Chapter Four: Blondie and The Beast

For someone like Leni Loud, having more than one thought going through was nothing sort of amazing. So, the fact at least six different thoughts were all running through the blonde's mind was a first. Sadly however, all of those said thoughts were depressing for the teenager. Four of the six thoughts were focused on worrying about her missing family while remaining two were thinking about her wishing that she had packed a summer themed dress if she knew that she was going trapped on an island. Ever since she had awoken on the beach she had been washed up on, the second eldest of the Loud children had been aimlessly wandering through the island.

At first, she was searching for her missing siblings, but every so often she would stop and smell the beautiful flowers or flying a nice bed of grass to lay on in order to get some sunlight to tan her skin before remembering her mission and continuing on with her quest before repeating the first to actions over and over again. finally, after nearly spending nearly the entire day of both forgetting and remembering her task, the sun was starting to go down and only now Leni was starting realize how dangerous the island could be. She could hear the creatures in the rising darkness searching for easy prey to feast upon. The only hope she had was finding somewhere safe to stay for the night, but due to the fact that she had been unable to locate a hotel in this place, she would have to make due with a motel if she could find one.

On top of all her other problems, she was unable to retrieve the rest of her cloths before the cruise ship disappeared into the depths of the sea, thus forcing her to wear her casual attire—and it wasn't even in season! The harsh heat wasn't doing her hair any favors either, nor was the dirt that now covered her shoes and clothes. What Leni wouldn't give for a nice spa day and trip to the mall right about now instead of being stuck in this death hole of an island. it wasn't just the fact the that her dress or her shoes were ruined that upset the blonde, but also because she was alone and separated from her brother and sisters.

Sure, they sometimes teased her because of her 'blonde moments', but they still loved her and she in turn loved them, and now she was separated from them. The last thing she remembered was handing Lily to another group before they cast off in their lifeboat. Just as she had done that, the ship was struck from below and knocked her and several of her siblings in the ocean, where upon colliding with the water, she was knocked unconscious. The only thing that Leni could fathom as to how to she survived drowning at sea and being carried to the place was that a totally hot merman rescued her and brought to this island save her life.

"I should, like, find that merman and thank him" she thought out loud "I wonder if he's single?"

As Leni continued to the mull over what her supposed aquatic rescuer looked it, she became lost in thought and wandered aimlessly further into the jungle. it wasn't before long that she had wandered out of the jungle itself and into a vast open rock quarry. The only thing that snapped her back to reality was when she stepped on a rock the broke her shoe, thus causing her to fall flat on her rear end.

"Ow! Stupid rock!" she cursed at the rock that had knocked her down "and that was my favorite shoe to!"

In a fit of anger, the blonde teen grabbed the rock and chucked it as far as she could throw it. The rock collided with a massive bolder and broke apart on impact with it. Seeing that her once matching pair of favorite shoes were ruined, Leni removed the other shoe and tossed them aside. She may be stranded and alone on an unknown island, but she wouldn't be caught dead with a paired pair of shoes.

"Note to self: never let hot mermen save your life" she noted before looking at the bolder she had thrown the rock at "well, at least I can sleep there for the night"

Leni walked over to the large bolder and inspected closely. She hadn't seen many boulder's in her life, but she was quite sure they weren't as oddly shaped as this one. The massive rock in question was almost dome-like in shape with hundreds of massive protrusions sticking outing of it that made the blonde think they were giant spikes sticking out of the bolder. While Leni thought the shape of the bolder was odd, she didn't think much of it other than where she could possible sleep on it with getting stabbed by the massive spikes. Seeing that sleeping atop the bolder was out of the question, the blonde was forced to concede to sleeping of in the dirt next the giant rock.

But just as she laid down for the night to rest, the ground beneath her began to shake violently. Leni immediately jumped back to her feet and backed away from the boulder as she watched it begin to suddenly rise from the ground and reveal something the bolder was attached to something that was hidden under the earth. Leni watched in a mix of horror and amazement as a massive reptile began to pull itself upward toward the surface. The creature had the appearance that was a combination of an armadillo and a dinosaur. As the monster pulled more of itself out of the ground, it gave Leni a chance to see more of the giant beast's features.

