Saber...masters of the sword whose own legend surpasses they who wielded them.
Lancer...wielder of spears, lances, and any weapon that provide long reach for them, making defeating them all the more dangerous.
Archer...true masters of long-range weaponry who possessed such incredible strength of will that they virtually become their own masters.
Rider... masters of steeds that have honed their trade to such a degree that even on their own feet, they are nothing but blurs to the naked eye.
Caster...artisans of the magical arts, purveyors of spells and enchantments long lost to modern time and its scientific convention.
Berserkers...mad dogs of war whose sheer physical might is rivaled only by their sheer inhuman madness.
Assassins...the shadow walkers that move silently and unseen by their victims until their blades are buried to the hilt in their heart.
Fourteen combatants, seven Masters and seven Servants whom they call forth from the Throne of Heroes to fight and kill to attain that which was named as the Holy Grail, that their wishes may be granted, one to the living and one to the dead. An absolute balance, a perfected measure of control...but war is war. Like all rules that were created before and like so many that will follow, they were broken.
Shattered and ignored.
There was even a loophole that went in the face of the rule of fourteen combatants. No more, no less.
Until other classes had been revealed...until one class was exploited.
Avenger...warriors whose lives were spent in the name of vengeance be it for themselves or others. It is not truly a class, but more like a substitute as very few heroes of the past could fulfil the standards that come with it. Their gifts of being an Avenger were rarely appreciated as they were often summoned from frustration and being slaughtered before the crime could ever be discovered. The first person called as the titular name was sacrificed against all that is evil of mankind. In his demise, his soul had tainted to the Holy Grail.
Or rather it already was and still is.
Corrupted and controlled by the evils of the world until there was no holiness to it. Yet there was enough of a spark of its light...a core...enough of her original self that remembered that all rules were made to be broken.
The Avenger was not the only class outside of the usual seven that can be summoned forth.
Ruler...those who sat upon their thrones and pedestals as the people below looked up to them to follow their every word, every command. And it is not merely a title anyone can claim for themselves, especially those that were self-righteous pretentious fools. More so, it is meant for those who inspired faith and loyalty in their subjects.
Saver...they whom are the saviors of mankind, even in death. They are the holiest figures of mortal kind, chosen by Fate, guided by Destiny, and protected by the Almighty. This is a class whose place on the Throne of Heroes was not on the proper throne, but very second close to it. They are the last resort when all other options have failed, when the degradation is as such extent far beyond redemption that it would take living embodiments of purity and good to reform what was broken.
However, what was fragmented of the Grail could not make either use of them properly as the Corruption was too great with the balance teetering too close to the edge.
But there was one more to consider...
To awaken a Titan. Not just any Titan, but the King of the Titans, who is also a god for all intents and purposes. One that would restore balance to nature and the Holy Grail.
We had many names for this god throughout the millennia.
But the chief name among them was...
Gojira.
Fate/Zero
Rodan, The One Born of Fire
Tanaka Nakajima knew he was probably in over his head for attempting this. Something that could potentially spell a very catastrophic end in a lot of million ways. But this was an opportunity he simply couldn't pass up of making his mentor, Ishiro Serizawa proud and just the thought of risking it is worth the possibility of bitter defeat. Ancient Japanese, or rather Odo Island-Japanese inscribed runes were carefully placed upon the floor of an empty warehouse in Fuyuki Harbor, which also comprised of an ancient dragon-like stone relic with maple-shaped spines and inscribed with strange hieroglyphs on its chest and his own blood. All that was left were the appropriate words and reagent needed to make this summoning ceremony work.
He placed it carefully into a wooden Shinto altar before he took his place at the opposite side of the summoning circle. He bowed his head and considered the consequences of his actions should this fail. All the planning, all the countless nights he had spent reading his father's notes, and how much resources he spent trying to steal the artifact from his mentor's study and everything else in preparation for this would then be wasted. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and an impossible idea to be ever conceived in the history of mankind. And regardless of whether this succeeds or fails, there would be no turning back to the way things were prior to this attempt of a summoning once his mentor finds out.
If it works, however, then he could become a participant in this "war".
Then he could have his wish...
A world where balance between man and nature was rightfully restored with everything put in its proper place.
