legs, Dragulus dragged his fire slowly up the ape's body as he let out screams that couldn't get out of his mouth or throat and the smell of charred hair and flesh filled the air. In the end, only a charred husk remained of Gladiator. Dragulus looked over his beaten opponents, and let out a sound that could only be interpreted as demented laughter.
In the control room, everyone sat stupefied at what they had seen; Joanna was still frozen in her spot where she had dashed to release the tranquilizer dart that had not affected Dragulus at all. All Joanna could say was, "I…I…I can't believe it, he beat them both, and he just laughs about it. He beat them both so cruelly, what have we unleashed on the world?" "What we've unleashed, I think," said Mr. Savage, "is the headline of our new monster mercenary operation."
THE END
A/N: Wow, what have I unleashed on the world? Just so you all know, I got my inspiration for Dragulus from Bagan of Godzilla Neo by KaijuSamurai on Deviantart. Stay tuned for the next installment!