The creature was covered in brownish grey scales and walked on four, clawed feet. Its mouth was elongated with long, serrated fangs sticking out of it that almost looked like giant swords upon first glance. The titan's long tail was covered in spikes and had four horns atop its head that made it seem as though that the monster had some sort of head crest. The creature also had a single horn at the tip of its nose. The monster opened its nostrils and sorted out a cloud of dust from them before shaking the dirt that still clung to its skin. After somewhat cleaning itself, the Kaiju turned its head downward to get a closer look at the human before it, who was still petrified in fear.

"Maybe if I don't move, it can't see me" Leni mused to herself as she stood still "I mean, it like, totality worked in that one movie!"

Unfortunately for Leni, the monster's vision was working just fine. Unlike the other children who listened to Lincoln and his knowledge of the colossal creatures that roamed the earth, Leni either stayed her little bubble of ignorance or just completely forgot whatever her brother had told her of them. While the blonde may not know of the monster before her, he had well-known reputation all the same. This was Anguirus, the second Kaiju to appear on earth after Godzilla. His first appearance coincided with the return of the king of the monsters only months after his supposed death by the Oxygen Destroyer. The two monsters did battle in the heart Tokyo before Godzilla defeated him at the cost of much of the city and its civilians. Strangely however, ever since their first battle, the two Kaiju had become allies from then on, fighting side by side in order to protect the earth against hordes of monstrous threats that came from beyond the stars.

However, Anguirus's status as a hero was lost to the blonde, who still thought that standing like a statue was good way of avoiding detection from the monster who obviously knew that she was standing right front of him. The armored monster let out an annoyed snort that made Leni once again on her rear end. Seeing that her master plan camouflage had failed, Leni let out a high-pitched scream of terror before jumping to her feet and blinding taking off into the rock quarry. Anguirus shook his head in disappointment as he growled in displeasure before following after the teenager, who had already had a large head start.

Leni had her eyes closed and her arms waving about like a raving lunatic as he continued to run for her life from the monster that she was certain was going to eat her. as she ran, all she could think about—outside of remembering to put one foot in front of the other as she ran—was all the happy moments she had with her brother and sisters. Every little adventure they went on from when the family tried to teach her to drive from when the time became a back-up singer/back-up dancer in Luna's band. If she was going to be devoured by a giant monster, then she at least wanted to remember all the good times she had with her family before that happened.

As she ran blindly through the rock quarry, the blonde failed to notice that she was running directly toward a small lake. However, it wasn't so much as the lake itself she should be worried about, so much as it was what was currently drinking from the lake. Due to Leni sprinting in a panic with her eyes closed, she ran directly into the leg of another, more aggressive, Kaiju. After colliding face first with the monster, Leni opened her eyes to look at what exactly she had run into this time. Unlike Anguirus, this monster could walk upright. Its sickly scales were covered in rough bumps and it had a yellow underbelly. The monster had long claws on its fingers and toes as well as fangs sticking out of mouth. Its eyes were red and cat-like, in fact, the creature's whole face had the characteristics of a feline. It had a pair of short, pointed ears and a tuff of reddish-orange red atop its head with a single horn sticking out of its head.

This was Gabara, and unlike Anguirus, he was not a friend to humanity. However, while he had no love for mankind, he had never left the island since his first appearance. To put it bluntly, Gabara was more like a bully than an actual threat to anyone. He usually pestered the other Kaiju on Monster Island in order to steal their food—only to have them beat him senseless and get their food back. While Gabara wasn't classified as a serious threat, that didn't mean he wasn't dangerous all the same. The Kaiju was known to have gotten the drop on Godzilla once with his electrical powers, but only up until the king beat him into submission and left him for dead. Since then, Gabara stayed as far away as he could from Godzilla's territory and instead stole from other Kaiju's such as Anguirus.