"You who sits upon the Throne of Heroes...if thou can lend me thy power...if thou would travel the same path to war as I...then answer my plea fully. I am a warrior long forgotten...a monster...a stranger in the land that I once called home...my eyes are stained with the blood of innocents, my soul in thirst for nuclear fire to cleanse itself of the filth of the damned...I beseech you, mighty Monarch of the First Gods! If thou willing to take me, a miserable mortal, as thy vessel of your fire to remind the world of your reign...hear me and come forth!"
At first, there was nothing.
Not even a spark of light.
Then the warehouse shook. No, it wasn't just the warehouse, Tanaka realized. The entire harbor trembled, the presence smothering the entire complex. Azure fire burned unseen in the air, and a bright Chernokov light emanated from the statue causing the entire shrine to glow outwards. An energy, weirdly familiar, primordial, yet alien surged through him and he knew who was its source.
I ask of you. Are you my Master?
None of the words, if they could even be called words, registered in Tanaka's head as his brain failed to interpret the ancient tongue, or the overwhelming, titanic presence that was there and was not. He felt the mere concept of the query rumble through him, breaking down all of the emotional safeguards he had built up over the years. He was being rendered to that of less than a servant. A humbled, miniscule lizard face to face with a giant apex predator looming over him with its fangs ready to end him at a moment's notice should he ever fail to give the response the leviathan was looking for. An answer with absolute resolve and strength.
"Yes."
With that single utterance of fear, yet paradoxically, complimented by bravery he never knew of, Chernokov light flared across the back of his right hand, lines twisting and turning upon his pale flesh to carve an image of three maple-shaped dorsal plates placed in an arrangement similar to that of a clover leaf. Tanaka could feel the chains tethering him to something on the other side of the link that was clearly not human, but monstrously powerful and ancient. The overpowering presence and its tremendous power were now gone, but he knew he had summoned the King of the Titans. Frankly, the title did not suit the vast entity entirely appropriate as he knew that this creature was more than any mortal king could ever hope to be.
His plan had worked against all odds. For the first time in his life, he felt now that he finally grasped the final key to win the war singlehandedly to ultimately fulfill his wish for a harmonious world where man and nature can finally coexist peacefully.
What he failed to realize was that whenever the King awakens, other Titans will also rise up from their long slumber.
Yunnan Rainforest, China...
Hidden behind the curtain of a massive waterfall, a statuesque cocoon of gigantic proportions was formed very long ago. Nearby, the Temple of the Moth that was 100 miles away from the waterfall. It was also nighttime like in Tokyo as light apparitions of butterflies suddenly manifested in the sky above the waterfall.
They flew down and hovered across the waterfall as something began to stir from within the cocoon. It glowed a beautiful aqua green evanescent light as a raptorial, mantis-like forearm first emerged out from it and stabbed the river bottom for support. Then came out another scythe-like forearm as the creature slowly emerged from the cocoon, revealing to be a moth-like entity. The head was the first to slowly rise with its beautiful, yet fierce blue composite eyes, fuzzy antennae popping out erect at the top of her head, and her fur being fuzzed out. Next out quickly came her thorax with her set of translucent wings not yet unfurled, and her two other pairs of long raptorial, mantis-like limbs that shredded the cocoon. Finally, her wasp-like abdomen with a small bony stinger at the end emerged.
Mothra chirped softly, having sensed her King's awakening catalyzed by a young mortal for the upcoming Fuyuki Holy Grail War. For the Grail to resort to allow the awakening of a Titan, the Apex Alpha among them all was quite telling and disturbing. She knew that it was becoming clearly dire that the corruption of the Grail was getting way out of hand. The King of the Titans probably knew it as well firsthand as he was the one summoned. But that also meant other Titans, especially the false King were now keenly aware of it as well, prompting her emergence from her long dormancy. The King may want to end the Grail's corruption, but others like the False King would want the Grail for more destructive ends with dethroning her symbiotic partner being the top one among them.
Bound by sacred duty and her eternal love for life and purity, Mothra stood up straight at 120 feet tall with her newfound strength in her long, muscular insectoid limbs. She slowly walked out of the waterfall and onto a giant rock pillar jutting out from the river at the base of the waterfall. As she crawled to the top and perched on it, she unfurled her two gigantic compound wings as their extravagant, intricate patterns finally became marked. Mark patterns turned more and more visually stunning with a warm and striking color palette of orange, yellow, and black. The two most striking patterns on her 900 foot wingspan were the huge, dark amaranth eyespots bearing resemblance to the King of the Monsters's eyes at the tips of her wings. The patterns transformed, illuminating into a bioluminescent aqua green that lit up the entire surrounding waterfall and jungle. Flocks of butterflies and colorful birds flew around her in an aerobatic dance dedicated to her.
Mothra declared her presence to the world with a loud, feminine, sirenlike scream.
The Queen of the Monsters has returned to fight alongside her rightful King.
Fuyuki, Japan...
Things have not been turning out great for Fuyuki and/or Japan in general because of two things that were happening that was causing a lot of unwanted stress and trouble for everyone involved.
First of all, on a local level, the Servant, Caster, had just unleashed an abomination at the Fuyuki Bridge. That's not the worst part even though it was not helping the situation. No, the worst part was the first one happening during when it wasn't just Mt. Fuji, a dormant volcano for several centuries, now suddenly becoming active and about to erupt. All of the other major volcanoes such as Mount Ontake, the nearest one to Fuyuki, minor calderas and smaller, extinct volcanoes were on the verge to breaking point with other troubling news of new earth faults occurring throughout Honshu, which shocked everyone in not only Tokyo and other parts of Japan, but the entire world. The recent readings that have just been reported by local news and major news outlet such as NHK, and CNN on the mounting pressure in many of the volcanoes' magma chambers have been troubling and imminent. Fuyuki, which hadn't experienced much natural disasters since 1910, was predicted to have a seven to eight-scale earthquake happen to the city. To top things off, the region's minor volcano, Mt. Jizo-jima, that was 79 miles away from Fuyuki was active as well.
And the Church and the Mage's Association, who had caught wind of the news, reacted rightfully nervous that the now-revived volcano could erupt anytime, placing the entire Holy Grail War in serious jeopardy as the public panic could force the government and federal authorities to be more alert for anything suspicious and thereby place the participants of the secret war in the greatest risk of being exposed.
There herein lie their greatest problem.
While the other participants were aware of the breaking news, they had not received any directive from the Church on how to deal with the volcano that was now complicating the war. They were also dealing with the immediate problem with the rogue Caster and his Master acting out of control with their actions, killing innocent Humans. They have no time to reconsider their options as they had to deal with the more immediate problem of the magecraft's existence being known to the public because of Caster's shenanigans. The Holy Church were stuck in a dilemma as Risei Kotomine was struck blindsided at this unexpected twist of events and the religious leadership proved to be indecisive in what action to take for the Holy Grail War due to the heated debate among the bishops and priests.
In the meantime, the situation of the battle in Mion River had progressively worsened and more complicated.
Servants, Saber and Lancer, and the masters, Master Waver Velvet, and the Homunculus, Irisviel von Einzbern, had to do a tactical retreat to the top of an apartment complex after their struggle to keep Caster's demonic monster from approaching the bay proved to be a losing, chaotic battle while Archer and Berserker battled in the skies above with a McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter squadron pursuing them with the second squadron firing their barrage on Caster's Eldritch monster. Waver's Rider executed his Noble Phantasm, Ionian Hetairoi, a Reality Marble that consisted in a vast desert under a cloudless sky where he led his immense, still-loyal legions of soldiers to battle, to stall the monster for time. However, they were running out of options on how to defeat Caster's abomination and that was not mentioning that all of the commotion caused so much public attention that the JSDF that had just arrived in Fuyuki recently in light of Mt. Jizo's volcanic activity were already mobilizing their forces to deal with the supernatural threat.
"Now what? Rider may have bought us some time, but if we can't use it to think up of something to defeat the abomination, we'll have the entirety of the JSDF on our heads!" Waver stated at the growing direness of their situation with the battle attracting more attention to the Holy Grail War than any of them had anticipated. They had tried anything that could get up close to Caster's spellbook and destroy it, including Lancer's Gae Dearg, but ended up as failures.
"That may already be too late," Lancer said grimly with a serious frown marring his handsome face as he pointed one of his spears towards the approaching row of Type 10 Main Battle tanks that were rolling onto Fuyuki Bridge in front of the abomination. They were primed and ready to fire off their artillery shells with the JSDF soldiers readying their rifles and placing their battle positions on the bridge. "At the rate things are headed and compounded by Mt. Jizo's imminent eruption, this war may not last long."
Saber's expression was unchangingly stoic as she stood firm on the water's surface in spite of the JSDF's attention now on her, though deep inside, she was mentally cursing at how awkward their mission was turning out with Mt. Jizo's closeness to bursting inadvertently exposing them to a rather terrified public, whose citizens were already riled up from the evacuation of Fuyuki.