"What is this place? some kind of Monster Island?!" Leni shouted in a panic

The teenager attempted to once again to run the opposite direction like she had with the first monster, but just as she turned around, she saw Anguirus charging at full speed toward her. She was trapped between two titans and was unable to move out of the way in time before she was either killed one or trampled by the other. While she had her back turned to face the other Kaiju, Leni failed to notice that Gabara was reaching down to snatch her up so that he may feast on her flesh. It was only until the giant bully's fingers were mere inches away from taking hold of her that Leni turned to see what the monster was doing. But just before he could grab the girl, Anguirus used his back legs to propel himself forward and tackle Gabara right into the ground. Leni took this chance to run and hide behind a rock while the two monsters began their battle.

Anguirus pinned the green-scaled bully under his weight as he bit and slashed wildly at Gabara until the larger monster swatted him off his body with a smack across the face from his claws. Gabara quickly got back to his feet and proceed to kick his opponent in the face to knock him back further. Anguirus quickly recoiled from the hit and swung his tail at Gabara, striking him in the side in doing so. While the larger Kaiju was sticking stumbling back, the armored beast lunged once more at his enemy, but Gabara backhanded him, thus sending him falling backwards to the ground and landing on his back. With his adversary defenseless, Gabara's horn began to charge up his body with electrical energy that began to flow into his hands.

Before Anguirus could correct himself, Gabara stomped in his stomach to hold him in place. He then began to repeatedly punch the smaller Kaiju in the chest and face, giving a painful shock with each blow. The armored monster screeched in agony as the electricity painfully coursed through his body as Gabara stuck him again and again with his fists. With everything he had, Anguirus used his tail to trip his attacker and give him enough time to flip himself back onto his feet and recollect himself. One would think that the smaller monster would take this chance to flee, but Anguirus was not the type of monster to run, he was type of monster that stood his ground and fought to the bitter end.

Gabara pulled himself up once more and roared back at his opponent, to which Anguirus roared back as a way of stating that he was not running from the likes of him. Gabara charged up again before slamming his fists together to allow sparks of electricity fly from them, showing his adversary what he was in for should this fight continue. But Anguirus ignored the threat display from the cat-faced Kaiju and charged once more at his foe at full speed. Gabara attempted to stomp on the other monster's head, but Anguirus jumped to the left before leaping up and biting into Gabara's arm with his teeth. The giant bully yowled into pain before letting a surge of electrical energy run through his appendage that forced his attacker to let go.

Gabara then kicked Anguirus in the face to push him back further before lifting his fists upwards before bringing them back down onto his opponents back. However, Gabara received a painful reminder of how much of a bad idea that was when his fists collided with the spikes on other Kaiju's shell, making him let out a yelp in pain as he backed away from Anguirus. With rage burning inside of him, the oversized bully charged at his enemy and grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up off of the ground. He then began charged up his free fist before delivering a devastating blow across the smaller monster's face that knocked him face first into the dirt.

The larger Kaiju began to make a strange, throatily, mewling noise as he stood over Anguirus, almost as if he was laughing at smaller monster's pain. However, while Gabara gloated at his seemingly defeated opponent, Anguirus took this opportunity to whirl around and bite into Gabara's thigh, causing his enemy's joyous laughter into wails of agony. With everything he had, the armored Kaiju flung Gabara several feet away backwards. While his adversary was still dazed from being thrown like a ragdoll, Anguirus looked over to the lake Gabara was drinking from and had a spark of an idea form in his mind. Gabara jumped back to his feet and let out a rag-filled roar before charging at his enemy in a full sprint. Anguirus charged forward at the other Kaiju to meet with him in another round of combat.

Suddenly, just as the two monsters were about to collide in a flurry of teeth and claws, Anguirus dodged to the side and stuck his tail out for Gabara's feet to trip on. The giant bully stumbled forward before landing in the lake he was once drinking from. Blinded by anger, Gabara shot up from water and began to charge up with more electricity than he had ever conjured up before. Sparks and streaks of electrical energy radiated off of the Kaiju's body as he prepared to unleash his fury on the smaller monster. But what Gabara didn't count on was fact that his own power was about to become his greatest weakness. The water from the lake that the monster was standing in became a giant conductor for the massive amount of electricity he was generating and in turn began to electrocute the bully with the power he used to antagonize the other Kaiju's on the island.