"Damnit…" Waver gritted his teeth as the Holy Grail War was now compromised with his chance to fulfill his wish of forcing the Mage's Association to recognize his genius on the verge of disappearing regardless of the outcome of this battle while Irisviel remained silent in worry for everything.
Standing on the rooftop of one of the now deserted traditional houses in Miyama Town, which overlooked Fuyuki City, the young Japanese man with jet black hair, round glasses, and grayish formal coat with a white, collared shirt and black pants, who was none other than Tanaka Nakajima, was observing the progress of the battle from afar with his binoculars. His saddened, conflicted expression said it all as this was not how he expected the direction of the Holy Grail War to go. He had hoped to disrupt it, but not so drastically and so early on in his plan with natural disasters being birthed throughout the country with unnatural frequency and the entirety of Japan thrown into a state of national emergency with the Diet and the JSDF in full alarm of what's happening.
As he watched Lancer break his yellow, intricately marked, smaller spear in half and it disappeared into thin air, which enabled Saber to materialize her sword, Excalibur in a golden, holy bright light, Tanaka prayed that the heroes' mission against Caster would succeed for their sakes before his "Servant" and others like him would have to be involved. He narrowed his eyes at Berserker's interference that was thankfully dealt with quickly due to Lancer and Archer's interventions. Rider managed to disperse his Noble Phantasm to send Caster into the position where Kiritsugu, the Magus Killer and Saber's other master, had directed him to. All was prepared as the JSDF tanks, soldiers, and F-15 squadrons unleashed their firepower onto Caster's abomination, giving Saber the blind spot she needed to land the killing blow.
Gilgamesh, the Golden Archer, stood at the other bank of the river adjacent to Saber as he stared at her arm-crossed. Saber raised Excalibur above her head and started channeling large amounts of Prana into her Noble Phantasm.
Then Murphy's Law decided to kick in when Mt. Jizo all of the sudden erupted into a thunderous explosion that shook Fuyuki and everyone off their game. Tanaka, himself, struggled to steady his bearings, close to falling off the roof when his right hand throbbed with the maple-shaped spine tri-symbol pulsated.
Saber held Excalibur above her as the wave of golden energy blew the water away from her much to the shocked stares of the evacuating civilians and the Japanese military. She prepared to unleash her Noble Phantasm as she shouted,
"EX-!"
However, her concentration was broken when Mt. Jizo erupted in a spectacular, earth-shattering explosion that shook the city terribly. The glow of her Excalibur disappeared as she physically reeled from the shock of the reverberations.
"What the?!"
She wasn't the only one as everyone stumbled hard onto their butts hitting the dirt. They all looked up to the volcano.
Tanaka gazed onto his marked hand with his blue eyes widened in horror as it meant one thing. The King was reacting to the presence of another of his kind.
Another Titan. And it was coming from within Mt. Jizo.
'No, already here? So soon?!' Things were moving way faster than he anticipated and worsening as he witnessed lava being spewed out of the volcano's mouth haphazardly.
From the mouth of the now lava-ridden, burning volcano, burst out a three clawed scaly hand that slammed onto the ridge with its sharp claws clamping down onto it for support as the owner let out a terrifying groaning roar that sounded like a dinosaur. Slowly, the hand was revealed to be attached to a large giant wing that was covered in molten, armored, feathery-like scales encrusted in a flexible rocky, mineral-like substance borne from the volcano. Another wing, this time, the right wing also clawed out. The lava parted away, revealing a ferocious bird-like head complete with a large, serrated eagle-like beak ending in a wicked curved tip with two horns protruding from the back of its head. The beast's fiery, angry eyes revealed to be yellowish-orange as they glared with the gaze of an infuriated eagle birthed from fire.
The winged monster emitted a deep, croaking grumble like a gigantic hellish crow as it crawled itself out of Mt. Jizo with smoke and fire scattered about.
As the volcano gave way, Fuyuki's populace were terrified and astonished of the creature's devilish appearance. It resembled a large pterodactyl with the body built, shaped, and functioned more like a bird of prey than an actual Pteranodon with a strong chest and sternum covered with rows of sharp spikes, and strong, muscular legs and feet one would see from an eagle or a hawk complete with sharp talons that could puncture through the tough hide of another Titan. The tail, though obscured by the column of smoke, was large, flat, and fan shaped for a more aerodynamic purpose of increasing the monster's maneuverability. Finally, the body was burgundy red in color with its beak being black as molten rock.
Tanaka was shocked to see this particular Titan as he had read legends about it, but its place of origin were not of Japan, but in Mexico's Isla de Mara. The fact that it had managed to move undetected from there to here was not only shocking, but horrifying in the implications that the only way the Titan could do so was underground.
"Rodan...shit! This is not good at all..." Tanaka gulped hard seeing the proof for Houston Brook's Hollow Earth theory now in front of his own eyes. It quickly became apparent to him that was probably reason why all the volcanoes on Honshu were erupting with earthquakes happening with Rodan's movements disturbing the stability of the magma chambers.
Soon enough, Rodan opened wide his giant wings, showing them to be a massive wingspan of 1,540 feet from wingtip to wingtip, and standing at 236 feet tall as he cried out a throaty dinosaur-like crowing roar that made the airspace of Fuyuki quake, scaring the entire populace into panicked screams with people scrambling for their lives. He sensed the Caster's abomination and sharply turned his head around to give the twisted Servant the most infernal, hungry glare that would have immolated Caster through his soul if his eyes could kill him right there and then.
"What the hell is that?!" Waver stumbled back in horrified shock with Saber and Lancer being gobsmacked with their own disbelief of Rodan.
"Another demon?!" That was the first thing that came to Saber's mind as the pterodactyl-like Titan bore troubling traits of what she and people in her own time consider of demons with Rodan's strong apparent affinity to flames and volcanoes only strengthening her perception of the beast as a demon.
Irisviel brought up her hands to her mouth as she was terrified of Rodan's angry, demonic appearance that would give her nightmares to come in her sleep.
Lancer had his jaw drop to the ground.
Kiritsugu was no longer calm and collected as Rodan's aerodynamic, predatory nature quickly dawned on him and the beast's potential capability of destruction placed him, Saber, and Irisviel face-to-face with death with no chance for survival if the classified files he had read on this monster many years ago were correct. He correctly deduced that Saber's Noble Phantasm would have little to no chance of killing it as the Titan was not only huge, but proven to be extremely tough and durable when it could endure being hit by a nuclear bomb without a scratch just like him.
The sound of F-15 jets zooming past above them caused Archer to narrow his eyes as he clearly didn't like where this was headed. "Don't tell me those fools are going to-"
Much to Archer's indignant ire, the F-15 squadron predictably did what he feared they would do by launching heat-seeking missiles at Rodan.
"Idiot mongrels, they have signed their own death warrant." He said before he teleported away before things inevitably turned ugly.
Rodan was bombarded by the barrage as they slammed against his feet and torso.
"SCCKKKREEEAAAAWWWRRRKKK!"
Rodan squawked more out of shock rather than being actually hurt as the explosions did nothing more than give him a nasty prick to his tough, magma scales.
"What are they doing?! Do they know full well they will only anger it?!" Waver was flabbergasted at the apparent boldness or idiocy of the pilots, having seen enough monster movies where military intervention in such confrontational scenarios against a giant Kaiju typically didn't end well for anyone.
"It's not like they had not any choice, young man. Look around us." Lancer said seriously gesturing to the scared civilians around the river. "Just like we had to protect our people and our nation, these men riding the steel birds must also protect these innocents from whatever would threaten them. Even if it costed them their lives."
Waver felt sick to the stomach from being reminded how costly it was for a warrior, even someone strong, powerful, and charismatic like Saber, Rider, etc. to put their lives on the line in war.
"At this point, those men's bravery may spell death for all of us. Look!" Rider pointed from his chariot as he saw Rodan glaring down at everyone with wrath burning more powerfully than the sun itself. The pterodactyl-like monster raised its eagle-like feet off from the mouth of Mt. Jizo one by one before it, with minimal exertion of its legs jumped off and began flapping its giant feather-like wings to lift itself into the air.
"Oh no..." Saber's face paled as she saw the winged Titan take off with the feather-like scales on his wingtips and edge of his tail fan glowing an angry lava red-orange hue with the energy extending outward into bigger imitating projections of actual feathers. Rodan then had his neck bear long spines and with his horned head having a feathery mane crest or an light optical illusion of one, making him more resemble a phoenix.
"SKKROOOOAAAAWWWWRRRR!"