Seeing his chance to attack, Anguirus broke into a full sprint toward the still stunned bully. Once he was midway toward Gabara, the armored Kaiju rolled into a ball and continued his path toward the other titan. Once he was close enough, Anguirus bounced upward and slammed into Gabara's chest with the full force of his body. Gabara was knocked out of the lake and sent falling to the ground, where he lay smoldering in a dazed, wounded heap, occasionally fidgeting from the electrocution he had taken. Anguirus pulled himself out of his ball and put his upper body on top of the bully's chest and let out a triumphant roar, declaring himself the victor in the battle. It was rare for Anguirus to win in a fight against another Kaiju, and when it he did it was usually through the assistance of one of his allies such as Godzilla, but it would be a be a cold day in hell before the armored Kaiju was beaten by the likes of Gabara.

With the electric monster defeated, Anguirus turned his attention back to Leni, who had remained hidden behind the rock she had taken refuge behind when the fight between the two monsters had begun. Yet again, Leni was attempting to hide from the Kaiju's line of vision by standing still, thinking this time it would be unable to see her. But just as before, Anguirus could see right through the blonde's so-called stealth maneuver.

"I think it's working" Leni whispered to herself

However, another snort of air from Anguirus's nostrils sent Leni stumbling backwards, indicating that the Kaiju hadn't fallen for the teenager's ruse. The blonde attempted to run away yet again, but this time the armored Kaiju used his tail to block her path. Leni was still scared of being this monster's meal, but at the same time, she began to feel something else toward the giant monster before her. It was almost as if a voice in the back of her head was telling her not to fear the giant beast. As she looked back at the creature, Leni noticed that it had its head tilted to one side in a curious fashion.

"Your…not going to hurt me?" she asked blankly

Anguirus let out a small grumble escape his lips as a way of replying. Leni then tentatively reached out and placed a hand onto the monster's nose horn. Seeing that the beast no threat, the blonde felt a sense of relief wash over her.

"Phew! I thought you were gonna, like, eat me!" she said before asking "uh, you're not, are you?"

Anguirus shook his head in response to that.

"Ok good!" Leni commented before bringing up another question "hey, could you help me find my family? They're somewhere on this island and I kinda, like, need to find them"

The armored Kaiju nodded before lowering its head to allow the blonde to climb on top of it.

"Thanks!" Leni mentioned graciously "you know, I don't even know your name Mr. Monster, and I don't think your name is Mr. Monster. I mean it could be, but, like, I don't think it is. I know! I'll give you name! how about…Spikey!"

Anguirus let out another annoyed growl as began to lumber away from the battlefield, all the while Leni continued to make up names for him that were both incredibly demeaning and downright embarrassing to him.


At first, it started as a feeling. Like a small tingle in the back of his skull. But as the Kaiju tried to brush it off, the tingling in the back of his head turned into pangs of burning pain that forced him to awaken from his slumber. The feeling was like a force now, and it was calling out to him from afar. He had not left the island since his capture years ago, but now something from beyond the borders his home was trying to reach out to him. The force that was abuzz in his brain could not be ignored by the monster and thereby commanded him to seek out the source of the calling. The outside world had more than likely changed drastically since his time coming into the world, but that would not stop from finding the object was calling out to him.

The creature picked himself and made his toward the beach, but just as the monster was about to step into the water, he heard the combined sounds of two more Kaiju moving toward him. The reptilian monster readied himself for battle. He may be one of the weaker monsters on the island, but much like Anguirus, he refused to back down from a fight. The giant lizard growled as he stood his ground as the other two Kaiju emerged from the jungle. What surprised the monster was that both creatures were normally seen socializing with other monsters, let alone each other.

However, it soon became clear that the two other monsters were not interested in a fight, but rather more concerned with getting into the sea. They too had heard the calling from across the ocean and like the reptile, they wished to find the source of this mental distress they were going through. They ignored their fellow Kaiju and stepped into the water to begin their long journey across the sea. Seeing that they were following the same thing, the lizard followed alongside the two other Kaiju, but kept behind them in case they decided he was not welcome to join them.

And so, Zilla, Battra and Baragon began their quest to find what, or rather who, was calling out to them.