"We have to retreat for shelter! RUN!" Saber hollered as she, and everyone else, except Caster, ran frantically away from the river. Rodan swooped and soared down towards Fuyuki City, constantly shedding ash and burning embers from his scales at high speeds. Rodan's shadow passed over the forest above and the hot sonic winds he left behind blew away trees and burned the ground with embers. Upon reaching Fuyuki in no time flat, the destructive capabilities of those winds were realized as buildings were torn apart by the turbulent gale with cars, trash, children, people, and animals violently swept off their feet. Fire burned everything in Rodan's wake, even the river's waters were not spared. Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel rushed to the side off the road and away from the mass of panic-stricken citizens. They hid in one of the alleyways, hiding in a book shop as close as possible with the gale soon sweeping countless victims off their feet to their demise with people screaming in shock and agony with the flying embers roasted their flesh in mid-air.
"Oh my God!" Irisviel shrieked with horror with her words being drowned out by the screaming winds.
Kiritsugu looked around as they were surrounded by sonic gales with countless debris and bodies being swept away. They heard creaking and something cracked and looked up to see the roof breaking off!
He immediately shielded his wife with his body as he became pelted by some of the books headed their way with Saber having to cut some of the smaller chunks of concrete and a bicycle.
She next heard a boy screaming and crying when she looked to see a young boy with red hair and a blue and grey shirt and pants being blown in the torrential gale. By instinct, she rushed out, anchoring herself to the entrance corner, and reaching for the boy's hand in spite of Kiritsugu's protest. The boy grabbed her hand as both the young Shiro and Saber held on for dear life.
"AAAAAHHHH!" Shiro screamed in sheer terror with his body being pulled by the gale as if it had a tight grip on him.
"Hang on!" Saber yelled as she struggled to not let go and with some help from Irisviel and Kiritsugu at last, she managed to yank Shirou away from the wind into the bookstore before the embers could claim him.
A stream of lava fire from Rodan's beaked maw flew down and consumed all that it touched, the river water ignited as their bloodied cargo ruptured from the intense infernal heat.
The abomination's tentacles ignited and ruptured as well in contact with Rodan's volcanic flames as unbelievable heat overwhelmed the flesh unaccustomed to the temperatures found outside of its dismal pits of the watery grave. The lava flames spewed from Rodan and the trail of sonic winds and hot embers overwhelmed Caster as his flesh was vaporized down to his own core with all of the tentacles lost completely.
"It burns! It burns! GYAAAAHHHH! The pain of hell! This has to be!" Caster howled agonizingly as his abomination's flesh was seared so severely to the point of being unhealable. He was so agonized and scorched to the point his senses were rendered numb and he could no longer feel himself being brutally ripped apart from the abomination by Rodan when the pterodactyl-like Titan snatched him up with his strong eagle-like feet with his razor sharp talons tearing off a chunk of the abominable flesh with him. Rodan brought Caster closer to his face with his feet and casted evil, fierce glare, looking down at him with a deep-throated crowing growl.
"Unhand me, you vile devil bird of Satan!" Caster screamed in terrified defiance to his last before Rodan lunged his head down onto him with his beak wide open, biting him and the disgusting flesh in one swoop. Caster was torn into a bloody pulp by the sharp serrations of Rodan's wicked beak. Disgusted, Rodan spat him out and threw the gross piece of flesh away. With Caster dead, the abomination disintegrated.
The King of the Skies, however, was far from done with his carnage as he soon rapidly turned around in a sharp turn towards the F-15 squadron that had been pursuing him for quite some time. He took the barrage of missiles head on and at the last second when he and the squadron were about to collide, he slammed his wings, creating an extremely strong updraft that destroyed the four jets and pushed the aerial Titan way up into the stormy sky above Fuyuki.
Rider and Waver were in awe of what Rodan had just executed that led to the tragic loss of the four pilots in this one-sided dogfight.
"Keep an out for that creature, Rider! I have no doubt it will come after us!" Waver said, surveying the dark clouds surrounding them.
"I'm already on that. I can sense the beast's overpowering Mana, but that monster is using his clouds to make himself unseen! A cowardly demon, if I ever saw one!" Rider growled, squinting his eyes to look for any trace of the flying monster, but wasn't having any such luck with the dark clouds obscuring Rodan's presence completely from sight.
Waver's ears picked up Rodan's hawk-like screech coming from behind as his eyes widened.
"Behind us!"
Rodan swooped down at neckbreaking speed towards Rider.
Reacting defensively, Rider blocked what he thought was Rodan trying to pierce with his talons with his Sword of Kupriotes, but was instead knocked off along with Waver off the Gordius Wheel. The Titan used the spikes on his chest and sternum to bludgeon the Chariot. The Divine Bulls were knocked aside by Rodan's magma wings and the shockwaves. Being disoriented even for a second before they recovered, it was enough of a window for Rodan to quickly hover around and lunge at them, swallowing them whole.
Rider mentally said an apology for the bulls he had lost to winged monster before he quickly summoned his trusty legendary steed, Bucephalus, to his aid. The horse materialized, neighing as he galloped on thunder to his master. Rider quickly grabbed onto the reins and rid on the horse towards an unconscious Waver. He yanked the young Master up onto his lap and that was when he noticed that the boy's head was bleeding from a cut inflicted by one of Rodan's spikes.
"No...," Rider tried to feel for his heart with his large palm on Waver's chest. He felt it, but it was fading if medical help was not applied to him soon.
However, Rodan's terrible screech broke up the solemn mood with the situation not in Rider's favor with the ancient pterodactyl heading straight towards him with his killing intent clear to him.
"You bastard! You dare to use such cowardly tricks against me! Me, the King of Conquerors, you dishonorable vulture!" Iskandar roared with lightning formed around him with horse grunting angrily as he and his steed charged all out desperately against the Titan. "I will do more than just pluck your evil, despicable feathers once I kill you!"
Rodan screamed with a low-pitched, heavier screech, flying towards the enraged Rider with his talons opened outward.
Just when things seemed to be hopeless for the King of Conquerors that was about to be dethroned by the bullish Rogue of the Skies, salvation came unexpectedly in the form of a Chernokov stream of radioactive energy cutting right in between them.
"What the?!" Rider forced Bucephalus to a halt just seconds away from being scorched by the unexpected heat ray.
Rodan squawked after being caught off guard, and flew down towards the Shinto district of Fuyuki. He crashed onto the Fuyuki City Hyatt Hotel crushing it with his mass with his feather-like scales creating this aura around him that melted buildings.
Saber, Kiritsugu, and Irisviel, who was holding onto the exhausted, young Shiro close to her chest, when they ran back towards the burning Mion River with the only sign the bridge was ever there were burnt scaffoldings with the metal warped by the heat. They were there when they saw sea of Fuyuki Bay lit up in an azure light before a stream of radioactive heat ray burst out from the water and almost struck Rodan right there and then. The ground beneath them shook as the winged, living volcano landed.
"No...that can't be...," Saber clearly recognized who that stream of Chernokov energy belonged to as she looked towards the ocean, seeing three rows of titanic maple-shaped spires rising up from the surface followed by a lengthy, crocodile-like tail with a slightly rounded tip at the end that slammed the water. Kiritsugu frowned as he too knew the identity of the monster surfacing from the sea, though in a different sense.
Gilgamesh, who has reunited with his master, Tokiomi Tohsaka, on a ruined skyscraper overlooking the now burning Shinto district when they saw the source of the blue Chernokov heat ray reveal itself from the depths of the sea.
"He's back." Archer grinned as he knew this Holy Grail War was shaping up to be an interesting one.
"You know of this creature from long ago, your majesty?" a perplexed Tokiomi raised his eyebrow as the Golden Archer answered him.
"Indeed, I have. The fact he is summoned here makes me wonder how much more the Grail has become corrupted to resort to enabling this servant to be summoned into the war."
Tanaka stood at the very bay where he had finally managed to succeed in his ritual of awakening the King of the Titans. His coat fluttered around like a cape as his hand was glowing red because one of the spines no longer blue, but red, as he used his Command Seal to finally bring forth the ultimate Servant into the fray.
"Come forth, O King of the Monsters! Restore balance to this cruel twisted world with your radioactive flame! By the thundering clamor your own roar that shook the heavens, reclaim your throne! GODZILLAAAA!" Tanaka roared at the top of his lungs, pumping his left arm into the air with his glowing hand clenched. His eyes illuminating in the same blue Chernokov light like very much the glowing spires surging with power as they were the dorsal plates of a massive dinosaur-like reptile. The King of the Monsters had finally arrived.
His entire body was revealed as he stomped out from the sea as stocky or heavily-built packed with some considerable fat and lot more muscle underneath rough crocodilian-like scales and plates. The reptile's face was blocky like a cross between a bear and Tyrannosaurus rex; its neck was broad bearing similarity to that of an eagle's neck and has shark-like gills on either side of its neck. Its eyes were small and of golden yellow color that were now glowing a threatening blue. The teeth that lined this monster's jaws were like giant, bus-sized spikes that could puncture through flesh, bone, and steel and there were ninety-two of them in total. The head and neck leaned forward and the nostrils were separated, being on opposite sides of the snout. The chest was rather wide and beefy for a reptile that support powerful shoulders, which anchor strong muscular arms and hands ending with sausage-shaped fingers armed with sharp, long claws.
The most distinctive characteristic were the reptile's maple-shaped dorsal plates which were illuminating in a Cherenkov blue light. The dorsal plates' protrusions had sharp tips that look like they could cut through steel if given the chance and if should the creature be ambushed from above. There were eighty-nine of them running down its back to the tip of its tail with three large central dorsal plates running from mid-way down his back. The veins on the dorsal plates could be visibly seen with the plates glowing.
Standing at 493 feet tall and 697 feet long, Godzilla stomped into the mouth of the river where he felt the familiar volcanic hot presence of Rodan. When the two finally glared at each other, the two instantly recognized each other.
"Godzilla." Saber said, remembering the fateful day back in her timeline when she witnessed Y Ddraig Goch and Godzilla teaming up, putting aside their glaring differences that had usually pitted them at odds with each other, to combat another more malevolent Titan that had terrorized the English countryside and threatened her Kingdom.
Godzilla let out an ear-shattering, intimidating roar at Rodan with his dorsal plates glowing ominously to indicate his status as Alpha Titan to force the smaller, roguish Titan to submit. That might've worked if Rodan had been weaker at the time long ago. Rodan, however, had grown more powerful over many millennia since he had fought against Godzilla for the crowning title as King of the Monsters many eons ago. He was on the verge of becoming his own Alpha Titan and he wasn't going to let Godzilla stop him this time. In Rodan's perspective, Godzilla had allowed himself to be subjugated as a Servant to a lowly human being, which was a big No-No for the pterodactyl-like reptile and not something he would ever respect any fellow Titan for doing so.
Thus, in defiance, Rodan rapidly unfurled his wings with embers cascading all around him and over Fuyuki, displaying his own style of dominance. Rodan hollered out his own intimidating crowing roar that sounded like a pissed eagle on steroids as he would not back down and submit to Godzilla, which only infuriated the Monster King into wrath.
Incensed by his former subordinate's gall to defy his rule to establish himself as another rival Alpha, Godzilla wasted no time in making his displeasure known with his spines creating a humming sound as they surged drastically with untold amounts of energy. Godzilla heaved his chest until he spat out his Atomic Heat Ray with its aim towards Rodan, whose own horns, mouth, and feathers glowed brightly in purple. Rodan unleashed his newest weapon, which was his own Uranium Heat Ray that was dark violet instead of blue like Godzilla's. The two heat rays collided in a spectacular, destructive clash of energies that devastated more of Fuyuki in the process.
Saber and Kiritsugu covered their eyes with their arms with Irisviel shielding the now conscious Shiro away from the blinding clash of radioactive energies.
"Incredible! Looks like that despicable vulture has managed to learn some new devious tricks of his own!" Iskandar reluctantly admired Rodan's newfound power.
The resulting explosion and shockwaves blasted both Rodan and Godzilla away. The former took off into the air as he then flew, rapidly accelerating towards the latter like a ferocious missile, leaving behind a melted crater of what was once Fuyuki City Hyatt Hotel, and an infernal trail of hellish destruction that left the surrounding area in complete ruin. Likewise, Godzilla was not going to hold any punches as he charged and stomped towards his former subordinate now turned rival, crushing everything in his path.
SKKRRREEEOOOOONNNNGGGGKKK!
SCCKKRRAAAOOORRR!
Godzilla and Rodan collided into each other with claws and talons readying to rip each other to shreds. Fuyuki became the vicious battleground between former allies turned enemies. King of the Monsters vs. The Winged Rogue Borne of Fire
End of One-Shot #4.
A/N: In order to keep this story fresh and engaging as best as I can, I will write chapters where Godzilla and other Titans get to have their spotlight instead of just the malevolent, three-headed golden drake. This chapter is one of them. Mothra gets her epic spotlight, albeit brief, with the majority of the limelight going to Rodan as he's basically the main monster of the show before Godzilla shows up. I felt the pterodactyl deserved to have more of a chance to stand out on his own than he had been given in previous canons within the Godzilla franchise. And yes, I will write one-shot story dedicated to Mothra in the near future or the next story. Who knows (shrugs).
Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this wonderful crossover one shot! See ya next time!
